Cloud of the Qing Dynasty

"Uh..." Zhang Chi let go of him guiltily, lowered his head and sniffed at his skirt, "Maybe he accidentally got something on it, why don't I go take a shower first?"

As he spoke, he casually picked up the things on the table and planned to take a bath, but when he was about to go out, Mu Liuyun asked indifferently: "Who was the person who invited you to drink realgar wine at the Dragon Boat Festival the year before last?"

Zhang Chi's hand was still on the door bolt, and he froze in place like this.

Of course, no one invited Zhang Chi to drink during the Dragon Boat Festival the year before last. There is no doubt that there is only one reason why Mu Liuyun asked such a question. He heard what Zhang Chi said to the doorman of Jinxiu Building—— "She even invited me to drink realgar wine on the Dragon Boat Festival the year before last."

Zhang Chi knew that big things were not good, and he was good at responding to the situation. He tried his best to calmly turn his head and look at Mu Liuyun, and said in a joking tone: "Liuyun, since you came out with me, why didn't you call me?" ?”

"I'm not that bored, I have nothing to do to follow you." Mu Liuyun said indifferently, "It's just that some disciples of my sect saw you entering the Jinxiu Tower and came back to talk about it. I have lived on the mountain for a long time, I’m very ignorant and ignorant, I don’t know that the place where there are so many birds and birds is actually a place that sells groceries.”

The tone of Mu Liuyun's speech was very flat, but there was obvious sarcasm in his words. This attitude made Zhang Chi flustered. His mind turned quickly, and he turned around and sat next to Mu Liuyun, grabbed him and put him on the table. The hand on the table: "Liu Yun, I can explain this matter."

"You don't need to explain anything to me." Mu Liuyun withdrew his hand, "Where you like to go is your business, you don't need to ask for my opinion, anyway, we have nothing to do with each other."

Hearing this, Zhang Chi immediately lost all his calmness and wit, and stood up all of a sudden: "What is it that is not a relationship? We have done everything, but now you tell me 'we are not a relationship. '?"

Mu Liuyun sneered: "You were the one who got entangled first, so why should I take the responsibility to marry you?"

"You are marrying. If you want to marry me, you are willing to marry. If it weren't because you and I are both men and cannot get married, I would have prepared a dowry gift and came to propose." Zhang Chi suddenly thought of something and slapped his head, "Yes Ah, even if you are a man, we can also become brothers, I will prepare now-"

"I don't want to." Mu Liuyun categorically refused without waiting for him to finish speaking.

Zhang Chi's plan to fish in troubled waters ran into this ruthless iron wall. He opened his mouth in vain, and the rest of the words stuck in his throat. Before he could figure out what to do, Mu Liuyun slowly He let out a breath, and when he spoke again, his voice was as flat as ever: "Zhang Chi, I don't know how you view our relationship, and I don't know whether there is any need for two men to restrain each other. I'm making out, but at the same time I still have to go out to find flowers and ask Liu, and when I come back, I still lie to me, I really can't accept it, from now on, let's just be ordinary friends."

"But I didn't go to find flowers and ask Liu at all." Zhang Chi was anxious and wronged, "It was my fault for not telling you the truth just now, but can't you give me a little patience and listen to my explanation?"

Mu Liuyun frowned and said: "Then let me make it clear. Whether you have asked Liu for flowers or not is up to you. I just think that I should always prevent you from going out of the wall like a jealous husband, like a prisoner. It's really ugly to interrogate your whereabouts, I don't want to do this. But as long as I'm still with you, I will definitely become such a person, so it's better for us to separate."

"Why don't you want to do this? What's wrong with this? What's wrong with preventing me from getting out of the wall?" Zhang Chi said excitedly, "I wish you could interrogate me like a prisoner. At least it shows that in your heart, you will care more or less. Mine, instead of being like now, don’t want to listen to reasons, don’t want to listen to explanations, kick me away if you feel unhappy, don’t give me any room for redemption, what do you think I am?”

Mu Liuyun just looked at Zhang Chi with complicated emotions, but didn't speak.

