snow wolf ballad

On the spring day of the first year of Tianxi, it has been almost two years since the establishment of the Great Demon Organization Xueji, and the operation of the organization has also been on the right track.Since each of the big monsters divided their territory two years ago, in the past two years, every big monster of the lord has been doing his best to rectify the situation of the monsters in the area under his jurisdiction.The scattered little monsters and wild monsters were all pulled into the organization, and the unscrupulous monsters were strictly controlled, and the cruel and unconquerable ones were directly wiped out.After two years, the world has become much cleaner, and there are no more rumors of monsters making trouble.

When the territory was divided the year before last, Red Fox chose the northeast of Suzhou Prefecture, away from her hometown - the prosperous Central Plains, and came to such a rural area near the sea, only fishing villages and fields. Understand why she chose to be here.The only one who really knew the reason was the one in the East China Sea, except for herself and the Snow Wolf King and a few big monsters.

Fortunately, the territory of the red fox is not considered a poor area. It is a land of plenty and riches, and there is no shortage of celebrities from ancient times to the present.For example, this was the fiefdom of Chunshenjun Huang Xie, the famous Ling Yin of Chu State in the Warring States Period, so the tributary of the Yangtze River flowing through this area was also called Chunshen River by the local people.Another example is the ancestral home of the family of Ji Dalang, the political adviser of the dynasty, in Huating County under the rule of Honghu.However, in the past few years, the Ji family's ancestral house seems to be a bit uneasy, with funerals happening again and again.

At the beginning of last year, that is, in February and March of the ninth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Ji Zihao's first wife Chu Shi, the fourth lord of the Ji family, died of illness after three years of lingering illness.This year, which is the first year of Tianxi, Ji Zihao also left with his wife.During the two funerals, the relatives in the family cried to the point of tears. Ji Zihao and Chu Xuanfang have three children. The eldest son has already married and had a son. Now he has inherited the fourth house and still lives in the ancestral house.The eldest daughter has already been married, and came back from a long distance last year to attend her mother's funeral, and kept mourning for her mother for more than half a year. Before returning to her husband's house, her father was seriously ill and passed away soon.Only the youngest son, Chu Huiting, was not seen. Although this child took the surname of Chu from his mother's family and became the heir of his mother's family, he was still Ji Zihao's son. His mother died and he was not seen. Now that his father is dead, he is still nowhere to be seen. Some rumors spread.

These gossip inevitably fell into the hands of Hong Huan, who was in charge of all kinds of information, and soon reached the ears of Hong Hu.It was said that Chu Huiting was ungrateful and ungrateful, but the family members kept silent about him, saying that he was a wolf-hearted man, and most likely he had done something outrageous.The red fox didn't care about these things, she just pretended she didn't hear them, and when the words passed by her ears, she forgot all about them when she turned around.What does this have to do with her?The red fox didn't pay much attention to it, and the demon clan in Hong Huan naturally didn't pay much attention to it. No one cared about this news, and it was quickly forgotten.

Red Fox's mansion is on a small hill not far from the mouth of the Chunshen River. She also imitated her lord Snow Wolf King and built a tall building in the mansion called Wanglong Pavilion.On the pavilion, you can see the billowing yellow waves blending with the blue sea every day.Ever since the Songjiang Mansion was properly managed, the red fox has become a little weary.Wanglong Pavilion is where she lives every day. These days, she likes to set up a soft couch in the position with the best view in Wanglong Pavilion, leaning lazily on the couch, flipping through books and drinking wine.Sometimes, I don't read the book, just holding the wine cup, staring at Jiang Hai in a daze.

Lu Rong, who was serving beside her, sighed in her heart more than once, whether it was "Wanglong" or "Wanglong", I am afraid that sister Honghu couldn't tell the difference.

Spring is here, the weather is getting warmer and flowers are in full bloom, it is a good time for outing.Speaking of which, in two days it will be the Qingming Festival, the red fox suddenly became interested and wanted to go out for a walk, and asked Lu Rong to bring a kite, and she was going to fly a kite in the suburbs.The recording was a novelty, and Sister Honghu hadn't been in such a good mood for a long time, so she agreed in a hurry.

On the day of Qingming, the weather was not very good, it was gloomy, and it felt like it was going to rain.But it can't stop Honghu's determination to go out. Over the years, Honghu has become more and more casual, and rarely restrains himself when he thinks of what to do.How can a mere drizzle stop her.So according to the original plan, she took Lu Xun and two accompanying sisters to the outskirts of Huating County to fly kites and go for an outing.

