Chapter 200: The Flower of Sin
"Who can see spring?"
Everyone lives for a purpose, some for commitment, some for power and status, and some for tomorrow that can be looked forward to every day, and some people just want to live simply, Huli also has a purpose, his purpose is very simple, so simple that it is almost a mission. People who don't have the same experience as him won't understand him, and of course, he doesn't need others to understand, and if the mission needs people to understand, it's not the mission.
"The glacier will never dry up, and the Beidi people will never perish."
Snowflakes fluttered on the flag, the whole world was white, and the snow covered all traces of life. The snow on the ground was so thick that the horses' hooves fell and pulled up, always bringing up a puff of snow, but the color of the soil could not be seen. The fox walks lonely in this snowy world, a person, a horse, a flag.
The flag is made of whole wolf skin, hardy and resistant to decay, and embroidered with a stag with its head held high, and its hideous antlers carry the moon overhead. This is the symbol of the Beidi people, before the white wolf king bowed his head to the great god of Haotian, the banner of the Beidi people was originally a snow wolf. The wolf's skin is heavy, and the wind does not blow it, but it is often accompanied by heavy snow, and it often winds that tear the wolfskin flag so loudly that the fox has to use his shoulders to carry the flagpole so that it will not be blown away by the wind.
The horse was a black stallion, covered in thick fur and covered with rags on its hooves, and snowflakes fell on it, turning it into a snow-horse, a slow-moving sculpture if it were not for the ice mist in front of the horse's head. The fox was also covered in thick fur, with a furry hat on his head, and two feathers stuck in the left and right ends, which had been frozen into ice, and looked a bit like the antlers on the flag.
Huli is still alive.
The king of Beidi did not kill him.
It takes a reason to kill a person, and it also needs a reason not to kill a person, the reason of the king of Beidi is that the Beidi people should not cut off the heads of their brothers, and the reason of the executioner Ghost Fangtu is that he is used to using a hammer, not a sword, and he is worried that a sword will cut Huli's head in half, so that he can't hang it on the flag, and if he uses that huge stone hammer to execute, it will smash Huli's head into meat sauce. And this is obviously not in line with the criminal law of the Beidi people.
So, Huli survived in such a daze.
Every Beidi person takes it for granted.
When the Beidi people began to cheer, the ghost Fang Tu hugged Hu Li's shoulder, and the king of Beidi picked up the wolf skin armor on the ground and carefully put it on his body, Hu Li was not moved to tears, he just looked at the sculpture of the white wolf king on the city wall, watched it gradually be swallowed by the wind and snow, and watched it look sadly into the distance.
"Winter, hard winter."
The frozen fortress is very large, but it is only a military fortress, not more than 200,000 people, most of the Beidi people live on the plains by the glacier, they dig one snow hole after another in the snow, gnaw the fish in the glacier and the ice and snow as enemies, this can make the Beidi people stronger, but now it is different, this is the last Beidi people, the strong warriors are less than thirty percent, the remaining seventy percent are old people and children, and the breeding ability of the Beidi people is constantly declining, as the prophecy sings, the Beidi people are about to perish.
"The weeds no longer grow, and the moon hangs in the sky like the face of a dead man. Is this a prophecy or a curse? ”
Huli is a witch official, since ancient times, witch doctors have not been separated, witch officials not only have to learn to recognize the stars in the sky, the mountains and rivers on the earth, but also have to learn all kinds of medical skills, although the emerging doctors think that it is witchcraft, the method is simple and rude, there is no reason and no reason. However, in the face of such doubts, every witch official dismisses it, how can the vastness of history, thousands of years, be so easily understood?
There is a meandering river in the far north outside the Wolf's Tooth Valley, that is, in the desert green state buried by heavy snow, which is the mother river on which the Beidi people live, and Huli found a flower there, called Bellflower, which is a grass and flower plant is very beautiful, the flower buds are green, but the rhizomes are red, and its roots can penetrate into the interior of the earth, like a wire net to penetrate the place where there is water. It wasn't poisonous, but it was terrifying, and Fox had never seen it anywhere else, but he recognized it at a glance, even though all he found was a rhizome frozen to death by ice and snow. The bell grass is a legendary plant, which can be said to be the natural enemy of all life, and it has only one mission, and that is to cut off life. It seeps its roots into the river, and the ability of people and animals to reproduce that drink the water from the river will quickly decline until it dies out.
"Who is it? Who planted the seeds of this demon here? ”
The fox closed his eyes, his whole body was trembling, the bell grass had long been extinct, it is said that the great sage Shennong in ancient times discovered it, in the Tairi Mountain, Shennong held it, facing the ruthless sky, did not say a word for seven days and seven nights, but the tears kept flowing, seven days later, Shennong fell down from the mountain, fell to death, this flower suddenly disappeared, there is no longer its figure on the land of Zhongzhou. Some people say that this is the seed of the devil, and the Shennong clan duel with the demon in the Tairi Mountain, and in the end, the Shennong clan was still glorious despite the defeat. But Hu Li doesn't think so, if the enemy is a demon, the great sage will not shed tears, then, the only explanation is that the enemy is ......
