Chapter 28 first quarter

Di Bin walked alone through the snow and mud mixed with black and white, slowly climbed up the dirt slope, and entered a forest with withered leaves. He passed row after row of bleak-looking branches.Feather-like fine snow fell sporadically from the gloomy sky, falling on his white fur. Into the middle of the woods, he found that Scythe had come before him. Every time Di Bin took a step forward, his heart beat faster. After getting close, he really couldn't believe it: this man with bald head, long beard, bare feet, wrapped in a cloak and blanket shawl, as thin as a walking skeleton, was Fifth Brother.

——The perfect body that I hugged and caressed that night has now become like this... What happened to him in the past twenty-four years? ... Lian Shou held the small Buddha statue in his hand and kept looking down.He didn't raise his head until Di Bin approached. "White beans." Said the hoarse voice of the sickle head, which was like grinding a stone. "Long time no see." When he heard the long-lost "white beans", Di Bin almost cried.He held back and just stood there blankly. Di Bin didn't sleep at all the night before.He has been imagining what it would be like to reunite with Lian Shou after so long?Would I be too excited to hold him in the first place?Will he still hug me?Will he try to kill me?Or are you just looking at me with hatred?Or have you treated me like a stranger? ...

Unexpectedly, the two of them just stood and looked at each other calmly. "Hmm... a long time..." Di Bin wiped his sore nose. "For more than twenty years, I have been sending people to look for you." "You can't find it..." Lian Shou stretched out his palm. "No one will ever recognize me again." Di Bin nodded.He took a few deep breaths before finally deciding to call out, "Fifth Brother..." However, Lian Shou was not moved by this long-unheard title. "You... have changed a lot..." Di Bin continued. "It's not just the appearance. I don't have the strength that I used to have anymore." Lian Shou raised a palm like a dead branch, clenched it into a fist and let it go, and the thorn tattoos between his fingers had faded away.

"But now you have even more astonishing power." "Power..." Scythe looked at the bare trees next to him. "It's not what I'm after..." He looked down at the Buddha statue in his hand again, and then threw it to Di Bin. "Repay you." Di Bin took it, and he stroked the wood grain with his fingers regretfully. "I originally gave this to Heizi. On the day he left the capital, he returned it to me." Di Bin's face lost all color. "Thank you..." Kasame said. "Raising my children for me for so many years..." These words were like a sharper and colder knife than "killing grass", piercing Di Bin's heart.

"Failing to keep him in the capital was the biggest mistake in my life." "No." Sicklehead said decisively. "That was his own choice." Di Bin looked Wu Ge straight in the eyes.Still clear.There was no hatred in it. ——When Agou died, did the boss look in the same way? ... Di Bin clutched the clothes on his chest tightly. --I.killed.Son of Five Brothers. ——This is an eternal fact... "I...I..." Di Bin was speechless for a long time. "Originally... I wasn't ready to meet you..." Di Bin lowered his pale face. "But there's no time..."

"Did Yu Runsheng ask you to come see me?" Di Bin's whole portrait froze, and a bone-chilling cold seeped into his heart. It was the first time he heard: Fifth Brother directly calling the boss's name, the meaning in it was very clear. "Boss wants me...to tell you: 'We each lost a son...'" Di Bin choked up when he said this. "'If you still cherish the bond of brotherhood, I hope to reconcile with you and end all this madness before I make a bigger mistake.'" "Reconciliation?..." Scythe's sunken face showed no expression of joy or dislike. "Is it Yu Runsheng who wants to reconcile with me? Or those princes?"

"Is there a difference?" Di Bin said this time in his own capacity. "Over the years, how many branches of the 'Great Tree Hall' have been destroyed by your 'Three Realms'?" "Don't lie to yourself." Lian Shou sneered. "The fact is: if the court collapses, the 'Dashutang' will no longer exist." "Really?" Di Bin looked directly at the sickle head, with a little irritation in his eyes. "After you overthrow the vassals and rule the country, will the 'Great Tree Hall' also be destroyed? Can't you reconcile? Can't the 'Great Tree Hall' become an ally of the 'Three Realms Army'?"

