Jianghai Wuyue

Chen Ling has grown up to such an age, and he has never seen an old man cry in such a tearful appearance, as if he could finally blurt out the pain and hardships he had endured for many years in front of a trusted person. An ominous blush appeared on the old lady's face.

Chen Ling hurriedly stepped forward to help the old lady. The seemingly healthy and round body was full of thin bones, which made Chen Ling suddenly feel worried, "Grandma, are you okay? Cuirong, grandma is usually What kind of tonic are you taking, quickly bring it for grandma to drink." After saying that, he reached out and brought a cup of warm honeysuckle tea on the table, and asked the old lady to drink it along his back, and Cui Rong over there was also busy drinking it. I took the tonic that had been boiling and fed it to the old lady.After drinking the tonic in such a calm manner, the strange blush on his face gradually subsided.It's just that a pair of eyes are still dazzling, making Chen Ling momentarily uncertain.

"Grandma, do you...do you have any important matters to entrust to your grandson?" Chen Ling hesitated to express the doubts in his heart, and soon got the old lady's affirmative nod.

"I do have an important thing to tell you. Since you have come today, it is a good idea to listen to what the old woman said today. I am afraid that after today, you will not be able to hear a word from the old woman again." It's gone." The old lady took a sip of the brown-yellow tonic in Cuirong's hand, and a line of moist medicinal juice was stained on her lips, and the thin brown color turned into a bright red on the chapped lips.

The old lady stood up, pushed away Cui Rong's supporting hand, and ordered softly but firmly: "You all get out, so that you can watch at the door, and if there is any trouble, make a noise immediately to let us know. "

Cuirong went away obediently, and the maidservants who accompanied the old lady to take care of the fields also retreated silently. For a moment, only Chen Ling and the old lady were left in the whole yard. A person, and a big yellow dog lying lazily at his feet.

"What does grandma want to tell me?" Chen Ling clenched his fists uncomfortably, with a vague premonition in his heart that the next thing would probably be a major event that would make him change his life.

The old lady poured a cup of hot tea shallowly, and pushed it over to signal him to take a sip first, "Take a sip of hot tea first, I'm afraid you will feel pain in your heart, take a sip first." Keep the hot tea steady."

Chen Ling obediently blew on the hot air and drank the water. The steaming hot tea rushed all the way down the throat into his stomach, and it was so hot that his whole body became hot all of a sudden, and his fair face also showed a little bit of heat. Light blush.

The old lady glanced at the blush on his face with satisfaction, and the two walnut beads she held in her hand turned steadily again, and the small and crisp sounds of the collision followed what the old lady said. , knocking slowly on his heart.

"Do you remember what your mother looked like?"

"Naturally remember, the grandson and mother face each other day and night, and the current appearance of the mother of the natural way."

"I'm talking about before you went to Tianmu Mountain to learn art from a teacher, do you still remember your mother's appearance?" The old lady raised her eyes and looked at him sharply, her sharp eyes swept over his face inch by inch , The answer that he was about to blurt out was stuck in his throat, and he swallowed it hesitantly.

Childhood memories, after two lifetimes of training, I can’t remember clearly now, I only vaguely remember that my mother has a gentle smile, wearing light blue clothes all the year round, and the chair is leaning against the tree planted by the family. under the albizia tree.

"You are young, and you haven't been home for many years. You should not remember." The old lady shook her head helplessly, but she didn't feel too sad. It's over, whether you believe it or not, I'm up to you. Just one thing, you have to remember."

The old lady fixed her eyes and stared at the handsome young man sitting opposite. This kind of demeanor was exactly the same as her Ming'er when she was young. When you don’t have the ability to kill the enemy with one blow, don’t startle the enemy. Everyone has weaknesses, it’s just whether you can endure until the day when you discover his weaknesses and kill them with one blow.”

After saying this inexplicable sentence, the old lady stopped procrastinating to whet Chen Ling's appetite, and streamlined the words that had been buried in her heart for many years.

"I'm on the verge of dying, and I won't live long. I thought I could only bury this unwilling secret in the loess for the rest of my life, but I didn't expect that there is no unparalleled road, and I still waited until the day you return, and so did The day you found the clues.” The old lady’s slack skin has weather-beaten scratches, and her eyes are filled with the hardships of the years. In this evening when the sunset is gradually fading, there is a crystal clear and soft memory. .

