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Abu's complexion changed, he pulled him hard, and said: "We are here with the general, he... probably has something to discuss with General Mulan, let us take a walk in the courtyard, if there is anything disturbing us... Please forgive me..."

Su Dingfang waved his hand and said with a smile: "Where is there any disturbance? Besides, this is your Jingwu's house, and we are just borrowing it. The master's house is visiting and walking around at will. According to the customs of our Great Wall, It couldn't be more normal." He looked at Qin Ke, "But this pervert..."

"I didn't say anything." Qin Ke replied very quickly.

However, Su Dingfang seemed to understand something, and couldn't help laughing louder: "I see. Fortunately, you said this in front of me. If you really said this in front of General Mulan, I'm afraid it will end badly."

"I'm talking about Gao Changgong, not General Mulan." Qin Ke said, "What's the matter with her?" Seemingly thinking of something, his eyes widened and he said, "Is there really something between the two of them?"

Su Dingfang shook his head with a smile, and said: "This is not something we people should know, but as far as I know, there is nothing between the two of them. However, you said that General Gao is a pervert, and this pervert is here Who is he attracted to? General Mulan was born on the Great Wall since she was a child. She fought at the top of the city at the age of 12 and led the army until she took over the banner of the Mu clan at the age of 24 and became the Great General of the Great Wall. In the army, her daughter has many Inconvenience, and when she was young, she was often questioned by others because of these things, and even almost failed to inherit the family emblem of the Mu clan. She never wanted to be thought of as a weak woman in her life. Of course, she would not be happy if you said that .”

Abu nodded and said, "Indeed."

Qin Ke gave Abu a blank look, but he was not a fool. Su Dingfang could be said to have awakened the dreamer with a single word, but he still hung his head and said, "Looking at her appearance, no one would think she is weak."

Su Dingfang smiled, and ignored the matter: "Since you're here, you'll be idle if you're idle, why don't you give it a try?"

"Try what?" Qin Ke asked.

"Aren't you curious about 'cutting meat'? How about this, I'll teach you how to cut meat, and you play a game with me, how about it?"

Holding the scabbard of the battle knife, he slowly handed it over.

Qin Ke and Abu looked at the unpretentious sword with a scabbard, and thought that Su Dingfang was unstoppable during the martial arts performance in the hall that day, and this sword was indispensable.

The two met each other, and Abu said, "Look at it first."

Qin Ke didn't refuse, and touched the scabbard of the saber with one hand, but Su Dingfang smiled faintly: "Use two hands."

Qin Ke looked up at Su Dingfang, then looked down at the scabbard, frowning, just holding the scabbard with both hands, Su Dingfang let go.Qin Ke only felt his hands sink, until he suddenly exerted force with both hands, he could barely support the sword.

"So heavy?" Qin Ke felt the surprising weight of the saber, let go of one hand, and the tip of the saber fell naturally. He held the handle of the saber and slowly pulled it away.

It was still the saber on the main hall, with a broad blade and a rough surface. When the slightly curved tip came out of the scabbard, Qin Ke finally took a closer look at the saber.

When he was in the main hall, he already knew that this saber was actually not sharp. To some extent, it was even difficult for such a saber to cut through a person's flesh and bones, and take away a person's life.

However, above the main hall, Su Dingfang's violent slashing came from such a long knife. At that time, Su Dingfang fought against him and Abu by himself, and the sword slashed repeatedly. That force almost penetrated the shield, and even hurt the meridians in his hand.

Qin Ke tried to swing it, and felt that the center of gravity of the war sword was different from that of ordinary long swords. Generally speaking, long swords are made of exquisite materials and finely forged. From the handle to the blade, every part is almost equal. You only need to gently hold the blade with one finger, and the whole long knife can be balanced like a scale in your hand.

However, the end of the blade of this sword is slightly bent, and the center of gravity is not only uneven, but the entire center of gravity is pressed on the tip of the blade.

