Chapter Fifty-Eight: [Qing and Qingqiu] The Burial of Memory
Three.
After Su Yanqing and I worked hard for a long time, the number of demon attendants finally met our needs, so we were tired and ready to stop today and return to the Demon King Palace to rest.
Because there were enough demon attendants, we entrusted them with some of the tedious chores, such as repairing the dilapidated palace, cleaning the Yao Pond, and preparing meals and warm water, and everything began to get on track.
So, when I was free, Su Yanqing and I stood by the Yao Pond, watching the demon attendants wipe away the brown bloodstains, as if it was a process of slowly forgetting the painful memories. I subconsciously raised my head and glanced at Su Yanqing, wanting to see his expression at this moment.
However, the Demon King's keen insight really lived up to his reputation, and he immediately noticed my gaze, and quickly turned his head sideways to look at me, this action caught me off guard, so I had to avoid it stiffly.
"You...... Are you looking at me?" Su Yanqing was not ready to let me go, but continued to ask.
I thought I couldn't escape horizontally or vertically, so I nodded.
Su Yanqing chuckled and said, "What are you thinking?"
Faced with such a scene, I didn't think much else in my heart, so I honestly confided my true feelings to him:
"I'm curious to know what happened before I woke up......"
That's right, although I know my name now, I am like an empty shell, and the absence of memories of the past is like losing my true heart, and I feel the emptiness and vastness.
But Su Yanqing didn't seem to want to tell me, I was sure he was hiding something, but I didn't know how to speak.
His eyes became misty, he should have remembered something, but after a moment he came back to his senses and smiled bitterly at me:
"Some things, if you can't remember it, you can't remember it, this is probably providence, sometimes forgetting is a new beginning, instead of blindly pursuing the painful past, it is better to let go of the past and look forward, isn't it better?"
When I heard this, I reflexively asked:
"You mean, my past was painful?"
This sentence made Su Yanqing stunned, he didn't expect me to ask such a question, so he had to purse his lips and knock on my head and said:
"Don't think about it, I don't know if your past is painful, but I can guarantee you that your future will be happy. ”
I covered my head and looked at Su Yanqing with a disgusted expression: "What guarantee do you have?"
"As long as you and I stay in Qingqiu, I can give you happiness. ”
In the Demon King's Palace, this seemingly powerful man was so firm and persistent at this time, his blood-red eyes seemed to have experienced slaughter and slaughter, although the dark tide was surging, but it showed a bit of gentleness.
Such a strong contrast made me feel instantly psychedelic, what kind of person is he, why is this feeling so familiar, and how many secrets are buried under these eyes?
I had no way of verifying, so I had to tie my hands and arrest him.
Time should prove the promise he made to me today, the so-called "happiness" and "stability", I decided to wait and see.
Four.
This is my fourteenth day in the Demon King's Palace.
Su Yanqing carefully selected two of the demon servants to give to me as my personal demon attendants, but even so, I am a little unfamiliar with them.
Since the first day we rebuilt the Demon King Hall together, I rarely saw Su Yanqing in the following days, and I heard some demon servants say that he would sometimes cultivate in the "forbidden land", and sometimes he would go to a small hillside on the edge of Qingqiu to pay tribute to his former clansmen.
This small hillside is called Beacon Mountain, and it is said that Su Yanqing's former cronies and subjects are buried there.
On this day, the wind and the sun were beautiful, and the temperature was still good, so I had a flash of inspiration when I had nothing to do, and I wanted to "harass" Su Yanqing.
But unfortunately, he seems to have gone to Beken Hill again.
The most trusted person and the most beloved subject really need to be missed, but he goes once every two or three days too often, so I asked the specific location of Beacon Mountain and quietly went over to see what Su Yanqing was doing there.
Standing behind a large tree, I poked my head forward, and my eyes quickly focused on a man standing in front of a tombstone.
Su Yanqing is really here.
He didn't wear that heavy robe today, but instead a light gauze coat, which looked too clear under the mountain wind, and I was worried that he would catch the cold.
Su Yanqing stood there, motionless, looking up at the scorching place of the sun, his eyes full of sadness and heaviness.
I was going to just look at him from a distance, but as soon as I moved my feet, I made a rustling sound rubbing against the leaves, and this sound was quickly noticed by Su Yanqing, who immediately collected his emotions and asked in a sharp tone:
"Who?"
Now it seemed that hiding only increased the suspicion, so I had to squirm out from behind the tree and laugh awkwardly:
"That...... I didn't mean to peek at your ......"
When Su Yanqing saw that it was me, he put on a serious expression, and turned into endless gentleness, he walked over to me with a slight smile, flicked my forehead again, and said with a little reproach:
"Xiao Xia Sakura, don't scare me. ”
This title is a wishful thinking of Su Yanqing, I think this name is too numb, but it is quite familiar, so I let him call it so.
Seeing this, I immediately raised my hand to cover my forehead and pretended to be angry to look at Su Yanqing, but the man in front of me was staring at me like a joke, smiling warmly, and seeing that I didn't speak, he smiled again and continued:
"Why did you come back here?"
"I'm not because of ...... I don't think it's good for you to come here every day, so I'm going to come and see you. "I really don't dare to compliment myself on the level of lying, oh my god, Bai Xia Ying, you just admit it, you just think he must have done something bad in Beacon Mountain, so he pretended to come over to "supervise" him.
Yet I dare to think so, but I dare not say so......
Su Yanqing didn't care, but answered me seriously:
"yes...... I still can't forget them. ”
As he spoke, Su Yanqing turned his head and looked at the tombstone over there.
This tombstone was newly erected a few days ago, and there are several big characters written on it, all of which are the names of some important clansmen, the biggest of which is the word "Red Prayer" in the center.
I followed Su Yanqing's gaze and unconsciously read out the words on the tombstone:
"Red Prayer ......"
"Hmm...... He's the guy I trust the most. ”
Hearing that I read Chi Qi's name, Su Yanqing said to herself:
"He was my confidant, and he was born and died for me, but I didn't listen to him at the last minute, and if I had listened to him then, maybe they wouldn't be lying in the ground now. ”
The demon king's words revealed a deep helplessness, after all, there are not so many "ifs" in the world, and Su Yanqing also said something about Chi Qi, from which I can read his thoughts about this cronie and his remorse for his willful actions.
After listening for a long time, I naturally asked a question that he had been avoiding:
"So...... What did Chi Qi persuade you in the first place?"
Su Yanqing was stunned for a moment, turned her head to look at me, and said forbearingly:
"There are things we can not think about. ”