Twilight War

Chapter83 Walking Horse

I take a quick look at the flowers, there are thousands of scenes in the world, and the wind and the moon are boundless.

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Gray smoke and dust filled Huang Xuan Jin's eyes.

He opened his eyes, even he himself didn't know where he was, he only remembered that when he walked out of the Mingtang Xuan, he lost the suppression of the formation under Vichy Perbu, and he turned into a ferocious Ute in front of everyone Gard.He couldn't remember what happened next.

Now he might not be able to survive in Donghuang.

He squatted up, thinking about his future path, he sighed, and wanted to turn around and think in a different direction when he suddenly saw the huge monster sitting in front of him.

Xing Tian, ​​who had already had his head chopped off, or Zhu Zhenming stood cross-legged in front of him, still holding the plum blossom helmet in his arms.

He was so frightened that he fell backwards, "You...what are you doing..."

"go home……"

From Zhu Zhenming's abdominal cavity came these vague words, like a fool talking to himself.

Huang Xuanjin looked Zhu Zhenming up and down, "You really look more and more like Xing Tian."

He really wanted to peel off Zhu Zhenming's breastplate to see if there was a mouth on his stomach.

"Go, go, go home, I'm going to be busy running now." He waved his hands impatiently, "Let's say goodbye right now, on the spot. I'm in a bad situation now, so I won't implicate you. You It seems that the situation is not very good, so don't drag me down. Let's walk on the single-plank bridge, don't squeeze on top of each other."

He got up from the ground, patted the dirt on his body, and then prepared to leave this place as soon as possible and run for his life.After all, he had already put down the harsh words of goodbye to life and death with Wisipel. Even if Wisipel didn't kill him, it would be embarrassing for him to commit a crime.

For the time being, he has no idea of ​​pushing the world into destruction. He just wants to find a remote fishing village and live in seclusion, so that even if the sun goes down, it has nothing to do with him.

But as soon as he left, Zhu Zhenming also stood up and followed behind him.

"You don't understand what I'm saying now, do you?" He looked back at Zhu Zhenming, "I said——so farewell!"

But Zhu Zhenming still followed him with his helmet in his arms. If he had a head, he would probably lower his head in aggrieved manner, like a fool being scolded.

Huang Xuanjin waved his hands, and walked forward on his own, ignoring him.

After walking for a while, he looked back at Zhu Zhenming, "Where is your family?"

"Go home..." Zhu Zhenming seemed to know only this sentence.

Huangxuanjin frowned, and didn't expect Zhu Zhenming to remember where his home was, "I remember you told me before, it seems to be in the area of ​​the Quailwei River. It's okay, send you there, and I will fight in the Quailwei River." fishing."

"Let's go, let's go." He turned his head and pressed the plum blossom helmet on Zhu Zhenming's head, "Don't scare others."

Well, at least I have a place I want to go.

This man has been a hero, and now it's time to send him home.

He lowered his head and fastened the loose red cloth around his wrist.

It was the beginning of autumn now, and the two of them walked in sparsely populated places along the way, stopping to pick fruits if they had nothing to do, and catching two rabbits to barely eat.Sometimes Huangxuanjin would rest at the noodle stall and teahouse on the side of the road. People around looked at Zhu Zhenming with strange eyes, and he smiled wryly and said that Zhu Zhenming burned his body and burned his head stupidly in the military camp to fight the fire. .The centurion looked at him pitifully and asked him to send Zhu Zhenming home.

The noodle stall aunt wiped away her tears and added an extra egg to their noodles.

The wind blows over the leaves of the locust tree next to the noodle stall, and it sounds a bit bleak.Huang Xuanjin bit the uncooked egg in the bowl.

Several military officers around whispered, they said that after the mysterious disappearance of General Huangxuan, King Fu and his ministers put Emperor Nanhe under house arrest, and Donghuang might be in chaos.

"At first, I thought that the young master of the Huangxuan family could burn three fires, but now I see that he is also an incompetent person!"

"I dare not say it. I heard that General Huangxuan killed many people in Huayin." The person next to him whispered while tugging at another person's sleeve.

"They said that General Huangxuan might not be a lunatic!"

Huangxuan Jin bit his egg and couldn't help laughing, he is a lunatic, he seemed to remember that he heard the wailing of thousands of ancient beasts after he turned into an ancient beast in Huayin Land.

