Chapter 45: Northwest Scout

A few days later, Li Jinglong carried Hongjun all the way to the northwest. After passing Jiayuguan, he saw that the northwestern land was very desolate along the way. The official road is covered by several snows. On the road from one county to another, there are often few teams running in a day. Occasionally farmers who are hanging out look at the two horses around the mountain and gallop. go with.
However, after arriving in the county, the city was very lively, and the people were wintering.
The weather is getting colder and colder, Hong Jun doesn't want to ride a horse by himself at all, and he is tired when he is bored. What's more troublesome is that his legs are sandwiched with a saddle. It is a day to run.
"Why don't you ride a horse?" Li Jinglong almost lost his temper with Hongjun.
Hong Jun said, "It's too boring to ride alone!"
"Don't go to bed while I'm sleeping, draw a turtle on my face." Li Jinglong turned back, "Have you heard?"
Hong Jun was still laughing, Li Jinglong carried him, recognized the road, hurried, and finally arrived at the post.
"After tonight, I might sleep in the wild tomorrow, and I will arrive in Wuwei the next day," Li Jinglong said.
Hong Jun said: "Long history, my leg hurts a bit, and my skin is broken."
Hongjun leaned on the wall and walked in slowly like a duck. At a glance, Li Jinglong knew that he was a person who didn't ride a horse very often, and his thigh was scratched by a saddle.
That night, the cold wind screamed outside the post, and Xiao Er came over to make the fire very vigorous. The room was warm and the carp demon was sleeping. Hong Jun was wearing white shorts, holding a cloth dipped in water and wanted to wipe it. It's embarrassing to take off my pants.
Li Jinglong adjusted the ointment, dipped the medicine in a small piece of gauze, and motioned Hongjun to sit on the couch and pulled his leg. Hong Jun busy said: "I ... long history, I come by myself."
Li Jinglong said: "Your grandfather was in Guazhou?"
"Yes!" Hong Jun told Li Jinglong casually, but he had forgotten about it.
"Go to visit General Shushu Han first ..." Li Jinglong pressed Hongjun's knee with one hand, holding the gauze with the other, and stretched out from the trouser legs of Hongjun's shorts. Hongjun flushed suddenly, but he was bruised When the place is behind, you have to bow your head when you take medicine. You ca n’t see it. You have to let Li Jinglong act.
"... Go and see your uncle again." Li Jinglong said again.
"My grandfather seems to be a messenger of holidays ..." Hong Jun replied.
"Hexi is a deputy envoy, formerly under the command of Xiao Song." Li Jinglong casually said, "Your uncle may be in the Hexi army in Geshuhan."
Hong Jun felt cold for a while at the broken skin and took a breath. Li Jinglong took the medicine and said, "Pain?"
"Itch ..." Hong Jun couldn't help raising his leg. Li Jinglong asked him to separate his legs and said, "On the other side, you are blistering."
Hong Jun and Li Jinglong stared at each other, feeling that Li Jinglong's long fingers touched his leg, which was extremely irritating, and the crotch pushed up unconsciously. The two looked at each other, and Li Jinglong also took medicine for his right leg and said, "Will you change the carriage tomorrow?"
Where can I find a carriage? Hong Jun was very embarrassed and followed Li Jinglong out, causing him trouble. However, Li Jinglong didn't care. After finishing the medicine, Hong Jun said, "Okay."
Suddenly Li Jinglong brushed the rest of the medicine Zhao Hongjun's words, Hong Jun suddenly shouted, Li Jinglong laughed, with the meaning of revenge.
"You deliberately!" Hong Jun was flushed, he quickly found a cloth, pulled away his belt and wiped off the medicine applied to Li Jinglong's mischief.
"So hold back, don't want to get married." Li Jinglong sat down and smiled with his feet.
Hong Jun was extremely embarrassed and said, "I didn't want to get married!"
Li Jinglong looked at Hong Jun with a funny taste: "I don't know which girl is coming to you in the future." He smiled and shook his head helplessly, and said: "What demon is your father?"
If you change to the past, Li Jinglong will not come to ask this question, but Hongjun and Li Jinglong are already like brothers, and Li Jinglong feels presumptuous when he asks to export, he said: "If you ask casually, just gossip, don't go to your heart. . "
Hong Jun was busy, and sat on the couch, and Li Jinglong sat down, and the two sat side by side against the wall.
Hong Jun said: "My father is a peacock."
"No wonder." Li Jinglong casually said, "It looks so beautiful." Then he glanced at Hong Jun again and said, "Then if you want to get married, it is Uncle Mingshi ... Finding a beautiful demon for you?"
Hong Jun didn't think about this at all, and replied: "He wouldn't tell me anything for me."
"In the future?" Li Jinglong asked casually.
When Hong Jun was asked by Li Jinglong, he was a little confused. He was neither a human nor a demon. What will his future be like?
"Remember that he ... will not control these." Hong Jun hesitated.
"I can't see it." Li Jinglong smiled.
