Chapter 13: Sleepless Nights
Childe finally opened his eyes, his eyelids were so heavy that they seemed to be filled with lead, if it weren't for the hunger in his belly so strong, he really wouldn't have been able to wake up at this time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
He found that the candles were shining in the house, but it was already dark outside, and it was the end of the day. This prince of Song has been fainting from the palace for at least half a day now, no wonder he is hungry and panicked.
In fact, summoning an outland god is really a very draining and even physically devastating thing.
Although Childe Qi was awakened by the hunger in his belly, he still felt that he was tired to death, and he didn't even bother to move his little finger, as if he was not sleeping just now, but suddenly avoiding the pursuit of the enemy all over the world.
Fortunately, he is not a goblin prince now, but a real prince of Song, and he really doesn't even have to move a finger if he needs to.
Seeing him wake up and wait beside him, the young concubine was naturally surprised and happy, and after learning that his beloved son was hungry, he commanded a group of newly transferred attendants to be busy for a while. After a short meal, a bowl of fragrant mutton soup cakes was delivered, and Shu Yingci asked him to help his son up and feed him personally.
In a sense, Gongzi Qi is actually a native of Henan, and the mutton soup cake can be said to be just right for his taste, and the hungry teenager snorted and ate it.
His stomach was full, and he found that his head was empty, and he couldn't even remember what had happened for a while.
Childe got up while resisting the strong drowsiness, while lying on the bed and thinking for a long time before slowly piecing together the previous encounter, he "retraced his memory" in his mother's "Thoughts" song, and somehow actually traced back to his other self - Vanikov, in order to send that guy had to kill more than a dozen waiters as sacrifices.
And the extreme weakness of his body now is naturally the sequelae of the summoning of Vanikov.
As soon as he thought of Vanikov, Childe's sleepiness disappeared for the most part. Of course, he didn't know what psychology was, and he didn't understand what dual personality was, but this psychological mechanism did protect him.
In order to save him from the collapse of his personality, a new personality arose in his consciousness, a more stoic, more decisive, and more evil personality, that is, the "Mother Eater" Vanikov.
He watched as Vanikov ate his mother, forcefully suppressed his opponents, led his tribe over the northern mountains, and finally reached the ruins of the legendary ancient goblin city after "losing" three-quarters of the goblins......
I have to say that although at first Childe was scared and surprised when he saw another "self" commanding his body, but in the end he actually felt lucky. Vanikov made choices for him, and even though he knew they were necessary, he would rather die than do them.
Childe Qi suddenly had a strange feeling when he looked around his gorgeous dormitory, and after seeing a world that was definitely not peaceful but more expansive, he suddenly felt that this comfortable palace was more like a birdcage, and he was just a canary living in a birdcage......
At midnight, Childe had woken up from his slumber, but his cousin Dai, Dai, had not yet fallen asleep.
This Si Lei Zong is the eldest son of Song Wangyan's half-brother Da Sima Chang, and of course he is the cousin of Gongziqi.
Si Cheng is also one of the six secretaries of the Song State, and this official position is not only the administrative head of the municipal administration, but also controls the city defense army, which can be regarded as the commander of the capital garrison. And now when the monarch leads his troops to the battle, Sicheng can be called half of the prison country.
Of course, such a key position cannot be handed over to outsiders, otherwise this Sicheng has different aspirations, and it will be a great change that shakes the country's foundation.
Before Gongzi became a minor, Dai's Bozheng, who was rooted in Miao Hong, was naturally the best candidate for Shangqiu Sicheng.
Si Chengzhi is not unscrupulous, and he has to supervise the transfer of grain and grass in the rear all day, and he has to be vigilant against all kinds of forces in the capital, and at the same time, he has to care about the military intelligence of the neighboring Sanjin and the feuding Chu State, and he has long been exhausted.
However, he still can't sleep, and he has to deal with a more troublesome and tricky matter, and now the most troublesome thing for this big Sicheng is naturally the assassination of Gongzi.
Of course, for a big nobleman like him, just because people are busy doesn't mean they can't enjoy life. Si Chengzhi was half-lying on the couch, and the beautiful and delicate maids were massaging him with Qianqian Rouyi.
