Chapter 1: The Calamity
The year of the Apocalypse is 933.
March.
The city of Jiuli Wangcheng, which has never snowed, was covered by heavy snow, and the wind and snow filled the city for more than half a month, and it did not stop, and the merchants in the city were at home, sighing to the sky, hoping that the weather would get better soon, and that the forage for the horses would not open for half a month, and that the food for people and the forage for horses would all be transported in from a hundred miles away from the royal city, but with the increasing snow, the roads were flooded, and it became more and more difficult to walk, but the snow still showed no signs of stopping.
At this moment, in addition to the necessary manpower to defend the city, Jiuli Wangcheng has been dispatched to clean the road, which barely ensures the smoothness of the road in the royal city, but after a while, it was covered with a thick layer of wind and snow, which is better than nothing.
Outside the general's mansion in Jiuli King City, more than a dozen soldiers in silver armor were cleaning the snow at the door, and their exposed skin was frozen red, and even the Praetorian Guards guarding the city had changed into rattan armor, barely resisting the wind and snow.
"General Mo, come into the house quickly, it's cold outside, and you don't have to clean it on this snowy day. At the gate of the General's Mansion, the old woman was greeting all the soldiers, watching more than a dozen soldiers being frozen red, with a heartache on their faces.
"It doesn't matter, it snows so heavily every year in Silvermoon City, we're all used to it. The middle-aged man named General Mo laughed, straightened up and patted the snow on the silver armor, looked at the old woman at the door and greeted: "Grandma Qian, you go in first, your old man is old, not as good as us young people, we can be strong." ”
After General Mo finished speaking, he looked at the people behind him again, and laughed: "The brothers said yes, right?"
The crowd laughed too.
The old woman looked at everyone and sighed bitterly: "You just came from Silver Moon City, you should rest for a while, this long journey ......"
"It's okay, we know, it's rare for us to come back once, if the general doesn't want to guard Yinyue City, I'm afraid I'll have to rush back, it's the general who really suffers." General Mo snorted, didn't seem to listen to the old man's words at all, and continued to command everyone to clear the snow at the entrance of the General's Mansion.
The old woman understands that this General Mo is good at everything, but he is very stubborn, and the Yinlin army is like this, and she should get used to it, but every time at this time, she can't help but persuade with heartache, although it didn't work in the end.
"Alas, I don't know when the sacrifice will come, the general is middle-aged and has a son, but it has snowed so heavily, and I don't know when the sacrifice will come......" the old woman sighed.
"Haven't come yet?" General Mo frowned when he heard this, looking at the old woman.
The old woman looked at the goose feather snow that was still falling, and sighed: "Yes, I went to invite it in the morning, Mrs. has been giving birth for several days, and she always tosses in her stomach every day. ”
General Mo looked at the old woman when he heard this, and gritted his teeth: "It's not far from the imperial city, why did you walk for most of the day?"
When the old woman heard this, she smiled and said: "How can you rough men understand this, you will come back on a snowy day without delaying the journey at all, and how can you toss like you when you are old and weak?"
Before the words were finished, I saw a carriage slowly appearing in the distance, the carriage was old and wide, and there was a flag with a circular pattern on the side of the carriage.
General Mo looked at the carriage and asked the old woman, "Grandma Qian, is that carriage a sacrifice?"
When the old woman heard this, she looked over and was full of surprise: "No, that's the sacrificial carriage." ”
General Mo frowned, turned around and beckoned to everyone: "Let's go together, go and help drag the sacrificial carriage over." ”
Everyone rushed up, and sure enough, there were so many people that the carriage was almost impassable, and the carriage was almost lifted like a sedan chair.
"You are not ashamed, why don't you even have this strength after not being in Silver Moon City for a few years, just like this, you are still embarrassed to say that you are from the Yinlin Army?" General Mo frowned and looked at the few people who were dragging the carriage before.
Everyone blushed instantly, Jiuli has always been peaceful, there has been no war for a long time, those skills to conquer the city are naturally not used, even if they practice every day, they still can't compare to the killing of real guns and knives in Yinyue City, and it is normal for their skills to decline over the years, but at this moment, General Mo said it, everyone's faces turned red, but General Mo is the deputy general of the Yinlin Army, Xiao Zhan is below him, and everyone is naturally not good to say.
Sure enough, the wheels of the carriage were suspended in the air, and the speed of progress was much faster, and it was less than half a cup of tea to reach the gate of the general's mansion.
