Fenghou

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The thousand-stone passenger boat went northward along the canal without mooring at night. The eight boatmen were divided into two shifts, one to sleep and the other to rock the boat at night.

Chen Qing stood on the deck, looking at the dark houses on both sides of the river, everything was silent, only the sound of paddling water was heard.

It was dozens of miles away from Lin'an, and Chen Qing's heart gradually calmed down. Although this encounter only lasted three days, it had a huge impact on Chen Qing. Fear, and the courtiers betrayed the anti-gold generals for their own benefit.

What made Chen Qing feel even more chilling was the hypocrisy of the emperor Zhao Gou. Does he really care about the Queen Mother?In fact, otherwise, he knew very well that he would not be able to return to the Queen Mother. What Zhao Gou really cared about was the truce, peace negotiation, and flattering the Kingdom of Jin by betraying himself.

He was using this matter to express his position to Wan Yanchang, as long as Jin Guo is willing to negotiate a peace, everything can be discussed.

Fortunately, Zhao Gou was a monarch after all, and he didn't dare to go too far. After hundreds of thousands of people loudly opposed it, and after the court officials quickly changed their positions, he also had to give in and compromise.

Chen Qing looked at the silver medal in his hand. It was a medal or pennant similar to later generations. Under the moonlight, the four characters of "loyalty to the emperor and patriotism" on the silver medal were particularly dazzling.

This is his commendation for defeating Wanyan Huonu and dedicating the Golden Buddha of Shenzong to the emperor. Unfortunately, on the one hand, he is loyal to the emperor and patriotic, and on the other hand, he is handing him over to the Kingdom of Jin in exchange for the queen mother. Putting this matter together is too absurd and ironic.

A sneer of sarcasm appeared on the corner of Chen Qing's mouth, and he threw the silver medal into the water, and the four characters of "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism" were also submerged by the river.

The passenger ship has two cabins, one is the owner's cabin, and the other is the attendant cabin. The three servants of Huyan Mansion live in the attendant cabin.

The martial arts of these three servants are really good, and their names are also interesting. They are called Huyanjia, Huyanyi and Huyanding respectively. The Song Dynasty strictly prohibited slavery, but the rich and powerful families had their own ways of working around it. This is the law of the Song Dynasty.

In order to fight against this rule, the mistress recognized the servant girl as a goddaughter, and her status changed from a servant girl to a foster daughter, so she was not restricted by the law, but the adoptive daughter still did the work of a maidservant at home.

The same is true for the three generals of the Huyan family. He is obviously a domestic slave brought up by his master, but when he arrives, he signs an external contract with his master. Legitimate industry.

When Chen Qing returned to the cabin, the boss Hu Yanjia clasped his fists at the door and said, "General Chen, please rest early! We will keep watch at night, there will be no problem."

Chen Qing smiled slightly: "There is a horse riding team following us on the west bank, have you noticed?"

Hu Yanjia was startled, "Humble job didn't find out!"

"They followed us, about 30 steps away from the boat, and there were about [-] to [-] people in them. In addition, the lanterns hung on this boat were a bit strange and different. Ask them why and tell me tomorrow morning. "

"The villain obeys the order!"

Hu Yanjia went down, Chen Qing snorted, he knew that Zhao Gou would not let him go so easily, did he want Jin Bing to take his head halfway?

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At dawn the next day, when Chen Qinggang came out of the cabin, Hu Yanjia stepped forward and clasped his fists and said in a low voice, "The villain went to ask the boss of the ship, and he said that they are official ships, and the lanterns are special official ship lanterns, which are different from civilian ships. When a civilian ship encounters this kind of official ship lantern at night, it must pull aside to dodge."

After a pause, Hu Yanjia said again: "Why don't the villains ask him to replace the lanterns with ordinary civilian boat lanterns!"

"Don't worry about them, let them go."

Chen Qing knew very well that the reason why the people on the shore could follow him all the time was because of these special lanterns.

"Someone must attack the general on the way, why don't we go by land!" Hu Yanjia was very worried.

Chen Qing waved his hand, "Don't worry for now, the other party is not so quick to attack, I want to see where these people are ghosts?"

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After the passenger ship arrived at the Suzhou section, the number of ships in the canal became more and more dense, and it was not convenient to sail at night.

That night, the passenger ship arrived at the boundary of Changzhou. As usual, after two watch shifts, the boatmen all fell asleep.

Around four o'clock, Hu Yanyi was awakened by urinating, and got up to go to the side of the boat for convenience.

He trembled, and when he turned around to go back to the cabin, he unexpectedly found a gray figure walking quickly along the bedboard to the shore. The figure seemed to be the boatman on duty tonight.

Hu Yanyi instinctively touched his back, the knife was hanging on his buttocks, he was vigilant, seeing that the opponent's figure was about to disappear, he didn't have time to wake up his companions, and jumped after him.

There are forests on the shore in this area, and the other side of the forest is endless farmland.

