.5, The King's Love

Looking at the two demon envoys leaving, Tecumse was still sitting indifferently and arrogantly, without any intention of getting up to see him off, and without even saying goodbye. (Providing the latest chapter reading>

However, after his back completely disappeared and the door of the room closed again, his expression finally collapsed.

The ability and enthusiasm shown during the verbal battle cannot hide the weakness and melancholy deep in his heart. When there is no one around, the truth hidden under the cold cloak finally gradually returns to this king.

"For the purpose, and then for the purpose, I forgot the purpose... I, the king of the mountains, have actually fallen to the point where I have to cooperate with such a group of brain-dead guys with abnormal thinking. It's really sad enough!"

He rubbed the painful sunshine tiredly and sorted out his chaotic head. Inadvertently, Tecumsey glanced at the mirror hanging on the wall and was stunned to see that his round face was already terrible thin at this moment. Heavy dark circles surrounded the entire eye socket, and his gray head was even sparse, and the more he went up, it looked like an animal called panda depicted in the geographical picture book... It was still the time when bamboo blooms, the grizzly panda was hungry and faded...

"It seems that I am really tired, and no one reminds me... I am getting older and faster these days!"

Tecumse muttered in a low voice, took out an exquisite gold pendant from his arms, opened the lid with broken diamonds and black pearls, and a small photo of exquisite gold foil was in sight.

The beautiful young woman in the photo has a petite figure and beautiful charm. Her eyebrows are as dark as distant, her skin is as creamy as green ponds. Her white teeth are like shells, her cherry lips are as beautiful as petals, and her beautiful and mellow. Her beautiful and soft black head is wrapped in a round bun, looking like a white magnolia with its tips on the tips. She also looks like a bright and charming fragrant rose.

"Ishbar... I really shouldn't have let you go back by yourself! My Marina..."

He sighed and pressed the golden pendant tightly against his chest. Tears surged for a moment on his haggard face.

As the saying goes, Wang Wuqing.

For those big men at the peak of power, love is often just a luxury that is undesirable, or even a sweet poison that blindly damages reason and soberness. Marriages between nobles and politicians usually represent the conclusion and breakdown of covenants, the merger and division of territories, and the transfer and abolition of certain privileges. As for love and romance, even age gaps and close relatives, they are often not within the scope of consideration.

In this way, in the marriage of these politicians, too many utilitarian factors have been mixed with, the emotions as the basis of marriage have been diluted to be as weak as it can be. The couple can really do it like what is described in fairy tales. "The prince and the princess live happily together from now on." In fact, if both parties can respect each other as guests, keep mistresses, and find mistresses, and find a little one. They are all in peace with each other, it is already quite good; those tragic scenes of families turning against each other and meeting each other with swords and weapons have always been common; as for the more cruel... In some countries, there are cases where the powerful queens kill their husbands and sons and then ascend to the throne as queen!

However, human nature is so mean. The easier it is to obtain something, the less it takes it seriously; and the more you can't get things, the more you will be attracted to it... Nothing can be out of the past!

As a strong monarch who can rank among the top ten in the entire Torrell world, the king of the mountain, Tecumsey, not only has the first-class civil and military skills, but also can be regarded as a model of self-discipline. Not only did he not have as extravagant as the Eastern monarch, he had three thousand harems, but he also did not have the widespread mistresses and cuckolds like the Western monarch, nor did he have the perverted preferences such as Brokenback Mountain or the human and beast games... Of course, this does not mean that Tecumsey is an impotence-inducing old virgin. In fact, he has had four marriages in his long life of more than 70 years, but the final result is not very satisfactory.

Tecumse did not do well in his youth. He has been a sailor and a travel merchant who has been working as a single gangster for many years. He has traveled around every corner of the world, but has not made much money, nor has he gained any good luck in reaching the sky. He has been delayed until he is old and has to start solving his lifelong affairs.

His first marriage was a dew-water marriage with a Drow mercenary while working at the Naseril Trading Station. When the Elf Army occupied the imperial colony, Tongbes Port thirty years ago and expelled all Naseril immigrants, the female Drow returned to China with her children. Tecumse maintained her marriage for less than two years this time and ended in vain.

