The sky was overcast, the sky was dark without a trace of light, a few drops of rain gradually dropped, and the end of the sky occasionally swept by thunder, reflecting the billowing dust and smoke in the distance very clearly.

The team of horses that appeared was getting closer and closer, and in the blink of an eye they were approaching. Looking closely, they were all in black clothes and black pants with sharp blades in their hands, obviously prepared.

Seeing the fat sheep stop, they were deeply puzzled, the road that was not wide was blocked by the carriage, and they stopped more than ten meters away.

"Dare to ask if it is a friend there, Zhao has offended this place, please forgive me, bringing so many people here, it is inevitable that the teacher will move the crowd!" Zhao Xian didn't know the details of the visitor, so he stood on the carriage and asked.

As soon as the words fell, there was a person in the attacking horse team, a blue robe and a white sheep beard, who was called Ge Lao by his subordinates. One of the horse bandits beside him looked at the two carriages that were speeding away, and said hurriedly: "Ge Ye, there are two carriages running, there must be important people or things on them, what should we do?" ”

Ge Banxian touched his beard and sneered: "The moon is dark and the wind is high, there is no town more than ten miles ahead, how far can two broken cars run, solve this kid first, and then chase it back." ”

The horse bandit nodded slightly, and then hesitated: "Li Hu set off ahead of schedule and set up an ambush in the Suzhou area, let's do it again early, isn't it..."

"Humph!" A look of greed flashed in Ge Banxian's eyes, and he said disdainfully: "Changzhou Li Hu, it's just a wall grass with no ability, we can eat it alone, why let him get a piece of the pie for nothing, let him wait, dozens of boats of ruffians, what can I do." ”

Zhao Xian stood on the carriage and looked through the faint light of the torches opposite. When he saw the face of the leader clearly, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, and then suddenly realized, and sneered: "Ge Banxian! It turns out that you are not a fortune teller and engraved a seal, and when you stepped on a point outside the Sanqing Temple, you actually stepped on my Zhao Xian's head, and you have a big appetite! ”

Ge Banxian laughed loudly: "Originally, the old man was eyeing which big lady you were looking for, but he didn't expect to catch your big fish." Quickly tie up your hands and hand over the gold, and the old man will leave you useful. Spare you for the time being. ”

Su Wanyun carried the Qiushui sword. With a few drops of rain on her cheeks, she frowned, and snorted lightly: "What are you doing with so much nonsense with him?" ”

I'm stalling for time! Zhao Xian didn't explain to her, and instead took out the box containing gold from the car. Lang said: "It's just a hundred taels of gold." I'm not so sparse with this kind of money. It's not easy for the brothers to chase so far, take it and divide it! ”

With that, he opened the box. It shook it violently, and a hundred gold bars flew into the sky, and thunder swept through, reflecting a dazzling light.

The horse bandits were slightly stunned, and when they saw that the thing thrown over was a gold bar, their eyes were hot, and they reached out to pick it up without saying a word, and the impatience behind them had to rush forward to snatch it, and the hundred and ten horsemen suddenly became chaotic, and some people were even squeezed into horses.

"A rabble!" Zhao Xian took this opportunity to cut the rope that tied the carriage with a knife, flew up and praised the horse, and galloped away from the path next to the road with his legs tightly clamped the horse's belly.

"Stop it!" Ge Banxian was angry and angry, looking at the gold all over the ground, it was extremely painful, but he had to speak: "Grab something, wait to catch Zhao Xian and send it to King Xian, each person will say less than a dozen taels of gold, enough for you to spend a lifetime, chase it for me!" ”

Those who can follow Ge Banxian to support the replacement of the old and the new in the imperial court are all outlaws in the market, and the gold is on the ground, so it is not easy for them not to pick it up, and the scramble is loud for a long time, and only a few people stop. ”

"His grandmother's." Ge Banxian was so angry that he had to wave his hand to a few henchmen and said, "Follow me!" ”

There is no saddle on the horse, and he can only clamp the horse's belly with his iron tong-like legs so that he will not fall, the road is very narrow, and it is dark and he can't see the front clearly, Zhao Xian is anxious, but he doesn't dare to ride too fast.

