"Miss Zhaozhao, what's going on? Brother Chu and Zhao Nianshuang..." Outside a luxurious courtyard of the Chu family, Meng Ziliang approached Chu Zhaozhao and asked in a low voice with curiosity on his face.
As he said this, he stretched out his thumbs with both hands and then closed them in the middle.
Chu Zhaozhao looked at him, but before he could say anything, the girl in purple standing at the door of the mansion gave him a piercing look.
Meng Ziliang shivered and hurriedly stopped talking.
But then he raised his head and looked at the girl in purple, only to see that although she was guarding the door, she was looking towards the door from the corner of her eye from time to time.
Meng Ziliang rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "That purple jade girl, don't you want to know what is going on?"
Ziyu glared at the guy with a playful smile, her eyes stern: "If you dare to criticize my junior uncle again, I will tear your mouth apart!"
After saying that, she raised her sleeves, and a silver light swayed in her sleeves.
Meng Ziliang had seen how powerful this thing was, and he immediately didn't dare to laugh anymore, and stopped talking at that time.
A full hour has passed since the Chu family's banquet.
Of course, the banquet ended hastily.
The girl from the Chu family suddenly became Zhao Nianshuang's personal disciple, while the Zhang family master who had been domineering in Wancheng for more than ten years was destroyed in his cultivation and expelled from Tianxuan Mountain.
This news was so shocking that after everyone attending the banquet left, they spread the news throughout Wancheng.
The small Wancheng was undercurrent for a while.
There was also a turmoil within the Chu family. Several children from the second courtyard were invited into the best houses, and all the arrangements for food, clothing, housing and transportation were raised to the highest level. Chu Yanjun, the clever man from the third courtyard who wanted to escape, was
He broke his legs and feet and waited for Chu Zhaozhao to fall.
Chu Tianque of the Fourth Courtyard handed over the power in despair, and all kinds of industries were once again controlled by Chuzhuang of the Grand Courtyard.
But Chu Zhaozhao, who was a key figure in stirring up the turmoil in Wancheng, had no intention of paying attention to this at the moment. She was waiting outside the small courtyard, looking anxious and feeling uneasy.
After doing all that, Zhao Nianshuang and Chu Qingxiao came to a house of the Chu family. The two of them stayed there for a full hour, and no one knew what they were talking about or what they were doing.
Zhao Nianshuang's move of almost killing Chu Qingxiao made Chu Zhaozhao a little frightened, and he was secretly worried about what kind of attitude the junior uncle had towards Chu Qingxiao.
…
"How do you want me to prove that I am myself?" Chu Qingxiao looked at the woman in front of him helplessly.
Twelve years have passed, and she has lost her youthfulness, become calmer, more mature, and more beautiful.
It's just that Chu Qingxiao had already expected this before seeing her, but the appearance of the woman in front of him still made it difficult for him to adapt to it for a while.
After all, in his memory, Zhao Nianshuang was still the sixteen-year-old, smart but somewhat stupid girl.
When she eats candied haws, there will be sugar stains on the corners of her mouth. If Chu Qingxiao doesn't clean it up for her, she can run around Wuling City with the sugar stains all day long without noticing.
She often forgets the seasonings when cooking. Every time they hear that she is going to cook, Chu Qingxiao and Chu Yueshan turn pale.
She doesn't like thunderstorms and is scared to death when she encounters them. Even if she is more than ten years old, she will still get into Chu Qingxiao's bed.
But the woman in front of him, although her eyebrows and eyes were similar, her coldness, her aura that was not close to fireworks, made Chu Qingxiao very unfamiliar.
Of course he knew that she couldn't stay the same in twelve years.
But the little girl who one moment was following behind her and coquettishly asking him to take her out to play, the next moment was already the little master uncle of Tianxuan Mountain who the whole world of Dayu looked up to.
The huge contrast between the two inevitably gave Chu Qingxiao a sense of trance and unreality.
What makes Chu Qingxiao even more helpless is that when they meet again after not seeing each other for many years, Zhao Nianshuang throws him an ultimate question about the meaning of life.
