Chapter 2 City Mansion
Day and night alternate, dawn breaks, sun rises, and the warm sun shines on the walls of Liangshan City, shining brightly.
This should have been a scene full of vitality and grandeur, but in the situation where the barbarians attacked the city in March, the blood-stained and broken city walls at this moment have added a lot of loneliness and misery to this scene.
Liangshan City has been exhausted, and the hard support for the past three months has made this supposedly prosperous city depressed. If there is no strong help, it will be less than half a month before the city is destroyed.
However, in the current situation, even if the Human Emperor can send a force to help, the journey is long, I may be unable to make the world come true.
Liangshan City, inside the city, the city lord's palace.
In the brightly lit pavilion, there are majestic and majestic. There are several bright lights placed in the mansion. The eternal stones in it are burning, rolling up green smoke and lingering in the mansion.
The price of Changming stone is not low and ordinary people cannot afford it, let alone use it as fuel for lighting. But all this seems ordinary when it happens in the city lord's mansion.
It was another night of sleeplessness.
The man in front of him was sitting upright in front of the desk, wearing a light gray robe. He frowned slightly. Although there was fatigue and anxiety in his eyebrows, he still couldn't stop the majestic momentum. Around him, there was a rising momentum. If he was released, it would be a shock to the four fields and no one dared to offend him.
This man who looks about forty years old is the lord of Liangshan City, Tu Lintian.
Around her, there was a beautiful woman in the palace dress. She was slender and not weak, and had a queen-like appearance. Although she was covered by her pale face, she still looked out of the world. The fatigue and anxiety between her eyebrows were no less than Tu Lintian.
She is Tu Lintian's first wife, Su Zhirong.
At this moment, there were only two people in the inner palace of the city lord's mansion, not even one of the ordinary guards and maids.
"Lintian, you haven't slept for another night." Su Zhirong spoke, her voice was beautiful and graceful, and with that face that could be called beautiful, no matter who it is, she will be fascinated by it at this moment.
"This is the medicine porridge I made for you. You have been working too hard these days to replenish your body and take a rest." Su Zhirong stepped forward and walked to Tu Lintian's side, and brought a bowl of warm medicine porridge to him.
Tu Lintian looked at Su Zhirong, and the anxiety in his eyes was missing, and there was a hint of pampering and tenderness. But for only a moment, he shook his head, sighed, and then withdrew his gaze and looked at the messy letters on the desk again.
Seeing this, Su Zhirong did not force herself, and her eyes turned to the table full of letters, and then looked at Tu Lintian with distress, saying, "Is the Human Emperor still unwilling to send troops to us to provide assistance?"
Hearing this, Tu Lintian sighed helplessly again, "In the past three months, I have written to the Human Emperor no less than dozens of times, but every time, it is a rock sinking into the sea and there is no reply. If the Human Emperor is willing to help, would he wait until this time?" Tu Lintian said slowly, "In the past few months, I have received almost no reply to the requests for help from several nearby cities. I am afraid that they have already arrived at the barbarians' large-scale attack and will be unable to protect themselves."
"In the past few days, the messenger I sent out will completely lose contact with the spy when he leaves the city for a short time. I guess he was captured by the barbarians..." At this point, Tu Lintian paused, "completely killed." Tu Lintian closed his eyes and sighed.
"There are probably not many peaces in several cities in the Yunhai Mountains. Perhaps in the near future, the Yunhai Mountains will also be handed over to the barbarians."
"In the past century, the barbarians have been in an unstoppable invasion. Wherever they pass, they have nowhere to live. It has been a miracle to resist the past year and half. Lintian, you are isolated and helpless, but you can still defend the city for three months. It is very rare." Su Zhirong walked up to support Tu Lintian's shoulder and said.
"But I can't understand why the Human Emperor refused to send one army and one soldier to assist the cities in the Yunhai Mountains. Everyone knows how important the Yunhai Mountains are to the Dawu Dynasty."
"But even so, the Human Emperor still watched the city be destroyed and was indifferent. Why?" Su Zhirong said.
In the years before the barbarians invaded Yihuo Realm, no matter where they were invaded, the Human Emperor would immediately mobilize people to help the local soldiers suppress and resist the barbarian invasion. However, with the defeat of each resistance, gradually, the Human Emperor sent fewer and fewer people, but the barbarian invasion became more and more fierce day by day. Until a few years ago, the Human Emperor finally stopped helping the invaded areas and was praised by himself.
Perhaps from that day on, the Dawu Dynasty in the Yihuo Realm had already died in name only, and what remained was the approaching and encroachment of the barbarians.
"Now, half of the country in the Yihuo Realm has been plundered by the barbarians. The Human Emperor may have no time to take care of himself."
"The Human Emperor may have to give up the Yihuo Realm, give up the Dawu Dynasty, find a way to leave the Yihuo Realm and go to the upper realm."
"If the barbarians had not abused and killed prisoners and had almost no surrendered soldiers, I'd probably have been in the middle of the country to surrender. In that case, perhaps a few years ago, the barbarians had occupied the Yihuo Realm." Tu Lintian laughed and said, "I'm here to support myself, just to get the innocent people in the city to withdraw this morning. Now the barbarians have locked down the city, and I'm afraid nothing we do is useless."
