Chapter 17: The Night Sacrifice
Not long after Sima Bin left Sima's house, the patriarch Sima Dekang held a meeting of clan elders with his eldest son Sima Yu and second son Sima Liang. At the meeting, he announced gloomily, "The third son, Sima Bin, is not doing his job, is frivolous, does not respect his father and brothers, and is specially expelled from the Sima family's family and his clan, and is not allowed to be buried in the ancestral forest cemetery after his death, and his actions in the future will have nothing to do with the Sima family."
As soon as the news came out, it was like growing wings, and it instantly spread throughout the entire Sima family. Some sigh, some question, and some gloat!
Sima Bin returned to the Wei Mansion and, as usual, supervised Wei Dong's martial arts practice while drinking the best tea. It's just that Wei Dong didn't like him very much at this time, and he didn't care much about him. Sima Bin didn't care, humming in a minor key, happy and relaxed.
The night was dark, and Sima Bin sat alone in the house. His right hand kept rubbing a small cloth bag around his waist. This bag was handed over to Sima Bin by his father Sima Dekang, and it is said that this bag is a strange thing left over from ancient times, called Qiankun storage bag. It has the function of storing items and keeping them fresh, but it cannot store living things yet.
As long as the realm reaches the 'Refining God Realm', you can freely open this bag with your mind. After several years of cultivation, Sima Bin has successfully passed the 'Refining God Realm' and reached the sixth realm of cultivation, the 'Returning to the Void Realm', and opening this bag is simply a breeze.
The appearance of this bag is not large, only the size of a palm, but there is another Qiankun inside, there is nearly 30 cubic meters of space inside, you can store objects casually, it is a necessary treasure for traveling and translating goods in ancient times.
Sima Bin knew his father's intention to give him this treasure of the town, so he didn't make a sound or excuse himself, and directly accepted this strange thing.
As soon as I saw the sky, it was time. Sima Bin changed into his night clothes and jumped out of the room through the window. After coming to the courtyard, he bowed to the big pine tree three times, and then jumped up and galloped towards the street where Li Yun'er's body was.
It didn't take long for Sima Bin to notice that a figure had been following him. He turned around suddenly, pulled out the stainless steel war knife behind his back, and looked coldly, but saw a short figure standing stubbornly in front of him, staring at himself with both eyes - it was 'Wei Dong'!
"What are you doing here?" Sima Bin whispered anxiously.
"Where are you going, what are you going to do?" Wei Dong did not answer in person, but asked unwillingly.
"You don't know, why are you still following me?" Sima Bin said warningly, "Follow me, that's going to lose your head!"
"You dare! I dare!" Wei Dong said disdainfully.
After hearing this, Sima Bin turned around very helplessly and continued to gallop forward, "Then you follow closely, be careful, you will be up to you to avenge Yun'er in the future! Don't waste your life!"
Wei Dong pursed his lips, couldn't help but give a thumbs up in his heart, and said softly, "Uncle Sima, I blame you, you are still the best!"
After a while, the two came to the corner of the street, Sima Bin grabbed Wei Dong, whispered in his ear for a long time, and temporarily handed over the Qiankun storage bag to Wei Dong for safekeeping.
The two took advantage of the night to quietly come to Li Yun'er's body. Seeing Li Yun'er lying alone and quietly on the cold ground motionless, Sima Bin and Wei Dong couldn't help but shed tears.
As if in the middle, Li Yun'er turned over and sat up to them, grinning, "Fooled! Two stupid hats, they were tricked by this princess again! haha······"
Wei Dong couldn't help but kneel down and cry bitterly, Sima Bin immediately covered his mouth, "Shhh, be quiet!"
Since the Li clan of the Jin Kingdom has been wiped out, the current saint and queen have no nostalgia for Li Yun'er, and no one in the Manchu Dynasty will risk offending the 'gods' to worship Li Yun'er, let alone collect the corpse.
And those people in the capital were even more frightened by the divine punishment that day, and hated the royal Li family to death.
is the guard guarding Li Yun'er's body, just doing errands, and he is deserting all the time. One moment secretly napping, the next secretly drinking······ At this time, the surroundings happened to be unguarded.
Sima Bin patrolled left and right for a long time, and seeing that there was really no one around, he reached out his sleeve and took out the sacrificial text that had been prepared, and gently recited it to Li Yun'er's corpse. While reading, he kept wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes.
Wei Dong knelt on the ground, praying and kowtowing incessantly. His hands were already deep in the mud, and he burst into tears. In front of Li Yun'er's corpse, he once again issued an oath to kill the gods.
