no puppet

Chapter 229 Yin Chu's Betrayal

"Is... is that so?" Cheng Miling stared at Wu Nian's shiny black eyes, "I thought she could see it, but doesn't she seem to be looking at me now?"

Xie Hengyan shook her head and said: "It's hard to say. This child has never been normal before, but since he left the island and went to the outside world, it seems to have calmed down suddenly... There is no abnormality anymore."

"Do you suspect that she is Fang Yan?" Cheng Miling asked.

"Yeah, aren't you afraid?" When Xie Hengyan said this, she was always worried about Cheng Miling's reaction, but now it seems that her concern for Wu Nian always seems to have some special meaning. "I thought, like Rong Shilian... you would be very repulsive to this child."

Cheng Miling smiled and said: "How come? If you really hate her, you don't need to keep her until now."

Xie Hengyan said: "Then you..."

"You wait for me for a while."

Cheng Miling turned around and left the door, and after about half a stick of incense, Fang stepped over the threshold and returned to the table, but now there was an unfamiliar object in his hand.

Xie Hengyan narrowed his eyes and took a look, and found that it was actually a piece of hollowed-out talisman paper, with complicated and complicated incantations painted on the four corners, Xie Hengyan couldn't understand what was written, and when he was about to ask a question, Cheng Miling Turning around, she made a silent gesture towards him: "...Shh."

Xie Hengyan: "?"

"This is a portrait talisman... I stole it from my father's study when I was very young."

Cheng Miling stretched out a finger, reached the top of the talisman paper, and dropped it lightly——afterwards, half a wisp of green smoke rose faintly to the sky, and suddenly a blurred phantom appeared from the center of the paper, thinly It seems that it should be a woman's delicate and gentle facial features.

"I asked my father to pack it up and prepare to throw it away and burn it. Fortunately, I have a quick eye and a quick hand... I saved one and kept it until now."

Cheng Miling said: "You should have heard of this person, Qu Rongyi...she is my mother."

Xie Hengyan was shocked all over, and when she looked up, her eyes were filled with a hazy face filled with smoke.He could barely make out the shape of a woman, but the exact facial features were vague, so he couldn't see clearly.

"My mother left early, and I've heard all kinds of rumors about her, good or bad, most of them. Anyway, to me, it's probably...an old friend who lives in other people's memories." Cheng Mi Ling smiled wryly, "I understand my father's actions. Behind him is the life and death of Biyu Mansion. Many things are done out of necessity, so no matter what father has done, I will not have any complaints."

Xie Hengyan said: "But..."

"As for this portrait talisman, I didn't dare to let him know about it. It's the only old thing left to accompany me forever." Cheng Miling picked up the talisman paper, glanced at Xie Hengyan, and then looked at Xie Hengyan again. Wu Nian in his arms, "I just said that this child is like an old friend of mine. Maybe you think it's funny, but it's the truth. The first time I saw her that night, I felt very familiar... On the other hand, I was afraid of her special identity, so I have been hiding secretly until now, and have never notified Pingchao Chengrong Mansion."

"It was because of this."

Xie Hengyan lowered her head and stared at Wu Nian for a long while, then glanced at the blurred portrait talisman: "I don't think it looks like this, this broken talisman... the face is not very clear, how can you tell me?" What did you recognize?"

Cheng Miling smiled and said, "Intuition."

"Intuition may not be right." Xie Hengyan closed her clothes and wrapped Wu Nian into her cold chest, "Don't look at her as a child, the appearance of a child is often the best at lying, maybe turning your intuition into an illusion , maybe?"

Cheng Miling didn't say a word, she just looked at Xie Hengyan intently, and asked meaningfully: "What about you...do you also lie?"

"Do you think I will lie?" Xie Hengyan asked back.

Before Cheng Miling could reply, Xie Hengyan picked up Wu Nian, turned around and walked to the window, saying, "It's getting late, and it's not appropriate for the child to stay here. You have no intention of arresting me... can I?" gone?"

