The cold wind blocked by the gray-yellow earthen wall, looking back, patches of snow danced down, and the foothills of the countryside were plain white, quietly gradually disappearing into the dark night.

At the gate, Mo Qing's clothes were raised, and he was about to come in.

Hazy snow, the temple is dark, you can clearly see his straight spine like a javelin under his military uniform, and his military boots landing on the ground with short and powerful steps.

When Gu Wan looked back, he happened to see him press the handle of the knife, turn around, and look at the heroic posture of the hunting boy and the sassy steps like stepping on the wind.

The silver saddle shines on the white horse, sassy like a meteor, the Wuling young man, and the sword travels thousands of miles.

She suddenly remembered this very appropriate sentence.

In the memory of the original owner, the impression of the old thank-you speech was more stubborn, because he was scolded every day, and the old man was iron-blooded on the battlefield all his life, and he didn't like him anywhere, and occasionally he would be beaten.

But from Gu Guan's point of view, he saw that the sword went to the end of the world.

The young man is chivalrous, uneven, and although he wantonly causes trouble, he is fundamentally different from those gentlemen.

He eventually became a hero of the world, and he had a shadow when he was young, otherwise he would not have grown out of thin air no matter how hard he struggled to get out.

This is a boy who shines like a jewel.

Gu Wan looked at it, and actually added a sense of pride.

She felt a little funny, and laughed out loud, okay, people are not grass and trees, who can be ruthless, she admitted, unconsciously, she almost regarded Xie Ci as family, no blood, but there is an organic fate.

Others treat her sincerely, and it's hard for her not to be moved. Therefore, she asked him to call her Aguan instead of Yuan Niang. She's not Yuan Niang.

"What are you laughing at?" Xie Ci heard her chuckle. "Laugh at you."

Gu Wan replied with a chuckle, with a little teasing, this small temple is not big, but it is complete, and the nearby villagers often take shelter from the wind and snow here, and the side of the temple is built with an earthen kang, firewood and grass, and half a broken pottery jar filled with a small half jar of water.

Gu Wan lit the soil kang, picked up some wheat stalks and spread them on the soil kang, and directly slumped up and lay on his back, "I'm tired to death." ”

This whole day is simply a super high-intensity exercise, Rao is physical fitness has gradually improved, and she is so tired that she is almost dying when she is done, Gu Wan doesn't want to move when she lies down, "Don't make noise with me, I'm going to sleep,....."

So saying, she went to sleep.

Xie Ci was teased by her, but he didn't mind, he took off his helmet and lay down on the wheat straw. He didn't feel tired, but he didn't feel cold either.

r /> The small earthen temple is silent and dark, the fire in the kang cave is dark red, and from time to time there is a "crackling" sound, and the red fire reflected on the earthen wall beats.

Xie Ci looked at the kang head with this firelight, and in the dark, he only saw a black cloud, and he couldn't see her facial features clearly, but she could hear Gu Wan's breathing, and her breathing quickly became shallow and long.

In this cold winter and snowy night, the heat transfer of the kang is very poor, there is no door in the earth temple, the cold northwest wind is wrapped in ice and snow and the cold breath is poured in, after it is quiet, Xie Ci should have felt some cold, but all kinds of vivid memories during the day, the two of them whistling and beating her horse Her smooth sound is still in her ears, and the tip of her heart seems to be flowing, and the cold night is not freezing.

Hesitating in winter, not alone.

Xie Ci thought that he should still be considered a lucky person, because he still had her by his side.

This night, the snow was flying, Xie Ci didn't know when he fell asleep, closed his eyes, and opened it again, and the sky was bright.

"Let's go down."

Gu Wan had already woken up, but she knew that Xie Ci was sleeping lightly, and she happened to get out of bed, but it was too cold for her to lie down, so Xie Ci woke up, she quickly jumped down and stomped her feet.

Xie Ci also a carp hit the kang.

It's really cold today, the two of them extinguished all the fire and washed the water on the water tank half of the frozen water, walked out of the gate of the earthen temple, the goose feather snow fell all night, the dawn gradually stopped, the vast snow covered the mountains and fields, and there was no end to the white.

The two "creaked" through the snow, followed the trail of the dirt road all the way out of the mountain, and turned onto the nearest town.

The early stall was smoky, and it was still very calm, but it wouldn't be long before the aftermath of Longshan Road and Suzhou should spread to this area, Gu Wan and Xie Ci planned to get something to eat first, and then changed their military uniforms.

Because the two of them were dressed in lieutenant uniforms, the second child of the breakfast shop was very polite, and he greeted him diligently, and the breakfast was immediately delivered, and the guests at the other tables had no opinions, and even the timid ones hurriedly bowed their heads when Gu Wan looked over.

