The midday meal passed quickly. Lin Weiyang still had some chores to deal with in the afternoon, so he asked Lin Yuan to send Qin Boyong and Wen Baicao away. Originally, Mo Qingcheng wanted to follow, but Lin Yuan refused and asked her to stay. Resting in the mansion, Mo Qingcheng couldn't defeat Lin Yuan, so he had to give up and stay to help Lin Weiyang.
Lin Yuan took the two of them to the guest room first and found that the drunk man he brought back yesterday was still sleeping soundly. Lin Yuan took away the wine gourd placed next to him without waking him up.
Finally, the three of them left the Lin Mansion together and headed to the west of Beiliang first. After all, Wen Baicao was still a guest of Lei Mansion, and it was inconvenient to be with Lin Yuan for a long time, so they had to send her back to Lei Mansion first.
Along the way, Wen Baicao looked solemn and always looked ahead. Only Lin Yuan and Qin Boyong were chatting freely.
Seeing that he was about to reach Lei Mansion's house, Wen Baicao looked around and found that the street was sparsely populated, so he stopped and reached out to stop the two people beside him.
Lin Yuan's chattering mouth paused for a moment. He knew that Wen Baicao had something to ask the old man, so he smiled and said, "Do you want me to avoid it?"
Wen Baicao shook his head, then turned around to face Qin Boyong.
The two looked at each other. Qin Boyong stood with his hands behind his hands and looked at the little girl in front of him, waiting for her to speak.
After Wen Baicao looked directly into the old man's deep eyes, the words came to his lips but he didn't know how to speak.
Looking at the little girl's tangled look, Qin Boyong smiled and said: "Little girl, if you have something to say, it's okay to say it. Why be so entangled."
Wen Baicao pursed her red lips. She hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I want to ask you a question for Elder Mu."
Qin Boyong nodded for her to continue, while Lin Yuan was playing with the wine gourd in his hand, as if he was watching a show.
"Have you... ever regretted your decision back then?" Wen Baicao stared into the old man's eyes and said seriously.
Qin Boyong was a little unresponsive at first, but then, a beautiful image appeared in his long-term memory.
The woman smiled sweetly, clasped one hand behind her back, stretched out the other hand, and said to herself: "You are willing to leave the Northern Jin Dynasty with me, and no longer care about all the worldly things in the future. Let's find a place where there is no one." They retreated into seclusion in the mountains and forests, and the two spent the rest of their lives together in the wind and snow."
The voice mixed with expectation kept echoing in Qin Boyong's head. He seemed to see the figure of the woman back then. The hands on his waist could not help but move restlessly, wanting to reach forward and hold the illusory palm.
But he held back again. Qin Boyong lowered his head, smiling self-deprecatingly. He looked up amid Wen Baicao's confused eyes, first nodded, and then shook his head.
Such ambiguous behavior really puzzled Wen Baicao, and she said angrily: "What do you mean?"
Lin Yuan, who was standing aside, chuckled and said: "The old man nods naturally because he regrets it, but shaking his head shows that he has no regrets."
Wen Baicao gave Lin Yuan a cute look and ignored him, then looked at Qin Boyong quietly.
The memory in the old man's eyes gradually disappeared, he wiped it on his face, and when he faced Wen Baicao again, he had returned to his usual state, and said with a smile: "The wild boy is right. "
Under Wen Baicao's stunned expression, the old man continued: "I have regretted that decision countless times, and I also imagined what it would be like now if I left the Northern Jin Dynasty with her."
"But I can't. Even if you give me another chance, I will still choose to stay."
"Why?" Wen Baicao frowned.
Qin Boyong did not explain, he asked instead: "Little girl, when you walk out of Yunyin Villa now, where have you been in China?"
Although she didn't know what medicine he was selling in the gourd, Wen Baicao still rolled her eyes and began to think about the places she had been.
"Pingshan, Sichuan and Shu, Shanglan Mountain... Tianshan Bamboo Sea, and the Northern Jin Dynasty are all gone for the time being." Wen Baicao answered with her fingers.
Qin Boyong nodded, and then asked: "Ignoring other places, in your opinion, compared with Sichuan and Northern Jin, which side has the people's life more comfortable and comfortable?"
Wen Baicao carefully recalled what he saw in Sichuan and Shu, then bit his lower lip and replied: "Northern Jin Dynasty."
"Why do you think this is?" Qin Boyong asked with a smile.
This question really made Wen Baicao a little speechless. She usually stayed at Yunyin Villa to study medical skills. Even when she went down the mountain, she traveled around. She really didn't understand the situation of all the forces.
Seeing Wen Baicao's dumbfounded look, Lin Yuan couldn't help but laugh out loud, and he opened his mouth to help her out and replied: "If the people want to live in peace, the national power must be strong, so that no one dares to invade the country at will and disturb the people's well-being."
"Then why was the Northern Jin Dynasty so powerful?" Qin Boyong turned to look at Lin Yuan.
"On the outside, there are twelve purple gold tiger generals and 500,000 cavalry guarding the border, and on the inside there is the spirit of protecting the country to control the country. Therefore, the Northern Jin Dynasty is safe and healthy."
Lin Yuan's answer earned Qin Boyong's approval. He gave Lin Yuan a thumbs up with a smile, and then asked, "Do you know where these come from?"
Lin Yuan was speechless, not knowing how to answer.
Qin Boyong turned to Wen Baicao, and the girl also had a blank expression.
