Chapter 7: Confronting the Truth
"Ahh A hundred miles of wind took a step out of the screen, and a dissatisfied scream came arrogantly, and the sound of chopsticks came one after another.
Squinting at him, there was a girl's unique willfulness on his slightly childish face, and impatience in his soft voice: "What is this? Why is rice vinegar added to the tofu in the brine and sugar added to the meat steak? It's all the taste of Nanban, how can it get into the stream. ”
"And these chopsticks!" Picking up the chopsticks that were thrown out by himself, Jing Che glanced at it, and then raised his eyebrows angrily, "How can ordinary people use the purple jade and silver chopsticks in the palace?" ”
The depression that had nowhere to happen turned into anger, and at this moment, a brain was inexplicably aroused. She pursed her lips and stared at Baili Feng with vicious eyes, but her little chin trembled with some grievances.
She is a smart person, she has vaguely guessed something, but she subconsciously refuses to believe it, thinking that as long as she makes a lot of noise and lets the world follow her, she can hide her ears and ignore the voice of the truth.
Baili Fengma glanced at the messy dishes on the table, and a sense of unhappiness rose in his heart, but he was not angry, he just smiled, and his coaxing tone turned into an order: "I will eat it." ”
Jing Che has always eaten soft rather than hard, but he was even more agitated by the bad tone of this comer, and simply swept the dishes in front of him to the ground, and the sound of the porcelain bowl breaking the ping-pong was messy: "I don't eat!" ”
The ten fingers do not touch the spring water, do not know the sufferings of the people, and do not know how to converge. Baili Fengjian had a gloomy face, changed his usual careless and casual expression, approached Jing Che step by step, and his voice was low: "What kind of princess temper are you committing now?" Do you know that the homeless people outside can't even drink a sip of vinegar? Do you know how many people's corpses you have stepped on in exchange for your food and clothing? ”
Jing Che subconsciously took a step back, with faint tears in his eyes, but glared at him without showing weakness.
"Heh, the chopsticks in the palace? Which royal palace? Zhenyi Palace, or the current Lincang Palace? Baili Fengma looked at her innocent and stubborn eyes, and was even more inexplicable, so he simply picked her up and threw her whole person into the chair, the shadow covered her small body, and she was stunned word by word: "You heard clearly, Zhen, Yi, Annihilation, Country, It." ”
"You're a liar! How can the thousand-year-old foundation of Zhenyi country be destroyed! "It's clear that I have lost my confidence, and I know that I am deceiving myself.
"Don't know yet? Why do you think the things of the Zhenyi Palace are in the world? Those extravagant things that satisfy the vanity of the royal family have long been worthless! As soon as the words came out, he realized that he was a little heavy, forgetting that the little girl in front of him was also a former royal family, seeing her suddenly injured expression, her voice softened slightly, "If I weren't your master, you would have become a pile of white bones outside by now, do you think that in this troubled world, there are still people who will hold you in the palm of their hands and pet you?" ”
"You go away, who wants you to be my master--" His eyes were red, and his immature little hand pushed Baili Kazama hard, "A-Niang won't talk to me like that!" ”
Hearing this, Baili Fengma, who was originally full of breath, suddenly let out a breath at this moment, and suddenly calmed down. He didn't forget, and swore that he would take care of Ah Che after the New Year.
No. He was slightly annoyed. In the past, no matter how big things were, he could keep his calm and calm, and his mood was invisible, but now he is angry with the little girl. In fact, if you think about it, even though Jing Che's paranoia and arrogance are a little unreasonable, she has always been pampered, and she has not suffered many setbacks, and she has only witnessed the cruel scene of her mother's soul flying in front of her, and it is reasonable to be unacceptable and short-tempered for a while.
Taking a step back, he had no intention of scolding Jing Che again, and when he turned around, he saw Nian Sanniang standing outside the hall door, and he didn't know how long he had been here or how long he had been watching. As soon as she looked at her eyes for hundreds of miles, she immediately put away her slightly surprised look, and stepped forward with a smile as if nothing had happened: "Isn't the dish appetizing?" I'm going to call them out. ”
"No need," Baili Fengma waved his hand, his eyes changed, and said, "There should be an offering shrine in this house, right?" ”
"Naturally, who doesn't get some gods and Buddhas in this world to worship and ask for peace." Nian Sanniang glanced at Jing Che, and seemed to say it to her on purpose.
didn't bother to explain, Baili Kazuma said to Nian Sanniang: "Take me there." ”
Then he picked up Jing Che and walked out.
There were three new incense sticks burning in the incense ash burner, and in front of the shrine, the wind let go of Jing Che, who had been restless and shouting in her hand, and she was unceremoniously thrown to the ground all of a sudden.
Nian Sanniang bowed down and retreated at the right time.
Jing Che stood up from the ground angrily, but unexpectedly, the Long Yuan white sword on the side of Baili Feng suddenly came out of its sheath and floated steadily in the air in front of her. was shocked for a moment, her movements paused, and then she raised her little face to meet his gaze without showing weakness, and the vicious sentence "You have the ability to kill me" was still choked in her throat, and she was preempted by his words.
