Chapter 222 The Meaning of Coming Back

Yu Sheng stopped.

She raised her head slightly, tilted her head, and looked at Gu Zhuo very seriously.

At this moment, she looked inexplicably cute, and confusion gradually appeared in her bright eyes. Maybe she thought she had heard it wrong?
After a moment, Yu Sheng was sure that he had not heard wrong, and his eyes suddenly became as calm as water.

It was quiet outside the pub.

Only the noise of the night wind remains.

There was a long silence.

In this wind, the thunderous sound of horse hooves became more and more real. The most elite black-armored heavy cavalry of the Zhenbei Army had already appeared in sight, and from a distance it looked like a black tide sweeping in.

Those practitioners who were loyal to the Zhenbei Army were extremely silent at this moment. Their expressions were as serious and hard as statues. They did not look like living people at all, and they would not remember every word that came before or after.

Gu Zhuo remained unmoved and looked at Yu Sheng.

After a moment of silence, Yu Sheng looked up at the night sky covered by dense clouds and said stiffly, “The wind is a bit strong tonight.”

After saying this, she walked away not far away, and there was no need to look at Gu Zhuo anymore.

Everything is so natural.

Gu Zhuo followed him.

There was a carriage waiting in front, with thick curtains to block out the cold wind, and the carriage made of fine steel was engraved with dense array patterns to reduce weight, avoid shock and resist possible attacks.

Even for a sword cultivator who has reached the Guiyi realm and is famous for his killing power, it would be difficult to break through the protection of the carriage and injure the people sitting inside.

The interior of the car is very comfortable, and there is no trace of luxury anywhere in sight, but every detail is not simple to the extreme, and it is almost back to basics.

Even though Gu Zhuo didn’t understand money, he could roughly guess that the cost of this carriage must be extremely expensive, probably enough to support tens of thousands of people in the wilderness for a whole year with some money left over.

The sound of wheels rolling over the frozen ground was not pleasant to the ear.

Yu Sheng sat down and closed his eyes to rest, and it was obvious that he didn’t want to talk.

Gu Zhuo held the sword across his knees, feeling the pleasant comfort after many days, and then began to speak.

His voice rang out in the carriage, talking about the long journey that began in late summer.

Yu Sheng had no choice but to listen.

What Gu Zhuo said was true, but not all.

For example, the meeting with Xie Yinglian and the matter of Wang Ji were all concealed by him, but he hid them very openly, and this was mainly reflected in his sincerity.

——I will skip some of the following events because it is inconvenient.

These are Gu Zhuo’s original words.

When Yu Sheng heard this, he looked at him with complicated eyes, but in the end he still didn’t say anything.

The story continues.

Starting from the ancient battlefield in the Qin territory and ending in the belly of a solitary peak among the mountains deep in the wilderness, the “mountain god” exuding the aura of immortality was certainly not concealed.

At the end of this story, Gu Zhuo took out a pen and ink and wrote down the secret scripture of the barbarians he got from Yu Yang on a piece of white paper, but not the whole text.

It’s not that he’s stingy or anything else, but that the scripture has nearly ten thousand words and it is impossible to write it all on a single piece of white paper, and he’s lazy.

However, just the main point of the barbarian scripture made Yu Sheng frown.

With her vision and wisdom, how could she not see that this scripture was indeed feasible? It was very likely the third way for practitioners to achieve the state of enlightenment. Once it was leaked, it would surely cause a huge stir in the human world.

“Don’t think about these things.”

“why?”

Yu Sheng looked at him, his eyes as cold as water.

Gu Zhuo thought about what Chu Jun had said to him, and said seriously: “You can’t even beat me now, so why worry about the country and the people? If the sky falls, there will always be tall people to hold it up first.”

Yu Sheng looked unmoved, but his tone was slightly cold as he asked, “Then what should I be thinking about now?”

Without waiting for Gu Zhuo to speak, she suddenly added twelve words: “Don’t repeat what you just said.”

“Which one?”

“Is it interesting to ask questions even though you already know the answer?”

