Chapter 4: The Frost Changes

The two were talking, the door of the hut was slammed open in a hurry, Helian turned his head when he heard the sound and was about to ask, but saw a messenger in tattered clothes and dusty hurriedly knelt down to him, and without waiting for questioning, he handed over a letter wrapped in layers of brown paper with both hands and said: "Southern Xinjiang is urgent, please open it in person!"

Helian Zongheng no longer bothered to blame the person who came to disturb his precious grandson recklessly, because he knew that if it weren't for the 100,000 urgent events, the soldiers of the family who were extremely well-trained would never have broken in so disregard for the number of courtesies, and when he heard that the letter came from the southern Xinjiang that he was most worried about, his heart became even more uneasy, he leaned down to take the letter, waved his hand and sent the messenger away, and hurriedly opened the envelope and quickly browsed it, but his originally ruddy face became more and more pale.

Nan Huangyue on the side saw that the usually firm head of the family looked at the letter without saying a word at the moment, and her heart was also tight, and she mustered up the courage to ask in a low voice: "Daddy, but he ...... the Zhan Lang of Southern Xinjiang", said this, but he didn't dare to ask anymore.

"I didn't expect it, what I'm worried about is that it still happened!", Helian sighed and stretched out his hand to hand the letter to Nan Huangyue, but he paced to Sun Liao's cradle and looked at his grandson fixedly, not knowing what to think again.

Nan Huangyue tried her best to suppress the uneasiness in her heart, and lowered her head to read the contents of the letter, and the unfamiliar handwriting on the paper came into view:

"Father, the day before yesterday in accordance with the urgent call of the monarch Tang Jian, led two thousand guards to return to China to face the saint, unexpectedly on the road ambushed by thieves, since yesterday, the minister's personal guards desperately cover the son to break through, but the enemy is more than ten times more than me, our department has been killed and wounded more than a thousand, the son led dozens of dead soldiers to desperately capture the enemy's main general, under all kinds of interrogation, he knew that he was a retainer of the Zheng family, and wanted the Zheng family and the Tang family to collude, this matter must be instructed by Tang Jian. Er had the intention to return to Tianshuang, but the way back to China must have been ambushed by Tang Jianjian, so he had to lead the remnants to return to southern Xinjiang temporarily, in order to plan for the future. The only thing that the son is worried about is the old father, wife and children at home, so he sent a clever henchman to take a detour back to China to report the news, and the father made plans early after seeing this letter, and the Tang family learned that the son fled back to southern Xinjiang will be designed in you, and the father will cherish it!"

Looking at the thrilling news in her heart, Nan Huangyue only felt that her mind was blank, the whole letter was scribbled, and there was no too much consideration of sentences and formats, obviously written in a hurry, although Nan Huangyue was plain and capable and shrewd, after all, she was a generation of women, and she had already panicked about her husband's safety, so she had to look helplessly at the head of the Helian family who was still watching Sun Liao ponder.

Helian Zongheng seemed to feel his daughter-in-law asking for help and looked at him, slowly turned his head, but was still silent and slowly pushed open the door, just as he was about to walk out, Helian Zongheng turned his head to look at Nan Huangyue who was standing in the room and his grandson who was sleeping in the cradle, shook his head slowly, and then said loudly to Nan Huangyue as if he had made up his mind: "You go to the martial arts training ground to find Helian injured and take him to the study to see me." With that, he strode out.

Nan Huangyue finally reacted, and hurriedly ran towards the martial arts training ground.

Helian ruled the family with martial arts, and the martial arts training ground was by no means just a façade like other aristocratic families, not only had all the facilities, but also the martial arts practitioners often competed with real swords and guns, and there were no longer a few injured or even killed. I don't know why, the noisy martial arts training ground in the past is empty at the moment, only a shirtless man stands in the corner, hitting the hanging sandbag like crazy, the sweat on his body has already soaked a large part of this person's feet, there is still a long distance away from him Nan Huangyue stood cautiously, for some reason, for this most mysterious man in the family, Nan Huangyue has a sense of fear in his heart.

As if sensing that someone was looking at him, the shirtless man stopped his fist and slowly turned around, looking at Nan Huangyue coldly with a pair of snake-like eyes.

Nan Huangyue shivered for no reason, and finally said softly after being silent for a long time: "Helian is injured, the head of the family asked me to take you to the study." ”。

When Helian heard this, his cold face finally moved a little, the corners of his mouth raised strangely, and a slender scar on his face moved like a centipede, and Nan Huangyue's heart was cold again.

