Chapter 22: The Truth Revealed
Qingfeng Mountain is more than 50 miles away from Lingxi Valley. It is a place where the famous heroes of the rivers and lakes traveled to Bailin more than ten years ago, and where he studied, practiced martial arts, and lived when he was a teenager. The heroic and chivalrous You Bailin, after the failure to assassinate Zhu Wen, was killed by Zhu Wen, shaking the entire martial arts. Of the four people who were assassinated together, the only one who survived was this disciple of the Upper Cultivation Sect, Li Qiu. In order to remember the hero You Bailin, Li Qiu moved to this Qingfeng Mountain, lived in the place where the old man lived, felt his breath, felt his chivalry, and felt the friendship, as if he had never left. This may be the "heroes cherish heroes" that people have praised throughout the ages.
Yi Dan hurried up, and in about an hour, he arrived at the foot of Qingfeng Mountain. She tossed her horse neatly at the stake at the bottom of the hill and walked up the stone steps to the pavilion at the top of the mountain.
When Yi Dan climbed to the top of the mountain, he was greeted by a huge towering ancient banyan tree, which had become a forest alone. It seems to declare that a great hero can always support a powerful spiritual world alone, and this world will continue to grow and spread to the hearts of every person who is full of blood.
Under the big banyan tree, Li Qiu is practicing the Qingfeng swordsmanship left by You Bailin, he has been practicing for more than ten years, but I don't know if the mantra is wrong, or the swordsmanship is too profound, he always practices not too smoothly, compared to You Bailin's flowing Qingfeng swordsmanship, it is still a big difference.
At this time, Yi Dan hurriedly walked up the steps, and when he saw Li Qiu, he shouted loudly: "Uncle Shi... Uncle Shi..."
Li Qiu put down the sword style in his hand, and when he saw Yi Dan coming, he hurriedly said: "Dan'er is you, why are you free today, come to my Qingfeng Mountain?
Yi Dan followed Li Qiu into the Dao Curie, Li Qiu poured a cup of tea for Yi Dan, Yi Dan took the tea and said: "Uncle Shi, I came to you this time to ask you something clearly" Yi Dan said straight to the point.
"Oh, what's the matter? You're so serious," Li Qiu asked.
"It's about the death of my parents, Uncle Shi, can you tell me how my parents died?" Yi Dan asked.
"Didn't they tell you, master, and mother?" asked Li Qiu.
"No, they didn't tell me, I think Master meant, it seems that it's better not to let me know, but I already remember in my mind, some scattered things, please ask Uncle Shi to explain it to me, okay?"
Li Qiu sighed and said: "Your master doesn't tell you, but he also has his reasons, because this matter is too involved, even if you know, you can't do anything" Li Qiu sighed.
"Uncle Shi, filial piety comes first, as a son of man, he should serve his parents and fulfill filial piety, and I don't even know who my biological parents are. After I die, what face do you want me to see them?" Yi Dan used righteousness and etiquette to induce Li Qiu to tell the truth.
Li Qiu sighed and said, "Hey, this matter has to start with the Dao residence where you are now."
"What's wrong with this Daoju?" Yi Dan asked.
"This Daoju is a hero named You Bailin, where he lived when he was young, and he is also a friend," Li Qiu said.
"You Bailin, I have heard that this person was the first person in the martial arts to rank first in the martial arts record of the "Zhige Famous Tree", and later he failed to assassinate the traitorous minister, and the blood stained the whole martial arts, may I ask him?"
"That's right, it's this ranger, the ranger is chivalrous and heroic. Ay... It's all my fault, I was careless in making friends back then, which caused the superstar to fall," Li Qiu sighed.
"I didn't expect you, Uncle Shi, to be old friends with You Daxia, so what happened later?" Yi Dan asked.
"Back then, I accidentally got acquainted with Huang Yuetian of the Bohai Kingdom, the Great Virtue Sect..."Li Qiu continued.
"Huang Yuetian, do you mean Huang Yuetian, the self-proclaimed number one master of the universe and the leader of the Great Virtue Sect who kills people without blinking?" Yi Dan interjected.
