The sky is high and the clouds are light, and the empty fields are just like our empty hearts.

The spirit that had just been in the face of a huge strong enemy had disappeared without a trace at this moment, and everyone was a little listless, procrastinating on the road to the Han Dynasty.

Yan Qixing suddenly stopped, looking back in the direction of the Xiongnu royal court.

I patted the horse on the neck, and the horse obediently stopped, and I asked him, "What's wrong?"

Yan Qixing's jaw tightened, the muscles in his cheeks stiffened, and he said word by word: "I suddenly understood Your Majesty's determination to destroy the Huns. ”

is a big man, and he can't protect a weak woman.

I said, "Don't worry, he will pacify the Huns one day, and we will personally welcome the princess back to China." ”

I nodded affirmatively and muttered: "There will definitely be a day: the general will set the Tianshan Mountain with three arrows, and the strong man will enter the Han Pass with a long song." ”

This is talking about the deeds of Xue Rengui Pingxi, but what I am thinking of at the moment is Xiao Huo. In the near future, he will lead the Han Iron Cavalry to break through the Qilian Mountain, which is called "Tianshan" by the Huns, expel Hulu, seal the wolf Juxu, and be ashamed.

Yan Qixing looked at me, as if he had a lot to say, but in the end he didn't speak, silently walking with me.

Someone in front suddenly exclaimed, Yan Qixing's face changed greatly, and he rushed to the front over the crowd, and I followed closely behind.

Beyond a small hill, presented in front of the Hun iron cavalry, light cavalry heavy armor, armor Sen Sen facing us in formation, bow wound knife out of the sheath with a murderous spirit, looking at the situation seems to have been waiting for us for a long time.

Bastard!!

No wonder he let go of his enemies so easily, it turned out that he had already arranged a backhand.

There was no time to respond, the rain of arrows had been shot out of the enemy formation, and we were caught off guard and immediately someone was killed by the arrow, I fought with Yan Qixing to resist the sharp arrows that flew quickly, Yan Qixing shouted: "Retreat, retreat! ”

At this time, his mount suddenly neighed and fell, and he was killed by several arrows, Yan Qixing jumped off the horse neatly, and I stretched out my hand to him and shouted, "Come up." He took me by the hand, and as soon as he flew on his horse, I was in front of him and behind him, and he rode back quickly.

The enemy's vanguard iron cavalry quickly caught up, and now seeing the benefits of waiting for work, fighting against the elite division with the tired crowd is simply hitting the stone with an egg, at this time, even if there is a peerless strategy, the hero is useless, the so-called narrow road meets the brave wins, and there is nothing else.

But it was clear that our soldiers had little courage left, and during the chase Yan Qixing killed an enemy, jumped directly from my horse to the horse that had lost its master, and shouted at me: "After I take people to break, you protect you in a single speed to Yunzhong County." ”

An enemy soldier rushed to my side and slashed at me with a knife, and I swung my knife to block, pulling at my throat and shouting, "Death must die together, life must live together, and brothers should advance and retreat together." ”

Just as I was making a bold statement, an arrow flew out of nowhere and hit my right arm, and the sudden impact took me over and fell off my horse. Yan Qixing rushed forward with a roar, killing two soldiers who wanted to kill me, and immediately other soldiers surrounded us, fighting against the enemies who rushed up to us.

I grinned in pain, Yan Qixing jumped off the horse and took my right arm, held the shaft of the arrow with his right hand and shouted, "Hold back!"

Yan Qixing tore off a piece of his shirt and bandaged it on the wound to tighten his ribs. Suddenly, my eyes widened, and my large hand pulled over my body, blocking myself in front of me, but almost in a flash of lightning, I deftly twisted and spun in front of him, and used my body to block the sword stabbed by the enemy's fallen soldier in the oblique stab.

From the time he saw the enemy's sneak attack to blocking the sword for me, to the time I immediately realized his intention and reflexively blocked the sword for him, this series of actions was like a series of actions in an instant, and it took less than three seconds for the enemy sword to stab me in the chest.

Feeling a pain, I looked down at my chest, the blood should be flowing out, will I be as lucky as last time, and I won't die if I am hit by an arrow in my heart?

I didn't care about the pain in my arm, I touched my body with both hands, and there was no injury anywhere, and suddenly I remembered something, and suddenly I screamed.

