Chapter 455: Starry Night Melancholy
readx;? In the end, the Lu family was buried at the foot of Xihuang Mountain, which was once the place where their family stayed, thinking that when the Lu family first came to Xihuang Mountain, they lived here for a short time. www.biquge.info It's a pity that Lu Yifan wanted to let his family live a better life, and insisted that everyone in the Lu family move out of the mountains to the Western Imperial City, but no one expected that Lu Yifan's filial piety would lay the seeds for the destruction of the Lu family.
Lu Yifan dug a huge pit with a radius of 100 meters in front of the Lu family's grave, and thousands of human heads were piled up messily in this deep pit, and these bloody human heads were men and women, old and young. Ten of them are strangers that Lu Yifan has never met, and only a few dozen of them he recognizes are the city lords of the Fourteen Cities in the Southwest and their relatives.
The Lu family who died in vain have all been buried, and these heads were burned under Lu Yifan's flame soul, which can be regarded as a burial for the Lu family. It wasn't until he had done all this that Lu Yifan left the sad place in the south of the West Emperor City, and thus returned to the Soul Sect located on the West Emperor Mountain.
Late at night, Lu Yifan sat alone on the top of the main hall of the Soul Sect with a pot of wine, leaning on the glazed tiles on the top of the hall, his body lazily half leaning there, looking a sense of depression and loneliness from a distance. Tonight, the moon is in the sky, and the stars are like a bucket, reflecting the Xihuang Mountain in a dusk, and also blinding Lu Yifan on the top of the palace.
On the top floor of another relatively short pavilion, Liu Sandao was sitting on the edge of the window with his legs crossed, and the long knife was casually placed horizontally on his legs that were suspended in mid-air out of the window, and he was also carrying a pot of wine in his hand, but compared to Lu Yifan's unscrupulous drinking, his eyes were always firmly fixed on Lu Yifan on the top of the hall in the distance, and he was paying attention to Lu Yifan's actions all the time, in case of trouble. As long as there is a slight movement on Lu Yifan's side, Liu Sandao can instantly withdraw and protect his safety at any time.
"Father, mother, have you seen it?" Lu Yifan muttered to himself while pouring wine into his mouth, "All the people who participated in the killing of you in the fourteen cities in the southwest are now dead, and now there are only Huang Xuan and Huang He brothers and the remnants of the imperial sect, the children have been plastered all over the southwest with hunting orders for them, and the children swear that they will definitely avenge you and break the Huang brothers' corpses into pieces!" As soon as Lu Yifan mentioned Lu Haoqian and Liu Qingyuan, he suddenly felt a colicy pain in his heart, so he could only rely on spirits to indulge himself, so that he could temporarily forget his thoughts about his father and mother.
As the saying goes, the water is more flowing when the knife is drawn, and the sorrow is more sorrowful through wine. Even if Lu Yifan can fall asleep under the influence of spirits, his dreams are always haunted by the scenes of his childhood life, Liu Qingyuan's gentle love, Lu Haoqian's majesty and harshness...... Everything followed Lu Yifan lingering, wanting to forget but not forgetting.
"Mother...... The child misses you so much......" Lu Yifan thought of Liu Qingyuan's incomparable love for him in the past, and a burst of endless sourness came to his heart, especially when he thought that no matter how tired and bitter he was in the future, he could no longer call "Niang" to seek comfort and protection, his eyes couldn't help but redden, and then he buried his head deep in the crook of his arm, letting the tears break the embankment again in the darkness of the crook of the arm.
Lu Yifan is a man, but also the head of a sect, although in the eyes of most people, Lu Yifan has now become a ruthless, bloodthirsty and ruthless devil, but this does not mean that he has lost his feelings. In fact, since Lu Yifan returned to the Western Imperial City until today, he doesn't know how many times he has secretly hid in the corner and cried bitterly. I don't know how many times he called his father and mother one after another, cried and fell asleep under the influence of wine, but woke up crying, and a kind 'mother' shouted countless times from his dream until he woke up. If the complete transformation of a boy into a man requires a change, this heart-wrenching hysteria is undoubtedly the most cruel and poignant.
