Since then, Zhao Yi has driven his horse to gallop in the territory of Zhao State, and he has appeared in many places, from large cities to small villages.

At this time, Zhao Yi, who was bumping on his horse, glanced at the sunset that was about to go down, and took out a pile of yellowed paper from his waist.

It is densely packed with names and the dwellings of their owners, and it is clear that the owners of these names have been reduced to a pile of loess in the battlefield.

His dark eyes looked at the top one, and many of the names had been drawn by him, except for the last one at the bottom. With a sigh, he put away the papers, and led the horses into a village in front of him.

The quiet little village was not lifeless, Zhao Yi looked around, stopped in front of a wooden house, raised his finger and knocked on it.

Tuk Tuk ~ Tuk Tuk ~

The wooden door creaked open, and a timid face peeked out, time left too many marks on his face, and the old voice sounded, "Who are you?"

"Xu Hu is your old son!"

Hearing this familiar name, the old man's hands trembled, and he said excitedly: "Yes, yes, yes!"

"I am your son's comrade-in-arms and friend. ”

"In that case, please come in, inside. Zhao Yi was invited into this low wooden house by the old man.

A woman in the back room came out with a child about eight years old, "Father, who is this?"

"He said that he was the companion of my son Xu Hu. ”

After the woman heard this, her body was obviously shocked, and she said to the young child on the side: "Little tiger, go to the house to play, mother has something to talk to this big brother." ”

"Hmmm!", the toddler scurried back into the house.

"What is this little brother's name?", the woman came to Zhao Yi's side and handed over the cup full of tea.

"It's okay for my sister-in-law to call me Shadow. Zhao Yi took a sip of the tea handed by the other party.

Before the woman could say anything, the old man hurriedly said, "Brother Shadow, do you know how my son is doing now, the war is over, when he will be able to return." ”

The woman also looked at him, and at this moment, he felt the weight of a mountain on his back, and he was almost out of breath.

Zhao Yi put down the old cup in his hand, opened his mouth and said with some depression: "He is doing ~ very well!", paused, and said: "He may not be able to come back for the time being." ”

From Zhao Yi's words, the old man knew that his son did not die on the battlefield, and he danced happily like a child, and said to himself, "Why doesn't this kid come back, it's obviously over." ”

He then asked, "Does the Shadow Brother know why?"

"He... He said that he would stay in the army and contribute his part to the state of Zhao. ”

Zhao Yi finished saying this sentence with a little stammering, and then took out some silver tickets and put them on the table, "This... This is what Brother Huzi asked me to bring to you, and he also asked me to give my sister-in-law a word, don't read it. ”

thought that his lie could bring them peace of mind, but when he saw the tears and the complicated look in the eyes of the other woman, he knew that his idea was wrong, and the other party had seen through himself and knew the truth of the matter.

But she didn't say it, burying the secret in her heart.

He took the tears of sorrow as tears of joy, and said to the old man: "Father, have you heard, Huzi is not dead, he just won't come back for the time being." ”

"Right~"

In the end, the father and daughter began to cry in the wooden house, one for the 'truth' and the other for the 'lie'.

"The only thing I can help you with is these heartless silver tickets. Zhao Yi's nose was sour, and he no longer dared to make eye contact with the woman's eyes, he was afraid that he would also shed tears of grief. In the end, they came out and rode away.

The sunset had set, the night covered the earth, and Zhao Yi shuttled through the darkness alone.

On the second day, according to the list on the paper, I continued to find the families of the deceased, gave them condolences, gave them food, shelter, and even made up all kinds of lies, but the results were all the same.

As there are fewer and fewer papers in hand, the days pass faster and faster, and after the war comes a period of calm, but also a day to heal the scars, and the atmosphere of depression is always erased by those ordinary lives.

On this day, he sat on the stone bench and quietly watched a few young children giggle and play in the courtyard, smiling knowingly from time to time.

Ah Lan's mother handed over a cup of relieved weak tea, "Engong, thank you for coming to visit Ah Lan, Ah Lan, this child talks about you every day." ”

"It's okay, she's my sister-in-law, it's normal to come and see her life, there's nothing to thank me. ”

Zhao Yi put the teacup on the stone table and said lightly: "This farewell, I don't know when we will see each other again." ”

"Eun Gong, are you leaving?"

"Hmm!"

Ah Lan heard the conversation between them and jumped over, "Big brother, where are you going?"

"Go to a very distant place. Zhao Yi replied with a smile.

"Will you come back to see Alan?", Alan's eyes flashed.

"Yes. ”

"How long?"

"For a long time. ”

"Ah Lan is afraid that after a long time, she will forget what you look like. She looked at a silver spear beside Zhao Yi and said with a smile: "It's better for you to give Ah Lan the same thing as the big brother, whenever Ah Lan is about to forget your appearance, as long as you see the big brother you gave Ah Lan, Ah Lan can remember what you look like." ”

Zhao Yi looked at her eyes and glanced at his spear from time to time, he lifted the gun and smiled helplessly: "You want this?"

"Hmm!", Ah Lan's eyes lit up, and he urgently reached out to take it.

Zhao Yi smiled bitterly, "If you can't lift it, you have to change it to another one." ”

"No! Alan wants it. ”

"It's... This..."

Ah Lan's mother was also very speechless, since her daughter was rescued by Zhao Yi, she was not interested in anything, only weapons. Every time she passed by the weapons shop, she had to look at the gun-shaped weapons, which really gave her a headache.

This is not to blame her, if you want to blame Zhao Yi herself. From the moment he rushed out of the fire curtain with her in his arms, the image of a silver spear in his hand and a resolute face was deeply imprinted in her little mind.