Although the weather is not beautiful today, there are really many people who go out.Halfway to the road, there was already a thin and dense drizzle, and the whole Huating County looked misty and hazy.In the drizzle, the wealthy wives and ladies holding oil-painted paper umbrellas, the ignorant toddlers, and the green cattle in the water fields in the distance seem to blend into the painting.There are also some men and women from poor families who are in a hurry and don't seem to be interested in playing. They are holding tomb-sweeping tools in their hands, braving the rain, and they are probably in a hurry to visit the tomb and worship their ancestors.

It was raining heavily today, but there was no wind, so the kite couldn't fly.The red fox was not upset, but walked slowly with an umbrella, looking at the scenery on the road.

Walking and walking, far away from the county seat, and entered a large prefecture, the population gradually became thinner.The white walls and black tiles in the distance, and the overlapping corridors with double eaves made Lu Rong and a few sisters in the back realize that probably the sister had unconsciously walked to the boundary of the Ji family's ancestral house.After walking this way for a long time, even the big demon felt a little thirsty.And the drizzle wets the clothes, and the body is a little cold, and I want to drink some wine to relieve the chill.Thinking of this, the red fox only felt that the wine worms were crawling in his belly, and looked at a shepherd boy leading a cow from a distance, wearing a bamboo hat and coir raincoat, walking slowly along the field ridge towards the road.She stepped forward to bless her body, and said politely:

"Excuse me boy, is there a restaurant here? My sisters and I walked here and lost our way. We want to find a restaurant to eat and rest."

The boy's voice was crisp and clear, seeing that the red fox was beautiful, his cheeks flushed, and he said with a smile:

"The land around here belongs to the Ji family's mansion. Where is the restaurant? The lady walked along the road for three miles to the west, and there was Chixiu Village. There was a big apricot tree at the entrance of the village, and there was a place to the east of the tree. restaurant."

"Thank you boy."

"Young lady, you are welcome."

Saying goodbye to the cowherd boy, the red fox continued to take the sisters on the road, not far away for three miles, and soon saw an apricot blossom tree in the distance, exuding fragrance in the drizzle, and the snow-white petals were wet by the raindrops, soaking through .

The red fox suddenly chuckled, and opened his mouth to chant:

"It's raining heavily during the Qingming Festival, and the passers-by want to die. May I ask where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. Hehehe, I didn't expect that I, Red Fox, would have the same situation as the former Mr. Muzhi today. Wonderful, Miaozai!" (People in the Song Dynasty said the former dynasty, generally referring to the Tang Dynasty, but also referring to the Later Zhou Dynasty.)

Lu Ying thought to herself, although my sister had a happy smile on her face, she felt so miserable in her heart. "I want to break my soul", that is probably my sister's real feeling at the moment.

A group of people found the restaurant that the shepherd boy mentioned, put away their umbrellas at the door, patted off the wet rain on their bodies, and sat around a table. The waiter came to ask for food. good wine.When all the food was ready, he began to eat and drink slowly.

This village is next to the Ji family mansion, and most of the villagers are tenants farming for the Ji family. The [-] mu of fertile land here is all the property of the Ji family.The restaurant at the entrance of the village is actually a private brewery of Ji's family. This family has replaced Ji's family for three consecutive years. Maybe the Ji family opened a small restaurant to supplement their household income.The wine provided to customers in this store is the second-time wine left over from the wine making workshop, and all the best wines are offered to the Ji family's mansion.

This information was all heard by the red fox and his party when the young man in the waiter was chatting with a middle-aged woman who looked like a shopkeeper.It was drizzling, and the village was remote, so there were not many people, and even fewer people entered the restaurant. When they were free, these country people would inevitably chat and talk about things to pass the time.In the lobby, apart from the red fox and others, there was only a man in a rough cloth bunt sitting alone at a table in the corner, drinking in silence, with a veiled cap on his head that had never been taken off, and a veil hanging down, making it impossible to see his face clearly.

The young man in the waiter and the middle-aged woman in charge of the shop are mother and son. It is a small tavern run by the family, so there is no taboo in speaking.What's more, the mother and son spoke in a very low voice, if it wasn't for the red fox and his party, they were big monsters with extraordinary hearing, so far away, they might not be able to hear clearly.On the contrary, the single man in the veiled hat was relatively close to the counter, so he might have heard the conversation between the mother and son.

"Our boss's life has been difficult for the past two years." The middle-aged woman said.

"Isn't that right? I heard from the little six sons who worked in the mansion that the big house master who was a high-ranking official in Bianliang City was not going well in his official career and was demoted from Beijing. It happened in the previous February. The second room and the third room In order to fight to the death of you and me for the division of production, both losers lost three dolls in the past two years. The old lady Ji was so angry that she suffered a stroke and fell ill. She is still not recovering. Both Mrs. Chu and the fourth master passed away one after another. Ji Jiasheng If you don't pet me anymore, I'm afraid it will also affect our village."

