Chapter 23: Home
"Senior Brother Li!" Bai Lingmiao's sonorous cry with a sobbing voice caused Li HuoWang, who was carrying a lantern in the darkness, to turn around and look at the others standing in the sunlight outside the door.
He waved his hand toward them once again, "All go, all go home."
"Senior Brother Li, then you come along too, it's safer to walk together on the road, are you still forgetting to take something here?" Zhao Wu, who was lying on the fool's back, said, he looked a little nervous, as if he sensed a hint of something wrong.
"Hehe, where are we going together?" Li Huowang turned around, hiding his face back in the darkness.
"Going home together for New Year's Eve ah, Master Li, where is your home?"
Li Huo Wang in the darkness laughed silently and began to carry his lantern towards the way he came. "Home? Where do I have a home now, my home is long gone, I can't go back!"
Li Huowang walked silently in the darkness, the Qingfeng Guan was very quiet at this time, the only thing accompanying him was the sound of his footsteps.
Suddenly Li Huowang began to hum a song, his footsteps began to lighten up, the oil lamp in his hand swayed rhythmically from side to side.
Accompanied by his own singing, Li Huo Wang re-entered his quarters, he closed the door and placed the oil lamp on the table, he didn't even bother to wipe the blood from his face and body, he just slowly laid down on the stone bed and closed his eyes.
"Today is the first day of the year, I didn't eat that disgusting black taiyao this month, I should be able to see Yang Na again soon, right?" Thinking of this, the corners of Li Huowang's mouth rose slightly.
He quietly waited, waiting for his best childhood friend to bring himself back to the world that belonged to him.
Li Huowang, who hadn't slept all night, began to gradually dissipate his consciousness, but just as he was about to fall into a wonderful dream, the door suddenly opened.
Li Huowang rubbed his eyes and sat up, realizing that at the door stood Dogwa Zhao Wu and the others.
Bai Lingmiao stood there apprehensively, her eyes averting for a moment before finally firming up.
"Senior brother Li, if you can't return home, then you can come to my house, my house is very spacious, and the east room is also empty ......"
Li Huowang looked at the kind young girl in front of him and shook his head slightly, "This place is also quite good, I've already stayed used to it."
The only way for a madman who talks to himself and dances around with his hands is to stay here in the shadows, so that he doesn't frighten other people.
Bai Lingmiao's lips trembled slightly. There seemed to be some disbelief in Li Huowang's words.
"I have had a home, I have had a family, but ah ......," Li Huowang tilted his head to look at the dark roof, and his expression was complex as he began to recall something.
After pondering for a while, Dog Wa whispered and scowled at the others, "Since Senior Brother Li is saying he wants to stay here? How about we leave?"
"You shut up!" Bai Lingmiao's sentence made Dogua jump in fright, this was not like the coy little girl from the past.
Bai Lingmiao quickly went up, her expression very stubborn as she walked up, "Can you stand up to your family like this? If your family in the past knew you were like this now, what would they think?"
A bitter smile appeared on Li Huowang's face, "How would they think, how would I know, I can't even be sure if they are real or not!!!"
"I might just be a madman with nothing to lose, I have nothing, everything is completely fantasized by me." Li Huowang's expression became very agonized.
Bai Lingmiao's white, almost transparent hands reached over and held Li Huowang's hands. "Senior Brother Li, you are not destitute, you still have us."
Li Huowang froze as he looked at the young girl in front of him, looking at her obstinate and delicate face.
In an instant, he realized that he knew very, very little about the girl in front of him, "Why is she being so nice to me?"
Suddenly everything around him began to transform, the cave began to switch with the clean white walls of the hospital.
Bai Lingmiao's features began to melt and coalesce back into Yang Na's appearance, tearful and full of worry at the moment.
"Nana!" Li HuoWang pounced over to her, his expression extremely painful as he hugged her to death.
"Firewang, you can't give up on yourself, you have to live, no matter what you encounter you must live well, okay?" Yang Na's voice trembled.
"You have to hold on, no matter what happens to you, never get down."
The face then turned into his mother's face once again. "Son, you can't die, if you die, how can the old man and I live!!!"
That face quickly kept changing and various people Li Huowang knew appeared, cheering him on.
Suddenly, everything around him quickly became fixed, and the bright ward quickly dimmed.
Li Huo Wang slowly loosened his embrace and realized that he was holding Bai Ling Miao.
The young girl who was embraced at this moment was obviously a bit shy, but her eyes did not dodge. "Senior Brother Li, let's go, it's hard for me to stay in this place."
Immediately after, she pulled out those notes from the purse on her waist and placed them in his arms, "Senior Brother Li, it's useless for you to give these to me, none of us know how to read."
"Right, Senior Brother Li, this is something you have to do, no one else can do it." The others also chimed in at the door to help.
"I .... I... I recognize..." Just as the fool's words left his mouth, he was covered by Zhao Wu, who came up to the fool's ear and said, "Even if you know the words this will you have to pretend you don't know them for me!"
Li Huowang silently looked at the last words written by those in front of him, not knowing what to think.
Bai Lingmiao pushed her hands forward, pushing those notes forward some more. "Senior Brother Li, you promised them yourself, a man can't go back on his word."
Reality and illusion kept switching in his mind, and finally Li Huo Wang reached out and picked up those papers. "Let's go."
Li Huowang decided that he would live as well as he could no matter where he was, not just for himself, but for the families that may or may not exist.
When these words came out, everyone suddenly smiled comfortably.
They didn't know what Li Huowang was thinking, but the other party just had to not continue to stay in this hellish place.
The group of people embraced Li Huowang and walked out from the dimly lit house, about to head towards the cave entrance, however, just a few steps in, Li Huowang called out to them.
"Wait, since we've decided to leave, this place needs to be scavenged before we can do so, Silly you pack Zhao Wu, take the others to the kitchen and get some food for the road, we can't do without food on the road."
Immediately after Li Huowang himself brought Bai Lingmiao to the alchemy room to get some pills he recognized, Li Huowang had been practicing the dan dao for a while now, with these things he was considered half a doctor, and on the road he didn't know how far it was from their house, so he brought it with him in case of trouble.
However, he only took his own recognition, the other Danyangzi refining do not recognize the elixir, Li Huowang do not dare to touch let alone take.
After the group met at the main hall, Li Huo Wang continued to speak, "Wait a moment, I still have one more thing to take." Li Huo Wang said carrying the lamp oil in his hand, he carefully walked towards the cave where the Black Tai Sui was held.
