"Old soldier, do you have a guest?" the man turned over and dismounted, and handed over the reins in his hand to the old soldier as he asked.

Lu Changwen, who was drinking tea, raised his head when he heard the sound, and what appeared in front of the man was a handsome young man, with thick eyebrows like ink, Zhou Zheng facial features, and a short peasant dress, but he was full of vitality and gave people a sense of refreshment.

Lu Changwen saw that the man with the face of the national character was holding a horsewhip, and his figure was tall, although he was not close, he gave people a sense of oppression.

After drinking the tea, Lu Changwen took out a few copper coins, and was about to buy some more dry food with the store to prepare for the test on the road, but saw that the store was busy greeting the man and drying himself aside, so he had to sit down, but the sentence came out in his heart, "The dog looks down on people." ”

"Thanks to the general, it's good, it's good. The old soldier responded, took the reins of the horse, and tied it to the fence behind the tea house, and the camel next to him snorted, obviously displeased with this sudden guest.

Listening to the question and answer between the shopkeeper and this man, Lu Changwen couldn't help but glare at the back of the man's back, but the man suddenly turned his head to look at Lu Changwen.

Seeing that Lu Changwen was full of anger, he turned his head and chatted with the old army by himself.

Lu Changwen's face stiffened, and after nodding, he quickly lowered his head, pretending to drink tea, but the bowl was empty, and he felt embarrassed, so he hurriedly took out a few copper coins in the blanket and left them, got up and went out, and soon the figure appeared on the path next to the official road.

Just about to get up to settle the bill, but heard the sound of horses' hooves on the official road, the old army looked sideways, a horse galloped over, in the blink of an eye has come to the front, after dismounting, two steps into the tea house, sitting opposite the general did not speak.

The frightened old soldier also hurried over, and when he saw the appearance of the person who came, the stunned face dissipated instantly, and he walked into the back hall to prepare for food, muttering in his mouth, "I thought you were going to be unfavorable to the general." ”

"Blind!" Momiji, who was sitting across from the general, suddenly spoke.

"Stewed mutton, roast lamb chops, haggis soup, with flatbread, the general and the red leaves use it slowly, and say hello if you have something" The old soldier put down his food, snorted heavily at the red leaves, took out the cigarette stick on his waist, and sat on the side and smoked.

Seeing this, the general was not annoyed, picked up the bowl and snorted and drank the haggis soup, the red leaves were not polite, grabbed a leg of mutton and gnawed happily, and in the blink of an eye, there were not many things left on the table.

With a bang, the general slammed the bowl on the table and gave a thumbs up to the old army, but the red leaves that were originally white were red from eating, and his nose was sweaty.

"Old soldier, after I return to Beijing, help your daughter on an errand in the palace, and solve your heart disease" After the general finished speaking, the old soldier with a stiff face rubbed his cigarette stick, grinned, and his eyes smiled into a line.

Hongye only twitched the corners of his mouth, and took out ten taels of gold from his arms, "No, your daughter's dowry, I have no money" After speaking, the person was already outside the door.

The general patted the old soldier on the shoulder, and also stepped out of the door, leaving the old soldier alone in the local area, although he had been out of the army for many years, the two of them still treated him as he did back then, and the old soldier's palm slowly tightened until the cigarette stick was clenched.

After a long time, I took a deep breath, sat down again, picked up the cigarette stick and took a few puffs but there was no smoke, stretched out my thumb and pressed it, only to find that the smoke pot had been extinguished for some time.

got up and folded into the back hall, but he lost the interest of smoking, lying by the window and looking into the distance, the figures of the two people on the official road had blurred into two black spots.

After waiting for more than half an hour, the two black dots disappeared, and the old soldier put the cigarette stick back into his waist, turned over and rode on his camel, and ran in the direction they had left.

It's a pity that the sky is not beautiful, the storm is coming, the eyes are full of yellow sand, covering the sky and the sun, the temperature plummets, and what is even more infuriating is that the camel is actually kneeling on the side of the road, dead or alive and no longer moving.

But there was no need to delay, so he had to turn over and get down, abandon the camel, and tie the leggings; looking around, he took out two silver needles from his bosom, stabbed the left and right calves, and rushed into the wind and sand again, and ran straight to the four fields under the curtain, and never stopped.