Gu Wan hurriedly returned a reassuring smile.

After breakfast, the two looked for a suitable ready-to-wear store on the street, and when they entered, they bought clothes, shoes and socks and changed them.

Xie Ci's armor is much more complicated, Gu Wan leaned on the doorpost and waited for a little leaning after changing, the door curtain moved, Xie Ci was dressed in a dark blue ranger suit, with a thin knife hanging from his waist, and he lowered his head to tidy up his sleeves and walked out, and he was a young man who was as heroic as the wind.

After the victory in the first battle, the spirit of Xie Ci has obviously improved a lot.

Gu Wan sighed, hugged his arms and admired it for a while, until he lowered his head

Xie Ci tidied up the sleeves, and the two walked out of the ready-to-wear store side by side.

Gu Wan unreined the horse, handed one of them to Xie Ci, and she said, "Little Four, you need power." "

Gu Wan lifted the big burden of military uniform in his hand and hung it on the saddle, his tone was brisk, but what he said was quite serious.

Although Xun Rongbi was solved, but Xun Xun was missed, they definitely can't go back to the net, the situation is stronger than people, and they can only make this guy proud for a while.

Of course, Gu Wan is more of a foreshadowing, don't be too selfless, only by grasping the power can you protect yourself, don't you do the same for other things? Since he is not inferior to Li Yi by half a point, why should he be subservient?

And sooner or later, she wants Yu Yanzhen to look good, this is a hidden danger, the two sides can contact each other in a timely manner, but it's better not to go through the intimate route. The snow was shining, and a line of sparrows was chirping in the eaves, and she leaned over and whispered in a particularly serious manner. He was stunned, but he immediately said, "I know." ”

He also carried a heavy armor in his hand, and after Suzhou and his party put it into action, it was difficult not to realize that if the two of them were alone, they could only keep walking around the periphery.

The truth is in the army, they are outside the army, and trying to find out the truth is like fighting cattle across the mountains.

But if you have a certain amount of power in the army, it will be completely different, whether it is the process of investigation or dealing with those behind-the-scenes enemies, the former is much easier and perhaps even easily opened, and the latter will have a real foothold.

Xie Ci thought about it last night, and he told Gu Guan: "I plan to find the old department of the Xie family, if I can, I want to join the army." "Even if you don't have to thank the name.

Xie Ci looked up at the blue sky after the heavy snowfall, and said, "Guan Niang, I suddenly felt that maybe I could really do it." ”

Find out the ins and outs of the case of collaborating with the enemy, and avenge the wrongs of his father and brother, this is his long-cherished wish that weighs heavily on his heart.

When Xie Ci said this, he lost the uncertainty of the past and the hesitation hidden in his heart, looked ahead, and became firm.

Killed Xun Rongbi and retreated, this can be regarded as the first victory of the Suzhou party, giving a lot of confidence in thanks, this is not a verbal comfort and sure can be done, a shot in the arm, he finally felt that although it was difficult, he may not really be able to do it.

He felt a rare lightness, like a boulder pressing on top of his head finally moving away a little, and he could look up to see a little sunlight.

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- In the past, she always felt like a little kid, a little younger than herself, but at this moment, she really felt that he had grown up, and he had grown from a little kid to a side-by-side partner.

She looked at it with a smile, and suddenly she was also happy, "Let's go, let's talk while walking!"

Emotions can be infectious, the two turned over to the saddle and rode their horses wildly, running out of the town for more than ten miles against the wind all the way before slowing down. Gu Wan asked him, "Then what are you going to do next?"

When I was in the town, looking at his demeanor, I seemed to have an idea. Xie Ci did have an idea, although Suzhou and his party were conspiracy and traps, but they gave him a new idea: "I think, my father will lead it."

After many years in the army, it is impossible for every henchman to betray him. "

Xie Ci didn't know what the reason was why so many people chose to betray his father at the same time. However, Xie Xinxin's character has always been excellent, whether he is a person or a general, although he strictly enforces military regulations and acts resolutely, but he is not extravagant or unhappy, the military salary is in place from top to bottom, and the rewards of soldiers are not only not withheld, but also subsidized from his own pocket from time to time.

He is strict with himself, but he is lenient, and he has a handle on human feelings, anyway, he is not the kind of stinky and hard coach.

It is necessary to know that the generals fought on the battlefield, and the friendship and loyalty were all spilled with blood, and the degree of stability was much greater than the so-called gentleman's friendship.

After 30 years of ups and downs, it is absolutely impossible for all of them to betray Xie Xinxin.

