I just want to be stable, I was hung up and became a Valkyrie

Chapter 141 Jiang Chengye

It was early in the morning, and the sun penetrated through the sparse clouds and sprinkled on this low mountain.

However, Shen Qian and old man Hu are standing in the shadows.

Shen Qian looked up at the sun that seemed out of reach, then lowered his head again, looking at the mottled tombstones that had become a little skewed due to time.

Seeing that old man Hu was still immersed in grief and unable to extricate himself, Shen Qian took the white chrysanthemums from him, and then walked to the row of tombstones.

There are seventeen tombstones that seem to be buried in abandoned corners.

Shen Qian looked along.

Li Sixi, Ye Jialei, Fu Xiaoxiao, Yu Xin...

He didn't know any of them.

Until, Shen Qian came to the most central tombstone.

"Jiang Chengye's tomb."

The five characters in the center caught Shen Qian's attention.

This is a person who has been written into the history of No. [-] Middle School.

He was the No. [-] martial arts scholar in Jingcheng ten years ago, and the only No. [-] martial arts champion in the history of No. [-] Middle School.

Shock, confusion and emotion flashed in Shen Qian's eyes, and his mood was complicated for a while.

The shock was because no one knew Jiang Chengye's whereabouts from the mouths of the teachers and students of No. [-] Middle School. It turned out that he had died a long time ago.

The confusion is because of the other party's cause of death.

He sighed that he was the number one scholar in the province, and after his death he was actually buried in this remote corner that no one cares about. Although the tombstone also had traces of being taken care of frequently before, it still couldn't conceal the dilapidation and loneliness.

Even if you are the pride of the world, it is just a pinch of loess at this moment, and no one cares about it.

"You should also know that the education situation in Jingcheng has been going downhill in recent years."

Old man Hu stood next to Shen Qian at some point, and took out a chrysanthemum from Shen Qian's hand and put it in front of the tombstone.

"Ten years ago was the last glory of Jingcheng, and perhaps the greatest glory in Jingcheng's history."

"That year, Jingcheng not only produced a martial arts champion, but Tanhua also came from Jingcheng, the girl named Fu Xiaoxiao... In addition, among the top 33 martial arts in the province, Jingcheng had [-] people, almost occupying the top [-]. destroyed half of the country."

Surprise flashed in Shen Qian's eyes. He only knew that Jingcheng's education had started to decline ten years ago, but he never knew that there would be such a glorious year.

"Then the 17 people here..." Shen Qian asked subconsciously.

"They are the ones among the 33 who reported to Jiang Zhong Junwu, all of them were admitted." Old man Hu said slowly.

Shen Qian suddenly turned his head and guessed something, "They all died ten years ago? Is it in the unknown incident of Jiang Zhongjunwu?"

"Otherwise, why do you think Jingcheng's education will decline?"

Old man Hu sighed, "How much honor they received at that time, how much luck they gathered. This death... Jingcheng's spine is naturally broken."

Shen Qian remembered the send-off before the college entrance examination. At that time, Chai Haotian said that there were many reasons for the decline of Jingcheng's education.

Come to think of it, this is the main reason.

It's just that due to certain factors, Chai Haotian, the new city lord, concealed this matter.

And in the past ten years, I'm afraid there are very few people who know the truth.

Thinking about it further, is the resignation of Jingcheng's previous city lord also related to this matter?

"So what happened ten years ago?" Shen Qian calmed down and asked.

"In fact, I may not be able to explain clearly, I can only tell you what I know and see..."

Old man Hu paused, he found a bottle of Laobaigan out of nowhere, poured some on the cemetery, then took out two cups, poured one and handed it to Shen Qian.

The two sat on the ground, and drank each other in this desolate cemetery. Old man Hu drank two glasses in one go, and seemed to have just sorted out his thoughts, and a look of memory appeared on his face.

"Actually speaking, Jiang Chengye is very similar to you."

"With me?" Shen Qian was taken aback.

"He also came from a poor family, so it can be regarded as a single-parent family. He also has a younger sister. Her mother remarried three times but did not meet any good people. When Jiang Chengye was 14 years old, he ran away with a man from other provinces, leaving him and his younger sister to depend on each other. .”

"...I'm better than him, at least I have a complete family." Shen Qian shook his head.

