snatch the fox

★The sea of ​​fire is all over the sky... Gu Xiuyun sighed softly, and resolutely turned around to look for Xie Qingtan, the moment when he was helpless but willing to never leave, he saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart. ★

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"It took thousands of years of hard work, and it took several twists and turns to bring his soul back to life... Although one soul and one soul are missing, at least you can still laugh, right? You say you are stupid, and you are still chasing him with all your heart after resurrecting him Pei Yuanzheng won't let go...why bother?"

Under the hanging feet, he saw Xie Linyuan standing there quietly and raised his head, the turbulent chill in his eyes was the coldest he had ever seen before.

Gu Xiuyun at the side became anxious, pulling the expressionless Xie Linyuan to what he was talking about.

He looked up at the sky.

If that dream is real, then the current heaven can accommodate his existence?

"Thank you Qingtan."

"If you have any last wishes before you die, I promise you, please say so!"

"Can my soul really live to the death?"

Xie Qingtan looked down at Xie Linyuan, and smiled meaningfully: "What do you think?"

He followed Xie Qingtan and glanced at that person again, and said calmly: "My time may be running out, you allow me a few more days, and when I'm exhausted, it will be easy to take my soul and save Gu Xiuyun."

Xie Qingtan didn't believe it at first, and said angrily: "I can't play tricks on me? The people he saved by Xie Linyuan would die so easily? Besides, if you break the promise, where can I find you again? If you miss this opportunity, Xie Linyuan won't let you go of!"

"You also know that my soul is incomplete, and my lifespan is naturally not as good as that of ordinary people. Besides, even if you don't get my soul, you will take the fox bead. I'm not afraid to tell you that my fox bead has changed hands. You will leave, and you will get nothing if we fall out."

"Shen Linyan, you are ruthless!"

"I know that someone in the city was eyeing me, and I was captured by the master of the Zhang family. It's just that the time has come to lure the snake out of the hole. You think that I will be captured so easily? Don't be conceited, I have persuaded you."

On the ground, Xie Linyuan had already cut the stunned Gu Xiuyun's hands behind his back and locked them firmly, the impatience in Xie Linyuan's eyes had reached the extreme.

"Hugh Cloud!"

Seeing Xie Linyuan like this, Shen Linyan panicked, but still couldn't help but calmly said: "I didn't intend to involve Gu Xiuyun!"

Before finishing speaking, I saw Xie Linyuan put his palm towards Gu Xiuyun's Tianling Gai, and countless dazzling golden-red light spots gradually gathered under his palm, and even strange ripples began to appear around him, blurring the surrounding scenery.

Xie Linyuan wanted to kill Gu Xiuyun!

As soon as Xie Qingtan said "despicable", he broke free on his own, exerted his lightness kung fu to the extreme, and finally rushed Gu Xiuyun out of Xie Linyuan's imprisonment before the golden red light beam pressed down on Gu Xiuyun's sky cap, and flew straight out .

The golden-red dazzling light beam did not tear his body, but protected him carefully, and even had a healing effect.

Is the fire element the same element?

He only had time to turn around, and the heat wave from the explosion knocked him out.

He clutched his wound and walked for a long time avoiding the guards, vaguely felt that the layout was familiar, and after thinking about it, it turned out to be the mansion of the old man!

It is not easy to be a teacher in Zhang's mansion, because the husband's young master is extremely talented. If he hadn't been lost in the library on the Zhang's mansion, he would have been at his wit's end...but because of this, he is roughly familiar with the terrain.

It's just that he never expected that he, who lives here in a disguised form of imprisonment, has been living in Zhang's mansion all the time! , That being the case, as long as you find the study room and crack the mechanism, you still have to worry about not getting that thing?

Relying on his memory, Shen Linyan came to the roof of the study house in the side courtyard, and only then uncovered a tile, and the fierce conflicts and questions inside were immediately spread.

Gu Xiuyun was blushing: "Yes! To put it bluntly, I came here for you, the stone! It's fake to approach you, and it's just a show to fall in love with you. Now I only ask you, will you give me this medicine stone? !"

"What do you want this broken stone for?" Xie Qingtan looked at him mockingly.

Xie Linyuan was nowhere to be seen in the room, probably with the help of the explosion just now, he must have retreated as soon as possible!

