Great Sui Guoshi

"Go up!"

Amidst the eunuch's shrieking voice, Yang Su was full of hope, and was the last one to step into the hall. The bird perched on the corner of the palace eaves combed its wings, and was startled by the sharp and piercing voice and flew out.

Spreading its wings across the sky, across the imperial city, there are rows of residential buildings outside, long streets and alleys intertwined with each other, the crowd is noisy, the woman tidied up the house, opened the window lattice to hang the washed clothes , the husband picked up the burden and said goodbye to his wife and children with a smile, walked into the long street, and the craftsmen in the dyeing workshop yelled and pulled up the cloth that had been infested overnight and spread it in the sun, revealing colorful colors; the shy girl sat in front of the window, holding a juanpa Shyly eavesdropping on the conversation between the matchmaker and parents outside the house, the outline of the future man in his heart gradually emerged.

The birds flying across the sky passed the soldiers who were talking and patrolling, and flew over the towering city walls to the north. Beyond the rolling mountains, the sky was gradually darkening, as if rain was about to fall.

On the dry ground, worms squirmed and climbed up the tip of the leaf among the weeds. At a certain moment, the static dust particles shook slightly, and climbed above the worm on the tip of the grass. The shadow fell, and a horseshoe printed hoofprints on the ground, and then Quickly step forward to the ground.

Da da da......

The horses galloped, and on the undulating horsebacks, the knights in Sui army armor bent their bows sideways, and with a whoosh, the arrows shot off the strings, and there was a scream from behind. The moment the stirrups dragged on the ground, several riders on both sides passed by, and they all drew their bows and arrows, and shot at the Sui scout in front.

The arrows flew down and pierced the ground along the rear of the fleeing Sui army's scout horses. There were tiny rocks and mud clods falling from the hills on both sides of the past.

In the hidden place on the hill, there are more than a dozen eyes looking down at the chasing Turkic cavalry. Someone dyed the fire folds and lit the arrows wrapped in kerosene. The flames burned, and the figure with the bow raised his arms to face down. Let go of your thumb suddenly, and the bowstring will make a vibrato with a 'bang'.

boom--

The flaming arrows fled to scout the ground, and a wall of fire rose instantly, stopping the eight Turkic cavalry who were chasing.

"The Sui people have an ambush!" Turkic words rang out among the eight people, one of them reined in the reins, and turned around, but at some point behind them, there was an extra big rock blocking the retreat.

"kill!"

In an instant, there was a loud shout from the hills on both sides, and more than a dozen arrows shot down one after another. One of the eight cavalry fell off the horse with an arrow, hugging his shoulders and arms and mourning. The remaining three Turkic cavalry waved their blades and spears desperately. Too late to leave.

Behind the hills and rocks on both sides, Sui soldiers rushed down frantically with blades and long spears. The spears were stabbed, and the horses raised their front hooves with a mournful cry, and threw the Turkic cavalry off their backs. They were rolling, and before he got up Suddenly, the ambushed Sui soldiers charged forward and cut off his head with a knife.

After a short confrontation, the Sui soldier who had chopped off his head held up his bloody head and shouted at the man who was chased on horseback:

"Lieutenant Qu, is there another group of Turkic people?"

The rest of the soldiers who cleaned the battlefield around and buried the corpses and bloodstains raised their heads and looked up. The knight who fled before hurried back slowly, dismounted with a smile, took off the iron helmet on his head, and punched the soldier on the shoulder.

"It's a good idea. The Turkic people are not fools. After suffering two losses, they will definitely turn around and ambush them. If they see a good deal, they will accept it. Go back quickly and escort the frontline soldiers with food and grass."

The knight was tall, and his scout armor was stretched tight. It was Qu Yuanfeng who had gone to the front line to fight. At first, he thought he could win a big battle, but the general named Daxi Changru didn't know it was because he was in Chang'an. However, he still valued him too much, so he was transferred to the back camp to escort food and grass.

From March to April, the war in the north has already begun. The Turkic Shabolue Khan led the Second Khan, Abo Khan, Datou Khan and Buli Khan, etc., and led a total of 40 troops to attack the south of the Great Wall. The Sui army, which had already been well-arranged here, was divided into eight groups to launch a counterattack.