The tips of Su Wanyun's hair fluttered with the breeze, gradually stained with more and more raindrops, and when she looked back, she saw more than ten horsemen catching up quickly, and there were torches to light up the road ahead and go very fast. She frowned, and said loudly: "You drive the horse first, I'll stop them!" ”

Zhao Xian was anxious in his heart, and couldn't help but say angrily when he heard this: "My eldest sister Su, if I could leave you and run away alone, I would have already run away just now, it makes sense for you to say that these are useless!" ”

Su Wanyun's willow eyebrows condensed slightly, and she opened her mouth to say something, but she didn't open her mouth after all. She looked at both sides of the path a few times, and suddenly rose up and landed on the treetops above her head, not planning to discuss with Zhao Xian, ready to intercept it herself.

Feeling that there was nothing behind her, Zhao Xian knew what she had in mind. Anyway, he would be caught up sooner or later on horseback, but fortunately he also turned over and threw himself into the bushes next to him, and climbed the tree with his hands and feet.

Seeing that he refused to leave, Su Wanyun's eyes were full of coldness: "What kind of hero are you?" I can still get out without you, and if you are a burden here, I can only fight to the death, you get out! ”

The rain became stronger, Zhao Xian wiped the raindrops on his face, and said angrily: "I have been on the battlefield to kill enemy thieves, three or four strong men can't get close, and they are not women and children who are powerless, if you are so willful, we really have to die together!" ”

He knew that Su Wanyun was thoughtful, but her martial arts were not as good as Sister Liu, and more than a dozen people with knives on the opposite side had also hacked Gao Laigao's heroes to death, how could he rest assured that Su Wanyun was left alone.

"You..." Su Wanyun gritted her silver teeth, turned her head and snorted lightly, looking at the approaching pursuers without saying a word.

Ge Banxian rushed to the front, it was dark and raining, and he could only see the people in front of him with the occasional gliding thunder. Suddenly, a thunderclap slid by, tearing the dark night apart, and when I looked up, I saw that there was no figure on the horse in front of me.

His pupils shrank suddenly, Ge Benxian secretly said that it was not good, and just as he wanted to raise his hand to stop his subordinates, he felt a bright silver light reflected from the trees above his head.

Seeing that she had been discovered, Su Wanyun galloped down from the tree without hesitation, and a sword floated in the air, stabbing straight at Ge Banxian's Heavenly Spirit Gai. The sword was extremely fast, and it let out bursts of hiss to break through the dripping raindrops, and the plain white long sleeves hunted in the air.

Ge Benxian is obviously not an idle person, and his big sleeves are stretched out to bring up a strong wind, and he actually dances the two sleeves like two iron plates, and fiercely deflects the blade of the sword. The force of the shock caused both of them to snort. Su Wanyun turned the stab into a slash with the force of the dive, trying to cut off his neck, Ge Banxian hurriedly leaned back to dodge a sword, and the goatee was cut off in half diagonally, and the scene was extremely thrilling.

The strength was old, Su Wanyun didn't dare to be greedy, nodded the horse's head on tiptoe, and rose up again. Before he could make a move, he suddenly heard Zhao Xian shouting from above: "Old ruffian, let's die for my master!" ”

Thunder flashed. saw Zhao Xian's muscles towering. Holding the long knife with a blade length of one meter and four in both hands, he slashed Huashan with force from top to bottom, and slashed at Ge Banxian's horse, shocking power. even let him who doesn't know martial arts. Wielding the broadsword like thunder.

Ge Banxian was shocked. He was leaning back on the horse, looking up at Zhao Xian who had fallen, only to feel that the figure was covering the sky. As the saying goes, one force will drop ten. Even if he had martial arts, he didn't dare to take this crazy knife, but he just dodged Su Wanyun twice, and there was nowhere to avoid retreating, so he had to wave his sleeve with his right hand to block the big knife, and he rolled over to get off the horse.

