The General and His Enemy Your Highness

The crowd was passionate and angry, as if Mei Geng was about to cut off their way of life, the sound of rain, river water, shouting, intertwined into a disturbing noise.

Qin Gui drew his sword out, the light of the sword was icy cold, the cold silver blade was sharp, he held the sword and scolded harshly: "Presumptuous!"

At the same time, the imperial army stepped forward with a sudden step, their weapons were unsheathed, and the shouting stopped abruptly with the shining sword.

Mei Geng looked down at the baby in the swaddle, glanced at everyone coldly, and asked, "Where are the parents of this child?"

No one responded, and finally one of the city guards whispered: "How can parents watch this situation, they must have been locked up somewhere."

All living beings are suffering, but when Mei Geng looked at the appearance of all living beings in front of him, his heart was unprecedentedly chilled.

These people, their eyes are full of hatred, as if they are filthy things crawling out of the filthiest place in the world, their ugly faces are unsightly, and they sacrifice other people as a matter of course, even a baby who can't speak or not.

The dying old woman almost broke her voice: "Don't be afraid! People from the government dare not do anything to us! Go and get the sacrifice back! The time to sacrifice to the river god is coming!"

When she said that, the people were ready to move again.

"Call all the local officials here." Mei Geng ordered coldly, then glanced at the old woman mockingly, "You say this child is a sacrifice, is there a reason?"

The old woman spoke convincingly: "The river god likes to eat boys. After this son is sacrificed, he will sacrifice every year. The river god will protect us from floods!"

"Yes! As long as you offer sacrifices to the river god, the rain will stop!"

"It must be because the river god's sacrifice has not been sent this year, so it rains, return the sacrifice quickly!"

Mei Geng held the baby in one hand, and covered the rain with an umbrella in the other. His eyes were heavy, reflecting the falling rain, and he sneered, "Since the river god likes to eat virgins, there are not only virgins in Linzhang. King Ziben is very happy to see it, why not change to a virgin boy, it will be the same."

Hearing what he said, those wanton crusading voices fell silent, and many people showed panic. The old woman even retorted: "No, the time is coming, you should return the sacrifice! Otherwise, if there is a flood, you will take Why pay so many lives?!"

If you speak righteously, then what are you going to pay for this child's life?

Mei Geng didn't say anything, but just sneered unhurriedly: "It's okay, if the river god is angry, he will give a few more sacrifices, come, let me check for the king if there are any boys of the right age in your family, count them all. Bringing it as a gift to the God of the River can be regarded as showing his sincerity."

This method can be said to be ruthless, everyone panicked immediately, many of them were young men and women, and many of them had children in their families, and those with sons immediately turned pale with fright.

Mei Geng still felt that it was not enough, and added slowly, "It would be too stingy to just send virgins, and bring virgins as well, so that we have enough food, why not give another big gift, all the young girls of the right age for marriage, and give it to you. The god of the river is the concubine's room."

Fang Ren was shocked, and glanced at Qin Gui, winking: really caught?

Qin Gui hesitated for a moment, then nodded affirmatively—grab!

Fang Ren's face twisted severely, and he nodded palely.

And the people who were aggressive before are now languishing in the rain, many of them are pale, and they have no other way to do this, hoping for a child in exchange for the rain to clear up, but if it is their own flesh and blood, they will not give up.

People's hearts have been like this since ancient times, Mei Geng looked at it coldly and found it ridiculous.

Everyone looked at the young man with one hand embracing the baby, standing in the drizzle, handsome but hiding a bird of prey, like a beautiful flower quenched by poison, showing its sharpness, extremely dangerous, dying at the touch of it, making people daunting.

The headed old woman's complexion was pale, and she said angrily, "You...you are trying to offend Lord River God!"

"The king has already prepared an apology." Mei Geng was confident, his eyes flashed sharply like a thousand arrows, and he sneered coldly: "Or is it that the so-called river god sacrifice is nothing at all?"

Ever since he arrived in Linzhang, he has been entangled by the secret agents of the Southern Kingdom, and he has not found out that these people still have the custom of sacrificing river gods alive. After being disturbed by him, the people who had been clamoring before stopped their flags and drums, for fear that their juniors would really be arrested. Come to sacrifice to the river god.

Someone went to help the old woman and persuaded in a low voice: "Grandma Zhao, why don't you...or forget it, you can't bring all the children in the city to live sacrifices."

"Yes, yes, let's sacrifice another day."

King Xiping, who had eyes and ears, sneered, "There is no need to wait for another date. I will sacrifice now. I want to see if all the boys and girls in the city can protect Linzhang for a few years."

Human affairs can be changed once in a while, but people's hearts cannot be changed forever.

Those dozens of people were waiting for Ai Ai, and even the old woman called Granny Zhao couldn't speak. In the end, she just gave Mei Geng a hard look, and said plausibly: "Forget it, if there is no sacrifice this year, the river god will be angry! If there is a flood in the future, just wait to die!"

She cursed and walked down the boardwalk on the bank, looking at Mei Geng with hatred in her eyes, as if Mei Geng really cut off her life.

Just at this time, all the adults who were pulled out of the mansion were also forced to the bank of the Zhang River by the forbidden army. King Xiping held the crying baby in his arms and gave an order to bring all the people and officials back to the Yamen.

My lords have vain footsteps, silently complaining, Linzhang out of the southern country, and they can hardly absolve them of the blame, but unexpectedly, King Xiping caught the blame again.

