(twenty three)
Like other places in Yuyi Town, everyone in Yuyi Academy is also suffering from the mental torture caused by the approaching war, which comes from the panic and anxiety about the future and the misfortune of fate.
As the only person in the academy who could call himself an outsider, Heba Hongyi savored a sense of superiority derived from the knowledge of an outsider. He was condescending, strolling around the academy as if he were looking down on all living beings, laughing and lamenting that these people who still harbored illusions were stupid and ignorant of current affairs.
In the Wensheng Lecture Hall, although the tutor was still meticulously reciting scriptures and classics, there were very few students interested in learning.
They murmured to each other, whether it was the war, the coalition, or future plans. Everyone thought that Mr. Fan Liwu was busy with military and political affairs and could not spare time to give lectures. They all turned a blind eye to other teachers whose reputation and prestige were not very high.
"We have only been studying for two months, and it seems like a huge army has descended on the city in the blink of an eye. It's really unlucky."
"Ten years ago, the coalition forces killed the people of the Central Plains by surprise. The dynasty that had been consolidated for a long time suddenly fell. We only have the strength of a military town. How should we fight against the enemy?"
"I don't think so much anymore... When the war starts, I will join the army. I finally got the opportunity to study and further my studies, how can I just let others take it away!"
The tutor was helpless about the chaos in the classroom and shouted angrily in a long voice: "Quiet! You are still just children. It is not your turn to think about important matters of home and country? No matter if the army is approaching or the sky is falling, They don't do anything for us scholars. If you want to do research, as long as you have paper and pen in your hands and faith in your heart, where is it not a classroom or a research laboratory?"
The disciple who had just declared his intention to join the army to fight against the enemy stood up and retorted righteously: "Sir, this is different! Why do we read poetry and classics? Fellow disciples, do you remember? I was born under Humble, I have dreamed since I was a child that one day I would be able to have enough food and clothing, and I hope I will never see my neighbors die on the streets without anyone burying them..."
"I hope to find a way to help the poor in the book!" The disciple became more and more interested as he talked, and the other disciples were gradually incited by him: "Isn't now the time to display our ambition?"
Little did they know that He Ba Hongyi had been listening outside the lecture hall for a long time, and suddenly he walked in with a mocking "hehe". In name, he wanted to quell the turmoil for Mr. Shuiye, but in fact he just wanted to continue his work of persuading him to surrender.
But I saw Heba facing all the disciples and said: "Now that Yuyi Town is in decline and the coalition army is prosperous, the Yuyi army will not be defeated sooner or later, so why not obey the destiny and surrender. How do you know that you can't find your own way in the coalition army?" "
"Shut up, it's you, you bastard of the Heba family again!" The disciple who stood up was furious. He picked up a bundle of books placed on the low table in front of him and threw it at Heba Hongyi. He shouted: "The evil words are misleading the public. We don't welcome you, get out!"
As soon as these words came out, almost all the disciples present threw the books and miscellaneous items on the table at He Ba Hongyi. Seeing that the situation was worse than before, the tutor could only advise He Ba Hongyi to leave quickly.
"Humph, you are so stupid. You are so hopeless! Hahaha..." He Ba Hongyi raised his hand to cover the thrown objects and ran out with a sneer.
In order to continue to satisfy his humble sense of superiority, he walked to the school grounds where the martial arts students gathered, waiting for an opportunity to continue spreading disturbing remarks.
Su Qing, who was supposed to be in the school grounds at that time, went to the Northern Front Military Camp to do business today as Hu Yan had promised, and Bai Feng also prepared his horses and went out. Without senior brothers to discipline them, and with rumors about the war spreading, which caused people's hearts to be in turmoil, everyone naturally lost interest in practicing martial arts.
Even the most diligent and hard-working Thorns secretly hid behind a decorative boulder and was lazing around - within a few feet, Yue Qingling was leaning on the other side of the boulder, speaking timidly.
He Ba Hongyi's eyes were very sharp, and he immediately caught the two people who were secretly talking about love. He deliberately and solemnly shouted: "Junior Brother Jingji, Junior Sister Yue, what are you doing here? Why don't you go practice Kung Fu? ?”
After the other disciples heard this, they all turned to Yue Qingling who was outside the boulder. She was so ashamed that she immediately stood up and angrily accused He Ba Hongyi: "What are you doing? Look over here again, believe it or not. Should I poke your eyes out?"
"Hahaha..." He Ba Hongyi said with a smile: "Anyway, there is not much time left for you to act recklessly, so you can do whatever you want."
