Shi Jiaheng's mount still ran away in the fight, and Yan Qingshuang gave him the flame horse. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe two rode horses and parted ways.

Three days later, the defenders of Smoke Treasure City received a ransom from Tuoba, along with a letter of war with murderous intent. The book states that three days ago on the night, a Tiansheng army killed Tuobadu's youngest son, Tuoba Du, Tuoba Jue in order to avenge the pain of losing his son, his eldest son Tuoba Hui recently attacked and killed Xunbao City, vowing to wash the city with blood, kill people and sacrifice blood, in order to avenge this revenge. The inhabitants of the city were horrified and fled.

Yan Qingshuang was also ransom, but in addition to the ransom, she also received another thing that made her angry - a marriage proposal.

When the nurse saw the marriage letter sent by Tuoba, she was so frightened that her face was bloodless, and she wanted to move out again. Yan Qingshuang angrily tore the marriage book to the ground, and fearlessly drew a knife and threatened: "If they dare to come, I will chop them to the ground." ”

The nurse was shocked and stopped: "Seeing that there is another war, this place is becoming more and more unsafe, why don't we move out of this place and go to the south of the Yellow River to find a place with beautiful mountains and rivers to live in." ”

Luo Gang's face was embarrassed, he hesitated for a long time and suddenly sighed: "I can't walk with you anymore." He looked at the puzzled looks of the two, gritted his teeth and said, "Because I am a prisoner of the imperial court." ”

The nurse whispered, and Luo Gang continued: "I used to be the vanguard of General Chu Zhonglian Chu. ”

The nurse trembled in fright, the dazed Yan Qingshuang hurriedly held her arm, she looked at Luo Gang, and tears gradually welled up in her eyes.

Luo Gang did it beside her and held her hand, and comforted: "Don't be afraid. When General Chu was defeated, I was lucky enough to pick up a life, and then I was pursued by the imperial court and was named a prisoner. I stayed in the land of the clouds and made my home everywhere, the people in the clouds were complicated, the Han and the Hu lived together, and I lived peacefully over the years. I'm afraid that if I return south with you, once the sin is exposed, it will affect your mother and daughter. ”

The nurse grabbed his hand and wept uncontrollably. He stroked her back and said suddenly: "Everyone in the world knows that the general was defeated and died, and he is a sinner in the court, but he doesn't know that there is a great grievance in it. Back then, we were in our hands and we would not have been defeated, but because of one person, this person was ambitious and well-dressed, he falsely spread military information, misled the general, and led the general into the trap of Tuoba, just to get rid of this Chu family's sister-in-law, so that he could monopolize the power of the Chu family. ”

The nurse's body shook violently, and she trembled: "The person you are talking about, should you ...... Could it be ......?"

Luo Gang, who has a broad personality, rarely shows such a hateful expression, his eyes are bloodshot, and he says hatefully: "Not only did this person not be punished and retributed, but he made steady progress all the way, and within a few years, he actually became the prime minister of the dynasty. ”

The nurse screamed, fell backwards and fainted. Luo Gang blamed himself and regretted that he shouldn't have told her such a horrific thing, causing her to fall into a coma.

When the nurse woke up in the evening and saw Yan Qingshuang's anxious face, she cried bitterly when she pulled her, and even said that she had committed a great sin. She kept asking what the sin was, but the nurse was like a fish in her throat and couldn't say anything.

When she stopped crying, she sat still for a moment, and instantly became excited again, she rummaged through the cabinets like crazy, and found a heavy package from it, she could barely hold it alone, Luo Gang rushed over to help.

Luo Gang easily put the package on the table, and the nurse opened the package, and a finely made, beautiful red lacquered wooden box was presented in front of everyone. She carefully opened the lid and removed the contents.

Yan Qingshuang took a closer look, and it turned out to be a small phoenix crown that had been placed on the top for a long time, and the light had been a little dim. The phoenix crown is cast of pure gold, lifelike, the phoenix mouth contains a crystal night pearl, the wings of the golden phoenix are opened, and the tail is fan-shaped to stand behind him, showing the noble honor of the king of birds. Below the phoenix crown is a multicolored square scarf folded squarely, embroidered with floral patterns on both sides, one side is the dragon and phoenix Chengxiang, and the other side is Luan Feng and Ming. The pattern is rigorous and delicate, bright and smooth, and the color is bright, which is a rare masterpiece in embroidery.

The nurse gave her both things, and said sadly and solemnly, "These two things are your mother's relics. The phoenix crown was forged by your grandfather when she got married, and this brocade was the most cherished by your mother among the dowry gifts given by your father when he asked to marry. ”

She held the heavy and valuable phoenix crown and finally believed that she was indeed from an extraordinary family.

