General's Gown

The way of life for the dead, the source of death for the living.

A little carelessness, is hell.

"afraid?"

Helian Rongchuan put Yan Changqing on the ice bed, and gently arranged his clothes and long hair.

"I have experienced the most terrible thing in this world, now, what else can I fear?"

Helian Rongchuan stared at Yan Changqing's ice-like face and smiled brightly.

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Yan, Sheng'an City.

The sun is coming to an end.

Thousands of jackdaws swirled low, their sharp cries echoing over the deathly silent city.The murderous aura of the rebels, mixed with bloody flames for several days in a row, almost completely destroyed this peaceful and prosperous capital.Outside the city gate, there were thousands of bloody and mutilated corpses of soldiers that were too late to be burned and buried.Large swathes of blood seeped into the ground and froze into dirty dark red ice.And the city is full of starvation and death, a scene of tragedy.

After the death of Yan Changqing, the Yunhui general who was holding a heavy army and whose voice shook the nations, there was an uproar in the court.The tens of thousands of Xuanjia troops known as the "Great Wall of Steel" of the Yan Kingdom suddenly lost their core commander, and heard the inside story of his death. All the soldiers broke down their halberds in tears and broke their swords angrily. His vigor turned into loose sand.

On the other hand, however, the death of Yan Changqing made the rebellious Pang Taishi and his followers overjoyed. The long-planned coup was finally launched. The army marched into Shengjing in a mighty manner, trying to usurp power.The rebels and the Sheng'an Forbidden Army fought outside the city for several days. The stalemate was hard to tell. The rebels simply besieged Sheng'an City, cut off water sources, food and grass, and blew up bridges to block reinforcements, trying to turn Sheng'an into a city. A dead city took the opportunity to capture again.

This circumference is a full 39 days.

The bitter cold wind carried the stench of rotting corpses as it passed through the gray and ruined city roads.A few tattered paper money fluttered in the air like gray butterflies. The wind blew them higher and higher, but finally they spun and slowly landed on the tall city tower.

Murong Xiu, who was dressed in thin plain clothes, stretched out his hand, and gently caught a falling paper money.

"Can the ever-burning lanterns and tributes in General Yan's mausoleum be delivered on time today?"

"If you want to return to the emperor, the slave has already sent someone to make arrangements." The chief eunuch Liu Quan respectfully replied.

Liu Quan has stayed in the palace for a long time, and he has already learned not to blush or heartbeat when telling lies.Right now, the city of Sheng'an is almost out of ammunition and food, starvation is everywhere, and changing children to eat happens from time to time.At this time, besides the naive little emperor, who else has the heart to deal with a dead person?

Anyway, the little emperor was determined to share the troubles with the people in the city, and he had no face to face General Yan's spiritual position, so he entrusted him with full responsibility for the funeral.Now that he has this little oil and water, it is justified to fill his stomach desperately.Thinking of this, Liu Quan felt that the follow-up payment for the funeral that he ignorantly paid was justified.

Murong Xiu remained silent, just lowered his head and lightly stroked the paper money in his hand, his clothes fluttered in the cold wind like ripping silk, but he was clearly spotless, but he exuded a pitiful and decadent aura, like a ghost.

Already, No.30 is nine days old.

And he has been gone for 42 days.

Murong Xiu sighed softly, and looked down at the entire Sheng'an City from the tower.

"Accompany me to the city to see."

The streets were covered with thick snow, and because no one cleaned them, they were muddy.There were very few pedestrians on the road, all of them had swollen faces, staggered, and struggled to move.Every time you walk down a street, you can always see a few stiff, starved corpses, each with pale eyes, which makes people shudder.

Murong Xiu didn't need a chariot, he only brought Liu Quan, two qilin guards, and several ministers to walk silently on the street.The further he walked, the deeper his frown became.

Turning across a long alley, the sound of beatings and screams gradually came from not far away.

The two qilin guards immediately protected each other, but Murong Xiu shook his head: "Go and see."

In an open space in front of the Yamen of Sheng'an Mansion, dozens of disgraced, sallow and emaciated civilians were fighting each other.Qilin Guard stepped forward and scolded, but none of these people listened, they were still fighting each other for something.Murong Xiu took a closer look, and saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy in the center of the beating crowd, he was holding a large withered brown thing tightly with both hands, with his head buried in his chest, kneeling on the ground, With a huddled posture, it resisted the raindrops of other hungry people's fists.

What is in his arms?Murong Xiu couldn't help frowning.

"It's the opposite of what you think!" Seeing that the scolding was ineffective, Qilin Wei drew out his long knife.This time, the fighting crowd finally stopped their fists.

The bruised boy staggered a few steps and rolled to the ground.Seeing that no one was vying with him anymore, he laughed loudly and said, "I'm going to be a full-fledged ghost!" As he spoke, he hurriedly took out the piece that he had been protecting in his arms, regardless of the blood all over his body. He didn't wipe the withered brown thing, but buried his head and gnawed mouthful after mouthful, his expression was like eating a delicacy.

Murong Xiu's heart couldn't help trembling.He finally saw clearly that what the boy was holding was a piece of tree bark.

What these dozen or so people desperately snatched was a piece of tree bark!

