Chapter Twenty-Three: Touching the Darkness
After dinner, the four of them sat at the dining table and chatted until it was completely dark, and then let Dugu Yi go back to the house to rest. Of course, Iwanaka also knew that there must be something to say between Xue'er and Dugu Yi, so to say that it was to rest, but in fact, it was also to leave time for Xue'er.
"Boom!"
Dugu Yi stepped into the room with his front feet and lit the lamp, and Xue'er appeared at the door with his hind feet.
"Come in. ”
Cher nodded lightly and walked into the room with a melancholy expression.
"Will Brother Yi come back here?"
"Will come back......" Dugu Yi walked to the side of the bed and lay down, holding his head in his hands and said, "The only person in this world who can accommodate me is you." ”
The world is so wide and there is only this small courtyard, although Dugu Yi's words are very sad, but the sadness on Xue'er's face has been dissolved.
"If only I could meet Brother Yi earlier, then I would ......" Xue'er sat down next to Dugu Yi. Xue'er already knew the relationship between Dugu Yi and Qin Qin, so she would say such things at this time. She thought that as long as she knew Dugu Yi before Qin Qin, he would be able to stay here forever as an ordinary person, however, she could only think about it in her heart. This is also fate, right? The time difference is only eight days, and in front of Dugu Yi are two completely different paths.
"Hmm, what did Xue'er say?" Dugu Yi turned her head to look at Xue'er's back, her voice just now was too small for Dugu Yi to hear what she said.
"Nothing. Cher shook her head. Thinking about the impossible only adds to her troubles, and she vividly remembers what Dugu Yi said in the weapons shop a year ago: he was just a passer-by after all.
"That's right!" Dugu Yi sat up and took out a neat stack of papers from the low cabinet beside the bed. "This is the practice we practice, I have copied the whole text, since we have already practiced it, then Xue'er should also practice it to the end." ”
Xue'er's gaze fell on the paper in his hand with Duguyi's voice. Looking at the ink, this exercise had been copied at least half a year ago, does this mean that he had decided to leave since then?
"Brother Yi!"
Cher called softly, and her vision slowly became hazy, and then crystal tears slid down her cheeks. I've been used to sitting together like this, and I've been used to being inseparable until today;
After Cher's choked voice sounded, the whole room was immersed in a sad parting.
Looking at Xue'er who was crying silently, Dugu Yi's heart also ached, but he didn't make any moves, not even words of comfort, because he knew that no words could comfort Xue'er, what she wanted was what he couldn't give, and he couldn't continue to stay here.
The two sat in the room without a word, letting the sadness of parting and not knowing when they would see each other again and again hit their hearts.
"Who are you...... Ah......h
In the courtyard, the voice in the rock sounded suddenly, and the front was still questioning with anger, but the back turned into a cry of pain. The tranquility of the night's sorrow was finally shattered.
"Grandpa!" Cher stood up worriedly, wiping away tears as she ran towards the courtyard.
Dugu Yi naturally didn't lag behind Xue'er a bit, so he picked up the heavy sword on the table and followed out. The two of them were stunned by what they saw before them when they left the room!
Under the faint moonlight, Iwanaka was lying flat on the ground panting, the red stained on his abdomen was still expanding, and a figure that Dugu Yi was very familiar with was next to Iwanaka, and this person was still holding a blood-stained dagger in his hand.
"Didn't I say don't kill anyone?"
Zhao Hao slapped the fat man in the face when Dugu Yi was stunned, although Yanzhong still has qi now, but at Yanzhong's age, any illness may take him away at any time, not to mention the sword, just like now, his breath of life has been constantly weakening.
It turned out that after losing today, Zhao Hao was dragged by the fat man to drink to relieve his worries, and the fat man kept adding fuel and vinegar to Dugu Yi's affairs during the banquet, and after a few glasses of wine, the hot-headed Zhao Hao also wanted to teach Dugu Yi a good lesson, so he brought the two family members and the fat brothers who had been with him to the door.
The fat man was the first to climb over the wall and enter the small courtyard, but as soon as his feet landed, he was found in the rock that was dissipating his sorrow in the courtyard, and the fat man stabbed the rock without thinking about it.
