Chapter 08: Finally Broken in a Choked Throat
At this moment, dozens of poisonous darts shot towards Xue Zicold, he brushed away the darts with one hand, turned around and kicked away the sword that the man pointed at, but in the thick fog, someone slapped his back with a palm, and suddenly, another sharp blade stabbed at He Le'an in his arms, and he heard a familiar voice and said angrily: "Stop!" Stop!! You must not hurt Princess Yuejun and Xue Shizi!! β
However, it was too late, the hostile in the dense fog tried their best to get He Le'an's life, Xue Zileng in order to protect her, he was gradually weak, turned around to resist the hostile blade, and in a panic, he didn't pay attention to the blade penetrating the back of the heart!
The dense fog was blown away by the strong palm wind, and Zhongsun Xuan, who was wearing plain clothes and filial piety clothes, saw that Xue Zileng was penetrated by General Anton's sword and fell on He Le'an, spewing out a large mouthful of black bright red, he was stunned for a while, and then shouted: "Ah Leng!" β
He Le'an only felt that there was a warm liquid brushing from his cheeks and ears, and the person who was holding her fell softly on top of her, General Anton stood in front of her with a gloomy face, the sword in his hand was directly inserted into Xue Zileng's body, and Zhongsun Xuan flew over and kicked General Anton away, and roared: "I didn't say it." Can't you hurt Princess Yuejun and Xue Shizi!! β
"They're wanted, and it's not a pity to die!" General Anton put away his sword and said indifferently.
"No matter what, that's also the brother-in-law and cousin of this son! Even if you are a wanted criminal, shouldn't you be merciful!! Zhongsun Xuan's face was like frost, and his eyes stared at General Anton deadly, gradually turning red.
"Xue Shizi!" He Le'an hugged Xue Zileng and sat on the ground in a daze, her eyes were flustered like never before, and the rising water vapor almost blurred her vision, but she didn't dare not look at Xue Zileng, for fear that in the blink of an eye, he would be gone, "Xue Shizi!" The voice of the mouth trembled.
Xue Zileng's face was blue, and he looked at her who wanted to cry with his eyes half-opened, and pulled his lips with difficulty and smiled, "I...... It's not ...... anymore Jinning Marquis Mansion...... of the son...... up, you...... Like Ah Yue, call me Ah Leng like that...... Finish. β
The tears condensed into beads, falling on his cheeks drop by drop, the hot seemed to flow into his heart, he wanted to raise his hand and wipe away her tears, but he tried hard several times, but he couldn't lift it, his strength seemed to be spent, his consciousness passed slowly, and he only heard her sob, "Ah Leng, don't!" No, don't! β
"Quick! Please, Brother Shizi, I won't run away, quickly Xuan Taiyi save him!! He Le'an raised his head in a hurry and looked at Zhongsun Xuan beggingly, "He, he's your cousin!" Save him! It's all because of her, it's all because of her that he ......, she cried, "Save him!" β
"Don't ......" Xue Zileng almost muttered, not knowing what force drove him to hold her cold hand, he finally smiled, "I...... No way...... up, you...... Other...... Sad, I, I promised...... Ah Yue...... To protect yours can ...... Drive the nail home...... I'm ...... Glad he ...... Not at all...... Will you blame me...... It's ......."
The big hand that wanted to hold her hand hard suddenly lost its strength, and He Le'an cried in a daze, "No! No! Ah Leng!! She shook his shoulder, trying to wake him up, but no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't wake him up, "Ah Leng! β
The cry of grief seemed to resound in the sky, Zhongsun Xuan's heart was filled with remorse, he clenched his fists tightly, restrained his anger, but he witnessed the death of his affectionate cousin in front of his eyes, those anger seemed to spring up from the bottom of his heart, he turned around and pulled out the software on his waist, and threw himself at General Anton!
But Zhongsun Xuan is not General Anton's at all, and he will be at a disadvantage after a while, at this time, a figure dressed as a man in black joined the battle circle, and the move was to kill General Anton!