"Wait, stop!"

Cheng Miling stood up suddenly and tried to grab Xie Hengyan's sleeve, but Xie Hengyan didn't turn her head. He turned his back and said helplessly to Cheng Miling: "Don't rely too much on your intuition, Miss Cheng, human beings always believe what they see with their own eyes. ...But in fact, looking too messy and thinking too much often only brings deeper pain to oneself."

"You...slow down, don't go!" Cheng Miling chased behind the window and whispered, "I never said how much pain I was suffering. I believe what I saw with my own eyes, and I also believe that I couldn't see it. Yes, it’s just that the real answer has been bothering me for so many years, and I often can’t tell what is right and what is wrong, and how to do it specifically. "

"All of them...all of them say that I act impetuously, and I will definitely not be a great talent in the future—but I didn't become like this voluntarily." Cheng Miling spread her hands, and in her eyes, there was never a person like that. "I think you are a puppet, with no intention or distracting thoughts. On this point, you should understand better than me... right?"

"Who said so?" Xie Hengyan sighed, and said slowly, "Even I often feel confused." After saying that, he looked down at Wu Nian, and he smiled again, "Just like now This child, I take her by my side, what will happen in the end... It's hard to say."

Cheng Miling said, "Aren't you afraid...will she hurt you?"

Xie Hengyan said: "When you took her in, did you ever think about it?"

Cheng Miling shook her head, Xie Hengyan smiled and said: "I have to go, I've left too long, I'm afraid you will suddenly change your mind."

Cheng Miling hurriedly said: "Hey...just wait."

Xie Hengyan: "What?"

"This kid, can I...can come and see him in the future?" Cheng Miling asked, "Where do you live now? I think..."

Before the words were finished, a gust of cold wind blew in front of the window, and Cheng Miling couldn't help closing her eyes, and when she turned her eyes back to the window, the puppet that was holding the child and smiling was gone. .

In the dimly lit bedroom, now there is only the candlestick for lighting, and under the dim light of the fire, Cheng Mi Ling has a slightly astonished expression.

"What, you are so timid. At least listen to the end of the sentence..."

As Cheng Miling said, she froze on the spot and remained silent for a while.When the last red candle was about to burn out, she lowered her head and gently blew away the smoke from the portrait amulet in front of her, then held it in the palm of her hand, carefully put it into the box, and put it together with her mother's favorite gardenia.

Yin Chun felt that all the sounds around him seemed to be cut into countless fragments by a knife blade, and finally turned into noisy and noisy bursts of humming, circling wildly around his ears all the time.

For a moment, it was Rong Pan's ferocious old face like a wild beast: "Can't you see what happened to Li Haishuang?"

For a while, Kang Wen roared like tearing: "When is this, you are still protecting that damned young lady, isn't your life important?!"

At the same time, Huo Shitang whispered close to his ear: "The Rong family urgently needs to give an explanation to the higher-ups, so just say it."

By the end...

It was still Cheng Daofeng's cold gaze with no warmth.

He said to Yin Chun: "...If you don't tell me, you will be punished with death."

Death is inevitable.

Death is inevitable.

Capital crime... inevitable.

Yin Chun opened his eyes suddenly, what he saw was no longer the cold and humid dungeon, but the huge fire that had appeared countless times in his dream, almost burning to the fiery red half of the sky, infinitely illuminated by the afterglow of the setting sun Yes, the illusory back of the woman when she turned and left...

And, in the end, only half of the blood-stained head remained.

Yin Chun held the head and carefully took her into his arms.However, the moment he stretched out his five fingers, trying to wipe away all the dried blood stains, a figure holding a long sword appeared in front of him as expected, just in time for the moment when he raised his head in horror. Heart beats like a drum.

