Chapter Sixty-Nine: The Pivot
Under the moon, Ma Hong rode a horse and galloped for more than 50 miles in the direction of Dongfang Wuyin, and only dismounted and rested by a river after making sure that there were no pursuers to catch up. This river is called Bishui, it is a big river near Biyang County, Ma Hong was going to Wuyin, but he went in the wrong direction at night, and went to the southeast by mistake, and then he arrived at Bishui.
Ma Hong dismounted and walked to the river, found some dry firewood, lit a fire, gritted his teeth and sat by the river, took out a dagger and washed it with river water, and then put it on the fire to roast and disinfect it, and then took out the wine jug and drank half a pot of wine violently, before carefully taking off his shirt, holding the dagger and slowly cutting the flesh of his left shoulder, and taking the sword on his shoulder.
Sweat kept coming out of his hair and forehead, and flowed into his eyes, but Ma Hong twisted his head to the left, and his eyes took arrows without blinking. After half a pillar of incense, the arrow was taken out, because Ma Hong's technique was not good, a lot of blood flowed out of the process of taking the arrow, he tore off his clothes to wipe off the blood, sprinkled some wine on the wound, and then looked up to the sky and roared, took out the hemostatic medicine and gold sore medicine and applied it to the wound, and then bandaged the wound, lying on the ground and waiting for the dawn. Ma Hong can't sit out, if he sits for fear of blood flowing out again, he can only lie on the ground. On the moonlit night of the sixteenth, the moon stars were sparse, and the sparse stars were like those desperate eyes on the battlefield, staring at Ma Hong's face.
"Hey, if this arrow goes down another ten centimeters, I'll die, it's dangerous!"
"Well, fortunately it's in the dark night, but in the dark night, this Le Jin can actually shoot me, is it Cao Cao's luck, or is Le Jin's archery skills superb?"
"Rub, in my memory, Lejin didn't participate in the battle of Wancheng at all, didn't Yu Ban and Xiahoudun come? How did he come out of nowhere. Could it be that after I came, the world line changed? ”
"What the hell, less than two years after my debut, I was hit by a knife and an arrow. It seems that I have to find a powerful bodyguard, and it is not enough to be loyal and not strong. ”
Ma Hong muttered to himself, looking at the bright moon in the sky and talking slowly, suddenly he stretched out his hand and grabbed the bright moon, his eyes were soaked with sadness, and said: "I've been in this world for so long, there are a lot of things I can't say to people, do you understand?" Moon. ”
"Mingyue, I will inject my thoughts into your heart, when she looks up at you in that world, will the thoughts spill into their eyes through your light, will they think of me, will they have a moment of sadness."
After a night of exhaustion, and another arrow wound, when the pain had subsided, Ma Hong fell asleep, and when the first rays of the morning sun shone on his face, he woke up, thirsty, and involuntarily reached for the flask at his waist.
"Oh! Awake? Bro! ”
Ma Hong heard someone talking, sat up suddenly, and waited until he saw that the person sitting not far from him was Xu Shu, and then he was relieved. Ma Hong rubbed his eyes, and then his brain was clever, and he secretly said in his heart that something was wrong, how could Xu Shu be here.
"Senior Brother Xu, why are you here?"
Ma Hong asked puzzled, with surprise and a smile on his face, but there was vigilance in his heart.
Xu Shu held Cao Cao's Heavenly Sword in his hand, and said with a smile on his face: "Senior brother, I have been following you since last night, but you didn't notice it." ”
Ma Hong frowned, and wondered why Xu Shu did this, if Xu Shu was by his side last night, he would have helped out.
Ma Hong's horse fell on the stone by the river and was lying on the ground to rest, Xu Shu stood up, stretched out his horse and touched the horse's neck. The horse slowly stood up and looked at Xu Shu, Xu Shu said good horse in his mouth, and the Yitian Sword in his hand was instantly inserted into the horse's neck, and the horse neighed, jumping with its hooves, and blood sprayed out of its neck.
Ma Hong was shocked, stood up and stepped back, reached out to hold the Han sword on his waist, and said loudly: "Senior Brother Xu, what are you going to do?" ”
Xu Shu raised his head slightly, his ordinary face was full of banter, he looked at Ma Hong's eyes, and said word by word: "Of course I want to kill you." ”
Ma Hong stared at Xu Shu's eyes for a while, gritted his teeth, broke out in a cold sweat, and said angrily: "Why? ”
Xu Shu walked towards Ma Hong step by step with the Yitian Sword, and said with a joke: "Give you a chance to see if you can escape, just like you ambushed Cao Cao last night." ”
Ma Hong was not Xu Shu's opponent in the first place, and he was injured again, so he didn't hesitate to turn around and jump into the water and walk towards the center of the river.
