Half blood

Back in the camp, the soldiers had already set up a fire, and a pot of rice and vegetables cooked together was bubbling and bubbling. Wei Yuan and Hu Da didn't come out to eat because they were not healthy yet, so Li Xuan Only he, Li Xiuqi, and a few younger soldiers ate this pot of rice.

As soon as I sat down around the bonfire, I heard the young soldiers beside me discussing something in a low voice. One soldier whispered, "Is that man the hero who killed the snake yesterday?" The other soldier nodded and answered in a low voice. Said: "Well, it's him. I saw it with my own eyes when they came back yesterday."

After talking about those two soldiers, you pushed me and I pushed you. After pushing and shoving for a long time, the last soldier who was more cheerful stepped forward and asked, "This big brother, is he the hero who killed the snake yesterday?"

Li Xuan was stunned, and said: "Hero? I don't dare to be this one, but I was lucky enough to not be swallowed by that snake."

The little soldier's eyes lit up and he asked, "Can you tell us what happened yesterday? We saw that snake, it was so big."

"Okay," Li Xuan silently glanced at Li Xiuqi who was staring at the fire, and said, "Yesterday, Brother Wei and Brother Hu and I went into the mountain together. When we got deep, we heard the hissing sound. I had an ominous premonition at the time, but we stopped and looked around, but there was nothing unusual, so we had to bite the bullet and continue walking into the woods. Then suddenly, a big hole opened in the ground, a road I never saw before. I've seen such a big python emerge from the ground, bent over to bite us..."

The two soldiers listened intently, and when they heard the key point, they gasped together, "Then what should you do?"

"What can I do? I just left the big knife in the room that day. If I had that big knife, it might not be so dangerous. Fortunately, I just hid a self-defense dagger in my cuff. The dagger is only three It's about the size of an inch, it's just that big..." As he spoke, Li Xuan took out the dagger from his cuff, and saw that the dagger was only the size of a palm, with a yellow jade stone inlaid on the hilt, and a Upside down bat.

The bat pattern is the totem of the Qingzhou royal family, and the two soldiers could guess that the dagger was a treasure at a glance, so they wanted to take it closer.Li Xuan also agreed, and the little soldier happily took the dagger, weighed it in his hand, it had some weight, and then carefully took off the knife sheath, seeing the blade inside was as thin as a willow leaf, with a cold light, they all exclaimed Good knife, good knife.

"And then?" the little soldier asked.

"Then the giant python rushed towards Big Brother Hu, and I quickly threw the dagger over. I heard that a snake can hit seven inches, so I aimed at the area above the snake's abdomen and below its head. , the blade was inserted right, and as soon as it was stabbed, green blood spewed out, but what I didn't expect was that the blood could erode flesh, and it hurt Big Brother Hu's face all at once."

"Ah, what should I do!" The two little soldiers couldn't help being anxious, as if they were the two of them in front of the giant python.

"Then the giant python turned towards me. I had an idea and used myself as a bait to lure it to the tree, trying to wrap it around the tree, but this beast was more ferocious than I thought. When the tail was cut, I can’t wait to cut off the thousand-year-old tree.”

"Then did you succeed?"

Li Xuan shook his head, "No, thanks to Brother Wei, he picked up a wooden stick, tied the dagger that the snake had dropped to the ground to it, and used the stick as a spear to stab the snake's belly Stripped."

The two soldiers listened with gusto, and when Li Xuan finished telling the story, they began to discuss in a hurry. Li Xuan smiled slightly, and looked sideways at Li Xiuqi, who was silent at the side.Seeing that Li Xiuqi was stirring the bonfire under the cauldron with a wooden stick, the light of the fire danced and reflected on half of his face, and a shadow was cast on his eye socket, like two black holes, which made Li Xuan unable to see clearly. his look.

Li Xiuqi spoke suddenly, and said lightly, "Is Your Highness hurt?"

Li Xuan was taken aback, subconsciously covered his arm with his hand, shook his head, and said, "It's nothing serious."

Li Xuan's actions did not escape Li Xiuqi's eyes. Li Xiuqi glanced at Li Xuan's arm, and asked, "Your Highness's arm is hurt?"

Li Xuan had no choice but to nod his head, and said in a muffled voice, "I hurt my arm. But it's not a serious problem. Brother Wei and Brother Hu were hurt much more than me." Hearing the names of the other two, Li Xiuqi didn't know why. Talking again, I just fiddled with the fire quietly, the rice soup in the pot boiled, everyone started to eat, Li Xuan also filled a bowl, was eating, suddenly remembered something, asked Li Xiuqi: "Can you Spicy food?"

