Qu Lingchen was thinking about his thoughts while giving porridge.

Although Liu Zhang's personal soldiers did not deliberately, Qu Lingchen could feel it, so powerful and Wang Xu and other personal soldiers kept staring at their every move, they had no blades, and they had no chance to attack at all, and Qu Lingchen also wanted to wait until the victims were pacified before thinking about anything else, and gradually, he temporarily dispelled the idea of assassination.

I don't know how long it took, Qu Lingchen scooped the rice and handed it to the victims, looking at the grateful eyes of those victims, and suddenly felt that what he was doing now was something that was really meaningful, and this kind of thing could make him feel at ease, instead of carrying a sword all day long thinking about how to take revenge, and in his free time, he fell into his own chaotic thoughts.

Starting from Brazil, this moment is the most relaxing time for Qu Lingchen, it seems that every time he hands out a bowl of porridge, his heart that has been lonely for a long time warms a little, and gradually, behind the black veil, Qu Lingchen has a smile that he didn't notice.

"Girl, your name is Tang Yan?" Liu Zhang asked as he handed the bowl.

"Yes." Qu Lingchen nodded.

The two were silent again: "Are you really doing all this for the people?" Qu Lingchen asked after a long time.

"It's not all, it's also for yourself, and the people's will is very important to the ruler."

"The princes are selfish."

"Why do you say that?" Liu Zhang put down a stack of bowls and said: "How many people in this world are pure and good, many have a purpose, I think there is nothing wrong with a purpose, the important thing is whether the result is really beneficial to the people, are they all as careless as Dong Zhuo?" ”

"Are you really benefiting the people?"

"I think so."

"Who knows?"

"I know it myself." Liu Zhang was silent for a while, looked at Qu Lingchen, and said solemnly: "I also want you to know." ”

"Hmm...... I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Qu Lingchen's hand to the disaster victim rice porridge trembled, and the rice porridge was sprinkled on the hunchbacked old lady's hand, Qu Lingchen quickly apologized, wiped the back of the old lady's hand with a rag, and refilled the bowl.

"It would be nice if the person on Yunmengze and the person in Brazil were not the same." Qu Lingchen thought.

"Drive." As soon as he rode a fast horse, he handed a long cloth bag to Wang Xu, Liu Zhang took it and took out the contents of the cloth bag, which was a nine-stringed piano, shaped like a wide long sword, and the black lacquered body was spotted with red patches, as if the rust of iron was red.

The whole piano is unpretentious, and at first glance it looks old, only the white strings seem to be brand new.

As soon as Liu Zhang took out the piano, he attracted the attention of Qu Lingchen, Qu Lingchen's master is proficient in many skills, and the piano art is one of them, and among all the apprentices, Qu Lingchen is the most true inheritance of the piano art, just because he has liked the piano since he was a child.

After the time for soup porridge passed, Qu Lingchen looked at the guqin, and there was a trace of longing in his heart, but he suppressed it, and just quietly watched Liu Zhang take out the guqin and put it on the wooden platform.

Liu Zhang shaved his fingers on the strings, making a pleasant sound, the tone was clear, with a vague grievance, as if the sun could not be seen in a deep pool all year round, dripping a drop of water from the mossy rock wall.

Qu Lingchen's eyebrows moved.

Liu Zhang stroked the body of the piano and said: "It is rumored that during the Warring States Period, a Korean maid traveled to the country of Qi, no entanglement, played a piano in the country of Qi, such as a lonely goose chirping, smelling all intoxicated, after the girl left, the sound of the piano is still around the beam, three days endlessly, it is named around the beam by the world with the piano of the maid.

Later, the Liangqin was transferred to the hands of the King of Chuzhuang, the King of Chuzhuang heard the sound of the qin, and did not go to court for seven days, the minister and the princess persuaded hard, and the King of Chuzhuang endured the pain and ordered someone to smash the Liangqin, which was really resentful, and today the Liangqin finally reappeared in the world. ”

Qu Lingchen said: "Since the piano has been destroyed, how can it still reappear in the world?" ”

Liu Zhang said with a smile: "I also think it's impossible, after leaving Yunmengze, I ordered to buy a good piano, and someone offered this piano to invite merit, and also said that it was around the Liang Qin, saying that the king of Chuzhuang was soft-hearted for a while, and used a fake piano instead of a real piano, I really don't know what to say."

