Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 69 The Elegy (4)
And Nagato gradually settled down.The emperor stopped attacking them, and the people of Tianzangzong also got the truth. Although they regretted that they destroyed a book collection cave, it is gratifying that there are more that have not been destroyed.The land of Kyushu has yet to see the day of destruction, and there is still a lot of time for people to make up for the mistakes they have made. As long as Nagato is not destroyed, there will always be a day when the library cave of that era will be rebuilt.

As long as Nagato doesn't die.

Xue Huaiqing has been brought to Ningzhou by Feng Qiuke.Feng Qiuke has always been moving strangely, and he didn't even give An Xingmian a chance to say goodbye. Of course, it may be because he has always disliked the scenes of young men and women parting. He was afraid that An Xingmian would face the unconscious beauty in front of him. Go on and on and squeeze a few drops of cat urine.

"Boy, if you want to act like a man, come to Ningzhou to pick her up early!" This was a note left by Feng Qiuke.

An Xingmian put down the note, smiled wryly, and went out again.After coming out of the palace, Tang He continued to leave with the Qiuyan Squad, but he did not go back to Yunzhong City with Bai Qianyun, but continued to stay in Tianqi at the risk. Of course, he had to pester the poor Ranger Yu Fengxian.Half a month later, he returned to Heluo Dungeon in the cloud and brought back the answer.

"Do you remember that court lady?" An Xingmian asked Bai Qianyun.The two were sitting in the abandoned NO.17 mine, watching the Heluos walking by in twos and threes.

"Which one?" Bai Qianyun didn't quite understand.

"It's...Emperor Hongjing's biological mother." An Xingmian said slightly.

Bai Qianyun kicked him unceremoniously: "Idiot, don't act like I'm a dead mother in front of me... Well, I'm a dead mother, but I'm not going to be insulted by any random words." It’s too irritating. Let the fart go! What’s wrong with that maid?”

Bai Qianyun was still the same.Although he may still be sad and resentful in his heart, but he has always been a man who can afford to let go, An Xingmian is relieved: "Your foot is so cruel, your bones are about to break. I forced Yu Fengxian to investigate It's been a long time, but after all, he is only a street ranger with limited strength, so I simply went to find Mr. Yuwen, and finally got the answer. As I expected, she is a barbarian girl."

"Barbarian?" Bai Qianyun was taken aback.

"Not only her, but also your biological mother. They both come from the same barbarian tribe." An Xingmian said.

"So, I'm actually half a barbarian?" Bai Qianyun scratched his scalp, "Then I should be a little more polite when I meet barbarians in the future...how come they are all barbarians?"

"Young Master Yuwen found out that the court lady came from an extinct grassland tribe of the barbarians. It was sent as a gift after Emperor Shengde and the barbarian lord concluded a peace treaty a few years ago. That tribe is called Gisar. Because the ancestors were killed by the Chinese army, they resolutely opposed the alliance between the Maharaja and the Emperor of the Eastern Land. It was considered to be a plot to overthrow the Maharaja's rule. A slave girl. She was sent to Donglu as a gift as a slave girl." An Xingmian said.

"Then where is my mother...the Queen Mother?" Bai Qianyun asked.

"When we were in the palace, the Queen Mother once said a word, 'People who are too smart are easy to be conceited, so conceited that they treat others as fools, but we are... people like me are never easily controlled by others', She suddenly changed her words in the middle of her words, and I didn’t understand what those words meant at the time, but then I suddenly understood, and I must have said it completely as “people on our prairie” or “sons and daughters of our prairie”. It has always been the proud title of the barbarians."

Bai Qianyun thought for a while: "It's really like this, you have thought of this, it's amazing."

"I also deduced this backwards. What really revealed her identity was the ditty she hummed before she died," An Xingmian said. I visited a musician, and he told me that it was a pastoral song on the grasslands of Hanzhou, mainly spread in the northwest area of ​​Hanzhou, which happened to be where the Gisar tribe used to be. And according to the legend, that tragic After the war, the whole family of the leader of the Gisar tribe was executed, but his youngest daughter was the only one who disappeared. Do you understand? The Queen Mother, your mother, is the missing youngest daughter."

"In other words, my biological mother...she is also from the Gisar tribe, and is actually the youngest daughter of the headman? But why did she enter the palace as a concubine?" Bai Qianyun asked.

"Your mother's experience of entering the palace has been mentioned in those obscure folklore. It is said that she met Emperor Shengde when he visited Nanhuai City in Wanzhou. She fell in love with her at first sight and quickly brought her back to the palace," An Xingmian said, "Emperor Shengde did not commit any serious crimes during his reign, but it is well known that he was lustful."

