Originated from mountains and seas, life never ends

Chapter 130 A long time ago...

Qin Xiao talked to her for a while, and looking at the sunny and cheerful Meng Liyun in front of him, his expression moved slightly and a smile appeared on his face.

Nangong Huaxue finished talking to him excitedly, looked into his eyes, and suddenly said, "You have changed a lot."

Qin Xiao was stunned: "Me?"

"...Yeah." Nangong Huaxue's smile gradually disappeared, and she looked at him seriously, "So much has changed."

Qin Xiao was stunned, not knowing what expression to make.

But soon, the person in front of him started smiling again, with warmth between his brows, and looked at him gently.

"That's great... you are now." Nangong Huaxue smiled, but lowered her eyes, "Compared to before, you are really much better."

Qin Xiao didn't respond.

"I hope you get better and better." Nangong Huaxue raised the cup, gently stretched it forward, and clinked it like a wine glass, "Bless you."

"...Thank you." Qin Xiao looked at her and drank the tea.

……

Looking at Qin Xiao walking out of the building, Nangong Huaxue leaned against the window and watched him leave.

Qin Xiao seemed to sense something, turned his head, looked straight at her, smiled at her and waved his hand.

Nangong Huaxue immediately responded to him enthusiastically, her face as beautiful as a flower, her carefully combed hair slightly loosened, with strands of hair hanging down.

Looking at the gradually disappearing figure, Nangong Huaxue's expression relaxed slightly, his eyes revealed a bit of nostalgia, and a sense of relief.

"That's great..." Nangong Huaxue murmured, "He's doing well...that's good."

Meng Liyun blinked, afraid that others would see her face. After a while, she shrank back, sat back at the tea tray, and drank the warm tea slowly.

She stared at the bed opposite, sat for a while, then lay down on the bed, half leaning on the pillow, but her thoughts flew to the past.

Long ago...

In her previous life, her family was not poor, but it was not wealthy either.

Her father was a businessman and had never received much education. Her mother was not from a scholarly family either, but a flower-selling girl her father met during his business.

I vaguely remember her mother mentioning that it was a very old-fashioned yet beautiful story. Although I can't remember the story clearly, I can still feel their love when I think about it now.

I don’t know if it’s because her parents didn’t have much education that they gave her the name Meng Liyun.

Liyunmengyuan, a very sad name.

And her family, just like her name, was shattered without any warning, like a shattered dream.

I forgot how old they were, but I think they were six. That day, they were just like usual. Because their father was a businessman, the business was not very prosperous, so they often followed their father around, but on that day, something unexpected happened.

My father had clearly looked up a map and studied it carefully to avoid the bandits' area of ​​activity, but for some reason he still ran into those vicious bandits.

The carriage was suddenly overturned, and she, her mother and brother were greatly frightened. Her mother held her and her brother tightly in her arms, trying her best to protect them. Outside the carriage, there were flashes of swords and screams, and she couldn't tell whether they were her own people or bandits.

The moment the curtain was lifted, the answer came out.

The bandit, his face covered in blood, stared at them excitedly, as if he had seen some valuable goods, the corners of his mouth twitched in an eerie way, almost reaching behind his ears.

That face was like a demon, with undisguised desires flowing from his eyes to their bodies. The man smiled, licked the blood from the corner of his mouth, stretched out his hand, and roughly pulled them out.

"There are two kids and a woman. Boss, this woman is really pretty. She made me hard just by looking at her!"

The man's excited words rang in her ears. The young girl didn't understand the meaning of his words, but her mother suddenly turned pale and hugged her tightly.

And when she saw her father covered in blood, she screamed.

The father who had laughed and joked with her that morning, the father who had coaxed her to sleep a few hours ago, now lay quietly in a pool of blood, lifeless. The wound extended from the neck to the right waist, almost cutting him in half.

My father stared at the sky with his eyes wide open. I don’t know if it was because of what he heard before he died, but his expression was ferocious and he seemed very unwilling.

The younger brother suddenly started crying and tried to break free from his mother's arms and run to his father, but his mother held him tightly.

The mother was probably afraid that she would explode suddenly, so she hugged her tightly and pressed her and her brother into her arms. She was clearly in tears and sobbing, but she kept begging the robber to spare her life.

"I can give you the car and the money in it... Please, let my two children go."

