197. The Root of Suffering
It will be dawn.
The snow stopped, the world was vast, covered with silver, and the city of Ximo was as quiet as this.
After not sleeping all night, the old woman looked tired, but when she thought of the treasure she would get in three months, she couldn't help but feel excited.
She covered the second jar, sealed it, folded her hands together, muttering words, praying that this time it must be successful!
When the old woman turned her head, Chu Mingze next door had already withdrawn his gaze and restored the painting that was originally hanging there to its original state.
Making the reincarnation Gu took a lot of energy from the old woman. She took a deep breath, got up and moved her stiff legs, her abdomen was empty, and she felt strong hunger.
"Mu Cang!" the old woman called out, but no one responded.
"Wanyan You!" the old woman shouted again, but no one responded.
She cursed and walked towards the door, "Just paying attention to your leisure and happiness, no matter what I am, I want you to look good sooner or later!"
The old woman opened the door and the cold wind blew towards her. She shivered and shrank her neck. Once again, she felt that her body was so bad now that she couldn't stand the coldness. I really hope that three months would pass in the blink of an eye and quickly change to her young and beautiful body.
The old woman raised her foot and walked towards Wanyan You's room. Halfway through the way, a black shadow appeared behind her like a ghost. She felt nothing. Suddenly, the back of her neck hurt and her body fell softly to the ground.
When Chu Mingze walked to the door of Wanyan You's room, he saw thick blood flowing out from the crack of the door below, and the snow outside was dyed red.
But Chu Mingze knew that Wanyan You was not dead, and Mu Cang must have died. The reason was that after the sound from here calmed down last night, the child did not cry anymore.
Chu Mingze avoided the blood on the ground and pushed open the door. A strong smell of blood rushed towards him.
The room was not big, with Mu Cang's corpse on the ground, covered in blood, and it was terrible. His blood almost dyed the ground of the room red.
Chu Mingze's eyes moved upwards and saw Wanyan You.
Wanyan You sat by the bed, with almost no clothes on her body and large pieces of skin. The child was sleeping soundly in her arms, while her face was covered in blood, her eyes were open, and she looked dull, and she kept that position motionless, as if she was already stupid.
Chu Mingze glanced at Wanyan You, moved his gaze away, and called "Wanyan You."
Wanyan You didn't respond.
Chu Mingze raised his voice again and shouted "Wanyan You!"
Still no response.
Chu Mingze was away from the ground, floated in, went to the bed, and reached out to hug the child in Wanyan You's arms.
Wanyan You suddenly widened his eyes, subconsciously avoided it, and then looked up and looked at Chu Mingze.
After seeing Mingze's face clearly, Wanyan You looked sad and happy, and her voice was hoarse, "You are not dead..."
Wanyan You woke up and knew that the dagger under her pillow last night was released by Chu Mingze. Chu Mingze has been in this yard and has never left.
Chu Mingze went to the side, took a set of clothes and threw them beside Wanyan You. "Pack up yourself as soon as possible. I want to leave here. If you want to continue staying..."
Wanyan You shook her head, "No! I don't want to! I don't want to stay in this ghost place!"
Mu Cang's body was at her feet, Mu Cang's eyes were staring at her. Even though he had become a dead person, he could never insult her again. There was still a trace of fear and deep disgust in her heart.
The strong smell of blood was lingering in the tip of his nose, which made Wanyan You almost feel sick.
"Give me the child." Chu Mingze stretched out his hand again.
Wanyan You lowered her head, looked at her current appearance, and did not raise her head anymore. She silently handed the sleeping child to Chu Mingze, then hugged her arms to cover the spring light on her chest.
Chu Mingze saw it, but his eyes were still cold. He turned around with the child in his arms and floated out, leaving only a sentence "Give you a quarter of an hour to pack up."
Chu Mingze held the child in one hand and dragged the knocked old woman into the old woman's room with the other.
When he entered the door, he threw the old woman down, held the child and sat down at the table, looking at the remaining things on the table, the recipe and steps of the reincarnation Gu were clearly imprinted in his mind.
In the past few years, as the guardian of Anle Tower, he has been looking for medicinal materials for the old woman to make the reincarnation Gu. In the meantime, he has kept a lot of medicinal materials in private. The old woman didn't know about this.
It was a quarter of an hour, and Wanyan You put on her clothes, and the blood on her face had dried up. She braided her messy hair with dark blood on it. Her right finger was injured by a dagger, and she didn't deal with it.
Standing next to Mu Cang's body, Wanyan You lowered her head and watched quietly, then stepped over and walked out of the room that suffocated her, stepping on Mu Cang's blood.
