Chapter 246: Meeting a Relative on a Cold Night

Xiao Luo'er last night, what undescribeable and beautiful stories happened, because the editor of this article was too beautiful and had a fierce temper, I can't say much in the book.

Ladies and gentlemen, let your rich imagination fly freely...

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After taking the county seat of Yongnan, after killing all the dead friends of the great thief Shanwu, and leaving no one behind, those soldiers who were born and died finally let out a bad breath.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of the Fire Phoenix Kingdom and the little prince who have experienced hardships also temporarily have a place to live in spring all year round and with pleasant scenery.

From then on, with the careful protection of Hanzijian, the pseudo-god of war, Xin'er and Luo'er will no longer be hunted down, let alone sleep in the unspeakably miserable dining style.

It is said that the two heroes of the original Chaoyang Gang, Shi Qing and Shi Chong, received the royal order of Hanzi Sword, carried the big dog head of the little anti-thief Shanlin, and set off from the first-line heavenly Grand Canyon, and after using fifteen days, they arrived at a mountain that was still seventy or eighty miles away from Phoenix City, Kyoto, Huofeng Country.

It's just that the difference between the north and the south is too great, and the place in front of the two brothers, Shi Qing and Shi Chong, is already in a cold freeze.

Tired all the way, and the cold wind was biting at the moment, the two of them saw that the mountain road was rugged and the sky was getting late, so they couldn't help but feel anxious, and hurriedly urged the horses to gallop, wanting to rush out of this unknown valley as soon as possible.

After urging the horses to speed up and running out of the land for three or five miles in one go, the two brothers, who were hungry and cold, finally came out of the mountain and arrived at a small village and town.

The two of them were happy, thinking that they would be able to reach their destination tomorrow, and they were not in a hurry for half a day, so they planned to find an inn to live in, and first comfort the hard work of many days with wine and meat.

So the two brothers who were walking slowly suddenly found that this town, which rises along the mountain and has less than a dozen households in total, is in a state of desolation at this moment, and there are no quiet people, let alone an inn.

In desperation, the two of them could only continue to move forward slowly, turning a small corner, only to see a small sign of an inn made of blue cloth in a small alleyway, which was being blown by the whistling northwest wind.

Seeing that the alley was too small to allow a horse to pass, he simply dismounted together and led the horse into thirty or fifty steps before arriving outside the inn.

Standing at the door, Shi Qing shouted loudly to the inn where the small door was open, but there was no one to be seen:

"Anyone?"

The store is close to the mountain, the valley is standing, and the two of them only hear the echo of the words 'is anyone', but there is still no movement in the inn.

At this time, a north wind blew, whirring, and both of them suddenly felt a little creepy.

In a hurry, he turned his head and handed the horse rope to his brother, then drew his long sword and entered the store.

After passing through the inn and pushing open the two rough wooden back doors, Shi Zhong immediately screamed in surprise.

Shi Qing, who was waiting for the letter outside, heard his brother's exclamation, so he hurriedly threw the reins of his horse and rushed in.

Immediately, several dead bodies in the backyard, as well as several large pools of black and red, appeared in front of the two of them.

The two of them were frightened, and looked around indoors and outdoors, and saw that the inn, which was already shabby, was full of broken doors and windows, and the cabinets were scattered, as if they had been looted by bandits.

After being shocked out of the door, Shi Qing said to his younger brother:

"It's strange, although this place is small, but it is also close to Kyoto, there must be something strange about this kind of evil behavior, let's go and see it elsewhere. ”

So, the two of them led the horses to the bare tree on the side of the road, and then went to a few small shops in the vicinity and the homes of several households.

It doesn't matter if you look at it, you can only see that the two brothers broke out in a cold sweat in the cold wind.

I saw that these small shops and residents' homes were also black and red, and the homes were also turned into messy and dirty, and there were still a few delicate corpses, and they were all ...... , which is obviously all ...... Finish.

"Brother, look, what is this!"

In the exclamation, Shi Zhong found an iron tiger-shaped tile from a corner, hurriedly picked it up, and handed it to Shi Qing.

