Kyushu · Endless Nagato

Chapter 75
Xue Huaiqing suddenly had hot eyes, and instantly understood the origin of her name.After giving birth to herself in a strange mountain village on that precarious and cold winter day, the mother named Qing'er named herself "Huaiqing". She must have hoped that her father, who was being chased and killed, would remember her forever and miss her forever. she.But what happened to these two people in the end, whether they reunited after the catastrophe or died alone, no one knows until now.Except for the jade bracelet on her wrist, her mother left her nothing recognizable.

She didn't want to show weakness in front of outsiders, so she pinched her thigh with the hand hidden in the quilt, calmed down, and said to Feng Qiuke: "But I have a question, the lord was killed 20 years ago Now the new lord has been in power for 20 years, and the city-state has already settled down. Even if you still can’t forget the murderer of the year, is it necessary to mobilize your troops like you are facing an enemy? In order to save me, just spend on me The rare medicine is worth at least a few thousand gold baht? In addition, so many famous doctors and mystics were called, just to catch a murderer 20 years ago? There must be an article behind this."

"Sure enough, she is a smart girl. I knew I couldn't hide it from you," Feng Qiuke scratched his scalp, "It's true that it's not just because of the murder of the lord, there are more important reasons behind it. But please forgive me, this matter I can't tell you about the top secrets of the city-state, or even the life and death of the Yu clan."

"You have always been like this. If you can't say it, you won't say it." Xue Huaiqing shook her head, and stopped asking, but changed the question, "What does he look like, can you describe it?"

"He... is not tall, with a pointed chin, and a straight nose..." Although Feng Qiuke is very good at tracking people, he is not good at describing others' appearance verbally. The image of a handsome young Yuren.

"Your eyebrows are very similar to your father's, especially those eyes," he added finally.

"Thank you," Xue Huaiqing nodded, "At least in this way, when I occasionally think of him, I can fill in his face."

In the following days, she recuperated quietly, and the feathermen began to interrogate her, but she never mentioned any details related to her mother. As for her father, she didn't know anything about it.Because Xue Huaiqing was originally weak, the Yu people were afraid that she would accidentally lose her life, so they did not dare to use torture. At the same time, the pride of the Yu people did not allow them to torture such a seriously ill woman, so they could only try to use the magician mind reading to probe her memories.

However, Xue Huaiqing is a corpse dancer who uses meditation to train her spirit all the year round, and her personality is also extremely tough. When she has a certain belief in her heart, it is difficult for her mind reading skills to invade.Over the past few days, eleven mystics have tried, but all failed.Day after day repeats like this.

Xue Huaiqing was thinking about what happened in the past period of time, when there was a knock on the door.From the soft voice, she also knew who it was: "Is it Mr. Ye? Please come in."

The door was slowly pushed open, and a short, middle-aged feathered man walked in with a soup bowl.Yuren are generally taller than humans, but this Yuren is shorter than normal humans.His face doesn't look old, he should be less than 40 years old, but his forehead is covered with wrinkles and his hair is sparse.After entering the door, his eyes swept across Xue Huaiqing's face, but he didn't seem to see her at all, his eyes showed a kind of indifference to everything.

"Medicine." He simply said this word, put the bowl on the coffee table by the bed, and then walked towards the door.

Xue Huaiqing nodded: "Thank you, Mr. Ye."

"I'm not sir," Mr. Ye replied bluntly, "I'm Ye Xun."

"It's hard for you to serve me for so many days, not to mention that you are much older than me, you should be called Mr. "Xue Huaiqing said.

"As you wish." Ye Xun said expressionlessly.After speaking, he unhurriedly opened the door and left, then closed the door carefully.