Luo Gang quietly looked at the object in her hand, pinching his beard and being speechless. Although the phoenix crown is luxurious, but there are so many Zhongming Ding food homes in the Central Plains, it is not surprising to cast such a phoenix crown, but the brocade is quite regional, he soon saw through it, and asked softly: "This is a Shu brocade that is difficult to change?" ”

The nurse nodded, and then instructed: "Miss, since I am married to your master, I can't go with you." But you must return to Guannai, this place is not a place where Han people live for a long time. How can you marry a foreign race or those vulgar and unruly peddlers and apprentices with your background, there is not even a decent scholar here, you are close to age, and you really shouldn't waste time here. I want to think about it, you take these two things to Shunan to find a person named Bai Biao. Although he is arrogant and acts upside down, I know that he is a righteous gentleman, and he is the most helpful to others, and you only say that you are the daughter of an old man, and beg to take him in, and he will definitely take care of you. As for the rest...... I can only resign myself to fate. She wept again.

No matter how calm Luo Gang was, he couldn't hide his surprise when he heard the name of "Bai Biao", he held his beard and pondered, but he couldn't help but ask: "It turns out that your family still has a relationship with Bai Biao." ”

The nurse seemed to be unable to answer the question because of sobbing, but he took the lead in telling him calmly: "I won't hide it from you, Bai Biao is my friend for eight worships, but he had some ties with General Chu back then, and we have not communicated since we had a quarrel." I know that he is not a person with a small amount of grudges, but he just can't save face and get back to me. Although Bai Biao is a little deviant, he is indeed a reliable gentleman, and I am relieved that Qingshuang will go to him. If I take a letter from you and take it with you, the place where he lives is very secret, and you can't inquire about it, but it just so happens that I know that I will give you the map, and you can go and find it. As he spoke, he took out a private seal from his pocket and handed it to Yan Qingshuang and said, "Bai Biao's pair of soft swords and iron swords are all from my hand, and they are all printed with private seals. ”

Although she had taken the words of the nurse and the master to heart, she was reluctant to leave the two. But the nurse and Luo Gang insisted that she leave, but she was not worried about the safety of the two. Luo Gang decided to wait for Yan Qingshuang to leave, and then take his wife to Siam City in the south to temporarily avoid the war.

Yan Qingshuang pretended to agree for the sake of the two of them. Before leaving, the nurse stayed up for several nights in a row to make a few new clothes for her. She liked the royal blue silk dress very much, and she never looked away when she saw it, she rarely expressed her preferences in front of others, and always wrapped her emotions in an indifferent appearance, but the nurse could read her mind from one of her eyes. It is a woman's nature to love beauty, and she is no exception. Her girlish thoughts made the nurse very happy, and she always hugged her to Luo Gang in private, too calmly, too coldly. What Luo Gang gave her was a more practical self-defense, a gold needle and a golden knife modified with a bewildering bird feather, the tip of the needle was quenched with poison, and a set of delicate small wooden shells was made, which looked like nothing more than individual hairpins.

She put her things away, and thought that overnight she would have to live a wandering life away from her loved ones. She actually wants to live and die with them, and she is more afraid of the loneliness of wandering alone, but she can't say it, and she doesn't want to see them sad because of their stubbornness, so they can only suffer and endure themselves. The numb perception strengthened her endurance, and stability and happiness seemed to be out of reach for her forever, perhaps she was destined to move forward alone. In the face of a cruel and unforgiving life, she has long established her beliefs: "Since I am doomed to lose, I would rather have nothing." "Possession is temporary, loss is eternal, whether it is happiness or pain, life is just a big dream that wakes up.

After leaving the city, she did not immediately go south, but took up residence in a deserted mud hut outside the city, and did not leave until the two of them reached Siam safely.

Since receiving Tuoba's war letter, Shi Lie personally went to Xunbao to convene the generals to discuss day and night. All the generals sharpened their knives and wanted to fight with the Tuoba thieves, but Shi Jiaheng calmly resisted, and he offered a plan, which attracted everyone's praise, and even Shi Lie did not shy away from agreeing with his son's plan for the first time.

The generals unanimously passed, and they moved in full swing according to the deployment. Notices were posted in the city to requisition labor to fortify the walls and build fortifications. Luo Gang happened to see that the enthusiasm for serving the country and protecting the people suddenly ignited, so he wanted to stay and fight the enemy with the soldiers and civilians in the city, but when he returned home, he couldn't help but sigh when he saw his weak wife. The nurse and his husband and wife naturally understood his thoughts, she held her husband's hand, her soft eyes were full of firmness, he suddenly laughed, and the two instantly understood each other's meaning: since they were determined that husband and wife would never be separated, why should they care about life and death.

