In Xinping County, Pizhou, a cavalry of more than 100 people is galloping on the mountain road, and the leader is Guo Song, who entered Beijing from Ganzhou, and he received an urgent call from the Son of Heaven to enter Beijing to take countermeasures.

Frankly speaking, the call of the Son of Heaven was really a bit unexpected by him, and it can be seen from the cold will of the Battle of Shazhou that the Son of Heaven has decided to deal with the affairs of the Western Regions coldly, and he also wrote that twist and turn out of a sense of responsibility, thinking that it would sink into the sea, but he didn't expect the Son of Heaven to actually issue an order to summon himself.

Guo Song faintly guessed that I am afraid that the Son of Heaven summoned himself to Beijing this time, and it must have something to do with the Western Regions.

Guo Song sped up his horse speed and galloped all the way on the official road, stirring up billowing yellow dust.

Two days later, Guo Song arrived in Chang'an with a hundred personal soldiers.

Guo Song asked his soldiers to rest in the inn outside the city, and he took Yang Jun and Zhao Xiu into the capital, and at the city gate, he heard someone talking, "I don't know what happened to the Golden Body Statue?" The Dao Palace burned so badly. ”

Guo Song was stunned for a moment, and asked the soldiers guarding the city: "Excuse me, which Dao Palace is on fire?" ”

"Don't you know? Qingxu Palace caught fire last night, the fire was very big, and we don't know what it looked like in the end. ”

Guo Song was taken aback, urged the horse to run to Jinchangfang, a moment, ran to Jinchangfang, as soon as he entered the door of the fang, he was stunned, and the Golden Body Pavilion was burned into a white ground.

He urged the horse to gallop over, only to see that the Qingxu Palace was almost burned to the ground, dozens of tents were set up in the open space, and groups of Taoist priests were crying while busy cleaning up.

Guo Song's mind became blank, what was going on?

"Uncle Junior!"

Guo Song suddenly heard a familiar voice, and when he turned around, he saw Qingfeng looking at him with surprise and joy.

"Qingfeng, what's going on?"

"Uncle Junior, go see Master! We were killed. ”

Guo Song became more and more suspicious in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "Where is your master?" ”

"Master is sick, little uncle come with me."

Guo Song turned over and dismounted, threw the reins to Yang Jun, and quickly followed Qingfeng to the big tent, most of Li Ganfeng's disciples and grandchildren knew Guo Song, and they knelt down and cried: "Uncle Ancestor is the master for us!" ”

"Don't worry, if the Qingxu Palace is really framed, I will definitely get this justice back."

In fact, Guo Song was more concerned about the master's body, he took two quick steps and asked Qingfeng urgently: "Has the ancestor's body also been burned?" ”

"No, the master transferred the icon to the underground palace in advance, and it was safe and sound, but it's a pity that the second senior brother, hey!"

Guo Song was a little confused, what is the transfer in advance, does the senior brother know that this fire is going to happen?

They walked into a big tent and saw that the elder brother Li Ganfeng was in a very bad complexion, lying on a bed, and his wife was feeding him porridge.

"Master, Uncle Xiao is here."

Li Ganfeng saw Guo Song, and tears welled up all of a sudden, "Senior brother, we.... By.... Killed tragically. ”

Guo Song stepped forward to hold his senior brother's hand and asked in a deep voice, "Senior brother tell me first, who did it?" ”

"It's... It is the Hidden Sword Pavilion. ”

Guo Song's eyes suddenly narrowed into a slit, and he asked coldly, "Why?" ”

"You don't know! The fourth.... The fourth has been... Killed by them. ”

This sentence was like a thunderbolt from the sky, which shocked Guo Song to the point that his heart and gall were broken, he was stunned for a long time, huge sadness poured into his heart, and the tears in his eyes could no longer help rolling down.

Guo Songqiang was full of grief and indignation, gritted his teeth and asked, "Tell me the cause and effect." ”

"I don't know why the fourth child was killed by the Hidden Sword Pavilion, but the fourth wife and Sun Xiaozhen fled to the capital, I heard that Sun Xiaozhen was also killed, the whereabouts of the fourth wife are unknown, she seems to be pregnant, the Hidden Sword Pavilion in order to hunt down her, let me hand over people within three days, otherwise I will burn down the Qingxu Palace, don't say that I haven't seen anyone at all, even if I see me, it is impossible to hand them over, but last night there was a sudden fire, and the entire Dao Palace quickly turned into a sea of fire, burning two apprentices, and more than a dozen apprentices, why are they so ruthless, I hate it! ”

Li Ganfeng said as he pounded the bed and cried.

Sun Xiaozhen also died, Guo Song was sad again, he wiped away his tears and asked, "Who do you say is the fourth brother's wife, is it that Wang Jianying?" ”

"It shouldn't be her, it is said that she doesn't know martial arts, and she is a very weak young woman, she should be married by the fourth child."

Guo Song lowered his head and pondered for a moment before asking, "Is Master's physical body okay?" ”

Li Ganfeng wiped away his tears and said: "They threatened to set fire to the Dao Palace, I was worried, I invited the master's body to the underground palace in advance, and the second apprentice Tianyu guarded the underground palace, after the fire was extinguished, I went to the underground palace to check, the master's physical body was safe and sound, but Tianyu was.... but he died, and he was suffocated alive. ”

"And then?"

