Chapter Seventy-Nine: The Fog of Four Years Ago
"What are you doing here? ”
Song Tianyuan diverted his own affairs, he knew that Song Yi had other things to do this time, so he asked Song Yi directly.
When Song Yi heard this, he quickly put aside other irrelevant thoughts, and he no longer beat around the bush, and directly said what he wanted to ask: "I came this time mainly to ask about something about four years ago. ”
"Four years ago?"
Song Tianyuan frowned, as if he was a little puzzled by Song Yi's mention, but he looked at Song Yi's seriousness, and he also understood that the latter was not mentioned for no reason.
"What do you want to ask about four years ago?" Song Tianyuan asked.
"As far as I know, four years ago, you fought on the battlefield in the border region and fought with the dynasty army?" Song Yi looked at Song Tianyuan, he remembered some of the old things that Song Wu had told him before, so he checked with Song Tianyuan first.
"Yes, I followed a first-class formation in the northern part of the border battlefield, and I had several battles with the soldiers of the Zhongxuan Empire, but it was not a head-to-head confrontation, and the intensity of the battle was not high. Song Tianyuan truthfully told Song Yi about his experience four years ago, but his next description became a little abrupt, obviously what he wanted to mention next was a memory that he was unwilling to face: "When the war was approaching, I received a letter from home..."
When Song Yi heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly, because this was the key to what he wanted to know.
At this time, Song Tianyuan also had a sad expression on his face, for him, this memory was accompanied by scars, but he still said: "The letter mentioned that my mother was in an unexpected fire... Tragically passed away. ”
The fire that Song Tianyuan said was the same fire that he encountered with Song Yi's 'mother's mother' Su Wan'er four years ago, and when Song Yi heard this, he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, he knew that this memory was not only Song Tianyuan's scar, but also Song Qing and Song You's scar.
"Letters... It wasn't sent by Uncle Song You. Song Yi looked at Song Tianyuan and said, by comparing the information currently known, he could basically determine that Song You did not send a letter about Li Xiangyu to the border battlefield at that time, and the reason why Song Tianyuan received the letter was because of the plan of the invisible person of the Wang family.
And Song Tianyuan obviously knows this now, when he returned to Xinan Town, he was intercepted by more than a dozen masters of the Wang family, he already understood that he had been tricked, but because the strength gap with those masters of the Wang family was too large, it was almost impossible for Song Tianyuan to get out even if he wanted to, and finally he was detained in the dungeon of the Wang family, waiting for him was endless torture, including the destruction of the meridians in his body.
Next, Song Tianyuan continued to talk to Song Yi about more details of that year, from his hurried home after receiving the letter, to being intercepted by more than a dozen masters of the Wang family in the mountains and forests dozens of miles away from Xinan Town, to spending four years in the dungeon of the Wang family.
"This Wang family is really evil, and they do everything. Song Yi said coldly, and now he combined the details of what Song Tianyuan said with the information tortured from Song You's mouth before, and gradually saw the context of the events of the year, and he naturally scoffed at the Wang family's approach.
However, Song Yi also understood that the reason why the Wang family would go so hard to deal with the Song family was because it broke the Wang family's long-standing monopoly in Xinan Town, compared to the Yang family and the Taiyun Martial Arts Hall that appeared later, it could only be regarded as a 'bad' head because the Song family had a 'bad' head.
In any case, the confrontation between the Song family and the Wang family, in Song Yi's view, is unlikely to be reconciled for the time being, either the Wang family accepts the situation of multiple parties standing side by side, or the Song family withdraws from Xinan Town, but this is obviously even more impossible for both sides; in this regard, Song Yi knows that he is not so capable of interfering at the level of this kind of clan confrontation, so he does not think about it anymore.
However, just when Song Yi thought that he had almost sorted out the context of the events four years ago, Song Tianyuan suddenly sighed next, but Song Yi once again realized that something was wrong.
