Chapter 33: The Promise of the Time
Looking at the panicked masters, Zhuo Xiao sighed and fell into deep thought.
When Si Shouli saw it, he hurriedly stepped forward and respectfully asked: "If the shopkeeper Zhuo has made up his mind or not, you might as well talk about it." ”
Zhuo Xiao shook his head helplessly, and said: "You should all be smart people, and you should understand that although there are clearly two paths left in front of us now, in fact, we only have one way to choose." ”
"Please also ask the treasurer Zhuo to give advice. Si Shouli arched his hand.
"I don't dare to teach, I just want to ask you to imagine why such a big opportunity to make a fortune in the country, but my brother would rather die than give in?
The reason is very simple, because my brother understands that as long as the soldiers are together, they will definitely be ruined, and although we may make a windfall from the war, the damage and losses caused by the war are also immeasurable. ”
"But didn't His Royal Highness King Huai say that we will be pardoned for ten years of taxes?" asked Wang Zhenyi with a puzzled expression.
"After the deed is accomplished, King Huai will reward the merits and deeds, and will definitely let us continue to sit firmly in the position of the first business name, but the so-called birds are all hidden, rabbits and dead dogs are cooked, or it will not be long before it will come to the trouble of the world for various reasons.
What's more, this is a gamble, we must understand that if King Huai loses in the end, then what we are doing now will be a big sin for the nine clans. ”
"But if we don't obey now, we will most likely die here immediately. Si Shouli said.
These words immediately made Zhuo Xiao speechless, and at this time, Feng Yi, who was originally observing the enemy's movements at the door, walked in after handing over Cheng Xiangru to Qingyang.
"Since the shopkeeper thinks it's better to surrender at this moment, why don't you go to the other side now and see if you can survive?" Feng Yi walked straight in front of Si Shouli and said coldly.
"You're just from Zhuofu...... Wait a minute...... Why you? Are you...... The wind is blowing upstairs!"
Si Shouli looked at Feng Yi who came rashly, and thought it was Zhuo Xiao's guard, but when he recognized that the person dressed as Feng Yi was Feng Yi, he was stunned.
Feng Yi's appearance caused an uproar among the people present, and then in the midst of a discussion, the shopkeeper Lu who was silent because he was frightened spoke.
"It's rude that I didn't recognize you, but I would like to take the liberty of asking, why are you here?"
Feng Yi smiled slightly, showed the token given to him by Wei Qing from his arms, and said: "I can't hide it, the reason why I am here is that I am entrusted by the general to verify the rebellion of King Huai here." ”
"Entrusted by the Great General, could it be that the Holy Lord already knew that King Huai would rebel?" Lu Youban looked at Feng Yi with an incredulous expression.
Feng Yi nodded and said, "Because of this, you can't compromise today, because the general's reinforcements are already on the way, if you choose to belong to King Huai today, you will definitely commit the great sin of the nine clans." ”
As soon as he said this, everyone began to talk again, and Zhuo Xiao looked at Feng Yi with a pensive face, and immediately understood that he was fooling everyone, so he quietly stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "Master Feng, the reinforcements you just mentioned are actually meant to appease everyone." ”
When Feng Yi heard it, he was immediately silent, and before he could reply to Zhuo Xiao, Si Shouli spoke, "It's not that we can't trust the people of the Feng Da master, but just based on the words of the Feng Da master, we are really unconvinced." ”
As soon as he said this, the other shopkeepers also chimed in.
At this moment, an arrow suddenly shot in, and Feng Yi saw it, and pushed away the Si Shouli in front of him, which saved him from the trouble.
But this is just the beginning, Feng Yi just blocked one, and the second arrow shot in, Feng Yi quickly took the second arrow, and jumped out of the Pine Crane Tower, only to find that the incense had burned out at some point.
Seeing Feng Yi appear, King Huai motioned to the archers to put down the weapons in their hands, and asked, "I don't know what happened to Shopkeeper Zhuo after going in for so long?"
Zhuo Xiao walked out quickly, and tried to continue to delay time, "Please atone for your sins, this conference is full of people, I have waited for a while and there is no result, and I ask Your Highness to forgive me for some more time." ”
When King Huai heard this, he snorted coldly and threw the pen in his hand on the ground.
And the moment his pen landed, the archers immediately raised the bow and arrow in their hands again, and shot quickly towards the Songhe Tower, and for a while the arrows rained down, even the wind was easy to see, and they couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
At this moment, a thick wall of ice suddenly rose in front of Feng Yi, blocking all the dense arrows like a shower.
The appearance of the ice wall made Qi Nan slightly shocked, but with a wave of his hand, the ice wall was immediately shattered by Kumara.
The ice wall was built by Zhuo Xue, and if you want to use a bow and arrow to deal with the people inside, then the first person to solve it is naturally Zhuo Xue.
So after Kumoro smashed the ice wall, he didn't hesitate for a moment and immediately launched an attack on Zhuo Xue.
And as soon as he arrived in front of Zhuo Xue, he was suddenly scratched on the arm, this blow can be regarded as an eye-opener for Kumaro, after all, in his memory, there are very few people who can give him external injuries.
Kumara had to stop his attack for a moment and look again at the old man with the scythe in front of him.
