Prologue
Children in the village
When facing the breeze, facing the bright moon, climbing the mountain and floating on the water, singing freely, and the clouds are happy to know the joy.
There are three or four boys on a boat, talking and laughing, slapping and playing. If the boat was not narrow, I would have to chase it. I am happy, but when the moon rises to the treetops, a group of children paddling the boat, where do they want to go and what to do? Looking back along the water, you can vaguely see a small village scattered by the water, accompanied by a few lights, muttering between half asleep and half awake. When you take a long distance, you can't hear it clearly.
"Asura, why are you being depressed? Play with everyone?" A pink little girl shook the "depressed" little boy. The little boy didn't say anything. She just smiled and shook her head, maybe she wanted to say something, but when the little girl saw him shook her head, she immediately "hummed" and turned elsewhere, but she didn't give him a chance to "open the mouth".
"You think Asura is a mute? I heard that he didn't cry when he was born. Has anyone ever heard him speak in the past few years?" A timid child whispered to the child next to him.
"Huzi, just talk nonsense. Asura is a little bored, and he can't say he's mute." The little girl got angry.
"Okay, Xue'er, I'm afraid of you, so I won't say anything." Hu Zi turned his head to Asura, "Hey, you're so stupid, you're talking to you, oh, ah, ah, ah, ah," the little girl pinched Hu Zi's words back. Hu Zi's grin and danced with her hands made a burst of laughter.
"We have to hurry up. If we can't go back before dawn, it will be bad if our parents find out." A thin little boy silenced as he spoke, and he could imagine how fierce his parents were.
"Xue'er, oh, let it go, okay, didn't you hear Zhugan say it?" Huzi begged for mercy, and a boy scout landed "magnificently". Zhugan was looking forward to the road. Huzi rubbed his ears while muttering something. Xue'er looked at Asura with a winning smile on his face. The dull gourd was really well-known. The three of them were so lively that they pretended not to see it and never said a word. Just when the little girl stretched out her jade hand to be upright, she saw Huzi making a gesture of silence. Zhugan seemed to have found something terrible, and her little face was so horrified.
Wolf howl? The old man in the village said that snow wolf usually comes out of the forest if he doesn't eat it in the coldest days. It's midsummer. Why are there wolves here? No matter one or a group, it's not good news for these childish explorers. What to do, what to do? Zhugan looked at Huzi, Huzi looked at Xueer, but Xueer didn't look at anyone, trembling. Asura - the dull gourd is really worthy of his name. The three of them were afraid of being like this. They didn't notice it or say nothing. Just when Xueer thought he was dazed and stretched out his little hand to pull him, he held her back and ran all the way. Huzi and Zhugan didn't know what Asura meant, so they had to follow him. The group ran in silence. When they finally stopped panting, they were already in a cave.
"Isn't this cave the ghost cave we are going to explore?" Hu Zi found out the situation and really escaped from the wolf's mouth and entered the ghost cave again, and he didn't know whether it was a blessing or a disaster.
"Anyway, I'm here, go in and take a look." When Zhugan heard the adventure, he immediately became energetic. He jumped and wanted to go deep into the cave, but was pulled. "Don't let me stop you? If you are timid, stay, stay." Hearing this, Zhugan didn't know who was so scared that his face turned pale.
"Wait a minute, what Asura means is to block the entrance of the cave." Xueer saw Asura moving stones to the entrance of the cave and knew the intention. "Why should we go out if we block it? Asura, you are so scared, aren't you?" Zhugan felt that he had lost face and was a little reluctant. "Pig head, block it first and prevent the wolf from coming in. Just move it away when we are about to go out." Huzi knocked on the bamboo pole hard, but the bamboo pole didn't say anything. Fortunately, the entrance of the cave was not big, and the stones were blocked after moving for a while. He thought that even if there were still some small gaps, there were no need to worry about the "big creature" like a wolf coming in.
