Chapter 498: Blood Raven
"βI lied, I didn't touch a single hair of him, he was too strong! My companions died by his sword, and more than a thousand people died!"
The two strong men grabbed his arms and flipped him over, making him powerless to resist and could only sit and wait, "I don't want to die." When he said this, half of his face was stained red with the blood that had been spit out.
He kept begging for mercy: "I will forget everything that happened today, I swear, I will not go to the court to sue the royal court, spare me, I don't want to die - I haven't married a wife and had children, I don't want to die like this." β
Someone gently threw out the sentence, "Many of us died without even having a chance to marry and have children." β
"What are you going to do?" Zhao Dashi knew that this question was stupid, but he just couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, "You actually dare to kill people casually in the Daqing Dynasty, His Majesty the Emperor will send dragoons to kill you all!"
"Let's wait for him to find us first, besides, no one in the Yin Kingdom is afraid of your dragoons now, and Chu Xiaohua has the Iron Shura Legion in his hands. Someone glanced at poor Zhao Dashidao.
"Any last words?"
"βWait a minute!"
"Forget it if you don't have it, we can't remember anyway, it's time to hit the road now. β
As soon as Zhao Dashi wanted to open his mouth to plead, the blade blocked all his words, and his soul began to slowly leave his body, and everything became illusory.
He spasmed and struggled, reaching out and kicking the Ravens around him, as if he saw pitch-black wings spread out behind them.
Countless terrible screams resounded in the inn, and finally soared into the sky.
After a long time, Zhao Dashi's corpse turned into a delicious meal for the crows today, and everyone sat on the bench of the inn, and no one cared about the bloody and bloody thing.
As for the woman surnamed Jiang with the cloak, the guard chief of the six guards of the Crow Qi Guard, silently poured herself a drink, dozens of her subordinates were leaning against the wall, and one of the men who knew her true identity was a little strange in his heart, thinking that the people in their Crow Qi Wei were really strange people, especially this guard commander could drink so calmly in front of the corpses.
Overhead, dozens of crows, attracted by the smell of blood in the inn, landed on the roof of the inn without even a sharp crow.
These crows were raised by the people of the Six Guards, and they were specially used to send information and deal with corpses, and they ate so much that they could eat all the bones.
The brocade guards of the Daqing Dynasty pursued the whereabouts of these mysterious killers in various places, trying to catch them all, but none of them could have imagined that these black-clothed killers had already pierced the search lines of various places in the Daqing Dynasty, and they were only one step away from their capital Sunset, and they were drinking in this small inn at this time.
Raven Qi
The people of the six guards were secretly searching for Chu Xuanzhao's whereabouts in various parts of the Daqing Dynasty, and in this land far from the northern regions, the crow guards showed unimaginable survivability, they searched for the flow of people from the various dock post stations, trying to find a trace of the clues from them, and they did not waste a trace of time in the whole process.
Compared with the rest of the five guards who were busy, their six guards used the crow hunting to carry out a large-scale search operation, and Jiang Tang, the head of the six guards, even got a powerful clue from the cocoon, which was enough to prove that Chu Xianzhao had been to Guhe City, and learned from the local population that a person with white hair and purple eyes had appeared in this vicinity.
When they planned to look for them from house to house in Guhe City, the news that the Golden Dragon Sailor was slaughtered reached their ears, Jiang Tang vaguely felt that this matter might be related to the arrival of Chu Xianzhao, so he led his men to pursue all the way in the direction of the destruction of the Golden Dragon Sailor, so that they could find Zhao Dashi, the fish caught in the net, and finally follow him all the way.
Obviously, he could directly catch him and torture him to ask about Chu Xianzhao's whereabouts, but Jiang Tang seemed to enjoy this feeling of winning the hunt for prey, so he set this inn trap for him to tease him, and found out Chu Zhao's true whereabouts from his mouth, or relying on Chu Zhao's unforgettable purple eyes.
Time passed slowly, and Zhao Dashi's corpse was dragged out by the crows, attracting more crows to peck at him, and everyone looked at Jiang Tang, who was drinking with his eyes closed, with a look of adoration on his face.
The reason why they were able to avoid the pursuit of Jinyiwei on this side of the Southern Continent and so arrogantly plundered information relied on this woman's keen intuition.