"Save us... save us..."

"King, you are back...save us."

He didn't dare to think about all this, he was afraid that if he thought too much, he would really go crazy.

"There have been many disasters recently. The plague in Huayin has not healed, and the drought has begun in Chu." The officer began to sigh and said, "This huge Donghuang doesn't even have a good place."

"No, since last month, there have been disasters everywhere."

Huang Xuanjin paused holding the egg in his hand, he left Huayin last month.

Maybe that's his way of bringing destruction into the world, he doesn't even have to do anything, he wakes up and the world is full of disasters.

But then he comforted himself, maybe it was just a coincidence, no matter how much he spoiled himself, he couldn't take all these things on himself.

"Ma'am, pay!"

In the forest with slanted branches, Huangxuan Jin and Zhu Zhenming walked one after the other. They hadn't slept well for several days. Huangxuan Jin drooped his eyes and let out a breathless breath.

"Is the gentleman on the tree?" He suddenly smiled, twisting the stone in his hand with his fingertips.

Someone jumped down from the tree, he tore off the mask on his face, it turned out to be a broken bamboo.There was another person on his shoulders.

After seeing Huangxuan Jin, he put the person on his shoulders down.It turned out to be Long Chengyu who had passed out.

"You, this is?" Huang Xuanjin frowned and looked at Duanzhu in confusion.

"Fu Wang put Emperor Nanhe under house arrest, and my brothers in Langhuan Pavilion designed to bring Emperor Nanhe out. Emperor Nanhe asked us to bring him to you, and gave us a bead, let us follow the bead to find you." Broken Bamboo explain.

"However, it seems that Emperor Nanhe can't bear the bumpy road." Huang Xuanjin said looking at the fainted Long Chengyu.

Duanzhu also looked at Long Chengyu helplessly, "In desperation, I have no choice. It is not easy to save the life of Emperor Nanhe now."

"Then what are you going to do next?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"I also hope that General Huangxuan can take care of His Majesty." Duan Zhu put Nanhe Emperor on the ground, and then bowed to Huangxuan Jin.The man's brows and eyes are firm, and it seems that he rarely asks for help.

"No! What do you think of me!" Huangxuan Jin frowned and looked at Duanzhu, "Can't you see that I am running for my life! Besides, I was the one who made Nanhe Emperor into the current situation. Believe me!"

"Langhuan Pavilion is only loyal to the emperor, and does not involve in the struggle for the throne. Now Emperor Nanhe is still the emperor of Donghuang, and everything we do is to save Emperor Nanhe's life. In two days, King Fu will ascend the throne. At that time, we should be loyal to him. Fu Wang."

"I understand." Huang Xuanjin nodded, "After two days, maybe you will become the ones chasing and killing Long Chengyu, right?"

Broken Bamboo nodded.

"But now, I can't protect myself." Huang Xuanjin patted the lapel of his clothes, resigned to fate.

"But Emperor Nanhe only believed in you, he said you are his Huangxuan." Duan Zhu looked at Huangxuan Jin and said.

Huang Xuanjin froze for a moment, then laughed again: "I lied to him."

"We have already brought him. Whether you want to keep him by your side or not, I have to go back and report back. You can kill him, or throw him in the wilderness as you like."

After Duanzhu left, Huangxuan Jin crouched on the ground and looked at Long Chengyu who was passing by. He wondered if he was too good-natured, why both of them caught him and bullied him.

He raised his head and raised his eyes to look at Zhu Zhenming who was beside him in a daze, "Just like you, he is a fool."

"Bring him up. It's enough to honor your reputation as a loyal minister." He stood up and walked towards the depths of the woods.

From here, I want to go to the Jiuwei River and the mountain road is rugged, but if I go down the canal with the water transport boat, it will only take a few days.

Huangxuanjin found a water transport boat at Xingyang port. The person in charge saw that both Long Chengyu and Zhu Zhenming seemed to have a bit of strength. Although they didn't look very smart, they left them to work on the boat.

He arched his hands and smiled cleverly, "Thank you, sir!"

"I'm not a grown-up, I'm just a recruiter. Go ahead." The person in charge waved his hand, "You don't seem to have much strength, go to help in the kitchen, it's a good job, there are a few rich merchants traveling with the boat , said that he wanted to see the scenery of the Jiuwei River, so you go and serve him carefully."

