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Xie Changming has been in Yuning Town for several days.

This is a small town in Yunzhou. It is located at the junction of the two countries. It is extremely remote. It is cold in winter and hot in summer, with constant wind, sand and heavy snow. There is only such a small town in a radius of tens of miles. This is also the only way for the two countries to do business. , precisely because of this, although the climate is harsh, the population of the town is not large, but there are many people coming and going.

The business of the inn is very good, and the people who run the business are all hard-working people, and they don’t want to spend too much money, so most of them book ordinary rooms.There is only one upper room in the inn. Xie Changming booked it. He said it was an upper room. In fact, the environment is also very bad. There is a thick layer of yellow sand on the window sill, and the room is very dusty. If the little Changming bird also came with him, he must be staying. Not used to it.

Xie Changming lived alone for three days.

This is the fourth day.

The town was small, and there were no villages around it—too little land to grow, and not many people to support.Not far from the inn was a pharmacy, and there were two people in it, the old doctor and his grandson.

The grandpa and grandson moved here three years ago. The old doctor is not in good health. He sees a doctor through a bamboo curtain, and can only vaguely see a vague figure.

The grandson greeted the guests outside and was responsible for taking the medicine. He looked only 20 years old and said that he had a marriage contract, so he rejected the kind introductions of several aunts.

Xie Changming could tell at a glance that the grandfather and grandson were the same person, and they were both Shu Zhaoying.

Shu Zhaoying deserves to be a person with the blood of Changming Bird, he can't do anything else, his cultivation is not good, and his illusion is not bad, but he is far different from Sheng Liuyu's, and cannot be compared.

Xie Changming was sitting by the window in the lobby, and he could see a small stall on the opposite side. The red bean cake made by Mrs. Yang was very good. When I go back, I can bring some to the little Changming bird.

Maybe I can come with him when I come to Yunzhou in the future, and let the little Changming bird know what suffering in the world is.

Someone asked Xie Changming what he was doing here, and he said he was waiting for people, more precisely, for birds.

It's not waiting for the book photo to throw itself into the net, but waiting for the green-tailed bird to find.

The birds from Xiaochong Mountain are obviously weird, and the method of soul searching is not very effective for them. Some things seem to be cursed, and they will be destroyed at the touch of a touch. They can't find the result, so they can only tell them by themselves.Shu Zhaoying is a cautious person. He has been hiding for so many years, and his hiding skills are top-notch. He will not let go easily. If he tells the truth, it will be even worse.

Xie Changming wanted to make him willing to speak.

into the night.

The winter night in Yuning Town is extremely cold, the sky is full of moonlight, and the cold white moonlight falls on the earth, everything is extremely deserted and quiet.

Xie Changming just waited.

As soon as the sun set, Shuzhaoying closed the pharmacy and returned to the backyard. The yard was full of herbs, just like all mortal yards, where no spiritual power could be found, and no one would be found living here. beast.Only when someone approaches the house and is about to open the door forcefully, the spiritual power will detonate the door lock, and the entire courtyard will be wiped out in an instant, and the people in the house will also escape through the underground passage.

Shu Zhaoying understands very well that the best disguise is to treat oneself as a real mortal, it is better not to use formations that are not so useful, and it will be easier to be found out if they are used.

Even if he is so cautious, it will be difficult for him to escape today's siege.

In the middle of the night, more than a dozen people descended from the sky and surrounded the small courtyard.

They trapped the whole town with a magic weapon in advance, in the sky and on the ground, except for the moonlight, not even a single snowflake could fly in.

The leader said humanely: "Shu Zhaoying, you have been hiding for hundreds of years, you deserve to die."

Shu Zhaoying doesn't want to die, he has been hiding for so long, and he has to change his whereabouts every few years, living a life of ups and downs, not as good as an ordinary mortal, just wanting to live.

But now it is also doomed.

Shu Zhaoying seemed to be that kind of weak bird, unable to fight back against a group of dead men who were fed by Qin Ji with pills to kill people.

He thought he would die today.

After a few cold knife lights, the yard was filled with the smell of rust, and the herbs that grew in winter were almost drowned in blood, and the leaves were dripping with blood.

Shu Zhaoying opened his eyes, those people, no, those corpses, were all lying quietly in the distance.

They have almost no power to fight back, just like themselves just now.Shu Zhaoying thought inexplicably.

He saw a man standing in the middle of the yard, with his back to the moon, and the last drop of blood from the tip of the knife just fell.

Shu Zhaoying took a step back unconsciously: "You, who are you?"

The man put the knife back into the scabbard: "Xie Changming. I have something to ask you."

Xie Changming walked up to him, easily unlocked the door, without triggering the only formation, and walked into the house.

