Chapter 13 [What is Needed]
86_86259 "Because what they need is stability, not war," Qianyi said in a deep voice with an indifferent expression.
"Isn't it just that I fought on the battlefield so that they could live a stable and good life? Why did they cheer and applaud my fall so much? ”
Mu Feng's heart trembled, and then he looked at Qian Yi with a puzzled expression.
"And what do you think of their lives now?" Qian Yi asked in a deep voice.
"It's so comfortable that it's all rotten and paralyzed"
Mu Feng's eyes changed slightly, and the most difficult thing to conquer was precisely this rotten human heart.
"Wrong~ Big mistake. You only see the imperial capital, because your identity No matter where you go, the local officials will give you a good side, what is the daily life of tens of millions of people who worship the moon, and you will never see the most real side. Regions are not representative of the whole. ”
Qian Yi snorted coldly and said loudly towards Mu Fengzhi.
Looking at Qian Yi, who had a stern expression in front of him and was a little indignant, Mu Feng didn't know what to say. He hadn't thought about these problems from beginning to end, and he wasn't unaware of the people's suffering, but all he needed to think about every day was to find a way to solve the enemy in front of him, and that's it.
Although he had heard of these for a long time, he had always believed that his father and brother in the palace could handle them, and they were the strongest backing for him to fight on the battlefield.
"Pain is only temporary"
After a moment of silence, Mu Feng exhaled deeply.
"Temporary? Hehe, when you walk out of this Moon City, you will know what is temporary and what is never-ending. Once you understand this, you won't think like that. ”
Qian Yi replied coldly.
In the evening, Mu Feng hid in a big wooden box under Qianyi's arrangement and was taken out of Yuecheng, the imperial capital of the moon by a group of merchants, thinking that it would be very difficult to get out of the city, but he didn't expect that the sergeants guarding the door didn't even bother to ask after Qianyi gave some gold coins and let him go directly. Going out of the city is extraordinarily smooth.
According to Qianyi's words, it is that the people complain about themselves, and they are ruthless and have no friends in Moon City all the year round except for the royal family, so they would never have thought that someone would secretly help them escape from Moon City.
After a bumpy journey, the group finally came to an official road with many merchants and pedestrians during the day more than ten miles away from Yuecheng at midnight in the bright moon sky, and took a short rest.
Qianyi also asked those merchants to unload the big box containing Mu Feng on the spot after paying, and these merchants did not do this kind of shady business on weekdays, in their hearts, Mu Feng may just be a criminal who is being pursued by the government.
They are more willing to do this kind of long-term business than to get a reward for short-term reporting, Mu Feng, who has curled his body in the box for a few hours, is a little sore all over, standing next to the bonfire lit by these merchants and constantly pinching his body.
"What did he do?"
A middle-aged merchant who was eating dry food and had a beard on his face glanced at Mu Feng on the side and asked lightly.
"Killed a person"
Without waiting for Mu Feng to answer, Qian Yi, who was standing beside him, answered for him, and his voice seemed very relaxed, giving people a sparse and ordinary feeling.
"Oh~ was discovered? We took your money, but we just promised to take people out of town."
The merchant nodded and looked at Qianyi and said.
"Yes, we'll leave later. It won't bother you! ”
Qian Yi smiled slightly, he naturally knew the meaning of this person's words.
In the middle of the night, when the group was encamped and asleep, Mu Feng sat on a rock and looked at the direction of Yuecheng alone, the mountains and forests in front of him could only see the outline of the dark night under the illumination of the moonlight, and there was a dim light in the sky, Mu Feng knew that it was where Yuecheng was located, at this moment, the lights of ten thousand homes illuminated the sky, although the distance was not very far, but the mountain road was rugged, and the mountains and forests hindered the sight.
"Tell me, where are you going now?"
I don't know when Qianyi came to Mu Feng's side with sleepy eyes, looked at Mu Feng, who had no sleepiness and a calm expression, and asked in a low voice.
"What about you?" Mu Feng shook his head, and now he really doesn't know where to go, although he has a lot of things to do in his heart, but he has no clue for a while.
"Me? I don't have as much family hatred and national hatred as you, anyway, I've always been alone. So it's the same everywhere," Qian Yi shrugged his shoulders indifferently and smiled lightly.
"Alone? What about your home? ”
Mu Feng turned his head to look at him with some curiosity, although Qianyi didn't look like a child of a rich family, he didn't dress like a child from a poor family, how could he be a person at such a young age?
"Well, when I was young, I was adopted by a hunter, and the old man died not long ago. Before I died, let me find a random fairy gate to see if there was a fairy fate, and I would have no worries about food and clothing when I entered the fairy gate. So I sold the old man's belongings, and it was just some skins. ”
Qian Yi touched his nose and thought for a while before replying.
