Chapter 7 Chapter 1: Gun Seven

In the dead of night, everyone has fallen asleep.There were still a few oil candles burning in the main room of Ji's mansion, and Ji Qian was sitting at the table, staring at the candle tears without saying a word, condensing drop by drop. "Hey! Go to bed early. I said I'd better report to the garrison," the wife complained while groping to remove the blue satin robe for Ji Qianzheng, "What the hell is going on? Can't I tell you? I have been frowning all night. If it is really a vicious person, tens of thousands of people guard this big Nanhuai city, are you still afraid of him committing murder? But if he wants to cause trouble and involve you, it is not even I can't keep my home."

"Don't ask any more." Ji Qianzheng's voice was rare and cold, "You should also know that the world is vast, and some things are definitely beyond our control. I am very happy that he can retreat, and don't mention it again. Don't tell anyone about this!" After a long time, he sighed, "You will never understand. They are not one person, nor ten people, maybe they will be thousands of people, when they line up to charge, the stars will change, even the army of the princes retreat." "They are the apostles of the Valkyrie," his face was indescribably weird under the lamp, "They really are!"

"War God? I think you were scared out of your wits. I heard from Chang Ye that he appreciates Ji Ye?" "Ye'er is indeed talented in martial arts. Today he stabbed the man to my chest. I had no chance to dodge. I already had the will to die. I didn't expect him to be able to stop it," Ji Qian said. Sighing, "But the gun is too powerful, after all, it is a violent character." "It was you who insisted on teaching him spearmanship," the wife resented. "Now that he has practiced spearmanship, his black eyes are even fiercer. Even glancing at me usually scares me. The son of a concubine, You teach better than Chang Ye, are you so favoritism?"

Ji Qianzheng let out a long sigh, "I put all my heart and soul into Chang Ye. The poisonous dragon practiced by Ye'er was originally violent, not Zhongzheng's peaceful spear skills, so it entered the country faster than Chang Ye. I taught Chang Ye's big Qi swordsmanship is the highest martial art of the Ji family. It is difficult to learn, but his achievements in the future will definitely surpass Ye'er. Moreover, it is not difficult for Chang Ye to learn literature and practice martial arts, and his achievements are ten times or a hundred times higher than Ye'er. A warrior can only resist a few enemies. Chang Ye But he can have the talent to rule a country, which is incomparable."

"Then why do you teach Ji Ye again, let him go with his surly temper," the wife's brow softened a little, but she was still complaining. "Brother in battle," Ji Qian was laughing with him, "Although Ye'er is not a talent to be made, but he has practiced a little martial arts, and Chang Ye will become a great weapon in the future. He can also protect Chang Ye. What about following him as a general? Yes, it's also good for Chang Ye." "You're just thoughtful." The wife had nothing to say, she took his arm and got under the quilt together.

The voice inside gradually faded away, and finally there was only giggling, vaguely talking about the future. Outside the house, the brilliance of the stars and the moon streamed down, a rare tranquility.Thousands of houses, the roof seems to be flowing with a layer of mercury. Under the wide eaves far away, a thin black figure stood alone in the darkness where the stars and the moon could not even shine. The small voices in the room could no longer be heard clearly, Ji Ye raised his head and stared at the tiger-screaming tooth gun in his arms, the sharp edge of the gun was so cold that his heart trembled.He looked at the small pine forest behind the house, his north wing, and the grassy cobblestone field in the garden, but he didn't know where he should go.

He turned around and walked silently in the garden with his gun in his hand, even Ji Qianzheng who was in the room never noticed his coming and going.Ji Ye's footsteps are like a sneaking cat, and Ji Qianzheng always says that those are not upright footsteps. In fact, the tiger's footsteps are no different from a cat's, but Ji Qianzheng has never seen a tiger before. When he got to the wall, Ji Ye looked around, moved a few big stones, built a ladder, and climbed up the wall silently.He walked silently along the top of the wall, and the boundless Nanhuai City fell asleep at his feet.Ji Ye just walked like this, going back and forth over and over again, he didn't know where he was going at all.

In the end, Himeno sat on the roof of his house, hugging his legs and pillowing his knees, as if he was about to fall asleep in the slightly cold night wind. "Himino, Himeno..." A thin and soft voice came from behind. Ji Ye woke up suddenly, turned around, and saw a pair of rose red eyes looking at him, and there was a playful smile around the petal-like lips. "Yu Ran?" He recognized that it was the girl who visited during the day, "Why are you here?" "Grandpa and I live in a hotel over there. I want to come out to have a look, but it's always inconvenient to come out during the day."

