Summer thunder rolls and torrential rain continues.

In the history of Taruto, this is probably the longest and largest rainstorm in the history of Taru, and the power is beyond most people's imagination.

As if the heavens had poked a hole in the sky, the rain kept falling on the land of Taruru, causing flash floods and even damage to the streets.

Under such a terrible natural disaster, the royal family of Tarukuni seemed to be silent, and did not carry out disaster relief operations in time, but allowed parts of Tarukuni to be burst by the river.

Unable to work in the fields, the peasants could only wait at home for the torrential rain to subside, and lament one after another as they watched the crops flood the grain.

Since this summer, something bad has happened in Tarukuni, and His Majesty the Emperor was accidentally hit in the back by a wild boar during a royal hunt, and since then he has collapsed in bed and cannot move.

Now the government affairs of a country are in the hands of the crown prince Liu Kai, Liu Kai, who took over the various government affairs of the country for the first time, was overwhelmed by various things, and at the same time hoped that his father would die soon and pass the throne to him.

"Xie Zuo?"

The sound of coughing came from inside the emperor's bedroom.

"It's me, Your Majesty. The man replied in a low voice.

"Let him in...... Ahem, ahem. Liu Kang said, his voice old and muddy.

Xie Zuo shook off the water droplets on the oil-paper umbrella and walked into the room that emitted a gloomy red light, there was a brazier in the corner of the room, it was obviously summer, but the temperature in the room was suffocatingly high.

Liu Kang, the emperor of the bottle, was lying on the bed with his death, the two eunuchs were beside him, the crown prince Liu Kai watched his father pacing anxiously in front of the bed, and the queen sat on the edge of the bed holding Liu Kang's arm, with red and swollen eyes.

When Xie Zuo walked in, Liu Kang's eyes stared at him directly, Xie Zuo hated the stuffiness in the room, including the smell of death.

"Pour wine for the national teacher. Liu Kang commanded the two eunuchs with difficulty, Xie Zuo silently took the cup of the most famous platinum liquid in the bottled country, and looked at the old man on the bed, and his heart was filled with a rare sadness.

The old man was still wearing the gray silk royal robe, and his chest was covered with a mink fur lying quietly on the bed, and his originally sharp eyes were hollow at this time.

Liu Kang's eyes were gray and he couldn't see anything in it, since he was bruised by that damn boar, he had been lying on this bed, eating, drinking, and Lazar needed someone to serve him, and he was no different from a waste man, and many people wanted him to stretch his feet and go west.

Including the young national teacher who was called by him.

"Xie Zuo......"

Liu Kang could finally see his face, and whispered, "Come closer...... Let me see your face. ”

Xie Zuo didn't salute much, slowly sat on the edge of the bed, looked at the old spots on the old man's face, and said in a low voice: "The minister is here, what does Your Majesty command, the minister should go to death." ”

Liu Kang said with difficulty: "All the people will disappear to me, and I will talk to the National Teacher alone." ”

"Your Majesty, concubines......" the queen began.

"I have said, all the people will disappear to me, it is all people, except Xie Zuo!"

There was a bit of majesty in Liu Kang's tone, and the queen blessed the emperor with a calm face, picked up her skirt and turned around to leave the room.

The crown prince followed behind his mother, and many people bent over and left the room, leaving only Liu Kang and Xie Zuo in the whole room.

"Your Majesty, you are dying. ”

Xie Zuo's voice was unwavering, calmly recounting the facts as usual, and a handful of dusty white hair fell down to cover Liu Kang's face, making it impossible to see his expression.

He looked up at Xie Zuo and sighed angrily, "I had a dream just now, and I dreamed that I was slight." ”

"Yes, Princess Weiwei is still in Yinguo, and she and Chu San are ...... No, he should be called the son of Yinguo now, and the marriage date with the son of Yinguo is approaching, and you, as a father, should also go to Yinguo. ”

After a short silence, the old man's hand slowly tightened the futon, and he only felt sad and dazed in his heart.

He remembered many years ago when the little girl rode on his back and shouted to ride a big horse, and he knelt on the ground like a fool to ride her horse, and then he had other children, and he gradually forgot about the girl's existence, and did not remember her until her mother died, and he thought that maybe the damned boar was sent by the gods to punish him for his indifference to his family.

