I don't want to return

The man in Xuanyi's heart tightened, he hurriedly suppressed all the thoughts in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Where have you been hiding these past few days, do you know that it took me so hard to find it?"

When Mu Chongyu heard this, his face became pale as paper. He pushed away the man in black, took a few steps back, and hurriedly picked up the sword that fell on the ground.

Seeing this situation, the man in Xuanyi had a complex look in his eyes. He couldn't help but stepped forward, pressed Mu Chongyu's hand, and said in a low voice: "Chongyu, listen to me, I just want to be with you Let me tell you, I don't want to hurt you..."

However, before he finished speaking, Mu Chongyu interrupted him coldly: "Your Majesty, you and I have nothing to talk about. The mistakes I made will never be repeated in this life. I will never be a prisoner again. Even if I die here today, I have no regrets, I just want to be ashamed of my heart!"

Yes, at the beginning, he just listened to what this man said, rashly thinking that as long as he surrendered, he would not harm his subjects, but what happened?

He only saw corpses laying in the field, dripping with blood, and the dense bones and remains of the people in Nanyan became his indelible nightmare.

"I..." The man in black wanted to say something more, but Mu Chongyu didn't intend to talk nonsense to him anymore. With a flash of his sword, he raised the sharp blade and touched it to the man's neck, lowering his eyes and said: "Your Majesty must be here There is another ambush outside the valley, please Your Majesty do Chongyu a favor and ensure that the three hundred soldiers of Nanyan get out of the valley safely."

After finishing speaking, he didn't wait for the man in black to answer, he took the man hostage and walked out, raising his voice as he walked: "Generals of Beiyu, your majesty has been kidnapped by me, if you want your majesty to return to Zhao, please put down your weapons , let everyone in Nanyan survive.”

Seeing this, the soldiers in the battle circle had already stopped fighting. The Nanyan people looked at the Beiyu monarch who appeared here in surprise, while the Beiyu people all looked at him hesitantly, their eyes implying questions. meaning.

They knew that if they wanted to rely on their sage's skills, they would definitely not be trapped by the relatively weak Mu Chongyu. However, looking at what the sage meant, he wanted to let the Nanyan people escape...

His Majesty's strange behavior has often happened in the past half month, and they cannot but make them feel strange, but although they have doubts in their hearts, they never dare to ask more questions and can only obey.

Sure enough, Jing Hong, the man in black clothes who was being held hostage at this time, didn't say a word, but his face was gloomy, and he let Mu Chongyu push and push out of the valley step by step.

No Beiyu soldiers caught up, and the Nanyan people escaped smoothly.

Mu Chongyu breathed a sigh of relief, but his expression towards Jing Hong was still very cold. Not only him, but all the generals of Nanyan looked at the man with a very cold expression, and there was even a faint desire to kill in their eyes.

"Thank you Your Majesty for saving your life this time, let's leave it alone!" Mu Chongyu said coldly, "Although I wish I could kill you now and let you be buried with the people of Nanyan, it's a pity..."

It's a pity that if Jing Hong was to be killed, the Beiyu soldiers would definitely not let it go, and it would be difficult for them to escape today.

Although for these desperate Nanyan people, death is nothing to fear at all, what they fear is that they will die before their great cause is achieved!

Especially Mu Chongyu, if he can't recover Nanyan, and then send troops to attack Beiyu, he will not be able to live in peace even if he is a ghost.

Mu Chongyu didn't say any more, put away his sharp sword, turned around, jumped on his horse, and rode away together with Nanyan's people.

The man in black stood there, couldn't help stretching out his hand to stop him. Seeing Mu Chongyu's decisive back, he finally let out a long sigh, and the expression in his eyes that looked like they were spotting paint changed a bit.

Some things, some mistakes, the big mistakes caused are indeed irreversible, but since God gave him a chance, he must not let it go in vain.

The man in black led the following horse, stepped on the horse's back, whispered a few words to the Beiyu soldiers who had been secretly following him, and rode away quietly.

After the last ambush in the valley, everyone in Nanyan was a little more careful than before. Although they still refused to disperse with Mu Chongyu, they all changed into commoner clothes and kept their names incognito. They lived in peace for a few days.

However, what we saw along the way was shocking.

