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Yijing: He didn't want me to feel too guilty, so he called these compulsions voluntary.

He Suifeng heard footsteps coming from a distance outside the prison door, but he didn't rush to get up to greet him, but sat up slowly, brushed the dust off his clothes, got off the bed, and arrived at the prison door. The visitor was rather surprised.

"I thought it was Yijing who came."

Xing Cheng shook his head: "He was overworked and was knocked out by me."

"He has always been poor in martial arts, and he has been like this since he was in my camp. It is not the first time I have doubted whether he is the master..." He Suifeng smiled wryly, his eyes turned from calm to sharp, " So when you come here, Yijing has made a decision? I am afraid that the commander of the army has personally ordered Tingxue brothers and sisters to be held as hostages first, and then sent to Hu Mang to make complete preparations for the resumption of war in the future... ...he's definitely going to do that..."

"You must go back to Hu Mang, but he will not take his own children as hostages to threaten you." Xing Sheng sighed long and long, "I have ordered the spies to escort Uhati to the royal city secretly. And you return to Hu Mang... It doesn't matter what you think, I am a hard-hearted person."

"It seems that what happened back then will never come to light again..."

Xing Cheng originally took care of his attire, but after hearing He Suifeng's resignation, his eyes were still sour. He couldn't explain why he was moved, but after thinking about it again, if one day he became what Sui Feng is like this, and he is definitely unwilling to accept such an ending.

The tragedy of the year went round and round, and it finally came to the end-there will be no history to write more than [-] years of pain for a person who has been wronged for many years.

He Suifeng was much calmer than Xing Cheng, he said, "Let Yijing come, before I leave, let me see him for the last time."

Xing Cheng couldn't bear to let Yijing face such a thing, but he couldn't refuse He Suifeng's plea, so Yijing still came to this prison.

"I decided to go back to Hu Mang."

Yijing lowered his head and did not answer He Suifeng.

"If you can promise me to take my son Uhati back to the Central Plains without any injuries, then I will return to Hu Mang as an internal response... Once the war starts, you will always need me."

"What did you say?" Yijing raised his head suddenly.

"If you can promise me to take Uhati back to the Central Plains for resettlement, I will return to Humang as an internal response." He Suifeng smiled frankly.

Yijing was speechless, raised his head and looked at He Suifeng, and suddenly realized that the years had already passed silently, leaving only gray temples - time really passed too long...

"Actually, I have already ordered..." Yijing said with trembling lips.

"Don't say anything," He Suifeng still managed to maintain a smile, "Don't say anything."

Hearing this, Yijing slowly closed his eyes, but he never dared to look at He Suifeng again.

"Before you leave, let's meet Tingxue and Tingyu again, this is the only thing I can do for you."

"It's better not to meet again," He Suifeng shook his head resolutely, "I haven't done anything for them, maybe complaining about a traitor can make them feel better, let them live as the children of the army commander... Yijing , you and I first met that year, and it was also the spring day after the martial arts test in this country..."

The night is as cool as water, and the surrounding fields are lonely.

Yijing sat in front of the courtyard door of his own home, leaning on the door and looking back at the silhouettes of the people in the house, lost in thought.

Someone reached out and touched his cheek with a jug of warm wine, which brought him back to his senses immediately.

"How did you come?"

Xing Sheng sent the jug forward: "I'll bring you wine."

"I still have a lot of military affairs to do, and drinking was a mistake." Even though he said so, Yijing still reached out to take the jug, and took a sip. The silence for a while made him almost intoxicated.

Xing Cheng lifted the hem of his clothes and sat on the floor with him.

"Military affairs are up to me, and tomorrow you still have to sit obediently in Xuanwu Pavilion." After finishing speaking, he looked back at the quiet house, "I thought He Suifeng didn't want to see Tingxue and Tingyu again..."

"He didn't want to, and I forcibly brought him here." Yijing looked at the vast night sky with misty eyes, and his heart flew thousands of miles away, "I went to the prison, and he told me that as long as I promised to bring Uhati back to the Central Plains, and he will return to Hu Mang as an internal response..."

When Xing Cheng heard this, he was also taken aback for a moment.

"He didn't want me to be too guilty, so he called these coercions voluntary. We have hated each other for so many years because of the Ningwu tragedy, but we don't want to let it go easily now..." The more Yijing wanted to feel less guilty, the more sad he felt.He used to hold the rope tightly to prevent a boulder from falling to the ground, but now he can let go of his hands as long as He Suifeng says a word, and he no longer has to live a life of hard support—but the boulder stayed in his heart after all. bottom of my heart.

Those in the know know well that even though the past cannot catch up with the past and the visitor cannot help himself, He Suifeng still thanked Yijing—at least Tingxue and Tingyu grew up safely.

"Will he tell Tingxue what happened back then?" Xing Sheng asked

"I don't know..." Yijing lowered his head, watching the flagon in his hand gradually become cold, "Whether you say it or not, it's good...Sitting here quietly, I miss my youth. Sui Feng is a young and promising battalion commander... He never disliked me for my lack of martial arts, and he still believed in me and respected me, so he can be regarded as a close friend..."

Xing Sheng smiled lightly: "You never tell the story of your youth because of Ting Xue and Ting Yu, but when I learned about the life experience of this pair of brothers and sisters, I knew that you had a close friendship with him... otherwise why would you Willing to take great risks to save his child."

"Looking at you now reminds me of what happened many years ago."

"whats the matter?"

"The first time I saw you, you were only twelve or thirteen years old, thin and small, and dirty, like a monkey..."

