Geese

Saibei, desert.

Qi Shaoshang was lying peacefully in the yellow sand all over the sky. He had rarely slept so peacefully and solidly in his life.In the past, he wasted his youth in bloody battles all the time, his own blood and the blood of others.Later, because of him, the brothers who followed him shed blood. This river of blood flowed all the way, teaching him to hide in a hurry and exhausted.Are you too tired now?Heroes also need to rest, the world will not be overthrown without heroes.Then go to sleep, well, rest assured, sleep.

Is there something that interrupts this tired man's deep sleep, is it a clear and distant sigh?No, it's birdsong, one after another, as if from a distant sky.

This is a group of returning geese going south.

In a trance, Qi Shaoshang seemed to have returned to the south of the Yangtze River, to the shore of green willows with picturesque landscapes and misty waters...

It has been several months since the Battle of the Imperial City, looking back on the past, it seems like a dream.It's just that this dream was too tragic and real. When I woke up, I was shocked to realize that heaven and man are separated forever, and the good day is not here. Poetic and picturesque, but also somewhat melancholy.Not long ago, he suddenly received an imperial edict from the present majesty, in which he was canonized as the general of Zhenbei, and he was about to go to the border soon.Qi Shaoshang accepted the imperial decree silently, as if he had expected it, but also with a bit of bitterness.

Once again left in red tears of despair.He owed this woman too much. I am afraid that even the repayment of "kowtow three times in the morning and evening, and a stick of incense in the morning and evening" would not be able to make up for the woman's five years of hard work.Today's Qi Shaoshang is no longer the arrogant Qi Shaoshang of the past, and will never make any promises easily.

The blood-stained man who chased him for thousands of miles disappeared, but Qi Shaoshang was still at large.He didn't know what he was running away from, so he came to the south of the Yangtze River, where the rivers are green and blue in spring, with a single heart. He unknowingly touched the outside of a deep house in a small town, stopped, and stared.

He knew who lived in it, and he knew he shouldn't be here.But he came anyway.

He said to himself that he would pay Wan Qing a visit before leaving.This gentle woman scattered in the world like fireworks, and then dispersed like fireworks, making two men feel sad for her, and one is crazy about her.

Tie Shou was not surprised when he saw him outside the door, he just said lightly: I knew you would come.

Wan Qing slept peacefully in the small courtyard. Her tomb was exquisite and clean, and the surface was so smooth that there was no blemish.In front of the tomb, there was a plate of fish.

Rhododendron drunken fish.

As soon as he saw this fish, Qi Shaoshang was caught off guard by all the past events like a flood, and his originally calm heart twitched in an instant. He seemed to have returned to the years when blood splattered and flesh was flying, and he only survived on hatred!Almost subconsciously, he looked up at the cabin beside him.

The door was closed tightly, but the man's eyes seemed to be on fire, as if he wanted to see through the door.He hates, how can he not hate, this anger has burned a thousand miles to escape!He clenched the sword in his hand and walked towards the cabin step by step.Want to seek revenge?Yes, yes, he was a heinous, murderous man, and he should have ended this tortured nightmare with his own hands long ago!

The door was pushed open, and a shabby room appeared in front of me, shabby but shabby, but very clean and elegant.Qi Shaoshang didn't stop, he went straight to the door of a small room next to the shabby room, lifted the curtain and entered.

Sure enough, he was here, sitting quietly on the head of the bed, lost in thought.That figure is familiar to the eyes, the elegant and graceful green skirt, the lingering and curled blue hair, and the handsome and extraordinary appearance, all gathered in this devil, extremely contradictory and extremely beautiful!Qi Shaoshang couldn't help but yanked his collar hard and gritted his teeth: Why are you still so calm? !You have committed so many murders and forced so many wronged souls, why are you still so calm and take it for granted? !

However, all the anger disappeared in an instant when he saw something lightly held in the opponent's arms, and was replaced by panic and panic: that is a memorial tablet!

What the man in Tsing Yi carried in his arms like a baby was a memorial tablet.

As for whose name is engraved on that tablet, even a fool knows.

"As you can see, after Wan Qing's death, he has been in a daze all day long, with seven souls and six and a half souls lost..." Tie Shou also followed in at some point, explaining softly.

Qi Shaoshang was speechless, perhaps he should be happy and congratulate, but only he knew what was really on his mind.At this moment, there was no joy in his heart, but he felt heavy, painful, and heavy.Could it be that I still regard him as a bosom friend?Qi Shaoshang asked himself with a wry smile.

