A few days later, Li Jinglong drove Hong Jun all the way to the northwest. Once he passed Jiayuguan, he saw that the northwest land was very desolate along the way. The official road is covered by several snowfalls. On the road from one county to another, there are often not a few convoys in a day's running. Occasionally, a farmer who is out wandering, watching two horses go around the mountain and gallop away. go.
However, after arriving at the county seat, the city is very lively, and the people are spending the winter.
The weather is getting colder and colder, Hong Jun doesn't want to ride a horse at all, he is bored and tired, what's more troublesome is that, with the saddle between his legs, he runs for a whole day, the skin on the inner thigh is rubbed so much that it hurts—
"Are you still riding a horse or not?" Li Jinglong lost his temper with Hong Jun.
Hong Jun said: "Riding alone is too boring!"
"Stop drawing turtles on my face while I'm sleeping." Li Jinglong turned back again, "Did you hear that?"
Hong Jun was still laughing, Li Jinglong carried him, recognized the way, hurried on the road, and finally arrived at the post station.
"After tonight, I may have to sleep in the wild tomorrow, and I will arrive in Wuwei in another day." Li Jinglong said.
Hong Jun said: "Chang Shi, my leg hurts a little, and the skin is broken."
Hong Jun leaned on the wall and walked in slowly like a duck. Li Jinglong knew at a glance that he was a person who didn't often ride horses, and his thigh was scratched by the saddle.
That night, the cold wind was howling outside the inn, and Xiao Er came over to light the fire very vigorously. The room was warm, and the carp demon was sleeping. Hong Jun was wearing white clothes and shorts, dipped a cloth in water and wanted to wipe it off, looked up at Li Jinglong, thinking He took off his pants, which was very embarrassing.
However, Li Jinglong adjusted the ointment, dipped a small piece of gauze into the ointment, motioned Hong Jun to sit by the couch, and pulled his leg. Hong Jun hurriedly said: "I... Chang Shi, I will do it myself."
Li Jinglong said: "Your grandfather's family used to be in Guazhou?"
"That's right!" Hong Jun casually told Li Jinglong before, but he had already forgotten about it.
"Go to visit General Ge Shuhan first..." Li Jinglong pressed Hong Jun's knee with one hand, and held the gauze in the other hand, and stretched it in from the leg of Hong Jun's shorts. The place is at the back, and you have to bow your head when you apply the medicine, and you can't see it, so you have to let Li Jinglong do what you want.
"...to see your uncle again." Li Jinglong said again.
"My grandfather seems to be some kind of emissary for the festival..." Hong Jun replied.
"Hexi Jiedu Deputy Envoy, formerly under Xiao Song's command." Li Jinglong said casually, "Your uncle may be in Ge Shuhan's Hexi Army."
Hong Jun felt a burst of coldness at the broken skin, and took a breath. Li Jinglong took the medicine and said, "Pain?"
"Itchy..." Hong Jun couldn't help lifting his legs, and Li Jinglong asked him to separate them and said, "On the other side, you're all blistered."
Hong Jun and Li Jinglong looked at each other, and felt that when Li Jinglong's slender fingers touched his legs, it was extremely stimulating, and his crotch pushed up unconsciously. The two looked at each other, and Li Jinglong also applied medicine to his right leg, and said, "Do you want to change the carriage tomorrow?"
Where can I find a carriage? Hong Jun was very embarrassed, and followed Li Jinglong out, causing him nothing but trouble. However, Li Jinglong didn't care. After taking the medicine, Hong Jun said, "Okay."
Suddenly Li Jinglong smeared the remaining medicine on Hong Jun's words, and Hong Jun immediately yelled, Li Jinglong laughed, with the meaning of revenge.
"You did it on purpose!" Hong Jun blushed, hurriedly found a cloth, pulled off his trouser belt and wiped off the medicine that Li Jinglong had applied as a prank.
"Don't even think about getting married if you're holding back like this." Li Jinglong sat aside, crossed his feet and smiled.
Hong Jun was extremely embarrassed and said, "I don't want to get married!"