Nan Huangyue no longer dared to look at Helian Injury's indifferent and gloomy face that was not ugly, and turned around and walked towards the study, and Helian Injury behind him hurriedly took off the clothes hanging on the hanger next to him, and followed as he walked.

It didn't take long for Nan Huangyue to lead Helian into the study, there were already a few people sitting in the study at the moment, and Nan Huangyue recognized that there were the big housekeeper and two middle-aged men who often came to visit the head of the house.

Seeing Nan Huangyue walk in, Helian nodded and motioned for her to sit on a chair beside him, but Helian walked straight behind him and stood straight. Helian stood up and said loudly: "Everyone is here, I'll make a long story short, I just received a secret letter from Zhan'er urgently, and learned that the monarch Tang Jian intends to be unfavorable to my Helian family, a few days ago, he had already attacked Zhan'er, Zhan'er escaped, and he said in the letter that he had decided to reverse the frost. Helian's century-old loyalty seems to be ruined by my hands. No matter how unkind the Tang family is to me Helian, I don't want to go out of the frost, rather than fleeing to be infamous for stealing the country and bullying the king, it is better to stay and bear the responsibility that my son should bear. In any case, I won't go. All of you here are either my dearest relatives, or my good brothers who were born and died, they are all the pillars of my Helian, I think that Tang Jian is suspicious, and he will never let you go, but this time it is I who has affected everyone. There is a secret passage in this room, which leads to a hundred miles away, and you can escape from here, and from then on you will be able to live incognito, and you must be able to live a little more peacefully. ”。 With that, his left hand twisted a mechanism on the seat, and a row of bookshelves slowly moved away, revealing a deep tunnel.

As if there was no hesitation, the butler and the two men knelt down on one knee and said loudly, "Swear to live and die with Helian!!".

The man named Helian was still standing motionless behind Helian Zongheng, not saying a word, in fact, except for Helian Zongheng, there was really no one here who had heard him speak.

"Okay, good!!", although he had long foreseen that this would be the result, Helian Zongheng's eyes were still red with excitement, after all, sharing weal and woe may be possible for many people, but living and dying together is a feeling that countless people dare not practice. Helian looked at the two old subordinates in front of him and the housekeeper who had followed him for many years with relief, turned around with some difficulty and picked up Sun Liao, who was sleeping in the cradle, and turned to Helian who was still standing behind him: "I want you to protect the baby in my arms, remember, I don't allow anyone other than you to touch a single hair of his hair!" Seeing Helian nodding sadly, Helian Zongheng seemed to let go of a matter of his heart, and handed the swaddling clothes in his hand to Helian without hesitation, as if the ice-like man in front of him bowed slightly, and he had obtained the most reliable promise in the world.

Helian was still silent and took Sun Liao bluntly. Nan Huangyue on the side wanted to hug his son, but was rejected by his cold eyes, obviously, he firmly remembered the order of the head of the family: no one is allowed to touch this baby except himself!

Helian looked at Nan Huangyue, who asked for his son but was refused, and said slowly: "Yue'er, don't worry, it is the safest choice for Helian to protect Nuo'er." You immediately took Helian and Nuo'er out of the city from the secret passage, and found one of my old people on the outskirts of the Demon Moon Forest of the Giant Wood Empire, saying that you are a descendant of the Helian family, and he will definitely help you tide over the difficulties. ”。

"But, father, don't you want to leave with us?", Nan Huangyue looked sadly at her father-in-law with gray temples, and asked so on her lips, but she already knew in her heart that with the character of the head of the family, she would never escape with her, and asking this was just a last futile effort.

"I won't leave, this is my home, the Helian family must always have someone to protect their ancestral hall, this duty is naturally my duty as the head of the family, my Helian's soul is in the frost, and I will die in the frost, but Nuo'er and you are Helian's hope, you have to live, and more importantly, someone must stay to calm the anger of the Tang family, I stay alone, I can exchange the lives of countless innocent people, anyone who is implicated because of my Helian is our family's sin!"

"But Daddy ......"

"Don't say it, I'm up to it, Helian Wounded, remember your mission. Let's go!"

Helian was injured when he heard this, hugged Sun Liao and suddenly knelt deeply at Helian Zongheng's feet and kowtowed three times in a row, and then stood up and walked into the secret passage without looking back.

Nan Huangyue was anxious for her son, and after hesitating for a moment, she finally made up her mind, and also knelt down deeply and kowtowed to Helian three times, holding back her tears to catch up with Helian Injury.

