Chapter 7 Old things are like dreams, and they are both rigid and soft

This pair of knives, named Liaofeng, was a birthday gift from my brother when I was nine years old.

"Brother, this name is really ugly."

I still remember the first man to die under these two swords,

But I can't remember how many people died under these two knives.

My brother and I are both dragons, and he is one round older than me, but he preferred to name my twin swords Feng. It's funny, but I've been sad for a long time.

For as long as I can remember, my brother has taken me to work as a coolie on the docks in Kyokuni.

My brother told me that we are from the Tang Kingdom, and our father is a descendant of the Tang General.

There was a great king in the Tang Kingdom named Tang Yi, and a great military artist named Nangong Sheng, but unfortunately they all died.

As written in the history books, Wen Bo filled all the people of the Tang State with lowly status, and the so-called lowly status is the livestock that cannot be bought and sold, while slaves can be bought and sold.

In my childhood memories, my brother was very tall, he was always smiling, his tan skin, and his white shiny teeth.

While my brother was working, I played by the docks.

I watched as the foreman put bags and bags of heavy goods on my brother's shoulders, so heavy that he couldn't straighten his waist, so heavy that he fell again and again, and then he was beaten again and again.

I never went hungry, and my brother would always buy me something delicious.

"Brother, you can eat it too!"

"Brother doesn't eat, brother has grown up, you can't be hungry when you grow your body." The elder brother smiled when he finished speaking.

He was no more than sixteen years old.

On the eve of the storm, the elder brother was glad, and the foreman told them that morrow there would be a shipment of important goods, and that the most capable man would have a reward of a tael of silver.

I'll never forget that rainstorm, when I was seven years old.

A big ship that had never been seen before brought a whole boatload of porcelain from the Holy Domain Haotian City, and I heard that this was a birthday gift from the king of Jingguo to the new concubine.

The workers on the dock are working hard, and the elder brother is the hardest, others run once, he runs twice, others carry a box, he carries two boxes.

I sat in front of the wooden shed, looking at my brother as he ran, thinking about the sugar man at the market stall.

"Brother, hurry up, hurry up, we'll have money soon."

The weather by the sea is always cloudy, and when black clouds gather in the east, a storm sweeps over the sea.

The heavy rain instantly flooded my vision, and my brother's running figure became blurred, but fortunately, more than half of the cargo on the ship had been unloaded.

The beach in the rain was soft and slippery, maybe my brother was tired, he didn't step steadily, and he fell heavily on the sand.

Two boxes of porcelain, broken.

Two boxes of porcelain from the Sacred Domain Haotian City are enough for a hundred untouchables like us to accompany the burial.

The foreman tied his brother to a stake and beat him with a steel cable.

I was scared and angry, and I cried vigorously, but the rain was so heavy that no one could hear my cry.

When I rushed into the rainstorm, my brother was already a bloody man, and he saw me and grinned.

"Let go of my brother."

I bit the foreman's hand hard, but I was so weak that the foreman threw me in the muddy water.

I cried and got up from the rain, took out my little dagger, and stabbed the foreman in the thigh.

"You little bunny." The foreman stomped on my face, and the wire whipped down.

"Nope! Let go of my brother! ”

My brother actually broke the rope, and I saw that he was steaming all over.

I've never seen a brother like that, burning with fire, with anger.

The elder brother kicked the foreman away, and the officers and soldiers on the dock instantly surrounded him. The elder brother screamed violently and broke the flagpole on the dock, and he wrapped the flag tightly around it, holding the flagpole.

At that moment, I saw a dragon, a silver dragon.

Killing people never leaves them alive, this is what my brother taught me.

We fled from Beijing, hid in Tibet, and traveled for a year to the country deep in the mountains.

Leaving the country is a martial country, regardless of background, my brother joined the army here, and became a military commander, a chief, a deputy general, a general, and a pioneer.

When I was nine years old, my brother gave me a pair of flaming phoenix knives and began to teach me martial arts.

"Silver Dragon marksmanship, red phoenix double sword, is our single family heirloom."

"Nope! Brother, I want to be a dragon, I want to learn the silver dragon gun! ”

"Good, good, good. When you learn the Red Phoenix Twin Blades, I will teach you the Silver Dragon Spear. ”

My brother is different from me, he is kind, easy-going, submissive, and does not argue with others.

