After the country was demolished again

For Yansheng, no matter how long time passes, what happened that summer cannot fade from his memory. It is as bright red and scorching as the fire of hell, burning his soul non-stop, even if it is crushed by the river of time. In the next hour and a half, as long as there is a slight stimulus from the outside world, it will immediately rekindle, turning into a fire of sin that devours everything and destroys everything.

Even though the purpose of marrying a wife is not pure, but Yan Sheng really feels sorry for his beautiful and gentle wife, and Mu Lian has his own way of dealing with people and things, he never needs to worry about family affairs, and can spend more time on Honing sword skills and paying attention to affairs in the territory.

Yan Sheng always knew that his father had the ambition to inherit the country and become a great noble family. He didn't, but he didn't want to disobey his father, so he made concessions on many things. Marrying Mulian is a , Building a shrine to pray to the gods is another.

Yansheng remembers that his mother who passed away early believed in Amaterasu, and he himself had no special belief in gods like his father because he was raised by his father when he was young. When he suddenly heard his father say that he would build a shrine, he felt a little bit strangeness.

But this matter has been unanimously approved by all the retainers and civilians in the country. Everyone believes that the successive natural disasters this summer are caused by the gods to punish them. It is only natural to hold a sacrifice to ask the gods for forgiveness.

At that time, there were less than two months before Mulian gave birth. Yansheng thought that Mulian was looking forward to their child so much. It would be great if everything could return to normal before the child was born, so he also expressed his gratitude to this matter. I have been paying attention to the progress of the project all the time.

The people who built the shrine are also people who live in the territory of the successor country. As ordinary people, they hope that the natural disaster will pass quickly and the rest of the year can be spent safely. They work overtime every day without being urged by the supervisor .

On the eve of Mulian's birth, the shrine on the mountain was completed, and all the statues were carved. Yan Sheng wanted to go to the newly built shrine to see if there were any defects in the construction, but his father said that he should accompany his wife who was about to give birth. He will do it, and he will also do the preparations for the sacrifice.

Yansheng didn't think too much about it, he only thought that his father also attached great importance to his eldest son who was about to be born - this is a matter of course, the most important thing in a big family is the heir, and only the birth of a new child means that the family will have success in the future continue.

However, this matter of course is no longer the case this time.

The weather on the day Mulian gave birth was terrible. The sky was as dark as midnight when I got up early in the morning, and I couldn’t even see who was ten steps away without turning on the lights.

Yan Sheng was originally by Mulian's side, but it rained heavily in the morning, and he was worried that there would be disasters like mudslides in the territory again. Seeing that he was restless, Mulian, who was pale in pain, asked him to go to work. For her own business, she will give birth to their child safely, and when he finishes his work, he can guess who the child looks more like.

At that moment, Yansheng really guessed what his upcoming child would look like. It doesn't matter if it's a boy who looks like anyone, but if it's a girl, it's good to look like Mulian.

Yan Sheng didn't say this, but said that he would come back to Mu Lian as soon as possible.Before leaving, he left his servant here and asked him to notify him immediately when Mulian had something to do.

After that, Yansheng went to arrange to resist the torrents and mudslides. He did not rest until noon, braved the rain to inspect the situation at the foot of the mountain and near the river, arranged for the evacuation of people living nearby and rescued the supplies that were particularly scarce this year.He handles these things with ease, and he doesn't need to think about it at all. However, this proficiency is obtained in exchange for the tragic scenes of countless deaths and injuries. If there is such a possibility, he does not want such a scene to repeat itself. .

At noon, all the things that should be arranged have been arranged, and the rain has not increased further. Judging from past experience, even if there is another disaster that manpower cannot do anything about, the loss can be controlled to a minimum.

After doing everything that should be done, Yan Sheng was persuaded by his subordinates to go back and take a rest. It was necessary to recharge his batteries so that he would have enough energy to deal with the situation when the situation worsened, and he was indeed a little worried about Mulian.

