The Death of Barberry

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It is said that there is a mountain in the ghost country located in the west of Chaoge City, which is called Funiu Mountain, which is full of desolate Gobi and is a place that is rarely visited. Dusk is even more desolate. Occasionally, a few vultures hovered back and forth over San'in, rattling from time to time.... A shrill cry, as if waiting for the checkmate prey to take its last breath.

In the distance, two figures were stretched very long by the remnant sun, and an old man with a stiff figure led a young child of about six or seven years old and walked slowly towards the shade of the mountain. Half an hour later, the old man and the young man stopped in front of San'in. It seemed that he was tired of walking, and he seemed to be waiting for something, but the old man held the child's hand behind him and never let it go. Not far ahead, there is a boulder, which looks so out of place under the shade of the Gobi Mountains. On the boulder stood a middle-aged man dressed in gray and white cloth, standing with his hands in his hands, calmly looking at the old man and the young man in front of him. The old man glanced up at the middle-aged man slightly, but did not speak. Suddenly, three young men with spears in their hands walked out from behind the boulder, looking at the two in front of them with a wicked smile on their faces. One of them laughed and scolded: You old immortal dog, walking so slowly, it makes Lao Tzu wait. After saying that, he quickly stepped forward and kicked the old man in the abdomen, and kicked him to the ground along with the old man's child. The old man struggled to protect the child with his body, opened his chapped lips and said in a hoarse voice: cough. Cough.. I, what mistake did we make, that the king of the Nine Tribes wanted to exterminate my Jiuwu clan? One of the soldiers played with the taste: The name of the king is also what a lowly person like you can call? The king has an order, and the Jiuwu tribe wants to rebel and punish the whole clan to sacrifice my ancestors. A soldier next to him said impatiently: Damn, why are you talking so much to these animals, hurry up and kill them, Lao Tzu has long wanted to go back to sleep. After saying that, he raised his spear and stabbed at the old man on the ground. The old man's pupils constricted, his face full of horror, and he had to protect the child under him. Before he could come back to his senses, he heard a stabbing sound, and the spear pierced the old man's chest.

When the old man was about to die, he slowly raised his head and looked at the middle-aged man on the boulder not far away, his eyes full of depth. He opened his lips slightly, which were no longer chapped due to the blood gushing out of his mouth, and seemed to want to say something, but the soldier kicked the old man aside again. The old man was lying flat on the ground, with a spear in his chest that had not been drawn, and he stretched out his hand with difficulty to touch the child next to him, but in the end he only twitched twice, and then his eyes rolled and he didn't blink his eyes!

Let's say that this Jiuwu clan was originally a clan of the Ghost Fang Kingdom, a vassal state to the west of Yin Shang. Served the Shang kings for generations. The Jiuwu people have been brave and good at fighting since ancient times, and most of the clansmen are generals or soldiers of the Shang Dynasty, and the patriarch Jiuhou is one of the three princes in charge of the heavy troops of the Shang Dynasty. These nine candidates have a daughter, sixteen years old, who is not only versatile, but also a rare beauty. Deeply loved by the king. Seeing that the king was very fond of his children, the nine candidates gave his daughter to the king as a concubine, hoping to please the king. to keep the peace of the family. The Nine Princesses did not disappoint her father, and with her beauty and talent, she made the king have fun with him all day long, and even ignored the other concubines in the harem. But they all ignored one problem, the lord of the harem, Daji, was a very possessive woman. She didn't want to see the king of the Emperor want anything but her, and she couldn't tolerate any woman in her eyes who might compete with her for favor. There is Mrs. Huang in front and Queen Jiang in the back, and you are a little ghost daughter Qi Ke can compete with the sun and the moon. With a little tricking, Daji can leave you dead with no place to live. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Daji to say to the king: "King, Jiuhou has a strong military power, he is sending his daughter to confuse the king and deliberately rebel, the king, we must guard against it." The king was suspicious by nature, so he looked for an opportunity to say to the nine princesses: Beauty, how about being the queen alone? This nine marquis girls are naïve and untouched, and said unguardedly: Okay, good, you can do a lot of things as a queen. As soon as the king heard this, he immediately concluded that what Daji said was true, and immediately ordered to punish all the Jiuwu clan, leaving no one behind, and appreciating the anger of the king!

You can see: Jiuhou has a good daughter, and her father is dedicated to the palace gate. Once accompanied by a tyrant, the whole clan has no one left.

At the foot of Funiu Mountain, the six- or seven-year-old child looked at everything that happened in front of him silently, he didn't cry, he couldn't see whether he was afraid, and he couldn't even see any emotion, as if everything in front of him had nothing to do with him. It was as if the spear was being stabbed at him in front of him, and it was empty. When the spear was about to pierce him, time stood still for a moment, and the spear could not advance an inch. The three young men who looked like soldiers fell backwards with a scornful and stiff expression on their faces. The body seemed to be pierced by something, and I saw blood gurgling out from front of me, and I was already dead of exhaustion.

The middle-aged man in the gray cloth slowly walked in front of the child. With his hands in his sleeves and frowning slightly, he asked softly, "What's your name?" The child didn't answer, his immature hands clenched tightly, and he trembled. His eyes widened, and he raised his head to stare at the middle-aged man's face, motionless. After a long time, the middle-aged man stretched out his hand and touched the child's head, sighed and said slowly: Okay, come with me. With that, he turned and left. He didn't look at the boy on the ground, he just walked a little slowly. The young man's eyes were still wide and slightly moist, but Ren Qiang held back and didn't let the tears fall. He looked at the back of the middle-aged man who was slowly leaving in front of him, and seemed to use his greatest strength to shout: "My name is Jiuwu!" After speaking, he quickly ran to the middle-aged man's side and cried loudly. The middle-aged man squatted down, allowing himself to look at the crying child in front of him, holding his shoulder with one hand and stroking his head with the other, with a complicated expression. When the child gradually changed from loud crying to low sobbing, he said, "I know something about you." After speaking, he wrote two words on the ground with stones: "Nine Wu." Then he said: There is no Jiuwu clan in the world, there is no Jiuwu clan in the world, you are the last bloodline of the Jiuwu people, then you are surnamed Qiu, and your enemy is the entire Yin Shang, so your name is Qiu Yin, remember? The child held one hand in his eyes and said with a sob: Remember. The middle-aged man asked, "Then what is your name?" The child was still sobbing, but he put down his hand that was holding his eyes, and said word by word: My name is Qiu!

When twilight fell, the glow poured on the Funiu Mountain, and the silence on the Gobi was terrifying. Not far away, a few vultures that had been waiting for a long time fluttered towards the corpses on the ground, scrambling to grab food, and waving their wings to each other, for fear that they would eat less. On the Gobi in the twilight, two figures, one big and one small, walked one after the other. In the distance, the Funiu Mountain is vast, but the peak gathers a colorful glow, which will not be extinguished.....

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