Si Tian Guan

Chapter 144 Demons

"Liu Chongming!"

The people around him tried their best to pull Liu Chongming, and slapped him hard: "What's the use of you going back now? Are you buried with them? It's too late!"

"Do not……"

Liu Chongming knew that this was in a dream, and he also knew that he should remind himself that these were all illusions and fakes. His family should have lived safely, and the home he grew up in had not been burned to the ground.

But when he really saw it, he still couldn't help crying and choking, unable to control himself, the people who bled to death in places he couldn't see were all his family members.

Even the nightmare is not so real, so terrible, even every breath is a knife cut on the body.

"Go! Go!"

Fang Wuyang pushed him onto the horse like crazy, the whip cracked, and the city gate slowly closed behind them.

"This is a dream... this is a dream..."

Liu Chongming leaned on the horse, watching the ground pass by under his feet in a daze and panic, as if he was a skin without a soul, desperately trying to open his eyes wide and force himself to wake up.

"This isn't a dream!" Fang Wuyang galloped alongside him, grabbed his reins with one hand, and yelled at him sharply, "Stand up! If you die here, the hatred of the Liu family will be forever. Don't think that anyone can report it!"

Liu Chongming was startled awake by the word "resentment".

"He saved me!" He suddenly sat up straight like crazy: "He saved me!"

He finally remembered that Qu Chenzhou had said to him, "Before the day after tomorrow...wait for news from me at Nianhua shop".

If he hadn't been waiting in front of the Nianhua shop early on, maybe it was his body that was burned in the billowing smoke.

Liu Chongming seemed to go crazy, the tears on his face were still wet, but he laughed loudly: "He saved me!"

He suddenly took back the rein, and as soon as he pulled the horse's head, he was about to turn around, but Fang Wuyang stopped him.

"Liu Chongming! If you want to die, get out early! It's in vain for us to save you from so many dead people!"

"Fang Wuyang...but I'm going to find him..."

Liu Chongming's whole body was shaking violently, and he could barely sit on his horse: "He...he is still in the palace, I told him to wait for me...he must still be waiting for me to go back..."

"Who are you looking for?" Fang Wuyang snarled at him: "Who else is more important than your family's feud! Think about your father, your mother, and your brother! Do you want them to die in vain!"

Liu Chongming covered his face and wept bitterly, he couldn't separate himself from this body, nor could he escape from here soberly.

The dream was so real, it seemed that he had really lost all his relatives, and since then he was alone, with only pain and hatred, and no time to care about anything else.

Tears remain in the mouth, the taste is salty and bitter, like the taste that I have licked and tasted in countless loves.

He suddenly put his palm in his mouth and bit it hard, and suddenly woke up, with tears still hanging on his face, still panting heavily, everything around him had changed.

It turned out to be a nightmare. He woke up, and the cold face was not tears, but the rain falling from the sky.

He got up from the horse, and saw Bai Shiyan riding towards him from a distance, and as soon as he relaxed, he was about to go up.

"What are you doing!" It was Fang Wuyang who held him back: "Run! Run!"

Only then did he realize with horror that his whole body was drenched by the heavy rain, and Bai Shiyan was stepping on the mud, coming towards him with a murderous aura.

"Liu Chongming!" Fang Wuyang yelled beside him, "Do it! Do it!"

It was still those familiar nightmares, but now it happened so clearly in front of my eyes.

"do not want!"

Before Liu Chongming could utter a shrill scream, he heard the sound of bowstrings beside him, and three arrows shot out together.

Bai Shiyan in front of him only made a vain stop, fell off his horse in response to the third arrow that passed through his chest, and rolled down in the mud.

He finally couldn't help crying hysterically: "Don't..."

"Wake up," someone was shaking him gently: "Second brother, wake up."

Liu Chongming suddenly opened his eyes, saw the curtain above his head, and then slowly calmed down his rapid breathing, touched his cheek, and held the tears and sweat with his hands.

He paused for a moment, then sat up slowly, hugging the quilt, the unfamiliar room was not his bedroom, only Bai Shilei was familiar in front of him.

"Shi Lei..." He struggled for too long in the endless nightmare, when he spoke, his voice was low and dry: "I just dreamed about Shi Yan."

Bai Shilei shook his hand holding the teacup, most of the tea spilled out and wet the brocade quilt.

"What's the matter?" Liu Chongming raised his gaze suddenly.

