Chapter 57 Tuoba Xian
Tuoba Xian was Fox Xiaxia and Shan Xiaohu, returning from the popilus euphratica forest to the quiet lodge. The two did not tie him up; after all, this was just a less than ten-year-old child; there was no need to be tied up. But the two of them did not let their guard down. They spent the whole night at the window, waiting for Tuoba Xian to wake up.
The following day, outside, the chicken surprisingly did not crow. Sleepy Shan Xiaohu squinted and yawned. Subconsciously, he looked at the minor child's bed and even disappeared. He hurriedly woke up with a start and tugged on Fox Xiaxia beside him.
"Senior brother, wake up!"
"Where is everyone?"
"Holy shit! To slip under the noses of the two of us is a talent!"
"What kind of person is he? Slippery as a loach?"
"Speaking of loach ... how I remembered another person called Ni Zhong in his last life and Ouyang Zhong in this life ...."
Hey, two, because under 10% mana and the value of force is super strong, people boast that they will not meet any enemy in this world. The result is a ten-year-old child to pose away.
The two people looked at each other painfully inwardly, roaring: careless! Gullible! Shame on you!
But on the surface, they still had to put on a light-hearted appearance and politely, without losing embarrassment, and gently smile.
They rushed out of the room and found that the yard was sprinkled with chicken feathers, and the kitchen was filled with the rich aroma of roasted meat. The two of them fixed their eyes to see that it turned out that last night brought back the little hairy child who had already opened the rooster used for chiming and crowing in the house to make a roasted chicken. The little kid was devouring his food and glanced scornfully at the two of them, continuing to nibble on the chicken leg, muttering vaguely, "What do you have to say when I'm full."
This kid is! Why is he so crazy? Fox Xiaxia and Shan Xiaohu don't want to be disgraced repeatedly, regardless of whether he has eaten enough, left and right, like carrying chickens, Tuoba Xian frames back to the room. And this time, he can no longer be lightly forgiven; Fox Xiaxia, without saying anything, will be the boy tied up.
Fox Xiaxia grimaced and stared at Tuoba Xian with his hands in the air, asking: ''Kid! Who are you? What are you doing in this Populus euphratica forest? Why did you harm the poplar tree yesterday?"
"My name has not changed as I walk and sit. Your little grandfather and I are the famous Tingzuo 10th Prince Tuoba Xian. Tuoba Zhe is my father, and Grand Prince Tuoba Cheng is my brother!"
"Pfft ..." Shan Xiaohu was drinking tea on the side. When he heard Tuoba Xian reporting himself like this, he was directly amused. A mouthful of tea didn't hold back and directly sprayed out, splashing Tuoba Xian's face.
"What are you doing? How dare you spray my water? I'll let my father cut off your head!" Tuoba Xian was indignant. His young face had a savage and murderous aura.
Shan Xiaohu was all smiles. "Sorry, sorry! I'm sorry. But this isn't my fault. It's all because you're too amusing as a child. Not even hairy yet? You dare to call yourself our grandfather. I'm afraid your grandfather would have to be our grandchildren."
"Don't interrupt!" Fox Xiaxia continued to look at Tuoba Xian very seriously. Go on, why are you here? Why did you destroy the Populus euphratica forest? Hurry up and give an honest explanation. I don't care what tribe or prince you are. I won't spare you if you dare harm the Populus euphratica forest!"
"I heard the shaman of my tribe say that my brother's bones are underneath this Populus euphratica forest. We couldn't get past that wall of fire in the first place, and my father refused to collect my brother's body and wouldn't let me go. I didn't care! Now that I'm here, I'm going to cut down this Populus euphratica forest and burn it to make a sacrifice to heaven for my brother's dead spirit! Then I'll kill all of the Zhongming Kingdom to bury my brother with me!"
"Yoo-hoo! You've got a big mouth, don't you? Have ambition, haha~" Fox Xiaxia laughed coldly, then grabbed Tuoba Xian's collar, lifted him to his level, and roared angrily, "Your brother killed so many people? He also killed my sister! He's a bad man who has committed the most heinous crimes, and you still have the nerve to ask other innocent people to accompany him to sacrifice him to heaven? Bullshit!"
