Weicheng snow

Chapter 166 Contentment

In Jiang Zhige's narration, ever since Caizhu brought Yi Qingchen and the others into the forest, the eyeliner of the Food Marrow Sect who was ambushing in the camp began to move around. First, he assassinated Yu Mu and Mr. Dugu, and then caused trouble in the camp.They didn't show up easily, but they could always find a single junior to assassinate them. In just a few hours, there were more than a dozen corpses in the camp.

For a moment, people were in a state of panic, and the families of all sects felt that the eyeliner of the Food Marrow Sect was hidden in each other's camp, so they dared not join forces to communicate with each other, and even fell into the hands of the Food Marrow Sect. The corpse-faced men came from the forest, and first attacked the Lingshan camp closest to the entrance of the forest, and then Yanzong, Jianzong, Huazong... various families...

After defeating them one by one, it was too late for the families to join forces, so they could only break the agreement with Langzhi Village, retreat and flee to the village, but unexpectedly ran into more corpses.

Facing the enemy, the south marching army was determined to fight with their backs, so they slaughtered the corpses in the village with the determination to die. They actually created a way out of the village. Everyone retreated and fought, losing a lot of troops, and finally retreated Outside the village, he ran into Jiang Jiuqu, who killed more than 20 people before he stopped when he showed up, and finally took all those responsible for attracting the attention of the Marrow Sect back to Juexian Valley , these people included Jiang Zhige.

Yi Qingchen felt something was wrong when he heard it, but he didn't know where to start asking, Duanyue asked first, "He killed the people who slaughtered the corpses in the village?"

Jiang Zhige recognized Duanyue's identity, his complexion changed immediately, and he wanted to take Yi Qingchen away from her, but Duanyue released a group of poisonous moths from his sleeves, and rushed towards Jiang Zhige's front, making him numb all over. Hu Lai, and then repeated the question just now, "Did he kill the people who slaughtered the corpses in the village?"

Jiang Zhige gritted his teeth and said, "So what?"

Duan Yue chuckled, and repeated, "So what?"

Although Jiang Zhige didn't understand, Yi Qingchen knew what Duanyue was asking. The corpse residents in the village were all innocent. They were the victims of being helplessly involved in this war. Jiang Jiuqu killed Those dozens of people were just avenging the villagers, but in the same way, if the Food Marrow Sect hadn't chosen this time to attack, the South Marching Army would not have retreated to the village and hurt the villagers. From this point of view, both sides are at fault and blamed each other But Yi Qingchen didn't want to turn to anyone on this point, so he didn't open his mouth to participate, until Duanyue and Jiang Zhige were silent, then he asked Jiang Zhige, "What about Yu Shuai and Mr. Dugu?"

Jiang Zhige glared at Duanyue, and replied briefly, "Alive."

Yi Qingchen asked again, "What about Shen Chi and Shen Sheng?"

Jiang Zhige frowned when he heard the words, "Brother Shen Sheng and the others are indeed fine, but Brother Hua... went into the forest with you? He didn't come back."

Yi Qingchen pretended to be calm and smiled, "That's it..." But he was already uneasy.

Duanyue heard the words and said lightly, "Eldest brother is not so easy to die...at least we failed to catch him. Although we found some bloodstains, we failed to find his whereabouts in the forest. Instead, we found him. The corpse of the eyeliner we sent..."

"As expected of a big brother..."

Hearing what Duanyue said, Yi Qingchen felt a little relieved, and just after he let out a breath, he heard Duanyue say again, "However, we have been searching for the remaining southward march for the past few days, and we have made a rough estimate. There are still thousands of cavalry in the forest, and there are still hundreds of people fleeing in the forest. As long as you find these people with moths before the reinforcements arrive, and clean them up, even if the reinforcements arrive late half a month later, they will not be able to cause a big storm ...The royal family really underestimated people this time, they only sent so many people here, and they wanted to break through Juexian Valley..."

"As for Eldest Senior Brother, he probably fled in the forest like the hundred or so others, and he was seriously injured, so he probably won't be able to survive for a few days..."

Yi Qingchen interrupted suddenly, "Do you really think so?" Duanyue was silent, and Yi Qingchen smiled, "If you really think so, will you still give me the time to ask me how to bring the dead back to life?"

"The method of bringing the dead back to life?" Jiang Zhige couldn't believe it, "Young Master Yi, is there really such absurd thing in this world?"

