Xixia, Xiliang Army.
The military adviser looked at the news sent by the envoy of the Liao Kingdom: "The prefect of Hexi has died, and the generals of the Hexi Army, General Mu and Deputy General Shi, have died..."
The chief general sat on the commander's seat, frowned and said impatiently: "So what, Yelu Ruyu has passed this news to us, so we have to send troops happily?"
The military adviser gently persuaded: "General, please take a closer look." He pointed out carefully, "Of course it's no big deal for these people to die. There are so many people in Song Dynasty, and someone can take the top. But look here, How did Deputy General Shi die? He died in the prison guarded by the Hexi Army himself! What does this mean?"
The chief general pondered for a while, then slowly loosened his brows, and clapped his hands happily: "This shows that the morale of Hexi's army has been broken by these generals themselves! That's good!"
Hexi Army, the wild wolf left by Pang Tong.
The mouth of the wild wolf finally began to aim at the sheep in its pen.
So what if it was a black sheep?Which wolf will continue to shrink its paws to be its obedient shepherd dog after tasting the sheep, and put away the wild ones that have already opened up?
The military adviser who had been fighting the battle gave another shot: "Pang Tong is coming, whether we raise our troops or not, he will go back to Hexi again. If we don't start early at this time, do we have to wait for Pang Tong to return to Hexi? Rectified the pack of wild wolves and waited for the pack of wild wolves to point their mouths at us again?! Then you will never have a chance to take down Hexi!"
The military division said with a heavy tone: "The lord has scolded me more than once. General, do you want to live until the day when the lord abolishes his military power and 'retires his old age and returns home'? General, this is an opportunity that is once in a thousand years. What a great opportunity!"
"You're right! Hahahaha, Aman, my good Aman, I really can't do without you!" The coach laughed and slapped the armrest hard, stood up, and took a few steps forward, "Command Soldiers, come! Give the order, the whole army!"
The coach who was determined to break the boat did not see the treacherous look in the eyes of a worried military adviser behind him.
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In the dream, Bai Yutang returned to the day when he was awakened by the shadow man.
When he opened his eyes on the bed wearing blood-stained clothes, he suddenly realized something.
I seem to have lost my memory.
His memory of the past was blank, he didn't remember who he was, and he didn't remember why he was here, only the group of men in black dangling in front of him, chattering to him words he couldn't understand.
Looking out of the window through these figures, it is a clean and white world.
The clear, untainted white snow is thickly covered on the ground, on the treetops, and on the steps.The clear sunlight reflected on the snow, like a beautiful jade.
His empty head suddenly remembered a name: Bai Yutang.
Then there was a vague, dangling red figure.
But those people who were making noise in his ears were too noisy, every time he caught a little bit of the figure in the red dress, the noise would disperse the redness in the white snow all over the sky.
So the irritable Bai Yutang jumped up from the bed with bloodshot eyes in his black eyes, and beat up the group of noisy men in black despite his serious injuries that had not yet healed.
The people in black who called themselves Shadowmen retreated with their broken legs and broken arms.
Leaving Bai Yutang behind, he slowly walked out of the house, looking up at the snow-covered sky surrounding him.
At first, there were quite a lot of people who came to his house, and they came quite frequently, but after being beaten more, there were fewer people.When the snow that had lasted for an unknown amount of time finally stopped, someone knocked on his door and told him, "It's time to work."
A man's mouth is soft, but his hands are short.
Bai Yutang thought for a while, then took his steel knife and white clothes and went to "work" with the shadow man.He didn't know what kind of "job" it was until he got there.
Violent beatings didn't seem to be able to stop this group of annoying guys. Bai Yutang was gradually marginalized by his "companions". When they were "working", Bai Yutang was dismissed and asked to go out to do some terrain exploration and collect supplies Things like that, the good name is that as a team leader, you should do this kind of easy work that is neither tiring nor dirty.
But no matter how you avoid this kind of thing, it is impossible to completely avoid it.
In the end, Bai Yutang still intervened.
Then, with the first time, there will be the second time.
When he carried Master Mei's bloody body and threw it into the yamen, what he thought in his mind was: Should he go back to Guangshan City?Those black shadows now looked at him with a kind of hatred and anger like a traitor. ... Otherwise, why not talk to the people in the yamen?
When he was thinking this way, someone suddenly called his name: "Yutang!"
Bai Yutang turned around reflexively and left.
He didn't know why he had to leave.Obviously he was the one who saved people, but fled like a shameless mouse.
Before Bai Yutang's eyes flashed the ghost-like face and those dark eyes that he saw in the bronze mirror when he washed every day, and he didn't want to stop his light work.
"Yutang! Don't run away! I can already see your face!" the man behind shouted angrily.
...have seen it?Bai Yutang ran forward for a few more miles before he realized what the person behind him said.
So he stopped, turned around, and saw a cluster of burning red flames in his sight.
The person's eyes were wide open, like an annoyed cat whose dried fish was suddenly snatched away.
Seeing that Bai Yutang had stopped running, the visitor rushed forward and grabbed Bai Yutang: "Yutang! You're not dead! I caught you!" The man looked like a cat afraid of being left behind, with two paws Clutching his sleeves tightly, he couldn't help but smile with great joy on his face, and kept saying in surprise, "I caught you! I found you!"
The obviously extremely upright dark red official uniform, reflected in Bai Yutang's eyes, inexplicably burned into a vivid and bright red in the sudden lighted smile of the visitor, like the first flower in spring. The blooming flower buds carry a vigor that makes people bright and happy physically and mentally.
Bai Yutang suddenly remembered a dream he had repeated every night since he woke up.
The sky is full of white snow, thousands of trees and flowers, and the red and fiery shadows blowing in the wind.
Bai Yutang didn't know where the feeling came from, but he felt that the person in front of him should be very intelligent, quick-witted, and extremely reliable.
So he didn't open the man's hand that was about to touch his face, but lowered his face slightly and pointed to the stone on the ground.
His throat seemed to be seriously injured, and he couldn't speak since he woke up, so he could only gesture like this.
Bai Yutang was slightly taller than the boy in red, and when he lowered his face slightly, he was able to catch the boy's upright face in his eyes.
At the beginning, he still remembered to give the boy in red a hint, pointing at the stone, but the boy in red raised his head to look at him from such an appropriate angle, and his facial features were so pleasing to the eye, as if every inch of his face, every ups and downs, Light and darkness everywhere follow his heart.As Bai Yutang looked at it, he forgot why he was here and what he was doing.
The young man in red looked at him stupidly: "Uh, Yutang?"
Bai Yutang regained his senses from the momentary fascination just now, his eyes quickly avoided the face of the boy in red as if shocked, and forced himself to look down at the stone he was pointing at.
The young man in red looked in the direction of Bai Yutang's finger, looked at it for a long time, raised his head, and there was a hint of confusion in his seemingly clever round eyes: "Uh... what?"
Bai Yutang: "..."
He picked up the stone angrily, and hit the boy in red on the face: What the hell is that intuition, this idiot is so smart!
What is pleasing to the eye, everything is grown according to his wishes, it is all an illusion, an illusion!This idiot must have some magic tricks that confused him!
"... Yutang!"
"Yutang! Wake up!"
Listen, the fool is calling his name again.
Bai Yutang stood in the boundless white snow, watching those memories belonging to the shadow people dissipate little by little, just like watching the red figure dissipate little by little in his dreams every night.
He knew that he was going to wake up again and lose these memories again.
But this time, he didn't intend to try to persuade him to stay.
Because in the bottom of his heart, he knew that he no longer had to dream about that illusory, elusive red figure all night long.The empty place that had been erased by people has been refilled by a real red figure right next to him.
It was the one, the one he dreamed about every night, and he had finally found it.
He just wanted to wake up quickly, and there was only one wish in his mind.
