: villain disqualification

Lan Che withdrew his gaze, looked at the lakeside market not far away, and said calmly: "I've heard that the red water chestnuts here are delicious! I'm so greedy." He looked at him again, smiling slyly : "Master, let's go buy it too?".

Looking at his smile, Lan Xichen's heart softened inexplicably, and he said softly, "Okay."

So the two of them walked along the lake embankment to the depths of the market.

A group of children laughing and chasing along the road, although their clothes are ragged, their smiles are pure and innocent.

Meng Yao suddenly remembered that when he was reincarnated as Lan Che, he met Lan Xichen at this age.

Gusu Lan's more than ten years of nurturing grace...

Although Jin Guangyao made this decision because he hated Lan Xichen, but after all, this matter can be regarded as benefiting the people of the world. As for Lan Che, he also wanted to protect and repay his master and the Lan family...

Everything is already in place, why is it still vacillating at this last moment?

Before he had gone too far, he saw a kid in his early ten years old whose clothes were full of patches, with two big baskets full of red water chestnuts in front of him, squatting on the ground for sale.

Lan Che pointed and said, "Master, look quickly, there is one over there."

Lan Xichen nodded, raised his legs and walked towards the child.

Meng Yao watched his tall back slowly walk away from behind him.

Sighing slightly, he thought to himself: That's all.

Forget it, second brother...

Even if I won't forgive, I don't blame you anymore.

Lan Xichen quickly bought a basket, just big enough to hold in one hand, paid for it, and walked back to hand it to Lan Che.

Meng Yao took it and said with a smile, "Thank you, Master." Then she took one out and bit it open, took a bite of the white meat inside, and said pleasantly, "Master...it's really sweet. It really lives up to its reputation!"

Lan Xichen looked at him, and unconsciously showed his usual gentle smile.

The two were silently looking at each other with charming tenderness, when suddenly another child who was also dressed poorly rushed over, looked younger than the child just now, holding up the basket in his hand, watching Lan Xichen pleading pitifully Said: "Brother, brother, buy some of mine too... I'm also very sweet... If you can't sell it, grandparents will beat you!"

Lan Xichen and Lan Che were surprised for a moment, Lan Xichen felt soft-hearted, and as expected, he went to touch the money bag.

Before the money was poured out, a group of children selling red water chestnuts all of a sudden saw him and gathered around him. They immediately surrounded him, scrambling to say: "Brother, buy mine..."

"Buy mine!"

"Brother, mine is sweeter than his..."

……

Meng Yao took a step back, and smiled at Lan Xichen, who was surrounded by a group of children and was devastated.

It's a pity that as Lan Che, he couldn't have a formal farewell to his master.

He took another step back, Lan Xichen squatted down, his hands were stuffed with red water chestnuts by the group of children.

When he finished paying the money, the group of children dispersed in a swarm. When he straightened up holding a pile of red water chestnuts in embarrassment and amused, he glanced around, and the smile on his lips suddenly froze on his face.

Meng Yao watched him rush forward a few steps eagerly, then stopped abruptly, turned around twice in a daze, with a dull expression, and opened her mouth, as if she wanted to call him, but she didn't know how to call him.That pair of water-like deep eyes seemed to be desperate and also seemed to carry the last sliver of hope, eagerly flowing on the faces of everyone who passed by with a similar figure to him.

Meng Yao took two steps towards him, the invisibility talisman attached to his body now, but this time it didn't work.So Lan Xichen couldn't see the nostalgia and grief on his face at the moment.

He stretched out his hand and slid it gently in the air next to his cheek, as if caressing his face from afar.

He moved his lips and said with his lips:

Goodbye, brother.

Lan Xichen looked through him, looking far away.

Leaning slightly...Meng Yao resolutely turned around and left.

Just when he turned the corner of the street and was about to leave his figure far behind...

"Ayao..."

Meng Yao was startled, he seemed to hear Lan Xichen's voice far away, passing through the hustle and bustle of people, that call and the trembling and choking of that voice didn't seem so real.So he wasn't quite sure whether he really called him that, and whether the name he called was "A Yao" or "A Che"...

Lan Xichen seemed to have found his place in the crowd, looked in his direction, and seemed to be just looking around in a daze, and happened to turn his face to this side.

Meng Yao lowered her head to look at the invisibility talisman that she had attached well, and saw that the surrounding pedestrians couldn't see him, so she confirmed that his invisibility talisman hadn't expired.

He just happened to see this side.

So he stood there, looking at his tall and dusty figure through the crowd, but like an abandoned child, holding a small basket and red water chestnuts in his arms, standing there alone, helpless.

