Chapter Eighty-Eight: Rushing to Nanzhao
After dawn, the 300,000 army was assembled on the shore of Mochou Lake in the south of the city, and Wei Xiangdong was ordered to lead the troops and invited Tianqi into the vanguard camp. Chu Jin also came to join in the fun, but was ignored by Qin Yan.
Chu Jin jumped up and down for a moment and couldn't settle down, and in the end, Qin Yan was really unable to grind, and he moved King Jing to ask for it personally, so he was appointed to escort grain and grass, and he didn't go to the battlefield, so he didn't have to worry about his life, which was also suitable.
The prince was not conducive to the line and failed to personally order troops on the battlefield; King Li was still unconscious, King Jue and King Xun were in danger, only King Jue and King Xun came with Chu Jing with hundreds of officials.
After drinking, Qin Yan took Jiang Tao to ride the horse first.
There are many princes, but none of them have the will to follow Qin Yannan to resist the enemy.
These thousands of miles of East Chu rivers and mountains carry the glory of his Chu clan for generations, and it is the will of the king who cannot lose an inch of land for the emperor and the monarch. But except for Chu Jin, none of the princes had the heart to fight. The capital is just a small place, but the bee-like people are reluctant to leave, they all want to get a piece of the ready-made soup, for fear that they will miss the position they have coveted for a long time if they are half a step late.
The army marched for more than 20 days, and finally entered Wuling City in mid-November.
Qin Yan had already been familiar with the situation at the border pass, and after the army entered the city, he rested for two days before entering Qixia Pass.
At this time, Qixia Pass had gone through two battles, and Qi Jingxun took 100,000 guards to guard the pass. The wolf smoke rose everywhere under the pass, and the Nanzhao soldiers waited for an opportunity to move ten miles outside the pass, if it wasn't for Qin Yan's timely arrival, Qixia Pass would almost not be able to hold it.
As soon as the Eastern Chu reinforcements arrived, Nanzhao actually withdrew from the pass for a hundred miles, and hid in the dense forest.
Weiyang only refused to leave after entering the Butterfly Valley that day, and wandered around in the valley every morning, and when Huaxun remembered to look for her, she turned Hualu to play in the depths of the valley and forest, and did not return for half a day.
Day after day, Hua Lu was accompanied by Weiyang, and she just pestered her every day, letting her tell some gonzo stories in the world, and gradually put aside Ruan Luo's troubles.
On this day, the two avoided Huaxun and secretly went out of the Butterfly Valley to the southeast for half a day, entering a valley.
After entering the valley, the flower dew crept quietly and leaned towards a halfway in the valley.
"Lu'er?" Weiyang whispered to Hua Lu, who was lying behind the tree.
Which Cheng thought, Hua Lu was very nervous and looked at it for a while, and then immediately pressed Weiyang, pulling behind the tree, "Shh...... Be quiet, don't alarm it. ”
Weiyang suddenly closed his voice and held his breath, and the two of them squatted on a big tree and looked into the hole on the half of the wall. For almost an hour, there was not a single movement in the cave.
Hualu scratched her head, wrinkled her nose and slowly stood up and gestured with Weiyang, which meant that she was going to take a look.
Weiyang looked amused, and followed her silently towards the mouth of the cave.
As I got closer, I could already see that the entrance to the cave was hidden behind a pile of weeds, more than half a person tall and two people wide. When she got closer, she felt a familiar aroma coming to her face, a little cold but extremely delicate, slightly sweet.
The flower dew seemed to smell it too, and suddenly said with joy, "I thought it would only bloom tomorrow, but I never thought it would open today!" ”
Weiyang couldn't understand what she said, the two of them only walked a few more steps towards the aroma, and they had already come to the weeds at the entrance of the cave. ”
Weiyang looked at Hua Lu inexplicably and asked with his eyes.
Hualu stepped into the cave with a lighter footstep, and beckoned to Weiyang, motioning for her to follow.
The two entered the cave one after the other.
Without waiting for Weiyang to take a closer look at the structure in the cave, he saw Hualu running quickly towards the depths of the cave, and Weiyang couldn't help but follow her and hurry forward.
The cave was extremely deep, and after the two of them ran in, they turned two corners, and suddenly a light from the sky shot in overhead, and it turned out to be a crack in the mountain. The aroma was so strong that it couldn't be dispersed, Weiyang only felt that the place behind her neck was like fire after smelling the fragrance, and it was only faintly burning at first, but at this time it was like a fire, she couldn't help but reach out and touch the back of her neck, knowing that it was the place where there was a butterfly mark.
Hua Lu had already run under the slit, but before she could stop, she took two steps back, and there was a slight tremor in her voice, "Snake, Snake King!" ”
When Weiyang Xunsheng raised his eyes, he saw a big snake with an unknown thickness of a bucket coiled under the light of the day, and the snake's head coiled into the snake's body as if he had never seen the two of them coming.