For a while, wars were raging, but Qu Yuanfeng heard that there were gains everywhere, but there was not much movement on his own side, so he had to lure the scouting Turkic cavalry to kill them while escorting the grain and grass, and cut off the enemy's 'eyes' to scout the rear. , Second, also sharpen their own battle formation.

"I don't know how long it will take to see a bigger battle."

Escorted the food and grass to the frontline military camp, counted the amount of food and grass, Qu Yuanfeng handed over the errand and went to the ordnance camp, took out the long sword given to him by his master from his waist, sat on the grass, and polished it with a stone.

Looking at the face reflected by Jianfeng, he let out a light breath.

"Master doesn't know what he is doing. He should still be guarding his wife at Qixia Mountain. He should write a letter to Master to report his safety some other day. After so long, he must be worried."

After lazily basking in the sun for a while, the soldiers under his command had already gathered, and they came to inform Qu Yuanfeng that he should go back to the rear camp. The latter touched a command flag stuck on his back, and sighed again, it was useless. .

"Let's go!"

Qu Yuanfeng returned to the gate of the back camp, got on his horse and waved at the two hundred soldiers behind him, cracked his whip and ran out of the camp, when he heard something, he stopped his horse and turned sideways to listen.

thump—

dong dong dong dong!

The sound of war drums came from the front battalion, and the soldiers in the battalion who were doing their own things swarmed towards the school grounds, and some voices shouted.

"The Turks are coming!"

"It is the Turkic Khan Sabolo leading the army!"

The camp was chaotic and orderly. A group of Taoist soldiers gathered towards the school grounds to form an army formation. Qu Yuanfeng, who was about to leave, took his horse's belly and joined him with 200 people. He watched the tall general named Daxi on the stage. Changru's general was dressed in military uniform, dragging his cloak and striding up, drew his sword around his waist and held it high in the sky, roaring!

"The enemy is coming, boys, prepare for battle!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The densely packed soldiers shouted hissingly, and the spears smashed the ground like a forest, shaking the sky.

Qu Yuanfeng waved his sword scabbard and knocked on the saddle while the tide was surging, the battle finally made him wait, even though there were only more than [-] people, he was never timid.

...Master, let's see how Yuanfeng can give you a long face and defend against powerful enemies for my Da Sui!

Beacon smoke rolls across the earth, and the surging screams follow the sky to the south. The scholar who thinks about it is on the way to Chang'an.

Chapter 323 It's raining heavily in the forest, the beauty is by my side

After passing Lanruo Temple, where we had stayed overnight, to the north of Shangyong County, it rained heavily.

The road to Chang'an became muddy and difficult, and the forest was filled with the sound of rain splashing on the leaves. Lu Liangsheng used his mana, and the dead branches of the surrounding vegetation flew around and relied on a big tree to build a pergola.

The old donkey was lying on the innermost side, the bookshelf was placed on one side, and a small bonfire was lit. Wang Banyan sat cross-legged, pinching his fingers and chanting.

Throwing a dry branch into the fire, Lu Liangsheng listened to the sound of rain and thunder outside, holding the scroll and quietly turning the pages. Taoist Toad was lying on the hem of his spread robe, with his webbed behind his head, curled up. One leg was shaking back and forth, and she was humming the song that Hong Lian had sung leisurely with her eyes closed.

"When I first met Mr. Lang, I passed by the door...I still remember the misty rain in my previous life.....

Putting on the cassock and carrying the bowl to beg for fate...huh, nah, bang..."

As if he had forgotten the words behind, he hummed and chirped for a few paragraphs, and Taoist Toad let out a long sigh happily: "Master, I miss the song sung by the little ghost, and I shouldn't have dominated the world in the first place. It's better to hang out in the world, satiate my stomach, and listen to it." Wonderful voice in the world."

Opening his mouth abruptly, Lu Liangsheng raised his eyes and saw a few wet birds flying in from outside the shed and landed on the outstretched branches. The scholar smiled at them, flicked his sleeves, and the wet feathers gradually dried. Four flying birds jumped up and down the shed excitedly with their paws, looking curiously at the scholar over there.

Ignoring the birds in the forest, Lu Liangsheng lowered his gaze to the pages of the book. The faint aura of grandeur and gentleness made the birds approach unconsciously. They stood on the scholar's shoulders and legs and twittered. The lying toad demon didn't feel scared either.