Hu Yanyi sprinted in the woods, the branches on the ground were trampled!Click!After a while, he heard someone talking from the left, and he tiptoed to the west, pushing aside a branch, and saw a group of people.

The boatman just now was talking to this group of people, the leader of whom was a tall, thin, pale young man.

At this moment, Hu Yanyi suddenly felt a sharp pain in his left shoulder. When he turned his head, an arrow shot through his left shoulder.

Hu Yanyi was terrified, he rolled forward and drew his sword in his hand, only to realize that there were five knights behind him, armed with spears and bows, they had surrounded him.

Although they were wearing Han warrior uniforms, they looked fierce, and the Jurchens were clearly in their eyebrows.

Hu Yanyi knew something was wrong, he rushed to the left and rushed towards the Jurchen cavalry on the far left. As soon as the Jurchen cavalry urged their horses, they rushed forward with a spear in their hands, and stabbed at him fiercely.

Hu Yanyi dodged the spear and slashed at the horse's leg. The horse's front hooves were raised high and it roared loudly.

At this moment, two arrows 'swish' shot, Hu Yanyi dodged one arrow, the other hit his back heart, Huyan Yi screamed heart-piercingly, knelt down on one knee, and for a while The strong wind passed by him, and with a flash of cold light, Hu Yanyi's head flew a foot away.

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Chapter 1 Hunting

Huyan Jia sat up abruptly, in the dark, he touched his side, and Huyan Yi's seat was empty.

He kicked Hu Yanding awake, "Where did the second child go?"

"I don't know, it seems... to go to the toilet..." Hu Yanding said in a daze.

"not good!"

Hu Yanjia pulled out his knife and rushed out, but he was awakened by the scream of his second child.

Hu Yanding didn't dare to sleep anymore, he drew his knife and rushed out.

On the deck, Chen Qing was holding Fang Tian's painting halberd and staring at the woods on the bank.

"General, did you hear the screams too?"

Chen Qing nodded, "Not only the screams, but also the neighing of war horses and the startled flying of old birds, where is Hu Yanyi?"

Chen Qing found that one person was missing.

He went to the toilet at night and never came back.

Chen Qing's eyes were fixed, he jumped onto the board of the boat, ran to the woods, and shouted from a distance: "Leave one person to watch the boat!"

"Third brother, you stay and watch the boat!"

Hu Yanjia explained, and ran out with Chen Qing.

After running more than 100 steps, Chen Qing stopped, and Hu Yanjia stopped quickly.

"There was a fight here, and there was blood on the ground!"

Chen Qing pointed to the horseshoe prints on the ground, only then did Hu Yanjia see that the ground was stained with blood and the horseshoe prints were very messy.

"There are war horses galloping wildly, there is a pool of blood here, someone should have been killed!"

Chen Qing had rich experience. The pool of blood on the ground was spurted from his neck. A strong intuition told him that this was the Jurchen's method of killing.

"Second..." Hu Yanjia's eyes turned red all of a sudden.

"Look around!"

Chen Qing ordered, and he followed the blood trails on the ground to find it.

Hu Yanjia patrolled around, but there was no movement, he saw Chen Qing stopped not far away, and ran up quickly.

Under a thick dry tree trunk, Chen Qing used the tip of his halberd to push aside a pile of leaves, revealing a headless corpse. The clothes were clearly that of Hu Yanyi.

"Second brother!"

Hu Yanjia rushed forward, caressing the corpse and weeping.

Chen Qing looked at the corpse with a stern look, no one will offend me, I will not offend anyone, since they made the first move, then don't blame yourself for being cruel.

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Chen Qing didn't disturb the boatman, but said that Hu Yanyi had gone back to deliver the letter.

The boatman was also missing one person, but the boat boss didn't care, and he ordered the boat to sail.

After walking for about three miles, the boss of the boat found Chen Qing. He knelt down and clasped his fists and said, "General, we are just ordinary boatmen, and we have absolutely no malice. The missing boatman wasn't with us originally, but was temporarily inserted by the higher-ups. I don’t dare to ask more questions, and I don’t even know his name.”

Chen Qing looked at him for a while, then asked again: "Is it also his arrangement to hang the official ship lantern?"

"That's not true, it's a rule. We take money from the government, and the guests we transport are officials, so official ship lanterns should be hung!"

"Should? Does that mean you can leave it alone?"

"It's true that you don't have to hang it, but if you hang official ship lanterns or put on official flags, you will avoid the front when sailing.

"Except for the missing boatman, where are the other boatmen?"

"General, the other boatmen are my brothers who have been with me for more than ten years. I guarantee that there are no government officials."

Chen Qing looked into his eyes, and nodded after a while, "Okay! I will trust you again this time, when you touch the shore a little later, I will go ashore, and then you continue to walk slowly, and I will naturally catch up with you. "

The boat boss Dalian nodded repeatedly, and he timidly asked: "General, is Second Lord Huyan dead?"

"So you'd better tell the truth, if I find out you're lying, none of you will survive."

The boss of the boat shuddered, "The villain dare not, every sentence is the truth."

