Twilight War

"Today's Donghuang may still have white-haired soldiers who are willing to defend the city for decades, but there is no general who can take down the five cities in the northwest in three years." Zhu Wuye knocked the ashes in his pipe on the table.

"Zhu Wuye said that there is no such thing as Huangxuan Yangyue in this world." Huangxuanjin asked.

"I mean the current young master of the Huangxuan family is a wimp." Master Zhu Wu suddenly said sharply.

Huang Xuanjin's hand holding the old teacup suddenly trembled, and then laughed again, "Yes, he is more than just a wimp, he also treacherous and collaborating with the enemy, and became a family slave of the three surnames."

Master Zhu Wu shook his head, "No, he won't betray Donghuang. What I'm talking about is just his uselessness. If he wants to protect Donghuang, he should cut through everything in the court."

"Everyone says he betrayed Dong Huang, but Grandpa still believes him?"

"I don't trust him, but I trust my son." Zhu Wuye said with a pipe in his mouth.

"Before the Battle of Juyongguan, my son Zhenming wrote to me. He said, "Young Lord Huangxuan, although young, is the hero of the world." Zhu Wuye said: "The hero of the world will not be willing to be the king of the world." A traitor under someone else, have you ever seen a phoenix and a jackdaw fighting for food?"

"Maybe your son is wrong, maybe he is just a bird of Huayu."

"I said before, I believe in my son." Master Zhu Wu stood up.

"It's getting late, it's time to go to bed." Zhu Wuye said.

When Huangxuanjin got up at noon, he saw Long Chengyu kicking Cuju by himself in the courtyard, he walked over and kicked it twice, "Where did it come from, it's quite fun."

"The store's son's, he said he would lend me to play for two days." Long Chengyu said.

"If you're such a grown-up, why do you still borrow things from children?" Huang Xuanjin said with a smile, but perhaps Long Chengyu thought he was as old as those children.

Thinking about it, he felt that it was good to always think that he hadn't grown up, so he rubbed Long Chengyu's shoulder again, "Forget it, remember to go back when you've had enough fun."

"En." Long Chengyu nodded obediently.

A car selling cantaloupe passed by, Huang Xuanjin picked a few, threw one to Long Chengyu, and put the rest on the table, he liked the taste of cantaloupe.In the early years, he didn't use much incense in his house, so Xin Yi studied all kinds of spices all day long, and then made sachets for him in different ways.

The old man does not grow flowers, but three pots of green onion, ginger and garlic are planted on the windowsill.

He grabbed some scallions and prepared to bake a scallion pancake.

A black feather fell on the windowsill

Looking at the sharp-eyed young man in the window, Long Chengyu tilted his head not knowing what happened.Huang Xuanjin held the scallions in his hand and looked at the crows passing by outside the house.

Zhu Wuye was on watch last night and didn't wake up until the afternoon. When he woke up, he saw the young man kneeling at the door of the house, pressing his sword on his knee.

A kind of murderous air passed by Zhu Wuye's side, Zhu Wuye was stunned, and felt that it should be drafts.

He actually could see that the identity of the boy was not simple, but the boy wanted to pretend to be garlic with him in his dilapidated wooden house, fishing and selling fish all day long, and he didn't mind letting the boy pretend like this all the time.After all, the skill of the young man repairing the roof is really good, and the rain will never leak again on rainy days.

But this garlic can't be pretended by himself, and he can't really lie to himself that the boy is a garlic.

"Kneel, sit, and press the sword. Either kill or say goodbye. Which do you want?" Zhu Wuye lit a pipe for himself.

The young man was facing the outside, he could only see the young man's back just now, but now he could see the young man's face clearly.

Without the usual idleness, the young man seemed to have an aura somewhere between a dead man and a nobleman.

"Everything, farewell, and then kill people." Huang Xuanjin held the sword on his knee, "I once had a contract with someone, a contract of life and death. I wanted to escape, and took that two idiots to find a place to live the same as now. day, but now he's coming. I have to go to my appointment."

"Oh..." Zhu Wuye spat out a syllable while holding a pipe, and then asked after a long time: "Can you come back?"

"Since it is a promise of life and death, life and death are equal." Huang Xuanjin said.

"I will take good care of your brother." Master Zhu Wu said looking at the blue sky outside.

"Under the pillow in the house, there are five bills, which can be exchanged at any bank you take them to." Huang Xuanjin said.

