Twenty-five Histories · Kuma Luotian

That night the Jurchen set up a banquet, firstly to entertain Xu Zhuocheng, and secondly, according to the Jurchen practice, the wealth gained by one person is shared by the whole clan.Although the Jurchen hunters are brave, but like Xiao Feng, it is rare to bring back a black bear and tiger within a few days; since Xiao Feng came here, the clan has a lot more furs for sale, everyone is grateful to him.So every time Xiao Feng came back from a hard fight, he would have a lively banquet.

All the Jurchens gathered in the central empty field of the tribe, sat on the ground and drank happily.Xiao Feng's wine came to the bowl, and he used up more than ten bags of spirits in a short while.The hunters were used to seeing him, and they were not surprised, they just came to respect him in turn.While drinking happily, they suddenly heard an exclamation from the direction of the camp: "Fire! Fire!" When everyone looked up, they were surprised to see thick smoke billowing in the tents and flashes of fire. They all jumped up and ran away. to fight the fire.

Xiao Feng saw that the direction of the fire seemed to be rising from his own tent, he was more shocked than others, he didn't have time to put out the fire, he hurriedly started his lightness kung fu and rushed to the front of the tent, seeing the flames billowing in the tent, half of it collapsed, his nose was full It is scorched smell.He was so startled that his heart almost jumped out of his mouth, and he shouted urgently: "Ah Zi! Ah Zi!" Regardless of the thick smoke and fire, he rushed into the tent.

Suddenly he heard someone calling not far away: "Brother-in-law, I'm here." Xiao Feng hurriedly turned his head to look, only to see a small figure huddled at the foot of a tent a few steps away.It turned out that it was the upwind direction, and the fire hadn't spread yet; couldn't help being surprised, strode over and hugged her, and swept to the edge of the camp, seeing that the fire would not spread here anyway, he was relieved and sent Ah Zi put it down and asked, "Ah Zi, how are you? Are you injured?"

AhZi just smiled and didn't answer, and said for a moment: "Brother-in-law, it turns out that you really care about me so much."

Xiao Feng had already examined her whole body up and down, and saw that her face was blackened by the smoke, and he heard her speak well, so he was relieved, and said softly: "It's fine! Ah Zi, you stay here obediently." Don't move here, brother-in-law will be back in a while."

Seeing that he was talking, Ah Zi wanted to get up, grabbed his sleeve and said: "Brother-in-law, what are you going to do?"

Xiao Feng only thought that she was having a childish temper again, and said: "Naturally to fight the fire - are you afraid alone?"

Before he finished speaking, Ah Zi laughed out loud and said: "My good brother-in-law, what kind of fire did you go to save? Do you know how this fire started?"

Xiao Feng was taken aback for a moment, faintly felt that something was wrong, and said in a deep voice, "What is it?"

Pointing at the tip of her nose, Ah Zi raised her chin and said, "I——let it go!"

Although Xiao Feng had expected it, he was still surprised and angry, and he couldn't reprimand him loudly, so he tried his best to lower his voice and said: "You...what are you doing this time again!"

Ah Zi had been smiling Mimi all the time, but now seeing his cold face, she also put away her smiling face, pouted and said, "Of course it's for you. Hmph, he said some time ago that he would take me out to play, I I know it's to coax me, and when you leave alone again, where can I find you? But it's different now, if you don't have a place to live, you won't be able to leave me behind!" Seeing that Xiao Feng just remained silent, she stretched out her arms and hugged me. Rubbing his neck, she said softly: "Brother-in-law, you are a great hero, you must not forget what you said! Take me out, okay? Go now?"

Her explanation was unbelievable, but Xiao Feng knew that she had such a temperament, even though her illness did not improve, she really couldn't get angry.Knowing that this place cannot stay here any longer, she turned her head and saw the flames in the camp fading away, she thought there was no serious problem, she sighed and said: "Okay, let's go!" Without waiting for AhZi to speak, He took off his fur and wrapped it around her, bent over and carried her on his back, and walked towards the mountains and forests.