Yan Qixing had already kicked the abandoned sword on the ground with his foot, and the sword shot out like a fly, and the guy died without saying a word. Turning around and helping me, he asked anxiously, "How are you?" while reaching out to touch my chest. I knocked his hand off and took out something from my bosom -- He, Tian, and Yu!!

My great misfortune!

It was more unfortunate than being stabbed by a sword.

Hetian Yu blocked a sword for me, but he ...... Pieces!!!

"Ahh

"Give me back Tian Yu and me!" I howled, like a wolf.

Thinking about it not long ago, I was still thinking that if I couldn't find Hetian Yu and couldn't go home, it would be good to stay in the Han Dynasty justifiably. It's really a report of the world, and the jade will be broken immediately, which can be called my heart, but I don't know that a heart is like being poured with oil, the pain is incomparable, and the anger is like a fire, burning my mind, arresting and stabbing whom, arresting and cutting whom.

You can't go home, you'll never go home......

A voice swirled in my heart, louder and louder, louder and louder, goals and dreams were shattered in an instant, making people fall into despair and madness, I felt top-heavy, the Hun light cavalry rushed towards them like a fierce god, behind them, a large number of heavy cavalry was about to rush in, I waved the broadsword and constantly slashed horizontally.

I'm going to kill you, I'm going to kill you!

"Liu Dan!" Yan Qixing shouted my name, rushed to my side, the two horses raised their hands to hold the reins of the horse in parallel, and at the same time picked up a scimitar that flew towards me, the horse's front hooves raised, and once again knocked me to the ground, I was completely defenseless, and I fell unconscious when I got up, and as soon as I got up, the light cavalry who had lost the knife picked up a heavy hard crossbow and smashed it into my head, and suddenly my eyes turned black......

"Liu Dan!" Yan Qixing was shouting, it felt like it was coming from the other side of time and space, so far away.

At such an important moment, I can't faint!

When I woke up, I found myself lying on the back of a horse, closing my eyes and opening them again, there was no battlefield, no killing, the horse's hooves swayed on the grass on the bare ground, moving forward slowly and methodically.

I jumped off my horse and shouted, "Yan Qixing?"

Looking forward, looking backwards, there is Yu Dan, there are more than a dozen Hun soldiers with him, but there are no more than 5,000 horsemen, and there is no Yan Qixing. And ahead, is Yunzhong County.

Yu Dan and his entourage jumped off their horses one after another, and I ran over and asked, "Why are we here?"

Yu Shan lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "He led all the horses to contain the pursuers, and we were able to get out safely." ”

I heard the sound of something collapsing in my heart.

5,000 remnants, tens of thousands of iron cavalry, what is the end?

My breathing stopped, my feet were soft and heavy, my ears were roaring, and the blood from my body quickly drained from my body to the soles of my feet, and when I tried to lift my feet, I found that I couldn't move at all.

"Lord Liu, how are you?" Yu Shan held me with one hand.

"I'm fine. "I forced myself to calm down, inhaled deeply, and a drop of water ran down my forehead, it was my cold sweat.

No, he won't die, and whoever dies won't have his turn to die!

This belief caused all the power to return to my body in an instant.

With a white face and red eyes, I said hurriedly, "Hurry up, let's go to the clouds." ”

As soon as I met General Li Guang, I hurriedly said, "I don't have time to talk to you too much now, give me a team, and I'm going to find Yan Qixing." ”

As a result, Li Guang personally brought 3,000 men and horses with me and spent two hours galloping to the battlefield just now.

There are traces of battles on the ground, there are corpses, scattered and not all, and it is clear that this is not the final battlefield.

Where did they go?

General Li Guang groaned and said: "The north is the border of the Xiongnu, and there is a single royal court in the east. ”

I had long been so distracted that I could not think, so naturally he was whatever he said, and three thousand troops rode westward in pursuit.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, we crossed the last bit of green, entered the desert, and at the same time found the final battlefield.

The corpses were all over the ground, and the dying horses were neighing weakly. The clouds are long, the yellow sand is long, this is the burial place of 5,000 lives.

My heart is beating "through", afraid but looking forward to it, Yan Qixing, if you are a brother, don't let me see your face here.

Under the order of General Li Guang, the 3,000 Han troops jumped off their horses and searched for Yan Qixing in the pile of dead people, they didn't know what Yan Qixing looked like, and they were completely based on my description, blindly looking for someone who looked like him. Every time I was called to confess, my heart rose to my throat, and every time I found that it was not him, my heart fell into my stomach again. My nerves were stretched like open arches that would break if I put a little more pressure on them.