... I hope that when he wakes up, he can still remember to beat up that fool!
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"...Yutang, Yutang!" Zhan Zhao called Bai Yutang from the carriage for a long time, but Bai Yutang didn't seem to open his eyes in the slightest.You can only see the eyes rolling slightly under the thin eyelids of the other party.
After reuniting with Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce, Zhan Zhao carried Bai Yutang back to the carriage.Now, everyone was crowded into the same carriage, with several pairs of eyes staring at the unconscious Bai Yutang.
Bai Yutang's eyes were tightly closed, and the bluish-black bloodshot spots on his handsome face gradually disappeared a little because he no longer circulated his internal energy.
Zhan Zhao anxiously urged Mo Qi repeatedly, as if he could wake up the doctor Bai Yutang by asking a few more questions: "Daoist, didn't you wake up just by shouting?"
Mo Qi leaned over and looked at Bai Yutang's rolling eyes: "He is probably dreaming now, and he will wake up if he shouts again."
"Okay." Zhan Zhao turned his head and continued to stare at Bai Yutang, "Yutang, Yu——ouch!"
Bai Yutang opened his eyes suddenly, without getting up, he stretched out his fist and hit Zhan Zhao.
Zhan Zhao covered his right eye and began to cry again: "Why did you hit my eye again!"
Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao vigilantly, and sat up straight with his hands, leaning his back against the wall of the carriage.He opened his mouth, but only made a few hoarse sounds.
Zhan Zhao's heart ached to death: "Don't talk, the Taoist priest said that your vocal cords are damaged, and it will take half a year to heal..." When he said this, he realized that Bai Yutang looked at him with completely unfamiliar eyes, " You, don't you remember me?"
Zhan Zhao recalled what the Taoist priest said that Bai Yutang might not be able to recover his memory, he froze for a moment, and said unwillingly, "Do you really not remember me? My name is Zhan Zhao," he shook the giant que in his hand, "This is Juque. You still threw stones at me yesterday."
Bai Yutang's eyes became more vigilant, and there was a hint of irritability in his expression.
His eyes were washed away by the shadow man's medicine, and he returned to normal, but this temper was caused by a brain injury, and even he couldn't restrain it.
Mo Qi reminded Zhan Zhao: "His medicine has been washed away, and his memory after being awakened by the shadow man will also disappear."
It is equivalent to saying that Bai Yutang's current memory is basically blank.
Zhan Zhao felt even more distressed and couldn't breathe.It can be said that the famous hero Nan Xia Zhan Xiong Feizhan, he has a tough heart (I'm afraid only he thinks so), and now his heart softens into a puddle of water: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay if you don't remember, I just remember .My name is Zhan Zhao, your name is Bai Yutang, we are all Baoxiang's bodyguards." Zhan Zhao lied without changing his face.
Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce looked at Zhan Zhao with shocked eyes at the same time.
Gong Jiu, who was sitting lazily with her head down, also raised her head involuntarily, casting a strange look at Zhan Zhao.
Seeing your big eyebrows and big eyes, I didn't expect you to tell such a lie?
Chinchilla Bai Yutang Bai Shaoxia has always been unrestrained and free-spirited, when did he serve as Bao Zheng's guard?
However, Bai Yutang, who once again lost all his memories, once again made a comeback with his instinctive feeling that he suffered a dark loss.
He looked at Zhan Zhao with a sincere face in front of him: This person seems very reliable.
Thinking about it this way, I felt that the punch Zhan Zhao just gave seemed a little too much.
Zhan Zhao didn't care about the punch either—at least he didn't cry this time—he immediately introduced the people on the carriage one by one to Bai Yutang who seemed to have calmed down. The words summed it up earnestly: "...Although you have forgotten, it is your responsibility to protect Master Bao's safety. You can't stop doing it just because you forgot."
Bai Yutang, who couldn't remember anything, nodded hesitantly: "..."
Trust your instincts, you should... right?This person should not lie to me.
...Although it feels like something is wrong...
Bao Zheng watched his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, and sat as calm as a mountain, just pretending that he didn't see all this happening.If Zhan Zhao can really trick Bai Yutang, who has lost his memory, to be his bodyguard, it will be a good thing for him and Bai Yutang.
Bao Zheng turned his head and asked Mo Qi: "Master Daoist, are all those shadow people dead? No one left alive?"
Mo Qi nodded: "Flesh and blood have withered and turned into ashes, there is no possibility of saving them. The people who came here were all dead men, and they committed suicide by taking poison before they were stunned by me and the Ninth Young Master. It was my carelessness..."
Gongsun Ce shook his head: "How can you blame the Taoist priest? No one thought that they would have such a poisonous medicine."
As long as the flesh and blood are not turned into ashes, and there is still a glimmer of life left, Mo Qi can be saved.No matter how bad it is, it can be forced to drag on for a month and a half.But if there are only a pile of bones left, then Hua Tuo is still alive, and there is nothing he can do.
Gongsun Ce was silent for a moment, unable to explain his worries: "From Yumenguan to Hexi, the shadow people have been collecting rare treasures in the world, and before that, they already have the magic medicine that can almost revive the dead, flesh and bones, to control those The person chosen by them. In today's battle, the poison used by these dead men is so terrible..."
Gongsun Ce sighed: "I don't know if they had been doing this in secret before we discovered their existence. If they have been secretly collecting rare treasures in the world, what have they found all these years? What are they trying to do with this collection?"
"The shadow people in Hexi are dead, and once the clues are broken, I don't know when the next time I want to touch their feet." Bao Zheng also had a heavy heart: "No matter what they want to plot, they will definitely let them go." Now the stable Song Dynasty is facing a big storm."
The carriage galloped all the way and rushed back to the government office.
The car stopped in front of the government office.Mo Qi, who was sitting on the farthest side, opened the curtain and was about to get out of the carriage, when he saw Yelu Ruyu who was walking back swayingly.
Mo Qi casually greeted him politely: "Seventh prince, did you see the person you were waiting for?"
"Not today." Yelu Ruyu smiled and said firmly, "But soon, we will see you again."
Holding a few dandelions in his hand, he blew gently: "Because... the wind has already spread my voice."
As soon as the dandelions were blown away, they were swept away by the cold winter wind in Hexi.
Daoist Mo: "...?"
He looked at the dandelions flying in the sky in confusion.
Mo Qi is not an arty person.
Just like he would never hold a folding fan in the winter like Gong Jiu and Yelu Ruyu, nor would he try his best to give his beloved horse a name that is even slightly acceptable, let alone be a big man , nothing to do, holding a handful of dandelions in his hand, blowing against the north wind.
He just heard a sentence: The wind has already carried my voice out.
Mo Qi, who doesn't know what is called fan'er and what is called being elegant, is instantly lost in the confusion of what this sentence has to do with dandelions, and whether Yelu Ruyu is implying something.
Dandelions have always only bloomed from April to October, and now Hexi is in the coldest February, so where do we get dandelions?Yelu Ruyu specially found this object and showed it to herself, what exactly was she trying to say?Mo Qi thought carefully.
Yazheng is as serious as Mo Daochang, and he would never have thought that someone would be so bored as to make the flowers in June bloom in February in order to add elegance.
"Master Bao, Master Bao!"
While Mo Qi was thinking, a group of people quickly ran out from the other end of the street, shouting anxiously and rushing towards the carriage.
Mo Qi gave way to the side, Bao Zheng leaned out and looked at the source of the sound, the leader was the head of the Hexi Prison: "What's the matter in such a hurry?"
"Master Bao, Mr. Bao, hoo! Mr. Bao is not good!" The prison chief stopped by the carriage, panting on the ground with his knees propped up, his words were incoherent, obviously he came all the way from the prison , He said anxiously: "Master Bao, when you were leaving—huh—someone sneaked into the prison and killed Deputy General Shi!"
