Chapter 71: Immortality 71
"Yes, I don't!"
Nan Ling knelt on the ground, clenched his fists, looked at Chen Jing's face, and then looked at Chen's father who was angry, and said firmly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Father Chen heard that he dropped the teacup:
"What do you know, the right prime minister's power can help the Chen family tide over the crisis, you are an orphan girl in vain and my son loves you so much, but you don't even want to make this retreat!"
After that, turn around:
"The matter was settled. The young lady is jealous, she doesn't keep the female precepts, go to the ancestral hall and think about it behind closed doors."
Nan Ling sat down on the ground, tears sliding down his side. The servants on both sides stepped forward and pulled Nan Ling to take her down to be punished. Chen Jing felt distressed and his wife was about to step forward to stop him, but he heard his father's voice coming:
"Jing'er, go to the account room with your father."
Hearing this, Chen Jing only watched his tearful wife being pulled away.
The ancestral hall has been in disrepair for a long time, and it is even more gloomy when it is located in the cold place of the Chen Mansion. The two servants opened the creaky wooden door, pushed Nan Ling in, and closed the door expressionlessly.
Nan Ling stumbled and fell to the ground, and immediately turned his head to tap the old wooden door that had long been closed:
"Open the door, open the door."
No one responded for a long time, Nan Ling held on to the door and slid down step by step, and finally hid his face and cried bitterly.
"Bang dang!"
There was a loud noise in the study, and the old man of the Chen family roared angrily, and the guards on duty standing outside the study did not have the call of the master and did not dare to enter the study at will, so they had to tremble and stand guard outside the door.
"Rebel!"
Master Chen, walking around the study repeatedly, his chest rose and fell, obviously he was not lightly angry, but I saw that under him, Chen Jing knelt on the ground, silent.
"I said, what's wrong with you marrying the daughter of the right prime minister, it's just a flat wife. The father did not let you divorce his wife. If you take back the daughter of the right minister, my Chen family can avoid this difficulty.
If you are really afraid that Nan Ling will be sad and feel sorry for her, you can continue to spoil her after the wedding, whether you favor or snub Yuhuan, you will never ask for your father, okay? ”
Chen Jing calmed his face, knelt on the cold floor, and said dryly after a long time:
"Wouldn't my father have ruined a good daughter's family if I let me do this? Ever since I was a child, my father asked Sissi to teach me. How could I do such a thing that is contrary to good morals? Father is shamelessly exploiting. I will never say yes! ”
"Smack!"
A crisp slap rang out, and then vanished into thin air.
"You know what!"
Seeing Chen Jing's stubbornness and uncompromise, Father Chen finally became furious:
"You think I don't understand what you're saying, but you know, the king wants to take back the right of the salt merchant to sell salt!
What did my Chen family rely on to start a business, isn't it just the family property earned by generations of people selling salt for generations, my Chen family has no way to live without selling salt!
Do you think that without the support of the Chen family, in this rich Nanping City, who in the whole world knows you Chen Jing, and who will love you!
Everything you have now is me, the Chen family, and the glory given to you by the hard work of your ancestors, without these, you Chen Jing are nothing! ”
Father Chen, speaking passionately, felt dizzy for a while because he was too angry, angry and attacking, Father Chen, quickly held on to the table and shook his head.
Seeing this, Chen Jing, who was still kneeling on the ground, quickly stood up from the ground and asked worriedly:
"Father, no, are you alright?"
"Get on your knees, rebel!"
Father Chen, breathed a sigh of relief:
"Do you marry or not!"
"Don't marry!"
Chen Jing bit and didn't let go.
"You, get out of here and stand!"
When night fell, the door creaked open, and Nan Ling, who was hiding in the corner, quickly raised his head only to see that it was Anu who came in with a food box, and his eyes drooped again. Seeing this, Anu quickly put down the food box and helped Nan Ling up:
"Young lady, don't worry, the young master has already gone to intercede and was punished by the master for kneeling at the door of the study."
When Nan Ling heard this, he immediately grabbed Anu tightly:
"What, Anu, you go and tell him to leave me alone, I'm fine."
Seeing that Anu was unmoved and quickly pushed, Anu put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand helplessly:
"Then you have to wait for the young lady to finish eating, and the slave and maid can leave with confidence."
Nan Ling heard Anu's reply and sped up the speed of eating, after a stick of incense, Anu was about to leave, Nan Ling suddenly pulled Anu's sleeve, Anu stopped and looked at Nan Ling suspiciously:
"When I go back, bring me the flowers I put in the glass jar last night." Anu nodded, turned and walked away.
