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In front of him, looking into his dark and pure eyes.

"You may not understand our words, but you have to know that you have saved many, many people."

Fei Liu turned his head and pointed at Jingyan, "One."

"No, many people, including me." Lin Shu said, "Thank you for bringing him back."

Fei Liu had never been thanked so solemnly before, so he happily took Lin Shu's hand, looked at Lin Chen with a smug face, "Brother Su!"

Lin Chen glanced at Lin Shu, then leaned down and said to him, "Yes, your Brother Su is praising you, you are amazing."

----

After Lin Chen and Fei Liu left, the room remained silent.

A gust of breeze from the mountain stream blew past, messing up the white paper on the table, and one of the short notes with writing floated up and was held in Lin Shu's hand.

That’s the “letter” that Jingyan just wrote to Lin Shu.

Only two words.

Buffalo's Shu and Fire Man's Yan.

Lin Shu held the letter paper firmly in his hand, and finally couldn't help but beat the ground hard with his clenched fist.

"I once swore that I would never let the person who harmed you go... But in the end, it is us who hurt you the most, and yourself who is the most ruthless to you."

Lin Shu has been guarding the land of ice and snow all year, thinking about the changes in Jingyan since he was 19 years old.

Every thing, every word.

"How could there be someone so cruel to me in the world?" He seemed to be asking himself, and also seemed to be asking Jingyan, "Just one more wrong step, and there will be no such person as Xiao Jingyan in the world."

"Xiaoshu." Jingyan interrupted him calmly, "You are all well, this is enough."

Jingyan said it lightly.

Lin Shu's heart was pierced when he heard it.

In this life, everyone is fine.

He asked in a trembling voice, "...What about you?"

When hearing this question, Xiao Jingyan hesitated for a moment, as if he had never seriously thought about this question.

The current scene is like many, many years ago, when I stood in front of Mei Changsu, with red eyes, asking him why he couldn't be Lin Shu again.

But at this moment, his heart was as calm as the lake in the valley, but Lin Shu's eyes were red, but he was about to cry.

In Jingyan's memory, the chief general who commanded an army of [-], the most dazzling young man in Jinling, never shed tears easily.

So he comforted Lin Shu with a smile and said, "...I'll be fine. I'll go back to Jinling after I rest for a while."

"What are you going back for!"

Seeing Lin Shu questioning him like this, Jingyan froze.

"You can go when your injury recovers." Lin Shu said in a low voice, "Go wherever you want, I will accompany you."

"But I survived to go back. My concubine, brother, and you are all in Jinling, where do you want me to go?"

"Stay here, Lin Chen is fine, he won't hurt you, he won't hurt you like we did."

"Little Shu...you don't know many things." Jingyan looks at the pale blue mountain in the mist and rain in the distance. Lin Shu was also here back then, looking at the same scenery.

And on him, he suffered a thousand times the pain he suffered.

"When I moved from place to place, I did many wrong things, and you didn't blame me at that time."

"What I do is what I want to do, and what I must do." Jingyan said, "Just like some people live for power, and some live for money. I, like them, am also doing what I want to do. Live for yourself through and through.”

"I can exchange this body for your safety, and see you standing in front of me with high spirits, you don't know how happy I am." Jingyan was afraid that Lin Shu would not believe him, so he reached out to hold his hand, "Really, Xiaoshu .”

The left hand that was resting on his hand was so pale and thin that people were shocked. It was no longer the hand in memory that could only hold a sword and hold a bow, as warm as white jade.

Lin Shu stared blankly at the hand.

Imagine what Jingyan will never tell him, the sins and sufferings he has suffered in these years.

He used to at least cry when the pain was unbearable.

But now he can't even cry.

"Your right hand is injured. When I was reading, I remembered that there is a kind of herbal medicine in the southern border, which has miraculous effects in treating this kind of injury. Wait for me to find it for you."

When he heard about the southern border, Jingyan's expression was visibly gloomy.

He even talked about his injury so plainly, Lin Shu couldn't think of what could make him so sad.

"Xiaoshu, I'm sorry, Nihuang is going to marry Nie Duo."

"..."

Jingyan avoided Lin Shu's gaze, "They were not familiar with each other in the previous life, when you sent Wei Zheng to rescue them. In this life, Wei Zheng was still serving by your side in the battle in the southern border, so I can only send Nie Duo Go to help Nihuang. Nihuang also told me later that Nie Duo would come to the southern border to help her train the navy, but I didn't know...she would fall in love with him."

"I knew people's hearts would change...but I didn't expect her to change."

It was he who harmed Lin Shu and made him miss the woman with whom he promised to swim together in the next life.

He didn't dare to imagine how sad Lin Shu would be.

"Jingyan." Lin Shu interrupted him, "You like me."

This is a secret that he never thought of revealing. In his previous life, it was buried with the emperor's coffin, buried deep under the loess.

