Chapter 5: The Past

"What happened later?" Wen Yan asked softly when he saw Liu Xunyin's eyes were red, his voice was choked.

"My father and my mother fell in love, so we stayed in the Snow Pavilion for a few months. Later, Xiao Chumen had an important matter to discuss, and a letter recalled my father. My mother was attached to Taoyuan Town and didn't follow him, but soon found out that she was pregnant. Du Ruo's mother felt sorry for my mother, and immediately sent a message to Xiao Chumen, asking my father to come back. However, I received a reply saying that my father had disappeared on the way back and had not been heard from since. ”

"Didn't you send someone to look for it?" asked Wen Ash.

"I found it. My father is a big disciple of Xiao Chumen, and he has high hopes. After his disappearance, the master of the sect asked all the friends to help keep an eye on him. But in this huge river and lake, people are as small as a drop in the ocean, and there is not much difference between missing and dying.

It's just that my mother is still pregnant, and after knowing that my father is missing, she insists on giving birth to the child.

Having a child out of wedlock is considered unchaste. The rules of the Trail Snow Pavilion are strict, and no one dares to heal my mother. Only Du Ruo's mother, she gave birth to my mother to stop the bleeding and took care of her out of confinement. My name was also given by Shi Niang: Xunyin. I hope to hear from my dad one day.

At that time, Du Ruo's mother often held me in my swaddling clothes to look at the medicinal herbs, and my mother laughed at her, what does such a young child know.

Jixuetang taboos meat, and Du Ruo's mother loves to drink wine and eat meat. My mother often secretly goes to the back mountain to deliver grilled fish to my mother. On that day, she saw the noise in the Qixue Hall from a distance, with many dead and wounded, so she threw down the basket and went to find the doctor and the mother. Shi Niang said that the sect has an important piece of purple brocade silk, and he must go back to get it. But she is the senior sister of Jixuetang, and my mother was afraid that she would die if she went back, so she desperately stopped her and went back instead of her.

I searched for a long time in Jixue Hall, but my mother didn't find the brocade, but she was discovered by the killers. In order to survive, my mother lied to them that it was because of her poor family and she wanted to come in and bring something valuable. Those people saw that my mother really didn't have any martial arts at all, so they fed her the Closed Breath Pill. ”

"Closed Pill. Wen Ember frowned, Yun Lonely Gate poison. Only a dead person can have it, and the person who takes it will have a constriction of the trachea within a quarter of an hour, suffocating to death.

"Shi Niang likes to refine pills, and once fed my mother a Baicao Pill, which can have the effect of immunity to poison. ”

"Does it work," Wen Ember asked nervously.

"It didn't work. Liu Xunyin smiled bitterly. "Just let her drag it out for a day and a night, and when the master came, she died in the arms of the master. ”

"I don't know where my mother went, I only know that in those years, my neighbor Aunt and Uncle brought me food. Later, when the rumors passed, Shi Niang took Master and Qinghe back to Taoyuan Town, and finally found me at Uncle Yuan. She opened a medical house in the mountains and took me over. But I still ran out all day to find my mother. Once, I was bitten by a snake and didn't dare to move. Fortunately, the snake was not venomous, and when Master found me, he didn't speak, but smashed herbs and put them on my legs.

After I went back, my mother told me that you are the only bloodline left by your mother in this world. If you want to die, I won't stop you.

I knelt all night. The slate was too cold, and then Qinghe came out to kneel with me, and he was only four years old at the time.

My wife asked me if I knew I was wrong? She hugged me in her arms and wept. said: If I hadn't found out in time, how would I be worthy of your mother. It was the only time I saw her in tears. At that time, I said to myself, I must live a good life and become the best healer. Save the dead and help the wounded, punish the evil and promote the good. ”

Ember looked at her, "You can." ”

"Thank you. Liu Xunyin's eyes were slightly red. "It's just that the important object of the Trace Snow Hall still fell into their hands. I feel sorry for my mother. ”

"Nope. Ember clutched his chest.

"What's wrong with you. Liu Xunyin grabbed him nervously.

"Here, Brocade. Didn't lose it. Back then, the hall master sewed it into the senior sister's clothes and stuffed her into the secret room. ”

"That's... How could it be with you?"

