In the distance, Sa Luzi carried Xi Yan slowly to the west, and he was already covered with the big coat handed over by Liu Peiqi.

The kneeling in front of Jincheng, 70,000 people completely knelt down to say goodbye to Da Zhao. From then on, they could not be regarded as the people of Great Zhao, and they could only wander abroad for the rest of their lives, and they could not return to their homeland.

Not far behind him, the sound of hand-to-hand fighting has already come, the Northern Qin army and the Great Zhao army have clashed, and he must leave the northwest with these 70,000 people before the battle is over.

Otherwise, even if you leave Jincheng alive, you won't be able to get out of the northwest alive.

Heavy snow fell in the sky again, and the heavens and the earth were sad, just like Xi Yan's mood at the moment.

There was an oppressive silence in the air, and although they escaped from the Golden City, they were still confused in the future.

The wounds on Xi Yan's body had not yet been healed, and he was wearing a single coat and suffering from the cold, and at this time, his lips were already glowing with a cold dead gray.

"Childe, thirty miles to the west and then to the south, is the Qunqu Pass. After crossing the Qunqu Mountain, you will reach the boundary of the Lingjiang River. It's just that it is not easy to cross Qunqu Mountain in winter. ”

From beginning to end, Liu Peiqi was very calm, even calm and a little unreasonable. Even in front of Jincheng, when all the troops knelt down with Xi Yan, Liu Peiqi was still vigilant, standing on guard against the Northern Qin army not far away, lest Fu Mang take the opportunity to make trouble.

"Childe?" Liu Peiqi turned his head slightly suspiciously, but saw Xi Yan suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, and his body straddling the horse's back began to stagger.

"Childe!"

Liu Peiqi hurriedly turned around to support him, took out a water bag from his robe in surprise, put the water to Xi Yan's lips, and shivered to feed him to drink the water.

It was impossible to have hot water during the march, but fortunately, this water bag was kept by his body, and the clear water in the bag did not freeze into ice under the harsh winter in the northwest.

"Continue to march," Xi Yan held on to the saddle as hard as possible, trying to maintain the demeanor of a general, he knew that it was not safe at the moment, if even he fell, then it would inevitably shake the morale of the army.

Thinking that he was about to leave the northwest boundary, Xi Yan first ordered: "You find a place to bury General Shi's head, he is a minister of Great Zhao, and he does not want to go to Lingjiang with me." ”

"Yes," Liu Peiqi lowered his eyes a little gloomily, and he was also saddened and regretted for Shi Hanqing's death, "Then the ashes of the Hou Ye ......?" He hesitated and was cautious in his voice, for fear of touching the deepest pain in Xi Yan's heart.

Xi Yan sighed slowly, and when he mentioned his brother, he even felt that his throat was surging with fishy sweetness again, but he still swallowed it forcibly.

"Take it to Lingjiang and return it to the ancestral hall."

"Yes."

Liu Peiqi firmly agreed, he didn't see Xi Yan's strange appearance at the moment, he also knew that Xi Luan's death had become a heart disease for Xi Yan, and this knot must not let him endure it all the time. If you say it, maybe it will be better.

When he was about to open his mouth to persuade him, Xi Yan had already spoken first.

"You just said that you will reach the boundary of the Lingjiang River after crossing the Qunqu Mountain, but the road is not easy to walk?"

"Yes," Liu Peiqi looked at him worriedly, and said earnestly, "but your body? That's a lot of blood......"

He knew that Xi Yan had been physically and mentally destroyed during this time, and he suddenly relaxed, but it made him vomit a mouthful of blood.

"It's okay, I can stand it."

Liu Peiqi sighed with a worried face, and then replied: "Although there are official roads in Qunqu Mountain, we are tens of thousands of people, and we still have heavy baggage and wounded people, and it is really difficult to walk in winter. ”

"It's fine. It's just that no matter how difficult it is, do you and I have any other way to go now? At this moment, Xi Yan had regained his original calm on the surface, but his voice was still low and weak, "Then you can tell me what my brother left in Lingjiang." ”

"Why did the prince see that the Hou Ye left an arrangement in Lingjiang?"

Xi Yan sneered, noncommittal, but did not answer Liu Peiqi's words.

Liu Peiqi saw that he couldn't adjust the atmosphere, but he was bored, so he said to himself: "In the past twelve years, in addition to laying out a lot of fine works in Chongdu, almost all the remaining manpower is in Lingjiang. ”

"How many people? What are they all doing in Lingjiang? ”

"Less than ten. However, these people almost mastered the government and army in Lingjiang. Others controlled almost all of Lingjiang's commercial and trade exchanges. ”

"But ......" Liu Peiqi hesitated for a moment before he said cautiously, "After going south, can Gongzi intend to establish himself as king?" ”

"Self-reliance?" Xi Yan turned a deaf ear to Liu Peiqi's proposal, "The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it." If a man is not self-reliant and I am self-reliant, they will destroy me. ”

"What Gongzi said has some truth, but if you don't claim to be the king, you may not be right, and it is not enough to rule Lingjiang and make the people submit."

Xi Yan shook his head, obviously not wanting to continue the topic.

"Everything will wait until Lingjiang, I'm afraid that when we arrive at Lingjiang, there will already be a Great Zhao army waiting there, just waiting for us to enter the cage."