"I think, among these six generals, will there really be a situation like Xun Rongbi?" was seized power and imprisoned, Xie Ci pondered: "Even outside of these six henchmen, it is likely that there will be those who are unwilling to compromise!"

Unwilling to compromise from start to finish.

Then at this time, the other party is likely to really fall into the situation that Xun Rongbi disguised!

Xie Jiajun has been standing in the Great Wei for many years, and Xie Ci can actually understand why Xun Xun's father and son are planning to kill him. Now, he wants to try to recover the old department of the Xie family.

Previously, Xie Ci was extremely vigilant and jealous in his heart, and he never thought that he would appear in front of people, and the victory in the first battle would bring about a change in self-confidence, and also changed a lot of things.

"It's just that how to screen, I'm afraid it will take some time."

Strike while the iron is hot, and the longer the time is extended, the more unfavorable it is.

It's just that thinking of the trap in Suzhou, it can't be done without spending time, Xie Ci frowned.

Gu Wan nodded frequently when he heard this, the direction of thanking is quite correct, and she doesn't need to guide her! But at the end, she blinked, "This...... I might have a way!"

Xie Yu immediately looked over,

Gu Wan snapped her fingers, the big almond eyes reflected the snow color and were particularly bright, and she fed: "Do you remember Long Shouren?"

"Of course I do."

"Then I said, what about the eldest prince? I have heard for a long time that the eldest prince of Xun is elegant and solemn, and he has the style of his father', do you remember? He paused!"

Gu Wan recalled, showing a little guessing look, "I guess, Xun Xun should be the child of Princess Rilian," she calculated her approximate age, "It's likely that he was too young to remember, and he didn't kill him in the end." "

This Xun Rongbi is really outrageous, Gu Wan spits on him, he's a garbage man, a dog bites a dog bone, and he deserves to be slaughtered.

"Xun Xun has half of the Beirong bloodline on his body!"

Recall Xun Xun's eagle-eyed harrier nose again, although he is also a black pupil, but his facial features are obviously deep, and now that he thinks about it, it is likely to be because of the Beirong blood on his body.

At that time, Gu Wan hurried to Yingliepo, hiding on the cliff to find the opportunity to throw the rope, just after listening to the whole process, she almost immediately thought that this Xun Xun was probably the child of Princess Rilian.

In this way, everything is in order.

As Xie Ci judged, "That's right, I guess."

Be.

Gu Wan thought: "I suddenly asked Long Shouren that day, but he paused at first glance and then answered. ”

Looking back now, Long Shouren's meal may not be because of regret for the past.

Although Long Shouren helped to abuse him, in retrospect, he emphasized twice - "For more than a year and a half, he wanted to replace his father, and there was no such possibility."

In fact, it may be that he is implying a thank you to let him go.

There is nothing to say about Xie Ci killing Long Shouren, he deserves it regardless of his guilt throughout the ages, but Gu Wan now carefully recalls the other party's demeanor and tone at that time, and later on the school field, Long Shouren only mentioned "dare to imprison his father and brother and usurp authority", but not "imprison his father and kill his brother, usurp authority."

Gu Wan pondered: "I always have a feeling that this Xun Xiao may not be dead!"

The first person to lead the troops to the rescue was Long Shouren. Long Shouren is obviously still Xun Rongbi's henchman. Combined with Xun Xun's fact that there was nothing unusual before and after receiving his brother's body to holding the funeral, such as the search move, if this is true, it should be the result of Long Shouren's attempt.

What about Xun Xiao?

Will you die for a lifetime and escape?

Blind, if

This Xun Xiao is really not dead, so he knows a lot of things! It's enough to be called a shortcut! Xie Ci pondered for a moment, glanced at Gu Wan, and the two of them thought of Xun Xiao's tomb together.

But even if we dig up his grave, it's been more than a year, and it's almost all turned into white bones, right? Xie Ci frowned, this can't be judged?

Speaking of this, Gu Wan finally smiled, and his contemplative demeanor was swept away: "Don't worry, it should be possible." ”

Unless Xun Xun finds a corpse with similar age, height and other conditions to bury it, it can be distinguished. Bones can talk

"Let's go!"

Gu Wan showed a little smug expression, raised his whip, turned around and smiled, and said with a bright face.

In the vast snowy field, brown horse and purple clothes, Gu Wan is about one hundred and sixty-five tall, but a pair of straight long legs make her look long, shaved shoulders and grub neck, and the legs wrapped in narrow trousers fly left and right, beautiful and powerful like flowers and butterflies.

She is not the same as the strength and vigor of the second sister-in-law, but she has a neat and casual ease, sometimes lazy and cunning, sometimes bright and bright.

