“为兄？”陆恒重复了一次。
“Sworn brother?” Lu Heng repeated.
段飞卿见陆恒唇角勾起，一副似笑非笑的模样，眼神极为动人。他不由心神一荡，却又勉强定了定心神：“你既是男儿身，那我曾经说过的娶你为妻之类的话，是我冒犯了。不过你始终是现下这世上我唯一爱重之人，从今往后，我会把你当成亲弟弟一般。”
Seeing Lu Heng’s lips curl up in a smile, Duan Feiqing’s gaze quivered. His heart couldn’t help but flutter, but he forcefully stabilized his mental state: “Since you are a man, I might have offended you by saying things like marrying you as a wife. But you are have always been the only thing I love most in this world. From now on, I will treat you as my own brother.”
“亲弟弟？”陆恒还是那副似笑非笑的模样。
段飞卿这才觉出几分不对劲来，迟疑地问：“阿恒你不愿意？”
“Own brother?” Lu Heng was still smiling.
Duan Feiqing realized that something was wrong, and asked hesitantly: “Dear Heng, you don’t want to?”
愿意，怎么不愿意。捡日不如撞日，我们这就结拜成异姓兄弟如何？”也不等段飞卿作何反应，陆恒掉头就进屋拿了壶酒出来。
“Yes, why would i be unwilling? Better to use the day at hand, rather than waiting for a perfect day. How about today we become brothers with different surnames?” Not waiting for Duan Feiqing to react, Lu Heng turned around and took out a pot of wine.
你我既然投缘，也不需太过复杂的仪式。”陆恒将酒倒在银碗之中，拉了段飞卿就跪在地上。
“Since you and I are kindred spirits, there is no need for overtly complicated rituals.” Lu Heng poured the wine into the silver bowl, pulled down Duan Feiqing and knelt on the ground.
“苍天在上，厚土为证。今日我与义兄段飞卿饮罢这碗结义酒，自此同生共死，定不负兄弟之谊。”
“苍天在上，厚土为证……”段飞卿与陆恒同声念出，他心下欣喜，苍天为证，他与阿恒自此有了不可割裂的联系。
“Let the sky above, and the thick soil shall be witnesses. Today, I and my righteous brother Duan Feiqing drink this bowl of righteous wine, and hereafter we shall accompany each other in life and death, and strive to live up to our brotherhood.”
“Let the sky above, and the thick soil shall be witnesses….” Duan Feiqing and Lu Heng read out at the same time. He was delighted, since now the sky was the witness. He and his dear Heng have henceforth become inseparable.
陆恒见身旁这人满目喜意，又恶趣味的补了一句：“我觉得这样还不足以表现我们之间的深情厚谊，不如以后我们的后人也都彼此义结金兰如何？”
“后人？”
Lu Heng saw the man beside him full of joy, and teasingly added a sentence: “I don’t think it is enough to just solidify the deep friendship between us. How about having the future generations of our descendants also share cameraderie with each other?”
“Descendants?”
“自然，”陆恒点了点头，“你我今后都是要成婚的，自然会有后。到时候我们各自娶妻后也住在一起如何，那孩子们可以一起长大，像是亲生兄弟姐妹那般，岂不妙哉？”
“Naturally,” Lu Heng nodded, “You and I will both marry in the future, it’s pretty much certain. How about we live together after we each get married? Then the children can grow up together, like biological brothers and sisters. Wouldn’t that be wonderful?”
不，我不会有什么妻子，也不会有什么孩子，我只有阿恒。可是阿恒，作为兄长的，自是弟弟想要什么，都要竭力为他做到。如果阿恒想要娶妻生子，那……段飞卿只觉得内心深处涌出一种无法控制的暴虐之欲，想要疯狂地毁掉身边的一切。
No, I won’t have any wives or children, I will only have my dear Heng. But for his dear Heng, as the elder brother, he must do everything he can. If his dear Heng wants to marry a wife and have children, then… Duan Feiqing only felt that an uncontrollable tyrannical desire emerging deep in his heart and wanted to crazily destroy everything around him.
