"The green smoke sunset to dusk, and the women in the city pound their cold clothes. Who pities this night with an empty intestine, but hates that after years of fighting, he will not return. ”

The Winter Clothes Festival has just passed, and the cold wind in the right place of Longyou has already hit people's faces, and it has been raining for several days, and there is no one in the Qinzhou City Market. The poem "Flowing fire in July, giving clothes in September", after the Winter Clothes Festival, the autumn colors are even more bleak.

At nightfall, the rain was heavier, and the shops on the street were closed early, and at the end of the day, only the men who patrolled the city talked to each other.

In addition, there were six or seven messengers in flying bear suits hidden in the dark night, and when they heard the rustling footsteps on the road ahead, several people immediately stopped. The footsteps of the two men came from far and near, and they formed a line, one carrying a lantern and the other rubbing his hands.

"In previous years, October 1 was not so cold, and this year I don't know what kind of natural disasters are bad, but this month it is cold, and it is also this unlucky ghost weather, which actually made your brother draw a lottery to patrol the city!" The other also chimed in, shuddering, "Who says it's not!" Hu Ye, on this cold day, it is better to go back and drink a pot of soju, and it is the right thing to warm up your body! Hu Ye listened, bleated, bleated, nodded in agreement, the dim lanterns reflected the cold and rain, and Qinzhou City was extremely cold.

The two chauffeurs suddenly stopped, Qi Qi put his right hand behind his back and stretched out the saber at his waist, and they all slowed down and moved forward, raising the lantern to shine as they walked, and Hu Ye roared in his mouth: "Who is there?" Don't stand up quickly, don't blame grandpa for not having long eyes! ”

There was no echo on the road ahead, and the two messengers shouted in unison, and the knife fell with the sound, slowly shining out, and the body moved a few steps forward, and now the two sides met. The lantern shone on the ground, and the light dissipated with the water, revealing a pair of chiseled golden tiger head boots with short swords on them.

Hu Ye's heart tightened, and he hurriedly lifted the lantern up half a foot, covered his face with a black cloak behind the flying bear suit, a golden mask on his face, the cloak in his left hand was held on the wave-patterned Qianniu knife, and a crossbow was hung on his right waist, and the words "Neiwei Dugushuo" on the gold-inlaid white jade waist card were clearly recognizable, and the tassel hung down more than half a foot along the leg.

Hu Ye hurriedly put the lantern down, took a step back with his body, and then lifted the lantern to take a look, it was a wave pattern thousand cattle knife slowly stretched out and pressed on the lantern, Hu Ye's arm suddenly trembled, the lantern fell down, there was no light in an instant, and the surroundings fell into darkness, Hu Ye pulled the person next to him and immediately knelt on the ground and bowed three times.

The poor man in the flying bear suit was silent, withdrew his sword, bypassed the kneeling two, and quickly disappeared into the dark night.

After a long time, the two messengers looked around and raised their heads, there was silence quietly, and there was no trace, Hu Ye pulled up his sleeves and wiped the sweat on his forehead.

The young man looked at the dark night and asked tremblingly, "Master Hu, who are these people?" Hu Ye didn't answer, stretched out his arm and patted the muddy water on his clothes, slowly straightened up and looked around again, his eyes were fixed at the end of the market, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Internal guard, like an internal guard from the divine capital!" The people on the side heard the word "internal guard", and couldn't help but tremble, fumbling to pick up the lantern, the Hu Ye followed closely behind and pushed it, and the two of them took three steps and two steps in an instant, and went forward without looking back.

The rain intensified in the second half of the night.

At the three gates of a house in the northernmost part of the street of Qinzhou City, there was a person holding a long knife and a black-clothed cloak in each hand, and the rain reflected the lanterns at the door.

A human ladder was set up under the high wall, and the two sturdy messengers withdrew their cloaks, jumped up the courtyard wall, and then jumped over the door wall, ran on the roof, and looked at the faint candlelight in the courtyard of the garden building.

These two people are the deputy commanders of the left and right divisions of the internal guard of the Shendu, and the official residence is four products and thousands of cows, one is called Dugu Shuo, and the other is called Pei Ce.

