If You Can’t Be a Son-in-law, You Have To Be Sanctified

The moonlight shines through the bare tree trunks, turning into whirling lights and shadows, falling on the snow.

Sheng Zi, whose body was trembling slightly, suddenly froze when he heard this familiar voice.

She seemed a little dazed, and her eyes were a little dazed.

Until Lu Jing said another sentence: "Sheng Zi."

This always heroic, always free and easy woman also turned her head stiffly.

Among the shadows of the trees, at some point, a figure in black appeared.

The figure was wearing a sword at his waist, his body was straight and straight like a jade mountain about to collapse, the moonlight shone on his face, it was really like white jade.

"Lu Jing..."

Sheng Zi suddenly narrowed her eyes and spoke with doubts.

Lu Jing took a few steps forward, the smile on his face was as gentle as ever, just like Sheng Zi remembered.

The old woman behind Sheng Zi regained some strength. She turned her head and glanced at the men and women in the dark night. There was more anger in her originally dead eyes. It was chilblain hands, holding up the white snow, and covering the naked body of the corpse.

This scene is not elegant, let alone beautiful.

But Sheng Zi seemed to have crawled out of the abyss of fear, her eyes were shining, she stared at Lu Jing blankly, until Lu Jing walked in front of her.

"Lu Jing!"

Sheng Zi screamed suddenly, opened her arms, threw herself forward, and fell into Lu Jing's arms.

Lu Jing spread his arms, a little at a loss.

Sheng Zi's shoulders trembled, and tears rolled down her face.

She hugged Lu Jing's body tightly, her fingers trembling slightly like her shoulders.

"Lu Jing..."

Sheng Zi even choked with sobs as she called out Lu Jing's name.

Tears condense and point to the place where the sound of swallowing stops, don't be deeply affectionate.

Lu Jing was at a loss...

But even if he is a piece of wood, at this moment, he can clearly feel how much the woman in red has for him.

Sheng Zi's tears flowed down, staining Lu Jing's black clothes.

Lu Jing stood under the moonlight, Sheng Zi choked up and wept. Behind the two, the old woman turned around again. She saw the two when she was about to die, and saw something from the two young men and women. Something other than numb to survive.

She hadn't seen such a thing for a long time, so her aversion to this world was slightly reduced.

Immediately turning his head, he saw the little snow bag again.

"It's a pity...you were never buried in Beixiang."

The old woman whispered, her hands drooped suddenly, and her head drooped deeply.

She knelt down in front of these two snow bags and fell into a deep sleep.

When Sheng Zi wiped away the tears on her face, realized her gaffe, and let go of Lu Jing, the old woman could no longer wake up.

Lu Jing stood where he was, looking at the two snowpacks and the woman covered in rags and frostbite, his helplessness turned into silence again.

"She should have died a long time ago, but she just hung on her breath, not wanting to expose the two corpses on the barren mountain."

Sheng Zi said: "Now that I have strength, I don't want to live anymore after burying my son. Even if there is a panacea, she can't survive her life."

Lu Jing turned his head and thought for a while. With the flick of his fingers, a stream of vitality rubbed against the void, creating a fire, which fell on the old woman, and melted the white snow, turning the other two corpses into ashes.

The ashes were suspended in the air and put into a jade bottle by Lu Jing.

The jade bottle was originally used by two immortals wearing stars and wearing moons to collect treasures from the blood mist in the middle of the river, but now it is used by Lu Jing to hold the ashes of the three of them.

"Even if you try to rescue her by force, she will no longer have the thought of living in her heart, and she will always die."

Lu Jing said calmly: "Many people live in this world, not only by themselves, but also by many people and things.

Once those people and things disappeared, they would have no idea of ​​living. "

Sheng Zi nodded with red eyes: "Once a person grows old, suffers from injuries, and has no beloved children and grandchildren, there is really nothing to be nostalgic about."

Lu Jing waved his sleeves, and the jade bottle fell into Lu Jing's hands.

Lu Jing wanted to put the jade bottle back into the Yunkong pattern, but Sheng Zi suddenly took a step forward and took the jade bottle from the air.

As soon as she flipped her hands, the jade bottle disappeared.

"Let me help her." Sheng Zi said, "I will ask someone to send them back to the river and bury them in that place called Beixiang."

When she said this, she suddenly laughed at herself: "When manpower is exhausted, I have seen many corpses along the way, and I have also seen many people who want to live, but I can only help three people go back to safety."

Lu Jing shook his head: "But do good deeds, don't ask other questions, don't think too much."

...

"Why are you here on Tai'an Road?"

The two are riding on horseback, and two white horses walk side by side.

Immediately, a young man in black and a lady in red walked in the forest.

Sheng Zi remembered her actions after seeing Lu Jing just now, and the blush on her face spread to her ears.

