Chapter 1 The Coming Storm III. The Gloomy Past
Luoyang, in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
The guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion were all confused by the scene in front of them at this time - Li Su bent over and gasped for breath, while his hand was dragging Lu Bu's cuffs deadly.
"Feng Xian...... You first...... Call...... Call...... You wait...... Wait a minute! But I'm tired to death! Li Su said with great difficulty.
"Do you still have the guts to show up in front of me?" Lu Bu's eyes were full of anger at this time, if it weren't for the fact that there were too many guards in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he would definitely kill Li Su on the spot.
"Feng Xian...... This is not the place to speak, come with me. With that, Li Su pulled Lu Bu, left the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and turned into an alley not far away.
"Fengxian, I'm glad I caught up with you, otherwise you'...... Belch! Before he finished speaking, he was lifted up by Lu Bu's neck.
"I was afraid that something would break at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion just now, but now there is no one around, Li Su, pay for my father-in-law's life!" As he spoke, Lu Bu's hand began to exert force, pinching Li Su's eyes and tensing his muscles.
"Bong...... First...... I............ I...... Segment...... Xuan ...... "Li Su kicked his feet wildly, and his two hands tried to break Lu Bu's hands, and he could only make a little sound when he was hoarse.
"Plop!" Lu Bu's hand let go, almost not throwing Li Su to death, but it was better than having someone pinch his neck, "Do you know Duan Xuan?" ”
"Ahem...... Ahem...... I've done something, ahem! Li Su gasped for breath and shook his head helplessly and complained.
"Don't talk nonsense, say, what's going on."
"Hu ......" finally resumed normal breathing, Li Su stood up and rubbed his neck and said, "Duan Xuan is visiting his old friend...... In fact, after the **** left your camp, I was always a little unwilling, so today I am ready to go to your camp again to persuade you. But as soon as he arrived halfway, he happened to meet Duan Xuan, who said that someone had killed General Ding, and Feng Xian suspected that it was my father-in-law. Therefore if you come to him with false will, if you find out that he is really the worker, you will assassinate him. Really? ”
"What? Will you get rid of me for your lord? As he spoke, Lu Bu's eyes flashed with murderous intent.
"Bongxian! Listen to me, although I belong to Dong Zhuo, I am not loyal to him at this time. To be honest, I can't see what he did after he entered Beijing. Moreover, although I am his subordinate, I am also Hanchen, and I will not be confused about the choice between him and the Son of Heaven. This time, Duan Xuan asked me to assist you secretly. ”
"Assistance? Tell me the truth, but you stole the secret letter that framed me in my camp? ”
"What secret book? Duan Xuan only said that General Ding was killed by a traitor, but did not elaborate, what happened? Li Su pretended to look at Lu Bu blankly.
"The secret book says that I took my father-in-law's head at night and presented it to Dong Zhuo!"
"Alas! Feng Xian was wronged. I talked to you yesterday, have you ever seen me take out a secret book? Come to think of it, someone must have put it in your account after you were out of the account. ”
"This ......" Li Su is right, this is indeed very possible. Who do you think could have done it? You must know a thing or two all day in this city. ”
"I really don't know about this."
"Humph!"
"Feng Xiandon't be angry again, just now you and I have been seen by the guards in front of the door. At this moment, you go with me to see the lord first, and the rest will be talked about later. As he spoke, Li Su sighed.
"Huh~~~" Lu Bu took a deep breath, trying to dissipate his angry expression, and followed Li Su out of the alley.
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"Ahh Duan Xuan, who was on the move, sneezed, "Uncle Mo, do you see, Xuan'er is sick." It's better for you to go back alone and talk to the old man, just say that Xuan'er will only recover from his illness for half a year, so don't go back, don't dye him to the old man. When I'm cured, I'll buy him some crisps to take home, okay? ”
As he spoke, Duan Xuan shook his head exaggeratedly, his eyes drooping, as if he was going to fall down at any time.
