Swoosh.
The low-level cultivator outside the Falling Plum Garden swept the fallen leaves on the white jade bluestone.
Suddenly, a pair of black leather military boots appeared in his field of vision. The cultivator's hands stopped moving. He squinted his eyes and raised his head to decline politely, "Guest, it's not dark yet. Our courtyard opens in the evening. Would you like to open a little later?"
Before he could finish speaking, his eyes widened when he saw the person's face. He was so shocked that he even dropped his broom.
The cultivator was stunned. "Xi … Lord Xi He?!?"
Mo Xi's military uniform was tall and straight. His lapels were overlapping and his collar was meticulous. He looked like a proper gentleman. He said, "I'm looking for someone."
"??!" The low-level cultivator's jaw almost dropped.
This was the Falling Plum Garden, and Lord Xi He was known to be pure and simple. He actually took the initiative to come to a brothel to look for someone? Was the sun rising from the west?!
Mo Xi's face was as cold as frost, and his eyes became more and more terrifying. "What are you looking at? Can't I go in? "
"No, no, no." Xiao Xiu hurriedly led him in. "Please, please." Then he stuttered and asked, "Who is Lord Xi He looking for?"
Mo Xi was silent for a while. Then he turned his face and said expressionlessly, "Gu Mang."
"Oh! So he's looking for him … "Xiao Xiu reacted and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it was unimaginable that Lord Xi He would visit a brothel, it was reasonable that Lord Xi He would look for Gu Mang. After all, they had such a deep enmity. It was normal for Lord Xi He to vent his anger on someone when he was in a bad mood.
Mo Xi followed Xiao Xiu into Luomei Resort. As Xiao Xiu walked, he said to Mo Xi, "Lord Xi He, Gu Mang is in the dirty abandoned house in the backyard. When you go in later, take care of your clothes. Don't dirty them."
Mo Xi frowned. "Why is he there?"
"Well, it's a long story. Didn't the Lord Wangshu punish him? So we let Gu Mang do manual labor in the yard, chopping firewood and so on. But a few days ago, he must have been starving. He actually went to the kitchen in the middle of the night to steal meat buns. "
"And then what?"
"Stealing one or two would have been fine, no one would have found out. But he was like a reincarnated hungry ghost, eating four whole baskets in one go. When Chef went to check, he was still eating the buns inside. Of course, the chef was unhappy. He rushed forward to settle the score with him. In the end … "
Mo Xi glanced at his suddenly fearful expression and said, "Did Chef hit him and trigger the sword array on him?"
"Ah! Yes, Lord Xi He, have you seen that array before? "
Mochime did not reply. Instead, a blurry light flashed past his eyes. His eyelashes fluttered and drooped down to cover it.
"That chef hit and scolded too much. Gu Mang resisted so much. After the sword array was triggered, he did not dodge in time and was cut until he was covered in blood." Xiao Xiu rubbed the goosebumps on the back of his hand. "Aiyo, there were hundreds of cuts. It was quite scary."
Mo Xi was silent for a moment, then asked, "Is he alright?"
"He's fine, he's fine. That sword array was not overbearing. Although there were many cuts, they were all superficial wounds." After a pause, he said, "Actually, Lord Xi He, you don't have to worry. That chef is also a dog thief caught by the Burning Nation. If he and Gu Mang fought, it would be a dog biting a dog. "
"…"
"After this happened, Mama was very angry and locked Gu Mang in the woodshed. Originally, we gave him a cornbread every day, but Mama said that we have to be more ruthless and only give him a bowl of porridge every day to make him suffer. "Xiao Xiu paused." Lord Xi He, why don't I just get someone to kidnap him for you? That array of his is too dangerous. The injured chef is still lying in his room, wrapped up like a dumpling. He probably won't be able to get out of bed for a month or two. "
"No need." Mo Xi's expression was unreadable. After a pause, he said, "I'll go find him myself."
Because he did not need to receive guests, Gu Mang stayed in the shabbiest little house in Luo Mei Garden.
As the saying goes, "It's hard for a lone wolf to survive." Gu Mang's body had been tempered to a large extent to be very similar to that of a wild wolf. He was afraid of being alone, so he often talked to himself. The people in Luo Mei Garden were terrified, so they got him a black dog to accompany him.
That black dog was sitting at the door of that little shabby house. When it saw a stranger approaching, it immediately barked like crazy. Mo Xi's gaze was like a knife. When he glanced at it, the dog was stunned and immediately became listless.
