Twilight War

Chapter□□The soul is back

The Zhanzhan River is full of water, with maple on it.The eyes are so far away, it hurts the heart of spring.

The soul returns, mourning Jiangnan.

01

Dusk, too number one.

Si Xuerou drank wine at her own discretion before the case, a red dress spread out on the yellow rosewood floor like eight hundred miles of peach blossoms in full bloom in the south of the Yangtze River.

Those peach blossom-like eyes look at the distant mist, even if they look at the emptiness and nothingness, they seem to be full of love.

She picked up the wine glass and asked Si Tianming next to her in a hoarse voice, "How long has Zichen been gone."

Still looking at the end of the sky and the sea, she slowly drank the wine in the glass.

"Should be back soon." Si Tianming said, his voice was very soft, as if he was afraid of being surprised.

Si Xuerou's eyes were half downcast, those eyes were as beautiful as peach blossoms, lazy and casual but with a bit of domineering arrogance.

She played with the empty wine glass in her hand.

"When I die, I will be buried in Nine Mountains. I don't want to be buried in the territory of Arthur and Vana, but I failed to give the antidote to the person who killed my husband. I have no face to be buried in On the territory of Donghuang."

Si Tianming raised his head and looked at Si Xuerou who was still casually playing with the wine glass. He opened his mouth as if to say something, but in the end he just slowly closed his eyes and nodded, saying, "Okay."

"You used to say that heaven is impermanent, and I never believed it before." Si Xuerou shook the wine bottle in her hand, perhaps because she drank too much wine, her eyes were rarely confused, foggy as if Misty rain in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Then you believe it now?"

"I don't believe it!" Si Xuerou shook her head, she smiled with the corners of her pretty mouth curled up: "The way of heaven is impermanent, but people's hearts are even more impermanent."

Si Tianming lowered his head and smiled, "Yes."

"It's the last glass." Si Xuerou raised the wine glass and looked at the sun, but the color of the wine in the glass was abnormally red, as red as blood.

Feixue Wine—Blood stained the peach blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River in eight hundred miles, and the peach blossoms covered with snow became the color of concubines, so I had to use eight hundred miles of peach blossoms to make wine.

The public did not cross the river, but the public actually crossed the river.

She still remembers that day, at the end of dusk, the sky in the south of the Yangtze River seemed to be stained with blood, and her day man fell into the peach blossoms ten miles away, and the blood dyed the peach blossoms into the color of a concubine.

Brew blood into wine, and peach blossoms into soul.

She seemed to see the silly boy who stared blankly at her in the peach blossoms and snow again, wearing a white brocade robe, holding a fan respectfully, and the dim yellow light illuminating the scattered peach blossoms and snow.

——Girl, it’s the brocade fan you left behind.

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Huangxuan, who was the head of the Huangxuan family at the beginning of the year, was ordered to attack the Si family in Shu.

But Huangxuan was not in the mood to participate in those reception banquets in the daytime, so he ran to the peach blossom forest in Shudi alone with wine to drink for himself.

It was clearly the beginning of spring and the peach blossoms had already bloomed, but the prefect of Shu said that the weather here was very strange, and it started to get cold again, and there was a possibility of snow again.

He said how could it be possible for snow to fall when the peach blossoms were already in bloom, but at sunset, a thin layer of snow really began to fall.

Peach blossoms covered with snow, like rouge dyed.

He threw the wine here, went back to find a fur coat and a lantern, and prepared to watch this rare peach blossom snow here.

But when he returned to the peach blossom forest, most of the wine was drunk, and one jug was taken away, leaving a brocade fan beside the jug.

Red silk nephrite is hanging on the fan, which is almost bright red against the white snow.

Chaotic peach blossoms, endless twilight, scattered white snow.

The young man in white was holding a fourteen bamboo bone lantern, and brushed away the peach blossom branches beside him. The concubine-colored peach blossoms fell on the white snow and were illuminated by the lantern.He saw footprints left in the snow, walked a few steps but disappeared again.

