Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Bamboo Forest is Attacked

After the first seven days, the father was buried, and the brothers discussed the matter of filial piety. It is unrealistic to keep filial piety for all three years, after all, they all serve in the imperial court. Director Wang's eldest son Wang Rui died early, and his youngest brother Wang Hui proposed that he stay at home and keep filial piety, which naturally received a lot of opposition. The second brother Wang Tian said: "My brother is here, which is your turn to keep the gift of filial piety." Since I am now the eldest brother, the matter of filial piety is up to me. Your devotion to the court is the greatest filial piety to your father. Although Wang Tian was born in the concubine of Wang Dao, he does not please his father on weekdays, but he has been very respected in front of his younger brothers since he was a child. Wang Shao proposed: "The second brother often has military affairs, and I and several brothers and younger brothers also have public offices, if the five of us have completed the three-year filial piety period, it will definitely be detrimental to state affairs." It is better for the five of us brothers to take turns to keep filial piety at home, and if we need to do foreign business, we can just do it. I believe that my father will not blame us for this. I wonder what the second brother thinks?" the brothers looked at each other and nodded in agreement. But they all insisted on staying at home for at least 100 days.

Zhang Li returned to Jiankang, and went to the Prime Minister's Mansion with his colleagues to mourn, thinking that he could see Wang Shao, but there were many people gathered in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and there were no people in the welcoming and mourning halls, and he was embarrassed to inquire about it, so he had to give up for the time being. Unexpectedly, when I saw Wang Shao again, it was half a month after returning to Jiankang. This is a later story, so I won't show it for the time being.

Let's go back and say that Han Yue, Huan Yi, Zhang Xiao, and Xiahou Ti are the four of them, since Huan Mi said that he could leave General Huan's Mansion the next day, he naturally didn't want to stay for a moment. As soon as the morning dawned, the four of them were ready to stop and streamline the luggage they had moved from the inn. Xiahou Ti also changed into the purple robe and left here, as soon as possible, the four of them all had the same thoughts.

The guards outside the moon gate have withdrawn at some point, the courtyard is quiet, it is estimated that Huan Mi has not yet gotten up, the four of them asked for four fast horses with the family, the family asked if they were going to call the fourth son of Huan, Huan Yi said, "Don't be alarmed, just say goodbye for us." Then he and the other three got on their horses and galloped away without looking back.

Ran all the way down through Jingzhou City Street, asked for directions, and went straight to the east gate, when it was already bright at the east gate, and the foreign pedestrian caravans also began to enter the city one after another. The four of them dismounted and quietly went out of the city with the flow of people. After running more than 20 miles out of the city, they saw a post station tea house on the side of the road, and it should be official to see the cleanliness, so the four of them decided to get off the horse and take a rest. ordered a few things to eat and millet rice, and instructed the shopkeeper to drink the horses, and the four of them breathed a sigh of relief and took a sip of hot tea.

Huan Yi asked Han Yue, "Where are we going now?"

Han Yue asked rhetorically, "Where did you summon them to find us?"

Huan Yi was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at Zhang Xiao, Zhang Xiao said innocently: "You just asked me to hang out your code, but you didn't say anything else." ”

Huan Yi said embarrassedly, "I was negligent. ”

Han Yue said: "It's not tight, stay all the way, and discuss it when you meet it." If they can't find us, the three of them should also go back to the Miao room and wait. ”

"Who dares to despise us!" Zhang Xiao was about to be upset again.

"It's the old house in Huainan. An old mansion of Wang Rong is called Miao Room. Huan Yi didn't glare at Zhang Xiao this time, but patiently explained to him.

"Oh, there. I remember that you were there to heal me. Wang Rong, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest, said a poem: Although it is close, Miao is like a mountain and river, why not take this allusion?" Huan Yi nodded.

Han Yue asked Xiahou Ti, who had been eating quietly, "Where are you going?" Xiahou Ti half-closed his eyes and did not answer.

Leaving Chaliao, the four of them continued to gallop in the northeast direction, and after walking for less than half an hour, they passed a bamboo forest path. Suddenly, a flock of small finches flew up in the forest, and the sound of rustling bamboo leaves was faintly heard. Han Yue and Xiahou Ti both held the reins vigilantly, Zhang Xiao and Huan Yi didn't react yet, and they ran a few feet away before realizing that they hadn't followed. When I looked back, I saw the two of them carrying the reins and turning their horses' heads, back to back, vigilantly looking into the bamboo forest on both sides. Huan Yi also realized that there was something wrong here.

Zhang Xiao took the lead in jumping off the horse, hid beside the bamboo forest, quickly took out a dagger and tried his best to cut the bamboo, and in a blink of an eye, more than a dozen bamboo branches fell around him, and he sharpened it into a sharp head three times and two times, it seems that it is to be made into a short arrow. The other three dismounted, slapped their buttocks, and let the four horses run out of the danger zone, while they themselves also squatted on one knee by the bamboo forest, nervously guessing where the enemy would emerge from. Xiahou Ti had already taken out a black gauze scarf and put it on his eyes, as long as he avoided the light, he could see it.