Gu Zhuo thought it was really hard to be boring.

Then he discovered that this reaction itself had a great meaning, and he no longer felt it was meaningless.

Thinking of this, he hesitated for a moment and said, “I didn’t expect you to come.”

Yu Shengmo frowned slightly and said, “If you didn’t expect it, why did you go to that tavern?”

Gu Zhuo said: “I am your junior fellow apprentice. It is a rare trip to the Northland, so I must meet the general.”

Yu Sheng said expressionlessly: “You are wrong. I should call you uncle-master.”

Gu Zhuo wondered what this meant?
Draw a line?

Yu Sheng turned his head, lowered his eyelids, and suddenly changed the subject: “Don’t show the things that should be kept away. Do you really think that others are blind?”

Gu Zhuo was slightly startled when he heard this, then he smiled and said hello.

Don’t wait to be hidden away.

It was only at this time that Yu Sheng looked at Gu Zhuo again and asked, “Who else knows this scripture?”

Gu Zhuo said: “There is another person, you know who it is.”

Yu Sheng hummed, then realized that his reaction was too cold and distant, which was a bit inappropriate.

“Anyway…”

She looked at Gu Zhuo and said, “Thank you for your hard work.”

Gu Zhuo said: “Not bad.”

Yu Sheng was silent for a moment, then said, “I came to see you because I’m worried.”

As she spoke, she personally brewed a pot of hot tea, letting wisps of hot mist rise in the carriage.

What he said was true, but just like what Gu Zhuo said before, it was not all true.

Before meeting Gu Zhuo, she had imagined many possibilities in advance and thought she had considered them all.

However, she never expected that she would hear such a sentence in the end.

Then all the preparations beforehand came to naught, and only silence remained.

It’s not that I’m at a loss, but more of a complex emotion that cannot be described in words.

The cup of hot tea met Gu Zhuo’s slightly dry lips and flowed into his throat.

After a while, a comfortable sigh was heard.

Yu Sheng looked at Gu Zhuo, and some thoughts gradually emerged in his mind.

“Uncle Master.”

“Ok?”

Gu Zhuo looked back and asked in confusion.

Yu Sheng turned his head away and said, “Master asked me to bring you a message.”

Gu Zhuo was somewhat speechless and said, “I’m listening.”

Yu Sheng lifted the curtain of the carriage, looking at something unknown, and said softly, “It is better not to see each other than to meet.”

Gu Zhuo understood and asked, “That makes sense. Anything else?”

After a moment of silence, Yu Sheng said seriously: “Being alive is the most important thing.”

There is a deeper meaning behind these words.

Gu Zhuo thought for a moment and said, “We need to add two words in front of it. Good.”

——Live well.

“Yes, I think this sentence is very suitable for you and me, two younger generations.”

Yu Sheng suddenly felt a little tired, closed his eyes again, sighed and said: “Rest, the journey is still long, there is no need to rush at this moment.”

Gu Zhuo hummed.

This was a promise, but he did not close his eyes, his gaze fell on Yu Sheng’s profile.

There was no difference from the first time she was in Cangshan. The girl’s face was still ordinary, without any stunning features.

He didn’t know why, but the more he looked at it, the more beautiful it seemed to him, and he couldn’t get enough of it.

Yu Sheng could naturally feel his gaze and whispered, “Is there something on my face?”

“No.”

Gu Zhuo said honestly: “I just realized that I haven’t looked at you carefully before…”

The words stopped abruptly.

Yu Sheng opened his eyes, looked at him and reminded him, “I think Miss Lin should have a great opinion on this statement.”

Gu Zhuo thought that this was indeed the case.

Yu Sheng looked at his silence and knew that this reaction was reasonable and normal, but he still felt inexplicably angry.

However, the next moment, she felt that she shouldn’t have such emotions about this, so she remained silent.

The two stopped talking.

There was silence in the carriage.

Gu Zhuo turned sideways, supported his chin with his hand against the car window, and looked at the moon hidden among the dense clouds.

All things have sounds, falling into the lake of heart, creating blue waves.

