Nightfall

The 40 Seven Lanes are dark in the night, the door of the old pen is pushed open, and then quickly closed. The dim light inside is flashed like a star and then extinguished.

Ning Que untied the heavy weapon behind him, tore off the cloth cover outside Big Black Umbrella, took off his wet and heavy outer shirt, and handed it to Sang Sang standing in front of him. He said, “Hungry, face.” Did you cook it?”

Sang Sang handed him the dry towel in his hand, nodded, and said happily: “I will bring it to you.”

A bowl of hot noodle soup came up, still four peppers, but the green onion was much more than usual, and the golden white omelet on the surface was extremely rare. Chop people are actually more tired than Putian, Ning Que is now wet, and the inside is hungry. Where can I resist the temptation to add onion and fried egg noodles, suddenly eyes shined, put down the damp towel, pick up Chopsticks, suddenly eaten up, it looks very sweet.

Sang Sang saw his happiness, and the dark little face was full of happy expression. He picked up the damp towel and stood behind him and began to wipe his hair. From time to time, he reminded me that it was too hot to eat too fast.

Just then, two coughs sounded in the dim shop. I’m always ignorant, like the invisible Chang An City, watching the conversation between the master and the servant, and finally couldn’t help but say: “The face is very fragrant.”

A few hours ago, Chao Xiaoshu came to the old pen to say the first sentence.

Sang Sang continued to wipe the hair for Ning Que, as if she did not see this person, did not hear this sentence. Ning Que’s reaction was somewhat different from that of a little earlier. He looked down and ate the soup noodles and said: “Give him a bowl too.”

After a while, the second bowl of noodle soup came up. Chao Xiaoshu glanced at all around and found that there was no seat other than the circle chair, and he didn’t care. He fell down next to Ning Que and took a few mouthfuls with chopsticks. However, I found that my face seems to be somewhat different from the one in the Ning Que bowl.

Standard four peppers, thirty green onions, but no fried eggs.

He couldn’t help but pick up the chopsticks and tapped Ning Que’s bowl edge reminder. Ning Que glanced at Yu Guang and almost laughed. He turned to Sang Sang and persuaded him: “Don’t be too stingy, then fry. egg.”

The omelet finally arrived. Ning Que and Chao Xiaoshu ate the bowl with a small bowl of water. Sang Sang squatted in front of the two, put the clothes and cloth in the copper basin, in the shop. No one is talking.

I don’t know how long it took. Ning Que put down the noodle bowl in his hand and leaned back comfortably. He licked the belly of the micro drum and looked at Chao Xiaoshu next to him. He said: “I have killed more than five people. You will re-report the number… Don’t be too stingy, but I have Sang Sang added you an omelet.”

Chao Xiaoshu looked at the bowl and looked at him with a smile: “The original is waiting for me here, two thousand two.”

“The deal.” Ning Que seems to be casual, but the mood is a little excited. As for Sang Sang who is burning his clothes next to the copper basin, he has tightly grasped the small fist and secretly calculated the two thousand silver coins. How big is it?

Sang Sang is going to wash the dishes. Chao Xiaoshu has some reluctantly handed over the bowl of small half-bone noodle soup, then brows slightly, slowly lifts the sleeves to cover the lips, and puts a little more blood on the sleeves. .

Ning Que looked at his sleeve and knew that in the previous battles, this extremely powerful middle-aged man was still suffering from a minor injury. After a moment of silence, he asked, “Is it all right?”

Chao Xiaoshu took a bowl of coarse tea handed over by Sang Sang, smiled and thanked him. After a sip of relief, he said calmly: “Don’t worry, I grew up in the slums of Dongcheng in my childhood. I don’t know how many racks I played in this life. I don’t know how many times I’ve been hurt, and every time the enemy looks at me, it’s blood, thinking that I can’t climb again, I can always get up and give them a fatal blow.”

Ning Que said with self-deprecation: “A gangster who only knows how to fight and fight is actually capable of Cultivation, and it is so powerful. I am so loyal to the way of Culture, but I can’t touch the door even in the first place. Vast Sky is really blind.”

Chao Xiaoshu smiled and didn’t continue the topic. The gang leader who was soaked in Chang An City night Jiang Hu, and finally became the Great Sword Master of Seethrough, had some chances, but those opportunities were not enough.

“You said that your card will be turned out tonight.”

Ning Que’s gaze passed through the wooden door of the shop and fell to the corner of the palace wall. He said: “Now I can guess that your card is in the palace. With such a deep background, it is no wonder that you don’t have to look at Chang An. Face.”

“After tonight, probably the entire empire will envy me, because I am standing behind me.” Chao Xiaoshu said calmly: “But no one knows what I paid for.”

“What do you need to do to do things for the nobles in the palace?” Ning Que asked.

Chao Xiaoshu smiled and said: “If these years are not riddled with customs, the occasional meditation in the palace, I have to deal with countless trivial things, or I have already broken through the Seethrough, step into the destiny State.”

