Chapter 777: The Death of Puyang Ce
Some people were born in the family of generals and princes, and there are hereditary lineages of the royal family of the Son of Heaven, of course, there are also people who are just ordinary people, and people like Shen Feng, who have nothing and live at the bottom, if they want to succeed, they often have to put in ten times more efforts than ordinary people.
And he has walked more difficult than anyone else, and he is more legendary than anyone else, because of his existence, the Puyang Palace, which had been plotting for thirty years, was buried under the ruins, and the court that had been established for a hundred years was facing a reshuffle, and the scattered military power of Dahua was concentrated, which was something that no one had done in a hundred years, not to mention that he also strangled the ambitions of the Wako, Goryeo, Persian, and Byzantine empires in the cradle.
From the perspective of national reunification, there is no doubt that he has accomplished a great feat, which is rare in the history of the ages.
He is the only one who can fight against the Rouran clan!
As a bystander, even she felt that the person in front of her had come to this day incredible, at this time there were only a few soldiers and two people left outside the city, she also felt a lot of emotion, her eyes looked at Shen Feng in a daze, and what appeared in her mind was the scene of the past, from the seriously injured eccentric man in the temple to the despicable man who pretended to be blind, and then became famous in the army, and the literati and soldiers all admired it, but there were also disgraced and disgraced and went away, but he found his goal, and then chose a path that no one opened up。
In ancient times, such a character was a hero, both treacherous and ruthless, and he stepped on the bones of ten thousand bones as soon as he succeeded, but he was a flesh-and-blood person, and he would not kill innocents indiscriminately for his own strength, and it was precisely because of this that he would be struggling, but with his extraordinary wisdom, he always found a trace of a gap that ordinary people could not peep into in the difficulties.
The three armies each received their orders, the minister temporarily returned to the city to deal with affairs, Shen Feng sat on the horse, his eyes looked at the clouds in the distance, and his expression was like two people.
Gu Biluo kept staring behind him, as if feeling what he was thinking, and said softly: "It's time to go back to the city, there are still many affairs in the city that you have to decide." ”
"Decision-making?" Shen Feng said with a confused expression: "Either order a new monarch, or eradicate dissidents, that's nothing more than that." ”
He is right, if you want to stabilize the regime next, you must carry out a thunderbolt sweep, otherwise he will inevitably cause future troubles, Gu Biluo sighed: "Do what you should do, I only ask you to forgive the loyal ministers, don't kill them all." ”
Some ministers who tried to protect the royal family would definitely try their best to oppose Shen Feng, so that Shen Feng would not be able to smoothly arrange the people of Tianfu to enter the state politics, and at this time, there was no time to fight a political war with these ministers, and these people could only be eradicated one by one through violent means.
"Rest assured, these ministers are deeply loved by the people, and killing them will only attract the anger of the people, which is counterproductive, and I will deal with it in a proper way. Shen Feng turned his horse and entered the city with his legs on the horse's back.
Gu Biluo also rode a horse to follow him, and asked, "How are you going to arrange these military powers?"
Shen Feng said simply: "The Chu family army and the Wei family army are too evacuated to be used to fight against the Rouran army, instead of sending them to death, it is better to organize them into a reserve army, and double the military salary, but let him be like the Tiance army, not only to increase the amount of training, but also to participate in the manufacture of weapons." ”
Gu Biluo agreed: "This is very good, the Chu family army and the Wei family army have just been absorbed, and the army is unstable, so they must be trained well, but if you buy them with silver taels, will the Tiance Mansion be in deficit?"
Shen Feng said with a smile: "The wool grows on the sheep, of course, the salaries of the Chu family army and the Wei family army are taken from the Chu family and the Wei family, I will seal them first, and then give them a one-year assessment period with no authority, if they do well, the military talisman will be handed back to them." ”
In this way, only he can think of it, Gu Biluo sneered lightly, and his expression was quite pleasant: "Aren't you afraid that the Chu family and the Wei family will not obey?"
Shen Feng said: "When people are old, they no longer have the courage of their youth, and the most important thing is to be able to stabilize the family and keep the ancestral inheritance, I give them this opportunity, and they will definitely try their best to grasp it." ”
Gu Biluo bowed slightly, she learned some psychology from Shen Feng at all levels and at all ages, which was what she had always admired Shen Feng.