“There is one thing both they and I want to ask you.”

“What’s the matter?”

“When you said you liked her just now, were you really not trying to change the subject? I mean, she saw the word Wait a Mind in your hand at that time and was obviously about to ask you a question.”

“No.”

“That’s good.”

Gu Zhuo heard it clearly, and the voices from all things breathed a sigh of relief.

Then he heard a lot of other sentences with roughly the same meaning.

“If you become the kind of person who does whatever it takes, I’ll be very uncomfortable.”

“Although I’m not a human, I don’t think that should be an excuse. Fortunately, you think so too.”

Similar voices kept ringing, chattering like family members and close friends.

The voice that fell into Gu Zhuo’s ears at the last moment came from the cold moonlight, three sentences in a row, which made him feel relieved but also helpless.

“I am very happy.”

“But if you say something like that just now, you should stop saying it in the future.”

“How can you tell a girl in person that you haven’t really looked at me, don’t you think that’s weird?”

……

……

The Zhenbei Army, or General Wang, made meticulous arrangements for Yu Sheng and Gu Zhuo, with three thousand black cavalrymen accompanying them to protect them.

Scouts led by dozens of military experts were scattered around the convoy within a radius of 100 miles to ensure that any danger could be discovered and detected at the first time to avoid surprise attacks.

After many years, the Qin army once again unscrupulously demonstrated its strength and told all forces in the wilderness the fact that had never changed – no force could be the enemy of Qin.

So all parties began to wonder who was sitting in the carriage, but all the people involved remained silent and didn’t say a word.

This has a lot to do with the might of the Zhenbei Army, but the more crucial reason is that… those practitioners who seemed unwilling to obey have now been buried in the wilderness.

General Wang naturally would not tell Yu Sheng and the others about this.

When the carriage arrived at the border town and drove into the general’s mansion on the road that had been cleared in advance, he was already waiting at the banquet that had been set up in advance.

The guests and hosts had a great time that day. At least that was what they seemed to be saying.

Late at night, the uncle and nephew entered General Wang’s study and had a conversation with him which was not very in-depth.

General Wang seemed like a gentle elder. There was no sign of ruthlessness in him. He didn’t even look like a general who had been stationed on the border all year round. All he said was concern. He didn’t even make any insinuations.

It was just like it was a natural thing for Gu Zhuo to walk out from the depths of the mountains.

After the two juniors left, General Wang’s expression remained unchanged and his smile became even warmer.

The trusted adviser came to the study and reported in a low voice: “No trace of the leader was found.”

Yes, the reason why the Zhenbei Army has been acting so high-profile these days is that they are secretly searching for the leader of the Tianming Sect under the pretext of protecting Yu Sheng and Gu Zhuo.

General Wang seemed to understand something when he heard this.

The trusted strategist hesitated for a moment, then lowered his voice and said, “According to the information from the meeting at the ancient battlefield… the leader once called himself Gu Zhuo, but he was wearing a bamboo hat at the time, so his true appearance could not be seen clearly.”

General Wang smiled and said, “Did you know that Gu Zhuo was chatting with me in this study not long ago?”

How could that trusted adviser not know about this and feel uneasy?

“Gu Zhuo, ah, Gu Zhuo…”

General Wang said this name, his smile became more gentle, and he asked curiously: “Who dares to believe that the junior brother of Her Royal Highness the Princess is the leader of the Tianming Sect?”

The trusted adviser noticed the word dare used in the words.

General Wang continued, “Go ahead.”

The trusted strategist was startled for a moment, and asked in a hoarse voice, “What do you mean?”

“You are my counselor.”

General Wang sighed and said helplessly, “What else can it mean? Of course, we must erase all traces of the Tianming Sect leader’s presence in the North. Don’t leave any trace behind.”

As soon as these words were spoken, the trusted strategist suddenly widened his eyes, obviously having some guesses in his mind.

“Don’t think about the mess.”

General Wang said earnestly, “I just don’t want the princess’s junior brother to be found by the evil people in the future, and to be inexplicably stained with dirty water and suffer an unjust accusation.”

