has become a demon

"My life, the lives of those around you who are closely related to His Highness, and even the common people in the world...Which party is His Highness going to give your mercy to?" Xie Taichu asked slowly.

Zhao Yuan was stunned.

He looked up at Xie Taichu, and said with difficulty: "I choose you."

"I thank Your Highness for your friendship." He said, "But I didn't expect that after experiencing these things, Your Highness still can't see through it all."

"I choose you." Zhao Yuan repeated again, "I can't let you go mad and die. How can I do it?"

"I am already terminally ill, and there is little hope for Your Highness to enter Sichuan rashly at this time."

"There is little hope, but there is still hope."

"It takes more than two thousand miles to go to Shu, and it will take several months even if we travel day and night. How will His Highness deal with his subordinates?"

"Kan Yufeng is steady, and Xiao Hejun is good at fighting. They are above me in marching and fighting. I don't worry about the future of everyone in the army."

"Now that Han Chuanjun is dead and the court is chaotic, it is time to take advantage of the victory and pursue it. If the entry to Shu is delayed for half a year, Zhao Ji's throne will be secure, and there is no possibility of a comeback."

"Then I won't be emperor anymore." Zhao Yuan said.

"Why did your Highness say this?"

"In the beginning, don't you understand? If there is no you in the world, what is the meaning of the position of emperor to me?" He said hoarsely.

Zhao Yuan squeezed his hand tightly, pressed his thumb on his palm, and a tear fell there.

That drop of tears, carrying a brilliant light, instantly drenched his palm, penetrated from his palm, penetrated into his texture, penetrated into his blood, and fell to the bottom of his heart.

"When I first met Your Highness, His Highness was in the main hall, and the light fell on His Highness's shoulders. It was so beautiful that even the heavens favored it a little bit. I devoured my father and mother, and I was abandoned by heaven... I have been wandering the world for decades. I thought I had no heart. But I saw Your Highness, I saw you... Kaiji, a heart grew in my empty chest, it started to be sore, and then beat, and my heart beats for you." Xie Taichu said, "Later , Your Highness does not neglect and hate me because of my humble background, but also loves me with all his heart; even a ruthless person will practice the way of ruthlessness, how can I not be sympathetic.

Just looking at His Highness, my heart sank and I couldn't help myself.In the end, in the end...it was terminally ill and there was no medicine left.I have already dug my own grave and buried it in Yinshan Mountain... In fact, I don't need anyone to save me. "

Zhao Yuan looked up at him, tears welling up, pleading in his eyes.

"In the beginning, let's go find medicine together. I don't have my parents and brothers, so I can't live without you."

Xie Taichu carefully looked at his sad face and smiled helplessly.

"Your Highness is really a persistent person."

He raised his hand, stroked Zhao Yuan's slightly disheveled hair, and gently tucked the hair around his ears under the net towel.

"How can you save the world if you don't save one person?" Xie Taichu said, "This is His Highness's original words. In fact, I already knew His Highness's answer. If His Highness knew about my situation, he would definitely abandon the world and come to save me."

After a while, Xie Taichu sighed, let go of his hand, and turned to look at the river behind him.

The icy river flows towards the east, and one day this small stream will flow into the Yellow River, and then rush into the vast sea with the rolling waves.

Just like the general trend in this world for thousands of years.

And why isn't it made up of the fate of all beings?

"I expected His Highness to react like this, so I kept it a secret from His Highness." Xie Taichu's voice became cold, "Your Highness chose me, but I want to choose common people."

"You, what do you mean?"

He turned his head to look at Zhao Yuan: "Your Highness insists on saving me and going to Sichuan to find the Qingxing Pavilion. The only way is to change your fate against the sky and walk with me all the way. Only when it belongs to you can we go to find Qingxing Pavilion."

After hearing his words, Zhao Yuan stared blankly at him, as if he didn't understand the meaning of the words. After a while,

"You've been hiding it from me... because you're afraid that I'll run away?" Zhao Yuan asked him tremblingly.

Xie Taichu replied: "Yes."

"Afraid that I'm too weak, just want to save your life, and give up Jing Nan's determination to become emperor?" Zhao Yuan asked again.

Xie Taichu stood with his hands behind his back and said coldly: "Yes."

Zhao Yuan's face turned pale.

"I choose you...you choose the world." Zhao Yuan laughed at himself.

"...It is impossible for me to regard the world as nothingness." His surging emotions were firmly suppressed in his heart, and every word and sentence he uttered was like a sharp knife, sharply cutting his throat, liver and heart .

The burning pain makes people want to cry.

Xie Taichu slightly looked away, enduring the sandalwood smell that was about to come out of his throat: "Your Highness, you should know that even if you tell me ruthlessly, I am still from Qingxing Pavilion."

"Even if you break the ruthless way because you love me, you still only have people in the world in your eyes." He murmured.

At this moment, Zhao Yuan looked extremely weak. When he spoke, even his shoulders were trembling. In the warm wind of early summer, it seemed that he could fall and shatter with just a slight push.

Zhao Yuan held his hand, but he didn't know when to let go, and even took a few steps back.

There was nothing but coolness left in his palm.

The wind blew past the two of them, it was clearly a warm wind, but for some reason it made people shiver.

Zhao Yuan withdrew his hand.

Pack tightly into fists.

