The Eight Winds of Rebirth

Gu Xiangtan's injuries were serious, so they walked very slowly, and they would stop to rest for about an hour or two, but compared to the situation when Zhao Yuan sent Gu Xiangtan back to Luli many years ago, this time Both of them looked very indifferent on their faces, especially Gu Xiangtan, even though his face was not good, he always smiled, this smile was different from when he was in the palace, it was comfortable and relaxed, forgetting the past Enjoying the warm spring smile, as if the two of them just came for an outing, the days are comfortable and beautiful.

At first, Gu Xiangtan didn't notice it, but later when he was changing clothes, Gu Xiangtan noticed that the lucky bag on his chest had changed back to the pattern with the word "Shou". He looked back and thought, maybe it was the deer holding the plum branch His lucky bag was probably broken when he was injured by an arrow. He and Yuan Qing exchanged the lucky bag that day, hoping that one day they could protect him from disasters. "Shou" bag, Gu Xiangtan thought, he was afraid that he would disappoint his mother's wishes.

Neither of them mentioned this matter, they just walked and rested all the way to Luwei Gorge.

The place is still desolate, but there are no thieves who have fled and ambushed because of the flood. Zhao Yuan searched around but couldn't find a farmhouse where he could settle. Gu Xiangtan said that he would just go to the cave and settle down for one night, and then he would go on his way tomorrow.

Zhao Yuan lit the fire very brightly, but Gu Xiangtan was still shivering from the cold, Zhao Yuan hugged him and used her internal energy to keep warm, and after sleeping until midnight, Gu Xiangtan still woke up from the cold, her body froze and did not make a sound, for fear of making a noise Zhao Yuan just silently looked at the sparks jumping in front of her.

After a while, Zhao Yuan opened her eyes, "Is there any discomfort?"

Seeing that Gu Xiangtan's forehead was sweating, Zhao Yuan hurriedly wiped it off with her sleeve.

Gu Xiangtan's wound hurt badly, but he just smiled and said, "I had a nightmare."

Zhao Yuan naturally knew that he was suffering, so she stroked Gu Xiangtan's back one after another, trying to ease his pain, her eyes couldn't help showing tension and faint fear.

However, Gu Xiangtan also hated his appearance the most, his chest was full of suffocation, and suddenly he wanted to tell the other party a lot.

"Actually, I also had a dream when I was 13 years old. That dream was very long, very real, and I still remember it vividly."

Zhao Yuan paused her hand and looked at Gu Xiangtan in a daze.

Gu Xiangtan closed his eyes halfway, and gradually began to talk about what he saw in the dream. There was also a spiritual Buddha named Gu Xiangtan. The person who was a disaster, in the end, he himself became bloody and hard-hearted. He failed the expectations of the Zen master and master, the trust of the world, and the sincerity of a person who was wholehearted to him, and instead hurt that person. He died in a foreign land with nothing, so that in the end he himself also ended up dead.

Speaking of this, Gu Xiangtan couldn't help coughing excitedly, which involved the wound, making his face pale with pain.

Zhao Yuan hastily stopped him: "This is just a dream, it's long gone..."

However, Gu Xiangtan grabbed Zhao Yuan's hand, his pupils widened, and his eye sockets were sunken, reflecting Zhao Yuan's equally pale complexion.

"Yuanqing, you know, this is not...not a dream...this is retribution, this is my fate."

A trace of fierce blood flashed across Zhao Yuan's eyes for a moment, but it soon disappeared. He said coldly: "If this is the case, there will be more lives lost in my hands. Those who chased and killed me since childhood were eradicated." Those, those who were in the palace later, are even more countless when they are on the battlefield, if there is retribution, I will be with you, if God only takes you away and keeps me, then he is blind!"

Even though Zhao Yuan said it calmly, the deep resentment and obsession in his tone shocked Gu Xiangtan. Gu Xiangtan moved his lips, but he didn't say a word of retort. He just softened his body and let Zhao Yuan hug him I closed my eyes tiredly.

