76 | Closed Gates of Yongan 2

“Open the door!”

“Let us in!”

The soldiers retreated into the city, and the thousand-pound gates closed. The people who had been expelled from the gates by the soldiers came back like a black tide, slapping against the gates. The generals on the citadel yelled, “Retreat! Retreat! Those who have received their coins can go on their way, to the east, don’t linger!”

However, these Yongan people left their homeland and fled all the way to the nearest city, the Imperial City. The gates of the Imperial City were closed to them, and if they wanted to live, they had to bypass the Imperial City and travel farther, to a city further east.

However, the journey here has been fraught with dangers, deaths and injuries, so how can they continue to move forward? Even if each of them was given some food, water and dry food, how many days could they last on the road?

They were all gray, some dragging pots and pans, some carrying dolls, some carrying stretchers, some supporting each other, some lying down, no longer able to walk, sitting in pieces on the ground in front of the city wall. The young men, who still had the strength to be angry, hammered at the gates and shouted, “You can’t do this! You want us to die!”

“We’re all from Senryaku, don’t be so desperate!”

A man shouted so loud that his voice was muffled: “It’s fine if we’re kicked out, I’m not going in, but let my wife and kids stay, okay?!”

Like an ant trying to shake a tree, the gates won’t budge.

Xie Ren stood above the city tower. His white clothes fluttered as he crossed the women’s wall and looked down. Beyond the Imperial City, all he saw were slowly writhing human heads, black and dense, like the ant swarms he saw when he was a child playing in the Imperial Garden.

At that time, out of curiosity, he looked a few more times, stretched out a finger, wanted to secretly poke, immediately a palace staff shouted: “Your Highness, this thing is dirty, can’t touch, can’t touch!” Carrying a skirt hurried over, a few feet to crush those ants.

There’s nothing to see when a mole cricket is alive except a dense mass, and there’s even less to see when it’s trampled to death and turned into something that doesn’t even count as a puddle of mud and scum.

And within the Imperial City, the lights of ten thousand homes were brilliant, and the singing and music were faint. A city wall separates two very different worlds.

Later Yongan people can not go in is just, the original inside actually also want to drive out. Although cold and hard, but Xie Ren probably know, this is because for months, the people of the Imperial City and Yongan people more and more friction trouble, stay a group of such men in the city, for fear that in the event that the outside world, what chaos.

However, there was one point that he felt was still debatable, and out of the blue, he said, “Why should the women and children be withdrawn as well? There are some people in there that can’t go much farther.”

Feng Xin and Mu情 waited behind him. Mu Xin said, “If we want to withdraw, we must withdraw together. We must not suffer from scarcity, we must not treat them differently, otherwise we will inevitably irritate people. Why should they be able to stay and I not?”

Windsong said, “You think a lot.”

Muyi said faintly, “That’s just what some people will think. Besides, if the wives and children aren’t gone, the men won’t be willing to leave much farther, will they, sooner or later, come back. Leaving people in the city is leaving a problem.”

These Yongan people refused to leave, and the generals inside the citadel couldn’t leave either, so they all said, “Hmph, let’s just spend it like this!”

Since His Majesty the King has given the order, do you think it’s useful to sit here and waste time? If it can take a day or two, can it take a month or two, or a year or two?

The generals and people of the Imperial City thought so. Some of the Yongan people recognized their fate in despair and decided to take a gamble and continue their journey eastward, but not many of them. Most of them are still sitting at the city gate, hoping that the Imperial City will open the door and let them in, or at least give them a place to settle down and recuperate a little before continuing on their way. More new Yongan people came, although they were very disappointed to see the city gates closed, but seeing that so many people were guarding them, they also joined the army with a waiting and expectant heart.

So, three or four days later, more and more people gathered at the city gates, and tens of thousands of people were practically camped out here, creating a spectacular spectacle. They were barely able to support themselves by relying on the lord of the country to distribute water and dry food, but they were nearing their limit.

That limit, on the fifth day.

