Chapter 21: The Bloodstained Banner
I don't know how long I walked, I don't know how many desolate and lonely lands I had crossed, and the two men who had tasted the wind and frost of the endless journey finally returned to the place where they met for the first time, and it was also the home where Lian Zongwu grew up since he was a child - Fenglin Town.
Someone from afar told the news to everyone in the town, these days they have not gone out alone, and the swordsman who has lost the banner is no longer a swordsman, so they would rather chop wood in the town than go out to be ridiculed by others,
There are only upright swordsmen in the world, and there are no swordsmen who steal their lives!
Now everyone, men, women, and children, stood on both sides and looked at the two people walking in the distance, and they all wanted to see with their own eyes the young man who captured the enemy with high spirits.
In the world of swordsmen, as long as he can take revenge, even if he dies, he will be high-spirited, because everyone will say, look, he died after revenge, this life is worth it,
But when the two approached, these people were surprisingly surprised to find that they were not as arrogant as they imagined, and the living person on the side was not bound, on the contrary, both of them limped around.
After walking countless roads, the shoes under the feet of the two have long disappeared without a trace, and even their legs are so painful that they can't walk anymore, but the two of them have also given up supporting each other in this respectable place, and they stubbornly walked in the middle of the road step by step.
The people next to him saw the same stubborn and didn't want to run away at all, and they all knew what he wanted to do, and took the initiative to make way for them
The two of them were guided by the spontaneous formation of countless people to a courtyard with a high flagpole in the middle, which was where all the chaos began.
There was a young woman holding a toddler at the door, looking at her husband with tears in her eyes.
Now seeing her husband come back alive, she can no longer control her emotions, and tears can't stop flowing.
But the man walked in as if he had not seen it, just as he had seen it when he had first seen him
The courtyard was already full of leaders with status in the gang, and it was not as casual as the outside, all of them were holding a breath in their hearts, and they were very serious
"Don't Xiao Zi Zongwu visit his father", Lian Zongwu saw the middle-aged man standing with his hands in the main hall with his temples a little white, and he knelt heavily on the ground with his knees in one step.
The big brother of the gang heard his son's voice, his hands were trembling slightly, do you know that I took people to look for a few days and nights under the cliff, do you know how sad it is for my white-haired people to send black-haired people, do you know that so many days and nights can't sleep,
The man with slightly gray hair tried his best to control his expression when he turned around, without losing a trace of majesty in the past, but the thousands of words in his heart were just plain words,
"Coming back?"
"Yes", the kneeling man has long been accustomed to the wordlessness of getting along between father and son,
The man looked at the boy next to his son and said, "You didn't tie him up, it means you didn't submit him"
"Yes", Lian Zongwu, who was kneeling in front of him, still had no extra excuses,
"Helper, Lian Gongzi doesn't have to tie me up, I came willingly", Liu Xiangsheng on the side was afraid that this friend who finally came back alive would be punished again and hurriedly said,
They are already friends, whether they admit it or not, and true friends don't need to be acknowledged and emphasized
But even this doesn't seem to be able to change the ending waiting for Lian Zongwu, his father, the man who holds the power of life and death in his hands, ignores Liu Xiangsheng on the side,
The swordsmen have never been polite and polite to those Central Plains people, and if they don't like it, they don't like it, and they don't pay attention to it
"You can be regarded as bringing Shuai Qi back, do you know your fate"
"Know"
"Then is there anything you can't rest assured about", the man was slightly moved
Lian Zongwu looked back at his wife and son standing at the door in the distance, and tears were rolling in his eyes,
After only one glance and looking back, he no longer had the courage to look at his beloved wife,
"There is only one thing, this brother is also tired of being burdened and came with me voluntarily, I hope that my father and all my uncles and brothers will surround him for the sake of Zongwu."
"Okay, it's worthy of being my Lian Shengjie's son", the man said loudly, "You can do it yourself, I'll do the rest for you"
Even Zongwu wanted to turn his head to look at his wife and look at his inexplicable friend, but he still held back.
With a miserable laugh, a steel knife came out of its sheath, with three points of terrifying cold light
The woman outside the door couldn't help crying anymore, and the uncles and brothers around her couldn't bear it.
But just when the steel knife was about to hurt someone, Liu Xiangsheng suddenly made a move, and slapped him in the back of the heart behind him, and even Zongwu suddenly fainted to the ground, and the steel knife was thrown aside
Lian Shengjie was a little grateful in his heart at this time, "you"
Before he could speak, Liu Xiangsheng pointed to Lian Zongwu who fell to the ground and said, "I want to exchange this flag for his life."
After that, he picked up the steel knife that was thrown on the ground, and slowly cut it from his neck along the place where the black flag was attached.
Rao is circle is full of murderous characters without blinking, and at this time, he also turned his head a little too much to look at it, they understood what this young man was going to do, and what price he had to pay!
The black flag was so tightly enveloped that it could only be taken off him with a sword!
Liu Xiangsheng cut his own flesh and skin vigorously, and the banner of this spell was as difficult to peel off as if it had grown on his body.
At the same time, he was afraid that he would cut this big flag, and he pointed to this flag to save this friend's life, and the bright white flesh turned out, and the blood suddenly flowed down.
The nose kept opening and closing and trying his best to inhale, but he didn't make a little painful sound, and the blood on his body slowly flowed on the ground with this big flag and merged into a pool of blood.
Finally, this big flag that had been following for a long time was cut off, Liu Xiangsheng folded the black flag with difficulty and handed it out with both hands, and a middle-aged man with a little beard around him hurriedly took it with both hands.
Lian Shengjie glanced at the blood-soaked black flag, which was immediately hung on the flagpole in the courtyard,
"It stands to reason that I should have given you a bottle of wound medicine, but there has never been such a rule in our swordsman group, no matter how the enmity of capturing the flag cannot be eliminated, you can go, you and I will never owe each other from now on"
Just as Liu Xiangsheng thanked him and was about to turn away, Lian Shengjie said again, "Remember, if you are still alive in the future, you will always be a friend of our Fenglin Town."
Liu Xiangsheng paused slightly, glanced at Lian Zongwu who fell to the ground behind him, and walked out with the door.
At this time, the wind has gradually risen, the banner in the courtyard is whirring in the wind, the blood is still slowly flowing down, when Liu Xiangsheng walked through the courtyard, the woman knelt on the ground wordlessly with the child in her arms,
From the door to the outside of the town, no one in the town, whether men, women, or children, stepped forward to help, but no one left.
They all stood on both sides of the road and looked at the young man who staggered away in front of him, there was hardly a whole piece of flesh on his body, and a large piece of flesh and blood was exposed in this way, and a string of bloody footprints were left behind him.
Both men and women on both sides burst into tears, at this time they already knew what this teenager had done, they admired such heroes, heroes cherish heroes, heroes respect heroes more,
Under the setting sun, his shadow stretched so long enough to remain in everyone's heart
......
As early as a few months ago, when the two of them left the City of Dreams, even Zongwu asked him to escape, but Liu Xiangsheng said, Wouldn't you die without yourself?
Lian Zongwu didn't think it was good and didn't talk well, so he ignored it.
Liu Xiangsheng said again, if I don't go to your death, it will be a humiliating death, so it is better for me to witness your glory by your side......
Whenever Lian Zongwu, who woke up, thought of this, he would face the handsome flag stained with his friend's blood, and silently said to himself, Are you okay my friend