The old man didn't show off any more. He said: "At the beginning, the late King Yun Zhe and I rebelled from different sides, and finally gathered in Stone City. At that time, we only had thirteen Zijin soldiers and five hundred brothers."
"After confirming the city of Northern Jin, the late king secretly left the city and traveled around to recruit talents, while I stayed in the city of Northern Jin to resist foreign enemies."
"It took us decades to raise the national power of the Northern Jin Dynasty to a higher level. At that time, the country's military strength was less than 100,000, and two of the thirteen Zijin soldiers died on the battlefield."
"The current peace and prosperity of the country and the people are all accumulated little by little by the late king and me."
"If I had followed Mufeng and returned to seclusion, it would have been impossible for the Northern Jin Dynasty to have such prosperity."
"It's not that I don't want to leave with her, but there are thousands of subjects behind me, and I can't abandon her!"
She didn't know where Wen Baicao's temper came from. She stamped her foot and said angrily: "Young Master Qin Boyong of the Northern Jin Dynasty, is it possible that you will subjugate the country!"
He was angry, but Wen Baicao still lowered his voice for fear of exposing Qin Boyong's identity.
"Maybe... it really will happen?" Qin Boyong tilted his head back slightly and looked directly at the blue sky.
Wen Baicao was puzzled. She looked at Lin Yuan aside, trying to find an answer.
Lin Yuan really knew about this. He stopped playing with the wine gourd in his hand and said with a serious face: "In the 113th year of Tianren, the late king Yun Zhehe personally put on armor and went into battle to resist the Immortal Sect, while Qin Boyong rushed to Go to Luoshui to contain the heroes of the world. In that battle, the late king Yu Pengmiao died in the battle. If Qin Boyong was not here, the Northern Jin Dynasty would be besieged by the Immortal Sect and the heroes of the world. By then, the destruction of the Northern Jin Dynasty would be inevitable. I am afraid that it would happen. This place will become a desolate place."
Wen Baicao didn't hear Qin Boyong's rebuttal. It seemed that what Lin Yuan said was true.
At this moment, a strong wind suddenly blew up in the area where the three people were standing. Lin Yuan was already used to this scene, so he stood there quietly, waiting for the wind wall to take shape.
In just one breath, the wind wall enveloped the three of them.
While Wen Baicao was still looking at him curiously, Qin Boyong asked: "Do you know where the soul of protecting the country comes from?"
Lin Yuan felt Wen Baicao's gaze, but he could only shake his head at the girl and said: "I only know that the soul of protecting the country was set up when the current king ascended the throne in the prosperous year, and it was the first one after the death of the late king Yunhe. Two years..."
Lin Yuan's voice gradually became quieter, and the expression on his face changed from confused to unbelievable. He slowly looked at Qin Boyong and asked with a trembling corner of his mouth: "The soul of the country protector... is the late king?"
Qin Boyong closed his eyes, looked up to the sky and sighed, and said: "When I arrived at Pengmiao, he was still standing in front of the army. It was not until he saw me that Brother Yun breathed his last breath. I I couldn't bear to see him pass away, so I secretly used the forbidden technique 'Soul Binding' to imprison his soul in the corpse. I spent the next year raising his soul until his soul woke up. He After he woke up, he did not blame me, but asked me to find a way to exchange his soul for a hundred years of peace in the Northern Jin Dynasty."
"So, how can I just care about the relationship between the two of them and abandon the Northern Jin Dynasty?"
"The peaceful and prosperous age of the Northern Jin Dynasty was bought with the blood and flesh of countless people. Although I really want to live in seclusion, it will only be after no one in the Northern Jin Dynasty dares to invade, that I will go to Yunyin Villa and talk to Mu Go away to the wind and find a deserted place to settle.”
After Qin Boyong finished explaining, the three fell into silence, especially Wen Baicao.
The wind wall dissipated in just a moment. Qin Boyong walked to Wen Baicao and said softly: "So, I have never regretted the decision I made back then. I am worthy of the soldiers who died for the Northern Jin Dynasty and the subjects of the Northern Jin Dynasty."
"But I only owe Mu Feng. We have been married for hundreds of years, but it is difficult to even meet her once."
Wen Baicao lowered her head and said nothing. She kicked the dust on the ground with her toes, wondering what she was thinking.
Lin Yuan and Qin Boyong had no other important matters today, so they were waiting for Wen Baicao.
After some time, Wen Baicao still didn't raise her head, so she whispered: "Elder Mu has never regretted..."
Perhaps Qin Boyong was old. He didn't hear the little girl's words clearly, so he leaned down and asked, "What did you say?"
Wen Baicao puffed up his cheeks and raised his head, shouting into Qin Boyong's ear: "I said! Elder Mu has never regretted it!"
After yelling, Wen Baicao turned around and walked towards Lei Mansion, leaving Qin Boyong standing there rubbing his ears.
Walking to the street, Wen Baicao suddenly turned around and shouted to Lin Yuan: "Lin Yuan! Junior sister and I will leave Lei Mansion at the end of the month. Can we stay at Lin Mansion then?"
Lin Yuan was a little confused, but he still waved and shouted: "Welcome anytime!"
After getting a satisfactory answer, Wen Baicao relaxed his eyebrows, turned around and continued to move towards Lei Mansion.
She remembered what Elder Mu said when she was hiding in the dark that night:
“It’s enough to love only one person in this life!”