When Dongfang was twilight, he finally saw the two figures in front of him, took out the cigarette stick on his waist, threw it out heavily, and roared at the same time, "Mei Yin, leave your life behind!" took out the dagger in his arms, closed his eyes and stabbed it out with all his might.

When Mei Yin turned around, Hongye stepped on the saddle and rose up, the soft sword at his waist cut the cigarette stick into two, the sword qi came out against the wind, and cut out a hundred steps away in an instant, the old army only felt a pain in his shoulder, jumped up with his upper body, drew an arc, and then fell heavily in front of Mei Yin, Yin Hong a small piece of sand, and the lower body fell after more than a dozen steps, and the blood stained the yellow sand.

The old army looked at Mei Yin and smiled, but there was blood between his teeth, and his expression looked hideous, Mei Yin saw a sense of relief in his eyes, just like the way he looked after the rest of his life after every battle on the battlefield many years ago.

The past is churning in his mind, and finally he coincides with the half-cut old army, but he is now dying soon!

"Beware...... Darkness! will ...... Army, Yue'er will ...... Just worship...... I'm up to you, and I'm ...... in the next life Bear...... I'll take ...... again for you Fight!" The voice gradually weakened after several intermittent moments, and he wanted to clasp his fists and salute, but he couldn't do it.

"Who asked you to come?" Mei Yin's eyes flashed and he asked urgently.

The wind and sand were raging, and it had been buried in the chest of the old army, but the old army could no longer answer, and the red leaves beside him reached out to probe the veins of the old army's neck, and said, "Dead."

Even if Mei Yin, who is accustomed to life and death, can't help but be sad at this moment, if he dies on the battlefield, it will be the glory of the soldiers, but the old army has followed him for more than 20 years, but just now he seemed to be bent on death, just to report the news and support the orphan.

Although Mei Yin has been on the border all the year round, he is on the front line, and he is more sensitive to dangerous things.

Suddenly, Mei Yin's feet plunged into the sand, her waist bent back hard, and her back body was like a spring, only to hear a sound, a touch of golden light shot into the air.

"Chirp-" An exclamation, a goshawk flapped its wings in mid-air and fled, leaving a few residual feathers, which were swept by the wind and scattered down, the red leaves were quick and fast, and the body was like a sharp arrow, instantly stabbed into the air, and after landing, the fingertips with the blood eagle feathers were handed to Mei Yin.

Mei Yin took the blood feather, but her eyes were suddenly cold, Hongye was stunned, and asked, "Did you find anything?"

"Captive eagles, vigilance will always be worse" Mei Yin's words made Momiji's heart sink.

"I don't know who raised it?" Momiji looked at the old soldier's grave bag and seemed to be talking to himself.

"Maybe only the old army knows, he didn't say it before, he always has his own troubles, maybe his daughter is the reason" Mei Yin turned over on the horse, hugged his fist at the bulging sandbag, snapped, and whipped away.

Momiji waited for the general to go away before he fell to his knees, kowtowed three times in a row and flew on his horse.

But seeing that the general was already half a mile away, holding the reins in one hand, the whip shadow was heavy, and it seemed that it was suddenly sent urgently, Momiji was puzzled, and he whipped down three times in succession, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and the horse's four hooves flew over, and he galloped forward.

But after a gallop, not only did he not catch up, but he seemed to fall farther, pinning the horsewhip to his waist, bending his fingers into claws, and the heavy claws on the horse's hips, the mount was in pain, and he accelerated in an instant, and the tea cup had caught up with Mei Yin.

was about to speak, but heard Mei Yin say: "Go to the village in front to rest."

Momiji understood, raised his hand again and patted the wound on the mount, and one person rode away first.

"It's so angry, it's a loss of life" Mei Yin said to herself, but she didn't break it, but she was relieved in an instant, and she was busy on the battlefield all year round, and it was strange to have no anger.

Whip followed, into the village, the wind and sand has stopped, the village houses have been smoked one after another, the sound of chickens and dogs barking one after another, the front of the house and the back of the house occasionally green, but there is some out-of-this-world posture.