"I'll give you this gun, but I'll keep it with your mother. ”

Zhao Yi touched her little head and said softly: "When you grow up, you are asking your mother." ”

"Thank you, big brother. ”

He smiled, looked at the sky again, and sighed, "It's almost time, I should go too!"

"Won't Eungong stay and have a full meal with us before leaving?"

"You don't have to eat, it's hard to walk when it's dark. After Zhao Yi left the spear, he walked out of the courtyard gate, climbed on the horse, and whipped away.

Ah Lan and her mother also followed, only to hear two goodbyes from behind.

"Big brother goodbye, I must come to see Ah Lan in the future!"

"Engong take care all the way!"

A few days later, Zhao Yi's figure appeared in the forest outside Yancheng.

The last days of autumn have passed, the trees are completely devoid of fallen leaves, and there is a chill in the air.

On the edge of the cold pool, Zhao Yi knelt down in front of the three new graves.

The three tombstones are engraved respectively: the tomb of the second brother Xiao, the tomb of the third brother Hao, and the tomb of the fourth brother Jiang.

"I'm sorry, I didn't find your bones, so I had to make an empty grave. ”

Zhao Yi came to the tomb of the fourth brother and said in a low voice: "Fourth brother Jiang, you can go with peace of mind." I have settled your family, but they know of your death and weep bitterly. ”

When he came to the second tombstone, his eyes were already misty, and he laughed suddenly, "Third Brother Hao, you big liar." ”

"You lied to us that you married two beautiful girls and gave birth to four boys and a girl. All day long shouting for a hurry to end the war, and go back to pamper your two ladies. ”

"Brother, I searched for the address you said at the beginning, and found that the person you mentioned and the people in that place did not know you. ”

"You bastard, tell me, how many times have you lied to me, what is your real name?"

The cold wind drifted by, Zhao Yi could no longer suppress his emotions, left two lines of tears, walked to the first tombstone, raised a jar of wine, and poured two bowls.

"Second Brother Xiao, in the barracks, I never let you drink, but you didn't listen, and you got drunk every time. Therefore, we had a very good fight. ”

Zhao Yi burst into tears and laughed, "I still remember one time, you had to drink it on the board, and it really made me angry at that time." ”

"Now, sixth brother, I will no longer stop you from drinking, on the contrary, I will accompany you to drink. ”

"Here, this bowl. ”

Zhao Yi raised a bowl of wine and finished it in one gulp, and the other bowl was sprinkled in front of the grave.

"The culprit who killed the three of you is dead, and you can look at it. ”

He knelt on the ground again and kowtowed three times in a row, "There is no chance to continue brotherhood in this life, we will be brothers again in the next life!"

After standing up, he slowly closed his eyes, the sadness on his body gradually disappeared, his mind became peaceful, and the whole person fell into an ethereal state.

Under his royal movement, the spiritual power was bound to the surface of his body, and the pores of his whole body were opened, communicating the essence between heaven and earth.

Under his full control, a small cyclone formed at the pores, absorbing wisps of essence into it, and then all the essence qi converged into a stream of air in his twelve meridians, flowing in a predetermined line.

Zhao Yi seemed to hear the sound of flowing water in his body, and those air currents gradually turned into water of spiritual power, lying down the meridians as a riverbed.

In just a moment, the cyclone of all the pores on his body surface suddenly increased, the suction power was stronger, and more essence qi was absorbed into his body, and the water of spiritual power accumulated more and more, and then it became a torrent that impacted the meridians of the whole body.

Now, even if he was three feet away, he could hear the sound of water flowing in his body, and at this moment, he suddenly opened his bright eyes, his eyes were sharp, and one leg swept over the layers of rotten autumn leaves on the ground.

Grabbing a dead branch, he used it as a sword, and danced in the clearing, and the autumn leaves did not fall, but flew with the swing of the 'sword body' in his hand.

In the middle of the flight, all the dead leaves condensed together and condensed into a dragon, accompanied by Zhao Yi's sword tip churning wildly.

Boom

Zhao Yi danced the 'sword' in his hand, slashed left and right, and the cyclone around him lifted all the dead branches and rotten leaves on the ground, lingering around his body and slowly spinning.

His head jerked back, and the 'sword' in his hand stabbed back, and then circled his body.

The dragon condensed by the autumn leaves also followed his movements, circling around Zhao Yi.

Eventually, he shot the sword in his hand at Honka, who was five zhang away, and Jiaolong followed.

Boom~

The fragile dead branches were stuck deep in the thick trunk of the tree, and then they were broken by the dragon, and the autumn leaves burst open and flew all over the sky.

At the same time, the torrent in his body rushed into a cave hole and turned into spiritual power and stored it.

Slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, "I didn't know how to cultivate before, but I felt that the qi flowed between the meridians. It turned out that at that time, he was wandering in front of the gate of cultivation, and he couldn't choose the way to enter the door. Now that I have stepped into the initial realm of cultivators, the spiritual realm, I realize that my cultivation is so mysterious."

"Now I feel that my body is unusually light, and the speed of swinging my sword has definitely increased, whether it is the strength that my physical body possesses or whatever, I was not comparable to me before and now. ”

"The spiritual realm is divided into three steps: Na Ling, Turning Spirit, and Imperial Spirit, and I have only reached the first step, and this Na Ling needs to open up nine spiritual aperture to contain the water of spiritual power. There are still eight spiritual aperture that have not yet been developed!"

Zhao Yi sighed, and said to himself, "Am I a little ambitious, after all, I have just started, I have to take my time in cultivation, one day, I will also reach the level of Brother Zhao Qian." ”

He retracted all his thoughts, and unconsciously thought of the face of an old man.

smiled: "I haven't been home for a long time, grandfather, my grandson misses you a little!"