Lie down and eat melon in the protagonist group

Chapter 56 Dust 4
On the street, Ling Cen held the donkey and looked at her without moving. When she came forward, he came back to his senses and carefully studied her features. He was silent for a long time before calling her: "Fourth sister?"

"It's me." Ling Dang was also looking at him carefully, "It's great to see you are okay. Where is Xiao Qi?"

Ling Cen hugged her, holding her tight and not letting go, muttering to himself: "I have been looking for you, but I can't find you. I thought... it's great, you are still alive..."

A man and a woman hugging each other in the street was really eye-catching. Ling Dang took Ling Cen, who had reunited after a long absence, to a quiet alley to reminisce about the past.

After listening to his gossip, Ling Dang realized that Ling Cen and Ling An were begging all the way to the Western Frontier. In order to make a living and support Ling An, Ling Cen had no choice but to wander around the world and join the Mo Sect as an assassin.

Ling Dang knew that the experience would not be as easy as the few words from Ling Cen's mouth. He was only so young at that time, and swords in the world had no eyes. It would take him many years of crawling and wallowing to become an assassin who could lick blood from his sword.

"The food Xiaoqi cooks is delicious. Every time he rushes back to Paizhong after completing an order, he will always cook a large table full of dishes for me to eat together." Ling Cen opened and closed his mouth and it was Ling An, Ling Dang thought to himself He should raise Ling An well. He smiled brightly, "Fourth sister, I also met my biological father. You think it was a coincidence, but my father was hiding among the elders of the Mo sect. He secretly helped me destroy the Mo sect, and by the way, he rescued many prisoners in the sect. An abducted child. I am now the high priest of Lost City."

Lingdang asked: "Do you have any contact with eldest sister and the others?"

Ling Cen's face turned cold for a moment, "Why should we contact them? They were the ones who abandoned us on purpose in the first place! To put it nicely, they were asking others to help keep an eye on us. In fact, they thought we were a drag and took the opportunity to abandon the three of us who were holding us back. They It’s so easy to escape and save your life!”

"Acen, no." Lingdang was about to explain to him, but was interrupted by him.

Ling Cen said to himself: "Forget it, we are reunited after a long separation. I am happy, so I won't talk about the unhappy things in the past. How did you get yourself into such a ghost state? No wonder I sent so many people but couldn't find them. You don’t even have a clue.”

Ling Dang told him roughly what happened to him in the past few years.

"Whose is the child in your belly?" Ling Cen was a master of poison and medical skills. His eyes were like searchlights. He had already noticed that she was pregnant, but he waited until now to ask.

"Ah Huai's." Ling Dang lowered his head in embarrassment.

Ling Cen's eyebrows were knotted: "How come you got involved with him? You haven't even got a name or status, so what does he think of you?!"

Ling Dang sneered: "Well, it's a long story."

Ling Cen pulled her and started to leave, "Follow me back to the desert."

Ling Dang held him back, "Wait, Acen, I'm not going, I'm not going anywhere."

Ling Cen said sternly: "Are you really planning to have children with him? Fourth sister, please wake up! There is no such thing as staying together with the royal family. He is the prince of the Northern Kingdom! There will be three thousand beauties in the harem! I am Man, I know exactly what a man is thinking. He is just a temporary crush forced by the situation. Once the freshness wears off, you will definitely be beaten to death! Why follow him without fame or status?! Wait. Do you want to leave the mother and keep the son?!"

"He's not that kind of person. I know what I want better." With the wind blowing and his broken hair fluttering lightly, Ling Dang said with a smile, "I never thought about marrying him."

Ling Cen was stunned for a moment, confused: "Then you..."

"It would be great to fall in love with him." Ling Dang lightly kicked the pebbles in front of his toes, "The child was an accident."

Ling Cen said: "If you don't want it, I can take it away for you."

