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Chapter 581: It's the same when we say goodbye

Naturally, the few Hukoujian scouts who received the money and went back would not really go back, and if they were allowed to go back, what they saw and heard in the camp of Vermilion Bird Mountain might be revealed. Although the riding school said that he was not afraid of them saying it, how could he make such a low-level mistake? They changed their clothes and walked away with their silver, just the way the riding school asked them to make it.

Ci is not in charge of the army, and a soft-hearted person can't even kill a pig, how can he lead his troops to fight?

The fate of these scouts was hung on the big trees outside the Hukou Stream, where the fifty people from the Xiao Riding School were hung after they died not long ago. The soldiers on the wooden wall of Hukou Village saw the corpses when it was dawn, and they didn't even know when they were hung up.

Dozens of soldiers came down from the wooden wall with hanging baskets and ran over to put down the bodies and bring them back to the stockade.

Before their anger could subside a bit, a group of men and horses came from outside the cottage, and it seemed that there were not many of them, only a few hundred horsemen. There are two large flags, one is the fiery red flag of the Great Sui, and the other is the pure black battle flag. The team stopped a few hundred paces outside the hill, and one of the horsemen hurried forward, pulled his hard bow and fired an arrow into the village, which slammed into the wooden pillar, and the feathers of the arrow were still swinging.

Someone pulled out the feather arrow, removed a note tied to the arrow shaft, didn't dare to open it without permission, and quickly walked down the wooden wall and sent it into the cottage.

At this time, Mo Xidao, the big boss of Hukou Village, was standing in the courtyard looking at several corpses lying on the ground in front of him. The corners of his mouth trembled slightly, and the green tendons on the back of his hands were tensed. The soldier with the note came in quickly, bowed down and handed it to him with both hands.

"There are officers and soldiers from outside the door, who just shot in."

Mo Xidao opened the note and looked at it, and then his face changed, his brows furrowed and muttered: "It turned out to be his ......"

He glanced at the corpses on the ground, waved his hand and ordered: "Carry them all down and bury them, I underestimated the ability of the officers and soldiers, these few of them are very solid, and they were captured by life." Tell me to go down, and no one is allowed to go out of the village without my order. ”

"Yes!"

The people below answered and carried the body out.

Mo Xidao looked at the note in his hand, and was silent for a long time without speaking.

The soldiers on the wooden wall looked out warily, and everyone clenched their bows in their hands, but the cavalry stopped moving after shooting an arrow in, and stopped a few hundred paces outside the cottage. Mo Xidao slowly climbed the wooden wall and looked at the cavalry team in the distance, his face was very solemn.

"Put me down."

He commanded.

The soldiers on the wooden wall immediately became confused and dissuaded. Mo Xidao shook his head and said: "The gate of the village must not be opened without my order, even if I have an accident outside, I am not allowed to open the door to save it." The opponent I encountered this time was even more difficult than I imagined, I thought it was just a soldier from the northwest of the imperial court, but I didn't expect that the person who led the army was actually him. These days, in order to prevent the cottage from being spied on, I haven't sent anyone out, but I don't know that it is the old man. ”

"If anything happens to me outside, you must obey the command of the second master. If you really can't hold on, you'd rather abandon this cottage and go out from the other side of Huya Mountain than fight to the death with the officials and soldiers. If I had known that he was the one who brought the troops, I might not have had people kill those dozens of scouts a few days ago. ”

He looked a little dazed, waved his hand to signal the soldiers not to persuade again, sat on the hanging basket and went down from the wooden wall, and the soldiers pulled their hard bows away, lest the cavalry on the opposite side suddenly rush over. However, their worries were somewhat unnecessary, and the cavalry on the opposite side still did not make any move.

Mo Xidao went down and tidied up his clothes, and strode towards the cavalry. Halfway through, he paused suddenly, then reached out and tore off the black scarf covering his face. The knife mark on his face is still hideous.

Fang Xie saw that someone came out of the cottage, and looked at it with clairvoyance and found that it was indeed his old man in Chang'an City, Mo Xidao. He originally thought that Mo Xidao, like arrogance, would die that day when the emperor put down the rebellion. Who would have thought that this person would be able to escape from such a tight search and raise a team here. However, it can also be seen from this that this person's ability is really impressive.

He stepped down from the white lion and patted it on the neck to signal it to stay where it was.

"No one is allowed to come with you."

He commanded, and strode towards the opposite side.

The two of them walked opposite each other, and their hearts could not be calm. At the beginning, every scene in Chang'an City came up, and the feeling was as if it had been decades apart.

Five or six steps away from Mo Xidao, Xie stood still, and then hugged his fists and solemnly gave a salute: "I've seen Brother Mo!" ”

Mo Xidao was obviously stunned for a moment, and then hugged his fists in return: "I didn't expect you and my brother to meet again, but I didn't expect that it would be such a way to meet." ”

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Fang Xie and Mo Xidao sat opposite each other, neither of them carrying weapons.

"Since I left Chang'an, I have been wandering around with a few brothers, and at first I thought that it would be a good thing to survive, just find a place to be incognito. But the world is in turmoil, and since my brothers chose to follow me in the first place, I can't let them be turtles with shrunken heads for the rest of their lives. Since those famous families who have received countless benefits from the imperial court can be opposed, why can't those of us who have been abandoned by the imperial court be opposed? Not to mention...... We've already reversed it once. ”

Mo Xidao took off the wine bag on his waist and handed it to Fang Jie: "I later heard that you have made great contributions in the counterinsurgency, and I know that our brothers are afraid that we will never have the opportunity to sit together and drink again." Since God has given you and me the opportunity to reunite, this wine is bound to be drunk. ”

Fang Xie didn't say much, took the wine bag and poured it.