Looking at Lu Yifan, who curled his head in the crook of his arm and his body trembled slightly, Liu Sandao's eyes couldn't help but turn red slightly. However, he didn't go over, because he knew that it was better to let Lu Yifan cry happily at this time than any words of comfort.
"Dad, mother...... The child misses you so much......" Lu Yifan cried with tears on his face, and his mouth was constantly choked, and the hand holding the wine jug had been inadvertently clenched by him again, so that the bone joints turned white under the pressure of his huge force, "It was the child who harmed you...... It's all my fault, and if it weren't for my insistence on fighting the Emperor, you wouldn't be ...... Woo woo...... "A man's cry always has a strong sense of depression, even in the absence of people, a man can't cry as happily as a woman, the low cry is like the roar of a beast, like an angry roar, which makes people sound so sad and sad, and Lu Yifan is desperately biting his arm with his teeth, but it is still difficult to suppress his heartfelt grief. If it had been in the past, Lu Yifan would have been so sad that Liu Qingyuan was afraid that he would have come over in distress and took him in his arms, and comforted him softly with tears in his eyes. But now, even if Lu Yifan dies in pain, Liu Qingyuan will never appear again!
Because, Liu Qingyuan is dead!
Just when Lu Yifan lowered his head and whimpered, a white and soft jade hand quietly stroked his head, and the warm palm seemed to convey a touch of comfort, which made Lu Yifan's body tremble slightly, and then slowly raised his head. In the hazy teary eyes, a white shadow with a complex complexion was revealed.
"Ruoxi ......" Lu Yifan recognized that this woman was Tang Ruoxi at a glance, so he hurriedly wiped his tearful face with his cuffs, and hastily explained, "Let you see ...... smile"
Tang Ruoxi couldn't help but show unbearability when she saw Lu Yifan who was obviously very sad but wanted to force a smile in front of her, only to see her slowly shake her head, and then said softly: "Yifan, you don't need to pretend to be anything in front of me, although I can't fully understand how sad you are, but I can see some ......."
Lu Yifan looked at Tang Ruoxi, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, as if he wanted to show a smile, but in the end, he didn't get his wish. He stretched out his hand and gently pushed Tang Ruoxi's jade hand away, then turned his head again and poured a sip of wine into his mouth, and asked in a low voice without looking back: "It's already late at night, why didn't you come here without resting?"
Tang Ruoxi sat beside Lu Yifan, looked up at the starry sky, and hesitated for a moment before he said lightly: "I came here to tell you...... Ji Yuan and Miss Ji have already left......"
Hearing Tang Ruoxi's words, Lu Yifan's body stiffened significantly. Rao is heart was not good, but his mouth was still tough, and he pretended to be calm and said, "Really, shouldn't they have left a long time ago?"
"They had stayed in the Western Imperial City before, and they didn't leave completely until today......" Tang Ruoxi replied hesitantly.
"Oh!" Lu Yifan seemed to chuckle, "Ji Yuan has always been like this, he won't leave if he doesn't see that I really killed all the clansmen of the Fourteen City Lords!" Although Lu Yifan's voice sounded a slight smile, in fact, Tang Ruoxi could clearly feel the loneliness and melancholy from the depths of Lu Yifan's heart.
"Looks like you still know him......"
"I don't know him!" Without waiting for Tang Ruoxi to try to comfort Lu Yifan, Lu Yifan was the first to speak, obviously his emotions became a little excited because of this, "If I knew him, how could I not expect him to leave me?"
"Yifan......" Tang Ruoxi called bitterly, "Ji Yuan, he ......" It's just that her words haven't been completely spoken, but Lu Yifan interrupted her words with a big wave of his hand. I saw Lu Yifan chuckle to himself: "We won't mention him tonight......" Facing Lu Yifan's stubbornness, Tang Ruoxi had to nod lightly after hesitating for a moment.