The lights in the room were dim and flickered a few times. Among the few people who were talking secretly, a middle-aged man suddenly motioned for everyone to stop their breathing, turned around and blew out the candle. Finely discerning, it seemed that the slight sound of footsteps on the roof came from far and near, and the other two strong men took advantage of the situation to draw their long swords, held them in their hands, and each found a pillar to stand against each other, and the young man also held the long sword, protecting a woman and an old man, and slowly retreated.

said that it was too late, it was fast, it was a moment, Dugu Shuo and Pei Ce stepped on the roof and jumped down, and the three people in the house immediately waved their swords and fought up, the old man and the woman had already put on their cloaks, bypassed the screen of the inner hall, and went straight to the secret passage.

It was dark in the room, Pei Ce stood still, listened to the breath to judge the location of several people, and listened to the sound of light and heavy footsteps, and shouted: "Leave the house to me, you go to chase Guo Linyi, don't let him escape!" Pei Ce shouted, and when he heard it, he ran around and slashed at a person.

Dugu Shuo listened, argued in the direction where the two of them escaped, and also said: "Be careful yourself!" Then he jumped into the dark passage.

There is a hidden lattice in the wall of the back hall, which leads to the rockery in the backyard. Dugu Shuo chased all the way in the darkness, and the two who fled knocked the candle flames to the ground, and the passage under his feet was pitch black.

Seeing that there was a faint light, but when he approached, it was also extinguished, so Dugushuo had to slow down his pace and slowly follow.

About a cup of tea, Dugu Shuo saw that the road ahead was weak and bright, and seemed to have reached the exit, so he slowed down more and more, only to pass the passage, and then listened to the "swish" a few arrows to shoot, Dugu Shuo hurriedly turned around to dodge, and knocked a few knives down to the ground, but he was also afraid, and he didn't dare to go out rashly for a while, he took a few steps back, untied the crossbow arrows, threw the pillar out, and a few arrows attacked, Dugu Shuo listened to the direction of the arrow, and hurriedly put two arrows towards it, and couldn't see the movement in all directions, and couldn't hear the echo for a long time, Dugu Shuo jumped out.

Outside the dark passage is also a black light blind fire, no shadow movement, Dugu Shuo three steps and two steps, climb up along the rockery, see a faint fire flickering in the distance, hurriedly put an arrow in the air, and then jump on the roof to chase.

chased to the door, but there was no trace, there was no trace of fighting, Dugu Shuo made a few secret words, and the messenger at the door responded, and there was no trace of Guo Lin's remains.

Dugu Shuo had to turn around and come back and slowly explore along the path. After walking a few steps, and listening to a few more "swish" sounds, Dugu Shuo hurriedly retreated to dodge, only to bypass the pillars, and four big men rushed out, each holding a short sword and shield armor, and surrounded Dugu Shuo when he saw him.

Seeing this, Dugu Shuo stepped forward quickly, spun around and jumped up, and fired several arrows at the four people in a row, only one shot one of them in the shoulder, but the man didn't care, one tore off the arrow, and roared and attacked, but saw Dugu Shuo raise a knife to cut, the four people raised their shields to block, and stabbed several times in the gap, forcing Dugu Shuo to turn around and retreat in a hurry, the four people raised their shields and attacked together, Dugu Shuo resisted with his body, but knocked himself to the ground, the four strong men slashed down in the air again, Dugu Shuo kicked on the bluestone of the trail, and rolled backwards with his strength. The four of them fell to the ground with a knife, swept over with a horizontal knife, Dugu Shuo turned over again and again to dodge, and then took the opportunity to jump on a low rockery.

After coming back to his senses a little, Dugu Shuo recognized that this was the exercise of the border army, and he didn't dare to fight hard, so he had to wait for the opportunity to release a few more arrows, although he couldn't hurt the lives of the four people, but he was also stumped, so that the attack of the four people was slightly delayed.

For a moment, but seeing the four people rushing over with their shields raised, Dugu Shuo jumped out with his strength, and went straight to the old man, only to jump out of Zhangxu, and suddenly a net flew head-on in the air, Dugu Shuo couldn't dodge, and was firmly trapped, the four people turned back and raised their knives to cut down, seeing that they couldn't break free, Dugu Shuo's heart wrinkled, and secretly said, "Not good!" He couldn't do it, his eyes were closed, just waiting for the knife and axe to add to his body, but when the knife came, he slashed on the shield armor, making a bell sound, and Dugu Shuo opened his eyes to see that it was the armor and shield of the internal guard.

It turned out that the two people who were investigating in the front yard heard Dugushuo's whistle arrow, and hurriedly jumped over the wall, just to block a knife for him.

The two didn't have time to say more, so they waved their knives and attacked the four big men, and Dugu Shuo took the opportunity to cut through the net and stand up.

