Yu Wu

"Mr. Xihe thinks I'm hiding something from you?"

When Gu Mang asked this sentence, the expression on his face was indescribably dull.The smile and stubbornness are all put away, and the sharpness and ruthlessness have not yet been unsheathed, just looking at Mo Xi like a stranger.

Naturally, Mo Xi couldn't say "Are you going away with treason intentionally?" So he closed his eyes and said in a low voice: "I know you are still dissatisfied with Chonghua and your majesty, I—"

"Don't." Gu Mang raised his hand and touched Mo Xi's lips with his fingertips. He stared at him and suddenly smiled again. The smile was sweet and dangerous, floating on the surface of this face, "beauty , People can sleep indiscriminately, but they can’t talk indiscriminately. I am now discharged from the military rank, and the remnants are in prison to be sentenced. My brother will be executed in Dongshi in three days. You come to discuss with me at this time whether I am dissatisfied with the emperor, yes Do you want to make me feel so tired that I will become more and more irreversible?"

"...I never wanted to treat you like this."

"You haven't thought about it now, and it doesn't mean you won't think about it in the future. The hardest thing to lose is beauty, let alone someone as beautiful as you." Gu Mang's fingertips slid along Mo Xi's lips, reaching his chin, and raised it slightly, " I have to guard against it."

"Gu Mang." Mo Xi looked at him sadly with his dark eyes, and said hoarsely, "I am sincere to you."

"You rich and powerful are just used to rewarding people. Giving jewels to coax women, rewarding wealth and power to coax men. When these are useless, you simply reward your sincerity. How dare I ask for it?" Gu Mang sighed. He said, "People's hearts are subject to change. Your Majesty still treated me with all his heart and soul. When I opened up the territory for Chonghua, I never expected that the new king would treat me like this after he ascended the throne." .”

After a pause, Gu Mang said, "I can't see through you people."

"including me?"

"..." The smile on the corners of Gu Mang's lips deepened. He had this kind of ability. When he was happy, a trace of a smile could make people feel like a spring breeze. When he was unhappy, the spring breeze would immediately turn into freezing rain.

Gu Mang raised his hand and patted Mo Xi's face: "Baby, including you."

Mo Xi grabbed his finger before it even fell down.

Gu Mang's eyelashes fluttered, and he slowly raised his eyes to look at him: "Release."

Mo Xi didn't relax, he was undoubtedly sad and desperate, but after these emotions accumulated and deepened, they gradually made the aura around him paranoid and gloomy like a cloud of cloud.

"How do you want me to prove it?" Mo Xi squeezed his fingertips tighter and tighter, his eyes danced with uncertain light and shade, "Gu Mang, is it right now that there are only people with the same background as you? You are willing to believe it. Are you willing to listen only when Lu Zhanxing is standing in front of you."

Gu Mang's expression remained unchanged, and he said calmly: "Xi and Jun were joking, Gu is just a lowly slave, and it's always because you don't want to believe me, so what right do I have to choose?"

Mo Xi looked at his face, and he was startled that Gu Mang had the same expression as the traitor who later threw himself into the enemy camp.

What caught in his eyes was determination.

Gu Mang at this moment is like a person standing on the edge of a cliff, who may fall into the abyss at any moment.

Mo Xi's Adam's apple rolled up and down—it turned out that looking back on many things, there were signs of everything, but he was young at the time and didn't understand the real Gu Mang, so that he had missed these details that foreshadowed the future.

He closed his eyes suddenly, slowly let go of Gu Mang's fingers, and said in a low voice, "...I'm sorry."

"What are you apologizing to me for?"

"The day your class teacher returned to court, it was because I was not able to be by your side."

Gu Mang was quiet for a while, then smiled: "You were also fighting on the front line at that time, I am not ignorant. Besides, even if you were in the court that day, what can you do, can you change anything?"

He sat down at the table covered with Shu embroidery brocade, raised his hand and poured two cups of tea.Gu Mang's arm was still honey-colored at this time, with tight lines, not as pale as it was later.

He pushed one of the cups of tea to Mo Xi, drank another cup himself, and said, "Mr. Xihe, this is what the new ruler means by treating me like this. It can't be changed just by asking for your favor. I never I resented you for not being by my side that day, but to be honest, we are really not the same way. It’s just that we have different ways and do not conspire with each other, so you don’t have to say sorry to me.”

Mo Xi said: "This apology is not just for you alone. Can you let me finish?"

Gu Mang smiled indifferently: "Okay, tell me, since you're not only apologizing to me, who else should you be apologizing to?"

"Seventy thousand souls of Fengming Mountain."

"..."

"I'm sorry, Gu Mang, it is Chonghua who owes you [-] tombstones with names and surnames."

The smile on Gu Mang's face gradually faded, his eyelashes fluttered slightly and drooped down, and then he sighed and said, "Mo Xi, it's been so long, and I've already seen it. Why do you bother?" mention it."