As for Mu Cang, she had already died in her heart before she died. Regret is absolutely impossible.
The strong wind blew the snow under the corridor, a thick layer. Wanyan You walked slowly over, taking bloody footprints.
When Wanyan You entered the door, she saw the child awake. She was in Chu Mingze's arms, holding one of Chu Mingze's fingers with her little hand and giggling.
Chu Mingze heard the voice, looked up, looked cold, and looked at Wanyan You and said, "Search her."
"Yes." Wanyan You saw the old woman on the ground, knelt down, searched every part of her body, and found two bottles of poison in the impossible place.
This was not something that happened later, but the old woman kept hiding on her body, and Chu Mingze didn't know.
Wanyan You looked at the old woman's face with cold eyes. For the past year, she has been suffering hard and suffering from humiliation and torture in the vicious woman's claws. She really wished she could tear her down!
Chu Mingze looked down at the little doll in his arms, and suddenly asked Wanyan You, "Can you give me your daughter?"
Wanyan You's expression froze, then she knelt in front of Chu Mingze and kowtowed to him repeatedly, "Young Master Chiyan, thank you for your care, thank you for saving us mother and daughter. I have no wish to forget your kindness, but please don't hurt my child! Please, let us go!"
"If you don't want to, just forget it." Chu Mingze said with a faint expression. It seemed that he was just a whim. He said casually, but changed his mind.
Wanyan You breathed a sigh of relief, fell down, held the ground with one hand, and felt uncomfortable in everything.
"I will leave here in a quarter of an hour. If you want to stay, I can leave you some money." Chu Mingze said to Wanyan You.
Wanyan You frowned. Stay behind? Are she and the child? With her appearance, it will cause trouble sooner or later! She knows that she is not good at martial arts and does not have the ability to protect the child. Even if she scratches her face, there is some trouble, what should come will come.
Although reason told Wanyan You that Chu Mingze was both good and evil, she didn't understand him at all.
But intuition told Wanyan You that this man would not hurt her and her children! She couldn't stay here, she needed to find a support!
"I... can we go with you?" Wanyan You looked at Chu Mingze and asked.
"Follow me, then?" Chu Mingze looked down at the child, his fingers were still in the child's little hand, and his voice was cold, "Wanyan You, you never seem to understand what the root cause of the tragedy you have encountered so far."
Wanyan You looked stiff and said, "The root... The root is my appearance..."
Wanyan You was very sure. As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Chu Mingze's sneering voice, "You have seen Ye Ling in Nanchu. Do you think that compared to her, which of you two has a better appearance?"
The first time Ye Ling he saw at the birthday banquet of Emperor Chu appeared in Wanyan You's mind.
Ye Ling was not only the Princess War, but also the famous general of Nanchu. She sat there quietly, charming and unparalleled. She was surrounded by men of high status and powerfulness, but no man dared to look at her with a blatant look. Even though she was a young widow, she was often the easiest to be bullied by men.
At that time, Wanyan You was wearing exposed clothes and was dancing for those men. She knew what the men looked at her with, and she wanted to strip her clothes...
But in Nanchu, even all over the world, outside the battlefield, no man dared to bully or harass Ye Ling. Perhaps, but not spreading it, it means that she easily solved it.
"She...she is more beautiful than me..." Wanyan You lowered her head and murmured. In truth, Ye Ling's confidence and pride were something she had never had.
"You should know that your first husband Chu Mingyin once liked Ye Ling. He was the prince, but he didn't even touch Ye Ling's hand, so he didn't dare to provoke him again. You may have heard that Chu Mingheng, the former prince of Nanchu, had always coveted Ye Ling's beauty, and his status was as powerful as him, and he had never succeeded. Even the Emperor of Chu did not dare to mercenate Ye Ling's marriage at will. Ye Ling would agree to marry Nangong Heng because they had already made love in secret. All of those things were controlled by them, and everything was under her control. Even the destruction of Nanchu was of great significance." Chu Mingze said with a faint expression, "You are all women and all have unique appearances. Do you think Ye Ling is more beautiful than you, but how are you doing? How are you doing? Let me ask you again, what do you think your tragedy is the root cause?"
Wanyan You was shocked when she heard Chu Mingze's words and clenched her fist, "Is it... it's because... it's because I'm too weak!"