Xiao Feng has hunted many times, he is very familiar with the surrounding geography, he knows that there is another tribe a few mountains to the south, he now uses the stars and moonlight to discern the direction, and he walked down with big strides.

If he was walking alone, even in the dark night it would not take two or three hours to reach the end, but at this time he was holding Ah Zi, he was afraid of shaking her, so he walked several times slower than usual.Until dawn, only half of the distance was gone.When he squinted at AhZi on his back, he saw her lying on his shoulder and sleeping soundly.A few rays of morning light shone on her face through the branches and leaves, and there was a smile on her lips, as if she was having a good dream.

Xiao Feng thought not to wake her up, he looked around, intending to find a leeward place to put her down to have a good rest.As soon as the footsteps slowed down, he suddenly heard the mountain wind blowing, and there was a bloody smell faintly, and he was startled: "Is there a beast nearby?" But he didn't smell the fishy smell of the beast, and he was suspicious, and he would bear the burden. Holding AhZi's hands tightly, she lowered her feet, followed the wind to look around.

Turning around a forest, Xiao Feng stopped suddenly, he saw two human corpses lying on the ground, bleeding from their necks, obviously they had not died for a long time.When he looked closely, he was even more taken aback, the two corpses were both wearing Khitan warrior costumes, one of them looked very familiar, he recognized that it was Hu Libu who had a dispute with him because of tiger hunting yesterday.

Xiao Feng pondered in his heart: "How did this person die here?" He leaned over and looked closely, but he saw that there were no other injuries on the two corpses, only a narrow and long wound in the neck, which was obviously killed by a blow with a sword, in the wound The blood that flowed out was as black as ink, and in addition to the fishy smell, it also gave off a faint orchid fragrance.After smelling it for a while, Xiao Feng felt slightly dizzy, straightened up quickly, hugged AhZi in his arms, covered her mouth and nose and backed away, feeling more and more suspicious: "Judging by the way the injury was done, the murderer Undoubtedly, he is an expert in the Central Plains. But if you have such kung fu, why do you need to put poison on your weapon?" Listening carefully, the sound of shouting and fighting came from afar.At this time AhZi has also woken up, she is not afraid of death, but she is afraid that Xiao Feng will meddle in his own business and leave her behind, she grabbed the front of his clothes and said in a trembling voice: "Brother-in-law, I am afraid, let's go!"

Xiao Feng comforted: "Don't be afraid, I'm here." On the one hand he was calculating: "How could the Central Plains warriors come here to kill people? Could it be for that Yeluji? Or..." AZi saw his expression, knowing that he was determined to kill him. To find out what happened, he grabbed his shirt and shook it again and again, anxiously said: "Brother-in-law, don't go, I'm afraid!" Seeing her acting like a spoiled child, Xiao Feng would have followed her normally, but now seeing that the situation is different, how could he stand by? Ignore it?He just said: "Don't be afraid, I'll go and have a look and I'll come back." He carried her heavily on his back, and hurried away following the sound.

After walking a few steps, there were several corpses of Khitan warriors on the ground, usually with black blood bleeding from their wounds.The farther you go, the more corpses there are, and at the end they are densely piled up on the ground. At a glance, there are as many as hundreds of corpses. One can imagine that the battle situation just now was extremely tragic.

The sound of fighting was close at hand, amidst a series of clashes of weapons and chaotic footsteps, one person shouted loudly, "Don't panic! The Changning team is in the center, the Hongyi team is in the rear, and Yongxing and Yanchang are on the two wings. Let's all charge together! "It was the voice of the red-robed man Yeluji.