Qin Ke tried to slash three times. Although the weight of the saber made him unable to use it, he also felt the reason for the design of the saber—the center of gravity was at the end, and every time he slashed, the entire saber seemed to be As if he was about to be thrown out, he felt like he was swinging a sledgehammer.

The weight on the end adds a force to the wielding sword.

It's just that such a sword can only be wielded by people with sufficient strength, such as Su Dingfang, Gao Changgong, and Mulan who is obviously very powerful but he doesn't know his strength yet.

He looked at Abu and handed the saber over. Abu was a little surprised when he took the saber, but after chopping it a few times, he couldn't help admiring: "Where is this a saber? A big hammer."

Su Dingfang looked at Abu with some appreciation, and said, "Your strength is pretty good."

Abu shyly said: "Where. It is much worse than you."

Su Dingfang smiled and said: "I am a few years older than you, and I am stronger than you, which is not unusual. In fact, at your age, I am not as good as you."

But Abu shook his head, and said: "The Su family's Iron Wall Kung Fu is not only an iron wall against the enemy, it is said that there are also difficult barriers that are difficult to overcome if you want to break through. Brother Su's cultivation base is weaker than ours, but we must win in actual combat." Nothing is impossible for us."

"Nice flattery, but you have exalted Iron Wall Kungfu too much." Su Dingfang shook his head with a smile, "Let's talk about the knife. How do you feel about this knife?"

"Difficult to use."

"It's useful."

Qin Ke and Abu answered at the same time, but because they spoke in different voices, it sounded a bit disharmonious.The two looked at each other and smiled.

Abu's power is great, so it's not difficult to use such a saber, so he naturally thinks it's easy to use, but Qin Ke's strength is not his strong point, but Xunfeng's art is a rare thaumaturgy in the world, at least Abu tried it with Qin Ke in private during this time Hand countless times, really failed to take advantage of much.

"If I use this knife, I guess my arm won't be able to bear it in a while." Qin Ke chuckled, "But I think you all use this kind of sword on the Great Wall. Could it be that the people on your Great Wall are all strong men?"

Su Dingfang laughed loudly: "Of course not. No matter how strong you are, using such a saber is not suitable for prolonged battles. As long as the enemy general has some ability, he will know how to use the army to delay time. When the time comes, the saber itself will be heavy. It is not sharp, and can only be slaughtered on the battlefield."

"Then why do you still use it?" Qin Ke asked.

Su Dingfang smiled and said: "It's not useful on the battlefield against people, but it's always useful in the rivers and lakes or against non-human beings."

"Non-human?" Abu pondered for a moment, his eyes lit up and said, "Those beasts outside the Great Wall?"

"That's right, if it wasn't for this thick blade, it might not be able to cut through their special flesh..." Su Dingfang nodded.

Qin Ke's interest was gradually aroused. Although he was not good at using such a heavy saber, after all, not only a saber can be used for cutting. He took the saber in Abu's hand, held the saber at his lower waist, and made the sword that Su Dingfang had just done. pose: "What's next?"

Su Dingfang looked at Qin Ke's appearance, shook his head with a smile, moved closer, and stretched out his hand to correct his movements.

Chapter 113

The room is very simple, without too many decorations. Instead, there is a knife stand near the wall. The sword on it is exactly Mulan's sword. Holding it in the hand, there is still a thick breath of the battlefield blowing towards the face.

Gao Changgong glanced at Mulan who was kneeling opposite him, smiled, drank the strong wine in his glass, and let out a satisfied sigh with his eyes closed.

"How is it?" Mulan asked.

"That's right, it's still the same old taste. But..." Gao Changgong smiled, and threw the wine glass back in his hand. The wine glass drew an arc in the air, and a drop of crystal clear wine fell in the middle, and then there was a "bang" "The crackling sound.

The door of the room was pulled open forcefully, and the faces of the Great Wall sergeants waiting for orders from Hou outside the door were full of vigilance.

