They went down the hill hand in hand; Halfway down, Shen Ruoyu asked:

"Qing'er, I haven't seen you for two days, why don't you come out? Is it sick? Why don't you tell the swing? It's a cause for us to worry about you. ”

Yang Yiqing replied softly: "I'm not sick...... It's just a little uncomfortable, and I don't know what's going on. ”

"Why don't you look for your dad? He was highly skilled in medicine; Every time my father beat me, my uncle gave me medicine, and I got better very quickly, and I was able to get up the next day to practice. ”

"That's not the same thing; I'm a girl after all. Yang Yiqing's face was flushed and complained in a low voice.

Only then did Shen Ruoyu notice that Yang Suqing was subtle and strange. He stopped.

"Qing'er, are you alright? Why are you so weird? ”

Yang Yiqing shook her head. "I ...... It's okay......"

"You are walking slower and slower, your legs and feet seem to be weak, and your face is not right." Shen Ruoyu held her shoulder.

Yang Yiqing did not answer immediately. She grabbed Shen Ruoliao's hand, stood for a while, and whispered:

"I'm fine, but I may have been in a hurry and my stomach hurts......"

Shen Ruoyu couldn't help but furrow his brows.

"Look at you, I said that you should have known that you were uncomfortable, and I didn't say anything for two days. Illness doesn't run on its own. ”

He helped her to sit down on a flat rock and rested for a while. Yang Yiqing couldn't stand up anymore, her hands covered her lower abdomen, her face was pale, and cold sweat began to trickle down.

"Brother Liao, I'm ...... I seem to ...... The menstrual affair is coming...... My stomach hurts......"

Shen Ruoyu was extremely worried; Deep in the mountains and old forests, it is getting late, and their only hope is to rush back to the cottage before it gets dark. Qing'er can't walk, he has only one way.

"Qing'er, get up; The stone is so cold, I shouldn't have let you sit down if I knew it. He said, "I'll carry you back." ”

He stretched out his hand to pull Yang Yiqing up, but Qing'er couldn't help screaming, curled up, and squatted down. Shen Ruoyu was taken aback; Qing'er was right, there was a small red left on the stone she had just sat on.

He was flustered, stopped talking, picked up Qing'er, and ran down the mountain.

Yang Yiqing's pain became more and more serious, and soon spasmed in his arms, and the small moans quickly evolved into loud wails and cries, which frightened Shen Ruoxiao. Qing'er's past days and months have never hurt so badly; He didn't know what was going on, his mind went blank, and he just spread his legs and ran towards the cottage mechanically.

He ran into the cottage, ran to the house where Qing'er lived, put her on the bed, and was dumbfounded. Yang Yiqing curled up tightly, holding her lower abdomen, spasmodizing all over her body, rolling all over the bed, screaming and screaming violently, her face was as miserable as a dead man, tears and sweat kept flowing down her face, and her entire shirt and pants were stained red with blood. Shen Ruoyu lowered her head, only to see that she had been stained with blood on her body.

He was so frightened that he ran to the door in frenzy and cried out for help. Then he ran back to the bedside, hugged Qing'er tightly into his arms, kissed her cheek, wiped away her tears, and kept asking:

"Qing'er? Qing'er? How about you? What the hell is wrong with you?? ”

Footsteps rang out in the courtyard; The eldest sister He Shenshen was the first to rush in, followed by the wooden swing; Seeing the situation in the house, both of them were stunned in place. He Shenshen reacted quickly, rushed to the side of the bed, reached out to grab Yang Weiqing, and said quickly:

"Swing, come and help me; Fourth brother, hurry up and find your uncle! ”

Shen Ruoyu tightly protected Yang Weiqing in his arms and refused to let go. He Shen couldn't grab it, and in a hurry, he scolded Shen Ruoyu angrily:

"You animal, it's all your good deeds! Qing'er: This is a miscarriage; Are you still stunned?! She's going to die! --Swing, go and call the uncle-"

Suddenly there was chaos all of a sudden; What happened next, Shen Ruoyu didn't hear or see anything clearly, but the shadow of a wooden swing in a trance suddenly flashed in front of him, raised his hand, and slapped himself heavily; Qing'er in his arms was suddenly dragged away, he seemed to have become a pile of wood, unable to move, and powerless to stop it, just piled up in place in a daze, and didn't realize what was happening around him.