Although Tuoba Xian was overwhelmed by Fox Xiaxia's aura, he struggled and shouted, "So what? I don't care what you guys say about him; calling him a bad guy or a demon has nothing to do with me. I only know that Tuoba Cheng is my brother! Since I was a child, he was the only one who treated me the best, cared for me the most, and protected me the most. He was the one who loved me the most. If he dies, I'm going to avenge him and make the others bury him with him!"
Fox Xiaxia was so angry that she almost wanted to swing this little boy around and throw him out of the window. Luckily, reason overcame the impulse. At this moment, Shan Xiaohu patted his shoulder, signaling for him to calm down and put Tuoba Xian down.
Shan Xiaohu bent down and calmly looked at Tuoba Xian like a fried young beast. Then, he sighed and subconsciously rubbed Tuoba Xian's hair. He did not expect this unconscious action to make Tuoba Xian freeze, dumbfounded, and said, ''Brother used to often rub my hair like this before ...'' Immediately after that, he seemed to be suffering from how big the aggrieved in general. Tears first gathered little by little in his eyes, then like broken beads falling down his cheeks one after another, and finally, he began to bawl.
Shan Xiaohu and Fox Xiaxia did not expect this little human boy's emotions to be so complex, so they had to leave the room and let him alone to be tied up with his hands on the ground, rolling around and wailing. This child's energy is also really abundant! Surprisingly, he cried for a whole day, and only in the evening did he curl up in a corner and fall asleep because he was tired of crying.
Shan Xiaohu prepared dinner, warmed up a pot of wine, and walked to the side of the Fox Xiaxia, gently kicked him sitting under the house's eaves and sulking, shook the two small wine cups in his hand, and then revealed a big smile. Fox Xiaxia had no choice but to make some room for Shan Xiaohu, and the two of them watched the sunset together, sipping the small wine and chatting lightly.
"What do you think about this child thing." Fox Xiaxia asked Shan Xiaohu.
"There's nothing how to look at it. He said himself that he is from the Dingling Clan or Tuoba Cheng's brother, and seeing his favorite brother die, he wants to take revenge."
"But his brother is a big bad guy. The focus also caused Xiao Wu so much misery. I am also a brother. I must protect my sister."
"I feel the same as you. Xiao Xian is your sister, but she is also my little sister's apprentice. We are both older brothers, and we will both protect her well. Just ... this child, we can't do anything to him. Neither can we lock him up here, nor can we lynch him, much less kill him. We can only release him and let him return to his people."
"Release? Third Senior Brother, how can we release him? This is letting the tiger return to the mountain. Not to mention whether or not he will slip back to harm the Populus Euphratica Forest again and disturb my sister's primordial spirit. What if he grows up and becomes the second Tuoba Cheng? How harmful would that be to others?"
"Even if he returns to the Populus Euphratica Forest, we can only catch and release him once we see him, making the Populus Euphratica Forest's spell formation more thorough. As for what kind of person he will become in the future? What impact will he have on this world? That's all his destiny and creation. You forgot what Master said: we can only protect Xiao Xian, but we can't interfere in influencing the direction of the earth's fortune. If it is fated that he will become the second Tuoba Cheng, then that is all that can be done."
Fox Xiaxia was originally a person who seldom produced emotional fluctuations. Many things were indifferent in his view, and being idle and apathetic to do as he pleased was his true nature. However, after coming to this earth, he felt that his temper had grown, and he cared about whatever was related to his sister, Fox Xiao Xian. He didn't want to lose his sister again and see her suffer so much.
However, a hundred years alone on the tip of the mountain have seen countless times the wind, rain, snow, sunrise, and sunset of the Shan Xiaohu, temperament from the original dull straight, now instead of many things to see through and tolerant.
Both of them stopped talking and slowly drank the wine in their cups. Then they went back to the room together to untie Tuoba Xian. The little boy, still sleeping, had his eyes tightly closed and frowned. With two tear stains on his cheeks, he looked in pain. He and his brother Tuoba Cheng are the same father and mother. Brother and sister look very similar. They were born with good skin and have a pair of phoenix eyes.
