fourth rebirth

Then after eating three pieces of snacks, seeing his ineffective younger brother fell to the ground in his original posture, and regardless of what tricks he was making, he kicked the most fleshy and roundest part of his body with his toes, Chi Ran said: "stand up."

The voice was as cold as a knife.

Chi Xiaozhe woke up all of a sudden, and sat obediently on the chair.

"Memorize the stuff here." Lifting his chin, Chi Ran instructed.

Chi Zhe opened the wooden box in front of him with a dazed expression, and then... was even more dazed.

"Sister, what, what is this thing?" He opened his mouth wide with disbelief on his face.

"It's what your grandfather wants to get when he sells his son." Chi Ran replied calmly.She generally knew what was inside, but she had never flipped through it without authorization.Even now, it's just for Chi Zhe to write it down.

"But, but, Bai, the White Lotus Sect? It, shouldn't it be gone long ago?" Chi Zhe saw the top booklet, his handsome face distorted.

I was about to treat everything as an illusion just now, but the illusion turned from my mind to reality in the next second. Do you want to be so sharp?

"White Lotus Sect," Chi Ran was also a little surprised, but she was relieved immediately. Her knowledge is very complicated, and it is easy to remember some neglected things. "Its existence is far longer than you think There are many. I remember," she frowned slightly, "it seems that it first appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, and it existed in all dynasties later, but it was only on a large scale."

"During the Qing Dynasty, the noise was the biggest, and it was only because there were the most supporters. I originally thought that the Qiao family was just one of the supporters. I didn't expect that the ancestors were quite straightforward and directly turned it into private property."

"...Sister," after a brief surprise, Chi Zhe keenly discovered another problem, "You haven't seen what's inside."

"Well," Chi Ran's voice was indifferent and calm, "Grandfather asked me to read it, but I refused."

"When I was 16 years old, my grandfather took out the Qiao family and the list of the Qiao family's hidden personnel in Kyoto out of the box and gave them to me," she turned the teacup in her hand, with a self-deprecating look on her face. Laughing, "The old man treats me like this, I can't take revenge and take away his family property?"

Therefore, although she knew that the box that could take out the booklet must contain more exciting content, she still chose to ignore it and carry out that huge plan by herself.

"This box belongs to my grandpa. At least, I won't move it while he is alive."

Meeting her younger brother's complicated gaze, she smiled again, "However, I'm not a good person either. Now that I know he has a son, I'm going to enter a drama of grievances and grievances between rich and powerful families, so I brought you on .”

"Besides," she shrugged her shoulders indifferently, "Actually, I usually sneak a few glances. Everyone keeps it from everyone, so it's evened out."

"No!" Unexpectedly, Chi Zhe looked at her with a firm and treacherous gaze, "You haven't seen it. You rejected Grandpa, so you won't watch it. You didn't before, and you don't now. "

Chi Ran wants to answer Chi Zhe with a smile, you are still so naive, what can't you do for your own benefit?I am but a human being.

However, meeting his gaze, she slowly suppressed her smile.

There was so much, so much in those eyes.

Enlightenment, guilt, sadness, disbelief, regret... It's so complicated that it's almost impossible to distinguish.But in the deepest part of his mind, there is something more difficult to describe, which is...

"Sister," Chi Zhe said slowly, his whole body appeared in a dreamy and blurred state, "You were 18 years old, and when I was 16 years old, did something happen?"

Chi Ran recognized the content.

It was a kind of remorse, towards oneself, almost becoming the remorse of a demon.

She remembered what she overheard when Chi Zhe was 16 years old.

It turned out that it was really her who had the accident.

Chi Zhe used to work so hard to change her fate, and he did succeed.

Her eyes softened unconsciously, and she decided to untie Chi Zhe's knot after she cleared her mind, "Well, that's right."

The girl's unique melodious and careless voice sounded in the empty cave, "The Qiao family was able to control these forces, relying on nothing but blood and power. The blood is still there, but it no longer has power, and there will be problems in the end." The grandfather is not a proud person, however, he is an absolute bloodist, he is proud of his family and the blood of the royal family."

She chuckled and lowered her head slightly, "Actually, I have been thinking about another question a few days ago, did my grandfather know about my father's life experience?"

"I probably know it," she asked and answered, "otherwise, she wouldn't have hidden the only bloodline she was going to leave there, in a place where the first emperor kept the secret with her own hands. Not to mention the mother, his married the youngest son of a family who seemed to be born as a servant of the Chi family and was given a surname because of good luck."

"Since we were born, we have been in the game, the game of grandparents, the game of grandpa, and those people we don't know but think they can control our destiny. In their eyes, we are just pawns, we must If you are obedient, you will definitely be obedient, and your bloodline is enough," Chi Ran frowned, she really didn't want to use nobility or other things to describe her bloodline.No matter how noble, with such a blood mixed, he is nothing more than a bastard, "useful enough pawn." She finally used a neutral word.

"Without power and blood, it can only be reduced to something in the hands of people's tongues."

