"Smack..."

"Da-da-da-da. ”

The iron hooves are gradually shattering, and the horses are galloping.

At noon, Yumu Village, forty miles away.

There were 3,000 soldiers in array, and 400 imperial flags were raised.

A fast horse sprang out of the dense forest and hurried away to the head of the army.

The two mighty jade lion beasts lay prone in front of the formation, looking into the depths of the dense forest with deep eyes. The scorching sun is lightly sprinkled, the scales are like King Kong, and the green gold is brilliant.

The dragon fan blows the breeze, the breeze blows the red tassels, calm and calm. The iron hammer is powerful, like a god descending from the sky, and the power is compelling. The two sons of the royal family are one literary and one martial, standing quietly in front of the jade lion beast, and their distinct style makes them particularly eye-catching in front of the ten thousand armies.

They've just arrived...

"Da Da Da..."

Someone came to pull the reins, turned over and dismounted, and knelt on one knee and reported solemnly: "Xia Xun has come out of the mountain, sitting in front of the desk, boiling water and making tea." ”

"Who walks with him?"

"Only Mo Xian was with him. ”

"What about the others?"

"Lei Meng led the army to defend the east and west mountains of Yumu Village, and Xiahou was behind the trail, all infantry, and there were no horses. ”

"Heh..."

The smile on Long Gongzi's face turned into a faint playfulness, and he waved his hand to signal the sergeant to step back, and then he turned his face to Long Er Gongzi and said calmly: "This Xia Xun is really courageous. ”

"Hmph..."The second son of Long snorted disdainfully, and put his hammers on both wrists: "I think he eats the gall of the bear's heart and leopard, and the battle of our army is imminent, so he dares to go out of the mountain to cook tea?" Brother Huang, you wait for me to lead five hundred elites, and go to get his head back before, I will see how arrogant he is!"

The dragon fan was retracted, the handle of the fan was pressed against the golden breastplate of the second son of the dragon, and he said lightly: "Second brother, don't worry, our army has surrounded Yumu Village, Xia Xun is wings and can't escape, you are not in a hurry to fight." There is a way, it is very pleasant to have a friend from afar, since he has the intention of setting tea to welcome guests, why not you and I will try his craft?"

The second son of the dragon is a person with a hot temperament, as long as the double hammer is in hand, he has never been afraid of anyone, and he is even more brave in rushing to the battlefield, but when he fiddles with the feelings of Wen Xuan, he seems to be very emotionless.

With a wave of the hammer, he said loudly: "Eh! The tea he has set out, can it still be as delicious as the big red robe in the palace? According to me, don't play these false things with him, let's just kill the past, the winner is the king, and the loser is the coward, as long as you take the Yumu Village, when the time comes, I will let him kneel on the ground and pour you some tea! Let's make some senses." ”

"Hehe..."

Long Gongzi smiled helplessly, for his younger brother, sometimes he didn't know how to teach it.

Ignoring it, he turned around and turned around, and Long Gongzi said lightly towards the military formation behind him: "Fei Chu, Yin Tianci." ”

"In!"

At the back of the army, a black-armored general with a war horse and a long knife in his hand, as well as a disciple of Wentian Pavilion who had crossed paths with Xia Xun, came out of the ranks.

"Two of you will lead three hundred cloud shields, and one of you will lead two hundred archers, and you will go with me into the forest. ”

"Order!"

Long Gongzi glanced sideways slightly: "Bai Lingyun." ”

"In!"

"During my absence, you will command the three armies on my behalf, and make sure that the barracks are erected before the sun sets, so that the enemy will not attack at night. In addition, he ordered the Hanlin Academy to draw a detailed map of a radius of 300 miles, and there must be no mistakes in the mountains, streams, jungles, and plains. There is also a spy who reported last night, saying that Xia Xun is hiding the general's horses, you should think about it for me. ”

"Order!"

issued two military orders in a row, and Long Gongzi glanced at Long Er Gongzi. The second son of the dragon pursed the corners of his mouth helplessly, and had nothing to say. Then the two of them took a few steps and sat on the Jade Lion Beast. Then, 300 shield armor and 200 archers, all mounted on fast horses, followed closely behind the two mighty jade lion beasts, and slowly marched into the dense forest...

"Smack. ”

The clouds and the sun are sprinkled with golden sand, and the sky is full of wind and clouds.

Several ferocious eagles were soaring among the clouds, vigilant against every grass and tree within a radius of 100 miles. Looking down from the sky, the rivers and mountains are picturesque, the forests are like millimeters, and everything is in full view. In the hundreds of miles of dense forest, Yumu Village is like a lump of flesh that has been shaved and bald. Surrounded by three mountains, dozens of camps, nearly three miles of forest outside the mountain are cut down, and the dead branches and broken leaves are all over the place. Dozens of miles away, there are thousands of troops stationed in the open field on the southeast and west sides, just like three male lions lurking in the grass, forming horns with each other, surrounding a small corner of the fish and wood village.