Sooner or later, everyone will die, and there is no such thing as an immortal king.

Liu Kang, the emperor of the Bottle State, built a wolf soldier from scratch, although he was ruthless but attached great importance to love and righteousness, he seemed to be very calm and low-key in the more than 40 years he ruled the Bottle Country, and never launched a war against any country, but no one dared to despise him, even so he ended up in the eyes of everyone and was not a human being.

His sons always wanted him to die of a terminal illness, and wanted him to leave the world sooner so that they could divide everything in the land.

After Liu Kang was hit by a wild boar and broke his back, many imperial doctors came to see his situation, perhaps no one can treat such a situation as a broken spinal spine, if such a thing is encountered by ordinary people, they will declare this person dead on the spot.

But Liu Kang has such a thing as Wang Xi in his body, and he has relied on Wang Xi to continue his life in the past few months, otherwise he would have died a long time ago.

Liu Kang was lying on the bed with a pale face, with a little blood on his pale lips, Xie Zuo silently looked at the old man who had run out of oil and the lamp was dry, and sighed softly.

Liu Kang suddenly asked, "Do you think Chu Xiaohua will have a chance to dominate the world after his death in the future?"

Xie Zuo replied cautiously: "Chu Xiaohua will push the northern front through the territory of the Central Plains, as long as he can win the Qing'an Dynasty, it is a matter of the overall situation to dominate the world, His Majesty will send Princess Weiwei to the Yin Kingdom It is a wise move, but I am afraid that after your death, the vassal kings of various places will rebel, and the princes and grandchildren will not be able to twist a rope, and I am afraid that a lot of troublesome things will happen after that." ”

Liu Kang tugged at the corners of his mouth and said: "It's chaotic, it's chaotic, no matter what happens to the Bottle Country after Lone dies, this country was snatched back by Lone, and it is a matter of course that he is robbed after Lone's death, whether he is a monstrous flood or the spread of war, a lone person who is about to die, what should he worry about? What can Lone worry about? The most powerful thing Lone has ever done in his life is to snatch this king chair, and it is considered to be comfortable to sit on it in this life, and it is also very good." ”

Xie Zuo hummed softly.

The old man took a breath and laughed at himself: "It would be good if Lone could live for another ten years, and then he is destined not to see the magnificent scenery of Yinguo Tieqi, I hope Xie Zuo can leave the Bottle Country and go to see it for Lone...... As for Weiwei, she's just a child...... She is the princess of Tarukoku...... But Gu couldn't give her anything...... But at least Lone can give her a dowry. ”

Liu Kang, in a state of extreme pain, weakly felt a shining pearl from the side of the bed.

Xie Zuo's eyes widened slightly, watching the old man stuff this Li Bead into his hand, and said with difficulty: "Bring this royal breath in this lonely body to Weiwei...... Whether she accepts it or not...... Lone Cai didn't want to be whipped by them after death to take the king's breath from Lone's body...... Send it to Yinguo to give Weiwei ...... I'm sorry for you. ”

"And your majesty, now?"

"Now the qi in the body is just the afterglow left by Wang Xi, it is the residue, and Gu will die soon...... There is something else I want to say to you. ”

Xie Zuo took the pearl containing the breath of Liu Kang very solemnly, and seemed to remember something again, and asked: "After your death, how should Liu Kan, the king of the Northern Capital, and Liu Zhun, the king of Tiannan, deal with them, and they can't let them mess up the Bottle Kingdom. ”

Liu Kang suddenly coughed, as if he was going to cough out his lungs, and waved his hand and said: "Regardless of them, the country is so big, even if they want to mess up, maybe the Yinguo side will take action in person." ”

Speaking of the Yinguo side, the dying emperor of the Bottle Kingdom, said helplessly: "After the Battle of the Golden Horde, Lone Gang and Chu Xiaohua became allies, but unfortunately the matter of leaving the north made the relationship between us very stiff, but I am always worried about what that man did, but as long as Lone reigns for one day, the Yinguo Iron Horse will not set foot in the territory of the Bottle Country for a day, and from the destruction of Xilin and Yan Mang, the decision made by Lone back then is correct." The Great Yin Dynasty has the power of the Great Qin Dynasty, the four famous generals who can fight well and hundreds of military ministers, dozens

