Dinghai Fusheng Records

Half an hour later, Xiang Shu and Chen Xing were like two people picked up from the water. The captain gesticulated and said a lot, and Chen Xing had to nod repeatedly. Xiang Shu sat on the ground beside the captain's room, In front of the wooden wall, close your eyes and listen.

This is a sea ship from Koguryo going south to trade in the south of the Yangtze River. Along the way, it first arrives at Shangyu, then goes northward, passes through Jiankang, passes through Jiaozhou, circles around and returns to Pyongyang. Tea, silk, and porcelain were brought to Pyongyang.The captain is a Han Chinese. He lived to such an old age. It was the first time he saw a monster like Sima Wei. After asking for a long time, Chen Xing told him a few folk legends, only saying that he was an exorcist, and the statement was his. The guardian, the two of them together, collected monsters everywhere, encountered this monster in Baitou Mountain, and was chased all the way. Fortunately, at the critical moment, he moved God and summoned a thunder from the sky...

"Save your energy," Xiang Shu finally couldn't listen anymore, and said impatiently, "Are you tired?!"

As Chen Xing said, he took out the money he had pawned Sima Wei's helmet to pay the captain: "It's probably like this, for this boat fee, please let us take your boat... "

"For the sake of the people, don't accept it, don't accept it! You can't accept it!" The captain hurriedly backed down and said, "If you don't mind it, you can stay on board for a few days."

Those who go out to sea are most afraid of wind, waves and legendary monsters. With the exorcist who can summon the thunder, the journey will be smooth. The captain is too happy, so he quickly arranges a clean room for the two to rest.

The ship was loaded with a lot of goods, and also several Pyongyang scholars who went south to study. The captain gave Xiang Shu and Chen Xing the best room with windows, and there was only one bed in the room.

Chen Xing was already very satisfied.

The captain also explained that this is the first southbound voyage this year, which means a lot to the captain, even in the rainstorm.The wind and waves are relatively strong today, and it will be fine to leave the rainstorm area after getting out of the sea, and let people prepare a stove for them to warm up.

Chen Xing was drenched in the rain for a long time, and even his outer robe and underwear were completely soaked, so he couldn't help sneezing when he entered the cabin.

Chen Xing asked Xiang Shu expectantly, "How did you know I was arrested?"

Xiang Shu said casually, "I didn't know you were arrested."

Chen Xing: "Then why do you..."

Xiang Shu: "I thought you ran away by yourself again, so I chased you and beat you!"

Chen Xing: "..."

Xiang Shu put the latch on the door, locked the door, and began to undress, signaling to Chen Xing.

"Take it off," Xiang Shu looked at Chen Xing as if he didn't know him, "what are you doing standing there?"

Chen Xing suddenly felt a little embarrassed, took off his clothes and threw them to Xiang Shu, then jumped onto the couch, completely naked, covered with a quilt.Xiang Shu didn't avoid him either. He took off his clothes completely, wrapped a cloth towel around his waist, rolled up his clothes, put them in a basket, opened the door and put some money in it, and ordered the ship's handyman to take it for washing. It will be delivered tomorrow after drying.

So the two of them lost all their clothes and had to face each other frankly in the room all day long.

"Xian Shu?" Chen Xing asked again.

Xiang Shu took a shower in the cubicle, and motioned for Chen Xing to take a shower. In the cubicle, Chen Xing cheered, "It's great that there's still hot water!"

When Chen Xing came out, he found that the room had brought hot food again, a bowl of stewed fish and shrimp with a little sauce meat, and a pot of hot wine, obviously ordered by the captain to order Xiaozao to bring it here. Xiang Shu had a cloth towel on his crotch , Just sat there and began to pour himself a drink.

After drinking and eating, Chen Xing finally felt more comfortable, and shrank to the back of the bed. For some reason, his heart started beating.This is not the first time he has been frank with Xiang Shu, nor is it the first time he has shared the same bed with Xiang Shu, but for some reason, this time he feels a little embarrassed.

Xiang Shu glanced at Chen Xing, and seemed a little hesitant.

"Sleeping?" Chen Xing stepped back and said, "Let's take a rest."

