Guo Xu insisted on going to Tongguan alone.

Tongguan to Chang'an, more than 200 miles of road, a single ride to walk a whole day, if Sun Qiao takes a carriage, the time is even longer. The Qin State was defeated at the beginning, and the territory was in disarray, and no one could say what trouble it would encounter.

In the end, Chen Song brought out the shelf of his old boss and big brother, and asked him to bring a small team of people. In the end, the result of the compromise was that the madman and the mung bean followed.

After the three of them set off, Chen Song asked Hu Luzheng to bring 100 elite horsemen to follow from afar, and this team was enough to support the brigade to help.

Both the madman and the mung bean were hungovers and lay in the saddle in a daze. Guo Xu was sober and excited, and the horse's hooves were also brisk, and he ran far ahead unconsciously.

He was wearing armor, under the armor was a battle robe, and under the battle robe was his young and strong body, and between his body and the battle robe, there was a small cloth pocket, which was close to his heartbeat.

When I entered the Qin Palace that day, I heard that he wanted the best comb, and the eunuch collected a large plate for him to choose. He never dreamed that combs could have so many materials and patterns. Finally, he picked a silver comb inlaid with tortoiseshell and rubies. The thought of this comb sliding through Sun Qiao's long black hair made him laugh silently. The long hair that once brushed his face in the wind, a slight itch, he will never forget it for the rest of his life.

This comb was hidden in his arms until the day when the Qin royal family was collectively executed.

That night, he sat in a tent without a lantern, imagining the ghosts of Xiahou Yan's mother and son wandering, lonely and helpless. As a soldier, he admired Yao Shao very much. When the country was in danger, this person struggled to support himself until he was disabled. God is so cruel. It is not because a person is loyal to his country that he spares his widow and children. Although Guo Xu is not good at deep thinking. I have never doubted Liu Yu's wisdom, but this time I felt that he was not doing beautifully. There is no distinction between loyalty and treachery. All the royal families surnamed Yao are killed, so that a person like Yao Shao who is worried about the country will be the heir, which can only make those like him chill.

Suddenly I started hating myself.

He's grown up and he's never done anything like this.

His father and grandfather would have scolded him if they had known.

Loot a gorgeous comb in the Qin Palace, like taking advantage of the fire to rob.

The owner of this comb, either the queen or the concubine, is already an underground ghost at the moment.

She is a weak woman, does not decide government affairs, and does not command the three armies. How much sin can you bear?

He can't let this comb that is entangled in the soul of injustice accompany his sweetheart.

In the second half of the night, he walked to the Wei River and threw his comb into the dark and silent water. Since they were all killed by the Wei River, let the Wei River stir for a moment and do a small conjuring.

He found a small shop selling toiletries on Chang'an Avenue and carefully selected a mahogany comb with a winged bird engraved on the handle. The boss said that the general was going to give it to the woman. Guo Xu said yes. The boss said that the general pacified Chang'an hard, you buy a comb, and I will give you a mirror. I wish a lover to eventually become a family member and grow old.

It was a bronze mirror the size of a fist, and girls could carry it with them, even when they weren't in the boudoir. I can also take it out and use it at any time. The mirror surface is polished and smooth, Guo Xu takes a self-portrait in the mirror, and can clearly see the small acne on the upper lip.

Right now. The bronze mirror, along with the comb, rose and fell with his heartbeat.

Around noon. He sat on the ground with mung bean and the madman on the side of the road and ate dry food.

The madman got up and went to the side to pee. I was about to turn to leave, when I suddenly noticed that the grass moved. If you just moved. It was washed by urine, what's going on at the moment? Looking around, there was not a trace of wind. His mind jumped, and he drew his sword and flicked it through the grass as he looked forward. Suddenly, a man jumped up, turned and ran towards a bush not far away, shouting as he ran:

"Brothers, quick, it's an officer, it's rich!"