Suddenly, I heard Mei Yin say three "good" words in a row, and the red leaves turned their heads, but they saw a peach blossom blooming in the wall, with a faint fragrance, a person next to the tree, with upright facial features, a thin figure, a green cloth robe full of folds, but a pair of straw sandals with leaky fingers under his feet, and calluses on his heels.

"Sir, can you go in and rest for a while?" Mei Yin clenched his fists and spoke, extremely polite.

"The dead are below, and the living is always on the top, the door is open, and the man under the tree turned his head and glanced at the two of them.

When the two of them walked into the courtyard, they walked to the door, kicked the door open in anger, and said in a muffled voice: "Drink the water and pour it yourself, I'm too lazy to serve you" pushed the blue and white teapot on the table in front of Mei Yin, turned his head to look at the peach blossoms in the courtyard, and was stunned.

Red leaves wanted to attack several times, but they were secretly stopped by Mei Yin, poured water and looked at the furnishings in the house while drinking, but the ink inkstone on the stove was very abrupt, and it happened that Red Leaves' sight also stopped at the ink inkstone.

"Hmph, a poor and sour one, vassalage elegance" Hongye was already angry in his heart, and his words were mean.

"Yes, the poor one, she used to say that, but it's a pity that ......" Before she finished speaking, two lines of tears dripped down her cheeks and onto the table, which was extremely heart-wrenching.

Momiji frowned and didn't look at him, he was not sympathetic, but disdainful.

"Standing in the sky is a man, what kind of body is it to cry and cry?" Mei Yin suddenly frowned and snorted.

"Lu someone can cry if he wants to cry, laugh if he wants to laugh, it's your business" After speaking, he simply fell on the table and cried, which later turned into a wail, and the sound shook the roof tiles.

Mei Yin was just about to get up and leave, but saw an old man rushing into the house in a panic, shouting "Dingwen" in his mouth, pulling Lu Dingwen to the bed, taking out the silver needle in his arms, stabbing him a few times, and Lu Dingwen fell asleep.

After asking, I learned that the old man was the only man in the village, and he often came to take care of him because he was pitiful.

Although the old man is old, he is very talkative, but when he talks about Lu Dingwen, he sighs.

It turned out that Lu Dingwen was not like this before, and the reason why he became like this now has to start with Yaruo, who is also his wife.

"As the saying goes, if you are not of my race, your heart will be different, even a woman has to guard against it, but he has to marry that woman, this time it's okay, make yourself like this, my son hasn't come back until now, and I don't know if I can bear it at a young age" The old man shook his head and sighed, his face showing sympathy.

"Could it be a fine work?" Mei Yin asked.

"This is not, how can there be a fine work for the birth of children, isn't that a loss to the wife and a soldier? besides, he is a poor scholar, and it is not profitable" The old man rubbed his nose and shook his hands.

"Could it be that this exotic woman is now missing?

The old man patted his thigh, "Yes, that's right", Mei Yin nodded slightly, and was about to get up and leave.

But he heard the sound of the broken gong outside the house, "Dingwen, come on, your mother-in-law has found it" The three people in the house were shocked, and the old man stepped out of the house first, but saw that the old and young in the village had surrounded the yard.

The old man opened his throat and shouted while picking up the crowd, and when he got closer, he saw that the stretcher was covered with a white cloth, and he just opened a corner and screamed "ah", Mei Yin gave a look, and the red leaves squeezed into the crowd, and the white cloth was lifted whole, and the crowd was suddenly silent.

A moment later, several people rushed out of the inner circle, squatting on the ground and vomiting wildly.

Mei Yin separated the crowd, and his brows immediately wrinkled into a deep Sichuan character, only to see that the back skin of the corpse had been completely peeled off, the tender flesh was black, and some places had scabbed, but other places were full of maggots, and bursts of corpse stench penetrated into the nostrils.

Mei Yin was about to reach out and turn the corpse, but was blocked by the red leaves, stretched out his fingers and pressed on the wound, and the blood was as black as ink.

"Poisonous?" Momiji nodded in acquiescence.

"Have outsiders been in the village lately?" asked Mei Yin.

But seeing the villagers looking at each other, and finally fixed their eyes on the two of them, Hongye's heart was cold, but Mei Yin had a mockery at the corner of her mouth, so she had to turn around and walk into the house.