Kaifeng Bistro

Tan Zhifeng stood at the foot of Huaiyuan City, looking at the ancient frontier fortress city that had experienced many vicissitudes.The gray and white city wall looks particularly desolate and desolate under the dim sunlight of the northwest morning.The city gate was tightly closed, and rows of soldiers stood on the city wall.Zhan Zhao stood at the bottom of the city and explained for a long time. Just now, several generals came out of the city to check his seal. Not only that, one of them even questioned them all in detail.Finally, these soldiers opened a city gate and let them enter the city.The general who interrogated them said to Zhan Zhao: "Now that Mr. Han has left his post, no one has taken over the soldiers and horses on this Jingyuan Road. I was also temporarily transferred here, so I have to be careful..."

Zhan Zhao nodded, and the man continued: "Besides, a prisoner who escaped from Xixia last night said that he brought important news, but, but he can only tell Master Wenhui in the capital. I don't know What he said is true and false, and even though I have heard about Master Wen Hui, he is far away in the capital, how could he come to our northwest border at this time... Sigh!"

Before he finished speaking, Tan Zhifeng and the others were stunned in surprise. Zhan Zhao hurriedly asked him, "What did you say? Someone wants to see Master Wen Hui?"

"That's right." The general nodded sadly: "He insisted that Master Wen Hui would come soon. However, he himself was seriously injured. In my opinion, whether he can survive today is still a question..."

Zhan Zhao stopped, stepped aside, and said to the general, "Do you know who this is?"

The general looked carefully at Wen Hui who was standing behind Zhan Zhao. After a while, he widened his eyes and said, "Oh, it turns out...it's really you...this...this can teach people how to believe it! So I also Serving in the Kaifeng Imperial Army, I even went to Tianqing Temple to hear you preach the Yanhua Sutra. So... that person, what that person said is true?!"

Zhan Zhao hurriedly said: "This matter is very strange, you hurry up and take us to meet him."

The general guarding the city nodded vigorously, and he quickened his pace, leading Tan Zhifeng and his group to a military camp in the city.Tan Zhifeng looked around and saw that there were not many people walking around in the city. He occasionally saw a few people, all dressed in white and plain onyx, with solemn expressions and hurried steps, and soon disappeared from Tan Zhifeng's sight.

The general sighed, and said to them: "In Huaiyuan City, there were not many defenders. This time, the battle at Sanchuankou... almost wiped out the entire army. Not only that, the four soldiers who came to rescue from the nearby Yangmulong City Thousands of people have heard that none of them survived... If the Xixia people attack again, I can only ask for help from the nearby Huanqing and Qinfeng Roads, otherwise, the city will be destroyed sooner or later."

Now the military camp in Huaiyuan City is located in the county government office in the city. They passed through the gate of the county government office guarded by soldiers, and followed the general into a room in the backyard.As soon as the door of this room was opened, Tan Zhifeng smelled a strong smell of medicine, and when his eyes fell on the bed, he couldn't help being surprised again.Zhuo Zhuo also said in surprise behind him: "Then, isn't that Li Weiming?"

Wen Hui gestured to them and asked the others to wait outside, leaving only Tan Zhifeng and him in the room.Li Weiming was in a coma, he and Tan Zhifeng went up to check his pulse and breathing carefully.

"The situation is not good." Wen Hui said: "He couldn't help being injured and poisoned, the poison penetrated deep into the spleen..."

"It's hopeless." Li Weiming suddenly opened his eyes.He looked at Tan Zhifeng and Wen Hui, struggling to sit up: "Zhifeng, Master Wen Hui, you are finally here!"

"Ming Jing...what the hell is going on?!" Tan Zhifeng asked anxiously, "Why...are you so seriously injured? Why did they ask you to come to Huaiyuan to report?!"

"Alas!" Li Weiming sighed: "It's a long story... A few days ago... I was entrusted by Mr. Han to come to Huaiyuan City to report to General Ren Fu who was stationed in Huaiyuan, but on the way, I met Nori Changrong. …I can’t remember exactly what happened, and when I woke up, I was locked up in Xixia’s barracks with the other messengers.”

"Then..." he continued, "I heard the news of the defeat of Huaiyuan City. The Xixia people celebrated. Of course, of course I regretted it. I wanted to try to kill myself, but I thought, since they ...Since they locked us here, maybe there is still some conspiracy that has not succeeded, if I live a few more days, find out what they are going to do, and try to pass the news back, I may be able to make amends..."

He paused, and then continued: "...But, the Xixia people guarded it very tightly, until last night..."

He told about Bo's coming to see him, and Tan Zhifeng and Wen Hui's expressions became more serious the more they heard it.Finally, Li Weiming said: "...I, I don't know whether what he said is true or not, but, but, I did hear those Xixia soldiers guarding us whispering, saying that their emperor raised a monster that can eat people ..."

"What else..." Wen Hui asked, "What else did Nori Changrong say to you?"

