67. Chapter 67
Non-stop day and night, in the early morning of the second day, Shen Huan and Jiang Zhao had arrived in Lingbao County. The army was stationed thirty miles away from the outskirts of the city, and they hid in a mountain southwest of the city.
In early spring, the vegetation has not yet grown, and the bare mountains are even more desolate. After a day and a night of driving, and encountering the continuous rain, the two of them were already soaked.
Groping his way to a secluded cave, Jiang Zhao picked up some branches and lit a fire to warm up and bake his clothes. While stretching out his hand to bake the fire, he looked at Shen Huan with a smile, "You haven't been in this kind of place before, right?" ”
Shen Huan didn't speak, quietly looking at the fire. When he raised his eyes in the middle of the night, he saw two smashes of red steaming on his snow-white skin, and knew that it was a natural halo that would only arise after people were frozen.
"Why bother, you are your own young master, there is no need to come to this troubled water."
He took out the dry food, handed her a biscuit, and replied lightly, "I don't know why, probably not at ease." At first glance, you are a person who has never suffered, and you don't even have the experience of making a fire in the field to find food. ”
After taking a bite of the half-dried steamed bun, it was quite difficult to swallow, and he continued to say, "But then again, I am also selfish." In case things don't go well, I'll help you out, and it's a great achievement. I'm a man who does everything for a purpose. You remember, it's like, I'm never nice to someone for no reason. ”
Shen Huan smiled, deliberately misinterpreting his meaning, "You say this so that I can be careful of you?" ”
"Aren't you enough to let me go?" He asked rhetorically, "At the very least, I'm telling you the truth." What about you? How many are true and how many are false? ”
Indeed, if a person's name is fake, then how much truth will her heart have, and how much room can be left open for others?
Not wanting to talk about it anymore, she thought about what she was going to do tonight, and sat cross-legged and closed her eyes.
He was very considerate and said no more, just leaning against the slightly damp rock to rest. It wasn't until she opened her eyes again that he asked with a clear heart, "How sure are you of killing Wang Jiezhan?" ”
Assassins only have one chance to kill, and once they miss, they are tantamount to complete failure.
"According to the spy sent to the front by the Heavenly King, Wang Jiezhan has no martial arts masters around him, and I have a ninety percent chance of winning against him."
He immediately asked, "What about the rest of the Isse?" ”
"Of course, it depends on whether you can get out of it all." She smiled casually, "Because it's two people this time, I have to think carefully for my companion." ”
He chuckled, "Don't worry, I won't be a drag on you." I'm not as good as you in martial arts, but at least I still have light body kung fu. If you don't kill people, you can't run away. ”
After a pause, he asked with a little hesitation, "Is Wang Jiezhan old with you?" ”
Jiang Zhao has always been a keen person, and smart people always ask questions, always on the point.
She looked at him with a smile, "Why do you ask that, don't you believe me?" ”
He shook his head, "No, the Heavenly King is willing to believe you, so I naturally have no objection." It's just that although you have never said your life experience, I can see that you are the son of an official eunuch and come from Beijing, so I asked this question. ”
She thought for a moment and finally admitted, "He was a lieutenant under my late father, and I met him when I was in Denglai. But after all these years, he probably doesn't remember me anymore. ”
Nodding, he smiled understandingly, "It seems that we have to catch up tonight." Don't worry, I won't interject, and I won't say a word more when I go back. You know, the mirror grinder, never talking. ”
That's good, a qiē can progress the way she thinks. In the camp at night, the lamps of the thousand tents were gradually extinguished. From a distance, there are still candles jumping in the manager's tent.
At the second watch, the people on duty at night in front of the tent changed the guard. The first two of them had been standing for three hours, and they were already so sleepy that their eyelids were fighting. It's easy to look forward to the successor, and I don't have time to take a closer look, I just glanced back, and complained, "I won't sleep tonight, it's really enough to survive." is still so hard at his age, he can't complain that he is a pillar of the court......"
"Don't say anything, my brother has worked hard, go back and rest."
The two soldiers shook each other, waved their hands, and went forward, muttering intermittently, "Lao Tzu doesn't like to listen to their group of Henan people, one mouth is like a singing, the tone is frustrated, and the brain ......hurts when I listen to it too much."
