74. Golden leopard

After Jin Mu followed Yu Junyan and Su Yuheng into the room, Su Yuheng poured him a cup of hot tea, sat on the chair, recalled the past more than ten years ago, and said slowly: "I met Master in the third year after my sister's death, once I secretly went to the mountain to collect medicine without telling my family, and when I went down the mountain, I found Master in a broken temple on the mountainside, at that time he was seriously injured, all over his body was covered in blood, and several wounds on his body had been purulent and ulcerated. When I asked him his name and where he lived, he only said that he was a homeless beggar with no relatives and no reason in the world. I felt sorry for him, so in the following days I often went up the mountain to see him, bringing him some medicinal herbs, food, and clothing. ”

"It turned out that the princess saved his life." Jin Mu sighed, "Does the princess know why he was injured?" ”

Su Yuheng said: "I asked about this at the time, and he said that he was injured by a snake in the market, but I think he was lying." ”

Jin Mu asked, "How can you see it?" ”

Su Yuheng said: "Master was very seriously injured at that time, the tendons and veins of his hands and feet were broken, a knife wound on his neck damaged his vocal cords, and the little finger of his right hand was also cut off. ”

He ...... He was so badly injured? Jin Mu's voice trembled a little, this was the first time Yu Junyan had seen General Jin, who had terrified the enemy, with such a fragile look on his face, and asked, "General Jin, do you know his master?" ”

Jin Mu sighed heavily, suddenly pulled out the knife at his waist, and cut his beard, which looked unkempt because he had not tidied up after fighting outside for a long time. After a few cuts, all the beard fell, and although it was still not very neat, the outline of his chin could be clearly seen.

"Princess, look, does the lower half of your master's face look very similar to me?" Jin Mu covered his eyebrows and the bridge of his nose with his hands, only his mouth and chin were exposed, his voice trembled, and he asked excitedly, "Especially the mouth!" Look! Doesn't it look exactly the same?! ”

To be honest, Su Yuheng has never paid attention to his master's appearance, because he is often unkempt and unkempt, but after Jin Mu's reminder, he looked carefully, and recalled the appearance of his master in his mind, and the shadow in his head coincided with General Jin in front of him, and this chin and mouth were really like carved out of a mold.

"Yes, it's very similar." Su Yuheng nodded and said, "Could it be that General Cheng Jin and my master are ...... Relatives? ”

The corners of Jin Mu's mouth twitched, as if he had no strength, he slowly sat down on the chair, and was silent for a long time before he suddenly spoke: "If my guess is right, the princess's master is a dog." ”

"What? Your son?! ”

As soon as these words came out, Yu Junyan and Su Yuheng were shocked, how could General Jin's son become a beggar in the market?

Yu Junyan asked: "General Jin, what is going on?" Your son? Didn't Second Brother Jin and Third Brother Jin always march and fight with you? Do you have sons besides them? ”

"Could it be ......" Yu Junyan suddenly reacted, and asked softly in disbelief, "You mean-Brother Golden Leopard?" ”

Jin Mu was unconsciously shocked when he heard this name, trembling even more, and nodded silently.

"How could it be...... Brother Kim is not...... Isn't it already ...... Did you die on the battlefield? Yu Junyan muttered, "He's still alive?" ”

Jin Mu suddenly knelt on the ground, gritted his teeth and said, "The minister is guilty!" The sin deserves death! Please punish the prince! ”

"General Kim, hurry up!" Yu Junyan and Su Yuheng helped Jin Mu up together and asked, "The reason for this matter, you tell me slowly, if Brother Jin didn't die back then, why did the information that he died on the battlefield come from the front line, if you already knew that he was still alive, why didn't you bring him back to the imperial capital to recuperate?" ”

Jin Mu's voice was slightly choked: "This qiē is to blame the dog for being greedy for life and afraid of death!" It's what it is today. ”

"Greedy for life and afraid of death?" Yu Junyan was even more confused, the Jin family was a loyal and good general who was not afraid of life and death, how could he be greedy for life and afraid of death, but he didn't continue to ask, just quietly waited for Jin Mu's explanation.

"That year, the Golden Leopard and General Liu and I went out to fight against the invasion of the Xiwa army, and in Qiluan Mountain, our soldiers set up three ambushes in three ways, intending to wait for the Xiwa army to pass by surprise and kill them by surprise. At that time, the golden leopard set up the first ambush in the mountain pass, and when the Xiwa army entered the mountain, they raided them according to the plan, but they did not want to sneak attack unsuccessfully but were preempted by the Xiwa army, and they were defeated, and the golden leopard and several of his lieutenants were all captured by the Xiwa people. Jin Mu buried his head under his arms, "I know the methods of the Xiwa people, and I also know that he may be more than lucky this time, although he is sad, but the task still has to continue, and the next day, General Liu and I ambushed at the second and third locations as planned, waiting for the Xiwa people to pass by and ambush, but I don't want to ......"

