Chapter 725: Good Brothers Become Enemies
Xiao Chujing stopped and looked at Ji Wenyi.
"After what happened tonight, the Divine Realm will soon be in turmoil. Brother Ji, do you still have time to chat with me?"
"It's a small matter." Ji Wenyi didn't care. He raised his hand and swept across Xiao Chujing's shoulder, as if to brush away the dust on him intimately.
"It doesn't matter when I do boring official work. I care more about my good brother..."
"…the most important event in one's life."
The lush and leafy Tongmai tree had most of its branches and leaves chopped off. No matter how hard you tried to pretend not to see it, you could still tell that there was a piece missing.
Ji Wenyi asked, "When are you and your junior sister going to get married?"
Xiao Chujing's lips curled up: "I plan to do it within two to three years."
Ji Wenyi tightened his grip on his shoulder, "You two, have you consummated your marriage?"
The question was abrupt and offensive.
The smile on Xiao Chujing's face faded, he pursed his lips and looked at Ji Wenyi silently.
Ji Wenyi didn't seem to notice Xiao Chujing's displeasure and pressed further, "You haven't had this reaction yet?"
Xiao Chujing said nothing more, and pushed away Ji Wenyi's hand that was pressing on his shoulder. He rolled his eyes, scanning the bottomless cliff, the steep cliff in the distance, the straight stone stairs, and the surrounding terrain.
Ji Wenyi smiled, put his hands behind his back and looked up at the twinkling stars in the sky. Suddenly he said, "Luofu is picking mulberry leaves in the south corner of the city. The envoy stopped his horse and asked if he would like to ride with her."
He spoke from his heart.
"I don't understand. Poor couples have many sorrows. Brother Xiao, you have no family background and no foundation. How dare you talk about marriage so easily?"
Xiao Chujing heard the sarcasm in Ji Wenyi's words.
Including the story of Luofu and the envoy just quoted by Ji Wenyi, it comes from the poem "Mulberry on the Road" which is familiar to everyone in the folk. It describes a high-ranking official who saw a beautiful mulberry-picking girl on the roadside, flirted with her, and was retorted by the girl.
The true story behind this poem is a tragedy. A mulberry-picking girl named Qin Luofu was eventually abducted by a nobleman and taken into his mansion. Her husband, unable to rescue her, committed suicide in anger. Qin Luofu also drowned herself in a pond, following her husband's death.
Xiao Chujing slowly raised his eyebrows: "Brother Ji, what do you mean?"
Ji Wenyi asked, "Fairy Ye seems to be an unrivaled beauty?"
Xiao Chujing's eyebrows raised even higher: "Then?"
Ji Wenyi said, "I was just thinking about this. Luofu is young and beautiful, but she married a peasant. She toils all day long picking mulberry leaves, wears coarse linen clothes, and gets tanned by the scorching sun. If she were to bear children for the peasant, working like an ox or a horse, she would surely be worn down by life and become like an old woman in less than ten years, right?"
Xiao Chujing said nothing, just looked at Ji Wenyi quietly.
Ji Wenyi added, "In Luofu's story, the most despicable person wasn't the noble who stole someone else's wife, but Luofu's husband."
Xiao Chujing said, "I'd like to hear Brother Ji's advice."
Ji Wenyi said, "Since his wife is already living a good life with a noble, why would her husband want to commit suicide?"
"He committed suicide not because he loved her so much, but because he could no longer have her. He used his worthless life to guide public opinion and force his wife to commit suicide for love."
"Luofu was thus pushed to the moral high ground by a selfish man. If she dies, she will be praised through the ages. If she lives, she will be treated as an adulterer and a silver wife."
Ji Wenyi sighed: "It's pitiful, lamentable."
Xiao Chujing listened to Ji Wenyi's confusion of right and wrong, feeling both amused and sad.