Under his gaze, Zhang Chi slumped his shoulders in depression: "It's been hard for me to be with you, every day is as happy as a dream, I'm afraid I'm not doing well... I don't ask for anything else, I just hope You can be a little more patient with our relationship, if I get angry with you, at least listen to my explanation, don't just drive me away because of speculation and doubt, okay?"

Mu Liuyun remained expressionless for a while before finally letting go: "Speak, I'll listen."

Zhang Chi sat down and said solemnly: "You know, I am the person who inquires, and the members of inquires will contact the headquarters every once in a while to exchange the news they have inquired. This time, I was delayed because of an injury. Time, so whenever I have a chance, I will go to my colleagues in the capital and ask what happened in the rivers and lakes during this period of time, so as to grasp the latest situation and plan the next move."

"Are you trying to say that Jinxiu Tower is the place to inquire about?" Mu Liuyun snorted coldly, "It's ingenious."

"Brothel restaurants and inns are the easiest places to eavesdrop on secret information. I didn't lie to you." Zhang Chi said seriously. If people know about this, we will be in more danger, but now I can't hide it anymore, I believe you will not leak the news, let alone harm us. That's right, Jinxiu Tower is in Chang'an. The landlord Hua Jinxiu is the person in charge of the base. As for the sentence I said, "Take me to drink realgar wine the year before last", it was a secret code agreed upon by Bao Inquiry. Without this code, ordinary people would not be able to see Sister Hua at all. Face. Think about it, I have been fighting the Tartars in the Northwest Army for the past two years, how could I come to Chang'an to drink flower wine?"

"But who knows if your words are true." Mu Liuyun said, "There is a question I have never asked you. You claim to be a member of the Iron Wolf Army, but the soldiers of the Iron Wolf Army are practicing shield sword formation. And shield spear array, and you are skilled in bow and horse, and good at marksmanship, how do you explain this?"

"...I'm actually a member of the Iron Wolf Cavalry. I didn't make it clear at the beginning. It's my fault." Zhang Chi said helplessly, "Although most people talk about the Iron Wolf Cavalry and the Iron Wolf Cavalry separately, the Iron Wolf Cavalry This is a unit under the Iron Wolf Army, so I am not talking nonsense when I say that I used to be a member of the Iron Wolf Army."

"You are indeed not talking nonsense, but you have deliberately deviated from the truth." Mu Liuyun said lightly, "Although the Iron Wolf Army claims to have reduced its troops by [-], they are all old, weak, sick and disabled. Disarmament? For what reason did you leave the army? Why can't you say it clearly?"

"This... I have a reason..." Zhang Chi didn't expect that Mu Liuyun wouldn't ask any questions, and would ask the question to the end. He couldn't think of an excuse for a while. During his hesitation, Mu Liuyun Yun stood up impatiently: "Forget it, don't say any more. You always say seven parts of the truth and three parts of the lie. You worked hard to make it up, and I feel bad listening to it."

"Wait..." Zhang Chi didn't dare to hold Mu Liuyun's hand again this time, but grabbed his sleeve weakly.

Zhang Chi knew that if the explanation was not clear today, the fragile relationship between them would be over. In the past, he had always been complacent about his cleverness, but now he has deeply comprehended the true meaning of the saying "cleverness is misunderstood by cleverness".

As long as it is a lie, there will be loopholes. After all, paper cannot contain fire. Many times people did not expose him and did not get to the bottom of it. Just take the trick to heart.

Mu Liuyun is not as smart as he is, he can only see through the essence of the matter at a glance. He has been deceiving again and again before, which has made Mu Liuyun question his integrity, and this matter is so serious. Melon Field Li Xia--It's fine to go to Fengyuechang, and come back with a smell of incense powder, and lie and deceive people after returning, until he is mercilessly exposed in person.

Now Mu Liuyun might not believe what he said.

Perhaps, only sincerity can save their relationship a lifeline. Since the previous lies made his sincerity very unreliable, he can only show his sincerity with ten times more sincerity.

