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On the mountain road, the night is cold and windy, and the heavy snow is drifting in the wind and falling continuously.

Qu Changcheng was accompanied by a few guards from the Prime Minister's House, and beside him was the food transport army that was originally scheduled to enter Beijing today.

It was never his turn to personally escort the food and grass, but recently the frontline battles became tense, Xiqiang sent troops across the mountains and ridges, detoured to the border behind the Ying army, and even took down a border town.

At that time, the guards of the border city surrendered without a fight and fled overnight, which directly saved a lot of effort for Xiqiang to attack the city.

After the city was occupied by them, it was tantamount to encircling Song Taishi's army in the middle and attacking from front to back.

As soon as this incident happened, everyone was very busy. In addition, Li Qiuhe and his son seem to be very honest recently, no one has the heart to pay attention to them.

Seeing that the battle was getting more and more fierce, Ying Guo quickly sent more troops to support it, and the household department also urgently seconded a batch of grain and grass as the resources needed by the army.

As the censor of the capital, Qu Changcheng, who is responsible for supervising the preparation of military supplies, all the batches of urgently shipped supplies should be sent to him for checking.

This time, the time was running out, but the food transport army had not arrived, so Qu Changlu personally took people out of the city to check the situation.

He led the people to search separately for more than half an hour, before he found the food transportation team struggling to walk near a mountain pass.

It turned out that it was because of the continuous heavy snowfall and the warmer weather during the day, so that a layer of ice formed on the official road, making it impossible to pass through, but the snow on the mountain had not yet melted.

The food transportation team planned to take a small road from the mountain road, but unexpectedly it snowed again at night, and this road was also difficult to walk, so the speed was very slow.

It was already dark when Qu Changlu found them, and it was almost midnight now.

If you don't go down the mountain as fast as possible, let alone the food can't be shipped, I'm afraid people won't be able to survive the too low temperature at night.

However, there are too many side roads here, and the deeper the night, the more difficult it is to identify the direction. It is obviously not wise to go forward or stay in place.

The best way should be to find a place where you can escape the cold, stay overnight temporarily, and then return to the capital as quickly as possible the next morning.

Qu Changlu reined in his horse, turned around and asked, "Is there anyone here who is familiar with the terrain in this area?"

His voice pierced through the wind and snow, making it even more deserted, but no one responded, but a few soldiers looked behind Qu Zhang, and gasped.

Qu Changcheng followed their gazes and turned around, only to see a dark shadow riding a horse on a high mountain in front of him under the cold and dark night, overlooking them.

This person didn't even move a horse, he didn't know how long he had been waiting there, he looked very frightening and treacherous.

It wasn't until he saw that someone found him that he raised his whip and charged straight down from the top of the mountain, and he was in front of him in a blink of an eye.

The guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion acted as if they were facing a formidable enemy, and hurriedly protected Qu Chang in the middle.

Qu Changlu was not in a hurry, surrounded by the crowd, he squinted his eyes to identify who came.

After a while, he suddenly laughed slowly and said, "Oh, so it's General Liu."

The person who suddenly appeared in the mountains was actually Liu Xianyang.

The fate of the two was in Huiyang. At that time, Qu Changlu found out that the bandits on the mountain were actually Zhu Chengluan's private soldiers secretly raised by Qi Zhan. In order to wipe out all these people, he personally went out to instigate the rebellion of the second village master of the cottage. , that is, Liu Xianyang in front of him.

At that time, Qu Changlu used all means to instigate Liu Xianyang's rebellion, not only sent someone to help his younger brother and pretended to rescue him, but also told all kinds of nonsense to make him dizzy.

When he returned to the capital, Qu Changlu forgot about this person, and he couldn't count the people who cheated him in his two lifetimes with four fingers, and this one was not bad.

But Liu Xianyang can't forget him.Whether it is Qu Changshou's rare appearance or his eloquence, it is enough to make people unforgettable for a lifetime.

He was thinking about this person, and when he went back to the capital to inquire, he found that a petty official who was said to be "from a humble background, his father didn't love his mother or his mother, so he could only sacrifice his life for righteousness and his life in exchange for a future" was actually the son of the prime minister.

This is not enough, his grandfather is Song Taishi who is currently killing the enemy on the battlefield, and he himself has just entered the official career, and has already been in the third rank!

Liu Xianyang was so angry that he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

He is a loyal and principled person. At the beginning, he agreed to work for him without hesitation because he received Shangfeng's great favor, and became a "bandit". And because he was influenced by Qu Changsheng, he made a major decision to betray his old benefactor. Decided to turn against the water.

