Ever since the ten little monks died, Xu An has been retching constantly, as if he wanted to vomit out all the acid in his stomach.
This scene suddenly reminded Xu Tianze of the first time he faced a bloody scene. Although it was not as unbearable as Xu An, it was not much better. The most important thing was the person who made him face such a scene.
"Father, why don't my eldest and second brothers have to go through such a scene, but I have to face it? This is unfair." Young Xu Tianze wiped the vomit from the corner of his mouth, looking unconvinced.
Which father would deliberately drag his son to watch the beheading of a criminal, or even go to the prison from time to time to watch the torture?
"If you want to be my son, you must have a skill. Your elder brother is good at literature, your second brother is good at martial arts, but you are the only one who is not good at martial arts. If you can't even remain calm when facing the dark side, then you don't have to be my son." Xu Li's face was gloomy, and there was a deep meaning in his eyes that Xu Tianze could not understand at the time.
"How come you are not good at either literature or martial arts? I am as good as my eldest brother in literature, and as good as my second brother in martial arts. It's my father who said that the Prime Minister's Mansion can't be too dazzling, so I am not good at either literature or martial arts." Xu Tianze spat fiercely, his face full of rebellion.
His elder brother Xu Ji was also good at martial arts, but he was not allowed to practice it; his second brother Xu Shiping was also good at literature, but he was not allowed to show it; when it came to him, he was not allowed to be good at literature or martial arts, and he had to pretend to eat, drink and have fun.
He thought this was miserable enough, but now he had to face such a scene. He heard that only secret guards and death squads would face such training.
"You dare to talk back! Send him to the dark room for five days." Xu Li slapped Xu Tianze angrily, then turned and left.
There were countless such things when he was young, but they were always buried deep in Xu Tianze's memory. The reason why Xu Tianze couldn't remember them was because Xu Li didn't criticize him so harshly later.
It was like it was just a father's good intention when he was a child, so Xu Tianze never took it to heart. Even when he thought about it countless times, he was still grateful for Xu Li's advance preparation.
But when did Xu Li stop treating him so harshly? It was when he saved Song Yu, but was pierced through the chest by an arrow. Since then, he has suffered from heart disease and could no longer practice martial arts normally.
Now that he thought about it carefully, all the times matched up. Xu Tianze didn't know whether to laugh at his own stupidity or sigh at Xu Li's cunning.
"Xu An, when I was young, your grandfather asked me to hold a sword and cut off the heads of dozens of criminals. I am not as cowardly as you. I just couldn't sleep at night and had no appetite for more than half a month." Xu Tianze raised his eyebrows when he saw Xu An still retching.
"What do you think he would feel if he knew this scene down there?"
Xu Tianze had a smile on his face, and he was chatting as if he was having a casual conversation. He was clearly separated from the countless corpses on the ground, but they were magically merged together.
"You devil, you will die a horrible death." Xu An turned his head and looked at Xu Tianze with disgust.
At this moment, he no longer felt any guilt or lingering affection for his family. Instead, he felt only infinite hatred.
His uncle, who had always taken care of him and treated him very well when he was young, had died a long time ago on the night the Xu family was massacred. The one who was alive now was just a demon with an empty shell.
His kind uncle would never treat human life as worthless, let alone attack a child, but the devil in front of him would.
"Demon? Die a miserable death? Isn't this what your grandfather wanted?" Xu Tianze snapped his fingers in mockery, and the ten little monks behind him disappeared again.
"Impossible, grandpa has never been such a person. You devil, don't even think about insulting grandpa!" Xu An retorted without hesitation, not believing what Xu Tianze said at all.
His grandfather was a prime minister praised by everyone in the dynasty and a role model admired by students all over the world. How could he have raised Xu Tianze to be like a devil?
Xu Tianze clearly had evil intentions, but in the end he even wanted to put the blame on his grandfather. Xu An would never let this devil succeed.
"You're just deceiving yourself. You've obviously seen through it, but you're still holding on to expectations." Xu Tianze's eyes were filled with sarcasm and his tone was filled with pity.
"I was put in the open by Xu Li to attract attention. You are the one who benefits from it in the dark, and Qing Yuan is the one who benefits in the end. Don't you know that you are also a shield?"
"If Xu Li really had no plans, why would he swap my identity with Song Yu's? He could have trained me to kill since I was a child?"
"If Xu Li didn't know the Xu family would be massacred, why did he have someone pretend to take you out of the house that day and then leave you to Yun Peiyang?"
Every word of Xu Tianze's words was like a sharp sword, tearing through Xu An's long-standing self-deception and unraveling the uneasiness deep in his heart.
Xu Jixue also had selfish motives, otherwise he would not have asked Xu An to pass a letter to him. Even if he didn't read it, he knew the content of the letter, so he didn't read it.
But he also knew that years of resentment and confusion would eventually force Xu An to open the letter and read its contents.
But for Xu Tianze, he was too disdainful to harm an innocent child, so he never cared about such a small matter.
But now he wants to be serious. If he can even do something to a so-called child, then why should he let Xu An act like he knows nothing?
Even if Xu An died here today, he would make Xu An suffer a lot before dying.
Just consider it as a way to repay that old man Xu Li for raising me.
"Stop it, stop it! You liar, you must be lying to me!" Xu An held his head and screamed in pain.
At this moment, he didn't look like a high-level monk at all, and he was not even qualified to be a monk.
"Master, everyone has been brought back."
Before Xu Tianze could say anything, he saw Xue Wei walking in, covered in blood. If he didn't know that Xue Wei had just been sent away by him.
If he came in at this time, Xu Tianze would definitely suspect that Xue Wei did it on purpose.
Xu Tianze glanced at Xue Wei, then stood up and walked out, signaling Xue Er to take everyone out of the room.
When Xu Tianze went out, he finally understood why the bloody smell on Xuewei was so strong. All the monks he saw were injured, and some even had broken hands and feet.
"It's getting late, let's kill them all." Xu Tianze glanced at Le Yun and Xu An who were being carried out, and spoke indifferently.
They had wasted quite a while here. If he hadn't waited for Xue Wei to bring his men back, he would have evacuated long ago.
After Xu Tianze finished speaking, Xue Er and others began to harvest. For a moment, the small yard was filled with crying and shouting, but Xu Tianze remained unmoved.
After everyone was killed, Xu Tianze looked at the stunned Xu An again, then stabbed Yun through with a knife.
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