Daishan County, Jiujiang City.
Jiujiang City, once known as the fourth county of Zhuang Kingdom, after the emergence of Yongchang County, the real fourth county... Jiujiang City was just Jiujiang City.
It is Jiujiang City under the rule of the governor of Daishan County.
The reason for saying this is simply that the commander-in-chief of Jiujiang Xuanjia, Duan Li, who once hoped that the gods would come, had been defeated in the battle of Zhuang Yong.
Although Zhuang Ting was extremely gracious and honored, and received constant rewards, he even refused to resign and forcibly placed him in the position of commander-in-chief of Jiujiang Xuanjia.
But everyone knows that this is just the final glory.
Although the afterglow of the setting sun is beautiful, it will dissipate soon.
Duan Li is no longer able to take charge of the current specific affairs of Jiujiang Xuanjia...
The reason why this situation is still maintained is that firstly, Duan Li was loyal and brave to the country, and he was abolished because of the country. To replace him rashly would be a chill in the hearts of the people. Second, after the Zhuang Yong War, everyone in the Zhuang Kingdom was indeed unable to find anyone who could replace Duan Li.
Zhuang Guo took a big bite of meat from Yong Guo and needed time to digest it. The new generation of strong players in the country need time to grow. Strong men who seek refuge from outside also need to confirm their loyalty before they can be of great use.
So things just dragged on...
In fact, the current Jiujiang Xuanjia is composed of five generals including Du Yehu, each taking care of his own affairs.
The governor of Daishan County also came to Jiujiang City from time to time for "inspections." The intention of grasping this powerful army is already known to everyone on the road.
Speaking of which, Du Yehu, who was the first to ascend Suolong Pass, now indeed has the prestige in Jiujiang Xuanjia, second only to Duan Li.
The ancient military strategist practiced the path of cultivation, and there was not even one living person left in a thousand. Even those who survived were mostly ruined and lost all their futures.
Therefore, this method is gradually no longer attempted in this world.
But in the era before the Pulse Opening Pill appeared, it was countless people with ordinary qualifications who were not born with the ability to open the pulse, and they attacked the Taoist channel with the courage to die...
When the extraordinary monks who were attacked with their lives grew up, they had the power to support the ancient human race.
Today, when there are more choices, it undoubtedly requires greater courage to take the path of Qi and Blood Chongmai.
Du Yehu stepped out and succeeded, which is of course even more admirable.
The military strategists are engaged in heavy killings.
He experienced an extremely fierce national war and fought in the most intense place of the war.
He also successfully cleared away the fog of ignorance and opened up the inner palace.
In terms of strength, it surpasses the current Jiujiang Xuanjia. Duan Li has been deposed, and the remaining generals are only in the inner realm.
But with the strength of the Neifu Realm, it is definitely not enough to control a powerful army like Jiujiang Xuanjia. Therefore, even with Duan Li's support, other generals were not convinced.
In short, the current Jiujiang Xuanjia is roughly like this.
When sweeping away ferocious beasts in the territory, they will occasionally go out together. But in fact it has been split into five groups, each doing its own thing. Only when the new commander-in-chief is determined from above can they be reintegrated.
Du Yehu couldn't take care of these things well, let alone bother to take care of them.
He just wanted to drink and fight and didn't care about anything else.
Now there is only one more thing - to visit Duan Li and drink with Duan Li.
Although the doctors said that Duan Li could no longer drink alcohol in his current state. Even when the Prime Minister came to visit, he strictly ordered Duan Li not to drink anymore - but what the hell!
In Duan Li's words, I am useless and have no interest in life. If you don't let me drink, I will be like a bird! Just die early and be born early!
And Du Yehu never tried to persuade him, he only drank with him.
"damn thing!"
At the wine table, Duan Li suddenly raised his hand and slapped Du Yehu's messy hair like a chicken's nest: "I asked you to drink with me, not just to drink my wine! You can drink two kilograms of wine. One and a half kilograms, I want to drink the bird?"
Although he has lost his cultivation level, he is still quite capable of hitting people.
Du Yehu glanced at him, wiped his hair painlessly, gulped, and drank another bowl.
