Himmlischer König - Kapitel 91
Even though he was wandering in the desert and had no fixed abode, ten-year-old Ye Chuhan never complained. He loved watching his beautiful mother play the seven-stringed zither with a smile as bright as a flower, and he loved watching his heroic father dance with his sword to music with boundless passion.
The setting sun casts its glow on this idyllic couple!
He still remembers.
In the moonlit desert, he and his younger brother were covered with their father's warm cloak to ward off the wind and cold, snuggling close to their parents. He held his younger brother, who was slightly feverish due to his weak constitution, and the two of them looked up together to count the stars in the desert sky.
"Brother, are we going to keep wandering like this forever?" Chu Xue, lying in his arms, looked up at the boundless starry sky and suddenly asked him this softly.
There was a smile in his eyes.
"Isn't this kind of wandering good?"
"As long as the family is together, nothing is too bad!"
Chu Xue smiled in Chu Han's arms, her face slightly flushed from the heat in her hair, and she coughed softly.
"Our home is everywhere in the desert."
Ten-year-old Chu Han hugged her thin younger brother tightly and laughed heartily, "Yes, wherever we stop in the desert, that's our home!"
Their parents led him and his younger brother, Chuxue, through the desert, wandering and hiding from the army of the King of Loulan and their enemies, day after day, until—
Deep in the desert, the family of four encountered the most terrifying and troublesome bandits in the Black City!
After seeing his mother's stunning beauty, Leng Yexiao, the leader of the Black City bandits, coveted her and led nearly ten thousand bandits to follow them like leeches. Using every trick in the book, he finally trapped the family of four at the foot of the coldest mountain in the desert.
A dragon trapped in shallow waters, a tiger fallen on the plains!
No matter how skilled his father was in martial arts, he couldn't single-handedly lead his wife and children out of the encirclement and could only watch helplessly as they fell into a state of hunger and cold.
That night.
Ten-year-old Ye Chuhan saw his father standing in the wind and snow, holding a sword, his face solemn.
He also saw his mother, dressed in white, standing silently in the shadows, secretly hiding a dagger in her sleeve, her beautiful face still firm and composed.
The frail younger brother, Chuxue, shivered from the desert chill. Huddled in his cloak, he looked up at his resolute older brother and whispered, "Brother, I'm hungry..."
Chu Han hugged her twin brother tightly, "Chu Xue, are you afraid of dying?"
Chu Xue glanced at her brother, Chu Han. Beneath his long eyelashes, his eyes were clear as starlight. He had a slightly childish look, but he answered firmly, word by word:
"As long as my brother stays by my side, I'm not afraid of dying!"
Chu Han looked up and saw his father, who was standing alone in the distance, looking in their direction. His father, the proudest eagle in the desert, had a hidden sadness and pain deep in his eyes.
The next morning.
The father, wielding the Azure Jade Sword, led his mother, his younger brother, and others in a breakout. The ensuing battle stained the desert with blood. Countless bandits rode in, raising dust and filling the air with yellow sand.
He and his younger brother were separated by the bandits. In the blink of an eye, his brother's thin figure was no longer in his sight, leaving only him and his father. Bandit henchmen wielding swords rode on tall horses, shouting around him and his father. His father's eyes were bloodshot, and his Azure Jade Sword rose to the sky, slaying countless bandits!
"Father, brother—"
From afar came Chuxue's timid cries, "Quickly save Mother! Mother... Mother has been captured—"
Ten-year-old Ye Chuhan turned around in fear.
mother--
His beautiful and gentle mother, still dressed in her spotless white robes, stood alone, clutching her seven-stringed zither, surrounded by bandits, yet she remained quietly still, like a jade sculpture!
"Ye Zheng!"
The bandit Leng Yexiao's maniacal laughter rang out, "Your wife is already mine. If you want your son to live, you'd better surrender obediently!"
The Azure Jade Sword trembled and fell to the ground.
When Chu Han first saw her father's face, it was ashen and lifeless.
But at that moment, the mother, surrounded by bandits, seized the opportunity when they were off guard and suddenly pulled a sharp dagger from her snow-white sleeve, screaming:
"Brother Ye, take the child and leave!"
She plunged a dagger into her own chest!
"mother--"
Just as Ye Chuhan was about to shout, he felt a sudden tightening on his wrist. It was his father who had picked up the Azure Jade again and pulled him out of the encirclement. Countless swords and blades came crashing down, and Ye Chuhan actually lost his footing and fell to the ground on the sand.
His hand fell from his father's, and the two had just separated when the bandits cut in, separating him from his father. Ye Chuhan raised his head from the sand and saw in horror that his father was already far away from him.
"father--"
He reached out his hand and cried out in despair!
His father, however, was just...
He glanced back at him and saw him surrounded. His father paused slightly, then suddenly turned and ran straight for Ye Chuxue, who was also surrounded by bandits!
In the blink of an eye.
The father, wielding the renowned Azure Jade Sword, had rescued Chu Xue from the encirclement. He held her tightly in his arms, then mounted an unmanned horse and rode away without looking back.