The mother, who was always afraid of pain, knelt down before the robbers and kowtowed to them. Her head bled after several kowtows, but she remained unconscious and cried and begged.

She looked at her mother quietly.

She didn't understand. It was clearly the bandits' fault. They were the ones who killed her father, so why did her mother still beg them and why didn't she avenge her father?

Her younger brother was crying uncontrollably. She looked at her mother, then at her younger brother, and finally decided to hold her younger brother back and not let him go to find their father.

"What? Let them go?" The leading man raised his eyebrows. The hideous scar on his head told them that he was not someone to be trifled with.

The man lifted his mother's chin, his eyes wandering obscenely across her chest: "Actually... it's not impossible. As long as you take good care of the brothers, I will let them go."

She didn't understand what the man was saying, but her mother seemed to understand. Her expression became even sadder, her face covered in blood, and she cried and thanked the man for letting them go.

When her mother was telling them the way down the mountain, she was in a daze and looked at her mother stupidly. Her brain seemed to be frozen and couldn't function at all.

"Liyun!!" Her mother suddenly cried out. She shuddered and looked in front of her in astonishment.

"Take good care of your brother..." Her mother cried and hugged her. She could feel her mother's body shaking violently.

What is she going to do?

Meng Liyun watched the burly robbers take her mother away, watched them carry away box after box of the goods her family was delivering, and watched the bodies of her father and a group of guards who were left there, covered in blood.

What is she going to do?

For some reason, Meng Liyun couldn't shed a tear. She stared at her father's body in a daze. After an unknown amount of time, she finally remembered what her mother had said.

She said she had to get out quickly...

She said she had to get down the mountain quickly...

She said, don’t worry about your father’s body…

Meng Liyun stiffly pulled her brother's hand and pulled him up from the ground. Her brother kept crying, but they didn't have time, they had to go down the mountain...

But before she could turn around, someone covered her mouth and nose and she suddenly fainted.

When I woke up again, I was in a pitch-black place.

It was pitch dark around her and she didn't know where she was. Just as she was about to sit up, she heard her mother crying.

She struggled, climbed up, and groped along the sound, finally finding a gap. Looking through the gap, she saw a scene that she would never forget.

She saw the naked men surrounding her mother; she saw them pulling her mother and playing with her like a doll; they pressed her mother down, not allowing her to struggle, and pinched the flesh on her breasts hard, making her cry uncontrollably.

At that moment, she felt cold from head to toe. She stared at the men who bullied her mother, her fingers pinching the gap, trying to get out of this unknown place.

She scratched her fingers and bled uncontrollably, but she didn't stop. The gaps between her nails were full of sawdust, which pierced into her skin and flesh, stimulating her nerves and making her even crazier.

"don't want!!!"

She finally couldn't help but scream, her voice drowning out her mother's cries.

At that moment, she felt like she was about to explode.

But then, she was embraced by a rough arm and held tightly in the arms.

The person behind him was breathing heavily and seemed very excited.

"You're awake... Why didn't you tell me earlier? You made me wait so long..."

Terror overwhelmed her like a tide, and she struggled desperately to get rid of the man.

"Shh, shh... don't make any noise. I love children the most, especially children like you..."

Faced with her struggle, the man became more excited and began to tear her clothes off.

"Get out, get out of here!" She pushed with all her might, but in the man's eyes it seemed like it was not a problem at all.

The man pressed her to the ground, his heavy breathing sprinkled on her face. She couldn't see the man's face clearly, but she could feel his disgusting eyes scanning back and forth on her body.

"Don't rush it... take your time."

The man seemed to be thinking of something exciting, and his strength increased, almost breaking her arm.

She was desperate. At this moment, she heard her mother's scream.

"Didn't you promise me to let the child go?! Why!!!"

The sharp and piercing scream penetrated the house and reached her ears clearly.

"You are a bunch of beasts! You are damned!"

The mother's voice seemed to drip with blood, as if she was speaking and roaring with the last of her life.

"We're not good people to begin with, so it would be strange if we obeyed?"

The strange man said in a nonchalant voice.

"You can only blame yourself for being so stupid to believe such words."

The man stripped her clothes off and his rough, big hands wandered over her body. Although she struggled desperately, it was of no avail.

Meng Liyun's eyes gradually became numb, and at that moment when she was about to give up struggling, the man on her body suddenly groaned and fell to the ground.

