Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Man Who Died
As far as the eye can see, there is a great desert with no edge as far as the eye can see, flying sand and rocks, and it is extremely desolate. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Here, it belongs to the northern border of the Ming Kingdom.
Thousands of miles of flying sand, thousands of miles of dust, hundreds of miles without green shade, extremely desolate, rarely inhabited.
However, it is in such a wasteland where birds don't poop and chickens don't lay eggs that a majestic pass sits here.
Jiangyang Pass, is the name of this pass, the original intention of the pass was to resist the invasion of the Western Wilderness Hu people outside the western frontier of the Ming Kingdom, but since the Ming Kingdom set foot on the southern frontier of the Western Regions twenty years ago, there is no such thing as the Hu people of the Western Frontier. As for this city, it was reduced to an abandoned city, until there were horse thieves and bandits in the desert, and the Ming Dynasty sent troops to settle in to guard this pass.
With the army guarding, coupled with this desert connecting Xishu, there are often business journeys, and there is gradually a prosperous scene in the pass.
It's just that under the prosperity, there is no metaphor.
Someone once said that the Ming Dynasty has Jiangyang Pass, the pass is prosperous, the soldiers are barbarians, the people are chaotic people, the merchants are profiteers, and the officials are corrupt officials.
Jiangyang Pass is located in the extreme west of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor is far away, and there is no war, there is no imperial court funding, the soldiers stationed in Jiangyang Pass belong to the kind that grandma does not love and uncle, under the leadership of the military leader, Jiangyang Pass has also cut off contact with the Ming Kingdom, and the army is colluding with bandits and horse thieves outside the border, doing some unclean things.
Of course, once the leader of the soldiers and the leader of the bandits got into a relationship, the most difficult thing was that they belonged to the people in the city, so the people in the city were also tricky and did not disgrace the title of the chaotic people.
The profiteer, needless to say, since ancient times, there is such a sentence that there is no treacherous business, no businessman is not treacherous, as for the corrupt officials, the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty, if you want to say that you can do two sleeves and a clean air, a righteous faction, there are really few.
Although this corrupt official in Jiangyang Guanzhong is a corrupt official, but this official title is not small, the official belongs to the five-grade small yellow gate, although he can be greedy, but he is also a capable official, only in 20 years, he can take care of such a ruined city as it is today, and it can be regarded as living up to the official hat of this Huangmenlang.
At noon on this day, Jiangyang City exploded, I heard that there was a fairy in the city, it was only last night that she came to Jiangyang Pass, riding a five-flowered horse, wearing brocade clothes and satin, to say that it looks like that, but it is like a fairy who came down from the palace that day, with a pair of good-looking peach blossom eyes, although she does not smile, but it makes people look at it and your cheeks are hot.
Then the news of the restaurant where the beautiful woman lived was spread by the guys in the store, this morning, Jiangyang Pass was full of empty alleys, as for the most lively, it has to belong to the "Jiangyang Building" that has always had a light business.
Visitors are either rich or expensive, the first floor of Jiangyang Building is already full, even if it is a little shy in the bag, it is also a swollen face and a fat man, and he has to pick up the good wine and good food when he empties his money bag, for the same reason, it is just to show others.
With such a crowded scene, even the shopkeeper and the guy of Jiangyang Building smiled, thinking that it was only early spring, and they could attract such a good business.
Of course, the restaurant can be so lively, thanks to the aunt and grandmother on the second floor, who looks like a fairy.
Why do you say that, I'm afraid you have to start with the rich boy brother who doesn't have long eyes in the morning, but this uprising is human nature, to put it bluntly, men and women are the same, the rich son is used to running rampant in this Jiangyang Pass, and he has a habit of being a gentleman, seeing that the little woman looks beautiful, he plans to step forward and tease, if he can pull up his own bed to have a flying dragon and phoenix, it will naturally be great.
But this rich man said that he was unlucky, and he was also very unlucky, so he first said a bloody word and planned to come forward to tease, but unexpectedly, the woman used a good sword, and the swordsmanship was good.
But I didn't expect that in the time of three incense sticks, the boy brother actually invited a few horse bandit leaders in Jiangyang Pass to be accomplices, thinking that he was a weak man who could not compete with the little lady, and invited these big brothers who licked blood on the knife edge, what can the little girl do if she knows swordsmanship, and she can't be caught obediently, the big deal is to let those big brothers try it first, and finally it will be his turn to be cool.