"Drink!" Zhao Xian's big knife was raised above his head, and he slashed with the strength of his whole body when he fell, and as soon as he touched the waving sleeve, he took his arm down, and blood gushed out.

The remaining momentum continued to split, the heavy knife was like a soldering iron cut into butter, and even the horse and the saddle were cut off together, and the horse neighed miserably, and then rolled to the ground in two pieces and turned out of the distance, and the human blood and horse blood reduced Zhao Xian's body.

"Hiss~" together but in an instant, the more than ten horsemen behind saw this scene, and immediately grabbed the reins in a hurry, and the horses retreated again and again and did not dare to step forward. Su Wanyun was also taken aback, and the consternation in her eyes was undisguised.

"Phew!" Zhao Xian fell to the ground, spat out a few drops of blood splashed in his mouth, and looked at the ground.

Ge Banxian's face was pale and full of pain, and he covered his right arm, which was only a part of it, and rolled down the blood, looking extremely embarrassed.

Taking advantage of the fact that more than a dozen helpers were frightened, Zhao Xian raised his knife and wanted to chop again, but Ge Banxian had already reacted, and crawled back in front of his subordinates.

"What the old mongrel runs, you have to be ready to stay when you come to rob the master." Zhao Xian held the knife and scolded with a smile, his face looked disdainful, but he became cautious in his heart, looking left and right to find a way out.

Su Wanyun was on the treetops, and saw that Ge Banxian, who knew martial arts, had already lost an arm, and wanted to take advantage of the situation to solve this trouble, as long as he was killed, with Zhao Xian here, the rest of the scattered Yong would not pose a threat.

She didn't hesitate any longer, taking advantage of everyone's attention on Zhao Xian and the broken horse, she suddenly galloped towards Ge Banxian, raised her hand and flew over here with a sword.

was attacked and his arm was broken, Ge Banxian's eyes were full of resentment, and when he saw Su Wanyun floating in the air, he suddenly sneered, and took out a price from his arms and pointed it at Su Wanyun.

"Sister Su, be careful!" Zhao Xian saw clearly that the black thing turned out to be a short gun, and saw that the shape was not made by himself, it should have been smuggled from the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Su Wanyun didn't expect that this bandit had hidden the control equipment of Northern Qi on her body, and her face suddenly lost color, and she forcibly twisted her body to try to dodge.

Ge Banxian sneered and pulled the trigger, Zhao Xian's face was bloodless, and he wanted to step forward to stop it, but it was too late.

I only heard the soft sound of the collision of the machine, the muzzle of the black hole...... Nothing squirted out.

Wanyun took this opportunity to fall beside Zhao Xian and looked at Ge Banxian suspiciously. Zhao Xian was stunned for a moment, then ecstatic and laughed: "Hahaha! Silly! It's raining so hard! I don't know if it's waterproof, and you're still a fart when the gunpowder is wet! ”

The firecrackers were all smuggled from Li Hu's ship, and Ge Banxian only knew how to maintain them, but he was not familiar with how to maintain them. At this time, he was angry and said to his henchmen: "What are you doing in a daze? Kill them! ”

The subordinates suddenly realized, and hurriedly took out the short gun from their arms and pointed at Zhao Xian and Su Wanyun.

"My day!" Zhao Xian's smile suddenly stiffened, and he was pointed at by more than ten fire guns, and he felt a chill on his back.

There was no way to avoid it, he turned around without saying a word, hugged Su Wanyun tightly, covered her in his arms with his wide body, and threw himself to the ground with his head down.

"Bang! Bang! ”

A series of machine blinks sounded, and no matter how heavy the rain was, a few fire guns did not fail, and the flames that erupted illuminated the blood-soaked path.

Although these people are not trained, the target is ten meters away, and they may not be able to hit crookedly with their eyes closed.

Hearing only the two muffled sounds of 'poof' into the flesh, Zhao Xian's body, who had not yet fallen, shook violently, a hot stinging pain came from his sturdy back, a muffled snort came out of his throat, and his teeth were almost crushed.

"Zhao Xian!!" Su Wanyun's cheeks turned pale, and she wanted to protect Zhao Xian, but her tight arms almost strangled her, and she didn't even have a chance to move. can only be protected in the arms like a little sparrow.