陆恒见段飞卿神色不对劲，眼神又露出扭曲之意，就知他又要发疯。他不慌不忙的轻轻拉过段飞卿的手，拿出银针在中指上一扎。
Lu Heng saw that Duan Feiqing’s expression was not right and his eyes were twisted like before, he knew that he was about to go berserk once again . He calmly pulled Duan Feiqing’s hand, gently took out a silver needle and pricked it on his middle finger.
指尖的刺痛和自己手背光滑微凉的触感让段飞卿恢复一丝理智，他低头看见陆恒右手轻握住自己的手，左手在自己中指之上轻柔挤压，数滴鲜血就流入地上银碗之中。目的达到，陆恒的手很快就离开，只留段飞卿心下有些不舍，他甚至有一种紧紧抓着那手永不放开的冲动。
The tingling of the fingertips and the smooth and cool touch on the back of his hand made Duan Feiqing regain his sense of sanity. He looked down and saw Lu Heng gently holding his hand with his right hand, gently squeezing his left hand on his middle finger, and a few drops of blood flowed into the silver bowl on the ground. United. When the goal was achieved, Lu Heng’s hand quickly left, leaving Duan Feiqing feeling a sense of loss and reluctance. He even had an urge to hold on to that hand and never let go.
段飞卿觉出几分不对劲来，自己真的能把阿恒当亲弟弟看待吗？之前段家之中，段飞卿也有年幼的弟妹，虽说他对弟妹也是颇为宠爱，但却从未有过这种时时刻刻想碰触对方，想把对方锁在自己身边一步也不离开的感觉。
Duan Feiqing felt something was wrong, could he really treat his dear Heng as his own brother? Duan Feiqing also had younger siblings in the Duan family before. Although he was very fond of younger siblings, he had never had the desire to have physical contact them all the time, or the feeling of locking them up so that they could never take a step away from him.
“阿恒，我……”段飞卿想中断这场结义仪式，虽然不知缘由，他却清楚，这事不能继续下去了。
然而陆恒接下来的动作，又让他把已经到了口中的话咽了下去。陆恒也在自己中指上一扎，挤出鲜血滴入银碗。
“Dearest Heng, I…” Duan Feiqing wanted to interrupt the ceremony. Although he did not know the reason, he knew that this matter could not continue.
However, Lu Heng’s next move caused him to swallow the words that were already in his mouth. Lu Heng also pricked his middle finger, squeezing blood into the silver bowl.
中指连通心脉，这中指血，就是心头之血。段飞卿见自己和阿恒的心头血，在银碗的酒水之中晕开，缠缠绵绵的互相渗透，你中有我我中有你，再不分彼此。
The middle finger was connected to one’s heart, and this blood from the middle finger blood was in reality the blood of the heart. Duan Feiqing’s gaze fell onto the heart-blood of his and his dear Heng’s, coalescescing in the wine within the silver bowl, entangling and intermingling with each other, I am a part of you, you are a part of me, regardless of the barriers between us.
他又见陆恒仰头一口将碗中血酒喝了一半，末了，还舔了舔唇侧不慎溢出的酒液。殷红舌尖一闪而没，段飞卿却是再不能将视线从那唇瓣移开。阿恒，喝下了了我心头之血。
He saw Lu Heng drinking half of the blood-wine in the bowl with his head tilted upwards, and finally licking the wine he accidentally spilled on the side of his lips. The tip of the crimson red tongue flashed and disappeared, but Duan Feiqing could no longer look away from those lips. Dearest Heng drank the blood of my heart.
“嗯？”陆恒将手中银碗递了过去。他见段飞卿眼神中带着几分痴意，将那碗酒一饮而尽，心中暗笑。不是要当我哥哥吗，想中途反悔，没那么容易。对于段飞卿这种翩翩君子来说，一旦套上了义兄弟之名的枷锁后，要挣脱出来，可就得经过一番天人交战了。
“Huh?” Lu Heng passed the silver bowl in his hand. Seeing Duan Feiqing with a bit of infatuation in his eyes and drinking from the bowl of wine, he smiled in his heart. Don’t you want to be my brother? It wouldn’t be easy to turn back from that road. For a gentleman like Duan Feiqing, once he put on the shackles of “sword brothers”, in order to break free, he would have to go through a battle against the heavens as a human.
