Envy

Moonlight paved the way.The night was quiet, with the sound of dogs barking not far away.Meng Xi clasped her arms behind her back, humming a Lizhou tune, jumping up and down beside him three times.

"elder brother."

Meng Tou walked slowly, said "um" casually, and raised his voice.

"It's nothing." Meng Xi pursed her lips and tapped her toes on the pebbles on the road.

"go ahead."

"I just want to ask you why you like Shaojun." Meng Xi put her arms around Meng Tou, leaned over and put half of her weight on her brother, and looked up at him as she walked, "If it's because of your appearance, then why is it so important?" What a beautiful woman falls in love with my elder brother at first sight, but my elder brother's eyes never stay there. Besides, among sister Zhao and sister Miao, is there anyone whose appearance is inferior to Shaojun?"

"I can't say, I liked it at first sight anyway. Don't tell me, everyone thought I would be with Yan Miao back then, even my Uncle Yan called me over and talked with me for half an hour. Before I met Shaojun, I really thought I would marry Yan Miao in the future."

"why?"

"Where are there so many 'why'?" Meng Tou nodded her forehead, "She is beautiful. She has a bright and heroic personality, and she never sloppy in doing things. She is a bit arrogant and willful in private, but she is quite measured. I told her It's very comfortable to get along with. Men will like such a girl."

Meng Xi asked: "What about Shaojun, how does it feel for brother to get along with Shaojun?"

"Yan Miao and Shaojun..." Meng Tou held his sister's shoulders and walked away, "Let's put it this way, one wants to raise eyebrows with her, and the other wants to hold him in the palm of his hand. There are still some differences."

"Oh. Then why did Sister Miao stay with Brother Huo later?"

"I don't know. The two of them were trapped in a woods during Yong Ye. After they came out, Yan Miao started asking me about Huo Zhi. To be honest, I never thought that one day they would be together. Good on."

"But Sister Miao passed away."

Meng Tou felt a pain in his heart, and his steps slowed down, but there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Otherwise, it would be your turn to stay by Huo Zhi's side. Little girl. Your sister Miao is very jealous... How does Huo Zhi treat you?"

Meng Xi sighed: "It's very good, very good. It's like how good you are to me, brother."

It was the intention of Huo and Meng's family to decide the marriage between Huo Zhi and Meng Xi.Both his parents like Huo Zhi, and so does Meng Xi herself.Huo Zhi obeyed the family's arrangement.He knew very well that Yan Miao was dead and Huo Zhi couldn't get out.It's just that he has no right to interfere with this marriage.Today, he can't blame Huo Zhi half a cent.

He heard Meng Xi say: "Brother, don't be sad. Brother Huo and Sister Miao are in love with each other, but they will stay with me for the rest of their lives. There are not many people in the world who can be happy with each other and stay together for a lifetime. It’s already very difficult. My love journey has never been bumpy, thrilling or unforgettable. This kind of plainness is also extremely precious to me.”

Meng Tou patted her on the head: "Little girl, you know a lot. It's good that you can figure it out. It's a blessing if you can figure it out. Many people still can't figure it out." He himself did the same.

……

There is only one inn in the town, and the guests who eat food have left long ago, and there are very few people in the lobby.They went up to the second floor and saw that the lights in Xue Ye's room were on, so they knocked on the door a few times.

It was Xue Ye who opened the door.

Huo Zhi sat at the square table with a cold expression.As soon as Meng Tou took Meng Xi to sit down, he said, "Jiang Yiyu's party has not been eliminated, and there are constant disputes among sects. When do you plan to return to Mu Xi?"

Meng Tou's tone was also cold: "I'm not going back, you guys take Meng Xi back, I'll stay here with Young Master."

"Heh." Huo Zhi sneered, "You have practiced in Mu Mi for so many years just to hide in a small town for the rest of your life? After all, you didn't take Master's benefit to the world."

Xue Ye rarely frowned beautifully: "Huo Zhi, what you said is too much."

Meng Tou stood up and left, walked to the door, turned to him and said, "Whatever you want."

Xue Ye was about to go over and grab him, but Huo Zhi also stood up, stopped him with red eyes, and restrained his emotions: "Meng Tou! Where have you lost your ambitions? Who determined to bring peace to the world more than ten years ago?" Xiaoxiao? From Yongye, Fulian to Zhao Lin, how many people died at the hands of Yinlings and corpses, and how many people are still suffering now! Meng Tou! You quit now?"

Meng Xi was stunned, her mind was in chaos.

Meng Tou looked directly at him, emotionally tense: "I don't want to care about anything, I just want to stay here with Yan Zhaohan."

Huo Zhi suddenly picked up the sword on the table, approached step by step, grabbed Meng Tou by the shoulder, and slammed him against the door, his eyes tearing apart: "Are you crazy? Do you know who Yan Zhaohan is! You are now What do you want!"

"Then what do you want from me! The whole world wants him to die, shall I die with him!" Meng Tou pushed his arm away violently.His voice was already hoarse due to the excitement, and his whole body was trembling.He stared at Huo Zhi's face.

Huo Zhi pointed his sword at him, Xing Yun's sword was icy cold: "You were not like this in the past, you always knew right from wrong and kept right from wrong! Meng Tou, now you want to be an enemy of everyone because of a statement!"

