Tang Dynasty

Li Jiancheng arched his back slightly, leaning against the ancient wood behind him.He lowered his head, with one hand deeply dug into the mud pit by his side, and the other firmly clutched at the hem of his clothes, his whole body trembling, his breath unstoppable disordered.

Sweat slowly trickled down his side face, slipped from his eyes in such a posture of bowing his head, and quickly fell into the front of his front, disappearing.

After a while, he opened his eyes with difficulty, looking at a small open space in front of him.Feeling that what he saw in front of him became distorted by the pain, he couldn't help laughing a little self-deprecatingly.

After rebirth, since the first attack, he has never been like this. He does not use any medicine to relieve the pain, and only relies on his own mind to fight against it.

He tried his best to calm down his breath, but the pain, like being stabbed by a knife, never showed any sign of stopping.Every labor pain is like an arrow piercing the heart.This feeling raged in my heart over and over again, but I didn't know when it would end.

Pain took over all thoughts, forcing people to be unable to distract.Li Jiancheng was completely unaware of the surrounding situation.Only the sound of swords and soldiers coming from a distance was faint but clearly audible.

That war... I'm afraid it's not over yet...

Li Jiancheng thought in a daze, but at this moment, he was unable to do what he wanted and could not take care of it.

He didn't know where he was, how long he had been waiting, or even... what was he waiting for?

I... What are you really waiting for?

Li Shimin rode his horse away, leaving only a faint trace in his blurred mind.Just like the dust raised by his horse, it gradually disappeared, it was just... like a hallucination.

The person who pierced himself with an arrow in his heart in the previous life will really be desperate to save himself in this life?

Li Jiancheng sighed to himself, unwilling to think about the answer.

However, at this moment, the faint sound of horseshoes and the sound of rattling, rattling, gradually became clearer from far to near.Just by hearing it, one can tell that it is galloping like the wind.

His heart tightened suddenly, driven by something, he almost hurriedly raised his eyes to look at the source of the voice.

The fast brown horse came out of nowhere, showing its complete shape little by little in sight.Li Jiancheng knew this horse. Since the Taiyuan uprising, he had never left Li Shimin's body on the battlefield.

However, when the horse ran up to him, Li Jiancheng was startled suddenly.

There was nothing on the horse's back.One person and one horse left, but when they came back, there were only horses.

Only horses.

The horse swung its tassels, walked towards this side, and neighed softly at itself.

Li Jianjian stared at the spot, unable to move.Until the horse swung, there was a "touch" sound, and it fell to the ground.

Looking down, I saw a small porcelain bottle rolling down at my feet.However, that porcelain vase was... too familiar to him.

Almost instinctively, Li Jiancheng staggered forward and squatted down.As if grabbing a life-saving straw, he held the porcelain bottle tightly in his hand.He skillfully opened the cork, poured out a pill in his palm, and swallowed it with his head raised.

Letting out a long breath, Li Jiancheng felt that the porcelain bottle, which was supposed to be as cold as water, was still warm between the tentacles.He raised his head slowly, but suddenly he noticed that there was a bundle hanging loosely on the brown horse's neck.

Li Jiancheng calmed down, helped the ancient wood behind him to stand up, walked over slowly, and untied the burden.

Then, his hands suddenly shook violently.The bag in his hand fell to the ground with a bang, and the contents were scattered all over the ground.

What kind of burden is this? It's clearly... Li Shimin's cloak...

Li Jiancheng squatted down, picked up the cloak again, and held it in his hand.I saw that the corner of the cloak was scorched, and the originally blue cloth was stained by mottled blood, which almost lost its original color.

And scattered around are a dozen of the same small porcelain vases.The body of the bottle was stained with black soot and red blood, which were equally mottled.

For a moment, something blocked his thoughts, making him unable to think.Li Jiancheng slowly scanned the mess around him, and found that his mind was blank.

Until the gaze is fixed on something on the ground.

It was a hairpin made of jade, one end was buried in the dust, and the other end was embedded with a luminous pearl, but it was clearly exposed in sight.

Li Jiancheng stretched out his hand slowly, pushing away the dust covering it.He felt his fingertips trembling uncontrollably, paused, and finally held the object in his palm.

How this object fell into Li Shimin's hands, and how it was quietly hidden for so long, Li Jiancheng had no idea.

