Chapter 44: Out of the Mountain (Finale)
In the panic of the crowd, Kong Weng was also frightened, and stepped forward a few steps to push away the crowd, but the old body seemed to have infinite strength at this time, and several tall guards were gently pushed back three or five steps.
Coming down, holding Xia Zongxiao's left vein, his brows were frowned, a bunch of snow-white whiskered eyebrows were like two wriggling pupae, sometimes frowning and sometimes calming, and finally with a look of surprise on his face, he secretly muttered and shook his head and nodded.
Everyone's mood beat with Kong Weng's undulating eyebrows, and when the brows were frowned, Bai Ye and the hearts of the guards were raised to their throats, and when the eyebrows calmed down, they returned to their chests, and they were so tightly prostrated that others were worried, but they didn't dare to disturb.
Bai Yepan sat on the muddy ground full of mud, with the dense and bare branches of the old locust tree on his head, holding the pale Xia Zongxiao in his arms, looking at Kong Weng who was shaking his head anxiously and worriedly from time to time, and the hand that hugged Xia Zongxiao's head caressed the bloodless face.
After a cup of tea, Kong Weng still frowned and muttered: "Strange, strange... Weird... "Bai Ye's patience was finally exhausted in Kong Weng's tossing and turning, and he could no longer bear the worry in his heart and the anger of being shaken by Kong Weng's head shake.
The scorching anger rushed to his heart, and the thick inner breath rolled in the white night dantian, and an angry shout sounded in the courtyard like thunder on a sunny day: "Enough! ”
An invisible aura spread out from Bai Ye's body, the murderous aura that seeped people was permeated, the temperature was cold in an instant, Wu Qiu and other guards were shocked, after they came to the north, they heard a lot of legendary anecdotes about the white night, and the young man became a grandmaster with a martial arts that was difficult to meet opponents, and the battle exploits were Biao Bin shocked the northern realm, and Xia Liao, who was killed, was sad, I thought that these rumors were mostly exaggerated, but now I feel this cold and cruel murderous aura, how many people have to be killed...
The faces of the dead turned solemnly into several black figures, a few swishing displacements, a few of them had a few more soft swords in their hands at some point, vibrating in the air and making a unique roar of soft swords, and the other people held dark archers and crossbows against Bai Ye, forming a strange formation to surround Bai Ye and the others.
Wu Qiu and his brothers encountered a sudden change, and their reaction was not slow, a piece of steel knife was unsheathed, and they turned around and besieged Xia Zongxiao, a circle of generals, and Bai Ye and Kong Weng were also surrounded in the circle.
Wu Qiu's vocal cords shouted hoarsely: "Escort! Protect Your Highness...... And... Princess! Confronting the dead soldiers, Wu Qiu stood in front of the dead soldier who led him in, and three days ago, the dead soldier found Wu Qiu and others who were searching like headless flies outside.
At that time, Wu Qiu was leading a general banner under his command, and more than 50 brothers were looking for madness along a radius of Shuozhou, but there was no trace of Xia Zongxiao.
Shuozhou is not large, there is only one state city, two small county seats, and a radius of more than 100 miles. When they were desperate and didn't know where to look, the dead man in black suddenly came to him and claimed that he knew the whereabouts of the prince, and the desperate Wu Qiu was like grasping the last straw.
Although he was anxious, he also kept an eye on it, and he selected more than a dozen brothers with good skills to follow this black-clothed man with a strange origin into the mountain, and some of the rest of the brothers returned to Shuozhou to report the news to the two commanders.
The rest remained where they were, and it took them three full days, except for a short rest, day and night, across the mountains to get here.
Wu Qiu held the steel knife and confronted the dead man in front of him, and there were sparks of provocation in both of their eyes.
Bai Ye didn't expect that his casual drinking would lead to this kind of thing, looking at Kong Weng, who was "deaf" by his own loud shouting, constantly slapping his ears and shaking his head as if his ears were in water, and Xia Zongxiao, who was originally expressionless in his arms, but now he was frowning and his body was restless, occasionally moving slightly, and his face was like a nightmare with fear.
The compelling momentum around Bai Ye disappeared without a trace in an instant like the morning mist directly lit by the morning sun, and the cold temperature around him gradually warmed up, coaxing Xia Zongxiao like a child and gently patting Xia Zongxiao and calling: "Zongxiao? Zong Xiao? Are you okay? Wake up? Wake up? ”
Xia Zongxiao's eyebrows were tightly locked, his teeth were clenched, his face trembled from time to time, his face was struggling in pain, and he was struggling like a nightmare, but it scared Bai Ye, and he was just in a coma, how could he suddenly become like this......
"He's scared by you!" Kong Weng covered his ears that were a little tinnitus from the roar of the white night, and his voice was surprisingly loud, like an old man behind his ears, shouting at the top of his voice but completely ignorant.
"He's it!" Kong Weng paused, one hand supported the boring trunk of the old locust tree, and the other hand kept plucking his ears and shaking his head, but it still didn't get better, and the sound was louder.
"He! Nothing big! It's just too much contemplation! The liver was too hot and angry for a while, and I fainted! Kong Weng took out a small porcelain vase with exquisite green carvings from his bosom and handed it to Bai Ye, "Give him a pill, pinch the middle of the person and wake up!" ”
Bai Ye took the afterimage of his hand, and glared at Kong Weng angrily, there is nothing wrong with you, where are you strange and weird for a long time?
gave Xia Zongxiao a small pale white pill, exuding a faint fragrance of herbs and trees, clumsily and carefully opened Xia Zongxiao's mouth, lest he hurt him, took a pill, and pinched Xia Zongxiao's people nervously, not daring to be afraid of hurting him, and not daring to be too light for fear of being useless.
