sbdcsierra Chapter 1127 Wild Child
Chapter 1127 Wild Child
Another month has passed.
When General Li Jing and Duke Lu Cheng Yaojin jointly launched a frontal offensive against Tuyuhun to create an opportunity for Lu Dongzan, His Royal Highness the King of Chu, who was far away in Tianzhu, had already become the lord of Luowei City.
Moreover, King Chu didn't know where the inspiration came from suddenly - after easily conquering Luowei City, he saw that Central India seemed to be similar to the Western Regions at the beginning, and one city could be a country. So, King Chu simply established a country and named it Daqian!
"Your Highness, you are too careless..." On the wall of Luowei City, Zhang Zhenxuan looked at the "Daqian" royal flag fluttering in the wind above his head. He felt that his worldview had been refreshed again: "Are you... missing the prince?"
"That person is also a potential tyrant. I don't bother to miss him. I am thinking about my wife and children at home..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu waved his hands and suddenly sighed, "Actually... I am afraid that the burden on my shoulders will be too heavy in the future, so I want my elder brother and his successor to provide more support to me."
Expanding territory sounds good, but in fact, it is a long and arduous process that may require the efforts of at least several generations before seeing real results.
"Your Highness, you are such a good brother..." Zhang Zhenxuan couldn't help but sighed, "To be honest, I'm really envious."
"You don't need to be envious. We are half brothers!" His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu smiled and replied. Then, he looked at the setting sun that was about to set on the horizon in the distance, and suddenly his expression became very calm.
“Zhenxuan,” Li Kuan looked at the setting sun in front of him and said softly, “I want to ask you a question.
What do you think...if I become the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, how many years can I make the Tang Dynasty flourish?"
"Your Highness, this question...I really can't answer it." Although Zhang Zhenxuan didn't know why His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu suddenly asked this, his intuition told him that what His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu was going to say next should be extraordinary.
"The old Taoist priest said that he once killed Zhishilang Wang Bohou, and in the ten years since then, he gradually gained the ability to know some things in the future." After saying this, Li Kuan turned and looked at Zhang Zhenxuan: "Zhenxuan, if I tell you that I also know things in the future, and they are the kind of... earth-shattering events that will happen a hundred years... or even a thousand years later, would you believe it?"
"Your Highness..." Even though Zhang Zhenxuan had been mentally prepared, he was still shocked by what His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu said: "How... did you..."
“I can’t explain the specific reasons.” His Royal Highness the King of Chu thought for a moment and said, “But what I said is indeed true.
And...ever since my oldest brother broke his leg, I realized that even if I tried hard to change it, there would always be a small part of the future that existed in my memory that overlapped with reality.
This makes the King feel very uneasy.
Because I cannot be sure whether there will be more "overlaps" in the distant future, or whether the world will return to its original track after my death..."
At this moment, Zhang Zhenxuan clearly heard the worry and helplessness in the tone of His Royal Highness the Prince of Chu.
"Your Highness, it seems that our great-grandfather was right. Knowing the future in advance is not a good thing." Zhang Zhenxuan said thoughtfully.
"Yes." His Royal Highness the King of Chu nodded after hearing this, and then continued: "The more you know, the more painful it is. The more painful it is, the clearer one thing is - if you want to change, you have to pay a price."
"It seems that Your Highness has changed a lot of things?" Zhang Zhenxuan raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He began to realize that things were not simple.
"It has indeed changed a lot of things." His Royal Highness the King of Chu laughed when he heard this: "But it doesn't seem to have cost me much."
"Your Highness, you..." Zhang Zhenxuan heard the sadness and helplessness in the other party's tone.
"Back in Longyou, when I was just beginning to remember things, I actually also looked for some children of the same age to play with." Perhaps on a whim, His Royal Highness the King of Chu suddenly brought up his childhood memories and sniffed unconsciously when he said this: "At that time, the clothes I wore were enough to cover the expenses of an ordinary family for several years.
So when that leading child told me that as long as I was willing to lend him clothes, he would let me join them and play hide-and-seek together, I was very happy, thinking that I finally had a playmate.
Therefore, I readily agreed to the other party's request, took off my outer robe and handed it over.
But the result... I counted countless times 'from one to nine' under the old banyan tree at the corner of the street, but I never received the response of 'we have hidden ourselves, you can open your eyes and look for us' from far away.
Later, until Yu Aong arrived, I couldn't believe that they dared to play tricks on me.
So in the following days, I wandered the streets of Taiyuan City from morning till night. After half a month, I finally caught the dishonest bastard! "
Many years later, when His Royal Highness the King of Chu talked about this part, he still danced with excitement: "At that time, my fists smashed down like a violent storm, beating that bastard so hard that he cried and begged for mercy for a long time, but I did not stop.
Until... that bastard said, it’s not that he didn’t want me to join, but everyone said... everyone said that I was a wild child without a father or a mother.
Zhenxuan, no one wants to play with a wild child without a father or a mother...
