Chapter Forty-Eight: The Death of No Flattery
Hongchen trembled and covered his face and said, "Sister...... Even if you hit me, I won't leave. ”
Wumei turned around and slapped him again and said, "Are you leaving?" If you don't go, I'll die in front of you right now! ”
Hongchen cried out immediately, and he choked up: "Sister...... What are you doing! It's not that we can't save those fellow disciples, but now there are only a few officers and soldiers left outside the door, and we ......."
Wumei raised her hand and slapped her chest, and spit out a mouthful of blood in the next second, she raised her eyes to see that his voice was cold: "Can you go?" To go or not to go?! ”
As she spoke, she raised her hand again and was about to greet her, Hongchen trembled in her voice, stopped her movements, and said, "Okay...... Okay, I'll go...... I'm going ......"
After speaking, she glanced at Wumei with tears in her eyes, Wumei stared at Hongchen and said: "I sprinkled incense powder on your body, if you still don't get out of the Nightmare Palace within half an hour, then I will kill myself in the dungeon of the Nightmare Palace." ”
Hongchen pursed his lips tightly and turned to leave.
After He Qingchen saw Dao Hongchen come out, he hurriedly greeted him and asked, "Why did you come out, we are going to prepare the next step...... Ay? Why are you crying? ”
Hongchen said expressionlessly: "Let's go." ”
"Let's go?" He Qingyun asked, "Where is it?" ”
Hongchen muttered in a nasal voice, "Leave the Nightmare Palace." ”
Ji Qingyi frowned and walked over and said, "Leaving the Nightmare Palace?" You don't save your fellow disciples? ”
Hongchen didn't speak, he walked forward by himself, and took two steps: "You have to hurry up and keep up, I will leave the Nightmare Palace in half an hour, if you can't keep up, I don't care about you." ”
Ji Qingyi was stunned, she didn't speak, since everyone didn't care anymore, why did she care so much?
As he spoke, he took He Xiaobai's hand and followed, He Qingyan also looked puzzled, broke into Xiao Jin's arm and said, "Do you know what's going on?" ”
Xiao Jin glanced at him and said, "You gossip spirit doesn't know how I can know!" ”
"Hey, you!" He Qingyun rolled his eyes at him and followed.
It is true that I didn't see the officers and soldiers on the way, most of the officers and soldiers had already arrived in front of the palace gate, Hongchen had a gloomy face on the way, and he walked as if he was running, and he didn't say anything along the way.
He Xiaobai gasped and said, "Brother, why did Brother Hongchen walk so fast?" Xiaobai can't keep up and is tired to death. ”
He Qingyun shook his head, squatted down and said, "Brother doesn't know, come on my brother's back, I'll carry you." ”
He Xiaobai nodded and climbed onto He Qingyan's back. Less than half an hour later, they saw a hazy wood.
"The Misty Forest?" Ji Qingyi said in surprise: "Isn't this the misty forest when we first came in?" Didn't you think this was the entrance to the Nightmare Palace? ”
Just as they were about to step onto the Misty Forest, their surroundings suddenly shook violently, and the ground on the road was about to crack a crack. Hongchen was stunned for a moment, and suddenly looked back in the direction of the Nightmare Palace, and they saw that the Nightmare Palace was collapsing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the towers that were so tall disappeared in an instant like a plate of loose sand, leaving only a large pool of sand. Hongchen was about to run back when he saw this, Xiao Jin stopped him, Hongchen shouted coldly at Xiao Jin with red eyes: "You let go of me!" My sister is still in there!! You let go of me! ”
Seeing that the earth was about to collapse, Xiao Jin carried Hongchen to his shoulder, and the hand holding Ji Qingyi in his left hand jumped down from above. Seeing this, He Qingyun also tapped his toes and flew down. Unexpectedly, as soon as their feet touched the ground, they saw that the road to the Palace of Nightmare had completely disappeared. Hongchen's action of standing up and about to climb up froze in an instant. His eyes were red, he slowly squatted on the ground, and whispered: "I should have thought of it a long time ago, I should have thought of it a long time ago, why did my sister ......?"
Ji Qingyi stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder and comforted, "Do you know something?" ”
Hongchen shrank and choked up, "I saw my sister in the dungeon, and I saw her." ”
Ji Qingyi was stunned and said, "Then what?" ”
Hongchen sniffed and said, "She was very angry and told me to get out, I didn't agree, so she beat herself up, saying that if I didn't leave, she would kill herself in front of me." ”
Ji Qingyi bit her lip, not knowing how to comfort him.