Yi Qingchen didn't answer, but just glanced at Jiang Zhige meaningfully, then turned to look back at Duanyue, Duanyue laughed lightly when he heard this, and said calmly, "I really don't believe that senior brother will be caught so easily , These are just the thoughts of many people. They feel that as long as they find the senior brother, it is equivalent to obtaining the method of bringing the dead back to life. There is no need to spend more time on you. It's a waste of time. They just want to get rid of you as soon as possible, and take your dead body for autopsy and experiment, but I told them that Hua Shenchi is definitely not an ordinary person. If it is really easy to deal with, Yeluo and I won't will be reduced to such a state..."

After a pause, he continued, "Regardless of whether you can get the method of bringing the dead back to life from you, young master, I can't let you die, otherwise you will lose the final bargaining chip to threaten senior brother. What you say and what I said are reasonable What? Mr. Yi."

Yi Qingchen laughed back, "Does this mean that even if I didn't tell you the way to bring the dead back to life two days later, you wouldn't take my life?"

But Duanyue sighed and shook his head, "Young master, don't you know that what is more terrible than death is that you can't die even if you want to?"

Yi Qingchen shivered, shrank his neck subconsciously and said, "...Don't worry, I will ask you the second question on the way back, but I haven't thought it through yet, let me Take some time to think about it."

Duanyue smiled and nodded, Yi Qingchen secretly breathed a sigh of relief, remembering what he had promised Jiang Jiuqu on the road, he turned to look at Jiang Zhige, and asked, "Brother Jiang, what are you and Jiang Jiuqu now?" What's going on? You should already know everything about that year, why do you want to..."

Jiang Zhige asked Yi Qingchen, "Young Master Yi, are you a lobbyist they invited?"

Yi Qingchen was a little confused, "I'm not a lobbyist, but I just don't understand it. In my heart, it's clear that you said that you hoped to resolve the misunderstanding between the two..."

Jiang Zhige interrupted, "I've never said that before."

Yi Qingchen was stunned in disbelief.

Jiang Zhige pinched his brows, closed his eyes and said, "I never thought of reconciling with him, even though what happened back then was my fault, but right now he is a lunatic who has killed countless people and doesn't know how to repent... How can such a lunatic expect to reason with him and speak well?"

Yi Qingchen was a little stunned, he didn't understand why Jiang Zhige suddenly changed his mind, he knew that when he was in the dream before, his remorse did not seem to be pretending, but now Jiang Jiuqu is right in front of him, why he refuses to speak out?

"But..." Yi Qingchen feels that this is a rare opportunity. If he misses it, he may never have another chance in the future, so he wants to persuade Jiang Zhige, "Even if you have opposing positions, you The two are also brothers, do you really want to take those misunderstandings into the grave in the future?"

Jiang Zhige lowered his head and said word by word, "Why not take it into the grave?"

Yi Qingchen was speechless, and Jiang Zhige said again, "I'm too stupid to try to reconcile with such monsters. Because of a little bit of guilt, I forgot the blood on his hands. It's really thanks to him that I killed you in front of me." After so many people, I reminded me that a monster is a monster... an existence that can never be reasoned with."

Yi Qingchen seems to have understood Jiang Zhige's thoughts. He originally planned to make peace with Jiang Jiuqu, but Jiang Jiuqu's massacre in Langzhi Village stimulated Jiang Zhige again. Zhi Ge is a self-proclaimed righteous person, so naturally he can't see such a scene. He came and went again and again, hatred overwhelmed guilt, and the original thought of reconciliation disappeared.

Duanyue suddenly laughed out loud when she heard the words, "Monsters... don't monsters have feelings? If he had no intentions, you would still be alive until now? You just put the responsibility away in a few words Clean... Aren't you righteous people the ones who really don't have a heart?"

"Miss Shenyue." Jiang Zhige stared at Duanyue's eyes, and called out this name that no one had called for a long time, "It is rumored that you were a benevolent healer, why have you fallen into the company of monsters now? , don’t you feel ashamed at all? Does killing so many people for your own selfish desire make you feel honored? Have you forgotten the original intention of practicing medicine?”

Duanyue lowered her head, and squeezed out a few broken laughs from her throat. Yi Qingchen listened to the conversation between the two, and felt that each had its own reasons. Hearing Jiang Zhige call out his name, "Young Master Yi, I know you are soft-hearted, but you have to find out whether these monsters are worthy of sympathy, don't let the so-called sympathy miss you!"