Although Xiao Feng heard that his tone was calm, his voice was hoarse and he lacked breath, which was clearly a sign of excessive fatigue.When I looked behind the invisible tree, I saw dozens of Khitan warriors in the open space in the forest, including Nayeluji, all of them were sweating profusely, their clothes were ragged and hats were slanted, and they were divided into several small battles in clusters here and there. The regiments, each back to back, were fighting fiercely with their spears.When looking at the opponents, there were only six of them, all dressed in black and covering their faces, one of them forced the Liao soldiers.Although the Khitan warriors outnumbered their opponents several times, they couldn't stand up to one out of ten enemies, all relying on their physical strength, they waved their spears like the wind, forming a group, the enemy couldn't find a gap to attack.Yeluji also knew that if he danced like this, he would exhaust his strength in a short time, so he shouted repeatedly and ordered all the warriors to gather together to fight against the enemy.Reluctantly, he ordered to go out, the men in black whistled, and the six people turned around, blocking the path that the Liao soldiers must pass, their footwork coincided with the Jiugong gossip, although there were only six people, they were blocked by wind and rain.The Liao soldiers didn't know how to form a formation, so how could they rush over in a hurry?Only two sounds of "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhths."The rest of the samurai had no time to protect themselves, let alone rendezvous with the home team.

Xiao Feng was secretly surprised when he saw it, and said in his heart: "Central Plains warriors always fight with mobs, except for our beggar gang and Shaolin monks, I haven't heard of any gang or faction that has such a tacit understanding. These few days What is the origin of the person?" For a moment he couldn't think of an answer, but seeing that Yeluji and the others were in a critical situation and could not be delayed any longer, he gently placed Ah Zi behind the tree and said in a low voice: "Ah Zi, sit here Don't make a sound, I'll be back in a moment." With a long roar, his body swayed, and he didn't see him bending his knees and leaping into the battlefield.

Both sides in the game couldn't help being taken aback by his sudden appearance.A man in black shouted: "What..." Before the word "person" was uttered, Xiao Feng grabbed the air with his right hand, and the air flow surged, and the man in black Dengjue grabbed the long knife out of his hand with a great force out of thin air. ; Caught off guard, he quickly turned his wrist, the blade avoids the opponent's approach, and slashes the opponent's shoulder obliquely, at the same time, he quickly draws a half circle with his left palm to protect himself.This move not only attacks the enemy but also protects himself, it is both fierce and quick, Xiao Feng also secretly praised it as a good word.But this person's strikes are fast, Xiao Feng is several times faster than him, the person turned the direction of the saber move, suddenly felt the force of grabbing from outside followed him like a shadow, the saber could not be grasped by anything, and at the same time The strong wind hit the body, but it was Xiao Feng's left palm, if the man wanted to protect the weapon, he must have the power of the palm, he could only throw the long knife in his busy schedule, and leap back with both palms protecting his chest.However, when he raised his breath, he realized that Shen Yuan's palm strength was unexpected, and he had already covered all the key points on his chest. He felt weak all over his body for a while, but he couldn't raise his inner breath, he couldn't help being horrified, and in a hurry he touched his body He fell to the ground and rolled vigorously, he rolled five zhang away, and he escaped from the encirclement of Xiao Feng's palm.

Xiao Feng didn't wait for the long knife to fall to the ground, took advantage of the momentum, swung it around, spit out the force of his palm, immediately slanted the blade, and shot at another man in black a few steps away in front of him.The man hastily swung his sword to block the attack, but he didn't realize that the force of the sword was unusually strong. There was a loud noise, and the blade in his hand snapped. Shuai, piercing through his clothes from under his ribs, the blade completely sank into the ground, nailing him firmly to the ground.At the same time, Xiao Feng turned his left arm in a circle, and struck behind him obliquely with his palm.Seeing the ferocity of the palms behind him, the two black men behind him unanimously raised their palms together to block them. Three palms joined each other, and there was only a bang, followed by a series of rapid bangs, followed by two bangs and bangs. Inspired by the force of his palm, both of them couldn't hold back their feet, they retreated more than [-] steps on the flat ground, and hit the big tree on the edge of the open space with their backs, only then could they stop their figures.There was a series of clattering noises, and the leaves all over the tree were shaken to the ground, and the two of them had heads and faces.