There are iron horses that are enough to break through mountains and rivers, and there are many human weapons that ordinary people can't imagine...... cough cough cough, he is also a king in the world, but Lone envy everything he has, you say all day long that Lone is the divine right of the man of the Mandate of Heaven, but Lone feels that Chu Xiaohua is the real man of the Mandate of Heaven, Lone personally watched the Yin Kingdom under his rule Sheng Wuchang, the stronger the Yin State, the more Gu felt uneasy, and hoped that after Lone's death, the Bottle Country would not face the same fate as Yan Mang's Xilin. ”

Liu Kang and Chu Xiaohua, in a sense, both of them are usurpers, when Liu Kang killed the previous emperor to seize the imperial power of the Bottle State and called on the hundred officials of the Bottle Country in the name of Lone, Chu Xiaohua was still a baby drinking milk in swaddling clothes, Liu Kang never thought of the person who made him remember before he died, except for the daughter who married the Yinguo Kingdom far away, it was this man who made him afraid for the rest of his life.

The dying old man stretched out his hand and gently stroked the warm wall, this room used to be the place where the previous emperor of the Bottle Kingdom rested, after Liu Kang killed the emperor, he moved in the next day, I have to say that sleeping on the bed of the emperor of the previous dynasty His concubine is really a special flavor, the old man suddenly smiled: " After Lone gave his wife to the prince for his sexual pleasure, he had only one thought in his heart at that time, he was going to kill the prince and the emperor tonight, including all their imperial relatives and relatives were thrown away to feed the wolves, none of them could stay, if he succeeded, Lone would go to the emperor's bed to his woman the next day, if he failed, he couldn't be a dead thing, the reason why he wanted to be the emperor was because he was unwilling to be controlled by others all his life, and he didn't have to be afraid to think about when the emperor wanted a lonely head, and wanted a lonely woman and money。 Shinong businessman, Lone is the lowest kind of person, even if he holds thousands of family wealth, in the eyes of the people in the court, he is just a businessman with a copper smell, men want to save face, who wants to be lowered by others forever, Lone knows that you are scolding the lonely killer behind your back, Lone doesn't care, after all, you don't dare to scold in front of Lone, Lone can be regarded as having achieved the goal of being young, but people's ** has always changed, but the threshold of pain has also risen. After Lone became the emperor, he didn't want to be the king of the Northern Regions, but Lone was really not good at leading the troops to fight, and Xilin lost eight cities in a battle, and fought two battles with Yinguo to cut a continent, which made the people complain again and again, but fortunately, your father stood up and woke up Lone, saying that if you continue to fight like this, not to mention whether you can be the king of the Northern Regions, even the emperor of the Bottle Country can't be the emperor, which Lone is grateful to your father, but your father later rebelled with Lone's eldest son, Lone really couldn't bear it anymore and killed them, fortunately, you didn't resent Lone, and became Lone's national teacher for Lone's eyes on those who wanted to rebel, but you also know that if Lone left, Who will suppress the sons of those vassal kings, Lone knows that they have been enduring it all along, and each of them saw that incident back then, seeing that the blood flowed on the court, and finally flowed into their hearts, and finally they all became more sleek and smarter, and the reason why they have not been with Lone

They did it, thinking that they would only start to act after Lone died. The courtiers in the court are also cunning and cunning, who they support and who they oppose in private, and they don't know until they die, the prince ...... cough cough cough, the prince is still too young, how can he fight his brothers, even if he can fight his brothers, he can't beat Chu Xiaohua, the bottle country will fall into his bag sooner or later, he died too early, and he will leave before you and I have a big plan, and in the end it is still a little bitter!"

Xie Zuo's face was dull, and his nails were firmly sunk into the palms of his hands, leaving a distinct trace of blood on Liu Kang's bed.

