A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 237: The Sorrow of Langguo 1

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Langguo was suddenly covered with heavy snow, like a silent funeral song. The pure white that stretched for thousands of miles seemed like a funeral prepared in advance for Langguo.

Outside the capital city of Xuan'an, there was a howling snow and wind. The West Moon army was approaching like a storm was about to come. The two brothers Ning Xi and Li Xu stood on the towering city wall and looked at the dark West Moon army in the distance with despair in their hearts.

After one night, nearly half of the people in the city fled, but half of them still did not want to leave their homeland. Some officials in the court were willing to stay and loyally guard Langguo and fight the national crisis with the king.

"Has everything been arranged in the princess's mansion?" Ning Xi glanced at her brother beside her and asked.

"Yeah." Li Xu responded in a cold voice with a cold face.

Once a gap appears, no matter how you mend it, you can never go back to the beginning. Li Xu still has resentment towards his brother, so his attitude is naturally not as good as before.

Although Ning Xi felt guilty, she was unwilling to lower herself to admit her mistake to Li Xu, so seeing his cold look, she could only turn her head and remain silent.

In front of the Xiyue army, Yan Zong and Yan Han were both wearing dark black armor and sitting on war horses, one was majestic and the other was evil and wild. Snow was flying and a thin layer of white frost fell on the cold armor.

"The kingdom of Lang is now doomed. Emperor Lang should follow the will of Heaven and open the city walls to surrender, to prevent further suffering to the people!" Yan Zong rode his horse forward and shouted loudly to Emperor Lang Ning Xi on the city wall.

Not long after, several heads were hung on the walls of Xuan'an City. They turned out to be several treacherous ministers headed by Lu Shi. They all colluded with the West Moon Kingdom in order to seek a better future when the Kingdom of Lang was in danger. Fortunately, Ning Xi had long suspected Lu Shi. After executing the spy Xue Fei, she ordered people to secretly investigate and collected evidence of their treason. Emperor Lang showed no mercy and executed their entire family.

Emperor Lang Ningxi was furious and cursed at the Xiyue army below: "Even if my Lang country is destroyed, I will never coexist with you jackals. It is a pipe dream for me to open the city and surrender!" After cursing, Emperor Lang pointed at the heads hanging on the city wall and continued: "The iron-blooded men of my Lang country will never be like these slaves and kowtow in front of you, even if they shed the last drop of blood in their bodies!"

"We will defend Lang Kingdom to the death!" After Emperor Lang Ning Xi finished speaking, Li Xu drew the sword at his waist and pointed it at the Xiyue Army outside the city and shouted.

"We will defend Langguo to the death!" The Langguo soldiers on the city wall were all passionate and ready to die.

"Hmph, Third Brother, you are trying to persuade them to surrender with good intentions, but they don't appreciate it at all."

Looking at the high morale on the city wall, Yan Zong's face was gloomy, while Yan Han behind him showed an evil smile and acted sarcastic.

Yan Zong turned his horse around silently and returned to the front of the formation, ignoring his second brother who always liked to mock him.

Seeing Yan Zong's expressionless face, Yan Han felt a little disappointed as his words did not anger him. He then snorted coldly and waved his long arm. Then roars rang out from outside the city wall, and the West Moon army rushed towards the city wall like a flood. There was also a whistling sound from above the city wall, and arrows rained down on the West Moon army outside the city. The last flame of war ignited again on the peaceful land of Lang State.

Shangguan Jiuyi, under the escort of King Xian's secret guards, successfully took Luoying and Yingyan away from Lang State and headed for Xuanmeng State. The people who escaped were scattered around like headless flies, their homes gone, and they didn't know where to go.

Shangguan Jiuyi couldn't bear to see these people being displaced in this snowy weather, but he couldn't let others see the princess and the prince in the carriage, so he had to let two of the prince's followers pretend to be people from the Shangguan family and take these people to Xuanmeng State.

When the people heard that it was the Shangguan family, they were naturally willing to follow. And with the Shangguan family protecting them all the way, they would not be bullied even when they arrived in the unfamiliar Xuanmeng Kingdom.

"Brother Lixu...Eldest brother...don't...don't..." In the carriage, Luoying, who was still unconscious, seemed to be trapped in a nightmare and kept struggling and crying. Pain and despair were revealed on her beautiful face, which was really pitiful.

"Luoying? Luoying?" Shangguan Jiuyi, who was standing by, was very worried and immediately woke her up.

“Jiuyi…” Luoying, who had woken up, hugged Shangguan Jiuyi tightly and cried, “I dreamed that they all died at the hands of the Xiyue Army.”

Shangguan Jiuyi closed his eyes in pain and held Luoying in silence. At this moment, he didn't know how to comfort her, nor could he lie to her that Emperor Lang and King Xian would be fine.

"Where is this?" Luoying cried for a while, then looked up and asked belatedly.

"On the way to Xuanmeng Kingdom." Shangguan Jiuyi replied truthfully.

"Why do they always think they are doing good for me... My father and mother are gone and now my two brothers are leaving too... Jiuyi... Luoying doesn't want them to die..." Looking at the bright sky outside, Luoying felt despair in her heart. She did not make a fuss like usual, but fell weakly into Shangguan Jiuyi's arms and cried calmly.

Shangguan Jiuyi was silent again, and just hugged his beloved tightly. He knew that Luoying was in so much pain at that moment that any words of comfort would be pale and powerless, and the national tragedy of Langguo was a painful experience for every citizen of Langguo.

At the same time, the little prince Ying Yan in another carriage had also woken up. From the tearful narration of the palace maid beside him, he learned that he and his aunt had been taken away from Langguo by Shangguan Jiuyi.

"You are the prince of Lang and the hope for its future, so you must live well so that you will have the opportunity to rebuild Lang in the future."

Thinking about his father's instructions to him last night, Ying Yan felt like dying, but he knew that tears were the most useless thing at this point. For the expectations of his father and mother, and for the country of Lang, he had no choice but to live on tenaciously.

In the backyard of the Langguo Palace, concubines were either fleeing or dying. Most of the palace servants escaped from the palace last night, so the entire backyard was now as silent as death.

In the Queen's Kunning Palace, Queen Su only left two helpless old slaves by her side, and she dismissed all the other young palace maids, thinking that it would be better to let them find a way out for themselves outside rather than being abused by the Xiyue Army.

"Empress, the Imperial Concubine has also jumped into the water!" At this time, an old slave ran back to Kunning Palace to report to the Empress.

"What? Concubine Jia didn't leave with the Shangguan family last night?" The queen was shocked. She remembered that she had persuaded Concubine Jia to escape with her family yesterday, and Concubine Jia agreed. It turned out that she had no intention of leaving.

"My queen, except for the two young masters, no one else in the Shangguan family has left." The old slave replied with red eyes and sobs.

Queen Su couldn't help but be moved by the loyalty of the Shangguan family, so she felt at ease entrusting Luoying to Shangguan Jiuyi.

Then, another old slave ran in in a panic, crying, "My queen, the princess's mansion... the princess's mansion is on fire... the princess... the princess has died in the sea of ​​fire!"

"Luoying...Luoying..." Although Queen Su already knew the truth in her heart, she still pretended to be so grief-stricken that she was almost fainting, and hurried to the princess's mansion with the support of two old servants.