"A 15 army is assembled in Ningxia, just waiting for me to enter the customs. At that time, I will raise my arms and go down to Lingzhou to take Weizhou, and enter Xi'an in the customs... But this is not enough. If you want to go to Shu without any worries, you must continue to fight , take down Linfen, take down Xuzhou, cut off the main roads in the hinterland of the Central Plains, pinch Zhao Ji's throat, and finally break into Shuntian Mansion and take Zhao Ji's head. Only then can we go to Qingxing Pavilion in Shu with peace of mind."

"Yes." Xie Taichu said.

"Help me win King Fu of Ganzhou, help me win the hearts of the people in Ningxia, and connect with the third lady... You knew that I was a weak person, and you already planned the direction of the army in Ningxia in advance. Do you want to Use your own life to force me to fight to save you while hesitating and repeating?"

Xie Taichu looked at him: "No. I will not be so despicable yet."

"In the beginning, you promise me the truth."

"Your Highness, please speak."

"Do you... really love me?"

"I regard Your Highness as a treasure in my heart." Xie Taichu said word by word.

Zhao Yuan laughed, raised his head and sighed, he seemed to believe it, but he didn't seem to believe it.

"Really...you love me. But you forced me to this point. In the beginning, why did you force me to this point?!" After he finished speaking, he turned around and left.

"What I said is true, from the bottom of my heart, every word is sincere." Xie Taichu said behind him.

Zhao Yuan paused and looked back at him.

"Your words, your heart, true or not, don't seem to be that important anymore." Zhao Yuan said, "All this way, you still can't let go of the world, and I still can't let you go. In the beginning, if it's what you want, I will Do it. Prepare the military affairs today, and we will return to Ningxia tomorrow at Yinshi. Before the end of the year, I will conquer Shuntian Mansion and become the master of the world. I just don’t know, before that, I won’t have time to save you.”

Xie Taichu was silent.

Zhao Yuan smiled sadly.

"You don't talk anymore. You are always like this. You never tell me everything." He said, "You say you love me. But I think you love the world far more than me. What you love...can be fulfilled That person in the world is the emperor who can fulfill your way of heaven."

After saying this, he didn't look back, and disappeared all the way.

Qi and blood in Xie Taichu's body surged, a mouthful of black blood spewed out, his body couldn't bear this kind of grief anymore, he staggered and fell into the water.

The river water was freezing cold, and when he blocked it, the waves rushed over his shoulders and wet him all over.

The blood was diluted in the clear water, turning light red, and then disappeared without a trace after several turbulent water eddies.

At some point, Xiao Jiang squatted on the bank to watch him.

Xie Taichu's bun was messed up, he was a bit embarrassed.

"How long can your body last?" Xiao Jiang asked.

"...can't make it to Xuzhou." Xie Taichu was silent for a while, and he slowly wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth: "Don't tell Zhao Yuan."

"Why don't you just say it?"

"Now he is driven to a desperate situation because of my affairs, but because of the existence of the Qingxing Pavilion, there is still a glimmer of hope, so he will not be really desperate...It can be delayed for a while."

Xiao Jiang asked him again: "Then have you ever thought about how he will deal with himself when you die?"

This time, Xie Taichu was silent for a longer time.

"I have no cure, so why let him give up everything for me?" Xie Taichu said, "Maybe when he becomes the master of this country, the pain in his heart will be healed. Maybe then, he will understand me painstaking efforts."

"Don't deceive yourself, the prince is not such a heartless person, the throne and power cannot make him forget you."

The horns of the assembled camp sounded in the distance.

Xiao Jiang looked over there and stood up: "The troops are assembled, presumably they are preparing to leave Ningxia. I won't complain to the prince, but I advise you to talk to him earlier."

After Xiao Jiang left.

It was completely quiet, only the sound of the river gurgling.

It took a while for Xie Taichu to have the strength to stand up from the river, his clothes were soaked, and he walked onto the grass on the bank with his hair disheveled and bare feet.

With a complicated expression, he looked up at the big banner with Xiao characters in the camp in the distance.

Beijing.

Thunderstorm.

Such torrential rain is rare in Suntian Prefecture, which is dry and rainless, and it is also the first heavy rain since the beginning of summer this year.The sky was covered with dark clouds, and there was a danger of toppling over. Lightning appeared and disappeared in the cracks in the clouds, peeking at the eaves and walls of the capital with no good intentions.

The thunder rolled and came one after another, shocking people into panic.

The rainwater flowed wantonly on the street. Except for the homeless beggars, the doors and windows of the houses and markets around the capital were closed, and no one was seen.

Only one person and one rode from Chongwenmen Street to the north, passed through Chongwenmen, and galloped into the house in the innermost alley of Guanyin Temple. The word "Shu House" was hung on the house.

The man on horseback, wearing a coir raincoat, got off his horse and knocked on the door.

After a while, the window on the gate opened, and the master inside took a look and said, "Who is it?"

"North Town Fusi Shen Zhu led the order to see Shu Zhangyin." Shen Zhu's voice was a little muffled in the thunderstorm, but the eunuch in charge could still hear it clearly, and he responded quickly, and asked someone to open the door and step down the threshold , lead the horse in.

Waiting to tie the horse into the wind and rain hall, hang up the coir raincoat, and pack the soaked clothes.

Then the eunuch in charge quietly approached Shen Zhu, and said in a low voice: "Master Shen, the ancestor has been waiting for you for a long time."

Shen Zhu responded: "Please lead the way."