“I understand.” The strategist said with his head down.

General Wang smiled slightly, patted his adviser on the shoulder, and said, “You should handle this matter yourself. Remember to make sure it is watertight and don’t leave any traces behind.”

……

……

“Wang Jingshuo is a smart man. He knows where the line is drawn and how to get what he wants, so he is the one who doesn’t have to worry about the most.”

Yu Sheng said indifferently: “He will get everything done.”

Gu Zhuo nodded without looking at her.

After a moment of silence, Yu Sheng said seriously, “Don’t get me wrong, this doesn’t mean that I will give him the Savage Scripture I got from you as a reward. I don’t have the habit of making decisions for you without authorization.”

Gu Zhuo was slightly startled, knowing that she was overthinking, and shook his head and said, “I didn’t mean that.”

Yu Sheng said: “Yeah.”

The atmosphere was inexplicably depressing.

In fact, this has been the scene when the two of them have been together in recent days. They always fall into silence after just a few words.

This kind of repression came very subtly and did not completely affect each other’s desire to talk. It was more like a subtle…adjustment process?
In the silent silence, both sides could vaguely sense that the other was thinking about how to say the right thing.

So after they say the first sentence, they often explain their words to avoid misunderstanding as much as possible, which makes every word in the sentence become so stiff.

If this situation occurred unilaterally, it would undoubtedly be the most common form of flattery in the world. However, in the case of this pair of uncle and nephew, it was a two-way thing, and neither of them thought less than the other.

It is hard not to feel tired after such a conversation. After being tired for too long, one will feel regretful and thus become silent.

Gu Zhuo thought that he should not have said the word “OK” in the carriage, which made the conversation so restrained.

Yu Sheng thought, if the wind in the wilderness was really so loud that no sound could be heard, why would it be like this now?
Every time this happened, the two would subconsciously look at each other and see the emotions in each other’s eyes.

I forgot how many times they looked at each other, but the room was filled with the sound of their conversation again.

“It’s so difficult.”

“It’s not easy.”

“No, it’s too tiring.”

“Is there any way?”

“Unexpected.”

“Or will you show me some more fishing?”

“I don’t know what to say, so you can just shut up instead of disgusting me with such words.”

“I don’t have such an idea, in a subjective sense.”

Gu Zhuo’s voice was sincere.

Yu Sheng looked at him, said yes, and said, “Then let’s fish.”

The next moment, the world in front of the two people suddenly became blurred.

In a blink of an eye, Cangshan Mountain is reached.

This is the mysterious thing about the Taoist temple of a person who is about to ascend to heaven. It is free from heaven and earth, yet it can descend into this world at any time.

From a certain perspective, unless absolutely necessary, a peerless strong man in the Yuhua realm will always be able to take advantage of the time, place and people and remain invincible when facing practitioners of a lower realm than himself.

The scenery of Cangshan Mountain remains the same as before.

The sky is cloudless and the starry sky is as exquisite as a painting.

Yu Sheng took Gu Zhuo to the green lake in front of the mountain, sat down by the lake, and took out the fishing gear.

Gu Zhuo has never been interested in fishing.

In fact, Yu Sheng was just using it to kill time, and it couldn’t be said that he liked it.

“I once loved someone.”

She looked at the water reflecting the stars in the sky, and her voice suddenly rang out: “But in the end, we couldn’t be together.”

Gu Zhuo was slightly startled, somewhat surprised to hear such a sentence.

However, when he thought about it more deeply, he felt it was natural.

Dragging things around has always been the thing that the two of them hate the most.

In other words, the fact that this conversation had not taken place until tonight in front of Cangshan Mountain was itself an extremely abnormal situation.

“Coincidentally.”

Gu Zhuo said softly: “Me too.”

Yu Sheng was silent for a while, then said, “To this day, I still don’t regret my choice.”

Gu Zhuo said: “People like us have no right to regret.”

“Maybe.”

Yu Sheng’s voice was very faint, like the wind: “What kind of person is the girl you like?”

