The city guards were stationed outside Fengxi Fortress, and teams were patrolling and stalking at every moment. Even the secret paths were guarding, while the Iron Guards were much more relaxed and pretended to surround Fengxi Fortress without any offensive, which was unpredictable.

There is an authentic tunnel under the stone slab behind the stairs on the west side of the Wind-Speed ​​Castle, which was originally used for emergency escape. After all, Nolan offended too many people, and North Wind City is in the center of the vortex. Even as the Duke, he had to leave a way out.

The authenticity is ten feet wide, extremely cold and not ventilated all year round. Although there is no problem with breathing, it is filled with an unpleasant smell of earth. Whether day and night, you can't see your fingers inside, without any light. However, for this reason, even the servants at home do not know where they are, let alone outsiders.

If Nuoyan hadn't told Xiao Shu in a daze at that time, he would have to bring Nuoyan back to Lingwan first. After all, the 50,000 Iron Guards didn't just break through.

It is said that it is not long or short. It is not short. It is not short. It is not too short. It is not too short to go all the way.

Qiangwei could hold back and not speak at first, and she didn't know what to say, but over time, she only heard her footsteps and breathing sounds, and she felt more and more depressed as she walked. Xiao Shu seemed to not exist behind her, with no breathing or footsteps, and she didn't even have a sense of existence.

"Hey... can't you say something?"

Qiangwei slowed down and walked shoulder to shoulder beside Xiao Shu. She didn't dare to walk in front of her alone. As a great spiritual scholar, she really couldn't say that she was afraid of the darkness, but this place was too depressing, which made her feel breathless.

"say what?"

Xiao Shu understood what Qiangwei meant, but he was not good at finding topics, so he usually didn't talk without any need, and he had already developed a habit.

"Well... didn't you say you were not a person from this world? Otherwise, what your life was like before." This is what Qiangwei was most curious about. What would the world outside the world look like?

"There is nothing to say, there is no grudge, love and hatred. I have practiced other people's swords for more than ten years, but I don't know what it means. I have spent another five or six years to understand my own way. It's ridiculous. People in the world don't see immortals and demons, but I have seen them all. Now, I don't know that old friends are living well."

Xiao Shu shook his head and chuckled. The past is as plain as water, but only two or three figures are still in mind. I don’t know if it’s safe?

"I always think you are weird. You said that you are fifteen years old, and you are already an old man in his fifties and sixties. You must have wrinkles on your face and white cage." Qiangwei listened for a long time and said, "Immortal Demon, I didn't understand any of them, but Xiao Shu must be much older than him."

"Although I don't seek immortality, since I have passed the tribulation, it's nothing more than fifty years of life. Whether it's white or childish, it's all in one thought." Xiao Shu had nothing to hide. If he hadn't been bound by this soulless puppet, the body and appearance of the Tao will naturally change from the heart.

Although Xiao Shu said that she was confused, someone was talking more than she was as depressed as before. She suddenly had reached the end of the tunnel. There was an empty room outside, almost next to Fengxi Castle. However, because of the opposite direction, if you don’t look directly from the top, you will really not be able to notice that they are only two miles apart.

"Are you planning to go back to Lingwan or go home?" Xiao Shu asked.

"Since these things have been suspended, Lingwan has not many students. I plan to go home and have a look first. You can go back. I can still recognize the way home. Anyway, I can't help much."

Qiangwei smiled at Xiao Shu in disappointment. She couldn't make a decision like Xiao Shu and the others. No matter how strong the sense of justice is, she had to consider the safety of her family. Besides, if the two sides really want to fight, what role can they play in the melee of nearly 100,000 people?

"Anyway, it's okay now. I'll take you back. What if you're kidnapped on the way."

"Hey, I am a great spiritual scholar after all, Lingwan's teacher. Although... although I can't compare to you, not everyone can bully you. Please don't judge people by their appearance. Just look at their appearance, you are obviously the one who is most prone to abducted, okay?"

Qiangwei reached out to compare her heights and Xiao Shu. She proudly stretched out a finger and shook her at Xiao Shu, "Look, I'm a little taller than you. Instead of worrying about me, it's better to worry about yourself and go back."

Xiao Shu pondered for a while and said, "Well, be careful."

As Xiao Shu turned and left, Qiangwei let out a long breath and walked towards the home of Dingshen. The nobles were divided into three or six grades. Dukes and marquis were like Nolan, and the Fengxi Fort covered an area of ​​fifty hectares, which was ten or a hundred times more than the little nobles. Strictly speaking, Qiangwei also belonged to the children of the nobles, even if they were in name but not real.

It is a fact that she was worried about her family, but more importantly because of fear. Qiangwei walked slowly and slowly. She had seen her own courtyard, which was not a big double-storey house. The stone walls outside were always wet, and the dilapidated and yellow fenced doors could not be closed. Compared with Fengxi Castle, it was more like a servant's residence and was not as good as Lingwan dormitory.

