Chapter 11: Death Without Proof
Yuwen Chenyi suddenly shivered, the hairs on his body stood on end, and he couldn't help but sneeze, thinking to himself, who was saying bad things about this son behind his back. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
As soon as the thought came to mind, I saw Xiao Wenfeng holding a bloody human head in both hands, and said with sadness on his face: "Yuwen, don't look for it, the person is here!"
Looking at Liu Wenjun's bloody head, thinking of his care and cultivation of himself in the past few years, Yuwen Chenyi felt a pang of grief in his heart, took off the black cloak on his body, and wrapped it tightly.
Gently holding it in his hand, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said to Xiao Wenfeng: "Now that Commander Liu is dead, this matter is troublesome." ”
Xiao Wenfeng shrugged his shoulders, sighed deeply, and said, "Yuwen, what should I do, you have an idea, I am not as good as you in terms of strategy!"
"Alas, the two of us are light-hearted, what can we think of. ”
Sighing helplessly, Yuwen Chenyi set his eyes on Murong Ye, who was lying on the ground, and a trace of luck flashed in his heart: Let's see if there are any useful clues on this dead ghost's body first.
Thinking of this, he handed Xiao Wenfeng the cloak wrapped around Liu Wenjun's head with both hands, walked quickly to Murong Ye's body, and searched for him carefully for a while, but found nothing.
Only found a round and clear, jasper jade pendant on his belt, and where his fingertips touched, it was as cold as water, refreshing.
Although in the land of China, all countries and ethnic groups are extremely advocating jade, since ancient times there is a saying that "a gentleman has no reason, jade does not go to the body", but it is the first time to see such a beautiful jade pendant.
Knowing that this jade pendant must be extraordinary, I tore it off and took a look, only to see a lifelike dragon carved on the jade pendant, with a line of small and delicate seal characters engraved on it: The prince of the Great Yan Kingdom - Murong Ye.
"Yuwen, what is written on this jade pendant?"
Xiao Wenfeng stepped forward and carefully looked at the jade pendant in Yuwen Chenyi's hand, with a puzzled expression, although he had studied private school for seven or eight years, but he didn't work hard to learn literature and literacy, so he didn't recognize the simple and jerky seal characters on the jade pendant.
"Murong Ye, the prince of Dayan!" Yuwen Chenyi said these seven words with great disdain on his face.
When Xiao Wenfeng heard this, he suddenly came to his senses: "Then, can this jade pendant be used as evidence of Ming Chongyan's collusion with Murong Ye?"
Yuwen Chenyi shook his head, sighed softly, and said: "This jade pendant doesn't mean anything, it can only prove Murong Ye's identity, we don't even know the ins and outs of the whole thing, how can we testify against others, not to mention, now even Commander Liu, who is the only one who may know the inside story, is gone." ”
When Xiao Wenfeng heard his words, his face couldn't help but sink again: "There is no proof of death now, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to get out." ”
Yuwen Chenyi put away the jade pendant closely, pondered for a moment, and said: "Now the plan is to take one step at a time, let's first bring the bones of Commander Liu back to Yangguan." ”
Xiao Wenfeng nodded and said: "This is reasonable, as his nephew and subordinates, we can't let him be violent in the wilderness, in addition, I will also take his bones back to his hometown in Longcheng for burial, so that his soul can return to his hometown!"
"Well, let's hurry up, in case that Ming Chongyan turns around and kills a horse gun, it's not something the two of us can deal with. ”
His eyes swept the dark woods around him deeply, Yuwen Chenyi always felt cold on his body, as if he had a feeling of being watched in secret, extremely uncomfortable, and he didn't know if it was his own delusion.
However, be careful to sail a 10,000-year-old ship, and a little more vigilance, the more space for survival, this is a valuable experience gained in the bloody battlefield in the army in the past few years.
Xiao Wenfeng was quite jealous of the strange talisman fire spell that Ming Chongyan had just used, and he didn't dare to be careless, so he nodded, and the two lit torches and found all Liu Wenjun's corpses.
Before Li Chunfeng triggered the aura to explode his body, Liu Wenjun had already fallen to the ground, and he had a Xuanjia body protector, except for an arm, which was crushed by the qi, the rest of the body was still there, and it was quite complete.
The two discussed it for a while, and felt that it was extremely inconvenient to carry the corpse, so they cremated the corpse, burned it into ashes, and then controlled a skin bag for water and put all the ashes in it.
After this tamping, the sky has been covered with fish belly white, the sea of indifferent clouds, the clouds are soothing, and the sky and the earth are quiet.
Yuwen Chenyi raised his two sword eyebrows lightly, and said to Xiao Wenfeng: "Without further ado, let's hurry back to Yangguan!"
After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and hung the leather bag containing Liu Wenjun's ashes on his waist, and together with Xiao Wenfeng, he hurried to the edge of the woods, picked four good horses from the war horses ridden by the horse thief, turned over and jumped on the horse's back, and galloped towards Yangguan.
In order to prevent Ming Chongyan from intercepting and killing on the road, the two of them traveled all the way, picking remote places to travel, each with two horses, this horse was tired, so he changed to another horse, and the people did not leave the saddle, and the horse galloped forward without stopping.
What the two didn't know was that not long after they left, a black figure swayed out from under a poplar tree with dense foliage, the figure in the morning light was delicate and slender, she swayed to Murong Ye's corpse, turned over and threw herself down, and cried bitterly.
