Sir, I can do it!

"Sister-in-law Jiang, it's so late, why don't you go to bed?" It was the woman in the yard next door who spoke. The two families have a close relationship, and she had been taking care of Mrs. Jiang before.

Just woke up at night and saw Dong's courtyard seemed to be dimly lit, thinking that something happened to Mrs. Jiang, hurriedly stepped on the basket and climbed up the courtyard wall to have a look.

Jiang said: "Please forget about it, I don't know what happened these two days, I'm always restless. Tonight it's hard to sleep no matter what, so I just got up and do some work."

"Sister Jiang is still thinking about Dong Yu?"

"How can I not want to."

"Sister-in-law, don't worry, Dong Yu has already gone. He was very filial when he was alive, and now he doesn't want to see sister-in-law grieving for him every day."

"What you said is that Yu'er is a filial person. Mr. Wei came two days ago, and I told him to go to Nanfu again to see Yu'er. He said that I will arrange this matter when I recover. Now I'm fine, but I'm always uneasy about this matter, so I want to go to the city tomorrow to find Mr. Wei."

"I know it's an abrupt move, but there's really nothing I can do about it. The family is struggling, let alone owes Mr. Wei a piece of silver. However, the candied fruit that I made at home caught Mr. Wei's eyes, so I want to make some at night and give it to Mr. Wei tomorrow." Mr. Wei sent it."

"So that's the case, so I don't worry. Sister-in-law, don't stay up too late. I see that Mr. Wei is different from those noble gentlemen. He is kind and generous. He never regards us as inferior people. He will definitely help sister-in-law. "

Mrs. Jiang filled a bowl of candied fruit and handed it to the woman: "Keep these for your youngest son to eat, and if there is not enough, there will be more at home."

The woman took it readily and thanked her with a smile: "Sister-in-law is used to pampering him."

Changsun Ke was taken to an unknown mountain where there were many children.

"Young Master will live here from now on."

Changsun Ke held Ah Si's hand tightly: "Where are the father and mother? Are they coming too?"

Ah Si withdrew his hand: "My lord told me, the only mission of my son is to get out of this mountain alive. If you live, you will be able to see your lord."

Changsun Ke suddenly felt frightened: "What if you can't get out?"

Ah Si replied: "Then stay here forever."

"No, I don't want it, I want my father, I want my mother, Ah Si, take me back, take me back!"

Ah Si picked up the thin eldest Sun Ke, and handed him over to a swordsman with a hideous scar on his face: "You don't have to show mercy to his training."

Changsun Ke is the youngest of these children. When he first came to the mountain, he was helpless, and he was very scared every day.Those children will not humble him, let alone pity him, they will only bully him and laugh at him.He is living in a nightmare.

Gradually, the cruel training made him temporarily forget his fear.He only knows that here, he has to fight for food, sleep, and everything, and if he falls behind, he will be beaten, and no one will care if he is beaten to death.

Here, they are not people, but beasts.

Many years later, the scarred swordsman said to them: "Among you, only ten people can leave this mountain. Whoever can survive to the end can leave. The time limit is ten days."

This is the ten days that Chang Sun Ke never wants to recall in his life. He was 14 years old that year.

Fighting, wrestling, poisoning, assassination, betrayal... In ten days, he saw all the filth in the world.He was able to survive to the end not because of luck, but because of his methods, which were even more cruel.

On the last day, the Scarface Swordsman said to the ten of them, "Congratulations on passing the test. You can go down the mountain tomorrow."

He turned to Changsun Ke, knelt down on one knee, and said respectfully: "This subordinate is ordered by the adults to carry out training matters. If there is any disrespect, this subordinate is willing to be punished."

Changsun Ke raised his hand to help: "Master and professor have made meritorious service, so I would not blame you. But since you are willing to be punished, I will not ignore it. After all, I will not embarrass Master. Please use your hand Let’s make amends with the sword in Li.”

The Scarface Swordsman was taken aback.For a swordsman, the sword is life.

But Changsun Ke is no longer the child who was bullied by others in the past. In the future, he will be their master.

The swordsman presented the sword that had been with him for decades with both hands: "This sword is called Mu Han, and it ranks second in the sword manual. Please accept it, my lord."

Changsun Ke took it with a smile.

"A swordsman without a sword, can he still be called a swordsman? In other words, a famous swordsman in the mountains uses the swordsmanship he taught to make his apprentices kill each other. This is what a swordsman should have." what?"

Scarface Swordsman's pupils trembled.

"You are no longer worthy of being a swordsman, and this Mu Han has already lost its luster in your hands."

Changsun Ke flicked his wrist, a sword move was clean and neat, and a bloody arc sprayed like falling red plum petals.

The nine people looked at each other, knelt down and shouted in unison: "Young master!"

Changsun Ke sneered: "Do you think I am the master?"

"Yes!"

Changsun Ke stared at the sky, the gloomy sky, the north wind whistling, and the fine snow particles swirling in the wind, within a short while, the mountains were covered with silver frost.

Mu Han sword swept across, a sword of frost, blood stained silver frost.

"You guys are not worthy."

