Chapter 12: After the Frustration

Gao Huan, who was panting heavily, his face was covered with blood, raised the Pu knife and slashed down at Helian En's neck, with a click, the sound of the knife cutting bones was clearly audible, and now Helian En's head was cut off, Gao Huan took out a piece of cloth and wrapped Helian En's head expressionlessly, Duan Chang lay there motionless not far from the corpse, Gao Huan walked over and pulled out the broken knife on Duan Chang's chest, and the blood spurted out with the knife pulled out, but Duan Chang didn't even move, he didn't scream, He had been dead for a long time, and his body weighed seven knives, and the most deadly one was this one in the chest.

Lifting Duan Chang's body and placing it firmly on the horse's back, Gao Huan sat weakly under a tree, leaning against the tree, tears suddenly flowed. The few remaining cavalrymen around each cleaned up the battlefield and did not dare to come over to disturb him.

When he was a child, his father died of cancer, and he never shed tears, but today he cries for an old headache that he doesn't know very well.

The picture returns to the crisis moment when he and Helian changed from a single fight to a group fight just now, Gao Huan and the others began to take advantage of the long range of bows and arrows, but Helian rushed to the front first, and cut down a few nearby cavalry with a few knives, and the others were scattered as birds and beasts, and the thieves behind Helian saw this and slapped their horses to catch them.

Gao Huan abandoned his horse and walked, surrounded by several thieves and cavalry, the situation was at a critical point, and suddenly a Biao army flashed behind him, and the person who came was either someone else or the section chief in charge of the palace.

Duan Chang rode into the enemy formation with a spear in his hand, and several thieves were poured out with one barrel at a time, and the last shot was broken into two due to the excessive force.

After finding Gao Huan, Duan Chang pulled out his saber, and the two of them shouted side by side on the left and on the right and rushed towards the enemy.

Helian turned over and dismounted, and with a strange roar, he grabbed the knife and killed the two of them.

In the end, after Duan Chang used his body to block several fatal blows for Gao Huan, Gao Huan reversed positions and killed Helian En, but even if he cut off Helian En's head with his own hands now, he couldn't alleviate the grief in Gao Huan's heart, and he lost the only person in the world today who defended himself, believed in himself and paid the price of his life, this blow was too big for Gao Huan.

Those days of getting along day and night are vivid, and Duan Chang taught himself how to march and fight, how to set up formations and build fortifications, and how to train sergeants...... Perhaps no one will be able to do so much for him again.

"General, let's get out of here quickly, the enemy will catch up with us." The cavalry was on their way.

Gao Huan wiped his tears, got up and led the horse holding Duan Chang's corpse, and walked towards Cloud City unhurriedly.

Although Hu Chen lost the general Helian En, but with the support of He Liuhan Baling, he still surrounded Yunzhong City five days later, and all the officers and troops in the city were encircled, the commander Li Chong committed suicide in defeat, and the rest of the people retreated to Wuyuan City, and Gao Huan because of unauthorized entry into the enemy's depth, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army, has been dismissed and ordered to return home to introspection, if it were not for his love of beheading Helian, several generals interceded for him, and it is estimated that he was also beheaded by Li Chong's military law.

Gao Huan returned to Pingcheng's house in frustration, and his father said coldly: "I said a long time ago that this kid is unreliable, and he is messing around all day, but now it's okay, not only did he lose his military position, but it also caused me to be sent to the frontier by the imperial court again, you are really a bad son." The mother wiped her tears and cried, "How can this be? How can this be, Little Liuzi? ”

Sister Gao Lan didn't dare to say anything in front of her father, so she could only comfort Gao Huan in private. His younger brother Gao Chen is also lukewarm to him. This shopkeeper has now been promoted to the second shopkeeper, although he was not as glorious as Gao Huan before, but now he is really taking money from home and honoring his father's good son.

On this day, Gao Huan was lying on the bed in the house, he didn't eat breakfast, he didn't get up to eat lunch, and his father came back to eat at noon and saw him so sarcastic: "Hmph, sleep a lot during the day, you don't become a rebel, what are you doing with food in his room?" Still not used to you enough? Put it down! ”

Gao Huan wanted to jump up and reason with him for a few words, but then he thought about it was really meaningless, so he didn't bother to pay attention to him.

In the afternoon, someone knocked on the gate of the courtyard, and Gao Huan was lying in the back room and heard Gao Hanshi talking to a woman in the courtyard, so he heard his mother come into the hall and knock on the door: "Son, get up quickly, there is a letter from you." ”

Gao Huan jumped up and opened the door and asked, "Where is it?" Who sent it? ”

"Oh, it was sent by a girl named Hongyu, Brother Huan, whose lady is this girl, right? I think he's dressed very well. Gao Han asked Gao Huan with a gossipy face. Gao Huan took the letter, and it looked like it was unsealed.

Gao Lan came in with a basket of wild vegetables at this time: "Mother, don't bother Brother Huan, you see that he has lost a lot of weight in the past few days since he came back, and he can't eat or sleep well." Who can feel good after rejecting from the military, and my father still scolds Brother Huan all day long. "My sister still loves Gao Huan very much in her heart.

"You dead girl is too talkative, it's strange if your father doesn't kill you when he hears it, and he doesn't feed the pigs, you have itchy skin all day long." Gao Han scolded, not caring at all about this child who was sold by her husband. In ancient times, most women, especially those from poor families, were indeed cheap, and were sold as objects by their fathers, brothers, and even husbands at every turn, and were even eaten as food in the turbulent times of war. This is also the result of the dregs of feudal society for thousands of years.

