historical royal courier

Chapter 12
"Your Majesty, why don't I go out and have a look again, I'm going to investigate the situation and see what's going on outside."

Zhu Youjian didn't respond, but waved his hand feebly, he didn't have much hope for the outside world.

Seeing this situation, Wang Chengen did not continue to speak, but bowed and slowly withdrew.

In a wilderness, a pile of corpses lay motionless on the ground, tattered and dusty all over the body, and a trace of dust was stirred up by the wind.

A sparrow hopped and hopped on the ground, looking for food with its head down. Due to the famine, there was no food on the ground. The sparrow searched for a long time, and slowly approached a dead body lying on the ground.

"Hey, old Liu, look, there are sparrows."

"Quick, grab it."

"Go away, this is what I saw."

"Whoever catches it belongs to him."

Before they were caught, a group of hungry and panicked refugees were about to fight. After arguing a few words, they immediately rushed over like this, and some even picked up stones and threw them at the sparrows.

A group of people ran over aggressively like this, no matter how stupid the sparrow was, no matter how numb it was, it could react, and flew away with two thumps like this.

The man with the stone in his hand immediately threw the stone over. Unexpectedly, the stone was not thrown out, and a dead man on the ground was hit alive.

Wang Chengen got up from the ground, clutching his leg that was hit, bouncing and bouncing, and at the same time looked vigilantly at the group of confused refugees in front of him.

One of the half-grown boys looked at the remaining stone in his hand suspiciously at this time, and then looked at Wang Chengen. He was the one who smashed Wang Chengen just now. A dead body smashed past.

Wang Chengen didn't know what the group of refugees on the other side were thinking, at this moment he only wanted to scold their mothers.

I was lying on the ground well for almost an afternoon. Finally, a sparrow was about to take the bait. Unexpectedly, a group of refugees suddenly came and scared the sparrow away.

Forget it, I didn't expect that the sparrow was not caught, and my leg was hit hard by someone else, and now it is a problem to walk normally.

Wang Chengen backed away slowly, looking at the group of refugees vigilantly, he couldn't care about anything with the group of refugees now, and he didn't dare to care about it, if something happened to him, he didn't care if he died, but he was still alive. What to do with Zhu Youjian waiting for him in the yard?
Looking at the back of Wang Chengen walking away slowly, a guy among the refugees asked a guy with the same head,

"Old Liu, living people, do you think we should rush up?"

After finishing speaking, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and looked at Wang Chengen who was walking away with his eyes shining brightly.

"It's not good, it hasn't reached this point yet."

"I haven't eaten for two days. If this continues, I will almost be unable to hold on. It's hard to talk about the dead one. Now that there is a living one, are you going to let him go?"

The guy named Lao Liu hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
"Let's go and have a look."

Just like that, a group of people hung far behind Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen walked back slowly, thinking in his heart that he might be hungry again tonight, and depending on the condition of his legs, if he was unlucky in the next few days, he might be hungry too.

After walking for a while, in the evening, Wang Chengen finally returned to the courtyard, but when he saw the open courtyard door, Wang Chengen's expression changed instantly, and he rushed into the courtyard immediately.

Usually when I go in and out, I will close the courtyard door, and Zhu Youjian never goes out. Now that the courtyard door is open, it means that outsiders must have come.

In the yard, Zhu Youjian's face was livid, looking at the group of people who surrounded him like monkeys.

This group of people are all strong and strong. In this famine-prone place, ordinary people can't eat enough to eat, but they are all big and round, and when they look at themselves with the green light from their eyes, Zhu You No matter how stupid Jian was, he understood how these people survived.

"What do you want to do?"

Zhu Youjian pretended to be calm, but actually put his hands behind his back and squeezed nervously.

This group of people ignored Zhu Youjian's questioning, and the leader inside smiled and said to his subordinates:

"Brothers, I was lucky today and caught a rich man. It seems that today's meat should be a little greasy and delicious."

"Hahahaha, I'm going to eat that piece of his stomach later, that piece must be oily."

"Hahahaha, you are the only one who can choose, but I think it should be cooking soup, so much oil and water can't be wasted."

"Yes, yes, you should cook soup."

Hearing this group of people discussing how they could eat themselves, Zhu Youjian's heart went cold. The emperor of his generation had actually become a delicacy in the eyes of a group of refugees. Among the emperors of the Han family, who else was better than him? Shameful?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian closed his eyes, and two lines of hot tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.

A dignified emperor, he can't sacrifice to the sky, can't appease the people, and let the clothes of China be trampled by foreign barbarians, how can he face his ancestors, why don't he die generously like today, and see if the sky can forgive this Thousands of people, just be a lonely ghost and see if it will be scattered by wind and rain after many years.

Suddenly, a person ran in and interrupted the group's conversation.

"My lord, are you alright?"

Wang Chengen pushed away the group of refugees and squeezed to the side of Zhu Youjian. After seeing that Zhu Youjian was fine, he immediately turned around and opened his hands to protect Zhu Youjian, and glared at the group of man-eating animals.

"What do you want?"

"What do you want to do? Haha, we brothers are hungry, and we want to borrow some of your master's meat to fill our stomachs. There happens to be one more brother. It seems that we can have a full meal today. ."

Hearing this, Wang Chengen's eyes showed grief and indignation. He pulled Zhu Youjian back and retreated, and then said to Zhu Youjian:

"Your Majesty, wait for this old slave to push these people away. You take the opportunity to run outside, and this old slave will keep them. Your Majesty, the farther you run, the better. Try to..."

"Don't run away."

"Um, Your Majesty, you have to run away, you are the Son of Heaven, how could you die here!"

"I don't want to run anymore, I'm tired, when will I end up running like this?"

Hearing this, Wang Chengen was completely desperate now, even Zhu Youjian didn't want to run away, what else could he do.

Pushing away Wang Chengen, Zhu Youjian walked up to the group of refugees and took a good look at them. These were once his people!
"Come on, I'm sorry for you, if you want to eat me, come here, you will become like this, it's my fault, I didn't take good care of the people of the world, if I can fill your stomach today, I can be regarded as a little bit Consolation."

Seeing Zhu Youjian with his arms outstretched, the group of refugees were dumbfounded, not because of his attitude of accepting death, they had seen this kind of person a lot, mainly because Zhu Youjian's name scared them.

They are no longer literate, and they no longer know who the person who calls themselves me is. Unexpectedly, they encountered an emperor in trouble today.

"Brother, we actually captured Emperor Chongzhen."

"Brothers, we made a fortune today. If we capture this dog emperor and offer it to King Chuang, the rich and powerful will be waiting for us there!"

Looking at Zhu Youjian, the group of people immediately became happier than before. Just now it was just a meal, but now it is a lifetime of glory and wealth!

Seeing this situation, Zhu Youjian could only smile helplessly now. As the saying goes, a phoenix with shedding hair is not as good as a chicken. This group of people no longer has the slightest awe of themselves as the emperor.

"Hey, Lao Zhu, you are not afraid of death. Are you so brave?"

(End of this chapter)