Chapter 5 End-of-Life Entrustment

I don't know how long it took, a sharp pain hit, Ke Ziliang opened his eyes painfully, and there was a line of sky in his eyes, thinking that it was already dawn, but his body was entangled in vines, hanging high on the cliff near the bottom of the valley, his thighs and waist were strangled with deep strangulation marks, he wanted to move his body but his whole body couldn't exert a little strength, a sense of emptiness hit, and he didn't even have the strength to shake hands.

Ke Ziliang took a deep breath and tried to turn over, but as soon as he turned his body, he lost support and fell from a height, and "Hutong" smashed his head down on the ground, falling with a large piece of vines, and the bottom of the valley was also a hard stone, and blood came out of the back of his head, and a feeling of dizziness hit.

"Who!" A childish voice sounded, the voice was loud, echoing in the quiet canyon, Ke Ziliang wanted to use his hands to support himself, but he couldn't, at this time, there was no one in his body, he could only turn his head slightly, a bright iron gun was pointing at his throat, and there were blood stains that had just dried up, as if he had experienced a hundred battles, and the head of the gun had several gaps.

"You're not a straw?" The immature voice sounded again, as if asking, and gradually Ke Ziliang's eyes adapted to the dark light at the bottom of the valley, and it took a while to see that the person with the gun was a smoky pawn, with a yellow turban wrapped around his head, and his eyebrows were childish, obviously a baby soldier, with a slender figure, wearing an earth-colored short cloth clothes, no bamboo armor on his body, and the word "guy" was drawn on his chest.

"Who are you?" The little pawn saw this man falling from the sky, with a scar on his face, blisters, and wounds on his body, and he must have fallen from the top of the cliff, and it seemed that he would not live long, so he put away his spear, squatted down and asked.

Ke Ziliang saw that the person who came was a doll, and his face was pure and good, and suddenly thought of the token on his body, so he said weakly, "My surname is Ke...... Also...... Peiguo people, not grass locks, dare to ask...... This little military master...... Honorific name?".

It seems that he was called "military master" for the first time, and asked him "honorable surname", the pawn blushed, and said embarrassedly, "I, my surname is Ma, hehe"

"Oh, Brother Ma, you ...... Can you help me sit up first?"

was called the military master, and also called the little brother, the little pawn was in a good mood, and gently helped Ke Ziliang to sit up on the stone wall, Ke Ziliang sat down to see the situation at the bottom of the valley, the valley floor is full of corpses, there are the same Pei soldiers as this baby soldier, and there are also straw dreadlocks from the north, but obviously there are many corpses of Pei Guobing, some people died of knife and arrow wounds, and some people died of burns, but there are few weapons, it seems that the battle between the two armies that I saw in the early morning has ended, the battlefield has been cleaned, the weapons have been taken away, and only a pile of corpses left no one cares about.

In this pile of corpses, Ke Ziliang saw Cheng Xiaozi, at this time his body was abnormally bent, and he stared at Yuan, thinking that he didn't expect that he would fall to death like this, his chest was scorched, and both hands were burned into dry corpses.

Ke Ziliang was in no mood to pay attention to these, and said to the baby soldiers: "Brother Ma, this battle ...... It's all over, how are you ...... Still here?"

The little pawn seemed to come to the spirit at once, "Don't you know, this dead man is full of treasures" said and pulled out a cloth bag from his waist, shook it in front of him, there was a loud noise inside, and opened it for Ke Ziliang to see, there were jade bracelets, jade pendants, gold rings, gold teeth, broken silver and copper plates, and a bunch of valuable small things "The big valuable things have been robbed by others, but some people's objects are well hidden, and they have to be carefully searched, hehe, I have good patience."

Looking at the smug appearance of the child soldier, Ke Ziliang suddenly felt funny, and suddenly his heart was cold, and then the rest of his body slowly became cold, Ke Ziliang knew that his time had come, and quickly said: "Brother Ma...... I'm a messenger, and I've got something on me to give to.... The ...... of Tatsu Kōkōji Temple Master Dongzhen, I stumbled and fell off the cliff...... I'm afraid I can't send it, I have two ingots here...... and some broken silver, can you ..... Can you send it for me?"

