Chapter 526: Grudge Alone (Part II)
"Lan Gu, you ...... Put the child down—" Tian Xu shouted at Lan Gu again, but there was a bit of hesitation in his tone.
"What, do you think I'm going to plot against these two kids?" Lan Gu chuckled and asked rhetorically, "You have to figure out your current position, but you old ......guy is the one who has been cornered."
Fang Zhongtian also returned to the topic, but he was not as emotional as Tian Xu, but still said in a brotherly tone: "Tian Xu, this should be over, if you really have a grudge against me, we will solve it separately in the future...... But now that the fire in Xunwei Mountain is spreading, and the martial arts are in danger, I hope you can put aside your prejudices and save the people in front of you first......"
"Let go of prejudices?" Towards Fang Zhongtian, Tian Xu's tone became solemn again, "Eighteen years, everything I did failed and lost to you, the enemy...... Fang Zhongtian, I swore a long time ago, I will kill you with my own hands, even if it is desperate or even death......"
"You hate me so much?" Fang Zhongtian asked rhetorically.
"Of course I hate you-" Tian Xu said in a word, "We used to be brothers, but everything we got was yours Fang Zhongtian...... All the people in the world remember is that you are Fang Zhongtian's good, that you are the head of the Seven Heroes of the Martial Arts today, that you are a great hero who stands up to the heavens and the earth -- but what about me? During the Yangzhou riots, I was the same as you, for the people, but the common people regarded you as a hero, but they made me a sinner on the spot. And because of that, from that moment on. Whether it was the beggars or Huang Xuanqing's family, they all regarded me as a heinous sinner. You are to blame for all this - because of you, I have lost all my things, and the honor and halo are all on your head, you should be very happy to compare me like this......"
"Why do you think so......" Fang Zhongtian couldn't help but ask as he listened to Tian Xu's venting tone.
"Shut up, you're not qualified to comment on me again!" However, before Fang Zhongtian finished speaking, Tian Xu said again, "These are nothing. Because I only see all this as a vanity in the world, I don't care...... However, you snatched Lan Gu from me, I should have hated you, but thinking that Lan Gu is happy every day, I can accept it, but what I can't accept the most is that you ruthlessly left Lan Gu and hooked up with another woman...... I hate you, not only did you take everything from me. He also threw away the most cherished thing that I once gave you like an ant, betrayed his feelings, and disregarded his brotherly affection, why do people like you still have the face to live in the world and be admired and worshiped by the people of the world?"
Tian Xu said so much in one breath. Fang Zhongtian was also stunned. Although Tian Xu said a little too much, the objective facts are indeed true. When he and Tian Xu were still brothers, everything they did was the morality of the world. But because of the grievances of the world, they are regarded by the world as the difference between good and evil between the two. He also knew that Tian Xu had always had a good impression of Lan Gu. The person chosen by Kelangu is herself...... In the case of Yangzhou, in the end, he still made an emotional betrayal -- this is an indisputable fact. It is also the most regrettable and painful thing in Fang Zhongtian's life......
But compared to the two men present, Lan Gu didn't seem to care on the side. She also knew what Fang Zhongtian and Tian Xu were thinking, but her expression was not so solemn, and she still had the arrogant and disdainful look she had before. I saw that she was holding the pair of baby girls in her hands, and after a little reassurance, she responded to Tian Xu: "Hmph, you old guy, you still care about me and Fang Zhongtian...... I should have said a long time ago that the matter between me and Fang Zhongtian does not need to be pointed at by others. Since Fang Zhongtian betrayed me eighteen years ago, then I would naturally hate him for the rest of my life, but compared to that, what I don't like the most is that others comment on this matter in front of me...... Don't think that if you do so much for my good, I will be grateful to you. Tell you, what my Lan Gu decides to do, no one is qualified to judge me in front of me!"
When Lan Gu said this, Tian Xu looked at Lan Gu again.
mentioned the past grievances again, Fang Zhongtian was even more entangled in his heart, after all, he himself knew that eighteen years of grievances were also wrong...... But what needs to be resolved now is not really entangled in past grievances. Fang Zhongtian was outside the house just now, saying that he was going to come to Tian Xu alone to make a decision, but in fact, it was just an excuse. Fang Zhongtian has always regarded Tian Xu as a brother, but now that Tian Xu has done so many evil things, he even wants to die with all the martial arts people, and if he is someone else, he will definitely want to kill him. But Fang Zhongtian naturally wouldn't let this kind of thing happen, so he dared to ask for help, and came to this main hall room alone under the pretext of settling grievances, with the purpose of persuading Tian Xu to tell him how to escape from here......