From Goguryeo to the south of the Yangtze River by boat and arrive at Shangyu, even if the wind is smooth, it will take half a month. He and Xiang Shu can only live in the same room along the way, no... When they stayed in Chilechuan, they ate and shared the same food every day. live, no problem ah?For sleeping in a bed?

For some reason, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became charming.

Xiang Shu then took off the cloth towel, went to bed like that, and slept with Chen Xing under the quilt.

Chen Xing accidentally touched Xiang Shu's hot skin, and the two rubbed against each other for a while. Chen Xing's heart was beating wildly, and he subconsciously separated a little. Lie down slowly.

In the wind and waves, the boat rocked slightly, the bed was very narrow, Xiang Shu stepped on the bed rail under the quilt, and fixed himself so as not to squeeze Chen Xing against the wall, while Chen Xing leaned hard against the wall.

"I..." Chen Xing wanted to find something to say, distracted himself, and changed his posture in order to hide it, afraid that Xiang Shu would find out his body's reaction. In this situation, under the scorching body temperature, In just a short moment, Chen Xing couldn't help thinking about the feeling that there was no barrier between each other's bodies.

Xiang Shu's voice was clearly uncomfortable: "What?"

"Are you tired?" Chen Xing turned his head and glanced at Xiang Shu.

"It's okay." Xiang Shu opened his eyes, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

The boat swayed gently in the wind and rain, the shutters were not closed tightly, and the cold wind leaked into the cabin. In early spring, when the ice floes melted and the weather was still very cold, Chen Xing huddled under the quilt and shivered a little.

"When are you going back?" Chen Xing remembered, after they reunited, everything seemed so natural, and even forgot to ask Xiang Shu, what about Hara, Lin and Chilechuan.

Xiang Shu didn't answer, Chen Xing thought it was my fault again, he told you to gallop thousands of miles here to save me, and when the boat sails south, you don't know when you will go back.

"Did you... tell the clansmen?" Chen Xing asked.

"What?" Xiang Shu just replied lightly.

"Come save me."

"No." Xiang Shu said casually.

"Where's Xiao Shan?" Chen Xing asked again.

"Send him back," Xiang Shu said, "I don't know if the Huns can control him."

Chen Xing: "Then, will you go back to the south with me?"

Xiang Shu turned sideways, changed his posture, and replied, "It depends."

Chen Xing was silent for a moment, and then said: "Just now in front of the captain, I was just talking casually, don't worry about it."

Item statement: "?"

Xiang Shu glanced at Chen Xing inexplicably, and understood that Chen Xing meant that he introduced his identity as "Dharma Protector" to others without asking for his opinion. I'm afraid he would be angry again.

"Thank you." Chen Xing said with a smile, "Although I don't know what you think of me, I thought you wouldn't come to me anymore."

"Why?" Xiang Shu asked back, "Is that why you miss me?"

Chen Xing hurriedly explained: "You are the Great Chanyu, you have your responsibilities, and there is nothing wrong with going back...Xiang Shu, I want to say, if you don't mind..."

Xiang Shu frowned slightly, looking at Chen Xing, Chen Xing summoned up his courage, and finally spoke his mind, even though Xiang Shu had already rejected him once, but this time, maybe they have become more familiar with each other than before For each other, for Xiang Shu, they also have a common goal, so...

"...I promise, the time won't be too long," Chen Xing said anxiously, "Can you stay with me for a while like this? I don't say anything about protecting the law, but I know that it may be really difficult to rely on myself. There is no way..."

"Since I was a child," Xiang Shu suddenly turned his head away, stopped looking at Chen Xing, and said slowly, "I knew that one day, I would become the great Chanyu of the Sixteen Hus."

Chen Xing: "?"

Chen Xing stared blankly at Xiang Shu. The bridge of his nose, lips, and profile of his profile were quite perfect and exquisite, but he didn't have any trace of makeup. Instead, he had a delicate and masculine look.

Xiang Shu's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he said, "After my father passed away, I also logically took on the responsibility of the Great Chanyu. The affairs of the tribe are my affairs, and the danger of the tribe is my danger."

Chen Xing said: "Yes, so I think, you have to go back, even if you want, I can't occupy..."

"Then one day," Xiang Shu said again, "you came to me and told me that you needed a Dharma protector, and I was that Dharma protector, so this responsibility extended from Chilechuan to the whole world."

