During the rainy season, the showers come and go quickly.

A rainbow hangs halfway up the mountain.

Yao Jin, the defender of the city, stood on the arrow tower of the fortress, wearing gray iron armor and a gray coat, and the whole person was as dark as a sword on a sword bag. The rainbow is just above the halberd end of the stone giant, this behemoth has two feet on both ends of the stone fortress, the left foot is high and the right foot is low, the Snow Peak Fortress is different from other fortresses, its urn city is not in front of the main city, but facing the north and south of the main city, it is actually two fortresses of the Snow Peak Fortress, and they are at an angle with each other.

The five-hundred-mile Hengshan corridor is like a long and curved river, but it can't be returned to the sea, it stops here, and is intercepted by a mountain that towers into the sky, however, its way is not blocked, there is a dark and damp chrysalis at the bottom of the Xuefeng Mountain, only two miles before and after, through the chrysalis road is the snow peak line of the sky, through the line of heaven into the rest of the country. The Snow Peak Fortress was built on top of the chrysalis road, and it guarded the Hengshan Corridor by virtue of the natural hazards, keeping the smoke of war out of the Snow Peak.

Heavy wooden doors wrapped in iron sheets hung from the bottom of the towers, and the nooses as thick as human legs were crawling with moss, like giant snakes biting the bolts on the wooden doors, and eight strong wrestlers guarded the winches on the towers for many years, but they seldom used force to pull the ropes apart, because it was sparsely populated. However, if you want to go east from the Hengshan Corridor, the Snow Peak Fortress is the only way to go, there are no villages within a radius of thirty miles, the fortress is a village, and Yao Jin is the lord here.

He looked at it, the Hengshan corridor stretched all the way to the horizon, and at this moment, a long dragon came from the narrow corridor, the dragon's head was a beautiful carriage, pulled by snow-white horses, the knights around the carriage were heroic and vigorous, and the dragon's neck was also a carriage, and more than a dozen young scholars with fluttering crowns were guarding it like a swarm of ants. After that, there was the waist and tail of the long dragon, which bent around and dragged back and forth for two miles. The dragon's head had already crawled towards the Snow Peak Fortress, but its tail was still in the dense forest.

Yu Lie rode on the horse, what he saw in front of him was breathtaking, only to see the twenty zhang high stone giant built against the mountain, its upper body was covered with armor, but the lower half of its body was bare, its legs were thick and powerful, you could see the muscles of the block, the stone giant wore a pointed helmet on his head, held a huge shield in his left hand, held a halberd in his right hand, his waist was slightly bent, and his arms were raised, as if he was about to throw the halberd in his hand and pierce the sunset that had just broken through the dark clouds. Such largesse is rare in Zhongzhou, and it is conceivable that the first generation of monarchs of the Yu Kingdom did build fortresses all their lives.

The sun sets on the winding mountain road, and the long and desolate sound of the horn is heard in the distance.

Whether it was Cai Xuan, the old man, or Yu Lie, they all chose to enter the plug for repair, because it was about to get dark, and it was not inappropriate to pass through the chrysalis in the dark, but if they wanted to pass through the line of sky behind the chrysalis, it was unthinkable. Besides, they had no choice but to be close to the more suitable habitat of the fortress.

Huo Cheng, the leader of Cai Xuan's knights, led the horse to the main fortress on the left, and when he arrived in front of the gate, he raised the horse's head high, held the horse's belly and said loudly: "We are Cai Guoren, enter Dayong through this place, please open the city gate." ”

"Boom, boom......"

Before Huo Cheng's words could be settled, the eight winch men had already wrung open the gate of the fortress instead of the giant wooden door of the chrysalis road. Cai Xuan's carriage did not pause in the slightest and burrowed into the fortress made of stone. Next came the old man, one of his disciples raised proudly with a side of the customs clearance, and then led the carriage through the heavily armed and guarded group of armor soldiers.

Yu Lie noticed that the customs clearance text was very special, it was not a simple wooden sign, it looked like gold and not jade, the style was unique, and the sunset fell on it with a faint glow. Confucian jade, is the song city Jingtai King to the old master of Confucius, with this thing can be free to come and go anywhere on the land of Zhongzhou, but the old man is not the old master Confucius, in the Yanjing Palace of the Confucian lecture hall hung the portrait of the old master Confucius, and this old man looks very different, and besides, the old master Confucius has been immortal for five years, people can not be resurrected after death, this is a very simple truth.

Now, it's Yu Lie's turn.

The slave trader rode towards the group of armor soldiers, and Ziche Yu and Xingluo rode behind him.

The setting sun floated down from the end of the stone giant's halberd, stacked on the tips of the halberds of those armorers, and the archers on the arrow tower saw Yu Lie walking over, and their breathing seemed to be heavier, and they all aimed their arrows at the leisurely slave lord. Yu Lie ignored this, and he showed the customs clearance document to the man in gray armor, who was obviously the main general. The man had an unforgettable face, with ordinary eyebrows and a very large nose, which took up almost half of the entire face. Seeing this face, the slave trader's eyes suddenly shrank, and he subconsciously pressed the sword bag on his waist.

The man was holding the text in his hand, but the corner of his eye was glancing at Yu Lie, and when he saw Yu Lie's hand pressing towards the sword bag, his huge nose trembled, and his eyes were cold.

