Chapter 4 The tangled past of childhood sweethearts

Seventeen years ago. Xu Guo.

The good news of the Zhenguo Mansion spreading all over the streets and alleys of Xu Guo overnight.

Everyone knows that since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Zhenguo Mansion has always been the leader of Xu's power. Successive generations of Zhenguo Gong have advocated martial arts, sincerely served the country, and served as a general. Regardless of the men and women in the palace, from the age of five they had to enter the martial arts hall to learn the arts, and once the country was in trouble, the first of the Zhenguo Mansion was obliged to send sons and daughters into battle to fight bravely against the enemy.

It can be said that Xu Guoneng has gained a firm foothold in the Xiazhou Continent with the strength of a small country, and the Zhenguo Mansion has contributed a lot.

But it is precisely because of this that the Zhenguo Mansion has always been unpopular.

In order to leave a line of blood for the family, many young sons and daughters are married early, striving to have a son and a half daughter before going to the battlefield, so that the Zhenguo Mansion will not be extinct. In the war period, the daughter who was not out of the cabinet in the mansion took on the important task of recruiting money, so that the Su family of the Zhenguo Mansion could be passed on.

Therefore, as long as the Zhenguo Mansion gives birth to a child, it is a major event worth celebrating whether it is a boy or a girl.

When Rong'er was born, it coincided with the end of a war against the invasion of the Dongyi tribe, and the people in the house were depressed, and her arrival made many people cry with joy, and she was almost raised in the palm of her hand.

The little Velvet also lived up to expectations, showing a surprising talent for martial arts early. As long as she played the sword and gun stick technique in front of her once, she could memorize six or seven percent, and after three months of getting hold of each weapon, she could grasp the essence of the weapon, and she learned the art at an astonishing speed.

The most commendable thing is that Rong'er, as a young girl, is not very powerful, but she is particularly good at throwing thousands of pounds in four or two, and her flexible posture is matched with ingenuity, and she can even knock down a ten-year-old boy.

At the age of five, Rong'er entered the martial arts training hall. On the first day of school, she compared most of the students under the age of 10, which amazed the head coach.

You must know that although Lianwutang is sponsored by the Zhenguo Mansion, many generals in Beijing have come to visit it, and there are many school-age children who come to learn art, so Lianwutang has always been full of students. Rong'er's stunning appearance really swept the faces of many sons and brothers.

This small competition allowed Rong'er to meet two men who deeply affected her life.

These two are the rare boys in Lianwutang who did not lose to her: Long Yicheng, the third son of the hussar general, and Xin Rujun, the eldest grandson of the Zhishang general.

Six-year-old Long Yicheng has since recognized Rong'er as an opponent, and the tiger-headed child pesters Rong'er every day to compete, and the two are inseparable from Meng. And the eight-year-old Xin Rujun, with the care of his brother, gave some tips to the two of them from time to time in their martial arts training life.

After a long time, Rong'er gradually sprouted a youthful love for the gentle and wise Xinrujun. As he gets older, his attachment is even worse, and his eyes are always shining when he looks at him.

But Rong'er has always admired Xinrujun as a big brother, and there is nothing transgressive in behavior. Even Long Yicheng and she often ate some inexplicable vinegar with each other in order to compete for the attention of Xinrujun, and fought with each other.

Whenever this time, Xin Rujun looked at them with a smile, and his eyes were full of the elders' doting on the juniors. When they finished fighting and lay on the ground panting, Xin Rujun would pull them up one by one and take them to eat delicious food, and then the three of them reconciled as before.

The three children are inseparable, childhood sweethearts, and have been together for many days.

When Rong'er was seven years old, something big happened.

The Dongyi tribe attacked again, and King Xu convened a group of civil and military ministers to discuss secretly, and decided to send half of the country's troops to exterminate the Dongyi tribe, and there was no return!

It is incumbent on the Zhenguo Mansion to set off one after another. The Zhenguo Mansion, which was already not very crowded, suddenly became deserted, and only Rong'er and a two-year-old younger brother were left in the family.