But he insisted that it was a rough man, and I couldn't help it, the sound quality of this piano was okay, and the girl was proficient in music, so I wanted the girl to identify whether it was a famous piano or not, if it was, it would be white, if not, I would behead the vain person who offered the piano. ”

Liu Zhang said this, since it was a test piano, Qu Lingchen had a lot of obstacles in his heart, walked behind the guqin, pressed the white strings with his tender white fingers, pressed into the old mahogany, and opened it easily.

"Zheng~~"

The sound of the piano immediately attracted the surrounding refugees, and they only felt a trace of clear spring flowing through their ears, but as if it was an illusion, they were all searching for the sound to help.

Liu Zhang sweated a little, he just gouged it, compared to Qu Lingchen's movements, it was really insulting to this piano.

"I don't know if it's around the beam, but it must be a good guqin, and adults don't have to kill in vain."

"Since an expert like the girl said, then naturally you can't cut it, and you should be rewarded for your dedication to the piano."

Qu Lingchen looked at the guqin and hesitated for a while, then said softly: "My lord, can I try this piano?" ”

Liu Zhang waved his hand to Wang Xu, Wang Xu immediately moved a stone bench, Qu Lingchen sat on the stone bench, his slender white palm put on the guqin, and the ten onion fingers moved the strings lightly.

The sound of the piano is like cooking smoke, wisps come out, wafting from the body of the Liangqin, and the clear sound is like a clear spring, soaking people's hearts.

Liu Zhang's expression was stunned, and his pleasant voice came unexpectedly.

The refugees looked over one after another, and finally found the source of the sound, and the continuous sound of the piano was even more breathtaking, like the tranquil moonlight shining on the distant mountains, like a white pine standing on the hill in the quiet night, like the spring breeze blowing the green river bank, like the sparkling waves of Dongting Lake.

Like clear raindrops, drop by drop hit the heart.

The refugees were all intoxicated by the sound of the piano, hungry, exhausted, confused, the endless drizzle, the smell of the canopy, as if all disappeared at this moment, only the sound of the piano flowed through every pore of the body, and only comfort was left in the whole body.

The mind has never been so still, and the body has never felt something so intently.

"Zheng~~"

Suddenly, the sound stopped, as if a tightrope was thrown into the sky, out of the clouds, into the unknown space, and the listener's thoughts were thrown away with the wire, and they also sank in.

And at this moment, wisps of piano sound resounded from distant and unknown corners, bit by bit, as if emerging from the ground, if there is nothing, I can't grasp the trace, subdividing and distinguishing, all in the ears.

The sound of the piano gradually became clear, and a faint sadness penetrated into the heart along with the sound of the piano, evoking people's most unforgettable memories, refugees and even soldiers were intoxicated by the sound of the piano, and the playing Qu Lingchen also closed his eyes, as if he was not a player, but a listener.

The refugees in the distance leaned over, but they didn't dare to get too close, for fear that the footsteps would disturb the sound of the piano, and when the sound of the piano fell, everyone was still silent in their thoughts, and the slightest wisps of the piano sound were embedded in it, and it was in their minds for a long time.

Those who have heard this scene will never forget it for the rest of their lives.

When people gradually woke up and reacted, they erupted into a deafening exclamation, and the black light gauze fluttered in the wind, and at this moment it became a fairy-like existence in their eyes.

"Miss Tang's piano skills are outstanding, which is really unprecedented."

Liu Zhang was stunned for a long time, and then said, the residual scene evoked by the sound of the piano in his mind was still clear, Dongting Lake was sparkling, the peach blossoms on the island were in full bloom, a bamboo house, and a white veil.

Qu Lingchen didn't respond halfway, and through the black veil, Liu Zhang couldn't see her expression.