"Lord Xi He, this dog is afraid of you."
… Nonsense. He had killed so many people. How could he not be able to deal with a dog? Mo Xi's black military boots stepped on a few stone steps, then he lifted the heavy curtain and swept his gaze across the narrow dark room.
Unlike the extravagant decorations in other parts of the garden, this little house had simple walls. There was nothing else except a pile of firewood and a few broken pots.
Gu Mang was like a wild beast, curled up into a ball in the dark corner. When he heard someone coming, he moved his ears and raised his head to look over silently.
The Xiao Xiu who accompanied him hurriedly said, "Lord Xi He, please be careful. He is hostile to everyone now. He is very resistant."
Mo Xi didn't seem to care. He only nodded slightly and said, "You may leave."
The Xiao Xiu hesitated. Although the Lord Wangshu always said that it was okay to kill Gu Mang, everyone knew that the Lord Wangshu was just talking. If Gu Mang really died, all of them would have to bear the consequences.
Seeing how much Marshal Mo hated Gu Mang, he wouldn't wait until it was dark to chop him into pieces, would he?
Mo Xi said, "I want to be alone with him for a while."
The Xiao Xiu saw his gloomy eyes and didn't dare to say anything. He could only lower his head and say, "Yes."
After the Xiao Xiu left, Mo Xi let go of the hand that was holding the curtain. The thick and dirty curtain fell behind him. In an instant, the room was plunged into darkness. There wasn't even a single candle in the room.
In the darkness, only Gu Mang's clear and bright eyes were shining.
Mo Xi frowned. He suddenly felt that something was wrong.
What was wrong with his eyes?
He raised his hand and a ball of flame lit up in his palm. Mo Xi lit the ball of flame and then walked towards the two fluorescent lights.
Gu Mang had been locked up for five days. His mind was in a mess. In addition, he hadn't seen such a dazzling light for a long time. He first made a low threatening sound from his throat. When he realized that the other party didn't intend to stop, he tried to run away like an injured animal. However, he was too weak. Before he could get up and walk two steps, he staggered and fell to the ground again.
Mo Xi stood in front of him. The flame finally shone on Gu Mang's battered and exhausted body. Gu Mang saw that there was no hope to escape. He simply turned his head and stared at him.
Sure enough, something was wrong.
In the previous two meetings, Mo Xi actually didn't see Gu Mang's face clearly because of the ambiguous candlelight and his emotional fluctuations. It wasn't until this moment that he realized that Gu Mang's eyes were different from before.
The pair of black eyes that were always smiling in his memory were gone. What replaced them was a pair of azure blue eyes. There were some fluorescent lights scattered in the darkness.
Those were the eyes of a real snow wolf.
Although he knew that the Liao Kingdom had combined and tempered Gu Mang with the combination of beasts, Mo Xi's hands still trembled when he saw with his own eyes that the signs of a wolf had replaced what he was once familiar with.
He suddenly pinched Gu Mang's chin and stared at those blue eyes that were like the sea.
Who was it?
Who was this?!!
The flame in his other hand flashed even more fiercely because of its owner's irritation. The light was almost white and it shone on Gu Mang's face. His gaze was like a bayonet that fiercely scraped Gu Mang's entire body.
Perhaps because his gaze was too scorching and piercing, Gu Mang didn't know where he got the strength to shake off his hand. He struggled and staggered a few steps forward.
Mo Xi sternly shouted at him, "Stop right there!"
The fireball was suspended in the air. One of his hands was already tightly grasping Gu Mang's wrist.
His momentum was too ferocious, and Gu Mang was really provoked this time. Several dazzling blue lights flashed, and the sword array was activated once again. Dozens of formless swords of light burst out from Gu Mang's body, and all the swords turned their tips in unison, quickly stabbing towards Mo Xie. Blood was about to splatter everywhere!!
But in that split second, something strange happened.
The moment the light swords touched Mo Xi, they turned into crystal wings and slowly floated to the ground …
Gu Mang was stunned. And Mo Xi seemed to have known that the sword array was ineffective against him. He exerted strength in his arm and brought the dazed man back.
"…" Gu Mang was stunned for a moment. He suddenly realized that he was in a firm embrace and quickly began to kick and struggle with his hands and feet.
Mo Xi angrily said, "Don't move!"
Hearing his voice close by, Gu Mang abruptly raised his head. He was even more panicked than before. Clearly, he knew that the sword array was his last line of defense. If the sword array failed, it meant that Gu Mang had lost his only remaining fangs and claws, and could only be slaughtered. He had no power to resist this man who was suppressing his anger.
