Chapter 152 The Ancient Romance
"This does not mean that Zhang Xianzhong is cruel and bloodthirsty. I have seen and heard about it in history books, but I didn't expect that he was really cruel!" Li Ling quickly cast his bright eyes at his wife,
“Although throughout the ages, one general has succeeded and thousands of bones have been withered, an emperor has ascended the throne and slaughtered people everywhere, and the hands of the founding emperors, generals and ministers are all stained with blood.
"However, even if a person like Zhang Xianzhong will restrain himself after ascending to the throne of God, he is still a person who has no sympathy and compassion for the common people, and the common people will definitely not have a good life.
"Killing prisoners of war and surrendering generals, the Spring and Autumn Period history can help him beautify and cover up, but massacring the city and killing ordinary people, even God will not allow him to live long."
"So, my ancestors of the Luo family learned from this that Zhang Xianzhong did not have the status of an emperor." Luo Qingtong's eyes softened, "Then, our ancestors asked him to borrow the "Golden Seal Script and Jade Letter".
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"Then, Zhang Xianzhong won't give it?" Li Ling asked.
Luo Qingtong nodded and said: "Not only did he not give it, Zhang Xianzhong, who was already cornered by the late Ming army and the armed forces of the Sichuan and Shu landlords in Sichuan at that time, also wanted to kill my Luo family!
"Because he also approached our ancestors of the Luo family and asked our ancestors to help him deal with his enemies. Our ancestors saw through his tactics and refused to agree. In the end, the two sides turned against each other and became enemies.
"In the end, our ancestors of the Luo family cast a feng shui curse on Zhang Xianzhong. This curse led to Zhang Xianzhong's defeat at Phoenix Mountain, and his luck was scattered. After several years of hard work, it collapsed in one day."
Luo Qingtong glanced at Li Ling as she spoke: "Zhang Xianzhong was at the end of his rope at that time. Our ancestors sent him down because he wanted to kill us first. Our ancestors were just fighting back.
"Even if our ancestors didn't do what he did, his ending would still be the same, it's just a matter of time."
Li Ling smiled helplessly: "I think your ancestors should have punished him more harshly, and then threatened him to hand over the "Golden Seal and Jade Letter"?"
"Time and conditions don't allow it. How can it be so easy for our Luo family to set up the Feng Shui Sha Jiang formation? What's more, Zhang Xianzhong is surrounded by thousands of troops and guards. It is difficult for our ancestors to find opportunities."
Luo Qingtong shook his head and said, "It is not easy to arrange a simple attack and defeat him temporarily."
"But, Zhang Xianzhong died, and your Luo family didn't get the "Golden Seal and Jade Letter" either." Li Ling nodded.
"It is true that our ancestors did not get the "Golden Seal and Jade Letter", but whether Zhang Xianzhong is dead or not is an eternal mystery." Luo Qingtong sighed suddenly.
"Oh?" Li Ling was startled. Over the past hundreds of years, there have been numerous rumors about Zhang Xianzhong's death. Only official history records that he encountered Qing soldiers on a narrow road in Fenghuang Mountain in the west of Sichuan and was eventually killed in battle.
Many unofficial histories record that he escaped from his golden cicada shell and eventually became a monk. Others say that he went into the mountains to practice Taoism incognito and eventually became a Taoist fruit.
"However, our ancestors of the Luo family believe that Zhang Xianzhong is not dead. He should really have escaped from the golden cicada's shell and escaped from the siege of the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Dynasty." Luo Qingtong said,
"That's why my master came to seek revenge on our Luo family after more than three hundred and fifty years."
"Senior Fengchuilan, what on earth does he have to do with Zhang Xianzhong and your Luo family?" Li Ling raised his eyes.
"My master is Zhang Xianzhong's adopted daughter." Luo Qingtong said calmly.
Li Ling trembled, and his thoughts were filled with confusion.
This circle that goes around and around me is the circle that God has drawn long ago!
This circle involves the fate and luck of many people and cleverly presents it in front of him.
Of course, it was inevitable that I would be involved too!
Luo Qingtong didn't care about Li Ling's unfounded surprise and continued: "Our ancestors believed that Zhang Xianzhong did not die in battle.
"He escaped from his golden cicada shell, and learned that it was our Luo family who had done anything to him, and he surrendered, causing him to be defeated for a while.
