The night passed silently.

This night was the most restful night Shen Muzhi had slept in these days.

In the early morning, in the sound of rumbling water, wake up leisurely. The mist swirls through the mountains, and everything is misty and full of mystery.

A black shadow broke through the mist, swept across the water, and rushed to Shen Muzhi with cold droplets, flashing with golden light, turning into a slender girl, with delicate and delicate cheeks, white and red. Watery eyes, blinked slightly, and then, the corners of his mouth flashed with shyness, and said softly: "Ah, you're awake!"

Shen Muzhi sat there, looking at the little girl in front of him, a little stunned. This was the first time he had seen Qingguo change from a small bird not as big as a palm to a delicate and lovely little girl. This kind of visual impact, even if he is used to seeing the appearance of Qingguo's body, he is still a little shocked.

Seeing him staring at him stunned, Qingguo lowered his head shyly, and his originally pink cheeks became even redder.

After a while, Shen Muzhi suppressed the surprise in his heart, looked at Qingguo who was standing in front of him and turned into an adult, suddenly thought of the big head, and couldn't help but ask: "Can the big head also become human?"

The strength of the big head is obviously far greater than that of Qingguo, and since Qingguo can become a human, the big head should also be able to. This is Shen Muzhi's logic. But Qingguo shook his head and said, "He can't do it yet." ”

Shen Muzhi was puzzled.

"Let's ......" Qingguo just started, but immediately stopped, and after a pause, he continued after a moment: "We demon clans, it is actually difficult to incarnate as an adult. The big head is an ancient clock, and it is even more difficult to turn into a human. Moreover, don't look at his big size, he is actually not as old as me!" Speaking of age, Qingguo suddenly covered his mouth, looked at Shen Muzhi with big eyes and blinked, and after seeing that he didn't have any unusual expression, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief without showing a trace, and then continued: "Speaking of which, I can become an adult so quickly, in fact, I have to thank you, Brother Muzhi!"

Makino's Brother......

Shen Muzhi was stunned by this title for a moment, and then looked at Qingguo, who was secretly looking at his expression, and when he saw him, he immediately lowered his eyelids, pretending not to find it, but his cheeks were even redder.

Shen Muzhi couldn't help but smile, in fact, this title is quite good, especially when Qingguo called him like this, it was crisp and crisp, and there was a little bit of coquettishness, it felt like a breeze in the mountains, which could make people's hearts light up all of a sudden.

Thinking of what Qingguo said just now, Shen Muzhi asked, "Why did you say you want to thank me?"

Qingguo raised his eyes, glanced at him quickly, and found the smile on his face, and his big watery eyes suddenly brightened a little more.

It's just that she didn't have the meaning to explain Shen Muzhi's question, and with the blink of her eyes, she diverted the topic and talked to Shen Muzhi about some things about the big head.

It didn't take long for the big head to come.

The eldest brother still hasn't woken up.

It was still Qingguo who carried him, and the three of them got behind the big head, and began to set off back to the territory of Jinguo.

With the help of the big head, the journey was extraordinarily smooth.

And the woman in white that Shen Muzhi was worried about has never appeared.

Around Shen Shi, the three people and one snake had already crossed the mountains and arrived in the mountains and forests near the Strange Stone Valley on the side of the Jin Kingdom.

When you get here, you won't be far from the camp of the Jin Army.

After the big head put the three of them down, they quickly left.

Shen Muzhi thought about it, took out the mask given by Brother He Xian from his body, and put it on his face.

Qingguo watched Shen Muzhi suddenly change into a different appearance, and couldn't help but feel very funny, and subconsciously stretched out his hand, wanting to touch Shen Muzhi's cheek.

But when the fingers touched Shen Muzhi's cheek, both of them were stunned.

Qingguo was like an electric shock, and immediately took his hand back, lowered his head, and didn't dare to look at Shen Muzhi again, but on the side of his face, the red cheeks had already betrayed him.

Shen Muzhi was wearing a mask, but he couldn't see any changes in his face, but what about under the mask......

"Let's go. In order to alleviate the awkwardness of the atmosphere, Shen Muzhi took the lead in breaking the silence and spoke.

