Hidden Blade Chapter 83: The light in the dark

Gudaolou is one of the best restaurants in Henghuangcheng.

The people who entered and exited this restaurant were mostly high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Henghuangcheng. Randomly picked out a drinker, saying that it was the son of a certain court minister or the son of a certain prince.

Of course, Zhen Yue didn't know the big people in this Henghuangcheng. She came here only because she suddenly discovered that outside this restaurant one day, there was always a group of beggars entrenched. Zhen Yue is a person who has lived a hard life. She feels compassion for this group of beggars, so when she is free, she likes to bring some food here to share with these beggars.

"Eat more."

She looked at the little beggar who was gnawing on the bun, and smiled and stroked the other's head.

She has some thoughts.

Perhaps she can't stay in this horizontal imperial city for too long, Xu Han seems to be determined to drive her away.

She doesn't quite understand Xu Han's thoughts. In other words, Xu Han's whole person is a mystery to her.

But the more so, the more she wanted to find out.

This is a very strange thought. At least in her first two decades of life, she had never had such a strong curiosity about any one life.

Thinking of this, Zhen Yue shook her head in distress, she simply put away these thoughts, smiled and looked at the group of beggars and said: "What do you like to eat? You can tell your sister, sister tomorrow Come here, it may be the last time to see you."

"Why?" The little beggars looked at Zhen Yue in surprise after hearing the words, the dissatisfaction in their eyes was naturally beyond words.

"There is no permanent banquet in the world, and my sister also has my sister's business." Zhen Yue tried to use a logic that a child of this age could understand to explain her reasons.

But obviously, she didn't get the result she wanted.

The little beggars' eyes widened, tears flickering in their eyes.

That kind of reluctance is not just about this life-saving thing, but also because for the little beggars, Zhen Yue is something they can feel in this world. warmth.

It is this rare warmth that they cherish.

Zhen Yue couldn't stand the look of the little beggars, and she was immediately at a loss.

She had spent a lot of effort for this, just to comfort these children.

She only breathed a long sigh of relief when she watched the children leave, then packed up her things and was about to get up and leave, but at this moment, a voice rang in her ears.

"You can't help them like this." The voice said so.

Zhen Yue was taken aback, turned her head and looked around, only to see Xu Han unexpectedly appeared behind her for some time.

She was so surprised that she didn't respond to Xu Han's words for a while.

"People who trek in the dark are used to seeing coldness. Once they have a little warmth, the coldness they were used to before will become more difficult." The teenager didn't seem to feel her surprise, and he still took care of himself. Words.

The tone of the words was too deep, so Zhen Yue didn't know how to respond, so she fell silent again. She didn't understand the meaning of Xu Han's words, but instinctively felt that she seemed to have done something wrong, so she lowered her head, as if a child who had made a mistake was caught by an elder, panicking.

Xu Han was silent for a while, looked at the woman, and then said again: "Come with me."

Zhen Yue was taken aback again, as if she was not accustomed to the boy's active invitation, or he heard the rare gentleness that suddenly appeared in the boy's tone. At the stall where she was stunned, the young man had already taken his own steps. Zhen Yue suddenly woke up and hurried to keep up.

The bell that Xu Han tied to her on her wrist, the bell that almost killed her, shook her melodiously in the night as she ran, and didn't disperse for a long time.

......

The two are walking in the streets of Henghuangcheng.

Even though it has reached the Haishi time, the vendors on both sides are still yelling. It seems that for Henghuangcheng, there is no such a concept of night.

"You are very similar to a friend of mine." Xu Han said again after a long silence.

The woman who was lowering her head and not knowing what she was thinking raised her head and looked at Xu Han. She suddenly noticed that the corners of the boy's mouth were raised slightly, and she was clearly smiling.

Out of a certain female intuition, Zhen Yue asked at that time: "Female?"

Xu Han was taken aback for a moment. He glanced at Zhen Yue in surprise, nodded truthfully and said: "Yeah."

"The important one?" Zhen Yue also asked. Her emotions were somewhat complicated, but she was quickly suppressed. Although she was not sincere, she was indeed brilliant. Smile.

"Very important." Xu Han nodded, his answer came quickly and surely, almost without thinking.

"Oh." Zhen Yue replied in a dull voice, and then his head lowered again.

The silence enveloped the two again.

Only the bell in Zhen Yue's hand is still tinkling in the night.

Maybe this ringtone reminds Xu Han of something. He glanced sideways at the woman, then asked: "Aren't you afraid of me?"

Zhen Yue was stunned. She raised her head again and saw Xu Han's eyes fall on the bell on her wrist. She probably guessed that Xu Han was referring to that night.

She smiled: "I don't know what happened, but I know it's not you, so why should I be afraid of you?"

Zhen Yue's answer was somewhat beyond Xu Han's expectation. He muttered to himself: "Isn't that me?"

"Who is me then?"

