Chapter 21: Chen Fan

The northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty is located in the north of the capital, on the col of a mountain road leading to Changping County. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 ο½‰ο½Žο½†ο½

Liu Shuangli turned around from the long sword, and looked at the person with fixed eyes, it was the person she felt extremely familiar with since she came to this mountain pass.

The road in front has been blocked, and the momentum of the person in front of him, Liu Shuangli doesn't feel that he can rush through.

"Who are you?" Liu Shuangli stared at the person in front of him, and couldn't help but express the question in his heart.

The slender face of the person in front of him paused slightly, and the light flashing in his eyes was extremely deep, and he didn't seem to hear Liu Shuangli's question at all. His eyes swept around Liu Shuangli's body, and he said politely: "Little brother, please go back." ”

"Return?" Liu Shuangli was really angry in his heart at this time, and asked loudly, "You were very polite just now, saying that you knew that you were wrong." What do you want to do if you forcibly detain me? Revenge for your brothers? Or -- the North League, what kind of enmity does the North League have against you?"

The person in front of him replied honestly: "The fault of our brothers has nothing to do with the little brother. I detained you, but it was really for the sake of the North Alliance. As for what the relationship is, the little brother doesn't need to ask more. ”

Liu Shuangli trembled from the hand holding the Shadowless Sword, and a sense of foreboding arose in his heart. She bit her lip and said coldly: "You want to use Lian'er's sister and use her to lure out the people of the Zhengbei League, don't you? Lian'er is only a nine-year-old child, and she has never seen her father." What you want to do to the people of the Zhengbei Alliance is your business, don't use it on a child. I promised her mother that I would escort her to Beijing and find her father, and I would never break my promise. So, please get out of the way. ”

Liu Shuangli used full true qi to get away from the last sentence, thinking that not far from below, the bandits at the foot of the mountain and the captured people should be able to hear clearly.

Sure enough, not long after Liu Shuangli's violent shouting fell, he heard a little girl crying loudly below: "Big brother, where are you, where are you......"

Liu Shuangli stood on the top of the mountain road, looking down and seeing clearly, the crying Lian'er was anxious to rush out of the circle, but was grabbed by the bandits in the circle and couldn't move.

However, the people gathered at the foot of the mountain could not see the situation on the mountain road clearly because a cliff blocking their view from the mountain road.

Liu Shuangli looked at Lian'er's cry below, and his heart couldn't suppress a faint pain. She wanted to rush down and hug Lian'er to comfort her, but she couldn't move at all.

Because at this moment, the bandit soldiers who were originally guarding the mountain road surrounded them, and the other bandit leaders who were originally standing on it also walked down together.

Liu Shuangli's hand was trembling, and his lips were biting out blood.

The two bandit soldiers stepped forward and snatched off the sword in Liu Shuangli's hand. Liu Shuangli suddenly twisted back with a backhand, and the long sword in her hand flashed a dazzling cold light in the air, and slashed straight at the chests of the two bandits who stepped forward to break her hands.

The two bandits were startled and instinctively took a step back.

Fortunately, Liu Shuangli only stopped this move, using ingenuity and not much strength, and the two bandits only made a shallow cut on their chests, not touching the depths, and only fell a small minor injury.

Seeing this, the two bandit leaders who jumped up to rob Liu Shuangli saw this, and immediately drank violently, and just wanted to rush up and catch Liu Shuangli.

The bandit with the thin face who didn't want to stand in front of Liu Shuangli reacted faster. With one foot forward, his left wrist hooked, and he instantly grabbed Liu Shuangli's left arm. didn't wait for Liu Shuangli's right hand long sword to stab, his right hand followed with another blow, and then grabbed Liu Shuangli's right wrist with a backhand.

The change came too quickly, Liu Shuang couldn't avoid it, only felt a pain on his right wrist, and the shadowless sword in his hand almost fell off the ground.

"Youβ€”" Liu Shuangli frowned and stared at her captor, a chill in her heart. It's just this trick, the technique is fast and accurate, this person's martial arts are too much higher than her. In the face of this person, she has no chance at all.

"Take down his Shadowless Sword, Chen Fan. Someone from above shouted, and it was the bandit leader who was in the middle position.

The person who grabbed Liu Shuangli nodded his head lightly, and pressed down with a pull back on the tip of his right finger. Liu Shuangli only felt that his entire right arm was extremely numb in an instant, and his strength was completely lost, and the hand holding the hilt of the sword involuntarily loosened, and the long sword fell into the opponent's hand.

But what made Liu Shuangli even more shocked than the numb feeling in his right hand was the person's name. She stared at her captor with big startled eyes, and said in a trembling voice, "Your name is Chen Fan?"

The other party took her sword, and no longer embarrassed, let go of the grappling hands, and replied, "Yes." ”

"That Chen Fan of the former Jizhou Forward Nomad Captain?"

The other party's complexion changed, his dark brows tightened suddenly, and he said in surprise: "How do you know?"

"Mr. Chen Qiqing from Peizhou, he-he asked me to find you. Liu Shuangli replied in a trembling voice. sighed in her heart, no wonder, no wonder she would have a familiar feeling of people. He looked so much like his father, and the portrait that Mr. Chen Qiqing kept at home was so similar.

The other party's complexion changed again, and his body involuntarily trembled slightly: "You-what did you say?"

