Chapter 163: Swear by the Child's Life

The next day, go up the mountain and enter the temple.

When Lily of the Valley saw Su Qingyu, who was pretending to be a maid, she immediately raised her eyebrows and sneered, not giving any face.

Su Qingyuan is not a good-natured person, and of course she will not have any good face for her.

Seeing this, Lily of the Valley was furious: "Hey, you are my maidservant today, and you dare to show me your face, are you tired?" ”

Su Qingyuan was bent on finding the child, and when she saw that the other party was entangled, she was already angry in her heart: "I'm not afraid of being your maidservant, I'm afraid that you will lose your life!" ”

"Why did you lose your life?" Lily of the valley doesn't understand this.

The patriarch glared at her and reprimanded, "Madame pretending to be a maid is just an expedient measure, not for you to really be a maid!" If you are so rude, you will be beaten to death sooner or later, isn't it a long life? ”

The first time Su Qingyuan heard that "folding longevity" could be explained in this way, he also found it interesting.

Lily of the valley took it seriously, glanced at Su Qingyuan, and sneered: "Kill me?" How dare she? ”

Lu Li grabbed Su Qingyu's hand and silently persuaded her to calm her anger.

Su Qingyuan really didn't have that much strength to quarrel with inconsequential people.

So it was barely quiet along the way. When Lily of the Valley looked at Su Qingyuan, she couldn't wait for a knife to fly out of her eyes.

Su Qingyuan roughly guessed the reason, and at this time he had no intention of planning, but he had already quietly recorded the hatred.

- When a woman is inexplicably hostile to her, it's right to go back and scold Lu Li!

Lu Li came into contact with Su Qingyuan's angry gaze and felt inexplicable.

When we reached the top of the mountain, it was almost noon.

Suzaku Shrine is a magnificent building built on the top of a hill, with golden tiles and red walls, and it is magnificent.

Outside the temple there were many guards, heavily guarded.

When the patriarch and his party walked to the door, a guard immediately rushed up and searched them.

Originally, it was forbidden to enter the temple with a sword.

A young elder said angrily, "We didn't come to the temple eight times out of ten in a year, and for the first time I heard that there was a rule that no blades were allowed!" ”

The guard unceremoniously untied the sword from his waist and said coldly: "There was no such rule before, but from now on, there will be!" The blade is a murder weapon, and it collided with the spirit of the sparrow, can you afford it? ”

Before the elder could argue, the patriarch had stopped him.

So the guards searched the patriarch and elders unscrupulously, and finally even the golden hairpin on the head of Lily of the Valley was searched.

Su Qingyuan blatantly held the bloody knife, but no one cared about it.

Lu Li's saber also hung on his waist openly, shining brightly.

Lily of the valley shouted at the guards, "Why do you only search me and not them?!" ”

The two guards stepped forward, Su Qingyuan and Lu Li looked at each other and smiled, and raised their arms very cooperatively.

Su Qingyuan's clothes were thin, and there was no place to hide things, so the guards didn't rummage around, but only glanced at the silver-plated hairpin on her head with disgust, and let her go.

Lu Li had lost a two-inch-long knife. He smiled slightly, and didn't take it to heart.

After entering the door smoothly, Lily of the Valley was dumbfounded.

Didn't you say that you weren't allowed to bring weapons? The guards guarding the door...... Is it blind?

Su Qingyuan squeezed her eyes proudly.

The guards were certainly not blind. But she's a shrine maiden.

The group was "escorted" into the temple by the guards, and a tall young man came out, and said with a smile: "Patriarch, elders, please take a seat." ”

Everyone sat down in order, and Su Qingyuan had to stand behind Lily of the Valley because of her "identity".

The young man sat down on the throne, glanced around the crowd, and asked slowly, "How have you thought about the matter you said earlier?" ”

The patriarch pulled his beard and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness will ask eight hundred times again, and our idea is still the same - we will not do the matter of hitting a stone with an egg." ”

An elder next to him also shook his head: "The vitality of the divine sparrow has not recovered, and provoking the imperial court at this time is tantamount to self-destruction, please think twice." ”

It turned out that the young man was the "Second Highness" of the god sparrow himself. Su Qingyuan looked at him carefully, and always felt that he seemed to have seen it somewhere.

