red and white

Chapter 42

The rustling strings dissipated in the teahouse, and the storyteller slapped the wood to wake up, and the voiceless sound startled the hall.

The tea was already slightly cold, Zhu Yinxiao finished his long narration and put down the teacup, "So far, Tian Suanzi has died in Penglai."

"And this past event a hundred years ago is also known as the 'Seven Families Incident'."

Anping couldn't recover for a long time.

"...Why are you telling me this?"

Zhu Yinxiao said: "Nowadays there is another change in Shangui Town, the seven families will definitely be vigilant, and Fengdu sent an envoy to invite the seven families to gather together. The next year will definitely be very lively."

As he said that, he looked at Anping, "The fourth child trusts you, and you are no longer an outsider. In the current fog, it is a little bit cleared away. It is better for me to tell you the facts than for you to make wild guesses based on hearsay."

The amount of information was too large, and Anping was a little incoherent for a while: "I...I need a little time to digest."

"Of course, you are going back to the memory of the year through the blood of the fourth child. His memory is not complete, and you will have doubts in many places." Zhu Yinxiao smiled: "But my brother took out the The mountain ghost spent money, he should have remembered a lot of things."

He patted Anping, "Don't ignore your dreams, there are often years of truth in them."

Anping pondered for a moment, "I don't understand a few things."

"Go ahead and talk."

"According to your narration, you were still young when the Qijia incident happened, and you did not witness what happened." Anping looked at Zhu Yinxiao and asked, "Then how did you know all this?"

"Good question." Zhu Yinxiao said, "Do you still remember the second child?"

"Mo Zisong asked Tong?"

"That's right." Zhu Yinxiao nodded, "Back then he was seriously injured and fell into a coma. When he woke up in Penglai, the fourth child had already passed away."

"The third child woke up earlier than him, witnessed everything that happened, and told him about it."

"As for what the second child did in Penglai after he found out about this, I don't know. Later, he went down the mountain with a sword in his hand, all the way to Suzaku's hermitage, and lived in my house for some years."

"These things are what he told me slowly during those years."

Anping asked: "Then Mozi is still alive?"

Zhu Yinxiao shook his head, "Everyone in Ginkgo Study, except me, only the second child passed away safely."

"Back then I made some small achievements in cultivation, and he took me to travel around the world for a few years, and died at the age of 80. The only thing left of me is a licking red knife, which he left to my brother."

"Only Mozi died?" Anping asked incredulously, "What about Wuchangzi?"

"You're talking about Wuchangzi of the previous generation, right? Ubi has his father, the third son Wu Zixu." Zhu Yinxiao smiled, "Do you know why Wubi hates the fourth son so much?"

Anping remembered, "He seems to mean that... Ban Xian'er killed his father."

Zhu Yinxiao smiled wryly and shook his head, "The fourth child will harm the third child? Do you also believe this?"

Of course Anping didn't believe it, if Zhu Yinxiao's words were true, then it was Mu Gesheng who had to endure humiliation during the Seven Families Incident and thus saved Wu Zixu's life.

Although the details are yet to be verified, part of what Zhu Yinxiao said must be the truth.

Zhu Yinxiao added a cup of tea, and said slowly: "When the third child passed away, he was less than a hundred years old."

Anping didn't understand, Song Wentong was considered dead when he lived to be 80 years old, why did Wu Zixu die young when he didn't live to be [-] years old?

"The Mo family and the Yin-Yang family have different bloodlines." Zhu Yinxiao saw Anping's question, "The Yin-Yang family is a half-dark body, and the life span is different from ordinary people. He should have lived longer."

"But the Yin soldier's injury was not trivial. In addition, he danced the general's Nuo dance, and he was overwhelmed. Although he was healed in Penglai, he was injured in Genyuan and died before he was a hundred years old."

Anping still doesn't understand, what does this have to do with Mu Gesheng?

"Everyone in the Yin-Yang family thinks that the third child was bewitched by the fourth child, so he got involved in the violence of the Yin soldiers, and in the end even used the general's Nuo dance, which greatly shortened his lifespan." Zhu Yinxiao spread his hands, "Rounding up like this, it is roughly equivalent to the fact that the fourth child killed the third child."

Anping: "..."

"And you don't know Wu Bi's background." Zhu Yinxiao said: "My nephew is a ghost."

ulterior motive?

"You should have known about the inheritance of the Yinyang family - each generation of Wuchangzi was selected before birth. Due to the excessive ghost energy in the womb, the mother's body was doomed to die suddenly during childbirth, and even the soul was swallowed. The third child He is very disgusted by this, and he doesn't even want to leave offspring, but luck is not as good as people's fortunes, and he still met his sweetheart in the world."