And the girl in red was in another corner in the peach blossom snow, holding the fluorescent lamp in her hand slightly drunk, looking at the snow and the peach blossoms by herself.

One unintentionally, walks and falls at will.One is interested, silently looking for each other.

They passed each other in the peach blossom forest at night, and the snow fell silently.

Huang Xuan carried a lantern during the day, and a red ribbon hung on the peach blossom branch.But the girl in red is only interested in looking at the snow and peach blossoms, and is only interested in drinking the wine in her hand.

Going around in circles, thousands of times.

But some encounters are destined.

——"Girl, is this brocade fan you left behind?"

The white-clothed boy in the peach blossom snow suddenly handed the fan to Si Xuerou.Later, Si Xuerou laughed at him as saying this sentence as if it was in a drama, but some words are always rehearsed in the bottom of my heart a thousand times before they are said.

The girl was holding the jug in her hand, she was quite drunk, she looked at the boy in white in front of her and said, "Who are you?"

"The glass of wine in the girl's hand is mine." Huang Xuanzhou said.

The girl hurriedly protected the wine in her hand, "I won't give it to you!"

"Of course not, it's just that this fan belongs to a girl?"

The girl frowned and looked at the fan in Huang Xuanzhou's hand. She just wanted to take it and then waved her hand, "It's the wine money!"

That way you won't grab a drink with me.

"Girl, is this brocade fan you left behind?"

It's really like a sentence in a drama, but it's a pity that they are not talented men and beautiful women.

She still remembered that night when she took the young man in white to see Peach Blossom Covering Snow, he said that the Si family had a young general in red with a gun, and he thought it was Si Tianming, a subsidiary of the Si family.

She thought how her younger brother could be him because he was sick and weak.

Later he said that he was going to fight against the Si family under orders, and she rushed there dressed in red and advised him not to go.

But he still went after all, she still remembers his almost blank eyes when he saw her on the battlefield, he was picked off his horse by her, but when the tip of the gun was only an inch away from his throat, he actually smiled, Dressed in black, wearing a black forehead band.

Later, the Huangxuan family withdrew from Shu.But the night before the man left, he rode a white horse and broke into Si's house at night.

——I think the peach blossoms are just in bloom, and I want to bring them to you.

He said, the way of heaven is impermanent, maybe you and I really have no destiny.Then he rode away on the white horse lonely.

Si Xuerou stood up slowly as if in a daze, her red clothes were covered, and she was holding the glass of unusually red Feixue wine in her hand.

"Mother?" The maids next to her also seemed to realize something was wrong, and they all looked at Si Xuerou nervously.

"Mother?"

Si Xuerou laughed almost infatuatedly, and the sea breeze blew up the red dress on her body, like a fairy from outside the world.

The giant ship is slowly driving on the vast sea, and the woman in red seems to be dancing on the deck, she is so beautiful,

All the maids panicked and wanted to snatch the wine from Si Xuerou's hand, but she pushed them all away.

"Don't fight with me!" She laughed almost maniacally, "Don't fight with me...I only have this cup."

Her red dress spread out on the deck, avoiding the entanglement of those maids as if she was dancing, and tightly guarded the glass of Feixue wine that was as red as blood in her hand.

The maids in white plain skirts and pink long silk all looked at the crazy but beautiful woman in panic, her clothes were messy.

Talk about predestined relationship without destiny, talk about the impermanence of heaven.She remembered that day she snatched his father's best bay red horse, and rode it down the mountain to chase that lonely boy.

The peach blossoms were scattered, staining the white clothes on Huang Xuanzhou's body, but he had no intention of admiring the flowers, he just let the horse rein freely.

The woman in red rode the red horse through the flowers, and the horse's hooves stepped on the peach blossoms of hundreds of miles. The red gauze was like clouds.

"Hey! Are you Huangxuanzhou from the Jiangnan Huangxuan family?" the girl half raised her chin and said with a bit of domineering arrogance.

