Zhutian: My skills are not serious

Chapter 738 I am a country

"Is it?"

Chu Pingsheng pressed his finger on her mute point, grabbed her and leaped upward, leaving the lighthouse and floating straight into the Wang's manor under the big drum tower that had been built to replace the Jingping Guanyin statue, with a drum on the first floor and a bell on the second floor, and landed on the roof in the southwest corner.

Wang Chudong naturally recognized his father's residence, and he also recognized that the man dressed as a wealthy man standing under the eaves facing General Beiliang and the soldiers was Wang Linquan.

"Let's do it. Everything is for the prince."

Wang Linquan walked forward holding a string of Buddhist beads made of only eighteen bodhi seeds in his hand. The Beiliang general wore a helmet on his head and a precious belt around his waist. Under his skirt armor was an ankle-length underwear. Maybe he thought the underwear was too long and not conducive to climbing mountains and killing people, so he folded it in half to the gap between the skirt armor and the belt, revealing two hairy inhuman legs.

The creature that was neither human nor beast drew out its sword, and the evening sunlight shone all over the blade.

"The military advisor asked me to tell you that the Beiliang Xu family will never forget the Wang family's kindness."

Wang Linquan turned north, knelt down in the direction of Beiliang, kowtowed three times, bowed nine times, raised his head, closed his eyes, and went to his death with dignity.

Wang Chudong, who was unable to speak or move, had his facial features distorted beyond recognition and his face was as red as blood.

Swish!
General Beiliang chopped down with his sword, and Wang Linquan's head was separated from his body and fell into a pool of blood. He waved his hand again, and a lieutenant behind him came forward, picked up the head, wrapped it in two layers of satin, and held it in his hand. Several lieutenants next to him each held a satin package in their hands. From the size and the blood dripping down, it can be confirmed that the wrapped package is also a human head. If it is not the head of Wang Chudong's uncle, it should be the head of her brother and sister-in-law.

Chu Pingsheng tapped the tiles lightly, led Wang Chudong into the courtyard, and untied the acupuncture points. She threw herself on her father's headless body and burst into tears. Qi Dangguo, who was a dog and a wolf, recognized him and his expression changed slightly. Several officers in the back drew their swords and surrounded him and the crying Wang Chudong.

Chu Pingsheng ignored them, walked to Wang Chudong, grabbed her hair and pulled it up, pointed at Qi Dangguo and said, "That's the adopted son of Beiliang King Xu Xiao, named Qi Dangguo. You heard his conversation with Wang Linquan just now. Your father died bravely. Without the Wang family's merits of being beheaded as rebels by the Beiliang army and the whole family being slaughtered, how could Xu Xiao have obtained the imperial edict of hereditary succession from Zhao Chun?"

"The death of Zhao Heng and his son at my hands shocked the court and the public. Everyone in the Zhao royal family was in danger. At this time, Xu Xiao massacred Laoshan Island and destroyed my base. On the one hand, it could boost the morale of Liyang, and on the other hand, it could show the court his determination to fight me to the end. Now I am the enemy of the dynasty, not Beiliang. Do you think that I let Wang Linquan rise up in rebellion, and the sins of those people being killed outside should be counted on my head? Wang Chudong, you are too naive. I just cooperated with Beiliang and your father to let Xu Xiao safely get the hereditary edict."

"In essence, we are exchanging interests. You have lost Wang Linquan and the Wang family. Who else can you rely on except me, the man who took your body? Zhao Chun saved some face for the royal family through the Laoshan Island incident, and Xu Xiao got the hereditary imperial edict he wanted."

Wang Chudong almost collapsed mentally. Wang Linquan was loyal to Beiliang. He taught them to regard the Xu family as their masters since childhood. In the end, he was willing to sacrifice the lives of the entire family and the people of the island so that the young master could inherit Beiliang. Just as Lin Qing said, what does this have to do with him? Even if he didn't rebel, Wang Linquan created a persona of a slave of the Lin family and sent his beloved daughter to his bed. What was the purpose? Wasn't it just to bind him to become Lin Qing's father-in-law and wait for Xu Xiao to kill him?
So all of this is a game of chess played by the three big guys. Wang Linquan, Zhao Heng and his son, she, Song Nianqing, Cao Changqing, and the people on Laoshan Island... are all chess pieces. The only difference is that people like Wang Linquan and Song Nianqing are willing to be chess pieces of Xu Xiao and Zhao Chun, while the people on Laoshan Island have no choice.

Civilians are nothing.

"LaBashan Island... is your base."

"You are wrong. Laoshan Island controlled by the Wang family is your father's base, not mine. Your father and the people on it must be dead, then it will be my base." Chu Pingsheng bent his fingers to wipe away her tears: "Don't you understand it now? I am a country."

He let go, and Wang Chudong slumped to the ground, staring at her father's headless body. Her hatred grew deeper and deeper. Was it right to sacrifice the lives of her entire family and all the fishermen on Laoshan Island for Xu Fengnian? What if Xu Xiao lost in the end? What was the meaning of the Wang family's efforts? So she and her brothers and sisters lived from birth to death just to become dogs of the Xu family like Xu Weixiong?
Chu Pingsheng's ears moved.

"We have almost finished killing everyone down there. This Laoshan Island is finally clean."

He looked at the tall drum tower on the top of the mountain again and said to Wang Chudong, "Alas, after today, Xu Xiao will build many more cenotaphs. I have to play the trick with them. It would be interesting if someone found out that he had filled in the wrong answer sheet at the end of the multiple-choice questions."

