Half blood

Li Xuan turned to Li Xiuqi, and asked again: "You came to the embankment alone today?"

Li Xiuqi nodded, Li Xuan said "Oh", and murmured: "No wonder I didn't see you today, why didn't you tell me, you are unfamiliar with the place, what should you do if you go astray?"

Li Xiuqi took out a drawing from his pocket, unfolded the drawing, and said, "I followed this drawing."

When Li Xuan saw it, it turned out to be a topographic map of the south, which was no different from the one on Wei Yuan's body. Something else was drawn on this blueprint with a Chinese ink brush. Bay, a few lines of comments were also left at the corners of the drawings.

Li Xuan took the paper, held it in his hand, looked at it carefully, and asked, "What is marked with the ink brush on it?"

Li Xiuqi replied: "It's just a few scribbles. Today I walked along the Anqu River, and I found the trend of the river to be interesting, so I tried to mark the places suitable for diverting the river."

"Splitting?" Li Xuan raised his eyes, "What does this mean?"

Li Xiuqi replied: "Although the local method is to cover the water with soil, the flood is easy to drain and not easy to block. The dam built by General Wei may be able to withstand part of the torrent, but if we can find a way to drain part of the water, it will be done once and for all." , to benefit the people in the south." After finishing speaking, Li Xiuqi put away the blueprint, folded it and hid it in his clothes, and started to go back.

Listening to this, Li Xuan felt that the words seemed familiar, he slapped his forehead with his hand, and said, "I don't know where I saw this, yes, is this method mentioned in the Shui Jing Zhu?"

There was a flash of light on Li Xiuqi's face, he smiled slightly, and asked softly: "Your Highness read that book?"

Li Xuan grinned, nodded and said, "Well, isn't this the list of books you gave me that day?"

"Yes, I just didn't expect His Highness to remember..."

Li Xuan said: "I don't read many books, I only read the few books you opened for me, I didn't expect it to be really useful today." Li Xuan laughed in his heart, thinking that he was finally here Li Xiuqi was cultured in front of him once.

On the second day, when Li Xuan came out of the house, he saw that there was already a person-high firewood piled up in the open space in front of the camp. He knew something was wrong, this General Wei was determined to burn Rong Nuo after eating the weights. Death to calm the hearts of the people.

He strode towards the firewood pile and saw two soldiers sitting beside the firewood chatting about something, Li Xuan wanted to ask when the fire was, but the person who heard the two talking was Governor Li Li Xiuqi.

He swallowed the words that came to his lips, and listened carefully.I heard a soldier say, "Is it really so similar?"

Another soldier replied: "It's true, those eyes are exactly the same, black and white, the corners of the eyes are raised, and even, even the expression of seeing people is the same."

"How is it possible? You are talking nonsense!" Another soldier said in disbelief.

"It's true, it's true, you don't know, when I saw you the first day, I thought I encountered a ghost in broad daylight."

The soldier heard him speak so miraculously, so he asked in surprise: "Oh, if it's really so similar, how come General Wei didn't react at all?"

When the other soldier heard it, he felt that the words were reasonable, and said: "That's right, this Governor Li is from the capital, and he speaks with the accent of the capital, so he should not be from the south..."

"That's right," said the first soldier, "the world is so big, there are so many wonders, you say that people have two eyes and one mouth, and there will always be someone who looks like them..." The other soldier nodded and said, "That's right. ,Too……"

Li Xuan listened silently, wondering who were they talking about Li Xiuqi looked like just now?Suddenly those two soldiers saw Li Xuan, and one of the soldiers immediately said sharply: "It's him, he's the one who snatched him away," "Yes, it's that kid."

As he said that, two soldiers surrounded him, and one of them shouted sharply: "Press him quickly, lest he snatch people away again!" Surrounded by mysterious groups.

Seeing the posture, Li Xuan smiled and said, "What do these generals mean? I didn't do anything, why did you take me down?"

A general stood up, he should have the highest rank in this group of people, the man said sharply, "It's you, pretending not to know, it's you who snatched that witch away the day before yesterday. Take him down!" Li Xuan Immediately, two soldiers flashed up behind him, one of them pressed one of his arms, and cut his hand from behind.

At this moment, Li Xuan suddenly saw a group of people coming in front of him, and in the middle of the group was a short and small gray figure who led them closer. The soldiers were pressing down on Rong Nuo.

Seeing that Rong Nuo's withered black hair was disheveled on his head, his body was lifted up in the air, and his feet were dragging feebly on the ground, Li Xuan couldn't help feeling furious.With all his strength, he shook the two soldiers who were twisting behind him away, and shouted: "You all stop me, don't move her!"

The leading soldier sneered, and said, "Who do you think you are? You are an onion in this barracks, so everyone still has to listen to you? It's just luck that killed a snake. Hero."

Li Xuan also sneered when he heard this, and said: "Okay, if you don't listen to me, you have to listen to what I have to say about this knife." After speaking, he took off the cold knife on his back, and held the handle in his hand Turned over a flower.

The soldier saw it, looked up to the sky and laughed loudly, and said, "Today, sir, I will play with you and let you know how high the sky is and how thick the ground is." Hammer, opened his posture.

