Volume 9 Goryeo under the smoke of gunpowder Chapter 22 The Glory Girl
In the dark night, the stars hanging high in the sky are also obscured by endless lead clouds, without the slightest light penetrating, in the capital of Goryeo, in the city of Pyongyang, a group of mysterious people dressed in tight gray clothes are walking through the streets and alleys, the snow on the ground has long since ceased to be white, all are gray and black, and there are countless places to expose the dirt floor below. During this time, so much has happened in the city of Pyongyang that everyone is dizzying. Every day, there is billowing smoke rising into the sky, and every day there will be a tragedy that makes people shudder. So now this city is like a huge prison, and everyone is terrified, not knowing when bad luck will befall them.
This group of people, skillfully navigating the streets, quickly concealing themselves in every place where they can hide, knows the terrain of Pyongyang City very well. No one made a sound, and all of them hurried silently with their heads bowed, their steps swift, leaving shallow footprints in the streets, and moving rapidly from building to building. In three or two clicks, he climbed over the wall and passed to the other side. He is very athletic, and he is certainly not an ordinary person. The darkness of the night brought the best protection to their movements, and all of them moved in unison, as if they had been trained thousands of times, and when they needed to act separately, they quickly used the sign language of their hands to understand each other's intentions. They all went on a stealthy journey, all towards the same goal.
In the east of Goryeo City, a heavily guarded mansion, countless armed family members patrolled the courtyard, and this was the residence of Goryeo's most prominent minister, Mo Lizhi Yuan Taizuo, and these patrols were all private soldiers loyal to the Yuan family. They are Yuan Taizuo's greatest reliance. Goryeo is now in crisis, the city of Pyongyang, where he has lived for most of his life. In less than half a month, it has become a complete stranger. Countless people are like beasts fighting for food. Wandering through the city, countless shops were looted, and the mansions of countless court officials were also breached by these people, and then all the money was robbed. Yuan Taizuo had never thought of such a thing, why did these people dare to be so rampant? This country has really reached the point of exhaustion, and the people are in turmoil.
But he did not stand up to control the overall situation, with his prestige. As long as he stood up and shouted, then the chaos of this farce could be ended at a glance, but he didn't do it, because he was as completely dead as Gao Jianwu. His only son, the son he had the most high hopes for, Yuangai Suwen, was dead, and in the battle of that Great King City, he lost all his mental strength at once, and the last flame of the family has been cut off, so what else does this country do?
"Your Excellency. The Glory Girl is here! An old butler quietly came to Yuan Taizuo's side, bowed down and said to him. In his tone, there were three points of affection for this person who came, and seven points of admiration. But the words that came out showed that the person who came was a woman.
"She's coming. Then let her in! Yuan Taizuo waved his hand weakly, knelt in the small pavilion in the courtyard, and sat upright to watch the plums in the courtyard bloom one after another. For this woman. Yuan Taizuo didn't know how to face it, so he could only say that all this was a sin. The fate of the two is inseparable! Therefore, we can only deal with it indifferently and try to avoid bringing some subjective emotions into it.
"I've seen Lord Yuan......" a soft voice sounded behind him. Let Yuan Taizuo's body tremble slightly, this woman, for her, her son would fight on the battlefield like that. But in exchange for ...... It stands to reason that he should hate her in his heart, but why can't he hate her?
"It's Ronghua! Why do you think of me, a bad old man? Yuan Taizuo's voice trembled slightly, he didn't dare to look back, because as long as he saw this woman's face, he would unconsciously think of his son, this woman brought endless shame to their family? Or is it a huge opportunity? This is something that everyone looks at differently. But this woman, who almost became their daughter-in-law at the beginning, is now very different in identity, the difference between monarchs and ministers.
"Uncle Yuan, are you still blaming Ronghua?" The woman's voice is sad, and people feel a sense of empathy when they hear her voice. It is no longer clear who was right and wrong in the original matter, the exchange of interests between the family and the door valves, everything is so naked in front of everyone, and some are just eternal interests, no matter where it is, as long as there is a privileged class, then it will always exist.
"Where can I blame, it's just that I, a bad old man, have been hiding at home and can't get out, I didn't expect that there would be distinguished guests, and it was still Ronghua you, how could you not let the old man be flattered!" Yuan Taizuo said in a deep voice.