This series of movements was ups and downs, and in the blink of an eye, four men in black had already been frustrated, and the formation was immediately scattered.All the Liao soldiers seized this opportunity and rushed forward with all their spears. Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining two men in black had to dodge to get out of the way.All the warriors moved closer and surrounded Yeluji.Yeluji also couldn't react in time, and he took a breath until now, and said happily, "Brother Xiao! It's you!"

Xiao Feng nodded.He was watching the battle just now, and he has already seen the hidden secrets of the formations of these men in black, which must have been taught by famous experts, if they are trapped inside, it may be difficult to get out, and these men's weapons are highly poisonous, so don't waste time fighting with them; Therefore, when they came up, they fought fast, without giving the enemy half a chance to breathe, and there was no room for slowing down the formation. Sure enough, the siege of the Liao soldiers was solved in an instant.

The six men in black were quite impressive, although they were frustrated for a while, they took advantage of Yeluji and Xiao Feng's response time to breathe a little, and they rushed forward again.As soon as Xiao Feng heard the wind, he knew that the six people were stepping into formation and had sealed off the way behind him, he immediately shouted to Yeluji and the others: "Don't move lightly!" The wind of the palm draws more than half a circle, and sweeps out with a whirring sound. It is the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms "shocking a hundred miles" style.Those six people split into a joint attack, originally they expected that no matter how strong your martial arts are, it would be impossible to deal with six directions at the same time, but unexpectedly, the opponent's palm force rushed in like a raging wave, and the six people were suffocating at the same time, and they all covered him In the palm of your hand.It's hard for these people to cooperate tacitly, they immediately throw their weapons together, and use both palms to fight each other.This tactic is hard-fought, and there is no room for any tricks.Three of the men in black were knocked to the ground immediately, bleeding from the corners of their mouths and unable to get up; the two of them staggered back with a surge of energy and blood; only one was able to stand still on the stake, and hissed, "Qiao Feng!"

Xiao Feng heard this person call out his old name, his heart shuddered, he didn't say anything, he stepped forward suddenly, and grabbed the back of his neck with his hands.The man obviously saw that the grabbing move was mediocre, but when he raised his hand to parry, he didn't know how to catch it.The remaining two people knew it was inevitable, they looked at each other, one of them suddenly rushed forward, his arms were straight up and down, and he opened his door wide, but he was completely unprepared.Xiao Feng was taken aback, if not for his much higher martial arts, he would almost have been hit.At the moment, not wanting to fight him desperately, he backed sideways, gave way to the momentum, saw that his new move was not yet launched, put his right arm around his waist and pressed it, the man's body shook violently, and finally fell to the ground.

Xiao Feng looked up again, only to see that the last man in black took advantage of his companions to entangle him desperately, had already flew back into the woods, started running down the mountain with all his strength.The Liao soldiers shouted one after another, and they stretched their bows and shot at the man's back, but the dense forest covered him, and the man ran very fast, so they missed him.If Xiao Feng chased him, he would be able to catch up with this person, but he didn't intend to kill them all, he hesitated for a while and let him go too; when he turned around to look, he couldn't help being surprised.But seeing the five men in black fell to the ground and couldn't move, but black blood gushed from the corners of their noses and mouths, their limbs twitched, their faces were ashen, and they seemed to be dead.

Xiao Feng leaned over and pinched one person's wrist to check the pulse, he immediately knew that the poison was deep and irreversible.He naturally knew that this was a common suicide method used by killers in the Jianghu, he thought: "These people keep their secrets to the death, but they are considered good men. It's a pity that their identities and origins are unknown." Confused, he straightened up and saw Yelu Ji released the spear to Congren's hand, strode towards him, and shouted: "Brother Xiao, thank you for saving me!" As he said this, he bowed on one knee and bowed down. The other Khitan warriors saw him bow down and immediately They bowed down together, raised their foreheads with their right hands, and said in unison: "Thank you Xiao Yingxiong for saving your life!"

