Qian Bozhi was the first to break in in a daze, and suddenly knelt down on the water-milled green brick ground in front of Long Xiangye, and choked up: "Back to the old lady's words, the eldest young grandmother was unfortunately killed in the suburban grange!" ”

The dominoes in Long Xiangye's hand fluttered down.

In the upper room, only a crisp sound of dominoes was heard.

Everyone held their breath and stared at Chamber, who was kneeling on the ground.

They heard you right, right?

Didn't the young grandmother say a few days ago that she was completely cured and would be back soon?

She also said that she was going to her sister's wedding.

Although they didn't come back in time, everyone didn't care.

People who have just recovered from a serious illness are always a little recurrent, and it is normal to not be able to leave for a while.

Long Xiangye also thought about sending someone to the Grange in two days to ask when Du Hengshuang would come back.

Hearing Qian Bo's words, Long Xiangye didn't react for a long time.

Chen Yuejiao and Xiao Taihe glanced at each other, and quickly separated their eyes.

Chen Yuejiao lowered her head and slowly restacked the dominoes on the table.

Xiao Taiji walked to Long Xiangye's side and said distressedly: "Mother, don't hold back. Sister-in-law...... Sister-in-law...... This time, this family can only rely on the mother. ”

Long Xiangye came back to his senses all of a sudden, and the two lines of tears couldn't help but flow.

She didn't like Du Hengshuang's daughter-in-law very well, but she didn't think she would die.

And now that Du Hengshuang is dead, Long Xiangye only thinks of Du Hengshuang's cute places, including the way she grabbed Zhou when she was a child, all of which appeared in front of Long Xiangye's eyes one by one.

"Alas, why did my sister-in-law go like this? Didn't you say that you were cured? Why did it relapse again? Xiao Tai and saw that Long Xiangye was stunned and didn't speak. I only knew that I was crying, and deliberately diverted the topic and asked.

Fortunately, everyone in the Xiao family knows that Du Hengshuang is seriously ill, although I heard that the illness is all cured a few days ago, but maybe it is a return to the light?

Now I finally can't hold it anymore, so I naturally die.

Many sighed softly and wiped their tears with handkerchiefs.

The young grandmother is really pitiful, only eighteen years old, right? And so he left, leaving behind two poor children......

Long Xiangye stood up tremblingly and stretched out his hand to the two children who were nestled in Ou Yangniang's lap.

"Brother Ping, Sister An, come to grandmother."

Brother Ping and Sister An looked at each other. looked up at Ou Yangniang again.

Ou Yangniang nodded slightly.

The two children held hands. Come to the side of Long Xiangye.

"My poor grandson, there is no mother at such a young age!" Long Xiangye bent down and took them in his arms, crying loudly.

The news of Du Hengshuang's death quickly spread up and down the Xiao family.

Xiao Yanran was doing needlework in the house and heard about it. I couldn't help but shed tears. Hurriedly took the two maids to Xuanrong Hall. Seeing that her mother-in-law, Long Xiangye, was holding her sister-in-law's two children crying, and the house was also crying, so she was busy wiping away her tears. stepped forward to comfort Long Xiangye and said, "Mother, don't be too sad. Look, Brother Ping and Sister An were so frightened that they couldn't speak. ”

Long Xiangye looked up and saw that Brother Ping and Sister An were tightly hugged by herself, and her two pairs of little faces like red apples were full of frightened looks, and she hurriedly let go of her hands.

Xiao Yanran gently pulled Brother Ping and Sister An aside and sent them to Ou Yangniang.

Ou Yangniang nodded gratefully at Xiao Yanran.

Xiao Yanran wiped her tears with a silk and said to Ou Yangniang: "The family may be busy these days. If Ou Yangniang needs help, let someone tell me. I have nothing to do at home, and I can still do it to help Ou Yangniang watch Brother Ping and Sister An. ”

Ou Yangniang has not yet answered, and Qian Bo has already refuted Xiao Taiji's words over there, "Back to the second master, the eldest young grandmother is not sick, she is...... She was...... ...... who was burned alive" said, kowtowing again and again.