One of the two laughed and said: "Dugu Shuo, who is famous for his great reputation, was caught in a fishing net, and I am afraid that he will be laughed at by his colleagues if it spreads." But when he saw someone helping, the old man behind him pulled up the girl and walked away, Dugu Shuo jumped and chased after him, and shouted at the two of them: "Don't be careless, it is the combat power of the border army, far from the ordinary reckless rogues!" The two answered, and let the horses go and fight with the four.

Only chased out of the courtyard, the old man wanted to grab the door and go, in a hurry, Dugu Shuo sent an arrow in the air, hit the back of the man's chest, and fell to the ground, I wanted to shoot an arrow in a row, but the girl turned around and opened her arms to block the front, seeing that the two could not escape, Dugu Shuo jumped closer, raised a knife and forced forward.

"Bold thief, don't be caught yet, don't want to get away from the internal guard!" Dugu Shuo raised his knife and pointed at the two, the girl didn't care about Dugu Shuo, turned around and picked up the old man, and when she saw it, an arrow pierced her chest through her back, and the breath at the corner of her mouth was already weak.

"Adult, adult..." The girl hugged and cried, Dugu Shuo was at a loss for a while, raised his knife and pointed at the girl and said, "Guo Thief is dead, don't you want to be arrested?" ”

"Dugushuo!" The girl in front of him suddenly cried and called out his name, Dugu Shuo was stunned, this voice seemed to be familiar, but he couldn't think of anyone for a while, so he just stood in place. The old man who fell to the ground still had a breath when he was picked up, struggled to take out a letterhead from his arms, coughed at the girl, and said: "Miss Liu, this, this is the list of generals who acted together, you must protect it, okay, don't fall into the hands of the internal guards, internal guards..." Before he finished speaking, the old man gave his breath. Hearing Miss Liu's words, Dugu Shuo was shocked, and then happy, and Liu Lingwei's appearance flashed in his mind.

In a flash, Dugu Shuo grabbed the letterhead, but was pushed away by Liu Lingwei, Liu Lingwei didn't care about Dugu Shuo, turned his head and called the old man a few more words, and when he saw that there was no echo, he gently put it on the ground and took off his cloak. If you don't look at it, you can see that Dugushuo is really stunned, and it is Liu Lingwei in front of him, Liu Lingwei, who has committed suicide by throwing himself into the river and is a childhood sweetheart.

Dugu Shuo didn't know whether to be happy or sad for a while, took two steps back, stared at Liu Lingwei in a daze, and couldn't say a word for a while.

Liu Lingwei didn't speak, and only looked at Dugushuo quietly, tears swirling in his eyes, and then fell down his cheeks.

After a while, Dugu Shuo heard the shouts behind him, and hurriedly wiped a handful of tears and hurriedly said: "You go quickly, go over the wall from here, there are no internal guards outside, go out of Qinzhou City to Shendu, go to Luoyang Market to find Grandma Cai, wait for me there!" As he spoke, he pulled Liu Lingwei up and took a ladder to send him out.

When he turned back, he squinted, took a long breath, and smiled, "She's still alive, she's really alive!" After a pause, he stepped forward to feel the old man's pulse, which was already out of breath, and after a little cleaning, he walked to the inner courtyard.

The two people who came later saw Dugu Shuo coming back with a knife and asked, "Did you catch up with Guo Linyi?" Dugu Shuo wiped a handful of tears and replied: "I killed it, just at the back door!" ”

"My lord, before leaving, the commander has an explanation, if you want to live, how to deal with it when you die!"

"Don't worry about it yet, this thief border army is very tight, my lord come and help me wait!" The one next to him couldn't resist anymore, panting and shouting. When Dugu Shuo heard this, he raised his head suddenly, shouted "not good", hurriedly pulled out the crossbow from his waist, and sent a ringing arrow, accompanied by the fireworks burned out, and the internal guards flew down the wall in all directions. Dugu Shuo hurriedly said: "The two brothers should deal with it first, Master Pei Ce is one enemy and three, I am afraid that there is danger, I will help him, and the other brothers will arrive in a blink of an eye!" ”

When the two of them heard that Pei Ce was in trouble, they all replied, and Dugu Shuo's voice had not fallen, and he had already jumped away.

There was only one candle lit in the room, and there was a person on the ground, who was stabbed in the chest, and then looked at Pei Ce, who was forced to retreat to the desk, holding the handle of the knife with both hands, the two of them were covered with blood, and the double knives pressed Pei Ce and couldn't move.

