After seeing Zhao Litang off, Shen Shijiu and Pei Zheng came to the clinic.
Who would have thought that when the two returned to the clinic, Jiang Yubai closed the door first, and then asked mysteriously, "Has General Zhao been sent away?"
Shen Shijiu nodded.
Jiang Yubai sighed, "Come, follow me in and meet someone."
—After approaching the cubicle, I saw a wheelchair by the window, with its back facing the door, and there was a person sitting in the wheelchair.
There was another person standing next to the wheelchair. When he saw Shen Shijiu, he greeted him with a smile.
"Here, this is the young master with the leg disease."
Shen Shijiu looked at the figure standing by the window, and the familiar feeling he had felt on the street before came back to him. His heartbeat unconsciously quickened, as if a name was about to come out.
The compartment was very quiet, no one spoke, and everyone's eyes were fixed on the figure by the window, until the wheelchair slowly turned around and the person sitting on it gave everyone a peaceful smile.
"Everyone, long time no see."
Shen Shijiu's tears suddenly welled up in his eyes. He ran over, bent down and hugged the person in the wheelchair tightly.
"Ayue... Ayue... why did you just show up... I missed you so much... I missed you so much..."
A Lanyue touched his hair. After not seeing him for a few years, this little guy was still as bright and enthusiastic as before. The love and warmth in his heart could not be hidden and always illuminated the people around him.
However, these few years have made Alan Yue different from before.
His legs cannot walk anymore, so he has to sit in a wheelchair forever. He even needs someone to take care of him when he goes in and out. Because he has to go everywhere to seek medical treatment, he has traveled to many countries and met many people and things.
He became stronger and more independent. He no longer needed to depend on others or follow in others' footsteps to live.
Later, he simply locked up his broken heart, so that he would no longer be sad or have empty expectations.
"Xiaojiu, I missed you too, so I'm here. Okay, don't cry."
Shen Shijiu raised his face with tears in his eyes, hugging A Yue and still unwilling to let go, "A Yue, where have you been? Why did you come just now? And, and, your legs..."
Pei Zheng, who was standing nearby, came over, helped the little guy who had fallen on Alan Yue up, wiped the tears off his face, and asked, "When did you come to the Northern Territory? How did you manage to evade all my eyes? Is there someone helping you behind the scenes?"
Liu Zhiyuan replied, "It was the leader who sent people to protect us in secret."
"Amul?" Pei Zheng raised his eyebrows and glanced at Alanyue, "What is your connection with him?"
"The young master is actually the prince of our barbarian tribe, and the younger brother of Chief Amul. However, this matter has not been made public. Even among the barbarians, only a few people know about it."
Liu Zhiyuan added, "Of course, General Zhao also knows."
Afterwards, Pei Zheng asked a few more questions, and Alanyue simply recounted what happened that year in brief. There was no emotion on his face, and he was extremely calm and peaceful. Even when he talked about how he jumped off the city wall to ask Amul to withdraw his troops, his eyes were calm.
"Before coming to Weiyang City in the Northern Territory, I didn't know that the miracle doctor in the city would be Nineteen. If I had known in advance, I wouldn't have bothered you again. But Zhiyuan told me that there might be a way to cure my leg, so I agreed to come and see it in person. I covered my face because I didn't want you to recognize me, but who knew that Doctor Jiang was very alert and intelligent and noticed something was wrong..."
A Lanyue smiled helplessly, "Looks like I still have to bother you now."
His words were flawless and polite, completely different from his previous timid and cowardly appearance.
Pei Zheng pondered for a while. All the unsolved puzzles now had answers, but he did not expect that the truth would be like this.
Shen Shijiu suddenly thought of something, looked at Alan Yue and asked, "Ayue, have you seen Brother Tang?"
Pei Zheng and Jiang Yubai looked at each other from a distance. Only Shen Nineteen, a slow-witted little fool, could not understand anything. They all heard that the matter between Zhao Litang and A Lanyue was definitely not as simple as these two people said.
Why did Amul delay killing Zhao Litang? Why did Alanyue force Amul to withdraw his troops? What happened during the months when Zhao Litang was imprisoned in the barbarian camp
"I… "
Alan Yue's expression finally changed. A barely perceptible fluctuation appeared in his calm eyes. He sighed softly, then smiled and said, "... No."
"But, Ah Yue, do you know that Brother Tang just left? He has been..."
A Lanyue suddenly interrupted, "Nineteen... Stop talking... I don't want to know..."
