The Eight Winds of Rebirth

Gu Xiangtan walked towards the Sumeru Hall in a daze, Yan Fang followed him from a distance without daring to speak, presumably he must have heard [-]% of Zhao Su's words just now.

Back in the inner room, Gu Xiangtan didn't care about Su Xi and An Yin's concern, he just shook his head to indicate that he was very tired, so he asked everyone to go out, and then fell down on the bed, completely exhausted.

In the chaos, he felt that his limbs were heavy, and his eyes turned black for a while, and then he looked away, and Gu Xiangtan was already standing in front of a wide and lofty high gate. There were two ferocious beasts squatting beside the gate, facing each other. I glared and stared at him with teeth and claws.

Gu Xiangtan thought to himself: Where is this, the underworld?

There is a long and secluded road behind the door that cannot be seen to the end, Gu Xiangtan hesitated, and stepped in, thinking that he was afraid that he would go to the end of the world, but he would have seen the end in half a moment, but the exposed The scene surprised Gu Xiangtan.

This is a mourning hall, with white mourning flags hanging high and black sacrificial peaks hanging low, and the alcoves on the ground and walls are filled with densely packed memorial tablets. Gu Xiangtan thought that he had come to the place where the Gu family was enshrined again. Zhi Zhi took a closer look, but was too shocked by the name on the spirit card to speak.

Zhao Jie died in the 18th year of Zongzheng.

Zhao Mian died in the 19th year of Zongzheng.

Zhao Dian died in the 19th year of Zongzheng.

Zhao You died in the 22nd year of Zongzheng.

Gu Xiangtan took a step back in a daze, looked up and saw the other side.

Fu Yalian died in the 11th year of Zongzheng.

Hou Bingchen died in the 11th year of Zongzheng.

Cao Qin died in the 13th year of Zongzheng.

Zhao Ze died in the 19th year of Zongzheng.

Yizheng died in the 19th year of Zongzheng...

Gu Xiangtan stiffened his back, and after a long time he said, "They're all dead... they're all dead...

Who else is alive? !There must be someone alive!

He looked around in a daze, and hurriedly searched, but found the last two spirit tablets in the corner of the wall. The spirit tablets were actually new, and the cold light from the varnish could still be seen in the dark inner room.

Zhao Yuan died in the 23rd year of Zongzheng.

Gu Xiangtan died in the 23rd year of Zongzheng.

Gu Xiangtan's feet went limp, and he sat down on the ground without strength.

……

A "crack" from the candlelight made him suddenly open his eyes in shock!

In the silent night, it was dark all around, only the faint moonlight was reflected in the half corner of the room through the window curtains, Gu Xiangtan was lying on the couch, his breathing was short of breath, and it took him a while to calm down.

He stared at the bed rail carved with osmanthus seeds and lotuses for a long time, and the more he looked at it, the more ferocious it looked like the hooked claws of the scorpion. Gu Xiangtan couldn't help shivering, sat up all of a sudden, and didn't turn on the lamp. Touching the black, he put on a coat and went out.

It was not Yan Fang who was on duty tonight, another attendant, Lian Feng, was only guarding the porch from a distance, Gu Xiangtan seemed a little surprised when he saw it, but he didn't ask, he saluted and stood back upright.

Gu Xiangtan walked along the side hall to the backyard, which is the Buddhist hall of Xumi Hall. The Buddhist hall is two stories high, Gu Xiangtan did not enter the first floor, but climbed up the steps, and came to the fence on the second floor.

There is a lake under the fence, and the lake is surrounded by a wall. Looking far away, the moonlight soaks the water and floods the sky, echoing with each other.

Gu Xiangtan looked at the scenery in front of him, but he still couldn't erase the scene in his dream just now, that person, each life, damned, undeserved, all turned into a handful of loess in the end, including him Gu Xiangtan Own……

The evening wind at the end of summer was gloomy and cold, and it made Gu Xiangtan tremble for no reason. He leaned over the railing and vaguely saw a white shadow passing by under the city wall. .

Gu Xiangtan wiped his face, laughed at himself, laughed and heard the sound of footsteps in his ear, he paused for a moment, then slowly turned around, and saw a person walking slowly in the night, his clothes fluttering, Light and illusory.

Gu Xiangtan stared blankly at the other party approaching, the eyes of the two brushed slightly in the air, Gu Xiangtan's eyes flashed, and he hastily lowered his eyes.

The corners of the mouth were slightly raised, and the tone sounded a little joking.

"Are you wandering around in the imperial city, unable to sleep in the middle of the night? Why are you wandering to my Sumeru Hall?"

Zhao Yuan didn't say a word, and didn't use the same words back to ridicule, but stood still in front of the fence with Gu Xiangtan, looking sideways into the distance.

Upstairs in the small building, the summer wind fluttered, curling up Zhao Yuan's robe and Gu Xiangtan's hair. The two interacted with each other in the air, and then dispersed without leaving a trace.

After a moment of silence, Gu Xiangtan said, "The Mid-Autumn Festival is over... I don't know if Master is doing well."

Zhao Yuan said: "You can go back after the New Year's Eve."

"Can I go back?"

Zhao Yuan turned her head and met Gu Xiangtan's eyes.

"If you want to..." he said.

When he left that day, he had promised Fu Yalian that he would return to Luli after the funeral, but when would he be able to finish the funeral, and when would he be able to settle the case?