The people walked away, and it was still quiet in all directions. Shen Huan praised him with a smile, "Okay, can you still speak two words of Henan dialect?" ”
Jiang Zhao's face was covered with ash from the bottom of the pot, two handfuls of messy mustaches were stuck to his lips, and only a pair of eyes were still shining, full of narrowness. At this moment, looking at Shen Huan's appearance is almost obscene with himself, and he doesn't feel funny.
"The guy who was knocked out by me, I heard him scream, it was Henan accent. You have to do enough to do the drama, save the previous trouble, and only then can you hit it with one hit. ”
Other men are at most coarse and fine, but he is clearly the finest of the fine, which is rare. It was almost time, and she winked and told him to stay outside to keep a lookout. He lifted the curtain and entered Wang Jiezhan's tent.
The people under the lamp were still staring at the map, and when they saw someone coming, they just asked, "What is the wind direction outside?" ”
She approached step by step and lowered her voice, "It's the northwest wind. ”
When the words fell, the person had suddenly approached, brushed Wang Jiezhan several big holes, and a sharp three-inch sleeve arrow went straight to the throat of the other party, "If you want to live, don't make a sound." ”
Wang Jiezhan's eyes were full of horror, but after a moment, the man had calmed down. Raising his eyes and staring, "Who are you?" ”
The person in front of him was a thin man with a dark face. He thought about it carefully, thought about it with all his might, but he still couldn't come up with such a person in his family.
"It doesn't matter who I am."
Wang Jiezhan was still thinking about it, "You, you were sent by Chang Gonggong?" Can ......"
The other party's face was full of suspicion, and she looked at it with great interest, "Are you so intolerant of eunuchs?" It's not that you stammered him, you stammered very well, and you would be worried that he was going to kill you? ”
Wang Jiezhan frowned even more, and then asked, "Who are you?" ”
There was a hint of panic in his eyes, and she saw it, so she smiled meanly, "This matter is not important at all. ”
Wang Jiezhan shook his head, "If Ben Shuai is going to die in your hands today, then this matter is very important, I don't want to die in vain." ”
Death is a solemn thing, and that is true.
"Okay." She nodded, "I can sue you for who I am." Before I do that, I want you to answer me a few questions. ”
As he spoke, the sharp arrow edged a little closer, piercing into the skin, like a malicious toy, and like a stern warning.
Wang Jiezhan bowed his head helplessly, so he listened to the other party ask word by word, "Three years ago, you were transferred from Denglai to the commander-in-chief of Ganzhou. In the past three years, in Ganzhou, have you ever met, the son of the deceased? ”
His eyes widened, Wang Jiezhan stared at her deadly, "...... son of the old man" muttered for a long time, but he didn't find any clues on the other party's face.
He lowered his eyes and shook his head, "I don't understand what you're talking about. ”
"It seems that you are still not afraid of death." Shen Huan smiled, "Since you are so backbone, why do you want to follow the eunuchs to frame the former Shangfeng?" knew that he was wronged, but he did not dare to confide in the truth. I wondered, when you dream back at midnight, do you dream of the person you framed, will you feel a trace of guilt in your dream? ”
Wang Jiezhan was stunned, and his expression gradually became abrupt, "It turned out that I came for him." Well, then, I tell you the whereabouts of the three sons of the deceased. When I arrived in Ganzhou, there were only two of the three left, escorted thousands of miles from the capital, a long and arduous journey, and one son died of illness. There is also a son, when he was building a city defense, the city wall collapsed, and he lost his footing and was crushed under his head......"