The habit of the Great Wall is that people never leave their swords, and swords never leave their people.The sabers around the waists of the sergeants had been slowly pulled out by half a foot. Several of them bent their knees and arched their backs. With just one push, the sabers could split a heavy wind in an instant.

However, when they found the peaceful scene in the room, they were stunned again, and the sabers in their hands couldn't continue to go out, and they looked a little embarrassed when they were stuck in the middle.

Gao Changgong knelt down on the blanket on the floor, still looking idle, stretched his waist, and said with a smile: "Wine is good wine, but it's a pity that the host is too stingy, so I only use such a small flagon and How do you entertain guests with wine glasses?"

Mulan smiled, looked at the Great Wall sergeant who was at a loss while holding his knife, and said, "Bring another jar of wine, I want a sea bowl. You don't need to serve here anymore. The general and I want to talk about something. You can take the wine and drink it." go."

The sergeants of the Great Wall nodded, but their eyes fell on the back of Gao Changgong, who was not burly, and the eyes were full of distrust, but Mulan's order was absolute. Although they were a little unwilling, they Still saluting with both hands, turned around and strode away.

When the sea bowl and the wine jar had been placed on the table, Gao Changgong's eyes lit up immediately, and he reached out to move the jar of wine, but Mulan said softly, "Don't worry, if you want to drink this jar of wine, you have to have an explanation."

"What do you say?" Gao Changgong stopped for a moment, but couldn't help but continue to move forward, pouring the spirits from the jar into the sea bowl, smelling the strong aroma of the wine, he raised his head and said.

Mulan was sitting upright, just like she was in the main hall at that time: "If you have nothing to do, you can go to the Three Treasures Hall. Since the general is here, he should come to me for something. Let's talk about things first, and then drink."

"What do I have to do? I'm just here to meet old friends." Gao Changgong said with a playful smile, "Drink first and drink first. If you put such a good wine in front of your eyes but don't drink it, it's called a waste of money."

Mulan frowned: "You still look so tired. Do you remember what we said the day you left the Great Wall?"

"It's not the first day you know me... We talked so much that day, I can remember everything?" Gao Changgong moved the Haiwan to his mouth, raised his head and drank.

Although the food production in the Great Wall is limited, the martial customs of the people still make the shochu brewed by the Great Wall so strong that even the barbarians in the Canghai Kingdom sincerely admire it.The seemingly clear wine entered Gao Changgong's throat, and immediately turned into thousands of knives and began to cut his throat mercilessly.

If it were other Jingwu people who came to drink, I'm afraid they would have to spit it out on the spot.When Gao Changgong took the first sip, he only frowned slightly, but suppressed the sense of discomfort.

The next thing is to keep swallowing, the wine enters his throat, like a wildfire is ignited, and in an instant, it is like a blaze, and the heat flow is like magma, from his throat to his stomach, as if the whole body The internal organs are roasted hot.

The sound of "coo coo coo" sounded in the room, he drank all the wine in the big sea bowl, reached out and wiped his chin with his sleeve, and coughed slightly.

He recalled that back then, he galloped on the Great Wall with his horse, looking at the vast land under the city wall extending to the distance, his heart was surging.

At that time, he was also drinking the spirit of the Great Wall, and he could even drink a pot with Mulan without changing his face. How could he feel uncomfortable because of the scorching spirit?

All gone.

Mulan prepared a cup for him, but he insisted on using the Haiwan again, and it turned out that Mulan was the right one.

However, Mulan looked at him quietly, and suddenly sighed: "Even if you pretend not to know, the four words 'time has passed and circumstances have changed' have already been engraved into your bone marrow, how can you get rid of it?"

Hearing Mulan's words, Gao Changgong put down his hand, the bottom of the empty sea bowl collided with the table lightly, and there was a moderate sound in the room, like a sigh.

"Mulan..."

"Pay attention to your identity... General Gao." Mulan reminded coldly, with a flash of unquestionable determination in her eyes.

Gao Changgong's voice faltered, and then he said slowly: "Mulan...general."