Qingyang didn't give Kumara time to think, but kept waving the sickle in his hand to attack Kumora, this attack was really effective, although Kumora kept dodging Qingyang's attack, but he was inevitably turned into several external injuries, which forced him to open the body of the god of war early.
On the other side, Lakshmi saw that Kumoro was entangled, and she was not idle, and immediately launched an attack on Zhuo Xue, but her abacus was just played, but it was intercepted by Feng Yi.
When Lakshmi saw this, he didn't stop, but continued to attack, forcing Feng Yi to have no time to care.
At this moment, a sharp arrow suddenly shot towards Zhuo Xue through the team, Zhuo Xue saw this, and wanted to urge the power of the six ginseng to build a wall to resist, but who wanted to relapse into the cold, and suddenly shivered, unable to move at all.
At the last moment, Feng Yi blocked this sudden sharp arrow with the Heaven and Earth Liangyi Knife, but what Feng Yi didn't expect was that the sharp arrow was extremely powerful, and it bounced off Feng Yi's block with one blow and shot straight towards Zhuo Xue.
Then the unexpected happened!
Just when this sharp arrow was about to hit Zhuo Xue, Cheng Xiangru took advantage of the opportunity that no one was holding her hostage, blocked in front of her, and blocked this fatal blow for her.
The arrow was plunged straight into Cheng Xiangru's back, inserted in the mouth of his heart, blood splattered from his chest, sprinkled on Zhuo Xue's shocked face, and then his person fell into Zhuo Xue's arms.
This scene in front of him was not only Feng Yi and the others, but even Kumaro and Lakshmi were also amazed.
They don't understand why a person who has exhausted all his organs and even tried to poison his wife, a ruthless and unrighteous person who secretly snickers after his wife's death, would give up his life to block the fatal blow for his wife at the critical moment when he succeeded?
They couldn't figure it out, so they stopped attacking and returned to Qi Nan's side, but they didn't expect that even Qi Nan was puzzled by Cheng Xiangru's sudden behavior.
"Cheng Xiangru, you ...... What are you doing?"
Looking at Cheng Xiangru who fell in his arms, Zhuo Xue's face was puzzled, shocked, and even a little worried.
"Me...... I'm here...... Are you fulfilling your promise at that time?"
Seeing that Zhuo Xue was safe and sound, and there was still a trace of concern for herself, Cheng Xiangru's face suddenly showed joy, and he slowly stretched out his hand towards Zhuo Xue's face.
Zhuo Xue raised her head slightly, avoiding his hand, looking at his suddenly lost face, she actually felt that she had some heartache, so she gritted her teeth fiercely and clenched her fists.
At this moment, she didn't know whether she should sympathize with him, after all, he was the one who killed her parents and tried to poison herself.
But why? Why is he desperate to save himself now?
"Why, tell me, why?" Zhuo Xue asked, her voice a little choked.
"Because I promised back then that I would...... will take care of you for the rest of your life and will not let you be ...... Take a little bit of damage. Cheng Xiangru said with difficulty.
Hearing his words, Zhuo Xue suddenly fell into a memory, that was when they were all young, at that time no children were willing to play with her, and everyone said that she was sick and would infect people.
Once, even more excessively, a child tricked her into playing games with everyone to pretend to be a plague god, and she agreed to this request in order to fit in with the group, but in exchange for rotten eggs and small stones from all the children.
Fortunately, Cheng Xiangru appeared in time to help her block all the attacks and drive away those children.
After chasing away the children, Cheng Xiangru began to comfort the young Zhuo Xue and warned her not to play with the children anymore because they would hurt her.
And Zhuo Xue's answer at the time was, "Even so, I am willing, because I am a sick seedling, and if I don't do this, no one will want to play with me." ”
When Cheng Xiangru heard this, he hugged her in his arms and told her, "I'm not afraid of being infected, I will always stay by Yunyue's side, protect Yunyue, and won't let you be hurt at all." ”
This was Cheng Xiangru's promise at that time, and it turned out that he did it later, he always accompanied her, so that she was no longer lonely, until the day of the wedding, that thing happened......
Zhuo Xue didn't dare to think about it, she shook her head vigorously, forcing herself to stop thinking about those unbearable memories, and at this moment, Cheng Xiangru suddenly held her hand tightly.
"Ledger ...... Dark Grid ...... Orizuru ...... Ledger ...... Dark Grid ...... Crane ......"
After Cheng Xiangru repeated these words, he began to twitch constantly, and his mouth began to say something else indistinctly.
Zhuo Xue's heart tightened, and she quickly grabbed his hand, leaned over and put his hand on her face, and listened carefully to his last words.
"The stars in the sky, the nails in the ground, the oil bottle is slippery, the pagoda is high, the pagoda is high, the sickle is fast, the leeks are long, the leeks are long, the leeks are short, the leeks are short, the two bowls are cut, the master is a bowl, the mother is a bowl, and the little girl hit an orchid bowl. ”
After Cheng Xiangru finished singing this nursery rhyme, he finally closed his eyes peacefully, and his hand slipped from Zhuo Xue's hand and fell to the ground.
Zhuo Xue hugged him, and her heart was suddenly full of emotions, only to hear her scream, the power of the six ginseng suddenly erupted, urging one ice spike after another, heading towards the oncoming Qi Nan.