Twilight War

04

Arthurian Empire, Genesis Library.

Tang De looked at the man sitting on the sofa looking at the documents.

Since he came here, Wisipel has been looking at the documents. Usually, Wissipel would pour a glass of wine while reading the documents, but he hasn't moved for half a day now.

"Your Highness, during that glorious expedition, did you really go to Donghuang?" Tang De asked Vichypel.

Wischpel paused for a moment with his hand flipping through the document, then nodded, his blue eyes were like frozen lake water in winter.

"Weir and I didn't tell you about this," Tang De said.

"There's no need for that, and it's just a waste of time in the end." Wisipel said.

Tang De then lay on the sofa and looked at Wischpel, "Your Highness, sometimes I really feel like you are a person walking alone in the world."

Wischpel flipped through the documents and said after a long time, "Do you also think I did something wrong?"

"No." Tang De shook his head, "No one can say you did something wrong."

"Before that boy came here, I always felt that His Highness would never care about anyone." Tang De said, looking at the classical cup in his hand.

The gin in the glass was bubbling with clear bubbles, and the old ice was floating on the wine.

"Your Highness, in fact, every time you go to Yaoge Sea Territory, you will be sad." Tang De's voice was very soft.

Wischpel didn't answer, and Tang De didn't care too much, "I used to think that His Highness wouldn't care about anything. Every time I went to the Demon Song Sea Territory with me, I would feel the deep cold, but His Highness seemed to care about nothing. I don't care. I don't know if His Highness never cared, or if he was just numb. But I really thought that His Highness would not be sad."

"Your Highness will go to Donghuang because you don't want more people to die in such pain." Tang De lowered his head and said, "Your Highness also wants to give up as little as possible. I remember my father once As I said, those who give up are often the cruelest, cruel to those who are abandoned, and even crueler to themselves.”

"But in the end, I seemed to let more losses happen." Wihipel said, he looked out the window, with the falling sun and the burning sky in his eyes.

Tang De didn't speak, he rarely saw a man with such an expression.For a long time, in his impression, Vesper was the man who would wear armor and stand silently in front of everything like a god.

Do gods also feel sorry for their own mistakes?

05

Tai No. [-] was driving quietly on the vast sea.

Da'an wandering on the boat alone was a bit boring, after all, she was the only child of thirteen or fourteen years old on the boat, and the retainers of the Huangxuan family thought she was too young and didn't want to play with her.

After wandering around on the deck for a while, she suddenly remembered that Young Master Jin was back, so she ran out of Young Master Jin's room.

Before going in, Da'an was afraid that Zichen was busy with important things, so he leaned on the window and looked, only to find that Zichen was sitting alone in a daze.

Da'an shook his head and walked in from the door.

"Young Master Jin, what are you thinking?" Da'an sat in front of Zichen and asked.

Zichen came back to his senses and shook his head, "It's nothing."

"Is the young master unhappy?" Da'an looked at Zichen and asked.

"Shouldn't the young master be very happy when he returned to Huangxuan's house?" Da'an asked somewhat unclearly: "But if you can't make the young master happy even returning to Huangxuan's house, then how can the young master be happy?" ?”

Zichen shook his head, he didn't know what to say.

"Young master doesn't even know how to make yourself happy?" Da'an asked.

Zichen was stunned.

"Young master, you can't do it like this, if you don't even know how to make yourself happy, how can you be happy?" Da'an said with some distress.

"I know it's not good to look like this, but there are some things that are more important than this." Zichen said.

"There is nothing more important than this." Da'an said very seriously: "If the young master is not happy to return to the Huangxuan family, the rest of the Huangxuan family will be sad too. After all, the young master can come back, everyone I'm very happy."

"Young master, you can go out with me to Yi Bird." Da'an said: "They don't take me with Yi Bird outside."

Tai No. [-] has been floating on the sea for a long time. When the Huangxuan family felt bored, they would take the arrows with strings to the deck and shoot down a few seabirds.

Lu Shu and Xiang Wang were leaning on the railing and throwing stones into the sea for fun.

There were not many stones to be found on Tai No. [-], so Lu Shu started throwing copper coins to play after throwing the few stones in his hand.

When the few copper coins in his hand were thrown away, Lu Shu reached out to Xiang Wang, and Xiang Wang reluctantly took out a handful of copper coins and handed them to Lu Shu, who asked Lu Shu to continue throwing them into the water.

Bi Fang was on the deck shooting seabirds together with Gu Diao, and the dead innocent seabird corpses were lined up beside him.

Seeing Da'an and Zichen coming out, Bi Fang quickly put down his bow and arrow, and waved to Zichen.

Zichen walked over, and Bi Fang wanted to hand over the bow and arrow to him. Zichen shook his head. He has never been good at archery. That time he went hunting with his father in Qiulan in Chang'an, and he returned empty-handed in the end.