At the same time, Shen Qian was keenly aware that since old man Hu started talking about Jiang Chengye, it is very likely that the incident ten years ago had a lot to do with Jiang Chengye.

"Not only that." Old man Hu smiled, "He also had mediocre talent before high school. If it wasn't for the compulsory education, he would have gone to work even if he didn't even want to go to high school."

"At that time, I was the vice president of the Jingcheng Association. Those of us who are so-called 'successful' abroad will do some charity to help our hometown. Jiang Chengye is one of the objects of my support."

"At that time, I just felt sorry for his life experience. Who would have thought that he would suddenly soar into the sky in high school, just like you, suddenly revealing a talent that is rare in the world."

"In the end, he became a blockbuster in the college entrance examination and became the first martial arts champion in No. [-] Middle School..."

Shen Qian nodded slightly. From this point of view, the two are a bit alike, but I don't know if Jiang Chengye also has an affair...

"Later, as I hoped, he was admitted to Jiangzhong Junwu. After he got to Junwu, he didn't let me down."

Old man Hu continued to recall: "He is not only a genius, but also a natural leader. In just half a year, he has gained a great reputation in a place where geniuses like Junwu gather together. All Jingcheng students are headed by him."

"He has broken several records since the establishment of the Military Military, such as the record for the fastest grade jump, the record for the highest credits in a single semester, and the record for the fastest clearance of the secret realm, etc..."

Old man Hu listed many deeds of Jiang Chengye in the military, and Shen Qian's heart swayed when he heard it.

"If that hadn't happened, he would have had a great future."

A trace of remorse suddenly appeared on Old Hu's face, and Shen Qian was also concentrating, knowing that the point was finally coming.

"Yu Shousi came to Jingcheng some time ago, did he look for you?" Old man Hu asked suddenly.

"Well, you know him?" Shen Qian nodded.

"Of course, Xiao Yu used to be a student of the military, but he graduated more than 20 years ago, and he is familiar with me."

Old man Hu sighed, "Since he has approached you, you must know that for top students, the military will provide a benefit, that is, to award military ranks and real positions."

Shen Qian nodded, "He promised me the position of centurion in the elite army."

"Jiang Chengye...is the same."

Old man Hu said, "Not long after entering the military, he was awarded the position of centurion for his outstanding performance. This is not only a benefit, but it is also a kind of experience for top students."

"With a military position, you need to enter the army regularly to perform duties. Jiang Zhongjun, as a world-renowned strong army, has a lot of responsibilities. Almost half of the time he will be out on missions..."

"Those battle experiences did make Jiang Chengye grow faster, and he became more and more dazzling. Everyone thought that he would continue like this until..."

The remorse on Old Man Hu's face was even stronger, and tears flowed down unconsciously.

"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have promised him, I shouldn't have promised him..."

After a while, when old man Hu calmed down a bit, Shen Qian, who couldn't help being curious, asked, "What happened?"

Old man Hu said in a daze: "Just at the end of the semester, Jiang Chengye went out with the army and swept up a stronghold of scavengers, no, to be precise, it was a town... an extremely rare town of scavengers."

"Jiang Chengye went for three days, and finally came back on the evening of the fourth day."

"That day, it snowed heavily."

"I pushed open the door of the apartment, and Jiang Chengye was kneeling in front of me, covered in blood and ice, with a bewildered look in his eyes that I had never seen before, but he finally put his head on the ground and refused to speak for a long time ..."

"I treat him like a son, and he also regards me as a teacher and a father. I understand him. He must have something to ask of me, and I know that I can't agree."

Thinking of the remorseful look on Old Man Hu's face just now, Shen Qian immediately understood that Old Man Hu must have agreed to something that should not have been agreed to.

Sure enough, old man Hu said shyly: "I finally agreed. After he knelt in the snow for half the night, I agreed to him and asked him to bring that woman...no, that monster into the school!"

"A woman? A monster?"

Shen Qian was taken aback for a moment, and then a bold and unbelievable guess emerged in his mind, "...Scavenger?"

"It seems that you guessed it." Old man Hu smiled uglier than crying, "Yes, if it wasn't like this, why would I not want to agree to him?"

"That woman... also looks like a scavenger?"

Shen Qian asked curiously.

