The Mask of the Lord

The wedding of Guo Yan, the leader of the beggar gang, was surprisingly simple.

On the second day after the wedding, Shan Liuli bid farewell to Kang Huazhen and left the beggar gang.

Half a month later, a girl in purple rode a fast horse through Wulao Pass to the ruins of Tiance Mansion.

Arriving at the Tiance Mansion where there were only ruins left, Shan Liuli, who was dressed in a purple dress, led the horse along the way.Broken beams and broken roofs... scorched earth and cracked rocks... that's all that's left of the former splendor of Tiance Mansion.The soldiers of the Tiance Mansion who died in the battle were buried in the nearby Martial Arts Field, which has become the burial place of the soldiers of Tiance.

When Shan Liuli arrived at the Martial Arts Field, she could see Xiao Qi standing in front of a tomb in the center of the Martial Arts Field from a distance.Xiaoqi was wearing a pink dress, very similar to the clothes of Qixiufang. She squatted in front of the tomb, and gently stroked the name engraved on the tombstone with her outstretched hand.

Li Chengen.

That is Li Chengen's tombstone.

"Xiuqin is fragrant, cold and lazy. People are lonely, leaves are scattered, and I dreamed of you before I fell asleep... It is said that in this world, it takes a lot of fate for one person to meet another person, and then walk the long road together. Therefore, I have always believed that there are many fates between me and you, which must have been accumulated from the previous life, otherwise it would be impossible for me to be with you after ten years in this life... I have no regrets, I have been with you all these years Looking at you, it is my luck to meet you in the best time of my life. But you...at the end, say treasure to me! Treasure means goodbye, never see you again...fool."

Shan Liuli still remembers Xiao Qi's words many years later.

Her feelings for Li Chengen may not change even in the past ten, twenty, or even fifty years.

Love to Mingxin, as it should be.

"Miss Seven." Shan Liuli softly called Xiao Qi.

Without looking back, Xiao Qi's hand was still stroking the three names engraved deep in her soul on the tombstone. "Would you like to see Miss Xueyang?"

Responding softly, Shan Liuli walked towards Cao Xueyang's tombstone holding a bouquet of fresh flowers picked by the roadside.Cao Xueyang's tomb is not far from Li Chengen's, just nearby, and the tomb next to her is Chen Zhi's.

Putting the flowers in front of the tombs of Cao Xueyang and Chen Zhi, Shan Liuli turned her head and saw a bunch of small white flowers in front of Yang Ning's tomb not far away.It seems that before them, someone came to visit Yang Ning, it was her, Yang Ning's wife, Liu Mengyang from Chunyang.

Not knowing what to say, Shan Liuli stared at it for a while, then got up and walked towards Xiaoqi.When she came to Xiaoqi's side, she sat down next to her and said, "Why do you always have endless things to say to him?"

Xiao Qi said: "Because he is Cheng En, I like Cheng En."

Shan Liuli said: "...Can't you look at the people around you?"

Xiao Qi said: "Who are you looking at? No clothes? That child is of Cheng En's blood. It is only natural for me to protect him."

Shan Liuli: "..." This is the rhythm of you wanting to be a cheap mother.

Withdrawing her hand from stroking the tombstone, Xiao Qi raised her head and looked up at the sky, with a tired look on her face. "Thinking about it now, the past between me and him is nothing more than a mirror, a moon in the water. Ten years have passed by in a flash, and he has left me with nothing but that little memory."

Shan Liuli lowered her eyebrows and remained silent.

As the sun rose, the golden light shone down, sweeping away the darkness.

She suddenly raised her head and looked straight ahead, saying, "I'm leaving."

Xiao Qi was startled, and asked after a while, "Where are you going?"

Shan Liuli smiled and said, "Go to the so-called rivers and lakes."

After hearing this, Xiao Qi laughed and said, "Where in this world is not a world? Wherever there are people, it is a world."

Shan Liuli agreed with Xiao Qi's words.To put it bluntly, the rivers and lakes are places where there are people. In today's world, where is it not a rivers and lakes?Where there are people, it is the world, even if there is a person, it is the world.

At this moment, there is nothing to worry about here, and it's time for her to go back to that world.

