The morning light rises, and the pale sky is filled with glass.
Wang Yue'er stepped forward and gently blew away the flame of the lamp. She looked deeply at the three uncles who were smiling with their arms crossed and Grandpa Xiao who was wearing a loving smile on the couch. She calmed down and raised her eyes to look at the shopkeeper Lao Zhou beside her.
Lao Zhou naturally understood the girl's thoughts. As he nodded slightly, he slowly retreated until he closed the door, then turned his back and wiped away the tears that overflowed from the corners of his eyes.
The girl behind her was also touched by this scene, and said softly: "Grandpa Zhou, the dragon group is better than the snow, and the lips and teeth are fragrant. There should be matching cakes... Yue'er wants to ask Grandpa Zhou for her stuttering..."
Hearing the girl's words, shopkeeper Zhou sensed her exquisite thoughts and used this to comfort himself. He quickly calmed down and looked back with a smile, "Princess Guo is a person who knows tea. Long Tuan Sheng Xue does have matching cakes. I'll give it to you now." Let people prepare."
Looking at Shopkeeper Zhou's retreating figure, the cardamom girl looked back with a smile, looked into the room, breathed a long sigh of relief, put her hands on her back, jumped around, tasted the pastries and left...
In the elegant room, the man's eyes were red again. He grabbed the arms of the person in front of him, punched his chest with his fist, and laughed with a trembling voice: "We...we know that you kid is not the one who betrays the master." This person...it’s so painful to be deceived by you!”
Before the man could speak, Wu Fen next to him took over the words, imitating the impulsive tone of the reckless man before, teasing and joking: "Good boy! How dare you come to the door by yourself, today we will clean up the house for the prime minister!"
Wu Fen's imitation was so perfect that it was not exactly the same, but he also captured the essence of Zhang Hude's recklessness. The smile of the man who was smiling with his arms faltered, and his dark face suddenly turned red. He turned to Wu Fen and trembled: "You. ..You and I..."
When the man saw this, he raised his head and smiled. The depression of being alone for many years was swept away. He relieved Zhang Hude from the embarrassment and said to Wu Fen: "Why should the second brother tease the elder brother? It's no wonder that the elder brother misunderstood what Duanmu did, but it can Having covered my second brother's eyes, Duanmu is a little prouder."
"Yes, yes, Lao Wu, don't be a bald man and laugh at a lame man. Didn't you see Duanmu's plan?" Zhang Hude seemed to have grabbed Wu Fen's painful foot and started laughing and scolding him.
Wu Fen was speechless and speechless, so he had no choice but to turn to the kind-hearted old man on the couch for help.
Seeing this, the old man changed his posture and slowly sat up. When the three people saw this, they rushed forward to help each other. The old man faced the arms offered by the three people and held them with a smile: "Hude and Fen'er, don't blame me either. Duanmu, that person’s mind is not in his mind as a teacher, Duanmu is the only way to get rid of his suspicions... Besides, as a teacher, I have no choice but to let Duanmu..."
After hearing the words, Wu Fen and Zhang Hude were stunned. They both knelt down and said, "It's just the two of us who misunderstood Duanmu..."
Before the two of them knelt down, they were already supported by Duan Muqiu. Their eyes met for a moment. Zhang and Wu had already stopped talking. The moment the men's eyes touched, they were already relieved.
"When he led his army south to meet the Tang Dynasty, I originally wanted him to stick to Luzhou and suspend the southern Tang Dynasty's march north. After King Yun defeated the Xiongnu in Zhongzhou and Lin'er defeated the Northern Jin Dynasty, he could unite his troops and march south. Together we defeated the Southern Tang Dynasty... How could we expect that he defeated the Southern Tang Dynasty's 130,000-strong army with only 50,000 men..." Prime Minister Xiao frowned, telling what was in his heart and regrets in his heart, and paused slightly. , continue to speak.
"On that day, King Yun ignored my dissuasion and insisted on leading Lin'er to the capital. He ordered me and Wang Tian to lead the army to continue to drive the Xiongnu outside Shanhaiguan... If I could accompany King Yun to the capital, I would be able to see through it... How could I let me do that? The child lost his life in Jianglin...cough cough cough!"
Touching the pain in his heart, he felt a burning sensation in his chest and abdomen, and his muttering was interrupted by a violent cough. Upon seeing this, Duanmu and the others hurriedly stepped forward and caressed the old man's bent back...
The old man calmed down for a moment to relieve his cough. With the help of three people, he sat back on the couch and continued: "I still don't know how he defeated the Southern Tang army."
