Chapter 127: Two Stories
The night sky was still dark, but the whistling mountain wind calmed down a little, and Su Ming turned around to look at the ethereal light in Fanluo's dormitory, and he could imagine that Fanluo must be crying sadly.
"I've heard that there's a sweetheart in Fenluo before, and now I finally know who it is." A dark shadow appeared behind Yu Suming at some point, and said faintly.
"Huh." Juan Suming didn't look back, but laughed softly at herself: "Yuenu Mountain, Yuenu Mountain, because here, I deeply hurt two women, and in the end, I also lost them." β
"I can see that Fenluo still loves you very much, I think he loves you far more than he loves me, if I can make Fenluo happy, I hope you can stay, and I will choose to leave."
Yu Suming shook his head and said: "No need, you and I are no longer young men with strong blood, and Fenluo has long been a mother, let it pass in the past." β
"Can you tell me about your past with Fenluo?" Chen Yin took out two water bags filled with Xiaoling wine and handed one to Yu Suming.
Juan Suming smiled, took the water bag, signaled to Chen Yin, and then drank most of the bag in one go, after drinking, Juan Suming sat on the ground, let out a sigh, and said: "This matter has been hidden in my heart for almost twenty years, and I have never talked to anyone, so let's talk to you today." β
"Eighteen years ago, there was a plague in the village where I lived, and many people became seriously ill. As a village official, I naturally had to think of something to do. β
"My father invited a young man from outside, saying that he was a young man, but it was better to say that he was still a child, the child had superb medical skills, but he did not hesitate to test the medicinal properties, he did not hesitate to test human lives, many people died in his hands, gradually, no one dared to take his medicine anymore, and the villagers avoided it."
"The plague is still spreading, the epidemic situation in the village has worsened, and even me and the doctor have contracted the plague. Just when we were at a loss, we noticed a fool. The fool wandered into the village a year ago, and the people of the village saw pity for him and kept him. He is tall and big, but he can't even speak clearly, and he can't do anything except silly fun all day long, and my wife is kind-hearted and often leaves him at home for dinner. β
"A fool seems to be no different from anyone else except a fool, but he doesn't seem to be infected with the plague. In order to determine whether the fool was really immune to the plague and to understand why he was immune, the doctor decided to test the fool. In the past, I would definitely not agree with him, even if that person is just a fool, he has the right to live, and no one is qualified to be so careless about human life. β
"Maybe it was to save the villagers, maybe it was to save myself, but in the end I agreed to the doctor's approach, and even helped him to test the fool, I think that all the guilt I suffered later may be God's punishment for me."
"We locked the fool in the same room as the plague patient, and even tied him to the corpse, hehe, the fool is really stupid, he just cried bitterly after being bullied by us, but he danced with joy because of a piece of pestilence pig meat, although we tortured the fool repeatedly, he was never infected."
"I felt sad about what I was doing, and at one time I blamed myself very much, but the doctor was very excited, after determining that the fool was immune to the plague, he believed that he had found the key to curing the plague, he fed the fool all kinds of medicines, did all kinds of experiments, but still did not make any progress, seeing that there were more and more dead people in the village, and the doctor and I were getting sicker and worse, I fell into extreme despair, but the fool still looked at us happily and smirked, hum, this may be a mockery of fate."
"Then one day I heard the screams of the fool outside, and I hurried into the house, and saw the angry doctor tying the fool to a pillar and beating him with a leather whip. In the end, I just stood in the door inexplicably, indifferently watching the fool being beaten, and for some reason, I even wanted to laugh. β
The doctor asked him where he came from, and the fool didn't answer, but kept crying, and finally, the doctor was tired, and the fool was about to be killed, and just when the fool was dying, he seemed to regain his senses and said three wordsβYuenushan."
"After several inquiries, I inquired about the location of the Yue Nu Mountain, with a glimmer of hope, the doctor and I were ready to go to the Yue Nu Mountain, before leaving, I was worried that my wife and son were also infected with the plague, so I asked someone to send their mother and son to my cousin for shelter, I said to my wife, if I did not come back within half a year, it means that I am dead."
"After some twists and turns, when the weather is no longer so hot, when the cicadas at the end of summer come and go, the doctor and I finally walked into this Yuenu Mountain."
