Chapter Three Hundred and Twenty Six: The Future Worth Looking Forward To
It wasn't until Dong Chengyue left the wooden house that Li Tianlan sat upright on the bed.
"Actually, I don't need any gifts."
He said softly: "I don't lack anything over there."
"This is a little bit of our thoughts."
Li Dongcheng shook his head: "I don't know what she prepared, but no matter what it is, it's good to take it back and show it to mother."
He turned around and opened the closet, found a shirt and trousers that he had not yet worn, and handed them to Li Tianlan along with the shoes: "They are all unworn, please see if they fit."
Li Tianlan breathed a sigh of relief and lifted off the thin quilt on his body. He was actually very embarrassed now. All the clothes on his body were completely shattered in the battle with Lin Shiyi. Naturally, his shoes were gone. He appeared here, wearing the clothes at first.
What is there is the cloak that Xuanyuan Feng turned into, but there is nothing underneath the cloak.
After arriving at the wooden house, he lay on the bed. Lin Shiyi covered him with a quilt, and then Lin Qingya asked to see Xuanyuan Feng.
Li Tianlan, who was a little conscious at the time, didn't feel embarrassed and didn't care about it. But after sleeping and his physical condition stabilized before facing his niece, Li Tianlan felt uncomfortable all over, and he didn't dare to take medicine just now.
Get out from under the quilt.
A thin layer of ice appeared on his body.
The ice squeezed his body and washed away the blood stains on his body. He barely took a shower. The water mixed with blood stains was thrown out of the door by him, and then he started to put on clothes.
Li Dongcheng was taller than him, with a difference of about one or two centimeters, and his body shape was similar. There was nothing inappropriate about it. After putting on his clothes, Li Tianlan finally felt a little calmer. He smiled, looked at Li Dongcheng and asked, "You smoke?"
?"
Li Dongcheng took out the cigarette and handed it to Li Tianlan and lit it for him.
After hesitating for a moment, he lit one himself.
Smoke slowly rose in the room, and the two of them smoked in silence, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Until now, Li Tianlan's heart is a little subtle. Intellectually, he can accept the idea of crossing the boundaries of time and space, but emotionally, he still has instinctive doubts and is stunned in his heart. More importantly, with all the facts in front of him, he sees
He has arrived at his own life and destiny in this time and space, but he has no idea how to face his children in this time and space.
Your own child?
A child who has never seen or knows that there is a child older than himself...
He has no experience in this area, let alone how to communicate.
Li Dongcheng was obviously still digesting the huge information that Lin Qingya brought to him, and he also didn't know what to say.
Because according to Lin Qingya, the father around him is not his father in another time and space...
But from any angle, he is his biological father, the same person in different time and space.
The complex emotions in his heart are even more exaggerated than Li Tianlan's. It's not that he can't face them, but just like Li Tianlan has no experience in communicating with his children, Li Dongcheng also has no experience in communicating with his father.
He retained the memories of his childhood and could naturally carry all the hatred on his back to avenge his parents, but he was never mentally prepared to meet his biological parents.
Li Tianlan appeared suddenly.
When the initial shock and confusion passed, he couldn't wait to tell Li Tianlan his story. He wanted to change his parents' fate, but he got the answer from Li Tianlan that his parents' fate had been changed by them.
The same father, different time and space, different destiny.
None of this requires Li Dongcheng to say anything.
It seems like nothing needs to be said.
After smoking a cigarette silently, Li Tianlan got off the bed and took the initiative to break the increasingly awkward atmosphere: "Go out for a walk."
Li Dongcheng hummed.
Xuanyuan Feng turned into a black windbreaker this time and put it on Li Tianlan. The two walked out of the wooden house.
The sky over Xihu has gradually become darker.
A soft wind blew through the hazy twilight, carrying clear water vapor, comfortable and gentle.
"Tell me about you."
Li Tianlan suddenly said: "Tell me your story, the story after my fall in this time and space."
"me?"
Li Dongcheng was stunned.
"I'd like to know, though..."
Li Tianlan shook his head mid-sentence and did not continue.
"Actually, I have memories..."
Li Dongcheng was silent for a while and said softly: "Although I have never met you, I still remember my mother...from the time I was born. After you died, my mother gave birth to me. At that time, my mother's mental state had already
Very bad, she entered a transcendent realm, and her mental power was always out of control. Under the stimulation of her mental power, I also retained the memory of that time...
It's just that I didn't understand what my mother meant at that time, I just remembered it.
Later, mother prepared everything and planned to avenge you.
In fact, at that time, she didn't want to live anymore. After all, revenge...she was the murderer of you. She wanted to kill everyone who besieged you, and naturally she also wanted to kill herself.
She handed me and my sister over to my master, hoping that master would take us back to the Lin Clan. I still remember that day, but I didn’t know what it meant at the time. Later, when I couldn’t see my mother, I started crying, sister.
They hugged me and ran out to find their mother. What did the two children know at that time?
We ran out of the hotel and couldn't find our way back, so my sister took me wandering outside."
Li Dongcheng was silent for a while and then laughed: "Actually, thinking about it now, I can't understand why my sister didn't leave me behind. A child who was only a few years old took care of a baby for a year. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to understand it."