Chen Xing said helplessly, "I don't want to either, it's just..."

Xiang Shu: "But during this process, no one ever asked me what I wanted to do."

Chen Xing: "..."

"Never." Xiang Shu said seriously, "They won't ask me, Shulukong, are you willing to become the Great Chanyu? You didn't ask me, would you like to be your Dharma protector?"

As he spoke, Xiang Shu frowned again, and looked sideways at Chen Xing, as if he wanted to read the answer from Chen Xing's expression.

His brows were slightly stretched, and he slightly raised his eyebrows towards Chen Xing.

Chen Xing: "I understand, Xiang Shu." At this point, Chen Xing suddenly laughed and said, "So it's like this, you think it's my fault that I don't respect you, at that time... I really didn't think about it." through so much."

Xiang Shu: "I am different from you, you want to be an exorcist..."

"Of course not." This time it was Chen Xing's turn to interrupt him, and replied, "If I had a choice, I don't think I would be so willing. I admit that I didn't expect to respect your wishes at the beginning, but I want to make it clear that I, too, have a lot of things I have to do."

"Then why do you want to be an exorcist?" Xiang Shu asked a little puzzled, "Don't you have yourself?"

"Yes, I also want to be myself, and I often ask, why me?" Chen Xing remembered the voice in his heart when he tried to control Yin Yang Jian for the first time.

"But my father always said that there are so many people in the world who can do whatever they want. People who can live according to their own wishes in their life are happy. More people just follow the destiny. However, it's unfair to put responsibility on our shoulders, but if you think about it in another way, isn't this the expectation God gave each of us?"

"Expectation?" Xiang Shu said disapprovingly, "Just accept it."

Chen Xing understood why Xiang Shu rejected the offer to be a Dharma protector at the very beginning, and said in relief, "So, it's just resignation to the so-called 'will of God'."

The boat was shaking in the waves, the rain seemed to have stopped, only the sound of the waves one after another, Chen Xing and Xiang Shu lay side by side, quietly, no one spoke for a while.

"Then what do you want to do?" Chen Xing seemed to know Xiang Shu again. Now, he suddenly felt that the conversation between them was very peaceful. It was the tranquility deep in his heart. Looking at each other carefully, to understand each other's most sincere side.

"Sometimes," Xiang Shu said, "I want my mother to come back to life, and my father to come back to life, and still live outside the Great Wall as before."

Chen Xing couldn't help looking at Xiang Shu, but Xiang Shu closed his eyes.

"Unexpectedly, they are all dead," Xiang Shu murmured, "An Da is also dead, and everyone is gone... It's like a banquet in the late autumn festival. After everyone drinks, they say goodbye to each other and go to the Where each should go. And what I want, it is easy to say, but it is also difficult..."

"...All I want is this banquet, and it will never end."

Xiang Shu was in a daze for a while, remembering the day he bid farewell to the clansmen who stayed in Hara and Lin, but he didn't tell Chen Xing more details.

This conversation seemed meaningless, but to Chen Xing, it seemed to start another period of his life that was short on time.It's like a boat that has left the wind and rain, and finally galloped onto the calm sea.

"... Those who know me say I am worried, those who don't know me say what I want."

"Yuyou Cangtian, who is this?" Chen Xing sang gently as the boat swayed.

"What about you?" Xiang Shu asked.

Chen Xing hesitated: "Maybe... I want to see the land of China. Go to places that I have read about in books but have no chance to go." As he spoke, the future that Chen Xing imagined seemed to become clear: "After traveling all over the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, go to the south of the Yangtze River, find a picturesque place to live, plant wisteria flowers all over the yard, when the flowers bloom..."

Chen Xing smiled sadly, and said: "You can study under the flower shelf, do you like it? If you have a chance, you are welcome to come and play at my house. It doesn't matter if you stay or not. If you have a chance, um, Whenever there is a chance."

Chen Xing raised his hand, with the faint light of the heart lamp in his hand, and gently pressed it against Xiang Shu's naked chest. At that moment, the power of the heart lamp matched Xiang Shu's firm and powerful heartbeat, A bright light shines from within.

Chen Xing said, "I want to ask you again, Xiang Shu."

