I see the snow

"Young Pavilion Master... you?"

In the bottom prison, Chu Yuan picked up the boy whose left leg had been broken, and walked slowly towards the prison door.

The jailer looked at him in embarrassment.

"The sage ordered that after clearing the suspicion of Guanxing Pavilion, he would be released immediately."

Chu Yuan said: "I'm here to take my apprentice back, is there any problem?"

"Oral order..."

The jailer smiled apologetically, "Then it has to be 'after clearing the suspicion', right? Young Pavilion Master, you see that this matter has not been investigated yet..."

"Tell them what you are doing at the Flower and Bird Market on Xuanwu Street."

Chu Yuan said indifferently: "Then quickly end the matter and finish this scene."

The words were spoken to Yan Jin.

Originally, Yan Jin was imprisoned, but Chu Yuan never thought that he would be imprisoned for such a long time.

According to Shen Yan, it should just be to find out why the young man appeared in Flower and Bird City so frequently, and then release the question.

But for several days after that, Shen Yan fell into a coma, and Chu Yuan wanted to see Yan Jin, but was prevented from going back by lacking the holy majesty's own handwriting.

Until now, seeing the young disciple who walked out of Guanxing Pavilion in such a state, Chu Yuan simply didn't want to ask Yan Jin to stay here for a moment.

However, to everyone's surprise, after hearing what Chu Yuan said, Yan Jin fell silent.

As if he didn't hear Chu Yuan asking him, he just stood there silently, lowering his eyes without saying a word, as if acquiescing to something strangely.

He was supported by Chu Yuan——

Originally, Chu Yuan wanted to hug Yan Jin, but he forgot that the thin boy had already grown up, so he couldn't handle him at all.Given Chu Yuan's frailty and chronic illness, it's almost as good for him to be hugged by Yan Jin now.

So he had to change to support.

"...Jin'er?"

Chu Yuan looked at the young man in disbelief, and repeated it again.

"you……"

He said: "What did you go to the Flower and Bird Market on Xuanwu Street, tell them..."

"Master..."

But the little disciple he brought up with one hand seemed to be a different person suddenly. He looked at Chu Yuan miserably, and said in a low voice, "I...I have no way to tell them."

Chu Yuan: "..."

Yan Jin continued, "Let them kill me..."

"Even if I die. I won't tell them."

He let go of Chu Yuan's supporting hand.

In front of the prison gate, there was a threatening silence.

The prison guard smiled apologetically, and said to Chu Yuan:

"Young Pavilion Master, hey...that's how it is. You saw it too. It's not that we don't want to let people go, it's just...you disciple, he didn't say anything—"

"go out."

However, Chu Yuan interrupted him, looked at Yan Jin quietly with only one eye, and said to the prison guard:

"Let me and my apprentice stay alone for a while, don't come in until I call you."

The prison guard's face became stiff, but he immediately realized that this person was the new emperor's favorite star-gazer, and immediately he could only mutter, and retreated out in disbelief.

"Jin'er."

Chu Yuan said softly: "Since I brought you back to Guanxing Pavilion, you have never disobeyed me, have you?"

He walked to Yan Jin's side, and stood on the same dirty and smelly ground with Yan Jin without any grudges.

Yan Jin just looked at Chu Yuan's waist and did not dare to raise his eyes. He could feel that Chu Yuan was looking at him.

But that piece of white skirt is simply dazzling in such darkness.After a while, a cool and soft hand was placed on the boy's head.

Chu Yuan didn't speak, but quietly sorted out the straw and dirt in Yan Jin's hair since he went to prison.

Some blood-soaked dirty mud firmly stuck the boy's hair together, and Chu Yuan also used his pale and slender fingers to brush it away little by little and straighten it out.

Yan Jin trembled, and tears began to flow from his eyes.

He didn't shed tears during the most humiliating and embarrassing time, but it was just a light touch, which seemed to bring him more pain than the cruelest torture.

He thought of the time when he was picked up by Chu Yuan like a stray dog ​​and brought back to Guanxing Pavilion.

"Master is an incompetent master."

Chu Yuan said softly, his eyes were still lingering on Yan Jin's black hair, as if he didn't notice anything unusual.

"I have lost a lot of things, and what I want to protect, I also protect them in a mess."

Chu Yuan sighed softly, and said, "Master is a failure...but in the end, I don't want to see you in trouble, you know, Jin'er?"

Yan Jin tremblingly grabbed the hem of his clothes.

"You are one of the few meanings that Master has in this world."

Chu Yuan stroked his hair lightly: "Master loves you, and would rather exchange his life for you. So... don't let Master watch you get hurt before he dies. Okay?"

Yan Jin was speechless. He lowered his head, tears streaming down his face, and shook his head in pain.

After a long time, he choked with sobs, and finally said: "Because..."

Chu Yuan listened quietly.

"I go to Xuanwu Road every month..."

Yan Jin tremblingly said, "Because my parents died there..."

……

Yinzhichuan passed out in front of Xihuai for a long time.

Without warning, he lost consciousness in front of the peach branches in the deserted temple, which startled Xi Huai.

But in his dream, he returned to the winter night when his father took away the silver gun.

He saw Lord Zhen walking out of the ancestral hall with a gun in his hand. The sky was full of lonely stars. Lord Zhen walked into a remote courtyard holding a sealed box.

It turns out that he put the Silver Spear there...

Yinzhichuan thought silently, no wonder he couldn't find it.

However, then, he saw the scene after Zhen Guogong entered the courtyard.

"The child is dull, and he didn't ask his name to be known to the princes, but he wanted to be safe for the rest of his life."

He heard his father, who had always been stern and silent, caressing the Zhuoyin long spear. There were struggles and vicissitudes in his eyes, and he murmured in a low voice: "But why did fate choose Lao Qi...? He is really... a Very naughty boy."

