Yunyang·Lingyun City.
The news of the victory in the frontline battle was sent back to Yunyang, which naturally attracted another carnival.
Initiating a war years ago was actually a very risky move. If you win, it will be a happy situation for the whole family. If you lose, you will face many follow-up problems. For many people, Chinese New Year is an important annual festival. They have been looking forward to it for a long time. If there is bad news at this time, their trust in the high-level leaders of the territory will decline rapidly, panic will spread, and the protection of the territory will change. Weak, more difficult to resist foreign aggression.
In fact, when they learned that Yunyang was using troops abroad, the people anxiously waited for the result. Now that this battle is being fought with high spirits, their previously suppressed emotions can be vented immediately, and the night in Lingyun City has almost become a carnival party for the whole people.
Neither Lide nor He Yue chose to forbid this kind of fanatical emotion.
However, Yunyang's top management will not be overly disturbed by such emotions, and they still remain calm. Winning the battle is good for everyone, and the expansion of the territory also means that more opportunities are waiting for them, but it is obviously not enough... Yunyang has only taken the first step of the Eastern Expedition, and everything is also planned Among them, there is still a long way to go. The good news is that there will be a lot of year-end awards this year, and everyone can go back and have a good year.
And in a secret room in Lingyun City, He Yue once again saw the face he had hated to the bone - the second son Wencai of Lord Tiancheng.
Lord Tiancheng died in the chaos of Tiancheng, and was killed by the people, he was killed on the spot. So He Yue has no chance to see the man who sold himself into a brothel to sing opera again, but he doesn't care about it, it's his judgment to beat Tiancheng, and Yunyang's ability to beat Tiancheng can't do without his assistance, this The revenge can be regarded as avenged by him himself.
On the night when she learned that Lord Tiancheng had died, He Yue sat silently in the inner affairs hall, wiping her red eye sockets with the back of her fair hand several times. He thought of those playmates who were sold into the Lord's Mansion when he was a child, and the chaos he saw from a child's perspective. Individual cries seemed to ring in his ears.
Li De often said that you can't save all the people in the world, why doesn't He Yue not know this
But she has seen too much cruelty in the world, and seen too many miserable scenes in the world. Now that she suddenly heard the news that Lord Tiancheng was strangled to death by an ordinary citizen, she no longer had much joy in her heart to get revenge. Those who died because of Lord Tiancheng felt worthless.
Death is a wonderful thing. When the dead are far away, no matter how many people die, it is just a number. But if you witness crying children struggling feebly when being picked up by a gun, a wrinkled old man squatting in the corner and biting bitter grass roots, a woman with disheveled hair laughing foolishly while crying, a man with hemiplegia With eyes crooked and lying on the road, no one paid attention to him, and death became a cruel and close thing again.
Those who have witnessed purgatory will naturally have the idea of crossing the world.
And He Yue passed through that purgatory, tasted the warmth and coldness of the world in the brothel, and then looked back at her past self and those who she could not save back then. The lonely night shed tears. What he didn't know was that Lide sat quietly on the roof that day, spending the difficult night with him, but he didn't break the tranquility that belonged to Heyue.
When He Yue saw Wen Cai, the first sentence he said was:
"Damn you. Both you and your brother deserve hell."
Wen Cai looked at He Yue, but his eyes were very confused:
"Is it because my father sold you to a brothel? But I don't think what my father did back then was nothing. You said that you want to lock me and my brother up for interrogation. My father must be against us."
He Yue's hands began to tremble uncontrollably, and her voice slowly turned cold:
"Wen Cai, when you and your brother are constantly consuming human lives like things, aren't you afraid that those ghosts who died wronged will come to claim your life?"
Wen Cai still just scratched his head:
"Don't be afraid. My father said that they are just slaves. What's wrong with slaves giving their lives for their masters? Even they themselves think so. If it wasn't for Lide... If it wasn't for Lide, he would ask someone to drive those slaves over , I’m getting along well with them up to now. And as you said, those people have such a hard life, wouldn’t it be nice to die?”