Shu Zhaoying also followed in.

His face was pale, without the slightest trace of blood, and the shadow of death shrouded his heart, and it did not disappear at this moment.

Xie Changming lowered his eyes and didn't look at him. He just said casually, "This is just the first batch."

Shu Zhaoying is very clear that he was able to escape from Xiaochongshan because it was chaotic at that time, Qin Ji didn't care about him, it was enough for him to escape far away, it would take a lot of effort for Qin Ji to find him again, but now it is different, the green-tailed bird will Like a gangrene, he chased him until he killed him, and brought his body to Qin Ji.

Shu Zhaoying frowned tightly, he tried to calm himself: "You can save me, can't you?"

Suddenly, he seemed to think of something: "You came a few days ago to wait for them to come?"

Xie Changming was noncommittal.

Shu Zhaoying didn't know what to say, and murmured: "So what do you want to ask me? How can you save me?"

Xie Changming said: "You can go to a safe place first."

Shu Zhaoying took a breath, and laughed at himself, "Are you going to hide like this again?"

Xie Changming said softly: "Sooner or later, I will kill Qin Ji."

Xie Changming will not stay with anyone who has such thoughts about the little Changming Bird.

Shu Zhaoying looked at him, he still looked very young, and he didn't seem to be hundreds of years old at all, perhaps it was the few advantages brought by the impure Eternal Bird blood.

Shu Zhaoying said: "Besides trusting you, there seems to be no other way. After all, you even know that they are coming. It must be easy to kill me. You don't kill me because you have something to ask me."

"So, what are you going to ask me?"

Xie Changming looked up at him: "All, Changmingniao, Sheng Baiyun, Qin Ji and you."

Shu Zhaoying took a few steps back and collapsed on the chair, facing so many green-tailed bird corpses, recalling the long past.

According to blood relationship, he and Sheng Baiyun are brothers, but Sheng Baiyun will not admit it, and no one in Xiao Chongshan will admit it.

Because apart from the previous generations of Eternal Birds, the pure-blooded Eternal Birds will no longer allow anyone to give birth to mixed-blooded birds, which seems to be detrimental to the nobility, decency, and supreme honor of the divine bird.

Shu Zhaoying and his sister were just an accident. His mother gave birth to four eggs, and he and his sister were two of them. The other two had not hatched and would never hatch into chicks.

Their mother was just a very weak bird demon, not even a natural beast. By chance, it would transform into a human form, and then mate with Sheng Baiyun's father, and was driven by instinct to lay eggs and hatch them.

Later... Later, he and his sister were taken to Xiaochongshan.

Shu Zhaoying recalled those memories painfully. They and their mother were imprisoned in the palace of Xiaozhongshan. No one would visit them except the maid who delivered meals every month.Sheng Baiyun came here once, he took a look at Shu Zhaoying's sister, he was very contemptuous, he just thought they were bastards, people who shouldn't exist.

If mixed blood is a hybrid, then all the people in Xiaochongshan are, just because their only father is the Changming bird, not born from two mixed blood Changming birds.

Their mother died of old age after living less than 100 years. Shu Zhaoying and her sister buried her under the tallest tree in the yard.

My sister told him that one day, she would escape from here, and she wanted to see the outside world.

It's just that Shu Zhaoying didn't understand, if the people in Xiaozhongshan hated them so much, why did they bring them back?Obviously the mother doesn't know anything, no one will know that the blood of the Changming Bird flows in their bodies, and thus tarnish the reputation of the Changming Bird.

Not long after, their father seemed to have passed away, and Sheng Baiyun became the master of Xiaozhongshan. He no longer imprisoned them, and he didn't care about them, probably because their indignity belonged to the dead father, not Sheng Baiyun.

But they couldn't leave either, Xiaozhongshan was too big, and the outside was too dangerous, those maids always said so, even the bird that just took human form was much stronger than them.

In the final analysis, it was their mother who was too weak, and the eggs that were born could not bear the strong force, which was the case for the two eggs that could not hatch, and the surviving Shu Zhaoying was as weak as her sister and mother, even with the flowing light The bird's blood seems to only inherit longevity.

Fortunately, Shu Zhaoying has some talent in illusion. He told his sister that one day, he can fix the illusion and take his sister out of here. If he can't beat it, he can always escape.

But my sister didn't want to leave Xiaochongshan anymore, she met Qin Ji, she fell in love with this man, his face is not young, but he has infinite tenderness towards her.

Shu Zhaoying was a little sad, but also happy for her sister, because no matter what choice they made, they just wanted to live an unprecedentedly happy life.

But this is not happiness, but Qin Ji deliberately seduced her. After a long time, Shu Zhaoying finally understood this fact.