Like an axe and a saw, the pain in her heart made her tremble, and she barely lifted her breath, and then asked, "What about the other one?" ”
Wang Jiezhan sighed, "He is still alive, and since he is the only son of that man, I should leave a piece of blood for him." I know I'm sorry for him. It was the man's youngest son who was alive, and I ordered his name to be removed and he was quietly released. ”
She let out a sigh of relief, "Where did he go after?" ”
"I inquired about it, and I originally thought that he would fly away, but I didn't expect that he didn't go far, but just hid in the Qilian Mountains and was with the local Hui people. When I left Ganzhou, I heard that he had settled down, had a family, and had a queen. ”
Her heart was painful just now, and she couldn't stop palpitating at this moment, third brother, her third brother still survived! After the great sorrow and joy, the love is up and down. Taking a deep breath, she calmed down, "Thank you so much, at least you did something with a conscience." ”
Wang Jiezhan avoided her burning gaze and lowered his head, "Can you say it now, who are you?" ”
People are dying, and this wish should probably be fulfilled. Shen Huan replied, "My father, Shen Gonghui, I am his only daughter. ”
Wang Jiezhan's face showed a look of defeat, "I see...... It seems that I will die today, and it is not unjust to die at your hands. ”
"But I still have unfinished business." He no longer ran away, and met Shen Huan's gaze, "The imperial court has finally made up its mind to suppress the bandits, and this time both troops and military supplies are sufficient. If I can defeat each of them according to my plan, the troubles that have plagued the country for nearly ten years will be put to an end in my hands. This is the work of thousands of generations...... Naturally, I don't want to take credit, but the dynasty needs to be stable. Only by solving internal worries can we have more energy to fight against external troubles. This is also the unswerving proposition of the Shilling Gong back then...... If you kill me now, you're going to make this career fall short! Why don't we agree, when I put down the troubles, if you still want to avenge your father, then I will wait at any time, and you will come and take my life. ”
There are really not many people who can die calmly, and the other party is delaying time.
Shen Huan settled down and flatly refused, "You think it's wrong, I'm not avenging my father." You're just a fuel-provoking, capricious villain in my father's case. You are wise and brave, and you are strategic, so if you want to be famous in the world, you will not hesitate to seek promotion by eunuchs, and now you are saying it so righteously. It is better for you to go down and speak these words to my father. ”
Wang Jiezhan only felt incredible, and said in a trembling voice, "You, if it's you, you actually ...... Actually took refuge in that group of bandits? ”
As soon as he understood, his eyes suddenly became firm, and he was about to raise his voice in the next moment.
Shen Huan's eyes were fast, so he naturally wouldn't let him make a sound, so he pointed at his dumb acupoint and pinched his half-open jaw, "Do you think I'm rebellious?" But such a court really has no point in defending it, and sooner or later it will definitely fall! It's a pity that you didn't have a chance to see it with your own eyes. ”
He struggled, shaking his head desperately. Shen Huan smiled, as if he was softly reassuring, "For your sake, for the sake of protecting my brother, I will give you a good time, and I will also give you dignity." ”
She did what she said, without using a sharp weapon, but just shattered Wang Jiezhan's heart with one palm. Blood spurted out, staining the sand table flag on the case red. In the eyes of outsiders, Wang Jiezhan may have just died of exhaustion.
If according to Gao Fengxiang's intentions, she wanted her to kill Wang Jiezhan and then cut off his head, so that it could be hung outside Tongguan City in the future, so as to further shock the prestige of the Shuntian army. But she promised to ask the whole king to see a dignity and do what she said, and she couldn't satisfy Gao Fengxiang's wish.
Taking Wang Jiezhan's handsome seal, she stepped out of the tent and said in a low voice, "Take advantage of the fact that there is no one here, go quickly." ”
Jiang Zhao heard the conversation in the tent just now, he couldn't tell what mood he was in at the moment, but at least one thing was clear to him, the person next to him was indeed a woman!
The two of them quickly slipped out of the camp and took off their soldiers' armor, revealing their black clothes. Finding the woods where the horse had stopped beforehand, he turned over and jumped on it, and then he grabbed the reins and was about to gallop into the woods, when suddenly a man staggered out of front of him.
The man was dressed in brocade and richly dressed, and he held his belt in one hand, and when he saw the two of them, he exclaimed, "What man? ”
Listening to the voice, it was quite familiar, Shen Huan and Jiang Zhao glanced at each other, and were about to rush over. Unexpectedly, the man rushed up to the ground, stretched out his arm and grabbed Shen Huan's horse's head.
The strength was so great that Shen Huan was shocked on horseback. Without hesitation, she flew out with a short arrow in her sleeve and went straight to the man's chest.
The man reacted quickly, and swept backwards, dodging the short arrow. Then he snorted, turned his head, and looked directly at Shen Huan.
The four eyes met, and a flash of excitement flashed in the man's eyes, "It turned out to be you!" Unexpectedly, we met here. ”
Under the moonlight, there was a strange look between the man's beautiful eyebrows and eyes, which was even more evil than before! It's the old man I haven't seen for a long time, what a trouble.