本該平靜的夜晚重歸平靜，沈玨收回劍，仿佛來時一樣自陰影處離開的悄無聲息。雖然並不清楚季玖如何做到讓這些心懷不軌之徒知難而退，但這個人，無論做什麼都不會讓他感到意外。
他並不知道房內的季玖，是拿著他父親的原形，唬退了一群人的。簡單點說，仗“蛇”欺人。
但季玖並不覺得自己所為有何不妥，他想的是，白天這蛇占著他的侍衛，夜裡又要他親自伺候，莫說只是這般拿來用用，就是扒了他的皮燉成蛇羹也是應該應份的事——況且他們還有積怨尚未化解，也化解不開。
說到底，季玖可以理解他。但理解不等同諒解。
季玖雖不是個小氣的人，卻自覺非良善之人。況且那樁事，與男人來說，實在恥辱。不是想抹掉便抹得掉。即使他願意承認，被欺壓時也不是完全疼痛，可越承認這一點，屈辱就益發濃烈。
直至今天，那夢靨也未曾消退分毫。夜半時分常常會回到黑暗中，被欺壓被強辱，成為他洩憤的容器。
就算有柔情似水，也只是一個標注了沈清軒三個字的容器。
季玖滿身大汗的醒來，睜開眼，在黑暗裡急劇喘息著。身上又有東西纏繞，仿佛夢裡場景不曾隨他的清醒而消退。季玖伸手摸了摸，觸手冰涼而堅硬，仿佛活物的繩索，死死地絞纏著他。季玖抓了蛇身，又費了一番力氣，將它從身上剝開推到一旁。這才重新卷好被子，再躺回去。
一個月的時間足夠他習慣了這一切。一次又一次的驚醒消磨了他的憤怒，那些夢魘乍醒的怒氣已經被磋磨掉了，僅餘習以為常的疲倦。
季玖伸手揉了揉額角，忍不住歎了口氣。
闔上眼，剛要繼續睡，先前被揪到一旁的大蛇又蹭過來，鑽過了被褥的縫隙，潛進他的被窩裡。冰涼蛇身循著那處暖源不停貼近，湊近，而後緊緊貼上去，鑽過衣襟，貼在他的肌膚上。季玖眼皮都未動一下，閉著眼摸索著被中，擒住了胸口的蛇頭，擺到一旁。
那蛇尾卻靈活的繞起來，纏住了他的腰，腦袋被撇到一邊了，身子還緊繞著暖源不肯撒手。
季玖又閉著眼去剝蛇尾，剛剝掉又被繞住了胳膊，連手腕都被纏住，季玖又用另一隻手去救場，就放開了蛇頭。於是那蛇頭又挪過來，重新鑽進他的衣襟裡，貼在他胸前肌膚上，一貼上去便乖乖的不動了。
季玖終於睜開了眼，望著黑洞洞的上端，道一句：得寸進尺。
也就讓它得寸進尺了。不然還能怎麼樣呢？一條醉蛇，又不能真扒了皮燉蛇羹，又不願意自降格調與一條蛇置氣——雖然明知道他是妖，現在卻是實打實的一條蛇。若非這蛇並非故意醉到人事不省，季玖會覺得，這廝使的招數，十足無賴。
其實現在，也是賴蛇一條。季玖一邊抓著醉蛇腦袋不允他壓住自己胸口，一邊想著。未免被壓的夢魘，只好側過身，伸出胳膊來，讓那蛇頭枕著胳膊，貼在自己身前，又將蛇尾搭上自己腰背，這才合上眼，用著一個幾乎是縱容的摟抱姿勢，又睡了。
那蛇得了這樣的姿勢，也滿意了，腦袋貼在他身前，一半身子窩在他腋下的位子，尾部繞著他的腰，熟悉的氣息與溫暖的熱源縈繞周邊，在大夢裡睡得更是酣暢，醉也醉的不委屈。
這一人一蛇的形態，倒是少了往日的爭鋒相對，也都暫時摒棄了那些恩怨糾纏，各自好夢。
第二日起床，季玖將那蛇重新裝回箱子裡，要掩蓋時，望著那團烏黑大蛇，想到剩下的路不可能再有客棧酒家，也就省了夜裡被他糾纏的煩躁，忍不住幸災樂禍一句：“好生睡著吧！”高高興興的掩上了蓋子。
也就在這個時候，才流露出幾分頑劣的本性來。
洗漱完，沈玨來喚他吃早飯時，已然又恢復了季將軍的身份，挺著腰杆，牽上駝隊，迎著滿目焦黃，步伐穩健的上了路。
再無夜裡流露出的倦意與無奈，連那些似有還無的柔情，也一併湮滅成空。
沈玨身後的大蛇，蜷在木箱裡，仍然是垂頭搭腦的睡著，臥在破敗的狐裘之上，睡得人事不知，美夢正酣。
似乎要這樣一直睡下去，睡到地老天荒。
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left the shadows as quietly as he had come . Although it was unclear how Ji Jiu had managed to make these evil-minded people retreat, this person would not surprise him no matter what he did.
