Chapter 222: The Final Betrayal
Feng Lan dragged Yueqin into her arms, and once again smelled the unique fragrance from her bun, so that he didn't know what to say for a while, and his heart, which had been empty since she disappeared, seemed to be refilled by her all at once.
He asked with a wry smile: "Is it because we have been together for hundreds of years and are too accustomed to it, so after you suddenly disappeared, I felt as if half of my body and half of my heart were missing." ”
Yueqin didn't answer him, but led him to the place where she lived temporarily. In that small and humble house, Feng Lan met Xiao Dongqing for the first time.
Xiao Dongqing, who was just five or six years old, rarely saw strangers, and timidly stared at Feng Lan standing beside her mother Yueqin for a long time, and then suddenly laughed. Maybe this is the fate between father and daughter, even if it is the first time they meet, there is some kind of tacit understanding.
In Feng Lan's opinion, although Xiao Dongqing is very similar to Yueqin when she was a child, her eyes that smile like two crescents are very similar to herself. He already had the answer in his heart, but he still asked, "Who is she?" ”
"Her name is Dong Qing...... It's our daughter! Back then, I escaped from the Divine Domain just to be able to keep her and not to burden you, but I also made you miss the time to grow up with her. Yueqin lowered her head in response.
"Dongqing......" Feng Lan immediately understood why Yueqin gave their daughter this name, on that cold New Year's night, the scene of them snuggling up to each other always appeared in his sleep. He hugged Xiao Dongqing high with one hand, and hugged Yueqin with the other, hugging and crying with their mother and daughter.
If the Dove Demon incident that happened many years ago planted the seeds for Feng Lan and their betrayal of the Divine Domain, then the meeting with his daughter Dong Qing made the seed in Feng Lan's heart quickly grow into a towering tree. From the first time he saw her, nothing was more precious to Feng Lan than her and Yueqin, no matter what the cost, he had to protect them, even if he was an enemy of Qiansu and the entire Divine Domain.
In order to enjoy the time of reunion, the pursuers sent by the gods have arrived. Feng Lan stayed behind to cover the escape of Yueqin's mother and daughter, and agreed with them to join them at the foot of Yunwu Mountain after they got rid of the pursuers. According to Yueqin's original plan, she wanted to send her daughter Dongqing to Youlan Cave Mansion to be taken care of by her mother Liuli, and she and Feng Lan were afraid that they would start to die from now on.
Who would have thought that the god Qiansu had expected her to make such a move, so he set up an ambush on the road to Yunwu Mountain. Although Yueqin was more skilled than those subordinates sent by Qiansu, she was caught by those people in desperation because she had to take care of her young daughter. At this moment, Yin Zhen and Meng'er arrived and saved Yueqin and Dongqing's mother and daughter, and also announced the complete betrayal of the Four Gods to the Divine Domain.
Yin Zhen and Meng'er helped Yueqin repel all the men sent by Qiansu, and escorted their mother and daughter all the way to the foot of Yunwu Mountain. Unfortunately, it would be half a month before the only snowfall of the year would fall here, so they had to hide in the village at the foot of the mountain and wait for Feng Lan.
Just as they were hiding in the village, the White Tiger, the son of the god of Heaven, suddenly appeared. After seriously injuring Yin Zhen, Meng'er, and Yueqin, he took Dong Qing back to the Divine Domain, and told them that he would come back again to capture them in a few days.
"You can take advantage of this time to escape, but I can't guarantee whether Qiansu will let Dong Qing go!" The white tiger said coldly before leaving.
Two days later, Feng Lan, who finally got rid of the entanglement of the pursuing soldiers, rushed to the village at the foot of the mountain. On that day, it happened to be snowing heavily in Yunwu Mountain, and in the distance he saw a blue path extending down from the mountainside. It's just that Yueqin, who was waiting for him at the entrance of the village, was nowhere to be seen, only Yin Zhen and Meng'er, who were injured to varying degrees in order to protect their mother and daughter.
"I'm sorry, the two of us tried our best, but we still can't beat the white tiger." Yin Zhen was injured by a white tiger on one side of his eye, and he was still wrapped in a bandage.
"How can I blame you, even the four of us combined may not be his opponent!" Feng Lan clenched her fists in response. Looking at Yueqin, whose eyes were red and swollen, and then thinking of their young daughter, he also felt like a knife.
"Yinzhen, Meng'er, you two have done enough for us! While the White Tiger and they haven't come back, you guys should flee quickly, I want to take Feng Lan to Youlan Cave to meet my mother, there are some things I want to explain to her, and I can say goodbye to her! Yueqin took Yin Zhen and Meng'er's hands and persuaded her.
Meng'er was about to refute, but was pulled back by Yinzhen, and she said to Yueqin very naturally: "Okay, you guys go quickly, we will leave this village later!" ”
Yueqin believed Yin Zhen's words, and after saying goodbye to them, she and Feng Lan climbed along the blue path towards the Cloud Mountain. They successfully found the Youlan Cave Mansion, and the scenery in the cave was very different from Yueqin's childhood impressions, but they could hear her mother's sound before they even reached the place where she lived. Yueqin heard that her mother's piano sound was on her mind, and seemed to be upset about something.
