Chapter 121: The Two Heavens of the Annexes (Part II)
At the age of eleven, Long Ji climbed the "Dragon's Back" for the first time. She was surrounded by five siblings at the same time, and of the twelve young children who entered the courtyard at the same time, only six were now left, but these teenagers all had a cold and fearless temperament, which was a hard personality tempered under psychological pressure. The reason why the Long family has been strong and prosperous for hundreds of years is to eliminate the weak among the descendants in a cruel way, and force the children of the sect family to grow up in a peaceful environment.
Uncle Nineteen looked at these young boys and girls whose height almost caught up with him, and sighed: "Time flies so fast, you are about to leave the other courtyard in a blink of an eye, don't forget to practice after returning to the branches, the great future of the Long family is placed on you!"
No one answered. Above this endless and towering dragon's back, eight internal affairs envoys are guarded by swords, and behind them are the gray granite buildings of the Zong family, the pavilions and pavilions are overlapping and extending to the horizon, the gray walls cover the green trees, the red tiles reflect the blue bricks, and the outline of the outer wall of the main house of the Long family can be faintly seen, like a long dragon crawling in the sky; and in front of him is the dark residence of the separated family, as long as you look at it, you feel that the light of the whole world has been sucked away by these filthy streets and alleys, even if the sun is shining, it cannot illuminate the dirty world shrouded in broken curtains. The outlines of the streets and houses could not be distinguished, and the low-rise bungalows of the haphazard buildings were crowded together and overlapped with each other, and new houses were built out of broken planks and thatch, and the houses fell after two rains, while more dilapidated houses sprung up like mushrooms after the rain. Countless people are active in this labyrinth of broken houses, like wriggling ants in the ant nest, crowded, noisy, and foul smell, if it weren't for the west wind of the Liang Sui Kingdom all year round to blow away the filthy air, I am afraid that even the Zong family's mansion will be invaded by this dirty breath.
"It turns out that this is what the separation looks like. A handsome and tall young man muttered to himself. His name is Long Shiyue, he is the most talented and powerful one among the students of this phase of the Academy, and he has won the favor of the Marquis of Yu, the Dragon Capture Army of the Crane Mansion, by virtue of his age of not yet twelve.
Uncle Nineteen immediately spoke: "Shiyue, don't be deceived by appearance, don't look at the chaos of the divided family's mansion, in fact, it is strictly disciplined and orderly, the family life is dependent, everyone is happy, well-fed, warmly dressed, and you can spend your life without having to work for a day, this is all up to the foundation that our clan children have earned back by throwing their heads and spilling their blood outside!
"Why do we have to feed them, since they're stupid and stupid and useless, why don't we just kill them?" said a teenager next to him.
"Shiyu, what are you talking about? The ancestors have a training, even if these impure blood are not the real dragon family, they still bear the surname 'dragon', with the prestige of our dragon family, if you want to let any person with the surname dragon die, won't you be able to raise your head in front of the seventeen families?" Uncle Nineteen shouted, "The gentleman rules the world with 'benevolence', don't forget the knowledge in the scriptures!"
The young man named Long Shiyu sneered: "Hmph, the courage of the horseman, the benevolence of the woman. ”
As he was talking, suddenly there was a burst of roar in the divided mansion, the crowd made a commotion, screams, exclamations, and cries resounded in the sky, and a long cloud of smoke and dust was lifted in the dense dilapidated house, as if there was a long dragon dragging its trail in the dark alleyway rushing left and right, and for a time I don't know how many houses it hit and how many passers-by trampled to death. "It's a 'malignant transformation'!" Uncle Nineteen shouted, "The 'Shadow Sect' is about to subdue the demon beasts, if any of you join the Shadow Sect, you must also take on the mission of maintaining the safety of the Split Mansion, keep your eyes on it!"
