Chapter Twenty-Six: The Wild Golden Town, Preface V
Xiao Rou was still clinging to Xiao Lian's back, holding the clothes at home with one hand, and grasping Xiao Lian's clothes tightly with the other, as if she was going to crush Xiao Lian's old clothes full of patches.
"Little Rou...... Are you the second lady of the Shangguan family? ”
Xiao Lian broke away in disbelief and Xiao Rou was leaning against him, turned back a few steps back, and asked Xiao Rou, who was bowing her head and her shoulders were trembling.
How much Xiao Lian hopes that Xiao Rou will tell him at this moment that she is not the second lady of the Shangguan family, but just a self-improvement girl whose parents are dead and who is struggling to survive in the world.
When Xiao Rou heard Xiao Lian's question, she finally seemed to be unable to hold it back, tears poured out of her eyes one by one, and she nodded with difficulty. It's just that Xiao Rou still lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Xiao Lian. She was afraid, afraid to see Xiao Lian lose trust in her.
"Smack!" A neat whip swing came from Xiao Lian's side, and the middle-aged leader of the Shangguan family was bored by this bloody plot, picked up the whip, threw it at Xiao Lian's feet, and smashed a small dirt pit.
"Shangguan's family affairs, others retreat quickly, why don't you go far away as a pariah?"
Xiao Lian ignored the Shangguan leader behind him, clenched his fists tightly, his eyes were full of complicated emotions, his brain was like a mess at the moment, he didn't know what to do or what to say. I thought that the Shangguan family had found themselves and wanted to eradicate themselves. Unexpectedly, the peak turned around, and the Shangguan family's brigade actually came to arrest Xiaorou!
"If you don't roll, don't blame the hardship!"
The middle-aged leader of the Shangguan family saw Xiao Lian's stupid pestle there motionless, and lifted the whip again, and swung it hard, and the end of the whip hit Xiao Lian's back, leaving a blood mark. Xiao Lian was in pain, and the new clothes under his armpits fell to the ground and scattered.
Xiao Lian grinned in pain, his brows furrowed, and he slowly looked at the new clothes that Xiao Rou had made for him on the ground. The color of the new clothes, the red silk on the back of the new clothes, clearly shows the same style as the family clothes in Shangguan's house, although it has changed a lot, it can also be seen that the clothes have traces of Shangguan's family. Xiao Lian's heart was full of endless self-blame, why was he so stupid, he didn't even notice how similar this dress was to the family clothes in Shangguan's house.
When the middle-aged leader saw that Xiao Lian was still motionless, a nameless anger in his heart rose on the spot, and another whip was whipped on Xiao Lian's back.
Xiao Rou saw that Xiao Lian was like a fool, just looking at the new clothes she made for him in a daze, and she didn't dodge being beaten, and then an indescribable sadness came to her heart, she had already hurt his heart, why should he let his ** be hurt by the people in his own family again.
"Stop hitting him!" Xiao Rou Pear Flower brought the rain and cried and shouted to the middle-aged leader. The middle-aged leader snorted and put away his whip.
"Second Miss, you can't escape the marriage contract that has been made, so go home with the lower official quickly!" The middle-aged leader said sternly to Xiao Rou, his tone no longer having the patience he had before.
Xiao Rou, who was crying and swallowing, heard the word marriage contract, and her heart felt as if she had been cut by a knife, recalling that stormy night nine years ago.
Nine years ago, the second young master of the Xiao family, who had made a marriage contract with him, came to the Xiao family for help, and he wanted to go out to have a look, but he was locked in the boudoir, only to hear bursts of beating and scolding, coming from the door in the distance. In the early morning of the next day, listening to what his maid said, the second young master of the Xiao family had both legs broken and thrown on the street. Later, on the same day, he was forced by the elders of the family to make a marriage contract with the Tang family. I am like a piece of duckweed, floating in the world, and there is nothing I can decide. After that day, within a few days, the Dragon Teng City Massacre occurred, leaving only a dozen elders and juniors in the family, and their parents were all slaughtered and died.
