Fear and grief devoured him frantically in the blazing firelight.

The neighing of the horses, the raging shouts of slaughter, and the terrible howls of blunt instruments and sharp blades piercing his ears in all directions, almost bursting his mind and his soul flying.

As a young man, he struggled to look up on horseback, the fire reflected in the sky, and his father and mother fell like two fallen leaves on the tower.

He's on the battlefield again. All around was full of shouts and shouts of killing, and between the collision of knives and guns, the hideous faces of disregard for human life, some were people, and some were fierce beasts with fangs, which kept flashing in front of his eyes. Behind him, his uncle Li Yao fought hard to rein in his horse and swing his sword, and one by one the enemies and guards were splashed with blood and limbs in front of his eyes.

Sticky blood splashed on his face again and again, and the smell of fish poured into his nostrils, and he trembled with fear, ringing in his ears, and almost fainted on horseback.

"Yu'er, let's go!" he was carried onto another horse by Li Yao, and when he looked back, he caught a glimpse of his uncle's torn armor and scarred like a bloody man, and his bloodshot red eyes glared angrily at the last of his concern, and shouted hoarsely at him.

This face became his father in an instant, his father's face was completely devoid of its former gentleness, haggard and extremely gloomy, a pair of bloodshot black eyes stared at him, no, just staring at the front of the void, suddenly his facial features were terribly distorted, and he shouted irritable and hideous: "Betray me, why do you want to betray me? I hate you, I want to kill you!"

Li Yu's heart was cold to the bone.

Then he met Ni'er.

On the towering walls of the city, the slender Ni'er stood alone, staring sadly with tearful eyes.

"Promise Mother, from now on you will depend on each other, share weal and woe, and never abandon no matter what!" the mother's plea echoed again. "Ni'er!" shouted Li Yu as he galloped towards the city wall on the flower field.

But he saw a tall and thin figure in a green shirt standing behind Ni'er.

"Ni'er!" he continued to scream in concern, running more and more desperately.

He saw Ni'er's face trembling with fear, tears rolling down her cheeks. He saw Nangong Ming's cold eyes looking at him under the city wall, one hand on Ni'er's shoulder, the corners of his mouth on his terrifying face were gently raised, and he suddenly pierced Ni'er's chest with a sharp knife.

"No!" Li Yu cried out in despair, and fell to his knees.

Blood gushed from her front as she stared at him in pain, the last of her tears slipping down as she fell off the wall.

"Ahh

Nightmares, night after night.

After sitting for a long time, the sweat on his body became cold, and at this moment, the black-robed man walked in front of him without hurrying or slowing.

"My emperor, are you having a nightmare again?" Huang bowed down and asked in a suppressed voice, his smile always made Li Yu feel scared in his heart, "Take a break, I will summon the king in a while." ”

"I don't want to go. ”

"You're going, my emperor, you're the emperor, what can you do if you don't go?"

"My father is dead, my mother is dead, Uncle Wang is also dead, they also want me to die, why do you want me to be the emperor now? Nangong Ming didn't rush to help, didn't he just want to be the emperor?"

"Ouch," he shrank and laughed, "It was the barbarians and the thieves of the Changfeng clan who harmed my emperor, Lord Nangong didn't save it, but he was dragged by Changfeng and couldn't save it, he still needs my emperor, my emperor was rescued from danger, and it was too late for him to be happy." My emperor just listens to everything, I am always good for you. He said and put his smile back away, "There is also my emperor, the emperor wants to call himself 'I'." ”

"Long live my emperor!" the mountain shouted.

Standing beside him, Li Yu was wearing a Xuanjin dragon robe, wearing a heavy crown of Tongtian, and his eyes were staring directly at Nangong Ming in front of him.

Nangong Ming, who came up, was tall and thin, his face was hard and cold, and his eyes were glowing with cold light. He bowed expressionlessly and said, "Long live my emperor." ”

Li Yu hated him in his heart, his two fists were clenched tightly, he didn't say a word, and Nangong Ming turned sideways to get out of the way.

Li Yu led the crowd forward between two long columns of golden-armored guards half-kneeling in the open field, and then sat on the golden dragon seat. He stopped near the front of his seat and stood facing him with his hands down. On the side of the scarlet, Nangong Qingyun, who was carrying a knife, led a guard who was still half-kneeling.

Nangong Ming walked up in a hurry, turned around in front of his seat, turned his back to Li Yu, and stood upright with his tall body, blocking Li Yu behind him.

The group that was kneeling then stood up in unison.

