On a muddy yellow mud road, a dilapidated ox cart slowly approached, making a "babbling" sound in a slight shaking.

The ox cart came to a halt beside a farmhouse on the side of a hill, and the farmer on the horse jumped lightly, his vigilant eyes quickly sweeping around. After confirming that there was no danger, he reached out and picked up the straw mat from the ox cart carriage.

An old man with a thin face stepped down from the ox cart with his legs raised, and he nodded slightly to the farmer, and then walked towards the farmhouse.

The farmer rushed forward, pushed open the wood door for the old man, and stood aside with his hands down, waiting for the old man to enter the door and respectfully pull the door open. He sat back on the ox cart, his sparkling eyes still sweeping around.

The old man lifted a plank from the floor of the farmhouse to reveal an unfathomable winding tunnel, smiled softly, took the torch that hung on the wall and lit it, and leaped down with a speed of agility that was not commensurate with his age.

The planks closed automatically, and the farmhouse was empty, as if no one had ever been there.

The old man raised his torch and walked along the long and deep tunnel.

The huge and complex tunnel was like a dense spider web, but the old man walked through one intersection after another with ease and without hesitation.

Finally, he stopped at a corner, opened an iron box placed on the side of the road, took out a pitch-black hooded cloak and put it on, and covered his face with a black scarf embroidered with the gold character "Yiyi", and then pushed open a stone wall and walked in.

In the large stone room, the fire candles on the four walls were crackling.

On both sides of a long aisle, black-clad masked men in the same attire sat over, and they heard the sound and looked at it together.

The person on the left who was covered with a face towel embroidered with "A Yi" coughed lightly and said, "Brother B! You're late! ”

Yi Yi laughed and said, "Old! I am not as handy as your legs and feet! Again! ”

He looked at the empty seat at the end of the aisle and said, "The son has not yet arrived, so what's wrong with the old decay coming sooner or later?" ”

Jia Yi smiled bitterly: "No matter if I wait for a year, it's rare to get together!" Let's just talk about the current situation, how serious is it? Why is your brother so steady? ”

Yi Yi sat down safely on the empty seat beside him, and said leisurely: "Oh? How serious is the situation? Forgive the old and stupid! ”

The next person wearing a "Bingyi" face scarf sneered, and pointed to a person wearing a "Mao Yi" face scarf opposite: "My Tiangan group finally planned a good game of chess!" But it was destroyed by the people of their twelve earthly branches, and they also lost Hai Yi and dozens of good hands! Isn't this unprecedented loss a wake-up call? ”

He snorted heavily, but did not answer.

The masked man on the first right said coldly: "Bingyi, what do you mean?" His masked scarf was embroidered with the words "Ziyi".

C Yi laughed dryly: "What do you mean?" Hum! The House of Appointments! But that's it! ”

The man straightened up, stood upright, and said angrily: "If it weren't for the wrong information provided by your Tiangan Group, how could we have suffered heavy losses?" How dare you sneer? ”

He glanced at the empty seat beside him and sneered: "The ugly one is still not here, I have to remind you!" Hai Yi is his beloved disciple, and I want to see how you explain it to him! ”

Bingyi seemed to be a little jealous of Chouyi, so he fell silent.

"Chouyi can't attend today's meeting, but I'll explain it to him!" A deep voice came.

Nineteen masked men stood up together, bowed and said, "Childe! ”

A burly man in black slowly walked from the shadows and walked straight towards the main seat. He did not wear a veil over his face, but he wore a golden mask.

The masked men waited for him to sit down, and then they sat down one after another.