"And then?" Mu Feng asked curiously.
"Then people didn't want me, saying that I didn't have the talent to practice. I don't know what to do, so I won't go back to the mountains and inherit the old man's hunting business, right? So I thought about coming to Moon City to see if I could find a mercenary group to play with," Qian Yi smiled lightly.
"Hehe, you are an old man, old man, don't you have feelings for that Orion?"
Mu Feng asked with a bitter smile.
"He didn't call me a cub, that's it, that's all I have to do. But where are you going now? Qianyi waved his hand and said.
In the face of his inquiry, Mu Feng looked into the distance after letting out a light sigh.
"Well, since you don't know what to do for a while, I'll take you to see what kind of stability you believe in is. There's a little village a few miles away from here, and we'll go there at dawn."
After waiting for a moment and still not seeing Mu Feng's answer, Qianyi made his own decision.
Mu Feng was also curious about the real people's aquatic and fiery life in his mouth, and he also wanted to see what the empire under his family's control was like now.
In the middle of the night, Mu Feng followed Qianyi to the small village he said, dozens of dilapidated wooden houses gathered together under the moonlight, and a mottled stone road ran through it, and it seemed that there were no people at all from a distance.
A few dozen meters away from the village, close to the woods, there are several lonely graves, and there are some incense, candles, and paper money around the graves.
"What are you bringing me here to see?"
Mu Feng frowned slightly, looked around and asked.
"Wait, you'll know when it's dawn." Qian Yi replied with a slight smile.
The moon sets and the sun rises, when a ray of sunlight shines on the earth, the noise in the distance also wakes up Mu Feng, who has just fallen asleep, and stands up to see where the small village in the distance is still as depressed and deserted as last night, and all kinds of people are flowing on the bluestone road that runs through the whole village, and there are many horse-drawn carriages on the official road in the distance.
"Why are there so many people?" Mu Feng was surprised.
"This is a small bazaar closest to the national capital, and many transactions that cannot be done in the imperial capital are done here. Have you noticed the difference? ”
Qian Yi asked softly as he pointed to the bustling small village in the distance.
Mu Feng also carefully observed it carefully, and after a while, the expression on his face gradually became stiff, and it didn't take long for his fists to clench and his teeth to clench.
"It's only a few miles away from Moon City, can there be men in this village? Their sons, husbands, and fathers were all transferred to the front because of your so-called stability, and many of them never came back. ”
Qian Yi noticed the change in the expression on Mu Feng's face and nodded slightly, it seemed that this trip was the right one.
Mu Feng's eyes were angry as he stared at a pair of children in the distance who were sending a pair of children into a carriage, ignoring the children's crying and grinning and counting the gold coins in his hand, Mu Feng didn't know that the folk customs had deteriorated to such a point.
"These are not human traffickers, it's good for people here to sell their children and daughters, at least the people who buy their children are high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Moon City. It's not for nothing that there is a place where Yi Zi eats, and this is not as good as the demon beasts in the distance. In the eyes of other empires, the moon worshippers are strong and the country is rich and the people are strong, but these moon worshippers may yearn for the life of a small country where you can destroy them with a military order."
After listening to Qianyi's words, Mu Feng also exhaled deeply, and felt a little heavy in his heart, pressing him out of breath.
"It's so close to the imperial capital, can you imagine what other places are like? Even if you are out fighting and winning consecutive battles, they will not be happy, they will not support you, but will poke you in the back, look at their appearance without clothing and food, only rely on the relief of some Xianmen cultivators to survive, sell children and daughters, do you now understand why everyone is so happy about your plight? “
Qian Yi pointed to the mountains and green forests on his side, and said in a passionate voice.
Facing Qianyi's questioning, Mu Feng finally fell into silence and lowered his head silently, not knowing what he was thinking.
In front of the mountain temple, after listening to the story behind the two of them, especially Mu Feng, who was so down, Siyin's eyes widened even more, and he didn't come back to his senses for a while.
"You killed your brother?"
I don't know how long it has been, but Siyin came back to his senses and said in horror.
Siyin's sudden question made Mu Feng instantly feel that the scar in his heart had been uncovered again. His eyes slowly became rosy, and Qianyi on the side hurriedly reached out and pulled Siyin's sleeve.
The speaker was unintentional but the listener was intentional, and Siyin's cold words made the atmosphere instantly cold to the extreme.
Mu Feng's expression was a little stiff, and the man didn't flick his tears but didn't get to the sad place. Although there was no mention of it, the tears could not stop dripping, which was heartbreaking.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."
Siyin, who had been grinning all the time, seemed to be touched when he saw the tears that came out of Mu Feng's eyes, and looked at him with a soft voice and slightly apologetic eyebrows