The King of Beasts smiles but does not speak [Shan Hai Jing]

"What time is it?"

In the humid night wind, the boy sat with his knees hugged on the cold stone slab under the eaves, staring blankly at one place.

The maid standing beside him responded in a low voice: "Your Highness, it's time."

"How long has father been gone?"

The maid lowered her eyes and said shyly, "It's been two hours."

"Um......"

The young man sat for a while, and suddenly he supported the stone steps with one hand, and the wet and cold touch on the stone steps spread across his fingertips, but he didn't seem to notice it.

Seeing the maid's expression getting more and more gloomy, and finally almost shed tears, the boy suddenly stretched his waist and smiled.

"If you haven't come back for so long, it seems that you won't be able to come back..."

At Xu time yesterday, Fu Liu led the elite soldiers of Wangcheng to leave, but did not return all night.

Then in the next hour, Fu Liu's personal guards rushed back.Said that his side was ambushed, and General Fu Liu was seriously injured in this battle and was unable to return to the city, so he had no choice but to send him back to the city for Wangcheng's rescue.

At that time, he stood outside the door, quietly looking at his father in the room.

That is the monarch of a country, that is the person he admires most.

He saw the man get up and walk to the guard, sighed and patted the guard on the shoulder.

Then, a wry smile.

He naturally knew why his father smiled wryly.

——Because what the guard said must be a lie.

Fu Liu will never come back for help no matter what.

Li Rong's general Fu Liu would never let his lord take risks for him, and would never let Wangcheng be in danger because of him.

What's more, Fu Liu is very clear that the entire country has long since had no army that can be sent to relieve its distress.

The land area of ​​Lirong is very small, and he is appreciated by the master of Xuanning only because he is good at bows and arrows and making bows and arrows.

Although on the surface it seems that the country is peaceful and the people are safe, but there is a fatal weakness——

This country does not produce food.

They don't have territories where they can grow food, and they don't have people who are good at growing food, so they can only live off of other countries.

But now Xuan Ning is too tired to deal with Xiang Su and Yin Ling, and has no time to take care of himself, and the food for Li Rong is getting less and less.

This battle with Lin's country is their last chance.

If they can win this battle, they will have a reason to ask the Lord Xuanning for food, so that their subjects can fill their stomachs.

Knowing how important this battle is, the whole country can be said to be backwaters.

Lin's country has sufficient food and grass, and is blessed by spirit beasts, and now there is an additional "Jiu Ming" of unknown strength to help.

But what they have in Li Rong is the courage to fight to the death.

Those who went with Fu Liu were almost all elite soldiers in the city.

The arrows contained in the quiver of his soldiers were the life-saving things that their family made for them overnight.

Every arrow carries the determination that there will be no return.

How could such an army ask for help?

But even though the words were full of loopholes, even though he knew it was a hoax, his father went anyway, rushing to that illusory "place for help" without hesitation.

——Because his father is the lord of a country, even if there is only a slight possibility, he has to go and see.

What's more, if Fu Liu is really wiped out, even if he, the king, can hide in the king's city for a while, what's the point?

It's better to leave the city and go to die. In this way, maybe the enemy army can leave a way of life for the people in the city.

The moon is in the middle of the sky, dotted with stars.

His father passed him by, patted his shoulder lightly, and said softly like when he was teaching him homework in the past: "Have you improved your archery?"

He nodded: "Of course!"

"That's great." The father said with a smile, "I knew that my son...would never be a coward!"

of course not!

The young man regained consciousness from his memories, suddenly straightened his back, turned his eyes to the maid beside him and said, "I heard noise outside, go and have a look."

The maid who led her away turned back in a short while, but she was not alone.

The person who came with him was dressed in burning red clothes, even in the dark night, he was still dazzling.

"It's annoying."

The other party held the sword in his hand and was very polite, as if he was just a traveler passing by.

The young man suppressed the panic and bewilderment in his heart, and forced himself to look at the maid calmly: "It's none of your business here, go down."

However, the maid who usually listened to him the most, seemed to be unable to hear what he was saying at this time, standing aside with her head lowered, without saying a word.

The young man gritted his teeth anxiously, and cursed secretly as "confused", but he could only feign anger on his face, and shouted: "You don't even listen to me?"

The maid suddenly raised her eyes when she heard the words, and the pupils of her eyes were already glistening with water.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally answered "Yes" with difficulty, and then bowed down.

This ceremony, however, worshiped very deeply.

Seeing that the maid finally left the courtyard, the young man breathed a sigh of relief, and took a step forward, "I wonder who you are?"

The other party's eyebrows moved slightly, as if thinking about something, before replying after a while: "Lord of Jiuming."

Lord of Jiuming? !

The boy's feet were unsteady, he staggered, and took a quick step back.

Even though he had already thought of many possibilities, the possibility in front of him was completely beyond his expectation!

The Lord of Jiuming actually came in person?

How could he come in person?

The boy naturally didn't know, but the person in front of him thought very simply.

——Shangzhuo and Ruanruan were sent out, but Shuyan always felt too dangerous to come, so he had to leave him to look after the house, but the others couldn't believe it.

So he came in person.

Shocked by this shocking news, the young man who was speechless was silent for a long time before he said, "Then... where is my father?"

Liang Yu simply said, "Dead."

When the last straw fell, all the light in the boy's eyes went out instantly, leaving only a pool of stagnant water.

