blood contract

"Shh, you can't bring this up. If others hear it, you'll lose your skin. Do you understand?"

In a wing not far from the rockery, there was the sound of two maids whispering.

"...Sister, don't scare me, I, I've only been here for two months."

"I'm just kindly reminding you because you're new here. If it were someone else, you could try it."

"You can tell by looking at sister that she is a kind and good person. Hong'er will listen to sister Huanyue from now on."

Lingling heard it a little funny on the rockery. One of the tactics of "forming cliques" in the inner courtyard of the mansion was "intimidation plus kindness".

"Hey! I'll just tell you and listen to it, so that you don't have to ask others, which may make things worse."

"Thank you sister."

"...The eldest young master is the son of the family head and the Ye Lu family, while the second young master is rumored to be the son of the Ye Lu family who had an affair with the Nether Clan. They are half-brothers, so naturally they look alike but not alike.

I heard that after Mrs. Lu gave birth to the second young master, she was imprisoned by her clan. She was depressed all day long, and finally died of madness. She almost strangled the second young master to death on the day of his death. Fortunately, the head of the family arrived and saved the young master. A second young master.

After Ye Lu's death, the Taiye, the head of the family, and the eldest young master took good care of the second young master, which saved him from being ostracized by the clan. Now that he is at the top of the elite list, no one dares to offend him. Except for the eldest young master, all the other young masters and ladies hate him. "

"Don't you think the head of the family hates the second young master?"

"Hey! The head of the family is a man of great love and justice. It is said that he loves the Lu family very much, and he is also extremely fond of his strange son."

"...Looking at the silver hair of the second young master, you can tell that he is from the underworld. This Lu family is really a shameless woman..."

"Shhh...my aunt, you must never say this again. You are not afraid of death, but I am still...Okay, okay, let's go to work."

……

As the door closed and the footsteps left, the inner courtyard became quiet.

"The truth is also false, and the false is true!"

Lingling heard about Ye Tiancheng's life experience for the first time, as if he was listening to a storyteller and expressed his thoughts at random.

"You know it clearly." A figure flashed out.

Listening to Ye Tiancheng Gujing Wubo's words, Lingling turned sideways and continued to bask in the sun, "You're not going to kill the maids for talking nonsense about the master, right?"

"Humph! I'm used to it. Don't go too far, I don't care." Ye Tiancheng said calmly.

"...That's right, the world is long and it's hard to stop everyone from talking. Rumors stop at wisdom, like me." Thinking of Ye Tiancheng's heart disease, Lingling turned over and sat up curiously, and asked: "How much of what they said is true? of?"

"...Want to hear?" Ye Tiancheng's eyes moved slightly.

"You like to talk but don't talk." Lingling curled her lips and pretended not to care, but her ears were straight.

Seeing through this little trick, Ye Tiancheng sat next to her and said calmly: "In exchange, I will tell you, and you should also tell me yours."

He was not a person who was interested in other people's life experiences, but Lingling had too many secrets, and he was quite curious about them.

"Deal." Lingling agreed readily without even thinking about it. Is it hard for you to tell stories?

Ye Tiancheng's story is actually very simple, almost the same as what he has heard.

He is indeed the son of Ye Jinwei and Lu, and he is also a biological brother of Ye Tianyi. He didn't say much about why he had silver hair.

Lingling could also guess this, it was passed down from generation to generation. If someone deliberately uses this matter to make a fuss and takes it out of context, it will definitely leave people speechless.

Lingling tilted her head and asked, "Is your mother of Hades blood?"

"..." Ye Tiancheng seemed a little surprised, then returned to normal and said, "Why do you think so?"

"This is simple. If you are really the biological child of your parents, but you also have the characteristics of the Nether Clan, there is only one possibility, that is, one of your parents must have the blood of the Nether Clan. There is no abnormality on your father's side for many generations, then the problem must be On your mother's side, according to what you said, your mother is no different from the human race, and Senior Brother Yi has no differences, but you have appeared. This is a manifestation of intergenerational inheritance. So I conclude that your mother has the blood of the Hades. And the Hades have blood. The clan's elixir skills are famous all over the world, so they must have some connection with your Ye family." Lingling said what he was thinking.

Inherited from generation to generation! This is the first time I heard this term, but it sounds quite appropriate literally.