Yi Qingchen couldn't answer, so he just nodded, there was a long silence, no one spoke, Jiang Zhige silently retreated into the darkness and sat down, while Duanyue pushed Yi Qingchen out of the room.

Outside the room, Jiang Jiuqu was still standing against the wall, his head was slightly raised, his eyes were staring at the colorful painting on the corridor, thinking about something, Yi Qingchen bowed his head to Jiang Jiuqu apologetically , said helplessly, "As you have heard, Big Brother Jiang already knew that what happened back then was not your fault. He couldn't accept you because you were still committing crimes and taking murder as a pleasure..."

Jiang Jiuqu stared at the painting without making a sound, and Yi Qingchen stopped talking, letting Duanyue push him away.

After walking for a while, Yi Qingchen was still a little apprehensive, so he turned his head and found that Jiang Jiuqu was no longer in the same place, replaced by the sound of tables and bowls colliding to the ground and Jiang Zhige's roar, "You This lunatic, let go! I let you let go!"

There was a crisp slap, followed by the sound of kneeling down. As for who slapped whom, and who knelt down for whom, Yi Qingchen didn't want to investigate anymore. The entanglement between the brothers only made him Feeling deeply powerless, who is right and who is wrong?It's been a long time since I figured it out, it's all good, it's none of his business as an outsider.

After leaving the Zizai Palace, a thick layer of dark clouds had covered the sky, and there were gusts of whirlwind blowing on the flat ground. It seemed that heavy rain was coming. On the way back to the palace, Yi Qingchen and Duanyue said, "I have thought about today's question for a long time. , After much deliberation, I still want to ask you at the end... If you were given another chance, would you go on the path of resurrecting Yeluo to join the Marrow Sect? Or, if given the chance, would you Would you like to go back to Lingshan?"

Duanyue was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, then looked at the clouds in the sky, and said sadly, "These are two completely different problems... If I go back to the past, even though I know how difficult the road is now, I would still I will never leave Yeluo to live alone... When I was the most lonely and helpless, when I was pointed at by others, under great pressure, and lost my soul, she was the only one by my side, talking to me, coaxing me, Sing for me...No one in the world treats me so well...In the most difficult years in Lingshan, if it weren't for her, I might have gone crazy because of the pressure Alright..."

After a pause, he lowered his head and smiled again, "If it's the last question, give me another chance...I want to go back to Lingshan too..."

Yi Qingchen felt that there was a joke, and just wanted to persuade Duanyue to change his ways, but Duanyue interrupted him and said, "But I will not betray the Food Marrow Sect, I know very well that apart from the Food Marrow Sect, there is really no one in this world with me. Yeluo has a place to live, even if I help you for a while, when everything settles down, we will still be monsters in the eyes of the world who want to tear apart..."

Showing a nice smile at Yi Qingchen, "So I hope...after my death...someone can take my ashes back...I don't expect that When the body of a sinner can be buried in the disciple's tomb, I just need to take my ashes back and sprinkle them on Shuangjiang, Qingling, Tusu... then I will be satisfied..."

There was a wind blowing in the valley, and Duanyue's long hair was lifted up. It was clearly a very touching smile, but it was inexplicably tainted with a touch of sentimentality. When the rain fell, one drop, two drops, Duanyue opened her crescent-shaped eyes, There seemed to be tears in Yingying, there was a loud thunder on the ground, and the sudden rain came, and water droplets slid down from the corner of Duanyue's eyes, maybe it was rain.

Yi Qingchen thought so, and smiled wryly, "I will remember this wish for the girl without authorization." Duanyue nodded with a smile, pushed the wheelchair to speed up her pace, braved the rain and ran to the Palace of Immortality .

When they returned to the Immortal Palace, their clothes were already soaked, Duanyue pushed Yi Qingchen back to the bedroom, as soon as he opened the door, he found that Murong Qian had been sitting at the coffee table waiting for a long time, Duanyue saw Murong Qian was there , so he returned Yi Qingchen to him, and he only asked for an oil-paper umbrella, and then went back to the palace. No matter how much Yi Qingchen asked him to stay, he just teased and said, "There is no woman in this palace to wear." If I change into Mr. Murong's clothes, it will look a little too shameful. The rain will only be heavy in the future, so I should go back as soon as possible before it gets dark. Tomorrow I will still choose Come at Chen Shi, please don't forget the three-day promise."