"My monthly salary is meager, but I can still support a fool."

"Thank you very much then."

Huang Xuanjin got up and picked up the bamboo hat beside him.

"Are you related to the Huangxuan family?" the old man asked suddenly.

"Yes." Huang Xuanjin replied.

"Do you know about the battle at Juyongguan?" Zhu Wuye asked again.

"I was the only one who survived that battle."

"My son... how did he die?" Zhu Wu asked.

"To die loyally, to live up to the emperor's favor and to live up to morality. To die as a general of a hundred armies and to protect thousands of people." Huang Xuanjin said word by word.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Zhu Wuye shouted three times, like a martial artist practicing his voice.

"Boy, do whatever you want. I used to trust my son, but now I trust you." Zhu Wuye said.

"Then... let's say goodbye." Huang Xuanjin said.

Pushing open the courtyard door, Huang Xuanjin said to Long Chengyu who was hiding by the wall, "Okay, I found you, it's your turn to be a ghost. Carry it on your back."

"Oh." Long Chengyu obediently recited it.

Huang Xuanjin put on the green cloth hat and walked towards the entrance of the alley. Long Chengyu, who turned his back, covered his eyes and counted seriously.

Mr. Zhu Wu touched his pipe and squatted on the threshold.

Yemu, South Ninth Street.

The shopkeeper looked outside. Master Zhu Wu still didn't come out to light the ever-burning lamp today. Ever since the young man lived in Master Zhu's house, Master Zhu had never lit a lamp again.

He thought it was time to close, but suddenly a group of people came outside.

The leader is a woman, dressed in horse clothes.

"I'm not doing business today," said the shopkeeper.

"Have you seen this person?" A man got off his horse and spread out a portrait.

"this is not……"

The woman raised her head and drank the wine, heard what the shopkeeper said, and looked sideways at the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper just wanted to say that this belonged to the second fool who just came here two days ago, but suddenly saw the knife in the woman's waist, so he laughed again, "Isn't this the butcher's son in our street? I played with him since childhood. big."

"Let's go, no." The man holding the portrait walked up to the woman and reported.

"Daddy, Daddy, are you still closing the door?" The shopkeeper's son ran over from behind.

Suddenly a dart flew by and nailed the shopkeeper's son's clothes to the ground, and the shopkeeper was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

The woman turned her head to look at the store's son, "Jade Pei."

"Where did you get the jade pendant on your waist?" The man picked up the child on the ground.

"I exchanged it with a fool who came here half a month ago. I gave him the Cuju. I didn't steal anything from him..."

10

Fifth Lord Zhu opened the door with trembling hands, and from the corner of his eye he looked at the people riding horses at the teahouse at the alley.After pushing open the door, he immediately picked up Long Chengyu who was playing Cuju, and then pushed him into the room, and Zhu Wuye pulled the bed away.

There is a cellar under the bed, Zhu Wuye pushed Long Chengchen into the cellar.

As soon as Long Chengyu was pushed into the cellar, he heard a knock on the door outside.

"Have you ever seen this person?" The woman spread the portrait in front of Lord Wu.

Mr. Zhu held the door frame, "Yes, he is renting at my house now, but he has been taken out by his brother now. Before he left, his brother said that he found a place to go, and he probably won't come back. I see him He looked flustered, probably something happened."

"Brother?" The woman raised her eyebrows, "But a young man in his 20s?"

"Yes, even though he is a man, he is quite handsome, almost like a young gentleman in the city."

"When did you leave?" the woman asked.

"This afternoon, I just left for a short time. If you go after him, you may be able to catch up." Zhu Wuye said, "What crime did he commit?"

"Walk that way."

"I don't know, I just said I'm going to the south."

"You guys, look for the surrounding roads, focus on the south, and don't miss other directions. Rest here with me." The woman beckoned, and the rest rushed into the courtyard.

"Here, you..."

"We will leave when we find someone, and we won't make things difficult for you." The woman said and sat at the square table in the room.

"It's tide in the house today, I'm going to chop some firewood to make a fire." Zhu Wuye said with a bow, and then went to the backyard to chop firewood.

The woman motioned her subordinates to follow and watch.

Zhu Wuye was chopping firewood quite dutifully, but the ax was blunt, and after a while it couldn't chop.Mr. Zhu Wu sat on the log and began to sharpen the axe. It was a cast iron axe commonly used in the countryside. It was often used for chopping wood.

