Chapter 13: Blood Is Thicker Than Water (Part II)
Who am I.
This is a question that the man in black has thought about countless times after leaving the final battlefield. He lived many years of muddy life, after the collapse of the country, he lived in the Qin people's verbal and written criticism, like a coward, he lived a life of fugitive for many years, if it were not for the strength of the bloodline, he would have become a dead soul under the imperial sword.
He didn't know why he was still alive. Hope is so slim, or there is no hope for a long time, life is just before the inevitable death comes, life is better than death.
After a few years of exile, and a few years of drinking to drown sorrows. If a woman hadn't finally awakened him, he would have been in a state of slumber forever until he died.
The man in black smiled. It took many years for him to finally figure out who I am, and from this, his life began to change, but anyone with the blood of the royal family of Chu State should not be too ordinary in his life. After meeting the woman, he began to slowly pull himself together. Even at that time, it was already the worst time, there was no Chu State in the world, and the unyielding people of Chu State had been sent to the Qinye Plain to dig sinkholes, and it had been ten years. It's a little late, but in the end, it's still capable of turning the tide. After figuring out who I was, or recalling the answer to that question, he seemed very scrappy.
In order to revive the state of Chu, he can do anything.
Twenty years have passed, and over the years, he has slowly looked for people who are unwilling to submit to the Qin State, slowly expanded his power, and secretly helped the Xingchen Sect, doing a lot of things. The reason for all this is because he understands who he really is.
It's just that now when the person in front of him, this kid, asked about this, he was a little nervous after all. It's also a bit of a trance. Naturally, he had seen the wind exhibition. It's just that I've never let Feng Zhan see him. When he saw the current appearance of Fengzhan, he finally realized that he was already fifty years old.
It's been twenty years since the woman left.
The man in black's expression slowly calmed down, his voice was not loud, but Feng Zhan could hear it clearly.
"What's this girl's name?"
Feng Zhan remembered that Tang Suoye said that this person didn't seem to have malicious intent, and now he also felt that this person did not have malicious intent, although Yimi was in a coma, it should be fine. And this person is extremely careful about Yimi's movements. It's just that I don't know why it's so popular.
"You answer Uncle Ben's question first, who are you?" Feng Zhan said.
The man in black was silent for a while, and then said, "You should actually be able to feel this question when you see me. ”
Feng Zhan was puzzled, but also a little uneasy. He did feel a sense of fear when he saw this man, and this fear came from a kind of suppression in his blood. It's like a cat meets a tiger, and a chaffinch meets a goshawk.
The man in black said, "My surname is Feng. ”
Feng Zhan didn't react to these three words at first, but immediately he slowly opened his mouth wide, his pupils shrank suddenly, and the whole person took a few steps back.
"We should have met a long time ago." The man in black said.
"It's just that over the years, the empire has always refused to let me go, and the comments on the rivers and lakes and the people on me are all fugitives and cowards." The voice of the man in black carried a kind of desolation and vicissitudes that fermented with the years.
"When I was in the Dark Sea, I met the most terrifying warrior in the world, and I saw with my own eyes that my country's national fortunes were cut off by that number of swords. I also saw the royal brother's newborn child, who was taken away by a mysterious ferry visitor. The man in black's gaze became incomparably deep and distant.
Feng Zhan kept trembling, and his brain went blank. There is no longer that ruffian spirit and calmness. He wanted to escape, instinctively wanted to leave, the shopkeeper had already sent a message, and if it weren't for the urgency of the situation, the shopkeeper would never have finished writing the message in such short words.
But Yimi was still next to the man in black, and Feng Zhan couldn't move. There is no force exerted on Feng Zhan's body, but Feng Zhan just can't move.
"The royal brother said that the child would be a catastrophe on this continent, I don't know if it's true or not, but the royal brother must know more secrets than me, I believe him. The imperial brother asked me to go, let my children inherit the throne of the Chu State, and let my children be the ones who will save the Chu State in the future. ”
When the man in black said this, his face was both proud and sad.
"Brother Huang also said that what we have not done, naturally we should not give the heavy responsibility to the next generation. So for all these years, I never came to you. You're doing well now, I do...... I shouldn't have come back to pull you back. The man in black looked guilty.