Bao Zheng: "What?!"
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"The Hexi Prison is guarded by jailers outside and guarded by the Hexi Army inside. With so many people, how could Vice General Shi die under his nose?!" Bao Zheng stood in Vice General Shi's cell, his face as black as ink. , The anger was like thunder.
In the cell, almost every inch of the ground and every inch of the wall was stained with blood, which was completely messed up by the perpetrators.Many bloodstains can still be vaguely distinguished, and the overlapping bloodstains on the border seem to be left by someone who was pinned on the ground or wall and kept struggling and rolling.
"Alas... I didn't expect that the son's word would be a prophecy." Gongsun Ce stood up from the unsightly corpse of Deputy General Shi, and looked around the blood-soaked cell.
This time, Deputy General Shi suffered all this alive.
The assailant stuffed it directly into the mouth of Deputy General Shi. Even if he was already dead, it is not difficult to see from the stiff and ferocious face of Deputy General Shi what kind of torture he endured during his lifetime.
"Master Mei hasn't woken up?" Bao Zheng stood in a pool of blood and asked the chief servant of the government office who followed him.
The manager's expression was a little apprehensive, the scene was too much for him to bear: "If you want to return to Baoxiang, no." He said cautiously, "Master Mei had a fever once in the middle, we followed the prescription given by Mr. Gongsun, I made medicine for him, and it took a lot of time to feed him. From the time you left to the time you came back, there have never been three people in Master Mei's room."
"The murderer that Deputy General Shi said is Master Mei is nonsense." Bao Zheng pondered, "But besides him, who else can enter and leave the prefect's office, the Hexi military camp, and the Hexi army at will? Guarded prison?"
Zhan Zhao hurriedly walked into the cell: "Lord Bao, the Hexi Army guards have interrogated them, and they all said that they didn't see a single figure."
"Are you kidding? Could it be that the murderer is an invisible person?" Gong Jiu snorted coldly, "They must know!"
Looking at the blood-stained Mo Qi with lowered eyelids, he raised his head: "Have you found the flower general?"
Bao Zheng: "No." He looked at Mo Qi, "Why did the Taoist priest ask such a question? Do you suspect the flower general?"
Mo Qi nodded: "It's impossible for the young man to enter these three places, and ordinary soldiers and guards can't enter and leave the barracks at will. Only the flower general, as the messenger of General Mu, can follow General Mu to contact Tao Zhifu. General Mu is the closest person. He was originally a soldier of the Hexi Army, and Hexi is not as good as other places. The soldiers are tough and jealous, and they will shield the flower general, allowing him to avenge the tortured brothers in the army. "
The prison's small iron window was suddenly knocked several times.
"master."
Gong Jiu raised his eyes: "How?"
The subordinates outside the window respectfully said: "You and Daoist Mo asked us to investigate earlier. We have found out the origins of General Hua and General Mu. Before coming to Hexi, these two were in the Yunnan Army. Jiang is already 'in the same place' with General Mu. Hua Wei is the son of Miao Nv, and we checked the identity of Miao Nv again, she is a Gu Master."
Bao Zheng looked at Mo Qi and Gong Jiu with a hint of admiration: "It turns out that Daoist Mo and the son had doubts for a long time."
Zhan Zhao said with a smile: "Actually, Lord Bao asked me to investigate this matter after the trial of Deputy General Shi, but this was delayed by the matter of Yutang..." Zhan Zhao scratched his face in embarrassment, and suddenly realized that his This time it was a bit of a waste of public affairs for personal reasons and dereliction of duty.
Fortunately, Bao Zheng didn't intend to blame him, on the contrary, he thought Zhan Zhao's kind and righteous appearance couldn't be better.Young people should look like young people, and Bao Zheng felt that Mo Qi was a little too harsh on him for someone as mature and introverted as Mo Daochang.
Gong Jiu: "After the death of General Mu, we knew that the murderer could never be those helpless young men in the Nanfeng Hall. However, there were too many soldiers in the Hexi Army. A murderer is like finding a needle in a haystack."
"But when Deputy General Shi mentioned the matter of Yunnan, we suddenly remembered another key point."
"It's okay for Tao Zhifu to say that General Mu, as the commander-in-chief of the Hexi Army, even if he is not a person who practiced martial arts, he is definitely not someone who can be killed at will. The perpetrators are either more skilled than General Mu, or have Some kind of means to control General Mu..."
"When mentioning Yunnan, the first thing that comes to mind is Gu."
Bai Yutang, who was following Zhan Zhao, rolled his eyes casually, staring at the spiders spinning webs on the ceiling in a daze, not wanting to turn his head.
He can't think for a long time, otherwise his head will be extremely painful, and his mood will immediately become irritable.The doctor (Daozhang Mo) said that the black blood on his body has not faded away, which means that the old wound has not healed, and if the old wound has not healed for a day, he has to endure a day without losing his temper.
Bai Yutang felt that it was better to let his mind go, and it would be easier to be a decoration that followed Zhan Zhao.Anyway, as long as he endured this kind of life for more than half a year, his old wounds would be healed.The right is to just idle around and concentrate on enjoying the first half of the year.
Zhan Zhao said happily to Gong Jiu: "Lord Bao said the same thing! It really is a hero who sees the same thing."
While talking, he did not forget to secretly reach back to grab Bai Yutang's sleeve.
Zhan Zhao was still a little uneasy, always feeling that this might be a particularly real dream, and he would wake up from the dream after a while, and when he opened his eyes, such a big jade hall disappeared again.
Bai Yutang continued to let his mind go, and Sui Zhanzhao pulled his sleeves.
Gongsun Ce worried: "It's just that the murderer is Hua Jiang... We don't know where he is at this moment. Then where should we go to catch him?"
Bao Zheng: "Temporarily imprison the Hexi soldiers who are guarding the prison. There may be people who are familiar with Huajiang, so they can incite everyone to condone Huajiang's murder. Interrogate these Hexi soldiers one by one, maybe someone knows where Huajiang is going. gone."
Zhan Zhao shook his head with a complex expression: "I'm afraid there is no need to provoke."
When he and Bai Yutang went to interrogate, none of the Hexi soldiers had a trace of regret or guilt in their eyes, only hatred and pleasure that almost devoured people, and each pair of wolf-like eyes showed a cold scorn.
Scholars can be killed, but not humiliated.The Hexi army can die from the enemy's sword, but must not die from humiliation.
Someone who dared to humiliate this wild wolf of the Hexi Army, died at the mouth of a wolf, and he deserved it!
"That's all." Bao Zheng also realized this, and he let out a long sigh, "This is tit for tat!"
"But we can't let this wild wolf be more confused. No one can be above the law. No matter how Vice General Shi deserves his crime, and no matter how happy the general's actions are, killing people is killing people, and breaking the law is still breaking the law." Bao Zheng stepped into the bloody prison cell, "I'll go and ask myself."
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Xiliang army, general camp.
The master took off his brocade robe and jade robe with a solemn face, and changed into his wartime attire.Before putting on the armor, a pair of white and slender hands suddenly stretched out from under his quilt: "The general is going out, why don't you allow the slave to cheer for the general first?"
The chief general was startled, and stretched out his hand to pull out those wrists: "Who is it?!"
The exposed chest of the man inside was different from that of ordinary men, and had a slightly raised curvature: "The military master asked the slave to come here."
"Huh? It's a strange person?" The chief general's face, which was still tense, suddenly couldn't, showing an expression of interest, "Are you sent by the military advisor?"
"Yes..." The man with a pretty face, like a charming girl, approached the general gently, and where the general could not see, Gu worms smaller than ants crawled along the man's fingertips to the general. on the wrist.
The general, who has always been a vegetarian, approached the handsome man with a smile, and was about to say something flirtatious, when he froze all of a sudden.