The little pawn heard that there were two ingots, his eyes suddenly lit up, he had only heard of it when he was so big, and he had never seen the ingots, but he was not a fool, although the person in front of him fell from the cliff, but many injuries on his body were obviously left by the fight with people, if he wanted to send the letter himself, maybe he was killed halfway like this person, and immediately shook his head and said, "This big brother, I have to go back to the camp to perform military affairs, and the commander will punish me again if I go back, so I don't have time to send you a letter."

Ke Ziliang was anxious in his heart, so he had to lie and say: "Nada Yeguang Temple...... It's a ...... The temple where the incense is extremely strong, Master Dong Zhen ...... Although he is a monk...... But he was really a rich man...... He promised me...... As long as...... Send the token to ...... Just give me ten more ingots...... If you go...... It's all yours."

The little pawn was skeptical, but he hesitated for a moment and agreed, in fact, the military camp he was in was defeated, and even the main general was killed, and he escaped by hiding in the corner and pretending to be dead while it was dark, and the others died and fled, and he also planned to turn over some valuable things on the dead man and leave, but he had no idea where to go, so he simply agreed to come down and try his luck in the temple.

Ke Ziliang didn't know the careful thinking of this baby soldier, and he was very happy to see that he agreed, and the little pawn took out a yellow bag from Ke Ziliang's arms, opened it and saw that there were indeed two silver ingots inside, which were very weighty in his hand, and his heart was happy, after all, he was young and didn't know how to hide, so he laughed out loud and couldn't close his mouth.

Ke Ziliang knew in his eyes that this kid was a big ghost, maybe he just pretended to agree, and when he lost his breath, the baby soldier ran away, and quickly added, "Brother Ma...... I think you're quite an aura person, and now you're out there...... Chaos ...... Everyone is at risk...... The abbot of Takayako Temple...... He is a living bodhisattva who purifies all living beings...... If you go, you may be able to keep your name at the door...... Be a lay disciple...... I will have a place to stay in the future."

The little pawn was immediately happy when he heard this, and hurriedly agreed, but he didn't expect that he was worried about where to live, and he could go to the temple to eat and drink, and it was not bad to eat and fast, and to recite the Buddha every day.

Ke Ziliang saw all the expressions of the child soldiers, knowing that this must have happened, so he pointed to the yellow bag and said, "Inside...... There is a soft cloth...... That's the token to be sent...... There is also a compass...... Follow the hands of the compass...... You'll be able to find Tatsu Kwangji Temple...... It's not far from here...... I reckon...... You'll be there in half a month's foot...... Meet Master Dong Zhen...... Let's just say that it is a token that the old man Huang Laodao asked you to send...... said that Master Dongzhen would understand everything when he saw the token" While saying these words, Ke Ziliang felt that his life was passing rapidly, his body was getting colder and colder, and his consciousness began to blur, and the little pawn didn't notice this, just nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

"And ...... There are ...... "Ke Zihao seems to have something to explain, but his voice gradually weakened, and he didn't continue, the pawn put the bag in the cloth bag on his waist, looked up and saw that the person who fell from the sky had closed his eyes, and his chest no longer rose and fell, so he touched his neck with his hand, there was no pulse, and the pawn didn't speak, he reached out and rummaged through Ke Ziliang's body, and after a while, he put Ke Ziliang's set of tools for shooting sleeve arrows. The remaining talisman and a tattered book with only a dozen pages were put away, and he went to the side and picked up a big flag, with the word "Moyun" written on it, which was the surname of their main general, and the flag was their military flag, which was useless now, and he was very skilled in tearing off the flag, wrapping Ke Ziliang's body in it, and finding some stones around the body to cover the corpse and the pawn left, as if he was doing a big deal from beginning to end.