The golden-faced man's voice was very low, but extremely powerful: "Today is our annual gathering, the ten heavenly stems, the twelve earthly branches, in addition to Hai Yi's unfortunate death, there are still Xin Yi and Chou one or two who can't go to the meeting!" ”

Na Jia couldn't help but be surprised: "Childe! It is not surprising that Xin Yi was unable to attend the meeting, after all, he is now responsible for guarding a party, holding heavy troops, and going out is a high-profile event. But Chouyi has been active near Luoyang, why can't he come? ”

The golden-faced man sighed softly: "Because of one person! Zhang Ji! ”

Several people shouted in unison: "Divine Doctor Zhang Zhongjing? ”

Na Jia suddenly said: "Understood! Soon after that Zhang Ji entered Beijing, he was sent by the emperor to inspect the epidemic in various places, and the eldest son of the ugly one has been suffering from depression for many years, and he must have chased it all the way! ”

The golden-faced man nodded and said, "Not bad!" I have sent to inform him of the bad news of Haiyi, and I am sure that he will return soon! ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent, only Bingyi let out a sneer.

Na Mao raised his head and said proudly: "It is not good to assassinate the Son of Heaven this time, and it is indeed my responsibility to kill Ling Hai." I won't be clever and sophistry, I just ask my son to punish him! ”

As soon as the son spoke, he said, "Childe, this time ............"

The golden-faced man waved his hand and said, "You don't need to say much, I already know the situation, the failure of this operation is not the fault of the twelve earthly branches!" ”

He looked at one person and said, "Xuyi, come on!" ”

Na Yiyi said respectfully: "Yes! As far as I know, after Mao Yi missed, Zhang Jiao personally led dozens of masters to successfully ambush the Son of Heaven and his party outside Luoyang City, but they were also completely defeated, Zhang Jiao was wounded and fled, and more than half of his troops were killed and wounded! ”

The stone room was suddenly so quiet that the needles could be heard, and after a long time, Bing Yi, who had been speaking out of criticism, was shocked and said: "This! It's true? Even Zhang Jiao personally shot and failed? ”

There was a hint of displeasure in Na Xu's words: "What? Your brother won't even believe me, will you? ”

Bingyi was stunned for a long time before he said: "That's not it, the virtuous brother has been hidden in the Taiping Road for many years, he is in a high position, and he is Zhang Jiao's personal disciple, how can the news be wrong?" It's just, it's just that it's too much to believe! ”

The golden-faced man said lightly: "So, although Mao Yi failed, it is also reasonable. It's only to blame us for underestimating Liu Hong! ”

Bingyi said in a low voice: "Childe is right! I'm wrong to blame the brothers of the Twelve Earthly Branches! ”

Several people in the crowd sighed together: "This faint monarch counts his fate!" ”

Najia raised his voice and said, "Childe! Now that the assassination attempt has failed, it has completely disrupted our next plan, where do we go from here? Please make a quick decision! ”

The golden-faced man suddenly stood up, came to Yi Yi, and said softly: "Yi Lao, you have always been a think tank for us, what do you think?" ”

Yi Yi groaned: "The old man wants to listen to Ren Yi first and talk about the situation in the palace!" ”

A masked man nodded to him when he saw the golden-faced man, and said: "In the past month, Liu Hong has secretly summoned his henchmen to enter the palace several times to discuss military aircraft, not only mobilizing tens of thousands of troops from the five colonels of the Northern Army to secretly assemble in Luoyang, but also ordering all the 2,000 armor soldiers of the Captain's Department of Sili to dispatch, and secretly taking dozens of officials from China, North Korea, and foreign Koreas!" Today, the Huangmen North Temple Prison is overcrowded! ”

There was a commotion in the crowd, and they all exclaimed, "What? We don't even know it! ”

The golden-faced man was also surprised: "What does Liu Hong want?" ”

Na Renyi smiled bitterly and said: "Son, I really don't know below!" ”

Everyone was even more shocked, and the golden-faced man's voice trembled a little: "Renyi, you are in an important position in the middle, and you don't even know about it, right?" Could it be that Liu Hong has already suspected you? ”

Na Renyi said angrily: "If you want to say doubt, it's not just me!" Nowadays, only Zhang Rang's father and son, Henan Yin Hejin, Weiwei Liu Kuan, Shiyu Shi Liu Tao and Sili Captain Zhang Zhong and other more than a dozen people participated, and everyone else was an outsider! I'm afraid that they are all included in the suspicion! ”