What year is this eve, the five-year war of resistance here, I don’t know where it was for a few years.

Raising her hand unconsciously to touch the two faint scars on her left cheek, Shan Liuli thought that with her current appearance, Hua Wuque and He Lu might still remember her.

Xiao Qi stood up, with a hint of exhaustion in his voice. "People, there will always be a day when you are tired. If you are tired, you will come back."

Shan Liuli nodded and said, "Okay."

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Four days later, in the busiest teahouse in Anqing City, a girl in purple ordered three cages of dumplings with crab noodles in soup, six dishes of fried fruits, and a bowl of hot beef soup to take away.She was tall and slender, with a mask as thin as silver foil pressed against her left cheek.Along the way, people came and went, and it was very lively, but no one paid much attention to the face of the girl in purple. After all, there are many strange people in this world, and it is not uncommon to wear half a mask.

After eating, paying, and leaving, the purple-clothed girl's actions were done in one go, without delay.

She is going to watch the fun in the valley outside, and today I heard that Jiangnan Hero is going to have some serious business with the Murong sisters from Jiuxiu Villa.When she came to the outskirts of the valley, she could see from a distance that it was full of people. She squeezed into the crowd effortlessly and came to the front.Holding a saber in her hand, she watched the bustling leisurely.

On the open space in the valley, there was a carriage parked, Wuque's son Hua Wuque, who had gained a reputation in Jianghu for the past two years, was really leaning against the door of the carriage leisurely, as if he was talking to the people in the carriage.As for the person involved, Jiang Biehe was sitting on a rock next to Hua Wuque, and he couldn't stop smiling and saying hello to those who were watching the bustle, showing the slightest air of being a hero.As for the Murong family, none of them came.

As time passed by, the knights around Jianghu began to feel a little dissatisfied, and they all felt that their Jiuxiu Villa was putting on too much airs.

At this moment, there was a commotion in the crowd, and twelve burly men in black clothes and ribbons around their waists walked in without haste, carrying three large green woolen sedan chairs.

Behind each big sedan chair is a small sedan chair, on which sit three pretty girls with bright eyes and white teeth, the sedan chair stops, and the three pretty girls get off the small sedan chair, step forward and lift the curtain door of the big sedan chair , out of the sedan chair to meet the three gorgeous and dazzling beauties.

These three people are none other than Murong Shuang, Murong Shanshan and the little fairy Zhang Jing from Jiuxiu Villa.The three of them are not dressed in the usual way today. They are dressed in gorgeous palace clothes, deliberately modified their attire, just like those young ladies and grandmothers who came out of rich families, they don't seem to be people from the rivers and lakes where people fight and fight.

Murong Shanshan took the lead in lightly moving her lotus steps, apologizing to Hua Wuque and the knights of the rivers and lakes who were watching the excitement, after all, they were the ones who were late this time.

Sister Murong's preemptive strikes and soft words made those who were waiting impatiently calm down immediately.

This competition was supposed to be accompanied by sisters Murong's husband, but this time, sisters Murong forced Hua Wuque to compete with their sisters under the pretext of 'the Murong family's affairs are determined not to allow outsiders to interfere'.

How could a dignified young master Wuque fight a woman? The Murong sisters were not looking for Hua Wuque this time, but Jiang Biehe was hiding behind Hua Wuque.The words are very beautiful, saying that he does not want to hurt others, but in fact the real reason, I am afraid that he knows it in his heart.

Soon, the contest was decided.

Sister Murong decided to compete with Hua Wuque on three things. If Hua Wuque did all three of these things, then they would lose, but if Hua Wuque couldn't do it, and they did it themselves, then Hua Wuque would lose, and After losing, Hua Wuque can no longer take care of Jiang Biehe's affairs.

These three things are definitely not easy to think about, the girl in purple stood in front of her with her chest crossed and thought to herself.

As she thought, those three things were really tricky and weird, but Hua Wuque resolved them one by one without any effort.

When the three tasks were all completed, the group of heroes on all sides were surprised at first, and finally they all burst into laughter. At the end, the applause and clear applause hovered in the valley for a long time and could not be dispersed.

The girl in purple didn't clap her hands, she just picked up a tassel, brown, which fell from Hua Wuque's body.She remembered that she was the one who tied this tassel to Long Ming, and it was half of him.

