"But his child died a long time ago! That beggar is not his child either! There was no such thing as a cat replacing a prince! It's all fake."
Liu Yiru grabbed her hair tightly and cried in despair.
She had already been tortured to the point of mental stress in the clan residence, and now being interrogated by Yan Qing, she was on the verge of collapse when she recalled the past events passed down from generation to generation.
Two hundred years, from great-grandfather, to great-grandfather, to grandfather, to father, and then to her.
The endless flow of water in the well has passed down the "cause and effect" of the past from generation to generation. The Liu family members can't tell whether their survival soberly today is a punishment from God for their broken promise or a reward for their saving lives.
Liu Yirui stared blankly at the fire, her eyes red, and said in a trembling voice: "How could my great grandfather have the ability to refuse the head of the Xie family? He had no choice but to prove to the five families in Zhancheng that the beggar was Madam Chuxuan's son."
"After that, my great grandfather took us out of the city to avoid the limelight. We don't know what happened after that."
"As for the Spring Water Peach Blossom you mentioned, my great grandfather didn't participate at all and didn't know anything about it."
After hearing this, Yan Qing was neither surprised nor angry. He just stood in front of Liu Yirui and was silent for a long time before he asked her with a smile: "You haven't said his name yet, are you afraid to say it?"
Liu Yiru was stunned.
Yan Qing whispered to him, "The person you sent to Xie's house without permission and kicked out of Xie's house by you was called Xie Shiyi."
Liu Yiru bit her lips tightly, sobbed, buried her head in her knees, and was unable to speak.
Yan Qing said, "In the first year of Jinghong, you were afraid of death, so you sent him to the Xie Mansion. You all know that the head of the Xie family is a playboy? He loves the new and hates the old. Do you really not know what kind of life Xie Shiyi is leading in the Xie Mansion?"
Liu Yirui retorted in a sad voice: "But if we don't do this in the first year of Jinghong, we will all die together!"
Yan Qing ignored her and continued slowly: "Wait for him to climb out of the abyss step by step. In the past fifteen years, because you were afraid of death, you let him be destroyed and his meridians severed, and he fell to his death again."
Liu Yiru was speechless. What happened in the past fifteen years was indeed their fault... But what else could the Liu family do under such powerful circumstances!
Yan Qing lowered his head and looked at her again, then closed his eyes, as if he could still feel the oppressive wind and cold rain of the past fifteen years.
He curled his lips, and an inexplicable anger surged in his heart, burning his reason.
It is not aimed at the Liu family, but at the people behind the scenes.
Sure enough, the events of the Fifteen Years of Glamour were a farce full of loopholes!
The head of the Xie family is a playboy, greedy and vain. He had previously let Xie Shiyi live in the backyard of the Xie mansion for many years without paying any attention to him. When Xie Shiyi showed his talent in Dengxian Pavilion, he paid more attention to him because he felt proud of him. It was rumored that he was the eldest son of the Xie family.
How could such a heartless person give up a famous genius and accept a dying beggar for the so-called truth or falsehood
Now it seems that someone forced him not to recognize Xie Shiyi.
The Bai family's hatred for Xie Shiyi has reached an extremely crazy state.
In the past fifteen years, the secluded room, the spring water and peach blossoms, the judgment seat, all the punishments for Xie Shiyi were "directed" by someone behind the scenes.
Yan Qing asked her: "Let's go back to my last question."
Liu Yirui said: "What...what?"
Yan Qing said, "Since your great grandfather erected a monument for Xie Shiyi's biological mother, do you know her name? What is her name?"
Liu Yirui's red lips trembled as she said, "Weisheng, her last name is Weisheng, and her single character is Zhuang."
Micro makeup.
Yan Qing ignored her and turned away.
Liu Yiru stared at his back in a daze. She stood up suddenly and said, "Wait a moment." She walked forward, but was too weak and fell to the ground.
Liu Yirui whimpered, and raised her head with red eyes while lying on the ground, and said in a hoarse voice: "You said that I would cooperate with you and tell you everything, and I would help rescue my brother. You promised that you must rescue my brother!"