Bai Shilei suddenly threw away the teacup, half-knelt on the edge of the bed, buried his head in the quilt, and choked up silently.

There was a bad omen in Liu Chongming's heart: "Shi Lei, what's wrong... Could it be..."

He looked at Bai Shilei's hand, it was already a young man's hand, not the boy he remembered, he couldn't help but tremble - it was still a dream, or that endless nightmare.

Or, this is actually the world he really lives in, and everyone is gone.

Bai Shilei knelt down and cried hysterically.

"I also dreamed of my brother, and my father and mother! I dreamed of them every day! I even saw them covered in blood in my dreams, and asked me why I didn't avenge them!"

Liu Chongming was like five thunderbolts, and he murmured after a while: "Uncle and Aunt..."

Nothing can escape, he can no longer be an outsider.

Rather than saying that he was trapped in this nightmare and could not escape, it would be better to say that such a peaceful and peaceful life was just his fantasy.

In his fantasy, he still lives in another courtyard, and he can still visit the Hou Mansion from time to time. His father and younger brother are all well, his second uncle occasionally comes to make jokes, and his aunt gave birth to a younger brother.

In that illusion, he met someone who made his heart flutter, and they walked together for the future of the Bailiu family.

He loves and pities the little fox so much, wishing he could hold it in his mouth every day and lick its soft and smooth fur.

Gradually, Bai Shiyan, father and uncle all stood behind him, and then many things happened, even Ling He, Rong Jiuan and Jiang Xingzhi were pulled over.

His hands were stained with the blood of innocent women and babies, just to take another step towards Jinxiu Camp.

And later...

Liu Chongming looked at his empty hand, and asked hoarsely, "Shen... Where is Shen Zhou..."

This name stung Bai Shilei thoroughly, he suddenly raised his head, roaring with endless hatred.

"Why do you still call him by his name! Why do you still read him! Didn't he kill enough people!"

Liu Chongming's heart seemed to be cut into pieces, and there was nothing to beat in his heart - so it turned out that now is the truth, it turned out that he really had nothing left.

"It can't be him...he saved me, he must have some unspeakable difficulties, I'm going to ask him..."

He was incoherent, and was about to get out of bed, but his feet were shaking so badly that he couldn't even put on his shoes.

"He must need me very much now... There is no one around, I will go to him..."

"Liu Chongming!" Bai Shilei yelled at him: "What is his reason! Haven't you seen how proud he is now? How tall is he standing? It's all the corpses of our two families!"

"He's just a vicious slave! If you kindly teach him to help him, what will he give you in return! If he hadn't informed the emperor, would the emperor have done anything to the Liu family!"

"Where's the Bai family? Who forced him? Everyone in the palace heard it with their own ears, and he said that the Bai family will rebel!"

"He just has a guilty conscience, and he won't even let the big sister off! How could the big sister have a child in the cold palace!"

"Isn't he able to pinch and count? Why can't he even count that King Huai forced the palace this time? He is simply in collusion with King Huai! He forced big sister to death and let King Huai take advantage of the chaos to force the palace!"

"Look at his current scenery, how did that come about? How did that come about? Can't you see it?"

Bai Shilei grabbed his lapel and roared hissingly: "Master Lin is also dead, Rong Jiu'an and Ling He are both dead in his hands! Can't you see clearly what kind of person he is! A sycophant who harms the country! That villain You raised the ghost yourself!"

"He doesn't know about etiquette, righteousness and shame, he only knows how to climb up!"

Liu Chongming's heart was blank, and he sat on the bed blankly, watching helplessly as despair and pain devoured him little by little.

He did remember it, and he could no longer deceive himself.

Qu Shenzhou betrayed him.

Everyone knew that he was lucky enough to escape the Marquis Mansion, and only he knew that it was Qu Chenzhou's painstaking hexagrams that saved his life when he was parting.

It was also Qu Sitian's hexagrams that caused the Liu family to bleed like rivers.

On one side is Qu Chenzhou, who is unpredictable in good and evil, and on the other side is the lives of thousands of people in the Liu family. In the gap of grief, every time he struggles to forgive Qu Chenzhou, those wailing and screams are burned like karmic fire. with him.

Pain and despair have nowhere to say, nowhere to vent.

If it's just that, that's all. With the destruction of the Bai family, the death of his sister, and after King Huai forced the palace, that person was ranked below one, and countless loyal ministers and generals were expelled and slaughtered, so he had to see the reality clearly.

