Chapter 199: The Big Picture Matters
Chapter 199: Give It a Ride
After Chu Qin retreated to Lingyun County, he ordered the reinforcement of the city defenses, and asked the boy Deng Xichen to go to Lingyi County with his token to supervise the reinforcement of the city defenses in Lingyi County.
Three days later, Chu Qin received Gu Du's truce, Gu Du wrote very simply, he missed his wife and children, and agreed not to use soldiers for a year, and he would talk about it after a year.
Chu Qin frowned, what the hell is Gu Du doing? If you don't want to fight, you won't fight, there are so many reasons, why use such words as a reason for a truce?
After pondering for a while, Chu Qin understood that Gu Du was showing sincerity to him, and using this seemingly absurd reason just showed his sincerity in wanting a truce.
So Chu Qin replied with a letter, agreeing not to use soldiers within a year.
In fact, Gu Du still deceived Chu Qin, and the real reason was that he received a letter from Dongfang Xia Lan, saying that Mo Xuan suddenly stopped eating or drinking, and was listless all day.
Originally, Dongfang Xia Lan thought that he had left the Black Wood Forest for too long and wanted to take Mo Xuan back to the Black Wood Forest, but Mo Xuan didn't leave at all, and always hugged Dongfang Xia Lan in his arms.
Dongfang Xinghao said that Mo Xuan was already hundreds of years old, and his fate might be coming to an end, so Dongfang Xia Lan sent a letter asking Gu Du to return to Kangzhan Mountain.
Gu Du immediately wrote a truce letter to Chu Qin, and after sending someone to send it out, he immediately set off, he believed that Chu Qin would definitely agree, and he wrote a seemingly absurd, but reasonable reason, Chu Qin would be suspicious, even if he still wanted to fight, he didn't dare to move.
Gu Du must go back, Mo Xuan is not only a spirit animal, but also an elder, without Mo Xuan, there would be no Zeguo today, let alone him, a majestic and powerful uncle.
Mo Xuan is leaving, no matter what, he has to give him a ride, even if he loses the city and loses his troops because of this, he will not hesitate to lose his troops.
Dongfang Xia Lan leaned on Mo Xuan's arms, her eyes were red and swollen, Mo Xuan closed her eyes and breathed heavily, but she curled Dongfang Xia Lan with her tail.
Seeing Gu Du, Dongfang Xia Lan choked up and said, "Husband, Mo Xuan is afraid that he won't be able to do it, he hasn't eaten for seven days, and only occasionally drinks some water." ”
Gu Du was just about to speak, Mo Xuan suddenly opened his eyes and looked straight at Gu Du.
Gu Du's heart moved, he took two steps, knelt on one knee in front of Mo Xuan's face, looked at it and asked, "Mo Xuan, are you waiting for me?" ”
Mo Xuan's eyes rolled to Dongfang Xia Lan, and then turned back to look at Gu Du, repeating this three times.
Gu Du suddenly understood, and said, "Don't worry, I will never let Xia Lan down in this life." ”
Mo Xuan breathed through his nose and rolled his eyes repeatedly.
Gu Du frowned and pondered for a moment, and said, "No matter what the battle situation is, I will think about Xia Lan first, and I will never risk my life, let alone take my life to avenge Jin Lan." ”
Mo Xuan looked at Gu Du steadily, as if nodding, and then closed his eyes.
"Mo Xuan?" Dongfang Xia Lan stretched out his hand to push Mo Xuan's head, but Mo Xuan didn't react, and his breathing stopped.
"Mo Xuan!" Dongfang Xia Lan slapped Mo Xuan suddenly, and shouted hoarsely: "I'll call you!" Keep your eyes open! ”
Gu Du took Dongfang Xia Lan into his arms and hugged him tightly.
"Ah......" Dongfang Xia Lan cried loudly, and kept calling: "Mo Xuan! Mo Xuan! Mo Xuan......"
Dongfang Xinghao ordered someone to build a huge coffin in advance, and also chose a burial place, and when Mo Xuan was buried, the whole family came to worship with the rites of the ancestors.