"The villain ...... in a panic," the fat man explained in a panic as he covered his face.
Although the fat man said so, his thin monkey brother also knew very well that the fat brother wanted to completely intensify the contradiction between Dugu Yi and Zhao Hao, and then kill Dugu Yi by Zhao Hao's hand, so this knife was obviously intentional.
Hearing the conversation between Zhao Hao and the two, Dugu Yi and Xue'er finally came back to their senses, and they no longer hesitated and hurriedly ran to Yanzhong.
Zhao Hao didn't want to cause trouble in the first place, so he didn't stop Dugu Yi and the others at this time; if he insisted on saying it, he himself panicked, this was also the first time he saw someone bleeding in front of him, although it was not his hand, but it was not much worse.
"Grandpa, grandpa......" Cher threw herself on Yanzhong, her petite body trembling very much. Six years ago, she wasn't there when her parents died, but now, Iwanaka is lying right in front of her.
Dugu Yi couldn't speak, his whole body had been filled with self-blame, not even a single syllable could come out of his throat, and he sat up in silence, and pressed the wound in the rock with his right hand, trying to stop the blood from flowing out, even if it was just a little drop.
"Little... Sub ......"
Iwanaka slowly raised his head and squeezed out a kind smile at Dugu Yiqiang. "Cher... Later... Only... Delivery... To give... You're ......."
"I ......" Dugu Yi's tears also flowed out, these tears are remorse, guilt, and even more reluctance and sadness about to lose something important! This old man who has always been smiling all the time, just because of his own impulsiveness, suffered such a catastrophe, in the future, what face will he face Xue'er?
Yanzhong turned his head to Xue'er with difficulty and said, "... Snow... Cher... Henceforth... Want... Good... Alive... Million... No... Again... Change... Return... One year... Former... That'......"
"......" Xue'er couldn't cry for a long time, and her mind was even more chaotic, why did everything happen so suddenly? Why is she the only one who stupidly thinks that everything remains the way it is......
“...... Handful... Cher... To... You... I... Very... Put... Heart ......" Yan Zhong said as he slowly raised his arm with the last of his strength, and the old hand did not stop until it reached Dugu Yi's ear, and the next second he ripped off Dugu Yi's blindfold without warning.
"Ahh
Although it was only for a moment, Iwanaka, whose eyes had already narrowed into a line, also saw Dugu Yi's right eye, and even Xue'er, whose eyes were full of tears, saw it, but now there was no time for her to be shocked or confused.
“... Originally... In this way, ...... "Iwanaka finally untied the knot that had plagued him for a year at the end of his life. “... Originally... True... Target... Curse... Curse... It... Sub ......"
After leaving such a sentence that Cher didn't understand, Iwanaka swallowed his last breath.
"Grandpa......"
Xue'er's green but terrible cry rose to the sky, and then the whole person threw herself on the body that was gradually losing its temperature in the rock.
A few minutes ago, Cher was still thinking about waiting for Dugu Yi to leave and live well with Iwanaka, but now he left before Dugu Yi, and his departure is still the kind that will never come back.
Dugu Yi was still stunned. The last voice in the rock was so weak that Zhao Hao and the others didn't even hear it when they were standing a few steps away, but for Dugu Yi, it hit the top of his head like a thunderbolt from a sunny day, and directly hit the most vulnerable and darkest place in his heart. Iwanaka would not have thought that his words without malice would push Dugu Yi into the abyss of loneliness and loneliness.
Dugu Yi's face was covered with a painful and distorted smile, and his bloodless lips were trembling violently, but even Xue'er, who was close to him, couldn't hear the voice coming from his throat: "Cursed Child, why me, why am I carrying such a thing?"
The air around Dugu Yi was getting colder and colder, and the murderous aura on his body was getting heavier and heavier, although he had seen many dead people but had never killed a single person, but now a flame burned in his chest, a black anger that wanted to kill the person in front of him.
"Third Young Master Zhao!" the fat man unconsciously wanted to hide behind Zhao Hao. To say that the Dugu Yi he saw during the day was like a little tiger with his claws exposed, then he was standing in front of him at this time as a monster whose mind was occupied by all kinds of negative emotions.