Shortly after she was rescued a year ago, Mu Qingyan told her where Lu Chengnan's bones were buried. So she rushed to Wu'an Mountain with her weak and injured body, dug out a coffin with a road to the south from the back hill of Changjia Wubao, and planned to bury it separately.
While sorting out the remains, she discovered that there was a small golden phoenix hairpin hidden in his sleeve.
Winter turns to spring, and this person dies young. Only this long-lasting promise has passed through the dust of long years, still shining golden and exquisite as new.
Looking at the confused Yu Huiyin, Hu Fengge suddenly felt tired. She was too lazy to argue with this hypocritical and cowardly mediocre person - she was a girl raised by Lu Chengnan, who dared to love and hate, and was decisive and straightforward. Since you have no intention, I will give up. If you bully me and harm me, I will repay you a hundredfold!
"Master, can Yu Huiyin really be at my disposal?" Hu Fengge slowly turned around.
Mu Qingyan's eyes were indifferent, "Elder Hu, please help yourself."
Hu Fengge lowered his head and cupped his hands in thanks, "It's hard to see blood in the palace, so take the person outside."
You Guanyue immediately sent two of his subordinates to move the immobile Yu Huiyin and his chair outside the hall. Hu Fengge continued to be supported out of the hall by Qiu Cuilan.
Qiu Cuilan seemed to have thought of something, her face was as white as paper, her steps staggered, and she almost tripped when she passed the high threshold of the palace.
Shangguan Haonan, who was standing against the wall, saw this and sighed poetically, "I feel pity for such a beautiful woman."
You Guanyue squinted her eyes: "What's the matter, do you want to add another piece of green to your Yingying Yanyanhonghong, so that the four of you can have a table of gambling and chess together?"
Shangguan Haonan touched the stubble on his chin: "That's not a bad idea."
"Hmph! What a lustful man!" You Guanyue shook her sleeves angrily.
The two of them had only said four words when they heard two short screams coming from outside.
You Guanyue and Shangguan Haonan looked at each other. The sound was clearly made by Yu Huiyin, but with Yu Huiyin's cultivation and character, he would not scream out even if he suffered some torture, not to mention it was too fast.
Soon, the guards outside the temple rushed to report, "Report to the leader, Elder Hu cut off the hands and feet of the traitor Yu Huiyin, and then threw them into the mass graves in the back mountain to feed wild dogs!"
You Guanyue gasped, Shangguan Haonan grinned and hissed, Yan Xu's whole body stiffened and he could hardly write.
Only Mu Qingyan chuckled: "Okay, okay, Elder Hu finally recovered."
You Guanyue quickly agreed: "That's right, if the tiger doesn't show off its power, they will treat her as a sick cat. If she doesn't show some seriousness, people will think that our Elder Hu's illustrious reputation is just a boast."
There was deep fear in Lu Fengchun's eyes, and the words for mercy were stuck in his throat.
Mu Qingyan glanced at him briefly and said, "Send Elder Lu on his way, more conveniently."
Lu Fengchun knew that his life could not be saved, so he couldn't help but plead: "Master, my little family..."
"Don't worry." Mu Qingyan stood with his hands behind his back and said in a gentle tone, "As long as they no longer take the initiative to cause trouble, I will not touch any of the captured Lu family members."
The light from the tall brass chandelier swayed slightly, illuminating his handsome and fair face in half-darkness, making it difficult for people to see his expression clearly.
Yan Xu continued to write, fulfilling the responsibility of a pen-wielding messenger.
Lu Fengchun thought that his family, young and old, were now prisoners of Mu Qingyan, but this was only half right.
When attacking the stronghold where the Lu family was hiding, Mu Qingyan deliberately asked his troops to simmer slowly. Not only did he not rush to attack, he even refused to accept the opponent's happy surrender. Instead, he cursed and ridiculed outside the battle every day. As a result, any Lu family member with half a temper would lose their patience and come out to fight - including Lu Fengchun's three sons, four sons-in-law, and seven or eight nephews.
