8. White in the snow

Xiongzhou.

The cold wind is howling, the wilderness is cold, most of the pedestrians and merchants on the road are in a hurry, according to previous years, there are a few days after the frost falls before it is early winter, although Xiongzhou in the north is a bitter cold boundary, but the cold weather like this season is also extremely rare, the people of Xiongzhou do not know whether this cold is related to the gods who control the weather in the sky or related to the war outside the gate of heaven

The news that Qin Xiong was seriously injured in the Tianmen Pass spread quickly, and the general Tuoba Liu, the general of the Northern Imperial Dynasty, sent more than ten teams to spy on the military situation, and captured many people in Tianmen Pass, and learned that Qin Taishou had indeed not shown up for a long time, and the former military division of the Northern Army was afraid that it was the Qianyuan Army that had set up suspicious soldiers to lure the Northern Army to go deep into Tianmen Pass, and a group of sergeants all asked the Northern Imperial Court for an order that it was not appropriate to send troops.

The general of the expedition to the south, Tuoba Liu, insisted on going his own way, did not wait for the will of the northern court, and mobilized 70,000 elites from the north to pour out of the nest, and within three days, the northern iron cavalry rushed hundreds of miles of soldiers until Tianmen Pass.

The Qin Pass army has no leader, the military division Fang Bochang ordered the deputy general to take the lead in the battle with 50,000 elite cavalry, 200 miles outside the pass Qianyuan and the north of the two armies met, the two sides tried their best to kill the two sides of the soldiers, the Beibi court issued an order, 50,000 additional troops rushed to aid Tuoba Liu, the reinforcements to the Qin Pass army was outnumbered and fled in defeat, suffered heavy casualties and retreated to the pass, the North Pi army beat the drum and shouted, Tuoba slightly cut seven Qianyuan generals, sharp and unstoppable.

The military advisor Fang Bo often wrote to the imperial court overnight to ask for help from the center, Qianyuan has been lacking in war for many years, and the southern region of the East China Sea in the north has been in flames of war, and there is no army to reinforce Tianmen Pass for a while, so he ordered to hold on.

The two armies fought three times outside the city, all of which were evenly matched, but Qin Xiong, the commander of the Qin Pass Army, still did not show up, and the northern army was full of heart, and the reinforcements were continuous.

After a number of fierce battles, there are still more than 100,000 defenders in Tianmen Pass, Fang Bochang issued three military orders in a row, stifling the momentum of the northern army attacking the city, and for more than a month, the Qin Pass army relied on the city pass to firmly defend the northern border.

Originally, the northern border that had not seen the war for several years suddenly ignited the beacon fire, the people in Tianmen Pass panicked, and the merchants and merchants fled out of Tianmen Pass overnight, and went to Xiongzhou City.

The news of the war at Tianmen Pass spread very quickly, and the people of Xiongzhou City, which is adjacent to Tianmen Pass, had long been panicked, and the people fled to Anzhou.

The recruiting offices of Tianmen Pass and Xiongzhou have become decorations, and most of the people who are staying up in the bitter cold are crop men, and they don't have so many feelings for their family and country in their hearts, just hoping that this kind of catastrophe will not suddenly hit their heads, and very few people are willing to die on the battlefield.

For a time, Tianmen Pass fell into a critical situation, the Qianyuan Imperial Court did not reinforce for a long time, the life and death of Qin Xiong was uncertain, and the local army could not recruit soldiers, the Qin Pass army had no power to regenerate, the military spirit was turbulent, and it was difficult to resist the tigers and wolves in the north for a long time.

When the people of countless Tianmen Pass scrambled to escape and ascend to heaven, a dazzling figure rode into Tianmen Pass, and the horseman was a young man in brocade clothes, with a simple long sword hanging on his waist and rode a horse to the recruitment office of the Qinguan army.

A middle-aged man with slightly closed eyes holding a long sword wrapped in a white cloth went out of the city with the people out of the city through the gate of heaven, and passed by the brocade-clothed young man riding a horse.

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Xiongzhou.

Taking advantage of the sunset, he cleaned the dead leaves scattered in the backyard of the broken temple, looked at the depressed yellow branches on the trees in the courtyard, and muttered in a low voice: "The weather is cold early." ”

Since the cold dew Chen Changge rarely out of the broken temple, his friend Xiang Tiancheng left to the north to join the army after he practiced with the two masters in this broken temple, during the day with the white-clothed master Zhang Baisheng to practice some mystical truths, in his spare time with the monk master Ji Rong to practice the pace of posture, fifteen years Chen Changge has not thought that the crazy master Ji Rong will actually be martial arts, take things from the air at his fingertips, these years have not paid attention to the scattered pace is also quite orderly, repeated coming and going is quite beneficial.

Since Xiongzhou City's one of the best sons and daughters Xiang Tiancheng left to join the army, during this time the threshold of the broken temple was broken by the Xiang family slaves, the old man of the Xiang family had a daughter when he was young, and he had a son in middle age, and he did not have this family business when he got a child, but he was just an ordinary rich and noble family, when the youngest son Xiang Tiancheng was seven years old, he saw his sister being taken captive by the people of the North, and most of the Xiang family's wealth was not found, and the body was found outside the Tianmen Pass half a month later。

Sent four waves of slaves to Tianmen Pass to find the news of the son, all in vain, only heard that the city gate restaurant saw a young man in brocade clothes riding a horse to recruit troops Yamen, in the final analysis, just ordinary rich people, born without a family, the government and the opposition have no branches, except for money and other things, want to find out the news in the Xiongguan army in the midst of the war is difficult to reach the sky, Xiongzhou friends with most of the officials can not reach out to the Qinguan army, I heard that the front and reached the siege of the city, the old man of the Xiang family heart like a knife.