Shen Feng turned to his subordinates and said, "Have you brought the people of the Ghost Valley?"
"Returning to the general, the people have been brought. ”
"Take those people to Yuefu, it's time to see your relatives. Shen Feng suddenly said, "Is there a coffin in Yuefu?"
"Coffins — there's no such thing. The soldier said: "The general wants to collect the corpse?
"Don't, don't—" Shen Feng hurriedly said, "You go and do your thing." ”
"Yes!"
Gu Biluo only remembered the painting left by Xiaocaoer at this time, in the painting, Pu Yangce was lying in the coffin, if today was Pu Yangce's death, and he did not die in the coffin, then Xiao Cao'er's painting would not come true, thinking of this, he immediately said: "Are you looking for Pu Yangce at this time?"
I have been fighting with Puyang Palace for so long, and I am going to end it today, and I feel inexplicably emotional, to this day, I still can't judge Puyang Ce, he is an extremist, with a compassionate heart, but he went in another direction, if he was not arrested by the court as a mining slave in his early years, maybe his temperament would not have changed greatly.
——Yuefu ▪ Pear Garden——
Outside Yuefu, the Tiance army has completely surrounded Yuefu, and outside Yuefu is obviously after a fight, the red brick wall is stained with undried blood, and there are hell ghost masks of various patterns on the ground.
On the stage of Yuefu, the stage screen is a gray scene at this time, on the scene, there is a tired bird has no strength to spread its wings and fall on the rock wall, blood is dripping, the shape is moving,
At this time, Pu Yangce sat comfortably at a round table, boiling water on the table, scooped up a Gu boiling water, poured the boiling water into the teapot, and the fragrance of the tea faded out with the steam.
"You're here—" When the tea was fragrant, Pu Yangce poured a cup of tea across the table, heard a footstep coming, and made a gesture of invitation with a smile: "Little brother, if you don't come again, I'm afraid it will be indefinite." ”
"Brother Puyang is very kind, why won't I come. Shen Feng slowly stepped into the theater garden, and Gu Biluo behind him wanted to stop her, waved his hand to her, and walked up to the stage and sat down.
Pu Yangce's demeanor is still elegant, his expression is pleasant, and he must have been favored by many ladies when he was young, "The little brother has come to Yuefu a few times before as a guest, but they were all unhappy, and today we will talk about it." ”
Shen Feng smiled lightly: "That's what I mean. At this time, the two seemed to be old friends who had not seen each other for many years, and they were quite a bit of a smile and hatred.
Pu Yangce said with a smile: "The old man has never wanted to talk to people so much, but he doesn't know where to start for a while—yes, where is the hometown of the little brother, why is the language so peculiar?"
Shen Feng was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Almost everyone who knows me will ask me this question, I just speak plainly, not like you are so civil." ”
Pu Yangce groaned: "You are indeed extraordinary, it is said that you have never entered a private school, but you can win the championship in the poetry feast, the old man really can't understand you." ”
Shen Feng smiled dryly and said: "It's all up to Miss Gu, my knowledge is all taught by Miss Gu, and I also relied on her to support the field that day." ”
Hearing this, Gu Biluo couldn't help but glance at him a few times.
Puyang Ce laughed and said: "Miss Gu is resourceful, even the old man fell into her trap, and the old brother is even more unpredictable, you are really a match made in heaven, with this one person to assist you, it is better than thousands of troops." ”
Gu Biluo's face was slightly red.
Pu Yangce glanced at it, comprehended it, and said with a smile: "Brother, although you have been making fake shows between you, but the beauty is sincere, don't-"
Shen Feng was drinking tea, almost choked on the tea, and coughed a few times: "I have a purely working relationship with Miss Gu, don't think that we are a pair of handsome men and beautiful women, so we must have love." ”
Gu Biluo snorted coldly and said, "I have already sent an order, if there is a rumor about you and me in the city, I will punish him." ”
Rao is Pu Yangce is well versed in human affairs, and he can't understand this pair of enemies, so he is puzzled: "The two of you are married, I'm afraid it will be difficult to block the mouths of Youyou." ”
Gu Biluo and Shen Feng said in unison: "It didn't work!"
Pu Yangce made a fuss about not a person, helplessly smiled a few times, seeing that the two of them remembered the days when they got along with Zhuang Zhoumeng, their expressions gradually dimmed, the past could not be traced, from the day he killed his wife, he was getting farther and farther away from those happy and warm days.
