Chapter 1494 Bo Yikao

Chapter 1494 Bo Yikao

At this time, many soldiers in golden armor were escorting a prisoner cart through the city gate.

The team waiting to enter the city stopped moving temporarily and made way for the prisoner cart to pass.

The faint discussions among the people made Su Wu and others know the identity of the "prisoner" in the prisoner cart.

"The eldest son of the Zhou State Fangbo was sent to Haojing by Zhou Fangbo. He used his eldest son to express his loyalty to the king and never changed!

If there is any change, the king can kill this child at any time!"

"What is the name of this eldest son of the Zhou State Fangbo?"

"I don't know."

"I think it's called Kao?"

"It should be Kao..."

"Kao..." Su Wu suddenly heard this name and immediately looked up at the prisoner cart surrounded by spears. A young man was imprisoned in the prisoner cart. The long journey and the wind and rain made his hair disheveled, and the originally gorgeous clothes on his body became ragged. Although he was tall, he was skinny.

This eldest son of the Zhou State Fangbo named ‘Kao’, if Su Wu had expected, should be the ‘Bo Yikao’ who is familiar to people in later generations.

Su Wu had not expected that the other party would come to the capital of Dayi Shang at the same time as him.

He instinctively realized that this ‘Bo Yikao’ might be a key figure, so he led Qu and Sui to rush forward and approached the prisoner car surrounded by the soldiers in the center.

The closer he was to the prisoner car, the more he could sense the breath of ‘Kao’, who was as weak as an ordinary person.

Or perhaps, the eldest son of the Zhou State Fangbo was indeed an ordinary person.

In the fantasy novels, ‘Bo Yikao’ was eventually smashed into a meat pie by King Zhou, so that King Wen of Zhou, who later went to Yindu, ate the meat pie made of his own flesh and blood, in order to tarnish the name of King Wen of Zhou and make the people of the world alienated from him.

I wonder what the final outcome of ‘Kao’ will be now?

Smashing a living person with a huge stone until he was bloody and into a meat pie was also a form of sacrifice in the Shang Dynasty. Those who were sacrificed to the gods in this way were mostly nobles who were of noble status but committed serious crimes.

Su Wu watched the prisoner car carrying Kao pass through the city gate.

He had left a trace of aura on the other party, so that he could use this trace of aura to monitor Kao's movements and what he might face next.

The three of them returned to the end of the queue to enter the city and followed the crowd into the city one by one.

After entering the city.

In front of a stall selling "Li", Su Wu paid some shells to the wine seller, and then led the three of them to find a corner seat behind the stall and sat down.

The people of the Shang Dynasty, from the princes and nobles to the common people, are fond of drinking.

The whole Yindu was filled with a faint smell of alcohol.

The main wine they drank was a kind of wine brewed from a certain kind of grain called "Li". Li wine is rich in maltose, so it tastes sweeter.

The vendor quickly scooped out three cups of wine from the big pottery jar and handed them to Su Wu and the other two.

There were no chairs or benches around the stall, only some thin dry grass on the ground, and people sat cross-legged on the dry grass, with a cup of wine in front of each person.

Su Wu and the other two did the same.

After sitting down, he immediately raised the wine cup and gestured to Su Wu and Qu, and then drank half a bowl of sweet wine. The alcohol content in this kind of wine is better than nothing, and drinking this wine is just to relieve boredom.

"Your Majesty, I am a soldier under the command of the King of Shang, and I convey the king's orders for the King of Shang.

Although I cannot follow the king's affairs from beginning to end, now that I have returned to Yindu, I should first report the situation to the King of Shang, so please sit and wait in front of this sweet stall with Qu, and I will come to pick you up after I report the situation to the King of Shang." Sui said to Su Wu.

Sui, a native of Yindu, surnamed Ge.

The Ge family was originally a craftsman who forged armor, weapons and swords for the king. After they gathered together and intermarried, they gradually developed into a clan and took Ge as their surname.

From then on, the King of Shang used the people of the Ge family as the ones who passed on the king's orders.

Sui, who was born in the Ge family, passed the king's order to Ge Chang this time, asking Ge Chang to obey the king's order and report to the King of Shang after returning to Yindu. The King of Shang would most likely punish him.

