Chapter 86 – Heavenly Dragon (15)
The Xixia imperial palace could not compare to the Purple Forbidden Palace of the future, but it was very majestic and dignified.
Li Qiu Shui was a dowager consort of Xixia. The imperial palace was her world. Lin Yu Tong benefited and went back to living the life of an aristocratic miss. Li Qiu Shui was very content with Lin Yu Tong’s manner of speech, decorum, and presence.
“Sect Brother cared about these things in his life. He liked Su Xing He. Look at what he taught his disciple. Not everyone has the talent of Senior Sect Brother, and be able to do everything. It seems that you spent your time on about the four gentleman arts as well. Play a song for me.” Li Qiu Shui pointed at the zither in the pavilion, and ordered Lin Yu Tong.
In the Red Chamber, these things had been what she used to pass the time for twenty years. She knew them, and pretty well.
She put her hands on the string, and thought of the song that Wen Tian Fang frequently played. Wen Tian Fang had composed the song for Lin Yu Tong. It was very sentimental. When Lin Yu Tong played it, there was endless nostalgia.
Li Qiu Shui’s mind was shocked. When the song ended, she said, “Your master frequently played this?” Such great emotions, such yearning, how could people not be moved?
Lin Yu Tong was speechless.
Seeing Lin Yu Tong just bow her head silently, Li Qiu Shui thought that Lin Yu Tong was admitting it. In her view, with Lin Yu Tong’s age, she had not experienced any feelings, and would not have such yearning.
“Senior Sect Brother…… He……” Li Qiu Shui murmured. “I let him down! It was not him who let me down. I have killed all the handsome youths.”
“Master is no longer here now. Let the past go with the wind,” Lin Yu Tong said.
Li Qiu Shui looked into the distance and said, “Yes! He is no longer here. What is interesting about the future?”
Before Lin Yu Tong could speak, Li Qiu Shui stood up and left.
Lin Yu Tong was left into the imperial garden. She thought maybe the Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother was hiding in the ice cave with Xu Zhu. She walked forward, wanting to find the zoo in the imperial Palace, and if animals like cranes had gone missing. The Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother had to drink blood everyday, and would come here. She feared attracting Li Qiu Shui’s attention, and only passed by from afar. She saw eunuchs with nets and other things, likely to repair the fence. It seemed that things had been lost. Otherwise, people who not think of repairing these. She grew even more calm. The two of them must be in the ice cave.
She followed the rules. Li Qiu Shui said she had to practice, she would practice, without slacking off. She was abused all day, but her progress was fast.
When she focused, it had been two months. Today, she could finally come out to breathe in the air. In the pavilion of the imperial garden, she saw a beautiful young girl in a daze, cheek propped on her hand.
Then the attendant following Lin Yu Tong said, “Ahead is the princess.”
Lin Yu Tong stopped. Was this the princess of Xixia who had relations with Xu Zhu?
It was a flower stuck in cow dung. Xu Zhu was not ugly, but compared to this princess, people could not bear it. She did not understand why this princess was so deeply in love with Xu Zhu. In this world, one would feel that these people’s treatment of their feelings was mad.
For example, the women towards Duan Zheng Chun. They knew he was scum, but did not regret it.
For example, Duan Yan Qing to a woman that he did not know how she looked. He remembered her for decades, and it did not fade.
For example, Mu Wan Qing to Duan Yu, Duan Yu to Wang Yu Yan, and Wang Yu Yan to Murong Fu.
For example, Kang Min’s obsession with Xiao Feng after she was not able to get him.
For example, Azhu, use her own sacrifice and death to explain her love.
For example, You Tan Zhi to Azi, loving without any reason and sense of self.
For example, Azi to Xiao Feng, so infatuated that she was obsessed.
For example, Li Qiu Shui and the Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother to Wu Ya Zi. They seemed to be obsessed for a lifetime.
For example, this princess to Xu Zhu. The love was so inexplicable.
Lin Yu Tong admired such love, but she was afraid of it.
She turned and walked back. It was better not to interrupt people dreaming about their man.
The Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother kept on taking the animals from the zoo in the palace, and took food from the imperial kitchens to eat. She did stunning things. She did not think, people supervised the number of animals. If they lessened by the day, would people not notice? Li Qiu Shui was not stupid. Her mind was just not stable because she learned of Wu Ya Zi’s recent death. When she turned back, could she not figure it out?
This night, Li Qiu Shui called Lin Yu Tong to her. “Did you discover it a long time ago?”
“The cranes in the imperial zoo lessen by the day, and I had a guess. I feared that you will start fighting again, so I did not dare to say……” Lin Yu Tong whispered.
Li Qiu Shui snorted and said, “You are very filial to your senior sect brother, not bad.”
“Not everyone has the perseverance to wait for a lifetime,” Lin Yu Tong said.
