Chapter 146 - Love and Gratitude

After the lingering, their hearts were pounding, and the temperature around them was horribly hot. It seemed that time, hatred, guilt, dawn, everything had nothing to do with them. At this moment, they were like the two young people who had loved each other more than ten years ago who wanted to be entangled with the person they loved.

Once again, Gu Mang hugged Mo Xi's neck, crying he was unable to bear it.

Mo Xi heard Gu Mang calling him his name, his shidi, his princess, and his brother. All the identities and relationships they had in their lives, as long as they were beautiful, Gu Mang gave them to him in their fierce love.

It was like trying to make up all the sincere words they'd had in their love for 14 years.

"Ah, ah, did you hear that at noon today?"

In the evening, all the leaders of the garrison command went to the main camp for a meeting, and a few idle little cultivators gathered together to whisper. "Do you want to say that it came from General Mo's tent… That sound?"

"Yes! So you heard that, too? I thought something was wrong with my ears!"

"But I'm not sure… No one dares to be too close to General Mo's tent. Maybe it was something else. After all, it's General Mo. " The little cultivator licked his lips awkwardly. "We have been fighting with General Mo for so many years. We should know what kind of character he has. He won't mess with any of the girls in the barracks."

All the people thought he was right.

But after a while, someone whispered, "That's right, but don't forget that

Princess Mengze has also come to the front line."

When he mentioned this, several people were at the top of the table, all of them showed a sudden awareness.

"I see!"

"But have they reached this point in private?"

"Probably not..."

"Why not! I've heard from Xiao Hua in the next camp a long time ago that he met General Mo and Princess Mengze in the alley during the Duanyang Festival! For the convenience of traveling, Princess Mengze dressed up in men's clothes and brought a mask. However, when they kissed, they happened to be seen by Xiao

Hua. General Mo was very careful and immediately blocked the face for

Princess Mengze! The wife he protected was speechless."

Every time he said a sentence, everyone was surprised.

For a while, almost all the cultivators believed that Princess Mengze must have gone to Mo Xi's army tent at noon and slept with him.

"Well, it was a while, wasn't it? Our stepfather is really capable."

"The princess is so weak that she can't bear it."

What's more, he was so bored that he began to worry, "They are all like this, do you know? I think it's wrong for our stepfather to do this. It's not good to cook ripe rice before he marries others…"

"Do you think the princess will get pregnant accidentally..."

In the main camp, Gu Mang, who had put on the gold covering again, stood by the wall and couldn't help sneezing low. "Achoo!"

The tent was discussing how to fight the next battle, and a lot of people gathered. Gu Mang, as a humble waiter, was not very impressive in the corner. But when he sneezed and raised his eyes, he saw Mo Xi by the sand table with his arms in his hands and looked at him from afar.

As soon as Gu Mang saw him, his face and his heart burned.

There were so many people in the room. Murong Lian was biting his pipe and talking about their opinions in front of the sand table. Princess Mengze was dressed in a black and gold uniform and wearing a gold hair belt. She also listened carefully. The other army chiefs and team leaders were clustered on the edge of the sand table drawing, as well as the retinues brought by each leader. Mo Xi was separated from him by so many people, but because he sneezed, he specially looked at him.

In full view of the public, Gu Mang had some irresistible feelings. He wanted to meet Mo Xi, but he was afraid of being seen. However, he didn't tangle for a long time. Murong Lian's deduction was quickly rejected by Mengze, who only used two military deployments to destroy Murong Lian's attack line.

Murong Lian held his pipe, squinted and looked at the situation on the sand table. At last, Murong Lian spit out a few words, "The most poisonous woman, the heart, the clothes."

Mengze didn't care about him, instead he smiled apologetically at him. "Lian Ge,

I'm sorry."

Murong Lian sighed.

The next turn was Mo Xi.

Mo Xi took his eyes back from Gu Mang and went to the sand table. He looked at down at Murong Lian's residual performance for a moment, readjusted several military flags representing the combat power, and then began to explain his attack.

Speaking of it, this is the first time Gu Mang had seen Mo Xi as the commander in chief.

