Chapter 105: Eternal Light
There were still three days until the big day. Except for the waiter Xiaoshan who had just turned nineteen and had left town to do some shopping, everyone else in Huiying Inn was busy as a whirlwind.
The whole inn, no, the whole town, was filled with joy.
Everyone was happy when they met.
The dizzy waiters entertained table after table of guests who brought gifts. Although the wedding was in three days, they were all neighbors in the same town. There were only a few of them, so it would be better for them to send the gifts early and drink early.
There were not many guests, but the gifts were twice as many as the guests. After all, although Mianyuan was a desolate place with scarce food and fruits, these people in the martial arts world did have some treasures in their hands.
All the yellow sheep and yellow cattle that could be bought in the whole town were here, a total of twenty heads of livestock, and the guests drank a total of one hundred jars of fine wine.
In this muddy town, full of desperate gamblers and swordsmen, this is the first time someone dares to get married here.
Qingfeng Sect is a well-known second-rate sect in the martial arts world. Although it is not as good as first-rate sects like Shaolin and Emei, they are also very famous in the martial arts world.
The Qingfeng Sect, which was able to blend in with both the black and white worlds, was wiped out overnight.
Sect Leader Zhou is a chivalrous man with superb martial arts skills. He is well-known in the martial arts world for his Willow Catkins Sword. He has only one daughter, who is extremely beautiful. He passed the Willow Catkins Sword to his only daughter, Zhou Zhi.
The various factions formed an alliance, and Sect Leader Zhou became the leader of the Dongshan Pass area due to his virtue and martial arts.
Although he was unfortunately framed and killed by a shameless person, his daughter was lucky enough to escape. Some people in the town had old friendships with his father, so they took the opportunity to take care of the orphan Zhou Zhi.
By this year, Zhou Zhi is already 25 years old.
The town was rarely this lively, and everyone thought Zhou Zhi and the painter's marriage was a perfect match. Not only did the painter not despise Zhou Zhi's disfigured appearance, he even worked at the inn for six months without pay and treated her son as his own. Imagine a man doing this, and a woman would surely be moved. So everyone believed that the painter and Zhou Zhi were destined to be together in a previous life, a match not to be missed. Of course, they didn't know that Zhou Zhi's precious son, named Jinzi, was actually the painter's biological son, and that the two had long been attracted to each other.
However, Zhou Zhi had always refused to agree to his request, and it was not until this autumn that she finally agreed.
Three days after the wedding, the guests left one after another, and Jiaoyue rarely tried to separate the newlyweds. She quietly took care of her pregnancy and waited for the baby to be born.
It was on this day that Zhou Zhi and the painter Tagu Muli came down from the hill above the town hand in hand and found many rare minerals in the hills to make Tagu Muli's pigments.
The storeroom in the basement of the inn was filled with gifts from guests.
Mu Feng directed the other guys to prepare the gifts and record them in a book.
Everyone was sweating profusely as they were moving the gifts. When they saw Zhou Zhi coming back, they all started yelling at Mu Feng for being lazy, saying that they were doing all the work while he just kept talking.
After hearing this, Zhou Zhi beat Mu Feng so hard that he begged for mercy and cried out, "Oh, boss, I won't do it again, I won't do it again!"
Zhou Zhi then withdrew and asked, "Where is my sister?"
Mu Jin pointed upstairs and said, "She's still sleeping. Her belly is getting bigger and bigger. Doctor Ren in town said she's going to give birth this month."
Zhou Zhi counted on her fingers, "Yes, the day is approaching. Have you prepared everything?"
"Of course, everything is ready. I will ride over directly and bring Doctor Ren over. Oh, and the midwife as well. Don't worry, everything will be foolproof." Mu Feng patted his chest and made assurances.
Then he took out the booklet and said, "All the gifts sent by the guests are already in it. Take a look."
Zhou Zhi pulled the painter's hand and said, "Put them all away. You can take them out again when you need them later."
He said to Tagumuli, "You grind the pigment later, I'll accompany you."
"These are all delicate jobs. How can you do them?"
She was unconvinced, "Why not? I can probably grind it even finer than you!"
Mu Feng came closer again, "There's a box of something strange. I don't know who sent it. The box is very gorgeous and inlaid with gems. Would you like to see it?"
Such a small matter still bothered her. Zhou Zhi sighed, "Maybe there are too many things and you forgot to remember them. Next time when you return the gifts, I will just ask a few more questions. You are just careless. If Dad were still alive, he would definitely scold you."
