Chapter 9 The Old Man of the Ancient City

The history of Fanyin City, compared to the history of the Origin City, is simply a small thing.

The source of the city, in the country of Ni, has a long history of the background.

As long as it is a Ni country, when it comes to the city of Yuansu City, they will suddenly have a sense of awe.

In the countless wars of Ni Kingdom, this city has endured too much destruction, but it is still strong.

I still remember that when Ni unified the world, it was the source of the city, witnessing the prosperity of Ni State.

In the most glorious era of Ni, as a witness of history, it was the capital of Ni and became world-famous.

If you say the most fundamental reason, it is because Ni Yan, the king of Ni Kingdom, who unified the world back then, was born in Yuansu City.

So much so that after the source of the city, it became the capital of Ni State, and the king's seat was also a matter of course.

But how can you help the world, the fact that you will be united for a long time, and you will be divided for a long time, Ni Guo cannot always be at the peak of the era.

Due to various reasons, the Ni Kingdom was unpredictable and gradually declined, and many sub-kingdoms were derived.

The source of the city is still its most solid backing. As the dignity of Ni Guo, it never retreats at any time.

And even if it is a generation of ancient cities and famous all over the world, it does not mean that it can always maintain the glory of the victor.

Among the successive kings of the Ni Kingdom, there is one who is extremely mediocre, ignores the government and does not care about the government, the officials are corrupt, and the people are not happy. It wasn't until later that there was a civil strife in Ni and a foreign invasion, and he actually abandoned the people who went back to the city, and after fleeing, he built a new palace on the edge of Fanyin City.

This incident should be regarded as a turning point in the history of the city. Since then, having lost its aura of glory as the capital of the Ni Kingdom, the city of Yuansu has gradually flattened and slowly declined.

Many buildings in the entire city were destroyed by the war, and there is no longer the glory of the past.

And the new palace established by the king at that time has continued to this day, and the Ni Kingdom has long been unrecognizable.

But these things will not affect the source of the city from the root. It has long become the patriarch of Ni State, and it can only look at the newly built palace of Ni State with a helpless look in a distant place, with red lights and green wine, carved railings and jade masonry, magnificent.

And he stayed where he was, guarding his ancient body, like a warrior, looking at the territory on the border of Ni State.

Every time I walk into Yuansu City, Yi Shenghe can feel the heaviness of the city's history in the air.

Even if it was just ordinary residents on the street, looking at their faces, it seemed that they could recall the changes that Yuansu City experienced at that time.

It's just that this time the former source went back to the city, not to lament its sadness, but to find important people.

The general structure of the Origin City has subtle similarities with Fanyin City. Same bazaar, different crowds. Similar architecture, opposite styles.

In the city of Yuansu, the places where the residents live are closer to each other than in the city of Fanyin. Different from the flowering of Fanyin City on all sides, the distance between people in Yuansu City is very close, and Yuansu City is sometimes more like a city independent of Ni Kingdom.

The people in the city are united. They are loyal to the Ni Kingdom, but after being abandoned once, every generation, will hear the seniors seriously mention this matter, mentioning the glory and decline of Yuansu City.

What the kings did back then had already been remembered by heart. Over time, this kind of people's unwillingness gradually accumulated into a layer of resentment surrounding people's hearts.

More often than not, the people of Yuansu City love this city more than they love the country of Ni.

And the people who were born in Yuansu City firmly believe that they are all the branch bloodlines of Ni Yan, the king of Ni State.

The only large mansion that remains in the city of Yuansu is the Elegy Mansion that is more famous than the Guanjin Mansion. This is the family where Ni Yan was born, until it later became a royal family, lonely in the war, and then rose again, changing again and again, endlessly.

As the most closely related blood relationship in the current palace, the Elegy Mansion has naturally received a lot of favors.

The people in the city of Yuan Su regard the children in the elegiac mansion as the direct descendants of Ni Yan, the king of Ni Kingdom, and they are in the same line.

This is also the reason why the Elegy Mansion is in the source of the city, one mansion is large, and the other mansion is subservient. The Elegy Mansion is invisible, and even sometimes puts pressure on the palace, and the descendants of the soldiers who were loyal to Ni Yan back then are also secretly protecting the safety of the people in the Elegy Mansion.

It is said that there is a mysterious power that has been sealed in the Elegy Mansion, but no one knows about it.

All of the above is all the news that Yi Shengge and Yi Sheng have heard about the source of the city, and that's it.

Yi Sheng fit as light as a swallow, and walked quickly through the streets and alleys of Yuansu City, looking for the address according to the route he had taken at that time.

Even though the sky was just dawning, the people in Yuansu City got up a lot. In the bazaar, it is even more crowded. Compared with Fanyin City, the density of people is about the same, and the appearance looks very gentle.

After walking through a lot of people, Yi Shenghe felt a little tired, if he hadn't drunk some porridge before going out, his body might not be able to support it at all now.

Few of the people in the city of Yuan Su noticed Yi Shenghe's coming. Everyone is busy with their own work, and life is in order.

It wasn't until he came to a very remote house that Yi Shenghe stopped.

