After leaving Changyang, Xu Mu did not dare to delay any longer. He asked Si Hu to rush the carriage, and then hurried forward along the exit of the canal.
"My boss, that should be over there." Wei Feng rode back, his voice urgent with his face red from the cold.
"Wei Feng, block the passers-by."
Changyang has temporarily closed the city. It is two or three miles away. In such a situation, there should be no officers and soldiers coming.
Xu Mu took the long rope, regardless of the slippery frost and snow, jumped out of the carriage and ran to the edge of a pond in a few steps.
"Brother Mu, this hero is dead."
On the edge of the pool, a frozen Xia'er corpse lay stiffly in the shallow water, lifeless.
For no reason, Xu Mu felt a pain in his heart. He simply strode into the pool, not even bothering to roll up the sleeves of his robe, and stretched his hands into the freezing cold water.
"Si Hu, get a stick."
Taking the stick, Xu Mu gritted his teeth and walked a few more steps into the pool. He stabbed the stick into the depths of the water several times. Sure enough, he dug out a corpse with dense arrows on his body. Also lifeless.
Under this situation, Xu Mu became more and more uneasy. Just as he was about to put away the stick and change direction, he suddenly found that the stick sank.
When he looked up, he felt happy.
Half of his master, the fox swordsman Zhuge Fan, was shivering from the cold, his lips were swollen and he couldn't speak, but he was holding the stick tightly with one hand.
"Si Hu, carry him into the carriage."
Staying in the pool, Xu Mu took a stick and poked for about half an hour, but only two corpses emerged. Then he sighed silently and carried the corpses to the roadside woods with a few young men. A good burial.
"Let's go back to Zhuangzi first." Xu Mu endured the cold and placed the hand stove beside Zhuge Fan to bake it. After it was slightly dry, he took a dry robe and put it on for him.
When Xu Mu looked at Zhuge Fan's old cold legs that were frozen black, he paused and remained silent for a long time.
Not even the Great Luo Immortal can save this leg.
"My boss, if this senior didn't know how to hold his breath, he would probably have died in the pond."
One of the six masters in the inner city, God knows how he could do such a stupid thing, ambush hundreds of people and kill thousands of knights, isn't this looking for death?
It was about two hours before the carriage left Horseshoe Lake. Under the warm environment, Zhuge Fan finally woke up leisurely enough.
When I opened my eyes, I saw Xu Mu for the first time. He had a helpless smile on his old face.
Xu Mu glanced at it speechlessly, took a bowl of hot soup from the side, fed Zhuge Fan and drank it slowly.
"If I hadn't happened to come to Changyang, your old bones would have frozen to death in the pond."
"I discovered you when you were shooting arrows." After drinking the hot soup, Zhuge Fan shivered a few times, then put his hand on the Huolu Mountain and grilled it slowly.
But after only roasting for a while, he suddenly remembered something. He hurriedly opened his robe and took a look, his face suddenly lost.
"No wonder, I can't feel anything in this leg."
"You shouldn't go to Changyang to assassinate the Beidi envoy."
"The news is wrong... I and these people should have been betrayed." Zhuge Fan rubbed his eyes, "The first news I gave was that there were two hundred envoys from Beidi. Moreover, someone would send all the officers and soldiers to the imperial forest. Turn it on."
"Who gave the news?"
Zhuge Fan hesitated and finally did not answer.
"Don't ask about this. I've heard some things about you these days and I feel very happy." After changing the subject, Zhuge Fan's pale face turned rosy.
"I told you not to be a passer-by. It seems that you are no longer a passer-by."
"It's just a matter of survival."
The water on the stove was boiling again. Xu Mu turned around, helped Zhuge Fan pour another bowl, and tore two pieces of chopped ginger into it.
"My little boss, how about you give me a horse?"
"Where are you going."
"Twenty miles away, I have an old friend——"
"If you had an old friend, you should have come to the rescue long ago." Xu Mu sighed, "Even if you want to ride a horse, you can't ride it. Why don't you come back to Zhuangzi with me first and recover from your injuries before talking about it."
"I am an old hero..."
"There are also heroes in my village."
Xu Mu raised his head with a serious expression, "I don't care about anything else. You taught me the three sword techniques. These three sword techniques also saved me from danger. Although I, Xu Mu, am incompetent, I know that I will repay my kindness. reason."
"You know even if I don't tell you, your leg is probably gone... You are old and without a leg, where can you go?"
"Stay in Zhuangzi and take care of yourself. If you live a comfortable life and don't want to leave, the worst I can do is to see you through."
Zhuge Fan was speechless and choked.
"You are so old, how can you learn how to fight for your life? If my arrow doesn't break, you may be surrounded and you won't be able to escape even with your wings."
"I had a death wish at that time, but I felt that I would not give up until I killed the traitor, so I simply thought about escaping."
"Drink ginger soup."
Holding the ginger soup in his arms, Zhuge Fan drank two gulps, his eyes a little red.
"The ginger soup is too strong and it hurts my eyes."
Xu Mu was too lazy to tell the truth. He hesitated and decided to look at Zhuge Fan's right leg again. When he found that he had secretly pinched his leg several times, Zhuge Fan showed no expression.
Suddenly, there was a pang of regret in my heart.
"General Di Ren, do you know who he is?"
"who is it?"
After Zhuge Fan's words, Xu Mu recalled that the golden sword of Guli King Huyange seemed to have fallen into the hands of the Di Ren general.
"Hu Yanche, the eldest son of King Li of Beidi Valley. Hearing that his old father was killed at the border, he volunteered to be an envoy."
"He wants revenge?" Xu Mu rubbed Zhuge Fan's old legs and sneered. No wonder, thinking that the golden sword was redeemed, it is understandable that the legacy of father is inherited by son.
"He must have wanted to take revenge. He took five thousand Di dogs as envoys. After crossing Hezhou, he immediately started and slaughtered half of Monan Town."
Xu Mu's rubbing movement stopped suddenly, his eyes filled with astonishment.
"Since he is an envoy, he should be monitored by a large army of soldiers accompanying him. How could he massacre Monan Town?"
"What if the Daji dog officers and soldiers who were watching turned a blind eye? Or maybe Huyanche gave him a lot of money and treasure and bought it?"
"Just to vent your anger?" Xu Mu gritted his teeth.
"It should be that he killed at least tens of thousands of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled along the way. Moreover, he also left four thousand people outside Laoguan. With only a thousand cavalry, he could still kill He had no scruples, and it is said that he built three temples in Beijing with human heads to commemorate his dog father.”
"Officers..."
"The officers and soldiers are watching, and they are more likely to be laughing. So, what kind of rotten world is this. Let me put it bluntly, if this Huyan car returns to the Beidi grassland safely, we heroes in the Central Plains should just lose our face. Cut it off."
"Also, I heard that the famous general Li Poshan seemed to have died in his hands. During the Yongguan Pass, Di Gou was the pioneer in breaking through the pass."
Xu Mu was stunned again, and then raised his head coldly.
"There was information earlier that Huyanche will return to Beidi in about four days. As long as I am still breathing, I can't bear it and have to-"
"I'll go." Xu Mu said in a deep voice. It was not a moment of anger, but under such circumstances, he needed to do something, for the young marquis, for Zhuge Fan, for the dead famous general Li Poshan, or for Monan Town and Erqianli. On the way to escape, thousands of people came to kill him.
In the carriage, Zhuge Fan opened his eyes wide.
Outside the carriage, the wind and snow howled by, making the whole world feel chilly all of a sudden.
