Broken Iron Clothes

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At five o'clock in the morning, the twilight rose, and the guards drew down their weapons, preparing to close the heavy city gate.

The door gap was not closed yet, leaving a small path, through which two horses galloped one after the other, stirring up a gust of wind and dust.The guard lost his eyes, turned his head and shouted in the direction of the horse's hooves: "Stop - the curfew is here, someone broke into the city!"

On the other side, a man was stepping on the roof and leaping towards the city gate. When he saw the door closed, he immediately turned around, and a group of people ran after the figure on the roof.

Seeing this, the two riders put on the reins and reined in the horse.

The footsteps of the guards behind him approached, Yuan Mucheng took off the hanging badge with one hand and threw it to the man behind him, saying, "He Xiao, I'll leave it to you."

Yuan Mucheng looked ruthless even though he wasn't wearing armor, he lifted the reins and drove forward.The blood on the battlefield was faintly surging between the man and the horse, and the horses under the saddle dispersed the imperial army team who had no time to turn around, and ran towards the city alone.

He Xiao turned his horse's head and raised his badge towards the guards: "I am Yuzhou Yingxuan and Lieutenant General He Xiao. General Yifei has been called back, who has any doubts?"

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In the courtyard, Jiang Shiqing caressed the rim of the cup with one hand, and tapped the rosary in the other hand on the stone slab. His eyes that were not filled with joy and anger looked carefully at the slapped stone slab, and remained still for a while.

The luminous light shone on the frost robe, which was indifferent and clear, but unexpectedly, the soft sound of the cloud tiles instantly brought out the chill in his eyes.

Jiang Shiqing threw the teacup in his hand towards the hidden place on the roof at some point, and with the crisp sound of broken tiles falling to the ground, a gust of knife wind swept past his ears, Jiang Shiqing bowed his head and turned sideways, then raised his foot and kicked the opponent's hand elbow.

The sharp knife fell, and the elbow of the man in black felt numb. When he turned his head, a palm swept across his face. The man leaned back to avoid it, and swung his numb right hand to block it, but was grabbed.

Jiang Shiqing twisted the man's arm in the opposite direction with all his strength. The man suffered from pain, but his left hand took out the sharp blade from his waist.

The edge of the blade was exposed, Jiang Shiqing pursed his lips and smiled, a cold light was about to appear under his sleeves, but suddenly he felt his waist tighten, and he was actually held back by someone.At the same time, the person who captured him kicked the black-clothed man's abdomen fiercely, causing the man to vomit a mouthful of blood in an instant.

Feeling uneasy, Jiang Shiqing immediately raised his elbow and struck back, but was lightly blocked by the man behind him with his arm. He then turned around and pulled his waist out, and the silver needle under his sleeve flew towards the head of the man in black. Department, from the eyebrows to penetrate.

The man fell to the ground, and Jiang Shiqing saw the appearance of the man clearly.

The two looked at each other under the moonlight. Jiang Shiqing took a closer look at the man. Under the light and shadow, the man's body was tall and straight. .But at a certain moment, the strength and sharpness released from the outside, accompanied by a decisive and murderous aura, invisibly overflowed from the eyes of the person opposite, and soon disappeared.

"My name is Xiao'an, Yuan Mucheng. I am offended by trespassing on my private house." Yuan Mucheng said with a smile, but he never took his eyes off Jiang Shiqing.

Hearing this, Jiang Shiqing also laughed, but there was still ruthlessness in his eyes.

At this moment, Jiang Shiqing's clothes were disheveled, but they unexpectedly added a bit of seductiveness. Yuan Mucheng only thought of the mandala he had seen when he was young. It was beautiful, but evil and poisonous.

"Master!" Xu Guo hurried over, and after seeing the situation in the courtyard, he raised his face vigilantly.

Seeing that he was about to draw his sword, Jiang Shiqing calmly straightened his clothes and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xu Guo also relaxed a bit, and said: "The imperial guards are outside the door, saying that there may be fugitives from the prison department in our house."

Jiang Shiqing glanced at the male corpse and said, "The man is here."

Xu Guo didn't know what to do for a moment: "Then..."

"It looks like he's dead," Yuan Mucheng stepped forward, felt the man's pulse, and said, "I took him away, thank you Yuan for the imperial army..."

Jiang Shiqing continued: "Jiang Shiqing, whose name is Huaichuan."

"Thank you Mr. Jiang, I will take my farewell." Yuan Mucheng made a bow.

Jiang Shiqing nodded: "No."

Hearing this, Yuan Mucheng carried the person and left. Although he dragged the person all the way, he didn't show any difficulty. He followed Xu Guo out of the corridor and walked towards the gate without taking a step.

Looking at the figure of that person walking away, the smile on Jiang Shiqing's face gradually faded.

"...Yuan Mucheng."

He murmured the name he had only heard not long ago, with a smile on his face.

