In a certain corner of this world, in the place where the sun does not shine into a single ray of light when the sun rises and sets in the east and west every day, there are a few nether flowers, known as Manzhu Sahua, which are so beautiful that they can steal people's minds, and gradually lose all the essence of longing for the sun, until the person who sucks it also belongs to the netherworld, and the law is not delusional.

"Within the four seas, blood is an alliance, flowers bloom on the other side, and gold and jade are undefeated."

Mu Ruoying's commitment to Liu Ren is unswerving, Liu Ren is a good official who does real things, how precious is it in this troubled world? If Chu Lingran is crowned to the top of the throne one day, one more such official will govern the Quartet for him, and it will also relieve his worries. Mu Ruoying really doesn't have much interest in fighting with the party in this world. It's just that if she can't change the truth of conforming to nature in this troubled world, she only hopes that the people will be spared from suffering, and Chu Lingran is the only one who can do this in this world. She is not Chu Lingran's lobbyist who attracts people's hearts, she just understands very well that among these sentient beings, only Chu Lingran can avoid the reoccurrence of Fuwan's incident.

"Now, can you tell me why you, a civil servant, have been able to reign for so long here?"

Liu Renwu walked to the bookcase behind him, and there were many strange objects in the Western Regions placed above the bookcase, which is not strange, Liu Ren served as the prefect of Chaozhou for nearly ten years, and had close contacts with businessmen from various countries in the Western Regions. Liu Ren is by no means this kind of person, if he didn't fall to the same day, thinking about it, these objects in his study are so extravagant that they are a little inconsistent with his innate arrogance and poverty, this full of medicinal herbs is not a civil official scope, Mu Ruoying and Chu Lingran are noncommittal, this Liu Ren's experience over the years seems to be more colorful than they imagined.

Liu Ren turned the glass lamp on the bookcase, and the dark grid behind the bookcase soared out, which was herbal seeds...... In addition to the exquisite handicrafts in the Western Regions, there is also a medicine born in the unique climate of the Western Regions, controlled by the local feudal kings, and the merchants have used the brains of this medicine, but the toxicity is too violent, and the idea of playing this medicine has been stopped under the strict punishment. Rakshasa of the Western Regions, also known as the flower of the underworld. Anyone who has taken this kind of medicine will go crazy like a demon for the first two hours, and legend has it that General Youwei took it to battle, and the sword passed through the cavity without feeling a trace of pain. That general had many meritorious deeds and could be described as invincible. It's just that the good times don't last long, but when the effect of the medicine is exhausted, the person who has taken the medicine will be paralyzed to the ground as if he has been drained of his essence, and his body will be cold as if he is in the ice and snow or hot enough to be like a scorching half of the pain and struggle. In the end, these drugs will be addictive, and if they lose their supply, they will lose their minds and attack themselves and those around them, until they are exhausted and kill themselves. These poisonous weeds have seen the light of day again today, and Mu Ruoying and Chu Lingran have only understood why Liu Ren was able to lead the helpless disabled people to breathe in the dense valley for a long time, but the rakshasa was their only life-saving straw.

"Back then, I rescued a murderer who was exiled by the imperial court to the frontier, and I didn't want him to die in front of my eyes, but over time, I found that this person was chivalrous, but he was different from the imperial court. It's a pity that I was loyal to the emperor and the court at that time, and I really couldn't do anything to betray my family and country, and when the knight recovered from his illness, I intended to send him back to the place of exile. But I have no place to bind the chicken, and his wounds are healed, how can I be his opponent? After he knocked me unconscious, he fled, and since then the court has been arresting him to no avail, so I saved his life, but what he left behind saved my life and the lives of countless people in Fuwan. ”

"He left the rakshasa behind?"

The chivalrous man in this story is by no means a simple killer who fights the sword world, Liu Ren does not have too many calculations, so naturally he will not be too entangled in the question of why a killer who wanders the world will get the royal family's forbidden flowers, but if Mu Ruoying and Chu Lingran's guess is not wrong, that killer is inextricably linked with the royal family of the Western Regions, tracing back to the source, there is only one person in the world who has been abandoned by the Western Xinjiang Dynasty. But a year ago, the king of Western Xinjiang died, the prince and the rest of his sons were killed mysteriously, and the national teacher of Western Xinjiang found the traces of the Nine Emperor Princes Li Mingjian in every possible way, and assisted him to ascend the throne.

