Heirs of the Seven Swords of the Qin Dynasty

Chapter 938 The Great Elder’s Decision
  At the same time, on the other side, in Shushan, the news of the Qin army's arrival has also been known to everyone.

On the top of Shushan Mountain, under the sacred Fusang tree that blocks out the sky and the sun, the elder of Shushan, who is getting older and older, holds a scepter and stands hunched on the edge of the cliff. He feels the mountain wind blowing past him and sighs.

"Alas...the calamity has fallen!"

Over the years, Shi Qing, whose temperament has completely transformed into a mature woman, was wearing the complicated and exotic costumes unique to the Shu region. She stood not far behind the great elder with a worried look on her face, and comforted her, "Great elder, you don't have to be too overbearing." Worry, now that the whole clan is united as one, we will definitely be able to repel those Central Plains people."

"Haha..." The great elder turned around, shook his head with a wry smile, his old face full of grooves seemed to be wrinkled, "Qing'er... you should also understand that these words are just to boost morale."

"The Central Plains is too big and there are too many people. Whatever their emperor wants, he must get it no matter what."

"Even if we withstand this attack, there will be another one, and there will be more and stronger people... Shushan will not be able to compete with the huge empire of the Central Plains after all."

Being directly exposed to the reality by the Great Elder, Shi Qing, who was just deceiving himself, couldn't help but feel despair and sadness in his eyes. However, a stubborn Shushan person is still a stubborn Shushan person. Even if he knows that the road ahead is blocked and resistance is useless, but...then... So what?
  "No matter what, we...swear to live and die with the sacred tree!"

Looking at Princess Shushan who was full of despair but still unwavering, the great elder's cloudy eyes were filled with half relief and half pity.

Turning around again, the elder lowered his head and looked at the scenery under the cliff. The old voice sounded again, "Qing'er, do you still remember Gu Xun?"

"Him? Why, is he also in the Central Plains army this time?" Shi Qing asked doubtfully.

Regarding Gu Xun, Shi Qing's memory is naturally clear and profound. Of course, it does not involve any romantic factors.

She is a married woman, and her husband is living well, and the relationship between husband and wife is also very good. However, as a princess of Shushan, her husband's status is lower than hers. It is similar to a son-in-law in the Central Plains. She can get involved in many things at will. But her husband can't, so he rarely appears on the same screen with her.

The profound memory is mainly due to two reasons.

The first point, and the most true point, is because Gu Xun is handsome.

Men always love to see beautiful women, regardless of their age, married or not, and conversely, women do the same.

The second point is because Gu Xun caused too much trouble in Shushan.

For the quiet Shushan, even if Gu Xun successfully suppressed Yu Yuan's riot, it was still an outright disaster, and the source of everything, in Shi Qing's view, was herself.

She was the one who lured g...er, Gu Xun here.

The Great Elder stroked his beard and chuckled a few times, shook his head and said, "I don't know much about this old man, but...after the first time, he came here several times and talked with me a lot about his opinions."

"Opinion?" Shi Qing repeated the word in a doubtful tone.

"Yes." The great elder nodded, his tone unconsciously becoming a little hesitant, "Save the land and lose the people, and both the people and the land will be lost; save the people and lose the land, and both the people and the land will survive."

"He has been using this to persuade me to give up the sacred tree and save the lives of the people first."

Shi Qing directly objected to this sounding plan, "Absurd!"

"Guarding Shushan and protecting the sacred tree has been our clan's mission for thousands of years. How can we give up so easily!?"

"Even if it means death, we will never let the sacred tree fall into the hands of the Emperor of the Central Plains easily!"

The approach of saving human life is very reasonable and reasonable, but after all, some things cannot be simply calculated based on gains and losses.

"Qing'er!" Seeing Shi Qing's reaction, the Great Elder said solemnly, "This is just a choice." After his emotions calmed down a bit, Shi Qing immediately bowed and apologized, "I'm sorry, Great Elder, I was a little too excited."

"It's nothing..." The great elder's voice returned to softness, and he whispered, "I know that you and all the tribesmen are not afraid to sacrifice their lives to protect the sacred tree, but everything is already settled. Can we All you have to do...is actually just choose life or death."

"Old man, I don't regret dying at my age, but what about you? And Alan and the others, they are still just children!"

"Lan'er..." Shi Qing was speechless when he heard his daughter's name.

In the final analysis, the choice Shushan faces now is not a matter of sacrificing life for righteousness or sacrificing righteousness for life.

The bear's paw is definitely gone, it just depends on whether they choose to die rather than eat fish.

Is it worth risking the lives of all the tribesmen for this little bit of persistence?

Shi Qing's silence seemed to make the elder make up his mind. He slammed his wooden staff on the ground and said in a deep voice, "Qing'er, tomorrow, arrange the manpower to send away Alan Ziqi and the other children." !”

"Ah!?" Upon hearing this order, Shi Qing was at a loss. She subconsciously grabbed the most obvious question and asked, "But elder, Ziqi... he is Yu Yuan's guard!?"

As a princess of Shushan...or she can also be called a saint, among her children, the female will inherit her identity and become the new generation of Shushan princess, while the male will inevitably become the guard of Yuyuan, which has never happened for thousands of years. exception.

The eldest son Yu Ziqi, who takes his father's surname, has now become a guard of Yu Yuan early, and the youngest daughter Shi Lan will officially inherit the status of Princess of Shushan when she turns fifteen.

When foreign enemies invaded, it was enough to send Shi Lan and the other children away, but as Yu Yuan's guard, Yu Ziqi had no intention of escaping.

However, the First Elder made up his mind and did not care about these unwritten rules. He waved his hand and replied, "Yu Yuan's guards can't change the fact that he is only a half-grown child. It's up to him to send him away together." Protect your sister."

Shi Qing opened his mouth, wanting to object to the Great Elder's order, but in the end he couldn't speak out, and just replied in a low voice, "I... understand."

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It's night, the moon and stars are sparse.

Meng Tian led his troops to find the most spacious mountain plain to camp and rest. Groups of soldiers patrolled staggeredly under the starlight and firelight.

On the other side of Shu Mountain, in order to deal with the invading imperial army, the entire tribe was also deploying defensive measures all night long. Up and down the mountain, fires crisscrossed and continued.

Hmm...same bright lights, completely different mood.

In the cool night, Gu Xun sneaked into Shushan quietly without disturbing anyone, whether it was from the empire or Shushan.

Ignoring the Shushan people who were busy up and down the mountain, Gu Xun walked around the mountain and came to the seal of Yu Yuan on the shade side of the mountain.

He came here tonight just to see how the ice soul cold air formation he had deployed back then was doing.

　One chapter today and more tomorrow.

　　I can no longer continue cultivating immortality. I feel that people are really in a state of ecstasy.

　　Your life is at stake!

　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)