As a result, everyone made it up casually!

How can you make it so real?

Liu Xianyang's pure and passionate feelings were seriously deceived.

Although this betrayal for him completely got rid of his identity as a bandit, and he had a not-so-great official position that could be restarted, but Liu Xianyang felt that he couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart.

He felt that his betrayal of his superiors was all based on lies, and he was a bit too confused.

Seeing that Qu Changcheng could still greet him casually after recognizing him, Liu Xianyang gritted his teeth and said with a smile:

"The last time we met, it was the lower official who didn't recognize the identity of Mr. Qu. I was really offended. I always wanted to apologize to you in person. Mr. Qu, are you all right?"

Qu Chang said negatively: "Thanks to General Liu, I'm doing well. Call me Mr. Qu next time."

He looked up at the sky and said suddenly: "If I remember correctly, Mr. Liu grew up in the mountains and has been hiding in Shanshan Village for many years. He should be very familiar with such terrain. You wait here late at night. Are you here to show us the way?"

When Qu Chang negative asked this sentence, Liu Xianyang immediately pulled out his saber with a slap, pointing the tip of the sword at the tip of his nose.

Seeing this, Xiao Duan and Xiao Wu drew their swords at the same time, and stood in front of Qu Changnegative.

Xiao Wu scolded angrily: "Presumptuous! What are you doing?"

Liu Xianyang said coldly: "At the beginning, if Mr. Qu hadn't realized that he was careless, I would not have betrayed the cottage and cooperated with you. But now I know that what you said at that time was all false. I need to give myself the original Find a reason for your behavior."

"You duel with me!"

Liu Xianyang said: "As long as you can catch my ten moves and prove that you are indeed a man who is not afraid of death, I will take you to find a place where you can spend the night in this mountain."

Xiao Wu: "..." Did he really come to seek revenge?

"Oh?" Qu Changhe shook his head and sighed, "But I'm just a weak civil servant, and you want to fight me. Isn't this a sign of bullying?"

Liu Xianyang paused and said: "When you rescued my second brother, I knew you were good at martial arts. If you can't even catch my ten moves, it means that all the righteousness in your mouth is a joke! Besides, what does it matter if you are strong or weak?" Meaning... let’s do it like this, eight tricks.”

Qu Changcheng sighed and said: "It seems that I can't refuse, okay. General Liu, I appreciate your character, so today, I am willing to show you my own sword once."

He said, "Xiao Duan, Xiao Wu, go down."

Xiao Duan worried: "Master..."

Qu Changlu raised his chin, Xiao Wu pulled Xiao Duan, and the two backed away.

"The sword has no eyes, life and death are fate, everything should follow the rules of the world today, General Liu really wants to fight, so don't hold back, otherwise, I will be sorry for my sword."

Qu Chang negative unsheathed the long sword, and turned it slightly horizontally, the blade was like a pool of autumn water in the snow-colored moonlight: "You go first."

The moment he drew his sword, Liu Xianyang felt that the person in front of him seemed to have changed.

He is no longer sick and tired, no longer cunning, and his whole body is sharp and flying like a sharp sword, full of power.

If the reason for proposing a duel at the beginning was to win for himself and to find a way to go down, then such a long loss made Liu Xianyang realize that the opponent was a real opponent.

He took a deep breath, raised his sword like lightning, and stabbed straight in the chest!

The eyes of the people around were all wide-eyed, Xiao Wu just grabbed Xiao Duan's arm to keep him calm, but now he couldn't help exclaiming: "Be careful!"

However, Qu Changlu changed from his previous style, neither dodging nor dodging, he raised his hand to put on the shelf, and when the two swords met, sparks almost exploded.

And at the moment when Liu Xianyang had no time to retract his strength, the long sword in Qu Chang's hand had already been swiped sharply, and the tip of the sword pressed against the opponent's sword face.

And he took advantage of the power of this poke to turn over from the horse's back in the air, unexpectedly rolled directly from the top of Liu Xianyang's head to behind him, and kicked him in the back.

Liu Xianyang didn't expect his moves to be so unexpected, and in shock, he quickly pressed on the horse's back, turned over and landed on the left side of Qu Changlong.

He did this because Qu Chang negative held the sword in his right hand, and if it fell on the left side, he could guard against the opponent's surprise attack.

But unexpectedly, just as Liu Xianyang's feet landed on the ground, there was a flash in front of his eyes, and he almost hit the sword's edge that shot out with cold light.

It turned out that at the same time as he landed, Qu Chang negative had already calculated Liu Xianyang's position, and threw the long sword out of his hand like a hidden weapon.

