Chapter 3062 Gathering
"Think it through," Bai Shan said, raising his chin slightly. "Although I want to live, everyone has to die. I just hope to live up to my conscience and live the rest of my life with integrity. If that's not possible, then I'll have died a worthy death."
Zhou Man also thought so at the time, so the two of them came to the capital with high spirits and entered the palace.
Although the grudges are far away from them now, the key points they figured out at that time and the ambitions they made have not changed.
He still hopes that he can live up to his conscience and live the rest of his life with integrity.
Bai Shan asked Yin Huo, "What about you? Have you figured it out?"
Yin Huo smiled slightly and said, "No."
Bai Jilang turned to look at him, "I don't understand why you are so happy?"
"But it's no longer a problem for me," Yin Huo said. "Whether I live or die, I don't regret having come into this life. If I can't figure it out, then so be it. Even if I spend my entire life trying to figure it out, it doesn't matter."
He used to want to live, but more often he wanted to die.
He felt that living was suffering, but he was reluctant to die and was very unwilling. He had come into this world as an adult, but he had to leave without doing anything.
He had never left the capital, and the farthest place he had been was Shili Pavilion in the suburbs of Beijing, when he went there to see his father off when he was a child.
When he was sick and dying, he kept dreaming about that scene. It was clearly an ordinary road, with ordinary roadside pavilions and trees, but he kept thinking about it, thinking about it over and over again. In his dream, he was riding on a horse, leaving without looking back, leaving behind the capital, his family, and even himself.
The person riding the horse seems to be him, but also seems not to be him...
When he woke up from the dream, he was wondering why he was so reluctant to die?
It is obvious that life is so painful, and after you grow up and leave offspring, you will still die, and die in such humiliation. Why can't you just die now?
It took him a long time to figure it out, because he wanted to be the "Yin Huo" in his dream who rode on a horse and left without looking back.
Although he still couldn't become that Yin Huo and he still stayed among the crowd, he could really walk out of the Ten-Li Pavilion and go down along the long official road.
He had been to the Western Regions and now he had come to Qingzhou and seen the sea. Even if he died at this moment, although he would still feel regretful, he would not be so unwilling.
Bai Erlang looked at Yin Huo, then turned to look at Bai Shan. His eyes were dazzled by the smiles on their faces. He snorted and turned his head away to look at the sunset.
He said, "I don't think too much about it. As long as I am happy, that's all."
Bai Shan gave him a warning look and said, "Don't write nonsense in your immortal notes, otherwise I won't care whether you are happy or not."
Bai Erlang fell silent for a moment. After a while, he suddenly jumped away and ran a long way before shouting at him, "That's my book! Don't even think about changing my manuscript!"
Bai Shan: ...
Yin Huo burst out laughing, and Bai Shan couldn't help but ask him, "Have you read his manuscript?"
Yin Huo shook his head, "I read Journey to the West, not Miscellaneous Records of Immortals."
Bai Shan frowned and decided to go back and ask Bai Erlang for the manuscript.
They camped here at night, and the soldiers slept in the thatched huts, feeling very nervous. "Will we be arrested and put in jail?"
"No, that's not possible. Aren't they already digging up and rebuilding the road? Everyone else has gone back, but we're the only ones staying."
"Whose fault is that? It's because you cut corners. If the road you built wasn't so bad, would the adults have kept us here to rebuild it?"
"Bullshit, do you think you can get away?"
"I went out to dig mud. How would I know you were building roads this way?"
"Anyway, none of you can escape. Think about how much less soil you dug before. This is all your fault."
The other people living in the room panicked, turned over in anxiety, and asked, "Are we really going to be arrested and put in jail?"
"They might even be exiled. Those who commit crimes are either imprisoned or exiled, right?" One person said, "After all, they can't just chop us down just because we didn't build the road, right?"
"No, don't scare me. I think the county magistrate treats us very well. I've been serving for five years, and this is the first time I've been able to eat a full meal while serving."
"Yes, the county magistrate doesn't look like a bad person."
"I didn't say the County Magistrate is a bad person. Aren't we the bad guys now? Isn't it natural for the County Magistrate to deal with bad people?" Someone in the darkness said, "I just wonder if we can have a good ending after doing something bad?"
He said, "Although the county magistrate is kind to the conscripts, he is also cruel to the bandits. Those from Dajing Village were either beheaded or exiled. Weren't they all caught up without exception, without leaving a single one behind?"
"Then, what should we do?"
Bai Shan yawned, blew out the candle, and lay down on the creaking wooden bed with his clothes on. He said to the two people on his left and right, "Stop talking nonsense and go to sleep."
Bai Erlang asked, "When are we going back? I think I'm clear now."
Bai Shan put his hands behind his head and sighed, "Do you think I don't want to go home? Seeing how lazy they are today, I guess it will take until the day after tomorrow to repair them. We'll leave after we deal with them."
He paused and said, "How about you go back tomorrow?"
He thought it was a good idea and said, "It would be a good idea for you to go back. You can help them."
Bai Erlang: "Are you helping Zhou Man?"
Bai Shan elbowed him and said, "Be respectful, she is your senior sister."
Bai Erlang couldn't help but sit up from the bed, "That's my sister-in-law! Stop bullying me. Humph, I'm not going back. If I go back alone, they will definitely blame me and think I'm lazy!"
He wanted to be clear, but that didn't mean he was willing to go back and be scolded.
Bai Shan thought he was being lazy again, so he wanted to talk some sense into him. Yin Huo, standing by, tried to persuade him with a smile. Just as he was about to separate the two, a loud voice came from outside, "What do you want to do?"
The three people in the room stiffened, looked at each other in the dark, and immediately got out of bed.
The guards' shouts could be heard from outside the house. "How dare you! The adults are resting here, why don't you leave quickly?"
Bai Shan held Yin Huo, turned around and said to Bai Erlang, "You stay here with Yin Huo."
His expression was unclear in the moonlight, but Bai Erlang nodded anyway, then reached out and firmly grasped Yin Huo, saying, "Let him go. He's better at martial arts than any of us. He also learned stick techniques from Jie Chen, so he's incredibly strong now. His blows can really hurt."
Bai Shan had already opened the door and went out.
County Magistrate Fang and Mr. Cui, who lived next door, also hurried out, their clothes on. Seeing so many people gathered in front of the thatched cottage, they immediately shouted, "What are you doing here so late at night? Disperse!"
See you at 11pm
(End of this chapter)
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