Lu Zhanxing was like a trapped beast in a cage. His emotions were so excited that it took Gu Mang a long time to explain the whole story to him.
As a bystander, Mo Xi could hardly describe Lu Zhanxing's expression after hearing the truth.
In fact, the emotions on Lu Zhanxing's face have been changing ever since Gu Mang started talking about "Zhenlong Baizi". From stunned to dazed, from dazed to ecstasy, from ecstasy to anger, from anger to sadness, the astonishment collapsed countless times.
After everything was finished, Lu Zhanxing collapsed on the cold stone bed, his eyes wide open, staring at the low ceiling of the prison.
After a long time, he murmured dreamily: "I... I didn't let you down..."
Gu Mang's eyes were soft and moist, his voice was hoarse, and he said in a low voice, "You never have."
"I didn't let you down... I didn't let you down... Haha... Hahahaha!" Lu Zhanxing's forehead meridian protruded, and his cheeks flushed red when he was full of emotions. He laughed suddenly, but he cried when he laughed, he probably felt ashamed, raised his hand to cover his eyelashes, but the clear tears still leaked out from under the cover of his arms and slipped down to the depths of his temples.
He whimpered and said, "I didn't let you down..."
Gu Mang sat down on the edge of his narrow stone bed and turned to look at Lu Zhanxing. Of course he couldn't see Lu Zhanxing's eyes, the man still covered it with his strong arms.
Gu Mang was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked in a low voice, "Zhan Xing, can you see them often?"
It was a thoughtless sentence, but Lu Zhanxing understood it.
Mo Xi also understood.
Can you see them too often? I saw 70,000 people swim across the Styx to your side, those brothers who fought alongside you, drank hard wine with you before countless battles, and swore lofty words with you came to your side, you were beaten by seven Thousands of dead people are surrounded, and they whisper to you day and night. Gradually, you lose sight of the world in front of you, and you live with the dead without knowing it.
You became a living tombstone with the names of the dead engraved on your heart.
Can you see them from time to time too...
Lu Zhanxing's dry lips murmured, for the first time, there was no decent sound.
It was the second time that he said—
"Always."
"… "
"I see them all the time."
After a long silence, Gu Mang said, "Me too."
A string of tears fell silently from the candle in the prison.
Gu Mang said: "Zhanxing, a Fengming Mountain, we both became living dead. Do you blame me?"
Lu Zhanxing slowly moved his arm down, revealing half of his wet black eyes: "What?"
"It's me who fooled you... I fooled you to follow me on this road. I promise you a future with no grounds, and you follow me. The good days have not passed for a few days, but instead you have become criminals and reckless husbands." Gu Mang looked down at his hand, "I've been thinking about what kind of person I am for a while now."
His long and thick eyelashes fluttered gently, casting a soft shadow on the bridge of his nose.
Gu Mang said softly: "I know that Chonghua has a lot of comments about me, praised, belittled, slandered, praised... I didn't care before, because I thought I was doing the right thing all the time. , I Gu Mang can live up to his conscience."
"But after the first battle of Feng Ming, I have no further explanation for my conscience. I have always kept saying that to change Chonghua and even Kyushu's views on slaves, I have always said to all those who followed me, I will bring They go home and give them a much better future than they are now. But it turns out that as long as I lose one game, I will be beaten back to my original shape like a clown jumping off the beam. brothers begging."
In my ears, there seemed to be the words that I didn't care about in the past:
Great power! No matter how high that bitch climbs, how miserable it is to fall!
He is the next Hua Shao Dark!
No, how could he be compared with Hua Po An? Hua Po'an has the ability to create a country, and he can get his brothers to get rewards and benefits. He Gu Mang is just a dog rolling in a quagmire, and he has the thief's heart and no ability! He is a liar! Deceiving a group of fools to die with him, what can those who follow him get? dream
What an altar beast, hahahaha...
The mocking laughter circled like vultures.
Gu Mang slowly closed his eyes.
When he opened it again, he looked at his cocooned hands and said, "Now I finally understand. It turns out that I was just a grave digger who buried all my brothers in the pit for half my life."