"I've lived for twenty years, and I've never been out of Taixuanjing. Then I remembered that I had a good friend in Hezhongdao, so I decided to be self-willed once, thinking about going to see the world."

"Friend? Which friend?" Lu Jing asked.

Sheng Zi glanced at Lu Jing.

Lu Jing suddenly understood that originally he wanted to persuade Sheng Zi not to be so willful and impulsive in the future, and to tell her that the world outside of Taixuan Jing was not so stable.

But immediately felt a few rays of light cast from the darkness, so he didn't say any more.

Sheng Zi was the daughter of Sheng Ruzhou, the second assistant of Taishu Pavilion, how could she leave Taixuanjing so easily?

Sheng Zi was a little naive, she lowered her head and glanced down the mountain, in the dim moonlight, there were still vague victims wandering around.

"I have only left Taixuanjing not long ago, but it seems that I have seen enough of this world, and I don't want to see it anymore."

Sheng Zi pursed her lips to find an excuse: "I happened to be going back to Beijing with you."

At this time, the dark clouds in the sky became thicker and thicker, covering the already hazy moon.

"The clearer a person perceives his own powerlessness, the more powerless he becomes.

I was in Taixuanjing, and I always thought that even if Dafu Tianxia was not as good as Taixuanjing, it would not be so miserable.

But now that I have really seen it, I also feel that my own power is only limited to sending the ashes of those three people to Hezhong Road just now, other than that, it can't do anything else, so I don't want to look at the world anymore. "

"In the end, it's probably just escaping."

Sheng Zi lowered her head and said.

Suddenly it snowed in the sky, the snowflakes fell, and the cold wind blew up.

Seeing Sheng Zi's depressed expression, Lu Jing thought for a while, and comforted him: "Manpower is sometimes exhausted, but the world is not just for me.

The world is broken, and there are people who sew and mend with needles and thread. If there are more people who sew, it will always get better. "

"Sewing?" Sheng Zi nodded slightly.

The two walked for a long time, and Sheng Zi's eyes fell on Lu Jing from time to time.

At this time, it was snowing heavily.

It's a pity that both of them practice martial arts, and even Sheng Zi has cultivated into a snow-capped mountain, with qi and blood in his body, plus the blazing qi and blood of the plain-heeled horse, not to mention Lu Jing, who has already been innate in martial arts.

That's true, the turbulent snowflakes have not yet fallen on the two of them, but they have already melted because of this hot blood.

Sheng Zi suddenly thought of a poem, and felt a little regretful in her heart.

"If we are drenched in snow today, we will live together in this life."

"It's a pity that the snow didn't fall on us."

Sheng Zi remembered what she had done just now, and then glanced at Lu Jing who was riding a horse, and a surge of courage suddenly arose in her heart.

"Since you have come to look for him, why should you be timid?"

As Sheng Zi thought about it in her heart, her eyes became brighter.

She reined in the reins and stopped where she was.

Seeing Sheng Zi stop, Lu Jing asked Zhao Ye to stop too.

"What's wrong?" Lu Jing asked.

Sheng Zi was silent for a while, before raising her head to speak.

Suddenly, beside the official road at the foot of the mountain, several horses galloped past.

A martial arts practitioner rode a steed, passed by the post station beside the official road, and quickly threw out a token.

"The lord has an order to order all the post stations on Tai'an Road to open warehouses to release food to help the victims. All the villages and county government offices along the way will open warehouses. There must be no mistakes!"

"The imperial court has an order, under the policy of disaster relief, if anyone dares to disobey it, he will be punished with death!"

"Southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu also use practitioners to transport food, and the treasury has been opened to help the victims!"

This order exploded in the void like a thunderbolt, and it also fell into the ears of those victims.

There are still soldiers guarding the front of the station, and they dare not open the door.

There was even a post official's voice: "My lord, this kind of government order has never been issued. There are too many victims. If all the stored food is eaten by the victims, wouldn't everyone starve to death?"

"The drought in the middle of the river is over. Let's save the lives of the victims first. After this winter, when the spring is planted, the imperial court will send the young adults among the victims to the middle of the river to reclaim the land and clean up the river...

Hezhong Road has been prosperous since ancient times, and when the drought is over, food will soon be grown. This is a great thing, not to mention the people of Hezhong Road, even Tai'an Road, the whole Dafu and even the surrounding countries will also benefit from it ! "

"The drought in the middle of the river... is it over?"

"It's over. It's said that I, the leader of the young boy riding a jade horse, begged for heavy rain and ended the disaster. I don't know if it's true or not."

"I begged for the heavy rain to end the disaster?" Sheng Zi was taken aback suddenly: "Young leader, Yuma?"

