Chapter 1406 I Know How to Go Back!

The two old men did have some grudges in the past. This grudge seemed quite big at the time, but times have changed, and now that they are reunited after a long separation, there is no need for old friends to dwell on those old things.

When they saw each other again, the two old men had red eyes. Ji Nanzheng was more proactive. He walked over first, and in the anxious eyes of his old friend, he patted his shoulder heartily and said, "I didn't expect that when we said goodbye, this We can still see each other in this life, Wensong, you are getting old too."

A very ordinary sentence, a very ordinary greeting, but Zhu Wensong, who was standing at the door, immediately blushed.

He took a step forward and shouted with a choked voice: "Brother Ji!"

The two first met decades ago.

It was the tenth year that Ji Nanzheng drifted to the Xianyan Kingdom, settled down, and even became an official in the court. Two major events occurred that year. One was that a riot broke out in Leiping's country south of Anjiang. That year, King Lei Ping was assassinated. The four princes of the country colluded with the vassal king and joined forces to cause chaos in order to force the crown prince. In desperation, the crown prince took the initiative to send an envoy to Xianyan for help in order to protect himself. He promised that if Xianyan would send troops, To eradicate the rebellious party for him, he is willing to cut off three cities to show his sincerity.

Union labor. The king of Xianyan hit it off immediately, and immediately mobilized his troops and sent 60,000 elite soldiers to Leiping to help the prince. However, when crossing the Anjiang River, a shipwreck occurred. Nearly 10,000 soldiers of Xianyan Kingdom were killed in the sea in a tornado. Although in the end, The remaining 50,000 elite soldiers, as promised, pacified Prince Lei Ping's army.

The country was in chaos, and the Xianyan Kingdom also captured three cities from the Leiping Kingdom. However, the Xianyan Kingdom also suffered heavy losses. The emperor was deeply saddened, and sent Taifu Ji Nanzheng to sing a eulogy written by the emperor himself in the Anjiang River to comfort him. The dead in shipwrecks live.

It was on the third day after Ji Nanzheng respected the emperor's order and sang a mourning for the dead soldiers and generals that he rescued a young man from Anjiang.

That young man's name was Zhu Wensong. He was not from the Xianyan Kingdom, but from another country beyond the sea called Qingyun Kingdom.

That was the first time Ji Nanzheng saw a living person from his hometown during ten years of being alone in a foreign land. He repeatedly confirmed that the young man named Zhu Wensong went to sea with his teacher and encountered a shipwreck while passing through the Devil's Sea. Lived here.

Ji Nanzheng saw this as a turning point. He kept asking the other party if he knew how to go back. He said that he was also from the Qingyun Kingdom. His family and his daughter were all in the Qingyun Kingdom. He wanted to find them and go back to see them, no matter what it took. What a price!

Zhu Wensong himself is also ignorant. He is separated from his master and wants to go back as soon as possible, but it is not that simple to go back, especially because he does not know the method.

So the two began to plan, summarizing the process of their respective exiles in Xianyan Kingdom, and finally came to a conclusion, tornado.

There is another conclusion, the bottom of the sea.

They were all sunk to the bottom of the sea, and when they woke up, they were floating in this strange sea.

Tornadoes are natural disasters that can only be encountered but cannot be avoided. But at the bottom of the sea, if they can dive into the deep sea to explore, maybe they can really discover the connection between this ocean and the Devil's Sea?

The two were so interested that they simply lived on the sea and studied the mysteries of the ocean every day.

Later, the task of mourning the fallen soldiers was completed, and the relevant people were ordered to return to Beijing on the same day. Ji Nanzheng did not hesitate to defy the holy order and continued to stay.

At first they lived on the boat. Later, when the Navy returned to Beijing, Ji Nanzheng was left alone. Naturally, no one specially prepared a boat for him to live in.

Unable to live in the sea, the two settled in the nearest small county near Linjiang, and even hired a group of fishermen for a long time to take them out to sea when they needed it.

Days like this passed for half a year, until the emperor in Beijing established the crown prince, and Zhao Taifu Ji Nanzheng returned to the capital to serve as the crown prince and Taifu, and he was not allowed to disobey the order.

Ji Nanzheng is a person who has a beginning and an end. Even if he has decided to study the way back to China with Zhu Wensong, according to the rules, he should still go back to Beijing, whether it is to formally sue the official or hand over the things at hand, in short, he cannot Just walked away.

So he went back, causing a huge commotion in Beijing and attracting many people to persuade him to stay. Finally, he made a decisive decision and resigned from his post, and once again traveled a long distance to this small border county closest to Anjiang.

This small county is called Xijin County. A group of fishermen he hired were villagers from Hongjia Village. But when he came back again, the fishermen told him that your friend had been in the deep sea half a month ago and had never returned.

Zhu Wensong disappeared.

