An extraordinary journey from the beginning

Chapter 172
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The big golden-red fish is wandering in the air, and while its pectoral fins are orderly fanned, the treasure ship below is also slowly drifting towards the distance. It's a glorious evening scene.

At the bow of the ship, Linglong looked at everything in front of her eyes in novelty, looked at the sky, pouted her mouth, and let out a loud "ah" towards the outside. After everything was done, she leaned her hands on the board to support her chin, and fell silent. .

"Lu Ming, shall we take this boat and go directly to your capital?"

Beside him, Lu Ming looked slightly sideways at the girl whose face was reflected by the golden sunset light. She was quite quiet at the moment, her fair and bright face exuded an indescribable tranquility, and suddenly she tilted her head slightly , squinting his eyes and smiling,
Lu Ming's expression moved slightly, and he wanted to turn his head away, but in the end he only stayed at the level of thinking. Instead, he reached out and stroked her hair fluttering in the wind a little bit uncontrollably, and said softly: "No, I just asked. The destination is not Zhaodu, so we have to go down at the next stop of the ship, and then there will be special people to pick us up."

"There is still someone to pick up~"

Turning her head sideways, Lingling supported her head with one hand instead, raised her small face and asked with a smile: "Are you the king's exclusive guard?"

"That's right,"

Lu Ming recalled those winged birdmen who had been with him since he was a child. He was a little speechless, but he still nodded slightly.

Unexpectedly, the dignified emperor's guards turned out to be a group of birds with wings...angels!
As a semi-traditional oriental man, Lu Ming subconsciously feels a little unreliable for these western birdmen acting as his guards. After all, in every novel he has read, those white cuties are basically killed indiscriminately. exist.

Day angels are often war scum~
It really made him feel less safe.

"Is the king's guard the kind who wears solid armor and holds a sharp sword in his hand, and then steps forward to resist the enemy without fear of life and death after the king gives an order?"

Linglong's eyes were full of curiosity, she squeezed her chin with her free hand, thought for a while, and continued: "Just like us fire weavers, we know that there will be sacrifices to extinguish the earth fire, but we still have to sacrifice." It’s our mission to do it without risking our lives.”

"Lu Ming, am I right? A sense of mission"

"A sense of mission~" Lu Ming was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Maybe it's right."

Before it was really about life and death, he didn't think these so-called guards could help him. This world was somewhat similar to the ancient environment of his previous life, but it was clearly different from that world.

The humanities, history, customs, and customs here are full of fantasy and fantasy. It can be said that the Classic of Mountains and Seas is a bit different, just like those fire weavers. Aside from their work of extinguishing the fire, they are really just ordinary people. Ordinary people living in remote mountain villages.

As for the so-called sense of mission, it has to be cultivated since childhood, and what is engraved in the bones is not easy to change.

The thing of honor and inferiority was probably still useful 500 years ago when the royal family was at its most powerful, but in the hands of a king who actually controlled only one city in his area, it probably didn't really exist.

Otherwise, Marquis Ping Jiang would not have thought about finding the existence of the God Lord, and the purpose of it can be imagined.

"What does it mean to be right? Right is right, and wrong is wrong."

Linglong snorted softly, frowned slightly, and said slightly dissatisfied.

Lovely people, whatever they do, are lovely.

Every word and every movement of her can affect the mood of others.

Probably Linglong is such a person... Lu Ming couldn't help but smiled lightly, stretched out his finger and flicked her forehead, and only stopped when Linglong frowned and her eyes widened threateningly, and turned to look at the sunset, calmly said:

"In my memory, I am not a royal family member, but a distant relative of the royal family. I grew up living in a small city on the northern border. My father resisted the city lord of the foreign race, and he had a group of warriors under his command."

"There is a special race named 'Yueling Clan'. The 'Yueling Clan' is born with two wings and can fly freely between the sky and the earth. Ling people' are often captured by lords and princes everywhere as slaves, and they also have the humble work of messengers."

"Until my father's generation, the royal family was in decline and was unable to provide military support for the border. In order to resist the foreigners on the border, he temporarily recruited the 'Yueling clan' as soldiers under his command. After years of torture, I cherish this only time to enjoy a normal life."

"They were brave and good at fighting, and eventually became a great help for my father, helping him hold on to the city."

