Born of Worry

Li Xian supported his head with his hands, and quietly dozed off.

The light of the candle on the table dimmed for no reason, and then came back on again. He didn't open his eyes, but said, "You're back."

"How does His Majesty know it's me?"

"Except for you..." Li Xian put his hand on his chin and looked at him with a smile, "Who else? I am a member of the Xuanjia Army, whose skills are so bad that I am shocked, can you find a second one? "

The man fell silent.

"Luo Chen, this is not your temperament. You are usually not too talkative, and your temper is not too good. If I say that about you, why don't you say a word?"

"have nothing to say."

Li Xian smiled, "Oh...it looks like Shen Xin, but he has really tempered you."

"Your Majesty, from now on... please call me Suzaku."

"Suzaku?... That's a good code name. Well, from now on, I'll call you Suzaku. Suzaku, you...don't go to see your brocade? He doesn't seem to be doing well right now."

Suzaku was stunned, and immediately turned around to leave the tent, but when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he saw someone nestled in the corner, and immediately recognized this person as Jin Shang, and rushed to his side: "Jin Shang?! Jin Shang! What's wrong with you?" ?!"

Jin Shang didn't say a word, his eyes were closed, his brows were furrowed, his face was pale, as if he was suffering from some kind of illness.

Suzaku pressed his finger on his pulse, and when he probed it, he was shocked, "Jin Shang! Has your cold poison flared up again?! Wake up! Speak up!"

"Cold poison?"

Li Xian came over, "What is that?"

Suzaku ignored him, but searched on Jinshang, but found nothing after searching for a long time, "Where's your Fire Lotus Pill?! Jinshang, where's the Fire Lotus Pill!"

"Luochen..." Jin Shang opened his eyes, but his eyes were still blurred, "You...don't look for it."

"Where did you hide the Fire Lotus Pill?!"

The movement on their side has already alarmed the people outside, Lin Ruxuan entered the tent, "Your Majesty, what happened?"

"Lin Ruxuan?" Suzaku looked at him, "You... how did you recover so quickly? Could it be... Could it be that you took the Fire Lotus Pill? Did you take the Fire Lotus Pill?!"

He grabbed Lin Ruxuan by the collar and said angrily, "Say! Did you eat the Fire Lotus Pill?"

"Luo Chen!"

Jin Shang struggled to get up and tried to pull him away, "Don't do this! The Fire Lotus Pill was given to him on my own initiative, so it has nothing to do with him! Besides, that thing is no longer beneficial to me!"

"Shut up!" He pushed Jin Shang away in a rage, Jin Shang let out a muffled grunt and fell to the ground.

"Suzaku," Li Xian said suddenly, and said coldly, "I advise you, if you can't calm down, get out of my Xuanjia army as soon as possible!"

"you!"

Suzaku let go of Lin Ruxuan, took a deep breath, forced himself to calm down, and said, "Okay. Then tell me, without the Fire Lotus Pill, what should we do now?"

Lin Ruxuan knelt down, took Jin Shang's pulse, frowned and said, "How did this happen? I heard you shout 'cold poison' just now? What exactly is that?"

"That's... it's the poison that Jin Shang has been in his body since the day he broke his shell after Nirvana."

It turns out that although Jinshang is a divine bird of the phoenix, he has been suffering from the cold poison in his body all the time. After Nirvana, he has forgotten everything about the past. Naturally, he does not know how the cold poison exists in his blood, and even resisted the fire of Nirvana. of burning.Whenever the mana is consumed excessively and the homeostasis cannot be maintained, toxicity will occur.When the poison occurs, the whole body is covered with ice, and the blood is congealed, which can be described as extremely painful.

After listening to him, Li Xian sighed softly: "There is such a thing... This phoenix is ​​also called a fire bird. It can be described as a hot and sunny thing. What kind of poison can he resist... Then, Is there a way to temporarily slow down this poison?"

"No." Suzaku shook his head with a gloomy expression, "Every time he gritted his teeth and stood up, and he could pass it after a night and a half. Last time we found the fire lotus, we thought it would be able to dissolve the poison, but we didn't expect it to be cured." A few months, or...we kept those fire lotus seeds and smelted them into fire lotus pills, I thought he was preparing for a rainy day, but who would have imagined, he actually gave...to General Lin."