"Alas, fate is like this, if I hadn't listened to my mother and gone to the border battlefield, maybe none of these things would have happened. Song Tianyuan looked up at the sky, and his sigh was full of helplessness.
However, it was Song Tianyuan's sigh that made Song Yi suddenly frown in confusion, and at the same time, a sentence that Song Wu had said when he interrogated Song You in the dungeon that day also echoed in Song Yi's heart again:
"Half a year before that fire, Song Tianyuan suddenly decided to respond to the call of the Northern Wilderness Dynasty and go to the border battlefield to resist the invasion of the Zhongxuan Empire.
Song Wu's words, as if it were an electric shock, made Song Yi's face stunned, and after adding Song Tianyuan's sigh, a faintly new fog appeared in front of Song Yi's eyes.
"What's wrong?" Song Tianyuan saw the stunned look on Song Yi's face, and he frowned suspiciously.
At this time, Song Yi, who came back to his senses, looked directly at Song Tianyuan and asked, "You mean... You went to the battlefield in the border region because you listened to what Aunt Xiang Yu said? And you yourself didn't have such a plan?"
Song Tianyuan didn't know why Song Yi asked this question, but what Song Yi asked made him slightly stunned, and Song Tianyuan also seemed to hesitate and did not answer this question immediately.
"What's wrong?" this time it was Song Yi puzzled.
"Well, these old things don't matter anymore, I'll tell you all. Song Tianyuan made a decision, and after he sighed again, he finally said the answer that Song Yi wanted to know: "Four and a half years ago, to be precise, close to five years ago, my mother began to mention the situation of the border battlefield to me from time to time, and what she meant was that she wanted me to go to the border battlefield to do my part to resist the invasion of the Zhongxuan Empire. ”
"For what?" Song Yi asked.
"She meant it for me. Song Tianyuan said.
Song Yi felt that Li Xiangyu's reason was simply absurd, for the sake of his own son, and then sent his son to the battlefield of life and death? When this is just military training to strengthen the body? This logic simply does not make sense at all.
"But I didn't want to go to that kind of place, you know, there are basically tens of thousands of casualties of soldiers in the border battlefield every month, not to mention ordinary border soldiers like me who are not connected to the spiritual realm, even if they have cultivated to reach the spiritual realm or even the masters and powerhouses of the level of the Song Cang family, they may be wiped out in an instant under unknown circumstances. Song Tianyuan said: "I once saw another border detachment, a total of hundreds of people, including more than ninety Spirit Condensing Realm soldiers like me, as well as nearly ten Psychic Realm, plus a Tongxuan Realm level detachment commander, this team is enough to fight against any of the three major families in Xinan Town, but on the border battlefield, it was only wiped out in an instant because it accidentally stepped on a trap talisman array laid by the Zhongxuan Empire. ”
Recalling the picture of the blood mist he saw, Song Tianyuan's body trembled even after four years, he knew that in the face of this terrifying power, he was nothing, not to mention that there were thousands of rune traps like that, there were thousands of places on the border battlefield, he was only lucky to be formed away from the central battlefield.
Song Yi was also stunned because of the description in Song Tianyuan's mouth, it seems that the border battlefield is really an extremely dangerous place, the so-called rune array he has seen in the library pavilion, it seems to be formed by the rune array master with the power of heaven and earth vitality plus his own divine soul, with a variety of different effects.
"But why, as far as I know, Uncle Song You once stopped you from going, but you still insisted on going. Song Yi returned to the original question: "If you really don't want to go, as long as you have the support of Uncle Song You, Aunt Xiangyu shouldn't be able to say anything, right?"
