The cold wind is bitter, Suzhou is located in the north like Jinzhou, since the previous dynasty, because the two prefectures of Gansu and Shaanxi are smaller and merged into a state of land, from the west and Beiliang border, all the year round is yellow sand, the more west the situation is more serious. Therefore, most of the people of Suzhou moved to the places adjacent to Jinju, and there were very few people living in the west except for the border army all year round.

A group of cavalry ran through the snowstorm, just over a mountain beam, the leader of the group raised his left hand, and the whole team stopped instantly, looking like a well-trained border army.

The white mist rising from time to time on the lips of people and horses is obviously a long time coming. The leader looked at his surroundings, called one of the cavalrymen beside him to him, and asked, "Is the news reliable?" ”

"Leader, the letter was delivered a few days ago, the news should be right, let's hurry overnight and get to the place tonight." The man said.

The person who is called the head of the sect looked at the increasingly heavy wind and snow, and was silent for a while, this weather is not complete for a long distance, even if he rushes to the place, he is sleepy, and he can't do anything at all. But there is a secret letter that this matter cannot be delayed, otherwise all of my own people will die.

As if guessing what the head of the sect was worried about, the person who had just spoken thought for a while and said: "The head of the sect, you can only bite the bullet, things can't be delayed, let's go ahead and have a way to live." ”

"Let's go." The head sighed helplessly, his subordinates' words were right, there was still a way to survive if he rushed forward, so he could only fight.

"Let's go!" The head waved his hand, and the cavalry squad pulled out again, rushing towards the target.

Lingshi County is at the junction of Liangzhou and Suzhou, under the rule of the Great Zhou, it is a border fortress in Suzhou, but there are almost no people in the city except for the garrison, most of the local people live on the plateau in the county, after all, the perennial battle, building a high wall in the plateau can also have more protection, so that the city will not be ruined.

On a plateau not far from Lingshi County, because the terrain is relatively special, only one family lives, but because of the high wall, it is even higher than the city wall of Lingshi County, giving people a mysterious feeling.

The surname of this family is Han, which is a relatively rare surname in the entire Suzhou. It is said that it was moved from the border a few decades ago, when Beiliang and the Great Zhou fought for many years, because someone in the family was killed by the Beiliang army, they settled here, and there were many people in the family who served in the border pass, and it was a small family that was not too big.

It's been snowing all day, and the snow here seems to be a little lighter at night. The lantern hanging at the door also gradually lit up, and it looked a little abrupt on the whole hill.

"Uncle, take some time for you to take the juniors in your family to the north." Han Gang took a sip of wine and looked at the middle-aged man sitting opposite and said.

Han Shun drank all the wine in the cup and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Nothing's wrong, I just don't think we can all spend it here, there's no point." Han Gang is fifty years old in Chinese New Year's Eve, is the Han family's big house, currently serving as a captain in Lingshi County, and is the elder of the second room of his uncle's affairs, and is the only one in the Han family to read.

Han Shun glanced at Han Gang, didn't speak, just ate the food quietly there. There were only the two of them in the hall, and Han Shun paused and said, "Is it the incident from years ago?" ”

Han Gang was silent, there was an incident in the family a few years ago, and very few people knew about it, and Han Shun was one. Two black-clothed people broke into the house in the middle of the night, thinking that they were scouts sneaking in from Liangzhou, but later found out that the road was in the territory of Da Zhou, and when they entered the house, they went straight to the ancestral shrine in the backyard.

Han Gang felt that these two people must be coming for that thing, and he didn't hesitate to kill them desperately, but after all, they were run away.

"I said a long time ago that it was a disaster, and there would be no such thing as handing it over earlier." Han Shun said with a sigh.

Han Gang naturally knew that it was a disaster, but there were some things that he couldn't say, even his closest relatives couldn't. This is a secret that every head of the family must keep.

"There are only a few only seedlings in the family, and the Han family can't be left behind." Han Gang said.

"You're so relieved to hand them over to me, a scholar?" Han Shun looked at Han Gang with a smile.

"There is no one more powerful than the second uncle in the family." Han Gang said with a smile.

There was a brief silence in the hall, listening to the sound of wind and snow outside, Han Gang's face suddenly changed, he looked up at Han Shun, and only heard the other party say: "People are coming, it seems that they are more anxious than we thought." ”

"Second uncle, time waits for no one, I'll take someone to drag them, you quickly write and leave here with Han Chu and Han Jia." Han Gang hurriedly said.

Han Shun glanced at Han Gang, saw that the other party's eyes were firm, and he already had a will to die, so he sighed helplessly and turned around and went to the backyard, people must be taken away as soon as possible, Han Gang can't delay it for too long.

Seeing Han Shun leave, Han Gang breathed a sigh of relief, reincarnated and walked out, grabbing the spear placed in the courtyard in his hand, the servants of the mansion have gathered together at this moment, this is the dead soldier that Han Gang has cultivated for many years, if possible, he will not want to use it in his life.

After a day's rush, I finally arrived here when it was dark, looked at the lanterns that swayed with the cold wind, and the word 'Hanfu' on the lintel also faintly appeared with the candlelight.

Zhao Yu gestured, and all the cavalry behind him reflexively dismounted, and the sound of a long knife unsheathed sounded. The two soldiers chained the four chains to the door, and with the dance of the whip, the four horses ran forward in a frenzy, and the chains straightened instantly, only to hear a loud bang, and the gate fell heavily to the ground, raising a snowflake.