In front of Yumu Village, outside the East Mountain Trail.

In the middle of the buffer zone cleared by the felling, there is a long table with two chairs, one sitting and one standing.

The green mountains are elegant, and the black clothes are cold. On the long table, the purple-red stove was grilled to a slight orange-red by the charcoal fire, and the teapot boiling water in the blazing fire was billowing white smoke. Four wooden cups are placed, a tea bowl is centered, and a small packet of dark red old tea leaves...

In the deserted forest, there is an unspeakable danger. You don't need to see it, just by the wind blowing from the old trees in the forest, you can feel a chill like being stared at by a poisonous snake. Four hundred to eight thousand, creeks to rivers, the gap is so big, even if there are thunderous rhetoric ahead, but it can't make those newly recruited candidates comforted. The fear that seeped into their bones made them feel even more depressed.

The quality of an army is most evident at this critical time. The candidates who were recruited had obviously not seen much of the world, and before the enemy army arrived, they were suppressed by the pressing atmosphere, their faces turned pale, and their hands and feet were unsteady. The fierce northerners are the opposite, they are all in good spirits, and their grim expressions even reveal a trace of excitement and madness. The former is like a frightened dog, and the latter is a wolf with a fierce fighting spirit.

Wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, and dogs travel thousands of miles to eat.

Live fish swim upstream, and dead fish go with the flow.

This is the truest portrayal of Yumu Village at this time...

"Da Da Da..."

After about half a pillar of incense, there was a faint sound of messy horses' hooves in the dense forest, getting closer and closer, and the sound became louder and louder. But when the sound of horses' hooves was almost about to run out of the forest, it stopped abruptly.

Looking at it from afar, I saw that in the dense forest, hundreds of sergeants who had crossed the forest stopped in the shade of the trees in the forest. Only two mighty jade lion beasts, still carrying two dim golden armors that could not hide their brilliance, were still moving slowly.

They're coming.

"Tsk..."

The heavy hooves, as if carrying the strength of a thousand catties, crushed the dead branches and leaves that fell to the ground with each step. Between the composure and heaviness, there is a hidden violent atmosphere, just like the male master encounters a long-lost old enemy in the dense forest, and is approaching step by step, ready to kill at any time.

"Ground Interception?"

"It's kind of interesting..."

The visitor's gaze crossed the two people in the center of the buffer area, and looked deeply at the "arrow shelter" arranged with steel shields on the top of Yumuzhai Mountain.

Long Gongzi smiled and said little.

The second son of Long secretly ridiculed: "The shield is the sky, the knife is the earth, and it is a bit interesting to stick to the square circle." The ground interception garrison was founded in the military town and carried forward in the black python god army in the north pass. This Xia Xun actually built a canopy according to the terrain. If Hongwu learned about this, I don't know if he would be so angry that he jumped up from the bed. Hehe. ”

The two whispered, the beast came out of the forest, walked to the front of the case, and dismounted...

Glancing at the two of them, Long Gongzi smiled silently and raised his golden silk cloak and sat down in a chair at will.

The second son of the dragon stood behind him, no more, no less, just three feet. Three feet away was enough for him to swing his hammer in the shortest amount of time to block any sneak attacks for the former. Mighty as a door god, with tiger eyes and round eyes, he stared at Mo Xian seven feet away.

The indifferent atmosphere turned around with the wind in Qingping.

The green shirt is deep, the royal shirt is Lingran, the ink is cold and cold, and the second son of the dragon is mighty.

The four looked at each other, held each other in pairs, and a silent game was then unfolded on the desk, which gradually laid the foundation for the next tragic battle between Xia Xun and Li Jiancheng.

"Sha..."

Pull up the sleeve and carry the pot, take a small poke of tea leaves and put it into the tea bowl, water it with boiling water, the white smoke turns into a green mist, and exudes a rather unique floral fragrance.

The tea leaves float in a wooden bowl filled with boiling water, quickly dyeing the water orange-red...

Putting a lid on the wooden bowl, Xia Xun muttered to himself: "This tea is not a tea but a camellia, and its name is phoenix red." Taken from the depths of a glacier crevasse in the northern polar regions, a lotus bud called blood coagulation. This flower temperament is quite tough, more proud, not extremely cold land does not grow, non-millennium ice rock does not grow, 20 years of germination, 30 years of leaf development, ten years of leaf fading and flowering. There is only one day of flowering, and the first petals of the morning sun are blooming, and the fragrance spreads for ten miles. With the last wisp of the sunset, it turns into dust and earth. If the harvest is not timely, it will have to wait for another 60 years for the flowers to bloom, so it is extremely precious. My grandfather has lived in seclusion in the north for many years, and he can't pick dozens of taels when he is full, and the current one or two coins are still secretly smoothed out when I went south. ”

As he spoke, Xia Xun gently picked up the lid of the wooden bowl and put it aside, carefully picked up the wooden bowl with both hands and poured tea for the four empty cups in front of him one by one, and then made a gesture of invitation to the two sons of the Long family at the opposite table.