"How come, as a junior, it is Ronghua's duty to come to visit his uncle, and his uncle doesn't blame Ronghua for coming without permission!" The woman whispered, and walked from behind Yuan Taizuo to the courtyard, and only then did she see her whole picture clearly, dressed in a traditional Korean costume, with a wide skirt covering her ankles, tied with colored silk around her waist, her upper body was a lake blue shirt, her black hair was braided into a ring on top of her thinness, and her pretty cheeks were not powdered, like a slim hibiscus in the clear water. At this time, in this courtyard, in the dim firelight, a dazzling charm is revealed.
"Haha...... Ronghua, you are a bodhisattva, now you are here, what is the matter, the old decay is very clear, but this matter is not so simple, you don't want to think about what is the reason why you become the current Tangzi? Where does the root cause of such a thing come from? From the standpoint of the decrepit, this situation is now the biggest concession, and if you take another step forward, it will not be able to alleviate each other! Yuan Taizuo is an old fox whose eyelashes are hollow, although he has experienced the pain of losing a child, but the remaining energy also makes him clearly understand who is standing behind the scenes, let him know what can be done, what is to violate the bottom line, as a smart person, he knows how to do it to keep this fragile balance from breaking.
"Uncle, it is the people of Goryeo who are suffering now, these are the people of our kingdom, how can I bear to do this! Why should countless people pay for the mistakes of our nobles? It's all unfair! Ronghua Nu looked anxious, she had been observing and seeing countless miserable phenomena in the past few days, this was no longer the city she was familiar with, but more like a Shura hell. After a few days of observation, she set her sights on the first minister of Goryeo, and as long as he came forward, the whole situation would be alleviated to the greatest extent. It's not that she doesn't want to seek the root cause of the solution, but she knows that the stubborn man will never change his mind, because his pride does not allow him to do such a thing, which he values more than life.
"Bright, but still not smart enough! Okay, you all come out, bring Ronghua back, don't let her go out of the palace at will in the future, you still have to maintain an innocence in this world! Why wipe out all the last bright colors! Yuan Taizuo sighed, then stood up and walked slowly towards the house, saying as he walked. Suddenly, in the gloomy places around this courtyard, one by one the figures dressed in gray flew out, and one by one appeared like silent ghosts, and then knelt on the ground and bowed deeply to Yuan Taizuo, and approached the side of Ronghua Nu without saying a word.
"You ......" A sad look flashed in Ronghua's eyes like autumn water, when she saw these people, she knew that everything she did was actually under the supervision of that person, it turned out that he had never trusted herself, which made her completely disappointed in this world. In a trance, I returned to the early spring when the cherry blossoms were in full bloom, the years that broke her heart. All of this is still yesterday, and the man still hasn't changed, still so suspicious, so domineering. Everything must be centered on Him, and no one or anything must disobey His will.
"That's how Su Wen left, right? Hehe...... A good honorable king, but also a glorious female ......" There were two lines of tears in the woman's eyes, and a pair of bright eyes were like two clear springs. It's just that this clear spring flows out of a bitter spring, like the bitterness that flows out after the heart has been broken! She stood in this courtyard, accompanied by the endless wind and snow, and the few blooming plum blossoms, deeply engraved in this cold night. After this night, the last vestiges of the bright color of Pyongyang were polluted, and there was no trace of purity.
"Let's go...... In fact, all this has long been decayed, so what Goryeo needs is not to survive like this, but to be completely destroyed, and then let countless numb countrymen wake up, wake up under the iron hooves of foreign races, and be completely reborn. Of course, there are endless risks in this, maybe we will fail, and from then on, Goryeo will completely disappear, become a slave of a foreign race, and be completely wiped out in the long river of history, but no matter what, in the face of a corrupt dynasty and a strong enemy, it will take endless courage and glory...... Keep up your part of this pure goodness, it will be the last shining beacon of this country, I hope you can always persevere, no matter how bitter and dark the future is, don't give up......" Yuan Taizuo sighed loudly, and then said loudly to the Ronghua girl, even if the woman who was hugged by a group of people and walked out was only one back. (To be continued......)