Chapter 458: The Truth About Disappearance

Although Xu New Year often despise the coarse father and big brother in his heart, but the father is the father, his own despise no harm, will not allow outsiders to slander.

Therefore, upon hearing Zhao PanYi’s accusation, Xu XinYin first quickly and silently counted his and his sister’s ages in his mind, confirming that he was his own, before he burst into a rage, whisking his sleeve and sneering:

“Zhao Panyi, you claimed that my father was ungrateful, what proof do you have?”

The Battle of Shanhaiguan took place 21 years ago, and his own age, 20, and Ling Yue’s, 18, did not match up in time, so he and Ling Yue were not orphans of the Zhou family.

Zhao Panyi snorted, “People have been dead for 21 years, there’s no such thing as evidence. But Xu Pingzhi being ungrateful is ungrateful, why would I make a mistake in slandering him?”

Xu Erlang didn’t believe it and waved his hand, “Come on, tie up this fang for me.”

The soldiers who had been cooking the meat had been paying attention to the movements on this side, and upon hearing this, they drew their sabers and swarmed around Zhao Pan Yi and the other thirty soldiers.

The soldiers under Zhao Pan Yi’s hand drew their swords and confronted their fellow soldiers with stern faces, not afraid at all despite their wounds and despite being outnumbered.

Being in the battlefield is like being in hell, since the expedition, and the Jing Guo cavalry rounds, the hostility has long been raised, no one is afraid of death.

Zhao Panyi pressed his hand, signaling his subordinates not to be impulsive, and spat out a mouthful of phlegm, saying disdainfully, “I don’t fight for my life with my fellow soldiers, unlike someone who has a father like his son, and is an ungrateful son of a bitch.”

Xu Erlang’s face was grim as he droned, “Tie it up.”

The soldiers swarmed up, knocked over Zhao Panyi and the others with the hilt of their swords, tied them up, tossed them aside, and then proceeded to go back to cooking the horse meat.

Zhao Panyi was still there cursing and swearing, cursing all the eighteen generations of the Xu family in, even the women.

Xu New Year then ordered his soldiers to gag Zhao Pan Yi’s mouth so that he could only whimper and not spit out any more fragrance.

“A family matter?”

Seeing his frown, Chu Yuanjian smiled and tried.

Xu New Year shook his head, his eyes looking at the ground not far away as he hesitantly said, “I don’t believe that my father would be such a person, but the words of this Zhao PanYi remind me of something. So let’s leave him behind first.”

When he was a teenager, his elder brother and mother did not have a good relationship, which gave his father a headache, so he used to say that he and his eldest brother fought against each other, and that his eldest brother blocked the sword for him and died on the battlefield.

Xu Erlang had heard it since he was a child, and now, this inexplicable Zhou Biao, who had appeared inexplicably, seemed unreasonable and bizarre.

He looked at Chu Yuanzhuan and said, “You seem to have a way to contact my big brother?”

Xu Erlang is also quite cautious, there are no outsiders here, directly say the book of the earth is not good it ……….. Chu Yuanjian reached out and touched the fragment of the earth book and asked, “Do you want to contact Ning Yan, say it, what is it.”

Xu New Year glanced at the fragment of the earth book in amazement and said, “You tell him about this place and ask him to seek my father for confirmation.”

As soon as the words fell out of his mouth, he saw Chu Yuanjian using his hand as a substitute for a pen, writing on the mirror surface of that small jade mirror.

………….

The setting sun was completely swallowed by the horizon, the sky was green and dark, Xu Qi’an finished his dinner, and while the sky was green and dark, and not yet completely shrouded by night, he cozied up in the courtyard to spend his time, accompanying Little DouDing to play shuttlecock.

Little DouDing can’t control his strength very well yet and is always kicking the shuttlecock into the outer yard or making a crater in the ground.

Her qi is growing too fast, isn’t it, and it’s only been a few months since she practiced the Force Compass Department’s Body Forging Method? In the end, is it her qi that has increased, or is it my qi that has increased ………. Xu Qi’an was dumbfounded as he watched.

“Lina, what’s going on with Suzaku? The progress is too much.”

He twisted his head to look at Lina, who was sitting on the sidelines, peeling an orange and eating it.

Lina sniffed and wrinkled her nose, “I said that Suzume is as strong-boned as a calf, full of qi and blood, and a good seedling for practicing force compulsion. You don’t believe my judgment?”

This good seedling is also too good, right, I’m getting sore ………. Xu Qi’an held the shuttlecock in his hand, looked at the shallow pit under Xu Suoyin’s feet, and said helplessly:

“She can’t control her strength yet, she’ll overdo it if she’s not careful, so in terms of cultivation, hold off for a while.”

Xiao Dou Ding is a lively and active child, and more sticky aunt, early in the year to study in the school, whenever home, carrying a small schoolbag wildly ran into the hall, towards her mother’s round peach buttocks to launch a reckless bull rush.

