CHAPTER XXII
Zhu Daiyu groaned and woke up, but when he opened his eyes, it was still dark.
He remembered what had just happened. The fox gently stroked his forehead with his hand, and for a moment there was silence, and a warm feeling enveloped him, as if he had returned to the beginning, and turned into an ignorant baby again, curled up in his mother's body with his eyes closed.
"Awake? It's early. The fox Yan's voice rang out, and he shivered violently with the clear jade-like voice.
"Where is this?" He tried to maintain his composure, but his trembling legs betrayed the cowardice in his heart.
"Don't panic, I won't hurt you. Remember what I said to you? His Royal Highness? ”
Come to think of it! Zhu Daiyu's pupils shrank, "You said you wanted to help me?" He looked around, his eyes adjusting to the darkness here, and only saw a vague figure in front of him," ...... Is that how you helped me? ”
"How can I help you, in your opinion?"
The fox came out of the darkness, his long black coat could not be seen clearly in the darkness, at first glance it seemed that only one face was floating in the air, and the corners of his mouth were hooked into a smile to speak.
"Tie him up, whip him with a whip, dip it in salt water and chili peppers, and when he faints in pain, he will wake up with cold water, wake up and smoke ......" Gou Wu Hou Shizi looked resentful, although the person who whipped him with a whip was not Xiong Lan, but deep down he was extremely jealous of Xiong Lan.
Or rather, jealousy. Gou Wu is located in Wu Yue, Chu is located in Jing Chu, three hundred years ago at the beginning of the establishment of the Great Yan State, Gou Wu and Chu are regarded as wild and borderland, far away from the Central Plains Yan royal culture, Gou Wu ancestors tried their best to change their own customs, and Chu was unmoved. Hundreds of years have passed, and the state of Gou Wu is still a marquis, but the state of Chu has jumped from a small viscount to the only kingdom with a different surname in Dayan. Zhu Daiyu, who was proud of his family background, was jealous of Xiong Lan's status as the prince of the king, and felt that Xiong Lan's maintenance of Yingyue was provoking him, so he was dissatisfied, so that he became resentful.
The eyes of the vile are all despicable things, and justice has long been lost.
"Childish, do you think revenge is just a child's play?" The fox sneered, he pressed Zhu Daiyu's shoulder, his hand was not very strong, but Zhu Daiyu felt that he had a tiger and leopard on his shoulder, and his fangs drooled greedily, "Even if you torture one Xiong Lan to death, can you guarantee that no one in the world will become the second Xiong Lan?" Can you guarantee that you won't meet someone like him again? Do you think that a revenge can be done once and for all? ”
"Then you say, what should I do!"
"It's not just Xiong Lan who wants revenge," Hu Yan lowered his body and touched Zhu Daiyu's forehead, his gentle eyes were cold, "but the whole world." ”
He let go of Zhu Daiyu, turned around and his voice became more and more high-pitched, "This world, including people who look down on you, such as Xiong Lan, relying on his family background, ignoring you and despising you, but pretending to be a disgusting face of justice and Ling Ran; Including the crown, who is obviously just a trivial mud leg and mongrel, but dares to whip you in the face; There is also Yingyue, maybe he is still a wild seed of the Northern Barbarians, with a father and no mother, a pitiful appearance, seeing someone who is more powerful than him and nobler than him, he should kneel, but he looks up and thinks that he has a fire in his heart that can burn all the bullying and remove all the unpleasantness, in the end, he is not a little boy who does not know the world, he dares not to listen to your orders; There is also Liu Xuan, who is just a dog of Emperor Yan, a prestige marquis without a fief, leading Yan Lingwei, who thinks he is a strong army, and feels that he has surpassed Gou Wu for a hundred years, thinking that he can defeat the invincible heaven-sent strong army of Gou Wu, it is really beyond his strength......"