The cool breeze of early spring in the land of Emperor Jun blew over the palace as in previous years, blowing the Xuanjin Dragon Banner that was lined up hunting, blowing the thin Li Yu shivering, and the Shangdu Imperial Palace, which once stood majestically under the cool breeze, was already a vast rubble ruins.

He saw in the distance behind the dragon throne, it turned out that the dense craftsmen on the position of the Zhaoyang Hall were raising civil engineering, and huge trees and elevated trees had been erected on the broad foundation of the hall, and a team of servants shouted the trumpet, pulling more than 100 straight and thick pieces of wood slowly forward. He knew that the pillars of the palace could only be built with golden silk nanmu from Chunyue and Yuexiu, and he didn't know how much suffering would be born behind this scene.

"Huang Ji," he heard Nangong Ming say, "you save my emperor from danger, escort my emperor back to the throne, my emperor remembers your loyalty, and gives you the title of Taifu, you should be loyal to assist my emperor, and you must not transgress your authority." ”

"Thank you to the emperor for your grace and obey the order. Still smiling, he bowed in response.

Then he said, "Spread the capital to the king." ”

Dressed in the golden robe of the Xianglong emblem and wearing the golden crown of the distant travel, King Duguang strode from the front. Behind him, a burly black-armored warrior with his weapons unarmed. King Duguang is the elder brother of Gaozu, Li Kun should be his distant uncle Wang, and now Li Zai Zhudi is about the only one left, but he has not come to help for a long time when he is in danger.

"My Emperor - Long live!" Li Kun's voice trembled after calling "My Emperor", and then a sonorous "Long live" led the warrior to bow down vigorously, and Li Yu felt his pathos.

"King Duguang, please get up. Nangong Ming said indifferently.

Li Kun was still kneeling down.

At this time, Nangong Ming looked sideways at Li Yu, and Li Yu couldn't help but tremble in his heart when he saw his cold gaze. "Uncle Wang, please get up. He couldn't bear to make a sound, and when he heard his own trembling voice, he cowered into the dragon seat and his face was swollen.

Li Kun straightened up at this time, but he still knelt down and said: "My emperor, the minister is too late to save the driver, please give my emperor a sin!" After speaking, he knelt down again.

Li Yu was silent for a while, and then said, "Uncle Wang, I'm fine, I don't blame you, please get up." Bestow the seat. ”

Only then did Li Kun stand up and stand with his hands down. The guards brought the desk, the table and the cushion and placed them on the left side in front of the dragon seat, and Li Kun bowed to him again and sat down, with the samurai standing behind him.

"King Duguang, when our emperor was in danger, you hesitated in Zhaoyinguan, and now that the enemy is gone, you have led the army to the upper capital, I don't know what the intention is?" Nangong Ming asked unceremoniously.

Li Yu looked up, and he also wanted to know why.

After hearing this, King Duguang hurriedly stood up, bowed respectfully to Li Yu, and said unhurriedly: "My emperor, a great flood in the Luohe River has turned the land of Duguang into a country of Ze, and the accumulation of life and years of painstaking efforts in my land has instantly come to naught. I didn't ask for help in a wide land, worked hard to save myself, and rebuilt the fertile field of the high dam, but because of this, I delayed the rescue of the thieves by the Divine Rhino Army. Now that the internal troubles have been eliminated, I will lead the army to gallop day and night, and the heart of the protector can be seen from the sun and the moon and the gods. But I'm still late, my Li family was poisoned by traitors and traitors, which makes people feel painful. But my clan is originally a gifted monarch, even if the country's fortune is in the middle of the country, even if the culprit who framed Du Guang and dragged down our clan has not yet been identified, but I am also the heir of the true dragon, I will give my life to protect it, so that those traitors with ill intentions will not have another chance!" Li Kun said generously, and finally looked at Nangong Ming.

"King Duguang, now that the Chunyue army has retreated from the enemy, the Changfeng clan has retreated to Linhai City, and the Chidan barbarians have disappeared, may I ask what else you are protecting?" He couldn't see Nangong Ming's expression, but the disdain and coldness in his words were heard clearly.

"Although the traitors still exist, there are still those with bad intentions on the king's side, I am of the same family as my emperor, how can I not worry about protecting the lord with all my might?"

"Oh, so the two rebels of the east and the north have their own land to crusade?"

