Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Burning Romeo

"One toad opened its mouth, two eyes and four legs, and jumped into the water; two toads, two mouths, four eyes and eight legs, jumped into the water; three toads, three mouths, six eyes... " In the middle of the night, on the quiet streets of Zhuolu City, a drunk man leaned on the wall and moved forward while counting toads indistinctly.Suddenly, he stepped on a stone under his feet, staggered and fell to the ground, and the wine jar in his hand rolled away with a clang.The drunk man was not in a hurry to get up, and stretched out his hand to the wine jar while lying on the ground.

He suddenly saw a pair of feet in front of him, wearing tiger leather combat boots on those feet.The wine jar was blocked, and the man tried his best to raise his head to look at the person standing in front of him. Soldier B was dressed in a brand-new Tiehuwei costume, looking at Chi You on the ground with a look of pity.He put a bundle in front of Chi You, and Chi You looked at him with bewildered eyes. "General, I have been looking for the general for a whole day." Soldier B said in a low voice, "Tomorrow the king will marry Princess Yunjin in front of Houtu Hall, and all the officials in the city will go to congratulate him, and even the common people will go to watch the ceremony."

"Oh." Chi You lay there shaking his head. "The general has brought all the small dresses. If the general doesn't go, there is nothing he can do about the small ones." After finishing speaking, Soldier B stepped out of the way. "Gown?" Chi You touched the bag, looked down at his battle robe covered in mud and dirt, and laughed, "I haven't changed new clothes for a long time." He supported his body and sat up, untied his bundle tremblingly, and held up a brand new battle robe, "It's pretty nice." "Hehe." While laughing, he tossed the new shirt aside, scrambled forward a few steps, and picked up the lost wine jar.

"Soldier B." Chi You suddenly raised his head. "General, do you have any orders?" Soldier B asked. "Do you know..." Chi You said softly, followed by a long silence. "General..." Soldier B felt his lips dry. He didn't know what this man's question would be, and he didn't know how to answer it. Probably all the answers in the world were cruel to him. "Three toads have twelve legs!" Chi You suddenly laughed and jumped up, seeing the soldier Yimu standing in a daze, he smiled happily. "Jump! Jump!" Chi You hopped, like a child in Zhuolu City playing checkered flags in an alley, and gradually disappeared into the darkness at the end of the street. "Three toads have three mouths, six eyes, twelve legs, four toads. Toad..."

The Houtu Hall stands on a hundred-foot high platform, and white gauze is formed between the standing trees on the high platform.Because the princess likes white, the Yellow Emperor ordered hundreds of feet of white silk to be used to form brocade tents around the high platform, and the trees outside were also wrapped with white silk without exception. The road to welcome the bride, which is hundreds of feet long, leads directly to the main entrance of the Houtu Temple. People in Zhuolu City were allowed to approach the high platform to watch the ceremony, and everyone was dressed up in fine clothes and exuberant.Even the beggars on the street took a little water to smooth their hair.

Hundreds of civil and military officials, wearing court uniforms, lined up on the high platform, and were divided into five colors according to their ranks.The tribes from all directions sent envoys to congratulate them, and the vehicles carrying offerings lined up outside the west gate of Zhuolu.When the Yellow Emperor married Lei Zu, and the Xuanyuan tribe and the Xiling tribe married, there was never such a spectacular scene. Huangdi's official wife Xiling Leizu was silent about this. Some people said that Leizu, a lioness from the east of the river, had no choice this time.Gossip in Zhuolu City said that Leizu had never been able to give birth to a child for the Yellow Emperor, but the princess of the Shaohao tribe was already pregnant with the king's prince, and the future concubine would be peerless.

"Finally..." Feng Hou did not approach the high platform, but stood in the distance to observe the ceremony. "Hmm." Dahong said in a low voice. "Has Xing Tian really returned to the north?" "Yes, my spies have been sending news that last month Xingtian fought with the barbarians." Dahong said, "Don't worry too much, I guess Xingtian will be fine, you are not going to kill Chi You after all. " "What kind of person is Xing Tian? I always feel that this person is very dangerous." Feng Hou said: "Actually, among the generals, even you are not Xing Tian's opponent, right?"

"I don't know," Dahong said after a long silence, "I also think Xing Tian is very dangerous." "Xing Tian went to the battlefield of Banquan," Feng Hou said, "he has killed many of our soldiers, except for the king, there is no one in our Xuanyuan tribe. How can such a person be willing to be our general? What is he planning?" "I don't know." Dahong said, "This Xing Tian is different from the Xing Tian I knew more than twenty years ago." "Where is Chi You?" Feng Hou suddenly remembered this matter. "If you were him," Dahong turned to look at Fenghou, "would you come?"