Xiang Shu still looked at Chen Xing like this.

"Before the future comes," Chen Xing said, "can you stay with me for a while? Anyway, I need you. I know now that you don't want to be dominated by responsibilities. So, I just want to ask, if you give You can choose again, can you..."

"I'll think about it." Xiang Shu replied.

Chen Xing laughed, knowing that what Xiang Shu said meant he agreed.

When the wind and rain receded, the big ship galloped on the sea, a bright moon shone in all directions, the wind picked up, and the sails were full, making the ship gallop towards the silver-white sea.

Chen Xing said softly in the silence: "Sometimes I feel that the so-called 'responsibility' means that someone needs you. China, the earth, the common people, all things... This kind of need is often not rewarded, but we Isn’t it nice to always be willing to live up to those expectations, just like one person, to another person?”

Xiang Shu didn't answer, Chen Xing curled up under the quilt, and after a long time, he felt that Xiang Shu should have fallen asleep.

"Is it cold?" Xiang Shu asked.

"not cold."

The quilt on Chen Xing's side was slightly damp, which made him feel very uncomfortable and kept trembling.

Xiang Shu said, "Come closer."

Chen Xing leaned closer to Xiang Shu, and immediately became warm, and then the wind and waves hit, and the big boat tipped slightly in the waves, Xiang Shu retracted his feet, and hugged Chen Xing who was being pushed into his arms.

Chen Xing leaned against Xiang Shu's arms, his breath suddenly became short of breath, and he moved away slightly to avoid embarrassment for the two of them.

Wave after wave pushed him towards Xiang Shu repeatedly. Chen Xing wanted to stabilize his body and raised his hand, but there was nowhere to put it. After a long while, he simply put it on Xiang Shu's shoulder and hugged his waist Neck, the two stick together.

"Understood." Xiang Shu finally said.

Chen Xing didn't hear these words, he fell asleep quickly, Xiang Shu's body was quite warm, so he couldn't help but want to stick to him, but he felt that Xiang Shu was always moving restlessly, as if being tossed by him Feeling irritable, sometimes sleeping and waking up, and then I couldn't care less about it, so I simply let go a lot, and hugged each other with Chen Xing.

The next morning, when Chen Xing woke up, he saw that he had folded his clothes by the pillow and covered himself with a new quilt.

Chen Xing: "???"

Chen Xing was sure that the quilt had been changed once. Today's bed is obviously different from yesterday's bed.

"Xiang Shu?" Chen Xing said, "Where's Xiang Shu? Where's the person?"

After breakfast in the morning, Chen Xing found Xiang Shu on the deck. Xiang Shu changed his clothes and was sitting and drinking tea with the captain. The sea breeze was blowing and the sun was shining brightly.

"What about the quilt..."

"I don't know!" Xiang Shu said impatiently.

"Wow!" Chen Xing stood in front of the mast, facing the vast sea.Xiang Shu nodded to the captain, then went back to the cabin with Chen Xing, and threw Chen Xing a bundle for him to look at.

Inside are the two magic weapons that Xiang Shu brought back from Hara and Lin, the Yin-Yang Mirror and the Ferocious Drum, and the medical supplies that King Akele once sent—four seal rings.Chen Xing couldn't help being a little sad when he saw things and thought about people. After checking it, he carefully put it away.Then look at the bundle that Xiang Shu sorted out in a hurry. Inside there was a Qiang flute and a long and narrow box that was not locked. When the box was opened, there were two rolls of parchment rolled together, and the outside was tied with a woolen rope. It's been quite a few years, and has a light purple color.

Is this the big Shanyu Zijuan that Fu Jian never forgets?Chen Xing thought of the saying of "Purple Scroll and Golden Award", but after looking at it, he didn't feel like it. This was not sheepskin that had been soaked in blood.But he suppressed his curiosity and didn't rummage through Xiang Shu's things, he closed the box and put it back. As soon as he closed it, Xiang Shu came back.

"What about after arriving in Shangyu?" Xiang Shu asked.

Chen Xing said: "Go to Jiankang from Shangyu and find my master's friend. Do you remember the other two pictures in Zhang Liu's handwriting?"

Xiang Shu showed Chen Xing that when he was in Chilechuan, he had roughly restored all three pictures.

