044 Rumors
After resting for the night, Mo Lu and Mu Qingyang recovered most of their physical strength, walking in the mountains and forests, Mu Qingyang decided to give up riding a horse, and after communicating with Nightmare, he let the horse go into the dense forest by itself. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Mu Qingyang discerned the direction according to the wilderness survival skills and began to move towards the southwest.
As soon as he walked out of the forest, Mu Qingyang crawled down violently, and Mo Lu also pressed Adis, and after a while, several teams of cavalry galloped along the official road not far away.
Mu Qingyang retreated into the woods, just as he expected, the people of the Heavenly Realm had already sent their pursuers to lay a net of heaven and earth.
Shura City has fallen into the hands of Emperor Shakti, and public opinion is also in their hands, and I don't know what propaganda will be like outside.
However, such a big thing happened in the royal capital, it is impossible to control the situation quickly, and it is great to be able to control the vicinity of Shura City, after all, the Council of Elders composed of major lords is the real center of power in Shura Kingdom, even if they kill all the royal families, but the counties and provinces controlled by those elders are not so easy to fall into his hands. So Mu Qingyang wasn't worried about not being able to escape, after all, he had enough experience in escaping.
What needs to be worried now is the way out chosen, Mu Qingyang still tends to take Molu and them to the Forgotten Valley first, where Mu Qingyang came, and it is also a place that is absolutely safe in the short term, as for the major counties and provinces that Molu said, although they are all controlled by the old subordinates of the God King, Mu Qingyang, who knows the fickleness of people's hearts, is still skeptical.
Dodging in the mountains and forests, evading, on this day, finally reached the border of the southern province.
Because there are no horses, they shuttle in the mountains and forests all day long, and after more than ten days, Mu Qingyang and Molu's mother and son are extremely embarrassed, their skin is tanned, their faces and bodies are greasy, there is a strange smell, and their clothes are even more tattered.
Ardis followed Mu Qingyang to suffer a lot, but also learned a lot of things, Mu Qingyang let him follow his own traps, hunting, and how to camouflage sneak attacks, observe the terrain, identify non-toxic plants, it is under such a difficult and interesting guidance, Ardis grew up rapidly in more than ten days, tanned skin made him take off his childishness, and the experience of fighting with wild beasts made him tenacious, more than ten days later, Ardis faintly faded that immature coat, began to really grow into a teenager.
Although Molu feels sorry for her son, after all, she was born in a family, and her vision is different from that of ordinary people, knowing that the education given by Mu Qingyang to Adis may benefit him for a lifetime, and only after experiencing cruel and strict training can the young eagle really spread its wings and soar. At most, sometimes Mu Qingyang was too stern and gave him a resentful look.
At the border pass of the southern province, the flag is flying.
Three pairs of eyes watched through the dense branches and leaves at the large group of military horses coming and going on the border gates, and dust and smoke flew in the fluttering military flags.
"What to do? Are those armies here to capture us? Molu asked subconsciously, along the way, she had become accustomed to Mu Qingyang's attention. Mu Qingyang retracted his head, he couldn't see any expression on his face, to be honest, they didn't dare to show up at all in the past ten days, and any news outside couldn't reach their ears at all, so to what extent the situation had developed was what Mu Qingyang wanted to know the most.
He was silent for a long time, and then made up his mind: "You stay here, I will go and investigate, if it is really an enemy, I will lure them away, and you find another way to escape." "It's not going to work, it's too dangerous."
"There's no other way, it's not a matter for us to hide all the time, don't worry, I'll be fine, but you're yourself, be careful." Mu Qingyang's tone was very firm.
Molu sighed, knowing that she couldn't convince him, "Don't die, you promised to help me." Mu Qingyang smiled and patted Addis's head before leaving: "You are already a man, take care of your mother." ”
Ardis nodded with a serious face: "Master, you have to be careful." ”
Mu Qingyang didn't say anything more, got into the bushes, and quickly disappeared from the field of vision of the two.