Yi Yi suddenly spoke: "Xuyi, what about you?" Did Brother Zhang Jiao also become suspicious of you? ”

Na Yi was stunned one by one, and then said: "It shouldn't be possible!" A few days ago, Senior Brother Ma Yuanyi convened a secret meeting of more than ten of our Qu Shuai to discuss the recent military mobilization! It can be seen that they still have great trust in me! ”

Yi Yi was shocked and said, "It's not right! ”

Everyone exclaimed, "What's wrong?" ”

Yi Yi's tone had lost the composure of Shicai, with a trace of anxiety that could not be concealed: "Everyone, please think about it, the Taiping Dao has been repeatedly defeated, the backbone has suffered heavy losses, and even completely lost control of some local sects, and it will be self-defeating to forcibly raise troops at this time!" Ma Yuanyi has always been cautious, how could he make such a decision? ”

He sneered: "There is only one reason, Ma Yuanyi is lying!" ”

He said in a trembling voice: "You mean, I am also listed as a suspect?" ”

Yi Yi Huo Ran got up and paced back and forth in the aisle a few times before saying, "That's not necessarily, but one thing may be certain!" Taiping Dao must have an extremely secret and major scheme, and Ma Yuanyi may be trying to hide people's eyes and ears by setting up a suspicious array like this! ”

He paced a few more times, and from time to time he said, "What is it?" ”

He suddenly stood to his feet and shouted, "We can't be silent any longer, we must act now!" ”

Everyone was taken aback by him, and the golden-faced man was also surprised: "Why is this? Wouldn't it be a great risk to act at this time? If one is not handled well, it may attract the attention of all forces to us! ”

Yi Yi slowly sat back in his seat and said bitterly: "Don't you understand the situation now?" Liu Hong and Zhang Jiao are secretly plotting, each planning a fatal blow, and only we have become deaf and blind, losing the advantage of controlling everything before! If they are allowed to continue, there is only one result! ”

A few words burst out of his mouth: "Life and death are decided, and the winner is king!" ”

Jia Yi suddenly jumped up, reached out and pulled off his scarf, revealing a delicate face. It's a pity that this delicate face has been distorted to the point of being almost hideous by extreme anger and resentment at this time.

He snapped, "I see what you mean! Sixteen years, sixteen years! What we have been waiting for is a protracted war, waiting for these two forces to kill each other and kill each other! Only in this way can we take advantage of the chaos and regain our former glory! So no one of them can easily grab the fruits of victory! ”

"Otherwise!" The golden-faced man sighed, "We will continue to sink into endless darkness and live in darkness until the end of our lives!" ”

B nodded and said, "Exactly!" That's why I said that immediate action must be taken to force the Han family and the Taiping Dao to openly engage troops, drag them into the quagmire of war, and eventually exhaust all their vitality! ”

He let out a soft laugh, but there were endless vicissitudes and resentment in the laughter: "In fact, all our layouts over the years are not precisely focused on this purpose? ”

Bingyi said suddenly: "However, with our current strength and influence, we can't interfere in the political situation at all, and it is almost impossible to promote an immediate war between the two sides!" ”

The stone chamber fell silent again, and everyone held their breath, because they knew that what Bingyi said was an indisputable fact.

A laugh sounded softly, and then the laughter got louder and louder, and everyone looked blankly at the laughing man---- Renyi, could it be that he was crazy because of anger and despair?

He stood up lightly and said in a low voice: "The world is like chess, and life is like a game, but follow your heart, who is right and wrong?" ”

He ignored everyone's shocked looks, walked up to Xuyi, looked at him fixedly, and said: "I am in the court, you are in the sect, you and I are just chess pieces!" But now the key to breaking the game is on you and me! Do you understand what I mean? ”

After a while, he nodded and said in a dumb voice, "I understand!" It's just me, but it's too wronged for you! ”

"No!" Ren Yi shook his head and said, "Sometimes, being alive is far more desolate than dying, and your sacrifice is greater!" ”

As if he understood something, Jia Yi jumped up like an electric shock and shouted, "You guys! What do you guys want to do! ”

He rushed forward, grabbed the two of them, and said sharply: "Heaven and earth branches, the same qi and branches, Gongzi and I will never allow you to do this!" ”

Most people still don't know why, and they are all stunned.

