Chapter 14: The Truth of Annihilation
After dinner in the evening, Mu Sheng came to Xiaoyi's door, and there were some things she had to figure out after all.
Mu Sheng tapped the door, and Xiaoyi's warm voice came: "Come in, the door is not locked." ”
Pushing the door in, Xiaoyi was sitting in front of the bookcase, carefully wiping the saber Xingyun.
Seeing Mu Sheng, Xiaoyi slowly put down the Xingyun in his hand.
Mu Sheng looked at it, the body of the Xingyun sword was as white as snow, the cold light insinuated, the sword was more than three feet long, the hilt was made of sterling silver, and it was also inlaid with a cloud-shaped jade as an embellishment, and the sword was as its name. Xingyun and his own flowing water is a twin sword, the flowing water is slightly shorter by one inch, the sword body is lighter, the material can be bent and folded, and the sword body is engraved with wavy water lines, so it is named flowing water.
I had never noticed that this sword was so extraordinary.
"Mu Sheng, do you know who gave me this sword?" Xiaoyi asked.
"You said it was your master."
"You still remember." Xiaoyi smiled lightly.
"I have come today to ask you, when are you going to tell me what you were trying to do to save me? After I enter the palace, the opportunity to meet again will be difficult, if you don't tell me again, there will be no chance, the son of Prime Minister Xiao... Xiao Yi. Mu Sheng's expression was calm and said lightly.
Xiaoyi looked up at Mu Sheng, not shocked, "When did you decide?" ”
"From the first time Jiang Lingzhou mentioned it, from when you avoided talking about it, from when Yan Qinghan stepped into Qingxiao"
Hearing Mu Sheng's answer, Xiaoyi's face was as usual, and he said with appreciation: "It is worthy of the person I chose." ”
"If I'm not mistaken, your purpose is Lu Lan, and there is another hidden story in the case of Prime Minister Xiao Cheng's mansion destruction eight years ago, right?"
"That's right, in order to let her son succeed to the throne, she single-handedly planned to ruin my Xiao family!" When it comes to destroying the door, Xiaoyi's eyes are full of hatred.
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If you talk about the destruction of Prime Minister Xiao Cheng's mansion back then, I am afraid it will go back to earlier.
The prime minister of the first dynasty, Xiao Zetian, only got a son when he was not confused, named Xiao Yi, hoping that he would be resolute in the future.
But Xiao Xiaogongzi has been a weak and sickly physique since he was a child, Xiao Zetian in order to exercise his physique and strengthen his muscles and bones, he sent him to Tianyi Gate in Fuyu Mountain to cultivate when he was seven or eight years old.
Although he left home since he was a child, he won the love and attention of Master Chenfeng because of his talent and intelligence, diligence and progress, and the master's son Chen Yi was also very good friends with him, and the two practiced and studied together, and they were like brothers and sisters.
And Xiao Zetian is loyal and upright, valuing love and righteousness, Chen Feng admires him very much, and Xiao Zetian has always been good friends, and every year during the festival, he will go to his home with Xiao Yi as a guest.
In the past few years, everything was in a good situation, but I didn't expect that there would be unforeseen circumstances, with the queen has been dead for many years, the concubine Lu Lan has been in charge of the harem, and after the emperor fell ill, she gained a general trend.
Because of the strong power of the mother family, she has always been arrogant and domineering, and she didn't even pay attention to the crown prince of the dynasty, and slowly stretched out her minions to the government, and always wanted her son to change hands.
At that time, Xiao Zetian was an important minister who was attached to and supported the prince's faction, so he naturally couldn't get used to Lu Lan's style, and he confronted Lu Lan everywhere.
It didn't take long for the emperor to die, but the disaster was that after the emperor's death, he left a holy decree that changed the crown prince, and set up the son of the noble concubine Lu Lan as the crown prince, and immediately succeeded to the throne, and the noble concubine Lu was posthumously crowned the queen mother.
As soon as the holy decree was issued, the crown prince collapsed one after another, even though everyone knew in their hearts that there must be something wrong with the holy decree, but no one dared to stand up and resist.