The Second Highness lowered his face: "According to your ideas, the divine sparrow should live like this, like a mouse in the gutter, never see anyone?" Forget the hatred of the country? Father's revenge is gone? Those unjust souls from twenty years ago are still floating in the sky above the temple, and you have forgotten all about the past one by one, and you are only thinking about drinking tea and enjoying flowers and teasing your grandchildren! ”

The patriarch said calmly: "The people of the gods have worked diligently all their lives, isn't it just so that they can drink tea and enjoy the flowers and make fun of their grandchildren when they are old?" Is it only by following His Highness to send his life to die in a foreign land in vain, can he be regarded as not living in vain? ”

His Royal Highness darkened his face and slapped the case: "So, you have made up your mind and refused to let go, haven't you?" ”

The patriarch then stood up, neither humble nor arrogant: "The old man is already a person buried in the soil on his shoulders, and if he dies, he will die, and he can't do anything to betray the people." ”

The Second Highness suddenly smiled: "Old man, you should have died a long time ago, but what about your sons and grandchildren, don't want them either?" ”

The patriarch's face changed slightly.

His Royal Highness clapped his hands, and immediately a few guards walked in with a group of old and young people.

Su Qingyuan saw that there was the boy from yesterday in the crowd, and knew that these were the family members of the patriarch.

Several guards rushed towards Lily of the Valley, so frightened that the girl screamed incessantly, jumped up and hid behind Su Qingyu.

The Second Highness noticed Su Qingyu, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

Su Qingyuan felt a chill in her heart, and hurriedly ran behind Lu Li to hide, not planning to take care of Lily of the Valley who was hiding behind her at all.

The patriarch's face sank, and he glared at the Second Highness and said angrily: "What means do you have to rush at me, don't be arrogant to my family!" ”

His Royal Highness sneered: "Don't worry, you and your family can't run away!" Your granddaughter, and that pretty girl—huh! ”

Lu Li narrowed his eyes and clenched the hilt of his sword.

Several elders stood up one after another, exchanged glances with each other, and the youngest one spoke: "Second Highness, the patriarchs and elders respect your identity, but it doesn't mean that you can be bullied!" Although the god is dead, the clan rules are still there, please think twice! ”

"Clan rules?" His Royal Highness sneered, "Do you think I'm afraid of you minions who can only bully the weak and fear the hard?" ”

The faces of the elders were a little ugly.

Obviously, although the gods have clan rules, they usually have no formal guards or troops, and maintaining order has always relied on the consciousness and spontaneity of the clansmen.

On the other hand, the Second Highness brought back from the outside, a team of guards and retinues of up to a thousand people.

At this time, there were no people in the temple, and the patriarch and the great elder were already in the mouth of the tiger.

The Second Highness was triumphant: "How about it, patriarch, think about it again?" ”

The patriarch shook his head slowly, and sighed to the family members who were restrained by the other party, "Don't blame me. If I bow down to him today for your sake, I will have deceived the whole people. ”

His Royal Highness's smile turned cold, and he said sharply: "Do it!" ”

The guards immediately dragged a girl of six or seven years old out and slashed with a sword.

"Grandpa—" The little girl cried out in fright.

The patriarch turned his head away, unable to bear to look at it again.

With the "Zheng! There was a loud bang, and an exclamation rang out in the hall.

The patriarch hurriedly turned around, and saw that the little granddaughter had fallen into Su Qingyuan's arms, and the guard who had slashed people with a knife fell to the ground, bleeding all over the ground.

What's even more surprising is that His Second Highness, who was still showing off his martial arts just now, had a long sword shining with cold light on his neck, and his face was as white as paper.

The owner of that long sword, of course, is Lu Li.

Su Qingyuan hugged the little girl in one hand and the heavy bloody knife in the other, panting.

The guards wanted to surround them, but they were afraid of the sword in Lu Li's hand, and they were at a loss for a while.

Su Qingyuan sent the frightened little girl to the patriarch, and walked to Lu Li's side with a knife.

When His Royal Highness saw her coming, he shivered and hurriedly begged for mercy.

"Yo, you're afraid of death?" Su Qingyuan sneered.

An elder hurriedly said: "This girl, please show mercy to her subordinates, Your Highness is noble, and she can't kill ......."

Su Qingyi glared at the man viciously and raised the knife in his hand.

The patriarch froze and said coldly: "The status is noble, but the heart is not right, only for his own selfish desires, and he doesn't care about the life and death of the people in the clan - such a master, where is it worth us to follow!" ”

"But the old lord only passed down this bloodline...... "The elder was very embarrassed.