He has been out for a long time, wondering if she is safe and sound at this moment?Was their child born safely?But since he didn't hear from the servant, it means he should be fine, right?

With a little bit of worry, Yan Sheng returned home. He saw the servant hurrying out outside the gate, and his heart sank immediately.

"What? Is there something wrong with Madam?"

When the servant saw Yan Sheng, he immediately came up to him as if he had seen a savior, and answered his question: "No, Mrs. Mulian is fine. She gave birth to a healthy boy for Mr. Yan Sheng. Worry."

Hearing that the mother and son were both An Yansheng, he was relieved, but immediately he felt that something was wrong, if it was such a happy event that the country had a next generation of heirs, the expression on the servant's face when he came out should not be the anxiety he saw just now.

"What else happened?"

"I don't know..." the servant replied, with an anxious and confused expression on his face, "The lord sent a servant, saying that the lord wanted to see the young master and take the young master away, but how could a newborn child be here? What about being carried outside in the weather? I tried to persuade the servant sent by the lord, but he agreed, so I could only follow behind, but that person did not take the young master to the bedroom or study of the lord, but through the back door Go out and ride up the mountain!"

Yan Sheng was taken aback when he heard this, what did his father send someone to take his child up the mountain?In today's weather, if the child gets sick, it will definitely kill someone, right?

This incident was so strange that Yansheng really couldn't understand his father's behavior, but now was not the time to worry about it, he asked his servants about the whereabouts of that person, then ran to the stable, led the horse out and chased him up the mountain.

It was still raining and the road up the mountain was very difficult. Seeing that the speed was really not fast, Yansheng abandoned the horse and ran at full speed. When he stood at the end of the road soaked all over, he was shocked to find that it was his horse. Father's new shrine.

The plaque of the Demon God Hall is hung on the gate of the hexagonal pointed ancestral hall. Looking inside from the open gate, you can see twelve stone statues that are half hidden and half visible under the dim candlelight, but the stone statues are really different from the gods. Standing beside each other, each of them looked fierce and fierce, and they were indeed worthy of the word "devil god" on the plaque.

In the ancestral hall, Yansheng saw his father and two old retainers of the family together. They seemed to be holding some ceremony and knelt before the confession to pray. On the empty confession, he saw Baby crying hoarse from cold discomfort.

"Father, what are you doing?!"

Yansheng rushed to the confession and picked up the crying baby. The three of them were unable to stop him because they were kneeling on the ground. However, he could come in but couldn't get out. The father and retainers stood up after recovering. The three of them blocked the way to the outside of the ancestral hall together.

"Yansheng, put that child down and leave here immediately." The old patriarch ordered in a deep voice, his face was serious and gloomy, it didn't look like he was talking to his son and grandson at all, but he seemed to be talking to someone who violated his will. reprimand from subordinates.

Yan Sheng did not obey. This was the second time in his life that he disobeyed his biological father's order. The first time was to sneak away to play with his younger brother who was driven to live in a three-story room like a small warehouse. The second time is now.

"Father, please forgive me for not agreeing." He rebuffed firmly, and asked again, "What are you doing?"

The stern-faced middle-aged man stared at his son, obviously displeased with his current behavior, but finally opened his mouth to explain why they were here.

From his biological father, Yansheng heard a lot of unimaginable things. The successive natural disasters in the country this year were indeed punished by gods. When he was busy dealing with disaster-related matters, his father invited many priests and onmyojis to see him. , But in the end they had nothing to do, because no matter how they prayed and divined, no one knew why the gods condemned this land.

Without knowing the reason, it would be futile to hold more sacrifices, so the old Patriarch made a cruel decision-he came to the deserted Demon God Hall on the mountain behind the country to ask for help from the Demon God enshrined here, and the price was Following the country's soon-to-be-born heir.

Although Yansheng knew that there was this Demon God Hall on the mountain behind the country, but because it had been abandoned for a long time, he had only heard about the Twelve Demon Gods enshrined, but now from his father's mouth Then, he learned that these twelve demon gods were not the gods who originally lived in this land, but were brought by their successor countries!