However, Xiao Zetian disagreed, he became the first person to stand up for the prince and the first person to "resist the decree". In its place, it was not the support of his former colleagues, but the top of the extinction.
Lu Lan was already an enemy of him, and now even if Xiao Zetian is silent, she will not let him go easily, and after stabilizing her position, the first thing she wants to get rid of is Xiao Zetian's party.
On that day, Xiao Yi, as usual, followed his master to practice in Qingxin Hall with Chen Yi, and suddenly a senior brother was injured and broke in, and reported in a panic: "Master is not good, many officers and soldiers broke into the mountain and rushed straight to the sect. Xiang is coming for Xiao Yi's junior brother. ”
The master suddenly looked solemn, and said to Chen Yi in a deep voice: "Chen Yi, quickly take Xiao Yi and leave from the back mountain, how far you go, you are not allowed to come back!" ”
"Master, but what happened to my father? Otherwise, how could there be officers and soldiers breaking up the mountain? Xiao Yi said worriedly.
"Xiao Yi, remember the words of the teacher, Prime Minister Xiao Cheng is a generation of loyal ministers and good men, and he is a good father, now everything is caused by traitors, do you know?" Chen Feng said with a resolute gaze.
Xiao Yi saw the strangeness of the master, "Master, father... Father... What's going on!? ”
"Chenyi, it's too late, take Xiao Yi away, Dad will block them for you, take Xingyun for self-defense, don't forget Dad explained it."
Chen Yi's voice was heavy: "Dad, take care!" Instead, he said, "Xiao Yi, let's go quickly." ”
Xiao Yi only remembered that he was forcibly taken away by Chen Yi in the end, and the last thing he saw was the back of the master who would never return, and Chen Yi's eyes were full of determination and reluctance.
After the two teenagers fled from the back mountain, Xiaoyi knew that his father had already prepared for the accident, and he had entrusted himself to the master early in the morning, if his father encountered an accident, he must protect himself, and this was also what Chen Yi had been told by the master before.
"Chenyi... Something happened to my father, let's go to the Prime Minister's Mansion! ”
"No, I'm sure I'll be caught if I go now!" Chen Yi said to block it.
"I must go, my father and my mother, I don't know if they are dead or alive! I must go, no one can stop me! Xiao Yi shouted out of control.
"Dad said, I want to protect you to the death, if you go and get caught, Dad will die in vain!" Chen Yi said nothing and refused to let go.
"Chenyi, I beg you, we only sneak a glance from afar, they don't know me, I won't let them catch me." Xiao Yi almost begged.
Chen Yi is just a child, how can he bear it in the face of his best friend's request, so he has to nod helplessly.
When the two rushed to the Prime Minister's Mansion at the foot of the mountain, the plaque of the Prime Minister's Mansion had fallen to the ground, and blood stained the stone steps in front of the door.
Xiao Yi and the others still took advantage of no one and ran into the mansion, and the bodies of Xiao Zetian and Mrs. Xiao were exposed in the courtyard, with countless knife wounds and arrow wounds on their bodies. The slaves, old and young, also died miserably on the ground, and the Prime Minister's Mansion, which was still vibrant a few months ago, suddenly became a Shura hell.
When he saw his father's corpse, Xiao Yi's last tense string collapsed instantly, even if he thought about the accidents that his father and mother might encounter thousands of times on the way back, he didn't think that it would be so miserable.
"Dad, mother, open your eyes and look at Yi'er! Yi'er is back, Dad! Mother! Xiao Yi shouted and called over and over again, but Xiao Zetian and his wife did not react.
Chen Yi looked at the grief-stricken Xiao Yi, and his heart was also full of pain, "Uncle Xiao, Aunt Xiao, Chen Yi will definitely protect Xiao Yi, you can go with confidence." He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and swore in his heart.
"Hurry up, hurry up, the Queen Mother gave an order to pull the corpses of everyone up and down the Xiao Mansion to the Dry Bone Mountain and throw them to feed the wolves!"
"I didn't expect the queen mother of the dynasty to be such a ruthless person, and this Xiao family is really miserable!"
"I think I can only blame Xiao Zetian himself, who asked him to stand up for others, and as a result, the whole family suffered!"
