The Fall of the Golden Empire (Novel) (Volume 1) "Bloody Sunset" by Zhang Baotong
Early the next morning, Emperor Wayna Capak woke up from his haze and saw that there was no one around him. He pricked up his ears and listened, feeling that someone was walking back and forth outside the house, and they were walking in a hurry, looking a little panicked. He seemed to vaguely hear the mournful sound of horns blowing outside the palace. He thought what happened? He wanted to find someone to ask clearly, but there was no one around him. He wanted to shout with all his strength, "Here comes someone!" However, he felt weak and couldn't shout.
After a while, he saw Yina coming in with tears on her face, so he asked, "Are you crying?"
Yina nodded and wiped her face with her hands, but she still cried uncontrollably.
The king looked at Yina sadly and asked, "What's going on?"
Yi Na cried and said, "Prince Ninan is dead."
"Prince Ninan is dead." The king repeated these words, tears filling his eyes. "When did he die?"
Ina said, "I heard that the prince died last night. Listen, the citizens of Quito are praying for him in the square." After saying that, he wiped the king's tears with a piece of flannel, but the king's tears became more and more intense. Rub the more. After a long time, the king felt guilty and said, "I was the one who harmed the emperor. If I had not offended the father of the sun, the prince of Ninan would not have suffered from the plague and died at a young age. However, the noble and great sun Father, I offended you, why do you want to vent your anger on the emperor?"
After a while, Prince Atahualpa entered the room with a hurried and sad look on his face. As soon as he entered the room and saw his father crying, he knew that his father already knew about the death of Prince Ninan. So, he said to his father in a reporting tone, "After a while, the palace will hold a grand funeral for brother Ninan in the square. Then his body will be made into a mummy. I will take people to bury him tomorrow morning." Funeral."
The king did not say a word, but nodded slightly, and then waved his hand towards him, indicating that he should stop talking. The prince knew that his father was in a bad mood and did not want to hear these sad and sad things, so he left knowingly.
At this time, the king felt extremely sad and irritable. As long as someone stood in front of him, he would feel furious. But, strangely enough, no one came to see him this morning except Wang Er. This made him feel lonely and afraid, thinking that he was about to die and would no longer be useful to others, so everyone no longer respected and respected him. So, he tried his best to ask in a hoarse voice, "What are they doing? Why don't they come to see me?"
Yina explained and comforted him and said, "Honorable King, they all went to attend the funeral of Prince Ninan." After hearing this, the King stopped asking angry questions.
After a while, there were waves of wailing horns coming from the palace square, and people could even hear heart-wrenching cries. The king thought that Prince Ninan was a generous, benevolent, gentle and elegant young man. He was humble and low-key, honest and trustworthy, respected the old and the young, and cared about the people. He was very loved by the Quito royal family and the people. He was almost a pair of brothers with completely different temperaments from Atahualpa. Atahualpa had the same temperament as him, he was brave and warlike, and he advocated martial arts. However, Prince Ninan is kind-hearted and generous. I remember that there was a rebellion in Kalank Province. At that time, the two princes Ninan and Atahualpa were competing to lead their troops to put down the rebellion. Prince Ninan should follow the method of the eighth generation king, King Viracocha, to be polite first and then to fight. He would surround the rebels with elite soldiers several times the number of the rebels, and then use benevolence and morality to make them put down their weapons and go home to farm. Prince Atahualpa advocated killing all the rebels without leaving any further trouble. However, the Inca King felt that one of the two princes was too kind and the other was too ruthless, so he personally led the army. After trying to persuade the rebels to no avail, he ordered a desperate fight against the rebels and forced tens of thousands of rebels to fight. The soldiers surrendered. Before the king was about to massacre the rebel soldiers, Prince Ninan cried and begged his father again and again, asking him to spare the soldiers who had laid down their weapons and let them go home to farm, because they all had a family. However, because of the rebels' cruelty and shamelessness, they had long angered the noble king. He refused to listen to Prince Ninan's advice and ordered all the rebels to be beheaded. Looking back now, I feel extremely regretful. If he had listened to Prince Ninan's advice at that time, he might not have angered Father Sun, and Father Sun would not have imposed such punishment on him and Prince Ninan.
