Remembrance of Tianyin's Adventure

Saying goodbye to Gongsun Ce, Zhan Zhao walked fast all the way, wishing he could step into the cell and see Guo Zhongqing!However, the closer he got to the cell, the slower his pace became, until the cell door was in front of him, and he hesitated even more in his heart, not knowing whether he should go in or not.

"Master Zhan!" Prisoner Li Gua is over 50 years old. Although he looks a little ugly, he is warm-hearted and loves to chatter.Seeing Zhan Zhao coming, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and said with concern: "I heard that Mr. Zhan was injured, why didn't he rest in his room? It's stuffy and hot in the prison, why are you still here?"

Zhan Zhao looked a little absent-minded, looked into the prison door, and asked, "Is Guo Zhongqing in prison?"

"Here!" Li Gua sighed: "I heard that he was ordered by the imperial court to rob the princess with the witch, but I don't think it looks like that! Since he was imprisoned, he hasn't eaten a bowl of rice, and he hasn't said anything. After a few words, it looks very pitiful. I will forgive him kindly, but he is so good that he doesn't even look at me! I see, he is either deaf or dumb. If he still has breath, I will I really thought he was dead!"

Zhan Zhao lowered his eyes, and said indifferently, "Maybe, he is dead." Since ancient times, there is nothing more sad than heartbroken.If Tong Yun is really dead, Guo Zhongqing's heart will also die.

Li Gua stared at Zhan Zhao with a pair of narrow eyes, feeling that he seemed even weirder than Guo Zhongqing.After entering the cell, I felt that he was even more strange: Zhan Zhao obviously came to see Guo Zhongqing, but he stayed outside the first cell on the next step for a long time, and even held his hand on the railing of the cell door without thinking it was dirty.The five fingers clenched tightly, not knowing what to hold.Facing the ecstasy of the dark empty prison, it seems that there are also a pair of eyes in the prison, facing him stupidly.

Li Gua racked his brains but couldn't figure out what Zhan Zhao was thinking. All he knew was that this cell was locked up with death row inmates. The female prisoner who will be executed in the next day.

Stepping into the inner cell, Zhan Zhao followed the direction Li Gua pointed, and saw Cheng Yin kneeling in front of a cell door with his head bowed, sobbing and wiping his tears with his monk's robe.

"Why is he here?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Li Gua was afraid that Zhan Zhao would misunderstand him and let him go to jail privately, so he hurriedly said, "Master Hui Zhan, Mr. Gongsun personally sent him in, saying that he might be able to find out the real whereabouts of the demon girl. Hey! This child is really pitiful." , even cried and begged Guo Zhongqing for more than half an hour, but he didn't speak, the child really had no choice but to kneel down for him, and this kneeling lasted another half an hour!"

Hearing this, Zhan Zhao felt as if he was being weighed down by a huge boulder of gold, and felt unspeakably sad. He went up a few steps and pulled Cheng Yin up, and asked, "Why did you kneel down to him? If your sister's body is destroyed, he is the culprit. do you know?"

Cheng Yin was stunned for a moment, and stared blankly at Zhan Zhao.In the two years since he knew Zhan Zhao, this was the first time he was angry with Zhan Zhao.With tears in his eyes, he said aggrievedly: "I know he is a bad person, but... as long as I can know the whereabouts of my sister, I am willing to kneel and die in front of him!"

"Stupid boy!" Zhan Zhao hugged Cheng Yin into his arms, looked up to the sky and sighed, "Why are all of you from the Zhu family so stupid?" Slowly pushed Cheng Yin away, turned around and said to Li Gua, "Take him out! "

Li Gua followed the order and tugged at Cheng Yin's sleeve, but when he didn't pull him, he went to tug at Cheng Yin's arm.Li Gua saw that Cheng Yin was very much loved by Zhan Zhao, so he didn't dare to pull him hard, so he had to coax him: "Be good! Go out with Uncle, don't disturb Mr. Zhan's business, be good!" While pulling, he smiled helplessly. : "This kid, even though he looks very thin, he is really strong!"

Cheng Yin seemed to grow on the ground, no matter how much he pulled him, he would not move an inch, and kept begging Zhan Zhao: "I won't go! Brother! I won't go!"