Mu Chongyu has been imprisoned in the Beiyu Imperial Palace for the past three years, and has no knowledge of the outside world. Now that he has seen it with his own eyes, he can truly understand the true meaning of the words "dire water and hot water".

A lot of farmland was burned to ashes, and homeless refugees can be seen everywhere in the outskirts of the city. Even in the bustling city, it is common to see scenes of tragedies of selling children and selling daughters.

Five years of war and three years of turmoil have caused human-disasters like this.

Mu Chongyu took a deep breath, and the tragic scene in his memory came back to his mind.

A year ago, Jiangdong was flooded. Hundreds of hectares of fertile land disappeared overnight in the formerly prosperous Jiangdong. Distributing an extra morsel of relief food to barely survive.

However, the Northern Chongqing court turned a deaf ear to this. Instead of rushing to repair the embankment and relieve the victims, it looted the strong men everywhere, collected corvees, extorted money and made a fortune in the name of water control, and finally made Jiangdong starve for thousands of miles.

Just because the Jiangdong area was once the capital of Nanyan, these refugees were once the people of Nanyan.

Therefore, human life is worthless.

I hate that at that time, I was like a blind and deaf man, with my ears closed. Every day I saw Jing Hong Hunjun busy with government affairs, crouching at his desk to correct the memorials presented in Jiangdong, and thought he was sincerely worried about the disaster in Jiangdong. It's just a show in front of you.

Mu Chongyu involuntarily clenched the reins and stopped the horse.He saw a mother and son in embarrassment falling on the path beside the field ridge.

Mu Chongyu rode his horse over, dismounted and walked to the two men, wanting to help them up, but the mother hugged the child in her arms and took a few steps back.

He also panicked and shouted: "Justice, spare your life, all the money of the bitch has been taken away by those righteous men just now, and there is no more property! Please also let the righteous men see that my mother and son are alone, and let us live ah!"

After finishing speaking, he fell to his knees with a plop, and kowtowed to Mu Chongyu repeatedly.

Mu Chongyu frowned, glanced at Shen Qing who was following behind, and saw the same puzzled expression on the other party's face, so he could only comfort the woman in a gentle voice: "Elder sister, don't panic, I won't want you Your belongings, let alone your life, I just saw that you fell to the ground and there was no one to help you, so I came over to help you."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to hold the woman's arm, and helped her up steadily.

Only then did the woman see Mu Chongyu's face clearly, she was a little dazed, and after a while she said in a daze: "Aren't you robbers?"

robber?

Hearing this, Mu Chongyu couldn't help being startled in his heart, he couldn't help frowning a shallow gap between his brows, his eyes touched the woman's startled face, but he had to calm down his thoughts and smiled: "Of course not, we and Like a big sister, just a down and out person."

He took out a few ingots of broken silver from his waist and put them in the woman's palm, said: "We don't have much silver on us, don't be disgusted by eldest sister, and hurry up and take young master out of this wrong place."

The woman held the silver in surprise, and a blush seemed to flash across her slightly dusty face. She thanked Mu Chongyu a few times overjoyed, before trotting away with her child in her arms.

The corners of Mu Chongyu's raised mouth drooped, and his face was a little heavy.

The suffering of the people caused by the war is already unbearable. If robbers are added to disturb the people, wouldn't it be even more difficult for the people to live?

Li Yuanshan, who was following behind him, saw the worry on Mu Chongyu's face. He was originally a cabinet bachelor of Nanyan, with outstanding literary talents, quick mind, and a good understanding of the young monarch's temperament. As for the mother and child, I already knew it in my heart.

"Your Majesty, wars are still happening now, farmlands are being destroyed, and many people have lost their way of life. Naturally, they will think of other ways, and even turn grass into bandits. It's just the situation that forces them to do so. Your Majesty really doesn't have to worry too much about it. As long as Nanyan is restored Why don't you worry about peace in the world?" Li Yuanshan stepped forward silently and persuaded him earnestly.

Mu Chongyu's expression changed, he looked at the older official, and then at the barren farmland beside him, with a compassionate expression: "Mr. Li is right, no ordinary person is willing to be a robber , the robbers are only forced by the situation."

"Since this is the case, I don't think I can just stand by and watch this." Mu Chongyu cleared his mind, and when he said the words again, no one could doubt them.

He's going to meet this bandit for a while.