"Just let it go." The corners of Ling Dang's lips kept curling up. Even though her face was yellow and scarred, she could not hide the special beauty lingering in her brows at this moment. She pointed at her belly, "I'm on the safest side. Be careful, this child still has to come to this world for a while. No matter what, it is a life. I don’t know how many hardships this child has gone through before he came to this world and became a human being. He chose me to be his mother, no matter how high or low he is, or where he will end up. Just leave it to fate.”

Ling Cen stopped trying to persuade her and followed her back to the utility room in the building to stay temporarily.

The two brothers don't like to see each other. When they meet, they always make yin and yang jabs at each other before they feel comfortable.

Ling Cen: "Hey, Your Highness the Crown Prince comes to a humble house. The house is shabby. Aren't you afraid that the roof of your giant Buddha will burst?"

Ling Huai: "What, the high priest is joking. I really admire the high priest's informality. I don't know the difference between men and women."

It is superfluous to dislike each other every day.

As soon as Ling Cen came, he wouldn't let Ling Dang put the messy rouge and gouache on her face anymore. Instead, he made her face look pretty and took her to a gold shop in the city to pick out jewelry.

This was her first time to step into such a precious store and be selective.

Ling Cen knocked on the countertop and said to the shopkeeper, "Are you from out of town?"

The shopkeeper nodded cheerfully: "Your Majesty, you have a good ear."

Ling Cen leaned against the counter, watching Ling Dang select jewelry. He glanced at the store's store logo with his peripheral vision, and asked slowly: "Your boss's surname is Nanning? Shouldn't it be Ling? That Ling with great ambitions."

"Exactly." The shopkeeper looked at Ling Cen without leaving any trace, "May I ask, sir, do you recognize our boss?"

"Her surname is Ling." Ling Cen pointed to Ling Dang, "The Ling family is from Jichangqu Town, Ganzhou City."

The shopkeeper was stunned.

Ling Cen stopped counting and threw out a silver ingot, "I'll take all the jewelry I just took out and send them to Furong Tower, please."

"Fourth sister, let's go." Ling Cen carried Ling Dang out of the store, "Let's go somewhere else."

Ling Cen left after not staying long. A few days after he left, Ling Qiong and Ling Feng came to the door together.

Ling Dang was extremely happy about this, but Ling Huai had a stern look on his face.

Ling Feng wanted to take her back to the Southern Kingdom, but Ling Dang politely refused. Ling Qiong and Ling Feng didn't stay for a few days, but when they saw that she refused to go back to the Southern Kingdom with them, they left in despair.

Not long after they left, a fire broke out in the building at night, and a group of men in black with knives appeared in the utility room. Without saying a word, they raised their knives and wanted to kill her.

That night, there were endless screams. Ling Dang was surrounded by a sea of ​​fire that made her skin ache. The beams above her head continued to collapse, accompanied by sparks and red-hot coals, densely falling down. When she falls, she not only has to avoid the fire, but also avoids the man in black who is chasing after her.

The bright yellow blade reflecting the fire stabbed her body, and even penetrated her stomach. At that moment, she knew that the child was gone.

She lay on the ground ready to die, but she didn't expect to be saved...

The bells jingled earnestly, Ling Dang was covered in blood, and his whole body was trapped in the sky-high flames, unable to get up. Knives and fire were intertwined. This nightmare was like a real life experience.

There was a voice always urging her to go back in her dreams.

Ling Dang asked in panic: "Where are you going back?"

The old melodious voice said: "Go back and forth wherever you go."

wake up.

Lingdang was sweating profusely.

But she clearly remembered the phrase "where to go and where to go".

Where did she come from? She was born in her ancestral home in Shangfucheng, Yuzhou as soon as she opened her eyes.

Go back there?

So she proposed to her grandfather Si Yunye to go back to Yuzhou to pay tribute. Si Yunye couldn't resist her, so he finally nodded and allowed her to go back to Fucheng. After packing her clothes and guarding her with servants, the Si family worked hard for a while before finally driving the carriage to set off.