The man in Tsing Yi over there suddenly got into trouble, and his figure moved quickly.Qi Shaoshang was taken aback, and before he could think about it, he slapped the man's chest with his backhand, and the man flew up like a kite with a broken string, until his back hit the wall hard, and his mouth sprayed. Blood passed out.

"Gu Xichao!" Tie Shou hurried forward, checked the man's injuries, and then put him on the bed.

"I forgot to tell you, he often makes sudden surprise attacks like this, and he also comes at me from time to time. In fact, he doesn't have much skill in his moves..." Tie Shou shook his head helplessly.

Qi Shaoshang didn't move, he stared blankly at the hand that knocked Gu Xichao unconscious just now, and at the bright red overflowing from the man's mouth, as if he was the one who was stupid.Only after listening to Tie Shou's words, his brows gradually became tangled, and his heart slowly shrank as if dehydrated.He saw that even in a coma, the man in Tsing Yi was still holding on to Wan Qing's tablet, as if he would never let go of it for the rest of his life.

Then Qi Shaoshang made a decision.

The streets in the south of the Yangtze River are not as prosperous as the capital city, but they are just as lively and bustling. The travelers here are the same as those in other places, traveling in a hurry.

Qi Shaoshang was also the guest, but there was no urgency on his calm face, as if this Jiangnan, this small town, was his home.

When he thought of home, he thought of that scholar in green, that jade-faced Shura who was at odds with him.At this moment, he should still be sitting obsessively in the room, holding the tablet that he refuses to let go of life and death, and chanting the name of the beloved in his heart over and over again, right?Who would have expected that Gu Xichao, who used to be arrogant and domineering, has become a madman who has lost his will.But then I thought again, for that person, stupidity, isn't it another kind of confused happiness?

Ever since he returned to Iron Hands and insisted on taking care of Gu Xichao himself for the past few days, Qi Shaoshang found that he liked this southern climate more and more.Gentle, peaceful, and beautiful, without the roughness and boldness of Saibei, more charming and gentle.That's just right, only in this way can Qi Shaoshang temporarily escape that nightmare; and facing the delirious Gu Xichao every day, sometimes he suddenly feels that he has returned to the chess pavilion where the piano and sword are singing together, and the two of them steal high together. Drinking chicken blood wine, telling each other about their sweethearts under the moonlight, and hearing the other party say to him enthusiastically: "I will play a song for you, as a thank you bosom friend!"

The past is far away, things are different, and now, can he still play the piano?

Bosom friend, would he still regard himself as a bosom friend?Or maybe, there has never been such words as bosom friend and friend in his life dictionary?

Hexi's street suddenly became a little noisy, some shouted and some scolded.In the distance, a young girl was crying heart-piercingly.Qi Shaoshang was suffocated for no reason, lifted the sword by his side, and followed the sound with his feet.

Gu Xichao was indeed in the house, but he didn't sit or stay in the house, but stood with his hands behind his back, leaning on the poplar alone, the warm golden light of early spring sprinkled all over his body, green and golden mixed together, under the warm sun Outline a seven-foot well-proportioned body.In his eyes, he couldn't find the loss of soul before, clear and bright, just like the radiant Gu Xichao in the past, the only thing added was an unforgettable sadness, which was brought to him by Wan Qing, and he was willing to bear this for life and life very sad.Because he owed her a debt that he would not pay off in several lifetimes.

I don't know how long I stood there, I seemed to think a lot, but I couldn't grasp anything.Then the next moment, familiar footsteps sounded, coming from far and near, and stopped at the gate.Gu Xichaoying frowned slightly: There are two people.

Standing beside Qi Shaoshang was a young girl of sixteen or seventeen years old. She was dressed in rags, but she couldn't conceal the unique beauty and delicacy of Jiangnan women.Her big clear eyes timidly looked at the green-robed scholar in the courtyard, and the scholar also looked at her carefully, with a look of bewilderment flashing across his face.

"Girl, this is a friend of mine, surnamed Gu, nothing else, just a little brain..."

"I'm Gu Xichao. This is a friend of mine. There's nothing else, just very stupid." Before Qi Shaoshang could finish his wordy words, the man in Tsing Yi introduced him first, ignoring Qi Shaoshang's exaggerated dumbfounded expression .

"You... are you alright?!"

"I'm not crazy in the first place, only you and Tie Shou would believe it." Gu Xichao had a regretful expression.

Qi Shaoshang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly remembered something, and shouted angrily: "Then you attacked me on purpose last time?!"

"If it wasn't for you, Wan Qing wouldn't have died; besides, you should also know that I can never kill you. But with that yell just now, aren't you afraid to scare the girl?" After speaking, she turned around and entered the room on her own , Leaving Qi Shaoshang wanting to argue and forget his words, but he can't recall the taste.