Yes, these Twelve Demon Gods were invited by Yansheng’s grandfather when the city was built. The grandfather Yansheng had never met was a man with great ambitions like his father, and he used the power of the Twelve Demon Gods to fight all the way. Invincible, established the city of today's successor country.

Iwakatsu's father had no siblings, precisely because his grandfather had enshrined the unborn baby to the demon god, and his father is now merely imitating this act.

After listening to this, Yan Sheng only felt that it was ridiculous. He looked at his biological father in disbelief, and it took a long time to find his own voice, and the first sentence he uttered was a questioning question: "They ... want my child as a sacrifice? And you are planning to do that?!"

"Yansheng, this is for inheriting the country." The man replied, "Didn't you feel the power of divine punishment in the past few months? Don't be willful, you and Mulian are still young, and there will always be children."

"Willful?" Yan Sheng repeated the word, seeing the faces of his father and the old retainers one by one, and really laughed for a while.

He didn't feel that he was being willful, trading his son for the prosperity of this land...he would never agree!

"In any case, I can't agree." Yan Sheng said, "I will find another way to solve the issue of God's punishment. When the rain passes, I will immediately set off to Kyoto to invite people from the family of priests. No matter what the cost is, I will We will also find out the root of God’s punishment to save this land, instead of exchanging the life of a newborn baby for false peace for something inexplicable!"

After speaking, he walked out of the ancestral hall, and even held his breath nervously when passing by his father and old retainers, but no one tried to stop him until he reached the gate of the ancestral hall.

Yan Sheng didn't know whether his father had given up or planned to hold this absurd sacrifice again at another opportunity, but he only knew that he would never give in on this matter. Before he stepped out of the gate, he opened his coat and cried The hoarse baby was put into his arms, and he planned to run down the mountain just like that.

The rain outside did not decrease in the slightest, but Yan Sheng didn't dare to wait. He couldn't deal with his father with this fragile baby, and he was carried up the mountain in the rain just after he was born. This baby also needs to see a doctor immediately. Come to see a doctor.

The moment he stepped out of the ancestral hall, Yansheng inevitably felt relaxed. At that moment, he even thought that if his father did not intend to change his mind after returning, then he would buy another house and bring Mulian and the child with him. Live together.

However, Yansheng failed to take his child away from the claws of the demon god. He had just left the ancestral hall when he heard a man's high-pitched shout behind him.

"Devil Gods! Come and take away your sacrifices! The eldest son of this generation of the successor country is at your disposal, and you must keep my successor country's territory safe and prosperous!"

Yan Sheng paused in shock, but he didn't even have time to feel even the slightest pain for his biological father's unfeeling. The purple lightning that fell from the sky hit him, and he lost consciousness for a short time. When he could see the blurred shadow again, he His father has come to him.

"Throw it into the river down the mountain."

He heard the man's order, and when the old retainer came up and tried to take the child away from his arms, he raised his arm with all his strength and grabbed the other's wrist.

Yan Sheng didn't realize what happened yet, but he was in a stalemate with the opponent with his will. After a while he recovered a little, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

He could no longer hear the baby's cries, nor feel the soft touch of his body's involuntary movements.At that moment a huge panic enveloped his heart, Yan Sheng slowly lowered his head, but everything in front of him made him completely devoid of resistance.

The baby who was alive and crying in his arms just a moment ago now seems to be a corpse that has just been dug out of the grave. His limbs are gone, his body has become a limp ball, and only There were two pitch-black holes, the place where the nose should have been raised was flat, and even his skin was gone, the blood-oozing flesh was exposed to the rain, and a large area of ​​light red was stained on his white underwear Mark of.

Yan Sheng looked blankly at the baby in his arms who didn't know whether it was dead or still alive, and for a moment he didn't know what he should do, or what else he could do.

