Chapter 82: The Mysterious Goddess of the Red Sky (3)

The breeze in the mountains brushed her face like incense, and the sunlight was warm, sprinkling the clean fragrance of branches and leaves on her face. Ye Xuanshang raised his hand, and a jade porcelain wine bottle drew a beautiful arc in mid-air and fell into the empty mountain, remotely transmitting a crisp sound that could hardly be heard, echoing endlessly. Following the movement of raising his hand, the slender tree branches rose and fell slightly, and the person lying half-way on it looked almost shaky, but was motionless, and his expression was also incomparably comfortable.

If someone had caught the wine bottle halfway and looked at it carefully, they would find that the bottom of the crystal-clear cloud-ear inlaid gold silk jade porcelain bottle was actually engraved with a few ancient Chu characters—"Specially Made for the Shao Yuan Jun Mansion."

The eight hundred miles of mountains and seas and thirteen cities are not as good as the square inch of Cloud Lake. During the war between Chu and Xuan to divide Houfeng, because no one got the Nine-Turn Spiritual Stone Ice Blue Crystal, it had always been considered a draw with no victory or defeat. Now it seems that just for getting this jade marrow wine spring, it should be considered that the Chu Guo won a move. Ye Xuanshang exhaled, blew away the leaves covering his face, and saw a wine bottle falling into the mountain stream nearby at the same time, and could not help but laugh, "A woman who can drink so much, I don't know who will dare to marry her in the future..."

The words had not yet fallen, and a heavy wine bottle was thrown at his face. Ye Xuanshang's body sank suddenly, barely avoiding this unceremonious surprise attack. Of course, at the same time, his ape-like arms stretched out, catching the fine wine that had taken a lot of trouble to get, so as not to waste it.

"Haven't fought enough?" Black clothes fluttering, hair and sleeves fluttering in the wind, Zi Rao leaned on the other side of the tree branch and opened her eyes, glancing at him sideways.

The bright sun shone, her eyes were horizontal, her icy skin and jade face flew with wine color, and her whole body was filled with secluded fragrance and flowing wind, adding a few points of charm. Ye Xuanshang raised his brows, appreciating this beautiful picture without reservation. Zi Rao looked up and drank, and when she looked at him again, her eyes flowed with a few points of provocation.

Ye Xuanshang moved his arm that was still somewhat numb, wiped the bloodstain caused by the flying stone, and sighed secretly.

The ground under the two people was covered with broken stones and sand, fallen leaves and broken branches, occasionally with jade porcelain fragments, and nectar flowing horizontally. The quiet place on the Cloud Wild Mountain head was now messy enough. Knowing that she was not in a good mood today, he took the opportunity to drink and fight with her, and finally saw a few smiles as usual. But after making a fuss for a while, she sat alone on the top of the ancient tree on the mountain cliff, just quietly looking at the extremely distant place in the sky, the wine did not stop, but the words were no longer spoken.

The floating clouds in the sky were faint, the mountains and fields were empty, and occasionally a clear breeze swept across the lapels, swept across the hair, and swept across the calm brows that seemed to have experienced a thousand years. The sunlight seemed too bright, her expression was neither sad nor happy, a faint piece of silence, just faint to the extreme, but it gave birth to the deepest lingering and thickest tenderness in the red dust and robbery world—like the great thousand worlds in the void, the illusion like water.

A sigh...

The tree branches beneath her swayed occasionally, and the two passed by each other in the rise and fall. The moment the light fell, he heard a sigh that was extremely faint from her lips. Before it could be clear, it drifted away lightly in the empty wind.

Ye Xuanshang felt that if he also kept silent, Zi Rao would sit quietly in such bright sunlight, drinking, watching the floating clouds like illusions, listening to the wind passing through the long sky, letting the flowers fall and the wind fill the sleeves, the empty mountains and the sun and moon changing the flow of years. So, throwing away the wine in his hand, he deliberately opened his mouth to tease her. At this time, he also turned and swept up, landing lightly beside her, sitting down, "If there is really something unhappy, saying it out might be better."

Zi Rao narrowed her brows, looked at him sideways, looked for a while, and suddenly smiled slightly, "When you are unhappy, do you often say it out?"

Ye Xuanshang was startled, then shook his head with a smile, "No."

Not saying it, and having no one to say it to, and even if there is someone to say it to, there is no need to say it, and even, cannot say it. Life is lonely, there are not many people worth confiding in, and there are not many people who will truly understand your thoughts, or cannot, or will not.

Wandering in the Jianghu, leaving the country and home, alone with one body beneath the Mysterious Tower, accustomed to facing it alone, it is nothing more than this. If there is someone who can accompany you, then you don't care about saying anything more.

Across the faint light and shadow, the faint wind, looking at each other with the woman in front of him, the two smiled at each other, and just turned their heads away.

The wind passed through the treetops, flowers fell on the shoulders, black clothes fluttering, sitting back to back, one still looking at the distant mountains and the sky, one half-closed his eyes and let the sunlight sprinkle lightly. Wine in hand, things in heart, he no longer persuaded, and she would not say.

After a while, Zi Rao narrowed her eyes against the sky, and suddenly asked lightly, "Ye Xuanshang, one day when you return to the country, what will you do?"

Ye Xuanshang's eyelashes moved slightly, as if the sunlight had suddenly brushed past, but his voice was lazy, as if he was about to fall asleep in such sunlight, "Do what should be done."

Zi Rao's words were faint, as if just asking casually, "If one day you become the Mu King?"

Ye Xuanshang also answered casually, "Then do what the Mu King should do."

