Dark Star Field [Interstellar]

Seventeen elders of the Xue family were killed in the Hundred Flowers Temple Incident.

The remaining three are the Big Three with the highest status among the family elders.When the incident happened, they were located next to the emperor and were protected by the Habayashi guards, so they survived.

Xue Yelai is going to visit today is one of them.

Guided by the servants all the way, he walked into a large and antique study room.The elder with white beard and hair sat upright on the upper hand, his eyes were hale and hearty, but his complexion was not very good.

"Junior Xue Yelai, pay homage to the Great Elder." Xue Yelai bowed respectfully and deeply.Although he is the future patriarch, he is also a junior, and there should be no neglect in etiquette.

"Come at night, sit down quickly." The Great Elder ordered the servants, "Serve young master Xue with tea."

A high-back soft chair was placed opposite the desk, and Xue Yelai sat on one-third of the chair.It is not easy to maintain this sitting posture. It is necessary to sit upright without showing signs of muscle tension.After a long time, it is more tiring than standing.

When he was receiving etiquette training at a young age, his father once said: the so-called aristocratic elegance is to do those things that are tiring and gnash your teeth seemingly effortlessly, and keep it for a lifetime.

After exchanging a few interlocutors, the servants on the left and right stepped back, Xue Yelai cut to the chase, and asked about the Hundred Flowers Temple: "You saw the situation with your own eyes at that time, and you can tell me what happened specifically. .”

"Sin, sin." The Great Elder's face darkened, and the teacup was heavily placed on the table, "I have lived to such a great age, I thought I would never see such a bloody incident again in my lifetime. How do I know..."

Xue Yelai sensed something in the other party's words, and asked cautiously, "You mean..."

"There are some things that shouldn't be said in reasoning. But I'm already so old, and I don't have much time to live, so I don't have any taboos." The elder sighed, "The Su family was wiped out 20 years ago. Compared with our current situation, It's exactly the same, exactly the same!"

Speaking in a hurry, the Great Elder supported the edge of the table and coughed for a while.

"Don't blame me, an old man, for speaking inauspiciously. There are some things that are justified by nature and retribution. Back then, our three families joined forces to destroy the Su family. Although His Majesty gave the order, our three families are also to blame. .Now the retribution is coming, and our Xue family bears the brunt."

Xue Yelai shook the hand on his knee.This is not the first time he has heard these words.

He heard a rhyme when he was a child:

Perilla grass, purple flowers bloom, and wormwood grows in the perilla garden.

The autumn wind arrives everywhere in Artemisia Lai, and the doves fly away and never come again.

At that time, he didn't know what the ballad was about, so he followed others to read and play.His father was very upset when he heard it, and reprimanded him with a straight face, and he dared not mention it since then.

Later, he read from some books that many times, there are some unspoken information hidden in the ballads.People coded the hidden real stories and preserved them and passed them on to the world.

Xue and Su are both the names of herbs. "Xue" is Laihao, and "Su" is perilla.

More than half of the "Xue City" where the Xue family is located was owned by the Su family more than 20 years ago.After the Su family was exterminated, the emperor distributed the original assets of the Su family to the three major families.The Xue family made the most contributions and received the most rewards, and almost embezzled all the real estate of the Su family.

This is the hidden reality behind the song "Grow Artemisia in Perilla Garden".

The dove is the evil bird that invades the nest in the idiom "the dove occupies the magpie's nest".

"The Su family ended up that way because they colluded with the Interstellar Federation, and they deserved it." Xue Yelai repeated what his father had said to him.

The Great Elder shook his head, "There is a saying that I haven't dared to say for 20 years. Even if someone in their family commits treason, it will not kill the whole family. Poor Su family has thousands of people, young and old, and even a baby None of them stayed. Babies, what sin did they do? If they lived to this day, they would be about your age, and their life was just beginning. It's a pity, because of the mistakes made by the previous generation, they have no life of their own anymore gone."

Xue Yelai lowered his head.

The Great Elder lifted the lid of the cup, took a sip of tea to suppress his cough, "Son, it's okay if you've heard what I told you today, keep it in your heart, and don't tell others."

Xue Yelai hurriedly stood up and bowed slightly, "Don't worry about that. Although this junior is young and ignorant, he is not a person without sense of propriety."

The Great Elder beat his chest with one hand, and gently waved the other hand, "I am an old bone that is dying, and there will be no tomorrow after today, so I don't need to worry about the future. But you are still young, and the days to come Long. I have lived my whole life, and I understand a truth: Be careful when sailing for ten thousand years. Some words, even if you know you should say them, you have to let them rot in your stomach. Before one foot is in the grave , don't say it."

Xue Yelai nodded numbly, was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking: "Why, you want to tell me this?"

The Great Elder's eyes became kind and meaningful. Looking at Xue Yelai, he said for a long time, "Because you have a compassionate heart, child. I have a strong spiritual talent, and I have dealt with all kinds of people all my life. What kind of heart you have, and what kind of thoughts you have when you talk to me, I can see at a glance from the moment you first stepped into this room. When you reach my age, you will also hone the same ability. No, your talent is higher than mine, maybe it won't take that long."

There was something vaguely pricking Xue Yelai's nerves in these words, but he didn't have the time to think about what it was.

The Great Elder started coughing again, the sound from his lungs was dull and hollow.Even if Xue Yelai didn't understand medical principles, he could tell that the other party was seriously ill.It was inconvenient for him to bother, so he said a few more words and got up to leave.

Bai Yang was still waiting outside the hall.Warriors are equivalent to the weapons of sages. When meeting with elders, they are naturally not allowed to carry weapons, and they must be temporarily handed over to other people for "safekeeping".

"Have you gained anything?" Bai Yang asked after leaving the Great Elder's mansion.

Xue Yelai was a little surprised.Bai Yang seldom took the initiative to inquire about something, and always observed his words silently.From this point of view, Poplar is like a sage.

After a little hesitation, Xue Yelai replied vaguely: "The Great Elder is in poor health and has been coughing all the time. He didn't say a few words, but only talked about the situation at that time."

He didn't intend to hide it from Bai Yang, but he just thought that Bai Yang was hostile to the Xue family for unknown reasons, so there was no need to bring up these negative events of the Xue family with him.

Bai Yang didn't ask any more questions.

Thinking back on those conversations all the way, Xue Yelai suddenly realized what it was that pricked his nerves before.

The Great Elder said that he knew the thoughts of others at a glance.Xue Yelai is also a person with psychic abilities, so it is not an exaggeration to know this.

A hundred warriors in the Hundred Flowers Temple planned a rebellion. Such an obvious intention could not escape the eyes of the First Elder.

On that day, it was not that the Great Elder was unaware of the strange sign, but he deliberately didn't say anything.

Perhaps, he was atoning for the Xue family in his own way.Even this way of atonement is itself a sin.

Looking around at the huge "Xue City", imagining the tragedy of the Su family being exterminated, Xue Yelai unconsciously whispered to himself:

Perilla grass, purple flowers bloom, and wormwood grows in the perilla garden.

"What did you say?" Bai Yang asked calmly behind him.

Xue Yelai's thoughts were still on the past, and he replied casually: "It's nothing, I suddenly remembered a ballad I read when I was young."