It’s hard to break a phoenix’s destiny

Chapter 531 If Not a Crazy Love-sick Person

When they heard Liu Yao ask this, many people lowered their heads and shut their mouths.

"Are you saying that I, Liu Yao, am a deserter? So the people I brought here are also cowards?" Liu Yao didn't care at all. "It's just a few words. There's no need for you to be angry."

"Actually, we understand all of this." A small guard stood up and said, "General, have you found the person you are looking for?"

"Not yet." Liu Yao shook his head.

"So you really don't plan to come back?" the man continued to ask.

"Is there something wrong with you?" Liu Yao felt more and more that these people were in a bad mood.

The guard looked around and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty is crazy."

"What?" Liu Yao was shocked.

"I am Qian Wu. I used to follow the general's vanguard general Liu Yue." Guard Qian Wu pulled Liu Yao to stand behind a big tree, so as to avoid being seen. "I also heard it from the wounded soldiers who stayed behind. They said that your majesty's order is to kill anyone from the Great Jin Dynasty, especially the soldiers in red clothes. The more you kill, the better. You can even chop off their heads... After that, whoever kills the most will be promoted."

"Isn't this nonsense? He is really crazy." Liu Yao clenched his fists in anger. "Why do we have to kill so many people when two countries are at war? They are also someone else's sons, husbands, and fathers of their children. This cannot be done!"

"General... His Majesty is at Lingshan Temple, you can go and have a look." Guard Qian Wu sighed heavily again, "I heard that General Huyan led 27,000 men and killed 30,000 people from the State of Jin... Over in Runan, the land was soaked in blood."

"General." Several more guards gathered around, "We are not afraid of death, but we all think that this is wrong."

"Yes, I understand." Liu Yao felt uncomfortable looking at these soldiers who had followed him through life and death. However, he couldn't say anything now because Liu Cong was his brother.

"Oh, there is one more thing." Guard Qian Wu lowered his voice again, "I also heard about this. His Majesty said that he is the true dragon emperor and wants to rule the world."

"What's wrong with this? He is indeed the emperor." Liu Yao was confused.

"What did he say... He has a stone, anyway, he is very powerful." The guards couldn't explain it clearly and started talking at once.

Liu Yao laughed in silence. Since he had come to see the situation, he might as well go up the mountain to see what was going on. He comforted his people and told them not to rush to follow the main force, but to just follow him up to see what was going on. These people naturally listened to Liu Yao, quickly sorted out the number of people, took a brief rest, and followed Liu Yao in high spirits.

"Are there any common people on this mountain?" Although Mount Song is high, it is not too tiring to walk up along the path.

"I didn't see it." Guard Qian Wu came up again, "A fight is about to break out, who dares to come?"

This is indeed the case. Liu Yao carefully observed the terrain and thought that if Yang Xianrong really came here, she would be discovered by their people. "Is this the only way?"

"This... I don't know." Qian Wu pursed his lips, "We just followed orders and went wherever we were told. They said there was another way, but a huge rock fell, so we had to take a detour." Anyway, after saying so much, Liu Yao didn't get any useful information about Yang Xianrong. He sighed again in his heart and strode up the mountain again.

Lingshan Temple is not on the top of the mountain, but halfway up the mountain.

The incense here is very strong. Before the war, many people from the surrounding area would come here to worship on the first and fifteenth day of every month, and enshrine their relatives' tablets here, which is also a kind of sustenance and prayer. The monks in Lingshan Temple are very simple. They just eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha every day to keep the incense burning and the soul forever.

After more than a hundred years of renovation, although we cannot say that this place is magnificent, it is still simple and elegant. In particular, the beams and door panels of the temple are made of ancient trees, which also appear to have a sense of vicissitudes.

Although they were monks from the Jin Dynasty, out of compassion, they performed several rituals at Liu Cong's request, and made a simple wooden box out of pine and cypress wood. They placed Yang Xianlian's bright yellow silk handkerchief in it, wrote her name and date of birth, and after chanting sutras in front of the Buddha for 49 days, they buried her in the pagoda forest behind Lingshan Temple.

Today is the forty-ninth day.

The candlelight flickered in the main hall of Lingshan Temple, and there was an eerie feeling of darkness even in the daytime.

Liu Cong knelt in the center of the hall with his head down and remained silent. Around him, monks from Lingshan Temple chanted scriptures in low voices.

When Liu Yao approached gently, the guards and imperial guards around Liu Cong were ready to attack, but when they saw clearly that it was Liu Yao, they all showed joy in their eyes. Although they could not shout out loud, they also greeted him with their actions.

Liu Yao nodded but said nothing.

He walked into the hall and came to Liu Cong's side.

Liu Cong raised his head when he heard the noise and looked at him. His eyes were a little dull, but not crazy. "Why are you here?"

"Just came to take a look." After Liu Yao bowed to the Buddha statue, he sat cross-legged on a cushion beside him.

"Yes, today is also Fifth Sister's big day, and you've come just in time." Liu Cong sighed. It had only been a few months since they last met, but Liu Cong had actually aged a lot, with a full beard, red eyes, and a furrowed brow. He no longer had the spirited look he had before.

"Are you really sitting in a cenotaph?" Liu Yao was just trying to make conversation.

"Yes." Liu Cong nodded. "You don't know. She comes to my dreams every night and cries to me, saying that the Luo River is too cold and her soul must follow me forever to feel warmer. You were right at the time. If I don't build a cenotaph, I'm afraid she will follow me forever..."

“You…” Liu Yao showed his concern as an elder brother and sighed, “The dead are gone, and you have to let go too.”

"She is the most innocent and pure child I have ever met. You know, after my father became the emperor, we all became princes and kings. Many women wanted to sleep with me and be my women so that they could get benefits when the fiefdoms were divided in the future. But she wouldn't do that. She just stood there and looked at me stupidly... When I was injured before, didn't she run out to find me? This fool, how could she be so stupid? She gave me all her good things. She even couldn't bear to eat a piece of candy and wanted to leave it for me to eat together... Tell me, do I need that piece of candy? Those gold, silver and jewelry are useless. I have a lot of them. I don't need hers at all."

"What about the imperial seal? Did she give it to you too?" A clear female voice sounded, which seemed unusually abrupt amid the buzzing sound of chanting.