This trance lasted for a long time; Suddenly, he woke up, only to find that he had come out of Qing'er's house at some point, alone in the cold and empty courtyard outside. The door was closed, and Qing'er's screams were still coming from inside, the anxious voice of the uncle, and the voice of the eldest sister and the swing comforting Qing'er.

After eternity, the room finally fell silent, and Qing'er could no longer be heard. Shen Ruoyu stood trembling in the courtyard, and the unprecedented fear held him firmly from head to toe, making him unable to breathe for a while. After a long time, he finally took a breath and suddenly realized something.

He wasn't alone in the yard. Behind him, two eyes had been staring at him for a long time, and the heat and weight in their eyes pressed on the back of his neck without hindrance.

He was all too familiar with the gaze of his eldest sister's father, his third uncle; It's always so close, but it's always a bystander's corner.

He didn't look back, but stood up straight and just waited quietly.

After a never-ending wait, Qing'er's door finally opened quietly. Yang Zhiding walked out, quietly closed the door, and then stood in front of the corridor without saying a word, staring at Shen Ruoyu.

Shen Ruoyu didn't dare to look up at the uncle's gaze; He knew it must be a flame of resentment and disappointment. He was in a state of great disaster, and the thought of what was about to happen churned in his heart with regret and deep fear. The gaze of the third uncle behind him made him still stand in the middle of the courtyard, staring at the feet of Yang Zhiding, and he was as silent as the uncle. There was no fourth person in the courtyard, only the third uncle, He Yu, was silently watching. The eldest sister and the swing are left in the Qing'er house; The movement outside the house could not escape their ears either.

Yang Zhiding was silent for a long time, and then paced back and forth in front of the corridor with his hands behind his back. He had driven himself mad with rage, and was trying his best to calm himself down in search of a sane solution, not at all aware that his steps were sometimes hurried, sometimes slow. For a while, Shen Ruoyu seemed to see his father walking around angrily in front of him again. He habitually knelt down, still silent, just waiting.

Yang Zhiding suddenly walked in front of Shen Ruoyu and stopped; Shen Ruoyu felt that the blood in his whole body had coagulated.

"Evil obstacles! Are you guilty? ”

Shen Ruoxiao remained motionless and did not say a word.

"You're talking?!"

Shen Ruoyu knew that he had made a big mistake; It's even more wrong not to answer the uncle. But he didn't know how to answer. If there is sin, where is the sin? Is it sin or wrong? There is still a big difference between the two. He was speechless.

Yang Zhiding suppressed his anger and said, "Okay; You don't have to say it. I only ask you, how has my daughter done you badly? What am I missing from you? You-why are you bringing such pain and shame on my daughter? ”

Shen Ruoxiao's face turned red; He raised his head and said clearly: "Uncle, I really love Qing'er, I must marry her, why should she be ashamed?" ”

"What?!" Yang Zhiding was furious.

The third uncle, He Yu, interjected at this moment:

"Big brother, you are also discouraged; If there is a father, there must be a son, and the child cannot be blamed entirely for this. ”

Shen Ruoyu turned his head abruptly, glanced at He Yu, and did not speak. It was just a glance at this dead silence, but it suddenly injected a deep horror into He Yu's heart; When he fought with his second brother on the field outside the mountains, what he saw most often was this look, Shen Rufeng's shocking cold and cruel eyes. As long as he saw such a light in the eyes of the second brother, he knew that who was going to be brutally tortured and killed.

The Shen Ruoyu and Shen Rufeng he knew, although they were inextricably similar between father and son, but in his heart, he always thought that there was no resemblance between the two. Shen Ruo is ignorant of the world, simple and innocent and extremely kind, like his mother, and even shows the femininity of a girl from time to time. He was sure of that; In the past sixteen years, he had never seen such a terrifying light in Shen Ruoyu's eyes. Unexpectedly, Shen Ruoyu at this time was like a Shen Rufeng alive, contemptuous and coldly facing the encirclement of the imperial court, and one look could scare off an army of 100,000 - the thrilling encirclement and suppression back then, in exchange for an unprecedented myth and legend; The world's first master, since then retired to the mountains, never took half a step in the night of the mountain in his life. Uncle He couldn't believe his eyes, and he couldn't say a word for a while.