"Senior sister, she's dead. Wen Ember raised his head, as if relieved, and talked about the events of more than ten years ago.

"Uncle is the best assassin of the Cloud Silent Sect, and he received a secret order back then: destroy the snow and find the brocade silk.

So he took a group of killers to Qixue Hall, but he searched for it to no avail, and he couldn't ask it. When his subordinates were about to give up, he came to the ancestral hall alone, and by chance he touched the switch and saw the young girl huddled in the secret room.

Maybe he couldn't bear it, so he told his sister: Don't move.

The senior sister stayed in that small dark room for two days and two nights, not daring to close her eyes. I woke up unconscious, and when my sister heard the voice, she took me into the secret room. Later, my uncle took us away, and when we went out, the bodies of the lady were lying on the ground. My uncle hugged us and said, "Go forward, don't look back." "We really, never looked back.

My uncle left us at his home outside the city and came back regularly to deliver money and food. At the age of ten, we were accepted into the Cloud Lonely Gate, and the senior sister was trained as a dead soldier because of her talent. I'm an ordinary killer army. ”

"Uncle knows that you have hatred for Yun Lonely Gate, why did he still take you in. Liu Xunyin asked.

"Uncle is also an orphan. He said that if you want to live in this troubled world, you must become strong. And in the door, you can receive the most complete and rigorous training. ”

But he is indifferent and ruthless, killing people like crushing an ant to death, but he can't even feel the warmth of people. It's not alive. Liu Xunyin shook his head.

"Feelings only drag people down. Those who have been in the door since childhood will be internalized into a killing machine, and they will only be loyal to the door owner. My sister and I entered the door late, and we would not do anything for the sake of the organization, so we could not touch the secrets. The uncle was very loyal to the master of the door, and he carried out the top-secret mission of the Extinction Snow Hall back then, just to get this piece of brocade. ”

"He saved us because we were weak and had nowhere to go, as if we saw himself. He relented. But when he found out that we had this piece of brocade, he still didn't hesitate to kill us and offer it to the master. Although in the end, he relented and died because of it. ”

Ember looked over his shoulder, and Xunyin remembered the scar that stretched from his shoulder to his arm. The outside is deep and the inside is shallow, and I think it's just a knife to get the weapon out of his hands. Wen Ember smiled self-deprecatingly: "So, Uncle at least one sentence is right, feelings will only drag people down." Ruthless is rigid. ”

"To be honest, I didn't know about this brocade at first. I haven't seen it since we entered the Cloud Silence Gate. On the day of the brocade silk incident, my sister forced me to go and slashed at my left chest with the back of a knife, although I didn't use all my strength, I was still injured by the knife. It was a long time before I realized that the clothes were thicker where she was slashing. After cutting it open, there is a purple brocade silk hidden inside. ”

"Are you leaving?" Liu Xunyin asked him.

"If the only person in the world cares dies, it doesn't matter if I live. There were tears in Wen Ash's eyes, "I wanted to die together." But I went back too late, and my sister was already dead. The uncle sat beside her with his head bowed, and his right leg was also injured, which was his old illness for many years, and the senior sister knew him and specialized in the vital points. When my uncle saw me, he slashed with a knife, but he relented, and without breaking my arm, I killed him.

When my uncle was dying, he looked at Sister Ah and said with a smile: "Ah Yan, the thing I regret the most is to bring you back." ”

"He may just want you to hate him," Liu Xunyin said in a low voice, "But, if you leave like this, will the people of the Cloud Lonely Gate let you go?"

"Everyone in our family wears masks, and no one has seen my face except my sister and uncle. So I found a corpse of similar shape, changed him into the clothes of the Cloud Silent Gate, and put on my mask. Escaped. ”

"What kind of person is Senior Sister?"

"Strong, forbearing. ”

"It's gentle. ”

"Hmm. He lowered his head, a subtle sadness in his eyes.

"Why are you telling me this? ”

"When you protect Qinghe, you are very similar to your senior sister. ”

Perhaps because of the recurrence of the wound, Wen Ember fell into a deep sleep. Liu Xunyin took off his coat and draped it on his body, and whispered: "Feelings don't drag people down." At least I believe that your senior sister and your uncle must be the most free and relieved at the moment of fulfilling you. ”