"Here we come!" Excited shouts came from under the high platform. Under countless snow-white feather fans, the charming and elegant maids surrounded the princess of Shaohao Department who was dressed in white and snow-covered, came along the Baitu Road, and slowly climbed up to the high platform.The onlookers couldn't see her dull eyes clearly, but they could all see the princess floating like a fairy when the wind blew her long skirt.They all liked to see beauties, so they cheered loudly. Yun Jin walked to the edge of the high platform, facing the tens of thousands of people below, she had a shocking beauty that made the surroundings suddenly quiet.That beauty is quiet, distant and erratic, making people dare not approach.The onlookers heard the beating of their own hearts.

The Yellow Emperor smiled triumphantly. This is his treasure. He likes the envious eyes of his subjects. "Princess, you can just stand here," the maid behind reminded softly, "Now everyone below is looking at you, wave to them." Yun Jin nodded silently, and looked around obediently.Everywhere she looked, everyone felt that the princess was gazing at him gently, making them so grateful that they wanted to bow down. "Stay back," Yunjin said to the maids, "I want to talk to them." She waved away the handmaidens who were trying to stop her, and tried to test the edge of the high platform with her toes, and took a step, like a white crane that was about to lift itself up against the wind.

"Quiet! The concubine has an order!" The minister of ceremonies next to him hurriedly said, and countless pairs of eyes in the audience looked at the concubine Huang Di on the high platform without blinking. "Are you there?" After a long silence, Yun Jin asked the audience. The minister of ceremonies paled, wondering whether he should preach the imperial concubine's decree to the people in the audience.But the audience was silent, everyone heard what Yun Jin was saying, but no one understood what she said. "Chi You!" Yun Jin shouted to the audience, "I know you must be here." The people of Zhuolu City thought of the knife hilt society, one of the four evils of Zhuolu, and the three black sheep that made people hate their teeth. Huangdi concubine called this man at the wedding ceremony?The civil and military ministers were all pale, like the ministers of rites, while the Yellow Emperor's face was as green as a iron plate.The high stage remained quiet, and the voice like the brocade and silver bells carried a strong charm, making others unable to bear to interrupt her. "Chi You, come out!" Yun Jin said, "I have something to tell you." Everyone held their breath, they turned their heads to look at the people around them, silently looking for the man named Chi You.After a long time, a small commotion broke the silence, and someone said "oh".The people watching the ceremony left automatically, and a disheveled man looked up at the high platform and walked out of the crowd silently.Hearing the familiar footsteps, Yun Jin laughed like a spring flower in full bloom.In a trance, the people under the high stage thought that the smile was for themselves, not for the beggar-like man who smelled of alcohol and corruption. "Are you here?" Yun Jin said, "Come here." Bewitched by her sweet voice, Chi You moved forward in a daze. "Come on," Yun Jin said softly, as if coaxing a toddler, "come here a little bit longer." Finally, Chi You came to the bottom of the high platform, and he could already see Yunjin's eyes on the high platform, the empty piece in the pair of ancient mirrors. "Do you know?" Yun Jin smiled, her voice was like a pair of soft hands gently stroking Chi You's earlobe, "I hate you!" The wind blows, and the white clothes turn into flying flowers in the wind. The wind runs silently through the streets of Zhuolu City, white clouds wander lazily in the blue sky, and a carefree oriole sings alone on a tall tree. In March of early spring, Dongjun Fang arrives, and the peach blossoms are in full bloom. In this beautiful spring, Yunjin jumped off the high platform. Looking at the white figure falling down in the distance, even Ying Long, who just woke up from a doze, felt in a daze.He remembered the story his father told him about Jingwei many years ago. When he was a child, Ying Long always felt that the moment when the girl threw herself into the sea was cruel.When he grew up, he killed many enemies, and he no longer discerned whether an illusory story was cruel or not. Gradually, he forgot the story of Jingwei.At this moment, Ying Long suddenly remembered the tone of his father telling him the story, and felt that the falling brocade was like a Jingwei thrown into the sea. He felt that this moment was actually very beautiful and not cruel.The sea is the home of Jingwei. Chi You stretched out his hand to the sky in a daze, as if to embrace the sky.Cloud brocade fell from the sky. A bright red spot slowly expanded on the white clay road, flowing slowly, soaking the snow-white dress.Bright red and snowy white are mixed but not blended together, the white