The heavy gates slowly opened, reaching a width that barely allowed one person to squeeze sideways. Then, a total of three people walked out of the gap. The leader was Lu Qian, followed by two family members.

Lu Qian, who had a resolute face, looked ahead through the fluttering snow curtain, and everywhere, hundreds of steps away, countless small black dots were scattered, and he knew that those were all rogue soldiers coming to the city. And in front of those little black dots, there stood a small flag several feet long. Although the flag is small, it is particularly eye-catching in the white ice and snow world because it is red.

Lu Qian swallowed his saliva and stepped forward, and the two family members lowered their heads and followed closely behind. After slowing down in the snow for a while, the small red flag in front of him and the scene around the flagpole became clearer and clearer, Lu Qian raised his head and looked at it, and his heart couldn't help but "chuckle". Under the red flag fluttering slightly in the wind, a woman was standing. The woman's eyes were straight, and her face was as white as snowflakes.

The delicate and slender body, the white and delicate cheeks, and the eyes that seem to reveal strength and firmness are no different from the image of his imagination. Lu Qian secretly thought, it turned out that it was Kuangwan, it turned out that it was the person who he thought about and often appeared in his dreams.

But around her, now surrounded by a group of beasts that are eyeing at her.

In addition to Kuangwan, next to the red flag, there are a few people standing in front. At the beginning, a big man, dressed in an extremely dazzling purple and red cloth face armor, surrounded by everyone with a detached posture, according to the information he learned earlier, Lu Qian was sure that this person was the head of the Zhao camp army outside the city.

Hou Dagui has been paying attention to him for a long time.

Lu Qian stopped ten steps away, brewed for a moment, and said loudly: "Suining Lu Qian, I have seen Hou Shuai." "Since he has made up his mind to negotiate with the Liukou, Lu Qian has made up his mind to rescue Kuang Wan. In order to save his sweetheart, what is the tension of swallowing his anger for a while.

As soon as he spoke, Kuang Wan's body trembled violently. He was in a hurry, and almost burst into tears, but in the end, taking into account the overall situation, he still endured the ups and downs of his heart and remained silent. However, at the moment, Kuangwan was already in tears, and she had not given up all along, because she firmly believed that Suining's father, Uncle Lu, and Lu Qian would not leave her alone. Now, Lu Qian's appearance made her doubly moved, in her fantasy, her future husband must be a big hero who stands up to the sky, and at this moment, this heroic figure really appeared in front of her.

Hou Dagui looked back at Kuang Wan and said to Lu Qian, "Do you know her?" ”

"Acquaintance." Lu Qian held his head high and responded stiffly.

"Do you want to save her?"

"Yes."

"I'm sure you've seen it, my conditions are very simple, open the city gate to welcome our army into the city, and I will naturally let this girl go."

Lu Qian's lips pursed and he shook his head: "If you open the city gate as a condition, you can't agree to it." ”

"Don't say yes? So what are you going to do? ”

"Let's talk about the conditions." Lu Qian is neither humble nor arrogant, and his voice is loud and clear. If Kuang Wan didn't know his true age, she was afraid that like Hou Dagui and all the Zhao Ying sergeants present, she couldn't imagine that this young man who was in danger was not even twenty years old.

"What is there to talk about?" Hou Dagui said coldly.

Lu Qian replied: "When you enter the city, all you need is supplies. You will report the number, and the city will gather it and send it out. ”

"Supplies?" Hou Dagui was stunned when he heard this, and then laughed left and right, "Did you hear that?" This kid said we were only going into the city to get supplies! Several Zhao Battalion officers beside him also laughed after hearing this.

"Isn't it?" The sudden laughter of Hou Dagui and the others caused a great blow to the little confidence that Lu Qiancai had built, but he insisted on it and asked with emotion.

Hou Dagui, who has been a veteran for decades, can already realize that the calm and steadiness shown by the young man in front of him before is just a kind of self-cover-up. A person's self-confidence from the bottom of his heart and pretending to be confident can be distinguished at a glance in front of Hou Dagui, and he found that Lu Qian seemed to be a little out of breath, so he was ready to further destroy Lu Qian's psychological defense: "To be honest, when our army enters the city, it is not only necessary to replenish. I also want your mother, your sister, and your aunt to all take off and be happy with Lao Tzu! After speaking, he laughed wildly with the generals on the left and right.

