The dozen or so big birds flew above the heads of the three people, circled down, landed on the ground, and transformed into more than a dozen women, with swords hanging from their waists, blocking the way, it was Yan Weiran, the sister of Yan Nishang, and more than a dozen women in white behind him were his attendants.

Yan Weiran ignored the hatred, walked straight to Yan Nishang, stretched out his hand, and grabbed Yan Nishang, his expression was both happy and worried, and he said in a trembling voice: "Little sister, I have found you, do you know? I couldn't help but say, and I pulled the flame and left.

Yan Nishang broke free of her hand, looked at the hatred, and said, "No, sister, I'll go with the big drunkard, go with him to see around, I'll go back when I've had enough, okay......?"

"No, the eldest brother said, I have to take you back anyway. ”

"Sister, my own sister, I beg you, okay?"

"No, you can't,...... Alas, I don't know what to say about you,......" Yan Weiran sighed and said lovingly: "Little sister, it's not that I won't let you come out to play, you have to go back this time, and you have to go back if you don't go back." The eldest brother came home yesterday and said that he would go east with the army to quell the rebellion in the next few days, saying that the Eastern Expeditionary Army mutinied, and its leading general Shi Hu was stationed in Yecheng, and killed a young general surnamed Ran under him, and the general not only killed Shi Hu, but also almost killed Shi Hu's entire family, and then, this young officer surnamed Ran appointed himself as the leader of this rebel army and confronted our Beigong army. Murong Shao has been ordered to be the general of the expedition to the east, responsible for the crusade against the Yecheng rebels, the original expedition to the west left route army was reorganized into the expedition to the east army, these days will be expanded to 500,000, the next few days will be opened, the eldest brother asked us to go with the army, and then go to the east of China to settle down. ...... That's all I know, okay, without further ado, you go back with me immediately, immediately. As he spoke, he waved his hand back, and immediately two maids came over, one on the left and the other on the right, and was about to leave.

"Sister,......" Yan Nishang looked back at Ji Ji, tears flashed in her eyes, and she turned to Yan Weiran and said, "Okay, I'll go back with you,...... Sister, you let me talk to the big drunkard, and then I'll go with you, okay?"

Yan Weiran looked at Ji Qi, sighed, and said, "Okay, hurry up, after that, let's go." ”

Yan Nishang walked in front of Ji Ji Qiu, looked up and stared at Ji Ji Qiu's eyes, her lips trembled slightly, but she didn't speak, her eyes were moist, and tears finally flowed out, sliding down her cheeks and falling to the ground.

Ji Ji Qiu sighed, raised his hand, gently wiped away the tears on Yan Nishang's face, and said softly: "Little girl, go back with my sister, we will meet again when we have a chance in the future." ...... I just heard your sister say that you are going to Yecheng in the east with the army, so maybe I will also go to Yecheng to have a look, and then we may meet again. ...... Okay, don't cry, what a silly girl. ...... Listen to my sister and go back. ”

Yan Nishang didn't speak, tears flowed down her eyes, she looked at Ji Ji and said, "Are you really going to Yecheng......?"

He didn't say anything, looked at the child in front of him, sighed softly, and then nodded silently.

"Alright then, I'll go back with my sister first. ......" Before he finished speaking, he was speechless, and he was reluctant to give up. The two maids came over at this time, gently put on the flame robe, and took a few steps forward.

"Okay, let's go!" Yan Weiran said, jumped up, spread his arms, and turned into a big bird, and the maids were also surrounded by the flame and the ni clothes, turning into a big bird, and the white-headed bird that turned into the flame ni dress circled and flew several times above the head of the two hatreds and Ling Xi, chirping, very reluctant, and then, the wings vibrated and flew south.

Ji Ji raised his eyes, his heart was stunned, and he watched the flame clothes gradually disappear into the sky with this group of birds

For a long time, for a long time.

"Alas, Sister Yan is gone, Brother Hatred, let's go home too. Ling Xi stood beside Ji Ji and said softly.

"Okay, let's go home, you have to go to Yecheng with your grandfather tomorrow to find your cousin, but now there is a shortage of soldiers over there, how can this be good?"