In the year of his "treason," Mo Xi was too young. Although he had the experience of leading the army alone, he was not in any particularly big battle. Later, he left, and Mo Xi grew up, but he became an old enemy against him for so many years.

"The left line is prepared by the cultivators of Chiling camp. At the place where I have marked with the blue flag, there are two hundred medical practitioners to take over." Mo Xi lowered his long lashes, took off the two blue flags that Murong Lian had inserted in Nanfeng before, and changed them to the lakeside in the outskirts of the city. "The northern army allocates three thousand to cooperate with these medical practitioners, to open the Xuanwu array and the evil repellent array."

Gu Mang leaned against the wall, the farthest away from Mo Xi. He quietly watched this man become the focus of the whole room, listening to his careful and detailed layout of the overall war situation.

Gu Mang thought that there was no better arrangement than that. He stood there before, and now Mo Xi replaced him as the backbone and core of the northern border army.

He only vaguely felt that his memory had dissipated more and more quickly recently, and he didn't know how long he could watch him so soberly.

"Oh, you. Yes, you." Suddenly someone came into the tent and called for him in a low voice.

Gu Mang said, "Looking for me? What can I do for you?"

"You are Xihe Jun's guard, aren't you? The escort officer for the magic weapon and charm provided by the imperial capital is here. Please go to clear the materials first."

Gu Mang looked back and wanted to have a look at Mo Xi. However, due to his careful explanation, the tactics were very treacherous. Many people who stood around at will before gathered around the sandbox. From Gu Mang's point of view, he couldn't see the whole face of his Mo Shidi. He could only get a faint silhouette from the crowd gap.

Gu Mang was a little melancholy and comforted.

In fact, he knew it would be like this. When he saw Mo Xi sitting under the school tree and reading the scroll conscientiously, he knew that Mo Xi would one day become the role at the center of thousands of people.

It was nice that his pearl was shining.

At the request of the little cultivator, Gu Mang turned around and stole out of the tent - the former commander of the northern border army was so unobtrusive now, so he went out quietly. No one would pay attention to it; no one would find out.

Mo Xi had always been very focused when he pushed into the line. When he finished speaking, the sky was completely dark. However, the layout was exquisite, and the people were not bored. On the contrary, many people felt cool and sweaty under their vests because of his ring design. After he finished the whole siege, several team leaders were very relieved.

"It's terrible..."

"My stepfather really dares to think..."

When the army dispersed, those people gathered in a place to lament and murmur as they walked towards their barracks.

When Mo Xi was speaking, he was absorbed and didn't feel tired. Afterward, he sat down and finally felt a rush of fatigue. He raised his hand and held his forehead, slowly pressing and rubbing his brow.

All the people in the main camp left gradually. Although these people were all impeccable and no one could break his playing method, Mo Xi still thought that he could reduce the loss again. So he still sat in front of the sand table and planned to take a rest then perform again.

As he was rubbing his brow bone to ease himself, he heard the sound of pouring tea not far away. After a moment, a warm cup of tea was handed to him.

At this time, the people had already disappeared. Mo Xi naturally thought that he could stay here quietly with only Gu Mang. He closed his tired eyes and said, "Sorry, I've been busy just now, but I couldn't see you. What kind of tea did you make?"

"It's a wonderful Lingshanyu."

Mo Xi quickly opened his eyes and raised his head slightly.

"Mengze..."

Murong Mengze said with a gentle smile, "I naturally know that you have just been explaining the sand table with them. I watched very attentively, and how could I be angry because you didn't look at me."

This misunderstanding was a bit big and not easy to explain for Mo Xi to explain. Otherwise what could he say? Say "The person I wanted to see isn't you, but that servant close at my side"? This would push Gu Mang to the top of the wave.

Looking at Mengze's eyes wave, it seemed that he just raised a little hope because of his too-soft words. Mo Xi was silent a moment and said. "It's not early. Tomorrow, we have to do another siege. Go back to rest first."

"But I want to be with you."

