Ruan Qingjuan's knife hit the ground, causing several cracks.
Ruan Qin, who followed closely, pulled Ruan Qingyu up from the ground.
Under the surprised gazes of everyone who followed, they pressed Ruan Qingyu into his arms and hugged him tightly.
"Don't look, it's not your fault."
"Qingju, don't look."
The mother and daughter were at war with each other just now. Ruan Qin, who had repeatedly refused to let his son come out to share the burden for her son, was now crying and hugging her daughter.
Hua Xuan saw that Ruan Qingyu seemed to have lost her soul.
I couldn't help but feel a little thump in my heart.
"Could he be dead?" Hua Xuan thought with a shiver, "It can't be that he saw his brother's spiritual tablet, right?"
Take three steps and two steps at a time and rush forward to take a look.
But his expression was completely stiff.
Yan Duqing and Ye Shengsheng, who followed behind, thought that Hua Xuan's expression before was bad enough, but they didn't expect an even worse expression to appear on her face.
Hua Xuan slammed one hand on the smashed door frame next to her, and then she could barely hold herself up.
It would be better to let her see the spiritual tablet.
The smell of blood welled up in Hua Xuan's throat and she swallowed it back alive.
The room was bone-chillingly cold, and the condensed ice formed by countless spiritual powers covered the entire room. There was only a round stone platform in the middle. The stone platform was covered with frost, and more than a dozen formations gathered on the stone platform.
This is the formation that seals the physical body.
There is half a child's body on the stone platform. It looks like it must not have been more than four years old before death. Half of it maintains the appearance of life, and half has disappeared. Only the incomplete corners remain with charred residue. It is conceivable that You know, this half of the body was burned by the fire.
I heard Ruan Qingju say that half of his brother's body should have been burned at that time, but the burn should not look like half of his body turned into ashes.
"It's like." Hua Xuan thought in a daze, "It's like a half-burned candle."
As soon as this thought passed through my heart, I heard Ruan Qingyu's voice, which was so sad that it was difficult to speak. She said softly but heart-shakingly and tremblingly, "You made him into a candle."
Ruan Qingju held Ruan Qin's collar with one hand, her eyes were bloodshot, "You did it? Did you agree?"
Her brother did not survive the summer when he was four years old.
"I should have thought of it earlier. How could a four-year-old child, who couldn't write so many words, leave me such a long letter?"
Ruan Qingju lowered her eyes and looked at Ruan Qin: "He didn't survive that time after he was injured, right?"
Ruan Qin shed tears and said nothing.
Ruan Qingjuan grabbed Ruan Qin's shoulders, her voice suddenly rose, anger and despair finally broke through her chest, her heart was as shaky as her messy bun, "Why did you lie to me! Why did you do this to him! You tell me!"
"It wasn't Ruan Qin who turned him into this." A voice sounded, and Ruan Qingjuan, with scarlet eyes, was pulled away by a hand.
Separate her from Ruan Qin.
"Deputy Dean, do you also know about this? Yes, my brother was entrusted to you at that time. How could you not know? You two hid it from me together!" Ruan Qingju raised her hand and the knife on the ground fell. She held it in her hand again.
"We can't save him, he's already dead, why can't he be buried in peace?"
"Why do you treat my brother like this?" She had never shown a trace of dissatisfaction with her status as a domain guardian in front of others, but today the pain finally overflowed, "Am I not enough?"
She felt that when her brother was alive, he only thought that he might not come out to see her because of his poor health. Occasionally, in the dead of night, the suspicion that surged in her heart was suppressed by her remaining cowardice.
Rather than giving her brother an excuse like 'he's dead so he can't help her', she would rather that his brother was 'weak' or even 'selfish' and didn't come to help her.
Or maybe the mother prefers her younger brother so she doesn't let him see her, as if this way her pain and complaints can be vented and she can breathe a little.
The worst outcome she could think of was that her brother was gone, and that letter and every subsequent letter from her brother that she received every other month were also fake.
But the truth behind the whitewash is often more cruel.
"Am I not enough to hold on by myself?"
"He's dead, and you still won't let him go? Do you think that after I die, I still need a container to keep the domain fire?" Ruan Qingju's knife cut off a strand of Qing Shui's hair and scratched a red mark on his neck. , blood flowed down, "Then you use mine!"
