Chen Palace

Chapter 26
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Human beings are spiritual creatures, the most unpredictable, and I am no exception.

Yuan Xu felt like a fool, when he saw the watery eyes of the little girl, he lost his temper.

He had no choice but to surrender, took his horse, and sent her back.

The horse was completely white, with only a first-class scarlet on the forehead. It was usually very violent. Anyone who touched it would poke its hooves.

The official road is long, and the stars in the sky are bright and dazzling. Yuan Xu smells a faint fragrance. When he turns around, he sees the girl with a sad face and picturesque eyebrows. A random glance makes him uneasy. the reins.

Feeling the stiff body in front of him, Lin Chen was both amused and moved.

Idiot... she said in her heart, and lightly gathered the cloak on her shoulders—it was handed over by him just now. A kind of sweetness was born in her heart, and it slowly permeated.

The official road is long, and a kind of gentle charm emerges quietly between young boys and girls.

"Where do you live?"

The girl pointed to a corner of the annex under the shade of trees not far away.

"Are you Miss Lin?"

Yuan Xu was very surprised. He heard that the Lin family had four sons and a daughter. The only daughter in charge was twelve years old. She was more beautiful than her mother. It turned out to be...

As if seeing what he was thinking, the girl brows furiously: "I am not!"

She denied it emphatically.

Miss Lin?

She remembered that in the evening, just after getting acquainted with the magnificent and elegant new house with her mother, someone looked at her with salivating and greedy eyes:

"You are the Miss Lin family? You are really stunning, and you are much better than Naimu! My Marshal wants to invite you to stay for a few days and accompany the prince as you like——Congratulations, Miss, you will become a concubine in the future!"

In an instant, she understood the Lin family's intentions...

Sacrificing herself in exchange for Lin Yuan's innocence... What a good idea!

If those dirty hands... stretched out towards him, it would be fine if he didn't draw his sword angrily!
My mother forced me to escape with death, if I didn't obey, it would be fine!

Mother... you must be safe!
***
It's midnight when I arrive at the other hall.Inside it was chaos.

They walked through the hall and entered the room like a breeze, and saw servants and maidservants rushing for valuables, and some of them were actually fighting over the gold-plated boxes.Lin Chen asked about his mother, but no one knew.

Seeing a gardener among the flower beds, he pointed to the rockery by the pool with trembling fingers.

In the cave of the rockery, the mother's body was already cold——

At this moment, Lin Chen felt that the world was being shattered and annihilated.

She knelt down heavily, and the sharp stone pierced her knee, but she didn't realize it——

In this world, the only person who is connected with her blood is gone!

She lowered her body, touched her mother's wet dress, grabbed the gardener, and shook him vigorously, as if to strangle him to death: "Who?! Who did it?!

Yuan Xu rescued him in time, and after Wen Yan asked, the gardener told the truth.

It turned out that the soldiers who came to arrest him never returned. When the officer was waiting, he saw the tattoo on Lin Chen's mother's forehead, recalled the old news, and immediately saw through the mystery. He couldn't help mocking Lin Zhaoyun: "Brother Lin , this exchange of colorful phoenixes for crows is really wonderful!"

He couldn't find the real Lin Yuan in the house, so he threatened and taunted her for a while, and had no choice but to leave.Everyone in the Lin family knew that the Tatar army would soon come to provoke and retaliate, so they hurriedly packed up their belongings and drove away with their confidantes.

When the servants were distributing the loot and collecting money, no one noticed that a fresh life had already disappeared.

Resolutely stepping into the clear pool... What kind of despair does this timid and reticent woman need to step into the pool step by step?
Next to the wet corpse, Lin Chen found a silk handkerchief with blood tattooed on it. Even though it was soaked in water, the handwriting looked like——

"It was a dream 13 years ago. Yesterday I said Luo Yi, but it was just a joke. I am a man of mortals, my body is already ominous, I can't bear to drag Jiao Er, don't take it seriously!"

Lin Chen meditated silently, under the sky full of stars, he felt empty in his heart.

The dream was true 13 years ago... At the last moment, the mother still had that sweet but sad night in her heart.

A stolen night in the world of gifted scholars and beautiful women who were not drunk since childhood.

For this night, she wasted her whole life.

The silk and satin on her body, though old in color, can still vaguely see the beauty of the past——

This is the robe she wore when she met him unexpectedly in the brothel.

Such cherishing, in the eyes of others, is just an obscene talk, after laughing it off, it is gradually forgotten.

Lin Chen imagined how sweet and sad his mother would feel in the face of Lin Zhaoyun's sudden "favor".

This sweetness is turned into powder by the cruel truth in the next moment——

There is nothing greater than heartbreak, she must be completely desperate!
In order for her daughter not to be threatened or dragged down, the mother went to Huangquan without hesitation.

