Chapter 90: Peach Dai Li Zhuang
On Luoying Mountain, Zhao Sishen took a breath and waved his hand to the officer, who had long been stunned by the fierce battle, standing stupidly on the side, seeing Li Chongyuan and the others leaving, he didn't dare to stop him, he saw Zhao Sishen beckoning, so he hurriedly walked over, helped him up, and walked to the edge of the cliff.
Zhao Sishen looked at the morning light in the distance and said, "Ruan Zhi, you see that the scenery here is good, right?"
The officer Ruan Zhi Erzhang monk couldn't figure it out, so he had to say casually: "The mountains and rivers here are beautiful, and the scenery is still good. ”
Zhao Sishen sighed and said, "Then please sleep here!" After saying that, the sword light flashed, and before Ruan Zhi understood the meaning of the words, he separated his head.
Zhao Sishen saw that Ruan Zhiyu was still dead and did not look away, so he said in a low voice: "Good brother, I have no choice but to borrow your head to save the lives of everyone in Jialan Temple, and in the future, I will burn incense and paper for you every month, fortunately, there is no one else in your family except for a son, and I will raise your son." You...... You can go in peace!"
After that, he used his sword to cut the skin of the flesh and blood, took off the armor on his body and threw it into the cliff, changed into Li Chongjun's prison uniform, and broke his hands and tendons according to Li Chongjun's appearance. By the time all this had been done, the pursuers had caught up to the top of the mountain.
Zhao Sishen held Ruan Zhi's head high and shouted: "The fugitive Li Chongjun was caught up by us and others, resisted arrest and ambush, and the rest of the party fled. Captain Ruan Zhi, the captain of the Qianniu Guard, was loyal and brave, and he died in battle, and his body fell off the cliff!"
The general who led the troops was extremely well-behaved, and immediately praised: "General Zhao's miraculous skills are world-famous, I admire him!" His own medical officer stepped forward to rescue Zhao Sishen.
These generals who rushed to the scene may not have suspected that this matter was false, but all the generals present had the duty of guarding the Jialan Temple, and it was a capital crime to escape the guilt, and now that there is a head exchange, it is just to avoid everyone's calamity, who dares to expose the lie! Besides, no one has ever done this kind of murderous crime, and there is no fuss.
Return to Chang'an. Wei had already received the alarm and was fidgeting in the Daming Palace, when he overheard the eunuch saying that Zhao Sishen wanted to see him, and hurriedly sent a decree to come to the audience as soon as possible.
That Zhao Sishen was covered in blood and dust, limped up to the hall, and kowtowed: "Minister Zhao Sishen has seen Niangniang Chitose." The minister was ordered to imprison the Qin prisoner Li Chongjun, last night the murderer went against the party to besiege the Jialan Temple, was escaped by Li Chongjun, the army of the Jialan Temple was not afraid of the strong enemy, risked death to pursue, entrusted Niangniang Tianwei Hongfu, surrounded the murderers in Luoying Mountain, Li Chongjun ambushed, and the rest of the rebels killed countless people. The rest of them fled, and more than 40 soldiers and generals under Captain Ruan Zhi were killed! With that, he opened the baggage, revealing a bloody human head inside.
Frightened, Webster hurriedly covered his face with his sleeve and shouted, "Hurry up and take out such a disgusting thing!"
Zhao Sishen said: "Li Chongjun killed the prime minister's family, please pay tribute to this person's head." ”
Webster only cared about Li Chongjun's life and death, and the rest didn't take it to heart and heard that Li Chongjun was dead. I breathed a big sigh of relief. Then the decree was issued.
Reward the generals and soldiers, and show mercy to the families of the deceased. and bury the dead in battle. Zhao Sishen was promoted to the general of the Erpin Town Army for his meritorious service, and was rewarded with 9,000 yuan. In addition, he ordered someone to place Li Chongjun's head in front of Wu Sansi's mausoleum to worship.