"Burn...... Burned? Long Xiangye stood up suddenly, walked beside Qian Bo and asked, "How can you be burned to death?" What the hell is going on? ”

Chambers recounted what he had seen when he returned to the Grange.

Chen Yuejiao screamed in surprise and said regretfully: "Isn't that grange also burned to the ground?" How good is that? ”

Xiao Yanran felt uncomfortable when she heard this, and couldn't help choking Chen Yuejiao, "Miss Chen, my sister-in-law died so miserably, you actually regret the burned house?" What do you mean? ”

Chen Yuejiao choked. She has never taken Xiao Yanran, a sister-in-law, in her eyes.

In the last life, Xiao Yanran refused to please "Du Yu", but fortunately, there was her mother Long Xiangye, so she ordered a good family business. Later, "Du Yu" was seriously ill and was sent to Zhuangzi to die, and it was Chen Yuejiao who filled the house. Xiao Yanran looked down on Chen Yuejiao again, which made Chen Yuejiao hate her.

When Xiao Yan was bullied by her concubine at her husband's house, Chen Yuejiao pretended to be deaf and dumb and refused to stand up for her. Xiao Yan then came to her mother-in-law's house, and her life was very difficult, and she had a hard time for a while. Fortunately, she still gave birth to two sons in her last life, and in the end, she survived until her mother-in-law, husband and concubine died, and she relied on her two sons to become an old feudal monarch, but at that time, she was almost sixty years old and died without two years of happiness.

Such a sister-in-law, Chen Yuejiao is kind if she doesn't step on her, and she can still choke Chen Yuejiao......

Chen Yuejiao squinted her eyes, and soon a gentle smile appeared on her face, and she shook her head and said, "Miss, of course I'm very sad that my young grandmother has passed away, but what's the point of saying those things now?" People are dead, and it's useless to say anything. When your sister-in-law was recuperating in Zhuangzi before, I didn't see you go to see her, and I didn't even hear you talk about your grandmother at home. ”

Xiao Yanran was so blocked by Chen Yuejiao that she couldn't speak, and was stunned for a long time before she said, "Ridiculous." The sister-in-law was afraid of people, so she moved to Zhuangzi to recuperate, how could she let us go to see her? Also, have I ever talked about my sister-in-law at home, how do you know the Tao? Oh, by the way, my sister-in-law said that you are not allowed to come to the door, but as soon as my sister-in-law left, you went to the door with a shy face. My mother is not filial, and I am courteous in front of my mother every day, what idea do you have, and others are fools. I don't know what to do?! ”

Chen Yuejiao didn't expect that Xiao Yanran, who was silent and self-contained in her memory in her previous life, could still have a sharp tongue to this point, her eyes couldn't help but darken, she took a step back, held Aunt Jin's arm and her eyes were red, and said, "Mother, let's go." The old lady will be busy in the next two days, let's not make a mess here. ”

Long Xiangye glanced at Xiao Yanran at this time, and said apologetically to Chen Yuejiao and Aunt Jin: "This child is spoiled by me, don't you mind." - We are indeed going to be busy, and we will not leave you behind. I'll have time to sit down later. He said. ordered the mother-in-law to send off the guests.

Chen Yuejiao is just pretending. At this moment, he had no choice but to get off the donkey and leave the Xiao family with Aunt Jin.

Xiao Taiji said to Long Xiangye: "Mother, don't be sad, I'll go to Zhuangzi to see what's going on." He said and said regretfully: "This is the eldest brother's industry." It burned to the core. Alas. What evil has happened to our family? ”

Du Hengshuang is gone. Xiao Taiji has become the backbone of Long Xiangye now, and she waved her hand, "Go and have a look." Let's go and see, what the hell is going on? ”

Seeing this, Qian Bo and Ou Yangniang also followed.

Long Xiangye granted their request and asked Ou Yangniang to go over with the two children and kowtow to the place where Du Hengshuang was burned. - That's their own mother.

Xiao Yanran also volunteered to follow, one was to kowtow to her sister-in-law, and the other was to help take care of the two children.

