Chapter 287 Responsibility
Hearing Song Qingming's words, Song Qingyu raised her eyes and looked at Song Qingming with some confusion, as if she didn't understand what he meant.
"Seventh brother, did I do something wrong?"
"You didn't do anything wrong. In that critical situation, other people might not be able to do better than you. It's just that you still take your own safety too lightly. When you are not sure that you can defend the market, you should first think about how to protect yourself. Even if the market is breached, as long as you are safe, it doesn't matter." Seeing that Song Qingyu still felt a little guilty, Song Qingming quickly shook his head and explained to her with a smile.
Song Qingyu bit her lip and whispered, "I know that you are worried about my safety, but I was not the only one in the market at that time. For Uncle Thirteen and Second Sister, I have to stand up and find a way to buy them more time."
After listening to her words, Song Qingming's face gradually became serious.
"Qingyu, maybe you will think that what I am going to say next will be cruel, but I still want to tell you that if you encounter this kind of situation again in the future, you must prioritize your own safety, not others.
You are the foundation-building elder of the family and the biggest pillar of the family. Your safety is more important than anyone else's. Even if everyone in the market died here that day, as long as you can escape, the family will suffer no matter how big the loss is, we can bear it.
I hope you can understand your responsibilities. You are not only responsible for the people in Qinghefang, but also for the safety of our entire Song family. If something happens to you, even if Uncle Thirteen and the others can survive, everyone's future life may not be easy."
"It's not as serious as you say. Even if the family doesn't have me, we still have you, Brother Seven. You are the pillar of our Song family, okay." Song Qingyu curled his lips and muttered.
"Over the years, I have achieved what I have today after going through many life-and-death tests. But I always put myself in danger, and people always run out of luck. That's why I hope you don't take risks as easily as I do.
When I faced these dangers, I really had no choice but to take risks, but you are different now. You still have some room for choice, but you didn't choose to put your own safety first.
Facing the blood relationship of the same clan, I know it is difficult for anyone to give up and make choices. I don't want you to become a cold-blooded person. What I want to tell you is that when facing a crisis that you can't solve, you should protect yourself first. You have become the pillar of the family now. Although these choices are difficult, they are also what you will face sooner or later, so I will remind you so directly today that no matter how difficult it is, you can't let your safety be emotional."
After a long time, Song Qingyu, who was a little dazed, came back to his senses and nodded to Song Qingming with a firm look in his eyes.
It's not like she hadn't heard what Song Qingming said before, but it's very different to say it and do it yourself.
For her own survival, she gave up the lives of so many clansmen, including many elders who had been very kind to her since she was a child and watched her grow up step by step. Song Qingyu has never been an extremely rational person, and such a choice is indeed too difficult for her.
When Song Qingyu broke out from the south of Qinghefang, she knew that she had the opportunity to fly away directly on the sword. Even if the other party came to chase her, as long as Song Qingyu ran in the direction where Song Qingming and others came to support her, there was a high probability that she would run into Song Qingming and others and escape successfully.
However, she hesitated again and again at that time, and still failed to abandon this blood relationship in the market. She chose to buy some more time for them. She wanted to try to contain the other party's two foundation-building cultivators for a while, but the result of doing so was to leave her fate to God. Once she was calculated by the other party in the battle, it would be difficult for her to have a chance to escape.
But as Song Qingming said, if Gao Yubai had not arrived in time that day, Song Qingyu, who was poisoned by Chen Zicong, would have no chance of surviving. As a result, she died, and the thirteenth uncle Song Changxiong and others in the market could not escape the fate of being killed. In that case, the probability of their survival was almost the same.
In the path of cultivation, life and death sometimes come at the moment of making a choice. The higher you go on this road, the more lonely you are destined to be.
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In a forest a few dozen miles below the Eagle Nest Ridge, there are nearly a hundred people hiding here. They are all elite cultivators from Qinghe County who came to conquer Eagle Nest Ridge this time.
After discussing in Qinghefang, each family immediately went back to prepare for war. Song Qingming once again recruited a total of ten late-stage Qi Refining cultivators from the vassal families to participate in this action.
The gathering of the cultivators this time was also rather hasty, with only two or three days given in total. Fortunately, each family attached much more importance to this expedition than the last time, not only bringing more cultivators than the last time, but also rushing to Funiushan before the agreed time.
When everyone had just arrived and were not ready to set off, the Cao family of Pingyang County also sent thirty cultivators of the late Qi Refining stage and a foundation-building cultivator to assist. In order to worry that there might be spies from Yingchao Ridge in Pingyang County, Lu Yuanfeng asked them to rush south to Funiushan first to act together.
In this way, the team of more than a hundred people traveled lightly for more than ten days and arrived at Yingchao Ridge.
After Song Qingming and others had been waiting here for more than half a month, Gao Yubai, who went to investigate the situation, finally returned.
"Those bandit cultivators seemed to have just returned not long ago. They were still celebrating on the mountain and didn't notice us." Gao Yubai smiled and shared what he just saw with the many foundation-building cultivators on the scene.
After hearing the news, Lu Yuanfeng immediately laughed and said, "Haha! God helps me. This time I can finally catch all these gangsters."
Under Lu Yuanfeng's arrangement, everyone was divided into two teams, the east and west, and surrounded the Eagle's Nest Ridge from two directions.
After Yingchao Ridge defeated Qinghefang this time, it killed dozens of monks and hundreds of ordinary mortals in the city. These people were all local monks in Qinghe County and were relatives of many monks who came here today. This gang of bandit cultivators who killed their relatives and friends already had a fire in their hearts.
After sending a message to the opponent, and with Lu Yuanfeng's order, everyone rushed towards the Eagle's Nest Ridge to fight.