Liangzhou, the cold wind is biting.
More than three hundred miles west, we are approaching the Gobi Desert. Although there will be no snow, the biting cold still makes people shiver.
"You just stay here, I'll go and come back." Dong Wen, who was riding a horse and carrying a war bow, ordered coldly.
The more than a thousand personal guards accompanying him received military orders and began to camp on the spot.
Riding alone, braving the cold weather, Dong Wen headed deep into the desert with a sullen face.
After a long time, he almost forgot the way. Fortunately, those reference objects that had not changed, such as dead trees and broken walls, finally led him to get familiar with them.
That year, I was about twelve or thirteen years old. Because he couldn't get citrus fruits, as a young man, he was reported by the slaves after just making some small talk in the room, and was almost killed by the bitch old princess.
In order to avoid disaster, he had no choice but to run out of Liangzhou City and follow the desert, moving forward without knowing whether to live or die.
Until, he met his archery teacher.
Wolf Arrow Baili Bear.
Shuzhou has great power and is pressing forward step by step. After the death of military advisor Sima Xiu, he sat in the palace every day and began to become restless.
Finally figured out a way.
If the civilian thief suddenly dies at this time... Shuzhou is in turmoil, then Liangzhou may regain the two border cities as quickly as possible, and then engulf Shuzhou.
Of course, assassins must be cautious in their affairs. No matter how much waste is hired, it will not help.
Therefore, Dong Wen thought of Baili Xiong. His teacher's bow skills were the best in several states in the west, and he was indeed the best candidate to hide and kill the common thieves.
He did not ride the horse again. In order to make his posture more downcast, Dong Wen stooped slightly and shed a lot of tears before he lifted his steps and walked deeper into the desert.
About two hours later, until his entire body was covered in sand and dust, Dong Wen finally saw a familiar small stone forest ahead.
In the stone forest, there is a simple stone house with fire smoke rising through the chimney.
"Teacher, teacher! Disciple Dong Wen wants to see you!"
"I, Dong Wen... am ashamed to meet my master."
In the stone house, after a long time, an old man with a strong back and a strong back stepped out, carrying a wolf tendon bow. Hidden in the white hair is a pair of cold eyes, which are better than the cold of winter.
When he got closer, Dong Wen knelt on the ground and burst into tears.
"Disciple Dong Wen, please pay homage to your master."
"I wanted to see the teacher last year, but Shuzhou bullied me into taking the throne because I was young and wanted to devour Liangzhou. If not, I should have come to see the teacher long ago, wuwu."
The old man with the bow was a little moved, and stretched out his hand to help Dong Wen up.
"This year's war has just ended. Shu and Shuzhou have occupied two more cities on our border. Next year, we will launch the Northern Expedition. I, Dong Wen, am afraid that I will die in the battle of Shuzhou to conquer Liang and never see my teacher again. So, even now, The howling winter snow cannot stop me from coming to visit the teacher."
"I know that Teacher likes to eat pill powder, so I brought some more this time."
Dan San is something that the alchemy emperor of the Ji Dynasty worked with the alchemists. It is said that eating it can prolong life. Of course, as time goes by, not many people believe these words.
Baili Xiong took a few porcelain bottles, his face became loose.
"After paying my respects to the teacher, I will return to Liangzhou City." Dong Wen raised his face and returned to the look of the little crybaby he used to be.
"If after the spring begins, the war is unlucky and Liangzhou falls, I will die in the battle. Please, teacher, take care of yourself."
"Yi Xiao, enter the house first." Baili Xiong sighed and spoke. In this life, he only accepted Dong Wen as his disciple and taught him everything he had. However, after Dong Wen became the King of Liang, he was a little angry when he didn't come to visit him for a long time.
But now it seems...it doesn't seem to be this disciple's problem.
"How dare you disturb the teacher's Qing Xiu."
"I told you, go into the house first. I have been in the northwest for more than twenty years. I can make decisions for you about big things!"
