Outside Yanjing City, under the foothills of Xiangshan Mountain, outside a small village.

At this time, it is evening, a round of crescent moon hangs in the sky, shining all over the silver frost, in this midsummer, this mountain is quite cool, and there is a mountain breeze blowing, very happy.

In this long-abandoned village, dozens of men dressed in black are scattering and patrolling the surroundings.

They all carry swords and swords, their faces are full of evil, they walk calmly, and they are all good hands in the rivers and lakes.

This is the elite boxer of the Heluo Gang, and they are all Li Yijian's henchmen.

But looking southeast from here, you can vaguely see the end of the distant line of sight, a little fire, like sparks everywhere.

There is the camp of the Southern Army, and you can see the light of the fire when you climb high and look far away, which proves that there are no less than tens of thousands of people gathered there.

A girl dressed as a village girl is standing on the rock, looking nervously at the mountain road below, although she is wearing a simple cloth skirt and wrapping her hair, but her body is petite, and there is a bit of extravagance that cannot be concealed.

Beneath the turban, long waterfall of hair curled back of her head, and as her head swayed, so did her long hair.

She's waiting for someone.

It was almost time to make the appointment, but no one came to the mountain road.

This made Ye Luwan anxious, could it be that something went wrong?

She felt anxious, and her ten fingers curled up and relaxed.

This time, when she heard that the Southern Dynasty was marching to Yanjing, she was worried about her younger brother just a few days later, especially when she heard the news that the Southern Army was approaching Yanjing, which made Yeluwan unable to sit still.

She wanted to come back alone.

But nowadays.

She's not alone anymore.

"Huh"

A black shadow jumped down from the rocks on the other side, fluttering, and landed beside Yeluwan.

The mountain ghost is wearing a black robe that has not changed for thousands of years today, but compared to the slightly shabby style of the past, this black shirt is obviously new.

Although the needles are almost and the craftsmanship is poor, at least it is a new garment.

It represents the heart of the wife.

In addition, he also brought a hat to cover the ghost face on his face, and the Chengying Sword he was carrying behind him was also replaced with a more delicate and simple scabbard.

The person is still the same person.

The breath is still the original indifferent, breath that no one should enter.

It's just a little bit more varied.

There is a concern.

You will not be free.

"Don't panic."

The voice of the mountain ghost, coming from under the ghost's face, with a touch of jerky gentleness, said:

"Seven or eight miles away, at the foot of the mountain, there are people gathered, there are quite a lot of people, and there is a sign of the beggar gang, it should be your brother who came as promised."

"Really?"

A hint of surprise flashed across Yeluwan's face.

And a little ashamed.

She knew that this time, because of her affairs, the mountain ghost, who had never had much contact with outsiders, took the initiative to contact outsiders for the first time.

The husband and wife made a special trip to Luoyang to meet Zhang Tugou and Li Yijian.

Only then did the Yanjing Beggars Gang and the Heluo Gang come to help.

Otherwise, with the current situation of the beggar gang, Zhang Tugou, who is busy identifying his own people and has been panning for gold in the sand, will definitely not participate in such a hot matter of the confrontation between the north and the south.

The mountain ghost glanced down at his wife beside him, and when he saw that Yeluwan's face was different, he tilted his head and thought about it, probably guessing what she was thinking.

And he spoke,

"You don't have to think about it, my brother said, husband and wife are one, think about each other, your business is my business."

"It's just that my husband owes me a favor."

Yeluwan sighed, she reached out and grabbed the mountain ghost's left arm, and whispered:

"It's okay for Gang Master Li, he is the trusted person of his husband.

Although the concubine is not from the rivers and lakes, she has also heard from her uncle that this walking in the rivers and lakes is the most difficult to repay the debt of human affection. When we went to the Li Mansion to live temporarily, we also heard from the Li Gang Leader about the recent events of the Beggar Gang.

The beggars are mixed, Zhang Tugou's big dragon head is trying to distinguish between friend and foe, making himself anxious, and the master of such means as the husband asks for help at this time, he is naturally willing to sell face and win favors.

However, I was worried about my brother's safety, but I was also worried that my husband would be involved. ”

Yeluwan glanced at the mountain ghost, and she said:

"Your injuries aren't healed yet."

"It's out of the way."

The mountain ghost said:

"It's just a little weak, ordinary thief, I don't care about it. But there is one thing, although they are your relatives, you should save them, but they are not allowed to live in Qingluan Villa!

and thou shalt not go near the cliff of the sea of clouds.

You have to make this clear to them!

The villa is not only for you and me, we are just in charge of it temporarily. ”

"I know."

Yeluwan was very meek, and nodded like a well-behaved little daughter-in-law, and she said:

"The husband resents the northern kingdom for taking away all his relatives, this is a family hatred, the husband is willing to help, it is already for the sake of my two feelings, and the concubine does not dare to ask for more.

