Chapter 406: Complicity

When Luo Weiran walked out of Chang'an City, he felt that his soul was gone. He didn't dare to look back at the towering city, the flying fish robes that had been delivered to the city gate behind him, or even the people passing by.

When he first learned art in the mountains, he felt that he should be like his master, practicing every day, contemplating the truth, watching the sun, moon and stars, and smelling the birds and flowers. It goes on day after day, year after year, light and comfortable. After the morning practice, under the green trees outside the mountain house, boiling a pot of tea, eating a few sunflower seeds, and accompanying the rising and extinguishing of the mountain clouds must be indescribably free. Quiet and natural, at that time, he felt that this was the closest realm to the Heavenly Dao.

But more than ten years ago, the second senior brother Xiang Qing fought for a seat and sent him into the world, which was the most cruel and cold place of intrigue. He went from trembling and cautious at the beginning, to strolling leisurely through the clouds and rain later. More than ten years have passed in a hurry. In a blink of an eye, I realized that I was not a person who could endure loneliness at all. Those elegant days in the mountains and forests back then were actually just self-deception.

Otherwise, why are you so engaged?

It is precisely because of the dedication that I feel the pain in my heart when I lose.

I have guarded the Ouchi guard office for more than ten years, and I have guarded the belief for more than ten years.

Once dissipated, there was no trace.

If he cries, maybe he doesn't mind.

The little eunuch Mu San looked at him, his face was as ugly as his. The eyes of those flying fish robes full of hatred and anger were all staring at him, as if it was not the supreme sitting on the dragon chair who drove Luo Weiran away, but him, a little eunuch like an ant. Mu San felt that his mouth was very bitter, as if something was blocked in his throat, and he couldn't cough it up or swallow it.

He touched the iron box hidden in his wide cuffs, and his waist involuntarily bent a little more.

The box was in the cuffs, and the mountain was on his back.

He used to think that even if he was already an incomplete person, a eunuch who was inferior in the eyes of others, he could still rely on struggle to exchange for a prosperous and splendid future. It's like Wu Companion Sheng at the beginning, and Su Bu is not afraid now. He wanted to wear such a gorgeous brocade robe and stand beside the emperor. Even if it's the same bent over, it must be majestic and upright in the heart, right?

But now, the thing in his cuff was a knife.

He didn't know what kind of knife the emperor had built, or whose chest it was aimed at, but he knew that if he wasn't careful, the first blow of the knife would pierce his heart.

"Lord Luo......"

Mu San couldn't change his words for a while, and he didn't feel that there was anything wrong. He walked a few steps to catch up with Luo Weiran, and said in a low voice: "Your Excellency doesn't need to think too much, Your Majesty may not be a bad thing to let your adult out of the city." ”

"What do you mean?"

Luo Weiran's body trembled violently, and he looked at Mu San with a pause.

Mu San lowered his head and said in a low voice: "My lord, just remember that Your Majesty's arrangement has a deep meaning. ”

"You name it!"

The slave couldn't tell. The slave has to go! ”

Mu San sighed, looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to him, jumped on the horse's back, and whipped it hard, the horse was in pain, neighed, and then spread its hooves and rushed forward. Luo Weiran's heart tightened when he saw him leave suddenly, and he froze in place and was silent for a long time.

Until Mu San's figure had disappeared, Luo Weiran's face suddenly changed.

"I see!"

He muttered and strode away.

The flying fish robes gathered behind him shouted loudly, may the commander have a smooth journey, and the sound was deafening. Luo Weiran still didn't look back, his footsteps were enlarged, his body gradually straightened, and after a while, he disappeared at the end of the official road's sight. Those flying fish robes stood outside the city gate, and they did not disperse for a long time.

Ten miles outside the city of Yongzhou

The three people on the official road are particularly eye-catching, walking in front of a small Taoist boy carrying a heavy burden, the burden seems to be extremely heavy, and the flat burden is bent down. He was followed by a little Taoist boy, who walked more laboriously than his companions who carried the burden, and he had to take a breath and sweat like rain with every step. This is so because he is carrying a fat man on his back...... A fat man who is fat but not ugly and looks very delicate and beautiful.