"You mean to say that she intentionally... deliberately created an opportunity to seduce Emperor Shengde?" Bai Qianyun was very surprised, "Could it be that she wanted to assassinate the emperor for revenge? As you said just now, because of their opposition and Donglu formed an alliance and was exterminated, she must hate the Emperor Donglu very much."

"She does want revenge, but this revenge is not as simple as killing the emperor of Donglu," An Xingmian's voice was a little heavy, "When an emperor dies, a new emperor can come to the throne, even if a dynasty is destroyed If it is overthrown, the Donglu people can still establish a new dynasty. But what if the blood of the royal family is confused?"

"Confused blood?" Bai Qianyun was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "If she becomes a concubine and gives birth to a son, then the emperor of Donglu... will have half barbarian blood!"

"Not only that, what's the use of half?" An Xingmian said, "There have been intermarriages between the Chinese and the barbarians in history. The emperor of the Chinese has more than one mother with a barbarian mother, that's nothing at all."

Bai Qianyun's face turned pale in an instant: "You mean my father... is not Emperor Shengde?"

"Unfortunately, not," An Xingmian said. "Although I don't know who your father is, he must not be Emperor Shengde, but a barbarian. You look like the Queen Mother, but you are not the same as Emperor Shengde." No approximation."

Bai Qianyun was speechless.He originally thought that no matter how miserable he was, at least he had figured out his life experience, and no matter how much he despised the powerful, he could still be secretly proud when he occasionally thought that "I am actually the emperor's son".But now, An Xingmian's words seemed to pour a bucket of cold water on him.

"After a long time of trouble, I still haven't figured out who my real father is..." he hummed.

An Xingmian went on to say: "So I have this kind of speculation about the whole thing: After the Gisar tribe was wiped out by the maharaja, the queen mother escaped by chance. She knew she was beautiful, so she had already made a plan for revenge. , want to cut off the blood of the Chinese people, so that all the emperors after the Donglu Dynasty are barbarians. Emperor Shengde is famous for his love of women, she will definitely think of a way, and of course, she will definitely make many sacrifices. Therefore, whether it is you or the current Emperor Hongjing, I am afraid that they are all barbarians of pure blood. Although the Gisar tribe has been exterminated, there must still be a very small number of men who escaped, and they will naturally find a way to follow The headman's daughter, obey all her orders."

"But she didn't expect that she would give birth to a deformed son," Bai Qianyun sighed, "Emperor Shengde would not make a deformed son as the crown prince. But she was very lucky, and she even met a son from the same family." The court lady of the tribe, and the other party happened to be pregnant because of having an affair with a barbarian."

"Is that really a coincidence? I'm afraid not." An Xingmian said.

"What do you mean by that?" Bai Qianyun asked in surprise.

"I want to say that the Empress Dowager arranged all of this carefully, and I am afraid that she will never allow mistakes. The court lady's affair and pregnancy may have been arranged by her alone. Otherwise, it would not be such a coincidence, even the time is about the same. I guess, maybe Because she has a certain disease, she knew a long time ago that she was likely to have a miscarriage or give birth to a defective fetus, so she was prepared for it a long time ago."

"Then she is really terrible. What is it all for... Is blood really that important? If no one knows about it, and the Eastern Land Dynasty has been passed down from generation to generation, what difference does it make? Maybe there will be descendants of the barbarians to conquer the barbarians in the future." Bai Qianyun said a little irritably.

"After all, we are not the queen mother, so we have no way to think for her from her point of view," An Xingmian said sadly, "just as I am not you, and I cannot understand the state of mind of an orphan, how can you and I understand the hatred and hatred of extermination? What about sadness? In fact, everyone is a door to others, a door that can never be crossed."

"So what you Nagato are looking for is only your own door," Bai Qianyun said, "Should I say hypocrisy, or should I explain wisdom?"

"None." An Xingmian shook her head, "It's just two words: choice."

Bai Qianyun let out a long sigh, looked up at the top of the dark mine pit, and said with emotion: "Choice... yes, choice. The old monster of the kneader chose revenge, and my biological mother also chose revenge. Where did so much entangled hatred come from? The dead cannot be resurrected after all, and the lost opportunities cannot be regained after all, so why be so persistent? Destroy the millennium plan of the Chenyue Sect and turn the emperor of the Chinese dynasty into a barbarian Bloodline, what can be obtained and changed? In the end, in fact, nothing can be obtained.”

