Chapter 1: A Dream
Late at night, in the city of Youzhou.
Qiao Mingyue walked through the alley with vain steps, under the moonlight, a group of people gathered in the city gate, the angry rebuke of the soldiers at the city gate was mixed with the pleading of the people, and the hearts of those who listened trembled.
"Murdered!"
"It's not King Jin's reinforcements outside the city!"
"General Chen, it was General Chen who shot King Jin!"
The people fled in a panic, and Qiao Mingyue also wanted to run, but her feet seemed to be frozen, and she couldn't move!
A ragged woman with a child in her arms ran towards her crying, and she had no time to dodge, so she could only watch the woman and the child crash into her.
Butβ
There was no imaginary collision, and the child and the lady went straight through her body.
Immediately afterward, countless more people rushed from her.
She hid in vain, her slender figure like a wisp of green smoke, being scattered by others, and strangely recondensed.
"King Jin is treasonous, and all the same party in the city will be executed!"
A man raised his sword and commanded loudly, and for a while, the soldiers drew their bows, and the bows and arrows were shot densely at the fleeing people with the sound of the wind.
Under the city gate, it instantly became a purgatory on earth.
Everywhere there were people who had been hit by arrows, old people, babies in swaddling clothes...... The blood flowed to her feet, making Qiao Mingyue tremble all over, and kept shouting, "Don't shoot arrows, don't shoot arrows!" β
Unfortunately, no one saw her, let alone heard her.
Several wounded soldiers brandished long knives that had been rolled up, escorting the people to escape.
"We followed His Royal Highness King Jin to guard Youzhou for 15 days, King Jin did not commit treason, the traitor is Chen Shiyong!"
"The traitor is Chen Shiyong!"
Some of these people have broken legs, some have lost one hand, and their bodies are wrapped in blood-colored bandages, but they are all brave and not afraid of death, even if they are hit by arrows, even if they are angry, they are still insisting and saying: "King Jin has no treason......
After all the wounded soldiers had fallen, the arrows suddenly stopped.
A dozen or so civilians who had survived the city stood among the corpses, looking in horror at a group of soldiers on horseback.
The leading man was armed with a long knife and armor, and in the dark night firelight, Shura smiled fiercely.
"You Jin kings want to be evil, now this king gives you a chance, as long as you tell the general who opened the gate of Youzhou City and let Hu Kou enter the city to slaughter the city, I will spare your life."
The rest of the people were already frightened, looking at each other, and no one dared to speak for a while.
That slender and fluttering figure was in front of the man, and she could see it clearly, that person was the prince's cronies - Chen Shiyong!
"You say, who colluded with Hu Kou and opened the city gate for Hu Kou?" Chen Shiyong pointed his knife at one of the people.
The man was a horse trader in the city, and he was so frightened that he knelt down directly, and said in a trembling voice: "No, no one opens the city gate......"
With a flash of the sword, the horseman's head was cut off, and his bones rolled into the crowd.
The one holding the knife was one of Chen Shiyong's subordinates.
The rest of the people screamed and tried to escape, but there were soldiers with knives all around, where was there still a way to live?
"Say, who is the traitor?" Chen Shiyong sneered, and the knife in his hand pointed at a weak old man.
The old man shook his hand and said in horror: "I don't know, I don't know......"
Another knife fell, and the old man's head fell to the ground in an instant.
At this time, these innocent people who had just experienced the siege of Hu Kou and survived the shooting of the officers and soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were already stunned.
Suddenly, a young man stood up: "General! I know who it is! I know who it is! β
Chen Shiyong smiled and looked at the man with interest, "Who?" β
"It's King Jin! It was King Jin who opened the door and let Hu Kou enter the city, and it was King Jin who colluded with Hu Kou to slaughter the city together! β
The people were stunned for a moment, the person who spoke just now was a well-known second-rate son in the city, Da Zhuang, half a month ago, his mother was sick, and there was a shortage of food and medicine in the city, or His Royal Highness King Jin gave his own medicine and evenly to Da Zhuang's mother.
This time, Chen Shiyong's knife did not fall.
Everyone reacted, and scrambled like grasping a straw for survival: "Yes! It was King Jin who colluded with foreign enemies! β
"King Jin betrayed the country, left us and fled!"
"It was the general who defeated Hu Kou, King Jin died in the war, and King Jin is innocent!"
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The people who were once sheltered by King Jin rushed to accuse King Jin of his "crimes." β
Chen Shiyong looked up to the sky and laughed with satisfaction, and the dozen or so people were all taken away.
Under the city, soon only a weak lonely soul remained, standing alone in a corpse.
She looked up and looked up at the castle tower in a daze, and in the moonlight, a man in silver armor stood on the tower, he always maintained a posture of holding a sword, as majestic as Shura, which was terrifying.
Bang!
The man suddenly fell from the city tower, and happened to land not far from Qiao Mingyue.
She saw that his armor was loose, he was still holding a long knife in his hand, his hair like ink had been scattered, and his eyes were open, even if he was lying in a pool of blood, he did not lose half of his good looks.
The sword eyebrows were sparse, the starry eyes were bright, and the face was stained with blood, adding an evil aura.
It's a pity that such a handsome teenager ...... It's dead.
Suddenly, a few soldiers came to collect his body.
"Alas, it's still the prince, who is dead and dead, and has a reputation as a traitor."
"You say, King Jin, how did he suppress Hu Kou, I heard that King Jin's soldiers in Youzhou City were all dead at that time, Hu Kou was so jealous of King Jin, and he kept fighting until we came before he fled in a panic?"
"Shut up, be careful of being heard by the general, and cut off your heads!"
A few people were silent at this time, and they worked together to carry King Jin's body away.
Seeing that this noble prince who was once a freshly clothed and angry horse ended up like this, although he had nothing to do with King Jin, Qiao Mingyue still felt as if his heart had been hollowed out, and his body was also empty as if he was about to lose his soul.
As the soldier walked past her carrying King Jin's body, a flash of light suddenly fell from King Jin's hand.
Qiao Mingyue saw that it was a red gold pearl phoenix hairpin, smashed on the blood-stained ground, and was immediately discovered by the soldiers, and someone picked it up and secretly hid it in his sleeve.
Her scalp suddenly tingledβ
That phoenix hairpin is hers.