"..." Mo Xi looked at Gu Mang, who was soaking in the brothel and asked the singer to play the soul song, this so-called "people who looked away".

After a short silence, he said, "The tombstone you want to ask for them, I will go ask the king for you."

Gu Mang was playing with the cup in his hand, but when he heard this, he suddenly raised his head.

For some reason, his expression changed slightly: "Who told you to meddle in your own business."

Mo Xi said: "This is not an idle matter."

Gu Mang's nose wrinkled all of a sudden, and his face was almost a warning tiger wolf: "Listen to Mo Xi. Although my army is scattered now, they are still brought out by me alone. Whether they live or die, they are the same as me. It's the same kind of person, not you. I don't need you to stand up for me!"

"That's what they should have. Every hero has it. You are right to ask for it. If you can't ask for it, I ask for it."

There was a little silence, and the house was as quiet as a dead zone in the deep sea.

Gu Mang still stared at Mo Xi, but didn't say a word.After a while, he suddenly lowered his head and closed his eyes suddenly.This was the first time since entering the room that Mo Xi saw a crack in the false and cold mask he wore on his face, and the sadness behind it was almost like a sea tide.

Gu Mang lowered his head in the shadows, and smiled softly: "Mr. Xihe, you are joking. What heroes... They are just a group of ants."

"..."

"If there is no monument, how can ants match it? Even if it is erected, it is just a joke. Who will pay homage to it? Who will respect it?"

Gu Mang pinched the porcelain cup with his slender long fingers, looking at the tea in the cup and the reflection in the water.

"Establishing it is also a waste of bricks and stones. I have long since stopped forcing it."

"..."

"You don't have to meddle in your own business, this is the business of our untouchables, and it has nothing to do with you, Mr. Xi He."

"Gu Mang..." Mo Xi blocked his throat, and after a long time, he asked, "...What exactly do you need to do so that you can no longer be like this?"

"You don't need to do anything." Gu Mang put the teacup back on the table, "Just stay away from me obediently. Time will smooth everything out."

But time does not wear down hatred.

Time can't untie your knots, and can't stop you from throwing all your eggs in one basket.

It will only wear you down more and more blurred, black eyes faded to blue, skin scarred, reputation ruined in mud.

Time can only give me back a fragmented you.

Gu Mang, I have come here since the future, and I have seen the end of this matter.

Every breath felt like being stabbed in pain. Enduring the severe pain, Mo Xi sank his fingernails into his palm and said in a low voice, "Then what about you from now on..."

"from now on?"

"Then what are your plans from now on?"

"What else can I do? Let's have sex, beauties." Gu Mang said, "Your Majesty cut my job, but at least he kept my money. I, Gu, will live happily ever after. That's pretty good."

"No more requests?"

"No more."

Mo Xi moved his lips slightly, but didn't speak immediately.

He really wanted to tell Gu Mang without hesitation, don't lie to me again, I know everything about eight years later.I know if I let you go, you will go down a road of no return, and never look back.

But he can't say.

It has long been recorded in ancient books that if one reveals that one is from the future in the space-time mirror, one will be trapped in the mirror forever and cannot escape again.

But Mo Xi really wanted to know the truth back then, what Gu Mang was thinking, and what he should have done in order to prevent Gu Mang from stepping into the darkness.

At that time, in Gu Mang's heart, how many knots did he have to untie?

Apart from Junshang's cruel words, Gu Mang himself was cold.

what else?

Is there any other knots in his mind that he doesn't know about, or that he has missed——

Mo Xi stood beside Gu Mang who was eight years ago in this warm and dark wing, thinking like a prisoner.

Knots... What other knots he knows...

Suddenly, the spiritual light flashed, and Mo Xi's heart suddenly turned cold!I suddenly remembered an old thing that I had forgotten.

Back then when he came back from the Northern Territory and learned that Gu Mang had rebelled, he refused to believe it, and he frantically pulled everyone in the know to ask for details.

At that time, other people's descriptions were: "After you left, your majesty called Gu Mang into the palace once. He saw that Gu Mang's will was depressed and he was busy all day long. He thought that there was something useful for this person, so it's a pity to be so deserted. So he was assigned a mission. Gu Mang left Chonghua after taking over the assignment, but never came back to return."

I asked all kinds of questions, wanting to know what task the Lord entrusted to Gu Mang, but those people couldn't say clearly.

"I heard that it was just a small matter, and it seemed to cheer him up, but Gu Mang didn't like to hear it, so he came out soon. He didn't even stay in the hall for even a single stick of incense."

"It should be a small assignment, it's really nothing."

Although Mo Xi paid attention to this detail at the time, after countless inquiries, he always got a reply like "Your Majesty cheered Gu Mang up, but Gu Mang didn't listen", so as time went by, he gradually faded away. Went to this detail.

But at this moment, when this matter was recalled again, Mo Xi couldn't help sweating slightly in his palms, and clenched his hands tightly.