"Don't …" He finally opened his mouth, trembling slightly.
Mo Xi's chest heaved up and down. He looked down at the man in his arms and gritted his teeth, "Don't what?"
"Don't …" He had lost his ability to speak earlier. Now that he was frightened, his words began to be choppy and slow, "Kill me …"
Mo Xi: "…"
His blue eyes flashed with the color of a beast's sorrow. He struggled and clumsily begged, "I …"
His lips slowly opened and closed, "I … want to live …"
His heart suddenly trembled.
Mo Xi met his desperate eyes and the scar on his chest seemed to throb violently again.
"I want to live! As long as I can live with a clear conscience, what's wrong with that! Mo Xi, do you understand me? Ah?! I can't live at all like this! I feel uneasy!! My dreams are filled with the faces of those dead people! I can't live at all when I'm awake!! Do you know the pain of wanting to die every day and every night?! You don't know at all!!! "
Before Gu Mang really fell, there was once when he roared at him crazily and uncontrollably. He was so angry that his eyes were about to pop out of their sockets. He broke a cup and blood flowed out.
Mo Xi understood his pain.
But what could he do … At that time, he could only let Gu Mang get drunk and shout loudly and accompany him, waiting for him to slowly recover and for his scars to slowly heal.
Gu Mang did not shout again after he sobered up. But for some reason, Mo Xi felt that although he was still smiling after that, there was something behind his smile that he could not see clearly.
Later, Mo Xi was sent to the capital by Jun Shang. Before he left, Gu Mang invited him to drink and said with a smile that he was going to be a bad person. He did not believe it at that time.
But when he came back, Gu Mang had already fallen. He died drunk in a brothel and became unrecognizable.
Not long after, Gu Mang betrayed the country.
His scars had never healed. In his heart, new wounds stacked on top of old ones.
He wanted to live. And he wanted to die every day and every night.
Just like that, day after day, he was doomed eternally.
The blue-eyed Gu Mang said softly and sorrowfully. It was an animal's instinctive desire to live. "I want to live …"
"…" Mo Xi closed his eyes. "I won't do anything to you."
The person in his arms was still trembling slightly.
He was so hungry that his cheekbones were sunken. His slightly long black hair fell on the side of his face.
He kept staring at Mo Xi's face. Mo Xi just let him stare at him for a long time. Gu Mang's trembling stopped slightly.
But when Mo Xi moved his arm, he immediately opened his eyes wide. His eyeballs moved uneasily from side to side, as if he wanted to escape, but seemed to know that it was useless.
"… It's me."
"…"
He had been so disappointed, so hateful, so entangled, so unsettled before.
But when he really saw him panic, the storm in his heart calmed down like a storm. He didn't grab him, scold him, torture him, or humiliate him as he had expected.
"Do you still remember me?"
After a pause, he added, "… It's okay if you don't remember."
Gu Mang didn't say anything. Just when Mo Xi gradually became restless because of his silence, Gu Mang suddenly said, "You used to prostitute me."
"…"
"Listen." Suddenly, anger rose in his heart. Mo Xi almost gritted his teeth. "Don't say that word in front of me in the future. I came to find you that day to talk to you about something. Not … not … "He couldn't say the word" prostitute "no matter what. Mo Xi turned his head away with a dark expression. In the end, he said stiffly, "Remember, it's about something."
"Something …" Gu Mang murmured, finally relaxing a little. But his eyes still caught all the subtle emotions on Mo Xi's face.
Finally, he asked slowly, "… But, why?"
"Why what?"
"Why my …" Gu Mang's emotions had not calmed down. He still couldn't speak as calmly and smoothly as he had on the night of their reunion. He was really scared of hunger and beating, so for a moment, he could only speak one word at a time. "My sword … disappeared. I can't hit you when I hit you? "
Mo Xi didn't answer immediately, but his face slowly became gloomy and cold.
"Why?"
"…"
Why?
That day, at the Murong Lian banquet, someone sighed that although Gu Mang's sword formation was amazing, no one in the world knew the secret behind it. Actually, he was wrong.
That day, at the banquet, there was actually someone who not only knew the secret of this sword formation, but also knew why this formation was originally created.
That person was Mo Xi, who didn't say a word at that time.
Mo Xi stared at Gu Mang's face, still restraining Gu Mang with one hand, not allowing him to move, but his other hand released Gu Mang's chin and slowly slid down along the side of his neck.
