Chapter 176: What is Stagnant Water (556)
The Iron Rider galloping forward.
The knight on horseback was dressed in dark cyan armor with a cold glow.
The horse's hooves wrapped in the horseshoe fell to the ground, and the dust exploded, making a dull sound like thunder, and the sound of thunder came close and closer, and then accompanied by a rain of arrows that covered the sky, the spear in the hand of the first rider was handed out with the help of the horse.
There was a soft pop and pierced his chest.
A sharp tingling sensation emerges.
"Ahh
Lu Guanhong opened his eyes suddenly, his face was pale, his eyes were full of horror, and it was not until more than ten breaths of time passed that he slowly understood, his stiff body softened, and he muttered:
"It's a dream......"
A cold voice came from the side:
"Are you awake?"
Lu Guanhong turned his head to look and found that the sky had already been overcast, and the young man from Daqin, who claimed to be a doctor, sat on the back of a large stone, slowly rolled up the white cloth that bandaged his injuries, fixed it, and against the morning light, he could only see a silhouette with gold edges.
There was a strong smell of medicine, and the same smell of blood.
Lu Guanhong couldn't help muttering in his heart, this guy obviously didn't bring a package, and the red horse didn't have much on him, why did he have medicinal powder or something like that for many days? Where did you find it?
Then he sighed again.
At this time, both of them were grasshoppers on a rope, and he didn't care where this guy got his supplies, and he wanted to have as many supplies as possible, and the more abundant the better.
That day, he didn't know why he chased after him in such a daze, and then he found that the injuries on the body of the Great Qin Doctor, who had previously acted as if he were invincible, were already terrifying.
If it is replaced by another person, he will believe it when he dies.
It's just that the Great Qin Doctor in front of him is a doctor after all, his martial arts are high, and his injuries are quickly stabilized, but soon they began to encounter pursuits, and they were just Jianghu people at the beginning, and even Jianghu people at the bottom.
Skinny, outlaw.
The flow of crooked melons and cracked dates.
Just by relying on his mount, he can clean up neatly.
After that, he began to meet the people of the rivers and lakes with clever means.
Then there is the army, or because the doctor in front of him has broken through the elite of the city defense army by himself, and the number of troops that appear each time will not be less than a thousand.
An army of a thousand men can already form a formation.
That time they simply moved from behind the city.
For the next month, almost every day, there would be at least one fight, and every warrior he met seemed to be full of hostility and vigilance towards them.
A month, almost a hundred battles.
Two men, a tiger and a horse, crossed the entire kingdom of rest.
If it weren't for the fact that this Great Qin Doctor could always find food and supplies, I'm afraid the two of them would have been surrounded to death, but with the increasingly dense traces of horses' hooves around them, as well as signs of the activities of the people in the rivers and lakes, Lu Guanhong's heart was also constantly sinking.
He lived to be more than seventy years old.
No matter how ordinary you don't pay attention, you won't be unaware at this time.
He felt like he was in an iron prison full of barbs, which was still shrinking, and when the cage shrank to a certain extent, they would be forced to go head-to-head with the pursuers who were besieging them.
This is extremely disadvantageous.
Especially in a country like Anxi, which is mostly a wasteland, the army is moving forward in formation, they have no way to resist at all, they can only flee in embarrassment, and they can escape if they escape, but after all, their physical strength is limited, how many times can they escape?
Even if they can successfully get rid of the siege every time, the injuries on their bodies are constantly increasing, and their physical strength and internal strength are all in a state of extreme dryness, and there will always be a time to collapse.
This is the same as the fact that on the wasteland, the wolves are hunting.
Will it die......
Lu Guanhong sighed leisurely.
At this time, he was not so scared, he himself had always said that he had been through the ups and downs for a long time, but he never thought that the things he had experienced in the previous decades added up, there was no way to compare with this month, and he thought without margin in his mind-
Three days, or five days?
It takes time for the army to move, but with the continuous siege and sniping of the Jianghu people, it has bought enough time for the army to mobilize.
He is a man of the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts.
Signs of a large number of horses were already faintly felt.
Where will there be any wild horse herd at this time?
There is only one explanation.
King Balmain even mobilized cavalry.
Are you planning to make an example of the monkeys?
Lu Guanhong shook his head, forced himself to come back to his senses, raised his hand and patted his cheek, looked at Wang Anfeng, and said with a forced smile:
"How are you?"