After a long time, the woman stopped crying, carefully picked up the severed finger on the ground, picked up Murong Ye's body, and looked at the vast grassland in the slaughter, her eyes were full of resentment and pain.
After a while, he spit out three words with a murderous aura: "Ming Chongyan!"
The sky and the earth seem to have become more and more gloomy and full of chill because of these simple three words!
The wind swept the dust and sand, and the cold wind lifted the residual leaves all over the ground, whistling to itself, as if it had never stopped for thousands of years, blowing the smell of blood in the air more and more intensely.
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Yangguan.
The Tang Empire held the north, rejected the Turks in the north, controlled the choke points of the countries in the Western Regions, and together with the Yumen Pass, it was the gateway of the ancient silk road, and the location of the ground was very important, it was a must for the ancient soldiers, and the elite Xuanjia army was stationed in this city.
In addition, this city is also the last supply station leading to the desert, caravans from all countries have to supply all kinds of materials in this city before leaving the desert in the west, it is a gathering of business travelers, shops are numerous, very prosperous, you can see caravans of various countries full of goods and horses everywhere, shuttling back and forth in the city.
After three days and three nights, after galloping non-stop, the two finally saw the majestic and tall city wall of Yangguan, as well as the flag of the Tang Empire and the Xuanjia military flag flying high on the city
"Huh~" When there were still three or four miles away from Yangguan City, Yuwen Chenyi suddenly pulled the reins and strangled the horse's head.
"Why don't you leave, Yuwen?" Xiao Wenfeng also quickly stopped and asked in surprise.
"After entering the city, don't rush back to the barracks, find an inn to settle down and find out the situation. Reaching out and brushing the long black hair that fell on his forehead, a deep gaze flashed in Yuwen Chenyi's eyes.
Xiao Wenfeng frowned and said, "Are you worried that Ming Chongyan is making trouble?"
Yuwen Chenyi nodded and said, "Exactly, this matter is so big, it must involve a lot of unknown secrets, and if we rush back, we will definitely suffer." ”
Xiao Wenfeng shrugged his shoulders and said, "You have the final say, anyway, in terms of carefulness and resourcefulness, I am far inferior to you." ”
Yuwen Chenyi smiled faintly, raised the whip in his hand, gently patted the horse's back, and immediately disappeared.
Xiao Wenfeng was not far behind, his legs clamped the horse's back, and the horse sat down, and suddenly raised his hooves and chased after him.
After a while, the two arrived at the gate of Yangguan, and more than a dozen Xuanjia sergeants guarding the city gate were checking the customs clearance certificates of various caravans out of the city.
The leader was a young lieutenant in his early twenties, who arched his hand towards the two and said, "Xiao, Yuwen, why is there only the two of you, the commander and the brothers?"
Xiao Wenfeng's nose was sour, and he was about to answer, but Yu Wenchen Yi was afraid that he would say the wrong thing, so he spoke first: "The commander and the brothers will arrive later, and the two of us will race horses to see who will arrive at Yangguan first, so we arrived one step early." ”
The young lieutenant sighed, with an expression that was the same, and then said with a smile on his face: "You came back just in time, the people of the Duhu Mansion have been waiting for you in the camp for a day!"
When Yuwen Chenyi and Xiao Wenfeng heard the words of the young captain, they both felt quite surprised in their hearts, and said in unison: "The people of the Duhu Mansion, what are they waiting for us?"
The young lieutenant said with envy on his face: "You don't know yet, the military department has already ordered you to be transferred to the capital protection mansion!"
Yuwen Chenyi was shocked, knowing that something was wrong, but he smiled quietly on his face: "Captain Yang, don't be kidding, the two of us are just small captains, how could the military department give such an order?"
Captain Yang shook his head and said: "I don't know about this, but the transfer orders have already come down, this is what I saw with my own eyes when I was on duty in the camp yesterday, both of you have been transferred to the Metropolitan Protectorate as a staff general, that is the official rank of Zheng Liupin!"
When the young lieutenant said this, he muttered with envy, "Why don't I have such a good life..."
Good life, life is real!
Yuwen Chenyi sighed lightly in his heart, it seems that he has already done it over there, he is really fast, but his face is full of spring breeze, he reached out and patted Xiao Wenfeng's shoulder, and said: "Xiao, the six-rank general, not bad, not bad, it's really cool!"
Although Xiao Wenfeng's head was a little dazed, he also knew that things were not simple, and he pretended to be happy, and said with a smile: "Of course, this time we are smoking in front of the grave of our ancestors, and we are lucky." ”
Yuwen Chenyi laughed dryly, changed his words, and asked the young lieutenant again: "Captain Yang, is there a name of the commander in the transfer order of the military department?"
"There are only two of you names in the appointment. ”
Captain Yang shook his head and said this, his eyes suddenly flashed with a strange brilliance: "Have you found any reliable way? If you have a good relationship, don't forget to give your brother a line, your brother must be grateful." ”
"It's all your own brothers, why be polite, you and your brothers are busy first, and Xiao and I will go back to the camp to resume our lives. Yuwen Chenyi smiled faintly and arched his hand towards the young lieutenant.
"Well, go quickly, don't forget to celebrate when you go back!" Captain Yang replied with a smile on his face.
"Well, let's go to the restaurant in the evening and have a good time. Yuwen Chenyi casually put down this sentence, and entered Yangguan City with Xiao Wenfeng.