Helian watched Sun Liao and his party walk into the secret passage, and gradually was engulfed by the darkness, and he couldn't hold back the sadness in his heart anymore, two lines of old tears slowly flowed, and the whole person seemed to be much older. He reluctantly said to the butler, "Immediately distribute all the money of the family to the servants." Then dismiss, don't be innocent because of me. ”。 The housekeeper hurriedly stepped out. Helian Zongheng then said to the two middle-aged people left in the study: "You two have followed me since I was young, fought in the north and south, and were born and died, and I have long regarded you two as brothers. Or, we can't be born in the same year and month, let's die in the same year, month and day, under the nine springs, don't forget the friendship in this life, and in the next life, we will still be brothers!"

The two of them smiled when they heard this, as if they had long ceased to see life and death, and the man on the left said: "It is already a blessing for the two of us to be able to follow the handsome for so many years, and the handsome has saved the two of us on the battlefield several times, and now the handsome wants to prove his innocence to the world with this body, and the two of us naturally want to use this life to repay the righteousness to the handsome, and it is useless to say more, so let's put on the battle armor for the last time!"

"Okay, I'm Helian Zonghengshe, but this stinky skin, can be regarded as worthy of the ancestors' loyalty to the Tang family for hundreds of years, and now with the two of you, even if you die, you will die happily, and the old man will be able to get a false name of loyalty and righteousness after his death, hahahaha! Come, help me put on my armor again, and let Tianshuang see my Helian's military might again!!".

Outside the prosperous Helian Mansion in the past, today it is full of fully armed soldiers, Zheng Yuan, the head of the Zheng family, sits on a horse in silver armor, although he learned from the dismissed family members in the mansion that not only is there not a single soldier in the Helian Mansion now, but even the servants and subordinates are all gone, Zheng Yuan still does not dare to wave the command flag in his hand for a long time, after all, the century-old military power of the Helian family is not something that anyone can easily contend with.

Just when Zheng Yuan hesitated, the door of Helian's house opened by itself, Zheng Yuan hurriedly ordered the soldiers to bend their bows and be on guard, but only to see three horses striding out, the first one was dressed in bright armor, the big red cloak hunted, and a silver spear in his hand was shining coldly, this person had a calm smile on his face, full of no murderous aura, but it was not who Helian Zongheng was. Helian slapped his horse forward slowly, and the two horsemen behind him followed closely, as if he didn't see the arrows that had been pulled on the bowstring facing him, the archers in the front row couldn't help but step backwards, and gradually, the linen tight military formation dodged a road, everyone seemed to have stopped breathing, and Zheng Yuan even felt that his heart was no longer beating. No one dared to release arrows, after all, no one dared to take the lead in offending Helian's hundreds of years of majesty, and everyone watched the three of them gradually move away, and in that direction was the ancestral hall of the Tang family.

In the nine hundred and twenty-ninth year of the Demon Moon Continent, the Tianshuang Marshal, the twenty-first head of the Helian family, Helian Zongheng, killed himself outside the royal ancestral hall, and his cronies Zhang Yun and Song Qi killed themselves behind him. That night, Tang Jian ordered people to collect his corpse and put it outside the forbidden city gate to expose it to the heart of future generations, and that night, the corpses of the three people were stolen by a mysterious person, and Tang Jian's guards searched for tens of thousands of people to no avail.

Three days later, Tang Jian's eldest son, Tang Chao, was stabbed to death in the downtown area, and the assassin did not escape after he succeeded, holding Tang Chao's head and shouting three times: "Helian, Helian, Helian!", the sound was like crying blood, and everyone who heard it was sad, and he slashed his neck with a sword. It is rumored that he is Helian's housekeeper: Helian goes.

Helian can't wash away the bloodstains where he killed himself, and some good deeds take advantage of the night to throw small white flowers next to the bloodstains, and the rest follow suit, and the white flowers are piled up overnight, Tang Jian is busy ordering people to clear them, and then the next day is the same.

Thousands of miles away in the camp tent in southern Xinjiang, Helian Zhan looked at the information sent urgently in his hand, he was in a daze for a long time, suddenly, raised his head and spurted out a mouthful of blood and fell down the chair, and the subordinates next to him hurriedly stepped forward to help, but Helian Zhan threw him away roughly, struggled to kneel down on his knees to the north, slammed his head on the ground, and stopped raising his head for a long time, ...... for a long time

In the 929th year of the demon moon calendar, the king of Tianshuang suddenly sent troops to encircle and suppress the Helian clan in the name of rebellion, Helian was loyal to himself, and then his son Helian fought in southern Xinjiang, and his grandson Helian Po, Helian Shuo led troops to vote, and his daughter-in-law Nanhuangyue and young grandson Heliannuo did not know where to go. Known in history as the Helian Rebellion. 【The True History of the Demon Moon】