At this moment, Yu Lie's hand fell on his waist instead of the sword bag, and he took a small cloth bag from his waist.

"The wet fog is heavy, please drink the soldiers." Yu Lie handed over the cloth bag in his hand.

Yao Jin, who had a huge nose, took the cloth bag and swiped it with his hand, smiling without smiling: "Yan Shang is polite, hot water and hot porridge have already been prepared in Saizhong." As he spoke, he turned around and scolded the group of nervous armor soldiers behind him: "I haven't fought in my life, have you ever seen blood?" It's all useless, don't put away your weapons, go and slaughter the snow wolf I hunted yesterday, remember, leave the wolf's leg to your guests! Turning his head, he shook his big nose and seemed to be smiling: "Let the distinguished guests laugh, but the strength of the wolf meat on the snow peak is very good." ”

"I hope so, it would be better to have another jar of wine." The slave trader smiled harmlessly, and even his eyes flashed with the shrewdness and cunning that characterize a merchant.

……

The moon on the snowy peak is particularly cool, and it hangs coldly overhead, as if it can be caught with your hand. The water-white moonlight spilled into the fortress, leaving a half-light and half-dark light and shadow, and groups of armor soldiers shuttled through it, holding bright torches, and their heavy feet stepped on the hard stone ground and made a "poof" sound. Yu Lie knelt in front of the desk, and in front of him was a whole fragrant roasted wolf leg, a plate of bacon, a plate of pickled bracken, and a jar of old wine. Zicheyu and Xingluo sat opposite. The three of them were faced with a whole case of eating, but no one did anything. But the big firebird squatting in the corner was tearing a snow wolf, and its sharp claws went directly into the wolf's belly, tearing out bloody intestines.

In this regard, Zicheyu is commonplace, but Xing Luo is pale.

The fortress was rudimentary, with few civilians and most of them gray-faced, somewhat similar to their lords. It was a barren territory, and the samurai and civilians and lords of the territory had hungry eyes.

There are no bronze lamps in the room, and a bunch of torches hangs from the unpolished stone pillars. The firelight shook slightly, reflecting the nose of the opposite face, his nose was not as big as that of the lord here, but it was not small. At this moment, seeing Yu Lie staring at his nose, Zicheyu couldn't help but raise his hand to rub the rosacea, and said in a deep voice: "I have secretly ordered that we will wait for the sword at night, and there are also our people outside the stable." ”

As soon as he heard this, Xing Luo's face turned even paler, his eyes flashed, and he said in a low voice: "This is the military fortress of the Yu Kingdom, if we do it here, then, it will be in vain." ”

"They don't dare."

The firelight shook Yu Lie's uncertain face, he grabbed the leg of mutton in the wooden plate, pulled out the short sword from his right waist, cut the leg of mutton into three pieces, inserted the meat with the sword into the plate of Zicheyu and Xingluo, and chewed the other piece himself:

"Don't worry, the more arrogant they are at this moment, the more it means that they don't have that guts, after all, this is a military fortress and not a den of bandits, and they won't fail to see that we are not meat on the board, let others slaughter, if they want to dig a piece of meat from us, then they have to weigh their own ability. Besides, I have ordered Luo Ying to lead the scout cavalry to camp outside, but if there is a slight disturbance in the fortress, he will not be able to hide it, we are the merchants of Yan Kingdom, and a fortress can not resist the iron cavalry and anger of Yan Kingdom, the soldiers have been on the road for a month, and they will travel far tomorrow, tonight, let them sleep well. ”

"No wonder they stepped so hard, it turned out that the big nose was deliberately showing weakness. This bird's nose looks exactly like the one who attacked you, but it doesn't have the same ruthlessness as the man! Zicheyu grabbed the wolf meat on the plate and feasted on it, looking extremely ugly.

Xing Luo stared at the wolf meat on the plate, and then looked at Yu Lie and Zi Cheyu who were eating happily, he brought up the wolf meat, but he didn't know how to put his mouth. Zicheyu stretched out his oily hand and patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Don't worry." The real perpetrator of the murder will not expose his murder weapon before the enemy is alert, and this Yao Jin is doing this, which is to imply to us, and each of them is pretending to be confused. ”

"Hints each? Doesn't that mean he already knows who we are? Xing Luo said suddenly.

As soon as these words came out, Yu Lie and Zi Cheyu were stunned, the slave trader's brows furrowed, he put down the meat, thought for a while, and said with a smile: "No." I see that this fortress is lonely, it is both a military fortress and a territory, and the lord's poverty is greater than mine, and the noose of this fortress is covered with moss, and the huge wooden gate is also half rotten, and it is evident that no one has passed through this place for a long time, so that they will not spare even the soldiers who travel around the world. Otherwise, if he knew who we were, would he have let people die in vain? ”

"Goo." At this time, the big firebird finished eating the snow wolf's internal organs, and turned a pair of eyes to look at Yu Lie.

Yu Lie wiped his hand on the placket of his clothes carelessly, but his eyes suddenly froze, and he turned his head to look at the big firebird. At the same time, Zi Cheyu and Xing Luo also seemed to have a heart in their hearts, and they all stopped tearing and chewing meat, and looked at the big firebird, their wide eyes reflecting the beating firelight.