one is like a piece of orchid petals and the red one is like an angry rose.Yunjin lay in these two mixed colors, facing the sky with a holy expression. "Chi You, do you know?" Yunjin's skull was cracked, her beautiful face was distorted, and when she spoke, thin threads of blood flowed from the corner of her mouth. Chi You was like a dog with its spine removed, kneeling beside Yun Jin. "Every time...I miss my mother...I think she waits for me...It's scary..." "When I was young, I thought that there was... a person... who could fly, who could take me... and my mother out of the king's palace... fly freely in the sky... I have been waiting for this person..." "It turns out... this person has never been... When I was a child... What a fool... You are... a coward!" People who love each other have a kind of cruelty in their hearts, that kind of cruelty tells them to hurt the person they love, if that person hurts them.They are willing even to pay a worse price for this revenge, as long as they see him sad, see him sad, even if it doesn't help. At the last moment, Yun Jin still smiled at the sky, her smile was beautiful and cruel. This desperate cruelty was forever engraved on her twenty-one-year-old face. After an unknown period of silence, Huangdi was the first to wake up from the shock.He roared angrily, and rushed to the edge of the high platform, Chi You numbly hugged Yun Jin in his arms, stroked her blood-stained hair, and kissed her gradually cooling forehead.Huangdi never thought that a certain dirty man would dare to kiss his woman like this in full view, and when he saw Yunjin's slightly protruding belly, he wanted to bite his teeth even more. That was his son, this crazy woman killed Huang Di's son for her dirty man.The boy was supposed to be the new ruler of the world. Huang Di should have rushed straight down and cut off Chi You's head with a sword, but what this man was doing made him feel a chill in his heart, and he was stunned for a moment.Trembling, Chi You picked up Yunjin, held her tightly in his arms, picked up the blood and loess from the ground with his hands, and sprinkled it on Yunjin's body. "Get up, Yunjin...get up...don't sleep anymore." Chi You's voice sounded like he was dreaming, he stroked Yunjin's slightly deformed face with both hands, and slowly corrected the positions of those broken bones, trying to put the broken skull back together. Going back, "Yunjin, you have shed a lot of blood, Yunjin, I am very scared." "I have a house, although it can't face the sea, but there is a lot of open water, and you can see the warmth of spring and flowers blooming when you open the window. I feel a little lonely when I live alone, Chi You, will you come to accompany me?" Yun Jin stood on the distant grassland. "Wait for me, wait for me!" Chi You ran on the vast grassland, but Yunjin turned around and walked into the huge sunset. "Silly boy, are you here again?" An old voice called him from behind. Chi You turned his head, behind him was the snow field of white armor, and the snowflakes were dancing.There was a man in a small black wooden cage above his head.He is one foot tall and exudes like a lion.The man who had cut off his arms and legs was still laughing, with a ferocious smile. "Have you grown up?" the man said, "Do you realize how stupid you are?" "I am stupid……" "Are you going to put down the knife? Put down the knife and they'll kill you." "Have you mercy on your enemies? They will kill you when their breath is over." "Do you want to be patient? When you retreat to the edge of the cliff, they will kill you." The people in the cage laughed loudly, "You pulled out your own fangs and pretended to be a sheep, you are such a fool." "Take your knife and mount your horse," said the man in the cage. "If you really grow up, you should know how to be angry." The iron chain passed through the man's lute bone, locking his shoulders to the wall, and heavy iron vertebrae hung on his hands and feet, making the man unable to move at all. Chi You walked into the impromptu dungeon, and the prison door closed behind him. Chi You smelled the smell of corruption mixed with blood in the dungeon.He had the urge to turn around and run away, but he didn't dare. He knew that once he left, the person in front of him would die. The pair of gray eyes looked over from the long hair, and the man sneered strangely. "Co-workers……" "Young Master," Gong Gong's voice was hoarse, "I thought you had fled back to Jiuli." "I pleaded with the king, and the king has already agreed, as long as you are willing to serve the king, nothing will be pursued." "Oh? Hehehehe," Gonggong laughed, "Thank you, Shaojun, what about the rest?" "Master Yu, Uncle Feng, and others must continue to return to the Yellow River to control the water. Only the two of us must return to Zhuolu, and we cannot leave for the rest of our lives." "Because the two of us are more fearsome, right?" Gong Gong said, "It turns out that being fearful is also beneficial. If you lose the battle, you don't have to go back to control the water." "That's all