"inconvenient?" Yuran's eyes widened, and she picked up the pale golden hair around her neck, "Look at the color of my eyes and my hair, how dare you come out in the daytime? I wear a hood all the way, sometimes I really want to Throwing away the hat and riding on horseback with hair on, but grandpa won't let me. I hate it." "I saw it." Ji Ye nodded seriously, "It's pretty good." Yu Ran was stunned for a moment, "It would be nice if everyone was as stupid as you." Ji Ye was not angry, "Go back, it's not safe outside in the dead of night."

"What's unsafe? In the forests of our Ningzhou, if you travel, you will often come across the villages of our Yu tribe. On the night when the moonlight is the best, we will wear white gauze-like dresses and walk hand in hand under the moonlight." We don't light the fire either, the moonlight shines on the skirt, it looks transparent, like the wings of a dragonfly. It is said that when girls walk like this, the light of the moon god will shine on the lightest girl, and she will be in all People's eyes fly up to the sky and go to the palace of God, but unfortunately I have never seen it, but," Yu Ran sighed, "It was really beautiful at that time, everyone was beautiful."

Ji Ye watched her pick up the skirt of her white skirt and stand at the end of the roof ridge. The breeze blew the white silk ribbon on her long golden hair, making her whole figure seem unreal.He suddenly noticed that Yu Ran was barefoot, and her semi-transparent feet were lightly stepping on the blue-gray tiles, and she stood up gracefully, as if she was about to fly away at any moment. He stood up silently, and tilted his head to look at him for a long, long time. Ji Ye understood, and scratched his neck in embarrassment, "You should go back, this is not Ningzhou, but Nanhuai. There will be thieves at night, and they will rob the streets with knives. I heard that many places are famine, Those people who came to Wanzhou still can't eat, so they can only be thieves." "Hey, Mu Mu, why are you so depressed?" Yu Ran said, "Your father treated you so fiercely, did he scold you later?" Ji Ye shook his head, "Actually, he doesn't often scold me, he doesn't care about me. Does your father care about you?" "I haven't seen him, he died. Aren't you cold sitting here?" "It's not cold, I'm not very afraid of the cold. I wanted to go to gun practice just now, but now I don't want to, and I don't want to sleep." "Then let's talk and play, I want to hear about dragons," Yu Ran said, "I ran out secretly, and I can't go back until Grandpa is fast asleep, otherwise it will be terrible." "I... don't know much either." Ji Ye murmured. "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. It's okay to say something wrong. When you went out to sea, you drew a dragon and came back to show me, and we will know." "Drawing a dragon..." Ji Ye lowered his head, "I was just talking." "What? Didn't you agree? You can't play tricks, right? Why are you people in Donglu like this?" Ji Ye suddenly stood up.He stubbornly turned his head away from Yuran, "I don't know how to draw dragons for you, because I don't know how to draw at all. No one taught me, and I don't even know how to write!" Yu Ran was stunned for a moment, "You are illiterate. Didn't your father teach you? I see a lot of books in your house..." "No!" Ji Ye suddenly turned his head back, he stared at Yu Ran, "I just can't! No one taught me! I'm stupid, and it's useless to learn it. Why do you keep pestering me?" Me? I just want to sit here alone! My father beat me when you left, and I didn’t do anything!" Yuran was a little scared, she wanted to run away.But when she looked up and saw Ji Ye's eyes, she didn't feel that he was really angry, he was just trying to widen his eyes, those bright dark eyes. "Then can you write your own name?" Ji Ye shook his head. Yuran hesitated for a moment, went up to pull his hand, and tapped a finger on the palm of his hand, "Then let me teach you, your Donglu writing is actually not as difficult as our Yu clan's god envoy writing." study." Himeno felt the warmth in her palm, and his hands trembled.He suddenly withdrew his whole hand, turned around and ran away.He looked at the deep night sky, which was full of stars twinkling.He ran desperately along those connected walls, across the roof of the courtyard, he ran fast, as if he was afraid of being chased by the girl with blond hair and red eyes. Finally, he stopped by the clear water of Phoenix Pond, stood there for a while, put his hands around his mouth, and shouted with all his strength towards the other side of the lake.No one could understand what he was shouting, even he himself did not know, the huge shadow of the bell tower under the moon cast on him, the bell of the Confucian Temple rang, and finally swallowed his shout. After standing for a long time, he turned around and saw the pair of crystal-clear bare feet on the ridge of the clock tower. The girl stood there, looking at him timidly, her skirt fluttering gently in the wind. The two looked at each other silently for a long time. "Are you really teaching me how to read?" Ji Ye rubbed his nose hard and raised his head, "I want to learn."