Xuanhuang calendar 1006, winter.

By the time of the fourth and ninth days, the cold wind on the street was blowing tighter than before, even in this southwest place, it made people feel cold, and today is Chinese New Year's Eve.

In Kuizhou City, in the southeast of Yuguo, in the mansion of the general of the Li family, I saw a boy running into the courtyard from the gate of the mansion and bumping into a woman who was walking out in a hurry.

The boy's name is Li Zhuohua, six or seven years old is slightly taller than ordinary children of the same age, a pair of eyebrows and eyes are deep, wearing a thick mink sweater, and deerskin boots, I think he is the young master in this mansion.

And the woman was dressed in a blue dress, with her long black hair tied behind her back, it was his mother, the wife of the general of the house, Yu.

Seeing Zhuohua running to him, Yu's eyes were full of doting, but when the words came to his mouth, he said: "Zhuohua, where did you go again, didn't I tell you yesterday that my father came home from the Chishui border for the holidays?" ”

Zhuohua raised his head and looked at his mother with an aggrieved face, pouted and said, "I don't know when my father will come back, I will go out to play after lunch at noon." ”

Yu didn't blame him, stepped forward to take his little hand, and walked towards the house.

Zhuohua felt the warmth of her palm, as if in her mother's hands, the world's disasters were covered by it.

Walking through the small pond and entering the main house, Zhuohua finally saw his father, the owner of the house, Li Yuyao.

The surname Li is the surname of Yuguoguo, Li Yuyao's ancestors were the guards of Yuhuang, grew up with the emperor, and was later given the surname Li by the emperor, to Li Yuyao's generation, although the martial arts realm is not high, but he has repeatedly made military exploits at the border, and he has climbed up step by step from the army, and it is not easy to get to this position.

This person is extremely burly, at first glance, it is the result of long-term martial arts training, and with a height of nearly nine feet, it is enough to be stunning just by looking at it.

As soon as they met, Zhuohua pounced, after all, he hadn't seen him for more than half a year, and he missed it even more.

Li Yuyao bent down to pick him up, and said softly in a gentle voice that was extremely incompatible with his figure: "Hua'er misses Daddy, look at what Daddy has brought you." As he spoke, he took out a Hetian jade plaque from the inside of his regular clothes, which was carved with a picture of green mountains and green waters, and the word 'Li' was clearly engraved in the upper right corner of the jade plaque, which was obviously a gift to the boy.

Zhuohua took the jade card, and he couldn't see whether it was good or bad, but there was a slight warm feeling on his hand, so he thanked his father and put it in his pocket.

As the sun approached, the streets on Chinese New Year's Eve were particularly lively, and Zhuohua was in the crowd, drilling around with small drills and scurrying around.

The two subordinates behind him followed him closely, and they were also sweating in the depths of winter, but they didn't dare to lose this little ancestor, and they didn't care about rushing to the crowd at the moment, and hurriedly ran to Zhuohua's side.

And Zhuohua suddenly saw that not far away, a girl was sitting on her knees and curled up in the corner and sobbing silently, Zhuohua stepped forward and squatted down to look at her, and asked, "What are you crying about?" ”

The girl is only three or four years old, but her eyes are clear, her skin is as white as snow, and her little face is red from crying.

She glanced at Zhuohua, her teeth opened slightly, and she said shyly: "Mother, mother, mother, mother." ”

The people behind him preemptively said: "Then we will take you to your mother?" ”

Zhuo Hua turned his head and frowned and glared at him: "Wang Er, what do you say?" In my opinion, it should be back to the house with us, my mother has always wanted to add me a sister. ”

Before he could finish speaking, he saw a young woman running in a hurry at the corner of the street, and this woman was even more beautiful, and she was eight or nine points similar to the girl, as if she were a replica of the swelling.

The woman found the girl in the corner, ran to her and picked her up, her beautiful eyes widened, and her mouth was slightly fierce, and she said, "Why did you run away, don't come out next time like this"

She turned her head to look at Zhuohua again, the two looked at each other, the young woman's eyes flashed with panic, avoiding Zhuohua's eyes and not looking at him, she turned around with the girl and disappeared into the crowd.

