Yu Wu

With a "snap" sound, with [-]% force, Lu Zhanxing's cheeks suddenly swelled, and blood oozes from the corner of his lips.

Mo Xi stared at him fiercely, his eyes were reddened.

The voice was even more trembling.

"Why do you make decisions for him? Why do you make choices for him? Do you know that if you die, the death of his [-] comrades will drive him to a certain extent? Are you trying to push him into the abyss? Lu Zhanxing?!" At the end, sparks burst into his eyes, almost howling angrily, "You don't want him to die, but have you really understood his heart?!"

Lu Zhanxing's voice was also raised, and his bloody lips opened and closed: "His heart is too high, sooner or later his life will be hanged! What do you know?!"

Like two swords contending and fighting, dragons and tigers fight.

"You were born rich and well-clothed, and the so-called setbacks are nothing more than some messy things within your family! Have you ever experienced the powerlessness that someone else's displeasure can kill your life? Do you know that Gu Mang has been in trouble since he was a child? How difficult is it to live to this day?" Lu Zhanxing almost choked up because of anger and despair, "He is a stupid donkey who has lost his head. You loosened the slave chain around his neck and replaced him. For the sake of fame and wealth, Lulai is regarded as a carrot and cabbage hanging in front of his eyes, but has the fact changed?"

"He is still pulling the grindstone for you with his blood and tears, but he is so happy like a fool..." Lu Zhanxing couldn't help but raised his head, covered his eyes with his arms, and said hoarsely, "But the donkey It's still a donkey, one day he'll be lazy, he'll be tired, he can't walk anymore, he can only be slaughtered by others!"

Having said this, Lu Zhanxing took a deep breath.

"If he can't see clearly, I will let him see clearly in advance."

"If he understands but doesn't want to let go, I will force him to let go of all ten fingers!"

"Since he feels that the old gentleman is kind to him, then I have been waiting. I wait until the new king takes the throne, and I will do this again, so as to prevent him from turning the old gentleman's kindness into an enemy. What else do I have for him? Thoughtful?"

"...Lu Zhanxing..." The emotion in Mo Xi's throat seemed to be boiling with lava, "You are simply a lunatic..."

"It's not me who's crazy, it's him." Lu Zhanxing lowered his hand, his eyes were still flushed with emotion, but all the softness in his eyes had been peeled off, leaving only ruthlessness, he stared at Mo Xi , "How crazy must Mang'er be to think that with his own power, he can change the views of slaves in Chonghua and even the entire Kyushu? How crazy and crazy must he be to think that there is hope for all of this!"

Mo Xi said hoarsely: "You would rather let him lose the sparkle in his life than let him live as you wish?"

"Is there anything wrong with trailing tail paint? A person is but a drop in the ocean, and he feels that he is a mayfly that can shake the sky. You see, he should know the ending by himself now—as long as Xinjun touches his lips, his mirage All will be destroyed and collapsed—paying the price of these 7 people, from now on, neither Gu Mang nor those poor and stupid slave monks will have to shed their blood for Chonghua!"

As Lu Zhanxing said, the smile on the corner of his mouth was almost distorted.

"Whoever owns the country will be guarded by himself. Mr. Xihe Jungui, please, please don't worry about it, let this ridiculous army fall apart. We just want to die rather than live."

us?us?

Gu Mang has said longingly since his school days, that he hopes that one day he can change the world, that he can change the world even a little bit.

As long as a ray of light can be ignited, he is willing to burn his body, hair, and limbs.

Lu Zhanxing said that "we" just want to die rather than live.Why? !

Mo Xi seemed to be extremely angry for a moment, but the conflict between him and Lu Zhanxing today was so acute that blood would splatter everywhere if it got out of control. He didn't want to disturb the things in the time mirror, so he closed his eyes hard.

It took a long time before the overly violent flames were extinguished.Mo Xi slowly opened his eyes, and his dark eyes looked at Lu Zhanxing again.

Just as he was about to talk, Lu Zhanxing made another stab at him: "Mr. Xihe, please stay away from him. From now on, I will not be able to accompany him anymore. I beg you, old man, to be kind and don't give him those things that he would ask for again." the hope of his life."

Mo Xi found that he couldn't look at Lu Zhanxing's face anymore, and he could rush up again just by looking at the fire that had just been suppressed.He turned his face away abruptly, staring at the flickering candle beside him.

