Volume Four, The Year of the Curtain, Chapter 206, Sitting in the City of Sorrow
Ning Que returned to the house by Yanming Lake. The blood stained on his clothes had been diluted by the spring rain and looked like a watercolor painting.
Many people are waiting for his return, waiting for him to sign his name and complete the peace treaty.
Whether it was the ministers of the Tang Dynasty, the dean of the Tianyu Academy of the Xiling Temple, or the important figures in the mission, they finally breathed a sigh of relief when they saw him entering the house.
Ning Que took the towel from the hand of the maid, wiped the rain off his face, and walked to the case. He read through the detailed provisions of the agreement and without any hesitation, he picked up his pen and prepared to sign.
The dean of Tianyu Academy looked at the blood stains on his body, and suddenly a bad thought flashed through his mind, and he said in a deep voice: "Wait a minute, may I ask where Mr. Thirteen went?"
Before Ning Que could answer, someone came to the bank of Yanming Lake in the rain and informed everyone in the room about the bloody incident that happened in the Qinghe County Guild Hall.
There was a sudden silence in the hall. The faces of the members of the Xiling Temple Mission were extremely ugly. Liu Yiqing lowered his head and held the hilt of his sword tightly. Xie Chengyun looked at Ning Que in shock. He could not imagine that this former classmate could be so cold-blooded.
Tang officials were also shocked, but their emotional development was completely opposite to that of the Xiling Temple. Academician Zeng Jing looked at Ning Que and nodded slightly in approval. General Shu Cheng, who was always sitting silently in the corner, was even more surprised.
He slammed the table hard and shouted sternly: "Well done."
"The murder at the Qinghe Guild Hall was committed by Mr. Thirteen?"
The dean of Tianyu Academy stared into Ning Que's eyes and his voice was extremely cold.
Ning Que said: "Do I need to report to you when I do something?"
"Then you admit it?" The dean of the Tianyu Academy looked extremely ugly and shouted sternly: "In that case, do you still want to sign this peace treaty?"
Ning Que didn't take it seriously, even though the other party was the head of the Xiling Temple Mission, he threw the brush back into the inkstone, walked to the back garden, took a bath with cold water, asked the maid to make a pot of hot tea, and went directly to the Plum Garden
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Ye Hongyu slowly stood up under the rain corridor, looked at him and said, "Why are you regenerating the branches?"
Ning Que walked to her side, poured two cups of hot tea from the pot, took one cup and held it in his hand to slightly warm his palms that had been washed by the rain, and then lay down on the bamboo chair.
He said: "Datang has always made great promises. Once signed, it is difficult to do anything again. So of course I have to kill the people I want to kill before signing."
Ye Hongyu stared into his eyes and said, "You promised I wouldn't touch them."
Ning Que pushed the tea cup to her hand and said: "What I promised you at that time was to send back the disciples of the various clans in the Qinghe Guild Hall. I did not say that I would definitely send back the living ones. Their corpses are now outside the courtyard, in the temple.
If you are interested, you can bring them back to Qinghe at any time, I have no interest in collecting the bodies of these people."
Ye Hongyu said: "Do you think this is interesting?"
Ning Que said: "Of course it's interesting, otherwise why would I do this? Even if you think word games are boring, you have to understand that I haven't signed the piece of paper yet, so I can do anything."
Ye Hongyu said: "Aren't you worried that you will anger me?"
"Anger cannot determine the outcome. Just like you have angered me a long time ago, but I can't kill you because I can't control the situation. Likewise, you can't decide everything, whether it's the person who is still hiding behind the scenes.
You need to return to the temple with a peace treaty, so your anger can't affect anything."
Ning Que took a sip of tea and said, "What's more, we have already given you what you want most, so people like those in the Qinghe Guild Hall are just accessories and not important at all."
Ye Hongyu said: "Whether it is important or not is not up to you to decide."
"The princes in Qinghe County are just a group of dogs raised by the temple. You may be angry when these dogs are killed, but you will not break up with the academy because of this. On the contrary, don't you think you should let me be a little bit
Is it not a bad thing for the temple to vent your grievances?"
Ning Que smiled and said: "In addition, I may not be able to decide whether this matter is important to you, so I will do it first and then tell you. This is to help you make a decision."
The spring rain was pouring down in front of the eaves, and the sky was a little dark. The tribunal robe on Ye Hongyu's body seemed like a blood flag, but it could not hide the smell of blood emanating from Ning Que's body.
He had already taken a bath, but the smell of blood was still strong at this time. He really didn't know how many people he had killed in the Qinghe Guild Hall before. No matter how much bitter tea he drank, it would be difficult to cleanse his heart.
It was quiet under the rain porch for a long time.
Ye Hongyu said: "Everything is over."
Ning Que said: "Perhaps, everything has just begun."
Ye Hongyu looked at him and asked: "
Will you still kill people like you did today?"
Ning Que thought for a moment and said, "There are indeed many people I want to kill."
Ye Hongyu raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "Your name will be on the peace treaty."
Ning Que smiled and said, "You know how shameless I am."
Ye Hongyu said: "Even in the name of the academy?"
"Even if it is the teacher's reputation, I have never cared about it."
