The streets and alleys in the city are covered with dilapidated notices, and each one is indispensable with the seal of the imperial court. After years of exposure to wind and sun, the handwriting is mottled and stained on the walls like ringworm. This scene has probably lasted.
Seven or eight years ago, they were all brand new at first, like patches, covering every corner of the country. Month after month
The layers of the moon are stacked up, making people forget what these walls looked like in the past, and the color of the bricks and adobe. Later, no one continued, but those words have penetrated into everyone's heart. Whether you can read or not
, whether you know the meaning or not, they will become a part of your flesh and blood forever.
A young man had a reed in his mouth and was staring at a notice. This notice was as incomplete as the others. But he was not looking at the content of the notice. He was already familiar with the words.
I just stared blankly at one of the words, looking at it as big, looking at it as ugly, looking at it as strange.
Although the young man is a young man, he looks older than others of the same age. His eyes are slightly dark, revealing an indescribable tiredness, and he looks like he has never slept well since he was born. But his
He has a lazy expression, as if he is not paying attention to anything. The young man's hair is a dull sandalwood color, a bit long, and the ends are tied into a small bunch.
, his bangs lay lazily and loosely on his forehead. His body looked a bit thin, making people wonder how he could carry the pair of heavy scimitars behind his back. However, this was probably the reason why he always had his back hunched. He was originally
He's not short, but he just can't straighten up properly. In front of the tall notice, he has to bend over and look up with his eyes a little bored.
This scimitar is very special. The blade is long and narrow, one black and one white. The black one cannot shine any light, and the white one cannot cast any shadow. The blade is inlaid with yin and yang fish of different colors, which are white Qiong and black.
Yu. More than half of the people in the world use single soldiers, and double soldiers are also extremely light.
His two scimitars are heavy no matter how heavy they are. They probably wouldn’t be able to move even further if they added scabbards, so the scimitars don’t have scabbards. They just have two metal rings on their waists to hold the knives in. He’s like this
A swordsman can naturally place it back very skillfully without scratching his pants.
He pushed upwards with his tongue, and with a sound like spitting, the reed grass was pushed out. Then, he put his hands on his hips and pulled his shoulders back a little, in order to prevent his swords from opening too wide.
, hitting passers-by or getting stuck in some corner. He turned around and left in a swaggering manner.
Reeds stabbed deeply into the top of the notice, nailing it to it like a wooden wedge.
He had traveled a long way from his hometown. When he left, he had no luggage. He just packed a handful of banknotes and traveled lightly. He had to go to a place far, far away, in the extreme south of the continent, and he had to travel across the ocean.
Crossing the sea. For a period of time, the coastal areas were blocked. Only people sent by the imperial court could travel. Even the number of followers was regulated.
Careful screening. If someone violates the ban and goes to sea privately, he will be punished severely and exaggeratedly. But in the past two years, it has been much more lenient. After all, there are too many examples of people who have come and gone without returning. Furthermore, no one can stop those who are truly curious.
.Go and die if you are in a hurry. But among these people, there are also some who have naive imaginations and beautiful expectations. Let them go.
The court can't control that much anymore.
The factional struggle within the imperial court has never stopped for a moment, it is endless, and everyone is exhausted. But this struggle is complementary to the other side of the struggle - the separatist rule of the vassal states. There is no big country in the Kyushu continent anymore.
They are always this kind of people. The imperial court orders are changed from time to time, and the people above can't give a definite answer. The person in the middle breaks his leg when he runs away. When it comes to the bottom, it has become a pot of porridge because of the rules eight lifetimes ago, and no one can hear what the person who comes is saying.
What.
I didn't even intend to listen.
A court that cannot be convinced is like a mute. No matter how you point your fingers, the princes will not even look at you. With the vast land and abundant resources, the sky high and far away, and there are no suitable rules and regulations to restrain them, the king of heaven cannot control these bastards.
. Later, the emperor changed, deposed several princes to scare the monkeys, and annexed several large and similar neighboring countries.
The disobedient guy changed all the "land" into "cities" and suddenly lost his momentum. As a result, the arrogance of the mob was suppressed, and they finally calmed down for a little bit - but it turned into smashing bowls on the table.
Kicking off shoes under the table. Finally got a chance to breathe. The court finally had time to deal with a certain issue left over from history.
In the extreme south, where you need to cross the ocean, there is a broken island called the Biluo Islands. The largest piece of land among them is called the South Country. It is a bit difficult to say: the name of this place has been completely
Forgotten - it was sudden, like a strange spell. When all the upper class people were noisy
When the lower classes were fed, hungry and beaten to death, the name of this country was erased from everyone's hearts, leaving only the concept of "Southern Country". The incident happened suddenly and was too bizarre. Wait for this incident
When it was taken seriously, or when the treasury was empty, someone remembered that some vassal states had forgotten to pay tribute.