This little house looks very inconspicuous, even in a row of houses, the most ordinary and shabby one.

Yi Shenghe stood firmly at the door of the small house, waiting respectfully, and did not mean to knock on the door. Standing outside the door like this for almost half an hour, outsiders looked very strange.

But suddenly, the door of the small house opened, and Yi Shenghe hurriedly took a few steps forward, but did not enter.

"Who is it?"

There was a very vicissitudes of sound from the side of the door, but no one showed their heads.

"Uncle Yu, it's me, Yi Shenghe."

"Come in."

It was a very simple and brief conversation, and the gap between the open door was a little bigger, and Yi Shenghe walked directly into the house.

Nothing has changed much in it, and after all these years, it's still the same. But when Yi Shenghe looked at the person in front of him, he realized how ruthless the years were.

I remember that Xin's mother brought Yi Shenghe and Yi Shengge for the first time because Yi Shenghe was accidentally stung by a poisonous scorpion when she was a child. Where they lived, there were few doctors around them who could help, so Xin's mother had no choice but to go to Uncle Yu to heal him.

Yi Shenghe can still clearly recall that when the four of them met for the first time, when Uncle Yu saw Xin's mother, his eyes were full of surprise, surprise, excitement, and even about to shed tears.

Yi Shenghe has never seen a person's eyes that can contain so many feelings. You don't even need to ask or confide, just look at him and you can know what he has to say through his eyes.

Uncle Yu was not too immersed in the reunion after a long absence, and at that time, he took out several medicinal materials from the medicine cabinet. Some were applied to Yi Shenghe's wounds, some were boiled into medicine and let Yi Sheng take them, and others were taken with them.

After Yi Shenghe's blood stasis was discharged, it didn't take long for his body to recover. Since then, he has been full of admiration for Uncle Yu.

Uncle Yu was young and strong at the time. Looking at it now, the green hair has turned into white hair, and the beard is also long and hanging, and it does not look like a haggard. A person who is only about forty looks as vicissitudes as an old man of sixty years on the side of the road.

Yi Shengge, who was keen at that time, noticed that the relationship between Xin's mother and Uncle Yu was not ordinary, and after many inquiries, Xin's mother revealed a lot.

Uncle Yu's real name is Lu Zhenyu, and he and Xin's mother had known each other more than ten years ago, but unfortunately their fate was still poor, and they were not together in the end. Xin's mother told the story of the two of them at that time, her face was full of sweetness and smiles, and she had no choice but to divide the world.

Since then, Lu Zhenyu has lived in seclusion in Yuansu City, and Xin's mother has also abided by the oath she made back then, and the two will never see each other again.

It's just for the sake of Yi Shenghe's life, and it's impossible to ignore it, so Xin's mother can only come to find Lu Zhenyu. The first meeting in Yi Shenghe's memory, for Xin's mother and Lu Jinyu, was Yi Shenghe's first reunion from birth to that time.

Even after more than ten years, the two have not yet married and have not looked for their other half. They are separated from each other, but their hearts have always been together, and when Xin's mother mentioned this matter for the last time, she was full of tears and covered her face and cried.

Yi Shengge and Yi Shenghe didn't dare to ask more, the matter between the two of them had been buried in the hearts of the two brothers for so many years.

"Virtuous nephew, what is the reason for coming to look for me this time?"

"Uncle Yu, today, the sky suddenly brightened and darkened, I wonder if you have heard of this?"

"I don't know, but in my sleep, I vaguely feel this vision, what's wrong?"

"I doubt it."

Before Yi Shenghe finished speaking, he first looked around. Through the window of the room, there were still some people outside.

There are many people with mixed eyes, and the walls have ears, which has always been a very taboo thing for Yi Shenghe. In order to avoid being heard by unnecessary people, he will always look around very carefully, not missing any possibility of eyeliner or eyes and ears.

Lu Zhenyu saw Yi Shenghe's intentions, he was not a fool, of course he understood Yi Shenghe's small actions. Lu Zhenyu walked around the room, first looked at the people outside, and no one was ready to stay outside his room.

Then, Lu Jinyu walked to his bedside and beckoned to Yi Sheng. After Yi Shenghe walked over, Lu Zhenyu began to push his bed, and after the two of them exerted force together, the bed was pushed away, and there was just a square secret passage entrance below.

Yi Shenghe's eyes widened, he didn't expect that in Lu Zhenyu, a place that looked tattered, there would be a secret passage.

Lu Zhenyu lit a fire beside him, held it in his hand, and walked in front, while Yi Shenghe followed behind him.

In fact, it is a dark room, but under his own house, he dug a space much smaller than his own room. After Lu Zhenyu lit another fire on his left hand, he put the one he was holding on his right hand.

The light of the fire was not faint, so Yi Shenghe could clearly see the concrete structure below, which was also a square.

About half the size of a room, there was a bookshelf with several books sparsely placed on it, and a chair was idle next to the bookshelf. If it weren't for Yi Shenghe's careful look, he wouldn't have found that there was a box-like thing, the size of a stone, leaning against a corner.

Yi Shenghe and Lu Zhenyu stood face to face like this, falling silent for a while, not knowing what to say.