Su Yuheng hurriedly asked, "What don't you want?" ”

Jin Mu said in a wailing voice: "Our ambush did not work at all, they seemed to know in advance, they avoided our ambush, and launched an attack on our hideout, because it was an ambush war, our strength was far from the Xiwa army, in less than a day, the 100,000 army was wiped out, and only less than 8,000 people escaped from Qiluan Mountain......"

Yu Junyan frowned and said, "What does General Jin mean...... Did Brother Jin leak your hiding place? ”

Jin Mu said: "Of course, I hope this is just my random conjecture, but only Jin Leopard, me and General Liu know the whole plan, and at that time, the Xiwa army clearly understood our offensive route clearly. And General Liu died in the enemy's random arrows in that battle, so that the only one who could reveal the information to the Siwa people was ......"

Yu Junyan then asked, "But wasn't the body of Brother Golden Leopard sent back with General Liu?" How can this be explained? ”

"The corpse of the golden leopard...... It's fake. ”

"What?!"

"That corpse wasn't him at all." Jin Mu said in a low voice, "When someone found his body, the body had long been unrecognizable, and the soldiers who searched for him also concluded that he was the golden leopard based on the clothes on the corpse. But that's my son, how could I not recognize it. The first time I saw the corpse, I knew it wasn't a golden leopard at all......"

Su Yuheng asked, "Why didn't the general say it at that time?" ”

Yu Junyan's face was solemn: "You must know that as a general, it is a capital crime to escape from the battle, and it is a capital crime to disclose the news to the enemy. If General Jin was not the eldest brother of the Golden Leopard at that time, I am afraid that his Jin clan would be affected. ”

"Yes, my own selfish desires have kept this matter under cover.

Su Yuheng asked, "What about after that?" Didn't General Kim go looking for Ling Lang? ”

Jin Mu replied: "I've been looking for him all these years, but it's not easy to find someone in the vast sea of people, and I also saw the princess's frightening knife technique, so I guessed that that person might be the unfilial son of the golden leopard." ”

Yu Junyan frowned and said, "Just by the knife technique...... Wouldn't it be too arbitrary? ”

Jin Mu said: "The prince doesn't know, the ancestors of the Jin family once set up ancestral teachings, and the Jin family's martial arts are only passed on to the disciples of their own surname, I think he refuses to have a master-apprenticeship with the princess because he doesn't want to violate the rules handed down by the ancestors,"

Su Yuheng suddenly realized: "Then it's no wonder, I didn't know that the master knew martial arts, until one day when I gave him clothes, I accidentally saw the move patterns he drew on the ground with branches, so I begged him to accept me as an apprentice, but the master promised to teach me martial arts, but he didn't agree with me to call him master, just said that I saved his life, and he taught me kung fu to repay my kindness, except that the two of us have nothing to do with each other." ”

Jin Mu scolded with a smile: "It's a shame that this kid can come up with such an idea." ”

But then Jin Mu's expression became stern again: "The princess just said that he was seriously injured, and his hand and foot tendons were also broken, I don't know ...... now."

"It's no wonder that I was still young and my medical skills were not perfect, although my master's life was saved, my martial arts were ......wasted," Su Yuheng regretted, "He has now been taken back to live in the imperial capital, if General Jin wants to see him, he can ...... at any time."

"What did I see him do?! Our Jin family doesn't have such cowards who are greedy for life and afraid of death! Jin Mu scolded fiercely, scolded and scolded, and his eyes turned red, "Since you have always been in the imperial capital, why don't you go home to see, why don't you go home to see......"

Su Yuheng persuaded: "I think he also feels ashamed of the Jin family and the general, so he doesn't dare to recognize you, since you already know his whereabouts, let's go and see him when I return to the imperial capital." ”

Jin Mu sighed heavily, and changed the topic: "The princess just held the technique, but the rebel son taught it?" ”

Su Yuheng nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

"Well, now that there are fewer and fewer descendants of the Jin family, if the Shocking Wind Sword Method is not passed on to foreign surnames, sooner or later it will be lost one day, and it is time to change this ancestral motto." Jin Mu said, "The palm that the princess used just now is changed from the Storm Knife Technique, but there are still a few things that need to be improved, if the princess doesn't dislike it, the minister is a little clumsy." ”

Su Yuheng hurriedly said: "It is Yuheng's honor that General Jin can guide me in my kung fu. ”

Jin Mu picked up the brush and drew several problems in Su Yuheng's palming, and Su Yuheng said that he had benefited a lot after reading it.

Before Jin Mu left, Su Yuheng suddenly stopped him as if he remembered something, and said, "There is another thing, this time the combat method of using infantry to fight against the Xiwa cavalry was actually thought up by the master. ”

"What? Is that the rebel? ”

"Yes, Master often draws some strange patterns and symbols on the paper, I couldn't understand what that meant before, but when I thought about it, it was all the art of war against the Siwa cavalry. Master painstakingly studied these methods against the Siwa cavalry, and I think it was also intended to overdo it. ”

"Will the credit be offended?" Jin Mu said angrily, "The lives of 100,000 people, can he afford it?!" ”

Jin Mu's lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say it, saluted the two, turned around and left the room.