Jiaohua

Chapter 216
The way down the mountain is not as easy as the way up. Xia Zhaoyi used the dagger in his hand to push away the dead branches and thorns that blocked the way.

If she wants to avoid the crowd, she must take a long way, but in the end she still needs to cross the wilderness and go to the opposite mountain.

There were people everywhere at the bottom of the mountain, she didn't care about what ceremony was going on at the Chongtiantai in the distance, and she couldn't hear it, the surroundings were full of noise.

At this time, a few more birds flew in the sky, Xia Zhaoyi raised her head, and saw two birds were shot down, and the rest flew towards the Zhongtiantai, and quickly disappeared from her sight.

Xia Zhaoyi breathed a sigh of relief, turned his eyes to look at the mountains opposite, and the uneasiness in his heart became stronger.

The sky is wide and the clouds are high, the sun is shining down, and the long outline of the mountain top is like a pale golden line, outlining the ups and downs.

The wind is strong at high altitude, the clouds are flying fast, the green forests on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain are faint, and occasionally the wind comes down, bringing up pieces of dancing.

A few more birds flew over, Xia Zhaoyi looked up and saw that they were coming from the other side of Nanshan.

A crossbow arrow was shot, and a bird was shot through. It wailed and fell down.

But at this time, more and more birds came.

Three, five, ten, twenty...

From the original colorful tits and orioles, it has become a black jackdaw.

Overwhelming, dense, like dark clouds, floating from the other side of the mountain, a huge shadow spread towards the sea of ​​people.

Those soldiers holding crossbow arrows in their hands and hiding in various places froze there, staring blankly, like a dream.

The people who heard the movement raised their heads one after another, seeing the black waves like a roaring mountain and a tsunami, their eyes widened in surprise.

The ceremonial officials next to the round mound were stunned, and the ministers looked up, and they were also stunned for a moment, and opened their mouths.

Emperor Xuanyan, who had just finished reciting the congratulatory speech with a big sandalwood in his hand, frowned and hurriedly raised his head, and then he was stunned on the spot.

The jackdaws croaked, like a black blanket was laid upside down in the sky, covering most of the sunlight on the earth, only the sky lanterns hanging around were still illuminating the world.

After reacting, the crowd all over the mountains and plains erupted into a huge commotion.

The servants on the side shouted "Guardian", but no one dared to go up. This is a heavy roof. Only the emperor can go up at this time, and the emperor did not speak.

"Shoot! Shoot!" The captain shouted in the distance.

The team should pass on the order, but seeing so many birds, which is airtight, which one should we shoot?
Countless crossbow arrows were fired into the air, shooting down birds one after another.

Bird carcasses fell to the ground like rain, and the crowd burst into screams and ran around in a hurry.

At this moment, countless mice escaped from the high mountain, ran towards the crowd, and wandered in the sea of ​​people.

"what!!!"

The crowd screamed and ran away, being squeezed, many rats were trampled, blood spurted out, and internal organs leaked all over the floor.

Tens of thousands of people ran outside, but the bodies of jackdaws were still falling from the sky.

In the panic, someone fell down, and was stepped on by others before getting up, and couldn't get up again.

Because of the uncomfortable crowding, someone threw his fist at the slightly shorter person in front and angrily beat him. The anger in his stomach broke out into a more chaotic dispute in the chaos.

A child was separated from his parents, standing outside at a loss, and the passers-by grabbed him and took him away in the crowd.

The inexplicable and complicated panic was like a huge ball of mud falling into the clear water, and then spread out in an instant, dyeing the lake in chaos, the sky and the ground, messy.

Emperor Xuanyan was still standing there, surrounded by the tallest round altar of the Circular Mound, flags and banners were unfurled and fluttered in the wind.

The jackdaws in the sky circled the circular mound in mid-air, some flew into the far sky, and some gradually perched and landed, greedily pecking at the sacrificial cattle and sheep, and densely packed on several large round altars.

Emperor Xuanyan recovered from his astonishment. Apart from the noisy sky, he seemed to be able to clearly hear the sound of flags flying around.

The ministers all looked up at him, and many of them shouted loudly, knelt down on the ground after shouting several times, crying and wishing him to leave quickly.

Emperor Xuanyan didn't move all the time, he stood alone on it, keeping his head up, no one could see his eyes clearly.

The wind whistled, and Xia Zhaoyi's broken hair was lifted up, and his petite face was slightly pale by the wind.

She stood on a high place halfway up the hill, with a clear river behind her, and a few dead birds fell and were swept downstream by the river.

Her gaze was calm and cold, she crossed the crowd of frantic and frightened people, and landed on the figure on the high platform in the distance.

No one dared to go forward to help him, or the so-called escort, no matter how frightened he was, they only dared to cry in front of His Majesty to show their loyalty.

After all, this is the emperor who even the heroes of the green blood and loyalty can be said to have beheaded the whole family, just beheaded the whole family.

Xia Zhaoyi felt chills down his back, and he was still holding the dagger in his hand, and the handle of the knife was tightly gripped by her, so tight that he trembled slightly.

She suddenly felt that these thunderous jackdaws in the sky were like a pair of eyes, watching the world ridiculously and absurdly.

And she went away lying in the snow, and came back with blood, she was a dagger held by fate. She wanted to use this dagger to recover a blood debt for Daqian's former Dingguo mansion.

However, she also knew that knowing why these jackdaws appeared here was not fate, but man-made.

There are the cries of children, the screams of women, and the roars of men.

Some begged for mercy, some cursed, some wept.

Tens of thousands of people were driven crazy by deep despair around the platform where they prayed for blessings from heaven.

Soldiers in the distance began to disperse the crowd, and several ministers and generals stepped forward.

Seeing Emperor Xuanyan turn around, Xia Zhaoyi solemnly inserted the incense candle in his hand on the bronze cauldron, and made a big gift.

Everything under the round altar seemed to have nothing to do with him, and he kowtowed silently.

Xia Zhao's face was calm, he looked away, raised the dagger in his hand, cut off a thick wooden branch by the roadside, and walked forward using the wooden branch as a staff.

The last iron cage was pulled open, and densely packed jackdaws scrambled to fly out, following the smell of raw meat and flying towards the distance.

In addition to the sacrifices on the round mound, those fresh corpses are also tempting them.

The crowd hadn't dispersed yet, so all the jackdaws hadn't landed yet, and the general shouted angrily in the distance, ordering the soldiers to drive these birds away quickly.

Wave after wave of startled jackdaws hooted in the sky.

Several of the men wiped off the dust and rust from their hands, and looked back.

Luo Rui glanced at them, and said to Li Xiao, "Master, all the birds have been released, they are gone."

The young man who was playing with the jade in his hand raised his head, put the jade away, and said lightly: "Well, let's go then."

"What about the cages?"

Without looking back, the boy said, "Throw this away."

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