Phoenix Shadow Coming From the Sky: Fourth, wind and thunder anger. Fish and dragons miserable 1

Xuancheng Royal Palace.

The moon was slanting, everyone went to bed and rested, and the palace was completely silent, but there was a figure carrying a palace lantern through the long corridor, and came to the west temple. In the dark palace, only the doors and windows here showed A little light.

Pushing open the door of the hall, there is only one candle burning on each side of the huge hall. There are many tablets lined up on the divine table directly in front of the hall, and the dim candles filled the hall. Gloomy. The king of Beihai is bowing his head at this moment, kneeling in front of the divine case.

"Royal father." A soft call sounds like a warbler's cry.

Beihai King didn't look back, he still knelt down and said, "It's so late, Xuanji, what are you doing here?"

"Father knows it's getting late, so it's time to go back to the palace to rest." Bei Xuanji, the eldest princess of Beihai, walked into the hall and hung the palace lantern with the huge night pearl on the lamp stand. The beauty in the next picture is so finely detailed: the eyebrows are as light as smoke, the lips are crimson as vermilion, the head is full of black silk, half combed in a fan bun and half hanging behind the shoulders, a pair of emerald gold phoenixes are inserted at the temples, and the crimson agate tassels hang on the ears. By the side, her face is like peach blossoms, her skin is like new snow, and she is dressed in a purple robe dragging on the ground. Against her slim and slender body, she is really emerald, like a painting.

The king of Beihai straightened his back, looked up at the tablet on the divine table, and sighed: "The country is about to die, how can I sleep peacefully."

"Father." Bei Xuanji lowered her body to support her father who was kneeling on the ground.

Beihai Wang didn't get up, but turned around and sat down on the futon, still looking at the divine case. "The widow is pleading guilty to the ancestors. It is because of the mistakes of the widow that the disaster of the country's subjugation has been caused." After finishing the sentence, his voice was already choked up.

Bei Xuanji sat down next to her father, and now that she was so close, she realized that her father was much older. Her father, who was only in his early fifties and had always been strong and energetic, now showed exhaustion from his eyes. With aging, frosty white hair is added to the sideburns. His father came to the throne at a young age, worked hard for more than 20 years, and was always in good spirits, but in just one month, the lines on his forehead and eyes were carved like knives. "Father, don't blame yourself too much. The prosperity of Beihai for more than 20 years is also due to your credit."

"Haha..." The King of Beihai gave a bleak smile, "This is the so-called success and failure."

"Father..."

"Xuanji, is this widow a Mingjun?" The King of Beihai looked at his daughter.

"Of course it is." Bei Xuanji replied without thinking, "For hundreds of years, Beihai has been a barren and small border country, but in the past twenty years, Beihai has never had unprecedented prosperity and prosperity, which made Meng Powerful countries such as Cheng and Dadong also looked at him, which is enough to prove that the father is a once-in-a-century king.”

"Yes, Beihai is becoming more and more prosperous under the governance of the widow, and the people's life is becoming more and more peaceful. All the subjects in the country praise the widow and love the widow." The king of Beihai looked outside the palace gate, looking at the stars in the night sky, as if I saw the prosperity, splendor and prosperity of the past. "But..." The next moment, his eyes were dimmed, revealing deep regret, "This prosperous world was also destroyed by my own hands, and it was destroyed by my arrogance and ignorance! I regret! I hate! I... ..." He put his head in his hands and then beat it hard, as if wishing he could beat his head to get rid of the tragic situation in front of him, "Why did the widow go beyond his own strength to attack Dadong? Why did the widow fight with the betrayed Meng Form an alliance? How stupid is the widow to make today's big mistake!"

"Father! Father!" Bei Xuanji quickly grabbed her father's hands that beat her head, "Father, stop! Stop!"

"Today's catastrophe has been caused, I regret it!" The King of Beihai shouted while holding his head. The soldiers were all dead, the army besieged the city, and seeing that the country was subjugated in an instant, the leader of the country who was once ordered to be a wise king lost all his manners and mind.

"Father! This is the end of the matter, it is useless to regret it, why not plan for the future!" Bei Xuanji sternly said.

Beihai Wang, who was holding his head, was stunned, then let go of his head and looked up at his daughter, as if a little surprised by her daughter's stern tone. "Xuanji..."

"Father." Bei Xuanji's expression softened, and her tone softened, "You are the lord of a country, how can you indulge in regret and disregard the lives and deaths of the people in the city." She helped Bei Haiwang in the sheepskin Sit down on the cushion, "Father, the Easterners have sent arrows, saying that they will not attack the city within three days, and it is a choice for us to surrender or fight. Father, you should make plans early."

