Chapter 9: The Return of the Soul
What he said to Bai Ying about Du Tong Lingyi is the truth. He did suspect that Lian Ce's killing of Ling Yi was instigated by someone, but those people at that time were indeed dead.
Bai Ying asked him about this, and said that it was reasonable to be promoted and reused. But there is also another explanation - since the death of Du Tong Lingyi is suspicious, it can be checked again. If he is found to be the mastermind...... The people of the year are dead, who will defend him?
Bai should be here to confirm this.
He sighed lowly, thinking that he was really not fit for the military. It's not that it's not suitable for the kind of military that goes into battle to fight, but it's not the kind that is suitable for deceit and intrigue. He had thought that Baiying would come to kill him, but now he knew that they were going to make it reasonable, and he couldn't find anything wrong.
In the past few years, I have faced all the demon beasts that go straight to the point, and it is inevitable that my head will become stiff.
In Bai Ying's opinion, he was only a first-order ten generals, and his only advantage was that he had more people in Wuliang City. But on the charge of assassinating his predecessor, no one he knew could speak for him. In his eyes, his own force should also be a level that can be kneaded by others, and among Sui Wuyi's personal guards, there are many second-order and even third-order good players.
But snakes have snake paths, and rats have rat paths. Now that the road to retire and return to his hometown has been completely cut off, he has nothing to fear.
So Li Bochen raised his breath and shouted: "Someone!
For a while, no one answered him. Li Bochen strode to the door, pushed open the door and stood in the courtyard, and drank: "Where are the people!?"
After a while, a feathered man walked in from outside the gate.
It was one of the two feathered men who had brought him to the yard in the morning, with a pair of brown feathered wings on his back. glanced at Li Bochen and said lightly, "What is General Li shouting?"
"I want wine, two more jugs. It's going to be fierce!"
The young Yuren smiled: "General Li, you are not allowed to drink alcohol in the camp, and it is already the honor of the Grand Duke to give you a pot." ”
Li Bochen also laughed: "A pot of wine, Enrong? Didn't General Bai tell you, the general will be rewarded and appointed in a few days, and today you can drink one pot and three pots? ”
Yuren showed helplessness. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Okay." I'm going to find two more jugs of wine for General Lee. But please don't go out and about—General Bai has instructed that perhaps the Grand Duke will send someone to summon the general for questioning in the evening. ”
Li Bochen arched his hand in vain: "There is labor." ”
Then the big lama went back to the house, half-closed the door, poured himself two glasses of wine in a row, and then took out the food and laid it on the kang, eating and drinking at the same time.
After eating half of the roast chicken, Yuren really found two more pots of wine. However, the wine jug in the food box was a silver kettle with pinched gold wire, and the two pots brought were ordinary clay pots. Most of these flasks were used by mid- and lower-ranking officers in the army, and he should have gone to the courtyard where there were still people living nearby. It also shows that this person didn't really ask Baiying, and when Baiying left, he should have explained that he "acted cheaply".
In this way, what Li Bochen was worried about was further confirmed.
But he only acted like a reckless man with no heart, and ate the food cleanly, and there was not a drop left in the three pots of wine. The food box is a good wine, which is long in the mouth, but not high. The two pots I took after that were like rusty knives, burning hot and painful as soon as they entered my throat, but they were very strong.
Li Bochen did not drink often in the army, nor was he good at drinking. Now that the three pots of wine have been exhausted for a while, he soon felt that he was like a cloud, and any killing opportunities and situations were left behind. After sitting on the kang for a while, he didn't feel cold, and then he fell crooked on the mattress, and he didn't cover the quilt, and fell into a deep sleep.
About ten minutes later, Li Bochen stood up and saw himself lying on the mattress.
Now in his dreams, the world before him has become chaotic and strange—only the places that his eyes have noticed have appeared like decent real scenes, and what he has not paid special attention to is a vague virtual image, as if separated by a layer of fog.
He glanced around the room and found two Yin Spirits.
Just a few days after the battle, thousands of people died in the city of Wuliang. Although the Netherworld will have a yin difference to come to the index, but the battlefield is a place where blood is vigorous, this kind of ferocity and blood light rush, even the yin difference has to temporarily avoid the edge, and only when the evil qi weakens can he do things.
Therefore, in today's immeasurable city, there are thousands of wandering Yin Spirits. The two in the house must have just wandered over. One had a bowl-sized wound on his chest, and half of his face was missing, all of them were former comrades. Now it has turned into a dark green translucent outline, and it seems to be muttering to itself.
Li Bochen listened attentively, one read "kill, kill, kill, kill", and the other read "Ah Mei Ah Mei". Probably the former still wanted to kill the demon beast before he died, and the latter remembered his beloved woman before he died.
He sighed inwardly and went straight through the wall. It was already dark by this time, but since it was in a dream, he could see what he wanted to see. So he saw the man who brought him wine and sat outside the courtyard wall with a pair of wings, and made a fire.
There seemed to be no other guard besides him. But Li Bochen raised himself a little, and saw that in the two courtyards adjacent to the small courtyard where he was imprisoned, there were five or six people in ambush, all wearing helmets and quilts. He looked behind the small courtyard again, and saw that in the mountains and forests behind the courtyard, there were also crossbowmen in ambush.
This is the appearance of being tight on the outside and loose on the inside, so I am in case I will run. These people don't know that they are looking at them in their dreams, and they don't know that right now, around them, there are countless yin spirits with different deaths. Their pale green bodies reflected everything Li Bochen saw, and some of them were even worn around the bodies of those ambush soldiers.
But the ambush soldiers didn't know it, and probably only felt a chill occasionally in their bodies.
Li Bochen asked himself to lower some, walked out of the courtyard, and whispered to the yin spirits who were hovering at the door: "The soul has returned, to see the family state." When the body is dead, he will be buried in the mountain. ”
These are the first four lines of the war song of the Son of Heaven and the Six Kingdoms "The Death of the Nation", which can be sung by everyone in the army. When the yin spirits in front of the door heard this, they all turned their faces to look at him, and the whispers in their mouths stopped. [Note 1]
Li Bochen recited this three times, slowly retreated to the courtyard, and said as he walked: "Brothers, help me tonight." If I survive, I'll sacrifice you every year after that. ”
The Yin Spirits seemed to understand, and sure enough, they slowly followed him into the courtyard. At this moment, the man who was roasting by the wall of the doorway only pulled his wings together, oblivious to what was happening around him.
Li Bochen led about six or seven yin spirits into the courtyard and into the house. Then he said, "Please wait here, brothers." ”
It stands to reason that these Yin Spirits, who were turned into ordinary soldiers, were all confused, not very sane, and had only a little pitiful instinct left, and they would not understand what he was saying. But Li Bochen asked them to come in, so they came in and told them to wait, and they really stayed in the house and didn't move.
So he went out of the courtyard again, and in the same way, he brought another group of Yin spirits into the house. In this way, it took nearly an hour to attract more than 300 Yin Spirits into the house.
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Note 1: The four sentences in "The Death of the Nation" are from Yan Leisheng's work "Tianxingjian", which has been authorized to be used.