Zhao Yuan pulled Jin up and was tightly bound Gu Xiangtan, and said softly, "Sleep a little longer, it will be dawn soon."

……

After leaving Luwei Gorge, it took another month to reach Tianping County. It was already past the flowering period of crabapple flowers, so Gu Xiangtan didn't care.

The whole Tianping County is still orderly and calm, with peddlers and pawns hawking and yelling along the streets, it is very lively, but no one can ride a horse across, holding a long halberd and a silver whip in his hand, and quickly captures the thief in his hand up.

However, Zengshi's restaurant was still open, so Zhao Yuan carefully carried Gu Xiangtan off the carriage and went up to the so-called private room on the second floor.

Xiao Er greeted them diligently, Zhao Yuan ordered food, and Gu Xiangtan asked, "Where are you... the proprietress?"

Speaking of this, the smile on Xiao Er's face fell, and he looked at Gu Xiangtan and Zhao Yuan carefully again. Gu Xiangtan was so thin that he couldn't recognize him, but Zhao Yuan... such a beautiful young man, he immediately fell in love with him when he saw him. I will never forget it for the rest of my life, and I remember that the other party seemed to be sitting with the general drinking wine at that time, and now I think it is like a dream.

"It's in the kitchen, but... Generally speaking, she doesn't like to come out or talk about anything."

Xiaoer sighed as he spoke, originally wanted to say a few more words of emotion, but when he saw the young man's sick face, he felt that the other person's worry was heavier than theirs, and he couldn't say a lot of words for no reason, so he took it for a while A lot of vegetarian food went upstairs, saying that the proprietress heard that the general's friends came to eat and drink, and specially sent them to let them come more often in the future.

Coming here often... is just to remember through the old person, even a little bit of connection is the evidence that that person once existed.

……

It was April when Gu Xiangtan and Zhao Yuan left Beijing, and it was mid-summer in July when they arrived in Luli. They spent twice as much time on this trip as compared to the last time, and without disturbing the people of Xiangguo Temple, Zhao Yuan took Watching Gu Xiangtan return to the country courtyard to settle down.

Gu Xiangtan is now sleeping for most of the day, and occasionally wakes up for an hour or two every day, and his energy is very poor. Su Xi and An Yin are trying to cook a small bowl of gruel for him. Drink it, but it's too much to swallow.

On the third day, Zen Master Guan Yun came uninvited, and Zhao Yuan was not surprised. He let him re-diagnose Gu Xiangtan's pulse and adjust his posture. During this time, Zen Master kept frowning, especially when he saw Although the wound on Gu Xiangtan's chest has not been festered and suppurated due to proper care, more than three months have passed, but there is no sign of healing at all.

Zen Master Guanyun didn't say anything, but the expression of helplessness was fully written in his eyes. On the contrary, Zhao Yuan didn't see too much sentimentality, and he still took care of him as he should, just like Gu Xiangtan just caught a little cold, and always It will be fine someday.

It was obviously hot, but Gu Xiangtan was still wrapped up tightly from top to bottom. This evening he rarely felt a little stuffy, so he asked Su Xi to take a bench to enjoy the cool in the courtyard, and Zhao Yuan sat beside him.

Now that the two are together, it is Zhao Yuan who talks more. Gu Xiangtan wants to read a book, so Zhao Yuan reads to him, and often talks about the customs and life he has experienced outside in the past few years. Zhao Yuan has always been not good at words. Xiang Tan listened to him describe the jokes and stories of the ordinary people in a straightforward way, and felt it was funny and against the law, but he still had a lot of fun on his face.

Sometimes the two of them would recall some past events in Beijing, and those grievances and hatreds seemed to have happened in the previous life in just a few months.

Gu Xiangtan said that Meng Su has the appearance of a secondary star, and Chen Cai is a star of Wuqu. In a few years, he will surely become a generation of good ministers.