"Cough..." Xing Cheng turned his head and coughed nonchalantly, Yijing pretended he hadn't heard it at all, and turned over the old account on his own, "The famous general wants to accept you as an apprentice, but you only want to find and go with you San’s brother—that’s Chang Ming.”

Xing Sheng replied angrily, "If I don't get him back, where did you come from?"

This time Yijing coughed.

"It's lucky to say that after Chang Ming separated from me, he was accidentally arrested and said that he was going to give it to some nobleman, but the nobleman let him go, and fortunately he was settled in the inn..."

Yijing didn't speak, but his eyes were a little gentle.

Thinking about the past, Xing Cheng couldn't say much: "Master agreed to find Chang Ming for me without saying a word, but when the senior brother brought him back, his magic was so indifferent, his body was full of new wounds and old marks, Holding the pair of rusty horizontal knives tightly with both hands, when they saw me, they drew their knives to face each other..."

"Because he is Jiang Yuan?"

Xing Sheng nodded silently: "During the war, no one cared about the life and death of the people, but those who saw Jiang Yuan always hoped to use them to please the Lord Xing in exchange for fame and wealth. He also suffered a lot of deception in order to find me , narrow escape..."

Yijing felt a dull pain in his heart, and in his mind, he remembered Chang Ming's smile at him, and he had forgotten the cold eyes of the Seventh Battalion Commander back then.

"I heard Chang Ming say that he and you have been orphans since we were young, and we depended on each other for our lives. You raised him."

"It doesn't count. He separated from me when he was ten years old. After we met again, it was his master who was raising him..."

Yijing paused for a moment before saying: "I almost never heard him talk about his master."

"Perhaps it was too sad, so I didn't say it." Xing Cheng tilted his head to listen to the hoarseness of the night, "His master passed away three years after he was accepted as a disciple... Just like me, there is clearly a The master who can live a hundred years, but happened to meet very little time."

"His master... shouldn't be the same as General Gu?"

"But how can there be a lifespan that lasts forever in this world? They just live longer..." Xing Cheng smiled wryly, "Chang Ming had only one elder who loved him since he was a child.

The long night is like this forever, and the mayfly is just a blink of an eye.

The rush of four hundred miles is not fast. Changming only waited for seven days before he received a reply from Yijing—ten days after receiving the letter, or fifteen days ago, Uhati was captured alive and unscathed, and he was escorted back secretly Jianhe Valley.

"Want you to escort Uhati back to Jianhe Valley?" Helian siblings looked at each other, full of doubts, and asked him softly: "You return to Jianhe Valley, what should you do here?"

"Xingsheng will set off today, heading towards Hu Mang, and all deployments will follow Zhongjun's instructions from now on."

"Did he get kicked in the head by a horse?" Lu Qiu Eryang almost slapped the table, "You came here for the reckless things, and it was so easy to gain a foothold, so I recalled you casually, and let Xingcheng take care of the rest , isn’t it absurd?”

Chang Ming thought for a while, and then said: "There must be something else hidden here, don't panic, he delayed the time to wait for Xing Sheng's arrival."

"Is there another reason?" Ruan Chenying also looked serious, "This matter must be very important and extremely secret, so the commander did not dare to deploy many people, but let Chang Ming, who has the highest martial arts skills, escort Uhati alone..."

"Since the army commanders have made up their minds, then Xingsheng will definitely be able to handle the follow-up matters. Don't even talk about it. We should first think about how to capture Uhati alive." Chang Ming also comforted everyone, and then asked Luqiu Eryang , "Sir, what's the matter?"

"Thanks to your lovely sister, Wei Li has inadvertently inhaled a lot of drugs, and she is in a very good spirit recently, and she is getting closer to us, but she hasn't discovered this kind of trap yet."

"Then let's check Lord Goller's pulse again." Chang Ming immediately made a decision.

So, ten days later, Uhati stood in front of his house with a pale face, staring at these people.

"You quack doctor, didn't you say that there is nothing you can do? Why are you persistently coming to the door this time?"

Luqiu Eryang looked at Wei Li, smiled and said: "Miss Wei Li is also concerned about her old friend. I have studied medical skills for a long time, and finally learned this technique of hanging silk to diagnose the pulse. Why don't I let me do it for Goller first?" How about taking the pulse again, my lord?"

"Father has been ill for a long time, you should not disturb him, you should know," Uhati refused to budge.

Luqiu Eryang took another look at Wei Li.

Naturally, Wei Li was embarrassed when she was scolded by a junior, so she hesitated for a while before she reluctantly said: "Uhati, there is no cure for illness. This is also for Goller..."

Uhati frowned and interrupted: "It's my first time to diagnose the pulse, what if I misdiagnose it?"

Chang Ming walked out slowly from behind Lu Qiu Eryang, and said with a smirk: "Even so, we naturally don't need to bother. It's just that spring is approaching, and it's a good time to visit relatives and friends. It's been a while since I've been a businessman, and I'm fortunate enough to meet high-ranking officials and nobles. From now on, I ask the young master to take care of you, and don't let those visitors disturb your lord's cleanliness."

Uhati's face froze slightly, and then he saw his eyes flicker left and right, his lips pursed a few times, and finally said: "It's hard for your doctors and parents, so I allow you to take the pulse with a thread."

Wei Li glanced at a few people without knowing why, and followed Chang Ming into Goler's mansion in a daze.

After entering the gate, it took only a few steps to see the old housekeeper running out of breath, and couldn't stop in front of Uhati. The menacing aura scared the surrounding people back a few steps.

ps: The past events between Chang Ming and Xing Sheng's master are all paving the way for the later biography (saying it as if I can write it)