He did raise an evil ghost, and that evil ghost tasted the joy of playing tricks on people, stepped on thousands of corpses, and finally climbed to the top of the extremely human minister.

He is also an executioner with a butcher's knife.

Those broken chapters that could not be connected together no matter what, those truths that Qu Shenzhou concealed, unfolded unexpectedly like this.

As if experiencing vicissitudes in an instant, those things that were boiling like magma gradually cooled down, without rage, loss, sorrow, or despair.

Liu Chongming didn't know how long he sat blankly, and finally forced himself to remember that he shouldn't be here, this place is an illusion of his previous life.

The real him is still in the paddock. He thought that he was playing a calm and calm role together with Qu Chenzhou, but he didn't expect that he was just an insignificant piece of chess in the opponent's hand.

King Huai's unpredictable gaze was extremely mocking, he could no longer be immersed in it and couldn't extricate himself.

His sister's situation is unknown, and Bai Shiyan's whereabouts are still unknown. He has to grab his friend in time—no matter what Qu Shenzhou said before, don't listen to it, definitely don't listen to it!

He bit his own palm, and without feeling any pain, he pulled out the sword from the bedside. The bright sword body reflected his indifferent eyes, and slowly sank, touching his chest.

Sometimes there are grievances.

Qu Shenzhou, don't die!

When Liu Chongming suddenly opened his eyes, the night was falling, and he fell asleep on his stomach at some point.

In front of the tip of the nose was a smooth stone table, reflecting the warm red candlelight under the eaves. The imperial physician at the side was withdrawing his hand from pushing him, and stood carefully watching him.

"My son... but was caught by the nightmare?"

He stuffed his finger in his mouth and bit it hard, the pain was so painful that he didn't have time to breathe a sigh of relief, and immediately looked at the imperial physician.

This imperial doctor was someone close to Liu Qingru, so he was naturally familiar with him, but it was the first time he saw his fierce gaze like a wolf like a knife, so he couldn't help but shiver.

"My son, the empress has been pregnant for more than a month, but she has been frightened, and needs to be observed for two days to know whether the fetus is stable. The emperor is also happy and anxious, saying that he will come to visit the empress later."

"Sister, can you estimate her situation?" The imperial doctor's words made him feel at a loss.

The imperial doctor was in a dilemma, but seeing his anxious face, he could only say: "Your Majesty, rest assured, Your Majesty is in good health, and nothing will happen."

Liu Chongming stroked his forehead, wiped off a thin layer of sweat, looked around, and saw that besides the paddock soldiers, there were also dragoons guarding the courtyard.

"Is there any news from Beiya?"

The Imperial Physician bowed and retreated, someone stepped forward, invited him aside, and said in a low voice: "My lord, we sent people to ask several times, but General Bai didn't come back, it's just..."

The man looked behind him, and a dragoon immediately stepped forward.

Liu Chongming recognized this person, he was one of Bai Shiyan's personal soldiers.

"My lord," the soldier cupped his hands and said, "My lord, the general set off with people around noon, and he hasn't returned yet. Almost all the brothers who accompanied him have returned. They said it was the general's order, and they separated from the general at the fork in the road when he was searching the mountains. .”

"You mean... Shi Yan is alone? Where did he go?"

Liu Chongming saw a sachet in his hand at a glance, and his heart tightened suddenly.

In the late spring of this year, he and Qu Shenzhou dried the sycamore flowers together, and asked the embroidery room to make these sachets, which were only distributed to a few people.

"Where did you find this?"

The soldiers hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty is looking for it urgently, and the subordinates and others are also anxious, looking around, someone accidentally found that the general left this thing on the table, look..."

Liu Chongming put two fingers into the sachet, and took out a note.

Before he unfolded the note, his heart sank to the bottom.

Since he didn't put this note, there is only one other person. In the past, he would only feel peace of mind, but now, there is only fear.

"Before the time, come to the north and look south of the slope - Chongming."

That is clearly his handwriting, even the word "Zhi" is the same.

The author has something to say: a little spoiler, after the night of Qianghuo, Shen Zhou noticed the crack in the trust between the two, so before Chongming intentionally missed to pull the finger, Shen Zhou made full preparations for this fall.

His behavior style has always been like this, he is ruthless to others, and he is also ruthless to himself, but everything is in his expectation, just like the beginning of Wen calmly went to death