The laughter came from far away, and the wind and snow brought not only the cold, but also the ridicule of the ruffians.

Qian Laosan squatted in the corner, stunned, like a walking corpse, his eyes were silent, there was no brilliance in his pupils, looking at the burning firewood, he didn't know what he was thinking.

There was a burst of shouting, and there seemed to be a smug laugh of the officer and soldier in the distance. But fortunately, through their relays, the other teams didn't bother to come in and investigate.

After the commotion, the officers and soldiers searched down the mountain, and the whole mountain suddenly fell silent.

The dilapidated temple where more than a dozen people were hiding inside was extremely silent at this time, as if the entire dilapidated temple was empty except for the small sound of firewood.

Xu Changan helped the pale Su Qing to jump down from the eaves, and there happened to be a small gap at the junction between the tile and the wall, and the two of them shrank inside.

They were in the right position to see what had happened before, and even when the officer walked behind the idol, he only had to look up to see them.

Xu Changan and Su Qing didn't know what to say or what to say. A man, who lives all his life, is probably fighting for a breath, but one day, he doesn't even fight for that breath, either he gives up on himself, or he finds something more important than his life.

More than a dozen people surrounded a fire, without a single hair, and after drying, the smell of urine from Qian Laosan's body became stronger and stronger, but more than a dozen people lowered their heads, without disgust or comfort.

Qian Laosan looked extremely uncomfortable, he rolled up his trouser legs, revealing the small sign, thought about it and thought about it, gritted his teeth, took out a burning firewood from the fire, closed his eyes, and raised it to burn the pair of small wings on his ankles.

The firewood was broken into two pieces, and it was generally still in Qian Laosan's hand, and the other half turned over several times, rolled to the ground, and finally slowly extinguished, emitting a choking smoke.

Qian Laosan opened his eyes in surprise, Xu Changan's hand holding the sword trick had not been withdrawn, he glanced at Qian Laosan and sighed.

He didn't expect that in order to help them, Qian Laosan would rather be humiliated than do anything that might expose them.

"Just say something. Xu Changan didn't dislike his clothes that smelled of urine, patted him on the shoulder and said.

Qian Laosan looked like a wronged child, lowered his head, and barely cried loudly.

As soon as Xu Changan's words fell, he saw that the dozen or so thin people who followed Qian Laosan all rolled up their trouser legs, and they all had a pair of small wings tattooed on their ankles.

"It turns out that the Sky Eagle who infiltrated the Northern Barbarians at that time and made a fuss in the Shuofeng Department was you. Su Qing opened his mouth and said lightly.

A hint of surprise appeared on Qian Laosan's face!

"Eun Gong also knows about us?"

Su Qing nodded affirmatively, and when Qian Laosan saw it, he instantly lowered his voice: "Where is there a Sky Eagle now, only our group of waste!"

Seeing that everyone seemed to know the Sky Eagle, only Xu Changan was full of confusion.

Su Qing slowly explained: "At that time, the Zhenman Mansion secretly trained a team, although the individual combat ability of the people in it was not so strong, but they were good at camouflage, lurking, and spying on intelligence, and this team was called Sky Eagle. Since the formation of the Sky Eagle, every time the Shuofeng Department swept Tongzhou, it was perfectly defended, and only then did they react that the Sky Eagle had invaded into them. ”

"For a whole year, any military operations of the Shuofeng Department seem to be under the control of the Zhenban Mansion, and if it weren't for one person, I'm afraid the Aquila still exists. ”

Xu Changan immediately asked, "Who, what happened in the end?"

Qian Laosan let out a long sigh: "Our Tianying supreme leader is called Tianying, he is directly responsible to General Xu, and the second-in-command is called Goshawk, Goshawk was tempted by the heavy profits of the Beiban, and betrayed all of us! Even he set a trap for the Beiban, except for a few of us who came out, no one else survived, as for the goshawk, I heard that after we were destroyed, he had no use value, so he was killed by the Beiban!"

"It's a pity that I can't personally avenge my brothers. Qian Laosan looked around at the brothers who followed him, and his eyes were full of guilt.

Qian Laosan threw the firewood in his hand on the ground fiercely, and sparks splashed everywhere.

He slapped himself hard, walked out of the temple gate, and roared in the sky.

The rest of the people looked at him worriedly, and Su Qing sighed and said, "It's okay, it's good for him to vent." ”

It was late at night, and they found some dry door panels and dry grass in the temple, and spread them out, and a dozen people lay side by side for the night.

Xu Changan knew that after knowing that Qian Laosan and they belonged to Tianying before, he insisted on sleeping next to Qian Laosan, while Su Qing slept next to him on the very edge.

At night, the wind and snow gradually decreased, and from time to time there was the sound of firewood being burned in the fire pit, and the sound of snoring full of rhythm and rhythm came from the whole broken temple, Su Qing looked at the sleeping Xu Changan beside him, and struggled to get up.

I don't know when there were one or two more stars in the sky, and a cool breeze blew, Su Qing couldn't help but shudder, and shrank back, it seems that Tongzhou is about to turn snow, but I don't know what happened to Beiban.

Su Qing saw a big bald head sitting on the steps at the entrance of the temple, Su Qing walked over and sat down side by side.

"Eun Gong. Qian Laosan's voice was a little hoarse.

