Sheng Xuanyuan heard his father admit from his own mouth that the hatred between him and Su Min was not a misunderstanding, but was real. He closed his slightly opened lips tightly and made fists with his hands. He still couldn't believe that his father would do this. Such a despicable act of betraying a close friend.
Sheng Shangpei stood with his hands behind his hands, looking up at the sky above Jingxuan Pavilion. The clear clouds were vast and the sun was dazzling. He took a deep breath and said indifferently: "Xiao Jing, do you remember that you asked me when you were a child, why is it written in the ancestral precepts? 'The Sheng family never allowed an only son', but you have no biological uncles."
Sheng Xuanyuan naturally didn't remember asking his father such a question when he was a child.
Sheng Shangpei talked about the past with him without any emotion.
When he was young, Sheng Shangpei was not the only son in his family. He once had an older brother who was also an uncle that Sheng Xuanyuan had never met. Originally, the current position of head of the Sheng clan should be handed over to his elder brother. As the second son, Sheng Shangpei should guard Bai Feng, suppress the evil spirits of earth and ghost, and assist his elder brother.
But he never imagined that his eldest brother, who was extraordinary and outstanding, would be deliberately robbed and killed by people in the world just for going down the mountain to do business. The gangsters took the opportunity to disturb the earth demon seal and used the escaped earth ghosts to practice evil.
Sheng Shangpei avenged his brother and killed all the evil-doing members of the sect. Unexpectedly, he failed to eliminate them all, leaving trouble and making the villain hate him. From then on, that man began to take revenge like a madman.
The evil man who survived by chance was stooped and thin, with an ugly face, but extremely vicious. Sheng Shangpei had received a threatening letter from him in an unknown way. The blood-stained human skin was engraved with large characters: "I just want to kill you." I'm just a brother, but you killed my wife and children!..."
"I will make you miserable, make your loved ones die because of you, and make you live in hatred forever!..."
Sheng Shangpei was not someone who just waited to be killed. He sent people to hunt down this person, took over the burden of his deceased elder brother, and protected his wife, children, and sect. However, he never thought that the "relatives and loved ones" that this evil man meant were not just After his family and Bai Feng's disciples failed to murder Shen Wei and Sheng Xuanyao several times, they reached out to the Su family in Yichuan, and the Su Ze lineage, who had always been generous and polite.
That was Sheng Shangpei's most cherished friend, an innocent person who had nothing to do with this matter.
When he said this, Sheng Shangpei's voice was hoarse. Due to the anger in his heart, the true energy in his body continued to leak out, and the pressure was heavy. Sheng Xuanyuan's breathing became heavy without knowing it, and he vaguely guessed what would happen next.
"...That villain colluded with the remaining gang members and poisoned Su Min and Mu Xian at the same time."
At that time, Su Min was away as a director, and Mu Xian was resting at home shortly after giving birth to Su Ye, and the two were separated.
The evil man's plan succeeded, and he sent someone to tell Sheng Shangpei that he only had a bottle of antidote in his hand, and the poison Su Min and Mu Xian had been poisoned only lasted three days. If he wanted to save people, he had to go from Luoyao. Rush to Yichuan and choose one person to save him.
Sheng Shangpei spent a day finding the antidote, and Yu Jian rushed to Yichuan with the doctor, but no matter how he issued the death order, the doctor could not crack the bottle of antidote, let alone prepare the same medicine in a short time.
When he rushed to the Su family's house in Yize with the medicine, Su Min and Mu Xian were already close to being poisoned. The head of the house and his mistress were dying, and the poison was difficult to cure. The house was in a mess, and the side branch took over the management.
Looking at the purple faces of the two, Sheng Shangpei knew for the first time what powerlessness and choice meant.
He knelt down in front of the bed and hesitated for two hours until his knees became stiff and half of his body was numb, then he fed the antidote into Su Min's mouth.
At that time, Mu Xian was actually awake. Her face turned pale. She saw Su Min take the antidote, slowly got up and got out of bed, and said to Sheng Shangpei, "Apei... you did the right thing..."
Sheng Shangpei clenched his chest tightly, tears streaming down his face, and he couldn't say anything else.
How could someone with a strong personality like Mu Xian be willing to be tortured to death by poisonous pain?
She pulled out Su Min's personal sword, walked to the courtyard, and cut herself into the sky.
Sheng Shangpei did not stop Mu Xian. She was proud by nature and chose to send her away with her own hands. He was not qualified to stop her.
I vaguely remember that the sky was sunny that day, and I guarded Mu Xian's body until Su Min woke up from the poison, and was beaten to the ground by him. He held the body and cried for an unknown amount of time.
But Mu Xian will never wake up again.
"I thought I saved Su Min." Sheng Shangpei said lightly, "But I was wrong."
The bottle of medicine he found and fed to Su Min was not an antidote, but a miracle medicine that turned the strong poison into a slow poison. The poison in their bodies had no cure in the world.
Su Min is still tortured by this poison and is weak. He can only rely on long-term medication to stay alive.
"I don't want any of them to die, but I have to choose. After all, this matter is the disaster caused by me." Sheng Shangpei looked at his son and said: "Su Min believed what the bad guy said, and A-Xian's death gave rise to The blow he brought made him firmly believe that I didn't save her, that I had harmed her, which was a 'betrayal'."
"I have no excuse, so I have to accept the break with the Su family. From now on, I have no contact with him."