The projectile entered the flesh, and the shock that came shattered her heart, her beautiful eyes opened, and the tears gradually became hazy, and suddenly the tears fell like rain, mixed with the rain and blood, and wiped the cheeks like jade.

The two of them fell to the ground, Zhao Xian snorted and wanted to support his body, but finally fell to the ground due to the severe pain of torn back muscles, and he couldn't hold the big knife in his right hand. Shuttle out on slippery ground.

"Zhao Xian!!" Su Wanyun's snow-white dress was already messy. Stained with countless blood and muddy water, she stared at Zhao Xian who was struggling with blood-red eyes and gritting her teeth, her eyes were full of sluggishness.

The top of the heart seemed to have been shot, looking at Zhao Xian who was in great pain. She shuddered. There was a cry of pain from the liver and intestines. With his long sword, he pounced on the horse bandits, who were scrambling to reload their ammunition.

"Hey..."Zhao Xian gritted his teeth, and wanted to say more, but the stinging pain all over his body made him grit his teeth and couldn't open his mouth.

Su Wanyun's body was like a gale. Ge Banxian broke half of her arm and held it to the limit, where she was hiding quickly and angrily, and she wanted to hide behind her subordinates, but her throat was cut off by this sharp sword.

Seeing Ge Banxian's body in a different place, his subordinates were immediately furious, carrying a knife to fight against Su Wanyun, and in an instant, two or three more people were buried under the sword.

As the saying goes, a good man can't stand a lot of wolves, Su Wanyun is a woman after all, how could she kill all a dozen sturdy horse bandits. fought and retreated, wanting to protect Zhao Xian, but gradually unable to do anything.

Tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, this group of miscellaneous! Zhao Xian's eyes were blood-red, and seeing that she had gradually fallen below, he burst out loud and struggled to support his body with his conscious left hand and shoulder, stood up and hugged Su Wanyun's waist violently, and rolled down the black slope next to him.

Su Wanyun's heart was in a hurry, the bottom of this slope was dark and unclear, who knew whether it was a deep ditch or a cliff. But there is no way out, except for a desperate fight.

Zhao Xian came out now with rough skin and thick flesh, and he no longer had any ability to resist, so he fell to the ground as a meat pad, and the flesh and blood were blurred and rubbed on the weeds and thorns, and the piercing pain made his forehead bruise, and blood was oozing from his gums.

Looking up, seeing the unbearable pain on Zhao Xian's face, the tears in the corners of Sister Su's eyes couldn't stop slipping. "Fool..."She cried bitterly, but there was nothing she could do but protect Zhao Xian's head and use the remaining strength to help him avoid the stones and beams.

Yijun is a good lady, it seems that your desire to be a master and a small master is not impossible... When Zhao Xian was confused, looking at her cheeks crying bitterly, such a thought came to her mind.

In a trance, there was a sudden emptiness under his body, and then there was a burst of coldness around him, and he was completely unable to support it, and lost his last consciousness, but the left hand was still holding the person in his arms......

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The night was like ink, the palace was brightly lit, and several palace ladies stood outside the palace, silent and silent.

It was raining heavily outside, Xingya stood in front of the window, wearing a gold crown on her head, wearing a palace skirt, and a little red between her lips, noble and elegant, only the slightest trance between her eyes showed the innocence that a girl should have.

Occasionally, thunder slipped by, illuminating her deep and beautiful eyes, and she raised her hand lightly, flicking the parrot hanging in front of the window, and murmuring: "Dead liar!" They didn't even come to chase me, so they really let me go like this......"

The colorful parrot turned its head to look at the owner in front of it suspiciously, scratching its feathers with its paws, and showing a silly expression in its dark eyes.

"Your Majesty!"

Suddenly, there was a light shout from outside the dormitory, Xingya turned around to look, but saw the palace maid Xiaolan come in and bowed.

"What?" Xingya's eyes were gloomy, and she looked at her little parrot again.