Late at night, Nan Ling hid in the ancestral hall and shivered, and the cold wind blew through, making the ancestral hall even more eerie and terrifying.
At this time, a small shout sounded outside the wooden door:
"Young lady, young lady."
Nan Ling quickly crawled over and responded in a low voice:
"I'm here."
Hearing the response, the wooden door was opened, Anu flashed into the door and put the glass cup into Nan Ling's hand and said:
"Don't worry."
He quickly closed the door and left, and soon after Anu left, the voice of the night watchwoman was heard outside the door. Nan Ling breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that Chen Jing had nothing to do, and carefully opened his palm, and the small glass bowl was soaked in water. Nan Ling looked at this flower basket that he had brought back after nine deaths.
Take a deep breath and drip blood into it:
"Flower basket, flower basket, tell me how the Chen family avoided this."
The little flower basket opened its mouth and spat out suffocating words:
"Change your life against the sky."
"Bump!"
The glass jar fell to the ground and shattered, the flower basket touched the ground and withered rapidly, Nan Ling took a few steps back unsteadily, sat down on the futon, and his head exploded.
Changing one's life against the sky is a unique ability of the merman clan, and the merman is the communicator of the gods, who can understand the divine will and control time. Heaven and earth have their own laws, and once you change your life against the sky, you will be punished by heaven. Tears fell one by one, and Nan Ling never thought that the way he had worked so hard to find was a dead end. The sky is getting farther and farther away, the earth is getting more and more oblique, the night is getting darker and darker, and things are getting more and more hazy.
Nan Ling slowly opened his eyes and looked at the familiar curtains and elegant curtains.
"You're awake"
Chen Jing's joyful voice came:
"You've been in a coma for two days."
Turned around and shouted out the door:
"Anu, the young lady is awake, go and bring the warm porridge on the stove."
After arranging everything, Chen Jingcai sat on the couch and helped Nan Ling up, and let Nan Ling lean on his arms:
"Ah Ling, don't worry about marrying a wife, I only want you alone, and I won't marry her. I want no one but you. ”
Chen Jingzheng made a promise and the porridge was served, Chen Jing took the bowl and scooped a spoonful and tested the temperature before handing it to Nan Ling's lips:
"Come, open your mouth. Yes. ”
Nan Ling looked at Chen Jing, who was so considerate and gentle, his eyes were red, his heart was clenched, and he recalled the prophecy that Hua Basket spit out last night, his heart was dripping blood, and he was shouting:
"Ah Jing, what should I do, I don't want to lose you, and I don't want to leave you."
Chen Jing panicked when he saw Nan Ling like this, and hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks:
"What's the matter, have you been wronged in the ancestral hall?"
After saying that, he was about to turn around and shout but was stopped by Nan Ling, who shook his head slightly:
"I'm fine, I just don't want to leave you."
When Chen Jing heard this, he flicked Nan Ling's forehead with his hand:
"Fool."
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"The wind was howling, the snow was blowing, and the streets were deserted in a small town called Sakas on the mainland of Kyushu, and people were crowded in thick leather jackets to the house of Pikath, the richest man in the town. The people of the town knew that the wife of the great good man Pikas had given birth today, and that the petite cute and enthusiastic girl was finally going to be a mother after three years of marrying Picas, and the people of the town were sincerely happy for them.
The crowd on the street is pouring in one direction, and from time to time they meet acquaintances, and everyone will greet each other:
"Hey, man, are you going to Mr. Picas's house?"
"yes, are you going too?"
"Of course, Mrs. Pikas gave birth today, and I'm going to rush to help."
"Uncle Shalong, this is a decoction made by Aunt Jiusha, she said that she would have to go later if she had something, so I asked you to send this decoction to Mrs. first, and drink it while it was hot!"
"Haole, hand over the decoction to me, let Jiusha rest assured!"
Everyone knows that Mr. Pikas came to this town fourteen years ago, he gave everyone money, built houses, taught the villagers to hunt, gave the villagers the means to do business, and he led everyone to prosperity day by day, and the villagers of Sakas Town are sincerely grateful to him.
I didn't hear that Mr. Picas's wife had given birth today, and everyone was anxious to go to congratulate him, hoping that he could do something for Mr. Picas. After all, they had received a lot of favors from Mr. Picas, and now they wanted to do what they could.
