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"Food?" Xie Linze raised his eyebrows, "I can easily pick people's heads, not to mention making a few small dishes, and I've seen you cook it many times, and I've already remembered it."

Xu Yan didn't say anything anymore, but doubts clearly appeared in his eyes.

"Go blow out the candles, I'm going to sleep." Xie Linze bumped him with his elbow, took the pillow and patted it in front of the bed, and lay back under the quilt.

As soon as the candle was extinguished, the room fell into a quiet darkness, the bedding around him was sunken, and Xu Yan fell asleep beside him.

Xie Linze originally wanted to rest earlier, but now he regained his energy, thinking over and over again about the conversation between the other party and Zhou Yuan just now, and couldn't help but ask: "Xu Yan?"

There was silence around him, and it seemed that the other party was asleep.

Xie Linze didn't believe that he could fall asleep so quickly, so he stretched his hand from between the quilts to pinch him, but Xu Yan's palm grabbed him halfway, and the other party's deep voice sounded in the room: "Are you going to sleep?"

Xie Linze turned to look at him, "Xu Yan, tell me about your experience after leaving the capital when you were young."

Xu Yan: "How do you talk about this?"

The two held hands together, Xie Linze could feel the warm sweat in the other's palm, "I just remembered."

"I can't remember many of them clearly." Xu Yan seemed to be recalling, "It was quite useless before. After leaving the capital, I lived without a fixed place. I wanted to take responsibility but caused a lot of troubles. It was my mother who cleaned up behind me. Without money, it is difficult to move an inch, but fortunately I learned martial arts at Baijumen, and I can really live a life when I go down the mountain."

Xie Linze looked at the silhouette of the other party in the dark night without blinking, "Why did you go back to the capital to open an inn?"

"It's convenient to find out the news, and it's also to collect medicinal materials to treat my mother's illness. Because she used to..." Xu Yan paused, "The root cause of the disease was lost, and the money for the treatment was like running water, so she opened an inn to make a profit."

There is no need to say much about the importance of Mrs. Xu to Xu Yan, Xie Linze felt worried again, he and Xu Yan have stayed together since the Taixuan Palace, except that they were almost inseparable at Lingbei, Xu Yan helped him too much, but Mrs. Xu was ill, and he still tied her to his side, pretending not to know, and not letting him leave would be too self-concerned.

The words rolled around in his mouth, thinking that he would leave, it was difficult for Xie Linze to continue assuming that his fate has been ill-fated for more than 20 years, full of betrayal and darkness, intertwined in the struggle between the government and the opposition and the imperial power, looking around Xu Yan was the only one.

He belatedly realized that at this point in the road, he was so reluctant to let go. Without Xu Yan's beam of light, he would have become a rotten bone.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Xu Yan pulled Xie Linze into his arms and hugged him, "Don't think so much."

Pressing against the warm chest of the other party, Xie Linze couldn't say a word, completely put an end to the thought of bringing up this matter, so he pretended not to hear it, and went to Li Town with Xu Yan as soon as the remaining poison of Fo Luosan was cleared up. , I will make up for Mrs. Xu at that time.

He yawned, nodded, and was about to sleep next to her, but Xu Yan recalled the past, unconsciously thought, and asked, "Why did you let my mother and I go?"

Xie Linze felt sleepy, and his voice became blurred, "Don't you know?"

"I do not know."

The reason was clearly clear to the other party, Xie Linze didn't bother to answer, just as he let his consciousness disperse, he felt Xu Yan's hand in his unlined clothes, and he immediately grabbed the other party's hand, "Aren't you going to sleep? The government killed so many people to save Zhou Yuan, aren't you tired?"

Xu Yanhao calmly said: "Let's speak clearly first."

Xie Linze had no choice but to say: "I foresee that there will be turmoil in the court and even the capital in the future. The courtiers and officials will all face doom, and the Ji family is the most important thing. Let the old man Ji send you away first."

"Why did you just send me alone? You miss me so much?" Xu Yan smiled.

"You just want to hear good things, right? Yes, I miss you very much. It's not like you have been living for three or five years, forgetting all people, and never recognizing them."

Xu Yan choked for a moment, "It's not just three or five years, it's been such a long time... Besides, I didn't say you recognized me."

"After all, put the medicinal materials you sent first. If I said it at the beginning, I guess you would not only not take me out of Taixuan Palace, but also beat me up."

The two people talked more and more, Xu Yan said: "You just said that you were the one who made me leave the capital, isn't it over?"

Xie Linze raised his eyebrows, "Will you believe it?"

After a few breaths of silence, Xu Yancai continued to speak: "After that, why didn't you tell me that it's not the Ji family that I owe you, but you?"

Xie Linze didn't answer so quickly, and said slowly: "Because I went to Ji's mansion with you later, I realized that I knew too little about Ji Liu. Ji's family covered up the treatment your mother suffered for the sake of reputation. It was too late, I thought you were a fragile child who needed protection."

Xu Yan could hear the remorse in his words, and leaned in to kiss his forehead, "I shouldn't have mentioned the past."

"I didn't want to mention it before, but now that I'm with you, it's no big deal." Xie Linze closed his eyes peacefully, and his voice gradually lowered, "Go to sleep."