"What a strange person, even stranger than a corpse dancer..." Xue Huaiqing said to himself.But no matter it was normal or strange, being locked in this small room in the palace, she felt a kind of intimacy constantly, because this was the first time in her life that she got along with so many feathered people.Her father is Yuren, and her mother is human. She has been living in human society since she was a child, and she is used to people's discrimination and white eyes on mixed races.In fact, these feathered people who think of themselves as noble may discriminate against me more than humans, Xue Huaiqing thought to himself, but now they are eager to pry out the secrets in my mind, and they have no time to think about it.

However, if I really tell those "secrets", these Yuren will probably be quite disappointed, right?Because I know so little, she thought.

Xue Huaiqing picked up the medicine bowl, and a strong stench came to her nostrils.This is a decoction specially prepared by the Yu people to make her recover as soon as possible. It contains many strange ingredients, which makes this bowl of medicine have a strange smell and taste.Fortunately, Xue Huaiqing is a corpse dancer, and has been with various drugs and poisons for many years, so this little stench is nothing to her at all.What's more, she drank such bitter medicine when she was very young, and the bitter taste of those soups accompanied all her memories of her parents.

At that time, she was still living in a small village in the south of Lanzhou. She was raised by her adoptive father, Shen Zhuang, and had been weak and sick since she was a child.The poor Shen Zhuang couldn't afford expensive supplements, so he had to find a lot of folk remedies for her supplements. He cooked a lot of things like scorpions, centipedes and toads, but they were actually quite effective.But there is one disease that can never be cured, and that is Xue Huaiqing's doubts about her parents.

"I've said it many times. Although your mother lived in my house at that time, she never took the initiative to talk to me," Shen Zhuang said to Xue Huaiqing, "Look at her face, look at her clothes, and listen to her words." From her tone of voice, I knew that she was a big shot with status, and big shots would not have heart-to-heart relationships with poor people like us. She was hunted down and fled to our village, and then stayed at my house, because she was inconvenient and stayed for a while longer. .”

Shen Zhuang's "physical inconvenience" refers to Xue Huaiqing's mother who was pregnant at that time.In the winter of Shengde's 24th year, shortly after the dismemberment of the lord of Ningnan City, she came to this mountain village covered in blood and with a big belly, and was rescued by Shen Zhuang.A month later, she gave birth to a baby girl, named her Xue Huaiqing, and two months later she quietly left, leaving a bracelet for her daughter.

In other words, Xue Huaiqing doesn't know the names of her parents (of course, at least now she knows that her father's name is Xue Ji and her mother's name has a green character), she doesn't know her parents' appearance, she doesn't know her parents' identities, it's even more impossible Know the status of your parents.But she could roughly guess why the feathermen in Ningnan City were so interested in her father. It was not just because of what they said verbally, "looking for the murderer who killed the lord", but for something else. Probably for one thing, to be exact.

As mentioned earlier, Xue Huaiqing is a person of mixed blood and lives in Lanzhou, where humans and feathers are attacking each other. Naturally, he will be stared at by the villagers.Since she was a child, no children of the same age were willing to play with her. On the contrary, the children would always bully her in different ways.She had no other way to deal with it except to suffer silently, but gradually she noticed that all the children in the village would bully her, except for one child.

The strangest thing is that this child was originally the bully of the village, almost no other child has not been punched by him, but for Xue Huaiqing, he has never lifted a finger.Of course, this does not mean that he likes Xue Huaiqing, because every time he sees this half-breed who is scolded as a flat-haired bastard, he always turns pale and makes a detour.

He is afraid of me.Xue Huaiqing came to such a conclusion, but she didn't understand why such a bully would be afraid of her who was weak and helpless.Until one day, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and stopped the child at the entrance of the village.Facing Xue Huaiqing, the boy who was never relentless in beating others looked flustered, trembling all over, almost speechless, turned around and wanted to run away.Xue Huaiqing kept chasing the boy with her unique tenacity, and finally the boy stood still, gritted her teeth and said something.

"You...your mother, I have seen, is a monster! You are the daughter of a monster, so you must be a monster too!" he said.

(End of this chapter)