Throughout the afternoon, we searched all afternoon, searching back and forth three times, but there was no Yan Qixing.

I breathed a sigh of relief, just one breath, and in the blink of an eye, my heart hung again.

Where did Yan Qixing go?

I said to Li Guang: "General Li, Yunzhong is the gateway of the Great Han, and you can't leave for too long with a heavy responsibility. In this way, you go back to the clouds first, leave me a thousand people and enough provisions, and I must find Yan Qixing. After a pause, I gritted my teeth and said, "I want to see people in life, and I want to see corpses in death." ”

Li Guang looked at me and said with concern: "Your face is very bad, take care of your body." ”

He didn't say much at the moment, but took two thousand men and horses back to the clouds.

When night fell, we were sleepy and tired after looking for a day, so we made a fire in the desert to make food.

There was food sent by the Han army, and it was difficult for me to swallow it at all, but thinking that the physical exertion was too great, I didn't wait to find Yan Qixing like this, but I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to hold on first, so I forced myself to eat something.

According to my heart, I wanted to keep searching all night, but the night was unfathomable and the desert was so vast that it was difficult to discern the direction, so I had to set up camp and rest for the night.

Before dawn the next morning, we immediately set off and set out again to find Yan Qixing.

The desert is picturesque, the sky is cloudless, the blue is clear and transparent, like a large piece of blue crystal, the golden desert can not be seen at a glance, straight up to the blue sky. Such a spectacular view would be memorable if you were a tourist, but I wasn't in the mood for that.

I hate the desert, I hate its continualness, I hate its wonder, I hate its golden grains of sand, and I hate even the sun above my head.

The temperature difference in the desert is very large, it is cold to death at night, it is hot to death during the day, the sun is hot on our heads, and the yellow sand is hot under our feet.

But we can't just drink water because we don't know how long we have to look for it. Cutting off water in the desert is like cutting off the air, so no one drinks until you are thirsty.

It was another day, another night, and I was exhausted, and a cloud of despair began to fill my thoughts.

But how could I give up?

On the third day, I decided to go south along the desert, Yan Qixing could not go too far to the west, if he was still alive, he would definitely turn to the south, the south, is the boundary of the Han Dynasty. Divide 1,000 people into 10 squads, 100 people each, expand the search area, and make an appointment to assemble at Yanmen Pass, which is the closest to us, regardless of whether they can be found or not.

I led a team of 100 people, except for eating and drinking, I never rested halfway, but there was still no trace of Yan Qixing. I prayed silently in my heart that there would be no other way to find someone in the vast desert like us, to pray to the heavens.

A soldier pointed ahead and shouted, "Look, poplar tree." ”

In the vast desert, a withered lonely tree!

My eyes widened, under the tree, what is under the tree? I clamped my legs and galloped over.

Sure enough, there was something under the tree, it was a dead war horse, I recognized it, it was Yan Qixing's horse.

"Yan Qixing!

I turned around and yelled, ran around, fell a few times in a row, and was so excited that I couldn't help myself.

I guessed correctly, Yan Qixing must be nearby.

Running out more than ten meters away, there was a person lying in the desert in front of him. I rushed forward to pick him up, and the moment he was turned over, tears flowed from my eyes.

Yan Qixing!

Yan Qixing, whose face was covered with blood, even the beard on his cheeks was long gone, and the blood and ash covered his true face, and he didn't know how many wounds there were all over his body, and the blood stains had solidified into black on his body.

I suddenly calmed down, stretched out my hand to control his snort, but there was no breath, listened to the heartbeat, there was no movement, without hesitation, immediately pinched his nostrils, took a deep breath to give him artificial respiration, and then unbuttoned his shirt to expose his chest, and performed cardiac compressions for him at a frequency of 60 times a minute, alternating between the two, two minutes, no movement.

"Come here. I was sweating profusely and shouted as I pointed at a soldier. "Give him artificial respiration the way I just did. I press five times and you blow once. ”

The soldier was very clever, and did as I was instructed to do without asking anything, blowing once and pressing five times, alternating without interruption, and working together quite tacitly.

Three minutes, five minutes, I repeated this action, I don't want to give up, I can't give up! Yan Qixing must not die, if he dies, I will never forgive myself.

Seven minutes later, his body suddenly moved, and I was overjoyed, and immediately checked the color of his nails, the original bruise gradually turned red, and checked the heartbeat, which began to beat regularly from if there was nothing, and there was breath in the nostrils.

