Prequel: The Secret of Clear Water City Chapter 3: Missing, is a beacon

"Little Lizi, when did you say Dad would come back? ”

Zhou Yusheng looked up and down at Xiao Lizi standing beside him with a pair of mischievous big eyes, his eyelashes blinking slightly, his eyes were full of inquiry, and mixed with a wisp of uneasiness.

"I don't know. ”

Xiao Lizi was at a loss, with a worried gaze, a little absent-minded.

"But, I miss my father. ”

In front of the Huaqing Palace, the pavilion standing among the duckweed.

The innocent young man, the man with a faint concern sat facing each other, speechless, and Xiao Lizi followed Zhou Yusheng's gaze and looked outside the Huaqing Palace.

Zhou Yusheng looked at the north from afar, and his eyes were full of reminiscence.

Lonely and miserable, looking at the people who ran by in front of the Huaqing Palace, he was a little envious, those peers who seemed innocent and innocent, were accompanied by their parents.

But born in the emperor's family, he naturally knows that power and family affection cannot be both.

I cherish the time I spend with my father.

"Your Royal Highness, Your Highness has gone out this time, when you will be able to return home, I don't have a letter until now. ”

"Does Your Highness want to paint?" asked Xiao Lizi.

Zhou Yu was interested and nodded.

He stood up, patted the dust on his gray robe, and grinned an ugly smile at the corner of his mouth, but the dry smile was very reassuring.

"You're laughing so ugly!"

Touched by that funny face, he sneered and burst into laughter, pointing to the face that was better than laughing, and smiled frankly.

"Hey, hey. He grimaced at Zhou Yusheng again, his eyebrows seemed to hang upside down at his hairline, a pair of eyes that were pulled up, his wrinkled eyebrows twisted together, his lips arched forward, and a row of neat teeth exposed to the air.

"Your Highness is happy. ”

He kept making an ugly face, causing Zhou Yusheng to laugh again and again, and in the Huaqing Palace, passers-by looked sideways, stopping to listen to the laughter like silver bells coming from the palace from time to time.

"Your Highness. ”

The curling night mist gradually rose, moist and agile. Shu Roll room, has already quietly filled a courtyard.

In front of the wooden table, a wooden comb for combing long hair was quietly placed, and a wooden mirror reflecting a trance-like face was facing the door.

He opened the drawer, and in the cabinet where the scrolls were placed, crushed under the messy scrolls, there was only a letter from home and a blue and red ring.

The face swaying in the candlelight, looking at the letter and the ring, sighed again and again, he took out a pen from the table that had long been broken, dipped it in the spittle, and slowly left words on the letter.

"Father, this is the seventh day of his absence. ”

The young man sat in the Huaqing Palace, facing the waning moon rising in the sky, looking up at the mottled moonlight under the trees, and sitting bored at the high feet at the palace gate.

In the palm of his hand, he held a wildflower cut from a tree, and on the ground, it was actually a petal that had been broken from a wildflower.

Counting them, it's exactly seven.

When looking up at the bright moon, no one noticed, and in the clear and translucent eyes, the crescent-like waning moon gradually intertwined with the half of the pupils exposed in the eyes.

Only the loneliness that flashed from the young man's eyes, and the autumn blew up the dead leaves on the ground, rolling the wind and drifting towards the north.

"Actually, you already knew that His Highness would not come back. ”

He stood outside the door, holding a slightly trembling little hand in his palm, and hesitated again, finally knocking on the door.

"Aunt He. Xiao Lizi stepped on a path outside the Huaqing Palace, splashing the sound of dew on the moss road, and walked slowly.

The voice stopped in front of the door, and a black crack appeared in the crack of the door, and a pair of hollow eyes trembled and revealed.

The moment the door opened, she slowly opened the door after she was sure that someone was coming.

This is an old woman, with slightly sunken eye sockets, a pair of dark brown eyes, under the face full of vicissitudes, she is wearing a yellowed white robe, holding a blue cane made of dead wood in her left hand, slowly lifting her spine with her back bent, and laughing a little uncomfortably.

"Aunt He, I'm really sorry if you do this again, if you want to say a salute, it should be the juniors who give you a salute. Xiao Lizi supported her swaying body before she met, her face suddenly darkened with embarrassment, and she moved to the old woman's side with some solemnity, and hugged half of her arm with a cane.

"Today's Far North, nine deaths and one life!"

The late autumn of the clear autumn and the rain of the early autumn came as promised. It drips gently and falls on the shoulder, as if in a gentle pat.

Her eyes gradually lost her mind, and there was a deep worry in the seemingly calm and waveless light, which flickered faintly under the dry eyes.

"This was given to me by His Highness a few days ago. And I will soon leave this place, and Your Highness has specially asked me to give these things to the rest of my life when I am twelve years old. ”

He took out the letter and the blue and red wrench from his sleeve in a panic, looked around cautiously, and handed the things in his hand to the old woman.

"Storage ring?" As soon as the old woman's eyes fell on the blue and red wrench, her pupils shrank, and Aunt He's gaze, she didn't know what the blue and red wrench in her hand was.