On the other side, Yuan Mucheng had just left the Jiang residence, and Zhou Qisi, the captain of the Forbidden Army, stepped forward and saluted: "I don't know that General Yifei will come back, and the Forbidden Army has arrested important criminals and troubled the general. This is the last general's dereliction of duty."

"Why bother, Captain Zhou still called me a general, why are you being polite?" Yuan Mucheng threw the man in his hand, and several imperial guards picked him up in panic.

"I didn't keep alive, but I can still do business."

Yuan Mucheng stared at the man's brow and said, but he remembered the silver needle that flashed by. He vaguely felt that the people in Yucheng had become more and more difficult in the past few years he was in Yuzhou.

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"The iron clothes are broken on the battlefield of hundreds of battles, and the south of the city has been surrounded..."

Amidst the old and heavy trembling, a military flag was stretched to the north, wrapped in the scorching sun and blood, flying high under the sky.Jiang Shiqing stood under the banner and stared blankly. Amid the sound of the wind, he put a hand on his cheek.

He looked back to the front.

"Father." After a long time, Jiang Shiqing seemed to only call out like this.

A neigh pierced the sky, the blood spattered by the iron hoof splashed on the iron armor, losing its red color, and the sound of soldiers and horses colliding one after another could be heard endlessly.

"I am willing to lay down a million corpses, so that I will not humiliate Dali Rivers and Mountains!" The soldiers shouted during the fight, but their lofty ambitions were trampled on the loess in a blink of an eye.As far as the eye can see, there are corpses everywhere.

Lu Sheng, wearing a hood, just nodded at him, said nothing, turned around and walked towards the battlefield with his long knife in hand.

"Father!"

Jiang Shiqing reached out to grab it, but it was in vain.He seemed to see the man nailed to the ground by several spears in the sea of ​​corpses, just like before, and he didn't say anything to him.

"Funeral—"

Amidst the sound of the funeral, Jiang Shiqing saw the military flag crashing down, mixed with blood and being trampled on.A long knife immediately slashed at his neck.

The coolness hit his heart, Jiang Shiqing woke up suddenly, touched the scar on his neck, but knocked over the cold tea cup on the table.The chill was even worse after the sleeves were soaked in water. He sat up straight and gently shook the water off the clothes, but the window was suddenly broken open.

Holding the handle of the knife, Xu Guo stood up sharply after rolling around on the ground. Seeing Jiang Shiqing glanced at him as usual, he let down his vigilance.

The young man happily scratched his head and walked towards Jiang Shiqing: "Master, I didn't scare you, I heard the sound in the room, and I thought something happened again."

The cold wind entered the room through the window, Jiang Shiqing straightened the teacup, picked up the cloak and draped it over his shoulders, turned around and tapped the boy's forehead with his knuckles jokingly, "Why, jumping out of the window is faster than opening the door, isn't it?" ?”

"It happens to be on the roof, jumping out of the window is really faster, but I can fix this window in a while." After Xu Guohan laughed a few times, he began to look at the person in front of him carefully, "Master, are you all right? I was just negligent. , I don’t dare to be careless this time, maybe it’s a poison attack, but it’s not yet three months..."

Jiang Shiqing responded with a chuckle: "It's okay, you shouldn't be on duty tonight, what are you doing on the roof?"

At this moment, the lights in the house were dim, Jiang Shiqing just woke up from the nightmare, his complexion became even paler, the young man looked up at him, but he was only thinking of the phrase "How beautiful you are", which he learned from the scriptures, and he was distracted for a while. No answer.

"What else can Xu Guo do, it's naturally to reminisce with Gu."

There was such a sound from far away on the roof, Jiang Shiqing then pushed the door out, and a male corpse in night clothes rolled down from the roof and hit him in front of him with a muffled sound.Before he could fully recover from the sword light and blood shadow in the dream, Jiang Shiqing's head began to ache from the bloody smell in front of him. He raised his finger to slightly block his nose, then walked up the corridor and moved to the stone table in the courtyard sat down.

Gu Nanxing walked slowly with a flagon in his hand, and after sitting down, he wiped the blood splattered on the side of his face unrulyly, then raised his head and took another sip of the wine, before saying, "I came all the way through wind and rain, but the result is still not there. After sitting for a long time, I will solve one for you first, it seems that the deputy owner of Yemen Village is not having a good life in Yancheng."

Jiang Shiqing didn't reply, just poured a cup of tea on his own, and when he was about to bring it to his mouth, Gu Nanxing picked up the wine bottle and reached out to touch the rim of his cup.

Jiang Shiqing finally raised his eyes to look at him, and said with a smile, "Vice Zhuang Master Gu doesn't have to kill so ugly next time."

Gu Nanxing shrugged his shoulders: "Our vice-owner Jiang is also a murderous master, so he's even thinking about it."

Then he asked again: "What number is this?"

"After entering the palace, many people stared at it. Except for the one who broke in by mistake just now, this is the first one who dared to do it."