I can do..." "Thank you, thank you very much." Gonggong suddenly returned to his previous appearance of laughing and telling stories, shaking the iron chains on his body, and there was a crisp sound, "Didn't we swear to overthrow the Yellow Emperor? Why did you sacrifice the city to Dahong? Did Dahong give you a lot of benefits? Of course I can understand, but we didn't give you any benefits." Chi You looked at his toes, "Fifty thousand of the 100,000 people who came with us have already died, Xing Tian, ​​do you want to continue the beating? These fifty thousand people will die too." "Rebellion, how can people not die?" Gonggong shrugged, blood flowing down the iron chain at the bone of the lute. "I have persisted for three days and three nights, and I persisted when you broke through." Chi You said, "But I watched people die one after another, and the corpses of those people piled up in front of me almost as high as the city wall , I don’t even know if you are dead, or if you will come back to find me.” "Yeah, so you have the right to surrender." "I don't want to say this, Gonggong, what are we fighting for?" Chi You said, "Those hard laborers are different from us. Don't they just want to go home alive? We can already go home alive, why do we still have to die?" So many people going to fight a battle?" "Because I want to go to Kunlun, the city of the Yellow Emperor blocks my way." "Do you want to go to Kunlun just because of you?" Chi You became angry, "But what about the others? What about Uncle Feng? Where's Master Yu? What about me? I want to go back alive to meet Yunjin, and I promised to marry her!" "Is she your monkey?" Gong Gong asked suddenly. "monkey?" "Hongdou is my monkey, she is already dead," Gonggong laughed, "so no one is waiting for me, so I don't care about your life and death, and I don't want to go home, I just want to overthrow the Yellow Emperor!" "red beans?" "She is my daughter, do you think she looks like me?" Gong Gong said, "My wish is to take her to Kunlun. I want to demolish the city built by Xuanyuan Huangdi, and I can go all the way without hindrance." , going west.” Chi You lowered his head, thinking that Hongdou doesn't look like a lunatic at all, she has a delicate little face, can tell naughty jokes, and dreams of Guanghan Palace instead of Kunlun.In fact, he had already vaguely guessed that Hongdou was the little monkey in Gonggong's heart. He lost it in the end and became the last Gonggong, so he put the blame on Huangdi's head, gritted his teeth, and thought kill him. "Where is Hongdou's mother? Is she dead?" he asked. "No, she is still living in Zhuolu City, and she is living well." Gong Gong said, "When I was young, I was very depressed. I raped a woman and gave birth to Hongdou by accident. Her mother was very scared and kicked her." Kicked out of the house, it snowed that night, I hid in the dark outside the door to watch. You see, I am a bad person, I did bad things when I was young, and I still do bad things now, I killed so many people for my own selfishness What a hard work, I should have been ashamed to see people." Chi You felt so cold in his heart that he didn't dare to speak. "But I can go back to Zhuolu soon," Gonggong said again: "Sleeping on a warm bed, maybe the king will build a high platform for me to live in. I will have money to drink every month, and I can continue to work when I have nothing to do." Tell the story of my battle against the Yellow Emperor, and now I have really fought against the Yellow Emperor." "But I have a question." Gong Gong suddenly stared at Chi You and said, "If those bastards ask me, who can prove that you have fought against the king? What should I say?" Chi You was stunned. "I can only say that they are all dead, only me, and one named Chi You survived. When we left the Yellow River, there were hundreds of thousands of people, some died, and some were still digging soil by the Yellow River, only me It’s very comfortable to tell stories here..." Gonggong smiled sullenly, "Look, Shaojun, the people who died in battle are watching you." Chi You shivered. He knew that Gonggong was scaring him, but he couldn't help but look around. "How many people died? 50,000 people? In the end, only the two of us returned to Zhuolu," Gonggong said, "But the deal is not a loss. What does the death of others have to do with me? As long as I return to Zhuolu Just have a good time.” "No, I don't think so!" Chi You shouted. "Of course you don't think so, because you are too cowardly, you don't dare to think so, because you are too stupid, you don't think of it at all. Hahahaha, but I can't say you, although I am cruel, but I am stupid enough to believe you I will take the rest of the people to defend. I walked around in the heavy rain for three days and three nights, trying to fight the Yellow Emperor's rear line. I think if I can kill the Yellow Emperor, we will win. If not, you can also take the opportunity to bring I was so stupid to give my old life to a coward who did nothing!" Gong Gong yelled, "Because of you, all the dead died