Qiangwei subconsciously relaxed her hands and feet and quietly pushed open the fence door. Even so, the door still made an unpleasant and harsh sound, which scared Qiangwei subconsciously retracted her hand.

Squeak squeak

The fence door swung back and forth, as if mocking Rose's cowardice.

“Where did you go?”

The man pushed the door out, staring at Qiangwei with expressionless face, gray and short, simple and numb clothing, and his thin cheeks were sunken. He leaned on a severely worn cane and walked to Qiangwei step by step.

"No... I haven't gone anywhere. I've been a little busy these days." Qiangwei lowered her head.

"Hmph, Beifeng City has had such a big deal, Lingwan has already suspended classes. You think I don't know anything and want to lie!? Enter the house!" the man said coldly.

Qiangwei stared at the cane without saying a word, feeling her shoulders and arms ached faintly. This is the case again. Since her mother left, the father and daughter have never had normal communication again, and they will beat and scold them if they have any disagreement.

Qiangwei is always fantasizing that if her father died directly on the battlefield instead of being just injured, would her life be better and would her mother not leave either?

If everything is false afterwards, there is no reality. I have never seen my father after I was four years old. My mother said that he was a warrior and had to expand territory for the Beiye Kingdom, so I couldn't be with her. In those years, Qiangwei was not at all dissatisfied because she could proudly tell others that her father was a warrior and an imperial knight who enjoyed honor.

But all this was shattered after she was ten years old. Her father was seriously injured in another battle and was forced to go home. Thanks to his contribution over the years, the empire retained the title of knight for him and was named Viscount. But he was no longer a warrior, but became a gloomy and depressed person who was leaning on a cane all day long. He was a man who was drinking and hitting people with fire.

He held his own aristocratic status and was unwilling to work hard for his livelihood.

Knight? Viscount?

No, this is not honor, this is a nightmare.

The subsidies issued by the empire were not enough for him to drink. After his father came back, the quarrel became a daily routine. The down-and-out viscount, the rat among the nobles, and even asked his wife to go out to earn money to support him. The cold eyes and ridicule made the family on the verge of shattering.

Until one day her mother disappeared, she seemed to be unable to bear all this and left. Qiangwei, who was only fifteen years old, did not go to find her. She just hoped that her mother would live a better life after she left. In order to make a living, Qiangwei studied in Lingwan while working and making money, barely maintaining a normal life, because her father would ask her for money every month.

"I gave birth to you to support my old age. You are my daughter and I am your father. Haha, do you also want to be an ungrateful wolf who has broken bridges across the river, just like this damn country, let me die for myself?"

"What kind of teacher?! How much money can Lingwan give you? So many people are pursuing you, wouldn't it be better to find a rich noble young master to marry? I'm not discussing with you. If you have my father in your eyes, just be obedient."

"What exactly is your mind pretending? Who told you to reject him? People are willing to come and look down on you. You can't stand such a little habit! His father is a marquis, with countless fiefs in his family. If you are a broken teacher, you will never make any money in ten lives. How many times do you have to say it? "

Similar conversations have appeared countless times. Qiangwei did not refute or accept it. No matter what her father said, she insisted on her own choice. This is her only stubbornness.

On the table, there were bottles of wine everywhere on the ground, and the dim room was filled with pungent alcohol. Qiangwei even saw a woman's underwear on the ground.

"You still know how to come back? Tell me, what have you been doing in the past half month?"

He pushed all the wine bottles on the table, and slammed the bell on the ground, and the remaining wine spread all over the floor. He sat on the table, gently shaking his cane.

"I didn't do anything. I just became a teacher. I have a lot of things to deal with recently." Qiangwei defended quietly.

"Bang!"

The scorching pain came down his arms, and Qiang Wei's body trembled slightly.

"How many times have I said that I'm not going to quit this damn position and find someone to marry? Qiangwei, you are not young anymore. If you drag it on, those young masters will look down on you. There are many young and beautiful girls these days, but you are different. You are my daughter and have aristocratic blood. As long as you want, there are many good guys." The man slowed down and reached out to stroke Qiangwei's cheek.

Qiangwei remained silent, took off her ring and placed it on the table.

"That's right. What's the use of being a teacher? If you have money but no money, no land, you are willing to stay in Lingwan for the rest of your life. I'm not willing to live such a hard life." The man's eyes were filled with surprise. The sun was coming out from the west. He didn't listen to it on weekdays. Why did he get to know it today?

"You can get the money for this month by yourself and leave me a thousand. I'll go back if I have nothing to do."

"Why don't you understand, what's the use of this little money?" The man's face turned from Qing to Yin, and he picked up the ring in front of Qiangwei and smashed it hard at her.

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Chapter completed!