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A few wisps of floating clouds drifted past, the shadow of the bright moon was sparse, and in the pine forest, the shadows of the trees were mottled.

"Crack, crack!"

The dry wood made a sound among the flames, and the firelight illuminated the face of the black-clothed boy who was resting against the tree. There was a dense layer of sweat on it, as if he had wasted too much inner energy, and he looked very tired. The seventh son of the family, Xue Zijue.

Beside the fire, Zi Yuan was sleeping there, her skirt was open, revealing a corner of the chest cloth in her underwear.

Xue Zijue was playing with the purple jade pendant engraved with the word "Kite", his eyes were far away, and he couldn't tell whether it was joy or sadness.

The cool breeze was blowing, and the night was getting darker. Ziyuan sneezed suddenly and sat up from the ground.

Feeling a chill in her chest, Zi Yuan subconsciously gathered her clothes tightly, and looked at the young man in black in horror, "You..." He stopped his voice abruptly after speaking halfway.

Xue Zijue frowned slightly, and fixedly looked at Ziyuan, "Jiumei, please stay safe."

Ziyuan took a deep breath, turned her head away, and said coldly, "I'm still alive, Brother Seven, do you feel disappointed?"

Xue Zijue pursed his lips and smiled faintly, "Brother is very pleased that you are alive, how can you be disappointed?"

"Really?" Ziyuan gritted her teeth silently, her body trembling, and said shyly, "Seventh brother, I just can't figure it out, why do you have the heart to attack your dear ones?" There were tears, "You and I are biological brothers and sisters, how can you bear it, how... can you bear it?"

Xue Zijue's smile became a bit bitter, and he pulled up his sleeve to expose his left arm. Under the firelight, there was a scorpion-shaped mark crawling on his left arm, "Mother will definitely not bear that you are like me!" , or in other words, I won't bear to have you be the same as everyone in the Xue family."

"This is the mark of Emperor Gu!" Ziyuan's expression darkened, she couldn't believe what she saw.

"From the important ministers of the imperial court to the small officials in the countryside, which one in the Great Jin Dynasty has not drunk the loyalty wine given by the royal family? You should know that the royal family of the Great Jin Dynasty governs the country not by talent, but by the emperor's gu. As long as there is rebellion, the scorpion-shaped The imprint will appear on the left arm, and it will grow larger and larger until the imprint breaks, and hundreds of Emperor Gu will flow out, engulfing this person." Xue Zijue said it lightly, as if these things had nothing to do with him of.

Zi Yuan knew that Da Jin used Gu worms to govern the country, but she never expected that the Xue family and the Da Jin royal family would not gain the trust of the Da Jin royal family because of their close relationship and friendship. .

Once the scorpion mark appears, it will only get bigger and bigger. Undoubtedly, her seventh brother is running out of time.

Seventh Brother is rebellious, Seventh Brother is wearing night clothes, Seventh Brother...

Ziyuan thought of the black-clothed killer in front of the small wooden house, and the mysterious man who attacked Imperial Doctor Hua Zui tonight, and suddenly exclaimed: "Could it be... Could it be you who wanted Ah Ling to die?"

Xue Zijue nodded with a smile, smoothed his cuffs, "Yes, I want her life." Before Ziyuan could ask why, Xue Zijue continued, "She is not called Aling, she is Princess Huangling of Jin Dynasty, Xiao Zhanxue, she is also the best breeder of Emperor Gu selected by the National Teacher's Mansion, she is the woman that King Shu and King Qi wanted to kill but could not."

"No wonder she said that there is a word snow in her name." Ziyuan was not so surprised when she heard this. I don't want to be this breeder.

"Actually, she has been trying to get rid of this fate." Ziyuan finished speaking in a deep voice, shaking her head, "Seventh brother, if you kill her, won't there be a second Emperor Gu breeder? Can the personal shackles really be broken?"