Only Yi Yi said sadly: "Have you really figured it out?" Is this the only way? ”

Ren nodded and said, "I don't know if it's the best way, but it must be the fastest!" ”

The golden-faced man suddenly shouted in a deep voice: "Heaven and earth support listen to the order, immediately take down Renyi and Xuyi!" ”

"Chok" The long sword came out of the sheath, but it was Renyi who drew his sword and crossed it around his neck.

He suddenly said angrily: "Childe! Have you forgotten the blood feud between your father-in-law and his wife? And all of you here have endured humiliation for more than ten years? My life is given by everyone! What about giving it back to you today? ”

The golden-faced man was shocked when he heard this, and he couldn't help but take a step back.

In the stone room, for a while, there was the echo of the sharp voice of the person.

Na Yiyi suddenly fell to his knees tremblingly and saluted to Renxing.

Jia Yi also fell back and sat on the ground weakly.

Ren Yi pulled down his scarf, revealing a white and beardless old face, he took a deep look at everyone, and then smiled at Na Yiyi: "Brother Yi, the follow-up is all up to you!" ”

He stretched out his hand and pulled one, the two looked at each other, and said together: "Feng Zhen, Tang Zhou, goodbye everyone!" ”

With that, the two of them strode out of the stone chamber without looking back.

The golden-masked man stretched out his hand to stop him, but finally did not speak.

For a moment, in the stone room, there was a deathly silence.

After a long time, the golden-faced man suddenly burst out with an unwilling roar, drew out his long sword and threw it fiercely, with a clear sound of "ding", sparks flashed, and the long sword actually sank deep into the stone wall.

He turned around and said fiercely: "Ziyi, Maoyi, I order you to do your best to be the killer of the Huiren family, and you will definitely kill Zhang Rang within two months!" ”

Ziyi and Mao Yi said awe-inspiringly: "No! ”

The golden-faced man said calmly: "I can't kill Liu Hong, I don't blame you!" But if you can't kill Zhang Rang again, hmph, what do you say? ”

Zi nodded and said, "Don't worry! He will surely die! ”

The golden-faced man sighed lightly: "This is the last thing we did for Feng Zhen!" ”

"And!" He said in a deep voice, "Everyone act immediately, redraw the plan, and cooperate with Feng Yu and Tang Erren to complete the task!" ”

He looked at the stone gate where the two left, took a deep breath, and said quietly: "Troubled times! Is it finally coming? ”

At this moment, in the thirteen states of the Eastern Han Dynasty, except for one person, no one can imagine that in this vast land, an almost endless killing movement is about to be performed, and how many heroic tragic songs with unpaid ambitions will be composed, and what will be left to future generations will be countless and endless comments and memories!

The baptism of blood and fire is coming!

The overture to war and chaos has been played!

The dragon lurking under the abyss is waiting for the opportunity, waiting for the moment to soar into the sky!

The eagle hovering between the clouds and mist is to sharpen its claws and show off the majesty of that thunderous blow!

A great era of turbulence and heroes is coming!

PS: Finally finished writing the first volume.,The second in the evening is only a side story of this volume.,From tomorrow.,Will officially enter the second volume of the Yellow Turban.。 There is still a long way to go, and I would like to thank my brothers for their love and support, as well as the guidance and recommendation of the editor-in-charge.

Also: Can anyone guess the true identity of the ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches of this mysterious organization? Except for Feng Yu, Tang Zhou, and the made-up Nighthawk Qin Yang, everyone else is a real historical figure! It's a very difficult one!