Meng Tou clenched his fingers tightly, and his knuckles turned white: "Who is the one who doesn't know right from wrong! When Yan Zhaohan was imprisoned in Mu Su, who of you can tell me! He was alone from the beginning to the end, suffering alone. A person is being slandered and ridiculed! What did he do wrong? He just entered the Xiqi Palace, but he was lucky enough to escape from the gate of hell alive and become your young master!"

"Those decent people who talk about benevolence and morality indiscriminately abused lynching and forced Yan Zhaohan to come to this day. He didn't destroy the Yan family, and Zhao Qingyan didn't kill him. Why, everything should be blamed on him. body!"

Xue Ye quickly stepped forward and pulled the two of them back: "Don't be like this, they are all my brothers. If you have anything to say, sit down and talk about it."

Meng Xi tugged at her sleeves, and walked timidly beside them: "Brother Huo, my brother has a bad temper, and he can't speak in anger."

Huo Zhi let go of Meng Tou and sat back on the square table.Meng Tou slid down along the door panel, bent his legs, raised his head, and covered his face with one hand.Tears all over his face when he drooped his eyes.

Meng Xi was terrified, she had never seen her brother cry.She pulled her skirt and leaned against her brother, squatted down, and called her brother twice helplessly.

Meng Tou's voice was very calm: "The best doctor in the Li family said that he didn't have much time. I asked if he could survive this winter. The doctor said maybe not, he only has three months at most."

"In the late summer, he became very sleepy, and then he fell asleep for longer and longer. A few days ago, I found a few towels under the bed, which were full of his blood. He may know, but there is nothing. Willing to tell me. I dare not tell him anything. We are lying to each other, but we talk about living a life of high mountains and rivers, how ridiculous."

Meng Xi gently put her hand on his arm: "Young Jun is different from others, he will definitely get better."

Her lies were clumsy, and Meng Tou was so pale that he didn't bother to expose them.He wiped away his tears, stood up, and said gently: "I will go back to the sect, give me some more time, I want to accompany him to finish this journey."

Meng Tou smiled, his mood suddenly cleared up, he pushed open the door: "Brothers, I have to go back."

Among all the brothers, she likes the third brother the most. She likes his strength and bravery, and his optimistic appearance even in adversity.He seems to be invincible, omnipotent.She never thought that there were things her brother couldn't do in this world.It turned out that her brother just didn't have the skills to bring people back to life.

Since childhood, people around her have said that her third brother is good in everything and his life is good.Meng Tou's journey was indeed smooth and smooth. He never suffered any hardships and sufferings, but walked the most difficult road of love.

Meng Xi sent his brother downstairs and out of the inn.The moon in the sky is round and round, and the ground is covered with frost.

She still followed her brother with her arms behind her back: "Brother, when I was young, I went to the street once and fell in love with a doll. I liked it very much, I liked it very much, I liked it very much. At that time, I thought, if I had After buying this doll, I will definitely never want another doll again. I think about it day and night, and I miss it so much that I argue with my mother every day to buy it. Later, my mother finally agreed, but when I ran to the stall holding the money A while ago, only to find out that it had already been bought.”

"I was really sad at that time. When I was young, I always wanted to get a good thing, and I wanted to have a relationship with the best person. I didn't get the doll, and I cried all night. After a few years , I saw the exact same doll at Zhao Lin’s Lantern Festival, and I thought it was still beautiful, so beautiful that it was exciting, but I already had one, and I was past the age of liking dolls, so I didn’t buy it.”

"Brother, go back to Muyu when the pain is over. You have to help more people. People say that when you are thirty, maybe you are in your thirties, and your memory will be washed away bit by bit, and you will no longer be washed away. It hurts so much."

Meng Tou patted her on the shoulder: "You are still young."

Meng Xi glanced at him: "Brother Huo said the same thing. You guys like to overwhelm me with age. I'm already eighteen."

"Well, Shiba is also a little girl." He rubbed her hair.

She hit her brother's hand: "My hair is messed up."

Well, she admitted that she could understand and feel the pain of these people, but she couldn't comfort them.

Walking to the end of the road, Meng Tou saw a familiar figure, and his pace stopped and quickened.The thin man at the end was wearing a silver cloak, standing quietly in the watery night.

Meng Xi remembered this cloak, it came from the Mu Mu sect.Inside the sleeve of this one, her brother's name should be embroidered with gold thread.Meng Tou walked to Yan Zhaohan's side, tightened the cloak for him, and asked softly, "Why did you come out?"

"I woke up, and before you came back, I couldn't help but want to come out to find you. I just met Granny Zhu, and she brought me here."

Meng Xi had a sore nose, and tears rolled down her face.She didn't understand why she was crying, but she was inexplicably moved when she saw this scene.

This time Meng Tou didn't blame him for running around, took his hand and said softly, "Let's go home."

Yan Zhaohan nodded and leaned against Meng Tou: "I'm so sleepy, go back quickly."

The elder brother urged her: "Er Qi, go back to the inn quickly, don't come out and wander around at the girl's big night."

She said "Oh", and walked slowly all the way under the light of the lights, walked uphill, and arrived at the door of the inn. When she saw Huo Zhi, she stood at the door and waited for her.His indifferent expression also showed a bit of warmth under the light of the lantern, and he stretched out his hand to her: "Come here."

Meng Xi was taken aback for a moment, and then a sweet smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, two pear dimples were faintly visible, she took the man's hand: "I don't think I've had enough for dinner, can I order another bowl of porridge for supper?"