Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Dead

After everyone's eyes gradually adjusted to the mountain mist, Zhong Yuan, who was walking in front, suddenly exerted his strength and took a few steps forward.

Under the majestic mountain gate of the Double Holy Gate, there is a slender white figure.

The white fox fur surrounded her tightly, revealing only a small face the size of a palm, willow eyebrows and starry eyes, and her skin was like condensed fat, and she looked like I was pitiful. Seeing Zhong Yuan step forward, his eyes instantly bloomed with thousands of brilliance.

"Why did you come out again, the mountain wind here is so strong, didn't you say that you won't be allowed to wait here in the future." Although the tone was slightly reproachful, the concern was palpable.

"I also just came out, and a few days ago I received a message from Begonia flying pigeons, so you should also arrive." Pale lips made a soft sound.

Zhong Yuan sighed and said, "Come in, let's go back."

The woman nodded, and said to Yun Pop, "Yun Gongzi is also here."

Yunliu bowed down and bowed back, "Miss Su, long time no see."

The woman smiled at him and nodded, took Xiao Xinyi's hand on the side and asked, "Why are your hands so cold, fortunately, I have already built a stove in your room, go back to the room to warm up."

"Sister Yuexian, I'm bothering you again, your illness wasn't healed when I left last time, and I couldn't say goodbye to you in person, but now you feel better." Xiao Xinyi asked as he helped her walk towards the door.

"It's out of the way, my problem is not a day or two, a small problem, just lie down for a few days."

The woman's name is Su Yuexian, and she is the daughter of Elder Su Ren, who is known as the "Holy Hand of Rejuvenation" of the Holy Gate of Medicine, Su Yuexian's mother is the second daughter of Luo Nanxing, the master of the previous Holy Gate of Medicine, Luo Niyu, but unfortunately Luo Neiyu died of shame, and left her husband Su Ren and daughter Su Yuexian seven years ago to return to the West, and Su Ren also died of depression two years after his wife left.

At this point, the burden of the entire Medical Holy Gate fell on Sima Zhengqing.

Zhong Yuan and Xiao Xinyi entered the mountain gate and went straight to the Sky Palace, while Su Yuexian settled down and Lan Yun took Yunliu to the back mountain.

Along the winding stone path, the two of them had nothing to say all the way, and they saw two figures standing side by side at the door of the Lingkong Hall from a distance, one of them was a plain robe and hosta, and the beard reached his chest, and the fairy wind bones on his body were the master of the two, Sima Zhengqing. The other person had gray hair, and his face was covered with deep and shallow wrinkles, and he looked older than Sima Zhengqing, who had a gray beard.

Gradually, getting closer and closer, Xiao Xinyi's eyes became more and more blurred, although that face was much thinner and older than ten years ago, but she could still see at a glance that Qin Zhen, one of the bandits taken in by Jiang Wanyun twelve years ago.

"Uncle Qin." Xiao Xinyi looked at the old man in front of him with three points of certainty and three points uncertainly.

"Miss, Qin Zhen is incompetent." As if stimulated by Xiao Xinyi's appearance, the old man suddenly knelt down in front of Xiao Xinyi, tears running down his furrow-like wrinkles.

Men have gold under their knees, and men don't flick when they have tears, which is the saint's flaunting of men in the world, and it is also the dignity and mind that a good man should have in the eyes of the world, but sometimes, tears represent not cowardice and despair, but the most sincere feeling in the bottom of people's hearts, and the emotions that need to be vented the most.

Xiao Xinyi walked a few steps and knelt in front of the old man, and helped the old man's deeply bent back, the old man slowly raised his head, and looked sadly at the woman in front of him who was like Mrs. Xiao's seven-point portrait tremblingly and pulled up the sleeve of his right hand, and on the forearm of his right hand, there were traces left by the whip.

Xiao Xinyi looked at the whip marks that were still clearly visible after decades, and finally cried, tears falling one by one like beads with broken threads, which was the only trace left by his mother in the world. No, there is another one, on the demon who killed the three hundred members of the Jiang family.

Xiao Xinyi bit her lip tightly, she had never shed so many tears since she cried in the snow ten years ago. The grievances of those who pretended to be strong, those clouds and light winds, and those grievances who sat quietly until dawn late at night, could no longer maintain themselves at the moment when they saw the whip marks of their mothers and the deceased who had protected them for two years, and finally broke out.

Qin Zhen looked at Xiao Xinyi, who was bursting with tears, and said tremblingly: "Miss, Qin Zhen is incompetent, he didn't protect the alliance leader back then, and he hasn't been able to find his son after so many years."