"… "
Lu Zhanxing didn't say anything, he turned his head.
He looked at Gu Mang for a while, and said, "Your Majesty won't overturn the case for me, right?"
Without waiting for Gu Mang's answer, he added, "I think I know. The old nobility, the black magic art... Our new king is still too immature, and he can't keep whoever is in my position."
Gu Mang lowered his head and said, "... Zhan Xing, I'm sorry. I didn't do anything except tell you the truth."
Lu Zhanxing stared at the ceiling for a while.
The tears at the end of his eyes had dried up. After a long time, he said, "It's fine. I don't blame him, nor do I blame you."
After removing the shackles of the "criminal minister", Lu Zhanxing relaxed. Although people will have mixed feelings when facing the sentence of their own death, for Lu Zhanxing, he is not so unhappy at this time.
"I was the unlucky one myself, and I became the one who won the Zhenlong chess piece." Lu Zhanxing took the two wooden dice that Gu Mang brought him, and slowly rubbed it, "Do you still remember we played dice when we were young? Always lose to you and have to give you all the pastries. I've always had bad luck, and it doesn't matter to anyone."
As he spoke, he threw it casually, and the two wooden cuboids rolled, and finally landed on the two "ones".
Lu Zhanxing said, "Look, I'm right."
Gu Mang lowered his head abruptly, his shoulders trembled slightly, and he said after a while, "I heard a long time ago that there is a casino ghost in Chonghua, and that person always likes to appear wearing a bronze mask. The table has never been lost."
"… "
"That person is you, right?"
Lu Zhanxing was silent and froze a little.
"If you want to throw a few points, it's just a few points. It's not that you are unlucky." Gu Mang said hoarsely, "It was you who kept letting me, wanting to distribute the snacks to me."
Lu Zhanxing looked at Gu Mang in front of him, and after a while, he sighed softly.
Of course he wanted to protect the little guy. It was almost doomed from the first time they met—
At that time, he had just been bought back to Wangshu Mansion, and when he saw Gu Mang, who was only four years old, being bullied by Murong Lian, he was forced to paint his face with a bowl full of water on his head. Stand still.
Young Master Murong laughed wantonly and flamboyantly, and said to him: Stand for an hour, if the water in the bowl spills out, the slaves in the entire mansion will have no food to eat today.
Lu Zhanxing whimpered in his belly, thinking that he had suffered from blood mold for eight lifetimes. How could such a small kid endure for so long? It seems that you will starve on the first day of entering the palace today.
But he didn't think that he said anything. When the dinner was dispatched in the evening, the chef of the house still gave each of them two big white steamed buns. It was only at this time that Lu Zhanxing heard that the little boy had actually been working hard and stood motionless for an hour. This result made Murong Lian extremely unhappy. In the end, the other slaves were not implicated, but Gu Mang's dinner was still deducted for no reason.
Lu Zhanxing listened to it, ate a steamed bun, and took a steamed bun to find the little friend. He rummaged through the huge Wangshu mansion, and finally found Gu Mang squatting beside the grass in the back garden—
"Hey."
He patted Gu Mang on the shoulder, and what he turned around was a small face with oily bells and whistles, his mouth moved silently, and the lips were stained with Saturn seeds.
Lu Zhanxing couldn't see his facial features, and could only see his dark eyes, which were as bright as the stars in the night.
Lu Zhanxing said in surprise: "You, why are you eating dirt..."
Gu Mang was extremely aggrieved. The four-year-old boy's crisp voice carried a cry: "Brother, I'm hungry."
Lu Zhanxing looked at those helpless eyes like a little beast, and his heart melted. He hurriedly took out the steamed bun, and whispered: "For you, don't cry. Ouch... My brother is covering you. , you poor little fellow."
At this moment, Lu Zhanxing looked at Gu Mang in front of him. It turned out that after taking off the armor and glory, Gu Mang was still as helpless and as helpless as the little guy who silently bowed his head and ate the dirt back then.
They have worked hard for nearly half their lives, but in fact they have achieved nothing.
