Chapter Forty-Six: Who Will the Times Choose?
In front of the gate of the palace, countless people gathered, dark and oppressive, but surprisingly quiet. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
All eyes were on one person, full of reverence and gratitude.
She was covered in blood, but her spine was still straight.
She, as a woman, has overshadowed the men of the world.
She, a mere wanderer, was able to defeat the famous Renyu wolf on her own.
She is Yingluo.
Heaven and earth, unparalleled in the world!
Blood spilled from her, forming a blood-drenched trail on the street, and tens of thousands of people avoided it, and no one dared to trample on it, but many people bowed down to the blood as if they were pilgrimages.
Because this is faith, sustenance, greatness, and motivation...... It's the blood of heroes!
Kikuichi's text was inserted in Saito's chest, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood with every step he took, but he didn't complain. He silently followed the figure in front of him, looking forward to witnessing everything he longed for.
"As long as she rushes up, in her current state, she can't stop the Shinsengumi!" Hijikata still didn't give up, and ordered the others.
Although these people are not as good as the four of them, they are still first-class masters.
But what he didn't expect was that his orders had always been unconditionally carried out by the Shinsengumi, but this time not only Saito Ichi, but even these people began to resist, and even the captains of other teams.
They stood still and did not come forward in pursuit.
Afraid?
Of course not, Mibu wolves are never afraid.
So why?
Hijikata didn't understand, so he was furious and scolded, "Are you going to betray the Shinsengumi?"
One of the captains looked embarrassed and said, "Deputy Chief of the Turkish Formation, it's not that we want to betray, but ......."
"And what?"
The captain stopped talking, and finally turned into a long sigh: "Alas, I can't hide it, my brother's family was also killed in the fire, and Miss Yingluo brought the prisoner into Beijing, and I really can't do it." ”
One sentence was spoken, but it was diverted.
Everyone in the Shinsengumi said, "Yes, I also have relatives who died in the fire. ”
"Me too. ”
"I'm my uncle's family. ”
"My neighbors ...... too They have always taken good care of me. ”
"My favorite izakaya was burned down, and the boss didn't escape any of them, and his child was only six years old. ”
Everyone rushed to talk about it, and in the end it turned into the same problem.
"We're the new selection group, why are you stopping Miss Yingluo?"
Although the Shinsengumi are called Mibu wolves, they are still human after all.
As long as it is a human being, it will inevitably cause entanglements and concerns.
There are good and bad, joys and sorrows.
This is the difference between man and beast.
Hijikata was speechless, telling them that it was because of the order from above, and that only by completing it could the status of the Shinsengumi be raised!
He wanted to become a beast as much as possible, because only a beast could survive in such troubled times.
Only now did he realize that he was still far from it.
He remembered the blind girl selling flowers on the street corner, who couldn't see it, but smiled brighter than anyone else. He likes that smile, so he goes to buy some flowers every day, even if he throws them away when he turns the corner, but he still goes every day.
Not for the flowers, but for a glimpse of that incomparably beautiful smile, the smile he once had but had lost.
After the Great Fire in Kyoto, the blind girl did not reappear. He stood there for a long time, knowing that he could no longer wait for someone to wait.
A hand was placed on his shoulder, and he turned his head, and it was Isamu Kondo.
"Chief, your injuries ......"
"Ah, I can't die yet!" Kondo patted him on the shoulder and said, "You've done a good job, but failure is failure, and if it's still entangled, it's too ugly!"
"But how should the Aizu clan explain?"
"Just report it truthfully. Isamu Kondo looked at the crowd and said with emotion, "Haven't you noticed it yet? This is no longer a battle that the Shinsengumi can intervene in." Just like the black ships in Edo Bay back then, Westerners used artillery to change the times, and she used the people to change the times. ”
Hijikata Suizo's face showed a little surprise: "The artillery and the people are not on the same level at all!"
"Maybe!" Kondo did not refute, but continued: "Let's see, time will tell the answer, see who the times choose!"
After he finished speaking, he sat down against the corner of the wall with a sigh of relief, and showed a rare smile: "I personally hope it is the latter, after all, I am a swordsman, and I prefer beautiful swords to unpleasant guns." ”
Fair...... Swords?
Hijikata was in a trance for a while.
"Mibu wolf, too, needs someone to save it!" "After Isamu Kondo finished speaking, he shouted at Saito, who was gradually drifting away: "Saito, if you can't die, hurry up and return to the Shinsengumi after you are done, so many events, but it is the time to employ people, you evil wolf, but you are indispensable!"
Saito's face showed a hint of gratitude, and he bowed slightly in the distance, but he didn't promise anything.
But there is no doubt that he will definitely return.
This is the tacit understanding of the wolves.
Although Isamu Kondo is not as good as Hijikata Suizo in strategy and swordsmanship as well as Soji Okita, his personality charm is unmatched.
That's why he's the chief.
There is a place for everyone.
Yingluo is now a well-deserved leader.
She led tens of thousands of people and could even overthrow the shogunate immediately.
But there's more to it than that.
A shogunate can be defeated, but a new shogunate will be established.
What is needed now is not a flame that burns everything, but a fire of hope.
She wants to show the pace of the progress of the times to the people!
"Fukuhara Echigo planned the Kyoto fire, causing countless harms, should he be killed?" Yingluo stood in front of the gate of the Imperial Palace, ignoring the panicked looks of the guards guarding the gate, but asked with righteousness and awe.
The emotions of the people reached their highest point with her question, like a gushing magma, and let out a deafening roar: "Kill!"
"Fukuhara Echigo planned the Kyoto fire and burned down the streets, should he be killed?"
"Damn it!"
"Fukuhara Echigo planned the Kyoto fire and caused all kinds of tragedies, should he be killed?"
"Damn it!"
"Okay, I see!" After the three calls, the anger of the crowd grew louder and louder, and Yingluo changed the object of the questioning. She shouted at the palace: "The sinner Fukuhara Echigo is already in front of him, please give the emperor an order to kill the traitor!"
The guards looked at each other, and they knew that although the woman in front of them shouted loudly, it could not be transmitted to the palace at all, let alone let His Majesty hear it.
They were about to laugh a few times, but suddenly there was a roar like thunder, and they almost fell to the ground.
Tens of thousands of people followed Yingluo and roared:
"Please give the emperor an order, behead the traitor!"
"Please give the emperor an order, behead the traitor!"
"Please give the emperor an order, behead the traitor!"
One time is not enough, and it is shouted three times in a row.
The sound became louder and louder every time, and the power became stronger and stronger, and even the glazed tiles on the roof of the palace were shocked a lot, fell to the ground, and shattered.
Just like the emperor's heart at this moment.