"Let's go home first, listen to grandpa, grandpa said what to do, I will do it. ”

The two returned to the village, and when they saw that the beggar had packed their luggage, they said goodbye to the residents of the village one by one today, and then set off for Yecheng in the east tomorrow. He told the strange beggars what he had just heard. The beggar of the different fingers was silent for a long time, but he still decided to take Ling Xi to Yecheng to find his cousin Ran Min, but he was worried that he would encounter rebellious soldiers and bandits by land, and there would be many incidents, so he decided to go up the Rouge River, and then turn to Jingwei, and go east of the Yellow River to Yecheng on the south bank of Zhangshui.

He felt that it was too slow to take the waterway, and he was not afraid of soldiers and bandits, and he could see the scenery along the way, so he planned to take the land route, and then the two sides would meet again in Yecheng.

Early the next morning, he said goodbye to the beggars and the strange fingers, and went to ride the green horse and left first.

A few hatreds rode a green horse, not slow, all the way east, more than ten days, along the way to see the magnificent scenery of the northwest.

On this day, I came to the mouth of the Cuihan Valley and knew that I had arrived near the Hangu Pass. Hangu Pass was built in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "because in the valley, the deep danger is like a letter." From the east of the mountain, west to Tongjin, known as Hangu, known as the natural risk". Hangu Pass guards the throat, the west is connected to Hengling, the east is bordered by the Jiejian River, the south is bordered by the Qinling Mountains, the north is bordered by the Yellow River, the terrain is dangerous, the road is narrow, known as "the car is not on the track, the horse is not parallel". In the "Taiping Huanyu Ji", it is said that "the north of the city has a river, the south is surrounded by mountains, and it is more than 40 steps in five miles around the circle, and it is two zhang high". Guancheng is grand and majestic, Guanlou leans on Jin Diebi, because it is located in the center of the peach forest, the throat of the ancient road of Cuihan, known as "the Tiankai Hangu is in the strong pass, the dust of the ancient sky to the north", "the twin peaks are towering beside the Taihe River, a battlefield in the Hangu Valley since ancient times", "a husband is a pass, ten thousand people are not open".

Hanguguan is also the Linggu holy place where Taoist ancestor Laozi wrote the Taoist school's pioneering masterpiece "Tao Te Ching", and the birthplace of Taoist culture; It is the thoroughfare throat of Chang'an in the west and Luoyang in the east, it is a strategic fortress that will meet and fight for thousands of years, and it is the reason why there are heavy garrisons of the Beigong servant army under the pass.

At this time, it was late at night, and the moon in the middle of July was almost full, so the horse came to a desperate ridge, looked around, but saw that under the clear moonlight, the high ridge was towering, the mountains and forests were firm, the high slopes were steep, and the scene was very spectacular and poignant. I want to unify the six countries according to the Chinese Great Qin according to the Kui Han, but now it is controlled by the Beigong servant army, and under the sword soldiers, the lives are devastated.

Standing on the ridge on horseback and looking eastward, but seeing the steep terrain, he thought: "I wonder where Ling Xi has arrived at this time with the strange finger beggar? Have you found her cousin surnamed Ran? This Yecheng is very likely to still be a place where swords and soldiers gather, but I don't know if her cousin surnamed Ran is still alive? It seems that I have to hurry to get there." ”

After thinking about it, the horse galloped between the mountains, and after half the night, it was already around the Hangu Pass.

At this time, the sky was light, and he went down the ridge and came to the valley. But smelling the fishy smell in the valley, the Chinese people wanted to vomit, and looked at it intently, but saw that the valley was full of people's corpses that had been thrown away at will, the old and the new were mixed, and some of them had already decayed. Between the corpses of Heng Chen, several wild dogs can be seen patrolling back and forth from time to time, and when they see someone coming, they all look up with blood-red eyes open, looking at them viciously, but they are not afraid at all, and they seem to have been used to it for a long time.

Seeing such a bleak and tragic scene, I felt a burst of pathos and anger in my heart for no reason.

