[18 Smiling Proud Sword Three] Liancheng Wish

Flames of war, gunpowder smoke, flesh and blood, howling...

There are almost no living people in the villages captured by the Spike Army, and the air is filled with the disgusting smell of burning wood and corpses.

In the war, even children are not spared. Song Liancheng, who was only nine years old, fell to the ground exhausted after being stabbed by No.30. The last thing he saw with his gradually blurred eyes was his companion who died tragically under the wolf tooth saber behind him. .

If only I could be stronger...

Song Liancheng closed his eyes full of unwillingness.

"Big Brother, Big Brother! Wake up!" Yang Lianting saw Dongfang Bubai sitting in the yard taking a nap but sweating, so she wanted to wake him up out of worry.

"No—" Dongfang Bubai woke up startled, saw Yang Lianting's worried eyes, wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and comforted him, "It's just a nightmare, I'm fine."

"Brother, if you're tired, go back to the house and sleep. You'll catch a cold easily if you sleep here." Yang Lianting's childish face was full of worry.

Dongfang Bubai patted her head, "Okay... hey, aren't you learning from Nanny at this time? How did you come to find me?"

"Oh, I forgot! Mommy just let me go for a while, I'm going back now! Brother, remember to rest well!" Yang Lianting trotted back, not forgetting to turn her head to remind her.

Seeing Yang Lianting's back disappear from sight, Dongfang Bubai's smile immediately disappeared.She is the illegitimate daughter of the director of the Demon Cult, Wo Xing, and she should not have received his love, but not long ago, Heimu Town near Heimuya was captured by the Wuyue Sword Sect. Most of the villagers there are family members of the Demon Cult. Even if they weren't family members, they were ordinary people who depended on the Demon Cult for their livelihood.

Ren Woxing rescued his eldest daughter Ren Yingying, but was too late to save his mistress and illegitimate daughter Ren Feifei.Dongfang Bubai took the surviving Ren Feifei away first, and hid her in his private house as a secret weapon against Ren Woxing in the future.

It's strange that he did this. Everyone knows that the Sun Moon God Sect has only one young envoy from the East. Location.

Young envoy, heh, those vulgar warriors don't know, but Dongfang Bubai who has read the classics and history knows very well that this is letting me do what I can to humiliate him!Isn't the title of a concubine with a low status in the palace of the Queen of Han in the past the title of a minor envoy?

Thinking of what Ren Woxing did to him this year, Dongfang Bubai was so disgusted that he wanted to leave Heimuya immediately.But he can't do this, he is a pawn placed right next to Ren Woxing, and his family's life is in the hands of the Baidao martial arts master, so he has to endure being castrated, molested and humiliated by Ren Woxing stay in Heimuya.

Dongfang Bubai looked at the sky, thought that today he would meet with the person he was in contact with again, so he calmed down and left the private house to go to the agreed place.

"I told you another way to Heimuya, but why did you kill the innocent villagers in the town?! Even if those people are closely related to the Demon Cult, you... how can you, as the righteous way of martial arts, face unarmed people? Let's do it!"

"Hmph, this time the demons of the Demon Cult were lucky enough to escape, but at least it's considered some gains. You did a good job this time!" The visitor masked his face, but Dongfang Bubai naturally knew who he was.

"You—" Dongfang Bubai was extremely angry, "You shouldn't involve ordinary people in martial arts disputes!"

"You want to resist?!" The masked man sneered, "Your family thought you were practicing sword hard in our sect, so don't let them down."

Dongfang Bubai dared not speak out.

"That's right, when the Wuyue Sword Sect captures Heimuya, you can come back and reunite with your family." The masked man pointed to Dongfang Bubai and left with satisfaction.

Dongfang Bubai stood for a long time before he calmed down. After sighing heavily, he went down the mountain stream, only to find a little boy of mixed race lying on his stomach in the mountain stream.

"Elder Ping, how is he?" Dongfang Bubai sent the child to Ping Yizhi.

Ping frowned, and shook his head, "This old man rarely sees such a strange patient who has symptoms of excessive blood loss without a single wound."

"Then... is there any internal injury?"

"Not really."

Dongfang Bubai was thinking that the place where he met the masked man was some way away from the mountain stream, and it is unlikely that the child was eavesdropping and was injured by the masked man, and it is still debatable whether this child...can understand Daming Mandarin. .

In the end, Dongfang Bubai carried the child back to his home. Yang Lianting was surprised when he saw the child, "Brother, why is his hair like this?"

Dongfang Bubai felt puzzled as he stroked the child's short dark brown curly hair, "I don't know, but he seems to be from a foreign race, probably the customs are different from those in the Central Plains."

Probably because of the medicine and rice soup, the child woke up the next day, muttering something in a strange accent, but the servant couldn't understand, so he rushed to find Dongfang Bubai.

As soon as Dongfang Bubai entered the room, the child ran towards him, saying words that no one could understand.

"You...what's your name?"

The child half-understood, looked around with wide eyes, and then made a gesture of reading a book at Dongfang Bubai.

"You want a book?" Dongfang Bubai was very surprised, he thought that this foreign child was unfamiliar with everything in the Central Plains.

"Book!" He repeated Dongfang Bubai's words once, then frowned, but soon showed an urgent look, and pulled Dongfang Bubai's sleeve, "Book!"

Dongfang Bubai dubiously took out a book from the bookcase and handed it to him, and the child pointed out a word from the book to him.

"Lian?" Dongfang Bubai didn't understand what the child meant.

The child continued to search, but when he found half of it, he turned the book forward, stared at that page for a long time, and then lay down on the table and cried loudly.

