Yu Qiu finally heard this long-lost voice, but his heart was at a loss.
-Who are you
[What]
-Who are you... and who am I
The causal circle is no different than others, Yu Qiu has been wandering for too long, and his soul has been lost in it.
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After a long time, the system sighed again.
Following this dark sigh, something different floated up in the darkness. Those are round and soft clusters of light, floating in the darkness, as numerous as stars, yet as distant as stars from each other. Yu Qiu stared blankly at these balls of light, and continued to float in this empty world in a daze, until at some point he finally approached a ball of light and touched it lightly.
A burst of white light bloomed quietly, and when the white light dissipated, Yu Qiu remembered that his name was Yu Qiu.
He howled very loudly, and came to the world that winter day as the only son of Yu Yuankai, a wealthy businessman in Yulian County. As soon as he was born, Yu Yuankai offered him as a treasure, he never beat or scolded him, and occasionally Mrs. Yu wanted to teach his son a lesson, so she had to protect him. At this time, Mrs. Yu would always raise a pair of beautiful eyebrows and smile helplessly.
However, ever since Yu Qiu was born, Yu Yuankai's business has always been doing poorly, and he had to leave his wife and children at home, spending more time traveling around than before. This gave Mrs. Yu a chance to be a strict mother, and was able to resolutely clean up most of the time when Yu Qiu was in charge of cleaning up, so that Yu Qiu was not raised too much.
Equaling Qiu to be five years old so lively and yet serious, Yulian County was in trouble, and a group of bandits came, Mrs. Yu hid in a carriage with Yu Qiu in her arms.
Yu Qiu might have been frightened that day, and for some reason, he cried very hard. Madam Yu was so flustered by the crying that she couldn't help telling the coachman to slow down a little, but as soon as the speed slowed down, the carriage was shot over by the bandits from a distance. Mrs. Yu was suddenly thrown out of the carriage, but she held Yuqiu tightly in her arms all the time, and only threw herself half to death. Fortunately, the officers and soldiers of Lin County rushed over in time and finally cleaned up the villains.
Afterwards, Mrs. Yu would often show the stone-knocked wound on her shoulder, poke Yu Qiu's forehead and say, "If it wasn't for me, this stone would have poked your forehead, how dare you not be nice to me?"
Yu Qiu was quite a clever kid, but at this time he was always inexplicably dull. When Mrs. Yu talked about other things angrily, Yu Qiu suddenly reacted, tears filled his eyes at his mother, and even threw himself into her mother's arms and howled loudly, as if crying for a lost and recovered treasure , Cried out of breath several times. The whole family didn't know how he could cry like this, even Yu Qiu himself didn't know. Madam Yu tried every means but couldn't persuade her, so she could only pat Yu Qiu's head, comforting her carefully, and gritted her teeth to bury the matter, never mentioning it again.
"Look at you, how grown-up you are, you still look like a crying bag." Mrs. Yu often said that.
"It wasn't that big at first." Yu Yuankai's business gradually improved, and he spent more time at home, "Children, it's normal to cry."
"You." Mrs. Yu immediately turned to the target of scolding, "Others say that a loving mother is a loser, but now you have become a loving father and a loser! You still say that he is young, and the prefect's family who used to live across the street My son is the same age as Xiaoqiu, and he got a Jinshi last month!"
Yu Qiu was on the sidelines persuading him, like a peacemaker.
Although her mother is strict, her father is always away, and her parents quarrel almost every day when they are at home, Yu Qiu always thinks that such a life is really indescribably beautiful. A father who works hard for business every day, and a mother who laughs and scolds completely without the ladylike demeanor of the past, it is this that makes him inexplicably feel that every moment of being together is like a luxury.
... But is this good
He grew up day by day, and under the influence of his mother, he could read a little bit and read a little bit, but he didn't have any hope for the scientific examination. Instead, he learned business from Yu Yuankai. Once he ran into a girl on the way to run a business, and he helped the girl's family a lot. When he came back, he found his family and proposed marriage. "You boy, you have good luck." Mrs. Yu pointed at Yu Qiu and scolded with a smile.
There is a complete family, parents who love themselves, a life without worrying about food and clothing, the ability to earn money, and even an unmarried wife waiting to marry. It seems that the happiest life of ordinary people is like this.
But is this really all right
Yu Qiu didn't know why he always asked himself this way.
Suddenly there was a loud bang in the sky, and the land in all directions shook violently. Everyone in the county was frightened for a moment, and then looked up at the sky of thousands of miles of dark clouds, and immediately became agitated, "It's a fairy! Come out and see the fairy!"
Yu Qiu ran outside the house and raised his head. As expected, he recognized two figures from a distance in the sky. They were both dressed in white and wore a Xuanguang sword. The two fairy-like figures lowered their heads, looked at the mortals below with a frown, and then roughly said something to each other, then turned around and disappeared without a trace.
The turmoil of the mortals on the ground has not subsided for a long time, "It's really a fairy... Oh my God, I've seen a fairy too!"
