Closer, closer! Some have quickened their pace, while others have stopped.

The sky was still dark, the cool fog was heavy, and after the sound of horses' hooves, there were finally figures through the fog and returned to their hometown!

Wang Tie is the former captain of this team, his ancestors have been old households in Yunjian Mansion for generations, he was conscripted into the army five years ago and went to the border army of Youzhou, after a hundred battles, he was promoted to a captain because of his merits, but it is a pity that the civilian soldiers do not have ancestral martial arts, and it is really difficult to support the perennial war wear and tear only by relying on the exercises of refining the body in the army. In the last time he was attacked by a wolf demon outside the plug, he lost a lower leg, and his blood was also badly depleted, and he was really unable to fight anymore.......

Although he was a little puzzled and didn't see his mother-in-law in the crowd, Wang Tie still held back the thoughts in his heart, felt the burning eyes around him, and he knew that the most important thing now was to tell everyone the Heroes Book and the Book of Peace. As for the more than ten wounded soldiers who followed behind him, although their eyes were firmly locked on the figures in the crowd, they all resisted the excitement of being with their families at this moment, they needed a ceremony to send the robes of the expedition to bury the bones and go home.

"Queue up, please heroes!" When all the horses in the team had arrived in front of the gate of Yunjian City, Wang Tiece immediately took a few steps forward, and although he lost a calf, he still stood tall and shouted with full of energy.

The two wounded soldiers in the queue, who had lost their arms, stepped forward and pulled out a banner with one arm on it! This banner was densely covered with names and exploits.

Wang Tie didn't even look at the words on this banner, because every name and every military exploit in this hero book had already been remembered by him!

"Yang Genbao, a person from Dayang Village, 19 years old, served in the Youzhou Military Department, went through 45 battles, beheaded eight enemy demons, and annihilated 12 bandits!

"Little Brother Zhang, a person from Zhang Zhuang, twenty-three years old, served in the Yuzhou Military Department, went through 51 battles, beheaded six enemy demons, and annihilated 32 bandits!

"Zhao Li, a person from Wu Lou, twenty years old, served in the Yuzhou Military Department, went through fifty battles, killed seven enemy demons, and annihilated twenty-one bandits!

"Zhao Hu, a former Zhao Village person, twenty-five years old, served in the Qingzhou Military Department, went through seventy-seven battles, killed seventeen enemy demons, destroyed seventy-eight bandits, and destroyed two demons.......!

Every time Wang Tie said a name and shouted a soul return, the women in front of the city gate would shout in unison a soul return, and if those women heard their husbands being called out by name, they would tear the knots of their wedding dress, revealing the plain mourning clothes hidden deep in the red wedding dress!

Lu Yu was completely shocked by everything in front of him, in his previous life and in this life, he had never experienced such a scene in front of him.

"When you are triumphant, it will be red makeup, if the jade is broken, you will be clothed in plain! Yunjian Hou, have you seen this situation and this scene?" Mr. Mingdao's tone was full of vicissitudes and heaviness.

"No, no one ever told me that if I had known, I would have gone to meet these heroes myself........"

Without waiting for Lu Yu to finish speaking, Mr. Ming Dao waved his hand, interrupted Lu Yu and said: "It's useless to tell you, this ceremony in front of the city gate, whether it is you or me, even if it is the emperor of the Tang Court, are not qualified to participate! Do you know the origin of this custom?"

"Kid doesn't know, please give me advice!" Lu Yu turned around and bowed deeply to Mr. Mingdao beside him, he knew that Mr. Mingdao must have something to tell him when he brought him here tonight.

"Hey! This custom has to start with the tragic Yumen Pass! Yumen Pass, the extreme north of Middle Earth and Kyushu, is also the most crucial eye of the Great Array of Sealing Demons and Forbidden Witches! Because the leylines there are extremely complicated, and there are often earthly qi rising upwards to disturb the order of heaven and earth, it is difficult for even the Great Array of Sealing Demons and Forbidden Witches to be absolutely effective here! The so-called "a lonely city and ten thousand mountains, and the spring breeze does not pass through the Yumen Pass" is actually a very apt description!

"Before the establishment of the Great Array of Sealing Demons and Forbidden Witches, although Yumen Pass was a lonely city, it was an out-and-out place to live in peace! Although the people there were poor, it was precisely because it was too barren that they would not be disturbed by the Lich! Then, in order to protect the Terrans of Middle Earth and Kyushu from being disturbed, after the Demon Clans were sealed in the Northern Wilderness Ancient Land, the originally inconspicuous Yumen Pass became the only "junction" between the Terrans and the Demon Clans almost in an instant!"

"On the winter solstice that year, when the yang energy was exhausted and the cold night was the longest, the earth qi surged up sharply, and the loophole of the Great Array of Sealing Demons and Forbidden Witches suddenly appeared for the first time outside the Yumen Pass!

"The wise men in the city know that if these scouts are not left behind, before the forbidden loophole is not fixed, it is very likely that there will be a large group of demon clans who will follow the loophole, and no one in the Jade Gate will have a chance of surviving at that time!

"So, in that slow and long night, one figure after another, riding a war horse, disappeared into the vast frost and mist!"

"One hour, two hours, there is no sound outside the city, it is the longest dark night of the year, and it is also the most torturous waiting for the people in the city!"

"At last a woman who had just been married returned to her boudoir, took out her wedding dress, and combed her makeup! She carried a big red lantern up the unoccupied city wall, and told the other women and children in the city: If our husbands and gentlemen succeed in triumph, we should wait for them at the gate of the city! If they die in battle, the Jade Gate Pass will not be completed!"

"I would like to make a red dress for you. ”

"If you come back, you will be dressed in red, if you don't return your clothes. ”

"I know that the sword is ruthless, and it is specially prepared. The red dress is wrapped in plain clothes, and the wedding dress is taken off, that is, it is plain clothes. ”

"I wish the red makeup to welcome the king's return, and the white clothes and plain robes to lead the king back. ”

That night, they held lamps in their hands and wore red makeup, looking forward to welcoming the king.

It's just that night, until the cold night is approaching and the dawn breaks, I only see the old horse coughing up blood and returning, and the remnants of the armor are still in Si The people have died! So, before the jade gate is closed, the red clothes are faded, ten miles of white silk, the sky is full of snow, welcome the hometown and return to the burial!

After that, people finally knew that it was the eight hundred soldiers who fought with the demon scouts all night, and finally survived until the earth sank, the loopholes were closed, and the lives of the entire city in Yumen Pass were saved. It was the eight hundred Heroic Spirits who never returned.

Since then, more and more people have gathered in Yumen Pass to spontaneously guard the frontier, which led to the later Yumen Pass, and all parts of Kyushu have also inherited the customs of Yumen Pass, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, they look forward to the return of the monarch with red makeup.