Dong Wen was still sobbing. When he stood up, he pressed his hand tightly on his abdomen.
Baili Xiong frowned, opened Dong Wen's robe, and found a sword mark.
"What? Are you injured in the battle?"
Suddenly, Dong Wen's cry became even more miserable.
"Teacher, I don't know. The civilian thieves in Shuzhou use all possible means. A few days ago, they sent a dozen knight assassins to take advantage of my unpreparedness and seriously injured me with one blow."
"I also wanted to fight back, but I never thought that in the huge Liangzhou, there would be no one who could be an assassin."
"I, Dong Wen, am ashamed of my teacher's teachings."
In fact, the wound was self-inflicted. This cruel trick is just to make Baili Xiong jump into his plan.
As Dong Wen expected, Baili Xiong narrowed his eyes coldly after listening to Dong Wen's words.
"Although I have been in the desert for a long time, I have heard a lot about you recently. You suffered a series of defeats, were bullied by the Shu people, and even broke a Lianghu."
"Besides, if you want to find an assassin, why don't you come to me? Don't forget, I have been in the northwest for more than 20 years, and I have no rival."
"No matter what, you are also my only disciple of Langjian... I will prepare for a trip to Shu in the next few days."
Dong Wen suppressed his ecstasy, with a look of shock on his face, "Teacher, you absolutely must not do this. I, Dong Wen, am a righteous and filial person, and I know my righteousness and my filial piety. How can I let my teacher risk his life and enter Shu!"
"You also said that there is no one in Liangzhou who can be an assassin. In this case, I will go out personally this time."
"Common people in the world, right? You dare to bully my disciples and Liangzhou! I can kill his head with just one arrow."
Dong Wen cried even more bitterly, kneeling and worshiping.
"Don't forget, I, Baili Xiong, am also a Liangren. Who dares to humiliate me after hundreds of years in Liangren Town? Yixiao, you stay here. In a few days at most, I shot and killed the civilian thief and left Chengdu. I’ll drink meat and wine and come back to drink with you!”
"Borrow a horse!"
Armed with a wolf tendon bow, a short sword, and riding on Dong Wen's horse, Baili Xiong charged into the cold wind.
"Teacher, if something cannot be done, return quickly!"
Dong Wen raised his face, raised his hand in disgust, and wiped away his tears. When Simiao was still alive, he said that he would never be a crybaby again in this life.
But he never thought that under the pressing pressure of the civilian thief, he would cry and do it again.
"The commoner thief shall die!"
In the cold wind, Dong Wen's entire face looked extremely ferocious for a moment.
…
Shuzhou, in the palace.
The bow dog who came back from the patrol sat silently in the corner, wiping the small iron bow in his hand. The small iron bow was made with Master Tie's help. Its archery power is much stronger than the previous small wooden bow.
"Xu Changgong, I want to compete with you in archery and compete for the title of the best archer in the world!" When entering the palace, several melon boys with snot in their noses were holding small wooden bows with crooked melons and cracked dates, and they were shouting with their necks strangled.
"Xu Changgong, you don't dare to accept the challenge. The title of the best archer in the world has been taken away from you... Hey, Brother Gou Fu, why are you beating me!"
"Han Goufu, don't live today! Look at my unrivaled bird-catching skills!"
"Oh, oh, mother, Brother Gou Fu is going to hit me."
…
The bow dog in the palace smiled innocently, lowered his head again, and continued to wipe the iron bow.
He was born a little hunchback and was abandoned by his parents. When he was young, he was so hungry that he competed with dogs for food and was caught and blinded in one eye. He only grew to ten years old. He probably caught and cooked too many snakes, and his hands suffered from numbness.
But even so, he never gave up, he just wanted to live, even if he was like a wild dog, he had to live. Just like the weed stalks that never die, once spring comes, the whole world becomes green.
In this life, the fate he could not escape did not knock him down. Instead, he stood up and grew into a Shuzhou general.
My name is Xu Changgong, the name given to me by my boss. I will only be a human being in this life, not a dog.
