Pour the glass

Chapter 100. The wind and cold in Xiguan

Ziyuan hardly fell asleep on the small table, not only because the night was as cold as water, but also because of the question that lingered in her heart——

Why did Ah Ling come in such a hurry?I was so anxious that my feet were scratched by thorns without knowing it, and I even forgot that my wounds had not healed.

He clearly told the brothers to take good care of his sister and Ah Ling, but why did Ah Ling come to Baixia Mountain all by himself, and has not received any letters from the brothers in the Imperial Guard camp all night?

Could it be that something big happened to Zui tonight?That's why Ah Ling came here in such a hurry, wanting to end this war quickly and let Qi Ziyuan return to Lin'an earlier?

After much deliberation, Ziyuan simply sat up on the small table, and quietly watched Ah Ling's back by the dim candlelight.

"Ahem..." Ah Ling slept with her back to Zi Yuan, coughing lightly from time to time throughout the night.

Ziyuan got up and walked to the side of the bed, gently tucked the quilt for Ah Ling, and glanced at her frowning brows, Ziyuan knew that riding the horse all the way would hurt her unhealed heart again Pulse, I will definitely not sleep well this night.

A Ling sensed Ziyuan's breath, did not open her eyes, and said coolly: "Why don't you take a good rest, what are you doing by my bed?"

"I heard you coughing all night, how about I come to see you?" Ziyuan said with a smile, "I promised my sister that I will take good care of you and take care of you. If you are not healthy, I will go back to Lin'an and let my sister know. You must blame me." Staring closely at A Ling's face, Ziyuan mentioned Su Zhexue again, trying to see some clues from A Ling's face.

Ah Ling suddenly opened her eyes, but did not look at Zi Yuan, "She...wouldn't blame you anyway..."

Ziyuan's eyes darkened, and she murmured: "But I think she has been blaming me, but I don't know what I did wrong..."

"..." Ah Ling closed her eyes silently, frowned again, and said after a while, "You're right..."

"Then you know why sister..."

"Get some rest!" A-Ling interrupted Ziyuan's question anxiously, "Marching and fighting is no joke, one loses one's mind and loses one's life. I don't want to drag a dead body back."

"..." Changing Ziyuan was silent this time, and the uneasiness in her heart became more and more intense.

In the days of the nine girls of the Xue family in the past, she had already learned how to read words and expressions when she was dealing with merchants. If a person hides something in his heart, and these things he does not want to tell the other party, it is either evasive, out of the question, or Just like Ah Ling in front of me, she doesn't want to continue talking about a topic.

"Ah Ling must know something... but she just doesn't want to tell me..." Ever since Ziyuan remembered that she was the ninth girl of the Xue family, those business tricks belonging to the ninth girl have come back to her bit by bit, subconsciously, Ziyuan I already have a conclusion in my heart.

She took a step back, turned around, did not return to the small table, but walked towards the curtain.

Ah Ling turned over and sat up, and asked suspiciously, "Where are you going?"

Ziyuan turned her head and smiled, "Seeing that it's almost dawn, I'm going to order the guy to prepare breakfast so that everyone can eat and drink enough, and continue on our way." After speaking, Ziyuan seemed to be normal, shrugged with a giggle , "Your Highness, the little one will take good care of you. You can rest for a while, and the little one will bring you breakfast later."

A Ling watched Ziyuan lift the curtain and go out, sighed very low, and said to herself in her heart: "Actually, you are right, smelly girl, and Zhexue is also right. It is only me who is wrong. How can I lose so badly?"

Ziyuan walked out of the tent, and saw the lieutenant general leading troops to patrol the camp from afar, so she walked quickly to the lieutenant general, "How? How many deserters have returned?"

The deputy general took out the roster from his pocket, but saw that the original name written on it had been melted away, "Report to General Qi, two-thirds of it has been returned."

Ziyuan nodded, "It seems that someone really understands my calculation."

The deputy general glanced at the roster hesitantly, "General Qi, is this roster going to be sent to the Shuangzhou Governor's Mansion today?"

Ziyuan smiled slightly, "That's right, of course I have to give it away, and besides that, I need you to help me with one thing."

The lieutenant clasped his fists and said, "But obey the general's order!"

Ziyuan waved her hand to signal the lieutenant to step down and continue patrolling the camp. She pulled the lieutenant back to the gate of the camp alone, and then whispered: "After sending the list of deserters to the Governor's Mansion of Shuangzhou, you should go back to Lin'an quietly. I want to know What happened yesterday tonight?"

"This……"

"After you come back, I will share half of my military salary with you. This deal is profitable. If you don't want to, I believe there will be someone in this battalion who is willing to take an extra military salary." After Zi Yuan finished speaking, she turned around with a slight smile. Go, it seems that I am going to find someone to do this again.

"General Qi, I'll go!"

Ziyuan didn't turn her head back, and when she heard this sentence she had expected, the corner of her mouth twitched quietly, and said indifferently: "Go early and come back early, don't make Yinzi wait too long."

"promise!"

Hearing the lieutenant's footsteps drifting away, not long after, there was a sound of horseshoes galloping eastward, Ziyuan turned around, looked at the lieutenant galloping away, and murmured thoughtfully: "Sister, I hope you are well, And I hope I'm not overthinking it."

To the west of Shuangzhou and to the east of Xizhou, there are two rows of majestic and dangerous mountains. The north is called "Changmo" and the south is called "Lonely Wind".