Wang Chudong and Qi Dangguo didn’t understand what he said, but they understood the multiple-choice question of life and death.

Chu Pingsheng took a step forward, and several captains raised their swords to chop. Six sword energies dispersed to the left and right, piercing the heads of those people, and blood was all over the ground. Qi Dangguo roared and chopped with his sword. Chu Pingsheng smiled slightly, and a dog leg and a wolf leg broke with a crisp sound. Qi Dangguo fell to the ground. He flicked the bloody knife with his hand, and it went into Wang Chudong's arms.

She held the knife, trembling as she took two steps forward, and it fell to the ground with a clang, gasping for breath. Chu Pingsheng had no sympathy for her, and slapped her down with a slap: "I slept with you, and you summoned the big turtle to plot against me and tried to drown me, and Xu Xiao's people killed your family and your entire island, but you didn't even have the courage to chop off his head? In the end, how are you different from those bitches like Blue Bird, Sweet Potato, and Xu Weixiong?"

Wang Chudong's face changed several times. She suddenly picked up the knife stained with Wang Linquan's blood and chopped it at the neck of Qi Dangguo who was unable to move. Puff, the head and body were separated, and hot blood splashed on her white dress and face. Her eyeballs kept shaking, and her hands kept shaking. The bloody knife fell to the ground with a clang, and she once again collapsed among the corpses, staring blankly at the blood.

Chu Pingsheng walked up to her side and said, "Publish a book. It will definitely be better than The First Snow in the East Wing."

After saying that, he grabbed her by the back and jumped up. When Wang Chudong came back to her senses in the breeze from the lake, she found herself in the drum tower built on the base of the Jingping Guanyin statue. "Choose one between the bell and the drum."

"What's the difference?"

Chu Pingsheng looked at the Beiliang soldiers who were searching the island for any survivors: "The difference between life and death."

Wang Chudong's body shook, knowing that the life and death of the Beiliang soldiers attacking Laoshan Island was in his hands.

“Alive…alive…”

Finally, she chose to live. Being the head of Qi State was fine, but she didn't dare to shoulder the responsibility of killing thousands of people in one breath.

Chu Pingsheng looked up at the big clock on the third floor, walked to the stand next to the big drum on the second floor that was several meters wide, took out the drumstick that could be used as a weapon, pointed at her forehead with one finger, transferred the Changsheng Zhenqi to protect his ears, walked to the front of the big drum and beat it again and again.

Looking at the constantly vibrating drum skin, for some reason, Wang Chudong thought of the tattered rattle that Cucumber carried in his sleeve every day.

Boom, boom, boom...

The dull sound turned into an invisible wave, centered on the top of the mountain, spreading over the manor on the mountainside, the market at the foot of the mountain, the dock at the foot of the mountain, and the ship flying the Kitakyushu battle flag.

The water began to boil, and fish after fish emerged from the water, their limbs turned upside down, dead.

From the top of the mountain to the dock, all the Beiliang soldiers threw down their swords and covered their ears, but the sound of the drums seemed to pass over the eardrums and sound directly on the body. It was not beating the drums, but beating their hearts. Every blow made them feel as if they were severely injured. They screamed in pain and rolled on the ground holding their heads. What flashed before their eyes were the illusions of their wives being raped, their parents being beheaded, their own hearts being gouged out, and their sons being slaves and their daughters being prostitutes.

Boom, boom, boom, boom...

The drum beats for a quarter of an hour and then stops. The entire Laoshan Island becomes quiet. Chu Pingsheng brings Wang Chudong back to the market and watches the soldiers, with drooling mouths and lifeless eyes, wandering on the road like zombies. Some of the smarter ones hold the severed heads of the enemies, kissing and gnawing them, calling the names of their parents or their wives and children.

Wang Chudong pointed at the outrageous scene in front of him and said, "Is this alive?"

Chu Pingsheng said: "Of course, aren't they all alive and well? They can talk, move, run and walk. At least they are alive now. How they will be tomorrow is uncertain."

Two or three thousand people in the water and on the mountain have all turned into fools. What's the difference between this and being dead?
She turned her head to look at the huge drum tower on the top of the mountain, then looked at the tragic scene below the mountain, and murmured to herself: "You predicted this a long time ago, right? You predicted this a long time ago, right? That's why you built that... Then why didn't you stop it?"

"Why should I stop you? Don't you think your father deserves to die? Don't the other members of the Wang family deserve to die? Do you think if your father were alive and turned against me one day, would the people on this island cheer for him? Or would they be willing to stand with me?" Chu Pingsheng looked at her: "Have you ever seen a demon pitifully deceived by another demon and willing to sell his soul? I think if all these idiots died, our ears and eyes would be much clearer."

Is Xu Xiao the devil?

Wang Chudong thought of what Wang Linquan had said to her. It seemed that Xu Xiao and Wu Su were the most benevolent people in the world, and they were the great benefactors of the Wang family and the great saints of Beiliang.

"Besides, I didn't kill the people from Laoshan Island. They died so that His Royal Highness could inherit Beiliang. The people of Beiliang will thank the people from Laoshan Island for their sacrifices. They will burn incense and worship them during the New Year and other festivals."

Chu Pingsheng sneered and said, "Let's go. Beiliang's attack on Laoshan Island has come to an end. It's time to ask His Royal Highness for some interest. Otherwise, wouldn't I have helped the Xu family in vain?"

"Interest?"

Chu Pingsheng didn't explain. He grabbed her skirt and jumped up. A dark shadow passed by in the sky, and the Flying General carried the two of them straight to the south.

(End of this chapter)