The scavengers he had seen had bruises all over their faces due to radiation mutations in the forbidden area, and their facial features were slightly distorted, which really did not conform to the basic aesthetics of human beings, so he asked this question.

If that woman is also like this, then Senior Jiang... is too harsh.

"Well, how should I put it, although I hate the other party's blood and identity, but I have to say that the woman whose age I'm not sure about is different from ordinary scavengers. Although her appearance has also changed, she has a kind of... ...bewitching beauty."

Old man Hu thought about it, and described it like this.

Shen Qian breathed a sigh of relief, but then frowned again, "Just because of her beauty, Senior Jiang took her back to school arbitrarily, ignoring military discipline and school rules, isn't that too superficial?"

If it is such a mind, Shen Qian does not believe that he can go to that height.

Lust may be a common problem among men, and Shen Qian himself is not exempt from it, but when it comes to issues of principle, it shouldn't be like this.

"Cheng Ye said that woman saved his life, if it wasn't for her, Cheng Ye wouldn't be able to come back."

"And all the relatives of that woman are dead, and she has nowhere to go. If she is not taken in, she will not survive a day in the restricted area..."

Old man Hu sighed, "This is the real reason why I agreed to him."

Shen Qian was relieved, "What happened later?"

"I took advantage of my position to help Cheng Ye place that woman in the most secret place in the school, and made an agreement with Cheng Ye that at most one month, Cheng Ye would send her away."

"One month passed in the blink of an eye, and the woman really disappeared."

"I thought Cheng Ye had complied with the agreement, so I felt relieved. Who knew that the student disappeared soon, and according to the clues, the location of the incident was located near the woman's original hiding place..."

"I noticed something was wrong, so I confronted Cheng Ye, but he refused to admit it. At that time, I had already noticed that Cheng Ye had changed, but I couldn't tell where he had changed."

"More and more students have accidents, and the school's senior management formed an investigation team, but they couldn't find anything. Afterwards, I found out that the students in Jingcheng helped Jiang Chengye to cover up, so that he kept fooling around. ..."

"Why don't you look for the prince?" Shen Qian couldn't help interjecting, "The prince can see everything. If you ask the prince to take action, you can't cover up any mysterious incidents, right?"

There is also a basis for Shen Qian to say this. Take the big brother Gao as an example. When he was sitting on the top of the Tongtian Tower, the whole city was in front of his eyes, and there was nothing to hide.

It was just a general incident, and the Marquis of Jingcheng would not intervene.

There might be some reason for this, but Shen Qian didn't know.

"Of course I did."

Old man Hu shook his head, "But firstly, princes have their own responsibilities. Unless there is an urgent need, it takes a certain amount of time to ask the prince to take action. Secondly, everything happened too fast. When the prince's real body finally arrived, it only took a while. months, but there have been dozens of incidents of students missing."

"Did the prince discover the truth after he arrived?" Shen Qian asked.

"It doesn't count."

Old man Hu touched Jiang Chengye's tombstone with a complicated expression, "The prince quickly identified the source of the incident on Cheng Ye, but...the prince did not find any trace of that woman either."

"She really left Junwu?" Shen Qian doubted.

"Of course not... Cheng Ye, who refused to speak, was temporarily locked up. Uncle Pingyang, who was in charge of this matter at the time, wanted to ask another prince who was better at spiritual methods to read Cheng Ye's memory directly, but that night Something happened."

"Uncle Pingyang?" Shen Qian raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"you know?"

"I saw it a few days ago..."

"I almost forgot that on the day the list was released, there were many princes and princes who came to watch you." Old man Hu laughed.

"What happened that night?"

"That woman suddenly appeared and took Cheng Ye away."

Old man Hu paused, and then continued: "But in fact, this is also Uncle Pingyang's plan, but I didn't expect that woman to come out. The prince wanted to suppress the two of them on the spot, but something happened..."

A look of surprise appeared in the old man Hu's eyes.

"I have been in Junwu for decades, and I didn't know until that day that Jiangzhong Junwu also has a 'door'..."

"'Door'?"

"Looking at your kid's expression, it seems that you know about the 'door'."

Old man Hu skipped the effort of explaining, nodded and said: "And that 'door' is A-level!"