Zhu Yinxiao said with a smile: "This is a headache for my brother and the others. The elders of the Wu family will never allow the bloodline to be cut off, and the third child does not want his sister-in-law to have a child anyway. In the end, the two parties made a compromise and chose a It's not a solution, the third child and his sister-in-law have lived in the world for decades, and they haven't had children until she died."

Anping was at a loss: "Where did Wu Biyou come from?"

"As I said before, my nephew is a ghost fetus." Zhu Yinxiao said: "After my sister-in-law passed away, she settled in Fengdu because she was a Yin-Yang family member, and she only conceived at this time. Using the body of a ghost to conceive a ghost fetus will neutralize the fetus. This is why my nephew is so young, the third child and sister-in-law are really late to have children, and family planning has been around for decades."

"I know what you're going to ask." Zhu Yinxiao made an interrupting gesture and directly answered Anping's question, "The reason why no one in the Yinyang family used this method before is because the ghost fetus is very unstable, and the children born Either the ghosts are too strong, violent by nature, or they will die early from illness, no one wants to take this risk."

"The reason why the third brother dared to do this is because my brother is a Rakshazi, with a life of great evil and fierceness, he can suppress all ghosts, and the evilness of a ghost fetus is not enough in front of it." He said with a smile: "This is also Why is my nephew so afraid of him."

"Actually, the relationship between my nephew and the fourth child was very good at the beginning, even stickier than that of a real father and son. My nephew wished to hang on to his godfather every day." Zhu Yinxiao showed a look of reminiscence, "The fourth child treats him much better than he did back then. , at least not throwing people into the vegetable field to crawl around."

"It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. When my nephew was ten years old, the third child passed away."

"The third child is the only Wuchangzi who has a whereabouts in the inheritance of the masters. After his death, his soul returned to Fengdu, which shocked the king of hell in the ten halls. Wushi wanted to keep him, but he was tired. Sister-in-law walked the cycle of reincarnation together."

Anping couldn't help interjecting: "Isn't this pretty good?"

"Don't worry, man, listen to me." Zhu Yinxiao waved his hand, "After the third brother passed away, my nephew had no one to take care of him, so Wu Zhi took him back to Fengdu, where the elders raised and disciplined him."

"Where's his godfather?"

"You know the physique of the fourth child. He died and came back to life. His body is a crystal heart glass man. That period of time happened to be his dormant period, and he slept for several years. My brother was busy taking care of him again. I don't have time for my nephew at all."

Anping suddenly remembered something, "Didn't Banxianer die in the Qijia Incident? Then he is now... Also, why did Lingshuzi become a Rakshazi?"

"That's another story." Zhu Yinxiao smiled, "I can't tell you this story."

Good fellow, half of the story is left and the other half is kept here. It's a trick here, so he might as well be the storyteller.

Anping had many thoughts for a while, "About taking care of Wuchangzi, can't you?"

"I'm from the Zhu family, so it's not good to meddle directly in the Yinyang family's affairs." Zhu Yinxiao spread his hands, "And based on Suzaku's lifespan, I've only just grown up, so who can trust me to take care of the children?"

He couldn't help but said again: "Wubiyou can at most call me brother now, let him call uncle, he can jump up and be anxious with you."

The seniority of the few of them was in a mess, and Anping didn't quite understand it now. Looking at Zhu Yinxiao's eye-catching women's attire, he suggested, "You can try asking him to call you aunt."

"Tried it, it didn't work."

"...as if I didn't say anything."

"Because of the Yin Soldier incident back then, the elders of the Wu family were at odds with the fourth child. Now that my nephew is arrested, they must not take it seriously." Zhu Yinxiao sighed: "That's how my nephew was raped by Wu Zhi's brother." Those who helped the old man brainwash, I don’t know what kind of ecstasy soup they poured... In short, when the father and daughter meet again, the enemy will be extremely jealous when they meet."

After going around for a long time, Anping finally sorted out this love-hate relationship. Compared with all the thrilling past events, this episode made people feel a little speechless, "That half fairy doesn't explain? Just let freedom ?”

"He said that my nephew is at the age of second-year middle school illness, and there is no need to treat the illness that should be committed." Zhu Yinxiao shook his head, "But I can probably guess his intentions."

"What's the purpose?"

"Shouzi's status is awkward today, and everyone has ulterior motives. If you get too close to him, you will get into trouble. Maintaining this kind of father-daughter relationship that loves and kills each other is also a kind of protection for my niece."

A nephew and a niece for a while, in Zhuziqi's family, the gender is probably fluid, and it doesn't matter.