Since these five days, Xie Ren every day a day broken into three with, one for the Prince Palace believers, one for the arrangement of moving water rainfall, one for the care of the people outside the city Yongan, even if there is a wind letter and Mu love to help, sometimes also feel overwhelmed, unable to do so. This day, just in he did not guard outside the city of a certain hour, under the hot sun, in front of the city gate suddenly sounded a scream.

The ones screaming were a couple holding a small child. The crowd gathered around and said, “What’s wrong with the child?” “Hungry or thirsty?” In a moment, exclaimed, “Let’s all bring some water over here, this child’s face can’t be seen!”

The woman cried and fed water to the child who was holding his red face, but the water was all spit out. His father said, “I don’t know what’s wrong, he’s sick, doctor, doctor!”

He rushed to the city gates with his son in his arms, clanging and tapping on the door, “Open the door, open the door to save your life! Someone is dying, my son is dying!”

The soldiers inside the door naturally did not dare to open the door. Whether or not someone is really dying, there are tens of thousands of people outside the door, this opening of the door will not be able to be closed again, and only dare to inform the superior generals. The weather was hot, and the generals who had been guarding the door for some days were a little restless, and said perfunctorily, “Give him water and food.” So with a rope, a bit of water and food was hoisted down. The man said, “Thank you, thank you generals big brothers, but we are not asking for water and food, can you help us find a doctor?”

This makes it very difficult. Neither could he be let in the door to get a doctor, nor could a doctor be hoisted down to him. God knows what this group of hungry people who had been starving for four or five days would do when they got to the gate. So a couple of generals said, “Forget it, leave it alone, ignore it, it won’t kill anyone. If you ask again, just say that it’s been notified, and it’s already gone to ask His Majesty, the Lord of the Land.”

The lord of the country has been very annoyed by the matter of Yongan for days, and is frequently angry, naturally no one dares to really bother him for this small matter. A few soldiers answered as they were told, and the man, being at ease, thanked the Lord of the Land in a loud voice, grateful to the Lord of the Land, and knelt down to kowtow. However, an hour an hour passed, the shadow under the hot sun moved from one side to the other, the doctor delayed to appear, the child in his arms is getting hotter and hotter.

The couple’s hands kept shaking as they held the baby, and the man, covered in cold sweat, muttered, “Is anyone else coming? Will you open the door for me again?”

He finally couldn t help himself and shouted loudly at the top of the citadel, “Generals, I am sorry, I would like to ask …… where is the doctor?”

The soldier replied, “It has gone to ask His Majesty, the Lord of the Land, so you can wait a little longer.”

Some of the people at the bottom couldn’t hold back, “They said they went two hours ago, why haven’t they come back now?”

The soldiers obeyed the instructions of their superiors and ignored them after answering. The crowd under the wall, angry, helpless, and pained, gathered around the boy and began to wonder, “Did they really inform His Majesty the Lord of the Land? They can’t be lying to us, can they?”

The boy’s father, unable to wait any longer, put his heart on the line, picked up the child and strapped him to his back, and exchanged a few words with his wife. The woman removed a neck amulet and put it between her husband’s necks. The man ran to the wall and tried to climb upwards.

The outer side of the wall was built extremely difficult to start, he grabbed a few handfuls and couldn’t climb up, and the rest of the men said, “I’ll help you!” The rest of the men said, “I’ll help you!” and went over to support him. Dozens of people, stacked up Luohan, sent him up to about ten feet high. Only here could the man barely grasp the rope that had been used to hang water and food and continue to climb. Tens of thousands of people at the bottom looked at him nervously, not daring to cheer him on for fear of being discovered. The soldiers on the city tower had been guarding the wall for a few days, and the group of Yongan refugees didn’t make any big deal, so they inevitably got a little slack, and when the man climbed to almost half of the height, they suddenly realized that there was a person attached to the wall, and shouted: “What are you doing! Do not climb the wall! Those who climb the wall will be killed without pardon! Do you hear me, wall climbers will be killed without pardon!”

They threatened, and the man blurted out, “I mean no harm! I just want to take my child to see a doctor, I won’t do anything!” While shouting, he continued to climb. A general was originally eating, but when he heard about this, he was irritated to the core. If this person climbed up unharmed and set this precedent, wouldn’t countless Yongan people follow suit afterward? It must be stopped! So, he took a big step and drank down by the wall, “Do you want to die! Go down at once, or I won’t spare you!”