Liu Xianyang didn't even have time to think, he hastily lifted his sword up, and placed the blade between his neck and Qu Chang's sword, blocking the attack.

However, just as the crisis in front of him was resolved, a hand suddenly and quietly reached out from behind, pinched Liu Xianyang's sword flatly, and strangled it backwards.

——His own sword was placed on his own neck in an instant.

Standing behind Liu Xianyang, Qu Changlu put one hand on his shoulder and the other pinched the top of his sword, resting it on his neck, said with a slight smile, "Three strokes are enough."

A drop of cold sweat slid down the corner of Liu Xianyang's forehead, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into hoar frost.

Until then, Qu Changying's sword swirled down from mid-air and stuck obliquely in the snow. Xiao Duan went to pick it up, and he also let go.

The surrounding applause was endless.

The soldiers who escorted the food and grass were also skilled in martial arts. They walked a long snowy road and came to find fault with others. They were originally low in morale and flustered, but they didn't expect to see such a wonderful competition, and they suddenly lifted their spirits .

What's more, Qu Zhang is obviously a civil servant.

Qu Chang took over the sword that Xiao Duan returned with both hands, and put it in its sheath: "General Liu, can the spoils be cashed?"

Liu Xianyang was stunned, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. Then, he turned his long sword upside down, pointed the tip of the sword at the ground, bowed to Qu Changyin and saluted, then turned around and led the way without saying a word.

Sure enough, Liu Xianyang was very familiar with this place, and soon led the crowd to find a sheltered and warm valley to rest.

Seeing that the place was already crowded with people, the officer in charge of transporting food came to discuss with Qu Changlu, asking him if he could send half of the people back to the city and the remaining half to stay here to guard the food.

The main reason why they couldn't go down the mountain was the heavy luggage. It's really not necessary for everyone to stay here to suffer from the cold, Qu Chang said: "General, let's decide."

Seeing that he had no objection, after discussing with several grain transportation officers, they divided all the people into two parts, and asked half of them to stay here to guard the grain and grass, while the other part packed lightly, went down the mountain overnight, and led the people again the next morning. Come back to meet everyone.

Xiao Wu felt sorry for Qu Zhang's poor health and wanted to stay here, persuaded: "Master, you should go back first, with Brother Duan and I here, nothing will go wrong."

Qu Chang said: "Yo, then you and your brother Duan are really capable."

Xiao Wu really had nothing to do with him, and his character was not as tough as Xiao Duan, so he had no choice but to sigh: "Master."

Qu Chang said: "Forget it, I'm all here now, and I'll go back and forth in the same way, within a few hours..."

When he said this, he suddenly heard a faint sound from the howling wind outside, so his voice stopped.

Xiao Wu said: "Master, what's the matter?"

Qu Chang put his index finger between his lips and made a "shh" movement.

After a while, Xiao Wu also faintly heard, as if there was a faint laughter coming from nowhere, echoing in the valley.

Listening to it in such a cold night in the mountains is simply chilling.

They were in the valley at the moment, and the side above their heads was the official road, and the location of the laughter seemed to come from their official road.

Between the laughter and the sound of the wind, there are low sighs and the ringing of bells like singing songs.

"Dead...dead..."

The voice became clearer and clearer, and after a while, everyone else heard it, except Qu Changxiang and the others.

At a time when everyone was sleepy and tired, this was really a bit too refreshing. For a while, everyone sat frozen in place, and no one made a sound.

The cold and dark night, like the fear that can be turned into substance, wraps around people, wraps, tightens, and penetrates into the flesh and blood layer by layer.

The voice gradually drifted away again, and it was unclear where it was going, and after a while, Qu Chang's voice sounded: "The people who just left, did they follow the official road or the small road? "

His tone was as calm as before, and his voice was also cold, which made people feel a little calm.

A food transportation official said: "There is thick ice on the official road, but it is much closer. I don't know if they will go..."

Qu Chang said negatively: "Send a group of people to catch up and report a letter. Tell them not to go down the mountain, just walk along the path. The voice just now seems to be some sect is active. As long as you don't confront them, you should be fine."

What he said was an understatement, and everyone felt at ease after hearing this, and immediately sent a fast-footed soldier to chase the leaving team, and the rest rested on the spot.

As a result, in the early morning of the next day, when the sky turned slightly pale, someone came to meet them, but this person was not the army who returned to rest last night, but Jing Qianjiang.

Seeing His Royal Highness King Jing coming in person, the others were flattered and rushed to salute.

Qu Chang negative was startled, and asked, "Why are you here?"