Liu Kang seemed to have been depressed for a long time and said it in one breath, his face gradually appeared flushed, gently knocked on the wall next to the bed, and said: "The prince doesn't know what will happen in the future, thinking that everything will be fine if he sits on the lonely king's chair, and the lone wolf will die in a group of wolves, and blindly fighting to the death with his brother will only kill himself." The battle of the world is already the trend of the times, I didn't believe that Chu Xiaohua could defeat the Daqing Dynasty, but now I have to believe it, the Yin State and the Qing State have the extreme war power in their hands, the previous strategy is no longer useful, all the strategies will be destroyed before the absolute power, the pattern of confrontation between the north and the south has been formed, even half of the western border is the Yin country, and soon they will throw all the hole cards that can be used on the battlefield, even the bottle country will be affected by this war, no country can be alone, since this is the general trend of the world, there is no way to reverse the pattern, but Wei Wei is also married to the prince of the Yin country, only by relying on her bottle country will the chance of survival be a little greater. ”

Xie Zuo suddenly understood what Liu Kang meant, tried his best to suppress the tremor in his heart, and asked, "When will that minister go to Yinguo." ”

Liu Kang's eyes were gloomy and he said, "Now everyone will be staring at you, and after Lone's body is burned to ashes, you can leave." ”

The old man has never liked to talk about this kind of military affairs, and he is obviously a little tired after saying so many things tonight, and he can't hide the upset in his eyes.

Liu Kang slowly closed his eyes, thinking about a clean after death.

"Your Majesty, don't do this, this country needs you. "

Xie Zuo's calm tone was full of sadness at this time, and Liu Kang held his hand tightly and squeezed it hard, as if he was getting some warmth from this cold-blooded courtier.

"Xie Zuo, you...... I'm not going to lie, this country ...... The country is well ...... What kind of faint monarch is Lone, but Lone is at least not a tyrant, Lone is not Chu Xiaohua...... What he can do, he can only watch. ”

"No," Xie Zuo told the dying king, "Your Majesty, you are not the same as Chu Xiaohua. You are so much better than him. ”

Liu Kang barely squeezed out a smile, and his smile was mocking of himself.

Xie Zuo sighed heavily and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, I know how to do it." ”

Liu Kang said with difficulty: "Let's let it go for now."

Liu Kai is going to inherit the throne of me, but Wang Xi doesn't plan to give him such a thing...... If the rest of the people don't mess around, they ...... Leave them alive. ”

Xie Zuo said very calmly: "I will do these things well." ”

"Then the lonely will be relieved. ”

Before he died, Liu Kang looked deeply at this young national teacher who had done his best for the government of a country, and asked with a smile: "To be honest, have you ever hated what Gu did to your family, and have you ever thought about killing Gu in your heart, now that Gu is giving you this opportunity, it is better to send Gu on the road with your hand." ”

Xie Zuo was noncommittal about this, and said to himself: "Your Majesty, take a good rest, the minister doesn't want to carry your blood on his hands and bring your royal breath to Princess Weiwei." ”

In the long silence, Liu Kang took one last look at Xie Zuo and Xie Zuo.

Xie Zuo couldn't understand his eyes, those eyes were filled with sighs, or care from elders.

Whatever was in that look, it was now slowly closed, like being extinguished by a broken candle.

Xie Zuo slowly clenched the Li Zhu that the old man stuffed into his hand, and at a certain moment, Xie Zuo wanted to crush the Li Zhu and seize his royal breath in front of him, laughing at the old man with mocking revenge.

It wasn't until he came back to his senses that he found his hand on the old man's forehead, and the old man's eyes suddenly opened, and his pupils were moist like a child full of anticipation.

"Xie Zuo, can you forgive Gu?"

"I forgive you, if Your Majesty sees my dead parents, help me tell them that I am fine, but I miss them very much. ”

Liu Kang smiled and said: "Lonely, your father has a good son, and Lonely...... In the end there was nothing. ”

These words were like a sharp dagger inserted into Xie Zuo's heart, and he suddenly didn't know what to do, he remembered the picture of his father's tragic death, and remembered his mother and sister who died in the wolf's den, but the initiator in front of him made him unable to hate, "I will take care of Weiwei...... Love her like your own sister. Xie Zuo said with tears streaming down his face.

Xie Zuo gently smoothed his gray hair, and finally hugged him in his arms like hugging his father, whimpering and sobbing in his mouth.

"Long live Your Majesty, long live, long live, long live......"

"Flat...... Excuse me. These were the king's last words.

Xie Zuo hugged the dead king, burst into tears, and said with resolute eyes: "Your Majesty, rest in peace, the ministers will help you take care of the rivers and mountains of this bottle country, and will also bring Wei Wei to your chair to be the empress of the bottle country!"

(End of this chapter) I want to talk about "The Throne of the Apocalypse" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~