Dongfang Bubai picked up the book and glanced at it.This is a history of the Tang Dynasty, the page that makes the child cry, it says the end of the Anshi Rebellion.

The child raised his head and made a gesture of writing with trembling hands. Apart from sadness and sadness, there was also confusion in those red eyes.

If this child can understand Chinese characters, he should also be able to write.Dongfang Bubai thought to himself, and asked the servants to fetch paper and pens.

The child's handwriting looked like a cat had scratched it, and he made many mistakes, but Dongfang Bubai still understood most of it.

This child's Chinese name is Song Liancheng, and he actually came from the Tang Dynasty hundreds of years ago. What makes Dongfang Bubai even more horrified is that he turned out to be a disciple of the Ming Cult.

"Song Liancheng?" Dongfang Bubai tried to call his name.

"Brother..." After Song Liancheng finished writing, he buried his head in the history of Tang Dynasty, and cried again when he saw the end of Tang Dynasty.

Dongfang Bubai couldn't help but hold him in his arms.He had thought about whether this might be some kind of trap, but Song Liancheng's words were too unimaginable, and he didn't dare to write like this in operas, and Song Liancheng's sadness after seeing the final fall of the Tang Dynasty really didn't look like a fake.

Dongfang Bubai spent ten days teaching Song Liancheng the pronunciation of Daming Mandarin, and explaining some things he hadn't seen before, before he could barely adapt to his current life.

Song Liancheng has a scorching sun tattoo on his right arm and a cold moon tattoo on his left arm, but behind him is the fiery red totem of the holy fire.

Dongfang Bubai knew that the Sun Moon God Sect was originally Mingjiao, and later changed its name to the Sun Moon God Sect to avoid the taboo of the Daming Kingdom, and almost abandoned all beliefs. Every morning and evening, he watched Song Liancheng deliberately kneel down and chant scriptures in front of the lit brazier. Feel like a big headache.If this child is discovered by the officials, sooner or later something serious will happen.

Ren Woxing knew that Dongfang Bubai had picked up a child of a foreign race, but he missed him after not seeing him for ten days, so he ordered Dongfang Bubai to take the child to Heimuya.

Dongfang Bubai was very nervous after receiving the order. Song Liancheng's father is Persian and his mother is Han. He has obvious characteristics of mixed race, and he is very beautiful.Dongfang Bubai was terrified that Ren Wogui would leave Song Liancheng at Heimuya.

"Come up to Heimuya with me, but don't speak official language. If anyone asks you, just speak Persian, okay?"

"En." Song Liancheng was very obedient, Dongfang Bubai did whatever he asked, and never asked too many questions.

Black wood cliff

"This is the child you picked up?" Ren Woxing watched Song Liancheng grabbing Dongfang Bubai's sleeves, tremblingly shrunk behind Dongfang Bubai, and felt that this little brat was too timid to be useful.

"Liancheng...is not very good at Mandarin. At least one of his parents is a Persian with a totem of holy fire tattooed on his body. He is probably a Zoroastrian." Dongfang Bubai said half-truthfully, "I guess he was hunted down. I hid in the mountains, and when I came out to find something to eat, I was so hungry that I just picked it up."

"Oh?" Ren Woxing doesn't seem to be interested in this kid. The Sun Moon God Sect has established itself in Jianghu for many years, and he has lost his beliefs somewhere. The officials here in the Central Plains have strict control over the sects preaching in the Western Regions. It is not surprising that this child was hunted down. "You call him Liancheng?"

"When I picked him up, he had a handkerchief with the words Song Liancheng embroidered on it, and he would respond if I called him that, probably his Chinese name." Dongfang Bubai blushed without panting. lying.

"I heard that you adopted an orphan girl before. With so many children in your family, do you still have time to practice?" Ren Woxing stared at Dongfang Bubai.

"Little sister is very obedient. They are about the same age, so they are good playmates. They play with them, so I will be free." This is naturally a lie. Yang Lianting always calls Song Liancheng "little" because of his curly hair. Song Liancheng also didn't like Yang Lianting, so he called her Xiaolianhua.

"Brother Dongfang!" Ren Yingying heard that Dongfang Bubai had come up, and ran over happily, "Brother Dongfang, you haven't been here for a long time! Is this little brother the child that Brother Dongfang picked up? It's so beautiful, it really looks like a little one." cat."

Song Liancheng cursed in his heart, still pretending not to understand and tugging at Dongfang Bubai's sleeve, with a puzzled look on his face.

Dongfang Bubai patted Song Liancheng's head, and said softly to him, "Liancheng, call me sister."

Song Liancheng stared at Ren Yingying's face that looked somewhat like Yang Lianting, and then turned to look at Dongfang Bubai.

"Sister." Dongfang Bubai knew that Song Liancheng hated Ren Yingying and Yang Lianting in his heart, and there was a little more warning in his eyes.

"Sister!" Song Liancheng stumblingly shouted in a strange tone.

"Heh, he's so cute!" Ren Yingying smiled amusedly.

"Yingying, you and Liancheng go to the backyard to play, I have something to discuss with your brother Dongfang." Ren Woxing naturally did not forget why he wanted Dongfang Bubai to come to Heimuya.

Dongfang Bubai shook Song Liancheng's hand, pretending to be calm and said to Song Liancheng, "Let's go play with my sister."

Song Liancheng reluctantly let go of Dongfang Bubai's sleeve, and kept looking back at him when Ren Yingying dragged him to the backyard.

It was not until the two children left that Ren Woxing said to Dongfang Bubai: "Come with me, Bubai."

Dongfang Bubai's face was as white as his clothes, he didn't resist, just followed me with his head down.