(There are two days left in this month, and it's a bit shameless to ask for a monthly pass at the last moment, but I still hope to climb up, thank you!) ）

Chapter 372: Telling the Truth (6)

The bamboo forest is very cool, although the wind can't penetrate such a dense green bamboo, but there is no feeling of suffocation. Fang Xie sat cross-legged on the ground, looking up at the sky emerging from the cracks in the bamboo forest. Because the gap is too small, the sky you see is extraordinarily pure.

If you can look at the whole sky, you will see flying birds and floating clouds, but in this gap, there is a trace of pure sky.

Fang Xie didn't expect his mood to be so calm, he thought he would be very excited and nervous. I thought that my palms would be full of sweat, even on my back, and I thought that my face would turn white and my lips would be blue, as if I had been poisoned, and my life would not be long. He thought that he would listen carefully to Luo Yao's every word, but he found that he would be distracted for a moment.

Wait too long for this moment.

Fang Xie didn't think that if Luo Yao was telling a moving story. So should I cry at the right time? If it is a story of a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs, should you draw a knife and face each other with an angry face?

What a boring thought.

He couldn't understand himself, how could he be so calm.

Luo Yao was not as calm as Fang Jie, although he hadn't spoken yet, his chest was a little heaving, and the eyes looking at Fang Xie were getting more and more different from before. Before the story even began, he was already infected by himself. I don't know if he will be in tears after Lu Dao tells it?

It's true that he's not young anymore.

Fang Xie looked up at the sky, and he looked at Fang Jie.

The green bamboo forest is picturesque, and the two people in the painting have their own thoughts.

"It's not a pretty story."

Luo Yao's definition was given at the beginning, which was not as unexpected by Fang Jie. So he nodded, very little, and didn't seem to care how much sadness and sadness was hidden in Luo Yao's words. If this story was related to Fang Jie, he really couldn't think of a beautiful story. From the very beginning of his life, he was separated from the word beauty by thousands of miles, and it was only now that he grasped that trace of hard-won beauty in pain.

It is precisely because he has experienced too many things that are too bizarre that the current Fang Xie is stingy with his emotions. Except for Shen Tianfan and Mu Xiaowaist, except for the big dog Qilin, he will not easily open the door of his heart to anyone, even if it is just such a gap.

"But if you listen to me and think about it, you think it's a pretty heartwarming story."

Fang Xie smiled: "Tragic scenes are generally warm. ”

"Pathos doesn't stay sad."

Luo Yao said.

He sat down cross-legged across from Fang Jie.

The two of them were so close that he could even see a faint patch of freckles on Fang Jie's face. Fang Xie could clearly see his beard, one by one.

"Many years ago......"

Luo Yao looked at Fang Xie and used a very vulgar beginning: "Many years ago, there was a young man in the East Road of the Northwest River of the Great Sui Dynasty, who was born poor and low. When he was three years old, he behaved differently from other children, and when other children were still spoiled in his mother's arms, he wondered when he would become a hero. ”

"When he was six years old, he was old enough to go to a private school, but his family was too poor to have money for him to study. He wasn't annoyed, he just felt pity. His father planned to make him a trader, so when he was six years old, he found him a godfather who went to Saibei. This child's life seems to have drawn a trajectory and is destined for a long life. Become a merchant who is not even as good as a farmer, or the most humble merchant who goes to the north. ”

"In this year, there was a traveling traveler who passed by from a small village, and when he saw this child, his eyes immediately widened, saying that this child was born to be a good billet for cultivation. The child's father didn't know what the practice was, but he knew that the practice of the Tao cost a lot of money, so he didn't agree. Jianghu Ke said that I don't charge money, and I still take care of the food, you let your son go with me, and come back when you have a breath. ”

"The child's father said no, he will be able to make money in the future. With you, who is going to run to the north? ”

"Jianghu guests asked, how much silver can you earn in a year?"

The child's father said that at least ten taels a year should be ...... In fact, he lied, the merchants who ran to the north of the Saibei actually didn't make much silver, and it stands to reason that a horse of Shu brocade was trafficked to Northern Liaodi, and the price increased tenfold, which was a good business. But the road is too far, just eating, drinking, and raising mules will take up a large part, and then you have to guard against mountain bandits and horse thieves outside the border, once robbed, the family will be ruined. Running for a year, it is a great joy to be able to drop ten taels of silver. If it weren't for the fact that his family was really poor and couldn't find a way to live, no one would want to be a merchant and deal with barbarians. ”

"The charlatan is obviously also a down-and-out person, and he can't take out a lot of silver. He used his long sword, plus a treasure that was said to be handed down from the master, and raised a total of eighty taels of silver for the child's father, who smiled and said that the child should take it away, and he would not starve to death. ”

Luo Yao stopped and stretched out his hand towards Fang Jie.

