Chapter 33 Chapter Thirty-Third: Love Is Like the Sea

The chicken stewed with ginseng is still steaming. A few dishes to go with the wine are a small dish of fried pork head, a dish of roasted ham with honey, a dish of fried fresh shrimp, a dish of freshly cut winter bamboo shoots, a dish of chicken mixed with fish, and a dish of dry fried eel. Zhuyeqing is also warmed just right. Northerners also pay much attention to drinking, not only warm rice wine Huadiao, but also white dry bamboo leaf green. Ye Kai had already drunk three cups, the fierce battle in the middle of the night, the thick blood from the wound seemed to be far away from him.

Shangguan Xiaoxian was looking at him, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "It doesn't seem easy to swell you to death." Ye Kai didn't speak, his mouth was empty. Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Although you eat the food quickly, you drink too little wine." Ye Kai glanced at her and said, "Are you trying to swell me to death? Or are you trying to get me drunk?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "I originally wanted to scare you to death." Ye Kai said: "Oh?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "You clearly know that all the people nearby saw you fighting with Boss Song, yet you still dare to sneak around there, you are a bit too courageous."

Ye Kai said: "Are you afraid that I will be recognized by others and arrested by the general?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "No matter what, one thing more is worse than one thing less, why do you bother to get into that kind of trouble." Ye Kai said: "So you pretend to be a policeman and arrest me first?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Actually, I'm also a little scared." Ye Kai said: "What are you afraid of?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "I'm afraid to meet the real arrester." Ye Kai sighed, and said: "I never imagined that there are things in the world that can scare the Lord Shangguan."

Shangguan Xiaoxian also sighed and said, "This is not the only thing I'm afraid of." Ye Kai said: "What are you afraid of?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "I'm still afraid of Chief Ye." Ye Kai said: "Master Ye?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said sweetly: "Who is the leader Ye of the Peanut Gang? Have you forgotten even yourself?" Ye Kai laughed. He laughed and raised his glass, drank it down, and suddenly asked: "In your opinion, is it better to eat peanuts or money?" Shangguan Xiaoxian smiled and said, "I don't know, I only know that one penny can buy a lot of peanuts."

Ye Kai said: "But peanuts are at least a little better than money." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Which point?" Ye Kai said: "Peanuts are edible." He peeled a peanut, threw it up, caught it with his mouth, chewed it slowly, took another sip of wine, and said: "If you can use your money to drink, I will really count you as capable." Shangguan Xiaoxian smiled and said, "What you say always seems to make sense." Ye Kai said: "Of course." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "It's a pity you forgot one thing." Ye Kai said: "Oh?"

Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "No money, no wine, no peanuts." Ye Kai thought for a while, and finally admitted: "It seems that what you said is not unreasonable." Shangguan Xiaoxian smiled and said, "Of course." Ye Kai said: "Unfortunately, you also forgot one thing." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Oh?" Ye Kaidao: "Money is not enough, money can't really make people happy." Shangguan Xiaoxian admitted without even thinking: "That's why I've been looking for it all the time." Ye Kai said: "What are you looking for?"

Shangguan Xiaoxian looked at him, her beautiful eyes were as gentle as spring water: "Find something that can really make me happy." Ye Kai said coldly: "Aside from 'money', what else in this world can make you happy?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "There is only one thing." Ye Kai said: "What is the same?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Peanut." Ye laughed. He peeled another peanut and said with a smile, "You forgot one more thing." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Oh?" Ye Kaidao: "Money and peanuts are not good partners."

Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Nails and hammers are not good partners either." Ye Kai agreed. Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "But when they are together, they are very happy with each other." Ye Kai said: "Are we both happy?" Shangguan Xiaoxian nodded, and said: "Because without a hammer, a nail is completely useless, and without a nail, a hammer can't play its role." She smiled and said, "If a person can't give full play to his strengths, he is a waste. A waste will never be happy." Ye Kai also agreed. Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "So they can only be happy if they are together."