Lu Zhanxing's filthy and filthy face gradually showed a hint of helplessness and gentleness. He raised his hand and touched Gu Mang's face with his filthy hand, and wiped his fingertips on the end of Gu Mang's wet eyes.
"Mang'er, stop crying."
"… "
The corners of Lu Zhanxing's mouth curled into a faint smile: "Brother is covering you, you poor little fellow."
Gu Mang closed his eyes abruptly, his brows were hurt, his Adam's apple moved bitterly.
Lu Zhanxing said, "It's the last time. My brother will protect you. In the future, it's up to you whether to advance or retreat, continue to move forward, or disarm and return home."
"Meng'er, I'm glad you can tell me the truth. Although it seems that nothing has changed, at least I know that I didn't betray my 70,000 comrades, and I didn't betray you. The stone in my heart has finally fallen."
"Go down. Any choice you make, Brother Lu will be happy for you." As he said, he hugged Gu Mang, who was biting his lower lip and tried his best to endure, but he was already crying, his forehead pressed against his forehead and his hands hard He patted Gu Mang on the shoulder, "Who asked you to be my brother. Although we have never worshipped."
Gu Mang vigorously wiped the tears from his face and raised his dark eyes: "Goodbye."
"… "
Before Lu Zhanxing could react, he put on the mask and walked out of the cell. After a while, he brought two pots of pear blossoms from the prison.
Gu Mang held back his tears and said solemnly: "Lu Zhanxing, today we part, you and I can see each other only at the time of Autumn. I don't dare to indulge, I don't dare to indulge, I'm always forbearing in front of others, and it's rare to have true feelings. Only...only in front of Brother Lu, can I realize what it's like to have a family and a big brother."
As he said this, Lu Zhanxing's eyes were also red. The two took care of each other from childhood to adulthood, and the situation of supporting each other was vivid in his mind and flashed one by one.
Gu Mang said, "Thank you brother for taking care of me over the past twenty years."
Lu Zhanxing raised his head abruptly. He originally thought that he would be beheaded in a few months, and he didn't want to have any deeper connections with others, but after hearing Gu Mang's words, every word was sincere, every word was sobbing with blood, and his heart was surging and his blood was surging. verb: move.
He endured the hot tears that welled up, took the pear blossom white from Gu Mang's hand, and said, "I, Lu, have been like duckweed at the end of my life. You are famous, your fate is near, and you can be blessed by the heavenly relatives. You have eight worships. I used to be unruly, unbelieving, and disdainful of these etiquettes, but today... Today, I, Lu Zhanxing, really feel very happy! Good! I will worship!"
"Even if it is a slave, even if the deadline is approaching, even if the road ahead is vast and unknown. I want to be happy today! The two of us don't want to be born on the same day in the same year, it's hard to die on the same day in the same year, but we want to remember it for a lifetime, Huang Quan. Don't forget!"
The two immediately raised their heads to drink, bowed down to each other, and then joined hands to laugh with tears in their eyes.
Gu Mang said, "Big brother."
Lu Zhanxing laughed and said, "From now on, neither of us are alone. When I go to the underworld, I also know that I have a real brother."
In that sad but heroic, desperate and radiant laughter, the situation in the prison began to blur, becoming more and more distant, and the figures of the two brothers gradually became hazy.
Lu Zhanxing…
Gu Mang…
brother.
It turned out that Gu Mang once went to see Lu Zhanxing in the prison. Therefore, Lu Zhanxing's various reactions in the time mirror were not sincere.
Lu Zhanxing was never a traitor who abandoned Mang's dreams and abandoned his 70,000 colleagues. His sincerity... His sincerity is clearly—
"Brother will protect you. In the future, it's up to you whether to advance or retreat, continue to move forward, or disarm and return home."
"Go down, any choice you make, Brother Lu will be happy for you."
"Who made you my brother?"
It turned out that when Qiu Ri asked Zhan, the sword fell and the yin and yang were separated, and it was not only Gu Mang's last robe that was taken away, but also Gu Mang's only relative who was taken away when the cutting blade fell.
The one who just worshipped, the one who only had it, and the one who only had time to call out a few times—
He is the only one in the world.
big brother.