"That's right, you also know this Huang Yuetian?" Li Qiu asked.
"I went to Youzhou with my master this time to participate in the Knife Grinding Gang Martial Arts Conference, and I encountered people from the Dade Sect who killed innocents indiscriminately, so I realized that there was such scum in the martial arts," Yi Dan said.
"But at first, he wasn't like that," Li Qiu said.
"What was that like?" Yi Dan asked.
Back then, in order to gain the reputation of being the first in the world in martial arts, Huang Yuetian was famous for his noble virtue and chivalrous deeds. and Brother You are named the same titles as 'Southwest Tour Bailin' and 'Northeast Huang Yuetian', but he is actually pretending to be righteous, deceiving martial arts, acting hypocritically, and being inconsistent with what he says" You Bailin began to tell slowly.
"And what about then? What does this have to do with my parents?" Yi Dan asked.
"Listen to me slowly. One day fifteen years ago, Huang Yuetian suddenly went south to the Central Plains and found me in Dangshan, saying that he was going to assassinate Zhu Wen and plotted with me."
"Zhu Wen, is it Zhu Wen, the great grandfather of the Great Liang today?" asked Yi Dan.
"That's right, Zhu Wen was originally the senior brother of my Dangshan Cultivation School, and later joined the army for meritorious service and was named King of Liang. But he was tyrannical and brutal, and when Master was dying, he explained that he must let me clean up the door for the Shangxiu faction. So when I saw Huang Yuetian coming to me, I agreed to him without thinking. In order to have a better chance of winning, Huang Yuetian asked me to write a letter and invite the ranger who was living in Shu at that time to return to the Central Plains, and made an appointment to meet together in Chang'an. You Daxia, when he was fighting in Chang'an, he met a young shopkeeper of a teahouse named 'Yi Fang' in a teahouse..."
"Yi Fang, does he have anything to do with me?" Yi Dan hurriedly interjected.
"He's your father, Yi Fang," Li Qiu replied.
"Yes, my father's name is Yi Fang, I finally know his name" Finally heard a little bit about his relatives, Yi Dan's eyes lit up.
"Your father is seven feet tall, dignified, and is also a chivalrous heart, and loves to fight grievances, You Daxia and he hit it off at first sight, and became brothers, your father grew up in Chang'an, hated Zhu Wen at that time, coerced the Son of Heaven to order the world, so your father followed us and went to assassinate Zhu Wen together"
"With my father's ability, his martial arts should be very low, why would the Ranger Hero agree to go with him?" Yi Dan asked.
"At that time, we had already arrived at Zhu Wen's barracks, but unexpectedly, your father quietly followed and insisted on going with us. Brother You knew that your father's martial arts were not good, so he dissuaded him from going back, but your father had to go with us in life or death, and then he couldn't help it, so he let him drive the carriage and wait in an open space outside the barracks," Li Qiu explained.
"And what happened later?" asked Yi Dan
"At that time, there was another name, a friend named Aoi Evil, who was also involved in this matter, and the three of us, together with Huang Yuetian, went to assassinate Zhu Wen together. But what I didn't expect was that this incident turned out to be a trap set by Huang Yuetian, the frenzied Huang Yuetian, in order to get the title of the first in the world of martial arts, told Zhu Wen in advance that we would come to assassinate, and Zhu Wen had already laid a net and was waiting to arrest us. After we fell for the scheme, Brother You escaped in order to cover us, but after he was captured by Zhu Wensheng, he was shot to death with a poisoned arrow."
"Then how did my father die?" Yi Dan hurriedly asked about his father's whereabouts.
"Later, Zhu Wen's two sons learned about your residence for some reason and had a dispute with your brother, and Zhu Wen also arrived quickly and surrounded your house. Brother Aoi and I were also present at the time, and in the fierce battle, your mother was kidnapped and killed by Zhu Wen, and Aoi Jie wanted to escape with you, but was killed by a poisoned arrow," Li Qiu said.
"Brother, I still have an older brother, how old was he at the time?" Yi Dan asked.
"Your brother was eight or nine years old at the time," replied Li Qiu.