The woman looked around cautiously, lowered her voice again, and leaned into her son's ear and said:

"I heard Mrs. Xiu next to Mrs. Sanfang say that Mrs. Chu's death seemed strange. People in the house dared not say it publicly, but secretly guessed that it was probably done by the youngest son of Mrs. Sifang. Mother killing, Just thinking about it gives me goosebumps."

After hearing this, the son was surprised and said: "The youngest son of the fourth house! Is that the Sanlang Lord Chu Huiting who was adopted by Chu's natal family?"

"That's right, isn't it." The woman clapped her hands again and again.

The son rolled his eyes and suddenly said: "It's true, he ran back from Chu's house suddenly more than a year ago, and went back overnight, and the news of Mrs. Chu's death came out the next day. He has never returned since then. Playing house, the funeral of parents didn’t show up, it’s really suspicious.”

Seeing that her son still didn't believe her, the woman hastily added: "Not only that, what's even more strange is that Chu's natal family moved away overnight! Think about it, this is too coincidental." Mrs. Xiu said After Mrs. Chu passed away, the fourth master went out several times to look for the Chu family, but he returned disappointed. Later, he got a heart attack and died. You said that the Chu family is not evil, but I heard that it is a Taoist family. Stay away from those monks and Taoists, they are demons all day long, they don't know what they are contaminated with, and they are very unlucky."

"Crack", the crisp sound of broken porcelain resounded in the shop, startling the mother and son who were discussing in secret, and the woman even screamed in shock, her complexion turned pale.Looking around, it turned out that the hooded man sitting in the corner accidentally broke the wine cup.The waiter's son hurried forward and asked:

"Guest officer, are you okay?"

"No...it's fine."

The man's right hand was trembling, or his whole body was trembling. His hands clenched the hem of his clothes, making them crumpled.And the little brother who ran the hall squatted down to collect the fragments of the wine cup. When he looked up from the bottom inadvertently, he happened to see the face of the veiled guest under the veil.The little brother snorted lightly, and said involuntarily:

"Guest officer... The guest officer seems to be genuine and kind, have we ever..."

"Second Brother, that's the bill. You don't have to look for the extra. I'll pay for it." The man in the hood lowered his voice and said in a rough voice, then found two taels of silver with him and slapped it on the table. He picked up the burden on the side, turned around and left.

When going out, he was tripped by the threshold, stumbled to stand still, and almost fell down, which made a sister beside the red fox laugh out loud.

"Sister, there seems to be something wrong with that person, do you want to send your subordinates to follow and observe." Lu Yan said cautiously.

"Why bother, let him go, what does it have to do with us?" The red fox said leisurely, "We came out today to play, don't worry about it."

She had already sensed the emotions of the man in the hood, shock, hesitation, bewilderment, fear, grievance, grief and indignation. In just a quarter of an hour, in such a small country tavern, it was quite a feat to have such rich emotional changes. rare.But the red fox is not interested. She is rarely interested in human emotions. In such a long life, she has seen too much and experienced too much, and she has already seen through it. The so-called human beings are just ugly It's just a boring guy, why bother to think about it so much.

So I just drank leisurely, late in the evening, and then walked back home slowly.Not long after, the matter was forgotten.

Besides, the veiled man came out of the tavern and untied the horse tied to the tavern. His hands and feet were weak, he crawled several times before he finally climbed onto the horse's back, and then galloped towards Ji's mansion in the distance.But as soon as he reached the gate of Ji's house, he reined in the reins and dared not knock on the door.Suddenly, the man in the hood suddenly heard a faint female voice ringing in his ears:

"Ting'er, Ting'er..."

The veiled man shivered all over, his body trembling on the horse's back, his back tensed and his waist bent, nervously picking at his fingers, and said in a broken voice:

"Mother, mother, it wasn't me... I didn't kill it..."

"Ting'er, Ting'er...Mother hurts so much, my heart hurts so much..." The voice echoed quietly.

The veiled man was so frightened that he hugged his head, the veiled cap on his head was deformed by him, his small words amplified and brought a crying voice:

"Mother, I didn't kill you, you know that Ting'er loves you the most. Ting'er stole your things, it was Ting'er's fault, but I didn't kill you, how could I kill you! When I left, you were clearly still alive!"

"Ting'er...Ting'er...you're finally back...you're back...don't go away..."

"No!!!" The veiled hatter Chu Huiting roared in fright, pulled the reins, turned the horse's head, and galloped off into the distance.He can't go home at all now, and everyone is suspecting that he killed his mother. He has become a sinner, a murderer, a madman.No, he must clear his name.He didn't do it, who killed the mother, who? !He wants to find out, he wants to avenge his mother!