How to prove that I am who I am.
Facing Chu Qingxiao's helplessness, Zhao Nianshuang just looked at him coldly.
He didn’t push, but he also didn’t respond.
Chu Qingxiao smiled bitterly: "Then what do you want me to say?"
"You said you were afraid of being laughed at by my father for wetting the bed when you were six years old, so that I would take the blame?"
"Or is there a mole on your left butt?"
"Or maybe you came to Tiangui for the first time when you were twelve years old, thinking you were going to die, so you dragged me and left a will, saying that you were going to hide you under the bed and give it to me for eighteen cents?"
If it were the woman next to me who was dealing with these private matters, she would probably blush with embarrassment.
But when Zhao Nianshuang heard this, he said with a normal expression: "As you just said, you are imprisoned in the eternal night world by Zhuyin."
"Zhu Yin is fully capable of plundering the memories in your soul. If you were Zhu Yin pretending to be you, you would also know this. These do not prove that you are you."
In the previous hour, Chu Qingxiao tried his best to explain everything that happened in Wuling City after Zhao Nianshuang left Wuling City.
The world of eternal night is the difference between existence and the present world.
Zhuyin can find some power of Eternal Night there, something powerful based on the divine origin, which may allow Chu Qingxiao's body to stay at the age of eighteen.
But even if he agreed with this, Zhao Nianshuang still had doubts about Chu Qingxiao's identity.
Chu Qingxiao was somewhat helpless at Zhao Nianshuang's "nitpicking" before, but now after hearing Zhao Nianshuang's words.
The look he looked at her suddenly softened.
Zhao Nianshuang also felt the change in his expression, and something strange flashed between his eyebrows.
But at this time, Chu Qingxiao was heard whispering: "It must have been difficult for you to live alone these years..."
If Zhao Nianshuang had met him in this situation twelve years ago, she would probably have thrown herself into his arms and loudly expressed her longing for her.
Twelve years later, Zhao Nianshuang seems to have become the junior master uncle of Tianxuan Mountain. He has a high position but is always cautious, like a lonely cheetah. Although he is powerful, he has to be careful to guard against everything.
Chu Qingxiao didn't want to think about it, and she didn't dare to think about what she had gone through to have such a change.
"Back then, I couldn't leave Wuling City and come to you..."
Chu Qingxiao whispered, his tone wrapped in guilt.
As he said these words, Zhao Nianshuang, who had been sitting on one side with a stern expression, suddenly trembled, and his eyes finally changed when he looked at Chu Qingxiao.
"You...are really brother Qingxiao..." Her voice was obviously trembling.
Chu Qingxiao smiled bitterly: "I really am, but I really don't know how to prove that I am..."
Before he could finish his words, a fragrant wind blew over his face, and Zhao Nianshuang threw herself into his arms at this moment.
She was sure that it was him.
Only her brother Qingxiao in this world will always put her first.
He won't ask why she didn't find him until twelve years later, nor will he blame her for not saving him back then.
He's always like this.
Just like when they went to the Taoist temple to steal peaches when they were young, he fell all over and was covered in mud, but he always protected the peach well, and then handed the clean peach to himself with a stupid look.
They were bullied by a rich young man in the city. He was beaten with injuries all over his body, but he protected himself behind him. At the end, he asked himself anxiously if he was hurt.
He is so stupid.
"I'm sorry...brother Qingxiao."
"Really sorry."
"I begged them, I begged them in every possible way."
"But they always perfunctory me... always tell me that it will be soon, but what I waited for in the end was the news of the destruction of Wuling City."
"I want to look for you, but I'm afraid to look for you..."
"I'm afraid of seeing the corpses all over the city, I'm afraid of seeing your soul there, I'm afraid of you asking me why I didn't save you..."
"I'm sorry, if I had gone earlier, maybe you wouldn't have to suffer so much..."
She lay in Chu Qingxiao's arms and cried loudly, as if she wanted to pour out all her grievances at this moment...
Chu Qingxiao looked at the woman in his arms. Twelve years later, when she took off her disguise, she turned out to be the same Zhao Nianshuang.