Li Xian had already roughly understood why Jin Shang was poisoned, so he didn't ask about the Fire Lotus Pill, and said to himself: "What should I do? The military doctor is definitely helpless, or should I call Shen Xin? She is very knowledgeable." Guang...but it must be a few days before she rushes over, I'm afraid she has already missed the job."

"Your Majesty, let me try."

Lin Ruxuan took the initiative to invite Ying, and helped Jin Shang, who was almost unconscious, to sit up, while he crossed his knees behind him, channeled his internal energy into his hands, and pressed his palms against his back.After a while, he suddenly withdrew his hand again, concentrated his internal energy on his fingertips, and suddenly tapped several acupuncture points on his body, until he touched the last point, Jin Shang let out a muffled groan, and spurted out a mouthful of blood.

His body fell to one side, Lin Ruxuan helped him, but saw that the blood sprayed on the ground quickly congealed, and a layer of frost formed.

"...so vicious and poisonous!"

"how is he?"

Lin Ruxuan took Jinshang's pulse again, waited for a moment, looked heavy, and shook his head.

Suzaku was slightly disappointed, knelt down beside Jinshang, took him into his arms, and leaned on his lap, "Don't waste your efforts, it's useless, if it really worked, it wouldn't have dragged on all these years."

"But he..."

"You all go back to rest, I really trouble you. Jin Shang...should be able to survive, and the poison will subside a little during the day."

Lin Ruxuan looked at Li Xian, and Li Xian also looked at him and nodded at him, and said, "Where is my third brother? Why don't you see him?"

"He was drunk and fell asleep. Then... I will take my leave first. Please call me if your Majesty needs anything."

"Ah."

He actually... made this phoenix like this.If I had known this earlier... I had known this earlier, but I still had to do it.

Feeling guilty, I simply brought my quilt to Suzaku, "Don't go back tonight, just sleep here."

Suzaku looked up in surprise, "Your Majesty, what about you? Where do you sleep?"

"I... I'll make do with the table overnight."

"No, this won't work! You are the emperor, how can you be wronged to sleep on the table!" He put the quilt back to its original place, "You just sleep on yours, I will share the bed with him."

"This... is also good."

Li Xian finally fell asleep, but he couldn't sleep well.

Jing had some weird dreams. For a while, he dreamed that Mo Wen was trapped on the bottom of the sea, and for a while, he dreamed that he was riding the phoenix, but fell into the sea. The phoenix sent him to the surface of the sea, and he sank. Deeper into ice.He was floating on the sea, half of the setting sun in the sky was in the water, reflecting the sky full of red clouds, which was actually the color of blood.From the end of the setting sun, countless corpses of horses and horses floated in, piled with bones.

A person walked all the way from the corpse, drenched in blood, dragging a spear in the water in his hand, and there were gurgles of blood flowing out of the water surface scratched by the spear point.The man got closer and closer, holding a human head in his left hand, and the human head suddenly turned to him, it turned out to be... Li Ye's appearance.

—He finally woke up from his dream.

He pressed his beating heart and gasped for breath, finally recovering from the oppressive suffocation.

Wipe the cold sweat off his forehead.

Li Xian...why are you so timid.

Feeling dizzy, he got up anyway, the candles on the table had already been burned out, it must be dawn soon, so he simply stopped sleeping and walked slowly outside the tent.

The moon had already set in the west, and there was still some afterglow. The sky was still deserted, not as warm as the sun.Xingzi also gradually lost its brilliance, and couldn't see clearly.

This war... When will it end?

He wants to lose the least amount of people and get the most victory, so...is it really impossible?

Maybe he... is really not suitable to be an emperor.

——After all, I can't practice that ruthless heart.

He promised Mo Wen that he would no longer be indecisive, but in the end, he still couldn't bear to let so many soldiers die. With an army of 30, it's not that he doesn't have Dayin, it's just that...

Can't bear to take it out.

The emperor's life is life, so the life of ordinary people, soldiers and soldiers, is it not life?He, Li Xian, couldn't bear to want the victory piled up with corpses, wouldn't want it, and couldn't afford it.

If I can be sacrificed alone, in exchange for peace on this border... that's fine.

I just don't know if there will be such a chance.

Dongfang vomits white.

He yawned and returned the tent, but almost bumped into Suzaku who came out.

"Your Majesty, why did you... get up so early?"