"You see, so many people deserve to die, their existence is an insult to you, they are slapping you hard, can you bear it? Don't forget that you are the son of Gouwu Kingdom, and you will be the master of thousands of miles of Jiangdong! ”
He said a lot of words, spittle, in the end it seemed that his eyes were red, every word that came out of his mouth was like a feather gently but just right to scratch his heart, the itchy place was more itchy, the painful place was more painful, it was like Zhu Daiyu's confidant, as if he had been living in his heart, so he was so familiar with this big and small acne, and understood that this heart would tremble for something.
"To torture them...... Tortured to death! Zhu Daiyu shouted in a low voice with red eyes.
"So, I'm here to help you." The fox was like a maggot on the tarsal bones, and he clung to him and said in a seductive voice in his ear. His hand reached out into the darkness behind him, and when he withdrew it, he had already pressed a box with only a rudimentary wood grain on it.
He handed the box over, and Zhu Daiyu opened it suspiciously.
In the dim environment, a long knife in the box appeared in front of him.
He was stunned, his eyes radiating a feverish color, and he trembled and reached out to grasp the knife tightly.
The blade trembled suddenly.
He pulled out the knife with all his might!
"It's ...... Xuanjiao! Zhu Daiyu muttered.
"How do you have a cocktail?"
"Because of Destiny."
"What do you mean...... Am I Destiny? Should the Xuan Yan belong to me? Zhu Daiyu's tone was slightly excited.
A worldly famous blade was suddenly declared to belong to him, no matter who it was, it was impossible to be calm as usual, not to mention a teenager who was full of hatred, he stroked the Xuanyan and couldn't put it down.
"This knife was not given to you for nothing, you have a mission." The fox suddenly pushed him and woke him up from his fantasy, "Use this knife to kill them." Not a single one is left. ”
"None left?"
"None of them will be left!"
Under the willow tree by Qingcong Lake, three teenagers sat side by side.
Xiong Lan broke off a wicker that had long withered, twisted it a few times, and seemed to want to put it in his mouth to make a whistle.
The huge Yanjing, after the winter, is frozen everywhere, but the surface of the lake is calm as usual, but this calm is only on the surface, if you really try it, you can freeze your bones and tremble.
A cool breeze blew, and he shivered violently.
"Are you so frost-resistant?"
He asked Yingyue and Xiaolou beside him viciously.
Xiaolou is still wearing a skirt, the fabric has become thicker, and Yingyue has a cloak, and she is still a dark casual dress inside. The two of them have lived in the north for a long time, and they have been accustomed to the cold weather in winter early, but Xiong Lan suddenly came to the north from the south where the four seasons are warm, and he is not used to it for a while.
Ying Yue turned her head and was a little stunned when she saw Xiong Lan's face that was a little blue from the cold, and then pulled Xiao Lou's sleeve: "Let's get out of here first, Ah Lan is too cold." ”
"Yo, Xiong Dashizi, the bones of the body are not very good," Xiao Lou smiled evilly, slapped Xiong Lan on the shoulder, and pinched it again, "It looks very energetic, so it doesn't freeze?" ”
Xiong Lan shook off her hand and was about to retort, but a sneeze sneezed from her mouth.
"Let's go, let's go, go over there, there's a restaurant over there." Ying Yue took one in one hand and pulled the two people who were arguing with themselves into the restaurant.
They went straight up to the second floor, and a half-withered, half-green wicker stuck out of the window of the second floor, and hung its head wiltingly.
As soon as they sat down, the shopkeeper brought a few dishes into the house, and he saw at a glance that the three children were either rich or expensive, and saw Xiong Lan trembling gently, so he took a blanket intimately, and warmed the least intoxicating "flower head light brew" in the store.
Wrapped in a blanket, Xiong Lan's whole body was indeed warm, and a copper pipe came up from the hall to emit heat, leaving only the half-open window with the occasional cool breeze blowing in.
Xiong Lan shuddered and stepped forward to close the window.
"Dongfeng ......," he suddenly heard Xiao Lou murmuring.
"What?"
Xiaolou looked at the sky, the sky was gloomy from the morning, there were orchids in the courtyard under the restaurant, which bloomed surprisingly late, shaking petals in the cold wind one by one.
"The east wind ignores the people in the building, and the court is full of whimpering rain."
He heard what Xiao Lou was reading.
