[Sword Three] Mountain Ghost Ballad

Luodao is the only way from the southwest to Luoyang, and it was once a bustling and lively place. Among them, Lidu City is not much worse than the towns in Luoyang. Many martial arts people will choose to live here after they get married.

However, since a "plague", many people have moved away from this place, and even the imperial court has vaguely abandoned this place after sending officials here many times to control it ineffectively. Only some villagers who have lived here for generations Stubbornly stay here and refuse to leave.

At this moment, in Changshou Village, which has been abandoned for a long time in Luodao, Tang Qingling, dressed in a dark blue dress, stood quietly in a courtyard full of weeds, and several silent disciples of the Tang Sect were scattered about a dozen steps away from her. place, closely observing the surrounding movement.

Tang Qingling looked up at the door facing her. Her face was covered with half a silver mask, making it difficult for people to see her expression clearly. She raised her foot and approached the dilapidated house, and she didn't dislike the view above. Dust, stretched out his hand and gently pushed open the dilapidated door, a burst of dust rushed in, revealing the cobweb-covered interior.

The furnishings in the room are very simple, with only a small bed, a table and chairs, and a bronze mirror on the dresser beside the bed. There are some needles, threads and a pair of scissors in the box in front of the mirror. Because no one has used the scissors for a long time, a thick layer of rust has formed on the surface.

Only from the well-furnished bronze mirror, Tang Qingling knew that this was obviously a woman's room, and then she found three wooden bowls from the cabinet in the corner, one of which was obviously smaller than the other two ...

She stared at the wooden bowls, frowned and then let go, as if thinking of something, she reached out to pick up the three wooden bowls and looked at them carefully. As expected, on the side of each wooden bowl, there was a A small bamboo leaf, the smaller wooden bowl, with a round panda head engraved next to the bamboo leaf...

Seeing this, Tang Qingling finally couldn't help but chuckled, and murmured: "It's really like my dead dad's style..."

Thinking of this, she stretched out her hand and gently took off the mask on her face, revealing the beautiful face that had been hidden for a long time, her pair of phoenix eyes were slightly raised, and there was a hint of coldness in the brightness, but at this moment, there was a hint of coldness in the eyes looking around the room. Be gentle.

She has always disliked taking off her mask because her appearance is too soft and beautiful. Even if she puts on a cold face when she is angry, it is difficult to deter others. People who don't know her character will often regard her as weak A woman, so she will never show mercy to those disciples who "judge people by their appearance".

However, even if this weak appearance caused some troubles when she was walking in the rivers and lakes, she never disliked her own face, because her father once said that she looked very much like her mother, whom she had never met. In this regard, she has looked at herself in the mirror more than once since she was a child, trying to find a trace of her mother's appearance from her face in the mirror.

Thinking of her mother, Tang Qingling looked at the room again, and finally stretched out her hand to sweep away the cobwebs beside the bed, and sat down slowly on the edge of the bed, not thinking that the dust on it had stained her clothes made of exquisite Shu brocade.

Her eyes swept across the bed, then the dressing table beside the bed, and the damaged handkerchief that was half sewn on it, and a beautiful and gentle woman seemed to appear in front of her, sitting where she was sitting now , mending things with needles and threads, and on the opposite side, there is a man holding a child and looking at the woman smiling...

child……

Thinking of this, Tang Qingling's eyes turned cold, and she thought of the missing child who should be her younger brother or sister. The Tang Sect sent people to look for it all these years, but there was no news at all. Even the father and mother were also missing five years ago. After I cut off the news, I'm afraid all of this has something to do with the red-clothed teacher!

Exhaling a breath, Tang Qingling stood up and walked around the house a few times, feeling a little irritable in her heart, but her memory couldn't stop going back to many years ago.

Tang Qingling grew up in Tangjiabao, Bashu. Her grandfather was Tang Huaiyi, one of the four elders of the Tang Sect, and her father, Tang Aofeng, loved her as a jewel in his palm, but she had never met her mother.

Whenever she asked about her mother, even the oldest and most experienced great-grandmother in the family, Mrs. Tang, couldn't explain why. When her father heard her mention of her mother, he smiled wryly and comforted her that her mother lived elsewhere. Because of some difficulties, she couldn't come to see her, but she didn't understand why her mother couldn't live with them.

Before she was five years old, her mother was always a kind but unfamiliar symbol to her. Until the age of five, her father left home for several months, but when he returned, he was covered in blood, holding in his arms a girl who was as big as her but had eyes. Drowsy boy.

The father said that it was the twin brother of her mother, who had been living with her mother before.

When she heard this, she looked at the younger brother who didn't have a trace of focus in his eyes and looked a little dazed, and couldn't help feeling a little envious, envious that he could live with his mother all the time.

