Chapter 39: The Deathbed

Yang Shucheng couldn't sleep, so he simply got up and sat on the threshold of the river temple, looking at the river scenery under the moon, at this time, it was already the second half of the night, the full moon was hanging high, the ground was covered with snow and frost, the trees were swaying in the wind, and the Yellow River was shining with golden light, surging to the east.

At this time, I saw a ghost running towards the mountain like flying under the mountain road in the distance, and I saw him carrying two heads on his shoulders, which was very strange, could it be that some mountain spirit appeared?

Yang Shucheng hurriedly hid behind the door, stretched out his head to look, and the two-headed ghost only ran towards the river temple. Yang Shucheng wanted to run out of the River Temple, but he couldn't move his footsteps.

I saw the two-headed ghost running over, it turned out to be an old man, with gray hair, and a boy behind him, only his head was exposed, no wonder it was a two-headed monster from a distance.

I saw the old man running to the middle of the mountain road with the boy on his back, and suddenly stopped, and put down the boy, who was about eight or nine years old, and was very good-looking.

The old man took something out of his body, bent down and laid them on the ground one by one, about a dozen of them.

Yang Shucheng looked at it for a while, guessing that it might be something like a poisonous iron nail buried, thinking that this old man was not a good person, and regretted why he didn't flee earlier, and if he escaped now, he was afraid that he would find out, and he was only worried that the old man would enter the temple.

The old man finally finished inserting the poison nail, straightened his waist, and breathed a long sigh of relief, so he walked step by step to the outside of the temple gate with the boy in his hand, and stood outside the door, looking at the bottom of the mountain.

Yang Shucheng knew that they were going to enter the river temple, so he hurriedly walked behind the river god, climbed the platform, hid behind the river god, and prayed that the river god had a spirit and blessed himself.

After a long time, sure enough, the two people walked into the temple, and saw that the temple was narrow, it was already the second half of the night, and they were tired from running around in the middle of the night, and they only heard the old man say:

"Let's sleep here, and leave before dawn."

The boy said "um", and the two of them were no longer polite, and fell crooked by the wall, so tired, they stopped talking, and fell asleep.

The temple was silent, the pine wind was whistling outside the temple gate, like a rapid rain, Yang Shucheng hid behind the river god, where did he dare to vent loudly, stick to the back of the river god, and didn't even dare to move.

After a long time, a small insect crawled into the temple gate, chirping and chirping, and it never stopped. Time passed slowly.

About a pillar of incense, I suddenly heard two cries of "Ah ......" and "Ah ......" under the mountain road, thinking that someone had been poisoned by the nail, Yang Shucheng listened, where did he dare to turn around.

The old man suddenly shouted, "Song Chao......"

There was no response.

"Song Chao, are you asleep?"

Shaking Song Chao with his hand, Song Chao woke up dimly and said vaguely: "Uncle Jiang, what's wrong?" ”

Jiang Bodao: "Song Chao, our grandfather and son are all here. ”

Song Chao didn't answer, just looked at Uncle Jiang suspiciously.

Jiang Bodao: "The enemy has caught up, I have run out of oil, I can't keep you away, now whether you can escape or not, can only rely on your creation." He pushed Song Chao with his hand and shouted, "Run, run." ”

That Song Chao just stood still, and Jiang Bo just pushed him: "Run." ”

"I want to run!" Suddenly, a figure flashed outside the door, holding a bright steel knife, and said, "No one can escape from my knife, you two will die here tonight." ”

Jiang Bo stood up straight, took out two daggers from his body, snorted coldly, and said, "It's not certain who died here." ”

The man said: "Okay, you Jiang Chang, you are still hard when you die." ”

Jiang Chang knew that there was no escape tonight, and it would be no good to say more, so he stabbed at the person with a dagger in both hands, and the person killed him in the temple with a steel knife in his hand. The two sides went back and forth, killing seven or eight rounds like a whirlwind.

Although the person who came was armed with a steel knife, slashing and killing indiscriminately, Jiang Chang was holding two short daggers, but he was impervious to the wind and rain.

It turned out that this Jiang Chang had a nickname, "Iron Mantis", which means that his two daggers are powerful, and he can block you from the body with any sword, gun and sword, just like two iron mantis arms.

The two of them were able to kill, and soon killed more than 20 rounds, and they still didn't know whether they won or lost.