It is two lines of poetry, but it is so sour that it is not good, it is not like it was written by a famous poet in the world, but like a poor pedant who has studied hard all his life, he is very old, holding a pot of tea in the cloudy weather, and a thunder outside struck down, illuminating a few dry orchids in the courtyard, and he opened his mouth to say so, and even he didn't know what he wanted to express.
Maybe it's just whining, maybe it's just a stomach full of whining for the rest of your life.
"Know whose poem this is?" She suddenly asked Yingyue and Xiong Lan, and her face was replaced with the cunning unique to girls, "Guess what, there will be a prize for guessing correctly." ”
"......." Among the three people, Xiong Lan is one by one, he frowned and thought for a long time, but he didn't expect Ying Yue to blurt out: "I don't know, Xiaolou, you can say it." ”
"You're stupid, you're just... Just ask her directly? Xiong Lan turned around and pressed Yingyue's head, and said in a low voice, "It's spineless to admit defeat!" ”
Xiaolou "snapped" and knocked off Xiong Lan's evil hand, "What is spineless, did I say that there is a punishment for guessing wrong?" ”
"That's it...... Besides, haven't you never been afraid of Xiaolou? What's wrong with having a penalty? Ying Yue also muttered in a low voice.
Xiao Lou smiled: "The poem is written by the Marquis of Weixin." ”
"Prestige Marquis? What prestige marquis? Have you heard of it? Where did the sour Confucianism come from! ”
"Prestige Marquis...... "Prestige Hou" Ying Yue muttered a few words, and suddenly his face became very exciting.
Xiao Lou raised an eyebrow at him.
"Who, isn't it...... Are you still colluding to hide from me? Ah Yue, say it quickly! ”
Ying Yue motioned for Xiong Lan to attach her ears, and her lips moved a few times, and Xiong Lan couldn't help but laugh.
"Hahahaha...... General Liu, you say? Did you remember it wrongly or did Xiaolou remember it wrong? General Liu, he ......"
"What's wrong with me?"
A gruff voice suddenly sounded outside their door, and the door was pushed open so hard that a tall figure stood in the way.
The shopkeeper stepped forward to ask, but was so frightened by the cold light in his fine eyes that he didn't dare to move.
It was a sword-like cold light, like an entire mountain being turned around, and the top of the mountain stabbed at the person who looked at it.
Xiong Lan sat closest to the copper pipe for heating, but his face was pale, and his expression was numb.
"Why, am I only allowed to be rude?" The man strode in, and when he saw Xiao Lou present, he was stunned for a moment, and made a salute, and Xiao Lou suddenly became a lady, and when he returned the salute, he was a royal etiquette.
"It's not...... The general ......" Xiong Lan's tongue was about to be knotted, Xiao Lou smiled playfully when he saw this, "Liu Hou, he was so happy to laugh just now, I didn't believe that you could write poetry!" ”
After she finished speaking, she waved her fist at Xiong Lan with a mouthful of silver teeth, and then saluted Liu Xuan and slipped out quietly, not forgetting to give Ying Yue a smile that succeeded in her trick.
"Sit down, what are you doing standing stupidly?" Liu Xuan sat on the couch chair in the room and patted the cushion beside him.
Xiong Lan sat beside him with a sad face.
didn't guess that it was Liu Xuan's poem, so he recognized it...... But the luck was too bad, just after questioning Liu Xuan, he met the main owner.
"You can sit down too!" Liu Xuan glared at Yingyue.
"Okay, two boys have hooked up with the princess!" He picked up the "Flower Head Light Brew" on the table, put his nose down and sniffed it, and threw it back with a disdainful face, "It's really worthy of being a nobleman." ”
"General, this is not a hook-up, we are friends." Ying Yue whispered.
Liu Xuan shook his hand, "I don't care about your affairs, and I can't take care of it, you two are my pawns in the camp, and I have to give you two a salute when I leave the palace." ”
"No, I really don't need to ......" Xiong Lan said with a smile on his face, and Liu Xuanpu's fan-like slap slapped him on the shoulder, and half of his body was crooked.