Although he also kills.

In the world-famous defeat of the country, the elder brother became the only survivor.

I know that he is by no means a coward, a deserter.

He just wanted to bring the manager's body back, he just wanted to come back and see me, but others didn't.

It was a midsummer rainstorm again, and my brother knelt in the rain.

I stood at the top of the wall, still watching from afar.

When the sword was drawn, I gripped it tightly.

The sword did not fall, a child stood in front of the sword, and the blood beads on the tip of the sword were instantly washed into the rain and disappeared.

That drop of blood is the deep mark on the center of Childe's eyebrows.

The next day, a tragedy occurred that shook the whole country, and the prison in Licheng was robbed, and none of the 300 jailers survived.

My brother taught me that I never leave a living mouth when I kill.

The elder brother said, I shouldn't have saved him, our single family has always been the door of loyalty.

I said, "If you die, there will be no more single family in this world."

The escape ended in the Kingdom of Clouds, and King Yun recruited his brother.

My brother and I became the seventy-two guards of the Cloud King Palace.

The so-called seventy-two guards of the Cloud King Palace are, to put it bluntly, a killer.

That's eight years.

On the day I received the original teacher's letterhead, it was another rainstorm.

"Ash, we're leaving the country."

"Brother, King Yun won't let us go."

"It's okay, I'll go explain the situation to him. We've done so much for King Yun, and I don't think he will embarrass us. ”

The elder brother hurried out of the house and quickly disappeared into the night rain.

After he left, I tidied up and picked up the silver dragon spear and the phoenix twin knives.

I knew that if I didn't go, my brother would definitely die in the Cloud King's Palace. He is a foolish man, and even if he dies, he will not fight back to those he knows.

But after all, it was too late.

When I kicked open the gate of the palace and entered the main hall, I saw my brother lying in a pool of blood.

"Ember, take me home! Childe needs us. ”

"Brother, do we still have a home?"

"Yes! Childe saved my life, we must, we must protect him. ”

On that day, I killed a lot of people, who fought side by side with me, and they used to call Brother Brother.

I felt collapsed, I felt suffocated, I was tired like never before, my knife-wielding hands were numb, but I knew I couldn't stop.

Stop, and I'll fall.

"Brother, I'll take you home!"

My brother didn't look away, he still has undone things waiting for me to do, unrepaid kindness waiting for me to report, and unfinished loyalty waiting for me to finish.

He is such a noble person that he should not have stigma in this life.

The moon shone from the south city to the north city, and the moon shadow that shook in the heart of the river shattered as soon as the wind blew. Ku Rong sat on the window lattice, looking at the empty street outside the window, reminiscing about the past, and gulping cold wine.

The cold wine became warmer and warmer, and a few wild dogs hurried across the long street, and Wang Zuo's heavy snoring came from the next room.

The moon is especially bright tonight.

Listening to Wang Zuo's snoring, Chongsheng couldn't sleep.

I haven't slept tonight and Qingxue.

When Qingxue was born, the queen mother died in childbirth, and the king never established a queen again.

"What are you playing?"

"I'm playing to find the queen mother!"

"Looking for the queen mother?"

"I've never met the queen mother, so I'm looking for her."

"I've never seen my queen mother, let's look for it together!"

That was the first time Qingxue and Little Tiger met.

Although King Jun pinned almost all his love for the queen to Qingxue, Qingxue, who had no mother, still wanted to have a queen mother.

"My father said that your father was a tiger, so are you a little tiger?"

"My father said that your father was a slippery head, so aren't you a little slippery head?"

"People are not little slippery heads, people are little princesses."

"You're a little slipper! Small slippery head. ”

The old tiger brought the tiger cub to the palace at night.

Qingxue was already very sleepy and took a nap, but Junwang wouldn't let her sleep.

"The little tiger is really good-looking."

Although there are many people who play with Qingxue, Qingxue has never had friends.

The little tiger is different, the little tiger will play with Qingxue, will quarrel with Qingxue, will beat Qingxue when he gets angry, and of course will make Qingxue happy after the beating.

In just five days, the old tiger was about to take the little tiger away, and Qingxue cried very much: "Little tiger, you can't forget me in the future!" ”

"Don't worry, little slippery, I'll write to you in the future!"

