35, Cangyuan Rebellion
Mo Yu straightened his back and leaned close to the trunk of the tree, trying to break free of his hands. But the "divine envoy" was obviously very experienced, and the rope was just fastened at the thinnest part of the wrist, and the tighter it became. She fumbled around the ground with her fingers, but only found a single pine cone.
"Pine cones are pine cones...... Mo Yu whistled, and his fingers touched the trunk of the tree, grinding the outer skin of the pine cone little by little. The scent of pine nuts came out, and she pursed her lips and learned a few squirrel calls. The snow on the mountain has not melted, and the storage for the winter is almost consumed, but there is no new fruit to replenish.
With patience, when his hands and feet were numb, a gray-brown squirrel jumped out and looked this way. Mo Yu straightened his body and remained motionless, while learning the squirrel's cry to tease it. Wait for it to let down its guard and jump closer, and then use the crushed pine nuts to lead it to bite on the rope. The squirrel had sharp teeth and snapped loose in a few clicks.
Mo Yu broke free from the rope and threw all the remaining pine nuts in his hand on the ground, regardless of whether the squirrel understood it or not, and hurriedly said, "It's all for you!" Frightened, the squirrel squeaked and jumped into the bushes. She went back to Yuntai to borrow a horse and chased all the way north.
The cold wind whipped on his face like a knife, and Mo Yu galloped almost day and night, and several times almost fell asleep and fell off his horse. It was getting closer and closer to Cangyuan, but it was very calm along the way, so calm that it made her panic. She pinched her fingers and counted the days, she should barely be in time to reach Cangyuan on the day of the alliance.
When he could see the dark purple flag from afar, Mo Yu was too sleepy to open his eyes. Standing on the high platform, Su Tian was raising his dagger, slicing his fingers and dripping blood into the bronze wine bottle. The light purple clothes, illuminated by the sunlight, emitted a lustrous light, like a beam of light, shining straight into Mo Yu's heart.
The horse's hooves suddenly tripped over something, and Mo Yu couldn't stop leaning forward, and the horse was lowered, and she slid down against the horse's mane and slipped into the half-man-high grass. Someone jumped out of the bushes and put a pole around the horse, blood on the horse's leg, and caught a trap.
Mo Yu huddled in the grass, watching those few people gather together, talking in a low voice, not far away, but not a word clearly. One of them, a woman in red, was talking to a man in black with a cluster of arrows. The arrows glowed green, apparently smeared with poison.
On the high platform a little farther away, Su Tian was already facing the monarch of Lu and raised the bronze wine bottle. As long as you drink the wine dripping with blood, the alliance is completed.
At this moment, the woman in red drew a long arrow, and the arrow was wrapped in a layer of thick black grease, and when she folded it closer, the grease hissed and burned. Mo Yu had seen this strange black grease in Lingxiao Pass, and knew that it would catch fire when it saw it, and a cry choked in his throat.
The woman in red was slender, but the strength on her arms was very great, and with the flaming arrows, she flew straight to the flag on the side of the high platform, and the flag woven of silk immediately burned when it met the fire. There was chaos on the high platform, and the guards shouted loudly, surrounding the monarch of Lu and Su Tian in the middle.
Four or five more rockets with black grease were fired in four strokes, and they did not hurt anyone, but only shot at the easily burning grain grass and cloth, and in a short time the entire high platform was sent into the sea of fire. The monarch of Lu Guojun was so frightened that his face sank into the ground, his hands trembled, and the wine in the bronze bottle spilled out.
Su leaned on his arm and didn't let him go, as if to persuade him to drink the wine first and complete the ritual of concluding the covenant. Where was Lu Guojun willing to listen, he struggled to retreat, and between the two of them, they were already close to the edge of the high platform.
The man in black, who had been standing still, took a long arrow at this time, put it on the bow, and slowly pointed it at Su Tian. The golden light flashed on the sideburns, and Mo Yu was shocked to realize that this person was the "divine envoy" who appeared on the altar before. Thick smoke was rising, she couldn't see where Han Chong was, in the chaos, someone needed to point out the location of these people who released cold arrows to Han Chong.
Mo Yu took out a communication firework brought from the gimbal, lit it with the fire fold and threw it into the air. The fireworks exploded, scattering countless tiny rays of light like meteors. When the guards of the state of Chu saw the fireworks signal, they rode their horses and ran towards the direction where the ink rumor was. The figures could not be made out in the thick smoke, and the guards did not get close, and the arrows were already shooting like raindrops.
Interrupted by the fireworks, the man in black's long arrow failed to shoot, and the woman in red beside him, looking at the place where Mo Yu was hiding, raised her bow and crossbow at her.
There were people and horses fighting all around, and Mo Yu had nowhere to hide, and she didn't want to hide, so she found a second communication firework and lit it in the same way and threw it into the air. The smoke was so great that someone needed to constantly point the Chu guards in the direction to make sure they found the person who was sneaking up.
She glanced at the figure on the high platform, but she couldn't see anything clearly, but the light purple light was vaguely in front of her. Mo Yu smiled faintly: "Su Tian, I'm not a useless person. ”
The sound of horses' hooves drew closer and closer, and the man who rushed to the front, as soon as he broke out of the layers of smoke, raised his bow and arrow, and shot straight at the man in black. The man in black didn't even dodge, pulled out his waist knife from the person next to him, and threw it forward. The knife struck the man in the chest, and before he could scream, the man on horseback rolled to the ground.
