Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 115 I Woke Up from the Dream (1)
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On this night in mid-February, if someone accidentally ran into the famous Mr. Yuwen in the western border of Ningzhou, they would definitely be shocked.This empress of the famous family who is usually elegant, elegant and amiable, is now devastated with a dull face, her hair and clothes are covered with yellow sand, she looks like a nameless poor man who is down and out.And the two followers, a man and a woman, who followed behind him also looked worried.

"My lord, it's not time to despair, there is no way out!" said the female scout, "We can go and ask that merman for mercy, maybe we can find someone to imitate a silver moon..."

"Shut up!" Mr. Yuwen shouted impatiently.The female scout lowered her head and stopped talking, with tears in her eyes.Liang Jing didn't even dare to show his air, and drove the carriage silently.The path was silent except for the sound of the wheels rolling.

After a long time, Mr. Yuwen spoke again: "I'm sorry, I lost my composure just now. This matter is due to my poor calculation. I can't blame you."

The female scout burst into tears: "You don't have to be sorry, son, I...my life is yours, why would I care about this? I only worry about you..."

Young Master Yuwen smiled wryly: "My life will soon be in danger, how can I still have the right to control the fate of others. From today onwards, you are free, and you can go wherever you want."

"Then I'm willing to be by your side, through thick and thin." The female scout said stubbornly.

Mr. Yuwen waved his hand: "It's like a line in a drama...Liang Jing, why did you stop the car?"

Liang Jing didn't look back, and said firmly: "Young master, you can't be so depressed, there must be a way. This time, the nomadic tribe took the upper hand. The reason is that my identity was exposed. Even if I risked my life, I must make amends. "

"It's not your fault," Mr. Yuwen said, "it's not surprising that they have the means to restrain Tianqi and Chenyue. They can see through your details. All in all, I won't blame you two for this matter. A kind of fate. Maybe the Yuwen family is destined to live with such a curse from generation to generation. In the past, I always thought that even if there is only one day to live, I must do what I have to do, and I can’t lose the Yuwen family. Glory; but now it seems that there is no one in this world who is completely unafraid in the face of death, I may... have really been defeated by despair."

The female scout and Liang Jing looked at each other, not knowing what to say to comfort this young man who seemed destined to die short.The three of them were falling into a deathly silence, when suddenly, a gloomy voice came from the distant darkness: "Such a cowardly and useless person is really in line with the usual demeanor of the Yuwen family."

The voice seemed far away at first glance, but it reached the ear very clearly, making it difficult to discern the speaker's direction.The female scout jumped up: "Who is it? Why are you hiding furtively? Get out!"

"Get out?" The other party chuckled, "Who are you going to get out of, you or me?"

Following these words, there were waves of footsteps around the carriage. At this moment, a dark cloud covered the moon, making it impossible to see anything clearly.The female scout realized that they were surrounded, so she untied a long whip from her body, Liang Jing also pulled out his waist knife, but Mr. Yuwen was calm and composed, still sitting upright and motionless.

The footsteps gradually approached, and even without moonlight, the outlines of some enemies could be faintly seen. It seemed that there were quite a few enemies, at least thirty or forty.The female scout saw the figures of the first few people, and suddenly shook out the long whip in her hand, and hit three consecutive heavy blows, breaking the neck bones of the three frontmost enemies.

This was her most proud killing move, and now that the blow worked, she couldn't help but feel a little proud, and immediately jumped out, attacking the fourth and fifth people behind with a long whip.She was planning in her heart, combining the strength of the three of them, using the fiercest killing moves to try to open a gap along the way, and there is still a possibility of escape.

The female scout passed over the three enemies who had just broken their neck bones indifferently. The bodies of these three men were shaking, and it seemed that they were about to fall to the ground.But something happened that made her unbelievable: just after leaving these three people behind, she was suddenly grabbed by the shoulder.She was shocked in her heart, she never imagined that anyone would be able to come up behind her at such a fast speed and perform a surprise attack in an instant, but when she looked back, she was really shocked.

The person who grabbed her was one of the three people whose neck bones were broken by her before!This person's head was completely tilted to one side, and it was impossible to continue to live anyway, but he was able to reach out and grab her shoulder.What was even worse was that the other two were still able to move, one left and one right surrounded her, one grabbed her arm, and the other snatched the long whip from her hand.

impossible!The female scout thought, it is absolutely impossible for these three people to still be alive, but not only the living can move... Just as she was thinking of this, Mr. Yuwen had already said: "Mr. Xu Mizi, is that you? You really showed up! "

At the same moment, An Xingmian and Xue Huaiqing stood on the roof, looking at Ji Laosan in front of them, the shock in their hearts was beyond words.This is indeed the Ji Lao San they have seen and threatened. His face is full of pits and scars, his head is bald, his left leg is disabled, and he is described as rickety.But he is not the same as that Ji Lao San, because he flew over under the watchful eyes of the two of them, and flew over with gorgeous wings that only a pure-blood feathered man can have.And his eyes no longer have that wretched and cowardly look, replaced by a confident edge.Even though his appearance is very unbearable, with such sharp eyes, people feel that he is like a giant.