He stretched out his hand and hugged her, just like he did when he was a child, and gently patted her back with his hand: "It's okay."
"It's fine."
He said softly.
…
for a long time.
Zhao Nianshuang's cries gradually subsided, and she lay in Chu Qingxiao's arms, sniffing the young man's scent greedily.
That smell made her feel at ease.
The inner demon that had troubled her for many years was finally broken at this moment, and she vaguely felt the signs of breaking out.
"Brother Qingxiao, please follow me back to Tianxuan Mountain. We will never be separated again." At this time, she reached out and gently placed her hand on Chu Qingxiao's chest and whispered.
Chu Qingxiao shook his head: "I...may not be able to go yet."
Zhao Nianshuang frowned, and a strange purple light suddenly appeared in her clear and almost dust-free eyes, but it only flashed past. The next moment, she returned to her original state.
"Why?" she asked, her tone a little urgent.
Chu Qingxiao said: "Xizhou Jianjia is kind to me and to Wuling City."
"I have to send their swords back to Jianling, and... Xizhou Jianjia's Jianyue City suffered a disaster after Song Guicheng and others came to Wuling City. Wuling City is like an isolated island, and no one cares about it."
"I always feel that there is some connection behind this. Even if I overthink it, at least I have to find out what's going on so that I can feel at ease..."
After hearing this, Zhao Nianshuang suddenly sat up from Chu Qingxiao's arms. She looked at Chu Qingxiao and said, "Brother Qingxiao, are you going to investigate this matter?"
It could be heard that Zhao Nianshuang's tone was obviously anxious at this time.
Chu Qingxiao frowned, looked at the other person, and asked, "What do you know?"
Zhao Nianshuang shook his head and said: "I don't know, but I can feel that a lot of things have happened in the past twelve years, from rebellions in various places in Dayu, to the rebellion between the ancient gods of the Zhuyin and Yinsi tribes, and then King Wu took advantage of the situation and rose up.
, there are many coincidences in it, everything seems to be fueled by an invisible hand, I am afraid..."
"I'm not a fool. If the real thing cannot be done, I won't force it, but I have to try to find out what happened. Otherwise, how can I live peacefully? What's more..." At this point, Chu Qingxiao paused.
After a pause, he added: "To tell you the truth, in addition to coming to Tianxuan Mountain to look for you, there is actually another thing that I need your help with."
"What's the matter?" Zhao Nianshuang asked.
Chu Qingxiao immediately informed Zhao Nianshuang of what happened in Cangying Village.
Zhao Nianshuang frowned and said: "Taixuan Mountain Ghost Crow Village?"
She thought about the name so much that it seemed a little familiar.
"I'm afraid there's no way to deal with them in a short period of time, at least I can't take action."
Zhao Nianshuang said this.
"Why?" Chu Qingxiao was puzzled.
Zhao Nianshuang showed a helpless look on his face and said: "There are three great clans in the two continents of Cangmu. They are the two prefecture shepherds and the Nangong clan."
"They haven't taken action against Taixuan Mountain for so many years. I'm afraid there must be some reason for this. The Meng family, the only one who was sincere in suppressing bandits, severely damaged the banditry in Taixuan Mountain, but was demoted from the official position for being unfavorable in suppressing bandits."
"The reason I'm afraid is that the Taixuan Mountain bandits are not unable to move, but that these three clans are determined to support the bandits. Tianxuan Mountain is located in Cangzhou. Although it has a transcendent status, its interests with the three clans are complicated and intertwined. If I take action rashly,
It’s hard to explain at the mountain gate…”
After saying this, Zhao Nianshuang paused and then said: "But brother Qingxiao, don't worry too much. After I go back, I can find a way to re-register the hundreds of people in Cangying Village in the three towns under the jurisdiction of Qingque Peak.
, is it better for them to change their appearance and live as ordinary people than to be bandits in Taixuan Mountain and live a life of fear? "
Chu Qingxiao nodded when he heard this. He understood Chu Zhaozhao's difficulties. This result was not bad for Cangying Village.
"But it will take some time." Zhao Nianshuang added.