Looking up into the carriage, the purple-clothed girl stepped forward, when Sister Murong was dumbfounded and too angry to speak, she stretched out her hand holding the tassel, and said, "Do you want this tassel? "

As soon as the words fell, Hua Wuque had already walked out of the carriage. He looked at her, his lips were murmured, and after a while, he said, "Liu... Li?"

The girl in purple was indeed Dan Liuli, she had been in Anqing City for four days, and what she heard most was the deeds of Hua Wuque, Tie Xinlan and Jiang Biehe.

It's only been two years here, and many things have changed.

Shan Liuli stared at him blankly, and suddenly the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, and said, "Wu Que, do you still want your tassels?"

Her tone was too bland, so bland that Hua Wuque's heart couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

Shan Liuli's appearance was much different from that of two years ago, at some point, half of her face was covered with a silver foil mask.

Instead of picking up the tassels she handed over, Hua Wuque stretched out his hand, and pressed his slender fingers against her cheek, trembling slightly, rubbing back and forth several times before he took off the silver foil mask on her face.

Her face has not changed, she is still fair and beautiful, but there are two faint sword marks on her left cheek, one of which extends to her dimple.His body swayed, and his complexion was much paler than before.In the past two years, he didn't know what happened or what Shan Liuli did there. It's not that he didn't want to go to him, but when he thought of the tasks on his own shoulders, he could only suppress his yearning for her.

Hua Wuque thought that she would always come back, no matter how long it took, it had been two years since that year.

Shan Liuli came back, those eyes, that face were the same as before, but with a touch of vicissitudes added.

"What happened to the face?" he asked.

Shan Liuli raised her hand to touch her face, but when she touched the scar on her face, she smiled and said, "It's not like this in all wars, it's strange that there is no injury!"

He paused for a moment, put his hands across his shoulders behind his back, and pulled Shan Liuli into his arms.

There was a lot of voices from all around, but Shan Liuli couldn't hear any sound, she felt his lips pressed against her ear, breathing in a low voice.

After a long time, he said very softly, "I'm sorry."

A three-word apology is worth listening to your ears.

Climbing up to his back with trembling hands, Shan Liuli closed her eyes and said, "Why are you apologizing? Those things have nothing to do with you, so what if you follow, you know I will never let you You take half damage."

The body was hugged even tighter, Hua Wuque said in a hoarse voice: "I should be by your side, I should be by your side..."

He has seen how cruel the war is. Two years here, but more than two years there. Over the years, she has been going to the forefront like this, fighting with the Tang army and the knights who volunteered to join the army. Fight the enemy bravely together.

Her chin rested on the hollow of his shoulder, wondering if Hua Wuque hugged him too hard, thin sweat broke out on Shan Liuli's forehead, and there was a trace of coolness between her lips and teeth.Hua Wuque, who was holding him, looked shocked, let go of Dan Liuli, and put his hands lightly on her arms. "You are hurt?"

With a pale face, Shan Liuli shook her head and said, "No, it's just a chronic illness, it will be fine in a while."

After so many years of fighting, she and the others were lucky to be alive.In fact, people with high martial arts skills will sometimes lose to the army. Many martial arts ancestors with world-class martial arts have verified this truth.There are indeed many scars on her body, both deep and shallow, but these are not fatal injuries.Two years ago, during the Battle of Yanmen Pass, one of Shi Chaoyi's fierce generals, who didn't know his name, poured his true energy into the arrow, bursting with energy, and pierced her back with an arrow from behind, causing her to suffer from a stubborn illness. To relapse so once.

Chen Yue said that if it was an ordinary person, this arrow would probably kill someone, but Dan Liuli insisted on holding on, and just woke up after being in a coma for three days.

Staring at Shan Liuli, Hua Wuque sighed, and suddenly picked her up by the waist.The body rose into the air, Shan Liuli was startled, but before returning to his senses, he only heard his voice next to his ear. "I don't know where your injury is. If it really hurts, tell me. I'll take you back to the inn first."

After all, he ignored the people around him, just took care of He Lu who appeared by the side of the carriage at some time, and then left the valley with Shan Liuli in his arms.

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