Chapter 39 (2/2)
”Then what's going on with Yang Hexuan?” Fu Shen suddenly asked ”It ith you getting Yang Xu's recoht death upon Yang Hexuan, so you and the Yang family aren't co family's boat?”
The interior of the cell instantly quieted A pin's drop could have been heard The only sound left was Priest Chunyang's rough, labored breathing
”Why aren't you talking?” Fu Shen continued ”Why did you want to guideout who the mastermind behind Blue Sand Pass was? Why did you want to assassinate the E's life? Provided that I's here, Priest, this was you e for me — do we know each other?
Tell me The one behind you – betweenus?”
His silence was further still like a tacit confirmation Fu Shen wheeled the chair slowly over in front of him ”Based on your reaction, is there so and Fu fa fixed his eyes upon hih
It was a crazed sort of guffaw that seemed to tear all his insides to pieces, self-pride and unyieldingness showing through, hoarse as iron sand grinding together The untamedness on that mutilated face was hard to conceal, and for an indefinite instant, Fu Shen actually felt sohed, despite a trace of blood snaking down from the corner of his mouth
”In the twentieth year of Yuantai, the Eastern Tartars and Zhe clan united to invade the Central Plains At the battle of Mount Sound Gorge [3), General Fu Tingxin was caught up in a heavy siege and suffered injuries from foes The Northern Yan Ar Prefecture The Prefecture's governor Yang Xu, because the Fu fahter into the Eastern Palace, harbored a grudge He dragged his feet unwillingly in sending troops, causing the conclusion of General Fu's death in battle
A day that traitor Yang drifts through life with no purpose is a day General Fu's martyred spirit can't be at peace This resentment is soaked in a sea of blood, they cannot share the same sky—”
Fu Shen snatched his throat with one hand
”Jingyuan!” Yan Xiaohan shouted autohtening, his gaze like a knife Every word of his seemed like it was squeezed out from between his teeth ”My uncle has been dead for six years Why did you only wait until now to take revenge?”
”Yang Xu watching the fire burn fro his army's arrival until the Northern Yan retreated in defeat was so hissed ”Were it not for what had happened at Blue Sand Pass, us capturing aXu's troops, and hi Xu would have continued to fool the world and steal the glory How could the thousands of e rest at ease then?!”
”'Us'?” Fu Shen asked ”Who else?”
Large swathes of blood spilled over fro tendons and bones of Fu Shen's hand,his sleeve with mottled stains
”I can't say…”
”Liar” Fu Shen sneered in vivid anger ”You went through torture in the North Prison and didn't let your tongue wag for the life of you, yet when I ca Was that not you specifically waiting here for , chest violently heaving Yan Xiaohan threw hioing to choke him to death!”
”piss off!” Fu Shen furiously tore hi up, their tips nearly pricking into Chunyang's flesh ”Don't fucking play dead! Say it! Who are you?! Who's behind you?!”
The lone eye under disheveled locks and the densely frigid eyes of the young General lint of tears in that eye
”…Eldest Squirt, my hands are dyed with blood I have killed innocents I know ive, and when I arrive at the springs below someday, I won't have the face to look at my fellow soldiers I aain…”
Fu Shen i had formerly been a member of the Northern Yan Army and soldier of the same time period as his father and second uncle That was because it was only those people who, regardless of what his current rank ould solely refer to him as 'Eldest Squirt'
Once his status was laid bare, Fu Shen and the Northern Yan Army would be entirely drawn into theGou'er's' family that had lost their lives for no reason, the few additional civilians that he had used to test the drugs on; those were debts of blood that even death could hardly erase
Priest Chunyang struggled to the utmost of exhaustion His eye protruded, his blood and tears blurring together Only his lips feebly ossamer No one heard what he said apart fro bones The ently drooped down
Fu Shen's eyes were indifferently half-lidded He gave off an air of gloo with blood, like a God ofwalked the deuise of gifting a Gold Pill at the Vast Longevity Feast, he intended to plot against His Majesty's life – that's cri 'whitedew', bringing death upon Golden Crow Guard's High General Yi Si a few other human lives – that's crime number two He probably knew his cri death, thus he killed hiht, Mister Yan?” he asked insipidly
Without waiting for the other's reply, he turned the wheelchair all the way around and left the cell on his own
In the split second he went out of the North Prison, his figure seemed to be abruptly and coht
A soldier of the Northern Yan who had once criss-crossed the battlefield had concealed his identity, wandering about the various streets and alleyways of the capital like a spectre Whitedew had unassuly blended into the ant aro into a thin blade that killed with no blood
And the last words he set aside for Fu Shen were: ”kill ” Not a real drug, obviously, but it shares hly addictive, can be smoked/inhaled) Probably irrelevant trivia, but it also shares a nanifies the beginning of auturass
[2] 失魂散 – lit “soul-losing powdered drug” Kinda made a lame pun here; instead of ‘soulless', it's ‘soul + loss'
[3] 固山关 – ‘solid est fan of ‘Mount Sound', but everything else I'd thought of was even worse Mount Stout? Firy mix-up!… The term talked about here is 大公子 – ”eldest son of an official”, often translated as Eldest Young Master There's also the term 大少爷, which Yan Xiaohan has called Fu Shen before, that literally uessed it – also translates to Eldest Young Master Since I can't use Eldest Young Master, and the terly instead of respectfully anyway, the best I could do was Eldest Squirt /lays down