Chapter 18: Purple Wind Plateau
When the family members and guards saw Zifeng coming, they all hugged their fists and respectfully bowed their foreheads.
Zi Feng's face was expressionless, he nodded slightly, and walked straight to the woman in her thirties, clasped her fists and saluted, and said, "I've seen Madame." ”
It turned out that this woman was Yao Qin, the wife of Liu Fansheng, the sky-shaking tiger.
Mrs. Liu smiled slightly, and said, "Zifeng is back." ”
"Yes."
Zifeng walked up to Liu Qingyun and gave a salute: "I've seen Miss." ”
Liu Qingyun looked at him and said, "You are a step late, the assassin has just escaped." ”
Zifeng said coldly: "I saw the white wing's confusion and sped up my pace to rush back, but it was still too late." Are you okay? ”
Liu Qingyun shook her head.
She said, "This person's talisman is a strange little snake. ”
"Little snake?"
"Yes, it seems to suck the aura of my magic weapon."
Zi Feng's eyebrows trembled slightly, and he said, "I haven't heard of such magic weapons." Awesome? ”
Liu Qingyun said: "But so, I almost succeeded, but he had an accomplice to answer, so he let him run away." ”
Liu Qingyun turned her head and glanced at Yao Qin, Yao Qin immediately understood, and hurriedly said to them: "You talk, I'll go back to the house first." ”
The purple wind gestured to her forehead, but Liu Qingyun's face was always as cold as frost. She always looked at this stepmother.
Madame Liu's attitude towards her seemed to be strange, but she was not angry, and took the maid back to the bedroom.
Liu Qingyun said to Zifeng, "Come in with me." The voice was cold, without a trace of warmth.
She turned around and went back to her bedroom, and Zifeng followed.
"Sit."
She poured a cup of tea and handed it over, saying, "Is what my father wants you to do?" ”
Zifeng nodded and said, "Yes." ”
Liu Qingyun said: "When I left you, I didn't want you to become such a person. ”
The corners of Zifeng's lips trembled, and he said, "It's your father who looks up to me." ”
Liu Qingyun frowned and asked, "Do you need his approval?" Do you care so much about his approval? ”
Zi Feng's gaze turned to her: "His approval can make my Zi Feng more powerful. ”
"Plateau! What exactly do you want to do? Liu Qingyun's voice was hurried.
"I just want to improve my martial arts cultivation." Zifeng met her gaze and said coldly, "Also, please call me Zifeng." ”
Liu Qingyun suddenly pinched his arm and asked, "Are you planning to follow my father like this and live such a life of licking blood with a knife?" Do you know that my father's enemies are all over the world, and do you know how many people want to kill my father every day? ”
"I know." Purple Wind's tone was as calm as water.
"Know you're still following him?" Liu Qingyun said in a low voice: "Leave him!" ”
Zifeng asked rhetorically, "Where to go?" ”
Liu Qingyun said: "Stay by my side." There are more than 10 shops in Xinzhou, I don't like to do business, you come and help me. ”
Purple Wind was silent.
Liu Qingyun's eyes were filled with tears, "If you don't say it, I also know what you're going to do, I lost my mother and brother, I don't want to have no one by my side to the last time!" Gao Yuan, leave my father, don't gamble with your life anymore. ”
Zifeng said in a low voice: "Miss, I will stop when it's time to stop, but now is not the time." ”
Liu Qingyun stared at the flickering candlelight on the table, and said: "The prince wants to eradicate dissidents and pave the way to the throne, and those people have a large number of capable people around them, have you finished killing them?" My dad is already in it, and I don't want you to ...... too."
Zifeng closed his eyes and closed his eyes silently.
Liu Qingyun said: "What are you obsessed with?" Do you want to become famous and dominate the world? Gao Yuan, I know, you are not such a person. ”
"That's who I am!"
Zi Feng opened his eyes, his eyes were cold, and said, "After so many years, you still don't know who I am?" Forget the plateau, now, I'm Purple Wind. ”
Liu Qingyun was dumbfounded, for a long time, and muttered, "Purple Wind...... Purple Wind ...... Maybe it was all my fault in the first place. ”
The air was as silent as death, for a long time, Zi Feng's eyes flashed with anxiety, and said: "It's been ten years, my brother is nowhere to be seen, life and death are unpredictable, I want to go to see my father, but I don't have the face to go back to see him......"
Liu Qingyun said: "I'll accompany you." ”
"You?" Zi Feng didn't expect Liu Qingyun to say this, and was a little surprised.
Liu Qingyun's eyes said firmly: "The separation between you and your brother is my fault, and it is a regret in my heart, I have always wanted to compensate you for ......"
"Compensation?" Purple Wind's voice was as cold as frost.
Liu Qingyun said softly: "I've always wanted to accompany you to visit your father, but I'm afraid you don't want to." ”
Zifeng looked at her in a daze, her face was so beautiful, so beautiful that she couldn't find a single flaw, at least in his eyes. Her indifference, her arrogance, are the embodiment of loneliness, pain and despair in her heart, in this family, everyone is afraid of her, even the Sky Shaking Tiger holds her in the palm of his hand, defends her everywhere, obeys her, but no one understands her, and she, only when facing him, will she completely remove her disguise, will she be willful joy, anger and sorrow.
