Chapter 333: A Gentleman's Covenant
"The rebel dares to question and desires reform, very good, very good, and does not know whose rebellion you are looking for. ”
At this moment, Ikyu did not show weakness, his eyes shining with wisdom, staring at Hessey impartially.
But in Hessey's eyes, Ikyu began to slowly perceive the other party's loneliness.
But after seeing Hessey sigh deeply, he walked around the palatial quiet room, and stretched out his hand to signal Ikyu to sit down first.
Then, after the two of them took a sip of the goat's milk tea that had been prepared for a long time, Hessey suddenly asked, "I don't know, is Master Yixiu interested in hearing my story?"
Ikyu didn't want to listen, but he couldn't do anything but nod his head and pricked up his ears to listen.
Immediately, Hessai's eyes became more and more lonely, and even Yixiu saw a few tears in his eyes.
For some reason, Hessey suddenly understood his sleeves, and when he looked down, he was surprised to find that Hesse's arms were covered with gray scars the size of centipedes.
As a prince, the future third heir of a country, he should be pampered, no matter how low his status is, he should not have such a encounter, in addition to being a little surprised, he has added a few doubts.
"My name is Hessey, and I was born in the country of Hehuo. My mother was a servant in the royal palace, and my father, as you should know, was the great and loving king of the Burning Kingdom. ”
From these words, Ikyu could hear that Hessey was full of resentment towards the old king, who was his father.
However, Ikyu did not make a statement at the first time and continued to listen.
As a result, Hessey said with a confused look in his eyes, "It is said that it was a night of thunder and lightning. ”
Yixiu's eyes lit up, thunder and lightning! Night! Immediately came to the spirit, open anticipation, what earth-shattering story is Hessey going to tell next, what is he anxious about what happened after the thunder and lightning?
"She met him, and then she fell in love with him, but he didn't love her. ”
When Ikyu heard this, he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood, which caused a huge gap in his heart from his full expectations, but Hessey continued to talk about himself.
"Then she was angry with me, but she was disliked by the king for being too lowly, so she was tied to the cross and burned to death. ”
At this moment, Ikkyu could see that Hessey had clenched his fists tightly, and his snort suddenly became much heavier.
"Later, I was kept in a pigsty by the king, and I lived ten gloomy days with many slaves. ”
"For ten years the king sent his servants every day to see me, and they saw me as a child, and for ten years they did not speak, thinking that I was dumb and could not lie, and beat me every day until I was almost dead. ”
At this time, Ikyu casually glanced at the scarred scar on Hessai's hand and couldn't help but understand.
"During those long ten years, while I received the etiquette from the nobility, I lived less than a servant, a fifth-class person, a kind of people, more happy, more painful than them, and more cruel than they tasted. ”
"But in the past ten years, I have met a lot of people who have helped me, and although they are from very low backgrounds, they are very kind, full of hope for life, and have taught me a lot. ”
And at this time, Ikyu suddenly saw unconcealed happiness on Hessey's face.
This kind of thing is not something that can be pretended, but from the heart, undisguised nostalgia for those who have helped him, and the sadness that is inadvertently revealed.
Sure enough, Ichixiu listened to Hessey again.
"It was also in the past ten years that I learned about my father, who was a king, who was hypocritical on the surface, but in fact he was insensitive, brutal, and reckless, shouting for peace while invading other countries and making the people miserable. ”。
Speaking of this, Hessey seemed to recall something he didn't want to recall, his eyes turned red, he gritted his teeth, and pinched his sore head with his hand before continuing.
"And the most excessive thing about him was the suppression of caste, reaching the highest point of the kings, and when I was ten years old, he took me back to the palace, and he killed all my friends, uncles and aunts, and even the one hundred and eighty-year-old grandfather Ana. ”
"At the time, I was angry, I was angry, but I knew I couldn't show it, because if I did, I might be brutally killed like them!!"
After listening quietly, Hessey told a lot of stories, but the rest of the story was not painful or itchy, and told some stories about how he was bullied and humiliated by his brothers and sisters after entering the palace.
Another thing that Yixiu particularly noticed was that at the end of Hessai's story, he also made a point of mentioning that when he was eighteen years old, he met Magnolia Alice, the Duke of Magnolia, who had come to the royal city to meet the old king.
And by chance, she recognized this Duke of Magnolia as her godsister.
Speaking of which, Ikyu has already understood that the third prince Hessey, who seems to be noble on the surface, actually has an unbearable childhood.
Because his mother was the lowest servant, his father killed her mother with his own hands in order to save face, and imprisoned him in a pig pen for ten years.
However, Ikkyu didn't come to listen to the story until today, and Hessey couldn't be simple, just to tell her a story, and Ikkyu also grasped some key points.
So, after waiting for Hessey to calm down, Ikyu asked.
"Amitabha, have you ever thought about changing your current situation?"
Hessey's eyes lit up suddenly, and he jerked his head back and looked at Ikyu, only to have his eyes foggy again, and he turned his head back to the ceiling and muttered to himself.
"I've thought about it, I've thought about changing the status quo, and I don't want those poor people to have to suffer so much just because they were born different, I don't think it's fair. ”
"I think that a king should not be born, but a capable one, and as a king, he should not be above all people, nor should he be superficially benevolent, but let his people, each and every one of them, live well, without any oppression, and have bread and milk to drink at every meal. ”
In fact, Ichiyu slowly heard that after experiencing a miserable life, the third prince actually began to germinate the idea of opposing the aristocratic law, and at the same time especially advocating the equality of all people, advocating that the monarch should implement benevolent government.
So Yixiu opened his mouth and echoed, "The monarch should be kind and benevolent, and the people can carry the boat and capsize the boat, which is the taboo of the monarch."
This sentence went directly to Hessey's heart, and Hessey listened to his rambling memories, suddenly got up and bowed deeply to Ikyu, and said eloquently.
"For the next fifteen years, I was thinking about how to change my situation and what I should do, until I met Master Ikkyu, you. ”
Yixiu raised his eyebrows, at this time, he could keenly perceive that the decadent young man he originally knew, at this moment, his body exuded an inexplicable light, self-confidence, domineering, and other complex temperaments suddenly exploded in his body.
"I think about it, I want to rebel, I want to overthrow this old system, the old dynasty, I want to be the new king, let my people be like what the master said, everyone is equal, everyone is happy, can the master help me?"
But seeing that Ikyu met Hesey's burning gaze full of hot pillows, he stood up with his hands folded, Hessey bowed slightly, stretched out his right hand towards Ikyu, and Ikyu stretched out his hand without saying a word.
The two hands are tightly clasped together.
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Note: "The Book of the Emperor Hesse" says: On the 29th day of the fourth month of the Buddhist calendar, the emperor and my Buddha rested, in Luocheng, Seoul, and finally made a covenant of gentlemen, and then the Hesai Holy Dynasty rose from the national fortune.