"Mom! Why don't you wait for me! You said that you have to wait for me to achieve a great career, so that you can enjoy a lifetime of blessings! Why..."

Lin Chen didn't yell, she repeated and murmured.

Her eyes were empty, and she didn't want to think about anything.

Who... said loudly in my ear...

She can't hear anything.

A pair of warm and strong hands helped her up. By the side of the sparkling pool, with the lights on the terrace, Yuan Xu looked at her, and then stretched out his hand for a long time.

He slapped her hard.

"Wake up!"

Almost exhausted his life's intensity, Yuan Xu was no longer leisurely and elegant as usual, he shook the girl with his feet.

"Your mother didn't want to drag you down, so she made this decision. Do you want to stay in a daze forever!"

Lin Chen's unfocused eyes melted a little.

"Wake up! We must leave immediately, the Tatar army will come to revenge immediately!"

The girl's eyes finally regained their clarity.

She drew out her sword and staggered to the front yard.

With a flash of a white blade, a manager who was usually sloppy with her mother and daughter was cut in two in an instant.

"Who else has done something disrespectful to my mother, stand up!" She sneered, looking at the servant girl who stopped fighting.

That smile was like a Shura ghost, and everyone was terrified like chaff. There was a girl in the upper room who stabbed her mother with a hairpin, her face paled in fright, and she was hiding behind people without a trace, when Lin Chen found her.

With the sharp edge of the sword point, after the woman screamed, a cross appeared on her face.

"From now on, you also have tattoos on your face, let you taste what it's like to be discriminated against and humiliated!"

Yuan Xu watched from the side, but didn't stop him. After hearing the gardener's introduction of Lin Chen's mother and daughter's life experiences, he was also furious in his heart, wanting to punish these villainous people.

The rest couldn't bear the fear any longer, screamed a few times, and scattered like birds and beasts.

An elegant villa, suddenly dead silent.

Lin Chen packed up some money and belongings on the spot, buried his mother in the forest next to the other courtyard, and after saying goodbye, set fire to the mansion.

In the dark night, a big fire burst into the sky, and amidst the thick smoke, Lin Chen suddenly remembered that today was his 13th birthday.

"It's almost [-], and I'm turning thirteen..." She said to Yuan Xu with melancholy.

"It's been a long day..." Yuan Xu replied, from the first meeting on the city wall, to the second meeting when she fell, and finally, this time, they met three times in just one day.

Such a fate, I'm afraid I will never forget it in my life...

"Next, what are your plans?"

Yuan Xu really wanted her to go back with him, but he didn't dare to mention it rashly because he thought that there were mixed dragons and snakes in the rebel army, and they were all men.

"I want to go to Master and formally worship under his sect."

Yuan Xu breathed a sigh of relief, but also felt inexplicably lost.

He carefully removed a piece of ancient jade from between his neck.

This is an extremely rare piece of dragon-patterned jade, amidst the emerald green that is about to drip, a ray of snow is like a living thing, opening its teeth and claws.

The ingenious workmanship of heaven and earth has naturally made this rare treasure.

He ran it through with a red thread, tied a wishful knot, and handed it to her: "This is for you, it's not in vain for us to get acquainted."

He didn't say that it was a family heirloom, and it was never passed on to his daughter-in-law but not his daughter.

Lin Chen took it and hung it around his neck. The snowy skin was crystal clear, making it even more radiant and moist.

"I'm leaving."

She rode on the fine horse drawn from the stable, leaped up, neighed, and traveled more than ten feet away.

Yuan Xu turned and left - the most difficult thing in his life to witness parting, but he heard a clear voice behind him: "Yuan Xu, I saw you took a flute and played it for me, okay?"

She reined in her horse, stared at him, and asked.

He was stunned, and the next moment, he foolishly refused to agree, and his heart was full of joy.

The sound of the flute hovers in the dark night, clear and lingering-although life is precarious, I like to have a confidant or two.

There was peace and joy in his heart, and there was a gentle smile between his brows and eyes, like a gentle breeze.

The flute is melodious.

"Yuan Xu, remember, my name is Lin Chen!"

The girl's voice was far away, but clear.

"You wait for me for three years. Three years later, I will learn the art of conquest and fight side by side with you..."

……

You wait for me for three years...

I will fight by your side...

Chen Lu was trembling slightly on the bed, babbling constantly, but she only opened and closed her lips, unable to make a sound.

Countless pictures, countless faces, dancing in the dark, just like time passing...

In the next moment, all of these turned into nothingness.

She woke up faintly, and saw a surprise around her——

"Master Shangyi is awake!"

(End of this chapter)