Every time they walked on their front feet, the brocade guards would follow, and the moment they pushed open the door, they often saw only an empty room, in which not even a single crow's feather remained.
For Jiang Tang, it is not difficult to avoid the pursuit of Jinyiwei, the most headache for her is the whereabouts of Chu Xianzhao, from the image of the white-haired young man described by the people of Guhe City, Jiang Tang can't piece together Chu Zhaozhao's original appearance no matter what, the only thing he can believe is the pair of purple pupils, and his intuition tells her that the white-haired and purple-pupiled young man is Chu Xianzhao.
Hopefully, there won't be a second person on the Nanriku side with purple eyes.
After Jiang Tang drank the last glass of wine, he ordered: "Tell the other guards that Chu Xuanzhao's whereabouts have been known to our six guards, and the next plan is to go to Luoyang City to find his whereabouts, once I find his whereabouts, tell me as soon as possible, and I will have an in-depth communication with him, and I will bear all the consequences, before I use the crow to inform them, the rest of the people will each disguise their fake identities, and they must not alarm anyone in Luoyang City, understand?"
"Understood!"
Of course, she herself also knew about the Six Kings entering the Falling Sun, and in the eyes of the Daqing Imperial Court, this matter was the most important, and they were just a few of the dragon's eyes
It's just a crow, it's not worth the attention of Emperor Daqing, if they know that Chu Xianzhao is in Luoyang City at this time, I'm afraid that he will be arrested with all the strength of the whole country, and it will be Yinguo who will be curbed at that time.
If the whole army was crushed by such an existence as the Daqing Dragoon, no matter how powerful the army was, it would be burned to ashes in front of them, and the land under their feet would also become a wasteland.
Thinking of the danger brought by the leakage of the news, Jiang Tang's face slowly turned ugly, and someone stood beside her and said in a low voice: "Jiang Weichang, we must quickly persuade His Royal Highness the Prince to leave this land of tigers and wolves, once Daqing wants to make a move......"
Jiang Tang sighed lightly and said: "Of course I know how dangerous our situation is now, Daqing Jinyiwei has been chasing us, Chu Xiaohua said that either Chu Xianzhao will follow us back, or we will die with him in Nanlu, Chu Zhaozhao is a native of Yinguo, I don't know for what stupid reason he defected on his wedding day, even if we find him, he will do something to us at any time, and now there are enemies inside and outside, it is not people who say that it is us Crow Qiwei." β
Jiang Tang knew what he was going to do in Nanlu, part of it was Emperor Yinhuang's order, and part of it was the old man's acquiescence.
Now that Chu Xianzhao's true whereabouts have been revealed, she has become more and more firm in the thoughts in her heart, "In addition to finding Chu Xianzhao, we also need to find out how powerful the Daqing Dynasty is now, and how many of the six princes and kings are willing to be enemies of the Yin Kingdom and even the Northern Regions." β
But now the biggest problem is Chu Xianzhao, his strength is obvious to everyone, if one person can defeat a thousand horses, it is not a casual boast, even if they have thousands of people in the land of the Southern Continent, they still did not forcibly take away Chu Xianzhao's self-confidence.
That young man is not a useless embroidered pillow, and he personally stepped out of a road full of blood and fire in Yan Mang and Shuyue, and he is worthy of being the biological son of the Iron Emperor Chu Xiaohua, even stronger than Chu Xiaohua back then.
Jiang Tang couldn't believe that this child could break through the army defense line of Lin'an City, fled all the way out of Yinguo, and crossed the sunrise sea by boat to reach the land of the Daqing Dynasty.
What the hell is he going to do in Luoyang, if it is just to avoid Chu Xiaohua's pursuit, why do he need to come to such a dangerous place, isn't Luoyang City more dangerous to him than Yinguo?
Jiang Tang looked at the snow-covered mountains and forests, and said in an indifferent voice: "My compatriots in the west, you must know that our prince Su Changqing died in his hands, and the emperor Su Shuntian died in the hands of Chu Xiaohua, even if he is of great significance to our westward restoration, he is still likely to become our trouble, or we can turn him into our people." β
Before she left the Yin Kingdom, she learned the truth about Chu Xuanzhao's departure from the Yin Kingdom from the old man's mouth, this truth has little meaning to her, but it is for the whole world
In other words, this truth may be like a huge meteor that has fallen into the capital, plunging the entire world dynasty into a crazy controversy, and the terrible truth weighs on everyone's hearts, especially the hearts of kings.
