Hua Rong and her sister had come to pay their respects to the Ninth Prince.
In order to facilitate learning, Hua Rong still wore men's clothes. However, she changed into a set of green tight clothes, making him look spirited and valiant, without a trace of her usual delicate aura.
Ninth Prince's gaze inadvertently swept across her verdant fingertips. Unknowingly, he felt a sense of anticipation in his heart: These two hands that were used to holding brushes, what would they look like if they held swords, spears, and sticks?
He also did not understand why he would agree to her request to be his disciple. However, when he saw her pleading gaze, he realized that she had nowhere else to go. Perhaps, he thought, you have saved a man's life, and you will never be able to let her go.
Especially along the way, other than talking about poetry, poetry, and books, they could also talk about the current chaotic situation. Because they had been on the run for a while, it was difficult to see the road ahead. Although they were still young and could not say anything that shocked the world, they did get to the crux of the matter with a few sentences. As a result, although they did not spend too much time together, Ninth Prince had long had a good impression of this woman. Seeing that the siblings had come to say their goodbyes, he felt reluctant to part with them. He urged them, "You two should study properly. In the future, I will come see you two."
The two of them thought that since their identities were as different as heaven and earth, when the Ninth Prince returned home this time, they might not meet again, but hearing his words, they felt extremely happy. Ninth Prince gave a few more instructions before setting off on their journey.
Everyone bid their farewells to the Ninth Prince. The youth kept looking over, and the Rutty's jurisdiction that was with them patted his shoulder, and laughed: "Foolish boy, don't be so childish. It would be even better if your sister had the bearing …"
Hua Rong saw that this boorish man could actually tell that she was a girl. Fortunately, she did not intentionally hide any secrets and only casually clasped her hands together, "My little brother is a man of her nature. Hehe, in the future, there will be many areas that I will have to trouble Big Brother Lu with. "
As General Wu was busy with official matters, he had long been warned repeatedly that Hua Rong and her sister would first learn from the Rutty's jurisdiction. Rutty's jurisdiction was very frank: "Since young lady is already old, her skills are definitely not as good as your little brother's."
Hua Rong solemnly replied, "Thank you, Big Brother Lu, for speaking frankly. This little girl does not hope to become a peerless expert, but wishes to have a technique to protect herself. "
Lu Da sighed, thinking that in these chaotic years, it was not bad for a woman to have a skill to defend herself, so she said: "Alright, from now on, you two siblings will learn from me."
"Thank you, Big Brother Lu."
After that, the two of them started to learn from Lu Da. During this period, Yue Pengju had gone home to inquire about his mother's whereabouts, but he still did not have a single piece of news, and after looking around everywhere, he still did not find any news.
Yue Pengju was extremely talented, no matter if it was blades, spears, or sticks, he could learn anything he wished to. Other than learning from Lu Da, the other teaching head s had all taught him their proud moves when they saw how smart he was. Other than his daily martial arts skills, Yue Pengju had also never relaxed in his study. He brought along the《 Sun Zi Armament》 that Hua Rong had given him on the island with him, and read and memorized his words everyday. Those who did not understand him would ask Hua Rong for guidance, and in such a short period of time, Yue Pengju's martial arts had improved by leaps and bounds, and he had also grown a huge head taller.
When Rutty's jurisdiction used his buddhist staff, his martial arts walked a fierce path, which Hua Rong was not used to. This Rutty's jurisdiction was careless, she first taught Hua Rong the basic techniques to enter the sect, and then mainly taught her how to ride horses and shoot arrows. In the beginning, he had only taken this girl to learn her skills because of General Ye's orders. He did not expect that in the past three to five years, he had seen this woman being abnormally diligent, practicing for three to nine summers in the winter, and he had never seen such a diligent person. Adding her talent and intelligence, she was very capable in studying, and was very quick and good in learning.
When the Rutty's jurisdiction was not around, Hua Rong would learn how to shoot arrows from another teaching head.
A year later, Western Xia invaded the borders of Gansu Province. The old General Zhi was ordered to set off for the front line, the Rutty's jurisdiction was also sent to war as a small general under their command. After Yue Pengju received the news, he immediately discussed with Hua Rong, saying that he too, wanted to go to the battlefield.
A good man's ambition was everywhere, learning at home was not as good as experiencing on the battlefield. Although Hua Rong was worried that Yun Che was still young, seeing that he had already made up her mind, she agreed.
On the morning of the expedition, Hua Rong personally saw them off on a road that was more than five kilometers away.
Hua Rong, seeing that Yue Pengju was still reluctant to part with his, gently said: "You must listen to Big Brother Lu's words."
At this time, Yue Pengju was already half a head taller than Hua Rong. But in this past year, after spending all his time with Hua Rong, getting her to take care of him, teaching him during school, sewing and occasionally getting sick, she had meticulously taken care of him. He had long since become the only family in the world. Right now, their farewells were coming to an end. It was unknown when or how long they would meet again. They were extremely reluctant, and actually wanted to cry.