Therefore, after listening to Sui's words, he first observed Su Wu's expression, and then said to Sui: "You are going to report to the King of Shang now. Aren't you deliberately going to die?

Do you think you can come back alive after visiting the King of Shang?

If you are killed by the King of Shang and cannot return to this wine stall, the king will have no place to stay in Yindu?"

Sui shook his head and said: "I will return to Yindu without reporting to the king. The king will impose a more severe punishment after knowing this.

Now even if I don't return Yindu, my residence must have been banned by the king.

Why don't I report to the king, maybe the king will give me a break, then we don't have to hide in Yindu, we can live directly, and don't have to worry about other people discovering our whereabouts! "

Qu frowned and wanted to refute, but Su Wu looked at Sui and said, "You go.

I and Qu will wait for you at this wine stall. You must save your life. "

"Okay!"

Sui agreed in a deep voice, then drank the remaining half of the wine, turned around and left.

Qu sniffed uncomfortably, and was very unhappy with the smell of alcohol circulating around - in their Gechang tribe, the tribesmen worked hard every day, and the final harvest was just enough for one meal a day. Even two meals a day could not be guaranteed, so how could they bear to use the grain to make wine?

But in Dayi Shangguodu, wine stalls can be seen everywhere, and merchants like to drink, which shows that.

And the glitz and luxury reflected in this kind of drinking habit made him quite unaccustomed. He looked at Sui's back and disappeared into the crowd, and said to Su Wu who was quietly beside him: "Your Majesty, Sui still has his heart. The old king still behaves like a businessman, he likes drinking, killing people, and fighting. If he goes to see Di Xin, he might not come back..."

“Follow your old master as you wish, but always speak out and never hide.

He has resolved to be faithful to me.

Do you think he will betray me? "Su Wu asked Qu with a smile.

He did not hesitate to respond to Su Wu's question: "Sui will definitely not betray the king!"

"now it's right.

Whatever he wants to do first, since he won't betray me, what reason do I have to stop him from doing such a thing?

Just like you also wanted to keep your clan and your people before, and I never stopped you. "

"Yes, Qu understands." Qu looked ashamed and said, "I just feel that if I meet King Shang this time, I may not be able to come back alive."

"When you wanted to save Ge Changzhi, you should also have thought that your life would be lost." Su Wu shook his head, his brows suddenly opened, and Sui, who had long disappeared from his sight, was sacrificed by Gu Shi again. Visible.

With traces of slightly white and transparent Miao Miao hair wrapped around his body, he ran towards the majestic palace city in the distance.

Whatever the eyes see, what the mind feels, and the five senses, Su Wu can all perceive it at the same time - this is also an application of Miao Miao's hair.

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Passing through the houses with rammed earth foundations and thatched roofs, the buildings in the field of view become taller and more majestic, until each house is surrounded by rammed earth walls, but the roofs are covered with tiles, with inscriptions carved one by one. The palaces supported by vermilion lines came into his sight, and he began to feel nervous - those magnificent palaces that even the towering rammed earth walls could not block were the palace residences of the Shang kings.

He took out a token, wiped it clean carefully, held it in his palm, approached the royal city, and handed the token to the soldiers guarding the royal city.

He also recognizes the soldiers guarding the royal city.

That was ‘He’, who was born in the same Go family as him.

He and he had been close playmates since they were young. Later, they were also at the king's side and served the king, but now He looked at Sui with strange eyes. His eyes were cold and without any emotion, and he said to Sui: "You cannot return to the court after the deadline. Everyone knows about Ge Chang.

The king has captured your parents, wife, and children, demoted them to slaves, and prepared to use them as human sacrifices in a "community sacrifice."

You have caused trouble for Ge Shi.

——Why do you want to come back? "

After a moment of silence, his eyes became firm again, and he replied to He: "I will come back and report to the king."

"Come back to the king at this time?

What's the use? He shook his head, looking a little sad, "Since that woman entered the palace, the king has gradually become less like the king he once was." "

Then he lowered his head.

He obviously also knew something about what He said about a certain woman entering the palace.

The king was determined to abolish human sacrifice in the past, but it was not just to abolish human sacrifice in Fang Kingdom, but also to abolish the use of human sacrifice in sacrifices by the entire Shang royal family.