"Whew! His old man's teeth are gone, and he is a crisp fart! If you kid can get sick, the sky has eyes, it must be because you have done too much evil on weekdays and have been cursed. Hurry up, go back and let the Nine Sages take a look at your injuries, don't waste your arms. You stinky boy, you're just making a show, who would have thought that you would be so heavy on yourself, alas! Mo Yue sighed.
While Mo Yue wasn't paying attention, Duan Xuan secretly grimaced.
Duan Xuan's principle of doing things is either not to do it, or to do it thoroughly, and Mo Yue is helpless against him.
"But how many people like me can live long?" Mo Yue lowered his head and seemed to be in thought.
Yes, Duan Xuan didn't know that maybe he would "die young" one day.
The leaves on both sides of the road were rustling in the wind, looking at Mo Yue's back, Duan Xuan remembered the first time he met him.
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At that time, he was only five years old, and the corruption of the Han Dynasty allowed powerful and corrupt officials to breed everywhere. In this filthy world, it is more difficult to be a common man than a dog.
"How long has it been delayed, and you can't pay this little tax?" A fat-faced errand official sat at Duan Xuan's house playing with the jade he had just snatched from the shop. The two next to him were obviously his henchmen.
Duan Xuan shrank in his mother's arms, and he could feel that his mother was also trembling. And his father was trembling and laughing: "Official, official, two more days, two more grace days, you have also seen it, our family has indeed not had it in the past two days, and we will make it up to the master in two days." ”
"Smack!" The already cracked table was smashed straight to the sawdust, "How many times have you said this!" Lao Tzu and his grandmother don't have time to accompany you, give a sentence today, can you hand it in! As he said this, the fat trembled.
"Official, just two days, I'll ...... Yes! Duan Xuan's father didn't finish his words, and he was pressed on the table by the two followers.
"Give the face the unwanted dog thing! Bah! Grandpas can't come back for nothing today......" As he spoke, the fat official looked at Duan Xuan with a very obscene look. Duan Xuan shrank his head in fear.
However, he suddenly found that the official was not looking at him, but ...... His mother.
"Your mother-in-law still has a bit of a look, play with the uncles, and as soon as the uncles are in a good mood, they will give you two more days, how about it?"
"This ...... I can't help it...... Official, I have something to say! Duan Xuan's father was anxious, but he was pressed so hard that he couldn't move.
The fat official ignored him and walked straight towards Duan Xuan's mother and son.
"Ahh Before Duan Xuan could react, he was thrown against the wall by a great force, and the sharp pain made his eyes darken.
When he recovered again, he only felt that everything in front of him was like hell: his father was nailed to the wall by the official's knife in the shoulder, and the two officials did not want to kill him, but just wanted him to look at him like this. And Duan Xuan's mother, who was pressed on the table by the fat official, and the clothes on her body had been torn, were crying and begging the fat official to let her go.
The father's loud curses, the mother's desperate cry, mixed with the obscene laughter of those officials, reached Duan Xuan's ears.
Duan Xuan felt that the heavens were spinning, and he tried hard to stand up, but his young body couldn't withstand the impact just now, and as soon as he moved, he fell to the ground in pain again.
"Grandma's, crying is worse than killing pigs!" The fat official seemed to be a little bored, and suddenly picked up the knife and slashed it at Duan Xuan's mother's neck.
"Mother!" Duan Xuan shouted.
Blood spurted from her mother's neck in an instant, and she looked at herself with desperate and sad eyes, stretching out her hand to say something.
However, Duan Xuan couldn't hear anything, except for the curses of the fat official, there was no sound.
Duan Xuan found that his father no longer cursed. At this moment, his eyes seemed to breathe fire, and the old hands used all their strength to pull out the knife stuck in his shoulder.
"Bastard, it's ruined Lao Tzu's interest today!" As he spoke, the fat official gave him a look, and one of his attendants pulled out a knife and stabbed it into Duan Xuan's father's chest.
"Ahh The last thing Duan Xuan's father left him was this desperate scream.