He seemed to be whispering, but there was silence in the wing room, and no one responded to him.

After a while, the old general who had gone through many lives and deaths on the battlefield also laughed to himself, and said in a low voice: "Forget it, the choice of Zhichuan is Zhichuan."

"He... from the moment he was born, he was doomed to such a fate...? That fairy, you are really accurate..."

Then, there was the scene where Lord Zhen Guo stroked the long spear that was sealed with a heavy silver gun.

He pressed slightly on the wall, and a hidden compartment popped up. The old general was silent for a moment, and slowly and carefully placed the Silver Spear into it.

"I hope that when Zhichuan mentions this gun again, he already understands why he mentions it."

Staring at the spear in the dark cell, Lord Zhen smiled wryly and said, "It's just that the 'extraordinary life' has been predicted, and the fairy king's final outcome must not be fulfilled...!"

In the dim and deserted courtyard, the still burning candles on the table flickered slightly.

Zhen Guogong walked out of the wing room, and the room fell silent again.The famous gun in troubled times in Zhonglu was sealed up like this until it was its turn to appear on the stage of history again.

"Yinzhichuan... Yinzhichuan."

Inside the deserted temple, Xi Huai was still patting Yin Zhichuan's body lightly, with obvious anxiety in his eyes.

Yin Zhichuan frowned, moaned unconsciously, and slowly opened his eyes.

He stared blankly at Xi Huai for a while, as if he was wondering where he was, but he hadn't distinguished the difference between reality and dream.

However, after he regained his composure, Xihuai had no time to breathe a sigh of relief before he heard Yin Zhichuan say:

"I know where the Silver Spear is."

"..."

Finding the Zhuoyin Spear was Xi Huai's last mission to stay with Yinzhichuan.

But he never thought that Yin Zhichuan would tell him so abruptly and without the slightest bit of grievance.

"My father said that I should only own a gun when I know why I picked it up. That's what it meant."

Yin Zhichuan said in a daze, he looked at his fingers, then slowly turned his gaze to Xi Huai, and said in a daze: "I carry a gun, it's always for protection..."

However, Xi Huai didn't know what he understood, he saw Yin Zhichuan looking at him, and suddenly laughed out of nowhere.

He raised his finger, touched Xi Huai's cheek, and said in a very soft voice:

"Father, I have also found something that I am willing to sacrifice my life to protect."

But Zhen Guogong or Yuxi's team will arrange it exclusively.He never thought until his death that when Yinzhichuan, who worried him the most, finally understood the meaning of carrying a gun, the person he felt was worth protecting would also make Yinzhichuan completely despair of the world.

He... brought Yinzhichuan's fate.

This established fate and tragedy, which cannot be avoided in any case, is like a paradox arranged by God.

The ancient temple is deserted, except for the ruined walls and the dilapidated golden body, there is nothing more beautiful.

On the way back, Yin Zhichuan kept looking at Xi Huai and smiled lightly, but Xi Huai didn't want to talk to him, so he also pulled Xi Huai and whispered affectionately.

"This fate card is in the same box as the puppet, and it means that a promise for the afterlife has been made."

Yin Zhichuan said, "In the next life, I will be entrusted to be an oil seller and pig killer. You have to follow me too."

Xi Huai glanced at him and said, "Then maybe I'm ugly?"

The two of them were by a river, Xi Huai stepped on a river stone and said:

"In the next life, I don't know poetry, I'm eccentric, and I'm ugly. You also need to be with me. It depends on you."

"You are also very eccentric now."

Yin Zhichuan smiled, shaking Xi Huai's hand: "You never tell me what you're thinking, as if you're ready to push me away at any time. If I hold on tight, hold on tight, you won't run away .”

He said so, and when Xi Huai gave him a glance, he laughed and scratched Xi Huai's neck again, trying to make him laugh.

However, Xi Huai was standing in the middle of the river.

Yin Zhichuan teased him so much that he almost lost his footing.

The stones, which have been washed by the water for a long time, are extremely smooth. If there is a slight carelessness, the soles of Xihuai's feet slipped involuntarily, and he fell backwards with a startled sound.

Yinxingchuan immediately went to pick him up, but he was also thrown into the water.

The two of them rolled together and turned over twice, the stream water was splashed in all directions, and both of their clothes were wet.

Xihuai was protected by Yinzhichuan in his arms, and he felt dizzy, he felt that he was being hugged tightly by Yinzhichuan.

Yin Zhichuan's own body protected his head and back, only some cold water soaked into Xi Huai's clothes, but no stones hit him yet.

After a while, the two finally rolled downstream and stopped, Xihuai was panting slightly in Yinzhichuan's arms.

He looked up at Yinzhi River, the boy's eyes were very bright and clear, shining in the sun, almost like two clear ponds.

As clear and clear as this brook.

"I am pleased with you."

After a long time, Xi Huai murmured.

He looked at this man who put his own safety first at all times, and said in a low voice, as if in a daze:

"I am pleasing to you... Yinzhichuan, do you understand?"

Yin Zhichuan stretched out his hand, brushed a strand of messy hair from his forehead, and replied in a low voice, "En."

"The future...no matter what happens."

But the young man stared into Yin Zhichuan's eyes persistently, with an impenetrable forbearance and expectation in his eyes: "You have to believe this sentence, okay?"

"it is good."

Yin Zhichuan said naturally: "You please me, I can't ask for it, so why don't you believe it?"

Xi Huai closed his eyes.

uncertain.

Not necessarily if you know everything.

he said in his heart.

"I'm not a very nice person. Maybe lied to you."

Xi Huai said softly: "But I like you, it's true. In the future... you must definitely, don't doubt this. Okay?"