At that time, she was still too young, and she never thought about why her mother hadn't appeared for many years, nor did she think about why her younger brother, who was born as a compatriot but separated for five years, seemed a little abnormal when he appeared five years later thing.She only remembered that when her younger brother first came to Tangjiabao, he was a little stupid, and he couldn't even speak well. No matter how she teased him to speak, he always looked lifeless.

Later, with the efforts of Tang's seniors, the younger brother gradually returned to normal, at least he could speak, and he no longer stared blankly at one place. With many quirks.

For example, don't like or even hate red...

Another example, I hate women in red clothes...

At that time, she didn't understand what these eccentricities of her brother meant, she just thought it was due to his eccentric temper, until they grew up.

That year, when she was 14 years old, the Tang Sect and the Beggar Clan joined forces to ambush Mingjiao in Fenghua Valley, but they were defeated, which was known as the Battle of Fenghua Valley in history.

In this battle, Tang Sect suffered heavy losses. None of her uncles who participated in the battle came back alive. Although her uncle Tang Aotian returned safely, he also lost a leg.

As for her father, witnessed by his disciples, he was stabbed through the chest by a member of the Ming Cult. He was seriously injured and fell to the ground. There was no possibility of him surviving, but his body was not found in the end...

The grandfather was heartbroken, but he couldn't find any evidence that his son was still alive, so he had to gradually accept this fact.

But after learning the news of her father's death, she only felt a sense of unreality for the people in the Tang family who comforted her in the castle. Why did everyone think that her father was dead?

The body was not found, was it?

Maybe it was the mysterious mother who never showed up who rescued him?Maybe it's just that the father's injury was too serious and they were treating the injury, so they didn't send back the news in time.

At that time, the rest of the Tang family thought she was crazy, talking nonsense because she couldn't accept the fact that her father had died.In those days, all the cousins ​​and cousins ​​even tried different ways to make her happy in order to get her out of the sadness, but they didn't believe her intuition. Only the taciturn younger brother believed her.

He said that his father must still be alive, because his mother would never leave him alone.

Just this one sentence gave her confidence.And at the end of the second year after the Battle of Fenghua Valley, she waited for the news.

A mysterious person sent a letter to the castle, and the letter was locked by the credit institution. The method of locking the ring was actually the method used by the father, and he specified that he would give it to her!

Of course, the letter couldn't be delivered directly to her, and it was intercepted by the grandfather who was worried about her safety. When he opened it, he found that it was the letter from his father who had been missing for nearly two years, and the letter was not addressed to her. , is for grandfather!

That was the first time she saw her grandfather weeping with joy, the elder of the Tang clan, who was always indifferent to emotions, held her hand tremblingly but couldn't speak.

Later, her grandfather told her that her father was indeed still alive. At first it was because of serious injuries that he did not get in touch with the castle, but now he is with his mother. After finishing dealing with the affairs around him, he brought his wife back to Tangmen to pay a formal visit to him. Elders in the door.

If Tang Qingling had to describe his mood at that time in one sentence, it should be that happiness came too fast.

During those days when she was waiting for her father to bring her mother back home, she spent almost all of them in excitement. Even her cousin Tang Wule, who had always disliked her, was given several smiles by her. But it scared the other party enough.

However, waiting excitedly did not bring satisfactory results in the end.

At that time, she was too happy and thought things too simply, so she didn't notice at all, the increasingly worried expression on her brother's face when he heard the news... But even if she noticed at that time, she didn't have the heart to explore Bar.

Just like that, after that letter from home, the news of my father disappeared like a stone, and there was no trace of it anymore, as if he had evaporated from this world.

Later, my grandfather sent someone to investigate the incident in Fenghua Valley, and finally found some clues, and learned that my father and a woman lived in Changshou Village of Luodao for a short time, and the woman, it was said, seemed to be pregnant with Liujia at the time. ...

But when the people from the Tang Sect arrived at Luodao, the building was already empty, leaving only traces of people living in the house. The nearby villagers also said that the owner of the house had already moved away, and they did not ask for it. where to go.

As a result, the news about the parents was cut off again, until some women in red clothes also began to stay in Maple Valley, as if they were inquiring about something, and with the mother's identity learned from her younger brother, she couldn't help but It is suspected that the disappearance of the parents is related to the Red Clothes Sect...

What's more, after so many years, her parents may have been killed by the leader of the Red Clothes Sect. If she finds out the truth, no matter what the price is, she must kill the Red Clothes Sect to sacrifice her parents' souls in heaven!

…I just don’t know if the child in the mother’s womb was born or not. If it has already been born, why should it be eight or nine years old this year?