Yang Zhiding was furious, and he didn't hear He Yu's words clearly, only to see that Shen Ruoyu was still so rude at this moment, and he was angry at his third uncle; The owner of Zhenshui Village has a quiet temperament like a mountain and tranquil like water all his life, but at this time, it is like a volcano erupting, magma entering the sea, and he is furious and uncontrollable, and he is about to kick him when he raises his legs. Shen Ruoyu was taken aback, and instinctively jumped to the side and flashed; However, the moment he dodged the kick, he realized that he shouldn't have done it. Just like the father's scolding, he should accept everything respectfully.

Sure enough, his flash made Yang Zhiding even more angry. He shouted:

"Shen Ruoliao, you kneel down for me!!"

Shen Ruoyu meekly knelt down in front of him again.

Yang Zhiding gritted his teeth and asked, "You...... You are a beast that is not as good as a beast, God has no eyes, so that you inherited your father's martial arts, so that you are so young, so that you are so unstoppable. Today, in front of all the clansmen and in front of the ancestors and ancestors, I will abolish your martial arts and be ashamed of Qing'er; Lest the clansmen say that I don't distinguish between right and wrong, and judge things unfairly, but also set an example, so that the juniors in the clan will take you as a warning from now on, and cut off their thoughts of learning martial arts! ”

Shen Ruoyu trembled for a while, unable to believe his ears; He never expected that the uncle, who had always been extremely kind and tolerant to him, would have such a harsh and unkind time. He didn't know how safe Qing'er was, and he was already boiling in his heart; And at this moment, the panic and despair he faced far overshadowed his worries about Qing'er. He wanted to defend himself, but he couldn't defend himself, and before he could speak, tears were pouring out of his eyes. He worked hard for a long time, but he couldn't say a word, so he could only kneel there paralyzed, watching Yang Zhiding come up to him and order the third uncle to press himself to the ground.

"Uncle! Please be merciful and think twice! Suddenly there was a shout at the gate of the courtyard. A tall, thick-eyed young man rushed in, rushed to the patriarch in two steps, and grabbed his arm.

Yang Zhiding just glanced at him coldly and silently, and shook off his arm.

The person who came was the eldest brother Zhou Xiang, and seeing that the patriarch refused to be accommodating, he knelt down anxiously.

"Uncle!! The fourth brother is not a big mistake, don't overdo it!! ”

Third Uncle He Yu sighed on the side and dissuaded:

"Xiang'er, it's not that you don't know that the uncle didn't wronged him. At a young age, just because of his martial arts, he can be so lawless, act recklessly, and insult his own clan sister - is it tolerable, which is unbearable? If they are not severely punished, what will be the rules in the clan in the future? Isn't it okay for everyone to mess around? ”

Yang Zhiding ignored Zhou Xiang, stared for a moment, stretched out his two hands, and slowly walked around the acupoints of his index finger and middle finger behind Shen Ruoyu. The energy of the whole body was quickly sucked dry along the uncle's fingers, as if the muscles, bones and veins were also pumped out inch by inch, and the severe pain pierced the heart; Shen Ruoyu clenched her teeth tightly, didn't say a word, her cheeks became pale, beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and she trembled all over; Tears crackled and fell like beads with broken threads.

his martial arts; He worked hard for 16 years, day and night, cold and summer -- fifteen years of his father's whip and training stick, his eternal cold and mean reprimands and beatings, sixteen years of blood, tears and sweat, sixteen years of his whole life --

Zhou Xiang knelt to the side in horror, and soon couldn't stand it, and begged: "Uncle, don't; How can you do it...... Have mercy, please...... "His tears are coming down.

Yang Zhiding was indifferent and continued. Shen Ruoyu only felt that the qi and blood in his whole body were rushing backwards, hitting his chest, as if he was about to tear apart; He endured all this in silence, gritted his teeth and didn't make a sound, but he couldn't hold back his tears, and finally spurted blood out and passed out on the ground.

Only then did Yang Zhiding withdraw his hand, exhaled lightly, and said to Zhou Xiangling with a calm face: "Xiang'er, you take him to the ancestral hall and confine him for a night." ”

"Uncle,-" Zhou Xiang wanted to say something. Yang Zhiding walked straight back to the house and closed the door.