Li Xiuqi nodded and said, "I have a stomach from the south, and I like spicy food." Li Xuan then said, "Is that so? When I first came here, I had never eaten spicy food. Brother Wei gave me a bright red sharpie." Pepper, that thing looks inconspicuous, but it really pissed me off. But I heard it's so spicy, people who don't like it can't even dip it, and those who like it can't eat it without a meal Rice, if you like it, I'll ask Brother Wei for some tomorrow." After hearing this, Li Xiuqi felt a little happy, and one can imagine how much weight a person's name has in his heart when he mentions it like this.It's just that this name was a thorn in Li Xiuqi's heart, and being mentioned again and again made him feel like a thorn in his throat, without the slightest thought.

Li Xiuqi shook his head and said lightly: "No need."

As soon as Li Xuan came out of the camp that day, he saw several villagers stacking firewood beside a wooden frame.Li Xuan felt a little strange, so he asked one of the villagers what they were doing, and the villager wiped off his sweat, and replied, "Hey, aren't you the little brother who killed the snake that day? Burn that demon girl."

"What?" Li Xuan was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Did General Wei agree to this matter?"

The man nodded and replied: "That's right. He said that these witches have spread rumors everywhere to confuse people and spread rumors, disturbing the hearts of every family. I will burn her tomorrow to stabilize people's hearts."

"What does this mean?"

The man frowned, feeling that Li Xuan asked too much, and it was something everyone knew, so he ignored him, lowered his head and picked up the firewood at his feet, and said, "Little brother, if you Go to the side if you have nothing to do, we are still busy moving firewood." After speaking, he picked up the firewood and walked away.

Li Xuan stayed where he was, wondering what was going on, that day he thought Wei Zhong was just locking up people to calm things down, but he didn't expect that Wei Zhong really wanted that little girl surgery.Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard heart-piercing cries coming from a small room in front of the camp.

He walked towards the small house, and saw that the windows and doors around the house were all sealed, nailed to the top with wrist-thick wooden strips, and only a dark iron bull's head lock was hung on the door frame.Li Xuan reached out and tried to push the door and window, but they didn't move at all.He heard the intermittent crying coming from the room again, it was a girl's voice.He could more or less guess that the one locked up in this room was Miss Rong.

Li Xuan looked up and looked around, seeing that there was no one in front of the house, and the villagers were busy carrying firewood in the open space in front, so he took out a dagger from his sleeve and sawed off the seal on the window.The blade of this dagger is as thin as a willow leaf. Although it can't cut iron like mud, it is more than enough to cut a few wooden sticks. The wooden sticks fell down, and the window cracked a small crack.

Li Xuan opened the window, leaned over to take a look, and saw that the room was pitch black, with a puff of dampness rushing towards him, mixed with the smell of blood.A gray figure curled up in the middle of the room, lying on the ground, crying loudly.Li Xuan couldn't help being impatient, and saw off the bull's head lock on the door. The lock was made of black iron, but it was inserted into the wooden peg. If he cut the wooden peg with a dagger, the lock would be useless.Li Xuan turned around and glanced at the villagers again. Seeing that no one was paying attention, he quickly stepped inside, helped the person on the ground up, and asked softly, "Miss Rong, how are you doing?"

The girl from the Rong family lowered her head and huddled on the ground, a pair of black eyes looked at him timidly, and a red nose protruded from her gray and white face. She curled her lips, swallowed the cry, and said: "Oh it's you……"

Li Xuan nodded, and said: "It's me, I'm here to save you." Li Xuan looked down, but saw a pool of blood at Miss Rong's feet, the blood had been here for a long time, and it had formed ribs on the ground .Seeing the blood, Li Xuan couldn't help panicking, and asked, "Miss Rong, did someone beat you?"

Miss Rong shook her head in a daze after hearing this, and said, "They, they didn't beat me, but locked me here alone, and didn't give me anything to eat..."

Li Xuan frowned slightly when he heard this, and asked, "Then where did the blood come from?"

Miss Rong also looked confused, and replied: "I don't know, maybe, maybe I'm going to die..."

Li Xuan didn't like to hear people say such depressing words the most, so he said with some displeasure: "Don't talk nonsense, I see you are living well." After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand to hug the person from the cold ground, and said: " I'll take you out now, and I'll find a way to save you after I get out."

Miss Rong's body was lifted up into the air, and she was as light as a leaf. With tears in her eyes, she said, "I think I'm going to die too, but I really don't care, because we are all going to die. But, but I seem to be dying." I did not see you……"

Hearing her nonsense, Li Xuan felt something was wrong in his heart, so he asked, "What didn't you see about me?"

"I didn't see, I didn't see you die..." As soon as she finished speaking, the girl from the Rong family rolled her eyes and fainted. Li Xuan quickly reached out and patted her face, but her eyelids didn't move.Li Xuan cursed in a low voice, and strode out of the house.