Chapter 52: Death
"Idiot! It's all a bunch of idiots who don't know whether to live or die! An Muxi watched his chess pieces die in front of him one by one, and he had nothing to do about it, and the anger and unwillingness in his heart were really about to reach their peak. Seeing that the prisoners and prisoners were constantly approaching, he had begun to panic at this moment, and he held Pan'er beside him in his arms and put the sword that had been stained with countless blood on her delicate neck, and shouted nervously: "Don't come here, if you are coming, I will kill her!" ”
Gongliang stopped aside, stretched out his hand to signal the prisoner and the prisoner knife and others to stop, and then said to An Muxi: "An Muxi, you failed, you lost!" You have no way out, I advise you to let go of the child in your arms quickly, I can still keep you a whole corpse! ”
"Nonsense! I didn't! I didn't lose! How could I possibly lose! He roared and shouted at Ye Xuemei, who was still kneeling on the ground: "Ye Cairen, time is running out, you hurry up and go back with me, as long as you go back with me, I will let this girl go, otherwise, I will kill her!" ”
Ye Xuemei, who had been kneeling on the ground and silently wept, after hearing An Muxi's words, she slowly raised her head, wiped the tears on her face and stood up.
Seeing this, Gongliang Yuzhi hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, looked at her worriedly and said: "You can't go with him, if you go with him, you will fail your father and your whole family, and their sacrifice will become meaningless!" ”
Ye Xuemei looked at An Muxi, but said to Gongliang: "How can I go with him, I won't go with him!" I promised my father that I would live, and only by living could I avenge them. There are so many lives in the Ye Mansion, I remember them all, and I will ask them for it back one by one! ”
After hearing Ye Xuemei's words, Gongliang was relieved, he was afraid that Ye Xuemei would do something irrational while being too sad.
Just when several people were confronting each other, they suddenly heard an almost inaudible sound from the ground, although it was very low, but the people present heard it very clearly, it turned out that Ye'er woke up, he stretched out his immature arm, and shouted to Pan'er: "Sister...... Sister...... I'm afraid ......" But there was still a guard beside him with a sword across his neck, and he couldn't move.
When Pan'er heard Ye'er's voice, she turned her head and shouted at Ye'er: "Ye'er, don't be afraid, my sister will protect you, don't worry, my sister will definitely protect you!" ”
Ye'er seemed to have a sense of security in his heart after hearing Pan'er say that he would protect him, so his hand slowly lowered and closed his eyelids.
This time, he was no longer asleep, he went to the same place as his father, mother, and other people in the house. He will never wake up again.
After Pan'er saw this scene, sadness came from it, and shouted loudly in the direction of Ye'er: "Ye'er......"
However, Ye'er could no longer hear her call. Her voice was so pathetic, no one could imagine that such a pathos came from a girl who was not yet at her age.
"Ahh This shout came from Ambrosi. It turned out that Pan'er bit him the wrist in order to get rid of him. An Muxi was in pain and let go of her. Pan'er ran straight in the direction where Ye'er was lying, and she only had the younger brother who couldn't wake up in her heart at the moment.
But before she could run to Ye'er's side, suddenly a long sword slashed from her back, and then, Pan'er's weak body fell to the ground like a fallen leaf flying in the wind.
Seeing that Pan'er was also dead, the pain in Ye Xuemei's heart could no longer be expressed, she cried and shouted: "Pan'er! ”
Pan'er bit An Muxi, An Muxi was panicked and confused, and in a hurry, he killed Pan'er, but unfortunately the last chess piece in his hand was also destroyed by him. He regretted it very much, regretted that he was so rash, so he killed Pan'er, and now, he has nothing to resist.
After seeing that An Muxi had no chess pieces to block the sword, the prisoner and the prisoner knife leaned towards him one after another. An Muxi concentrated his strength, kicked the wooden plank that had been nailed to the window, and jumped out in a flash, and the guards who followed him followed out of the window. The figures of several people disappeared into the night. The prisoner and the prisoner also chased after him without hesitation.
Ye Xuemei hurriedly ran to Pan'er's side, and she hugged Pan'er, who was covered in blood. She hugged Pan'er, and tears flowed down silently, dripping on Pan'er's pale face.
also because of her tears that made Pan'er wake up, after she saw that it was Ye Xuemei, she said to her weakly: "Sister, I ...... I'm so tired......"