I don’t know if it was a psychological effect or the “fortifications” that could only cover their eyes, but the wolf howls were much less. What should I do next? Listening to the heavy breathing of the bamboo pole, I knew that he was probably proposing to take a break, while others used silence and meditation to express their controversy. The thick darkness was like a ghost who had just woken up and began to oppress everyone’s nerves, step by step, little by little, a trace of slow licking the fragrance of fear. As Xueer’s screams kept struggling to get rid of the shackles of her throat, a ball of light completely shattered its fighting spirit.
Asura stood up with a torch made of wooden branches and rags, and his concerned eyes were cast towards Xueer with the gentle fire. He found that her little face, which had just turned white due to fright, began to slowly rosy. He changed his eyes and swept towards the bamboo pole, and finally stopped on Hu Zi's face. Obviously, the leader of this expedition was Hu Zi, so he should have proposed the next move.
Hu Zi was brave and stood up and wanted to walk deep into the cave, but he didn't know when his ears fell into Xueer's claws.
"What do you want to do?"
"Go in and take a look, didn't you agree before?" Hu Zi's eyes were filled with "You idiot", but the pain immediately came from his ears really told him who is the idiot. "Oh, oh, then what do you think you should do now, do whatever you say, let it go first?"
"At that time, you and Zhugan didn't say there were wolves here. If you had known this danger, you wouldn't come to anything! Look out from the pile of stones. If the wolf leaves, we will go home!" The little girl swept around with unquestionable eyes. With Hu Zi's appearance, Zhugan swallowed different ideas and saliva into her stomach. However, Asura seemed to be interested in the dark cave, and the torch pointed to the darkness in the distance with his eyes.
Xue'er was unhappy and was about to show her power to the dull and ignorant of the current affairs. Unexpectedly, the stone pile made a rustling sound, as if something was squeezing the stone.
Did the wolf follow me? Everyone looked at the gap between the pile of stones, as if something was really shaking. The bamboo pole couldn't help it, and rushed to the cave in the dark with a "good" sound, completely ignoring the torch in Asura's hands. Without the torch, it would only rush around like blind eyes. If you were lucky - the next scream and rolling sound of the bamboo pole announced the fact that he was not lucky.
Hu Zi immediately became anxious, "Bamboo, bamboo pole, what's wrong with you?" Seeing that there was no echo for a while, he immediately touched the cave. Asura followed closely with a torch. Xueer had no better choice but to follow. The group walked towards the depths of the cave, gradually blurring in the darkness. He didn't know what was waiting for in front of him.
The general on the road
Two miles outside the "Ghost Cave", a cavalry team of more than ten people galloped. The horses were wearing gray-yellow leather armor, and the people were wearing gray-yellow clothing. The dust was flying. If it weren't for the eyes of the horse, the whole body was filled with a bitter breath, and it looked like sand and dust dancing with the wind. After a few breaths, it was already a hundred meters away. Even such a good horse, and at such a speed, did not recover the thoughts of the horses.
"Why haven't you come back yet?" His voice was calm and he showed a hint of majesty. With the respectful manners and attitudes of the people around him, this should be the person in charge, right?
"Return to the general, maybe there was an accident." This person was a little absent-minded. Maybe he was usually very casual. Almost everyone didn't realize it was wrong. The reason why he used "almost" was because a rude voice roared, shocked, "His grandma, brother is not alive, you are still heartless here!", "Yoyo, I'm not satisfied with roaring, and I'm still ready to move the guy." It was still casual, so the atmosphere suddenly became cold, and I was about to perform the full martial arts movement.
"Come here", the general wants to issue an order, but no one dares to move. The loud voice covered with beard hums unhappily. The casual man smiled and turned from the horse to the general. Judging from his handsome skills, the loud voice may not be able to do anything to him.
"I'm here!"
"Go quickly and return quickly!"
"Get orders!" After saying that, I rode my horse, and there was only dust flying in front of everyone. I didn't expect that Brother Sanman was also a good player to drive the horse!
"General, that bastard is so annoying, can it work? I'd better ask me to follow me?"
"Oh, are you worried that Yichen will be surprised?"
"What, why, I'm not, no, no, oh, general, I'm not afraid of that bastard." Obviously, the loud voice is not as sharp as the voice, and the clumsy mouth is so stupid that it's red and red. With the look of scratching the ears and whispering, oh, and the gray-yellow leather armor and beard on the face are like a big horse monkey. People around you were so excited that they laughed, but the current situation needs to be serious, so they had to pursed their lips and tried to hold it in.