Ye Tiancheng was quite helpless. After saying something, Lingling analyzed so much, "Junior sister is indeed amazing. The Ye family's current glory is indeed due to the ancient times. The ancestors of the Ye family and the leader of the Red Clan of the Nether Clan are They are close friends. Afterwards, there was a vendetta among the clans, and the Chi clan and their ancestors had to lead their own clansmen to find their homeland..." He did not have to hide this. When Tianzong Pavilion interpreted the ancient texts of Taichu, there were several major clans in history. record.

"Times have passed, when vendetta has replaced kindness, the human race hates other ethnic groups, and the Ye family is also the same. My mother only found out that she had the blood of the Hades after she gave birth to me. You can imagine the blow and pain it caused her at that time ?”

Lingling thought thoughtfully and said: "...So she vented all this on you?"

"...Not bad." Ye Tiancheng answered very simply. The indifference in his words made the temperature around him drop a bit, and his pair of icy blue eyes looked even colder.

"Then, your face?" Lingling asked without hesitation.

"Yes, thanks to her. I will always remember her words..."

As he talked, Ye Tiancheng seemed to go back to the past.

Seeing the weak and helpless boy, he begged his mother to hug him, but he was pushed away. If he was happy, he would cook for him, and if he was unhappy, he would whip him with a whip.

“None of this would have happened without you!!”

This is the most sentence she has ever said... He went from crying at the beginning to silently enduring, just to let his mother take another look at him... But no matter how he tried to please her, what he waited for was ruthless whipping and She scolded her brother, who was often shut out of the door by her. What came out was his cry for mercy for his brother...

That day, she pushed him to the ground crazily and tried to strangle him, but she pulled out her hairpin and slashed it across his face. Afterwards, she cried bitterly and hugged him, but let him live well, and then used her head to The hairpin was inserted into his throat...

Blood splattered all over him, and what he saw was a bloody scene.

The moment his mother fell, he did not shed a single tear. The wound on his cheek kept flowing with blood, just like his tears. At this time, any pain on his body was less than one ten thousandth of the heartache...

He didn't understand or figure it out. Why did she want to raise him when she hated him? I hated him, but why didn't I kill him and finally chose to commit suicide?

He really doesn't understand her!

Later, he began to hate his birth! As she said, without him, none of this would have happened! I would not live in such pain...

"..." Lingling looked at the expressionless Ye Tiancheng as he narrated his story calmly. These images must have been circulating in his mind, torturing him.

Lingling didn't know whether to comfort him or not say a word. After thinking about it, he scratched the back of his head and said: "You are really stupid. It's okay that you didn't understand when you were a child, but you don't understand when you grow up." It’s unreasonable!”

Hearing this, Ye Tiancheng looked confused, turned his head and asked, "What do you mean? I really don't understand."

Lingling shrugged and handed him a cup of tea, signaling for him to relax.

Ye Tiancheng took the tea, took a sip, took a deep breath, and felt much calmer.

Seeing him relax, Lingling said softly: "Because your mother loves you deeply!"

"Love me? Impossible..." Ye Tiancheng snorted coldly.

"Mother's love is a weird thing because you never know what weird and terrible things a mother will do to her child.

Her love may make a great man, or it may raise a complete waste, it may be a good person or a bad person, but no matter what kind of person his child is, she will love her child.

If you don't love it, you won't be able to raise it. You will either abandon it, kill it, sell it, or hand it over to others to feed you. And she didn't choose any of the four, but she chose to keep you by her side. This is worth pondering.

Even if she wants to take advantage of you, it must be beneficial. As for her beating and scolding you, I personally think she should complain out of pressure, need an outlet for a moment, or have other reasons..." Lingling said the last sentence very cryptically.

"Is there any reason?" Ye Tiancheng frowned slightly and looked at her sideways.

"Yes, this is a feeling I have." Lingling rubbed her chin and thought: "Based on your mother's last actions and words, it's very strange. She didn't kill you but disfigured you. What did she hate or worry about? What are you afraid of? She chose to commit suicide, which shows that she loves and hates you. She is helpless and contradictory at the same time. It seems that she went to extremes because she failed to seek help.

I can feel that she is suffering a lot in her heart. If things continue like this, she will definitely have mental abnormalities. So, it makes sense what she did to you... In short, from my female intuition and perspective, I think she is loving and protecting you in her own way, but this way is quite weird. , and some are unacceptable..."

"..." Ye Tiancheng remained silent and stared into the distance, seeming to be recalling every detail of the past.

Lingling lay down quietly, putting his hands behind his head and looking at the sky without disturbing his thoughts.

Not long after, I heard Ye Tiancheng's clear and magnetic voice say: "Tell me about you."

"Yes." Lingling responded generously: "I can't finish my story for three days and three nights, but I'm ready."