The dragon fragrant leaves are all accurate.

When Qian Bo went out, he sent someone to Zhu Susu's house and said that Zhu Susu was also buried in the fire.

Zhu Susu's mother, You Qianniang, closed her teeth tightly when she heard this, and fainted, which was similar to Fang Yuniang's reaction.

Although Wu Shicheng hung up on an errand in the palace of Yijun, but when the king of Yijun went on the expedition, he did not go to the palace again, but only helped take care of Zhu Susu's medical hall and pharmacy.

Zhu Susu has been accompanying Du Hengshuang in the suburbs of Zhuangzi to recuperate all year round, and her medical hall is only supported by two invited Lang Zhong sitting in the hall.

Wu Shicheng is a sincere person who helps to watch the operation of the medical hall and the pharmacy.

Hearing that Zhu Susu died like this, Wu Shicheng also cried fiercely, so he gave You Qianniang on the hospital bed and followed him to the grange in the suburbs to pay respects.

On that day, it was overcast and drizzling.

The Xiao family, the Xu family and the three families all carried out a memorial ceremony outside the Xiao family's grange.

Xu Yanhui arrived first with Jing Zhaoyin's yacha.

It's a pity that after several days of heavy rain, there are people who deliberately cover up and disturb their vision, they don't get more clues, and only take out the ashes of a few people from the burned house, as well as some women's melted gold and silver chains and step shakes, as well as a few blackened mutton fat jade bracelets.

Xu Yanhui recognized one of the bracelets that seemed to be the bracelet that Du Hengshuang had been carrying, and quietly ignored it.

Nearby villagers also confirmed that no one in Xiaojiazhuang's big house escaped that night.

The Xiao family's Zhuangzi is not big, and there are only a few main houses.

However, when Xu Yanhui took the yacha to inspect the half-burned carriage and horse shed, an old yacha who had accumulated years of experience whispered to Xu Yanhui that there were several arrow shafts that had been burned to the point that only half of them were left, and that, depending on the situation, there was one car missing here. What kind of car it is, only the people on this Zhuangzi know the road. But since all the people were burned to death, they could not tell whether there were mules and horses who were frightened and dragged their carts away, or whether someone ran away in a cart.

Xu Yanhui took the half-burned arrow shafts and looked over and over again, but he was still not sure if they were Du Hengshuang's usual feather arrows.

He had no choice but to put all these things away as evidence for the yacha to take away.

I don't know if it's his delusion, he always feels that some of the idlers who are watching have been watching their whereabouts. That look really didn't look like it was lively.

"Brother, are you here?" A man in a gray robe simply walked out of the crowd and greeted a messenger brought by Xu Yanhui.

When the yacha saw it, he hurriedly saluted and said, "Is it Master Wan?" How's it going? ”

The man laughed twice, said a few words of gossip at random, and came over to salute Xu Yanhui.

"I've seen the outsider."

actually knows Xu Yanhui's official position.

Xu Yanhui glanced at him, he didn't know him at all, so he looked at the yacha who greeted him just now.

The yacha smiled and introduced to Xu Yanhui, "Young Master, this is a steward of the Wan family, and a steward of Wan Guifei's mother's family." ”

The steward of Wan Guifei's mother's family?

Xu Yanhui frowned, and didn't ask him why he was here. The steward had already smiled and pointed to the distance, "That's our master's grange, we heard that something happened here, come and take a look." Tsk, it's miserable......"

Xu Yanhui was relieved. He knew that this area was full of families in Chang'an City, as well as the granges of the emperor's relatives, and Xiao Shiji was already very capable of placing a small village here.

I heard that he has made military exploits again, and he is about to be knighted again.

It's a pity. Hengshuang is not blessed.

She followed him. After going through the wind and rain, I endured all the hardships, but in the end, I didn't have time to enjoy anything. And he departed.

Is it really hard for whom and sweet for whom?

She is married to Xiao Shiji. What exactly are the benefits?

Why did she have to marry him?

But. Now that she is dead, Xiao Shi and this life do not deserve to be happy again!

If Xiao Shihe dares to live well, he must be good-looking!