Just as General Anton was overwhelmed by their combined efforts and was kicked to his knees by the man in black, a sharp blade pierced his chest, and he looked up in disbelief. It was He Le'an, whose face was full of tears and hatred, "You, you ......"
"I didn't murder Prince Qian, nor did I murder my husband, but you were killed by my own hands, and I won't deny it!" He Le'an said indifferently, and with all his strength in his hand, he stabbed the sword deeper, "Don't worry, I know who ordered you to kill me, and I won't let go of any of them, I heard that you just gave birth to a young son, right, wait for him on Huangquan Road!" β
The last way General Anton opened his mouth wide to say something stopped on his face forever.
Her tearful eyes were bloodthirsty remorse, regretting that she was reckless and asked Xue Zileng to take her back, and even more hated herself for repeatedly asking Xue Zileng to protect her, and finally asked him to die for her, she even resented the person in front of her!
He Le'an held the hilt of the sword and raised his eyes, looking at Zhongsun Xuan behind General Anton, the bright red on his face that did not belong to her mixed with the black blood spurted out by Xue Zileng slid drop by drop across his jaw and fell into a mess, "If Yeming is also dead, I will call everyone here to be buried together." Under the thick nasal voice, there was a trembling choked and sad voice, and seeing that no one moved, she pulled out the handful suddenly, shook it tightly, and turned to leave.
Aomori looked at Xue Zileng who was lying in a pool of blood, and silently escorted her.
Tears blurred the night, He Le'an walked forward step by step, I don't know when Hibiscus was with her, and when she reacted, she was already standing in front of the door of Lian Guogong's Mansion, and the little guy guarding the door looked at her in horror with a bloodstained face, "You, who are you-"
Before their words fell, Mu Hibiscus raised his hand and sent them into the Yellow Spring, He Le'an looked at him blankly, only listened to him: "We are your servants, what do you want to do, we should support them unconditionally, whether it is the Lianguo Mansion or which magnate, just need your words, I will wait before and after the saddle!" β
He Le'an knew that if she 'used' them, she would take on the responsibility of recovering the Yun Kingdom and serving the Yun Kingdom, all she wanted was the happiness of being stable and simple, and gathering with relatives and friends, why was it so ...... It's so difficult, why did Emperor Hui Xi want them to go back to Beijing as bait. Why does she have to pay so much for those who have nothing to do with it?
Obviously, everyone is very selfish.
He Le'an was silent and walked straight towards the Lianguo Mansion.
**
The next day, the entire capital exploded, whether it was the emperor's relatives, the powerful officials, or the common people, everyone had an unbelievable discussion in the streets and alleys, restaurants and teahouses:
"Xue Zileng, the former prince of the Marquis of Jinning Mansion who became a wanted criminal, was killed by General Anton, first murdered Prince Qian, and then murdered her husband, Princess He Le'an, the princess of Yuejun, and bloodied the Wan clan! The Holy One is angry! β
"I admire it when it comes to affection, but ...... Isn't He Le'an the princess of King Yuejun, she and Xue Zileng were wanted at the same time, could it be that she eloped? Isn't Xue Zileng the cousin of King Yuejun? β
All kinds of messy rumors spread all over the city, and they went straight to the imperial city.
In the Imperial Study. Emperor Hui Xi slapped the table and became angry, "She's too nonsense!" β
Zhongsun Xuan, who looked tired, said, "Your Majesty, Ah Leng died to save her, and she is just-"
"I will remember his merits, and when the matter is completed, I will posthumously crown him as the protector of the country, and let him die to save the people of Li, and his name will remain in history, and he will not be wronged." Emperor Hui Xi waved his hand and said, "The plan is to continue to wait and see, but your people must also properly stop her from coming to the house, otherwise how will she, the princess of Yuejun, continue to be in the future!" β
Zhong Sun Xuan only felt cold when he heard it, and it was for his plan. He witnessed his cousin die, and knew that his brother-in-law was going to wash the Wan family in blood, but he was powerless to stop it, making her hate him, but in the end, the emperor in front of him only made an understatement, is it that the person sitting on the dragon chair only cares about his own life, and regards others as mustard?
