The attack came suddenly. It was not until the moment the cold arrow came that Wei Tuo realized that his group was really careless.
Probably since he left Ganjingzhuang, he had been targeted and followed all the way.
It wasn't until they successfully found new grains and planned to return to Ganjingzhuang that the enemy ambushed them in the canyon and dealt a sharp blow.
Wei Tuo didn't know which force the enemy in front of him came from or what his purpose was. He only knew that today was a life-and-death catastrophe, belonging to Zi Nu and himself.
Ignoring everything else, only by sending Zi Nu away can he feel at ease and can he kill the enemy calmly.
Behind the boulder, after round after round of cold arrows, the arrows finally stopped, and more than twenty masked men in black clothes and black scarves slowly walked out from behind the stone.
Wei Tuo stared at them with red eyes and said sternly: "Who are you, and what do you want!"
The more than 20 people said nothing and swung their swords to kill Wei Tuo and others.
Wei Tuo was unafraid and faced him head on.
The two sides were like two torrents, crashing into each other.
As soon as they took over, Wei Tuo and others were at a disadvantage. Just as they were about to fight to the death, they suddenly found that the other party had separated out a dozen people and chased on horseback in the direction where Zinu left.
Wei Tuo instantly understood that they were coming for Zinu.
"Fight it!" Yutuo yelled with an angry look, swiped his sword across, then grabbed a horse, turned over, and chased in the direction where Zi Nu left.
The enemy showed no mercy and shot a cold arrow at Wei Tuo on horseback.
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After running for more than ten miles and approaching the gate of Gyeongju City, Zinu finally woke up from the bumps on his horse.
When she turned around, she saw that an attendant was carefully holding her shoulders and galloping toward the gate of Gyeongju City.
Zi Nu blinked, regained his consciousness immediately, and shouted coldly: "Where are Wei Tuo and the others?"
"Your Highness, are you awake? Yutuo and the others are still in the canyon..."
Zi Nu understood and said loudly: "Stop!"
The entourage reined in his horse. Zi Nu kicked the entourage off his horse and said angrily: "We are all brothers. We have agreed to live and die together. How can we abandon our captain and leave them alone? Go back and fight the enemy!"
The entourage was anxious: "Your Highness, no, Wei Tuo risked his life to help us come out..."
Before he finished speaking, Zi Nu slapped him in the face with a whip and said coldly: "If you keep talking nonsense, Wei Tuo will be really hopeless!"
He was about to turn the horse's head, but the whipped follower still held on to the horse's reins and remained stubbornly motionless.
Zi Nu was furious, raised his hand and was about to continue cracking the whip, but when he saw the resolute and unwavering face of his entourage, Zi Nu silently put down the whip and sighed: "The gate of Qingzhou City is in front of us, let's go to the city quickly. How about asking the general to send troops to help?"
The attendant then let go: "Okay."
The negotiation process was not complicated. Li Qinzai had given her an ivory waistband that represented his identity a long time ago. Besides, Li Qinzai was now famous all over the world and was recognized by everyone.
After the Gyeongju City Guards confirmed his belt, he mobilized more than two hundred cavalry without hesitation, and followed Zinu out of the city and galloped towards the canyon.
After running fast for more than ten miles, they met a man and a horse. Zi Nu looked from a distance and saw that it was Wei Tuo.
Yutuo lay weakly on his horse, with an arrow stuck in his back. Behind him, there were more than ten horses chasing him, and from time to time they shot one or two cold arrows at Yutuo.
Zi Nu was anxious and said to the guard: "They are the ones who ambush us, hurry up!"
The guard waved his hand, and the more than two hundred cavalry behind him immediately surrounded him from the left and right sides, and several spears were thrown from the hands of the cavalry.
When the dozen or so enemies who were chasing Wei Tuo saw hundreds of people coming from Wuyangyang, they immediately knew something was wrong, so they turned their horses and fled in all directions, while more than two hundred cavalrymen divided their forces and pursued them.
Wei Tuo had already rushed in front of Zi Nu. The horse didn't know whether it was frightened or not, but it still bumped into Zi Nu headlessly.
Zi Nu has been wandering for many years and has developed excellent riding skills. When he saw this, he immediately fell down from the side of the horse, maintaining the speed of walking side by side with Yu Tuo, then leaned over and grabbed the reins hard. After a long time, Yu Tuo's The horse finally stopped, snorting uneasily, its hooves plowing the ground.
After helping the unconscious Yutuo off the horse, Zinu looked at the arrow stuck in Yutuo's back and couldn't help but feel so sad that his tears couldn't stop flowing down.
"Weituo, wake up!" Zi Nu called.
Wei Tuo tried his best to open his eyes and saw Zi Nu squatting in front of him unharmed with tears streaming down his face. He couldn't help but smile with relief.
"Your Highness is fine...I feel relieved." Wei Tuo said weakly.
"Stop talking. I'll send someone to call a doctor for you. You..."
"The arrow has penetrated into the heart, and there is no way to save it." Wei Tuo smiled smartly and said, "In the future, I'm afraid I won't be able to accompany His Highness to wander around the world..."
Zi Nu cried heartbrokenly.
In these years, whether she was wandering around or staying under the tubo Ludongzan family, Weituo always stayed with her and protected her without any regrets.
Zi Nu always regarded him as her biological brother in her heart. She thought that there might be separation in this life, but she never thought that it would be death.
At first, we joked about traveling around the world together, seeing all the mountains and rivers, eating and drinking until we were old. The jokes are still in our ears, but this person has withered.
"Weituo, you have to live, do you hear me? You have to live!" Zi Nu said sharply.
Wei Tuo struggled to open his mouth wide to breathe in the air, but his vision became increasingly blurry. The purple slave in front of him was like a dream and a mist.
With a regretful smile on his lips, Wei Tuo sighed softly: "Your Highness...Actually, I, I treat you..."
Zi Nu looked at him with tears.
Wei Tuo stopped abruptly mid-sentence.
The words that had been buried for half my life could not be uttered after all.
She already has a good match, so why tell her and make her feel guilty for half her life and disturb her peace for the rest of her life.
Those feelings that come back thousands of times can only be replaced by a "that's it".
Looking at her reluctantly for the last time, Wei Tuo slowly closed his eyes with a smile on his face.
It's hard to be happy with each other in this life, but there are no regrets.
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Ganjingzhuang.
Li Zhi came suddenly.
Ever since Li Qinzai said that it was possible to solve the people's hunger problem, Li Zhi had trouble sleeping and eating. He had not slept well for the past few days. He looked forward to it in Tai Chi Palace every day, hoping to hear the good news from Li Qinzai.
However, as the days passed, the city of Chang'an was turbulent, the courtiers were restless, and Nestorianism was secretly making trouble.
Li Zhi finally couldn't bear it anymore. He hated this kind of passive waiting.
So he decided to leave the palace incognito and went straight to Ganjing Village.
There was a faint expectation in his heart. He hoped that he could witness some important and great moment with his own eyes.
At the blocked village entrance, with the performance of Li Sujie, the Nestorian believers had already dispersed in droves.
The news was also sent to Li Zhi. Of course, Li Zhi also listened to the guard's truthful report as to whether Li Sujie was injured.
This son was a bit over the top, but I have to say that he did give Li Zhi a good reason.
They raided the county prince's courtyard and assassinated the prince. The crazier Nestorianism became, the closer it was to its destruction.
In Chang'an City, Xu Jingzong was making plans. He just waited for Li Qinzai to settle down and the day came to liquidate Nestorianism.
(End of chapter)
