Xie Shence left Cangzhou under the watchful eye.

On the day I left, there was a light snow in the sky.

For three days, the snow became heavier and heavier.

The group walked on the road, although it was afternoon, but the sky was full of goose feathers and heavy snow, and it was extremely gray.

"Lord Admiral, spend the night here tonight, this is the only bazaar within a radius of fifty miles. It's hard to travel on a snowy day, and after that, you have to sleep in the wilderness. ”

Xie Shence nodded, put down the black hood on his head, and dismounted, instructing everyone not to disturb the people and to find shelter.

More than 200 teams with armor and swords and two horses are extremely conspicuous wherever they go. A family or two inns would definitely not be able to live, so Xie Shence asked his subordinates to go to the rich families in the market to spend the night with the approval issued by the Northern Army, or stay in the hotel directly. He Ruoque, Wushan and others found an inn that looked fairly clean, and went in with twenty or thirty people.

The shopkeeper, who had not had business for several days, was startled by the sudden influx of twenty or thirty sergeants. The shopkeeper greeted him tremblingly and said, "Everyone, officials, not a military master, a military master, this is"

"Stay!" Osan stepped forward and threw a piece of silver into the arms of the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper hurriedly caught it, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a silver ingot! Such a big ingot, there must be fifty taels, so he decided that this was a person from the Northern Army, and hurriedly smiled: "Generals, military masters, small shops, not big, but fortunately, in the recent snowy days, there are no other guests, the villain will clean up all the rooms, please wait a while." ”

"Little Er, hurry up and serve the food! Let the military men warm up first! ”

While shouting, I went down and got busy.

Such scenes also happened in various houses and inns.

After eating some wine and food first, he padded his stomach, and when the store cleaned up the room, Xie Shence took Cao Guan, an orphan from Xinzhou, to rest, and asked Osan to call them when it was time to eat.

Cao Guan was Xie Shence for him to get the name, the little boy's original name was Cao Cao'er, Xie Shence went into the mountains to suppress bandits and then returned to Xinzhou, after obtaining his consent, he was ready to adopt him, and renamed him Cao Guan, Cao'er made a nickname.

Of course, Xie Shence did not recognize him as a son, but as a nephew. It can be regarded as an apprentice on behalf of the elder brother. This is also based on Cao Guan's pure heart, hoping that he can get rid of the shadow of that night. Regarding the matter of accepting apprentices, Xie Shence also wrote a letter to Chuzhou to explain that with his weight in the hearts of the old Zen master and the senior brother, this matter is still not a problem.

After warming his hands and feet, Xie Shence asked the shopkeeper to soak in a bucket of hot water, and let Cao Guan warm up his book in the room, and he lay down on the bed to rest.

The reason why I need to rest is because Xie Shence has a cold and fever.

Yes, a cold and fever. Due to months of fatigue, after a sudden relaxation, coupled with heavy snow and a sudden drop in temperature, Xie Shence fell down gloriously. Because General Secretary Yang instructed him not to stay in the carriage all the time, Xie Shence occasionally rode a horse to breathe.

What's more, I was actually sick, and there was a low-grade fever Xie Shence was lying on the bed, thinking in a daze, and I didn't know how to fall asleep.

Downstairs, Mr. Yang and He Ruoque were busy decocting Xie Shence in the kitchen.

"I was fine two days ago, why did I suddenly fall ill?" He Ruoque helped Mr. Yang look at the stove on the side, and asked Mr. Yang in confusion.

Mr. Yang smiled bitterly and said, "Master He, how many times have you asked in the past two days. The Admiral was just too tired, and the weather suddenly became cold, so he contracted the wind chill. Fortunately, the problem is not big, and Lord Admiral's body has always been very strong, so it is good to cultivate for a while. It is estimated that before returning to the Jin capital, he should be able to recover. ”

He Ruoque stared at the stove boredly, then took out a feather arrow and rubbed his ten fingers on it carefully.

"Gongzi He, take a look at the stove, and then go to the market to buy some medicinal herbs."

"Hmm." He Ruoque agreed boredly, continued to stare at the red light in the stove, listened to the sound of "zizi" in the medicine jar, and then inserted the arrow, took the big gun, took the silk cloth, and slowly wiped the barrel of the gun.

After a while, the medicinal fragrance in the jar had filled the room, and the charcoal was about to burn out. The sky became darker, and the wind and snow became heavier, He Ruoque put down the big gun, walked to the window, closed the gap tightly, and then called the man to ask him to come back to the charcoal.

Unexpectedly, He Ruoque shouted twice, but no one answered for a long time. So he stood up and prepared to go out and have a look.

However, as soon as He Ruoque was about to stand up, he didn't move again.

It's too quiet outside.

Nothing could be heard except the sound of the wind and snow howling.

He Ruoque frowned slightly, then tilted his head to listen carefully to the sound, and silently held the big gun in his hand.

"Bang!"

He Ruoque pierced the kitchen door of the kitchen with a shot, then returned the gun, knocked out the two spears that were passed in from outside the kitchen door, picked up a stool and smashed it on the kitchen door, and the kitchen door was immediately torn apart.

Outside the exploding kitchen door, one of them had been pierced through the chest and collapsed in a pool of blood.

A few crossbows. The arrow "aggressively" nailed into the window, and then a few people came in, looked left and right, but He Ruoque's figure was gone, and the medicine jar still sounded from "Zizi".

There was a sudden silence.

Then the whole inn came into motion.

"The Admiral has an order, arrest the assassin!"

"Don't go a single one!"

"Fence it off! All exits are blocked! ”

People are shouting.