She has a pair of curved willow eyebrows, but she doesn't look weak at all.

The wind blew the snow and flew in the dust, she raised her whip, the big brown horse neighed, and the sassy purple figure swept in front of her like a meteor in front of the wind.

Xie Ci looked at it in a daze for a long time, and hurriedly raised his whip to catch up.

In the sound of the wind and snow, the two of them were talking with the wind.

Maybe no one would have thought that this moment of thanksgiving and Gu Wan would return to Suzhou City, let alone guess that the two would turn back to Yingliepo. Under the shadow of the moon, Xun Xiao's tomb was quiet.

Only the wind was whistling, and in winter, even the grave keepers hid in the small huts at the bottom of the mountain to roast and sleep.

Xie Ci and Gu Wan tied their horses, lowered a rope from the top of the cliff, and swaggered back to Xun Xiao's tomb.

The wind was strong at the top of the slope, the snow was not thick, and it was blown scattered, and you could clearly see the footprints and blood stains on the ground. Thanking Gu Wan for a hoe, the two discussed it, and excavated directly from the front of the tombstone.

- The door of the tomb is directly in front of it, and after the craftsmen have finished and the mourners have carried the coffin inside, there must be a way out, and it is here that the excavation is the easiest. Of course, it is also the most conspicuous, but in such weather, even the grave keepers do not patrol, so there is no such problem.

Gu Wan compared it with a hoe, and was about to excavate, but was snatched by Xie Ci, "I'll come." ”

He was a little resentful of what Gu Wan said that day as a sister and brother, and he had to show it as soon as he got the opportunity

His own identity as a big man.

Gu Wan didn't grab it, swept the steps in front of the tombstone and sat down, smiled and watched Xie Ci do his work - very good, it seems that she will have to shout thank her brother in the future, this trick is too good.

The ground was a little frozen, but it was not a big problem, and Xie Ci Zhenyuan concentrated on his arms, and soon dug the frozen soil layer and dug down faster. It took about two quarters of an hour to dig out a deep pit about half a zhang, and the tomb door was completely exposed. Xie Ci quickly smashed open the tomb door, and after waiting for about two quarters of an hour, he took the lead in bending down and entering the tomb. Not long after, his voice came from inside, "Guan Niang, you can come in!"

Today is the sixteenth, the silver moon disk hangs in the sky, and the bright moonlight is sprinkled on the vast snowy field, and the eyes are boundless and cold. Gu Wan was opening the iron box and looking at a knife in his hand that he had hired someone to carefully build this time.

The long, cold-hard handle is inlaid with a small pointed blade with an unusually sharp tip, both of which are made of quenched silver, with a faint silver metallic sheen.

It's a scalpel.

Once Gu Wan thought that he would never pick up something again in his life.

She stared at the scalpel, let out a long breath, stuffed everything into the sackcloth bag that was leaning on her back, jumped into the bottom of the pit, and went into the tomb in three or two strokes.

Xun Xun is not a prince, nor is he a high-ranking official, he was less than thirty years old and young when he died, the tomb is not very complicated, one main and two ears, the coffin is placed in the center of the main tomb, and I saw it as soon as I came in.

Xie Ci had already broken the coffin, lifted the lid of the coffin, and waited for a while for the smell to dissipate a lot before calling Gu Wan in.

Gu Wan doesn't have a little psychological barrier, is this her old job?

She glanced at the corpse, and the muscles and soft tissues of the corpse had all decayed, leaving only a trace of what had once existed, and the coffin was full of white bones, hair covering the skull, and nail fragments scattered under the phalanges and phalanges.

"The body length is 5.92 feet, and it is estimated that the height before his death was two inches."

Gu Wan put on a cotton gauze mask and gloves, pulled a tape measure, and glanced at Xie Ci with a smile and said.

Xie Ci's eyebrows immediately frowned, although this point was a little different from what he used in his daily life, he still immediately understood, "Five feet ninety-two plus two inches?"

The last time Xie Ci saw Xun Xiao was the year before last, the Xun brothers returned to Beijing on behalf of their father to report on their work, and came to meet Mrs. Xun, at that time Xie Ci was fourteen years old, the two stood together, he went to Xun Xiao's earlobe, at that time he had just measured the New Year, and he was five feet five.

Xie Ci couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, so convert, it's a little bit wrong, a little shorter, but think about how many bones people will have after death

The subtle differences, as well as the boots and standing posture of the day, etc., are a little bit closer, and he can't say anything for the time being.

But Gu Wan measured his cheeks, "It's half a foot and half an inch, your big cousin's face is wide enough." "The bare cheekbones are almost twenty centimeters. The thank-you speech was almost immediate: Impossible!

