Yu Wu

Chapter 137

The days passed quickly, and it was almost the Dragon Boat Festival in a blink of an eye.

During this period of time, no matter how hard Gu Mang worked, his memory was still lost a lot like sand between fingers.There are some things that he still remembers very clearly today, and Mo Xi will bring them up tomorrow, but he finds that he has no memory of them.This undoubtedly made Mo Xi very uncomfortable. Every time he saw Gu Mang sitting in the study, flipping through the thick stack of letter papers with the help of a bean lamp, he would feel very distressed.

Although he hadn't read those letter papers, he knew that what was written on them were things that Gu Mang didn't want to forget. Live in the past shared by two people.

Other than that, though, the rest of the picture is reassuring.Gu Mang's body is gradually recovering, his spiritual consciousness is still quite clear, and the black devil's aura in his body shows no signs of being overwhelmed for the time being.

Anyway, I can live in peace for a while.

On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, Your Majesty sent someone to deliver a secret letter. When the secret letter arrived, the two of them were brewing a jar of green plum wine together in the yard.Mo Xi opened the letter and glanced at it.

"... Your Majesty gave it to you."

Gu Mang bit a plump green plum between his rosy lips, he was taken aback when he heard this, and pointed at himself: "Me?"

"See for yourself."

Gu Mang rolled his tongue and sucked the green plum into his soft mouth, a small pouch bulged on the right cheek, which looked very cute.He read the letter carefully with his eyelashes down, and at last, with a plum in his mouth, he mumbled a word: "...Oh."

Junshang has been ill for several days since he met Mo Xi that day.Later, maybe the illness was too serious and he was unable to meet his foreign ministers, or maybe the emperor really didn't know how to face Gu Mang - what should he say?He sent Gu Mang to the execution platform of the Black Demon Trial, but Gu Mang always kept the secret between them.I want to know how ashamed the king is.

The blue eyes raised up, with a wry smile: "He invited me to sacrifice at Zhanhun Mountain at Dragon Boat Festival."

"I saw it." Mo Xi paused, "Are you going?"

"Don't go."

"You don't want to see him?"

"I think I also know what he will tell me. In fact, both of us are doing these things for our own purposes, but when he sees me, it is inevitable that he will be deeply affectionate, and I will also cry together. "

As he said that, he picked a green plum from the bamboo basket next to him and stuffed it into his mouth, muttering: "Except for being sad, nothing can change."

Mo Xi didn't speak immediately, he knew the pain in Gu Mang's heart.

Gu Mang actually hated the identity of a "traitor". It was like this when he lost his consciousness in the past, and it's even more like this now.

He remembered that one night not long ago, it suddenly rained cats and dogs, with lightning and thunder. Gu Mang slept in the master bedroom before, but that night he suddenly wore a thin coat and ran out of the rain curtain. Go to the next compartment and get into his arms.

He was sleeping soundly at that time, when suddenly a wet body shivered into his quilt, completely waking him up.Then he saw Gu Mang's pale face, trembling, while pressing against his chest.Mo Xi was surprised and anxiously asked him what's the matter, if there was any discomfort.

Gu Mang just shook his head, he was so cold that his lips were blue.He said I was dreaming.A ghost is chasing me.

This lone wolf clings tightly to Mo Xi, huddled in Mo Xi's warm embrace, he can't stop choking and saying, they are all chasing me... Mo Xi, they want to kill me.

On weekdays, Gu Mang had always looked fearless, but that night, amidst the furious thunder and the desolate heavy rain, it was only when he woke up from his dream that he seemed so real and fragile.

Gu Mang, who was biting a plum, felt uncomfortably stared at by Mo Xi, he turned his eyes sideways: "Why do you keep looking at me like that?"

Mo Xi was silent for a while and said, "I'm sorry, I still haven't been able to give you your full name. But if you want to go to Zhanhun Mountain to worship, I can also—"

Before he finished speaking, Gu Mang interrupted him.

"I dont go."

"..."

"Anyway, I killed those people, and I fought those cities. I have too much blood of innocent people on my hands. When I was innocent eight years ago, I already told my brothers Farewell, I don't want to go there now."

Mo Xi raised his head suddenly, his eyes hurt: "You were forced to be stained with blood when you were protecting them."

"Others don't think so. Whoever kills shall pay, otherwise, what should I do? Many people hated me for eight or five years because their son died at my hands, their husband died at my hands, and their father died at my hands. Day and night, I wanted to bring me to justice and pay my blood. Then suddenly one day, you told them, no, Gu Mang was forced, and he should not be a prisoner but a hero—who do you think would believe it. "

When Gu Mang said these words, his expression was indifferent, like a glass of thin wine that was warmed just right: "Mo Xi, have you ever thought that if you took away their most direct object of hatred, those people would collapse. They will never let me go just because they explain a truth... It is easy to hate someone, but it is too difficult to let go. You and I are both people who have walked down the battlefield, and you will not be unclear about this."

"I'm not going to Battle Soul Mountain. Whether it's Junshang or you, I won't go with anyone who will accompany me." Gu Mang said, raised his head, and glanced in the direction of Battle Soul Mountain. There is still the faint fragrance of plums in the mouth, but the throat is sour.He sighed.

"In the eyes of the living, I'm already notorious, but if I don't go to Battle Soul Mountain, at least in the hearts of the [-] dead robes, I'm still the clean Gu Mang with a clear conscience."

"That's enough."

So they rejected the monarch, but in the end they still didn't close the door and spend an undisturbed Dragon Boat Festival in Xihe Mansion.

Because the day before the festival, they received an invitation from a second person.

