Chapter 16 The Past and the Past
At night in Yujing City, thousands of lights are lit up, which is very lively.
Outside the "Qubo Courtyard", over an inner wall carved with six arts, is the gray and white exterior wall of the Fu family's mansion.
The noise of the street was stopped by the flowers and trees in the inner walls and the outer passages, and could not be transmitted from this side. But the high-rise myrtle can't completely block the line of sight, standing a little higher, you don't need much extraordinary vision, you can clearly see a corner of the city.
That's what Yan Kaiting did. He crouched on the roof and looked out at the red fire beyond the two walls.
The streets were crowded with people, rubbing shoulders and lighting up like day, as if the whole city had poured onto the road. On the eve of every "magic hour", it is a festival of urban carnival, and no one knows that after the tide of monsters and beasts, a few familiar faces will disappear from the laughing crowd in front of them.
Looking back at the Fu family's mansion, there is another grand scene. Before and after dinner is the busiest time of Zhong Mingding's food house, the people who went out on foreign affairs during the day have returned, almost every building is lit up, the streets are dotted, and people with lanterns come and go. I couldn't hear anyone talking loudly, the sound echoing in the night sky was a musical instrument, a homing bird, and occasionally a weapon exchange floating from the martial arts arena.
Yan Kaiting changed into a stone blue robe, which was obviously not his clothing style. At this moment, in order to squat for convenience, the hem is lifted and tucked on the jade belt around the waist, if you don't look at those valuable accessories, it is no different from the thugs who collect protection money a few streets away.
He was holding a piece of "Chengxin Paper" in both hands, and if his eyes were focused, it might make people mistakenly think that he was seriously thinking about his homework. This homework paper was sent by Fu Mingxuan along with the robe on his body.
Therefore, why did he continue to write this "Theory of Disability" after eating, eating snacks, and taking a bath, instead of going to the martial arts arena to loosen his muscles and bones?
A breeze blew, and someone chuckled in their ears, "How does the dim sum taste?"
Yan Kaiting said lazily: "It's not dragon liver and phoenix marrow, the presentation is very chic, and it's just like that after tasting it." ”
Fu Mingxuan took the paper from Yan Kaiting's hand, and found that under the word "foreign object" in the ink, there were more carbon black traces from thunder and lightning, and if you looked closely, it was the word "the end".
"Has Xia Pingsheng been here?" Fu Mingxuan asked.
"Yes, I made this trip just to train me. Yan Kaiting stretched out.
Fu Mingxuan smiled and said, "Good training." ”
Yan Kaiting was suddenly deflated, fell back, and lay down directly on the roof, resting his left hand behind his head, and said after a while: "As an outsider, I was brought here by my stepmother, and he is good to me." He doesn't like me, but in cultivation and refining, he still teaches me, and he doesn't even care about my own father...... Hehe. Yan Kaiting didn't finish his words, but just left a self-deprecating smile.
Fu Mingxuan sat down beside him and did not speak.
There are people in Yujing City who know that the Yan family's housework is a mess. However, although the two have been close since childhood, in fact, Yan Kaiting did not complain to him of any hardship. He has been gone for a long time, and many things can only be said to be hearsay, and there is no way to persuade him for a while. Besides, what Yan Kai needed in court was not a few words of comfort that didn't hurt.
Yan Kaiting set his eyes on the endless and deep night sky, only to feel that today's mood was extremely turbulent. Even galloping on the beautiful body of a beautiful woman can only divert attention for a moment, and when the pure carnal pleasure fades, the backlash of the angry waves in the heart is even more turbulent.
His mother died when he was one year old. Almost all childhood memories are in the Fu family, which was the most carefree and sinister days. Playful children do not notice that there is never instruction and discipline from their fathers.
After his father remarried, his stepmother had amazing beauty and talent, and Xia Pingsheng was brought into the Yan family by her. After being sensible, Yan Kaiting realized that it should be a woman who was originally extremely noble, but she didn't know why she settled in a mundane city like Yujing.