It was obviously agreed that the two of them would go back together, but he disappeared without knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Can you understand that feeling? After ten years of waiting, there was once hope, but before I could embrace the hope, the hope was shattered. Ji Nanzheng felt that he had been betrayed. He was deeply hit and became crazy. He went to sea every day, sometimes it rained heavily, and sometimes the waves surged. No matter the wind or rain, he continued for three months in Zhu Wensong without giving up. He wandered around the sea where he disappeared, but he still hasn't left this place.

piece of ocean.

In late autumn of that year, Zhu Wensong appeared again.

He still came from the sea and saw Ji Nanzheng on the boat. He rushed to him excitedly, regardless of getting wet, and shouted: "I know how to go back, Brother Ji, I know how to go back!"

He has already gone back.

After Ji Nanzheng returned to Beijing, when he went to sea alone, he encountered a thunderstorm and the boat rolled over. After he fell into the sea, he actually crossed the bottom of the sea again and returned to Qingyun Kingdom and the Devil's Sea.

He could have left, but after spending half a year together, he knew that Ji Nanzheng wanted to go home more than he did, so he stayed in Devil Sea and looked for the next opportunity to return to Xianyan Kingdom. Finally, at a clever opportunity, he here we go again.

Ji Nanzheng was ecstatic at that moment. He hugged Zhu Wensong excitedly, and then explained.

He has figured out how to break through the key connection between Devil Hai and Anjiang, and he told Ji Nanzheng about his practice one by one.

Excited, the two began to experiment, one at a time, and they couldn't wait, but they never succeeded.

The door to the two oceans seems to have been closed.

Neither of them was willing to accept it, so they kept experimenting and going to sea. As a result, they even rescued a white wolf cub that was smuggled by sea traders and unfortunately fell into the water.

Finally, on a snowy day in late winter, they saw with their own eyes a whirlpool spinning in the middle of the sea.

It wasn't a tornado, it was just a whirlpool that appeared out of nowhere, like a door, a door to home.

The experienced fishermen warned them not to go into the water, as it was a ghost cave and they would die if they went in.

But they didn't believe that the two of them had been tortured crazy by the sea this year. They didn't care about anything else, rushed into the sea, and swam desperately into the black hole.

Then Zhu Wensong drowned.

Ji Nanzheng swam faster and entered the whirlpool first, but Zhu Wensong was only half a step behind him, but was thrown into the seabed by the wind and waves. He almost suffocated and kept asking for help.

Zhu Wensong couldn't help but call for help, but in that situation, no one could save him. The fishermen did not dare to come close. He fell deeper and deeper and was about to drown. At the last glimmer of clarity in front of the coffin, he saw Ji Nanzheng walking towards the coffin. He swam over.

Lightning flashed and thundered in the sky, the swaying boats were overturned one by one, and fishermen fell into the water one after another. Ji Nanzheng dragged the half-dead Zhu Wensong and swam desperately in the opposite direction to the whirlpool.

But the whirlpool might really be a ghost cave. There were fish floating around on the sea with their bellies turned over. Ji Nanzheng was a scholar and his strength was limited. Finally, his hand was washed away by the waves. He couldn't hold Zhu Wensong back and looked at him. , was sucked into the vortex.

That day, several fishermen lost their lives, and cries could be heard in Hongjia Village.

Ji Nanzheng felt guilty and haggard. He sent people to find Zhu Wensong, but no one was seen alive or dead.

He guessed that the whirlpool might be the way back, and Zhu Wensong might have gone back again, but why not him? Why wasn't he the one who went home?

He was no longer welcome in Hongjia Village. If he wanted to go to sea again, he would need to hire someone else. But after what happened, he didn't know if his persistence was meaningful. With all the lives he had killed, didn't they have any family members? ? In this world, only Ji Nanzheng's family love is valuable?

He took the little white wolf with him and planned to find another place to stay. He didn't want to leave. He wanted to try again, but from now on, he would be the only one to try. He would not hurt others anymore. If he unfortunately died in the water , just let him die on his own.

That winter, he built a small hut at the foot of Huaishan Mountain. One night, he felt that the white wolf in his arms was missing. When he looked for it, he saw a gray-headed man with a gray face in a cave at the bottom of the mountain. A half-dressed little boy.

The little boy accidentally fell into the trap set by the villagers and fell into a deep pit.

Ji Nanzheng rescued the child, cleaned him, and asked him, "What's your name?"

The little boy shook his head and lowered his head without speaking.

"So, do you have parents?"

The little boy still shook his head and refused to speak.

That was the second major event that year. In a foreign country thousands of miles away, Ji Nanzheng found a relative for himself. He named the child Ji Chundong because he was found by him in the depths of winter.

As for Zhu Wensong, he did not die in the sea, but he also did not return to Qingyun Kingdom.

That was what happened in the fifth year after Ji Nanzheng returned to the capital and became the Crown Prince and Tutor.

Ji Chundong had already entered the military camp at that time, and Ji Nanzheng received a letter from afar. The letter was signed Zhu Wensong. He was so excited at that moment that he searched for the address. Then, he met Zhu Wensong again. At that time, Zhu Wensong could only be described as embarrassed.