Chapter Eighty-Six: Changes in the Palace
In the palace of the Mocking Wind Country, the Mocking Wind Monarch walked in a hurry, with a look of anger on his face. Behind him were a large number of attendants and soldiers, but all of them remained silent as if they were ghosts.
The Land of the Wind is a hierarchical country, and the only one of the Nine Kingdoms that does not have eunuchs in its palace. The absence of eunuchs was not because the monarch was enlightened, but simply because successive emperors agreed that their country could be governed by a rigid hierarchy and the absolute power of their superiors over their subordinates. So at this moment the king of the mocking wind walked in his own "courtyard" with a lot of anger as if he were about to rush somewhere, and his people could only follow closely, and no one dared to raise objections or admonish.
There is nothing in this world that cannot be given up, just like there are almost no men who have not had the idea of cheating, which is very scary. Just as the sentence "I just made the mistake that all men in the world make", it is ridiculous that all the "impossible" is just that the temptation of everything in the world has not reached a certain threshold. When the benefits are sufficient, betrayal will follow, and like the reproduction of the ant clan, it will be like the reproduction of the ant clan, and then it will flood endlessly and unrestrainedly.
Therefore, when the face of Jiuhan was almost decadent because of a woman, the disappointment in Zhu Yan's heart reached its peak in an instant.
"If I can restore Qiao He's memory, then I would rather give up my desire to return to the country....." Jiu Ban almost muttered this sentence in a faint mosquito and fly voice, at this moment his eyes were extremely empty, it was obviously Qiao He who lost his memory, but he himself seemed to have lost his mind.
Turning his head to look at Qiao He, he found that his wife was still sitting there silent, as if she didn't want to participate in the conversation or struggle. Feeling Zhu Yan's gaze, Qiao He looked up, and there seemed to be a trace of incomprehension in his eyes in addition to gentleness.
I don't know this man, but why is he so adamant that I should recover my memory? If my past is really unbearable, then I would rather forget it than to recover. Qiao He thought this in his heart, and this kind of thinking was easily understood by Zhu Yan. The incomprehension in his eyes and the grievances caused by misunderstanding conveyed the message was instantly received by Zhu Yan, although his wife's negative emotions did not come from himself, but Zhu Yan still didn't want her to go on like this.
Sighing softly, he turned his eyes to look at the poor man next to him, and the last trace of pity in Zhu Yan's heart disappeared with the appearance of that disappointment. He thought that Jiuhan would be a person who would achieve great things, but who would have thought that what appeared in front of him at this time was just a person who could give up everything for the sake of his children's personal feelings? But what if this thing befell him? If someone forced him to make a choice between Qiao He and everything he had? How would he choose Zhu Yan didn't know, the only thing he was glad about at the moment was that this kind of tragedy didn't happen to him, and he didn't need to be forced to make a choice.
Finally, after hesitating again and again, he was ruthless and chose a somewhat "vicious" method to make a break for everything.
He turned his face to Jiu Ban, his eyes no longer hesitated, and said, "Jiu Ban, Qiao He is a good girl." ”
"That's true. ”
"But the matter has come to this, why do you have to embarrass a girl? I don't know what to do, it's better to let Qiao He make a decision. ”
"What do you mean?" Zhu Yan's words came into his ears, and Jiu Ban seemed to be a little incredible. A person's fate should indeed be decided by herself, but at this time, Qiao He is a person who has lost her memory in the eyes of Jiuhan, does this judgment of whether she has lost her memory have to be completed by herself?
Ignoring Jiuhan's eyes full of surprise and doubt, Zhu Yan turned his face to Qiao He and asked, "Qiao He, everything is still up to you......"
Before Zhu Yan finished speaking, he was immediately interrupted by Qiao He. The girl, who was almost unforgettable in her memory, shook her head lightly and said, "Husband is too worried, and there is no need to make any decisions at all. There is no one named Nine and a Half in my memory, and the Nine and a Half in front of me is just a person I saw for the first time today, so I will definitely stay with my husband. ”
The woman's words were understated, flowing into one person's heart like a small bridge and flowing water, but they also smashed into another man's heart like a falling star, destroying the world and destroying the earth. This answer was something that Zhu Yan had already felt, so he didn't feel strange. At this time, he was like an old man, very calmly accepting everything he was facing. But the same voice and the same words reached the ears of Jiuhan, but it was already a different world.
There was not much left of disappointment, replaced by despair. Despair poured out like a dark cloud, and the shred of hope that had been left was destroyed by the hands of the woman in front of him who had always remembered it in his heart, and all of it evaporated. Just as if he had recreated a life in Jiuhan's heart but killed it in an instant, Qiao He's gentle tone and every word he could say were like a sword to directly extinguish the fire that was about to be extinguished in Jiuhan's heart. If you want to kill me, why save my life, and save my life just to kill me with your own hands?