"I don't think so," Liu Peiqi thought for a moment when he heard this, "Da Zhao is now short of troops, even if he has sufficient troops, he must give priority to the northwest." Now what Da Zhao can mobilize is at most the government soldiers of various military offices, although we only have 70,000 people, but they are all the former twelve Praetorian Guards, all of them are elite. ”

At this point, Xi Yan remembered the days when he was in Chongdu in the past, and couldn't help sighing, "In the past, my brother taught me that those who are gentlemen should establish a life for the people and open peace for all generations." But now? ”

Xi Yan covered his lips with the back of his hand and coughed again, and Liu Peiqi saw that there was a little more bright red in his hand.

"How many people have been displaced because of me; The changes in the northwest, the troubled times will arise again because of me. You say, in the eyes of the world, am I a person who has lived up to his virtues? ”

Liu Peiqi was suddenly a little at a loss, Xi Yan said this, did he already have the intention of abandoning himself in his heart?

With such pain, he knew that no one could recover in a short period of time, and neither could Xi Yan, Liu Peiqi had to say: "Everything has a fixed number, and if you are not extremely good and evil, a fixed number cannot be bound." It is a theorem that the world is divided and combined, and the son is just conforming to the will of heaven. ”

"Providence?" Xi Yan was a little teasing, "Is the will of heaven to play tricks on the world like this?" I am the home of Zhao Zhongming Dingshi, and it is a century-old lintel. Now he is about to be forced away from the wilderness, and his family's life and death are still uncertain. The so-called providence is too cruel. ”

Speaking of his family, Liu Peiqi suddenly bowed his hand to Xi Yan and said, "Don't worry, your parents and relatives are all fine." Since Hou Ye can make trouble, he will not forget this point. ”

It turned out that after the news of Xi Luan's death was transmitted back to Chongdu, the fine work that was originally placed in Chongdu responded. picked up Xi Yuanshan and Meng Qingyao early in the morning, and was recuperating in the dark at the moment.

A hundred miles north of Chongdu City, deep in the mountains. Since the rebellion in Chongdu City, Xi Yuanshan and his wife Meng Qingyao have been taken here by Xi Luan's people and have been isolated from the world.

But every morning, the latest news will be sent to Xi Yuanshan's desk, and every time Xi Yuanshan sees these news, he feels a little sad.

This is the land of pine wind and water and moon, with lush forests and bamboos, and only a stream of water flows through the forest.

Xi Luan had already built a Taoist temple here, and no outsiders had set foot in it for several years. It is winter, the Taoist temple is white, and occasionally jackdaws flutter and fly by, but it is very quiet.

For many years, Xi Yuanshan and Meng Qingyao have been estranged. Since Xi Luan's accident, Meng Qingyao has been in tears almost every day, although some time has passed, there is still a layer of sadness between her eyebrows.

In the end, it is the highest to the sun and the moon, the closest relatives to the sparse husband and wife. Seeing her like this, Xi Yuanshan couldn't bear to be cold anymore in his heart, and the relationship that had been cold for many years eased a little.

Hearing that Liu Peiqi said that his parents were fine, Xi Yan felt a little relieved, "That's it, I'll go along with my brother." It's just that the road ahead is still high mountains and waters, and the summer rain is cold. ”

Qunqu Mountain is close in front of him, looking at the towering mountains, Liu Peiqi finally showed a little relieved: "You can get out of this northwest soon." In a blink of an eye, it was in the northwest for four months. This journey is really bumpy and not easy. ”

Xi Yan was also quite stunned, "The year is in a hurry, and it is the early autumn season to come to fashion." Now that he is gone, it is already the twilight of the year. This trip to the northwest should be regarded as drinking wind and frost. ”

Indeed, Xi Yan was in the northwest this time, first experienced the death of his brother's treason, and then suffered humiliation in front of Jincheng. After counting the hardships, how can it be said that a sentence of drinking wind and frost can be exhausted.

Liu Peiqi also knew the hardships, so he muttered: "If you can be so indifferent to karma, the son will be open-minded, and he can take the bright moon into his arms." But his subordinates still advise him, some things are good, but some things still need to be engraved in their hearts. ”

Xi Yan raised his eyes and looked at Liu Peiqi, "Then does Liu Qing want me to remember, or do you want me to forget?" ”

Liu Peiqi smiled and said nothing, the two glanced at each other, and then smiled heartily, Xi Yan was still weak, but there was already brilliance in his eyes.

"For some reason, you no longer call me a general, and you no longer call yourself the last general. The reason, can Liu Qing tell me? ”

Liu Peiqi laughed and dismissed it, "At that time, I was still the first to be the leader of the army, and then to my lord, so it is not inappropriate to call you a general." At this moment, I am not only your subordinate general, but there is nothing wrong with calling myself a subordinate. ”

"That being the case, I hope that Liu Qing will be sent to me in the future, and he will be like my brother. If this can be done, I will not teach Liu Qingcai to be lucky. ”

Before that, Xi Yan also had some scruples about Liu Peiqi. But after what he said just now, Xi Yan found that although Liu Peiqi was a bit hard-hearted, he was also a loyal person.

"Subordinate, I will live up to my son's expectations."

A trip to the mountains, a journey to the water, the northwest land is behind you, no matter how much, it has passed, compared to the heaviness of life and death, the road that is still confused in the future seems to be much easier, and the faces of the soldiers behind him no longer have the previous color of death and sinking.