Although it was only four words, Gao Changgong spoke very slowly, as if these four words carried such a heavy weight that even a god of war like him could not bear the burden.

"General Mulan—" Gao Changgong repeated, as if he was talking to himself, but he managed to speak these four words more fluently, but because of this, he felt the heat in his stomach slowly As the cold got colder, the smile on his face disappeared inch by inch. He thought of Zhuge Wanling's tired face under the lonely candle shadow in the palace, and thought of his skeleton that seemed to collapse at any time. ...

"General Mulan, have you ever heard of the name Mao Chen?" Gao Changgong raised his eyes and asked.

Mao Chen, this is what Gao Changgong finally tracked down, the name of the assassin who was nailed to death by him with a spear. Ever since Zhuge Wanling was assassinated, the forces under him have been constantly investigating various clues.

The assassin who was captured by him was really a tough guy, he endured for half a month in the prison, and finally he bled to death without revealing any news.

However, people in this world seem to be walking on snow, and whenever they walk, there will always be some traces.

Following the dead assassin, Gao Changgong traced all the way, and finally found the Great Wall Mission.It can be said that this result was very unexpected. The speculations of Jing and Wu on this assassination were all instigated by people from the gentry, but both assassins were from the north, and one was even a member of the Great Wall Mission. Said that this matter had nothing to do with them, who would believe it?

Mulan nodded lightly, as if she had been waiting for a long time, before Gao Changgong could continue to speak, she stood up first and said, "Come with me."

The two left the room, walked side by side along a courtyard wall, and went all the way to the deepest part of the courtyard. Two solemn Great Wall sergeants in armor and holding their swords were guarding the entrance of the courtyard, one on the left and the other on the right. They saw Mulan and Gao Changgong They came hand in hand and saluted respectfully.

Mulan waved her hand lightly, and the two left quietly.

"Just stand outside the door, don't make a sound." Mulan almost lowered her voice and said this, then pushed the door open and walked in.

Although Gao Changgong didn't understand what Mulan meant, but with his physique, he could hear the movement inside through the door, so he stood quietly outside the door very obediently.

"General."

Inside the room, Mulan's face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost. She looked at the man covered in welts and looked weak while sitting on the chair, raised her chin and said, "Tell me..."

"Oh... what can I say, what else can I say... I'm afraid that if what Lu Ming said doesn't suit the general's wishes, it will hurt the general's heart instead, so it's better not to say it." Xing, but his eyes were still sharp, he said: "But since the general wants to ask, I am willing to answer."

Mulan's piercing eyes looked the man up and down, as if she was getting to know him again.

This man is called Lu Ming, and he is her deputy general who has followed her for many years. For a long time, he has been responsible for the liaison and diplomacy between the Great Wall and the Four Kingdoms.

Going south with the army this time was originally for the convenience of negotiating with Jing Wu.

However, she would never have imagined that the earth-shattering assassination in the main hall of Jingwu Palace was actually done by this person.

If she hadn't recognized the face of the assassin before his death in the hall, she might not have realized that there was such a wild wolf hiding beside her.

Lu Ming didn't have any restraints on his body, just because Mulan knew he couldn't get out.Although he originally had a strong cultivation base, but in front of Mulan, he was really not enough.She had already blocked Lu Ming's dantian with extremely heavy methods, making it difficult for his qi and blood to circulate. Let alone getting out of this room, even standing up from a chair would be impossible.

"Why?" This seems like a random question.

However, Lu Ming understood that what Mulan was asking was of course the shocking stab at Zhuge Wanling at the Jingwu Hall.

"Of course—it's for the Great Wall." Lu Ming twitched the corner of his mouth weakly, smiling extremely sadly.

Mulan raised her eyebrows with a sneer, and said, "For the Great Wall? When will my good man on the Great Wall be reduced to using his flesh and blood to do such humble things as assassinate Prime Minister Jing and Wu? That's two lives. Two people who were able to survive the cruel battlefield were...one was nailed to death on the plaque, and the other bled dry in the prison! Tell me, what exactly are you doing for the Great Wall?"