"My lord praised it, this nine-stringed instrument is really extraordinary, and my clumsy skills can't play to her wonders." Qu Lingchen also stayed in her own thoughts, when she played the piano just now, she was still controlling it by herself at first, and later, from the moment the piano sound stopped, it seemed that the piano sound could touch her fingers.

It's not that I'm thinking about how to play, but the sound of the piano is guiding me to play, flowing water, flawless, and I'm still quiet in my own piano sound, this is the first time I've learned the piano for ten years, and the picture scroll in my heart has been staying in my mind, a high-spirited son stands in front of the green bamboo house, waving a sword and carving, and the lake and peach orchard have become his foil.

Liu Zhang said with a smile: "I'm thinking about the Korean girl back then, if she can really play the piano and keep it for three days, then she won't be able to receive money, how did she get together?" You won't starve to death in three days, will you? ”

Qu Lingchen laughed, just woke up and heard Liu Zhang's quip, he lost his temper for a while, and after laughing, he immediately stopped speaking, and his body didn't dare to move.

This is the first time Liu Zhang heard Qu Lingchen laugh, and he was also stunned.

............ "Do you have venison to eat today?" ”

"The venison is ready."

"Descendants of Huangxiang."

"Three watches tonight."

A soup kitchen man suppressed the voice of a young man who received porridge and said, "Now most of General Huang's soldiers have been led to the city, as long as you get the weapons, you can do it tonight, you can go with it." ”

The young man nodded: "General Huang's 15,000 soldiers and horses, Zhang Dudu's 5,000 soldiers and horses have arrived secretly, in order to paralyze Liu Zhang, ambush 20 miles away from Dongcheng, as long as we take the city, Jiangxia Jingling's army can come to help, Jiangdong's soldiers and horses will also arrive, Liu Zhang has no possibility of turning over." ”

The soup kitchen man nodded and shouted to the tent behind, "A day worker." ”

The young man stepped into the tent.

............ "What's going on with the people of the Cai family?" Why didn't any of them come? ”

Several members of the clan gathered in a quiet courtyard, but after waiting for a long time, no one from the Cai family arrived, and some of the clan children couldn't help complaining.

"Cai Xuan, Cai Mao, and them? They convened this meeting, but they didn't come, did they still think they were the first clan in Jingxiang? ”

"Forget it, without the people of the Cai family, we can do the same." A young man stepped out of the ranks.

"Pang Lian, you don't want to say big things, Liu Zhang used the ceremony to kill the Sima family, confiscated all the weapons in our family's private collection, and this time we put the generals in the army in the air, only the Cai family relied on Cai Huan's shameless hooves to seduce Liu Zhang, and none of the military positions were dismissed, without them, how can we respond internally and with bare hands?"

Pang Lian smiled contemptuously: "What do you want military power to do?" As long as you get the weapons, those Jiangxia soldiers who came in, as well as the guards of our family, are an army in themselves, with tens of thousands of people, and now there are only 20,000 defenders in Xiangyang City, and half of them are distributed in the inner city, can't you hold on until the arrival of Huangzu Chen Sheng's army? ”

"To put it lightly, Liu Zhang's dog thief in the Xiangyang Armory has already been guarded and sent a general to guard it with heavy troops, how do you get it? Does it depend on your brother Pang Ming, who has only been the treasury commander for a few days? ”

"That's right, when Liu Zhang ordered that those who secretly hid weapons should punish the whole clan, my old man handed over the decorated swords and the Spring and Autumn halberd in the antique shop, I didn't listen to my hard advice, and now, I'm afraid there is only a hoe."

"Don't you believe me?" Pang Lian snorted: "Tell you, our Pang family has already made a clever plan, the general Han Dianchen, who guards the treasury order, is brave, but he has a fatal weakness, greedy for a cup of good wine, my brother has already prepared Hengshui wine, the drunkard is afraid that he doesn't know anything now, as long as he takes his token and transfers the Sichuan army, the weapons of the entire treasury will be ours." ”

Everyone took a breath of cool air, and they were all happy, Pang Lian smiled and said, "It's just that everyone should not forget the merits of our Pang family when the time comes." ”

............ "Sister, they will do it tonight, do we really sit idly by?" If they succeed, we'll be passive. ”

In the attic, Cai Mao said eagerly.

