Chapter 298: The Last Tea Party, Part II
At the end of the tea party, Cangdu and Ang silently tasted tea together. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
"How is it, is the tea party with a few of their young people going well?" Cangdu put down the teacup.
"So far, I can't count how many people enjoy the tea time with me, and you still need to worry, don't use that old tone to tell me, the future is up to you to support the world, it's just the beginning, don't show me a slack look," Ang also finished tasting a cup, the mellow fragrance lingered for a long time, "The old man, it's me." ”
"You're the kind of monster that doesn't die, no one even knows how long you've lived, you were like this when I was a kid, and you're still so vibrant, I guess you've lived hundreds, but I don't believe it until now," Cangdu quipped, "In that case, are you still human, a god or a monster." ”
"I've lived a little longer, isn't your Grandma Sharo just like me, you've been old since you were young, and you don't even show signs of decay until now. Aung also shook his head and smiled, vaguely self-deprecating.
"Let Grandma Sha Luo hear it, I will definitely beat you up," Cang Du said, "but at least we know the approximate life span of Grandma Sha Luo, she said it herself, she is about two hundred years old, but old man, you are a mystery and our whole life." ”
"I'm really old now, you can still draw my sword like a ghost like I did decades ago, in fact, the ghost god has only been wiped out and only a layer of phantom remains," Ang poured himself another cup, "It's time for me to retire, if I can, I really hope that in the days to come, I can live a carefree life drinking black tea." ”
"Just a shadow is also a deterrent enough ghost and god appearance," Cangdu said, "What are you kidding, old man, this tone is not like you in my memory, you have always been so vigorous and resolute, how can you become more and more like an ordinary old man now, you are the legendary character, known as a person who can carry the entire moon and night world for hundreds of years with one back." ”
"But the back of the shadow can't carry anything," Ang sighed, "Cangdu, I said, the future of this world is to be handed over to you to support, you are the only sprout that I can leave in this world and for this world, I am the kind of old man who lives in the past, and after all, I want to go away with the past." ”
"Why does today's topic sound a little heavy, like a last word, I won't talk to a few of them, I also sigh so lifelessly, I can't help the old man," Cangdu waved his hand, immediately picked up the cup, put it to his mouth and found that it was still empty, and quickly poured it for himself, "Let's drink tea, drink tea, shouldn't the tea party be relaxed." ”
He vaguely heard that Ang's tone was full of sincere feelings, not like a joke, and he was secretly a little nervous and anxious in his heart.
"Yes, drink tea," Ang smiled again, but Cangdu could see that this was a pretended laugh to cover up some unspeakable words, he thought that once the words were spoken, it should be unacceptable, "You're right, sure enough, my memory is not good when I'm old, I told others that the tea party is relaxing, and I'd better forget it." ”
Cangdu's cup was put to his mouth, but he didn't put the tea in his mouth for a long time.
"Old man, you are indeed an old monster who can live for a few hundred years," Cang Du licked his somewhat dry lips, his eyes wandering, "What should I say, I mean, in fact, if there is really an old monster like this around, it's good, it's much better than nothing." ”
"What if I say I can't, I'm just a little bit of an ordinary person. ”
"Then I will give you a funeral on the day you die, but that funeral is the most hated thing in my life. Cangdu slowly put down the cup.
Ang stood up suddenly, Cangdu was stunned, and saw a wrinkled face, which was engraved with vicissitudes and time, and was filled with invisible fatigue and labor, at this time, the outside world was floating all over the sky, as if decades ago, the war had not subsided, and this man was the same, often standing silently, at that time he looked into the distance without saying a word, no one knew what he was looking at, what direction he was looking at, and what he was thinking in his heart, but on that face, with an incomparably many melancholy.
But at this moment, the old man's face is just like an ordinary old man, the kind of person who has been busy all his life, and there is no need to worry about the many affairs that he has to press, and he no longer needs to scruple so much, thinking so far, before he is completely at the end of his life, only worry is left and has not left his cheeks, which is difficult to let go of the younger generations or descendants.
But Ang suddenly showed an angry expression, covering up the content that only leaked out in an instant, Ang stretched out his hand and patted Cangdu's shoulder hard, and Cangdu was stunned for a while.
"I said that the tea party should be relaxed, let you drink tea, and you have caused me this low atmosphere," Ang said, "You are the pillar of the future, and you will be the most central of your pillars, the one who wants to lead everyone, the person who walks in the forefront, don't show this expression in this little thing, if you really die one day, it will be difficult to feel at ease under Jiuquan!"
"Okay, okay, I was wrong, old man, don't be so ruthless, I don't feel that you are the kind of old person who is dying. Cangdu rubbed his shoulders and said.
"Cherish it, this may be the last tea party, next time you will sit in my place and drink tea with others." Aung sat back.
"What are you talking about, old man, I am a sub-leader, how can I be qualified to sit in your position. Cangdu drooped his face.
Outside the window, the snow is falling, and the silence is sprinkled on the world.
"Then old man, can the tea party end early, I have something I want to ask you, and I feel that there are still some things that block your thinking, which were not pointed out in the council. Cangdu suddenly put on a serious face.
