When Shen Fengming said this, he skillfully put the wooden hairpin on the table, poured out the paper roll, and unfolded it with his hands. It was this scroll that she hid in the hairpin back then. ”

“...... But there are no words on it?" Xia Yan looked at the blank and flexible paper scroll, not without doubts.

"There were words in those days, this kind of paper was made of special bamboo and wood in the mountains of Yunmeng in the past, no need to ink, dipped in water is a book, but there is another thing - a little water, and the handwriting will disappear. Shen Fengming explained, "Ordinary - a long day is a day, if it is the height of summer, half a day will disappear cleanly." This layer is very similar to the Cloud Dream Technique, so we also call it the 'Fantasy Book'. ”

"It sounds magical, but it doesn't seem to be practical?" Xia Yan was puzzled, "Writing and writing letters, written in black and white, is to preserve the souvenir, if it disappears in less than a day, I am afraid that it will ......"

"Ordinary people are of no use, but for us Yunmeng descendants, there is also another use. You think, really rely on word of mouth to memorize family learning, there is always a difficulty in explaining the truth, and some difficulties do have to be written to remember the truth, and according to the ancestral teachings, the secret of Yunmeng is not allowed to be left on the paper, the 'magic book' is gone in half a day, and the same paper scroll can be written repeatedly, which is the best of both worlds. Shen Fengming said and looked at the okra, "I used this recipe for you that day - it was also somewhat limited by the ancestral teachings, and it was not appropriate to keep ink." ”

Okra seemed to hesitate and stopped asking, but Xia Yan said again: "Even so, there is no need for your mother to deliberately use this paper to leave words for the bones—if there is a misunderstanding because of this, wouldn't it backfire?"

"There is no ink at home, so that's all. Shen Fengming said. "Anyway, my mother said that if the day comes, I will give it to him. If he doesn't come, that's it—we've decided to leave town the next day. When he saw us gone, he naturally understood my mother's answer. ”

"Did he come that day?"

"That day—somehow, he didn't come. Shen Fengming's tone became deeper and lower, "Although my mother said that I don't have to care, I still can't hold my breath, and in the evening, I took the hairpin out to find the bones." I hid near his house and waited for him until it was dark.

"He looked very bad that day, as if he had drunk again. He was not the only one in his house, his brother was also in the same place, and I made all kinds of secret noises on the eaves, and he seemed to have something else on his mind, and he was not aware of it, so I had to venture down and get to his window before he noticed me. I gave him the things and told him that there was my mother's letter in the hairpin. He took it out, read it without a sound, and was not surprised, but said, 'I won't go tonight, and tomorrow morning, you will wait for me at home.' ’

"It's ridiculous—at that moment, I realized in my heart that I was vaguely expecting—that it would keep us. The first time I found out, I didn't really want to leave him. I don't have a way to make decisions for my mother, but if I had a choice, I don't think there's anything wrong with living with Toru from now on. He didn't necessarily feel like a 'father', but I didn't know what a 'father' was—and I would be happy to be like him.

Unfortunately, he didn't say a second word. It's like - everyone is really just a passer-by, and the fate is gone, and there is no force. I thought maybe he was just—just two or three points to my mother. After all, there is no reason for Yuan, he has to give up everything for us. Early the next morning, he really missed the appointment. He didn't come. Although my mother rejected him, I was always a little disappointed that he didn't come to see him off. ”

Shen Fengming said this, took a sip of wine, and then fell silent.

"Why don't you say it?" said okra.

Xia Yan said: "He must be - he must have felt embarrassed to see each other, so - in the end, he simply didn't come?"

Shen Fengming didn't answer, but drank a few cups in a row, and Xia Yan felt some clues. "What happened later in Remnant Town, I heard Yu Rui's predecessors say. I know that Toru died in the town, and it would be very difficult and bitter for you to recall these past events, I ......"

"Not later. He drank too much all at once, and Shen Fengming's voice became a little hoarse.

"What?" Xia Yan didn't hear clearly for a while.