Ye Xuemei cried: "I know, I know! It's my sister who is useless, and my sister can't save you. ”
"Sister, I miss my father and mother so much! I want to sleep too, really much. ”
"If you want to sleep, go to sleep, and when you fall asleep, you will be able to see your father and mother! You will be reunited in another world, where no one will bully you anymore, and you will be very happy, very happy! Ye Xuemei looked at her sadly and said.
"Really?" Pan'er's face had a hint of brilliance, which was much better than before. However, Ye Xuemei knew that this was not really getting better, but a return to the light. She hugged Pan'er's body tightly, hoping that she could feel the warmth of family affection before she died.
"Really, of course it's true! When did my sister cheat on you? ”
"It's so good, sister, I'm asleep! I'm about to be reunited with my father and mother! After saying these words, Pan'er lowered the hand that was trying to grab Ye Xuemei's clothes and closed her eyes.
Her body was in Ye Xuemei's arms, getting colder and colder.
Ye Xuemei knew that along the way, Pan'er must have had a hard time, since Murong Yu ordered the Ye Mansion to be copied, they were arrested, and they must have suffered a lot of abuse along the way. When Pan'er was in Ye Mansion before, she could be said to be a happy girl, her father and mother doted on her, and when she encountered anything, Ye Xuemei, her sister, helped her, where did she suffer a little.
According to An Muxi's temperament, he will inevitably whip them along the way. In addition to protecting her own safety, her father and mother also have to protect the youngest Ye'er, and she no longer has any extra energy to speak of.
Even if you barely survive today, you will inevitably have to live a life of fugitive in the future. Perhaps, such an ending is the best ending for her!
In the dark sky of the night, a bright moon hung high there, quietly staring at the two groups of people chasing each other on the ground.
There was a muffled grunt behind him, and An Muxi knew that it was his guards dying one after another. But he didn't dare to turn back and couldn't turn back, he could only run forward desperately, because he knew that saving his life was the most important thing now.
An Muxi's kung fu is good, because he constantly uses light skills in the process of desperately escaping. The prisoner and the others had been chasing after him closely, but they did not catch him immediately. However, after all, the time has lasted too long, and An Muxi's physical strength has gradually exhausted, and he knows that if he continues like this, he will definitely be caught.
Finally, in the process of his journey, he saw a big mountain in front of him blocking his way, and after he saw it, he was overjoyed, but he didn't expect to come to the West Mountain. During the day, he had been here before, and he was naturally very familiar with the terrain here, so he quickly hid in a flash.
After seeing him hiding in the woods, the prisoner who had been chasing him stopped slightly, and his face showed a more solemn expression, and he said to the group of people behind him: "Go in and search, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you will find him out!" ”
After listening to his words, the people of the Night Camp hurriedly ran up and entered the mountains to search.
The vegetation in the mountains is so dense that the moonlight is blocked, and it is difficult to see the scenery inside. But the people of the Night Camp are not affected by this, they have been trained at a very young age to see at night, so that they can see everything around them even if there is no light.
At this time, it is close to summer, the weather has begun to heat up, and in the woods, only the sound of insects chirping can be heard, and everything else is quiet.
The prisoner walked cautiously through the mountains with light steps, when suddenly he heard the click of a tree branch breaking. The prisoner knew that this would definitely not be the sound made by the bug, because the bug did not have that much power, so the sound would definitely come from a person.
He looked in the direction where the sound came from, and sure enough, he saw a black shadow, hiding behind the tree. He knew that the man must be An Muxi. The corners of his lips hooked up a sneer, and he thought to himself, see where else you can escape this time!
He held a small but delicate dagger in his hand, which glowed with a chilling luster in the moonlight. However, just as he was about to approach An Muxi and easily dispose of him, he put away his dagger, turned around, and quietly returned the same way as when he came.
It's just that after he walked a distance of about ten meters, he heard a terrible cry behind him, his heart sank, and his brows were clustered, "Could it be ......" He secretly thought in his heart, and then lifted his body and ran to the direction where An Muxi was in a few steps. What he saw was that An Muxi's neck had been cut with a long cut, and An Muxi was also lying on the ground.
The prisoner held the long sword in his hand, the tip of his sword was still dripping with blood at the moment, and his face showed a solemn expression.
"Prisoner, it's you!" A trace of panic flashed on the face of the prisoner knife, but he immediately regained his expression, and continued: "I didn't expect you to come in time, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid An Muxi would have to flee again this time!" Now that he's dead, let's go back to the prince together to get back to life! ”
"Why?" The prisoner looked at the prison knife coldly and asked.
