I wanted to embrace my master and return home

"..."

Gu Mou's footsteps froze, without saying anything, he passed him into the room, and carefully counted out the taels of silver.

I don't know when it started, or it was Yu Shubai's illusion. He found that Gu Mou's back was not as straight as it used to be. When he was on a remote path, when he was holding back his anger and did not want to conflict with others, when he half knelt on the ground and counted money.

The corners of Yu Shubai's mouth moved stiffly, as if he wanted to laugh or cry.

On this day, they lived in an unusually quiet time. The officers and soldiers who collected taxes often heard shouts from downstairs.

Millet is thick and hard to swallow. Gu Mou said that this kind of rice is more filling, and he bought a lot of it, and now he is almost exhausted.

On the day when the construction period ended, Gu Mou paid ICBC in full, but the thugs downstairs left, as if they had received a higher offer from ICBC, and Gu Mou thought for a moment before letting them go.

At night, the thieves were very courageous. The house was still lit, so they dared to break through the window and leave. Fortunately, they were just a few young thieves.

After this incident, Gu Mou decided to move the food from the first floor to the bedroom, and guard it all night without sleep. When Yu Shubai woke up, he changed to Gu Mou to take a nap.

One day, when the two of them were having dinner, a piece of rotten wood paste fell from the roof and happened to hit Gu Mou's forehead, and fell limply into the bowl again.

Taking a closer look, it was a piece of wood. The two looked up, and they didn't know when it started. The roof had been rotten, and several beams had already cracked from the middle.

In order to save their lives, Gu Mou and Yu Shubai moved out of the building bought with "huge sums of money". Carrying a few grains and clothes on their backs, they wandered around half of Xicheng District before it was dark, and finally found A remote woodshed.

They carried food on their backs and did not dare to live in crowded temples. It is said that many people died in this firewood house, and all the refugees who stepped in were infected with the plague. It is short, so no one dares to live in it, and there is an indescribable smell in it, like the rotten smell of human blood after being left for a long time.

Unexpectedly, this firewood house was not sheltered for them for too long. The roof was made of wood and corner tiles, and it collapsed after a few days. Whispering, when Gu Mou came back from going out, he only saw the ruins of the woodshed all over the ground, and rushed up like crazy.

When Yu Shubai was dug out, the corner of his head was broken, and a big hole was pierced by the broken beam on his leg. The wooden thorns were deeply embedded in the flesh. Shubai was awakened by the pain.

"... Gu Mou." He was drenched all over, with blood and cold sweat sticking to his clothes, his hair sticking to his dirty face, and he said tremblingly: "I asked... When I was ugly tonight, the man in the palace... Prince Zhengyuan will go out from the mountains in the northern suburbs."

"What?" Gu Mou bit the cork of the medicine bottle, lowered his head to bandage his wound, not paying attention to what he said.

Yu Shubai breathed a sigh of relief, and said slowly: "At that time, Prince Zheng Yuan will leave Qi Shi with a few eunuchs and a team of chariots and horses. He will bribe the people from the Liu Kingdom, and he will be in charge of the fairy gate at that time. It will open the enchantment for them."

"What do you mean?" Gu Mou raised his head and looked straight into his eyes.

"Among the eunuchs, there is Yu Bowen's cronies. For my sake, I can arrange you in. Then you go to the alley below the Chenghe River and wait for him..."

"Yu Shubai, are you driving me away?" Gu Mou finally interrupted him, the movement of his hands stopped, and the lights in his eyes flickered.

Looking at his dark pupils, Yu Shubai fell silent, lowered his head for a while, and pulled the corner of his mouth with difficulty: "Yes, I'm driving you away, is there a problem?"

"..."

"How many taels of silver do you have left on your body? We still have enough food for a few meals. Where else can we live?" Yu Shubai sniffed hard, as if trying to suppress his crying, he raised his head and smiled: "Gu Mou, maybe I can still live for a month, but you will starve to death, and you will be like those refugees who stink on the side of the road outside, and you won’t even have a white cloth to cover you.”

"I won't, even if I really stink on the side of the road, you will bury me." Gu Mou squatted down, trying to shake his hand, but Yu Shubai avoided him.

"I don't have that strength." Yu Shubai turned his face away and closed his eyes fiercely: "I've had enough of taking you to hide and hide every day, saving money on food and money. A waste like you always thinks it will A little bit of martial arts is great, you think you are protecting me, but in fact you are the one who will starve to the point of exhaustion if you don’t eat for two days, and you will not be able to move forward with a slight injury.”

Gu Mo looked at him motionlessly, without speaking.

"To tell you the truth, you are really not that important. In the past, I asked you to stay because there are people waiting for you. Looking at it now, you are actually a burden worthy of the name. After careful consideration, you have indeed done enough for me , I, Yu Shubai, am not a person without conscience, this is the last reward I can get for you."

"..."

"You go out of the city, go back to your Tianfu Mountain, and leave the money, after that you and I have nothing to do with each other."

Unexpectedly, Gu Mou reached out to his neckline, stroking those black and purple spots: "The bruises on your body are getting deeper again."