There were almost no people on the official road, Mu Qingyang's plan to catch a passer-by for interrogation failed, and the tense atmosphere at the checkpoint revealed a message: The chaos in the royal capital had affected the entire Shura Kingdom.
And how long this chaos will last, and what the consequences will be, no one can predict.
Jasmine and Addis waited until it was dark. The wait between the two of them in these few hours was really more difficult than the exile of the previous ten days.
Among the three people, Mu Qingyang has the most experience in escaping, although Mo Lu has a tough personality, she is still a woman in her bones after all, and she has been in the palace for so many years, so all the big and small things along the way are under Mu Qingyang's control, and she has unconsciously become accustomed to the feeling that Mu Qingyang arranges everything by her side.
As soon as he left suddenly, the mother and son felt an indescribable unbearable suffering. In his heart, he was worried that Mu Qingyang would be arrested, and he was afraid that he would leave them.
It is said that a woman with a character like Molu would never have such weak emotions, but she just couldn't suppress those irritable thoughts.
When it was getting dark, the beasts in the mountains and forests were screaming, the cold wind was clear, and Attis's little face was frozen blue, and Molu held Adis in her arms, almost crying.
After all, he was gone.
Molu gave up, and in the end, the only person she could rely on in this world was herself.
She smiled a little self-deprecatingly, raised her courage, and decided to take Addis out of here, and traveled west to the new province, which is adjacent to the southern province, and the lord is the descendant of the general Mi Luo under the command of the god king back then, and there are some distant relatives with the Moro family, if there is one of the old subordinates of the Barrier Moon who is most likely to support Molu, it is only him. Glancing in the direction of Southern Province, Moru pulled Addis deeper into the jungle.
"Queen Mother, where are we going? I can't walk anymore. ”
As he walked deeper and deeper in the forest, Ardis was tired and thirsty, and he stumbled and almost fell to the ground. Mo Lu looked blankly at the darkness around her, the so-called art masters are bold, on weekdays, Mo Lu will not be afraid of the dark at all, but today, the confusion about the future, and Mu Qingyang's inexplicable emotions have made her lose her former calm.
She even found that she was lost, her wilderness survival experience was still far worse than Mu Qingyang's, not only did she not find a little water source after searching for a long time, but even the few fruits she found were dry and astringent.
"Mother, I'm so hungry." Addis cowered at the foot of the tree, his stomach growling.
Mo Luqiang cheered up and comforted, "Hold on a little longer, and soon we will be able to find something to eat." ”
Even if Mu Qingyang had successfully trained, Ardis didn't complain about anything, stood up strongly, and followed Molu for half an hour, and finally fell to the ground.
"How are you?" Moru pounced on him and picked him up.
Touching Adis's forehead, it was hot and hot, more than ten hours had passed since noon, not a drop of water had entered, only a few dry wild fruits had been chewed, Attis finally couldn't hold it anymore, he opened his eyes slightly, and said hoarsely: "Queen Mother, the child is useless." ”
"No, no, you are very brave, child, you wait here for me, I will find food soon, don't sleep, don't close your eyes, wait for the queen mother." Jasmine put him in a sheltered place, made a few more marks nearby, and burrowed into the bushes.
After searching for a long time, Molu finally caught a few pheasants and came back.
Seeing Mo Lu carrying a few blood-drenched pheasants, Ardis was shocked, this thing Mu Qingyang didn't know how many times he had made for them to eat in the past few days, and he used it almost every day, although he didn't use any seasoning, but it was cooked by Mu Qingyang very delicious, and he couldn't get tired of eating it.
Molu has never done it herself, but seeing Mu Qingyang do it many times, she also feels that it is very simple.
It's just that the internal organs are taken, covered with mud, dug a pit in the ground and put them inside, and then take them out and pluck out the mud and chicken feathers to eat.
But it looks easy, but when it really comes to it, Molu realizes how difficult it is. She was originally a vegetarian, and her background was destined to make it impossible to do these rough jobs,
Just taking the chicken entrails almost disgusted her to death, those greasy and greasy blood stained her hands, and accidentally splashed on her face, the yellow and white pulp in the internal organs were combined, and Molu retched again and again.