Speaking of this, Lu Ming paused, then stretched out his finger and pointed to the north according to his memory, "According to the normal development, I should have taken over as the new city lord after my father died of old age and retired."

"But you are the king now, so something must have happened, right?" Linglong looked up.

"Yes, the accident came suddenly and disrupted my original life." Lu Ming nodded lightly, stretched out his hand to change direction, and turned towards the direction of the king's capital, with an inexplicable expression and a faint tone,
"The king of Zhaodu suddenly died suddenly, and since the previous king had no direct blood relatives, it was necessary to select a descendant from the collateral line to succeed him."

"As for me, I became the lucky one. I was successfully selected into the capital and became the new king."

For a king, it’s fine if he doesn’t have direct blood relatives, and there are no other royal family members in the capital, so he wants to choose a distant relative to succeed him to the throne in the bitter cold area of ​​the border.

It is really incredible, but logically speaking, the royal family has no clan and no direct blood, so it seems a matter of course to select intelligent and talented people from the side line to succeed the new king.

But it was precisely this taking for granted that made Lu Ming feel weird. In his memory, not two days after he ascended the throne, his father at the border also died unexpectedly.

The surrounding environment seems to be intentionally or unintentionally creating a lonely king.

"Are you trying to say that your throne is unstable?"

Following his words, Linglong frowned and said.

"No, it's not just that my throne is not stable, it should be that the royal family's throne has been unstable since a long time ago. It's just that the Ming royal family has controlled this continent for a long time and has an unimaginable cohesion. All the education I received growing up, from habit to cognition, has been deeply ingrained, and I know who the royal family above is."

"That's why the royal family is lucky enough to last to my generation."

"However, this habit is gradually weakening. The most obvious one is Pingting, the territory of Marquis Pingjiang."

Lu Ming also furrowed his brows tightly. After leaving Zhihuo, he will face the mess in the capital. As he flips through his memory, the more he understands, the more worried he becomes.

What the hell, it feels like there is a possibility of becoming the last emperor at any time.

Moreover, this is the feudal era, and if the dynasty is really going to change, he doesn't believe that those princes will do anything to let the former emperor take care of his old age.

The first half of his life as a king was very nonsense. First, he was the son of the lord, but he turned around and became the king by accident. Then he found that the king was an empty air. He thought that relying on his father's force at the border would not be too ugly. In [-], the father, the lord, also died.

The more Lu Ming thought about it, the more he felt it was nonsense, it was too conspiracy theory.

Sighing helplessly, Lu Ming turned his head to see the girl beside him, thinking about the operation of waving her hands and crushing powder when she transformed, and he was relieved.

Fortunately, although the time traveler came a bit late, he still came anyway.

Linglong didn't think that the first half of Lu Ming's life was so nonsense and bizarre, but listening to his narration, she felt in her heart that Lu Ming, the king, had a hard life. What he does seems to be completely different, so whether it is from her heart or other directions, she wants to comfort him a little bit.

Linglong straightened her expression and grabbed Lu Ming's arm, "Don't worry, I will cover you from now on."

"..."

Lu Ming glanced at the girl whose sympathy increased greatly, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, he raised his arm, and was about to pinch his face with his hand, but Linglong cleverly dodged it, and was a little stunned for a while.

This girl has become smarter?
"Why do you like to pinch my face?" Linglong frowned, patted Lu Ming's hand, and asked involuntarily.

"No way, you are too cute."

Lu Ming narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile, completely different from the melancholy and sentimental look just now.

It seems that he has become another person from just now.

"really?"

First she asked a question, and before Lu Ming could reply, Linglong raised her spirits and asked, "Why isn't it beautiful?"

"The word beautiful has been used badly, you are just a cute baby in my eyes."

Lu Ming said with a smile.

"Why do I feel that my level with you is getting lower and lower, as if I have become a child." Linglong frowned, looking at Lu Ming, the more she looked at her, the more uncomfortable she became.

"Haha." Lu Ming laughed, laughed for a while, raised his arm and leaned on her shoulder, "Linglong, thank you for trying to comfort me so much, but that's it."

"I am a person who has been ruined countless times by the hodgepodge of capital in the 21st century. I don't pay attention to the plight of the royal family at all. I can handle it with my backhand."