“Just these?” Ning Que continued to ask.

Chao Xiaoshu didn’t know what to think, and fell into a long silence. The smile became a little bleak. He said slowly: “You still need to pay blood, do things to the big picture, then sometimes you can’t be happy. Because you want to force your opponent. All the cards I need to bear for months, so I didn’t even protect my brother.”

Hearing this sentence, Ning Que’s right hand is slightly tight, knowing that this is a little black child, but he did not answer, did not say the relationship between himself and the little black child, bowed and asked: “Your brother How did you die?”

“My brother is called Zhuo Er. It is a spy. The military asked him to lurk to me and let him check if I had colluded with Moon Country. I just wanted to find an excuse for Spring Wind Pavilion. It might even be directly I am planting.”

“But brother is all brother after all. He told me all the insider, naturally he will not check me for the military, and will not plant me according to the military command, and he is not my Great Tang soldier. The secret of the betrayal of the betrayal, so he was very painful in the middle of the few months.”

Chao Xiaoshu’s eyes narrowed and said: “Now I want to come, even if I will let the anger in the palace, I should tell him the truth of the matter earlier, maybe he will die after all, but at least it will not be so painful during that time.”

Ning Que asked casually: “But you still haven’t said how he died.”

“The spy is the most dangerous kind of work. When he doesn’t fall to either side, he can die anytime and anywhere. When he decides to fall to one of them, he is more likely to die. He finally decided to put it on the same day. The military plan told me that the result was detected by the military and was cleaned and died opposite the shop.”

Chao Xiaoshu looked at the wooden door of the shop and looked at the gray wall that could not be seen.

Ning Que asked after a moment of silence: “What is the previous Southern Jin Sword Master?”

“Yes.” Chao Xiaoshu turned round Looking at the boy’s childish face, he smiled and said: “From now on, it is brother.”

Ning Que squinted and smiled and replied: “Would you like to play too much?”

Chao Xiaoshu laughed and said, “One world, two brothers, this kind of thing is as simple as that.”

“One person, but two bowls of fried egg noodles.”

Ning Que shook his head with a smile : “The word “brother” is a bit overwhelming, and the famous brothers I know, if not some of them are lucky to die first, then these brothers will eventually turn against each other, I just want to help you this evening. By the way, earn some money, can you not be so tacky, find something else in your life?”

Chao Xiaoshu’s eyebrows slowly picked up and looked at Ning Que with interest. Some accidents heard such a reply and asked: “It seems like you are so old, the world in your eyes is so dark… I am really It’s very curious about your past. If you are interested in telling me in the future, please remember to call me, I will ask for tea.”

Ning Que replied: “I don’t want to remember those things, let alone tell the story to others.”

Chao Xiaoshu said with a smile: “Well, what is the real meaning of life for you besides the fried egg noodles?”

“The meaning of life is of course career and love, or money and women. I know that you think this sentence is very good, I think this person is also very good, but can you not laugh so unpredictable?”

Ning Que shook his head helplessly, in order to let the Chang An City understand what it means, pointing to Sang Sang who just came over and asked: “Which girl do you think Red Sleeves is suitable for as your grandmother?”

Sang Sang wiped the little hand on the apron, then thought about it for a long time with a squint of eyebrows, and then cautiously said: “I feel that the second girl sitting on your left hand side is fine.”

“That’s Lu Xue girl.” Ning Que thought about the girl’s soft waist and smiled and asked: “Why do you think this girl is suitable as my wife?”

Sang Sang glared at the pair of willow eyes and replied in earnest: “The makeup on the face is evenly smeared. I feel very clean when I smile. The teeth are white and I feel very healthy. I have secretly seen her waist and hips. In the future, Very good to have children.”

Ning Que turned back and smiled proudly at Chao Xiaoshu.

Chao Xiaoshu looked at the small dimple on his left cheek and thought about it. Every day, he guarded a shop and discussed with his underage little maid which prostitute is suitable for birth. It is suitable for being his wife. Is this the meaning of life?

Suddenly he thought of leaving the little maid who leaned over the old pen before the old pen, and thought of going back to the two bowls of hot fried egg noodles after the old pen, thinking about the person who had been forgotten in the corner, thinking about the master and servant. Second, the human world is naturally unable to let anyone insert the feeling, gradually understand something, smile said: “The original meaning of life is life.”

Ning Que shook his head with a smile: “Sour, this is too sour.”

Chao Xiaoshu looks at the teenager’s look and knows that he doesn’t understand what he is talking about. Naturally, he won’t break through those things. He will stand up and walk to the shop door. Turned round and said, “I should go, today’s night. Chang An City has a lot to deal with, silver coin will come to you tomorrow, and he will take you to a place.”

When I heard the last words of this sentence, Ning Que’s face showed a hint of vigilance. He didn’t ask where to go, but asked the key core of the matter directly: “Can you not go?”

Chao Xiaoshu pushed open the wooden door of the shop and said cleanly: “No.”

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