"By the way, have you found Mr. Yan?" Lu Yifan changed his words and asked, "Didn't he say that he was in retreat and practicing in Xihuang Mountain?
"I don't know!" Tang Ruoxi shook his head blankly, "I haven't found any trace of him in Xihuang Mountain, maybe he went to some other place on a whim...... He has always been like this, he is used to coming and going freely, and no one can see through him......" Somehow, Tang Ruoxi's words became a little complaining.
Regarding Tang Ruoxi's feelings for Yan Shuang, Lu Yifan just smiled slightly, but he didn't ask too much, because he really didn't have that mood at the moment.
"Mr. Yan is right, I should have listened to him if I had known!" Lu Yifan said faintly again after taking a sip of wine, "He has long said that I am too kind to a woman, and if I can't be decisive and ruthless in case of trouble, it will cause a big disaster sooner or later." Now it seems that I have really reaped the consequences of my own evil, if I could have been more ruthless to the emperor earlier, maybe...... Alas!"
"Mr. Yan has Mr. Yan's own set of ways to do things, Lu Yifan, you also have a character that belongs to Lu Yifan, and some things are reluctant to come no matter what!" Tang Ruoxi smiled bitterly and comforted, "And I never think that being ruthless is something worthy of praise!"
"It's not worth praise, but it's worth remembering!" Lu Yifan turned his head slowly, and a cold light appeared in his eyes again, "Because that's a bloody lesson!"
"Yifan, are you really happy to kill so many people?"
"Not happy!" Lu Yifan replied bluntly, then he raised his eyebrows and said with a sneer, "It's because I'm unhappy that I can't make those beasts happy!"
"Yifan, do you feel that you have become too extreme this time?" Tang Ruoxi still refused to give up, and asked again.
"No!" Lu Yifan's answer was still simple and direct, "On the contrary, I feel that I have not done enough!"
"What else do you want to do?" Tang Ruoxi frowned and asked with a worried face.
"Find Huang Xuan and Huang He brothers, a thousand cuts!" Lu Yifan gritted his teeth and said, "No matter who dares to protect them this time, I will kill them as such! Even Dongfang Su can't! I can die, but as long as I live, they must die!"
"Alas!" Regarding Lu Yifan's firm words, Tang Ruoxi knew that he couldn't persuade him, so he could only sigh lightly and simply didn't say more.
Lu Yifan stood up suddenly, stood on the top of the hall and looked up at the starry sky, took a deep breath, and then raised the wine pot in his hand to the bright moon in the sky, and said loudly: "The sky is full of stars, just like you and me in this heaven and earth now, one more, no more, no less." But the moon is different, there are countless stars but the moon only has one round, so if you want to shine with the sun, you have to strive to be the only bright moon in this night, only then can you look down on the stars!"
Listening to Lu Yifan's inexplicable rhetoric, Tang Ruoxi's eyes couldn't help but flash a faint look of worry.
"By the way, a letter from Jinling City said that the rebels have been repulsed!" Lu Yifan suddenly said lightly, this matter is no longer a happy event for him now, "With the help of Mu Dan's 100,000 Spirit Domain army, the beast army fled out of the Holy Domain in a hurry without facing the battle, and the remaining tens of thousands of remnants led by Chu Lingtian were defeated and quickly collapsed under Lord Han's wanton attack, and finally ended up being annihilated." And Chu Lingtian and the deputy generals Ma Rufeng, Fan Jiang and others were all reduced to prisoners of the emperor. This Sanctuary crisis is finally over. ”
"What about Dongfang Su and Xuanzong......?
"They haven't shown up from beginning to end!" Lu Yifan replied with a sneer, "To be honest, the Emperor Ling doesn't want to be an enemy of Dongfang Su at this juncture, so there is no real evidence to prove that Dongfang Su and Xuanzong are involved in this matter, which is actually a good thing for the Emperor Linghuang!
