Sakura in the garden

Zhuang Gu stayed at Xishan Temple for four or five days.

There is nothing to do in the camp, and there is Liuzhan, and it will be fine without him; if he does not return to the house for a few days, Chen Min also knows that he ran to hide when he encountered troubles, so he went to Xishan Temple secretly. After taking a look, he went back in relief.

Compared with the capital city, Xishan Temple really made Zhuang Gu feel much more comfortable.

The ancient Buddha with blue lanterns, Zen bells ringing, looking at a cloud and mist from a distance, sitting near a tree with half-opened crabapples.

The floating world is too bitter, he would rather live here all his life, but there are people and things in the floating world that he can't let go of.

Zhuang Gu's father and brother were all generals under the command of General Yan Zichong, who made great military achievements in the past. However, they were neglected by redundant officials in the court during the Battle of Yinshan, delayed the battle report, and sent reinforcements late.At that time, Zhuang Gu was only 12 years old, and secretly followed him to the battlefield, but he saw his elder brother beheaded by the enemy bandits. He hid in the tent and was discovered by the enemy soldiers. When he was desperate, he saw a young man in silver armor jumping off immediately with a long sword Feiwujian took the lives of three or four people and saved him from the knife.

That is Chen Min, a heroic young general who went to war with his father at the age of 16 and quelled the war in the north.

Chen Min pulled him, who was covered in blood, onto his horse and led him to kill the enemy. He couldn't remember how he came back from that hellish battlefield.

After the Yinshan battle, only he and Liu Wanwan, who was a widow far away in the capital, remained in the dealer.When the new emperor succeeded to the throne, the Battle of Yinshan became a thing of the past, his father and brother were no more than lieutenants, and no one remembered the Zhuang clan from then on.

He was disheartened and unable to support the dealer anymore, the tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and even Liu Wanwan was taken back to the Liu Mansion by his elder brother Liu Xunzhi.Liu Zhan originally wanted to pick him up and go back with him, but he refused, sitting alone in the dilapidated hall of the Zhuang Mansion, holding a broken blade and slashing his wrists to die.

Zhuang Gu still remembers the feeling when the blood dries up little by little, and when the thoughts flow away with the blood, the look when his eyes are a little dark, he thought, this will be all right, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep peacefully.

"Zhuang Gu!" There was a slap, and in a daze, he felt that he had been slapped severely, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the young man in silver armor anxiously pinching his shoulder and shaking him violently. .

"Great! You're not dead yet!" Chen Min grinned, took him up in his arms, and rushed out of the house.

His face was in pain, thinking that he was the one who slapped him, Zhuang Gu didn't know what expression to make.

After that, he was adopted by the Chen family, and he was forced to hold him twice on the pretext of saving Chen Min's life.

So in Ukishili, which was thought to have been cut off, Zhuang Gu had another entanglement.

During the few days in Xishan Temple, Zhuang Gu listened to the abbot explaining the Buddhist scriptures every day, calmed down, got up in the morning to fight boxing with the monks, carried water and chopped firewood, cleaned the courtyard and meditated. Gradually, he stopped thinking about the affairs of the capital.

On the day before leaving, he sat on the stone steps in the backyard in a daze, and chatted with a monk who swept the ground.

The floor-sweeping monk asked him: "I know the face of the benefactor, have you been to the temple many times?"

"Yes." Zhuang Gu got up and saluted the sweeping monk with his hands together.

"Does the donor have something to worry about?"

"Ah."

"Have you figured it out?"

"...Well, probably."

"If the benefactor has thought it through, he won't come here often."

"But maybe it's not the same trouble, how can Master say that."

"Haha, in this world, where are there really many troublesome things? There are so many customs and miscellaneous things, after all, it's just a word of love." The sweeping monk said with a smile, joined hands to salute Zhuang Gu, and then went to sweep the floor again .

Zhuang Gu was speechless, thinking of these words, he went down the mountain.

Back in the capital, Zhuang Gu first went to the military camp, and then went to greet Liu's mansion, but when he was about to return to the general's mansion, he stopped and refused to move forward.

By chance, Zhuang Guhuang went to Huajie, and as soon as he came to his senses, he quickly left as if he had seen a ghost. He found a tavern on the street, and sat down at an unoccupied table.

The man called him in his ear, Zhuang Gu rubbed his brows, and ordered a pot of sake.

He has never had any interest in wine, but today he wants to taste it.

After three cups, Zhuang Gu couldn't help but choked twice, and was laughed at by the old man at the next table.

"Young man, how can you drink like this?"