"Can't you go faster?"

The fat man was dissatisfied: "Why are you so clumsy, you see that Xiaojun is still walking like a fly carrying such a heavy burden, and look at you again, you can't catch up with him!" You don't feel ashamed of yourself, I blush for you, how can people not be competitive? What is the difference between a man who is not competitive and a salted fish? ”

"Palm...... Teach you...... You have mercy, will you let me carry the burden? ”

"Phew!"

The fat man said with a serious face: "I asked you to carry me because I wanted to train you." There was once a guy with a mouth full of called Fang Xie who said something to me that barely made sense, and it was one of the few things he said that made sense, I want to think about how to say it...... The heavens will descend on the people, and they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, and starve their bodies and skin...... It's because I think you're still a manufacturable material, you idiot, you've wasted all my hard work in vain. ”

"Thank you...... Thank you, but I really can't hold on. ”

The Taoist boy called Xiaomei almost fell down, and I don't know if the fat man was because of compassion, or because he was afraid that Xiaomei would fall and fall himself. He jumped off Xiaomei's back, tidied up his clothes, looked up at Dacheng, who could already see the outline, and smiled: "Slut, I'm here!" ”

At this moment, a boy in brocade with a team of armored cavalry roared past them. The group of armor soldiers all looked extremely strong and burly, with a cold momentum. And the son who was the leader was slender and had a handsome face. Riding on a tall horse, he looked chic, and he looked back at the three Taoists, frowning slightly.

He looked at the fat man, and the fat man looked at him.

The young man's face was pale as if he had just recovered from a serious illness, and there was no blood. There was a cold killing intent in his eyes that seemed to be ready to rush out at any time, like a poisonous snake.

It was at this moment that the fat Taoist was suddenly shocked in his heart.

There was a sudden pain in his forehead, as if something was about to come out.

His heart almost stopped, and his face turned pale in an instant.

"Before leaving Chang'an City, Master said to plant a Dao heart for me...... I never knew what the Dao Heart was, but now I know it......"

He stopped, glanced at the big city in front of him, and then suddenly turned around: "Let's go, we won't enter the city." ”

"Why?"

Panting Xiaomei asked.

"There is a demon in the city, I can't beat it."

The fat Taoist sighed: "I'll come back when I'm done." ”

"Boss, you just said how can a man not be competitive? What's the difference between not being competitive and salted fish? Even if you can't beat it, you'll have to try it......"

"Come here!"

"Why ......?"

"I'll pass on your big mouth and slap your face and seal your mouth!"

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Huangyang Road

Govern the city of Huiyang

Outside the west gate of Huiyang City is the newly built Minyong camp, which occupies a circle of five miles. The Minyong team was established by Yang Yanye, the governor of Huangyang Province, and he gave almost everything he had to defend against the rebels on the north bank of the Huangniu River. Everything that could be taken out of the treasury was taken out, and it took two years to train these 18,000 people to become qualified soldiers.

The scale of 18,000 people is already the limit of what Huangyang Dao can raise troops now, plus the 30,000 county soldiers mobilized from all over Huangyang Dao, it is the main strength of the entire Huangyang Dao defense line. Although the number of people is much different from the rebels on the north bank of the river, they have not lost the upper hand in many encounters with the rebels.

Yang Yanye is proud of having formed such a team, but now, this team has become a big mountain in his heart.

These soldiers are all good.

They are all natives of Hwangyang Province, and there are their families, their friends, their fathers and villagers in this land, and they took up their weapons and stood on the south bank of the Huangniu River to confront the rebels, and their purpose was different from that of the people gathered in Gyeonggi Province. The people of Gyeonggi Province all have a heart of meritorious service and are fighting for the future. And the Minyong soldiers of Huangyang Road, they have only one purpose for picking up weapons.