"The medicine stone..." Gu Xiuyun seemed hesitant to speak, and finally gritted his teeth, "Even if you sell it, it's better than you put it under this mechanism as a memorial tablet and guard it..."

"Why!" Xie Qingtan stared at him with red eyes excitedly, "I thought you were different from those people! But you finally chose to betray me for this dead thing!"

Xie Qingtan triggered a mechanism without even looking at it. As soon as the secret door turned around, an exquisite brocade box appeared, and Xie Qingtan casually threw it into Gu Xiuyun's arms. Gu Xiuyun stared at him blankly, but did not open the brocade box. box.

Flicking his sleeves and turning his back, Xie Qingtan is like a beast on the verge of eruption, so it's better not to provoke him.

"you……"

Gu Xiuyun wanted to go forward and say something, but in the end, he still didn't take that step.

"Run away if you have the ability! Big Nuo, Zhang's mansion is full of organs, and it's hard for you to fly even if you have wings!"

Gu Xiuyun's face turned pale, and the hand holding the brocade box carefully lowered slowly, looking very depressed: "I'm sorry, the medicine stone passed down by your Xie family ancestors is really important to me."

"Important? Is it more important than the person standing in front of you? Yes! You said that I spent all day in the alchemy room developing pills, and when I was with you, I was always concerned about the fire of the heart alchemy furnace. I have no interest in asking three questions... ...Now I am changing, but what about you?"

"..."

"You weren't like that before...you've changed, Xiuyun."

"In this world, who is wrong to pretend to be life-saving for the fickle power of existence? I only said that I would not kill, but I never said that I wanted to lose my life for it! Those promises are weaker than paper, and you are still I really believe it!"

Xie Qingtan didn't reply, turned around suddenly and landed a palm on Gu Xiuyun's shoulder.

There was only a "bang", Gu Xiuyun didn't know where he hit the mechanism, the template under his feet was empty, and he fell down immediately.

He was really unwilling to lose the medicine stone he was about to get, so he simply jumped on the tiles and fell down from the house, before the secret door closed, he also fell down.

The heavy stone slab closed behind him, completely separating the inside of the secret room from the outside world.

He didn't know how long he lay there, because there was no alternation of sunlight or moonlight, he couldn't even remember how many days he had been closed.

"Hey~ Don't sleep, you really won't be able to wake up if you fall asleep this time~"

Gu Xiuyun's voice came not far or near, although Xie Qingtan's palm was on his shoulder instead of being close, but the force was not so small, it must have suffered a serious internal injury.

He estimated Gu Xiuyun's position in the dark, threw the bottle in his sleeve over, and his voice, which had not eaten or watered for many days, seemed to be rough on sandpaper: "Internal injuries can't be delayed, eat quickly, don't wait Time to find an exit to drag me down..."

Gu Xiuyun groaned for a while, and presumably accepted it.

"To be honest, I don't understand why you jumped down after him. You obviously got away."

Shen Linyan leaned there wearily, pressing on the heart that had lost the fox beads, neither sad nor happy.

"I'm just curious. It is said that Xie's family's medicinal stones are notoriously precious, and I'm satisfied after just looking at them...Besides, why did you say those words to lie to him? I know, from the moment I met Xie Qingtan, you've changed."

"Hmph! Stop talking big, what do you know about me?"

Gu Xiuyun came over, threw the medicine bottle back to him, and also leaned against the stone wall behind him.

"Let me tell you a story."

"..."

"Shen Linyan?"

"...Tell your story, I'm not dead."

"Crow's mouth... the first time I saw Qingtan was in the backyard of this mansion. At that time, this mansion was not his territory like it is now. He was a concubine of a side branch of Xie's family, and he was often bullied and sent to live under the fence. I live in Zhang's mansion in Xie's Bieyuan."

"Whenever he got angry, he would run to the backyard and slash wildly with his sword. The brothers couldn't bear this torment, so they entrusted me, who was able to change form, to teach him... But this lesson actually taught him evil fate. The deeper you go, the more you can't extricate yourself."

"I was originally a demon who escaped from the underworld while taking advantage of the chaos. I possessed myself behind a tree to absorb the moonlight and become a demon."