Lu Qian, who was born in a scholarly family, only felt that he had been insulted like never before. From childhood to adulthood, because of his family background, he came into contact with people who knew books and etiquette, were humble and educated, if he hadn't seen and heard with his own eyes, how could he have imagined that there are such despicable and shameless people in the world.

Hou Dagui saw that Lu Qian's face was already red to the base of his neck, and he felt a burst of relief in his heart, secretly thinking that what is the big deal with a literati like you who are pretending? In the end, didn't you give yourself a meal and have no rebuttal? He didn't know why, but whenever he could insult a reader or even make them embarrassed in front of him, he would get a great sense of satisfaction. He loves the satisfaction and enjoys it.

Listening to the laughter surrounding his ears, Lu Qian, who was bullied and ridiculed, intuitively felt bursts of hot blood surging up on his head one after another, he wanted to have a seizure, and even had a grievance that wanted to cry. But when he thought of the mission he was carrying, he could feel that the eyes of Kuang Wan not far away were watching her. It was these eyes that gave him the confidence and courage to persevere.

"I want to endure, I want to endure ......" he kept reminding himself in his heart, thinking of the future, he only felt a little dizzy, and then, with a deep breath, his originally excited emotions were slowly suppressed.

The goose-feather-like snow was still flying, but Hou Dagui and the others, who saw Lu Qian's face turn from red to pale, gradually stopped laughing in surprise.

"If it is such an unreasonable request, there is no reason to agree to it." Lu Qian looked at Hou Dagui angrily, revealing a kind of firmness and unyielding from his bones.

"This kid has a bit of ability." Hou Dagui thought to himself, and at the same time looked to the side, Hui Dengxiang also shook his head at himself.

"It's just about money and food, it's easy to talk about." Lu Qian continued, calming down, he also guessed that Hou Dagui deliberately provoked himself with words just to disrupt his thoughts so as to make a profit from it, and after thinking about this, he no longer cared about Hou Dagui's filthy words in front of him.

"If Your Excellency does not agree, then Suining City is waiting for Your Excellency to knock on the door yourself." After settling down, Lu Qian put down another sentence. Negotiations should have the style of negotiation, and the envoy should have the dignity of the envoy, and if you blindly lead the other side by the nose, then the negotiation is meaningless. He intended to show his determination to fight against the army, but after saying this, he didn't dare to look at Kuang Wan's reaction. In fact, from the beginning to the present, he has not looked at Kuang Wan squarely, because he is afraid that if he looks at that glance, all his feelings will burst out in a moment.

Hou Dagui's face darkened and he didn't answer immediately. This is his usual trick, others don't know it, and whenever they think he is angry, they will panic. In fact, he would put on such a face, which was also a kind of cover-up, and he was trying his best to hide the uneasiness in his heart.

Really attacking the city, he didn't even have the confidence to give the military order to attack!

His own difficulties are not for outsiders, he didn't expect that a young man like Lu Qian would have the courage to test his bottom line first.

He originally wanted to make Lu Qian collapse first through words, but in the end, he found that it was himself who was not restrained.

"That's it!" He sighed in his heart, his face twitched, and he didn't have the heart to go on with Lu Qian, so he said with a calm face: "Is there a person named Song Sima in your city?" ”

"Yes." Lu Qian listened and was secretly vigilant. At the beginning, he and Kuang Zhao annihilated a group of rogues at the Huwei Slope near Guangshan, and this Song Sima was surrendered at that time. Therefore, people have merit in killing thieves, and there is a temporary lack of officers with experience in imperial soldiers in Suining City, Lu Daqi and Kuang Zhao did not kill him in the end, but let him be responsible for defending the city to make meritorious service and kill thieves to redeem themselves.

Hou Dagui nodded, his eyes suddenly became fierce and sharp: "I want his head." You send his head, and I'll let this go! ”

"Song, Song Sima's head?"

"Hmph, exchanging the dead for the living, isn't it for you to take advantage of something?"