With a smile on his face, Hua Jiang lifted the quilt and stood barefoot on the ground.
Only then did the chief general discover that the skin of the man's body, which had been hiding under the quilt, was all purple and slightly swollen, and there were tiny black worm spots crawling around under the skin, like a corpse crawling out of a cemetery.
Hua Jiang casually wiped off his itchy nose because of the powder, and rubbed a patch of bruised skin: "I heard that the general wants to fight?"
The general couldn't utter a word at all.He stared at his nose in fear, seeing the fine Gu worms crawling all over his body.
"I heard that it's better for the general to use strange things to cheer up this matter?" Hua Jiang put on the clothes beside him.
There was a bit of sadness and pity on his face, but more of a cold excitement: "Then I will have a good time with the general."
Standing outside the camp, the military division stretched out his hand to flap the curtain: "Remember to keep your voice down, the master didn't intend to let you die here just by giving you the milk fruit. Kill it first and then talk about it."
The general's eyes were gently covered with his hands.
The cold blade cut his throat.
After a moment.
Wearing the clothes of Xixia soldiers, Hua Jiang lifted the head of the chief general and walked out, with a trace of satisfaction on his blood-stained face.
The military adviser gave him a cold look: "Hexi City, Hexi Bakery, the master is waiting for you there. Take the box and put it on, and someone will take you out later." He forcefully picked up the head of the chief general and put it in the box.
Hua Jiang's attitude was even more indifferent than that of a military adviser: "I have no intention of going to see your master. I am from the Song Dynasty, and even if I die, I will die on the soil of the Song Dynasty." He lowered his head and touched the carved wooden box, "I want to to surrender himself."
"It's up to you." The military division turned and left without paying attention.
Before leaving, he left a sentence: "But you will see the master sooner or later."
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The corpse of the flower general was seen by the sweeping yamen servant at the gate of the government yamen in the early morning.The body was bruised and swollen, and it was almost impossible to see Hua Jiang's beautiful face.
"That's right, it's indeed Hua Jiang." Gongsun Ce carefully identified the corpse, "Looking at it like this, he died of poison?"
Gongsun Ce opened the collar of the flower general, and looked at the slightly raised curve of the man's chest in surprise: "This - the flower general is also a stranger?"
He was a little confused.
Speaking of aliens and poisoning, it is inevitable that the poison of milk fruit will come to mind.But for those men who were poisoned by the milk fruit, the breast swelling was much more serious than Huajiang, and the abdomen would also bulge due to flatulence.
Hua Jiang's situation is different from theirs. Could it be that he was a natural alien who was poisoned to death by ordinary poison?
"Master Gongsun, there are these two things beside the corpse." The yamen servant handed the box and a letter that he had been holding to Gongsun.
Zhan Zhao yawned, put his shoulders on Bai Yutang's body for strength: "What is this box for?"
Bao Zheng opened the box, his expression changed slightly: "This is it!"
A terrified head stared at him in the box, with a look of reluctance to die.
Gong Jiu gave the head a look: "Isn't this the chief general of Xixia stationed in Xilianghe? The one who beat Pang Tong so much that Pang Tong slapped his ass and left without daring to raise his troops?"
He stretched out his hand and slowly brushed the white fluff around his neck, and pretended not to care, he glanced at Mo Qi, and he really saw the other party staring at him.
To be precise, he was staring at the collar of his fluffy fur coat.
Gong Jiu realized from the moment she put on this fur coat with a fine fur collar that Mo Qi seemed to have no resistance to such furry things.
In the past, the time that the other party stayed on him was pitifully small, and most of them turned away in a hurry after meeting their eyes.Where would it be like now?
According to his observation during this period, sometimes Mo Qi's eyes follow the fluffy fur collar on his shoulder almost uncontrollably.Sometimes after meeting eyes with him, I would be stunned for a while, showing an expression that wanted to get closer, but restrained in time.
Gong Jiu seemed to take a few steps forward naturally.
Mo Qi lowered his head to look at Gong Jiu, who was approaching intentionally or unintentionally, and the other party's soft and warm fur collar brushed over his shoulder inadvertently, like the fluffy tail of a snow fox, brushing over his shoulder .
He couldn't stop thinking about the little furry guys back home.
Sometimes when he was cultivating his mind in the ice pool, those snow foxes with pink and tender paw pads would whimper and gather around him, patting his body exposed outside the ice pool with their claws, anxiously using big Its fluffy tail swept him, as if afraid the Twoleg would freeze itself to death.
Those furs looked snow-white, like a tuft of cold fresh snow, but actually rubbed against his shoulders, but they were unexpectedly warm.
At this time, if he reaches out to grab the snow fox's paw and rubs it, the anxious snow foxes will not struggle, they will just rush to him, trying to fish him out of the ice pool, and hold him together. With a small body, the warm fur rubbed against his cold body.
Mo Qi thought dazedly, he hadn't seen those little guys for five years.I don't know if without him in the ice pool, those little things can still find food in the snow-covered mountains?
Gongsun Ce's voice drew back Mo Qi's free attention: "...This letter is Hua Jiang's confession?"
Gongsun Ce passed the letter after reading it to everyone to read: "General Hua has already admitted in the letter that he is indeed the murderer who killed Prefect Tao, Vice General Shi and General Mu."
"It turns out that when General Mu was in Yunnan, some of his opponent's generals attacked... It's hateful!" Zhan Zhao looked at Xin and said angrily.
He was half angry, looked sideways, and found that Bai Yutang's emotions had also become a little anxious because of his anger, so he hurriedly stuffed the letter into Mo Qi's hand, and comforted Bai Yutang: "It's okay, he's dead, good Evil will eventually be rewarded! Don’t get angry, don’t get angry, we don’t get angry..."
Bai Yutang, who was coaxed by Zhan Zhao as if he was a three-year-old child, gave Zhan Zhao another punch without expression.
Mo Qi smoothed the crumpled letter paper that Zhan Zhao had stuffed in his hands carelessly: "When General Hua was in Yunnan, because General Mu had been humiliated, he learned the Gu technique left by his mother in a fit of anger, and controlled General Mu."
Bao Zheng nodded: "No wonder General Mu treated him so well, yet he didn't dare to do evil in the army in front of his face. It turned out that it wasn't because he loved him, but because he was controlled by others."
Before reading this letter, he still had some doubts in his heart. After reading this confession, he completely solved all the inexplicable parts of the whole matter.
Gongsun Ce also suddenly recalled a detail of the first time he met General Mu: "No wonder General Mu refused to let me check my pulse when we first met, even though I had a high fever. The general's first reaction was to change the quilt..." He sighed and shook his head, "We didn't expect it at all. We can only say that Hua Jiang acted too naturally."
Zhan Zhao cast a pure and confused look in confusion.
Gongsun Ce gave Zhan Zhao a friendly look, and explained, "I think General Mu reacted like that when General Hua was doing that thing with General Mu. It's no wonder we didn't expect it."
After all, when they didn't know that Hua Jiang was a Gu master, the first thing they thought of was whether General Mu would bully Hua Jiang, not that Hua Jiang was bullying General Mu...
"Being blinded by appearance is the solidity of human beings." Bao Zheng sighed.
"Prefect Tao, he asked General Mu to take him to the magistrate's office, and then left him to kill Tao Zhifu when he was unprepared. General Mu has a Gu on his body, so he doesn't even have to take advantage of it if he wants to strike. As for Deputy General Shi ...He has done too many evils, and he deserves retribution. The Hexi army wanted to kill him quickly. Seeing the bruises and swelling on Hua Jiang's body, he knew that Hua Jiang had taken poison himself and would die soon, so he was sent to prison for revenge. It's gone." Gongsun Ce stroked the letter again.
