Chu Xianzhao wiped King Xilin's face with his water-soaked robe, his eyes were still white, and his mouth was chattering, he could see that the wound on King Xilin's shoulder had sprouts, a thin layer of blood scabs covered it, pink steam was rising, and something in his body seemed to be healing his wounds.

After doing all this, he stayed by Su Nianyu's side, the woman turned over slightly and pillowed on his lap, it seemed that it was fine, she had been guarding him in the cave for the past two days, he must have been tired, he took some water with the palm of his hand in the puddle on the side and poured it into his mouth, his abdomen was painful because of long-term hunger, this place is indeed not short of water, but it is not a way to go on like this, they will starve to death soon.

He looked at the king of Xilin in the dark, he looked at the ground dejectedly, the madness and arrogance of Fang Cai disappeared without a trace, and now he looked like an ordinary man, but he thought about it, the king of Xilin must have been imprisoned for many years, how did he survive in these dark years, there was no food, he was imprisoned by heavy chains, and he couldn't even drink water if he wanted to, normal people can live for fifty days without eating, but if they don't drink water, they can't live for five days, Chu instantly recalled the ascetics of the Southern Buddha Kingdom mentioned in the book, they are the same as not eating fireworks in the world, looking at the Buddha statue all day long and chanting scriptures and pilgrimage, claiming that they can sustain life by sucking the essence of the sun and the moonBut in this underground, where the sun can't even shine on, he can still live for so many years, and it's not an exaggeration to say that it's a miracle.

"Child, can you tell me something about the outside world again?" He slowly raised his head, that face was very similar to Brother Wei Yin, he didn't dare Su Weiyin was usually indifferent, and only when he talked to Sister Young Slave would he see a rare smile on his face, and his gaze was always cold.

"Actually, you can guess a lot of things. Chu Xianzhao said softly.

"You can say anything, you can talk to me...... It's been a long time since I've seen anyone. ”

Chu Xianzhao hesitated for a moment, bypassed those chains and sat next to the king of Xilin, he didn't know what to tell him, whether your people were all reduced to slaves, or the territory of the Yin country that the Xilin country had become, he decided to give up those unpleasant ideas, and talked about the first meeting between him and Su Younu, he said that the young slave sister sat in the courtyard of the weeping eagle and made butterflies, her hands were skillful, and he and his brother asked Brother Wei Yin to go fishing in the creek in the city, he didn't catch a single small fish, and then Su Weiyin gave him all the fish he caught, and they listened to Taifu read together and flew kites in the palace...... Listening to Chu Xianzhao's words, King Xilin's gaze became softer and softer, guilt and longing were intertwined in his eyes, and for a long time, he sighed faintly and said, "It seems that my father is doing quite badly." ”

"Why did you make so many swords? And kill so many swordsmiths. Chu instantly asked.

King Xilin said with a solemn face: "Child, do you think I am a bad person?"

"It is foolish to judge a person by what is good or bad, and to know a person is to see what he has done. Chu Xianzhao thought for a while and said, and the King of Xilin smiled wryly: "Child, are you familiar with Chu Xiaohua?"

"Of course, he is my father, the emperor, who has the dawn in his heart, and who has worked tirelessly for his country. He affirmed

"Then son, you can go to the cave on my right hand and take a look. King Xilin smiled playfully, Chu Xianzhao was stunned for a moment, worried that there was a trick, "It's good to take a look, it's you who said it yourself, knowing a person depends on what he has done." ”

Chu Xianzhao looked at the pitch-black cave vigilantly, his heart was pounding, and the words of the King of Xilin entangled him like a shadow, and slowly walked along his right hand side, glancing towards the small cave...... But he didn't look away from it for a long, long time, his lips kept trembling, and his body slowly cooled: "These are all made by my father?"

In the cave is a mountain of corpses, still wearing shabby cotton clothes and green robes, their eyes are blind, Chu Xianzhao followed the skull-sized cave to glimpse the tragic scene inside, the bones in the cave are stacked, some only see the body without the head, some break their limbs like human sticks, the nearest corpses at the entrance of the cave opened their mouths wide and stretched out their hands to the cave, their blood has already flowed into the stone wall, leaving mottled traces, in this place where the maggots have long died, what happened.