"Hmm. Qingguo replied in a low voice, followed Shen Muzhi's side, carried his eldest brother, and walked out of the mountains and forests.

......

......

Today was supposed to be the day when Shen Wei was going to leave the camp and return to Beijing.

But he hasn't left yet.

Since Muping was arrested, he rushed here, and secretly sent several teams into the mountains and forests that no one had successfully crossed for thousands of years. These teams are all elite manpower under him, but in the past few months, more than half of the manpower has been lost, and there is no good news. Until last night......

The news came in the early hours of the morning, and it was one of his most capable subordinates who could rank in the top 50 in the army. Such a person, placed in the army, even if he is surrounded by dozens of enemy troops, as long as he does not want to die, he can still break through. But such a master, when he came back last night, he was about to be unable to hold on, his hands were fractured to varying degrees, his abdomen was a big opening, and his intestines were flowing out.

However, the first and only good news in the past few months was finally brought - they had found a route in that mountain forest that could march directly to the territory of Dayuan.

After Shen Wei heard the news, his heart, which was already dead and silent, suddenly came back to life.

He was unwilling after all.

Fortunately, God finally opened his eyes again, allowing him to see a ray of hope.

That route was only barely enough to march, and if Shen Wei wanted to take most of it into the mountains and take that road to Dayuan's side, it would definitely be impossible. But it's still no problem to only pick elite squads to go over.

As for whether you will encounter those fierce beasts in the mountains, it can only depend on luck.

Shen Wei had already thought that he would lead the team into the mountains early tomorrow morning and rush to the territory of Dayuan before nightfall the next day. At the end of the night, the remaining troops would break into the Strange Stone Valley, and Shen Wei would take advantage of the main force in the Yuan army camp to attack the camp and lead people to attack the camp. If he can't, he has to turn the Yuan army camp upside down and make them pay the price!

He has already arranged this matter, but in order to avoid leaking the news of the operation, not many people know about the specific plan. Most people only knew that he would march into the Valley of Strange Stones the night after tomorrow. But this kind of action is not unfamiliar to the Jin and Yuan armies, and it has become a routine to always come back twice a month. So, it's not strange in the barracks about this.

And, the people who will follow Shen Wei into the mountain at that time have been arranged by him one after another under various pretexts today, and when the time comes, they will meet in other places early tomorrow morning.

Everything depends on the night after tomorrow.

If it goes well, he can at least make Yuan Jun feel a lot of pain, and it can be regarded as a sigh of relief for Mu Ping.

If it doesn't go well......

Shen Wei stood in a corner of the camp, looking at the mountains not far away, and his heart was desolate.

When a person reaches middle age, he 'loses' his son, which is undoubtedly the greatest sorrow in life.

What made Shen Wei feel even more unbearable was the evidence that was placed in front of him one after another, and they all told him that it was another son he had raised for twelve years who had harmed Mu Ping.

More than three months ago, he was worried that his wife in the family would be carried away by hatred, so he invited Zheng Xi to find Muzhi. Zheng Xi did meet him in Qishi Town, but the development of events was surprising.

He fled, leaving behind a name - Seven Stars.

Shen Wei asked Zheng Xi to take someone back to Beijing to check, not to mention the General's Mansion, or even the entire Jinling, no one knew that there was a person named Qixing.

He didn't know if it was Mu Zhi's casual nonsense in order to perfunctory Zheng Xi, or whether the person named Yang Sange deceived Mu Zhi.

After that, Makiyuki disappeared without a trace. In the past three months, a series of evidence has been sent to him, as well as letters from the one at home, all of which have eroded his faith in Muzhi little by little.

Is it his father, who has failed too much?

Shen Wei looked up at the sky, and under the blue sky, pieces of flowing clouds were slowly flowing.

I'm sorry......

......

"General—" Suddenly, a soldier came quickly, and before he could get closer, he shouted out in a gaffe. Shen Wei withdrew his gaze from Liuyun, frowned at the person who ran over, and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

Before the soldier could speak, he laughed first, and while laughing, he replied excitedly: "Yes...... It's the eldest young master......"