"It's him, that's right, it's him, I didn't expect that picture to be real," Yi Dan said fearfully.
"Dan'er, do you remember something?" asked Li Qiu
"That's right, I didn't expect him to be my brother. Uncle Shi, in my memory, there seems to be a girl who is older than me, who is she?" Yi Dan asked.
"She is Brother You's daughter You Zihan, when we were going to assassinate Zhu Wen, Brother You put her daughter in your house, you remember, right? Then do you know the whereabouts of Brother You's daughter? Did she also be killed?" You Bailin asked.
"Her name is You Zihan?" Yi Dan asked repeatedly.
"That's right, it's called You Zihan, I heard Brother You say that he and Zihan's mother met on the shore of the cold Zishui in Shuzhong, so he named his daughter You Zihan" Li Qiu replied.
Yi Dan recalled the original picture again: You Zihan hid behind a woman, Yi Dan reached out to take her hand and said, "Sister Zihan, don't be afraid"
"I remembered, it's called Zihan," Yi Dan said with a sudden realization.
"Then what happened to her? Can you still remember?" asked Li Qiu.
"As if she said something, I'm not from their family, and I have nothing to do with them," Yi Dan said as he thought.
"And then?" Li Qiu continued to ask.
Yi Dan recalled the scene at that time, and slowly retold it according to his memory: "Then... Then the little prince said, let her take her back to bathe her and change her clothes, and then she was taken away, and then I didn't know."
"You mean to say that you didn't see her die, did you?" Li Qiu asked with wide eyes and some joy.
"No," Yi Dan shook his head and thought about it carefully.
"Great, it seems that the things I visited may be true."
"What's true?" Yi Dan asked.
"Now Emperor Daliang is Zhu Wen's fourth son, Zhu Youzhen, he has a concubine named Zhang Zihan, I heard that it is Zhang Guiba's daughter, but it is also Zhu Wen's Yuan match wife - Wei State Lady Zhang Hui, the righteous niece, I brought a letter to Wei State Lady Zhang Hui, asking her to go to Dongwang Mountain to save people, and later learned that she died of grief because of this incident. I have always been bold in guessing, could this Zhang Zihan be the daughter of Brother You, You Zihan? At the beginning, he met Zihan's mother by the Zishui in Shuzhong, so he gave his daughter such a name, and such a unique name is rarely repeated. After you say this, I have a glimmer of hope again, and I hope that Brother You's bloodline can be preserved."
"Yes, if it's true, then we must find a way to find her," Yi Dan said.
"I was seriously injured back then, and I escaped by luck, and after I escaped, I heard that Zhu Wen wanted to destroy the nine clans of your Yi family, and also killed all the people surnamed Yi in the entire Chang'an City, so I went to find my senior brother Li Xian and asked him to save you, but I was still a step too late and only saved you. Later, I went to the place where the execution was carried out on the mountain, and it can be said that it was terrible and unconscionable, and Zhu Wen's two sons tortured and killed your grandfather, father, brother, and your entire clan, a total of more than 100 people, and the methods were extremely cruel, and the scene was extremely terrifying, it was simply unbelievable," Li Qiu said angrily.
Hearing this, Yi Dan's two lines of tears flowed down her eyes, and she cried and asked: "It seems that in my memory, all those vague pictures are true? Are there vicious dogs and crocodiles?"
Li Qiu nodded and said, "Well, have you remembered everything?"
"That's right, there are oil pots and poisonous snakes, and that heart-rending screams of despair, every sound is like a knife to my heart, and now I just close my eyes, it's all those pictures, those sounds..."The more Yi Dan said, the more excited he became.
"You were only five years old and you were so frightened. When you wake up, you can't remember what happened, Senior Brother Lixian adopted you and raised you, and I just want you to study hard, practice martial arts, grow up happily, and don't have any more involvement with past grievances," Li Qiu explained.
"So it was Master who saved me, and Master raised me with Master, right? I almost misunderstood them, it's really mine," Yi Dan said regretfully.
