Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 116 I Woke Up from the Dream (2)
Xue Ji found that this woman's character was very close to his, they were both upright and free-spirited, and they got along very well with each other.The two quickly became acquainted.The woman also told Xue Ji about her identity. It turned out that although she looked like a beautiful young lady from a wealthy family, her real identity was a member of the frightening Chenyue Sect, and she was already a high-ranking member at a young age. Not low backbone members.And this staff named Cangyin Zhiyue was stolen from Chenyue Sect by her.

"Cangyin Zhiyue... I've heard of this name before. It seems to be a very powerful murder weapon. Is it the treasure of your Chenyue sect?" Xue Ji was very surprised, "You actually steal yourself The religious treasure of the sect?"

"That's why they sent so many people to chase me," the woman named Nie Qing said nonchalantly, "But they didn't expect that I not only stole the Cangyin Moon, but also learned how to use it. It will be troublesome to deal with me."

"You didn't say it earlier," Xue Ji groaned, "I jumped out in vain to be a hero to save the beauty. This blow on my shoulder really hurts."

"You also know that it's a hero who saves the beauty." Nie Qing pouted, with a very touching expression, "Why are you unwilling to meet a beautiful girl like me?"

"Okay, I admit it," Xue Ji murmured, "Then can you at least tell me why you are willing to take such a risk to steal this terrible thing? You have chosen to be with the whole Chenyue." Teach as the enemy."

Nie Qing's answer surprised him: "I want to go to Ningnan City in Ningzhou, and exchange the Cangyin Moon for another magic weapon there, which can be compared to the Cangyin Moon."

"Since when did such a thing exist in Ningnan City?" Xue Ji couldn't believe it.

"Because this is a secret that the Feng family has been keeping." Nie Qing, who had always been as bright as the sun, suddenly became depressed. "Too many feathered people have lost their lives because of this secret. We can't continue."

"From your tone, you want to exchange this magic weapon for the Yu clan?" Xue Ji heard something different from her words.

"To be exact, it's for a good friend of mine who died unjustly." Nie Qing said, her head drooping, and there were some tears in her eyes, but more of them were the flames of hatred.

Nie Qing slowly told the past.A few years ago, when she went to Ningzhou to perform a mission, she was hunted down by the enemy and almost died. A young man from the Yu tribe took the risk of hiding her and saved her life.The boy was shy and introverted by nature, and his heart was as transparent and flawless as crystal. The two became good friends.But a year later, when she set foot on the land of Ningzhou again and took the time to visit this friend, she found that he had been arrested and sent to prison, and it was on death row. He was charged with raping and killing a Noble girl.

Nie Qing never believed that this young man who would blush when he saw a girl would commit such a horrific crime as rape and murder. She immediately used all her resources to investigate.This elite disciple of the Chenyue Sect has an extraordinary mind and excellent means, and it was quickly found out that this was an unjust case of framing. The real culprits were actually several other noble children. The civilian boy pushed out to take the blame.This young man was born as a commoner, lived alone, had no background to ask for help, and he was not good at speaking, so he was unable to defend himself. He was soon convicted and put on death row.

This incident completely angered Nie Qing.She used almost all her relationships—these relationships could only be used when the Chenyue Sect needed it—to save the boy, but she encountered a great difficulty: the boy was not locked in death row, He was transferred and disappeared.

The indomitable Nie Qing continued to work hard.Unlike He Honglin, a fallen nobleman who was alone, she possessed incomparable resources, so He Honglin failed to rescue his son, but Nie Qing finally got the help of a powerful Chenyue Sect. Friends" inquired about the boy's whereabouts.

"Huh, I can find it, and I can find a way to get it out for you," said the powerful "friend" she found, "but I advise you to let him die there, or you see Seeing him would make it even more uncomfortable.”

"What do you mean by that?" Nie Qing asked hastily.

"You'll know it when you see him," the other party waved his hand, "Although I'm helping you Chenyue, I can't touch some bottom lines. If you want to know the inside story, you can check it yourself."

A few days later, the boy was secretly sent to Nie Qing's hiding place, but when Nie Qing saw him, he couldn't believe his eyes at all.The young man has turned into a ferocious skeleton wrapped in a thin layer of dry skin, covered in nasty sores and pus, the eyes that were pure and warm in the past are almost hollow now, lifeless in the shriveled pupils , leaving only dead numbness and stagnation, no matter how much Nie Qing called to him with tears, it was impossible for him to respond in the slightest.That Chenyue's "friend" actually said something right, letting him die is the best relief.

Nie Qing stayed up all night.In the early morning of the next day, she stabbed the boy in the heart with the dagger she carried with her, and immediately began to investigate, trying to find out what could make a living person like this.

"That's Sa Xijialuo, the treasure of your Yu clan, the treasure that killed your own people like a devil." Nie Qing told Xue Ji in the forest a few years later.