He sighed and said, "Shen Feng, let's talk about the way of the world?" It was the old man who was talking about it that day, but he never listened to what you thought in his heart, and the old man wanted to hear what you think. ”
Shen Feng was silent for a moment and said, " Okay, let's continue the topic of the day, what you said that day, I can boil it down to your belief that the world has been deteriorated by the charm, causing human nature to gradually become ugly, you are right, but the current world has been spreading in this way, to a certain extent, greed and selfishness are the driving force behind the progress of human society, which is irreversible and cannot be overthrown, Puyang Palace is not also relying on the strength to overthrow the weakened court, you wanted to rebel, throw away personal grievances I don't want to stop you, but your thinking is too extreme, you want to control and imprison people's minds, in my opinion, this is an extremely cruel way of the emperorI will never let you be emperor!"
"If the human mind is imprisoned, there is no soul, and under such cruel control, the world is simply a purgatory, you understand that you are cleansing the world, and it seems to me that you are imposing a huge prison cell, right? ”
Pu Yangce said indifferently: "Yes, that's what the old man thinks." ”
Shen Feng's tone raised slightly, and he said heavily: " But you must know that the world is only on the way to a higher level of civilization, this process is dialectical, it takes a long time to explore, human society will continue to progress, those imperfect systems, unreasonable rules, unfair class relations will be eliminated one day, we should promote this process, not like imprisoning prisoners in a cage, you want to be the emperor, but you have already imprisoned yourself, at best it is just a broken gear in the world, temporarily stuck in the master to hinder its progress, one day, without me, you will also be crushed by the system you have established, in the understanding of future generations, you are just an example of self-destruction。 ”
After a few words, Pu Yangce was like a soulless life, and the only idea he survived was his own beliefs, and Shen Feng's words became the last straw that crushed the donkey, completely crushing his only idea.
Mourning is greater than heart death, Pu Yangce closed his eyes and couldn't help himself for a long time, and suddenly laughed madly: "Hahahaha-the old man has already imprisoned himself, but he wants to unravel the cage for this purified world, and call the emperor - what is the emperor - what is the emperor?"
The emperor is nothing but a cog, the good gear accelerates social progress, and the bad gear hinders social progress and is eventually crushed, this definition is undoubtedly the most historical perspective.
After a long time, he lamented and said: "The old man lost, completely lost, the old man is dedicated to the emperor, the palace is the place that the old man yearns for, not so much a palace, but a cage, the old man actually pursues a cage, and you have no cage in your heart, although you don't know that there is a Puyang army in the forbidden army, but you don't need to know, you only need to destroy this palace, as long as you destroy this palace, Puyang Palace, the emperor, or other usurpers will be defeated in your hands!"
Hmm-
After a mournful scream, he laughed maniacally again, the laughter was full of irony, it was a satire of his own life, he seemed to be crazy, he turned upside down on the stage, kept shaking his head, and kept laughing wildly.
After a long time, he quieted down, his expression was full of exhaustion, his eyes were blank, thirty years of hard work and faith were all destroyed, he had completely collapsed, in fact, his plan was perfect enough, who would have thought that the palace forbidden army was actually the Puyang Army dressed in human skin, this is a thirty-year situation that can be deployed overnight, and it requires extraordinary patience, but he met Shen Feng, who in the world would think of bombing the palace, who would dare to think!
Shen Feng didn't know that the forbidden army was the Puyang army, but he knew that Puyang would come, as long as the usurper would come to the palace, as long as he set up an ambush in the palace, destroy the palace and bury everything, this is a very simple strategy, but often few people think of it.
"Shen Feng, defeat to you, the old man is convinced, this world is ruled by you, and it will be better than everyone. ”
Shen Feng smiled and said, "I'm not interested in being an emperor. ”
"You stand tall and see far away, the old man may be as small as an ant in your eyes, how can you be undefeated! Good! Very good!! Sure enough, he is worthy of being the son of destiny!" Pu Yangce took a deep breath, as if he had let go of everything, his expression seemed to be pleasant, with a faint smile on his face, he had never smiled so easily and comfortably, but unfortunately it all came too late.
