The Si family members regretted it.
But it was useless to regret.
Even if the cut healed, it would still leave a scar, just like it was impossible to turn back time and pretend that nothing had happened.
Now the new emperor wanted to take action against the sorcerer and banned everything related to the sorcerer. They could no longer collect blood and ask the sorcerer to make medicine. Si Yu had to leave the General's Mansion, otherwise the blood alone would be useless - did they really have to risk being punished by the emperor to make medicine for Si Yu? This was not the only way for Si Yu to survive!!
Those who had long disliked Si Yu and even dared not to have children with him finally breathed a sigh of relief and smiled sincerely on their faces.
On the contrary, the general's wife, who had long been obsessed with making Si Yu her own son, became furious. She kept slapping the table and beating her body, crying and shouting, "You just don't want to save my Yu'er, and you just can't bear to sacrifice your own blood! If my blood can be useful, I would be willing to bleed to death!! How can you be so selfish? Do you still have any conscience! Yu'er loves you so much!!!"
Several men were livid, and at least they restrained themselves from arguing with the general's wife, but the other sisters-in-law couldn't stand it anymore. She rushed forward with an angry shout: "Your Yu'er is a human being, but my child is not a human being? Qingran is only six years old and you want to cut him with a knife. Do you regard him as your junior?!"
General Si looked at the mess in front of him, and his already irritable mood became even crazier. He pulled several women apart and slapped his wife hard in the face who was screaming and cursing. She was hit so hard that her head was tilted to one side, her hair was disheveled, and her clothes were untidy. She looked like a madman.
Si Yu was crying softly, tugging at her brother's sleeve, and whispered, "Brother, did Yu'er do something wrong? Don't be angry, try to persuade our parents..."
The elder brother, who loved his younger brother since childhood, couldn't bear it anymore when he saw his wife's cold eyes. He said to Si Yu, "Why should I be angry? I should be angry at myself for not knowing what's good for me! You did something wrong, you don't need to cry to me, just go to mother and ask her to agree to disclose your identity and sever the mother-son relationship with you. Mother will listen to you in everything, and won't she agree no matter how many times you beg her?"
"Si Qingyuan!!!" The general's wife covered her red and swollen cheeks, and her sharp voice pierced people's eardrums: "You beast, how can you talk to your brother? You are so siding with these outsiders?! Do you still have a conscience?!"
The eldest son of the Si family had a very stiff expression, and said in a choked voice: "Yes, I am siding with outsiders. In your heart, even I am an outsider! You only have Si Yu as your son, right? Have you noticed how many times I have been stabbed in these years? You don't care at all!"
"Then are you dead? Are you dead?!" The general's wife completely disregarded the eldest son of the Si family's feelings, and accused with tears in her eyes: "I want Si Qi's life, but do I want your life? I just asked you to let your brother bleed a little, you can't even do such a small thing?!" The eldest
daughter's wife on the side rolled her eyes in anger. The eldest son of the Si family lowered his head and clenched his fists silently. He took a deep breath and said to the general's wife: "Yes, I just let a little blood."
He lowered his head and touched his two arms. The ugly scars on them were uneven. The bandages had almost never left his body for six years. The old wounds healed and new wounds appeared. But all this was just a small matter to his mother. His mother even felt that not taking his life was already very good for him.
Si Qi, his biological brother, who was surrounded, forced, and pressed by everyone to kill him, should have felt the same way, right?
No, how could he feel this way? He was obviously more desperate, more painful, and more isolated than them. He could only watch his relatives helping an outsider to kill him and cut his body into pieces...
The more he thought about it, the harder it was to breathe. He collapsed and squatted down, holding his head, and choked with sobs: "He is my biological brother... What did I do..."
The sudden collapse of the eldest son of the Si family made many people present stagnate.
Several elders who had personally forced Si Qi and had been kicked hard by him frowned and ordered the servants: "Take the young master back."
No one mentioned Si Qi's name, as if no one had ever admitted to making a mistake. The
general's wife looked at the group of people in front of her with hatred, as if she regarded them as the murderers who had personally persecuted her and her son, full of hatred.
Everyone who was looked at by the general's wife with such eyes felt particularly unhappy, and they also began to hate the boy hiding in the general's wife's arms.
He was already fifteen or sixteen years old and could have started a family, but he only knew how to hide in the arms of adults for everything. He is said to be innocent, but with his style of doing things that only benefit him in the end, does he really know nothing?
