Chapter Sixty-Six: Our Border City Heroes
Fengchen Inn is still lively, Jiang Wangchen and Hua Youyou came by chance, just in time for the most exciting moment of the day, the two ordered a few side dishes, sat in the corner seat, and began to listen.
The first person to speak was none other than the frequent visitor here, Liu Fatzi, who was familiar with him in the inn, and they all called him Liu Baitong, and he often took pleasure in it. Today, I saw him wearing a navy blue cloth shirt, holding a fan of mountain and river drawings, if he was given another oil-red waking wood, then he would have the charm of a storyteller.
After he took a sip of tea, his deep voice pierced through the inn as soon as he opened his voice.
"Do you know what happened in the border city these days?"
"Liu Baitong, what you said is that the demon clan came to attack the border city and was repelled by Cao Li and his soldiers. Not far away, a thin man spoke.
"That's what I'm going to talk about today. β
The thin man is also a nosy person who likes to inquire, hearing Liu Baitong say this, he snorted coldly at the moment and said with a smile: "Such a big thing, don't say it's Yancheng, I'm afraid it will spread to @@ηιεΎ‘εζ»ι¨ in a few days, Captain Cao Li's heroic nature has long become a beautiful conversation after tea and dinner in every household, if you want to talk about it today, then don't waste your tongue." You'd better not call Liu Baitong, call Liu Butong. β
After the thin man ridiculed, he laughed even more arrogantly.
Liu Baitong was not shocked, the paper fan was gently patted in the palm of his hand, and said: "Then do you know how Commander He Tianyong sacrificed, what is the Baiyan Lizard, and what happened to the first encounter between the elite team of the border city and the demon clan in Dongdushan that day, and what is the ins and outs of this?"
The thin man didn't expect Liu Baitong's counteroffensive to be so ferocious, and he threw out three questions in a row, each of which was bright and secretive. After a turn, the thin man was defeated, so he had to take a sip of stuffy wine and pretend not to hear.
But the crowd next to him was completely incited. They all asked, "Come and hear it." β
On the elegant seat not far away, Jiang Wangchen was even more shocked when he heard thunder, and his whole body trembled and could not help himself. Fortunately, Hua Youyou's hand fell on his shoulder and comforted: "Listen to him first, don't forget Grandpa Mu's words, don't be manic and angry." Only then did he take a few deep breaths of cold air and slowly subsided.
"Let's start with some time ago, Xing Hao, the captain of the border city, led the border city elite team to reconnoiter Dongdushan and was ambushed by the demon clan's advance team. Liu Baitong imitated the storyteller's subdued tone and said, "That fierce fight...... It was really a blood mist that the spring breeze could not penetrate, the moonlight did not reach the cold glow of the sword light and sword shadow, Captain Xing Hao killed the Quartet with a pair of water-breaking double knives, and the blood splashed everywhere like a sickle harvesting wheat ears, there were many good players in the team, and there was a powerful mage foreign aid, but why was Cao Li alone escaped from the encirclement under the cover of Xing Hao's death, and the other soldiers died heroically?"
Everyone looked at each other and discussed one after another.
Someone said: "I heard that it is because there is a demon clan in the elite team of the border city, and I heard that it is a warrior named Jiang Chen." β
Another sharp voice said: "It's called Jiang Wangchen, I have seen this person's wanted photo with my own eyes in the border city." I heard that he is also commensurate with Xing Hao and Cao Li's brothers, and he doesn't want to be a demon clan, the demon clan is really despicable and shameless. β
Jiang Wangchen, who was sitting in the corner, heard this comment, Huo Ran filmed the case, and was so shocked that the audience all cast strange eyes. The anger in his heart was about to flare, and when he saw Hua Youyou's secret eyes at him, he had to swallow his anger and asked, "It's really a villain, I don't know if this girl still remembers his appearance......"
The man shook his head and said, "I only remember that he has messy hair, scattered to his shoulders, and his face is full of beard and scum. β
Although Jiang Wangchen does not love beauty as much as Hua Youyou, when he heard this comment, his heart was also depressed, and he said, "Auntie, you don't have a problem with your eyes, right?"
"Hey, young man, what do you call people, you have a problem with your eyes, people are in their prime, and the young man really doesn't know how to speak. The middle-aged woman pinched the orchid and said coquettishly.
Jiang Wangchen smelled a strong smell of vulgar powder from a distance, and he was even more disdainful of arguing, and lowered his head to bury a few words. The flowers on the side were smiling and fanning the flames: "The young man who was standing is really vicissitudes." β
Liu Baitong took over the conversation and continued to throw out suspense: "As we all know, Commander He Tianyong never leaves the border city, this time he and Cao Li went to Yancheng together, in addition to going to the banquet, the more important thing is to ask for help, before the battle between Dongdushan and the demon clan, the elite troops were all wiped out, and only some recruits were left in the border city demon army, it can be said that the border city at this time is the most precarious, but why did the two of them encounter an attack on the way back, it can be seen from the wound of He Tianyong's commander, it is the front paw of the demon beast directly inserted into the heart. β
When Liu Baitong said this, several guest officials who were eating dishes with relish invariably put down their chopsticks with complicated expressions.
