Chapter 18: Under the Six Hanging Peaks
Wu Xin went up the mountain and went directly to see her father. At that time, Wu Ye had already received the news of the two entourages and was ordering troops to prepare to go down the mountain. After Wu Xin returned, he dismissed the soldiers and horses, handed the note to Wu Ye, and told the process of chasing the young man down the mountain.
At that time, Wu Ye was still afraid that someone would overhear the conversation between his father and daughter, so he took Wu Xin into a secret room in his study.
The secret chamber is three feet underground, first through a few water gates, bypassing the underground fortifications, and then entering a stone door, and then the inner chamber with iron walls.
Wu Xin came here for the first time when he was so old, and he felt very mysterious, and when he saw that there was a hidden weapon on the wall, he couldn't help but panic, so he followed his father and entered the inner room.
There was a red light in the inner room, and when I looked over, I saw a two-foot-long flute from the treasure pavilion opposite, which shot out a blue-green cold light, and a jewel was embedded at the other end, and in the darkness, it emitted a dazzling red light.
"Father!" Wu Xin exclaimed excitedly, "This is the Nine Dragons Jade Flute, right?"
Wu Ye nodded, pressed the mechanisms at both ends of the treasure pavilion, and the jade flute was pushed out.
"In the past fifteen years, I don't know how many people want to see its true face," Wu Ye shook his head and laughed, "The Nine Dragons Jade Flute is here, even if they dig three feet into the ground of the Six Hanging Peaks, they will never find this place." ”
As he spoke, he took out two flints from the desk, lit the candles in the secret room, and under the suppression of the candles, the red and green light gradually dimmed.
Wu Ye looked at the note Wu Xin gave him again, and couldn't help but smile coldly.
"Does Master Tai want my father to return the Nine Dragons Jade Flute?" Wu Xin asked.
Wu Ye looked at his daughter Shui Ling's eyes, and his heart was full of thoughts, "This is not your master's handwriting." It seems that someone is starting to worry about the six hanging peaks. ”
"Father thinks so too?" Wu Xin hurriedly continued.
"What do you think?"
"I think this matter is too strange, my father is a reasonable person, what does Master Tai have to say, you can come by yourself, or send someone to see your father openly, why go to such great lengths to show me a shadow puppet show?"
Wu Ye nodded slightly, looked at the note again, and then put it on the candle flame and burned it.
"Who could it be? Since my father established himself at the Six Hanging Peaks, he has rarely interacted with people, and who can tell the old things about the past?"
Speaking of that old incident, Wu Ye couldn't help but feel a faint pain in his heart, "I have come to this point, and I can't complain about others, this doesn't belong to me in the first place," and then thinking of Wu Guang, who died for this, he frowned, "In the future, under Jiuquan, I will not have the shame to see my brother!"
Wu Xin looked confused, "Since my father has no intention of coveting the jade flute, why did he ...... it in the first place?"
"Xin'er, my father only has one child, and for you, I have to do this!"
Wu Xin gasped and looked at her father with a confused expression.
"For me?"
She looked at the jade flute, the dragon pattern on it was very exquisite, the nine dragons surrounding the body of the flute gathered a dragon head, and the shining golden pill was just above the dragon eye.
"Father, you tell Xin'er, what do I have to do with this flute, why do you want to get it from Master Tai...... Why did you ...... it to the second uncle?"
She suddenly saw tears flashing in Wu Ye's eyes, and when the words came to her mouth, she swallowed them alive.
Wu Ye sighed and regretted, "This starts with your grandmother." ”
"My grandmother?Xin'er hasn't seen her since she can remember, why did she get involved again?"
"Your grandmother was suffering from a strange illness and died not long after giving birth to your mother. I didn't know about it, and your mother didn't plan to tell me. It wasn't until one day, when you were born, that your mother told me about the suffering she had endured for more than twenty years. ”
"What suffering?" Wu Xin asked anxiously.
With tears in his eyes, Wu Ye smiled and stroked Xin'er's hair, his twitching cheeks filled with a look of pain.
"Your grandmother has an extremely rare disease, as long as she lives as an ordinary person, the disease will not flare up, but once she is a biological child, she will die of blood within three years!"
Wu Xin was shocked, and froze there in a daze, her mouth open, but she didn't ask anything more.
"The disease does not end with the death of the mother, it is transmitted to the ...... with the mother's blood"
Wu Ye's words were a little choked, the father and daughter looked at each other for a long time, and they didn't say a word, and the whole secret room was as silent as death.
"Is this the disease that my mother died?" Wu Xin blinked, her two fingers rubbing back and forth.
"No! she's committing suicide!"
"Why, could it be that she couldn't bear the torture of illness?" Wu Xin asked with tears in her eyes.