He's alive, he's alive......

He sat down on the ground and closed his eyes with a long sigh. Actually, I wanted to cry, laugh, and scream, but I didn't have the strength to do so, and I was soaked with sweat.

Someone brought water, soaked the skin of his face, touched his lips, and fed it softly, slowly, into his mouth. The breath was there, the heartbeat was there, but he was still in a coma. I set up a tent beside the poplar tree, brought all the water, and I began to wash his wounds, which were so hot that they could kill him if they were infected.

There are no anti-inflammatories, it doesn't matter, my blood is the best medicine.

Abandon the crowd, take out a knife and bleed on his arm and feed it to him, and then take some to apply to his wounds, there is no needle infusion set, so I have to use the most primitive method, hoping it will work.

When all was done, I sat beside him and watched over him quietly.

Yan Qixing, who was in a coma, frowned, his lips were stubbornly pursed, and on his chin, a short cyan beard grew out, adding a touch of wind and frost to his sun-tanned face. I stared at him, and the tears that I had been holding back for a long time came out of my eyes and fell on his face.

"I'm sorry. I muttered. One of the things I regret the most in my life is that I didn't tell him about the collusion between King Yugu Liwang and Yi Zhixiao. If I hadn't thought I was stubborn and self-righteous because I was familiar with history, Yan Qixing would not have encountered such a great disaster.

In fact, whoever is the Xiongnu is not the same, why do you have to be stubborn and let history return to its place? Even if Yu Shan wants to kill us, he has to kill us, with the kung fu of Yan Qixing and me, I am fully capable of saving my life. In the end, it was my conceit and pride, and the idea that history could be in my hands hurt him. Fortunately, God is pitiful, Yan Qixing is lucky not to die, otherwise what face would I have to live between heaven and earth?

The more I thought about it, the more scared I became, and my tears were a bit like bursting the embankment, and I couldn't wipe them out.

Yan Qixing, who was lying on the felt, suddenly moved, I raised my head suddenly, met two godless eyes, and Yan Qixing woke up......

When he came to Yanmen Pass, it was noon the next day, and the new guard general Cheng Buzhi personally took Yan Qixing, who was still in a weak state, into his mansion, and found a doctor to treat him well, and the 1,000 soldiers rested for a while, and then immediately returned to the clouds.

After two days, Yan Qixing's spirit was much better, and his physical strength was gradually recovering, and I stayed by his side almost every day, as if this could make up for my mistakes.

At the same time, another serious problem began to entangle me———— Hetian Yu!

My mood became extremely depressed, every time I was with Yan Qixing, I was not good, and when I was alone, I was disheartened and sighed.

In this way, before we knew it, we were locked up in Yanmen for seven days, and Yan Qixing's body recovered to seventy-seven eighty-eight, and his injuries were half healed.

That afternoon, I went to visit Yan Qixing again, and found him under the tree in the middle of the courtyard, leaning on the collapse, holding a knife in his hand and carving something on a piece of wood.

"What is it?" leaned over a little curiously.

Yan Qixing handed me something, it was a wooden carved ring, one end was tied with a short red silk silk, tied with a beautiful knot, this shape is a little familiar, look closely, it is actually a wooden Hetian jade ring.

"Send you. Yan Qixing said softly.

I held the wooden "jade ring", my eyes were hot, but my heart was painful, and I couldn't speak.

Yan Qixing said, "Do you remember that poplar tree?"

I nodded. Naturally, we can't forget the tattered dead tree, if it weren't for it, we can't find Yan Qixing, I still remember that when we left the desert, Yan Qixing, who woke up, pointed to the tree, and must pick up a piece of its broken wood back, so that everyone was baffled, and I didn't know what the importance of the broken tree was.

Yan Qixing stared at me and said solemnly and slowly: "The poplar tree is an extremely precious tree, it can grow strong in the desert without water and rain, and has a beautiful shadow. It is said that after it grows up, it can be immortal for a thousand years, not fall for a thousand years after death, and immortal for a thousand years after it falls. If there is anything in the world that is eternal, it is it. ”

I looked back at him in a daze, shocked by the poplar tree, shocked by what he said.

"A thousand years of immortality, a thousand years of death, a thousand years of immortality, a thousand years of immortality. "What is eternal in the world, and what is more eternal than in the world?

Isn't this poplar ring his heart?

Touching that wooden ring, I can't help but want to shed tears again, I don't know why I've become so fragile lately, it's not my style.