"Your Majesty!" Xiaolan said softly: "There is an urgent report from the south of the Yangtze River, most of the cities have been subordinated to my Northern Qi, only the Xianwang line refused to surrender, entrenched in the area of Hangzhou, and contacted Dongying Goryeo to try to borrow the power of other countries to re-establish the country. ”

"Oh!" Xingya nodded slightly, but there was no other reaction. The Great Liang has been destroyed, and Dongying Goryeo is in the bag sooner or later, but sooner or later, she is not interested in this kind of war report.

Xiaolan hesitated for a moment, and then said: "General Lei and the Prime Minister proposed to use the imperial family detained by Chang'an as a threat, and let King Xian disarm and surrender by himself, so as not to cause unnecessary casualties by the lone army, Your Majesty feels ......."

"No." Xingya shook her head lightly and said slowly: "Zhao Xian gave up the whole world and handed over all the soldiers and horses to me, the only requirement is to ensure the safety of Emperor Liang's relatives, no matter how ruthless he is, I will not lose my trust in his ......" Xingya took a breath lightly, and the trance in her eyes became deeper and deeper.

Xiaolan is Xingya's personal palace maid, and she has been by her side for a long time, how can she not see her thoughts. The empress is also human and has her own feelings. It's a pity that Zhao Xian puts his family first, and it is impossible for him to commit himself to His Majesty and divorce his wife to be the face of the white eyes. And His Majesty's daughter's body, it is impossible to commit to Zhao Xian, since ancient times, the princess's concubine has not been able to take concubines, let alone His Majesty, who is about to become the first emperor of the ages.

Xiaolan hesitated for a long time, after all, she couldn't bear to look at His Majesty depressed all day, and said softly: "Your Majesty, Zhao Xiangongzi's work in pacifying the Great Liang, it is enough to tear the soil and seal the king, he is not greedy for power, and he is worthy of His Majesty's trust, Zhao Xiangongzi's intelligence is not low, if it can be owned by His Majesty, it must be a rare right-hand man." Your Majesty can decree that he will be crowned king, so that he can continue to bring the soldiers and horses of the Anjia family, and fight against General Lei Lao, General Lei Lao is very old, and after he is disarmed and returned to the field, I am afraid that no one in the court can compete with Zhao Xiangongzi, even if His Majesty is ......

I am afraid that no one dares to make irresponsible remarks, Your Majesty has no heirs, nor brothers, as long as the future birth of the crown prince, the soldiers and horses in the court will naturally be withdrawn into the hands of the royal family, that is, no one will object, and it will not chill the hearts of any courtiers, presumably Zhao Xiangongzi will also be difficult to refuse this proposal. ”

After Xiaolan finished speaking, she looked up to observe His Majesty's face, but she snorted softly. Xiaolan hurriedly knelt down in fright, and said in fear: "The slave should die!" ”

Xingya looked back at her lightly, was silent for a long time, and sighed lightly: "Several uncles are alive, and they are all staring at the seats in the Golden Palace, I really need someone who is not in danger to control the government, and I used to think like you." But the court is deceitful, and the slightest mistake will cause trouble to the family, even if Zhao Xian has great ambitions, for the safety of his wife and children, he doesn't want to step in again. I can punish him with a raise of my hand, do you think he will agree to me for this seemingly beautiful proposal? ”

Xiaolan bowed slightly: "Your Majesty, some things must be done before they can be conclusive, Zhao Xiangongzi returned everything to you unsuspectingly after attacking Chang'an, which shows that he trusts you very much in his heart." The reason why I avoid you, I think it is because of Zhao Xian's personality, he doesn't want to live under the wings of others, if you lower your posture, he may be tempted. ”

Lower your posture? I am the empress of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and I have begged him to kiss me, how low should I put it? Xingya bit her lower lip, and her eyes flashed with indignation. After a while, she raised her hand lightly and ordered: "Pass the order, turn around and go back to Jiangnan, I will lead the army to conquer King Xian." ”

"Yes!" Xiaolan looked at the few traces of anticipation rekindled in her eyes, showed a few smiles, and silently retreated... (To be continued......)