Zhan Zhao is not soft-hearted, he doesn't know what Guo Zhongqing will ask in a while, and he doesn't know whether the young Cheng Yin can bear it.In order to protect Cheng Yin, he must be avoided.

Zhan Zhao saw that Li Gua couldn't bear it anymore, so he immediately ordered him to back down, stretched out his hand to take Cheng Yin's arm, and walked out.Unexpectedly, he was staggered by Cheng Yin's stubborn resistance and almost fell down.

Li Gua was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat, he went up to help him and said, "Lord Zhan, are you okay?" He ordered the jailer to move the bench over, helped Zhan Zhao to sit down, and scolded Cheng Yin, "You child, why are you so ignorant?" Serious?" shouted to the jailer behind him: "Both of you! Throw him out!"

"Wait!" Zhan Zhao pressed his heart, tried his best to adjust his shortness of breath, slowly raised his head, and asked Cheng Yin, "Do you really want to stay?"

Cheng Yin looked at Zhan Zhao with tears in his eyes, and suddenly burst into tears, hugged Zhan Zhao's waist, and said, "Don't let me go! Please, don't let me go..." Yuanyuan's little On his face, the facial features were painfully tangled together.

Zhan Zhao stroked his shoulder and said solemnly: "It's fine to stay, but you have to remember that you are a descendant of the Zhu family, no matter what happens, you must be as strong as your sister!"

Cheng Yin raised his sleeves, wiped away his tears, and resolutely said: "Brother, don't worry! I, Zhu Qingyun, will never embarrass the Zhu family!"

"Okay!" Zhan Zhao took Cheng Yin's hand, put it in his palm, and held it tightly.

Cheng Yin felt the warmth of Zhan Zhao's hands, and said in shock, "Brother! Your hands are so cold!" He thought, how could it be so hot in such a hot day?

When Li Gua heard this, he became even more worried, and hurriedly said, "Master Zhan, I'd better take you back to your room? How about I go invite Mr. Gongsun?"

"No need!" Zhan Zhao ordered him to open Guo Zhongqing's cell door, and then ordered everyone to retreat.

Guo Zhongqing was in prison, although he didn't say a word, he saw everything that happened just now.That day, he saw Zhan Zhao resolutely jumping off the cliff to save Tong Yun's body, and he already felt Zhan Zhao's deep affection for Lian Caiyun.Seeing that Zhan Zhao was seriously injured and came to the prison to search for Tong Yun's whereabouts, he also realized that his feelings for Lian Caiyun were no less than he had for Tong Yun.

Thinking of this, he who had been silent all this time opened his mouth first: "Zhan Zhao, why are you here? What are you not satisfied with? Although Lian Caiyun is dead, she loved you deeply before she was alive. Isn't what you got enough? "What about me? What did I get? When we first met, I fell in love with Tong Yun, but she always only had my elder brother in her heart! Even if she died, she would be buried with her ashes! "You said, is this fair to me? Is it fair?"

"Tong Yun... is really dead?" Zhan Zhao still couldn't believe it.

"Yes! She's dead! She's lived for my elder brother all her life!" Guo Zhongqing said angrily, "Do you think I really want to avenge my elder brother? I deserve what I deserve! Although I am a member of the music world, I will not be ignorant of right and wrong! But if I don’t use the name of revenge, how can I let Tong Yun live in Shifu and face me every day? Although she is no longer what she used to be, But I don't care! Don't say she turns into Lian Caiyun, even if she turns into Zhong Wuyan, I love her the same!"

Zhan Zhao was startled: "Tong Yun really isn't what it used to be!"

Guo Zhongqing suddenly cried and laughed: "Why does God even mock me? I jumped off the cliff to die with Tong Yun, why didn't you let me! Why let me live? Why?" Suddenly stood up and ran to the prison door , holding the railing with both hands, asked Zhan Zhao in a trance, "Tell me, do people have an afterlife?" Without waiting for Zhan Zhao to answer, he said to himself: "If there is, I will definitely fall in love with Tong Yun vigorously. , even if it's only a few days, or even a few hours, death is worth it!"