Perhaps the daughter's composure appeased the father, and the king of Beihai calmed down and slowly recovered his sobriety.

The hall was silent for a while.

For a long time, the King of Beihai looked at his daughter: "When I received the arrow book today, I called a group of ministers to discuss it. The main surrender and the main fighter have their own opinions. Xuanji, you are always smart and have ideas, but you should talk about it. "

"Father." Bei Xuanji shook her head, "You are the king of a country and cannot be influenced by others. The daughter just asks the father's decision. Surrender is to share honor and disgrace with father; war is to live and die with father. "

"Xuanji." The King of Beihai sighed softly, looked at his daughter with regret, "It would be great if you were a man, but..." He turned and smiled again, "If you have a daughter like this, husband What more can I ask for."

"Father." Bei Xuanji leaned against her father.

The King of the North Sea raised his hand and stroked his daughter's head. At this moment, he was the wise and loving King of the North Sea again. "Xuanji, even for you, the widow can't let you suffer from this disaster."

Bei Xuanji raised her head, "Did the father decide to surrender?"

"There are so many innocent people in the city." The King of Beihai sighed softly, "The widows may die in battle, but the widows have brought them the disaster of subjugation of the country, and they cannot be subject to this disaster of war.

Bei Xuanji nodded, "There are only 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city. Even if you fight to the death, you can't hold it. It's just ruining more lives. It's better to surrender directly, so as to save the suffering of the people."

"Yes." The King of Beihai smiled wryly, "In the future, the history books will record the crime of subjugation of the widow."

"Father, don't say such depressing words." Bei Xuanji stood up, "If Beihai loses to the Dongren today, how can it be lost forever!" She looked at the ancestral tablets on the divine table, " All the ancestors are invited to watch, my Bei clan will definitely return in the future, wash away the shame and rebuild the ancestral temple!"

"Xuanji, you..." The King of Beihai was shocked.

"Father, for the sake of the people all over the city, Beihai can surrender today, but how can we, the Bei clan, just admit defeat and resign ourselves to fate!" The surrender is just a step that must be taken for the restoration of the country in the future."

"Xuanji, do you have any plans in mind?" The King of Beihai looked at his daughter in surprise.

"Father, the North Sea can be surrendered, but the Bei clan cannot perish." Bei Xuanji looked at her father, "The Easterners gave us a three-day time limit, and today is only the first day. So, my daughter asks the father, the king of the kingdom. The matter will be done by the daughter, Dong Ren has never seen the father, please use the feigned death to bring a thousand elite soldiers and loyal officials, and escape tomorrow when it is dark, in order to restore the country in the future."

"No, absolutely no!" The North Sea King immediately vetoed it.

"Father!" Bei Xuanji called urgently.

"Xuanji." The King of Beihai looked at his beloved daughter with pity on his face, "Back then when King Mengcheng asked to marry you, the widows were reluctant to let you do such a thing today."

"Father King." Bei Xuanji helped her father who was sitting on the sheepskin cushion, and stood in the hall, facing the ancestors directly in front of the hall. "My daughter has been greatly favored by you for her upbringing, and she should repay it; she was born into the royal family of Bei, and she should protect the people of Beihai. Today I just bowed my knees to the enemy, so there is nothing I can't do."

"Xuanji, my dear child." The King of Beihai caressed his daughter, feeling very relieved, the panic and uneasiness from before had disappeared without a trace. He let go of his daughter's supporting hand, walked to the door of the hall, looked at the night sky outside the hall, and fell into deep thought.

Bei Xuanji saw this, and immediately said: "Father, you have promised your daughter."

Wang Weiyu of Beihai.

After a long time, I heard him say: "Xuanji, you are right, the North Sea can fall, but the Bei Clan cannot perish. So tomorrow you and your twelve younger brothers pack up, and quietly escape from the city through the secret passage in the palace in the middle of the night Go. You are still so young, and you still have a long life to live. Although your twelfth brother is young, he is intelligent by nature. If you cultivate well, you may become a great talent in the future."

"Father..." Bei Xuanji couldn't help feeling anxious when she heard the words.

"The widow is already old." The King of Beihai interrupted his daughter, turned around and took her hand, and walked out of the hall together. "Xuanji, you can see that this month in the sky is already so dim, just like your old father, who can no longer shine on Beihai for long. Therefore, the widows stay, and you take your twelfth brother with you."

"No." Bei Xuanji's voice of refusal was crisp and firm.

"Xuanji..." The King of Beihai was surprised by his daughter's abnormal toughness today.