As for Gong Yiling... with her by Zhao Xi's side, this world will never be as bad as it used to be.

"You trust her so much?" Zhao Yuan frowned, "Did she also appear in the previous dream?"

Gu Xiangtan heard the dissatisfaction in his words, and couldn't help but find it funny, he raised his hand tremblingly, and Zhao Yuan quickly grabbed it.

Gu Xiangtan said: "You guessed it a long time ago, didn't you?"

Zhao Yuan lowered her eyebrows and nodded slowly.

Gu Xiangtan believed in Gong Yiling and Zhao Xi, but not completely. He believed in Xue Yiyang, Fu Yalian, Ci Guogong and other senior ministers as helpers. Gu Xiangtan also left a possibility for the Zhao family.

With that person's ambition and strategy, once Zhao Xinan takes the big job, he will definitely not stand idly by. This is one of the reasons why Gu Xiangtan spared that person's life. He is Daye's threat and also Daye's hope , It just depends on what Gong Yiling thinks.

Gu Xiangtan has always done everything in every possible way. Although he keeps saying that he does not want to be this spiritual Buddha, which one of his wishes will he be sorry for the common people in the world? !

... But the world is ruthless.

Thinking of this, the color of prey flitted across Zhao Yuan's eyes again.

Gu Xiangtan looked up at him, Zhao Yuan turned her head sideways and pulled his bracelet around her neck, carrying him back into the house.

"It's getting cold at night, go to bed early."

……

This day, Gu Xiangtan opened his eyes, but Zhao Yuan was nowhere to be seen. He exerted some strength to get up, but his body no longer listened to his orders.

When Su Xi entered the door, he saw that most of Gu Xiangtan's people were hanging outside the bed, and almost fell off when he turned over. He was so frightened that he even lost the water basin in his hand, and hurried over to help it.

Gu Xiangtan blushed, grabbed Su Xi's front tightly and asked, "Where's Yuan Qing? Where's Yuan Qing..."

It's been a long time since Su Xi saw him so excited, he said anxiously: "My lord, don't be afraid, the prince will be back soon, before he left, he said that he would go to the market to buy some things, he won't be far away."

But Gu Xiangtan couldn't help shaking his head. It was useless to ask Zhao Yuan, so he changed to someone else: "Where's Mou Fei? Where's Mou... Fei?"

"Mu Fei... is not here, Bi Fu is here..."

Su Xi was taken aback, and An Yin, who was at a loss, followed in. An Yin was still holding the medicine in his hand, but was smashed to pieces by Gu Xiangtan with a wave of his hand. Strength, shouted fiercely for the first time.

"—Zhao Yuan! Come out for me!"

After Gu Xiangtan yelled, his eyes turned black immediately, he couldn't sit still, and when he was about to fall down, a person finally rushed in from outside the door, supported his body, his face was full of sternness The resentment suddenly diluted the peaceful look on his face these days.

Gu Xiangtan swallowed the blood from his throat, grabbed Zhao Yuan's sleeve and gritted his teeth: "You dare to go! It's useless if you kill him, it's useless, Yuan Qing!"

Zhao Yuan's eyes were red, she was exposed by Gu Xiangtan face to face, and her face was distorted for a moment.

This time he didn't evade anymore, obviously Gu Xiangtan's words hit the deepest pain in Zhao Yuan's heart.

"I have to give it a try. No matter what the method is, if it works, you can stay with me well. If it's useless, you and I won't be here anymore. What's the matter with us?"

Gu Xiangtan shook his head vigorously: "He's just an unborn child...Yuanqing, why don't you understand, it's not that I'm leaving because he wants to come, it's because...I'm leaving, so he is leaving here."

After saying this, Zhao Yuan's eyes suddenly burst into sadness and despair like a child's, which made Gu Xiangtan's eyes turn red for the first time since he was injured.