"What, why? What are you talking about? The prisoner asked, pretending not to know.
"Don't lie to me! Prison knife, your approach is really puzzling. If I hadn't come in time this time, An Muxi would have run away again. This afternoon, when I first pursued An Muxi, I had already found out that you deliberately let him go. Originally, I didn't know all this, I was just worried about you, although you are strong in martial arts, you also have your own shortcomings. If you really compete with An Muxi, the light skills you are good at do not have an absolute advantage. Therefore, I secretly followed you, trying to help you when you were in danger. But I didn't know, let me see that you didn't show all your strength, so you put him back in the ancestral hall. Prison knife, why is that? Do you know Ambrosi? ”
What the prison knife did was really incomprehensible, and the prisoner couldn't figure it out.
"I was sent to the Night Camp when I was very young, and I was trained by extraordinary people, and I only followed the prince in the first two years, you know everything about me, how can I know An Muxi?" Prisoner Dao frowned and looked at the prisoner and said.
"And why are you doing all this?"
"There's no why, since he's dead, let's go back and work on errands!" After the prisoner finished speaking, he made a gesture and walked back.
At this time, the prisoner said to him from behind him, "Are you going to leave like this?" Could it be that in front of the prince, are you also saying the same thing? What do you think the prince will think? ”
Listening to the prisoner's questioning, the prisoner suddenly turned his head and said to him, "You want to know the truth, don't you?" Okay, then I'll ask you, what do you think of Ye Xuemei? ”
The prisoner didn't know why the prison knife suddenly asked this, but he also answered him very clearly, "Ye Xuemei is a smart person who is good at using tricks. She was the most immeasurable person I had ever met, and her beauty was almost equal to her mind! This time I came to the rescue of Xia Kingdom, if it weren't for her plan, it would be very likely that we would not be the only one who died. But why did you talk about her all of a sudden? ”
When the prisoner mentioned the waning moon, a look of resentment flashed in his eyes, and he said, "If it weren't for her, how could the prince have sent us, and how could he have left the waning moon broken?" Then how could the waning moon die? If it weren't for her, Wanyue would still be alive and well now, and we would still be staying in Song Kingdom! ”
The prisoner vaguely sensed something, but he couldn't say it clearly, so he asked again, "What do you mean by that?" ”
"Woe to the water! One day with her, the prince will be in danger. The prisoner almost gritted his teeth, and spat out the words word by word from between his teeth.
Hearing what he said, some cold sweat faintly appeared on the back of the prisoner, he stared at the prison knife with his eyebrows, and said, "The reason why you let An Muxi go is that you want to borrow his hand to kill Ye Xuemei?" ”
"That's right! All this I have done is for the good of the king! The prison knife unabashedly said the words from the bottom of his heart.
"You...... You're crazy! Anger welled up in the prisoner's eyebrows, and he scolded the prisoner.
"I'm not crazy!" The prison knife forcibly explained to the prisoner: "It's the prince who is crazy, he has lost himself for that woman, and he doesn't know what he's doing at all. Shouldn't I use An Muxi to kill Ye Xuemei? ”
"The order given to us by the prince is to protect Ye Xuemei, but you are contrary to his words, do you know the consequences of doing so? Do you know that if the prince is to blame, he will not be arguing like I am standing here with you! The prisoner forcibly suppressed his anger and explained to the prisoner that he hoped that he could find the key point of the problem and solve the matter perfectly.