"But, ......" Lu Qian once imagined in his mind the various conditions and requirements that Hou Dagui might put forward, but after thinking about it, he really didn't expect that what Hou Dagui wanted in the end was actually a human head. This Song Sima is not related to him, and he is a thief, so it stands to reason that he has no feelings for this person. But the crux of his hesitation now is that when Lu Daqi accepted Song Sima before, he promised that as long as Song Sima was sincerely obedient, he would not blame the past, and help defend the city to carry this wave of rogues, so he would ask for credit and fame for him. Judging from the observations during this time, it is obvious that Song Sima is doing his best for this promise, and he is working hard to defend the city, especially the Suining natives.

Don't talk about Lu Daqi, Lu Qian also knows the truth of "a gentleman is righteous" and "no faith is not standing". If he kills Song Sima in order to save Kuangwan, wouldn't his father and son become capricious villains?

Of course, Hou Dagui couldn't have imagined that Lu Qian would think of so many aspects in a single thought, he only saw Lu Qian's hesitation, and couldn't help but be very annoyed in his heart, and said, "What? Just don't give it? His grandmother's, could it be that your Lu family fell in love with Song Sima and recruited him as a son-in-law? ”

For the vulgar and formless Hou Dagui, Lu Qian naturally couldn't explain the entanglement in his heart, and his performance of not speaking for a long time made Hou Dagui's patience disappear suddenly.

"Come, swords and axes are waiting!" Annoyed and angry, Hou Dagui shouted angrily, and Hui Deng, who was behind him, knew what he meant, and without hesitation, he personally stepped forward to the red flag and swept through the unprepared Kuangwan.

Hearing Kuang Wan's terrible scream, Lu Qian couldn't hold back anymore, and looked over urgently, only to see that in the wind and snow, Kuang Wan had already given Hui Deng Xiang to kneel under the sassy red flag. The swaying waist knife in Whiten's hand was also on the back of Kuang Wan's trembling neck almost at the same time.

"Stop!" Lu Qian raised his hand and shouted, and staggered two steps, but saw Hou Dagui beckoning, and when he landed, a row of crossbowmen ran up from behind, and they came over with their bows and arrows.

"One step forward, I'll shoot you with an arrow, and that little girl won't want to live!" Hou Dagui said viciously, and at the same time looked to the right, and a soldier obediently took out three fine incense candles from the bag and held them in his hand.

"Ordered." Hou Dagui commanded. Immediately, in front of everyone's eyes, the soldier took five steps forward, inserted the three fine incense candles into the snow not far in front of Lu Qian, and at the same time lit one of them with a fire breaker.

Hou Dagui stared directly at the incense candle and said, "I don't want to talk nonsense with you." Three sticks of incense, just three sticks of incense, after the three sticks of incense are burned, I didn't see you take Song Sima's head to see me, I cut off her head! He looked at the red flag, where Kuang Wan kneeling in the snow could no longer cry. Because of Whitden's pull, her cotton hat was also torn off, and now her cloak is extremely miserable.

Lu Qian opened his mouth miserably, and involuntarily moved half a step forward, and the row of crossbowmen immediately tightened the bowstring. Seeing this, the two family members behind him hurriedly grabbed him with their hands and feet, and forcefully persuaded: "Son, don't!" ”

"Go back and get Song Sima's head!" Hou Dagui roared angrily, his eyes as hideous as a man-eating demon in hell.

Lu Qian trembled his hands, glanced at the red flag sluggishly, then pushed away the two family members, turned around and left without hesitation, and soon disappeared into the dazed snow and mist.

Hou Dagui was furious, and shouted at Hui Dengxiang: "Did you listen to what I just said? ”

Whitden nodded in agreement: "Listen to the truth." ”

"His grandmother's, he can't get Song Sima, and it's useless to keep this little girl. As soon as the three incense sticks were burned, the little girl was slaughtered. So that they know that my surname Hou is what he says! After he finished speaking, he thrust the knife into the ground hard, and looked at Suining County, which was faintly visible in the snow in the distance. In a fit of rage, the whole army was solemn, only the sad and miserable cries under the red flag were endless.