Speaking of this, Yu Suming drank the rest of the Xiaoling wine, then paused for a moment, and then continued: "Because it is the end of summer, we have just entered the Yuenu Mountain for two days, and the Yuenu clan has dismantled the suspension bridge. In those two days, I drank a lot of Xiaoling wine, and the plague was cured, it seems that the fool should have gone out from Yuenu Mountain, because he drank Xiaoling wine, so he is immune to the plague. β
"Although the doctor's condition and I have been cured, due to the blockade of the village, the two of us will not be able to leave Yuenu Mountain that year, and we can only wait until the beginning of the following summer at the earliest. At first, I didn't believe in the nonsense of the poisonous fog sealing the mountain, and insisted on leaving in the early autumn, but the Yue Nu people tried desperately to obstruct me and keep me, but they couldn't change my will, after all, I had promised my wife that I would definitely return to her within half a year. However, it wasn't until a casual conversation that I gave up on the idea of leaving. I learned about the fool's past from an old man of the Yue Nu tribe. β
"The fool was originally a scholar, many years ago he came to Chu to seek an official, although he got an official position, but he was only a sesame-sized grain and grass official in a small county town not far from Yuenu Mountain, although the official is small, but the fool does have some talent, and he is down-to-earth and willing to work, not long after, this sesame small official really made him famous, he also got the appreciation of the county order, and got along with the daughter of the county order."
The fool wanted to marry the daughter of the county magistrate, but the county magistrate did not agree, the county magistrate felt that the fool had no money and no power, and was not worthy of his daughter, and he wanted to marry his daughter to the son of the rich man in the county. But the fool's love is very stubborn, and the fool has made up his mind that he must become a big official so that he can marry his sweetheart. Later, just in time for the king of Chu to reform the military system, planning to vigorously develop crossbowmen, the fool did not know where he heard about the Yue Nu Mountain, so he said goodbye to the county order, agreed to return in half a year, if the fool became famous within half a year, the county order would marry his daughter to him, if he failed to succeed, let the county order marry his daughter to the rich man's family. β
"The fool came to Yuenu Mountain, where he learned a lot of knowledge about crossbow shooting, and just when he was ready to go back to the king of Chu to return to his life, it was already late autumn. Although the Yuenu people objected to his departure and even put him under house arrest for a time, he still found an opportunity and escaped from Yuenu Mountain with a rope. β
"In the end, he stoically escaped from Yuenu Mountain, but the poisonous fog had a fatal effect on him, and since then, he has become a fool."
Juan Suming smiled bitterly, looked at Chen Yin and said, "If I don't give up and insist on leaving, I may be like a fool now, smirking and being tricked into the house with a piece of rotten meat, and then beaten to death." β
Chen Yin raised his hand, hesitated for a moment, and finally gently patted Su Ming on the shoulder.
"In that long autumn, winter and spring, I met Fenluo, she fell in love with me, and I fell in love with her. She is willing to give up her identity as the patriarch for me, give up her own people, and even betray her ancestors, and she is willing to follow me to leave Yuenu Mountain forever, even if it is just to be one of my concubines. β
"But...... How could I make her make such a sacrifice, I don't deserve it! β
"Summer finally came, and I lied to her that after I treated the epidemic for the villagers, I would take my wife and children back to the Yuenu Mountain to stay with her."
She believed that, as a patriarch, she didn't even care about my wife and children, and she even planned to completely subvert the traditions of the Yue Nu tribe. I think she must have been under a lot of stress and pain. β
"However, I didn't come back, and this trip is eighteen years......"
After the story of Yu Suming was finished, he snatched the water bag in Chen Yin's hand, took a few more sips, and then said with a smile: "It's your turn." β
Chen Yin took the water bag back, drank the rest of the wine in one go, then looked up at the dark night sky, and said: "If the fool hadn't become stupid, if he could leave Yuenu Mountain in good health, if he could preside over the crossbow establishment of the Chu State, if he could marry his lover, perhaps, my life would be very different." β
Yu Suming smiled: "What does the fool have to do with you. β
"Huh." Chen Yin smiled bitterly, "Maybe there is." β
"I am a native of Chu, I am depressed by nature, and even a little wooden, I don't have any ideas, I just like archery, all I think and do every day is archery, maybe because of my mental focus, my bow and crossbow archery skills are unique in Chu at that time, and I have never met an opponent."
