Heartless

During the Frost’s Descent season, the night was dark and the chill was strong. After the brocade guards stopped making trouble this time, the soldiers in the camp did not dare to slack off any more. They each lit a torch, 12 people formed a line, two lines parallel, and patrolled outside the general’s tent separately.

Ye Qianlang left as soon as he said that, Shan Xiaohu was overjoyed, regardless of Kou Biancheng taking a nap in the tent with his eyes closed, he yelled loudly from time to time, scolding Wei Zhongxian, I don't know if it was to comfort or Deliberately add to the blockage.

Autumn insects live in the long grass, the red light of the torch permeates the white tent little by little, and the veins are like the afterglow of the setting sun. Two figures are cut out, one sitting and one lying down, and it also adds a little warm color to the silver hair on the sideburns.Kou Biancheng was lying on his back with his eyes closed from beginning to end, letting Shan Xiaohu babble in his ears, and occasionally hearing him scolding Wei Zhongxian happily, he gave a gentle laugh.

On the contrary, Shan Xiaohu silently kept silent, and looked at the person in front of him very carefully and cautiously.

In the past, he only knew that Ye Qianlang was neither dead nor alive, neither human nor ghost, but for the first time he felt that Kou Biancheng was the truly ruthless thing.

Plain or colorful clay dolls on the street are ruthless things, and so are the statues of gods and Buddhas in the temple. way out.

The dragon robe emperor crown, lonely family.

In ancient times, emperors called them "lonely family" and "widowed people". Who didn't walk through many graves of bones and green tombs before they got thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, and their love was just sesame seeds, which is not regrettable and insignificant.

This night was really uneasy. Before the third watch, Ye Luocha was sent away, and after the third watch, the Deer Bodhisattva was ushered in.The man came, but it was very different from usual. Lu Linchuan broke into the general's tent with his hair untied, his clothes disheveled, and without a shoe on his feet.

If it is said that every time this Tanhualang appears, he will descend like a jade man from the sky, but now, with his disheveled hair and pale complexion, he looks like a lonely ghost who came out of a grave somewhere .

Shan Xiaohu didn't know what to do, when he saw the person in his heart suddenly coming, he didn't care if he looked like a fairy or a ghost, his heart was already trembling, he greeted him with a smile and said: "Oh, why did Lu Tanhua come here?" gone?"

Kou Biancheng opened his eyes from the tiger-skin soft chair, raised his face slightly, his brows were full of tiredness, and said: "How does Linchuan look like this?"

"I'm here to find my elder brother," Lu Linchuan pushed away Shan Xiaohu, who was more than half his head taller, and came to Kou Biancheng with a look of absolute sadness on his face, "but he doesn't seem to be here."

Knowing why the other party came at a glance, Kou Biancheng sat up straight, and smiled slightly on his tired face, as if he had been patiently accompanying him: "Why isn't he here?"

"Recently, I often think of my childhood. It was at this time that I was so afraid of the cold that I always put my feet into his arms unexpectedly while sleeping. Sometimes my elder brother just smiled, and sometimes he pretended to annoy me and insisted on scratching the soles of my feet." Can't..."

The sweet words and soft words of the past are especially in my ears, and they are even more heart-wrenching. Before I can finish my heartfelt words, he is already on the verge of crying, choked up, "I sleep and eat with my elder brother, and my elder brother treats me like a close relative." Recently, I feel pity for his innocent young man who suddenly suffered a sudden disaster, I respect him for his knowledgeable, courageous and resourceful, and I love his bright and upright husband...so I never ask him why a man who is clearly dead suddenly comes back to life , why did a general become a gangster after that, why he was bound by fame and power and got deeper and deeper...I don't even need to ask, did he ever have a sincere heart for me...but I have to ask , does he still remember his surname is Kou or He? If he does, does he remember what crime he was charged with copying and beheading?"

Without the slightest bit of unhappiness about being exposed to old scars, Kou Biancheng's face was cold, and his voice was also calm: "Being against Hua and barbarians, seeking to be disloyal to the country."

"Since you have never forgotten, now that you secretly communicated with the Empress Dowager and entered into a covenant privately, isn't this an act of 'betrayal of the Hua and the barbarians, seeking to be disloyal to the country'?" Even with all kinds of attachment and liking, it can't resist such monstrous For a serious crime, Lu Linchuan's face was full of tears, and he tremblingly said: "Since you have never forgotten, how can you be worthy of General He's innocence, and you would rather suffer a thousand cuts at Caishikou!"

Seeing that this handsome young man lost his composure so rarely, Kou Biancheng sighed softly and got up and approached him, patted his back with concern, letting his child seem to have cried enough, before asking: "Have you ever seen How did the Ming army fight the Manchus?"

