441 Singing about Wine (9)
The black jade wrench finger is carved with a strange pattern, even if it is only seen at once, it is enough for Shen Fengming to remember its specialness.
"Like ...... It should be it. How...... Will it be with you?" he reached for it, carefully turning it back and forth.
"I picked it up in Remnant Town. Xia Yan said, "It's the last time I met Wu Tiantong and a few of them." When did you lose it?"
"Eighteen years ago—it was lost. ”
Xia Yan discussed this matter with him in detail, and asked for more details. But it turned out that Shen Fengming was holding the burden that day, only to see that all around were running and fighting, and he couldn't tell which side of the person was. When he was in a state of confusion, he was suddenly grabbed from behind—he was confused, and he just wanted to be a ghost under the knife, but the man half-hugged him, but he crashed into the courtyard next to him—and dodged his menacing group of Qinglong Sect members rushing from the corner of the alley.
He woke up a little, only to find that it was a woman who had rescued him—he couldn't tell his age at a glance, but because she had a few deep red marks on her face, which ruined her entire face, and at first he was startled.
The woman seemed to realize, covered her face, and said, "They have searched here and will not come again." In fact, she didn't say that Shen Fengming also knew that even the bluestone slabs had been dug up in that courtyard, like skin and flesh blooming, not an inch of soil was intact, and the house was even more overturned, and the bed was slanted and the table was cracked.
When the movement outside became quieter, the woman said, "You little child, get out of here quickly." Shen Fengming walked a few steps outside, although the people outside did not gather in this alley, the whole town was still not peaceful, and he still didn't know where to go - but he was a little afraid of the woman's appearance, and he didn't want to go back to look for her, so he only said in his heart, if God didn't want me to die, I would always be able to escape.
At this moment, he suddenly heard—from nowhere—the sound of his mother's piano, but it was not identical, and the sound was dull and circuitous at the moment than the previous one, and the humming was more like an aftersound. He said it was his own hallucination—he could still see the room burning, and he could remember the strings breaking like they were cracking open a huge crack in his chest. But it didn't take long for everyone to hear the noise—all of them had the same hallucinations. The sound of extinguishing and returning to the piano is like the long tongue of flame, and it rekindles all the panic that has not yet faded.
The Blue Dragon Sect has finally decided to evacuate this small town, which has become like an underworld—even if there is still some life left, it is impossible for Black Bamboo to rise up. At that time, Shen Fengming was in a trance, and he followed behind like this. After leaving the town, he stumbled for a short distance without knowing the direction, fell to the ground and passed out, and he didn't know how long it took before he came to his senses.
"It should be the next morning. I woke up and couldn't remember what I was thinking. Looking at the burden in his arms, I don't know when it spread out a little, and the letter and the wrench were exposed. I read the letters, but I couldn't read many of them, so I put them back. By this time, I was more awake than the day before, and I suddenly thought of the woman, who looked about the same age as my mother when she was veiled. It's ridiculous now, but—I was convinced that morning, it was my mother, but her face was ruined by fire. I crawled to find my way back to the town, but I couldn't find which house it was after touching several alleys, and when I was almost desperate, I suddenly heard the sound of the piano again.
"There seemed to be a soothing power in the sound of the piano. Although there were so many echoes in the town that I couldn't find the source of the sound, I felt much less restless. Later, I finally found the gate of the courtyard—as soon as I entered the courtyard, I knew that it was here—and that was where the sound of the piano came from. But when I went in and looked, it was empty. I searched again and again in the courtyard and in the house, and I called out to her, 'Mother, you come out.' When he finally called out to the kitchen, the piano stopped.
"I found out that there was a hole in the kitchen where the fire was burning. I knew it couldn't be, but I got in anyway and shouted, 'Mother, you come out.' 'Do you believe it, I drilled into that stove hole dozens of paces deep, until I couldn't see a trace of light, and there was no hope, and I knew that it was really just ...... Hallucination. ”
"That...... ......"Xia Yan originally wanted to say something, but he remembered that he had agreed with Mrs. Tuoba not to tell anyone about the things related to that day, including the authentic things, he opened his mouth and said, "It's not all hallucinations." I don't know who the woman is, but I picked it up in that stove - I think it was you who fell that day, and no one noticed, and it was buried in charcoal for eighteen years. ”
"I know who that woman is. Okra said quietly, "Is it hard to guess? There are only a few people in this world who know the magic sound, and the person from eighteen years ago is only my senior sister, Baishuang." ”
"Later—I gradually guessed that it should be her," Shen Fengming said, "it's just—why did she ......?"
"Suzaku told me that White Frost was accidentally injured by the power of his 'Der Spiegel' in the battle of Suzaku Villa, and his face was disfigured. After that battle, Bai Shuang, along with Murong's wife Lin Zhi, were captured by the Qinglong Sect and taken to the Qinglong Valley. Fortunately, Shan Jiquan protected her because of her old friendship, Tuoba Gu's wife sympathized with her situation, and the Qinglong Sect didn't treat her like anything, after a long time, everyone thought that Suzaku had already died in the fire of the villa, and they didn't take the white frost very seriously, and even felt that she might be persuaded by Shan Jiquan that sooner or later she would also throw herself into the Qinglong Sect, so they became more and more worried about her. It wasn't impossible for her to appear outside of the Green Dragon Valley—the town wasn't far from the Green Dragon Valley. ”
Xia Yan said in his heart, not only is it not far away, but it may also come from the tunnel - the Qinglong Sect may not be unprotective against white frost, maybe it is the white frost that was locked in the hidden cave outside the Wind Thunder Cliff, and the white frost back then may have discovered that tunnel like Tuoba Yu later.