Zhuohua was suddenly a little lost, and pointed to Wang Er, who had just spoken, and said: "There are too many people here, and you can't see anything, so it's okay, Wang Er, you sit on your shoulder with me and see farther." ”

Skillfully climbed on Wang Er's shoulder, his vision was finally broad, and Zhuohua looked around, only to see the lion dance and fireworks in the distance as the background.

Zhuohua's eyes relaxed and ran away, but he saw farther southeast, and there seemed to be a large area of firelight approaching rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, he was about to run to the city.

The ground also felt a sense of trembling, and the people on the street noticed it, and the whole street instantly panicked, and Zhuohua swayed on Wang Er's back, almost being shaken off.

I don't know who shouted in the crowd that the enemy was coming! This sentence gave everyone's fear room for imagination, everyone was running around without a head, and before the fire could run in front of them, many people were already squeezed down and trampled.

Wang Er carried Li Zhuohua on his back and ran towards the house as if he were sprinting, and a subordinate next to him rushed to open the way in front, knocking down many pedestrians who were also running along the way.

After two streets, I finally saw the gate of the house, at this time the whole city began to have fires, and the cavalry rushing in from all sides almost rushed to the front of the gate, they were all dressed in red shirts, wearing steel chain mail, and the same steel-rimmed red tasseled felt hat on the top of their heads, which was the most important equipment of the cavalry.

The army wore red clothes, which was a symbol of the Siamese state, which showed that the surprise attack was actually carefully planned by the Siamese state.

Seeing that Wang Er had run to the front of the mansion with Zhuohua on his back, the Siamese cavalry on both sides also followed closely, each holding a torch behind the black press, and it was impossible to count how many cavalry had entered this small Kuizhou city.

Wang Er slammed the door of the mansion while putting down the burning Hua on his back, and the sound of horses' hooves behind him was already very close. Wang Er turned his head to see that the bright spear reflected the fire on his face, and he didn't have time to shout a word to protect the young master, only to see a shot from the cavalry on the horse, which pierced his throat. Another subordinate next to him had also died on the spot.

Zhuo Hua stood behind Wang Er, and he was completely stunned when he saw the bloody tip of the spear that passed through his throat, and he didn't even have time to scream, and the action of his hand slamming on the door stopped.

I just saw that the tip of the spear was pulled out, and the blood gushed out, and as Wang Er's motionless body fell backwards, Zhuohua's face and body were splashed with this viscous liquid, and at the same time, the tip of the spear that was pulled out had been pierced out, facing the center of Zhuohua's eyebrows.

At this critical moment, the door of the mansion behind him opened, and it was Li Yuyao. As soon as he stretched out his hand, he grabbed Zhuo Hua's back collar and pulled it back violently, Zhuo Hua was almost out of breath when he grabbed him like this, but he finally dodged this fatal brain-piercing shot. In the blink of an eye, the Siamese soldier stabbed out again, Li Yuyao turned to one side, and grabbed the handle of the gun while dodging.

Li Yuyao turned around and hurriedly yelled at Zhuohua: "Hua'er is still stunned, go back to the inner room to find your mother!" ”

Zhuohua was already frightened, but half of the three souls and seven spirits were back by this roar, nodded stunned, turned around and ran towards the mansion, where the only few remaining family members and servants were running towards the gate of the mansion.

Yu Shizheng, who ran out behind, saw Zhuohua, and ran over to pick him up regardless of his old clothes, and ran to the inner room.

At this time, Yu's heart was also in a mess, and he was so panicked that he couldn't do it anymore, and he only hoped that her husband and the few people in the family could solve it, and now she could only take Zhuohua to the back room to hide.

Zhuohua was held by Yu, and looked back at the gate of the mansion, the Siamese soldiers had poured in like a tide, and his father Li Yuyao and a few of his subordinates couldn't resist at all, and a few of them had been stabbed to death indiscriminately, and they had retreated to the courtyard at this moment, and the Siamese soldiers were surrounded by a steady stream of Siamese soldiers.