But today, it was actually returned to the original owner in this way.

Li Jiancheng stood up suddenly and looked up at the camp in the distance where the war continued.It was already sunset, and the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the wilderness, but it couldn't cover up the sounds of the increasingly dense swords and soldiers in the distance.

With five fingers, he tightly grasped the object in his palm.Li Jiancheng stared into the distance in a daze, then shook his head suddenly and laughed out loud.

——Li Shimin...

——Do you think that if you sacrificed your life for these mere bottles of medicine, all kinds of things in your previous life can be written off?

——Do you think that this really can make me half touched, half shaken?

--Do not……

——Even if you die, you must die by my hands.

——Have you ever tasted the despair of those who betrayed their relatives?Have you ever tasted the pain of an arrow piercing your heart?

——Before that...how dare you make a mistake...how could you...die...

Maybe it's because of the disease, and the body and mind are a little weak, but every sentence of this warning to myself, actually seems to be a sharp knife, cutting down on my heart one by one.

Li Jiancheng lowered his eyes, staring blankly at the messy things on the ground in front of him.His expression was unusually calm, but his trembling hands fastened the front of his front again.

It is clear that Fang has used medicine, but why...the heart still hurts so much?

He had never experienced this suffocating heartache.

Li Jiancheng tried his best to calm the trembling all over his body, trying to get out of this indescribable emotion.However, in the end, he knelt on the ground powerlessly.

Suddenly realized that it was the first time for him to be so panic-stricken.

After rebirth, he thought about avenging his shame and letting Li Shimin experience the same pain he had back then; he also thought about building another Li family dynasty with his own hands.

He thought about the things he wanted to regain, the way of revenge, and the road to Tang...but he never thought about what would happen if Li Shimin died before that...what would happen?

If he died because of himself... what would happen?

Li Jiancheng smiled wryly, knowing that he couldn't answer at all.He couldn't even use a few words to describe his state of mind at the moment.

After a long time, he struggled to get up, thinking that instead of waiting so dryly, he might as well... go and have a look.

But suddenly, his movements suddenly stopped in place.

He seemed to hear the hoofbeats again.

The heart was suddenly lifted.

Only this time, Li Jiancheng didn't raise his head immediately.He still kept his head down, looking down at the open space in front of him, listening to the voices near his ears from far and near, he couldn't tell if it was real or not.

He heard the sound of the horse's hooves slowly stop not far away, heard the other party get off the horse, heard the other party approaching him step by step, heard the other party stop and stand still in front of him...

For a while, no one spoke, only the slight sound of the wind flowing in the ear, which seemed exceptionally clear.

However, the two sides were just silent, waiting, expecting, testing, or fearing for each other.

Finally, Li Jiancheng slowly raised his head and looked at the person in front of him.

Looking up at the slanting figure in front of him, Li Shimin stood covered in blood in the afterglow of the sunset, with a tall figure and straight eyebrows.

The blood continued to flow down his right arm, dripping onto the ground beside his feet, it was shockingly red.

However, Li Shimin stood quietly on the spot, unmoving.He lowered his eyes and stared at Li Jiancheng intently, his eyes were unprecedentedly cold and profound.

In an instant, Li Jiancheng suddenly realized that the person in front of him had grown up to this point before he knew it.

He has been able to take charge of his own affairs, and is no longer the young man who followed behind him back then.

After a long time, he heard the other party speak in a hoarse voice: "Brother, I... am back."

When this sound was called out, it seemed like a lifetime away.

Li Jiancheng looked at him fixedly, without speaking.

However, the next moment, Li Shimin knelt down suddenly, and in a bent posture, he clasped him into his arms with one hand.

The strength is so great that it seems to integrate people into the body.

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Li Shimin had never seen his eldest brother look like this.

That look lost its usual calmness, rationality, alienation and indifference, and was replaced by a complex emotion that could not be expressed in words.Slowly flowing in the eyes, subtle but impossible to ignore.

It seems... there are some tears in his eyes.

However, in a blink of an eye, that look disappeared, like a hallucination.However, Li Shimin felt that everything was worth it just for this one glance.

"Brother..." After a moment of silence, he said slowly, "Have you ever used medicine before? Are you still okay?"