这戏码，应当比自己穿女装更精彩吧，陆恒唇角轻轻地勾了勾。
【……】意识深处的小助手抖了抖，默默地把自己团得更小了。
仪式已成，兄弟名分已经定下。
“大哥。”陆恒自然而然的改了口。
This drama should be more exciting than him wearing women’s clothes, Lu Heng’s lips twitched lightly.
【……】The little assistant in the depths of his consciousness trembled, and silently huddled, shrinking itself smaller.
The ceremony has been completed, and the brotherhood has been cemented.
“Elder Brother.” Lu Heng changed his address naturally.
段飞卿却有些不习惯。之前陆恒换他一般都是喂，心情好的时候会用戏谑语气唤他一句汉人小哥哥，现下语气恭敬的喊大哥，段飞卿只觉得听起来生疏了不少。
Duan Feiqing was not used to it. Before Lu Heng changed his usual address, when he was in a good mood, he would call him a little Han brother in a playful tone. Now he called him elder brother respectfully. Duan Feiqing only felt that it sounded really strange.
“阿恒，你不必这样唤我。”段飞卿说。
“嗯？现下我们彼此之间关系不一样了，那我该如何唤你？”陆恒故作不解，“难不成，要唤你一声，哥哥？”
“Dearest Heng, you don’t have to call me like this.” Duan Feiqing said.
“Huh? The relationship between us is different now, how should I call you?” Lu Heng pretended to be puzzled, “Should I call you big brother~?”
段飞卿只觉得哥哥从那动人的唇齿之中吐出，有着千般缠绵万般缱绻之意，像是女子在唤着自己的情郎。他的手，猛然抓皱了总是整洁的衣袍：“还是唤我大哥吧。”
Duan Feiqing only felt that the big brother that was spit out from that mouth of his linngered with a thousand ambiguous meanings, like a woman calling her lover. His hand suddenly wrinkled his always neat robe: “Just call me elder brother.”
陆恒见再逗下去，这人说不定真要发病了。想想还是说正事转移下对方注意力：“这冯卫方已成废人，虽说蛊虫已经取出，但是口不能言身不能动。这条线索算是断了，不如试试取出其他人身上蛊虫，再加以拷问？”
Lu Heng saw that if he kept on teasing, the other person might really become ill. Thinking that it would be better if he diverted that person’s attention to other matters: “This Feng Weifang has become a useless person. Although the Gu has been taken out, but his mouth cannot speak and the body cannot move. This trail has run cold. Wouldn’t it be better to capture other people and use the Gu to torture the information out of them?”
“那些人在组织中等级都不若冯卫方高，他们甚至连段家那次行动都不知道。”段飞卿又恢复了平日里的端方君子模样。
“Those people in the organization are in as high a position as Feng Weifang, and they don’t even know the matter of the Duan family.” Duan Feiqing returned to the usual calm and level-headed gentlemanly demeanor.
“你可回过段家寻找当年之事的线索？”陆恒问。那些黑衣人，如此残忍的灭掉段家满门，再结合冯卫方一直想从段飞卿这里探知段家隐秘之事的做法，在段家说不定能找到什么线索。 “Can you return to the Duan house to find clues about what happened back then?” Lu Heng asked. Those people in black had so cruelly destroyed the Duan family, and Feng Weifang had always wanted to find out the secrets of the Duan family from Duan Feiqing, so there might be some clues within the Duan family.
“我……”段飞卿沉默了片刻，“第一次被你救了之后，自苗疆回来，我曾回去过想要收敛家人尸骨，却发现段家已被付诸一炬。就是那次，我遇见了冯卫方，他已将段家之人悉数安葬。现下想来，他应当是在那守株待兔，如有什么线索，怕是已落到了幕后之人手中。”
“I…” Duan Feiqing was silent for a moment, “After being rescued by you for the first time, since returning from Miao territory, I had tried to gather together the remains of my family, but found that the Duan family has been burnt to ash. That was the time I met Feng Weifang, and he had buried all the members of the Duan family. Now thinking about it, he should have been staying there waiting for me. If there were any clues, I am afraid that it had already fallen into the hands of the people behind the scenes.”