Ah Si came as promised, and when he saw the tall and straight figure in the pool of blood, he was shocked and even more frightened.

"Young Master, Ah Si will take you home."

Chang Sun Ke glanced at him: "This is the first time you have been so respectful to me."

Ah Si fell to his knees, trembling uncontrollably.

Changsun Ke ignored it, and looked at Mu Han whose hands were stained with blood: "I have sharpened my sword for ten years, but I have never tried the frost edge. My sword has been sharpened, but I don't know who would dare to try the edge of the sword."

When he saw Changsun Yi again, the father whose voice was already blurred in his memory, Changsun Ke had no joy or resentment. He was very calm, as calm as seeing an insignificant person.

Changsun Yi faintly suppressed his anger: "Why did you kill them? You know this is my ten-year effort! These people will be sent to various places..."

"Send them to various places to continue this kind of training, and select more children like me back then, right? These people will play the role of the swordsman in the future, right?"

"so what!"

"No. They are alive, they will only let me remember the embarrassment and embarrassment of the past ten years forever, they will always remind me of the misery I experienced in those ten years, and they will make more children like me struggle in endless dark abyss."

"Confused! Your name is 'ke'. I told you that you must always remember the meaning of this word, and always remember the beliefs you should abide by..."

"That's your belief, not mine!" Chang Sun Ke interrupted Chang Sun Yi coldly: "I have never seen the country you mentioned, nor the home you mentioned."

He looked closely at Changsun Yi, and continued: "The Changsun family in Shanyin is a famous family. The ancestor, Linchuang Linchuang, came to the east of the Wenguan, and flourished literature. For several generations, the Changsun family only talked about learning and did not get involved in disputes. If a disciple goes out of the mountain to enter the world, he will not I regard myself as a student of Donglin. If a family member enters the court and becomes an official, he must first be removed from the family and leave the family."

"Since the time of our ancestors, there have been 130 people who have been removed from their naturalization and entered the court as officials. Among them, princes and generals have succeeded one after another, making the students of Donglin Wenguan very popular as soon as they entered the world. Shanyin Changsun's family was prosperous. There are countless scholars in the literary museum. At the end of Chu, there was a war, the four kings separatist regimes, and the old nobles also had constant disputes. When the Qi king occupied Shengjing, the world was peaceful. The Changsun family has escaped from the world, and it is still stable today."

"Father came out of the mountains in troubled times and fought with the King of Qi. Now he is also a minister of the Qi State. Then, father, whose country is the country you are talking about? Whose home is the home you are talking about! Mother? You lost your mother You destroyed your mother’s house, and now you want to get it back for her? Then what am I?”

"Presumptuous! You are the son of my eldest Sun Yi, and you want to disobey my father's order? Why don't you know the word loyalty and filial piety!"

Changsun Ke laughed loudly: "Loyalty and filial piety? I have been in the mountains for ten years, and no one has ever taught me these two words. I only know how to live and live for myself."

Changsun Yi remained silent for a while, and lowered his head, as if he had aged a lot in an instant.It was only for a split second that the gloomy gaze was replaced by sternness, and he was evaluating whether the young man in front of him could really be used by him.

"Ah Si will take you to meet your mother, and also, your younger brother."

Changsun Ke always believed that blood ties would bring natural intimacy between brothers.But when he saw the well-dressed young boy, he was not disturbed.

"elder brother."

The little boy smiled at him, a standard polite smile.His every move is in compliance with laws and regulations, and his every gesture is full of the demeanor of a nobleman.He was sitting in front of the desk, holding a book in his hand. He didn't get up, but just looked at him indifferently, and raised his noble hand: "Sit first, mother will come later."

Maybe ten years of cruel life made him forget how to laugh and how to get along with others.He sat on the side sullenly, not squinting.

I haven't seen her in ten years, time seems to have left no trace on that weak woman, she is still beautiful.

Changsun Ke looked at the woman and didn't know how to speak for a moment.

"You're back."

"Yes."

"This is Chen'er."

Changsun Ke's heart trembled.

Chen, where Beichen is located, the hub of the stars.The name Chen means emperor.

Ke, abide by one's duty.It turned out that what they wanted him to abide by was the young boy in front of him.

He stood up and said to the woman, "My mother is well, so I feel at ease. Now that I have seen it, I will leave."

"Wait." The woman stopped him, "I have something to tell you."

She turned her head and patted the little boy's head, and said softly: "Mother made crabapple cake for you, you go and eat it first."

Changsun Ke watched coldly, feeling desolate in his heart.It turns out that it's not that she doesn't know how to be gentle, it's just that she gave all her tenderness and delicacy to her younger brother.

His mother still said a lot to him that day, about her country, her great cause, her enemy... Also, she asked him to assist his younger brother, the younger brother who regarded himself as a minister from the beginning.

He didn't respond, but asked her: "Mom, what does the crabapple cake taste like? Is it delicious?"

The woman seemed a little at a loss, but she quickly realized that she hurriedly asked the servant to bring a portion, and persuaded him with a smile: "Eat it, I made it with my own hands, Chen'er likes it very much."

Changsun Ke only took a sip, then put it down expressionlessly.

"It's sweet."