"So, for more than three hundred years, people have been coming to our Luo family to provoke and assassinate us in the world, but our ancestors have resolved them one by one. This is also the reason why our ancestors immigrated to the United States more than a hundred years ago.
"Then, twenty years ago, my master found us. She also came to seek revenge. She originally wanted to destroy our entire Luo family.
"With her strength as a monk, she could wipe out our family without any effort, but she never killed us.
"Later, my master told me that ascetics should not kill excessively, especially mortals. Every time ascetics kill a mortal, it will hinder their ability to transcend tribulations and affect their ability to realize the great path.
"But the master is Zhang Xianzhong's adopted daughter. She was ordered by her adopted father more than 350 years ago to come to seek revenge on us.
"After she found us, she was extremely conflicted about whether or not to kill my Luo family. Then, she saw me. I was only six years old at the time.
"I will always remember that day when my master saw me, who was only six years old, by the lake in our villa. At that time, she was also wearing an ancient costume, with her face covered, and she was swimming gracefully like a fairy.
"She came towards me, and I thought her dress was weird, but I wasn't afraid at all. Then, she lifted the veil, and I shouted out at that time, sister, you are so beautiful.
"Unexpectedly, she knelt down next to me and stared at me for a long time, with tears streaming down her face. She held my hand and asked me many daily questions.
"She also did a lot of tricks for me, which made me very happy. Later I found out that it was Taoism. I asked her why she shed tears when she saw me. She said that my appearance reminded her of a person she was familiar with.
people.
"Then she made an agreement with me that I would get up early every day and meet her in the garden by the lake every morning, and she would teach me a set of exercises.
"Twelve years have passed. When I was eighteen years old, my master rarely came because she had finished teaching the exercises.
"She told me that this set of exercises is not available in the secular world. In the future, if I have the opportunity, this set of exercises will allow me to step into the threshold of a Buddhist monk.
"And I clearly feel that my Dantian Qi and the inner Qi my father and others cultivate are not of the same origin. Maybe one day, I can really become a Taoist."
When Luo Qingtong said this, her eyes were filled with gentleness and softness, which was her gratitude and admiration for her master.
"In the past fifteen years, I have grown up day by day, but my master's appearance has not changed at all. He is still as youthful and charming!
"She has practiced the beauty-preserving technique, and I heard that she has also taken the age-defying pill, which can keep her body in the same condition as the moment she took the pill.
"Honestly, when I saw her, I really wanted to call her sister, because we look about the same age!" After Luo Qingtong said this, she looked at the horizon again and sighed suddenly.
"She originally wanted to seek revenge from our Luo family, but because of me, her hatred in the human world was completely resolved.
"Then, she has one last thing left to do. She is waiting for someone. If she can't wait, she will face the calamity of her life and death in twenty years."
When Li Ling heard this, he felt a sense of emotion in his heart. There are so many causes and conditions in this world.
Zhang Xianzhong, his adopted daughter, and my destined wife, including me, are actually intertwined through such a tie.
However, looking at Qingtong's cultivation of martial arts, it is indeed far different from that of ordinary practitioners. Could it be that she was really washed by Feng Chuilan when she was a child, and laid the foundation of Taoism?
Will my wife embark on a monastic journey in the future?
Li Ling couldn't help but vaguely recall some of the words she had muttered earlier, about how she had to part ways with me forever and never to be separated from the world... and what if she couldn't see me again... Thinking of this, Li Ling's heart skipped a beat.
But now is not the time to care about these things. At that moment, Li Ling asked: "Since Senior Fengchuilan is Zhang Xianzhong's adopted daughter, what was Zhang Xianzhong's fate more than three hundred years ago? Did she tell you?"
Luo Qingtong shook her head slightly: "Master told me that she just followed her adoptive father's order more than three hundred years ago and came to seek revenge on our Luo family.
"But later, she entered the monastic world by chance, and she left for three hundred years. She had no idea about her adoptive father's ending and fate.
"It's just because she remembered her adoptive father's death, so when she returned to the world more than three hundred years later, she wanted to settle this grudge and seek revenge from us. As a result, she met me."
Li Ling nodded slowly. It seemed that even his adopted daughter, Feng Chuilan, a monk, didn't know Zhang Xianzhong's fate.
Chapter completed!