Before Mu Liuyun became impatient again, Zhang Chi gritted his teeth and said solemnly: "After all, I am a person who seeks out information by profession. I have sworn to keep some things secret, so I cannot tell you clearly, but I have never done anything to be sorry for you." .I know this matter is already a melon field. It's hard to say clearly. I can swear to God, if I went to buy spring this trip, or did anything with anyone in Jinxiu Building. Just let I, Zhang Chitian, struck with lightning, five thunders struck the top, everyone betrayed their relatives, and died a miserable death. After death, I went to the eighteen levels of hell and suffered all kinds of tortures.

After making such a poisonous oath, he looked up at Mu Liuyun almost pitifully and said, "Can you trust me?"

Mu Liuyun didn't speak, but just looked at him with a look of obvious distrust.

Zhang Chi knew that he still had a lot of things that he didn't explain clearly, but at least Mu Liuyun didn't get rid of him immediately after hearing his oath. As long as Mu Liuyun was still listening, he still had a chance. Zhang Chi tried hard to explain: " When I was young, Sister Hua already knew me. This time, she didn’t see me go back to my life for a long time. She thought that something happened to me, so she jumped up excitedly when she saw me... hugged me, probably At that time, the scent of the powder was on her body. Apart from that, there was really nothing between me and her. Sister Hua is nine years older than me. It can be said that she watched me grow up. I have always regarded her as an elder General respect."

"I'm also eight years older than you." Mu Liuyun finally spoke.

"But... this is different. She and I only have a sister-brother relationship, absolutely nothing else." Zhang Chi lowered his head. He has never mentioned this past to anyone, and he does not want to mention it to anyone again, but if If he doesn't explain his relationship with Hua Jinxiu clearly, or try to fool him with sweet words, Mu Liuyun will never believe him again. Zhang Chi gritted his teeth and said, "More than ten years ago, my parents lived in exile on the street. In addition to starvation and cold, I was also abducted by Huazi. At that time, they saw that I was still good-looking, so they sold me into a brothel. It was there that I met Sister Hua. She was born in a scholarly family. My eldest daughter, whose father was a former high-ranking official, was defeated in the political struggle. All the men in the family were beheaded, and the women were sold into brothels as prostitutes. She met me at that time and said that I looked like her brother, I couldn't bear to see me suffer so much, so she helped me escape regardless of the danger. You must know that once this matter was discovered, not only my life would be lost, but she would also be beaten and severely punished, but she still helped me regardless of her own life. Me, this kindness, I will never forget it for the rest of my life. Later, as soon as I had the opportunity, I rescued her from the brothel and introduced her to Baodao, and then I went north to join the army, and I rarely saw her."

Mu Liuyun frowned, and said in confusion, "Even being a servant in a brothel is better than living on the street starving and freezing. Why did you risk your life to escape?"

"...They didn't buy me to be a servant." Zhang Chi reminded himself again that he must be sincere. No matter how embarrassing the past was, he had to be honest. Even if Mu Liuyun looked down on him and despised him because of this, it would be better. I don’t trust him anymore, “You probably don’t know that some people have special sexual proclivities, and they like little boys. If I fall into their hands, let alone being humiliated, I may not be able to save my life. Anyway, in troubled times Life is as cheap as grass, and killing a child is like killing a chicken. If it weren't for Sister Hua, I really don't know what I would become now."

Mu Liuyun was silent after listening to his explanation, Zhang Chi continued: "Although Sister Hua and I have a deep relationship, she always loves me as a dead brother. There will be no love between men and women. I know that Sister Hua also has someone she likes in these days in Chang'an, just like I like you so much. You may not have liked anyone in your heart, so it is difficult to understand In our mood, when we really like someone, we only have room for him in our hearts, and we don’t have any undue thoughts towards others at all.”

He looked at Mu Liuyun cautiously: "I have told you a lot of lies before, you should not trust me, but this time I really did not lie to you, I swear, from now on I will tell you Every sentence is true, even if I can't tell you for some reason, I will tell you that I can't tell you, I will never make up a lie to deceive you, just trust me again, okay?"