Spicy rivers and lakes!

Five days later.

The horseshoes of Li Dongqing, Ning and Chen stepped into Berkshire and walked through the original plum blossom forest. In summer, this forest was bare, without the fragrance of flowers, leaving only the aftermath of the war, the smell of rust and rotting meat.

The rivers and lakes died in battle, and no one collected the corpse.The tall mountain gate seemed to have collapsed and became much shorter.

They walked along the way and inquired about the news, but when Huo Huanghe disappeared from the Liaodong and Liaoxi generations, it was indeed when the Battle of Tunbeihai started. After that, no one saw Huo Huanghe in the frontier. You shouldn't have left Tun Beihai at this time.

But when they came, they were a little hesitant. It seemed that no one lived here anymore.

They walked up the high steps, and there were bloodstains dried on the ground under their feet. This was a season full of vitality, but the ground was piled high with fallen leaves, limbs and flesh.

Li Dongqing said: "If you die in the rivers and lakes, you are really dead. No one collects the body, and no one remembers it."

Ning and Chen didn't speak.

Tun Beihai lives by the mountains, with steps winding up the mountain and walking up to the watchtower. Li Dongqing still remembers that there was a pigsty on the side road. Wang Sumin tied General Yan Zhu into the pigsty, and later let him run away. up

At that time Li Dongqing was very reluctant to let Wang Sumin leave her, and told Wang Sumin that if he wanted to leave, he should tell in advance.Even though I said this, I still don't want to accept it in my heart, and I will be separated from my friends one day.But now, there are only him, Ning and Chen.

In this way, Li Dongqing naturally accepted this matter, and also naturally accepted that she could accept the separation.

The mountain tower that swallows the North Sea is right above. As soon as the two of them walked in, they felt a burst of murderous intent. Li Dongqing took a step forward, and the dead leaves were trampled under his feet. He remained calm and glanced behind him. came out from behind.

The three of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw each other.Huo Huanghe had obviously just returned, holding a dead deer in his hand. He had grown a beard, his hair was tied up casually, and two strands of hair fell by his ears, making him look haggard.

Ning Hechen said, "Yangtze River."

Huo Huanghe threw the deer to the door, pushed the door open, the room was dark, light came in, they walked into the inner room, and smelled an unspeakable smell, herbs, carrion, death.

Li Dongqing walked in, behind the screen, Ye Amei was kneeling in front of the bed, Ye Zhize was lying on the bed with his eyes wide open, covered with a thick quilt.

Li Dongqing gently lifted the quilt from his body, and saw that his lower body was almost gone, with carrion sticking to the bones, and Ye Zhize's chest was like a bellows, gasping for breath, and he stared intently.

Seeing them, Ye Amei just nodded.

"Take a step to talk." Li Dongqing said to Huo Huanghe.

Huo Huanghe pointed the way, and they went to the outhouse to chat.

The table was covered with dust, Huo Huanghe didn't even look at it, he sat on it and said, "Where did you come back from?"

Li Dongqing: "The Huns."

"It's so far away, why come back?" Huo Huanghe glanced at Ning Hechen, "What's the use of coming back? In fact, I didn't catch up with them when they came, and it's already like this after I came back. Tun Beihai's century-old foundation is gone. , everyone fled in all directions, fleeing for their lives."

Li Dongqing: "How could this be?"

"How could this be..." Huo Huanghe muttered casually, and then said, "What's the matter with you? I haven't heard from you for a long time, and I didn't know you had left until I came here."

This is the relationship between Ning and Chen and his friends. When life is at stake, they will arrive no matter how far away, but when there is nothing to do, there is no news or even a letter for a year or two.

Ning Hechen said, "A lot of things happened."

"Anyway, I'm not busy right now," Huo Huanghe said calmly, "If we don't talk now, when can we talk?"

Ning and Chen picked up some important things to talk about, picking and picking things that had happened in less than a year, and they finished talking in two or three sentences.

After hearing this, Huo Huanghe said, "I said, why is the kid next to you missing?"

Li Dongqing said: "There is also Wang Sumin."

"Who is that?"

Huo Huanghe forgot about that person again, Li Dongqing said: "Forget it..."

Huo Huanghe really couldn't remember, and then said: "It's just the two of you who are here, come as soon as you come, stay with me for two days, then you can go back and be your prince, and I have to go too."

Ning Hechen asked, "Where's your mother?"

Huo Huanghe said: "They are all dead, everyone."

"Who?"

"I heard from Ye Zhize that only two people came," Huo Huanghe said. "They are retired masters. He didn't name them, but I heard that one is a Taoist kung fu master, and the other is a sword master."

Ning Hechen said, "Chu Duan."

"The one in Maoshan?" Huo Huanghe knew this person, and said, "I guess it's this person too, what about the other one?"

Ning Hechen: "Is it a man or a woman?"

"A man. A boy." Huo Huanghe said.

Ning Hechen: "A rising star, there is no such person in the world."