Stand on the riverbank and protect your home behind you.

Once they can't stop the rebels, then this beautiful homeland that nurtured them will be ruined. They all knew what was going on north of the Ox River, and the rebels were crossing like locusts. As soon as the young man was taken away, the young woman did not spare any of them...... As for money and food, when the rebels arrive at a place, if that place suffers a natural disaster, where will there be any money and food?

It is precisely because of this that the Minyong soldiers of Huangyang Road will stand on the bank of the river and not retreat.

But now, it is not the rebels on the north bank of the river who are about to force them away, but the reinforcements they had hoped for before the stars and the moon, the left avant-garde of the Great Sui.

Yang Yanye, the governor of Huangyang Province, walked in the camp with a few retinues, and the pace was very slow and heavy. The soldiers and civilians who still maintained their training saluted when they saw him, and their eyes were full of respect. Although in the past few days, because of the Governor's tolerance of the Left Guard, at least 200 people have been forced to death by the Left Guard, they all know that the Governor actually has nothing to do.

In front of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the left avant-garde, the position of the governor, which looked particularly glamorous and glorious, was actually as light as a grain of sand.

"Your Excellency...... Are you really going to disband the people? ”

An official asked in a sad tone.

He looked at those county soldiers and people, and his heart felt as uncomfortable as being cut by a knife.

"There's no other way......"

Yang Yanye's heart is even more bitter, more bitter than anyone else.

"The left-wing people come every day to urge grain, and I have extended my hand to the rich people three times, and even if I ask the rich people again, they are willing to give it, but they are almost emptying the granary. I only faintly mentioned it yesterday, and you can see how ugly their faces are...... But if you don't give food and grass to the left avant-garde, Luo Yao's people are afraid that they will be even more presumptuous. ”

"I gathered these people bravely, and now that they have been disbanded, my heart hurts more than anyone else."

Yang Yanye sighed: "But it's true that there is no food and grass anymore, and I can't let these people who are willing to follow me end up starving to death here." Let them go home, they should farm, they should do business, at least they will have no worries about food and clothing......"

"But, don't you think that Luo Yao's purpose is to force you to disband Minyong?"

Cheng Leiwu of Huiyang County said eagerly: "Luo Yao's purpose is not to attack the rebels at all, the left avant-garde has been here for nearly a month, and he has been urging food every day but he has not seen them move against the rebels. It's been so long, except for Lord Qin Chafang from the capital who dares to take his own soldiers across the river and fight with the rebels with real swords and guns, who else in the left avant-garde has ever thought of going to war? Judging from his humble duties, Luo Yao's family is simply anti-minded! His purpose is to occupy our Huangyang Dao! ”

"Don't talk nonsense!"

Yang Yanye's face changed: "If you say this, you can't say it anymore." ”

"Your Excellency!"

Li Huaili, the county guard of Huiyang County, persuaded: "You can't disband Minyong, once you disband Minyong, Luo Yao will be even more unscrupulous." What he cares about now is only the tens of thousands of soldiers in our hands. ”

"Not dissolved...... Where does the food come from? ”

Yang Yanye's face was painful and said, "Could it be that you can watch them all starve to death?" ”

"There's always a way!"

Jun Cheng Lei Wu said: "Wait a few more days...... There is still some food in the lowly family, and they are willing to give it, and your colleagues are also willing to come. ”

At this time, a pro-soldier quickly ran over and whispered a few words in Lei Wu's ear, Lei Wu's face changed, and after hesitating for a moment, he walked to Yang Yanye's side and whispered: "Fang Xie is waiting for you in Wanhelou in the city, see or not see?" ”

"See you!"

Yang Yanye was silent for a while and said: "Among the left avant-garde, the only one who is not the same as Luo Yao is this person...... Perhaps, the solution lies in this person. Since His Majesty sent him as a messenger, no matter how young this person is, it means that His Majesty trusts him. At this time, he wanted to see me, and it was expected that it was also for this purpose. ”