Chapter Eighty-Eight: Defending Xiangyang

"You probably haven't killed anyone, have you?" Zhao Qi broke the silence and gently wiped the Xuantie heavy sword, both of them were on foot, and Lu Ma followed behind him.

Huang Rong shook her head, she really hasn't killed anyone, at most she has taught some bad people a lesson, it's not that she hasn't seen dead people, but with so many dead people, it's really the first time she's seen them. Especially when the heavy sword in Zhao Qi's hand swept over, these people were killed like cutting wheat, which made her feel a little unacceptable. This gave her a deep understanding of Zhao Qi's martial arts, and also made her understand the true meaning of chivalry and martial arts.

"Have you heard of Ran Min?" Zhao Qi suddenly mentioned this person, it is not far from this era, and the traces of this person have not been erased as in later generations. Even many radical people worship this Ran Tianwang as a spiritual leader and a god.

Huang Rong nodded silently, her father admired this Ran Tianwang very much, and when it came to his contribution to the nation, no one could match him. In the past, when she heard the story of this Ran Tianwang, she often felt a sense of blood, especially the order to kill Hu, which killed three million Hu people in the north, and since then has laid the foundation of the Han people. Even today, when the Jurchens established the Kingdom of Jin, they did not dare to kill the Han people in the Northland at will, which was not a great achievement of that person.

"It is all a blood-stained road, the Hu people are prosperous, the Han family is withered, only by killing can we establish a tripod and give the Han people a space to live. The so-called national integration is nothing more than you eat me, or I eat you, the difference is who dominates all this. If it was the heyday of the Han people, it would naturally be possible to appease the Hu people and let them integrate into the Han world, but now it is different, the Song State is too weak. Zhao Qi had a feeling, from the Western Xia, to the Liao State, the Jin State, and the Yuan Dynasty when the Hu people were in their heyday, even if the Ming Dynasty was established later, it did not calm the troubles of the Hu people, but there was a rampant Japanese robber, and the Jurchens rose again.

Huang Rong understood these truths, but as soon as she closed her eyes, she seemed to be able to see the scene of the sea of corpses just now, and some of the fallen corpses were still struggling, which added a bit of horror.

"In the world that belongs to you, you are growing up with Guo Jing all the way, until he becomes a real master, not weaker than the five uniques, but unfortunately the Mongol invasion broke all the peace, he resolutely chose to stick to Xiangyang City, in the blink of an eye is more than 20 years, and finally died with you among the Mongolian iron riders. After 30 years of hard work, the enemy is not the tide of the tide. Zhao Qi said leisurely, he had thought countless times that Huang Rong, who was eccentric when he was young, was born to jump out, and later silently managed the beggar gang, created a good situation for Guo Jing, and provided money and logistics, would there be bitterness in his heart?

He really thought about it, if Huang Rong saw the vicissitudes of life in middle age through the long river of time, and saw himself who fell under the Mongolian iron horse in his later years, would he regret it in his heart? Or she never regrets it, just because the person she loves is always by her side.

Zhao Qi is not a woman, he can't figure this out. At least if it were him, he might regret it, and he would prefer that he was still the woman who was like a fairy in the world, living freely on Peach Blossom Island, not trapped by the world, and not worried about life.

Huang Rong's face turned pale for a while, she turned her head to look at Zhao Qi, she thought about what Zhao Qi said she would marry Guo Jing, and also thought about why Zhao Qi would step sideways, she is a smart person, even if Zhao Qi's reasons are absurd, she has speculated, but countless speculations tell her that only what Zhao Qi said can be the truth. This made her a little unable to face it, but she never thought it would end like this.

She could see pity in Zhao Qi's eyes, as well as all kinds of complicated thoughts, and for a moment she understood a little bit why Zhao Qi said that she should be able to choose carefully.

