Chapter 12 Blood in the chest and wounds in the heart
The vicissitudes of the world are changing. When Luocheng, the royal capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, was preparing for the centennial birthday of the Son of Heaven, most of the people inside and outside the royal court probably did not realize that this place within a hundred miles of Luocheng was already the only peaceful place left in this world in the turmoil of wind and thunder that was about to begin.
When the king's spirit is exhausted and a dynasty comes to an end, turmoil in the world is always inevitable. And in such a context, how many joys and sorrows will there be and the eternal separation of heaven and man? It's like some people can hit it off at first sight and happen by chance. And some people, even if they are in love, they have a shallow fate! Maybe after a separation, the yin and yang will be separated, and they will never be seen again.
After leaving Los Angeles, the thief who embarked on the way back to the west, in order to see his beloved woman as soon as possible, carried the blue rhino bead in his arms, and tirelessly stayed at night, day and night. The cold wind was thousands of miles away, and he rushed back in less than ten days after most of the month's trip.
White Night's skillful skill of stealing empty-handed is an innate talent. However, thieves also have a way, and his ambition is to become a thief who robs the rich and helps the poor.
In the past ten years, he has stolen many wealthy mansions and relieved many poor people. The reputation of chivalry spread in the mouths of many people.
In the spring of that year, he came to Shu. After a failed treasure theft in the mansion of a magnate, he fled from the capital on horseback. Behind him, the sword light and sword shadow, the ironclad chasing soldiers are like a tide.
When Bai Ye was in a panic, he strayed into a peach orchard. At that time, the sky was full of peaches and plums, and it was a good time of year. The young woman was under the tree, combing her hair with green silk. The wind-moving long skirt is infinitely fragrant.
A beautiful and kind woman named Jomi hides his whereabouts and helps him evade his pursuers. Maybe it was the heartbeat at the first glance, maybe he was tired of wandering for half his life. Looking at the peach blossoms all over Shushan Mountain, he said to her solemnly.
"For the rest of my life, I will marry you!"
Heaven fulfills people's wishes, thousands of miles of Chanjuan. Soon after, the thief finally stole Jomi's heart, and they spent three years together like many ordinary couples in this world.
White Night concealed his identity. It was his happiest time. He accompanies the woman to eat noodles in the market. The two of them watched the snow side by side. In order to make her happy, even the pearls stolen from the palace of Shu did not hesitate to use them as projectiles to shoot down .......
Just for her to smile like a spring breeze like a spring breeze, he can steal the whole world and accompany her to sleep.
And then later. They finally decided on the wedding date, and they can stay together for a long time. However, God is always jealous of the blessings of the world. Unfortunately, Jomi suffers from an eye disease that prevents her eyes from seeing anything clearly in the shadows, and this symptom gets worse as time goes on.
Bai Ye was very anxious in his heart. He sought medical advice and tried all kinds of methods, but it was difficult to cure. Later, by chance, I heard that it might be cured by grinding the precious night pearl from the depths of the East China Sea and making medicine. Bai Ye made up his mind without any hesitation, no matter what, he also wanted to find the jewel to heal Qiao Mei's eyes.
When spring first came, the white night prepared the bags, and the horse alone, and then said goodbye to the woman and went away. I still remember the day of separation, the flowers fell like rain, broken jade everywhere, dyeing his departing horses' hooves red.
After a long time, White Night once imagined what would happen to them if he hadn't left Jomy's sisters. It's just that every memory is interrupted by pain. He always couldn't think of ...... ending.
When I left, the spring was cold, but when I returned, it was already full of peach blossoms. However, as soon as the hopeful Bai Ye stepped into the territory of Shu, he received a piece of news that surprised him. Just a few days ago, the soldiers and horses of the neighboring Western Qin had just ravaged several counties in the northern part of Shu, and were now stationed under the capital of Shu, forcing the king of Shu to sign a covenant under the city.
White Night's face began to turn pale. Because the town and the peach orchard where he and Qiao Mi lived were at the foot of Shu Mountain, where the Great Qin soldiers passed!
Bai Ye, who learned all the exact news, rushed home like crazy. He stayed up all day and night, until he saw the familiar mountains, and he stopped the horses' hooves.
Continuous rush and impatience, the body feels so hot. However, the white night that jumped off the horse and crawled forward felt that it was clearly the cold winter! His sweat-soaked clothes froze his body and soul. As tears rolled down his eyes, he heard his own roar in his ears, like the low howl of a wild beast!
It's just that no matter how crazy he ran and cried, he could no longer find any trace of this town's past. The whole town and the peach grove. The whole town, along with the peach forest, had been reduced to ruins. The fire had razed the place, and there were no survivors. A passing panicked refugee told him that it was late at night when he was slaughtered and destroyed by the soldiers and horses of the Great Qin...... After the madness raged, the Qin soldiers completely burned all the evidence of the crime with one fire.