When the words came out suddenly, Lu Linchuan was stunned by the question and forgot how to answer for a moment.

"You haven't seen it, but I have seen it. The Ming army closed the city and could barely support it with the strength of the artillery and the solidity of the city gate. If they fought against the Houjin cavalry in the wilderness, they would lose nine times out of ten, and they would be powerless to fight." .” Kou Biancheng hooked the corners of his mouth, but there was no smile on his face: “Do you know, once full of people enter the customs, what will happen?”

Not daring to think about the tragic scenes of the country's destruction and family destruction, Lu Linchuan remained silent, and after a while he squeezed out from between his teeth: "It must be that the whole country will fight to the end with one heart and soul, and they will burn everything to the death, and they will not surrender..."

"The bloody battle is still lost in the end, and if you swear to the death, you will eventually surrender." Kou Biancheng chuckled disdainfully, "Nowadays, there is no peace inside and outside the pass. And desperate, when the time comes, the world will be full of flames, bandits will be everywhere, and the Jin people will be able to take advantage of the fisherman. The Ming Dynasty is exhausted, and it will either die at the hands of me, a "national thief", or die under the iron hooves of the Jin soldiers outside the pass! "

"Not only have you changed, but you've gone crazy... Crazy, talking nonsense, completely crazy..." Lu Linchuan was already trembling all over his body, and he didn't believe a word of what the other party said. Believe it or not. "It's Linchuan who believed in the wrong person, loved the wrong person...Since the elder brother is determined not to listen to anyone's persuasion, Linchuan will enter the palace tomorrow to face the saint. The act is reported to the emperor..."

In fact, these words are at most three points from the heart, and the rest are all momentary hatred and panic. Although he is full of "loyalty to the monarch and the country" and "sacrificing his life for benevolence", if he really wants to see his elder brother whom he admired since childhood be sentenced to death, he must It is impossible to be hard-hearted.

Unexpectedly, before the words were finished, a cloud of haze flashed across the eyes of the mayor of Kou Bian, and he had already made two moves in succession, one attack was solid, the other was weak, and the palm energy was injected continuously, like a shock.

Lu Linchuan was terrified and wanted to avoid him, but how could he be the opponent of Kou Biancheng, he couldn't resist both false and real moves, and was caught at the throat in an instant.

"What a sour Confucian who's nothing to talk about, and dies to repay the king'!" Kou Biancheng's tendons on the back of his hand burst out, and the strength between his fingers was aroused, pinching Lu Linchuan's face red and purple, and his throat cracked. crack.

He said coldly: "Since you want to gain the reputation of 'Wen Shijian', I will give you that."

"Master!"

Seeing the murderous intent in Kou Biancheng's eyes and Lu Linchuan was about to die, Shan Xiaohu who was on the side was shocked and horrified, and threw himself at the master's feet, begging repeatedly: "Master, let him go... the apprentice never asked for it." Please, just this once—”

Kou Biancheng didn't answer or listen to a single word, and kicked Shan Xiaohu's chest - Shan Xiaohu felt as if he was hit by a giant wave in the center of his mouth, and several sternums were broken in an instant, and after spurting out a big mouthful of blood, he fell to his knees. fainted.

"Big...Big brother...you...you want to kill me?!" Lu Linchuan's hands and feet were cold, he was out of breath, he closed his eyes and waited to die with difficulty, his face was as silent as the snow after the snow Desperate, there were only two lines of tears that could not stop sliding down.

Kou Biancheng looked at him coldly, watching the tears trickling down, wet the back of his hand drop by drop.

Just now Lu Linchuan recounted the past in tears, but in fact he also remembered, remembering those days when he lived in Lu Mansion, he was often tortured by old injuries and couldn't sleep, and the little big powder ball always stumbled and ran out, and stumbled again. Running back with the medicine jar in his arms, he had to rush to feed himself the medicine in front of the maidservant...

Monthly profit and loss, flowers bloom and wither, ten years of brotherhood is better than compatriots, how can you not remember?

This night, I lost my love first, and then my relatives. It seemed like a hundred years and a thousand years had passed, but it was still pitch black outside the tent.

The night was too long.

"Let's go..." Kou Biancheng slowly let go of his fingers, turned his back to Lu Linchuan, hiding his tearful eyes in the shadows, "It doesn't count if I say it, and it doesn't count if you say it, yes The king is a bandit, whether it is a merit or a demerit, it has its own judgment for thousands of years..."