"Since ancient times, yin and yang have restrained each other. His Xie family has inherited the lineage of immortals and gods for generations, and his righteousness is strong. After staying in the mortal world for a long time, it is not good for yam ghosts like me, let alone being by his side all the time? How close? It is not an exaggeration for him to steal this medicine stone, when he rushed to him back then, it was only this medicine stone that maintained all these subtle things... the disease of exhaustion on my body, this medicine stone can alleviate it."

Before Gu Xiuyun had time to finish speaking, after the shock, the entire secret room shook for a while, and countless pieces of gravel and soil fell down.

"Not good!" Gu Xiuyun got up and pulled him, "Xie Qingtan is crazy, he wants to destroy this Zhang Mansion that he has worked so hard to manage for a hundred years!"

After finishing speaking, he actually gave him the brocade box that had been carefully guarded.

He didn't throw away the brocade box, but stopped and stood there quietly, in stark contrast to the rapid collapse around him.

"Let's go! Although I don't know the direction, it's better than staying here and waiting to die!"

He moved his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything, and stepped up to Xie Qingtan's pace.

"Wait!" Gu Xiuyun suddenly lowered his voice to stop him, "There seems to be someone in front of the passage...going here!"

He couldn't stand anymore, he vaguely felt that before Gu Xiuyun could say a few words, there were two more breaths of other people around him, and he subconsciously fell in the direction of the faint fragrance... As expected, was firmly caught.

"Master Gu, don't you want us to go?"

It was Master Zhang's voice!

The person holding him seemed to understand what he wanted to ask. He lowered his head and kissed him on the forehead, and then said calmly: "The person surnamed Zhang brought me here, saying that he can find you to go out together."

He didn't know how long he could stay awake, so he simply threw the brocade box, and it landed in Gu Xiuyun's hands impartially.

"I don't like to owe people favors. I don't care who you want to give them to. Anyway, I won't take them...cough cough..."

"Boom!"

"Go! The chamber is about to collapse!"

In the end, Gu Xiuyun did not follow.

As soon as Xie Linyuan dragged him out of the secret passage, the Zhang Mansion behind him gradually disintegrated and collapsed in the raging fire, reflecting the faces of Master Zhang and the servants of Zhang Mansion's wives and grandchildren who were waiting there, shadowy and complicated.

"Mr. Xie, Mr. Zhang will leave now."

"It's work."

When the crisis was over, he couldn't keep his eyelids open anymore, fell down on Xie Linyuan's shoulder and fell into a deep sleep.

……

The thick and pure consonance corrected his chaotic qi, and he slowly opened his eyes.

"Xie Linyuan?"

Xie Linyuan paid off, and sat sideways on the edge, showing no signs of happiness or anger.

He propped himself up, and the place where Xie Qingtan accidentally injured was still in pain: "You can't get the medicine stone, so you plan to use Gu Xiuyun's hand to destroy it, right?"

"If I say that I came here to destroy the medicine stone from the beginning, do you believe it?"

Shen Linyan turned pale, turned her head away and went silent.

From Xie Linyuan's point of view, Gu Xiuyun's ending at the beginning was to die with his own eyes?But Gu Xiuyun has known him for several years, how could he just watch this kind of thing happen!

He didn't understand the Xie family's grievances, nor did he understand Xie Linyuan's role in these intertwined grievances.

He only knew that Gu Xiuyun was his friend, and Xie Qingtan just wanted to be with Gu Xiuyun.

"Xie Qingtan stole the few medicine stones from the Xie family. The Xie family sent a letter asking me to help them get back the medicine stones. If they can't get them back, they will be destroyed."

He was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Xie Linyuan to explain to him, he was in a complicated mood for a while, so he simply didn't answer.

Xie Linyuan got up, ignored his struggle and carried him on his back, and walked down the mountain with him on his back without packing anything.

"Put me down!"

"obedient."

"You were the one who killed Gu Xiuyun! Xie Qingtan was right, a cold-hearted killer like you deserves to be demoted!"

Xie Linyuan stopped suddenly and glanced at him: "What did he tell you?"

With just one glance, the sharpness of the knife point across his neck immediately came to mind, but before he could say anything, a figure appeared in the pavilion in front of him.