There were the voices of several officers and soldiers discussing outside the door, and Chen Yi was alert, "Xiao Yi, go quickly, someone is coming!" Saying that, he wanted to pull up Xiao Yi, who was still grieving.
Xiao Yi knelt there dead and refused to leave, "Xiao Yi! Chen Yi's face was burning, and he said urgently.
He got up like a lost soul and left with Chen Yi, but his eyes were still staring at his father and mother lying on the cold ground.
The two hid in a dark bush and watched Xiao Fu's corpses being carried away one by one, helpless.
At sunset, after the Prime Minister's Mansion was empty, the two came out of the grass. Xiao Yi looked at this once familiar and warm home, which was now soaked in the blood of his relatives, his eyes were full of red silk, and his white robe was already covered with mud and bloodstains.
"Xiao Yi, we have to get out of here and go to a safe place quickly." Chenyi's voice came from his ears.
"My home is gone, where should I go now......" Xiao Yi endured his grief, and his tone was full of sadness.
Chen Yi knew that it would be useless for him to comfort him now, so he didn't say any more.
Pulling Xiao Yi, who was like a walking corpse, walked outside the mansion, and walked out of the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the people on the street were still talking about the altar.
"It must be the current Lu clan who forced the emperor to change his holy decree and let his son change hands, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will fall."
"Don't dare to say that! But it's going to be killed! ”
"This Prime Minister Xiao is really, just working against this Lu family, isn't this self-destruction, pity this Xiao family!"
"That's right, I heard that among the prince's henchmen, only the Xiao family was wiped out. But it seems that the little son of the Xiao family has not been found yet, and I don't know if he can escape this catastrophe! ”
"Alas, who knows, now that the owner has changed hands, I don't know if our people will have a better life in the future!"
These words were clearly heard by Xiao Yi and the others who were passing by.
"Lu family, you have ruined my Xiao family, I will let you pay for your blood debts!" Xiao Yi stopped, his heart was full of grief and hatred, full of resentment.
When night fell, God seemed to feel unfair, thunder roared, and the next moment the pouring rain came, trying to wash away the tragedy of this moment, under the night, two thin and helpless backs walked farther and farther in the dark, that year, they were only two fifteen-year-old boys.
Later, when the two of them returned to Tianyimen, the door master Chen Feng was already seriously injured and dying, and when he was dying, he passed on his last internal strength to the two.
Tianyi Gate is no longer there, and Chen Yi also lost his father forever on that day, leaving only the two of them to rely on each other and go to the sea of hatred together.
The Lu family never found the little son of the Xiao family, and never heard a young man named Xiao Yi appear again.
Xiao's annihilation was subsided like this, but she wouldn't have thought that not long after, in a place she didn't know, there was a young man who was called Xiaoyi but was elegant.
And this boy returned to the Wan Dynasty with another hearty and free boy, and founded a sect called Qingxiao here.
When Mu Sheng left Xiaoyi, it was already night, and that day, she knew the secret that had been hidden behind Xiaoyi, and knew what kind of blood feud the two teenagers carried.
Her heart was stabbed at that moment because of Xiaoyi's tragic past, and the two hearts carrying hatred resonated at this moment.
She also seemed to understand better, why Yan Qinghan could be so ruthless to her, if she has a mother, she must have a son, now that she thinks about it, he is very similar to her mother.
Mu Sheng was also more determined at that time, he saved her and helped her, then she would also help him.
But for Xiaoyi, Mu Sheng can only be a sword, a sharp sword, once it is used up, it must be abandoned.
The flowing water he once gave to Mu Sheng was his own sword, and after the death of his master, Chen Yi gave him his father's sword.
At that time, Chen Yi told him, "When it comes to swordsmanship, I am no match for you, and my father's sword should be matched with the best swordsman." ”
But he also understood that this was the last thing that the master left to Chen Yi, but he couldn't refuse, so he only said: "I will keep it for you, and when the great revenge is avenged, it will be returned to you." ”
Compared with taking advantage of a person's sincerity, Xiaoyi can't live up to the brothers who are accompanied by life and death.