As the pages of the book turned with a 'wow', Lu Liangsheng suddenly opened his mouth and asked the humming toad.

"Master, you say the white-robed gentleman is an old friend, so what kind of monster is he?"

"A demon is a demon, what do you do if you inquire so clearly?"

Taoist Toad jerked up, sat up, smacked his lips, flipped his flippers to the edge of his robe, looked at the water curtain hanging from the straw shed, and the toad's eyes almost narrowed into a slit.

"Anyway, you can't run into the Northwest."

The scholar closed the book, but instead became interested, looked at the master's sitting back, and said with a smile: "Just ask, since he can be compared with the master, he must be a big monster."

The last two paragraphs of these words made Taoist Toad feel quite comfortable, and nodded slightly.

"Hehe, how can we compare it to each other? I think back then when I was a teacher and saved his life, he was still running around in the sand..."

Speaking of Xingtou, he jumped down from the hem of his robe, and there was a soft 'pop' sound. Lu Liangsheng quickly put down his robe and stood up. Taoist Toad quickly got up from the ground, patted the dust, touched his buttocks with his hands behind his back, shook and walked away Go to the grass shed door.

"This monster is a little worse than the teacher, but it is also very powerful. Among the monsters in the northwest, it is also counted as the second existence."

Lu Liangsheng raised his eyebrows and couldn't help asking: "Then who is the number one?"

Over there, the short toad turned his face slightly and waved his webbed.

"Nature is a teacher!"

As the word 'teacher' fell, Wang Banyan, who was pinching his fingers in the fire over there and muttering something, suddenly slapped his knee and yelled loudly.

"it is good!"

The master and apprentice stopped talking, Qi Qi turned his head to look over, the old man felt four eyes, got up quickly, Lu Liangsheng arched his hands, and then bowed to Taoist Ha.

"Master, Shigong, Cheng En has been abrupt. Just now, I calculated the situation of my junior with my finger, and found that it may be a good omen. After thinking about it, the class teacher will return to the court without avoiding high-ranking officials and generous salary. Cheng En can also move to Beijing..."

In a moment of excitement, he almost uttered all his thoughts, Wang Banzai stopped his words, heaved a sigh of relief, it's okay, he almost said that the master mistakenly thought that the old man was a person who was greedy for wealth and honor.

Lu Liangsheng over there was not a young man who had just left Qixia Mountain, so he didn't know what he meant, but he didn't care.

"Cheng'en, although this technique can count good and bad luck, it can't be calculated in detail later. Some things have their own cause and effect in the way of heaven. Peeping too much will only make the original normal things blurred and produce variables!"

It's not easy to practice, let alone the old man's age, when Wang Cheng'en accepted the disciples that day, he also performed the teacher's etiquette, so naturally he is Lu Liangsheng's disciple, how can he treat one more than another.

"You cultivate too late, and you have learned mostly the art of observing the astrology and astrology. You may live a short life in the future, so don't covet glory and glory, guide the lost and confused people more, accumulate evil virtues, maybe you can prolong your life and achieve positive results through calamities. Remember not to do anything detrimental to your virtue..."

Toad Taoist watched his apprentice follow the instructions, dragged his money seal long sleeves, walked to the bonfire, lay down lazily, and slightly closed his eyelids.

"Like your old pedantic appearance again, preaching to others."

The wind mixed with the rain fell down in the forest, the branches and leaves of the thatched shed shook, and it couldn't stop for a while. The campfire was warm, and Taoist Toad yawned boredly on one side.

Lu Liangsheng held the bookshelf again, savored the classics and stories carefully, stopped in the shed, a few birds landed on the old man's messy hair, combed their feathers and huddled together to peck each other softly, occasionally, quietly listening, over there The sound of a scholar reading.

......

"Quick! There's a grass shed over there!"

"Ouch, luckily I met a rainy place."

On the muddy path, a carriage rolled over the muddy water. The driver of the carriage came not far from a few young men on horseback. They were soaked all over, trembling and rolled off their horses, pointing to the straw shed over there and shouting into the carriage. After a while, the curtain was lifted, and the three women supported each other down with paper umbrellas, and followed the four young men to the hut over there in the rain with their skirts.

"You stay in the car, what are you doing running out?!"

"That's right, it doesn't rain in the car." "Brother Cheng Wen, how can you let three girls go with the driver!"