"Oh, at this time, there is quite a head of the regiment, and he should be more serious than anyone else," Ang leaned back in his chair, "ask, what do you want to know." ”
"It's just a suspicious point that I found when I summarized the clues I knew," Cangdu thought and said, The first thing that makes me pay extra attention is the identity of the intruder this time, this question is actually not suspicious at all, the identity of the prisoner is only to be investigated, but in connection with Bohn's rebellion, he has not had any suspicious behavior that has been too leaky in the past few years, so the biggest possibility is that the aggressor who joined forces with him was already acquainted with him when he became the head of the regiment or earlier. ”
"It's just my suspicion, old man," said Cangdu, "that as far as I know, Born was one of the people who had the potential to become knights at the end of the war who were specially taken in by the Knights. ”
"Tell me what you're conjecturing, I'll listen. Ang looked at Cangdu.
"In the world, there are so many potential people, there must be more than those who were taken in at that time, and the prisoners who invaded this time could have known Bohn at that time, but Bohn was taken in, but they didn't, they became exiled wanderers, and then waited for a certain opportunity to launch a kind of revenge-like behavior?" Cangdu said, "Of course, it's just conjecture, and besides, they were all children at that time, would they really think so much?" After so many years, when Bohn was able to become a competent regiment leader, he did not forget to contact them, which is indeed a bit fantastical. ”
"Your thinking and focus are what a leader should have," Ang nodded with a satisfied smile, "There is one thing I didn't tell you about this incident, but now I can tell you that I met an old acquaintance from the past." As he spoke, his smile fading.
"Chief Knight, don't lift me up," Cangdu scratched his head helplessly, "So what is the so-called old knowledge?" ”
"I can give you the right to go to the second branch and find the confidential documents that have been recorded in the past," said Aang. That person, during the war, was a new recruit of my subordinates, it is better to say that he was also a child at that time, like other children, he was recruited into the army on an exceptional basis, they are all talented and intelligent, after a little training, although they cannot be placed in dangerous wars, but they are enough to be sent out to carry out some tasks, they should have sat in the position of a few of you young people now, at that time, I put all the hope for the future on them, to cultivate. ”
Ang's face was stained with sadness that he had never felt before, and Cangdu suddenly understood that what he was learning now was probably the most haunting thing in his soul in the past of a man named Aung Ogudo.
"I can still remember the faces and even the names of most of them," Aung said. Among those children, there was a weak boy who was afraid of being robbed of things, his name was Wiepwhite, and he had beautiful blue hair, there was a girl who was born to serve the insects, her name was Annemes, and she must have been a beautiful embryo when she grew up, there was a boy who was very afraid of blood, but he still tried to join the training for everyone, his name was Dick, and there was a boy who impressed me more deeply, the most unbeatable of them all, who was rampant every day to beat me with a sword, and his name was Daus." Speaking of this, Ang's head was already lowered, he suddenly grabbed the teacup in front of him, threw it out, and smashed it on the wall, shaking the whole body.
"Yes, there are also children who are regarded as leaders among them, together with Daus, the children I value the most, since childhood, they have a mode of thinking that only adults have, if you eliminate childishness, it will be the best, he is called Sora, he is a natural talent," Ang held his forehead, " It was him, the first to take another child to take the initiative to ask me to join the Knights, that child was his younger brother, no blood, met in troubled times and then snuggled up to each other, I remember being a withdrawn child who didn't like to talk, called Urfa, who only liked to hide behind his brother, and was also empty of this child, constantly bringing more of the same children, and finally formed a team full of children, which was the star that could be comforting in the army in that era. ”
Then Ang kept reading out more names, and more could be recorded in a list book, and Ang covered his forehead and thought, as if time had slowed down, in order to make concessions to the past that had been hooked.
"Among them, there are also people who, you know, the former head of the Third Branch, Born Cowed, and the deputy head of the Second Branch, Inge, who has just turned himself in. Aung said.
"Yes, it turns out that they are too," Cangdu only felt that he had been told a story that happened in a distant time, full of vicissitudes, "I have an impression of the names you just mentioned, and they ......" He swallowed nervously.
"And some of the names, you've heard them in the council just now, Annemes, Wiepwhite, Urfa, and Daus, are the names of the intruders," said Ang, with a gloomy face, "they were supposed to be the souls of all those who died in an accident in that era, and now they are back looking for me, for the world." ”
Cang Du remembered his conjecture again, he thought that this behavior might be a group of people for some reason, so that they had been brewing for several years, and launched revenge, this revenge battle, the target they chose might be the entire moon and night realm, or perhaps, something higher, he suddenly felt that he was covered in a black curtain, this curtain can even cover the sky, if this conjecture is true, then what is it that makes this group of children go through so many years with such heavy feelings.
"You just said 'originally', they should have been the ones who had the priority to be qualified to become the head of the knights before us, and you said that they were all turned into dead souls because of the accident in that era," Cangdu said, "Are they all dead, and what was that accident?"
"We call it the 'Twilight Valley Incident,'" said Aang, "they were framed because there were people in the army who fornicated with the Daylight Realm, and they were the victims of it, and they were surrounded and encircled by the forces of the Daylight Realm in that valley, and their combat power was incomparable, because the Daylight Realm used special means to forcibly change the environment of that place into something suitable for them to fight, and turned the night into a dusk that only the Daylight Realm can have." ”
"When I understood everything, what I saw was just a list of sacrifices, and none of the names of those children were not on it, and the list was clear, all of them were determined by death. ”
Ang's fist clenched tightly at some point, and blood even spilled from his fingers, he broke his palm, he was suppressing the impulses and emotions in his heart, so Cang Du didn't notice it for a while, but now he noticed that Ang's fist was pressed the tabletop, and the stone tabletop was silently shaken out of the crack.
If Ang doesn't restrain himself, the house will shake and collapse.
In silence, I clenched a huge amount of sadness, anger, unwillingness, and remorse in my fist, like a huge wave.