This blue and red wrench is blue and red on the surface, and it is just a big wrench from the front, but when the old woman's palm touches the wrench, the wrench in her hand is transparent through the old palm that comes out.

"This kid still can't let go of the rest of his life. ”

But as soon as she put it down, she held the wrench between her palms with an inquiring meaning, and between the fingers, a hard stone suddenly appeared.

The glittering blue and red wrench under the moon, through the starry sky, the gem in the center of the ring, the mottled green shadow brewed a bead of blood.

The dappled starlight flickered, and the vast starry sky quickly dimmed.

"Then I'm leaving!"

He dragged up the bags full of his side, and the moment he waved goodbye, the smile that was uglier than crying finally forced a smile from his face.

She put away the blue and red wrench, looked at the little plum who was about to go away with her bag, and shouted into the distance with a trembling voice.

"If you have the chance, go out into the world and see more. ”

She never thought that the parting words would change much for Xiao Lizi's life.

His hometown was in the south, but this time he resolutely headed for the north.

That night

The extreme north that leads to the mysterious place, the ice breaks at a rapid pace, and the north plane that supports the extreme north loses its support and sinks towards the sea below, but there are bursts of crying from it, if it is interrupted, if there is nothing, like a fierce beast roaring, and like a nine grim laughter.

I don't know how many years later, a huge blue planet suddenly appeared in front of me.

"Boom" with a loud bang!

The huge wheel of light that left the gravitational guidance broke away from the interface gas layer at an astonishing speed, and the moment it touched the atmosphere on the surface of the planet, it turned into a raging meteor and fell towards a sea below.

......

In the ninth year of Xuantian of the Great Jin Dynasty, the spiritual officials who sat in the extreme north disappeared one after another, and the nearby three countries sent elites to garrison the extreme north, and there was no return, and it was that night, the extreme north, which lost the support of the ice, turned into a monstrous wave and flooded more than 20 islands, and several cities along the coast were affected by the huge waves, destroying thousands of houses, and killing and injuring countless people and livestock.

At the top of the red vermilion lacquer gate, there is a black gold silk nanmu plaque, on which the dragon flies and the phoenix dances with three big characters 'Feng Ya Stream'

In this private room that can overlook the entire Qinglou on the first floor, many young men wearing brocade clothes and jade belts gather here, most of them are wearing gorgeous brocade clothes, with pure white jade belts hanging around their waists, many young people have no long sleeves in their hands, and they all have a blue-green long sword hanging on their backs, but one of them, with a purple and gold feather crown on his head, and a black jade pendant around his neck, his eyes are burning, and he looks at other young people led by him condescendingly, his face is slightly cold.

"Big brother, that Yu Wenbo has been restless lately. And I saw a few people who were talking happily among them, and when the young man sat down, there was no sound.

People can see a little respect to a greater or lesser extent, but there is more of an unknown jealousy between the eyebrows.

The first to speak is the tallest in the crowd, born but also a little feminine beauty, when he spoke, the jade pendant pressed in the clothes was pulled out, although there is no jade pendant of the first young man, but it is obviously also a light role.

"Oh?" he furrowed his brow, motioning for him to continue.

"On the surface, he wants us to help him take down the forces of Clear Water City, but what he's done recently makes me think he might have other plans. The young man bowed, glanced at the crowd around him watching the play, and paused, obviously with an unspeakable secret.

"It's okay, it's all my own people," he laughed, seeing the young man's concerns.

"If he wants us to help him take Qingshui City, in fact, there is no need to go through so much trouble, I have investigated Zhou Tianyuan's power, it is said that in the early years, in addition to a group of henchmen Tiger Guard, there was no alliance with other cities, now that Zhou Tianyuan is missing, Zhou Yusheng is bound to inherit Zhou Tianyuan's power after adulthood, but have you ever thought that it is impossible for today's courtiers to let Qingshui City be such a piece of fragrant bread and be divided by a hairy child, and then the courtiers will join forces to oppose the new forces on the throne, and when the time comes, with our help, Yuwenbo will take the throne It is a matter of course。 At the young man's suggestion, the young man said his opinion without any worries, but after speaking, when the young man lowered his head and pondered, he looked at him with some speculation, trying to see his current expression.

He took a deep look at him, and there was a bit of coldness in his eyes, but he was covered by a flash of loneliness.

"In the past few years, Yuwenbo has submitted reports that are not ripe, and we didn't think much about it at that time, after all, Qingshui City, where Zhou Tianyuan is in charge, is a dominant family, but now that Zhou Tianyuan is missing, it is really God who helps me, but he prevaricates us with the excuse of unfavorable actions, if we intervene at this time, I am afraid it will disrupt his plans, so I think it is fake to help him seize power, I am afraid that what he is doing behind his back is true. His eyes flashed, and he put away the folding fan in his hand with a "snap", and the pride on his face disappeared, replaced by those treacherous and sinister eyes, hovering around like poisonous snakes.

"Hahahaha! So what, Yuwen Bo is a flag I used to fight for Qingshui City, even if you say that the city is extremely deep, you must know that our twelve sons of heaven and earth will not allow our flag to live in the world. The young man at the head couldn't help laughing, and the danger seeping between his pupils swept over everyone who was sitting in a precarious position, but the smile hidden under the knife in this smile made the faces of the others not look good.