When he was a child, he never had any ideas about the future. One day in the Yaojin Palace is considered a day. Although he wants to eat delicious food all over the world, this can never be regarded as an ambitious ambition. If you have any ideas about the future, maybe you have been living in the Yaojin Palace and accompany you clearly?
"Sleep." Li Jinglong saw that Hong Jun was fascinated. I'm afraid he thought of sadness again, so he lay down.
The snow rustled outside, and Hong Jun looked at the Phoenix Tail Feather on the table. This was mentioned by Li Jinglong. Many thoughts flooded in unpreparedly, drowning him endlessly in such a snowy night. For the first time in sixteen years, he has chewed the emotion called "Blank" for the first time.
What should I do in the future? Who will I be with after many years?
"Long history, what about you?"
Li Jinglong breathed evenly and seemed to have fallen asleep. Hong Jun faced the wall and fell into contemplation.
"When I was as big as you, I always thought about many things." Li Jinglong said in a deep voice.
Hong Jun moved in his heart, 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 am old, I will talk about family affairs. End this life. "
Hong Jun bent his legs, fearing that he might get a wound, and after a long period of time, his feet would be sore, and he lifted his legs and rested on Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong knew that he had just taken medicine and was afraid of rubbing, so he motioned him to pull his leg up and put it on his waist.
"Yes." Hong Jun replied, "I think so too, I don't know what I will become in the future, or, I ..."
Li Jinglong moved a little, looked at the ceiling, and said, "You are so good, Hong Jun ... I ... When I first saw you ..."
He turned his head unconsciously, staring at Hongjun's eyes, and suddenly a little embarrassed, avoiding his gaze and saying, "There are too many things in you that I have never had."
Hong Jun: "?"
Li Jinglong sighed softly and smiled self-deprecatingly.
Hong Jun: "Long history, why is your face red?"
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 with each other, he had to admit that Hong Jun had a certain inherent attraction. In front of him, Li Jinglong always remembered his childhood.
In those years that were unique to young people, he wore a long sword in exchange for his family's wealth, struggling to find a good buddy like Hong Jun, one from an ideal world that does not exist, Drink together and play together, fight the sword to kill the enemy, and be the best friend of life and death.
But at that time, Hong Jun did not appear beside him. Looking back now, at that time, his own mood might be Li Bai's "drawing a sword and looking around with confusion".
"You are late." Li Jinglong said suddenly, "If only we had known each other three years ago."
Hong Jun said: "I was 13 years old three years ago."
Li Jinglong laughed: "Yes, but you saved me."
"Why?" Hong Jun wondered.
Li Jinglong said seriously: "If you get to know me earlier, I might just ..."
Hong Jun: "Just what?"
Li Jinglong leaned back and looked at Hongjun. At this moment, he finally understood what he had lost. It was the spirit and tenderness that was lost in the long river of time.
"Hong Jun." Li Jinglong said seriously, "I have to ask you something."
Hong Jun: "???
Hong Jun was confused. From the moment he lay down, he didn't understand Li Jinglong. He always felt like he had something in his words, but he couldn't guess.
"Do you like me?" Li Jinglong asked, "That day you said 'Long history, I like you so much', is it sincere?"
Hong Jun replied with a smile: "Of course."
Hong Jun likes to be with Li Jinglong the most, and his whole life becomes bright and bright.
"I also like you very much. I like you as my younger brother ..." Li Jinglong said with a red face. "Damn, it's too numb to say so. Forget it when you wake up."
Li Jinglong rarely spoke swear words, and Hong Jun laughed and kicked him with his feet, saying, "I understand."
"Well." Li Jinglong said, "In the exorcism division, you and I are subordinates of the boss, but I have always treated you as my younger brother ... Even in the Longwu Army, I have never been so good with people ..."
When Hong Jun heard this, he did feel a bit numb. From an early age, no one had ever told him that, and his heart blossomed.
"They often make fun of us. I have nothing to do with you ... but don't think too much about it." Li Jinglong touched Hongjun's head hard and said, "I don't care about people ... talking about it. , Some words, do n’t worry about it. "
Hong Jun couldn't understand it again and asked, "What's the matter?"
Li Jinglong said: "Sometimes I really don't understand, are you pretending to be stupid or really stupid?"
Hong Jun understood, and said with a smile: "I understand! I didn't ..."
"As for your thoughts, I can't control you."
Li Jinglong started to play Hong Jun seriously.
Hong Jun: "No! No! No!"
Li Jinglong: "Oh? Really?"
When speaking, take Hongjun's left hand, spread his palms, interlace their fingers, and gently buckle them together.
Hong Jun: "!!!"
Once caught by Li Jinglong's fingers, Hong Jun felt that he was hard again, and his face flushed immediately. It was the same when I returned to Changan on horseback riding last time and taught Li Jinglong to use the heart lamp.