**
In Yaotai's house, in a secret room, a man with a broken arm slapped Mu Hibiscus in the face and said angrily: "Are you crazy!" How dare you calculate our master!! β
Hibiscus raised her eyes blankly. met the man's sharp and cold gaze and said, "I'm just telling her to see the reality clearly!" β
"You are disloyal, if you make a timely move, Xue Zileng will not die-"
"Brother! If we want to assist her in recovering the Cloud Kingdom and avenging the Cloud Kingdom, we can't be foolish! Some of the pain she should experience, she must be deeply understood! Otherwise, she will never be able to become the empress of Yun Kingdom! β
"In just a few days, you think that she can sincerely take on the responsibility of Yunguo, is it too difficult for a strong person, and it will only backfire if she pulls seedlings to help her, you, you go down and receive a penalty of fifty rods!"
**
The night was engulfed in the sky, and gradually it dawned.
He Le'an sat in the corner of the bed with his knees crossed. Looking out of the window in a daze, for the first time I felt that I was extremely incompetent, and I especially wanted Zhong Sun Yue, it seemed that when people were weak, they were particularly vulnerable, and when I thought about the past, I cried again.
At this time, there was a gentle knock on the door, she did not answer, and the door was pushed open, thinking that it was just a maid who came in to visit or change tea, but he did not expect that it was a man in a sand-brown robe, his inky black green silk was softly draped over his shoulders, his face was as soft as jade, and a pair of transparent eyes were like glass beads in the palm of his hand, and he had only one arm, but he was as beautiful as snow.
He saluted her respectfully, "The minister is Kapian, the current head of the Mu family, and he failed to rush to the capital as soon as possible, so that you are frightened, the minister deserves death, and he will be punished laterββ"
"How can a person like me be the future monarch of the Cloud Country, I can't do it, you better let me go." He Le'an said quietly, "I don't want to do anything for anyone, after all, what does it have to do with me, time and fortune are also fate, when the cloud country fell, I was not born in this world, I grew up in Zhonglin's powerful family, and received a peaceful upbringing, I am not a general, why do I have to go to the battlefield, I am not an emperor, I don't need to go for some nothing-"
"Chen knows that you can't accept something for a while, no matter what it is, you just have to go with the flow." Kapok said, "There is no regret medicine in the world, even if we regret it, hate it, and complain about it, we can only continue to move forward, or go against the flow, or go against the current." β
He Le'an closed his eyes without arguing, thinking that he would leave on his own, but she suddenly felt a breath leaning towards her, and her blurred face gradually became visible, and he raised the hand that grabbed the handkerchief at some point to wipe her tears, "The minister also lost his best friend, like you, he sacrificed to save the minister, but the minister never felt that he left the minister, and over the years, he was the light of the minister's guidance." For him, for Yunguo, for you, always firm in the belief of the minister. β
"Now that the capital is in chaos, there is no way for the minister to bring the person you want to see the most to you, I hope this can ease your pain a little." He said goodbye and handed her a pomegranate hairpin.
The familiar sound of the collision of pearls and jade made her open her eyes again, He Le'an took it with a trembling hand, but heard him say: "This is the dowry of the successive empresses of our Yun Kingdom when they got married, and it is a very important key to open the treasure map, maybe those who snatched the treasure map still don't know that the treasure map is divided into two parts, one part is the map." Part of it is, and I'm glad that you have cherished it so much over the years that it hasn't been lost and what little hope we have left. β
He Le'an suddenly said, "Aren't you tired?" If you don't feel tired, have you asked them if they are tired? β
"Isn't it really tiring to be burdened with hatred from the beginning of your birth, to live for those long-standing hatreds every day and every night? You are not the royal blood of the Yun Kingdom, why do you have to work so hard for the prosperity of others? β
"Human life is very short, why not live for yourself?"