Lu Zhanxing said, "Don't lead him down this road again."

"..." Fingers clenched into fists, Mo Xi's eyes drifted away from the dim candlelight, and finally fell on the two dice that Lu Zhanxing had been playing with before.

He didn't pay much attention to these two dice, he was just too painful and too angry, his eyes wanted to find a shelter, and he wanted to settle somewhere.

He stared at the two red-painted dice with a white background for a while.

But after a while, I suddenly felt that something was wrong, and the hairy feeling came up first, and then Mo Xi suddenly realized the problem!

His back tensed suddenly.

the dice...

This dice is white with red lacquer and carved from rosewood. There is a very inconspicuous small lotus pattern next to the sixth point.

it is……

Gu Mang's wooden dice? !

Yes, Gu Mang used to like to play leaf cards in the army, and he also liked to bet on ideas. At that time, he envied the Murong family of the Yue family of the Mo family to have their own totem, so he secretly thought of one for himself.

The totem coat of arms he set for himself is a lotus flower, which is too ostentatious to be engraved elsewhere, it would be a joke, so it is only engraved on the dice that he plays with his brothers.

Lu Zhanxing laughed at him at that time, saying that you are a man, what is the matter with taking a little red lotus as your mark.

Gu Mang explained with a smile that the lotus blooms for seven days, although it is not long, but the fragrance soaks the universe, so there is nothing wrong with it.

Later, Gu Mang and Mo Xi made a blood contract in private, and each of them had a lotus pattern on their necks, using the totem that Gu Mang had set up in the past.

After realizing this, Lu Zhanxing's voice seemed to be separated from the vast ocean, and Mo Xi no longer paid attention to what he was talking about. His fingers trembled a little, and he almost raised his hand to pick up the wooden dice on the table for a closer look. .

"Mr. Xihe."

"..."

"Leave Mang'er alone."

Lu Zhanxing said: "If you really care about him and treat him as a human being, don't hang him up and let him fight for you. Just let him go."

Mo Xi's throat throbbed, and he finally reined in his impulse.After a few moments of silence, Mo Xi looked away from the dice with a pale face, looked at Lu Zhanxing, and said in a low voice: "...If you plan for him like this, you are really sure that he will follow the path you have paved for him. Let's go, and we will spend the rest of our lives in idle clouds and wild cranes?"

"Then where else can he go?"

Mo Xi's dark brown eyes stared at Lu Zhanxing's face: "Have you ever thought that he might rebel."

Lu Zhanxing was really taken aback for a moment, and then it was almost amused: "What are you talking about? Mang Er will rebel? Don't you know what kind of person he is?"

"Then don't you know how much you are in his heart, and those [-] monks are in his heart?"

"..." Lu Zhanxing's face turned blue, he was silent for a while, and still raised his head with an absurd expression and said coldly, "He will never."

Mo Xi measured the emotion between his brows inch by inch.Take a panoramic view of Lu Zhanxing's various reactions at the moment.

Lu Zhanxing said: "I know him well. No matter what step he takes, it is absolutely impossible for him to take this step...he...he..."

Mo Xi said: "Is that so? Have you never heard of any abnormalities in him during the six months you have been in prison?"

Lu Zhanxing took a step back, with a strange panic in his eyes.

really……

From this panic, Mo Xi saw that he seemed to know something that he didn't know.

Lu Zhanxing must be hiding some secrets.

In this extremely tense silence, Mo Xi suddenly asked without beginning or end: "Lu Zhanxing, have you met Gu Mang since you were imprisoned?"

As if being stabbed by a cold arrow, Lu Zhanxing suddenly raised his head!

Immediately the blood color faded, and he immediately turned his face away.

After a long while, he said: "...What is Mr. Xihe thinking? Mang'er is now in the body of a sinner, how can he see me? I am eager to catch up with him again. But...hehe." Laughing self-deprecatingly, "In a dream, it's more realistic to have a dream."

"..." Mo Xi didn't say anything more, but he had already read through Lu Zhanxing's successive reactions after his question, and the color in his eyes became darker.

He could almost confirm that within the past six months, Gu Mang must have met Lu Zhanxing.