Huang Xuanzhou stared blankly at the girl in red who had chased after him, "Yes."

"There is a young lady in the Si family who has never been married so far. I don't know what the master wants." The tone didn't sound like a question, but rather a forced marriage. with.

"How is she doing?" Huang Xuanzhou asked.

"Twenty-eight years old, as beautiful as a flower. Even Jiangnan is afraid that there is no one more beautiful than her."

"No one will marry her like this, I'm afraid she is extremely savage, arrogant and self-willed." Huang Xuanzhou smiled lightly, looking at the girl in front of him.

"So what?"

"In this case, I will eliminate harm for the people and accept her."

"But she is extremely savage, arrogant and self-willed."

Huang Xuanzhou looked at the woman in red almost obsessively, "So what, I will pamper you from now on."

Si Tianming sat on the spot and watched Si Xuerou push away the maids who were snatching concubine snow wine from her. She stepped on the hem of her red gauze skirt, crazy but still beautiful.

He surveys yin and yang, and divination, but there are always too many things in this world that cannot be exhausted.It doesn't matter if they see through, they are just moths trapped in the net after all.

He was dressed in a moon-white gown, and there was a bit of loneliness and helplessness between his eyebrows and eyes.People who count destiny have the shortest life span, because they know everything, but they are helpless.They intend to defy the destiny, but after all, the destiny is irreversible.

Those maids cried out to Si Xuerou, "Mother, don't!"

"Mother, don't!"

All the maids on the deck were crying, except for Si Xuerou, who was smiling almost maniacally, dressed in red, with the corners of her skirt overflowing with the sea breeze.

She drank the glass of wine slowly.

She thought back then that she had only been brave enough to gallop across the south of the Yangtze River, stopping the young man in white who was leaving.

But later, she seemed to lose that courage.

She has always felt that this life is long, and some things can be said later.

But in the end those words were still not uttered.

What did she end up with?

It was such a wrong payment for more than ten years. She was angry with that man, but in the end she got nothing.

When the last man put on the black forehead band, she was still thinking about waiting for him to come back, and she would tell him when he came back.

But those unspoken words will never be heard.

There was a smile on the corner of her mouth, Si Tianming kept saying that Huang Xuanzhou owed her all his life to marry such a spoiled and spoiled her.

What now?Who owes whom, who pesters whom?How can the debts of this world be settled?Don't settle the matter, let it be like this, continue to be entangled in the next life, no one owes anyone.

I made wine out of your blood, and I drank the wine.Can also drink your love and hate.

"Mother! Don't!"

"My mother!!" She saw it again, saw the peach blossoms blooming all over the eight hundred miles, she was wearing a wedding dress and picked up the curtain from the carriage, and looked at Huang Xuanzhou in a red wedding dress riding in front of the carriage.

——The peach is young, its flowers are scorching, and the son returns home, suitable for his family.

02

The sound of the whistle on the sea is far away and unreal, and it is like a mournful cry in the mist.

Tai No. [-] is driving slowly in the vast sea area.

Zichen knelt in front of Si Xuerou's coffin.

When he returned to the boat, he saw that woman drank the wine in her hand, and the red dress fell on the deck like blood, and the nine layers of gauze were scattered like a pool of blood, and the woman fell into the pool of blood, There is a smile on the corner of the mouth, so beautiful.

After all, he came a step too late. He wanted to tell the woman that Vichypel didn't kill his father.

But he was too late after all.

In the end, this woman died with hatred for Vesper, or she also had hatred for herself.She failed to die with his father, and even gave Vichypel the antidote with her own hands.

The woman died decisively. In fact, Zichen knew that when his father died, she died too. What survived was just a remnant soul born for revenge. When she gave him the antidote, she lived on. meaning is over.

For the first time, he saw the destinies so clearly. Everyone is a moth trapped in the net, and their fate is involuntary.

It's just that he also felt cold after all, his father was everything to that woman.