Finally, his rough fingertips stopped on the lotus sword formation seal.
Mo Que silently looked down at him, stroking his neck. His eyes were actually somewhat red, as if in the next moment he would stoop down and bite down on that lotus insignia, bite through Gu Mang's flesh and blood vessels, and have him die in his arms. It was as if as long as he did this, this person would no longer deceive him, no longer betray him, no longer disappoint him.
He was obedient.
Probably because his eyes were too stubborn, and his suppressed emotions were too crazy, Gu Mang felt that something was wrong. His eyes wandered, and his lips trembled slightly, as if he was murmuring something in a low voice.
Mo Xi finally spoke slowly and in a low voice.
"Don't say it anymore."
"…!"
"No matter how you summon it, it won't work."
Gu Mang was stunned. "You … know?"
"I know." Mo Xi's gaze moved away from the lotus, and slowly, deeply, buried in Gu Mang's deep blue eyes.
"This sword formation can be triggered by itself, but if you really want it to appear, as long as you sincerely ask, you can also summon it temporarily."
Gu Mang's face instantly paled, and his eyes widened.
Mo Xi's expression was very complicated, as if he was deeply entangled in a deep hatred. He didn't know what to do.
"But if I don't allow it. It won't appear. " Mo Xi paused, and the color in his eyes deepened. His thin lips opened and closed, and he slowly narrated.
"Because not only does it listen to you, it also listens to me."
"It doesn't only belong to you."
With every sentence Mo Xi said, Gu Mang's face turned paler, and in the end, it was almost as thin as a piece of paper. He stared blankly at Mo Xi's face, which was so close to him.
"Why … did …"
Mo Xi lowered his head and looked at him, breathing deeply. Although he didn't want to show too much emotion, the pain in his eyes could no longer be concealed. His eyelashes trembled, and his Adam's apple moved slightly.
"Gu Mang." He paused and closed his eyes. "Have you really forgotten everything?"
Gu Mang's eyes widened, and Mo Xi's handsome face was reflected in his sea-blue eyes.
"You … it can't stop … you." He murmured, and his face was full of beastly vigilance. "Why … does it listen to you?"
It was hard to tell whether Mo Xi's expression was cold or painful. His lips opened and closed, and his words were cold. "Of course it listens to me."
"…"
Silence.
Mo Xi closed his eyes.
Then, as if the lava that had been suppressed finally cracked open, he suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes were burning red!
He suddenly couldn't hold back his anger. "Of course it will listen to me. Because your seal is made with my blood. Because your seal is made by me. Because … because the person who created this formation isn't you. It's me!"
Gu Mang obviously didn't understand.
But he could see the anger and sadness on the face in front of him. He opened his eyes wide and stared blankly at this unfamiliar man.
The man's expression was too complicated, as if he had accumulated more than ten years of love and hatred, suppressed more than ten years of pain, and finally exploded more than ten years of despair.
He suddenly raised his hand, and almost violently tore open his folded collar, revealing his slender and naked neck. Mo Xi's eyes were cold, and soaked in ice and fire. He gritted his teeth.
"Do you see it?" Although the cold light in his eyes was sharp, they were moist. "This curse seal is exactly the same as yours. … Your blood! You did it! "
"I made it for you …"
As he spoke, he suddenly pushed Gu Mang away, as if he suddenly didn't want to touch him, and didn't want to talk to him anymore.
Mo Xi covered his forehead with his hand.
His voice was choked with sobs.
The author has something to say: "Fancy Questions"
Qianqian: I didn't expect this curse seal to not be washed off after so long. Didn't Liaoguo wash it off for you?
Vast: Yes, but there are still residual stains.
Ah Lian: I think Mo Xi and Gu Mang must have something going on. Men! Go and steal Mo Xi's sheets!
Subordinate: Master, Lord Xi He is obsessed with cleanliness, so the sheets must have been washed …
Ah Lian: I don't believe it. Look carefully, there must be some residual stains!
Yue Chenqing: Oh no! I had too much fun, and my clothes are so dirty! What should I do?
Jiang Yexue: What else can I do? Come to my house, I'll wash it for you. Sigh.
Mysterious Fourth Uncle: You're not good at washing clothes. Even if you wash them, they'll still be dirty. There will be residual stains.
Princess Meng Ze: … My head hurts. I don't think I need to bring any other local products back to the city. I just need to bring some stain removal powder for these people.
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