Zhao Changhe knew that Zhuque and Tang Wanzhuang had fought many times over the years, but he didn't expect that they started fighting so early. It must have been at least fourteen or fifteen years ago. They were only fourteen or fifteen years old, right? Sanniang was a little older, probably about sixteen or seventeen.
The youthful days of these three... I really want to go back and take a look at them back then.
The imagined scene is beautiful, but the reality is full of tension.
Zhao Changhe didn't know that was actually the first time Huangfu Qing and Tang Wanzhuang met. At that time, Tang Wanzhuang had not yet gone to the capital to study and had not met Huangfu Qing. In other words, Tang Wanzhuang actually knew Zhuque first.
Huangfu Qing was sent to the Four Symbols Sect by Huangfu Yongxian to be trained since childhood. The White Tiger Saint of the Four Symbols Sect is their princess, and the relationship is very deep. It is not surprising that Xia Longyuan does not trust Huangfu Yongxian. In fact, he does have "rebellious intentions". Huangfu Yongxian is loyal to his duty to defend the land, but he may not be loyal to his Xia family.
But the old generation of the Four Symbols Sect was really not that good. It was two years after the White Tiger Saint's accident in Luojia Village that the slow-witted Four Symbols Sect received the news. At this time, Huangfu Qing finally came out of seclusion after completing her studies, took over the responsibility of the White Tiger Saint, and began to manage Jiangnan and develop followers as the Vermillion Bird Saint.
It was at this time that Wan Dongliu was persuaded by a young lady to join the sect and became a Zhen Shuiyin when he was a child. Zhuque had always disliked Zhao Changhe as an "older youth" because his values were already formed and it was not easy for him to establish faith. It was best to cultivate him from an early age, at least the children should be young boys and girls.
When he arrived in Gusu, Huangfu Qing heard that Miss Tang was made of the same water, so he decided to test it out. Maybe she had a connection with our religion
So this meeting took place.
At that time, the young girl Tang Wanzhuang was playing in Taihu Lake, playing the piano and composing poems. Inexplicably, a firebird came to her door and said in a very arrogant tone that it had heard that the young lady of the Tang family had a strong water element, so it came to see her specially. Maybe they would have the chance to become sisters in the future.
Tang Wanzhuang knew from the mask that this was the Suzaku Saintess of the Four Symbols Sect. At that time, the Four Symbols Sect had not yet shown any signs of rebellion, but it was also called the Demon Sect. The girl Tang Wanzhuang was born in a famous family, who would be willing to be a sister of your Demon Sect, not to mention that this silly bird spoke so arrogantly, what are you arrogant about
The young and energetic Miss Tang fought against Zhuque in Taihu Lake. A female pirate with a bandit-like spirit sat by the lake, holding a reed in her mouth and watched for a long time. Finally, she sneered and said, "Stop fighting. You can't kill anyone like this."
At that time, the world was not in chaos, and Zhuque's experience in the martial arts world was relatively limited. Tang Wanzhuang had only fought with Jiangnan Junxiu since she was a child, and was no better than Tang Buqi. Although they were both geniuses and learned top-level martial arts, how could they compare with Sanniang, who had a life full of ups and downs and crawled out of a pile of dead bodies since she was a child
In Sanniang's eyes, he was so weak that he couldn't be killed.
In fact, the two girls were helpless at this time, and they both had some sympathy for each other. As a result, an outsider came out to mock them. The self-proclaimed sympathy turned out to be a fight between chickens in the eyes of the outsider. How could the two girls bear it? They changed their moves and attacked Sanniang at the same time: "Then let you try, can you kill someone?"
Unfortunately, both of them were beaten up by Sanniang, so easily that she didn't even have time to dodge the Book of Chaos.
This was the first meeting of the three top female masters in the Book of Chaos, and it ended with the young girl Guigui winning one against two.
Afterwards, everyone's choices diverged.
Huangfu Qing was not angry but happy after being beaten. She found that the water attribute and strong and resolute aura of this heroic young lady were the true embryo of Xuanwu, so she decisively tricked her into joining the sect. Sanniang, who had just come to the land, was abducted by the cultists. She went to take the test in a daze, and passed it in a daze, becoming the Xuanwu Saint.
The two stars of Suzaku and Xuanwu stand side by side. In the next ten years or so, the north and the south will be expanded, and both will be on the list of people and the list of people who enter the earth. The Four Symbols Sect will rise in the world like a comet.
At that time, Tang Wanzhuang realized her shame and decided to go out to study and gain experience. The following year, when she was studying in the capital, she met Huangfu Qing.
No one knows why Tang Wanzhuang, who has such a calm personality, would be so incompatible with Huangfu Qing... According to insiders, it was Tang Wanzhuang who provoked Huangfu Qing first. It is really puzzling, and this matter remains an unsolved mystery in the capital.
Of course it’s because it looks too much like the firebird, and Tang Wanzhuang wants to try whether it’s a human.
In the end, they failed to test it out. Huangfu Qing had his own martial arts in the capital, and Tang Wanzhuang did not dare to use her real skills in the capital, so naturally she could not force her to use her real skills. And she kept looking for trouble, Huangfu Qing was not willing to bear this, so she also looked for trouble in return, and the capital had an extra scenery from then on.
In fact, Tang Wanzhuang had never been clear about Huangfu Qing's identity, especially after the Book of Chaos kept flashing around, and she, Tang Wanzhuang, and Suzaku and Xuanwu rose in rankings alternately, but there was never any mention of Huangfu Qing. In Tang Wanzhuang's mind, it was obvious.