The patriarch sneered: "Only this bloodline has been passed down? Not necessarily! As long as you find the Third Highness, where in the clan will there be this concubine who speaks! ”

"Your Royal Highness? Does the patriarch have news of the Third Highness? Several of the elders were a little excited.

The patriarch stroked his beard and smiled proudly: "Of course." These two distinguished guests are the friends of the Third Highness! Our three highnesses are wise and benevolent, and they are much better than some wolf ambitions......"

Lu Li frowned slightly, instinctively feeling that things were going to be worse.

Sure enough, the Second Highness, who was held by the long sword around his neck, screamed desperately: "That kid is obviously dead, and you are still dreaming!" ”

The patriarch and the elders were shocked: "Dead? When? What's going on? ”

Lu Li hurriedly pressed down on the blade of the sword, threatening His Royal Highness to shut up, and glanced at Su Qingyuan again.

Su Qingyuan turned to the front of the Second Highness with a shocked expression: "What did you say? He's dead? You killed him, didn't you? I'll just say...... I'll just say that it's impossible for Brother Li not to write to us for so long...... In the early spring of this year, he had been worried, and often hid in Tibet and could not find anyone...... If he's safe, he'll send us a message; Even if he dies, we husband and wife should be the first to know! If someone knew before we knew - that person must be the murderer! ”

Lu Li shook his head and said regretfully: "How can this be? Brother...... What a grudge it is, to be so ruthless! ”

When the patriarch and several elders heard this, everyone was furious, and they glared at the Second Highness with tears in their eyes: "Sure enough, it's you!" Over the years, there has been a force in the capital that has been secretly preventing us from finding the Third Highness...... We guessed it was you, and we only thought you were jealous, but we didn't expect you to be so mad! ”

Lu Li thought for a moment, and the long sword in his hand was pressed down fiercely.

"Childe and slow!" The patriarch suddenly rushed up and grabbed the blade of the sword, narrowly saving the life of the Second Highness.

Lu Li looked at his bleeding palm, and his face sank.

The patriarch lowered his head and said gloomily: "Please show mercy to Gongzi's subordinates...... The matter of the Third Highness, the people of the Shenque Clan will only be more distressed than the son, but - after the Third Highness goes down, the Second Highness is the only bloodline of the old lord, and he can't die! ”

An elder said angrily, "If he doesn't die, who will die?" He is not the only bloodline of the old country lord, doesn't he have a child? ”

The patriarch hurriedly explained to everyone: "That child is not the blood of the Second Highness, but the son and the lady who came all the way from the capital to find their beloved son......

The Second Highness suddenly raised his head, his eyes fixed on Su Qingyuan.

Seeing that he seemed to have the intention of speaking, Lu Li hurriedly grabbed his neck with his hand and said sharply: "I don't want to worry about your gods' affairs. Go and bring the boy to me at once, or the thief will surely die!" ”

The henchmen of the Second Highness saw that the master's life was in the hands of the other party, so he naturally did not dare to disobey his fate.

Not long after, a woman walked in with a swaddling baby in her arms.

Su Qingyuan immediately threw down the bloody knife, rushed over and snatched the swaddling clothes and hugged them in his arms.

Lu Li looked at it with a blank eye, only hating his lack of skills.

Su Qingyuan carefully lifted the corner of the swaddling clothes and looked at the child's little face.

It's not a great experience. Because as soon as the little one came into her arms, he began to cry, and the sound was earth-shattering.

Su Qingkite tried to appease him, but the little guy didn't appreciate it, kicked his calves and howled, and after a while, the small quilt on his cheeks was wet with crying.

Su Qingyuan's heart moved slightly, and she gradually came to her senses.

She remained silent, reached out and touched the top of the little one's head, and knew it in her heart.

"Kite, bring it to me and show me!" Lu Li stretched his neck beside him, and his eyes were so anxious that he straightened.

Su Qingyuan returned the swaddling clothes to the woman, walked back and picked up his knife, and gestured at the second highness's head: "I don't want the child, let's kill this thief!" ”

"What's going on?" Lu Li was shocked.

Su Qingyuan gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "That's not our child!" This dog thing is dying and wants to play tricks, what are you keeping him for? It's better to kill him first, let's take someone to find him slowly! ”

His Royal Highness shook his head desperately.