This bastard named Duan always told him to pay attention to his demeanor, pay attention to his appearance, and be a Confucian general. He always talked about "the style of a famous general". Now that I'm dead, it's interesting. I've shown my true colors and scolded my mother all day long.
really interesting!
He, Mr. Du, is broad-minded and doesn't bother to care. And this wine is indeed quite good. Let him go.
Duan Li felt very upset when he saw his unyielding reaction. He cursed and said: "Sooner or later, you will waste all my pension."
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Du Yehu then reacted: "You're not dead, so why should you be compensated or not? That's called a reward!"
"I'll give him a reward! I paid for it with my life!" Duan Li suddenly burst out.
His face turned red, and his eyes seemed to turn red too: "That's all the damn change!"
The outburst was a bit inexplicable, but not sudden.
He is a person who is truly expected to break the mortal life span and have the opportunity to achieve the arrival of God.
He was also truly loyal to the country and willing to sacrifice his life and blood.
But it shouldn't be, I was deceived...
"Okay, okay." Du Yehu patted his back as if coaxing a child, and after a few perfunctory words, he said: "When meat and wine pass through the intestines, worries will go with them. Come on, drink, drink!"
"You damn well know how to drink! Wine bag and rice bag!" Duan Li scolded him viciously, lifted the bowl, and poured the wine into his stomach.
He continued to curse: "My Jiujiang Xuanjia will be defeated by you idiots!"
Du Yehu wiped the saliva from Xingzi's face, poured him another bowl of wine, and continued to say perfunctorily: "Yes, yes, it's really hateful."
Lifting his wine bowl: "Come on, Lao Duan, let's have another bowl."
Duan Li's face turned red and he looked at him fiercely for a long time.
Seeing that Du Yehu had already drank the third bowl by himself, he cursed: "I don't know how I became blind in the first place and wanted to give Jiujiang Xuanjia to you!"
He even suddenly started crying: "I used to be called Master Duan, but now I'm called Lao Duan!"
Du Yehu was really helpless: "You told me when we were drinking the day before yesterday that from now on we will become brothers and let me call you Brother Duan. I said that's not good, but you said you would call me Lao Duan. You forgot so quickly. Already?"
Duan Li waved his hand, stood up, and drank like crazy: "Does what was said at the wine table count?"
"Okay, okay, it can't be calculated, Master, Master Duan, Tiger is wrong!"
Du Yehu quickly pulled him back to his seat: "I'll apologize to you. Come on, I'll do it first out of respect."
He raised his head and drank a bowl of it neatly.
After finishing the drink, he wiped his mouth and said, "I'll drink three bowls in a row to express my apology!"
Then he started pouring wine again.
"Stop it!" Duan Li slapped the table and took down all the food and wine on the table: "Do you think I drank too much? Do you want to take this opportunity to take away my belongings? Damn, are you crazy for drinking too much? "
Du Yehu glanced at the wine jar regretfully, feeling that he had almost spent enough time with him today, and it was time to go back to sleep... Isn't life just about drinking, sleeping, and killing people?
So he said: "Look what you said. Then come here today, and I will come with you next time!"
After saying that, he stood up, patted his butt and left. It can be said that he came and left calmly.
When you come, your hands are empty, but when you leave, your belly is full.
"Stop!" Duan Li shouted to stop him.
Du Yehu turned around helplessly: "What happened again?"
After the war between Zhuang and Yong, Duan Li has always been like this, always drunk and crazy, acting like a child.
In his early years, he focused on Jiujiang Xuanjia. He never married a wife and had no children. Now that he has passed away, his temperament has changed drastically, and there is no one close to him to take care of him.
No one cared about the disabled general, so Du Yehu had no choice but to come and see him often.
But when it comes to taking care of people, he is really not good at it. That is to say, drinking with him, and enjoying his alcohol addiction by the way - now he is officially a general of an army, with a bunch of brothers under his command. All his salary was divided. I can afford to drink by myself, but it's a bit difficult to drink such good wine.
Duan Li stood unsteadily, pointed at him and said, "You can deny what I said when I was drinking. But you can't. No matter what you say at any time, you have to admit it!"