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The yamen was brightly lit, and there were bursts of children crying from the back hall.

"No, my lord." Qin Gui touched the base of his ears, and looked at the swaddling baby in Chu Ce's arms, "Can you find a way to stop him from crying, it's been half an hour."

Chu Ce had no choice but to look down at the baby in the swaddle, and said softly, "If you keep crying, I'm afraid the baby won't be able to bear it."

Mei Geng had never served such a small child in two lifetimes, he stroked the porcelain cup and said, "What can I do, just cry, just find his parents and return them back."

The three men looked at each other, Chu Ce lowered his eyes, gently shook the baby in his arms, his brows and eyes were soft like round jade, and said softly, "Bring some warm water, feed him first."

Mei Geng and Qin Gui looked at each other and said in unison, "Who is hello?"

"..." Chu Ce was speechless and sighed, "Hey."

His Highness the Fifth Prince held the porcelain spoon without complaint, blew it gently, and carefully fed it to the baby. The little guy was probably really hungry, but the warm water also temporarily stopped his crying.

Mei Geng twirled his fingertips and looked at Chu Ce thoughtfully. He was very skillful in feeding water, and he was really like a loving father. After Chu Ce was crowned prince, he married the Lin family The younger sister of Lin Shuyu, the founding duke, was his wife. One year after they got married, the crown princess gave birth to the eldest son. At that time, Chu Ce also behaved like a loving father, exactly the same.

It's a pity that the beautiful and delicate empress later had her neck broken by a bowstring from him, and the gentle prince who looked very much like his father died in the military tent.

The smile on Mei Geng's face slowly faded away. Seeing such a gentle Chu Ce, he remembered that night, when Chu Ce just learned that the crown prince had been humiliated to death, the hatred burst out of his originally silent and empty eyes.

No matter how much he tortured, Chu Ce never showed such an expression until the death of the prince.

As if aware of Mei Geng's gaze, the young man suddenly raised his head to look, and said with a warm smile, "What? Do you want to feed him?"

Seeing the teasing play on the corner of Chu Ce's lips, Mei Geng came back to his senses, put away those complex feelings, and slowly responded: "Your Highness, I prefer to feed you."

The ending sound raised slightly, indescribably frivolous.

Qin Gui touched the tip of his nose, his heart came again, and again, the prince started to tease the little highness again.

Chu Ce blushed, and stared fiercely at the apprentice in the prince's coat.

Mei Geng smiled meaningfully, but his eyes lingered on the little Highness looking back and forth.

Chu Ce was born with a gentle appearance, not as dangerous and sharp as Mei Geng, but as clean and gentle as pure white gentle jade, and when he was holding a baby in his arms, he was even more gentle and gentle.

Mei Geng looked at it for a while, then looked away, and smiled silently.

——Who would have thought that this would be the vicious young emperor in the future?

"My lord." Fang Ren came back from the wind and dust outside, shook the wet clothes, and splashed a few drops of water, "I found this child's mother. Her husband joined the army and disappeared a few months ago. One of the soldiers killed by the Nanguo spy."

"Before anyone else could speak, Fang Ren took another sip, "These bastards bully other orphans and widowed mothers, why is my son reluctant to use it as a living sacrifice? It's really not a thing! "

It was almost the same as what Mei Geng had thought. He raised his jaw towards the baby Chu Ce was holding, "Give the baby back to her, what about that old woman who wants to sacrifice to the river god?"

Fang Ren's face became even more ugly, he opened and closed his mouth, and then said angrily: "It's the widow's mother-in-law, her son is away all year round, she suspects that the child is not her own grandson, and she insists on using this child when she makes a fuss about offering sacrifices to the river god. "

Mei Geng couldn't answer for a while, thinking that the old lady might be crazy, and her son died and her grandson was sacrificed alive. Fortunately, she was not from a wealthy family, otherwise she would have to follow the example of the former emperor, where the emperor died and the concubine died. You have to drag the whole harem to die together.

After pondering for a while, Mei Geng asked again: "When did the custom of living sacrifice in Zhanghe River start?"

"It's been many years." Fang Ren's face was very bad, almost gnashing his teeth, "One by one, I heard that not only the Zhang River, but also all the states and counties affected by the flood have this custom. As far as Linzhang is concerned, they The sacrifices were not just virgins. They had used young girls, or swaddling babies, and even threw young girls in as brides. The river was considered peaceful in the past two years, but this year, the weather was not good, so they repeated their old tricks. A living sacrifice to the nonexistent river god."

And the officials in Linzhang are also aware of it, they are helpless to deal with the flood, so they can only let the people save themselves with this stupid method.

Mei Geng was so troubled by these things that he had a headache, saved the child and returned it, detained a few people who incited the live sacrifice, and threw all the officials into prison to enjoy for a few days, then took his little highness back to the room to catch up on sleep .

Leaving Qin Gui and Fang Ren staring at each other, Principal Fang Du let out a long sigh, it is not easy for His Highness Xin Dao Fifth to be bullied by a bastard like King Xiping at such a young age.

Qin Gui's face was full of relief, seeing that the two were glued together, they must have a very good relationship.

So the two looked at each other, immediately like enemies meeting each other, they squinted their eyes at the same time, their eyes intertwined and sparks shot out, their eyes fighting very fiercely.

Fang Ren: Bah!Your prince is shameless!

Qin Gui: Bah!are you crazy!