"Who is it this time?"

Mo Xi said: "Jiang Yexue. Ask if you want to go to his house to make zongzi with him."

"Ah." Gu Mang was slightly surprised, his eyes widened, "Inviting you?"

"Invite us both."

Gu Mang smiled and said, "He doesn't think I'm a villain either."

"Have you forgotten?" Mo Xi rolled up Jiang Yexue's letter, and lightly tapped Gu Mang's forehead twice, "He repaired the jade slip for me, and he saw my reaction at that time." ——You are no longer a traitor in front of him. He has always been very smart, although no one explained the cause and effect to him, but I think he should have guessed pretty well."

"..." Gu Mang didn't say anything.

Mo Xi smoothed his bun, "Go ahead, you haven't had fun with others for a long time. Do you miss Brother Jiang?"

Gu Mang nodded.

"Brother Jiang must also miss Gu Shuai very much. It was the little lunatic who sang a song for him at his wedding regardless. He must be very happy for you to come over."

Gu Mang lowered his soft and slender eyes, as if the past had been pried away from a corner of a rock, revealing the grievances that were hidden underneath. At that moment, Mo Xi saw that the tips of Gu Mang's eyes were a little red.

Jiang Yexue's private house is in a secluded and clean corner in the north of the city. It is exactly the small courtyard that Mo Xi gave him when he got married.After so many years, he is now the Great Elder of the Academy, and he is paid a lot of money, but he has always been frugal and is a nostalgic person, so he has not changed again.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, people sprinkle realgar on the road, sell sachets, dance calamus leaves to drive away evil spirits, and the streets are full of people.In order to avoid people's eyes and ears, Mo Xi and the others came in a carriage, and when they arrived at Jiangfu, both of them couldn't help being startled.

They originally thought that Jiang Yexue would only be at home alone, but before they even entered the door, they heard the crisp laughter of two young people——

First a boy spoke: "I'm not a monster, and it's useless if you sprinkle realgar wine on me."

Then came a more childish voice, giggling and laughing, it was a little girl, who sounded only seven or eight years old, and said softly, "Then just show me, and I'll see if I'm a monster."

Turning around the screen wall, we saw that mugwort leaves and cattail grass and dragon boat lanterns had been hung in the small courtyard.The two people who are playing around are one big and one small.The older one was wearing gold-rimmed clothes with a white background, braided hair with golden rings, gold and silver emerald emerald pearls on his forehead, and a plum-blossom sachet made of colored silk on his waist. It was Yue Chenqing.

The smaller one is a girl in a five-color colored dress, with a five-color silk thread caged jade pendant on her arm, and a small centipede-shaped kite in her hand. Yue Chenqing is dipping realgar yellow in her forehead to draw "" King".

She turned her head when she heard the footsteps, and seeing Gu Mang, she couldn't help but smile: "Oh! Big brother!"

It turned out that this little girl was none other than Mr. Changfeng's daughter who suffered from madness.Gu Mang didn't expect to run into the two of them at Jiang Yexue's house, so he couldn't help but feel a little surprised and at a loss: "Xiao Lan'er... why are you here?"

"Sir asked me to come. I've been staying at Mr.'s house recently." Xiao Lan'er was still shy, but she looked much more cheerful than before. She opened Yue Chenqing's hand, jumping nervously and happily like a rabbit In front of Gu Mang, "Mr. said that big brother would come to accompany us to celebrate Duanyang today. I thought he was coaxing me, but I didn't expect it to be true!"

Yue Chenqing also acted as if she knew they were coming back a long time ago, and nodded with a smile: "Mr. Xihe, Gu...uh..." He didn't know why he should address Gu Mang. Shuai touched your superior's scales again. If he was called Brother Gu Mang or something, it sounded like he and Mo Xi were of the same generation, so he thought for a moment and smiled, "Uncle Gu."

Mo Xi was quite surprised and said, "Are you also coming to Brother Jiang to celebrate the festival today?"

"Yes."

"Then your father..."

"Oh, don't mention it, I wanted my elder brother to go home and come to Duanyang before, but I only tried it once, and my father scolded me bloody, telling me not to follow—" Yue Chenqing looked into the inner court After a glance, he lowered his voice, "Tell me not to hang out with dubious people."

After finishing speaking, he hastily added another sentence: "Don't mind Xihe Jun, my father is just like that. In addition, his health has been getting worse and worse recently, he always loses his temper and is suspicious, he even scolds me It sounds awful. My uncle and I have discussed it. After the time is over, we will take him to the Huntian Cave in the old fiefdom to cultivate his spirit. If he is in better health, his speech will not be so unpleasant. gone."

Mo Xi said: "Are you finally willing to recognize him as a big brother?"

Yue Chenqing was a little embarrassed, and scratched her head: "Brother Jiang, he is very kind, he treats me well, and treats fourth uncle well, and the Yue family treats him like this, and he never speaks ill of the Yue family. It was my fault to treat him like that."

Gu Mang was squatting beside him to play with Xiao Lan'er while listening to Yue Chenqing's confession. At this moment, he looked up and smiled at him: "If you are willing to recognize him and come to accompany him, he must be very happy. He used to be with you We said that it would be great if we had some relatives to visit during the holidays. You, Murong Chuyi, it would be great if you could accompany him."

Upon hearing Murong Chuyi's name, Yue Chenqing's eyes dimmed a bit.

"Fourth Uncle... Don't talk about Big Brother Jiang, he hasn't been very nice to me recently. According to people in the house, Fourth Uncle seems to want to move out of Yuefu to live alone."