"Knock Knock"

People's feet are on the floor slabs, and there is a roar.

After a while, the entire second floor was filled with horsemen, and outside the inn, there was already a whole circle of black-armored guards, and on the roofs were all horsemen of the horses, and in some parts of the market, there were sporadic horsemen.

More than a dozen businessmen armed with knives and guns. The crossbow was enclosed on the first floor.

Xie Shence put on a black robe and walked out of the room, came to the corridor on the second floor, and looked down at these people.

More than a dozen people in the hall on the first floor saw that figure, and their eyes were full of anger.

The hour was still early, but after the winter, the days were short and the nights were long, the darkness was fast, and it was a blizzard day, and the inn was already quite dark at this time, even if it was lit.

Xie Shence said that the black color was not conspicuous here, but the pale face due to the wind and cold was very conspicuous under the swaying of the light.

The people present, except for Xie Shence Wushan and Cao Guan, the other Tiqi were wearing covered armor.

Xie Shence coughed twice, and said hoarsely: "It's not annoying, I didn't let people live in peace along the way." Admiral Ben is gone, and you can't make a fuss? I was reluctant to let Murong Duan come to see me off. ”

Xie Shence rubbed his head, which was groggy because of the sudden start, coughed twice, glanced at the people below in disgust, and turned around and walked into the room.

"Kill them all. The Ghost Doesn't Disappear"

As a result, a large gun fell from the second floor like thunder, and a large number of black-armored guards instantly poured in outside the door.

The sound of shouting and killing, screaming, the sound of swords entering the body, the muffled humming, the rattling of iron armor, and the whistling of the wind and snow outside the door constituted a brief symphony.

Cao Guan watched all this on the second floor, his face expressionless.

Soon, it was all over.

Tiqi dragged more than ten corpses out and buried them, Cao Guan returned to the room to warm the book with candles, He Ruoque went to the inner kitchen to take two pieces of charcoal and returned to the small kitchen to decoct the medicine, Mr. Yang walked in with a few packets of medicine with a calm expression, Xie Shence was already wrapped in a big quilt and half asleep at this time.

If it weren't for the broken door, the bloodstained Ti Qi, the innkeeper and the guy who were so scared that they peed their pants on the side, and the messy footprints around the inn, just looking at Ti Cai's expression, I would have thought that nothing had happened.

After a while, Mr. Yang lifted the lid of the medicine jar, sniffed it, and asked, "Is the fire broken in the middle?" ”

He Ruoque nodded: "Just a little while, it's not in the way, right?" ”

Mr. Yang shook his head: "Then fry it for a while." ”

After a pause, Mr. Yang shuddered.

"How did you break them, it's so cold."

He Ruoque ignored it.

General Secretary Yang didn't expect He Ruoque to answer his words, and said to himself: "It's only been a few days, and it's been three waves, what kind of madness has happened to Yuchizi, so crazy in the Great Jin Dynasty." Didn't you just arrest a few people?"

He Ruoque still didn't say anything.

"Huh? Gongzi He, you say, is this girl Murong Duan interesting to our Admiral? I don't know if that woman looks good or not."

"Yes, you are like wood, the medicine is ready, please take it to Lord Admiral, let's take it to his old man's house and don't drink it."

He Ruoque ignored the chattering General Secretary Yang, wrapped the handle of the medicine jar with a handkerchief, and went upstairs. When he got upstairs, Cao Guan saw He Ruoque coming up with a medicine jar, and immediately. He closed the book, ran to the package and took a bowl, put it on the table, and then took out another bag of candy and put three of them at the bottom of the bowl with a special small tong.

He Ruoque poured the medicine, and then pulled Xie Shence up.

"It's so bitter to drink medicine again, Cao Guan, do you put sugar?"

"Uncle Xiaoshi, I have already let it go, this time I put three more, one more than in the morning."

"Oh"

Xie Shence picked up the medicine bowl, put it to his mouth and blew it, and then drank it slowly. took the handkerchief handed over by Cao Guan, Xie Shence wiped his mouth, took the warm water poured by Cao Guan and rinsed his mouth, and then returned to the bed in a daze and wrapped himself in the quilt.

He Ruoque saw that he had finished drinking, so he took down the medicine jar again. Cao Guan took the quilt and medicine bowl and followed downstairs to clean

Half-asleep, Xie Shence saw Wang Jiehua and Wang Qingyan

"Second brother, look, what a big snowflake! I'll show you, uh, it's gone. ”

"Of course you'll melt in your hands, stupid."

"Won't you melt when you hold it in your hand?"

"I don't have anything to hold up."

"It's because the snowflakes you find aren't as beautiful as I found them."

"Whoever said it, I found out that it just didn't say it."

"I don't believe it, so since you found something beautiful, why don't you show it to your second brother? Selfish"

"Wang Jiehua, who do you say is selfish!"

"Whoever is murderous, I will say whomever it is."

“”

"Okay, okay, Huahua, Qingyan, don't quarrel, you have to learn to appreciate such a beautiful scenery, and the quarrel is so disturbing the scenery."

"Well, I listen to the second brother."

"Brother Hani is what he says."

"Come on, come on, let me tell you, snowflakes are actually very beautiful, but they are only hexagonal, if anyone of you finds out what is not hexagonal, I will promise anyone one condition, any condition."

"Really? Snowflakes are actually hexagonal? I'll look for it. ”

"I must have found it first, huh"

"It's not you, it's definitely me first"

At the edge of a pavilion, a little boy directs two little girls to search for snowflakes that are not six horns among the flowers and plants.

"Flower Salt"

The corners of Xie Shence's mouth curled slightly, and he whispered softly.

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