People were busy greeting each other for Mr. Pickas, and everyone was looking forward to the arrival of a new life.
There was only one person who seemed to think differently than they did
This person is sloppy in dress, his hair is dirty, his face is black, the whole person looks weak, and there are only those big eyes that are translucent and scary, as if he can see through all the injustices in the world.
He staggered down the street on crutches, and he was not as eager as the others to get to Mr. Picas's house, but he was wandering down the street, and when he heard the cheerful words of passers-by, he looked up at the sky, and saw that the dark clouds were slowly covering the sunset, and gradually spreading. He took a sip of wine and looked at the golden pocket watch hanging in front of him,
Then he closed the pocket watch with a snap, and chanted drunkenly in his mouth:
"I came from the heavens in search of God's will,
I am the darling of heaven and earth, and he told me that I was born with a mission.
When I climbed to the sacred mountain where the sun rose, I went to find the light I longed for.
But God told me, 'My dear believer, your faith is in the world, go and find your light in the world.' ’
I passed through the hell of pain,
I woke up in the darkness of the forest,
Because I have lost my way in the ancient path. ”
He followed the crowd to Mr. Picas's house, and instead of entering, he chose to sit in the corner in the cold wind, listening to the sound of people hurrying, he lit his pipe, and with the howling of the cold wind, he took a deep breath and another sip of wine.
I only heard the shouts of the midwife in the house
"Madam, work hard, ma'am, you can't sleep!"
And the moans of women:
"It hurts, it hurts, ah! Ah......h
The sloppy man outside the door, his eyes blazing, looked at the distant sky, and the black clouds with purple thunder and lightning were slowly spreading in this direction.
He continued to chant:
"Alas, how difficult it is to tell how desolate, how rugged, and how primeval the woodland is.
When I think about it, I am terrified!
How bitter it was, and death was nothing more than that;
But to explore the goodness I found there,
In order to cut off the evil of this world,
In order that the bright sun may live forever in the world,
I'll have to tell you about the other things I saw. ”
……
The screams of pain grew louder and louder inside the house, and Mr. Pikas walked up and down in a panic outside, and the courtyard was full of worried townspeople.
The cries of pain grew louder and louder, and the voice of his chant grew louder and louder;
"I can't tell you how I got to that forest.
For when I forsake the way of truth,
I was so sleepy.
But when I got to the foot of a hill over there,
(The valley that terrifies my soul,
The end of it is in that place),
I looked up and saw the hill's shoulder
has long been clothed in the brilliance of that "planet" (1),
It guides people straight ahead on every road.
So, I spent the night in such misery
Constantly in the lake of my heart
The concussive horror calmed down slightly.
It's like a man who escaped from the sea to the shore, wheezing......"
At this point, the wind and snow became heavier and stronger, the cold wind blew coldly, and the night became deeper and darker. The air grew colder, and he sighed softly, picked up the flask at his waist, and took a long sip of wine. Ha out of the heat.
At this time, there was a panicked cry from the midwife:
"Oh no, no, sir, Madame has a difficult birth!"
"What!"
Picarth was flustered and nervous:
"What then!"
The midwife looked back nervously but worriedly at the woman who was still in pain in labor in the house, and said hesitantly:
"Madame's birth canal is not open, and she needs the proflora in the canyon to induce labor. But this snow covers the mountains......"
"Go and lead my horse!"
Pikas turned to the servant and commanded:
"The canyon is not far from here, and I will pick it myself."
After saying that, he turned to the townsfolk in the courtyard and pleaded:
"My wife had a difficult birth and needed the flowers in the canyon as a guide. As the husband of my beloved wife, I can't take the place of her to taste the pain of childbirth, so I wish I could pick the flowers for her that will save her life. I'm about to leave now, and I hope the kind people can take care of this place for me, please. ”
After speaking, he ignored the dissuasion of the crowd, turned around and rode out on horseback.
The man who sat by the door, in the smoke from his pipe, watched Picas's departure with his bright eyes until he was gone, and then began to chant again:
"Oh, poor man,
God said, 'He will eventually go to hell, to hell, to hell because of the creation of demons.'
Because he has a pact with the devil. ’
I'm still here, I'm still looking forward to it, looking forward to it
The sun rises with the stars,
When 'God's love' first made these beautiful things work
They are with the sun
It's dawn,
This day is the warmest season. ”
The thunderclouds are getting closer and closer to Pikath's house, and the purple lightning is getting denser.