Feng Qing Shaoyi

Chapter 225 Sin
"The fourth emperor said that my palace was collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country. Can the fourth emperor have evidence? This palace has a saber bestowed by the father, and it was God's will to let me kill blood relatives to quell the war. God's will is hard to violate, how can it be the fourth emperor?" Can it be reversed with just a few words?" Murong Sheng decided to make a last-ditch effort.

"You have the sword bestowed by the emperor, but is this sword the will of God?" Murong Xiu retorted unhurriedly, "The Son of Heaven must obey the destiny, be ordered by the heaven, take the sky as the way, and the people are the heaven. The way to save the people from danger is to obey the destiny. The sword of the emperor is used to kill the unkind, unjust, unfaithful and unfilial people, so that the world will be peaceful and the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe. Come and kill blood relatives. As for the evidence you want, the people's hearts are the evidence. If you betray the country and seek glory, the people's hearts will be lost. You don't need this king to produce evidence, and the people already understand everything in their hearts."

When Murong Sheng was in a daze, he saw Murong Xiu pointing at the thousands of houses behind him. The houses were neatly lined up on both sides of the road, as if they couldn't see the end at a glance.In the houses, all the common people stood tightly in front of the windows, watching what happened at the gate of the city with their eyes wide open, their piercing eyes seemed to confirm all the facts.

When they heard that Murong Sheng's army was raised privately, and even the military amulets were fake, the common people vaguely guessed some facts.One is the privately raised army, and the other is the orthodox army of Southern Chu. It is clear at a glance who should be trusted, and it is clear who is collaborating with the enemy country.

"Murong Sheng, the common people are watching everything you do, you don't want to deny it!"

Facing this pair of surprised and disappointed eyes, Murong Sheng was in a trance for a moment, and lowered his head deeply, making people wonder what he was thinking.

After a long time, I heard that sad voice and the sound of the sword falling to the ground.

"Ben Gong lost!" Murong Sheng threw the sword in his hand to the ground, and said quietly with lowered eyes.

Murong Xiu heaved a sigh of relief, and the two commanders of Western Wei and Dong Teng stared at each other in disbelief, "What? Murong Sheng, are you crazy?"

"Murong Sheng, we have all planned, what do you mean by giving up now?" the commander of the Western Wei Dynasty tightened his hand on the reins and gritted his teeth.

Commander Dong Teng also hastily added: "Murong Sheng, you are just ordinary people, what are you afraid of? You now have a privately raised army and the help of the armies of the two countries. Against Murong Xiu's army, we may not necessarily lose. Big deal , we will massacre the city and execute all the common people who know the truth. We have surrounded the entire Dingjing, and those common people cannot escape at all. At that time, who will dare to speak out against you when you ascend the throne? As long as you do the right thing now Decide, the future Southern Chu throne must be yours."

"Impossible!" The man who lowered his head finally raised his head, and said forcefully, "I will never allow your Western Wei and Dong Teng troops to slaughter our people in Southern Chu, absolutely!"

"Murong Sheng, what are you kidding? You have been planning for nearly ten years, and at the last critical moment, you actually chose to give up. What do you think of our Western Wei Dynasty? Can you be a laughing stock that comes and goes when you call it? "The commander of the Western Wei Dynasty raised his sword in hatred.

"Are you stupid, Murong Sheng?" Commander Dong Teng also gritted his teeth with hatred, "You have reached this point, you think about the people of Southern Chu, who will think about you? You colluded with foreign countries and committed chaos , even if you rein in the precipice now, what awaits you is a prison sentence, and it is absolutely impossible for you to live. Why don't you fight hard with us and kill all the common people who know the truth, so that you have a chance to ascend to the throne. "

"Don't even think about it!" Murong Sheng turned his head and shouted at the two of them, "I will never let you touch a single hair of the people of Southern Chu."

"Oh, lunatic, you are indeed a lunatic. After ten years of secret planning, now you want to give up, and let years of hard work go to waste. Murong Sheng, you are really a good person, and this commander can't help but admire you." Commander Dong Teng also I don’t want to persuade you with good words, “You brought the armies of Western Wei and Dongteng here, and now you want us to leave, how is this possible? It’s easy to ask the Buddha and it’s hard to send the Buddha away. If we Dongteng can’t get the city of Southern Chu today, We don't mind slaughtering and mutilating the people of Nanchu. Anyway, we have already reached the gate of the city, if we don't take this opportunity to be a guest at the Nanchu Palace, how can it be worthy of this commander to bring the army here from a long distance."

