moonlit night

"Don't worry, Mr. Wang Shu." Before Yun Ya could reply, Ji Ditang took the lead in laughing and said to Yue Qingchen, "I will take good care of him after you leave."

"Who wants you to take care of him?" Yunya was extremely annoyed by his continuous self-talk, and turned her head suddenly, but saw that the other party was looking at her with peach blossom eyes, and there was obviously no smile at all.

Yunya's heart trembled, and she believed Ji Ditang's words "it's not a joke" for no reason.

Ji Ditang, among other things, does have a talent.No matter how big the matter is, after he said it lightly, it would become insignificant, as if it was nothing at all.

This self-proclaimed omniscient Pavilion Master of Langxuan sees everything in the world as child's play.So, what would make him say the words "it's not a joke"?

From the corner of the eye, he caught sight of the increasingly powerful lightning and thunder in the sky, but Yunya suddenly remembered that more than 20 years ago, when he was captured by Ji Ditang back to Huajian Wine on the way to Wangurusi, he was also thundering like this night.

The reason why Yunya entered Langxuan Pavilion back then was because her family was in decline. Her father was executed in the street because he failed to deliver the star map that should be completed to the court on time.But it wasn't that the star map was not finished as scheduled, but was stolen and destroyed by thieves who were jealous of his father's talent on the eve of delivery.

His parents are very affectionate. Although his mother has no spiritual roots and cultivation, she comes from a famous family and is usually very insightful. She is not a weak woman who can only cry when things happen.The husband was wronged for nothing, and died tragically under the tricks of the villain. She never shed a single tear, but she would rather die than continue to endure humiliation.So before the flamboyant enemy came along with the envoys who confiscated the house, she had already dressed up, and then set a fire in the study, burning the manuscripts that condensed all the painstaking efforts of the owner here.

When the fire started, Yun Ya was in the room, making final preparations for the upcoming escape.When the smell of burning wafted through the mansion, he had a premonition of something, and rushed out the door immediately, but was held back by four or five servants guarding outside the study.

At that time, Yunya was pressed to the ground, unable to move, she could only raise her head, and shouted "A Niang" hoarsely towards the sea of ​​flames and smoke in front of her.

The last time he saw her, she was standing in the middle of the sea of ​​flames, surrounded by yellowed scrolls that were gradually being swallowed by the flames.She clearly turned her back to him, but Yunya could hear her asking him a question.

"Yunya, do you know what Aniang likes about your daddy the most?"

The tear-stained boy shook his head desperately.Under extreme fear, he could hardly think about the meaning of this sentence, and only hoped that his mother would come out of that purgatory and return to him: "Mother, come out, come out! I... I'm going to kill them, I will definitely kill them. You come out, you come out first, please, please, okay?!"

The tone of the words changed, and the sound broke.And as the words fell to the ground, thunder suddenly broke out in the sky, almost piercing through the crackling sound of the burning fire.

The woman seemed to let out a sigh, and then turned to face him.A gust of wind blew, and the fire took advantage of the wind to burn the door of the study to the east and west, and then closed it again.

Yun Ya heard her say a word:

"Aya, keep your heart on the righteous way, and don't let yourself go. Be like your father, be... a gentleman with an open mind."

This was the last words that woman left him, and it was also the only expectation a mother had for her young son for the rest of his life.

To this day, Yunya can't even remember the woman's voice and smile.But the situation when she said that sentence, accompanied by the lingering pungent burnt smell in the air, has always been firmly engraved in his heart and has never faded away.

How could she not hate the death of her beloved with a stigmatized name?But no matter how much she hated her, her pride did not allow her to deal with the villain in the same way.Therefore, being able to die innocently is the greatest fulfillment for her in this world.

It was not until a long time later that Yunya figured out this truth.But at that time, the pain of bereavement went deep into the bone marrow one after another, even to the extreme, and made him feel resentment from the bottom of his heart. He hated that woman for being cruel, hated her for letting him beg him in every possible way, and refused to survive.

This resentment accumulated in his heart, and he desperately wanted to find a way out, but he could only kneel on the ground, watching that slender figure being swallowed by the raging fire, but there was nothing he could do.