Meng Yao closed her eyes ruthlessly, turned around and left.

So Lan Xichen stood there for a whole afternoon with the red water chestnut in his arms.

Passers-by would give him a surprised look, and some would see him as good-looking, standing there with a slumped expression, so they couldn't bear to step forward to ask questions, but he was always polite and courteous, but he just ignored him, like a statue. .People gradually lost interest and dispersed one after another.

Lan Xichen didn't know what he was waiting for, and there was a voice in his heart telling him that he had already left, but he still seemed to take a gamble, thinking that he could just wait here for the rest of his life.

Until the setting sun was setting and the people in the market had almost dispersed, he was still standing there alone, not even moving a step.

A child timidly ran up to his feet, tugged at the hem of his clothes, raised his head and called, "Big Brother."

Lan Xichen lowered his head slightly, and then recognized that it was one of the group of children who begged him to buy a red water chestnut.

The child held up a letter in his hand, tiptoed it in front of him, and said: "The pretty brother who gave me the money earlier said that if the white-clothed brother is still standing here when it gets dark, he will ask me to give you this letter. "

Lan Xichen opened his eyes slightly, and hastily reached out to grab it. The red water chestnuts that he had held in his arms all afternoon fell to the ground one after another and scattered all over the place.

Familiar handwriting, no beginning and no signature, only a few words: "Sorry, thank you..." and "Don't wait".

In an instant, there was a sharp pain in my heart...

……

Jiangcheng.

Lan Xichen landed with his sword, and landed lightly on the side of Lan Wangji, who had been waiting there earlier.

"Brother."

"Wangji." Lan Xichen asked with a rare solemn expression, "How?"

Lan Zhan said: "According to reports from my disciples, this is where the Lin family last appeared recently, if they really have been following the Yinhu Talisman, then the Yinhu Talisman is also nearby... And... brother..."

Seeing that he was hesitant to speak, Lan Huan realized something, frowned slightly and said, "But it's okay to say."

Lan Wangji said: "In addition to the Lin family, there are also traces of the Su family in Jiling around here. Since he has visited Jiling before...it cannot be ruled out...that the Su family is at his disposal."

Lan Xichen suddenly frowned.

Lan Wangji continued: "Sovereign Jin has checked the list with someone. What he took away from Jinlin Terrace, apart from the immortal artifacts and talismans that can be used normally, the only thing missing from his relics is a command seal. There is no Know what it is for."

Lan Xichen: "..."

"Jinlin Terrace, Lingzhang... Lingxiu Mountain, Song Lan... Jiling, Su Clan..." Lan Wangji murmured, "Besides, he came here after the Lin Clan...brother..."

Lan Zhan didn't finish the rest of the sentence, but Lan Xichen already knew what he was going to say, and hurriedly said, "Wangji, he won't..."

Lan Zhan looked at him silently.

Lan Xichen lowered his eyes, tried his best to twitch the corners of his mouth, and said, "If he really wanted to regain the power he once had, wanted revenge...he wouldn't have destroyed himself in the first place."

Lan Wangji frowned, was stunned for a while, and finally let out an inaudible sigh.

Lan Xichen clenched his fists, swayed slightly, closed his eyes in pain, and said with a self-deprecating wry smile: "Even if he really wants revenge, there is only one person for revenge..."

Seeing that he was suffering so much, Lan Wangji didn't know what to say, so he could only comfort him: "Wei Ying has already gone to Qinghe himself... I just don't know that Sect Master Nie..."

Lan Xichen opened his eyes, and there was a tinge of coldness in his eyes.

Lan Wangji said, "Brother, it's alright, even without their help, Wei Ying and I are here."

Lan Xichen nodded, looked at him, with a hint of gratitude and warmth in his eyes, and said, "Wangji, I'm sorry for your trouble..."

Lan Wangji didn't answer.

Just at this time, a disciple of the Lan family came quickly from a distance, walked up to the two of them, bowed his hands and said, "Zewu-jun, Hanguang-jun... Brother Sizhui sent an urgent report from Yunshen." Presenting something with both hands in the sleeves.

Lan Xichen took it and opened it, glanced at ten lines, his face became even paler, and then silently handed it to Lan Wangji.

Lan Wangji didn't speak after watching it.

After waving away the student who came to report, the two were relatively silent and looked into the distance together.

After a long time, Lan Wangji said: "Daoist Song's move is very decisive, so...you can speak his words..."

Lan Xichen looked up at the sky, a trace of dullness and despair appeared in his eyes.