Although he hated her in his heart, hated her for taking him away in the first place, and hated her father for whipping him before it led to a series of things that followed, but every time he faced her, his heart would involuntarily soften. After all, after so many years, she is the only one who can talk to him considerately, and he is the only one who can talk to her.
His eyes were dark, and he said in a low voice: "Two years ago, when I went out on business, I went to my father, and the owner of the blacksmith shop said that my father hurried home when he heard the news that my brother and I had run away, and he never returned to the shop since. ”
Liu Qingyun said: "Then your father must be at home, which is a good thing." I'll accompany you to your home, and you can rest assured when you go to see it. Zifeng, it's been ten years, it's time to let go and face it. ”
Everyone likes to go home and enjoy the warmth of their families, but for today's Zifeng, it takes courage to go home.
He was silent for a moment, raised his eyes to look at Liu Qingyun's clear eyes, mustered up his courage, nodded, and responded: "Okay." “
Liu Qingyun's lips provoked a shallow arc.
……
The two of them were resolute and resolute, and the next morning, two horses, one black and one white, galloped away with Zifeng and Liu Qingyun galloping away outside the city.
The two of them hurried up, but they arrived at Fengtou Village, Defeng County, in four hours, and it was not yet dark.
Ten years have passed, it is still the familiar dirt roads, or the familiar houses, the closer to home, the tighter Zifeng's heart will be, seeing the fence wall of his house from a distance, he is suddenly a little scared, afraid to see his father, he doesn't know how to face him, how to explain to him that his brother is missing, his heart is beating wildly, he has never been so timid.
Liu Qingyun stretched out her hand to hold his arm, with a hint of encouragement in her eyes, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, I'll face it with you." ”
Zifeng's heart warmed and nodded.
The two tied their horses to a big tree on the side of the road and walked outside the courtyard gate.
The courtyard door was open, but there was no one inside, he looked at the well in the courtyard, half of the firewood had been split, and there was still no firewood room with window paper, and those times with his brother resurfaced in front of him......
Liu Qingyun poked his arm, he came back to his senses, mustered up his courage, and took a step on one leg.
"Pan'er, Pan'er, don't run, be careful of falling." Suddenly, the voice of stepmother Jiang Lan came from inside the house.
Zifeng immediately withdrew his legs, and the two of them dodged outside the courtyard gate.
A three- or four-year-old boy ran out of the hall, followed closely by Jiang Lan, the little boy's face was full of innocence, very cute, grabbed the firewood on the ground and said in a milky voice:
"Mother, Pan'er wants to chop wood."
Zi Feng was stunned, he couldn't help but poke out half of his head and look into the courtyard.
I saw Jiang Lan snatch the firewood in his hand and scolded softly: "Silly boy, is this what you are playing?" Don't prick your hands when you turn around, and go back to the house. ”
The little boy giggled and ran around the yard, shouting: "I don't want it, I don't want it, I want to play in the yard, mother, you come and catch me." “
Jiang Lan smiled: "Okay, my mother is here to arrest you, see where you run." “
The yard was filled with the happy laughter of little boys.
Jiang Lan grabbed the little boy and said with a smile: "Haha, my mother grabbed Pan'er, you can't run away." “
The little boy giggled as he struggled, "Daddy, Daddy, come on, help, help me." ”
"Ouch, my son, what's wrong with you?" A middle-aged man's voice came from the room.
Zi Feng's face changed, and his eyes were fixed on the door of the hall.
When he clearly saw a familiar figure walking out of the hall, Zi Feng's eyes instantly turned red.
That's right, this middle-aged man often appears in his dreams, and he thinks about his father day and night-Gao Liang. My father is much older than ten years ago, he is only in his forties, his sideburns have turned white, and his burly figure has lost a lot of weight in his memory, and he even thinks that he is not as tall as before, but it can be seen from the flushed complexion on his face that he is still in good spirits now.
Perhaps the trauma of losing two sons ten years ago has now been made up for by this little thing. I couldn't tell what it was like, it was happiness, it was frustration, and there was a faint desolation, the purple wind flashed over his body, leaned against the adobe wall, and took a deep breath.
Liu Qingyun asked in a low voice, "Do you want to go in?" “
Zi Feng shook his head, and suddenly laughed at himself: "Perhaps, I am already superfluous, my mother is dead, and she has already taken away my and my brother's hearts, and now that my father has a child again, I can't get in, and it doesn't matter anymore." ”
Liu Qingyun said: "It's all here, it's better to go and see your father." ”
Zifeng smiled bitterly: "No need, why bother them, just know that he is healthy and in a good mood, I will be relieved." ”
Gao Liang in the courtyard suddenly looked up at the open door and lost his mind.
Jiang Lan asked, "What are you looking at?" ”
Gao Liang muttered, "I seem to hear someone talking. ”
Jiang Lan glanced at the open courtyard door and said, "No one." ”
Gao Liang was suddenly a little excited, and said, "No, I really heard someone talking, is it that Gao Yuan and Gao Le are back?" ”
Jiang Lan said in a mean tone: "Those two boys have been running for ten years, and they don't know where they went, who knows if they will come back." ”
Gao Liang suddenly scolded with some excitement: "If it weren't for you, would they be able to run?" No, I'll have to check it out. ”
He pulled his leg and hurried towards the courtyard gate.