After looking through the black rope and black blood iron card, I saw that the front and back of this card were engraved with a big 'Yong' word.

Shi Qing immediately gritted his teeth and scolded fiercely:

"This is the captain's waist card of the old thief of Shanwu, it seems that there must be three or five hundred rebels stationed nearby, these dead must have been killed by these dog thieves!"

"Damn Shanwu old thief!" Shi rehearsed it, and couldn't help but scold fiercely.

"Let's go, the king's life is important, it seems that it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, we must be extra careful!" Shi said softly, and dragged two dirty mattresses from the dirty kang.

After covering the two miserable and miserable dead people first, the two brothers left the house and returned to the desolate and terrifying side street.

At this time, another cold and gloomy wind blew, and the two brothers, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, did not dare to stay any longer, hurriedly mounted their horses, and continued to the north.

The two of them walked for more than twenty miles, and at this moment it was completely dark, and their stomachs were empty, hungry and cold, and when they were depressed, Shi Qing stretched out his hand and shouted:

"Brother, look there!"

Shi Zhong turned his head in the direction of his younger brother's finger, and saw that in the dark distance, there was a little light that flickered and disappeared, and hurriedly smiled:

"Let's go and have a look, buy some food, and spend the night. ”

So he immediately turned away from the avenue and walked towards the dim light, and soon the little light was getting brighter and brighter, and came to him.

The two dismounted, and when they approached, they saw three low thatched huts in a row of dense forests, hidden in a fence wall made of reeds, and beside this thatched hut there was a small haystack.

Just as he was about to get closer, suddenly, a big dog that was led under the big tree, after hearing the movement, suddenly came out and barked loudly.

In the midst of the increasingly fierce barking of the big dog that could not see the color and the breed, the wood door of the thatched house was opened, and an uncle came out, holding a faint oil lamp in his hand, and asked with a little nervousness:

"Who, who?"

Shi Qing hurriedly replied:

"Uncle, my two brothers are passing by, but because they are in a hurry, they missed the lodging point, this time they are hungry and cold, and they want to spend one night with you, and we will pay the money. ”

After a while, the old man snorted softly, and after first making the big dog stop being unfriendly, he hesitated a little before saying:

"Then, please come in. ”

The two of them pulled the war horse into the courtyard, and also led it to a small tree, and after reclosing the bamboo door of the fence wall, Shi Qing and Shi Zhong followed the uncle into the warm little hut.

I saw that under the dim light, this room was simple and ordinary, only a table and a few stools, a small brazier, a pile of fiery homemade charcoal was burning, and on a small kang inside, there seemed to be an aunt, she was coughing continuously.

However, the strange thing is that when I looked closely, I saw that these two people were actually not old, but they deliberately made themselves dirty, looking a little old, and they also got a kennel at home, dressed like Hanako,

Seeing that the two of them were cold, they sat directly by the brazier, and the uncle hurriedly used a rattan plate to bring a few pieces of multigrain coarse cakes and a few cooked cold sweet potatoes.

After taking the uncle's bamboo plate, Shi Zhong thanked him, then took out two large ingots of silver from his arms and handed them to the uncle.

When the uncle saw it, he put a small kettle on the brazier that was in full swing, and a trace of joy flashed in his eyes, but he was busy and half-truthed:

"Why do you use so much..."

Seeing that the younger brother had forced the silver into the hands of the uncle, Shi Zhong hurriedly put the cakes and sweet potatoes on the brazier, and then turned his head to look at the aunt who was still coughing on the kang and said:

"Take it, uncle, aunt, this is a typhoid fever, you have to hurry up and grab medicine for medical treatment." ”

The uncle, with his hands that were so excited that he began to tremble, received the two big ingots of silver, hurriedly ran back to the kang, and delivered them to his wife, and said happily:

"Bear with me one more night, I'll go get you medicine tomorrow morning..."

The aunt was also obviously happy and excited, and hurriedly hid the silver under the pillow.