It took him so long to forget. Now that he had decided to withdraw from the general's life and never bother him again, he had to be ruthless and cut off all ties with him. He didn't want to hear any news about the general anymore.
In the past, he was ignorant and thought that even if the general didn't like him, as long as he could always stay with the general, it would be fine.
But it is not like that. Love is selfish. He loves the general, so knowing that the general does not love him, he cannot help but feel sad, jealous, and secretly fantasize about whether it is possible for him to be with the general until old age...
However, reality always hurts him coldly and mercilessly time and time again.
His heart is also made of flesh, and it hurts when it is alive and bleeding.
That night, when the cold wind whistled in his ears, he saw clearly that the general did not turn back.
That’s why I told myself to forget, to let go, and to let it go.
What's more, my legs are in this condition now. If I can't stand up again, I will only be a burden to others.
Shen Shijiu seemed to want to say something else, but Pei Zheng gently held his hand and shook his head.
The entanglement between them cannot be resolved no matter how much others worry and try, and they can only leave it to them to solve it themselves.
Fortunately, the person was found after all. Now that he was found, it was impossible to let him go.
A Lan Yue was taken directly back to the small courtyard. Jiang Yubai and Shen Shijiu closed the clinic and concentrated on treating A Lan Yue's leg at home.
But his leg injury cannot be cured in a day or two, and even Jiang Yubai is not 100% sure, so he can only try his best.
Li'er was very enthusiastic about the new guest in the house. She was even more curious about the wheelchair and insisted on climbing onto it to sit and play with A Lanyue.
Shen Shijiu taught him several times that it was not fun and that he should not be so impolite.
The little baby looked at Alanyue with a wronged look on his chubby face.
A Lanyue smiled and spoke for him, "Nineteen, it's okay, Li'er is not heavy, and he is so cute, I also want to hug him."
Li Er smiled sweetly at A Lan Yue, then climbed up with her butt sticking out, sat on A Lan Yue's legs, hugged his neck, poked his face with her hand, and said in a baby voice, "There is a little crescent on your face."
"yes."
"Then let me guess, are you called Xiaoyueer?"
A Lanyue pinched his chubby face and said, "That's right, Li'er is really smart. He guessed it right at once."
The little baby puffed up his chest proudly, "Daddy said that Li'er is so smart, just a little bit behind him when he was a child."
Alan Yue couldn't help laughing after hearing this. What kind of compliment was this
However, with Li'er's company, A Lanyue's face showed a lot of sincere smiles.
In the evening, after they had dinner together, everyone went back to their rooms to rest. Only Shen Shijiu pushed Alan Yue to the yard.
The moonlight tonight is unusually bright, and the silvery crescent hangs high in the night sky.
Although the two haven't seen each other for a long time, that intimate and familiar feeling seems to have never disappeared.
A Lanyue asked Shen Shijiu about his life over the years, and Shen Shijiu told her everything.
After listening to this, Alan Yue held Shen Shijiu's hand with a distressed look on her face. "Li'er grew up to be so well-behaved and cute because you taught him well. You must have suffered a lot to raise him alone..."
"No, I still have Xiaoyuzi and Afeng, they are always helping me."
"That's different," Alan Yue glanced at the night sky, "I know, that's different. When that person is not here, it feels like I'm alone no matter who is by my side."
Shen Nineteen hugged him from behind, "Ayue, I know you don't want to talk about those things, and I won't ask you. You and Brother Tang are my dearest people, I just want you to be safe and happy."
A Lanyue rubbed his little head, "Little Nineteen, do you know that these two blessings, I..."
He wanted to say, I might not get any.
But when the words came to his mouth, he changed his tone and said, "... I'll take them all."
"Yes!" Shen Shijiu nodded heavily.
A Lanyue pushed the wheelchair by herself and moved forward a little distance. Shen Shijiu behind her did not catch up.
A Lan Yue leaned on the back of the wheelchair and looked up at the moon in the sky.
"Nineteen, do you know?" He said calmly, "In fact, I also know in my heart that some things are impossible. They were impossible before, and they are even more impossible now. Things that are impossible to happen, so we shouldn't have any expectations from the beginning, right?"
"Yes, I was avoiding him. I didn't dare to see the general because I knew that kind of emotion might be guilt, sympathy, or just compassion, but it was not liking, let alone love."
"I can't confuse the difference, nor can I take advantage of this feeling..."
"This has always been just my wishful thinking..."