The billowing smoke and dust "banged" into a wall and stopped, and more than a dozen black shadows immediately burst out around it, surrounding the initiator in all directions. "Roar ......" a long hiss shook people's hearts and lungs, it turned out to be a pig-faced, cow-body, eagle claws, snake tail, and a blood-dripping monster, with a mouth that cracked to the neck socket, and a large mouth full of dense layers of fangs. More than a dozen disciples of the Shadow Sect silently recited the mantra and shot at the same time, "Titicaca Titicaca" sounded continuously, and twenty-eight invisible heavy shackles locked the limbs and head of the demon beast, and the monster was immediately crushed to the ground, and the bones of the whole body gurgled, almost pressed into the ground rammed by the loess by the astonishing weight added to the body.
"This is the 'imprisoned dragon' of the Nine Methods of the Long Family, and only the Dragon Food Jade has practiced among the few of you. Uncle Nineteen said, "This vicious transformation is only up to the C level at most, and it can be easily subdued." If you encounter a second grade or above, it will really take some time. ”
The monster roared and struggled in place, its four claws tossing the ground into a deep pit, but it couldn't break free from the dragon's bondage, and a Shadow Sect disciple jumped on top of it, and the sword in his hand sank into the skull, stabbing the pig-like head in half. The monster hissed and was silent, and more than a dozen Shadow Sect disciples immediately scattered and jumped away, hiding in the darkness, they had just left, and countless hungry people did not know where to get out, and pounced on the monster's corpse like ants, tearing the flesh with knives, iron pieces, claws and teeth, just in the blink of an eye, the huge corpse turned into a pile of white bones, and then someone smashed the joints and moved the bones away, and only a puddle of dirty blood seeped into the loess remained in the street, and the monster did not leave a trace.
The clanging sound of construction sounded, the dilapidated shack began to grow rapidly, and the trajectory left by the demon beast was bridged in just a few minutes, the screams and cries gradually weakened, and the strange smell of roast meat appeared in the foul smell of the divided city, several teenagers were disgusted, Uncle Nineteen shook his head, and Long Shiyue glanced at Long Ji with concern: "Are you okay......?"
"I'm not so surprised. Ryuji replied softly.
As they grow older, the feelings of boys and girls gradually breed, and in the days of fear day and night, there is a close emotion between Long Ji and Long Shiyue, both of whom are in the stage of ignorance, but they can't help but want to be close to each other, and the longer they live together, the more they feel close to each other. At this time, Eclipse Moon glanced at Long Ji strangely, and felt that there was something in this girl that he hadn't noticed before, but Long Ji only thought about what the tattered boy had said, and let out a sigh from the bottom of his heart.
Since he was five years old, Long Chang always crossed the dragon's spine to meet her once or twice a year, and as the internal affairs envoys on the dragon's spine became more and more vigilant, it became more and more difficult for him to sneak into the Zong family's mansion, and the injuries he received when he returned became more and more serious. The last time they met when they were nine years old, Long Ji asked, "It's been so long, has the Crane Mansion noticed you?
The boy smiled at the blood on his arm, "If they had been chosen, I would have entered the Divine Machine Camp a long time ago." I have no hope! No matter how loud the commotion is, those old men will not be able to give me a good look. ”
"Then why are you risking your life to come here?" said Long Ji strangely.
"To see you. Long Chang said nonchalantly.
"Why do you have to come to see me?" asked the girl at that time, not understanding the meaning of this sentence, with wide black eyes.
"Why?" the boy scratched his head, "I don't know. For that half of the cake?"
Long Ji smiled, "It's just my leftover food, why remember it now." I'm always carrying food with me, but I'm afraid you won't have to eat when you come, oh, this is the roast meat, Hu cake and pickles for tonight's dinner, eat more!" she took out of her bosom the food wrapped in a handkerchief and carrying the body temperature and handed it over.
Long Chang's eyes narrowed into a slit, wrapped his yellow and thin pigtails around his neck, and carefully took the food and put it in his arms: "Oh, that's great, I know that something good must happen here...... This time I'm going to take it back and eat with that guy, who is getting bigger and bigger, I can't help ......it."
"Who the hell are you talking about? The girl wondered.
The boy swallowed his saliva, sniffed the food in his arms one by one, and seemed to be trying to resist eating it, "Didn't I tell you?
Long Ji was surprised: "It's so difficult for you to survive yourself, how can you feed other children, what's his name?"