"Let's do what we need to do." Cai Wei took the eyebrow thorn and sketched his eyebrows little by little in front of the bronze mirror, "If the army of Huangzu Zhang Yun outside the city converges with the army in the city, you will let the Cai family lead the troops to rebel, you can rest assured, even if our Cai family is not the most meritorious, after the matter is completed, no one can touch us, don't forget, we still have a Chen Sheng." ”

"yes." Cai Mao was overjoyed, he let Chen Sheng go at the beginning, and let Chen Sheng be grateful to Dade, Chen Sheng is the strength of the Cai family, whether it is the credit of rebellion or the struggle for power after the fact, this is a big bargaining chip.

Chen Sheng's troops, plus the soldiers and horses of the Cai family, are not stronger than which family?

Cai Mao couldn't help but look at Cai Wei's foresight and was even more impressed.

"And what if they don't succeed?" Cai Mao asked.

"Didn't work out?" Cai Wei chuckled: "Don't you know how to beat the water dog?" ”

Cai Mao smiled, not without pride.

"But remember." Cai Wei turned his head to look at Cai Mao: "The scale of this move is huge, the Cai family's branches are complicated, although there are me and you and the patriarch constraints, it is impossible for no one to participate at all, if the world clan does not succeed, you have to kill the Cai family who are not subject to control in the fastest time, and then hand over their heads to Liu Zhang, understand?" ”

Cai Mao's expression twisted.

………… Huangjiawan, this is the time when Huang Yueying, in the name of the "seriously ill" old man Huang, summoned the strong men of the whole clan and the nursing home, all the children of the Huang family heard the rumors, and they gathered here, ready to fight to the death.

Huang Yueying climbed the steps, Huang Chengyan and Mrs. Cai (Cai Wei's sister) looked at the heroic Huang Yueying, extremely proud, relieved, and nodded with a smile.

"The children and grandchildren of the Huang family, Yueying's uncles, brothers and brothers, nephews and nephews, Yueying was instructed by the old man to gather everyone here, I think everyone knows the reason, Liu Zhang is brutal and insensitive, tonight the heroes gathered to participate in the grand event, and returned Jingzhou to peace."

"Kill the tyrant and return my hometown."

"Kill the tyrant and return my hometown."

The children of the Huang family yelled.

"Today, is the day of our action, our Huang family also has to contribute to Jingxiang, as one of the top ten families, this is our unshirkable responsibility, and our task is to go to Dongcheng, before the arrival of General Jiangxia Huang and General Jingling Zhang, dredge the road in the middle, clear the ambush of the Sichuan army, so that General Huang and General Zhang can join the righteous army in the city faster, you say, okay?"

"Good!"

"Good!"

"It's tonight, it's tonight......" Huang Yueying paused for a moment and asked the young man with drooping eyelids on the side, this is Huang Yueying's playmate since childhood, and the relationship is the best.

"Huzi, when will the water level open the gate and break the bridge be completed?" Huang Yueying had taken root in the upper reaches of the Huangjiawan Mountains and Rivers as early as ten days ago, and it rained continuously for ten days, and there was a lot of water stored.

Huzi opened his eyes and said, "If you want others not to know, you can only do it at night, probably two watches." ”

Huang Yueying faced all the children of the Huang family: "Yes, the time is set for the third watch tonight, in order to be foolproof, we will set off in the second watch, you all cheer up, and when the time comes, you must move forward bravely, not greedy for life and afraid of death."

However, before the third watch, if anyone dares to take a step here, it is a collaborator with the enemy, and it is to report to Liu Zhang's dog thief, don't blame me Huang Yueying for turning her face and being ruthless. ”

"Sister Yueying, we don't have a bad breed here."

"Yes, that's a good point."

The children of the Huang family vied with each other.

Huang Yueying nodded with satisfaction, and Huzi's eyelids drooped again.