When she took Feng Lan's hand and appeared in front of Liuli, Liuli recognized it at a glance as her and Changqin's daughter, and understood why she had been restless since that morning. Looking at the Yueqin, which has grown slim, Liuli's heart is like a mixed taste.
Yueqin suddenly knelt down in front of Liuli, she hugged her mother's leg and said, "Mother, in the hundreds of years that you have been a god, your daughter has not been able to be by your side, please forgive me." I am truly in love with Feng Lan, who is also a divine judge, and have a daughter, but our relationship was opposed by the Divine Domain, and our daughter Dong Qing was also captured by the White Tiger, the son of the Heavenly God Qiansu. In order to regain our daughter, tomorrow Feng Lan and I will face the White Tiger, we know in our hearts that it is impossible to defeat the son of Qiansu with our ability, but for the sake of our daughter Dongqing, we have to fight. I just beg you, in the love of mother and daughter, once Feng Lan and I encounter an accident and die at the hands of the White Tiger, please ask my father to save Dong Qing, she is innocent! ”
"Get up, I promise you!" After hearing her daughter's words, Liuli was heartbroken, and forced herself to temporarily suppress her emotions and help her daughter up.
On that day, she never mentioned anything about her daughter's sentence to the gods, but silently found a new dress that she had not worn and asked her daughter to change into, and carefully combed her hair and painted light makeup. She lit red candles in the Youlan Cave Mansion and held a simple wedding ceremony for Feng Lan and Yueqin.
Yueqin fulfilled her wish to take Feng Lan to see her mother, and when the snow did not melt, she and Feng Lan left the Youlan Cave Mansion together, they had made up their minds to start a battle to the death with Bai Hu and others, but at the foot of the mountain they saw two familiar figures waiting for them.
Instead of leaving the village, Yin Zhen and Meng'er chose to stay behind and fight with them against the powerful enemies from the Divine Domain. When they parted, Yin Zhen was just afraid that too much argument with Yueqin would delay her time to meet her mother, so she stopped Meng'er and lied to her and Feng Lan that they would flee the village. They looked at each other and smiled, as if they had returned to the time when they were children in the Divine Judgment Academy, no matter how time passed, they were still the four innocent teenagers and each other's close companions.
The White Tiger really returned to that village the next day, and with him came the other three characters of the Heavenly God Qiansu, Suzaku, Xuanwu, and Qinglong. The fallen Four Divine Judgments, who have been recognized as traitors by the Divine Domain, have the most fierce battle with the Four Sons of Qiansu, and it is also the final battle of the Four Divine Judgments.
The battle lasted ten days and ten nights, and the four gods finally exhausted all their physical strength, although the four of them had already been injured by the white tiger, but no one fell until the end. When the power of the gods and demons could no longer maintain their physical bodies, the four of them passed away with the wind one after another, and never reappeared again.
There was an agreement between Liuli and Changqin that if she had no choice but to play the music he taught her on the guqin at the passage where Changqin traveled between the demon world and the divine realm, she would summon him to appear. This was the first time in thousands of years that Liuli had left the Youlan Cave Mansion, and seeing the purple blank cloud again made her a little dizzy, but she had to fulfill her daughter's last and only plea for her.
During that time, Changqin was sent by the Qiansu branch to deal with some inconsequential matters, and when he came back, he heard that his daughter and several other gods had been killed by the four sons of Qiansu for betraying the gods, and he was like suffering a thunderbolt from the sky, and when he heard Liuli's call to him, he thought he was hallucinating.
The two had only seen each other for a year, but they were old overnight at the same time. Liuli told Changqin about the antecedents of Yueqin and Fenglan's betrayal of the Divine Domain, and Changqin did not know that Yueqin had fled the Divine Domain for the sake of her and Fenglan's flesh and blood. He couldn't forgive himself for sending his daughter to the Divine Judgment House that day to cause today's tragedy, and now he has to send his daughter and Feng Lan's child out no matter what.
He immediately set off and hurried back to the Divine Domain to meet the Heavenly God Qiansu, and pleaded with him: "Lord Qiansu, please read that you have also made great contributions to the Divine Domain in the Four Divine Judgments, and leave a way for Yueqin and Fenglan's daughters to live." ”
Qiansu had already guessed that Changqin would come, and he replied calmly: "Changqin, the four of them ended up like this, I am more distressed than anyone else, after all, they were my favorite subordinates." But the sins they have committed have far exceeded the honor they once had, and the gods and demons must never have offspring between them, which is the most important rule we have set from the very beginning, but they have even broken this. ”
"They have been punished as they deserve, but Dong Qing is innocent." Changqin stepped forward and grabbed Qiansu's long sleeves, knelt on the ground and said.
"What? That little girl's name is Dong Qing? No matter how much I asked her, she wouldn't tell me her name, and seeing her face reminded me of the first time I met Yueqin, but her eyes were exactly the same as Feng Lan's. Her parents' betrayal of me is a harbinger of her future, and if I let her go, sooner or later she will seek revenge on me for her parents. ”