Chapter 2: The Twilight of the Year

It's the twilight of another year, and every household pounds their clothes.

Two hundred and thirty-one years ago, the dynasty changed.

At that time, he was still a small landowner, Zhaoguo Taizu rose from the troubled times and built a huge empire.

Taizu trusted his subordinates very much and gave them power, so that talented people rushed to take refuge and finally won the world.

On the day of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the generals were rewarded, and the general who made the greatest contribution was Fangzheng, who was sealed as the Duke of Rongguo, hereditary from generation to generation, and was extremely favored.

Subsequently, Taizu and Fang Zheng passed away one after another.

Taizu's son succeeded to the throne and continued to reuse Fangzheng's son Fang Ping, and the two worked hard.

After years of conquest, he finally unified the vast land south of Helan Mountain and east of the Western Regions.

It has formed a three-legged situation with the North Barbarians and the West.

The Northern Barbarians were a slave state composed of various tribes that respected the court of the Golden Horde.

The West, on the other hand, is a theocracy controlled by the Holy See.

Zhaoguo and the two coexist in the world, and each other is the trend of horns.

At this moment, in the Jinling Imperial Palace, Zhao Li stood outside the main hall, looking at his nose and nose.

Inside the hall, a man covered in black robes knelt down on one knee in front of the throne.

Quietly awaiting the command of the man on the throne.

The second emperor of Zhao was dying of old age at this time.

Years of heavy affairs have already turned this originally heroic man into an old man with gray temples.

It's just that in those cloudy eyes, a fine light occasionally flashes, which makes people clearly understand.

This man is the most powerful man on the continent.

"He's back......"

"Yes. The black-robed man who fell to his knees replied.

The old man closed his eyes, as if he was recalling some people and events in the past, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

After a while, he finally squeezed out another sentence, "Let him go." ”

After speaking, he waved his hand.

The black-robed man disappeared silently, as if he had never appeared, and the emperor was the only one left in the main hall.

After a long time, Zhao Li thought that His Majesty was asleep.

I was about to go in and put on a dress for him, but I heard a vague sentence inside: "After all, I owe you......"

Zhao Li was so frightened that he immediately stood up straight, and began to look at his nose and nose again.

In these years, people who know too much can't live long, and if they want to live, what should be listened to and what not to be listened to, Zhao Li is much clearer than others.

That's why he has been serving the emperor for so many years.

In Jinling City, Wuqi Lane.

An Ning slowly walked in Jinling City with a wheelchair, and the sun had completely set.

She tried to find a place to stay before it was completely dark, but the owner wouldn't let her go faster.

said that he wanted to feel the city that he had been away from for many years......

Ah Bu lay motionless in the corner of his yard.

His consciousness was no longer clear, and the blood beneath him was spreading into the distance.

Ah Bu is thirteen years old.

When he was seven years old, his father died of illness, and when he was ten years old, his mother took him to remarry a poor scholar in his thirties.

Soon after the stepfather entered the house, he tore through the mask of hypocrisy.

sold everything in the family to gamble, and beat and scolded his mother and him.

Ah Bu couldn't eat enough every day, and his mother used to secretly leave him something to eat.

Later, his mother was beaten several times by his stepfather, and he didn't care about him anymore.

A year later, the mother committed suicide and hanged herself.

Ah Bu looked at his mother, he didn't cry, maybe he didn't know what it was like to cry.

endured it for two years, gritting his teeth and living on the charity of his neighbors.

He also thought about dying, but when he thought that his stepfather was still alive, he desperately lived.

He's planned to kill this scumbag countless times.

But when I really stabbed a knife into his stomach.

Looking at the complicated and painful expression on his face, Ah Bu still felt a trace of sadness.

"It turns out that from now on, I'm really the only one left......

In this world, people are dying all the time.

But those who die today, those who die yesterday, and those who die tomorrow.

It's not the same person.

Ah Bu lay on the ground, and the blood under his body slowly flowed, slowly converging into a stream.

He knew the time was almost up.

It was a knife he had planned for a long time.

And the man's body temperature next to him had cooled.

Ah didn't wait.

Finally, a man with a mouse-like face walked into the courtyard.

The man's face was flushed, and it was obvious that he had drunk too much.

When he saw two people in the courtyard lying in a pool of blood, one big and one small, he was shocked and sobered up a little.

The man was in a hurry and wanted to run out.

But when he turned around, he suddenly saw a silver ingot on the corpse of the adult, which was as much as five taels.

He hesitated to stop again, his face struggling, trying to move his body, but he couldn't.

After a while, greed prevailed over fear, and he leaned down to pick up the silver and rushed out of the courtyard.

Ah Bu looked at the man's back, and the corners of his mouth raised slightly.

He knew that the man would just meet the neighbor's uncle who had left the dock to work.

In order to calculate this time, he followed his uncle to unload the goods every day.

The silver is also what he has worked and saved in the past few years, and it is all penniless.

I just found someone to replace it with a whole few days ago.

And all that's left for Ah Bu to do is to climb out of the yard.

shouted the name of the lewd man, and then fainted in the arms of the uncle.

A bloody path was rubbed out of the ground.

Straight forward, not far away.

But Ah Bu climbed for a long time, so long that it seemed that there was no end.

Ah remembered the night when her mother committed suicide.

The sky is full of stars, so bright, so beautiful......

The New Year is approaching, and people who have been busy all year are preparing for the New Year, which is a rare peaceful day.

The emperor gave his whole life to the empire, and now, he is dying.

The ministers knew that their Majesty would have had a hard time surviving this winter.

Puyang Palace, it's late at night.

There were bursts of coughing in the Buddhist hall, and the face of the last prince of the Zhao Kingdom turned red.

An extremely feminine woman on the side gently patted the back of King Puyang.

"Father, even if he survives to the capital, after all, his name is not right, and the ministers will never let him be in that position. The woman said as she breathed for the man.

King Puyang slowly calmed down, and looked at the darkness outside the Buddha Hall with complicated eyes.

Said slowly: "I have survived him all my life, desperately survived, I have abandoned everything I have, and now I am finally going to boil him to death, I am doing this one thing all my life." ”

"The third and sixth are on the grassland and have never come back.

The fifth child is in the cathedral and is called the glory of the knight.

When the seventh left, he was only nineteen years old, and he was only nineteen years old......"

After speaking, he closed his eyes, calmed his breath, and remained silent for a long time.

"If you kill all my brothers, then I will kill all your sons!"

It's already dark.

The doctor bandaged Abu's knife and left.

The poor people in the courtyard and the neighbors are almost gone.

Only the neighbor's uncle was left sitting on the threshold and talking to the young man about Abu.

The poor scholar's body was placed on a wooden plank, and a straw mat was found to cover it, and he had already come to examine the body.

The facts of the case are very clear, so they did not bring back the yamen, and the people have been sent to arrest people.

If it goes well, it won't be long before the court will be able to pronounce the case.

"What does the master think, how is this child?" An Ning came out of the room.

Fang Ruo looked at the back of the neighbor's uncle leaving and smiled, but did not answer.