The general's wife took Si Yu in her arms and left the messy hall. Wiping her tears, she said to Si Yu, "Don't be afraid, Yu'er. Mother will not let you suffer any grievances. Do you remember what your mother said to you? When the sorcerer saw you, he said that you would bring great honor to the general's mansion in the future. They are all short-sighted and have forgotten your kindness. They are so cruel to you. When Yu'er recovers in the future, I will make them regret it."
Si Yu took the general's wife's hand and whispered softly, "Don't worry, mother, Yu'er will definitely be filial to you. , I won't let you down."
The general's wife was moved and held Si Yu's hand: "Good Yu'er."
Si Yu lowered his eyes: "Yu'er just doesn't want mother to argue with uncles and grandma. Whenever I think of their efforts for Yu'er, Yu'er feels very guilty."
The general's wife said unhappily: "You are their junior, they should protect you. If they hadn't let that bastard run away, Yu'er would have recovered by now, why would she suffer from the disease every day."
Si Yu said calmly: "Mom, do you still remember my brother?"
"He is not your brother," the general's wife said dissatisfiedly, "That heartless guy would rather hide all his life and save his miserable life than save Yu'er. If mother finds out where he is, he will be punished!"
Si Yu said softly, "Don't be angry, mother..."
...
After the general's wife left, she left a mess on the ground. The people in the general's mansion were already worried about General Si's defeat and the change of imperial power in the Qiu Dynasty. After being tormented by the general's wife, their already irritable hearts became even more irritable.
"She is really short-sighted. If the General's Mansion is ruined, how can she, a woman, have a good life with Xiaoyu!" The old lady of the General's Mansion knocked the cane in her hand and said angrily to General Si: "If she meets with the sorcerer in private and the king of Si State finds out, everyone will be in trouble with her!"
General Si looked grim: "I used to be too accustomed to her."
General Si's younger brother asked: "Is Si State really that powerful?"
In less than two months, they attacked all the way to the capital. The dignitaries in the capital didn't react before the enemy army had already reached their doorstep.
General Si was extremely arrogant: "You haven't been on the battlefield, you don't understand."
The person who asked the question pursed his lips and said unwillingly: "But the fortune of our Qiu Dynasty..."
"So what if the fortune is prosperous," General Si said tiredly: "The Si State Master named Si Qi said that the sorcerers just moved all the future gains to the present. How much blessing we enjoyed in the past, how much karma we will have to pay in the future. The Si State did not develop by relying on sorcerers. You know the reason and you have seen the result."
Everyone was silent for a while.
"He who knows the current affairs is a hero," the old lady of the Si family said after a moment of silence: "In the face of great disasters, endure humiliation and submit in time, maybe you can still find a way out for the general's mansion."
As soon as the voice fell, the door in the distance was suddenly knocked open. The sound of armor colliding and the faint sound of an order to arrest were heard. Everyone present froze in their faces, and after a moment they bowed their heads helplessly.
General Si stood up from his position, straightened his clothes, and tried to save a bit of dignity.
When the soldiers with weapons broke into the hall, General Si stepped forward and surrendered without the soldiers saying anything. The Si family members behind him watched him being captured silently.
However, the next second, the soldiers surrounded them all, and everyone was furious: "What are you going to do?!"
Why are they implicated too? !
Soon, all the ministers of the Qiu Dynasty were captured in the court. The Si family was pushed to the main hall with pale faces. They looked around and found that except for their family, other generals who had joined General Si to fight against Si Yi had no family members affected. They were both worried and indignant.
——Why?
Si Qi's elder brother, the eldest son of the Si family, was still immersed in regret. At this moment, his steps suddenly stopped. An incredible thought popped up in his mind, and his heart was beating rapidly.
"Go!" The soldier standing behind him pushed him dissatisfiedly. The eldest son of the Si family staggered a few steps, lowered his head, and came to the center of the main hall.
In front of them was a group of sorcerers in long robes with pale faces.
In the huge hall, no one dared to speak except for the occasional warnings from the soldiers.
Everyone's expression was horribly ugly. Occasionally, they would look at their colleagues beside them to see if they had any good ideas, and then they would notice the Si family standing in a group not far away.
No one knew what this family had done wrong to attract the attention of the Emperor of Si.
At this time, the person on the dragon throne had not arrived yet, and only the soldiers of Si surrounded the entire hall.
After a while, a group of people walked over from the side of the hall. They looked relaxed and smiling, wearing uniforms that were completely different from the bureaucratic uniforms of the Qiu Dynasty. They were of a unified style, fresh and eye-catching, and particularly convenient for movement.