In fact, soon after the incident, the king regretted that he should not have slaughtered those soldiers who had laid down their weapons. Therefore, when making the decision on the succession to the throne, he made Prince Ninan the prince without hesitation. Not only because he is the eldest son in the family, but also because he is a generous, kind and broad-minded person. He felt that this kind of person was more suitable to be the king of a country. However, such a good heir to the throne passed away like this, and he died in front of him. Isn't this Father Sun punishing him severely!
The king really wanted to attend the funeral of Prince Ninan, and wanted to express his regret by praising Prince Ninan to encourage people to treat the people with generosity and kindness. However, he was extremely ill and could not move. Yes, the Inca King lacked everything, but there was no regret medicine. In fact, the Inca king was just like a mortal, with emotions, anger, sorrow, and birth, old age, illness, and death. This reminded him of the mythical story called "The Hour of Death".
The story is that not far from the city of Saktekas, there lived a poor farmer family. The food he harvested from the fields was not even enough to sustain his family. Their harvests were decreasing year by year, but the number of people in the family was increasing. He gave all the food to his wife and children, but it was always hard to feed himself.
Because of hunger, the farmer stole a chicken and wanted to find a place to hide and eat it secretly. In this way, others will not find it, and no one will ask for it from him. To this end, the farmer brought a small pot, lit a fire beside a forest, killed the chicken, picked a few herbs and put them in the pot to cook the chicken.
When the chicken was stewed, the hungry man put out the fire so that he could wait for the cooked chicken to cool down. Just when he was about to open the pot and eat the meat, he saw a strangely dressed man walking towards him. The hungry man hurriedly hid the pot in the woods and cursed, "It's really strange. You can meet people wherever you hide."
The strange stranger came over and saluted him and said hello, "Hello, friend. What are you doing here?" The hungry man hoped that the man would leave quickly, so he said, "I am resting here, where are you going?" The stranger said, "I'm passing by here, can you give me something to eat?" Of course the hungry man refused, and said, "Look at how poor I am, with nothing but these shabby clothes. You listen to me." My stomach is growling." The stranger asked, "Then why did you light the fire?" The hungry man said, "I want to make a fire to keep warm." The stranger said, "You lied, you hid the chicken stew pot in the woods It’s inside, I can smell the aroma inside.”
When the hungry man saw that the stranger had discovered his secret, he said, "There is a chicken cooked in my pot, but I don't even give him a wife and children. I just want to have a full meal alone. So I can't put this chicken in the pot." Here is the chicken." The stranger said, "Don't be stingy, let's be friends, even if you just tear off a piece and give it to me." The hungry man said, "I can't give you any, you know I haven't eaten in my life. Have a good meal.”
The stranger thought for a while and said, "If you knew who I was, you wouldn't refuse me." The hungry man said, "No matter who you are, I won't give it to you." The stranger said, "You know what? , I am God and your master." The hungry man became angry when he heard this and said, "In this case, you can't even ask me for food. Because you are too cruel and gave everything to those you have. The person I like, but you are nothing to me. You have never given me enough food. Why do you want me to share the food with you?" Shen spent all his time, but instead of getting food, he was questioned by the hungry man. After a while, Liqu left without words.
Just as the hungry man was picking up the chicken from the small pot to eat, another uninvited guest came. He was as skinny as a stick and his face was pale. He said to the hungry man, "Hello, friend, what do you have to eat?" The hungry man said, "Where can I get anything to eat here?" The uninvited guest said, "Don't be so stingy, take the chicken hidden in the woods. Give me a piece." The hungry man said, "No!" The man said, "You don't want to give it to me because you don't know who I am." The hungry man said, "The god who dominates me just asked me for a long time. , I didn’t even give it to him, let alone you.” The man continued, “Give me some, and then you will know who I am.” The hungry man said, “Well, tell me, who are you? "The man said, "I am Death Chen."
When the hungry man heard this, he hurriedly said, "I should give the chicken to you, because you are the most fair. You always call everyone, no matter they are fat or thin, tall or short, old or young, or Rich or poor. Everyone is treated equally by you, and you love no one. I should really give you a piece of chicken."
Yes, death is like this. No matter you are a cat or a dog, a king or a poor person, as soon as the time comes, it will ruthlessly take away your life. But what the king still can't figure out is that since the sun is his father, why would he punish his son in such a cruel way? This made him even more suspicious of whether the sun was his father. He thought about this question for a long time, but he still couldn't come to a conclusion.