A woman's life is too fragile.He never wanted to experience that moment of powerlessness again.

At that time, Yunya gritted her teeth, even though her face was smeared with tears, she refused to let a sob escape from her lips, as if if she cried out at this moment, it would be an admission of her defeat and haste.

The fire in the study was still burning, but he was taken away from the mansion by someone entrusted by his mother in advance, and sent out of the imperial capital overnight.The destination of this trip is Liangzhou in northern Xinjiang, where the emperor is far away from Tiangao. Yunya is too conspicuous to reach directly through the teleportation array of the imperial capital, so he can only stuff Yunya into a group of repatriated people through the secret door. The refugees were quietly sent out of the city, and they would meet again in Liangzhou.

Yun Ya sat in the carriage fleeing westward, silent all the way.The companions saw that although the child was disheveled, he was born with sword-like brows and star-eyed eyes, and they somehow knew that he had just lost his parents, so they felt sorry for Yunya and consciously did not want to disturb him.But the more Yunya thought about it, the more she felt that this hatred was hard to swallow, this hatred was hard to snow.So taking advantage of the night, he jumped down in the dark and rolled into the grass beside the road.Seeing that the cart was gone, he quickly got up and ran back.

He wants to return to the imperial capital.The enemy who ruined his family is still at large, how can he leave, how dare he leave?

But how easy is it to take revenge for a child who has no foundation or connections?He didn't even know how to control his innate ability to strike lightning.

It took Yunya three days to step into the gate of the imperial capital among a group of beggars.But after finally finding his way back to Yunfu, he found that the vermilion door was tightly closed, with only two seals left on it, like a silent mockery.

Yunya stood outside the door, staring blankly at the two glaringly white seals, her fists clenched so tightly that her joints were almost deformed by her pinching.He stood in front of the door for a long time like a little beggar who really went door-to-door begging for food, but in the end, he ran away first before others suspiciously stepped forward to check.

But the world is so big, why is it home?

From that day on, and for many days to come, Yunya only had revenge in her heart.He had no relatives in the imperial capital, and he was in danger of being discovered at any time, so he didn't dare to walk on the street blatantly in the daytime, and could only look for the enemy's mansion in the dark.

The enemy probably did something bad, and was especially afraid of ghosts knocking on the door, so he spent a lot of money to hire many monks to protect the mansion, and it is said that he also invited people from Langxuan Pavilion to escort him in secret.The reputation of Langxuan Pavilion is extremely prosperous, and whoever mentions it is afraid and fearful, especially in the imperial capital, even the emperor's old son has to give some face.Since he said that there was Langxuan Pavilion covering his head, naturally no one would dare to trouble him, even the old friends who had made good friends with Yunya's father in the past, would dare to be angry and dare not speak out.

But Yunya didn't believe in this evil. He stayed outside for a few days and saw that the people who came in and out were all ordinary people, and he didn't see any kind of monk.So the hatred in his heart overwhelmed the fear, and Yunya began to think of ways to sneak into that mansion.

At that time, his face was unkempt, and the plaster on his face was thicker than the city wall. He might not even be able to recognize his nurse who had served him since he was a child, let alone others.So he is not afraid of being recognized by others, or, in fact, deep down in his heart, Yunya even longs to be recognized by others.Because in this way, he can go all out to fight, instead of continuing to be like a mouse in the gutter, hiding around all day long, and even worrying about finding a bite to eat.

It's not that he didn't think about the future.But the vast future he had envisioned was out of reach, but the engraved enmity and hatred were within reach.

Therefore, when Ji Ditang saw Yun Ya for the first time, he was holding a blunt stick discarded by others, and was about to hunt and kill a vicious dog that his opponent brought to guard the courtyard in the alley under the shadow of dusk.His eyes were alert and sharp, with a coldness that should not belong to this age.

The dog was holding a meaty bone in its mouth, and was about to eat in the corner, when suddenly it was hit by a sap, and immediately roared angrily, Chao Yunya pounced on it.

It had just snowed that day, and the weather was really too cold. Yun Ya was still wearing single clothes, and she had been hungry for three days, and could stuff anything into her mouth.If he could, he could even swallow that sleek vicious dog whole.