But who would have expected that these bandit leaders had just gone upstairs, and if they wanted to capture this little lady with fine skin and tender flesh alive, their heads were cut off by the brocade woman with a sword, and they didn't even have the strength to fight back. And the gentleman brother was even more miserable, he was pierced through the stomach by the woman's flying sword and nailed to the wall, and everyone didn't dare to save it when they saw it, for fear of annoying the sword fairy woman, so that the gentleman who was a budding bird was nailed to the wall and bled to death.
After this incident, there is only one woman left on the second floor of the restaurant, after all, such a fairy woman who can only be watched from a distance and cannot be blasphemed, who dares to offend, I am afraid that the sword fairy woman will take her own life when she is annoyed, that is a big bad luck, if she even loses her life, no matter how good-looking a woman can use it?
On the second floor of the restaurant, Tang Moxue, dressed in brocade, drank the tea in the cup, and ignored the noisy voices of the reckless men downstairs.
At this moment, a person walked into the Tianyang Building, a thirty-year-old man, dressed in black, but at first glance he was born ordinary, if you want to say anything different, it is estimated that it is the two sabers on the man's waist.
The two swords, one black and one white, have a beautiful scabbard, and are made of expensive golden nan wood.
However, it was such an inconspicuous figure who was thrown into the crowd, but under the eyes of everyone, he stepped on the wooden steps and walked towards the second floor step by step, with a flat face.
The guy in the store was shocked when he saw it, and he dared to meet such a lifeless lord again, with the son Zhuyu who was nailed to the wall in front of him, and he even planned to disturb the aunt and grandmother to eat and drink tea?
The guy sighed, thinking that he had made a lot of money today, but thinking about cleaning these bloody things made the shopkeeper feel numb in his scalp and feel sick in his heart.
But to everyone's surprise, the man with a double knife at his waist walked into the second floor of the restaurant, but he was not driven down, and the sound of fighting was never heard upstairs.
"Tsk, you little girl is really unambiguous. Wei Ling went upstairs, glanced at the corpse that was nailed to the wall by a sword, and smashed his mouth.
Tang Moxue's face was expressionless, she glanced at Wei Ling, just drank tea lightly, and said, "I never thought that Senior Brother Wei was the dead man hiding in the Jincheng of Shu Dao. ”
The twelve eagle dog dead soldiers who served in the Huainan Palace, they had never met, even Tang Moxue only knew three of the twelve, but these three people all died on the way back from the Kyushu Conference.
Wei Ling smiled and said, "It's just a swimming snake planted by the King of Huainan in Shu Dao. ”
Tang Moxue looked up at Wei Ling and asked, "Then what are you coming to Jiangyang Pass for?"
Wei Ling smiled lightly: "First, I came to help you clear the secret enemies of the palace, and secondly, it was because of Tianqing's kid." ”
Tang Moxue's eyes narrowed slightly, there seemed to be hostility on her face, and then she asked, "What does it have to do with Senior Brother Tianqing?"
Wei Ling said: "Dead soldiers, dead soldiers, people who go to the dead, the task of your trip is just to send death, with your cultivation in the late stage of the innate realm, when you meet that guy, I am afraid you will not even have the strength to fight back." ”
He smiled and shook his head: "If you die, that kid from Tianqing won't feel good in his heart." ”
"If a dead soldier doesn't die, what is a dead soldier? The life of the dead soldier Yin was just given by the king of Huainan, and now he is still in the palace, so it doesn't matter. When Tang Moxue heard this, her eyes drooped slightly, and she could see that her eyelashes were lightly covered on her eyes, and she said indifferently: "As for Senior Brother Tianqing, there will naturally be an excuse for Tang Moxue to travel to Dongxuan, and ten years later, Tang Moxue is just a passing guest, who will remember?"
That's not true. stopped Tang Moxue's words, but he didn't answer, sat down casually, and shouted downstairs: "Little Er, serve wine!"
When Xiao Er downstairs heard this, he was stunned at first, and when he came back to his senses, he ran upstairs and saw this black-clothed ranger with two knives sitting leisurely opposite the woman with a sword, and his tone was relaxed, and he couldn't help but be stunned.
I don't know what this ranger said that could make the aunt who cut off the heads of three horse thieves with a sword look pale.
"I want two pots of good wine and three catties of cooked beef. Just when Xiao Er was full of thoughts, Wei Ling opened his mouth and said, "If there is green bamboo wine, bring it up." ”
Xiao Er came back to his senses, went downstairs to prepare wine and meat, after a cup of tea, the wine and meat were already on the ground, Xiao Er retreated downstairs, and did not forget to glance at the two people who were sitting, not daring to think about it, but the downstairs exploded the pot, and when he saw Xiao Er going downstairs, he hurriedly grabbed Xiao Er and asked.