The north wind whistled by, and the cold wind swept away the last few fallen leaves on the dry branches, Chen Changge stretched out his hand to catch the fallen leaves, looking at the dry and curled lines of the dead leaves, and suddenly thought.

For a long time, the cold wind blew away the fallen leaves, and a crystal snowflake fell in Chen Changge's palm, Chen Changge, who originally watched the falling leaves, changed to look at the snowflakes, and the slightly cool touch appeared again after half a year, and the sky was cloudy, causing the ice crystals in the snowflakes not to shine, but to rise with a cold winter breath, and it melted after a few moments.

At the intersection of autumn and winter, the cold is still warm, a snowflake is more inaudible than a drop in the ocean in the vast world, but it can end the warm autumn and summer, and take the people of the world into the winter, knowing that they are not like the number nine wind and snow can not survive for a long time, still insist on coming to this vast world, just to bloom its cold winter snow to the world, some people are the same, right?

The scene of tears choking when his friend broke the temple and drank came to mind, Chen Changge was silent, some people in this world are like this, for the things that he insists on in his heart, even if he is immersed in the sun and the moon with all living beings, even if he is annihilated and the hustle and bustle of the sky is unknown, he will eventually go to him, no matter whether he is in the sky or the bitter purgatory, he must also step forward, end some withered and dilapidated things, and say to the careless world: Fuck it.

Then it doesn't matter if it is extinguished or bloomed, whether this is righteousness or stinginess, Chen Changge does not know.

In the early winter, Xiongzhou, the snow is getting heavier and heavier, and the white clothes are standing under the trees, looking at the snow that has been swaying with the wind since the nine days, smiling, letting the snow cover the white clothes, the broken temple, the heaven and the earth, and the missing trace in people's hearts.

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The heavy snow fell silently between the heavens and the earth, and the snowflakes swayed in, and the people of Xiongzhou in the bitter cold land forgot how many years the first snow had not fallen so much.

The heavy snow is like this, watering every inch of land in Xiongzhou, watering the people of Xiongzhou who were disturbed by the war, watering the hustle and bustle between heaven and earth, from afternoon to evening and into night.

The inside and outside of the ruined temple were all silvery white, and the last dead leaf on the old tree in the courtyard could not withstand the torture of the wind and snow, and fell with the north wind, and disappeared in the snow.

Under the ancient trees in the courtyard, the master and apprentice stood opposite each other, letting the wind and snow beat and not moving.

There are wind and snow on the two white clothes in the courtyard, only the sloppy monk Ji Rong flows in front of him, bounces off the snowflakes, more than ten years ago Longyan Temple hermit monk Zhang Dingyi once asked the old monk, why the monks are so resistant to natural things, when the old monk Fu Xu laughed: "Monk I am a human fireworks, if it is washed away by this rootless thing for no reason, wouldn't it be a pity?"

A few years later, Zen Master Hui Cong, the abbot of Longyan Temple, learned of this incident and sighed: "The Buddha is the Buddha, and the Zen is the Buddha's heart." ”

Under the tree, the old monk Jirong shook the ground with one foot, Gang Jin rose from the monk's feet, came out of the ups and downs, the snow churned out where it passed, there was an ancient well in the corner of the backyard, it was for several people in the temple to drink, the water in the well was sweet and sweet, the old monk Gang was strong, the wellhead was originally broken by the thin ice condensed by the wind and snow, and then the ancient well rolled up and rose like boiling, a few breaths of time, a water column jumped up from the well and went straight to the sky.

A pillar of silver light can be faintly seen in the water column, the original wind and snow seem to be suddenly stagnant, the already cold and biting north wind is a little colder, the water column jumps dozens of zhang and no longer rises, and the bright silver light in the water column is upside down and rushes down.

In the cold wind, a bright silver spear fell from mid-air, mixed with ice crystals formed by the condensation of countless well water, obliquely inserted in front of Chen Changge, and the ice blue spear hung down in the snow and shone cold.

The gun is one foot and two feet long, the whole body is bright silver, the tip of the gun is one and a half feet long, two inches wide, the diamond-shaped blade, the left and right sides are thin like cicada wings, there are cold lines before and after, the gun blade is engraved with treacherous cloud maps, the ice blue gun is dazzling in the snowy night, the gun body is carved with a salamander moving mountain, and the gun body is extremely gorgeous around the gun body.

The sloppy monk looked at the ancient spear that had been sleeping in the ancient well for seventeen years, and smiled heartily, and said softly, "Try it." ”

Chen Changge stretched out his hand to hold the body of the gun, and in an instant, he only felt a chill rising from his arm and instantly penetrating his limbs, and the cold chill came to his bones, and a layer of clearly visible white frost condensed on Chen Changge's body, and the frost rose up along his arm and rushed straight to the door.

The white-clothed young man's eyebrows flickered with an extremely light golden light, and the white frost that had condensed on his arm dissipated, and the chill was not as piercing as before.

"Nine palaces of luck, then condense the dantian, go down to Yongquan, and go up to Lao Palace. The voice of the drunken monk Jirong sounded in Chen Changge's ears.

Chen Changge was lucky in turn, his feet fell to the ground, and the strength in his hands soared, and he suddenly pulled out the ice blue spear that went deep into the bluestone, Chen Changge only felt that a giant beast roared in his ears, like a tiger roaring on the mountain hill and like a dragon roaring all over the world, deafening.

"Unstoppable, the python can also fight the dragon. ”

In the snowy night, a young man in white held a bright silver spear, churning in the wind and snow, with an awe-inspiring momentum.

(Due to the new crown, the article respects white)