"In any case, the power of the Holy Domain has finally returned to the hands of the Emperor, which is a good thing for thousands of Dawn people!" Tang Ruoxi nodded slowly, "Then you can't go back to Jinling City?"
"I didn't plan to go back again, but Yulou came with a letter yesterday, which can be regarded as a great joy for my Lu family after being unlucky for so long!" Lu Yifan's words kept coming to this point, and only then did he barely show a long-lost smile from the corner of his mouth, "The Emperor actually personally appointed Fluttershy and Lu Jun to marry!"
"Really?" Hearing this, Tang Ruoxi couldn't help but be excited, "I've heard the story of this couple a long time ago, and now that they finally have lovers, it's indeed a happy event!"
"yes!" Although Lu Yifan was smiling, his smile still looked so reluctant, obviously the pain in his heart was so deep that he couldn't help laughing, "Since it is the emperor's marriage, Lu Jun naturally wants to go to Jinling City, and now there are only three of us left in the Lu family, how can I not go?"
"What? Could it be that you have any ideas?" Tang Ruoxi seemed to hear a hint from Lu Yifan's tone, and then asked suspiciously, "Can you tell me about it?"
"I really can't hide it from you!" Lu Yifan shook his head with a wry smile, and then said in a rather melancholy tone, "I plan to let Lu Jun stay in Jinling City and live a peaceful life with Fluttershy, and stop following me all day long." Besides, Jinling City has a father-in-law in charge, I believe that even the people of Xuanzong would not dare to rashly do anything to Lu Jun! Since they are already married, it is better to be stable, and then from the father-in-law's errand, with Lu Jun's ability, I believe that it will not take long to revive the prestige of the Lu family!" Lu Yifan couldn't help but smile slightly when he said this, "I let Wencai stay with him, no matter what, with the two of them in the family, it can be regarded as the spirit of the father and mother in the sky to apologize!"
"Continuing the bloodline?" Tang Ruoxi couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this, and then asked with a chuckle, "Yifan, I think you are really confused, aren't you a member of the Lu family? What's more, you have already formed a relationship with Ling'er, even if it is to continue the bloodline for the Lu family, it should start with you, right?"
"Me?"
Tang Ruoxi naturally didn't know Lu Yifan's life experience, so he said these words that made Lu Yifan extremely melancholy, but Lu Yifan didn't explain much, he just smiled at Tang Ruoxi, and then drank by himself again, and didn't answer Tang Ruoxi's words in the end.
On the other hand, Tang Ruoxi smiled helplessly, and then she arched her body slightly, clasped her knees with her hands, looked at the night sky in the distance quietly with a pair of beautiful eyes, and said to herself: "I won't go with you in Jinling City, I'm going to find Mr. Yan, this time I will find him again and say that I won't leave him half a step again......
"Mr. Yan may have been afraid that you would follow him all the time, so he deliberately left you with me!" Lu Yifan speculated softly.
"I know!" Tang Ruoxi still insisted unwillingly, "So I'm going to find him even more!"
"That'...... Be careful!" Lu Yifan turned his head slowly, staring straight at Tang Ruo's worldly face, and his tone rarely softened.
Under Lu Yifan's gaze, Tang Ruoxi's cheeks were a little rosy for no reason, and finally she smiled under Lu Yifan's gaze, and then responded softly: "You are the same, don't be too sad because of Lord Lu's affairs, be careful in the future......"
This is not the first time Tang Ruoxi has helped Lu Yifan when he was in trouble, as for the relationship between Lu Yifan and Tang Ruoxi, it is really complex and simple, maybe a little deeper than pure gratitude, but it is a little shallower than the love between men and women, so that they themselves have misunderstood this relationship with each other, and they have been confused several times and almost delayed each other. If there were no Yan Shuang and Han Ling'er in the world, Lu Yifan and Tang Ruoxi might be able to fall in love, but now, this kind of thing is absolutely impossible.
Fate is always like this, it is impossible to explain, you can't see through it, and you can't guess it......
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