Chapter IV
The moon and stars are scarce, on the wasteland, the fast horses are galloping, the people and horses are already tired, but the military division does not dare to stop, Luo Qiu's situation is getting worse and worse, they must rush to the nearest city as soon as possible.
"Let's rest for a while," Luo Qiu pressed the military advisor's hand holding the reins and said softly.
"Hu" the military advisor grabbed the reins, stopped the horse, grabbed Luo Qiu's arm, and after checking the pulse, fell silent.
"He's coming," Luo Qiu said weakly.
This is the worst-case scenario, there is nothing to borrow from the wasteland, and they can no longer design him as before.
"There is a lesson from the day, he will not take it lightly" The military advisor dismounted, glanced behind him, and said.
"We can't hold him," Luo Qiu said the fact that the horse was already tired, and he didn't know how long he would last.
"There are two kinds of blood stains on the snow, so he also knows that you are injured" The military advisor handed Luo Qiu a piece of dry food and said calmly.
"Do you think he'll hold out until I die?" Luo Qiu smiled tiredly.
"Very likely" The military advisor nodded cooperatively, grabbed a handful of snow and stuffed it into his mouth, the cake was too dry.
"The moon is so beautiful, how nice it would be if it fell" Luo Qiu looked at the night sky, chuckled, rested for a while, and seemed to be in much better spirits.
"It's not beautiful when it falls"
"How do you know"
"The worship of the palace says that the moon is full of pits, and there is nothing"
"Then they are fooling you, you see, there is still light on the moon"
"That's the sun's light"
"You lie, it's the light of the moon"
"Why am I lying to you as a child, I'm a military advisor"
"I don't know who the military advisor is"
“......”
On the question of who sent the light of the moon, the two talked for a long time, and the military advisor said that the ancient sages had been to the moon and left a record, Luo Qiu didn't believe a word at all, the moon was so high, higher than the mountain, if someone could go up, it would be a ghost.
The military advisor despised Luo Qiu fiercely, and sure enough, it was a baby from the mountains.
After resting enough, the military advisor mounted his horse and continued to rush forward.
The horse walked step by step in front, and the lonely building also followed slowly behind.
Gu Lou knew that the military advisor and Luo Qiu were injured, especially since Luo Qiu had coughed up blood several times, so he was not in a hurry.
Luo Qiu and the military advisor also knew that Gulou was injured, but unfortunately, even so, they couldn't beat Gulou, and now it seems that they can't run Gulou.
"He didn't know that my legs were crippled," Luo Qiu sighed lightly as he turned his back to the military advisor.
"No" How smart the military advisor is, after a little thought, he knows that Luo Qiu intends to die, but it does not mean that he has to sacrifice other people's lives for his life.
"This is the only way" Luo Qiu didn't listen to the military advisor's obstruction, and swung his knife continuously, and suddenly blood sprayed on his feet and ankles, his muscles and veins were broken, and blood gushed like a spring.
He had promised to keep the Protector alive, and there was no point in escaping.
"Don't look back, or I'll die faster"
Luo Qiu smiled calmly, said goodbye, and then fell off the horse with a crooked body, the snowflakes were stained with blood, and the beauty was bewitching and dazzling.
The military advisor's heart was very blocked, tears were beating in his eyes, and at this moment, his heart was like steel, and he really didn't look back.
The horse galloped away.
Luo Qiu struggled to sit up, his eyes staring at his ankles in a daze, not moving, letting the blood stain the snow under him.
"What does it feel like to be abandoned?"
Gu Lou walked up to Luo Qiu, looked at the stark wound on the latter's ankle, and sneered.
Luo Qiu raised his head and glanced at Gu Lou, then lowered his head again and was silent.
"It seems that your injuries are really not light, but I didn't expect him to be so ruthless, and he actually broke the tendons and veins of your legs, so it is impossible for you to take revenge" Gu Lou's face showed a hint of mockery, is this human nature, it is really dirty and disgusting.
"He should have killed me" Luo Qiu lowered his head and said softly.
"How can a big man like him dirty his hands for a dying person, this is your life, if you want to complain, you will blame you for believing the wrong person"
When the words fell, a flash of murderous intent flashed in Gu Lou's eyes, and he slowly drew out his scimitar, "I won't say anything to spare your life like those hypocrites, but I will let you die happily without a little pain."
Luo Qiu raised his head, looked at the lonely building, and said calmly, "I won't thank you"
"I don't need your thanks either"
The scimitar slashed, bringing up a touch of cold light, the shadow under the moon, a desolation, the lonely building made a move, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and a cold smile was bent.
The knife is sharp, and the next moment it will cut through the throat, and suddenly, the cold air is agitated, and in the snowflakes, a broken knife comes out through the snow, silently, and does not enter the chest.
"Wow"
The blood disintegrated, and the scimitar slashed through a beautiful shadow, which also sank into Luo Qiu's chest, cutting off the sternum, and getting stuck between the white bones.
"Impossible" Gu Lou opened his eyes in disbelief, blood gushing out of his mouth, obviously unable to accept this.
"I forgot to tell you that I was originally disabled, and I was the one who broke the tendons in my feet"
Luo Qiu looked indifferently at the man in front of him who was losing his life, and pulled out the scimitar little by little with his right hand, and the frozen flesh and bones rubbed against the blade to make a piercing and stabbing sound, which made people tremble.
