This shadow guard, you are enlightened

Ying Jiu seemed not to have heard Ying Ba's words, and remained silent for a while, before suddenly asking: "Ying Ba, why did you join the Shadow Guard Army?"

Ying Ba was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Ying Jiu to ask this.Ying Jiu joined the Shadow Guards in the same batch as him, and they executed many orders together afterwards. They are regarded as tacit partners. It is also beneficial to spend time thinking about one thing. At least the two have known each other for so long. He has almost never been troubled by something when watching Yingjiu. Yingjiu is used to it. The other brothers in the Shadow Guard died before his eyes, but he just fell asleep and recovered when he woke up.

And it is such Yingjiu, it is rare to show a bit of fragility and sadness in his eyes today.

After not hearing Ying Ba's answer for a long time, Ying Jiu seemed to come back to his senses suddenly, and turned to look at him: "Ah, sorry, it's not convenient to tell me."

"No." Yingba paused, and looked up at the night sky just like Yingjiu, "It's just too boring. In fact, I really have nothing to say. I am an orphan. I was adopted by my master and I learned martial arts from him. I am old and my health is not good. When I was in my teens, he probably knew that I was going to die, so he asked me to participate in the Shadow Guard Army assessment. It was only before his death that I found out that Master was also a Shadow Guard. I had no choice but to leave because of a serious injury. After burying him, I went to Luancheng alone, passed the examination, and joined the army."

It seems that everything is taken for granted. The master never married a wife in his life. He was not young when he adopted Yingba. Yingba was already prepared for his departure, and he was not overly sad. After joining the Shadow Guard Army, he soon became adapted to military life.

"Very good." Ying Jiu also sighed.

After hearing this, Ying Ba touched his shoulder: "Hey, you asked me why I joined the Shadow Guard Army, shouldn't you reciprocate courtesy and talk about your own?"

Ying Jiuben didn't intend to hide it, so he said: "When I was very young, my father opened a grocery store in Luan City, and the business in the store was good. After a few years, our family moved into a big mansion. When I was old, I was sent to the best academy in Luancheng to study, and I was invited to teach me martial arts by the best master in Luancheng. There will never be a disadvantage."

Ran Ying emphasizes agriculture but does not suppress business, and the sons of merchants can also enter official careers.

Ying Jiu said in a low voice: "But the good times didn't last long. A few years later, my father was lured into a bad habit of gambling. From then on, it got out of hand. The store in our family was sold, and the house couldn't be kept. Our family of three moved out." I went to live in a dilapidated house outside the city. My mother quarreled with him every day, and she had no money for medical treatment when she was angry. I earned a lot of money, so I was asked to take part in the assessment, saying that if I passed, I would have money to treat my mother."

Ying Ba turned to look at Ying Jiu, the moonlight shone on him, as if it had cast a layer of white mist on him, making him look completely different from usual.

In fact, Yingba had already guessed the result in his heart, after all, the two had worked together for so long, and he had never heard him mention his parents, and the monthly salary was also paid to him, but Yingba knew what he wanted to say, so he followed his words and asked. Said: "What happened later?"

"At that time, not long after the attack on the emperor in Shangqing Temple, my mother knew that she entered the Shadow Guard Barracks, and she could not control her life and death. She was reluctant to let me go. After a big fight with my father that night...she hanged herself " He paused, "But then I joined the Shadow Guards, because I really didn't want to stay in that house any longer, and I didn't want to hear about that gambler again. About two years later, I went out of the palace once Passing by there, there is a new grave next to my mother's grave, which belongs to my father."

Ying Jiu was so calm as if he was talking about other people's stories, but Ying Ba's heart was sour as if he had been poured into the cold wind. He had thought about what kind of growth background could raise Ying Jiu's character, perhaps it was because of the upbringing he had received since childhood. Growing up with pampering, he had nothing to worry about, nor had he experienced any tribulations, but until today he realized that Ying Jiu's open-mindedness is a kind of calmness that has experienced great ups and downs. He has nothing to ask for, and he has nothing can be lost.

After saying this, Ying Jiuchang let out a breath, and returned to his previous heartless appearance, asking, "Did it scare you?"

"Not at all." Ying Ba just fully understood his abnormality today, "Did the incident at Nineteen remind you of home?"

"I'm very envious of Shijiu, who has such a warm family. But when I saw the eldest lady, I thought of my mother back then. If...she was still there, maybe she would be so worried about my safety every day. ? Actually, for Shadow Guard, it’s not a bad thing to have nothing to worry about.” He was talking about himself and Ying Ba at the same time.

Ying Ba shrugged and said relaxedly: "Yes."

"Why don't we make an agreement. If you and I go first in the future, the other will be responsible for collecting his body. After returning to the palace, we will tell the other brothers that if we are really lucky to die in the same year, the same month, and the same day, we will be killed." Buried together, there will be a companion on Huangquan Road in the future."

When Ying Jiu said this, the image of himself collecting Ying Jiu's body flashed in Ying Ba's mind, and when he thought about it, he froze immediately, and a great fear surrounded him.