Before this, they seemed to have never sat down to seriously discuss topics related to this. Even when the cooperation between Chu, Mu, and the Imperial Capital was facilitated back then, it was nothing more than her pulling him out from the powder and embroidery piles of the Ban Yue Pavilion, startling a group of singing girls, and asking with a smile, "Are you interested in causing trouble for someone?"

He was half-drunk and half-awake at that time, and only answered with a smile, "If there is a beauty to accompany me, Xuanshang is naturally happy to go."

She seemed to have known that he would answer like this, and also expected that he must have prepared fine wine here. The wine was extremely strong, unlike the mellow jade marrow, and had no coldness of the clear spring, just a soul-stirring, unforgettable entrance. She accompanied him to drink seven jars, and still felt unfinished.

Later, the two took advantage of the wine to pick a secret rudder of the Yue Ma Gang. Because they were in a good mood, their actions were considered low-key, but just before leaving, Ye Xuanshang swung his sword and left the words "Gift from the Remnants of the Southern Chu Robbery Gate" on the wall, which made the two factions that were already not harmonious fight more and more fiercely, causing a great chaos in the Jianghu.

Treading on the waves and facing the wind, drinking and whistling at the moon, he once said a sentence to her that night, "Zi Rao, if one day I leave the Chu Guo, I must take you with me."

When he said that, his interest was extremely strong, his tone was extremely domineering, and his eyes were extremely bright. Zi Rao still remembers the excitement of the waves crashing on the shore beneath her feet, and the waves surging like snow. On the spur of the moment, she made a bet with him, and the bet of this palm tilted the country, the city, and the wind and clouds.

A few days later, he publicly beheaded Helian Qi in the Chu capital, becoming the center of attention in the Nine Domains, and no longer covered his fierce edge.

When Zi Rao heard the news, she was accompanying Zi Hao to taste tea, and was surprised to see Zi Hao looking up into the distance, looking like he was yearning, and then, with a smile, praised lightly, "Good spirit."

To be praised by the Eastern Emperor himself, besides the Shao Yuan Jun Huang Fei, only this Third Young Master is the only one in this world.

Perhaps it was this street battle that made Zi Hao completely determined to order Shang Rong to intercept and kill the Crown Prince, manipulate the Chu Guo's grand ceremony, and truly intervene in the Mu Kingdom's politics. And Zi Rao was also very clear that even if Huang Fei was not present, Ye Xuanshang would not leave any affection for the Helian Marquis Mansion. Thinking of his unscrupulous style of doing things, and now listening to this answer, it felt strange. Zi Rao picked up the wine bottle in her hand, examined it for a while, and asked, "Is what should be done so important that you must do it?"

Under the sunlight, a smile bloomed on Ye Xuanshang's lips, with an unfathomable taste, "Not necessarily, it's just that if what should be done is not done, then perhaps there will never be a chance to do what you want to do."

Zi Rao drank a sip of wine, "Then what do you want to do?"

Ye Xuanshang said lazily, "Hmm... the things I want to do are endless. Everything that exists in this world, everything worth doing, I am willing to try. Speaking of which, there are too many." He suddenly opened his eyes, turned to smile at her, "Just like you, Zi Rao, I met you, like you, so I accompany you to do what we want to do. Drinking and fighting are all indifferent. Isn't that very good? What I want to do may not be what I should do, and what I should do may not be what I want to do."

Zi Rao did not expect him to answer like this, and turned her head in surprise. Ye Xuanshang smiled and closed his eyes again, continuing to enjoy the extremely warm and bright sunlight, and the secluded fragrance of the beauty beside him like water and illusion, and said leisurely, "What you want to do, what you should do, as long as you do it, let go and do it. It's that simple."

Zi Rao was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice, "Let go and do it... If for a person, what they are doing must be completed with their life, then this must be what they really want to do."

A bright smile bloomed on Ye Xuanshang's face, "That's very good. If you can meet something worth completing with your life in this life, if it were me, I would feel very lucky, and I would definitely let go and do it."

Zi Rao's gaze condensed, with light waves. Let go and do it? Not hoping for restraint, not existing in bonds, not needing to worry, and not needing too many concerns. Such a man, such a life, does not fail the world, and does not fail this heart.

A lifetime of ten years or a hundred years, if there is such a thing worth completing with your life, if there is such a person worth guarding with your heart and blood, that is indeed a kind of great luck!

Sorrow, joy, pain, worry, joy, sorrow, no matter what it is, just ask your own heart, do you want to go, is it worth it?

The heart is here, and this body is fearless.

The obsession of life is nothing more than this.

The luck of life is nothing more than this.

Zi Rao suddenly smiled gently, a faint and clear shadow, quietly spreading in the depths of her clear eyes, like the sunlight on the vast sky, calm, pure, distant, boundless...

Neither of them spoke again. Ye Xuanshang lay on the tree branch, shaking, flowers falling, as if there was the smell of sunlight, the wind blowing, free and easy. Just like this, one sitting, one lying, vast mountains, floating clouds and clear wind, with the best fine wine in the Chu capital in hand, and a friend willing to accompany beside, why not drink a painful drink and get drunk?

In the distance, the wind blew the forest waves, surging like a tide, the birds in the secluded valley sang, and the apes in the deep stream roared, but the world was so quiet and peaceful. Until the golden crow set and the moon rose on the eastern mountain, the last bottle of wine was finished, Zi Rao opened her eyes, the bright moon was like jade, and the clear brilliance filled the mountain.

Finally, she leaped up, stood on the swaying tree branch, and smiled softly at the person who seemed to have fallen asleep under the moon, "Hey, I'm leaving."

Ye Xuanshang did not open his eyes, just lay there and waved his hand, the smile under the moonlight was as handsome as this.

(End of Chapter) ===== CHAPTER 83 =====