Rutty's jurisdiction knew how deep the affection between his brother and sister was, he patted his shoulder and laughed: "Brat, go earn a huge military achievement for your sister to see, what are you crying for? How useless is that? "
Hua Rong also laughed: "You're a grown man, why are you crying like this, let's go quickly."
Yue Pengju embarrassedly wiped his tears. At this time, Rutty's jurisdiction had already walked far away with large strides, he took another look at Hua Rong before jogging and catching up.
After walking for a long time, he turned around and saw that Hua Rong was still standing at her original spot. Originally, as he walked further and further away, Hua Rong's figure should have become smaller and smaller. However, when he looked over, he felt that Hua Rong's figure was becoming clearer and bigger, as though between heaven and earth, there was only this beautiful and gentle woman.
Furthermore, the King Qin had been searching for Hua Rong's location on the ocean. Originally, they were prepared to fight with the mysterious "Gongzi Zhao", but soon after they received news that the ship was returning quickly. To suddenly lose his opponent, King Qin did not mind. On the contrary, he was searching for Hua Rong's whereabouts along the way.
Afterwards, their five-tooth warship met the passing "Flowerstone class", but before they could do anything, this ship that weighed tens of tons of "Strange Stones" encountered a storm. The entire ship was destroyed and sank into the sea.
After this storm, all traces and illusions about Hua Rong were completely destroyed. All the pirates agreed that Hua Rong had definitely been buried at the bottom of the sea.
Only the King Qin still refused to give up, and waited until after the storm to continue searching.
After searching like this for three days and three nights, the pirates were already exhausted, and started to complain in secret. They felt that the King Qin was too childish, to think that they would become so foolish just for a woman who escaped. As a woman, he could just snatch a few more and bring them back. He could marry as many as he wanted, why would he need to have a single love? Besides, the flower had long been buried in the belly of a fish.
The sun had turned into a blood-red ball in the east, then slowly sank into the clouds. King Qin's eyes were bloodshot, he lifted a wine jug and gulped it down fiercely.
The wine dripped from the corner of his mouth onto his open chest. He stared with widened eyes, his appearance was extremely terrifying, and his voice was also extremely hoarse. He shouted over and over again while facing the vast ocean, "Girl, girl … Where are you? "Little girl …"
"Little girl, if I catch you, I'll definitely teach you a lesson. Let's see if you dare to run …"
"Little girl, get your ass out here right now …"
In the end, his hoarse voice could not be heard anymore, and he could only beg, "Girl, come out. As long as you come out, I will not beat you nor force you to give birth to a son … "You can do whatever you want …"
The old pirate and leader Li Xing could not bear to watch any longer and bravely went forward to advise him, "Great King, people cannot be revived. This sea is not comparable to the land, even corpses cannot be found …"
"My lord, in the future, brothers will fight for a few more beautiful women for you. Women are just like old ones, they won't come if they don't go to new ones …"
"…"
"Scram! Scram! I don't want to hear such nonsense! Scram!"
The two of them immediately ran away gloomily.
As a result, the pirates had no choice but to "put in effort" in their search.
It was already five days after the five-tooth warship had returned to the island. Because they had left in a hurry, the dried food they had brought with them was completely exhausted, so they had no choice but to return.
The setting sun was like a bloody ball hanging in the sky. The wind from the sea blew up the fine sand, blowing it vigorously into the forest.
King Qin sat alone on top of a boulder that was as flat as a tabletop. Opposite him was a simple and crude wooden stake that he had erected as a tombstone. On the tablet, there were a few simple words, "Grave of his beloved wife, Hua Rong". It was written by the only old pirate on the island who knew how to read and write.
In a trance, he saw a young lady wearing a light green robe holding onto a strand of wolf hair. She wrote and wrote with great vigor, page after page, the words "Qin Shangcheng" were written on each sheet of paper.
"Little girl, little girl …"
Overjoyed, he reached out his hand and grabbed the empty space. Only then did he realize that it was all an illusion.
He took out a stack of papers from his pocket and unfolded them one by one. They were all his own names.
The words on the paper changed in front of her eyes, as if the way she had lifted the cover was mesmerizing. Even the extreme joy of the night in the bridal chamber, her slight trembling and panting …
She was dead, and none of this would ever happen again.
He was a rough man, and for the first time he experienced an indescribable sense of happiness. It was as if someone had brought a cup of the most delicious wine in front of an alcoholic, who couldn't stop himself from happily sniffing it a few times. All that was left was pain.
Pain was also the first time. It was just like the first time he was happy.
He raised the wine pot and gulped down half the wine, the wine was in his throat, it was hot and he almost went crazy. He threw the pot to the side, grabbed the stack of paper, and tore it with all his might: "Damned girl, why do you look down on me? Why did you run? Why do you want to die? Am I not good to you? I never hit you, why would you run? "Why would you rather die than follow your father?"
The pieces of paper were torn to shreds with an indescribable sense of pleasure, as if they were tearing at her body. The rage was so great that even her bones were torn to shreds, leaving nothing behind. When he reached the last page, he suddenly saw two names written on it:
Qin Shangcheng
Hua Rong
Two names side by side, as if someone wrote a happy invitation.