21 Chapter 21
Today the sky is a little cloudy, and the winter sun is hidden behind the thin clouds, and only a prickly white halo is seen.
A convoy of chariots and horses, walking on a dirt road by the winding field.
All the way to the foot of the mountain, the light carriage could no longer travel, so Xun Rongbi took a sliding pole instead.
Xie Ci lifted the curtain of the car, supported Xun Rongbi with one hand, slowly stepped on the wheel, and helped him sit on the rattan chair next to him.
After leaving the city, the northwest cold wind suddenly became fierce, blowing a lot of hunting, Xie Ci took a thick blanket from the return carriage, draped it on Xun Rongbi's body, and tightly wrapped the old body that was still rickety and thin.
Xun Rongbi stretched out a hand from under the blanket, held Xie Ci's hand and touched it, "Is it cold?" Wear more clothes. "
Xie Ci was not dressed thickly, only the black captain's armor jacket was covered with a thick gorilla velvet cloak, which was blown up and down by the strong wind, revealing the black armor wrapped in broad shoulders, a thin waist and a pair of long legs.
The hand of Xie Ci was not cold, and the young man was full of blood and fire.
Xun Rongbi's expression was a little sad today, but at this moment, he looked up at Xie Ci, but he still showed a very relieved and kind smile, "Xiao Si has also grown up, and he will soon be able to take charge on his own." "
"Hmm."
Xun Rongbi patted his hand with relief, and shook his backhand with thanks, "So Uncle should take good care of yourself, and I will be filial to you in the future." Xun Rongbi was very happy: "Good, good!"
He was happy and sad, nodded again and again, looked back at the end of the mountain, and tried to calm down, "Let's go." "Okay, uncle, tell me if you're cold."
Xie Ci put Xun Rongbi's hand back into the blanket, turned around and took another blanket in the carriage and hung it on the side of the saddle, turned over and got on the horse. The two guards raised the sliding pole, and the group walked along the foothill path in the direction of the cemetery.
Xun Xiao's tomb is in the mountains, and it is said that it is on a sunny slope.
But today there is no sunlight, and the halo is hidden behind the thick clouds, and the winter moon is lonely, and the yellow-brown earth and mountains, the black bare branches of the trees, and the scattered remnants of snow cover it.
The cold and dry wind in the northwest blew strongly, and after entering the mountain, it suddenly became cold, and the sound of farmers covering the fields with wheat straw was left behind, and the mountain was cold and silent, and only the sound of the cold wind blowing and breaking the dry branches was heard.
Xie Yu looked around ahead, and the muscles in his back arms and body were tighter than just now.
The team began to move forward, the mountain road was narrow, Xun Rongbi's sliding rod was raised in front of him, and as soon as he moved, the smile on Xie Ci's lips gradually converged, and his eyes stretched out
The warmth disappeared silently.
In fact, he was vigilant and defensive at the moment, and reached the apex at the moment of entering the mountain.
Xie Yu just served his uncle properly, and the uncle and nephew had a warm conversation, but in fact, the muscles of the spine have been tense after the thank-you.
Immersive, reason easily triumphed over emotion, and since leaving the city, silence has occupied all his mind. Xie Ci didn't want to die, he definitely couldn't die, his father and brother were dead, and they were still waiting for him to clear their grievances. He's just getting his hands on it.
He can die. But at least after all this has been done, and definitely not now! There is also Gu Wan waiting for him.
Mother, family, father and brother, Gu Guan, the whole family overlapped on top of each other's hearts, and the heavy weight instantly overcame the other side.
The words of concern on the uncle's kind face were close at hand, and the heart of the resignation was half hot and half cold, and the whole person trembled at the violent emotions and the possibility of a fatal crisis.
It was as if something was tumbling over in his heart, but the other half was unusually calm, and in this kind of water and fire, Xie Ci was like a bow that was tense to the extreme.
- What would he do if it was a game?
