last night suddenly dreamed of mountains and rivers

The sun fell on the western sand dunes, and the entire desert was dyed a fiery red by the rosy clouds.

Liu Qingyan was so sleepy that he leaned over and nearly fell off his horse, but was woken up by a fright.

"It's very dangerous, but fortunately I didn't fall into the sand." Liu Qingyan patted the horse's back, sat up straight, and stretched.

"Awake?" Lan Jiansu threw a water bag, "Water."

Liu Qingyan took it and thanked her.He raised his head and gulped down half of the sachet politely.

Lan Jiansu watched him pour the water into his mouth boldly, and half of it flowed onto the horse's back, she couldn't help but frowned: "You save some water, that's all we have left."

Liu Qingyan hurriedly closed her mouth, swallowed the last sip of water in her mouth, wiped her mouth and said, "You didn't say it earlier." Throwing the water bag back to Lan Jiansu, Liu Qingyan swayed on the horse and sang a slang song. It was a dialect that neither Lan Jiansu nor Li Xingxi could understand.I can't even tell where the dialect came from. It is like Northwest dialect and mixed with foreign accents.

Li Xingxi said: "Big brother, you haven't finished your story yet." He was anxious to hear the next story, so he interrupted Liu Qingyan's singing.

"Haven't finished yet?" Liu Qingyan pondered for a while, and said, "Oh, then let's continue talking about that boy." He didn't mention the baby, and stubbornly wanted to start with the "treasure" boy, "That boy , who escaped from Lou Sang Kingdom, his name is Lie Xu. He later became a disciple of the Ghost Saber Sect, and grew up with the Young Sect Master who was the same age as him."

"Lou Sangguo?" The three words were drawn with a marker in Lan Jiansu's mind, and he keenly captured them.

"Yes, Lou Sangguo." As soon as Liu Qingyan said these three words, Liu Qingyan's tone became a little more serious, "You are young, so you may not have heard of it."

Li Xingxi had never heard of it before, so he asked curiously: "What country is that? I've heard it mentioned before, but I don't understand it at all. I asked my father, but my father didn't want to tell me."

Lan Jiansu said: "I've heard a little bit. About 19 or 70 years ago, there was a series of plagues in Dafeng, and a total of [-] people died of illness across the country. Qin Tianjian pointed to the northwest and pointed out that this is the king of Lousang Kingdom. What the evil curse did. The current emperor raised his troops to attack Lou Sang and destroy the country."

"Evil curse? Huh." Liu Qingyan sneered, with a tone full of disbelief and disdain, "Is that what your teacher told you?"

Lan Jiansu said: "No, our teacher has always avoided talking about this period of history. This is what I see from the history books."

"That history book is just a fucking nonsense made by some half-assed person." Liu Qingyan scolded the person who wrote the history book, and said, "Let me tell you. 18 years ago, Lou Sang Kingdom was just a self-sufficient, peaceful and comfortable country. Wealthy and small country. It is true that Lousang people are praised by outsiders as born in accordance with the destiny. They are born good at summoning ghosts and gods, and can understand the will of heaven. With this kind of physique, they have to learn witches, ghosts, numerology and metaphysics. Naturally, they are more capable than ordinary people. But they never took the initiative I have never harmed anyone. It doesn't mean that they are all kind, but that every person who knows magic has to pay the price of consuming one's life if they want to kill one person.

"You said, Dafeng's 70 lives were all taken away by them? At that time, the Lousang Kingdom had a population of just over 60. If one person risked his life to be responsible for another, it would not harm this one." number."

Lan Jiansu said: "Then you mean that the plague back then had little to do with Lou Sang Kingdom?"

Liu Qingyan said: "It can't be said that there is little connection, it can only be said that it has nothing to do with it at all."

It was the first time for Lan Jiansu to hear a different voice, and he felt very novel.Thinking about it instead, the reason why it is rare to hear different voices is because few people know about this matter now, and there are not many voices.

He continued to listen to Liu Qingyan.

"The monarch of Dafeng, as the prince who grew up under his knees, you should be very clear about his temperament. He wants to invade a country, and anything can be a reason."

"He intentionally invaded, rather than defending the country?" Lan Jiansu said incredulously, "This accusation is very serious."

"If he had defended himself and defended the country, wouldn't he have achieved his goal by beheading the monarch of Lousang when he surrendered to warn others? Otherwise, he would have annexed Lousang and merged Lousang into the territory of Dafeng. The other countries can't say anything, who made Dafeng Kingdom so powerful? But he must...he must..." Liu Qingyan couldn't continue speaking, breathed out for a while, and said, "Do you know what that day was? What kind of situation?"

Li Xingxi was fascinated by what he heard, and after shaking his head, he remembered that he was walking behind Liu Qingyan, and Liu Qingyan couldn't see his shaking his head at all.

Liu Qingyan said with a flaming glow in his eyes: "That day, when iron hooves broke through the gates, thousands of people in the main city knelt down and surrendered. King Lou Sang heard that Emperor Wukang was killing all the way, and he had already given up his vow to defend the country to the death. Thoughts. He held the jade seal sword with both hands, knelt at the gate of the city, and said, "As long as the emperor is willing to protect my people, I am willing to be a minister under the emperor's boots, and a ghost under the sword of the emperor."

