A hundred years of time

Baishao's silence has always been in Wu Landi's perception.The wilderness is not so safe, now that the envoy is not by his side, Wu Landi dare not sleep peacefully, even though he is destined to die soon, there is still her.

He hesitated for a long time, maybe there will be no next time such a night, should he let it pass peacefully, or talk to Baishao?

After thinking for a while, Wu Landi didn't open his eyes, but just asked, "I'll only say this time what you wanted to ask, are you interested in listening?"

Hearing the man's mellow and familiar voice, Bai Shao subconsciously looked at him, but saw that his eyes were still closed, thinking he was resting.

Bai Shao tried to test Wu Landi's past many times, and even tried to test Dazai Guangxi, but neither Wu Landi himself nor Guangxi seemed to want to say more.

Bai Shao also thought that this would become a mystery forever along with Fan Wang's loss of justice, but who would have thought that in this extremely simple mine, he would suddenly be willing to reveal it.

"I am listening."

"After you were born, have you ever seen the scene of the Jade Throne hanging in the air?"

"I have never seen it in this country." When Baishao was born, Yan Country had been stable and prosperous for more than 600 years, and it has been so far. Although other countries are in chaos, the elders would not want her to travel to such a country.

"That's not a good thing. It's best if you haven't seen it before." Wu Landi said, frowning slightly, as if he was recalling the broken shadows of a hundred years ago, and seemed to be thinking about how to explain those past events.

"What impresses me the most is the iron fence at home."

"Iron is a precious metal in ordinary life, your family must be very rich." Bai Shao guessed.

"When I was very young, I still had no worries about food and clothing, until..." Fan Wang paused, pursed his lips and pondered for a long time, and then said, "My mother passed away." He paused again, before adding, "It's because of demons."

Bai Shao was taken aback, she never thought monsters were scary, although she knew that the monsters in the Yellow Sea were very dangerous to her, but she had been with Baili since she was a child, and Yan Kingdom could raise monsters, and she had never met a monster from the Yellow Sea. Naturally, one cannot empathize with the danger of demons.

Bai Shao stared at Wu Landi, capturing his rare real and emotional expression from those subtle traces.She used to think that Fanwang's past would at least be rich and prosperous, with no worries about food and clothing, but she didn't even have the most basic security. She thought that even if the doors and windows were equipped with iron bars, she might not be able to sleep peacefully.

"After my mother passed away, my father kept many concubines, and the atmosphere was a mess." Although Wu Landi said it lightly and briefly, Bai Shao could imagine that King Fan was probably always dissatisfied with this.

"The only good thing is that at least you don't have to worry about starving to death." He was born in a family of merchants. Although he is not as rich as Wanjia, he can guarantee food and clothing, even in the most chaotic years.

Bai Shao thought, that is not a good thing, at the worst time, there is not even the warmth of a family dependent on each other.Is it something to be happy about being able to live without starving to death?

Bai Shao thought, she seemed to understand a little bit, the reason why Fan Wang is always solemn and gorgeous.

The glamorous and extravagant sense of ritual that is as thick as dying, and the bright despair of blooming flowers are by no means a momentary illusion, nor is it that Fanwang is in trouble for a while——Fanwang has always been like this.

"After my mother passed away, my father never came back on a delivery trip." In fact, Wu Landi never talked about this matter with anyone. Guangxi knew some of the facts, and Lixue knew a little bit. The others, probably completely I don't know, but he is suddenly willing to tell Bai Shao, even if it is not something worth knowing, he still hopes to leave a deeper impression on Bai Shao.

Bai Shao no longer knew how to continue this conversation.She could even imagine that Wu Landi, who was not Fan Wang at that time, would often wait at home alone until there was no one else to wait for.

She thought that if she had such a story, she would probably never be willing to mention it in her whole life, and it would be a bloody wound to mention it once.

Bai Shao wanted to say something else, so he asked: "Later, did you go out for a trip?" She was so well-behaved when she was young, and she always wanted to go out and see, but she preferred to stay with her parents.Or Wu Landi will have some interesting study tour experiences, which can wash away those bloody past.

Wu Landi laughed: "In a country where demons are rampant, it is very dangerous to go out. Although I don't like staying at home, there is nothing I can do."

"Don't you like staying at home?" Yes, a home without a loved one is probably horribly empty.

"Well, the concubines that my father raised, we can't drive them out." It's just that after he became an adult, those women seemed to pick up his theme, and they were really pink skulls.

Bai Shao guessed that she knew the reason why Fan Wang didn't have a concubine at such an age.Thinking of her father, before meeting her mother, although there was no official harem, the whole country was her father's harem.

Bai Shao said: "Then what happened afterwards? I remember that the history books said that you never ascended the mountain."

Wu Landi was quiet for a long time, so long that Baishao thought he would not answer, so he said: "I have no ambition to become a king."

Bai Shao said: "That probably can't be called ambition, after all, it's not something that can be done just by wishing."

"And I didn't even hope that way." Wu Landi said calmly.

Bai Shao looked at Wu Landi in astonishment, only to see that the other party had opened his eyes with a calm expression on his face.

Bai Shao thought, she probably knew why Wu Landi lost his way, or in other words, she finally found a possible reason.

——He has no heart for a king.

"But..." Baishao said after a little consideration, "You have always done a good job, better than many kings."

"Indeed, my standard of doing things has always been relatively high." He paused, "but that's just a habit."

"So that doesn't mean that you really want to do that!" Bai Shao analyzed, raising his voice slightly.

"That's why I said, even if you know, there's nothing you can do about it." Wu Landi smiled slightly. In fact, he knew better than Bai Shao what kind of person he was.From the day he became king, he had an intuition that losing his way was not far away.Especially, after living over a hundred years old, he even felt that it would not be a loss even if he lost his way.

Bai Shao doesn't understand why he can laugh so thoroughly, it seems that there is no difference between life and death, and he has no nostalgia.Her hands trembled slightly, and she asked, "You don't have half a point, do you want to live a good life?"

"No." He replied softly, honest and ruthless.

Baishao looked directly at Wu Landi angrily, and Wu Landi greeted her with gentle and affectionate eyes, as if he had never said such indifferent words.

"What about Lixue?"

"If it's possible, I don't want to involve Li Xue, but you have to know that there are always some things that are out of my control."

Of course, Baishao knew that many things were beyond human control, but Wu Landi's self-destructive tendency of ignoring life and death made her involuntarily angry, making her feel that no matter how hard Wu Landi treated her, he never really let her go. on heart.

Bai Shao was angry, but he didn't know where to start.Therefore, there was nothing to say all night.

The next day, because of Baishao's injury, Wu Landi went to the cave to get the ore by himself, and after noon, he came out in a disheveled state, bringing their goal of the trip.

Bai Shao silently brushed the dust off his cheeks for him, and the two set off to summon envoys and riding beasts and return to Qingdian Palace.