I hugged the box in my arms tightly as if holding the last faint spark in the darkness, but at that moment, a drum suddenly sounded in my ears. The sound of the drum was muffled, and when it reached my ears, it had lost its strength, so that I could not really hear it. But when the second, third, and fourth drums came at me like rolling thunder, I was stunned. I saw helplessness and compassion on Shi Mo's face, and my heart almost jumped out of my throat after a burst of contraction.

This is the drums of war, the drums of war on the towers of the city.

The drums beat non-stop, one higher than the other. When Shi Mo and I walked out of the Taishi Mansion, the slave army outside the gate was already in disarray, and they all ran down the steps and stood on the long street, looking in horror at the loud drum on the tower of the distant city.

"You go up to the city tower to take a look, maybe it's not Zhiyao, it's Wuxi."

Shirtless ...... I turned my head to look at the crowded castle tower at the end of the long street, and Shi Mo reached out and took the wooden box in my arms.

"Master?!" I looked at Shi Mo in amazement.

"You go to the city tower, and the teacher will go to see the thief for you."

"No! The thief is in the palace, and my father is also in the palace, if he is allowed to see you...... No way! I reached out to grab the box, but Shi Mo glared at me and said solemnly: "Zidian, it is not your husband Hongyun'er who is the teacher who asked you to meet, but Zhao Wuxian, the sect leader of the Zhao family. After meeting him, you and what he is going to do to save the slaves in this city, you better think about it now. ”

"But if it's not shirtless, it's Zhiyao?"

"Then tell the soldiers on the tower what they have to do." Shi Mo stared at the group of panicked slaves on the long street.

"But Master......"

"Everything in the world has life and death, and if it happens, it is just a matter of following the destiny of heaven, and you and I don't need to be attached." Shi Mo, who was dressed in white and had white hair, boarded the car and went straight to Miyagi. I knew that he would meet the thief, and he would see my father. When was the last time they met? Is it at A-Niang's wedding, or is it the battlefield of fire and death? Twenty-two years of unresolved grievances, do you want to sacrifice with blood?

The May sky was full of floating clouds, and I stood on the tower and watched the distant mountains change color under the huge cloud shadows. At the foot of the distant mountain there was a long black shadow, across the emerald plains, the rushing muddy water, it seemed to be still, but a layer of yellow mist around it became thicker and thicker in front of my eyes, rising higher and higher. The people on the tower understood that it was not a mist, but the dust raised under the feet of the soldiers as the army marched.

On top of the city walls, the archers were already in place. Inside the city gate, the Miyagi guards and slave armies who heard the sound were gathering their whole ranks. Will it be shirtless? Will the person standing on the chariot overlooking Xinjiang City be him, or Zhiyao? I pressed against the ancient walls of Xinjiang City, my heart was pounding, and my face was as hot as fire. On the outskirts of Yongcheng, the scene of piles of corpses piling up and burning bones like torches flashed in front of my eyes all the time. God, can there be no more wars, no more deaths, no more wailing spirits, and no more Xinjiang as a grave for all of us.

"The Zhi clan flag is red, the Zhao clan flag is black, and it is Zhi Yao who comes, not Zhao Wuxian. I didn't win, you didn't win, the one who won was Zhiyao. Yu An's voice sounded faintly behind me. I clenched my fists and turned around, he stared into my eyes and said, "You gave Si'er the sword I gave you?" ”

"Yes, it should have been her sword, not mine."

"yes, why did I give it wrong!" Yu An squinted his eyes slightly and looked at my face, I pursed my lips and said nothing, he carefully looked at my indifference thoroughly, and then looked away with a smile. I thought he would choose to be silent, because no matter what he said at this moment, it would only make us more embarrassed and embarrassed, but he looked at the black shadow of death in the distance and whispered: "Ah Shi, I kill people with a sword, but I can't forge a sword, and the sword I gave you is the fifth sword that I forged in the furnace by mining copper and stone, and the first four are broken." When the first handle was broken, I persuaded myself to let go, but I raised the furnace and cast the second handle. When the second sword broke, I told myself that what I had done was a very stupid thing, and that my insistence and my heart would only be ridiculed and spit on by you, and I would not get any response. But I ...... Or did I cast the third and fourth, and I put my heart in the furnace and into the pool of ice, and you don't know how I forged it into a sword and put it in your hand. You can't see the words on it, and that's okay, I've even been glad about it, because that's the only way you'll hang it on your body. Seeing it hanging on you, I can secretly rejoice like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy. There are very few things in this world that can make me happy. ”

"Yu An, let's go, take Si'er and the child and go far away. Zhao Ying is dead, let yourself go! ”

"Let's go? I told you a long time ago that I can't go, I can't go a long time ago. Yu An smiled sadly at me with a slight flutter of eyelashes, and then turned to leave.

I looked at his departed back for a moment, but then the sense of foreboding made me unintentional about recalling the vague images in my memory. I grabbed the hem of my clothes and hurriedly chased down the tower, and Yu An had already pressed my sword and got into the car.