Yu Shubai flicked, slapped his hand off hard, and then slapped him hard: "You don't understand people's words, do you? I tell you to go away! I don't want to support you anymore, don't Forgot that I brought all the money on you from Sitian Pavilion! If you stay for another day, I will not give you food for a day, and you will starve to death here!"

The strength of a cultivator is really not small, Yu Shubai made a real move again, Gu Mou's face was turned aside, seeing that half of his face was swollen, but Yu Shubai stood up supporting the wall, regardless of his legs He raised his leg and kicked Gu Mou on the shoulder, causing him to stagger.

"Have you seen, even without you, I, Yu Shubai, can stand up even if I get hurt! And you are just a piece of trash, get the hell out of here, and don't let me see you again!!" Yushu Baihong stared Yelled at him, then turned and limped out, into the rain.

Yu Shubai dragged his legs, excruciating pain, he stubbornly resisted the urge to look back, tears melted into the rain, but his trembling shoulders could not be hidden.

It wasn't until night fell that Yu Shubai walked back with a wooden stick he picked up at random. There was no one around the ruins of the firewood house. As if he had sensed something, he pushed aside the rotten wood and broken tiles, and saw a cloth bag buried underneath.

At this moment, Yu Shubai couldn't believe his eyes. He took a step back and looked around, but he didn't see the familiar figure, only a cold money bag lying on the ground.

He's really... gone.

he……

Yu Shubai pinched his arm fiercely, his throat was filled with tears, he swallowed the tears, squatted down and counted the broken silver bit by bit.

There is not much money, but there is no shortage.

"It's a dead-headed person who doesn't bring a penny."

Yu Shubai rubbed his eyes hard, his eyes were wet, he sat on the ground, put the money bag into his arms, the silver taels that thousands of people touched and taken by thousands of people were very dirty inside, but he didn't dislike it at all, sniffing greedily With the residual smell on the bag.

In fact, there is no smell at all, but it is full of all the thoughts of that person.

In the first few days, Yu Shubai still went to find a place to sleep, but due to the frequent "visiting" of evil spirits, people around him always thought he was bewitched by evil spirits, punched him, and even planned to burn him to death. Gradually began to sleep anywhere, no longer close to people.

It's ridiculous to say that wherever he passed by, regardless of whether the trees were rotted or not, all the trees rotted overnight, and no matter how strong a person was near him for a few hours, he would be infected with the plague.

For a while, he became the god of plague that everyone in the city could not avoid.

Yu Shubai never thought why Gu Mou seldom let him go out, and every time he went out to buy rice, he tried to be alone.

He has the ghostly aura of evil spirits on his body, and the plague is born from this, so it is easier for people to get sick.

But Yu Shubai himself was attacked by evil spirits day after day, and he couldn't find a few clean pieces of flesh when he opened his clothes. The skin was covered with large and small scars, deep and shallow, black, purple, and blue. From a distance, it looks like a piece of corpse plaque, which is shocking.

After spending all the money on his body, Yu Shubai completely lost his restraint, walked around in a daze every day, and sometimes went to the city gate to see what he was looking at.

"Hand over Qi Shihuang. Your Prince Zheng Yuan said that he is in the palace. If you don't accept the surrender quickly, we will attack the city!" The general of Liu Kingdom shouted outside the city, accompanied by tens of thousands of soldiers. shout.

"They won't really attack the city..."

"It's scary, go home..."

Circle after circle of people surrounded the city gate, panicked, but reluctant to leave.

The officers and soldiers stationed on the watchtower thought for a moment in cold sweat, and replied: "Qi Shi is full of disasters now, if you dare to attack the city, you will be infected with the plague and go back, no wonder we are!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, a dense swarm of flames above the city gate came into view, and tens of thousands of arrows fell with flames. Not only the officers and soldiers on the tower, but even the people onlookers were shot by the arrows, and everyone scattered crying. Fleeing, one by one fell in front of my eyes.

Looking at the sharp arrows shooting straight down, Yu Shubai's pupils tightened suddenly, he didn't expect that the other party would shoot arrows directly to demonstrate, he barely avoided one arrow by wiping his sleeves, and another five or six feathered arrows flew towards him.

The smell of blood filled his nose, Yu Shubai knew he couldn't dodge, he thought he would take these arrows, but he was hugged by someone, "bang bang bang", the arrow seemed to hit some kind of hard shield, Yu Shubai hadn't reacted yet.The man held the shield in one hand and dragged him to a safe corner with the other.

The person who came was wearing a cloak, and his entire face was hidden in the hat. Before he could see his face clearly, he turned around to observe the situation outside. Yu Shubai's teary eyes were hazy, his chest heaved violently, and he grabbed his waist with excitement and trembling. Yijiao: "You, why are you..."

"Cousin! Is it really you? I thought I was wrong!" The man turned his head, and the hat fell off, his immature face was full of surprises.

The second half of Yu Shubai's sentence was stuck in his throat, and he swallowed with tears. He let go of his hands weakly, and after a long while, he murmured: "You...why did you get down?"