Long Chang shook his head: "No name, I call him Xiao Brown, because when I picked him up, he was wrapped in a brown broken blanket." Speaking of which, it's not a blanket, it's a coat...... When I grow up, I'm going to make a brown cotton coat that looks warm, dirt-resistant, and comfortable. ...... Oh yes, I almost forgot, I had a gift for you!" As he spoke, he reached out and touched his bosom, his fingers pestle through the torn coat, "Where is it...... It shouldn't be...... Oh yes, yes, yes. Finally, he found the gift from the leggings, untied the layers of rags, held the gift high, and said with pride on his face: "This is something I found in the cemetery in the east of the city, it must be hundreds of years old, it looks very good, and it must be very worthy of you!"
"What is this, badge?" Long Ji gently took the gift, and looked at it by the moonlight, it was a silver badge, with a few strokes outlining a giant dragon soaring through the clouds, with refined brushwork and carving. The silver dragon floated in the moonlight, as if it might come to life at any time and fly into the sky. "It's beautiful...... I've never seen anything like it. The girl sighed.
"Hahahaha, it's good-looking. Long Chang said proudly, "I almost broke my head for this thing." ”
The girl raised her head: "But, if you exchange it for money, you can buy a lot of food, you don't need to give me such a valuable ......"
"Bah, what kind of money, as soon as I saw this nervousness, I felt that it belonged to you, and it was not appropriate for anyone else to wear it! The boy squinted and smiled happily as he nudged Ryuhime's hand.
"But ......"
Before he finished speaking, a terrible whistle sounded, and the internal envoy on the dragon's spine once again discovered Long Chang's traces. "So, I'll see you later. The boy staggered to his feet, looked back at the girl deeply, and leaped into the air with his legs bent, and the blood-red Manshu Sawa opened out of thin air, and rising in the night was a strange boy covered in bandages and coming from another world, the sword wind and sword light tore the moonlight, and Long Ji clenched the silver badge and jumped off the low wall back to the dormitory, her heart full of inexplicable sadness.
After that, she hadn't seen the tattered boy again for a long time. The badge didn't even know Uncle Nineteen, "You picked it up? It's really good luck! It looks like it's an antiquity from ten generations ago, wear it well, you love to wear black clothes since you were a child, and you don't look happy enough to be dressed in black, and a silver glittering gadget also looks spiritual." Uncle Nineteen said.
When she was eleven years old, standing on the dragon's spine and looking down on the walled city, the badge on her chest was shining, and Long Ji couldn't help but think of the boy who flouted the rules of the Long family. Sorrow is fleeting, time never stops, in a blink of an eye, the age of twelve came, she left the courtyard, returned to her father's mansion, and entered the torture hall with the help of her father, the youngest execution envoy of the torture hall of the fourteenth generation, and the youngest dragon military captain of the fourteenth generation, she and Long Shiyue were regarded as golden boys and jade girls, and the elders also acquiesced to the relationship between the two, blood relatives outside the three generations can intermarry, the two are distant relatives of the fourth generation, but they have not come out of five suits.
When he was fourteen years old, the darkest night in the history of the Long family in nearly a hundred years came, and that night there were strangely no stars, only a blood-red crescent moon that was so dim that it was almost invisible that it hung in the sky. It was just after night, and before the drums were beating, two thousand four hundred and five sons of the division began to storm the dragon's back, and they erected fifty long ladders to climb the high wall, and took advantage of the darkness of the night to kill the internal servants one by one. By the time the whistle and gong sounded, and the envoys lit the beacons and torches, the outlaws had already poured up the walls, occupied the corner towers, battlements, and arrow towers, and began to charge towards the Zong family's mansion.
The reason why there is such an accurate figure of "two thousand four hundred and five" is that the next day 1,200 corpses of the separated family were found near the left side of the city wall, and in the following years, 1,205 children of the separated families hidden in the streets and alleys were successively found and executed.
When the big gong in the torture hall sounded, the dragon's spine grabbed the long sword and rushed out of the courtyard with the execution room, and when he looked up, the dragon's back had become a burning dragon, and countless figures jumped down from the high wall, shouting and killing shook the heavens and the earth. "Kill!" she shouted as the crowd shouted, drawing her sword at the outlaws.