"That's right." The corner of the Western Wei commander's mouth curved into a bloodthirsty arc, "Anyway, we have already surrounded the Ding capital. In this case, it is better to have a big war. The four countries have been peaceful for many years, and this commander has not smelled blood for a long time. Let's have a hearty battle and drink tea in the Nanchu Palace. At that time, the Prince of Nanchu, don't forget to cleanse Commander Ben and Commander Dongteng." Then, he laughed very proudly towards the sky several times.

Murong Sheng lowered his eyes when he heard the words, "You dare, if you dare to touch the people of our Southern Chu, I will kill you right now." However, the leaders of the two countries were still laughing and did not hear the words.

"It's really arrogance. You actually want to bring down the Southern Chu regime. You don't even look at whether the country behind you is qualified enough, and you are looking for a dead end. With our Southern Chu army, you don't even think about it!" Murong Xiu also said with cold eyes , "Soldiers, the time has come to defend the country, drive these invaders out of Southern Chu now."

As soon as the words fell, the thousands of troops behind the man responded.

"Everyone, follow my instructions and directly attack these villains who are trying to overthrow the Southern Chu regime, and protect the territory of Southern Chu!" The troops behind Murong Sheng obeyed and raised their weapons one after another.

The leaders of the two countries let go of their jokes and faced each other seriously.At this moment, the two who had never been at odds unexpectedly reached a united front and made a consensus to the outside world.

Soldiers from the two sides were fighting, and it was hard to separate for a moment. The foreign invaders who surrounded all the city gates of Nanchu seemed to have received a signal, and poured into the Ding capital, raising their weapons inhumanely to the unarmed common people.

For a moment, the sound of raging fire and the shrill voice of people calling for help pierced the sky, and a lifeless corpse fell to the ground, with lifeless gray eyes wide open, and a strong smell of blood filled the tip of the nose. People can't help feeling sick.

"It's so tragic, it ended like this in the end, the two of them actually learned to cooperate." In the hidden private room of Chenyue Building, Yi Xingke sighed while looking at the tragic scene below.

"I didn't expect it to turn out like this in the end. Murong Sheng actually turned against the people in order to prevent the people of Southern Chu from being slaughtered." Meng Yanxi changed the hand holding his chin, and continued: "However, I am afraid that Dongteng of the Western Wei Dynasty If it fails, the Southern Chu army is not bad at all, plus the army that Murong Sheng personally cultivated, it will be a piece of cake to drive away the armies of these two countries."

"But even so, Murong Sheng cannot escape the trial of the Southern Chu imperial power, and imprisonment is inevitable." Yi Xingke sighed.

"It's not just the disaster of prison, I'm afraid Murong Sheng will use his life to make up for it. These dead people in Southern Chu will eventually need someone to use their life as an explanation to offset the mistakes he made before." Meng Yanxi added quietly. , the pupils reflected the raging flames below, the chaos of flesh and blood flying everywhere, and the blood-red fire seemed to illuminate the man's eyes.

Yi Xingke nodded in agreement.

These lives lost due to a person's mistakes will eventually be repaid with this person's life. This is the inevitable will of God, and it is even more natural.

On the tallest building of the Nanchu Palace, Que Yu was quietly watching the chaos below the tower.Although it was within his expectation that the Murong brothers would cooperate to repel the foreign enemies in the end, these ordinary people who suffered were so innocent, all of this was just because of one person's greed and made such a big mistake.

One mistake needs thousands of lives to make up for it, and one person's obsession needs such a huge price to wake up.

How sad, how tearful!
Although he has finally come to his senses, these lost lives will never come back.

But... this seems to be God's will, a sacrifice that cannot be avoided in all battles for the throne.Every time there is a major change in the imperial power, the bones of the people are needed to fill the ground, and blood is used to cover up the filth and embarrassment.

The ridiculous thing is that blood and gore are dirty things, and it is a deplorable thing to use dirty things to cover up even dirtier facts.

