After BaiLouYin finished eating, he shouted across, "Your wife let you come to this dangerous place!?"
"My wife?" GuHai had forgotten who BaiLouYin was referring to as his wife.
"What wife?" he yelled back.
BaiLouYin shouted again, "aren't you engaged now?"
"Engaged my ass." GuHai had just realized that BaiLouYin assumed he is an engaged man. So he roared back, "If I really got engaged, then why would I go through this hardship? I could pass my days as usual and won't even care if you rot in the mud!!"
BaiLouYin's heart suddenly felt relieved.
"You didn't get engaged? Then why did you give me an invitation for? Are you trying to mess with me?"
"Yes, I purposely did that to test you idiot!!!"
BaiLouYin stood up and angrily yelled, "You are so cruel!!"
"I am cruel?" GuHai replied back. "Then your girlfriend is not cruel, if she's not cruel then how come she didn't come to find you, huh?"
Although BaiLouYin had on a fierce face, in reality, his heart felt overjoyed.
"She is just an ordinary girl, how can she come to this place?"
GuHai is angry, "So a lord like me is treated like a donkey? If I fall into a pit, wrapped in mud, then I deserve it? You look at how many lords are willing to come look for you? What about your so-called comrades? And where's that kid that brought you dumplings, lying on your bed?"
As BaiLouYin listened to GuHai's barrage of outburst from the opposite side, he was momentarily speechless. Then he can't help but shouted, "You take a break!"
GuHai temporarily shut up.
In between them is a large swamp, on top of it bursting with bubbles. All the surrounding area is covered with fog. The two sat cross-legged looking like two high-level monks cultivating. After calming down, the two stared at each other for a long time, their hearts slowly gush a complex feeling.
BaiLouYin opened his mouth again and asked, "Actually, how did you come here?"
In such a cold season in this large swamp, even with a little carelessness one may not be able to get out.
Once GuHai heard this, he bitterly shouted out two words to the other side.
"Qing Gong1 (martial arts)!!"
1 Qing Gong: Chinese martial arts technique for making the body extremely light in weight by altering the distribution and flow of qi. It is usually exaggerated that these martial artists have the ability to move swiftly and lightly at superhuman speed, and perform gravity-defying moves such as gliding on water surfaces, scaling high walls and mounting trees. GuHai is probably referencing these exaggerated moves to come to this place.
BaiLouYin laughed hysterically until his eyes are teary. Why ask this question when his heart already knew the answer? So many years have passed, his appearance had changed, his profession had changed, his identity had changed, the way he did things had changed ...... the only thing that had not change was his heart toward himself, just like walking on hot charcoal, steaming hot, supporting himself through these hot and cold eight years.
BaiLouYin sprawled on the ground, looking at the foggy sky, his mood is very clear.
GuHai watched the person on the other side, lying there so comfortably. Then he looked at his side of the ground, it was not even two feet long and below is the mud trap. Finally, he shouted, "I'm coming over!"
BaiLouYin suddenly sat up, his chilling voice roared over to the other side, "Don't move!!"
GuHai complained, "The piece of land on my side is too narrow. I can't even stretch my legs. It's very uncomfortable."
BaiLouYin waved his hand, "Then you head backward to see if there is a bigger piece of land that's hard......"
Move backwards? GuHai's face is filled with black lines, it was not easy for me to finally get here, yet you want me to retreat?
"It's fine. I've walked through a lot of these mud ponds. If I balance myself, I will be able to pass through it."
After saying that, he bent over and started to crawl to the other side, ignoring BaiLouYin's opposition. But the mud on the ground with too soft, once he got down, half is body went in the mud. BaiLouYin's face turned purple. He howled a couple of times. GuHai finally steadied himself in the mud and was able to move a little. Just like that, he moved inch by inch. But in the end, he assessed that this will definitely take him a few hours just to get to BaiLouYin's side safely, not to mention that he could lose his life in the process. With no choice, GuHai was forced to use the grass to crawl back to his original area.
BaiLouYin breathed a sigh of relief, his back was wet. "Don't move, just stay there for me!!"
GuHai took a few breaths and suddenly remembered that there is something in his bag, so he quickly pulled it out.
BaiLouYin stared as GuHai pulled out an inflatable pad. Once inflated, it is about the size of a single bed. With this, the chance of the body not touching the swamp is even greater. Adding a rope, one person can lay on top while the other person pull from the other side.
BaiLouYin did not want GuHai to take the risk, so he shouted, "Give me the air pad, I'll come over!"
GuHai's face blackened as he replied, "Altogether my area is only this big, I can barely sit on it, won't you feel crowded?"
Helplessly, BaiLouYin shouted, "then you throw the rope over!!"
Thus, one person laid on the air pad, the other person pulled on the other side. In less than ten minutes, GuHai successfully reached to the other side.
