Chapter 12: To Kyoto
A relieved smile appeared on his face: "It's okay." β
Then he hugged me: "This cave is too deep, and I can't go up with you with my current strength, so I have to go back to the village to find the villagers and buy a rope to make you suffer." β
I felt warm in my heart, he really saw me as a family: "It's okay, aren't you here to save me!" Isn't that a good place for me! β
Tang Jie tied the rope to me and led me towards the entrance of the cave.
Out of the pothole, Tang Jie took me to the side of the road and saw a car, it turned out that Tang Jie had contacted the villagers in advance to send us into the city.
As soon as he sat down, Tang Jie's phone rang before his ass could sit down.
I heard Tang Jie answer into the phone: "Yes to me!" Tang Jie closed his eyes and tilted his head, and stopped talking.
Seeing Tang Jie's smile disappear suddenly, my heart clenched tightly, who called? Is it about Tang Yue? I had to carefully ask, "Xiaojie, what did you say on the phone?" β
Tang Jie didn't look at me, just leaned back in his chair and told me in a difficult tone: "The people at the crematorium have called and asked me to pick up the old man's ashes tomorrow afternoon!" β
Hearing the ashes, my heart suddenly tightened, from last night to now, I was still having an innocent dream, thinking that the other party would not do anything to Tang Yue if he didn't catch us, but now that the dream woke up, tears couldn't stop falling.
"Men don't flick when they have tears!" Tang Jie patted me on the shoulder and told me not to cry, but his tears couldn't stop sliding down his cheeks.
We hugged each other and cried all the way until we reached the small hotel in the city, where we stopped crying and got out of the car to check in.
After checking in, I saw Tang Jie's lost look, I knew that it was because of Tang Yue's matter, and I was also very guilty in my heart, in order to relieve his mood, I told him about the night pearl.
He looked at the Night Pearl in surprise: "You said you got this Night Pearl in the basement?" β
"Yes, that's it...", and I delivered the Night Pearl to him.
"I don't want it, you take it." He shoved it back to me.
"But..."Although Uncle Tang's life is priceless in my heart, I still want to compensate Tang Jie.
"I said that this is the old man's life, this is the certainty." He shook his head and asked curiously, "There's only the Night Pearl in there?" β
"Andβ" I remembered the golden hand bone when he asked, and I told him the truth.
He frowned, "Do you have any other abnormalities in your body?" β
"Nope"
"What about special abilities?"
"Nor did it..."
"Well, if only the old man were here, he must have known." He let out a long sigh.
As soon as I heard him mention Tang Yue again, neither of us spoke, and we didn't say anything all night.
The next morning, we went to the crematorium to collect the ashes, and along the way I learned that the Ma family has a very good reputation here, and there are many places where the Ma family's eyeliner is known.
Holding Tang Yue's urn and looking at the death certificate, my heart was filled with deep self-blame, if it wasn't for protecting me, how could he die?
"Xiaojie, it's all my fault, blood debts and blood repayment, I won't let go of any of the people of the Ma family." I clenched my fists tightly.
"We are all a family, good brothers, I don't blame you for this, we cultivators all believe in the word 'Mandate of Heaven'." He sighed, patted me on the shoulder and said, "Old man, he is dead, and we have to live well to be worthy of him." β
"Then what should we do next..."Tang Yue died, and I was at a loss.
Tang Jie gritted his teeth and said, "Go to Kyoto!" β
"What are you doing in Kyoto?" I asked, confused.
Let's go to Kyoto and return to the old mansion of the Tang family, and I will beg grandpa to avenge the old man! He clenched his fists tightly.
I had heard Tang Yue mention it before, Tang Yue was expelled from the Tang family when he was young because he was with Tang Jie's mother despite the opposition of the family, and I was a little worried when I heard Tang Jie say this: "But I heard my cousin say..."
Tang Jie interrupted me: "Is the old man still giving you something?" β
I quickly pulled it out of my bag: "Here." β
"Although the old man was expelled from the house, but after all, the old man is also grandpa's own son, he has no reason to ignore this matter, and this matter involves poisonous Gu, grandpa will definitely not sit idly by!" Tang Jie patted me on the shoulder and said.
"Good!"
We took a taxi straight to the train station and got on the train to Kyoto.
When we arrived in Kyoto, it was already past 11 o'clock the next night, so we simply found a small hotel near the train station and stayed there, planning to wait for the next morning to go to the old house of the Tang family.
I fell asleep on the bed, after all, I had experienced too many things in the past few days, and I felt very tired, until the next morning we were still asleep, and suddenly we heard a knock on the door, we looked at it and asked carefully, "Who?" β
A cold voice came: "Ziqiong Pavilion Punishment Hall, hurry up and open the door!" β
We wondered, how did this Ziqiong Pavilion know that we were in Kyoto?
"It's coming, it's coming." Tang Jie hesitated for a moment, glanced at me, I nodded, and he reached out to open the door.
No matter how they knew we were coming, sooner or later they were going to see them.
"You're Tang Jie." A man stood coldly at the door, without a trace of expression on his face, and then took out an iron token with the word "Ziqiong" written on it.
Tang Jie saw the token and heard that it was the Punishment Hall, and his expression was much more relaxed: "I am, you are?" β
The Penal Hall is an impartial department in the Ziqiong Pavilion, specializing in dealing with all kinds of related matters of monks, and has always been known for its iron-faced selflessness.
"I'm the head of the punishment hall of Ziqiong Pavilion, Liu Yicheng." As he spoke, he glanced around the room: "Are you together?" β
"Yes." I nodded.
"Aren't you three? Where's your dad? β
"My dad he..." Tang Jie's face sank again: "He's dead." Then he took out the death certificate.
Liu Yicheng took the death certificate, read it again, and then returned it to Tang Jie: "Take it all away." He waved his hand, and four strong men in black clothes behind him entered the house to arrest people.
"Wait!" As soon as Tang Jie saw that the situation was wrong, he stretched out his hand to stop them: "What do you mean by this?" Why arrest us? β
Liu Yicheng snorted coldly: "The Ma family sued you!" β
"You said the Ma family..."Tang Jie gritted his teeth and said fiercely.
I was also stunned: "They are the wicked who sue first." β