The door curtain slowly opened, and a gray-haired old man came out with a long staff, looked at everyone, and saw General Mo with a rough face, and smiled faintly: "Mo Fei, you are back." ”
Mo Fei snorted, looked at the old priest, and said with a smile: "Long time no see, big sacrifice." ”
The priest looked at Mo Fei carefully, nodded appreciatively, and said with a smile: "It's really been a long time, now that you're strong and strong, you can't see that our old man is slow, I think you were born and you were more miserable than anyone else." ”
Mo Fei's face was full of embarrassment, he looked at the old man and said in a low voice: "You can't save me some face in front of my subordinates, everyone is here, but I am also a dignified general now, how can you let me stand up in front of my subordinates in the future......"
Everyone listened to it funny, but they didn't dare to laugh, and their faces were red.
When Mo Fei saw it, he turned his head to look at everyone, and said angrily: "If you want to laugh, laugh, I don't believe that you were not born by your parents, maybe what happened to you in the first place!"
Everyone didn't dare to laugh even more, and their faces blushed.
The priest was soon invited in by the people, and they stopped clearing the snow and only stood guard outside the door.
The door of the room was slowly closed, only a faint sound of pain was heard, and everyone could only be anxious, as if it was not the general's wife who gave birth to the child but themselves.
In the room.
Liu Fu was sweating profusely, and occasionally couldn't help but snort a few times.
The Jiuli royal family has always had an unwritten rule, whoever has a child is born, will let the high priest give blessings, praying that God will bless the child's health in the future, and the future is bright.
There is a screen between the door and the bed, and it is faintly unreal.
As soon as the priest entered the room, his brows turned over and over again, and the faint red light in the room was not visible to others, but he could see it, which was clearly a disaster of blood light.
The child of the dignified general who protects the country is not born with a bloody disaster?
Aunt Qian looked at the frowning sacrifice on the side, since the sacrifice entered the house, she didn't move, and she didn't sit down, and she was secretly anxious in her heart.
The chief priest sighed, looked at the figure lying on the bed behind the widescreen, and motioned for Nurse Qian to go down.
Aunt Qian frowned and looked at the high priest, worried: "Sacrifice ......"
Just as he was about to say more, the priest sighed and said lightly: "You go down first, I'll say a few words to Liu Fu personally." ”
As the door opened and closed, there were only two people left in the room.
Liu Fu seemed to mean something, and endured the pain and asked, "Great Sacrifice, what's wrong?"
The high priest sighed and said slowly, "The child is about to be born, but it is not an auspicious omen. ”
"How is that possible?" Liu Fu sat up suddenly, cold sweat dripping on his forehead.
The high priest raised his eyes and looked at the dim blood in his eyes, sighed and said, "Before the child is born, there is a sign of blood light, I am afraid that it is ......"
Liu Fu hurriedly said: "Sacrifice, this is my child with Xiao Zhan, we have been married for so long, we are such a child......"
"Alas. The chief priest sighed and said, "I won't be able to find a complete crack for a while, but the child's blood light is so strong, whether it is a man or a woman, take a let in the name, I hope that there will be some leeway in everything in the future, so that I may be able to avoid this calamity." ”
Liu Fu gritted her teeth and said in a low voice: "It seems that God is also punishing our Xiao family, the husband has been a general for decades, and I don't know how much blood has been stained in his hands, but the child is innocent......"
Everyone understands that even if Xiao Zhan is fighting abroad all the year round, but in the end, he is a soldier, and it is difficult to disobey the king's fate, so what can happen?
The sacrifice was silent, there were words in the mouth, a moment of effort, after the recitation, was about to go out, but heard the sound of dawn outside the door, different from the sound of wind and snow, the sound was exceptionally clear, like a long howl.
"Choke!"
There was a loud bang.
The snow in the courtyard was knocked away, shattering the curtain and leaking specks of light.
Liu Fu clutched her stomach nervously, her silver teeth clenched.
"Wow!"
Suddenly, the sound of a baby crying was heard.
The high priest turned his head suddenly,
Looking inside through the wide screen, a clear baby cry came out, and the faint blood light disappeared, and the high priest frowned slightly, not knowing why.
The door was pushed open.
"The high priest is really powerful, the child was born just after he came!" Grandma Qian smiled happily, and hurriedly ordered the girl to bring hot water, and she was busy for a while.
The high priest slowly walked out of the door, but saw a spear stuck upside down in the middle of the courtyard, and a faint thunderbolt shone on the body of the spear.
"It's a boy!"
Liu Fu smiled happily when she heard this, as if all the pain just now had disappeared.
The high priest was looking at the strange and inexplicable spear that suddenly appeared in the courtyard, but suddenly heard the nurse exclaim "ah", and turned his head when he heard the words, but saw the nurse carefully holding a baby and walking towards him, and on the white and tender baby's arm, eight red marks were faintly visible, like feathers.