"Although the injury is stable, it still has some impact, take advantage of this time, do you want to find a place to rest?"
"I remember there was an oasis in front of me, it was a very small oasis, there should be only one village in it, and I had a friend there, who went to beg for hot water to drink, warm up and have a full meal, which was ......"
He subconsciously wanted to joke that even if he died, he would be a starving ghost, but he realized that this joke was out of place and stopped in time.
Wang Anfeng glanced sideways into the distance, estimating in his heart that at this time, he had already reached the hinterland of rest, nodded, got up and said:
"Let's go."
Lu Guanhong was stunned, and then he reacted, stood up, and added, "Don't worry, that's my lifelong friendship, I once saved their family, and that place is very remote and safe." ”
Wang Anfeng nodded and didn't say anything.
Following Lu Guanhong and moving forward, because of the three thousand years of dragon blood ginseng and the Shaolin mastery he cultivated, his injuries had actually recovered eighty or ninety percent, although it was not in its heyday, it would not affect his shot.
Then he sighed in his heart.
If he hadn't disappeared, the prince and the king would have been furious, and it was very likely that he would have gone back in reverse, and he would have already entered the Shaolin Temple when he rode through the village where he had stayed.
But......
That's fine.
Lu Guanhong and he are both middle-third-grade martial artists whose martial arts exceed ordinary people, even if they have to pay attention to concealing their bodies to prevent too clear traces from being tracked up, the speed is quite fast.
Before the sky was completely bright, the two of them had already arrived at the oasis that Lu Guanhong said, and sure enough, it was quite remote, and it should not even be said to be an oasis, because there was only one family there, and all around it was desert.
I don't know why, heaven and earth were created, and in such a desolate place, there will be such a crescent-like cool spring, raising cattle and sheep.
The one who opened the door was a middle-aged man, and he was taken aback when he saw Lu Guanhong.
Lu Guanhong was also a little dazed, and after the conversation, it was not until that Lu Guanhong's friend had died a few years ago, and now this is his only son, unmarried, living here alone, raising cattle and sheep, and living his own life.
Lu Guanhong didn't say why he came here, but said that he wanted to meet his friends when he was passing through this place, and the middle-aged man welcomed the two of them into the middle with great enthusiasm, and prepared barley buns and steaming goat's milk, as well as some simple vegetables.
Then he had to kill a sheep, Lu Guanhong couldn't hold him, so he had to watch the man walk out, shook his head helplessly, and after sitting down, his right hand stroked the table with many cracks, and sighed:
"It's been ten years since we last met, and I didn't expect him to be ......"
Wang Anfeng didn't answer, just gulped down the hot food on the table, for various reasons, he couldn't stay in Shaolin for too long under the current situation, otherwise once he appeared, it was very likely that he would fall into the encirclement.
It's been a month since I was able to eat my normal food.
For a while, it almost looked like a gobble.
Lu Guanhong's voice was low, still looking out the window, and suddenly sighed with a smile: "We are almost in danger this time, right?" I didn't expect that the old man would be so cautious that he would end up with such a result......"
"However, at the age of seventy-five, I have lived enough."
"In the end, because of the encirclement and suppression of the princes of a country, I died after a month, and I can blow it well with my old wife when I go down, haha, when she was alive, she often said that I didn't look like a martial artist, what is not a martial artist, all of them are five grades, are not martial artists?"
Wang Anfeng's movements paused.
Lu Guanhong sighed again: "It's just a pity for you, I've lived for such a lifetime, I've walked the road I should go, I've seen everything I should have seen, and in the end, I can still accompany you to go crazy like this, enough, enough......"
"It's you, you're so young."
"Won't die."
Wang Anfeng swallowed the food in his mouth, his face was still cold, and said:
"You're not going to die."
Lu Guanhong was slightly stunned, and then laughed and said:
"That's good!"
"Then my old man has entered the ground one day, and there will be more things to brag about, the princes and kings sent a large army to encircle and suppress, but they failed to kill me, if there is really such a day, it really has to be blown well!"
A slight smile appeared at the corner of Wang Anfeng's mouth, but before this smile completely emerged, it disappeared and turned into coldness, turning his head to look at the voice at the door, Lu Guanhong was late for a while, and looked at it the same.
Three footsteps sounded at the door.