Wu Ye closed her eyes, and two lines of tears couldn't stop staying, "After she gave birth to you, her body is getting worse day by day, I took her to visit famous doctors, but no one can cure her illness." Your mother said that she was not afraid that she would leave one day, because life was given by her mother, and her mother did not hesitate in the face of the choice of life and death for her birth, so she was able to come to this world, which is already a great favor from God. But what she is unwilling to do is that her own daughter will repeat her own fate! She loves you so much, she wants me to drive away the hidden disease in you!"
Wu Xin cried like tears.
"Later, a Taoist priest came to me and said that he could save your mother's life. This person is the current head of the Six Hanging Peaks, Zuo Zixiao. ”
mentioned Zuo Zixiao, a cloud of anger rose in Wu Xin's heart, this person was the culprit who played right and wrong and instigated Wu Ye to seize the Nine Dragons Jade Flute.
"He said that your mother's strange illness is rare in the world, and it can't be saved by a panacea, and looking at the world, there is no one who can be called an elixir than the golden pill on the jade flute of the Nine Dragons. At that time, I was learning Taoism in Wuxiang Mountain, and I was ordered by my master to take care of the Xiangfeng Pavilion and the two jade flutes stored in the hall," Wu Ye looked at the slightly shining golden pill, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, "It was this golden pill that made me turn my back on my master, made me despised by the world, and also made me kill my own brother by mistake!"
The world scolded him, and the pain in his heart made him miserable.
"Your mother learned that I had embarked on the road of no return to save her, and in shame, she ended her life with a short sword!"
"Father!" Wu Xin cried, "Xin'er knows her mother's hard work, she is for me, right?"
Wu Ye is in tears, her daughter is so sensible, and her forbearance over the years can be regarded as some sustenance, but Wu Xin's growth is somewhat fate forcing her, which makes him feel sad.
"Good boy, since you know your mother's wishes, then don't let yourself be burdened too much, she left you the hope of life, not only to let you live, but also to let you see hope and let you live happily, do you understand?"
Wu Xin covered her face with her hands, squatted on the ground and cried bitterly.
Over the years, a knot in Wu Ye's heart is when and how to tell his daughter the truth about this matter. At this time, although the rivers and lakes have hidden evil intentions, he can take the opportunity to confide the bitterness in his heart, which also makes him feel a little free and easy.
Wu Ye took the jade flute over there, and smirked, and suddenly, he used all his life's strength to slap his palm on the opposite side of the dragon's head, and the golden pill also collapsed. Wu Ye flew up with arrows, holding Jin Dan in his hand before it hit the stone wall.
"Father, are you going to ......?"
"Xin'er, this is what your mother gave you in exchange for her life, and your father must not let it fall into the hands of others. ”
Saying that, Wu Ye put it in his daughter's hand, "Those people are ostensibly coming for the Nine Dragons Jade Flute, but their real purpose is only Jindan, although no one is willing to explain it, this is the case!
Wu Xin wiped her tears and asked, "There are iron walls here, even if someone really hits the Six Hanging Peaks, they will never find here, why did my father take down the golden pill?"
"I'm afraid they won't find it!" Wu Ye said coldly, "I just want to see who wants to get it! A Nine Dragons Jade Flute without Jin Dan is just a bane, since someone wants it, take it away! Xin'er, Jin Dan, you are good to keep it, it can save your life in the future, this is your mother's last wish, you don't let down her hard work!"
"Father, I've suffered you all these years! However, Xin'er is suspicious of someone. ”
"Who?"
"Zuo Zixiao!"
Wu Ye smiled and said, "You don't have to ask about him, I know it in my heart." ”
"Xin'er didn't mean that he wanted to get the golden pill," Wu Xin said carefully, "I just suspect that my father has endured humiliation and heavy burdens over the years, and only he knows best about the matter of this Nine Dragons Jade Flute in the Six Hanging Peaks, so my father has never suspected this person?
Wu Ye was stopped by her question, and he was speechless. At the beginning, he only devoted himself to treating his wife's illness, and he relied on Zuo Zixiao to do everything else for him, and even the six hanging peaks he occupied were also the territory of Han Jin, a close friend of Zuo Zixiao. To say that Zuo Zixiao and Han Jin both helped him save his wife's life out of chivalry, he only needed to take Wu Ye to stay in the mountain, so why should he give up the position of the lord of this mountain to Wu Ye? Unless Han Jin and he had a common purpose, this purpose was also very likely to obtain the Nine Dragons Jade Flute.
But Wu Ye never thought that Zuo Zixiao and Han Jin were just one of the sons in someone else's chess game. Let Wu Ye take charge of the Six Hanging Peaks and become the lord of a mountain, which is more conducive to some people fanning the forces of the rivers and lakes to achieve their own goals. I can't see Mount Tai in the eye, and this person is by no means comparable to Wu Ye and others.