His son was eaten by the demon god, and the wreckage was in his arms. He...as a father, he couldn't protect his life even though the child was in his arms. There was nothing he could do except watch him being eaten away by the demon god. anything!

When he was in a trance, Yan Sheng lightly touched the baby's cheek with his fingers. The baby who had been eaten away to the point where only one head was still barely intact looked horrifying, but he didn't feel sick or scared at all. I don't even know who to blame.

However, when he touched the baby's cheek, Yan Sheng suddenly felt a strange and weak agitation. There was a weak air flow flowing in and out from the hollow of the baby's nose. The rhythm of one in and one out seemed to be People are breathing.

"... still alive?"

Yan Sheng couldn't believe that a weak baby could still be alive after becoming like this, but this tiny breathing was not deceiving. At that moment, he regained the reason for moving his body that had lost power. That is to go home immediately and find someone to treat the child!

However, it wasn't until Yan Sheng wanted to stand up that his body became numb and stiff. He didn't realize until then that the damage caused by the lightning from the demon god was far greater than his own. imagine.

He couldn't move, and it was incredible to be able to raise his hand just now to stop the retainers from snatching the child.

"Father... please save him..." Yan Sheng raised his head and called out to his father who was close at hand. He had no choice but to hope that his biological father would see this poor child for his sake Give him a chance.

But the man who was able to send his newborn grandson to the altar did not feel pity for his son. Seeing that Yansheng was moving, he had to take him home for treatment, but he urged impatiently: "Take that monster quickly!" Throw it into the river!"

This sentence not only sentenced the baby who was still struggling to live to death, but also completely shattered Yan Sheng's hope. He knew that all the peace and joy in his past would be gone from now on. The son was swallowed by the demon god and taken away and thrown into the river. How could such a young child survive? !

The most frightening thing is that all of this is happening before his eyes, and he is completely powerless to stop it. Even if the dark clouds in the sky above his head clear away and the rainstorm stops, and the clear sun shines on the earth, bringing vigorous vitality to all things, they can no longer be dispelled. There was a heavy cloud in his mind.

Yansheng lay on the ground for a long time. His father left when the weather cleared up. Before he left, he asked him to reflect on his behavior here. His words were actually harsh on him for letting people in the territory Suffering from natural disasters is also unwilling to make a small sacrifice.

But can this sacrifice really be called a "little sacrifice"?

……

Perhaps it is true for those who benefit from it.

Yan Sheng has been lying on the open space in front of the Demon God Hall, with the bright sunlight in front of his eyes, but the cold and heartless words of his biological father kept echoing in his mind, or the terrifying and heart-wrenching appearance of the child who was eaten away, and finally Those chaotic pictures are silent to the depths of the soul, leaving only the numbness of being helpless to the power of the gods and having to succumb to fate.

In the end, Yansheng's servant found him, took the horse he had left on the road, and helped Yansheng, who was still numb all over, onto the horse, and then led the horse back to Jiguo slowly, and dried his hair for him. Put on clean clothes.

During this time, a doctor came and confirmed that Yansheng was fine, but he had symptoms of typhoid fever after being exposed to the rain, and he needed to pay attention to rest in the past few days.Before the doctor left, Yan Sheng who had been silent all this time suddenly asked, "How is Madam?"

"Madam is exhausted and still resting."

Yan Sheng closed his eyes and asked the servant to send the doctor away. When there was no one else in the room, he laughed uncontrollably. The voice was ironic and crazy. He thought that Mu Lian was looking forward to that child so much, but she hadn't even seen it. What does he look like!

But that's fine, let's just pretend that the child died of a cold, it's better than letting his gentle and pure wife like Bailian know that their son was swallowed by the demon god.The last appearance of that child... It is enough that he alone has seen it.

Not long after, a servant came to report that his wife had woken up. Yan Sheng was silent for a moment and got up to visit Mu Lian, although his father would definitely have his own excuses, and would make the child who didn't even have a name be punished like all children who died young. The living forget it, but he can't do it. The successor country exchanged his son's life for this prosperity, so everyone should remember his son!