Du Yehu scratched his head and said perfunctorily: "Recognize, recognize, recognize."
He took a few steps forward: "Come, Mr. Duan, I will help you to the bed to rest."
"Stop! Don't come over!" Duan Li was drunk: "I haven't told you what I want you to recognize!"
Du Yehu had no choice but to stop: "I recognize everything, okay? Mr. Duan, you've been drinking all day. It's getting dark. It's time for you to go to bed."
"Bah! It's time for you to sleep!" Duan Li spat at him: "I'm very awake!"
If it were another person, regardless of his identity, Du Laohu would have slapped him with a slap in the face. Mr. Du never spoils anyone. Only Duan Li...
Since he entered Jiujiang Xuanjia, he has been taking great care of him.
He drank too much, got into fights and made trouble, slept day and night, often had murderous intentions on the battlefield and disobeyed military orders many times...
Duan Li helped him suppress each incident one after another, and even promoted him to the rank of Jiujiang Xuanjia's general.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the kindness is as heavy as a mountain.
Du Yehu sighed: "Yes, I said something wrong. Please calm down. How about I give you another bowl of wine as punishment?"
What responded to him was a military boot: "Get out of here!"
Du Yehu turned his head and walked out with a smile.
Get out now, he wants it.
"Stop for me!" Duan Li shouted again.
Du Yehu stopped helplessly: "What's wrong, my Mr. Duan!"
"Say it!" Duan Li suddenly curled his lips, his face full of alcohol, and looked a little aggrieved: "No matter what I ask you to do, you must promise me!"
The once majestic and promising commander-in-chief of Jiujiang Xuanjia has become what he is now. Drinking alcohol every day to drown his sorrows and wallow in mischief.
It is impossible to say that Du Yehu didn't feel uncomfortable watching this.
But there are too many uncomfortable things in the world, so what can we do!
Nothing can be done, nothing can ever be done.
Just drink, sleep, and kill.
Just let the strong liquor pass through the intestines and hope it can be taken away!
"I promise you." Du Yehu said in a muffled voice.
"You swear!" Duan Li looked at him eagerly.
Du Yehu sighed: "I swear."
Duan Li said again: "You swore poison!"
"Okay." Du Yehu was helpless: "I swear."
"Say it!" Duan Li seemed to be on the verge of a fight: "If you don't do it, your whole family will die!"
"You tell me, I can do whatever I want." Du Yehu thought he was just drunk and coaxed, "If I don't do it, my whole family will die."
Anyway, the whole family is already dead...
Duan Li settled for a while, seemed to think about it, and then said: "Add one more thing. If you don't obey my instructions and do it, you will never drink alcohol for the rest of your life!"
Du Yehu's eyes widened: "Old Duan! Are you too poisonous?"
"Hahaha." Duan Li laughed with his hands on his hips. After laughing, he repeated: "Swear!"
Today's Duan Li has a strange stubbornness.
I don’t know if I drank too much or I felt too wronged. This is the only way to torment people.
Du Yehu said helplessly: "If I don't listen to you and do what you say, I won't have a drink for the rest of my life. Okay? Go to bed quickly!"
"No!" Duan Li waved his hand: "You promised too readily and without sincerity! I want to change my oath!"
He stretched out his fingers and circled them in the air for a long time. Finally, as if something suddenly occurred to him, he pointed at Du Yehu and said, "You swear, if you don't listen to me and do what I say, your dead brother will not be reincarnated!"
Du Yehu's face darkened for the first time.
"You've gone too far!"
The atmosphere in the room became very solemn.
But Duan Li stared at him drunkenly but stubbornly, as if he must make him agree.
"Whatever you want me to do, I will do my best to do it for you. Whatever you want, I owe you! But there is no need to say these words." Du Yehu turned and walked out: "I hope you just Drunk!"
"Why do I want you to risk your life?" Duan Li suddenly roared from behind him: "You don't take your own life seriously, what is your life worth! Do you care about me?"
