Star Marriage

Chapter 62

Lingshan is at the north gate of the capital, like a natural screen, erecting a straight and insurmountable natural barrier on the north side of the capital.

The northern slope of Lingshan Mountain is almost at a negative angle, so steep that not a single blade of grass grows there.

On this bare mountainside, a mansion at the same altitude as Qixing Palace was built on an artificially excavated platform. Outside the blue and white walls of the mansion, the black iron-colored gate was tightly closed.

In order to make the mansion more secluded, the owner planted a lot of trees on purpose. Because the planting time was too early, many trees in this dense forest have turned into towering ancient trees. If you don’t know the importance of this mansion gate to Qixing, I believe the whole mansion It has already fulfilled the master's wish and was forgotten by the world.

However, after the owner of the mansion signed a contract with the gods, their family could no longer hide from the world, but had to join the world.

This mansion was the mansion of the General Protecting the Country in the dynasty, and now it is the mansion of the Chairman of the Military and Political Council. The owner's surname is Lan. If it is said that the Yan family's royal power over Rainbow Island is a right bestowed by God, then the Lan family is the guardian chosen by the gods. , their family has been responsible for guarding Qixing's territory for generations.

However, this generation has encountered a big problem.

Lanzheng's hair is already gray, but he is still in good spirits. His half-length hair is neatly bundled up behind his head, his head and face are square, and there is not a single strand of hair falling down. It makes people feel that he is synonymous with rules.The Lan family members are all tall and burly. The old man wears a blue blouse at home, walks like flying, and continuously carries water from the well water in the backyard to the fish tank in the front yard.

"Father, why are you doing such rough work?" Ren Li just came back from the outside, seeing this scene, he wanted to immediately grab the work in Lan Zheng's hand.

But the old man was unhurried, and with one wrong step, he easily avoided Renly's hand.

"Father……"

"I'm old, so I can't do just a little hobby of raising fish? The wind direction is a bit wrong today, what happened to the palace?" Lan Zheng was very satisfied with the results of his work after pouring two buckets of water into the tank. Gently patted the fish tank.

Lan Li told Lan Zheng one by one about the fact that the family had come to give gifts, but the thread was destroyed, and the life of the fourth prince was threatened.

The smile on the old man's face faded away, and the corners of his mouth slightly turned down were naturally sullen and solemn.

In the shade of the yard, there is a stone pier, two low stools, and a bowl of tea still steaming, waiting there quietly.

"Is it the group of people from before?"

"My child thinks it should be."

The old man didn't speak for a long time, but the tea bowl made a rattling whine because of the powerful hand.

"What has Rong'er been doing lately?"

Mentioning his sister, Renly looked embarrassed and said after a pause, "She's busy with things, so...."

"Don't bother trying to deceive me, old man, even you don't know what she's doing. Besides, it's not a time of war, and I don't have real power, so what's there to do? But I still hate me for kicking Qiu Yu out. Son."

It seemed that Lan Zheng was right in his words, so Ren Li could only remain silent.

"Still no news about Feng'er?"

"There are only some speculative news, but Hai'er thinks Brother Feng should not be dead."

"My own son, of course I know he's not dead. Why should I check if he's dead? This coward, who didn't take responsibility, didn't dare to go home after losing a battle and annihilating the whole army? He's so useless! I don't even have the courage to fail." Lan Zheng seemed to get angrier as he spoke, and his voice grew louder.

"It's just that I'm worried that he didn't dare to come back to face you because of his past mistakes."

"Then he is a big fool! Does he think he is the god of Boss? He is just an ordinary person. Who hasn't made a few mistakes? Because he was obsessed with ghosts three years ago, and he joined the rebel army and became a traitor. Is it a traitor? I'm so stupid! If you find him, I will whip him three hundred lashes myself, and see if he remembers!"

Lan Zheng's anger was burning high, and a servant woman walked quickly from the backyard, with a hunched body and a very humble attitude. Although she was very short, she walked so fast that she was sweating profusely. He didn't care about saluting, and said very anxiously: "My lord, the fourth young master is awake, but it seems that the pain is getting worse."

A word from the servant girl was like a ladle of cold water extinguishing Lan Zheng's fire. Ren Li's face turned pale, and he looked at his father very worriedly.

Lan Zheng walked like flying, and before the servant girl finished speaking, she had already arrived at a small wooden house in the backyard.

In the cramped space of the cabin, there was only a tattered bed. A tattered boy with torn clothes was lying on the bed, his wrists were locked at the head of the bed, his feet kept kicking, his eyes were wrapped with gauze, gauze The black and red ointment on the face was sticky and tangled together, the young cheeks under the gauze were criss-crossed with bloodstains, and some of his own flesh and blood remained in the boy's fingernails.

The sound of intertwined chains, the babbling of bed boards, criss-crossing.Because of the pain, the boy struggled unbearably until he was tired and then passed out. This kind of scene repeated itself, reflected in the eyes of Lan Zheng and Ren Li, because it was the fourth son of the Lan family who fell into this pain. , just full blue key.

Those chains had worn two bloodstains on Lan Key's wrist, but they didn't dare to open them. Once opened, Lan Key would scratch his eyes recklessly.

What happened to Lan Key may be the biggest trouble for the Lan family's generation.

"Father..., brother..." Even though Lan Key was blindfolded, he knew who was coming.Because his brother had impulsively thrown the doctor out of the room.

"Let me die..., please, it hurts too much..., don't treat my eyes, let me be relieved..." Lan Key begged intermittently.

Lan Zheng's expression didn't look like he couldn't bear it, but rather fear.And the expression of fear had never appeared on Lan Zheng's face before.