Zhao Sishen was not sure in his heart after all, he was afraid that someone would be jealous and show his mouth, and he was afraid that the body would be recognized. He divided all the nine thousand with the generals, and he used the excuse that he had a foot injury. I want to return home.
Empress Wei was also happy to see that he knew how to advance and retreat, and was not greedy for merit and arrogance, so he ordered several royal granges and shops in Suzhou to be given to Zhao Sishen to settle down and retire.
After Zhao Sishen thanked the emperor, he resold his real estate in Chang'an, and took advantage of the dark and windy night. Rode alone to the suburb of Wu Sansi Mausoleum.
There are a few healthy servants in the mausoleum who keep vigil, Ruan Zhi's head and corpse are in front of Wu Sansi's spiritual seat, those few people are drinking and playing money, making a lot of fun, Zhao Sishen endured the pain in his feet, and used the kung fu of the strange door Dunjia, where have ordinary people seen such a mastery, only to see a man in black flickering in the mourning hall, fluctuating, like a ghost. Deng Shi was so frightened that someone screamed in the middle of the night: "Hell!" Everyone rushed out like a swarm.
Zhao Sishen saw that there was no one around, Fang Xian came out and stole Ruan Zhi's head body from the front of Wu San Siling, rode to a place where no one was there and secretly cremated it, put the ashes into the porcelain altar, and hid them in the luggage.
Looking for a day when the rain is lewd and the pedestrians are scarce, he quietly went out of the city with Ruan Zhi's only son and went to Jiangnan.
Since then, it has been rumored in Chang'an that Wu Sansi is haunted in front of the tomb, and some people use the topic to say that Taizong Li Shimin has knowledge under the spring, and he can't bear to see his children and grandchildren being bullied by outsiders, so he will use his magic power to take Li Chongjun's body away.
And the more the story spread, the more mysterious it became, and in the end, Wu Sansi's mausoleum was not guarded at all, so it had to be abandoned and became a place where foxes and rabbits haunted.
Let's say that Li Chongyuan and others rushed all the way to Tianshan, and in a few days they walked to the Liangzhou area, where he was chatting with Li Chongjun in the carriage.
After a few days of recuperation, Li Chongjun's mood and spirit have improved greatly, but his hand and foot tendons have been broken, and he can only sit or lie down.
Li Chongyuan didn't dare to show it on his face, but he was infinitely sad in his heart: "It's a pity that Senior Brother, the heroes of the area who have become famous in the rivers and lakes are like wasters!"
When he was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard Lin Qingli shouting from outside: "Master, Master!" He was overjoyed and hurriedly jumped out of the carriage.
I saw a few people standing on the opposite side of the official road, and the first rank was Zi Wuxun and Yang Wuji. It turned out that after Zilan arrived in Luoyang, she was worried that Li Chongyuan was weak, so she used the flying pigeon to inform the Tianshan faction.
Zi Wuxun and Yang Wuji rushed to Chang'an to save people. Coincidentally, I met it halfway. Seeing that Li Chongjun had been rescued, everyone was overjoyed.
After Zi Wuxuan diagnosed his injury, he sighed: "The tendons and veins of his hands and feet have been broken, but fortunately, there is a method of connecting bones and continuing the veins in the Tianshan Mountain, and it is not difficult to recover self-care, but I am afraid that this kung fu is not as good as before, and I will not be able to fight with others in the future." After saying that, he shook his head, and Li Chongjun was also extremely depressed after listening to it.
However, Zilan was not only not sad, but burst into tears and smiled: "That's a good thing! When he was in martial arts, he was always walking in the rivers and lakes, and I couldn't see him when I thought about him, and now without martial arts, I can't go anywhere, just stay in Tianshan to accompany me, it's better!"
The blue sky is like a wash and there are no clouds, and the sea and sky are connected in the distance.
On Cuizhu Island, Ma Beibei looked at the sea, his mood was like a wave tumbling non-stop, he and Li Chongyuan's agreed period had been missed, that month God seemed to have changed his face, the typhoon raged every day, and the sea ships could not pass at all, so he had to watch the agreed period come and go day by day.