"So," she returned to the topic, "the last senior person who was placed in the capital of Qiao's family passed away, and he could no longer get first-hand inside information, and it was also impossible to find more senior people to shock those on the roster in the box. When there are group forces, resistance begins." Chi Ran used resistance rather than rebellion to describe such activities, on the one hand, because she never believed that these forces were loyal to the Qiao family, and on the other hand, it was out of pity for fellow pawns .

"Grandfather," she licked the corners of her lips, "I'm too proud of my bloodline, and I didn't have the time to rectify those organizations while the Qiao family was still alive, so," she smiled, "I'm 18 At the age of [-], something happened at last."

"You may remember," she looked at Chi Zhe, "Usually, I always go out of town during the holidays, but that year, I stayed with you all the time."

Chi Zhe nodded unconsciously. He thought of the third world, Grandpa Qiao's sudden confession.

"Grandpa wants my father to protect me, and he will solve those problems by himself." She sighed, "He succeeded, but also failed. I am alive, but part of the roster in the box has disappeared."

She always remembered how her grandfather looked when he took out those rosters.

Memories that go deep into the bone marrow.

So she never learned those so-called noble interests in etiquette.

Golf became an aristocratic sport only when land became more and more expensive. Earlier, it was the darling of commoners.

Without power, no matter how noble the lineage, appearance, and etiquette are, they just make the plaything more pitiful.

No one has ever dared to criticize the emperor's etiquette and hobbies.

Because his etiquette is the etiquette of this dynasty, and his hobbies are the hobbies of the highest society.

If there is something good at the top, it must be very good at the bottom, but that's all.

"Grandpa regretted it, but it's too late." Chi Ran ended her speech with these words.

Chi Zhe's expression was relieved, but more painful.He wanted to tell Chi Ran, no, in fact, grandpa failed, all failed, because during the period when he entrusted you to his father.Father also happened to be framed, so you became the only victim.

But he couldn't say anything.Looking at the wooden box in his hand, Chi Zhe smiled wryly as he flipped through the booklets that recorded the fate of countless people.

Sects that have existed for thousands of years, gangs that have been handed down to this day, families that secretly transmit news, routes that are worth thousands of dollars, servants in the family, upstarts in the next few years...

Layouts and calculations that began generations ago.

What is hidden in this box is a priceless treasure.

As long as Chi Ran has read a book, no, maybe just a glance, she will not end up like that.

However, never if.Thus, Chi Ran died, in that cold and dirty warehouse.Those brilliance and secrets, those noble bloodlines and the chess game that had been prepared, just like that, all became empty talk.

He suddenly thought of his father, and the tall, white-haired but handsome man in his previous life.

Did he know everything, and his subsequent unscrupulous methods and alienation, or perhaps, was another kind of protection.

In his death, there was the existence of that man.

Without that man, he would have died long ago, and in the frame of others, he could not help but become a pawn.

He was soberly aware of these two points, and he was painfully aware of these two points.

Love and hate have always been intertwined.

"No more, I won't." Chi Zhe's voice was soft but firm.It's just that no one knows what his inability actually refers to.

"...Well, yes." Chi Ran replied with a smile.She also relaxed a little in such a place where outsiders couldn't come in and out.

"Sister," Chi Zhe took a sip of his tea, trying to divert the subject from the abrupt arrival and the even more abrupt departure, "Then what is the pillar in the middle? More precious?" He asked jokingly.

"Well, probably, at least Mr. Qiao, my grandfather and I think so," Chi Ran continued to pick up a piece of dim sum, and replied easily, "It's the ancestral training of the Qiao family."

"..." Chi Zhe was silent again. After a long while, he said with difficulty, "Sister, after reading that brochure, I don't think it's wrong for the Qiao family to be wiped out." Controlling so many dark forces, you can't do anything if you don't want to do anything. No one believed it, "But now, I think it's a miracle that the Qiao family has not been destroyed." Despising the imperial power, the family is supreme.It's not in his original world, but in this world that has always been ruled by imperial power.

"Well, what a coincidence, I think so too." Holding a teacup, Chi Ran replied calmly.

It is a miracle that such an arrogant and powerful family can survive for so long and leave such a huge fortune to their descendants.

... Chi Zhe, who felt that he really couldn't continue the conversation, let out a long sigh as if he had aged instantly, and got up to look through the books on the bookshelf.His fragile little heart needs to calm down.

But, poor child, will the books that can be stored here be the one he imagined?

"Sister, what, what is this?" Chi Zhe wailed, feeling that he hadn't been frightened as much in his whole life, no, in a few lifetimes as he is today.

Chi Ran, who also took the book and was reading it with gusto, rolled his eyelids, and rolled his eyes at his younger brother who was always making a fuss, "There are instructions on the cover, don't tell me you haven't attended the calligraphy class at school."

Because of history, calligraphy is an extremely important main subject in schools of this dynasty.In addition to the aesthetic feeling of writing, questions such as please use a specific font to answer, please distinguish the meaning of the small seal script in the picture below, etc. often appear on the test papers of other courses.It can be called the foundation of all courses.