By the time they entered the stronghold, there were only a few captured Lu family members, and most of them were women, children, old and weak. To these people, Mu Qingyan was very kind and amiable. Not only did he find a village for them to settle in, but he would also distribute farm tools to them in the future, so that they could be good people and do good things in the future.
This method is both cruel and effective.
Yan Xu couldn't comment a word. After all, many loyal believers died because of Lu Yu's rebellion.
A loud thunder struck, and suddenly it rained heavily outside.
Shangguan Haonan personally escorted Lu Fengchun out and immediately rushed to Jixian Cliff for the execution. Yan Xu knew that many believers must have gathered there waiting to watch the execution.
You Guanyue looked at Mu Qingyan's eyes and stepped forward to untie Li Ruxin's mute point.
Li Ruxin saw and heard everything that happened just now. Her body trembled slightly and she tried to calm down, "The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. What do you want to do with our mother and son? I have nothing to say! But you are the leader, A word is worth a thousand dollars, so don't forget what you said!" When she said the last sentence, everyone could see that she was already stern in appearance and inwardly inwardly.
Mu Qingyan sighed softly, "Actually, in my heart, I have always secretly admired Nie Hengcheng."
Yan Xu was stunned, why did he turn to this topic?
You Guanyue and Li Ruxin were also stunned.
"Compared to my willful grandfather and indifferent father, Nie Hengcheng actually admires the position of leader more." Mu Qingyan's voice sounded in the middle of the night, with a touch of hoarseness in the clear tone.
"If you think about it carefully, I have been determined to do anything since I was a child, and I have used all my martial arts, resourcefulness, and mental strength to fight against Nie Zhe. It was never Nie Zhe, but Nie Hengcheng—his only remaining disciple, and the reputation he left behind. There are also members of the tribe who will never forget him.”
He walked out of the shadow of the lamp, his young and fair face showing the vicissitudes of life, "Although I hate Nie to the core, I did not let Elder Yan remove Nie Hengcheng from the list of past leaders. Nie Hengcheng is still the undisputed tenth member of our sect. A generation leader."
Li Ruxin was filled with sorrow, and she cried: "Father, stepfather... why did you leave so early? You left us, what should we do? What should we do?"
Nie Heng City is a majestic and towering tower that casts a long shadow, shrouding everyone around it. While he was alive, everyone did as he commanded. Everyone surrenders to him, trusts him, and is intimidated by him.
When he died, it was like a giant tower collapsing, and the people exposed to the sky were at a loss, as if they had reached the end of heaven and earth.
Originally, if Lu Chengnan had not died and taken the lead and shouldered the responsibility, there would still be time for him to regain his vitality, but...
"This makes me feel relieved. After all, it is a bit embarrassing to take people like Nie Zhe as opponents and fight to the death." Mu Qingyan smiled softly, "So I went to figure it out. Nie Hengcheng’s character..."
"Say it, say it!" Li Ruxin stared intently at the figure above, with a look of greed and yearning in her eyes. You must know that she had not heard anyone talk about Nie Hengcheng for more than ten years.
Mu Qingyan said: "Needless to say, Nie Hengcheng is a talented person and has great strategies. But I noticed something... Mrs. Li, do you know that Nie Hengcheng will only like the people he chooses in his life?"
"In fact, when he was young, due to favors and the need to win over people, he accepted a few disciples intermittently. However, he never paid attention to it and not many people knew about it. When his wings gradually matured, he carefully selected them. The four disciples of Zhao, Chen and Hanlu have been carefully cultivating and caring for him since then."
Li Ruxin was stunned, "What do you mean?"
Mu Qingyan continued talking to himself, "Of the four disciples Nie Hengcheng chose, Zhao Tianba is his passionate and violent self, Chen Shu is his ruthless and cunning self, Han Yisu is his brave and arrogant self, and Lu Chengnan , he is himself with outstanding talents, kindness and loyalty." - It can even be said that Lu Chengnan is the self that Nie Hengcheng imagined, so he values and loves Lu Chengnan the most.
"What are you going to say?!" Li Ruxin yelled with all her strength, she could tell something was wrong.