Before the emergence of the Tianxia Dynasty, before the rise of the Han Dynasty, every inch of land in the world belonged to Daqin, and Xianyang, the capital of Daqin, was located on the land of today's Xilin, and even many years ago some people claimed that the people of Xilin were the descendants of Daqin, and they had the blood of the ancestors of Daqin.
The old man saw the luck of Daqin reappear in this world through Wangqi, and gradually grew stronger with the luck of Yinguo, I don't know why, Chu Xianzhao actually carried the luck of the Great Qin Dynasty, and finally took a woman in black who had an inextricable relationship with Daqin, and left Lin'an City with a behemoth.
Some people say that the monster that suddenly appeared in the sky over Lin'an City was destroyed by Emperor Yin's Iron Shura Legion, and the prince also died in the catastrophe of that day, in fact, he just left Nanlu and came to the capital of the Daqing Dynasty.
Fan Ningjiang handed her a small bag before she set off, and let her land on the Southern Continent before opening it.
When she opened the bag, there was only a note with eight large characters written in it.
Daqin will prosper, and it will prosper in the dragon sparrow.
Jiang Tang tilted his head slightly in front of these eight words and took a deep breath.
The predecessor of the Xilin Dynasty was the Great Qin Dynasty, and the people of the West were all bleeding with the blood of the ancestors of the Great Qin, and now the luck of the Great Qin appeared from the world again with Chu Xuanzhao as the coordinate point, so Chu Xuanzhao is the real emperor of Xilin today.
She seemed to see that when the big red city was broken through the city gate by the Yinguo Iron Cavalry that year, she saw the thick black smoke from the burning of the pavilion and smelled the burnt fragrance of human flesh.
No matter what happened back then, the woman's cold and snow-white face rarely showed a hint of ruddy, and her perennial slightly squinted eyes slowly opened, and the inside was no longer as clear and moving as in the past, as if the fire of revenge was burning.
Jiang Tang's hand clenched into a fist, his voice was indifferent and close to cruelty, and said: "I want to watch him die in my lifetime, only when that man dies, can the soul of Xilin really close his eyes, and the descendants of Xilin can really feel at ease, and no longer be scolded as a lost dog." Yes, we need Chu Xuanzhao, we need the power embodied in him, but we can't let him know that we have to use him to deal with Chu Xiaohua, even if he wants to deal with Chu Xiaohua. β
"What do you want to do, Captain Guard?" asked her a man who could be called a confidant.
The man, who seemed to be closest to Jiang Tang in the eyes of everyone, actually didn't know anything about her private life, but knew that Jiang Tang liked to practice calligraphy and copy poetry, and was not interested in anything else.
By the way, she also likes to kill people and raise crows, and that's all there is to her life.
"I want to give way
No one understands what I'm doing now, including you, just do what we tell you to do, and don't ask anything else, unless you feel like your tongue is redundant. β
As a member of the Raven Qiwei, the Raven Qiwei who does not ask questions is the best Raven Qiwei.
It is a kind of absolute ruthlessness in the execution of orders, killing people without thinking, and completing tasks with maximum efficiency.
A crow that had eaten the corpse landed on her shoulder, its sharp claws pierced into her shoulder, and she said softly as if she didn't feel pain: "Chu Xiaohua asked me to find his son, now we are also close to the water and get the moon first, and when we find this round of moon, we can turn him into a scorching sun hanging on the Daqing Dynasty." β
Her subordinates were puzzled by what she said, but she didn't intend to explain it to them, she reached out and stroked the crow's feathers, and her slender jade-like fingers wiped the blood from the crow's beak and slowly wiped it onto her own mouth.
The rouge smeared on Jiang Tang's mouth, after being stained with blood, made her face more and more bewitching, like a thousand-year-old snake cultivating into an adult.
Her strange behavior made the crow guards even more in awe, but no one dared to say anything in front of her.
Dozens of crows flew above them, whistling away, and the crows were in the woods.
ββ
As the Lower Yuan Festival approached, the snow began to rise in Sunset City.
