devil may cry

Chapter 86. Farewell to the Burning Building

Xue Luoqian lay head to head with him, his hair scattered on the bed, looking lazy.

"It's okay to mention it, my mother...is not with my father."

"Huh? If I remember correctly, in the Duobao Pagoda of the Xue family, there are enshrined spiritual tablets of the ancestors and children of the past?"

"That's right. My father is naturally there, but my mother is not counted as Xue's family and cannot be included in the ancestral hall. She is buried in the back mountain of Xue's mansion."

"Houshan? That vulture mountain? How can this be...she is your mother, why is she not considered Xue's family?"

Xue Luoqian paused, then said softly, "I am an illegitimate child."

"Don't say that...Senior Xue is not allowed? He..."

"No, my grandfather loves me very much," Xue Luoqian shook his head and said, "But Ayan, the Xue family is more than just grandfather, and my father broke up with the family when he left home, which was intolerable for the family."

"But your mother..."

"She is from Biluo. My father left the Central Plains for my mother. He hadn't seen his grandfather for many years, and almost broke the relationship between father and son. If it wasn't for my uncle's death, maybe even until my father died, they would not reconcile."

"uncle?"

"Well, it's Luo Bei and Tian Lai's father. Uncle, he was the martial arts leader before my father."

"how……?"

"He hasn't been well."

Xue Yaoshan has two sons in total, Jin Si Luo Si, both of whom are talented.

Perhaps because of the loss of a son, Xue Yaoshan accepted the second son who had returned home in despair, and Xue Luoqian brought back by him.

Bei Mingyan thought for a while, and said: "Then... I will meet your father, and then I will go up the mountain to meet her. It will always be like this from now on."

Xue Luoqian smiled and nodded silently.

"What kind of person is she?"

He sealed himself up too much, whether it was a confrontation with the master or a lack of contact with many people, the result after a long time was that he found that he didn't understand the master, nor did he understand Xue Luoqian.

But it's different now, he wants to know him, he wants to know everything about him, and he wants to be with him for the rest of his life.

Regardless of winter and spring rain and snow, joys and sorrows.

"She passed away when I was four years old. I don't know much about her, and most of them I know from other people. But...she is a bit similar to Ayan."

"Which point?"

"Stick it up." Xue Luoqian raised the corner of his mouth.

……

"The river is rippling today..."

"Covered Water Yoyo..."

"Qingshan Bamboo..."

"Lianxin thinks about..."

This is a song my mother often sings.

At the junction of Biluo Country and the Central Plains, there is a canyon named "Jianhe Valley".There lived a family here. The men went out during the day to hunt and cut reefs; the women sometimes washed clothes by the river behind the house, and sometimes taught their children to read and write in a simple thatched hut.

Their child is four years old. She usually loves to read, so she draws pictures, writes and plays games for him.

After lunch, the man in this family didn't go out. He was a big man, but he liked to stay by his wife's side, and he followed her to watch whatever she did.So, the child was often sent away by his father to play elsewhere with a piece of sugarcane, or sometimes a piece of dried persimmon.

His mother once asked his father curiously, why don't you teach our son martial arts because you are very good at martial arts?His father said with a playful smile, "I can protect you, don't be afraid."

His mother said: "In the future, when a son gets married and has no power to restrain his chicken, how can he protect his wife? You can't always follow him."

"Hey? Why not? Do you want him to leave us in the future? I feel so sad when you say that!"

"That……"

"But if he gets married, Asheng, you will be mine again! When will I ask him to get married? No, I mean get married."

His mother didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "He's only four years old. You are always like this, be careful not to kiss your child when he grows up!"

The man looked indifferent: "Ah, it's fine for the lady to kiss me, and the son will belong to someone else in the end."

The short and thin child suddenly tugged at his father's cuff: "Father...I'm not going anywhere..."

His father squatted down with a serious expression, and took out something from his sleeve: "Qian'er, good boy, look what is in father's hand?"

"sugar cane."

"Yeah, smart, nibble on the sugar cane that Dad has treasured for a long time, and go play in the mud in the bamboo forest behind. Dad is going to hang clothes with your mother!"

The child looked blank, but nodded obediently: "Oh."

The man put his hands to his lips and shouted at him: "Pinch a pair of clay sculptures of your very loving, immortal couple~"

The little child ran away, and the woman looked helplessly at the laughing person beside her: "You, you don't even want to eat your own son's jealousy?" She even said something stupid about marrying her son off.

"Eat, eat, eat, of course I eat! You care more about him than you did for me before. Hehehe."

"...How can you compare with children? Besides, you were not the one who was shameless in the past. Well, don't stick around here, didn't you agree to help me hang the clothes?"

This was a peaceful day. A young couple put their washed clothes on the bamboo poles and glanced at the children flickering in the bamboo forest from time to time. No one could have imagined that the disaster would come in an instant.

in the bamboo forest.

Dad's nose has just been squeezed out, although it is a bit collapsed, but the child thinks it still looks good.

He squeezed the mud conscientiously and clumsily, but he didn't notice that the dirt was sticking to his face and clothes.

Suddenly he smelled a strange smell.

Looking in the direction of my home, outside the bamboo forest, there was a puff of white smoke in the sky, as if someone had smoked from cooking.

He rubbed his somewhat deflated stomach, feeling hungry, and the sugar cane had been eaten. He looked at the two little clay figurines whose facial features were not fully formed, thought for a while, and then trotted home.

As he got closer, he first heard a loud and piercing sound, and before he had time to think about what it was, he saw many people in black clothes surrounded by his house, with a black cloth covering their faces and bright lights in their hands. The shiny thing looks different from the knife Dad usually used to chop wood, but they all shine the same white light.