As the saying goes, the daughter who marries out spills the water.

I rescued my brother from Yanjing today, so that he could be free like me, and I will not interfere with whatever he wants in the future.

I won't let him disturb my husband Qingxiu. ”

The mountain ghost nodded, and remembered Shen Qiu's advice again, he sighed and said:

"You and I don't have to be so polite. Let him live in Luoyang, where it is more prosperous, and with Li Yijian and others taking care of him, he is safe. ”

"Hmm."

Yeluwan nodded vigorously and rested her head on the mountain ghost's shoulder.

She was petite, standing up straight, just to the shoulder of the mountain ghost, Shen Qiu said in the letter that this was called "the cutest height difference", but the mountain ghost didn't know what this meant.

And for Yeluwan, when encountering such a thing, it is really very reassuring to have someone like a mountain ghost by her side who can rely on her.

While the two were talking, the group at the foot of the mountain also took a few simple carriages to the edge of this abandoned mountain village.

The man at the head, dressed in a beggar's robe, missing an arm, and wearing a face towel over his face, didn't say much, but waved his hand at the mountain ghost, and then took his own people and went down the mountain with a smoke.

They are local beggars in Yanjing.

Because of the "zero tolerance" policy of beggars in the north, the beggars here are the "beggars" who are serious, and they are all a group of physically disabled people, and the northern army can't look down on them.

No matter how pervasive the Penglai spies are, they will never look down on such a real low-level force.

Therefore, by chance, the Yanjing Beggar Gang has become the cleanest one among the beggar rudders all over the world.

It is also the most reassuring one for Zhang Tugou.

"Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess!"

When the carriage came to a stop, a young man in a green coat and a small hat jumped out of the carriage, and when he saw Yeluwan in front of the carriage, he was so excited that he called out in a strange male duck voice.

He stepped forward quickly, fell on his knees, and bowed at the feet of Jeruwan.

"Ade, get up and speak."

Yeluwan recognized who this person was, and when she saw that Adedu was coming, Yeluwan's heart was calmer, and she looked at the young men and girls who came out of the carriage one after another, helped the little eunuch up, and asked:

"Is my brother out?"

"The villain, the villain has lived up to the expectations of the eldest princess."

With tears in his eyes, he said with a sense of guilt:

"The lord of the country is unwilling to abandon the country and flee alone, and has made up his mind to live and die with Yanjing.

He asked the villain to take the heirs of the side branches of the Yelu family, as well as the meritorious ministers, and the descendants of the noble family away from Yanjing and entrust them to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess. ”

"This..."

Jeruwan's heart ached.

Jienan, that stubborn fool, was really as worried as she feared, and was willing to take his own life for this dynasty that did not belong to the Yelu family.

He didn't want to think about it, he had been the lord of the country for so many years, what could this dynasty do for him?

Thinking that he and his younger brother will never see each other again in this life, and his most beloved brother will die in this lonely city, in the midst of sorrow in his heart, Yeluwan's figure shook a little, and was firmly supported by the mountain ghost behind him.

"I'll take a trip to the city!"

The mountain ghost whispered:

"You go back with the Heluo gang first, and I will bring back your brother."

Ade, who was watching from the sidelines, was a clever man who was worried about the safety of Yelujienan, but he did not have the skills to take the lord away from the capital.

Seeing that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has such an intimate relationship with this black-clothed knight, I will know his identity in my heart, and I will hear that this knight with extraordinary bearing is willing to go to the city and save the country's master.

Immediately he said:

"The imperial city is huge, and it is inevitable that I will not argue the direction when I go this time. The villain is willing to lead the way for the horse master! ”

"Okay."

The mountain ghost stepped forward and grabbed Ade's shoulder, and was about to lift it, but was grabbed by Yeluwan.

Gongsun Yu looked back and saw that his wife's pretty face was full of tears.

She closed her eyes, gritted her teeth, and said:

"You, don't go.

You are willing to come to the rescue, it is already a blessing in the life of a clean man, he is a man of the Yelu family, since he has made a decision, then life and death will be earned by himself!

You don't have to risk the dead-eyed man anymore.

That's enough, let's go back. ”

The eyes under the mountain ghost's mask changed, and at this moment, there was really an indescribable warmth in his heart.

seems to have experienced the kind of love between men and women that Shen Qiu talked about when he was talking about Dashan, living in each other's hearts, and in this world, there is another woman who cares about his wonderful feeling.

He pursed his lips and said:

"Don't say stupid things."

"With the way you usually don't leave the clean man, if you really don't have him, how will you live the rest of your life?"

Yeluwan was stunned.

Then I heard the mountain ghost say,

"Since I have married you, he is also my brother, so is there any reason not to save me? Go home, and when I come back, I will protect him unharmed. ”

After speaking, the mountain ghost turned his true anger, and with Ade, who was caught off guard, he jumped into the evening night, and the two ups and downs disappeared at the foot of this fragrant mountain.

