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The wind whistled, the dust was flying, and the plains stretched as far as the eye could see.

"Phew!" a black horse was held high by the reins, its front legs bent and hung in the air, and then fell quickly with a "pop", neighing and stopping. The man on the horse leaned so hard that those who saw him from afar would have been surprised and thought he would fall on his back, but it was soon discovered that he quickly balanced his body the moment the horse's front legs landed.

It was a dark-skinned young man, tall and straight, with big eyes, thick eyebrows, a square face, and a wide mouth. He stopped in front of a mound of dirt, wondering if he should disturb General Fan Li, who was less than 300 meters in front of him. The general rode a white warhorse, his white robe fluttering in the wind, dyed crimson by the sunset.

Time passed minute by minute, and the sky was already twilight, but Fan Li still looked straight ahead quietly, as if he didn't realize his arrival. He scratched his scalp and sat motionless on his horse, until Fan Li looked back and saw him and beckoned to him, then he rode up to him, and then jumped off the horse with a capable and powerful movement.

"The general is here, let me find it easily. He approached Fan Li and took the reins from his hand, "General, it's getting late, let's go back." ”

"Something?" Fan Li felt as if he wanted to speak and stopped.

"Dr. Wen was worried about the general's safety, and said that if the general traveled alone in the future, he would hold me accountable. ”

Fan Li was just about to say something, suddenly an arrow flew from behind the mound, flying straight at his chest, the young man exclaimed at the same time, he had firmly caught the arrow, pinched the bow and shot the arrow, there was a "oops" from behind the mound, and then a black figure rushed away.

The young man pulled his legs to chase after him, but was stopped by Fan Li, "Lin Yinan, you are chasing, he is prepared, someone must answer." Lin Yinan stopped, and was surprised to see that there were several more black shadows less than 100 meters in front of the black shadow, and they helped the injured black shadow onto the horse, with the shout of "driving", under the blue and white sky, the whip in the distance seemed to be perpendicular to the horizon, the sky and the earth were vast, the white clouds and the birds were in a line, reflected in the depths of the autumn water, everything in this world suddenly seemed to be far away from themselves, and only themselves were left between heaven and earth. You stand between heaven and earth, surrounded by twilight, you just want to quietly face the sky and the earth, and feel your own insignificance and the compassion of life between heaven and earth, and you seem to think of letting go of everything, including life, in fact, you can also let go. And at the end of your line of sight, several horses are leaving in a straight line, and in an instant only boiling dust remains, and the dust falls, and there is nothing left in the gloom, and there is silence all around, so quiet that they can hear each other's breathing, and this silence tells them that everything just now is not a dream, but a real thing.

"It's so dangerous, they must have been premeditated, but fortunately, the general's martial arts are strong. Lin Yinan wiped the sweat on his forehead and said with palpitations. "It seems that what Dr. Wen said is right, and I have to follow the general closely every step of the way, just in case. ”

Fan Li sighed, "Bright arrows are easy to block and dark arrows are difficult to prevent, and it is useless for you to follow me, so you can only live and die." The general looked far away, "The endless plain is the most difficult to defend, there is no barrier, and it is very convenient for the enemy to come and go, so it is a problem after all." ”

"Who the hell assassinated the general, it shouldn't be a Yue Guoren. Lin Yinan saw that it was getting late, and urged the general to speed up the horse.

Fan Li didn't care about it, "The assassin just left, now is the safest time, I want to rest here." Although Lin Yinan felt that what the general said was reasonable, he was still not at ease, and stood on the side of the road looking left and right in vain. But the general pulled him off his horse and said wittily, "Do you think that because you are tall and big, arrows will shoot at you?" ”

Lin Yinan sneered, dismounted, and tied the general and his horse to a big tree on the side of the road. "The general laughed, with my three-legged cat skills, where can I be qualified to be the general's guard, of course I can only be a shield. ”

Fan Li nodded solemnly and agreed with his words, "I have been shot by a dark arrow several times during this time, who is it? If you want to defend against people, you must first know who to guard against." ”

Lin Yinan fell into deep thought, feeling that he had a great responsibility, as a personal guard, how could he let the general be in danger from time to time, this was his serious dereliction of duty. Thinking of this, his tears almost flowed out. "General, how are we going to find that man?"

The general thought for a moment, "Otherwise, I haven't been going out for the past few days, and I just happened to be reading a sword book at home, you know how to do it." ”

Lin Yinan nodded, "Of course." ”

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A few days later, Fan Li asked Lin Yinan, "Did you find anything abnormal?" ”

Lin Yinan shook his head, "It seems that the assassin of the general was not a native or not near where we lived. Because in the past few days, no one thinks that it is a strange thing not to see the general for a few days, and no one asks why the general has not shown up in the past few days, which shows that no one thinks that there is any special reason for the general not to show up, at least it shows that the person who shoots the arrow does not know that the general has not shown up in the past few days. It seems that he went back and was far away from us. ”

Fan Li nodded with satisfaction, "It seems that your kid has grown a lot." ”

Lin Yinan immediately stood upright, saluted, and replied, "Thanks to the general's cultivation! Without the general's cultivation, how could I be Lin Yinan today." ”

Fan Li laughed, "It's a lot of progress, and it's much better to shoot the sycophants." ”

Lin Yinan blushed, but still mustered up the courage to continue, "Why is the person they point to always the general, it shows that this person knows the general very well, knows that the general is his opponent, and also knows the importance of the general to the Yue Kingdom." ”

Fan Li patted Lin Yinan's shoulder, "Maybe it's the secret expansion of the Yue Kingdom that has alerted the Wu State, could the assassin be from the Wu State?"

Lin Yinan woke up from a dream, "It's possible." ”

The general didn't speak, he sat in the dark depths, thinking about something. This is the habit of the general, he likes to think in the dark, he likes the mysterious feeling, the darkness wraps him like gauze, and he always wants to break through this curtain, it is he is trying and he is struggling. He tried his best, just to break free from the darkness, and once the day came, he would miss the scene of struggling in the dark, he thought, struggle, is the process of struggle, but also a symbol of indomitability.

Lin Yinan looked around vigilantly from time to time without speaking, so as not to disturb the general's thinking. In fact, he saw it in vain, and by this time it was getting dark, and night was approaching, and he was responsible for bringing the general to his perch every night. Since he failed to assassinate the general and became the general's personal bodyguard, in the past two months, he has gradually learned about the general and gradually become a more competent bodyguard. The general rode forward and frowned, Wu is now competing for hegemony in the Central Plains, Fucha should not have too much energy to pay attention to Yueguo, besides, how could Fucha put King Yue in his eyes, let alone Fan Li. This person, with such a means, shot him with a bow and arrow several times, according to this view, he should know Fan Li very well, he knows that the price paid for the close assassination of Fan Li is too great, and the success rate is smaller, he knows Fan Li so well, he should be Fan Li's opponent and Fan Li's friend.