Xu Shu watched Ma Hong jump into the river, still with a playful smile on his face, if he wanted to kill Ma Hong last night, he would have done it last night, and until today, he wanted to play with Ma Hong, he was very confident, Ma Hong would never have escaped in his hands like Cao Cao.
The river was a little urgent, Ma Hong didn't dare to go to the center of the river, he couldn't let the water go over his shoulder, even if he fled to the other side of the river, Xu Shu would be able to catch up with him quickly on horseback. Now Ma Hong wants to know why Xu Shu wanted to kill him.
"Xu Shu, tell me! Why kill me! ”
Ma Hong asked loudly, wondering in his heart if this Xu Shu was a person who did not belong to this world like him.
Xu Shu took the sword and slashed at the horse that fell to the ground, and then looked up and said, "Do you know why I want to worship Sima Wei as a teacher?" I'm going to be his heir. ”
Ma Hong frowned and said loudly: "What does this have to do with me. ”
Xu Shu snorted and said, "It doesn't matter, the teacher's sword is already in your hand, no accident, you are his heir." It's just that I'm going to give you an accident. ”
Ma Hong didn't know what the teacher's heir was worth fighting for, and he didn't know how many hidden things the teacher had, so he asked Xu Shu to kill him for this.
"The sword in your hand is called "Dictatorship", it is the sword of Su Qin, the vertical and horizontal family, you engraved "Taigong Liutao" on the stele, and Su Qin became famous after reading "Zhou Shuyin Fu", do you think it is too much of a coincidence? ["Zhou Shuyin Fu" is "Taigong Conspiracy", Liutao and Zhou Shuyin Fu are the same book, but the name is different. 】
Xu Shu walked slowly towards the river with his sword, talking as he walked.
Ma Hong looked at Xu Shu's eyes and said slowly: "Could it be that the teacher is a descendant of Guiguzi?" ”
"To be precise, it is the descendant of Su Qin, Su Qin has been fighting Qin all his life for the power of the six countries, after Su Qin's death, his students sorted out his books, and fifty years later passed on his sword and book to Zhang Liang, so that he could assist a Ming Jun to destroy Qin. In his later years, Zhang Liang retired to Huangpao Mountain and founded the Pivotal Gate, which has been passed down to this day, and the teacher is the master of the Pivotal Sect's generation. ”
As soon as Xu Shu stepped into the river, the sword in his hand crossed the river, the morning sun spread on the water, and Xu Shu and Ma Hong looked at each other with swords.
"So, after you kill me, do you want to kill Pang Tong?"
Ma Hong lifted the sword and looked at Xu Shu, he got the teacher's sword, and Pang Tong got the book.
"There are rules for the cardinal, a disciple is in charge of the sword, a disciple is in charge of the book, the cardinal will help the two to achieve fame, and finally the door master will choose a strong person from the two as the next master. I don't care if I kill any of you, I will have a chance to get the sword and the book, but Zhuge Liang is here, his ability is more suitable than any of us to hold the book, I forget it's better to kill Pang Tong than to kill you. ”
The Heavenly Sword was pierced in the water, and Xu Shu stretched out his right hand and pointed at Ma Hong's nose and said.
"Why do you know so many things?"
Ma Hong has read Pang Tong's book, it is not a military book at all, it is just an incident recorded by the teacher over the years, it must be Xu Shu's misunderstanding, it seems that the teacher has not yet selected the person in charge, and the person in charge of the sword has been determined.
"When you spend a lot of time investigating something, you can still get some information. This time, the teacher sent me to protect you secretly, just to give me the opportunity to kill you. ”
Xu Shu didn't want to waste his tongue with Ma Hong, so he pulled out the Yitian Sword that was stuck in the shallow water and walked towards Ma Hong, the water had already overflowed his waist, and he was about to walk to Ma Hong's side.
No matter how good the swordsmanship is, it also needs a combination of footwork, and in the water, it restricts the footwork. Ma Hong knew that the sword in his hand was a good sword, and with such a sword and Xu Shu, in the water, the odds of winning were fifty percent greater, and now he felt that he had a fifty percent chance of winning. Because Ma Hong is very confident in his water nature, he learned to swim at the age of nine in his last life, while Xu Shu is a native of the Central Plains, and there are still fewer rivers in the north than in the south.