Although the next message said that she would enter the city at dusk, just after noon, Mu Qing urged Ah Liu to burn the mugwort leaf water again, and found Ah Yue to recomb her hair bun.

Ah Yue's face was still a little pale, and her expression was quite calm. "Are you better? If you still feel comfortable, I will go to Doctor Zhao to see it, and prescribe a few doses of calming medicine to take it for a while. ”

Ah Yue stopped the lock of hair that was being combed in her hand, smiled slightly, shook her head and said, "It's not a big deal, Ah Yue can handle it." The lady originally said, it's not that if you don't see it, you won't exist zài, those tragic things, but they don't have because I don't want to hide them, even so, why deceive yourself. ”

Mu Qing smiled and patted her hand, "You know this reason, it can be seen that she is an accessible person." I have been with you for a long time, but I am buried. Speaking of this, Mu Qing unconsciously wanted to say a few more words, "You don't have a lot of heart, it's not that I want to get you, but now you are double nine, a year is like a year, and I don't bother to take care of you in the past two years, although I have your deed here, there is no reason to force you to keep you for life." ”

Ah Yue lowered her head, put down the hair of Mu Qing that she was combing in her hand, and frowned silently.

"On weekdays, I only blindly care about your appearance and outstanding heart, so I refuse to match you with random people, but because of this, I have delayed you a lot. Now, if you have a plan in your heart, speak to me directly, so that you may teach me to know your heart, and not to worry about twisting it. ”

Ah Yue lowered her eyes for a moment, but laughed softly, and picked up Mu Qing's hair again, "Is it okay for the lady to make a bun today?" ”

Mu Qing waited for her to answer but waited for such an inconsequential sentence, but it was unexpected, and he knew that he couldn't ask anything for a while, so he looked at the bronze mirror and nodded, "It's just that don't comb too ostentatiously and be restrained." ”

Ah Yue fiddled silently for a while, until she tucked the last strand into her bun, and then said quietly: "The lady's heart for me, how can Ah Yue not understand, even if I asked today, I am not afraid that the lady will laugh at me for being too angry, Ah Yue is indeed not licorice grass to marry a reckless man." I can't have any plans at the moment, and I beg the lady to let me do it for another year or two, and I can think about it calmly. ”

It's really a high-minded and arrogant person, but it's not bad, if she doesn't earn more for herself, who will plan for her, it's far better than letting others manipulate and harm her for life. Thinking of this layer, Mu Qing didn't ask any more questions, and nodded in agreement.

In the afternoon, the sun was scorching, and Mu Qing was about to go to the gate of the city, but Ah Liu stopped him for a while, and only said that Ah Lang didn't call to greet him, so he should wait at home. But the more she said this, the more powerless she became, and when did she listen to Ah Lang's orders as usual. He changed his words and persuaded that the sun was poisoning, and he carefully damaged his skin, and then had a sunburned red rash, and he couldn't go out to see people after that. Only then did she stop her running out, and then retreated into the courtyard, and sat in the sunshade and teased her for a while.

When the sun turned a little west, he couldn't sit still anymore, so he called Ada to go out in a car. Halfway through, there were still three or two miles away from the city gate, but I saw that the people in the city were crowded on the avenue, and the chariots, horses, and people rushed to the city gate.

"Ada, hurry up, I'm afraid the army is about to enter the city." Mu Qing lifted the curtain and urged.

Ada threw off the whip and urged twice, and the horse that was driving trotted up, left and right, and soon approached the city gatehouse.

Mu Qing came out of the carriage and sat on the same wheel with Ada, and the idlers nearby called friends and rushed forward. The people in the city are the most reluctant to miss the excitement, and the ordinary army entering and leaving the city gate in this year has long been accustomed to seeing it, and they will not run to tell each other to join in the excitement, it must be something unusual to be so.

When the car arrived at the gate of the city, there was no sign of the army entering the city, and the people still rushed forward in one breath, looking out of the city. Mu Qing was puzzled and said to Ada: "Follow and take a look." ”

There is no paved avenue at the foot of the great barren mountain in front of us, and you can see a piece of black pressure in the distance, which extends neatly and neatly, and the army is in this place.

Mu Qing looked up from the wheel and was really taken aback, "There were only 20,000 horses in the battle, and there were no less than 50,000 in front of it." ”

"There can be eighty or ninety thousand." Ada leaned over and affirmed.

A little further, the crowd gradually calmed down, and there was a sense of horror, the car couldn't move forward, Mu Qing picked up his skirt and jumped out of the car, looking for a gap in the crowd and walked forward.

He couldn't walk more than one or twenty steps, but he suddenly stopped. There was a foul smell floating in the air, and a few steps further, the stench became more and more intense, and the people around them all covered their mouths and noses, asked each other, and frowned to find out where the smell came from.

Mu Qing covered her nose and moved her steps indiscriminately, she was already familiar with this fishy and pungent smell, and she probably knew what it was in her heart. Some people in front of them hurriedly retreated backwards, and several people vomited while retreating, holding their waists and covering their stomachs, adding a little sour smell to the stench.

Pulling away the front layer of the crowd, her eyes suddenly opened up, and the situation in front of her taught her to be taken aback, and she involuntarily took several steps back.

In front of a large clearing, a hill appeared in the vulture, where the foul rancid smell originated, and this hill was actually made of layers of corpses.

