Chu Xiangyun is actually not a bloodline of the Chu family.
In fact, no one can tell clearly about her origins, not even she knows anything about it.
She was a child picked up by the Chu family at the border. She was abandoned in the wasteland at the junction of the human realm and the demon realm. Dozens of miles away was the battlefield where the two sides fought.
According to the description of Chu Zhao, who picked her up, when he found her, she was standing next to Langganyuan, her face was pale, her eyes were closed, her slender body was crumbling in the fierce cold wind, and she was only one step away from falling to the bottom.
If she hadn't looked like a child under three years old, Chu Zhao would have thought that someone couldn't get over it and came here to commit suicide.
The moment he saw her, before he even had time to think about it, he subconsciously stepped forward, grabbed her by the collar and pulled her back, taking several steps back before stopping.
When he came to his senses, he realized that because he had exerted too much force, a red mark had been cut on the girl's tender neck, but she did not even utter a whimper.
He hurriedly let go of his still trembling hand and asked with a trembling voice: "Are you okay? Did I hurt you?"
After hearing her voice, the girl opened her eyes. There was no trace of light in her pupils, and her eyes were empty and unfocused. Then she stretched out her young hands and explored Chu Zhao's face, as if she wanted to trace and remember him with her hands.
appearance.
Chu Zhao immediately realized that the young child in front of him was unable to see, and his movements to dodge suddenly stopped. He knew clearly that he should not let down his guard and let strangers approach, but he still could not control himself to pick up the weapon.
But fortunately, the girl just touched his cheek, then closed her eyes and fainted.
Chu Zhao was worried, but he still suppressed his emotions and checked her briefly. After confirming her human identity and that she did not have any weapons or tracking objects on her, he carefully carried the girl back to the human camp step by step.
That was the first time he hugged such a tender and soft creature. It was so light that it seemed as if it would break if he exerted a little more force.
Chu Zhao couldn't even bear to put her down. A somewhat impulsive thought suddenly came to his mind: Since she was left here and picked up by me, isn't this fate?
I want... to take her back to the Chu family and be my sister.
——Of course, it was rejected.
Chu Zhao was scolded by his superiors, and was urgently informed by the army doctor that the child was too weak and had to be sent to a hospital with better facilities for treatment.
He parted from her without even knowing her name.
But soon, he got another news.
This child has lost all memories of the past. She doesn’t know her name, her origins, and she doesn’t know why she appears in Langganyuan.
Rather than worry, the first emotion that came to Chu Zhao's heart was despicable happiness.
But then he woke up again, feeling ashamed, and immediately called people he knew, asking them to help find information about the child.
But after three months, there is still nothing.
This may be God's destiny. In the end, this child will return to their Chu family.
Although Chu Zhao was on the front line, he still obtained the consent of his family elders through communication, adopted the girl, and named her Chu Xiangyun.
At the same time, because Chu Zhao's parents died young, he took it upon himself to include Chu Xiangyun in his family tree, and his name was written next to his.
my little sister.
My sister Chu Xiangyun.
Chu Zhao couldn't help but smile whenever he thought of these words. He was particularly motivated during training in those days.
Because he has to support his family and his little sister.
*
Chu Xiangyun looked at Chu Lanji who was a little distracted. Her fingertips were still resting on Chu Xiangyun's ears, with a lingering chill even though it was summer.
Chu Xiangyun tried hard to restrain his urge to take a photo, but in the end he turned slightly uncomfortable.
Chu Lanji let go of his hand as if waking up from a dream, and smiled subconsciously, but he didn't know what to say.
"……Feel sorry."
Chu Xiangyun shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter." Then she imitated Chu Lanji's movements and fiddled with her feather pendant, "This is Chu Zhao...brother's feather pendant, right? Do you remember him?"
Chu Lanji was surprised, "...you know?"
Chu Xiangyun opened his mouth but had not spoken yet, but Chu Lanji smiled in relief, "Yes, yes... you were six years old at that time, of course you will remember him."
Although the corners of her mouth were curved upward, Chu Xiangyun always felt that tears were about to fall from her eyes at the next moment.
"I'm sorry, I'm a little lost." In just a moment, Chu Lanji put away his exposed emotions and said, "Can you come see me tomorrow afternoon?"
"……Um."
"See you tomorrow, Xiangyun."
Chu Lanji waved her hand, turned around and left lightly. Her thin body was gradually covered by the leaves. From Chu Xiangyun's point of view, she seemed to be swallowed up.
Chu Xiangyun felt that his heart was very uncomfortable, as if it was covered by a black cloth, and it was stuffy.
So she pulled off her blindfold and threw away her shoes as she ran away, walking on dirt but feeling like walking on flat ground.
Her steps became faster and faster, and finally she jumped up and landed on the tallest tree in Kexi Forest. She sat on the trunk of the tree, hugging herself with her arms, as if
It feels as safe as returning to my mother's arms.
"Of course I know."
she said to herself.
"I'm not a child anymore, why don't I know?"
How could I forget...
——Where is your family?
*
Chu Xiangyun's life began at the age of three.
She had no memory before the age of three. For her, the first person she saw when she opened her eyes - the spiritual power she saw belonged to Chu Zhao.