In an instant, a large expanse of scarlet and shattered sword light were mixed together, and the remaining images were completely crushed and torn to pieces. What finally appeared in front of Zi Yinzhen's eyes was still Rong Pan's picture lurking in the darkness, exhausted to the point of blood vessels. A hideous face with bulging veins.

——Like a bloodthirsty and greedy beast, desperately gnawing at his neck.

"...Say it!" Rong Pan raised his voice and ordered.

Cheng Daofeng also flicked his sleeves, turned his back, and said to Yinchun indifferently: "Say."

Kang Wen still urged: "Brother, tell me, what can you not recruit! What they tell you to say, just admit it..."

Halfway through the conversation, a sudden gust of wind blew up in front of Kang Wen. Before Kang Wen could make any reaction, Yin Chun stepped forward and grabbed the dagger from the guard's waist with his hands. When the hilt fell to the ground, it made a series of crisp sounds— - All the guards hurriedly turned around when they saw this, and Pian Yinchun moved his hand like a hurricane, before Rong Pan swung his folding fan away, he slashed his sword straight to the vacant part of the fan bone, and twisted it outward in the opposite direction!

Kang Wen just opened his mouth, but he didn't have time to stop the ending, but saw that Rong Pan's folding fan had been thrown out of the air, and the sharp fan tip could barely scratch the bottom wall, leaving a long series of jagged sharp marks in an instant ——Rong Pan's eyes froze, and he was about to reach out to recall the fan. The next moment, Yin Chuan flew forward, grabbed the lantern in the guard's hand, and threw the flaming wick into the sky, and the blue-gray smoke was like a tide It spread out, and after a while, the entire dark and damp bottom floor of the dungeon was covered with mist.

"A bunch of useless trash!" Rong Pan never imagined that Yin Chun could do this to him. He was so horrified that all his facial features and eyebrows were twisted into a ball. The twisted guards said, "Quick...quickly arrest him—"

When the words fell, the enchantment dungeon seemed to be a mess, and the guards from the upper, middle and lower levels were bustling around the center of the corridor. Those who came to fight the fire, those who lit the lamps, and those who chased people, Kang Wen stood aside , as if completely stupid, I can't believe that it was Yin Zhu who did all that just now!

However, Yin Chun, the big brother he "always thought" was now holding a dagger in one hand, and violently swung the surrounding people aside with the other, and jumped up to the height of the beam in three or two steps, with the soles of his feet stuck between the fences on both sides of the aisle. , obviously intending to take this opportunity to rush out of the dungeon in one fell swoop.

"Brother!"

During the gap between the crowd and the smog, Kang Wen desperately squeezed half of his head away, and then opened his voice and shouted: "Senior Brother, what are you doing! You are not going back to Biyu Mansion, and you are not going to recognize me and me." Master?"

Yin Chun didn't give an answer, in front of him was the surging lights and crowds, and behind him was Kang Wen's almost roaring cry and persuasion.

For such a short moment, Yin Chun seemed to forget where he was and where he should belong.The world imprinted in his eyes is so clear now, but to him, it feels strange and hesitant like never before.

Yin Chun didn't dare to turn his head to face Kang Wen, and he didn't even dare to look back at his master. He was only afraid that when he turned around, what he saw would be disappointing and desperate faces.

He didn't dare, he just wanted to escape.

Yin Chun rushed into the crowd almost aimlessly, resisting the flames of figures rushing around him, and turned around countless dark corners in the depths of the prison.

In the end, his continuous forward steps stopped, and at that moment alone, all the noisy voices seemed to stop abruptly.

Yin Chun took a deep breath and saw a familiar figure standing with his hands behind his back at the end of the aisle not far away.

...to be enlightened.

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I wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in advance!

Yin Chun has slipped away, and will be reunited with his wife soon~

In addition, I would like to remind you that the "head" that Yin Chun is holding today is a scene that appeared in the memory fragments before, implying that his mother was beheaded for lunch.

The hints in this chapter are super obvious, but be careful to guess wrong~