"Someone from the Ministry of Rites came this morning, blaming us for not taking good care of the Golden Body Icon, and asking us to hand over the Icon to Xuanduguan, Senior Brother, I am now... I really don't know what to do now. ”

Guo Song pressed his senior brother's shoulder and said: "Revenge must be avenged, but life must also go on, you can send the holy statue back to Kongtong Mountain, didn't senior brother buy Xuanhu Palace?" Transfer to the past first, and come back when the Qingxu Palace is rebuilt. ”

"You're right, let's go back to Kongtong Mountain first, but the fourth ......."

"The fourth brother's affairs are with me, so you don't care, what about the third brother?" Guo Song suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Zhang Lei.

"He happened to go to Lingzhou, and I don't know when he will be back."

"Have you seen the little fish girl?" Guo Song asked again.

Li Ganfeng shook his head, "I haven't seen her all this time." ”

Guo Song wondered in his heart, where did Xiao Yuniang go, he retracted his mind and said to his senior brother: "Senior brother, let's leave today, save those bastards in Xuanduguan from worrying about Master's body, Senior Brother has no money, I'll let the third child give it to you when I go back." ”

Li Ganfeng hurriedly waved his hand, "I put the money and gold and silver in the cabinet, there is no loss, you don't care, I'll leave today." ”

After a pause, he told Guo Song a little uneasily, "You have to be careful yourself, the current Hidden Sword Pavilion is no longer the Hidden Sword Pavilion of the past, it is ruthless and murderous." ”

Guo Song nodded, "Senior brother, don't worry!" But the current Guo Song is not the same Guo Song as before, I won't kill innocents indiscriminately, but I won't let go of any of those who should be killed! ”

.........

Guo Song immediately looked at the attic that was burned to the ground for a long time in front of the Golden Body Pavilion, and he suddenly turned around and shouted into the distance: "Tell Li Man that she will come at me if she has a kind, and one day, I will cut her with a thousand knives to sacrifice my senior brother's spirit in the sky!" ”

A few small black dots suddenly appeared on the roof of the house in the distance, and he fled in panic.

Yang Jun said in a low voice: "Why don't you catch them and torture them?" ”

"It's just a bunch of little minions, I don't need to arrest them, I'll go straight to Li Man."

According to Guo Song's previous character, he must have raised his sword and directly killed the people in the Tibetan Sword Pavilion and killed all the people in the Tibetan Sword Pavilion, but after all, he has been a superior for several years, and gradually has a city government, he will no longer be stupid enough to kill in the Taiji Palace, and bear the crime of treason and assassination, he knows very well that Li Man will definitely take the initiative to find him.

Guo Song first came to the Daming Palace to ask to see the Son of Heaven, and after a while, a eunuch came out and led him to the imperial study.

"Guo Yuanjun is really lucky, the Son of Heaven is ready to drive back to the palace, I heard that the envoy is coming, and immediately summoned him, so that the weight of the envoy in the heart of the saint is very heavy!"

"Where, it is the Holy One who understands me and comes from afar."

"Huh! Guo Yuanjun can really speak. ”

After a while, the two of them came to the imperial study one after the other, and the eunuch waved his hand and smiled: "Please wait, I will report to the saint!" ”

The eunuch entered the imperial study, Guo Song shook his head, put aside the previous matter, and withdrew his mind to today's meeting, he had an intuition that today's conversation was related to the fate of Anxi.

At this time, the eunuch came out and said, "Guo Yuanjun, the Holy Lord declares you!" ”

Guo Song stabilized his mind and walked quickly into the imperial study.

I saw Li Shizheng, the Son of Heaven, standing in front of the map of the Western Regions with his hands in his hands, looking up at the huge map of Anxi on the wall.

"Weichen Guo Song see Your Majesty!"

"Guo Yuanjun, I have decided to give up Anxi completely!" Li Shi stared at the map road.

Guo Song was stunned, he traveled thousands of miles to the capital, and what he heard was such a sentence, which really made him unexpected.

"Your Majesty, at the beginning, Weichen proposed to exchange Shatuo prisoners of war for Tingzhou soldiers, but it was fiercely opposed by the imperial court, Your Majesty gave up Anxi, can the Manchu Dynasty civil and military agree?"

Li Shi turned around and returned to his seat, and said in silence for a moment: "What I said about giving up is not what you think, but maintaining the status quo, I will not send troops and supplies to Anxi, do you understand?" ”

"Your Majesty, Tubo is a wolf, it specializes in attacking lonely and helpless prey, we open the passage from Shazhou to Anxi, but the imperial court maintains the status quo, it will be seen by Tubo, and they will devour Anxi unscrupulously."

Li Shi shook his head, "I have already obtained the details of the interior of Tubo, in order to support the army, the common people can't even afford to eat, so let's put it this way!" Tubo can't even get together a million sheep, the entire national strength tends to collapse, the people are boiling, the Tubo nobles are also extremely dissatisfied, I heard that there is also a noble rebellion, so I am sure, at least for five years, Tubo will not be able to launch a war against Anxi, Hexi's duty is to defend the territory and prevent the Shatuo people from attacking Ganzhou again, as for Anxi, you don't have to ask. ”