"Oh, there are a few Semu people on board. I heard they came from the Arthur Empire. Don't be curious to look at them. It will offend others." The person in charge ordered carefully.

Huang Xuanjin nodded quickly, "Thank you for taking care of the little one."

In the evening, there was a banquet on board the boat. The cook was cutting a cucumber with a straw cloak and a knife. Huang Xuanjin waited beside the chef and grabbed a handful of uncooked peanuts.

"I heard that those Semu people took the boat to find someone." Several servants in charge of serving dishes muttered in a low voice.

"Who are you looking for here? Let them go fishing in the Jiuwei River."

"It's time to serve!" The chef placed the cucumber in the coir raincoat next to the roast suckling pig, and handed the plate to Huangxuan Jin, "It's the first day, so be careful with the serving! It's not easy to get angry with the captain. things."

Huang Xuanjin nodded quickly.

The owner of the ship is named Shen Sanshi. In recent years, he has made a lot of money through business with Xilu, and he is quite close to many businessmen in Xilu.

Huang Xuanjin held the plate of roasted suckling pig and went to serve the dishes with low eyebrows. He remembered that this boat was the boat that City Lord Yuyuan used to go up the lake during the Lantern Festival, and someone actually bought it back.The interior of this ship is a Zhurong Furnace that burns Kuafu's blood day and night, and now it can only sail in the inland river at the lowest power, it is really like burning incense and charcoal.

The air is full of willow fragrance. The air on the river is humid, and the willow fragrance is dry, which is very suitable for mixing with the damp mist.

He raised the curtain and looked up to see the man sitting on the side seat.

He smiled and lowered the curtain stiffly.

This... just said that goodbye means meeting in life and death, isn't it good.

He bumped into the cabinet next to him, and the water in the vase spilled all over his body, and then he hurriedly grabbed a boy who had just delivered the food, "Brother, my clothes are wet and I don't like seeing customers, please help me deliver them." .”

The servant gave him a look of disdain, but in the end he helped him with the food.

"Hurry up and go back when your clothes are wet. It's cold on the river, and it's not good to be sick." The boy said with half disgust and half concern after delivering the dishes.

"Let me take a look again. I'm from a small place. I've never seen anyone having dinner like this. I've seen it before." Huang Xuanjin said.

He pulled the curtain of misty gauze and peeked in, but the servant next to him tugged him, "Don't be so useless."

He hurriedly turned his head and nodded, and then continued to look inside. Vehipel's spirit didn't look very good, but he still had that frosty look.

Next to him, Tang De exchanged greetings with Shen Sanshi who was on the main seat, and looked like a businessman from Westland.

Shen Sanshi was dressed in green, without silk brocade, he didn't look like a wealthy businessman, but rather a refined scholar.

There were dancers dancing in the hall, Huang Xuanjin turned his head to look, and there was a girl among them who seemed to be unfamiliar with the movements, and was always a beat slower than the others.

Shen Sanshi suddenly took a picture of the table, "Dancing like this, do you dare to come out to meet guests?"

"It's over, Lan Gu will be scolded again." The boy said next to him.

Huang Xuanjin looked back at the servant, and the servant continued to talk to him: "That Aunt Lan is the daughter of a criminal minister. She was sold as an official prostitute and then bought by the master. The master asked her to teach her a green waist, but she always refused. If you are willing to learn, what kind of extravagant pleasures are you talking about, and you will humiliate the family."

The rest of the dancers retreated, and only Lan Gu was left kneeling in the lobby. The girl's face was clean and delicate, but she had a pair of raised eyebrows. She looked a bit stubborn and unlovable.

"With a green waist, can't you learn it?" Shen Sanshi grabbed the grapes on the desk.

"The dance with the green waist is not an elegant dance." Lan Gu replied, twisting her head.

"Ya Wu, what is Ya Wu? I think you were fooled by your criminal father." Shen Sanshi sneered.

Lan Gu lowered her head and refused to answer.

"You said you don't want to learn the green waist dance, so what's the use of keeping you." Shen Sanshi looked at Lan Gu with frowned eyebrows.

"I can dance with feathers." The girl suddenly raised her head and looked at Shen Sanshi with stubborn eyes.

Feather Dance is one of Donghuang's "Six Ya Dances", only the children of officials' families can learn it, but Liu Ya Dance's movements are quite difficult, and the lyrics are profound, so very few can learn it.

