Fantasy: Starting From Being In A Desperate Situation And Running Around As Escorts

A small border town.

At the noodle stall, Old Liu, wearing a shabby hat, closed the stall.

Business is not good today, not half of the noodles are sold.

In the past, when the weather was cold, his hot soup noodles sold out quickly.

A peddler and a footman passed by with a bowl of steaming noodles and slurped down a bowl to warm themselves up.

On a hot day like this, everyone is willing to eat a bowl of jelly or something.

Lao Liu drove the donkey cart back.

He joined the army at the age of fourteen and spent more than forty years on the battlefield.

Compared to the nameless skeletons who died on the battlefield.

He was lucky, at least he survived.

Return to your own adobe house.

Old Liu took a ladle of water from the water jar and took a big gulp.

After tying up the donkey cart, he walked towards the house.

When he walked to the door, his expression suddenly changed slightly.

He cautiously touched the dagger on his crotch.

There is a breath in the dark room! !

Lao Liu narrowed his eyes slightly and lowered his body silently.

"it's me."

A familiar voice came from the darkness.

Old Liu was startled at first, and then turned to astonishment.

It seemed that he couldn't believe that he would hear this voice again.

After a while, he calmed down.

Candles were lit in the house.

Li Changshou was sitting on the edge of the kang, carrying a long knife wrapped in black cloth, looking at him without saying a word.

Old Liu took care of himself and moved everything on the donkey cart into the house. "Have you eaten?"

".....not yet."

"I'll give you another bowl of noodles."

After saying that, he lit the fire and started the stove without waiting for Li Changshou's permission.

Soon, a steaming bowl of noodles was served.

Li Changshou glanced at that side without moving his chopsticks.

Old Liu smiled, knowing that the other party did not trust him.

Then he brought the noodles in front of him and started eating.

While eating, he was talking to himself.

"My home is in the north. At that time, the Xianbei people invaded and all the officers and soldiers of the imperial court ran away.

My father died on the battlefield, and my mother was captured by the Xianbei people.

I took Little Sister with me and ran south with the refugees.

Later, Little Sister also starved to death on the way.

I was an enemy of my country and my family, so I joined the army.

Thinking that one day, I will lead my troops to fight back.

It's just that the turtle bastards in the court only wanted to negotiate a peace and gave all the land and people to the Xianbei people.

I have been on the battlefield for many years and have been mixed up for many years.

Later I met General Yue, who was a good general.

He said he would take us back to fight and regain the land we lost.

He really did it, he took us back to kill him.

A young man leaves home, and an old man returns home.

It is a pity that things and people in my hometown have changed a long time ago, and my family Deva is separated forever.

The home I thought about day and night was already in ruins. "

Old Liu paused and continued.

“Later, General Yue was framed.

The victory bought with countless blood was in vain.

After killing General Yue, the imperial court tried to bribe us with high-ranking officials and generous salaries.

Without any hesitation, I followed several of General Yue's cronies without giving up and turned around into the darkness.

I resisted and fought with all my strength.

I never thought about betrayal, but now..."

"I'm tired, I'm really tired."

Old Liu raised his head, illuminated by the firelight.

His temples were gray and his face was dull.

The face is covered with wrinkles as rough as tree bark, and the eye sockets are slightly sunken.

A pair of dark brown eyes quietly tells the vicissitudes of time.

“I was tired, and they promised me that I could enjoy my retirement.

I would live in a big house and be served food and drink.

I no longer have to worry all day long. My children can go to private school and play on the street like other children.

I sleep until I wake up naturally every day and spend my free time fishing and growing flowers.

If you are really bored, you can go to the street to drink a cup of tea and slowly look back on the past..."

He spoke as if he had lost all strength.

Li Changshou said in a deep voice: "Then why did you hand that girl over to me? Why don't you just kill her?

Or they could just betray us all without anyone noticing. Why bother? "

Lao Liu smiled bitterly, "I can't do it, and I don't know how to choose.

I just want to leave it to fate. I hope you can really leave with that girl, but I don’t hope you can come back alive. "

Silence, there is only silence.

"...Where is the girl?"

Although he already knew the result in his heart, Lao Liu still asked.

Li Changshou did not answer.

Lao Liu smiled sadly, "I'm sorry for General Yue, and I'm also sorry for you."

He finished eating the noodles, closed his eyes and was so calmly prepared to accept his own death.

He had no intention of resisting.

It was as if this would free him.

Li Changshou stood up and looked at him with complicated eyes.

"You haven't forgiven anyone, and I don't want to kill you.

We're all tired...that's all. "

He turned around and walked out without saying another word.

Everything became silent, and the moonlight was like frost in late autumn.

"Hahaha...haha..."

Lao Liu's crazy laughter came from behind, spreading far in the night.

Li Changshou felt tired as never before.

Countless battles of life and death on the battlefield have never made me as tired as today.

Lao Liu's voice stopped suddenly and he committed suicide.

He ended his own life the way a Tang soldier did.

Li Changshou heard the sound of the blade cutting through flesh.

But he didn't look back and walked forward into the darkness in the distance.

............

Lao Liu did not betray them completely, otherwise his so-called home would have been ransacked long ago.

Return to a familiar home.

Li Changshou breathed out a heavy breath, as if something was disappearing quickly.

Pretending, being on guard, the pressure in my heart suddenly let go.

At this moment, what fills my brain and heart is an indescribable feeling.

He took off his hat and simply washed his face.

The old man lying on the bed heard the noise and said, "Longevity?"

"Well, I'm back."

"Just come back."

No unnecessary words.

Li Changshou pulled off the quilt and got in.

It seemed like I was finally able to get a good night's sleep.

The fight in the rainy night, the pain of being on the verge of death, the betrayal of someone you trust...

This moment seems to have disappeared

Li Changshou covered his chest, where the handleless Flying Sword remained, and said softly.

"Old man, I may be forced to embark on an unknown road."

There was confusion in his tone, a little uneasy.

The path of spiritual practice....

He is no stranger to this because of various anime novels before time travel.

It's not like he didn't think about those mysterious things when he traveled through time.

But he is not the son of a prince or a general, or the only son of a rich man.

Or maybe he was a child from a mountainous country.

He was just an abandoned baby left on the roadside.

Every winter, he thought he wouldn't be able to survive it any longer.

Every fight made him feel that even if The next moment died like this, it was natural.

For him, how to survive is the prerequisite for everything.

"What I taught you is, no matter which path it is, just go step by step.

Once you’ve set foot on the road, you can’t look back.”

The old man's voice sounded slowly

"........Um."