Wu Fen frowned slightly and murmured: "Teacher once said about the nine-win strategy in the palace..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard Duan Muqiu beside him say softly: "At that time, all the officials in the palace were divided, and the teacher's nine-win strategy was more appropriate to say that it was a strategy to gather people's hearts rather than to retreat from the enemy. ..”
Prime Minister Xiao cast an approving look at Duanmu Qiu, and then said: "After the change in Zhaodu, I, the governor, can no longer do anything."
, so he and Wang Tian took the opportunity to take eighty thousand men, stationed in Weizhou to ward off the Xiongnu, and investigated what happened in those years, but...unexpectedly, the fifty thousand army could not find any clues...either dead or dead The tongue is broken and the mouth is mute, the eyes are blind and the hands are broken. "
Wu Fen was shocked by the cruelty of that man's methods. They were not hundreds of people, but tens of thousands of soldiers. He temporarily suppressed his surprise and murmured, "Is it possible... that there are no clues at all?"
"Yes...but it can't be called a clue. It can only be said to be a legend." Even the unrivaled warrior, who knew all his plans, couldn't help but shake his head slightly when he mentioned this clue.
"What legend?" Zhang Hude and Wu Fen both said at the same time.
"Qiu'er, just tell me..." Xiao Xiang felt the fire in his chest again, turned to Duan Muqiu, frowned and spoke.
Feeling the inquiring gazes of Zhang and Wu, Duanmuqiu thought of the news he had received, and felt a little fear in his heart. He calmed down a little and spoke.
"Before we conquered the world, there was a time of war. The princes supported their own armies and fought for years. The world was miserable. Legend has it that there was a famous knight from ancient times who brought supreme skills to frighten the countries and bring peace to the world temporarily..."
At this point, Duanmuqiu changed his subject: "But the good times don't last long. In troubled times, demons will inevitably appear... The demon dragon was born to bring harm to the world. The famous ancient hero, armed with supreme skills, ascended to the immortal and slayed the dragon. However, he also exhausted his cultivation and passed away on the spot... But it is said that before his life and death disappeared, he passed on the immortal scrolls he practiced to the world..."
"In the next hundred years, the general trend of the world will be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time. There are also rumors that the Ying Emperor found the fragments of this immortal scroll and practiced it, and then simplified it into the method of military formation. It was spread throughout the Ying army, which greatly increased the military strength. , only then can all the countries be wiped out, the world unified, and victory returned."
Zhang and Wu opened their mouths when they heard it. The legend in Duanmuqiu's mouth was beyond their understanding. After a while, Wu Fen came back to his senses and asked: "This... what does this have to do with him?" Is it related?"
Of course, Duanmuqiu knew who Wu Fen was referring to by "him". He moved his eyes slightly and continued solemnly: "The human heart is incompetent and snakes swallow elephants. Before winning the emperor's unification, he already felt something strange in his body, but he still continued to study immortals." Unexpectedly, the remnant book of the Dharma became possessed by evil spirits, and he was able to save his life until all his cultivation was gone... However, he had already achieved great success in the army, which did not stop him from dominating the world..."
"Duanmu, you are going around so much that my head is dizzy. You also know that I, Lao Zhang, are impatient. What does this have to do with that person? Tell me quickly!" Zhang Hude saw Duanmu Qiu's delay. He didn't get to the point, his anxious eyes were about to burst into flames, he interrupted and urged him to speak.
However, Wu Fen seemed to have heard clues from what Duan Muqiu said just now. He took over Zhang Hude's words, met Duan Muqiu's solemn gaze, and murmured: "You mean... that person... he... But how did he get it? The legends in the world were originally made up by the princes to control people's hearts... Is there really such a thing as an immortal?"
"There is no trace of such legends, but after many years of searching, I finally learned something from an old man's mouth, which made me convinced that this legend is true and not false." Duanmuqiu saw Wu Fen and said to himself suspiciously. , spoke immediately.
"What's the matter?" Even Wu Fen, who had always been calm and collected, couldn't help but breathed quickly and asked urgently.
Duanmuqiu looked at the old man on the couch and frowned, and slowly said what was hidden in his heart: "Back then, I used the method taught by my teacher to defile myself, and was eventually demoted from the capital. So I tried to investigate the matter, and finally found out... From the mouth of a hundred-year-old man in Luzhou City, I can hear..."