Huo Huanghe pondered for a moment, then shook his head.

Huo Huanghe also lost a loved one. Although he didn't say anything, although he always hated his family, but it was really gone. This feeling must be different, otherwise he wouldn't have come as soon as he heard the news.Li Dongqing felt that he could feel his haste, which was definitely not a way of judging others by himself.

Li Dongqing said: "Do you want revenge?"

Huo Huanghe was still in a daze, after listening to what he said, it took him a while to react, and said, "Sorry."

Then he said: "I can't beat it."

Li Dongqing heard it very harshly.Can't beat it, and it's a bit too murderous.Li Dongqing couldn't help but said, "Isn't it? There are so many of us."

"Three," Huo Huanghe pointed to them, "Counting Ye Amei, four...no, five."

Li Dongqing froze for a moment, then realized: "Is she pregnant?"

"Yes." Huo Huanghe said, "The man died, but he left a child in his stomach."

These words are slightly sarcastic, but if you listen carefully, you can't tell who you are mocking.

"Xu Feng is dead." Li Dongqing was a little sad.

Huo Huanghe looked indifferent, and said: "He can't even beat Ah Mei, and it's hard not to die."

"Four people, and a child in their belly," Huo Huanghe said, "How do we avenge this revenge?"

Maybe Huo Huanghe has no intention of revenge at all?Li Dongqing thought for a while, but felt it was impossible, he sat down, and said to Huo Huanghe: "What if it's not just for you, but for Tun Beihai's revenge?...If it's for the whole world."

"Then kill Liu Che." Huo Huanghe said, "Trace to the source."

Li Dongqing: "No, the world will be in chaos, it can't be like this."

If Liu Che dies, he doesn't have a crown prince under his knees, and there will be great chaos in the court. Yi Zhixie is eyeing him. If he seizes the Central Plains at this time, it will be completely messed up.Li Dongqing said: "It's just to cut off his minions and save the martial arts in the Central Plains. The Yangtze River, if the rivers and lakes are gone, too many people will have no place to live in the world, just like you."

Huo Huanghe smiled, a bit cruelly.

But what he said was warm. He asked Li Dongqing: "What do you want to do?"

Li Dongqing just said: "Kill."

It is definitely impossible for them to snatch people from Liu Che's hands. If they can't snatch these rebel masters back, they can only kill them.

Li Dongqing said again: "The rivers and lakes are a mess, nothing can be done, if you want to escape from the emperor, you need to get together."

After hearing this, Huo Huanghe turned his head and asked Ning Hechen: "Do you think so too?"

Ning Hechen said: "Yangtze River, ask yourself, don't ask me."

"Me?" Huo Huanghe said, "I'll listen to you, I'm in a mess right now and I want to do a lot."

I want to do a lot, but there's not much I can do. Huo Huanghe is about to be trapped by life. When a hero of his generation said "I can't beat him", Li Dongqing knew that he was also seriously injured.

Ning Hechen: "Kill them and you will be free."

Huo Huanghe was silent.

Li Dongqing has always felt that revenge, who he killed, and you killed him, what kind of words don't make much sense. Deep hatred is like the head held by a singer, how can it be erased just because of one head .But life has come to this moment again, and I suddenly understand that sometimes it is just necessary to kill, have to kill, and killing can solve the problem.

Huo Huanghe's life may really be over after this incident, and he may not be able to get up, so what can he do?

Huo Huanghe said: "You have a big thing to do."

"A little bit," Li Dongqing said, "There is no other way."

Many things happened these days because there is no other way. As long as there are other ways to go in life, it will not be like this, but there is no way, everyone can only do this.

Huo Huanghe thought for a while, went to the door and dragged the dead deer to the kitchen, then peeled off the deer skin with a sword, picked it up and hung it by the window. There was a smell of death in the room, which was very similar to the smell in Ye Zhize's room .Li Dongqing helped him light the fire and put water in the pot. Huo Huanghe dismembered the deer and tore it into large pieces. This was a skinny deer, but the pot still couldn't fit. He put half of it in, and the other half. Throw it on the ground.

Huo Huanghe looked at the fire in the stove, and silently added a few pieces of firewood to it.

Ning Hechen accompanied Ye Amei, Li Dongqing and Huo Huanghe to cook the deer. After cooking for a while, the fishy smell came up. Li Dongqing opened the pot, and then used a spoon to skim off the minced meat on top.

When Li Dongqing was doing this, he suddenly remembered his life in Qilao Village. He lived a very simple life every day, but he was also frightened at that time, always thinking, would one day such a day be the end of his life? was taken away.Later, when it was really taken away, he was not afraid anymore.

Li Dongqing sat back again, and the two of them made a low wooden stool and watched the fire.

Huo Huanghe said: "It has been 140 years since the North Sea was swallowed."

Li Dongqing: "..."

"140," Huo Huanghe said, "How long have you lived?"

Li Dongqing: "Seventeen."