Chen Qing asked him to prepare to dock. He carried a pot of arrows on his back, and a bow bag containing a Dingyuan bow on his back. He inserted a sharp dagger into his leather boots, and walked out of the cabin with Fang Tian's painting halberd in his hand.

Hu Yanjia stepped forward and whispered: "General, I will go with you!"

Chen Qing shook his head, "You will drag me down!"

Hu Yanjia's face flushed immediately, "I will never drag the general down."

Chen Qing smiled slightly and said: "I am not underestimating you, your martial arts are only suitable for close combat, but the opponent has at least a dozen of the most elite Jurchen cavalry, your martial arts will not be effective, I will try to take your brother's head bring back."

Hu Yanjia felt sad, he knew that Chen Qing was telling the truth, the martial arts of the second child was no less than his own, but he was beheaded and killed by the enemy after two or three encounters, and it would be a burden to go by himself.

"Okay! Be careful, General."

The boat slowly approached a moored cargo ship, and Chen Qingyi jumped on it. Holding Fang Tian's painting halberd, he quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Hu Yanjia sighed in his heart, he had tried Chen Qing's Fang Tian painting halberd, it weighed more than fifty catties, and it was hard to pick it up, let alone be used as a weapon, hey!I should practice my martial arts on the battlefield.

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Chen Qing was squatting on a big tree, and there was a small road below, the only way to go along the river, the other party was riding a horse, it was very inconvenient to walk in the woods, so he had to walk along this road.

It was only five o'clock at this time, and the sky was not yet bright, but the weather was clear, the moon was clear, and the stars were shining brightly, covering the earth with a layer of silver.

Holding a bow and arrow, Chen Qing stared at the south. At this time, two teams of small black spots appeared in front of him, one in front and the other behind, with a distance of dozens of steps. The two teams were estimated to have about 30 people, all riding horses.

Chen Qing snorted coldly, the team in front must be the Jurchen cavalry, they disdain to walk with the Han people.

The front team of cavalry was fast and skilled at handling horses. The leader was a Jurchen centurion named Na Huyan, who was Wan Yanchang's deputy guard and was ordered to follow Chen Qing and keep track of his whereabouts.

But before several Jurchen cavalrymen beheaded one of Chen Qing's subordinates, which meant that they were exposed, Na Huyan was angry and annoyed, and severely scolded several cavalrymen.

He had no choice but to be more careful to prevent Chen Qing from escaping on horseback.

That Huyan's horse was gradually approaching the big tree where Chen Qing was. At this moment, a spiked arrow shot towards him. The speed of the arrow was so fast that Huyan had no time to react.

'puff! ' A sound hit his brow, and the arrow pierced his head, and that Huyan let out a muffled cry, 'Gudong! 'Sacked.

The war horse was frightened and ran wildly. Chen Qing was waiting for the horse. He threw the halberd to the ground, and the halberd plunged into the soil.

Just as the war horse passed under the tree, Chen Qing jumped off, just sitting on the horse, grabbed the reins, raised the front hoof of the war horse, and let out a violent cry.

The ten Jurchen cavalrymen in the back yelled and rushed up with murderous intent. Chen Qing grabbed Fang Tian's painted halberd, slammed a few spiked arrows away, and charged towards the Jurchen soldiers with his horse.

The horse galloped wildly, people were like ghosts, passed through the Jurchen crowd, three heads flew up, the eyes of the Jurchen cavalry were red, surrounded from all sides, Chen Qing stabbed left and right, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, unstoppable, and instantly The four Jurchen cavalrymen were picked off their horses and killed with a single halberd.

Seeing that he was too strong, the remaining three people turned around and ran away in fright. Chen Qing saw a human head hanging from the neck of one of the horses. He took out his bow and arrow, hung up his halberd, controlled the horse with his legs, and stretched his bow while galloping. He set up an arrow, and the three arrows shot straight away. The three Jurchen cavalrymen all got arrows in the back of their necks and fell off their horses.

In less than a cup of tea time, Chen Qing beheaded all eleven strong Jurchen cavalrymen. Wang Bo and others who were watching the battle not far away had never seen such a bloody slaughter. They were so scared that they trembled and almost peed Incontinence.

Chen Qing lifted his halberd and looked at Wang Bo coldly. Wang Bo seemed to be stared at by the god of death, so he screamed in fright, turned around and fled, and the rest of his men also turned their horses and followed him to escape.

Not long after, more than [-] warriors fled without a trace.

At this time, a person ran out from the forest, it was Hu Yanding, Chen Qing was startled, "Why are you here?"

Hu Yanding said with a smile: "You just don't allow elder brother to come, but you don't forbid me to come, someone must help the general clean the battlefield!"

Chen Qing said angrily: "Don't worry about anything else, just put the horses together. Your brother's head seems to be on the neck of a war horse."

Startled, Hu Yanding ran towards the horses, not long after, he heard Hu Yanding's bitter cry.

Chen Qing shook his head, he had experienced too many deaths, and there was no longer any turmoil in his heart about life and death.

Chapter 1 Whereabouts