He said that if he planted the seeds in his own way in times of danger, and when the flowers bloomed, they would be burned around the enemy, and he would lose his mind. With such a poison, how could I, the prefect of Chaozhou, think that one day I would rely on it to save my life? So I kept hiding in my study, and it was only when I was relegated to Fuwan that I remembered its usefulness. ”

I never thought that Liu Ren and the king of Xijiang still had this relationship, and it is rumored that since the king of Xijiang ascended the throne, he has greatly reformed the government, ruthlessly repaired the law of officials, and severely punished corrupt officials. The people of Western Xinjiang are happy and carefree under his governance, and the wind and rain are smooth, and the Western Xinjiang that Chu Lingran fought and defeated back then has been judged as two people. However, he ordered someone to burn the Rakshasa flower that had been rubbed into it and refined the rest, as the top secret of the royal family, only he knew how many Rakshasa seeds were left in this world.

"Do you know that these seeds are enough for you to burn the creatures of a city?"

Chu Lingran's curiosity about this king of the western frontier has added a point, since he was still in the northern frontier a year ago, there were rumors about the king of the western frontier, there is no shortage of heroes in this troubled world, but there are very few people who can talk about the world, but this king of the western frontier is by no means simple, the laws and criminal divisions he revised have all rectified the reckless character of the illiterate people in the western frontier before, a country must be strong, the people must be able to splash ink and blood. This Western Frontier was completely different, and he knew that one day he would go to meet the king of the Western Frontier and see how prosperous the world he ruled was. For Liu Ren, the life-saving benefactor, he could have given him a few seeds to repay that kindness, but he left so much that he seemed to see through that Liu Ren would never just use these things to protect himself.

"Maybe he saw through our court, he said before that I would despair of the He dynasty one day, I have spent my life dedicated to it, if I only want you to be a stepping stone for them to live a stable life, how should I deal with myself? He knew early on that my life was on the line. ”

Mu Ruoying and Chu Lingran returned to the camp tent, the soldiers were still resting, and no one found that the military food and salary they relied on for survival were emptied once and brought back by the same way, this is the forbidden heart of the generals in the capital, such a fragile and vulnerable fighting spirit, this world is really far away from them, in just five years, what kind of arrogance and lasciviousness obliterate a general's sense of crisis, which inevitably makes Chu Lingran and Mu Ruoying worry that the army's heart is unstable, it is like a plate of loose sand, and it will be scattered as soon as the wind blows.

"Ling Ran, with the Rakshasa seed, for us the odds of winning against Dongying are one point higher, when we go to Dongjiang, we start planting them, when the time comes to fight Dongying, we will be invincible."

Mu Ruoying was very glad that Liu Ren had joined, which really made them more convinced of the war in Dongying, and the people of Fuwan would be able to return to their hometown in the near future, so that time would smooth out all their wounds and start their lives again. She naturally understood what Chu Lingran was worried about at the moment, this king of the Western Frontier was really not simple, in troubled times, there would only be one person in this world who would stand proudly at the peak.

"Marta sent a letter from the flying pigeon, and the remnants of the people of Fuwan have arrived at their homes safely, waiting for Dongying's next invasion. Ying'er, if we win this battle, we will completely declare war with the Central Plains. ”

Chu Lingran looked at the bright moon outside the window and didn't speak for a long time, what he had planned all his life was about to happen in the near future, things went so smoothly but made him worry a little more, he didn't covet this throne so much, but the hatred in his heart could only be eliminated the moment he ascended to the throne, it was the burden of his life.

"Are you worried that once the battle of Dongying is over, you will be a rebellious minister and thief who supports the army and respects himself, and He Qiyu, who is traveling with him, has also become a prince who betrays the country and seeks glory, and the so-called lord of Rong'an has already died in the capital, and now I can only hide my face for the rest of my life and live in the light?"