Until the mortals on the ground finally dispersed, Yu Qiu still stayed where he was. After a long time, he turned his eyes away from the already empty sky, and looked back at the home he had lived in for many years.
There are his mother, his father, the memories of his happy growth, the first half of his life that he can say he has no regrets, and everything he cherishes... But, stop kidding yourself, this is not your place to stay place.
What is mine? Yu Qiu didn't know.
But just when he realized that everything in front of him was not right, this happy life suddenly dispersed like a bubble, and he returned to the darkness again.
Yu Qiu wanted to find those things that he couldn't explain clearly, so it didn't take long before another ball of light floated around him, and Yu Qiu touched it lightly again.
It was still the coming into the world with rumbling cries in that winter, and the first five years of the strict mother and loving father... everything after that was different. When he woke up again from the dark ignorance, what caught his eyes was Xu Hong who was covered in blood but was holding him firmly in his arms, and the body of the tall eighth-level monster behind Xu Hong.
Yu Qiu is no longer a mortal, but was introduced into the immortal road by Xu Hong and became a monk. Although the price of taking this path was that his family was ruined, he had been foolish for many years, and had so many misfortunes, but he shouldn't be a mortal in the first place, he should have walked this path.
He has already forgotten what kind of life he will have on another road, not to mention that this life is still happy for Qiu. Xu Hong was very kind to him, taking good care of him every day and night, teaching him to read and write little by little until he grew up until that time when all the monks above the golden core of the orthodox sect in the Xuanyan Continent disappeared forever. The magic cultivator devoured the ground and devoured all the sects within a few days... Xu Hong still never gave up on Qiu, and Yu Qiukang walked behind him through all the struggles to survive.
However, after Jin Dan, Xu Hong became more and more stressed and became more and more moody. Although relying on his accumulation in Xuanyangzong and his hard work afterwards, Xu Hong was already one of the first few people who formed alchemy after the catastrophe in the cultivation world of Xuanyan Continent, but as more and more people formed alchemy afterwards, Xu Hong's strength was gradually overwhelmed by many people with the same golden core. After the peak of the golden core, his cultivation base has never improved. In addition, everyone knows that he has accumulated a lot of money, and everyone is staring at him. It's getting harder and harder. Under such circumstances, it is naturally more difficult to bring along Yu Qiu, who can't help at all.
Finally one day, Fairy Chixia, head of the Chixia sect of the new sect, approached Xu Hong, expressing that he had taken a fancy to Xu Hong and was willing to form a dual-cultivation partner with Xu Hong, as long as Xu Hongyu drove away in autumn.
After Fairy Chixia left, Xu Hong found Yu Qiu who was huddled outside the door.
"Junior Brother, did you hear everything?" Xu Hong tried to smile calmly, but the corners of his mouth were always drawn with difficulty, "What do you think?"
Yu Qiu opened his mouth.
"I'll try to live alone." This sentence turned in his mind, but he didn't say it out of his mouth.
With just a thought, Yu Qiu's eyes turned red, and he gritted his teeth and cursed angrily, "Why does that woman say that? What kind of thing is she, why does she want to break us up? It's just a dream!"
Xu Hong stared blankly at Yu Qiu, and smiled for a long time, his eyes seemed to be radiant, "You are right."
After this time, Fairy Chixia wanted to go to the door again to bring up the old story, but Xu Hong directly kicked her out. In this life, Xu Hong has never thought of really abandoning Yu Qiu. Although it may be very difficult, although there may be a day when he cannot protect Yu Qiu, he has always firmly believed that Yu Qiu can only rely on him to live, firmly believe that Yu Qiu Qiu can never leave him, and he is willing to dedicate his life for Yu Qiu's dependence.
Maybe one day Xu Hong and Yu Qiu will die together, but there will never be any betrayal between them.
How happy, how rare, how extravagant. And all of this requires Yu Qiu to give up every possibility of independence, to give up everything that may be needed to learn how to survive alone, to be useless forever, and to tell Xu Hong with all words and deeds that he can only rely on him forever.
So is this really all right
Before the day when they really died together, Yu Qiu discovered that it was not.
Perhaps in a certain world, there will be a Yu Qiu who wants all of this and will spend such a life, but that's not him.
Although he also wants such a life, although he also hopes that he will never be abandoned or even betrayed by his senior brother, but there are some other things, some that cannot be obtained in this life, which should belong to him.
He saw himself floating out of Yu Qiu in this world, the world that did not belong to him dissipated again, and he returned to that darkness.
He was eager to find everything that really belonged to him, so he quickly reached another ball of light and impatiently touched it.
Another life began, from when Yu Qiu's family was ruined for five years and was foolishly led into the fairy road by Xu Hong, until when Xu Hong was suppressed for a long time at the peak of Jindan, Fairy Chixia appeared in front of him and proposed that very tempting condition.
Yu Qiu also heard all this outside the door, and Xu Hong also smiled that ugly smile that tried to be calm but failed, "Junior Brother, you heard it all... What do you think?"
"I will try to live alone." Yu Qiu said, "I think I can do it."