Li Yuyao is still struggling to support, but he is only a third-rate master, so that he learned a hand of 36 Arhat boxing in the Shaolin Temple in his early years, even if he has the ability to command thousands of troops, at this moment it is already called every day, and the earth is not spiritual, and he silently said in his heart, my life is resting, I just hope that Zhuohua can escape this time, that person, should come.

While thinking, he knocked down two more Siamese soldiers. But the enemies around him only increased, and Li Yuyao's body was injured more and more, and he was afraid that if he held on for a while, he would die under this chaotic knife.

At this moment, the Yu family has rushed to the backyard with Zhuohua in his arms, fortunately, there are no enemy soldiers in the backyard at this time, and the wall in the house is more than half a person higher than the ordinary earthen wall, there is no ladder outside and you can't get in for a short time, but the enemy soldiers who can't get in outside the courtyard keep throwing torches into the courtyard, and the entire backyard is burning.

Yu looked around, there was no way out, she didn't have time to think about why the enemy army could cross the border and suddenly attack, and even in the past few days, there were no scouts to report. Thinking that I am afraid that I will die here today, and it is worth dying with my husband, but Hua'er...

And no one noticed that there was a person standing on the wall at some point, dressed in black and masked, and he actually blended into the night.

At the moment, Yu's heart was crossed, and she found a hidden corner and bent down to put Zhuohua down, she was also a person who had experienced strong winds and waves, and said to Zhuohua calmly.

It was the first time Zhuohua saw his mother look so serious, and at this time his mind was already half clear, but he heard the words that made him dizzy again: "If those gangsters find us later, you don't care about your mother, rush out and escape from the yard through the backyard door, can you hear clearly!?" ”

She was very anxious in her heart, and her words and expressions seemed a little vicious, and Zhuohua was so frightened that tears gushed out for a while.

As soon as the words fell, I saw a hand suddenly choke Yu's neck, this hand was extremely huge, as if it was twice the size of an ordinary person.

In the blink of an eye, it seemed effortless, and five fingers were deeply buckled into Yu's slender neck, and the whole hand was like squeezing a lump of meat filling, crushing a person's neck alive at once, pinching it into meat puree.

Blood suddenly gushed out of his neck and splashed onto Zhuo Hua's frightened and stiff face. Yu's entire body and head fell to the ground heavily, and his face still retained the hideous expression just now.

Zhuo Hua was so frightened that he couldn't move at this time, half of his breathing stopped, he was only a five or six-year-old child at the moment, and the death of his family in front of him today was far more than he could accept.

As his mother fell, he saw the man's eyes, dark, deep, devouring eyes.

I saw that the blood-drenched right hand did not stop at all, and put his fingers together and hit him straight towards the door, Zhuo Hua only felt a heat wave in front of him rushing towards him, and subconsciously closed his eyes, I don't know whether he was pushed by the air wave or self-reaction, the whole person fell backwards, he only felt that the burning feeling was getting closer and closer to him, but his heart was in chaos.

This time, I am afraid that I will die at the hands of this person, my father and mother were killed by traitors, and I have no meaning in living in this world, and this death is also the end.

Thinking of this, there was silence in my heart, but the figure of the little girl flashed in my mind, I don't know if she can escape this enemy attack on the city. As for himself, I'm afraid I'm going to die at the hands of this gangster with my mother.

Zhuo Hua felt that the man's palm was about to touch the door in front of him, and he was ready to be slapped to death with his eyes tightly closed.

Suddenly, the man's palm wind seemed to pass from Zhuohua's left side, and the wave of qi that was about to hit Zhuohua's face door hit the wall solidly.

Zhuo Hua's whole person fell to the ground heavily, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a left foot against the wrist of the man in black, and the entire palm was offset by a few inches, which saved Zhuo Hua's life.

Look at the man who stretched out his left foot, he was also dressed in black like that man, and he had withdrawn his left foot at this time. When the man who came out of his palm saw that someone had done something bad and good, he immediately took his palm and fought with the man.