"I know that I don't look like Xue Ji now, at least not like the handsome and handsome Xue Ji you heard 20 years ago," Ji Laosan said, "but I am indeed Xue Ji, at least I look at it You can recognize it, the jade bracelet on your wrist is a treasure handed down by the Xue family from generation to generation. Later, I gave it to your mother as a token of love. It was originally a pair, she left one for you, and the other It's in her hand. If I'm not wrong, my idiot brother probably showed his flaws on this jade bracelet."

When he said these words, his voice was deep and magnetic, and his words were confident and well-organized. He was indeed completely different from the old third Ji who was timid and stuttered before.Xue Huaiqing stepped forward, came to him, looked at his eyes carefully, and finally let out a sigh of relief: "Although your appearance is ruined, these eyes...really look like me, what kind of eyes? The eyes that are not afraid are also very similar to mine. You are my father, there is nothing wrong with it, but forgive me, forgive me now..."

The real Xue Ji smiled slightly: "I know what you want to say. There are too many doubts between you and me now, so you have no time to experience the relationship between father and daughter. It doesn't matter, since I came to see you, I will definitely tell you the truth, although the reason I avoided you before was that I didn't want you to hear the truth."

While Xue Ji was talking, An Xingmian quietly observed him. Although he tried his best to suppress his emotions and looked calm and indifferent when he spoke, his hands still trembled slightly, and there was a faint flame burning in his eyes.In fact, his heart was already extremely excited. An Xingmian came to the conclusion that both father and daughter were like this, but they were both trying to suppress it.It's so sad to meet again after such a long absence.

"Then why did you change your mind?" Xue Huaiqing asked.

"Maybe it's because you're too smart that I can't lie to you; or maybe it's because you're too persistent that I can't bear to lie to you." Xue Ji replied flatly, "In short, if you have any questions, you can ask them now."

"The first question is about what happened on this past day," Xue Huaiqing said, "The Xue Ji who came forward is fake, and the Cangyin Moon has not been destroyed, right?"

Xue Ji nodded: "For the two of you, it's actually easy to guess. The reason why the Cangyin Moon failed may be because the Soul Seal Stone was destroyed, but there is another possibility, that is Sa Xijialuo It is near it. And you, Young Master An Xingmian, are the one who carries Saxigalo, so in this plan, you are very important and an indispensable figure."

An Xingmian smiled bitterly: "That's why you used yourself as the bait to lure me step by step. I always thought that I was using you, but I didn't expect that you were actually using me. I helped you provoke Tianqi and Chen In the beginning of the month, I also used the Saxigaro on my body to help you perform this play and fooled them. They didn't see me, and even if they did, they would not guess that Saxigaro was actually the one I carried with me A piece of emerald. But what I don't understand is that if you explained this matter in advance, she and I would definitely cooperate with you, but why didn't you tell us? Could it be that you... actually want to do something to us?"

Xue Ji sighed softly: "Tiger poison doesn't eat its offspring, besides, I just want to resolve the disaster, I don't want to hurt anyone, or snatch your Saxigaro."

"Then why do you still lie to us and come up with a fake father for what?" Xue Huaiqing stared at Xue Ji and continued to ask, "You don't want to see me at all?"

"Of course I want to see you, and I want to help you even more," Xue Ji said, "otherwise I wouldn't deliberately release my family tokens to let Tianqi and Chenyue find me."

"Did you do that on purpose?" An Xingmian was startled, but immediately felt relieved, "Actually, it's not hard to guess, with your careful planning, how could it be possible for someone to find you by mistake, it must be on purpose. The purpose is to attract all relevant people to solve this problem. And in this whole incident, if you don't show up, no one will know where you are, and the only ones in trouble are me and her. So, you are really Help us."

Xue Huaiqing was silent for a while, and reluctantly said: "Although I still have resentment in my heart, this statement is indeed the most reasonable. So there is only one question left about the events that happened in the past two days: Why did you lie to me?"

"I lied to you, in fact, just to make you not feel so sad," Xueji struggled to move his lame leg, sitting on the roof, the moonlight shone on his crooked and thin body, there was an indescribable desolation and loneliness, " Because it hurts to tell the truth, I'd rather you don't know anything, so at least you can keep a good imagination in your heart."

"What truth?" Xue Huaiqing asked.

"Your mother...betrayed me a long time ago," Xue Ji said softly, "The purpose of her being with me is to take away the two magic weapons of Cangyinzhiyue and Saxigaro. She didn't really loved me."