Lu Li was furious, and his hands became more and more clenched.

The patriarch and the elders were busy pleading again.

The servants of the Second Highness came over and knelt down and kowtowed: "Son, spare your life!" His Royal Highness...... The whereabouts of Xiao Linglang are only known to our Highness, and if you kill him, it will be difficult to find Linglang again! ”

"So, that one was really fake?" Su Qingkite rushed over and kicked the minion in the back.

The slave was shocked, knowing that he had fallen for her, and regretted it.

Lu Li hated and hated, and it took a while to barely suppress his anger, and his hand relaxed slightly: "Those tricks that can't be put on the table, don't play them." Tell the whereabouts of the child and save you a dog's life! ”

"I, ahem...... I'll take you there! His Royal Highness was dying, but he still didn't let go.

Lu Li was so angry that he just wanted to strangle him.

His Royal Highness shrunk his neck and said in a low voice: "That place is very secret, and there are mechanisms that others can't find...... Childe rest assured, the villain does not dare to be presumptuous. ”

"Let's go!" Lu Li held his collar, and the blade never left his neck an inch.

His Royal Highness no longer had half of his arrogance, and went out with his head bowed, led everyone out of the back door, and walked to an open place in all directions.

It's an altar.

"What are you bringing us here for?" Lu Li's black face.

The Second Highness pointed to the center of the altar: "It can be opened there, little ...... The little boy is down there. ”

Su Qingyuan couldn't help but smack him the top of his head with the back of the knife.

The guards guarding the altar stepped forward and worked together to pry open the stone slab in the center of the altar.

Sure enough, a one-foot-square hole was revealed underneath, and it was so dark that nothing could be seen.

Lu Li ordered the guards to enter the cave, but His Royal Highness said: "There is a mechanism inside, they don't understand it, only the villain himself can go down!" ”

Su Qingyuan took out a handful of dried flowers and hay from his purse—the ones that were not used to drive snakes before—and lit a fire in his hand to ashes, and stuffed it into the mouth of His Second Highness: "If you dare to play tricks, the gods will not be able to save you." You should know the methods of our witches. ”

His Royal Highness shuddered and nodded repeatedly.

Lu Li reluctantly let go of his hand.

The Second Highness "snorted" and got into the hole.

Su Qingyuan followed and looked over, and her face darkened.

It turned out that the hole was not deep, and there were no mechanisms in it. After His Royal Highness entered, he stood there honestly and upright like a loach in a cave.

What kind of trick is this? Su Qingyuan didn't understand a little.

The other party quickly cleared up her doubts.

After standing firm in the cave, His Royal Highness immediately opened his throat and howled: "Bi Zichang, you fools! Don't hurry up and tie up those two scheming outsiders! They are the murderers of the third brother! You who claim to be wise men, can't you see that they want to wipe out the bloodline of our Divine Sparrow Royal Clan! ”

The patriarch and the elders looked at each other, no one moved, but their gaze at Lu Li was a little more scrutinizing.

Seeing that they didn't move, His Royal Highness became more and more anxious: "If you think about it, the Wuzhi Soul Renewal Pill is the holy medicine of our gods, and it is difficult to change it, how could the third brother give it to an outsider casually?" ”

Everyone couldn't help but believe it a little more.

Witch, Blood Knife, Wuzhi Soul Renewal Pill, Enchanting ...... There are indeed too many suspicious places on this woman!

The patriarch thought about it carefully and found that the words that Lu Li and Su Qingyuan had said to him before were almost all empty words.

So?

He hesitated, and together with the elders, he gathered around Lu Li and the others: "Childe, it's not that we don't want to believe you, it's just that the matter is very important, and the two of you still need to confront our Second Highness." ”

Su Qingyuan lifted the blood knife and aimed it at the hole, and was about to throw it down.

His Royal Highness was so frightened that he shouted in his throat: "Help! The enchantress wants to kill and kill people—"

"Madam, please give the Second Highness a chance to confront him!" The patriarch's face darkened.

Su Qingyuan and Lu Li glanced at each other, turned to the patriarch in unison, and sneered.

"Please put down your swords and listen to what Your Highness has to say." The patriarch said in a deep voice.

Su Qingyuan held the blood knife and refused to let go.

