Volume 1: Past Memories Chapter 4: A Stormy Night
Chu Yunfei stood in the courtyard, the howling mountain wind lifted his robe, revealing a deep desolation and loneliness under the sunlight. He watched Liu Ruyan's figure gradually disappear into the depths of the dense forest, and his eyes revealed deeper worry and love, accompanied by an indescribable strange emotion. At this moment, no one knows what he is thinking in his heart, what can make this old man who has experienced the vicissitudes of life so heavy worry?
His heart seemed to have accumulated countless knots that could not be untied, tightly wound around him like poisonous snakes, pressing him to the point that he was almost out of breath, and no matter how hard he struggled, it was useless. He's tired, really tired!
Sometimes, he really wants to let go of all the grievances and entanglements in the world and fame and fortune, and go to Jiuquan to reunite with his deceased wife who has been separated for more than 20 years, as well as those good brothers who have fought side by side with him and were born and died. But they all forsaken him first, leaving him to spend his days in fear and pain.
He remembered the tragedy that happened 20 years ago, and the bloody past was vivid, as if it happened yesterday: Liu Ruyan's father, his friend Liu Yulou, on that stormy night 20 years ago, he was studying martial arts in the back room of his home, and suddenly received a flying pigeon from his friend Liu Yulou: "Brother Chu, seeing words is like face, how are you doing lately? Sudden changes in the family, fearing that disaster will befall me, I have hidden Ruyan and Yumei in the stone room of Zixia Valley in the back mountain in advance, and left two jade recipes and a letter on them. When the eldest brother saw them, he could tell what was going on. If something happens to my wife and me, I ask Brother Chu to take in Liu Ruyan and Liu Yumei, and ask Brother Chu to raise them, but please don't let them seek revenge for us, and don't let them get involved in the grievances of the previous generation! The kindness of the eldest brother can only be repaid by the younger brother in the next life. Brother, Liu Yulou is grateful!"
After reading the letter, Chu Yunfei's heart suddenly felt like five thunderbolts, he was shocked, he didn't want to, a few months ago, he invited the elder brother of Yulou to gather behind the cliff of Mount Emei, and after only a few months of separation, his family suddenly suffered a disaster, what was going on? Could it be that he had caused some enemy? The elder brother of Yulou has always been kind to others, and he has never heard that he has a grudge with others, what has happened in the past few months?
When he braved the storm, hurried to Liujiazhuang day and night to find out, only to find that Liu Yulou and his wife and a family of more than a dozen servants were all lying in a pool of blood and were murdered, everyone was pierced through the throat by a sword, and the death was unbearable. But one of his sons and a daughter were nowhere to be seen. The scene in front of him made Chu Yunfei extremely sad, and he immediately vowed to find out the truth and avenge Liu Yulou's family of more than a dozen people.
After he buried all the corpses in tears, he went to the stone room of Zixia Valley to rescue Liu Ruyan's brothers and sisters, and when he came to the stone room, he only saw Liu Ruyan, but Liu Yumei was gone. He searched the entire Zixia Valley, but failed to find Liu Yumei. For many years after that, he kept looking for clues about the incident, but he had no clue, found nothing, and failed to find Liu Yumei's whereabouts. For so many years, he has never given up looking for ...... For this reason, he often felt guilty and blamed himself, feeling that he had failed the trust of Liu Yulou and the trust of his brother under Jiuquan.
Twenty years have passed, and this has become a piece of his heart, often making him ashamed and unable to sleep at night. He often dreamed that the elder brother of Yulou was crying blood and crying in front of him, asking about the whereabouts of his daughter Liu Yumei...... He knew that they could not look under the Nine Springs.
Now, Liu Ruyan has also grown up, and under his own teaching, he has learned a good martial arts, thinking of Liu Yulou's crying blood before his death, he is very painful and Mao Dun, I don't know if he should tell him the truth about the tragic death of his parents?