With his memory, White Night desperately excavated for a day in the place where he lived. The knife broke, with a dagger. When the dagger broke, he used his fingers...... When the sun was about to set again, he finally found a jade pendant.
This is a fine piece of jade, which has not been burned by the fire. White Night stopped looking. He finally lost his last hope, clutched the piece of jade to his chest, and began to cry. This is the token of love he gave to the delicate woman, and his Qiao sister has always carried it with her, and she has never taken off her .......
Bai Ye slapped the ruins with his palms in pain, stained with blood and stained red scorched wood. He couldn't imagine how desperate a woman could not see anything in that boundless night! He didn't dare to imagine what kind of tragic ...... he would endure in front of those fierce Qin soldiers who were as violent as tigers and wolves.
After sitting in the ruins for a long time in the white night, and having eaten all the food he had brought with him, he wiped away his tears, stood up, and began to sharpen a knife silently. From sunset to sunrise to the first quarter of the month. When the sky was full of stars, under the sky of hatred, the knife was sharpened brighter than the moonlight.
"Sister Qiao, you wait. I'm going to cut off the head of the general of the Qin army tonight...... Avenge you and all who have died! ”
In the face of the deep hatred in the sea of blood, it is the coward who waits forbearly. A man with a strong heart never cares about his own life. Lead the knife into a fast, live up to the boy's head! Splash blood in a hundred steps, kill the enemy in person, and you will not leave regrets.
The capital of Shu not far from Deshu Mountain is a stone city. If compared, this royal city is far inferior to the four famous cities in the world. Even compared with the royal cities of other vassal states, it looks very simple and shabby.
There's no way around it. Shu is located in a remote area and lacks resources. In order to survive in these troubled times, most of the revenue from the treasury was used to equip the army. The people's livelihood is difficult, and even if Shi Jian, the king of Shu, wants to build the capital and the palace well, he feels powerless.
Shu has always had internal and external troubles, and it is difficult to be calm. In the past few years, the monarchs and ministers have worked hard to make the country prosperous, barely living a peaceful life, and they are just about to relax. But how could he have expected that the powerful neighbor Qin State suddenly raised a sword army, and with lightning speed, in just a few days, he captured five or six important passes of Shu State. The army marched a hundred miles, as if in a no-man's land. It was directly forced under the royal city.
As neighbors with such a country of tigers and wolves, the monarchs and ministers of Shu have long been mentally prepared to be invaded at any time. In order to maintain the stability of the relations between the two countries and the border, the king of Shu would send envoys to the Qin State every year to pay tribute to a large number of gold and silver coins and Shu brocade grain, etc., in order to ensure temporary peace. Although I knew that this was just a stopgap measure, I had to do it.
And the reason for Qin's invasion this time is very ridiculous. It is said that a horse on their border was lost, and it is likely that he ran to Shu. The Qin army asked to enter Shu to look for it, but the Shu generals stationed at the border pass thought it was just a trivial matter and ignored it.
If this general had known in advance that this would incur serious consequences, I believe that he would not hesitate to drive all the horses in the city to the opposite side and send them to the Qin army. However, there is no regret medicine sold in the world. By the time the Shu general understood the seriousness of the matter, his head had been cut off and hung on the flagpole outside the city gate.
Even if the general dies without turning a blind eye, he will die in vain. His death did not earn forgiveness from the Qin people. In order to find a horse, to send an army of 80,000 troops into the territory of a neighboring country with the general Wang Li as the general may sound like a very ridiculous thing. However, for the people in the south of Shu, this has really happened, and it is an irreparable tragic disaster.
When the king of Shu and his ministers in the royal city learned the news, after urgent deliberation, they sent the minister of state to personally go out to stop the Qin army's soldiers and promised to compensate on generous terms, but they were told by the general of Qin that according to the order of the death of the Great Qin, the army must go to the city of the king of Shu, and the king of Shu himself will come out in person before they can negotiate.
Look at the remnants of the defeated army on his side who were beaten to heavy casualties, and then look at the tiger and wolf army that is in full swing on the other side. The Prime Minister of Shu returned to the royal city dejectedly and truthfully told Shi Jian, the king of Shu. After careful consideration, in the absence of a way, the monarch had to agree to the request of the Qin general Wang Li, and with a feeling of humiliation, in the name of rewarding Wang Shi, he went out of the city and came to the Qin army camp.
The large battalion of the army of 80,000 tigers and wolves was stationed ten miles outside the royal city. The Qin army was flying and domineering, and the momentum was arrogant. The king of Shu went out of the city to meet with Wang Li, a general who represented the will of the king of Qin.
The mountains and rivers change color, and it is the time of life and death!