At the age of 16, he left the side of Ji's parents and entered Trumen to formally learn Yin Yang.At that time, my mother had been lingering and sick for two years, and she never got better.She searched all the medical books in Truman, even the book of witchcraft, but she couldn't find a solution. When he was 17 years old, he finally found a very ancient bamboo slips in a bookcase interlayer of Trumen Library.The bamboo slips recorded all kinds of unheard-of treasures of heaven and earth, as well as a profound formation.The bamboo slips said that this formation can be used to cure any disease, provided that all the treasures of heaven and earth are gathered to cast the spell.This formation can also be retrograde, but it must not be easily retrograde, unless there are some special circumstances.However, the special circumstances recorded later are already unrecognizable because of the blurred handwriting.

Chu Huiting was overjoyed, thinking that he had finally found a way to heal his mother.He excitedly took the bamboo slips to ask his adoptive father (in fact, he should be an uncle, and he is called adoptive father after adoption. Chu Xuanfang’s elder brother has no children.) After reading it, the adoptive father nodded and said that the contents of the bamboo slips should be true, and he could try .Chu Huiting asked about the treasures of heaven and earth listed on the bamboo slips one by one. When it came to a kind of jade that can glow at night, Chu Huiting suddenly remembered that three years ago, his mother's dowry was stolen, and the thief left it behind. A jade pendant, that jade pendant was made of a special material, and could emit light at night. He held it in his hand and played with it for a while. Looking back now, doesn't it just match the characteristics of the jade recorded in the bamboo slips?

Chu Huiting made up his mind, packed his bags hastily, and planned to go to Ji's house to ask for a jade pendant first, and then set off to treat his mother after collecting all the treasures of heaven and earth.The jade pendant was a keepsake after all, and his mother was very precious, so he had better find another piece of jade to treat his mother's illness, if the jade pendant was damaged, it would be bad.But the records on the bamboo slips were vague, and he was afraid that he had made a mistake, so he planned to borrow the jade pendant for comparison.

With this in mind, he went to Ji's house.Unexpectedly, he had an argument with his mother on the sick bed.He has a childish nature and is unwilling to admit his mistakes, let alone admit that he asked for the jade pendant only to treat his mother's illness.His mother still refused to agree, and he was so angry that he planned to take Yupei away secretly.So that night, he performed the sleeping technique to make the servant girls, including his own parents, all fall asleep.Then he rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, found the jade pendant, and the note stored with the jade pendant, and took them away.

After more than a year, he traveled all over the world through mountains and ridges, ate and slept, suffered a lot, and finally found all the materials he needed.Now that I came back, I wanted to give my parents a surprise, but I didn't know that once I entered the Ji's house, I would hear the sad news of the death of my parents, and I was also given the notoriety of killing my mother.

He galloped all the way, wanting to go back to Truman and ask his adoptive father clearly.But just like what the people in Ji Zhai Village said, the Chu family moved out and the original house was sold to others.He was so disappointed that he felt like a lost migratory bird who didn't know where to live.

While hesitating, he was inadvertently patted on the shoulder from behind. When he turned around, he immediately said in surprise:

"Father!"

The person who came was his adoptive father, the current head of Tru Clan.The two found a secret place to talk in secret. It turned out that Truman's relocation was a decision made by his adoptive father a long time ago. The adoptive father was afraid that he would not be able to find a place when he came back, so he hid here for a long time and waited. He would monitor the gate of Truman's original house every day. Finally waited for him to come back.The adoptive father first asked him if he had killed Chu Xuanfang, but Chu Huiting swore he would, and the adoptive father believed him.So he told him the real reason why Truman moved away.

"I deciphered the words on the bamboo slip after the retrograde formation. We Trumen have always shouldered an important mission. After a thousand years, we want to find a person and use the retrograde formation to take out what belongs to us from her body. Your mother used the big prophecy technique to predict such a thing back then, so she gradually died because she leaked the secrets and exhausted her divine energy. Her prophecy was stolen, and the jade pendant and manuscript left by the thieves are now in your We must find out the details of the prophecy left by your mother in the past, so as to find the person in the prophecy. The person who stole your mother's prophecy is inseparable from your mother's death. Truman is in the light, he is in the dark, It's not good for us. We have to hide, search secretly, and come to find him. Once we find him, then everything will be clear, so that your mother died unjustly, do you understand?"

Chu Huiting didn't suspect him, and nodded bitterly, but he didn't notice that a strange red light flashed in his adoptive father's eyes.

"Let's go, follow me to the east of Zhejiang." The red light flashed away, he said.