Chapter 120: Red Dust Refines the Heart and Forgets the Prince
"How many years have you all been husband and wife, don't you know her well enough? I have to make such a play, and I will make the head of the Nangong family like a slut who robs other people's men. Nangong Yue frowned.
Gu Fan was like a fish in his throat, and said with a heavy heart: "At present, the situation in the Jiangnan region is becoming more and more complicated, and the exploitation of the people of the Central Plains by the Great Qi Imperial Court is shocking.
In the passing years of natural disasters, the crop output was greatly reduced, and instead of opening a warehouse for relief, Daqi accumulated heavy taxes, causing the people to live in poverty.
Now there are hungry people begging outside, and the stronger ones choose to fall into the grass and become bandits.
Many of them, who don't even have any martial arts, have to risk their lives to rob their homes and houses, and if they don't, they will only starve to death. ”
Nangong Yue came from Mobei, and along the way, she also encountered a lot of robbers in Gu Fan's mouth, they were just some croppers with sticks, knives and forks.
"So you revitalize the dart game, transport darts on the surface, and secretly rely on some connections to help these forced bandits." Nangong Yue said clearly.
"They are not bandits, they are just people who have been forced. How can I be helpless, how big is the world, and there are many people who have not received relief and are starved to death. It is all the way of the world ruled by the Hu people, and the Great Qi court is so hateful. Gu Fan clenched his fists fiercely and said indignantly.
"And what does this have to do with your wife?"
Gu Fan let out a long sigh and said with regret: "I was also dazed and even doubted Ru'er and her two maidservants.
Before, the wicked people attacked the Gu Mansion, but they died in the Mansion inexplicably. In addition, the Zhu family was wiped out, and the corpse of the old lady Zhu was the same as the method used by the Demon Sect to kill people back then.
Now is the most critical time to expel Hu Yi and revitalize the Han family, and it is always uneasy for people to feel uneasy when such a thing suddenly happens around them.
I have interrogated all the people in the rivers and lakes who are operating incognito in the mansion, and no one has ever done anything to those wicked people. The only thing worth doubting is Ru'er and the people in the mansion.
Prior to this, I had already sent someone to spy on the Chamber of Commerce run by Ru'er and the guys in the Chamber of Commerce, and I didn't find any problems.
Ru'er is a native of Longxi, which is located outside the Guan, which is the place where the activities of the Demon Sect are most rampant. So I wanted to test whether she had martial arts or not. ”
Nangong Yue rolled her eyes and said, "Are you so tempted, are you testing feelings or martial arts." If you don't say it earlier, see if I go directly to give her a punch, and if you punch it down, you will know if she can do martial arts. ”
"Don't go," Gu Fan hurriedly stopped, "I already know that Ru'er is fine." I will bear the trouble I have caused myself, I will not let Ru'er suffer a little more grievances, Ah Ping, tell the brothers who are watching to withdraw, Ru'er is innocent. ”
When Nangong Yue heard this, her heart was somehow empty, and there was an indescribable bitter taste.
In her memory, she suddenly recalled the scene when her father taught her Nangong swordsmanship.
"Nangong Sword Technique, there are two cultivation paths, one is red dust refining the heart, and the other is too forgetful. Daughter, which one are you going to choose? ”
"Yue'er wants to choose the strongest, it's too forgetful."
"Taishang forgets his feelings, you have to abandon all the seven emotions and six desires when you practice this sword technique, like a stubborn stone, throw away all distracting thoughts, your heart is ruthless, and drawing your sword is also ruthless, can you do it?"
"Yue'er, as the future head of the Nangong family, has long had this awareness."
"In that case, I will teach you the Taishang Forgetfulness Sword Technique, and you may never taste love again in this life."
A few years later, Nangong Yue, who was a small swordsman, went out to walk the rivers and lakes, not only to practice swordsmanship and watch the changes of the world coldly, but also to find an opportunity to promote swordsmanship.
She met Gu Fan who had already emerged in the rivers and lakes in Jizhou, Gu Fan was not as mature as he is now, less than twenty years old, high-spirited, and Yushu was in the wind.
Nangong Yue, who practiced the Taishang Forgetful Swordsmanship, saw Gu Fan, but it was like a shock, and her eyebrows seemed to meet three years ago, and now she is an old man.
She had long forgotten her feelings, and her heart, which was wrapped in layers of chains, seemed to be hit by a hammer, shattering the shackles above.
Obviously, she has not been moved by emotions since she can remember, and she is not worried about emotions. But when she saw Gu Fan for the first time, the atrium that had been closed for nearly twenty years had a gap and a ray of sunshine.