"Not later. That was the day. Shen Fengming said. "It was that day that the people of the Blue Dragon Sect came. ”

He breathed again, as if holding his breath. "It was nearly noon that day, and we didn't show up, so we were ready to go. But just as he was about to go out, there was a sudden big movement at the entrance of the town. We went to the patio to see what was going on outside, when we heard someone shouting outside, and we probably heard that there was trouble in the town, and then many shadows passed over the tiles.

"I thought to myself, who is so blind, looking for trouble, actually found the land of the Black Bamboo Society? I thought that there are a lot of people here, and it should be solved soon, and we will go out later. Later, I learned that in fact, most of the masters in the town went out with Murong that day, and although there were many people left, there were few masters. ”

"Who is Murong?" She immediately noticed that Xia Yan had no confusion on her face, and said unconsciously, "You know?"

"The man who had an incident with Suzaku back then. Xia Yan said, "King Yi's biological father - the vein of the clan." ”

Okra suddenly let out an "oh", and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, speaking of King Yi - did he know about the unintentional thing this time?"

"I don't know yet—Thorn said don't tell him yet, I didn't tell him, and the Blue Dragon Sect didn't have a chance to see him. ”

Shen Fengming snorted coldly, "It's okay if you don't know." He has been Cheng Fangyu's son for so many years, and he has nothing to do with the Shan family. Then he went back to Murong, "Actually, when I took me to practice light skills in the town before, I didn't jump on the roof of Murong. This man was rarely in town, and I had never met him in person—it wasn't until the day he confessed his identity to us that he had been at Murong's behest. Naturally, between them and Murong, Yu Rui and Suzaku should have been separated, but at that time, it was rumored that Suzaku was dead, and Yu Rui also had other important things to do, so he could only command him. The Black Bamboo Society had its own way of acting, to obey the orders of an outsider, and to work hard for him, there were many grievances, especially if his friends died from Heizhu's own mission, but the last few people, including the owner of the house, actually died at Murong's orders. ”

He looked up and saw Xia Yan with a contemplative look, so he said, "How much do you know about that day?"

Xia Yan came back to his senses, "Senior Yu also heard most of them relay later, and they must not be as good as you, and what they know may not be the truth," paused slightly, "But if it is confirmed by your words, I always guess - that day, Gu Shizhong and Cheng Fangyu led the Qinglong Sect to the town, and there was a conflict with the Black Bamboo Society, and they were worried that you would lose, so they desperately blocked the door......"

He hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Yu Rui said that there was a mysterious qin sound in the town that day, but no one saw the true face of the person who played the qin, and then the qin sound refused to stop for a long time, and this town also left the name of 'residual sound'. It's just that the sound of the piano is out, and it is difficult to distinguish between the enemy and me, and the people in the black bamboo have not prepared in advance, and they have never encountered such a sound illusion before, so they panicked, and later talked about the battle of this remnant sound town, and they always had palpitations. ”

Seeing that Shen Fengming didn't answer, he said: "I don't know how you talked to him about this when you followed Yu Rui - he said that you only showed him the 'bone-bone' dagger, but he refused to reveal anything, in fact, you know very well that bone-is a knot in Yu Rui's heart." He'd always wondered what was the cause of the fight in Remnant Town—if it had anything to do with it. You should have the answer, right?"

"I don't have an answer. Shen Fengming hung his head, "I only have what I see, hear, and remember......"

After a little perkning, he recalled: "That day, we were still in the house at first, waiting for the matter to pass. But soon I only heard the shouting and killing sound outside getting louder and louder, my mother went out to investigate, and came back to tell me that Heizhu didn't look good, and she didn't say anything about retreating, and those people seemed to be going to kill Heizhu completely, and all the entrances and exits of the town were killed. She took out the piano that had been installed, and said that if necessary, she could only fight back. But he told me to hide—saying that I was small, and that it would not be difficult to find a roof and hide by now that I have learned a few things.

"From the moment I settled in this town, the piano has been on the table, and my mother has not played it again—not for any other reason, but not to disturb people and cause trouble. On this day, when I saw her set up the piano, I knew that there was a big matter outside, so I pretended to promise my mother, but in fact it was to go out to find the bones—first, I was a little worried about him, and second, I also wanted him to come and help. As you said – and I thought at the time – we should have been 'worried about our mistakes,' and we should have come to see us in the first place. But in fact—I later figured it out—no one knew that the other party would search the house one by one, and of course he didn't want to expose us, so he tried his best to stay away from us and lure the Blue Dragon Sect elsewhere.