"You!" Before Yue Qingling finished speaking, she was about to step forward, but was stopped by the thorns on the way: "Junior sister Yue, Master He Ba is just joking, don't take it seriously."
He Ba Hongyi said: "I'm not kidding! No matter how good your kung fu is, it's just meat under the cavalry of the coalition forces!"
"What did you say!" Yue Qingling's eyes widened angrily, and the other martial arts students suddenly woke up from their dejection and wanted to walk towards He Ba Hongyi.
If the blocking Thorns tried to stop him again, he would hurt Junior Sister, so he had to use Bai Feng's name to calm everyone's anger: "Senior Brother Bai said that no one can hurt Mr. He Ba!"
When the situation developed to this point and a direct conflict was about to break out, Bai Feng rushed back in time to stop the dispute.
"Brother He Ba, are you looking for me?" The young swordsman was still sweating and didn't know what he had just done.
He Ba Hongyi replied: "Mr. Bai, where did you rush to just now?"
"I just want to convey what you said to the Zhao family in time." After Bai Feng finished speaking, he quickly freed He Ba Hongyi from the dispute and took him to his residence.
The two of them sat next to each other, with a small stove in the middle, and wine was being boiled on it. The hot air was accompanied by the aroma of the wine, which was very intoxicating. In front of them was the scene of students practicing martial arts outside the school grounds.
Bai Feng poured wine for both of them, and then asked: "Brother He Ba, what's the countermeasure before you rush to find me?"
"I still say the same thing, it's more cost-effective to surrender than to fight to the death. You can't fight them." He Ba Hongyi took the drink and drank it down in one gulp.
Bai Feng continued: "I also heard that you lobbied everywhere in the academy, but ended up running into obstacles everywhere. Oh, is this true?"
"They are indeed Mr. Bai's disciples, all of them are so stubborn." After He Ba Hongyi said this, he couldn't help but look at the people practicing martial arts outside the house with respect, and said: "It's a pity that we can't give in to ambition. You won the war. I wonder, Mr. Bai, what are you going to do now?"
"Me?" Bai Feng drank another glass of wine, his expression already slightly drunk: "Haha, just leave it to fate... I just hope that future generations will know that we have created such a beautiful place."
"A beautiful place..." He Ba Hongyi couldn't help but repeat this sentence again, and then fell into deep thought.
The two of them just exchanged words with each other, toasted and melancholy, and spent most of the day together. At dusk, the disciples had already dispersed, but an unexpected situation broke the short-term tranquility.
I saw a strange woman with her head wrapped in gauze suddenly burst into Bai Feng's residence, shouting randomly. After a while, Zang Boyan, who was practicing martial arts with Tiger Eyes, caught up with him and said to Bai Feng: "Senior Brother Bai, have you ever seen a crazy woman with her head wrapped in gauze coming?"
"Um?" Bai Feng seemed to be drunk and paralyzed his facial features and limbs at this time. He stood up unsteadily, pointed to the bedroom behind him, and replied while burping with wine: "It seems, burping... it seems like he ran there. went."
"Thanks for the advice, senior brother!" After Zang Boyan said this, he hurried to the bedroom, lifted the quilt, and found the figure of the crazy woman.
When Zan Boyan was about to forcefully drag the other person out, he accidentally let the crazy woman bite her finger, and immediately screamed: "Ah! It hurts, it hurts me to death! Let go, please." Come on, senior sister!"
Bai Feng and He Ba Hongyi followed the sound one after another. Seeing the cowardly look of Zan Boyan who did not dare to break free for fear of hurting the other party, they couldn't help but laugh at him.
After a moment, Bai Feng raised his hands and walked behind the mad woman, showing a mysterious smile and said: "Tickling, burping, tickling!"
The crazy woman immediately let go, turned around and started playing with Bai Feng. The two seemed to be adults, but they behaved like children.
Zang Boyan looked at the bloody finger with a ferocious face and said in pain: "Senior Brother Bai, stop teasing her. This is Senior Brother Huyan's little junior sister. I was about to take her to the bedroom to rest. Unexpectedly, Let her slip away halfway."
"Okay, it just so happens that I'm going to have a rest, so you guys should go quickly!" After Bai Feng finished speaking, he fell asleep on the couch.
Zang Boy couldn't say any more and immediately left with his tiger-eyed junior sister.
These farce-like scenes passed through He Ba Hongyi's eyes. He couldn't believe that the man who was playing around like a child just now was the swordsman who could defeat several people by himself; he couldn't believe even more that Yuyi Academy alone could have such strong cohesion.