"Nie Zhe, Yu Huiyin, and you were not chosen by Nie Hengcheng himself, but responsibilities he 'had' to accept." Mu Qingyan's tone was cold and cruel, "Nie Zhe is the son of his late brother and sister-in-law. Son, Yu Huiyin is the son of his confidant who died for him, and you are the orphaned daughter of his sworn brother - Nie Hengcheng 'must' take care of you, but this is not what he wants."
"Don't try to sow discord between me and my adoptive father!" Li Ruxin shouted until her voice became hoarse.
"You know very well that these are all the truth." Mu Qingyan said word by word, "If you compare Nie Hengcheng's attitude towards you three and four major disciples, you will understand everything. Although Nie Hengcheng seems to love you, he has no regard for you. No, but he never advised you on how to behave, nor did he teach you anything about martial arts, medicine, poison, astrology, formations, mental skills, etc. Instead, he left you defiant, arrogant, self-sufficient, without any skills, and your future is worrying! "
Li Ruxin trembled all over and shouted, "You're talking nonsense, you're talking nonsense", with panic in her eyes.
"Do you really think Nie Hengcheng doesn't know the hidden dangers behind Nie Zhe's gills? How could such a shrewd person be fooled by two doctors?" Mu Qingyan said, "Not to mention Nie Zhe's character and cultivation. The next best thing is to marry Nie Zhe. You won't even be able to be a mother. There are so many young talents in the church, let alone a ready-made husband-in-law with both talent and appearance like Han Yisu and Lu Chengnan, but he just wants you to marry him. Nie Zhe—"
"It's just because your father had a wish back then, hoping that the descendants of the two families could become lovers. Unfortunately, Nie Hengcheng had no intention of getting married after the death of his beloved girl, so naturally he had to let you live with Nie Zhe. As for your life after marriage. Whether it’s good or not, he doesn’t care that much.”
Li Ruxin's body was shaking violently, she cried bitterly, and screamed a few words repeatedly: "I don't believe it, my adoptive father loves me and cherishes me, and is reluctant for me to suffer a little bit! He said he would protect me for the rest of his life, he said that!"
The woman's cry was so miserable and desperate that Yan Xu could hardly write.
Mu Qingyan slowly approached Li Ruxin and said clearly: "In any case, Nie Hengcheng is dead. He died on the top of Tushan Mountain more than ten years ago, under Cai Pingshu's sun knife. He died cleanly. , the defeat is clear, and you clinging to his ghostly soul are all in vain."
"You have deceived everyone, even yourself, about Nie Si'en's life experience, but have you deceived Nie Hengcheng underground? Nie Hengcheng in the underworld, looking at the two sons born to people he did not like to see, insisted on standing up to him With his surname and his blood, what do you think he should think?"
After saying this, he waved his hand and ordered, and You Guanyue silently stepped forward to take Li Ruxin away.
At this time, Li Ruxin was like a wooden man and a stone pillar, dumbfounded and speechless, as if all his spiritual strength had been drained away, leaving only an empty body.
Mu Qingyan sat back at the desk without caring, not knowing what to write on the white silk.
An hour later, Shangguan Haonan and You Guanyue came back at the same time to report.
The former said that Lu Fengchun and fifty-eight major rebels had already served their sentences and were executed, and Yu Huiyin from the back mountain had also died.
The latter claimed that in the dungeon cell, Li Ruxin strangled her son Nie Si'en to death in front of everyone, and then slammed her head against the stone wall to death.
"Elder Yan, you can finish this paragraph." Mu Qingyan lowered his head and continued writing.
Yan Xu responded in a low voice, shook the tip of his pen and wrote down the last few lines, sealed the scroll into a brocade bag, and presented it to Mu Qingyan with both hands. When he turned to leave, he saw the word 'Mu Zhengyang' written in the center of the white silk on the desk, surrounded by winding lines, pointing to different people or things.
Before leaving the palace, Mu Qingyan suddenly said: "Elder Yan, I remember it was recorded in the history books that in order to protect the secrets of the divine religion, the first few generations of envoys would cut their mouthpieces to show their determination when they took office. Still. When it reached the fourth generation, the leader Mu Huaning couldn't bear it, so he abolished this rule."