Even so, looking at Ardis's longing look, Molu felt that everything could be endured, maternal love was selfless, and no matter how noble a woman faced her child, she would become an ordinary and great mother.
However, great maternal love encounters harsh realities and is often even more devastating.
When Moru dug out a charred black mass from the ground, she couldn't dare look at Addis's disappointed eyes. She couldn't eat what she made at all, and Molu herself swallowed a bite of nausea and almost threw up her stomach. The huge disappointment, and the worry about Ardis finally made Molu cry.
"Why, why can't I even do such a small thing!"
"Mother, what you made is delicious." Ardis looked at his mother, who was covered with chicken blood and feathers, and her face was smeared with charcoal ash because of the fire, knowing that she had done her best, she sensibly picked up a piece of charcoal-shaped chicken on the ground and stuffed it into her mouth, chewing and swallowing it hard, but it attracted more tears from Jasmine.
She hugged the child tightly with a cold body and a hot forehead, and the sadness in her heart flowed like a river.
No mother can bear the pain of her child, no matter how strong Molu is, her heart defense is gradually being destroyed, at this moment, what power, status and wealth no longer matter, she only hopes that Addis can live a healthy and happy life.
I don't know how long it has been.
Mo Lu suddenly freed herself from that paralyzed state, turned her head and slashed away with a sword.
"It's me!" A voice sounded in the darkness that made Molu mix joy and sorrow.
Mu Qingyang looked at the torn clothes on his chest with palpitations, and wanted to complain a few words, but when he looked up, he saw Mo Lu turning around and looked embarrassed, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
"What's wrong with you, making it like this?"
"Leave me alone, look at my child, he's sick." Molu is now like a man who has fallen into the water grasping at a straw, a rare weakness.
Mu Qingyang hurriedly took two steps forward, put his hand on Ardis's forehead, opened his eyelids and mouth again, and looked at it, his eyebrows twisted together: "He is infected with wind and cold, didn't I ask you to wait for me there?" How do you run around. ”
"You...... I haven't heard from you for so long, I thought ...... You...... Hey......" Molu was stunned, and she didn't know how to express her psychological changes.
Untied the water bag in his waist, Mu Qingyang first let Molu take a sip, and then poured a little more into Ardis.
"Don't worry." Mu Qingyang saw her unspeakable and guilty look, and was unwilling to question her again, so he hugged Adis from her arms: "Come with me, let's go into the city." ”
"Into the city?" Only then did Mo Lu realize that Mu Qingyang's clothes had changed, and the disguise on his face had also been washed away, which had changed a lot from when he left: "Didn't the people from Southern Province come to arrest us?" ”
"Yes, I'm afraid you didn't expect that the prime minister of your Shura clan was not dead, heh, let's go, I'll tell you about the situation outside on the way." Mu Qingyang found the way down the mountain with a familiar car, picked up his whistle and blew, and a red shadow rushed out of the darkness, it was the nightmare that had been separated for a long time, and with the nightmare, many cavalry rushed out of the darkness.
After these people came to Mu Qingyang and the three of them, they quickly dismounted and saluted.
"You get out of the horse and pack up." Mu Qingyang didn't specify Molu's identity, but she looked too embarrassed now and didn't want her to be too embarrassed in front of the soldiers.
Molu glanced at him gratefully, and secretly said that this guy has such a delicate side hidden under the cold exterior.
Mu Qingyang carried Ardis to the nightmare, Molu got on the horse that Zack let out, and the group headed in the direction of Southern Province.
Along the way, Mu Qingyang explained the situation in Shura Country to Mo Lu in a small way.
It turned out that after Helubo, the prime minister of the Shura Kingdom, returned to the mansion from the gate of the palace without danger that day, when waves of assassins continued to attack his home, he felt even more uneasy, and his intelligence network also transmitted the news that Shura City was attacked by bandits, and even the news of the king's soul was destroyed was in his hands for the first time.