in vain!" Chi You was pressed against the opposite wall by his ferocious aura, and he huddled against the wall and couldn't speak at all. "But Shaojun, I am very grateful to you," Gonggong's voice suddenly softened, "At least you still know that you are coming to save me. But I am afraid, afraid that if I die, the ghosts who died before me will be here Haunting me in hell." "I want to be worthy of them." After Gong Gong finished speaking calmly, he suddenly raised his huge head and slammed it behind him, behind him was a solid stone wall. Chi You looked at the blood and brains dripping to cover the blackness of the stone wall, which was also red and white, bright and mournful. The soldiers guarding the door only heard a terrible howl, and the young young master rushed out of the dungeon desperately, howling and fleeing into the distance. Chi You thought that what he wanted was not too much.He is a precocious child. He has been afraid of bargaining with others since he was a child, and he is unwilling to fight for things. He can't get rid of this problem, so he can only find ways to make himself feel at ease.If he loses his brother, Chi You still has a home. Although he can’t go home, he still has Xing Tian by his side. After Xing Tian leaves, he still has good friends. If his good friend dies in battle, he can still go back to find Yun Jin. Yun Jin married Chi You I hope she will live well... He is a smart man who can always find reasons to comfort his heart. He just wants a snail shell to live in, no matter how small it is, he will feel safe and fall asleep quietly. Yunjin is his last snail shell. She once promised him that she would stay with him until she died in a house facing the sea and blooming with spring flowers. The two snails loved each other in one shell until they both turned into dust, leaving an empty space. The snail shell, and the reverberation of their conversation echoed inside. Now Yunjin is dead, he has no shell, he is a soft snail thrown on the cold and hard stone, wriggling... wriggling... He wanted his shell, but he couldn't find it again. The man named Gong Gong played a sanxian and sang low in the rain at the entrance of the restaurant. He said: His voice was sad and mournful, frivolous and sincere. He finally has nothing left. Now he holds a soft body in his arms, but that body is cold and stiff.He has lived in Zhuolu City in a daze for decades, thinking that the turmoil in this world has nothing to do with him; he is stupid, thinking that war is a stupid thing, as long as he does nothing, everyone can live happily in the world together; he cowardly surrendered, thinking that he would be able to go back alive to see his beloved girl. Even if he lost all his memories, he could still watch the spring flowers bloom with her in a house facing the sea. It's spring now, but when she left, those past events came back. The past that I want to abandon, the past that I want to shatter, like thousands of ghosts, slowly rise from the abyss of memory.Countless fragments once again put together the scenes of the past. Behind that huge curtain is the devil who devours people's hearts.He finally regained consciousness again, watching Chi You shivering in a pool of blood with a ferocious look. He looked into Yun Jin's eyes, the face of a coward reflected in the tarnished ancient mirror. Chi You stood up holding Yun Jin. He felt that there was a void all around him, and he was standing alone under the sky of swiftly flowing clouds with Yun Jin in his arms.The terrified eyes around him were so strange, not of his kind.Some of those people took everything from him, and some watched his grief.Those people still have something more or less, Chi You felt that they were gloating and laughing at himself, at his having nothing. A voice from high above came down, saying: "You are a coward, you are a coward, you are a coward..." People around were laughing, saying, "You're a coward, you're a coward, you're a coward..." Chi You heard Yun Jin's voice like a silver bell mixed with the ridicule of thousands of people, saying: "You are a coward, you are a coward, you are a coward..." He threw away the brocade in his hand, covered his ears, and shouted weakly: "I'm not!" "Take Chi You!" Huang Di shouted sharply. The four gods will hold artifacts and rush to the high platform from different directions. "Take down that lunatic!" The onlookers also roared angrily. They couldn't imagine that a foreign man dared to be so rude to the dead Concubine Huangdi. Chi You covered his face and stood quietly, with an evil smile leaking from between his fingers.The surrounding people watched in horror as his hands bent into claws, sank into the flesh, and moved down bit by bit, leaving ten shocking bloodstains on that delicate but dirty face.Chi You stared at everyone with blood-red eyes. His ten fingers twisted strangely, like blood-stained iron hooks.Chi You looked at his hands, and said hoarsely: "Okay, nothing...is gone, don't... be afraid..." "Me!" Chi You raised his head and laughed wildly at the sky, "I'll kill you!"