The autumn leaves outside the window began to fall, and they all said that someone would die when the last autumn leaves fell, could it be himself this time? From this moment on, everything I did seemed to be meaningless, feelings were really poison, and everyone's grand ambitions and all expectations, dreams and plans for the future could go down when the feelings were broken, and they could not be defeated. In the past, Jiuhan seemed to be walking alone on the Huangquan Ancient Road, although lonely but pushed and would not retreat. And at this moment, Qiao He's words were the scythe that hooked people's hearts, harvesting his soul with ease and ruthlessly destroying it.
When Qiao He died, Jiuhan's heart came to life, and that was the first time he felt that he remembered a person in his heart, and at this time, although Qiao He came to life, he killed Jiuhan's heart.
The atmosphere in the room is weird, and some of the hanging threads between the three people who are inextricably linked in the small space seem to be broken at this moment, although they are not completely broken, but they are broken after all, some people are relieved and some people are in one breath to the heavenly spirit, life and death do not know. At this moment, Zhu Yan seemed to want to say something to ease the embarrassing atmosphere, he looked at the pair of eyes of the six gods opposite him and was about to speak, but he only heard a "bang", that is, the door of the room was kicked open.
Zhu Yan stood up suddenly, anger already filling his eyes and about to erupt. He Zhu Yan is the general of the Mocking Wind Country, and this is his own domain in the Mocking Wind Palace, who dares to break in so roughly, does he not want to live? But in an instant, his heart was cold and thorough, and his mind was as flexible as he was, of course, it was impossible for him to forget that this was the territory of the Mocking Wind Monarch, and the person who dared to eat the ambitious leopard here and dared to disobey and offend him, the Mocking Wind Monarch who was above 10,000 people under one person, was probably the only one who dared to violate the dignity of the Mocking Wind Monarch.
Something seems to be wrong.
What happened next confirmed Zhu Yan's thoughts: the person who kicked the door open was the Mocking Wind Monarch, and then he walked in. As soon as the monarch entered the room, the attendants and soldiers rushed in, and in an instant, they stood in a heap behind the Mocking Wind monarch. The lord of a country looked at Zhu Yan and then looked at Jiu and a half, and then his gaze shifted to Zhu Yan's face again, as if he wanted to see something from it. He didn't look at Qiao He, in the eyes of the monarch of a country, women can't become a big thing, and they don't need to pay attention.
It's just that what this man doesn't know is that it is the existence of the woman in front of him that has brought about a crucial change in everything.
He raised his left hand suddenly, and immediately someone handed a portrait to the hand of the Mocking Wind Monarch. He spread out the portrait and looked at it over and over again, as if he couldn't believe it was him. Soon, the expression on his face changed from anger to indifference, and then to disbelief and self-denial. Over and over again, he alternated his gaze back and forth between the nine halves and the portrait, in disbelief.
The strange silence lasted for a while, and no one dared to speak during this time, let alone the group of people behind the Mocking Wind Monarch who didn't dare to make a sound. There was always an inexplicable sense of crisis and uneasiness rising in Zhu Yan's heart, in order to eliminate this uneasiness, he slowly got up and walked to the front of the Mocking Wind Monarch and gave a gentle salute, saying: "I don't know what happened when the monarch suddenly came?"
When things go wrong, there must be demons. The Mocking Wind Monarch has always had unusual trust in him, the leader of the Mocking Wind, and has never been offended. At this time, the king suddenly appeared in his house with a portrait, which is really tantamount to your immediate boss suddenly standing in front of you with evidence of your mistakes, shouting to fire you, but you are powerless to refute, and you just want to die.
As soon as Zhu Yan's words landed, it seemed that after reading the portrait and the nine and a half, the Mocking Wind Monarch actually threw the portrait on Zhu Yan's face, and said in a gloomy voice: "Zhu Yan, I think I don't take you thin, right?"
"Indeed, the king treats his ministers like brothers, which makes them sincerely afraid. Letting the portrait slowly slide off his face, Zhu Yan just lowered his head slightly and said. He didn't raise his head and didn't dare to raise his head, after all, he was still a human minister, and he couldn't imagine what would happen next. The status of the country of the Kiss is hierarchical, and the power is held in the hands of the absolute controller, which is why he can be above the absolute one person and ten thousand, but he is still terrified when facing the king.
The Mocking Wind Monarch paused, as if he was brewing some words. He didn't speak immediately, but walked in front of Jiuhan's eyes, looked up, looked carefully at the person in front of him, and then said, "So, that's how you treat me?"