"But I'm doing this for the good of the prince! Do you remember what he said to His Majesty when the prince came to Xia Kingdom, he said that he came to detect the strength and enemy situation of Xia Kingdom, and he also said that Ye Xuemei was his old friend. What is an old friend, I think that at the beginning, the prince came to Xia Guo and saw her at the birthday banquet of Emperor Moxuan of Xia Kingdom, and fell in love with her at first sight. But what about her, who is she? She used to be the woman of the two generations of kings of the Xia Kingdom. Is a person like her worthy of the prince? With her for one day, the prince will be lost for one more day! ”
Hearing that the prisoner's words were all for the sake of justice, Mi Prisoner's heart had already vaguely heard something, he suppressed his guess, stared at his brows and asked, "Have you heard anything recently?" ”
"You know what I've heard and know, don't you? His Majesty and the Queen Mother have appointed marriage to the prince several times, and those are all things that are beneficial to him in the future, those young ladies of noble families, which one is not a flower and a moon, and which one has little power behind it? But the prince refused, don't you understand what it's for? Have you forgotten what the first emperor said to us when he handed us over to the prince? We have a big plan, and what we want is something that is beneficial to the prince! How could the prince be held back because of that woman? She has suffered so much hatred today, she will definitely not stop there. I have heard the prince tell her that he will help her get revenge. Do you also hope that the prince will help her like this and delay his great cause? ”
Hearing that the prisoner said that he wanted to plan for the future of the prince, and almost said those things, he gasped, quickly interrupted him, and said, "Have you forgotten how the first emperor explained when he was dying? He said that he would not let us mention this matter to the prince until we had to. Now that the prince is thinking about His Majesty, and he has a deep relationship with His Majesty's Queen Mother, when you mention these things to him at this time, aren't you afraid that the prince will offend you and say that you intend to incite rebellion? ”
There was a look of determination on the face of the prisoner, and he looked at the prisoner and said coldly, "Don't you want to fulfill the last wish of the first emperor?" But to watch the prince be constrained by others step by step? The crime of rebellion? Are you going to go to the prince and report me first? ”
The prisoner immediately retorted, "How is that possible! Do you think we've grown up together since we were kids, and I'm going to denounce you? It's just that there is no impermeable wall, and your actions today will be known sooner or later! What are you going to do when that time comes? Don't you regret it? Also, this matter is top secret, and the first emperor once said that he could not say it until he had to do so. Moreover, His Holiness had also explained that he could not let the prince know about this matter too early. In the unlikely event that His Holiness notices such an abnormal behavior of yours, what do you think he will do to you? Don't forget, since the establishment of our Dark Night Battalion, the order we have obeyed is to obey the orders of our master. But if you make decisions like this and meddle in the affairs of the prince, it will bring you bitter consequences. Are you really not afraid of anything? ”
At this time, a gust of wind blew, blowing up the gray clothes of the prisoner knife, like a bat flying in the dark night, and he replied coldly and solemnly: "Even if one day the prince knows, or if His Holiness notices my abnormal behavior and wants to punish me, I will not regret it!" On the way to the throne, there is always bloodshed and sacrifice, for the sake of the prince, I think it is worth it! ”
Hearing his words, Mi Prisoner's chest churned, and an indescribable discomfort filled every breath, "So, Ye Xuemei must die?" ”
"That's right! All those who stand in the way of the king's hegemony should be damned! ”
After receiving the affirmative reply from the prison knife, the prisoner took a deep breath, and then said to him: "I don't know today's matter, whether you can kill Ye Xuemei in the future, it's all your own business, it depends on your own ability." I won't help you, and of course, I won't stop you. I just hope that you will be good for yourself, and don't end up hurting yourself! ”
The prisoner's words can be regarded as the final acquiescence to the practice of the prison knife, and the prison knife breathed a sigh of relief and replied: "Thank you! ”
After taking a few steps, the prisoner turned back to the prison knife and said, "Don't forget that once you fall into the dark night, there is no shore back, I don't want to execute you with my own hands one day!" ”
"There won't be that day!" The prisoner looked at his face and replied with an oath.
By the time they returned, the people of the Ye Mansion had been buried in peace, in an open space to the east of the ancestral hall, where the sun grew, and they could see it whenever the first rays of morning light shone through. At this moment, in the afterglow of the moonlight, the tombs are located there, showing incomparable loneliness.
Gongliang Yuzhi erected the last tombstone, came to Ye Xuemei, who was kneeling on the ground, and said to her: "I have agreed with a few villagers here, every time there is a cold food during the Qingming Festival, they will come here to worship, and after you have avenged your revenge in the future, they will move their bones back to their hometown for burial." ”
"Thank you!" Ye Xuemei's face was pale, and there was no trace of blood in the moonlight.
Gongliang Yuzhi looked at her haggard face, and said to her softly: "I know that no matter what you say at this moment, you can't calm the sadness in your heart, I just hope that you will mourn smoothly." After all, your own body comes first. ”
"I know!" Ye Xuemei's eyes were no longer tearful, but they were very red and swollen, after she listened to Gongliang's words, she raised her eyes to look at him, and said: "Before the revenge is avenged, I will not let myself have trouble, don't worry!" ”