Mrs. Ji has an extremely light temperament, and she does not have much intersection with Yan Kaiting. She neither fulfilled her duties as a mother, nor did she play the role of crowding out her elders. The only thing that had an impact was probably to let Xia Pingsheng teach Yan to open the court to cultivate.
In hindsight, Yan Kaiting felt that his father might not like this connection, but he was stubborn and unruly at the time, and Xia Pingsheng was not a person who could order at will, so it was like this.
The first time he really felt the dislike from his father was when it was rumored that Mrs. Ji was going to give birth. The atmosphere in the Yan Mansion was very strange all year long, the servants whispered, and his father went from ignoring him to showing disgust. There is a saying that began to circulate quietly that the inheritance of the Yan Mansion would not be left to the eldest son who did not learn and did not know how to do it.
And this rumor has brought to the fore the contradictions between the old and the new that have long existed within the "Heavenly Creations" of the Craftsman's Mansion. It was only then that Yan Kaiting knew that the real owner of "Tiangong Kaiwu" was his mother, and his father's surname also came from his mother.
In the end, until Mrs. Ji passed away, she did not leave a man and a woman. As a result, the undercurrent of discussing the inheritance of "heavenly creations" has disappeared without a trace.
However, the factional disputes caused by this incident in the craftsman's house did not subside, but intensified over time. Originally, this had nothing to do with Yan Kaiting, and he didn't join the family business seriously until he was fifteen years old.
The trigger was the expulsion of Steward Tang's family. That was the head of Yanfu before his mother's death, and later gave way to Xia Ping's life, so he went to "Tiangong Kaiwu" to be a steward, and he was also one of the few old people in Yanfu who had been in contact with Yan Kaiting.
The reason for the expulsion was probably that he was found guilty of enriching his own pockets during the audit of the accounts.
A lot of things happened in those days, and there are only a few clear pictures in Yan Kaiting's memory.
When the Tang family's convoy was found in the wasteland, among the fragments of the carriage cage falling to the ground, thirty-six men, women and children were gnawed by the fierce beast to the point that only white bones remained.
He went to his father to theorize, and when he was thrown into the Yan family ancestral hall, his father hit him in the chest and broke the palm of two ribs.
And when Xia Pingsheng found him out of the ruins of the ancestral hall, everyone found that the "Taichu Hammer" had actually made a contract with him, and his father would not mistake his killing intent in his eyes.
Everyone thought that the collapse of the Yan family ancestral hall was caused by the uncontrollable energy released by the treasure of the town government, the "Taichu Hammer", which found the master of his life.
But Yan Kaiting always felt that he had forgotten something, as long as he thought about that night a little, there was an uncontrollable boiling and roaring in his blood. Sometimes he would dream of the battlefield of fierce battles all night long, shoulder to shoulder with faceless comrades, and monsters swept in like a black tide in front of him.
In contrast, the "magic moment" that occurs every three or five years in mainland cities is just like a babbling stream.
It's been a long time since he's remembered the past. Today, I don't know why, the past can't stop floating up, but the missing memory is still gone, only the terrible shadow left behind is still the same. But even if he is as close as Fu Mingxuan, he is reluctant to tell it, it will make him feel that he is too weak, and he will be afraid of bringing disaster to those close to him again.
Yan Kaiting exhaled heavily, and a small ball of thunder and fire with purple lightning erupted between his snorts, "Life is raised by a son of a bitch." ”
Fu Mingxuan watched as the thunder fire froze in the air, slowly burning until it was extinguished, "Thunder Fire Avenue? ”
Yan Kaiting said: "It's not as steep as your sword cultivation path, and if I can't pass the barrier, I can't see or touch any way." Anyway, your number shouldn't be taken casually, right? What does Hanzhou mean?"
The more real the Daomen, the more exquisite the number, even if there is no name, it cannot be called like the majesty of ordinary cultivators.
Fu Mingxuan said: "My sword intent, a sword light cold nineteen continents. ”
Yan Kaiting was stunned, "This world is divided into nine states, where are the nineteen states?"
Fu Mingxuan also lay down on his back next to him, raised his head and pointed to the sky, and said, "There may be another world outside this world, maybe there are nineteen continents." ”