"He said," Li Weiming's breath was already very weak at this time, Wen Hui raised his hand and pressed on his wrist, the blue light flowed, and his originally painful face gradually calmed down: "He told me to tell you, first, Chi You has been resurrected, he not only wants to kill Ying Long, but also washes the entire land of China with blood; second, that Taotie, he was originally transformed from the resentment after Chi You's death, although Chi You is very difficult to kill, but, if he can kill Taotie... Chi You's power will no longer exist..."

"Also..." Li Weiming's face showed a bit of brilliance. Tan Zhifeng's intuition was wrong. He hurriedly gathered his spiritual power, but Wen Hui held him down with the other hand: "It's useless."

"I know." Li Weiming said, "Just like Yeli Changrong said, Li Yuanhao is extremely vicious. He told me that as long as I deliver the letter truthfully, then, then I will be immortal, but if, if I don't listen to him , he was about to throw me to sacrifice to the so-called divine beast...He, he took me to see that terrible monster..."

As he spoke, he slowly closed his eyes, and his voice became lower and lower. Tan Zhifeng and Wen Hui leaned down and heard what he said: "... Yeli Changrong finally said that Xixia people... are his people ...He will not let the Xixia people be used by Chi You, the Weimu clan and the Yeli clan of Xixia... and many tribes are secretly preparing, and soon..."

"We got it, Brother Li, take a break." Tan Zhifeng couldn't bear it, and said to Li Weiming, "You, take a break first... If you have anything to say, we can talk about it after you recover from your injury."

"I've finished what I want to say." Li Weiming opened his eyes again: "Zhifeng, thank you...thank you for saving me and Shuanglian in Kaifeng, Shuanglian... Shuanglian doesn't know how it is now How about it? Wait, when you get back to Kaifeng, just say that I died in battle, please, please don't tell her... I died so badly..."

"Shuanglian is doing well..." At this moment, Wen Hui shook her head and put her hands back.Tan Zhifeng reluctantly held Li Weiming's hand that had fallen powerlessly on the bed, and poured his spiritual power into him: "Brother Bai redeemed her body, and now, now she is running the business with Zhou Yanjing's wife. My tavern. When Xu Gan and I left, I left everything and the title deed to them...Brother Li..."

He whispered Li Weiming's name, but Li Weiming was silent.Tan Zhifeng sat quietly by the bed, and Wen Hui whispered behind him, "Zhifeng, he's dead."

Tan Zhifeng stood up staggeringly, the sunlight outside the window shone into the room and shone on Li Weiming, his thin face and body seemed to have lost their vitality long ago, and he was lying there, making it almost impossible to see the blanket Draw his outline.Tan Zhifeng thought of many sunny mornings in Kaifeng. He came to the tavern with Chen Qing, Zhou Yanjing, and Lu Yang, chatting and laughing, asking Yi Yi if he had read the script he had just written, and talking about Guangzhou. Examinations at the Wenguan and Taixue... Tan Zhifeng suddenly felt that the familiar sunlight was extremely glaring. He raised his hand to wipe his cheeks with tears, but his eyes were very dry.He remembered the day Zhou Yanjing left, he wanted to say something to Wen Hui, but the sunlight made him very dazed, and his mind went blank.

Suddenly, he felt a surge of strong breath in his chest, blurring the sunlight in front of his eyes.Wen Hui hurriedly helped him to sit down, and asked him to stretch out his hand to check his pulse.

"It's Yinglong." Tan Zhifeng said wearily: "I can feel...the two breaths in his body are constantly surging, and he seems to deliberately let these two breaths entangle and pull each other...I don't know yet ...I don't know yet what he's going to do..."

Wen Hui was silent for a while, and then said: "Soon... soon everything will be revealed... Zhifeng, remember, at this time, we must do our best to do what we can, especially you, should Long is right, to him, you are more important than you think..."

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"What?" Li Yuanhao sat in the tent, but his hands on the case trembled with excitement: "You said, he came to see me as the royal family of the Liao Kingdom?"

"Yes." Li Yuanhao's guard knelt before the case respectfully: "He brought over a dozen Khitan people, two children, and a scholar..."

"I never thought of it..." Li Yuanhao stood up, pacing in the tent, "Xu Gan...Yelu Zongxun...Ying Long...every identity is very interesting."

"Do you want to see him?" The guard continued to ask, "He is still waiting outside the city."

"Since he came to the door, of course I want to see him." An elusive smile appeared on Li Yuanhao's face: "I've waited for this day for too long...I can't believe it now...you go to prepare the military tent , invite them into the camp with the etiquette of welcoming distinguished guests..."

The guard left in response.Li Yuanhao turned around and looked at Bo, Bo looked up at Li Yuanhao's frightening eyes like a falcon, and asked, "Do you have any orders?"

"Yes." Li Yuanhao opened his mouth slowly, and the smile on his face became stronger and stronger: "I suddenly had a very good idea, Bo, if I tell you, you may not believe it at all..."