Chapter 3: The Dead?
The night is quiet and the snow is deep, the moonlight is like silk, and the white jade that is covered is like a dusty Jinling City, and a tall figure walks quietly in this alley called 'winding', and the footsteps are not slow. This man was young, only twenty years old, wearing a fox white robe, but lining his emaciated figure with some might, and a string of red tasseled jade hanging from his waist, swaying regularly in the young man's unhurried steps. In the snowy night, the young man seemed to be taking a walk, and as if he had something on his mind, and the expression on his face was quite heavy.
There was a lot of snow in the middle of the street, and no one had stepped on it, but he walked like this, and when he was almost at the end of the alley, he finally stopped.
On the street facing the end of the winding alley in front of me, a green canopy brocade curtain carriage slowly drove by. On the other side of the carriage, there were five or six servants dressed in cloth, and the groom with a long whip did not sit on the cart, but walked beside the horse, constantly waving the whip to drive the horse, and on the other side of the carriage, there was a young man in a brocade dress and a noble son, but he was also walking on the snow and did not sit in the carriage.
The group was driving a carriage, and they were all in a hurry, and the noble man's eyes were still a little flustered, and he turned his head to look around from time to time, as if he was afraid of being seen.
Standing at the end of the alley, the young man in the white robe of the fox saw the carriage, took another step, walked straight to the middle of the street, and stopped the carriage in its way.
Li Shentong's face was ugly at this time. He couldn't figure out why so much was happening tonight. was just blocked by a drunken man lying on the street, but he was horrified to find that the person was inexplicably resurrected from the dead, a famous young general of the Six Kingdoms, the Dayu Lin family, and the helmsman of the Heavenly Desolation Legion. In a hurry, he tied the man to the car, and had only walked a few steps when he ran into a man who stood in the way again. It seemed that this man had come prepared.
"It's not good...... Li Shentong thought about the people in the car, and secretly screamed in his heart. But his body was not slow, he walked forward quickly and arched his hand.
"I don't know what is stopping me in my way?" Li Shentong reluctantly smiled at the man, trying to keep his tone as calm as possible.
An inexplicable smile appeared on the handsome face of the young man in fox fur, and he said softly: "Li Shentong, don't you recognize me?" ”
Li Shentong was shocked when he heard this, he panicked just now, and after a cursory look, he only thought that he didn't recognize this person, but at this time, he looked at it carefully, and finally recognized it, and couldn't help blurting out: "Gu Xuanwu!?" ”
The young man smiled at the corners of his mouth, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he did not answer, as if he acquiesced.
"Uh...... General Gu," Li Shentong tried to calm his mood, but he couldn't do it, under the gaze of the young man in front of him, he panicked, and said in a slurred voice, "You...... When did you come to Jinling, wasn't General Gu ordered to garrison the Tianling area? ”
"I've just arrived." The young man named Gu Xuanwu said unhurriedly, his eyes rolled slightly, and finally firmly fixed on Li Shentong's body, "Also, do I need to report to you about my Gu Xuanwu's actions?" Gu Xuanwu's tone was very unpolite, and he didn't give Li Shentong any face.
"Uh...... This one...... Naturally, there is no need to ......" Li Shentong didn't know why, as if he was very afraid of the person in front of him, wiped the cold sweat on his head, and squeezed out a bright smile on his face, "General Gu's generation of heroes, I can't wait to get acquainted with you." ”
"You don't have to say so much," Gu Xuanwu interrupted Li Shentong softly, "You know what I'm here for." ”
"This ......" Li Shentong sighed in his heart, Gu Xuanwu knew that this person was Lin Chen's friend who cherished his time. If it's just a friend, it's fine, but this person's background is quite deep. At that time, the commander of the Silver Dragon Cavalry of the Heavenly Desolate Legion, it was rumored that Lin Chen wanted to take charge of the Heavenly Desolate Legion after the accident, Lin Xuan rode out of the nucleus and forcibly suppressed Gu Xuanwu, Gu Xuanwu was angry and took half of the silver dragon cavalry out of Eastern Chu, and now he is the general of the Shenwu Army, one of the four major legions of the Chu State. I'm afraid that even when the emperor sees him today, he has to accompany him with a smiling face and be polite. And in front of him, this legendary young general appeared in front of his eyes, saying not to panic, it was fake.
Several people beside the carriage were surprised, they had never seen Li Shentong, who was the son of Jinling Mansion, so afraid of a person, and they didn't know this person yet! Although he was angry at this person's arrogant attitude towards Li Shentong, he didn't dare to say anything when he saw that the young man in front of him was dressed in a luxurious fox fur, with a long body and a calm demeanor, and at first glance, it was not something that they could afford to provoke. The horseman wearing the felt hat had the heart to defend his son-in-law and wanted to reprimand Gu Xuanwu's disrespect, but after thinking about it, he had just been scolded for saying the wrong thing, and he was afraid that he would not please him again this time, so he kept silent at the moment.
"Hand him over to me, and you will treat everything tonight as if nothing happened," Gu Xuanwu's tone did not have the slightest wave, "How about I set up a banquet to thank Li Gongzi another day?" ”
After Li Shentong listened, he lowered his head, his eyes flustered, and his thoughts were uncertain. Gu Xuanwu didn't beat around the bush at all, and asked him for someone straight to the point.
"Do you think it's a good thing to bring him back?" Gu Xuanwu seemed to see Li Shentong's concerns, and said softly, "At this time, everyone is thinking about how to live a peaceful life, aren't you afraid of bringing disaster to your father?" ”
Gu Xuanwu's words can be described as one sentence. Li Shentong's figure froze, and his erratic eyes finally slowly raised. His brow furrowed, as if he had thought it through. Finally, he made a decision.
"Forgive me for not being able to obey my fate, no matter what, Lin Chen is my friend, I don't know if he is still your friend of General Gu," Li Shentong said in a deep voice.
"Let's go, go home"
Several people heard it and hurriedly got in the car and left.
After a long time, Gu Xuanwu raised his head, and suddenly, a figure came out of the darkness of the alley, this figure was as fast as the wind, but it stopped steadily at Gu Xuanwu's side, but the snow on the ground behind him was not chaotic at all, and he couldn't even find half a footprint. Apparently this is a master.
"Childe!"
As soon as the figure stopped, it shouted. She turned out to be a rather heroic woman, with blue satin hair and a capable black dress, which outlined the lines of the whole body flawlessly, and the thin clothes on a snowy night did not feel cold at all.
"Childe, why don't you take the general away." The woman looked at Gu Xuanwu, there was a trace of unknown emotion between her eyebrows, and her eyes were rolling.
Gu Xuanwu's footsteps only paused slightly due to the sudden appearance of the woman in black, and then continued to walk, ignoring the woman's words, still unhurried as before, and slowly walked towards the depths of the winding alley.
Seeing that Gu Xuanwu didn't speak, the woman pursed her lips, and her handsome eyes rolled up slightly, as if she was angry, but she had to follow quietly behind her.
"I heard that Ning Chengcheng is in Jinling, right? sent her a letter and said that Li Shentong invited her to meet an old man, "The woman behind her disappeared when she heard the words.