Hruber is not stupid, if he can't guess anything with so many doubts, he will not be the speaker of the Shura country. No matter what the truth of the matter is, Heruber is ready to abscond out of Shura City first, he first used a stand-in to die in front of others to confuse his vision, and then escaped directly from the escape passage that he spent a lot of money to build, speaking of which, the escape was smoother than Mu Qingyang.
The provinces that tended to be attached to him were concentrated in the center, and Heluber arrived first to join his son, and at the same time began to firmly control the army in his hands.
At this time, news came from Shura City that the bandits were driven away by the Eastern Front reinforcements led by Emperor Shakti and rescued Shura City.
And the news that came out of the palace was that Mu Qingyang assassinated the king and absconded with Molu, one was the henchman of King Shura, and the other was Queen Molu, among which there were many places for the people to speculate, but in a few days, there were no less than dozens of versions that stirred up Xuan Ang in Shura Kingdom.
Among them, the most widely spread is that Mu Qingyang fell in love with Molu and assassinated the king and eloped.
It is precisely because this version is the most romantic and extremely rich in the feelings of the Brahminati warriors that the people are most willing to agree with this version. But the upper-level people who are really involved in this big event will never believe this ridiculous rumor.
As we all know, Moro is already a ghost, and there is basically not much time left, even if Mu Qingyang really falls in love with Molu, and the two hook up and commit adultery, then as long as they cheat secretly, this kind of thing is not uncommon among nobles, with Molu's means, I believe that no one dares to say a word. Elopement is ridiculous enough, not to mention the stupid thing of killing the king before elopement.
It's just that before the events became clear, these figures who had the ability to influence the Shura Kingdom remained silent.
After Shakti took control of the city of Shura, he immediately gained the support of the rival faction of Moro, who came from the royal family and had always been the greatest opponent of Heruber in the imperial court. Coupled with the escape of Hruber, it can be said that the royal family that has experienced the catastrophe has been controlled by the traitors, although the power of the royal family has also been greatly weakened, but after all, it is a legitimate member of the royal family, and the deeds of Emperor Shakti's expulsion of bandits and saving Shura City have been deliberately expanded, and the call to join the Eight Tribes is getting louder and louder.
Compared to the high enthusiasm of Shura City, the local forces are significantly more low-key.
The armies in the north fell completely under the control of the Yaksha King, so the nobles of the northern region rushed to Beijing to swear allegiance.
The central part has always been the territory of Helube, so you can imagine what kind of attitude it is.
The southwest is a cold bystander, the largest counties and provinces there are the territory of the tribesmen of the Obscurian Moon, and those old warlords are the most rebellious, and they have never taken the central power very seriously.
The situation in the east is a bit special, because of the presence of the demon abyss world, the number of eastern armies is the strongest, and the eastern front army is relatively independent, and the commanders of the eastern front have always been neutrals, and the two major forces of the royal family and the parliament are salivating over this position, but since the generation of the obscure moon, the eastern front army has existed in the Shura country as a balanced cornerstone, and the eastern front army must not waver and only be loyal to the weight of the Shura country.
This time will not be an exception, and the Eastern Front did not take a position until things became clear.
Without the support of the Eastern Front Army, it would have been impossible for Shakti to completely control the Shura Kingdom.
When Mu Qingyang and Mo Lu appeared outside the Southern Province, the old fox Heruber also arrived in the Southern Province, bringing with him the scrolls, swords, and troop transfer badges given to him by the Shura King.
Heruber learned through his own intelligence network that Mu Qingyang was not dead, he guessed that Mu Qingyang took Molu's mother and son, and the most likely place to abscond was only Southern Province, so he rushed to Southern Province with all the credentials to take over Southern Province, Heruber's appearance first stabilized the panicked hearts of the people in Southern Province, this old fox has been in charge of the family for many years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the Shura clan is above 10,000 people, and the power of Emperor Shakti is not deep-rooted at all, so Heruber's escape is their biggest mistake this time.
The rumors of Wang Du are just a smile in the eyes of the real upper class.
At least after Heruber's arrival, everyone in the Southern Province was waiting for Mu Qingyang's return. (To be continued.) )