It is said that when Empress Gouchen was still an empress, she personally performed the Feather Dance Sacrifice in the Ming Hall, and Huangxuan Jiuyin guarded the front with a sword.

In the bright hall filled with red silk, girls in white clothes hold their feathers.Three years after the sacrifice, the weather in the country was smooth and the country was stable.

But since the Liuhuo Rebellion, Donghuang didn't pay much attention to the ritual of Wenwu, and Liuya dance was really difficult to dance, so the number of people who knew Liuya dance became less and less.

"Then it will be Yuwu." Shen Sanshi grabbed a white crane feather from the vase and threw it over.

"This... there is no one in the band who knows how to play the Feather Dance." The housekeeper at the side said quickly.

"I will." Shen Sanshi said, "The music of feather dance is pure music, and I will strike a bowl to make peace."

He took out two white jade chopsticks and held them in his hands, and looked at Lan Gu mockingly, "I just don't know if you can keep up."

"I learned feather dance since I was a child, and I can dance with your knuckles!" The girl picked up the white crane feather that was thrown in front of her.

Tang De was drinking on his own, and if he was in normal times, he would say a few words thoughtfully to see a good show.But now that Wisipel was seriously injured, it was exhausting for him to be able to spare his energy to greet Shen Sanshi.

He looked at Wispel beside him, who was still resting with his eyes closed, but he knew that Visipel had been releasing those crows to search for traces of Huangxuanjin these days.

Shen Sanshi chuckled lightly and knocked down the green bowl with cracked ice.

The girl jumped up to the sound of the bowl being struck. She wasn't very beautiful, but when she danced with her feathers in hand, she looked like a goddess on the White Mist Mountain, dignified and beautiful.

Of course Huangxuanjin also learned the Liuya dance, but the Huangxuan family never paid much attention to it.Compared with many aristocrats, the Huangxuan family is more like a nouveau riche that has been passed down for 800 years.Huangxuan's family talked about the founding father, but the founding father was basically a fisherman.He rode 80 iron horses across the mountains and rivers, but it is rumored that his favorite cloak is full of flowers, which looks like an ignorant farmer.

The girl is still dancing, but her dancing posture is becoming more and more difficult, she seems to suddenly become a duck that is learning to walk from a white crane dancing from the clouds.But she still danced stubbornly, and the girl's lower lip, which was already extremely pale, was bitten and turned blue.

Listening to the sound of Shen Sanshi hitting the bowl, Huang Xuanjin understood why.There are nine sections in the feather dance, and only the descendants of the family can learn the last section-the Song of Thorns and White Feathers.The girl's family background obviously did not allow her to learn the last feather dance.

But now what Shen Sanshi played was the last verse of Yuwu.

Huang Xuanjin smiled, and didn't want to watch any more, he was used to seeing the Witcher's Feather Dance Festival at the Jiu Xun Festival.Looking at the girl's dancing posture now is like someone who has read too much calligraphy of the holy calligraphy and suddenly went to see a beginner's practice pen.

He lowered the curtain, thinking that the clothes on his body were wet and he should change.

But he suddenly felt that the girl's eyes were very similar to another girl, the girl named Xin Yi.

Xin Yi was also the daughter of a criminal minister, and she should have been punished in the dance hall, but the woman met her and said that there was a lack of a beautiful girl in her son's room.

Xin Yi knows porcelain and bronze inscriptions, even the best pawnbroker in Jinling can't compare to her.But the servants of Huangxuan's family didn't like her very much, only Huangxuanjin would protect her in some small matters. Xin Yi's father was originally the sacrificial wine in charge of the sacrifice, and he spoiled the girl arrogantly and domineeringly.

Xin Yi relied on Huang Xuanjin to protect her and caused troubles a lot, but in fact he didn't pay much attention to girls, he was quite partial to any girl.

He originally thought that he would send Xin Yi away when he went to the temple, saving her to wait in the phoenix tree for nothing.

But one day Xin Yi suddenly asked him to take her outside. The girl was still young, and she was not allowed to go out alone in Huangxuan's house.

Xin Yi took him to Lengxiang Mountain, which is a cemetery where ordinary people are buried.Xin Yi let him stay in the carriage. He pulled up the curtain and looked at the crying people outside, feeling that the girl was really out of line.