This group of people had bright eyes and slender figures. Standing opposite the group of potbellied and timid officials of the Qiu Dynasty, they were a world of difference.
They didn't speak in the bureaucratic tone common in the court of the Qiu Dynasty, and they didn't use too many polite words when they were with each other. At this moment, they were discussing their affairs very enthusiastically. Many of the words were obviously related to national construction, but this group of Qiu Dynasty bureaucrats who had served as officials for generations found that they could not understand most of them...
Some officials who thought that after the new emperor ascended the throne, they could rely on their many years of official experience to stay in the court steadily had layers of fine sweat on their foreheads.
This Si State seemed to be very different from their Qiu Dynasty...
It was also at this time that two figures appeared from the front. The generals who had witnessed the appearance of Si Yi on the battlefield immediately tightened their backs and stood up with their heads down. Seeing this, the officials on the side quickly restrained their voices and movements, and the hall was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Everyone was waiting for the new emperor to speak, but as soon as the new emperor stepped onto the throne, he looked down at the people below and frowned, "Why can I only speak like this?"
The ministers of the Autumn Dynasty were puzzled, wondering how else they could speak. The next moment, the Siyi said, "Bring a chair over for you, everyone, sit down."
The ministers of the Autumn Dynasty were confused and even wanted to look up to see what was going on with the young man who was speaking.
The ministers of the State, who were used to sitting in an office with the Siyi and discussing things face to face around the table, were silent for a moment. Someone tried to persuade him tactfully, but Si Yi refused: "We don't have the problem of having one person in power in Si State. I will remove the dragon chair and restore it to a conference room in the future. Let's leave it like this for now."
The ministers of Si State looked at Si Yi, who was about to become the emperor but still had the same original intention, and smiled softly.
After Si Yi finished speaking, he saw that there was only one chair above, and even wanted to give the dragon chair to Si Qi who was standing beside him.
Seeing this, the people of Si State did not react. Instead, the group of ministers of Qiu Dynasty made a fuss and wanted to persuade Si Yi that this was not in accordance with etiquette.
However, they themselves were in danger of life and death, so they didn't say anything. They just couldn't help but complain a few words in their hearts, thinking that the people of Si State were really careless.
Among the group of people from the Si family who lowered their heads and dared not look directly at the holy face, the eldest son of the Si family raised his head very carefully and looked at the young man who was speaking above. After carefully observing the young man's facial features, he found that this appearance was at least 80% similar to the vague young man in his memory. The eldest son of the Si family was struck by lightning, his body shook, and his breathing became obviously rough.
General Si, who was standing nearby, heard the heavy breathing and turned his head to look at his son. Seeing that his expression was as ugly as if he was about to die, he thought that his mental quality was too poor and he couldn't hold on, so he warned him in a low voice
: "Stand still!" The eldest son of the Si family had beads of sweat on his forehead. He looked at his father with a face full of fear and his mouth made a hissing sound: "Si, Si Qi... It's Si Qi!"
The people of the Si family who heard the eldest son's collapse looked over in confusion. Seeing the other party's terrified eyes, they had a bad feeling in their hearts.
General Si's younger brother, who was also Si Qi's uncle, was the first to realize something. He raised his head and glanced at Si Qi quietly. Not long after, his body shook violently and a layer of sweat quickly appeared on his back.
He lowered his head hastily, and said with a pale face: "Si Qi... It's Si Qi..."
"What's wrong with Si Qi..." Someone spoke subconsciously, and the voice suddenly disappeared after he finished speaking.
At this moment, everyone's mind was in a mess. One after another, they looked up at Si Qi in a self-concealed way, and the despair on their faces spread rapidly. Many people who surrounded Si Qi in the courtyard and forced Si Qi to kill him in the past had weak legs and almost couldn't stand.
No wonder they tied up their family alone... Si Qi's aunt hated those people at this moment. She looked at the general's wife and Si Yu, and the voice squeezed out from between her teeth: "It's you, it's all you!!! Why don't you die!!!"
The general's wife stood there woodenly, staring at Si Qi's face above.
The woman who had dreamed of finding Si Qi and skinning him alive not long ago now looked pale, regretful, and twisted like a ghost crawling out of hell.
Many people noticed the movements of the General's family, and Si Qi, who was standing above with an excellent view, naturally saw it.
He saw the regret and pleading on their faces, and also saw Si Yu's unwillingness and hatred.