Li Jinglong looked at Hongjun with an interesting taste: "I don't know which girl will come to you in the future." As he spoke, he shook his head with a helpless smile, and said, "What kind of demon is your father?"
If it was the past, Li Jinglong would never have come to ask this question, but this way, Hong Jun and Li Jinglong have become like brothers, and Li Jinglong felt presumptuous when he asked, and hurriedly said: "Just ask casually, just as gossip, don't take it to heart .”
Hong Jun hurriedly said that it doesn't matter, and sat on the couch, Li Jinglong took advantage of the situation and sat over, and the two sat side by side against the wall.
Hong Jun said: "My father is a peacock."
"No wonder." Li Jinglong said casually, "You look so beautiful." After finishing speaking, he glanced at Hongjun again and said, "Then if you want to get married, Uncle Chongming... find a beautiful demon for you?"
Hong Jun didn't think about it at all, and replied: "He won't talk about marriage for me."
"What about in the future?" Li Jinglong asked casually.
When Hong Jun was asked such a question by Li Jinglong, he suddenly became a little confused. He is neither a human nor a demon. What will his future be like
"Chongming... he doesn't care about this." Hong Jun hesitated.
"I can't see it." Li Jinglong smiled.
When he was a child, he never had any thoughts about the future, and a day in the Yaojin Palace counted as a day. Although he wanted to eat all the delicious food in the world, it was not a lofty ambition. If you say what kind of vision you have for the future, maybe you have been living in Yaojin Palace and accompanying Chongming
"Go to sleep." Seeing that Hongjun was in a daze, Li Jinglong told him to lie down for fear that he would recall something sad again.
The heavy snow was rustling outside, and Hong Jun looked at the phoenix tail feathers on the table. When Li Jinglong mentioned this, many thoughts flooded him unpreparedly, flooding him endlessly in such a snowy night. For the first time in sixteen years, he tasted the emotion called "confused".
What am I going to do next? Who will I be with after many years
"Chang Shi, what about you?"
Li Jinglong breathed evenly, as if he had fallen asleep, Hong Jun faced the wall and fell into deep thought.
"When I was your age, I always thought about many things." Li Jinglong said in a deep voice.
Hong Jun's heart moved, he turned over, Li Jinglong was still asleep, opened his eyes, turned his head slightly, and said: "I don't want to be like them. When I get old, I talk about marriage. Make contributions, marry a wife and son, it's ordinary, and it's too late. End of life."
Hong Jun bent one leg, afraid of touching the wound, his feet would become sore after bending for a long time, so he raised his leg and put it on Li Jinglong's body. Li Jinglong knew that he was afraid of being rubbed after taking the medicine, so he motioned for him to pull his legs up and put them on his waist.
"Yes." Hong Jun replied, "I think so too, I don't know what I will become in the future, or rather, I..."
Li Jinglong moved over a little, looked at the ceiling, and said, "It's good that you are like this, Hong Jun... I... when I first saw you..."
He turned his head unconsciously, looked into Hongjun's eyes, suddenly felt a little embarrassed, avoided his gaze, and said, "There are too many things in you that I never had."
Hong Jun: "?"
Li Jinglong sighed lightly, and smiled self-deprecatingly.
Hong Jun: "Chang Shi, why are you blushing?"
Li Jinglong: "..."
Hong Jun looked at Li Jinglong with a smile in his eyes. Li Jinglong turned his head and looked at him seriously, breathing intertwined with each other. He had to admit that Hongjun had a certain innate attraction. In front of him, Li Jinglong always thinks of his youth.
In those years that were unique to young people, he wore a long sword that he had exchanged for all his wealth, and searched everywhere for a good buddy like Hong Jun, who came from an ideal world that did not exist. Drinking and playing together, fighting the enemy together with the sword, a best friend who can live and die together.
But at that time, Hong Jun did not appear by his side. Looking back now, my mood at that time may be exactly what Li Bai said, "drawing the sword and looking around at a loss".
"You are late." Li Jinglong said suddenly, "It would be great if we met three years ago."
