Chapter 6: The Breaking of the Country
On the day of Dongxun's demise, the first rain of spring fell, Su Yin stood on the city tower, without powder, but the red clothes were particularly dazzling.
Su Yin looked at Dongxun outside the city wall, the smoke was everywhere, the originally lively street was already lifeless, occasionally there were children crying and calling for their parents, and some women turned over the corpses one by one, and finally hugged their sweethearts and cried hoarsely..........
Su Yin slowly lowered her head, and saw a young man standing under the city wall, holding a folding fan in his hand and staring at her quietly, with no waves in his eyes.
And the man standing beside him had a fierce look in his eyes, wearing an apricot-yellow python robe, Su Yin knew that it was Li Yicheng, the son of Li Guo, and he was also the future king "Dongxun has been guarding himself for a hundred years, why do you Li Guo still want to kill everything" Su Yin asked.
"This country should have been unified"
Su Yin smiled bitterly and said, "Dongxun is just a small country, not enough to threaten the country of your Li country." Look at these people who have all died under the iron cavalry of your Li Kingdom, won't you be afraid when you dream back at midnight?"
Li Yicheng sneered, "My father has already written a letter of surrender, it is Su Hantian who is obsessed, it is Su Hantian who has caused wolf smoke everywhere, and the people are displaced, you can only blame him." “
"Letter of surrender?Are you sure it's not a letter of death?On the day of the surrender of Kaesong, when the king of Dongxun apologized...........
Li Yicheng held his forehead, a little bored, "Become a king, lose to a coward, this battle, you Dongxun lost" waved his hand, and the people who had already infiltrated the city wall knew each other and detained Su Yin.
"Second brother is going to kill her?"
Li Yicheng looked at the city wall, "She's dead, is that old guy Su Hantian still willing to hand over the Tongling Jade?"
King Lin's eyes were filled with coldness, "It's still thoughtful to the second brother"
Since then, Dongxun has been extinguished, and it has burned for seven days and seven nights.
Except for his father and two elder brothers, none of the entire Dongxun were spared.
In the prison, Su Yin was locked alone in a cell, damp and cold, without sunlight, and the sound of "squeaking" would be heard in the middle of the night.
Su Yin curled up in the corner and hugged herself tightly, "You are the princess of Dongxun, don't be afraid." One day, I will avenge my mother and the people of Dongxun," Su Yin muttered to herself, as if this was the reason for her to live.
On the seventh day, Linwang Li Jingyan led people to open the prison, "Su Yin, come with me"
"Where are you going?"
"Linwangfu"
"You are Linwang Li Jingyan?"
"Exactly"
Su Yin said angrily, "I didn't expect King Lin to be a raccoon dog."
Li Jingyan was not annoyed, but just helped Su Yin up from the ground and handed her a brocade robe, "This king never asks about the temple, and besides, what right does the king decide to interfere with as a courtier?"
Su Yin was speechless for a while, and he also relied on the speed of his tongue.
"Then dare to ask, what will your king do with us? ”
Li Jingyan just smiled and didn't answer Su Yin.
Su Yin was taken to Linwang's Mansion in this way, thinking that Linwang would make things difficult for her in every way, but Su Yin thought too much.
King Lin specially instructed the people in the palace not to be disrespectful to her, from today she will also be your master, if he finds out that he is talking about the master behind his back, disrespectful to the master, hit fifty boards, and expel him from the palace.
Since then, people who come to the palace will respectfully call the girl when they see her.
Li Jingyan is an idle prince, but he asks about court affairs, and he doesn't interact with officials, and he will stay in the house if he has nothing to do.
There is a big martial arts field on the west side of Linwangfu, and when she has nothing to do, she will take her to the martial arts field to teach her to ride a horse and shoot arrows, and sometimes he will tell Su Yin about what happened when he was a child.
The days are unremarkable, as if Dongxun is still there, as if he knew Li Jingyan many years ago.
As the sun set, Su Yin looked in the direction of Dongxun, and her heart ached for a while.
Li Jingyan saw the clue and held Su Yin's hand, "Su Yin, will you always be by my side like now?"
Su Yin hurriedly withdrew his hand, stood up, and looked at him condescendingly, "Li Jingyan, do you know who I am......?" Country....... Public....... Lord, my kingdom was killed by your father, and my relatives were killed by your father, don't think that you can erase the past by taking me out of the prison, one day I will kill you with my own hands, to sacrifice the souls of the people of Dongxun in heaven."
A word fell on Li Jingyan's heart, looking at Su Yin's eyes full of hatred, "If I say I can help you?"
Su Yin didn't expect him to say this, with a puzzled face, "Help me?"
"Yes, the king who will help you destroy the Li Kingdom and the entire Li Kingdom," Li Jingyan's eyes were scarlet and shivering.
"Why are you helping me?"
"Helping you is naturally conditional. “
"On what terms?"
"Tong ...... Spirit..... Treasure..... Jade"
"You want immortality too?"
"No, I have no interest in immortality. ”
Su Yin took a few steps back, covering her mouth tightly with her hands, unable to hide the shock on her face.
Li Jingyan approached step by step, attached to Su Yin's ear, "What, are you even afraid of me?" The voice was like a ghost, and it was silent for a long time.
Su Yin didn't speak, turned around and ran away, and Su Yin deliberately avoided Li Jingyan for several days.