"Emperor Wu Kang walked up to King Lou Sang in blood-stained golden armor. He got off his horse, knocked off the jade seal in King Lou Sang's hand, took the sword, glanced back and forth at the sword, laughed loudly, and broke the sword. He Step on King Lousang's bowed back, step firmly, stare at the thousands of creatures kneeling before his eyes, and give a one-word order to the soldiers behind him—kill."

At this point, Liu Qingyan gasped twice, his voice trembling with the hand holding the rein: "Tuguo. For a whole, a whole half a year. They have been in Tuguo. More than 60 Lousang people, almost...almost half a year In the meantime, all died under the knife and iron hoof of Dafeng's army.

"The blood of Lousang people will not turn black. Now you go to the old site of Lousang, where the land, the sand, the vegetation, and the streams are all red."

Lan Jiansu seemed to be crying when he heard Liu Qingyan's voice, and he gritted his teeth when he said this.But he could only see Liu Qingyan's back, the dim back under the bright red sunset.He couldn't see Liu Qingyan's face, nor his expression.

Li Xingxi really cried when he heard it. He didn't know how much of what Liu Qingyan said was true and how much was false.Just entering the world of this story personally, it is really like seeing the bloodthirsty killings, it is really like seeing countless lives being trampled by horseshoes.

Lan Jiansu handed Li Xingxi a handkerchief and rubbed his head.Asked Liu Qingyan: "You sound like you hate him very much. Didn't you say that he is your father?"

Liu Qingyan regained his emotions very quickly, and his tone rose again, becoming unserious: "Hey, I hate my father because I want to wake him up and beat his inhuman head. Monarch, you should put benevolence first and conquer people with virtue, don’t you think so? How can I bear to see my father become a violent monarch. No matter how high his achievements are, the violence that seeps into his bones will be despised by others What's more, he used the banner of guarding the mountains and rivers to conquer Lousang and kill Lousang people, but at the same time, he coveted the beauty of King Lousang's favorite concubine and snatched her into the palace. Isn't this making people laugh even more? ? Not only is it cruel and inhumane, but it’s also deceptive."

That Yu Qingsheng used to be the favorite concubine of King Lou Sang.The emperor killed so many Lousang people, but he only surrendered to her beauty.Later, she was not only named Concubine Shunde, but also loved her beyond measure.It is indeed a standard precision score.

Lan Jiansu asked again: "Tell me, the blood of Lousang people will not turn black."

Liu Qingyan said: "Yes. This is the most accurate way to identify whether a person is from Lou Sang."

Lan Jiansu repeatedly thought about the two stories told by Liu Qingyan, repeatedly looking for mistakes or omissions in them: "Since the emperor intended to invade Lousang country, not to eradicate the plague. Want to kill all Lousang people? As you said, annexing Lousang country is better than creating so many killings. Is it just for fun, just for killing?"

"For pleasure, for killing. Our emperor really doesn't have that much free time." Liu Qingyan said, "They say that a thousand pieces of gold can't change Lou Sang's heart, do you know what this means?"

Lan Jiansu: "I don't know."

However, Lou Sang people's heart.Liu Qingyan mentioned the heart of the Lousang people, reminding him of the heart of the Shunde empress that King Zhen Xian said that night.King Zhenxian said that he and the queen killed Empress Shunde for the sake of Empress Shunde's heart.

"Your Majesty, he killed the Lousang people for the hearts of the Lousang people. Just because of a common saying...he wanted to find that heart. He was looking for a Lousang people's heart, but he couldn't find it no matter how hard he looked. But all Lousang people, except for the Lousang concubine whom he covets, he kills all the rest, cuts his heart open, and throws away one heart after another, saying no. Not this one. The hearts of Lousang people pile up It was as high as the mountain, and was eaten by wild dogs and wolves. However, until the end, the emperor didn't find that heart." Liu Qingyan's voice was like the setting sun sinking into the western sand dunes, falling heavily "In the end, the emperor just said irritably and disappointedly that he couldn't find it. But those people, the Lousang people he killed, all died in vain. The whole country died in vain."

Li Xingxi wiped away tears and asked Liu Qingyan, "What kind of heart is he looking for? Why is he looking for that heart?"

"Why? Why?" Liu Qingyan repeated his question and said, "I also want to know why, hum..."

"You..." Lan Jiansu wanted to ask "Why do you know this", but he also knew that if he asked questions like this, he still couldn't find anything in the end, so he asked, "Could it be that your real identity is that A person who fled from Lou Sang Kingdom?"

Liu Qingyan turned his head sideways, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Why, do you want to cut my flesh and see my blood?"

Lan Jiansu said nothing.They continued to move forward, and the silent air swayed between the three of them with the yellow dust raised by the horseshoes.In the end, Lan Jiansu didn't answer him, whether he wanted to cut his flesh or not, to see his blood.

Lan Jiansu thought about Liu Qingyan's words, how much of what he said was false and how much was true, and his identity.Li Xingxi was still mourning those Lousang people who died in vain, Liu Qingyan laughed at his sentimentality, and asked instead: "Aren't you afraid that what I said is all a lie to you?"

Li Xingxi shook his head and said: "Whether you really lied to me or not, so many people really died back then. They really all died..."

Liu Qingyan just smiled and let out a little laugh.Halfway through laughing, his face suddenly darkened, and he turned around on his horse: "There is an army, let's go back."

As soon as the words fell, there was already a group of Dafeng soldiers stationed in the northwest in the distance. They galloped up on their horses, holding silver whips, and shouted from a distance: "Who is it?"