General's humble stand-in

The afterglow of the setting sun reflected the sunset glow on the horizon into a fiery red, as if scorching through half the sky, like a beautiful picture scroll.

The cuckoo's cries in the distance passed through the jungle, echoing and hovering in this quiet and peaceful evening.

Tao Zhuo was sitting at the stone table in the yard, weaving the cattail grass in his hand into various vivid small animals, while Xiao Bao leaned on his lap, and said in a childlike voice, "Daddy, I still want to be a little girl." Bunny."

There was the sound of cooking in the kitchen, Su Lan was sweating profusely with a spoon and shovel, and the strong aroma wafted in the small farmyard.

- everything is warm and beautiful.

Xu Tianlei leaned over to the stone table, trying to learn how to weave cattail grass like a burning peach, but the grass leaves became very clumsy in his hands, and he couldn't make a decent one for a long time.Discouraged, he threw the cattail grass on the stone table, and turned to look at Gu Yan who was sitting outside the gate.

"Tao Zhuo." Xu Tianlei asked softly, "It's been three days, why hasn't his eyes recovered yet?"

Tao Zhuo also raised his head and looked at the figure outside the gate, "Maybe the poison is too strong and cannot be completely dissolved for a while."

Xiao Bao beside his legs was dissatisfied with Tao Zhuo's distraction, and pushed Tao Zhuo with his cherry red mouth, "Daddy, hurry up, I want a lot of little bunnies."

Tao Zhuo rubbed Xiaobao's head with a smile, lowered his head and continued weaving cattail grass.

Xu Tianlei looked a little dumbfounded, and couldn't help asking, "Is this child your own?"

"What do you think?" Tao Zhuo glared at him contemptuously, "I have left Shengjing for less than two years, and Xiaobao is over three years old, do you think he is my own?"

Xu Tianlei touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment, "So, you have nothing to do with that woman."

"I'm the father of the baby, and she's the mother of the baby. How can it be okay?" Then he turned to the kitchen and shouted, "Miss, is the meal ready yet? I'm already hungry."

— Gu Yan, who was sitting outside the gate, turned her head, her eyes covered with black silk seem to be looking at Tao Zhuo.

In the evening, Tao Zhuo changed Gu Yan's eye-covering silk cloth, and specially fried a bowl of oral decoction, clearing away toxins and fire, with a strong bitter taste.

While drinking, Gu Yan frowned a little from being choked, but he still drank it clean in one breath.

"Open your mouth." Tao Zhuo ordered.

Gu Yan hesitated for a moment, and obediently parted her thin lips.

Tao Zhuo stuffed a piece of sugar cake into Gu Chan's mouth, but saw Gu Chan's frown deepened.Suddenly remembering that he doesn't like sweets, an inexplicable feeling of evil surged up in his heart, and he really wanted to bully him while he couldn't see.

"Eat quickly, don't spit." The slender and slender fingers clasped Gu Yan's jaw tightly, as if forcing him to swallow.

The sugar cake fell into her stomach, and before Gu Yan's brows eased, Tao Zhuo said fiercely again, "Open your mouth again."

Just like that, a piece of sugar cake was divided into eight portions by Tao Zhuo, and he watched Gu Yan eat all of them with a bitter face.

"Is it delicious?" Tao Zhuo smiled broadly like a flower, as if he had experienced something particularly happy.

Suddenly, Gu Yan smiled faintly, and said in a deep voice, "I don't know why, but I feel like you are a person."

The smile on Tao Zhuo's face froze in an instant, as if seeing through the eyes covered by the black silk.Like a black-bellied rabbit that was exposed, it ran away restless.

In the early morning of the next day, the dewdrops on the grass blades were still there, and they were crystal clear like small round crystal balls.

Tao Zhuo got up early, the salvia and notoginseng in the yard were running out, and they had to go to the forest to pick them.