They put the packed bags back in the closet and decided to stay. On the second day, Luo Gang signed up to build the city wall with a group of young men who were teenagers younger than him, and his hard work and hard work won the praise of everyone. When the general who oversaw the project learned that he was the best iron caster in the city, he personally asked him to make weapons for the Tiansheng army.

Luo Gang cherishes his craftsmanship very much, and the knives used in daily trading are just tools that he uses to make a living, and no more than ten weapons with his seal have been forged so far and have been given to the top masters of the rivers and lakes who are good friends with him. This time, he was ordered to make weapons for the Tiansheng Army, and rarely took out twelve points of hard work, and led craftsmen to create dozens of swords, all of which were rare treasures, and one of the silver-plated knives was sent to Shi Haoxing.

Shi Haoheng is obsessed with martial arts, loves to collect all kinds of weapons, as soon as he saw the soldier send this knife, he only saw the cold silver light on the knife from a distance and snatched it happily, he held the knife and danced in the room a few times, the knife wind actually split a vase, he laughed, held the knife and looked at it repeatedly, and caressed the smooth knife body with his hand.

He was raising his sleeve to wipe his knife when there was a loud noise outside the door, and he roared impatiently, but the noise intensified. He was about to open his mouth to train people, several soldiers twisted one of them and pushed the door in, and his deputy general Xu Fan then entered and announced: "The general took a group of people outside the city to sneak into the city and was found by his subordinates, and his subordinates suspected that this person was a Tuoba spy, so the general brought him and asked the general to send him down." ”

As soon as Shi Haoheng heard the spirit, he was about to find someone to try the knife, but the thief obediently sent it to the door, he put the knife on the table heavily, and the sound shook the hearts of the arrested people. He looked at the person above him and suddenly fell to his knees, kowtowed with tears in his eyes, and said, "The general is wronged." ”

Shi Haohui snorted and asked, "What grievances do you have?" ”

The man looked honest and aggrieved, sobbed, and said with tears in his eyes: "The villain's name is Yu Chengtang, and he is the person who smokes treasures. My father was originally from Luyang and served in the Tiansheng Army, but after leaving the barracks due to injury and illness, he married a wife and had children in Xunbao. When I was nineteen years old, it coincided with the great battle between the Tiansheng Army and the Prairie Alliance Army, and my father ordered me to join the army to kill the enemy, and when he left, he told me not to desert and take prisoners. But then I was captured by the Tuoba soldiers, and I wanted to obey my father's orders and die. But the Tuoba soldiers tortured me to survive and die, so I was forced to surrender and worked as a slave in Tuoba for more than ten years, responsible for transporting bricks and stones. Five years ago, I deceived the drunken guards and escaped with a few Han Chinese from the quarry, and with the skills forced out of the Tuoba to do some stone business in the Fengcheng area, and later made a fortune, just like going home to see my parents. As he spoke, he began to cry again, rolling up his sleeves, which were full of old whiplashes, layered on top of each other, countless, and made people's hearts ache when they looked at them, and several soldiers couldn't help but raise their sleeves to wipe their tears and let go of their hands.

Looking at Tuoba's evil deeds, Shi Haoheng deepened his hatred for the enemy, he helped Yu Chengtang to sit down, and continued to listen to him cry: "But how can I have the face to see my parents? He must have thought that his son's whereabouts were unknown all these years and he must have died in battle, but who knew that I had been a prisoner for more than ten years, and I had survived secretly. I didn't dare to come to look for my parents until a few days ago I heard from a brother who went to Xunbao to deliver the war that Tuoba had sent a war book, and I couldn't rest assured, so I hurriedly wanted to come and see my parents. But I am worried that my parents are no longer alive, and I am afraid that I can make them forgive when I see my parents. Therefore, he lingered at the gate of the city for a long time, but was misunderstood by several military masters as a Tuoba spy. ”

Strange that his accent sounded weird, Shi Haojing said in his heart, I think he was a little influenced by them after staying in Tuoba for a long time. He patted Yu Chengtang on the shoulder to reassure him, and hurriedly sent soldiers to look for his parents according to the address he said. He fell to his knees again in gratitude, and cried thanks: "I beg the general to re-admit me into the Tiansheng army, although I cannot fight, I am willing to carry iron and stone with these soldiers, and my brothers are also willing to follow the general to avenge those relatives who were killed by Tuoba." He kept kowtowing, and resolutely said that if Shi Haoheng didn't agree, he wouldn't get up.

When the Tiansheng army was employing people, Shi Haoheng of course happily agreed to his request, he stood up and added: "I happen to have a batch of good timber, masonry and stone under my command dedicated to the general, hoping to do a little bit for the army and people of Xunbao." ”

Shi Haoheng readily agreed and ordered Xu Fan to take him down to rest. The two had just come down the stairs and happened to meet Shi Jiaheng head-on.