The biggest weakness of people is carelessness, but unfortunately, even if you know, this is a blind spot of human nature, which will be difficult for anyone to avoid, what Luo Qiu needs to do is to magnify this blind spot as much as possible, so that the lonely building unconsciously walks into it.
Fortunately, the military advisor was decisive enough to make Gu Lou not suspicious, otherwise, all his efforts would be in vain.
"I'm not reconciled."
Just when Luo Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, a dazzling light erupted in the eyes of the lonely building whose vitality had been cut off, and his body jumped out like a sharp sword, slapping Luo Qiu's heart with a palm.
The extremely powerful palm condensed the last brilliance of the life of the lonely building, and at this moment, Luo Qiu found that he could not avoid it.
Because he was also careless and missed the opportunity to dodge.
The scimitar was still in his chest, and he didn't have time to pull it out, Luo Qiu condensed, lifted his breath, poured his last strength, and slapped it out with the same palm, regretting the killing move of the lonely building.
"Bang"
In the deafening collision sound, I saw Yu Jin sweeping wildly, the sky was full of snowflakes, and two figures flew out upside down, blood spilled on the ground, dyeing all the snow under him red.
The lonely building never stood up again, and after pouring out the last light of his life, he finally left unwillingly.
Luo Qiu sat up with difficulty, looked at the lonely building on the ground, and lost his mind slightly, is this the power of life, it is incomprehensible.
With the previous knife, he was very sure that he had not missed, and the vitality of the lonely building had been cut off after that knife.
Luo Qiu doesn't understand, he hasn't understood it all along, Mr. passed on the scroll of his life, but his cultivation speed has been very slow, because he doesn't understand.
After two years of opening up the heart spring, it was difficult to make an inch of progress from then on, but Mr. never intervened, the reason was that the old man who raised Luo Qiu grew up that year died, and Mr. is just a sir, not an omnipotent god.
Luo Qiu felt that he was very tired, so his eyes gradually closed, and when he recalled this life, he realized that his memories were so poor, except for a few years of living with the old man, there was really nothing.
......
The military advisor came back, picked up Luo Qiu in the snow and galloped towards the north, his eyes were cold, and the murderous intent was piercing, and the military advisor was really angry.
The moon traveled westward, and dawn was approaching, and the horse was obviously very tired and unwilling to run again, so the military advisor carried Luo Qiu on his back and continued to travel north.
It was another sunrise and sunset, Luo Qiu had been sleeping, and the military advisor could even feel that the vitality of the child on his back was gradually passing away.
The military advisor has never hated himself for not being good at martial arts, but now, the military advisor has never hated himself so much for not being good at martial arts.
His life was exchanged for the life of a twelve-year-old child.
It's just because he said that he is a military advisor and he can't die.
He didn't know if Luo Qiu understood the meaning of this sentence, Luo Qiu just simply fulfilled his promise with actions, he knew, or in Luo Qiu's opinion, it didn't matter who he was at all.
Maybe the two of them should not die, at the moment of sunset, the military advisor finally entered the city, found a big family and put Luo Qiu down, and then left, before leaving, left a sentence:
"Protect his life for ten days, and after ten days, I will exchange ten thousand taels of gold"
The surname of the big family is Yun, and the reputation in the city is not bad, the Yun family is a new family, and it has risen very quickly, because Yun Li, the head of the Yun family, is a very courageous person.
Therefore, when Yun Li saw the military advisor for the first time, he did not hesitate to agree to the military advisor's conditions, and then took out a life-saving elixir that had been treasured at home for many years.
The military advisor left, and he walked in a hurry, and there was no room to sit down and drink saliva.
Of course, there are many people in the Yun family who oppose it, but Yun Li blocked everyone's mouths with one sentence, "If there are no ten thousand taels of gold in ten days, I, the head of the family, will let you be the one."
Ten thousand taels of gold, one million taels of silver, this is a terrible number, it's not that the Yun family doesn't want to believe it, but they can't believe it.
Yun Li dared to believe it, so he asked his daughter-in-law to take care of Luo Qiu personally.
Ling Yu, a beautiful young woman, has been married into the Yun family for more than ten years, virtuous and kind, and has no objections when she hears the arrangement of the head of the family, but dedicates herself to boiling medicine and scrubbing for Luo Qiu.
Luo Qiu woke up once the next day and saw a beautiful woman scrubbing his body, and his pale little face suddenly turned red.
Seeing Luo Qiu wake up, Ling Yu was overjoyed at first, but after seeing Luo Qiu's flushed face, he smiled and slapped the latter, "Little guy, what's the blush, the daughters of the concubines are as old as you."
Luo Qiu didn't respond, because he fainted again.
Looking at Luo Qiu, who was unconscious again, Ling Yu's beautiful face flashed with a touch of unbearability, and sighed lightly, "Poor child, hold on."
In the next two days, Yun Li came to see Luo Qiu several times, but Luo Qiu remained unconscious, and left after stopping for a moment each time, just telling Ling Yu to take care of him carefully and not to be careless.
However, on the fifth day, Luo Qiu suddenly developed a high fever, his whole body was red, his lips were chapped, and it was useless to reduce the fever, and he couldn't hold it anymore.
The doctors came batch after batch, but they also left batch after batch, and the words left were almost the same, "Old and incompetent, let's prepare for the future as soon as possible"
Only Ling Yu didn't give up, stayed by the bedside, silently wiping Luo Qiu's body with snow water, over and over again