Hong Jun said: "I was only thirteen years old three years ago."
Li Jinglong smiled and said, "Yes, but you still saved me."
"Why?" Hong Jun asked puzzled.
Li Jinglong said solemnly: "If I met earlier, I might..."
Hong Jun: "Just what?"
Li Jinglong leaned back and looked at Hong Jun. At this moment, he finally understood what he had lost, which was the spirit and tenderness that had been squandered by the secular world in the long river of time.
"Hong Jun." Li Jinglong said seriously, "I have to ask you something."
Hong Jun: "???"
Hong Jun was at a loss, since he lay down, he didn't understand Li Jinglong a little bit. I always feel that there seems to be something in what he said, but I can't figure it out.
"Do you like me?" Li Jinglong asked, "That day when you said 'Chang Shi, I like you so much', did you really mean it?"
Hong Jun replied with a smile: "Of course."
Hong Jun likes being with Li Jinglong the most, and his whole life becomes brighter and brighter.
"I like you very much, too, as if I were my younger brother..." Li Jinglong blushed, and said, "Damn, it's too nasty to say that, just forget about it when you wake up tomorrow."
Li Jinglong uttered a rare swear word, Hong Jun laughed, kicked him, and said, "I understand."
"Well." Li Jinglong said, "In the Exorcist Division, although you and I are subordinates, I have always treated you as my younger brother... Even in the Longwu Army, I have never been so close to others..."
When Hong Jun heard this, he really felt a little numb. Since he was a child, no one had ever said that to him, and a flower blossomed in his heart.
"They often make jokes about us. I don't have any distractions for you. Don't think too much." Li Jinglong patted Hongjun's head vigorously, and said, "I don't care about people... talking about it, some If so, don’t worry about it.”
Hong Jun couldn't understand again, and asked, "What are you talking about?"
Li Jinglong said: "Sometimes I really don't understand, are you pretending to be stupid or are you really stupid?"
Hong Jun understood, and said with a smile: "I understand! I didn't..."
"As for whether you have thoughts or not, I can't control you."
Li Jinglong began to tease Hongjun seriously again.
Hong Jun: "No! No! No!"
Li Jinglong: "Oh? Really?"
When speaking, he took Hongjun's left hand, spread his palms, interlaced fingers with each other, and gently clasped them together.
Hongjun: "!!!"
As soon as Li Jinglong's fingers were pinched, Hong Jun felt himself hard again, and his face flushed immediately. It was the same when I rode back to Chang'an last time and taught Li Jinglong to use the heart lamp.
Li Jinglong looked at Hongjun with a half-smile, and then looked down at him, meaning: How is it? Still say you're not in the mood? Hong Jun quickly withdrew his hand, his heart was beating wildly, and said: "Don't mess with me! I too... I also treat you as a family... Well. I also said that I will take you back to my house. I don't want to be separated from you, Chang Shi .”
Li Jinglong smiled and said: "I won't tease you anymore, go to sleep, I have to hurry tomorrow morning. There are some things, don't worry, think slowly, and gradually understand. Just like me, until the day I met you."
Li Jinglong closed his eyes, Hong Jun still had many endless thoughts, but he was also tired, so he put his legs on Li Jinglong's waist and gradually fell asleep.
That night, a sudden snowstorm swept nearly a thousand miles inside and outside the Great Wall.
In the big bathhouse in Yulin County, it was late at night, and most of the guests left. The bathhouse was quiet, and a singer in the distance sang, "May I ask where the plum blossoms will fall? The wind blows all over the Guanshan Mountain overnight."
In the independent bathroom of the west wing, the lunatic soaked in a wooden barrel with disheveled hair, silent.
Mo Zhigen was sitting outside the bathhouse, with a towel on his lap, carrying a pot of wine, and holding two Hetian jade beads that were sent together by Hong Jun in his hand, playing with the jade beads with his fingers.
"Have you finished washing?" Mo Zhigen turned back and said, "Aren't you hungry?"