When they returned to Shangfucheng this time, not only Ling Dang was alone, but also Ling Jing and Yang Gan were traveling with her. Pei Zhanqing was busy with business matters and had no time. However, Ling Cen and Fu An specifically requested a long leave from Gong Xueliang and accompanied Ling Dang back to their ancestral home.

It was a safe journey to Shangfu City and it took several days to clean the house.

Lingdang leaned on the railing and stared at the eaves bell in trance.

"What are you thinking about?" Ling Cen has grown into a young man, and his gorgeous appearance looks very much like his biological mother.

"Dream." Lingdang turned to look at him.

"I also had a dream recently." Ling Cen took the seat next to her and sat down. "I dreamed that Big Sister and the others abandoned me, you, and Xiao Qi, and they fled for their own lives. The three of us continued to flee. , and ended up losing you on the way. Xiao Qi and I were left hungry and became beggars. I learned a lot of martial arts skills and went around looking for you, and Xiao Qi’s cooking skills were unparalleled in the world. God has paid off, and finally Let me find you, but you don’t want to go with me.”

Ling Dang was shocked and stared at him without blinking.

Ling Cen leaned his back against the railing, tilted his head back, and looked at half of the house with eaves and half of the blue sea and sky, just like that specious dream. When you enter a dream, you feel trapped under the eaves of the corridor; when you wake up, you feel the sky with light wind and light clouds.

In the dream, he carried Xiao Qi on his back and kept running for his life. The black steamed buns hidden on his body were not enough to eat. Xiao Qi, who was only a few months old, would cry when he was hungry, so he had to learn to set traps to hunt mountain animals. Identify which plants and trees are edible, and collect dew to quench your thirst when you have time.

This period of time was not the most difficult. The most difficult period was when they were captured by Mo Sect and taken to the Blood Pond Forest to fight with other children. Chilin is a tower with a total of twelve floors. There are dark rooms on each level. There are ten children locked in a dark room. As long as the door is opened, the children who are let out of the room must climb to the upper level alive before they can enter the next room. Recuperate, and once the room is full of ten people, the next desperate fight will begin.

After going through layers of screening and flesh-and-blood tests, he just protected Xiao Qi to the top and officially became an assassin in the Mo Sect.

The rules in the sect are strict and strict, and the leader uses poison to control the life and death of the sect. In those years, he killed many people and shed a lot of blood, but he protected Xiao Qi from growing up safely and not stained by the dust.

Peace, that was the wish Ling Dang told him during the escape.

She said: "Xiao Qi was named Ping'an, choosing one of the characters "an", hoping that he would have good luck in his life and grow up safely."

During his days as a killer in the Mo School, he was fortunate to have Xiao Qi as his companion.

Xiao Qi was frightened by the precarious days in Chi Lin and became taciturn and sensitive. He was afraid of seeing blood and could not become a killer. The elders of the faction wanted to abandon Xiao Qi. It was he who knelt down and kowtowed to beg them to let Xiao Qi live.

The price is that he must complete double hunting missions every month before the police are willing to let Xiao Qi live. The condition is that Xiao Qi is not allowed to leave the yard where he lives.

At that time, Xiaoqi was so sensible that it made people feel distressed. She stayed in a small courtyard year after year, never stepping out of the courtyard, and just wanted to find ways to cook a table of delicious food to reward him.

"Brother Six, am I useless?"

"It's no use to Brother Six. Wait for me to climb up and let's find a big yard!" He put his arms around Xiao Qi's neck and poked his face with his finger. "With you here, I can have hot soup and vegetables to eat when I go home. I Only then can we survive. Don't say any depressing words, we still have to go out alive to find Fourth Sister."

A breeze blew by, and the smell of blood in the nightmare disappeared like smoke.

"Dreams are opposite to reality." Ling Cen sat up straight, turned his head to look at Ling Dang, and smiled as brightly as the sun, "That's what you said."

"Yes." Ling Dang felt relieved and could not confuse the dream with the dream.