Yi Qingchen nodded in response, Duanyue had just left the dormitory, before leaving, he still did not forget to tell Murong Qian, "Young Master Yi is injured, change into clean clothes for him as soon as possible, otherwise the wound infection will be a serious matter."

Getting along with Duanyue this time is not like ten years ago when Hua Shenchi was separated from Shen Sheng and others, but they talked directly.The longer we get in touch, the more Yi Qingchen feels that Duanyue makes people feel very comfortable, whether it's the temperament of everyone in her body, or the thoughtfulness that pays attention to details, or the neither humble nor overbearing in the face of difficulties and criticisms, but also a little self-pity. Her attitude made people think that such a woman should be born to sit in a high position and be loved by others.

Yi Qingchen seemed to understand why after so many years, Shen Sheng still couldn't forget Duanyue.

Murong Qian fetched a dry cloth towel to wipe Yi Qingchen's body, at first he just wiped his hair, then he took off all the clothes, put them horizontally on the couch, carefully wiped the water droplets on his body, even his fingers None of the seams fell.

Although they are brothers, because he and Hua Chenchi both have broken sleeves, he feels a little ashamed from the bottom of his heart for doing these things, but Murong Qian just wiped his body and wiped the back cover for him earnestly. Put on the quilt, tuck in the corners of the quilt, and did not make any unnecessary movements.

Yi Qingchen felt a little more comfortable on his body, so he smiled at Murong Qian.

However, Murong Qian had a preoccupied expression from the beginning to the end. Yi Qingchen hadn't seen Murong Qian's expression like this for a long time, so he asked curiously, "Are you in trouble?"

While twisting the towel, Murong Qian pondered, "No...just thinking about one thing."

Yi Qingchen became even more curious, "What's the matter?"

Murong Qian dried the towel, walked to the side of the couch and sat down, stared at Yi Qingchen's face, said with a wry smile, "Since Brother Xue is so familiar with Mr. Dugu, he should have heard about my physical condition, right?"

Yi Qingchen knew it, "Evil Qi infection?"

Murong Qian nodded, "It's getting worse recently..." He said, closing his eyes, as if he was stimulating his inner strength, and when he opened his eyes again, his right eye had already turned into a faint purple, which was the same as the real one. The pupils of the eyes are really similar to those of Mr. Dugu. Yi Qingchen knew that he was not lying, and suddenly became nervous, and hurriedly asked, "Have you found a solution?"

Murong Qian smiled bitterly and shook his head, "There is no solution, this is a road that cannot be turned back..." Stretching his hand into the quilt, holding Yi Qingchen's left hand, he held it to his cheek , rubbed a little bit, "But if it can make brother Xue feel a little bit distressed, it will be worth it..."

Yi Qingchen was rather worried, "What will happen if we don't solve it?"

Murong Qian slightly closed his eyes, "Turned into a half-demon..."

If Yi Qingchen only asked one question, Murong Qian would only answer one question, making Yi Qingchen a little anxious, "What happens after you become a half-demon? I want to know what will happen to you in the future."

Murong Qian chuckled, rubbed Yi Qingchen's hand, and said in a low voice, "I promised Mr. Dugu that when he becomes a half-demon, I will go back to the demon world with him, be loyal to him, and do things for him, so Brother Xue doesn't Don't worry, I won't bother you and the wood... just for now, let me accompany you..."

"...I'm running out of time."

One sentence, like an ice pick pierced straight into Yi Qingchen's heart, repeating Murong Qian's last words in his mind, Yi Qingchen was a little unwilling to believe, "If we go to the Demon Realm, we should be able to meet again Bar?"

Murong Qian gave a wry smile, "Mister is the county king of the Demon Realm, he is already busy, and there will definitely be a lot of tasks assigned to Xiao Qian at that time, if he is free, Xiao Qian is naturally willing to come back and see Brother Xue... ...."

Yi Qingchen had a premonition that this agreement would not be fulfilled in the future. He had heard people say that, one day in the sky and one year in the earth, the movement of time in each realm was completely different, maybe Murong Qian had only been in the Demon Realm for a short time. In just one year, the self in the human world has already been buried in the soil and turned into soil dust.

At this point in the sad words, Murong Qian didn't want to continue to immerse himself in it, more because he didn't want Yi Qingchen to be sad, so he changed the subject and said, "...Because time is running out, so no matter how much you think about it Accompanying brother Xue, the plan has to start..."