"It backfired, after all, one of the people of the Blue Dragon Sect still searched our alley, and the bloody atmosphere was already very strong. I hadn't gone far—I'd never really seen such unbridled killing, but when I looked at it from the rooftop, my legs were too weak to move forward. When a member of the Blue Dragon Sect saw me on the rooftop, he was probably surprised that there was a child here, and he turned back to someone to point me out—but at this moment, I saw that the bones were coming. He didn't hesitate to kill them.

"Neither the man nor his companions could speak—the things of life and death that had come to me on the eve of the last day came alive, and for the first time I felt that life and death were so—so—light. I was so shocked that I couldn't move, and I couldn't imagine how hard a person must have to be to take it for granted. He flew over to me, picked me up, pushed me into the patio, and said, "Don't come out." My mother came out of the house when she heard the sound and asked what was going on. He only said that if he hides, don't come out, he will only live, and he will not let anyone enter our house. If we see the enemy retreating, he will give us a secret message to flee through the gap.

At that time, someone was already chasing after him. My mother should have made up her mind at that time, so she tore off the placket of her clothes in two, handed it to the bone, and said, 'Plug your ears'. I took it to the bone, and I didn't bother to ask clearly, so I went out.

"I was at a loss, my mother asked me to find an eaves to avoid and look for an opportunity to go first, I refused, saying that I wanted to go out with the bones and fight hard, so she forced me into the house, but I had heard the bones talking outside. At that time, I didn't know who the man who was talking to him was, only that it was a leader of the enemy's gang - all I heard was to say, 'You have already won Murong, why do you want to kill us all?'

"The man said, 'Do you really not understand or do you not understand?' and he said, 'So that's what you intended in the first place.' The man said, 'I am not at ease with people like you.' He said, 'You are a personal vendetta.' The other said, 'It's a communiqué vendetta.' ’

After that, he didn't say anything more, and he was already getting started. There are a lot of people on the other side, and it is impossible for one person to support it for too long - but at this time, my mother used the magic sound.

"I never knew that my mother knew martial arts, let alone that her qin was so useful—but he immediately understood what my mother meant by asking him to plug his ears, and he reacted much faster than the people of the Blue Dragon Sect who were momentarily clueless. With the help of the magic sound, the people of the Green Dragon Sect are powerless to fight against him at the moment.

"It's just that it's not meant to be bone-hearted—he's asking us to hide, and it's not trying to expose ourselves in this way. But at this point, unless they can change the victory or defeat of the day with one piano and one blade, and can truly and completely withdraw from the enemy, he knows that we will all be even more mortal.

"My mother doesn't know that the magic sound is up, which means that she has put life and death out of the way. I don't really understand why she is like this. I didn't want her to take me away at all costs, but I thought she should have done that.

"Unfortunately, I never had a chance to ask her again. Perhaps what choice a person makes is still too difficult to measure and explain with the word 'reason'. That day was the first time I heard the real magic sound—my mother used to play the piano, but it was just 'playing the piano'. If it weren't for the fact that the magic sounds I knew by heart were to be instantly corroborated with what I heard in my ears at this time, I would not even be able to imagine that the magic sounds were like this. It was also a 'battle against the water', and there was no way back, and the magic sound was very agitated from the beginning of that day. In this way, under the situation of the Qinglong Sect alone, he did not fall behind. I watched from afar through the crack in the door as his shadow flashed back and forth. He has refused to leave our door.

"But the leader of the other side is not a fool, and who would not plug his ears, and—though his accomplices fell one by one to the bone—his helpers came.

"This helper's voice was strong, and even though it was suppressed by the magic voice, I could still hear him speak. He sounded older than the previous one, and I expected him to be a leader, too. Although I have inquired and speculated for so many years, I have never been sure of his identity, until, that day, on the Hongfu Tower, I heard your father-in-law's voice again. ”