"Shicai said, I am Li Yimai, the land of Duguang is the fief of the same clan of the royal family, and the Shenxi Army is naturally my emperor's pro-army, and the pro-army should be guarded around my emperor to shelter my emperor from the wind and rain. ”

"If the thieves don't go to suppress them, what's the use of staying here? My emperor has ordered me to be the commander of the Nine Lands to protect the country, and to lead the great cause of restoring the country by suppressing the thieves with full powers, and then order you to immediately open the army to the east to attack the Changfeng anti-thieves, if you are cowardly again, you will immediately return to your Guanzhong Fertile Field to be safe, and there is no need to make trouble here. ”

"Dare to ask Lord Nangong, who does this mean?"

"King Du Guang didn't hear clearly? This is the will of my emperor. ”

"Nangong is deceiving me and there is no one in the Li family?" Li Kun suddenly raised his voice and asked, "My emperor is still young, and he has just experienced the twists and turns of life and death, how can he refuse the protection of his fellow clan, especially the eldest uncle? This king respects you and calls you Lord Nangong, but in the end, you are just a subordinate under the command of King Chunyue, and your king does not dare to make a mistake, how dare you order the kings by coercing the Son of Heaven here?"

"Presumptuous, are you going to disobey?"

King Du Guang left the case, knelt down and bowed again, and shouted, "My emperor! Is what Nangong Ming said my emperor's original intention? My emperor is the lord of the nine lands, and the minister asks my emperor to personally announce his order, if this is not my emperor's original intention, this 100,000 gods and rhino soldiers outside the capital will swear to defend our emperor to the death!"

Li Yu's mind was in a mess. He couldn't understand all this, the Changfeng clan was a traitor, the barbarian was an enemy, Nangong Ming was a traitor, and Huang Ji was a good person, so what about this King of Duguang? He looked at Huang Ji eagerly, but the silent Huang Ji just kept a smile on the corner of his mouth. He went to look at others again, Nangong Qingyun, the head of the guards, had a murderous face, and the warriors brought by Li Kun looked at him without showing weakness, and the tense atmosphere made him afraid and uneasy.

He bumped into Nangong Ming's cold gaze that turned around again, and that gaze was firmly fixed on him, as if a sharp blade hung in front of his eyes. He finally opened his mouth slowly: "Uncle Wang, I mean the same as what Commander Nangong said, please take the order, and retreat." ”

Li Kun straightened up and said with a calm face: "That's it, the minister is ordered, and I ask my emperor to take care, and the minister will retire!" Li Kun finished his words and knocked again, then stood up and led the warrior to retreat hurriedly.

He had a straight face

Nangong Qingyun held the knife in his hand, looked at Nangong Ming, and Nangong Ming, who was facing away from him, slowed down, and only said, "Pass on the King of Bingyi." ”

In a few moments, a tall and burly middle-aged man wearing a white leopard-shaped heraldic robe and a white traveling crown on his head stepped over, but beside him was a girl in a white dress with a flying bun, a graceful posture, and long sleeves.

The man came to the dragon throne, lifted his white robe, and solemnly knelt down and bowed, "Long live my emperor!" The girl beside him also knelt down.

"King Bingyi, county lord, please get up. Nangong Ming said.

Bingyi King Bei Mingyan stood up, and a pair of deep eyes revealed a blazing gaze on his dark and bearded face. The county lord standing beside him was completely different from his rough and tough appearance, although his face was still a little childish, but his slender figure was slim, his skin was as white and delicate as goose fat, and his face was beautiful and delicate.

"King Bingyi, my emperor wants to ask you, Changfeng anti-thieves attacked the capital and besieged the Longxiang army for two years, and in the past two years, our emperor has repeatedly sent the text of the thief to the land of Bingyi, but why not only did he not see a single soldier, but there was no return every time, and there was no news?" Nangong Ming asked in the name of the emperor.

Bei Mingyan listened, and knelt down and said: "My emperor forgives the sin! The snowy region swears allegiance to the emperor of the Heavenly Empire, and the loyal people of the snowy region have been abiding by it for hundreds of years, and this time it is by no means my snowy renegade, it is really a winter that has not been encountered for thousands of years, and the people are all in danger of extreme cold, and the ministers ask our emperor to know it!"

"King Bingyi, get up and speak. Nangong Ming said.