The general looked at the people around him trembling immediately, laughed first, and nodded in a loud voice, "With you and Yichen, you should be sure to find Li Junhou, put safety first, don't do anything, otherwise."
"I don't do anything, why don't I eat the general's board!" The voice came, but the man and the horse were gone. It seemed that although the loud voice had a big quarrel with Brother Sanman, the feelings in his heart were still very deep.
The general and the rest of the troops continued to move forward speechless, but it was obvious that everyone except the general was confused - what was the mission this time, but it was just that looking for a knife requires the general to lead the team, and several military marquises. Although it was midsummer at this time, I was not worried about Jiuhong's attack, but it was a bit unreasonable to leave the defense and come to this remote small place inexplicably? Li Junhou is in trouble. Why is the general like a person? Could it be that the general knows something?
The further you go, the more you think, but no one asks you. It seems that these people have a kind of instinctive trust in the general. It may also be because there is a hole blocked by a stone in front of you. This hole is the "ghost hole" to find a knife. Who blocked it with a stone? He also used such a small stone? Who should block it outside the hole? There are wreckage of torches burned out on the ground, as well as traces of blood and fragments of clothes. What should have happened that the person who wants to enter the hole failed?
It was better to do it. One person dismounted, and with the general's acquiesce, he was about to push the stone into the hole. Just as he was about to take action, he heard the sound of horse hooves. It was Feng Yichen and Yun Leili, the two military marquises, were back. But he saw Feng Yichen with no idea, Yun Leili walked over with two children on his face. Both of them were soaked and the horse disappeared. What happened to the sound of horse hooves just now?
Things always have to be resolved one by one. The general looked at the wet two people, "Can you see Li Junhou?"
"I have never seen you when I return to the general," Feng Yichen replied after saluting.
"What's going on with these kids?"
"General, just say that, Feng Junhou is in the way. When I rushed over, I happened to see someone riding a horse and want to chase him. But he didn't know that he not only didn't chase him but also jumped into the water to catch these four wild children who came from somewhere to fight." Yun Leili roared unwillingly, and at the same time he stared at Feng Yichen, who had already recovered from his scattered appearance.
"General, when Mo General arrived, he saw several men in black throwing these children into the water and driving them away. If Mo General chased them, it is unknown whether they could catch them. It is better to save these children first, maybe they know something." When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized that it was reasonable and turned their eyes to the four unconscious children.
Three boys and one girl, who should be about ten years old. What is strange is that there are two boys holding something in their hands. When they approached, everyone was shocked. One boy was holding a knife, which was about three feet long. The blade was black. There was a silver-toned word "War" near the hilt. Could it be that this is the knife we were looking for this time? The other boy was holding it, which looked very bright, but it was too broken. It was not rust, but something was chiseled. The blade was folded and covered with potholes. If it weren't for the hilt, it would be hard to recognize that this thing was actually a knife. What is strange is that there was a vague word "War" on this ragged thing! It's a bit difficult to deal with. Which one is?
"It's important to save people. There should be a village nearby. Let's find out whose children are!"
"Yes, General." After everyone saluted, they quickly scattered. Only Feng Yichen and Yun Leili were the two military marquises, and of course, there were four unconscious children.
"Why don't you go?"
"General, do you have to do this?" Feng Yichen tentatively.
"Don't leave any troubles!" The general said firmly and without doubt.
"I'm going!", "I'm going!", the two military marquises left like lightning, melting into the pale moonlight.
"It's hard to break your life," the general sighed in a low voice, looking up at the moon, as if he wanted the gray clouds floating by, muttering themselves, but he didn't notice that a boy's ears trembled at this moment.
The city lord of Yuncheng
Cangzhou has 12 counties, 98 counties, and Yuncheng. It is the capital of nine thousand and blocks of sand and dust in the west. The five heroic passes in the world account for three of them. How many passionate men are buried here? There is a saying that "A hero who is old in Yuguan, only one rider laughs at the dust."
Chapter completed!