However, he ignored the whole family, leaving them to wait anxiously for the death sickle to fall. Every minute and every second was a piercing torture for them.
He sat aside and watched Si Yi award the merits.
Si Yi first arranged positions for the ministers who came from Si State and determined the division of labor. Then, looking at the sorcerers and ministers who were kneeling or standing in the hall below, he slowly spoke with a voice so cold that it could freeze a person to death: "From now on, no sorcerer is allowed to appear on the land of Si State, no magic to manipulate destiny is allowed, and no books describing related content are allowed to be left behind." When
Si Yi said this, no one was surprised, but the ministers present had basically tasted the sweetness of destiny for generations, and were afraid of being held accountable and implicated, so they said in a cold sweat. "Your Majesty ... things cannot be generalized. If luck can be used properly, it can benefit the people of the world and protect--"
Si Yi interrupted coldly: "You want to teach me how to do things?" The minister was so scared that he stopped talking and trembled: "I dare not..." The other ministers followed with cold sweats. They wanted to help this minister persuade Si Yi and tell Si Yi the benefits of luck, but everyone knew what kind of torture Si Yi had suffered when he was young. Even they themselves had used magic to take other people's lives in private, and they knew very well what kind of torture the victims would suffer. Si Yi added: "All those who have colluded with sorcerers, disregarded the lives of others, and used magic for their own selfish purposes must be punished." The moment the voice fell, the whole court exploded. "We can't do this!" "It doesn't make sense!" "Everyone is doing this, you are deliberately forcing us to die!!" Si Yi looked at the group of people expressionlessly and said coldly: "The new country does not need waste, nor does it need garbage that ignores the lives of ordinary people. I let you come here to give you a chance to live and see if there are any of you who deserve to live." The ministers realized Si Yi's determination on this matter, and they collapsed and cried and shouted, and kept trying to explain to Si Yi how innocent they were, saying that they were just following the crowd and doing what everyone else was doing, doing some common sense recognized by the society. Si Yi ignored their excuses and said to the sorcerers below: "Tell me all the evil things you have done and cooperate with me to eliminate all traces of magic. I can make you die more easily." The sorcerers were not as hysterical as the ministers. As early as the moment they were caught, they had seen their own end and the rapidly rising fortune of the Si Kingdom. Many sorcerers used human lives as materials for many years, and their hearts had long fallen into darkness. At this moment, except for hatred for Si Yi, they did not have any guilt in their hearts. Only a few sorcerers with a conscience lowered their heads and said silently: "We are willing to cooperate." "Luck is not something that humans should control. It will make everything out of control and lead the entire country to destruction." "If you hadn't appeared, Qiu Dynasty would have sooner or later become a desolate land, and no one could survive here..." These sorcerers showed a guilty look on their faces. Si Yi looked at this group of people indifferently, without a trace of softness. He waved his hand and asked the soldiers standing aside to suppress them. Those who are willing to cooperate should follow the procedures. Those who are unwilling to cooperate, what they have done to those sacrificed people, Si Yi doesn't mind letting them experience it themselves, and experience it until they die. But before they were dragged away, a sorcerer recognized Si Qi's identity and said with a wry smile: "Your name is Si Qi, and you are General Si's son." As soon as these words came out, the ministers who heard them were at a loss, including the officials of Si Guo and those who came over. General Si's family suddenly heard about themselves, and their bodies instantly became stiff. They held their breath and stared at Si Qi, wanting to see Si Qi's reaction clearly. However, Si Qi did not react at all. He was still calm and even had a faint smile on his face. Instead, Si Yi, who was sitting next to him, looked extremely ugly and said hatefully: "You know? It was you who made Mr. Si homeless and persecuted by the Si family?!" After hearing this, the Si family's faces turned pale and their bodies trembled uncontrollably. It's over, it's all over, Si Yi knows! If someone did something wrong, they might be able to make amends, but their family would definitely die because they offended Si Qi!! Why is Si Qi still alive, why did he become the legendary Si State Master, why does he have such a skill... Think about what the Si family did to him, what they said to him, and the more than a hundred scars left on his body... He must hate the Si family! The sorcerer shook his head. "I don't know. I just saw that his bloodline is connected to General Si. General Si wanted to kill his own son and replace his son's fate with another child. All the court sorcerers knew about it, and I've heard about it too. I just didn't expect that the national teacher who helped you build the Si Kingdom in these years turned out to be that child back then..." He didn't know why Si Qi looked a few years older than he imagined. He