The Dingling tribe has lived on the grassland for generations, and many other tribes on the same grassland have been fighting for resources and power all year round. Sometimes, the beaten people were scarce, so they began the custom of robbing the women of other tribes to have children in their wombs. Five short-statured limbs, being stout, and being good at riding and shooting are typical characteristics of the Dingling people. Tuoba Cheng and Tuoba Xian's body shapes are very different. Still, instead of the southern central plains, people's thin and slender appearance seems to be inherited from the mother side of the characteristics.
Shan Xiaohu shook Tuoba Xian; Tuoba Xian did not wake up; he had to pat the little guy's face to wake him up. But as soon as he touched Tuoba Xian's face, the temperature conducted to his fingertips told Shan Xiaohu that the child had a fever and it was very high. It is said that healers are kind-hearted, let alone the pure nature of Shan Xiaohu. However, he is better at healing animals and has to rely on the more skillful Fox Xiaxia to heal people. Fox Xiaxia, a little reluctant, did not kill him very well, but also against his will to release him, at this moment, even having to give him a cure. Fox Xiaxia pouted her lips and sulked on the side, muttering and cursing.
Shan Xiaohu had to refrain from forcing his senior brother to do something he didn't want, so he could only say, "Why don't you teach me what to do? You teach, I'll learn, and then I'll heal him without you having to get your hands dirty, right?"
Fox Xiaxia pointed at Shan Xiaohu with a look of hatred and said fiercely, "Why are you so soft-hearted? This is a wolf, a Zhongshan wolf! If you save him now, he might even bite you back. You'll regret it too late then!"
"Haha, it's fine. If what I'm doing now is destined to get that kind of result, it's also something I should bear. As Xiao Xian, she used her body as a candle to draw the Samadhi Flame into a firewall to purify evil thoughts and demonic energy. Will she regret it?"
Shan Xiaohu's question left Fox Xiaxia speechless. Would she regret it if her sister made such a great sacrifice? Would she still do that if she were to do it again? Fox Xiaxia asked himself that he wouldn't dare and couldn't make such a sacrifice; he still hadn't cultivated that transcendent realm after all.
The deflated Fox Xiaxia could only guide Shan Xiaohu on the side to diagnose Tuoba Xian's pulse, administer the diagnosis, and feed him medicine. Early the following day, Tuoba Xian's fever was finally back. His body had a large area of rash, also applied to herbal medicine. At the moment, Tuoba Xian was like a dumpling wrapped in cotton cloth, wrapped in cotton cloth into a circle, only leaving the eyes, mouth, and nose exposed to the outside.
Tuoba Xian's body was sore and painful to grunt; he struggled to open his eyes, wanting to get up, but was utterly unable to. He turned his face to look at his surroundings, and it turned out that he was still in this cabin. The two strange people who had captured him that night sat beside him. Seeing that Tuoba Xian had woken up, Shan Xiaohu leaned down and softly inquired: ''Are you awake? How do you feel? Do you want to drink some water and eat something?"
Tuoba Xian nodded. In a short while, Shan Xiaohu brought small congee dishes to the side of the bed and carefully helped Tuoba Xian up, feeding a little bit of food into his mouth. This somewhat intimate behavior made Tuoba Xian a bit at a loss for words, and this feeling was very unfamiliar. He had never been treated so kindly by a stranger; one could even say that he had never been treated so kindly. Even his older brother, Tuoba Cheng, who he thought was the best person in heaven and on earth for him, had only defended him when he was bullied.
Tuoba Cheng and Tuoba Xian's mother was originally a wealthy merchant's daughter south of the ZhongMing Kingdom. A rich merchant lady living in the south since childhood has not seen the north of the land and has been begging her father to bring them to see; the father could not resist the daughter's repeated requests and had to take her through the business of the city of North Hope. A 14-year-old girl initially thought that she could appreciate the beauty of the northern scenery of the grassland on the way back home with her father, and I did not expect that this way, until the end of her life to the end, she would not be able to return to the homeland. I did not expect this until my life had come to an end, and I could not return to my hometown. He also ended up with a father in business on the way to be killed in a tragic death; he was also Dinglingoren people jacked to the border. At the critical moment when she was almost insulted and killed by several people, she met Tuoba Zhe. To survive, the wealthy merchant lady had no choice but to commit herself to Tuoba Zhe and gave birth to the eldest prince, Tuoba Cheng.
