Xianyang Bridge

Chapter 41

You have never killed anyone, what are you going to do? "

"I can protect you, I'm good at martial arts," the young man said to Qi Shaoshang, "Isn't it, big brother?"

Qi Shaoshang shook his head and said perfunctorily, "It's okay."

Lei Yun heard looking at Xiao Qi with his beautiful eyes, and said, "Look, the eldest brother also said that I am okay."

"Cough..." Qi Shaoshang coughed, went to see Gu Xichao, Gu Xichao said to Xiaoqi, "You decide for yourself, we are going on the road."

After walking for a while, Lei Yun suddenly caught up, ran to Gu Xichao's side and said quickly, "I'm sorry."

Gu Xichao was startled, the boy turned his horse's head and ran away after speaking, as if he had done something shameful, Gu Xichao called him, "Lei Yun!"

The young man turned his head slowly, Gu Xichao paused, and said to him, "I'm sorry."

Lei Yun pursed his lips and shook his head, "I'm leaving!"

After finishing speaking, he flicked his horsewhip and shouted, "Xiaoqi, wait for me!"

Lei Yun has a very beautiful face, very similar to his dead father, Gu Xichao no longer remembers which of the two young men he killed was Lei Teng and which was Lei Pao, watching Lei Yun catch up with Xiao Seventh, the two teenagers walked away together, and he whispered again, "I'm sorry."

Qi Shaoshang saw that he was looking at the backs of Xiao Qi and Lei Yun, and came over and said, "Young eagles will always fly to the sky, and they also have their own rivers and lakes, so don't worry about it."

Gu Xichao looked at him, "You raised Lei Yun well, and he will definitely be a hero like you in the future.

45

It was the end of September when everyone from Leijiazhuang arrived at Fengling Ferry, and the weather was getting colder as we went north. As soon as we crossed the river, Gu Xichao saw Deng Shifang who was distributing cotton clothes at the ferry. , greeted him and said excitedly, "I saw you again, your eyes are healed? It's great!"

"I'm also very happy to see Lord Deng Banner again," Gu Xichao said, "What are you doing?"

Deng Shifang saw him looking at the cotton-padded clothes piled up behind him, and said, "The leader told me to prepare it. The leader said that the clothes you brought from the south might not be thick enough. Let's go north now. It's snowing over there now. I'm afraid Everyone was freezing, and Lao He and I ran to many places to buy them all."

Gu Xichao was grateful in his heart, and asked, "Where's the leader?"

Deng Shifang said, "The leader is in the town ahead, and Luo San and his people are making food for everyone."

After he finished speaking, he looked behind Gu Xichao and asked, "Master, where's Little Seventh Master? Is his injury better? Lao He and I are very worried, and the leader is also very worried."

Gu Xichao said, "He's going to kill Guo Jing, it might take a while, Lord Deng Banner don't have to worry, he went with his helper."

After listening to Deng Shifang, he said, "This child is really impatient, and he didn't wait for the injury to heal, so he only took care of it for a few days..."

Uncle He was still busy with crossing the river, Gu Xichao said a few more words to Deng Shifang, and seeing someone looking for him, he bid farewell to him and went to wait for Qi Shaoshang by the river.

Qi Shaoshang was still on the other side, waiting for the last person to get on the boat before returning. Before reaching the shore, he saw Gu Xichao standing on the pier. It took them a whole day to cross the river, and it was already dark when the last boat came back. Shaoshang got off the boat and went straight to him, saying, "The wind here is so strong that you don't have to worry about getting a headache, why don't you go see the leader first?"

Gu Xichao said, "I'm not just paper, I'm afraid of some wind blowing, the leader is still far away from here, I'll wait for you to go there together."

Qi Shaoshang saw that his mouth was stiff, so he stopped talking and dragged him away from the air.Although the poison on his body was cured, he didn't use a serious method after all, and left a lot of messy little problems. If Qi Shaoshang didn't see it himself, he wouldn't say it, just like he doesn't admit it now. In Qi Dadao's family, he is a generous person, so he doesn't care about it.

It was already late when the two arrived in town, and the leader of the inn was feeding Lao Huang. Seeing them coming, he said, "Did you have a hard time on the road?"

"It's not hard," Gu Xichao sat down opposite him, and said, "Lu Li went back to Southern Border, and the one who went back lying in the coffin was all because of me."

Qi Shaoshang took Lao Huang over, glanced at him, and the leader said, "That's his own choice, don't take it to heart."

"I didn't bring Xiaoqi back either." Gu Xichao said.

The leader poured two cups of tea for them, "Children will always have their own way to go when they grow up. I have already prepared it. If there is anything else that bothers me, I will say it together. After listening to it, I will feel at ease."

Gu Xichao took the tea and gave it to Qi Shaoshang, holding it and said, "It's gone."

The leader looked at his face, then looked at Qi Shaoshang, "Why haven't I seen it in a few months and become so annoying, who did you learn from?"

Gu Xichao drank the tea and stood up, "The leader thinks I hate it, so I'll leave first."

Qi Shaoshang hadn't drunk his tea yet, he had already arrived at the door, the leader turned his back and said, "Xiao Gu, welcome back."