The madman's hair grew up in an instant, and he didn't have time to think about it, and threw his sword out sharply. The man had just shouted a second time when he was stabbed in the shoulder by a flying sword, and he fell down screaming. The madman rushed over and pulled out his sword, slashed it headlessly, and immediately rushed towards Guo Xu and them. Guo Xu and Mung Bean had already jumped on the horse and led the madman's horse to meet him. The moment the madman got on his horse, he saw a group of people pouring out of the woods over there, some with armor and some without, and the weapons were all long and short, and they were all kinds of weapons.

As Chen Song worried, they set up the stragglers of the Qin army.

After the defeat of the Qin army, the soldiers who were unwilling to go back to farming turned into bandits.

Before the Jin people stand firm, they can take advantage of the chaos to do a few votes, and then take these ill-gotten gains and go back to buy land and land.

Guo Xu was in a hurry to rush to Tongguan, not wanting to entangle with these rats. The three of them hurried and wanted to get away quickly, but unexpectedly, there were already more than a dozen people blocking the road in front of them.

They have bows and arrows.

Guo Xu waved the mallet in one hand and danced the sword in the other, and rushed over at full speed. Arrows whizzed in his ears. The mung bean and the madman crouched on the horse's back as low as they could, a lance and a sword ready to strike.

The 100th bandits, who had rushed out of the woods, were already screaming and surrounding.

Guo Xu suddenly felt a shock in his chest, his eyes were dark, his heart hurt so much that he was about to crack, and he almost fell off the horse.

A thick arrow pierced his breastplate.

I'm going to die. He sued himself.

I didn't die in such a big battle, and I died in such a small encounter.

I haven't seen Sun Qiao yet, so I died like this.

These rabbit cubs, they shot me to death before I even saw Sun Qiao.

She wouldn't even know I died on the way to pick her up.

Blood for blood.

Lives for lives.

Angry and roaring, he slammed his horse into the enemy, swung his hammer and sword, and slashed and smashed in the dark. Screams rose around him, flesh and blood flying before his eyes. Countless hands of the enemy waved back and forth in front of him, and he could feel something in his leg armor and breastplate, and he could feel the horses bumping and bumping. Suddenly the horse fell, and I don't know if it tripped or was cut down. He stood up, dodging the stabbing lances and slashing at the shadows that shook in front of him. I don't know when the helmet fell off, the bun was scattered, and blood was dripping from the loose hair, I don't know if it was my own or the enemy's.

Suddenly. The enemies around him began to scatter.

I faintly remember the sound of rumbling horses' hooves.

I'm going to die, not yet. You can also hear the enemy's cavalry coming.

As soon as they came, Mung Bean and the madman had no way to live.

I hurt them.

If I hadn't been in a hurry to pick up Sun Qiao. Nor will they fall to death.

Last time we were in distress by the Yellow River, that time Chen Song came to save us, but this time no one saved us.

Just as he was about to rush towards the scattered backs, he was hugged from behind. He struggled and heard an urgent voice:

"Guo Xu, Guo Xu, don't fight, don't fight, I'm Hu Luzheng!"

Hu Luzheng led the cavalry to catch up. In an instant, the siege was closed and the bandits were slaughtered. At this time, Guo Xu had been shot in the chest, and the horse died in the chaos; Mung Bean was hit in a calf, but fortunately did not hurt the bone; The madman was the luckiest, not a single hair was injured, but the sword that had been with him for many years was broken.

A group of people surrounded Guo Xu, looking at the arrow that pierced the breastplate in a daze.

A person who was shot in the chest could still fight for so long.

There was no blood.

Hu Luzheng carefully untied Guo Xu's breastplate and found that the arrow actually followed the breastplate. It left a hole in its robe, but it didn't pierce the flesh. Carefully untie your robes. See a small cloth pocket attached to the chest with shoulder straps. When I opened it, a comb broke in two, leaving a small nest on a bronze mirror.

Hu Luzheng laughed and said brother, you have to marry this girl no matter what. She is the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva.