"Perhaps, at that time, the Blue Dragon Sect had already regarded Bai Shuang as its own and brought her to deal with Heizhu. "As far as I know, Bai Shuang should have hated Murong very much, and she also said that Suzaku was dead at that time—if it weren't for Murong, how could Suzaku be set on fire." It's just that she probably didn't expect to hear the magic voice in the town, and in surprise, she decided to stop the slaughter of the Blue Dragon Sect. ”
"If it was really the Blue Dragon Sect that brought her here, they wouldn't have been so surprised and scared when they heard the magic sound. Xia Yan said.
"I've always heard that after Bai Shuang left Lingyin, he only used the qin in front of Suzaku, and he never played it in front of others, and he rarely used magic sounds when fighting with others, so the Qinglong Sect - especially Cheng Fangyu and them - didn't know anything about magic sounds, and it was not surprising. ”
"Then she wouldn't happen to have Jean with her. ”
"Anyway, that person should be white frost," Shen Fengming interrupted, "As for those details, as for what she thought at the time—I think there is nowhere to go." ”
"How ...... you I actually saw her once. Okra was a little disappointed, "But I never had this opportunity, the year of the remnant of the town, the year of her last death—I was in a cold land with my master, and I didn't know anything about what she had been through.
Shen Fengming didn't want her to be sad, so he pulled back the conversation slightly: "Look at it this way, when I went in and out of the stove hole, things fell out of the baggage. But here's the wrench, the letter...... But I don't know if it was dropped in one place. ”
"If the letter is dropped together, it is easy to be found, and I think it was picked up early in the morning. Xia Yan said, "I heard that after that day, the remnants lingered for three days, and it seemed that the white frost had stayed there for three days, and she probably picked it up the most." If it's her—"
"If it was her, if she had kept the letter all the time—after she died, the relics were only in the hands of two people, either Suzaku or—Shan Jiquan. "Okra Road. "When I go back tomorrow, I'll ask Suzaku first. ”
"Forget it. Shen Fengming said, "Suzaku has been in prison for more than ten years, where can the old things be preserved." ”
Okra bit her lip, "If you want to keep it all, I'll ask first." After all, it's a thorough suicide note, you weren't literate back then, don't you want to know what he said now?"
"I just want you to stay in the Ichizuki Pavilion for the past few days, and don't go back to see Suzaku. Shen Fengming said, "The book is written to Yu Rui, and if you want to read it, you can only send it to the prison for Yu Rui to see, and it has nothing to do with me - but if you go back to the inner city, Suzaku will find that you lost your martial arts skills on this trip with me, and I am afraid that my life will be lost." ”
Okra was stunned for a moment, although he felt that he seemed to have a little bit of the lightness of the old relapse, but thinking about it, such a statement was also very realistic, and he was speechless for a while.
"Besides, that's where the kitchen fire was, and maybe it would have been burned to ashes long ago. Shen Fengming handed the wrench back to Xia Yan's hand, "Later, I was in Heizhu, and occasionally heard someone mention the wrench, saying that it was a token of Heizhu, but I asked Zhang Gongchang, but he didn't know that there was such a thing, and those who followed Ling Li didn't know either." ”
"It doesn't matter. Xia Yanxiao hid his wrench, "With this thing as a basis, at least it proves that all this you said today is not a lie." ”
Shen Fengming was stunned, "I've been talking for so long, you just beware that I'm making up a story to lie to you?"
"That's not what I mean. I just think that Xia Junli He De can have a friend like you. Xia Yan said, "I've always been suspicious, and many times I'm really not as frank as you, this wrench is left with me, just remind me." ”
Shen Fengming listened uncomfortably, and coughed, "This thing-it should be an important item of black bamboo, I see that you can take it and ask the record, or there is an answer." ”
Xia Yan suddenly remembered Song Ran's matter and wanted to mention it to him, but the okra was on the side, and it was always a little inconvenient. Remembering that he mentioned Ling Li, he said, "There is another thing I have always wanted to ask you." You already know who killed your father?"
"I know. ”
"You really don't care about it at all?" Xia Yan said, "If I hadn't heard a little clue earlier, I wouldn't have seen that she had a vendetta against you for killing her father......"
Shen Fengming smiled, "My mother said, 'If you want to seek revenge on him, he is the enemy.'" If you don't want to, he's not. I haven't even avenged my mother's revenge, so how can I have the energy to think about others. ”
"But you always have a bit of a gap between them in your heart, right?" Xia Yan said, "The first time I met Ling Li on the Hongfu Tower, your expression was very strange, I thought you were afraid of him at that time, but now I think about it—you were in your heart at that time—it must be very complicated." ”