Thinking of the child who didn't know whether to live or die, Tang Qingling tried her best to calm down the suffocation in her chest, but for some reason, she suddenly remembered the little girl who was with Liu Yunxing half a month ago. In terms of age, she was just right...

Tang Qingling shook her head with a wry smile, how could there be such a coincidence in this world?

"Miss, there is a secret letter delivered in the castle!"

The call from the disciples outside brought Tang Qingling back to her senses. She took two steps outside and said, "Come in and talk!"

A half-face masked male disciple quietly appeared at the door, and silently handed over an undamaged letter. Tang Qingling took a look at it, but couldn't help but slapped the table angrily, "This is unreasonable! I knew that I should have poked a hole in that kid with an arrow in the first place! There wouldn’t be so much trouble now!”

"Senior Sister, what happened?" Tang Hanyi, who was guarding the door, heard the sound inside the house, so he came to have a look worried.

Tang Qingling was still angry, he raised his hand and handed over the letter, saying, "Look for yourself!"

Although Tang Hanyi felt that it was inappropriate for him to casually read the secret letters in this castle, but seeing that the senior sister who had always known her was so unabashed, she knew it was not a big deal. , wanting to know what it was that made the senior sister furious, but found out that it was a letter written by Mrs. Tang.

After reading the contents of the letter, Tang Hanyi was left silent, holding the letter in his hand, a little confused: "Senior Sister...then, don't we have to rush to Yangzhou immediately?"

"According to their footsteps, it is estimated that they will have already left Yangzhou. Hanyi, please tell the disciples along the way to pay attention to their news. Let's go directly to the Jinshui road, so that they can leave Yangzhou and go north. The nearest road should also be to Gold water..."

"Yes, Sister."

"Really, one or two don't worry about it. In my opinion, Tang Wule should poison that kid to death!" Tang Qingling said angrily, but Tang Hanyi burst out laughing.

Tang Hanyi, who attracted the angry eyes of his senior sister, continued to smile, and said, "Senior sister is saying this now, I'm afraid that when you find Xiaowan and Brother Wule, senior sister, you will help Xiaowan protect her sweetheart again!"

"Hmph, that kid is a scourge!"

Tang Qingling was still angry, but she didn't mention poisoning the boy who abducted her sister to elope, although no one knew what she was thinking.

Seeing that Tang Qingling was in a better mood, Tang Hanyi dared to mention what happened in the Tang Sect recently. Thinking of Tang Xiaowan who was missing now, she couldn't help but worried: "I don't know what's going on with Xiaowan now. Knowing martial arts, I don't know if I can bear it after traveling around with Ye Fan these days."

Tang Qingling was also silent when she heard this, and said lightly: "Whether you can eat or not is the second priority. The most important thing now is what Xiaowan plans to do next."

"What should I do?" Tang Hanyi obviously didn't understand the meaning.

Tang Qingling sneered and said: "The matter between her and Ye Fan has almost shocked half of the world now. Before, Ba Dao was aggressive, and later, uncle sent people to arrest their Tang disciples. Now Tibetan Jian has an ambiguous attitude. The so-called hiring As a wife and Ben as a concubine, the old owner of Cangjian is a person who has always been respectful and conservative, how could he allow Xiaowan to follow Ye Fan into Cangjian like this!"

"Then Hidden Sword wants Xiao Wan to be a concubine? How dare they!" Tang Hanyi couldn't help being furious when he heard this, how could their eldest lady of the Tang Sect be someone else's concubine!

"Of course they don't dare!" Tang Qingling showed a strange smile, and said, "It should be said that under such circumstances, Cang Jian just wants Ming Mei to marry the Tang Sect, and it is impossible for Xiao Wan to marry him!"

"Why?" Tang Hanyi asked in amazement.

"Because my uncle who wants to marry Ba Dao, he won't agree!" Tang Qingling suppressed her smile and said lightly, "Although I don't know what Uncle Aotian's purpose is, I just hope that the Tang Sect will not be harmed." OK, otherwise..."

Tang Qingling didn't say anything after that, and Tang Hanyi didn't dare to ask any more.

She looked up at Tang Qingling's gentle side face, which was already covered with frost. This reminded her of the night when the eldest daughter of the sect master, Ms. Shuyan, left five years ago, Senior Sister Qingling's expression was as gloomy as it is now unknown.

She always felt that the Tang Sect was about to change...

The author has something to say:

In fact, in the story told in the last chapter, Fuwu is better than Huanqing Bunker, because Fuwu was discovered by Assassin after many years in the dark. After a pair of twins were born, they were all sent away. The children are all teenagers. , and then had another child, the heroine √.

Forgive the author's brain hole, please pat.