This also let Nangong Yue know that the world was so dangerous that a man she met by chance almost broke her exercises.
Jizhou said goodbye, and it was a year later to meet again in Jiangnan City.
At this time, Nangong Yue had been out for two years, and she was preparing to return to the north along the waterway, and happened to arrive in Jiangnan City.
On that day, it rained heavily in Jiangnan City, and the boatmen on the canal held bamboo poles and crossed cone-shaped water marks in the ripples dotted by the rain.
Nangong Yue stood at the bow of the boat, looking at Jiangnan in the rain, feeling the water vapor like smoke and mist passing across her cheeks, the slightest cold, and the corners of her clothes were wet.
Suddenly, her eyes were attracted by the man in a boat by the canal, he was Gu Fan, who was preparing to go to the martial arts conference and was cultivating at home.
Gu Fan slowly put down the oil-paper umbrella in his hand, his slender knuckles held the umbrella bone, leaning on the sloping eaves of the boat, his face was delicate, leisurely and smiling, and he looked a little melancholy and illusory in the hazy rain.
It's as if it's just a painting, not a real person.
Nangong Yue's heart was hit again, and the atrium that already had a gap completely collapsed at this moment, although it was a gloomy and rainy day, she felt that the whole world was bright.
She hurriedly flew forward from the boat, leaving the boatman behind and shouting, "You haven't paid yet." ”
Nangong Yue turned around, dropped two ingots of silver, and came to Gu Fan.
The two chatted for a while, went to the Yuelai Teahouse Tianzi No. 1 private room, indulged in wine and songs, talked about life ideals, both of them were drunk, and finally Gu Fan woke up first, left a letter, and left.
When Nangong Yue woke up and read the letter, she burst into tears for some reason.
Nangong Yue wanted to catch up with Gu Fan, but she didn't know where to look for it, so she had to stay in Jiangnan City for a month and leave without success.
Back in Mobei, every time he practiced the Taishang Forgetful Sword Technique, Gu Fan's figure always appeared in front of him unconsciously.
Nangong Yue didn't know what this kind of longing feelings was, but it made her extremely anxious, and she silently expressed her feelings to the wild geese and Mingyue who went south every day.
When the flowers were blooming, she took the letter left by Gu Fan and read it over and over again, remembering every word, every stroke, and even every drop of ink on the paper in her mind.
It's a pity that she doesn't know where the person who wrote the letter is now, and she doesn't know where to send it if she wants to write a letter, so she has to complain to Luohua in the air, hating it and not explaining it.
Finally, this feeling made her almost eaten by Taishang's forgetfulness, and after going crazy and picking up a life, she locked her heart tightly again, completely forgetting that figure.
And because of this, the swordsmanship that has not been broken through has finally been completed, and she also knows her father's intention to let her walk the rivers and lakes.
The so-called forgetfulness is probably only by giving up after having it, in order to reach the realm of swordsmanship.
Nangong Yue also succeeded her father after the completion of swordsmanship and became the head of the Nangong family.
originally thought that all fate would end here.
But creation makes people, and by chance, she and Gu Fan, who is already the leader of the martial arts alliance, meet again.
Gu Fan wanted to get the support of several big gangs in Mobei and jointly overthrow the rule of the Hu people, so he went to Mobei in person in the name of the dart to negotiate with him.
Nangong Yue has imagined countless scenes of encounters, but none of them are as realistic as reality, which makes her long-dormant heart agitated again, and this time she can't hold it back at all.
She is now the head of the Nangong family, no longer the wandering girl who has just entered the rivers and lakes in Jizhou, and she is no longer the drunken in Jiangnan City, although she maintains extreme restraint and keeps saying that it is for the interests of the family, but she is the first force among all the gangs in Mobei to join Gu Fan's account.
She also tried her best to become Gu Fan's contact person in Mobei, so that she would have more opportunities to communicate with Gu Fan.
It's just that I didn't expect that the rivers and lakes are changing, the years are ruthless, Gu Fan has already married a wife and had children, and her last illusions have been shattered.
originally thought that the two would have nothing to do with each other except for the great cause of destroying Hu, but a letter sent to her by Gu Fan made everything turn around.
In the letter, Gu Fan personally invited her to come to Jiangnan City, saying that there was something important to discuss.
On the day she received this letter, Nangong Yue explained the family affairs and went south alone. After traveling day and night, he ran and killed three horses before he rushed to Jiangnan City, and according to Gu Fan's plan, he broke into Gu Shun's private room, which was the beginning of the scene.
It's just that in her deep affection for Gu Fan, there are some truths and some falses, and maybe even Nangong Yue herself can't distinguish it.