Chapter 13: Clichés
I love you.
No doubt love you.
If I don't love you, who else can I love?
Do you know that I can't live without you. In just four years—perhaps a long time in your heart—I left you, but I have my reasons, you are not me, and I don't expect you to understand me.
However, in ten days, you will be married to a wife, what will you let me do?
Kill all those who stand in your way?
- Why kill it?
I'm afraid I can't change someone else, but who am I?
I'm Li Yanlai.
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"Li Yanlai, where is this kid?"
It was none other than Li Nanying, the master of the Tianying Hall who entered Beijing at dusk, the head of the "Yanyun Twelve Bows", and the leader of the "Yanyun Alliance", a non-governmental anti-Liao organization outside the northern Guan.
"Are you dumb, Zhu Banxian, you say, where is your deputy hall master, my nephew?"
Oh, I forgot to mention that the hall master Li Nanying is still the uncle of the deputy hall master Li Yanlai.
In the Bianjing branch hall in the northeast corner of the city, none of the several prominent leaders of the Heavenly Eagle Hall spoke.
Zong Hai, on the surface, he was eating wine with a wine gourd without care. However, in front of such a mythical figure as Li Nanying, everyone can see that even this mad monk is a little restrained.
Zhu Banxian shook his head of yellow messy hair, looked at Teng Ying, smiled and said nothing, Teng Ying was furious in his heart when he saw it. And Wei Shaoling, who was also staring at Teng Ying, had a complicated expression, making people feel that this Wei Dagongzi was not only a little unwilling for himself, but also a kind of worthlessness for the people in front of him.
"Yes, let's let Poor Dao talk about it!" Zhu Banxian said with a smile on his hands on a wooden crutch, "A few days ago, the young hall master, I heard that the pharmacist was killed by Ye Shannon, and in a fit of anger, I went north to the horse gang to seek revenge on Ye Shannon. However, news came from the eyes of the main hall in the north that the young hall master had mistakenly killed Ye Shannon's sworn brother Luo Ying, oh, it was the son of the Luo family in the famous 'Jinyang Double Dao Luo Family' in Shanxi......"
"I don't need you to say this, let me ask you where he is now?"
"Poor people don't know ......"
"What?!" Li Nanying raised his two snow-white eyebrows and glared at Zhu Banxian, "Zhu Shenxiang, you told me that you don't know?"
"The hall master is angry, people are ...... in the capital" Zhu Banxian stepped forward with a smile and replied busily, "The hall master is angry, the poor road is just a half-immortal, the boss is a Tokyo City, where is the young hall master, the poor road really can't be counted!"
After Zhu Banxian finished speaking, he looked at Teng Ying again, and Wei Shaoling beside him, his eyes never left Teng Ying, but his brows were furrowed no longer. Seeing the appearance of these two people, Li Nanying also looked at Teng Ying suspiciously:
"I said Sakura, what the hell is going on?"
"Shibo, I, that, I don't know either......"
"Hey, it's true or false, it's okay to change to someone else, you, I can't see it yet?" Li Nanying picked up his long white beard without any variegation, and nodded slightly, "I'll have a family affair with Ying'er, you can retreat." ”
After everyone on the side went out, Li Nanying sat back in the chair, his expression was like a father who had been away for many years and rarely returned home, beckoned Teng Ying to step forward and stared at her face for a long time.
"Sakura, you've lost weight! I heard you were injured last time?
"My little wound healed early. Teng Ying's eyes turned red, and when I saw it today, Li Nanying's beard and hair were all white, which shows how hard the anti-Liao organization and the Liao official army under his command fought in the north!
"Shibo, it's you, Yanjing's matter is over, so you come to Bianjing non-stop, you have to take care of yourself. ”
"Ha! You mean that the Khitan miscellaneous soldiers, how can I withstand it?
"Ying'er, over the years, it's been hard for you! Your father Teng Lishan, my good big brother, he entrusted you to me to take care of you on his deathbed, and I didn't take care of you, and I followed me all the way to fight and kill. From south to north, it was easy to settle down in Zhending Mansion, and after a few comfortable days, I sent Bianjing ......"
"Don't say that, I'm very happy these days in Beijing, and I don't feel ......bitter at all."
"Oh, what's the fun, and I'm getting along with my weird-tempered nephew?"
Teng Ying's cheeks were crimson, and she lowered her head and fiddled with the sword spike. Li Nanying is from the past, when he saw this look, the eldest girl was not young, but she was ashamed like a girl, and she already understood a little in her heart.
"Okay, let's talk!, where does Li Yanlai live in the capital?"
"Deputy Hall Master Li, he, he won't let me talk to others......"
"Am I someone else? He won't know when I enter Beijing? But it's okay to say it!"
"I know, it's just that Deputy Hall Master Li gave a special order, saying that he can't tell you in particular, and said that if I say it, he will change places immediately, and no one will want to find it at that time. That, Deputy Hall Master Li also said that he knew that Shibo wanted to talk to him about things, but he had other things to do, and the Heavenly Eagle Hall also had a firm foothold in Beijing, and he would not need him for a while......"
"It's just nonsense! Where is this like the words that come out of the mouth of a deputy hall master! Ying'er, Ying'er, you are so confused, my own nephew, what is going on in your belly, I can't guess? In the early years, I handed him over to Xie Wantang, and he only went to Huashan, and only then did those things happen! You are stupid!"
Teng Ying was silent, she raised her head and lowered her head, her eyes glistening with tears.