She was silent for a long time after she finished speaking. She was so sad that she burst into tears and murmured, "Why did our family become the villains now? Obviously, our family had good intentions at the beginning. We kindly saved Madam Chu Xuan and Wei Shengzhuang..."
Yan Qing was thinking about the person behind the scenes of the barrier city, and his anger was only directed at that person behind the scenes. He was not moved at all by Liu Yiru's crying. He looked back and then left.
However, Liu Yiru couldn't get out and covered her face and cried.
When Yan Qing went out, a bright crescent moon was hanging in the sky, and the waning moon was like a scimitar.
He thought he had to return to the Liu family to see Xie Shiyi, but he didn't expect that Xie Shiyi was standing at the foot of the Hunting Mountain, waiting for him.
With the blood jade bead on his wrist, all the conversations between him and Liu Yiru were probably heard by Xie Shiyi.
Yan Qing looked up.
Xie Shiyi stood in the moonlit mountains, her snow-white robe emitting a layer of icy blue light, her eyes looking at him quietly.
Yan Qing felt complicated for a moment, and walked over and said, "The barrier city is more complicated than I thought."
Xie Shiyi smiled and said, "Yeah."
Yan Qing was stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it, he was no longer shocked by Xie Shiyi's calmness. That's right, since Xie Shiyi ordered the Immortal Alliance to investigate the Barrier City, he probably knew everything.
Xie Shiyi nodded: "I'll take you somewhere."
Yan Qing: “Ah?”
Xie Shiyi said calmly, "Now that we are here, I just wanted to show you the road I walked before."
Yan Qing asked back, "What?"
Xie Shiyi thought for a moment and changed his words: "Cangwang Sea, when you grabbed my neck, this was the first place I thought of?"
Yan Qing then remembered what Xie Shiyi had said, about a demon he met when he was four years old who was best at playing with people's hearts.
There is a long trail at the foot of Hunting Mountain, sandwiched between two high and dangerous peaks. The road is covered with gravel and overgrown with weeds, and the sound of insects chirping can be heard from time to time, accompanied by the sound of water.
Yan Qing looked around and said, "Is he here? He escaped with you?"
Xie Shiyi said: "Well, I'm here too? Kill him."
Yan Qing laughed: "That's amazing, he killed someone at the age of four."
Xie Shiyi curled his lips, but his eyes were indifferent. He said lightly: "Before he died, he was still acting with me the scene of an old man and a child, helpless and dependent on each other. He spoke in front, and I took the stone hidden in my hand from behind and cut his throat from back to front."
Listening to his description, Yan Qing felt as if he had witnessed the scene of blood splattering that night with his own eyes.
Now put yourself in his shoes and walk here? Yan Qing thought to himself, they are indeed very similar, no wonder Xie Shiyi would misunderstand.
The road at the ruins of the Sea of Delusion was also covered with gravel, just like here. It was quiet and dark, with only two people left in the world. Two "lonely and helpless" people who depended on each other for survival.
Xie Shiyi said calmly: "If I knew that I would hurt you like that because of him, I would never let him die so easily."
Yan Qing was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "You still hold a grudge?"
Xie Shiyi suddenly raised his head and looked at Yan Qing seriously, his eyes like the night, and said slowly: "Yan Qing, I think you made a mistake."
Yan Qing: “Ah?”
Xie Shiyi smiled and said calmly: "I am not interested in what happened in the past in the city of Zhan, and I don't have any hatred towards the Qin family that I must punish."
"After I separated from you in the Land of the Falling Gods, every step I took, every thing I planned, including joining the Immortal Alliance and entering the Demon Realm, was all to get you back to me."
Yan Qing was completely stunned.
Xie Shiyi's voice was cold, and every word he spoke was clear and calm. Although it did not contain any emotion, Yan Qing was stunned to see the madness beneath his restrained voice.
"Whether it's Zixiao, Fuhuamen, Zijinzhou, or the investigation of the barrier city, I decided on them all before I met you. After you die, I just want to find the devil to revive you, and the Qin family is the best breakthrough point."