There are many capable people in the south, and after traveling south, they have preserved a large number of ancient books, and although many families of exorcists abandoned their profession after the death of all magic, or studied or worked in agriculture, they still know a little about the past.Chen Xing had to go to warn Xie An earlier, and called the former exorcists to discuss countermeasures to find Dinghaizhu's whereabouts.

"What are you writing?" Xiang Shu saw that Chen Xing had been writing letters in the cabin these days.

Chen Xing said: "Write a letter of worship, send it to the post station, and present it to Jiankang. At that time, my father had many students, all of whom were from the senior generation. They also have a place to go in the city."

Xiang Shu said casually: "Well, I forgot, your father is a great Confucian, and when you return to the south, you are naturally a descendant of a famous family."

Chen Xing heard the sarcasm, and retorted: "Where is it, compared to the big Chanyu, what kind of pomp am I? Otherwise? I have spent all the money on my body, and I will eat the northwest wind after getting off the boat?"

Xiang Shu said: "There must be several Yu Wenxin waiting in Jiankang."

"You..." Chen Xing wanted to throw his pen.

Chen Xingben also had the attitude of giving it a try, but he didn't want to write it at all after being described by Xiang Shu.But in the end, I still reluctantly wrote down my itinerary, sealed the post, paid the last bit of money, and had someone send him ashore and take him to the Ministry of Officials in Jiankang City.It stands to reason that if the letter is received, there should always be a postman, but there is no one to pick it up along the way. My heart is changeable, so I have to accept my fate and find a way to get some money after I arrive in Jiankang.

The big ship sailed all the way south, the weather gradually warmed up, and the spring was sunny, and the people in the Jiangnan area became more and more lazy. Chen Xing only slept in the cabin every day, tossing and turning, and Xiang Shu sometimes got off the deck with the captain. Chess, sometimes I bought a book when I got off the ship, and read on the ship to pass the time.

Nearly ten days later, the boat sailed smoothly into the Yangtze River, followed the canal to Jiankang, and half a day later in the morning, it arrived at Jiankang City ahead of schedule. Chen Xing was still sleeping, and there was a faint sound of music outside. Then came the boatman's cry.

"Here we come—" the boatman said.

Chen Xing turned over, didn't he arrive at night?Arrived in Jiankang so soon?

Xiang Shu pushed the door open and entered the room. After cleaning up, he looked at Chen Xing impatiently. Chen Xing sat up, his head was full of frizz, scratched his head, and looked at Xiang Shu.

"Someone will pick you up at the pier." Xiang Shu said.

Chen Xing cheered up, and ran out like that, saying, "Who? Who's here to pick me up?"

When the big ship arrived at the pier, what caught the eye was peaches and willows on the shore, and the city was full of fresh greenery and colorful.There are thousands of eaves and thousands of tiles, and Zhu rafters are like washing.

Zhongshan looks like a dragon coiling like a dragon, and the shape of a crowd of stones and tigers crouching.

The Huai River is misty and rainy for ten miles, and the Taichu and Zhaoming Second Palaces in the distance are on the bank of the mirror-like Xuanwu Lake, like a palace in the sky shrouded in smoke and clouds.

The number one capital in the world, Jiankang City has experienced wind and rain, and millions of people have lived there.This is the most prosperous and prosperous place of Han Chinese culture, and it is also the center of the civilization of the land of China.

Nearly [-] Confucian scholars held umbrellas and lined up. On the top, a Qingyong man with a broad robe and long sleeves came forward as if riding the wind and catching the moon.

"I'm gone in the past, Yangliu Yiyi," I only heard the singing on the shore, "Now I come to think about it, the rain and snow are falling——"

The man's temples were stained with frost, he was forty years old, but he was dressed in a dignified manner, dressed in a black official gauze, lined with a snow-white scholar's robe, his face was like a crown of jade, his smile was like a spring breeze, and he was gentle, with a jade hanging around his waist and a neck adornment Fox teeth, wooden clogs, holding a jade flute, and a belt fluttering in the wind, walking gracefully all the way.

"A friend came from afar," Xie Anlang said in a loud voice, "Can I still eat? Junior brother, this way please."

——Volume Two · The Sky Cracked·End——

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