Hongchen seemed to think about something, and said: "When I saw my sister, she seemed to have opened a dark pavilion in the dungeon, and there was a switch on the dark pavilion, it must be that switch, and her hands had already been put on the switch at that time, and when she saw me, she closed the dark pavilion again, I thought it was a powerful hidden weapon inside, but I didn't expect it...... Didn't expect ......"
Hongchen raised his face and held his mouth aggrievedly, looked at them and said, "Why do you think my sister is doing this?" Those are all the same people who grew up with us, obviously bigger than those bad people, why did my sister choose such an extreme method......"
Ji Qingyi squatted down and comforted him: "Hongchen, your sister is definitely not a whim, she must have been thinking about it for a long time, today's turmoil in the Nightmare Palace is just an opportunity for her to make up her mind to destroy the Nightmare Palace." ”
Hongchen buried his head in his arms and muttered, "But why? Why is my sister so ruthless...... Why are you so ruthless. ”
Ji Qingyi thought for a while and said softly: "Because your sister doesn't want to hurt more people in letting this Nightmare Palace survive in the world." This Nightmare Palace originally survived because of a woman's obsession, and everyone who is the Palace Master of the Nightmare Palace can fulfill the wishes of the next Nightmare Palace Master, and the reason why you can stay in the Nightmare Palace and be protected by your sister for so many years is because your sister used this your desire to stay in the Nightmare Palace in exchange for helping the first Nightmare Palace Lord fulfill her wish. Therefore, your sister was thinking about you at the beginning, and she knew that she was still thinking about you in the end, there is no Nightmare Palace in the world, and you will not go back to that place. ”
Hongchen cried sadly, his body was trembling, he squatted there and cried for a long time, and kept talking.
He said: "When I was a child, I hated my sister very much, because my sister was very stupid, and my aunt and father didn't like her, so my sister never had good things, and the clothes she wore were taken from dead people. When she was a child, my poor aunt and father were reluctant to buy her clothes, so she could only go to the mass grave to pick up the clothes of those who died, and then wash herself and put them on. I was scared of her from that time. ”
"Children are very sensitive to death, and they have very little contact with other things, so I am afraid of my sister because of the dead clothes on her body. But my sister was very kind to me, she didn't have much to eat, and sometimes she would go to the walls of the town to ask for food, and sometimes she would be beaten by the beggars and her whole body would be swollen. I remember, I remember one day when I was having dinner there was a dog running outside the house, and I casually said that I wanted to eat meat buns. As a result, she ran to the town the next day to steal meat buns for me, she ran full, was caught by people and beaten, and then when she came home covered in blood, and then when she handed me the bloody meat buns, I was scared and cried, I didn't pick up but immediately ran to the house and called Ah Niang, I said: 'Ah Niang, Ah Niang, my sister is dying, she is covered in blood, and she is about to die. But my mother just patted me on the head and turned over and went back to sleep, I trembled with fear, and when I walked out again, I saw my sister squatting in the stream in front of my house to wash her blood, and the little bun was held by oiled paper and placed on the stone beside her. When she looked back and saw me coming, she didn't come as close as I did, just pointed to the bun and got up and went back to her little bed. ”
"I didn't know how I ate that bun at the time, I just felt that the bun was the most unpalatable bun in the world, bitter and salty, and then I thought about it, it should be that I cried too much when I ate the bun, and the tears flowed into the bun filling. I covered my sister with my quilt that night, because she was trembling all over, but her face was red, and she said these things that I didn't understand, and I was about to decide to be good to my sister, really, I thought that although my sister was not smart, she was the one who would rather be beaten for me. However, on the second day of the sophomore year, there was a flood in the house. ”
"We were still sleeping when the flood occurred, and when we woke up, there was already a lot of water around, and we didn't know what to do, so Grandma and Daddy tried to put the sticks in the water and we floated to the shore, but it was already very cold, and we were wearing clothes that were not cold, and we probably froze to death before we could get to the shore of the drift, and we didn't even see the edge of the land. My sister was still suffering from a cold, and she put her thin robe over me and smiled at me. I immediately cried, probably because of this, and then whenever Daddy and Auntie wanted to kick my sister down, I hugged my sister to death. ”
"Don't think it's incredible, at that time, I said that there was no tiger poison and no food, my aunt and my father said that my sister had a famine when she was young, and the neighbors took their children to exchange them for food. Because there was nothing to eat, so they said that many people did this at that time, but Daddy and Auntie did not agree, and later it may have caused them more harm to my sister, because they did not give up on my sister at that time, so they felt that they would not have to treat my sister much better in the future, my sister had not eaten milk when she was born, so she has always been very thin. ”
"Later, about a day later, we were washed away, and my sister was suffering from a cold, and I thought, I always thought she must have died."