"Let's go!" Weiyang pulled the flower dew and was about to run back.
Who wants to break away from Weiyang's hand, and said silently with his cherry lips, "The snake king fruit is about to bloom, if you don't pick the sunset at this time, it will wither, it's a pity!" ”
Weiyang listened to the direction of Hua Lu's finger and looked, under the skylight, on a waist-high arm-thick plant, between the sparse branches there were two pairs of red lantern-like flower bones waiting to be released, the bud mouth had been cracked, the long stamens were exposed, and the palm-sized heart-shaped leaves hung sporadically on the branches.
At this moment, the snake suddenly raised its head, and Weiyang and Hualu were so frightened that they hurriedly leaned towards the side of the cave wall. The serpent ignored the two of them, and only looked up at the place where the light was leaking.
The two of them couldn't help but follow the big snake's gaze to look up, but they saw that there were butterflies in the slits, and there were more and more of them, countless of them.
Hua Lu couldn't help but cry out, "Oops, if these butterflies come, the snake king fruit will be useless even if it blooms!" After speaking, he looked nervously at the top of his head, and a meteor rope pulled out of nowhere in his hand.
Weiyang saw that she attached so much importance to those few small red lanterns, knowing that they must be extremely precious things, and her own butterfly mark was like a fiery fire at this time, so she said, "I'll deal with the butterflies, you just need to prevent the big snake from picking the buds and leaving!" ”
Weiyang pulled out the Xiaoyun sword on his back, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, the first time he used this sword was actually used to fight butterflies, if Shizun knew that his beloved thing was ruined like this, he didn't know if he would be so angry that he would vomit blood.
At this time, the little red lantern rolled out with a single petal, and the blood rushed upward, only to feel as if he was in flames, and there seemed to be a torrent of rivers in his body surging towards the back of his neck, as if he was about to break his neck.
She used her internal force to resist the agitation in her body, and when she carried the Red Flame Heart Technique, she rose up, directing most of her internal force to the Xiaoyun Sword in her hand, and swung the clouds at the swarm of butterflies.
The blade of the Howling Cloud sword carried a layer of flames, forcing the flocks of butterflies to dodge, and those who could avoid it were incinerated by the flames.
After a while, all the petals of the little red lantern bloomed, and the few golden stamens were exposed.
Hua Lu opened the small bamboo tube she was carrying, and released a dark blue butterfly, the size of a thumb. The butterfly is also a strange thing, and it flies straight to the blooming snake king fruit from the bamboo tube.
The big snake's small eyes widened, and he spat out a long snake letter and rolled towards the little dark blue butterfly. The flower dew rope had arrived, and the big snake did not retreat for a minute, and raised its waist to guard the flower tree, not allowing it to approach at all.
A layer of butterfly corpses had been laid on the ground, and the little butterfly of Hualu was a little timid and did not dare to approach Weiyang.
Hualu fought with the big snake in one place, and she didn't get any cheapness. The big snake didn't know how many years of cultivation it had taken to become so strong, and he had never been tired. Flower Dew's many rope blades all greeted its body, and the snakeskin was so tough that ordinary swords couldn't hurt it.
Weiyang led the red flame heart trick to swallow the flame on the back of his neck, but he couldn't imagine that he could fuse; She was overjoyed, and danced the Xiaoyun Sword through the wind and rain, and the countless butterflies were frightened back by the increasingly dense flames on her blade, and even though the moths were fighting the fire, there was no way to move forward.
Weiyang was able to slow down and help Hua Lu snatch the little red lantern, and with a sword, he was about to stab the big snake in the vital place.
As if frightened, "Don't, don't hurt it!" ”
Weiyang had no choice but to twist the tip of his sword and slash across the snakeskin, and a neat wound suddenly collapsed. The big snake was in pain, and stepped back with a sizzle, looking at the long sword in Weiyang's hand in fear.
The little butterfly took the opportunity to bite the blooming little red lantern, and when the big snake was about to attack again, Weiyang had already stopped it with a sword. The big snake could only watch as the little butterfly sucked up the nectar and flew back into the bamboo tube in Hualu's hand.
Hua Lu took this opportunity and released the small butterfly in another bamboo tube.
One of the two pairs of small red lanterns instantly lost its color and withered instantly.
"Weiyang, let's go!" Hua Lu stuffed the bamboo tube back into her arms with one hand, and pulled back the meteor rope with the other hand to run out.
Weiyang slowly retreated, and before he could take a step in front of Hua Lu, the big snake instantly burst into anger and attacked Hua Lu.
Rising more than five feet tall, the snake's head with a large basin writhed and crashed into the flower dew. The two of them couldn't dodge, and they were both knocked out by the big snake for more than a foot and fell on the stone wall.
The big snake's eyes were blood-red at this time, and he stared closely at Weiyang, who was standing with his sword up, and attacked again as if he was crazy.
Weiyang is not afraid of it, and he will be cut down with a swing of his sword.