Under the rules of the Dingling tribe, the Zhong Ming Dynasty people can only be enslaved, even if they became the Dingling king had already sat on the throne of the Tuoba Zhe's woman because it is the Zhong Ming Dynasty people can not become a queen, can not die, but does not have any status. Even if later Tuoba Cheng in the clan repeatedly won the war, his reputation and status became increasingly solid, and his mother was also his shame.
Since the beginning of his life, Tuoba Cheng was taken away by the queen of the time, too. Tuoba Cheng has never been alone with his mother. He didn't love his mother and even resented and loathed why he had the blood of a Zhong Ming Dynasty person in his veins. His mother also did not want to see his humiliating past, naturally and deliberately, and Tuoba Cheng's estrangement, but every time Tuoba Cheng was in the arena was beaten bloody, the young mother still could not help but heartache tears.
However, fate is always playing tricks on this woman whose life is as thin as a sheet of paper. After ten years of hard work and strategizing, she was ready to escape from the Dingling tribe and return to the Zhong Ming Dynasty. When she met the spider spirit Yu Sun, she even recommended Yu Sun to the King of Dingling, Tuoba Zhe. Her deal with Yu Sun was to help her kill Tuoba Zhe and return to Zhongming. Unfortunately, she chose the wrong person to work with, and Yu Sun soon became the great sorcerer of Dingling through her, while she was insulted again by Yu Sun's design after Tuoba Zhe got drunk. This man, who could not be considered a husband or a benefactor, made the woman afraid and disgusted but forced to obey.
Tuoba Cheng's concubines and concubines, naturally, also can not think of this does not flatter to please the enslaved person, generally a lowly woman. If it hadn't been for the fact that his eldest son Tuoba Cheng was becoming more and more outstanding, he would have almost forgotten that he had a Zhongming woman who was the birth mother of his exceptional son. That night, Tuoba Zhe was Yu Sun under the illusion, as if once again seen ten years ago in the crowd clutching the torch of self-defense girl; the eyes were determined and firm, although frightened eyes full of tears but still like a mother beast with a strong desire to survive. A look like that hit him straight in the heart. However, later, the same woman, every day only slave-like labor, with a pretty face and vivid eyes, no longer the woman that left his heart. But Yu Sun's illusion inspired the long-sealed memories in Tuoba Zhe's heart, and he once again forced himself on the woman.
After this night, she became pregnant with the tenth prince, Tuoba Xian. The night she gave birth to Tuoba Xian, the heavy snow, the felt room was not enough charcoal fire, and cold people shivered. The woman did not survive the night and died of hemorrhage after giving birth to the child, saying two words repeatedly in her native language, "Go home, go home."
When he heard the news that his mother died in childbirth, Tuoba Cheng's heart was severely jerked. He felt the most important woman in his life was gone. Even if he resented his bloodline, he vaguely remembered his mother's warm embrace as a toddler. Eleven-year-old Tuoba Cheng ran to the front of his birth mother's felt room and heard his younger brother Tuoba Xian's cries. He took the tiny ball from the midwife's hands, held it tightly, walked to his father's face, and solemnly said, "Father, this is my own younger brother, and since that woman is already dead, I will raise him to grow up, and ask my father to be complete."
From then on, Tuoba Cheng became Tuoba Xian's heaven, his most trusted and relied-upon brother. The prestige that Tuoba Cheng established with his fists and the scimitar in his hand in the Dingling tribe became the best support for raising Tuoba Xian. Because of his brother's blessing, the young Tuoba Xian could survive in the Dingling tribe, where the weak were the strongest and the strongest were the most vulnerable. For Tuoba Cheng, his younger brother's existence has also become the most direct reason and source of strength for him to fight for the throne among more than ten brothers eyeing him.