Speaking of this, her anger seemed to be ignited in an instant, and she raised her voice like a lion roaring: "They will not die! Even if they die, they should die on a fair and square battlefield! But now, they will die for the rest of their lives. They will all be accused of being an 'assassin'!"

Lu Ming didn't speak, but lowered his head that was still high just now.

Mulan calmed down the anger in her chest, stared at Lu Ming's face for a long time, and suddenly thought of Cang Hai's generosity in this matter of borrowing food, and said softly, "You have made up your mind that you don't want to come back again." Stay on the Great Wall, but want to follow Cao Meng?"

Chapter 114 The Death of the Great Wall

Hearing Mulan's suspicion of his infidelity, Lu Ming was shocked, and shouted with determination in his eyes: "Lu Ming swears allegiance to the Great Wall to the death, and this life will never change."

"Really? But I know that when the Great Wall Mission stopped in Canghai, you admired Cao Meng very much, and even said after getting drunk that only Cao Meng can be called a hero. Is it possible that you Do you want to use this as a certificate of honor so that you can defect to him?"

Mulan sneered, looked at Lu Ming with even more contempt, and said, "Everyone has his own ambitions. You have talents. If you want to make contributions in this world, I have no objection. If you want to leave the Great Wall, I will not stop you. But You use this kind of thing to almost drag my Great Wall into the quagmire of Jingwu's internal struggle, I... can't bear it."

"No...it's not." Lu Ming shook his head and smiled wryly, "Of course I admire Duke Cao, and I even swear that if there is an afterlife, I will be Duke Cao's pawn, to be driven by him, and to die for him. But Lu Ming never I never thought about turning my back on the Great Wall to vote for Duke Cao. The Great Wall is like my biological parents to me, no matter how good other people’s parents are, it’s not a reason for me to turn my back on them after all.”

Lu Ming said in a low voice: "I don't want to abandon the Great Wall or the general. I just want to create a future that belongs to the Great Wall."

"future?"

"The future." Lu Ming said firmly.He looked up at Mulan with deep eyes, "The general thinks that the general situation in the world, who will win the dispute between Jingwu, Tang, Canghai, and Mohism?"

Mulan looked at Lu Ming and said coldly, "What do you mean?"

Lu Ran laughed softly: "No matter who you ask this kind of question, you dare not have a definite answer. The world is changing rapidly, and who dares to say that you are the Lord of Destiny? But!" Lu Ran's voice became passionate, " What I can only know is that the world is now divided into four parts, which is not a good thing for my Great Wall."

"What do you want to say?" Mulan frowned.

Lu Ming smiled and said, "Why did the general go south? Could it be that the general is greedy for the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River and wants to visit Jingwu when the wind is warm and the sun is warm?"

"Of course not." Mulan replied coldly, "I think you know this matter best."

"It's because of food." Lu Ming said softly, "My Great Wall has not raised military rations from the mainland for many years, and the military rations accumulated by the Great Wall over the years have been exhausted in these years of wars, so the general is originally from the Mu family. The descendants of the family, the Great General of the Great Wall respected by all people, must bow their knees and seek the assistance of these four countries."

"In this world, someone needs to stand up and bring the world together again." Lu Ran said, "Only when the world is unified can our Great Wall truly return to its former glory. So what if we gather the world's manpower and material resources like in the previous dynasty?" Afraid of those gluttonous armies that are fighting each other like headless chickens?"

"So you assassinated Zhuge Wanling? What's the use of his death alone?"

"Jing Wu is based on the gentry that has been handed down for hundreds of years in the Wu Kingdom. It relies on Zhuge Wanling to seek the country inside, and General Gao Changgong fights outside. It has been stable for several years. Now Jing Wu is not weaker than the Tang Kingdom, and even stronger. But. Such a powerful Jing Wu has a fatal problem." Lu Ming's eyes shone with a breathtaking light, "That is the relationship between the gentry and Zhuge Wanling."