star sea is you

"Is the general interested in this house?" Wang Sheng asked.

"No?"

"That's not true, it's just..." Wang Sheng faltered and couldn't continue.

"Then here." This is his home.

"General, why don't you think about it again. Look at this place. No one has lived here for ten years. It has become a den for cats, dogs, cattle and snakes. It is difficult to clean it up. It is said that it is haunted." Wang Sheng was beside him mysteriously. nagging.

"It would be fine if it was haunted..." Shangguan Jingyu said to himself in his heart.

Wang Sheng refused to give up and continued to persuade, "...I have asked someone to tidy up the mansion for you. It is on the East Street. That area is much more prosperous than here, and the servants and servants have also been arranged. You just need to live in it. .”

Xiao Qi saw that his master was firm in his decision, so he stepped forward and drew out his sword, intending to cut down the weeds in front of him, and then tidy up after weeding.

"Back off." Shangguan Jingyu shouted angrily.His tone was cold.Interrupted Wang Sheng's eloquent persuasion.

Xiao Qi was stunned for a moment, obviously not knowing why the master was so angry, he lowered his head and retreated behind Shangguan Jingyu.

Shangguan Jingyu stepped forward and split the thorny weeds.

"General, please rest, I'll send someone to clean up." Wang Sheng said and was about to walk out the door.

"No, I'll pack it myself. You go back first, I'll go to the barracks tomorrow."

"General, you are welcome. The soldiers are worrying about nothing to do. This house is so big, how long will you have to clean it up by yourself?"

Shangguan Jingyu glanced at the guards, then continued to lower his head and cut weeds with his sword, cutting a corner at the door.

Xiao Qi understood, pushed Wang Sheng out of the gate, then led two horses into the gate, and closed the gate.

After a while, Shangguan Jingyu made a path leading to Ning Zhiyuan's courtyard. Along the way, they saw many houses burned down.They came to Ning Zhiyuan's courtyard, where the fire was not so serious, half of the study room was burnt down, but the rest were intact.The weeds and climbing vines outside climbed in along the broken windows.

"General, this is uninhabitable."

Shangguan Jingyu cleaned up silently, and Xiao Qi wanted to help, but he stopped him.He cleared the yard, weeds grew in the bedrooms, the boards were rotten, and there were stray cats under the bed.Dust is everywhere around, and a book can drop a pound of dust.Shangguan Jingyu arranged the books he had wiped neatly.

Xiao Qi came in, "General, the person is awake, but he refuses to recruit, could it be someone from the imperial court?"

Entering the bedroom, Shangguan Jingyu carefully wiped off the dust and placed them neatly.

Xiao Qi pushed the door open and came in, "General, the man is awake, but he refuses to recruit, could it be someone from the imperial court?"

"I have handed over the military power, and the affairs of the court have nothing to do with me. Maybe they are enemies. Over the years, people who fought and killed have made many enemies. Now I don't remember any enemies. Let's go out and have a look. "

In late autumn, the big tree next to it dropped its leaves all over the ground. When walking on the fallen leaves, the fallen leaves broke with a cracking sound.

The assassin was tied backhanded, and stood under the tree, stubbornly refusing to kneel down, with his head held high.

Shangguan Jingyu sat down on the clean stone bench.

"If you want to kill, you have to do whatever you want." He knew that he couldn't escape, and he overestimated his own strength.When he heard that Shangguan Jingyu was going back to Lincheng, he was planning, but the revenge could not be avenged, but he did not regret it.

"Who sent you here?" Shangguan Jingyu asked calmly.Over the years, he has already learned to put his emotions away.

The assassin didn't answer, and glanced away from him.Standing there peacefully, waiting for death to come.

Shangguan Jingyu looked at the assassin fixedly, and asked again calmly, "I'll ask again, who sent you here."

The assassin fell silent.

"If you can't ask questions, kill them, but this mansion can't be stained with blood. You can deal with it outside." Shangguan Jingyu got up and went back to the bedroom, and continued to pack the important things.

The assassin suddenly knelt down and kowtowed three times to Shangguan Jingyu's back, "Young master, this subordinate is here to report to you."

Shangguan Jingyu withdrew his hand from pushing the door. The long-lost word "Young Master" came to his ears, and Ning Zhiyuan's appearance immediately flashed in his mind.

Xiao Qi grabbed the assassin who was kneeling on the ground and walked out.

"Wait!" Shangguan Jingyu turned around and said the name tremblingly, "The young master is Ning Zhiyuan?"

In Lincheng, there is only one young master, and that is Ning Zhiyuan.Is it his men or what?After the incident, he also visited Ning Zhiyuan's secret agents and guards, not for any other reason, but to know where Ning Zhiyuan was buried.The fire was raging that night, but Ning Zhiyuan's body was gone.I also hope that for the rest of my life, someone will recall Ning Zhiyuan with him and talk to him about him.This seemed to bring him closer to Ning Zhiyuan.He knew that no matter how close the distance was, it was meaningless.But overnight, those people suddenly disappeared without a trace.In Ning Zhiyuan's army, the closest soldiers were Lin Xi and the soldiers of the First Battalion, but those people also died, because of the riots that followed.

"Don't say anything, don't answer anything, just say you don't have the right to know."

"If you don't want to say it's fine, I'll ask tomorrow."

In the bedroom, Shangguan Jingyu was practicing calligraphy with his head down.Xiao Qi stood in front of him and reported the dialogue that was repeated every day.This was repeated for four or five months.