"Brother Ji, it's not good to use your own dirty thoughts to distort the love of the past. Perhaps Miss Luofu and her husband truly love each other. Power cannot be resisted, and the only way is to defend dignity with one's life."
"Dignity?" Ji Wenyi felt like he was hearing a huge joke.
"We all have the same human heart, but the untouchables' deep affection is called deep affection, while the nobles' deep affection is as cheap as grass?"
"Brother Xiao," Ji Wenyi asked sincerely, "is this story so popular among the people because it caters to the fantasies of you, the lowly people?"
Xiao Chujing's lips moved, "Brother Ji, just say what you want to say."
Ji Wenyi took a step back and looked Xiao Chujing up and down as he had looked at Jiaying just now.
He no longer concealed his disdain and contempt.
"It's not easy for you. You come from a humble background, your golden elixir is broken, and you rely on a declining small immortal sect. You are a cultivator with no future. For you, supporting a pseudo-five spiritual roots person has always been very difficult, right?"
Xiao Chujing laughed: "Not bad."
Ji Wenyi looked at him with concern, as if he saw through Xiao Chujing's stubborn stubbornness. To kill someone, one must first destroy their heart. He wanted to let Xiao Chujing see clearly what kind of person he was.
"Don't try to be tough in front of your brothers."
Xiao Chujing's smile brightened, and his voice became colder and colder: "Ji Wenyi, what do you want to say?"
Ji Wenyi and Xiao Chujing smiled at each other: "I can give you wealth and honor, and I am willing to help you achieve success in the shortest time."
Xiao Chujing pretended to be eager: "So good? What are the conditions?"
"Ye Xiaoman is an unparalleled beauty and a talented person with a promising future. Coincidentally, the royal family likes to collect rare materials and treasures."
Ji Wenyi said generously: "Why don't you offer her to me."
Xiao Chujing stared at Ji Wenyi without moving his eyes.
Ji Wenyi explained: "The night is long, and I just happen to be in need of a beautiful woman to sleep with me."
"You can use any method, drug the victim, knock him out, and send him to my bed. Brother Xiao will definitely get some benefits..."
Before Ji Wenyi could finish his words, his neck felt tight and his collar was grabbed by Xiao Chujing.
The fist wind mixed with anger came towards him.
Ji Wenyi was hit hard by Xiao Chujing's punch and fell backwards. His back hit the rock and the rock cracked.
"Your Majesty!" The secret guards immediately appeared.
Ji Wenyi waved his sleeves and asked everyone to retreat.
He stared at the furious Xiao Chujing from a distance, raised his thumb to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and asked in feigned confusion, "I want to help out of good intentions..."
Before Ji Wenyi's sneer had faded, he suddenly raised his hand, and several black chess pieces surged out from his sleeves and headed towards Xiao Chujing's door.
Xiao Chujing did not retreat even a single step. He pointed his sword and the Emperor Sword appeared from the void. It came out of the sheath three inches with a "clang". The sword energy and spiritual energy collided between the two people.
Boom! A gust of air exploded, and the sound of metal clashing rang out. After the smoke cleared, Ji Wenyi's sword of law crossed with Xiao Chujing's life sword, and their faces faced each other at the two ends of the blade.
Ji Wenyi asked gently, "Why are you angry, Brother Xiao?"
Xiao Chujing already understood.
Ji Wenyi had been deliberately looking for trouble from the very beginning, using words to provoke him and lead him to take action first. He didn't know what had suddenly made Ji Wenyi crazy, and he was too lazy to indulge Ji Wenyi.
Xiao Chujing warned Ji Wenyi word by word: "Don't insult my junior sister!"
He kicked Ji Wenyi's waist and abdomen with a side kick, but Ji Wenyi dodged it and punched Xiao Chujing's heart with full force, knocking him away.
Ji Wenyi smiled and said, "Insult? Maybe your little sister is not the only one outside. If you fight me here, she might be lying in another man's arms right now."
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