Sun and Moon Are Wrong: Traveling Through Time from Under One Person

Chapter 321: The Old Story of the Lonely Grave (3)

hope?

A trace of confusion flashed across Gao Jin's eyes.

"Where is my hope?"

Just then, a bodyguard rushed in.

"Sir, it's not good!"

The guards looked panicked.

"The court sent someone here, saying they want to thoroughly investigate the Lu family's case, and... they mentioned your name!"

"what?"

Gao Jin's face changed drastically.

"Are they going to check on me?"

"Yes, my lord!"

The voices of the guards were trembling.

"The people coming are His Majesty's men, with hundreds of golden-armored imperial guards, and they are coming aggressively. I'm afraid they have bad intentions!"

"Golden Armored Guards?"

Gao Jin's pupils suddenly shrank.

Of course he knew who the Golden Armored Guards were. They were the emperor's personal army, specifically responsible for investigation, arrest, interrogation and other matters. They had enormous power and used brutal methods.

Those who are targeted by them rarely have a good ending.

"This is really troublesome!"

Gao Jin's heart sank to the bottom.

He knew that he might be in great trouble this time.

"Run! Run first!"

In the face of danger, Gao Jin made a prompt decision.

First of all, take your family and leave Yangzhou, the farther the better!

What the emperor wants is my Lu family’s money, not my Gao Jin’s life.

My life, Gao Jin, means nothing to the emperor!

As long as I am alive, Feng Qiu is still alive, and the Lu family's pursuit of Dharma is still there, there is hope for everything!

Then, what Meng Ning saw was another chaotic escape scene.

When things calmed down, Meng Ning saw the scholar Gao Jin standing in the dilapidated courtyard, looking at the walls eroded by wind and rain, his heart filled with desolation.

His former glory was like a passing cloud, and now he has fallen to such a state, with his days on the decline.

He looked at his wife, Lu Fengqiu, beside him, his eyes filled with complex emotions, including guilt, expectation, and a hint of determination.

"Feng Qiu," Gao Jin's voice was hoarse and a little tired.

"The situation is critical now and I have nowhere else to go."

"I've thought about it, and there's only one thing I hope you can agree to."

Lu Fengqiu raised his head, tears in his eyes, and asked softly.

"You and I are husband and wife, just tell me what you have to say."

Gao Jin took a deep breath and spoke slowly.

"Our father, Lü Liang, was once a seeker of the law. I hope you can follow in his footsteps and become a seeker of the law, and practice the art of painting again. This may be our last hope, and the only way for us to protect ourselves."

When Lu Fengqiu heard this, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, then he frowned slightly, and after a moment of silence, he shook his head.

"No, I don't want to get involved in these disputes anymore. My husband, you have been a high-ranking official in your life, and you have achieved all your dreams. Now, why can't we let go of all this and live a peaceful life?"

"Don't worry about the money. Although we are poor now, we still have three thousand nails in our broken boat."

"For the rest of our lives, you, Xiao Qian and I will have a worry-free life!"

Gao Jin was stunned, a gloom flashed across his face for a moment, and his eyes revealed a crazy persistence.

In his life, he could let go of everything except power. After he had tasted it, he could never let it go again.

What's more, many of his political enemies in the court had put in a lot of effort to get him to this point. He still had powerful enemies to deal with, ambitions to realize, and enemies to avenge!

He couldn't just disappear like this, he couldn't!

He wanted to go back, return to that court, and take back everything he had with his own hands!

"Peaceful days? Feng Qiu, you don't understand! How can I let go of those political enemies who plotted against me behind my back? I want to return to the top and make them all pay the price!"

His voice became sharp due to excitement, and his hands were clenched into fists, as if he wanted to crush all those enemies.

Lv Fengqiu looked at the strange and crazy husband in front of her and tears welled up in her eyes.

"Husband, you have been possessed by a demon! Is power really that important? More important than our lives, more important than our love?"

Gao Jin remained silent, but his cold attitude revealed his inner thoughts.

Seeing this, Lu Fengqiu took a deep breath, his eyes full of pain and determination, and looked straight at Gao Jin.

"To tell you the truth, it's not that I don't want to become a seeker of the Dharma and enter the realm of the Immortal Painter, but I can't."

Gao Jin frowned, his eyes full of confusion and anxiety.

"Why not? What happened?"

Lu Fengqiu paced slowly, his voice low and suppressed.

"For our lineage, if we want to acquire the ability to paint objects as if they were real and to paint skins as if they were real, in addition to having the qualifications, we also need to open our pen."

She paused, a trace of pity and pain flashing across her face.

"The process of opening the pen is extremely bloody. It requires a playmate who has been nurtured since childhood and has a similar mind to her to perform a blood sacrifice for her. She personally uses the tip of a special fountain pen to cut and peel off the playmate's face bit by bit, and then replaces her skin with her own."

When Gao Jin heard this, his eyes were filled with shock and disbelief.

"How could this be?"

Lu Fengqiu smiled bitterly and continued to explain.

"And this ability is not without a price. I have long suspected that my father would die sooner or later."

As he said this, Lu Fengqiu's eyes revealed deep sadness.

"Even if you master this method, you still have to pay a huge price to use it."

As she spoke, she slowly raised her hand and pointed at her face.

"Do you know why I was born so ugly?"

Gao Jin shook his head subconsciously.

Lu Fengqiu took a deep breath, his voice trembling slightly.

"To use this ability, you also need to sacrifice your own luck. The longer you use it, the more your luck and fortune will be overdrawn. When your own luck is exhausted, your children will be overdrawn."

"It was my father, Lü Liang, who overdrew the good fortune of his children. That's why I was born so ugly!"

Tears welled up in her eyes. "That's why my father's demands on me are almost like doting. He feels guilty..."

Lu Fengqiu closed his eyes slightly, calmed down his emotions, and spoke again.

"That's why he bought the world-famous and beautiful 'Thousand Lanterns' for me from a brothel in Yangzhou."

"She was trained to be my concubine since she was young. This was to make up for my own children. I asked him to use the Immortal Painting Technique to change my ugly face as compensation."

"All this is because of guilt."

Her voice was choked with sobs.

"But he never asked me whether I was willing to use such a cruel method to exchange for a beautiful face, whether I was willing to live with such a heavy sin."

"But I, Lü Fengqiu, don't want to. I told my father that I don't want to sacrifice others' lives to achieve my own success. I don't want to destroy others' appearance to embellish myself."

"I was born ugly, so let me be born ugly. I was born with a lack of blessings, so let me do more good deeds to make up for it."

"I was born as a human being, and my ugly appearance restricts me in every way. Even so, I will rely on this face to live a wonderful life!"

Lu Fengqiu's voice was excited and powerful.

"My father heard this and told me that the greatest value of a woman's life is her skin."

"Everyone in this world looks at faces. If it weren't for this, Wang Ting's concubines wouldn't pay a large sum of money to ask me to change their faces!"

"If you don't use magic to get yourself a beautiful face, the rest of your life will be very difficult. You will never find your true love, and you will live your whole life in the contempt and discrimination of others."

"But I told my father that I would never enter the art of painting, and I would never kill anyone."

"I just don't believe that the value of a woman's life is only in this stinking skin."

"I just don't believe that inner kindness can't beat outer beauty!"

"I just don't believe that my gentleness and virtue throughout my life can't earn me a husband who truly loves me!"

I don’t believe it!!!!!

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