"Going to the upper realm...that's just a way recorded in ancient history. No one has succeeded in thousands of years. Could it be that the Human Emperor has mastered the method?" Su Zhirong said in confusion.
The Yihuo Realm is just one of the three thousand realms. These three thousand realms are just a general term, not so accurate that only three thousand realms are.
According to the ancient history of the Yihuo Realm, tens of thousands of years ago, an ancestor had unknown methods to open up the barrier between the Yihuo Realm and the upper realm, and thus broke through. It was not until the ancestor fell that there were letters falling from the upper realm, allowing the creatures in the Yihuo Realm to know the existence of the upper realm and the three thousand realms.
According to the note, the Yihuo Realm is just a small world among the Three Thousand Realms, and was called the lower realm by ancestors. Even if it is slightly inferior to other lower realms in the Three Thousand Realms, let alone the upper realm.
Because of this, some people speculate that the barbarians come from a certain lower realm, and more likely from a certain powerful upper realm. Only in this way can they break the barrier and show such a crushing situation in the fight between the two tribes.
However, this speculation has not been announced from the Dawu Dynasty. If it is announced, it will not only cause turmoil, but also make people feel more desperate and give up resistance.
"If the Human Emperor found a method, he would probably have left long ago and would not have delayed that long, or..." Tu Lintian paused and said, "The method of going from the lower realm to the upper realm is very harsh, so harsh that the Human Emperor could not complete it for decades with the power of the Great Wu Dynasty."
It has been tens of thousands of years since the ancestors of Yihuo Realm fell. For the past ten thousand years, the letters of ancestors have been in the hands of the dynasty. No matter how dynasties change, they have never been lost. Although most people do not know the secret of going to the upper realm, they are also word of mouth within the dynasty. But even so, no one has succeeded for ten thousand years, which shows the accidental and harsh nature of the ancestors going to the upper realm.
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And it is precisely because of this that we need to constantly resist the barbarians and buy time for them." Tu Lintian sighed to the sky, and his eyes seemed to be self-mockery, contempt, helplessness and resentment. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but in the end he was speechless. Instead, he broke the news in front of him with a palm and slowly closed his eyes.
"So, the Human Emperor also sends a message to you every few days, asking you to live up to the emperor's fate and fight stubbornly until the end..." Su Zhirong's teeth bit her red lips lightly, and her eyes were covered with layers of mist.
"Lintian..." Su Zhirong wanted to say something, but she didn't say it.
Tu Lintian stood up, held Su Zhirong's hands, and swept away the haze of fatigue and anxiety in his eyes, and replaced it with pampering and sadness. "Zhirong, thank you for your hard work over the past few months..."
Su Zhirong was born in a family and was originally a eldest lady. Due to her talent, she had never practiced. However, she was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. After marrying Tu Lintian, she took care of many matters in the city for him, allowing him to practice and handle government affairs with peace of mind. In addition, a few months ago, Tu Lintian scattered all the guards and maids in the mansion. Su Zhirong took care of his daily life in these days, which made him feel even more distressed.
"If you were willing to listen to me at that time and follow them..." Tu Lintiandao.
"Lintian," Su Zhirong knew in her heart what Tu Lintian wanted to say, "At that time, I would not agree, and today, I would not agree." Su Zhirong's jade hand was allowed to be tightly held by Tu Lintian, and her eyes were facing each other, but she was speechless.
How could Tu Lintian forget? That day he almost rushed Su Zhirong to leave because he knew what the fate of Su Zhirong not leaving was. But Su Zhirong disagreed and allowed Tu Lintian to persuade and even expel him. In the end, he forced him to stay by Tu Lintian's side.
Since then, Su Zhirong has been seriously ill. Even though Tu Lintian was still asking for help at that time and even had to go on the battlefield in person from time to time, he insisted on staying by Su Zhirong's side every night. However, Su Zhirong's face was pale and she never returned to being as rosy and angry as before.
"It's just that you have suffered. I have been practicing wholeheartedly in my life and have never been with you well. In these three months, I have never been by your side all the time." Tu Lintian took Su Zhirong into his arms. Even the majestic seven-foot man in front of him, who was so majestic and majestic between his eyebrows could not help but cry at this time.
Because the person he loved the most in this life was by his side, but he was unable to protect him and could only wait slowly for the day of parting. This sense of powerlessness made people desperate.
"It's a pity that our child has experienced such hardships that we can no longer take care of him..." Speaking of this, Su Zhirong couldn't help but buried him in Tu Lintian's arms, crying in tears.
At this time, Tu Lintian felt heartbroken. Their children... Fortunately, they had been sent out of the city three months ago, and he was protected by someone Tu Lintian trusted very much. I believe that now, they have arrived at a safe place.
"Safe, Zhirong..."
"Our children will definitely be able to inherit our wishes and live in this troubled world."
Have you heard it, my baby.
Tu Lintian recited silently in his heart.
In my heart, I still have extravagant wishes for you.
If you can grow up healthily, you must surpass your father.
Become a powerful man and expel the barbarians from this world.
Chapter completed!