The military adviser looked at the news sent by the envoy of the Liao Kingdom: "The prefect of Hexi has died, and the generals of the Hexi Army, General Mu and Deputy General Shi, have died..."
The chief general sat on the commander's seat, frowned and said impatiently: "So what, Yelu Ruyu has passed this news to us, so we have to send troops happily?"
The military adviser gently persuaded: "General, please take a closer look." He pointed out carefully, "Of course it's no big deal for these people to die. There are so many people in Song Dynasty, and someone can take the top. But look here, How did Deputy General Shi die? He died in the prison guarded by the Hexi Army himself! What does this mean?"
The chief general pondered for a while, then slowly loosened his brows, and clapped his hands happily: "This shows that the morale of Hexi's army has been broken by these generals themselves! That's good!"
Hexi Army, the wild wolf left by Pang Tong.
The mouth of the wild wolf finally began to aim at the sheep in its pen.
So what if it was a black sheep?Which wolf will continue to shrink its paws to be its obedient shepherd dog after tasting the sheep, and put away the wild ones that have already opened up?
The military adviser who had been fighting the battle gave another shot: "Pang Tong is coming, whether we raise our troops or not, he will go back to Hexi again. If we don't start early at this time, do we have to wait for Pang Tong to return to Hexi? Rectified the pack of wild wolves and waited for the pack of wild wolves to point their mouths at us again?! Then you will never have a chance to take down Hexi!"
The military division said with a heavy tone: "The lord has scolded me more than once. General, do you want to live until the day when the lord abolishes his military power and 'retires his old age and returns home'? General, this is an opportunity that is once in a thousand years. What a great opportunity!"
"You're right! Hahahaha, Aman, my good Aman, I really can't do without you!" The coach laughed and slapped the armrest hard, stood up, and took a few steps forward, "Command Soldiers, come! Give the order, the whole army!"
The coach who was determined to break the boat did not see the treacherous look in the eyes of a worried military adviser behind him.
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In the dream, Bai Yutang returned to the day when he was awakened by the shadow man.
When he opened his eyes on the bed wearing blood-stained clothes, he suddenly realized something.
I seem to have lost my memory.
His memory of the past was blank, he didn't remember who he was, and he didn't remember why he was here, only the group of men in black dangling in front of him, chattering to him words he couldn't understand.
Looking out of the window through these figures, it is a clean and white world.
The clear, untainted white snow is thickly covered on the ground, on the treetops, and on the steps.The clear sunlight reflected on the snow, like a beautiful jade.
His empty head suddenly remembered a name: Bai Yutang.
Then there was a vague, dangling red figure.
But those people who were making noise in his ears were too noisy, every time he caught a little bit of the figure in the red dress, the noise would disperse the redness in the white snow all over the sky.
So the irritable Bai Yutang jumped up from the bed with bloodshot eyes in his black eyes, and beat up the group of noisy men in black despite his serious injuries that had not yet healed.
The people in black who called themselves Shadowmen retreated with their broken legs and broken arms.
Leaving Bai Yutang behind, he slowly walked out of the house, looking up at the snow-covered sky surrounding him.
At first, there were quite a lot of people who came to his house, and they came quite frequently, but after being beaten more, there were fewer people.When the snow that had lasted for an unknown amount of time finally stopped, someone knocked on his door and told him, "It's time to work."
A man's mouth is soft, but his hands are short.
Bai Yutang thought for a while, then took his steel knife and white clothes and went to "work" with the shadow man.He didn't know what kind of "job" it was until he got there.
Violent beatings didn't seem to be able to stop this group of annoying guys. Bai Yutang was gradually marginalized by his "companions". When they were "working", Bai Yutang was dismissed and asked to go out to do some terrain exploration and collect supplies Things like that, the good name is that as a team leader, you should do this kind of easy work that is neither tiring nor dirty.
But no matter how you avoid this kind of thing, it is impossible to completely avoid it.
In the end, Bai Yutang still intervened.
Then, with the first time, there will be the second time.
When he carried Master Mei's bloody body and threw it into the yamen, what he thought in his mind was: Should he go back to Guangshan City?Those black shadows now looked at him with a kind of hatred and anger like a traitor. ... Otherwise, why not talk to the people in the yamen?
When he was thinking this way, someone suddenly called his name: "Yutang!"
Bai Yutang turned around reflexively and left.
He didn't know why he had to leave.Obviously he was the one who saved people, but fled like a shameless mouse.
Before Bai Yutang's eyes flashed the ghost-like face and those dark eyes that he saw in the bronze mirror when he washed every day, and he didn't want to stop his light work.
"Yutang! Don't run away! I can already see your face!" the man behind shouted angrily.
...have seen it?Bai Yutang ran forward for a few more miles before he realized what the person behind him said.
So he stopped, turned around, and saw a cluster of burning red flames in his sight.
The person's eyes were wide open, like an annoyed cat whose dried fish was suddenly snatched away.
Seeing that Bai Yutang had stopped running, the visitor rushed forward and grabbed Bai Yutang: "Yutang! You're not dead! I caught you!" The man looked like a cat afraid of being left behind, with two paws Clutching his sleeves tightly, he couldn't help but smile with great joy on his face, and kept saying in surprise, "I caught you! I found you!"
The obviously extremely upright dark red official uniform, reflected in Bai Yutang's eyes, inexplicably burned into a vivid and bright red in the sudden lighted smile of the visitor, like the first flower in spring. The blooming flower buds carry a vigor that makes people bright and happy physically and mentally.
Bai Yutang suddenly remembered a dream he had repeated every night since he woke up.
The sky is full of white snow, thousands of trees and flowers, and the red and fiery shadows blowing in the wind.
Bai Yutang didn't know where the feeling came from, but he felt that the person in front of him should be very intelligent, quick-witted, and extremely reliable.
So he didn't open the man's hand that was about to touch his face, but lowered his face slightly and pointed to the stone on the ground.
His throat seemed to be seriously injured, and he couldn't speak since he woke up, so he could only gesture like this.
Bai Yutang was slightly taller than the boy in red, and when he lowered his face slightly, he was able to catch the boy's upright face in his eyes.
At the beginning, he still remembered to give the boy in red a hint, pointing at the stone, but the boy in red raised his head to look at him from such an appropriate angle, and his facial features were so pleasing to the eye, as if every inch of his face, every ups and downs, Light and darkness everywhere follow his heart.As Bai Yutang looked at it, he forgot why he was here and what he was doing.
The young man in red looked at him stupidly: "Uh, Yutang?"
Bai Yutang regained his senses from the momentary fascination just now, his eyes quickly avoided the face of the boy in red as if shocked, and forced himself to look down at the stone he was pointing at.
The young man in red looked in the direction of Bai Yutang's finger, looked at it for a long time, raised his head, and there was a hint of confusion in his seemingly clever round eyes: "Uh... what?"
Bai Yutang: "..."
He picked up the stone angrily, and hit the boy in red on the face: What the hell is that intuition, this idiot is so smart!
What is pleasing to the eye, everything is grown according to his wishes, it is all an illusion, an illusion!This idiot must have some magic tricks that confused him!
"... Yutang!"
"Yutang! Wake up!"
Listen, the fool is calling his name again.
Bai Yutang stood in the boundless white snow, watching those memories belonging to the shadow people dissipate little by little, just like watching the red figure dissipate little by little in his dreams every night.
He knew that he was going to wake up again and lose these memories again.
But this time, he didn't intend to try to persuade him to stay.
Because in the bottom of his heart, he knew that he no longer had to dream about that illusory, elusive red figure all night long.The empty place that had been erased by people has been refilled by a real red figure right next to him.
It was the one, the one he dreamed about every night, and he had finally found it.
He just wanted to wake up quickly, and there was only one wish in his mind.
... I hope that when he wakes up, he can still remember to beat up that fool!