The shadow of the sun gradually slanted to the west, and the empty light fell on the wooden houses in Youlao County. There was the sound of copper watchtowers on Nanjiu Street, and Mr. Zhu Wu bent down to sharpen the cast iron ax in his hand on the whetstone.

Zhu Wuye walked into the house with the firewood in his arms and started to light a fire.

The woman looked around the whole room, and she suddenly saw two scratches on the front of the bed, left by the legs of the bed across the floor.The scratches are new, and you can even see the scratched wood splinters on the wooden floor.

"Master, there's nothing under the bed. Why don't you move the bed?" The woman stood up and looked at the dilapidated bed.

"A mouse came in this morning, and it's here to catch the mouse." Master Zhu Wu continued to add firewood to the stove.

"Then let's help the uncle catch the mouse, or I'd be embarrassed if we didn't come here." The woman waved her hand to signal her subordinates to move the bed.

Just as the woman raised her hand, suddenly a large cold light flashed behind her, and she instantly raised the Ziwu Mandarin Duck Axe to block the fatal blow by relying on the muscle memory honed from hundreds of trainings.

The cast iron ax swung by Zhu Wuye forcibly saw a huge gap in the woman's black iron axe.

The woman immediately turned over, and swung the double axes in her hands at Zhu Wuye at a sharp angle. Zhu Wuye immediately drew the axe, instead of parrying the woman's attack, he swung it at the woman in an almost strange direction.

The heavy wood-cutting ax was like a butcher's knife in Zhu Wuye's hands.

"Candle Shadow Axe!" The woman exclaimed, "I thought it was because no one above would use Candle Shadow Axe."

The Candle Shadow Ax was created by a self-cultivating Taoist priest when he was chopping firewood in the mountains. The Taoist priest's green clothes fluttered, and he looked like a fairy with a cast iron ax that was originally used by a thick and barbarian.It is said that the ax in his hand can cut off the shadow of a burning candle when he swings it towards the burning candle, hence the name Candle Shadow Axe.

"I'm the last one. My seniors are all dead, and I'm the only one left." Zhu Wuye swung his ax non-stop, and the shadow of the ax formed a cold light, like a sea tide at sunset.

"At Xiawuqi, the assassin of Langhuan Pavilion, master..." The woman hooked the ax body with her double axe, looked straight at Zhu Wuye and reported the door.

"Master Wuxie, right? There are not many people in Donghuang who know how to use the Ziwu mandarin duck axe." Fifth master Zhu said indifferently, lifting the axe down.

"Yes."

11

The peach blossoms followed the flowing water, Huangxuan Jin lay on a small boat and went down the water, his blue sleeves fell into the water, brushing up many peach blossoms along the way.Peach blossoms gathered between his sleeves, flowed and scattered.

If someone could see all of this from above, they would be able to see the mirror-like underwater, from which hundreds of monsters swim. Those monsters could break through the waves, but they are quietly following behind the boy's small boat that is sailing along the water.

Huang Xuanjin leaned on one arm and opened his eyes to the sky. He could feel the changes in his body in the past half month.

At this moment, he seems to be able to see the whereabouts of Liuyun clearly, just like when he was a child he could see a giant whale swimming among the clouds in Weichen Temple.He has seen the changing aura of heaven and earth, and the reason why clouds generate aura.

But the wound on his body is getting better and slower. He cut his finger while cutting vegetables half a month ago. The wound that should have healed in a few days has not healed, and it hurts day and night, as if reminding him that Already turned into a monster.

In fact, he left Long Chengyu and Zhu Wuye not only because he saw the crow, but because he felt the blood in his body burning.

Chi You's blood is crazy, killing everything he sees.

Since the second battle at dusk, he has never used Chi You's mad blood except for killing Mingtang.Because he was afraid that he would really become a monster.He can still remember the last time Xin Yi looked at him.

The girl who had clamored for him to grind rouge for her was covered in blood, and she looked at him with a chuckle.

She was supposed to be the last to kill him, but she couldn't bear it, so she died.

No one in the world can stop him from turning into a monster...

He put the wound on the ring finger of his right hand into his mouth, and a faint smell of blood spread in his mouth.

But that's not what he wanted, no.

He closed his eyes and remembered the smell of Vichypel's blood, which he knew could heal him.

Forget it, is the fox going to the hunter for wound medicine?