At this time, two figures flashed outside the door and shouted, "Okay, you Jiang Chang, you actually poisoned you." ”

The "Iron Mantis" Jiang Chang has reached the time of life and death, where can he answer, the two of them saw this, and they also knew that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and when they were busy killing them, they turned sideways to assassinate the boy Song Chao,

When Jiang Chang saw someone coming to assassinate Song Chao, he hurriedly shook a knife and flew to save Song Chao, and the steel knife then slashed.

Jiang Chang had to turn around and block the steel knife, but saw that the sword head of the person who came was not far from Song Chao.

Seeing this, Jiang Chang said in his heart: "That's it, that's it." "Hurry up and stab the man. The steel knife behind him then slashed, and it was about to split Jiang Chang in half, but Jiang Chang had already calculated, but he just tilted his head and let the steel knife slash on his shoulder.

The man who assassinated Song Chao would not have thought that Jiang Chang would give up his life to save the boy, and was stabbed in the back of the heart by Jiang Chang with a dagger from behind and fell to the ground.

The remaining two saw it and flew towards Jiang Chang. Seeing that the boy was unharmed, Jiang Chang turned around and shouted, "You people from Dongchang, I have a hard time with you." He pounced and killed the two of them.

Seeing that this old man was already a dying person, and he was still struggling to die, thinking that he would die together, how could these two people agree, and they were already discouraged in their hearts. Jiang Chang was hit by a sword and a sword on his body, and the blood on his body spurted out like a spring.

Jiang Chang didn't care about this, he took the steel knife into his body, and before he could pull it out, he ran forward, letting the steel knife go deeper, and when he didn't allow the opponent to pull it out, the double dagger was inserted into the opponent's chest, and the opponent fell to the ground.

Seeing this, the man with the sword hurriedly stabbed the back of Jiang Chang's heart from behind, and Jiang Chang fell to the ground with a muffled snort.

The man with the sword killed Jiang Chang, and no longer hesitated, he stepped forward to stab the boy Song Chao. Song Chao was scared, so he ran to the back of the throne, and the man chased after him and stabbed Song Chao in the back with a sword.

That Yang Shucheng hid behind the river god, knowing that this group of people was from Dongchang, Dongchang was manipulated by the great eunuch Cao Fengying to kill Zhongliang, which has long been notorious, and the world knows that they are bad people, and now I see this person assassinating this innocent boy from behind.

Yang Shucheng was immediately angry, quietly jumped down from the divine seat, and stabbed the man in the neck with a sword from behind.

Yang Shucheng jumped to the ground and said to Song Chao, who was frightened: "Don't be afraid, after I know that you are loyal and good, I will not kill you." ”

Walking to the front, the "iron mantis" Jiang Chang was not dead, and at this time he reluctantly struggled to raise his head, seeing that Yang Shucheng had killed the people in Dongchang, knowing that he would not harm Song Chao, and his life would not be long, and now there is only this Yang Shucheng in front of him to support the future.

Jiang Chang was covered in blood, panting and said to Yang Shucheng: "Shaoxia, this Song Chao will leave it to you." ”

Yang Shucheng walked up to Jiang Chang and squatted down to see that the blood on Jiang Chang's body was still bubbling out. Yang Shucheng tore off the cloth sleeves on his body to tie the wound for him.

Jiang Chang said: "It's useless, you listen to me." ”

Yang Shucheng knew that he had something to say on his deathbed, so he stopped to listen to him.

Then Jiang Chang said: "Song Chao, come here." Then Song Chao walked up, and Jiang Chang said: "I can't guarantee your life anymore, now this young man will protect you." ”

Song Chao cried: "Uncle Jiang, don't you want to die." ”

Jiang Chang said: "I can't do it anymore. He turned his head to look at Yang Shucheng and said: "His father fought against the Jin people outside the pass, and won several battles in a row. ”

Jiang Chang said these words, spit out a mouthful of blood, and said with difficulty: "I don't want the gold lord to lead the army to attack this time, his father is ready to live and die with the city, but the great eunuch Cao Fengying is jealous of the virtuous and can command his own people to withhold military rations, so that the soldiers mutinied, were attacked by the gold lord, and lost the city......"

Jiang Chang spat out a few mouthfuls of blood, and it was already very difficult to speak, Yang Shucheng held his head and said, "You take a break." ”

That Jiang Chang grabbed Yang Shucheng with his right hand, a mouthful of blood sprayed on his chest, and there were still many words to confess, but he had no choice but to lose energy, fell backwards, and passed out.