If you happen to meet, Su Yin will go around the boss to avoid it, and the meal will also ask the green lotus to be brought directly to his room. Occasionally, Li Jingyan would knock on the door and say that he would go to the martial arts field to ride a horse and shoot arrows, and Su Yin would say that he was not feeling well and would not go.
After coming down a few times, Li Jingyan didn't look for her again, but sometimes he would stop for a moment when he passed by and let out a long sigh.
It wasn't until the tenth day that Su Yin's door was knocked again.
"Today I will go to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple to burn incense, do you want to go with me?"
"No...... No, I had a cold. ”
Li Jingyan shook his head helplessly, there is a doctor in the house, if you are uncomfortable, let Lulian invite the doctor over and show you. “
Su Yin stopped talking, and was as silent as death, "The rock sugar gourd outside the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple is very sweet, I'll bring some to you when I come back."
Su Yin pricked up his ears and heard the footsteps getting farther and farther away, until he couldn't hear it anymore, and then he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
I haven't gone out in the room for the past few days, and Green Lotus said a few days ago that the begonias in the backyard have bloomed, so I decided to go and see it.
The scenery of spring is very good, there are many flowers Su Yin has not seen in the Dongxun Palace, halfway through the stroll, the green lotus ran in a hurry and almost slipped.
Su Yin stretched out his hand to help, "You slow down, it just rained last night, and the road is slippery." “
"Girl, the son of the world is coming"
"He came a little slower than I expected. “
"The prince called all the people in the house to the martial arts, the girl should be careful later, and she must hold on until the prince returns. Green Lotus said with a worried face.
"Let's go"
Li Yicheng sat in the middle of the martial arts field, sipping the morning tea of early spring.
Seeing Su Yin coming, he hurriedly put down the teacup and looked up and down.
"Do you know who she is?" Li Yicheng pointed at her and smiled proudly.
The people in the palace all lowered their heads and did not dare to make a sound.
"She is the princess of Dongxun, the princess of the dead country" said with a smile and walked to Su Yin's side, pinching her chin, "If you know each other, let Su Hantian hand over what we want as soon as possible, otherwise I will let you see my means"
Su Yin snorted coldly, "I want to see what means Li Guoshizi has."
"Toast and don't eat and drink", and pushed Su Yin to the ground heavily, but Su Yin stood up as soon as he gritted his teeth, rubbed his broken arm by the way.
"The prince came to the palace today, just to tell me this?"
Li Yicheng looked at her with some astonishment, stretched out his left hand, and the entourage behind him brought a whip very familiarly.
"I have long heard that Princess Ningxiang is very smart, and today I saw that it was really extraordinary"
After that, the whip fell heavily on Su Yin's body, and it hurt for a while, as if the meat was about to explode, but Su Yin stood in place and did not move.
Li Yi was interested, and whipped one whip after another, Su Yin couldn't stand anymore and fell heavily to the ground.
The people in the house are all talking about it.
"If you fight like this, you will die"
"Don't be nosy, the prince will fight you later"
"A princess of a dead country, and the prince of our family is kind-hearted and brought her back"
“..............”
Su Yin's consciousness became more and more blurred, as if she saw the queen mother and the people of Dongxun smiling at her. Did you die without revenge? Perhaps...............
When Su Yin was about to give up, the whip had not fallen for a long time, could it be that Li Yicheng was tired and wanted to rest?
Enduring the pain, he raised his head, and saw Li Jingyan's somewhat pale face, he kicked heavily, and big drops of sweat dripped on her face, touching the wound, and it was a little stinging.
Everyone was shocked, and even Li Yicheng didn't think of it, "Fourth brother, what are you doing here?"
"Second brother, you promised me that you wouldn't touch her" Li Jingyan protected Su Yin behind him.
Li Yicheng snorted coldly, took the whip, "Let her go for the time being" and said, and left with his people.
"What are you doing in a daze, don't call the doctor yet," Li Jingyan shouted in a low voice.
Li Jingyan picked up Su Yin, only to find that she was so thin, how many whips did she take from her second brother at such a young age? If it wasn't for the housekeeper who hurriedly came to tell him, maybe he would never see her again.
After the doctor bandaged Su Yin's wound, Li Jingyan held Su Yin tightly in his arms, "I won't let you leave me half a step in the future?"
Su Yin patted his back gently, and said a little weakly, "If you don't let go of me again, I won't be beaten to death by Li Yicheng today, and I will also be strangled to death by you." ”
Li Jingyan hurriedly let go when he heard this.
"Ahem, cough, cough"
"Does it hurt?"
Su Yin shook his head, "Why did you block that whip for me today?"
"I'm afraid that the whip will fall, and you will have to go to Lord Yama"
"That's not right"
Li Jingyan paused, "Maybe the king of Hades dislikes you and refuses to accept you."
This sentence made Su Yin laugh, Xu laughed too much, it involved the wound, and Su Yin, who was in pain, cried.
Li Jingyan gently hugged Su Yin in his arms, "It's me who didn't protect you, if I were here today, you wouldn't have been beaten by the second brother"
Su Yin smiled helplessly, "Li Yicheng is going to embarrass me after all."
"Ah Yin, don't be afraid of me, okay. ”
Su Yin looked at Li Jingyan's clear eyes, raised his hand and touched his face, "I'm not afraid"
Whatever you are, I won't be afraid.