"Sit down for me! Don't interject until you speak! ”
"Let me ask you two, have you seen Zhu Daiyu?"
Ying Yue was stunned for a moment when she heard this name.
"That sick ghost, in which hook column may he show his identity as the prince of Wu Hou and hug left and right." Xiong Lan snorted.
Ying Yue immediately hung the name Zhu Daiyu with the tall, thin and gloomy boy in her mind.
Listening to Liu Xuan's words, Zhu Daiyu is missing?
"If so, it's okay," Liu Xuan put down his wine glass heavily, "There is a letter in Yan Lingwei, saying that someone by the lake is armed with a knife to commit murder, and when he meets someone, he will ask Xiong Lan where he is, and if there is no result, he will kill him." ”
Xiong Lan didn't understand, "Ask me where I am?" General, what does he mean by asking me? ”
"I was about to ask you, what is the relationship between you two!"
"Origin? I don't know him well, where did he come from, he has a ghost in his heart, and he doesn't look like a human being! ”
As they were talking, Yingyue's face changed, and she hurriedly ran to the window, half of her body leaning out.
Xiong Lan ...... Where is Xiong Lan! Where is Xiong Lan! ”
A sound came from far and near, accompanied by the sound of metal grinding the ground, as if someone was walking from the street to the end of the alley, dragging a long knife behind him.
In Yingyue's eyes, the pedestrians on the street downstairs deliberately bypassed a young man with a knife, and the vendors on both sides were packing up their things in a panic.
The young man who was surrounded by the crowd was tall and thin, and he had a long knife in his hand, and it was not too much to say that he was covered in blood, and there were even a few pieces of minced meat hanging on the placket of his clothes.
"Zhu Daiyu!" Ying Yue exclaimed quietly.
Zhu Daiyu looked up blankly, and after looking around, he locked on Yingyue's position, he grinned and showed his white teeth, and smiled fiercely: "Here!" ”
After finishing speaking, his body suddenly skyrocketed, Ying Yue was startled, and when he looked at it, it was not that his body had skyrocketed, but that he seemed to be flying, jumping extremely high, a face was only a few feet away from Ying Yue, and the hot breath exhaled from his mouth was sprayed on Ying Yue's face.
"You ...... They all have to die! He let out a "wow" and slashed off the head of the long knife.
The window was slammed shut, and Yingyue was pulled aside by the neck.
The blade was like cutting tofu, unobstructed in the window, just as it was brushing the tip of Yingyue's nose.
Ying Yue saw its shape clearly, the blade was slender, and two words were inscribed in ancient Yanwen near the hilt, and the blade was pitch black, about three feet and nine inches long.
Two stubby fingers suddenly stretched out, firmly clamped the blade, and slammed it hard to the side, with a sigh, a palm broke the wooden window, and hit Zhu Daiyu's chest hard, it seemed that there was no mercy, and the sound of "kal-la-la" bones broke out. The black knife fell with him.
"Xiong Lan! Appeared! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to kill you! Zhu Daiyu smashed his whole body in the courtyard behind the restaurant, and the injury to his bones did not affect him much, so he continued to scold when he got up.
Ying Yue remembered Zhu Daiyu's face just now, her eyebrows were furrowed, her expression was hideous, she was holding the black knife with great piety, and she whispered it several times in her mouth, and she didn't know if it was a spell or communicating with others.
That knife is a bit like Xiong Lan's world clouds.
"Where's your knife?" Liu Xuan suddenly asked urgently.
"I didn't bring it out! Who knew there would be such a show today! Xiong Lan was also anxious, Xiao Lou finally persuaded him to put the knife in the yard first, and came out just to play.
"I won't have a knife, I'll beat you anyway!"
Liu Xuan heard Xiong Lan's answer, but didn't respond, gritted his teeth, broke the window and jumped, and when he landed, it seemed that the heavens and the earth were shaken.
Zhu Daiyu in front of him seemed to have lost his mind, his eyes were red, his lips were rolling, and saliva flowed out of the corners of his mouth uncontrollably, and the only thing he held tightly was the black knife.
It's as if the knife is a natal one.