Su Qing didn't look at him, just looked in the direction of Beiman.

"Why?" asked Su Qing lightly.

Qian Laosan didn't answer him directly, but also looked up at the sky with one or two stars and said, "I'll tell you a story!"

"Once upon a time, there was a family that lived in the south, and in February and March, the rape flowers would bloom all over the hills. An industrious woman would go and pick rape flowers and extract oil. to sustain himself and his five children. ”

"Although I am not very rich, I can get by. Who knows, the war broke out suddenly, a big war broke out between the new regime and the old court, and the flames of war reached their village, and the mother and siblings died in the war, leaving only the third son. Qian Laosan's voice was hoarse and very low.

Su Qing listened quietly, he knew that this was Qian Laosan telling his story.

The third child watched as his brothers and sisters were stabbed in the body with spears, and watched his mother be stabbed in the chest by a stray arrow. He could only hold his mother and watch her mother, covered in blood, caressing his face. ”

He wants revenge, but who can he turn to? The Holy Dynasty is still the old dynasty? And his mother held his face in her dying hand and told him not to let him take revenge, not to be blinded by hatred, and to try to live. Before his mother died, she smiled and told him to live. When the peace is over, I return to my hometown, plant a lot of rape flowers, squeeze oil, and then find a hard-working woman, open a small shop, have a few children, and live happily. ”

He knew that his mother wanted him to live a good life, yes, about the war, where can the little people at the bottom tell who is right and who is wrong, they can only live humbly. ”

Qian Laosan's eyes showed nostalgia and sadness.

But the surviving child didn't listen to his mother. Qian Laosan continued, but there was a hint of sadness in his voice.

He took the wood knife in his hand and inquired about the two sides of the previous war, and his idea was to slash all the enemies and destroy the squad that was fighting. ”

Soon, he found the group, and he sneaked into the tent, but unfortunately he couldn't get close to the general. ”

When the general knew his purpose and reason, he did not blame him, but released him himself. The general confessed his mistake to him and told him that he was willing to die when peace arose. ”

Qian Laosan said this, smiled, turned to Su Qing and said, "Do you know why the Holy Dynasty was able to win in the end?"

Su Qing shook his head, the Holy Emperor raised troops at that time, but only dozens of people followed, but it didn't take a few years to overthrow the old dynasty at that time, which was really rare.

"Because there are many such generals in the Holy Pilgrimage. ”

In the end, the war was won, and the third child also saw the general, but the knife in his hand couldn't cut it. ”

Hundreds of people pointed at his nose and tore at his clothes, but the general leaned forward, and the short knife in his hand pierced the general's lower abdomen.

"Watching the general fall in a pool of blood, looking at the accusations of the people, he began to doubt himself, to wonder if he was really wrong, and he began to be confused. Is it also a mistake to avenge one's loved ones?"

Su Qing sighed deeply: "No one is wrong, what is wrong is war." ”

Qian Laosan glanced at Su Qing, and then said: "Later, he learned that many people were worse off than him, but they all gave up revenge, because they knew that peace was more precious than hatred. ”

When Qian Laosan said this, he lowered his head and looked at the steps.

"So that person later went north and fought all his life for the peace of Tongzhou?" Su Qing replied lightly.

Qian Laosan did not speak.

"What does it have to do with your humiliated rescue of me? I am the great prince of the Northern Barbarian Shuohe Division, wouldn't it be better to kill me? I don't believe that some silver is worth your life. ”

"Yes, it's really not worth it, many of my brothers died at the hands of the Northern Barbarians, they were picked by the Northern Barbarians and hung on the flagpole, no different from those slaughtered cattle and sheep. ”

"Then ......" Su Qing was even more puzzled.

"But what's the use of you dying, it will only make the Shuohe Department and the Holy Dynasty who were originally stopped fighting endlessly, 'starting a war' is just two words for those high-ranking big people, but for us, it is the life of countless poor people like us!"

Qian Laosan stood up excitedly, and after finishing speaking, he threw down his sleeves and walked into the broken temple.

"'Go to war' is just two words for those high-ranking big people, but it is the life of hundreds of people!" This sentence deeply shocked Su Qing and kept circling in his heart.

A gust of wind blew, and he couldn't help but shiver!

There was a sudden sigh behind him, and Xu Changan walked out and helped him put on his robe.

"What do you think, you and he are the same people. ”

Su Qing was a little surprised, and pointed to his nose unconfidently: "I? I don't have such a high consciousness and sentiment, I just want to find my Abba and Grandma." ”

Xu Changan looked at him and smiled slightly.

"Then why didn't you allow me to kill the eldest prince at that time in Chiyan Mountain?"

Su Qing was stunned for a moment.

......

Zhenmanfu.

An urgent document was sent to General Xu Zhenwu's study.

Xu Zhenwu frowned after reading it: "What does it matter what the eldest prince of the Shuohe Department does, what does it matter to me, pass the order, all the generals of the Zhenbarian Mansion are not allowed to contact the outside world, they are not allowed to send troops without permission, all the staff are on first-level alert, ready to send troops, take advantage of the snow, and break the wind department!"

"Frost test begins!"

General Xu threw the letter away and let it float into the furnace and turn to ashes.

The letter was stamped with a seal, the seal of the Great Prince.