just thought that the magic of transferring his fate back then took away part of Si Qi's lifespan, making him more prone to premature aging than ordinary people ... The minister collapsed after hearing this. He rushed in front of General Si, grabbed his collar and yelled: "It's you, it's you! Why did you force your son away? Why did you do such a beastly thing! If he hadn't escaped to a place like Liang Province because of your arrest, the State of Si would not have been established, and the Qiu Dynasty would not have perished! We would not have suffered because of this!" When the other ministers heard this, they immediately realized who the culprit of all this was. Their eyes turned red in an instant, and they looked at the general's family with such ferocious eyes that they wished they could eat them alive. "Si Qi was able to help them develop so well in a place like Si State. If he had stayed in Qiu Dynasty, Qiu Dynasty would have had another amazing and talented national teacher. Everyone would have enjoyed countless benefits because of him, and we would have been able to maintain our current status... It's all because of you, all because of you!" The others also went crazy: "You don't even cherish a person like Si Qi, but instead pamper a good-for-nothing like Si Yu. You are really stupid !" You are blind! And you have implicated all of us!" The sorcerer silently watched the scene in front of him and calmly added the facts: "Si Yu has a special fate. He will plunder the luck of those around him and strengthen himself. If someone else was in Si Qi's position, he would probably be dead by now." Si Yi, who was sitting upstairs and watching the Si family being besieged by everyone, stopped breathing. His face, which had been pretending to be calm, suddenly became ferocious - he would never forgive these people who almost killed the master! "However, Si Qi was very powerful, so he escaped the disaster. Si Yu could only absorb the luck of the General's Mansion... I think Si Yu's destiny is still strong, and it has not declined at all. I guess the General's Mansion has been helping him for many years? The General's Mansion has come to this end today, it is purely your own fault. If you did nothing all these years, Si Yu would have died long ago."
The words of the sorcerer were like sharp daggers, piercing the hearts of all the Si family members present.
The women who had married into the Si family and had long been dissatisfied with Si Yu completely collapsed. They rushed over and tore the hair of the general's wife and Si Yu with their hands, biting and scratching them with their nails and teeth, crying desperately: "I told you a long time ago, I told you a long time ago! Why do you want to hurt me like this, what have I done to you!! My husband has to cut his wrists every week because of you, and my son can't be born because of you, I hate it, I hate it! You are all crazy, all crazy!!" As
they said, they pushed the eldest son of the Si family and several men. The men stood there motionless, like deflated balloons. The eldest son of the Si family howled helplessly like a wild animal, and beat his head with regret.
Si Yu, who was originally well-behaved and lovely, could no longer pretend after being slapped several times in a row. He pushed the woman in front of him away, kicked her in the stomach, and shouted with resentment: "Did I force you to bleed me? Did I hold a knife and ask you to kill Si Qi? You did it yourself, what did I do? Now you blame me for harming you, I just said a few words! In the end, it's because you are too stupid! You can't even deal with a child of a few years old! If Si Qi had died, nothing would have happened!"
"Are we too stupid? It's because you are so scheming!" The women cried hysterically, "Didn't you hint at all this? Didn't you initiate all this behind the scenes?! If you hadn't let Si Qi die for you, if you didn't want to stay in the General's Mansion, why would we hurt Si Qi, why would we keep sacrificing ourselves to save you year after year! You dare to say that you didn't treat the whole family as your sacrifice and slaughter them at will!"
Si Yu said disgustedly: "If I could really slaughter them at will, I wouldn't have been so stupid all these years. Life is so hard! You said you wanted to save me, but you ignored the real way to save me and watched me suffer from illness day and night! I've had enough of your hypocritical appearance!"
The Si family members felt as if their hearts were being cut by a knife. "Okay, okay, you finally said what's in your heart!"
The general's wife fell to the ground with her hair disheveled, staring blankly at Si Yu with a vicious face, as if she saw clearly for the first time what the child she loved to the bone looked like, tears flowing silently.
She turned her head to look at Si Qi on the high platform. Si Qi had grown into a beautiful appearance that she had never dared to imagine in her life, noble, powerful, and admired by thousands of people. At this moment, he looked down at them calmly, with a calm gaze, as if he was looking at a group of insignificant strangers, not his own mother.
She suddenly felt so ironic, as if the whole world was laughing at her for being blind. This was obviously her own flesh and blood, but she didn't cherish such a good child, and treated him as a pearl. Si Yu used him like a fool all his life!
Her defenses completely collapsed, and she fell to the ground and cried loudly.
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