Even though Ruan Qingju held a murderous knife on his neck.
Qing Shui had no intention of retreating.
"This is not your mother's intention, nor is it my intention." Qingshui said slowly, "It is Xiaoxia's own intention."
He still remembers that the child, who was only four years old, was already breathing out more and taking in less air when he was picked up by the pale-faced Ruan Qin.
With just one glance, he knew that the child could not be saved.
That day, it wasn't just Ruan Qingju's domain fire that broke out and burned Ruan Xia.
But when Ruan Xia saw that her sister couldn't bear the burning of the Territory Fire, she rushed over and moved half of the Territory Fire into her body. If Ruan Xia's child hadn't rushed in that time, Ruan Qingjuan would have died at that time. .
But Ruan Xia was already weak, and even Ruan Qingjuan couldn't bear it, especially when he was young.
"The first defenders of the domain were all selected in their prime, but soon, his descendants and descendants, the defenders who took over the domain fire became younger and younger. From the beginning, they were a hundred years old when they took over the domain. Fire, in your generation, was chosen by the Territory Fire at the age of four and moved into the body, because the blue flame is getting stronger and stronger, and it becomes more and more difficult for each Territory Guardian to keep the Territory Fire."
The initial takeover of Yuhuo is not that you can take over whenever you want, but that when Yuhuo leaves his predecessor, the next person can take over.
It is also the first time that twins like Ruan Qingjuan and Ruan Xia were chosen at the same time.
As for Ruan Qin, her foundation was damaged when she gave birth to Ruan Xia and Ruan Qingyu, making it difficult to have children again.
When the descendants of the Ruan family reached Ruan Qingjuan's generation, only two of them were left.
"Xiaoxia asked me at that time, can he still live? I said no." Qingfeng said slowly, "He asked me again, if he is gone, will you die if you lose control again next time?"
"I told him you were going to die."
Qingfeng recounted the conversation between the two that day bit by bit.
At that time, when Xiaoxia heard that her sister would die, she cried with red eyes and asked: "But I want her to be alive. My sister has forgotten what sugar tastes like." Ruan Qingju was tortured by the fire every day, but her tongue was still alive at that time. What does it taste like?
"Can you keep me from dying?" he begged.
He and Ruan Qingjuan were only four years old. At that time, they didn't know anything about the righteousness of the country. They were just thinking that if she didn't feel pain, the younger brother would be in pain. The younger brother thought that if he didn't feel any pain at all, his sister would die of pain. .
A child's world is small and can only accommodate a few important people.
Ruan Xia asked again: "Then how can I make my sister less painful? Is there any way?"
Qingfeng looked at him at that time, speechless for a long time.
Ruan Qin went to get medicine, and she could still hear Ruan Qin crying along the way.
Qingfeng knew that if Ruan Xia did not help Ruan Qingju share the burden this time, Ruan Qingju would die, and after her death, Ruan Xia would not be able to withstand the full flames.
That's why Ruan Qin agreed to Ruan Xia rushing into her room. Otherwise, how could a child rush in?
A mother is 'greedy' and wants both children to survive.
And now, Ruan Xia is about to die. Without her younger brother to help share the burden, Ruan Qingjuan, no matter how strong her willpower and talent, is only four years old, she will definitely die in an uncontrolled blue flame explosion.
Ruan Qin's cry seemed to be blaming herself for being greedy.
She was about to lose all her children.
Qingshui knows that when bad luck strikes, no matter what choice he makes, he will be wrong.
He faced the knife that Ruan Qingyu put on his neck and said, "I told him that day. I said that if he is willing, I can temporarily seal his body and preserve the most vivid body when he died. , when you can't bear it anymore, quietly draw out a part of the domain fire and store it in his body. It can only be used a few times, but it is enough to ensure that you survive the most difficult childhood."
"Qingju." Qingshui smiled extremely tiredly, "I've always wanted to tell you, but your mother didn't want to."
"If you want to be resentful, then hate me."
"I don't regret telling Xiaoxia this method, nor do I regret letting a child make a choice."
"Otherwise, even you wouldn't be able to survive."