Xiao Rou closed her eyes, and tears poured out. She didn't want to go back to that place, she didn't want her fate to be at the mercy of others again. She has already tasted what it is like to really like someone, and she just wants to be by that person's side and travel to the ends of the earth.
"I don't want to go back......"
"Second Miss, I can't help you!" The leader heard Xiao Rou, no, she should be called Shangguan Rou now. When the leader heard Shangguan Rou say this, his legs lightly clamped the horse's belly, and he accelerated, pulled the crying Shangguan Rou from the bottom, pulled the horse, grabbed Shangguan Rou, and galloped towards the place where Shangguan's men and horses gathered.
The leader could not have imagined that Xiao Lian, who did not die nine years ago, would now have legs no different from ordinary people, and have grown into a healthy and strong teenager. What's more, Shangguan's family only has a portrait of Xiao Lian when he was a child, and the positioning technique in the immortal law has also shown that Xiao Lian is in the wild mountains and wilderness, and it is difficult to find. So the leader didn't care about the Xiao Lian who stayed where he was.
Shangguan Rou was placed on horseback, and she couldn't cry anymore. In the past three years, she has already prepared for her plan to be arrested and returned to Shangguan's house. She thought she would be able to accept it when it really happened, but she found that she still couldn't accept the mercy of fate. At this moment, Shangguan Rou only hopes that Xiao Lian will quickly escape from this place of right and wrong, after all, the Shangguan family is also searching for Xiao Lian's whereabouts, if Xiao Lian is caught by the Shangguan family, he will definitely have to suffer a lot.
Xiao Lian stood stupidly in place, and before he could react for a while, he saw the leader of the Shangguan family galloping and grabbed Shangguan Rou away. All of a sudden, I only felt a buzz in my head, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, in my mind, setting off a monstrous wave.
"No...... No way...... Xiao Rou ...... Xiao Rou can't be caught! ”
Xiao Lian roared, completely forgetting his identity as being chased and killed by the Shangguan family, and completely forgetting that Shangguan Rou had torn up the marriage contract, picked up the new clothes on the ground, opened his strong legs, and chased after the Shangguan leader who had gradually drifted away. Xiao Lian only wants Shangguan Rou to return to his side at this moment, whether he scolds himself for being a fool or beating himself, as long as he doesn't fulfill any bullshit marriage contract and doesn't leave him.
A horse and a young man, walking back and forth through the suburbs of Jinzhen, the young man's legs were windy, and every step he took was to step on a small depression in the dusty country road. marched towards the place where the Shangguan family and horses gathered.
In front of the gate near the suburbs on the east side of Jinzhen, a group of nearly 100 soldiers in white robes had already lined up neatly, waiting for their leader to return, and they were suddenly told by the leader Shangguanwu to gather at the east gate of Jinzhen, and they knew that the leader had brought the Xiuzhen master who had found it.
According to the leader Shangguan Wu, that nameless real person is a master of the Dan period in the realms of enlightenment, foundation building, lotus, knot, yuanying, out-of-body, distraction, Mahayana, and tribulation.
While waiting was a little bored, the sound of horses' hooves running to the tower gradually came, and the soldiers present hurriedly stood up straight to greet their leader and the second lady of the Shangguan family. Not far away, the dust kicked up by the trampling of horses' hooves slowly approached until it came to a halt in front of the soldiers.
Shangguan Wu was riding on horseback, and Shangguan behind him couldn't stop crying, looking pitiful. But when the horse had stopped, the sound of stampede did not stop, and it still rumbled behind Shangguan Wu.
Shangguan Wu frowned, turned his horse's head and turned around, and a well-proportioned long-haired young man, dressed in a white Shangguan family's battle robe, suddenly jumped out of the dust and mist.
"Put Xiaorou down !!"