He had seen his father sharpen a knife.

And his parents were trapped in the middle, behind him was a house in the sea of ​​fire.That white smoke came from here.

The child stopped and subconsciously hid behind the bamboo.

A little bit different.

These people frightened him, they were different from the smiling uncles and aunts in the town.

The things in their hands were stained red, like plant sap, dripping down the edges, different from Dad's sugar cane, and mother's rolling pin.

His father was also different from usual, holding a black knife in his hand, but it was slender than a chopping knife. He looked and looked again and again, but he had never seen his father holding it.

There was blood on the white clothes, and there was also blood on the white face, but it was not the blood of the man, but the blood of the woman in his arms.

"A Sheng!!"

The woman was stabbed in the chest, and the blood from the chest stained her whole body, in order to protect her husband who was surrounded and attacked.At this time, the oil is exhausted and the lamp is dry.

"Luo...si, cough cough cough..."

"A Sheng, wait for me to find medicine for you!"

As soon as he moved, countless cold swords were thrown horizontally, but they dared not go forward. They were afraid of the sword in his hand, and it was second in the weapon spectrum.

Even more afraid of those who hold swords.

If it wasn't for the large number of people, and even Mu Yuntian being in charge, they really wouldn't dare to pick on this person, even if he was alone, even if "Mr. Mo Yiqing" and his reputation had faded in the world for a long time.

The man didn't walk away because the person in his arms held him desperately: "Luosi... don't..."

"I don't...that's fine, you must...take care of yourself, take good...protect your cough, protect him, don't...let him be bullied by others..."

"me……"

The father and son never heard what was said later.

Xue Luoqian remembered what happened next very clearly.

It was also the first time in his life that he felt at a loss, panicked and sad, and saw for the first time what a "sword" was.

Those men in black were decapitated almost instantly by a dark and slender sword. In his young memory, it was only a blink of an eye, and when he opened his eyes again, he only saw his father standing in front of him. In the pool of blood, the eyes were full of monstrous hatred.

He still remembered that a master came that day, father and the masked man had a close fight, and in the end he still injured the masked man, but father was also injured, and his physical strength was even weaker, so he couldn't catch up.

In the days when he grew up, he recalled more than once that his father stood for a while in the bloody corpse mountain, returned to his mother, threw Fengshan, and hugged her body tightly in his arms.

For some reason, the little Xue Luoqian didn't dare to go forward, as if the man who was smiling all day was the murderer. Xue Luosi at that time was so frightening.

He never looked behind him again, and the clay sculpture was never completed.

"It was too dangerous to continue to go out, so my father took me home."

Bei Mingyan held Xue Luoqian's hand, was silent for a while, and suddenly sat up: "The escaped person is still alive? Is he the leader? Have you found out who it is?"

"He? Just a lackey."

"you know?"

"Well," Xue Luoqian's expression suddenly hesitated, Bei Mingyan said: "No matter what you do, I will stand by your side, I will support you, and will not leave you."

"He's Mu Yuntian, the number one expert in the West Plant, who was sent by Liu Yu."

"I've killed him."

"Ah?" Bei Mingyan panicked, extremely suspicious that he had heard it wrong.

Xue Luoqian grabbed his hand tightly and explained: "Will Ah Yan blame me for killing someone?"

"No, no, he's not innocent... I'm just, just a little surprised..." He thought for a while, and said to Xue Luoqian: "I'm fine. Tell me about it."

If I remember correctly, the day when Xue Luoqian and Mu Yuntian had a martial arts competition happened to be the day when he had an affair with Yun Chuling, that is to say, Xue Yaoshan and Huo Liancheng were not present that day.

"How did you kill him? Wasn't he killed by a drizzle needle like the other three?"

"No. The needles on his body were some that I borrowed from Patriarch Beiming afterwards."

"He borrowed it? How did you tell him the reason?"

"To be honest, my grandfather went to borrow it with me."

"Senior Xue?!"

"Ayan, shortly after my father came home back then, he started looking around to find out who was behind the scenes that day. My grandfather also contributed a lot, and soon found out that this matter was related to Xichang. Those men in black fought against my father. , my father has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and after a few tricks, he will recognize it as Xichang, but these are just speculations, without any evidence, and Xichang's power has become more and more powerful in recent years, so there is no absolute certainty, so you should not take revenge easily."

"If anything goes wrong, Xichang will definitely uproot the Xue family. My father doesn't want to involve the family, but he also suffers from unfounded, depressed, and his health is getting worse day by day, and he will die in a few years."

"I've been waiting for this opportunity. Since Xichang and the Jade Blood Sect may have a relationship in private, and the Jade Blood Sect is so obsessed with me this time, it's better to sell his favor and solve one for him."

"Grandfather knows all about it, and so does Senior Huo."

"Then, you said that Mu Yuntian died a miserable death, so..."

According to Ji Chaoxing's description later, Mu Yuntian was the one with the ugliest death among the four ghosts who died tragically. His whole body was burned to death, and his body was penetrated.

Xue Luoqian's eyes were dark: "Ah Yan will think that I...do not behave properly?"

Bei Mingyan didn't know what to say, so he just shook his head, Xue Luoqian stared at him, and he shook his head vigorously again.

"In this way, Xichang Mu Yuntian's death can be attributed to Jade Blood Sect..."

Xue Luoqian said: "Not bad."

"If you don't do it, will the Jade Blood Sect let him go because of joining forces with Xichang?" Even if he is Xue Luoqian's opponent, even if he needs his death to blame Xue Luoqian.

"I don't know. But whether the Jade Blood Sect will or not, I won't."