Now, with his martial arts attainments, he can already make a splash in the rivers and lakes.
Since ancient times, the revenge of killing one's father and mother's life has not been shared, and it may be time to tell the child about his own life experience!
Let's say that Liu Ruyan came to the Crescent Bay Tea Garden under Taibai Peak, and when she saw the tender green buds in the garden, she was overjoyed, pinned the long sword to her waist, rolled up her sleeves and trouser legs, and entered the tea garden to pick. Finding that many jasmine shoots had been picked by others, and only some scattered defective products remained, he couldn't help but worry: "Hey, so many good jasmine flowers have been picked, it seems that this time it's too late, the master's birthday is coming, if you can't pick the fresh tea to entertain the guests, wouldn't it be a loss of etiquette, alas, how can this be good?"
Just when he was disappointed, he suddenly saw a young girl in red coming from the dense forest in the distance humming a beautiful and beautiful song, only to see that she was graceful, with a delicate face, long hair in a bun, carrying a round bamboo basket on her back, holding a handful of gorgeous wild flowers in her hand, a breeze blowing, fragrant. Looking at her outfit, she doesn't look like a person walking the rivers and lakes, but like a smart and dexterous peasant girl.
Liu Ruyan looked at her and unconsciously saw God. This girl in red is beautiful and refined, and she has not applied a single fat or powder on her face, but her eyebrows are handsome, naturally beautiful, and she is pleasing to people. What's more, Liu Ruyan is in her early twenties, and she is a young man who is just beginning to fall in love! Who doesn't like to look at my fair beauties?
At this glance, seeing Liu Ruyan's heart rippling, seeing the girl in red gradually approaching him, he couldn't help blushing and heartbeat, and he was a little cramped and flustered. I saw that the girl stretched out her hand and shook the sleeves of her clothes, brushed the dust off her body, and took out a white handkerchief from the clothes and wiped the sweat beads on her forehead.
She was about to sit on the rocks on the side of the road to rest, when she suddenly looked up and saw Liu Ruyan who was bending down to pick tea, and she couldn't help but show a girlish shyness on her jade face, but she returned to normal in an instant.
She immediately got up, walked towards Liu Ruyan, smiled, and asked, "May I ask this son, do you know how far away from Shilipu is?"
Liu Ruyan heard the sound, hurriedly raised his head, a panic flashed on his face, and he said a little cramped: "Oh, is the girl asking me?" After speaking, his eyes dodged, and he didn't dare to look directly at the girl in red in front of him.
The girl giggled, "Look, is there anyone else here besides you and me?"
Liu Ruyan said: "I'm out of shape, let the girl laugh!" said and put the bamboo basket at his feet.
The girl in red smiled and said, "I just want to ask Childe, go to Shilipu, which way is closer." So, take the liberty of asking Gongzi for advice! I hope Gongzi won't be surprised!" said, bowing to Liu Ruyan.
Liu Ruyan smiled slightly and said, "This is Crescent Bay, and it is still a few kilometers away from Shilipu under the mountain." He paused, and then said, "I don't know what the girl is doing when she goes to Shilipu alone?"
The girl in red said: "A few days ago, my mother asked me to come to this Crescent Bay Tea Garden to pick fresh tea, saying that I wanted to make some tea wine, but I saw that the tea leaves here were lush and fresh, so I picked some more, and after brewing tea wine, there were still a lot left, and I asked me to send it to Shilipu to sell to the tea house." ”
When Liu Ruyan heard this, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, his sword eyebrows stretched, thinking that he was worried that the tea he picked was not enough, and he couldn't go back to explain to the master, and now someone was going to sell tea, so it was better to buy it from this girl, wouldn't he understand the immediate urgency?
After hearing this, the woman in red smiled and said, "If the son is in urgent use, then the beauty of adults should be given to the child! She removed the bamboo basket from her back and held up a small pile of tender green jasmine in her slender hand.