Li Qiu Shui stilled. Senior Sect Sister had waited for Sect Brother for a lifetime. What about her? Not as good. Were her feelings towards Sect Brother not as deep as Senior Sect Sister’s to Sect Brother?
She did not agree with this.
“Come! We will see her,” Li Qiu Shui said and jumped up.
She was as familiar with the Xixia imperial palace like the back of her hand. In half a night, she found them.
“Harlot!” The Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother sneered at Li Qiu Shui. “Did you hear Sect Brother’s last words from the girl?”
Lin Yu Tong hurriedly arrived and said, “Yes, Master said that he let down Sect Uncle.”
The Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother nodded. Lin Yu Tong had not lied to both sides. She sneered, “Sect Brother felt he let you down, did you not let Sect Brother down? You first have a group of beautiful youths, and then you married the emperor of Xixia and became an imperial consort. When you reach the afterlife, do you have the face to see Sect Brother? You are just a harlot all can sleep with. I am different. Sect Brother knows that I am a virgin. When we reach the afterlife, we will see who Sect Brother wants.”
“So what if you are a virgin, you are still a dwarf,” Li Qiu Shui was furious and cursed.
The saying was to not slap someone in the face while fighting, and not target their shortcomings. The two of them were very familiar with each other, and did they know each other’s weaknesses? Their words were all at the weaknesses.
After just a few words, they started to fight.
Lin Yu Tong sighed. Both of them knew that Wu Ya Zi was dead, and wanted to die. The only person they could not let go of was the old man. Regardless of how she tried, she could not stop them from wanting to die. Also, both of them thought they had gotten the answer they wanted, and got Wu Ya Zi’s love. Now, they wanted to die early, and then they would be able to reunite with their lover after death.
Their feelings were very stupid, but Lin Yu Tong felt heartbreak for them.
Just as she was in a daze, she was pulled by two great forces, and two waves of internal energy surged in. Her body started to heat up, so hot that she almost exploded. She was not able to make a sound, and even her mind grew vague.
When she woke up again, the sunlight shone on her face. Lin Yu Tong narrowed her eyes.
“Sect Sister, are you awake?” Xu Zhu said with a smile.
Lin Yu Tong sat up and said, “Where is this?” The surroundings were very desolate. She clearly remembers being in the Xixia imperial palace. She was shocked and asked, “Where are the sect uncles?”
“Over there,” Xu Zhu pointed at the stone on the other side.
Lin Yu Tong stood up. The feeling of her body told her that the two of them had channel their internal energies into her.
The two people lying on the large stone appeared very odd. They were dressed brightly like young women, but right now, they had snowy white hair and wrinkled faces, so they looked strange. The Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother had been small of figure to start with, and now, she was very old. Li Qiu Shui’s face seemed to be wrapped up in something. Lin Yu Tong reached out and with a light pull, a skin mask came off. Under the mask was a scar-covered face. She sighed inside. The two truly did all they can to hurt the other.
She had wondered before, with such deep love, why did they not go to find Wu Ya Zi? So one was disfigured, and the other had the body of a child.
Li Qiu Shui opened her eyes and looked at the person lying next to her. She said to Lin Yu Tong, “I have a daughter, find her, and take care of her and her descendant.”
“Sect Uncle, do not worry, I will protect them as long as I am alive,” Lin Yu Tong said solemnly.
“Good! I will go find Sect Brother a step ahead of Senior Sect Sister,” Li Qiu Shui said in a low voice. Then she used her last bit of internal energy to shatter her own heart.
Maybe because she had Li Qiu Shui’s internal energy, or that they had been together for the recent while and there was the boon of teaching her, Lin Yu Tong could not suppress her sorrow.
“Do not cry. She is dead. Dead is good.” The Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother sat up and took out something that was like a firecracker. She pulled it, and a red light shot into the sky.
“You two come here,” the Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother called.
Xu Zhu touched his head and walked over. Lin Yu Tong wiped her tears and said, “Sect Uncle, are you summoning your subordinates?”
The Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother nodded and said to Lin Yu Tong, “You are the leader of Carefree Sect, then I will pass the Spirit Vulture Palace to your junior sect brother.”
Lin Yu Tong nodded. “I have gotten Grandmother’s decades of internal energy, and do not dare to ask for more.”
“But the Spirit Vulture Palace still belongs to Carefree Sect. Xu Zhu has to listen to you, the leader,” the Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother said.
“No! No! Sister can take it. I have to return to Shaolin.” Xu Zhu waved his hands.
Lin Yu Tong said, “Sect Uncle taught you martial skills and methods related to the thirty-six cave masters and seventy-two island masters controlled by Spirit Vulture Palace. Other than you, who can she pass on to?”
The people were controlled by the Life Death Seal, and needed the Heavenly Mountain Six Yang Palm to be released. The Heavenly Mountain Child Grandmother looked with exasperation at Xu Zhu. “If I had no other way, why would I pass on to an idiot like you?”
As she was speaking, she saw a group of a dozen horses galloping over.
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