"You may not know the concept of A-level. Let me tell you this. Among all the 'doors' that have appeared since the recovery of spiritual energy, there are only a handful of 'doors' that have appeared above A-level. They are as scarce as princes. Every time the door appears, it produces a great disaster..."

Shen Qian listened intently, but vaguely remembered the "door" that appeared in Buya Valley, which was rated as C-level by Captain Sun at that time.

And a mountain and sea monster emerged from the C-level "gate", and the A-level "gate" would only be more terrifying.

"What's in the 'door'?"

"do not know."

"I don't know?" Shen Qian was taken aback.

"The 'door' was opened by that witch, or to be more precise, she opened it with the blood of Jingcheng students."

A look of pain appeared on Old Man Hu's face, "Those silly children, all rushed out to plead for Jiang Chengye. Before the prince could make a move, the woman standing behind them had already brandished a butcher's knife..."

"Sixteen human lives, but it became the last straw, and the 'door' was pushed open as a result of blood."

"It was a very serious accident."

"The moment the 'door' appeared, most of the school was destroyed, and hundreds of people were swallowed by that 'door', including students, teachers, and...she..."

Hearing old man Hu's obscure tone, Shen Qian realized, "Your crush, that professor?"

"She pushed me away at the last moment and my left leg ... was gone at that point."

The old man Hu said in a daze: "Before more people were affected, Uncle Pingyang acted decisively and sealed that 'door'."

"Why not just destroy that 'door'?"

Shen Qian thought of the distant or near hazy light and fog in the sky of the forbidden zone, and couldn't help but wondered: "Can't all the 'doors' be destroyed?"

"The 'gate' connects unknown dimensions, or parallel spaces. No matter what it is, it is equivalent to a time-space channel. How can time-space be destroyed?"

Old man Hu shook his head, "Even princes can't do anything about it. Even princes can't pass through many 'doors'. I don't know the reason."

Shen Qian remained silent, digesting the information.

Although there is still a lot of fog in it, he finally figured out the general idea of ​​the incident that caused Nuo's big waves ten years ago.

"So because of this incident, many teachers and students lost their lives, and Jiang Zhongjun was forced to close the school?"

"Well, this closed for ten years..."

Old man Hu said with emotion, "I used to think ten years was very short, but now it feels long."

"That incident triggered too many chain reactions, countless families were implicated, and I lost my military post...

"The higher-ups issued a sealing order. After all, the 'door' matter itself is a secret, and the impact of this matter itself is too bad...Jiang Chengye, together with the 16 people like Jingcheng, naturally became some kind of Taboo."

Shen Qian was stunned, "No wonder no one has mentioned them for so many years, and no one knows where they went."

Shen Qian looked at the mottled seventeen tombstones, but didn't know whether to sympathize with them.

"The people I love are gone, and the people I regard as nephews are gone. I am the only one who is crippled. I took their clothes back to Jingcheng and buried them behind this cemetery. I even bought them for them. I can't get the money from a decent cemetery..."

Old man Hu burst into tears again.

"But I'm really not reconciled..."

"They shouldn't be treated like this. They are all sincere children. They may be impulsive, but they are not unforgivable sins!"

"Even Cheng Ye, I always feel that he may have some difficulties, what do you think?"

Shen Qian didn't know how to answer Old Man Hu's hopeful inquiry.

Or from everyone's point of view, the difficulties are not that important.

Just like those teachers and students who died in that incident, facing their families, can a single grievance be enough to expose everything?

Old man Hu didn't seem to expect Shen Qian to answer, after drinking the last sip, old man Hu threw the wine bottle away, and suddenly said seriously: "Shen Qian, old man, can I ask you something?"

"You are too serious, please say it." Shen Qian had vaguely guessed something, and sighed.

"Go to Jiangzhong Junwu."

Old man Hu said very sincerely: "Since the military is reopened, maybe... maybe it is possible to find out the truth of the year. This matter must not be over yet. I have a strong feeling that Cheng Ye may still be alive."

"Alive?" Shen Qian was taken aback.

"Before the 'gate' was closed, that woman entered the 'gate' with a comatose Cheng Ye, so I have this kind of judgment."

Shen Qian was speechless for a while.

He just suddenly realized that old man Hu had lived in Jingcheng for ten years with a hunched posture, and he was reduced to the lowest level of security guards, not just because of his depression.

He just kept waiting.