Can't do it.
A little girl of four or five years old holds a tiny baby in her arms or on her back all day long.
While walking on the street, passers-by gave us food and water. Some people wanted to call the police to help us, but my sister ran away as soon as she heard it was the police... We begged on the street, and prayed for food from the roadside stall owner.
I lived in a garbage dump for a long time, especially in winter. It was warm in the garbage dump and it was easier to find food. I was taken in by people with ulterior motives... During that time, she took me with her wherever I went.
Starving to death is simply a miracle.
Later, Master found us and brought us back to the Lin Clan, and our lives got better.
I learned swordsmanship from my master, and I heard more and more of your stories. I gradually understood hatred, and saw the aggressiveness of Tiandu Purgatory and Beihai Wang Family.
Godfather... Well, my godfather is Lin Youxian. You should already know him in another time and space.
After your death, the East Palace fell into pieces, and the godfather retained some of the core things. Later, he died in the hands of Li Huawu, and I took over these things.
I turned the Eastern Palace into the Sword Dynasty.
At least one thing is lucky, that is, my talent is really good. I have not encountered any bottlenecks in my martial arts along the way. I have made breakthroughs naturally, my strength has continued to increase, and my understanding of kendo has become deeper and deeper.
I have a growth rate that makes all enemies despair. Beihai Wang Family and Tiandu Purgatory have made several sure-kill moves against me. After all failed, no one can stop me, and then..."
Li Dongcheng paused and continued: "Then I started killing people.
People from Tiandu Purgatory, people from Beihai Wang family, people from Sanctuary, people from Rothschild... and people from East Palace.
After your death, many people who were loyal to you joined Tiandu Purgatory. Who are these people? In another time and space, they are all still alive, so I won’t tell you. In fact, their loyalty is only to the Li family.
After you died, they joined Tiandu Purgatory and were still in the Li family, so they have a clear conscience and are justified.
I killed all these people too.
After the Sword Dynasty fully rose, the Central Continent Council came to me and asked me to focus on the overall situation. Wang Jingxin threatened me with all his face. Then the entire Beihai Junjun was destroyed by me, along with Qiushui City and Tongtian Port. Later I went to the East
island...
That was the base camp of the Li family. I made an appointment with Li Huawu to fight, but Li Huawu avoided the fight, so I went directly to find him. I captured Li Huawu and wiped out the entire Li family. In fact, the last direct descendants of the Li family included Li Huawu not long ago.
They were all dead before. I wanted to torture them, but when I got tired of the torture, I killed them all.
After the Li family was gone, I went to Beihai again, and then the Wang family in Beihai no longer existed. The Sword Dynasty has now become the only super power in the dark world. As long as I am around, the Sword Dynasty has the power to rule the world. I
He selected an apprentice from the Lin clan and handed over the Sword Dynasty to him. Then he brought his sister here and met Lin Qingya.
This was a month ago, and then it was today."
Li Dongcheng thought quietly for a few seconds and then said softly: "In fact, I have nothing to say in my life."
Li Tianlan was silent for a long time.
The two of them came to the tombstone again in silence.
On the tombstone, the photo of Li Tianlan and Gu Xianyan leaning against each other is clear and dazzling.
"I want to say sorry."
Li Tianlan said softly: "Even if I am not qualified..."
He stretched out his hand and patted the tombstone in front of him: "Just think of it as saying this for me, who is lying here."
A strange look flashed in Li Dongcheng's eyes.
He was also looking at the grave in front of him.
When Li Dongcheng looks at the grave in front of him, he always feels that he is looking at his own life.
There is really nothing to say about his life.
He has been burdened with the regret and hatred of his father and mother since he was born. His martial arts has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the rise of the Sword Dynasty has been unstoppable. In his forty years of life, he has been busy. In the final analysis, he just took back his father's things and let them go.
The Sword Dynasty surpassed his father's Eastern Palace.
He avenged his parents' revenge.
My parents' enemies are all dead.
He solved everyone and accomplished all his goals, and then, he could no longer see the direction in his life.
It was as if he had been living in the shadow of his parents' hatred his whole life. When the hatred disappeared, he could no longer find a way forward.
Li Dongcheng has no ambitions or pursuits. He doesn't care about anything. He doesn't like beauty and doesn't want children. He doesn't know what he should do next.
So he returned to Xihu Cemetery, sitting day after day, with no expectations and no loss, only a void of silence.
His parents' graves formed a shadow that surrounded him. He meditated quietly in the shadow, feeling peaceful inside.
But it was only today that he realized that what he was guarding was, in every sense of the word, an empty tomb.
His father is not there, and neither is his mother.
They are in another time and space, and have begun their own stories. Everything seems to be destined. As long as he works harder, there is a possibility of meeting again in the future.
His parents don't need to apologize to him.
Just like his parents never asked him to avenge them.
"You don't need to apologize."
Li Dongcheng said softly, with obvious sincerity in his voice: "Thank you very much for giving me life. Maybe it was not a good beginning..."
He was silent and suddenly laughed.
In Li Tianlan's sight, there was a perfect face that rarely smiled and his smile was a bit stiff. But as the corners of Li Dongcheng's mouth raised, this stiff smile was indescribably bright: "But at least