Xu Yanhui tightly clutched the blackened mutton fat jade bracelet in his hand. Standing under a half-burned crooked neck willow tree at the gate of the grange, looking at the ruins of the broken house in the village, imagining Du Hengshuang who was in great pain in the fire, his heart ached, and tears blurred his vision.

When the yacha next to him saw Xu Yanhui's strange appearance, he didn't dare to come out, and he lowered his head one by one.

One of Anzichang's henchmen was also watching. He originally wanted to find someone to spread the news that Du Hengshuang and the others were still alive, but when he saw that a steward of Concubine Wan's mother's family was actually talking and laughing with the people of the Xu family, he stopped again.

Concubine Wan, but Grandpa Guo reminded her that she must not be allowed to know that Du Hengshuang and Zhu Susu are still alive.

It is better to let these people be sad for a while than to send the news out too soon.

An Zichang's steward blended into the crowd watching the excitement, copied his hands, and sighed with everyone like a troublemaker.

At the same time, several fast horses set out from the Zhuangzi of Anzi Chang'an, and traveled to the place where the army of the Great Qi in the north and the army of the anti-thief Liu Zhou were fighting.

……

On a June night, the stars twinkled in the sky.

Xiao Shiji was lying on his back in the dug trench with his head in his hands, holding a straw stick in his mouth, and looking at the stars in the night sky with a smile on his face.

Every star looks like Du Hengshuang's eyes.

Closing his eyes, he seemed to be able to hear Du Hengshuang's crisp cry: "And brother...... and his brother...... and my brother......"

Finally going back.

He went on this expedition for almost two and a half years, right?

The children are all two years old.

He thinks about frost, thinks about his two children, and can't sleep every day.

But since he joined the army, the military orders are like a mountain, and he can't desert and go back.

Besides, what he has been thinking about in his life is to become an official and become a knight, make his wife a shadow, and let his family get rid of the fate of being killed for no reason.

Although there will be people in higher positions above him, there are very few of those people anymore, unlike before, a county order can also ruin their family.

Xiao Shiji thought of his father again.

If my father had a spirit in heaven, he would be happy to see what he has achieved now.

Annihilated Liu Zhou's sergeants and repelled the Turkic attack. The latter alone is enough for him to be proud of for the rest of his life.

None of the generals of the Great Qi had actually defeated the Turkic army.

It's just that Xiao Shiji still has some doubts.

The combat effectiveness of the Turkic army does not seem to be as strong as Du Xiancheng told him before......

Could it be that after a few years, the Turkic army collapsed?

A dark cloud drifted from the sky, obscuring the starlight above their heads.

The sky all around it turned from dark blue to dark black.

There was a fishy smell in the air, as if there was a slight smell of leather.

Xiao Shiji sniffled and woke up.

He was a soldier by nature, and he had an unusual instinct for the dangers of the battlefield.

It was this intuition that allowed him to dodge those guns and arrows countless times, and also dodged countless traps and sieges, and countless times allowed him to find hope from despair, and find a new way forward from nowhere.

And the breath coming from the night wind made Xiao Shiji quickly realize that this was not an ordinary taste, this was the smell of Turkic war horses!

Compared with the Great Qi army, the biggest advantage of the Turkic army is their war horses.

Their horses are more athletic, taller, and have longer endurance than the horses of Daqi.

Because their horses eat very differently from the war horses of Daqi.

Like people, one side of the water and soil supports the other side.

The horses raised by the soil and water are also different.

Xiao Shiji confronted the Turkic army here for half a year. I am already familiar with the taste of Turkic war horses.

Moreover, he has practiced Tongzigong since he was a child, and his five senses, such as sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, are already more sensitive than ordinary people.

The smell that had been tried so hard to hide still didn't escape his nose.

"It's not good...... Xiao Shiji stood up from the trench, his eyes open and looked in the direction where the smell wafted from.

The dark night sky obscured everything and it seemed that nothing could be seen.

Xiao Shiji felt that something was approaching quickly, but he couldn't find the right direction.

"Give me arrows, and flint!" Xiao Shiji whispered orders to his guards.

