Chapter 87 The Forgotten Truth
"No, no. No..." She held her head and denied it with a painful look on her face.
But the truth that she had denied for many years was ruthlessly exposed by Lin Qingyue.
The scene from that year reappeared in my mind.
Her sister Hongqin was worried about her and came out to look for her.
She advised her, "Hongyao, you and he have been married for ten years. Isn't that enough? You've been working like a slave in their house all these years. Your hands are calloused and you don't even have a decent piece of clothing."
"You always say he loves you, but he's indifferent to you. He only wants to gain fame and fortune. Even if he does love you, the love he gives you is too little. He's not worthy of everything you give him!"
"Hongyao, come back to the mountains with your sister. Cultivation is what we should do."
But Hongyao still refused. She said, "Sister, you have never loved anyone, so you don't know that love can grow. My love for him grows deeper day by day. I believe the same for him. He said he went to seek fame and honor so that I could have a better life. He will also ask for an imperial decree for me in the future."
"In fact, most men are very fickle, and having three or four wives is common. But he is different. He only has me as his wife, and because of me, he can't even have an heir. But he has never despised me because of this. Isn't this love?"
"Sister, human lifespan is very short. Please let me spend this life with him at least. After this life, I will return to the mountains and practice with you. Never set foot in the mortal world again."
Her sister was so angry that she left in anger.
Hongyao also always thought that her sister had gone back to the mountains.
Until she was betrayed by her husband, reduced to her original form and locked in a cage.
Her sister heard her cries and came to rescue her.
Only then did she realize that her sister had never left because she was worried about her.
That night, her elder sister tried her best to rescue her from the demon catcher, but she herself was imprisoned.
At the last moment of her life, her elder sister was still shouting, "Hongyao, run! Don't worry about me! Run quickly! Run back to the mountains and never come out again!"
"elder sister!"
"Be good and go! Don't look back, don't look at me!"
"elder sister……"
When those memories that she had deliberately forgotten came flooding back like a tide, the woman in red felt as if her heart was being torn apart by pain.
She fell to the ground, pounding her chest vigorously. "It was me! I killed my sister. I'm such a stupid, incompetent, cowardly loser! I watched my sister get killed and could only flee..."
That time, Hong Yao was beaten back to her original form and didn't even have the ability to protect herself, let alone take revenge.
So, she could only suppress the resentment in her heart and practice hard day after day.
But as soon as she closed her eyes, the scene of her sister being skinned alive appeared in her mind, making her restless day and night and unable to find peace.
Until one day, she saw the red lacquer Yaoqin in the cave.
That is my sister's piano. She has loved piano music since she was a child.
Once, a passing zither player took a rest at the foot of the mountain, took out his guqin and played a beautiful piece of music.
My sister loved it very much and wanted a similar piano.
But my sister is naturally averse to the human world and never wants to get close to it.
My younger sister Hongyao is different. Although she is lazy in practicing, she is lively and courageous.
In order to get the piano that his sister had always dreamed of, he secretly went down the mountain.
Later, the piano was returned, but my sister's heart could never be returned.
Many years have passed, and the piano that I gave to my sister is now wrapped in red silk cloth and well kept.
Qin You is still here, but where is her sister who played the piano?
Hong Yao caressed the warm and delicate body of the qin, and her thoughts suddenly became confused: "It should be my younger sister Hong Yao who should die, not my older sister. My older sister cannot die, my older sister... I am my older sister, I am Hong Qin!"
In this way, she always thought that she was her elder sister Hongqin.
She followed her sister's example and practiced diligently. She even learned to play the piano like her sister.
However, his cultivation progress was too slow, and it took him 12 years to achieve some success. However, when he encountered a powerful demon catcher, he was still unable to resist, and he couldn't even kill the person who had betrayed him.
At this moment, when she realized that her true identity was Hong Yao and that Hong Qin had long been dead, tears flowed silently from her eyes:
"Yes, I am Hong Yao, the stupid and damned Hong Yao who killed my sister. But I can't die yet. My sister's revenge has not yet been avenged, how can I die?"
With a wave of his wide red sleeves, the screen behind him shattered, revealing an iron cage half a person's height.
Inside the cage was a gray wolf with its hands and feet tied and its mouth gagged.
When he met Dongfang Qi's gaze, he felt a little guilty and uneasy: I actually fell into the hands of a fox demon. Will Your Highness be disappointed in me?
Another Xuxu fox stood next to the cage, holding a big knife in its hand, with the tip of the knife pointing at the wolf's head in the cage, ready to stab it at any time.
Dongfang Qi glanced at Xie Shouzheng calmly and said, "Let him go."
Hong Yao said, "I didn't want to provoke the people from the Xuanjing Division, but you insisted on causing trouble for me, and I had no choice. Since you broke my formation today, I can only admit defeat. I am willing to let everyone outside go, including this wolf demon. I can also let go."
"But in exchange, you must not make things difficult for me and those two Xuxu Foxes. Otherwise, we don't mind destroying ourselves together!"
Dongfang Qi asked, "If I let you go, will you turn over a new leaf and return to the mountains?"
Hongyao remained silent and said nothing.
Dongfang Qi knew she wouldn't: "You still want revenge? Even if you leave Fengnian County, will you still use unorthodox methods to improve your cultivation and then seek revenge on that man?"
For some reason, when he mentioned the "evil ways", he vaguely felt that Lin Qingyue seemed to glare at him.
Hong Yao said stubbornly, "Of course I want revenge! I can't let someone like that live on!"
Dongfang Qi asked, "So, in order to kill one person, you will sacrifice more innocent people?"
Hong Yao lowered her eyes and sighed, "I had no choice but to do this."
"The one you want to kill is just a mere fifth-rank official, isn't he?" Dongfang Qi suddenly changed the subject: "If we help you avenge your death, after we succeed, are you willing to surrender yourself to the Xuanjing Division?"
"Although you killed the Fengnian County Magistrate, you have a grievance to prove, so you can be given a lighter sentence. But if you insist on using killing to stop killing, even killing civilians and endangering the country, then I guarantee that you will die!"
Hong Yao looked at Dongfang Qi suspiciously: "Are you lying to me?"
"Lie to you? There's no need." It was Lin Qingyue who answered.
Her figure flashed away, and before Hong Yao could react, she had already appeared next to the cage, kicked the Xuxu fox away, smashed the iron cage with a palm, and pulled out Xie Shouzheng.
Xie Shouzheng finally escaped from his predicament and was deeply moved. "Deputy Envoy Lin, I'm so glad I had you. Otherwise, I would have been killed by that fox demon today!"
Lin Qingyue glared at him helplessly. "You were careless. This fox demon's strength was not as strong as yours. If you hadn't underestimated it, you wouldn't have been forced to reveal your true form and trapped in the cage."
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