………… On a rainy night, the refugees were asleep in the tent, and they were panicked, and the men with their upper bodies were rolling around anxiously.

The soldiers stood silently and waited for the time for the changing of the guard.

The sound of mountains and rivers hitting the waves came from afar, and the frogs in the fields were croaking.

Outside the Xiangyang armory, a group of people followed the dark place that the lantern could not illuminate, leaning against the wall and touching the gate.

The treasury is a large, independent building, with fifty wide and steep steps in front of it, and a slide for carrying materials in the middle, which is majestic, and a group of people hide in the corner under the stone steps to whisper.

"Shh Pang Lian motioned for everyone to be silent, and lowered his voice and said: "Han Dianchen's drunkard is already drunk, all the guards and civil officials were transferred away by my brother, my brother passed Han Dianchen's order, and divided the Standing Guard Sichuan Army into three batches, the first batch is about to be withdrawn, but the second and third groups coincide, and they all change guards at the fifth watch, and we have enough time to carry weapons on two watches." ”

Everyone looked at Pang Lian with admiration, and the wisdom of the Pang family was really unfathomable.

"Ma Jiang, you have good legs and feet, take a few people and see if there are any ambushes from the Sichuan army around." After all, the stakes are very high, although he is sure to win, but Pang Lian still has to make sure that nothing goes wrong, in case this armory is a trap of the Sichuan army, the people and horses of the world will be folded here.

After a while, Ma Jiang came back and reported: "There is no one in the nearby fields and woods, and I have even seen the trees." ”

Pang Lian nodded, looking at the topography here, the treasury is an important place for military resources, and there are no private houses and markets around, and it doesn't look like a place where people can hide.

Finally, after a burst of gongs, the soldiers of the Sichuan army began to change the guard, these soldiers all left their posts, Pang Lian immediately made a move, hundreds of people came out of the corner, climbed the stone steps, and used the key given by Pang Ming to enter the treasury.

All kinds of materials in the treasury, because of the need to help the victims, a lot of food requisitioned from the clan was also hoarded here, and Pang Lian led people straight into the place where the weapons were hidden.

"There are three armories here, two of which are not riveted, you all move the No. 1 arsenal, quickly, quickly."

In the light rain, Pang Lian commanded according to Pang Ming's instructions, and the children of the clan took out bundles of spears and hurriedly ran out, walking through the tall stone steps and stone streets.

In the woods opposite the treasury, between two stones, three people squatted in a small space with difficulty, Gao Pei held a cake and nibbled on it, quietly transferred back from yesterday, and had been here for a day and a night.

Gao Pei's eyes passed through the jungle, looking at the clan running with a spear on the stone steps outside the mansion, and said to Zhang Ren who was on the opposite side with his eyes closed: "This person is too few, right?" General, what to do? ”

Zhang Ren frowned for a while, and said to a soldier next to him: "Summons Shamoke, launch in advance, and slowly march to the treasury." ”

In the darkness of the night, an owl chirped.

............ "Oh no, it seems that our whereabouts have been discovered, and the barbarian army, about two thousand men, five miles away, is coming here, but it seems that we are not sure that something has happened here, so the march is very slow." ”

A sentry son of the clan came to report.

"Five miles?" Pang Lian frowned: "Then there is no time, you immediately call all the people hiding in the woods to come over, collect weapons here, and then call hundreds of people to carry spears." ”

"Yes."

"A stick of incense at most." Pang Lian slapped his face, his actions were secret enough, I don't know how the barbarians found out, it's really hateful, now the time is almost three watches, as long as you get the weapon, you can go to the city gate to meet with several other people.

Nearly 10,000 generations of people and families gathered from all directions, the big stone steps and stone avenues were full of people, the people inside pushed bundles of spears down from the top of the stone steps, and the people below hurriedly took the spears to gather under the stone steps, and then left in batches.

In the dim light of the fire on a rainy night, a bundle of spears rolled down the slide, and no one noticed that the spearhead fell away, but the clan picked up a wooden pole and was stunned, and under the urging of the people next to him, he replaced it with a complete one.

