Chapter 73. Duan Liren's Past (Part 2)
"The more women?"
"Why, have you heard of her?"
"Of course I have heard of it. A girl with the surname Yue who is slightly older than me in our village is called Yue Nu." Hua Chen knew that he was a little confused. He heard Duan Liren's words and the woman named Nishang he knew was also Yue Nu, and Yue Nu was all from the same lineage. Did Duan Liren know his master whom he had never met? Hua Chen thought, this matter should not be said randomly. God knows what Duan Liren has to do with A Qing's master. If the two of them have a mortal grudge, then they will be a big deal.
Duan Liren's pupils contracted slightly. After hearing Hua Chen say it, he shook his head helplessly and smiled, saying, "You know you are not talking about the girl from your village."
Hua Chen just smiled and thought to himself that what I said was certainly not the Yue girl you knew, but she was her disciple. I wonder if it counts?
The smile on his face gradually faded away, Duan Liren showed a nostalgic expression and whispered: "When I was about the same age as you, I lived a life of food and clothing with the glory of my family. I only knew how to travel around the mountains and rivers all day long, and there were also a group of children of ignorant nobles who were ignorant.
Once I was drinking in a wine shop and heard someone say that a big white insect appeared in the dense forest of Nanyue. I became interested and asked a few playmates to bring more than ten family warriors into the mountains to search, but it ended from the fun and tragedy. More than a dozen people except me were buried in the tiger's mouth, and I still remember the scene freshly. It was not one, but two ferocious white tigers, which opened bloody mouths towards our entire team.
They were so fierce. Although the generals were well-trained, they were no match for the tiger. Soon, the entire team was buried in the mouth of the tiger, and I was about to die here. At this time, a woman in colorful clothes fell from the sky like a god. Two ferocious beasts killed more than ten people and two ferocious beasts were no longer fierce in front of the woman. Although her sharp claws scratched the woman, they were quickly cut by the woman under the sword, and I survived."
As if recalling that bloody history, Duan Liren paused for a moment and continued: "The sword she held at that time was very similar to the sword you carried with you, of course it was not yours."
Hua Chen knew why Duan Liren said this. Yue Nu Sword and Lanque Sword are indeed somewhat similar. Both have extremely long sword bodies, extremely narrow blades, introverted essence into the sheath, and reveal their sharpness out of the sheath.
"After she saved me, she treated me for bleeding wounds. She felt it was amazing at the time. She just rubbed and applied it to the wound with a few leaves she picked and applied. The pain in the wound was somewhat relieved. Thinking about it now, it was just some painkiller herbs.
She saved me, but was not very friendly to me. After helping me with the wound, she asked me to go down the mountain and said that I should not go up the mountain at will in the future. I had already calmed down slightly from the frightenedness. Seeing that she was so rude to me, her competitive spirit as a man became aroused.
I asked her what her name was and where her home was. At first she didn't say it, but I followed her wherever she went. Although she was angry, she kept shouting that she wanted to kill me, but it was just to scare me. She was always pestered by me, so she could only choose to compromise and told me that her name was Nishang. As for home, she said she had no home. Later I realized that she was not without a home, but because her family members hated her identity, which made her unable to return.
After a brief time together, she sent me outside the mountain. At this time, she had already regarded me as a friend and I also became interested in her. We agreed to meet at the first day of each month at a separate place, just to keep our relationships from being known to outsiders.
After returning to Kuaiji, I told their elders about the death of my companions. For a moment, the entire Kuaiji City was shocked. Several officials from the court came to my Duan Mansion together and asked me to explain the whole story. After all, they did not believe what I said, but they could not accept the fact that their children all died but I survived.
In the end, due to my father's deterrence, the whole thing went to the end. At the beginning of each month, I would go to our separate place, and every time she would wait there before me. I have to say that it matched her name and clothes. Every time I met, she would wear a colorful dress and bring me some sweet fruits. She would meet me all day long. In fact, the two of them did nothing together, just telling her some strange stories about Kuaiji City, and she took me to play and play in the woods.