"Hey, there's someone in the thatched shed!"

When the four young men running forward were talking to the woman behind, the one in the front suddenly spoke, and a group of seven people saw the straw hut with a bonfire, an old man with messy hair, a scholar in white robes, and an old donkey at the end. , with a bookshelf next to it.

"Brother, is it convenient for me to come in to shelter from the rain?"

Some of the seven people spoke politely first, but before Lu Liangsheng could speak, the young master who spoke first, another person grabbed the conversation and swung his sleeves to slap a few birds flying around in the shed.

"Brother Cheng Wen, the hut stands by the side of the road, and it doesn't belong to him, so he doesn't care what to do. He's just a down-and-out scholar who hasn't won the exam since his age is double ten, and he can't be polite to me."

Lu Liangsheng frowned, and when he looked at the wet seven men and women, behind the four youths in front, one of the three women in a blue lotus dress saw the face of the scholar opposite, and suddenly smiled.

She knew this scholar very well.

Chapter 324

Lu Liangsheng's eyes swept over the embarrassed seven people, and then fell on the smiling face of the woman in the blue dress, followed by a smile, and nodded slightly towards each other.

It turned out to be Min Yuerou, here is still hundreds of miles away from Chang'an, the girl's family ran so far, Lu Liangsheng thought for a while, and suddenly felt that he was meddling, hung down his book, and made a greeting to the campfire.

"Everyone, it's raining outside, come and squeeze, let's enjoy the fire."

"Thank you, brother." The young master, who was called Brother Cheng Wen by his companion, cupped his hands, sat by the fire and unbuttoned his hair, warming his wet hair.

Seeing him sitting down, the clamoring man came in with the other two sons and squeezed in together, probably to make room for the three women at the entrance of the shed to warm themselves by the fire.

"Old man, lean towards the donkey."

The toe of the man's shoe lightly kicked Wang Banyan, who was sitting cross-legged, and when the other party turned his face, he turned around and sneered at his companion.

"Hey, look, you are still a blind man. Hey, brother over there, is this blind man with you?"

"Brother Qide, don't say a few words, sit down and warm yourself by the fire."

Cheng Wen, who had invited three women to sit down on the opposite side, frowned, and apologetically cupped his hands towards Lu Liangsheng who was leaning against the tree.

"I hope you don't mind, Brother Kai, I speak like this, and I'm not a bad person."

Over there, Lu Liangsheng didn't mind, he looked away from Min Yuerou, smiled and waved his hands: "It's okay, I also accidentally came to this thatched hut, you don't have to take offense, it's just the blind old man over there, he's my companion I just hope that brother Kai Tak won't bully the old and the weak."

The round-faced, slightly chubby young man put his hips on his hips, retracted his feet embarrassingly, and turned his face away with a snort.

"Where did I bully others? Open your eyes and talk nonsense."

Taking a step back, he waved his sleeves to squeeze away a male partner in the middle, and sat on the left side of Min Yuerou, causing the woman to move towards the female partner on the other side. There were seven people in a small thatched hut, plus Lu Liangsheng, Wang Banbiao, and an old donkey. , suddenly packed to the brim.

The seven people over there were talking, and Min Yuerou occasionally added a few words, and glanced at the scholar who was talking with the blind old man from time to time.

The flame flickered on her face, she propped her chin, looking slightly lost in thought.

"It's getting more and more mature and good-looking. Isn't that old man a blind fortune-teller in Lu's Village? Why did he come out with Mr. Lu? It looks like he came to Chang'an...but he doesn't know if he will stay at my house or not. '

"Sister Yuerou, what do you think?"

"what?"

The female companion who was walking by the side turned to ask her with a smile, Min Yuerou was lost in thought, where did she hear it, she came back to her senses when she was asked, and made up a random sentence: "Hmm, it should be like this..." Get over it.

The man named Liu Qide was close, so he could tell the clues. Following Min Yuerou's eyes, he looked at the scholar opposite. Although he didn't admire this woman, after all, they came out together, how could he casually flirt with a down-and-out scholar!

"Cough cough!"

Suddenly coughed twice, interjected, and raised his chin at Lu Liangsheng: "That brother! I wonder if you are going to Chang'an?"

"Maybe we have to pass by." Lu Liangsheng smiled and threw a piece of dry wood into the fire.