"Huh?" Xia Zongxiao, who was paralyzed in Bai Ye's arms, opened his eyes, looked blank in his mind, and couldn't think of anything for a while, he just felt tired... It's like I haven't closed my eyes for days and nights... Physically and mentally exhausted...
Bai Ye happily hugged Xia Zongxiao, and finally let go of his uneasy heart, and said nervously: "You're awake!" Is there anything wrong with it? ”
Slowly, the picture before fainting gradually came back to his mind, and his consciousness became clear, but when he looked around at the tense guards around him, he was at a loss, what was going on...
I wanted to raise my finger to them but didn't even have the strength to wave an index finger, and it seemed a little difficult to turn my head, and after barely looking around, he was weakly attached to Bai Ye's chest, but his tired eyes did not leave their tired voice sounding in Bai Ye's chest: "He... They... What's going on..."
“... It's okay...", a little distressed, said softly, raised his head to look at the guards who were still confronting the dead soldiers, and ordered: "You... Put the knife away..."
Wu Qiu had already heard the movement of the prince waking up behind him, and... Princess... commanded, glared fiercely at the dead soldier who was confronting him, raised his hand and waved, and the guards around him were unwilling to put the steel knife into the sheath, but the formation did not disperse, and the hand did not leave the handle of the knife.
At this time, Kong Weng seemed to be much better, and his voice slowly returned to normal. Glancing at the dead soldiers gathered around the periphery, they also stretched out their hands and waved them away.
He took a deep breath and sighed: "There is no vanity under the fame..... With this internal strength alone, there are few people in the world who can compare with generals... But please don't drink in the ears of the old people in the future... Prone to deafness..."
Bai Ye glanced at Kong Weng: "If you don't pretend and pretend to be posturing, how can I..."
Kong Weng smiled bitterly: "Definitely! Definitely! The general misunderstood! It's definitely not that the old man is pretending to be anxious and deliberately making you anxious, it's really that the pulse on King Wei's body is too weird. Ten days between two people.
When you first came that day, the old man clearly thought that King Wei had stolen the pulse, and the pulse was vigorous and powerful, and it was more robust than the pulse of ordinary martial arts practitioners, but now the pulse is clearly the pulse of a sick seedling who has lost both qi and blood for many years, and the pulse is weak and weak, and even my seventy or eighty old man can't compare, it is really strange! ”
Bai Ye looked suspicious after listening to Kong Weng's words, and thought about it a little in his heart, and remembered what Xiao Gannong had said, but he was not sure.
And Xia Zongxiao was so confused that he only heard Kong Weng sarcastically mock him in his seventies and eighties?
"Help me up..."Xia Zongxiao glared at Kong Weng weakly with dead fish eyes, and whispered to Bai Ye with the same weakness.
Xia Zongxiao's weight of more than 100 catties was like a light feather in Bai Ye's hands, and he stood up with Xia Zongxiao effortlessly.
Holding Xia Zongxiao's arm with his left hand and holding his armpit with his right hand, Xia Zongxiao's whole person was soft, hanging on Bai Ye's body like noodles.
Intermittently, "... Seven Elders... Eighty...? That's you..."
Wu Qiu saw that His Royal Highness looked sickly, looked around and there was no decent chair in the courtyard, so he hurriedly ran to the house, took out a long bench from the house, placed it behind Xia Zongxiao, and helped Bai Ye carefully hold him and sit down.
The bench is facing the oblique sunlight, and it is also facing the wild boar lying in a pool of blood outside the courtyard, most of the boar's body is blocked by the guards who are surrounded by the periphery, Xia Zongxiao can see that the ground is full of blood in the loess, the pungent smell of blood is accompanied by a faint breeze, and the blood pool reflected by the sun is particularly dazzling.
Xia Zongxiao, who had just sat down, struggled to stand up again, stared at the pool of blood for a while, and suddenly remembered the fragment of the dream that flashed in his mind in the coma.
Don't dare to delay any longer, he said to Bai Ye in a loud voice: "We... Come back to Shuozhou..."
Bai Ye blurted out without thinking: "No! You can't stand on your feet right now! How can you stand the toss? ”
The breeze blew, and a sickly flush appeared on both sides of Xia Zongxiao's cheeks, and although his voice was intermittent, there was no doubt: "It's okay... Don't go again... It's too late... Wu Qiu said... Kou Zhen gave them a ten-day military order, this old guy... Ruthless... It's really going to kill... I just... I had a dream... In the dream... It's all blood... It's all blood..."
Xia Zongxiao slowly stretched out his white and tender palm and put it on Bai Ye's rough hand, although it was very light, he used all his strength.
Bai Ye looked down at Xia Zongxiao's hand and felt the temperature in his hand, and nodded firmly when he raised his head again: "Okay, I'll take you back..."
Xia Zongxiao smiled and said again: "Put me... In the arms... Take out that jade pendant..."
It turned out that this jade pendant with exquisite workmanship was to be given to Han Niuzi as a wedding gift, but it was sent back by Sister Xing'er.
Motioning with his eyes, Wu Qiu took the jade pendant from Bai Ye's hand and sent it to Kong Weng, Kong Weng didn't know why he looked at the jade pendant in his hand and looked at Xia Zongxiao puzzled.
"I don't like people who owe me... I don't like it even more that I owe someone else... White Nights... Xia Zongxiao... Two lives... I owe... I'll also... Take this jade pendant to defend the palace... I still... But... I only recognize Brother Han Niu and... Sister Xing'er... You... It's also a... Others... I don't recognize..."