"No matter how much you hate me, even if you really want to kill me, we will talk about these things later......" Fang Zhongtian said solemnly, "The situation is critical now, Xunwei Mountain has been engulfed in flames, and you have dozens of lives in your hands...... I still think of you as a brother, so I don't want to kill you, and if you really hate me, I'll make a separate break with you afterwards. But before that, I would like to ask Brother Tian to tell us about the secret passage to escape from here, and all the people outside have nothing to do with the grievances of eighteen years ago, they are all innocent......"
"Innocent? huh...... The beggar gang and Huang Ji wanted to kill me because of the eighteen-year feud between the sects, Fang Ying is your daughter, and she was raised by Lan Gu who was abandoned by you and hated you to the bone, Canglong Daxia hindered my good deeds three times and twice, and the inexplicable girl in blue killed my beloved disciple one after another...... Aren't these related to the grievances of eighteen years ago?" Tian Xu continued to say ruthlessly, "These are all related! Fang Zhongtian, don't daydream, there is no secret way to escape here, since I activated the destruction mechanism, I have already planned to die with you...... Fang Zhongtian, in addition to desperately letting you die, I just want you to know that the grievances of eighteen years ago, the mistakes you made, and finally took the lives of so many people, make you, the head of the Seven Heroes of the Martial Arts and the head of the Yixian Sect, ashamed of yourself for the rest of your life...... Of course, you've come to the end of the road now......"
"No, you shouldn't. Even if you hate me, you shouldn't ......" Fang Zhongtian kept shaking his head with some disappointment.
"Is there really no secret way to escape?" Lan Gu suddenly turned around on the side. "Just now, the Canglong hero said it outside, about the secret passage of the demon master's organ. Even if it's a mechanism of destruction. It is not ruled out that there is a way to escape—"
"What, is it true?" Fang Zhongtian asked again.
"It's Canglong Hero again, the apprentice of that demon master......" Tian Xu said secretly in his heart.
"What's more......" Lan Gu looked at the baby girl in her hand again, and then said, "Even if you want to die, you shouldn't be able to bear to watch these two girls die...... I've heard from your last female apprentice that these two baby girls are a pair of newborn sisters that you rescued in the war half a year ago...... You can't bear to watch these children die, so the Dragon Hero has concluded that at least the two of them can escape this fire here......"
"Those two children are indeed the ...... I saved from the war," Tian Xu's eyes suddenly became confused at the mention of the children. "Eighteen years ago, Qiu Qian'an failed to rebel in Yangzhou, and the Yangzhou mutiny rioted, Qiu Ruxin was raised by me as a rescuer...... I'm still like that, the habit of eighteen years has not changed, and it is the same for saving the two sisters......"
"I remembered......" Referring to this matter, Fang Zhongtian's tone also calmed down, as if a friend was talking, and said in a calm tone. "This is Brother Tian, you are the kindest side, in the face of the war, you are always desperate for the people, facing the danger alone. Eighteen years ago, when Ting'er was facing danger, you also saved her in this way, so I have always been grateful to you. I don't hate you......"
This time, Tian Xu didn't yell like before. On the contrary, his mood calmed down, as if he had brought back some memories. The whole person lowered his hair and was stunned for a long time.
"Don't you remember?" Lan Gu turned to Fang Zhongtian this time and said, "When we first met Tian Xu...... These things are actually his personal experience, and after so many years, the human side has not changed......"
"When we first met...... Fang Zhongtian's eyes also became confused, falling into deep memories......
(in recall)......
"Boom-" A cannon blasted through the houses on both sides of the street, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the cries and shouts continued, and as the officers and soldiers shouted and killed into the city, the harmonious town immediately turned into a bloody hell on earth......
Because of the rebellion of the Han people in the city, the Mengyuan court ordered the three armies to suppress it. As for the "rebel people" in their mouths, their attitude is, of course, to kill them all......
"Ahh Officers and soldiers entered the city and killed innocent people indiscriminately, and the once harmonious and prosperous town is now shrouded in a haze and darkness that cannot be retreated for a long time......
"Father-mother-" Tian Xu saw that his parents were killed by Mengyuan officers and soldiers, but his martial arts were not good, but he was powerless. Before his father and mother died, he let others escape with him, and Tian Xu saw his father and mother die tragically under the knife of Mengyuan officers and soldiers at the last glance of escaping from the house......
"Let me go down, I want to avenge my father-" Tian Xu cried.
But the person who took him away seemed to have been instructed by Tian Xu's father and mother before his death, saying that he would escape from here with their son, and resolutely prepared to leave here regardless of everything......
He took Tian Xu all the way to the entrance of the street, which was also full of ordinary people who were ready to flee like them, all of them huddled together, and they couldn't move forward......
