Chapter 989: Big Mistake

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Song Qingxiao watched with interest as Zhang Shouyi's face dried up, his flesh was rotten, his beard was dull, and the rotten robe hung on his empty body, showing his identity as a general back then.

His skin quickly decayed and blackened, turning from a living body to a walking corpse in an instant.

Those eyes were like dried grapes, losing their luster, but with a heavy yin aura.

The bow and arrow in his hand also decayed and aged, but compared to the previous brand-new appearance, Song Qingxiao finally sensed a trace of murderous aura.

This is Zhang Shouyi a hundred years later!

Trapped in a dream and not waking up, even if he was strong and holding a sharp weapon, because he was in the game of 'a hundred years ago', it was impossible for him to shoot Song Qingxiao a hundred years apart.

But at this time, Zhang Shouyi, who was forcibly awakened from the big dream by Song Qingxiao, already understood that he was in a hundred years later.

Although the bow is no longer as sharp as it was back then, there is no barrier of time and space, and Zhang Shouyi has accumulated a hundred years of resentment, so he really has a powerful evil spirit.

And because this bow accompanied Zhang Shouyi's southern expedition to the north a hundred years ago, killing many lives, under the nourishment of Shen Zhuang's demonic aura, its evil aura was amazing, and it was no less than a top-level magic weapon.

"Actually, it's been a hundred years later—"

Zhang Shouyi, who had turned into a dry corpse, was stunned for a long time, and slowly said: "I, I remembered." ”

As his memories gradually revived, he seemed to remember more of what had happened after the war.

The withered body began to tremble, and pain and remorse mixed with resentment leaked through his body, causing his body to tremble.

The robe draped over him shattered as he trembled, and the edges turned into powder, surrounding him.

On his terrible face, which had already made the remaining black skin wrapped in skulls, there was a look of dejection.

Zhang Shouyi looked outside the city wall, not daring to turn around, as if there was some extremely terrifying existence behind him, so that he, a general who had been dead for a hundred years, had experienced a hundred battles before his death, and his hands were stained with blood and full of evil spirits, he was extremely frightened and did not dare to turn around.

"Does the general remember?"

Song Qingxiao's voice sounded beside Zhang Shouyi.

His body shook hard, and his blackened head made a 'creaking' sound as he turned.

Behind him, large strands of blood began to ooze from within the walls of Shen Zhuang.

Song Qingxiao also turned his head in accordance with his movements, only to see that the city of Shenzhuang was full of blood.

On the originally empty street, as Zhang Shouyi's gaze went, a handful of stacked corpses began to appear.

The corpses were piled up on top of each other as walls of human flesh, and thick blood flowed down the corpses and pooled on the ground, making it a living hell.

Silence! Dead air!

The smell of blood and resentment swept through the slaughtered city.

There are corpses everywhere, and I can't sense the breath of a living person.

The stacks of corpses were soaked in blood, and the blood stained the city red, making it a tomb of great proportions.

"I ......"

Zhang Shouyi opened his mouth and let out a dry, meaningless syllable.

He wanted to cry, but in those dry eyes, there were already no tears.

The blood-stained faces were filled with resentment, old men, young people in full bloom, and innocent children with a promising future.

These once vivid lives have become dead souls under the knife because of him.

"This is the ...... of my iniquity"

Zhang Shouyi's tall figure shook, even if there were no tears rolling out of his eyes, but a great sadness spread all over his body.

"I am a wicked man who cannot be washed away from my sins—"

"It seems that the general really remembered." Song Qingxiao was slightly relieved when he heard him say this.

Judging from Zhang Shouyi's reaction at this time, he was not like the rumored madness, stimulated by the defeat of Li Guochao's men, and slaughtered innocent people in a frenzy.

His face had lost his flesh and blood, but that look of discouragement, regret and grief, Song Qingxiao sensed it from him.

"I remember."

This century-old general did not pretend to be crazy and stupid and denied everything.

There was pain in his tone:

"I made a great mistake, and I know that I deserve to die."

Speaking of which, he paused:

"If it weren't for the girl's head drink, I might still be indulging in the dreams of that day, and it would be difficult to wake up."

A dream for a hundred years, waking up has been vicissitudes, things are not people.

"Now that the generals and civilians have come to their senses, I have some doubts."

Song Qingxiao stood side by side with him, looking at the scene of the corpses piled up in Shen Zhuang and the blood flowing into rivers, with a light sigh and pity in his eyes:

"These people died unexpectedly, and I am afraid that before they die, they still do not know the reason why the general killed them."