The ink-colored pupils of Xie Ci slowly turned, the brown and yellow undulating mountains covered with residual snow, the black tall and low trees, the clusters of rolling yellow thorns, only a little scattered evergreen pines and cypresses at the end of the field of vision, and the mountains and fields of Suzhou in winter were as desolate and green as in memory.
He thought that if this was the case, then he should be the first to find the most suitable and self-interested place to poke the game first. Instead of letting people lead him into an ambush.
The mountain wind was howling and cold, and the blood was boiling in a moment of thanks, he clenched his fists tightly, if he was too careful, after today, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, explained all his dark thoughts to his uncle, admitted his mistakes and made amends, and begged his uncle for forgiveness.
Uncle wants to beat and scold, he kneels in the vestibule, he recognizes everything!
However, if ,....
Xie Ci touched his waist, and he squeezed the handle of his knife all of a sudden! It all happened faster than expected.
Of course, Xun Xiao's tomb cannot be in the deep mountains, Xun's ancestral home is in Jiangzhou, but for a long time in Suzhou, Xun Xiao's tomb is buried in the soldiers' cemetery like the generals who died in Suzhou.
Xun Xiao was buried in a newly opened piece in the east, the highest position on the very edge. A cliff, towering on the west side, the cliff is deep in the green pine, the midwinter style is extraordinarily large, and the hunting passes along the cliff.
And the east side is the old and new tomb cemetery, the pines and cypresses surround a circle, look at the other end from the tomb of Xun Xiao, to the west is a hill surrounded by the middle of the concave
Stuck in the terrain like the bottom of a pot.
After the memorial service, you need to wait for the incense and candles to burn out, Xun Rongbi is weak, and there will inevitably be a time to rest, and the shelter at the bottom of the pot is the best place to rest.
The journey was much shorter than expected, just a cup of tea, Xie Ci had just driven his horse to the cemetery, swept left and right, and the place like the bottom of the pot immediately came into view.
The sky is gray, the long thorns are moving, and the west mountain is like a dark mouth, opening silently. After a moment of thanks, the hairs stood on end.
The Xie family's natural military tentacles, he turned his head to look, only to see the sergeants and guards dismounting, sweeping and sweeping, placing incense and candles, and the rest of the people lined up in a column to guard around as they did along the way.
One after another, as if stepping on his heart.
Xie Qihuo raised his head, he obliquely in front of Long Shouren, behind Long Shouren is the cliff wall of the north wind howling, the cliff wall extends up more than ten zhang, a lone pine grows at the top, and then up is the gray-white sky where the clouds move with the wind.
A lone goose flapped its wings and flew south alone.
Without hesitation, he took off the longbow hanging from the saddle, and copied the long arrow with his backhand.
"Poof", right on target!
——Whether it is a cracked arrow or a tossed cup, it is a familiar signal in the army! If there is fraud, these neatly dressed sergeants and guards will inevitably be as loose and tight as him.
Xie Ci shot an arrow, all the sergeants subconsciously straightened their upper bodies, the small broom that sprinkled the tomb paused, and the incense candle that was placed leaned over fell to the ground, and some people even subconsciously put their hands on the handle of the knife on their waists, and Shao Tian hurriedly covered up and let go.
Everyone was like a cassette card, and after a slight pause, it was up and running again.
"Little Four, what are you doing here?"
Xun Rongbi was standing up from the rattan chair with the support of the guard, who shook off an extremely thick black fox fur cloak and was tying the knot around his neck for him.
Xun Rongbi paused when he raised his head, he looked sideways and asked.
Staring at the old face that was still kind and seemed to have undergone subtle changes, familiar and unfamiliar, a coolness grew in the bottom of his heart, slowly enveloping and invading his heart.
Xie Ci moved, the black horse raised his mane uneasily, paced a few steps to the west, he called for the reins, the black horse raised his neck and hissed and finally settled down, in fact, Xie Ci retreated farther back to the cliff.
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He said to Xun Rongbi: "The lonely goose at the head of the tomb is not very lucky. The eldest cousin galloped on the battlefield, and it was not taboo to see blood. ”
"Is that so?"
