The Words of the Number One

The dancing flames and the occasional burnt smell reminded one of stoves, stoves, all the usual earthly fireworks.

It's good to be alive, I leaned on Ji Yu's broad back and thought.

"They probably won't kill me when they come, but you are different. Swords have no eyes, so you are not afraid of dying here?" Ji Yu said, turning the dagger in his hand.

"I'm still useful to you, why would you let me die." I said calmly, and he smiled softly behind my back, and said leisurely: "It's not good to be too smart, I'm not afraid of anything."

I closed my eyes and pressed my forehead against his neck, the scent of cypress wood lingering. There are many complicated and incoherent thoughts in my mind, which spread uncontrollably, and I just think of what to say.

"If I die, I will probably be silent, with loess covering my body and nameless bones. If the corpse can fertilize the soil, it will be good to raise a lush moss and wildflowers in the future."

Ji Yu was silent for a while, then said: "I've heard these arguments often, but it's very lonely when you say them."

His tone was very calm, I couldn't see his expression and didn't know what he was thinking. He always took the initiative to talk to me today, probably because he was afraid that I would fall asleep without saying a word and never wake up again.

I'm still important to him, at least I can't die now, that's why he saved me, ran for my life with me in his arms, and let me rely on him to keep warm.

Occasionally reveal a little true and false tenderness.

At some point, Ji Yu picked up a leaf and started playing the tune. I don't know the temperament, but I think it's a very quiet and breezy tune. Just a small leaf between his thin lips can make all kinds of beautiful sounds, even long transitions.

Good to hear.

Just like those pieces that Ah Yao played, every piece is very nice.

Amidst his playing, footsteps gradually approached and stopped about 30 meters away from us. I sat up straight and looked in a blink of an eye, the vague black figures surrounding us seemed to melt into the night.

I thought inappropriately, since they didn't hold up torches, the night vision ability of some assassins should be very good.

Ji Yu stopped the song and said with a smile: "Long time no see, I miss you very much, Gu Ling."

A black figure slowly came out from the deep darkness. It was the heroic and tall man I had seen, with that heroic but always angry face. The sword in his left hand was out of its sheath, shining with silver light.

"Miss? A person who runs away again and again, I can't see that you miss me." He said with a sneer.

"If I don't escape, you will kill me. How can I not escape?"

The man bit his lip, and seemed very upset: "Who said I was going to kill you? I told you thousands of times, the emperor just wanted me to take you back, never let me kill you. You were rebellious when you were young. Forget it, why are you still so ignorant until now, insisting on fighting against the emperor? If the emperor really turns against you..."

Ji Yu laughed out loud, originally it was just a low smile, but it seemed to be getting louder and louder as if she couldn't help it.

"You really... haven't changed at all, just like your brother. My father will believe whatever he says, and he will be loyal all his life."

Gu Ling's eyes were about to burst, he blurted out: "You have the guts to mention my brother! My brother..."

His chest heaved violently, as if his breath was stuck there and rampant. But in the end, he still didn't go on talking. He was silent for a while, and said to Ji Yu, "Ji Boyan, have you had enough trouble? Come back with me."

Ji Yu, whose name is Boyan, has a single character of jade. Those who can call him Ji Boyan should be very close to him.

I looked at Ji Yu standing up in full clothes beside me, and said, "Gu Ling, I'll go back with you, but you want to send my maidservant to the nearest place for treatment, she was seriously injured by you."

Gu Ling was stunned, and I was also stunned. Since Gu Ling knew Ji Yu well, he couldn't believe that he was such a kind person, right?

He was silent for a while, and he really doubted: "What kind of tricks are you playing?"

"Why, you're still not satisfied with my promise to go back with you?" Ji Yu calmly replied, walking towards Gu Ling while talking, and Gu Ling immediately stepped back and looked at him warily. Ji Yu laughed and opened his arms: "I didn't take anything, and there is no wind at this time, even if there is poison in my hands, it won't spread."

Seeing that Gu Ling still didn't believe it, Ji Yu took the hair tie and walked to my side: "A Zhi, do me a favor."

When I stood up, he put his hands in front of him and asked me to help him tie them together. Then I raised my tied hands and smiled harmlessly: "My hands are tied, so don't worry."

Gu Ling watched him for a long time, waved at his companion, and approached tentatively. When standing in front of Ji Yu, Ji Yu still had no intention of making a move, Gu Ling breathed a sigh of relief, and sighed: "If you had been earlier..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly seemed to be pulled down by a strong force, and he half-kneeled in front of Ji Yu. Gu Ling's face turned half pale, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that other people were prostrate on the ground with faces full of pain like him, as if they couldn't get up under the pressure of a thousand weights, and they were in pain. Gu Ling hurriedly searched for the reason, until he saw "Mengsi" stuck beside the fire, and me holding Mengsi with blood flowing on the blade.

Gu Ling's pupils constricted for a while: "Thousand-Gold Formation? Qimen Formation...you are still doing these..."