Yan Xu trembled all over and immediately knelt down, gritting his teeth and saying: "I will cut off this talkative tongue now..."
"That's not necessary." Mu Qingyan said, "It's just that the rebellion has been eliminated, and all teaching affairs should return to normal in the future. Elder Yan should also think more about the behavior of the ancestors who wrote the pen."
Yan Xu came out of the Youdian Hall covered in sweat.
He knew that Mu Qingyan was dissatisfied with his meddling in other people's affairs. He must know the rules and regulations of the sect, and the duty of the messenger was before the Seven Star Elders. The iron rule for messengers is that they have only eyes, ears and hands, but no words or tongue.
After walking a few steps, he stopped.
He thought it was wrong. Ever since Mu Qingyan changed his mind, he had been full of praise for the young and majestic new leader. He always praised Mu Qingyan for any decision he made, and he had never disobeyed him.
Slowly, he remembered that there was one thing, and only that one thing, that he said a lot of disapproval of.
Yan Xu sighed helplessly and continued walking forward.
He saw Lian Shisan coming from one side in a dusty state and heading straight to Guanmiao Hall. It seemed that he had completed his mission and came back to report. He didn't know what news the leader had sent him out to inquire about.
The showers had stopped, and the rising sun was rising in the east. The golden sunlight gradually covered the colorful glazed tiles of the entire majestic Paradise Palace, shining brightly for a while.
Without the old man smelling of alcohol, he smelled the fresh air and seemed ten years younger.
He thought, the more powerful the leader is, the more powerful he is. In the future, he will just stop drinking and talk less.
And starting from this early morning, the Nie family rebellion that lasted for nearly a century came to an end.
Chapter 122
Early morning, Jiuli Mountain.
Fan Xingjia followed the crowd in front of him and walked up the mountain. He tucked the fur around his neck and felt that it was too cold in late autumn.
A rustling girl's laughter drifted into his ears with the mountain wind. He raised his head and looked forward, and saw Furong and Jade walking in front of them from a distance, holding the things they had just bought at the foot of the mountain.
Since Cai Zhao was released, these two girls finally started laughing again.
At the end of summer more than a year ago, after Cai Zhao was carried off the execution rack with blood all over his body, the leaders of the five factions remembered to negotiate a time limit for facing the wall and thinking about their mistakes. Yang Heying was not afraid of flashing his tongue, and he kept opening his mouth for ten years. However, Song Shijun was the first to jump up and object, almost slamming a teapot on Yang Heying's head, as if his family was about to annihilate its descendants.
So the sentence was halved to five years, and after Cai Pingchun and his wife made a fuss, it was reduced to three years. However, Cai Zhao was finally imprisoned for more than a year, and was released by Qi Yunke half a month ago - the reason was that he wanted to participate in Qi Lingbo and Dai Fengchi wedding.
That's right, Qi Lingbo and Dai Fengchi were finally getting married. After catching them for the eighth time watching the stars and the moon on the edge of the rockery in the middle of the night and chatting about "life ideals," Li Wenxun, who was in charge of the night watch, finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked the clan master and his wife to give an explanation.
Qi Yunke still hesitated, but Yin Sulian said, "Let the two children get married."
Thinking of his master, Mrs. Su Lian, Fan Xingjia couldn't help but sigh, and a white mist immediately formed in front of his mouth and nose.
Since Qiu Renjie's death, Yin Sulian has become a different person, reciting sutras and practicing Taoism all day long. The door of the once gorgeous and spacious Shuanglianhuachi Palace is closed, and the surroundings are pure. The smoke of burning incense lingers above the palace tiles for many years.
What surprised Fan Xing's family was that Qi Lingbo actually agreed immediately, and Dai Fengchi was so happy that he rubbed his hands again and again.
Fan Xing's family started to gossip, and couldn't help but run to ask secretly, "Junior Sister Lingbo, have you really given up on Third Senior Brother?"
Qi Lingbo stopped sorting the jewelry and dowry and asked, "Fifth Senior Brother, do you still remember the Taichu Temple more than a year ago?"