"You still like to drink such spicy wine."

Fang Xie wiped the corners of his mouth and smiled: "I still remember when I first met you, I was laughed at by you for a long time for my drinking. ”

Mo Xidao smiled and said: "At that time, you were the little brother of our border army candidates, and everyone liked you. It's just that from the beginning, you were destined to take a different path from us, and we took a wrong step ourselves, and it was impossible to go back. ”

Fang Xie shook his head, but he didn't know what to say.

When they said goodbye, both of them felt as uncomfortable as if they were blocking a stone.

"Actually, it's kind of strange to think about fate."

Mo Xidao took a sip of wine and smiled: "At the beginning, I was doing things for Prince Yi, and you were doing things for the emperor, if you and I met face-to-face like this at that time, I was afraid that it would not be drinking but drawing a knife to face each other." You should know my character, even if you and I fall in love, but once I do it, I will never show mercy. ”

Fang Xie snorted, and his face did not change in the slightest.

He never thought of accusing Mo Xidao of anything, it is impossible for everyone to choose the same future, maybe it seems wrong to you, and others may not feel wrong.

"I know ......"

Mo Xidao smiled a little bitterly and said: "Later, Prince Yi was defeated, and the people from the Da Nei Guard Office, the Dali Temple of the Criminal Department, and the army searched for Prince Yi in the city, and you did not participate." I know you're afraid of running into those of us, and if you do, you'll be very embarrassed. You don't have a cold temperament, I remember saying when we were drinking together, you are not really suitable to be a scout...... At that time, I actually looked down on you, but who would have thought that a few years later, I would fall into the grass and you would have become a general. ”

Fang Xie shook his head: "No one is right or wrong in those things, if I change it, you will also give it a go." But one thing you are not wrong about is that I was really afraid of meeting you at that time, so I was not ordered to search for you. ”

"It's me and the arrogance that I'm sorry for you more."

Mo Xidao lowered his head and was silent for a while before saying: "Actually, think about it, at that time, we called brothers and sisters, but I and Zhang Qiang were both a little prejudiced against you in private, and we were also a little deliberately alienated from you. Although we are from similar backgrounds, you were appreciated by the emperor when you first arrived in Chang'an City, and with the help of people like Sanjin Hou, you quickly climbed up. In fact, when you think about it, most of them are still jealous...... I have been in the border city for more than ten years, and I have been arrogant in the northern Xinjiang for ten years. ”

"Insolence deals with barbarians in northern Xinjiang, and he is worried all day long, and it is easy to blend in with the barbarians, but if you change someone else, how many can you do it? I was in Dongjiang, I went into Dongchu alone for thousands of miles to kill people, and then relied on the strength of one person to kill back. As for you, you are just killing horse thieves, but you get more than we get, how can we be happy? ”

Fang Xie was silent, he knew that what Mo Xidao said was right. For Da Sui, the two of them have made much greater contributions than themselves. Zhang Mad lived in the barbarian tribe for several years, and then led the border army to drive the barbarians north for hundreds of miles in one go. In those years, which day was his life down-to-earth?

Mo Xidao was in Dongjiang, sneaking into Dongchu alone to assassinate several bigwigs in Dongchu, and it was a miracle that he could come back from Dongchu without backup supplies. Because of the deaths of those big people, those people in Eastern Chu who were clamoring to sanction the Great Sui and not allow the merchants of Eastern Chu to trade with the Great Sui again have all closed their voices.

It stands to reason that these great credits are enough for the two of them to be knighted. But the imperial court did not do this, because the imperial court would not admit that these things were done by the Great Sui. The fact that the barbarians were forced to retreat hundreds of miles north was spread to the bad reputation of the Great Sui. The matter of killing the officials of Dongchu will naturally not admit it.

"The same people don't have the same fate."

Mo Xidao smiled and poured a big sip of wine again: "This time, you are here to exterminate my Huya Mountain?" ”

After all, he said this.

"Big Brother Mo"

Fang Xie was silent for a while and said, "No matter what happened before, now we have encountered a very difficult situation. Let's just drink and don't talk about anything else. ”

Mo Xidao was stunned for a moment, and then nodded: "Yes...... There's something like you and I in our bones. When I came out, I told my subordinates that if I had known that it was you who led the troops to Huangyang Dao, I would not have ordered the dozens of scouts under you to be killed, let alone ordered their bodies to be hung outside for public display. Because of this, even if you know that it is me in the tiger's mouth, you still let people kill my scouts and hang them outside. ”

He sighed: "This is a soldier......

Fang Xie didn't speak, just drank the wine one by one.

"I will not surrender, I will not bring people to you."

After a long while, Mo Xidao suddenly said: "I don't say that you also know, when you sent someone to hang the corpses of my subordinates outside the cottage, you actually knew that it was impossible for me to surrender." Unless all the people in my Huya Mountain are willing to surrender, but even then I won't. They are willing to follow you, I won't stop you, but I can't pretend to be idle and look up and see you every day. ”

"If you think about it......"

Mo Xidao smiled: "We don't have a deep friendship, right?" With your status today, I am content to be able to come alone and call me Brother Mo. If I had been where you are now, maybe I wouldn't have come. ”

Fang Xie replied after a while: "Because you are you, I am me." ”

"Hmm"

Mo Xidao threw aside the empty wine bag, looked back at the cottage and said, "I will discuss with them when I go back, if they are willing to follow you, then I will open the door of the village and let them take refuge." If they don't want to...... Let's see you on the knife head! ”

"Leave it at that"

Fang Xie got up and hugged his fists: "Actually, what you said is right, if you meet ...... No one will be merciful......"

Mo Xidao was stunned, then laughed and turned away.

"Happy!"

He roared, shattering the clouds in the sky.