"Wake up, can't sleep. How is Jin Shang?"

Suzaku was depressed, "It's better, but it's still quite cold."

Li Xian nodded, did not answer his words, but sat down by the desk.

Habitually, he picked up the teapot and added a cup of tea for himself, but he was startled when he saw the curling heat. It was just dawn, and the soldiers in the barracks hadn't woken up yet, so naturally no one would make hot tea for him.As for Luo Chen, it's even more impossible. Although he has been honed in the Xuanjia Army for several months, he still has the temperament of a rich young master in his bones, asking him to serve others...

He smiled, sipped his tea, and said, "When will you take care of others?"

Secretly, the man didn't answer him, and he didn't even show himself.Li Xian spread out the pen and paper, glanced at the ink that had been grinded, and wrote:

Thank you.

Thank you...

He put the pen on the black dragon's back and looked at these two words for a long time.

What would I do if I was a thank you?Will I choose a prince who has no influence or ability to be the lord?meeting.Because the more such a person is, the easier it is to reuse himself.

He wrote down the words "Dhu Lv Gu" on the paper.

Judging from the current information, Hu Lugu's elder brothers were all framed by Xie Yan's design, and either died or lost power.To be able to complete these in three years, it can be seen that this thank you is by no means an ordinary person.

... Cao Han, it seems, was also instigated by Xie Yan.

Add the word "Cao Han" again.

The three names fell on the paper, forming a tripod.

If these three people really join forces, Hu Lugu can be said to have a right hand, a counselor Xie Yan, a warrior Cao Han, and Ta Han's tens of thousands of elite cavalry, which can be called a fierce tiger. It really bites, Dayin It must hurt three points.

But now... Cao Han is dead.

——He drew a cross on the word "Cao Han".

Once one corner of this triangle is missing, the rest... can no longer be stable.

If I were Xie Yan, I would definitely not let Cao Han die.

So why... Cao Han is still dead?Of course it wasn't because of his arrow, he just added a handful of firewood to the fire.The real reason was that someone wanted him dead.

If the king wants the minister to die, the minister has to die.

Cao Han is not someone who is greedy for life and afraid of death, he has the guts to betray Dayin, how could he not have the guts to go into battle and kill the enemy?He just didn't want to die so early and was forcibly pushed onto the stage, but he didn't want to be that jumping clown, so he sat in the rear, trying to save his life.

However... since you, Hu Lugu, are making my wedding dress for Dayin with your own hands, how can I refuse...

Xie Yan must have already vomited three liters of blood.

In the end, Cao Han was still a Han, and being a Han was enough to make Hu Lugu three-point wary, but he knew too much, and knew everything about Yanmen Gate. This thing that saved his life ended up killing him.

Hu Lugu is really a brainless prince, otherwise, he wouldn't have been oppressed so badly.

Li Xian smiled lightly.

Cao Han is a Han, and so is Xie Yan. Since Hu Lu is so determined to kill Cao Han, then he is not afraid of him... not daring to touch Xie Yan.

He made another fork on the line between Hu Lugu and Xie Yan.

Sometimes...the straw is all it takes to bend the camel's back.

—But now is not the time to think about it.

He balled up the paper and put it on the fire.

His eyeliner at Yanmenguan was removed once before, and although it was added later, it was all ambushed in Cao Han's 1-man army.Because he couldn't speak the language with Tahan, he couldn't take the risk of being buried under Hu Lugu's men. After all, there were too few people in the Xuanjia Army, and every death would be a great loss.

But now that Cao Han is dead, the army of 1 people may fall apart. Even if they do not rebel, they will be incorporated into Hulugu's army. It's hard to even protect yourself.

— so he withdrew most of his eyeliner.

But in this way, the information over there...

Shaking his head slightly.

Now, what he needs most...is a foolproof eyeliner.

In this world, there is probably only one person who can take on this important task.

Li Xian closed his eyes, clenched his fists with both hands, then let go, and exhaled slowly.

Pick up a pen and drop it, petty lower case, black and white.

"Go and give this to Shen Xin."

"Yes." The figure appeared in the dark, with an exquisite figure, but his pretty face was covered by a silver mask.

Li Xian was stunned for a while, then saw Suzaku coming back from the outside, and said: "Go and see if General Wei is up, if he is up, tell him to come see me quickly."