Xie Linyuan nodded, and walked over with his back.

"master?"

Shen Linyan was surprised, but he had not recovered from his serious illness and his limbs were weak. He couldn't compete with Xie Linyuan's long arms and legs, so he had to give up resistance and obediently cling to him.

Master Zhang handed a glass of wine to the two: "Practice with this wine only."

Rolling up his sleeves, he drank the sake in the glass in one gulp.

He was about to take the glass filled with wine, but Xie Linyuan quickly snatched it away, drank two big glasses, and said calmly when he saw the bottom:

"The wine is spicy and cold, let's talk about it when you recover."

At that time the situation was chaotic, he fainted before he had time to ask any questions, and now he could see the master of the Zhang family again, he hesitated to speak but failed to ask what he had in mind.

Gu Xiuyun and Xie Qingtan...are they really buried in flames?

And at this moment, Xie Linyuan was not as considerate as in the secret way, and he didn't have the slightest intention to help him ask questions from the beginning to the end.

It was Master Zhang, who glanced behind him without any trace, and while Xie Linyuan rolled up his sleeves and raised his head to drink another cup, he followed Master Zhang's line of sight, his eyes trembled slightly, and his eyes sparkled for a long time, and then he gradually returned to calm.

The smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more relieved.

After Xie Linyuan frowned and bid farewell to Master Zhang impatiently, and finally turned around and left with him in his arms, the mountain wind blew across the cliff opposite the gazebo, and the flowers and branches swayed with the wind.

A pair of bare hands held up the flower branch that was almost overwhelmed and died, and turned its back to the humanity behind it:

"Mei Han Xiangxue goes back in winter, peaches are full of flowers in spring...you like his poems so much?"

The young man in the back glanced at his arms tied like zongzi in distaste, and split open the burning beams pressing on him with his bare hands. After all, he was still a little bit brave... The pain from the burns did not subside at all, and he watched as he gradually Two people on the mountainside far away, their thoughts seem to drift away.

"When I met him, he was so decadent that his soul was almost gone. The wounds on his body were spliced ​​together like wrecks with deep bones visible. He looked at me with empty eyes, and he went back and forth when he spoke It’s this poem, I kept laughing with tears, tell me, how can I forget it?”

Meihan is fragrant and snowy, envious of returning in winter, and peach blossoms are in the spring city, laughing and playing with flying flowers.

What do I ask for if my soul is incomplete, and I will stay with you in the next life.

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"Aren't you afraid that Shen Linyan really took the medicine stone that day?"

"He will not."

"If Xie Linyuan knows that you have set up a situation like this, and turns a corner to use Shen Linyan to steal the medicine stone for the day, I think you will not have a good time."

"Do you really think he doesn't know anything? The one who sees this situation most clearly... Xie Linyuan is him from the beginning to the end. It is impossible for the Xie family to invite him. The reason why he made a move was just to push the boat along the way. You have been waiting for so many years. Think he's not in a hurry?"

"A person like him will be in a hurry?"

The person who was going away suddenly turned around and glanced at this place.

The gigantic rock behind him "clicked", and the smooth rock surface cracked like branches and leaves, with countless fine and numerous gaps.

Even though they were far apart, the two could still feel the warning from that side's gaze, sharp and cold.

But for a moment, when he turned his head to face the angry and awkward man beside him, he immediately removed all the coldness. Although his face was still expressionless, his expression softened unconsciously.

The teenager smiled lightly.

"When you meet someone you care about, and you are snatched away and put on you again and again, can you hold your breath? We just took advantage of it. If Shen Linyan didn't get involved, let alone Yaoshi, At this moment, I am afraid that we have already been Xie family..."

"...Xu Yun."

"After all, we're still alive, aren't we?"

The two looked at each other and smiled, holding hands.

"Well, still alive."

Since then, Gu Xiuyun, whom the Xie family had always wanted to get rid of for the sake of fame and so-called family integrity, disappeared in a fire in the Zhang Mansion, and Xie Qingtan, who was once famous in several circles, was "buried" in the Zhang Mansion. In the sea of ​​flames, "there are no bones left"...

The author has something to say: New Year’s Eve is delayed, and the post is late, please forgive me~ Some of the poems are based on ancient poems and aphorisms. ~