For Wei Dong, Li Yun'er is not just a nominal 'aunt' or just a playmate when he was a child, but Wei Dong's closest person, a person like a sister and a mother. Her sudden departure was still so tragic that the young Wei Dong was like a knife in his heart and full of grief!
Finally finished reciting, Sima Bin asked Wei Dong to take out the Qiankun bag, opened it with his mind, and put Li Yun'er's body inside. Then he handed over the Qiankun bag to Wei Dong and asked him to keep it well. After this rumor, Wei Dong has enough strength again, and then find a good place to bury the body.
The matter was done smoothly, and the two turned around and just ran to the corner of the street, when they suddenly heard a guard shouting behind them, "The body of the reverse immortal is gone! Someone has stolen the body! Someone has stolen the body!"
Seeing that the two of them could no longer escape from this place, Sima Bin asked Wei Dong to flee first, and he broke off and then led the guards away.
Where is Wei Dong willing to go, his eyes are red and he still wants to kill, but Sima Bin stopped him and hugged him, and said, "The oath you made is to kill the gods, are you ready to break the oath now?"
Wei Dong hurriedly said, "I'll run away first, then you won't ······."
"Death, I'm different from you, I missed the best time to die, and now I just want to make up for it!" Sima Bin murmured softly, "And you, you're still young! There are infinite possibilities in the future, you have to avenge Yun'er! Remember the oath you made! Let's go!"
After hearing this, Wei Dong bowed to Sima Bin, "Uncle Sima, take care!" After speaking, he fled as quickly as possible towards the rear where no one was.
Sima Bin rushed forward, attracting the attention of a large number of guards, and galloped away in the opposite direction.
Seeing that there were more and more guards attracted, Sima Bin quickly ran towards the front without stopping, and a large number of guards appeared in front of him at a turn.
Sima Bin immediately turned around and fled to the rear, but at this time, a group of guards also appeared in the rear, and he was caught between two loaves. Sima Bin had no choice but to jump onto the eaves, wanting to continue to run forward, but many generals had already gathered above the eaves, and when they saw someone jumping up, they rushed forward together.
Sima Bin secretly complained in his heart, so he had to draw his war knife and step forward to face it. With one enemy and six enemies, he was instantly forced to retreat to the ground, surrounded by a large number of guards, and a group of crossbowmen aimed their bows and arrows at him.
"Who are you, why did you steal the corpse of the rebel immortal, and where is the corpse hidden now?" the leader shouted.
Sima Bin took off the face towel that covered his face, revealed his true face, and said, "I am Sima Bin, the original concubine, and I came tonight to mourn my deceased wife Li Yun'er." Where is the body? You ask me, I want to ask you?"
"Quissling, you are famous for your literary talents! Hmph, the thief shouted to catch the thief, it seems that you still have accomplices!" the general laughed angrily and ordered his subordinates, "Quickly notify the City Patrol Division and conduct a thorough search of the streets of the capital." ”
"Then Sima Langjun, please follow me to see the Holy Queen!" the general waved his hand, and two of his subordinates were holding ropes and preparing to step forward to tie Sima Bin.
"Hmph!" Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Sima Bin threw down the war knife in his hand and let the guards bind him behind his back.
Wei Dong had already fled back to the Wei Mansion quickly, jumping through the window and into his house. Holding the bag tightly in his hand, he thought, 'Where should I hide it?'
I thought about putting it with my mother's ashes and hiding it under the bed, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that it was not safe, so I finally decided to hang it around my waist and put the jade pendant left by my mother before her death into the bag. This bag can open a special space with your mind, and you can only use it as a small cloth bag, which is very magical.
After making a decision, Wei Dong sat on the bed and waited for Sima Bin to come back, but waited until the sky was hazy and bright, and there was no trace of Sima Bin. Wei Dong was young, ran all the way at night, and was worried all the time, and finally fell asleep deeply.
It was getting dark, and a team of officers and soldiers rushed open the gate of the Wei Mansion and rushed into the inner courtyard of the Wei Mansion. Frightened, Wang Ma and the old gardener hurriedly came out and knelt and kowtowed.
Wei Dong woke up from the confusion of his sleep, and when he woke up, he felt that he had been picked up and thrown into the yard. He rolled over in the air, stood up, and looked coldly at the officers and soldiers of the brigade in front of him.
"If you forcibly break into people's houses, aren't you afraid that the government will ask you for the crime?" Wei Dong pretended to be calm and scolded loudly.