"So, I want her to die." Xue Zijue's voice was hoarse, and he couldn't help coughing, and his left fist couldn't help tightening, as if the scorpion mark had begun to grow again, "I have made an agreement with the six brothers, as long as one of us In one breath, when I saw an Emperor Gu multiplier, I tried to get rid of it until the life of the Emperor Gu was exhausted, cutting off the Gu veins of Da Jin to rule the country!"

Ziyuan's heart was shocked, and she couldn't help feeling sour in her heart, "That's why you attacked me because you wanted me to stay away from all this, didn't you?"

Xue Zijue pondered for a moment, then lowered his head and said, "Three years ago, I put the body of the late imperial concubine there on purpose for you to see, and I deliberately pushed you off the cliff with my own hands in front of King Qi." Suddenly, Xue Zijue stretched out his hand and put it on Ziyuan's shoulder, with tears in his eyes, "Mother told me before leaving that I should find a way for you to avoid the royal imperial conferment ceremony, how far away you are, go How far, so..."

"If you can't make it in time, you won't come back..."

Ziyuan suddenly understood why her mother would say this to her on the night before her departure. The hatred and incomprehension towards Seventh Brother turned into mottled bitterness at this moment, which rotted her heart. .

She sniffed, raised her hand with red eyes, and gently rubbed Xue Zijue's left arm through her sleeve, "Seventh brother, in the past three years, I really..."

"It's the best thing for you to be alive." Xue Zijue gently wiped the tears from the corners of Ziyuan's eyes, and smiled as warmly as he did back then, "That day, I thought that as long as I estimated the height of the sea cliff correctly, I would be able to see it in the palm of my hand. When it hits you, seal your important heart veins, allowing you to enter the state of turtle's breath for a moment, and you will not be choked by the sea water after entering the sea, but I have calculated thousands of times, but I missed it, the person under the sea cliff There are too many undercurrents, no matter how many people I sent to look for you later, I will never find you again." Xue Zijue's voice suddenly became nasal, "For the past three years, I have been burdened with the responsibility of killing my own sister. Every time I see my mother, my heart hurts so much..."

"Brother Seven, it's okay, don't you see that I'm doing well now?" Ziyuan grinned, with tears in her eyes, and more of the deep joy of reuniting with her relatives, she fell down and fell into Xue Zijue's arms In the middle, he hugged Xue Zijue's waist, as naughty as before, "Actually, maybe we still have a second way..."

Xue Zijue shook his head with a smile, and patted Ziyuan's head softly, "You mean, don't kill Xiao Zhanxue?"

"She's alive, as long as she doesn't become a breeder of Emperor Gu, then the Gu meridian may also be broken." Ziyuan nodded solemnly, and sat up straight, "She is actually very innocent, who would be willing to be bitten by a Gu insect?" , and give Gu worms to breed offspring?"

Xue Zijue was silent, just listening to Ziyuan quietly.

"Since I met her, she has given her life to save me many times. She...she didn't deserve to die..." Ziyuan took Xue Zijue's hand, "If she dies, there will be a second, third, or even The fourth Emperor Gu breeder appears, I don’t want my elder brother to have any more troubles, Seventh Brother, I don’t want you to have troubles, let’s go back, maybe... maybe..." Ziyuan suddenly thought of the old woman, "As long as the mother-in-law is okay, there are gods Well water can save you!"

"The only thing in this world that can cure this Gu is the longevity cup. But the longevity cup is just a legendary sacred object. Who knows if it exists in the world?" Xue Zijue held Ziyuan's hand instead, and said seriously, " Ninth Sister, the Xue family will only rely on you and Eighth Brother from now on."

"Brother..." Ziyuan shuddered, thinking of what Xue Zijue said just now, he mentioned him and the six elder brothers, but he didn't mention mynah.

Xue Zijue nodded and said: "After he drank the Zhongyong wine, mother asked an expert to force all the wine juice onto his feet, and then created a bandit robbery, forcibly beheading his feet... ..." With red eyes, Xue Zijue's voice trembled violently, he couldn't help clenching his fists again, and hit the ground hard.