The next five or six days were easy and plain for Chu Xianzhao, so plain that he even felt as if he had lived here since he was a child.
There is still a period of time before the day when the six princes and kings come to Sunset, and the Yin Kingdom has also died down since the Battle of Concubine Pass, and I don't know what Chu Xiaohua's next move will be.
Now as long as there is a little wind and grass in the northern region, it will be regarded as a precursor to war, and the name Chu Xiaohua can stop crying and make the courtiers who are looking far away become frightened birds.
The city of the setting sun is still a prosperous and beautiful scene, just like a pleasant lake, but the bottom of the lake has long been undercurrent, shrimp pond fish and dragon temporarily live in harmony, but they don't know that the deepest darkness at the bottom of the lake hides something more terrible than the dragon.
In the past few days, Chu Xianzhao has been familiar with the people and things in Luoyang City, and he also accompanied the eldest lady to meet the nobles of the Luoyang City, most of them are businessmen, and some are courtiers like Lu Qi, all of whom were relatives and friends of Shen Sanqian when he was an official in the imperial court in the past.
Roe deer, cunning and cunning, this is Chu Xianzhao's only impression of most of them, looking at him is like a fox examining its prey, and there is still a bit of hatred in it that makes Chu Xianzhao speculate.
Fortunately, Chu Xianzhao was neither humble nor arrogant in front of them, although the identity of an illegitimate child made his existence a little difficult to talk about, and no one dared to speak disrespectfully in front of him with the eldest lady standing beside him, and he didn't know what ugly things he would say behind his back, and Chu Xianzhao didn't want to go
Guess.
The Tianxia Dynasty is very unwelcome to the existence of illegitimate children, the law does not protect them, and everyone can kill them, so the eldest lady is very worried about his life safety, and plans to go to the household department to naturalize the Shen family for him.
All in all, now far away from the Northern Regions, without Chu Xiaohua's pursuit, without Ying Liyang's company, the people around him are both strange and familiar, Chu Xianzhao can't talk about the loneliness of leaving his hometown, and his deep hatred for Chu Xiaohua has gradually subsided, and he even understands Chu Xiaohua's actions a little.
The father can understand his son's rebellion and even forgive his betrayal, but the emperor cannot.
Chu Xianzhao felt that this kind of rich young master's life seemed to be more comfortable than being a prince in the Dayin Palace, and accompanied the eldest lady to meet the dignitaries in the city, and taught Shen Huayu to learn the sword while the two would also fight, and the gentle woman named Shen Chuxia would always look at him quietly, and when he noticed it, he would bow his head with a blushing face, and a few good-looking slender fingers twisted the corners of his clothes.
There are thousands of doors and rooms in the Shen family's manor, and its architectural luxury is by no means inferior to the Daqing Palace, Chu Xianzhao is very comfortable to live in, but the only thing that makes him feel inappropriate is that there are too many women in this manor.
The women in the backyard sat around a courtyard and played leaf cards, the sound of dominoes colliding was endless, and they didn't dare to say anything about them, and they often ran to the small lake alone in a daze, feeling that this place was too yin and yang.
The eldest lady was willing to take care of herself because of Shen Sanqian's instructions, but the others didn't have too many worries about herself, the nominal "illegitimate child", and it was not easy to gain a firm foothold in this city.
Chu Xianzhao is the same, and the eldest lady is just as bitter, especially after Shen Sanqian was demoted from Guhe City, she had to carry the entire family on the weak shoulders of a woman, not only to sit in charge of the affairs of the Shen family's commercial house, but also to manage the men, women and children up and down the mansion.
If it weren't for the eldest lady to support her, I am afraid that after Shen Sanqian left Luoyang City, the members of those families would be like tarsal ants that would hollow out the Shen family's property.
In order to maintain the stability and order of this family, Chu Xianzhao didn't dare to imagine how much this woman had paid, which reminded him of the Empress of Shuyue who was silently carrying the entire dynasty forward.
There are always some women in the world who are reluctant to hold a man's hand, preferring to hold the sword and power in their hands tightly, and silently carry the whole world forward, because the man's hand will be released at any time, and he may not even be able to walk when the time comes.
The bitterness and pain in it can only be chewed silently, like swallowing blood into the stomach.
(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~