Bei Mingyan stood up, bowed his hand, and sighed: "This season of winter, even the oldest elder in the snowy region has never seen it, and there is no record in the history books, the extreme cold and blizzard have lasted for two years, and there is no sign of stopping. A year ago, Beimangcheng was completely covered by ice and snow, and the minister had to gather the people of the city and the people of the snowy region to flee south. In the end, we were trapped in the Osan Mountains and could not move forward any further, and when we were about to die, we were fortunate enough to find a huge cave with a warm lake on the top of the mountain, so we avoided it and escaped a catastrophe. But soon the cave was completely sealed by ice and snow, and I, the people of the Snow Land, have been isolated from the world ever since. Since we can't get out, it will naturally be difficult for the messengers of the Celestial Empire to deliver the conscription document to us, and even if they can, it will be difficult to send troops to the king. We thought we would be in the cave for a while, and when the winter had passed, we would be able to return home. But for more than half a year, the ice and snow are not stopped, the food storage is about to be exhausted, and the materials in the cave are nearly exhausted. Facing a desperate situation, he led more than 100 relatives to break the ice, braved the wind and snow to continue to trek south, and finally crossed the Tianshan Mountain, and only dozens of people were left, and went straight to the Heavenly Empire to ask for help from our emperor, but he didn't know that such a shocking change had happened in the Heavenly Empire. Now the minister knows that the Celestial Empire is difficult, but it is difficult for the people of the snowy region to hold on for another moment, and beg our emperor to immediately send troops and supplies to take the people of our clan who can still flee out of the Tianshan Mountains, and give sufficient supplies to the old, weak, sick and disabled who cannot walk, so as to save the people of my snowy region!" Bei Mingyan said with a sad face, knelt down again and bowed to the emperor, and the county lord beside him also bowed deeply.

Li Yu couldn't help but be shocked when he saw such a man with such a sad look, and his words described an unimaginable disaster.

After listening to this, Nangong Ming in front of him softened his tone and said, "King Bingyi, please get up." The day before yesterday, I received your report, and my emperor knew that the people of the Snowy Land had gone through such hardships, and he no longer meant to blame, and he was now worried about how to rescue the people who were in danger. My emperor is the guardian of the nine lands, and has made an oath of protection with the kings, although the times are difficult, but he will never ignore the livelihood and death of his children and reneg on the imperial covenant. It's just that in the past two years, the royal family has suffered, and every terrifying change is that the king of many places has treacherously betrayed, or committed rebellion, or stood by and watched, which made my emperor extremely chilled. This means that our emperor has also passed it on to the king of Bingyi, and the king of Bingyi, as a party of kings, should also understand, right? Have you thought about it, how to show loyalty to our emperor, so that my emperor can comfort him and try his best to solve the problems of the snowy region?"

"Emperor Qi, the heartfelt heart of the Snow Land to the Celestial Empire, since the time of Emperor Xuanyuan, to the Li family, nearly a thousand years of unswerving, never dissenting. The ministers are willing to protect the happiness of the people of the snowy region for a thousand years, and then swear allegiance to the royal family, and swear to the death. After this winter, the tribute in the snowy region will be several times that of previous years, and the year will continue. ”

Nangong Ming seemed to disagree, "In the past, the pilgrimages and tributes of the kings of various places have never been broken, but what about now? King Bingyi, it is difficult to rely on oral words and writings after all, how can my emperor rest assured?"

Bei Ming was speechless for a while, hanging his head and being silent. "Enlighten my emperor," the county lord beside him said clearly, "the courtiers are willing to represent the people of the snowy region, stay by my emperor's side, and be slaves and maids, in order to repay the emperor's kindness and do their best in the snowy region." ”

"Ling'er!" Bei Mingyan looked at his daughter with an embarrassed face.

"Father, it is right for the snowy region to be loyal to the Celestial Empire, and it is also appropriate for the daughter to dedicate herself to the snowy region, please ask the father to fulfill the daughter. ”

The man's rough face was full of helplessness, and he said to Li Yu: "My emperor, the little girl Bei Ming Ling is extremely talented, respects and loves the people, and is deeply loved by the people of the Snowy Land, she is really a treasure of the Snowy Land, and she is also the successor of my throne. Today, the little girl is willing to serve as the maid in front of the emperor, so as to do her best on behalf of the thousands of people in the snowy region, and thank the emperor for his great grace. ”

Nangong Ming's tone brought a smile to his tone, and said, "King Bingyi, Lord of the Northern Underworld, I miss you so sincerely, my emperor will immediately send a pro-army and bring rich supplies to the snowy region to relieve the disaster victims." The body of the county lord Jin Yu, my emperor will give preferential treatment, share honor and disgrace, you can rest assured. ”

"Thank you to the emperor for your grace and obey the order. Bei Mingling under the seat lowered his head and bowed his hand, and the county lord Bei Mingling also bowed his knees in thanks.

Again, with such a trick. Li Yu, who was shrunk in the dragon seat, could see it clearly this time.