Zhenxuan...I am not a wild child without a father or a mother..."
"Your Highness..." When the setting sun finally fell into the horizon and the whole world returned to darkness, Zhang Zhenxuan finally understood what the price of "not much price" meant by His Highness the King of Chu.
Later... it was my grandmother who came in person to take me home.
It was also from then on that I started to get used to being alone.
Being optimistic and knowing one's fate is my talent.
As a happy and optimistic person, I will regard every time I go out to play as "Hero Li Kuan is traveling alone in the world", so the little disappointment in my heart will all turn into "Hero Li Kuan is so high-spirited!"
His Royal Highness the King of Chu raised his head and looked at the moon on the edge of the clouds. The look in his eyes quietly became gentle: "At that time, my thoughts were very simple. It was not a big deal if no one played with me. I still had my grandmother!"
"Your Highness..." As a retainer of the Dou family, Zhang Zhenxuan knew the following story very well.
The childhood of His Royal Highness the King of Chu was both happy and cruel.
"But when my grandmother passed away..." His Royal Highness the King of Chu said this, his voice began to become low: "The tyrant king rushed back from Chang'an and personally took care of my grandmother's funeral.
After that, he proposed to take me away from Longyou and bring me back to Chang'an to live.
Of course I would never obey and struggled hard in the arms of that tyrant. Yu Aweng, who was standing by, felt sorry for me and came over to persuade me. Upon hearing what he said, the tyrant immediately scolded Yu Aweng harshly.
How can I bear to see Yu Aong being bullied?
So, in a rage, I bit the ear of that tyrant!
If it weren't for Yu Aong's kind words of advice, the tyrant emperor might have become "One Ear"!
Later, after his Highness the Prince of Qin, who had suffered a loss, escaped from the predicament and wanted to teach me a lesson. As a result, Yu Aong drew a long sword from the waist of the guard beside him, and in the end... the two sides almost came to a fight!
This matter... was finally resolved by Lai Aong. He told the tyrant king that before his grandmother passed away, she had told him that if the king was unwilling to go to Chang'an with him, he should take the king to the entrance of the alley to eat a bowl of wontons, as a way of... clarifying the rumors?
The tyrant king was also tortured by my stubborn character and was at his wits' end, so he could only do as I said.
As a result, after he took me to the alley to eat that bowl of salty wontons, I really accepted the reality and returned to Chang'an with him..."
Since then, I have grown from a child to a teenager.
"Your Highness, why did a bowl of wontons make you..." Zhang Zhenxuan did not ask His Royal Highness the King of Chu why the bowl of wontons was so "salty", but he was indeed curious why His Royal Highness the King of Chu changed his mind.
"About this... I don't want to talk about it now..." Li Kuan laughed and said, "Will I tell you when I have a chance in the future?"
"Well, I will wait patiently for that day." Zhang Zhenxuan smiled when he heard this, and then he said, "Your Highness, if I were you... I don't think I could do better than you."
“Zhenxuan, this is the most flattering thing I have ever heard in my life.” His Royal Highness the King of Chu looked at the young Taoist in front of him. For no reason, he recalled the “honest” days after he returned to Chang’an.
How can he be honest...
He just subconsciously wanted to have a disguise to protect himself because of the great changes he had suffered. Even though he later became the second prince and then the King of Chu, before he swept across the northwest and offered sacrifices to the gods at Jinshan, he was just a stupid kid who tried hard to grow up and get some recognition.
Li Kuan doesn't dare to look back now. At that time, his grandmother passed away and his uncles were far away in Longyou. When he first arrived in Chang'an and saw so many brothers and sisters suddenly around him, how did he convince himself not to make a noise?
The silly child who lost his grandmother, with his small stature in mourning clothes, silently watched his younger brothers and sisters playing coquettishly in their father and mother's arms. What else could he do except feel sad and envious?
Li Kuan actually always wanted to ask his parents a question, especially after he took the gold hairpin given by his grandmother, stood up for his brothers, and subdued those bastards Li Chengzong and Li Chengze.
He really wanted to find them and ask them face to face why.
why?
Why is it that even bad guys like Li Chengzong and Li Chengze can be loved by their parents since childhood, but I can't?
Why? !
Why? ! ! !
When Li Kuan was young, he was timid and kind, so he did not ask this question in the end.
But now, His Royal Highness the King of Chu, who can build or destroy a country with just a thought and is invincible in the world, has long lost the timidity of his childhood, but... he did not seek the answer after all.
"Perhaps... this is the so-called price." In the darkness, Zhang Zhenxuan heard His Royal Highness the King of Chu say this.
"Fuck the price!" Zhang Zhenxuan, who was about to speak to comfort the head of the family, suddenly stopped talking.
Because he clearly heard a barely perceptible sob amid the whistling wind and the rustling flags on the city wall.
People always have to reconcile with their past, but no one knows how long this process is except the person involved.
But now, Li Kuan clearly knew that this reconciliation process took him nearly twenty years.