This is the law and... God's will that no one can change!
On the road where the blood flowed like a river, Qi Chen gently raised his foot from the sticky blood, smelling the unbearable smell of blood, he couldn't help but tightly covered his nose.Looking at the scene of corpses strewn across the field in front of him, Qi Chen was in a trance for a moment.

How is this going?How did you kill him?This was not at all planned.Could it be that he was late?Murong Xiu took out the real soldier talisman, and confronted Murong Sheng with arms?

But it is impossible to be so tragic, the combined armies of the two countries and the privately raised armies, against Murong Xiu's army, Murong Xiu's possibility of losing is still very high.

But why are all the soldiers from the Western Wei and Dongteng who fell on the ground?Did something unexpected happen to him?

Thinking in his heart, when he raised his head, Qi Chen saw what he thought was the most ironic scene in his life.

Murong Xiu's army and Murong Sheng's privately raised army were cooperating, and they unanimously wiped out a Western Wei army.

Qi Chen froze in place, watching this scene for a long time unable to regain his senses.

After a long while, Qi Chen laughed mockingly, with a hint of sadness mixed in, "What is this? After ten years of hard work, he finally cooperated with the enemy. And even if he wins, the only thing waiting is death. Murong Sheng, Murong Sheng , are you a fool? Why don’t you cooperate with the army of Western Wei Dongteng, you still have a great chance of winning, and you can still ascend to the throne.”

"You personally invited the intruders, and now you drive them away yourself. What the hell are you doing? Do you know that what you are doing now is meaningless, it is meaningless to you, to me, and to all the families who support you Meaning. The end waiting for us will be prison and reviled, who can remember that you have helped them, they will only remember that you brought intruders, you are a traitor, and even the history will only record you as a traitor. Don’t you understand such a simple truth?”

Qi Chen seemed to be kneeling on the ground in a state of collapse, with tears streaming down his face at some point, "If you do this, what should the Qi family do, and what should I do? I have assisted you for several years, but in the end it turned out like this As a result, everything is useless. It seems that you are about to succeed, but you have to give up. For you to ascend the throne and to control the Qi family, I endured too much and gave up too much. Now I have to give up my This life?"

A man who beat his wife to death cruelly didn't cry at the moment his wife died, but at this moment, seeing the results of his hard work for several years lost, he knelt on the ground and cried bitterly.

What is left of him now?Murong Sheng defected, the Qi family chose the wrong path, and when this battle is over, all the Qi family will accept death, including him.What else could he do in this situation?How can I save my own life?

Thinking of this, Qi Chen stood up, wiped the tears off his face, and made up his mind to take all the Qi family members to escape.

On the city wall, Qi Ze looked at the incredible scene below with a calm expression, as if he had already known it.

Cang Zhu couldn't help but shook his head and sighed: "It turned out to be like this. It's unbelievable that the crown prince cooperated with King Jin in the end. But why did the crown prince do this? He knew that there would be only death in the end. If the original plan was followed, the crown prince would not necessarily die."

"That's right, it's really confusing." Zhu Yu also frowned and said in doubt.

When the two of them were wondering, they heard the warm voice say indifferently: "Sometimes it is right to be confused. How to judge whether a matter is right or wrong should be left to the parties to judge. We are not him, I have no right to judge whether what he did is right or not, just knowing that this is a decision he made, a choice in his life, that’s enough.”

After finishing speaking, Qi Ze turned around and left.

The two watched Qi Ze's leaving back and hurriedly followed, Cang Zhu asked, "Master, where are we going?"

Qi Ze paused slightly, and replied: "It goes without saying, of course we are going to raid the house." Then he turned his eyes slightly, looked at the familiar figure not far under the city wall, and said in a cold voice, "Qi Chen wants to take the Qi family with him. If I leave, how can I let him do what he wants."

In the Qi family, many men and women were packing their luggage to escape. Mrs. Zhao looked at the room where she usually lived, her eyes were full of reluctance, "I really have to leave this time, but who knows that our Qi family is still here?" There will be a day of escape."

Mrs. Li on the side interrupted Mrs. Zhao's sadness, and reminded her aloud: "Stop talking, pack up quickly, escape is important, isn't Zi Yang still paralyzed on the bed? You mother, why don't you give your son to him quickly?" Get on the carriage and escape for your life later?"