Fang Xie was stunned, not understanding what it meant. Luo Yao leaned forward and untied Fang Jie's pipe, and then lit it: "So the child followed the Jianghu guest, and it will be ten years to go." In the past ten years, they have walked through the mountains, walked through the big lakes, and finally arrived at the prairie. Jianghu Ke was very old at this time, and he taught all his skills to his children. But his skills were not very strong in the first place, and by the time the child was fifteen years old, his cultivation was actually even more powerful than him. Jianghu Ke told ...... Tell the young man, tell the young man that there are two paths in front of you now, and you choose for yourself. ”

"First, find a big sect to take refuge in, with your current cultivation, any sect will accept it. Second, when I returned to the Great Sui to join the army, I heard that the imperial court was going to use troops against the enemy. ”

Fang Xie plucked a hairy grass and put it in his mouth, and said with a smile: "So there is the current Left Avant-garde General...... But what does this have to do with me. ”

"Listen quietly."

Luo Yao said seriously: "You should know me, you should have understood me many years ago, and now I am starting from the beginning, just to make you no longer a stranger to me." ”

"You say"

Fang Xie nodded: "I'll listen"

……

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The young man stayed on the grassland for another half a year, because the Jianghu Ke was too old, and he waited for the Jianghu Ke to die and bury him before returning to Dasui, and then he set out on his way home. He planned to go home to see his family before joining the army, but when he got home, he found that he had already changed beyond recognition. His father built a new house with eighty taels of silver given by the Jianghu guests back then, but the mistress of the new house was no longer the young man's mother. ”

Fang Xie couldn't help but interrupt him: "Let's talk about you directly, so it's easy for me to imagine." ”

"Good"

Luo Yao nodded: "I went home and stood outside the door to look, but I didn't go in." When I entered the village, I inquired, and my mother was forced to die shortly after I left the village, because my father had befriended a widow from outside, and the widow was with her, and she was fifteen or sixteen years old when I returned. ”

"I stood outside the door for a while before leaving, and waited outside the village for three days. When the widow went to the market with her daughter, I killed the widow, killed her daughter, and went away. I went to join the army and it took me half a month to choose a team. Because I heard that the general who led the troops was a very talented person, and he was eclectic in employing people, and as long as he had real skills, he would reuse them. ”

"After joining the army, I lived a very quiet life for two years. Because the emperor of the enemy country had declared himself a vassal to the Great Sui, the war dragged on for two years before finding an excuse to start it. Before the attack, I took the opportunity to beat up the team that had been bullying me, so that the general could see that he thought I was good, so he had people beat me with ten sticks and take me as his own soldier. On the battlefield, I always followed the general, blocked countless swords, guns and arrows for him, and suffered many injuries. ”

"The war went well, and the imperial army soon occupied half of the enemy's territory. But the general did not want to fight at this time, because he received a generous gift from the emperor of the enemy country. The general is old, and he intends to use this money to retire. So he excused himself that the city wall was strong and the soldiers were seriously damaged, and asked the division to return to the court. The emperor agreed, and the army returned to the Great Sui with countless booty. Three years later, the fact that the general had received a heavy gift was revealed, and the general was given death by the emperor. ”

Fang Xie frowned slightly, holding back the question in his heart and not asking it.

Luo Yao glanced at him, then nodded: "That's right, I asked people to secretly expose that general." I don't want to say anything about doing this, except that he doesn't deserve to be called a qualified soldier of the Empire. But he has the grace of appreciation, and after his death, I plan to retire to the countryside and live a steady life with my wife. The emperor did not allow it, so I was allowed to stay in the army and serve. Originally, I was qualified to become a general, but because I didn't have the money to give gifts and didn't bother to give gifts, I offended the magnates in the court and was suppressed by the magnates...... I have been a general of the five products for more than ten years. ”

"And then ......"

Luo Yao's face was a little ugly, and there was a deep pain in his eyes.

"My only son has made a big mistake, and I must give an explanation to the court. He killed a family of thirty-two, and I want to carry this matter over...... and he had to pay for his life. I counted it carefully, and my wife happened to have thirty-two people who were killed. But I didn't want to lose my wife, so I sent for my father to be brought from the northwest, saying that he was honoring him, but I killed him. That way, my wife won't have to die...... I took thirty-one heads and my son to the imperial capital, and outside the Taiji Palace, I killed him with my own hands......"

Even if he knew about this matter, hearing Luo Yao say it in such a flat tone, Fang Xie couldn't help but tremble in his heart...... What he said was too bland, without a hint of waves.

Especially the killing of his father, it turned out to be just a matter of one sentence.

Seemingly, he didn't hesitate at all.

In fact, Luo Yao really didn't have any hesitation. When he made his choice, it took him less than a second. He didn't have any entanglement in the choice between his wife and his father.

"This ......"

Fang Xie spat off the hairy grass in his mouth, breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What does it have to do with me?" The general is talking about your life, and it must be rarely mentioned to anyone. So I was very apprehensive and grateful, and the gratitude was because the general put his heart into his heart. The fear is that I'm afraid you'll kill me. After all, some of the things you said can't be passed on. ”

"Kill you?"

Luo Yao couldn't help laughing: "You're not stupid, so you must know that this is impossible." You should have had a guess in your mind before you came here with me, because that's what you've been looking for for years. If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have told you so much. If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have arranged for someone to protect you for more than ten years! ”

As soon as these words came out, Fang Jie's heart exploded like a thunderclap!

Although Fang Xie had been suspicious, and he was even about to confirm it after arriving in Yongzhou, when this sentence came out of Luo Yao's mouth at this moment, he still found it difficult to accept!

In an instant, his heart sank into the sea.