"General, why are you doing this every day?"

"No reason."

Shangguan Jingyu put down his brush and looked at his own work with a somewhat smug expression. "Did the person I brought you in touch with reply a letter?"

"It's all connected. They said that they don't know the leader. Every time they show up with a sign, they tell them where to buy goods, what to sell, who to look for, and write them down in detail on paper. But ten years ago , it was cut off suddenly, they had no idea of ​​their own, and ran in blindly, because without the assistance of the government, they have not made much money in the past few years, should they be cleared?"

Shangguan Jingyu waved Xiao Qi away.

Walking to the door, Xiao Qi came back again, a little puzzled, "There was a disturbance on the East Street yesterday, and Master Huang's way of handling it made people quite complain."

"Don't be suspicious, but don't be suspicious. Go."

The assassin was locked in an outhouse under special supervision.Every day, Xiao Qi has to ask for a statement, but he can't ask anything every day.Shangguan Jingyu was not discouraged either. He had waited for ten years and didn't care about these days, let alone he had to wait for a lifetime.

this afternoon.Shangguan Jingyu went to West Street to check the granary and came back, so he let the accompanying people go back first, and went back to the mansion to get the works he had practiced before, and then rushed to the house where the assassin was locked.

Shangguan Jingyu spread out in front of the assassin, watching his expression.

The assassin looked at the handwriting in front of him, it was the young master's handwriting, but the paper was produced only recently, and this poem was also written by a gifted scholar three months ago.

"This... this is..." He pointed to the words on it in surprise and wanted to ask something.

Shangguan Jingyu explained it for a long time before letting him know that it was written by himself.He told him something about himself and Ning Zhiyuan.

The assassin could tell that Shangguan Jingyu had feelings for the young master, but what happened later was not like that.He asked what he wanted to ask before, "Why did you betray the young master back then."

When a person is small, he is not qualified to protect anyone.It was a long time later that Shangguan Jingyu understood the burden on Ning Zhiyuan. "When something like that happens, I can't control it."

The assassin was silent for a long time.

"I'm safe."

"I'm safe?" Shangguan Jingyu was puzzled and wanted to roll up the work.

"The words that the young master said before he died were for us to hear, don't take revenge, safety is paramount." The assassin turned his head to look at Shangguan Jingyu, "So don't waste your efforts, you can't find them .”

Ning Zhiyuan and the assassin stood on a cliff soaring into the sky, and taking a step out would lead to eternal doom.

The assassin said that this is Ning Zhiyuan's grave.Shangguan Jingyu expected something, and his face turned pale.

"Few of us risked our lives to rescue the young master's body. The young master was trapped in Lincheng all his life. I thought he didn't want to be confined to one place after his death, so we scattered his ashes here, and The wind blows away, wherever he wants to go."

Shangguan Jingyu felt a burst of heartache, thinking that he could guard his grave for the rest of his life.But now, he doesn't even know where he is, and he just disappeared under this world.At this moment, he couldn't hold it any longer and vomited blood.Recently, he has been vomiting blood for no reason.All of a sudden, he seemed to be more than ten years older.

The assassin continued beside him.

"Spies and secret guards are different ranks. Our spies are in charge of making secret reports, and secret guards are in charge of tracking and protection. Our spies act alone, and I don't know who is who. Everyone can develop a family, a family and a family, This requires a huge economy to support. We are the first batch of young masters to train themselves, and then sent to various places. After that, I have never seen the young master, nor my companions. You may see it on the street A grocery shopper, waiter, maidservant, entourage, they may all be. In fact, we don’t know where the pigeon flies. When we see a pigeon, we blow a whistle. If the pigeon flies down, we will tie up the information we have collected, and we The information is encrypted again..."

The entire Ning Mansion has been tidied up, and it was rebuilt by him with one tile at a time, just like before.There are many flowers planted in Ning Zhiyuan's yard, all of which were planted before, and he likes them.

Xiao Qi left, and Shangguan Jingyu took him for two years, and then pushed him into the vortex of the capital to start his life.

In the entire Ning Mansion, only Shangguan Jingyu lived alone, in Ning Zhiyuan's courtyard, without servants or maidservants.He didn't want anyone to ruin that peaceful day, because Ning Zhiyuan liked quietness.During the day, he would walk around the barracks, listen to their reports, and then make up his own mind.When he has nothing to do on weekdays, he tends flowers and plants in the yard, or moves a chair and sits under a tree to read and draw.Live the life that Ning Zhiyuan used to live.In the middle of the night, he sat on the stone bench with a jug of wine, recalling the past time... Sometimes he would be in a trance, feeling that Ning Zhiyuan was watching him beside him.Sometimes, when thinking about others makes my heart ache, I just look at Ning Zhiyuan's portraits and talk to those old friends about Ning Zhiyuan when he was a child.

Spring, summer and autumn come, and time goes through one cycle after another.

In the winter of this year, heavy snow fell in the sky early, and the sky was completely white.The sky is dark, the last ray of light that is about to darken.

Shangguan Jingyu is getting old and his hair is getting gray.He stood under the eaves and reached out to catch a snowflake. "Ning Zhiyuan, I miss you so much." His life had already died in that fire.Living was nothing more than the punishment Ning Zhiyuan gave him. He remembered what Ning Zhiyuan said about killing people.

Just this winter, Shangguan Jingyu passed away at the age of fifty.