Just as I was carrying the medicine basket on my back, I heard the creaking sound of the door opening.

Xiao Bao rubbed his sleepy eyes, "Daddy, where are you going?"

"Go to the woods to gather medicine, you go back to sleep obediently."

Immediately afterwards there was the sound of the door opening, and Gu Yan fumbled out of the room.

The magnetic voice still has the sleepiness and laziness of just getting up, he tentatively asked Tao Zhuo, "Can I go with you?"

"I can't." Tao Zhuo flatly refused, and looked suspiciously at Gu Yan's eyes, it didn't look like he could see them.

Gu Yan said again, "It's too boring, I want to go hunting some game in the forest, it can be considered as a subsidy for me and Tianlei's food."

Taozhuo frowned slightly, "You can't see."

"It doesn't matter, it can be identified by reliable voice."

Before Tao Zhuo could speak, Xiao Bao happily ran to Gu Yan's side, holding a corner of Gu Yan's armor with his chubby little hand, and said inarticulately, "Brother, I want the bunny paper, you can Did you catch the bunny paper?"

"Your brother doesn't like rabbits." Tao Zhuo still didn't want to take Gu Yan with him, feeling awkward.

Gu Yan lowered his head and held Xiaobao's hand, and said lightly, "I like it."

The road in the forest is winding and winding, but fortunately it is not difficult.Tao Zhuo also ignored Gu Yan who was following behind, and only looked back after walking a long way.

I saw Gu Yan holding a bow and arrow in one hand and leaning on a wooden stick in the other, walking slowly like a snail.

Found a Panax notoginseng among the messy weeds, Tao Zhuo took out the small shovel in the medicine basket, and carefully dug up the roots.When he straightened up and turned back, Gu Yan was nowhere to be seen.

The heart seemed to be tightened suddenly, and overflowing worries spread throughout the body.Taozhuo didn't know how big this forest was, he had never walked deep into it.Thinking about Gu Yan but not being able to see, what if he gets lost and encounters some wild beast...

Cold sweat wetted the hair along the temples, and Tao Zhuo was annoyed that she shouldn't ignore him.

"Gu Yan, Gu Yan." Turning around to search along the winding path, Tao Zhuo's anxious shout echoed faintly in the forest.

"I'm here."

Just when Tao Zhuo's throat was a little hoarse, Gu Yan slowly walked out from behind an old tree, holding a snow-white rabbit in his hand, and kicked his legs alive and kicking.

"Could you tell me in advance when you leave next time?" Tao Zhuo secretly heaved a sigh of relief, stepped forward to take the fat rabbit, then pulled out a hemp rope, tied its four legs tightly and stuffed it into the medicine basket.

Standing up again, Tao Zhuo stretched out his hand to hold Gu Yan's wet and warm fingertips, leading him forward step by step.

Suddenly Gu Yan asked, "How do you know my name?"

"It was Xu Tianlei who told me." After speaking, Tao Zhuo couldn't help laughing, feeling that he reacted quite quickly.

After walking for a while, Gu Yan asked hesitantly, "Are you married to that woman?"

Tao Zhuo looked back at Gu Yan, always felt that his expression was a bit strange, it was the kind of awkwardness of wanting to know but not wanting to know.

"Well, we're married, otherwise where would we have a son?"

Gu Yan didn't say anything else, and quietly followed behind Tao Zhuo.

Near noon, Tao Zhuo dug up a lot of medicinal herbs, and the two turned back and walked back.It was quiet along the way, no one spoke, but at some point, Gu Yan had already held Tao Zhuo with his backhand, wrapping that soft and delicate hand in his rough palm.

Seeing that he was about to get out of the woods, Tao Zhuo who was walking in front suddenly stopped, his body swayed and almost fell, but fortunately he was supported by Gu Yan behind him.

"Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi, it's on fire." Tao Zhuo murmured in disbelief, his whole body was clinging to Gu Yan, unable to stand still.