The little girl looked at the two of them curiously, and she already had a good impression of the scholar-like young man in Tsing Yi.

I thought that a cold-natured person like Gu Xichao would not easily hit it off with others, but now he gets along very well with that young girl who has just arrived, even Qi Shaoshang, his former bosom friend, became jealous when he saw it.The little girl was called "Xiao Pian", with an inauspicious surname. She had been begging on the street since she was a child, and she was almost insulted when she was molested by a few gangsters in the street.Seeing that she was pitiful, Qi Shaoshang took her back to Gu Xichao's deep house to settle down.From then on, Gu Xichao stopped pretending to be crazy and foolish, and the little girl took on a whole new look, and she changed from the shyness she had seen at first, calling "Hero Qi" and "Brother Xichao" sweetly, and the poor child finally showed a rare smile.

In any case, with the addition of a well-behaved and lively girl, this dead house became a lot more aura overnight.Qi Shaoshang sometimes thinks, if it can be kept like this forever, if he doesn't have to go to the border to fight against the enemy, but can live here with them forever without any burden or concern.

As soon as this thought came out, Qi Shaoshang was really taken aback!How could he have such thoughts?He bears the emperor's mandate, and he has the responsibility to defend his family, defend his country, and kill the battlefield; he still has a red tear, bitter, stupid, and has been waiting for him for five years, and will continue to wait...

Born in sorrow, died in peace.Qi Shaoshang reminded himself sharply that all of this is just a fleeting moment, and he has more important things to accomplish and realize...

Passing smoke.But at that time, he didn't understand that everything in the world is actually a cloud of smoke, but there are some clouds of smoke that can never be forgotten or shaken off in a lifetime.

In the peaceful and peaceful deep house, there were several mournful wailing sounds, and the tender green branches seemed to be aged by the weeping blood, drifting away piece by piece, covering the wings of the wild goose.The wild goose gazed at the blue sky affectionately with its eyes full of hope. Although it struggled desperately, it could no longer spread its wings and fly.

This is a wild goose wounded by an arrow, and fell down in this yard with its last breath, and happened to be lying at Xiaopian's feet.

In mid-air, the flock of geese sang in unison and circled the house again and again, refusing to leave for a long time.The Li goose also raised its head and yelled in response, beating the hearts of everyone present.

"We, let's save it!" Xiao Pian begged with tears in her beautiful eyes.

Gu Xichao stepped forward, turned the wound part of the geese over a few times, and shook his head.

Xiao Pian's heart immediately went cold.

The geese finally flew away, but one of them rushed down and landed beside the injured wild goose, singing softly, like a whisper between lovers.The dying goose raised its head to look at it for the last time, then fell to the ground and did not move.

The goose followed and lay down on the ground, looking at its lover, staring at it without eating or drinking every day, and no one could pull it away.On the third day, it fell asleep peacefully.Two geese cling to each other, and the spring breeze engulfs the winter's chill to gently lift their feathers, performing a dance that is the most sad and beautiful in the world.

"I heard people say that geese are the most infatuated birds in the world." Xiao Pian buried the two geese together and erected a monument for them.

No one spoke anymore, Qi Shaoshang and Gu Xichao stood silently in front of the tomb, until the suffocating silence was interrupted by a childish cry of wild geese.

A little goose stumbled and flapped its wings and landed, as if it had sensed itself, it walked up to the monument step by step, calling for its parents.

Gu Xichao moved her heart, stepped forward to hold it up, but saw that there were tears in Xiaoyan's eyes, it had lost its parents, it was lonely and helpless, its heart felt as if it had been pricked by a needle, it was a pain I hadn't felt in a long time ...

"This little goose is quite spiritual. It flew back from a long distance, so it is destined for us. How about we keep it for the time being, and relieve the boredom of Xiao Pian?" He suggested with a smile.

"Okay, okay!" Xiao Pian naturally clapped his hands happily.

Qi Shaoshang could guess why Gu Xichao took in that goose. That person looked calm on the outside, but inside he was scarred and shattered easily.But the wild goose is really likable and very human, not long after, Qi Shaoshang and Gu Xichao rushed to hug it.Seeing Xiao Pian at the side, he covered his mouth and laughed "puchi".

"What are you laughing at?" Qi Shaoshang was puzzled.

"I laughed at you two, you look like Xiaoyan's father, haha..." Xiao Pian was still laughing.

When did he become the father of this wild goose?Qi Shaoshang's face was full of embarrassment, and he immediately let go of the goose in his hand and gave it to Gu Xichao, Gu Xichao just felt it was funny, looked at Qi Shaoshang's pale face with embarrassment, couldn't hold it back, and burst out laughing.