Ying Jiu next to him seemed to notice something strange, and turned around in surprise: "What's the matter? You haven't thought about it, have you? As shadow guards, we may be in danger at any time. Are you afraid of death?"

No, Ying Ba has never been afraid of death. In the years of joining the Shadow Guards, he has seen more corpses than living people, but he cannot accept that Ying Jiu died in front of him. Just now, there was even a moment in his mind. The idea of ​​wanting to die with the other party came up, why...

"How could it be?" Afraid of Ying Jiu's further questioning, Ying Ba forced out a smile, "I just suddenly thought that we have to hurry tomorrow, and if we don't rest, I'm afraid it will be dawn."

As he said that, he got up and jumped off the roof first, which seemed to be fleeing. Fortunately, with Yingjiu's usual rough nerves, he probably didn't think too much about it.

Not long after Ying Ba entered the house, Ying Jiu also followed.It was indeed getting late, the two of them took a hasty wash with cold water, then took off their coats and lay down on the bed. It was not the first time that they slept together in the same bed. Steady breathing, but no drowsiness.

He even remembered the first time they met, the smile on Ying Jiu's face when he ran towards him, what did Ying Jiu say at that time?

"They said that you are Yingba and I am Yingjiu. Our numbers are linked together. We may often carry out orders together in the future. Please take care of us."

He is two years older than Yingjiu, it seems that after Yingjiu said this, the two really always walk together, and he really takes care of each other as his own from the bottom of his heart.

When performing tasks, they are the most tacit partners. They don’t need to speak, and they can tell where the other party’s next move is going to be with just one look. In private, they are best brothers. They train together, eat together, and even have the same bedroom. He never thought about why, why Ying Jiu was different from anyone else in his heart...

The sky outside began to brighten, Ying Ba still opened his eyes and looked at Ying Jiu beside him, Ying Jiu was born ordinary, the kind of appearance that is not noticeable in the crowd, but if you get close, you will find that he has a pair of very Bright and clear eyes, but at this time those eyes are closed, and his eyes are covered with thick eyelashes. His sensitivity and vigilance as a shadow guard did not make him wake up after being stared at for so long, because Ying Ba's sight and breath had already He has already been included in the safe range.

In a trance, Yingba felt his heartbeat start to speed up, but before he had time to sort it out, there was a familiar, extremely soft hum from the next door.

Almost at that moment, Ying Jiu opened his eyes and met Ying Ba's gaze.

"Here again?" Ying Jiu thought it was Ying Ba who woke up first, without thinking too much, sat up after asking with mouth shape, the collar of the obscene clothes slid down a little along with the cotton quilt as he moved, A piece of wheat-colored skin was revealed.

Seeing this, Ying Ba gasped for breath, and subconsciously moved to the side, because he realized that he had...reacted to such Ying Jiu.

There was no movement from the next door after that sound, maybe Zhuo Ying after waking up knew that they were next door, so she restrained a lot, and the sound insulation of this room is better than that of the inn the first night, at least you can't hear the sound of the bed, which affects the ninth class. After a while, he breathed a sigh of relief, and asked with his mouth: "You are awake, are you going out to practice swords?"

Ying Ba's mind went blank, and after a while, he opened his mouth and replied silently: "Go, I'll squint for a while."

Ying Jiu nodded, stretched his hand and turned over from Ying Ba who was sleeping on the outside, until the slight sound of closing the door, Ying Ba slumped back on the pillow, and he didn't know how long it had been, he put his hand out as if probing. Putting it into obscene pants, my mind is full of Ying Jiu's appearance...

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It wasn't until Ying Jiu was about to finish practicing the sword that Ying Ba dawdled up from the bed, cleaned up the stains on his hands with his handkerchief, then quickly passed by Ying Jiu, and hurried to the well in the courtyard.

Ying Jiu stopped the sword in his hand and turned around strangely: "I've already fetched water for you."

"Cough, I just took off the veil, I'm going to wash it with water." Ying Ba opened his palm a little bit, exposing a corner of the veil, Ying Jiu didn't ask any more questions, and continued to practice sword.

After Yingba finished destroying the evidence and calmed down, Xing Chenmu just pushed the door out and said to Yingba in the distance: "Go and see if grandpa and the others are awake, and tell them that we will go to eat in a while."

After he finished speaking, he thought for a while, and without shying away from the two of them, he told Ying Jiu who was beside him: "We will go on the road again this afternoon, you can go to the town to find out if there is a carriage that can be rented, and lay some extra layers—"

"It's not so precious." Before he finished speaking, Zhuo Ying, who was already dressed, appeared behind him, "Let's start early, if it's later than tomorrow, we won't be able to reach Ningshui County, and we'll have to spend another night on the road. "

Xing Chenmu was not angry at the interruption of his words, instead he took Zhuo Ying into his arms, and asked softly, "Why don't you rest for a while?"

Zhuo Ying was not used to being like this in front of his subordinates, so he moved his body a little, and Xing Chenmu immediately said: "We still need to prepare the carriage, you go."

Ying Ba and Ying Jiu looked at each other, turned around and left immediately after a hasty salute.

The author has something to say: Yingba: Why am I still so miserable even though I have CP?

Emperor: Because you are not the main character