The guard hurriedly took the bow and arrow and flint and handed them to Xiao Shiji.

Xiao Shiji tore the hem of his robe and dipped it in the extinguished lamp.

There was lamp oil in the lamp, as well as the wax accumulated over the years, all rubbed into the straps of his torn clothes.

Wrap strips of cloth rubbed with lamp oil and wax around the shaft of the long arrow. Then draw the flint. Ignited the strip of cloth wrapped around the shaft of the arrow.

Bending his bow and arrow, Xiao Shiji stood behind a small hill and shot at the place where he felt it most strongly.

The long arrow with the glow of fire pierced the night sky, tearing through the darkness. All the way to light the way forward.

Rumble!

There was a bang.

I don't know what the rocket hit on. A loud explosion was triggered.

The fire caused by the explosion illuminated the sky not far ahead.

They saw it clearly. The opposite side was crowded, and there was a large group of Turkic cavalry attacking at night.

Their horses seemed to have thick cloth pads tied under their feet, so they quickly walked to the place where Daqi was stationed. Only then did Xiao Shihe become aware.

Soon the neighing of the horses, the boiling of human voices, and the loud shouts of the Turkic language were all heard in the wind.

"Turks! It's the Turks! ”

The soldiers on the side of Daqi suddenly came to their senses, ran out of their camps, tents, and trenches, turned on their horses, and held long knives in their hands, ready to meet them.

Xiao Shiji also jumped on his war horse.

A big flag rose from behind him, with a big "Xiao" written on it.

Xiao Shiji raised his long knife and shouted loudly in the direction of the Turkic army: "Form a formation!" ”

The cavalry and infantry of Daqi immediately staggered and coordinated, standing in their respective positions.

"The long snake formation is in front, hit directly!"

"The bird is on the side, side attack!"

"Behind the Dragon Flying Array, ambush!"

"The Long Snake Formation retreats, and the Scythe Formation follows!"

"The back team becomes the front team, and the Eagle Yang Formation and the Tiger Wing Formation hedge!"

……

Although the Turkic army took advantage of the darkness to attack at night, Xiao Shiji calmly commanded his army to use various formations that were usually practiced to kill the Turkic army attacking at night.

The Turks are known as a people on horseback, and the individual combat effectiveness of the soldiers is very strong, and they are better at individual combat.

One Turkic sergeant can fight against five Great Qi sergeants.

But two Turkic sergeants may not be able to beat ten Daqi sergeants.

In the same way, a hundred Great Qi sergeants combined to fight together were enough to fight against a hundred fierce Turkic sergeants.

And after Xiao Shiji fought against the Turkic army a few times, he understood that against the Turkic army, it was necessary to train the Great Qi army to use formations against the enemy.

Field to field, their Daqi sergeants are no match for the Turks.

However, under the strong discipline and discipline, the Great Qi sergeant can twist into a rope and cut the unbeatably strong Turkic sergeant under the horse!

In order to exercise the individual combat ability of the Daqi sergeants at the same time, Xiao Shiji generally used various formations to beat the Turkic sergeants to the exhaustion and rushed to the ground, and he would also send his own carefully trained Daqi sergeants with relatively strong physical conditions to ride out of the battle alone to find those Turkic sergeants who were left alone to fight alone.

At this time, he himself took the lead, leading one of his strongest guards deep into the enemy group.

If the Turks were wolves, their Great Qi soldiers would be stronger than wolves.

They are all soldiers, not beasts, but beast hunters!

Whether it is a jackal or a tiger or leopard, in short, if you dare to violate the border of Daqi, you will be punished even if you are far away!

Under the impact of several formations, these Turkic soldiers were quickly defeated and retreated.

Xiao Shiji was about to withdraw his troops and send his cavalry troops to carry out a massacre. He suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Turning his head suddenly, Xiao Shiji saw that the camp on King Yijun's side suddenly burst into flames.

Siu Shiji understood why he felt that something was wrong.

In the past, when fighting against the Turks, King Yijun was always by his side, and the two of them on the battlefield had already surpassed the relationship between their former superiors and subordinates, but had a friendship with each other.