There was a rare hint of a faint smile on Ye Tiancheng's plain expression.

He poured himself a full cup of tea and said quietly, "I'm fine."

"Okay, let's start from when I can remember..."

~~

It’s the sixth day of August and the sun is shining brightly.

A carriage stopped in front of Ye Mansion, and Hua Fengwei and Lingling got out of the carriage while chatting and laughing.

Seeing another carriage parked outside the mansion, Hua Fengwei asked her servant, "Who is this coming to the mansion?"

"Back to the young lady, it's a friend of the fourth master who is visiting."

Hua Fengwei, the fourth master's friend, pouted her lips calmly, and then said: "I bought some things in the car and asked someone to take them down and deliver them to my courtyard."

"Yes."

Hua Fengwei took Lingling's arm and walked up the steps. The two were as close as sisters.

"Ling, what do you want to eat tonight? I'll let someone make it."

Lingling chuckled and said, "I'm not picky about food, as long as it's delicious."

"It's so easy to make a living. Whoever marries my Ling is really lucky..."

"That's not necessarily true. I have a big appetite and I'm afraid that others won't be able to feed me."

"When you find someone you love, you will naturally eat less for him."

"Why? Eat, above all else."

"Okay, okay, you're right, you're the best."

While talking and laughing, the two entered the mansion and walked to the path outside the central hall.

Suddenly, a feeling of heart palpitations came, and Lingling immediately covered his heart and bent down.

"Ling, what's wrong with you?" Hua Fengwei was so frightened that she hurriedly stopped her and kept looking left and right, as if looking for someone to help.

Just at this time, Ye Tiancheng went out to do errands and met the two of them. Seeing this, he rushed over and supported Lingling.

"Sister-in-law, what's wrong with little junior sister?"

Hua Fengwei responded anxiously: "I, I don't know, I was fine just now, and suddenly it's like this..."

Ye Tiancheng grabbed Lingling's wrist and was about to take her pulse, when Lingling raised her arm and waved her hand, indicating that she was fine.

After two breaths, it returned to normal. She glanced sideways in the direction of the middle hall, then said a few words of prevarication, and pulled Hua Fengwei into the inner courtyard in a hurry.

Ye Tiancheng paused on the spot, his heart trembling. Lingling's look was familiar to him. This was how she looked at Xiong Yi in Xianju Mountain. Her eyes couldn't help but cast towards the middle hall. The person coming today was a friend of her fourth uncle. Could it be that that person was her enemy?

Sure enough, in the following days, Ye Tiancheng rarely saw Lingling.

Inside Luyuan Pavilion.

Lingling took the stack of information handed to her by shopkeeper Li with a serious expression and looked at it seriously.

Shopkeeper Li didn't dare to show his anger and waited quietly on the side.

During Yuan Fu's dynasty, at the early stage of the fifth-level spiritual realm, guests were invited to the house of Nong Qing, the household secretary of the Chen Kingdom. The residence was at No. 6 Chongjin Street in the capital city. He had one wife, thirty-six concubines, eighteen sons and twenty daughters...

The information is eighteen pages long, and the content is so detailed that every member of the family is clearly listed, including how many times the newborn boy breastfeeds a day, the name of the wet nurse, how many people are in the family, and what kind of work they do. .

Lingling was very satisfied with being able to obtain such complete information in just a few dozen days.

After taking out two porcelain bottles with forbidden seals and handing them to the shopkeeper, he left in a hurry.

Shopkeeper Li let out a long sigh of relief and wiped the fine cold sweat from his head. After looking at the porcelain bottle on the table and carefully delivering it to Master Shan, I felt completely relaxed.

A few days later, Lingling said goodbye to the two Ye brothers and Hua Fengwei.

When he left, he was dressed in men's clothing, looking handsome and indistinguishable from male to female. Hua Fengwei even felt "nymphomaniac" for a while.

Looking at her leaving figure, Ye Tiancheng knew that her revenge had begun.

The friend of the fourth uncle also left Qi State and returned to Chen State today.

In Ye Tiancheng's view, Lingling's story is an inspirational story. In such an environment, he not only has to practice secretly, but also make money for his employer, and also prevent his senior brother from being framed. The forbearance of lying dormant and waiting, She finally avenged her parents. Such a thing seemed to be difficult and impossible for a six-year-old child, but she did it.

But he also knew that the story was not as simple as she said, just avenging her parents. But those are her personal matters and have nothing to do with her. What she has to do now is to find out what happened to her mother back then and see if there is anything unknown hidden behind it.

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