Perhaps it is the rare hesitation in Xu Han's tone, or it may be the confusion in Xu Han's heart at the moment.

Zhen Yue’s face was a little surprised, but after counting her breaths, she suddenly melted into tenderness. She smiled again and said: "Do you know why I think being by your side is the best choice? ?"

"Huh?" Xu Han was taken aback, looking at the woman somehow.

"I think Liu Sheng seems to be very important to you, so important that you can work hard for him."

The woman didn't care about Xu Han's surprise. She mustered up the courage at that time and looked at Xu Han with her eyes straight, as if she had exhausted her life's tenderness, and said: "And I think that a person who is willing to fight for others' lives will never be too bad."

After a brief surprise, Xu Han couldn't help asking: "Is it that simple?"

"Of course not." Zhen Yue nodded unexpectedly. At that time, the woman's face showed a teasing smile in front of Xu Han for the first time. She blinked her wryly. Eyes, said: "Why, don't you know better than me?"

I don't know if these words pierced Xu Han's heart's weakness, and the young man's gaze began to dodge infrequently.

He thought for a while, and finally only responded: "I'm sorry."

Such an answer was within Zhen Yue's expectation, but if so, the woman still couldn't help but feel a sense of loss.

But she soon concealed her loss, but when she raised her head again, there was another brilliant smile on her face.

"I know." She said so, "You are for my good."

This is not a particularly incomprehensible thing. Although Xu Han's attitude towards her was not very good before, she has shown some thoughts about Xu Han since the change of that night, and she never did it when she was a teenager. She has not been forced to leave, and the matter is mentioned again now, after seeing the great figure of Sen Luo Temple that day.

From her perspective, she naturally couldn’t figure out what Yuan Xiucheng asked Xu Han to do, but she faintly guessed that the young man didn’t seem to intend to follow the big man’s wishes, and go against these people’s wishes. Naturally, it is inevitable that certain costs must be borne.

Zhen Yue can't guess what the cost is, but she also knows that its weight seems to far exceed the range that the boy's shoulders can bear.

So he asked her to leave. Although the approach or attitude seemed unsatisfactory, she knew what kind of gentleness was behind this coldness.

"You are right. People who trek in the dark are used to seeing coldness. Once they have a little warmth, the coldness they were used to before will become more difficult." Zhen Yue has no scruples at this moment. The meaning of cold feeling, she still said to herself: "But without the warmth of those promises, how can people support themselves through the long cold winter?"

"Actually, I am the same as the little beggars. In those big weeks of disasters, bandits in the mountains were rampant. One day those bandits slammed into our village. My parents hid me in a water tank and escaped. This disaster."

"But when I climbed out of the water tank, everyone in the village, including my parents, died."

"I was scared back then. I didn't know what to do and how to live."

"I stayed in front of my father and mother's body like this, all day and night, until the sun went down again, and the stars shone through the cracks of the house into the door."

Speaking of this, Zhen Yue paused, a smile suddenly appeared on her face, and her expression became a little dazed, as if she had seen the stars of that day again.

"I suddenly remembered that my father once told me that the souls of the dead go back to the stars and turn into stars in the sky looking at the people on the ground. The stars are their eyes, and the stars are their eyes. ."

"The starlight made me feel that my father and my mother are all looking at me in the sky, and I want to live."

"So, I trek along the stars and walked far, far away. I met Huma and Lu Yashan... I met all of them and I survived."

"The thing that made me survive the cold and hunger is the warmth brought by the stars in the night."

Zhen Yue turned her head to look at Xu Han again, her eyes flickered, she stared straight at the boy, and said: "I will leave, but I want to thank you. You are also the star on my road in the future. ."

After the woman said this, she suddenly let out a long sigh of relief, as if she had completed an extremely important thing, relieved.

Then she turned around, and walked away.

But just after taking a few steps, her footsteps suddenly stopped. At that time, she turned to look at Xu Han and asked: "By the way, I haven't told you something?"

Maybe it was the touch of the woman's previous words, or the starlight in the sky at this moment illuminates her too brightly, Xu Han was stunned, and then asked: "What's the matter?"

"You are far more kind than you think..."

After the woman said this, she didn't miss any more, she turned and left again.

The ponytail on her back swayed back and forth with her pace, together with the bell on her hand, the soft ringing sounded clearly in Xu Han's ears on this crowded street.

......

After leaving, Zhen Yue always had a faint smile on her face.

It was a smile from the heart.

She didn't have many regrets. She had met right away. Since running water is unintentional, she may not have good results if she insists on it.

This kind of relief made her feel relieved, and the stone that was pressing on her heart was finally removed. She felt relaxed, but after all, she felt a little bit reluctant.

She walked across the street and came to an alley entrance.

There was no light in the alley, it was pitch black, just like her life before.

But she thought, as long as she walks through the darkness, there will always be a day when light shines in.

