Chapter 256 256: half-brother? ? ? 【Ask monthly ticket】
"Getting ahead of others? Who?"
Gong Xiqiu admitted that he was somewhat gloating.
The staff envoy didn't seem to see Gong Xichou's small expression, but replied in a low voice: "I don't know yet, I only know that the person who took the national seal was not simple. Either he had the special ability to hide the national seal or he had special items. The first two I can still vaguely feel the breath, but after that it gets weaker and fainter, and there is no trace."
The elites of this journey were originally aimed at Guoxi.
Since the Imperial Seal is no longer available, it is useless to continue to stay. It is better to send back troops to strengthen our own military and prevent Zheng Qiao from sending troops to suppress the border. Therefore, the possibility of withdrawing troops is extremely high, and it would be foolish to stay and entangle with the Union Army.
Gong Xiqiu heard it with great interest at the beginning.
When he heard the last sentence, his expression twisted, and he almost gritted his teeth and squeezed out a sentence: "Why didn't you say it earlier?"
The staff envoy asked him what he meant with his eyes.
asked again: "Haven't I said it early enough?"
"You said that you could still vaguely feel it in the past two days, but there is no trace in the past two days—" Gongxi gritted his teeth with hatred, and his back molars itched, "If you said it two or three days earlier, the soldiers who fought today would not have been in vain." I lost my life! Why didn't you say it earlier?"
Not only did the staff envoy not get angry, but instead showed an extremely strange sneer on his face for a moment, and said: "You will feel sorry for others."
Gong Xichou: "That's more than two thousand living lives."
He didn't feel distressed.
Human life is the least valuable in this world.
But no matter how worthless human life is, it can be divided into whether it is worthwhile or worthless. Even if they died, they could have died with more value, instead of being buried here hastily!
Even if these are actually King Xi’s soldiers...
Therefore, even though the staff envoy in front of him is the only clan member left in the world, Gong Xichou can't feel a slight affection for him.
The staff envoy laughed at his naivety.
"Gong Xiqiu, do you know one thing?"
After the conversation started, he paused suspiciously again, and deliberately whetted Gong Xichou's appetite, but Gong Xichou could only do what he wanted.
asked: "What do you know?"
"Do you know what orders the king gave me before he left? You and the soldiers and horses under your adoptive father's tent can all be sacrificed if necessary. As long as you can take the imperial seal, you don't need to sacrifice!" the staff envoy mocked. Looking at Gong Xichou, "If necessary, your life can also be filled in."
Gong Xiqiu thought it was an order.
He said: "Isn't this normal?"
He has seen a lot of similar faces, let alone a strange creature like King Xi? In fact, the "gentleness" of this order surprised Gong Xiqiu a little. As King Zhu, his orders shouldn't be so "normal"...
The staff envoy had an expression of "you are too young".
With a sneer, he spat out a sentence that was more sinister and viscous than the venom of a poisonous snake: "The meaning of the king is not what you understand. His original intention is to say that if the death or injury of Xiaocheng is not enough to force out the imperial seal of Xin Guo, you can give it up." Those soldiers."
Gong Xichou: "..."
The envoy of the staff said in a cool way: "So, have you seen it clearly? The more than two thousand lives in your eyes are just worthless in the eyes of others! Whether they died on the battlefield dedicated to the king or in other invisible places, is it right? It makes no difference whether you die in battle today or later. Gong Xiqiu, you really should have died on the day of the clan annihilation, instead of leaving the clan land and wandering in the muddy world, fearing that there will be no place to die!"
Gong Xiqiu looked at the staff envoy in surprise and anger.
In his memory, every member of the Gongxi clan followed the guidance of the gods and lived hard. They are open-minded and optimistic, bold in nature, male, female, old and young, good at singing and dancing, and any unhappiness can be vented through loud singing and wild and changeable dances.
Live in seclusion and have nothing to do with the world.
Gong Xiqiu has never seen a clansman as eerie and treacherous as the one in front of him, which is unpleasant and runs counter to the style of Gongxi clan. What kind of thoughts did the other party have in order to say this to him, the only survivor of the genocide?
His eyes were so easy to understand, the staff envoy said: "The clan pattern of the Gongxi clan is the snake that the world dislikes the most. Is it against the ancestor's precepts to be cheerful and lively, and to love life? I am used to being gloomy, so you just can't see it." How can I get used to it?"
Gong Xichou: "You—"
Gong Xichou wanted to curse a few more words, but the figure of the man turned into a shadow again, completely blending into the darkness, and the next moment he was silent. Tuliu Gong Xichou was cursing in his heart, wishing he could dig up his ancestral grave...
Ah no, the graves of the ancestors cannot be dug.
Their ancestral graves are the same.
Gong Xiqiu frowned depressedly.
He was more depressed than being killed by Shen Tang repeatedly during the day. After sitting with his arms folded for a while, he suddenly got up and searched for the suitcase he took with him wherever he went. Don't look at Gong Xiqiu's life in a mess, paperwork and official business are thrown around, making people nowhere to go, but the things in the box are tidy and tidy, and they are regularly wiped out.
He found a thick volume of genealogy from the bottom of the box.
Every name on this volume of genealogy has been crossed out tremblingly with immature pen and ink. If you look carefully, there are still many tears and water stains on it, only Gong Xiqiu's name is still there. Skip those names, flip up and down, and compare them one by one.
"Not this one…"
This person attended the funeral himself.
"Nor is this..."
The uncle of the next-door neighbor is not either.
"This... this... this... is not..."
Gong Xiqiu recalled that the staff envoy had said that he had crossed out the name of the genealogy overnight, and the handwriting should be different from that of the patriarch who was in charge of the genealogy at that time. He only needed to find the one with special handwriting.
Following this clue, I really found two.
Gong Xiqiu's lock seems to be the most likely one.
but-
His eyes widened in disbelief.
The hands holding the family tree are trembling.
"How, how could it be—it could be him?"
Different from the outside world, the children of the Gongxi clan only follow their mother's surname. They are generally raised by their mothers and uncles and other parents. In order to avoid problems with newborns caused by too close bloodlines, women can choose to intermarry within the clan as adults, or they can choose to leave the clan area to find men outside the clan area, and return to the clan area with their children after a period of time.
Gong Xichou's father is one of them.
Except for the dead mother, no one knows who the dead ghost father is.
Gong Xiqiu didn't know either.
There are many examples of half-brothers and sisters in the clan.
Gong Xiqiu is no exception.
He has a half-brother who is much older than him. I heard that the elder brother was selected by the patriarch at a young age to be trained as the next patriarch, but Gong Xiqiu has never seen him. The mother said that the elder brother died, but the uncle leaked the truth, saying that the elder brother made a big mistake and was executed by the clan elders. The mother was heartbroken. In order to get rid of the pain, she had a second child with the encouragement of the uncle, which is now Gongxi Qiu …
If this gloomy guy is the elder brother...
It's no wonder that the clan elder always looks at Gong Xiqiu with complicated eyes.
Gong Xiqiu digs out a mirror from the mess.
Photo left, photo right.
He murmured in a trance: "I didn't notice it until I looked carefully. They are indeed somewhat similar..."
Staff Messenger: Who do you say I am? ? ?
Gong Xiqiu:)
PS: Please take a leave of absence today, hey, something happened unexpectedly, just make up for one day, and make up for it tomorrow.
PS: Baby Waner has just opened a new book and has not signed a contract yet. You can step on the through train and jump over to have a look. You will definitely not lose money if you invest in chasing updates!
(end of this chapter)