Mu Feng said, "It seems that there are some flowers stuffed in the box. When we smell it, there is always a floral fragrance."
"The fragrance of flowers?" Jiaoyue came down the stairs holding on to the stairs.
"What floral scent are you talking about?"
"Oh, sister, they said there was a gift from a guest and they forgot who the recipient was. It's a huge box."
Jiaoyue asked, "What are you pretending to be?"
Mu Feng shook his head. "It hasn't been opened yet. Since everyone is here, why don't we open the lock on the outside of the box and take a look together?"
Zhou Zhi said, "Bring it here, let me see what the gift is."
Someone responded immediately and several people walked to a corner of the inn.
When it was placed in front of everyone, even Zhou Zhi couldn't help but be surprised. Such a beautiful iron box, with countless red and green gems inlaid along one side of the box, and auspicious patterns of dragons and phoenixes engraved on it.
The size and shape of the box are a bit odd though.
Jiaoyue and Zhou Zhi looked at each other and frowned. This gorgeous box looked like a coffin.
A strange feeling arose in everyone's heart.
No matter how precious the gift is, it always feels weird to put it in such a box.
Zhou Zhi walked up to the box. There was a lock on the outside. Zhou Zhi was about to reach out to grab the lock, but he heard Zhou Zhi behind him say, "Move aside."
Zhou Zhi became a little nervous, "Sister, let me drive."
Jiaoyue could no longer let her refuse, so she asked her to step back. He then pulled out one of the two crescent-shaped swords and, with a clang, cut off the exquisite Pisces lock.
The lock is gone.
Jiaoyue used her knife again and pried open the lid of the box.
As soon as everyone saw the gifts in the iron box, everyone in the inn gasped and no one could say a word.
Inside the box was Xiaoshan's body.
There were no wounds on his body, but he was no longer breathing. It looked like he had been dead for some time. However, someone had preserved his body with special spices and sent it here specially.
At this moment, perhaps because she was frightened, or perhaps it wasn't just the sight of a corpse, but someone else, Jiaoyue suddenly covered her stomach, sweat pouring down her face.
Mu Feng saw that things were not going well, "She's going to give birth a few days early, what should we do?"
Zhou Zhi had a bad temper. When he saw this, he yelled angrily, "Go call a doctor! Why are you just standing here and watching?"
She quickly put her arm around Jiaoyue's shoulders and said to the painter, "Go, boil some water."
"Mingguang, go out and tell Boss Ji to deliver a message for me."
"Yes, Master." The little girl immediately turned around and ran out.
Zhou Zhi called her, "Come back first!"
"Hey, Master, what's wrong? Is there anything else?"
Zhou Zhi hesitated and said, "After delivering the message, stay at the gambling house and don't come back. Come back tomorrow, no, the day after tomorrow. No matter what happens here, don't come back. Stay at Boss Ji's place for two days."
"But Master..." Mingguang didn't know why she was so scared.
"Stop talking nonsense and go."
Her water had broken, and she struggled to get up. "Don't worry about me. He's a lunatic. I think he already knows where this is and will be here soon. No, maybe he's spying on me in the dark right now."
She drew out her crescent-shaped swords and said, "I want to end my relationship with him completely. You all should leave now."
Zhou Zhi hugged her, "Sister, don't worry, the most important thing now is the child. Don't move around, do you want anything to happen to the child?!"
Jiaoyue cried non-stop, "What should I do? I can't give birth to her. If she is taken away like me, she will become a pitiful creature like me, controlled by my brother for the rest of her life."
Zhou Zhi comforted her and asked her to give birth to the baby first, otherwise both mother and child would be in danger. "Sister, think about a name for the baby, and then we can talk about the future. Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."
"If I dare to run away, he will definitely kill me if he catches me. Neither mother nor I will survive. Remember to engrave my child's name on my tombstone. I am really not a good mother. I can't let her see the light of day."
"Sister, please stop saying these things. You will definitely be able to turn danger into safety. What do you want to name your child?"
It was getting dark outside the window, and the moon was about to come out. She looked at the moonlight and said, "Bright."
“Nice name.”
"I want her to be as pure and detached as moonlight in the future, untainted by the mundane world, and not get involved in the intrigues and deceptions."
