Chapter Twenty-Three: Dreams
The moonlight was hazy, and in the room, Miss An slept unsteadily, her brows furrowed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
In a village with beautiful mountains and rivers, there is a pair of brothers and sisters, the younger sister is fresh and refined at a young age, and the elder brother is also a child, and the people in the village say that this brother and sister are like the golden boy and jade girl next to Guanyin Bodhisattva.
The siblings' father was a teacher in the village, and he taught every day under the old willow tree in his yard. The mother was the most beautiful woman in the village, with a good hand in needlework, and the clothes worn by the siblings were always the best in the village.
My brother always holds his sister in the palm of his hand, and gives his sister all good things, and he can't tolerate his sister being wronged a little.
During the spring rains, the flowers fall and the peaceful village is shattered by the onset of war.
Parents and relatives, all died in the war, the young brother forced the grief, with the only remaining sister all the way to escape, finally, the sister was also lost in a flight.
My brother searched the whole city and couldn't find my sister, but he always refused to give up. When he had no money, he went to beg for food and mingled with the beggars, and at this time, he was no longer the well-mannered boy who was praised by the villagers and proud of his parents.
In order to be able to continue looking for his sister, he learned to survive, and he could survive any harsh conditions.
The day finally came, the city was broken, and the fire burned for three whole days. And he, because he was desperately defending the city, that ruthlessness, naturally, he joined the army.
The war was cruel, and his country had been weak for a long time and had struggled to resist because of the heavy literature and light dancing of the superior for many years, and he was addicted to singing, dancing and drinking. On the battlefield, the young man looked at his brothers, who had eaten together yesterday, and now fell in front of him one by one.
What is the reason for my sister's disappearance, the war, it is these people, it is they who caused the war, the mountains and rivers are broken, the blood is flowing like a river, the young man persevered with that hatred, but there are also many hideous scars on his body.
The first time he killed, he vomited until there was nothing left to vomit but retching.
In the first scuffle, he was slashed in the back by an enemy's long knife and almost died.
From the initial frequent injury, to later, he has rarely been injured again, several times escaped death, his heart is getting colder and colder, killing people is getting more and more ruthless, life is just the object of harvest in his eyes, only blood can make his cold heart feel a little bit of temperature.
He became a living Hades in the eyes of his enemies, and his lifeless style of play scared them.
No matter where he went, he never forgot to look for his sister, and always hoped to hear her call "brother" again.
The war lasted for ten years, the boy became a general, and the army he led drove the enemy out of the country, but he still did not hear the sound of "brother".
The victory of the war, the whole country celebrated, the capital was lit up, and the people welcomed it. The emperor named him the general of Zhenguo and wanted to marry the princess to him, but he was not happy and rejected the enthusiastic emperor.
In the General's Mansion, looking at the increasingly prosperous capital, he suddenly felt very tired. So he surrendered his military power and returned to his hometown.
However, the once small village has disappeared, and only a pile of ruins remains.
When I found my former home, the house was gone, the old willow tree was gone, and only a stump remained. Around the old willow tree, he built another yard, and the house was exactly the same as before, as if it had returned to the past.
Always sitting in the yard, holding a jade bracelet in a daze, the jade quality of the bracelet is not good, even very poor, it belongs to the worst quality, but the jade bracelet is very round, which is the reason why it is played with all year round.
Officers and soldiers in the army often say that this bracelet is the most precious thing in the world in the eyes of General Zhenguo.
The jade bracelet was a birthday present he was going to give to his sister, and although it wasn't worth much, it was the best thing he could come up with at that time.
It's just that before the gift was delivered, my sister was gone, and after searching for so many years, I didn't even find a trace of news.
As an outsider, Miss An has been watching, watching the boy come out of the battlefield step by step, watching him get injured again and again, and watching him sit in the yard in a daze every day.
Just when she thought the days would pass like this, the general received a holy decree.
The cunning rabbit dies, the lackeys cook, the birds are exhausted, and the good bow is hidden.
The emperor is old, the prince is young, and although the general has handed over the military power, he is the god of war, and his position in the army is irreplaceable, and he is their patron saint in the hearts of the people.
The emperor knew that he would die soon, and fearing that the general would be unfavorable to the young new emperor, ordered the general to return to the capital.
What was the result of going back, the general knew very well that the official in charge of delivering the decree was a former subordinate of the general, who had received his favor and was willing to help the general escape.
The general, whose face was still young, but his heart was old, he shook his head and chose to go back.
The emperor gave him two choices, either Princess Shang and join the royal family, or accompany him to the funeral.
There is only one person left in the whole village, how can he still be a princess.
Princess Shang is going to change her surname, how can he agree.
Soon, the emperor died.
Before his death, the emperor listened to the words of the warlock and modified the imperial tomb, hoping that the dynasty would last forever and he could continue to be the emperor in another world.
However, the warlock was a spy of the enemy country, and he gained the trust of the emperor, and the emperor's tomb was changed only to break the fortune of the heavens and want his country to take his place.
And the general is not an ordinary burial, it is an extremely cruel living burial.
In addition, he also made the 1,000 soldiers who were born and died with the general alive into pottery people, venting the resentment that the general defeated them at the beginning, but told the emperor that it was to let them continue to fight for the emperor in the underworld with the general.
After the emperor's coffin was carried into the underground palace, the general was poured with mercury, and he died in pain, and he refused to let go after death, and the formation left by the warlock was also torturing the general's soul.
Seeing the general being tortured, the entire underground palace has become more and more evil from the original heroic righteousness, but the general, even if his soul suffers inhuman torture, he refuses to give up saving his country.
Taking advantage of an earthquake, the formation was damaged, and because the thousand soldiers were made into puppets alive, their hearts were full of resentment, forming a resentful spirit, which did not disappear, and the general led them to resist the warlock's formation.
A thousand years have passed, and the general's soul is getting stronger and stronger, and the thousand soldiers have long since disappeared, and the general does not know that his country was destroyed by his neighbors twenty years after his death, and he is still struggling to support himself.
Seeing this, Miss An finally understood why the bracelet was so weird.
The general's soul has always resided in the bracelet, and the righteousness is generated because the general has fought for the country and guarded for thousands of years, and the strange thing is because it has been impregnated by the formation for thousands of years, and the general's soul has also been corroded to a certain extent.
At this point, everything is clear, the jade bracelet has a thousand-year-old soul, and this soul is not an evil spirit, for Miss An, this is naturally an opportunity. And why the jade bracelet sucked the flesh and blood of Hu Hai's nephew should be because that person was infected with the evil in the underground palace, and the general did this in order to get rid of the evil spirit. And why keep it in your own hands, one day you will figure it out.
After sobering up, Miss An couldn't help but touch the bracelet gently, this person is really, admirable!