Xu Yan waited for the other party to breathe steadily before falling asleep with him.

After the two of them had finished talking at night, they hugged each other and fell asleep together. It snowed again at night, and stopped at dawn.

There is a thin layer of ice on the lake outside, and it shatters when you step on it with a little force. In winter, the sun is always hidden behind the clouds. magnificent.

Xie Linze has been recuperating for a long time, and his body has almost gradually recovered. He just waited for the witch doctors to clean up the remaining poison again. He couldn't stay in the house, so he started to practice with a sword. In terms of killing people, it is passable, but it has been so long in the past. Time, the actual sword practice is still a bit rusty.

A solitary pine tree stands on the surface of the mirror-like ice, its roots are completely frozen by ice and snow, and there is a figure not far away, the sword edge is swung with a whistling cold wind, drawing a sharp arc in mid-air, snowflakes They scattered in the direction of the sword tip.

Xie Linze wore a snow-white fox fur, with thick fox fur draped over his shoulders. The ice layer under his feet clicked because of his movements, and cracks quickly climbed around him, breaking apart crisply, before falling into the cold lake water For a moment, he jumped up on tiptoe, the fox fur was stirred by the strong wind, and the red robe underneath flew up and landed on another intact piece of ice.

Xie Linze held a sword flower, and was about to put the sword back into its sheath to go back, when he suddenly heard footsteps approaching, and when he looked up, he saw Xu Yanmai walking up the lake.

Xu Yan turned the Mo Dao in his hand, "Do you want to practice with me?"

These words were tantamount to provocation to Xie Linze. He raised the corners of his mouth, swept the opponent up and down, and finally pulled out the half-received sword edge, pointing at the opponent from afar.

Xu Yan walked step by step, and the distance between them was getting closer and closer. When they were still ten steps away, the two rushed towards each other at the same time, raising their weapons.

The cold wind was whistling in his ears, Xie Linze used all his strength, and hit the opponent's blade with a loud bang, and the swords scraped across each other abruptly, making an extremely ear-piercing friction sound.

The figures of the two were staggered. Xu Yan obviously had great strength, and he didn't take into account the fragility of the ice layer. He immediately stepped into the fragility of the ice layer. Taking advantage of this momentary pause, Xie Linze turned around and swung his sword across!

Xu Yan jumped up, turned around and raised the point of the knife, Xie Linze hurriedly turned sideways, the blade swept past, and a lot of fox hair was cut off the cloak on his shoulders.

He didn't have time to swing the sword again, the opponent's second saber light was close at hand, Xie Linze bent down to avoid it, he didn't lift his head, but it seemed that he had eyes behind him, knowing that Xu Yan's blade was following closely, his back With a twist of the wrist holding the sword behind him, the Mo Dao was turned away with a clang.

This hand turned extremely fast, almost chasing the wind and electricity, and it was so clever that the cold light refracted by the sword edge approached Xu Yan's throat mercilessly during Xie Linze's movements.

Xu Yan took a few steps back before avoiding it. The cold air seemed to be still lingering around his neck. He couldn't help reaching out to touch the still intact neck, looking at Xie Linze, and twisting his eyebrows.

Xie Linze smiled at him, that smile had an undisguised sharpness, and then hit like a storm.

Xu Yan jingled his sword from left to right to block him, but was forced to retreat step by step. The nearby ice layer had collapsed into countless pieces, which meant that the two of them could only pass by one point, and could not stop longer.

But for someone like Xu Yan who is good at attacking with force, it is quite unfavorable. Xie Linze also knows how to avoid weaknesses. He doesn't force every move, but uses all his superb skills.

It was snowing again from the sky, and the white snow fluttered in the wind, floating on the lake like a pile of silver and jade. The two figures and a tree next to them looked like three black spots from a distance.

Xu Yanluo was at a disadvantage until he saw Xie Linze's sword cutting off the branches and leaves of the pine tree, and the pine needles fell from his eyes.

Xie Linze saw that Xu Yan was holding back left and right, and there was only broken ice floating on the water behind him, and there was no way to retreat, so he was about to give him the last blow. Xu Yanshun had to follow his own mind and retreat to the left.

But the other party went in the opposite direction, stepping on the crushed ice behind him without dodging or avoiding, Xie Linze showed a look of astonishment, he would be sick if he fell into the water in this weather, he couldn't help reaching out and grabbing his lapel .

Unexpectedly, with his strength, Xu Yan not only didn't fall, but turned up and jumped up, and landed on the trunk of the pine tree like flowing water.

"You..." Xie Linze clenched his teeth, because Xu Yan's tug just now made him the one who was going to fall into the lake. When he was about to fall into the water with a plop, Xu Yan raised the back of the knife and hooked it.

Xie Linze's figure froze, the back of the fox fur coat was caught by the back of the opponent's knife, and his whole body was dangling in mid-air.

There was a smile in Xu Yan's voice behind him, "You lost."

Xie Linze let out a sigh of relief.

After Xu Yan put him down, the two returned to the house from the frozen lake. He warmed his hands in front of the fire before turning to the kitchen to put a table of ingredients.

Xu Yan poked his head out worriedly: "Do you want me to help you?"

"No need." Xie Linze pushed him out and closed the door by the way.