"Back then, Chu Xiaohua imprisoned this king here, and these chains that bound this king were made by a mystician, but it was still impossible to restrain me, so he asked the stonemason to open the cave to the ground, and the spells on these chains were attracted to the heavenly thunder, and once I tried to break free from the chains, it would attract ten thousand thunders! After that, he killed those stonemasons in the cave, so that the truth that I was not as alive as I was to spread the truth to the world, and one of the stonemasons who had not died after he left told me that he would rather be a dog in the next life, and a maggot would not do anything for Chu Xiaohua again, what kind of person do you think your father is?"

"You're lying!Father, he's not such a person!" Chu Xianzhao shouted at him.

"What's the good of me lying to you? In fact, the nature of the king is the same, he can do whatever it takes to achieve his goal, and the person who sees the essence in a second and the person who is confused for half his life, what kind of person do you want to be?" he asked rhetorically.

"My father...... He won't ...... He's not. Chu Xianzhao slowly squatted down, hugging his shoulders and feeling cold in his limbs, but King Xilin was still laughing: "Now you feel very cruel and don't want to believe it, you will understand it after you sit on the throne in the future, and I will do the same, compared to my secrets, the lives of those grass people are not worth mentioning!"

"No, I won't be like you, absolutely not!" He stood up and stared at King Xilin's eyes, as if giving a poisonous oath, King Xilin was stunned for a moment, his long gray hair covered his face, so that Chu Xianzhao couldn't see his expression clearly: "You are really special, child...... Like your eyes. ”

"But don't let emotions control your thinking, this is the king's taboo, there is no such thing as innocence in this world, you can't feel that you have never done anything bad and feel that the people around you are the same as you, this is self-deception and stupidity!"

"Phew, you're not my teacher, why are you talking to me in such a tone? Chu Xianzhao walked to Su Nianyu's side and guarded, with his back to King Xilin.

"Although I am not your teacher, but I once had a student, who was a stupid child like you, unlike your Yinguo, almost all of the courtiers of our Xilin Kingdom were taught by the first emperor, so they basically did not betray the country, I selected a group of talented and intelligent children, and now I still remember the names of each of them, Chengde, Xiaokang, Moss, Shun ......"

Chu Xianzhao was still silent.

"One of the children told me a sentence - the first worries of the world, the joy of the world after the joy, I was very happy after listening to it, I felt that this child must be my generation of famous ministers in the west in the future, but then I thought about it, is this world really as he said? Does the world in his mouth really exist? Or is the world really worth us to do? Until the arrival of your Yinguo army, all his illusions were shattered, and he died on the battlefield holding a sword to protect his family. ”

Chu Xianzhao said in a low voice: "It's all your fault, if you don't make those damn swords!"

The king of Xilin did not know whether he had heard his words, but said to himself: "Son, do you think you have the ability to make this world what he says it is? You are all very stupid children, maybe you have the ability to try to be stupid with you in this world...... That doesn't seem bad either. ”

"Son, who are you with that woman next to you?"

"She ......" Chu Xianzhao looked at the sleeping Su Nianyu, not knowing how to tell the story between them to the king of Xilin, it was absurd but reasonable, in the end, it was caused by himself, and in the end he still told what happened to them before, and told the story of their first fight and now being trapped in the cave.

King Xilin paused and said, "This girl likes you." ”

You listened so much and only came to such a conclusion, Chu Xianzhao couldn't help but look at King Xilin in embarrassment, but he still continued: "If she doesn't like you, how can she let you go again and again, haven't you also helped her? When you were in Qinglou, you also wanted to kill those who bullied her, didn't you? Love is a very complicated emotion, although you don't understand it yet, but you have fallen into it, a beautiful girl like her shouldn't die in this darkness, you also want to protect her, don't you?" Take her out of here, that's what you should do now, not think about who is right and who is wrong between me and your father. ”

"And do you like her?"

Chu Xianzhao lowered his head, his face was slightly hot, and all this fell in the eyes of King Xilin: "Silence can't hide any of your emotions......

"What should I do?" he muttered, looking at the darkness above him.

"I have a way to get you out of here, I still remember the way Chu Xiaohua left here back then, but I need to do something for me in you. King Xilin looked straight into his eyes and said.

Chu Xianzhao was silent for a long time, holding Su Nianyu's soft and boneless hand and saying, "Deal!"

"Before that, listen to me tell you a story, this story may be boring and bloody, but it will definitely subvert your imagination of this world, and don't tell this story to anyone, including your father and sister, because no one will believe what you say, and will think of you as a madman like me. King Xilin whispered.