"Wanyan You, the Beihu royal family surrounded by wolves can leave without any hesitation because they need you to exchange interests with them. You are lucky, otherwise you have been played with by those men to death. You marry Chu Mingyin and try to get peace from him? Why do you? Just your beauty, he is obsessed with your body? Do you still want to give birth to a child for Chu Mingyin? It's ridiculous! Do you think that the child could survive in the Nanchu royal family after he was born? Do you have the ability to protect him? Do you really love Mu Cang? Or because Mu Cang saved you, you naively think that he is the best man in the world, and can give you a peaceful life? Why don't you think about why Mu Cang fell in love with you at first sight? He was fascinated by your beauty!"
Wanyan You's heart sank! Has she really loved Mu Cang? She didn't know that she just wanted to find a man who could protect her and give her peace. It happened that Mu Cang appeared by her when she needed it the most and devoted herself to her. But later facts proved that her relationship with Mu Cang did not even have the most basic trust, but it was just a joke.
"You always want to find a man to rely on, have you ever thought about what you should do if a man is unreliable? Can you live on your own? You always want to have a child, why do you have the ability to protect your child? Look at Mu Cang's appearance, if you still think that your beauty will definitely find a man to rely on, there will still be no good results next time! People's hearts are easy to change, and you never understand that only by relying on yourself can you truly gain a foothold in this world!" Chu Mingze said coldly.
Wanyan You's nearly twenty years of life have actually been hidden in her heart. She always blamed God for teasing her, and even thought countless times that if she had an ordinary background, if she didn't have this good skin, wouldn't she have encountered tragedies one after another? So she pursued the life of an ordinary person she wanted and wanted peace.
But in the end, everything is wrong from the root!
"When you are so strong that no one can bully you, you are qualified to live the life you want! Only then can you have the ability to protect your children and be a qualified mother! Instead of letting her repeat your mistakes! Don't want to rely on me, I have no interest in your face and body, and not all men in this world will be tempted by you. You always hope that men are not with you because they are greedy for beauty, but they don't know how to reflect on what you have left besides beauty? Is this the cheapest thing! Have you never heard a saying that people are bullied by goodness?" Chu Mingze looked at Wanyan You and said coldly.
"It's me that was wrong...it's me that was wrong...it's me that was wrong..." Wanyan You kept murmuring.
"Tears are the most valuable thing. Those who want to hurt you will never let you go because you are pitiful. Wanyan You, I have never felt sorry for you. I took care of you before just because you were valuable to me, but the plan changed, and you have no value now." Chu Mingze's voice was so cold, "Let's take care of yourself in the future."
Chu Mingze got up as he finished speaking, put the child in his arms on the table, and strode out.
When he reached Wanyan You's side, Wanyan You's expression changed, and he subconsciously reached out and grabbed his clothes!
Chu Mingze lowered his head and said coldly, "Let go!"
Wanyan You's hand immediately shrank back, knelt on the ground, and kept kowtowing to Chu Mingze, "I know I'm wrong. Please, please take me in and help me! I want to become stronger. As long as you make me stronger, I can do anything for you! It doesn't matter if I die, but I can't let my child go! I know that you like An An, I... I can let the child recognize you as his adoptive father! Please, even if it's for the sake of the child, give me a chance! I swear, I will do my best! I will be loyal to you in the future and will be absolutely unlucky! Please help me!"
"I'm not available!" Chu Mingze said coldly.
Just as he raised his foot and was about to leave, the child on the table suddenly started to cry.
Chu Mingze turned around when he heard the sound, and saw that the child was about to roll down. His figure was like a illusion and he went over to catch the child.
The child was held in Chu Mingze's arms, and his black eyes looked at him, burst into tears and laughed, and his little hands waved at him.
Chu Mingze frowned, looked at Wanyan You with a begging look, held the child, picked up the unconscious old woman, and strode out.
Wanyan You's expression changed, "My child..."
"Take all the medicines you can see in the room and come to the next door." Chu Mingze finished speaking and had already left the door, flew over the courtyard wall with his child in his arms, and entered the house next door.
Wanyan You realized that Chu Mingze agreed to take her in, and did not want to steal her child, and she couldn't help but cry with joy.
She climbed up from the ground with difficulty, wiped away her tears, and told herself that from today on, Wanyan You, who was once dead! She will never complain about herself again. Every day in the future, her only goal is to become strong and no one can bully her! Her tears will never shed for men again!
Wanyan You used to stretch her eyebrows with sad eyebrows, and instead she was determined. Her eyes, which were originally like water, had a cold light shining under her eyes, and she forced her body to hold up all the remaining medicinal materials in the old woman's room, and walked out the door with her heavy medicine box.
The cold wind was biting, and the snow in the yard was flawless.
Wanyan You stepped up and walked step by step towards the courtyard gate. A string of red footprints were left on the snow behind her, and her thin spine was as straight as pine, and she never looked back...
Chapter completed!