He turned around in a daze, and pulled out a feathered arrow from the quiver under the eaves.

Liang Yu looked at him with narrowed eyes, and her fingertips were secretly on the hilt of the sword.

"I don't want to kill them all." Liang Yu said, "I'm here only to persuade them to surrender."

Hearing this, the young man suddenly smiled lightly, but he didn't attack with an arrow.

He just raised his hand and touched the feathers on the arrow carefully, and then said in a deep voice: "Don't worry. When I Li Rong betrayed Jiu Ming and surrendered to Xuan Ning, it was against the law of heaven. I should be punished for my crime. I dare not have revenge heart of."

Liang Yu's hand holding the sword paused slightly: "Then you..."

The young man sighed: "But now the lord has killed my father, and I have a vengeance against my father. This enmity is irreconcilable." He raised his eyes to Liang Yu, "Please forgive me...for not being able to surrender For those who have such deep hatred with me."

The boy withdrew his gaze from staring at Liang Yu, and raised his eyes to look at the moon.

"I Li Rong betrayed Jiu Ming back then to find a way out for my subjects. I thought it was just a small wish. Even if I have to bear the notoriety of 'betrayer', as long as everyone can survive, it is nothing."

"But it turns out...we were all wrong."

His lips trembled slightly, and there was fog in his eyes.

"How can it be just a small wish to survive in such a troubled world?"

"It's so hard to be alive..."

The young man raised his arrow, and the cold arrowhead was instantly swallowed up by the hot blood in his chest.

He turned around with difficulty, and looked at Liang Yu: "Please...be kind to my Li Rong subjects...they can make bows and arrows, and they...will help you. …”

They are not useless people!They are working hard to survive!

so......

Give them a way out!

Liang Yu's fingers on the hilt of the sword had already slipped off, and he watched the young man kneel down slowly in front of him, close his eyes, and finally fall to the ground.

Blood is warm.

Winners and losers are the same in this world.It's just that I didn't expect that this person would die if he said he would die!

Didn't Shuyan say that people in Li Rong are afraid of death?

If it weren't for the fear of death, Jiu Ming wouldn't have rebelled the whole country and made all kinds of fools just after they separated!

Now this person died so happily...Is it because of the arrogance of the royal family?

He narrowed his eyes and glanced at the young man's body for the last time, then backed away and turned around.

Pity.

He looked no more than fourteen or fifteen years old.

In the original world, this boy is still in high school.

"Lord!"

It's just that Liang Yu just took two steps, but suddenly a person rushed in from outside the courtyard.

This person is one of the generals sent by the Lord of the Dog Feng Kingdom to protect him, named Mo Rang.

It was not due to Liang Yu alone that he was able to capture the royal city so smoothly this time, but also thanks to the bravery of this general.

However, Liang Yu glanced at Mo Still at this moment, but couldn't help frowning slightly.

After all, he is a general, why is he so flustered?

"What's the matter?"

Mo still gritted his teeth secretly, his eyes were full of pity, he struggled for a long time before faltering and saying to Liang Yu: "My lord, in the palace..."

In the palace?

Liang Yu closed his eyes and thought for a while, he seemed to have told Mo Yian that he was going to quickly capture everyone else in the palace as prisoners.

"Is there a problem with the captive?"

"No..." Mo still lowered his eyes, suddenly sank, and knelt down on one knee, "It's because the subordinate is incompetent."

He said in a shy voice: "All the people in the palace committed suicide...there is no one alive!"

Liang Yu's eyes froze, and just as he was about to say something, another guard walked around from the corridor.

The guard ran in such a hurry that he knelt down in front of Liang Yu as soon as he turned into the courtyard, but he muttered for a long time without saying a word.

Liang Yu already had a bad feeling in his heart, he hesitated for a long time before saying, "What's the matter?"

"My lord..." The guard's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and his left hand was even trembling slightly as he clenched his fist and saluted, "Just now we sent people to seal off the city and prepared to count the number of people in the city, but..."

He lowered his eyes sadly: "But in the city...from the elders to the children, all of them have died, and the whole city... died for the country."

By death...martyrdom?

Liang Yu loosened his hand, and the saber fell to the ground with a clang.

The ground is full of dust, with a hint of desolate blood.

He suddenly remembered, the leader of Li Rong who was intercepted by him on the way just now.

At that time, the monarch already knew that he was invincible, the knife was on the side of his neck, and he already had the will to die, but there was a hint of relief in his eyes.

In the shadow of the sword, the Lord Lirong sighed to Liang Yu, and said calmly: "As a minister who rebels, I have no face to meet you, but now how dare I face you with swords and swords. I will decide on my own, and dare not Make it difficult for you."

The light of the knife is broken in the moonlight, replaced by the light of blood.

Since he betrayed Jiu Ming back then in order to survive.

Now, let's return the "life" obtained by betraying the king and killing the lord and servilely bowing his knees to the old master.

can say that......

I did the belated loyalty that Li Rong should have done.

The author has something to say:

At the end of writing, I suddenly remembered that in the Jiansan fan song I heard before, Sister Hua said in it: "I may be greedy for life, but I am not afraid of death."

Most likely, it's just like the Lirong Kingdom...

In troubled times, everyone wants to survive.

But there is always something more important than life.

[This is an update, and there will be another update later. 】