She stared at Ye Kai, but Ye Kai avoided her gaze. He is running away? Shangguan Xiaoxian said slowly: "I know you must understand in your heart, what I said is absolutely reasonable." Ye Kai couldn't deny it. Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Now Duoerjia, Potala and Panchabana are all dead, and the third of the four heavenly kings has passed away. Even if the Demon Cult has not been completely destroyed, it has already collapsed." Her spring-like eye waves became sharp as nails again. But she is not a nail, she is a hammer. "Once the Devil's Cult falls, look around the world, which faction, which faction can compete with us for a day?"

"us?" Ye Kai didn't smile. "We." Shangguan Xiaoxian didn't smile either: "Now money and peanuts represent more than just happiness." Ye Kai was chewing peanuts. Peanuts are chewed and nails are hammered. However, a peanut will rot if no one chews it, and a nail will rust if no one hammers it. What is the value of life. Don't peanuts have to be chewed by people, don't nails have to be hammered by people, and then their lives are valuable. Ye Kai seemed to have been moved. Shangguan Xiaoxian said softly: "I know you must think in your heart that I want you to be a nail."

Ye Kai said: "Aren't you?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "You should be able to see that I am not a terrible mace." She reached out and took his hand. Her hands are soft as satin. Ye Kai sighed, and said: "You really are not, it's a pity..." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "It's a pity that there is a bell between the peanut and the money?" Ye Kai smiled wryly. Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Ding Linglin is indeed a very good girl, if I were a man, I would also like her." Ye Kai said: "You are not a man." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "At least I don't hate her." Ye Kai said: "Really?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "If I hate her, why did I bring you here to meet her?" Ye Kai stared at her and said, "Why?" Shangguan Xiaoxian sighed softly, and said: "Because I now understand that a man like you is definitely not something a woman can completely possess, and I no longer have such extravagant hopes." She stared at Ye Kai with gentler eyes: "Money can be made into bells, and bells can be made into money. Why can't she and I become one person?" Ye Kai avoided her gaze again. Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "If you can see me and her as one person, we must be very happy, otherwise..." Ye Kai couldn't help asking: "Otherwise what?" Shangguan Xiaoxian sighed: "Otherwise money, peanuts and bells may all be in pain for the rest of their lives." Ye Kai finally turned his head and looked at her. It was dusk again. The setting sun was shining on the window, as bright as spring clouds, and the house was burning, warm as spring. Her eyes are more beautiful and warmer than the setting sun. Maybe spring is what she brings. Isn't a woman who can bring spring the greatest dream of men? Shangguan Xiaoxian bit her lip and said, "You seem to have never looked at me like this before." Ye Kai said: "I..." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "You seldom look at me, so you don't see what kind of woman I am at all, just because you don't know what kind of woman I am, that's why you seldom look at me." Ye Kai admitted. There was resentment in Shangguan Xiaoxian's eyes again, and said: "I know you will definitely think that I am a very casual woman, and I have had many men, in fact... In fact, you will know in the future..." Ye Kai said: "Know what?" Shangguan Xiaoxian lowered his head and said softly: "You will know later that you are not only my first man, but also my last." This is not a lie. A smart woman would never tell such a lie that could be exposed at any time. Of course she is a very intelligent woman. Ye Kai's heart seemed to have melted, he couldn't help holding her hand, and said softly: "You don't need to wait until later, I believe it now." Shangguan Xiaoxian's eyes lit up, she jumped up suddenly, and said: "Let's go, let's go find Bell." Ye Kai said: "She..." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Since she still knows to hide here, she must not have completely lost her sanity. As long as we take good care of her, she will recover soon." Ye Kai's eyes showed gratitude, it seems that he really didn't recognize her all this time. Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "When I went out just now, she was already asleep, so I asked Han Zhen to watch her there." Ye Kai said: "Awl?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said sweetly: "As long as you know how to use it, the awl is very useful." Ye Kai said: "You can already trust him?