"Master Pei..." Dugu Shuo shouted twice in a row, did not hear the echo, suddenly there were a few rough breath sounds from the corner, Dugu Shuo roughly judged the direction, jumped down, and saw two big men pressing Pei Ce from a distance, volleying crossbows and firing two arrows in a row, the two strong men desperately pressed Pei Ce's knife, and did not dare to take off rashly for a while, and were shot by the crossbow arrows on the left and right back shoulders, so they hurriedly pulled the knife to review. Because it was dim and he was afraid of hurting Pei Ce, Dugushuo didn't dare to use the arrow with all his strength, and only injured the two of them.

"Why did you come, his grandmother's, I almost folded here!" The two of them were each hit by an arrow, shook away, Pei Ce's strength subsided for a while, he collapsed, and said tremblingly.

"Haha, Master Pei, I'll save your life again!" Dugu Shuo said with a smile, raised his knife and turned around to force it.

"Don't worry about this, let's solve this surname Pei first!" The two turned sideways, broke off each other's arrows, and attacked Pei Ce with a sword, Pei Ce saw this, hurriedly turned over and rolled over the desk, reflexively stepped on, and kicked the desk towards the two, the two raised their swords and cut them from top to bottom, and the table was shattered. The two of them had a little tricks, one left stab, one right sweep, one crossing, one chopping, about seven or eight moves, Dugu Shuo felt the sword road, fortunately, unlike the four people outside, the exercises of these two people were not the way of the border army, but more like people in the rivers and lakes.

Dugu Shuo then said: "Brother Pei, these people should not be the way of the border army, there are four border army men in the backyard, and their martial arts are really powerful, and a few brothers in the division almost can't greet them!" ”

"Is it also the remnant of King Langya?"

"I don't know, it's the border army's way of fighting against the enemy, I can't fight alone, and I was ridiculed by the two brothers!"

"Don't panic, if you really meet the border army, it's enough for them to drink a pot, and then laugh back when you go out!"

"Brother Pei, rest first, and wait until I take care of these two!"

"Okay..." Pei Ce said with a smile, coughed a few times, and turned over to lean on the pillar at the corner.

Dugu Shuo has figured out the two swordsmanship according to the door, so he wants to sell a flaw, and when the two draw their swords to attack, they pretend to raise their knives to block, dodge and retreat, and secretly touch out the bow and crossbow with their left hand, and fire two arrows in a row with a bow, the two people retreated in a panic to protect themselves, Dugu Shuo waited for the opportunity to raise a knife and pounce on one person, and the other person saw it, raised his sword and responded to it, Dugu Shuo fired two arrows at the person in a row, forcing the man to turn over and dodge, for a while, Dugu Shuo separated the two, and the other saw Dugu Shuo attacking, and looked at it, some were worried, Or the body was weaker, the heart was timid, and he retreated again and again, Dugu Shuo saw that he grabbed it quickly, circled his body, and the knife went with him, and broke through five or six places left and right up and down, and the blood seeped out in an instant, and the other saw it, called "big brother", and then jumped towards Dugu Shuo and slashed down, Dugu Shuo dodged sideways, and the other person swept over, Dugu Shuo took two steps back to dodge, and fired two arrows in his left hand, and the other person turned over and avoided again, but unexpectedly, the arrow went straight to the person behind, and the brother couldn't dodge for a while, An arrow hit the neck, an arrow hit the right arm, and he covered his neck and fell.

The other stood still, but when he saw his brother falling, he hurriedly rushed over, wanting to pick him up and see, but he was slashed through his chest by Pei Cefeifei, fell to the ground and convulsed a few times, and lost his breath.

Now that the two of them were solved, Dugu Shuo pulled the knife up, put it on his left arm and pulled it, and the blood stains on the knife were wiped clean.

"No wonder the commander has always said that Brother Dugu is the best at fighting, I saw it today, it is true, I was chased and killed by these three people for a long time, and I was stabbed twice before I was able to hurt one, but I was beaten by these two people without the power to parry, and I never thought of breaking them apart one by one, it seems that I want to ask Brother Dugu for advice in the future!" Pei Ce also wiped the knife and said with a smile.

"Brother Pei smiled, it's just a matter of dividing it, you can't get in the way, right?" Dugu Shuo walked towards Pei Ce and asked.

"Wearing soft armor, it's all skin trauma, don't worry! Oh, by the way, what about Guo Linyi? Pei Ce said, suddenly asking.