It's a pity that the vicious dog is obviously experienced in many battles, and its movements are much more flexible than children.It was very impatient with this kid who interrupted its eating, and it just ate meat, which aroused its viciousness and thirst for blood.Every time Yun Ya was pulled down by it, she was very worried that the next moment, she would be bitten off by that vicious dog.Even because of the cold numbness and dizziness in front of his eyes, when the dog approached and hugged him, he suspected that it had bitten off his neck and was lying beside him greedily drinking blood.

I don't know how many times he was thrown to the ground by the vicious dog, Yunya completely lost his strength, so he simply held the vicious dog's tail tightly, while exerting strength with one hand, the other hand held up the stick and hit it hard, trying to Knock it to the ground before being bitten to death by that dog.But at this moment, he suddenly saw a crimson dress standing beside him.

The smell of powder from that person was very similar to the smell that he had smelled in his mother's room, but mixed with the stench from the sewage ditch at the corner of the alley, it made people feel nauseous.

Yunya got a splitting headache from the smell, so she couldn't wait to turn over, lying on the ground and retching for a while, but because her stomach was empty, she couldn't vomit anything at all.

When he finally recovered from the star-studded state, he found that the vicious dog in front of him was gone, and neither were the bones.Yunya looked up eagerly, but saw the vicious dog trotting all the way with a bone in its mouth, and disappeared at the corner of the street with heavy steps, as if it knew how to avoid it, and knew that someone he couldn't afford to provoke was coming.

At that moment, as if a certain belief and support collapsed, Yun Ya suddenly lost all reason.He simply fell back, laying straight on the ground, rolling on the ground, and weeping like a splash.

"It's so noisy, whose child is this?" The man covered his ears, "Hey, kid, what's your name?"

Yun Ya closed her eyes and cried for a while, finally wiped away her tears, raised her head, stared at Ji Ditang, but still ignored his question.Ji Ditang was never a patient person. Seeing that Yunya was not cooperating, he simply called the well-dressed maid behind him and asked her to bring a bucket of ice water mixed with snow cubes directly from the gutter behind him. I poured it on Yunya.

The bone-piercing chill quickly swept across the whole body, Yunya's whole body trembled, and her little face immediately turned black and blue from the cold.He has probably never suffered such a shame and humiliation, two fierce lights shot out of his eyes, and he quickly clenched the stick in his hand, as if he was going to rush to fight Ji Ditang for his life.

Ji Ditang didn't care about his fierce look, he just stared at Yunya's original face after being washed by the ice water, studied it carefully for a moment, then waved his hands to the back, calling out:

"Lin Lang, go and buy a steamed stuffed bun for this kid. Buy three, forget it, buy five, stuffed with dog meat, let him eat it with open arms today."

It was this sentence that made Yunya feel a bit suspicious besides resentment.And when the fragrant meat buns were really in front of him, he couldn't think about anything else, he just stuffed them into his mouth hungrily, until he couldn't hold them anymore, and then began to swallow with difficulty.

But when he finished eating and looked up again, there was nothing in front of him, but where was the scarlet figure?

Where have you been?

Yunya gripped the blunt stick tightly again, and ran out of the back alley as if flying.Seeing that the man in scarlet clothes and fox fur got into the sedan chair and was being carried to the bustling place, he quietly followed.He vaguely guessed where the other party came from, but he couldn't be sure, so he just followed at a distance until he saw the sedan chair enter Huajian Lane and stop in front of Huajian Wine, and finally he was sure. It's from Langxuan Pavilion.

People from Langxuan Pavilion, that must not be a good thing.

Ji Ditang got off the sedan chair and walked straight inside without taking another look at the crowd where Yunya was hiding.At that time, the night was just falling, and there were crowds of spectators outside Huajian Restaurant. It seemed that it was a big day for the oiran to perform dances. Yunya was rushed in by the crowd, her heart was beating like a drum, and she was afraid of being stopped, but she entered the lobby smoothly. , was suffocated by the fragrant and soft heat in the building, dispelling the chill.

He raised his ears and searched around vigilantly, but the person in the fox fur had disappeared long ago.