"Zhu Wen is cruel and greedy, as the saying goes, if there is a father, there must be a son, Zhu Wen's two sons are simply more than him, it was his brothers who proposed to torture and kill your whole clan for fun, at that time they were nineteen years old and the other was only sixteen years old, but their methods were cruel and their behavior was despicable, it can be said that it is rare in the world, and it is difficult to find in ancient times" Li Qiu said.
Yi Dan gritted his teeth and asked, "That person who was only sixteen years old at the time, is it Zhu Youzhen, the current emperor of Daliang?"
"That's right, it's him. Hmph, Zhu Wen himself never dreamed that he was arrogant and did bad things, but in the end he was killed by his son, Zhu Youzhen usurped the throne, Zhu Youqi was the emperor for less than a year, and was also killed by his younger brother Zhu Youzhen usurping the throne, it is really a cycle of cause and effect with its own retribution" Li Qiu said with relief.
"No, retribution hasn't come yet, then Zhu Youzhen, isn't it still good to be the emperor and sit in the world?" Yi Dan said.
"Your master and mother don't tell you the truth, they just don't want you to have a heart of revenge, the Zhu family is now the emperor, and the world with the big beam is not something that ordinary people can take revenge, I have lived in this Qingfeng Mountain for more than ten years, and I have also practiced Brother You's Qingfeng swordsmanship for more than ten years. If I can practice like Brother You, I will definitely go to the Bohai Kingdom, kill Huang Yuetian, and avenge the You Daxia."
"Thank you, uncle, for telling me the truth of the matter, I know what I should do, Huang Yuetian is sure to kill, but Zhu Youzhen can't let it go" Yi Dan replied.
"Dan'er, don't do stupid things, this matter is not trivial, you are not alone, you can do it whimsically, you are the master, the master doesn't want you to hit the stone with an egg and sacrifice in vain" Li Qiu's eyes widened, looking at Yi Dan with an angry face in front of him.
At this time, Youming walked from the steps to the Qingfeng Residence compound and shouted loudly: "Senior sister, senior sister, where are you?
Li Qiu heard Youming shouting, got up and walked to the door, and responded: "Oh, it's Ming'er, come in quickly"
"Uncle Shi, may I ask if my senior sister has come to you?" I see that her horse is already tied down the mountain," Youming asked, walking towards the house.
At this time, Yi Dan was still stuck in deep thought, and there was no response, Li Qiu said: "Oh, yes, you come in, Ming'er"
You Ming entered the house, saw Yi Dan sitting there in a daze, and asked, "Senior sister, why are you riding so fast?"
"Why are you chasing me?" Yi Dan asked casually as he thought about things in his head.
"Senior Lady is worried that something will happen to you, let me come over and take care of you, Senior Sister, what's wrong with you?" Youming asked.
"I won't have anything to do, don't worry, I can't let anything happen to myself until the revenge is taken," Yi Dan muttered.
"What kind of revenge has not been avenged, senior sister, what are you talking about?" Youming asked Yi Dan with a puzzled expression.
"My biological parents were killed by bad people and tortured to death, do you think I should avenge them?" Yi Dan asked.
"Senior sister, what's going on?" Youming asked.
"Uncle Shi has already told me everything, I know everything," Yi Dan replied.
Youming looked at Li Qiu and asked with a puzzled expression, "Uncle Shi, may I ask what is going on?"
Li Qiu just sighed and said, "Hey, it's all in the past, don't mention it."
"Uncle Shi, thank you for telling me the truth, I want to think about what I should do, Uncle Shi, I will leave first" With that, Yi Dan got up and wanted to leave.
"Dan'er, don't let yourself carry too much baggage, take your time, if you need Uncle Shi anything, just come to this Qingfeng Mountain to find me, I have always been here" Li Qiu said.
"Well, thank you, uncle, Dan'er said goodbye" After that, Yi Dan walked out of the house, and Youming also said goodbye to Li Qiu: "Uncle Shi, I will also say goodbye first, let's come to see you another day when I am free" After that, Yi Dan hurriedly followed.
"Okay, take good care of your senior sister, persuade her well, and let her not be too sad," Li Qiu explained.
"Well, okay uncle, then I'll go first" With that, Youming left Daoju.