Waiting for the day when the military is reopened.

Maybe even in his heart, there is still some extravagant thought, that is, the woman he loves is still alive...

"If you agree, old man, I am willing to give everything to help you."

Old man Hu let out a sigh of relief and said, "At least Yu Shousi still remembers some affection. This time the military is reopened, I also found a job."

"Still working as a security guard?" Shen Qian said unexpectedly.

"I don't know anything else. Of course, this time I go back to look at the gate, but I can't sit in the office anymore." Old man Hu said with a self-deprecating smile.

"Shanhai looks at the gate, it sounds really weird."

Shen Qian rubbed the center of his eyebrows, thought for a while and said: "Uncle Hu, I really want to promise you, but..."

"Let's go to another place to have a look, maybe you can change your mind!" Old man Hu interrupted Shen Qian, stood up and walked out.

Shen Qian shook his head, put down the white chrysanthemum in his hand, took a last look at the mottled tombstones that seemed to be silently watching him, and followed.

The two of them, together with Dao Jiu who followed from a distance, walked back to the south city in silence, and finally came to a village in the city.

Shen Qian was a little astonished, because although Nancheng is economically backward and there are many villages in the city, there are still a few of them that are as dilapidated as they are in front of them.

The houses of different heights were randomly distributed without any rules, and many of them even simply pasted the doors and windows with plastic panels.

The smelly gutters that stretched past exude a slightly pungent smell, and there are scattered garbage dumps everywhere, even the cats and dogs on the roadside are skinny.

The three of them went all the way in, and Shen Qian felt many curious and vigilant eyes.

This made Shen Qian feel a little complicated, because in the past few days, there are not many people in Jingcheng who don't know him, but there are everywhere here.

Finally, Old Man Hu stopped at the entrance of a narrow alley.

"There are about ten families living here. They are all the families of those children from back then. They are still in Jingcheng."

Looking at the astonished expression on Shen Qian's face, old man Hu said indifferently: "It's hard to imagine, why are you so down?"

"You haven't been a parent before, so you probably can't understand that feeling. Your own children don't even have the right to know the truth. I don't know how much they have suffered in order to seek so-called justice..."

"From the perspective of the city lord, he would not sympathize with them. Whether it is Jiang Chengye or others, they have carried so much of Jingcheng's luck. In the end, not only did they not give back, but even caused backlash to Jingcheng's Qi."

Old man Hu briefly explained the cause and effect.

"Isn't there a total of 17 people? Why are there only ten families left?" Shen Qian wondered.

"Some broke up, some went crazy, and some died. This is also the result of being tired by luck. Jingcheng's luck...wouldn't want to see them." Old man Hu said in a low voice.

Shen Qian nodded clearly. Their children damaged Jingcheng's luck, which seemed to be a cause and effect in the dark.

If they stay to seek the truth, they will be subtly backlashed by luck.

"If I hadn't been trying to help them all these years, there might not even be ten families now." Old man Hu sighed softly.

Only then did Shen Qian figure out a problem that he hadn't figured out just now.

That is, although old man Hu is lame and has lost his job, he is still a strong man in the mountains and seas. Why is he so poor that he can only smoke cigarettes for five yuan, and he doesn't even have the money to buy a cemetery, so it was all spent here.

After the old man Hu finished speaking, he led Shen Qian to the deepest part of the alley.

"here is?"

Shen Qian was keenly aware that this family in front of him was the place that old man Hu really wanted to bring him.

"Go in and have a look."

Old man Hu directly pushed open the unlocked door, and what he saw was a simple small courtyard surrounded by a fence. It was simple and clean, and it was much more pleasing to the eye than Shen Qian imagined. There were even some green potted plants in the corner of the door. .

There were two bungalows next to each other in the small courtyard. Old man Hu led Shen Qian straight to the one on the right, and then pushed open the wooden door that couldn't prevent anything at all.

The small space of less than ten square meters was arranged like a bedroom, with a dressing table, a single bed covered with clean white sheets, and a teddy bear on the bed.

Old man Hu walked in, but Shen Qian resisted.

This is obviously a girl's boudoir.

It's too wrong to touch it like this when the master is not around.

Shen Qian just wanted to ask aloud, but when his eyes turned to the wall beside the bed, he suddenly froze in place.

(End of this chapter)