"Official, we are officials! We are appointed by the Holy Empress to come and arrest you!" the captain of the first officer and soldier said indifferently, "Search for me! Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you must dig out the body for me!"
"Yes, Captain!" replied his officers and men in a loud voice.
Not long after, the officers and soldiers of the team dug up a jar of ashes from under the big pine tree, "The captain has found it, it has been cremated!" An officer and soldier happily took the jar and handed it to the captain.
"That's my mother's urn, you give it back to me!" Wei Dong suddenly roared anxiously.
The captain looked at the jar and saw that it was covered with moss, and it was clearly not freshly placed. But he didn't let go, "Your mother's ashes, hehe, are they the adulteress who fornicated with others?"
"You!" Wei Dong's face flushed with anger.
As soon as the captain let go, there was a "snap", and the urn fell to the ground, breaking into several petals, and the ashes inside were scattered all over the ground.
"No, mother!" Wei Dong pounced on and reached out to stroke the ashes of the place.
"Hahaha····· An adulteress, a son of a scumbag!" the officer and soldier stood there laughing with the captain.
"You all deserve to die!" Wei Dong stood up and let out an angry roar at the officers and soldiers.
"Oh! The captain let out another burst of laughter, "I ······" Before the laughter stopped, Wei Dong rushed to the captain with his smoke and waves, pulled out the saber he hung on his waist, and cut off his head with a single sword.
"Kill someone! this kid kills someone!" the group of officers and soldiers all shouted loudly, and after a while, they all swarmed up, slashing and poking around Wei Dong with knives and guns.
Wei Dong's face was red, and he walked in time to avoid those knives and guns. I saw that he stabbed left and right, and cut down more than ten officers and soldiers in an instant.
The remaining officers and soldiers were so frightened that they threw down their swords and guns and fled from the Wei Mansion one after another.
Wei Dong entered the room to change his clothes, took out another jar, knelt on the ground and slowly picked up the ashes scattered on the ground and put them into the jar. Then he jumped out of the Wei Mansion with the jar in his hand and fled in the direction of the back door.
Not long after, a large group of Praetorian Guards came to the gate of the Wei Mansion and directly broke into the gate to track down Wei Dong's whereabouts.
At this time, Wei Dong had already blended out of the south gate of the capital and fled towards the depths of the dense forest in front of him.
When he came to a tall tree, he was silent for a long time, then he bent down and buried the remaining ashes of his mother under the roots of the big tree, and knelt down and kowtowed three times. Finally follow a small stream and head deeper.
As evening approached, Wei Dong was preparing to find a tree hole to spend the night. Just as he came to the foot of a big tree and wanted to lean in to check, the hairs on his whole body suddenly stood on end, and just as he wanted to retreat quickly, he found that his legs could no longer move.
"Boy, don't struggle! you won't be able to escape from my shadow binding!" a laugh came from behind the tree.
"Who?" Wei Dong calmed down at this time, "What kind of hero is hiding behind a tree?"
"Hero, I'm not a hero!" At this time, a figure turned out from behind the tree—it was the shadow ninja who fought Li Yun'er in the slum that night.
"Oh, it's an acquaintance! Why aren't you dead yet?" Wei Dong greeted affectionately.
"You kid, do you say hello like that?" said the shadow with a smile.
"When did you catch up with me!" Wei Dong asked very calmly.
"When you were out of the gates, I happened to see you, and I followed. Kagenin replied with a smile, "Luck is really good!"
"Then why don't you do it at the city gate!" Wei Dong asked again.
"Do you think I have a lot of credit for it?" the shadow shinobi grinned.
"Your injuries aren't healed!" Wei Dong said affirmatively.
"Boy, it's easy to live short if you're too smart!" Kage Shinobi muttered softly.
Seeing the shadow shinobi walking towards him, Wei Dong hurriedly struggled desperately, and one accidentally lost his center of gravity and fell to the ground.
"Teach you not to work in vain, don't believe it yet, and suffer hardship!" "Kage Shinobi got closer and closer.
Seeing that it was very close, Wei Dong suddenly raised his hand and threw out a big pebble, and shot towards the shadow ninja with a "whew".
found that the stones passed through his body, and Wei Dong's eyes couldn't help but widen. "Haha... Boy, you're still a little tender!" Kage Shinobu finished. A dark shadow appeared behind Wei Dong and knocked him unconscious with a single palm.
"A little brat, and still pretending to be mature with Lao Tzu!" Shadow Ninja said disdainfully, "If you don't want to catch a job, do you still need to talk to you for a long time!"
As he spoke, he picked up Wei Dong and ran in the direction of the capital.