Xiao Xinyi was shocked: "Brother, he's still alive."

Back then, the master only told her that Xiao Duzhong's body had not been found, but how normal it was to not find a single corpse on such a battlefield full of corpses. But since the body was not found, Xiao Xinyi has always been willing to believe that his brother is still in the world, and one day the two will meet again. Now that I hear the news that my brother is still alive, and it is accurate news, how can I describe my feelings as stormy.

The main hall of the Lingkong Hall is dedicated to the Taiyi Salvation Tianzun who sits on the nine-colored lotus, and there are six freshly lit incense sticks in the gossip purple gold furnace.

Zhong Yuan and Xiao Xinyi came to the side hall after cleaning their hands and offering incense, and Sima Zhengqing and Qin Zhen were already sitting on their seats waiting for the two of them in the side hall.

"Uncle Qin, what was the truth of what happened back then, and how did you escape?" Xiao Xinyi had gradually suppressed the sadness in his heart, and tried his best to maintain a calm expression and looked at Qin Zhen.

Qin Zhen was silent for a long time, as if he couldn't bear to repeat the events of that year again.

"When I followed the alliance lord and the prince and the two thousand guards in the village to the imperial city to stop the big battle, when I arrived at the foot of the imperial city, the martial arts people had already fought with the imperial city guards, when we first arrived, the martial arts people thought that we were rushing to support, and we learned that they didn't know that the people who ordered them with the Five Lakes Order were not the alliance leaders at all. While resisting the fight of the guards of the imperial city, the alliance leader found their leaders among the various sects, and after explaining everything clearly, everyone had no intention of fighting anymore and wanted to withdraw. The leader of the alliance used his internal force to call out to the commander of the guards in the imperial city and tell him the truth. At that time, whether it was the martial arts side or the imperial city side, there was a truce and confrontation, and the commander of the imperial city guards heard what the alliance leader said, and immediately sent someone to the palace to reply, but he didn't wait for the emperor's will for a long time, but waited for a big master. The man came from nowhere, as if he appeared behind the alliance leader out of thin air, holding a dagger quenched with poison and piercing the alliance leader's heart with a sword. ”

"What." Rao is Xiao Xinyi had tried his best to restrain his emotions, but he still stood up from the chair and looked at Qin Zhen with an incredulous expression, hoping that he had heard it wrong just now.

Qin Zhen's eyes kept looking away when he said these words, ten years have been a whole decade, he has never dared to think about the details of these things, whenever he thinks of this, his heart is like being pulled out little by little with a knife.

"Are you saying that my father was attacked from behind, and my father had already prevented the big battle, and the emperor gave him a killing order without even giving him a chance to defend himself." Xiao Xinyi no longer knows if he has said this sentence or if he is just thinking in his heart.

Qin Zhen was silent, how did he answer this question.

"Uncle Qin, you go on, what about later." It seemed that a long time had passed, and Xiao Xinyi's somewhat hoarse voice came.

Later, when the big guy saw the alliance leader fall to the ground, he reacted to what happened, and at that time, I don't know where there was a voice: "The traitors in the rivers and lakes want to attack the imperial city and shake the country's foundation, and their hearts can be punished, and they should be killed." After that, I don't know who made the first move, and everyone fought together, which was even more tragic than at the beginning. In the scuffle, I saw a team of people escorting Childe out of the edge of the fight, and later, I only remember that I had a pain in my chest, and I didn't know anything, and when I woke up, I found that I had been rescued by the people of the Double Holy Gate, and it had been two months since the battle. Qin Zhen glanced at Sima Zhengqing when he said this, and continued: "Master Sima Sect healed me, and also passed on the internal strength "Yuan Qi Shield" and "Dragon Bird Knife" to me, and told me that Miss has entered the Double Holy Gate, let me be incognito, and help Miss when necessary, otherwise I would not have the face to live to this day." For so many years, I have been secretly looking for Childe, but there has been no definite news. Qin Zhen finished saying this in one breath, and leaned back on the back of the chair as if he had exhausted all his strength.

The seven hundred-year-old camphor trees outside the Sky Hall are planted according to the direction of the Big Dipper, each of which is luxuriant, like a green umbrella that is opened, Sima Zhengqing and Xiao Xinyi stood in front of the window and looked at these leaves dancing in the wind. Since Zhong Yuan helped Qin Zhen out of the Sky Hall half an hour ago, the master and apprentice had not changed their postures.

"If there's anything you'd like to ask, just ask." Finally, it was Sima Zhengqing who opened his mouth first.