Yan Qixing got up and stood in front of me and said, "Do you know what I was most happy about when I woke up?"

"What's the matter?" I embarrassedly wiped away my tears, ashamed of my weakness.

"I see you crying. Yan Qixing smiled. "The smart and strong Liu Dan is crying for me, and I am very happy. ”

I smiled, looked down and fiddled with the wooden ring in silence, not knowing what to say.

Yan Qixing looked at the wooden ring in my hand, sighed and said, "Although it is eternal, this ring is not the other ring, and you and I have never been able to explain it to Your Majesty." ”

When he mentioned this, I thought of the broken Hetian jade, and my heart was greatly gloomy, and I smiled bitterly: "You don't have to explain to Your Majesty, that piece of jade is mine, and it will not be Your Majesty who will be lost, it will be me." ”

If it weren't for my arbitrary actions, Yan Qixing would not have almost died, and Hetian Yu would not have died. I'm doing it to myself, and I can't blame anyone else.

Yan Qixing said: "I have many doubts in my heart, such as the woman who was burned to death and sacrificed, you changed your mind for her, which led to the killing of the military minister Shan Yu; the Bank of China said that from the moment you saw him, you started to kill; Yu Dan, just what he said, you did not hesitate to put him to death." I feel that there is a great deal of mystery in these decisions you have made. ”

I "hummed" and smiled bitterly: "Mystery? It's not a mystery, it's just that history is doing tricks." I don't understand why I'm here. Is it to help or to destroy, is it to change history, is it to create history, is it to be played with by history, or is it to play with history? I really don't understand. ”

Sitting on the collapse, my heart was extremely heavy.

"If you want to know, I'll tell you: at first, I wanted to change history, so I wanted Yu Shan to do this big single Yu, and then I wanted to return to history, so I helped Yi Zhixian in disguise. ”

Yan Qixing asked me, "What exactly is the history you are talking about?"

I turned my head and glared at him with my mouth wide open, what is history? Is that a problem?

I was so depressed that I was a little laughing for a moment. After thinking about it, it's no wonder that he doesn't understand the word "history" in this era.

"If I understand correctly, doesn't history refer to what happened in the past?"

I shut my mouth and acquiesced.

Yan Qixing's expression was even more suspicious: "The new death of the military minister, Yu Dan's accession to the throne, and Yi Zhi's oblique seizure of the throne are what happened a few days ago......"

I took over and said, "That's why I say history." ”

Yan Qixing looked at me in a daze, his face became very strange, and he muttered for a long time before he said, "You and I are brothers?"

I nodded.

"Is it a friend of life and death?"

I nodded again.

"Can we trust each other, rely on each other, and share weal and woe?"

I nodded like garlic.

"Tell me the truth. He said heavily.

Hetian Yu is gone, and he can't go back home, is the secret still a secret?

It's been three years, and a person who bears this big secret can't tell anyone, and in order to cover up the secret, he has made up one lie after another, so tired, so hard, now it's okay, from now on, I don't have to lie, I don't have to go to great lengths to go home, and I don't have to be subject to a lot of restrictions for this; from then on, I am me, I want to be in the court, I want to be in the wilderness, whether it is clouds and rain, or wild cranes and idle clouds, in short, I am free.

I decided to put it all together: "Okay, I'll tell you. But before you do that, you'll answer me a few questions?"

I also wanted to ask him some questions a long time ago, such as why he stole Hetian Yu in a roundabout way, what does he have to do with Guo Jie, and Fu Yong, I still remember the incident when Fu Yong came out of his house, what is their relationship, and so on. In the past, it was a relationship between superiors and subordinates, and they were deeply wary of each other, so they couldn't ask, but now they are finally living together in life and death, and they are brothers and confidants, so they should be able to ask.

Yan Qixing thought for a while and said: "As long as it is not a confidential matter between the DPRK and China, you must know everything and say everything. ”

"Happy! Then I'm going to ask. "I took a pose ready for a long talk. "The first question was ...... in the backing village that day"

Just started up, "Lord Yan, Lord Liu." A sudden voice interrupted our conversation, and it was Lu Guang.

"Why are you here?" Seeing that it was him, Yan Qixing and I were a little confused, this Lu Guang was not waiting by the emperor's side, what were you doing here?

Lu Guang said helplessly: "Do you want to come here when you are humble? Isn't this forced by Your Majesty?" "For you. ”

When I opened the brocade silk, I saw that there were simply four words written on it: I replied when I saw the word.