Just like his father Xiao Xiangsheng and Du Hengshuang's father Du Xiancheng.

He didn't understand why his father and father-in-law were not brothers, but they were better than brothers.

Now he understood.

For soldiers, especially those who have lived and died together on the battlefield, the comradeship is stronger and more solid than any affection.

Today he felt that something was wrong, and tonight began with him blowing the trumpet. King Yijun has never appeared.

"What's going on over there?" Shaw and horses return to camp. Asked out loud.

As soon as the banner of "Xiao" left, his sergeant also retreated like a tide.

The scattered Turks who fled for their lives on the opposite side saw that the Great Qi army was no longer pursuing, so they breathed a sigh of relief and galloped desperately. They went to another place.

And the camp on the side of the King of Yijun of the Great Qi Army. But there is no room for optimism.

It turned out that two groups of Turks had attacked their camp in Daqi tonight.

One place in the light. One is in the dark.

The group of Turks in the Ming Dynasty was large in number and were all cavalry, but they were discovered by Xiao Shiji in advance. It's already broken up.

In this dark place, although the number of Turks is small, they are all shrewd and strong, not comparable to ordinary Turkic soldiers, and they seem to be the best of their Turks, the so-called "warriors".

Xiao Shi and Da Urgent.

If King Yijun had a good deal, even if he killed all the Turks, it would be useless.

"Follow me!" Xiao Shiji shouted, and led his most confidant five hundred strong cavalry to break into King Yijun's camp first.

King Yijun did not have Xiao Shi and there was no vigilance on that side.

He was jolted from his slumber and hurriedly mounted his horse, but he was surrounded by the Turks.

The main army of Daqi was on Xiao Shiji's side.

There were only three or five thousand people on King Yijun's side.

I don't know why, the camp on their side was actually opened at night and quietly let those Turks in.

Xiao Shiji rode a fast horse, galloping wildly, and at the same time raised his bow and shot continuously.

The bow and arrow on his horse is a unique skill taught to him by Du Xiancheng, and no one in the Great Qi army is unmatched, and even the Turks who claim to have grown up on horseback are not his opponents.

There was chaos in King Yijun's camp, and some people took advantage of the chaos to set fires.

Xiao Shihe shot and killed many visible Turks with one arrow.

While he was running wildly, a man wearing an earthy yellow robe and looking like an inner servant rushed out of King Yijun's camp, stopped Xiao Shiji and said, "Captain Xiao! It's full of Turks, and if you go in, you're going to die! ”

Xiao Shiji was furious, pursed his lips, held a bow in his right hand, but took out his waist knife in his left hand and slashed it over.

Immediately, the chamberlain's head flew into the sky.

Blood splattered three feet in the cavity, staining Xiao Shiji's waist knife red.

"Leave the prince and dare to flee alone, there is no mercy!" Xiao Shiji's waist knife stretched out, caught the head of the chamberlain who fell from the sky, waved it a few times in the air, and threw it forward.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! The soldiers of Daqi were red-eyed by Xiao Shiji's actions, and they all rushed into King Yijun's camp like fierce beasts.

King Yijun, with a hundred or so guards, was galloping forward, trying to get rid of the layers of pursuers behind him.

The more he ran, the farther away he was from the camp.

Xiao Shiji rushed into the camp and killed all the Turks who remained, but found that King Yijun was no longer in the camp, so he quickly gathered the sergeants and pursued behind the Turks in front again.

"Lord Wang!"

Xiao Shiji finally arrived in time.

"You escort the prince back to the camp quickly, and I will take the people behind the palace!" Xiao Shiji ordered to go down.

King Yijun couldn't help himself, and was surrounded by his guards and rushed forward. When he turned around, he saw that where they had just stood, a large group of Turks suddenly came out of the ground like ghosts, and surrounded Xiao Shi and the part of the soldiers who had stayed behind the palace.

"Let's go!" Xiao Shiji shouted, and led the sergeant to entangle the Turkic sergeant who suddenly appeared......

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…… (To be continued......)

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