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"...Yutang, Yutang!" Zhan Zhao called Bai Yutang from the carriage for a long time, but Bai Yutang didn't seem to open his eyes in the slightest.You can only see the eyes rolling slightly under the thin eyelids of the other party.
After reuniting with Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce, Zhan Zhao carried Bai Yutang back to the carriage.Now, everyone was crowded into the same carriage, with several pairs of eyes staring at the unconscious Bai Yutang.
Bai Yutang's eyes were tightly closed, and the bluish-black bloodshot spots on his handsome face gradually disappeared a little because he no longer circulated his internal energy.
Zhan Zhao anxiously urged Mo Qi repeatedly, as if he could wake up the doctor Bai Yutang by asking a few more questions: "Daoist, didn't you wake up just by shouting?"
Mo Qi leaned over and looked at Bai Yutang's rolling eyes: "He is probably dreaming now, and he will wake up if he shouts again."
"Okay." Zhan Zhao turned his head and continued to stare at Bai Yutang, "Yutang, Yu——ouch!"
Bai Yutang opened his eyes suddenly, without getting up, he stretched out his fist and hit Zhan Zhao.
Zhan Zhao covered his right eye and began to cry again: "Why did you hit my eye again!"
Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao vigilantly, and sat up straight with his hands, leaning his back against the wall of the carriage.He opened his mouth, but only made a few hoarse sounds.
Zhan Zhao's heart ached to death: "Don't talk, the Taoist priest said that your vocal cords are damaged, and it will take half a year to heal..." When he said this, he realized that Bai Yutang looked at him with completely unfamiliar eyes, " You, don't you remember me?"
Zhan Zhao recalled what the Taoist priest said that Bai Yutang might not be able to recover his memory, he froze for a moment, and said unwillingly, "Do you really not remember me? My name is Zhan Zhao," he shook the giant que in his hand, "This is Juque. You still threw stones at me yesterday."
Bai Yutang's eyes became more vigilant, and there was a hint of irritability in his expression.
His eyes were washed away by the shadow man's medicine, and he returned to normal, but this temper was caused by a brain injury, and even he couldn't restrain it.
Mo Qi reminded Zhan Zhao: "His medicine has been washed away, and his memory after being awakened by the shadow man will also disappear."
It is equivalent to saying that Bai Yutang's current memory is basically blank.
Zhan Zhao felt even more distressed and couldn't breathe.It can be said that the famous hero Nan Xia Zhan Xiong Feizhan, he has a tough heart (I'm afraid only he thinks so), and now his heart softens into a puddle of water: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay if you don't remember, I just remember .My name is Zhan Zhao, your name is Bai Yutang, we are all Baoxiang's bodyguards." Zhan Zhao lied without changing his face.
Bao Zheng and Gongsun Ce looked at Zhan Zhao with shocked eyes at the same time.
Gong Jiu, who was sitting lazily with her head down, also raised her head involuntarily, casting a strange look at Zhan Zhao.
Seeing your big eyebrows and big eyes, I didn't expect you to tell such a lie?
Chinchilla Bai Yutang Bai Shaoxia has always been unrestrained and free-spirited, when did he serve as Bao Zheng's guard?
However, Bai Yutang, who once again lost all his memories, once again made a comeback with his instinctive feeling that he suffered a dark loss.
He looked at Zhan Zhao with a sincere face in front of him: This person seems very reliable.
Thinking about it this way, I felt that the punch Zhan Zhao just gave seemed a little too much.
Zhan Zhao didn't care about the punch either—at least he didn't cry this time—he immediately introduced the people on the carriage one by one to Bai Yutang who seemed to have calmed down. The words summed it up earnestly: "...Although you have forgotten, it is your responsibility to protect Master Bao's safety. You can't stop doing it just because you forgot."
Bai Yutang, who couldn't remember anything, nodded hesitantly: "..."
Trust your instincts, you should... right?This person should not lie to me.
...Although it feels like something is wrong...
Bao Zheng watched his nose with his eyes and his heart with his nose, and sat as calm as a mountain, just pretending that he didn't see all this happening.If Zhan Zhao can really trick Bai Yutang, who has lost his memory, to be his bodyguard, it will be a good thing for him and Bai Yutang.
Bao Zheng turned his head and asked Mo Qi: "Master Daoist, are all those shadow people dead? No one left alive?"
Mo Qi nodded: "Flesh and blood have withered and turned into ashes, there is no possibility of saving them. The people who came here were all dead men, and they committed suicide by taking poison before they were stunned by me and the Ninth Young Master. It was my carelessness..."
Gongsun Ce shook his head: "How can you blame the Taoist priest? No one thought that they would have such a poisonous medicine."
As long as the flesh and blood are not turned into ashes, and there is still a glimmer of life left, Mo Qi can be saved.No matter how bad it is, it can be forced to drag on for a month and a half.But if there are only a pile of bones left, then Hua Tuo is still alive, and there is nothing he can do.
Gongsun Ce was silent for a moment, unable to explain his worries: "From Yumenguan to Hexi, the shadow people have been collecting rare treasures in the world, and before that, they already have the magic medicine that can almost revive the dead, flesh and bones, to control those The person chosen by them. In today's battle, the poison used by these dead men is so terrible..."
Gongsun Ce sighed: "I don't know if they had been doing this in secret before we discovered their existence. If they have been secretly collecting rare treasures in the world, what have they found all these years? What are they trying to do with this collection?"
"The shadow people in Hexi are dead, and once the clues are broken, I don't know when the next time I want to touch their feet." Bao Zheng also had a heavy heart: "No matter what they want to plot, they will definitely let them go." Now the stable Song Dynasty is facing a big storm."
The carriage galloped all the way and rushed back to the government office.
The car stopped in front of the government office.Mo Qi, who was sitting on the farthest side, opened the curtain and was about to get out of the carriage, when he saw Yelu Ruyu who was walking back swayingly.
Mo Qi casually greeted him politely: "Seventh prince, did you see the person you were waiting for?"
"Not today." Yelu Ruyu smiled and said firmly, "But soon, we will see you again."
Holding a few dandelions in his hand, he blew gently: "Because... the wind has already spread my voice."
As soon as the dandelions were blown away, they were swept away by the cold winter wind in Hexi.
Daoist Mo: "...?"
He looked at the dandelions flying in the sky in confusion.
Mo Qi is not an arty person.
Just like he would never hold a folding fan in the winter like Gong Jiu and Yelu Ruyu, nor would he try his best to give his beloved horse a name that is even slightly acceptable, let alone be a big man , nothing to do, holding a handful of dandelions in his hand, blowing against the north wind.
He just heard a sentence: The wind has already carried my voice out.
Mo Qi, who doesn't know what is called fan'er and what is called being elegant, is instantly lost in the confusion of what this sentence has to do with dandelions, and whether Yelu Ruyu is implying something.
Dandelions have always only bloomed from April to October, and now Hexi is in the coldest February, so where do we get dandelions?Yelu Ruyu specially found this object and showed it to herself, what exactly was she trying to say?Mo Qi thought carefully.
Yazheng is as serious as Mo Daochang, and he would never have thought that someone would be so bored as to make the flowers in June bloom in February in order to add elegance.
"Master Bao, Master Bao!"
While Mo Qi was thinking, a group of people quickly ran out from the other end of the street, shouting anxiously and rushing towards the carriage.
Mo Qi gave way to the side, Bao Zheng leaned out and looked at the source of the sound, the leader was the head of the Hexi Prison: "What's the matter in such a hurry?"
"Master Bao, Mr. Bao, hoo! Mr. Bao is not good!" The prison chief stopped by the carriage, panting on the ground with his knees propped up, his words were incoherent, obviously he came all the way from the prison , He said anxiously: "Master Bao, when you were leaving—huh—someone sneaked into the prison and killed Deputy General Shi!"