The soldiers in the battalion followed the sound again. When Lu Linchuan saw a few familiar faces in the Siduba League, he rushed forward and grabbed one of them by the arm like a drowning man who saw a life-saving straw: "From the beginning! Isn’t it just for the sake of ‘Qing Jun’s side, punishing Wei Xun’ to restore my Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty? Now that Wei Xun has fallen, and the emperor is young and wise, why did you brothers change their minds?”

Seeing that this person bowed his head and didn't answer, he turned to ask another person, one by one, asking questions hoarsely.

Until someone finally couldn't bear to see him so insane and lost his composure, and answered him the truth: "Why is the surname Zhu in this world? Pull that Ming emperor from the dragon chair, and we will be the heroes of the founding of the country, the commander-in-chief of Fengjiang, and we will be prosperous from then on." Wealth and honor are inexhaustible..."

……

No matter how stupid and stupid Lu Linchuan is, he understands that the hero who once shed his blood, the brother who once lived and died together, is now famous and powerful, and no one can keep the blood and passion at the beginning.

Until this moment, he finally believed that the building would collapse.

I don't feel sorry for myself, but I feel sorry for Emperor Chongzhen in the Hall of Supreme Harmony. I feel sorry for him who is diligent and tireless day and night, but he is doomed to be alone.

Lu Linchuan turned back and walked out of the general's big tent, but he took one step and fell one step, fell and got up again, his expression was sad, his hair was disheveled, he didn't have the elegance and beauty of the former son of the aristocratic family, and he couldn't stop muttering to himself: " Daming...Da Ming is going to perish..."

He suddenly ran barefoot, screaming like crazy: "Da Ming is going to perish! Da Ming is going to—"

Suddenly a soldier came out from the dark, pulled out a battle flag planted in the camp, pulled off the black and white flag on the head of the pole, and threw it towards Lu Linchuan.

This soldier has amazing physical strength, and the head of the pole is very sharp. With one throw, the flagpole passed through the back of Lu Linchuan's neck.

Everything happened so quickly that Kou Biancheng lost his composure and shouted, "Linchuan!"

Lu Linchuan's throat was broken but he didn't fall down. He turned around slowly and stretched out a hand towards his elder brother.

Grabbing it out of thin air, she moved her lips with a half-smile: "Big... big brother..."

A large amount of blood spurted out of the mouth, so he lay down on his back.

Kou Biancheng's eyes were deep, and he looked straight at the soldier who was suddenly ruthless, but he saw that the other party not only showed no signs of panic, but also came to him on his own initiative.

The visitor's face was resolute and his figure was Kongwu. Although he was dressed as a small soldier, his expression was like that of a general. He knelt down and clasped his fists and said, "General, those who are addicted to love tend to be short of wisdom. Those who achieve great things must avoid the benevolence of women. Deer Tanhua must be eliminated. If the general wants to punish his subordinates, he will kill or cut them, and his subordinates will have no complaints!"

"No...you did a good job, I was temporarily soft-hearted, and almost made a big mistake..." Kou Biancheng cast a glance at Lu Linchuan's corpse, and closed his eyes again, as if he was really tired After a long time, he asked the soldier, "What's your name?"

"Subordinate Li Zicheng."

"So you are Li Zicheng." After hearing his name for a long time, Kou Biancheng smiled slightly, and the tiredness on his face also eased a little.Leaning over to help him up, he said: "The Huaishui Gate is short of a gate master, so I'll let you take it."

A mere pawn suddenly became the leader of ten thousand people. Li Zicheng refused to step down after receiving the award, and asked rather aggressively, "General, what about Ye Qianlang?"

"Even if the emperor is willing to let Wei Zhongxian retreat completely, there will be troubles in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty. I will enter the palace to invite the emperor in the morning. I will personally hunt down the two of Wei Ye and return their heads to the capital."

Seeing that the other party was about to leave, Kou Biancheng called him again: "Zicheng."

Wei Wei closed his eyes and looked at him, describing him as indifferent but not angry but majestic: "You are brave and knowledgable, you dare to fight and do something, that's good. It's just..." After a pause, he chuckled again, "It's just that those who achieve great things also need to do something. Knowing how to hide clumsiness, sometimes being too greedy for merit and rushing forward, turning easy and extremely happy leads to sorrow, even if you sit on the dragon chair, you will not sit for long-do you understand?"

When Li Zicheng retreated in shock, Kou Biancheng raised his eyes and looked into the distance, looking at the end of the sky where blood was rolling, as if the red sun below the horizon couldn't bear it, and almost burst out of the ground.

It can be seen that no matter how hard the night is, he can always get through it, he said softly to himself: "The person I like... I should give him a ride with my own hands."