"oh."

Old Yao added meaningfully: "Go where you should go, do what you should do, and don't let others influence you."

Chen Ji was startled for a moment. He suddenly felt that the master had guessed something?

What does the other party mean by this, do you want me to leave quickly?

She Dengke said cheerfully: "Chen Ji, please stop worrying about this matter. Don't hurt yourself again because of me."

After finishing his meal, Chen Ji lay down on the bamboo chair again. He slowly closed his eyes, returned to the ancient battlefield, and picked up the long knife named "Whale".

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…

At night, Chen Ji slowly opened his eyes and came to the courtyard.

Liang Gou'er still didn't come back, and the prince, the princess, and the young monk didn't climb over the wall to find a way out, and they didn't even say a serious farewell.

Under the guidance of Uncle Crow, Chen Ji dug into the backyard of the cloth shop. He saw Wu Hongbiao had found a broom and a wooden bucket from nowhere and was washing and sweeping the floor in the yard.

He asked curiously: "With all your injuries, why are you still sweeping the floor in the middle of the night?"

Wu Hongbiao said with a smile: "There are some rat bones and some blood stains thrown in the yard. If someone is frightened when they come to see the shop, I am afraid it will cause unnecessary trouble for the shop owner."

"You seem to be in a good mood?" Chen Ji asked.

Wu Hongbiao said with a smile: "I'll tell you good news. I met Si Cao today, and it's not that he wanted to kill us. In addition, he arranged for others to send us away, and we can return to Jingchao tomorrow evening!"

Chen Ji hummed: "Is it reliable? Could it be that he wants to trick us into killing us?"

Wu Hongbiao held the broom and thought for a moment: "It should be reliable. When he pulled me into the alley today, I was ready to die, but he didn't do it... He wanted to kill us both, so there was no need to go to such trouble.

.”

With that said, Chen Ji leaned against the door frame, slowly sat on the threshold and said softly: "Do you miss your hometown?"

Wu Hongbiao stood in the yard leaning on a broom. While looking at the moon in the sky, he said longingly: "I miss you. I was taken to a cold camp for hard training when I was twelve years old. I never had the chance to return to my hometown and see my parents."

.When I go back this time, I should have a chance to go home."

"When I was a child, in the village, in autumn, everyone picked the pears from the fruit trees, sold the delicious ones to the city, and kept the unpalatable ones to be made into frozen pears. The varieties of frozen pears we made were sour and astringent, and I

Grandma calls it a 'choked dog', but she just freezes it outside and it tastes better... Do you think it's weird or not?"

"In winter, the adults would carry hard bows and four or five hunting dogs and go up the mountain to hunt the blind bear. We waited and waited at home. When they dragged the blind bear back, grandma would peel off the fat from the blind bear and give it to us.

Eat it fried in oil. Many people say it's fishy, ​​but I think it's delicious."

"When we return to Jingchao, I will definitely take you back to my hometown to visit. Then I will treat you to frozen pears and oily shuttlecocks, and we can also go up the mountain to kill the blind bear."

Chen Ji listened silently. Perhaps Wu Hongbiao had suffered too much during this period, so he was more sentimental, or maybe he had been missing his homeland in the North since he came to Ning Dynasty, and now he is finally going back, so he talked a lot tonight.

.

He had also heard a few words from merchants recently and knew that there seemed to be ten states in the Jing Dynasty, and Wu Hongbiao's hometown should be the northeasternmost state, "Shangjing Road".

Chen Ji sat on the threshold and looked at the moon with Wu Hongbiao: "Brother Biaozi, you were seriously injured at that time. Why did you come to report to me? What if I betray you?"

Wu Hongbiao said with a smile: "Actually, I was a little scared on the way here. What if you really betrayed me? But...if I don't come, I'm afraid I will regret it."

"Um."

After they finished speaking, one of them sat and the other stood, and they were silent at the same time.

Although their circumstances were different, both of them longed to leave this place of right and wrong so that they no longer had to live in fear every day. But when they really had to leave, they felt complicated.

Chen Ji suddenly said: "Brother Biaozi, please go back, I won't leave."

"Huh?" Wu Hongbiao was stunned for a moment: "You're not leaving? You'll die if you stay in Luo City!"

Chen Ji smiled: "Have you forgotten, my father is a fellow magistrate of Luo City, and I have many ideas."

"Then I'll stay too!" Wu Hongbiao said firmly.

Chen Ji and Wu Hongbiao looked at each other: "What about your sister?"

Wu Hongbiao was stunned.

Just now, Chen Ji really wanted to keep Wu Hongbiao and help him kill Shopkeeper Yuan, but he couldn't do that.

He smiled and said: "Don't worry, go back. I will move back to Chen's house in Luo City tomorrow. I don't believe that Shopkeeper Yuan dares to sneak into Tongzhi's house and kill me. Do you think he dares?"

Wu Hongbiao scratched his head: "Yes, if he really dares to assassinate Tongzhi at his home, not to mention Luo City can't tolerate him, the entire Ning Dynasty can't tolerate him... Then you really don't want to leave?"

"Well, I'll stay and continue to serve Jing Chao!"

"……good."

Chen Ji stood up and patted the dust on his butt: "I may not be able to see you off tomorrow. I will go back to Jingchao this time and live a good life. Don't go back to Ningchao again."

Wu Hongbiao laughed: "I don't want to come back and live in fear. I'll wait for you in Jingchao."

As he spoke, he actually opened his arms.

Chen Ji hesitated for a moment, then finally opened his arms, hugged Wu Hongbiao, climbed over the wall and left the cloth shop.

When he pulled it out, Dark Cloud was squatting on the wall of the next courtyard. He asked curiously: "We really don't want to leave?"

Chen Ji said with a smile: "If I don't leave, I'm afraid I will regret it. You go and give Bai Prajna a good beating. I have something to say to its owner."
Chapter completed!