The boy seemed to be extremely hungry. Although the bark was tough and hard and covered with soil, he was afraid that someone would snatch it again, so he couldn't wait to gobble it up. After chewing a few times, his neck was stuck. Swallowing it forcibly, blushing several times and almost choking.After eating a few mouthfuls, the young man raised his head, and looked at Murong Xiu proudly and arrogantly with a pair of blood red eyes:

"Why, this official also wants to eat?"

"Bold and unruly, how can you be presumptuous in front of the emperor!" Qi Linwei stepped forward and yelled violently.

The boy froze for a moment, with a look of shock on his face.

Son of Heaven?

As if a stone broke the sky, Qi Linwei's words shocked all the hungry people around him.

emperor? !

He is the emperor!

The emperor will come here? !

The starving people stared at Murong Xiu in shock.Although he was dressed in plain clothes, his identity was immediately confirmed by his clear and detached face, the golden coiled dragon crown on his head, and two rows of mighty unicorn guards.

The crowd was stunned for a while, and then a scream with a crying voice suddenly broke out.

"Your Majesty, please save us!"

As if it was the first thunderclap when a storm came, the crowd immediately boiled.

That's right, at this moment, only the emperor can save them!

Countless pairs of eyes that were on the verge of extinction and eager to survive looked at Murong Xiu, and everyone knelt on the ground one after another.

"Your Majesty, we haven't eaten food for half a month, and the bark and grass roots in the city have been stripped off. I beg you to help us, give us a stutter!"

"Your Majesty...I'm so hungry that my whole body is swollen, I can't even fit my shoes, and there's a hole in my body...There's no more food...I...I'll starve to death within three days, please think of a way—— "

"Our whole family is so hungry that we lie on the bed and can't move. I beg the emperor, I beg the emperor..."

The crowd gathered more and more, there were white-haired old women leaning on crutches, kneeling tremblingly on the ground begging, there were skinny men beating the snow and crying, and there were even hungry young women whose bodies were swollen and their faces were almost transparent. When they heard the sound, they rushed over, their faces were full of tears, they put down the hungry crying babies in their arms, wiped their eyes and ran away.

With heart-piercing wailing and tearful begging, wave after wave of emaciated or swollen-faced people in Sheng'an surrounded Murong Xiu and the others. Pour one piece, no matter how Qilin guards chased him away, he would not move, only kept begging.Murong Xiu's face was pale, looking at the refugees around him, he felt that every cry and howl shook him so much that his headache was splitting.

It hurts!Murong Xiu suddenly covered his ears, but the begging sound continued to pour into his brain like a mountain, shining brightly in every nerve of him.

Save me... save me... save me...! ! ! !

That's right, this is exactly the cry that has appeared in his dreams countless times, and it is the cry that tortured him every day without peace.

It is the mountain of corpses in Qixia Village, the gate of Ningcheng City that has been hammered by countless bloody hands but has never been opened, and it is also the deadly sword mark on the neck of the person he loves the most in his life in the middle of the night when it was snowing heavily. .

His eyes were bloodshot.

is blood!

Blood! !

Blood! ! !

Murong Xiu staggered and almost fell to the ground.Liu Quan hurriedly supported him, and said anxiously: "Your Majesty! You haven't eaten for two days. The dragon's body is important. Why don't you let the old slave take you back?"

Murong Xiu barely stood still, his face was pale, and he shook his head.Although Sheng'an City has been besieged for more than a month, the emperor enjoys the worship of the world, so he doesn't have to go hungry.However, since the death of Yan Changqing, Murong Xiu didn't think about food and drink. After witnessing the tragic scene of Yizi eating each other in Sheng'an City, he even used up the remaining food in the palace, and only lived on clear water and rough cakes.

But what he did was still a drop in the bucket for the 30 households in Sheng'an City.All the food in the city will be completely exhausted in less than three days.At that time, Sheng'an City will completely become a dead city.

"I beg your majesty, save us...we really don't want to die, we don't want to starve to death..."

"Please...please..."

In the midst of wailing and begging everywhere, an incompatible and extremely loud voice suddenly broke out.

"What's the use of begging him!"

The boy who gnawed on the bark staggered and stood up from the kneeling crowd.He was covered in injuries, the corners of his eyes were bruised, and his mouth was still stained with blood, but his eyes were astonishingly bright, staring directly at Murong Xiu with deep-seated hatred:

"What's the use of begging him!" The young man pointed at Murong Xiu, and said angrily:

"If it wasn't for his brutality and innocence, forcing General Yan to death and making the country of Yan lose its last barrier, we wouldn't be in the situation we are in today!"

"You are so brave, you dare to openly slander the Holy Majesty, someone, let him—" Liu Quan scolded angrily, and was about to explode, but was stopped by Murong Xiu.

Murong Xiu looked at the young man quietly, with guilt and sadness in his eyes, he smiled desolately.

"You're right. I shouldn't have used the banner of protecting him time and time again to make him bear an unbearable blood debt, and I shouldn't have forced him and threatened him time and time again so that he wouldn't end up on the road. It's my fault, It's all my fault."

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As a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder, I originally planned to finish Chapter 100, but I didn’t expect to underestimate the budget.

==. . .So, this is the first part of the finale, and the next part.

Ps: Generally, people who are about to starve to death are not yellow and thin (sallow and thin means that the degree of hunger is not serious), but swollen all over the body, looking round and fat. In fact, they die within a few days after pressing a hole.So the article will write that many people are hungry and swollen.

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