"Am I underestimating them? Maybe they can really win..." But at a moment's notice, the strong pursuit of profit in He Ba Hongyi's heart took over again: "Is he drunk?"
Like the first time he came here, Heba reached his hand into his coat sleeve again, and this time, he took out a dagger.
"Kill him, and I can return to Wuchuan Town; kill him, and the glory and wealth will come back to me!" Countless thoughts passed through his mind, but he only remembered those three words - "Kill him ".
Bai Feng happened to have his back to He Ba Hongyi at this time, and there was no one around the mansion. It would be a God-given opportunity to assassinate him at this time.
"Should it be stabbed in the heart or in the neck?" He breathed quickly, approaching gradually, and finally chose to stab in the neck, killing him with one blow. If successful, the young swordsman would die in his own home before he could even make any noise.
"This will be the most successful assassination, and I will be the most successful assassin!" He Ba Hongyi raised the dagger with both arms, and a victorious smile appeared on his face before he made his move.
"Suffer death!" He was blinded by the temptation of success, eager to declare in his heart that the winner belongs to the winner, but he never thought about the consequences of failure.
"Dang, Dang." The dagger fell to the ground with a sound, and the sharp edge made an especially sonorous and powerful sound when it touched the hard wall.
"Ah? What, what's going on!" He Ba Hongyi was shocked. Only then did he realize that his wrists had been held by Bai Feng's right hand. At the same time, the young swordsman did not forget to return a Shura-like glare and bypassed Over his shoulder, he stared directly at He Ba Hongyi.
He Ba Hongyi decisively took a few steps back and ran straight out the door, not forgetting to shout: "Help, help, someone help me!"
The result of not choosing a route in a hurry is that the traces will be discovered faster. After taking a few steps, there were several people waiting for him outside the school grounds.
Su Qing shook her head and complained: "What? Let us run out and take a look when we hear the noise. It turns out it's for this person."
"Master Heba, what's wrong with you?" Murong Yan still responded with concern, even though her eyes were filled with tears.
"Is there anything else? If not, I'll go back to sleep..." Ajuan was still so innocent, completely unaware of what had just happened.
"I...I..." He Ba Hongyi's feet softened and he knelt down directly, and then Bai Feng's voice came from behind him.
"Brother He Ba, I have known for a long time that you came to kill me. However, I gave you a chance. You could have started a new life here." After saying that, Bai Feng stabbed the person who was originally going to stab him to death. He threw the dagger back to its owner and continued: "You go, take your things... let's go."
Only then did Ajuan come back to his senses and said in surprise: "Ah, you actually want to kill someone! Bastard, we have wasted our trust in you."
"No, no, no..." After He Ba Hongyi denied it three times in a row, Zhao Xiaomei appeared in front of him and persuaded him: "Master He Ba, stop arguing. You have also seen it. All this is our calculation." , just like you plotted against us."
"Miss Zhao, Miss Zhao!" He Ba Hongyi knelt on the ground and walked to Xiaomei Zhao, pleading again and again, saying: "I am just dizzy for a moment. I am greedy and obsessed with greed. I..." In the middle of the sentence, he shed tears of shame. , but soon, he wiped away his tears, stood up and walked towards the academy gate.
The remaining people looked at each other and sighed several times one after another. Not long after, He Ba Hongyi's wails at the top of his lungs were heard from the direction of the academy gate.
"Ahhhhh!"
Bai Feng and everyone arrived following the sound, only to see Heba tearing off his coat and drawing a map on it with trembling fingers dipped in blood.
After a while, Heba Hongyi handed the map he drew to Bai Feng and said, "This is the layout of the Heba brother and sister's military camp. I have marked the important information including the granary and baggage. These are what I know. everything……"
"Brother He Ba, what's wrong with you? Why are you covered in blood!" Bai Feng tried his best to search in the darkness with only a hint of light, but he still couldn't find the specific location of the wound.
"Hehehe..." He Ba Hongyi smiled calmly and pointed at his abdomen with his finger. It turned out that he used a dagger to make an opening in his stomach and covered the wound with clothes to prevent his internal organs from flowing out.
"Yan'er, help people!" Everyone had never seen Bai Feng in such a panic, and they were all surprised for a while.
"Brother Feng, the wound is too big to save..."
Seeing that Bai Feng and Murong Yan were both crying, He Ba Hongyi repeatedly told them not to be sad for him: "You don't have to be sad for me. Brother Bai, you must win and win them over. Otherwise, I I won’t let you go even if I’m a ghost!”
"You're right, this is a - wonderful place."
As soon as he finished speaking, he died. But everyone could see that there was still a faint smile on his cold face.