"Where are you going?" I ran to the front of the car to grab the reins of his horse, but he shouted at me with a wave of his whip, "Get out of the way!" ”

"I won't let it! Don't do stupid things anymore, go back, I don't want you to die here! ”

"Heh, Ah Shi, to this day, do you still want to save me? Can you still save me? You, let not let! ”

"I won't let it!"

"Okay—if you don't let me, then follow me!" Yu An jumped out of the car with a cold face, pulled me by the arm and pulled me into the car, I stumbled and fell, he shook off my hand, and spurred the horse to gallop away.

"Asian Brigade." Outside the gate of Zhao's Mansion, the guard-looking people hurriedly ran forward when they saw Yu An coming.

"Have you done everything you did?" Yu An dragged me and jumped out of the carriage.

"It's done."

"Very well, you go and bring everyone over!"

"Yui."

"What are you going to do?" I asked Yu An, but Yu An was silent and only pushed me to the house.

In just half a day, there was no slave army in the Zhao Mansion, and the guards who occasionally encountered two or three swords were all Yu An's subordinates. I walked on the familiar path, and the ominous feeling in my heart became stronger: "Yu An, you shouldn't come here, Zhiyao's army has not yet arrived, and it is still too late for you to leave the city from the north gate." If you don't leave the city, wait for the slave army to withdraw from Xinjiang, and Zhiyao will put all the blame on you as soon as she enters the city. When the time comes, don't expect the monarch to save you, Ji Chi will definitely argue that you held him hostage and forced him if he wants to live. It is a capital crime to bring chaos to the capital and to commit rebellion, do you have to stay here and die? You have already killed Bolu and killed Zhao Ying, it is really enough. Yu An, listen to me, let's go, let's take Si'er and the child out of the city with the thief......" I kept talking behind Yu An, but Yu An had a gloomy face and didn't respond.

"You are not afraid of being accused of rebellion, but have you ever thought about Dong Shi, you can't let him become the second you." I stood up to Ann. This time, he finally stopped, he stood in front of Zhao Ying's old residence with his hands down, looked at the two closed doors, and said in an inaudible voice: "Dong Shi will not become me, I will not let him suffer what I have suffered." ”

"No...... No! He's only five years old, and you're his father! I pounced on Yu An's arm and grabbed it, Yu An frowned, grabbed my wrist, and said coldly: "Enough!" I don't want to hear you say one more word, if you say one more word now, I'll kill one more person later. ”

I was silent, and Yu An tore off the linen cloth wrapped around the hilt of the sword and tied me up.

"Asian Brigade, everyone has brought it." The guards shouted softly outside the courtyard. Before Yu An could respond, an angry voice rushed into the courtyard gate with the sound of chains clanging: "Thief, Brother Dong I is loyal and righteous, how can you give birth to a rat!" If you have the ability, you can fight with my Zhao Ji's father with a sword! ”

"Shut up!" The guards rushed up and beat the shouting man, and the chains on the man's feet pulled out seven or eight men in chains. The big man who kept scolding was Zhao Ying's younger brother Zhao Ji's father, and the rest of the men were all half-brothers without mercy, and the sixth son Zhao Youchang was also among them.

Yu An stepped forward, and Zhao Ji's father coughed violently and spit on his face: "Dogs, rats, and insects!" When the ancestor was here, you were a slave and a servant who had been shaded by my Zhao family for many years, and now that the bones of the ancestor are not cold, you will do this filthy and vicious thing. You are ruthless, unjust, rude, and immortal! ”

"Done scolding?" Yu An wiped the saliva from his cheeks, turned around and walked up the steps and pushed open Zhao Ying's door: "Bring them all in!" ”

"Phew!" Zhao Ji's father was pushed to Yu An's side and spit again.

The sixth son, Zhao You, was often pushed and shoved, and shouted while struggling: "Dong Shu, my father treated your Dong family well, but your father was a criminal with a different surname but enjoyed the sacrifice of my Zhao descendants for many years in the Zhao family's temple, you don't know how to be grateful, how can you collude with the Handan traitor?" When you die, what face do you have to go to your father? ”

Zhao Youchang was pushed all the way to the door of Zhao Ying's room, he straightened his neck and wanted to reason with Yu An, but when he turned his head and saw what was hidden in the house, he was so frightened that his legs trembled and he fell directly into the door.

Bundled salary, a circle of one-person-high dry firewood was stacked in front of the walls around Zhao Ying's house. There were bronze pillars in the midst of the firewood, and a few guards, with whips and swords, pushed all eight men into the pyre, and fastened their chains to the bronze pillars. At this time, a group of women were escorted in outside the courtyard crying and shouting, their hair was scattered, and their cries were terrible, and some of them were holding four or five-year-old children in their hands. I looked at Yu An in astonishment, Yu An stood on the steps without the slightest emotion on his face, my heart trembled, and I suddenly felt a chill in my body.

"Bring them all in!" Yu An waved his hand and ordered.