"Father, although my daughter is a princess, she is nothing more than a weak girl in the deep palace, and my twelfth brother is only nine years old." Bei Xuanji looked dignified, "Think about it, father. Is it rare? At this moment when the country is ruined and the family is in ruins, people's hearts are the most volatile, and the road to escape must be full of hardships and dangers. If there is any change on the way, how can we orphans and children calm down? Can you live with those brave generals?"

"This..." The king of Beihai couldn't help but be terrified when he heard these words. The daughter's words are indeed justified. When the country is in crisis, the most difficult thing to control is the human heart. The daughter has been living deep in the palace, how can she know how to control the subordinates, and the twelve children are still young, and it is impossible to rely on them. If those generals rebel in the midst of war, how can the children subdue them? !

"My daughter is well aware of how much her father loves her, but the risk is very high. If the daughter and the 12th younger brother are lost on the way, it will not only be a waste of the father's efforts, but also talk about the great plan of restoring the country!" Bei Xuanji's With a desolate and heavy voice, she looked at her father with tears in her bright eyes, "Father, you are the king of the North Sea, you can control those generals, you can teach the twelve younger brothers to become emperors, and only you can justifiably call for the king." The subjects will avenge their shame and return to the country.”

Heart shaken, staring at his daughter, said sadly: "Xuanji, how could I escape by myself and leave you here?" A thought flashed through his mind, and he said suddenly: "Then you and I can leave together. "

Bei Xuanji shook her head lightly, sighing uncontrollably, "Father, elder brother, second elder brother, fourth elder brother, fifth elder brother died early, third elder brother and sixth elder brother died in battle, and the remaining younger brothers and sisters are all minors. After my brother left, who in the royal family will present the book of surrender to the country? Who will be the master for the people in the city? As the eldest princess of Beihai, my daughter should take on this important task."

"No." How could the King of Beihai agree to leave his beloved daughter to bear the crime of subjugation of the country, "This disaster was caused by the widow, how can I escape by myself at this moment and leave you to bear it."

Bei Xuanji knew that her father was worried about her safety and was afraid of leaving her to suffer. She was moved and sad for a moment, but it was not the time for sentimentality, so she persuaded again: "Father, since the Easterners captured our country, There has never been any massacre of the city, nor has there been any massacre of my subjects in Beihai. My daughter is a member of the royal family of Beihai, but she is only a woman. Eastern people will not guard against it, let alone kill for no reason."

Beihai Wang knew that what his daughter said was true and reasonable, but... Looking at his daughter's beautiful face, he felt very worried. It is not uncommon for a subjugated princess to become an enemy's concubine in ancient times. If a daughter really wants to serve the enemy with her own body, what a sad thing it is.

"Father." Bei Xuanji naturally understood her father's worries. She just smiled lightly, and her bright eyes turned into crescent moons, charming and seductive. "Wouldn't it be just right if Emperor Dadong wanted to take his daughter into the palace."

The king of Beihai was startled, and stared at his daughter with wide eyes.

Bei Xuanji immediately smiled, "Father, if my daughter leaves with my twelfth brother, you will definitely die; but if you leave with my twelfth brother, then my daughter still has a chance to live I can wait for my father to return to the country and take my daughter back to the court." She stretched out her hand to hold her father's hand, "Father, you should know which is more important."

The King of the North Sea was silent.

Of course he knows that his daughter's analysis is reasonable, and he also knows that doing so is the most sensible choice. He has been a king for decades, so there is no way he can't "clear", but... he embraced his daughter and gently stroked her. Looking at her delicate face carefully. This is his most beloved daughter, his heart and soul, and if he wants to abandon her, it will be more painful than cutting the flesh and harder than removing the bones!

"Father, the country is facing a crisis. Many soldiers have already sacrificed their lives for our Beihai, so what a daughter is nothing. As long as he returns to our Bei clan, it will be worthwhile for my daughter to serve the enemy with her body." , or under the nine springs, I will also greet my father with a smile." Bei Xuanji hugged her father, leaned on his father's shoulder, and said softly but firmly: "Please promise your daughter."

"Xuanji..." The King of the North Sea was so excited that he choked up and couldn't speak.

"Father, for my Bei family, for my Bei Hai, please promise your daughter." Bei Xuanji's voice was still sober and sensible.

A gust of night wind blows, rustling the leaves.

In the soft sound of the wind and leaves, the heavy and helpless voice of the King of the North Sea sounded: "I promise you. But you have to promise me, and I will definitely wait for the widow to come back to pick you up."

"...Okay." Bei Xuanji closed her eyes and fell into her father's arms.

At the time of birth and departure, the promise is as heavy as a mountain, but no one knows that the wind will destroy the rock and crack it, and it will instantly become a sand dune.