Gu Xichao paused, then turned to Qi Shaoshang and said, "Aren't you going?"

Qi Shaoshang looked puzzled, "I'll have a cup of tea with the leader."

"Then you drink." He said and left.

Seeing him go, Lao Huang spread his wings and flew out. Qi Shaoshang touched his arms and sat down opposite the leader, saying, "Old Huang's strength is really getting stronger and stronger."

The leader made tea for him again, and said, "Hero Qi, do you have something to say?"

Qi Shaoshang said, "I have brought so many people to bother the leader, so I have to say thank you."

The leader smiled, "I don't know if Xiao Gu has told you that our Mingjiao has always advocated punishing evil, promoting good and benefiting the world and helping the people. It is also a merit to help Leijiazhuang and Qi Daxia. It would be too polite to say thank you." gone."

Qi Shaoshang nodded, "The leader is indeed merciful."

"Don't dare to take it." The leader looked at him, picked up the tea and blew, knowing that he must have something else to say later, and sure enough, Qi Shaoshang said, "There is something I have always wanted to know, but he refused to tell me. Give Ping Luan Jue to Gu Xichao, what did he promise the leader?"

"So it's about this," the leader looked at the young man in front of him, put down the tea, and said, "I gave him Ping Luan Jue, and he also asked me what conditions I wanted."

"I said there are no conditions, as long as he is willing to stay."

"I said that I treated him as a national soldier, and I hope he can also treat me as a national soldier."

Seeing that Qi Shaoshang was still looking at him, the leader spread his hands, "It's gone."

"I understand." Qi Shaoshang stood up, seemed a little anxious, and said to the leader, "Thank you, leader!"

Seeing him rushing out the door, the leader boiled water slowly, thank me, thank me for telling him, or thank me for the people who ordered him?

Qi Shaoshang came out and inquired all the way to find Gu Xichao's room. He knocked several times before he opened it. Gu Xichao thought there was something urgent, and he hugged him when he entered the door. Luo San just walked by outside and winked at Gu Xichao. She glanced a dozen times, then turned her head vigorously and pretended she didn't see anything, Gu Xichao closed the door with her feet expressionlessly, rolled her eyes, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Qi Shaoshang looked at him loosely and said, "Let me see that idiot who was coaxed to die with just one word."

He said that the battle in Taniguchi Village was not dangerous, that he would not set himself up for death, that a friend could sacrifice his life, that the leader was even more powerful, and that the word "national scholar" might be enough for him to go through fire and water.

The brigade rested in the town for two days before officially embarking on the road to the north. Mu Jiuping searched for four or five days at Mingjiao, and brought Lin Qing and Lin Qian back. Seeing him smiling at the two children, Qi Shao Shang said in surprise, "I didn't expect that the old bastard would be really kind to these two children."

Gu Xichao watched him hug Lin Qian and lead Lin Qing from a distance, and lowered his head to talk to them, and said softly, "Even a hero has a love for his sons and daughters."

After walking north for more than a month, they turned west. Two months later, Xiaoqi and Lei Yun came back to see Gu Xichao, "He is dead."

"Well, tell me." Gu Xichao asked him to sit down and poured him a cup of hot tea.

Outside Lei Yun was also muttering something to Qi Shaoshang, Xiao Qi glanced outside, then turned around and said, "When we arrived at the capital, the Jin army had already surrounded the city, Lei Yun and I couldn't get in, so we Wait outside the city."

"After waiting for less than ten days, one day the Jin army was mobilized and all went to Xuanhuamen. Lei Yun and I followed, and found that the gate of Xuanhuamen was wide open, and there were no defenders around. Instead, thousands of godly men pretending to be ghosts came out. We I didn't know what was going on, so they didn't get close. Later, these gods were killed by the Jin army and fled into the city. The Jin army thought it was a fraud, so they didn't chase. Yun saw it, and the two of us went after him."

"I chased him for two days and killed him at the foot of Mount Mang. When I came back, I heard that the Jin army entered the city through Xuanhua Gate and broke through the capital."

"..." Gu Xichao didn't know whether to sneer or sneer, "Liu Jia Fa is a trick to deceive people, it's okay to use it to deceive people, but it's used to retreat soldiers? Is everyone blind?"

"Any other news?"

Xiao Qi said, "When I came back across the river, I met the messenger from Taiyuan asking for help from the capital. It was Mo Lin. Lei Yun and I arrested him. He said that Taiyuan had been besieged by the Jin Army's West Route Army for two months. He ran away with the Shengjie army, Gou Feng was helping Zhang Xiaochun defend the city, if Taiyuan is broken, the Central Plains is in danger, he begged us not to kill him, let him return to the capital to ask for reinforcements."

"We let him go."

"Young master..." Xiao Qi hesitated to speak, "We saw a lot on the road, and many people died... very miserable."

Gu Xichao was silent for a while, then patted him on the shoulder, and said, "I'm glad you all came back safely, we still have so many people who need protection, we can't take care of so many, let's continue to go to Guangmingding."

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It was the spring of the second year when they arrived at Guangmingding. They walked on the road for more than half a year. There are several lakes and valleys around them with rich water and grass.