The fat official was still cursing while wiping the blood from the knife on Duan Xuan's mother's corpse.
Duan Xuan felt that the world suddenly lost its voice, and it was just an instant, and his two closest family members left him like this.
There's nothing left, what's the point of being alive yourself.
"Big brother, what should I do with this cub?" A follower asked.
"Slaughtered! Not enough to relieve gas! Grandma's! The fat official screamed with his fat.
Immediately after, Duan Xuan saw the two followers walking towards him.
He knew what awaited him. The two people had their backs to the door, and their expressions couldn't be seen clearly, but in Duan Xuan's eyes, they seemed to be evil ghosts.
Instinctively scared to make his body tremble, "No...... No...... Don't kill me, I don't want to die! Under the scoffing eyes of the officials, he struggled to crawl to the door.
"Someone! Who's going to save me! Duan Xuan shouted in despair. However, he was dragged back, and then he was kicked hard in the lower abdomen, and the heart-piercing pain almost made him faint.
"Little cub, don't let the uncle worry when he dies!" As he spoke, one of the attendants raised his knife.
Duan Xuan looked at the knife with tears in his eyes, just shaking his head in despair.
But the knife did not fall.
With a "bang", it was the head of the follower who fell, and it happened to roll in front of Duan Xuan.
"Ahh Duan Xuan was so frightened that he crawled backwards several times.
"The bastard who trampled on the people, but put on an official uniform, it seems that the sky is indeed eyeless." A man in his early thirties calmly looked at the blood on his blade and said leisurely.
"What kind of untouchables come here to spread wilderness, kill people in the government, and look for death?" As he spoke, the fat official and another attendant rushed forward with their knives.
"Ugh." The man sighed helplessly, and danced twice at a very fast speed, and the two officials immediately stopped.
The next moment, the man jerked back, and both heads fell to the ground at the same time. "The knife that was just sharpened only killed a few bed bugs."
It wasn't until he died that these stupid officials figured out that the man's weapon was not the knife, but the filaments next to the blade that ordinary people would not even notice.
The man walked to Duan Xuan's side, and Duan Xuan shrank back in fear.
"Kid, can you still go? You can't stay here any longer, do you have any relatives? ”
Duan Xuan just shook his head dumbly.
Then he looked at the bodies of his parents and burst into tears again.
The man glanced back and said to Duan Xuan, "Child, what's your name?" ”
"My name is Duan Xuan."
"I've killed these bastards. You are here, I will go and bury the bodies of your parents first. After that, I will take you away and find a family to adopt you, and you will ...... later."
"I want to learn to fight with you." Duan Xuan suddenly stared at Mo Yue and said.
Mo Yue couldn't help but smile bitterly, his martial arts turned out to be nothing more than "fighting" in the eyes of children.
"What do you do with me, follow me and there will be more gangsters chasing and killing, and you will see dead people all day long, aren't you afraid?"
"I'm not afraid. Besides, you have to pay taxes everywhere, and you don't have a good life anywhere. ”
Mo Yue touched the child's head. He understood that from today on, the world in this child's eyes was no longer the same as before, and those empty eyes seemed to care about everything.
"Let me ask you again, why do you want to learn martial arts, just to fight?"
"I ...... I think...... I want all the officials in the world to dare not bully the common people anymore! ”
Maybe this is fate, this kid's thoughts are the same as the righteousness he has always followed.
"So...... Come with me. ”
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"Hey! Brat! What do you think, here we are. Mo Yue's voice pulled Duan Xuan from memory to reality. He shook his head and looked helplessly at the door in front of him.
The gate is hidden in a cave at the foot of a large mountain, and the entrance of the cave is covered with branches and weeds.
The gate was heavy and simple, but just like the first time he came, every time Duan Xuan walked into this iron gate, he felt indescribably depressed.
Mo Yue knocked four times on the door with a knife in the order of light, heavy, heavy, and light, and it didn't take long for the iron door to slowly open.