The flames all over the sky resembled yesterday's sunset, and the burning clouds were all red.The fiery snake rolled and devoured the entire village. Except for the flying sparks and thick smoke, Tao Zhuo couldn't see a single person.

"How could this be?" Tao Zhuo still couldn't believe that he saw everything, and big tears rolled down the corners of his eyes.

He pushed Gu Yan away and wanted to run into the village, but was grabbed by Gu Yan behind him.

"Don't go, the whole Zhuangzi is on fire, someone must have done it deliberately, I'm afraid it will be dangerous."

It's dangerous or not. The life and death of the person Tao Zhuo misses is uncertain, but this is his ordinary and warm home.

"Let me go, I'm going to find them, they can't die." Tao Zhuo pushed and beat Gu Yan like crazy, only wanting to find Su Lan and Xiao Bao.

"Peach burning."

Gu Yan's shout made Tao Zhuo suddenly quiet down, and stared at Gu Yan with her tear-blurred apricot eyes.

"When did you know?" Tao Zhuo smiled self-deprecatingly, "I knew it a long time ago, right? Teasing me like a fool."

Gu Yan pursed her thin lips and didn't know how to answer, so she just whispered, "I'll explain to you later, follow me first."

Unable to break free from Gu Yan's grip, Tao Zhuo lowered his head and bit the back of Gu Yan's hand fiercely.The smell of blood was wanton in his mouth, but Gu Yan didn't intend to let go at all.

"Let go of me." Tao Zhuo roared angrily and anxiously, "Didn't you let go a long time ago, why are you dragging me now? Did I owe you in my previous life? , why is the ghost always lingering?"

"Don't get excited." Gu Yan helplessly let go of her hand slowly, "I'll just let you go."

Tao Zhuo just turned around and wanted to run to the village, when suddenly there was a dull pain in the back of his neck, and then he lost consciousness and fell into the darkness.

It was already late at night when Tao Zhuo woke up, a round of bright moon hung high in the sky, and occasionally a few insects could be heard.

He wanted to sit up, but someone gently pressed his shoulders, "Don't move around, rest for a while."

Gu Yan's voice seemed to have ignited all of Tao Zhuo's memories, his brain was about to explode, unable to accommodate all the joys and sorrows, waves of dull pain hit, making Tao Zhuo curl up in pain.

"Auntie, Auntie."

Xiaobao's cry made Tao Zhuo suddenly widen his almond eyes, he got up and looked along the sound, and saw not far away Xiaobao nestled next to Xu Tianlei who was covered in blood, crying uneasy in his dream.

"Little Treasure." Tao Zhuo murmured, then turned to look at Gu Yan beside him, only to find that the silk cloth covering his eyes had already been removed, and although the end of his eyes was still a little red, it couldn't hide the gleam in those phoenix eyes. cool.

Ignoring whether his eyes had recovered, Tao Zhuo asked impatiently, "Why is Xiaobao here? Where's Su Lan? Where are the other people in the village?"

Gu Yan looked at Tao Zhuo quietly, and after a moment of silence, she whispered, "They're all dead."

It turned out that the enemy had been looking for Gu Yan and Xu Tianlei who were alone, and finally found clues in Zhuangzi.In order to let Xu Tianlei escape with Xiaobao, Su Lan was shot and killed by random arrows.

The two of them were not caught, and the enemy buried the whole village in a sea of ​​fire in a fit of rage.

Tao Zhuo staggered up and picked up Xiao Bao who was sleeping, he wanted to leave, but Gu Yan stopped him.

"Where are you going?"

"It has nothing to do with you." Tao Zhuo glared at Gu Yan sadly, "Go away."

"This child was protected by his mother, so you just took him to die?"

Seeing Tao Zhuo's eyes moved slightly, Gu Chan grabbed his wrist, "Follow me back to the barracks, and I will let you watch me avenge the dead with your own eyes."

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