The night is like a wash, the moon is bright and the stars are scarce.

The hall was full of people.

My father specially held a five-year-old birthday banquet for me, and in addition to Master Qingxuan and Prime Minister Su Cheng, who were sitting at the top, there were many men, women and children I didn't know.

Anyway, I didn't know it, and I didn't need to toast, so I just continued to close my eyes and immerse myself in the memories.

When the night was approaching, the cheerful crowd left in turn, the mother also led the maid, and the servants withdrew from the hall, and finally only my father, Master Qingxuan, Prime Minister Su Cheng, and Bodhisattva, who had been standing silently behind me, were left in the hall.

"King Ling, have you decided?" Su Jingyi tapped his palm with a fan, and his eyes fell on his father solemnly, "You must know that once the token is passed to the next successor, you will not be able to command those people." Now that the emperor is eyeing you, why don't you save this force as your last trump card. ”

"My mind has been decided, the monarch wants the minister to die, the minister has to die, the emperor wants to destroy my Bei Xueling family one day, as long as he says a word, I will offer the head with both hands. However, these people left behind by my ancestors were the last resistance force in the crisis of the Northern Yang Kingdom, and I cannot let them be destroyed at my hands. ”

My father's majestic voice resounded in the hall unequivocally, and it was the first time I had seen my father so serious, and at this moment he was the majesty of a victorious prince who had fought on the battlefield all year round.

"But she ......"

"Amitabha, since Lord Ling has already made a choice, let's be a good witness to this ceremony!"

Master Qingxuan, who had been sitting silently opposite Su Jingyi, spoke lightly, interrupting what Su Jingyi wanted to say......

"Ling Shang!"

My father, who was sitting in the first seat, looked at me with a serious look in his eyes that I had never seen before, and I was a little surprised, and looked up blankly at my father, who had never faced me so solemnly.

"Xiang'er..."The father sighed lightly, the majestic momentum instantly softened, he stood up from the first seat, walked to me step by step, and hung a necklace around my neck, "Father knows that you don't want to pay attention to all kinds of worldly things in this world, but since you arrived at my Beiling Palace, you are destined to live peacefully for a lifetime, and your father will protect you for a day when he is alive, but if your father is gone, this necklace is your talisman, keep it, it will help you when it is critical." ”

I was a little surprised at what these words meant, for tonight my father's unusual attitude and the ominous aura in his tone, the necklace he gave me was not just an ornament, but a very important token.

"Bodhisattva, send her back to her room to rest!"

My father gently touched the top of my hair, looked at me with complicated eyes for a long time, as if he was observing my expression, and after seeing my expressionless face, he sighed lightly and opened his mouth to look at the Bodhisattva, his voice with a slight disappointment.

"Yes!"

Bodhisattva walked up to me, knelt on one knee, passed my hands behind my neck and under the crook of my legs, picked me up from the chair with a little force, strode out of the hall, jumped a few times and fell outside my door, hesitated for a moment, then reached out and pushed the door open, carried me a few steps to the bed, and knelt down on one knee and gently put me on the bed.

I thought he was leaving, but instead of leaving, he reached out and landed on my necklace.

Could it be that he? I was a little surprised.

His hand fell on the necklace but did not take it off, but gently pulled the necklace up with one hand, and reached into his arms with the other hand for a long time, and took out a black stone, there was a gap in the middle of the stone, like the shape of a key, and then picked up my necklace and inserted it into the black stone crack, I found that the small necklace on the necklace was actually a red key.

After doing all this, the Bodhisattva carefully put the necklace in my collar, pulled the quilt over me tightly, looked at me in silence, and then got up and walked out of the room, and gently closed the door.

I raised my arm weakly, the necklace was pulled out of the collar, raised above my eyes and carefully studied, the chain of the necklace was made of sterling silver, the low end of the chain was a small black stone that had just been put on by the Bodhisattva, I couldn't see what the material was, but the black was very pure, I tugged at the chain and the stone with both hands, and there was no way to pull the key inserted into the stone crack out of the black stone.

I didn't understand Bodhisattva's intentions, and it wasn't until three years later that I realized that he had saved a small life by doing so.