In the face of Pu Yangce's heartfelt admiration, Shen Feng was indescribably depressed, because the Rouran clan also had a prophetic daughter, but fortunately, her prediction was inaccurate this time, and there was no coffin on the stage today, so that Xiao Cao'er's prophecy could be overturned.
At this time, Pu Yangce took off the mask on his face, revealing a face full of scars, although his face was full of scars, he could still vaguely see that he was very handsome when he was young, Shen Feng exclaimed: "You are-"
Pu Yangce smiled faintly and sighed: "This face was cut by the old man himself, when he arrives in Huangquan, he will not be recognized by Zhou Meng, the old man is sorry for her, she will not meet the old man again in the next life." ”
Pu Yangce suddenly said: "Shen Feng, the old man wants to beg you, don't take the lives of Shen Yang and Daohua, Daohua can be punished, but Shen Yang has not entered Puyang Palace, I have explained everything to him, and let him stay away from here with Daohua, and will never set foot again." ”
"Good. Shen Feng nodded in response, looking out absentmindedly.
"Thank you!" Pu Yangce thanked him, saw his eyes looking outside, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that you shouldn't have let you come to see the old man off, after a few hours, is the person the old man most unwilling to face come?"
Shen Feng smiled lightly: "Everything should be over, or it should be over, you can go with peace of mind." ”
Pu Yangce took out a packet of medicine from his arms, then poured it into the tea, and drank the tea, his face was not afraid, but painful and guilty: "It's time to end it, it's time for the old man to face his sins."
Rustle Rustle –
"Good apprentice, do you want to be a teacher?"
A very seductive and enchanting woman wore a thick edelweiss coat into the garden, the cold wind caressed her hair, but she couldn't blow the charm between her eyebrows, her whispering and delicate voice, wanting to turn all beings upside down, breathtaking, the ecstasy and bone-crushing charm, but only to one person.
The love is extremely deep, her face is no longer debauched and shy, but turned into a shy state of pink cheeks and peach cheeks, and she looks like a girl who has just opened her love, no longer scorching, and is dressed in a thick edelweiss coat to keep out the cold.
Pu Yangce was shocked, his hands trembled with the teacup, the teacup fell to the ground with a bang, he still looked at the woman in front of him in a daze, his only relative, and his most beloved niece - Shu Ruxi!
Shen Feng was overjoyed and said, "Master-"
"Don't come here yet, good boy, the master wants to tell him about the old story. Shu Ruxi giggled on her face, her smile was desolate and sarcastic, it was an unforgettable pain, the enemy who killed her father and destroyed her family was actually the uncle who loved her the most, what a cruel fact!
"I also want to ask my brother why he is so vicious!"
A woman with a disheveled hair crawled into the theater garden, her bare hands, face, and neck were full of rotten flesh and damp sores, and her feet were paralyzed into rotten flesh, which was very eerie and terrifying, Gu Biluo was so frightened that she took a few steps back and looked at the person in front of her in horror.
Pu Yangce was shocked again, and said in horror: "Sister-"
This terrifying woman is Shu Ruxi's aunt, Shu Shufen who was in the Ghost Valley that day, the daughter of the Shu family, and the sister of Puyang Ce (Shu Louce), Shu Shufen roared: "You brute, don't call me !!" Every time she spoke, her face became very terrifying.
Pu Yangce looked at the person in front of him in horror, and retreated again and again until he fell to the ground, and said in horror: "Why are you—why are you !!?"
Hahahahaha!!!!hahaha
Pu Yangce fell into madness, shook his head frantically, and fell into deep repentance: "I don't want to kill you, I don't want to kill you, I accidentally killed my brother, I don't want to kill you, the fire was accidentally burned, I didn't send someone to kill you." ”
It seems that the incident back then accidentally burned the Shu family, and then it may be that Shu Wanggui's deputy general took the initiative to hunt down and kill the Shu family's daughters, but in the final analysis, Pu Yangce is still the main reason for this tragedy.
Shu Shufen roared: "If it weren't for you, Wanggui wouldn't have died, and the Shu family wouldn't have been wiped out, you!!You!! I'm going to kill you!!"
Pu Yangce knelt on the ground and shouted frantically: "I should die!!I should die!!I should die!!I should die!!I should die!! I'm sorry for you!!I should have died a long time ago!"
Such a human tragedy caused Gu Biluo to cry sadly, Shu Ruxi had two strings of tears on her indifferent face, slowly stepped onto the stage, looked at him resentfully and sadly, and said with a trembling body: "Why do you want to be like this!"
