In the afternoon, Jiang Heng's hair was loose and he put on a white robe, while Geng Shu was still wearing a black military uniform, staring blankly in the hall.
After five years of separation, the reunion was like a bolt from the blue, leaving each other speechless.
It's been too long, everything has been too long, so long that Jiang Heng even felt that they became a little strange. When taking a bath, they couldn't stop choking and crying. After crying, they couldn't say a word.
It's like a person who has been in the desert for too long and is so thirsty that his whole body is smoking. The moment he sees the oasis, he doesn't even know how to drink water, and he can't make any swallowing movements.
"Brother." Jiang Heng said in a daze.
Geng Shu was also stunned, they just looked at each other like that for an hour.
But Geng Shu's hand was always tightly held, and he didn't dare to let go for a moment.
"Sit down here," Geng Shu finally said to Jiang Heng, "Heng'er."
Along the way, Geng Shu said the word "Heng'er" the most. It seemed that every time he said it, Jiang Heng's outline would become more distinct, calling him back, who was supposed to be a ghost. Come to the sun.
The cases of the two have already been merged, so how do they go through? Jiang Heng had to get up, sat opposite Geng Shu, and looked at him across the wooden case. These days, he was so tired, and when the escape was over, his whole body seemed to fall apart.
He simply lay on the case, raised his head slightly, and looked at Geng Shu.
Jiang Heng didn't want to say anything, he knew that Geng Shu must be thinking in general at this moment, as long as they looked at each other, it was enough.
Geng Shu gently touched the back of his hand again, his voice trembling, and said in a low voice, "Heng'er."
"Well," Jiang Heng said softly, "I'm here."
When the food was delivered, Geng Shu said, "Eat first."
Jiang Heng was so hungry that he opened the food box and saw that there were meat and fish, vegetables and rice, and a bowl of soup. Song County was ruled by the emperor in ancient times. Even the floor coverings in the room, the paper doors in the compartments, and the low couch for sleeping are exactly the same as the pool and crane sound bamboo in the garden.
Pieces of plum blossoms fall in the courtyard, like a painting in the sun, with a long-lost intimacy.
"You eat." Jiang Heng said.
"I'm not hungry." Geng Shu was still staring at Jiang Heng, as if to confirm whether he was a ghost or a phantom.
"What are you kidding?" Jiang Heng said, "How can you not be hungry? Eat quickly!"
Seeing Jiang Heng eating, Geng Shu lowered his head and started to eat. Since he left Luoyang, he has not cared about three meals a day. The northern food is the same, and the southern food is the same. After a while, he has to instruct the people in the house to cook something good for Jiang Heng.
Jiang Heng devoured it, and Geng Shu said again, "Eat slowly, Heng'er, what do you eat on weekdays?"
After drinking the soup, Jiang Heng was finally able to speak naturally, and said vaguely: "That's it, the prince will make it in Ling Palace, bring it to me, accompanied by Zhao Qi, but I'm not used to eating."
Geng Shu didn't ask him why he was with Prince Ling, let alone who Zhao Qi was. Those things were not important to him. But Jiang Heng remembered it and asked, "I thought you were dead, brother. How did you survive? Did you suffer a lot?"
"No," Geng Shu said immediately, "no suffering."
Geng Shu sighed, thought about it, and told the past. Jiang Heng listened while eating, nodded occasionally, and declined to comment.
"I thought you were dead and was captured by Yong Guo. He wanted to assassinate Juicong to avenge you, but he couldn't beat him. After he knew my identity, he recognized me as his adopted son, that's all."
Geng Shu's life is very simple, or in other words, his thinking is very simple, he finished explaining it in a few words, and then asked: "What about you? I see you falling off the cliff, and I don't want my life anymore. , I saw you again..."
Jiang Heng said helplessly: "This is really a long story."
Then, Jiang Heng recalled the day he fell off the cliff five years ago, and told Geng Shu of the past in detail. He didn't say that he almost became a cripple. It was Luo Xuan who nailed a steel nail to his leg to save him. . He only told him that he practiced in Haige, and then came to Jeju, chose Prince Ling, and decided to start from Zheng and complete the great cause of domination of the world.
Halfway through, Jiang Heng suddenly stopped and saw that Geng Shu's eyes were red.
"I'm sorry," Geng Shu put down the chopsticks and choked up, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault... I should have gone to you, I didn't go, it's my fault... "
"No!" Jiang Heng said anxiously, "No, brother, didn't I also look for you? Besides, Mr. Ghost is uncertain, how can you find Haige?"
Jiang Heng hugged him again, said something and comforted him. Only then did Geng Shu regain his calm. Jiang Heng smiled again: "Actually, I didn't suffer much. Compared with you, I have a better life, and Master takes care of me."