But he didn't want Lin Shu to dig it out.

Spread out in the sun.

Lin Shu put his hand on Jingyan's thin back to block his retreat, "You know a lot of things that I don't, and now I'm going to tell you something that you never knew."

He leaned forward and kissed Jingyan's pale lips lightly and shallowly, looking at Jingyan's eyes like deep pools of still water.

"Before I was 19, I liked you."

"This kind of feeling cannot be changed by peeling off the flesh and changing the name."

"You think that only 19-year-old Xiao Jingyan can like Lin Shu, but you forget that because of you at this moment, it is me who is in front of you now." Lin Shu held Jingyan's hand on his chest, his heartbeat and The warm body temperature is transmitted to Jingyan's fingertips.

The sound of the heartbeat was steady and firm, not the weak and chaotic sound of the sickness in the body.

But that hand turned pale, and there was no callus left by holding a bow or knife.

Said and kissed his eyes.

The temperature from the lips seemed to melt the layer of ice that had formed in the eyes, and many past events that had long been numb from the pain came before my eyes again.

Losing Xiaoshu, when guarding the border alone.

After hearing that Mei Changsu died in battle, he spent days and nights alone guarding Daliang.

Breaking off the red iron bow, I received the white note from my brother.

When holding father's hand.

When I bid farewell to my mother and concubine.

It started to hurt gradually.

It seemed as if he could not breathe for a while, but in front of Lin Shu, it was like ice cubes that suddenly melted, and all of them poured out.

When the first tear rolled out, the solid ice that he had imprisoned himself in the previous life shattered.

With the tears falling on Lin Shu's hands, he felt his chest slowly warming up.

At this moment, he truly came alive.

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The Northern Territory was replaced by Nie Feng to guard it, while Lin Shu stayed in Langya Pavilion.

Lin Chen said that he was neither a guest nor a patient invited by Langya Pavilion, so he sent a few things for him to help replace the food and tea money during the stay. .

Most of the time, he still stays with Jingyan in Gezhong's room.

In summer, the grass and trees on the Langya Pavilion are verdant, and the sound of the rainstorm hitting the leaves in the valley becomes a dense one.

The continuous days of rain made Jingyan's wound a little painful, so Lin Shu sat with Jingyan under the eaves and talked while enjoying the rain.

Talk about the strange people and interesting stories he met when he was on the garrison for several years.

Any thing, weird, bizarre, thrilling... When Lin Shu said it, it was interesting and moving in a different way.

Lin Shu talked about the adventures in the rivers and lakes, and talked about the few sword formations he learned by chance.

Jingyan remembered the three-person sword formation that Tingsheng defeated Bailiqi, and asked if the two of them could perform it.

Lin Shu pondered for a moment. The principle in the sword formation is the same, except that one person is missing and the changes are less. As he spoke, he found a pen and paper, and drew a picture of the Eight Diagrams on the paper. The two used their fingers to practice on the paper step by step. Changes in footwork.

Jingyan made a wrong step, and their fingers got entangled.

Lin Shu’s palm bears the scar from when he held the Emperor Liang’s dagger, and Jingyan’s finger also bears the scar from when he fell off the cliff and desperately grasped the sharp stone.

Fastened together and never released.

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In autumn, news came from Jinling that Xiao Chengting, the eldest son of Emperor Liang, had been canonized as the crown prince.

It is said that this matter was proposed by Concubine Jing and invited by Yan Hou to the court. Jingyan used to be in the East Palace, and now the new king will return to the court soon after he ascended the throne. Correspondence otherwise cannot convince the public.The establishment of the prince is not only to stabilize the people's hearts but also to protect him.

Jingyan can certainly understand this painstaking effort, but there is more unconcealable joy and relief in his expression.

After informing the Heaven and Earth Ancestral Temple, the emperor went to inspect the autumn harvest in the fourteen prefectures in Jiangzuo.

When returning to Beijing, the emperor deliberately changed to an ordinary car and took a detour to the foot of Langya Mountain with only two or three servants, and looked up from a distance.

How could he not know that Jingyan's failure to return to Jinling was not due to his trip to the rivers and lakes as mentioned in his letter, but because he was seriously injured.

When he was injured when he was young, he would hide in the Lin Mansion, not daring to go back and let his brother and mother see him.

This is still the case today.

Fortunately, Lin Shu was still with him.

As for myself... Knowing that the family member I care about the most in the world is still there is already the greatest satisfaction.

Xiao Jingyu will always remember the white paper he sent Jingyan.

As a king, he can still look up to him without shame, but as an elder brother, he treats his younger brother badly.

Xiao Jingyu stood at the foot of the mountain for two hours and after hesitating several times, he still turned and got into the carriage, seeing Langya Mountain gradually disappearing into the night mist.

Ma Chegang