"Sixteen years ago, because I was proficient in archery, the king of Chu ordered me to be the commander of the crossbowmen, responsible for the establishment of 30,000 crossbowmen. Speaking of which, if the fool hadn't become stupid, maybe it wouldn't have been my turn. β
"I have a younger brother who is the opposite of me, he is like a fiery person, he has a heart for the world, he wants to achieve great things, and he is most fond of assassins, and he hopes that one day he can do earth-shattering feats like those assassins, and he will go down in history from now on."
"My younger brother went up the mountain since he was a child, followed the teacher to learn art, and after he finished his studies, he went to Wu Kingdom, and by accident he got acquainted with his husband, who was still a son at the time."
"My husband accepted my brother as a guest and treated him with hospitality every day, but how did my naΓ―ve brother know that my husband's so-called appreciation was actually just to make him sacrifice his life."
"Hehe, as the saying goes, the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, and the husband's practice of buying people's hearts is exactly the same as his father. At that time, the husband sent his father, He Lu, in order to compete for the throne, he intended to assassinate his cousin, Wu Wang. He Lu was recommended by Wu Zixu and met a warrior named Zhuan Zhu, and regarded Zhuan Zhu as a guest, and the warrior was grateful and determined to die for He Lu. β
"I heard that Wu Wangyi likes to eat fish, so Zhuan Zhu learned the art of roasting fish by Taihu Lake all day long, and finally, Zhuan Zhu hid the fish intestine sword in the fish belly, and assassinated Wu Wangyi on the pretext of offering fish, and Zhuan Zhu was also cut into meat puree by a knife."
"Hmph, since ancient times, emperors and generals have been best at this kind of tricks that play with people's hearts, but my stupid brother is willing to die."
"In the end, my younger brother learned to be a master and prepared to assassinate the prince at that time, but the matter was revealed, the prince did not appear, and my brother was arrested."
"My brother was severely tortured and tortured to an inhuman form, but he never summoned his husband, and the husband never rescued him, but just allowed my brother to die in prison."
"After my brother's death, I planned to seek revenge on my husband, and by chance, I found out about my husband's itinerary."
"I squatted on the outskirts of Gusu for three days and three nights, and finally waited for my husband. That time, the husband was supposed to accompany Lu Lu on the patrol, and Wang Ran was in the middle of the team, and the husband wore a helmet and rode a high-headed horse, always walking on Wang Yuan's side. I only had one chance, but it was far away, so I could only aim at his heart, which he just left out. I quietly drew my bow and aimed the arrow at Fucha. β
"The moment I unleashed the bowstring, my mood did not become lighter because of the revenge, on the contrary, my emotions became more solemn, and I even doubted whether there was any point in seeking revenge like this, even if I killed my husband, there would still be princes who played with people's hearts, and there would be assassins who calmly went to death."
"Seeing that my husband was hit by an arrow and fell off my horse, I put away my bow and arrows and left the country of Wu."
"I'm very confident in my marksmanship, and that arrow must have hit Fucha's heart, but I still can't understand why Fucha didn't die."
"He Lu thought that his husband had helped him block the arrow, and he loved his son and asked for an immediate investigation into the assassination, and soon, the people of Wu locked me as the murderer and asked the king of Chu to arrest me, when the state of Wu had just defeated the state of Chu, the king of Chu had to compromise and ordered me to be arrested."
"When I had nowhere to run, two young men rescued me and took me to hide in the Yue Nu Mountain, and they later told me that my brother was their brother."
"When I came to Yuenu Mountain, I met Fenluo, Fenluo asked me to marry her, and I didn't agree at first, not because I didn't like Fenluo, but because I was disturbed at that time, still thinking about the rights and wrongs outside, and still unwilling to give up the idea of revenge."
"So I asked for a Shenwu trial, and one of the young men played his first martial arts match, and he failed."
"The second game is archery, I am confident in this game, although the Yue Nu warriors I tried to compete with are good at archery, but compared to me, it is still a little worse."
"The last arrow, as long as I can shoot it, can have a third match, and it is said that no one has ever seen the third one."
"However, when I drew my bow and aimed at the target, I glanced at Fenluo, who was standing beside the altar, and she was like a phoenix, so beautiful and so heartwarming."
"Maybe it's because I'm so distracted that I'm messing up; Maybe it was because I deliberately admitted defeat and gave myself a reason to give up revenge, but in short, I missed that arrow. β
"I got married to Fanluo, and a year later, we gave birth to the moon, and I never left Yuenu Mountain again."