Taking a deep breath and calming down, Duanmuqiu finished the matter in one breath: "The old man in Luzhou City is over a hundred years old and has no children to look after him, but he still walks as fast as a young man. Everyone in the city is known for his longevity. I was dressed in disguise and passed by Luzhou by chance. When I heard about this, I went to visit out of curiosity..."
"At first, the old man was wary of me and kept silent. Later, after I was caressing him for many days, he finally let down his guard and told me the secret of his longevity. When he was young, he once lived in the valley outside Luzhou City. He was chopping firewood for a living, and he once accidentally fell into a chaotic place. When he was in a trance, he vaguely saw a pair of evil red eyes locked on him. He timidly huddled there for a long time, until the red light dissipated, and finally drummed. I mustered up the courage and went through a lot of hardships before climbing out of the place where I fell. It was not until I returned to Luzhou City that I realized that I had been missing for more than a month."
"Since then, he has felt that his body has endless strength. He does not feel the heat in the summer, the cold in the winter, does not eat during the month, and does not feel hungry. He has a loyal nature and only thinks that he is cursed by the place of chaos. Therefore, he did not dare to marry and have children, for fear of delaying the girl from a good family, so he was still alone at the age of 100... Then the chaos in Shenzhou, the Southern Tang Dynasty invaded Zhao, Qi Yunwei went south to Luzhou to meet the enemy... The city was in chaos, and they could only escape and disperse. He had nothing to worry about and didn't want to leave his home, so he found a remote place in the city to hide."
"At first I heard that Qi Yunwei was defeated by the Southern Tang army, and that the Qi Yun army's commander Zhou Min led his army to rescue him... Later, I heard that Qi Yun's army returned with a great victory. I was still wondering why the battle situation suddenly changed in such a short period of time, but in a hidden place, I saw It was a scene that frightened him.”
At this point, even the determined Duanmu Qiu couldn't help but show nervousness. He swallowed, calmed down, and continued to speak.
"The place where he hid was a wealthy merchant's courtyard. On weekdays, few people came and went, and on days of war, no one passed by. But when Qi Yun's army arrived, they saw the army's sergeants and set up the commander's flag in this courtyard. , he has been hiding for many days, and has long been familiar with the terrain. Even Sergeant Qi Yun's repeated searches were avoided by him. "
"After Qi Yun's army returned to the city after victory, one night, he saw an old man wearing a general's armor arguing fiercely with a young man... Out of curiosity, he was about to get closer to eavesdrop, but he saw that A red light flashed in the young master's eyes... The body of the old general with a beautiful beard and armor slumped and lost strength. Only when he fell to the ground did the old man see clearly that the old general's body and head had been separated and he died on the spot, and that The young master's eyes are constantly flashing red, just like the evil eyes that the old man saw when he fell into the chaos of the valley, which is breathtaking..."
After hearing this, Zhang and Wu stood up suddenly and looked back in horror, looking at the teacher behind them whose eyes were slightly closed, as if they couldn't bear to hear any more.
The two looked away, looked at each other, and each said the name of one person.
"Zhou Min!"
"Qi Shao!"
Wushuang, a warrior who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, taking over Duanmu Qiu's words, with a solemn tone: "I didn't know how Shao'er defeated the 130,000-strong army of the Southern Tang Dynasty before, until Qiu'er talked about what the old man said. See, I understand... Maybe there really are immortals and demons in this world who can do this..."
"But...but...even so, how can we say...that the old man is not crazy and talking nonsense? How can we be sure that it was the legendary fairy scroll that changed his temperament... With immortal power, why..." Wu Fen was at a loss for words at this moment. .
"At first, I thought that the old man was old and a little crazy, and he was talking nonsense...until he finished telling me what he had seen and told me that he was not going to die soon. He didn't want to die keeping such a secret, so he walked out of a corner of the courtyard. Only when you dug out something and gave it to me did I completely believe it." Duanmuqiu frowned, reached into his arms, took out something, and showed it in front of Zhang and Wu.
It was a golden order, with a cloud-eating beast on the top, horns of a sheep, wolf's hoofs, a deer's body and an ox's tail. The ox's tail followed the gold medal and wrapped the order from top to bottom. It was turned around to reveal the back, with only one word visible.
"Min"
Zhang and Wu are very familiar with this order. This is the golden order that General Zhou carries with him. It was made by King Qi Yun by craftsmen for everyone... At a loss, he reached into his arms and took out what he was carrying. , compared with one and two, it is indeed true, only the words "Hu De" and "Fen" on the back of the golden order are different.
Looking at each other, the shock in their hearts made Zhang Hude, who was always reckless and fearless, also show a little fear in his eyes.