Zhu Yinxiao shrugged his shoulders, "And it doesn't matter too much, who is not young and frivolous, if the father let go, I can protect him."

Anping looked at Zhu Yinxiao, and probably understood where Mugesheng's confidence came from - even if he was absent, the boy still had strong enough protection around him.

Zhu Yinxiao picked up the letter from Cui Ziyu as he said, "If I don't accept this letter, the job of delivering the letter will eventually fall on my niece. Now that the seven families of Zhuzi are in decline, the Yinyang family will also have a lot of hardships in Fengdu , I am more or less an elder, so I can help if I can."

Anping was taken aback when he heard that, "The seven schools of thought have declined?"

"Didn't you notice it?" Zhu Yinxiao asked back: "The Zhu family has avoided the world for many years, and the inheritance of the Mohist family has disappeared... This is the case in this era. During the decades of Tian Shuan's silence, the majesty of the destiny gradually disappeared, and the seven disciples The home is already a mess."

As he spoke, he looked out the window, "Tonight there is a lantern banquet in Fengdu, and everyone is celebrating, but if you just ask anyone, who would know that there are still 72 Jinwu lanterns hanging deep in the night sky in Fengdu ?”

He looked at Anping, "Do you know the difference between a Jinwu lantern and a flower lantern?"

"... what's the difference?"

"Everyone needs to pay for lighting the lanterns, and the cost of lighting the Jinwu lanterns is borne by Suzaku."

"The Suzaku clan are descendants of the gods, but in this era when gods are disappearing, people are tired of worshiping them." Zhu Yinxiao shook his head, "They are more willing to pay the price themselves, even if they don't understand the difference between the two, and Can they afford the price?"

"The Zhu family has retreated from the world for many years, and I am the only Suzaku who is still willing to appear in the world. Everything must perish eventually. No one can avoid the end of the millennium."

Anping didn't know what to say for a while, and slowly organized his words, "Is it really necessary?"

He has also seen young men who rise up with their swords, rushing to the crown and changing the color of the world, one hexagram to determine the universe, one knife to break Yin and Yang, one dance to control mountains and rivers, and Jin Wu can't help the night as brilliant as the day... those magnificent grandeur The thrilling past, full of vigor and blood and tears-it should be far more than just a dream that will eventually dissipate.

Zhu Yinxiao smiled: "The wind is always blown away by the rain."

"The root of the disaster of the Seven Clans was planted a hundred years ago. It was long before the start of the last troubled times. It's just that there were no clues in the Taiping years. When the troubled times came, the master tried his best to turn the tide, but unfortunately it was far from the power of one person."

"The tragedy experienced by the fourth child was just the collapse caused by the last snowflake."

Anping seemed to understand, and listened to Zhu Yinxiao muttering to himself: "Everything has a moment of extinction, it cannot be broken, it can't be established, and the cycle of heaven is all right."

"What I'm afraid of is that the centipede is dead but not stiff, and the rotting corpse is poisonous. That is really terrifying and abominable."

When midnight came, the book club ended, and the teahouse became very lively again.

Wu Biyou hurried into the private room, dressed as if he had just returned from the rescue, and still holding a hand banner and a fluorescent stick.

"Have you finished your tea yet?" He kicked the door of the private room, "Go quickly after drinking, the lantern banquet will begin soon."

"Ghost Sanji's concert is over?" Zhu Yinxiao stood up, "How was the scene?"

Ubi rolled his eyes at him, "Nonsense, of course there is nothing to say."

The teahouse was crowded with sellers of lanterns, and the long bamboo racks were hung with lanterns. Anping noticed that most of the lanterns were electrified, and they could stay on for a long time even in the gloom of Fengdu.

A huge dragon boat flew in mid-air, with carved beams and painted buildings, and a woman sat on the dragon head, singing with a melodious voice and teeth.

"That's Ghost Sanji." Zhu Yinxiao touched Anping, "She has some fate with my nephew."

Anping was taken aback.

"She is my sister-in-law's apprentice, and my nephew calls her Senior Sister." Zhu Yinxiao said, "You probably haven't seen my sister-in-law. Back then, she was Guan Shanyue's up-and-comer, and she sang a song with the fourth brother and the others. Get out of the West Wing."

"It's a coincidence, that was the first time she and the third child were on the same stage, and they were singing by Yingying and Zhang Sheng." Zhu Yinxiao laughed, "We are destined to be married."

Anping vaguely recalled that scene back then.

He suddenly realized, no wonder Zhu Yinxiao didn't sing Yingying at that New Year's Eve dinner, but Hong Niang.