Pu Yangce knelt on the ground, looking desperate and repentant: "I deserve to die, if you kill me." ”
Shu Shufen took out a dagger in her hand, and a cruel and crazy sneer appeared on her face: "Wouldn't it be too easy to kill you, I want you to see with your own eyes, it was you who killed the Shu family one by one! I want you to go to hell with endless pain!hahahaha——" As he spoke, the dagger slashed his neck and died in front of Pu Yangce's eyes!
She is better than dead a long time ago, she wants to torture Pu Yangce with death!
Shu Ruxi closed her eyes in pain, not daring to look back, Pu Yangce saw his relatives die in front of his eyes, a scene more than 20 years ago seemed to reappear, those endless guilt eroded his heart, his heart was filled with pain, slowly shook his head, wept, beat his chest, and muttered to himself: "Ruxi, kill me, kill me - I am guilty and do not deserve your forgiveness, I only ask you to kill me, but it can make you feel better!"
Shu Ruxi raised a sword, pointed at Pu Yangce's neck, and shouted: "Do you know that you have caused your aunt and their aunts to live an inhuman life in the Ghost Valley, and they live in pain every day, in order to slash the enemy, never thought that our enemy is!"
Pu Yangce knelt on the ground, looked down at the ground in silence: "I know that I have a deep sin, what you want to do to me, I deserve it, and I can't atone for my sins by death." ”
"Giggles-" Shu Ruxi suddenly giggled and withdrew her sword, looked at Pu Yangce indifferently, and said hatefully: "Auntie is right, it's too cheap to kill you, I want you to spend the rest of your life in pain!"
Shu Ruxi still couldn't make a move, turned around, held back the tears and fell again, her steps moved forward weakly, and suddenly she was about to fall, Shen Feng hurriedly reached out to hug her, and said softly: "Master-"
Shu Ruxi didn't say a word, just lay on top of him, but the ten fingers of her hands were tightly wrapped around his arm, which showed that her emotions were out of control at this time, and she was in great pain.
Pu Yangce's eyelids became weaker and weaker, and he muttered to himself: "If you don't kill me, I don't want to live in this world anymore, I betrayed all the people who love me, I deserve it, I will never get rid of sin and pain - I'm guilty!!I'm damned!!"
I'm guilty—
I'm guilty—
I'm guilty—
In a sound of self-reproach, he fell to the ground, blood flowing from his mouth, his eyes were closed, his fingers were locked, and his death was extremely painful.
Shen Feng hugged Shu Ruxi and said softly: "He committed suicide by taking poison, and the smoke is gone, don't let hatred occupy your heart anymore." ”
Gu Biluo looked at this tragedy, she could only sigh, at this time, the set of the scene quietly changed, the set turned into a black hell, such a scene hit her heart hard, seeing that Shen Feng had raised her head, she hurriedly shouted: "Shen Feng, let's go back, go back!"
Shen Feng also saw that the scene of the play turned into a black hell, this scene is very familiar, it is the scene in Xiaocao'er's painting, let go of Shu Ruxi, walked over in fear, walked to Pu Yangce's side, looked down, and saw a coffin painted on the ground, and Pu Yangce was lying in the coffin.
"Impossible! Impossible!" Shen Feng's chest seemed to be pressed by a big stone, he was almost out of breath, and he stumbled back a few steps uncontrollably, and knocked down the tea table placed in the middle, such a scene was exactly the same as in Xiao Cao'er's painting, the same black hell, the same lying in the coffin, and the same Shen Feng was emotionally out of control.
There seems to be an eternal thread between the Son of Destiny and the Daughter of Prophecy, and at this time, it seems that it is the Daughter of Prophecy who is holding Shen Feng.
Gu Biluo's body was also trembling, feeling that everything was being manipulated, a black cloud that could not be swept away, and among the black clouds, there was a pair of strange eyes staring.
For a long time, Shen Feng sat on the stage, staring straight ahead, even Shu Ruxi didn't know that he was leaving, and Gu Biluo was as depressed as him.
Pedal Pedal –
As soon as he rode a fast horse and galloped over, the person who came entered the opera garden and hurriedly stepped forward and said: "General Qiyu, the trace of the old man Baishi was found twenty miles northwest of the capital. ”