Seeing her like this, Li Nanying felt that he had spoken too seriously, and he was very unbearable, he sighed, looked at Teng Ying like a daughter, shook his head and said:
"Did he still say that I, who was my uncle, were tired of listening to the clichés of the righteousness of the family and the country, the great plan to resist Liao, and the restoration of the sixteen states of Yanyun?"
“……”
Teng Ying was even more speechless, she was really "a nephew who is like an uncle"! Li Yanlai mentioned these "clichés", she was suddenly a little puzzled, and asked cautiously:
"That day, I asked the deputy hall master, and asked him why he had to go north to Liaodi to assassinate the Khitan prince, the general of Emperor Tianzuo, Yelu Hongzhang, since he was so disdainful of fighting against Liao's plan......
"Hey, Sakura, he killed Yelu Hongzhang just for himself......"
Li Nanying's hand holding his white beard stopped moving, he closed his eyes, and the corners of his eyes were densely covered with knife-like wrinkles. Teng Ying found out that she was a world uncle, and when she mentioned this, she was as vicissitudes as Li Yanlai!
"Don't talk about it, let's look at fate, Li Yanlai is this child, if he really has a fate with you, he will tell you. Li Nanying suddenly opened his eyes, and the words changed, "Now he is only one thing missing, and it is also the last thing I want him to do! Since I heard that Xie Wantang's only daughter is going to get married, I know that something is going to happen!"
Teng Ying's heart chuckled, she suddenly raised her head and stared at Li Nanying, her heart beating fast.
"Alas——! Ying'er, how many have you heard of it? Li Yanlai and Xie Wantang's daughter Xie Huasheng, these two are childhood sweethearts in Huashan, and they are almost about to get married. Xie Wantang was very happy to see it happen at first, Li Yanlai was his apprentice who wanted to pass on the mantle, wouldn't the two families be close to each other? Who knows, but Liu Yue did not agree, and then something happened, causing the master and apprentice to turn against each other. As soon as Xie Wantang died, Li Yanlai killed Huashan and went down the mountain to join me, but he and Xie Huasheng failed to achieve a result in the end. Only I know that he has never let go of the Xie family girl in his heart!"
Teng Ying's hands and feet were suddenly cold, she thought of Li Yan from Fenzhou and returned to Beijing in the past few days, although he still talked and laughed with her sometimes, but his prodigal life suddenly became as regular as a tide: no wine, two meals a day, eating the same cooked beef, steamed buns and cabbage and haggis soup for meals, sleeping in the house during the day, and going out of the city at night to practice swords......
This is a preparation for the big war! Why didn't she think about it?
"My nephew's temper! Just for the sake of a mere pharmacist, he will kill the horse gang alone, and now for the woman he wants, what do you think he will do? Ten days later, it will be the reunion of the Lei family and the official duji of Huashan, God knows what he can do! Now, the various forces of the Jingshi have finally found a short peace, and my Tianying Hall will accept it when it is good. For what? Not for the sixteen states of Yanyun in the future!
“…… It's not all for the world, Sakura, your uncle is also selfish, and it's also for you!"
Teng Ying twisted her two hands together, her fingers clasped very tightly alternately, and there were white marks on the back of her hand, she only felt that her chest was so stuffy, and she wanted to breathe outside, but Li Nanying was still talking. She would have been overjoyed even if it was a day earlier, but tonight it sounded like a joke.
"Ying'er, your uncle doesn't understand the shortcomings of parents, and he hasn't done anything for you for so many years. This matter, at the beginning, it was mentioned by the pharmacist, he said that Li Yanlai is not young, and the male is married, but my nephew's temper, an ordinary woman, no one can get along with him, it seems that only you Ying'er is the most suitable. As soon as I heard this, I was happy in my heart, Li Yan came to this bastard boy, I don't know if it was a blessing that he had cultivated for several lifetimes! I sent you all the way over to take charge of the Bianjing branch, and there was Shibo's selfishness, and let the two of you take a ......look at it first."
The careful thinking of her daughter's family originally thought that it was extremely close to being realized, when Li Yanlai was with her, it was clearly relaxed and natural, Li Yanlai was a piece of ice at the beginning, didn't she melt this piece of ice?
However, she couldn't have imagined that Li Yanlai didn't tell her that before tonight, no one had told her that there was still a Xie Huasheng between the two.
"Your Shibo rushed to Tokyo City in such a hurry, of course, the anti-Liao plan is the main thing, and it is also for you, but even more for me Tianying Hall! The pharmacist has not yet said one thing, what age am I? The huge hall meeting that connects the Central Plains of the Northland will be handed over to my strange nephew, how can you rest assured? Only when you Ying'er assists him, the old man can close his eyes!
"The daughter of the Xie family and the son of the Lei family, ten days later, the wife got married, and Li Yanlai died of that heart......
"Sakura, what's wrong with you, what's wrong?
"Hey, Sakura?"
Teng Ying suddenly turned around, ran out of the Bianjing branch hall as if flying, ran straight to the stable in the backyard, jumped on the nearest horse without even holding a whip, and she galloped out of the back street and went straight to the street......
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From a distance, she saw the attic where Li Yanlai lived alone.
- There was no light, it was pitch black.
She rushed downstairs, and before she could tie her horse, she kicked her feet and flew straight up to the second floor on horseback, and slammed open the window and entered the house.
As far as the eye can see, it is still a square table and a bamboo bed.
There was actually a bottle of wine on the table, and he hadn't drunk it for many days, so why did he break the vow tonight? The bamboo bed was still leaning against the wall near the window, so that when he lay on this bed at night, he could see the moon outside the window when he raised his eyes.
Outside the window, the moon is still there, and the people who look at the moon are gone.