"I said that you and your father are really similar. It is not the face of the two of you, but the similarity between the blood of your father and son. When you just came, it was as if your father had returned to me. It's still the same He has a natural grace, wrapped in the essence of plants and trees of the sun, moon and stars, and his whole body exudes a sense of unrestrained and majestic style. It's just that your father is much more sparse and hard than you, not as soft and gentle as you, making people fall in love at first sight Feeling close.”

"Your father is a madman who wants to compete with the Lord of Heaven. There is nothing he can't do in this world. There are things he doesn't want to do, and he doesn't bother to do them. Naturally, someone with such a temperament Love desires to live, and there are people who hate to desire death." The old lady stared blankly at the red cloud hung by the last ray of orange sunlight, and that cloud was gradually disappearing in the overwhelming dark night , the last ray of sunset could not withstand the ravages of the night, and was instantly swallowed up without a trace.

In the garden, a little servant girl lit up the lanterns one by one. The faint light of the flame penetrated through the red skin of the lanterns, creating a circle of reddish-yellow halo, casting vague shadows on the corridor.The big yellow dog couldn't bear the humidity that fell at night, but it couldn't bear the temperature of its owner, curled up into a ball and curled up on the old lady's feet, its slightly curved tail brushed the old lady's face one after another. Legs, lifted a piece of flimsy clothes corner.

Under the grape trellis, there is no warm temperature in the daytime, and the dew dripping on the grape leaves slowly condenses into a drop of dew, which hits the ground, silently spotting a little trace of moisture.

Cuirong was afraid that the old lady would catch a cold, so he hugged a charcoal basin in front of him, and then hugged two blankets made of white bear hair for the two of them to cover. One of the grandparents and grandchildren spoke slowly, while the other quietly closed their eyes and listened.

"After wandering outside for a few years, friends and enemies came back from all over the world, and at the same time brought a woman home. He said that he was the only love in his life, and that woman was your mother." When talking about Liu Shi, the old lady's face A little more helpless melancholy, it seems to be sad that the child I raised with one hand has been with other women wholeheartedly, and it seems to be sighing this relationship that is destined to be bumpy and long-lasting.

"Your mother and your father fell in love at first sight in Jiangyang. The second time, they made a promise for life. They knelt in front of your grandfather, made a vow of eternal love, and exchanged a letter of keepsake. When they became a kiss there, they took someone with them. came back."

"Your mother is a beautiful woman, with a virtuous and gentle temperament, knowledgeable and reasonable. I have no dissatisfaction. After two years, your sister was born, and then you were born." The old lady turned her head and looked at the straight back The grandson who was sitting there motionless as a mountain, slowly condensed a tear from the corner of his eye, all the hardness and indifference in the soft eyes.

"Everything is very happy here, just like ordinary people. Even if there are short disputes between parents, it is stable and peaceful. It's just that everything changed after you were seven years old." Scenes of the past Hovering in her heart, she never forgot it for a moment.As long as you sit quietly and alone, you will think of the blood and fire that soared into the sky, burning for a whole day and night.

"That morning was a very ordinary day, no different from the past. It's just that your father met someone that day. I don't know what they said. I only heard that there were more and more arguments, and then It was a sudden fire that burned down our house very quickly." The walnut beads in the old lady's hand had stopped, and the veins on her fingers looked like old tree roots that had suddenly bulged, with a ferocious appearance. Entrenched under a thin layer of skin, "Your mother took your sister to embroider in the yard, and immediately came over and took me out first, and then went to find your father. But when we felt it, your father had disappeared I just left a seal on my body in the house where the fire was getting bigger and bigger."

"Afterwards, we inquired many ways, but we never found out the whereabouts of your father. Your mother placed me in a relative's house, and planned to write a letter for you, and asked your master to help find someone. But before the letter was written, Your mother has already encountered an accident. After the group of beasts raped your mother, they even emptied her internal organs, leaving only a bloody empty shell in front of me. If I want to If you want to survive, if you want the rest of the children to live, just follow their orders honestly." The old lady choked up, a crystal tear flowed from her closed eyes, and shook her head wearily and sadly He choked up and said, "I don't know who they are. I only know that when I saw them again, it was already a woman who changed her face and pretended to be your mother, and took me back with her own hands. In a few days, A man who looks exactly like your father came back home. He became my "son" and your "father."