"Big young master?" As soon as Shen Wei heard these three words, his face suddenly changed color, and he grabbed the arm of his own soldier, and asked nervously, "Is there any news about him?"

He ...... He's back!" The soldier was a little incoherent with excitement, "That's it...... Right in front ......."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Wei had already rushed out, jumped on the horse on the side, threw up a palm and slapped it on the horse's buttocks, like a wind, quickly blowing towards the gate of the barracks.

At the gate of the barracks, someone had already carried Shen Muzhi in a coma, and was walking quickly to the main account, and someone was already hurrying to find the doctor.

When Shen Wei came over on horseback, he saw them carrying a person, and he knew that it must be his son Shen Muping, so he immediately flew off the horse and rushed to him, and when he saw Shen Muping, who was unconscious and emaciated, his eyes suddenly turned red.

He hurriedly took a deep breath, and after settling down, he opened his mouth and instructed the people around him to find the doctor, and someone replied: "General, someone has already called." ”

"Send me a tent. Shen Wei said again.

"Yes!"

A bunch of people sent Shen Muping into Shen Wei's tent, until the doctor came to check his body, Shen Wei suddenly thought of something, so he walked out of the tent, called a soldier who had sent Shen Muping over before, and asked, "Where is the person who saved Muping?"

The soldier looked dazed: "Back to the general, the person was found at the door when we were patrolling, and I didn't see anyone else." ”

"Found at the door, no one else?" Shen Wei frowned.

The soldier next to him also felt that something was wrong, and asked the soldier for Shen Wei: "Think about it carefully, did anyone appear nearby at that time?"

When the soldier heard this, he really thought about it carefully, and after a while, he hesitated and said, "I did see two figures, but they were quite far away, and they were not in the same direction as the location where General Shen appeared. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Wei instructed the personal soldier: "You take someone out to chase after him immediately, and you must catch up." ”

The soldiers got the order and hurried to go.

Shen Wei waved the soldier away, turned around and returned to the tent, the doctor was still checking Shen Muping's body, but his face was already very ugly.

Shen Wei felt that something was wrong, looked at Shen Muping, and asked tentatively, "Is there something wrong?"

The doctor didn't speak immediately, and after a while, after he finished checking, he straightened up, glanced at Shen Wei, and then looked at the other people in the tent.

Those people were all Shen Wei's personal soldiers.

After Shen Wei noticed it, he waved his hand, and the soldiers immediately understood and immediately retreated.

After the person left, the doctor finally spoke: "General Xiao Shen has a lot of external injuries, but most of them have almost healed, and there is no major problem, but the qi and blood are very weak, and he needs to be recuperated for a while." ”

"That's it?" Shen Wei asked, breathing a sigh of relief.

But the doctor was silent for a moment, but sighed: "There is one more thing, although it cannot be completely confirmed, but the general had better be mentally prepared first." ”

As soon as Shen Wei heard this, the heart that he had just put down instantly rose to his throat.

He looked at the doctor and said nervously, "You say." ”

The doctor glanced at him, hesitated for a moment, and then said softly: "I'm afraid General Shen won't be able to stand up again in the future." ”

Shen Wei, who was originally standing straight, suddenly stumbled and almost fell. He looked at the doctor in great shock and asked unwillingly, "Are you sure?"

The doctor pondered for a moment and said, "General Xiao Shen's legs and heels, as well as on his left wrist, have obvious scars, I have preliminarily pinched to confirm that the tendons and veins in these three places are defective, as for whether it is as I guessed, I have to wait for General Xiao Shen to wake up, I can't know." ”

Shen Wei stood there, looking at his son lying on the bed, and the joy of reunion in his heart had been dispelled by this bad news.

The doctor looked at his face and said in a low voice: "I have just given General Xiao Shen medicine, if there is no accident, I will be able to wake up in half an hour." If the general has no other orders, I will retreat first. ”

Shen Wei waved his hand.

The doctor bowed and withdrew.

In the tent, there were only two left, Shen Wei and Shen Muping.

One is lying, the other is standing. One is asleep, the other is awake.

One person is in tears, and the other is expressionless.