"Apprentice," not salty, not light, not hurried, not happy or angry. Baili Fengjian had a rare positive color on his face, "The Longyuan White Sword is a sacred object of the Sword Saint Gate, you don't have to worship me, worship it is." ”
"Sloppy man! Drinker! I, I, no--"
The words were cut off, Baili Fengma leaned over to look at her, he also wanted to speak well, but he was rebellious, he was a person who would not be soft, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he felt that he couldn't pull his face, and his tone was slightly awkward: "This is your aunt's will." Otherwise, you think I want to take care of you? ”
Jing Che was suddenly blocked speechless. The sky is not afraid of the earth, the only thing she is afraid of is A-Niang. In the past, when she lost her temper, hundreds of people in the house couldn't coax her, but as long as A-Niang gave her a stern look, she knew that she had to restrain herself. Now that the deceased has passed away, she can't disobey A-Niang's will and be an unfilial daughter.
Baili Fengjian used A-Niang to press her, she was full of hard-heartedness but really didn't have a problem at all--she really heard A-Niang's entrustment to kneel down and worship him as a teacher before leaving.
"I'm worshipping A-Niang's last words!" After gritting his teeth, Jing Che kowtowed three times in an extremely perfunctory manner, stood up curtly, and was about to walk away.
But he was stopped by Baili Fengjian: "Remember, from now on, you are the forty-eighth generation disciple of the Sword Saint Sect of the Southern Dome Sect of Jiahuang Mountain." Also, the name was changed to Jing Che. ”
Her pupils dilated suddenly, and she stopped, but she was speechless: "You, you--"
"I'm for your good, do you want to have the same surname as the current emperor?"
Jing Che pursed his lips, and glanced at Baili Kazama irrefutably, with a look of insisting on rejecting him to the end even if he understood the reason.
Baili Fengjian simply looked indifferent, withdrew the Longyuan White Sword, took a step with long legs, turned around and left.
Liu Jingche stood in place, and when she saw him leave, she let go of her tense expression, her hair hung down to block her expression, she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and whispered to herself in a thick cry of grievance: "A-Niang, I want to go home--"
The back was stunned suddenly, and then continued to leave as if nothing had happened.
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"The official registration, the customs clearance documents, as well as the carriage and some coiling, I will help you take care of it, but - the Sword Saint really didn't stay one night longer?"
The corners of his mouth were tilted and he smiled, his long legs stepped out of the high threshold, and he gave a bow: "Don't bother Sanniang." ”
The girl in blue color behind him, who was holding her small luggage, also walked out. Although he is arrogant, he is still polite and educated, and he has received a lot of care from Nian Sanniang on this day, and he waved his hand with some sincere gratitude: "Goodbye, Aunt Nian." ”
"Xiao Che'er, don't be angry with Master on this road." Nian Sanniang smiled and patted Jing Che's shoulder.
nodded vaguely, but Jing Che brushed his arm between the hundred miles of wind and crossed him without squinting, climbed into the carriage by himself, and suddenly lifted the curtain, clearly looking like he was still angry.
Baili Fengjian shook his head helplessly, after this toss, he might as well be an outsider?
With that, he flew on his horse and set off on his way.
It was the moonlight and the night market was lively, and the carriage passed through the hustle and bustle, but there was silence in the carriage.
Jing Che leaned against the small window with his chin propped up, and the wind swept through the curtain, occasionally bringing a few speeding scenes. When she first woke up from the big dream, she seemed to have only stayed in the fairyland peach blossom paradise for a while, but when she came out, she found that one day in the sky, a hundred years on earth, and the world outside had been turned upside down without knowing how it had become such a thing.
"Today...... What year is it? The soft voice was muffled outside the carriage.
Baili Feng's eyes were dark, he paused, and said, "Eighty-seven years of Lincang." ”
"Oh." Obvious loss.
After a while, he asked again: "Did A-Niang lose the war?" ”
"Nope." The very determined tone is nostalgia and respect.
"I knew that A-Niang had always been so powerful."
Outside, there was silence.
Baili Fengma has been hurrying, looking intently ahead, but his eyes are a little heavy. In this continent, no one is powerful, who can subvert the situation by themselves. When Sui Sheng drew his sword as a woman, he went to the battlefield, but he was given death. The people of the three armies were panicked, and Qianqiu Pass was defeated without a fight, causing the enemy army in Lincang to break through the border of the Central Plains. The emperor is weak, the traitors are in charge, and the Zhenyi Empire of the year has long been rotten from the inside out.
Even if he broke the rule that the disciples of the Sword Saint were not generals, took the place of Sui Sheng's position and supported the heir to defend the northwest front, and fought for more than ten years, this thousand-year-old dynasty still collapsed in just fifteen years, and the Lincang army swept the imperial city in the following year...... Rivers of blood.
In the year when the imperial city was broken, he hated to die in battle with his mighty body, and fought bloodily with his sword, but what happened later......
He has always refused to recall that time, and since then he has shown himself as a drunkard, not participating in anything related to the restoration of the country, hiding on the Yunqin Peak of Jiahuang Mountain, being his free sword saint, and only wholeheartedly protecting the villages and towns near Jiahuang Mountain for so many years.
And now, he has a strong premonition, because Sui Sheng's last assertion about the Liuhe Divine Seal and the bottom layer of the imperial tomb will make the world be involved in a new round of bloody rain. Whether this was hope or the final death throes, he did not know, and he did not have the heart to guess. When he heard that Zhen Yi was still saved, he only had a moment of excitement, but more of it was still the feeling of powerlessness.