Li Jinglong seemed to be smiling, looking at Hong Jun, then looked under him, meaning: how? Say nothing? Hong Jun quickly withdrew his hand, his heart pounding wildly, and said, "Don't fix me! I also ... I also treat you as a family member ... um. I also said to bring you back to my house, I don't want to talk to Long History You are separated. "
Li Jinglong smiled and said, "Don't tease you, go to sleep. You have to hurry early tomorrow morning. There are some things, don't worry, think slowly, and gradually understand. Just like me, until the day I meet you."
Li Jinglong closed his eyes, Hong Jun still had many thoughts, but he was also tired, so he put his legs on Li Jinglong's waist and gradually fell asleep.
That night, a sudden snow storm swept nearly 1,000 miles inside and outside the Great Wall.
In the large bathhouse in Yulin County, it was almost late at night. Most of the guests left. The bathhouse was quiet. In the distance, a singer sang "Ask me where did the plum blossom fall? The wind blows all over the mountain all night."
In the private bathroom in the west room, the lunatic was disheveled, soaking in a wooden barrel, silent.
Mo Rigen was sitting outside the bathhouse, wearing a towel on his lap, carrying a jug of wine, holding two Hetian jade beads worn by Hong Jun in his hand, playing with jade beads in his fingers.
"Have you finished washing?" Mo Zhigen turned back, "Aren't you hungry?"
The lunatic lay on the bathtub and looked out. Morrigan got up and walked into the bathroom to examine the lunatic. The madman was a soldier before being mad, and his figure was thin, and his face was very heroic after washing his dirt and dust.
The lunatic is still a 17- or 18-year-old boy, looking not much bigger than Hongjun, and watching Mo Zhigen cautiously. Mo Rigen sighed and turned over a letter in his dirty clothes.
The blood on the letter was a request for assistance sent by Tianshui Chengji County. Nellie's handwriting was vague, only to see that the sender was Cheng Jicheng, guarding Huang An, and sent a scout to Lu Xu to request reinforcements in Wutai County.
"Lu Xu?" Mo Rigen said.
The madman was suddenly called to his name, and there was a trace of confusion in his eyes. Mo Zhigen handed him clean clothes. Lu Xu stood naked and looked at Mo Zhigen up and down. Mo Zhigen looked at him for a while and shook his cotton robe. Let him put it on. Instructed him to follow him and take him to the case, let him eat white water to cook the sheep.
Lu Xujian had something to eat in the case, slowly approached, extended his hand, while observing Mo Zhigen, Mo Zhigen motioned him to eat. He grabbed the lamb and chewed it in his mouth. Mo Rigen only ate a little and then stopped eating, frowning deeply, observing Lu Xu.
He opened the cotton bathrobe collar, showing a white chest and collarbone, and black marks on the collarbone.
Mo Rigen: "Lu Xu."
Lu Xu looked dazed, looked up at Morigen, and said, "Ah ?!"
"Lu Xu."
"Ok!"
"Lu Xu."
"what?"
Mo Rigen laughed and wanted to ask questions, but he was probably irritated and decided to wait for him to finish. Lu Xu waited for a while, seeing Mo Rigen didn't ask any more, and Fu again buried himself in a big bite.
Mo Rigen pondered for a moment, took out a small knife, took a piece of skin, carved a circle of flowers on the skin, Lu Xu watched while eating, and the chewing movement gradually slowed down.
"Deer." Lu Xu said.
Morigen shivered slightly in his hand.
"Have you seen it?" Mo Zhigen asked tentatively.
He spread his palms and put a leather sculpture in his palm, which was a stag with horns spreading like a dense tree in the forest.
Lu Xu's eyes moved from the leather carving to Morigen's eyes, and nodded gently.
"Where?" Morigen's voice was a bit different from his own.
Lu Xu looked blank, shook his head, and bowed his head to eat the mutton again. At that moment, Mo Rigen collapsed like a prostration, and he didn't know what to say.
"Where are you from?" Morigen said to himself, "Northwest ... What did you see?"
He stood up and came to the door of the bathhouse, just want to blow the cold wind to clear his mind.
An emergency must have occurred in Liangzhou in the northwest. The city guard sent this scout for help. I didn't know what happened on the road. I was terrified and even lost my soul. I fled here. What did he see? Is it the White Deer you've been searching for?
Mo Rigen was wrapped in a cotton robe, and a pair of wooden clogs stood in the courtyard. After Lu Xu was full, he rubbed his hands on the cotton robe, picked up the letter, and walked out of the courtyard quietly, passing Mo Zhigen, barefoot Toward the courtyard wall. The cold wind was cold, Mo Rigen's brow was deep, his hands were on his back, he stood thinking in the wind, and did not hear Lu Xu's footsteps.
Lu Xu quickly ran to the corner of the courtyard and flashed out of the back door.
You must send a letter to Chang'an as soon as possible, notify Li Jinglong, and then let the young man lead the way, outside the Great Wall, or Yumenguan in the northwest ... Mo Zhigen turned around to find Lu Xu's letter, and he suddenly saw the hall empty.
"What about people?" Mo Rigen screamed, turned his head and looked around, saw a line of footprints leading to the back door, immediately took off the clogs, and quickly chased out.