"The way she looked at me before she died, although the time was very short, I will never forget it. I imagined my mother's eyes were like that, warm and loving, as if I were the continuation of her life, but... she Still abandoned me, in order to entangle the hatred in my heart. I have been thinking these days, how did she spend her life? A barbarian woman who was supposed to herd horses and hunt, and run on the grassland all her life, became The owner of Apocalypse City spent her whole life in this place she hated originally. Did she regret it when she was dying? Did she feel that the original choice was wrong?"

"And what kind of real results can this choice bring?" An Xingmian sighed: "Now we all know that Emperor Hongjing is not only not of royal blood, but also a pure-blooded barbarian, but... Is there any need for us to change this status quo?"

"There is no need," Bai Qianyun shook his head, "Don't say I have a disability, even if I am a person with sound limbs and the ability to sit on the throne, I will not fight with him. Maybe it's because I was raped by the river since I was a child." Because I was brought up by Luo, I don’t have such a deep sense of race. As long as the people are fed and clothed, and they don’t have to be displaced, what if the barbarian is the emperor, the Chinese are the emperor, even if the Heluo is the emperor? Although Hongjing was brutal and ruthless in dealing with Nagato, after all... he also had his own difficulties. Generally speaking, he is still a good emperor. If he is overthrown, the dynasty will be in chaos, and a bunch of people will jump out to fight for it. If you want to grab the throne, it is the common people who will suffer in the end.”

"And now the forces of all parties in Kyushu are roughly in a state of balance," An Xingmian said, "If the Chinese dynasty is in chaos, the barbarians, the feather tribes, and even the Kuafu will definitely wait for the opportunity. By then, it will not only be Donglu who will suffer. , but the entire Kyushu. That is the real magic fire, the magic fire that destroys everything. Let this barbarian continue to sit on the throne of the emperor, and pass on the blood of the barbarians from generation to generation in the Donglu Dynasty This is certainly a great absurdity, but behind the absurdity may be the luck of Kyushu."

Bai Qianyun nodded: "That's why I feel that after considering so many things, my mother must be full of regret for what she did back then. She wanted to die so happily, but it was difficult to find the real truth. Relief, maybe you will still regret it in another world."

"It's too late to regret. You can't look back on the choices you've made. Just make good choices in the future," An Xingmian said. "For example, I can now smell the aroma of squirrel soup from afar. , I will be gone if I don’t go back, so I have to choose to drink soup quickly.”

"Go by yourself. I'm not hungry now. I want to sit here for a while. The dungeon is really good. There are so many quiet times." Bai Qianyun said.

An Xingmian didn't force her, patted him on the shoulder, stood up and walked towards the city.But Bai Qianyun suddenly stopped him: "You are leaving tomorrow, right?"

"It's actually today, after lunch. I just came back to see you, tell you everything I found out, and then set off for Ningzhou immediately," An Xingmian said, "I can't delay a day."

"Is that magic weapon called Saxigaro still on you?" Bai Qianyun asked again.

"Yes, this thing seems to be connected with my life, so Mr. Feng didn't take it away," An Xingmian said, "The matter of Nagato is over, but I still have many mysteries that I haven't solved yet. , I hope this trip to Ningzhou can successfully rescue Huai Qing and solve these mysteries."

"Xiaoxue is a good girl, the strongest and bravest girl I've ever seen in my life, you fucking must bring her back whole, otherwise I'll never end with you!" Bai Qianyun widened The eyes are intimidating.

An Xingmian smiled slightly, but continued walking towards the distance without answering.He suddenly began to sing a song, and the singing made Bai Qianyun's eyes slightly moist: what An Xingmian sang was exactly the barbarian idyll that the queen mother hummed that night before she died.Presumably he learned it by the way when he was seeking proof.Hanzhou Grassland is vast and vast, and you can't see the edge at a glance. Only the pasture swaying in the wind extends endlessly into the distance. Such a scene always makes people feel the indelible desolation, and produces some kind of emotion. impulse.Therefore, almost every barbarian herdsman is a singer, who can sing loudly under the sky, and let the singing sound float between the sky and the earth.Even if Bai Qianyun couldn't understand the lyrics of the barbarian language, the boundless artistic conception of the singing alone was enough to make people want to cry.

White clouds are like cattle and sheep,
The long whip drove the sun away.

wind blowing grass old,
Swan geese fly north,

The wilderness is vast.

long song spirits,

Horses as companions,

I have no regrets in this life.

(End of this chapter)