Chapter 1168: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell

A lamp leads to each other, supporting the undead, and the bucket lamp is placed in the rice, and the life is endless.

The ghost door is wide open during the Midyear Festival, the dead are in charge, and the living are not allowed to spend the night outside. As soon as the hour passed, there was no longer a single figure in the streets and alleys of Changsu. The river that surrounds the city is filled with countless river lanterns, and the water ghosts and other lonely spirits that have fallen into the water show them the way forward.

There were half as many soldiers stationed at the gates as before, and the ranks of patrols were much thinner than usual. As the night approached, people were tired and sleepy, and the sky was dark, adding to the gloomy atmosphere. The temperature plummeted, and the soldiers guarding the gate craned their necks with their hands and feet folded.

"This is a ...... of the hell," one of them muttered, and the others slapped him on the back of the head when they heard it: "I'm going to die, don't say that word tonight." As soon as he finished speaking, he found that he had also committed a taboo, and the man couldn't help but spit a few mouthfuls, patted his mouth, and then folded his hands and bowed around a few times.

"Bad spirits do not work for good spirits, bad spirits do not work for good spirits......"

"Chang Liu!" A call sounded from under the city gate, and Chang Liu was so frightened that he almost didn't fall to the ground.

"Lord Bai. He leaned out with a sad face, and when he found that the person who came was Bai Shaoqing, he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, and then said with a crying voice: "My lord, I'm going to frighten us, it's not a good day today, it's better for my lord not to speak loudly." ”

Bai Shaoqing smiled, raised the wine and food in his hand, and went up to the city tower as he spoke: "I just know that you are afraid, so I specially brought good wine to give you courage." "He was on duty today, and he should have arrived earlier, but he deliberately came until midnight, firstly to prepare these good wines and dishes, and secondly, because the people of the bowl were watching closely, and he had to draw their eyes so that the others had time to prepare.

Chang Liumei took the wine and food with a smile, smelled it, and couldn't help sighing: "It's so fragrant, Madame's craftsmanship is getting better and better, and our brothers are blessed." As he spoke, several people patrolling the wall also followed the aroma to find him.

"Today is the Midyear Festival, everyone should be at home with their families, but because of their duties, they stick to the city gate, which is really hard. The night is cold, and the big guy drinks some wine to warm up. After Shaoqing finished speaking, he drank the wine himself, took the lead in picking up a bowl, and said: "It's been a year, and I Bai Shaoqing haven't done anything for the big guys, I know, many of you actually disdain me, indeed, I am a little arrogant, but I have never had bad intentions, there is something wrong, and I hope that all the brothers will bear with me, I will do it first for respect!"

"That, in fact, we ......" Chang Liu smiled wryly, and continued: "Actually, we don't have any dissatisfaction, in the countryside, it is inevitable that outsiders will be rejected, Lord Bai is younger than us, but as soon as he came, he climbed on our heads, everyone was jealous in private, chattering, haha, hahahaha." Chang Liu laughed awkwardly, and several people on the side also echoed. Bai Shaoqing knew it, and he didn't expose it, but only reached out and poured another bowl.

The men saw that he had filled another bowl, and busily drank the liquor in their hands, and then sat around the table, and reached out to twist the steaming rabbit meat and ate it.

"Speaking of which, Zhongyuan has also passed a lot, it seems that other places are not as cautious as we are, there are not a few people who walk the streets and alleys in the middle of the night, why is there no one in Changsu at night?" Bai Shaoqing said and filled a bowl for everyone, Chang Liu glanced at a few people around him, wanted to speak and stopped, and after a long time, he patted his thigh and said, "Alas, this should not be said, especially on a night like today." ”

A few people next to him shrank their necks and shuddered, and stopped them repeatedly: "Don't say it, this thing is still taboo." ”

Bai Shaoqing paused his hands, looked up at a few of them, and suddenly laughed loudly: "Why, there is really an allusion? Could it be something terrifying? I have grown so big, I have fought countless battles large and small, and I have never encountered anything unclean, looking at the appearance of a few of you, I am so scared, ha, I really believe that there are ghosts in this world!"

"Don't dare to talk nonsense!" Chang Liuyi was anxious when he heard this, stomped the wine bowl in his hand, and saw Bai Shaoqing's disdainful look, and even more sullen breathed into his heart: "This is what my father'......s generation has clearly seen!

"Oh, what else?" Bai Shaoqing raised his eyebrows and laughed again with some disapproval.

"Really, really, they used to say that at night in Zhongyuan, they often heard ......" Before the man's words were finished, Bai Shaoqing suddenly stretched out his index finger and put it to his mouth, "Shhhhh

A clear "boom" sound came into my ears, not big, but very clear, like a child crying, and like a woman moaning in pain. The sound flickered left and right, and seemed to be under the castle tower, and it seemed to be floating far away.

The men swallowed at the same time, and their faces turned white.

"Lao, Lao Jiu, you, go and see, is ...... Who is making trouble there!" Chang Liu instructed the youngest Lao Jiu to check, where did Lao Jiu get up, and he couldn't get under the table with a miserable white face: "I'm not going!

Bai Shaoqing frowned, got up and walked to the edge of the city tower, and when everyone saw that he had gone, they could only follow him hard.

The silent street was empty, the cry suddenly disappeared, Chang Liu and the others breathed a long sigh of relief, and when they reached out to wipe the beads of sweat on their foreheads, they suddenly saw a figure appear on the other side of the street. No, not one, but a tall black shadow on a horse.

The horse was black, and it looked quite muscular, but strangely enough, it walked without making a sound, and as it approached step by step, it could not hear even the sound of the horse's hooves.

Chang Liu's scalp is numb, and the whole person is not good.

That man walked through the street with the lights shining brightly, like a ghost envoy from hell, and it was terrifying. Chang Liu felt that his tongue was very dry, and everything in front of him seemed to be shaking.

"Ghost ...... Ghost ......" Lao Jiu was so frightened that he was incoherent, and several people crowded back, and at this moment, Bai Shaoqing suddenly turned around and picked up the longbow placed by the wall, pulled the bow and released the string, and shot at the black shadow on the horseback.

"Ahh The sharp arrow came in an instant, but the black shadow did not fall, but curled up after the arrow, and in an instant, the body stretched out, turning into countless fluttering moths, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

"Trouble...... Trouble ......" Chang Liu muttered, his body shook and fainted to the ground, and as he fell, the people around him also fell to the ground one after another.

Bai Shaoqing hid into the darkness and took a closer look, until he saw a person going straight to the direction of the barracks from the street, and then walked quickly to the corner, turned the winch and lowered the pedal of the moat.

When the whistle sounded, several people and horses quickly appeared on the other side of the street, and the black horse turned over and ran towards the city gate first.

"Let's go!" Bai Shaoqing jumped down and landed firmly behind Yu Mo, Yu Mo looked back, but she couldn't see Ying Li's figure.

Race against time!

Everyone knew that the chasing soldiers would arrive soon, and they also knew that Li Changsu would do his best to buy time for everyone, so after leaving Changsu City, several people divided into two roads according to the plan, Qin Zhen and Leng Scarlet Rouyu Mo and the team took the waterway to the east, and the other three turned into the trail through the avenue, pulling the sight of the pursuers, and at the same moment when several people were separated, Changsu's military camp fell into a sea of fire!