Ling Cen stood up and stretched out his palm towards her, "Let's go for a walk in the back mountain to prevent you from thinking wildly."

"Okay." Ling Dang took his hand and ran straight to the back door with the hem of his skirt, "Last time we came back, eldest sister and the others left us and went to the back mountain, so we won't take them with us this time."

Ling Cen pulled her around and said, "Wait! Take Xiao Qi with you!"

The three of them secretly went to the back mountain.

Capital City, Imperial Palace.

Ling Qiong was holding the young emperor in her arms while sitting in the imperial study room discussing state affairs with Ji Ji. Suddenly she heard a bell ringing. Ling Qiong looked at Ji Ji and asked with her eyes what was going on.

Ji had taken out the Buddhist bell that suddenly rang from his clothes. He stared at it for a long time, only to hear the ringing ringing rapidly, as if something urgent was about to happen.

Ling Qiong circled the young emperor to prevent him from sliding on the ground in a hurry when he heard the ringing of the bell to see Qi Qi. She asked: "Your Buddha bell has started ringing again recently. Haven't you found out the reason yet?"

Ji already shook his head and stood up to leave.

"Go." Ling Qiong let go of the young emperor in her arms.

The young emperor immediately ran to Ji Ji, hugged his legs and kept him from letting go, shouting "Daddy" happily.

Ji no longer dared to get too close, so he reached out his hand and gently stroked his youngest son's hair.

Ling Qiong winked and dismissed the maid standing in the room.

Seeing this, Ji Ji had no choice but to smile, "It will be true and it will be detrimental to you."

Ling Qiong's fingertips fell on his chest, "Are there not enough rumors outside? If it weren't for my son being the emperor, I would have given up my career long ago."

Yellow leaves were falling, and on the mountain behind the Ling family's ancestral home in Shangfucheng, bamboo leaves covered the mountain road.

Lingdang cut off a bamboo branch and beat down the weeds. Fu'an has always been a glutton, so he is a bit rounder. He is not short, fair and delicate like Pei Zhanqing, and he is digging for insects behind Ling Cen.

"I remember my mother buried the book in the back mountain." Ling Dang raised his face and looked into the forest, as if trying to find the location where the book was buried.

"What's the use of reading so many books?" Ling Cen snorted, "Ning San is the number one scholar, but what about now? He would rather become a monk than return to the Ning family, let alone become an official in the court. After decades of studying hard in the cold window, In the end, it’s not like going to the temple to knock wooden fish.”

Nan Ningfu, the third son of Ning, was stimulated by something unknown. Ling Qiong helped the young emperor ascend the throne, but he resigned and fled to the empty door, which made the Ning family fall into disgrace.

I heard that Mrs. Ning Er was kneeling at the foot of the temple mountain day and night, begging hard, but Nan Ningfu was still unmoved. It was time for her hair to be cut off, her hair to be shaved off, her vows to be taken, her robe to be draped, she was sitting cross-legged, meditating, chanting sutras and reciting the Buddha's name.

The sky was getting dark, and the three of them had a good time. Ling Cen even dug up a lot of insect and medicinal materials and prepared to go down the mountain to go home.

Unexpectedly, I bumped into a group of knife-wielding robbers halfway up the mountain.

The leader had scars all over his face, and the dark red flesh had turned out and healed, leaving hideous ravines. He smiled sinisterly and said, "You three, I haven't seen you for a long time, but you still recognize me."

Ling Cen stepped forward, protecting Ling Dang and Fu An from behind, and faced each other coldly: "Why should we recognize you? Who are you?"

The bandit leader spit out a name word by word: "Zhang Gaoxuan."

Ling Cen was surprised: "You're not dead?!"

Zhang Gaoxuan held the ax tightly and pressed forward step by step, the smile on his face became more vicious, "Thank you so much, Mrs. Ning Er, for coming to the rescue. I have been waiting for you for a long time."

Is it the Ning family again? !
(End of this chapter)