Gu Zhuo lowered his head, looked at the face reflected in the water, and said slowly: “Gentle, strong, cold, rational, clean and transparent… these are probably the words, but I think they are far from enough to describe it.”

“A person cannot be described in just a few words.”

Yu Sheng naturally took up the conversation and said, “The reason why I like that person is very simple, because he is special to me.”

Gu Zhuo raised his eyebrows and asked, “Special?”

“Ah.”

Yu Sheng looked up, pointed at the starry sky, and said seriously: “The starry sky has remained unchanged from ancient times to the present, just like the silence of heaven. When you suddenly find that you can hear the sounds of all things, how can you suppress your curiosity?”

“Curiosity is the beginning of love.”

She recalled the past, and the corners of her lips curled up unconsciously, revealing a nostalgic smile: “I want to know why he is special to me, so I keep getting closer to him, letting him occupy more and more weight in my life, to the point where I can’t forget him completely, and he happens to be someone worth liking.”

As she raised her hand, the sleeve slid down Yu Sheng’s arm, and the starlight and fair skin complemented each other beautifully.

Gu Zhuo tried his best not to be so proud, and said seriously: “Your liking is very reasonable.”

“how about you?”

Yu Sheng asked.

Gu Zhuo didn’t think for too long and gave an answer: “It is related to the words I mentioned just now, but not much, because there are too many girls like this in the world. I like her because she is strong.”

Yu Sheng didn’t say anything, obviously not happy

Gu Zhuo smiled and said, “It’s not about strength, it’s about character.”

Yu Sheng said coldly: “Really?”

“Ah.”

Gu Zhuo’s smile was very sincere.

He said: “From the very beginning, I knew it would be difficult for me and her to walk side by side to the end, because she had the courage to stand firm in her position and die for it, which was very important to me.”

Yu Sheng didn’t know what to say.

Gu Zhuo turned his head, looked at her profile, and said seriously: “Don’t get me wrong, this has nothing to do with tricks like using love to go through tribulations.”

Yu Sheng said: “I didn’t think in this direction.”

When she said this, her tone was obviously dissatisfied and no longer cold.

Then she asked, “So you choose who’s worthy of your affection based on that?”

Gu Zhuo looked into her eyes and said, “This is why I like to go down.”

Yu Sheng lowered his eyelids slightly.

“And there is one more thing that needs to be emphasized.”

“What’s the matter?”

Yu Sheng was a little curious.

Gu Zhuo said: “I don’t care whether a person is beautiful or not.”

Yu Sheng rolled his eyes at him.

——Her Royal Highness the Princess is a beauty known throughout the world.

Gu Zhuo laughed and said, “Anyway, that’s probably what happened.”

Yu Sheng was silent for a while, then said, “It sounds very boring.”

Gu Zhuo was somewhat helpless and said, “It’s not like we’re blaming each other after we’ve separated. Words that tend to praise each other are prone to being repetitive, and it’s not like you can just say a lot of them casually.”

Yu Sheng said: “It seems to be the case.”

Both of them skipped over it tacitly and didn’t say anything like “Does the person you like have many shortcomings?” because they really knew that the person the other liked had problems – at least that was the case based on their past experiences.

“so……”

Having said this, Gu Zhuo fell into silence for unknown reasons.

Yu Sheng guessed what he was going to say next. Her lips gradually pursed into a red line. She remained silent, a little dazed.

After an unknown amount of time, Gu Zhuo asked seriously, “Do you think that if we have another chance, can I still be with that person?”

“I think……”

Yu Sheng’s voice became very heavy: “This is a very difficult thing.”

Hearing this, Gu Zhuo heaved a sigh of relief and said, “If it were easy, it would be boring, wouldn’t it?”

Yu Sheng looked into his eyes and asked, “Why do you want to trouble yourself? Can the problems of the past disappear without a trace today and no longer exist?”

Gu Zhuo thought for a long time, and a smile slowly appeared on his face, because he found a reason to convince himself and the person next to him.

He looked at Yu Sheng and finally said, “Because this is the meaning of starting over again.”

(End of this chapter)