"But I don't know how to read."

"So you have to study hard in the future. Small slippery head. ”

Since then, every month on the full moon night of the fifteenth month, a white crane will deliver a letter.

At first, Qingxue didn't know much about reading, so she asked Li Niang to read the letter to her, read it over and over again, fell asleep reading the letter, and after waking up, she pestered Li Niang to continue reading.

"Little slippery head! How's it going? The white lotus in the palace is open, but it's beautiful, but it's a pity that you can't see ......"

"Little slippery, how are you doing? My father is getting colder and colder to me! Alas, I don't even know who to play with, if only you we......."

"Little slippery head, tell you a great joy! I'm my brother! My father gave birth to another little brother for me, and he was chubby, but it was fun......"

Under Li Niang's ghostwriting, Qingxue replied to the little tiger with the first letter.

"Little Tiger, my father has made me a lot of new clothes, so many that I can't wear them all, envy you? And please call me Princess Cher in the future, my father was very angry when he found out that your father told him to slip his head......"

Time flies, time flies.

Little Cher becomes Big Cher and becomes more and more beautiful, while Little Tiger becomes a humble prince.

"Snow Princess, seeing the letter and health, often think of the happy times with you when I was a child, the white fern blooms in spring, the lotus floats, the lotus heart is in the pool, the flowers are white and green, but the heart is red......."

"Snow Princess, the first snow in winter, landing silently, seeing things and thinking about people, feeling the situation, pretending to compose a poem: the snow does not melt when the snow falls on a sunny day, and the ice is in the heart at four o'clock ......in winter."

Everything that happened in the palace of King Jun could not be hidden from King Jun, and Qingxue's thoughts could not be hidden from King Jun. But King Jun pretended not to know, and acquiesced to the correspondence between Qingxue and Little Tiger. In other words, King Jun is trying his best to cooperate with Qingxue, and he pushed away all the dignitaries and nobles who came to Junguo to propose.

Although Qingxue and Little Tiger have not made it clear, they have long regarded each other as the other half of their lives in their hearts.

"Little Tiger, I have a distant cousin who eloped, you said that if the people who are in love can't be together, then elopement is a crime......"

"Snow Princess, I was very happy to receive the letter yesterday. Although I don't agree with the elopement, your cousin's courage in running away for love is really admirable......"

The concubines in the palace were ready to marry Qingxue, but it ended in the wrath of King Jun, and no one dared to mention this taboo after that.

Eleven years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In March, a flower viewing party was held in the palace of King Jun, and King Jun was drunk and smiled at Qingxue and said: "Xue'er, if your father marries you to the little tiger, are you willing?" ”

"Father, isn't it clearly stipulated in Wen Bolu that princes cannot marry each other?" Qingxue was surprised and delighted, and her face turned red all of a sudden.

"Your father is called the king, but what if your father has a law?" Junwang said half-jokingly, half-seriously.

"Father, what you said is true." Qingxue almost jumped up in excitement.

"Hahaha, my father is drunk." Jun Wang finished speaking, and fell down on the table.

I don't know if Junwang's words are true or false, but Qingxue takes them seriously.

On the night of April 15, the white crane arrived as scheduled, and Qingxue took the prepared letter in her hand and happily looked up at the stars.

"Little Tiger, are you willing to marry me and let me be your princess?"

But the white crane circled for a long time, crying in the air very violently, and was reluctant to fall.

"White Crane, come down quickly! Hakuzuru, what's wrong with you? Sick? ”

The white crane finally flew away, and Qingxue's heart sank.

After that, it seemed that someone blocked the news, and no palace person dared to tell Qingxue about the little tiger, Qingxue asked King Jun many times, and King Jun avoided talking about it.

Qingxue became ill and became thinner and thinner, so Li Niang took Qingxue to escape from the Junwang Palace.

"Little Tiger, Little Tiger. Even if you're sick, you should have a letter! If you don't die, I'll beat you half to death when I find you!" ”

"Eldest princess, it's almost dawn, are you still talking there? Not going to look for the little tiger tomorrow? Li Niang rolled over and said half-asleep.

Qingxue quickly closed her eyes and covered her face with a quilt and pretended to be asleep.

"Little tiger! Cher really misses you. Qingxue thought to herself, her eyes were wet.