"This tea is extremely bitter in the mouth, and it is difficult for ordinary people to bear, but the bitterness is sweet, and the aftertaste is as sweet as honey, which can make people appreciate many tastes, which is its uniqueness. I hope the two sons can like it. ”

Long Gongzi didn't seem to be worried that there would be a cat in this tea, so he picked up the teacup casually. Long Er Gongzi hesitated for a moment, and when he saw that Long Gongzi had taken the teacup, he had no choice but to pick up another teacup. Subsequently, Xia Xun and Mo Xian successively took the remaining two teacups on the case in their hands. The four of them saluted each other, and then drank the tea in the cup in one gulp...

“......”

Drink refreshmently, but the aftermath is not necessarily refreshing.

As Xia Xun said, this cup of black tea, which is less than two taels, is really bitter.

But seeing the four people, including Xia Xun, drank the black tea in one gulp, their faces suddenly turned blue, their brows were furrowed, and their lips were pursed. Although no one made a sound, it can also be seen how bitter this cup of tea is.

After a few breaths, the bitter faces of the four people slowly eased, and there was a sense of relief in their expressions. Obviously, Xia Xun said that the bitterness was exhausted.

"Good tea. ”

“......”

Long Gongzi gently put down the teacup, noncommittal, unfolded the dragon fan, looked at Xia Xun and said flatly: "Tea is good tea, sixty years of cold ice precipitation bitterness, once it blooms, it is bitter, presumably this snow lotus is also extremely beautiful when it blooms." ”

"It's beautiful. ”

Xia Xun replied, and Long Gongzi then changed the conversation: "It's a pity that such a beautiful flower suffered from frost and cold wind, but in the end it could only bloom alone on the ice field that no one appreciated. In addition to self-appreciation, it really makes people feel sorry and boring. What do you think?"

Mo Xian and Long Ergongzi put down the teacups before and after.

Xia Xun didn't put it down, he played with the teacup and shook his head: "I don't think that's the case." Lonely Fang appreciates himself, and what he appreciates is the arrogance that is not stained with vulgarity. Even though the ice field is desolate, there are no people for thousands of miles, and the living beings are extinct, but the fragrance of flowers has its own wind, snow, cold and frost, and the flowers are accompanied by the heavens, earth, sun and moon. Even if you have suffered from loneliness and cold all your life, if you can one day compete with the sky, regain another 60 years, let it bloom, and let it bloom, you can also laugh at life and death alone. So sweet, it is enough to overcome the thousands of enchanting in the world, so what is there to regret and be boring?"

In the first few words, the words of both sides already contained many deep meanings.

The dragon fan stroked a few wisps of red tassels, and Long Gongzi took the tea bowl with his free hand, poured tea for the empty cup in front of him alone, and then drank it carefully. The bitter taste of tea made him wrinkle a little, but the smile on the corner of his mouth was still calm.

Relieved of the bitterness, he said lightly: "What if there is arrogance? Tea is tea after all, and it doesn't have to fall into the mouth of the tea taster? Sixty years of longevity, once the flower blooms, the flower fails, and it only gives people a three-point aftertaste, I think this is a pity." It is not as good as the peony of Chang'an in April, a flower blooms and a hundred flowers are evil, charming and overwhelming, and it is the supreme. ”

Xia Xun also put down the teacup, and then took the teabowl and poured tea for the four empty cups on the case.

This time, Mo Xian and Long Er Gongzi did not step forward to get tea, but Xia Xun and Long Gongzi drank their cups.

Putting down the teacup, Xia Xun said lightly: "Tea can make people meditate." Although the blood condensation flower is grateful, it can make the tea taster feel its connotation, how can this not be a kind of rebirth? At the beginning of June, it is another season of flowers, who can still enjoy peonies? When the winter solstice is severe, all the flowers are gone, and the city is full of golden armor, and the chrysanthemums of the sacrifice are enough to make the world forget the appearance of all the flowers that once bloomed, and who will recognize the peony supreme at that time?"

Xia Xun's words invisibly revealed a rare edge.

This made Long Gongzi feel a little strange, Xia Xun has always given people a gentle and elegant conversation, and he is indisputable. And the Xia Xun in front of him seems to be a little different from the Xia Xun that Long Gongzi understands. It is more fierce and domineering than when playing against the drunken immortal building.

"You seem to have changed. ”

"What's changed?"

"Mentality. ”

"Oh. ”