Chu Zhao's spiritual power is as bright as the sun and the moon, dazzling and dazzling. One glance can impress people in their hearts. Even if they close their eyes, the glow still remains.
She didn't understand the meaning of the brother-sister relationship at first.
She just knew that it meant that Chu Zhao had established a connection with her, as if an invisible rope had appeared to connect the two of them. At first, everyone would nod in understanding when they knew who she was.
——It turns out that she is Chu Zhao’s sister.
Later, she got a gift from Chu Lanji, a cloth belt that could suppress the natural spiritual power of her eyes. This was a pair of eye masks that allowed her to understand the world, and her first reaction was to see
Chu Zhao.
Of course she knew she couldn't go to the battlefield, but just a photo was enough.
After all, she just touched his face and didn't see with her own eyes what he looked like.
The photos of the Chu family were all placed in the album in the study, but when she ran over excitedly, she heard bursts of crying on the way.
She turned around and looked around. There were so many people gathered in the lobby, so many that she had never noticed that the air here was so thin.
A slightly familiar person saw her and waved her over.
Chu Xiangyun saw clearly the look in his eyes, which was pitiful, unbearable, and loving.
The man said: "This is Chu Zhao's sister."
--"poor child."
For the first time, Chu Xiangyun felt breathless because of this identity.
She no longer has to go to the study room to look for Chu Zhao's photo, because the black and white photo is placed in the hall, and she can see it every day, day after day.
What happened after that was probably because she was still too young, so the busy adults took care of everything. Only at the end, amid the total whiteness, Chu Lanji personally brought her the feather pendant that represented the identity of the Chu family.
"From today on, you are a member of the Chu family."
Didn't I do that before?
Chu Xiangyun has an advantage. She is good at learning and has a strong curiosity about things that interest her. She will never stop looking for answers to unsolved puzzles, no matter how difficult they are.
One night, she came to the study alone, and the answer was clearly written on the book——
"Every member of the Chu family wears the same earrings and spiritual weapon, which is passed down from generation to generation. This spiritual weapon is made with the secret method of the Chu family, and the material is taken from Zigui bird feathers, and it is called 'Unthinking'."
"But this feather pendant is only for decoration and cannot be removed by anyone but the Chu family."
"Zigui is still crying for blood in the middle of the night. He doesn't believe that the east wind will call him back."
"Have the wanderers from my hometown returned now?"
Tears soaked the pages of the book, and Chu Xiangyun wiped his eyes in confusion, but the water drops seemed to be endless, dripping continuously and forming a string.
It turns out... these are tears.
…
"Are you crying?"
"Who?" Chu Xiangyun stood up in a panic and glanced around, but found no one. She immediately took off her blindfold and found a small figure under the table.
"You finally see me."
The little guy has a grayish-brown body, oval auricles, and a long tail hanging on the ground. The hair on his body looks a little sparse, and he looks like he is still in his infancy.
"Are you..." Chu Xiangyun tied the cloth belt back, looked at it again, and said hesitantly, "Are you Shuo Yanshu?"
"You!" The little gray animal opened its eyes wide, raised its small paws and pointed viciously at Chu Xiangyun, as if it was too angry to speak. After taking a breath, it said: "I'm not Shuo Yanshu.
A creature! You can see clearly!"
Chu Xiangyun came closer and stroked its fur with his palms, watching it softly fall down comfortably. He recalled the spirit beast illustrations he had seen, and suddenly an idea flashed, "I know, you are Star Flying Squirrel!"
"What?" Unexpectedly, the other party looked in disbelief again, "You can see clearly! I am obviously a bird of paradise!"
"...Bird of Paradise?" Chu Xiangyun blinked in confusion, does this animal exist in the spirit beast illustrated book?
And don’t all birds have a pair of wings to fly in the sky?
Chu Xiangyun once again looked at the gray little guy walking angrily on the ground. Although she didn't believe it, she decided not to argue with it, and she was leaving the study.
But she didn't expect that the other party would not let her go and shouted: "Wait! Wait for me!"
Chu Xiangyun didn't want to pay much attention to it, but he thought that the spirit beast illustrated book said that the Shuoyan rat feeds on books. If this guy gnaws on the books in the study, it would be bad, so it would be better to have a good relationship with it.
So she stopped and asked, "Do you have anything else to do?"
"You haven't answered my question yet." It said unexpectedly, "Were you crying just now?"
Chu Xiangyun's emotions had calmed down at this time, so he said calmly: "I think so."
The mouse seemed dissatisfied with her answer, but he didn't find fault. Instead, he followed her words and asked, "Why are you crying?"
"why cry?"
Chu Xiangyun repeated its words blankly, and replied after a moment of silence: "I don't know either."
"Why do humans cry?" she asked rhetorically.
Instead, the mouse was stunned by her question. It opened its mouth at a loss, slapped its tail on the ground, and spat out an answer.
"Because humans have hearts."
Without waiting for Chu Xiangyun to ask, it continued as if it had already known her question: "You want to ask why humans cry when they have a heart? Because the heart is a very fragile thing. It will hurt when hit by external forces and stabbed by sharp objects.
He will die in the middle."
"Not only that, humans also have something called emotion, which can also hurt human hearts, make them feel heartbroken, and even cause them to die of a broken heart."