Jing Qianjiang's nose was red from the cold, and he hurriedly put the cloak in his hand on his shoulders: "I still want to ask you, I am not in good health, why did I run out to suffer from the cold? I entered the palace yesterday. Chou Shi only heard that you didn't come back last night, so he hurried up the mountain to find you."

He pulled the collar of the cloak again and again, almost burying Qu Chang's face in the wind on both sides: "Next time something like this happens, you send me a letter, why don't I come here. Otherwise, you will be scared." of."

Qu Chang said: "It's not this, we sent a group of people back to report the news last night, didn't you see them?"

Jing Qianjiang also realized that something was wrong, and his expression became serious: "No. I'm still surprised that I was trapped on the mountain by the wind and snow, why didn't I send someone back to say something."

On the one hand, he felt strange, but at the same time, he was more distressed by Qu Changlu's hard work, and after a moment of pondering, he said: "Okay, you guys transport the food and grass back first, I brought a lot of people, so I will send some people to look for them—maybe I got lost."

He shook Qu Chang's shoulders, and said in a low voice, "I'll follow myself, don't worry, huh?"

Qu Changlu never said it, but he naturally had great trust in Jing Qianjiang's ability in his heart.

However, starting from the laughter last night, the whole thing has taken a very strange direction, even if he is as sure about everything as Qu Chang negative, it is inevitable to feel a little bit of worry.

He paused, but crossed Jingqianjiang and walked to the front first, and said lightly: "If you want to go, let's go together."

Jing Qianjiang followed behind with a sigh: "You can't let me do something about you."

Qu Chang negative slightly turned his lower body back, and said, "Why don't you interpret this behavior as... I care about you?"

Jing Qianjiang was taken aback. Although he knew that his next sentence might hurt him, he couldn't help but take the bait and asked, "Really?"

Qu Chang laughed, and got on his horse: "It's up to you whether it's true or false, let's go."

"Tsk, you really are."

It is also a habit he has developed over the years. The more he feels that something is wrong, the more he will joke with others. Jing Qianjiang is not unaware.

The two of them have faced this kind of unexpected situation together countless times over the years. Jing Qianjiang just followed Qu Changnegative closely, not letting him be left alone, and at the same time paying attention to the surrounding situation.

They searched along the road last night, but they saw that the snow that should have been a vast expanse of whiteness had long been trampled dirty and messy, and the muddy water had turned to ice. Only by wrapping the horseshoes with cloth could they walk on them. Will not slip.

Soon, someone found the sergeant lying on the side of the road - there were so many people last night, but none of them could go back.

They should have been stunned by smoke or something, and they all fell on the side of the road. Although they were not killed by someone, many of them were already stiff because they had been lying in the snow for too long. Dying.

Four or five of them were frail and froze to death.

Most of the people in the food transportation team were ordinary little soldiers. They were not going to fight, they didn't deliver food, and they didn't have anything valuable on them, so no one thought that something wrong could happen to them.

Qu Changlu didn't say anything, and looked around in the snow. Jing Qianjiang had thought carefully and brought a doctor with him. At this time, the rest of the people were busy treating the wounded and counting the number of people.

The other party's hands were very clean, and after a while, Qu Chang negative picked up a few fly ash from a piece of untrodden white snow, and put them in his palm to distinguish carefully.

Jing Qianjiang watched from the side for a while, pulled out the hairpin from his golden crown, and handed it to Qu Changnegative.

Since the fly ash was already soaked, it was hard to distinguish its color and smell, so Qu Changyang took Jing Qianjiang's hairpin and warmed it up on the fire, then picked up the ash and held it to his nose to sniff lightly.

After a while, Qu Chang said: "This fragrance is like the red snake gall used by Nan Rong, and there must be other medicinal materials in it."

Jing Qianjiang said: "Could it be that the Nanrong people did it? But they just formed an alliance with us. If it is not necessary, there is no need to do this. Or someone deliberately used Nanrong Xiang to leave clues to induce discord between the two countries." ?”

Qu Chang said negatively: "If you want to induce discord between the two countries, even killing me is worth more than killing them."

Jing Qianjiang said: "Bah, bah, what are you talking about?"

The two were talking, and the number of dead and the identity of the deceased had been investigated. The subordinates of Jing Qianjiang's palace came to report: "The dead are Chang Hu, Liu Zhao, Wang Jian of Jingji Wei, Li Qiuhe... "

When the name "Li Qiuhe" was mentioned, Qu Changnegative and Jing Qianjiang looked up in surprise at the same time, and said in unison, "Li Qiuhe?"