The horses went forward, the mountains

The east of the valley went straight to the east, dozens of steps away, at this time it was the beginning of the sun's rise, the miasma was diffuse on all sides, like clouds and mist covering the valley, and there was no end in sight, but the sound of miscellaneous iron tools plowing the ground in the distance in front of me could be faintly heard in the ears.

Playing horses and slowly walking through the valley, I raised my eyes and saw that the sparse trees under the mountain walls on the left and right sides were full of corpses, including human beings and a few sheep-faced dog-headed demons, thinking that they were slaughtered here by the Beigong servants guarding the pass, or those who had lost their thoughts of life, and they were humiliated and killed here. Dozens of steps, on the smooth mountain wall on the right side of the front, there are several red and bright glyphs, reflecting the rising bright red sun, it is very eye-catching, the book: "The living and the dog are not allowed to pass here" several dustpan big words, behind are a few slightly smaller words: "Hangu Shouguan Beigong Military Show", the font is smeared with dripping blood, and the blood has been blackened.

Seeing the words of this stone wall, and seeing that the people here are miserable and can't bear to look at it directly, as if it is a hell on earth, I can't help but be angry, I raised the wine gourd, drank a sip, and smashed the wine gourd straight to the mountain wall with the words engraved, only to hear a loud sound of "boom", the wine gourd is like a heavy hammer, smashing on the mountain wall, when the stone chips are splashed everywhere, the mountain wall is broken, and the gravel slides down one by one.

Still angry, he took back the wine gourd and smashed it against this mountain wall again, repeating it several times, until the mountain wall smashed out a one-man high hole, only to hear the roaring sound in the valley, endlessly.

When he was depressed and angry, he suddenly heard the crisp sound of a few handbells in the vast miasma in front of him, the sound was extremely pleasant, as if he had been recognized, and he couldn't help but be shocked, so he took the wine gourd, raised his eyes and looked forward, only to see a woman flashing in the fog in front of him. Looking intently, under the morning sun, the woman was dressed in white and white hair, tall and tall, with a white-handled lancet hanging from her waist, the white scabbard reflected the sunlight, and the cold color was like ice, and her face was tightly covered with a thick white veil, as if she could not bear the disgusting smell of corpses in this valley.

When the woman saw him, her figure shook slightly, as if she was a little surprised, and a little happy, she was stunned, and after a moment's pause, she walked towards him, followed by a hundred and ten women who were also dressed in white, and looked like the entourage of the woman who came forward. The women who followed each other wore a thick scarf over their faces, and each held a shovel in his hand, as if to bury the bodies of the people.

The woman walked up to the horse, looked up at the enemy, with tears in her eyes, and said softly: "Big drunkard, if you don't come to help me bury these corpses, but you take the mountain wall to vent your anger, and this mountain wall doesn't provoke you. The voice was very crisp, revealing a lot of joy, and as he spoke, he slowly removed the thick veil on his face gently.

I heard a few hatreds, I was stunned, this voice was so familiar, I lowered my head, looked intently, and saw the woman standing in front of the horse, pretty, smiling, and a teardrop in the corner of her eyes, just like a pear flower with rain, under the reflection of the gorgeous morning sun, it was extremely beautiful, it was the flame of the neon dress.

Ji Jiqiu always thought that after Yan Nishang was picked up by his sister, he was afraid that it would be difficult to see each other again in this life, and he was also sad that he did not walk with Ling Xi and others that day, and he did not want to touch the scene and be sad, and he was really embarrassed in front of others, so he decided to go alone. In the past ten days, I have traveled all the way east, looking for secluded mountain paths, enjoying the beautiful scenery of the earth, rivers and mountains, and just distracting myself. At this time, he never expected that he would meet her in this remote barren valley more than ten days later, his heart was surprised, and he was endlessly happy, his temperament was uninhibited, and when he saw Yan Nishang, he couldn't help cheering, jumped off the horse, stood in front of Yan Nishang, took a long breath, and in emotion, reached out, pulled Yan Nishang's hands tightly, looked at Yan Nishang's eyes, his eyes were soft and warm, his lips trembled slightly, and after a while, Fang said softly: "Little girl, you ,...... Are you okay?"