Lu Li stood beside her, his eyes sharp: "The two of us are going to kill this thief, but I'm afraid that you may not be able to keep us!" ”

"But we may be able to keep your little boy." The patriarch looked at him proudly.

Lu Li hooked the corners of his lips: "If you believe that the child is ours, of course, you should also believe that what I said before is true; If you suspect that the two of us are lying, then the child has nothing to do with us, so why should you threaten us with him? ”

The patriarch tugged at his beard and thought for a while, still frowning and shaking his head: "Maybe you two didn't lie about the child, but it's the matter of the Third Highness...... Why have you been trying to prevent His Royal Highness from speaking to defend himself? Isn't it a weak heart? ”

The second highness in the cave was overjoyed: "Bi Zichang, my father really didn't mistake you back then!" The two of them are indeed weak-hearted, but the truth is even more wonderful than you guess - Nian'er was indeed born to that woman, but his biological father is not the woman's husband, but my third brother, your third highness! ”

"What the hell?" Su Qingkite's face was black.

The patriarch looked at her excitedly: "So...... Nian'er is the child of you and the Third Highness? ”

Su Qingyuan was confused for a while before she reacted: "Nian'er" is probably her son's name.

However, when did her son get involved with the Third Highness of the Divine Sparrow?

The Second Highness cautiously climbed up a little in the cave and showed his head: "Over the years, the third brother has been wandering around the market in the capital, and his behavior is very absurd. I can't bear to be disappointed by the people in the clan, and I have never dared to tell you the truth - the third brother had an affair with this woman and had a child, and her man found out about the adultery, so he bought the government and killed the third brother...... I couldn't bear the third brother's heir, so I tried my best to steal the child out, I thought it was foolproof, but who knew that they still found it here......"

"You don't make up a drama book, it's really a condescension!" Su Qingyuan's face turned blue with anger, and he gritted his teeth and scolded.

The Second Highness simply climbed out a little more, and said loudly: "It's normal for Madam not to want to admit her guilt, but the third brother obviously died because of you, how can you reverse black and white and let me bear the injustice!" ”

"Madam, what His Royal Highness said, but is it true?" The patriarch looked at Su Qingyu and was furious.

Su Qingyuan was about to deny it, but His Royal Highness had already shouted loudly in the cave: "Madame, do you still want to deny it?" Can you swear – can you swear with the life of your own child that you have never had a skin-to-skin relationship with your third brother? Can you swear that the art you learned was not instructed by your third brother? Can you swear that the death of your third brother has nothing to do with you? ”

Su Qingyuan's chest was full of anger, and his face turned blue with anger.

The Second Highness took the opportunity to continue: "You and your third brother are in the tunnel, everyone knows about this matter, how can you hide it? The third brother died because of you, and before he died, he gave you the Wuzhi Soul Renewal Pill, but he himself was burned beyond recognition by the fire and ended up with incomplete limbs...... Have you forgotten? ”

Su Qingyuan only felt a "buzzing" sound in her ears, and her eyes turned black for a while.

Those bad memories, she always wanted to forget, but someone always tried everything possible to get up in front of her.

Everyone knows it.

Everyone knows it......

Sweat began to form on her forehead.

"Kite!" Lu Li realized that her state was not quite right, and he immediately became anxious.

But at this time, all the elders and guards had already surrounded him, not only protecting His Second Highness, but also separating Lu Li and Su Qingyuan, staring at him hostilely.

These old things are not to be feared, but once they are provoked, it may not be easy to get out of this mountain again.

"Wake up, Kite! You don't have anything bad to do, you shouldn't be stopped by him! Lu Li yelled in a hurry.

"Ma'am?" The patriarch stared at Su Qingyuan, and he already had a conclusion in his heart.

His Royal Highness was triumphant.

He knew that Su Qingyuan was not afraid of death, so he forced her to swear by the child's life - he knew that she would never dare.

Seeing that Su Qingyuan had been hesitating, the elders had already completely believed the words of the Second Highness.

Therefore, when the guards of the Second Highness surrounded Lu Li and unleashed their blades, none of the elders tried to stop them.

"Avenge the Third Highness!" I don't know who shouted, and more than a dozen long swords were aimed at Lu Li in unison.

Su Qingyuan suddenly raised her head.

At this time, the Second Highness had already drilled out of the hole, walked quickly to her side, and said in a low voice: "Queen Mother, you don't want your ugly story to be known to the world, right?" Before you speak, think twice—"