"I'm about to break through. I'm afraid I can no longer suppress it. I'll have to rush back to Tianxuan Mountain for retreat later. But don't worry, brother Qingxiao, this matter is over. I will arrange it as soon as possible."
Chu Qingxiao secretly thought for a moment, even if the people in Guiya Village are really related to foreign evil spirits as Mr. Xu said, after all, they have been entrenched in Taixuan Mountain for so many years.
The Lidong window incident happened.
He nodded immediately and was about to say something when he heard Zhao Nianshuang say again: "Brother Qingxiao, please take off your clothes while there is still time."
"Huh?" Chu Qingxiao was stunned and looked at Zhao Nianshuang with wide eyes.
"This... this is not good..."
Zhao Nianshuang rarely rolled his eyes: "What is Brother Qingxiao thinking?"
"Didn't you say that Zhu Yin Shen's blood is still in your body? I want to see if I can try to take it out of your body or seal it."
When she said this, she suddenly blinked again, and a purple light flashed in her eyes.
Her cheeks flushed and she said: "Of course, if brother Qingxiao really wants it, it's not impossible..."
…
A full three hours passed.
It was already dark, and the siblings Meng Ziliang and Meng Jin who were waiting outside the courtyard gate were already drowsy.
Chu Zhaozhao and Ziyu looked solemn, each with their own thoughts.
Behind them, a large group of Chu family's children were waiting carefully, not daring to neglect at all.
At this time, the courtyard door suddenly opened.
Zhao Nianshuang, who had a stern look on his face, and Chu Qingxiao, who had his head drooped, walked out of the courtyard door at this moment.
Chu Zhaozhao's heart froze when he caught a glimpse of this scene, and he almost subconsciously stepped forward to ask about the situation: "Qingxiao!"
She called out like this, but as soon as she said the words, she was glared back by Zhao Nianshuang with a cold look.
A large number of Chu family disciples behind him also looked at this place with fearful expressions.
"Zhaozhao, I am very disappointed in you." I heard Zhao Nianshuang say at this time.
"I asked you to go to Muzhou to gain experience, and I, Qingque Peak, also wanted to cultivate you."
"But you are indulged in an affair with your children, and you have no idea about your relationship with this man."
When these words came out, Chu Zhaozhao was stunned. She blinked, looked at her junior uncle, and then at Chu Qingxiao who was standing aside. She muttered in her heart: Aren't you guys not clear about this...
"I wanted to kill him so that you could concentrate on the art of swordsmanship and not be confused by foreign objects."
"But after all, I couldn't bear it. I made a rule with him. I will also accept him as a disciple, but the condition is that you two will no longer have anything to do with each other."
"But the personal relationship between children is just a passing thing after all. From today on, you and him are brothers and sisters in the same sect. Do you understand?"
Zhao Nianshuang looked straight at Chu Zhaozhao at this moment.
Chu Zhaozhao was stunned for a moment. When she recovered from her initial surprise and confusion, she immediately understood what was going on.
Chu Qingxiao's experience in Wuling City was a bit too shocking after all, and the Zhuyin Divine Blood in his body would inevitably bring him trouble. Zhao Nianshuang's move was to give him an upright identity, and at the same time conceal the relationship between the two of them.
Relationship.
This is of course for Chu Qingxiao's good.
Being able to take these into consideration also shows that the young master uncle has fully recognized Chu Qingxiao.
Thinking of this, she nodded hurriedly and said quickly: "Disciple understands."
"I am about to break through and will rush back to Tianxuan Mountain. Ziyu, please stay and help me take care of the two of them. Remember, we must ensure their safety." Zhao Nianshuang said again.
Ziyu was obviously dissatisfied when she heard this. Just as she was about to say something, she met Zhao Nianshuang's cold gaze.
She immediately stopped and curled her lips in dissatisfaction, but did not dare to say anything more.
After saying this, Zhao Nianshuang looked at Chu Zhaozhao again and said meaningful words.
"Since you and him are brothers and sisters from now on."
"Then I hope, Qingxiao calls me such an affectionate name..."