"Why can't I wake up?" Xu Yuanliang became even more confused, "What happened?"
Chunxiang wiped her tears, stabilized her emotions and said, "Don't you have any memory at all? Ten days ago you said you were going out for a walk, but you didn't come back for a long time. I could only take Xiaodunzi out to look for you, and finally found out You fainted in the back mountain. Everyone carried you back, but no one could tell what happened to you. They all thought you were fine, but they just couldn't wake up. Later, the village chief also came, thinking that you might be The injury didn't heal well last time, and now it's happened again. Please don't worry. Every day, I have given up hope..."
"I..." Xu Yuanliang suddenly recalled the scene when he met the sloppy old man that day in his mind, "Is everything true that day?"
"Why do I feel so strange? I seem to have a different feeling about...something in the world...could it be that dream?"
Xu Yuanliang felt an extremely strange feeling in his heart, as if he was faced with a question that he didn't know anything about before, but he suddenly became enlightened and solved it smoothly.
"In that dream, I seemed to have been comprehending something very obscure and difficult. Although it was difficult, I still partially understood what it was. It was... yes, it was weight!"
Xu Yuanliang's eyes suddenly became brighter. He felt that a very important part of this world was tightly connected to him, or in other words, he felt that he could use part of the power of this world.
For an ordinary person, this feeling is very mysterious and incomprehensible. Xu Yuanliang comforted him a few words, then said he was hungry and dismissed Chunxiang, leaving him alone in the room.
He closed his eyes and felt the world. There were a dozen small wooden sticks hanging in the air in the room. After a few seconds, these small wooden sticks seemed to be controlled by an invisible hand, quickly forming a bridge.
Xu Yuanliang opened his eyes and looked overjoyed. He stretched out his trembling hands towards the small model bridge on the ground, "It's done... the Flying Rainbow Bridge... it's done! We... are saved!"
A month later, in the back garden of the palace, Xu Yuanliang and nine other villagers from Muke Village were enthusiastically building a wooden bridge. The old emperor led several ministers to sit on comfortable chairs and watch from a distance.
"Your Majesty, if they can really do it..."
When a minister was mid-sentence, the old emperor interrupted, "How can I break my promise! If they really build such a bridge, they will naturally reward you heavily!"
The ministers who can come here today are all the emperor's confidants and understand the emperor's true intentions.
After half a day, a flying rainbow bridge across the garden pond appeared in front of everyone. The emperor sent several guards to go up and inspect it. They found that the bridge was very stable, and the entire bridge did not use mortise and tenon structures or piers. The entire bridge was built Not a single nail was used during the process, which indeed met the emperor's requirements.
The emperor immediately issued an order to reward these ten craftsmen, especially Xu Yuanliang, who made the first contribution. Xu Yuanliang declined the emperor's official appointment due to lack of ability, and expressed his wish to return to the village and become a carpenter, and the emperor agreed. Seeing this, other people also expressed their willingness to return to the village and live an ordinary life.
Maybe others would be deceived by the immediate benefits, but Xu Yuan's conscience was very clear. Since the cause of the matter was that the emperor was angry with them after the death of his son, and they escaped this time, if they were really appointed to official positions, they would not know what to do. Sometimes they would be killed, and he would not bet on whether the emperor would really let them go. So his idea is to use the current safe period to return to the village to organize everyone's transfer, and follow the practice of the ancestors of Muke Village who lived in seclusion. As long as they last for a while, after the old emperor Bintian and the changing times, they will never You have to hide for the rest of your life.
The only thing that surprised Xu Yuanliang was that the third prince came to him once before they left the imperial capital. The content of the conversation shocked Xu Yuanliang. He did not expect that the third prince was so courageous that he thought the other prince would not let him leave. Unexpectedly, the group of them successfully left the imperial capital.
"Yuanliang, what exactly did the third prince say to you?"
Chen Bingui is the vice-captain among the ten people from Mukecun who entered the palace this time, and he is also the most skilled among the younger generation in Mukecun. If Xu Yuanliang had not thought of how to build the Feitian Hong Bridge this time, the flexible Chen Bingui would be Mukecun. The most promising young man among them.
Having safely left the imperial capital, Xu Yuanliang was not afraid to speak clearly. At least he felt that he could tell Chen Bingui.