Sheng Xuanyuan saw the white hair on his father's temples, full of vicissitudes of life, and stood there not knowing what to say.
It's not about sacrificing one to save one, but a dead end.
If it were you, how should you choose?
Sheng Shangpei actually knew very clearly that his choice to save Su Min would make him hate him for the rest of his life, but he had to choose and save.
At that time, he was kneeling in front of the two beds, and everyone in the room was sent out. No one discussed the consequences with him, and he was left to weigh the consequences alone.
In the two hours, he thought too much. If Mu Xian died, he and Su Min would break up and suffer terribly, but the Su family was still Su Min's Su family; if Mu Xian was rescued, he would die. It's Su Min. Su Min's heir, Su Ye, is still in his infancy and cannot establish power. The position of the sect leader will definitely change hands. Mu Xian is not a scheming person, so how can he defeat the popular and powerful side faction? Su Yi?
If Su Min dies, Su Yi will take over the family throne, which is almost a matter of course.
He couldn't give up Su Min's position to anyone else.
Thinking about it this way, if Su Min wants to hate himself, let him do it.
After making the decision, Sheng Shangpei felt calm about his anger.
He finally caught the evildoer with his own hands, crushed the evildoer and the rest of his party to ashes, and then killed all the nine tribes involved to avoid future troubles forever.
After saying this, Sheng Shangpei stopped talking and just looked at Sheng Xuanyuan quietly. On the other hand, he was immersed in these old memories of his father and couldn't bear the chills on his back: his father was burdened with these pains alone, watching the friends he knew when he was young. He committed suicide and passed away, silently bearing the hatred of his best friend. He had never told anyone about this.
Sect Master Su said that his father was ruthless and unrighteous, but he clearly valued his righteousness so much, yet...
Sheng Xuanyuan silently closed his eyes, feeling deeply that things were wrong in the world. Sheng Shangpei's words rang beside him: "Sheng Jing, you are only young, and you will experience a lot of right and wrong in the future. Dad spends little time with you and teaches you little. , now I feel sad because I saw the son of my old friend, and I want to tell you what I have mentioned to you. It is difficult to have both things in the world at the same time."
"No one wants to make a choice to sacrifice one for the other, but when it comes time to make a choice, dad would rather see you choose what you should do after careful consideration, rather than being tied down by friendship."
Sheng Shangpei shook his head, "Maybe it's because of this that Su Min hates me for being ruthless."
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Sheng Xuanyuan sent his father back to Yuzhizhai with a heavy heart. The pines and cypresses at the entrance of the Zhaiyuan had grown very tall compared to before. He glanced at it and vaguely remembered that when he was a child, he and his second brother often stood under this tree, waiting for his father to finish his official duties and go sit in Jingxuan Pavilion to stay with them for a while.
"Dad." He stopped in front of the hall and said, "You have a good rest."
Sheng Shangpei shook his sleeves and waved his hand: "Go back."
"Yes." Sheng Xuanyuan nodded, and turned around and left without stopping. Sheng Shangpei sighed and thought to himself: The child is getting older, so he will not be allowed to stay. He had no idea that Sheng Xuanyuan was thinking about that old incident of his. He was distracted by his thoughts and only realized it after walking out of the courtyard.
Sheng Xuanyuan returned to Jingxuan Pavilion to find Qiong Yi and the others, and told them clearly the ins and outs of why his father and Sect Master Su broke up.
Qiong Yi and Su Ye listened very solemnly, especially Su Ye, who finally knew the facts that had been concealed for many years, the true cause of his mother's death, and why his father hated Uncle Sheng. He lost his voice and said: "My father, he You have been secretly suffering for so many years, managing the family business, why didn’t you tell me these things?..."
His serious illness turned out to be caused by chronic poison. Thinking of this, Su Ye couldn't help the anger in his voice and asked: "Who did this to my parents?!"
"My father did not mention the name of the person. He only knows that more than a hundred members of the family involved have been exterminated. There are no descendants or descendants left. There is no need for you or me to take action."
"My mother-in-law, my mother-in-law..." Su Ye put one hand on his forehead and knocked on the stone table with an angry look. The table made a "thump" sound. Qiong also half-supported Su Ye's arm. Apart from silence, she didn't know how to comfort her. he.
"Su Ye, our family is really sorry for you. My father has neither the chance nor the face to say sorry to Uncle Su, so I will tell you." Sheng Xuanyuan said to him: "Hug..."
"What are you talking about!" Su Ye intercepted his words: "Although this matter is complicated, it has nothing to do with you. You didn't know where you were when it happened. Why are you apologizing to me? Besides, you don't owe the Su family anything. !”
After saying this, Su Ye didn't say anything for a long time, and finally said to himself silently for a long time: "If I were my father, I wouldn't be able to let go."
"It turns out that my father's sword was used by my mother-in-law..."
"No wonder after so many years, he never uses that sword and doesn't allow anyone to touch it..." Su Ye murmured: "His love for my mother is so deep, I can't mention these things to him again. , he is not in good health."
There were a few blood marks on the palm of his hand pressed by the nails, Su Ye swallowed: "...I just know."
Sheng Xuanyuan lowered his eyes and patted his shoulder with his palm: "Yes."
With deep thoughts and heavy hatred, they knew that the relationship between each other's fathers was deadlocked, and no one could solve it.