Bao Zheng: "What?!"
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"The Hexi Prison is guarded by jailers outside and guarded by the Hexi Army inside. With so many people, how could Vice General Shi die under his nose?!" Bao Zheng stood in Vice General Shi's cell, his face as black as ink. , The anger was like thunder.
In the cell, almost every inch of the ground and every inch of the wall was stained with blood, which was completely messed up by the perpetrators.Many bloodstains can still be vaguely distinguished, and the overlapping bloodstains on the border seem to be left by someone who was pinned on the ground or wall and kept struggling and rolling.
"Alas... I didn't expect that the son's word would be a prophecy." Gongsun Ce stood up from the unsightly corpse of Deputy General Shi, and looked around the blood-soaked cell.
This time, Deputy General Shi suffered all this alive.
The assailant stuffed it directly into the mouth of Deputy General Shi. Even if he was already dead, it is not difficult to see from the stiff and ferocious face of Deputy General Shi what kind of torture he endured during his lifetime.
"Master Mei hasn't woken up?" Bao Zheng stood in a pool of blood and asked the chief servant of the government office who followed him.
The manager's expression was a little apprehensive, the scene was too much for him to bear: "If you want to return to Baoxiang, no." He said cautiously, "Master Mei had a fever once in the middle, we followed the prescription given by Mr. Gongsun, I made medicine for him, and it took a lot of time to feed him. From the time you left to the time you came back, there have never been three people in Master Mei's room."
"The murderer that Deputy General Shi said is Master Mei is nonsense." Bao Zheng pondered, "But besides him, who else can enter and leave the prefect's office, the Hexi military camp, and the Hexi army at will? Guarded prison?"
Zhan Zhao hurriedly walked into the cell: "Lord Bao, the Hexi Army guards have interrogated them, and they all said that they didn't see a single figure."
"Are you kidding? Could it be that the murderer is an invisible person?" Gong Jiu snorted coldly, "They must know!"
Looking at the blood-stained Mo Qi with lowered eyelids, he raised his head: "Have you found the flower general?"
Bao Zheng: "No." He looked at Mo Qi, "Why did the Taoist priest ask such a question? Do you suspect the flower general?"
Mo Qi nodded: "It's impossible for the young man to enter these three places, and ordinary soldiers and guards can't enter and leave the barracks at will. Only the flower general, as the messenger of General Mu, can follow General Mu to contact Tao Zhifu. General Mu is the closest person. He was originally a soldier of the Hexi Army, and Hexi is not as good as other places. The soldiers are tough and jealous, and they will shield the flower general, allowing him to avenge the tortured brothers in the army. "
The prison's small iron window was suddenly knocked several times.
"master."
Gong Jiu raised his eyes: "How?"
The subordinates outside the window respectfully said: "You and Daoist Mo asked us to investigate earlier. We have found out the origins of General Hua and General Mu. Before coming to Hexi, these two were in the Yunnan Army. Jiang is already 'in the same place' with General Mu. Hua Wei is the son of Miao Nv, and we checked the identity of Miao Nv again, she is a Gu Master."
Bao Zheng looked at Mo Qi and Gong Jiu with a hint of admiration: "It turns out that Daoist Mo and the son had doubts for a long time."
Zhan Zhao said with a smile: "Actually, Lord Bao asked me to investigate this matter after the trial of Deputy General Shi, but this was delayed by the matter of Yutang..." Zhan Zhao scratched his face in embarrassment, and suddenly realized that his This time it was a bit of a waste of public affairs for personal reasons and dereliction of duty.
Fortunately, Bao Zheng didn't intend to blame him, on the contrary, he thought Zhan Zhao's kind and righteous appearance couldn't be better.Young people should look like young people, and Bao Zheng felt that Mo Qi was a little too harsh on him for someone as mature and introverted as Mo Daochang.
Gong Jiu: "After the death of General Mu, we knew that the murderer could never be those helpless young men in the Nanfeng Hall. However, there were too many soldiers in the Hexi Army. A murderer is like finding a needle in a haystack."
"But when Deputy General Shi mentioned the matter of Yunnan, we suddenly remembered another key point."
"It's okay for Tao Zhifu to say that General Mu, as the commander-in-chief of the Hexi Army, even if he is not a person who practiced martial arts, he is definitely not someone who can be killed at will. The perpetrators are either more skilled than General Mu, or have Some kind of means to control General Mu..."
"When mentioning Yunnan, the first thing that comes to mind is Gu."
Bai Yutang, who was following Zhan Zhao, rolled his eyes casually, staring at the spiders spinning webs on the ceiling in a daze, not wanting to turn his head.
He can't think for a long time, otherwise his head will be extremely painful, and his mood will immediately become irritable.The doctor (Daozhang Mo) said that the black blood on his body has not faded away, which means that the old wound has not healed, and if the old wound has not healed for a day, he has to endure a day without losing his temper.
Bai Yutang felt that it was better to let his mind go, and it would be easier to be a decoration that followed Zhan Zhao.Anyway, as long as he endured this kind of life for more than half a year, his old wounds would be healed.The right is to just idle around and concentrate on enjoying the first half of the year.
Zhan Zhao said happily to Gong Jiu: "Lord Bao said the same thing! It really is a hero who sees the same thing."
While talking, he did not forget to secretly reach back to grab Bai Yutang's sleeve.
Zhan Zhao was still a little uneasy, always feeling that this might be a particularly real dream, and he would wake up from the dream after a while, and when he opened his eyes, such a big jade hall disappeared again.
Bai Yutang continued to let his mind go, and Sui Zhanzhao pulled his sleeves.
Gongsun Ce worried: "It's just that the murderer is Hua Jiang... We don't know where he is at this moment. Then where should we go to catch him?"
Bao Zheng: "Temporarily imprison the Hexi soldiers who are guarding the prison. There may be people who are familiar with Huajiang, so they can incite everyone to condone Huajiang's murder. Interrogate these Hexi soldiers one by one, maybe someone knows where Huajiang is going. gone."
Zhan Zhao shook his head with a complex expression: "I'm afraid there is no need to provoke."
When he and Bai Yutang went to interrogate, none of the Hexi soldiers had a trace of regret or guilt in their eyes, only hatred and pleasure that almost devoured people, and each pair of wolf-like eyes showed a cold scorn.
Scholars can be killed, but not humiliated.The Hexi army can die from the enemy's sword, but must not die from humiliation.
Someone who dared to humiliate this wild wolf of the Hexi Army, died at the mouth of a wolf, and he deserved it!
"That's all." Bao Zheng also realized this, and he let out a long sigh, "This is tit for tat!"
"But we can't let this wild wolf be more confused. No one can be above the law. No matter how Vice General Shi deserves his crime, and no matter how happy the general's actions are, killing people is killing people, and breaking the law is still breaking the law." Bao Zheng stepped into the bloody prison cell, "I'll go and ask myself."
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Xiliang army, general camp.
The master took off his brocade robe and jade robe with a solemn face, and changed into his wartime attire.Before putting on the armor, a pair of white and slender hands suddenly stretched out from under his quilt: "The general is going out, why don't you allow the slave to cheer for the general first?"
The chief general was startled, and stretched out his hand to pull out those wrists: "Who is it?!"
The exposed chest of the man inside was different from that of ordinary men, and had a slightly raised curvature: "The military master asked the slave to come here."
"Huh? It's a strange person?" The chief general's face, which was still tense, suddenly couldn't, showing an expression of interest, "Are you sent by the military advisor?"
"Yes..." The man with a pretty face, like a charming girl, approached the general gently, and where the general could not see, Gu worms smaller than ants crawled along the man's fingertips to the general. on the wrist.