He didn’t know that Ji Jiu in the room was using his father’s original form to scare off a group of people. To put it simply, he was bullying others with the help of a “snake".
But Ji Jiu did not think that there was anything wrong with what he did. He thought that the snake occupied his guards during the day and required him to serve it personally at night. Not to mention just using it like this, even skinning it and stewing it into snake soup would be the right thing to do – besides, they still had grievances that had not been resolved and could not be resolved.
In the final analysis, Ji Jiu could understand him, but understanding was not the same as forgiveness.
Although Ji Jiu was not a stingy person, he felt that he was not a good person. Moreover, that incident was really a shame for a man. It was not something that could be erased just because he wanted to . Even if he was willing to admit that he was not completely in pain when he was oppressed, the more he admitted this, the more humiliated he became.
To this day, the nightmare has not faded at all. He often returns to the darkness in the middle of the night, being oppressed and humiliated, and becomes a vessel for him to vent his anger.
Even if it is as gentle as water, it is just a container marked with the three words “Shen Qingxuan".
Ji Jiu woke up sweating all over, opened his eyes, and gasped sharply in the darkness. Something was wrapped around his body again, as if the scene in the dream had not faded away with his awakening. Ji Jiu reached out and touched it. The tentacles were cold and hard, like the ropes of a living thing, tightly entangled him. Ji Jiu grabbed the snake’s body, and with some effort, peeled it off his body and pushed it aside. Then he rolled up the quilt again and lay back down.
A month was enough time for him to get used to it. Waking up again and again wore away his anger, the anger he felt when he woke up from nightmares had been worn away, leaving only the tiredness he had gotten used to.
Ji Jiu rubbed his forehead and couldn’t help but sigh.
He closed his eyes and was about to go back to sleep when the big snake that had been pulled aside came over again, slipped through the gap in the quilt, and sneaked into his bed. The cold snake body followed the source of warmth and kept getting closer and closer, then stuck to it tightly, slipped through his clothes, and stuck to his skin. Ji Jiu didn’t even move his eyelids, closed his eyes and groped in the quilt, caught the snake head on his chest, and put it aside.
The snake’s tail flexibly wrapped around his waist. Its head was turned to the side, but its body still tightly wrapped around the source of warmth and refused to let go.
Ji Jiu closed his eyes and tried to peel off the snake’s tail. Just as he peeled it off, it was wrapped around his arm again, even his wrist was entangled. Ji Jiu used his other hand to save the situation and let go of the snake’s head. Then the snake’s head moved over again, got into his clothes again, and stuck to his chest skin. Once it stuck to it, it obediently stopped moving.
Ji Jiu finally opened his eyes, looked at the dark top, and said: You are getting more greedy.
It would just let it get more aggressive. What else could he do? He couldn’t really skin a drunk snake and cook it into snake soup, and he didn’t want to lower himself to a level and get angry with a snake – although he knew it was a demon, it was a real snake now. If the snake hadn’t drunk itself unconscious on purpose, Ji Jiu would have thought that the trick this guy used was a complete rogue.
In fact, now, it is also the snake that is to blame . Ji Jiu thought while grabbing the drunk snake’s head to prevent it from pressing on his chest. In order to avoid the nightmare of being pressed, he had to turn sideways, stretch out his arm, let the snake’s head rest on his arm, close to his body, and then put the snake’s tail on his waist and back, then he closed his eyes, and fell asleep again in an almost indulgent hugging posture.
The snake was satisfied with this posture, with its head pressed against his body, half of its body nestled in his armpit, and its tail wrapped around his waist. The familiar scent and warm heat lingered around it, and it slept soundly in its dream, not feeling aggrieved even though it was drunk.
them, man and snake, were less confrontational than before, and they both temporarily put aside their grudges and entanglements, and were each sleeping soundly.
When Ji Jiu got up the next day, he put the snake back into the box. When he was about to cover it up, he looked at the big black snake and thought that there would be no inns or restaurants along the rest of the way. He would not have to worry about being entangled by it at night. He could not help but say gloatingly, “Go to sleep well!" and happily closed the lid.
It was at this time that his naughty nature began to show.
After washing up, when Shen Jue came to call him for breakfast, he had already resumed his identity as General Ji. He straightened his back, led the camel caravan, and set off on the road with steady steps facing the scorched earth.
There is no more tiredness and helplessness revealed at night, and even the tenderness that seems to be there and not there has disappeared.
The big snake behind Shen Jue was curled up in the wooden box, still sleeping with its head drooped, lying on the tattered fox fur, sleeping soundly and having a sweet dream.
It seems like I will sleep like this forever.
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