Xun Rongbi pulled the corners of his lower lip, and his kind expression was like wax.
After this conversation, an indescribable atmosphere crept silently between each other. In the next moment, the answer is officially revealed!
Someone clapped their hands, and a slightly mellow male voice said, "Don't talk nonsense, do it!"
With this person's order, dozens of guards and accompanying sergeants threw down what they were doing, "brushed and brushed" and drew out long knives, and quickly gathered in a circle.
A tall and inconspicuous sergeant at the very edge ripped off his beard and slime from his face, and put on makeup powder, revealing his true face.
Gao Jian is long, his steps are calm and steady, his eyes are eagle-eyed and harrier-nosed, his eyes are sharp, he is twenty-five or sixteen years old, he raises his eyebrows lightly, and slowly steps up from the rear.
Wherever he passed, the sergeant guards quickly moved out of the way to the sides and closed them again, and he quickly stood in the center and controlled the whole field. This person is Xun Xun, the real second cousin of Xie Ci!
As soon as he raised his hand, outside of what was in front of him, half a mile of the whistling wind, and all the possible audible range of human ears, seventy or eighty masters in power suits rushed towards him.
It turned out that Xun Xun was still preparing a lethal arrow array for Xie Ci in Xikeng, in order to kill, but it was a pity. However, the arrow array is just insurance, and since it can't be used, it doesn't need it.
Xun Xun's eyebrows were sharp, everyone obeyed this young man's orders, only a few guards who were familiar with Xie Ci and had followed Xun Rongbi in his early years, at this time, they tightly drew their swords and hugged Xun Rongbi tightly, not only facing Xie Ci, but also guarding against the other government guard sergeants on the side.
In an instant, from kind eyebrows and warm words to being in a desperate situation.
It only took one breath!
When Xie Ci saw Xun Xun at first glance, he was shocked and angry, and he understood everything in an instant.
He stiffened, with a kind of bone-chilling sorrow
Angry, he slowly turned his head to look at Xun Rongbi, this uncle who was like a half-father. He was dumbfounded: Why?
Obviously, he and Gu Wan have checked it repeatedly, and the shackles on Xun Rongbi's wrists and the scars on his body are not fake, and he is indeed locked in a sealed room and dying.
In order to be a trap, the sacrifice is too big, right?
And does he have clairvoyance to see more than a year ago that he will successfully escape from prison in the future? But all this dismay is nothing compared to the great indignation and grief that arose in an instant to be betrayed again. Obviously, he had made countless mental preparations and shot an arrow with his own hands, but all this really happened for a moment, and the words of thanks were still not
Credible.
The great indignation was like a tsunami, which overwhelmed him in an instant, and Xie Ci was like a wounded lone wolf, his eyes were torn.
- It was really to deceive the whereabouts of the Xie family!
Thanksgiving: Why? Tell me why?!
Why frame my father and brother?!
The Xie family has been overturned, just kill him, why do you have to kill them all!!
Isn't his mother the sister of your mother's compatriots? Didn't you come all the way to take a look and make sure she was really okay and happy?
Xie Ci never forgot that he ran back along the corridor when he was very young, when his mother had just given birth to a younger brother, and men could not go inside to visit, and he saw his uncle standing under the window, knowing that he couldn't see it, but he still looked at the hazy light shadow inside.
At that moment, the resolute back in black armor, and the careful and cherished movements, the dim yellow of the lantern under the corridor shrouded the top of his head, shoulders and back, and Xie Ci will always remember the scene of warmth and affection.
It is precisely this scene that although Xie Ci has always been vigilant and vigilant, in fact, emotionally and heartily, he is extremely unwilling to believe that his uncle has really betrayed the Xie family.
While he was looking all the way, the remaining little half of his heart was thinking about how to admit his mistake to his uncle afterwards, and how to make up for it without breaking his old man's heart.
Thank you for hating from the heart!