Time was missed for more than a month, and the weather suddenly calmed down again.
He was in a state of turmoil, and he didn't know what the news was from Li Chongyuan's side, especially how Li Chongyuan would react after learning that he did not go to the north to find the enemy as promised this year, but helped Sha Tonghai train people on this island. Fortunately, Huang Shan is accompanied by Huang Shan on this Cuizhu Island, and he has never felt lonely.
If the relationship between the two on the Tianshan Mountain belongs to the friendship of suffering that escaped death, now it belongs to the love between young men and women on Cuizhu Island, especially when Ma Beifang was young in order to give her anger, he had the audacity to teach Hong Mochou a lesson, which left a deep impression on her, she had just lost the loving protection of her parents, and when she saw this scene, she suddenly felt that Ma Beifang was a good man who could be trusted and relied on.
Since then, she has secretly promised that it is precisely because of this that when Li Chongyuan and Ma Beifang decided to break up and look for the enemy, she followed him to the north without hesitation. That day, he was injured by Iron Scale, and she was also worried that Ma Beibei would not escape Iron Scale's revenge, so she rashly agreed to help Sha Tonghai on Cuizhu Island.
When I arrived at Cuizhu Island, I found that this place was simply isolated from the world, but I was able to see Ma Beibei every day and be with him, Huang Shan not only did not feel distressed, but a kind of happiness arose, and sometimes even secretly thought that if it wasn't for the deep hatred of the sea of blood, then it would be a joy in the world to stay on an isolated island here from now on.
Ma Beibei's temperament was originally a little uninhibited and a little withdrawn, but the so-called long-term love, under Huang Shan's tender arms, has long been deeply in love with her. They have the same fate and hatred for each other, so their love is strong. If he hadn't been trapped on an isolated island and hadn't gotten Master's approval, I'm afraid he would have done Zhou Gong's gift a long time ago.
Sha Tonghai did not break his promise, he sent people to greet friends from all over the world, and soon these friends returned a large number of messages, and only one of these messages caught Ma Beibei's attention.
It was passed back from Xuzhou, saying that there was a person in Xuzhou who opened a martial arts hall who had been a nurse in Wu Sansi's house, and more than ten years ago I saw Wu Sansi and Zheng Yi discussing with Zheng Yi, the then servant, to send a killer to harm the imperial doctor Li Shan, and the specific matter was handled by Zheng Yi personally, and others did not know.
Now there is news from Chang'an from the sea ship on the island that Wu Sansi has been killed by Li Chongjun, so the only clue to find the murderer is Zheng Yi, but unfortunately this Zheng Yi has long been exiled to the Yungui area, and his life and death are unknown.
Where can I find it in the vast sea of people? Ma Beibei did not feel discouraged.
What upset him even more was not only this incident, but also more important, that is, he also began to secretly drink blood half a year ago.
Now under Zhu Wuming's careful training, his skills have improved by leaps and bounds, and every day he can feel the internal force in his body galloping like a fierce horse, and he pays that if he encounters iron scales again, he will be able to kill him in the palm of his hand within thirty or fifty moves.
Although the martial arts are getting stronger and stronger, his temper is getting more and more irritable, and the killing intent in his heart rises at every turn, and he almost wants to kill people to vent his anger, but fortunately, he is calm-headed and tries his best to restrain himself, but he has not attracted the attention of others, and only by drinking a lot of fresh blood can the fire in his heart calm down.
He claimed to sacrifice for the monster every night, and took live sheep and chickens to find Zhu Wuming, which became an ordinary homework over time, and everyone didn't care, but the sacrifice gradually became two.
In the evening, Ma Beifang came to the kitchen, where two live sheep had already been prepared for him, and he put the live sheep under his armpit one by one, and walked out of the camp and ran into the depths of the dense forest. (To be continued......)