"Old lady, I'm sorry for your grandfather. I didn't keep the blood of the Chen family, and I didn't keep my proudest son. Even your second uncle was drugged by them, and he lay on the bed foolishly for a year." The old lady was exhausted. Holding his head that couldn't hold it up, his vigorous body just now crouched in a ball in the dark night, and he could only faintly see some scarlet tears of blood in it.

The old lady held Chen Ling's hand tightly clenched into a fist and put it on the table with trembling hands. There was no warm body temperature on the dry or even rough palm, which was as cold as Chen Ling's hand. One place, "In order to keep your second uncle, I surrendered to them. I have lived here for so many years without taking a single step. Let them deceive you and use your reputation to do evil everywhere in the court. And your sister , they have held them tightly in their palms all these years, unable to move a single bit. This family has long been just an empty shell bearing the name of the Chen family. "

The old lady let go of her hand, slowly straightened her back, and looked at the ashen-faced Chen Ling with clear eyes, "I'm sorry, it's my sin. But I must keep your second uncle, he is Chen Ling. The last pure blood of the family cannot be confused. If you want to complain, just blame me."

The moonlight is as cold as the never-thawing cold water on the glacier, soaking and eroding his heart little by little. He doesn't know what he looks like now, but he knows that everything before has been premeditated.Regardless of whether he was reborn or not, what was lost, he has lost after all, and there is no chance of recovering it.

"You are not wrong. My father is dead and my mother is gone. I can't pay for another second uncle. You are not wrong. What is wrong are those things that are not as good as animals." Chen Ling forced back the tears in his eyes, but still A drop rolled down on his hand uncontrollably, and he lowered his head dumbfounded by the scalding heat.His whole body was already completely cold from the inside to the outside, but he didn't expect that the tears were still hot.

"Then, what's the matter with him? He's a descendant of the Yue clan nobles, why did he come here." Chen Ling didn't have the strength to wipe away the tears that rolled down his face for the first time, and his eyes were soaked. Binglun asked in a stern and soft voice: "Could it be that they still have some ulterior connection with Yueshi?"

The old lady shook her head in embarrassment, her sallow face was full of exhaustion, "In order to keep your second uncle and your sister, I had no choice but to stay away. After so many years, I can slowly figure out what they are doing. It's also thanks to Cuirong's family. I don't know the details of the baby from the Yue family, but I just thought it was not a serious way. These people are all people with the heart of wolves, how can they have a compassionate heart? Going all the way to help a child."

Chen Ling nodded silently, and said softly, "Grandma has been thinking about it for many years. She is frightened and frightened. It's because her grandson is incompetent. She only cares about learning martial arts in the sect without any worries, and she doesn't even think about going home to have a look. If I had When my son comes back, maybe... maybe none of this will happen. My father is still safe and sound... drawing his picture of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and my mother is the same... "Still at home, waiting for my return."

This winter is really long, even in the early spring, there are ice and snow stubble rolling in his eyes, and the sharp edges and corners stab his eyes again and again, making him cry for a long time. The room torrentially descended.

He thought that he had changed one thing, even though his father had no way to undo it, but his mother and sister were still safe and secure by his side, but this was just a fantasy covered in lies.He changed nothing, kept nothing.

"It turns out...that's not my delusion, but I really hope that it's just my delusion." Chen Ling choked up in a low voice. It's not that he didn't notice such a subtle violation, but he never noticed it. I thought it was because my mother was pure, kind and weak.It's just that in the end, he found that all of this had already been clearly shown in front of him, and he was always unwilling to pursue it and think deeply about it.

"I have misidentified my mother for so many years, and called the wrong person for so many years. My mother is underground, how sad and sad. I am his son, but I called someone else... Mother for so many years." Chen Ling hung his head, and the hair scattered on his shoulders kept rustling down, forming a thick black barrier, blocking all the light outside. Also cut off all this hope.

"Why are there such people and such things in the world? Why? Why did they do such a thing? Why!" Chen Ling's eyes were red, and his fingers made a crisp bone interlacing sound, as if The same child who begged for an answer but couldn't find it when he was a child looked at the old lady, hoping she could give him an answer.