However, Song Tianyuan shook his head and said: "It is my mother who understands my father, so she is determined not to let my father know my true thoughts, my mother said to me at that time, I am already in my twenties, if you don't want my father to think that I am afraid of death and disappointed in me, then I should show manly spirit and go to the battlefield to charge and kill the enemy, and I was indeed in the age of blood and strength at that time, so with the encouragement of my mother, I resolutely went to the border battlefield." ”
"It's a good year of blood and strength..."Song Yi said in a deep voice in his heart after hearing this, the more he listened to Song Tianyuan describe the details of that year, the stronger a certain premonition in his heart became, but he didn't say this conjecture that appeared in Song Yi's heart, because any conjecture would not be equal to the truth until the evidence was really obtained.
Looks like I'm going to have to go somewhere next... Song Yi thought silently in his heart, he knew that he might have something to do in the next few days.
"I don't know... What's wrong with this?" After telling Song Yi everything he wanted to know, Song Tianyuan asked Song Yi in turn, he didn't know what Song Yi had been investigating in such depth from the beginning of four years ago, what was it for?
"Nothing, just curious. Song Yi replied very casually, originally he came to Song Tianyuan this time, and he didn't want to do any in-depth research, this kind of checking again afterwards was originally a habit he developed when he followed Wang Hanyuan to investigate the case, in order to avoid unjust, false and wrongful cases caused by misjudgment, but Song Yi didn't expect that he would find out so much unexpected information.
Song Tianyuan naturally saw that Song Yi was prevaricating himself, but his life was now saved by Song Yi, so he also decided to give up and continue to ask, after all, Song Yi came to the door early in the morning to ask about these things, thinking that there was his own reason.
However, after Song Tianyuan gave up asking, he suddenly asked another question.
"Young Master Song Yi... There's one thing I'd like to ask you about, and I hope you can tell as much as you can. Song Tianyuan asked.
"What's the matter?" Song Yi said.
"It may not be a big deal, but it's important to me. Song Tianyuan looked at Song Yi and asked, "It should have been a few days since I returned to the Song family, and during this period, everyone in the hall has already come to me, but..."
"Why hasn't my dad been here?"
The question thrown by Song Tianyuan made Song Yi stunned again, and at the same time, he also directly understood that after Song Tianyuan was rescued, the Song family had never mentioned anything about Song You, this should be an order from several hall masters, after all, for Song Tianyuan, after being rescued at last, if he immediately learned that his father had done those things that were ashamed of the entire Song family in the past few years, it would obviously be not conducive to his recuperation.
In this regard, Song Yi was also a little dumbfounded for a while, and he didn't know how to speak, and in the end, he could only choose to sigh, and stood up, patted Song Tianyuan's shoulder with some comfort, and gave him some comfort as much as possible.
For Song Yi's silent action, Song Tianyuan, who was interested in understanding, was suddenly stunned, he slowly stood up, looked at Song Yi, and asked after a pause: "My father, he... Is it already dead?"
Song Yi looked at Song Tianyuan, under the latter's questioning, he didn't know how to give him a proper answer, but seeing Song Yi silent again, Song Tianyuan's heart beat faster, he didn't know if he was right, but Song Yi obviously didn't want to talk about his father Song You.
"Don't worry, Uncle Song You, he's now... Alive. Just when Song Tianyuan was worried, Song Yi in front of him finally gave him a definite answer because he couldn't bear it, but it was this definitive answer that made Song Tianyuan worry even more for some reason.
He had a hunch that something must have happened.
Just when Song Yi and Song Tianyuan were talking and entering the stalemate, there was a sound of footsteps at the door of the house not far away, Song Yi turned his head and saw several servants and maids walking in with some hot water and meals, and after they entered the door, they saw Song Yi standing with Song Tianyuan, so they immediately stepped forward and saluted Song Yi slightly.
"I won't continue to bother Brother Tianyuan, your body has not fully recovered, it is best to rest more in the coming days. ”
Taking advantage of the arrival of the servants, Song Yi directly bid farewell to Song Tianyuan, and then under the latter's silent gaze, Song Yi also gradually walked away.
(To be continued)