The last and most important barrier of Dayun——Hanxiguan, is located at the junction of Changmo Mountain and Jifeng Mountain. With the stone walls of the two mountains as the wall, it spans ten miles across and thirty miles deep. .

It is said that in order to dig a pass on the mountain wall, Yun Taizu used a full [-] people, and it took a full ten years to cut through the mountain wall at the junction of the two mountains and pour molten iron along the cave wall for reinforcement.Afterwards, cold iron was extensively collected, and it took three years to build three extremely strong mysterious iron gates for guarding the pass. A gate was set up every ten miles along the pass, so as to prevent the enemy from breaking through an iron gate, they can drive straight in. frost state.

The wind in Xizhou is heavy and the dew is heavy. The three mysterious iron gates of Hanxiguan have experienced the turmoil of Taizu, Taizong, and Emperor Jing. The door is covered with scars and rust everywhere.

The banner at the top of the city was unfurled in the wind, but due to the sun and rain, its original brilliance has long since faded. Looking along the banner at the top of the city, the rocks at the top of the city are extremely damaged, and black blood stains can be seen everywhere. You can see many black spots left by the fire.

With the cold wind blowing, the strong smell of stench and burnt meat permeated here seems to be a little stronger.

The ten-li Hanxi city was stretching and precipitous, and it was clearly a bright day, but the guards of Hanxi Gate were carrying torches and patrolling back and forth, as if they were searching for something terrible.

"Here's another one!"

From time to time, a guard exclaimed, and the surrounding comrades surrounded him with torches, and put the torches to the crevices of the rocks at the same time, burning something into ashes.

"drive!"

Almost non-stop day and night, Ye Lingxi finally saw the outline of Han Xiguan on the seventh day.

"What's this smell? It smells so bad!" Jin Nu couldn't help but said immediately.

Ye Lingxi had smelled this kind of smell before. It was the smell when her aunt Huang was burned in the mysterious Buddhist hall of the National Temple.

"We're afraid we're going to lose this battle." Frowning, Ye Lingxi covered her mouth and nose with one hand, and pulled the reins tightly with the other, stopping the horse.

Generally, burning corpses will not have such a strong smell of blood. The only possibility is that this time the Da Jin attack used Gu insects,

If Da Jin used Gu worms, then Zi Yuan's [-] reinforcements would be a complete joke.

Hearing Ye Lingxi's sudden words, Jin Nu and the twelve palace guards stopped their horses one after another and looked at Ye Lingxi.

"Your Highness, why did you say that?"

Ye Lingxi shook her head ponderously, staring at the outline of Han Xiguan in the distance, worried, "This time the Jin Kingdom is attacking, it's not that I want Dayun to cede land for peace, I'm afraid it's going to destroy my Dayun country." Reining back, Ye Lingxi looked at the way she came, and immediately ordered, "Let's hurry back and tell General Qi to stop marching. I, General Dayun, must not make such unnecessary sacrifices!"

"No... ah!"

One of the palace guards suddenly let out a miserable cry, and suddenly fell headlong to the ground, clutching his chest and writhing on the ground for a moment, then there was no movement.

"This……"

The other eleven palace guards got off their horses one after another, eight guards stood in front of Ye Lingxi and Jin Numa, and the other three carefully drew out their sabers, preparing to approach that colleague to find out.

"Bring them back to Bengong!"

Ye Lingxi cried out suddenly, but it was too late to stop the sudden tragedy.

I saw the backs of the palace guards on the ground beating suddenly and violently. Before the three approaching palace guards could take a step back, hundreds of Gu worms came out of his flesh and blood and attacked the three palace guards violently. guard.

"Hurry up and protect the princess!" Jin Nu hissed loudly.

"Herod—"

The horse hissed in surprise and ran away. The other eight palace guards had no time to grab the reins, so they could only turn their heads and run away subconsciously.

"what--"

The screams began to rise and fall one after another when the worms caught up with one of the palace guards.

Jinnu beat the horse behind, and Ye Lingxi beat the horse in front, urging the horse to escape the sudden danger crazily, but the "buzzing" sound of those Gu insects gradually died down and became louder with the miserable cries of the palace guards .

Not daring to look back at the tragic situation in purgatory at that moment, Ye Lingxi and Jin Nu knew clearly that as long as a bug penetrated into their bodies, their fate today would be no different from that of the twelve palace guards.

"Drive! Drive! Drive!..."

Ye Lingxi's voice was almost hoarse, and Jin Nu could no longer scream, and the buzzing Gu insects that followed like ghosts never left behind them for a moment.

"what!"

"Princess!"

The horse underneath seemed to turn its front hooves suddenly, and it brought Ye Lingxi to the ground and fell to the ground.

Terrified, Jin Nu reined in his horse and jumped off. The moment he helped Ye Lingxi up, he covered her tightly with his body, and said in a horrified voice, "Princess, run!"

"My foot...it hurts..." Ye Lingxi took a step, only to feel a sharp pain rising, she looked at the pain in fear, fearing that the pain at this moment was caused by insects biting her It hit her and was drilling into her body.

"The old slave carried the princess..."

"I'm just afraid... that I won't survive..."

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

Between life and death, I was shocked to hear the sound of the bow and arrow leaving the string, and three flying arrows with clusters of fire came through the air——