"Why bother?" Zhan Zhao thought of Caiyun's experience, wishing that she was born in an ordinary family and lived a happy life, not having to use blood to avenge her father, not having to kill and violate the laws of the country, and would not even have a relationship with him because of this. Meet and know each other.Now, he feels more and more that Zhuangzi's words are the most reasonable in the world: it is better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes than to be in love with each other!

"No!" Guo Zhongqing raised his head and said, "I'm not suffering! Because Tongyun is worth it! She is the most affectionate and sexual woman in the world! Do you know how much she has paid to win the favor of her elder brother? I have worked so hard to imitate her." Lian Caiyun's every move, every frown and smile is nothing at all! Last year, after her eldest brother regretted her marriage, in order to make him change his mind, she actually jumped into the sea of ​​fire, reduced herself to ashes, and attached her soul to the thing she hated the most. On the corpse of the rival in love, I completely turned myself into the person that my elder brother yearned for day and night!"

"What?" Zhan Zhao suddenly started up, rushed into the prison, and asked, "Tong Yun's soul really occupied Cai Yun's body? Then... the one who fell off the cliff..." Suddenly, he felt dizzy, and stretched out his hands tightly Grabbing the railing of the cell, I still felt as if my body was falling rapidly from a high cliff.He hated himself for spending so many days with Tong Yun, yet he didn't realize the truth?He hated himself for allowing Tong Yun to use Cai Yun's body to commit bloodthirsty murders, but he failed to stop him?He hated himself for being unable to save Caiyun's body the moment he fell off the cliff?

Before losing consciousness, Zhan Zhao felt a hand pressed against his chest, sending internal force into his body. Although the internal force was not deep, it was enough to pull him back from the verge of fainting.In an instant, the zhenqi in his body had already responded to it by itself, gradually making him recover.When he looked up, he saw that the person who rescued him was actually Guo Zhongqing, and wondered, "Why did you save me?"

"You can't do anything! You can't!" Guo Zhongqing said: "Although I envy you for having a better life than me, although I hate you for killing Tongyun, you are the head of Tianyin Sect after all!" Sighed: "I am Death penalty is inevitable, but you have to live on, fulfill the last wishes of master and uncle, and make the Tianyin sect great!"

"What head?" Zhan Zhao asked puzzled, "When did I become the head?"

Guo Zhongqing said: "The moment my uncle passed on "Reminiscence" to you, you became it!" Only then did Zhan Zhao understand why Guo Zhongqing told him the whole truth so easily——Guo Zhongqing always respected his teachers, so how could he lie to him? Head?

Guo Zhongqing suddenly knelt in front of Zhan Zhao and said, "Master! All the crimes were committed by me and Tong Yun, and have nothing to do with Manager Mu and the disciples of the Tianyin Sect. I beg the master to intercede in front of Mr. Bao and spare their lives, right? "

"All the disciples?" Zhan Zhao asked puzzled, "Aren't you and I the only disciples of the Tianyin Sect?"

Guo Zhongqing said: "You and I are disciples who entered the house, and there are dozens of ordinary disciples. They have limited aptitude and have not learned much. As soon as Tong Yun entered the Shifu, he locked them together with a few servants in a remote place. Now they have all been arrested." Pointing to the several cells next to him, he said: "Just lock it in!" Everyone in the prison heard this and shouted "Master".

Seeing so many Tianyin disciples being imprisoned innocently, Zhan Zhao immediately became angry and asked Guo Zhongqing, "You committed such a heinous crime, aren't you afraid that the Tianyin sect will be wiped out?"

"I...I..." Guo Zhongqing never thought about it, but when he thought of Tong Yun, he became dizzy.

Guo Zhongqing took a step forward and begged, "I am a major sinner of the Tianyin sect! I dare not complain about how the sect master should deal with it! But they are innocent! You have saved Master Bao's life, and even more so. The lives of the Empress Dowager and the Emperor, as long as you are willing to intercede, they will surely have a way out!" Touching the ground with their heads, they kowtowed and said, "I beg you, save them! Save them!"