Xie Changming calmly asked with common sense: "Qin Ji was already an elder of the Changming Bird clan at that time, why did he do this?"

Shu Zhaoying looked at him and smiled mockingly: "I heard from Qin Ji that all the birds in Xiaochongshan have the blood of Changming birds, so if you want to get more pure-blooded children, you only need to use special methods to exclude those The blood that does not belong to the Eternal Bird, the female bird will briefly become a 'pure-blooded' Eternal Bird during the period of pregnancy, giving birth to a more powerful child with pure blood."

Xie Changming was taken aback.

Over a long period of time, through continuous intermarriage, the blood of all birds has become thinner and thinner. On the surface, such a method seems to be really feasible.

Qin Ji also said that those big families used this method to produce offspring, so would their children be born inferior?And everyone did this, and no one died, which proves that this is a very safe method, as long as the blood is transfused again after giving birth.

Shuzhaoying's elder sister was so cold-eyed that she couldn't stand the child doing the same, so she agreed.

Therefore, Shu Zhaoying's sister also willingly dedicated herself to that man in her dream.

Shu Zhaoying went to see her sister. Her face was pale, and she was so thin that only a few bones remained. She could only lie in bed and could hardly move. Girl, it's time to dress her up and let's go outside and play together."

He was very distressed again: "I'm too thin, it seems that I can't incubate eggs by myself now, and my husband may not be able to incubate either. Xiaoying, can you help me incubate eggs when the time comes?"

Shu Zhaoying said yes.

After giving birth to that egg, my sister died of exhaustion.

Qin Ji lied to her, he just wanted his sister to use her life to give birth to this pure blood egg for him.

Shu Zhaoying wanted to leave Xiaozhongshan, the place where all his relatives were buried. He knew that Qin Ji had bad intentions, and he stayed only to hatch a child for his sister.

This is my sister's last wish.

On the night when the egg shell was about to break, the bird inside was dying, Shu Zhaoying didn't feel sad, and didn't love him much.Because it is a male bird, if it is a small female bird, Shu Zhaoying may treat her as the reincarnation of her sister and mother, as their wish to be fulfilled, and have more love and affection for her.

But the reality is not like this. From childhood to adulthood, from birth to death, my sister's wish has not been realized.

So on the night when Qin Ji tried his best to save the little bird, Shu Zhaoying escaped. He knew that this was his last chance. If he didn't seize it, he would die here like his mother and sister.

He fled for hundreds of years, changing his hiding place every once in a while, until today, he was finally discovered by Qin Ji.

Qin Ji must not allow this secret to spread.

Xie Changming listened silently to the past, including the secret of the birth of Changming Bird, and asked, "Do you know about Sheng Baiyun's wife, that bird?"

Shu Zhaoying's mood seems to have calmed down, or because he asked someone who was not very relevant, he recalled for a moment: "I saw her, in the garden, they walked together, Sheng Baiyun brushed her shoulders and fell flowers. I've never seen him like this, they should be very affectionate."

"By the way," Shu Zhaoying seemed to suddenly think of something, "I heard from the elders that they seemed to look down on her because she only had a very thin bloodline, not much different from that of a green-tailed bird. Ji's face turned ugly when he mentioned the green-tailed bird."

"She is a hundred-year-old bird, so named because her lifespan is only over a hundred years, but it must be different after she gets married with Sheng Baiyun. Sheng Baiyun must have a way."

In fact, Sheng Liuyu has never seen his mother. He doesn't know what a centenarian looks like, and he doesn't know that he has spent a long time in the appearance of a centenarian.

All this is complicated and confusing, all because no one knows what happened in Xiaozhongshan.

The moon was very bright, and it was snowing in the sky, but not a single snowflake fell, all of them were blocked by the barrier.

The corpse gradually became stiff, and the rusty smell was cold, like an invisible knife.

Xie Changming thought for a long time, then suddenly asked in a low voice: "Have you thought about a possibility?"

Shu Zhaoying said: "What?"

Xie Changming said calmly: "The method Qin Ji said was not used by those families in order to pursue the purity of blood. Your sister has half of the Changming bird's blood and drains the other half. With half of the blood, she can barely survive. Laying eggs, and other birds have to expel most of the blood, so they can't support the pregnancy at all, so how can they produce eggs with pure blood? As for your sister, why did Xiao Chongshan imprison you? Maybe she is regarded as the next long bird. It is also unknown who the mother of the bright bird raised. After all, there are only two male birds at the same time in the generations of the bright bird. Do you know how they gave birth to the pure-blooded bright bird?"

Shu Zhaoying's face suddenly turned pale, and his voice was hoarse: "Impossible, absolutely impossible."