Geng Shu said, "I have to thank him."
"He, Mr. Ghost and Songhua should still be in Cangshan." Jiang Heng said, "I'll take you there when we settle down. You must like the art of war and the collection of books in Haige."
The people in the house came to collect the food box. Jiang Heng seemed to have returned to the time in Luoyang, sitting side by side with Geng Shu, holding hot tea and looking at the courtyard.
"Prince Ling is just plotting against you." Geng Shu remembered the assassination that should not have happened, and whispered, with anger in his tone, "With your martial arts, you can't kill Juicong, you are just attracting his attention. The chess piece, and the real striker must be Sun Ying, who is by your side."
"I know." Jiang Heng replied, why didn't he know Prince Ling's intentions? Who would let the doormen and counsellors who came to defect to die in the first month and assassinate the enemy generals? He even suspected that the "mysterious guest" in Jianghu legend was Sun Ying, and he was the one responsible for killing Juicong.
"But I also calculated him once." Jiang Heng said, "Now he must be very angry because I kidnapped you."
They are now hiding in Song County, but Song County is also not safe. Yubi Pass has been captured, and Songdi has become a lonely army. If it takes a few months or a year, the Liang army will come to destroy the more than ten thousand Yongguo garrisoned here.
Geng Shu said, "Why don't you come to the north and defect to Yong Kingdom?"
Jiang Heng couldn't believe it, and replied, "It's still a question? How did you answer the king when you were in Luoyang?"
Geng Shu was at a loss for words, remembering that before Luoyang City was destroyed that year, Ji Xun asked Geng Shu and Jiang Heng to follow Princess Wuying Juling to leave and head to Luoyan, but Geng Shu rejected them neatly. Geng Shu's answer to this was, "My father worked for him, I am not my father."
Jiang Heng said sternly: "I should ask you about this... Forget it."
Geng Shu said: "He is my father, he will forgive you. He has been looking for you for so many years."
Jiang Heng said, "He is already dead."
"He is not dead," Geng Shu said.
Then, Geng Shu told Jiang Heng about the antidote. Jiang Heng never expected that so many things happened when he was in a coma!
"Who is that?" Jiang Heng couldn't believe it, his mind was completely confused. Could it be Luo Xuan who gave the antidote? But Zhao Qi told him that it was not right to feed him two!
Geng Shu said: "I don't know, maybe Jie Gui knows the inside story..."
Jiang Heng immediately said: "Damn, Juicong is still alive?"
Geng Shu said: "Follow me back to Luoyan, he will forgive you."
"I'm not going." Jiang Heng said immediately.
Geng Shu: "You have no grievances with him. Why did you kill him, just because he killed our father? Back then, my father was voluntary."
Jiang Heng said: "Don't you understand yet? Brother! What are you thinking? You haven't seen what Juicong has done over the years? How many people did he kill?! If he hadn't taken the lead in attacking Luoyang, the emperor would have Zhao Jie will never die!"
Geng Shu said, "Which one of the four countries outside the southern border has no intention of occupying Luoyang by force!"
Jiang Heng said: "Do you know what he did after the war?! He moved all the people into the customs! He killed all the elderly people in the Central Plains who were over fifty-five years old and had no support!"
Geng Shu was finally blocked by Jiang Heng.
"I don't know." Geng Shu replied.
Over the years, he only fought for Ju Cong and never interfered in government affairs. That was the duty of the Crown Prince Taki, but he had heard that every time he attacked a place, no matter if he was from the South or outside the Great Wall, he would be captured. People were sent to the north and settled in separate cities.
Jiang Heng said: "However, when Yongsheng gave birth to a child, he took him away from his parents since he was a child, raised him as a soldier, took people's children, and treated people as animals. How is this different from beasts?! How many people did he kill? Do you count? Have you been?"
Jiang Heng was very excited and said, "You are playing tricks for the tiger and helping the emperor to abuse! Do you think your Yong Army's iron cavalry is invincible? The people of the Central Plains are not afraid of you!"
"I don't know." Geng Shu said, "you tell me now, I will stop him."
"You can't stop him." Jiang Heng said, "In his eyes, human life is just grass and firewood, and it is used to burn! Let him rule the world, it will be a disaster for the world!"
Geng Shu said: "But he is my father, Heng'er, these things are all negotiable..."
"It can't be discussed, you recognize the thief as your father!" Jiang Heng said sharply, "If you like to recognize him as your father, you recognize him, but he is not my father! You love to go back and be your prince yourself, and I'll be leaving now!"
"I Have a Scroll of Ghosts and Gods"
When Geng Shu heard the last half of the sentence, his mind seemed to be hammered in an instant, and he almost vomited blood. He could hold back the blood, swallowed it, and gasped frantically, as if he wanted to say something, but was bitter. Holding back hard, he turned around and rushed out like a gust of wind, and there was a loud noise in the courtyard.