The rustle is getting closer and closer, and it seems that there are also people on the left and on the right, and it seems that there are quite a few people. Suddenly heard a buzzing whistle, Zhang Xiao shouted: "There are arrows, be careful!" Before the words fell, dozens of arrows flew out from the side of the bamboo forest and shot into the middle of the path. If the four of them were still on the horse at this time, they would definitely not be able to dodge. Then more than a dozen masked men in cyanotic tights sprang out, each carrying knives, and went straight to the four of them to slash and kill.

Zhang Xiao held a bamboo arrow in one hand and a bamboo arrow in the other, and fired a few shots in a row, and the first few people fell down with arrows, but no one behind continued to move forward. At this time, Xiahou Ti had already pulled out the long silver chains that had appeared on the roof that day, and waved them, and a chain waved over, forcing back half a circle of besiegers. As if someone was commanding in the middle, a group of people split into two ways, bypassing the chains, and running towards Han Yue and Huan Yi. One of them wielded a sword, and the other used an iron bone fan, to face the battle. On the other side of the bamboo forest, another 10 or 20 people sprang out, forming four small circles around each of them.

The comers are not ordinary people, all of them are not weak in martial arts, and with tacit understanding, the encirclement is shrinking smaller and smaller. The weakest martial artist is Zhang Xiao, who is good at riding and shooting, usually fighting beasts at most, and has made moves with the guards, so he has no actual combat experience at all. Seeing that there is only the ability to parry, there is no power to fight back. Han Yue took a moment, flew over the man in blue clothes, and jumped to Zhang Xiao's side to help in the battle.

Seeing that there were only a lot of these people, and I don't know how many of them, Xiahou Ti waved the long chain, tried to expand the encirclement as much as possible, and then said loudly to Han Yue: "You go first!" The besiegers saw Xiahou Ti blindfolded, thinking that he was blind and easy to bully, but they didn't know that he was the most difficult person to mess with among the four. Wherever the chains go, there will be wounded.

Xiahou Ti urged again, Han Yue was ruthless, and said to Huan Yi: "Let's go!" He picked up Zhang Xiao and flew to leave. Where is the man in the blue clothes willing to put it, he is in hot pursuit. Xiahou Ti struggled to stop the man in blue clothes at the front, blocking a short gap. For Han Yue, who is good at light skills, even if he pulls a Zhang Xiao, it is enough to get out. The three of them hid in the bamboo forest, and some of the people in blue clothes also got into the bamboo forest and chased after them. The other part of the people continued to besiege Xiahouti.

The three of them exerted their strength in the bamboo forest, walked through for an unknown amount of time, and finally heard the sound of chasing behind them, so they rushed out of the bamboo forest, continued to move forward along the smooth path, and finally stopped in front of a wide river. Seeing that no one was catching up behind, Zhang Xiao gasped and said, "Rest, rest for a while, I really can't run." Huan Yi said, "No, it's not safe here." He looked around, and in the distance there were two thatched huts by the river, and two small boats. I want to come to what kind of ferry family. The three of them did not run to the hut, but went directly to the tethered boat. Han Yue swung his sword to cut the berthing rope of one of them, and Huan Yi pulled Zhang Xiao to jump onto the boat. Zhang Xiao opened his mouth: "You guys, don't you ask people?" Huan Yi took out the money bag from his waist, poured out two pieces of broken silver, and threw them into another small boat. The boat was propped up a few times and sailed into the river.

Zhang Xiao stretched out his legs and sat on the board of the boat, panting and saying, "You sons of the Central Plains family, looking at Sven Lidao, are actually much more domineering than us. He stole the boat and gave money, so that people could not say anything. ”

After discerning the direction, the three of them took turns to support the boat, not daring to slack off for a moment. Zhang Xiao asked: "Who will be chasing and killing us?" is that Huan Mi?" Huan Yi said: "Since he said let us go, it must not be him." ”

Han Yue said: "It should be Huan Wen's subordinates." ”

Huan Yi agreed: "Maybe we are wrong to blame Huan Mi, he may just not want Huan Wen to know about us." But then he knew he would not be able to keep us safe, so he let us go as soon as possible. ”

Zhang Xiao asked again: "Then how do they know our route?"

Huan Yi thought for a while and said, "I guess it's the person from the post station tea house who reported the news." ”

"But why did Huan Wen kill us?"

"I want that stone!" all three of them realized at once. They went down to the cave several times and were scarred, and it was impossible for them to find nothing when they came out. The conjecture is that the palm of the hand said what he saw in the cave. But it stands to reason that they didn't see Xiahou Ti pick off the stone. It seems that someone in the courtyard is eavesdropping.

Zhang Xiao took out the black stone, spread it in his palm, looked at the chaotic sunlight, and said to himself: "What is the magic of this black little stone, so that Huan Wen dares to poison us?" He muttered to himself again: "I don't know what happened to that big man." ”

At this time, it was Han Yue's turn to hold the boat, and he said softly: "His name is Xiahou Ti." ”

"Xiahou?!" Huan Yi and Zhang Xiao called out in unison.

The river in winter was originally quiet and lifeless, even in winter, it was just lazily glowing with scattered water, but somehow, at this time, Han Yue's heart was rippling in circles, as if the pole in his hand also began to shake with the waves.