Wei Ling didn't care about Tang Moxue on the other side, just lifted a pot of wine, took two porcelain bowls, poured two bowls of green bamboo, handed a bowl over, and said with a smile: "Since you are going to die, how boring it is to drink tea, it is not as pleasant as this strong wine green bamboo." ”
Seeing this, Tang Moxue did not refuse, took the bowl of green bamboo wine, and drank it all in one gulp, without any ambiguity.
Seeing this, Wei Ling grinned and said, "Good girl, the liquor Qingzhu is stuffy, Tang Nuxia is really a bold person, where did the graceful woman who was in Shuyun go before?"
Tang Moxue ignored Wei Ling's words and said, "Since you are a dead soldier, then the previous three invasions of the Western Chu Palace are also the meaning of the palace?"
"Sort of half it. Wei Ling swallowed a few slices of beef, and said slurredly: "It means that it means the old man of Qiu Shi Country, and it also means the king of Huainan." ”
When Tang Moxue heard this, her willow eyebrows frowned slightly: "Is it related to this time?"
Wei Ling nodded: "Back then, when I broke into the Western Chu Palace alone, I wanted to take off the head of the prince Su Tianfeng first, and then pull out the old loach in the Western Chu Palace, but I didn't expect that my deeds would be revealed, not only could I not kill Su Tianfeng, but also let the old loach get into the quagmire and slip into this Ming Kingdom." ”
Tang Moxue was silent, and drank another bowl of wine.
Wei Ling drank a full bowl of wine, and then said: "It's just that this time that old loach doesn't know what to do, and he actually plans to blatantly oppose the palace, but it's a pity that this time is different from the last time in Xichu, which is easy to deal with." ”
When Tang Moxue heard this, she asked, "Why do you say this?"
Wei Ling smiled: "Have you ever heard of Zhao Xuansheng, the sword saint who can kill Xuanyang in the Ming Dynasty?"
Tang Moxue nodded, Wei Ling didn't sell Guan Zi, and then said: "There is Cao Wufu in Western Chu who can fight Xuanyang Monk with sword mana, and I also suffered a lot of losses in his hands back then, but if you say that you are truly supernatural with a knife, you have to belong to Zhao Xuansheng, the sword saint." ”
"In the hundred years of rivers and lakes, there have indeed been a lot of martial artists who have the ability to fight the Xuanyang monks, but this Zhao Xuansheng is terrible, it is rumored that as long as he has a knife in his hand, he can kill the Xuanyang monks, the Xuanyang monks planted in his hands in the past ten years, there are three people, it is said that this person has a unique means to fight the Xuanyang monks, and the old loach that slipped out of Xichu has a life-and-death friendship with this person, so even if the two of us join forces, it is not easy to succeed. ”
"When will you do it?" asked Tang Moxue.
When Wei Ling heard this, his face was bitter, daring to love this stubborn little girl who didn't listen to what he said at all, but still thought about doing something.
"Then what are your plans?" Wei Ling pursed his lips and asked rhetorically.
"Tonight, kill Huang Menlang of Tianyang Pass first, cut off his retreat, and then go straight to the capital of the Ming Kingdom, kill Zhao Xuansheng, and then capture that person alive. Tang Moxue didn't think about it and replied.
"Well, if I owe that kid, I'll accompany you to the palace of the Ming Dynasty to make trouble. Wei Ling sighed, simply lifted the whole pot of wine, poured it into his mouth, glanced out the window, and sighed again.
If you want to catch the old loach in that quagmire, I'm afraid you'll get dirty.....
On this night, the clouds were thick like ink, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and it was a good time to kill.
It was also late at night on this day that there were two more uninvited guests in the Huangmenlang Mansion in Jiangyang City, who had just entered the mansion for a stick of incense, and hurried out of the Huangmen Mansion, and then walked two horses in the restaurant horse house and rushed out of the city gate.
Until the early morning of the next day, a news came from the Yellow Gate Mansion that shocked the whole city: Tianyang Pass Xiaohuangmen died violently, and the body was still there, but the head was nowhere to be found.
At the same time, the two horsemen, who had already been out of the city in the middle of the night, slowed down slightly, Wei Ling swept the head wrapped in gauze in his hand, and a smile was drawn on the corner of his mouth.
Immediately, Wei Ling smiled and said, "If you can get out of the Ming Kingdom alive and get out of the Ming Kingdom, then God will give you enough face!"
The two horsemen disappeared into the long desert, and they were people who went to die, heading eastward.