"Don't, don't hurt it!" Hua Lu pressed one hand on Weiyang's wrist and hurriedly stopped.
Weiyang didn't know what he meant, and when he saw that the snake didn't pay attention to himself, he just blindly attacked Hualu, and then said, "You go first!" After saying that, he dodged between the flower dew and the big snake, and the Xiaoyun Sword shone in front of him with a dark golden light.
Hualu nodded and ran out of the cave, and the big snake got up and chased after Weiyang.
Weiyang knew that it must be holding a grudge and wanted to recapture the pair of small red lanterns that had been picked. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind, and he ran to the pair of small red lanterns that were still left.
The big snake seemed to know what Weiyang was going to do, and quickly turned around and attacked Weiyang. The cave is open, and the figure of more than five zhang is very flexible.
Weiyang smiled, and took advantage of the big snake to turn around and take advantage of the airlift of the flying immortals outside the sky and shot out of the cave, and he could already see the flower dew waiting at the entrance of the cave, and when he was about to leave the cave, his body suddenly became weak, and a mouthful of blood sprayed on the cave wall, and he fainted instantly.
"Weiyang!" Hua Lu was frightened, and ran to the entrance of the cave in three steps and two steps, picked up Weiyang, and flew away from the hole. After running for half an hour, he found another hidden cave and put Weiyang down, but he couldn't wake up after a few calls.
Weiyang's body temperature is extremely high, and no matter how much Hualu tosses, he can't wake up.
Hualu was so frightened that she cried out at this time, and she didn't dare to delay, so she picked up Weiyang and walked out of the valley. After finding the way he came, he spread the limits of what he had learned in his life and returned to the Butterfly Valley.
The general entered the valley mouth, slashed the message tree of the valley mouth with one palm, and both exhausted and Weiyang fell on the valley mouth path.
Hua Xun heard the sound of the bell, twisted his eyebrows and came to the valley, and he was frightened at first glance.
It turned out that Weiyang vomited a few mouthfuls of blood on the road, and the two of them were now covered in blood, and they were extremely embarrassed.
One hand returned to the room, carefully took the pulse of the flower dew, but it was not a big deal to use too much force, this little girl was lazy on weekdays, and she never concentrated on practicing, so that the light work was always half-hung, and at the critical moment, she didn't even know the internal force to breathe, Hua Xun shook her head helplessly.
Turned his head to look at Weiyang on the couch again, the thin corners of his lips were stained with blood that had not yet dried up, and he hurriedly pulled the thin white wrist, and his eyes instantly widened at a glance.
Looking at Weiyang in front of her, Hua Xun suddenly opened her back collar, and a butterfly mark clearly appeared on the back of her neck, the blood-red butterfly was very vivid, as if it was alive, and she could faintly feel the fluttering of her wings.
Hua Xun took a few steps back, sat on the chair, his lips trembled uncontrollably, and he couldn't stop for a long time.
Suddenly, Weiyang frowned as if he was about to wake up, and Hua Xun woke up. got up and went over to support her, with one hand on the vein of his left wrist, only to feel that the internal force was pure and long, as if it was endless, like a bubbling stream. I smelled the fragrance of the snake king fruit on the two of them, and I knew that there was no big problem, so I put my heart at ease, and the tenderness in my eyes deepened.
Although Weiyang fainted and didn't know all the processes during the period, he could also see some clues in Hua Xun's eyes.
He thanked him softly, got up and walked to the room where he had been living before. She has been happy since she was a child, and she can't stand such embarrassment.
Before getting up, I sensed it all over my body, and walked with internal strength, and saw that it was okay, but I saw Hua Lu sleeping on the couch, and looked at Hua Xun as if inquiring.
"Lu'er is not good at learning!" Hua Xun shook his head.
Weiyang got up and walked out.
Hua Xun didn't stop him, he was shocked by Weiyang's identity and lost his mind for a while, and he was a little more stable at this moment. secretly thought that she would not leave for a moment, and there was no need to rush this moment.
Bent over and picked up the dew and sent it back to her room, she went into the study and never came out.
These days, Weiyang has wandered through all the places in the Butterfly Valley with Hualu, although the valley has its own world and has no quarrel with the world, but it also hides a strange appearance that she can't see through. The study is an example, even the playful flower dew walks around.
After raising it for a day, he didn't see anything unusual in his body, and Weiyang didn't take yesterday's events to heart. Hua Lu slept for more than a long time before waking up, and had dinner together, but Hua Xun was nowhere to be seen.
It rained at night, Weiyang cleaned up neatly and quietly went out of the Butterfly Valley, went south for ten miles and stopped, and waited for about half a moment and did not see Hua Xun to track, then he turned to the northeast and galloped.
Hua Xun was in the study that night, and she was still awake in the shock of discovering her identity. When the day was about to dawn, Hua Xun suddenly jumped up as if he had been stimulated by something, entered the secret room, and did not come out for three days.
It was these three days that he regretted for half his life.