"Yes, big brother. Perhaps hearing his satisfactory answer, the young man's face looked much better, and he said softly with a smile.

"Brothers, since I called you over, it won't be as simple as letting you come to listen to the play, the mission arranged by the above in Qingshui City is to find out the rest of that week. The young man at the head put away his happy smile, and under the delicate eyebrows of a woman, there was a pair of dark purple eyes that were seductive, and the corners of his eyes were slightly raised, and he suddenly asked a little seriously.

"Zhou Yusheng, now six years old, is a native of Qingshui City, Jin Zhou. His father was a member of the Guangling Zhou family, and at the age of thirty-five he returned from the wounds of the Lingfeng War and established Qingshui City, and it was Tang Wan, the third county lord who married the lord of the Great Jin Dynasty at the age of fifty. It is said that the dowry brought from the Great Jin Dynasty at that time was the financial resources of Qingshui for a whole year at that time, and Zhou Tianyuan's eyes were like torches, that is, he recovered a lot of lost land in Qingshui Realm in that year alone, but Zhou Tianyuan's identity and strength were a mystery from the beginning, and we had no way to start. Speaking of this, he lowered his head with some guilt, for himself who had high hopes, some news that he knew as long as he had paid close attention to it, but he did not get really important information

Dressed in ink-colored clothes and wearing a felt scarf on his head, he is naturally a talented man.

"I don't blame you, Zhou Tianyuan's life experience and strength, in addition to knowing that he is from Guangling, the secret line I arranged in Guangling's family has not investigated his true identity, so I am afraid that Zhou Tianyuan's secret may involve the interests of the Guangling Zhou family, or most of his life experience investigated on the surface is also fake. ”

He lightly lifted the jade bottle on the table, lowered his eyes, shook the cup that reflected his expressionless face at this time, and lifted the sunset red sleeves to cover half of his cold face

As soon as the jade bottle touched the bright red lips, it suddenly stopped sipping its lips into a glass of wine.

Drink!

He raised the glass in his hand, put it in a position that everyone could see at a glance, and after sweeping the glass in front of everyone, he drank the sake in his mouth freely, and the strong wine entered his throat, which won the hearts of the people.

The others didn't dare to slack off and took the lead in drinking the wine in the wine glass, picked up the wine glass placed there in front of the table, bowed respectfully forward, and then drank the wine in the jade bottle with their heads up.

"The order went down, except for Yu Wenyong, everyone else was killed. Seeing that everyone's wine glass was at the bottom, the young man's indifferent eyes were finally revealed no longer concealed, and the sword behind him was just a blur, and it flew away like a needle, and the sword that was free in the void was like an indestructible silk thread, piercing out of everyone's body, and the small blood hole did not even shed a drop of blood.

It's just that this kind of change makes them seem to sink into the figure of Yingge Yan Dance, in front of the table in their own world, when the line that breaks the balance appears from their bodies, it is like a dream has been shattered, until they look at the young man's eyes like a dog in the twilight of their lives, and finally lower their eyes, revealing unwillingness, resentment, despair and that pink reluctance.

They won't believe it until they die, and in the end it is not the enemy who pronounces death, but the man who is selfish until death.

"Master, is that thing you said back then really in 'Clear Water City'? I almost dug three feet into the ground, but I didn't even find any clues related to that information. The young man's eyes remained deep in the void, and the tragic situation of blood flowing all over the ground in front of him didn't seem to make the young man's eyes staring at the void have any changes, the only thing that changed was that the sword intent was still trembling.

"The dragon scales come out of the water and are cold

The eyes are here to desire the soul of the dragon

Three-foot cold pond dragon Yito

Yu is born to meet a person"

"Master, you are talking about the secrets of Qingshui City, but there is only one cold pool in Qingshui City. ”

He looked at the handwriting engraved on the hilt of the sword, and the dragon claws that covered the blade of the sword, which flashed when they met the water. A dragon body with teeth and claws, grasping the position of the tip of the sword, the young man seemed to remember something, and looked at the sword without sword intent and fell into thought.

Yu Wenyong beside him looked at him with a frightened face, and a pair of unbelievable eyes stopped in front of him, the lifeless people.

"It seems that there is a lot of garbage in the Heavenly Treasure Pavilion!" he said lightly.

"My subordinates understand!" Yu Wenyong didn't know what it meant, and his expression was terrified, and he didn't dare to stay longer.

To put it bluntly, it is to let yourself do the aftermath of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots.

"Does Yu Shisheng refer to Zhou Yusheng?" he speculated with some uncertainty.

But at this time, the young man in the poem also didn't think about tea and dinner because of insomnia.

He came back from Mr. Zhao with a pair of thick dark circles under his eyes, although he couldn't say why, but there were always some inevitable suspicions in his heart.

In recent days, Mr. Zhao has been in and out of Qingshui City more often, and he only comes back once in a while, which makes Zhou Yusheng rejoice in the hardships of cultivation, and he can finally rest for a few days.

Mr. Zhao's behavior is becoming more and more unbelievable.