Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Killing
There is a crack in the east of the Southern Chu National Teacher's Mansion that runs through the whole mansion, which is a tacit thing for the people in Danyang City.
Even though the National Teacher's Mansion later renovated many of the walls and roofs along the way, the crack was too long to erase its traces unless all the houses on the east side of the National Teacher's Mansion were rebuilt. In the end, the Southern Chu National Teacher, who didn't like to break the ground, gave an order, so he only let the matter be hastily repaired.
After all, the rift was ...... The cut is still very neat, and many walls can be pasted with a layer of plaster.
Under this repair method, there were traces of different colors on the countless walls of the Southern Chu State Teacher's Mansion.
The older generation still knows some of the reasons for the past, but in the eyes of the younger generation, they are completely confused, and many people even come to watch it as a spectacle.
It's because the scope of that rift is really too big. To this day, just looking at the traces left by the renovation, you can feel the shock of the crack at that time.
You know, it's not a wall, it's not a house! It's a whole half of the mansion! All the walls and houses along the way were brushed and cut in half!
When Ji Ange was released for the Chinese New Year when she was a child, she had nothing to do to count the traces left by the crack, but she was horrified to find ......
The crack actually started from the outermost thick outer wall at the entrance of the National Teacher's Mansion, and passed through a total of thirteen houses, three gardens, four pavilions, six corridors, a stable, and even a pond and a bridge, and finally to the back wall.
It is hundreds of zhang long, and it has continued to the back mountain of the Southern Chu State Teacher's Mansion.
It seems that only when the earth shakes and the mountains shake, can the devil describe the crack.
Ji Ange had known that this rift was terrible for as long as she could remember, and the people in the mansion avoided talking about it, but as she grew older, she found that whenever the people in the mansion passed by or talked about the rift, if she and her brother happened to be there.
Then the attitude of the subordinates towards them will suddenly change.
Become respectful and even a little ...... Awe?
What is the reason for all this?
Ji Ange thought it was her illusion at first, but although the location of the huge crack was opposite to the courtyard where they lived, they would always run into it a few times a year when they were released, which was enough for her to realize that the reaction of the people below was not accidental.
Yes, and the location.
What also puzzled Ji Ange was the location of the crack.
That crack ran through the entire Southern Chu State Teacher's Mansion, and if it appeared in the middle, then it just happened to be said that this crack split the Southern Chu State Teacher's Mansion in half.
But the strange thing is that this rift is not located in the middle of the National Teacher's Mansion, but on the east side of the central axis of the National Teacher's Mansion.
That is, the right-hand side of the front.
And the small courtyard where Ji Ange and Ji Qingyuan live is to the west of the National Teacher's Mansion.
It can be said that the rift perfectly avoided her and her brother's residence.
Although Ji Ange had noticed these things wrong since she was a child, she didn't dare to think in other directions.
The rift was so terrible that she didn't even dare to imagine that it was human.
So how could a rift so huge that it permeate the whole province be humanly possible?
God knows that Ji Ange's first reaction when he saw this crack when he was a child was...... Her father had done so many bad things, so her house was struck by thunder.
"Thunder in the sky?"
When Ji Ange subconsciously said this conjecture when he was a child, Ji Qingyuan, who knew the truth on the other side, looked at his sister speechlessly, "What do you want?" ”
One by one, they are secretive about her, and they are not allowed to guess?
"I think it's quite normal for me to think," Ji Ange stared at Ji Qingyuan with an expressionless face, "Isn't it okay if the thunder split can't be so long?" ”
Ji Qingyuan was stunned when he heard this, and then a complicated smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"You're right."
Before the young man saw that scene for the first time, he had never imagined that a person's strength could be so powerful.
Seeing his reaction, Ji Ange's pupils shrank, and he stared at his brother's eyes, "So, it's not Tianlei?" ”
She had a conjecture in her heart, and her heart was grinding away from this unthinkable conjecture.
"That's right, it's not Ray."
Ji Qingyuan looked at Ji Ange's eyes, looked at the needle and thread in his sister's hand, and for some reason remembered what the woman said when she asked her to take off the veil, and suddenly took a deep breath and said calmly.
"That's a person."
"People?" Ji Ange's eyes widened in amazement, and he said in disbelief.
"Who is it?"
"Why?"
"How ......"
How is that possible?
Ji Ange was like being struck by lightning, and his heart was beating like a drum.
Ji Qingyuan looked at his sister's violently shaking gaze in front of him, as if he saw the frightened gaze of the people in the entire National Teacher's Mansion back then, and his heartbeat became violent for the first time in a long time.
It's like when he saw his young sister fall to the ground with a bruised face.
Ji Qingyuan looked at Ji Ange and said in a low voice.
"Do you remember when you were five years old?"
Ji Ange was stunned when she heard this, she didn't remember it very clearly, she only remembered that she had a vague memory of severe pain all over her body.
"It seems that I don't remember it clearly," Ji Qingyuan looked at his sister who was confused in front of him and smiled slightly.
But he was nine years old that year, and he remembers it well.
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That year was the fifth year of the founding of the Qin Empire, and when there was another medium-scale turmoil on the northern border, Emperor Taizu did not take another expedition in person, but sent the great secretary to order Lin Shubai to conquer Xirong again.
At that time, it was the time when the north was icy and snowy, although Xirong did not have many troops, but because of the climate, the northern war situation was anxious for a while, and the great secretary ordered Lin Shubai to lack skills.
And at this time, some people in the Southern Chu National Division's Mansion who had been waiting to move thought they had found an opportunity.
Ji Qingyuan remembers very well that it was an afternoon after their father, Nanchu Guoshi, went into the mountain for retreat again, and his sister Ji Ange, who was only five years old at the time, fell to the ground after eating the snacks sent by the nurse.
And Ji Qingyuan remembered it more clearly, that dim sum was originally ...... It was given to him.
As soon as he took a bite, he saw his sister next to him looking at him with bright eyes, so he handed her a piece.
And this piece almost caused him to regret for life.
Ji Qingyuan didn't tell Ji Ange that it was not only her who was poisoned at that time, but also himself. But he had already awakened at that time, and he didn't eat much, and he still retained consciousness, and Ji Ange, who was only five years old, was bruised at the time, and he was about to die.
Later, Ji Qingyuan learned that it was actually a severe pain specifically for cultivators, ordinary people couldn't try it, but low-level cultivators could see blood and seal their throats. If it weren't for the fact that his and Ji Ange's bloodlines were too strong, so powerful that they exceeded the imagination of the poisoner, maybe there would be no follow-up.
The boy who was only nine years old at the time hugged his sister, who was starting to get cold, only to feel that the sky was about to fall.
And at this time, in the screams of the subordinates, the national teacher's wife led a group of guards to rush in, and nothing else was done but insisted that it was the poison of the nurse, and the nurse was going to be killed on the spot.
In the chaos, Ji Qingyuan hugged his dying sister, and only felt that he had never been so helpless and desperate.
But he didn't expect it, just when he thought no one would come.
But one of them came back.
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