"You're right. I've never been a good person. If you hadn't been resurrected, the Qin family would be trying to use the barrier city to cultivate a new demon god. I would be the one to lend them a hand."
Yan Qing was really shocked by his words.
The moonlight cast sparse shadows, but Xie Shiyi's expression did not change. In the half-light and half-darkness, he was wearing a snow-white dress, with his red lips slightly curled, like a heartless and desireless god or a demon who ignored the world.
Xie Shiyi said: "So you don't need to feel sad for me after hearing the truth from the beginning."
"After you come back to life and tell me the truth, I will still come to the barrier city as planned, just to find the demon and kill it once and for all."
Xie Shiyi whispered, "I want to avenge you and eliminate future troubles for you. This is the only reason I came here."
Yan Qing's mind went blank. The cold wind blew around his fingers, causing his rationality to slowly return.
His death in Shifang City in his previous life was his own choice, and he had no regrets in anything he did.
After rebirth, he had no worries, so he had no purpose. In the entire Nine Heavens, he only had one person he loved.
So he chose to stay with Xie Shiyi, even though their relationship was so strained at the time.
He still followed him to Nanzezhou and Wangqing Sect. Yan Qing's only enemy was the demon god, but this enemy was too powerful and too mysterious. He didn't want to face it at all, and even kept lying to Xie Shiyi.
He thought that he followed Xie Shiyi around and came to the barrier city to investigate the truth for the person he loved and help the person he loved kill the enemy. Unexpectedly, the reason why Xie Shiyi did all this was actually for himself
Xie Shiyi raised her hand to help him brush away the fallen leaves on his temples. Thinking of something, she lowered her eyes and said softly, "Since you came to the barrier city, you have been busy all the time. I actually don't like it. I would rather you stay by my side."
The sound of insects chirping in the grass brought Yan Qing back to his senses. He looked at Xie Shiyi, and after he understood what was going on, the smile in his eyes gradually spread like the warm sun.
Yan Qing was so happy that he lost his mind and laughed for a long time before stopping: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Xie Shiyi asked him back: "Will you listen if I tell you?"
Yan Qing choked and muttered, "No wonder you have been absent-minded about investigating this place since you arrived at the Barrier City. You always agree with what I say. I can't even guess what you are thinking." Yan Qing thought of the various opinions he heard about the Lord of Xiaoyu Palace when he came to Nanzezhou, and sighed, "If even I can't guess, how can I guess the others in the Ninth Heaven?"
"You are actually against the Qin family for the sake of the Demon God. Why didn't you pretend to cooperate with them in the first place? Or cooperate with them directly?"
Xie Shiyi glanced at him and said calmly, "They are not worthy."
Yan Qing laughed out loud, moved closer, and held Xie Shiyi's hand: "Yaoyao, don't be so awkward, tell the truth."
Xie Shiyi: “…”
Xie Shiyi said coldly: "I want the Demon God to be used by me, not to be his dog."
Yan Qing: "Hahahahahahahaha." From Xie Shiyi's words, he also vaguely glimpsed a bit of Xie Shiyi's aggressive arrogance when he was a teenager. After growing up, that kind of emotion was hidden under the iceberg-like appearance and was rarely seen.
There is another reason that Xie Shiyi didn't say, but Yan Qing could probably guess it a little.
... If Xie Shiyi really goes that far, they might really face off.
Yan Qing had laughed enough, and his eyes were as bright as stars, completely unlike the coldness he had when he was confronting Liu Yiru in the firewood hut.
He said, "You are not interested in the past of the Barrier City, but I am." Yan Qing raised the corners of his lips, but a trace of murderous intent flashed across his eyes: "I also want to avenge you."
Xie Shiyi pursed his lips and lowered his eyelashes.
Yan Qing said: "Your mother is from Zijinzhou, and is from the Weisheng family. Now I really want to know who your father is. And who was behind all the things that were done to you?"
When he said this, a thought silently crossed Yan Qing's mind. It is possible that these two questions refer to the same person.
"I have to go to the City Lord's Mansion."