Cheng Yuan didn't expect that he would see his brother in such a situation.

Cheng Xun knelt next to a charred corpse as if he had lost his soul, and the wooden buildings around him were burned to the black.

"Big brother—"

Cheng Yuan tried to call a sentence, his eyes were full of doubts and uncertainties.

Because of the big age difference between the brothers, Cheng Yuan's deepest impression of his brother is his hard-working figure under the window, and words like greedy and slack will never have anything to do with Cheng Xun. After Cheng Xun got married, he took his wife to serve as an official in other places, and Cheng Yuan followed his father, so the two brothers did not have much contact. Despite this, the two are still closer than ordinary scholars, and Cheng Yuan also respects and admires his brother very much.

After many years of separation, Cheng Yuan still wanted his brother to see his current growth, and the two brothers sat down to catch up and talk about family life.

However, the world makes people, Cheng Xun is out of Shi Xu Pei, and Cheng Yuan works for Jiang Pengji, and the positions of the two brothers are hostile.

When the two tigers fight, one must be injured, Xu Pei fails, and Cheng Xun is about to face the situation of becoming a prisoner.

Cheng Yuan was afraid that the soldiers would hurt Cheng Xun, so he hurried over.

Probably because of good luck, Cheng Yuan didn't take many detours to find Cheng Xun.

He ordered the soldiers to retreat, stepped forward, and stood beside Cheng Xun.

The air was filled with the strange smell of burnt raw meat, with a faint disgusting smell of blood and iron.

Cheng Yuan's eyes moved to the scorched corpse, and a bold thought crept up to the tip of his heart-

Big brother looks like this, could it be that this charred corpse is Xu Pei?

Before he could come up with an answer, Cheng Xun moved his stiff neck, and his eyes were crawling with bloodshot of different thicknesses.

"Gongliao, I didn't expect you to come. ”

Cheng Xun still refuses to accept the reality, but Cheng Yuan's appearance makes his last trace of defense collapse and collapse.

Cheng Yuan saw that his brother's mood was wrong, and he didn't dare to speak much, so as not to touch Cheng Xun's sensitive and fragile nerves.

Without waiting for Cheng Yuan to speak, Cheng Xun sneered and asked rhetorically, "You want to take someone to capture me?"

The younger brother was afraid that the soldiers below would not be serious and offend the elder brother, so he hurried over. Even if they are captured, the younger brother will not allow them to hurt or humiliate the eldest brother, which is reassuring. Cheng Yuan said honestly, "Seriously calculated, the eldest brother has been away from home for ten years, and his father and mother miss the eldest brother very much. The second old man is getting old, the eldest brother might as well go back and see them-"

Cheng Yuan subconsciously moved out of the family.

At the mention of his parents, Cheng Xun's numb gaze was a little more wavering, like a lake wrinkled by the breeze, and soon disappeared.

"I can't serve my parents at home, it's for my brother's sake. In the future, Gongliao will have to think more about it. ”

Cheng Yuan felt a sigh in his heart, and an ominous premonition crept into his heart, and he couldn't get rid of it.

"What do you mean by this, eldest brother?" Cheng Yuan said, "Serving your parents is the responsibility of a son of man, and you are still the eldest son in the family!"

He had a hunch that if he didn't wake up Cheng Xun at this time, maybe the other party would make some crazy moves.

"The lord was defeated and forced to self-immolate - such a deep hatred, Gongliao, do you say that as a brother and a courtier, should you avenge the lord?"

Cheng Xun raised his hand to shake off Cheng Yuan's hand and struggled to stand up.

He had been kneeling for too long, his legs were numb and bruised, and if he hadn't supported himself with perseverance, he would have collapsed in embarrassment.

Cheng Yuan's face turned white, if Cheng Xun was revenge, wouldn't it be-

He shuddered, Cheng Yuan could be sure that his brother was going to do something, or that the other party's mood was already wrong.

"The Lord has treated me with the grace of recreation. Cheng Xundao.

Cheng Yuan gritted his teeth, eager to shake his brother's shoulder to shake him awake, what kind of ecstasy soup did Xu Pei pour into him, "Credible Zhaogong has been defeated! The winner is the king, and the loser is the villain, it has been so cruel since ancient times." If the person who was defeated today is not Xinzhaogong but the lord, and the eldest brother thinks that Xinzhaogong will generously let her go? Raising fire and self-immolation is Xinzhaogong's own choice rather than persecution, so how can there be hatred?"

It is true that a scholar dies for a confidant, and Cheng Yuan also admires those celebrities and celebrities who are high-spirited.

However, these words rested on the relatives around him, but Cheng Yuan couldn't accept it.

The eldest brother Cheng Xun has parents, children, and a good wife who married him.

Why did Cheng Xun abandon everything and go with the old master without saying a word?

The five kingdoms of the world began to appear in chaos, and there were forty or fifty large and small princes in Dongqing alone.

Most of them were swallowed up and eaten by the neighboring princes without even making a small splash, and now Xu Pei is just following their old path.

His brother has only been under Xu Pei's account for three or four years, and Cheng Yuan doesn't think Xu Pei is good, why is his brother dead?

Cheng Xun sneered and spoke loudly.

"I swear not to surrender to Liu Xi, let alone go along with such villains. ”

No matter how well Jiang Pengji does it, she is not orthodox in Cheng Xun's eyes, but she is from the scholar clan and does despicable actions, being kind to the poor and alienating the scholar clan, and she has done everything for the people all these years, but she is just a sanctimonious hypocrite.

To put it bluntly, she is just carrying the banner of righteousness and planning for herself, disrespecting orthodox rebels.

In addition to Xu Pei's self-immolation, Cheng Xun also couldn't accept that he would work with a group of people who couldn't get on the stage after his surrender.

Cheng Yuan was anxious and angry, how could his own lord let people slander him at will?

Not even if this man is his own brother.

"The lord is a master who really has the ambition to calm the four seas, and even her father agrees with her, why is the eldest brother so stubborn?"

Cheng Yuan regretted it as soon as he said this, not that he regretted refuting it, but that he regretted that he spoke too much.

Cheng Xun snorted contemptuously.

"How can it be done if you are a reckless and despicable man!"

Cheng Yuan didn't want to argue with him, lest the two brothers quarrel with him.

"Eldest brother might as well calm down, think more about his parents, sister-in-law, nephews and nieces at home, a Xu Pei is really worthy of your trust? He was born in a scholar clan, but he is definitely not the master that the eldest brother is looking for, even if he is not the lord, he will be defeated in the hands of another person. Cheng Yuan said, "The eldest brother dislikes the lord and doesn't want to be obedient, so it's okay to be at home." When the world is peaceful, it is not impossible to show your ambitions. ”

Cheng Xun sneered and said, "The Tao is not the same!"

He and Liu Xi will never be fellow travelers.

Let him do things under this man's tent or snort on his back, and would rather die!

Cheng Yuan had no choice but to summon someone to come in and temporarily detain Cheng Xun, so as not to make him irrational for a while.

Xu Pei just died, or the death method of self-immolation, which was a huge blow to Cheng Xun's spirit.

Unexpectedly, Cheng Xun drew his sword to fight, but the soldiers did not dare to be ruthless because of his identity, but stabbed several swords.

Cheng Xun laughed coldly twice, his expression was crazy, and he caught a glimpse of the stone wall in the courtyard, and a trace of ruthlessness flashed in his heart.

"No—"

Cheng Yuan was also injured in the arm by Cheng Xun in the blockade, and before he woke up, he saw Cheng Xun hit the wall, and he was shocked.

There was a muffled thud in the air—

A large pool of blood stained the blackened walls.