But in the end, when it was implemented, it turned out that people from the Fang Kingdom were forbidden to die, and all the slaves captured by the Fang Kingdom were sent to the Yin capital for the king to perform the "Zhou Sacrifice" day after day. The reason why the king made such a change was, He couldn't even abide by the king's orders given by him. All these changes happened after the woman entered the palace.

"I want to report to the king about your return.

When you come here, life and death are no longer within your control. "He's expression quickly returned to coldness. He waved his hand, and several soldiers rushed over and bound Sui on the spot. However, Sui did not resist at all. Seeing He turned around and walked behind the high wall, his expression was calm. , they don’t seem to care about what kind of fate they will have next, and they can accept it calmly.

After a long time, He turned back.

He smelled heavily of alcohol and even looked a little smokey.

Although merchants like to drink, the soldiers guarding the palace must not drink alcohol during their duty. Once they are caught drinking, they will be punished and expelled from the palace, or they will be demoted to slaves and directly become subordinates. A sacrificial offering!

There are actually exceptions to this situation - if the king rewards the soldiers with wine, they can be exempted from punishment.

Such exceptions have rarely occurred before.

However, He just went to report the situation to the King, and came back smelling of alcohol. There is no doubt that the King had already begun to have a banquet in the palace not long after dawn. He seemed to no longer care about where he lived. The weapons were so weak that he casually rewarded the soldiers who came to report!

"Your Majesty, I want you to go in and pay homage to him!

You, you, you - go back to the king yourself and explain the situation! "When He spoke, his tongue was already curled up.

She glanced at him and nodded.

The soldiers removed the shackles of their bodies and walked through the high palace wall and walked into the central hall.

In the main hall, the sound of music can be heard endlessly.

From time to time, bursts of women's laughter could be heard coming out of the palace along with the music.

The strong smell of alcohol flowed out from the palace, almost condensing into substance. There was also a certain amount of alcohol, and smelling this strong smell of alcohol made people feel a bit fuzzy.

The smell of wine alone was enough to make people feel drunk. The wine that the king drank must be much more intoxicating than the sweet wine they drank before.

The music of the palace continued to spread.

As he walked in, he saw the king with his upper body naked, leaning against a copper jar half a person's height, directly taking wine from the copper jar with intricate and exquisite carvings, and pouring it into his throat in big gulps. The wine soaked his beard, making it stick tightly to the king's chin.

Emperor Xin was tall, which was rare among the merchants today.

And Sui's eyes moved away from the king who was disheveled and strong, and swept around the palace, but he did not see many musicians and women behind the gauze curtain set up around the wooden pillars. He only saw a graceful woman standing in front of many musical instruments, playing music for the king.

——However, before Sui entered the palace, he clearly heard the sound of many women laughing and playing.

After entering the palace, he only saw the woman who acted as a musician, and the so-called decadent music he heard turned into a cold and lonely music.

"Your Majesty."

Xin's eyes were already on Sui, and Sui knelt on the ground and said respectfully.

The king in front of the bronze jar was taking wine from the jar one cup at a time and pouring it into his mouth. He seemed to be unable to leave this sweet wine and was reluctant to move away from the bronze jar.

Seeing the king's current appearance, Sui felt extremely heartbroken, and couldn't help but cast his eyes on the woman who acted as a musician behind the gauze curtain.

Is that woman the woman that the king favored?

"Sui."

At this time, the king walked in front of Sui and handed the wine cup in his hand to Sui: "Drink, Sui."

Sui could not disobey the king's order, so he could only take the wine cup and drink nearly a liter of wine in the cup in one breath. After drinking this cup of wine, all the scenes in front of him began to shake, and even the "flag" in the center of the flesh and blood soul was slightly rolling and shaking.

The king in front of him became tall and small at times.

When he picked up the wine cup to drink, the king's aura was like a mountain flood, flooding a large area of ​​the palace, and when he stopped drinking, he seemed to become an empty shell, and on this empty shell - the king's chest, there were hideous and terrifying cracks.

"Why did you betray me, Sui?"

The king threw down the wine cup, suddenly lowered his head, and asked Sui.

He just asked Sui questions, without any other actions, but the aura of the king that naturally emanated from him pressed towards Sui like a torrent!