deadly mantra

Chapter 509: A lonely man on a mountain, waiting for an opportunity

in front of the city gate.

There was a constant flow of traffic and people entering the city, and an inconspicuous man was walking among them.

He had messy beards on his cheeks and chin, and the coarse clothes on his body were washed white.

He walked to the roadside and stood under a tree, waiting for someone.

The dazzling sunlight penetrated through the layers of leaves, turning into a faint halo and falling on him.

A breeze carrying the scent of grass and trees passed by, and a few strands of fallen white hair brushed his cheeks, and the vicissitudes of life were mixed with sadness.

He stood quietly for a while, then slowly raised his head, with only determination and coldness remaining between his brows.

Not long after, a carriage came through the crowd. Before the carriage could stop, Li Haiyang eagerly jumped out of the carriage and rushed over with several long strides, his legs weak with excitement.

"...15 years...you are finally back, mentor." Li Haiyang burst into tears and was about to kneel down when a big hand stretched out and held his arm to stop him.

Zheng Hongyan's whole body was filled with a lifeless aura. There was no light in his half-opened eyes, and his words were even more indifferent:
"I'm just a commoner, I can't afford your kneeling."

Li Haiyang is 44 years old this year. He has never experienced anything during his years as an official in the government.A few years ago, he convicted a murder case involving more than a dozen officials.During that time, he was so worried that a handful of his hair fell out, and the stack of threatening letters "thrown" into his study was two meters thick.He bit the bullet, ignored the dissuasion from around him, and withstood tremendous pressure from all sides to investigate the case to the end.

In the most difficult time, he kept his mentor's admonitions in mind and stood taller than the wall in the face of the truth.

now……

One sentence made him hold back his crying, but he couldn't hold back the two lines of tears he shed.

That was his mentor. The mentor who brought him from a barren mountain village to the court was the mentor who was known as the number one prodigy in Chixia Kingdom 15 years ago...

His lips were moving, his vision was blurred by tears, and Li Haiyang was sobbing silently, as if he had been greatly wronged.

Zheng Hongyan understood all Li Haiyang's thoughts with just one glance, and sighed:
"You should know that I don't care about any of that."

Li Haiyang choked and said:

"Teacher..." Zheng Hongyan's eyes showed a trace of emotion, and he said helplessly:

"I didn't come back to take your knee."

Hearing the sound, Li Haiyang grabbed his sleeves and wiped away his tears. He couldn't restrain his excitement. His voice trembled slightly and he briefly recounted what happened recently:
"...It's roughly like this. Everything that happened in Ji Mansion and Shan Sword Alliance seems to be done deliberately by someone, but I don't know what the purpose of the person hiding behind is?"

A cold smile passed over Zheng Hongyan's lips:
"It's an opportunity or a curse. I don't care. 15 years ago or 15 years later, all I want is an opportunity - an opportunity to find out the truth."

Li Haiyang's eyes ignited with admiration, he nodded vigorously, and said with complex emotions:

"Even flesh and blood relations have erased all traces of the existence of 'that person'. In this world, I am afraid that only my mentor still remembers to restore her innocence. This mark will last 15 years."

15 years, how many 15 years can a person have in his life?

In the first year after his mentor resigned and left, he resented the unfairness of the world.

In the fifth year after his mentor resigned and left, after experiencing the intrigues in the officialdom, he admired his mentor's determination to stick to the truth to the end.

On the tenth year since his mentor resigned and left, in the dead of night, he occasionally had a suspicion - had he given up everything for the sake of the truth, had his mentor never regretted it?

At this moment 15 years later, is it for the truth or just for "that one person"?Are these questions still important?

Not important anymore.

Fifteen years, more than 5000 days and nights, among the sea of ​​people, only one Zheng Hongyan would guard an isolated mountain on the border of Chixia Kingdom, waiting for an opportunity.

Now, after waiting for too long, I have nothing to worry about and nothing to fear.

It still doesn't matter who gave the opportunity.

The important thing is that the opportunity came and the mentor came back.

　In the eyes of others, they long for all the good things they can't ask for, and Zheng Hongyan had them all when he was young.In Zheng Hongyan's eyes, the beauty he wanted to protect throughout his life did not give him a chance to fulfill his promise.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)