After losing his job and returning alone to the Black Hawk Tribe, he found a wife in the tribe and soon had a son and daughter. Tecumse, who was over 40 years old, was very satisfied with this. Unfortunately, if success was always going through hardships and ups and downs, their wives and children would often become the first touchstone--the elves expeditionary army that killed the plateau was dazed by gold and blood. In order to plunder more treasures, he actually waved his butcher knife to the Black Hawk Tribe that had long defected to him... An irrational cruel massacre sounded the death knell of the colonization and expansion of the Elf Kingdom, opened the legendary career of Tecumse, the "Immortal Bird", and also put a bloody end to his second marriage.

After forming a team on the plateau and launching a full-scale counterattack against the invasion, Tecumsey, who became a lonely man again, married the widowed daughter of the high priest of the Temple of Time, in order to stabilize his power, which was his third marriage. Because it was a pure political marriage, both parties had no feelings for each other, and they were separated from each other in the year of marriage. Soon, the woman gave birth to a son, but also died of difficult labor. Tecumsey became a widower for the third time.

Although Tecumse was still healthy at this time, he was over fifty years old after all. He was on the snowy plateau with a short lifespan. At this age, he was almost at the end of his life. Just when Tecumse thought he was about to be lonely for the rest of his life, a passionate relationship unfolded in front of this old king without warning...

"My father, how are your negotiations with the Abyss? When those two guys went out just now, their faces were really bad!"

A crisp and pleasant voice suddenly rang out, interrupting the contemplation of the King of the Mountains. He opened his eyes and looked up. He found that Princess Azhisha had walked in at some point and stretched her wheat-colored arms to her shoulders. She loosened and tightened and gently kneaded them.

"It was a bad talk." Tkumse shook his head in frustration, and adjusted his sitting position to make his daughter massage his shoulders. "It should be said that it is very bad! These guys are so disappointing! I am not afraid of talking to evil people, nor are I afraid of talking to smart people, but I am very afraid of talking to stupid people... But these demons are mostly brainless!"

"Hey? Is that right? But that General Oukai doesn't look like a fool!" Azhisha asked strangely. "Every time I talk to him, I am admired. And the other lady in red shroud, although her name is strange, she looks smarter..."

"Azhisha, you misunderstood what I mean. It's not that they are not smart, but on the contrary, they are smart people who play too much!"

Tecumse sighed and explained, "Real wisdom will not care about every gain or loss. Instead, we should learn how to take small losses and make big profits. But these demons are just the opposite, with all kinds of tricks one after another. There is no idea of ​​the overall situation at all. Individually, they are quite slick and smart. But overall, they are hopelessly stupid."

"Whether evil or kind, as long as they are smart people, they will probably make judgments based on intelligence and situations to maximize their own interests, so their behavior is predictable. But fools are different. There is no law in their behavior, or only absurdity, and such laws are constantly changing. No matter how much intelligence they have mastered, we cannot predict what fools will do next, and even if they commit suicide collectively, they cannot say that they will do."

He patted the seat opposite and signaled his daughter to sit down, "So, I'm very worried about this cooperation. After all, the demon is a manifestation of chaos and evil, and is used to betrayal. Sometimes he even betrays for the sake of betrayal, and there is no reason! I really don't know how to deal with such a madman, and I have no way to escape..."

"That's true, that's really troublesome... Huh? Father, have you just cried? Your eyes are red!" Azhisha suddenly pointed at Tkumsedi's eyelid and exclaimed in a low voice.

"Oh? Is that?" Tkumse quickly rubbed his eyes, but it turned out to be redder and redder. "I just mentioned a few words about Ishbardi, so... Hey, I can't help but feel sad when I'm old!"

The word "Ishbar..." seemed like a spell. As soon as he heard it, Azhisha immediately trembled all over and her face turned pale. It took him a while to come to his senses.

"...Yes, it's been eighteen years!" She murmured with a teacup, "Mother has been away from me for eighteen years, but I don't even have any impression of her appearance..."

Tecumse was silent. He put one hand on Azhisha's shoulder, trying to comfort her, but when he spoke to his lips, he was speechless and he didn't know what to say.

That was really an unforgettable memory...

More than 20 years ago, in the second year that Tecomsey became the king of the mountains, a young female traveler went through thousands of difficulties and came to his palace from the continent of Feren, just to be able to see the legendary war heroes up close and write a real interview record of celebrity.

This brave woman is named Marina.

She is a petite, beautiful, smart and tenacious intellectual beauty, with a bit of nobility and elegance in her generous manner. When Tecumse saw her, she was shocked and showed great care to her despite her age. The halo of the war hero also made Marina admire this foreign monarch very much. Soon, the old couple fell in love and spent a very wonderful time together.