“那之后你再未去过？”
“不，我还去过一次，本想去拜祭家人。也许是天魔心经的缘故，只要靠近段家，我就会陷入那天的噩梦之中。我不敢踏入段家，不敢靠近自己曾经的家……”段飞卿右掌捂住了眼睛，他并不吝于在陆恒面前暴露自己最软弱的一面。
“You haven’t been there since then?”
“No, I’ve been there once. I wanted to pay my respects to my family. Maybe it’s because of the <mind sutra of the heavenly demon>. As long as I get close to Duan’s house, I fall into the nightmare of that day. I dared not step into Duan’s house or even approach it on my own. My former home…” Duan Feiqing covered his eyes with his right palm, and he did not hesitate to expose his most vulnerable side in front of Lu Heng.
微凉的触感覆在了他的手上，遮挡住视线的手被轻轻移开。段飞卿听到他自与阿恒相识以来，最为温柔的语气。
“我们既是兄弟，你的家人自然也是我的家人。我陪着你一起回去。”
A slightly cool touch covered his hand, and the hand that was blocking his vision was gently moved away. Duan Feiqing heard his dear Heng speak in his softest tone since they met.
“Being your younger brother, your family is naturally my family. I will accompany you back together.”
段飞卿只是反手握住了那只手，这只形状完美，却因指尖乌黑令人有些望之生畏的手，却是他的救赎。
两人相顾无言，气氛却是温馨动人。
Duan Feiqing just grabbed the back of the hand with his own. This perfectly shaped hand, but a little fearsome because of the black fingertips, was his salvation.
The two of them were silent, but the atmosphere was warm and pleasing.
陆恒见段飞卿已经平静下来，自己的手却还被他握着，还有越捏越紧的趋势。心中暗暗翻了个白眼，嘴上说着把自己当弟弟，身体倒是挺诚实的，有这么捏弟弟的手的吗。
Lu Heng saw that Duan Feiqing had calmed down, but his hand was still being held by him, and he had a habit of squeezing it tighter and tighter. He rolled his eyes silently in his heart. His mouth says he regards the other as his younger brother, but his body seemed to be quite honest. Is there anyone who squeezes his younger brother’s hand like this?
说来我一直只知是安阳段家，段家具体在安阳何处？”陆恒略微用了点力气，才抽出了自己的手。
“在安阳与荡阴交界的地方。”段飞卿手中一空，心中涌出几分失落之意来。
“荡阴？“陆恒不太熟悉中原之事，没想到这安阳竟是与荡阴交界。
“嗯，此地可有何不妥？”段飞卿见陆恒神色有些不对劲
“阿娘说过，当年她遇到那世家公子的地方，就在荡阴。”
“Speaking of which, I only know that the Duan’s family was in Anyang. Where in Anyang was the Duan family?” Lu Heng had to apply a little bit of strength before he could draw out his hand.
“At the junction between Anyang and Dangyin.” Duan Feiqing’s hands felt empty, and there was a sense of loss in his heart.
“Dangyin?” Lu Heng was not very familiar with the matters of the Central Plains. He didn’t expect that Anyang was actually on the border with Dangyin.
“Well, what’s wrong with this place?” Duan Feiqing saw that Lu Heng’s expression was a little off.
“Mom said that the place where she met the noble young master back then was in the Dangyin.”
当年纳朵罗就是在荡阴县结识的陆姓公子。那日，纳朵罗在荡阴县境内官道之上，穿过一处偏僻树林的时候，几个的登徒子试图在这美貌的独行女子身上占上几分便宜。就在纳朵罗想弄死这几个不知死活的汉人的时候，官道另一端一架马车出现，带着十数个武艺高强的护卫。
Nadolo was in Dangyin county when she had encountered the young master with surname “Lu”. That day, when Nadolo was walking through a remote forest on the official road in Dangyin County, several disciples tried to take advantage of this beautiful lone woman. Just when Nadolo wanted to kill these callous Han people, a carriage appeared at the other end of the official road, with more than a dozen martial artist guards.