Qi Shaoshang's brows became tighter and tighter: Is this lunatic so funny?

Gu Xichao suddenly stopped smiling, but slowly, slowly stretched out a hand, constantly moving forward, forward, and saw that the slender five fingers were about to touch the opponent's eyes.

Qi Shaoshang didn't understand what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd. He grabbed the white wrist of the man in Tsing Yi, but was strangled by the protruding joints.He didn't expect the scholar to be so thin. Apart from the skin and bones, he didn't know if there was any flesh left in his hand.It is impossible to imagine the days when Wan Qing was lost, how did he survive?

It was only then that Qi Shaoshang found out that after being with Gu Xichao for several days, he didn't take a good look at him, and didn't have a heart-to-heart talk with him. Is it because the other party didn't care, or was it hard for him to let go of his deep-rooted hatred?

"What the hell are you doing?" It was supposed to be a scolding tone, but now it couldn't help softening the tone, so it sounded more pampering and ambiguous.

"It's nothing. Seeing that your eyebrows are wrinkled into a ball, I want to smooth them out for you." Gu Xichao let him hold his hand without twitching, and said with a frown, always joking and indifferent.

Qi Shaoshang stared at the expressive face in front of him. Familiar, happy, sad, and resentful feelings surged in his heart one after another. He suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed, which made the new leaves in early spring tremble.

He laughed so hard that he burst into tears, laughed so that the sky trembled, laughed so small that he stood dazed at a loss, and laughed so hard that he felt hairy in his heart.Qi Shaoshang didn't care about this, he suddenly grabbed the hand and slammed it into his arms, and tightly wrapped the scholar in Tsing Yi into his arms.

Gu Xichao's eyes widened, and she wanted to push away subconsciously, but her hands dropped when brushing the corners of the opponent's clothes.Because he really felt the penetration of the other person's body temperature, this warmth made him not want to refuse for a while.

Qi Shaoshang hugged him very tightly, so tight that there was no gap between them, so he felt the man's slenderness even more frighteningly. Fly away like a child.

But who is the one who really wants to fly?

"I'm leaving today."

This near-whisper whisper was like a thunderbolt, causing Gu Xi to buzz loudly in his head, he didn't know where the anger came from, he just pushed the warm embrace away, turned his face away, gritted his teeth and said in a hateful voice: "Hero Qi, don't you?" Send, let's go!" He turned his back and staggered into the wooden house.

The stunned Xiao Pie finally came to his senses at this moment, and followed away worriedly.

Qi Shaoshang felt that the back was very strange, why was it obviously blue, but covered with a layer of pale gray.Why does the usual steady pace now appear messy and crooked?Qi Shaoshang suddenly noticed that Qingying's left foot was abnormally sluggish, and suddenly recalled the despair and aggrieved look on the scholar's face when he knelt on one knee in pain in front of the palace gate, but still struggled to get up.He hadn't noticed the lifelong disability left by that battle? !

Is Gu Xichao covering it up too well, or is it that he, Qi Daxia, still refuses to let go of his heart-piercing hatred?

In the flickering candlelight, Gu Xichao took out a blue book from his pocket. The book was very thin, and there were still traces of glue on the paper.Two handsome italic scripts of "Seven Strategies" on the cover stand out.

"Qilue, Qilue, after a thousand times, you finally have to return to the hands of someone who really understands you!"

Qi Shaoshang looked at the scholar in Tsing Yi in confusion.He had to admit that this was a man who was difficult to see through. He was furious just now, but now he calmly gave him the book? !

However, Qi Shaoshang had mixed feelings when he saw the "Seven Strategies", which was full of corners.

"Master, this is the second time I've given it to you. In the same sentence, I believe you can make this book more valuable."

Seeing that Gu Xichao handed the book in front of him, Qi Shaoshang took it unceremoniously, stuffed it into the seam of his clothes, and said, "I want to give you something too..."

Gu Xichao was taken aback, seeing Qi Shaoshang pull out a sword hanging behind him.

The sword was covered with thick cloth strips, and Qi Shaoshang stretched out his hand to uncover the cloth strips layer by layer.

Against the water cold.

"There are rumors in the rivers and lakes that the master threw away Nishuihan's sword, but when he came, he saw you carrying it on his back. After all, he was reluctant." Gu Xichao looked at Nishuihan with a complicated expression.At the beginning, it was this cold sword against the water that slashed down in the air, shattering his dream and driving him into the abyss of eternal doom.