But in this way, this matter seems even more strange.May I ask Gu Mang, as a deposed powerful minister, who is being followed by the emperor's secret guards day and night, how could he have the opportunity to break through the heavily guarded sky prison and go to Lu Zhanxing's prison?

"I'll ask you one last time." Mo Xi said, "Lu Zhanxing, Gu Mang really didn't come here to look for you?"

"……No."

"Are you really not wronged at all?"

Lu Zhanxing said, "No."

Knowing that this is no matter how you ask, you can't ask any decent answer.In the end, the two had a bad conversation, neither of them could persuade the other, and neither of them made concessions to the other.Mo Xi walked out of the cold prison cell.

Behind him was the rattling sound of iron chains and door locks, and the chains that had been applied with spiritual power re-locked the cell where Lu Zhanxing was detained.

Before Mo Xi left, he turned his face and took one last look at Lu Zhanxing.

Lu Zhanxing sat in the drowsy halo of the soybean oil lamp, with his head lowered and his eyes closed.

The moment he turned around completely, Lu Zhanxing suddenly raised his head again:

"Wait a moment!"

Mo Xi pursed his thin lips, looked sideways at Lu Zhanxing: "What?"

Lu Zhanxing gritted his teeth and said, "There is one more thing."

"..."

"Since you're here, I want to ask you too."

"You said."

Lu Zhanxing hesitated for a while, this question had been pressed in his mind for a long time, and it was almost rotten, and he also knew that if he didn't open his mouth now, he would never have another chance in the future.So he gritted his teeth and finally said, "For so many years, I've always wanted to know. Are you... and..."

Seeing his expression and listening to his words, Mo Xi had already guessed something in his heart, so he stood where he was, quietly waiting for him to continue.

"You to him... you to Mang'er... are you..." What I want to express is too difficult to say, and it is related to my partner in the lead role. Even if Lu Zhan is so cheeky, he can't help feeling a little bit He stuttered, "Aren't you..."

Mo Xi said, "Yes."

Lu Zhanxing seemed to have been punched by this self-admission thrown by Mo Xi. No words just now made him more dizzy than Mo Xi's "yes" at this moment.

For so many years in the army, in fact, Lu Zhanxing had already seen the clues from some details.It's just that out of respect for Gu Mang in the past, he wasn't ashamed to ask directly.But if he doesn't ask, it doesn't mean that he is stupid and blind.

He had noticed the way Mo Xi and Gu Mang looked at each other too many times. Once or twice, he still felt that his thinking was too absurd, but after so many times, he couldn't convince himself that there was nothing between the two of them. .Not to mention how many times he has seen Mo Xi waiting for Gu Mang to change guards together, and after the two returned, Gu Mang's eyes were always a little red, and his voice was slightly hoarse.

Once, he even saw a little bit of red marks on Gu Mang's neck through the bonfire.

But a guess is just a guess, when Mo Xi really stood in front of him and confessed it personally, Lu Zhanxing still felt a little out of breath.He suddenly took a few steps back and sat on the stone bed, almost dejectedly: "... Mang'er is just a lunatic... He's all alone, why does he have to get involved with you..."

Lu Zhanxing bent down, buried his face in his palms and rubbed it vigorously, and said in a hoarse voice: "Does he not know what his background is...why...he wants to fight for the most impossible thing...a lunatic...is really Crazy..."

After a pause, Lu Zhanxing was almost extremely exhausted: "Is it interesting to fly moths to the flame? What he wants in his life, no matter it is a thing or a person, is so... so..."

The Adam's apple rolled, and two words fell between the lips.

"absurd."

In the swaying light and shadow, Mo Xi stared at him, and after a while, Mo Xi said: "Don't blame him. The matter between me and him, he didn't fight me, it was me flying moths to the flame, and I entangled him."

After finishing speaking, he turned around, and the black robe rolled down the green steps, disappearing into the depths of the long corridor.

It was night, after returning to Xihe Mansion, Mo Xi tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.Finally, he suddenly sat up from the bed, put on his clothes and opened the door, the starry sky was permeable, covering the entire deep blue sky like broken diamonds.

He took a cloak to cover it outside, and went to Xinghualou again.

Although it was inconvenient for him to appear in front of Gu Mang at this time in order to find out more truths buried in the past, he still couldn't help but wish he could see Gu Mang more than eight years ago.