Wang Anfeng frowned, his brows immediately relaxed, Lu Guanhong just looked heroic, but now his body was tense, the wooden door was pushed open from the outside, and a somewhat tall young man walked in front, wrapped in the cold wind, and said in a loud voice:
"Anyone? Dude, we are passers-by, and we want to ask you for directions, and ask for a bowl of hot goat's milk to warm up. ”
The voice stopped abruptly, and the rugged young man was stunned, looking at the old and young people in the room, who did not look like herdsmen and farmers, and from these two quiet people, he felt an unprecedented threat and an almost indissipating evil aura.
The pupils contracted suddenly, the muscles of the body tightened, and the right hand was almost subconsciously pressed on the hilt.
A clear sword sound exploded.
At this time, a generous male voice came from behind him, saying:
"Aten, don't come nonsense."
The young man's movements paused, his eyes still full of wariness, but he seemed to have great trust in the owner of the voice, and slowly held the knife to one side.
A group of middle-aged couples walked out from behind him, all of whom looked like Central Plains people, the man was a scribe in his thirties and forties, and the woman had beautiful eyebrows and eyes.
Wang Anfeng retracted his gaze, his expression still calm.
Xu Chuanjun sighed, took the initiative to step forward and salute, and said:
"Now the entire Sabbath country is looking for two people, I didn't expect to see two here."
When the young man's expression changed greatly when he heard this, there was a faint shock and a faint admiration on his face, he looked at the old and the young, and said:
"The two of them, the ones who did such a big thing that day?"
Wang Anfeng is now wearing a resting person's clothes, with a black hood on his head, covering his face, only revealing a hard chin, and said lightly:
"I remember you."
"You were there that night."
Xu Chuanjun smiled bitterly: "It's been so far away, I didn't expect to be discovered by His Excellency, yes, at that time, Xu was still acting as a doorman under the command of King Balmain, because of the reason why the two entered the city, they chased after the secret investigation that day, and saw the battle between His Majesty and the Great Elder of the Valley of Ten Thousand Beasts." ”
Lu Guanhong's expression changed greatly, and he almost burst out, but Wang Anfeng suddenly raised his hand and pressed his shoulder, but he failed to do so.
Xu Chuanjun sighed again:
"However, I have now left King Balmain, and now I am about to go to another country, my body is a little weaker, and the cold wind is a little heavy today, I plan to come here to ask for something hot, I didn't expect to see the two."
Wang Anfeng pointed to the table and said lightly:
"The master is not here now."
"As for the food, it's still there, just pay for it later."
Xu Chuanjun smiled and said:
"That's nature."
The young man named Aten went to close the door, and then ran back and sat next to Xu Chuanjun and his wife, the woman was born with a delicate and gentle appearance, Xu Chuanjun was also elegant and quiet, but the young man seemed to be very interested in Wang Anfeng, stared up and down for a long time, and suddenly asked:
"Do you have a grudge against that Balman king?"
"Or is it that if you can slap that king in the face, you will be able to get a thousand taels of gold or something."
Xu Chuanjun frowned and scolded: "Aton! ”
Wang Anfeng paused, put down the food in his hand, and said lightly:
"Nothing, not something that can't be said."
"I have never seen the king of Balman before, and I even wanted to have a matter to consult with him, and to ask for something."
The young man was stunned and exclaimed:
"What? Got something to ask for? Are you crazy? Provoke such a big thing......"
"Now almost the entire rest of the rest is chasing you, and the border gates are all blocked, even if you can run now, but one day you will be blocked, if you block it, you will die!"
Xu Chuanjun raised his right hand and held down the young man who was suddenly excited, although the latter was tall and had some strength, but he couldn't compare to his internal qi, and was forced to sit down.
Xu Chuanjun looked at the calm young man in front of him, he was different from Aton, he had served as King Balmain's staff and disciples, and he knew a little bit about the situation of the sin army, and said slowly at the moment:
"I admire what Your Excellency has done, but there is a word, I hope Your Excellency can listen to it......"
Wang Anfeng looked at him and said:
"Please."
Xu Chuanjun thought for a while and said, "It has not been a short time since Your Excellency came here, and you should know that the whole situation of rest." ”
He stretched out his hand, dipped it in goat's milk, drew a chain on the table, and said: "From the king of rest down, the princes and kings, the great nobles, the families, the people, and the slaves, like chains, have been locked, and the upper classes have almost killed the lower classes, ignoring the law. ”
"At the same time, the various sects in the rivers and lakes are attached to such a backbone, and they are also distributed layer by layer, and the wise warriors in the rivers and lakes, none of the civilians, all of them are noble families, and they are all in this tight chain, which is not only suppressed, but also suppressed."