In the night, only the voice of Adna's duck cries wolf.

He is a little eunuch, where has he ever experienced the feeling of being taken away by the big guy?

And Ye Luwan maintained a holding posture, watching the mountain ghost leave in a daze, she had an indescribable and unclear taste in her heart.

If it was before, the sacrifice of service still carries a bit of an inselectable meaning.

This will be in her heart, but there is no longer the slightest entanglement.

This is the man.

He is the man he has chosen for the rest of his life.

Life and death go hand in hand.

"Sister Wan."

The youngest daughter of a great nobleman in the north seemed to be surprised when she escaped from Yanjing, and she timidly stretched out her hand and grabbed Yeluwan's sleeve, she opened her eyes wide, and said to Yeluwan:

"My father told me that he was going to take me to a good place, a place where I wouldn't be hurt by bad people, Sister Wan, where are we going?"

Yeluwan looked down at the little girl.

She should be her niece.

The eldest princess smiled, wiped the corners of her eyes, and said to the little girl and the people behind her:

"Come with me."

"I'll take you back to your new home, and in the future, with the protection of the ghosts of Taihang Mountain, no one can hurt you anymore."

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"Whew"

Qingluan let out a hiss, falling from the sky, and landed accurately on the shoulder of the mountain ghost, this eagle who loves cleanliness, looked at the person beside his master with disdain.

Beside the mountain ghost, the little eunuch Ade was holding a stone and vomiting profusely.

The mountain ghost flew too fast.

It was so fast that an ordinary person like Ade couldn't accept such a high speed at all, so he had to stop at this ridge and let him slow down.

"Quack, quack"

Qingluan glared at the weak two-legged beast viciously, rubbed the cheek of the mountain ghost affectionately, and yelled at the master twice.

The mountain ghost's expression also changed.

He ignored the fact that Ade was dizzy, and flew out in the other direction with him, and after most of the incense, the two stopped on a mountain col, and Ade turned pale and was almost unconscious.

But when he glanced down, he knew why he had brought him here.

Beneath the col, miles away, a noisy army marched at a rapid pace, and they lit as many torches as the stars in the sky.

The firelight is even more like a flowing sea of fire.

That's not less than tens of thousands.

And the direction they are traveling in is the side of Yanjing City, which is less than thirty miles away from the battlefield outside the city.

"Master Pony, this... Isn't this the reinforcements of the Golden Horde of the Prairie coming? ”

Ade was surprised and delighted.

Happily, the direction in which this army came was Zhangjiakou, and it should have come from the grassland.

What is surprising is that the Golden Horde of the Prairie, because of the matter of the eldest princess, has a very poor relationship with the northern country, and there is no reply to the request for help, these troops are not necessarily here to help the northern country.

If it is the southern country to help the fist, the situation of the lord of the country will be even more critical.

"Not a steppe man."

The mountain ghost stood on the col and stroked the crested eagle on his arm, he squinted his eyes and said in a cold voice:

"The leader of this army is an 'old friend', Zhang Chu!"

"Ah, the Master of the Seven Peerless Sects!"

Ade exclaimed, and the little eunuch responded:

"The villain was ordered to serve such a demon sect giant in Yanjing, and the villain vaguely remembered that Zhang Chumen's master was a very kind person, much better than the Qu Evil Demon Head."

"Amika?"

The mountain ghost shook his head.

He looked in the direction in which this army was heading, and he said:

"My brother told me that this Zhang Chu Zhi is in the world, and this time he went to Yanjing, I am afraid that he wants to rescue, but once Jienan falls into his hands, I am afraid that he has just left the tiger's den and fallen into the wolf's den.

This man is not easy to deal with.

We have to get Jienan out before he enters the city!

I'm going to speed up, can you still hold on? ”

"Still want to speed up?"

Ade secretly complained in his heart.

Such masters of the rivers and lakes are really unfathomable.

The flying of the incense stick just now gave him the feeling that he was already flying in the sky, soaring through the clouds and fog, dizzy, and his internal organs seemed to be rolled out.

But when he thought that the lord of the country was alone in the city, he did not serve himself, and he did not know what would happen.

He grew up with Yelu Jienan since he was a child, and if he hadn't been taken care of by the lord of the small country, he would have been bullied to death by those old eunuchs in the palace.

Thinking of this, Ade's heart sank, gritted his teeth and said:

"Yes! Master Horse, take the villain and fly over, the lord of the country is waiting for me. ”

"Okay, you are still young, but you are also a loyal person, Wan'er is not wrong."

The mountain ghost praised him, grabbed Ade's shoulders and got up again, and after a few breaths, he said:

"Don't spit on my clothes, this is hand-sewn by Wan'er, although the craftsmanship is not as good as mine, but it is also a heart."

"I'll be upset if you stain this sand sculpture."