That day, she knelt on the bluestone slab in the backyard with a tea bowl, and her brother kept pouring boiling hot water into the cup and refused to let go, her knees were bruised, and her ten fingers stinged like pins and needles.

She thought she would kneel for another half an hour, but the teacup in her hand was suddenly taken away.

The door master glanced at her, then looked at the senior brother holding the big teapot, and slowly spit out two words, "Go".

The next day, she was sent to the carriage of the Xie Mansion, and the senior brother was going to Mobei to carry out a mission of nine deaths, and on the way she learned that it was the young lady of the Xie family who was kind to the master of the door and discussed her past with the master of the door.

She thought that Xie Hanci was going to go because he almost killed her and wanted to toss her out.

But when she entered Xie's mansion, she was arranged into a spacious and bright guest room, and she stayed for three days, and she didn't even touch Xie Hanci's shadow, and the people in the concierge didn't even restrict her from coming and going.

It wasn't until the fourth day that she finally couldn't hold it anymore and told the little maid who came to deliver the meal that she wanted to see Miss Xie.

Unexpectedly, the little maid put down the food box and began to show her the way, first turn left to the end of the fish pond, then go right through the hand-copying verandah, and follow the path on the left until Miss Xie's residence.

"Don't you need to tell me?"

Yan Qi was a little surprised, she had followed Mrs. Li and Hu Yunzhi before, and knew that the rules in these back houses were very big. Unexpectedly, the little girl snorted and laughed.

"Our young lady is different from others, she is the most annoying to these twists and turns. If the girl has something to do, she can go directly, but the young lady does not like to be confined to the house, not always to see her, and sometimes the lady has to try her luck. ”

After dinner, she looked in the direction pointed by the little maid and walked to the gate of the courtyard, but she didn't expect to be a step late, Xie Hanci wore men's clothes and carried the maid dressed as the same man out of the courtyard wall, leaving her with a chic back.

Until the night before the escort team set off, Xie Hanci took the initiative to call himself over, looking like a lonely, and explained the "aftermath" to the maids in the yard one by one.

When it was her turn, Xie Hanci blurted out her name.

"Yan Qi, we only have one side of the Golden Alder Temple, and we want you out of the Feiyun Gate, and I don't know if it goes against your will. Tomorrow I'm leaving, and you can go where you want to go and do what you want. ”

She froze in place, not knowing how to answer.

Wherever she wanted to go, she went to all because of her missions, and everywhere she went, she was either observing the route or looking for a convenient place to hide.

Boating on the West Lake, she cares about when the fake boy on the mural boat will be poisoned, so that she can go to the father of a rich businessman who was deceived of his daughter; Traveling to Cangshan at night, she hung on a tree for the night, just to catch the adultery of her son-in-law and sister-in-law; Burn incense and worship the Buddha, in order to take the life of the favored concubine.

She thought for a long time and didn't answer, but made a decision.

"Where are you going?"

Outside the woods, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the soldiers came looking for them with torches, Yan Qi looked at the beast bone whistle in her hand, and slowly came back to her senses, she took away the handkerchief, but did not take the beast bone whistle, turned around and disappeared into the darkness.

"I'll talk about it when you get to the capital."

Xie Hanci told King Ning what happened at night in detail, and King Ning's brows were sometimes furrowed, sometimes stretched.

"That's it, in the end, they all ran away when they saw me setting off fireworks, and one of them called the scar-faced 'He'er'."

"It's him, he's still alive!"

Xie Hanci rolled his eyes.

"Lord Wang?"

King Ning coughed lightly twice, knowing that he had made the same mistake of saying half as he said again.

"His name is Kun Yuhe, the son of Kun Yu Xianrong, and it is said that he set himself on fire at home when he learned of his father's death. I thought it was strange at the time, even if he wanted to follow his father, there was no need to use such a tragic way, I just thought that the Emperor Dayue did something, but I didn't expect him to die, and he also made a green forest in the deep mountains of Dafeng. ”

"In this way, it's no wonder that Wang can't join the army and can't attack it, he probably thinks about how these refugees are so difficult to deal with, where do you know that there are famous generals here." Xie Hanci suddenly remembered something again, "However, what he said about Nanyuan and Beiyuan, aren't they all Dayue's assassins?" ”

King Ning explained: "Emperor Dayue succeeded to the throne at the age of seven, and the Empress Dowager assisted the country. But the queen mother is not the emperor's biological mother, how can she have the same heart as this little emperor, in addition to always delegating power to her relatives, she is also raising masters in the palace. The queen mother lives in the south, and the emperor lives in the north, and after a long time, these people are also distinguished by Nanyuan and Beiyuan. However, in recent years, the Queen Mother has been old, and Nanyuan's power is not as good as before. “

Xie Hanci couldn't help but sigh, it seems that the emperor of Dayue is not easy to be.

King Ning summoned Chasing Feng and commanded: "In the future, the assassin who captures Da Yue, even if it is confirmed that he is dead, he must be beheaded when he disposes of the corpse." ”

Although Chasing Feng didn't know the reason, he immediately bowed his head and said: "Yes, I'll explain it." “

Xie Hanci was stunned for a moment, and then understood that this was related to the red pill.