The atmosphere was a bit heavy.
Feng Zhan just repeated the question: "Who the hell are you!" ”
The man in black still didn't answer this question directly, he smiled even more sadly, and said: "Why the state of Chu fell in such a short period of time has always been a mystery, and I never want you to know this secret. More than half a year ago, I heard that something had happened to you. In Frost River City, when I arrived, it was already a little late. Fortunately, you turn evil into good fortune. Although the new sect master of the Xingchen Sect is a woman from the Qin State and a young girl with extremely young qualifications, her means are not insignificant. Bai Beiming can be regarded as having never forgotten the grace of the country, although the Xingchen Sect is weak, it is still the Xingchen Sect. The fact that they saved you, but did not tell you everything, is a blessing and a testament to their wisdom. ”
The man in black continued: "I started to inquire about your past, but I didn't expect that a strong man like Emperor Fenglie could be eliminated by you and your partner. You're doing a great job. The strength of the Emperor Star General is actually far stronger than it appears, especially for our bloodline, with some kind of suppression. Being able to destroy an emperor star general is also an incalculable loss for the Qin State. ”
His eyes were filled with relief and pride.
"The matter of Tiankeng City, all the Chu army and even the entire Chu State owe a debt to your partner, there are not many people in this world who know about Tiankeng City, and even fewer people are willing to do things for that group of people, but you and your partner have done it after all."
The man in black slowly walked towards Feng Zhan, he took three steps, and Feng Zhan took a step back. In the end, he walked in front of Feng Zhan.
But his expression changed again.
"It's a pity that you shouldn't save Xiang Wu, the Northern War was originally an opportunity for our Chu State, even if the empire wins, as long as there is no Xiang Wu, the future empire will no longer be so difficult to deal with. The dragon general will always be the biggest enemy of the Chu State. He was supposed to die, but he survived. And it was saved by you and your partner, and I also felt a little ironic after knowing about it. ”
Feng Zhan looked at the face of the man in black, and the man in black also looked directly into Feng Zhan's eyes.
"But none of that matters. Things in the world are inherently difficult to be perfect. As he spoke, the man in black suddenly coughed, and his face turned a little pale.
It's been a long time since he's said so much. He stretched out his hand to touch Feng Zhan, his expression cautious and full of anticipation. But in the end he put his hand down again.
He saw the uneasiness and fear in Feng Zhan's heart.
and anger.
These emotions were not different from the first meeting he expected. The man in black said in a loud voice, "Who am I you ask?" ”
"I am the head of the eight generals of Eastern Chu, and the general of Chu is tired!"
When the last few words were spoken, the former generals of the Chu State in this year of the Mandate of Heaven could not be suppressedly excited. Feng Zhan actually vaguely guessed that when he saw this person, the suppression from the bloodline talent made him feel strange.
It's just that he hasn't seen his father since he was born. In all the letters left by my mother, there is no mention of my father's exhaustion. He only knew that his father was the pride of the people of Chu and the laughing stock in the eyes of the people of the empire today. In order to force the wind to leave, the empire created a big lie, but to say that it is a lie actually has some true meaning.
In the battle of the dark sea, Feng Tili did escape. Even though it was because of an imperial order, although he had the courage to die. The world only says that those who die on the battlefield are heroes. But sometimes, it takes more courage to survive.
Feng Zhan knows that many people say that his father is still alive.
The general Feng Tili left the battlefield with the emperor's order and the hope of the Chu State, but after that, he seemed to have suddenly evaporated from the world, where did he go? The people of Chu all hoped that he would live. But Feng Zhan thinks that his father must be dead. If not, why would my mother come to Tiankeng City to help people dig a sinkhole together when she was pregnant? Why can't you wait for your father's salvation until you die? If his father is still alive, he must be like a hero, and when he and his mother need help the most, his legs will burn with the flames of Chu State, no matter the mountains and seas, no matter the difficulties and dangers, he will appear in time. If my father were alive, the lives of thousands of people in Tiankeng City, or the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Tiankeng City, should not be borne by myself.
So my father must be gone.