He Yue's aura instantly rose.
She didn't have any martial arts cultivation, but at this moment, she looked at Wencai as if she wanted to swallow him alive.
Wen Cai was also frightened by He Yue's reaction, shrank his neck, and said helplessly:
"Otherwise, we treated you badly before, but you also indirectly killed my father. Let's get even, shall we?"
He Yue let out a breath, but laughed instead, and said to Wen Cai:
"I can equalize with you, but how can you equalize with the people who have lived in that land for hundreds of years? They died, died in a place no one remembers, and they were so painful that they could only Weeping alone. Do you know what it feels like to chew a grass stalk thousands of times? Do you know how many people have no money to buy medicine and can only rub their swollen joints over and over again? I was young at that time, and I could always listen to it in the middle of the night. Hearing the sound of wheezing and wheezing, he later found out that it was the child next door who ate bentonite, his stomach grew like a ball, his whole body ached but he couldn't die, he could only get weaker day by day, this kind of scene appeared every day in Tiancheng in every family's house."
He Yue looked at Wen Cai and said softly:
"... Don't your hearts ache?"
Wencai was silent for a while, then replied:
"To be honest, I would also feel uncomfortable listening to your description. But, but, if I were to do it again, I wouldn't do anything. Tian Cheng only has this little food in total. They are full, what should I eat? "
He Yue smiled and said:
"Yeah, you never think about people other than yourself."
Wen Cai waved his hand:
"It's not like that. I still think about my brother and my father. For example, when my father died, I cried for a long time."
He Yue stopped talking.
She just closed her eyes, and after thinking for a long time, she said to Wen Cai:
"Finally, do you still have any wishes? Here at Yunyang, we will give good treatment to some people who are about to leave, let them have a full meal, or satisfy some of their relatively small wishes."
Wencai said with bright eyes:
"Leave, are you going to let me go back?"
He Yue just smiled, neither agreeing nor disapproving.
Wencai glanced at He Yue and asked in a low voice:
"Actually, I've always been curious, are you a boy or a girl? When you first came to the Lord's Mansion, I thought you were the most beautiful girl in the world, but later I heard that you were a boy. It’s just boring. Until the last time I saw Lide in the sea of clouds, I think men can actually…”
He Yue replied with a smile:
"Then you can start to regret it."
He smacked his lips when he asked Cai, and said regretfully:
"Indeed, look at you, you're skinny and tender... Cough cough, that, when can I leave?"
He Yue got up, pushed the chair back to the original place, opened the door and left while saying:
"Come on, don't worry."
The door closed again.
He Yue stood quietly in front of the door, a moment later her shoulders twitched slightly, and her eyes became a little sour.
Tian Cheng fell, but for some reason she didn't get any happiness from it. That is not the sense of emptiness of revenge, but a kind of bitterness, even a kind of helplessness and sadness.
At this time, He Yue suddenly turned her head quietly as if she felt something.
On the wall next to the door, Lid leaned there without saying a word.
Seeing He Yue looking at him, he got up and moved forward, saying hello to He Yue:
"Yo. What's the matter? You look sad."
He Yue let out a breath and said with a smile:
"Is there? Maybe someone started fishing again recently, which made me a little tired."
Lide didn't get to the bottom of it anymore, maybe he had the answer in his heart from the beginning.
He just walked up to He Yue, rubbed her head, and asked:
"I heard that there is a high-ranking girl in Yunyang who likes to disguise herself as a man. I don't believe it is true."
He Yue's heart trembled suddenly.
When she raised her head, she bumped into Lide's deep eyes. At that moment, Heyue seemed to feel something in her heart, and she smiled unconsciously, and the melancholy melted into those peach-blossom smiling eyes.
She took a step forward, tilted her head, and asked naturally:
"Why, do you want to try?"