The arrow flying in the air stabbed the mask on the face of the man in black, and with a muffled sound, the outer layer of the green wood mask split in half, revealing a layer of gold-colored, dazzling golden Xuanniao inside, spreading its wings on the man's face.
"It's Wuyang Hou Xiaozhen!" The soldiers of the Chu State who followed closely behind let out a terrified shout. The name Xiao Zhen is a nightmare for them.
At this time, there was another crisp sound, and the arrow just now was so powerful that even the inner golden mask was shattered. The cracks spread on Xuanniao's body, and the golden mask shattered into several pieces and fell to the ground, revealing a fair-skinned face, with long and narrow phoenix eyes and thin lips, without the slightest hint of murderous aura.
Mo Yu stood up in a daze, staring at the familiar face stupidly, her facial features were so distinct, she couldn't be wrong at all. It was Xiao Zhen, Marquis of Wuyang, and his golden Xuanniao mask was a symbol of identity. But the face behind the mask should clearly belong to another person, the stranger who asked for the hexagram in the Miaoyin Temple, the Zizhen who wanted to see the flying painting wall in the stone cave, and the hazelnut who carried her on her back in the middle of the night and walked with her head down......
No, it's not, he is Xiao Zhen, an enemy of the Chu State, and an enemy of Su Tan...... Something must be wrong.
She forgot to hide her figure and staggered two steps forward. With such a move, the woman in red easily saw her, and the bow and arrow in her hand shot without hesitation.
Mo Yu only felt a shock in her chest, her hands and feet became cold, she looked down, a blood-colored flower bloomed on her chest, but she didn't feel pain at all.
"Little ballad!" When Xiao Zhen looked back, it was too late, he snatched the bow from the woman in red, threw it on the ground, and ran towards Mo Yu.
Mo Yu shook his head at him, the determination in his eyes was so obvious. She clutched her chest and took a few steps back, staggering and refusing to fall, with a cliff behind her, and the gravel on the soles of her feet had begun to loosen.
"Xiaoyao, don't go back." Xiao Zhen stopped and stretched out his hand to her, "Come, come here, give me your hand." ”
Mo Yu just shook her head, she hadn't figured out what was wrong, she could only keep saying to herself in her heart: "Don't believe him, don't believe him......" She was wrong once, and she couldn't believe it a second time.
"Xiaoyu, come here, if you have any questions, I can explain them to you." Xiao Zhen was anxious, and he could only persuade patiently. The soldiers of the Chu State surrounded him and slashed all the way to the front, but Xiao Zhen didn't see it at all, his eyes were only staring at the wound on Mo Yu's chest.
"Master Hou, let's leave......" The woman in red blocked the blade for him, and pulled his sleeve to persuade him, but he threw him away.
"It's quick to play around like a fool and live like a fool, right?" Mo Yu said in a very low voice. Xiao Zhen couldn't hear what she said clearly, but felt that the expression on her face was as silent as dead ashes.
Mo Yu looked at him, suddenly smiled softly, and stretched out a hand, as if she was coquettishly asking him to hug him. Xiao Zhen was stunned, and also stretched out his hand forward, and took a step closer to his little ballad. Fingertips will touch, and a third fireworks explode overhead. A large number of soldiers and horses of the Chu State, taking advantage of this light, rushed out of the smoke, killed behind Xiao Zhen, and engulfed him and the woman in red together.
The last look he left on Mo Yu was full of puzzlement. She smiled softly and stretched out her arm, just to deceive him, so that she had time to release the last of the transmission fireworks and point the way to the Chu State Guard.
As soon as the fireworks were extinguished, the light in Mo Yu's eyes was also extinguished, and the arm stretched out forward fell suddenly, and the whole person fell backwards, falling into the valley with a few pieces of gravel.
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His body hurt like a fire, and there were flames all around, like being trapped in a room with no exit, unable to find a way out.
In a blur of consciousness, someone whispered in his ear: "Mo Yu...... Mo Yu ......" voice was very anxious, she wanted to agree, but she opened her mouth but couldn't make a sound.
Someone applied ointment to her, and the ointment touched her skin, and there was a tingling pain. She screamed softly, and the hand that smeared the medicine became lighter. But it still hurts, it hurts so much from the heart, no matter how light it is, it doesn't work.
Although she never cries or makes trouble, she is actually most afraid of pain. She has understood since she was a child that only those who are loved will cry and cry out in pain, because if you shout, someone will care, and if no one pays attention to or loves someone, it is useless to shout. So she could only endure it, endure it to the death.
Gratgy, I don't know where I am. Mo Yu opened her eyes, and in front of her was the familiar moire curtain, and the hand under the light purple sleeve was holding the medicine bowl, bringing the medicine to her mouth.
Seeing her wake up, the hand holding the medicine bowl shook, and the brown medicine juice spilled a little and dripped onto the quilt. "Mo rumor, it hurts on your body, don't move, it'll be fine in a few days." Su Tian, who has always been calm and calm, his voice trembled a little, and his eyes were blue.
She tilted her head to the side and dodged the spoonful of medicine, it was too bitter for her to drink.
"Mo Yu, obedient, drink the medicine and rest." Su Qian gently comforted, "Han Chong gave up half of his life to save you back, even if it is for the sake of his heart, you should take care of it." ”