............ "General, can you do it?" Gao Pei finished eating the oil cake, wiped his mouth, and said to Zhang Ren.

Zhang Ren glanced outside and said, "Wait a little longer." ”

"Wait? Many people ran away with the guys. ”

"Wait." Zhang Ren said in a deep voice: "I didn't expect the family to really gather so many people, their people haven't all come over yet, just let the front run, we must annihilate the maximum number of enemies." ”

Watching the batches of children of the clan drive out, Gao Pei was a little anxious.

Zhang Ren stared at the scene outside, took out his own oil cake and ate it, seeing that there were fewer and fewer children of the clan, Zhang Ren patted the shoulder of the soldier beside him.

“hu~~u~u。”

A sharp and poignant owl cry came out of the jungle, and the nervous clans outside the mansion were shocked into a cold sweat, and looked around, the surrounding rainy night was dark, there was no one, and it was quiet.

Just as Shi Clanzi patted his chest and turned around, he suddenly heard a loud noise, and a large crack broke out on the wide road outside the big stone steps, which was three or four meters deep and hundreds of meters long, and the Shi Clanzi standing on the edge fell into it.

Then there were a few loud bangs, and several large cracks opened vertically along the horizontal cracks, completely enveloping all the clans in the cracks.

Thousands of generations of clans were shocked, at this moment, the bluestone floor outside the crack was opened in pieces, the turf was lifted in pieces, and a large number of Sichuan troops drilled out of the ground like ghosts, bent bows and arrows, aimed at the clans in the crack, the stone walls on both sides of the big stone steps, two "booms", opened a gap, and a team of spearmen drilled out of the dark hole and lined up behind the archers.

In the dark curtain of the rainy night, the strict Sichuan army formation, one by one cold soldiers, like the devil drilled out of the ground, the family was all shocked and inexplicable, the Jiangxia soldiers were a little better, those noble sons who had never fought kept retreating, a tall man did not stand firm, rolled down the high stone steps, with a miserable scream, and the flesh and blood that fell under the stone steps were blurred.

Zhang Ren took the oil cake out of the crack in the stone, and before entering the military column, he looked at the panicked children of the clan in front of him fixedly, and Gao Pei patted the dust on his body.

"Shoot the arrows."

Ten thousand arrows were fired together, and the rain of arrows in the dark night was overwhelmingly shot at the Shi clan, and the dense crowd could not avoid it, piercing into the chest, neck, lower abdomen, thighs and face everywhere, piercing to death on the stone steps, the towering stone steps were screaming, and there were rolling corpses everywhere, and the Shi clan ran wolf on the stone steps, trampling each other, and rushing to the cracks.

Three or four meters is not too high, and the Shi clan did not hesitate to jump down, but when they climbed up, they were faced with spears, three or four meters long, and stabbed them fiercely into their faces.

The crack became an insurmountable barrier, and the rain of arrows shot down from the mouth of the crack, and the clans in the crack were mercilessly shot, becoming live targets, terrified, and the blood in the crack flowed slowly.

Seeing this, Pang Lian's face turned pale, and a sharp arrow came and hit him in the arm, which made him sober up, and Pang Lian shouted, "Go back to the treasury." ”

The clans of all the worlds were shouted by Pang Lian, and they also found the last place to survive, and rushed to the gate of the treasury together, and then they found that the gate of the treasury was locked at some point, and Pang Lian couldn't care so much, and slammed the door hard.

At the moment when the door was knocked open, a neat row of spears pierced out, and a group of Sichuan soldiers rushed out, and the Shi clan who rushed in front was immediately pierced through the chest by spears.

These soldiers had taken refuge in the stacks of grain beforehand, and when they attacked outside, they had already killed all the people who remained inside.

"Ho."

The soldiers of the Sichuan army shouted, and the spear that pierced into the chest and abdomen of the Shi clan pushed out hard, and the Shi clan who rushed up was forced to retreat, and the Shi clan behind stepped on the edge of the stone steps, one step was unsteady, and a bunch of people rolled down the steep stone steps, and those who were still on the stone steps were hit by the sheng sheng and rolled down in a row.

(To be continued)