"Xuguo told me that you spent a lot of money to buy this big house as soon as you entered the city, and you didn't shy away from it when you went out. I think you can't wait to post a notice at the door to let everyone in the city know that you are People from Yemenzhuang," Gu Nanxing said, raising his chin to gesture to the male corpse that was being cleaned up, and then teasingly said, "Look, I got what I wanted."

Jiang Shiqing took a sip of tea, and said very lightly: "I'm different from ordinary people, and I can't afford it."

Hearing this, Gu Nanxing suppressed his smile, sat upright and drank his wine in a dull mood.

Ever since he saw Jiang Shiqing pulled back from the brink of death eight years ago, Gu Nanxing understood that the blood condensed in that person was killing him every day and every night. Over time, the deeper the poison, the fewer the attacks.Ordinary people often can't live for a year due to the unbearable pain of poisoning, but Jiang Shiqing has survived for eight years, and his current body seems to be hanging by a breath, and he will not be able to survive at any time.

Jiang Shiqing couldn't bear the cold, so he sat with Gu Nanxing for a while before returning to the house.

When he entered the door, Xu Guo was testing the window he had just repaired. When he saw Jiang Shiqing, he closed the window and said, "Master, it's finished."

Jiang Shiqing nodded, picked up the rosary on the desk, and asked, "Did you find out?"

"Oh," Xu Guo said solemnly, "Yuan Fei General Yuan Mucheng led the battle and killed the leader of the Iron Wolf Army of the Pakistani Wolf Department. The emperor was overjoyed and specially summoned him back to the court. Today he came in because of the curfew. Captured a fugitive."

"General Yifei..." Jiang Shiqing thought for a moment before asking, "Is Yuan Mucheng the youngest son of King Jingping, Yuan Haoxun?"

"Exactly," said Xu Guo, who is fifteen this year, and his height is only around Jiang Shiqing's shoulders, and he has to look up at him when he speaks, "I heard that Yuan Mucheng has been fighting in the north with King Jingping these years, and he is always stationed in the Yuzhou camp. It all happened three or four years ago."

"Well," Jiang Shiqing lightly turned the rosary in his hand, and continued to ask, "Has Yan Lingyong been here today?"

"Mr. Yan sent someone to send a piano. Please listen to the song in the Xiangefang in a day. He also said that this is not an ordinary song. The minister of the Ministry of Rites specially invited the silk and bamboo band from Shengzhou. It will be held at the beginning of next month. The song played on the emperor's birthday banquet. At that time, the master was taking a nap, so I put away the piano first, but I haven't answered it yet."

Jiang Shiqing paused for a while, then sat down in front of the couch, closed his eyes and replied, "Yes, let's spread the news by the way."

"Yes." Seeing that he was about to rest, Xu Guo walked towards the door after speaking, ready to leave.

Just about to close the door, Jiang Shiqing's voice came from inside again: "It's cold, your clothes are a little thinner, you are growing up, take some money yourself and ask Ji Dong to prepare some sets for you."

Xu Guo poked his head in happily, and said, "Thank you, master!"

One day later, Jiang Shiqing was going to go out to accept the invitation. Today he was wearing a light-colored dark suit with simple cloud patterns on his outer shirt, which had nothing to do with blood stains at all.There is a saying that "Fenxiang is weak and lonely", and the seemingly non-existent fatigue makes his tranquility even more calm.

Xu Guo came running leisurely from outside the door, without panting heavily, and said: "Master, I found out, Young Master Wen heard that it was the song that was going to be played on the emperor's birthday banquet, and today he is going to take Paralympic General Yun to sing the song." Fang."

Hearing this, Jiang Shiqing said, "Xuguo, take the qin with you."

"But isn't the master good at playing the piano?" Xu Guo was afraid of saying the wrong thing, and the more he spoke, the more confident he became.

Jiang Shiqing turned the rosary in his hand, walked towards the gate, and replied, "No way."

Xu Guo followed, scratching his head in confusion, "Then why..."

Jiang Shiqing stopped, not knowing what he was staring at. After a while, he said with a smile: "Gamble."

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The author wants to write a real drama, so there are a lot of characters. After that, every time a new character with a relatively large role appears, I will briefly introduce it here. Of course, I won’t talk about spoilers.

New characters in this chapter (except the two protagonists):

Gu Nanxing: The same age as Yuan Mucheng, 25 years old, and Jiang Shiqing (23 years old) are the vice-owners of Yemen Village. Yemen Village is so strange that there are two vice-owners;

Xu Guo: 15 years old, after being rescued by Jiang Shiqing many years ago, she followed him;

He Xiao: 25 years old, deputy general of the Yuzhou Camp, formerly a follower of Yuan Mucheng, and grew up with Yuan Mucheng in Jingping Palace.

Zhou Qisi: 30 years old, captain of the Dudu Mansion.