Mrs. Zhao was not in a hurry, "Of course I know, isn't it just a moment of sadness? Who would be willing to leave the place where I have lived for so many years? Besides, Ziyang and his father are carrying it. It should be packed by now." gone."

"Oh, it's no wonder you're not in a hurry. It turns out that the second master went to carry it." Mrs. Li tied up the burden belt in her hand, and said, "It's true, ever since the elder master and the second master were idle at home, the spirit of the old master has always been Not good. I just woke up today, and I heard the news from Yinzhi that the prince has defected. Let us quickly pack up our bags and run away in the chaos. At that time, the old man was so frightened that he wanted to faint again. Fortunately, the old man helped him in time , otherwise we will have to carry another person on our backs, adding to the burden in vain."

When Mrs. Li said that her son was a burden, Mrs. Zhao didn't react much. She had been paralyzed on the bed for more than a month. Let people wait on you day and night.

The Qi family is going to run away today, isn't it a burden to carry a breathing dead person on their back?Besides, Mrs. Li usually said that Qi Zhe would never recover, that he would be paralyzed on the bed forever, and so on. Mrs. Zhao was not willing at first, and bickered with Mrs. Li.

But as time went by, Qi Zhe didn't respond at all, and Zhao Shi stopped thinking about making Qi Zhe better, and took good care of him. When Li Shi said these words again, Zhao Shi didn't have the heart to argue.But the only son became like this, which still made Zhao feel very distressed, and wished to cut Wang Rongxin into pieces.

"You said that this prince is really true. It's fine if you can't get along with the King of Jin. How come you can't get along with your life, so that our Qi family can only run for our lives now." Thinking of her tragic experience, Zhao couldn't help crying, wiping her tears. .

"Forget it, things have already happened, now what to do, escape is the most important thing." Li put the burden on his back, took Zhao's hand with one hand, and walked out of the house.

In the yard, all the servants and maidservants ran for their lives, including Nanny Gui who usually took care of Qi Yuan.As soon as she heard that the prince had defected, Nanny Gui ran the fastest cleverly, and ran out through the back door with the maids who were usually close friends. Qi Yuan could only let Qi Wenlai take care of him.

I saw Qi Wen supporting the weak Qi Yuan and walking step by step, Qi Cheng ran out of the room with the unconscious Qi Zhe on his back, because he ran too fast, almost fell Qi Zhedian's body, leaving Zhao's body for a while Distressed.

"Slow down, don't fall on Ziyang."

Mrs. Li held Mrs. Zhao's hand with one hand, followed by a group of concubines from the Qi family. Most of these concubines were children who had just turned ten years old, and each of them carried more or less belongings on their backs.Although the Qi family values ​​boys over girls, they have never been harsh on them, they are just not allowed to run out and disturb the men's work, and they are not allowed to sit on an equal footing with men and eat together.As long as these concubine daughters behave themselves, the Qi family will give enough monthly silver and take good care of them, so they live a relatively good life.

This sudden situation made all the concubine girls very frightened, they all bowed their heads deeply, and followed closely behind Mrs. Li, some of them even trembled their shoulders and sobbed softly.

Hearing the crying of these daughters' families, Qi Yuan became very impatient and became more energetic. He frowned and shouted: "Why are you crying? It's all useless, and now it's adding bad luck. Mrs. Li Take good care of these concubines and tell them not to cry, it hurts my ears." As he spoke, he leaned back a little bit, but fortunately Qi Wen had quick eyesight and quick hands, so he stopped in time to help.

Mrs. Li also hurriedly turned her head to appease the concubines, and only then did they stop crying for a while.

Seeing this, Qi Yuan's expression became better, and he asked, "Have you all packed up? Hurry up now, Yinzhi is on his way back and should be arriving soon. Let's get in the carriage first, and wait for Yinzhi to come back. Let's go now."

Everyone nodded, followed behind Qi Yuan, ready to walk out of the house and get on the carriage.

But as soon as he walked to the door, he saw a man in indigo clothes blocking the door, followed by a group of troops. Seeing that the family was ready to escape, he smiled and said, "So everyone is ready to escape." , didn’t you call me? It’s okay, if you don’t run away with me, then Shaoyi will come here by herself.”

(End of this chapter)