Xun Rongbi's face was gloomy, he didn't answer, his eyes were a little embarrassed and fierce, and he turned his head sideways to avoid Xie Ci's gaze.
"I'll tell you."
Xun Xun smiled contemptuously, his eyes crossed the crowd and thanked him, and he stared coldly at the old man in front of him with a gloomy brow, it's just a win-win cooperation, I still need him to be the governor of Suzhou for another two years, and he still wants to turn the tables, it's as simple as that!
"He wrote the letter, and he saw the envoy."
It's just that the father and son are fighting each other, and he is at a disadvantage again!
"Because he had to give in! Your uncle, the most important thing in this heart will always be himself!"
Yes, he loves his sister, he loves his nephew, and he has a close relationship with the Xie family like a family, but all of this is not as important as himself in the end!
What he is best at in this life is not to kill his relatives for himself?!
Xun Xun said coldly and hatefully, and sneered: "Do you know how he came back when he was captured by the Kunyu Mausoleum of Beirong Wangting?!"
/> "Princess Rilian favored him, helped him change his face, married the princess and became a concubine, and gave birth to two sons and a daughter in six years before he completely won the trust of the king of Kun Yuling, and the result was less than a year, this person led the Kun Yuling army into the ambush circle of the Great Wei, and the Kun Yuling army was wiped out!!
"And he, personally killed Princess Rilian, and the entire princess's mansion has seen him up and down, as well as his own children! Eradicate all those who know him! He turned into a humiliated and deceived Xun who surrendered to Beirong for seven years, and then cooperated with the outside world to build an immortal feat in one fell swoop
Su Wu!
"Hahaha, and then he stepped on the blood of the Kunyu Mausoleum and Princess Rilian Mansion and returned beautifully, and he became famous! Killing his wife and son, a famous general of the Great Wei Dynasty, you say it's ridiculous? ! Hahaha
Rao is Xie Ci was full of hatred, and he couldn't help but be shocked to the extreme, he turned his head to stare at Xun Rongbi! Xun Rongbi's face twitched, and his face was gloomy to the extreme, and he was embarrassed to the extreme!
Does he dare not give in? Why didn't he dare to speak out, this is the root cause!
"He is a person, as long as he is on the other side of the scale, what kind of family friendship is bullshit!"
"Don't say one Xie family, it's ten, don't say that you have a thank you, even if his own sister is in front of him, he will kill him! Hahaha, isn't it ridiculous, thank you for your disappointment?!
Xun Xun shouted: "You don't have to find someone else, the culprit is him!" Without him, this thing would never have been able to happen, and Xie Xinxin would never have led his troops out of the customs at night to Lantian for no reason!!
Xie Ci stared at Xun Rongbi, the latter's face changed several times, gloomy, embarrassed, and finally stared fiercely at Xun Xun Xun in public. Xie Ci's heart sank and fell, sinking all the way in the cool and bottomless abyss, full of indignation, like a volcanic eruption, gushing out!
His teeth rattled with hatred!
Okay, that's it, let you be a ghost, don't thank me. Xun Xun laughed loudly, and his eyebrows were Lingran: "Thank you, accept death!" The Xie family doesn't need to keep adult males anymore!!"
As soon as the wanton laughter was stopped, in front of the tomb on the high ground, it turned to slaughter!
Xun Xun's selection today is all the masters under his command, and even his own dead soldiers and secret guards. It's a lore siege!!
In the distance, archers emerged from the high edge of the pot-like terrain and galloped in formation. Xie Ci shot a goose with an arrow, and bought himself a chance to survive, but he had to get out before the archers arrived.
Otherwise, your life will be at stake!
Hot blood rushes to the head, head
The brain was unprecedentedly calm, and in front of the tombstone, a strangulation immediately began, and he threw himself into it, and blood immediately sprayed on the brown yellow earth.
Under the onslaught of the wheels, Xie Ci raised his head to the sky with a long roar, and his left hand backhanded pulled out the knife on his side! The sound of the fine iron chain being violently pulled, the long knife in his left hand swept, and the blade actually came out of the handle, Ling Ran swept across, and harvested seven or eight lives in the innermost circle.