He looked drowsy, but he was very awake in his heart.
There is no doubt that those two murderers were the Min Bugger and the Nanmo Assassin. can send such a killer, their master must be the high-level of the Chu State. And the Nanban of Chu and the Shang and Song Yin people have always been feuds, and it is not inconceivable that they want to kill Gongzi to disturb the situation of the Song Dynasty, and then take advantage of the opportunity of the internal strife outside the Song Dynasty to fish in troubled waters.
The problem is that first two unknown maids lured Gongzi into the main temple, and then there were Nanban murderers who were lurking near the altar in advance. Si Chengzhi is not a fool, this is completely impossible to do without internal response.
But how could the inner response who could drive the palace maid and understand the details of the conjuring ritual be an ordinary person? Si Cheng couldn't help but think about it carefully!
What he feared most was not that there were rebels within the Song clan...... What era is it now?
No one in the Song clan wants to overthrow the Dai clan and ascend to the throne, so it's not surprising. How did his uncle, Song Wang Dai Shiyan, become the monarch of the Song State, that is, he expelled another uncle of Si Chengzhi, and the original Song Duke Dai became the king.
Si Chengzhi was afraid that the assassination of Childe was likely to be a conspiracy against him.
Song Wangyan only has such an heir as Gongzi, although the latter is a concubine, but he is still the first heir in name to be righteous. The second heir is naturally Wang Yan's younger brother, his father Da Sima Dai Shichang. And the third priority is yourself. In fact, after his father became the king of Song, Si Chengzhi, as the eldest son, could naturally inherit the throne as long as he did not die.
In other words, after Childe died, he benefited the most. To be honest, sometimes when he is alone at night, he may not have no hope in his heart that Gongzi will die...... Even the idea of killing his own little cousin.
However, Si Chengzhi is not a fool with a desire for profit, on the contrary, he also has a clear judgment of the situation at home and abroad. Because of this, even if there is a real chance for him to become the monarch of the Song Kingdom, he really doesn't necessarily want to be.
If you open a map of the time, you will understand why Si Chengzhi is reluctant to be the monarch of the Song Kingdom.
The Song kingdom was surrounded to the south and east by the feuding Southern Barbarian Chu State, to the north was the Eastern Emperor Qi State, which was currently attacking him, and to the west was the Three Jin Kingdoms: the Zhao State in the northwest, the Wei State in the west, and the Korean State in the southwest.
That is to say, in addition to the Yan State, which had just been beaten by the Qi State and had no sense of existence, and the Western Emperor Qiang Qin, an ally of the Song State, the Yin Shang Song State was surrounded by the major powers at that time.
Because Si Cheng Naozheng understood the strategic situation of the Song Kingdom, he was also worried about the future situation of his country.
And although he is a fifth-order Innocent Thunder Lord (Zhen Xia Qianshang. The world is thundering, and things are innocent. The first king used Mao to educate all things. But he didn't think he was as good as his uncle from the land of Jin.
Si Lei Zong's rate naturally corresponds to the Zhen hexagram, and among the Eight Cave Mingzun, in addition to Tongtian Wuqi and Imperial Land General, this kind of Mingzun is the most noble. Originally, this was the full-time work of the great priests of the nations, and the reason why they were called clansmen was because they were in charge of clan affairs and had the authority to lead the clansmen to sacrifice.
There is another miracle about the Thunder Lords, they are all people who suddenly awaken one day and can master certain spells without learning. The most well-known and powerful Si Lei Zong in history is the Great Earthquake Thunder Lord (earthquake up and down, big earthquake (Yinxi, meaning terror) and the Yellow Emperor fought in Zhuolu, and the sky shook and the earth shook. Chi You.
But even so, he really admired his uncle Wang Yan, and he definitely couldn't "go east to Qi and take five cities." Defeat Chu in the south, expand the land for more than 300 miles, defeat the Wei army in the west, take two cities, destroy Teng, and have its land. ", let their country become a "five thousand times the strength of the Song".
Similarly, now that Qi Yan's 200,000 coalition army is coming violently, Si Chengzhi is not confident that he can repel the enemy with 50,000 Song troops like his uncle Wang Yan.
It is naturally good to be the king of the country, but what is there to be the king of the dead country.