As a result, one became a noble concubine and the other became the abbot. The political nature of the matter was there, and no matter how well they knew it, they could not say it out loud in the absence of "evidence" until now.
Now it was Tang Wanzhuang who didn't want to say anything. She watched Zhuque performing coldly. The dignified Lord Zhuque was made to hum and moan, and he thought that others didn't know. Such a clown was hard to find on the stage. If she wasn't afraid of coughing, Tang Wanzhuang could laugh for an hour every day at home.
Rather than being anxious about the coming of troubled times, what forced Tang Wanzhuang to break through so hard that she damaged her foundation, was actually almost half due to the pressure from Sanniang.
In the book of chaotic times, her ranking was slightly lower than Zhuque's, but no matter how hard she tried, the inconspicuous Xuanwu would always be one level higher. Tang Wanzhuang thought of the woman who had beaten her and Zhuque together when they first met, and she always felt a lot of psychological pressure.
It's like the shadow of a giant black tortoise, dominating the North Pole, with its dragon head overlooking, majestic and mocking.
She still doesn't know that the woman who is as heavy and oppressive as a shadow in her mind is actually a fun-loving turtle.
… … Zhao Changhe naturally didn’t know about these past events, but from Sanniang’s brief introduction, he was impressed: “Venerable Suzaku is indeed broad-minded and courageous. After fighting with you, he even decisively let you join the sect and become a Xuanwu. I heard that the previous generation of the Four Symbols Sect was quite lame, and the rise of this generation is really due to the contribution of Venerable Suzaku.”
"What do you think you're going to do when you're that stupid bird? She introduced me to the church, and while I'm not a holy woman, she's my boss, and she put on some shoes for me and beat me up a couple of times."The three women brandished indignantly: "Then she caught up with me and went wild. If she didn't have anything to do, I wouldn't have seen a vindictive woman like that! I'm telling you, don't offend your little mistress, or I'll see the end of my miserable life."
Zhao Changhe: "... Let's talk about why you believe in the Four Symbols. Your experience doesn't match this at all."
Sanniang sipped her wine and said, "Why don't they match? Aren't the stars and the sea always mentioned together?"
Zhao Changhe: “…”
Sanniang looked up at the starry sky and whispered, "Because I also want to have a sustenance, a belief, otherwise I don't know what the meaning of my life is..."
Zhao Changhe's heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself, indeed... Everyone has different reasons for having faith, and Sanniang's reason is indeed shared by a large number of people. Judging from Sanniang's experience, she has seen a lot of vicissitudes of life at such a young age.
What is the meaning of her survival? To avenge her mother? The enemy might be her father. This father is different from the one Chi Chi has never seen. Although her father was injured when she was young, he held her in his arms to play, accompanied her to grow up, and taught her martial arts. These are all real. They were close to each other, and his image and status in her heart might have been quite majestic.
She said she didn't want to harm the pirates, so she came to the land alone to join the Bandit Brotherhood. Wasn't that also an escape? An escape from the confusion of the collapse of her worldview.
When escaping from confusion, it is so easy to fall into the trap when a cult kidnaps people... With this mentality, once a belief is formed, it will be fanatical, so fanatical that even Zhuque, who recruited her to join, may not understand it as well as she does, to the extent that Zhuque has to consult Sanniang when he is unclear about the matter of Ye Di.
Sanniang looked at the starry sky and murmured to herself: "If there really are gods descending to the world, what does everything in the human world mean? Whether it's Daxia or Penglai... What is a king, what is an emperor? Who is the best in the world? Once the gods are angry, they will all be crushed to pieces. I really want to see the day when they fight and find that everything is a joke in the end."
Zhao Changhe looked at her profile, and after a while he stretched out the jade lid filled with water and touched it with her: "Come, drink."
Sanniang came back to her senses, glanced at him, and said with a smile: "Why, are you afraid that I will preach to you and you will think you are foolish?"
"No." Zhao Changhe smiled and said, "I just think that women with stories are more charming. The Sanniang in my heart is alive."
Sanniang's eyes flickered, and she nudged him like a brother: "Hey, do you think I'm prettier or your Qing'er is prettier?"
Zhao Changhe thought without hesitation: "Of course she is beautiful."
"Hmm?" Sanniang looked unfriendly.
"She is my wife, and you are my boss. How can you say that your boss is prettier than your wife? That must be a bad intention."
Sanniang said with a sour face: "You have something on your mind? Who was the one who was sucking and licking me before?"
Zhao Changhe lowered his head and added firewood to the campfire.
Sanniang did not press on, and once again looked up at the starry sky, saying leisurely: "Except for the coming of God, nothing in the world is particularly meaningful... Let's drink today and have fun today, and having more fun is more important than anything else, don't you think?"
Zhao Changhe said: "No."
"Oh?" Sanniang asked curiously, "Why not?"
Zhao Changhe said seriously: "Because you are not a pure fun person either."
Sanniang was not convinced: "I obviously am."
"You knew that the octopus was difficult to fight and you might not be able to defeat it, but you still charged for the pirates behind you... I know that there are still many meaningful things in your heart."
Sanniang turned her head and looked at him for a long while, then suddenly smiled and said, "What about you? You could have just left with the Tang family fleet, but you had to fight like this. Why? For me?"
Zhao Changhe was stunned for a moment, looked up and thought for a long time, then suddenly nodded: "Yes."
(End of this chapter)