Ning Que put down the teacup, stood up and stretched, shouted to the spring rain in front of the eaves, and said, "If the temple cares about it, I can leave the academy at any time."
Ye Hongyu said: "You don't seem to have thought that if you kill too many people, the temple will not abide by the agreement."
Ning Que turned to look at her and said: "The people who can make the academy fearful are not in the temple. In the eyes of those two people, the people in the world are like ants. How can they be angry just because a few ants died? Of course, I can only
Kill those who can, and try not to make the temple too angry."
Ye Hongyu said: "You want to test the bottom line of Dao Sect?"
Ning Que laughed and said, "When has the Taoist sect ever had a bottom line?"
Ye Hongyu looked at him and said, "Do you know why I don't care about the murder in Qinghe Guild Hall?"
Ning Que said: "Of course it's not because you really treat those people as dogs."
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Ye Hongyu said: "Those people are already dead, and I believe that even if you want to kill again, no matter how many people you want to kill, you will not be able to kill anymore."
"Why." Ning Que asked calmly.
"Because you can never leave Chang'an City again."
She looked into Ning Que's eyes, the emotion in her eyes was very indifferent, and said: "You will be trapped in Chang'an City for the rest of your life, and you will be an angry prisoner."
Ning Que said nothing because this was the truth.
If he leaves Chang'an City, Haotian Dao Sect will definitely try every means to kill him at all costs, because he is invincible inside the city and weak outside the city.
He is the center of Chang'an City.
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The Xiling Temple delegation left Chang'an City.
When they came, they didn't actually have high hopes. When they left, they gained countless gold and silver treasures and a victory that no one before them had ever achieved.
Within the temple mission, only Ye Hongyu and the dean of the Tianyu Academy knew the true secret of this negotiation.
It was precisely because he knew that the Taoist sect had two great hermit practitioners with profound and unpredictable realms. Instead of being satisfied with the peace treaty, the dean of the Tianyuan Academy had a lot of confusion. He didn't understand why the Xiling Temple didn't take advantage of this.
Opportunities continued to arouse the excitement of conquering the Tang Dynasty, but they chose a truce.
Ye Hongyu looked at the afterimages of willow branches dragged out in the rain outside the window, and thought in his heart: "Drinking can kill people, and writing hairpin flowers in small regular script can also kill people. Reading can kill people, and no one except the Lotus Throne of the past wants to kill people."
Seeing such a world. What's more, Mr. Da has learned how to fight. Jun Mo won't pick him up even if he fell to the ground. Mr. Third is the cicada. Ning Que is no longer afraid of death. In such an academy, whoever dares to speak out will win.
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Ning Que stood under the South City Gate, glanced at the falling rain, and said, "The rain has lightened up."
He was bidding farewell. Naturally, the person he was sending off was not the delegation from the Xiling Temple, but Mo Shanshan.
Mo Shanshan said: "Then it's time for me to leave."
Ning Que was silent for a moment and then said: "Actually, it would be good to leave a few days later."
Mo Shanshan said calmly: "No matter how late it is, we have to leave eventually."
Ning Que didn't know what to say, so he didn't answer.
Mo Shanshan looked at him and asked seriously: "Will you kill many people in the future?"
Ning Que thought for a moment and said, "Yes, if I can leave Chang'an, I will kill many people."
Mo Shanshan looked at the white shoes that stuck out of her skirt. She didn't speak for a long time. She didn't know what she was thinking. Then she raised her head, smiled sweetly and said, "I wish you a happy killing."
Ning Que felt that Chun Yu was a little softer and said, "I will definitely work hard for it."
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The Xiling Temple envoy left, and the war officially came to an end. Although the spring was about to end, the Golden Tent Royal Court, which occupied Xiangwanyuan, tried to continue southward. It encountered a violent and powerful counterattack by the Zhenbei Army, and was also ordered by the Xiling Temple.
He was severely reprimanded and had to return to Qichengzhai and accept the reality.
The fighting in various places gradually subsided, and the Eastern Wasteland cavalry fled back to the Yan Kingdom. Most of the temple coalition forces also withdrew to the Southern Jin Dynasty and the Xiling Divine Kingdom.
The prince gradually became calmer, but many people had died.
The white banners at the gate of the palace did not completely vent the anger of the Tang people. The court did a lot of work for this purpose, hoping to direct this anger to the right target, such as Haotian Dao Sect.
Ning Que didn't care about these things. In times of peace, the law prohibiting interference in court affairs was still enforced at the back of the academy. The main reason was that he was not in the mood to care about these things now.
He wants to leave the city.
He has not left Chang'an City for many days.
There are many people who want to enter Chang'an City, but they can't because he is in the city.
He wanted to leave the city, but he didn't dare because there were people drinking and eating meat in a small town outside the city.
Ning Que discovered that he had become a prisoner of this city just as Ye Hongyu said.
There are still many mysteries in his heart that have not been solved.
Who found the drunkard and asked him to come to Chang'an City? Why did that person return the carriage and iron arrows to him? Why did that person ask the drunkard to tell those words?
"Every death in this world is a reunion after a long absence."
What does this sentence mean?
He had imagined a certain possibility, but his reason told him that it was the least likely.