Liu Shuangli said excitedly: "Mr. Chen, he - he doesn't believe - he doesn't believe that his son collaborated with the enemy, and he doesn't believe that his son died in such an unknown way. So, he - he asked me to find his son before the temporary - to give this to his son. ”

Liu Shuangli said, trembling his hands into his arms, and took out a jade pendant placed on the outer layer from the purse on his chest.

It was a bat jade pendant that was very common in ordinary people's homes, and it looked very ordinary.

When the other party saw it, his expression changed greatly, and he snatched the jade pendant and looked at it carefully.

Yes, it's this jade pendant. The pattern on the bat's wings, which only he and his father could recognize, was a 'sail' character.

Chen Fan pinched the bat jade pendant and looked at it for a long time, so that the hand he squeezed tightly was soaked with sweat.

The leader of the bandits stepped forward, glanced at the jade pendant, and asked, "Is it really your jade pendant?"

Chen Fan was shocked, raised his head, and replied, "Yes, third brother." ”

The bandit leader frowned, turned to Liu Shuangli, looked at it carefully, and asked in a cold voice, "You kid, who is it?"

Seeing that the other party recognized the jade pendant, Liu Shuangxuan was overjoyed for a moment, and he didn't care too much about the tone of the bandit leader's question, and replied loudly: "I'm just a person who lives all over the world." ”

"The four seas are home?" the bandit leader was obviously a little unconvinced.

Chen Fan put the jade pendant in his hand in his palm, looked at Liu Shuangli, and asked: "My father was forced to commit suicide in the early spring of three years ago, because his ancestral house was robbed by the government and had nowhere to go. You--was with your father at that time?"

"Yes," Liu Shuangli nodded, "This jade pendant was also entrusted to me by Mr. Chen at that time." ”

Chen Fan stared at Liu Shuangli with both eyes, and asked again, "Will you stay at my house?"

"Yes. Liu Shuangli nodded again.

When Chen Fan heard the answer, his eyes closed for a while. The air in the mountain road also froze at this moment.

After a while, the first to speak was the bandit leader with squinted eyes, who stared at Liu Shuangli with extremely curious eyes, and said: "But we heard that the child who will stay at Mr. Chen's house is surnamed Liu, not Yang. ”

"Ah," Liu Shuangli couldn't help herself from exclaiming, she looked at Chen Fan, and then at the bandit leader, paused, and then calmed down, stuck out her tongue, and said, "What's this surname, is it important?"

The bandit leader took a step forward, looked at Liu Shuangli, and said, "The eldest husband will not change his name or surname, little brother, who are you?"

Liu Shuangli involuntarily took a step back, and after being stunned for a moment, he suddenly turned his head and shouted at Chen Fan: "Brother Chen, do you know that since nine years ago, when the news of the defeat of Jizhou came, your father heard that you had fled and disappeared, what was his feeling? Everyone said that you were fleeing in fear of crime, but Mr. Chen didn't believe it, he didn't believe it. So, he's always waiting for you at home, waiting for you to come home. Everyone said that you died and would never be able to return home, and even the two of your comrades who sent Yu Pei back to Mr. Chen also said that there was no hope, and persuaded Mr. Chen, but Mr. Chen just didn't believe it. He said he was going to wait for you to come home, and he kept waiting. But you, but why don't you, why don't you go back? You'd rather be a bandit here than go back, not go back to see your father, not go backβ€”not go backβ€”"

Chen Fan was stunned, completely stunned, he couldn't reply, he could only listen quietly, listening to Liu Shuangli's words.

The bandit leader was also stunned, he squinted his eyes, listening to what Liu Shuangli had to say.

The bandits present also just stood quietly, watching all this, and no one disturbed.

I saw Liu Shuangli take a deep breath, forcibly control his overly excited emotions, and then said loudly: "Brother Chen, do you know, the government came to forcibly requisition the house that year, and I persuaded Mr. Chen to move out, saying that the house could not be saved, forget it, as long as the person is good." But do you know what Mr. Chen said, he said that this is his home, and it is also his son's home, and he has to wait at home for his son to come back, and he can't leave, he can't leave. Mr. Chen said that he would wait at home, wait for his son to come back, come back to this house, and tell him that he was not a deserter, that he had been fine, well. Yes, he didn't wait until his home was gone. ”

With a 'plop', Chen Fan knelt on the ground, hid his face and cried, and said, "Dad, I'm sorry, it's my son who is sorry for you." ”

This time, it was Liu Shuangli who was stunned.

No one tried to persuade Chen Fan, and everyone present silently stepped aside, crying at Chen Fan.

"What's going on?" After a long time, seeing that Chen Fan was still with his head down and couldn't afford to kneel, Liu Shuangli couldn't help but ask.

"What does the little brother want to ask?" the bandit leader asked with a sneer.

Liu Shuangli raised his head and stared at the bandit leader with a pair of big eyes: "Why can Brother Chen do bandit robbery here, but can't he go home to see his father and follow his father to explain?" If Mr. Chen could be sure that his son was okay, he would not have chosen to commit suicide that day. ”

"Hehe," said the leader of the bandits, laughing exaggeratedly, "does the little brother really think so?"

"Isn't it?"

The bandit leader sneered again, and said slowly: "What is Mr. Chen's least belief in his son. ”

"Ahh

"As you said earlier, he didn't run away from sin. ”

"What are you talking about?" Liu Shuangli was really shocked this time, "You mean, Brother Chen, heβ€”"

"He didn't go back because he couldn't face his father, just because he was, and he was fleeing in fear of sin. (To be continued.) )