In the extremely calm house, as if everything was going on as usual, Mu Lian had just woken up. She drank water under the service of a lady, and was about to ask where her child was, but saw Yan Sheng walking in from the door like a ghost, waving Drive away all the servants in the house.

Yan Sheng could guess that his appearance must be very bad, because Mu Lian showed a worried look, and asked him softly: "Yan Sheng, what happened?"

It stands to reason that Mulian shouldn't call him that. Generally speaking, as a wife, she should be called Mr. Yansheng or at least Mr. Yansheng. Call him by his name, but he likes to hear Mulian call him that. When the woman's gentle and clear voice calls his name, instead of feeling disrespected, he will be moved by the lingering attachment in her smiling voice. happy life.

But at this moment, Mulian's weak and even hoarse voice was more suffocating to Yan Sheng than angry questioning.

Because he is powerless in the face of the gods, he cannot protect his and his favorite wife's children.

"That child...he suddenly fell ill..." Yan Sheng forced himself to tell a huge lie. He couldn't look directly into Mulian's eyes. Looking at her shoulders was already the limit, so he couldn't see Mu Lian's expression showed that the woman's slender body trembled suddenly, and her originally steady breathing also stopped abruptly in an instant.

He knew that Mulian was waiting for his next sentence, but he couldn't say it.

Yansheng tried a few times, but finally gave up, lowered his head and closed his eyes, and confided to his wife who knew nothing about the truth his truest feelings, which outsiders could not understand anyway: "I... Save him... Mulian... I failed to save our child..."

After these words, the whole room fell into a deathly silence. Yansheng waited and waited, but what finally waited was a soft and petite palm that covered him tightly clenched into a fist. He raised his eyes, Seeing that Mu Lian was clearly about to cry, her eyes were flushed, and her obsidian eyes were covered by water mist, but she still forced herself to show a smile to try to comfort him.

"That's because we have no fate with that child, so the gods took him back."

He heard Mulian say that.

"Yansheng, don't blame yourself for this. Even if you blame it, you should blame me. It was I who failed to give that child a healthy body, which made him go to the next world before he had time to take a look at this world."

no!That baby is so healthy and cute!There could never have been a boy in the world as strong and strong as he!If...if it weren't for those inexplicable gods...

Yansheng's thoughts ended in a gentle hug, and it was Mulian who struggled to sit up, using the hug to comfort him, the useless waste.

But he's not worth it.

Taking a deep breath, Yansheng raised his hands to hug his wife in his arms.

The next day, Yan Sheng ordered to write the child who was born and died only a few hours apart on the genealogy. Everyone was puzzled by his behavior. In the concept of ordinary people, the child taken back by the gods does not belong to the parents. Naturally, it cannot be recorded in the genealogy, but without objection from the old Patriarch, this matter was settled like this.

Only three or five people in the entire land of the successor country know what Yansheng really means: he is saying that no matter how many children he will have after him, the child who was swallowed by the demon god is his eldest son, and all descendants of the successor country will have Remember him even if he doesn't even have a name, because this is what everyone who has enjoyed the favor of this child should do!

That disastrous summer came to an end when the rains cleared and everything was back on track, and the country was bustling with activity once again, people replanted and cultivated after rebuilding their homes, and there was even a good harvest that year , all families can eat and clothe themselves warmly.

Everything is as usual, but only one person knows that this is just an illusion. When everyone is enjoying a happy life, the vibrant life of the young ruler of this land has lost its bright color.

Day after day, year after year, Yan Sheng barely noticed the passage of time. There seemed to be an invisible barrier between him and the outside world. He no longer had expectations for this land, and no longer held responsibilities for it. , he gradually distanced himself from his wife even after she finally came out of the grief of losing her son.

There is nothing worthy of his nostalgia on this land, and the reason why he still stays here is that he has no other place to go, but what he didn't expect is that he was framed to death by the irresistible power of the gods The peaceful life will be broken one day!