The old lady's haggard eyes were lowered, and the dark red eye sockets covered the increasingly cloudy eyeballs. There was no bright energy in them, and all that was left was the dying tiredness.Looking at her grandson's desperate and longing eyes, the old lady shook her head lightly, "I don't know the answer to this answer until now. Wicked people always have various reasons to explain what they do. So, it seems that behind everything there is a last resort and difficult years of bloodshed. I have seen too many people, but the more I see, the more I can't tell what is good and what is evil .Why on earth are they doing this? Only you can find out."

The moon hangs in a thin arc on the dark night, and the night wind engulfs a little bit of warm water vapor in the night, fluttering on the lantern, staggering and shining on the ground in large chunks. A shadow unseen by day.

For the first time, the old lady smiled at Chen Ling with a loving smile that belonged to her grandma. After so many years, she has always lived in this place cautiously, tightly holding the resentment in her heart, and she has already laughed repeatedly. How to laugh has been forgotten.

"You are still young, and you still have a lot of time to pursue the real truth. Your father, your mother, and grandma will all bless your wishes and make them safe and smooth." The old lady stood up with difficulty, bent down and patted Pat him on the head, "Hate well in my heart, be safe and secure, and wait patiently. There is nothing that time cannot detect, and some things, even if they are buried by time, can still find out the final truth. You are you Father's child is the only man in our Chen family, you have to stand upright."

There is a stable determination in grandma's eyes, such a cold and rock-solid perseverance, wrapped around him like a silk thread, is not only a heavy responsibility, but also a warm protection.

"I understand. If you don't find the truth in this life, you will never turn around."

The moonlight is as cool as shallow water, slowly flowing on the quiet rockery. In the starry night, there are a few lanterns hanging between the dense branches, paving a shallow layer for the winding path. Dim light and shadow.

Chen Ling walked forward along the winding path in a daze. He couldn't see anything in front of his eyes, and he couldn't feel any shimmering shadows.It's just a piece of fog, coming and going in front of my eyes.

He didn't know how he walked out of the small courtyard step by step. The old man standing at the door looked at him with moist eyes, and a big yellow dog wagging its tail stood under his feet.A solitary lantern illuminates the vicissitudes of the old man's face.There was a tired paleness in those wise weather-beaten eyes, as well as a sense of relief that was already powerless.

He couldn't imagine how grandma endured the enemy in front of her eyes, holding her son's skin and dangling in front of her eyes every day, and silently endured the inability to escape and keep the remaining few children safely. .For so many years of keeping silent day and night, and bearing humiliation, it must not be very easy.

He thought he was slowly washing away those dark swamps separated by the bright spring day, but he didn't expect that the heavy fog was just the tip of the iceberg, and the person he was full of ambition was just the tip of the fog.

The Chen Mansion at night is extraordinarily quiet, without the hustle and bustle of the day, all the illusions are silently dormant in the night, waiting for one night to weave one elaborate lie after another with a hypocritical smiling face.

Cangyue Mountain was already in chaos. It had been a long time since I saw Chen Ling come back, and Lin Si was not around, so she became anxious early on, lit a lantern and looked around, even Yuan Yuan who was still waiting for someone to come back in the yard. Qing Zhang was also requested by Lin Si to come out and find someone.I just searched everywhere, but I still haven't seen the trace of the master. When it was late at night, the cold sweat on Lin Si's head was brushed and fell off.

The young master has never been away late at night, even if he did not return home at night, he would tell someone to come back in advance, not to mention Lin Si was not by his side this time.

Wang Qi stood on the tallest branch with a gloomy face and looked at it. The anger accumulated in his heart would not dare to step forward even if it was Surabaya.Chen Xi was gone for a long time. During the day, he pretended to cry and cry, and with a dark expression on his face, he called the servants around him to find someone again.Yuan Qingzhang frowned and didn't know what he was thinking, but he was keenly aware of the sound of light and messy footsteps slowly approaching.

His martial arts is the best, Wang Qi stood on the highest place and saw Chen Ling who was stumbling at a glance, his figure disappeared like smoke and dust, and he moved to stand beside Chen Ling in the blink of an eye.Chen Xi was smart and smart, so he knew that they must have found someone even with the performance of a ghost, so he ran to follow in a hurry, regardless of the bitterness in his heart.