"Then what do you want me to do?" Du Ye turned around like an angry tiger, walked up to Duan Li in a few steps, and grabbed him by the collar: "Are you aggrieved? Are you angry? You were tricked into fighting on the battlefield, desperately. You let people watch a show and ended up being a loser, but you didn’t dare to say anything. Do you want me to help you take revenge!?"
He let go of Duan Li, pulled out the saber from his waist, and walked out with murderous intent: "I'm going to Xin'an now!"
"Go to hell!" Duan Li grabbed his arm from behind, but instead of grabbing it, he was brought down to the ground.
Ping ping pong for a while.
The chair was crushed, the table collapsed, the wine jar was smashed...
The half-left food and wine poured over his head, making him so embarrassed.
This was Duan Li, the top-ranking figure in the military circles of the Zhuang Kingdom, who was only subordinated to Huangfu Duanming and was the commander-in-chief of Jiujiang Xuanjia!
Du Yehu had already rushed to the door aggressively, but at this time, he had to stop.
The evil spirit is gone.
He sheathed the knife, turned around, peeled the food and wine off Duan Li's head and face, and helped him up.
"I promise you." Du Yehu said in a deep voice: "No matter what you ask me to do, I will promise you. I swear a poisonous oath, the most poisonous oath."
He paused and said, "Anyway, I have nothing to worry about in this world."
Duan Li looked at him. At this time, his eyes were no longer drunk, and he no longer looked drunk. He looked straight at him and said: "Yehu, I don't have a son. I treat you as my son. I have become what I am today." You look disgusting to me, but you are the only one who is willing to obey me, coax me, and listen to me!"
This general who once spent his last bit of Dao Yuan and energy on the Zhuang Yong battlefield to pursue his opponent shook his head and said extremely solemnly: "I don't want you to fight for me, I want you to fight for yourself!"
He growled: "Promise me!"
Maybe because he drank too much, Du Yehu felt his throat was a little dry now. He realized that Duan Li might not have been drunk from the beginning to the end. Tonight's conversation may change everything...
But how could he refuse?
His father was a butcher and died young. The extremely fragile man in front of him had indeed played the role of the missing "father" for a long time, protecting him.
"I promise you." Du Yehu said: "I promise you on the basis of my brothers who died in Maplewood City and their peace after death."
But the first words Duan Li said almost made him lose his balance.
"Not all your brothers in Maplewood City are dead!"
"What did you say?" Du Yehu grabbed Duan Li's arms and stared at him with extremely serious eyes: "What did you say?"
Facing such a look, Duan Li knew that he was joking today. Then the friendship between him and Du Yehu would end here.
"Sit down and talk." Duan Li tried to calm him down.
Du Yehu let go of his hand.
At that moment, his arm was almost broken. Duan Li shook his arm, and there was nothing to be particular about. He randomly found a place where he could stay and sat on the ground.
Du Yehu followed suit and sat on the ground, still staring at him closely.
Duan Li sighed and said: "Someone came to me today and told me a piece of news. Don't ask me who that person is, I promised to keep it secret."
He also paid attention to Du Yehu's expression and said slowly: "This time at the Yellow River Meeting, the participant from the inner palace of Qi Kingdom in the Eastern Region is named... Jiang Wang!"
Du Yehu closed his eyes deeply.
After a long time, it opened.
"Impossible." He shook his head and said, "If the third child hadn't died, there was no way he wouldn't have contacted me."
Even though he was denying it, his lips were trembling a little.
Duan Li looked at him with some distress, looking at this young man who looked anxious but was actually very innocent and simple: "If you can think about it, why did I force you to swear that poisonous oath first, and then I would agree to it?" Tell you the news. You should know that this is true."
Du Yehu didn't speak for a while.
The fall of Maple Grove City was somewhat unclear to begin with. The sudden death of the old city lord Liu Yi'an is also one of the doubts.
But except for Dong A, there is no living person and no evidence in the entire Maple Forest City.
All Dong A can say is whatever he says.
So since Jiang Wang is still alive, why didn't he come to find him?
Why did you go all the way to Qi State in the Eastern Region?
The answer to this question is actually not difficult to guess.