"I want to throw it away, but the sword is innocent, and the crime lies in the heart." Qi Shaoshang sighed, "Even if this one is destroyed, as long as there are treacherous officials like Fu Zongshu hiding in the court who rebel against the party, it will be returned." There will be a second and a third Sword against the Water, and by then, the country of the Great Song Dynasty will still be in jeopardy."

"But I don't want to use this sword anymore, so..."

"The boss wants to give me the sword?" Gu Xichao took over the conversation.

Qi Shaoshang nodded and said: "Your sword has been destroyed. I heard that the small ax was also taken away by the six doors. This is for your self-defense. You keep it for me."

Gu Xichao felt that his head was full of vicissitudes in a short time, he must be tired, fleeing thousands of miles, brother's death, beauty's injury, he had experienced them all one by one.I have tasted the pain of life and death in just a few days. After all, the Nine Demons Dragon is not a real dragon, how can I not be tired, how can I not be lacking?

He is not the only one who is tired?You fled for thousands of miles, and I chased after for thousands of miles. In the end, you were still standing in front of me alive and well, while I hid in the world like a walking corpse. I lost Wan Qing, lost everything, completely.You won, but why are you frowning?That's right, if you leave, you will have to wait another three to five years for that red tear, right?Qi Shaoshang, oh Qi Shaoshang, do you really think that beautiful Xi is a fairy with eternal youth?Wait any longer, the beauty will become an old beauty!

Thinking about it now, Gu Xichao was amused by his own thoughts, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly.

Qi Shaoshang obviously misunderstood the meaning of the smile, just as if the other party was playing tricks, he immediately warned with a round face, "I gave you the sword just to help you defend yourself. If one day let me know that you use this sword If the sword makes another killing, I, Qi Shaoshang, will not let you go first!"

"Thank you, Great Xia Qi, for your teaching." The man in Tsing Yi cupped his hands, still smiling half-truly.

After staring at him helplessly and complainingly, Qi Shaoshang got up and left the table.

"I am leaving."

Gu Xichao also stood up slowly, watching him walk away step by step, about to leave his own world.It wasn't until the fifth step that he asked in a low voice, "Are you leaving?"

Qi Shaoshang stopped unconsciously, but heard the person behind him say again: "Let's go! Walking on the road of life, there will be times when we meet again. Cherish the court and send off the master, the journey is smooth."

Sighing, she finally couldn't help turning her head, but was surprised to see Gu Xichao smiling at him.That kind of smile is sweet but not greasy, colorful but not coquettish. It looks like a spring breeze, but it is more pleasant than the spring breeze.He was only lucky enough to see this intoxicating smile when the piano and the sword were in harmony in the Qiting restaurant, and he knew that it was Gu Xichao's real, heartfelt smile.

This smile was once forever treasured deep in his memory, and it was once buried by thousands of miles of blood.Goodbye today, it seems like a lifetime away.

In the days to come, Qi Shaoshang always regretted looking back at himself, even though that smile was so beautiful and worthy of nostalgia, but the more beautiful things are often the more difficult to keep.Back then, it was also a reluctance to look back at the red robe, and the woman whose soul was more than that of a dry lotus disappeared from the sky, riding a crane for nine days.Some things in the world really seem to be arranged in the dark, and you can't avoid them.

On the night when Qi Shaoshang left the small house, it rained twice in Jiangnan.One was descended from heaven to the world, and the other was on Gu Xichao's face.The rain in the world is raging, and the rain in the heart is pouring.

Gu Xichao got himself very drunk, because he couldn't figure out one thing, and he couldn't figure it out no matter what.So he braved the heavy rain and rushed to Wan Qing's grave, asking loudly over and over again: "Why...why..."

The only answer to him was the relentless sound of rain.

Xiao Pian chased him out, and silently opened an umbrella to cover him from the rain.She is still inexperienced in the world, and she is still very ignorant of the love between men and women, but seeing the scholar in such pain, her heart felt sore, and tears rolled quietly in her eyes.There was a smell of alcohol in the air, and she didn't know any alcohol in the world that was so strong that even the smell of it could make people choke and cry.

"Wan Qing, tell me, what's wrong with me? Wan Qing..."

The scholar in Tsing Yi rubbed the inscription repeatedly, muttering nervously to himself.

There is an emotion that frightens me, it hides stubbornly in my heart, why can't I let it go, Wan Qing? !

The rainstorm fell like crazy, and the scholar cried like crazy.

The mountains and rivers of the small towns in the south of the Yangtze River were thoroughly drenched by the rain. When the shower first stopped, there were sparkling spring dew hanging everywhere, moist and clear, just like the tears of parting people described by the poet.