"The third prince promised me a high official position and a generous salary, and he wanted me to do something for him."
"What's up?"
"Join the mechanism on the bridge to murder His Majesty!"
"What?" Chen Bingui looked very shocked, "Did you agree?"
"If I had agreed, how could we be on the way back to the village?" Xu Yuanliang sighed: "This third prince is really... alas!"
Chen Bingui said in confusion: "It stands to reason that if he said such a thing, you wouldn't let us leave easily if you don't agree. With his ruthless temper, why not let us..."
"He said that His Majesty will not let us go in Muke Village. Our only way to survive is to be used by him. He hopes that I will go back to help him after I figure it out in the future. Maybe because of this, he is willing to let us go!"
The ambitious third prince was afraid that one day the emperor would be cruel enough to kill him, so he was eager to take action first. The emperor was surrounded by the most powerful guard force in the empire, which the third prince could not resist, so he focused on Xu Yuanliang's miraculous carpenter ability. There are no immortals in the Yuansheng Empire, and the emperor himself is a mortal body. As long as the design is clever, it is not impossible to use the mechanism to kill the emperor. The mechanisms designed by mortals have no spiritual power fluctuations. The top experts who protect the emperor who are not seen in daily life cannot detect it and are absolutely impossible to guard against. That's why the third prince has such thoughts.
When a group of them returned to Muke Village, Xu Yuanliang discovered that things were not as simple as he thought, and everything was irreversible.
Muke Village was completely slaughtered!
Corpses littered the fields and rivers of blood flowed. In Muke Village, which has 233 households and 942 people, there is no one alive now.
The ten men who had rushed back from the imperial capital rushed back to their homes, and soon the sound of grief-stricken wailing could be heard, making this tragic scene even more tragic.
Xu Yuanliang stumbled back to his home, but there was no! He quickly ran to the next door, but there was nothing...
He calmed down a little when he didn't find the bodies of Chunxiang and Xiaodunzi. This probably means that Chunxiang and her son were not killed.
At this time, the words of the third prince came to his mind - My father is not as magnanimous as he seems on the surface. If you do it this time, it will only further anger him. Maybe he will ignore it. Everything will directly kill you all.
"Did the emperor do it?" Xu Yuanliang sat down on the ground dejectedly, "But why did he take Chunxiang and Xiaodunzi away? Is it because of me? I have no value to him!"
Just when I thought of this, a figure walked over.
"Damn old dog! You and I have nothing to do with each other!"
The person who came was Chen Bingui. He cursed and walked to Xu Yuanliang's side, "Yuanliang, that old dog still doesn't want to let us go. He killed the whole village! If you want revenge, you must take revenge!"
Xu Yuanliang knew who the "old dog" in Chen Bingui's mouth was referring to. He raised his head blankly, "Revenge? What can we do to take revenge? Even if we want to rebel, what can we carpenters do?"
"Yuanliang, have you forgotten? We still have the third prince!"
"Third Prince?"
"Yes! The third prince once invited you to help him. You told me that he is still waiting for you to return to the imperial capital. Muke Village is gone. Even if you are still unwilling to help the third prince, the old dog will eradicate it. . In this vast world, only the third prince can protect us, and only he can avenge us!"
Xu Yuanliang's eyes showed a glint, and he stared at Chen Bingui closely, which shocked Chen Bingui, "Yuanliang, why are you looking at me like this? Chunxiang... Have you found Chunxiang's mother and son?"
"No, I didn't find them. I'll look for them again..." Xu Yuanliang's eyes flashed with sadness when he heard the word Chunxiang, and he stood up unsteadily.
"No need to look for it, Yuan Liang, what we have to do now is to go back to the imperial capital to find the third prince. Think about it, Chunxiang and her son must have been captured by that old dog in order to lure you out. You have to save him. Well, only the third prince can fight against that old dog. For the sake of Chunxiang and her son, you have to return to the imperial capital!"
"Where is your family Bingui?" Xu Yuanliang suddenly asked in a deep voice.
"My family?" Chen Bingui was stunned. "The whole village is dead. Except for the ten of us and Chunxiang mother and son, no one in Muke Village survived! Yuanliang, it was you who came up with the idea of building the Feitian Hong Bridge. You took us to the palace to complete the mission, and now it’s time for you to take us to make a choice. Yuanliang, you have to make a decisive decision!"