Also in this year, an old Taoist priest who traveled all over the world passed through Xu Guo and accidentally found that the three of Rong'er had spiritual roots, especially Long Yicheng and Xin Rujun were excellent double spiritual roots, which were the materials for cultivating immortals, and wanted to take the three of them as apprentices.

There are occasional immortal cultivators in the Xiazhou Continent, and the cultivation speed varies from person to person, but as long as they achieve a small success, they will immediately become the object of competition among the major monarchs.

After all, in this era of cold weapons, even if it is just a monk in the middle stage of qi refining, his attack power is comparable to that of a ten-person squad. You know, swords, guns, bows and arrows can be blocked with shields, but fireballs can continuously scorch the enemy's armor, not to mention that the caster can stand far behind to minimize attrition.

The three children are at the age when they are full of enthusiasm for new things, and their eyes are round when they listen to the words of the old Taoist priest. It's a pity that the three of them are not ordinary families, Long Yicheng and Xin Rujun are okay to say, but Rong'er must not leave the Zhenguo Mansion and leave.

The three childhood sweethearts cherish each other, without a trace of separation.

The old Taoist priest did not want to stay in the poor Xu country for a long time, but he was reluctant to let the spiritual roots of the three children be, and after some consideration, he made a five-year agreement with the Su, Long, and Xin families: within five years, the three families must devote all their efforts to assist the three children in the cultivation of Taoism, and the old Taoist priest will also teach the knowledge of cultivating immortals; after five years, the old Taoist priest will leave, and then the creation will be entirely up to the individual.

Because there was only a five-year contract, the old Taoist priest did not accept the three as apprentices, but he also tried his best to lead the three children to the path of cultivating immortals.

The excellent spiritual roots and unremitting cultivation have allowed the three children to grow up rapidly, practicing martial arts and cultivating the Tao every day, and even figured out a set of martial arts combined with martial arts. After five years, Rong'er and Long Yicheng had already reached the peak of the early stage of Qi refining, and Xin Rujun had advanced to the middle stage of Qi refining.

The old Taoist priest was amazed again and again, and hated God's favoritism. Ordinary Taoist monks can only reach the middle stage of qi cultivation after more than ten years of cultivation, but these three children have achieved a little success in five years, and they are really geniuses.

Sighing and sighing, the immortal cultivators were not bound by the world, and the old Taoist priest still left after five years.

At the same time, bad news came.

The continuous conquest forced the Dongyi tribe to be anxious, and he hated it, so he united several small clans in the barbarian land and mobilized all the Yi people to attack the Xu ** team. Zhen Guogong's family led the troops to fight at the front line, and a large number of generals died in battle, and within half a year, there was only one Su Liuye who retreated to the rear due to injury.

The whole country was shocked, but this battle was difficult to ride a tiger and had to continue.

Fortunately, the two neighboring countries of Jing and Su, which had coveted Xu for a long time, had just fought a big war, and both were defeated, and they had no spare strength to invade Xu for the time being. In addition, Xu Guo was the first line of the fight against Dongyi, and the two great powers were happy to let Xu Guo carry it and wait and see what happened.

So King Xu hurriedly dispatched most of the domestic army to the battlefield, and the three of them took the opportunity to recommend themselves, and the identity of the monk covered up the lack of age and gender, and it was the time to employ people, so they couldn't care so much.

was originally to catch ducks on the shelves, but the three of them became more and more courageous, and they became small leaders in the army in only three months.

There are few immortal cultivators in the land of Dongyi, and they are both respectful and awe-inspiring about such mysterious things as spells, and the combination of martial arts and methods that the three of Rong'er have figured out by themselves have caught them off guard, and after a long time, they gradually collapsed.

The time and place are favorable, and the three children are like fish in water in the army, and they are also good at cultivation.

Long Yicheng's invincible charge, Rong'er's circling array, and Xinrujun's clever calculation, as if three sharp knives pierced into the land of Dongyi, after the Yi army was dispersed, it took advantage of the victory to pursue and exterminate many small clans that were ready to move, and they were in the limelight for a while.