Looking at the man lying on the ground, she didn't react at all.

"sister!"

Only after hearing the shout did she gradually come back to her senses.

Her eyes had adjusted to the darkness, and she looked towards the source of the sound, seeing her brother rushing towards her.

"Sister!" The brother threw himself into her arms, his tears staining her chest, "I'm so scared."

"No..." She wanted to say something, but found that the surroundings were terribly quiet.

In an instant, a terrible thought emerged in my mind.

Then, a voice came.

"Tsk, another one died. This woman is really hard to play with. She can't last a whole night."

At this moment, Meng Liyun's heart died.

Her limbs seemed to be frozen and she couldn't move her whole body. The news of her mother's death was like a knife piercing her heart. She didn't even dare to breathe hard, for fear that her heart would not be able to bear it and would explode.

Holding her younger brother in her arms, Meng Liyun was a little dazed.

What is she going to do?

What can she do?

Her mother's dying plea still echoed in her ears, but she -

Before she could come up with anything, the light suddenly came in and a door in some unknown direction opened.

The ferocious-looking bandit glanced at them, then looked at the man lying on the ground and whistled with interest.

"Damn, that's really interesting. Who killed him?"

Hearing the man's words, she looked in a daze and found that there was an iron rod stuck in the back of the fallen man's head.

She looked at her brother who was shaking in her arms, and understood something in an instant.

"I." Meng Liyun looked up, her eyes dull but unusually determined.

The gangster glanced at her and smiled contemptuously.

The man's death did not cause much commotion. The gangsters seemed to have faced such things frequently and simply threw them into an iron cage with a group of children.

Looking at the thin peers around her, Meng Liyun was not afraid at all. She even wondered how she would die.

No, she can't die.

Meng Liyun suddenly thought of something and stood up.

She couldn't die now.

Her brother is still alive.

Meng Liyun hugged her brother, who was shaking with fear, with trembling hands, and the fire of life burned in her eyes.

Her brother...is still alive.

Mother told me to take good care of my younger brother.

She has to be obedient.

Meng Liyun held her unconscious brother in her arms and thought numbly.

These bandits kidnapped people and gathered them together, only giving them one meal a day. Meng Liyun looked at the porridge that was full of water and gave it to her brother.

"I'm full." Her voice was weak, and she knew it.

But my brother must live.

Meng Liyun thought so firmly that if her brother refused to eat, she would force him to eat.

She wanted him to live.

But after a few days, something unexpected happened again.

That day, the people in the cage were in a state of panic, and even she could sense it, but she didn't know why, so she just stared at one place without reacting.

By noon, she knew.

These bandits worshipped a mountain god and believed that if they boiled three children alive every month they would be protected.

Meng Liyun looked at the man's hand reaching out to her brother and immediately stood in front of him.

"I……"

"You're too big." The man looked at her coldly and slapped her to the ground.

She hadn't eaten for many days, and the slap made her eyes see stars, her ears ring and her eyes become dizzy. She collapsed in the cage and couldn't recover for a long time.

When her vision finally came back to light, her brother had already been pulled out.

“Sister…” The younger brother panicked and struggled desperately. He turned his head to look at her and wanted to find her, but the man kicked him to the ground and he spit out blood.

She completely collapsed, trying to pry open the iron cage in front of her and even trying to squeeze her head out.

The guard nearby saw this and hit her with a stick, knocking her back into the cage. The blow made her lose consciousness immediately and she could not see or hear anything.

But whenever she thought about what would happen to her brother if she fainted at this moment, her heart felt as if it were dug out, and the pain was so severe that she could not faint.

"please……"

She clung to the iron cage, her breath hanging by a thread.

It was pitch black before her eyes and she couldn't see anything.

As if another stick had fallen on her, she felt something warm flowing down her head.

She held on to the cage tightly and squeezed in. With her skinny body, she actually managed to squeeze halfway through.

But then an iron rod hit her chest and she vaguely heard the sound of bones breaking.

But she couldn't give up, her brother, and...

Meng Liyun struggled, using her hands and feet to try to get out.

The man seemed to have found a few more people, and they stepped on her hands, kicked her face, spit on her, and humiliated her with disgusting words.

As a sharp pain came from the back of her neck, she lost consciousness.