Gu Xiangtan thought about it, nodded his head, and smiled as if there was nothing on his face, but his hand holding the railing became tighter and tighter, until his nails were bleeding, and so tight that Zhao Yuan grabbed his wrist Forcing him to let go, Gu Xiangtan came back to his senses.

Zhao Yuan raised her eyebrows and noticed that Gu Xiangtan was trembling non-stop. Looking at his face again, it was as empty as gold paper for a moment, as if it was about to be blown down by the wind.

Zhao Yuan's heart trembled, and she couldn't help stretching out her hand to pull the person over.

Gu Xiangtan fell into a firm embrace in a daze, one arm tightly wrapped around his waist, let himself lean against his chest, and immediately blocked the cold air that invaded his whole body.

Gu Xiangtan was in a daze at first, but when he realized what Zhao Yuan had done, unconcealable sourness kept flooding his nose and eye sockets.

"Did Yanfang tell you? Or did you... already know?" Know the truth, know who the murderer is.

Zhao Yuan was silent for a while, and said softly: "I didn't know until I arrived in the capital."

Gu Xiangtan took a deep breath, suddenly stopped trembling, slumped his straight back, and buried his head weakly in Zhao Yuan's shoulder, absorbing the only warmth from him.

Zhao Yuan thought that Gu Xiangtan would blame her for hiding it from him, but she heard him say in a hoarse and suppressed voice, "Yuanqing, I really hate..."

What Zhao Su said tonight, Gu Xiangtan remembered every bit of it, how could he forget, how could he forget, once upon a time this was the only reason for Gu Xiangtan to live, live, let Those people paid their fair price.He thought that he had already experienced the worst, but when Zhao Su repeated this process again, Gu Xiangtan's heart was still full of resentment and pain.

In his previous life, he met Zhao Su at this time. At that time, Gu Xiangtan was planning and racking his brains. Zhao Su's words and Zhao Su's experience were like painful pains to Gu Xiangtan. seamless.

It's just that in the end, Zhao Su got everything he hoped for, but Gu Xiangtan looked back and found that he had nothing.

Going through the situation again, Gu Xiangtan hated those murderers who killed Gu's family and his parents, but he hated even more that this hatred caused him to implicate so many people, and in the end it only resulted in the death of both jade and stone.

"Do you want them to die?" Zhao Yuan asked suddenly.

His voice was still clear and flat, as if he was asking an innocuous question, and the palms stroking his lower back were extremely gentle.

However, these words poured down on Gu Xiangtan's head like a basin of cold water, which made him wake up from the hesitation and confusion.

In my memory, a person once asked him the same way, with the same tone and expression, and he said: Do you want revenge?

How did Gu Xiangtan answer?

He remembers saying to himself: Yes, of course I want to, I think about it in my dreams, I think about it all the time!I want them to die without a burial place, one by one never to be reborn!

So the man nodded after thinking about it and said: I see.

Then he went to the battlefield, and the Xiao family's army won successive victories. Emperor Zongzheng sent him to Luzhou Pass to rescue Zhao Jie from danger, but he directly killed Zhao Jie in the army for violating military orders.

At this time, the Three Kings were already dying, and Zhao Jie was at the end of his battle at this time. As long as he returned to the capital, Gu Xiangtan would have a hundred ways to make other people's heads fall to the ground, leaving no bones left, but Zhao Yuan was one step ahead of him. hand.

Gu Xiangtan didn't know it at the time, and he once questioned why Zhao Yuan intervened in this matter, but he suddenly understood later, but it was too late.

Zhao Yuan didn't want his hands to be bloody, so she slew his enemies for him, but she was hated by the remnants of the Three Kings, and in the end she couldn't even bring a single ashes back to the capital...

Thinking of this, Gu Xiangtan felt great pain in his heart, grabbed Zhao Yuan's hand, stared and said ruthlessly: "No, I don't want them to die!"

Zhao Yuan was silent, but surprise flashed in her eyes.

Gu Xiangtan looked at him earnestly, and his eyes became clear again: "Although the Shenwu army is brave and good at fighting, Zhao Dian has set up strict defenses in the capital, and has prepared for a long time, and with General Habayashi by his side, the power is far beyond what we can move. Although Emperor Zongzheng's military strength is small, he has many party members in the court. If something happens, it will cause turmoil between the government and the public, and the people's hearts will be unstable. In addition, the border is fragile. And move, even if they want to die, it is not the present, the best result is to let the three kings and Emperor Zongzheng fight with each other!"

Although Gu Xiangtan also had the idea of ​​being a fisherman in his previous life, but he couldn't wait, so he did everything he could to find a shortcut. , he knew that Zhao Yuan had his own plans and preparations, and Gu Xiangtan didn't want Zhao Yuan to ruin his idea for himself, so he just had to follow his fate.

Facing Gu Xiangtan's deep and eager eyes, Zhao Yuan pondered for a while, then said softly: "I see."

Only then did Gu Xiangtan breathe a sigh of relief, and sighed out together with the depression in his chest.

But Zhao Yuan said again: "So you don't have to worry about it, let's see how he ends up by himself."

Gu Xiangtan was startled, avoided Zhao Yuan's gaze, and nodded for a moment.

Zhao Yuan looked at the top of his hair, a faint trace of helplessness flashed across her face, and she felt a heaviness in her chest, and Gu Xiangtan slammed into his arms again, reaching out to wrap her arms around Zhao Yuan's waist.

Fu Er whispered: "Yuanqing, we must live well..."

Zhao Yuan's heart skipped a beat, feeling the touch, she couldn't help holding Gu Xiangtan slightly tighter.