Zhan Zhao said in a deep voice: "They are guilty or not, Mr. Bao can judge for himself!" In fact, in the palace today, he had already reported all the matters related to the Tianyin Sect to the emperor, including Guo Zhongqing's release of Chunni and the victimized maidservant. charity.He could see that the emperor had intended to deal with the Tianyin faction lightly.

Only now did Cheng recover from the shock just now, and ran in, crying and asking Guo Zhongqing, "Where is my sister? Where is she? Did you really burn her?"

Guo Zhongqing looked at Zhan Zhao, bowed his head and said, "After Tongyun died, I wanted to burn Lian Caiyun's body to give Tongyun a bad breath." Suddenly he raised his head and said, "I don't know where a Taoist priest appeared, and Fuchen came to me. Sweep, and a puff of smoke will be emitted. When I saw clearly again, he had already taken away the body, leaving only this note." As he spoke, he pulled out the note from his bun and handed it to Zhan Zhao.

Just as Zhan Zhao was about to reach out to pick it up, Guo Zhongqing withdrew his hand again: "I'll hand you the note, can you promise me something?"

Zhan Zhao's eyes turned cold and he said, "You blackmail me?"

Guo Zhongqing hastily waved his hands and said: "Don't dare! I just ask the master to agree to bury Tongyun and elder brother's ashes together, and fulfill her last wish." With tears in his eyes, he said: "I can't let her die with regret!"

Zhan Zhao didn't expect that his feelings for Tong Yun would reach such a selfless level - he could be happy for Tong Yun's joy and sad for Tong Yun's sadness.

Seeing that Zhan Zhao acquiesced, Guo Zhongqing continued: "Tong Yun's ashes, after her death, have been kept in the hidden compartment behind the "Cuqin Picture" in our school's treasure room."

Zhan Zhao took the note, and saw a line written neatly on it: On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Lian Caiyun's body was put into the coffin!

"The seventh day?" Zhan Zhao asked, "What day is it today?" After Tong Yun's death, Guo Zhongqing's mind was in chaos, and he couldn't remember what date it was.

Zhan Zhao looked at the other disciples in the prison.But they have always devoted themselves to the study of qin music in the Shifu, not asking about world affairs, and even more indifferent to the time. Facing Zhan Zhao's questions, they couldn't answer even if they wanted to.Mu Wuxin, on the other hand, was not as obsessed with Qin music as everyone else, and said to Zhan Zhao, "Today is the seventh day of the lunar new year!"

"What!" Zhan Zhao secretly blamed himself for being so ignorant, and the time was so tight that he almost missed it, and immediately took Cheng Yin's little hand and said, "Let's go!"

"Where are you going?" Although Cheng Yin really wanted to see his sister, he was afraid of facing her cold corpse again.

"Go to your sister's grave!" Zhan Zhao said.

Cheng Yin was dumbfounded like this, and was held by Zhan Zhao's hand, and walked out of the cell.

Li Gua followed out of the cell with an umbrella in his hand, and said, "Master Zhan, I'll take you back!"

Zhan Zhao said: "No need! After a while, you send someone to see Mr. Gongsun, and say that I went to Lian Caiyun's grave, and I will be back in the morning! Also, Guo Zhongqing has already confessed, and I will report the details to you when I come back tomorrow. "

Li Gua was surprised: "It's so late, you still go out?" Xiang Tianyi pointed: "Don't think it's not very cloudy today, but it will definitely rain tonight!"

"No!" Zhan Zhao looked up at the thin clouds in the sky and said, "It won't rain until tomorrow."

Li Gua anxiously said: "Master Zhan, you have to trust me, it will rain every year tonight! You must bring this umbrella!" Saying this, he handed the umbrella in his hand to Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao didn't care too much, took the umbrella and told him again: "Remember my words, be sure to tell Mr. Gongsun!"

Cheng Yin tugged at Zhan Zhao's sleeve and said, "Brother! Return the umbrella to the old man. Cheng Yin has already brought the umbrella from the temple, and put it in the porter."

Zhan Zhao caressed the back of Cheng Yin's head and said, "Whose umbrella is different?"

"It's not the same!" Cheng Yin said seriously: "That umbrella was returned to my sister by yourself in the prison cell!"