He stood up from the boat, the blue sleeves were blown up by the wind, and one sleeve was wet, showing a deeper blue color, like the color of blood and grass mixed together.

The boat stopped and docked. As soon as he stepped on the plank, the small boat sank slowly to the bottom of the river.

The bottom of that boat leaked a long time ago, and he was the one who gathered the peach blossoms to travel, transporting the energy of the world and the earth in his body to drift down the water.

The ship merchant on the pier stared at him blankly, not understanding how this man got here on a broken ship.

"It's better to buy a small boat." Huang Xuanjin took out a gold baht from his pocket.

"Today, not anymore." The ship merchant shook his head.

"how?"

"There is a group of people who bought all the boats. I heard they came from Chang'an. It's a heroic move." The mustache ship dealer said, the mustache on his lips trembled as he spoke.

"Okay, then it seems that I can only ride horses." Huang Xuanjin looked at the dozens of horses tied to the railing of the ship dealer, "How much is your horse?"

"I can't buy this horse. The team asked me to take care of it." Said the boatman.

Huangxuan Jin turned around and was about to leave. The horse tied to the railing neighed. He turned his head and glanced. The leading horse had a bronze medal tied around its neck, and the bronze medal was branded with the coat of arms of Langhuan Pavilion.

"The team... did you say anything?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"They're looking for someone. The portrait shows a rather handsome young man, but they say he's a fool." The boatman said, shaking his mustache.

"Such a handsome young master, it's a pity..." The boatman lowered his head and shook his head, picked up the fodder and prepared to turn around to take care of the horses. After all, the team didn't look like anyone to mess with, especially the woman at the head.

Now thinking of that woman's eyes makes me feel cold.

As soon as he turned around, he suddenly felt the wind around him form a turbulent current.

It was strange that he could see the wind.

The boatman turned his head and found that all the turbulence was surrounding the young man beside him. The young man was standing in the wind, his clothes fluttering.

"Yingzhao! Come here!" The boy suddenly shouted in the wind, and then the monster that should only exist in mythology broke out of the water!

Tiger pattern and bird wings spread across the world.

The young man turned up, and the gorgeous and colorful monsters ran on the water, peach blossoms and water swept under Yingzhao's feet.

The boatman froze in place with the fodder in his arms.

"Yaoshou..."

12

Wu Qi held the blood-stained Ziwu Yuanyang ax in his hand, and looked at Zhu Wuye who was lying in a pool of blood. Zhu Wuye's heart was pierced by a brass bullet.

Just now his Candle Shadow Ax was about to chop off, but Wu Qi's arm had already been injured by him and he couldn't stop it anymore.

She only heard a gunshot, and then Lord Wu fell down in front of her.

The man who had been following her put down the gun in his hand.

Wu Qi looked back at the man, "Who allowed you to do it."

"This gun was given to me by King Fu." The man put down the gun in his hand.

Wu Qi understood what the man meant, and he was reminding her that the most important thing is to complete what King Fu ordered, and everything else must be killed as soon as possible.

She has always been the leader of the team, but the man always makes her feel a little uncomfortable, that kind of feeling is very strange, as if she is the one being controlled.

But when she looked closely, the man seemed extremely submissive.

"You're hurt." The man came over and pulled off the tie to bind her arm.

"From now on, no one really knows how to use the candle shadow axe." Wu Qi looked down at the old man with gray hair and blood stains. The last moment the old man fell to the ground, he smiled and pulled out the pipe at his waist. Shaking to take another sip.

The cigarette was not lit, and the old man collapsed after taking such a dry puff.

"In the future, no one will be needed." The man said beside her.

"What about Emperor Nanhe?" The man looked under the bed.

"Fu Wang said, cut off his head and see him." Wu Qi said.

……

The young man who was followed by all the beasts, the neighing of all the beasts filled the wind, reminiscent of the sacrifices in ancient times.

But Huang Xuanjin felt that the surroundings were eerily quiet, and he couldn't hear anything.

Go back, he must go back.

Why did he leave? Duanzhu clearly entrusted him to take care of Long Chengyu. Since he promised, he should do it.

He remembered the time when Long Chengyu escaped from the palace a few months ago, he killed all those who wanted to hurt Long Chengyu, and he promised Long Chengyu to be his emperor.

When he returned to the palace, he tore off the bloody clothes on his body and fell to the ground.