"But there is no country, where is the home. If we don't have a home, where are we? Kapok said in a quiet voice, "We are the people of the Yun Kingdom, our Yun Kingdom did not deliberately provoke a war with anyone, but they destroyed us because of greed, and the blood flowed like a river, ruining our beautiful homeland, if we don't avenge those innocent ancestors who died for generations, how can we teach them to rest in peace?" β
Kapok said, "If the lord doesn't mind, you can come with the minister." β
He Le'an silently looked at the hairpin in his hand for a while, and still came down.
Later, she learned that Kapok took her to see the history of Yunguo. From prosperity to destruction, the boxes of well-preserved scrolls were full of blood and tears, as well as all the efforts made by the forty-fourth Mu family master who escaped to recover the Yun Kingdom, as well as the righteousness of the Mu family after his inheritance, whether it was worth the pull, and finally shattered in choking.
After that, many days of dreams were filled with endless killing.
After waking up in the middle of the night, He Le'an really couldn't sleep, so he went out for a walk, looking at the flowers and plants in the courtyard, looking at the pavilions and pavilions in the house, and looking at the water lilies in the rockery. Looking at the lonely reflection under the moonlight, thinking about the people who have been thinking for many days, thinking about the pleasant pictures in the past, when I was in a daze, the voice of someone talking came faintly.
"Prince Rui laughed, buying and selling is buying and selling, who will be a killer if he talks about human feelings." Kapok smiled, "Unlike other organizations, our killers in Yaotai have no retirement, they all start from the beginning, and they will never leak secrets, so no matter which country they trade." Whoever asks me here, I won't say. β
He Le'an thought that he had heard it wrong, and he almost stopped breathing, so he heard a familiar voice and said, "I believe in Leader Mu, cooperating with you has always been the most simple and direct, and happy, I am not stingy, as usual, once a month, whoever buys my life, I will buy it back twice......" The voice gradually faded away, and soon it was no longer audible.
She paused for a long time, as if she hadn't noticed anything. Walking back, but it didn't take long to walk, and she saw Kapok walking towards her, "It's a cold night like this, you shouldn't have put on an extra coatβ" He said, and carefully put on the cloak he was carrying in his hand.
Looking at each other, He Le An said, "Since you are the leader of Yaotai and shoulder the great task of recovering the Yun Kingdom, it is impossible not to know that Prince Rui is secretly collecting the treasure map of the Cloud Kingdom, right?" β
"We are in a mutually beneficial relationship." Kapok said, "He collects treasure maps, and I will verify the authenticity for him." "Of course, in the process of identifying the real from the fake. It is not possible to identify without any documentation.
"He's not an easy fool."
Kapok smiled, "But he is a greedy person, he wants to crack the treasure map, he can only rely on me, although it is indeed a little troublesome to seek the skin of the tiger, just like a few years ago, he once found a little clue to the key from my people, and found Zhuo Yibo's mansion." β
"You mean, the death of old Zhuo Yibo has something to do with him?"
"His people went to all the powerful people who adopted girls to search for the key, and I don't know what happened during the accident, and his people killed old Zhuo Yibo by mistake." Kapok said, "You are no stranger to that person, He Lize of the Mighty General's Mansion, he has made miraculous achievements at the border pass, and he will return to Beijing in the near future." β
βοΌβ He Le'an didn't expect that Zhong Sun Yue's bizarre guess was crooked, although it was not to find the treasure map, but it was indeed related to Prince Rui, and it was He Lize, from another point of view, his inference ability was really sharp, and he was worthy of growing up crawling and rolling at the border since he was a child.