She seemed to understand, she stared blankly at Lu Jing in front of her, and the words that came to her lips were taken back into her heart.

"I can only send the ashes of those three people back to Hezhong Road, Lu Jing, but you can ask for heavy rain... As you said, you are indeed mending the world like Mr. Si and Mr. Guanqi in the past."

"Compared to Lu Jing, except for his family background..."

This woman who has always been decisive and free and easy only thinks that there may be someone in this world who is worthy of such a good man, but she seems to be...

So, amidst such hesitation, Sheng Zi lightly moved the rein of the horse, and continued on her heels. When she came to Lu Jing's side, she had a smile on her face.

"It's time to go back... There must be many people waiting for you in Taixuanjing."

...

More than ten days passed in a flash.

When Lu Jing and Sheng Zi arrived at the gate of Taixuan Capital, the sun had not yet risen and it was still night.

On the 28th, the Shengge is under the clouds, and the three thousand worlds are surrounded by snowflakes.

This may be the last snow of the new year, and the spring breeze will come after March, so it will not be so cold anymore.

At this time the curfew has been lifted, there are already people making a living outside the city gate, coming and going, many carriages come in and out, and there are also adults living outside the city, who want to enter Taixuanjing to attend the court meeting.

Lu Jing looked up at the familiar and prosperous city, his thoughts became very simple at this moment.

"I don't know what Qingyue is doing."

Lu Jing took a deep breath, rode his horse and walked towards the city gate.

Sheng Zi walked with Lu Jing, but they hadn't reached the gate of the city, when suddenly a general wearing a golden armor and a long knife walked out to salute Lu Jing.

"Su Xuanjun Wang He met Mr. Lu Jing, and there is an order in the palace to order Mr. to attend today's court meeting."

General Wang He turned sideways after saying this.

But he saw a carriage parked safely inside the city gate.

The carriage looked ordinary, but it was indeed made of ebony wood. A tall Mobei horse stood quietly in front of the carriage.

Lu Jing had seen the person driving the car several times before, and it was the Red-clothed Diao Temple in front of Emperor Chongtian.

Seeing Lu Jing, the old-looking Red-clothed Diao Temple got off the carriage and saluted Lu Jing as well.

"Sir, this old man is here to pick you up."

General Wang He on the side saw the red-clothed Diao Temple bowing to Lu Jing, and couldn't hide the surprise in his eyes. He didn't know why Mr. Lu Jing's face was so big.

Sheng Zi was also surprised at first, but immediately remembered Lu Jing's achievements, and felt that Lu Jing was a person who did practical things, and he was the one who solved the misfortune of all people in the middle of the river, so how could he not stand the bow of the Red Diao Temple? !

Lu Jing got off his horse and returned the salute, but his eyes were a little tired, and he said to the red-clothed Diaosi, "Lu Jing has been exhausted all the way, and his body is tired. I wonder if Diaosi can report back on Lu Jing's behalf. Today..."

General Wang He was even more surprised, he didn't know where Lu Jing's courage came from.

"Mr. Lu Jing." The red-clothed Diaosi smiled, and the wrinkles on his face were squeezed into gullies: "I know the person you miss in your heart, but Mr. Qingyue is currently refining a pill at Mr. Eleven's place in the library. several hours.

Sir, don't be impatient. Wouldn't it be better to go to the court meeting, receive the reward, and then go to see the person you care about as the reward? "

"Alchemy?" A look of joy flashed in Lu Jing's eyes.

Not all doctors in Dafu can make alchemy. The Dafu imperial court has very strict control over elixirs. Ordinary people who practice alchemy can easily kill themselves, and it is very easy to practice poisonous pills to harm others.

Only a doctor who is proficient in pharmacology and has a deep understanding of the ratio of medicinal materials can refine the elixir.

Qingyue can make alchemy, which means that her pharmacology has surpassed most doctors.

"In this case, there is no need to worry."

Thinking this way in Lu Jing's mind, he turned around and said a few words to Sheng Zi, but he never got into the carriage, but just rode Zhao Ye again.

The red-clothed Diaosi also boarded the carriage again, and drove the carriage towards the Taixian Hall together with Lu Jing.

The three of them walked together, and when they arrived at Changning Street, Lu Jing said goodbye to Sheng Zi and continued to the palace.

Along the way, many court ministers who were rushing to the court also saw the figure of the young man.

The young man was riding a horse, accompanied by the red-clothed Diao Temple driving a carriage.

The real big shots in Taixuanjing have also heard about Lu Jing calling for wind and rain to relieve the severe drought in the middle of the river.

Seeing that Lu Jing returned to Taixuanjing and was about to go to court, he couldn't help feeling and guessing in his heart.

"But I don't know if Lu Jing's achievements can be made a Marquis?"