Xue Huaiqing was stunned, not knowing what to say for a moment.In her mind, she has never stopped speculating and imagining about that incident back then, but no matter how she guesses, there is one premise that is tacitly accepted: father and mother are deeply in love with each other.She believed that in that cold winter, father and mother were forced to make the choice to temporarily separate in order to escape the pursuit of soldiers, but their hearts were always together.No matter where they are, whether they live in a poor and remote mountain village and give birth to a child alone, they still miss each other.This kind of belief supports her good expectations for her parents.

But now, the words that came out of Xue Ji's mouth were like a hard ice pick, smashing her ice-like pure and beautiful but extremely fragile imagination to pieces.And her father's sentence "she didn't really love me" made her have some other thoughts: So my birth was not the crystallization of love, but out of some accident, or even being What about the tools the mother used?
She thought in a daze, unknowingly shed tears.In the past 20 years, as a half-breed child, she grew up silently under the discriminating eyes of a human mountain village, with only a slightly crazy adoptive father by her side. No real parents have ever stood up to protect her and love her, but She never shed tears about it.But now, the real father was sitting beside her, but with a short sentence, she broke down her embankment, and even made her doubt the meaning of life.

An Xingmian held her hand silently, unable to think of anything to comfort her for a while.Xue Ji sighed, and then said: "Let's start from the beginning. Let's start from 20 years ago. I believe you have already heard that the winter of 20 years ago was the expiration of the hundred-year agreement between Feng and Xue. At that time, I went to Ningnan alone, but the purpose was not to fight for the throne. I never had any ambitions in terms of power. That trip to Ningnan originally had only one purpose, which was to persuade Feng Baimu, the lord of the Feng clan, to give up The city-state's most treasured sashigaro."

"Give up Sa Xijialuo? How is this possible?" An Xingmian was very surprised.

"Of course it is possible, because the purpose of Saxigaro's existence is to fight against the Cangyin Moon," Xue Ji said, "If the Cangyin Moon can be destroyed, Saxigaro will have no meaning of existence. And The Cangyin Moon... was in my hands at that time. I went to see Feng Baimu, hoping to find a way to destroy these two artifacts together, but I didn't expect that I sent myself into a battle In the big trouble that has nothing to do with the two magical artifacts."

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If it is said that after being exiled at the beginning, the ancestors of the Xue family still harbored the dream of defeating the Feng family and regaining Ningnan City, by the time of Xue Ji's generation, such a dream was no different from delusions.In the past hundred years, the Xue family has experienced many major changes, especially several brutal and bloody civil strife, which weakened the power of the family that was already inferior to the Feng family.When the time point of the 24th year of Shengde came, the Xue family entrenched in the remote areas of Ningzhou had already declined, let alone contending with the Huoqintu city-state owned by the Feng family, even if they were randomly pulled from Ningnan City. A noble family may be able to defeat them.

The young Xue Ji was actually very happy about this.He is a person who has no desire for power, and he took over as the patriarch of the Xue clan only because other qualified people died, leaving him alone. Xue clan no longer has the strength to shake the foundation of the Feng clan, but he is very relaxed and happy .When the hundred-year period was about to expire, he made up his mind to go to Ningnan City and tell Feng Baimu plainly that the Xue family would no longer have any thoughts about the sovereignty of the city-state, and from then on the two sides could live in peace.

With such thoughts in mind, Xue Ji had no pressure this year, and did not make any preparations for this important meeting. Instead, he played around and enjoyed himself.In spring, when he came to a forest in central Ningzhou, he encountered a fierce fight. A group of people were chasing and killing a single human woman. There were both mystics and warriors in this group, and their skills were not weak , and the attack was extremely ruthless.Out of righteous indignation, he stepped forward and tried to help the woman, but the two were outnumbered.Just when Xue Ji thought that this hot-headed "righteous act" might kill her on the spot, the woman suddenly took out a dark black iron rod from behind, and lifted the iron rod into the air.Immediately afterwards, without any warning, the enemy completely lost consciousness and fell to the ground. Although he was still breathing and his heartbeat was still beating, he was no longer conscious, and naturally he was unable to move.

"This, what is this?" Xue Ji, who survived the catastrophe, panted heavily, looking at this iron rod with terrifying magic power, she was very surprised.

"This is a vicious magic weapon that shouldn't exist in this world," the woman replied, "I want to destroy it, and these people have come here for this."

"From my point of view, its existence is not entirely a bad thing," Xue Ji wiped the sweat from his forehead, "If it didn't exist, both of our lives would have to be accounted for here."

"But without it, it's impossible for you to be involved in this matter today, and it's impossible to give your life here, right?" The woman blinked playfully.

"What you said... makes sense." Xue Ji scratched her scalp and laughed.

(End of this chapter)