On the spot, the blood in the neck cavity was sprayed, and the scarlet was skyrocketing.
The knife of Xie Ci turned out to be a chain flying knife, the handle and the blade were connected to a long fine iron chain, and he was stabbed and slashed, and the cowhide armor was cut open with a "tearing" sound, revealing a chain chain inner armor that was extremely densely woven with three layers.
——These things are all Gu Guan's raw materials in the camp warehouse and restructured them.
The blade slashed through the chain mail, bursting out faint sparks, and several times in a row, it failed to penetrate the three layers of inner armor!
And the judgment of the thank you is accurate and fast, and the inner circle of the harvest is raised to the sky and roars! He rushed to the sky, jumped straight to the cliff in reverse, Long Shouren gritted his teeth and held a big knife to meet, "pounding" a sharp sound of gold and iron strikes, Long Shouren's mouth cracked, his conceit was amazing, he felt a strong horizontal force like splitting mountains and rocks from top to bottom, under the full force of thanks, he actually fell to the ground on his knees and knelt down.
Kill him with a knife!
Maybe he was very complicated and contradictory, but in the end, he aided the abuse and became the most powerful executioner who lured Xie Ci and the Xie family who finally escaped behind him!
Thank you, you actually practiced the chain knife technique?!
Xun Xun pulled out the long knife and went down in person, his face changed in an instant, he was angry, in the early years, Xun Rongbi personally went to hire a famous knife master for Xie Ci, that person was extremely arrogant, and he was only willing to teach Xie Ci one person, and the other party's famous stunt was the chain knife.
That man was very talented, and most of his sword skills were in his twenties and five.
Xun Xun never expected that Xie Ci would give birth to a chain knife out of thin air, and the chain knife technique had been completed!
He was furious, and Xie Ci swung his sword, blood spurted out with the blade, Xie Ci stepped on the top of Long Shouren's head, and jumped to the cliff with all his strength! The man was in mid-air, and when he turned around, there was a gap for a knife.
On the left is Xun Xun, on the right is Xun Rongbi, he shouted loudly, and without hesitation, the chain knife swung heavily to the right! Xun Rongbi's eyes cracked: "Kill him!" Kill him!!"
He pushed the guard forward, and he leaned back with all his might, and the chain blade was as fast as the last moment he leaned back, and the sword was like snow, and with a "swish", he felt a chill on his neck.
Xun Rongbi was shocked, he covered his neck,
He looked down and saw that his hands were red, and it was his neck blood!
The thanksgivings were sharp, and the archers had finally arrived!
Shoot –
The arrows swished like rain, shooting like locusts, no matter how powerful the inner armor of the chain was, it could not withstand the rain of arrows that swept the sky, he protected his back, abdomen and chest, but there was still a head and neck exposed.
If you go down with a round of arrows, you will definitely die!
But at this moment, a clear female voice came from the top of the cliff and shouted: "Thank you, catch it!" A pliable withered vine, with a braided cloth ring firmly at the end, was thrown down from the top of the cliff!
At the same time, there were crackling firecracker flames, and at the same time as a basket was lit and thrown to the ground, bursts of black smoke rose up, "Look at my poisonous smoke!"
The woman shouted loudly, and everyone including the arrow array was in chaos.
And Xie Ci seized this critical opportunity, successfully grabbed the cloth ring that ran down, and the withered vine pulled hard, he jumped with his strength, and rushed up to the top of the cliff.
As soon as he turned over and sat on the back of the horse behind Gu Guan, Gu Wan immediately pulled the reins: "Hurry up!" The firecracker was just sprinkled with crushed pine resin and cow dung, bluffing, but not actually poisonous.
In a hurry, the thank-you speech was successfully answered, and the damn was tired of her, Gu Wan immediately drove the horse to turn around, pulled the horse sheath, and left immediately!