Chapter 16 Chapter Sixteen Seventeen Years Ago

The Yellow Emperor's dragon chariot kicked up thousands of clouds and swept across the sky far away.The god general and Master Yun shouted and ran under the dragon chariot, forming a mighty torrent. The flag that was raised high was written "Xuanyuan", symbolizing incomparable honor.The onlookers also rushed to follow the Yellow Emperor's car, paying homage to the most noble overlord under the sky. After the grand ceremony was over, the entire Zhuolu Plain was suddenly empty, vast and far-reaching. In the boundless Zhuolu field, stands the only locust tree. The ancient locust tree twisted its body with difficulty, and still grew towards the sky unyieldingly.When it was still a young sapling, it also fantasized about standing up to the sky, touching the clouds in the sky, and looking at the earth from a high place.But Lingyun's ambition was blown away by the strong wind, and the heavy sky bent its head.

The young man and the old man stood side by side under the tree, and the old man caressed the old scars on the tree obsessively. He said, "Seventeen years...it has been seventeen years." "Seventeen years?" Chi You looked up suspiciously, looking at Emperor Yan's old face. "Chi You, do you like this place?" "I like it." Chi You lied, even if he didn't like it, so what? "Is it better than Jiuli?" "But home is not here." "Seventeen years ago, this was also your home. At that time, there was no such thing as Zhuolu or Jiuli, and there were no cities. People moved freely across the land. At that time, you had many, many brothers, and they had also been here. Emperor Yan gently stroked Chi You's head, laughing silently, "In spring, they are playing around here, it's very annoying."

"Then why did we move to Jiuli?" "I'm the only one left, and it doesn't matter where I go." Emperor Yan said, "It's really lonely, but fortunately, I still have you..." "Why did the Kuafu family want to assassinate His Majesty?" "Maybe it's to live freely?" Yandi's gray eyes were empty. "free?" "People like them who are good at running always hope that the world is wide and they can run on the endless land. But the Yellow Emperor drew a circle and said that this territory is mine, and others cannot easily step in. Grandpa is old. They will fight for freedom, but they are still young...you are also young. Do you still remember your fate? The wizard told you." Emperor Yan asked softly.

"Remember." "Forget about it," Emperor Yan knelt down and held Chi You in his arms, "Don't be attached to anything, the dead are already dead, and the living must continue to live. Grandpa doesn't want you to be like your brothers, and Hong No matter how much you desire to be free, you still have to live. Do you understand, Chi You? You have to live, otherwise there will be no freedom." "Freedom?" Chi You nodded blankly. "Don't cry, be brave and live bravely." Chi You could only nod vigorously, he didn't know why Emperor Yan said this to him.But he was suddenly very afraid, those stories that could be escaped before had quietly opened a corner of the curtain.

Emperor Yan sat under the tree and fell asleep. His hands were still on the old locust tree, as if he had touched the children and grandchildren who had been lost seventeen years ago from the tree, and felt their laughter and singing. Chi You squatted down to stare at Grandpa's face, stretched out his trembling fingers, and brushed along the years' engraved lines on his face.Looking at the muddy tears across the face, dripping on the gray cloth robe. Five hundred steps away, there was a lone figure, and Xing Tian had been standing there for a long time. Xing Tian looked very calm.He had just chopped off Hong Ri's head and received a reward of five thousand copper coins from the Yellow Emperor, but he didn't smile.He just kowtowed respectfully, like a piece of wood.Chi You walked over and stared at his face, Xing Tian seemed to be drunk, the expression on his face was blurred, and his eyes were dull.

Groups of women in colorful clothes passed by in the distance, Xing Tian suddenly jumped up and waved to one of them, "Hi! Is that A Luo?" A Luo, the proprietress of the restaurant, was stunned there, staring at Xing Tian in a daze from twenty feet away.It was rare for Xing Tian to show concern for a woman like this, Chi You thought that A Luo would rush up to hug Xing Tian with tears splashing.But Ah Luo didn't move, an inexplicable feeling made her feel uneasy, today's Xing Tian is different from any time before, his smile is too sincere, so sincere that he looks hypocritical.So A Luo muttered something quietly, and walked away like little rabbits with her female companions.

Xing Tian looked at her back and grinned, "Hey, ignore me? Do I look like a murderer?" "Young Master, don't you want to talk to me anymore? I killed that red sun." He turned to look at Chi You. "It's nothing." Chi You suddenly became polite, because he felt that Xing Tian in front of him was very strange, "You are a general, why can't you kill an assassin? Actually, we are not familiar with Hong Ri, we just met once, so we can't be regarded as friends." "Will Uncle Feng call me disloyal?" Xing Tian said, "He will ask why I helped that old bastard Huangdi?"

"I also think we shouldn't help that old bastard Huangdi." Chi You said. "I'm not helping the Yellow Emperor, I'm just helping the Red Sun, count me as a favor." Xing Tian said: "That's an idiot, how can the Yellow Emperor be so easy to kill? Even if the generals are all distracted, the Yellow Emperor can easily Beat Hong Sun to the ground. He is the Man of Destiny." "That's no reason for you to go... Maybe Hong Sun is a good person." Chi You said. "I just don't want him to be captured alive." Xing Tian looked at the sky, "How ridiculous would it be if such a handsome and proud idiot was chopped off and locked in a cage?"