When he was attacked by inhuman things while camping, all his subordinates died in battle to protect him, and he tried his best but couldn't hurt the monster at all, and even wanted to succumb to the sad and powerless fate of human beings. To the daylight that falls from the sky at midnight.

Yan Sheng saw his younger brother, his younger brother with the talent favored by God, holding a red long knife in his hand, wrapped around the knife with a dazzling brilliance like the summer sun, and easily cut him and so many monsters who were helpless reduced to ashes.

Yan Sheng felt that his eyes should have been burned by the golden red fire, otherwise it would not be so painful, but he was unwilling to close his eyes even for a moment, and just stared at the other face that was exactly the same as him in front of him. The heart was beating wildly like a drum.

He recalled the unimaginable sword skills he had seen ten years ago, and recalled the envy of Yuanyi's power beyond ordinary people's imagination at that time. In his heart, the fangs pierced tightly, injecting the poison little by little.

Why did he not have the ability to be favored by God?Why doesn't God give this power to those who really need it?Why is there a world of difference between him and Yuanyi's compatriots in terms of talent?Why can Yuanyi be so strong that he can cut off inhuman things with a single knife, but he can't do anything except bend his knees and crawl on the ground under the pressure of fate, watching his son being eaten by the demon god? !

Yuanyi can do all the things he can't do, this person who is favored by God... how powerful, how dazzling, how enviable!

He wanted this power, no matter what.Not only to avenge the original owner of the stumped limbs and arms scattered around him at this moment, but also to declare war on the gods who took his life away one day!

It was a path destined to ruin, and whether or not he succeeded in the end, he was left with nothing, but after seeing the brilliance of this midnight sun, he couldn't help it.

The next day, Yan Sheng, who was swallowed up by unspeakable pain and hatred, made a decision incomprehensible to everyone. He left the successor country, leaving wealth, power, status, wife, children and family behind him, except for his usual The samurai丨 took almost nothing away from the sword.

No one can understand his behavior, including Mulian. Even if she gathers all the information and makes the most reasonable guess, it still runs counter to the truth.

Mu Lian didn't read all of Yan Sheng's memories. There is a disadvantage of using the illusion of Sharingan to directly invade the spirit of others, that is, she will be easily affected by the emotions of the other party. She was so shocked by the diametrically opposite situation that she guessed, so that she fell into the crazy emotions that Yan Sheng never revealed, and her own grief and anger, which was already difficult to restrain, became completely uncontrollable.

She was immersed in a grief that was not too different from her anger and pain, until she was called back to reality by the force on her wrist.

"Brother and sister-in-law, please calm down, no matter what elder brother does, you are still husband and wife, you shouldn't do this." Yuanyi, who returned at some time, grabbed Mu Lian's wrist, pressing her thumb and index finger on her wrist meridians up, so that her hands cannot use strength.

For a moment, Mulian didn't realize what Yuanyi was talking about, but when she looked along her arm, she saw the painful face of Yan Sheng who was pinched by her throat and was on the verge of suffocation——the strength of her unintentional strike Almost strangled this man to death!

But Yansheng is the last person in the world who should not bear her anger.

"Jiguo Yansheng, you are such a bastard!" Mu Lian cursed fiercely. She couldn't use her hands, so she used her feet to kick forward fiercely. Yan Sheng, who had just escaped the crisis of suffocation, couldn't Dodging the kick, she was kicked directly to the side by her terrifying force, and even the shoji door he hit fell down.

Ji Guoyuanyi also had nothing to say. He thought about whether to take Mulian away forcibly first, but was surprised to find that the woman who had just beaten her husband was crying silently.

The author says:

Enter v!

Thank you for your continued support!I will continue to work hard to finish this troubled article!

This update finally finished the story of the year, and I have been thinking about how to arrange this plot so that it will be more reasonable and not too ooc_(:з」∠)_If you really write it out, you will find out and let it go. 】

Of course, the house should be demolished in the future. After all, abandoning a wife and children is another matter.