Lian Shou stared at Di Bin for a long time. "Sorry." He finally said. "In the world I'm after, there's no place for a group like 'Big Tree Hall'." "Did you forget?" Di Bin stomped his feet. "You also have a part in the establishment of the 'Big Tree Hall'!" "I'm here to make up for the mistakes I made in the past." Di Bin's heart became even colder. "You mean: everything our brothers have done in the past was a mistake?" he asked word for word. Sickle was silent.He recalled everything that happened until twenty-four years ago, and everything was still so vivid.Every time we fight side by side, the burning feelings and absolute mutual trust are not fake.

Kill the dark Jiwei streets and alleys that eat bones. Brilliantly burning "slaughterhouse". Anton Avenue crowded with "boxing champions". It was the first time I saw Ming Chongmen in the capital. The scene with Baidou leading troops out of Beijing for the last time. Charge on Zhende Avenue. Ning Xiaoyu's starving face... The moment he saw that face, he woke up... "No..." Lian Shou said quietly. "It's just... today I saw... something more important." "I never want to be an enemy of Fifth Brother." Di Bin said again. "If this continues, I will only kill you, or be killed by you."

He went to a dead tree and broke off a bare branch. "But if reconciliation is not possible, I have no choice." "You have it, Baidou." Lian Shou looked at Di Bin with warm eyes.He spread his arms open. "Join me here." Di Bin took a deep breath.Fifth Brother's eyes reminded him of that night again.It has been so long, but the touch of the kiss is still so clear... He looked at Sickle's embrace, how eager he was to throw himself into it again, to feel that warmth again.No matter what the price... "Even... I am... the murderer who killed your son?..." Di Bin said, his lips trembling.

"I said, I have more important things in my eyes now." Liantou showed the considerate expression many years ago again. "More important than my blood relatives..." "Isn't it more important than our brother's oath?" "I'm the same as you: I hope that what I'm after can coexist with my relationship with you." Lian Shou's eyes became brighter. "Bai Dou, I miss you very much." When Di Bin heard this sentence, he had the urge to run over immediately. But...he knew what Lian Shou's phrase "Join my side" represented. In his mind, the signboard of "Big Tree Hall" that was burned to ashes appeared, and the beheaded head of the boss appeared... Di Bin tried his best to look away from Sickle's arms, then shook his head vigorously. He broke off the branch with both hands. "I have been guarding one thing all my life. It is the proof of our brothers' existence. I will not let anyone destroy it. Including you, including myself." The light in Sickle's eyes disappeared, and he lowered his head in disappointment. Di Bin put the little Buddha statue around his neck. "I know that what I believe may be false. But I have made up my mind: I don't want to see it shatter while I can still breathe, otherwise my life will be nothing." Di Bin squatted down and grabbed a handful of snow mixed with mud from the ground. "Fifth Brother, what about you? Have you finally found that answer after so many years away? Have you been working hard to realize it? Have you ever looked back and realized that what you have created over the years is really what you hoped for? Does it look like it? Are all the things you are after real?" After he finished asking, he made up his mind not to look at the sickle head again, turned around and started walking back and forth. Because he is afraid: if you look at it again, you will never give up in the future. He couldn't do it if he was asked to kill the other for the sake of the boss or the fifth brother. An inextricable knot. He was already prepared to die in the next battle. He walked with the sickle on his back, and the tears that fell were scattered in the air, and each one quickly melted with the drifting snow. Sickle looked at the back in disappointment.His expression was the same as when he stood in the yard under the moonlight after losing Ning Xiaoyu. This is the first time Baidou has abandoned him. Scythe sat cross-legged in the middle of the dry forest alone. Light flakes continued to fall on him. He closed his eyes and continued to think about what Baidou asked. for a long time.