"When Commander He Tianyong and Cao Li went, they had already ordered the border city to be sealed for three days, so where did this demon beast come from? Why did the demon clan attack when Commander He left the border city? This is the second suspicion. β
After listening to this, everyone nodded frequently, and they all guessed in vain.
Liu Baitong continued: "Besides, this city is a choke place to defend the demon clan from entering the customs, although it is not a natural danger, but it can also be said to be easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the battle of the invasion of the entire territory of the demon clan is not counted, and it has experienced countless battles of all sizes for more than two hundred years, and it has always been standing. But why was it so easily attacked this time, and was there some unknown reason for it?"
"It's getting weirder and weirder to connect all these questions. But peeling back the inextricable threads, there is a vein that gradually becomes clear, that is, ......" Liu Baitong coughed lightly a few times and stopped. This way of whetting his appetite is his usual trick, which provokes the audience of the inn to urge them repeatedly. He drank another cup of tea, the paper fan in his hand unfolded neatly, retracted again, and landed on the other hand, and continued: "That is He Cong, the miscellaneous manager of the Border City Demon Imperial Army...... You should also know that I, Liu Baitong, can be regarded as a source of left and right in this area, and the wind comes from all directions, and the next thing I want to talk about is the important secret of the Demon Imperial Army, which I only got from the mouth of the Demon Imperial Army in the border city at a great cost. Do you know what a lizard is?"
The audience are all ordinary people, where have they seen any real demon beasts, but there is a voice from the seat, it is Hua Youyou who said: "Baiyan lizard is a kind of lizard in the demon world, this kind of lizard can become the appearance of any creature after cultivating into a demon, whether it is appearance and voice, it can be completely fake and real, it is difficult to distinguish." But this is only an imitation, and it is extremely difficult to achieve the correct restoration of every god and rhyme, unless you have an extreme understanding of the object of imitation. β
"The little girl is really knowledgeable. Liu Baitong nodded and appreciated: "He Cong in this city is exactly what this Baiyan lizard has turned into. β
After listening to Hua Youyou's detailed explanation, everyone already expected it in their hearts, but they were even more shocked when they heard it with their own ears, and they all gasped, and their surprises were beyond measure.
Seeing that everyone was still puzzled, Liu Baitong brushed his sleeves and said, "Listen to me slowly solve this mystery." β
"That day, Xing Hao fought with the demon clan, and before the fight started, he lost two generals, it turned out that that day, under everyone's expectations, this Baiyan lizard incarnated as Jiang Wangchen successfully attacked a powerful mage, it is said that this mage is still a cousin of He Tianyong's command, of course...... This is gossip. That day, Xing Hao was desperately covered, so that Cao Li escaped alone. β
Jiang Wangchen couldn't help but interject and asked, "Then where did Jiang Wangchen really go?"
"This little brother asked very well, and this is also the whereabouts that I have been asking about recently. Liu Baitong smiled and brushed it over, and continued: "After this battle is over, Cao Li naturally thinks that Jiang Wangchen is the traitor, and the Baiyan Lizard who turned back into He Cong, and continues his next conspiracy, that is, after Commander He and Cao Li left the border city, they quietly put the demon beast into the border city, and killed Commander He in the dry path, fortunately, Cao Li successfully escaped. In this way, the border city completely fell into the rule of the Baiyan Lizard, and the demon clan that came to attack the city gate naturally easily. But fortunately, Cao Li rushed back to the border city in time to expose the true face of the Baiyan Lizard, and led the soldiers to successfully counterattack, and kept the demon clan out of the city gate. This is the ins and outs of the turmoil in the entire border city. The corpse of the Baiyan lizard is still hanging high on the city wall to receive the sun and moon exposure, in order to pay tribute to the heavenly heroes of all the border city soldiers who died in the battle with the demon clan. β
After listening to this, everyone could not calm down the ups and downs of their hearts for a long time, and sighed that a mere lizard could turn the clouds and rain in the border city. The middle-aged woman who teased Jiang Wangchen asked, "In this way, that Jiang Wangchen, who is not old and decrepit, was wronged?"
"The wanted warrant is said to have been taken down. Liu Baitong nodded.
When Jiang Wangchen heard such news, he was not relieved at all, but was imprisoned in the layers of shackles, and he was in his heart, if he didn't know the truth, he might be able to stay out of the matter, but if he was caught in the whirlpool, how could he have room to quit, Cao Li finally got his wish and held the border city in his hands, and became a border city hero admired by thousands of people. Only he knows that the conspiracy brewing behind Cao Li is an even bigger storm. Today's Dongxuan is only a temporary calm in the eye of the storm, but the storm is so rampant, how can he resist his small self, in this world, people will always only want to believe in the story of heroes...... Jiang Wangchen still frowned when he thought of this, but the anger and flickering in his eyes disappeared immediately, and what appeared was the blandness or coldness that gradually calmed down.
Even if the world is like this, he has to gamble with his fate, even if he only has a modest strength, at least behind him, there are countless comrades-in-arms who have the same heroic will and hatred with him, and they will never die.