"Great God Haotian, I am a witch, but I am not religious."
Since then, the fox has not been able to hear God's voice.
"Has this grass always been here?"
When he found the bell grass, the ghost square figure was next to Hu Li, who wrapped the grass roots in fur and carefully did not dare to touch it, as if it were the most vicious thing in the world.
However, the grinning ghost Fang Tu did not feel any strangeness, and he replied: "This is not a grass, but a flower, called deer ear, and before the heavy snow comes, the river is full of deer ear flowers, like the ears of a stag, but it is a pity that you have only come now, otherwise you will see its beauty." ”
"Deer ears?" Hu Li's voice was trembling, and he discovered the big secret: "Who is it?" Who told you the name of the flower? ”
"A businessman, a real businessman."
"Merchant?"
Huli is not a real businessman, but from that moment on, he hated the fake businessman, and the person who brought the bellgrass must be a fake businessman, and the person who brought it was not a gift, but the devil. Even if the weeds keep growing, even if the heavy snow does not come, the Beidi people will perish, and perish at the hands of the devil who has lost his conscience. However, the truth is often not so simple, and how many secrets are there in it? The fox didn't dare to think about it, and he didn't want to think about it, it was a dirty, heinous sin.
"Thankfully, it's snowing. Thank you, Great Sage. ”
Heavy snow hides the traces of life, but real life does not die. The horse's hooves stepped out of one snow pit after another, the fox was curled up on the horse's back, and the rhizome of the boulberry in his arms was wrapped to death, although it had been frozen to death, but every once in a while, he would still take it out and check it, for fear that the fur would be pierced by its roots, and if its roots fell on the ground, maybe it would fall over, spread all the time, and perish.
"The glacier will never dry up, and the Beidi people will never perish."
"Hand of sin, please curl up. This is not the place for you! ”
Huli reminded himself over and over again that the cold wind was blowing on his face like a knife, and he couldn't see any color in his eyes, only endless snow and cold winter.
"I'm not a smart person, I can't guess the secret, but I see the sin in this man's heart. I was too timid to even make it public, but I've died once, and I'm not afraid anymore. ”
"There will always be smart people, and smart people will make smart choices."
The flag is getting heavier, the wind and snow ahead are getting heavier, and the black sea is getting closer. Huli puffed up his chest on horseback, shook the flag vigorously, shook the snow off the flag, and the cold snow fell into his neck, he shivered, but his eyes became more and more resolute.
"Who is that man? The prince of the Yan Kingdom? ”
"Who is that man? Beidi people? ”
In the wind and snow, far away, Hu Li was looking at Yan Eighteen, and Yan Eighteen was also squinting at Hu Li. Just when all the lords were kneeling on the ground and asking for their lives, Yan Eighteen saw someone coming in the wind and snow.
"Are you here to ask for surrender? In that case, you should withdraw from the Frozen Castle and retreat outside the Valley of the Wolves' Teeth. ”
In Yan Eighteen's big tent, Yan Eighteen wrapped himself in a silkworm chrysalis, just squatting on the ground, not at all like a king of ten thousand times. However, the same was true of Huli, who was sitting across from him.
"If you want war, the king of Beidi will definitely give you war."
Hu Li pressed his knees and looked at Yan Eighteen levelly, now, he was the messenger of the King of Beidi. He didn't expect Yan Eighteen to be so young, so good-looking, and even more so weak.
"War?"
The corners of Yan Eighteen's mouth curled, but he was not joking at all: "Winter covers the extreme north, weeds no longer grow, the sun no longer rises, and the Beidi people are about to perish." ”
"but they did not perish."
Hu Li's interface, Yan Eighteen made Hu Li confirm that this is a smart person, he can see through the Beidi people at a glance, but Hu Li breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "The heavy snow does cover the extreme north, and the Beidi people really have no way back." However, if the prince and the prince insist on going their own way, then the Beidi people have only one battle, a desperate battle in order to survive! ”
"Two hundred thousand?"
Yan Eighteen sniffed and felt a little dizzy, not because of the desperate battle of the Beidi people, but because he was sick again.
Hu Li said: "The Yan people are fearless, and the blood of the Yan people is iron." Of course, the powerful Yan State can use the strength of the country to make the Beidi people unable to survive this harsh winter. However, smart people don't do that. ”
"I'm not a smart person."
Yan Shibai rubbed his red tom nose, no way, rubbing his nose is more elegant than a runny nose.
"If the prince is not a smart person, there will be no smart person in the world."
"When I was younger, people called me a fool."
"How can a fool understand the cleverness of a wise man."
"You're not from Beidi."
"The prince is really as wise as a torch, and he really doesn't hide it, Huli is originally a Dayong person. Junhou should also be able to guess why Huli is with the Beidi people. However, this is not the purpose of the fox leaving this time. ”
"Oh, why is that?"
"I'll bring something."