Chi You didn't understand his logic, turned around, and heard Xing Tian's shivering voice behind him, "Seventeen years... Seventeen years ago, there were many cages hanging here...the cages were full of people without arms and legs. " Chi You was terrified, turned around abruptly, and saw Xing Tian grabbing his messy hair, his eyes were as cloudy as Emperor Yan. "Seventeen years ago, it was very lively here, and many beautiful girls came out for outings." Xing Tian whispered. "Grandpa said, our family used to be here, isn't it?" "Ah? That's right. In the past, people from the Ministry of Shennong were all over the world, including Jiuli and here," Xing Tian said, "But there is nothing good here. At least the girls in Jiuli wear much shorter skirts."

"What was Zhuolu like in the past?" "Almost, just more people." "A lot of people?" Chi You didn't understand why after seventeen years, there were fewer people in Zhuolu. "There are a lot of people, so I like crowds. There are lots of people, the market is lively, and the girls are pretty. It would be even better if it were on the battlefield, so that the axe can cut across a large area, which is more convenient." "Did those people go to Jiuli later?" Xing Tian was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, "I forgot."

"Do you all like to go out for an outing in spring? It seems that the king forbids it." "Yeah, I went out for an outing. There were people everywhere, but it was very lively. At that time, everyone was still fighting, just to find a shady place to plant horseradish. No one beat me when I was young. I was not a god at that time." Will……" "Why grow wasabi?" "It was made by many boring little girls. They said that the wasabi flower means that the person who likes her will only like one person in his life, because the wasabi flower only blooms once." Xing Tian shrugged his shoulders. "Isn't it? Don't think I'm ignorant. Wasabi blooms many times a year." "Except for the first time, there are no stamens. A flower has no stamens, just like a person has no heart." Xing Tian said: "Those little girls say that." Chi You ran to a distance and picked a wasabi, but it had pistils. "It's the first time to bloom, right? I won't have a heart next time." Xing Tian said: "Only the first time, there is a heart." Chi You threw the wasabi on the ground, and silently sprinkled a handful of soil on it, "The flowers are so strange, since they have no heart, why are they still blooming?" "In the past," Xing Tian stared blankly into the distance, "There were also many girls who came here to bury wasabi flowers, but what they buried was intentional. When they broke their hearts, they buried their hearts." "Buried?" Chi You shivered involuntarily. "Buried." Xing Tian patted his heart. Xing Tian took out a clay pot from his arms and started drinking.Until the drink is empty, he still repeats the action of drinking.Chi You sprinkled handfuls of loess on the wasabi flowers. He wondered if the women who buried the wasabi in the Ministry of Shennong seventeen years ago were crying?Why sad?Seventeen years ago, was there a woman who was so gorgeous in the world crying alone here? He thought that Xing Tian's words were actually pointing to a certain woman, and that woman was dead, who was she? When the sand was about to bury the flower, Xing Tian suddenly repeated, "Seventeen years..." A sudden fear surrounded Chi You.Xing Tian's words were completely a moan in his chest, and Chi You couldn't even be sure if those words were spoken by someone.His eyes stopped on Xing Tian's face, and a strange feeling pulled him to seventeen years ago, to imagine Xing Tian beside a stunning woman seventeen years ago, he said: "Seventeen years ago, you... ..." What happened to nail Xing Tian's memory to seventeen years ago? Xing Tian jumped up suddenly, staring at Chi You with blood-red eyes, "I forgot, I don't know anything, what seventeen years ago?" Then the burly man knelt down on the ground and paved the ground with his hands. He grabbed the soil with his ten fingers aimlessly while roaring in a low voice, "It's all buried, everything is buried, it's been seventeen years, everything is buried!" It's gone, everything is buried!" He stared at Chi You with red eyes, "Young Master, do you want to know what this place looked like seventeen years ago? Then you dig it, it's all buried, it's all buried here! It's right under your feet!" Xing Tian sprinkled a lot of soil into the sky until a pit the size of a person appeared underground.At this time, the crazy Xing Tian suddenly calmed down again. He posed in a drinking posture and sat in the pit, "If people are buried, they can still be dug out. If the heart is buried, there is nothing left." "I cut off Hong Ri's head because I hate this kind of little guy who only does things with passion," Xing Tian said, looking at Chi You with sarcasm, "They will let everyone die with them, so Why don't I kill them first. Do you know why I get along with you? Because you have no blood and are a cowardly rabbit." Chi You retreated step by step, and then ran under the locust tree in horror, Xing Tian was completely unreasonable.I don't know what made this guy suddenly go crazy. Emperor Yan opened his eyes and shook his head lightly, "Chi You, don't blame Xing Tian, ​​he didn't mean to scare you. You should forgive a person who should have died seventeen years ago." "Seventeen years ago... what happened?" "Right here, he lost the most important person, because your brothers insisted on going to war with the Xuanyuan tribe to take back the land that originally belonged to our clan. Xing Tian was the one who didn't want to go to war, but he had no choice." Emperor Yan closed his eyes wearily again, only Chi You was left standing there in a daze. Suddenly there was a loud whistle from behind, and Xing Tian, ​​who was 500 paces away, threw away his wine jar and let his heavy body fall into the hole he dug himself.