King Xilin licked his dry lips, and his voice was a little soft: "This story happened a long, long time ago......"

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Chu Xun flicked the charcoal in the brazier, a burst of green smoke made her cough twice, she was draped in a brocade shawl, but she still felt cold inside, she looked at the flames rising in the brazier, lowered her eyes slightly, she used a lot of fat powder to cover up the red and swollen eye circles, since Xiao Zhao disappeared, she never left half a step in this princess's mansion all day long, her heart seemed to be hollowed out half, the meal brought by the maid was cold and changed, except for the pear juice that never stopped, she had not eaten for almost two days.

A cool breeze came outside the window, the white gauze curtain fluttered slowly, she moved to the window, looking at the fallen leaves in the pool black and yellow, she looked at it, sighed lowly, this pool used to be planted with a few pink lotus, in the Yinguo lotus is a very rare thing, maybe because of the water and soil, few people see the lotus flower in the house, Chu Xun once saw this snow-like smooth chaste flower in the album, and asked the next person to bring flowers and seeds from the south to scatter in this pond, specially got a lot of silt for cultivation, hoping to see the picture of the white lotus blooming like snow, but in the end only a few pink lotus survived, standing alone in the middle of the pool, looking very distressed。

She was also relieved at that time, and pulled her younger brother to the stone bridge to point to her lotus, Chu Xianzhao looked at the lotus with surprised eyes, which made her heart happy, and asked her subordinates to dig one of the lotus flowers down and send it to the weeping eagle, hoping that there was also a lotus flower in her brother's pool, like a humble gentleman, out of the mud but not stained, clear ripples but not demons. But not long after picking the lotus, the pink lotus in the pool withered one after another, and later Chu Xun learned that the lotus flowers in the pool all grew from a flower root, and she cut off the flower roots in this pool when she asked her subordinates to take away the lotus, and the roots of the lotus flowers all grew together.

Their family of five is not like the lotus, the roots are all connected, and one plant is missing for no reason, although they will not wither like a lotus, but the pain of uprooting is something that everyone can feel, she clenched her fists, tears of sorrow poured out of her eyes, dripping on the windowsill, she looked sadly at the courtyard with fallen leaves in the autumn wind, and cried childishly: "Xiaozhao...... You're coming back...... Sister misses you so much. ”

The sound of thin footsteps approached Chu Xun, and the white and tender little hands climbed onto the windowsill and patted gently, Chu Xun was stunned for a moment, and looked at the little face like white jade petals with tears and swayed: "Sister Xunxun, it's so cold outside with me inside." After speaking, she stretched out her chubby arm towards Chu Xun.

"Yuan'er?" she quickly wiped her tears, bent down and hugged the little girl in through the window, and quickly closed the window for fear that she would catch a cold, "It's so cold, it's cold." The little girl put her hand on Chu Xun's neck, the cold made Chu Xun tremble, she looked at the little girl's nephrite-like cheeks flushed and said angrily: "Why did you come here alone, and I don't know how to let the next person lead it, see what your face is frozen." ”

The little girl's eyes purred and she said, "They're all asleep, I don't want to wake them up." ”

"Lie, it's clear that you came here secretly. She gently pinched the tip of her nose, and she leaned into her arms to eat and laugh, so cute.

"Grandpa has something to ask the emperor's uncle to take me to the palace to play by the way, but the emperor's uncle went out, and grandpa waited for a long time and was about to fall asleep......" She made a sleeping gesture and leaned on Chu Xun's shoulder.

Recently, he has also been disturbed by Xiao Zhao's disappearance, and the palace guards have been sent out one after another to find people, and now even he has disappeared.

"I brought you something delicious. She came out of a small black box of sandalwood from behind her, and when she opened it, it was full of preserved fruits made of daylily paper, such as figs and plums, she picked one and stuffed it into Chu Xun's mouth, and looked at her with a smile: "Is it delicious?"

She hadn't eaten for two days, and the strong sweetness and sourness almost made Chu Xun vomit out, she forced a smile and bit the fig and swallowed it, gently touched the little girl's face and said, "It's delicious......"

The little girl was immediately happy, hugged her waist and buried her face in her plumpness and said, "It's so warm, it's warm." ”

"What about Brother Xiaozhao, I went to the Weeping Eagle just now, and Sister Zhu and Sister Pomegranate both said that he went out to play, and he didn't take me with him, it's really unrighteous!"