Yu Chengtang shrunk his neck and bowed respectfully.

Shi Jiaheng raised his eyes to look at him, and saw that this person was thin and short, and his appearance was unremarkable, except that two mustaches were curled up on his lips, which looked very funny, and his eyes were dull and dull with tears, like a half-dead mouse.

Seeing that he was unfamiliar, Shi Jiaheng asked cautiously. Xu Fan made a long story short, only saying that he was a timber merchant who came to join the army, and Shi Haoheng had already interrogated him, and there was no problem.

Since his brother had already passed the review, Shi Jiaheng nodded and let him go.

He stepped into his brother's house with a happy face and locked the door. When Shi Haoheng saw his younger brother coming, he happily showed him his newly acquired good knife. He stroked his right hand and flicked the blade, the knife trembled slightly, and there was a faint sound. He praised again and again: "Good knife." ”

Shi Haoheng excitedly pulled his younger brother to tell him the origin of this knife, but Shi Jiaheng pressed his hand and said, "I'm not busy." Brother, just after the spies reported, the person who led the troops to attack the city this time has been decided, and it is Tuoba Hui. Tuoba attacked several times in a row and provoked it really to test the strength of our army, they succeeded three or four times, so they arrogantly did not put the Tiansheng army in their eyes, Tuoba Jue's body is getting worse day by day, and he will soon be in Tuoba Hui, and he just took this opportunity to establish the prestige of the Son of Heaven in the Tuoba clan. He smiled slightly and analyzed in an orderly manner, "The so-called arrogant soldiers will be defeated, although Tuoba is arrogant at the moment, he will inevitably lose his heart of prevention." From the fact that he came to challenge in the open and bright with the war letter, it can be seen that Tuoba must underestimate the enemy. Besides, this Tuoba Hui rat is short-sighted, only for short-term profit and has no foresight, this person has brute strength but is a simple-minded straw bag, it is not difficult to capture him. I didn't expect that the time and place were favorable, and we even occupied the people. When he said the wonderful, his eyebrows and eyes were full of flying brilliance, listening to his calm decomposition strategy with a clear mind and commanding Ruoding, Shi Haoheng was also more and more excited to wait for the arrival of victory.

In the following days, a large number of Tiansheng soldiers carried a load of stones and soil, held shovels and shovels, and lined up in a neat line to the outside of Xunbao City, and began to repair the city wall as quickly as possible. Everyone worked together to build the city wall around the treasure like a copper wall, and recast the city gate, and built a thick and strong iron gate with a weight of 10,000 catties of black iron. Their goal is clear, that is, to transform the city of Xunbao into a city of steel at any cost, and even if there are thousands of troops and horses galloping in it, they will never be able to rush away.

Soon, Luo Gang found a trace of strangeness in this hot and hateful atmosphere. He found that the number of residents in the city began to decrease, could it be that Tuoba had spies who had infiltrated the city and took the opportunity to plunder the people? He didn't dare to take it lightly, and he slept lightly at night. It wasn't until late at night that the soldiers knocked on his door, and he knew that the Tiansheng army was secretly transferring the residents of the city, and he immediately understood that the smart Tiansheng army was going to use the siege of Wei to save Zhao and the empty city, lure the enemy deep, and catch turtles in the urn. What a plan! Luo Gang couldn't help but admire the person who offered the plan. His wife did not want to be separated from him, and although he went alone, he had to put down his work and hide with his wife in the deep mountains and valleys outside the city.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Shi Jiaheng also ordered to ambush traps in the canyon and block the news, beware of Tuoba learning the inside story and turning to a sneak attack.

Finally, on the day of the decisive battle, Shi Lie sat in the camp, and Shi Haoheng led thousands of people to dress up as ordinary people to guard the fortresses in the canyon. The command of the battle fell on Ding Yao, a veteran with rich experience and high qualifications against the enemy, and Shi Jiaheng, as a pioneer before the war, would work together with all the generals to kill the enemy and serve the country.

Yu Chengtang still did not find his parents, he cried a lot, resolutely fulfilled his promise, the masonry and timber were transported into the city, he rolled up his sleeves and followed the laborers and soldiers to pick up the hammer. Almost everyone around him praised him, he was generous, talkative, and often gave some wine and meat to the hard-working laborers. Everyone gratefully called him "Big Brother". With the gradual improvement of the fortifications, the laborers in the city were withdrawn and moved to a safe place, Yu Chengtang constantly replaced the brothers in the city, and kept the last group, when he was about to leave the city, he suddenly had abdominal pain, said hello to the soldiers around him, and disappeared into the alleys of the city.