"Well." Huo Huanghe said, "The head of the sect back then was also at your age, and he had just graduated from the sect. At that time, there were no rivers and lakes or martial arts. He was a Confucian student with high martial arts skills, and was excluded by others in the sect. Unable to stay any longer, he left and went all the way south. He stayed in the State of Lu for a while and killed the king for the king, but later he offended the king and fled. Finally, he arrived in Berkshire. The squire killed him, and the government hunted him down, so he hid on this mountain."

Huo Huanghe continued: "The people in Berkshire regarded him as a hero and gave him food and drinks. After raising him for more than a month, the patriarch said, 'Send your children up the mountain, and I will teach them kung fu. When they learn If I can protect the local women and children, I will leave."

Li Dongqing said: "The great chivalrous man."

"Yes," Huo Huanghe paused, calmed down his emotions, and continued calmly, "The patriarch taught a group of apprentices, and in the end only two of them became teachers. After ten years of teaching, one of the apprentices went down the mountain. The one who didn't leave was my great-grandfather."

"Back when Gaozu said that it was a good thing to give martial arts people a way out," Huo Huanghe said, "it included the people of the world. The story of my ancestor and master is a good story in the world, and the people of Jianghu can protect the world. of the people."

But now, the first sect to die is Tun Beihai.

Huo Huanghe said: "It's not easy to get to this place today."

Ye Zhize broke up his wife and children, and made his two children hate him to the bone, why?He put all his heart on the sect, and he wanted to make Tun Beihai flourish.His whole life was tied to Tun Beihai, and he just broke up, and was easily broken up by two people.

Li Dongqing couldn't say anything, there was nothing to comfort him.

Huo Huanghe said: "At first, I thought that if we broke up, we would break up, but then I thought about it again, we can break up, but we can't break up like this."

Li Dongqing listened more to him. Huo Huanghe is not a good talker, but he said a lot today. He may have been holding back for a few days, and he couldn't talk to Ye Amei, and he couldn't talk to himself. Today he can finally Say it and listen to yourself.

Li Dongqing is always speechless when others encounter painful things, because he has also come out of that kind of day, and he knows that what others say is useless.No matter what they said, he could feel the lightness and indifference of what they said from another angle.

Li Dongqing thought: "We can't let this happen again."

They waited for a long time, and when the venison was cooked, Li Dongqing stood up and went to get a big basin, picked up the meat and put it in, picked it up, and took it to the room.

Huo Huanghe walked in after him, Li Dongqing carried the basin all the way into Ye Zhize's room and put it on the table.

Ye Amei said: "Father, let's eat something."

Ye Zhize didn't respond.

Ning Hechen said, "Can't you eat this?"

"Within a hundred miles, there is no one to sell rice," Huo Huanghe said, "Only this one."

Ning Hechen took a look at the venison, Ye Amei picked up a leg bone, tore off two pieces of meat carefully, and put it near Ye Zhize's mouth, Ye Zhize didn't even open his mouth.

Ye Amei pulled his mouth away, put it in, and held his chin to let him send it down his throat.Feed for a while.

After feeding a leg bone, Huo Huanghe said, "Go out for a while."

Ye Amei looked up at him, mournful.

Huo Huanghe said: "Go out."

Ye Amei probably knew what he was going to do, but she couldn't do anything about it.She squeezed Ye Zhize's hand again, tears welled up in her eyes, and she rolled down rustlingly. She took a breath and let herself stand up, but Ye Zhize never responded.

Li Dongqing said: "I'll accompany you out for a while."

"No need." Ye Amei said, and then walked out by herself.

Huo Huanghe pursed his lips tightly, looked at Ye Zhize, and didn't speak for a while, but this silence should be waited for, there is nothing wrong with it.

Li Dongqing stood a little close to the pot of meat, smelling the overcooked venison, feeling a little sick.

Huo Huanghe said: "Avenge you, don't worry."

Ye Zhize closed his eyes.

With this closure, Huo Huanghe's emotions were aroused, and he suddenly felt pain.

Huo Huanghe said: "Do you still have a last wish?"

A drop of tears flowed from Ye Zhize's eyes, running down the lines at the corners of his eyes, but they disappeared within two steps and did not fall.

"I was born into the Ye family," Huo Huanghe said, "I have nothing to be sad about, it's my luck. In the next life, don't drag anyone down."

This may be the most sincere thing Huo Huanghe can say. He has indeed lived a life that he dare not imagine. In the past, Ye Zhize treated him badly and made him miserable. Huo Huanghe left home when he was young, but for his son, for a man , He also did what the Jianghu people should do.The two can only say that they owe each other nothing.

Huo Huanghe drew his sword, and there was a crisp sound, Li Dongqing raised his heart.

Ye Zhize let out a painful cry from his throat: "Hey——"

Then his eyes widened again, suddenly about to explode, Huo Huanghe suddenly pierced his throat with a sword, leaving him on this bed forever.Blood spattered three feet high.

Li Dongqing's heart was crushed, and he pinched it again. He kicked the pot of meat over.