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "He is not a good person, but I have already seen that he would never dare to betray me." The place where they drink is of course Lengxiang Garden. Pass through the corner gate and you will find Ding Linglin's courtyard. Twilight had fallen. The yard was peaceful and quiet, the door was ajar, and there were no lights in the house. They walked through the quiet courtyard, and when they reached the door, Shangguan Xiaoxian let go of Ye Kai's hand. She is not only gentle, but also considerate. A woman's thoughtfulness can always move a man. "She must still be asleep." "It's always a blessing to be able to sleep well." Shangguan Xiaoxian smiled, and gently opened the door. Ye Kai followed behind her. Before she walked in, she suddenly felt that she was stiff. The house is also peaceful and quiet, the warmth of the setting sun still stays in the corner, but the people are gone. Ding Linglin was gone, and so was Han Zhen. Shangguan Xiaoxian looked at the empty bed in surprise, tears streaming down her eyes. Ye Kai, on the contrary, was calmer, lit the lamp first, and then asked, "Are you called Han Zhenshou here?" Shangguan Xiaoxian nodded. Ye Kai said: "Will he leave?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Never, I told him, without my order, he must not leave half a step." Ye Kai said: "Are you sure?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "He will never dare not to listen to me, he still doesn't want to die." Ye Kai said: "But now his people are not here." Shangguan Xiaoxian turned pale and said: "I think there must be a reason for this, there must be..." Ye Kai said: "What do you think he left for?" Shangguan Xiaoxian didn't answer, and couldn't answer. Ye Kai said: "Not only did he leave by himself, he also took Ding Linglin away, he..." Shangguan Xiaoxian interrupted him, saying: "Ding Linglin was definitely not taken away by him." Ye Kai said: "Are you sure?" Shangguan Xiaoxian nodded.She's not one to judge lightly, and her judgments are usually accurate: "She's been too frightened, so she's always nervous, and she can't be stimulated any more." Ye Kai said: "Do you think there is something going on here that surprised her, so she escaped suddenly." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "It must be." Ye Kaidao: "She escaped, of course Han Zhen will chase after her." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "So both of them are not here." Ye Kai said: "When he went after them, why didn't he leave some marks to let us know where they are going?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Her escape must have been sudden, in a hurry, he was too late." Ye Kai sighed and said nothing more. He has never been the kind of person who will lose his mind when he is in a hurry. He has always been very calm. The more pressure he was under, the more he could hold his breath. Shangguan Xiaoxian bit her lip and said: "Since he has gone after him, no matter whether he can catch up or not, there will definitely be news back." Ye Kai said: "Huh?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "Even if we want to look for it now, we can't find it." Ye Kai said: "Yes." Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "So we can only wait for his news here for the time being." Ye Kai said: "Yes." Shangguan Xiaoxian looked at him, couldn't help but said again: "You don't seem to be too anxious." Ye Kai said: "Is there any use in being anxious?" Shangguan Xiaoxian said: "No." Ye Kai said: "Since it's useless, why should I worry?" Although he spoke calmly, his face was still ugly, and he sat down slowly on the bed. —Since there is a place to sit, why not lie down. He simply lay down. Shangguan Xiaoxian was so anxious that she couldn't even sit still, she frowned and said, "This place is too cold, why don't we..." Before the sentence was finished, Ye Kai jumped up suddenly, as if he had been slashed. The light shone on his face.His face also looked as if he had been slashed. Shangguan Xiaoxian had never seen him so terrified before, and couldn't help asking: "What's the matter?" Ye Kai didn't speak.It seemed that even the muscles in his throat were stiff, and he couldn't even make a sound. Shangguan Xiaoxian walked over to the head of the bed, her beautiful face suddenly changed color. She suddenly smelled a very strange smell, a disgusting and trembling smell. The smell of blood.They didn't shed blood, where did the bloody smell come from?It was from the bed. Why is there a smell of blood under the bed? Is there a dead person under the bed?Who is it? The bed is not heavy, and you can lift it up with your hand. All these questions can be answered immediately. But Ye Kai didn't reach out.His hands were already stiff, even his fingers were stiff, he really didn't have the courage to lift the bed. ——If someone really died under the bed, who was it not Ding Linglin? But Shangguan Xiaoxian stretched out his hand.There was indeed a dead person under the bed. He had just died not long ago, and the blood stains on his body hadn't dried completely. It was not Ding Linglin who died, but Han Zhen.