So she didn't hesitate much, and stepped into the alley, not because of the emotion that suddenly surged in her heart, but simply because this is the shortest way home.

After all, she has become accustomed to the life of relying on Huma and others, and I am afraid it will continue to be the same in the future.

She thinks about the situation these days, I am afraid Huma and others are also quite worried for her, she is somewhat apologetic, thinking that after going back, Haosheng would like to thank them.

Thinking of this, her footsteps became more and more brisk.

But just as she walked into the center of the alley, several dark shadows suddenly jumped out and surrounded her.

......

Xu Han watched Zhen Yue's back disappear completely from his eyes, and he finally came back to his senses.

Xuan'er and Aowu on the side probably didn’t understand the entanglement between this pair of men and women. They were so boring that they were attracted by a vendor selling candy gourds by the side of the road, one big and one small, one wolf and one wolf. The cat squatted next to the vendor, staring wide-eyed at the bunches of candied haws that were soaked in sugar and looked delicious.

Xu Han, who came back to his senses, looked at these two greedy ghosts, suddenly smiled bitterly and shook his head.

"Wow!"

"Meow!"

The two little guys also seemed to see that Xu Han had finished the things before, and they turned their heads and yelled at Xu Han one after another.

The anxious look seemed to urge Xu Han to get them some food quickly.

Xu Han had nothing to do with these two "people". He smiled bitterly and walked to the vendor, took a small amount of money from his arms and passed it over, bought two bunches of gourds from the vendor, and gave them to him. Two little guys.

"My son, this cat and dog is really smart." The merchant who made the money naturally didn't hesitate to say his words with a smile, and said with a smile.

Xu Han smiled and returned the gift to the other party, and then led the little guy who had finished eating the gourd, ready to return to his own courtyard.

After eating, Ao Wu and Xuan'er were satisfied. Xuan'er squatted on Ao Wu's body and fell asleep soundly. Ao Wu didn't have any dislike for Xuan'er's actions. Let Xuan'er do this, fart. Dianpidian followed behind the worried Xu Han.

Naturally, Xu Han's mood will not be too good.

The sword-bearer conference is about to begin. He didn't have full confidence, and his previous month of retreat was also fruitless. Liu Sheng's affairs also made him extremely worried. These things are mixed up, big and small. Together, even Xu Han will inevitably feel some headaches.

"My son, the baked sweet potato is five cents apiece, how about?" At this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind him.

Thinking about what's going on, Xu Han waved his hand without looking back.

Then he was immersed in his thoughts again, and walked away.

Who knows that the vendor behind him didn't appreciate it. He hurried to catch up and asked again: "My son, the sweet potato with five cents is delicious. I want one."

The weird tone with a certain local accent made Xu Han a little upset. He turned his head and was about to stop the vendor from drinking, but at that time he could clearly see the vendor's appearance.

He is not tall, he is about five feet away. Although he wears a hood and his head is low, it is not difficult to guess from the immature tone before that this little guy should not be very old.

Although the Henghuangcheng in February has gradually warmed up, it still has a little coolness in the middle of the night. Compared with the clothes on this little guy, it looks a little thin.

And the sweet potato he handed over at this moment was roasted to black, naturally there was nothing to show off. But the little guy seemed to be ignorant of this, and still stubbornly sent the sweet potatoes to Xu Han~IndoMTL.com~ It seemed that he also smelled hope from Xu Han’s footsteps, and the little guy swayed. The sweet potato in his hand repeated hopefully: "It's delicious, the son wants one."

Xu Han can probably imagine the situation of this little guy at this moment, if it is not necessary, it is estimated that a child of this age will probably not carry a charred sweet potato on such a cold night to sell it everywhere.

However, Xu Han would probably not buy such a sweet potato if it were changed in the past.

After all, in his opinion, such kindness is not very helpful to people in a difficult situation. But perhaps because of what Zhen Yue said before, Xu Han still took out the money after a slight daze, handed it to the little guy, then took the sweet potato from him, turned around and left again, but Without paying attention, after receiving the sweet potato, the figure under the hood seemed to want to say something, but did not have time to spit it out in the future.

Leaving Xu Han, broke the sweet potato, tasted the flesh, and an indescribable burnt smell filled his taste buds. He curled his mouth, threw the black sweet potato aside, and mumbled: "It's unpalatable."

It's just that, what he probably didn't expect was that after he left, the little sweet potato seller looked at the back of him leaving, and of course the random action of throwing away the sweet potatoes.

The little guy seemed to have received a great insult, stomped his feet, took off his hood, and revealed his most pretty face.

She was actually a girl.

At this moment, the girl’s beautiful eyes are full of anger. She puffed her cheeks and gritted her teeth angrily and said: "The surname is Xu! Grandma made sweet potatoes for you with kindness. Forget it if you don’t recognize Grandma aunt, even dare you. Throw my sweet potatoes!"

"You wait, let's see how I can clean you up!"

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