After a moment, she continued, "I was originally a princess, a member of the Chai family. No, maybe I don't even know who I really am. I'm just an adopted daughter of the Chai family. I've killed too many people for him, and done too many things for him that shouldn't be seen in public. I shouldn't have been so obsessed, so isn't that why I'm in trouble now? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha... The most important thing in life is to live like a human being. If I had the chance to do it again, I wouldn't want to live like this again. If I had known earlier, I should have gotten out sooner."
In just a few words, she revealed all the sad memories of her life.
From then on, the beauty was buried in the earth, and there was no longer anyone like Jiaoyue in this world.
Right or wrong, success or failure, all disappear in one night.
It was an unusual night, and the rain continued on and off for half the night.
As the baby was born in the inn, countless purple lights shone through the doors and windows of the inn.
The sound of weapons clashing outside was particularly harsh in the rain.
The cold blade and the neighing of horses told everyone that a distant guest had arrived.
Cold rain, bleak autumn.
There were corpses everywhere. Zhou Zhi searched around but couldn't find Jiaoyue. She smiled and thought, it seemed that he didn't kill her.
Fortunately, she can see her again. As long as she is alive, she can always see her again.
The blades of the two crescent-shaped swords were cracked.
Amidst the broken horse's head and legs, she held up the painter's face, wiped the dirt off his face with a handkerchief, then kissed him for the last time and buried him.
The child whose acupoints were blocked was crying loudly. She was a girl with thick eyebrows and big eyes.
Zhou Zhi looked at her and couldn't stop her tears from falling. "She looks a lot like my sister. She's so beautiful."
Mu Feng came closer. The wound on her face was still bleeding. She was breaking a bent bone, had several teeth missing, and her speech was lisp. He didn't think the girl was particularly outstanding, but she had slightly thicker eyebrows and eyes than other children.
"Why is she glowing purple? Is she some kind of monster?"
Zhou Zhi put the child's face against her neck and said, "Don't talk nonsense, don't talk about monsters, this is a good omen."
"What day is today?" Zhou Zhi hugged the crying child and she was crying too.
"October 16th." Mu Feng said.
Zhou Zhi's eyes flashed with surprise and a strange look. She lowered her head and coaxed the child, "It's just right, it's a good day."
Mu Feng was really confused. "It's not a festival, how can this be considered a good day? Her birth has ruined everyone's life."
"Just wait and see, this child will definitely be a big shot in the future."
"How can a girl become a big shot?"
It was still dark in the inn before daybreak. Zhou Zhi washed his hands and gathered all the living people. They lit the eternal lamps in the inn. As soon as the lights came on, the purple light on the child was completely covered up. The eternal lamps burned for three whole days.
On the fourth day, a masked man came to the inn.
No one could see his face clearly.
That is, from the day he arrived, Huiying Inn became Huiying Inn.
His strength was so terrifying that he could easily kill everyone in the inn and even snatch Jiaoran away easily.
Zhou Zhi thought that she would never be able to wait for Jiaoyue to come back.
The two women who thought they could hide the truth and replace the prince with a cat seemed so weak in front of this uninvited guest.
They escaped Chai Yu's sight and managed to save the child with great difficulty, but he could tell at once that this was Jiaoyue's child.
He took full control of Huiying Inn.
It was as if this place had always belonged to him.
If he wanted to, he could even easily destroy this town, but at least at this moment he still wanted to keep this town and this shabby inn.
No one knows why he came or what his purpose is.
He simply asked Zhou Zhi, "Do you still want to avenge your vengeance?"
Zhou Zhicai had just gone through a fierce battle. "Of course I want to avenge the extermination of my family, but I don't have the ability yet."
"Your father died because of Takayama Shou, you should know that, right?"
"Yes, they killed my father for that damn secret book. I hate them all!"
"Then the person you should hate the most is your good sister, Jiaoyue."
Zhou Zhi was furious. "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"Because your good sister knew exactly where 'Takayama Shou' was, but she refused to tell you. She watched you suffer from hatred, but she remained silent. For her, you lost your child and the man you loved most, but what about her? What did she do for you?"
Zhou Zhi covered her ears and said, "Don't try to confuse me. I won't believe anything you say. Shut up!"
“What a pity.”
"What's a pity?"
"If you want revenge, you should choose to cooperate with me."
"Why should I trust you?"
"When someone is in front of you who would kill you like crushing an ant, you'd better believe every word he says."
"But ants also have their own dignity, right?"
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