But she finally stopped in front of a grave, and five dirt steps were dug out in front of the grave.The steps are ugly, probably Xin Yi planed them himself.

The fifth-order burial is the doctor's tomb.

It was her father's tomb. She stepped on the dirt steps and performed the cumbersome rituals earnestly.The tombs next to it are the tombs of ordinary people, and those who come to worship just kneel down, kowtow one after another, and cry twice.

But Xin Yi clapped his hands and kowtowed, with a serious expression like a doctor offering wine, and everyone else looked sideways at the girl, thinking that the girl must have lost her mind and went crazy.

After seeing the girl enough, they went back to cry, but the girl never cried, she performed the cumbersome ritual quietly.

Huang Xuanjin lay on the car window and looked at the girl. It was the first time Huangxuanjin felt that the cumbersome etiquette was useful.Sometimes people are very powerless, they live and die, and die with the water.Like catkins in the wind, it will be blown away when it is blown away.

Then people need to do something to tell themselves that they have lived, and that other people have lived too.

The rituals performed by the girl have no meaning to other people, but to her, all of them are very important.

So he got out of the carriage, followed the girl, and did the same.

The people around did not dare to speak anymore, they could tell that this young man who was also performing the sacrificial ceremony was a nobleman.

Clapping hands in mourning, the boy's big sleeves drooped to the ground.

On the moonlit night after returning, Xin Yi suddenly said that she wanted to dance, and under the moonlight she took a gray pheasant feather that she pulled out of the sacrifice and danced a dignified feather dance.

She said that her father did nothing wrong, they shouldn't forget to sacrifice to Duke Zhaomu, he just placed Zhaomugong's spirit seat for them.

He wanted to tell the girl that it wasn't that they had forgotten, but that they wanted everyone to forget Mr. Zhaomu.

But the girl's eyes were bright when she said this, stubbornly like Jingwei who was reclamation.

He saw these eyes again, on a girl who refused to dance with a green waist.

Lan Gu was completely panicked, she hadn't learned the ninth section of the feather dance, she could only dance the song of thorns and white feathers by relying on the dance of the witch she had seen in the few sacrifices.

In the song, the white bird, which has never been stained with dust in its life, is slandered by the birds, so it proves its innocence and commits suicide in the thorn forest.

The servant was carrying a plate of roasted squab and wanted to serve it, but Huang Xuanjin suddenly picked up the sparrow feathers that were used as decorations from the plate.

"What are you doing!" the boy shouted hastily.

Listening to the sound of Shen Sanshi hitting the bowl, Lan Gu wondered whether the next move was to bend or lean, she hesitated and chose to bend, but because of distraction, she suddenly fell backwards as if she was about to fall to the ground abruptly.

She almost exclaimed.

But someone caught her, and the young man holding the sparrow feather leaned forward to help her up. He was like a young boy parading the street in spring. After helping the girl, he stopped, smiled at the girl, and then bent down like the girl did just now dance.It seemed that the girl's fall just now was pre-arranged.

Huang Xuanjin suddenly leaned over to the girl's ear again, and then hid away.Lan Gu wondered if he just whispered something in her ear, but she really didn't hear anything.

Everyone looked up at the boy who suddenly appeared at the banquet in astonishment.

Wihipel raised his head to look at Huangxuan Jin, the blood on his arm stained the silver silk clothes red.

Huangxuan Jin also looked at him, he flipped the bird feather in his hand before his eyes and looked at Wisipel with a light smile, then slightly raised his head, turned around and went to respond to the girl's dance.

If the girl just now is like a crane in the clouds, the boy is like a phoenix with five feathers, his eyebrows are proud and gorgeous.

In the last section, the girl's movements became clumsy, but the boy just responded to her, and he tolerated all the girl's mistakes and confusions.When the girl tossed and turned, he asked him to stay, and when the girl looked sideways, she looked back.

Even Huang Niao, the king of all birds, is already willing to accompany the girl, who else would dare to be picky.

The sapphire chopsticks in Shen Sanshi's hand dropped the last song of the song of thorns and white feathers.

The white bird committed suicide in the thorn forest, and the phoenix wandered in the forest, mourning all over the world.

The girl in white clothes bowed her waist, Huang Xuanjin stretched out his hand as if wanting to support her again but then withdrew his hand.The girl didn't fall down, she was frozen at the end of the Song of Thorns and White Feathers like a dying white bird.