After eight years, they finally have a meaningful real hug. They hugged each other tightly.
Being so close, they are reluctant to say sarcastic words. GuHai's hand held tightly onto the back of BaiLouYin's head, his tone deeply distressed, "You must be freezing terribly these days, right?"
"I could still tolerate it, just hungry." BaiLouYin said truthfully.
GuHai saw the tree in front of him with peeled tree barks, his stomach is full of somersaults.
"There is still food in the bag, you can eat a bit more."
BaiLouYin's hands held onto GuHai's shoulders tightly, with a low dull voice, "weren't you searching for me for the last three days? During the three days, you didn't eat the food in the bag? How come there is so much food left?"
"No." GuHai comfortingly said, "I just searched for you for one day, the last two days, I was searching on the aircraft. I had been eating. I brought a lot of food since I was afraid that if I couldn't get out, I'll starve to death inside."
In fact, GuHai had not drank or eaten in three days.
"I don't believe you!" BaiLouYin pushed GuHai away and looked at him carefully, "Once I touch your stomach, I will know how many days you haven't eaten."
"That talent of yours didn't go away?" GuHai ridiculed.
BaiLouYin really put his hands inside GuHai's shirt. Once the icy cold hands touched GuHai's skin, his muscles immediately shrunk a bit. GuHai hasn't had such cold sensations on his body for a long time so it was a little uncomfortable.
"You have not eaten for three days!" BaiLouYin was assertive.
Afterwards, he pulled his hands out, but it was grabbed by GuHai.
"Your hands are too cold, just leave it inside."
BaiLouYin did not hesitate. He hasn't had this benefit for a long time, so it's best to enjoy it.
The two men sat against the tree. BaiLouYin sat behind GuHai with his icy hands on GuHai's back. Soon he touched a hideous scar all the way down his spine, compared to the scar on his waist, it is not comparable.
"Very scary, right?" GuHai asked.
BaiLouYin put his head heavily on GuHai's back, and whispered, "do you still hate me?"
GuHai deliberately put on a bitter hatred tone, heavily hummed a "hmmm" sound.
BaiLouYin sighed with a heavy heart.
"At the time, I really didn't want to leave, but I had no choice. Someone couldn't tolerate me and you were lying unconscious on the sick bed. I'm afraid that he would use your life to threaten me. I felt that nothing was more important than your life. I didn't dare to go into the ward to look at you because I was afraid that once I saw you, I couldn't leave. In fact, in all these years, I've always felt sorry toward you..."
Toward the end, Major Bai choked a little. There is nothing that could be done now, remembering this scene from the past is still like digging his heart out.
It's the first time that GuHai heard BaiLouYin using this kind of tone to talk to him. His heart softened and calm, "It's okay, you also felt horrible. After experiencing your accident this time, my heart also understood everything."
"Then you don't hate me?" BaiLouYin snuffled.
GuHai waved his hand, "Let it pass, looking at you, these years were also not easy."
BaiLouYin suddenly took his hands out from GuHai's shirt, extended it to GuHai's face and turned his face over to face himself. With a sharp enticing look that pierced through GuHai's heart, he ordered, "Then you break up with her!"
GuHai looked at the heroic charming face in front of him and faintly asked, "Break up?"
"Yeah, you don't like her so don't waste her time."
GuHai is stunned. This kind of stimulation is like that of someone injecting drugs into his arteries, but he was still able to suppress his intensive waves inside. Responding with his faintly secluded eyes looking straight at BaiLouYin, "who say I don't like her?"
With BaiLouYin's proud personality, to be able openly express his feelings and say what he wanted in his heart in such a straightforward manner, he must have had 100% assurance. If someone won't acknowledge it this time, then it's really making this a frustrating predicament.
BaiLouYin used his knee to poke at GuHai's tailbone. GuHai's lower body felt numbed.
"This is an order, you must obey!"
GuHai is secretly happy. "Are you using the Major's authority to suppress me? I'm telling you, I am a person that can be persuaded but not forced. If you give me a reasonable excuse, I might consider."
BaiLouYin already knew what GuHai wanted to hear but he refused to say it.
"Forcibly picking a melon is not going to be sweet2, brother is doing it for your own good."
2 強扭的瓜不甜: idiom: implied meaning is that forcing an issue when the time is not right will yield undesirable results.
GuHai is deliberately asking for a beating, "Feelings can be cultivated. In the past, two people could get married before meeting, don't they live through a lifetime?"
BaiLouYin's big hands firmly choke GuHai's neck, "Can't you be serious?"
GuHai's fingers poke BaiLouYin's head, "I'm warning you, don't try to start a fight with me, I'm an honorable person!"
"I"ll let you be honorable! I'll let you be honorable!"
Major Bai took out the power that he use to recruit new soldiers and wildly beat the crap out of President Gu......
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