The general, who has always been a vegetarian, approached the handsome man with a smile, and was about to say something flirtatious, when he froze all of a sudden.
With a smile on his face, Hua Jiang lifted the quilt and stood barefoot on the ground.
Only then did the chief general discover that the skin of the man's body, which had been hiding under the quilt, was all purple and slightly swollen, and there were tiny black worm spots crawling around under the skin, like a corpse crawling out of a cemetery.
Hua Jiang casually wiped off his itchy nose because of the powder, and rubbed a patch of bruised skin: "I heard that the general wants to fight?"
The general couldn't utter a word at all.He stared at his nose in fear, seeing the fine Gu worms crawling all over his body.
"I heard that it's better for the general to use strange things to cheer up this matter?" Hua Jiang put on the clothes beside him.
There was a bit of sadness and pity on his face, but more of a cold excitement: "Then I will have a good time with the general."
Standing outside the camp, the military division stretched out his hand to flap the curtain: "Remember to keep your voice down, the master didn't intend to let you die here just by giving you the milk fruit. Kill it first and then talk about it."
The general's eyes were gently covered with his hands.
The cold blade cut his throat.
After a moment.
Wearing the clothes of Xixia soldiers, Hua Jiang lifted the head of the chief general and walked out, with a trace of satisfaction on his blood-stained face.
The military adviser gave him a cold look: "Hexi City, Hexi Bakery, the master is waiting for you there. Take the box and put it on, and someone will take you out later." He forcefully picked up the head of the chief general and put it in the box.
Hua Jiang's attitude was even more indifferent than that of a military adviser: "I have no intention of going to see your master. I am from the Song Dynasty, and even if I die, I will die on the soil of the Song Dynasty." He lowered his head and touched the carved wooden box, "I want to to surrender himself."
"It's up to you." The military division turned and left without paying attention.
Before leaving, he left a sentence: "But you will see the master sooner or later."
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The corpse of the flower general was seen by the sweeping yamen servant at the gate of the government yamen in the early morning.The body was bruised and swollen, and it was almost impossible to see Hua Jiang's beautiful face.
"That's right, it's indeed Hua Jiang." Gongsun Ce carefully identified the corpse, "Looking at it like this, he died of poison?"
Gongsun Ce opened the collar of the flower general, and looked at the slightly raised curve of the man's chest in surprise: "This - the flower general is also a stranger?"
He was a little confused.
Speaking of aliens and poisoning, it is inevitable that the poison of milk fruit will come to mind.But for those men who were poisoned by the milk fruit, the breast swelling was much more serious than Huajiang, and the abdomen would also bulge due to flatulence.
Hua Jiang's situation is different from theirs. Could it be that he was a natural alien who was poisoned to death by ordinary poison?
"Master Gongsun, there are these two things beside the corpse." The yamen servant handed the box and a letter that he had been holding to Gongsun.
Zhan Zhao yawned, put his shoulders on Bai Yutang's body for strength: "What is this box for?"
Bao Zheng opened the box, his expression changed slightly: "This is it!"
A terrified head stared at him in the box, with a look of reluctance to die.
Gong Jiu gave the head a look: "Isn't this the chief general of Xixia stationed in Xilianghe? The one who beat Pang Tong so much that Pang Tong slapped his ass and left without daring to raise his troops?"
He stretched out his hand and slowly brushed the white fluff around his neck, and pretended not to care, he glanced at Mo Qi, and he really saw the other party staring at him.
To be precise, he was staring at the collar of his fluffy fur coat.
Gong Jiu realized from the moment she put on this fur coat with a fine fur collar that Mo Qi seemed to have no resistance to such furry things.
In the past, the time that the other party stayed on him was pitifully small, and most of them turned away in a hurry after meeting their eyes.Where would it be like now?
According to his observation during this period, sometimes Mo Qi's eyes follow the fluffy fur collar on his shoulder almost uncontrollably.Sometimes after meeting eyes with him, I would be stunned for a while, showing an expression that wanted to get closer, but restrained in time.
Gong Jiu seemed to take a few steps forward naturally.
Mo Qi lowered his head to look at Gong Jiu, who was approaching intentionally or unintentionally, and the other party's soft and warm fur collar brushed over his shoulder inadvertently, like the fluffy tail of a snow fox, brushing over his shoulder .
He couldn't stop thinking about the little furry guys back home.
Sometimes when he was cultivating his mind in the ice pool, those snow foxes with pink and tender paw pads would whimper and gather around him, patting his body exposed outside the ice pool with their claws, anxiously using big Its fluffy tail swept him, as if afraid the Twoleg would freeze itself to death.
Those furs looked snow-white, like a tuft of cold fresh snow, but actually rubbed against his shoulders, but they were unexpectedly warm.
At this time, if he reaches out to grab the snow fox's paw and rubs it, the anxious snow foxes will not struggle, they will just rush to him, trying to fish him out of the ice pool, and hold him together. With a small body, the warm fur rubbed against his cold body.
Mo Qi thought dazedly, he hadn't seen those little guys for five years.I don't know if without him in the ice pool, those little things can still find food in the snow-covered mountains?
Gongsun Ce's voice drew back Mo Qi's free attention: "...This letter is Hua Jiang's confession?"
Gongsun Ce passed the letter after reading it to everyone to read: "General Hua has already admitted in the letter that he is indeed the murderer who killed Prefect Tao, Vice General Shi and General Mu."
"It turns out that when General Mu was in Yunnan, some of his opponent's generals attacked... It's hateful!" Zhan Zhao looked at Xin and said angrily.
He was half angry, looked sideways, and found that Bai Yutang's emotions had also become a little anxious because of his anger, so he hurriedly stuffed the letter into Mo Qi's hand, and comforted Bai Yutang: "It's okay, he's dead, good Evil will eventually be rewarded! Don’t get angry, don’t get angry, we don’t get angry..."
Bai Yutang, who was coaxed by Zhan Zhao as if he was a three-year-old child, gave Zhan Zhao another punch without expression.
Mo Qi smoothed the crumpled letter paper that Zhan Zhao had stuffed in his hands carelessly: "When General Hua was in Yunnan, because General Mu had been humiliated, he learned the Gu technique left by his mother in a fit of anger, and controlled General Mu."
Bao Zheng nodded: "No wonder General Mu treated him so well, yet he didn't dare to do evil in the army in front of his face. It turned out that it wasn't because he loved him, but because he was controlled by others."
Before reading this letter, he still had some doubts in his heart. After reading this confession, he completely solved all the inexplicable parts of the whole matter.
Gongsun Ce also suddenly recalled a detail of the first time he met General Mu: "No wonder General Mu refused to let me check my pulse when we first met, even though I had a high fever. The general's first reaction was to change the quilt..." He sighed and shook his head, "We didn't expect it at all. We can only say that Hua Jiang acted too naturally."
Zhan Zhao cast a pure and confused look in confusion.
Gongsun Ce gave Zhan Zhao a friendly look, and explained, "I think General Mu reacted like that when General Hua was doing that thing with General Mu. It's no wonder we didn't expect it."
After all, when they didn't know that Hua Jiang was a Gu master, the first thing they thought of was whether General Mu would bully Hua Jiang, not that Hua Jiang was bullying General Mu...
"Being blinded by appearance is the solidity of human beings." Bao Zheng sighed.
"Prefect Tao, he asked General Mu to take him to the magistrate's office, and then left him to kill Tao Zhifu when he was unprepared. General Mu has a Gu on his body, so he doesn't even have to take advantage of it if he wants to strike. As for Deputy General Shi ...He has done too many evils, and he deserves retribution. The Hexi army wanted to kill him quickly. Seeing the bruises and swelling on Hua Jiang's body, he knew that Hua Jiang had taken poison himself and would die soon, so he was sent to prison for revenge. It's gone." Gongsun Ce stroked the letter again.
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