"..." Looking at Lu Ming who suddenly changed his form, Linglong couldn't keep up with this guy's brain circuit, she was stunned, and after a long time of serious observation, she was sure that Lu Ming was not joking, so she asked: "Are you really... Suddenly so, so confident?"

"I've always been very confident. Just now I wasn't telling you about my past, it was just telling me a story." Turning his head away, Lu Ming looked at the sunset with an indifferent attitude and murmured:
"Rebirth I have already earned!"

"As for the rest, that's all nonsense."

Lowering his head, Lu Ming looked at the stunned girl who couldn't keep up with the situation, and said with a smile: "To apply a saying from my hometown, first wipe your nose and then lift your pants, and you will be on the social road from now on."

"The first half of that materialistic life has passed, and standing here today is a brand new fantasy self."

"...You!" Linglong Wang Lu Ming hesitated to speak, her small head really couldn't keep up with the thoughts of this nervous person, but she felt that this kind of brain nerve was very familiar.

Stupid, crazy, nervous.

That person is called Lu Ming.

"Well, there's really nothing I can do about you."

She frowned and thought about it for a long time, but Linglong couldn't remember where the familiar feeling was, so she chose to let herself go and cooperate with him, making trumpet-like hands with her hands, and shouted outside, "Ah!"

"From today onwards, I am also a brand new cute Linglong!"

"How did you learn from me?" Turning his head sideways, Lu Ming was slightly dissatisfied.

"cut,"

Linglong pursed her lips and ignored this guy, because she was afraid that if she continued, Lu Ming would have a new topic.

They were obviously talking about guards, but how did they talk about Lu Ming's past and draw a clear line? It's really inexplicable.

……

Behind the two of them, on the deck of the ship, a middle-aged man with a pair of black mustaches and shrewd eyes appeared at some point, looking at the two of them at this moment.

Lu Ming's perception was very strong, and soon he noticed that someone behind him was looking at him, he patted Linglong's arm, and the two turned around,
"housekeeper?"

"Guests, it's almost night, please stay indoors to rest." The butler smiled, cupped his hands, and said softly.

"Can't you stay outside at night?"

Linglong asked.

"When did Weisheng's fishing boat have this regulation?" Lu Ming also asked.

"That's not true." The butler smiled, feeling a little helpless, and pointed to the second floor, "Tell me the truth, there is a distinguished guest up there who doesn't like to make noise, the deck is empty, and the sound can be heard far away. If you two want to chat to relieve boredom, how about I order my servants to prepare some food and drink?"

"In this way, we will not avoid embarrassment."

While speaking, the housekeeper lowered his body, showing a slightly humble attitude.

Lu Ming looked at him and smiled, took Linglong's hand and walked to the back room, and said at the same time: "Then I will trouble you, housekeeper."

Linglong was dragged by Lu Ming's big hand, and she squeezed her hand slightly. She was a little silent, speechless all the way, and couldn't help asking until she followed Lu Ming to the wing.

"What happened to that man just now?"

Lu Ming didn't answer directly. He pointed to the wooden board under his feet and said, "This boat belongs to Wei Sheng Yan's family. Wei Sheng Yan is the richest person in Suchuan. According to his own introduction, he is Wei Sheng Yan. The housekeeper of Sheng Yan's family."

"A richest man, a housekeeper, what's wrong?"

Linglong lowered her head and thought for a while, but she didn't understand the problem, she still looked at Lu Ming suspiciously.

"Weishengyan's home is in Pingting, which is the fiefdom of the Marquis of Pingjiang." Lu Ming's eyes were gloomy, and he said unhurriedly: "And we are a boat on Zhihuo, even if I give enough gold He, the steward of the Weishengyan family, shouldn't respect me so much when he doesn't know my identity."

"What's more, he also said that there are two respected guests upstairs."

"He's from Marquis Pingjiang?" Linglong came back to her senses, and suddenly exclaimed: "Those who want to harm us are the same as bone eaters, right?"

Lu Ming shook his head slightly, nodded again, and looked out of the window with Linglong's puzzled face, "It doesn't matter who he is, the important thing is that he picked us up on the boat, as long as tonight is over, I will understand Is he an enemy or a friend."

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(End of this chapter)