"I'm not here to drink." Zhuang Gu's mind was in a mess, but he still had time to think, how could Chen Min like such spicy food.

"Hahaha, you are obviously drinking, but you say you are not here to drink." The old man took a sip of his glass and said with a wry smile, "Young man, you are so frank."

Zhuang Gu ignored him and poured wine by himself, glass after glass.

After a pot of wine was exhausted, Zhuang Gu was already dizzy, and after paying the bill with the purse, Zhuang Gu propped his head on the edge of the table and dozed off.People came and went on the street, the old man sat down with his wine pot and side dishes, and patted Zhuang Gu on the shoulder: "Young man, this is not a place to sleep, go back quickly."

Zhuang Gu woke up, took a misty look at the old man, got up and stumbled back.

Turning a few wrong alleys and finally returning to the courtyard, Zhuang Gu stumbled at the door, fell down beside the cherry tree, and fell asleep just like that.

In a trance, Zhuang Gu had a dream. He dreamed that when he first entered Chen's mansion, there was a young boy named Chen Min standing under the cherry blossom trees. He was dressed in light-colored clothes and held a thin-edged long sword. But out of reach.

The spring breeze is blowing, the cherry clouds are swaying, and the youth's clothes are flying, the beauty is not like the world.Chen Min turned to look at him, stretched out his hand towards him standing in the corner, grinned, and called:

"Zhuang Gu."

At that moment, it seemed that a certain thread in Zhuang Gu's heart was pulled, and he suddenly had an urgent desire, he wanted to run over, grab that hand, and tell him what he was thinking.

……

At dusk and sunset, Chen Min just came back and saw Zhuang Gu lying under the cherry tree, hurried over to help him up, and shook him for a long time: "Zhuang Gu!"

"...Huh?" Zhuang Gu opened his eyes, looked at him as if covered in fog, and said: "... Chen Min, I was wrong."

"What?" Chen Min brushed the dust off his cheeks and neckline for him, touched his hot skin, smelled the smell of alcohol on his face, and smiled: "Are you drinking?"

Zhuang Gu nodded obediently, grabbed Chen Min eagerly to stand up, slipped his feet and shrank back, and was held up by Chen Min: "How much have you drunk? I'll ask Mama Xu to make it for you." A bowl of hangover soup."

"No, no, I won't drink." Zhuang Gu hugged him back, as if he was afraid that he would leave, and murmured: "I won't drink, don't go..."

"Okay, don't drink, then go back to the house and sleep?" Chen Min coaxed him like a child.

"No, don't sleep, I have something to tell you." Zhuang Gu hung almost his whole body on him, buried his face on his shoulder, and his indistinct voice floated in Chen Min's ear: "Chen Min, that day ,It is my fault."

"I'm just your subordinate, other than that, I don't count as anything else, but I crossed the line, did what I shouldn't do, took care of what I shouldn't do, it was my fault."

"But if you do it all over again, I will definitely rush in and catch you." Hearing him use the word 'catch', Chen Min burst out laughing.

"But why, I crossed the line, but never thought about why..."

"It's probably like what Sister Liu said, once a person is angry, he can't care about anything else."

Chen Minan listened quietly, and when he heard this sentence, he followed his words and asked, "Why are you angry?"

"Why... I don't know..."

"Then think about it, why?"

"Why... Sister Liu is angry because she likes elder brother, what about me?" Zhuang Guxiang was stumped and hummed dissatisfiedly, "That day in the temple, a master who swept the floor told me that life is confusing, It's just a word of love...I've thought about it for a long time, why I am so troubled, it's probably...I have feelings for you. "

"Then tell me, what is your love for me?" Chen Min said carefully word by word.

"What is it? What is it...why do you always ask me, I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out. "

"Zhuang Gu, let me ask you, what is Liu Wanwan's love for your brother?"

"It's love..."

"how about you?"

Zhuang Gu was quiet for a long time, so Chen Min asked again: "What about you?"

"I think... the same is true."

Chen Min let out a long sigh of relief, smiled and hugged him tightly, stroking his back, and said, "I see." His tone was full of tenderness.

He let go of his right hand, then bowed and hugged Zhuang Gu horizontally, and strode towards the house.Zhuang Gu nestled in his arms, as quiet as a rabbit.

Chen Min put him lightly on the bed, but he clung to him: "No, I don't sleep..."

Chen Min kissed him with a smile, and coaxed him in a low voice, "Okay, we won't sleep."

The author has something to say: touch the steering wheel and I will retreat, red... red chicken!