Now that I’m home all the time, I don’t stick to my aunt as much.

It is not guaranteed that she will go out again one day ………. And with her current power, the Xu family might have to have three more motherless children.

“Oh!”

Lina nodded as she remembered that Suzaku wasn’t a child of the Force Compulsion Division, and that children of the Force Compulsion Division could use violence with impunity and not be afraid of hurting their families.

And if you break utensils or objects in the house, you also have to watch out for your parents’ unbridled violence against you.

But not Suzaku, the Hsu family are all ordinary people.

Xu Qi’an was satisfied, the little black skin of the Southern Border was certainly a naive girl, but the advantage of being naive was that she was not barbaric, and she was obedient and understanding.

The same question, in the place of Li Miaozhen, she would say: don’t worry, from now on, the intensity of training is doubled, to ensure that in the shortest possible time, she will be able to control her own power.

Change to Lin An: Then we won’t learn, let’s play together.

Switch to Caiwei: How boring it is to practice, let’s eat.

Switching to Waiking: you’re teaching me things?

At this moment, a familiar palpitating sensation came, and Xu Qi’an immediately left Little DouDing and Lina behind and sprinted into the room.

Fumbling the shards of the earth book from under his pillow, it was Chu Yuanzhan who initiated a request for a private chat with him.

[3: Brother Chu, how is the war in the north?]

[IV: The battle was hard, but not too bad, with victories and defeats. I came to you to ask you something on behalf of Erlang.]

A dozen seconds later, the second transmission came over: [4: We met a general flag of Xi County in Yongzhou named Zhao Panyi, claiming to be a good brother with the second uncle of the Xu family during the Battle of Shanhaiguan].

[When he saw Erlang Xu, he cursed him and called Uncle Xu an ungrateful man, the reason being that in the beginning, Zhao Panyi, Uncle Xu, and one Zhou Biao, the three of them were good brothers in a team and fought against each other’s backs in the battlefield.]

[Later, Zhou Biao blocked a knife for Uncle Xu and died on the battlefield, Uncle Xu swore to treat each other’s families well, but Uncle Xu reneged on his promise and never visited Zhou Biao’s family in twenty years. I don’t believe that there is such a thing, so I asked me to send a letter to you, entrusting you to inquire about Uncle Xu.

Almost with a trembling hand, Xu Qi’an wrote out the reply, [Wait for me!

Collected the pieces of the ground book, he did not immediately go to find the second uncle, but poured himself a cup of water, slowly drink, the water is finished, the hand does not tremble.

“Zee ……..”

Opening the door to his room, Xu Qi’an walked expressionlessly towards the east room and knocked on the door of the room that was permeated with candlelight.

Dressed in his regular clothes, Uncle Xu walked over to open the door and said with a smile, “Ning Banquet, is something wrong?”

Xu Qi’an opened his mouth, closed it again, phrased his question for a few seconds, and asked softly, “Second uncle, do you know Zhao Pan’yi.”

Uncle Xu Er was obviously taken aback, his tiger’s eyes widened slightly as he said in dismay, “How do you know the brothers I made in the Shanhaiguan Battle back then, let me tell you, those are my brothers who have been friends for life.”

Xu Qi’an nodded, “Why didn’t you get in touch afterward?”

Uncle Xu shook his head and lost his smile, “You don’t understand, military career, different sides of the sky, each with their own duties, after a long time, it fades.”

Xu Qi’an still nodded and asked again, “Then you must know Zhou Biao as well?”

Second Uncle Xu scrutinized his nephew, his thick brows furrowed, “What’s wrong with you today, why do you know about Zhao PanYi and Zhou Biao?”

Xu Qi’an gently shook his head, “Second Uncle, answer me first, did Zhou Biao die in battle?”

“Yeah, it’s a shame about a brother.”

“How did it die?”

“Back then, we were sent to intercept the Witch God Cult corpse soldiers, and Zhou Biao died in that battle.” Second Uncle Xu’s face was filled with sighs.

“Not blocking the knife for you?”

“What nonsense, it was your father who took the knife for me.”

“………”

A sluggish autumn wind blew, and under the eaves and corridors, the lanterns swayed slightly and the candlelight swayed, illuminating Xu Qi’an’s face, which was cloudy and uncertain.

“I know, thanks Uncle Two ………”

After a long time, Xu Qi’an said in a shy voice, and then, in Uncle Xu’s confused eyes, slowly turned around and left.

Uncle Xu Er watched his nephew’s back leave and returned to the house, where his aunt, dressed in a small white dress, sat on the bed, flexing her two long legs as she looked at a folklore comic book.

The comic books were developed specifically for young children, and illiterate people like my aunt.

The beautiful and plump aunt did not raise her head, concentrating on the comic strip, and said, “What is it that Ning Banquet wants to see you about, and I heard that you were talking about some brothers.”