"Crooked ways? How did you win over a gentleman like my father?"

Ji Yu calmly untied the hair tie on her hand and loosened her wrist. He drew a formation within ten meters around us, using me as the starting medium. Once Gu Ling and the others are within ten meters of us, they will use Mengsi to dip my blood into the formation and it will be activated. Except for him and me, all the people in the formation were immobilized under the weight of a thousand pounds.

I have never heard before that Mr. Ji Yu is actually proficient in Qimen Formation.

"I want to ask you to borrow a horse. According to your habits, the horse should be tied a hundred meters away from here. South or north? You go to the north in the afternoon to find me, and when you go back and find that your companion has been killed, then start chasing me again. Come from the south, the horse is in the south, right?"

"Ji Boyan! You have the guts to fight with a sword!"

Ji Yu laughed and shook her head: "Sure enough, you are in the south, and you still can't hide anything with your expression. There is no need to fight, I am willing to bow down, and thank Brother Gu for gifting the horse."

Ji Yu took the dagger back from my hand, leisurely counted the people lying in the formation, there were seven people besides Gu Ling. Ji Yu raised the jaw of one of them and slit his throat.

The man whimpered indistinctly, his pupils dilated, blood gushed out and spread over the entire formation, and the spells that Ji Yu had drawn before became brighter. Ji Yu smiled with satisfaction, and slashed the throats of three people in a row. He put away the dagger when the whole formation was as bright as day, and said: "This is enough, the formation can last for about a day, Gu Ling, rest at ease. .”

"Ji Boyan...you're like this..." Gu Ling clenched his hands into fists, and he roared angrily, "You learn such a wicked thing, it will damage your body! You..."

As if Ji Yu had never heard of it, she turned around and was about to hug me like in the afternoon, when Gu Ling shouted from behind: "Ah Yao!"

I was very close to Ji Yu's eyes. At the moment "A Yao" was called out, his pupils constricted, and his vain smile shattered into a choppy sea, crazily fluctuating with deep hatred. He let go of me, and slowly turned his head to look at Gu Ling, I couldn't see his expression but could only hear his laughing voice.

"Gu Ling, did I ever tell you not to call me by that name again? Do you really think I won't kill you?"

I walked to Ji Yu's side, and Gu Ling, who was half kneeling on the ground, laughed mockingly, and then said in a muffled voice: "Of course you will kill me... Let me ask you, my brother died of poisoning suddenly three years ago, is it you?" ..."

"I did it." Ji Yu said lightly.

Gu Ling was not surprised, he bit his lip and tried to look up at Ji Yu, his eyes were red.

"why?"

"Because he killed my brother."

"That's because His Highness the Crown Prince failed to plot rebellion and wanted to assassinate the Son of Heaven. Gu Qi had no choice but to do so! It is Gu Qi's duty to protect the Son of Heaven. Even if he and the Crown Prince are best friends, His Royal Highness cannot be allowed to assassinate the Son of Heaven!"

Ji Yu looked at Gu Ling with deep black eyes, like a dark and endless hell. He laughed almost inaudibly, and said: "I have no other choice? Why? Who in this world doesn't have no choice? Those who cheat to satisfy their wives and children, and those who kill for revenge. Who is born to be a villain? Because you can forgive if you have difficulties, then there is nothing unforgivable in this world."

He squatted down to look at Gu Ling, and smiled more tenderly: "You also know that Gu Qi is my brother's best friend. He was killed by his own best friend. My brother must have been so desperate when he died. My brother is such a foolish and filial brother." Man, how many times have I told him to be on guard against his father, but he didn't listen. Before he died, he finally gathered up a little courage to go to his father to ask for an explanation, and he was designed to kill him. Look at his life, how absurd it is .”

"The emperor loves His Royal Highness so much, how could he design..."

"Gu Ling, it's fine if you believe my father or not, but don't believe me either. Gu Qi has his own reasons, but I don't forgive him, so don't forgive me either. But a piece of advice, don't think too much about your father. Okay, do you know why every time you come to catch me but you can’t catch me, does your father still let you catch me? Because he knows that you don’t have the heart to kill me. When you fail more times and feel guilty for letting him down , One day he gives an order, and you can no longer refuse. He also knows very well that even if I know this, I will not kill you, because my sister used to like you so much. "

Gu Ling suddenly stood up and grabbed Ji Yu's collar. This action made him sweat profusely. He said intermittently: "You...you shut up! Don't... ruin her reputation!"

Ji Yu burst out laughing, he pushed Gu Ling away, couldn't help but burst into tears.

"Qingyu? She's dead! What are you talking about Qingyu here? Why does my sister... fall in love with you, a coward!"

Gu Ling fell to the ground, he seemed to be crying, and he seemed to be out of breath under the pressure of the formation.

He said, "What happened during the five years you went to Yan Kingdom..."

Ji Yu looked down at Gu Ling, and he slowly calmed down his breathing until the madness was put away again, hidden behind a deep smile. He said calmly: "As you know, many people died. Ah Yao died there too."