Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 873 Locusts

"What I'm worried about now is not whether they will make a comeback, or whether they can continue to stir up trouble, but whether we will be beaten to death by Xiao Jue and the others after the Dongchuang incident, or sent to the deep mountains and old forests to be savages."

Master Chu Ran stretched his waist, pacing up and down in the study.

"Why do you think so? We are acting according to orders, and we have the imperial edict of our father and brother in our hands. No matter how angry they are, no matter how angry they are, they can't blame us." The young master smiled indifferently, "If there is a grievance, there is a debtor. If they have complaints, they will go to the father and brother. There is no point in looking for us. We are just insignificant pawns."

"Well, that's what it sounds like, although it's a bit unreasonable." Master Chu Ran sighed softly, and smiled mockingly, "I'm free too, just worry about it, whether we can live to that time, it's still a matter of time." Not necessarily!"

"So unconfident?" The young master poured himself a cup of tea slowly, "The situation is much better now than it was back then."

"I admit this, but I still don't have any clue." Master Chu Ran walked to the corner of the study, moved a shelf over there, dragged out a board from under the desk, put it on the shelf, and tapped it lightly. After a few times, "I don't know anything about it except for the few items on this board. Some of the things I know are recognized by others, and some of them are found by us after so many years of research." He said. Looking at the young master, "Brother, do you feel that you are a special waste?"

"Not really." The young master shook his head lightly, "It's not easy to find out these things, you should be content."

"Brother, your mentality is really good." Master Chu Ran shrugged, "It's been a long time, and I'm a little... mournful."

"What's there to mourn? What's there to mourn?" The young master smiled, "There are some things that you can't solve just by mourning. We have persisted for so many years, and we finally saw a little bit of light. You should be sad, you should be happy."

"Why are we happy? What is there to be happy about?" Master Chu Ran spread his hands, "The relationship between us is ridiculous now, Xiao Jue and the others want to arrest us, we want to arrest another group of people, and we want to For so many years, I haven’t even seen a hair of the person who was arrested.”

"Feel like I've been living in vain for so many years? Are you doing useless work?"

"That's not true. It's still useful, but not much."

"There is no other way. The relationship between us and them is not who is in the light and who is in the dark." The young master sighed softly, "This kind of relationship is like we live in the world, and they come from the underworld, Like those from the underworld, their whereabouts are secretive and erratic. They are like countless pairs of eyes and hands, staring at us anytime and anywhere, and can attack us anytime, anywhere without any warning."

"That's what I mean. This feeling of being stared at all the time, as if it's the other party's prey, is particularly aggrieved and at a loss." Master Chu Ran pulled a small chair and sat down in front of the shelf, " Take a look at what we have experienced over the years. All our actions are passive. Only when the other party makes a move against us can we know what they want to do and can fight back. But every time it seems that we want to grab their tails and let them When they revealed their original form, they suddenly disappeared from this world, as if they had never existed before.” He sighed faintly, “Also, all our plans were good in the first place, to save everyone, but in the end Mrs. Xue Hou had to die to show her ambition. The eldest prince of the Kingdom of Jin willingly died for his younger brother. Every time I think of it, I would ask myself, according to our plan, they can all survive, dignifiedly survived, but why did things turn into such a bad situation?"

"Because we are incompetent." The young master sighed softly, "I admit this. It is our incompetence, our slowness, and even our unwarranted arrogance that gave the opponent enough time to prepare, and the result is that they succeeded. But we failed so badly that we now have to run around for our own mistakes. If Xiaotian asks me in the future and asks me to be responsible for this, I will be happy to take all the responsibility. After all, I am the one who made this plan. "

"Big brother..."

The eldest young master waved his hand, signaling to young master Chu Ran not to continue talking.

"Who will be responsible for such a boring question, we don't have to argue. The question now is how we should disclose this matter to the children bit by bit. They are basically going to find us now. Come on, there is not much help we can give them secretly, sooner or later we need to face them, before facing them, we need to let them face the truth, or face..."

"Fate." Young Master Chu Ran nodded, "It is destined to be an inescapable responsibility." He looked at the young master, "Do you have a plan?"

"Not yet, so I'm more distressed, take your time, it's not something that can be done overnight."

"But I don't quite understand one thing. Why did you, Brother Huang and Tang Tong think that the children would end all of this?"

"Didn't Whelan say that? He said that watching the sky at night, these children are the nemesis of the swarm of locusts. And the fact is exactly the same. After these children were born one after another, the situation in Daxia gradually improved, and the border gate gradually improved. After it stabilized, the moths of that group of people have become much less, and they have become less monsters, which made us quieter." The young master smiled, "Speaking of it, Huilan's description of this group of people is quite appropriate. .”

"He didn't mean that they were like locusts, no grass grew anywhere they went."

"No, Whelan said that they are like locusts because they have a strong reproductive ability, and they have gradually formed a scale from generation to generation. Moreover, they are like locusts, which make people tireless."

"Speaking of it, there is another strange thing, that is, I feel that those people are quite jealous of these children, they are quite afraid of them, trying not to have a direct conflict with them, or in other words, when the children were young, they tried to artificially Let them die young, just like the little girl of Ah Liang's family, didn't she become a member of the old Shen's family by accident?"

"It's a pity that they didn't succeed. They tried to kill Xiaocha several times, but they failed. Even the assassination that Xiaocha encountered last time was related to them." The young master nodded, "However, this time Tell them that this is the natural nemesis, specially to suppress them." He looked at Master Chu Ran, "It is also because of these facts that I am convinced that what Huilan said is true, they can really end this The chaos of the past century can completely wipe out this group of locusts."

(End of this chapter)