By the time Rong'er was fifteen and a half years old, the battle situation had eased a lot, and the three of them returned to Ning Province together.

Xu Wanglongyan Dayue, gave the three of them Fengrong'er as "the three major generals of Zhenguo", and rewarded them with 10,000 taels of gold.

The Zhenguo Mansion and the Hussar General's Mansion took advantage of this time to return to Ning and made a major decision to make a marriage contract for Rong'er and Long Yicheng.

The sudden marriage news was like a boulder smashing into the hearts of the three childhood sweethearts, causing different ripples.

Rong'er, who was ignorant about the affair, was stunned, but she didn't object much. Although she has a talent for marching and fighting, she is a soft person inside, and rarely disobeys the will of her elders, although she is sad that she has no husband and wife fate with Xin Rujun, but she has always regarded him as a big brother, and she is not too disappointed. On the contrary, he has some inquisitive heart for Long Yicheng, who has become his fiancé, and unconsciously pays attention to his words and deeds.

And Long Yicheng is a stubborn character who does not admit defeat, he already knew that Rong'er likes to believe in Confucianism, and he intuitively felt that this marriage was wrong, and resisted fiercely. It's a pity that the full anger is like a stone sinking into the sea in front of the elders, and I can't help but be angry, and I am dissatisfied with Rong'er's obedience, so I sprinkled my resentment on her, and I fought with her for three days.

Xin Rujun, who has always been calm, seemed to be surprised for a while, but after a few words of persuasion, it didn't have much effect, so he stopped persuading. He has been calm and breezy for many years, as long as he doesn't speak, Rong'er can't understand his thoughts at all, but he feels that his words have become less, and there are more unclear things in his smile.

The face that I was used to seeing since I was a child now has an unknown meaning, and the three of them are more or less awkward, but they dare not pierce it. The little friends who originally had nothing to say, the tacit understanding couldn't help but fade a lot.

What made Rong'er most uncomfortable was that Long Yicheng finished the fight, and suddenly thought that he had a marriage contract with Rong'er, so wouldn't Brother Jun, who had been taking care of them, be left alone? So he ran to find Xinrujun as soon as he was free, and he was holding his breath in his heart, so he deliberately excluded Rong'er.

Helplessly, the war period did not talk about Fengyue, and the orders of the elders could not be violated, and the three of them returned to the battlefield with a heavy heart.

Another year and a half passed, and when Rong'er was seventeen years old, Dongyi declared himself a vassal to Xu, and the army of Xu finally returned triumphantly. King Xu promulgated a holy decree to wait for the soldiers to rest for three months, and held a ceremony for the three major generals, and by the way, he gave marriage to Long Yicheng and Rong'er, and announced the wedding date.

However, at this time, the relationship between the three people has become more and more stiff.

During the three-month break, Rong'er took a good look at her heart. She turned out all kinds of gadgets that the three of them had accumulated together when they were children, including wooden soldiers that boys like, sandbags that girls love to play, and small balls for teasing dogs.

After crying for a whole day, all the distant goodness turned into two familiar faces.

Rong'er was horrified to find that she actually fell in love with Long Yicheng and Xin Rujun at the same time.

At this time, she realized that if the three people who were originally intricately related were really given marriage, the knot in her heart would become a dead knot, and she might never be able to untie it in this life.

The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, and I didn't dare to go to Long Yicheng and Xin Rujun, so Rong'er actually thought of asking for help from the power of gods and ghosts.

In the past, when she was fighting the enemy on the frontier, she once saved an old man in rags with white hair. The old man did not want to owe her a favor, so he gave her a secret technique written on yellowed brown paper, saying that he could fulfill a wish of the caster.

Sick and rushed to the doctor, Rong'er had a hint of luck, collected the materials needed for the secret technique everywhere during the three months of rest, and finally started the secret technique in the early morning of the award ceremony, and made a wish for the three of them to reconcile.

However, the moment the secret art unfolded, the light shone brightly, and the sharp pain that cut her heart and bones overwhelmed her consciousness.

When she wakes up again, Rong'er is shocked to find that she has lost control of her body, and a strange female spirit has entered her body.