"..." Ziyuan was stunned, tears welled up in her eyes, she didn't know what to say for a while, she just wished she could fly back to Xue's house immediately, to see the starlings, mother, and brothers who were about to sacrifice.

"You're still alive, and it's good to be able to protect you in Dayun's female disguise as a man. But..." Xue Zijue shook his head in despair, "Dayun is not a peaceful place, and the Hanxiguan military disaster is just the beginning. No matter how powerful he is, he can stop the thousands of troops outside, but he will not be able to stop Lin'an's stabbing in the back after all, Dayun will sooner or later be in the pocket of Dajin."

"Besides, you are from the Xue family. If the six brothers and I are gone, you must bear the heavy burden of the Xue family." Xue Zijue spoke calmly, but it made people feel a sense of weight.

As soon as he finished speaking, his left arm started to ache again, and he suddenly hugged his left arm and clenched his teeth, as if he was trying to endure some severe pain.

Ziyuan hurriedly hugged Xue Zijue, and asked urgently, "Seventh brother, what should I do to save you, what should I do?"

Xue Zijue suddenly let out a series of terrible laughter, "I can go with peace of mind, and I can take Xiao Zhanxue to the underworld together, this life, it is worthwhile to go! Nine sisters, don't cry, Seventh brother should be yours Pride is not the object of your sadness, do you understand?"

"Seventh Brother..."

Ziyuan wanted to help Xue Zijue, but Xue Zijue suddenly pushed Ziyuan away with a palm, and threw the purple jade pendant that belonged to Ziyuan to Ziyuan, only to hear him tremble: "Make good use of your identity, maybe we The Xue family can save a few sons!"

Ziyuan caught the purple jade pendant, feeling as if she had taken on an unprecedented heavy burden. For a moment, what flashed through her mind was——the fate of the old lady, the fate of Ah Ling, the fate of Seventh Brother, the whole family of Xue life, and the life of the person she will use in the future.

"Cough!" Xue Zijue coughed violently, trying to raise his hand to cover the blood that was about to gushes out, only to realize that his left arm was already bloody.

His irony just now, those rebelliousness, intensified the surge of Emperor Gu in his body again and again.

He doesn't want to die, he also wants to rub his mother's shoulders, drink with his brothers during the Lantern Festival, take his eighth brother and ninth sister to travel all over the world, and see the beautiful scenery all over the world.

Only this time, he had only one dead end.

A satisfied smile curled up on Xue Zijue's face. He remembered that the old lady was hit by an arrow, and the arrow was fed with a poison that could not be solved in the world, so she must have died.

How can an old woman guarantee that a comatose patient will not get shot by such a mess of back arrows shooting into the cabin?

Xiao Zhanxue had no choice but to die, and Xue Zijue's mission was completed.

What is even more fortunate is that he proved that Qi Ziyuan is his younger sister, she is still alive, he did not kill his younger sister, their Xue family still has a clean living, can support a Xue family, and let the merchants' veins Continue to pass on.

Therefore, when he untied Ziyuan's clothes to prove that she was a daughter, and when he found the purple jade pendant, Xue Zijue tried his best to pour all his inner breath into Ziyuan's body. Ziyuan became stronger.

"Burn... burn me... Seventh brother doesn't want to be eaten up by bugs... doesn't want to..."

This was Xue Zijue's last plea.

Ziyuan looked at Xue Zijue in tears, she had clearly seen many Gu worms coming out of his left arm.

She had thought too much about the reunion and acquaintance, but she never thought that after finally settling the past, what she got was eternal separation.

He didn't kill his younger sister back then, but now he wants her to kill his elder brother with his own hands.

What kind of reincarnation is this?

"The Xue family... The Xue family... depends on... you..."

"Seventh Brother..."

A hoarse voice burst out from her throat, and when the flames rose from the forest, the smirk that once belonged to Qi Ziyuan disappeared from her face.