The person in his arms let him hold him, and after hearing the words for a long time, he said in a low voice: "...It's all right now." When he opened his mouth, his voice was as calm as water, as if it was not from the same person as the slight fluctuation in his eyes just now.

"That's good." Li Shimin smiled, trying to calm his voice, "So... Shimin never made a trip in vain."

"How's the situation in the camp?" After a long while, he heard Li Jiancheng asking in his ear.The voice was flat, as if without any emotion.

"After my father captured the city of Chang'an, he immediately dispatched his troops to rescue him. At this moment, there is no danger. At this time, Shimin came to pick up elder brother and return to the city." Li Shimin paused, and said, "Thanks to my father's timely rescue, otherwise... ..."

If Li Yuan hadn't arrived in time, he dragged his injured arm and faced the enemy single-handedly, how could he survive?

However, Li Shimin didn't continue talking, and just sighed with a low smile when he said this.

Li Jiancheng didn't answer, but asked again: "How is Zhu Kingdom?"

Li Shimin smiled wryly, but replied truthfully: "Zhu Guo was shot in the waist by an arrow, and his father has sent someone to escort him back to Chang'an to recuperate."

Li Jiancheng heard the words, stretched out his hand and gently pushed the other party away, and said: "In that case, then let's... go back to the city quickly."

Fang Yi stood up, but his hand was held by Li Shimin.

"Brother," Li Shimin looked up at him, his eyes rolling, "Brother, don't you have anything to ask?"

Li Jiancheng turned around and looked at him.At this time, he was standing, and Li Shimin was kneeling on the ground. The two were in the same situation, and they just turned against each other.After a long time, he looked away without any trace, and said slowly: "Why...only the horse returned first?"

"The horse will not be able to catch up with the people. If you are slow for a moment, the elder brother will suffer for a moment..." Li Shimin laughed when he heard this, "Fortunately, this horse knows the way."

As for the thrilling return to the sea of ​​flames just now, there were only a few understatements left in his mouth, the clouds were calm and the wind was light.

"It's Lao Shimin." After a pause, Li Jiancheng said calmly, "Let's go back to the city quickly." After saying that, he waved his hands.

However, Li Shimin held his hand tightly.Li Jiancheng turned around again, and saw that Li Shimin was still maintaining his original posture, looking at him quietly.I am all too familiar with the emotion flowing in my eyes, but I have never seen it so clearly... like today.

"Let's go." He lowered his eyes and opened his mouth again, his voice sounded like a sigh.

"Brother, you are shaking." Li Shimin held his hand firmly and said in a low voice.

"Is that so?" Li Jiancheng smiled lightly, but stopped moving. "It's probably because...the illness has not passed."

While speaking, Li Shimin had already stood up, and walked slowly to stand in front of him.The smile on his face faded away slowly, and his eyes looking at Li Jiancheng became deep and focused.

After a long time, he stretched out his hand and slowly traced the other person's eyebrows.The fingertips couldn't help but tremble a little.

However, Li Jiancheng just stood there, neither avoiding nor hiding.He just lowered his eyes, looked at the other party's left shoulder that was bleeding continuously, and watched how the deep red dripped little by little, and bright flowers bloomed on the ground.

The next moment, a strong attack from the shoulders struck him, and the person was already pressed against the ancient wood behind him.

"Brother..." Li Shimin still looked at him, but this time, his voice was a little hoarse.

"Shimin," Li Jiancheng looked at him, his expression suddenly changed into a half-smile, "but like last time...do you want to use force?"

Li Shimin paused for a while, but shook his head very slowly, and said, "But brother... your eyes... are different already."

Li Jiancheng was stunned suddenly.He stared at Li Shimin fixedly, but he didn't know what kind of expression he had in the other's eyes.But at this moment, the other party had already let go of his hand and gave a wry smile.

"Brother, I thought..." Li Shimin stared at him deeply, his voice was like a sigh, "Even if you are a piece of ice, you will melt one day." After a pause, he said again, "I am willing to wait .”

Li Jiancheng was still staring at him blankly, his gaze slid down slowly along his injured arm until it stopped in the almost congealed blood on the ground.

"Really..." Shaking his head suddenly, he laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Brother?" Li Shimin looked at him in surprise when he heard this.

However, at the next moment, Li Jiancheng suddenly grabbed the back of his head and leaned over to kiss him.