Her life ended when her father died.

After all, he was nothing in her eyes, and he knew that the woman was only disappointed in him.

But now this woman is not even willing to live for him.

Although he already knew that women didn't like him, but now he still felt a sense of abandonment.

He seems to have returned to the year when he was five years old, and he walked up the [-]-meter steps of Weichen Temple alone.

The woman did not come to see him off.

He doesn't understand anything, but he knows that he was abandoned, he doesn't know what he did wrong, but he knows that he is only one person from now on.

He was always the one left behind.

outside the auditorium.

Da'an looked down at the frosty deck at night.

"What's wrong?" Si Tianming asked Da'an.

"My mother...is she gone?" Da'an asked Si Tianming.

"En." Si Tianming nodded.

"Will everyone leave in the end?" Da'an asked.

"Yes." Si Tianming said.

"Are you sad?" Si Tianming asked Da'an.

"Yes." Da'an nodded, "Master, do you think there is anything more important than life and death in this world?"

"There are many. More important things than life and death are happening in this world all the time."

"for example?"

"For example, a fish jumps over the water, and leaves fall on the pond." Si Tianming said looking at the fog in the distance.

"Are these more important than life and death?" Da'an looked back at Si Tianming.

"of course."

Si Tianming smiled and rubbed Da'an's head.

After Zichen came out of the auditorium, Si Tianming was standing outside the door.

"Uncle?" Zichen looked at Si Tianming and said.

"Your mother said she wanted us to bury her in Jiushan." Si Tianming looked at Zichen and said.

Zichen nodded, he knew why the woman asked them to bury her in Jiushan.

He lowered his head and said, "Okay, the coffin will be raised in seven days."

"After burying your mother in Jiushan, what are you going to do?" Si Tianming asked Zichen, who was looking at the boundless starry night, and said, the sea was still there, and Si Tianming was wearing a cloak, which was blown by the cold sea breeze.

Zichen looked at the mist on the vast sea, and said after a long time, "I want to go back."

"How long has it been since you went back?" Si Tianming sighed as if recalling.

"It's been two years." Zichen said, "I haven't been back since Jinling fell, and I want to go back."

"Alright, there's no way for us to procrastinate here. Vaner's revenge has been avenged, and Arthur's..." Si Tianming said lightly, "It won't do any good if we procrastinate any longer. After all, we are the enemies here. It is impossible for us to tear off a piece of meat in Arthur's territory, and it is not good for the soldiers of the Huangxuan family to be floating all the time, most of the Huangxuan family are in the army and are not used to naval battles." Si Tianming continued to analyze logically.

Zichen just looked into the distance, he didn't think about these things, he didn't think about any tactics or layout.

He just felt that he was too tired, he was like a rootless duckweed floating in a huge place for too long, and he wanted to take a rest.

In the past two years, he has endured too much, as if he has worn away everything he had before, and reshaped himself into a completely strange self.

He thought of the back mountain of Weichen Temple where rabbits were jumping, and the big Buddha smiling at him.I think of the 36th Street in Jinling, the painted boats and boats, and the ostentatious red sleeves on the banks of the Qinhuai River.Think of the huge Huangxuan mansion, and the large peach blossom forest that women love most.

In fact, he spent more time in the temple than in Jinling, but when he recalled Donghuang, he remembered Jinling the most, or the residence of the Huangxuan family.

Because every time he returned to the Huangxuan Mansion in Jinling, he would tell himself that this was his home, he was not rootless, he had a home.Although his mother didn't like him very much, and although his father always shook his head helplessly at him in secret, he knew that he was the young master of the Huangxuan family, and that was his home.

However, when he returned home for the last time, it was covered in blood, and the bustling Jinling was in ruins. The Huangxuan soldiers who died in battle were lying in a pool of blood with broken swords in their hands, and the Huangxuan family's mansion was burning in flames.

Those servants who called him Master Jin also died in blood.

The peach blossoms are stained with blood, falling at dusk.