Jiang Heng was startled in an instant and chased out, only to see Geng Shu slamming towards a tree, as if to vent his anger.
"Brother?" Jiang Heng realized that he had said something harsh and said, "I'm sorry... I'm sorry, brother."
"It's nothing," Geng Shu replied with trembling lips, "I'm mad at myself."
Jiang Heng said: "I shouldn't have said that, I just... But, brother, I really have no choice, go to Yong country as you said, I... "
"I know!" Geng Shu finally lost his mind and shouted at Jiang Heng, "Okay! It's okay! I won't go back! I'll kill Juicong right now! It's okay! You can do whatever you want me to do! Don't go. I beg you, Heng'er, don't leave me again..."
As he spoke, Geng Shu suddenly suffocated and looked at Jiang Heng, as if he wanted to say something, but was speechless for a long time. Then, Geng Shu trembled and knelt down towards Jiang Heng.
Jiang Heng was shocked, and immediately helped him up, and quickly explained: "Brother, I didn't mean that, it was angry words..."
Suddenly, Geng Shu spat out a mouthful of blood on Jiang Heng's chest, then fell softly and fell heavily into Jiang Heng's arms.
Jiang Heng was instantly terrified and shouted, "Brother!"
"Heng'er, Heng'er..." Geng Shu's hand clenched tightly.
Jiang Heng hurriedly hugged Geng Shu, dragged him into the room, knelt on the ground to check for his pulse, knowing that he was in a state of anger, and he didn't know when, his internal organs were severely injured, and there was a sword wound under his ribs. Xuan's medicinal pill healed, and as long as he slowly adjusted it, he should be able to recover, and he immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"Heng'er, don't go... don't, don't go..."
Geng Shu was lying on the ground with his neck strangled, but still stubbornly speaking intermittently, he grabbed Jiang Heng's hand, and there was pleading in his voice, tears in his eyes, dripping down the corners of his eyes, and it took a while to get rid of him. The words came out smoothly.
He has been like this since he was a child. When he is in a hurry or agitated, it is difficult to speak, so he usually speaks very little. Even Jiang Heng has only seen Geng Shu lose his composure since he was a child.
Jiang Heng hurriedly prepared the medicinal materials and ordered someone to boil the medicine and give it to Geng Shu to drink.
"Okay." Geng Shu finally regained his strength and said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, whatever Juicong and Juicy, let them die, okay? Okay?"
Geng Shu didn't let go of his hand and grabbed Jiang Heng tightly. Jiang Heng cried out in pain. Geng Shu was busy and overwhelmed and let go. Jiang Heng was a little scared when he saw his appearance. Geng Shu seemed to be suddenly stimulated. madman.
"Brother." Jiang Heng began to do everything possible to appease him, realizing that he was so tired that he hadn't slept for three days in a row, his emotions were up and down, and he was on the verge of collapse.
"Let's go." Geng Shu struggled to get up, his hands trembled, he didn't dare to hold Jiang Heng's wrist, he knelt in front of him, wanted to hug Jiang Heng's leg, but he was afraid that he would hurt him, so he said earnestly. , "You can go anywhere, go to a place where no one can find us, I will paint the pillars for others, you just stay at home and wait for me, just like we are in Luoyang. I am not a highness, please don't Go, don't go anywhere..."
When Jiang Heng heard this, tears welled up again.
He knelt on the ground, hugged Geng Shu tightly, and couldn't say a word for a while. Geng Shu closed his eyes, his hands trembled wildly, he wanted to hug Jiang Heng's back several times, but he didn't dare to move.
Jiang Heng finally cried out with a "wow". Why is this happening? He was so sad, why was the first thing they said after their reunion, such a quarrel? He has thought more than once, if that small wish is blessed by God and finally realized, what should he say to Geng Shu
He couldn't say anything, he could only cry, just like the moment.
"I hurt you?" Geng Shu said again, "Does it hurt?"
"No." Jiang Heng cried and said, "Brother, I shouldn't talk like this, I never thought about it, those are all angry words. I don't care about you anymore, I'm sorry, brother... I'm sorry... why do we quarrel? Why do we see you again? The first thing you do when you meet is a fight?"
The more Jiang Heng thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became. Why did they become like this? He once made a wish to the Xuanwu Divine Monarch, as long as he could see Geng Shu again, he would do whatever he wanted, but he didn't expect that they would actually hurt each other to complete such a meeting... What did they do wrong
"I know," Geng Shu calmed down a little and said, "I know it all, let's not say it, you are my brother's life, Heng'er, my brother will always remember."