Uncle Xu frowned in confusion:

“Strange, he asked two when the battle of Shanhaiguan, and I was born into death two brothers. But one has already died in battle, one is far away in Yongzhou, he should not recognize it.

“And ask me if Zhou Biao blocked the knife for me, am I that weak on the battlefield, this one blocked the knife for me, that one blocked the knife for me.”

The aunt looked up, her dark, soulful eyes scrutinizing him, and frowned, “Wait, who was it?”

“Zhou Biao, you don’t recognize, that’s my brother from the army.”

Auntie shook her head, “No, I remember him, when you wrote a letter home and came back, you seemed to have mentioned this person, saying that thanks to him you were able to survive or something. I remember that family letter or Ning Yan’s mother reading it to me.”

Unfortunately, the family letter from twenty years ago is long gone.

Uncle Xu’s face suddenly froze in disbelief as he looked at his wife as if she was looking at a madman.

……….

[3: Tell Erlang that there is indeed this person, and that it is Uncle Erlang who has failed the person.]

After sending the summons, Xu Qi’an gently snapped the pieces of the earth book onto the desktop and said softly, “You go out for a while, I want to be alone.”

Not far away, Zhong Li on the small collapse carefully glanced at him, dragged her embroidered shoes, and tiptoed away.

The door to the room closed, and Xu Qi’an sat withered at the table for a long, long time, not moving a bit, like a statue.

……….

In the distant northern border, Chu Yuanjian finished reading the transmission, remained silent for a moment, and turned his head to look at Xu New Year beside him.

Seeing the other party’s expression, Xu New Year’s heart steeply sank, and sure enough, he then heard Chu Yuanzhuan say, “Ning Banquet said that what Zhao Panyi said was true.”

Xu New Year’s face was hard to see, he was silent for a while, drew out his sword, and walked towards Zhao PanYi.

Zhao Pan’yi’s eyes rounded violently, staring at Xu New Year, his mouth emitting a “whimpering” sound.

His subordinates were as angry as if they were on the verge of an attack.

The soldiers who were eating the meat soup also looked over at the sound.

Xu New Year reversed his wrist, cut the rope with a knife, casually tossed the knife aside, and made a deep bow, “It was my father who was an improper son, the father’s debt is paid by the son, whatever you want, I’ll let you.”

Zhao Pan Yi slowly stood up, both disdainful and puzzled, wondering why this kid had a big change in attitude.

He snorted, “The person Xu Pingzhi is sorry for is not me, what are you sympathizing with me for?”

Zhao Panyi spat a mouthful of spit at Xu New Year’s feet, bent down to pick up his saber, untied his subordinates, and prepared to lead them away.

“Wait!”

Xu New Year called out and said, “The brothers are all wounded and hungry, stay and bandage up and have a bowl of meat soup before you go.”

Seeing that Zhao Pan Yi did not appreciate this, he immediately said, “Your matter with my father is a private matter that has nothing to do with the brothers. You can’t disregard the deaths and lives of my Dabong generals for your own personal vendetta.”

Xu New Year succeeded in persuading Zhao Pan’yi, who reluctantly and grudgingly stayed behind and sat around the campfire, sharing the crispy and thickly flavored meat soup with his fellow soldiers, a satisfied smile on his face.

Xu New Year returned to Chu Yuanzhuan’s side, staring at the small jade mirror in his hand, tsk-tsk-tsk-tsk, “Is this what you used to contact my big brother?”

Chu Yuanjian heated a sprightly smile, “Of course, the earth book can send a message from thousands of miles away ………..”

His smile suddenly froze and he twisted his neck inch by inch, staring blankly at Xu New Year.

“What’s wrong?” Xu New Year said blankly.

“You, don’t recognize, the Earth Book Fragment?” Chu Yuanzhan opened his mouth and spat out one word at a time.

“What is an Earth Book Fragment?” Xu New Year remained bewildered.

Thud …….. Chu Yuanjian retreated several steps in shock, his voice carrying a slight sharpness, “You’re not number three?!”

“What’s number three?”

Snapping ……… the fragment of the ground book in Chu Yuanjian s hand slipped out of his hand and fell to the ground.

………..

It was late at night, and Xu Qi’an got up from his desk, opened the door, and looked around to see Zhong Li hugging her knees, leaning under the window, and falling into a deep sleep.

He sighed and leaned over, his arm going through the crook of his leg and picking her up, the touch coming from his arm round and plump.

Back in the room, he put Zhong Li on the small collapse and covered her with a thin blanket; it was autumn, and if he didn’t cover her with a blanket, with her aura of bad luck, she would definitely catch a cold in the morning.

“Phew ……..”

Blowing out the candles, Xu Qi’an also shrunk under the covers and fell back to sleep.

The last thought that comes to mind when sleepiness strikes is: I seem to have overlooked something very important!