All the imperial physicians surrounded him, using needles to diagnose the pulse, and he vaguely saw that fool holding the clothes he had taken off in the gap between the crowd.

The surrounding maids asked him to put down the clothes in his arms, but Long Chengyu said, "Huangxuan's clothes are also Huangxuan's blood."

He heard it, and sneered, Huang Xuan's blood...

I've shed a lot of blood.

Before he could laugh, the imperial doctor pressed the needle, causing him to frown in pain.He felt that the imperial physician did it on purpose.

But Long Chengyu kept hugging his clothes.

Later, the imperial physicians left, he was lying on the bed, and Long Chengchen hugged his clothes and leaned against the bed.

"Are you obedient?" He suddenly asked Long Chengyu.

Long Chengyu didn't speak.

"Listen to me obediently, and I will help you heal this world." He looked at the fire-hating lotus pattern embossed on the top of the bed, "You will become an emperor handed down in history books, and you will own thousands of miles of land, just like you just now It’s the same as Emperor Qingming and Empress Gouchen.”

"Then, what do you want?" Long Chengyu asked.

"I want you to be obedient." He tilted his head from the pillow and looked at Long Chengyu who was sitting on the ground.

He pushed open the pear wood door, he had smelled the smell of blood too many times, but this time he felt that something could not go back.

The knife in Wu Qi's hand cut Long Chengchen's neck, and at the same time, she saw the boy who pushed the door.

She saw the wind flowing around the boy.

Huang Xuanjin raised his head and looked at her, "If possible, can you not let go?"

He said while looking at Wu Qi.

Wu Qi was stunned, not understanding what Huang Xuan Jin was going to do, but she really kept supporting Long Cheng, the blood flowing from Long Cheng's neck flowed down her arm.

Huang Xuanjin walked over, and everyone looked at him and dared not speak.

Wu Qi's body trembled a little, she looked at the boy in front of her.

"Don't fall on him, he is afraid of pain." Huang Xuanjin looked at Wu Qi and said.

Wu Qi wanted to say that Long Chengyu was dead, but she didn't.I don't know whether I dare not, or I am reluctant to tell the boy this fact.

Wu Qi thought of the phoenix, that kind of beautiful and powerful bird and beast.

The dragon and the tiger are kings. When the dragon and the tiger arrive, landslides and tsunamis destroy forests and trees, it is the aura of a king who is almost tyrannical.So all the beasts are afraid, and they dare not refuse.

But when the phoenix bird came, it was magnificent and majestic.It is so powerful that it can reverse the sun and the moon, and make a long wind rise in the blue sky, but it only comes with Fenghua.

So how dare you disobey such a beautiful phoenix bird.

Huang Xuanjin took Long Chengtang from Wu Qi's arms, and he slowly sat on the threshold with Long Chengtang in his arms.

He sat at the door like this this morning, saying goodbye to Mr. Zhu Wu.At that time Long Chengyu was waiting for him to find him outside the courtyard, he thought he was playing with him.

"I... found you..." Long Chengyu said with his overly dark eyes open.

"En." Huang Xuanjin nodded.

"I listened to you." Long Chengyu said.

"En." Huang Xuanjin nodded.

Long Chengyu smiled with the corners of his mouth pulled, but he stopped smiling suddenly. He said, "You also think of me as a fool, I...I won't play with you anymore..."

Huang Xuanjin held Long Chengyu's head in his arms, blood stained his skirt.

Tsing Yi turned into a bloody garment.

None of the assassins in the courtyard dared to speak, but they saw red flowers growing slowly from their bodies.

The coquettishness of the bonus is like blood.

They watched in horror at the slowly growing bones and flowers on their bodies.

Huang Xuanjin cupped Long Chengyu's head and hummed a Jiangnan tune.

"Hello Jiangnan, Lianye He Tiantian..."

Long Chengyu's body gradually became stiff.

Huang Xuanjin squinted his eyes, and smiled like a son of a noble family.

"Okay, it's fine..."

He said that the red flowers burst instantly, and the moment the red flowers burst, the body of the person who was parasitized by the bone flower also burst, like soil broken by flowers.

In Jiangnan, in the city named Youlao, in the courtyard of Nanjiu Street, red flowers bloomed and fell.

"Let's go back to Chang'an, okay?" Huang Xuanjin said softly, "Let's become emperors, and become emperors with thousands of miles of land and mountains."