The lunatic lay prone on the bathtub, looking out. Mo Zhigen got up, walked into the bathroom, and checked the lunatic. The lunatic was a soldier before he went mad, with a thin body, but after his face was washed with dirt and plaster, he looked very heroic.
The lunatic is still a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, who looks not much older than Hongjun, and looks at Mo Zhigen vigilantly. Mo Zhigen sighs, and bows to find a letter in his blood-stained dirty clothes.
The blood-stained letter was a request for help from Chengji County, Tianshui. The handwriting inside is blurred, and it can only be seen that the sender is Chengji City Guard Huang An, who sent a scout Lu Xu to Wutai County to ask for reinforcements.
"Lu Xu?" Mo Zhigen said.
The lunatic was suddenly called by his name, and there was a trace of confusion in his eyes. Mo Zhigen handed him clean clothes. Lu Xu just stood naked and looked Mo Zhigen up and down. Mo Zhigen looked at him for a while, then shook off the cotton robe, let him put it on. She motioned him to follow her, brought him to the case, and let him eat boiled sheep in white water.
Seeing that there was something to eat on the table, Lu Xu approached slowly, stretched out his hand, and observed Mo Zhigen at the same time, and Mo Zhigen motioned him to eat. He grabbed the mutton and put it in his mouth to chew. Mo Zhigen only ate a little and stopped eating, frowning deeply, observing Lu Xu.
He opened the collar of his cotton bathrobe, revealing his white chest and collarbone, with black burn marks on his collarbone.
Mo Zhigen: "Lu Xu."
With a blank face, Lu Xu looked up at Mo Zhigen and said, "Ah?!"
"Lu Xu."
"Ok!"
"Lu Xu."
"what?"
Mo Zhigen laughed and wanted to ask a question, but he was afraid that it would irritate him, so he decided to wait for him to finish eating first. Lu Xu waited for a while, and saw that Mo Zhigen didn't ask any more questions, so he buried his head in his mouth and started eating again.
Mo Zhigen pondered for a moment, took out a small knife, took a piece of skin, and carved a circle of flowers on the skin. Lu Xu watched while eating, and his chewing movements gradually slowed down.
"Deer." Lu Xu said.
Mo Zhigen's hands trembled slightly.
"Have you seen it?" Mo Zhigen asked tentatively.
He spread out his palm, and placed a leather sculpture in his palm, which was a stag whose horns spread out like a dense sacred tree in the forest.
Lu Xu moved his gaze from the leather carving to Mo Zhigen's eyes, and nodded slightly.
"Where is it?" Mo Zhigen's voice was a bit unlike his own.
Lu Xu looked bewildered, shook his head, lowered his head and started eating mutton again. At that moment, Mo Zhigen seemed to have collapsed, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
"Where do you come from?" Mo Zhigen said to himself, "Northwest... what did you see?"
He stood up and went outside the bathroom door, just wanting to blow the cold wind and clear his mind.
There must have been an emergency in Liangzhou in the northwest. The city guard sent this scout to ask for help. He encountered something on the road, was greatly frightened, and even lost his mind, and fled all the way here. what did he see Is it the white deer that I have been looking for all this time
Mo Zhigen was wrapped in a cotton robe and stood in the courtyard with a pair of wooden clogs. After eating, Lu Xu wiped his hands on the cotton robe, picked up the letter, and quietly walked out of the courtyard, passing behind Mo Zhigen, barefooted. Go to the courtyard wall. The cold wind was bitter, and Mo Zhigen frowned deeply, standing in the wind with his hands behind his back, thinking, but he didn't hear Lu Xu's footsteps.
Lu Xu quickly ran to the corner of the courtyard and stepped out through the back door.
We must send a letter to Chang'an as soon as possible to inform Li Jinglong, and then let this young man lead the way, whether it is outside the Great Wall or Yumen Pass in the northwest... Mo Rigen turned back to look for Lu Xu's letter, and suddenly saw that the hall was empty.
"Where are people?!" Mo Zhigen yelled angrily, turned his head and looked around, saw a line of footprints leading to the back door, immediately took off his wooden clogs, and quickly chased them out.