Jiu Ban was looked up and down by the Mocking Wind Monarch in front of him, but he didn't say a word. It stands to reason that a cultivator of a holy realm is already above ordinary people, like a strong man like Shaohong, even the monarch of a country does not dare to despise it, but at this time, the nine and a half are like a commodity and a plaything, and he is carefully stared at by the monarch of the Mocking Wind Country, although there is no physical contact, but he does not feel that the other party treats him as a living person.
It seems to have been insulted, nine and a half thought. But he didn't move, just sat there quietly, as if waiting for the judgment of fate. Everyone would bow their heads in the face of absolute strength, just like Jiu Ban, although he was already a Saint Realm powerhouse, he clearly felt that there were two Saint Realm breaths among the group of soldiers behind the Mocking Wind Monarch. In other words, there were two powerhouses of the Holy Realm who were hidden among that group of soldiers and served as the guardians of the Mocking Wind Monarch, and with the words of Zhu Yan in front of him, it was simply more than enough for the three Sages to deal with him. Even if he was a person who borrowed the sky, Jiuhan was not sure that he would escape under the siege of three cultivators of the same realm. At this time, it seems that there is no difference between resisting and killing yourself.
"So, the person who 'Ming Xiu Plank Road Darkness Chen Cang' is the real you, right?" The Mocking Wind Monarch turned his head back, with an uncaring expression on his face, and then continued: "This is Jiu Ban, the so-called person who retreated from the army of one country alone, right?"
Zhu Yan still maintained the posture of saluting, and said without changing his color: "Qiyu Monarch, this is indeed the person." ”
"Okay, don't keep your head down, put your head up. Hearing the voice of the monarch, Zhu Yan raised his head. When he raised his head, the palm of the Mocking Wind Monarch was the first to appear in his sight with his five fingers open. Then he continued to look up, and met the monarch's expressionless face with his puzzled gaze.
"Monarch, what is this?"
"Hand over the tiger talisman, you have to rest and rest recently, and I will find someone else to take care of the affairs on the battlefield first." To put it mildly, the Mocking Wind monarch took back Zhu Yan's military power. This decision was only a momentary matter for a monarch, but everyone in the room except him was taken aback. This Zhu Yan is the general of the country of mocking winds, a figure above 10,000 people under one person, so he took back his military power?
Zhu Yan naturally understood what kind of situation the general who had been withdrawn from the military power would be in, and the bad premonition in his heart really came true. But what else can he do when he sees the Mocking Wind King barging in with a portrait, in fact, he can almost meet his own end. But it is still the same sentence that he said to Jiuhan, the king makes the ministers die, and the ministers have to die, and the king can appoint him as the head of a country today, and he can take his head tomorrow. You must know that although there is no saint on the surface, it is only a superficial phenomenon. In fact, secretly how many holy realms were worshiped in the country of the wind, although no one knew, Zhu Yan clearly warned himself that those offerings were enough to kill him.
Strong and calm, he took out the tiger talisman in his arms and handed it over, but Zhu Yan did not speak. The Mocking Wind Monarch who took the Tiger Talisman was as if he had taken a toy, he stuffed the Tiger Talisman into his arms and didn't even look at the Nine Halves, turned to the soldiers beside him and said, "Catch that Nine Halves and put them in prison." ”
Then he turned and walked out the door. Halfway through and turned around, at this time everyone stood still and did not move, and he returned to Zhu Yan's side again, looking like he wanted to say something, but in the end he just patted Zhu Yan's shoulder lightly and said, "You disappointed me too much." ”
Then, the Mocking Wind Monarch turned and left, without looking back. When he walked out of the room, several soldiers who had entered the room swarmed him and tied him up, but he did not resist, and was trapped and escorted into his cell.
It's not that he doesn't want to escape, but at this time, Jiuhan doesn't know where he should go. It seems that the world is so big that no place is where he should go, and he has nowhere to stay.
What is the use of finding Wu Liangzi? Half of the heart that wants to destroy the mocking wind and Jianwei is born because of Qiao He, and although Qiao He is not dead at this time, he can't remember him. In this way, many things are meaningless. He is worried about Qiao He, and what is Qiao He doing at the moment?
Qiao He sat beside Zhu Yan, she hugged him, and he held his head, some regrets and some complaints about himself.
"I shouldn't be like this," Zhu Yan hugged his head and said: "I shouldn't have deducted nine and a half without permission, I shouldn't have done these things without telling the monarch, I shouldn't have thought about changing anything at all, isn't it all right to maintain the status quo?"
"But even if the status quo is maintained, what can we do, this life is not peaceful, and we can't let everyone in the world suffer. Maintaining the status quo would empty the treasury and bring disaster to innocent people in other countries...... So what the hell am I supposed to do, should I really betray this country....."