Xun Xiaojixiao's father, born elegant and long, is a famous white-faced gentleman in the Northern Army.

How can it be a big pie face?

And at this time, Gu Wan finally showed a smile that he had finally found his target, this person was strangled to death. You see, the great horn of the hyoid bone was broken, and the person who strangled him had the strength to die, and it is estimated that he would die in five or six breaths.

But Xun Xiao was burned to death, a fire attack, the Suzhou soldiers of the squad were wiped out, all of them became charred corpses, and the bones in front of him were in the shape of a fist, and the surface of the white bones was many charred black, and it looked like it was indeed burned to death.

Xun Xiao's corpse looked like this, and he couldn't even change his shroud, so he was only wrapped in a red cloak, but the red cloak had been torn off by thanks, revealing the scorched white armor and clothes.

Gu Wan carefully picked up a bit of his nose bone with tweezers, and examined it with a lamp for a moment, this person was indeed strangled to death and then burned. In addition, Gu Wan checked the small foot armor that had fallen, and made a new discovery, "Does your eldest cousin also have Beirong blood?"

No!

The thank-you speech was almost immediately immediate: absolutely impossible!

Xun Xiao is Xun Rongbi's meritorious service back to the dynasty, the Xie family helped Zhang Luo to marry the daughter-in-law, the following year Xun Xiao was born in the capital, Xie Ci is 100% sure that Xun Xiao's biological mother Mrs. Pei and Xun Xiao herself have no blood relationship with the Beirong people!

By this point, it's almost there, but in order to be on the safe side, "Thank you for coming." She pointed to the pubic symphysis, "Saw this here." ”

After the pubic bone was sawed off, Gu Wan cleaned it up, and it should have been boiled, but this corpse had already been ossified, and it could be roughly peeled off without cooking. The pubic symphysis is one of the most important and accurate means of inferring bone age without the aid of instruments.

It was a male, between thirty-five and forty years of age, about thirty-seven or eighteen.

"You see, his symphysis and inferior solution are already very clear, and the upper ventral oblique segment is starting to break down. This is a prominent feature of symphysis pubis in men between the ages of fifty and forty.

Gu Wan skipped other professional terms that he couldn't understand, and only said that he could understand the thanks, and he didn't need to explain them.

Dark

In the tomb, four or five headlamps were lit, the orange light illuminated the middle position, Gu Wan put on a white veil overall, according to her, she didn't need to change her clothes later, the slender ten fingers put on the veil gloves that were close to the skin, she held the pubic bone with tweezers to show him, under the light, there was a cold sense of self-control that she had never seen before.

This is a state that Xie Ci has never seen before.

He was so surprised that he blurted out, "...... Guan Niang, how do you know this?!"

Gu Guan: ......

Gu Wan's black and white eyes under the crooked bangs immediately moved, she looked at it suddenly, blinked, the feeling of cold self-control as if there was a distance at the end of the gratuitous end disappeared immediately, she changed back to her usual smart appearance and a little cunning, hehe laughed, this, my grandfather do you know, he was not the criminal officer of the criminal department before? Learn from him.

Regarding this, Gu Wan has also thought about it, the original owner's grandmother is the county lord of Yongjia is clan, and his maternal grandfather is the criminal officer of the Criminal Department, that is, the criminal officer of Song Ci in "The Great Song Dynasty".

She leaned over and whispered a chuckle, "Don't tell anyone, I promised my grandfather." The faint yellow light, the fine fluff on her face was clearly visible, she said with a smile, and the two brothers touched him with their shoulders.

She was a little too close, and Xie Ci couldn't help but hold his breath a little, he looked at her with wide eyes, and almost immediately replied, "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

But he suddenly realized, is this a secret that the two of them have?

Gu Wan said that Xie Ci did not have any doubts, as long as she said it, he believed it. It's just that in this dark and quiet tomb, after the two of them whispered to each other, he felt very happy in his heart because the two had a common little secret for no reason.

Inexplicably, a kind of emotion called pleasure arises.

After finishing speaking, he still felt that he was not serious enough, and added in a very solemn tone in a low voice: "Anyone." ”

"I promise!"

Under the lights, Xie Ci's eyes were as bright as glass, he suddenly had a serious face, Gu Wan couldn't help laughing, he smiled forward and backwards, he seemed to change his face in Sichuan, he was so funny like this.

She said in a light and fast tone: "Then I believe in you~"

Xie Ci was embarrassed by her laughter, a little hot in his ears, and couldn't help glaring at her. But after a while, he couldn't help but hook the corners of his lower lip, and he also pursed his lips and laughed.