After she said this, Zhang Shouyi's figure began to tremble again, as if he had suffered a huge torture in his heart.

"Why did the general order the massacre of the city back then?"

Zhang Shouyi's teeth were clenched very tightly, and the thin black dry skin trembled non-stop, and the traces of his teeth clenching could be seen, showing that he could not be calm in his heart.

"Don't hide it from the general."

Song Qing glanced at him and said:

"More than a hundred years ago, the general's massacre of the city did not completely calm down the incident, but only the beginning of the incident."

"What do you mean by that?"

When Zhang Shouyi heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and asked in a deep voice.

"In the massacre of the city a hundred years ago, a large number of ghosts appeared here."

For more than a hundred years, these wandering ghosts have become the climate and become ghosts.

"And the people who still live in Shenzhuang after a hundred years of trouble."

Song Qing Xiao Zhengse said:

"I was entrusted by my family teacher and senior brother to go to Shenzhuang, but I encountered a ghost blocking the way, claiming to kill all the people in Shenzhuang."

She said a rough idea of what had happened on the road in the coming tense, and then added:

"If you want to find out the source of these unjust ghosts, you must find the reason why they turned into ghosts."

So she ventured into the red mist, entered the scene from a hundred years ago, and found the general who caused the tragedy of Shen Zhuang.

“……”

Zhang Shouyi listened to her words and was silent for a long time.

The soldiers who had been stationed on the city walls and followed him were silent.

"It's my fault." After a long time, Zhang Shouyi seemed to let out a long sigh, and his tone was heavy:

"I didn't expect that this mistake would continue after a hundred years."

"The descendants of Shen Zhuang mentioned General Zhang back then, and guessed that there were two reasons why you slaughtered the city."

Song Qingxiao combined the words that came out of Aunt Wu's mouth on the ox cart, coupled with his own guesses based on some clues, half-truths and half-truths:

"They believe that Li Guochao posed a threat to the imperial court back then, and before you led the troops to the battle, you made a military order in front of the emperor, and you were willing to put the whole family on the ground if you didn't take the head of Li Guochao."

At that time, Zhang Shouyi was leading the troops and holding heavy power, and the emperor was suspicious and left his parents, wife and children in Beijing.

"So after you were defeated by Li Guochao, you had no face to face your father, and you were afraid that the news of the defeat would spread back to Beijing, and the heads of the Zhang family would fall to the ground."

Under such stimulation, Zhang Shouyi became resentful, and finally lost his mind and ordered the slaughter of the city.

"It's not!"

As soon as Zhang Shouyi heard this, he suddenly had a murderous aura on his body, and retorted heavily.

"There's another possibility."

Song Qingxiao didn't care about his sudden outbreak of murder, and continued:

"Shenzhuang is a rumored excellent place to raise dragons, and you retreated to Shenzhuang, not to covet the wealth and abundance of grain and grass here, but to occupy the place where dragons are raised."

The old Taoist priest from Yunhu Mountain learned from his master that Shenzhuang was located in a special location, and it was a strange treasure of the Yin and Yang River.

If you open a mountain here, you will be a monarch with great luck and the spirit of an emperor in the world;

And if you go on a killing spree here, you will run rampant and breed a demon lord who will plague the Three Realms.

Previously, when she was temporarily perched on the shipyard, Qiao Er, who was holding a cat, once said that Li Guochao besieged Shenzhuang and wanted to take Shenzhuang at a great cost, because he had been instructed by a master to think that this place was an excellent place to raise dragons.

Therefore, if he conquers Shenzhuang and ascends the throne here, he will establish an immortal career, and his dynasty will be able to inherit it for thousands of generations.

Under such temptation, Li Guochao fought desperately and attacked Shenzhuang at a great price, and finally caused a lose-lose ending.

Zhang Shouyi was loyal to the imperial court and the emperor, if he learned of such rumors, under the extreme, it was very likely that in order to stop Li Guochao's conspiracy, he would turn the yang situation into a yin situation.

"My Great Jin Dynasty, now it has been passed down here, how many generations is it?"

Zhang Shouyi was silent for a long time, and after listening to her words, he asked:

"Who is the current emperor and what is the name of the year?"

After a hundred years, after Song Qingxiao broke into this Shura field, he didn't ask about the common people, his parents, wives and children, but he asked about the court and emperor he had been loyal to, and Song Qingxiao had already guessed the ending.

"Late gold is gone."

She quietly looked at the general, who had turned into dry bones, but was still full of loyalty:

"At the time of the Li Guochao uprising, Wanjin was already angry."