The weather was hot, and the soldiers who piled up the corpses were covered with thick cloth, and thick bamboo poles were erected on the four sides of the corpse pile, and two soldiers on each side of the bracket were pulling the thick hemp rope to hang a corpse. Mu Qing looked up, and saw that the corpse was full of arrows, even on the head and on the face of more than a dozen arrows, without a complete piece of skin, with hemp rope around the neck, hanging high above the pile of corpses piled up into a hill.

The sound of retching in the crowd of onlookers on the left and right was repeated, and there were bursts of sour and rotten gas wafting from the sparse venting sound, Mu Qing took out a silk handkerchief from his arms, covered it in the palm of his hand, covered his mouth and nose, and raised his eyes to look at the high platform erected on the other side. In the middle of the high platform sat solemnly Tang Guogong, and on the two sides of the head were Wang Wei, the general of the Tiger Benlang, and Li Shimin, who had an indifferent face.

Mu Qing glanced around on the high platform, and there was a whole row of big and small generals standing behind Tang Guogong, all with grim faces. In the shadows behind the generals, a dark robe, with only a long body of leather light armor to protect the heart, stood with his hands in his hands. She looked eagerly at the figure, stared at him for a long time, and saw that he was really as safe and sound as He Suizhao said, and her lips covered in the silk handkerchief could not help but rise slightly.

The people who crowded around the head to see the excitement were all men, so when they suddenly split the crowd from behind and walked up to a delicate woman, Du Ruhui saw it at a glance.

He laughed at himself in his heart, if it was really in vain, he was afraid that this pickled scene would be disgusting and frightened her, so he specially sent someone to send a message not to teach her to go out of the city to greet her, and when he passed the message, he told himself that according to her temperament, how could she be obedient and only wait at home. Now, it seems that the expectation is really good.

The scene of subduing the rebels in front of him had nothing to do with him, and Du Ruhui happily left from the middle and looked at the delicate-looking woman standing below with great interest.

But seeing that although there was disgust between her eyebrows, she was not very alarmed, and only calmly swept the corpses that were piled up into a hill, together with the corpses that hung on the mountain of corpses and shot like hedgehogs.

Immediately looked at the high platform, when she saw him at first glance, the coldness in her eyes suddenly disappeared, and in front of the terrifying scene that this ordinary man could not bear, her eyes were flooded with flowing eye waves, fine affection, and the tragic scene of purgatory on the side, all of which should not exist in general.

The two stared at each other for a moment, and a silent smile melted in their hearts.

Tang Guogong stood up from the high chair on the high platform and blocked the sight of the two. He slowly took two steps forward, and read out a decree against the rebellion, announcing the sins of the more than 10,000 corpses and hanging bandits.

The 60,000 bandits who were surrounded by the soldiers with blades did not dare to speak, and several leading generals stared at the high platform with resentment. Tang Guogong abruptly turned to the large area of Wuyang, raised his voice, and said loudly: "What the people want, you and others have seen it for all to see, and they have heard it." It is the right way to quickly surrender to the king's banner, and you must not ruin the life of the brothers because of your own selfish thoughts. Isn't it too lonely to be widowed and lonely in your hometown? Do you have to rather die than surrender, and add a new soul in a foreign land, and teach your parents to have nothing to support and no one to rely on for your wife? ”

Some of the soldiers in the audience lowered their heads, some looked left and right, and some quietly went to see the original leader and their generals. The generals still glared at the high platform with hatred, or looked at the corpses covered in arrows with sad faces.

Tang Guogong looked down a few times, solemnized his face, sat back on the high chair, and cast his eyes on Li Shimin, who looked down, and saw him sitting indifferently, as if he was in a no-man's land, without raising his eyes or making a sound.

Since last night, he has refused to accept these 60,000 surrendered soldiers all the way, only deducing that the young commander can't bring so many generals, how Tang Guogong doesn't know his son's thoughts, I'm afraid that he can't look down on these defeated soldiers who will be broken with one blow, and deliberately refuse. Erlang is young and vigorous, and his ideas are great, since the death of Mrs. Dou, the father and son have been estranged, compared to the obedient and obedient Lang, Tang Guogong always has some dislike for Erlang for no reason.

That's it, since he insisted on not accepting it, he just waited for the performance, and rushed to the eastern capital openly, and secretly sent it to Hedong Dalang, reporting that he had escaped on the way. Tang Guogong sighed unhappily in his heart and turned his eyes away.

After a few moments, the sun grew thinner, and before long the twilight was about to close. Hu Benlang stood up Wang Wei from his seat, walked to the edge of the high platform, and waved his hand to the hill of corpses with great impatience, "Men don't need to twist too much. Only gave a happy word, descended, and immediately buried them according to the rites. If it doesn't fall, some of them are smoke and gunpowder and fire, and they can be taught to break bones and scatter ashes. ”

"And him!" Wang Wei raised his hand and pointed to the body of the bandit leader hanging up, "If you don't descend, put him down first, chop it up in pieces, and give it to the dogs!" ”

Silence spread throughout the crowd, both the prisoners and the onlookers, all of whom were bluffed. Even Mu Qing, who had seen people feeding dogs, was intimidated by his brutality.

After less than half a moment of silence, someone among the captives suddenly shouted: "Surrender! Then the shouting and surrender were all around, and even if there were stubborn and blunt, seeing the general trend, they couldn't say anything, but they lamented and descended together.

Du Ruhui, who was hidden in the shadows, glanced at the tiger general, and the chill in his eyes suddenly rose, so old and decisive, how could he stay until the day of the incident, I am afraid that he must be removed as soon as possible.