Duan Li added: "During the national war last year, Dong A was stabbed to death on the streets of Xin'an. The person who killed him left a piece of jade. It was the jade Dong A once wore. No one else knew who the jade was. Yes, I think you should know."
Yes. Of course Du Yehu knew.
In the letters Jiang Wang later sent him, he showed off more than once how much the dean valued him, how outstanding his talent was, and how he would support his brothers in the future.
Although he didn't have time to see with his own eyes what the Jade Jue that the boy showed off looked like. But there is probably nothing else that can be connected with Dong Ah.
All the wine in Du Yehu's blood woke up.
But there was a fire burning in his heart.
All that wine was poured on those fires.
Hot, painful...angry.
"So, the destruction of Maplewood City was a conspiracy. It was related to Dong A and the emperor. So the third child of my family went to Qi State in the Eastern Region alone because he wanted to take revenge. So he refused Are you contacting me because you are afraid that I will be impulsive and do bad things?"
Du Yehu said, gritting his teeth, trying to get up while talking.
Duan Li held him down hard and said with a stern voice, "Have you forgotten the oath you swore???"
Du Yehu was stunned.
The third child is alive... The third child is alive and wants to take revenge alone.
But the eldest brother and the fifth child are both gone...
He had just sworn their peace after death.
He sat there blankly, his head lowered.
The full beard on his face probably hides his emotions very well.
His big calloused hands covered his face.
The veins on the back of his hands popped out, and his body was trembling, but he didn't make a sound.
Duan Li was silent for a long time, then patted him on the shoulder and said: "Dong A once told me something. He said that if one day, the secret of Maplewood City is exposed, ask me to kill you. Now, Jiang Wang's appearance at the Yellow River Meeting means that this secret can no longer be hidden. At least from you, it can no longer be hidden. With Du Ruhui's ability, he must have wiped out all the clues. The whole world may not believe Jiang Wang, but I think, You will definitely believe him."
Du Yehu calmed down slowly.
But still didn't look up.
His voice full of hatred came out from between his fingers: "What is going on...those hundreds of thousands of people, my brothers...what is going on in Maplewood City?"
"The White Bones Way wants to use hundreds of thousands of people in Maplewood City to refine the White Bones True Pill. The imperial court has known the clues for a long time. Zhuang Gaoxian has been hiding in the deep palace to recuperate. Zhuang Guo has been dormant and weak for many years. He needs this White Bones True Pill. The recovery of the injury is really embarrassing. Therefore, including Du Ruhui, Huangfu Duanming, and Dong A, they acquiesced in the tragedy. That's what happened." Duan Li said.
Du Yehu removed his hands and raised his head.
Duan Li saw that his eyes were bloodshot and looked bloody.
"I'm going to kill them." Du Yehu gritted his teeth and said, "Old Duan, I must kill them. I'm going to kill every one of them, everyone involved... one by one! "
"But you can't kill them. You can't kill anyone." Duan Li said calmly and cruelly.
Du Yehu's whole body was shaking with extreme hatred: "Even if I die, I will bite off their flesh..."
"Even if you die, you won't be able to hurt them even a hair." Duan Li interrupted him.
"You have to live, Tiger, you promised me, you have to live." Duan Li said.
The once majestic but now useless commander of Jiujiang Xuanjia sighed and said: "The person who sent me the news must have hoped that you could escape from here. But you can't escape."
He said: "You can't escape Du Yehu."
"You have escaped from Jiang Wang, you have escaped from Zhu Weiwo, Zhuang Gaoxian and other mean and ungrateful people, I won't let you escape again. It's too far from here to Qi State, you can't escape."
"There's only one way."
He slowly lowered his head and hugged Du Yehu, like a father hugging his son.
They were head to head.
"There is only one way..." Duan Li said slowly.
This room was full of crying, fussing, and tormenting today, this room where all the attendants had been driven away, leaving only the two of them drinking together.
This room is hot, tormenting, and burning with certain emotions.
It seemed that at this moment, it finally calmed down.
After a long time...
"What nonsense!" Du Yehu's painful voice suddenly sounded.
But he was immediately suppressed by Duan Li's stern voice: "Think about the oath you swore!"