However, Marina also had a child with her ex-husband in her hometown, which was temporarily stored at her friend's house. Shortly after her marriage, she ignored Tecumse's persuasion and insisted on returning to the Feren continent in person. It was not until she got on board and set sail that Marina realized that she was pregnant. After she arrived at her destination, she successfully gave birth to a girl, that is, Azhisha.

However, the happy comedy ends here.

During the years when Marina traveled to the Mazka continent, her hometown was in war. Her friends' family and the children she had left were all gone. This unwilling mother searched for her for a year, but in the end she had nothing to find and had to return in disappointment.

As a result, greater misfortune came.

The passenger ship carrying her back was unfortunately stranded and sunk near the town of Ishubar. Then the traveler who went ashore was even more unfortunately raided overnight at the Tyr Church, and was slaughtered with the townsmen indiscriminately, and became a victim of the Ishubar Rebellion.

But Marina survived, although it was very likely that she would die at that time, because... the charming Marina was sold to the slave traders of the Elf Kingdom and entered the Elf Army comfort station in the Mazka Colony. She spent a whole year in a nightmare. Due to her outstanding appearance, soldiers would come to her every day, not one or two. But many, four or five at a time, dozens of times a day. In order to prevent Marina from committing suicide or injuring people, she even pulled out all her teeth.

So she became a tool, the most popular tool for soldiers to line up and take turns to leak. When the Inca rebels accidentally broke through the fortress of the Elf Army and rescued Marina, she was completely crazy, and there were four naked guys lying beside her.

However, the bad luck is not over yet.

Although Marina returned to Tecumse, Azhisha, who was also sold, was still missing. It was only through prophecy that Tecumse confirmed that the little princess was not only alive, but also in a corner of the Mazka continent. It was not until six years later that Tecumse found her covered in wounds from an elf officer who liked to humiliate young children, and managed to rescue her through an underground organization.

Before this, Marina, who was both physically and mentally severely injured, had already left this world. The mother and daughter were unable to meet for the last time...

After ending this painful memory, Tecumse couldn't help but sigh quietly. For his family, even after this, the bad luck continued:

In a defeat last summer, his only son died on the battlefield and no grandchildren were left behind. Now, except Azhisha, he has no relatives in this world, and at his age, he will never have any new descendants. If the father and daughter die together, he will have worked hard to manage the foundation for so many years, and it will disappear with it.

Even if they have no worries for the time being, it will be difficult if he wants Azhisha to ascend the throne. The indigenous peoples in the Mazka continent generally prefer boys over girls. Although there is no precedent for queens or female chiefs, the only thing he can leave to Azhisha without authorization is that there are only a few pieces of direct-governmental territories left.

As for the title of King of the Mountain, the power of all Incas, and the status of leader in leading the entire continent's resistance organization... These things backed by martial arts are not something that the "weak" female heirs can take from him.

What's more, even his own dominance has already occurred, and many powerful princes began to covet the throne. Rebellions in various places were one after another. Even if they could be recaptured, the country would still be worried. Unless they could achieve greater victory... But is this possible in front of enemies who still have absolute advantage?

Forget it, children and grandchildren have their own blessings. I don’t know that I can pass this level before me. I should worry less about the future.

Tecumse smiled self-deprecatingly, and at the same time pulled his palm back from his daughter's shoulder.

"Azhisha... I rarely remember your mother today. Can you sing a song for me?" He said calmly, and there seemed to be no ups and downs in his tone. "It's the one your mother likes the most... Thank you!"

Azhisha was slightly stunned, pondered for a moment, and finally opened her mouth and showed her singing voice.

In an instant, the familiar melody gushed out in the ears of the King of the Mountains like a spring.

"Your figure is like a song, lingering in my heart,

Flying past me with time.

Those indescribable emotions and emotions occupy every moment of me.

I don't know every ordinary day like this,

Will it turn into longing and flow into this river of memory?

Want her to stay in her heart quietly,

Treasure in an unattainable corner!

Those vows and alliances are just temporary comforts.

Maybe it's just to face tomorrow,

All are illusory gentle lies.

That wonderful day is like a song, I still remember it

Flying past me with time.

That precious day was like a song, accompanying me to grow up.

Tell in my ears…”

Accompanied by the melodious and melodious singing, Tecomsey held Marina's small photo box and leaned on the rattan chair in a daze, gradually falling asleep.

In the dream, he seemed to see that unforgettable figure again, returning to the last spring of his life...

ps: The plot of the branch ends here, and the following chapter turns back to the Xiangrui Number.
Chapter completed!