Mu Ruoying guessed all Chu Lingran's thoughts, if this battle was lost, He Qiyu would no longer be able to be his idle prince, and Mu Ruoying had no chance of freedom. After the Battle of Dongying, the first thing they wanted to meet was the king of Xijiang, who had the same relationship as Liu Ren, plus the king of Xijiang already hated this He dynasty, he was waiting for a person to rise up against the army, or waiting for the day when Xijiang became stronger and stronger, waving the army to the Central Plains, sometimes success or failure is just a momentary choice. Circling all the way, death is only a stone's throw away from them.

"Yes, the hundreds of lives on my body, the emperor and Mu Jinghong who sat back and sat back should be returned to me. Those homeless souls, ghosts with no support, and beings who cannot transcend are my fate. But that's not your destiny. ”

After all, Chu Lingran wanted to persuade Mu Ruoying to give up her revenge plan halfway, find a place to forget the pain she had suffered, and not let her soul carry so much blood. One day, he wants to take the life of Mu Ruoying's biological father to pay tribute to the prime minister of the Chu family, and he doesn't want Mu Ruoying to see the moment when his sword blade cuts off Mu Jinghong's head.

Mu Ruoying leaned on Chu Lingran's shoulder, closed her eyes and meditated, she didn't care about Mu Jinghong's life, but if she dreamed of her mother one day, would her mother forgive her for taking the life of the person she loved? On the bridge, would her mother still be willing to wait for her? The night was so deep that the moonlight was as dazzling as the scorching sun of the day, and she avoided all the light that made her face reality, just wanting to be at peace and comfort in Chu Lingran's arms for a while.

The two of them leaned on and sat by the window, knowing that the morning light slipped across the distant horizon, from layers of blurry light to bright yellow light, yesterday's contemplation was finally over, and no one could stop them from moving forward, not even themselves......

"This evening, our army should meet at Liu Ren's place, and we will take the rest of the people to the eastern frontier. Dongjiang is no longer what it used to be, the people have fallen and sunk, sealing a layer of ashes on the pain of their own country, they are unwilling to come to the princess of Dongjiang, to uncover the shocking scars, people's hearts are so cowardly, they would rather drown in pain than struggle in hope. ”

Ever since Mu Ruoying met with the princess of Dongjiang, she has hesitated in her heart, a princess is still in the pain of her own country and refuses to face the reality, how can thousands of people pin their hopes on a general who once led an army to destroy their country? Chu Lingran's life experience was really inconvenient, and it was spread in the world before he arrived in the capital, and he was orphaned by the emperor's side and became a general for ten years.

"The current situation in Dongjiang is no less complicated than the war against Dongying, and it is difficult for us to gain the trust of the people in Dongying. But Ying'er, no matter how much a country sinks, only the rich are worthy of sinking, The businessmen and officials in Eastern Xinjiang have taken all their ill-gotten gains, but the people really can't afford to eat a full meal, how can they be allowed to sink in such a life? They lived... Sober more than anyone else. ”

Chu Lingran is really a natural emperor, there are countless emperors in the world, the reason is very simple, they are emperors, and the story is written by them. Therefore, they live in self-written and self-directed stories, playing the role of a virtuous king, thinking that the people live and work in peace and contentment, everyone can be fed and clothed, and live a life of paradise, they are unwilling to be sober, and they never want others to remind them that there are countless people in this world who are hungry and bloody, and it is difficult to live in peace. An emperor who can understand what the people think, even if he does nothing, he can be called a true king.

Have you already thought of a countermeasure? ”

"I think we should go and meet the so-called officialdom for a while."

Mu Ruoying and Chu Lingran met from the capital, and they knew that the other party was not a person who could be driven by money, fame and fortune, but there were officially many such people in this world, so they could control the overall situation and climb step by step to the current place. Mu Ruoying, as the second lady of Mu Mansion, until the later lord of Rong'an, hovered in the officialdom but never really came, and Chu Lingran was even more so, in the past ten years, he has been rising steadily, and he pretended to be obedient and integrated into it without fighting with the world, but in fact, he has not received a penny from the people's mouths. But the wealth in this world is over, and all that comes down is the hypocrisy and greed that are lewd and empty.