Xue Ji fell into deep shock.For the first time, he knew that behind his noble race was hidden such a century-long evil.He was originally a somewhat impulsive person—otherwise he would not have rescued Nie Qing, perhaps out of righteous indignation, perhaps out of a sense of honor to protect the honor of the Yu clan, or maybe just out of goodwill towards Nie Qing , He told Nie Qing his true identity.

"As a human being, it is almost impossible for you to ask to see Feng Baimu," Xue Ji said, "and once you reveal to the people in Ningnan City that you have the Cangyin Moon on you, you may not be able to survive even a day." .”

"It's exactly as you said," Nie Qing was very distressed, "Aside from getting rid of the pursuers, what I thought most about was how to persuade Feng Baimu to destroy Sa Xijialuo, but I couldn't think of a good way .”

"I can help you. This year happens to be the time when the century-old agreement between our two families expires," Xue Ji said loudly, "Feng Baimu will not see you, but he must see me. I will tell him that our Xue family Give up all claims for the city-state territory, and the exchange is for him to destroy Saxigaro. As long as I also destroy Cangyin Moon at the same time, I think he should be tempted."

"Are you really willing to do this?" Nie Qing looked at Xue Ji with a strange look.

"I was going to tell Feng Baimu that the Xue family had surrendered," Xue Ji replied, "Now it's just one more condition. Feng Baimu is a sensible lord, and he should also know that Sa Xijialuo is like this." As long as the threat of Cangyin Zhiyue can be removed, there is no reason for him not to agree."

"Why do you want to help me? You just said that you don't care much about those powers and responsibilities, but you have taken on such a difficult task. Why?" Nie Qing asked again, with a voice in his voice Unbelievable tenderness.

Xue Ji blushed slightly, and answered bravely: "This is for the reputation of the entire race... so that no Yu people will be victimized in the future... Actually... Actually, I just want to help you..."

He didn't say any more, because Nie Qing held his face and kissed him deeply on the lips.

three

Twenty years later, on the roof of this border town in Ningzhou, Xue Ji recalled this long past to his daughter, recalling the scene when he and her mother met.Today's Xue Ji's face is ruined, his hair is falling out, and his body has become rickety and disabled. Only those bright eyes still retain the demeanor of his youth.An Xingmian noticed that when talking about Xue Huaiqing's mother, Nie Qing, there was only tenderness and nostalgia in his eyes, but no trace of resentment, even though he had explained before that Nie Qing had deceived him and betrayed her. he.

"Her name is Nie Qing...so my name is Huai Qing," Xue Huaiqing thought of something else sensitively, "This name shows that she still misses you, but why do you say she betrayed you? ?”

Xue Ji let out a long sigh: "Because the past incident I told you just now was all planned by her in advance. I don't know if she is Chenyue, but the chase in the forest was completely fake; I It was no coincidence that she ran into this fight, it was arranged by her carefully, the purpose was to create an encounter with me. She had already investigated everything about me and knew that she could use me to get close to Feng Baimu and Sa Xijia Luo, that's why this scene was arranged. The friendship she said with the Yu Clan boy is also fake."

"And at that time, she always disagreed with me to disclose our relationship in the family, saying that it is enough for each other to know that we are husband and wife, and the wedding ceremony should be reserved after the two magical artifacts are solved. Her reason at the time was that she was a human being. , the identity is sensitive, if Ning Nancheng knew that I married a human woman, the negotiation would be more difficult. I believed what she said at the time, and after thinking about it, she should just hope that she would not be in front of anyone but me. Show up, no one has seen her, and it will be more difficult to find her in the future."

"Then what is her purpose?" An Xingmian asked.

"She just wants to use the Cangyin Moon as a bait to lure out Saxigalo, and then take away this magic weapon," Xue Ji said, "Her ultimate goal is to make Cangyinzhiyue and Saxigalo It was all snatched into her hands."

"But those who chased her...could they have pretended to lose consciousness?" An Xingmian asked, "They were killed by Cangyin Zhiyue."

"I think, before that scene, she didn't tell those people that she would use the Cangyin Moon," Xue Ji said, "She had already made a plan. After using these people, she would use the Cangyin Moon Kill them all, forever."

"So cruel," Xue Huaiqing said softly, "Such a person is actually my mother."

"Besides, the reason why she is pregnant is probably intentional," Xue Ji said. "In that case, I will not doubt her even more, and will be more devoted to her. All in all, her plan is going well, I was fooled, and her fell in love, and took her to Ningnan City in winter. Her human identity was not convenient, so she did not enter the city, and I went to meet Feng Baimu alone. But neither she nor I expected that Ningnan City Everything here is so complicated and completely out of our control. I should have escaped early, but I was unwilling to let her down and stayed, which led to everything that followed."

"That lord, Feng Baimu, did you kill him?" Xue Huaiqing asked the most critical question.