"I can guess the purpose of Your Excellency, but in the rivers and lakes of the Central Plains, acting like this can attract the world to help and help the rivers and lakes, but here, it doesn't work."
Xu Chuanjun stared at Wang Anfeng in front of him, and said word by word:
"Rest in peace is a pool of stagnant water."
"Moreover, it has been a backwater for hundreds of years, and there has never been an exception, and such backwater has almost stinked. He also knew about King Balman's brutal deeds, but there was still a glimmer of hope that he could be influenced by the morality of the Central Plains, and that he could change the situation from the top down. ”
"As Your Excellency has seen, you have been defeated."
"There's almost no hopelessness here."
"Now there is a word that please listen carefully, the vitality of the foot lies in relying on a body of cultivation, hiding your identity, and going to the border of my Great Qin, once you enter the buffer land of Great Qin and the rest of the country, the rest of the army and the people in the rivers and lakes will not dare to set foot in it easily."
"That's how you can escape."
"Although there are all kinds of dangers, but with the respect of martial arts, the vitality should be more than eighty percent, this is the rest of the whole territory can be a map, although the grass is ugly, but enough to identify the direction, let His Majesty leave."
Xu Chuanjun took out a folded Kanyu map from his bosom, put it on the table, and then gently pushed it in the direction of Wang Anfeng, the young man named Aten wanted to say something, but was stopped by Xu Chuanjun with his hand, and had to sit down in frustration.
Wang Anfeng glanced at the map and didn't pick it up, but said:
"Why give it to me?"
"You need this too, don't you?"
Xu Chuanjun looked at Wang Anfeng, calmly and calmly, and said:
"I am also a scholar in the Central Plains, reading poetry and etiquette."
"What Your Majesty has done, I have the heart but the power."
"Now I can see it, I am willing to help measurably, that's all."
Wang Anfeng was noncommittal, but Lu Guanhong, who was always amiable next to him, slammed the table, made a loud noise, stood up directly, grabbed the scribe's collar directly with one hand, his eyes were slightly red, and said:
"Nonsense!"
Xu Chuanjun was slightly stunned, recognized the old man's face in peace, his face was open, and said:
"The old gentleman can think about whether what I said is true."
"Rest in peace, is it a pool of stagnant water?"
"You!"
Lu Guanhong clenched his right hand, his breathing was slightly short, he opened his mouth, but he couldn't speak, his mind was chaotic, and he suddenly threw down Xu Chuanjun in his hand, staggered back, and sat in place, his face full of weakness.
Everything that comes through in the mind comes to mind.
What originally felt like a normal thing, at this time, there were distorted parts everywhere, as if they were originally covered with a thin layer of mist, and at this time, the fog was blown away.
Someone seems to be saying-
Your rivers and lakes are just stagnant pools.
It hasn't flowed for hundreds of years.
It already stinks.
Stinky? Stagnant water?
Lu Guanhong closed his eyes in pain, his palms trembled slightly, and he only felt that his eyes were constantly blackening.
Is this just an illusion? This is not a vast river and lake that rushes into the sea, but a backwater dug out by the princes and nobles in their own mansions.
So, what have you been hoping for?
What was your yearning for rivers and lakes when you were a child?
When I was a teenager, I was happy and angry, and I was angry with my horse, what was it?
Acquaintance with her on the rivers and lakes, what is it?
What is it to stand side by side with them on the rivers and lakes?
It turns out that everything is just a drama set up by the people who dug up the rivers and lakes? Because it's just a pool of stagnant water, everyone knows what is called proportionality and rules, which are all a link in the chain, and will not really tear their faces, and the chains are linked by everyone in the rivers and lakes, and all the people in the rivers and lakes are bound......
Then the original past, the rivers and lakes are happy.
What exactly?
At this time, Lu Guanhong suddenly felt a slight tremor.
The tremor did not come from him.
The old man was slightly stunned, and then realized the truth of the matter, opened his eyes suddenly, and saw the dishes on the table colliding slightly, and the pure white goat's milk was faintly rippling.
The faces of several people in the room all became dull.
There was a faint voice outside the door, it was the herdsman who was supposed to kill sheep to entertain guests.
"They're here!!"
PS: Today's second update is presented...... Five thousand six hundred words,There should be a more next.,If I still have that spirit.,The end of the third watch.,The last part (ノ=Д=)ノ┻━┻