Seeing that Shi Qing and Shi Zhong were carrying blades, they had a good heart, and the aunt thanked her again and again in the sound of coughing:

"Thank you two heroes, old man, hurry up, take out all the six eggs hidden at the bottom of the cabinet, and make two bowls of egg soup for the two heroes to drive away the cold. ”

After the uncle hurriedly agreed, he turned around and went to get the eggs and take the pot.

After waiting for a while, drinking a few sips of hot water, a few sweet potatoes that had been baked hot, and a corn tortilla, Shi Qing asked tentatively:

"In the town in front, a lot of people died, do you know what kind of gang did it?"

Soon, after boiling two bowls of egg soup without salt and oil, serving it to Shi Qing and Shi Chong, he sat back on his wife's hot kang, and the uncle sighed and said:

"What kind of bandits? Our Huofeng Kingdom has always been a country and a peaceful country, how can the bandits be so ruthless? This is all done by the officers and soldiers under the King of Zhennan. ”

Shi Zhong listened and asked:

"It's the officers and soldiers? How can the officers and soldiers be so lawless, and the king of Zhennan doesn't care? Their commander, don't they care?"

The uncle sneered again and said:

"King Zhennan, this big thief took the lead in raising an army, the first one is not a good thing, because there is a big court official in the court who intends to rebel against him, and his hometown is in that town, and these beasts have wiped out all the people in that town. ”

After gritting his teeth, Shi Qing asked again:

"Uncle, do you have children, why do you want to live in this place where there is no village in front of you and no shop in the back?"

If you don't ask, Shi Qing asked without words, and immediately asked the two old men to bow their heads and cry together.

After wiping away his tears, the uncle said softly:

"Seeing that you two are upright and kind-hearted, I will tell you the truth, we originally lived in Kyoto and enjoyed the glory and wealth, but then only because of the chaos of the war, we disguised ourselves and fled empty-handed, and hurriedly fled back to our hometown in the mountains that we had not returned to for more than ten years. ”

"Is there a lot of chaos in Kyoto?" Shi Qing asked again, puzzled.

This time, the uncle's tears flowed even more fiercely, and after he carefully looked at the two kind-hearted brothers, he finally made up his mind and said:

"We had one, just because he was the emperor's royal guard, and later I heard that the emperor was destroyed by the evil thief Shanshan, and my son protected the princess and the little prince and fled, so we were frightened and fled back. ”

When Shi Qing and Shi Zhong heard it, they were immediately shocked, but they heard the uncle seem to be talking to himself:

"I don't know where the poor princess and the little prince are now, if they are okay, and I don't know if my son is alive or dead..."

Finally couldn't help it anymore, Shi Qing and Shi Zhong hurriedly got up and knelt in front of the two old men together.

When the uncle saw it, he was so frightened that he didn't know what to do, Shi Qing hurriedly got up and went outside alone.

Seeing his younger brother go out to control the wind, Shi Zhong kowtowed to the two old men three times before he got up and said softly:

"To tell you the truth, my two brothers are under the command of the princess and the prince, and this time they entered Beijing for a big event!"

As soon as these words came out, not only the uncle was stunned, but even the aunt sat up from the kang in shock.

After a moment of silence, the two old men asked urgently in unison:

"May I ask the general, how are Her Royal Highness the princess and the little prince?"

Although when he parted, he was in the Grand Canyon of the First Heaven, but Shi Zhong knew in his heart that with the might of the prince of Yaoyao, it was easy to take the Yongnan County City, so he replied with a smile:

"Uncle and aunt, please rest assured, the princess and the little prince are safe and sound, our army has now occupied the old nest of the great thief, Yongnan County, and we can come back to recapture Kyoto and revitalize the dynasty in the near future!"

"Good!good!" the uncle applauded with joy.

The aunt suddenly stopped coughing, and the old man hurriedly knelt on the kang with his hands together, and bowed to heaven again and again: "Amitabha, Bodhisattva bless!"

When he saw the two old men, he only cared about the princess and the prince at the moment, but did not mention his son, he was in a hurry first, and hurriedly asked:

"Uncle, what is your son's name, what does he look like? When the two of us return from the task, I will help you ask carefully and send someone to deliver the message as soon as possible. ”