Seeing Mo Xi wanting to open his mouth, Mengze stopped him immediately and said, "I know what you want to say. You want to say that I should cherish my fame and not follow you all the time. Or you want to say that you don't have any love for this child, don't let me misunderstand."

Mo Xi: "..."

Mengze's long neck hung down. Although she still had a good manner, she looked sad. "You've said these words to me for many years, and you can recite them by heart. I also know in my heart that you are only grateful to me and have no other friendship. I'm not reluctant to ask for anything other than friendship either - but can't you let me have a look at you and accompany you?"

"If you look at me all the time and accompany me, you will not see the other people you really should look at," Mo Xi said.

Mengze raised her eyes, and the moist luster flowed from the bottom of them. "You don't have to worry about me. Who Mengze looks at and accompanies in this life, it's up to Mengze to decide on her own. No matter what the outcome is, I will never regret it. I don't ask that person to look back at me I just want to know, Dage, do you have someone else in mind now?"

Mo Xi did not expect that she would ask such words directly. He was silent for a while, put down the cup of tea that had not been moved, looked up, and said to her, "There has always been."

Hearing these four words, Mengze was not too surprised, but her body still shivered. She was pale for a long time and forced out a smile and said, "It's also... When you used to refuse me, I told you that you would not like me. It's just me, I... " She couldn't speak any more, her voice trembling slightly.

She didn't go on talking, but Mo Xi could know what she would say.

He had already told her that he had no other place in his heart. But what did Mengze believe? That it was only a way of rejecting her.

After all, he did not have too close contact with any girl, and he could not name

Gu Mang as the person he paid all his love to, so no one ever thought that Mo Xi's "heart belongs to" was true.

Until recently, more and more ambiguous traces couldn't be hidden. Many details floated on the surface, and the words of Mo Xi finally became convincing. Mengze held the edge of the table, paused down for a while, then forced a smile and said, "Which family's gold, you… Why did you keep it from everyone so long... "

"It's not a lot of money."

Mengze's face became more and more white. "Yes… A common person?"

"..."

In this silence, Mengze's eyes swept away from the band in Mo Xi's hair. On that day, the hair crown that Mo Xi put on wrongly was naturally replaced. Even the man didn't care about these small things, and didn't find that he had worn a silk belt that obviously didn't belong to him.

"Dage, you are dear," said Mengze softly.

Mo Xi put his hands on the table and looked up at her.

Mengze said sadly, "Do you think you can be with an ordinary girl? Do not mention, near or far. You saw the first Wangshu Jun. So many lessons from Chonghua, you… You grew up in the imperial city when you were young. You don't know... "

Mo Xi said, "Do you think first Wangshu did not know?"

"Then you should think about his fate!"

Mo Xi paused a little, then sighed, "Mengze, thank you for mentioning it to me me. But I have nothing to do with his business or anyone else. I will protect him."

"..."

"Because I like him."5

Mengze's eyes were full of water vapor. Mo Xi then said to her, "I will protect you, too."

Mengze asked tearfully, "Why?"

"Because I am grateful to you."

When Mengze heard the words, she closes her eyes and laughed sadly.

"I told you a long time ago that I owe you my life. If you need me, whenever you need me, I will do everything for you."

"But only this heart," Mo Xi said barely opening his lips, "I can't afford it."

Mengze raised her eyes again and asked in a trembling voice, "Will you never change your mind again?"

As a golden branch, Mo Xi wouldn't be unclear about how much she humiliated herself to ask this. But there was not a way to reverse the outcome without humiliation.

Mo Xi looked into her eyes and said, "I won't."

After a few moments of silence, in the stillness, Mengze made a light sad smile. She looked up pathetically and sobbed, "It's like… Ok... Ok..."

She didn't force anything more. Perhaps after all these years she had been said and done everything she could.

"Mo Dage..."

"I wish you were more hypocritical. It's better to lie to me. But you don't even give me a dream."

"You are… Really... "

She didn't know how to end the conversation which had been a failure to her. She wanted to show a smile to maintain her dignity without being broken, but the tears were still in her eyes. She opened her eyes wide and tried to hold back her tears.

Then she turned around, slowly and ,almost faltering, left the barracks.