At this time, Li Xuan suddenly saw a boy with Taoist hair combed towards the group of soldiers who were pressing down on Rong Nuo. That man was the gastrodia elata that Li Xuan had told him to take care of Rong Nuo. Before his hand touched the corner of the general's clothes on Rong Nuo's left, he was knocked to the ground, and a large red and swollen patch appeared on his fair face. It seemed that someone had punched him firmly in the left eye socket.Li Xuan was really angry now, he had no intention of fighting with Tie Hammer, he just wanted to rescue the two children first, so he slashed with the knife, wanting to get away.

Where did the general agree, he threw the iron hammer in his hand, and the round hammer of several tens of kilograms flew towards Li Xuan's head with the strength of his arm, the force was to smash his head like a watermelon.The knife in Li Xuan's hand couldn't block the hammer, so he had to dodge and avoid the hammer head.The general felt that he had the upper hand, and he was happy in his heart, and the moves he made were better than each move, and each move was more hated than another move.And Li Xuan's heart was anxious again, and his breath couldn't help but become chaotic.

At this time, Hammer head whizzed past his forehead with a gust of evil wind, Li Xuan suddenly calmed down, he felt that this couldn't be done, if he didn't get away, Rong Nuo and the others would be in a more difficult situation, so he discarded distracting thoughts, The big knife slashes and stabs, instead of hitting the hammer head-on, it picks the flaws and hits the flesh directly.Now the general could only dodge and was at a disadvantage.Seeing that the time was up, Li Xuan made a dirty trick, shook off the iron chain held by the general with his elbow, and was about to step out and run towards the two of Rong Nuo, when he heard a low shout, the voice came out without anger. Wei, as soon as it sounded, the camp was full of silence.

Li Xuan raised his eyes and saw Wei Zhong walking over from the crowd. He walked up to them in a few steps, first angrily scolded the soldier, and said, "Wang Dazhuang, deal with it according to the military law."

Then he turned to Li Xuan, lowered his voice, and said, "Your Highness, I know that you have a kind heart, but I have my own accusations, so I can't do it for a few days." Lighting torches and torches, he said loudly: "Fellow folks!"

"Today, we are going to execute this witch who spread rumors everywhere! The folks have seen that the chaos in Yujin Kingdom decades ago turned into a rebellion by thieves, causing people to live in distress and mourning. It was Emperor Wen who used his own power to quell the war. Since Emperor Wen Since ascension to the throne, our Yujin Kingdom has enjoyed good weather every day, and the country is prosperous and the people are safe."

The villagers below listened, all eyes brightened, and echoed: "Yes, yes, well said, well said!"

Wei Zhong went on to say: "However, there are some people with ulterior motives, who can't see people's family and prosperity, so they spread some non-existent rumors everywhere. I, Wei, also heard about it. I think it's ridiculous, extremely ridiculous! Isn't that person present with a long hair? Smart people with eyes and hearts like mirrors, don’t we know how to see, don’t we know how to listen? This year’s Anqu River is safe and sound. When it should rain, God will rain, and when it should not rain, God will give you a clear sky. But even so, some people were accidentally deceived by this rumor. I, Wei, am here to tell everyone," Wei Zhong raised his hand to the sky, and said loudly: "I, Wei Zhong, use my life as a guarantee. This year's Anqu Jiang As docile as a dog, I dare not even bark for the rest of my life; I, Wei Zhong, guarantee with my life that this year's harvest will be the best in decades, everyone has meat to eat and wine to drink; I, Wei Zhong, use Life is a guarantee. This year, all our generals in the south will use their flesh and blood to make dikes and dams for the people in the south. No matter how big the water or waves are, they will not be destroyed or collapsed! So today, I, Wei Zhong, represent the south All the people in Anqujiang will burn this witch to death to respect the world!"

There was a sudden burst of crying from the crowd, the crying was as unpleasant as a crow with its throat choked, intermittently, "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah", but the crying was immediately silenced. There was bursts of cheers: "Respect the world! Respect the world!"

Li Xuan raised his head, but saw that everyone in this group had a strange look in their eyes, he had seen this kind of look before.

At that time, he was only six years old. He sneaked out from the palace and wandered around in the street. When he saw crowds of people gathered around the vegetable market, he became very playful and squeezed in to watch the excitement. When he squeezed in, he realized that the people surrounding him were prisoners who were about to beheaded.The executioner raised the big knife in his hand high, and a faceless man knelt in front of the executioner, raised the knife and dropped it. Before Li Xuan could close his eyes, he saw a round head coming from the The stands bounced and rolled down.There was a burst of enthusiastic cheers from the crowd, and the bursts of cheers made his head go blank for a moment, at this moment he heard someone say: "This time it's really not enjoyable, the last time I watched it, it was so bloody!" There is more than one foot..." Li Xuan raised his head and saw the expression of the man, he was no doubt the same as these villagers, they had no face, only a pair of green eyes glowing, looking at the flame excitedly.

That day in the mountains and forests, he was never afraid of the protruding eyes of the giant python's red triangular head, but now he looked at the blank eyes of the crowd.He felt his body trembling uncontrollably because of fear, he swallowed, and tremblingly pushed back a step, at this time there was an extremely reassuring soft call from behind, "Your Highness..."

Li Xuan felt that he could finally smell something else from the smell of blood in his memory, that smell was like the warm sunlight shining down from the sky when he was lying under a tree and lazing, he took another step back, a little greedy Smelling the fragrance deeply, he asked in a low voice, "What should we do now?"

Li Xiuqi whispered in his ear: "Your Highness, look at that side..."