King Ning looked at Xie Hanci, and a gloom flashed in his eyes, "Before, I always wondered how the words of many confessions induced during interrogation were spread, it seems that it is not an inner ghost, but someone who 'came back from the dead'." ”

Xie Hanci lowered his head, feeling a little uncomfortable, but he understood that it had to be so, she was born in Dafeng, so she was destined that her sympathy could not be left to the assassins of Dayue.

Early the next morning, a total of eight headless corpses were counted, and in addition to Lao Li and the missing horseman, seven soldiers on duty were killed.

"It's amazing that this thief can not only sneak into the military tent without knowing it, but also cut off the heads of eight people and take them away!" Jing Yu told Xie Hanci about the statistics in the army on the carriage, he hesitated for a while, and said hesitantly: "And last night, except for you, no one saw the group of men in black." ”

"What do you mean? Am I not making it up? Xie Hanci looked at Jing Yu, who was sitting opposite, and didn't know what he meant.

Jing Yu hurriedly waved his hand and explained, "Grandma, how can I mean this. It's just that they killed eight people and took a groom with them, and it was strange that you were the only one who saw such a big commotion. ”

Xie Hanci shrank in the corner of the carriage, draped in a blanket, tossing all night, she was physically and mentally exhausted, she didn't want to explain, and turned sideways and looked at the endless emerald mountains in silence.

Seeing that Xie Hanci looked out of the car window and didn't speak, Jing Yu said again: "I asked you because there are rumors in the army now that it was not a bandit who killed someone last night, but a ......."

"What is it?" Xie Hanci turned his head impatiently.

"It's a Yin Soldier! Some people say that the place where we camped last night was low all around, only this one piece was raised, like sticking out the tongue, there is a saying in feng shui called sticking out the tongue, the place where the tongue is stuck out can not be hidden, the wind blows the water and robes, plus the unjust soul that can't be suppressed by building a temple here, so what I met last night was ....."

Xie Hanci took a deep breath and understood what he was going to say.

"The Yin Soldier borrowed the way."

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside.

It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and it stands to reason that you should be able to see the blazing light of the sun.

After Xie Han got out of the carriage, he shivered for no reason.

The sun was obscured by a few clouds, and a quarter of an hour later, the wind blew. The leaves rustled and the ground rolled up a puff of sand and dust into the sky.

First the sound of metal grinding, then the sound of flag-waving and shouting, the sound of fighting, the sound of horses and wailing getting closer and closer, the battle seemed to be taking place on the invisible cliff, but everyone looked up and saw nothing.

It seems that there is really a group of revenants who are angry and dare to run out to recreate a great battle before their lives when the yang energy is at its peak at noon.

Suddenly, a horn sounded, piercing the sky.

"What's that, look!" The flag standing at the front pointed to the mountain in front of him.

There was a broken banner of the Great Bong, fluttering in the wind. A headless soldier dressed in tattered armor waved his trumpet under a tattered flag, with several heads at his feet, including the heads of Lao Li and the groom.

"His grandmother's legs, this person's head is gone, and he can still play the military horn?"

"Yin soldiers, it's Yin soldiers!"

"I ..... I'm gone! ”

There was a lot of discussion, and a soldier standing in the front row threw down the spear in his hand and ran back without raising his head.

Whoosh –

A black-feathered arrow pierced the fleeing soldier's thigh, and the soldier fell to the ground, screaming in pain.

"I'm Dafeng, there are no deserters, and I am not allowed to retreat!"

A black steed stood on a high hill with its head held high, and King Ning on horseback shouted loudly.

With that, he raised the bow and arrow in his hand again, and shot at the headless soldier who seemed to be inhuman, and a burst of yellow smoke suddenly rose to surround the mountain peak, and after the smoke cleared, the black feather arrow went straight into the flagpole of the military flag, where was there any shadow of the headless soldier.

"I've never seen Uncle Xiao Huang shoot off." Jing Yu said incredulously.

King Ning knew that there might be a trap, and even this place was dangerous. But in full view of everyone, he must go, at least to collect the bodies of these sacrificed "brothers".

This road is still very long, and the morale of the army is discouraged at this moment, how can we enter Beijing safely?

"It's not advisable to stay here for a long time, come and follow a team of people to collect the bodies of those killed yesterday, and the rest of us will go forward and continue on our way."

In the evening, the army marched to a relatively flat and open area, and the soldiers began to set up camp.

It was already dark, and the team led by King Ning still hadn't returned, and Xie Hanci was a little worried about whether they would be ambushed. Just as I was about to go to find Jingyu to ask, I heard two patrolling soldiers chatting word by word.

"Did you see it at noon? At that time, the sun disappeared all at once, and the sky suddenly changed color, and there was a gust of wind for no reason, and I could not see it clearly at the end of the line, and it was said that the revenant soldiers were haunting and casting spells on the mountain peaks. ”

"I didn't see it clearly, but the old king who fed the horses saw it, and he told me that the headless revenant soldier was five meters tall, and he cut off thirty heads in a row last night and hung them on the military flag."

"What thirty heads? How did I hear that it was eighty! ”

Xie Hanci: "......"