He had just seen Junshang's attitude with his own eyes, and Junshang intends to test Gu Mang's loyalty, so why would he greet Gu Mang at this time?

That delegation was anything but.

Mo Xi looked at Gu Mang's face beside the lamp shadow and red candle - if Gu Mang hadn't fully made up his mind to treason at this moment, then Lu Zhanxing's death and the commission entrusted to him by the king may be the last thing that made Gu Mang jump into the abyss of revenge Two thrusts.

His heart beat faster and faster.The more he talks with these people from the past, the more he thinks deeply, the more he feels that everything is strange.

...The things that happened back then were not limited to these, there must have been something else.

He had to know what was the last commission given to Gu Mang by the Lord.

The only luck is that the flow of time in the time mirror is completely different from the real world. A day or two in the mirror is nothing more than an hour and a half to the outside.It is impossible for Murong Chuyi and Jiang Yexue to defeat Shan Yao and rescue them from the mirror in such a short period of time.

He still has time to find out more details in the eight years ago.

Mo Xi finally left Xinghualou.

Even though he was so eager to get along with the normal Gu Mang overnight, in the end reason prevailed.After leaving, he went to find the third old friend he met.

In the deepest cell of the dungeon, a faint oil candle was burning, exuding a blue luster.

Other than that, there is no light source.

Lu Zhanxing lay on his back on the cold stone bed with his legs crossed, humming a little tune while tossing two dice he got from somewhere.

He was wearing a loose and clean prison uniform, and the snow-white skirt set off his wheat-colored, tough face.It was probably because the execution was imminent, or maybe he was very good at building relationships with people, so the jailers didn't make it difficult for him.

There was a small table in the prison, and there was even a jug of wine on the table. Judging from the format of the wine bottle, it should be the Baihua brew that Chonghua uniformly distributed to the jailers.

When Mo Xi came to the time mirror, the first person he should meet was Jun Shang.

A still immature king.

The second person he wanted to meet was Gu Mang.

An old friend who has not lost his soul.

The third person I could see was Lu Zhanxing.

——a dead person in memory.

Mo Xi stopped in front of the cell, and said to the warden who was leading the way: "You step back."

"Yes."

Lu Zhanxing didn't hear Mo Xi's voice for a while, and thought that the guard in the sky prison was idle and bored again, and wanted to chat with him, so he sat up from the bed in a daze, propped his cheek with one hand, and threw two dice with the other : "Astrological divination, fate and future, people's imminent death speak well, you and I, brother Lu, can see the way of heaven with only two dice. If you calculate your fate for [-] silver coins, you will double your marriage."

Mo Xi entered his cell, and took off the cloak and black hat he was wearing.

Lu Zhanxing lazily rolled his eyelids, and was taken aback the moment he saw Mo Xi's face. He failed to catch the dice he threw up, and rolled to the bedside: "...Xihe Jun?"

Mo Xi glanced at his dice and the wine on the table, paused, and said, "It's the first time I've seen you in prison like you."

Lu Zhanxing lay crookedly on the bed, grinned, and fumbled again to grab the dropped dice back into his hand, and said with a smile, "Fortune telling? There are still three days before our store closes. Don't miss it when you pass by."

Mo Xi sat down opposite him.

"Why don't you figure it out for yourself."

"Forget it." Lu Zhanxing shook his stinky feet, "I, Lu Shenzhu, will be destroyed if I succeed, and I will die if I fail. I have been in prison for more than half a year, so I will forget it myself One hundred and eighty times. There is nothing to reckon."

Mo Xi raised his hand and lowered a soundproof barrier around the prison.

Lu Zhanxing said, "What are you doing?"

"I'm here to ask you a question."

Lu Zhanxing still laughed out of shape: "Ask about marriage?"

Mo Xi said, "Ask about grievances."

Lu Zhanxing played back and forth with the two dice in his hand, without saying a word.

After a while, he smiled: "Are you so kind?"

"Gu Mang doesn't want you to leave. So I'm here to ask you, Lu Zhanxing, whether you have any grievances to sue during the battle at Fengming Mountain."

Lu Zhanxing tossed the dice on the stone bed in a jiffy, got a point, was not satisfied, rubbed it back in his hand and rolled it again.He came and went several times, and finally he threw a double six, and finally he stopped throwing it.Raising his head, he grinned at Mo Xi: "Yes. Your Majesty detained me because I beheaded the envoy. I was responsible for the work and for me, but Chong Hua was severely sentenced to Gu Mang and his army because of my fault. Thirty thousand remnants, may I ask what is this for?"

There are not many people in this world who can make Mo Xi angry with a few words, and Lu Zhanxing must be one of them.

What "one person does things and one person should be responsible", this reckless man knows how to enjoy himself for a while, never knows that there are tricks and party disputes in this world, and he pushes Gu Mang into a dilemma with his own enthusiasm and enthusiasm.

Mo Xi gritted his teeth and said, "Why were you so unable to control yourself then, no matter how dishonest or suspicious, you can kill me?!"