Once when we met, she brought me a medical book and a sword score, saying that I would choose one, and then I chose the sword score. As a result, she gave me the medical book and the sword score at the same time, but only taught me sword techniques and did not mention the medical book. The process of learning sword was very long, and I haven't been home for more than a month. As the eldest son of my family, my movements are always closely watched. After I got home, I realized that my father had sent someone to look for me for many days.
Under my father's inquiry, I took out the sword book and medical books. After reading the sword book, my father was furious and slapped me for no reason. After his anger faded, he explained it to me. That was hundreds of years ago. Our Duan family has been around since the establishment of the Yue Kingdom, so we can know the past.
The specific situation is too complicated and I can't explain it clearly for a while. In short, it is because my ancestors who founded the country of Yue Kingdom had irreconcilable conflicts with the ancestors of Yue Nu. My father asked me to take him to find Yue Nu. From the conflict between the two sides, it can be seen that there is absolutely no good thing for my father to find Yue Nu, so I rejected him.
My father put me in house arrest. At that time, I was used to being free and free. I was suddenly restrained and felt uncomfortable. And to be honest, how could a rich young man really care about a mountain woman? I just felt that I couldn't get over the trouble of taking my father to find Yue Girl. Finally, my father promised me that he just wanted Yue Girl to teach his superb sword skills to Yue soldiers. After all, the sword score was too profound and it was difficult to understand.
I agreed, not because I believed my father's words, but because I found a reason to betray Yue Girl openly, and also because I could not stand the pain of house arrest.
On the first day of the next month, I still spent two days to go out of the dense forests in the south. What was different from usual was that my father took the 300-clan to accompany me. Not far from the agreed place, my father ordered his family to hide them in a shrub to form a surround the open space in the middle, and then asked me to bring the Yue Girls here. At this time, my father's purpose was already very obvious, and I had known it for a long time.
Walking towards the agreed place alone, I told myself in my heart that this was just a task assigned by my father, and I could do it well. As for Nishang, she saved herself by chance, and it was nothing. She had nothing to do with her. Besides, there were thousands of women in the world, and she didn't want her. It was funny. I didn't find myself deceiving myself at that time. If I didn't have her in my heart, why would I keep reminding myself that I could have countless women without Nishang alone?
When they arrived at the agreed place, Nishang did not arrive early for the first time. The ones guarded there were more than a dozen men with strong upper bodies exposed. After seeing me, they picked up the spear in their hands and threw it at me without saying a word. The spear fell to the ground, and none of the dozen pierced at me, because they were not going to kill me directly, but threw it behind me to break my retreat.
After practicing martial arts with Nishang, I can already deal with two or three strong men alone, but there are more than a dozen people on the other side, so I can only choose to escape, but the back road is blocked, so I don’t know what to do.
When I was at a loss, Nishang appeared. She flashed to me, cut off the wooden spear behind me, and took me to escape. The leader opposite called Nishang, saying that if she really dared to help me escape, she would always be an enemy of the Jiuli tribe, not only because of her identity as a Yue girl, but also because of her own actions. Nishang had a brief pain and struggle. Standing next to her, I could see all this, but in the end she still took my hand and ran backwards.
The leader's angry voice sounded from behind, and more than a dozen people chased us. I had never experienced much such escape charge. I was tripped by a stone under my feet, and the people behind me chased me. In order to protect me and the person I came to fight, although Nishang could not stand the risk of fighting, but she was unwilling to take action and showed mercy everywhere. As a result, she did not hurt her opponent, and there were a few more scars on her body.
To protect me, Nishang fought and retreated. Soon, we all entered the encirclement set up by our father. Looking at Nishang, I felt a little regretful, and I shouted: "Nishang, please leave here quickly." But it was too late, and hundreds of families would surround Nishang and her tribe members in the middle like a huge net.
The leader of the Jiuli tribe was angry. He obviously thought that Nishang and I were luring them into the encirclement. He ignored the encirclement and ordered more than a dozen people to attack Nishang with all their might, vowing to kill Nishang, the "traitor".
Nishang didn't know what happened. She resisted the fierce attack of her tribe members while looking for my figure. But at this time, I was taken back by my family to my father who was watching all this in the distance. I heard my father's order to kill everyone except Nishang. In this way, a battle with huge differences in strength, or one-sided massacre began.
Chapter completed!