Zhao Yutong and Han Gang, who were standing in the middle of the courtyard, glanced at each other, and the men and horses on both sides rushed over in an instant. Accompanied by the wind and snow is the blood that constantly flies in the air. The sword flashed, and I saw that people on both sides kept falling.

After slashing several people to the ground, Zhao Yu shook the horizontal knife in his hand, as if he didn't want to get too much blood. Looking coldly at Han Gang who was fighting in the crowd, Zhao Yu walked towards Han Shun step by step with a horizontal knife.

There were too many people on the other side, Han Shun led the dead soldiers to retreat step by step, at this moment he couldn't take care of the family in the backyard, the crying resounded throughout the mansion, and a few rooms had already burst into flames, but no one came to them.

After a few moves with Zhao Yu, Han Shun already had a few more knife wounds on his body, and the blood oozing from his clothes had been frozen due to the weather.

Leaning on the pillar of the ancestral hall and taking a breath, the people around him had already finished fighting, only Han Shun was left alone, and looked at Zhao Yu who was close to him, Han Shun coughed a few times and asked with a smile: "After fighting for a long time, I still don't know Your Excellency's name?"

Zhao Yu stopped and looked at Han Shun, who was still struggling to support, thought for a while and said, "Zhao Yu." ”

"Good name, I just don't know what Your Excellency is calling my Han Mansion for like this?"

"You know."

Han Shun laughed instantly when he heard this, but before he laughed a few times, he was interrupted by his own cough, touching the blood on the corner of his mouth, Han Shun asked with red eyes, "You haven't thought about whether the fate of my Han family today will be your tomorrow?" ”

Zhao Yu was silent, thought for a while and said, "That's what the family thinks about, and I'm only responsible for doing it." ”

"Can you tell me which one?"

"No, you can't." Zhao Yu shook his head.

Han Shun smiled and didn't ask any more, slowly stood up, pointed at Zhao Yu with a spear in his hand and said, "Come on." ”

After speaking, he stabbed at Zhao Yu with a spear in his hand, sideways to dodge the spear that rushed forward, Zhao Yu's horizontal knife held the head of the spear, and as soon as his wrist turned the horizontal knife, he slid against the spear, Han Shun bent his body to dodge this flat cut, but the blade still cut off a few hairs of Han Shun.

Without hesitation, at the moment when the two of them staggered, Han Shun stabbed Zhao Yu in the chest with a return pistol, and he was about to succeed, but Zhao Yu fell to his knees all of a sudden because the snow on the ground was slippery, Zhao Yu bent down on his back, and the head of the gun stabbed his face, and the hat on Zhao Yu's head was blown away with one shot.

At this time, Zhao Yu held the knife in both hands, and the whole person slipped out by inertia, and with a 'poof', the horizontal knife sank into Han Shun's chest, looking at the long knife that did not enter the chest, Han Shun smiled bitterly, and spit out a mouthful of blood in his mouth, and since then he has lost his life.

Zhao Yu pulled out the knife, looked at Han Shun's corpse coldly, ignored it, and walked towards the ancestral hall of the Han family.

Pushing the door open, Zhao Yu looked at the scene inside the house, and frowned slightly when he saw that he didn't find what he wanted. Walking to the enshrined table, Zhao Yu carefully looked at the scene in front of him, and saw that there was nothing abnormal, so he couldn't help but wonder a little, could it be that the intelligence was wrong?

His hand landed on the table where the tribute was placed and brushed lightly, and when his hand touched a plate containing fruit, Zhao Yu sighed lightly, grabbed the fruit plate with both hands and moved, and found that the lines did not move. After thinking about it, Zhao Yu slowly turned it with his hand, only to hear the sound of a hinge pulling, and the shelf in front of Zhao Yu slowly separated from the middle.

"Fire Fold." Zhao Yu waved his hand, took the fire fold handed over by his subordinates, and bent down into the secret room by the firelight. The secret room is underground, Zhao Yu sniffed his nose lightly, turned around and walked to the side, lit the candlestick on the wall, and the people who followed in started to light the candlesticks in the secret room when they saw this.

The candlelight lit up, and I saw a bronze tripod appear in front of me on the high platform in the middle of the secret room. Ding is more than half a person tall, Zhao Yu's heart was shocked, this is what he is looking for. Trying to calm his heart, Zhao Yu looked at everyone coldly and said, "Don't reveal half a word of what you see today, otherwise no one will be able to keep the name of your entire family." ”

Everyone's hearts sank, and they hurriedly bowed down. Seeing this, Zhao Yu nodded with satisfaction and said, "Get this thing out, and the Han Mansion will be burned." ”

"Yes."

Zhao Yu turned around and walked out of the secret room, came to the middle of the courtyard, looked at the snowflakes falling from the sky, took a piece with his hand, and quietly watched the snowflakes melt in the palm of his hand. seemed to feel something, and remembered the words that Han Shun said before he died, and walked out with a sneer with ** clenched fists.

In the eleventh year of Qide, Han Shun, a military captain in Lingshi County, and his family of 45 together with the servants in the family were killed overnight, and the fire in Hanfu was extinguished after two days. The Suzhou Border Military Mansion played the imperial court and splashed the dirty water of the Han family's murder on the Beiliang scouts, and the situation at the border became mysterious for a while.