Feng Zhan has always thought so, he often thinks alone, if his father is still here, maybe he will not become a thief at all. Maybe the people in Tiankeng City could have come out earlier, and maybe my mother wouldn't have died of serious illness because she lived in the sinkhole all year round. He often fantasizes about a situation where something in the past has changed, and what will happen in the future.
Maybe you won't meet Yimi, but even if you don't meet Yimi, Yimi should have been in contact with the sun and the sky early. Naturally, I won't meet the shopkeeper, and I won't meet the cook's account room Ah Xiu. Tang Suono will not encounter it either. He wouldn't steal Xiang Wu's things.
Everything will change.
But everyone, perhaps, will be better off than they are now. For many nights, with a grass in his mouth, he fell on his back on the roof of a restaurant, or on the trunk of a big tree, looking at the stars and moon in the night sky, thinking about these things.
He regretted that he had never seen the great hero of Chu after all. But I'm glad that life has finally gotten better. To live is to wait for the good things in life. He met the shopkeeper and rescued everyone in Sinkhole City. He was grateful for it all.
That's the reality, and that's how everything should be.
The trajectory of Feng Zhan's life can no longer be changed, and the road he has traveled cannot be reversed, his mother has died of a serious illness, and he is the most notorious thief in the world, with a high bounty, and he doesn't even dare to show off in any city.
He has never complained about such a life, he is a man, and this world does not give him weak opportunities and people to rely on. Because that heroic father must have died.
But what about now?
He slowly moved the trajectory of his life in a beautiful direction, slowly changed from a thief to a running hall, and slowly began to get rid of the identity and fate of the royal family of Chu State. But at this time, this person called Feng Tired Departure appeared.
Of course, Feng Zhan knows that there is only one wind in this world.
Only Feng Ti Li could give him such coercion, because it was the suppression brought by the Feng Shen bloodline that had cultivated to a stronger state. The sentence that the head of the eight generals of Eastern Chu and the general of Chu State are tired and leave, it is impossible to be humiliated and joking.
The person in front of him is his father.
Feng Zhan's most desperate time was outside Frost River City, he had no strength, and kept chanting Yimi's name in his mouth, wanting to crawl back to the sinkhole from the Northern Regions to save his beloved girl.
But at that time, there was no such anger and powerlessness as it is now.
He doesn't care how strong the future enemy is or how bad the fate is, because only the future is unknown, and things that don't know the outcome always have the meaning of fighting. But what about the past? What he thought was true suddenly became false at this moment, but he was powerless to change it, because these have become the past, and they have become ironclad history and facts!
His own father never died!
So over the years, what is the death of the people of Tiankeng City, the death of his mother, and the heavy debts he has carried? All this should have been borne by this person, shouldn't it?
Feng Tili watched Feng Zhan's expression change, and his heart was also very nervous, but his face was always calm.
"I know you're blaming me. If I had died a long time ago, I would have been a hero in your heart, and even if I was a hero, it would still not change the fact that I am not a good father and husband. But I didn't die at all, and you must hate me now. "Try to calm yourself when the wind is tired.
Feng Zhan is also trying to do the same thing, trying to calm himself down.
Sometimes it's hard to understand what you want and what you really care about. Especially when the circumstances of life are constantly changing. This is also the reason why so many people in the world cannot see through the extreme meaning.
But Feng Zhan is different, what Feng Zhan cares about, he has always been very clear.
"Hand it over to me, I've got something very important to do now." Feng Zhan said.
Feng Tili also said: "If it weren't for the same very important thing, I wouldn't let you know that I am still alive." ”
Feng Zhan said angrily: "Even if you are really my dead ghost father who should have died, even if he is really alive!" What does it have to do with Uncle Ben! Don't think that you can point fingers at Uncle Ben with the same blood! This damn bloodline has never brought anything good to Uncle Ben! ”
He almost roared and said, "Whatever you do, my friends are waiting for me, I'm going to find them!" Also, if you dare to use Yimi as a hostage again, I will definitely not let you go! ”
Feng Zhan's attitude is expected to be tired of the wind.
He didn't expect Feng Zhan to forgive himself, he knew that his appearance at this time might have destroyed many of this child's illusions about his father.
It's just that time is running out.
"I'm running out of time." The wind sighed.
(End of chapter)