Gao Huan glared at his mother and said, "My sister is not idle all day long, how do you want to call her." ”

"You turtle grandson, now you dare to teach you a lesson, I don't think you have been beaten enough by your father." After that, Gao Han didn't bother to pay attention to him, and went out to gossip next door.

The letter was written by Lou Mingchun, asking him to wait for her at night at the house in the south of the city.

Gao Huan sat listlessly in the house, the sky was gradually darkening, and Lou Mingchun had not yet come.

With a lot of thoughts, Gao Huan recalled that day when he sent Duan Chang's body back to Duan's house, the old and young cries were vivid, especially Duan Chang's youngest son Duan Ning, an eleven or twelve-year-old baby, staring at his father's corpse with tears and not saying a word.

"Childe, are you here?" Gao Huan came back to his senses and saw Lou Mingchun enter the house with Hongyu.

Now that he has met his sweetheart, Gao Huan is also depressed, Lou Mingchun saw that he was depressed, and knew that it must be because of the loss of trust/the reason why his career was even more unsuccessful, so he asked Hongyu to prepare some wine and food, and the two chatted while drinking in the house.

If a man encounters a major setback, the woman should come out to support and support him, not only to comfort him to achieve both mental and physical harmony, but also to have a lofty goal as a bait, and do her best to guide him, so that the man can have the confidence to start again after getting out of bed and embark on the journey again.

These words are a little rough, but the truth itself is like this, people encounter difficulties and setbacks in the world, and they rely on mutual support to go on. People can be ruthless, not to mention a sensitive young man like Gao Huan, who needs Lou Mingchun's selfless love and firm support at this time.

It was precisely after losing a friend like Duan Chang who was not a relative but was better than a relative, Gao Huan felt deep self-blame and was hopeless and bored in life, that Lou Mingchun appeared at the right time and continued to comfort him, so that Gao Huan gradually rekindled his expectations for the future. If there are too many orphans like Duan Ning during today's chaos, Gao Huan's heart is even more full of urgency to sweep away the troubled times and rebuild the royal paradise.

After half a month of such days, Gao Huan felt that it was a shame for him to waste time like this, he could no longer be stupid and wait for the imperial court's requisition order, since ancient times, thieves have been heroes, he remembered Liangshan's one hundred and eight generals, and wanted to find a mountain to fall into the grass and fight the world from scratch.

Gao Huan was wandering aimlessly on the street this day, and suddenly there was a crowd of people in front of him, and it seemed that something had happened and everyone was watching. Gao Huan also squeezed into the crowd curiously.

It turned out that several small leaders of the officers and soldiers were tied up behind their backs and thrown into the market to parade through the streets.

The onlookers talked a lot, and I saw one of them, a man in his twenties with a disheveled head, half-kneeling, raising his head and scolding the onlookers loudly: "Look at a bird, didn't Lao Tzu just steal a little groceries and food from the barracks?" In these years, the officials only care about making their own money, we can't eat enough food as soldiers, and more than a dozen people in the family are waiting for my military salary to live, but just this bit of life money, even so, the people above often deduct and delay the payment of military salaries, and the money in the end is not enough to buy a pound of noodles. As he spoke, the man struggled to get up.

At the beginning, a few errand men sat on the side and didn't care about the man's foul language, it can be seen that this former soldier is now going to stand up and rebel, and they all pulled out their knives and came over, and a leader stepped forward and grabbed his neck and pressed it down, scolding while pressing: "Hey, I said you are a dog, day, impatient?" Believe it or not, Lao Tzu is now slashing your dog's head?! ”

"There is a kind of cut now, come and go you to say hello here, if Lao Tzu blinks his eyes, it will be raised by your little mother!" The man scolded with an indifferent look: "Lao Tzu didn't starve to death in the barracks on the battlefield anyway, it is better to let your grandson cut it hard." ”

The leading officer's face was red and white, and he didn't know how to put the knife in his hand, and he received an order to parade the three people through the streets, and he did not have the right to punish the officers and soldiers of the army without authorization, otherwise he would not be able to eat and walk around if the matter became big.

The little leader of the official coughed dryly, turned around and scolded: "Damn, it's really unlucky, when I meet someone who pretends to be dead and spills, I have listened to it, tonight these three people will hang me under this archway, not allowed to eat and drink, let's come back tomorrow morning to collect their bodies." After that, he ordered two small officials to stay in charge of the guard, and beckoned to the others: "Let's go!" ”

"Bah, what's that, a dog-and-man thing!" The man looked at the back of the servant and spat fiercely.

Gao Huan watched everything silently, and then walked home with a heavy heart, thinking about a sentence in his mind: "If such a court wants to do something, it is better to calculate it!" "Is it true that the current imperial court has become politically corrupt, disregarding the people and in dire straits? Really? If this is how good Duan Chang is, I can ask him for advice. But he died in battle.

While walking and thinking, Gao Huan suddenly found himself inexplicably walking to the door of Duan Chang's house, only to see the door of Duan's house open, and the chickens and dogs inside seemed to be arguing, Gao Huan couldn't help but look in curiously.

I saw that the fierce and vicious servants were rummaging through the boxes and cabinets inside and outside the house, and the orphans and widows of the Duan family were fighting in the middle of the courtyard, and the old mother of the Duan family kept crying: "Come and rob!" Duan Chang's wife was supporting the old mother, pulling her youngest son Duan Ning to cry non-stop, Duan Ning cried while struggling: "Don't touch my things, you bad people, get out of the ......"

Gao Huan was furious when he saw this situation, picked up a wooden stick that fell at the door and rushed into the yard and shouted: Stop it!