Lu Shu next to him was still throwing copper coins, and after throwing the ones in his hand, he reached out to Xiang Wang, and in the end Xiang Wang tightly covered the last few copper coins.

"Give it to me, you won't need it here anyway." Lu Shu said.

"How about... I'll help you get the string of copper coins from the young master of the Si family, and you don't want to think about my last few copper coins." Xiang Wang said quite aggrieved.

"Young master, let's roast seabirds tonight, we hunted a lot!" Bi Fang said quite proudly.

The seabirds they hunted were unique to the Western Continent, and they didn't know them before, but in a short period of time, the members of the Huangxuan family had researched dozens of cooking methods, and Si Tianming even wrote a recipe for it.

"En." Zichen nodded.

"It's a pity that I won't be able to eat it when I return to Donghuang. The wings of this bird have a lot of meat and are still chewy. Maybe the birds in the sea must keep flying." Bi Fang said looking at the birds he shot down.

"Donghuang has more delicious food." Zichen said.

"Yeah, I already miss the salted duck in Jinling. Especially the salted duck when the sweet-scented osmanthus is in bloom, paired with two taels of Huadiao wine, no matter how you eat it, you can't get enough." Bi Fang said with nostalgia.

"Young master, can we return to Jinling before March next year?" Bi Fang asked.

"What happened in March?" Zichen asked.

"The second day of March is the young master's birthday." Bi Fang said with a naive smile, "From now on, the young master's birthday will be the Huangxuan Family's Jiuxun Festival."

Zichen looked at Bi Fang.

The birthday of each generation of Huangxuan family head is the ritual soul sacrifice of the Huangxuan family, and for Jinling, that day is the Jiuxun Festival of Jinling.

During the Jiuxun Festival, the 36th street in Jinling is covered with red candle lights, and the Huadiao wine tied on floating hooks floats on the Qinhuai River, which everyone can enjoy.

On the altar, the maiden dances with a feather fan in her hand, which is called the imperial dance.The bronze Hongzhong Dalu rang all night, and the majestic and solemn bells could be heard throughout Jinling.

The annual Jiuxun Festival is the biggest festival in Jinling.

"The Huangxuan family has not had a wine festival for two years." Bi Fang's voice suddenly became very soft.

"I still remember that the young master would play alone in the streets and alleys of Jinling every year during the Jiuxun Festival, and Xiangwang and I went to find the young master every year."

"Everyone used to drink a lot of Huadiao wine at the Jiuxun Festival every year." Bi Fang said looking at the sea in the distance.

Black seabirds flitted across the sky, no matter how delicious the seabirds in Westland were, they wanted to return to Donghuang after all.

"It won't take long." Zichen said: "I will take Huangxuan's family back to Jiangnan soon. In March, the peach blossoms in Jiangnan should also be in bloom. At that time, we will go back to Jiangnan to see the peach blossoms."

"Young master, tell the truth." Bi Fang asked.

"I am the young master of the Huangxuan family, of course I will take the Huangxuan family back to Jiangnan." Zichen said with a smile.

He really should go back to Jiangnan, he has been away for too long.

The peach blossoms in Jiangnan are waiting for them, and the salted duck in Jinling's osmanthus season is also waiting for them.When he goes back, he will become the head of the Huangxuan family, and he will bring back the Huangxuan family's Jiu Xunjie.

Huadiao wine, red candle lights, bells ringing all night and the maiden's feather dance.

Zichen stood on the deck and looked at the blue sky that was almost cloudless.

"Young master." Bi Fang suddenly called Zichen softly.

"En?" Zichen looked back at Bi Fang.

Bi Fang looked at Zichen, and said after a long time: "The young master was born with Huangxuan as his surname, and the young master may not know what the word Huangxuan means to us."

Bi Fang looked at the young man in Donghuang Yanju uniform. In Zichen's impression, Bi Fang was naive most of the time. He was the uncle who always silently carried him back to Huangxuan's house from the night market in Jinling , but now when Bi Fang said this, he was very serious, as if he wanted to say everything that had been buried in his heart for a long time.

"Everyone is born with a surname, but for us, Huangxuan is our choice, we chose Huangxuan as our surname."

"The young master doesn't know what all of us were like before joining the Huangxuan family."

"Before joining the Huangxuan family, death was closer to many of us than life. To live is to be adrift and homeless, but to die is our destination."

"But from the moment we joined the Huangxuan family, death is no longer our destination, but the Huangxuan family is."

"When the young master left the Huangxuan family, we were all very sad, but no one would blame the young master, because the only young master in the Huangxuan family was born as Huangxuan, only the young master was not chosen."

"Now that the young master is back, we don't want the young master to come back because he was not chosen. In that case, we will be really sad."

"Because for us...the Huangxuan family is really our home."