After the funeral, Gu Du hurried back to Linghe County, without taking Dongfang Xia Lan with him, Dongfang Xia Lan had to slow down for a while, and Gu Du didn't have time to accompany her all day, so it was better to let her stay at home, be accompanied by relatives, and often go to Mo Xuan's grave to see.
One day in the second month of the vine month, Emperor Ling's early dynasty, Chu Huaizhong, the head of the Department of Civil Affairs, came out of the class and said: "Your Majesty, yesterday afternoon I received a report from Linghai County, saying that the sea water has faded black and become clear. ”
The Spirit Emperor stood up and asked, "When did it happen?" ”
Chu Huaizhong replied: "The fold says ......"
"Take it to me!" The Spirit Emperor interrupted Chu Huaizhong, his tone a little impatient.
The imperial official hurriedly forwarded the fold to the Emperor Ling, who read it carefully with a solemn face, and after reading it, he threw the fold on the table, sat down silently, frowning and silent.
It is said that since the end of the Dan month, the sea water will gradually fade, and by the beginning of the vine month, it has basically become clear again, and the county commander of Linghai County, Du Fangsheng, ordered people to put a wooden board into the sea, and waited for three days, and the wooden board did not show the slightest sign of decay.
The Spirit Emperor was silent for a long time before he stood up and said, "The three divisions are in the inner hall. ”
After saying that, he turned around and left, and the imperial officer shouted: "Retreat!" ”
When he arrived at the inner hall, the Spirit Emperor had already taken out a scroll of bamboo slips, and the dark color indicated that the scroll was old.
This bamboo slip is very long, and when unfolded, it is even longer than the case, and the words on it are not written with pen and ink, but with a knife, and then injected with ink, which shows that the content on it is extremely important.
The Spirit Emperor said: "Three Aiqing, come and take a look." ”
Only then did the three of them notice that the Linghuang was a bamboo slip unfolded upside down, so the three of them came together in front of the case and carefully read the words on the bamboo slip.
The bamboo slip roughly means that as early as five hundred years ago, there was a bear country overseas, crossed the sea to the Linghuang Continent, and wantonly burned and looted.
Later, a warlock came from the east, met the Spirit Emperor, and told the Spirit Emperor a place to go, there is a fairy island in the East China Sea, called Zhen Ling Island, there is a rare beast on the island, called Mo Xuan, if you get this beast, you can solve the trouble of the bear country.
But there is one condition, that is, it is necessary for the royal family to go to the blood, otherwise not only will the rare beast not be recovered, but it will also die on the fairy island.
So the Spirit Emperor sailed to the east, and it took two years to bring back the treasure beast Mo Xuan, and then used the spell left by the warlock to turn the sea water black, and anyone and anything that came into contact with the black sea water would be reduced to nothing.
In this way, the Bear Man Kingdom can no longer invade the Spirit Emperor Continent, but Mo Xuan has a lifespan, five to eight hundred years, if Mo Xuan dies, the spell will be invalid, and the sea water will change back to its original state.
The three of them all looked at the Spirit Emperor with strange eyes, when Mo Xuan was taken away by Dongfang Xia Lan, the Spirit Emperor sent an expedition, and once said that if he couldn't take it back, he would kill Mo Xuan to prevent future troubles.
The Spirit Emperor said flatly: "I didn't know about this ancient scroll, a month ago I dreamed of Mo Xuan, chasing and biting me, I was powerless to resist, so I ran hard, inexplicably ran to the ancestral temple, knocked down the ancestor's spiritual seat, and saw a hole under the spiritual seat, and there was a scroll of bamboo slips in it. ”
The Spirit Emperor sighed and was silent for a moment before continuing: "After waking up, I felt weird, so I went to the ancestral shrine to check, and if I really found this scroll, I realized that Mo Xuan came to remind me that maybe it had passed away a month ago." ”
The three of them looked at each other, and Zhong Qi said, "Your Majesty, you can ask Chu Qin to ask Gu Du for verification." ”