Lights on the other side

Chapter 59 Xiuyuan

Hearing the words Xiuyuan Town, Li Ruoci was stunned for a moment, then asked again: "Have you reported it to the suzerain?"

"The subordinates have already reported."

Li Ruoci looked at Xu Wan and said nothing.

Xu Wan took a step back and said, "I'm a newcomer, so I don't know the rules of your son. If I violate the rules, I hope you will forgive me."

After all, he lowered his head.

Li Ruoci gritted his teeth and laughed, "What do I forgive you for? The suzerain has already said that you can report to him directly if you have any important matters, so how can I interfere with you?"

He went on to say: "Okay, I almost know the matter, you should go down first."

"Then about Xiuyuan Town, what should the young master do?"

"I'll think about it again, hasn't Jingzhou been defeated yet?"

"Okay, then this subordinate will take his leave first."

Seeing Xu Wan's leaving figure, Li Ruoci wanted to stab him in the back.He slowly closed his eyes, he didn't expect the situation to become like this, since the suzerain knew, the order would definitely come down immediately, so Xiuyuan might become the second closed city.

If that time came, what kind of face would he see Pei Shi?It's nothing more than new enmity plus old enmity, life and death.These have been experienced, what is there to be afraid of?After all, he is also a person with blood on his hands, is he still delusional that someone can look back at him?Thinking of this, he smiled silently.

Li Ruoci sat quietly by the window, looking at the chess game on the table, it didn't matter if he was black or white, he would play by himself if no one accompanied him, he stubbornly wanted to trap himself in this small world, hoping that no one would disturb him.But before the end of the game, someone came to report again, Li Ruoci raised his eyelids, motioning him to speak quickly.

"The suzerain told you to change your plan and stop attacking Jingzhou."

"Then where?"

"Just one Xiuyuan Town is enough."

The chess piece in Li Ruoci's hand froze.

"Young master, what the suzerain means is that with so many casualties, Jingzhou may not be able to take it down. Since there is only one Xiuyuan town that is useful, why not..."

Li Ruoci concealed the turmoil in his eyes indiscriminately, and said, "I understand."

It wasn't until the subordinate walked out that he found a suitable place to settle down.Li Ruoci struggled one step at a time, and finally let himself end up in a dead end.

He tried his best to calm himself down, but he couldn't stop his whole body from feeling cold, like soaking in cold water, watching himself being frozen bit by bit, from head to toe, leaving no room for escape.It's not that he is an emotional person, but the emotions he once let go are eating away at himself mercilessly.

Li Ruoci once felt some rare feelings in these emotions when he was young, but now it comes to ask for rewards, and he feels pain because of it.

Come and go, karma.

The way of heaven has always been like this.

He curled the corner of his mouth slightly mockingly.

Li Ruoci cleared up the chess game on the table and became more clear.He understood what his most rational choice was at this time. After so many years of groping on the road between life and death, he had to keep going.So he got up immediately, went outside, took some people and went to Xiuyuan Town.

Xiuyuan Town is smaller than imagined, with a hundred or so families, none of whom are very rich.There are not many trees, flat and flat.Li Ruoci remembered that Pei Shi grew up here, from an ignorant child who didn't know anything to a young boy, for 11 years.

The army surrounded Xiuyuan Town, and the people in the town didn't resist much, they just looked at them, the invaders, in awe.There are old people, women and children inside. They don't know what these people are going to do, but they obviously feel the most primitive fear.

Li Ruoci stood in front, expressionless.

Xu Wan was by his side and asked, "Start forming the formation?"

Li Ruoci nodded, and said indifferently, "Let's begin."

After a while, a subordinate in black came running over. He needed blood for seamless bleeding, so he wanted to pull someone from the crowd to do bloodletting.

Immediately there were heart-piercing screams and cries from the crowd.

Li Ruoci walked over and said, "Use mine."

The subordinate in black thought there was something wrong with his ears, and asked uncertainly, "Master?"

"I'm tired of hearing it."

Li Ruoci walked around several houses on his own, and his subordinates in black quickly followed.He came to the position of the formation's eye, took a sword from his subordinates, rolled up his sleeves, cut a bit on his wrist, and then turned around to let the blood drip down.The blood merged into a small stream in the lines of the formation under his feet.

Li Ruoci felt that it was almost done, so he put away his hands.This formation is much smaller than the one in Fengcheng, and he is a practitioner, so he only feels slightly dizzy now.He tore a piece of cloth from the skirt, bandaged the wound to stop the bleeding, went back to find a railing and sat down on his knees, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

After a while, Li Ruoci felt his sleeves being pulled off lightly. He opened his eyes and found an eleven or twelve-year-old boy sneaking over at some point.

"Brother, brother." The little boy called softly.

"Ok?"

"My brother's complexion is not very good, is he injured?"

"No." Li Ruoci brushed off the little boy's hand, he was really tired, as soon as he closed his eyes, he felt something was stuffed in his hand.He raised his hand and saw that it was a small blue fruit.

"My brother saved my mother just now, so this is for my brother."

Li Ruoci found it funny.

"save?"

The little boy nodded, his face was sincere, and there was also some innocence that didn't know the world.Li Ruoci straightened her body, and asked casually, "What's your name?"

"Pei Xiu."

Li Ruoci's heart moved, and he said unconsciously, "Pei, your surname is Pei..."

"Well, most people in the town have the surname Pei. I heard that there used to be a very powerful person here who also had the surname Pei."

"...Is it called Pei Shi?"

"Yes, yes, my dad still wanted to name me that when I was born."

Li Ruoci smiled when she heard the words, and then turned back and asked, "Why didn't you end up with this name?"

Pei Xiudao: "My mother won't let me."

"What? Not good?"

"No, my mother said that those big people sometimes have a hard time in their lives. She still hopes that I will grow up like an ordinary person and live my life without disasters or difficulties."

Pei Xiu curled her lips and said, "Of course, I'm still willing to be a hero."

"Sometimes it's not a good thing to be a great hero." Li Ruoci said lightly.

Under Pei Shi's playful and laughing surface, there is always a heart that he does not want to show to others. Inside is the 11-year-old blood-stained dusk and the family that has passed away.From then on, he had nothing to do with joy and peace, and began to live his life on the tip of the knife.

Li Ruoci suddenly felt an inexplicable distress. He looked up at the boy in front of him and asked, "Does it snow in winter here? It's a big one."

Pei Xiu said happily: "Yes, sometimes the mountains are covered by heavy snow and we can't go out."

Li Ruoci nodded: "That's right."

He looked up at the sky and said, "I really want to see it."

Pei Xiu said seriously: "Just wait until winter."

Li Ruoci smiled slightly, and said: "Okay, you can go to your mother, she should be worried in a while."

The little boy ran back happily and waved at him.Holding the fruit in his hand, Li Ruoci got off the railing, walked up to the subordinate who was patrolling, and said, "Stop the formation."

The voice was flat and indifferent, and no emotional ups and downs could be heard, but there was no doubt about it.