"Maybe I'm a bit selfish, everyone has their own ideal life, and an ideal future, and everyone needs to be responsible for their own choices. Guo Jing is stubborn and stubborn in his bones, but in fact, he is lenient and righteous, there is nothing wrong with him wanting to be a hero, and there is nothing wrong with him wanting to keep Xiangyang. But you are different, you don't need to pay for his ideals and ambitions, you have taken all the savings of the Peach Blossom Island line, and you have taken the lives of your own family. Personally, I admire Guo Jing, and I also envy him, even jealousy. Behind every hero, more than one family, one woman, is buried. Maybe that's why I don't like heroes in my bones, I prefer to be selfish. If you can't do something, you won't do it. Zhao Qi was a little self-deprecating, what he said was what he said in his heart, and he didn't know why, he had very little defense against Huang Rong, which may indeed stem from the love and appreciation in his bones when he was a teenager.

Huang Rong nodded silently, her mind was really complicated, she didn't want to believe Zhao Qi's words, but her intuition told her that what Zhao Qi said was what would happen.

"Actually, Guo Jing is involved in a lot of things, starting from his father's time, it is Guo Yang's two families who are destined for Niujia Village, met your senior brother Qu Lingfeng, Qiu Chuji, and the appearance of Wanyan Honglie, breaking all this, Guo Jing's mother was pregnant and wandered into the desert......" Zhao Qi told eloquently, he told the story of the condor shooting, whether it was Qiu Chuji, or the Seven Monsters of Jiangnan, Temujin, etc. No matter how big or small, he said it, he knew Huang Rong at this time, maybe it would be better to know these things.

Huang Rong tried hard to digest what Zhao Qi said, her beautiful eyes were slightly gloomy, she grew up on Peach Blossom Island since she was a child, and she had never been washed away by the world, just like a white lotus that was independent in the world, flowing into the red dust. So when she meets Guo Jing, she will be moved by Guo Jing, and when she opposes the two of them, she will scold the stinky Taoist, dwarf winter melon and others, she won the dragon palm for Guo Jing, she rejected the Western Poison proposal for Guo Jing, she crushed Ouyang Ke's legs for Guo Jing's design, she was willing to be captured by Ouyang Feng for Guo Jing's misunderstanding, and she guarded Xiangyang to the old age for Guo Jing...... She has indeed given too much, and even any one of them is enough to write an earth-shattering love story.

On the contrary, it is actually Guo Jing who sacrifices very little in this love, he is a hero, but he is not an excellent husband, Huang Yaoshi is not wrong in this point.

"Hehe, you like to make up stories, you make up one set after another, you have investigated Brother Guo clearly enough, and you can even investigate Yan Honglie's matter, and you follow this girl, are you playing any bad ideas?" Huang Rong suddenly laughed, the haze was gone, and the ghostly eyes turned wide, staring at Zhao Qi as if looking at the bad guy, as if guarding against the wicked.

"Uh." Zhao Qi was speechless for a moment, this girl has changed too quickly, she was still worried just now, and now she began to shift her mind, when his eyes fell on the tears in the corners of Huang Rong's eyes, he couldn't help but feel soft in his heart, and said softly: "Okay, okay, just when I amuse you, I will cover you in the future, no one can bully you, remember Zhou Botong, he was trapped by your father for fifteen years." ”

"Hmph, just a fool like you, you will never understand the smart world, if you do what you say, I will become an old woman all of a sudden, but I can't eat a lot of delicious food, and I can't go to many places to see the beautiful scenery, that's miserable." Glancing at Zhao Qi, Huang Rong pretended to sigh and said, she is still a sixteen-year-old girl after all, she won't worry about too many things, marrying or not is still a little far away in her opinion, she is not worried about becoming a leftover girl. In this era, there are no worries about leftover women.

"If you were the Guo Jing you said, would you give up defending Xiangyang?" The two of them walked towards Zhongdu, and Huang Rong asked this coldly.

"Just do your best in everything, with a clear conscience, in fact, with that kind of spirit, you may not be able to change the reality, it is better to think of more ways, maybe you can solve it. Defending Xiangyang is probably one of the stupidest methods, well, and the most effective. You just see how I can prevent problems before they happen, and solve the troubles of the Jin and Mongols. Zhao Qi thought about it for a while, and immediately had an answer, he is not the kind of character who sticks to Xiangyang.

Huang Rong nodded, the smile on her face became more obvious, and her eyes couldn't help but look into the distance.

PS: The second update, thanks to the reward of the flying dragon! I had a headache last night, and I almost knelt down when I died, and my life was beautiful, and I cherished it. Basically, if there are no surprises, I will stick to two more.