"The Lord doesn't have to worry, when it is time to suppress Prince Rui's power to grow, we will also suppress it." Kapok said, "He Lize is not a big dealer, but he is just a chess piece specially promoted by Prince Rui's people, so you really don't need to care too much." β
He Le'an pulled his lips self-deprecatingly, "I have no martial arts and I am already a wanted criminal, as long as I step out of this door, there are many people who want my life, and I talk about the old Zhuo Yibo who loves my mother, every time I rely on it, it is just the secret guard that Yeming gave me, in the end, I am extremely incompetent." β
"The Lord can try to practice martial arts." Kapok said, "Although it is very difficult for you at such an age, there are shortcuts, but it is just a little hard, but if you have the heart to persevere, the minister can help you." β
He Le'an looked at him in surprise, and he smiled confidently, "Everyone in our Yun Kingdom is good at martial arts and poison arts, and in order to recover the Yun Kingdom, some forbidden ancient poison techniques have also been carefully handed down. β
She remembered the joy of a sword piercing General Anton to avenge Xue Zileng that day, and said firmly, "I want to learn." "It's useless for anyone who wants to protect her, when she can't protect herself in the face of a strong enemy, she will drag down the people she is very unwilling to drag, so that they don't lose their lives because of her, she must work hard to become stronger.
**
"Hmm!"
Sweating profusely, her mouth gagged with a handkerchief, she sat in a tub with her head exposed, tormented by venom, her eyes wide and struggling in agony, even though she had to endure such pain every day. She didn't say give up.
Two hours later, the maid waited for her to take a bath, but she was covered in blood, and she couldn't lift her strength, so she could only let the maid help her, wash her clean water once and then put on her clothes, and then eat a meal with a strange taste, that is, to practice the mental method of controlling internal strength, and to read the secrets of unique martial arts, so busy that there is no gap.
Until Aomori appeared unspeakably and excitedly said, "Princess, the prince is awake!" β
He Le'an was overjoyed, and the longing in his heart almost overflowed, and Aomori said again. "It's just that your body is too weak, and you are under house arrest by the prince, and your majesty's eyeliner is watching, so I can't come to you for the time being, and I can't contact the lowly rank."
"As long as he's okay, I'll go see him in person in a little while." He Le'an shook the hand that was getting stronger and stronger, only to feel that the persistence and hard work of these days were not in vain, she wanted to hold up a piece of the sky for him when he was weak, so that he didn't have to worry about her.
Three days later, at night, Kapok invited her to the secret room, and she saw many men, women, and children in different costumes fainting. He said: "They are all troublemakers, full of sins, they are going to die, but in order to achieve you, we Yaotai decided to spare their lives, and the ministers will give you their internal strength, there may be some discomfort and discomfort in the process, you hold back, don't fall into a coma, and keep calm, otherwise you will go crazy." β
**
In the small courtyard full of colorful autumn chrysanthemums, swords and swords collided mercilessly, a water-blue figure and a sand-brown figure, even though the water-blue figure was a little invincible. But she is aggressive and overwhelms the other party with a tough momentum.
"Very good, the mastery of the sword is becoming more and more fluent." Accepting the sword, Kapok did not hesitate to praise and said, "Your memory is really powerful, the martial arts secrets given to you by the minister, you have absorbed it so quickly, if you have practiced martial arts since childhood, you must now be a wizard who shocks the rivers and lakes." β
He Le'an said, "Actually, you don't need to use honorifics for me, I'm just-"
"Regardless of whether the Cloud Kingdom can be recovered or not, you are still our respected lord, and it is appropriate to use honorifics for you." Kapok said, "There are no rules, there is no circle." Rejoice with your courtiers. β
He Le'an pursed his lips, and before he could speak, he said again: "Whether you are willing to take on the responsibility of recovering the Yun Kingdom, what you have in your body is the blood of our Yun Kingdom monarch, we are good to you, it is a matter of course, you don't have to feel guilty, and the minister has no intention of making you shoulder anything, which can make you happy, and the minister feels that all these years of hard work and persistence are not completely in vain." β
As she already knows that she is a descendant of the royal family of Yunguo, she is loyal to him and his righteousness, and it is false to say that she does not dare to move, but the responsibility of recovering Yunguo is too heavy, she is not sure that she has the ability to bear it, and the memory of the bloody history is still fresh, but it is already a dusty scene for a long time, and now it will be a river of blood again, and countless families will be ruined......
Kapok smiled, "The minister will accompany you to practice the sword again." β