之后便是戏文中常见的英雄救美，虽说英雄病弱，是手下出的手，美人也有诸多手段能自保。但之后这两人仍然是一见倾心，再见生情，最后私定终身。
After that, as it was common inn dramas, it was the old trope of “hero saves beauty”. Although the hero was weak and only depended on the strength of his subordinates, and the beauty also had several means to protect herself. But after that, the two people nevertheless fell in love at first sight, parted ways, and finally settled for separate living.
听陆恒说完这段往事，段飞卿又问了几处细节，两人发现这官道，似乎就是通往安阳县的官道。
After listening to Lu Heng talking about this past, Duan Feiqing asked a clarified a few more details, and the two found that the official road leading here seemed to be the very same official road leading to Anyang County.
如此这般，安阳段家一行是不可避免了。陆恒和段飞卿合计了一下，决定在段飞卿将门派事务打理完毕后，就立刻动身前往安阳。
And thus, it was inevitable for their party to visit the Duan family of Anyang. Lu Heng and Duan Feiqing both decided to leave for Anyang immediately after Duan Feiqing took care of the sect’s affairs.
桑竟今天很开心，小师妹终于对他笑了。之前因为自己的口无遮拦，小师妹这几日不知道赏了自己多少个白眼。
Sang Jing was very happy today, since junior martial sister finally smiled at him. Previously, because of hid unbridled speech, he didn’t know how many eye rolls he had received from junior martial sister in the past few days.
方青婉心情也是不错。因为在昨天，她听闻那钩唛姐姐唤了大师兄一声大哥，心下一喜。后来方青婉去找了钩唛聊天，在旁敲侧击之下，她得知大师兄与钩唛姐姐义结金兰。这几日阴沉的心情，顿时就拨云见日。因为方青婉知大师兄最是恪守规矩之人，此刻他们义结金兰，是不是就代表大师兄对那钩唛姐姐，并无其他心思。
Fang Qingwan was in a good mood. Because yesterday, she was overjoyed when she heard that sister Gouma addressed the other person as elder brother. Later, Fang Qingwan went to go to Gouma to chat. After probing a bit, she learned that senior martial brother and sister Gouma were sworn siblings. Her mood, which had been gloomy these past few days has suddenly transformed into clear sky. Because Fang Qingwan knew that senior martial brother was the most rule abiding person. Currently, they were bound to sworn sibling relationship. Didn’t it mean that senior martial brother had no other thoughts on that older sister?
她踩着轻快的步伐，同桑竟和其余师兄弟一起前往山前的议事堂。一到那议事堂门口，就见大师兄在为钩唛斟茶，神情温柔，眼神中尽是宠溺深情之意。两人相处之间竟让方青婉觉出一种缱绻缠绵来。
With a spring in her steps, she went to the chamber in front of the mountain with Sang Jing and the other martial brothers. As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the meeting hall, she saw her senior martial brother pouring tea for Gouma, with a gentle demeanor and affectionate expression in his eyes. Fang Qingwan felt a lingering ambiguity between the two.
方青婉不自觉的停下了步伐，她总觉得，自己此刻似乎有种替他们掩上大门转身就走的冲动。
“诶，小师妹，你怎么傻站在这门口？”桑竟的声音在她身后响起。
Fang Qingwan stopped subconsciously, and she had the sudden urge to close the door and turn around.
“Eh, junior martial sister, why are you dazedly standing at the door?” Sang Jing’s voice sounded behind her.
里面二人皆是抬眼望来。大师兄明明同平日里没有什么两样，仍旧是气度翩翩清风朗月的样子。方青婉觉得自己应该是这几日没有休息好，心神恍惚之下看错了。钩唛姐姐是大师兄的义妹，自己还是不要瞎想了。
Both of them looked up. The eldest martial brother was obviously the same as usual, and he was still handsome and gentle like the breeze. Fang Qingwan felt that she hadn’t had a good rest in the past few days, and she must have made a mistake in a daze. Sister Gouma was the sworn sister of the senior martial brother, so she didn’t need to worry about it.
几人进去坐定。段飞卿言明要离开一段时间，将门派内诸多事务一一交代给他们几个核心弟子打理。
The few people went in and settled down. Duan Feiqing revealed that he would leave for a period of time, and assigned the core disciples to take care of the several matters in the sect one by one.
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