"I didn't kill it," Xue Ji shook his head resolutely, "I was there when he died, but when I found him, the unfortunate lord was already a dead body. I have always wanted to figure out whether it was who killed him."

Xue Ji thought up all kinds of rhetoric to persuade Feng Baimu, and came to Ningnan City, but found that Ningnan City was in a precarious and eventful winter.The lord Feng Baimu is not too far away from death, so the various forces in the city-state are fighting openly and secretly, coveting the position of the future lord, some want to be the lord, some want to attach to the new lord, the situation is subtle and complicated.Today's Ningnan City is like a tightly stretched bowstring, probably unable to withstand the new pressure exerted by Xue Ji.

Feng Baimu welcomed Xue Ji with a big gift, and the nobles from all walks of life attended with hypocritical smiles, accompanied him to the dinner, and tossed him all day.It wasn't until noon the next day that he got the chance to have lunch alone with Feng Baimu.He endured lunch patiently, and finally told his true intentions when he accompanied Feng Baimu to the garden to admire the flowers and trees.

"I don't want any city-state, I don't want any power, I just want to ask you for this one thing," Xue Ji said, "As long as I get the Cangyin Moon, wouldn't Saxigaro be useless? Don't you want to stop it? Is it a harm to Yuren?"

Feng Baimu stopped, pinching his forehead with his hands, looking exhausted: "God... Ningnan City is already in chaos, yet there are new troubles emerging, and they are big troubles."

He turned his head and looked at Xue Ji: "I've been thinking about Saxigalo's matter. If there is a way to destroy Cangyinzhiyue and Saxigalo at the same time, that would be the best. But Forgive me, the current city-state has more important things to deal with, and I really have no time to be distracted by it."

Xue Ji was very disappointed, but not reconciled: "Then if I'm willing to wait, after you finish dealing with the more important things you said, can we have a serious chat about Sa Xijialuo? "

Feng Baimu waved his hand: "I'm worried that I won't be able to wait until that time, but...it's up to you. You can stay as long as you want, but I warn you in advance, if I die, maybe no one can protect you gone."

"Then I'll die here." Xue Ji said lightly.

"What a young man with ambition..." Feng Baimu sighed softly, "Okay, I promise you, I will have a serious talk with you about this matter when other matters are settled. Jia Luo, I also feel..."

He waved his hand and didn't continue, but the lingering rhyme in the last sentence made Xue Ji see hope, not to mention that Feng Baimu had clearly expressed before that he also had the will to destroy Saxigaro.After that, Xue Ji lived in the lord's palace, and gradually figured out the complex collusion of forces in the city-state.The eldest prince and the second prince are almost blatantly fighting for the throne, while the third prince is holding back, but is also secretly accumulating strength.The aristocrats and ministers of the city-state bet on their own teams, using all kinds of big and small things in the government and the opposition to stifle each other, making the city-state a mess. The name of Ningnan City has the word "Ning", but this winter there is no peace at all. .

No wonder Feng Baimu is so worried, Xue Ji thought, the most powerful city-state in Ningzhou has turned into such a mess, everyone wants to take advantage of the chaos, and I am afraid I will be helpless, I can't put the three biological Should all the sons be arrested and killed?

And when he himself was wandering in a few very limited non-sensitive areas in the palace every day, he was looked at by others very strangely.After all, everyone thought that he came to find Feng Baimu to fight for power and position. Seeing that the city-state's pie was not enough, it would be really hard to make people happy if one more outsider came to stab him.

During this period of time, Feng Baimu's health was getting worse and worse. In just two months, his aging was getting more obvious day by day.Later, except that serving flowers and trees every morning is his important activity and no one is allowed to disturb him, he almost always needs to take his princess Yutong with him when he travels.Yu Tong followed Feng Baimu, inseparable, ready to help him and feed him medicine at any time.In the last days of his life, Yu Tong was the person Feng Baimu trusted the most.

However, Feng Baimu seems to trust the wrong person.One day at dusk, Xue Ji found a naughty little black cat in the palace. Bored, he tried to catch the cat, but the black cat ran away tactfully.With a childlike innocence, he chased the black cat to a remote corner of the palace, but suddenly heard a human voice coming from ahead.It was only then that he realized that he was a visitor from afar who was being watched and suspected in the palace at the moment, running around in such a big way would inevitably arouse suspicion.In a moment of desperation, he hid behind a rockery, wanting to wait for the visitor to leave before leaving quietly, but he didn't expect that by hiding like this, he overheard an important secret.

"How is his body these days?" a man's voice asked.Xue Ji had a good memory, and immediately remembered that this person had been seen at the dinner party on the night he arrived in Ningnan. His name was Yu Sheng, and he was Feng Baimu's very trusted national teacher and a very powerful secret agent. Taoism.

(End of this chapter)