And the man had already climbed to a very high place, past the halfway point, and with a little more effort he could go up, so naturally he refused to stop. That general had never spoken his mind in the barracks, and no one dared disobey his orders. Who dared to disobey was also very simple. He came to the wall, drew his sword and chopped, and that rope broke.

The man held this broken rope and fell from mid-air. Amidst the screams of countless people, it fell heavily onto the hard ground outside the city gates.

It was at this time that Xie Ren appeared.

The man was on his back, and he was carrying a child on his back. “Snapped”, crushed into an exploding mass of mush, a splatter of blood several feet away. His neck was also broken, his eyes were wide open, and an amulet slipped out of his twisted neck, with the word “Immortal Bliss” written in the center, and embroidered with patterns on gold threads, it was an enlightened amulet from the Prince’s Palace.

Moments before he climbed the line, this man and his wife had both held the amulet and silently prayed for His Highness the Crown Prince’s blessing, which was why Xie Ren had heard the sound of their prayers and rushed here.

However, after all, he is not the hero protagonist of those legendary books, every time in the hand just before the fall of the knife can appear, in the nick of time, the knife left people. The woman simply did not turn over her husband’s body to see what had become of her son’s courage, covered her face and screamed, did not even look at the front of the wildly running, a head on the wall, “thud” sound, fell down and did not move.

Right in front of Xie Ren’s eyes, three more corpses were instantly added under the walls of the Imperial City!

He had not yet reacted, while the people outside the city gates could not stand it any longer.

Someone cursed, “Dead and gone, a family of three, dead and gone! See, this is the good general who works for His Majesty our Lord! Instead of saving us, he’s forcing us to die!”

“What do you want people to do if you don’t let us in or send them out? Three bloody lives are watching you!”

“It is said that all Yongan people are withdrawing from the Imperial City, why don’t those rich people see them withdrawing together? We have no money and no power, so we should wait for death, right? I’ve seen it all!”

“Can’t bear it …… really can’t bear it. Year after year the tax that should be levied is not less, the time of disaster relief have gone where?”

“Rather than feed money to assholes to repair his son’s temple than give relief to the flood victims, just give a little water and dry food to get rid of them, what do you take us for? A dimwitted ruler, a dimwitted ruler!”

Soldiers shouted from the citadel, and that general, who had never seen any battle, did not take it to heart. However, the situation had gotten vaguely out of control. Thousands of pairs of angry hands pushed towards the gate, and there were also people who directly hit with their heads and bodies, this time, but no longer overrate themselves.

The city gates moved, and even the entire city building, was vaguely trembling!

Ever since Xie Ren was born, he had never seen anything like this. The people he had seen were all gracious, joyful, rich, and lovely. These people with distorted faces, crying and shouting, made him come to another completely unfamiliar world, and he couldn’t help but be creeped out. Even when he was facing the most terrifying demons and evil spirits, he had never felt this way. It was at this moment that a roar came from above the citadel.

He turned around sharply, only to see a tall, thin figure, choking the general who had cut the rope, causing the death of three people under the city wall, “click” a crunch, breaking his neck.

The crowd of soldiers were at a loss as to how this person suddenly appeared, and were alarmed, calling out and surrounding them with their swords, “Who is it?!” “How did you get up here?!”

Xie Ren, however, quickly noticed his hands, which were already bloody. This person had actually used a pair of meaty palms to climb up the city wall that barely had a single crack in it. And when that figure turned around, it was indeed Lang Ying!

Lang Ying, who was surrounded by soldiers, was not in a state of disarray, and rolled up the female wall, threw the general’s body down towards the citadel, and jumped down himself by stepping on the body, using it as a cushioning stepping stone.

The moment before he jumped, he looked straight at Xie Ren. However, what he looked at was not Xie Ren, but rather penetrated him and looked at the Imperial Palace that was situated in the very center of the Imperial City.

From that day on, the Xianle Kingdom was in complete chaos.