The air was filled with the scent of killing, and his eyes were scarlet.

He once didn't want to go back to Jinling, as long as he thought of going back, he seemed to be in that hell on earth again.

What was he doing when Huangxuan's family was being slaughtered.He took the jade talisman away, and went alone to wander the rivers and lakes in his mouth, but when he came back, everything turned into old blood stains.

However, now he was tired after all, and he killed those Vana officers who participated in the war one by one with a sharp dagger, and he used their blood to pay for his sins.He saw that his hands were also stained with blood, and he saw that he participated in the killing like a bloodthirsty demon.

But after the killing was over, he had nothing but confusion, no satisfaction after revenge, let alone relief, he only felt that he was burdened with more sins.

During that time, no one noticed anything wrong, not even Devon, who lived and ate with him, found anything wrong.

But he knew that he had loosened the shackles of the sleeping beast in his heart, and one day that cruel beast would wake up and devour the whole world, or, devour him.

Every time he uses Chi You's crazy blood, he feels that he is walking on the edge of a cliff. He enjoys the ultimate pleasure but also bears the deadly danger. He feels that he becomes more and more restless, and desires madness and blood even more. Longing for death, longing to kill, even... longing for pain.

But that man told him that there is another possibility in his life.

His arrival was like a god, he told him that he could stay by his side, he could not care about anything, he could let go of those killings and hatred, and he would help him deal with everything.

That person was the light he admired, and the depths of the golden palace became the place he was most attached to, where he could let go of everything and greedily enjoy the tenderness and love that the man gave him.

But the deeper the sinking will only bring more pain after all.

...It turns out that everything in the world has a price.

"It's time to go back." Zichen said, there seemed to be mist in his eyes that couldn't go away.

"After you go back, you will be the head of the Huangxuan family." Si Tianming looked at Zichen and smiled slightly, "It's so fast."

"I don't know what Jiangnan looks like now." Zichen asked.

"Before your mother left Donghuang, Jiangnan had already started rebuilding, and now Jinling has almost been rebuilt. The Huangxuan family's mansion is probably also finished."

"Is there a big difference from before?"

"It's similar to the previous layout, but it's a reconstruction after all, directly expanding the peach blossom forest in Nanshan."

"My mother would be happy if she could go back. What she hated the most in the past was that the Peach Blossom Forest was so close to the Huangxuan mansion but she had to go around in a circle to get there. Every time she went to see Peach Blossoms, she had to jump over the wall. You won’t need to watch Peach Blossom in the future.” Zichen smiled lightly.

"Yes." Si Tianming patted his palm with his fan.

"Let's go to Chang'an before returning to Jiangnan," Zichen said.

"kindness?"

"I will marry Princess Yingluo." Zichen said.

"That's right, our Zichen has indeed reached the age to marry a wife." Si Tianming said with a smile.

"When does uncle calculate the auspicious day?"

"Don't you believe it?" Si Tianming said, "If it's someone you like, what difference does it make if you get married someday?"

"That's right, then it should be on the same day as I worship the altar and make a blood oath."

"kindness."

"Have you asked Emperor Changgeng what he meant?" Si Tianming asked.

"The letter asking for marriage has been sent to the imperial court, but I haven't received a reply yet, and I don't know what happened." Zichen said with a frown.

"Didn't you get a reply?" Si Tianming said worriedly.

"But it doesn't matter. Most of the heads of the Huangxuan family will marry the princess. Emperor Changgeng has no reason not to agree." Zichen said.

"Naturally." Si Tianming nodded and chuckled.

The cloak on Zichen was blown by the cold sea breeze, and he looked at the fog in the distance.

Yes, go back to Jiangnan.The mansion of the Huangxuan family has been built. There are hundreds of hectares of peach blossoms. There are yards with ten entrances and ten exits. There are also excellent flower carvings in your sycamore habitat. Girls like flowers and plants in Chuci are waiting for you.

From now on, everything here will have nothing to do with him.