Soon after the Shenzhuang Incident, the people who revolted in various places invaded Shangjing, the courtiers fled, and the emperor died on the way to the south.

She probably knew a little about these things from Song Changqing, Aunt Wu and others, and she didn't say much about them.

But the answer Zhang Shouyi wanted had already been obtained.

He wasn't very interested in the details of what happened next, and even when he heard of the demise of the late gold, the only remaining hope in his eyes had been extinguished.

Endless yin qi escaped from him, blowing the decayed battle robe on his body, and the crimson cloak flew high, like an immortal soul trailing behind him.

"Is the number of gases going to be exhausted?"

He cried out in sorrow:

"Late Gold—"

"Your Majesty—"

He clenched the bow in his hand heavily, and let out a lone bird's wail.

'Woo-'

The yin wind blew, and a strong evil aura rose from the city walls.

The soldiers who stood on the city wall heard the news that the dynasty had been destroyed and that their families had long since passed away, and they all exuded grief and remorse.

This evil aura was extremely strong, rising to the sky, almost dyeing the sky red and black, shrouding the sky over Shen Zhuang, and it was difficult to disperse for a long time.

After a long time, the great general, who was in a state of sorrow, slowly regained his senses:

"I did it wrong."

He sorted out the thoughts in his heart for a long time before he continued:

"When I received the order to counterbalance the rebellion, I led the troops to Liaocheng."

The Zhang family has been a general for generations, loyal to the late Jin, when he went on the expedition, he swore in front of his parents, wife and children that he would not return to Beijing alive if he was not satisfied with Li Guochao.

When he arrived in Liaocheng, Li Guochao's deployment was seen by him.

It's just that at that time, the late gold was already in the wind and rain, the court could not make ends meet, the finances were poor, and the emperor had no silver in his hands at all.

The country has been completely destroyed, and the soldiers are not able to eat silver hair, and after the layers of exploitation by the military officials, the soldiers can't even fill their stomachs.

In contrast, Li Guochao's troops were just a rabble, with no scruples.

Everywhere he went, he burned, killed, looted, and did all kinds of evil, and every time he harmed a city, he left a mess for the court.

Li Guochao is ruthless, he knows that once he is caught, he will definitely die.

Therefore, when Zhang Shouyi attacked the city, he ordered the soldiers to drive the women and children to defend the city, and then spared no human lives, which was completely the behavior of outlaws.

In a few fights, although Zhang Shouyi did not lose much, he did not bargain for anything.

In order not to hurt the foundation of Liaocheng, coupled with the exhaustion of food and grass for the troops, after discussing with the subordinates, Zhang Shouyi decided to temporarily retreat to Shenzhuang and then discuss it in the long run.

Geographically speaking, Shenzhuang is surrounded by water, although it is called a village and town, but in fact the scale is no less than a city.

Li Guochao's army was only a gathering of ordinary rebels, and it did not know how to fight, let alone attack the city on the water.

Once Zhang Shouyi occupied Shenzhuang, Shenzhuang was rich, and there was a follow-up supply of grain and grass in it.

Even in the midst of the war, the people in the city did not suffer much from the war, and they did not have the heart to resist the court.

Even after hearing about the 'feat' of the righteous army, he was extremely welcome to Zhang Shouyi's arrival.

"I really just wanted to occupy Shen Zhuang at first."

Li Guochao's troops were just a rabble, and the reason why they obeyed Li Guochao's orders was only because Li Guochao was ruthless, and he promised to share the land and grain.

According to Zhang Shouyi's plan at that time, Li Guochao was not right, but he claimed to be a pseudo-king, and the two fought several times, he thought that Li Guochao was timid and spared, but he was very cautious.

According to his character, there are countless rich places in the world, and there is no need to risk the crisis of fighting with the regular army of the imperial court for a Shen Zhuang, and spend a lot of manpower and material resources to attack Shen Zhuang from the waterway.

Even if Li Guochao was crazy and dared to besiege Shen Zhuang, with his experience in leading troops, as long as he guarded the city wall and consumed him for ten days and a half with the grain and grass in Shen Zhuang, this group of rebels would naturally disperse.

At that time, the rebels did not have food, fields, and women as trophies, so they naturally did not accept each other, and divided into several shares, and their morale was low.

At that time, Zhang Shouyi led the troops to pursue and defeat these chaotic troops.

He thought it well, but unfortunately he didn't expect the beginning or the ending.

Li Guochao attacked Shen Zhuang like crazy, at any cost, and finally caused this tragedy that lasted for a hundred years.