"Or dig out my eyes... I don't want them... please."

"Father, what should we do?" Renly's face was pale and he was completely at a loss when he saw his youngest brother suddenly had a strange illness that no one could heal, and he was so painful that he almost wanted to die.

"Pull the gauze away, you quack doctors!" Lan Zheng's voice trembled slightly, he seemed to have known what he would see, but he didn't dare to look at it at all.But in the current situation, there is no time for him to hesitate.

"Okay." Renly didn't know why his father was so serious all of a sudden, but he absolutely faithfully carried out every word his father said.

When the sharp blade was picked, the somewhat dross gauze soaked in the medicine pulp easily shattered.Under the gauze, it wasn't so ferocious, Lan Yao's left eye seemed to be covered with spider silk, and he couldn't open it no matter what.Those thin spider silk-like traces are actually not spider silk, they are distributed radially around Blue Key's eye very regularly.

If these spider webs didn't make Lan Yao feel heart-wrenching pain and bone-piercing itchiness, the red fine lines would just be embedded in the skin, and there would be faint light like breathing.Even the best makeup artist can't draw such beautiful eye makeup.

"Father, my left eye has always been able to see many terrifying scenes." Probably without those smoky ointments, the left eye of the young man who seemed to have an independent life did not continue to torture the young man, and the eye pain disappeared a lot. He said His voice finally stabilized, but every word he uttered after shouting for days was still very vague and hoarse.

Seeing these beautiful fine lines, Lan Zheng's complexion became even worse.On the other hand, Renly looked surprised. When his fourth brother had a sudden eye disease many days ago, these fine lines were obviously gone.

Hearing what Lan Key said, Lan Zheng anxiously asked, "When did you start seeing it? What did you see?"

"I woke up from a coma the morning before yesterday. The pain in my right eye was gone, but the left eye was itchy. Then I saw a knife, killing people non-stop, blood splashing on me. Ordinary people, innocent people , old people and children, kept being killed by that knife in different ways in front of me. All kinds of death methods are too miserable and terrible."

The stars in the old general's previously bright eyes were dim now, and the figure sitting beside the wooden bed was no longer as proud and upright as before.

"Father?..." Seeing his father suddenly so downcast, Renly seemed to know something, and asked worriedly, but he didn't dare to ask further.

The room was filled with strange silence, servants and women waited outside the room, peeking into the room from time to time, the doctor who was thrown out dared not leave, standing by the door with sweat profusely and a terrified face, even the dirt on his clothes dare not shoot.

After a while, the old general asked lovingly, "Yao'er, do your eyes still hurt?"

"It hurts just now. It seems that the pain is not so bad after removing the ointment. It's just itching. But I dare not sleep, as long as I cry out, I will have those bloody dreams."

"Try to catch an eye."

"The eyelids are heavy, but Ben and I couldn't lift them the day before yesterday, and now we can open a small gap."

"Don't worry, it will open slowly, and the pain will stop gradually." The old general seemed to have known Lan Key's answer for a long time, so he said the answer he had in his heart very helplessly, and left the room with Ren Li. He never looked at his beloved son again.

After the old general left, the servant woman hurried into the house and untied the chain on Lan Key's wrist, and instructed very carefully: "Fourth young master, the master said, after you unlock the chain, you must not scratch your eyes. The master also said, The eye disease doesn’t need to be treated, it will be cured slowly.” While speaking, he put a bandage on Lan Yao’s wrist.

Although the servant woman's tone was very soft and warm, the fine sweat on her temples betrayed her actual state of mind in this not hot weather.From applying the medicine to serving Lan Key in taking a bath and changing clothes, she never dared to look at Lan Key's face.

The maid's strange behavior and his father's desperate expression made Lan Key aware that something was wrong, but he didn't ask any more questions.

He walked out of the shabby wooden house, as if he would no longer be grounded today, but it seemed that something fundamental had changed.

After all, the young mind couldn't figure it out, so he walked to the pond in the courtyard and looked at his own reflection in the water.To his surprise, the several bloodstains on his face had long since disappeared, and his skin was as smooth as before, as if those scars never existed.His right eye was still clear blue, and he blinked a few more times, there was no problem at all.

His left eye, which was shining with waves, was only slightly opened a little, but he could still see clearly.Lan Key finally understood what had changed.

His eye disease will probably never heal for the rest of his life.

In the narrow gap, the gray-red rays of light were fiercely fighting each other, as if the oblique cloud of black flames of the God of Poseidon, the old enemy of the God of Demons, lived in his eyes.

Because he heard the croaking sound, he subconsciously looked up.

He saw a long-legged baby parked on the big leaves of the green futon, a water plant.Just at this moment, he felt a flash of red suddenly flashing across his eyes, and a scorching heat spread from his eyes to the periphery, and went straight into his left ear.Then, he heard a plop, the white belly of the long-legged baby was like a white steamed bun soaked in water, floating back and forth with the waves of the breeze, and its noisy sound by the pond was no longer there.

Lan Key was so frightened by the facts in front of him that his legs went limp, and he fell to the ground, and quickly closed his left eye, not daring to open it again.

In the wind, I froze for a long time, watching flying insects, water waves and swimming fish.He gritted his teeth and made a decision.

When he looked down at the water again, Lan Key stretched out his left hand and stabbed his eyes fiercely.But the next moment, instead of being blind, his fingers were broken.The sound of the crispy radish being snapped was heard continuously, and he was sweating profusely from the pain, but he still didn't yell.

His terrifying left eye seemed to be wearing an indestructible armor, and his fingers couldn't even get close to the eye, and it had already been broken.

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From then on, Lan Yao, the youngest son of the Lan family, disappeared from this mansion.