Guo Xu had come to his senses, and he was secretly glad that he was holding two things that were immortal. If he had that fancy silver comb on his chest, he would have been a corpse shot through the heart and lungs. There are so many people to thank. Thanks to Sun Qiao. Thanks to the shopkeeper who gave the bronze mirror, and even to the unknown concubine of the Qin Kingdom. Maybe it was because she repaid the favor of combing and slowed down the power of the arrow.

The corpses of the soldiers and bandits were strewn all over the field.

One soldier said hatefully, leave these beasts alone. Just let the wild dogs gnaw on them.

Guo Xu glared at him. The country is gone, the army is gone, and those veterans who are no longer accustomed to being civilians can easily embark on the road of robbing their homes and houses. It's their fault, and it's not their fault. If the Beifu soldiers were in this situation one day, they couldn't tell who around them would become bandits.

Not to mention that they are dead.

The highest price was paid for their choice.

In September, the body was put in the middle of the day. The soldiers did not have hoes and shovels with them, so they could not bury the dead, so they could only chop some wood with knives and axes to make firewood, and use battle robes as ignition materials to gather the corpses and burn them.

Everyone set off in silence.

Guo Xu's previous interest dissipated. He was here to welcome his sweetheart, not to fight. The war with the Qin people is over, and there should be no more bloody fights in the Guanzhong realm. As long as no one is coming, Guo Xu, the leader of the hussars, should not take the initiative to attack anyone. What he has to do next is to marry the girl he fell in love with to a new home, and this new home is in Chang'an, where his grandfather had to leave. There can be no more killing, no more strife, only prosperous merchants, farmers with abundant crops, soldiers who have been disarmed and returned to the fields, and of course a blacksmith who has been an officer. The blacksmith did not have to forge weapons, but only made agricultural tools and cooking utensils. He is going to have a bunch of naughty and beautiful children with his beautiful wife. Children fly kites in the spring, bare-butt bathing in the river in the summer, climbing trees to eat fruit in the fall, and spreading wild in the snow in the winter. His former comrades-in-arms should also marry a satisfactory wife and have a bunch of children. One night, they would meet again in a huge wine field, perform the Han people's wine order, sing the Xianbei people's meat tunes, taste the freshest harvest in the pastures and fields, and finally collapse drunk by the campfire, blessed by the stars.

Hopefully, this will be the last time you get blood on your hands.

Thinking so, he reached into his arms and touched the small cloth pocket.

It's still there. The copper was originally cold, but it was warmed by his body heat.

Thinking of the moment this warmth was put in Sun Qiao's hands, he was both longing and timid.

Tongguan City emerged from the horizon like a mushroom emerging from after a spring rain.

There is no spring rain in Guanzhong in early autumn, and the spring rain is only in Guo Xu's heart.

A moment after passing through the city gates, he closed his eyes and prayed softly.

God, don't let her reject me. (To be continued......)

PS: He is wearing armor, under the armor is a battle robe, under the battle robe is his young and strong body, between the body and the battle robe, there is a small cloth pocket, the small cloth pocket is close to the heartbeat.

When I entered the Qin Palace that day, I heard that he wanted the best comb, and the eunuch collected a large plate for him to choose. He never dreamed that combs could have so many materials and patterns. Finally, he picked a silver comb inlaid with tortoiseshell and rubies. The thought of this comb sliding through Sun Qiao's long black hair made him laugh silently. The long hair that once brushed his face in the wind, a slight itch, he will never forget it for the rest of his life.

This comb was hidden in his arms until the day when the Qin royal family was collectively executed.

That night, he sat in a tent without a lantern, imagining the ghosts of Xiahou Yan's mother and son wandering, lonely and helpless. As a soldier, he admired Yao Shao very much. When the country was in danger, this person struggled to support himself until he was disabled. God is so cruel that he does not spare his widow and children just because a person is loyal to his country. Although Guo Xu is not good at deep thinking, he has never doubted Liu Yu's wisdom, but this time he felt that he was not doing beautifully. Regardless of loyalty and traitor, all the royal family surnamed Yao will be killed, and letting a person like Yao Shao who is worried about the country like him become an heir can only make those like him feel cold.