At this moment, there were screams like ghosts howling from the front and back of the crowd - it turned out that the officers and soldiers of Mengyuan had surrounded this place, and seeing that the "Diao people" were crowded together and could not escape, they simply fired arrows from both sides of the front and back, accompanied by endless screams, and one innocent people fell in a pool of blood......
"Ahh Unable to fulfill the will of Tian Xu's parents, he finally lay on the blood-stained stone bricks......
Tian Xu was very scared, when the person who protected him fell, he only hugged himself with his arm, and even if he died, he did not relax, which made the officers and soldiers of Meng Yuan not find themselves at the first time......
The ......screams of "Ahhh......h
Tian Xu raised his head slightly, through the gap between the corpses. Looking at the tragic situation in front of him - everyone fell, in order to suppress these innocent people who were targeted by the imperial court as "chaotic people". The officers and soldiers of Mengyuan brutally killed all of them, leaving not a single one alive...... See here. Tian Xu has bought a deep pain in his heart......
"Woo woo woo ......" At some point, a baby's cry came from the corpse, and Tian Xu couldn't help but look in that direction.
At the same moment, a Mengyuan officer and soldier had already passed over with a Miao knife......
"Don't—" Tian Xu said secretly from his heart.
But the reality was cruel, the officers and soldiers walked up to the abandoned surviving Ying'er, and the cold knife swung down, followed by heart-rending cries, and then everything was quiet......
Tian Xu looked at the cruel scene, and the whole person fainted in fright......
It's been a long, long time......
It was raining heavily. Wash over the gore in the streets. Because of the heavy rain, the Mengyuan officers and soldiers who slaughtered the city did not clean up the corpses as soon as possible. also took advantage of this gap to survive Tian Xu......
Tian Xu was awakened by the rain and blood, he was numb, he stoically crawled out of the pile of dead people, and then he didn't dare to look at the dead silence around him anymore, braving the tornado like a demon, Tian Xu walked out of the city step by step......
After walking for a long, long time, Tian Xu left the "Blood City" for at least three or five days...... He hadn't eaten in a long time. Exhausted, he fell down the mountain road from time to time, and then, half-asleep, he stubbornly got up and continued to walk. He didn't know where he was going or what his path was going to be. There was no hatred in his heart, because of the bloody scene of the slaughter of the city. He couldn't remember anything except his unbearable memories and his name......
"What's your name?" I don't know how long it was, on a dirt slope. A man and a woman of the same age, holding hands together. The man is in his early teens. He looked at Tian Xu sitting here in tatters, but his temperament and spirit were undiminished. So I couldn't help asking.
"My name is ...... Tian Xu ......" Tian Xu replied a little numbly.
"My name is Fang Zhongtian, and her name is Lan Gu-" Fang Zhongtian and Lan Gu, who were still young, did not discriminate against Tian Xu because of his ragged body, but took pity on him, and even regarded him as their friend.
"You may have met something bad...... "It was the innocent Lan Gu, and she also said with concern, "If you don't mind, we will be friends from now on-"
"Thank you...... Thank you......" Tian Xu still replied numbly, and the bloody memory of life and death had become more and more blurred in his mind. But one thing is very clear, in Tian Xu's heart, he despises all wars, especially sympathizes with and regrets the innocent people who died because of the war...... He had vowed in his heart that he would do something good for the world in the future, so that at least those orphans affected by the war would no longer suffer from suffering, or at least not become like himself......
Later, Tian Xu also informed Fang Zhongtian and Lan Gu of his vague experience, and since then, the three of them have become good friends......
(In reality)......
"Because Brother Tian, you have experienced the pain of war, so the conscience in your heart has not been extinguished...... Fang Zhongtian still said calmly, "Stop, for the sake of these children, for the sake of other innocent people...... Although this is not a war, it is also the lives of dozens of people, and of course you don't want to see the bloody scene of your childhood again, don't you? If you really hate me so much, I will definitely settle it with you separately afterwards, and I will not involve any outsiders, even if it is my life...... But now, please tell us the secret passage of escape, and the people outside the house can't be ...... because of our grudges."
"Shut up, don't mention the past! I have long forgotten the original things, and the conscience in my heart is long gone!" At this time, Tian Xu suddenly lost his calm, drew his sword and pointed at Fang Zhongtiandao.
"No, you're lying, otherwise you wouldn't have run back desperately for those two children......" Fang Zhongtian still said calmly.
"What qualifications do you have to talk about me, you are just a sinner who has committed eighteen years of grudges!" Tian Xu pointed to the sword and continued, "Since you promised to settle it with me alone...... Okay, don't wait until the fact, just the two of us here now, settle everything, or end the rights and wrongs of these eighteen or even twenty years-"
When Fang Zhongtian heard this, he knew that Tian Xu had lost his calm and patience, and he didn't have time to continue procrastinating, so he simply stared at him, ready to take action...... (To be continued......)