Yes, it seems that the Southern Kingdom unilaterally severed diplomatic relations with them a long time ago.
Nowadays, they claim to the outside world that they are called Jiutian Kingdom, but although no one can remember its former name, they clearly know that it is definitely not this. They are just a few sparsely populated islands. Where do they have the courage to call themselves Jiutian? A few taels.
Wine?
At that time, the imperial court was still at war with the imperial court, with the vassal states, and the vassal states were also at war with the vassal states. The emperor still had some authority when speaking, so he sent people to investigate. First, he selected some eloquent civil servants and planned to
Have a nice talk with them and talk about what is going on
He also tried to trick people into thinking about what kind of difficulties he encountered before making a decision, and whether he had made any extraordinary discoveries. By the way, he brought special products from various places, gold and silver treasures, as well as fine tea and silk. The civil servants went there.
, not a single hair came back.
The emperor was furious. How could it be unreasonable that these people were detained like this? So the imperial court sent another group of generals. If they were soft, they would be tough. If they didn't give them a blow, do they really think that this country of thousands of miles is a sick cat? This
The first time they brought a set of swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, and they were able to use eighteen kinds of weapons. The generals went again, but they still beat dogs with meat buns and never came back.
How can this be true? How can it be true?
The imperial court sent troops.
Are 300,000 soldiers enough? I'm afraid there isn't even enough space on the coast to set foot on. Even if it's food, it can deplete the small southern country. But the result is that year after year, it still sinks into the sea and disappears.
news.
The court felt something was wrong.
Three hundred thousand troops evaporated out of thin air. This sounds like a horrifying story. So someone said that they must have learned some miraculous magic to summon gods and ghosts there. So the imperial court sent Buddhist and Taoist disciples and onmyojis, and also
There are many people who practice martial arts, and all of them
They were carefully selected. However, they got into a quarrel on the way and accidentally killed several people. After arriving, no news came. It was just that their boat was cast with a spell and floated back on its own. There was no one on the boat - even
No one has touched the remaining supplies.
Things got weirder and weirder, and excessive squandering of resources also led to serious consequences. High taxes made the people complain, and the vassal states also intrigued each other, and even pointed the finger at the court, scolding them for abusing resources. So there were people in the court.
When you get angry, if you say you can do it, you can do it, but if it doesn't work, don't point fingers. There are actually princes who say it is okay. There must be brave men under heavy rewards. The other princes also followed suit and recruited a group of wise and brave people in the world. Of course, there are no exceptions.
, they did not come back.
It's so fucking evil.
For a long time after that, every corner of the continent was engulfed in endless internal strife. The atmosphere was chaotic and the people were in dire straits. Notices recruiting civilian corps and knights-errants appeared one after another. At first, the lives of the family members were guaranteed -
—Otherwise, who would die? Later, someone tried to get some money, and most of the basic bounty was deducted, and no one was willing to go. The people they sent in the end were not soldiers, lobbyists, counselors, or rangers.
, nor a warlock.
But a group of death row prisoners.
They were like the last sacrifices, being exiled on the dilapidated ship and transported to the bloody mouth of the invisible monster.
He has always disdained to care about all this. Life and death, whether rich or poor, are other people's business. He polished the knife by himself, opened his eyes wide and lived a good life. Strictly speaking, he was just a knight-errant, but he didn't do much.
chivalrous and righteous deeds
Basically, when you are in a good mood, you will act bravely, but sometimes you will let the bad guys go. Sometimes, if you want to see whose children, old men, cats and dogs are pitiful, you will also pass a piece of cake by the way.
It takes a little effort.
He breaks laws and disciplines, and gets into fights a lot. It's just that he has a bad appearance, and most of the local gangsters, even the people in the local county government, don't care about him. This is the way of the world, tending to follow the crowd, bullying the weak and afraid of the strong. He doesn't like it.
There are too many things, but I know very well in my heart that I don’t want to be a
If people look at people who don't like them, they will be bullied by those who don't like them. This world is very unreasonable, and most of the things that don't make sense are good. Good people may not be rewarded, but evil people mostly live a comfortable life. So
, the evil people fight and compete with each other, but they are surprisingly united in oppressing the good people.
But so what? As long as you don't count on anyone, you won't have any failed expectations or bear disappointing results. As long as you are strong enough and capable enough to handle anything. He thinks so, and his father also taught him this.
He temporarily
He could be considered such a person. He thought he could live a leisurely life like this, until one day a piece of news hit him on the head, causing blood to pour out. He endured the pain and stood up, rubbing his head.
, only to find that the one who did it was Liu Dao Impermanence.
So what? I can’t bear the loss, I must pay back my hand.