"Dead, seeing that they had escaped, I released an arrow in a hurry, but unexpectedly, the horse was so lucky that he died on the spot!" Dugu Shuo said lightly.

"Alas, if so, it's hard to explain when you go back! That's it, this excerpt should be started by you, as for how to say it, you have to weigh it yourself, I am afraid that Guo Lin's will die, and there will be a reprimand and scolding from the commander. Pei Ce said, and was helped by Dugu Shuo to walk to the backyard.

When I entered the courtyard gate, I heard the sound of swords. "Lord Dugu will go first, and I will come later!" Pei Ce said, pushed Dugu Shuo, Dugu Shuo smiled evilly, drew his knife and walked away quickly.

But seeing an internal guard lying on the ground, blood gushing out from his erect neck, he was already out of breath, and the four border men were fighting against the three internal guards.

Seeing Dugu Shuo coming, the four of them hurriedly said: "My lord, this man is amazing, he hurt one of our brothers, we may not have a chance of winning five or four, you should think of a way!" ”

Dugu Shuo wanted to use the method of defeating the two people in the house just now, but after thinking about it, the border army wore shield armor, and the crossbow arrows could not be pierced, and he saw that the four men had big shoulders and round waists, no armor, and the armor in their hands was far smaller than that of the border army, so he smiled slightly, and hurriedly asked loudly: "Do you brothers have crossbow arrows left?" ”

"I haven't used it, all thirteen are here!"

"Okay, you listen to my command, take the crossbow arrow in your hand, I want you to retreat, and if you advance, you will advance!"

The four of them shouted in unison, "Good! Then Dugu Shuo jumped into the crowd, first slashed several times, was blocked by the border army Dunjia one by one, and then hit a few times with his shoulder, but was also blocked by the border army, and then the border army raised a knife and stabbed it, Dugu Shuo shouted: "Retreat" Everyone hurriedly followed Dugu Shuo to roll over and retreat, the four people caught up, Dugu Shuo shouted "put" again, and several crossbow arrows rushed out. It turned out that the four people rolled over in a row, did not get up, half knelt on the ground, when the four border soldiers raised their shields to attack, because the shield was smaller, they could not protect the body, several crossbow arrows hit the legs of the strong man, and fell to the ground for a while, Dugu Shuo shouted "enter" again, the four people got up and attacked together, and the swords and arrows were used together, and the border troops were cut to the ground, but they did not hurt their lives.

"Hahaha" Pei Ce suddenly smiled: "Lord Dugu is really good at scheming, knowing that he will not be able to fight hard, but he is taking advantage of their tall stature and short shield, turning their advantages into disadvantages, and turning your shortcomings into advantages, Pei admires, admires!" ”

"Master Pei doesn't have to be flattered, now that he has broken a brother, I'm afraid I won't be able to make a difference when I go back! You have to be scolded by the commander! Dugu Shuo said, his face was sad.

"Oh, I thought you weren't afraid of the Great Commander among the internal guards, but I didn't think you were afraid too! Haha! Pei Ce smiled, raised his knife and was about to kill the four border soldiers, but was blocked by Dugu Shuo, Pei Ce stared at Dugu Shuo with a puzzled face, as if asking Dugu Shuo why he didn't let him kill the four border soldiers to avenge his colleagues.

Dugu Shuo said with a smile: "Brother Pei doesn't have to kill them, they are soldiers on the border, but they are just bewitched and used by others, if Brother Pei kills them today, they will say that His Majesty is mediocre and conniving at the indiscriminate killing of innocents by internal guards, Your Majesty has always ruled the world with benevolence and filial piety, let them go back, not only will they be grateful for Your Majesty's kindness, but even more will pass Your Majesty's Shengming to the border pass, wouldn't it be better!" ”

Pei Ce listened, looked at Dugu Shuo, his color was a little happy, nodded and smiled: "That's right, if someone says in the future that the internal guards are just reckless men with courage and no strategy, Pei Mou is the first to object, with the actions of Dugu brother, quite Xun Yu's demeanor, repaying grievances with virtue, and preserving the name of benevolence and sainthood for His Majesty, it can really be said to kill two birds with one stone!" After everyone heard this, they also echoed a few words, and let everyone disperse at the moment.

When I arrived at the back door, I saw Guo Lin's body. Pei Ce summoned the secret guards of Qinzhou outside the gate and sent them to Qinzhou City to find chariots and horses.

The people rummaged through the courtyard several times, picked up and sealed a number of documents, letterheads, notes, and other books and items, loaded them in the carriage, and went to God overnight.