Xiao Lian jumped out of the dust and mist, his face was hideous, his fists were clenched, the muscles around his body were faintly bulging, and he swung his fist towards Shangguan Wu on horseback in the air, and the air that was slashed by the heavy fist faintly appeared a trace of turbulence, and the air instantly condensed.
Shangguan Wu's eyes narrowed, and he raised his hands and crossed them in front of him. Xiao Lian punched Shangguan Wu's forearm, but was blocked by Shangguan Wu's thicker arm, and he couldn't move forward. Feeling the power of this fist, Shangguan Wu's expression only showed a playful smile, but the horse under him shook his feet and knelt down.
Shangguan Wu grabbed his right hand with his backhand, grabbed Xiao Lian's fist in mid-air, and then threw it hard, throwing Xiao Lian to the ground.
"Come, take the second lady to the town and hand it over to Steward Chen," Shangguan Wu jumped off the horse after throwing Xiao Lian with his backhand, helped Shangguan Rou, who was in shock on horseback, and handed it to the soldiers beside him. Shangguan struggled softly, shouting with tears in his eyes
"Crane fool, leave me alone! Come on! ”
Although Shangguan Rou was frightened by the horse's sudden fall, her heart was full of Xiao Lian, that Xiao Lian had a grudge against her family, and she didn't know it before, and now she ran back to die, why is this fool so stupid!
Xiao Lian, who was thrown to the ground, grabbed the loess at the bottom of his hands with both hands, and the rough sand stimulated Xiao Lian's nerves and made Xiao Lian a little sober.
Xiao Lian slowly stood up, snorted a few mouthfuls on the ground, and asked loudly to the nearly 100 white-clothed soldiers in front of him, straightening his body, and asking loudly to Xiao Rou who was caught:
"Xiaorou, do you want to escape?!"
Shangguan Rou's hands were firmly grasped by the soldiers of the Shangguan family, and she couldn't struggle, and her eyes were already red and swollen from crying:
"Crane fool, leave me alone! Let's go! ”
Shangguan Rou didn't want to escape from the confinement of Shangguan's family as soon as possible, why didn't she want to go away with Xiao Lian, even if she was suffering and tired, it was better than the two of them being separated now!
Xiao Lian didn't obediently listen to what Shangguan Rou said, his eyes just became more resolute, his eyes were bright, and he shouted at Shangguan Rou again, completely ignoring the nearly 100 neatly arranged officers and soldiers, and was looking at him with fierce eyes.
"I'll ask you again! Do you want to run away? ”
Shangguan Rou burst into tears, looking at Xiao Lian facing nearly a hundred people alone, she saw Xiao Lian's resolute and unshakable eyes, and she understood in her heart.
She understands that Xiao Lian, a fool, will not stop if he wants to do something. As long as Xiao Lian wants to love someone, he will not stop. As long as Xiao Lian thinks, he will only use all his life's strength to complete it, without thinking. Shangguan Rou's tears kept falling one by one, and then as if he had given great courage, he slowly spoke.
"Crane fool...... I...... I want to escape...... I...... I want to go with you. ”
After speaking, Shangguan Rou seemed to have exhausted all the strength of her body, and the whole person went limp and no longer resisted. Because she said what she wanted to say the most, and she believed that Xiao Lian would rebel against the world for her alone, even if she was broken, she would not have half a complaint.
When Xiao Lian heard this, he grinned, what Shangguan Rou said was exactly what he wanted to hear the most.
"Haha~ Okay! Good! Good! Good! ”
Xiao Lian looked up to the sky and laughed, and said to the slightly gloomy old sky. Talking and talking. The tone slowly became more and more fierce, until finally, Xiao Lian's facial features were almost twisted, and he gritted his teeth and spit out every word from his mouth. His eyes were filled with raging flames, and he looked directly at the hundred people in front of him.
"If you want to escape, I'll help you take him one by one! Guys! Beat! Lying! Under! ”