Xiao Feng hastily grabbed Yeluji's arm, and said: "I consider Brother Yeluji a friend, so I help. Friends treat each other with heart, and Xiao dare not accept the gift of kneeling." Yeluji was even more grateful, and stood up He said: "Sure enough, he is a good man. Brother Xiao, I invited you yesterday, but you said you were in a hurry and didn't give you face, but today you can't refuse anyway. You must come to my camp to get together, so that I can have a good time as a landlord. friendship……"

Before he finished speaking, Xiao Feng suddenly heard Ah Zi's voice softly calling: "Brother-in-law!" He was startled, and interrupted: "Please accompany me!" He turned around and ran behind the big tree, half-supporting and half-embracing Ah Zi on the ground Pulling it up, he asked, "Ah Zi, what's wrong with you?"

Ah Zi raised her mouth slightly, she leaned into his arms and said lazily: "Brother-in-law, are you done with this fight? Don't be polite, I... I am so hungry." Yeluji didn't know what was going on, He also walked forward, hearing what Ah Zi said, he couldn't help laughing and said: "It turns out that benefactor has family members here. There is quite a lot of delicious food and wine in the camp. Since this girl is hungry, she should go to the camp to have a good rest. What do you think Brother Xiao?"

Xiao Feng didn't want to have much contact with other people at first, but firstly he saw Yeluji's sincerity, secondly he was worried about AhZi's health, so he nodded and said: "In this case, obeying orders is worse than being respectful."

So Xiao Feng took Ah Zi on his shoulders, and came down the mountain with Yeluji and others.After arriving at the foot of the mountain, there was a thunderous sound of hoofbeats, and hundreds of green-maned war horses rolled over like a gust of wind.He was dressed in a black leather robe of the same color as a knight on horseback, a white leather tall hat, and a machete hanging from his waist. He looked very mighty.As soon as they saw Yeluji, they immediately got off their horses and knelt down on the ground in unison, saying in unison: "Master is shocked! I have waited for the rescue to come late, and I deserve death!"

Yeluji waved his hand slightly, and said with a smile: "It's okay. If it wasn't for this encounter, how could I have met Brother Xiao? You all get up, come and meet Uncle Xiao!" The Liao soldiers responded in unison, and turned to Xiao Feng saluted, and said: "Master Xiao!" Xiao Feng nodded in return, thinking: "I don't know who this Yelu brother is, but it's quite a pomp."

All the Liao soldiers let go of their horses and let Yeluji, Xiao Feng and Azi ride on them, they hugged each other and moved forward.After walking for more than [-] miles, I turned around a hillside, and suddenly saw a flat river, and a big river rushing south from the side of the hillside.The flags were flying on the flat ground, and the tents were covered. Thousands of cavalrymen with bright armors rode out of the tents neatly.The officers and soldiers around took out their horns and blew them, followed by the sound of drums in the battalion, bang bang bang bang bang, and all the cavalry saluted on their horses, shouting: "Master!"

Ah Zi whispered in Xiao Feng's ear: "Brother-in-law, you are so powerful, you saved such a big man with a single move, does he want to repay his kindness, we don't have to worry about it in the future." Xiao Feng lightly reprimanded: "Don't talk nonsense!" Shocked secretly, guessing that Yeluji's status is very important, he is probably some general or prince of Liao Kingdom.

Yeluji was very proud, with a wave of his left hand, everyone jumped off their horses, he took Xiao Feng's arm, and walked into a large tent in the middle.This tent is made of several layers of cowhide, colorful and golden, brilliant and brilliant.Yeluji invited Xiao Feng to sit at the head, AhZi was by his side, followed by an order, a banquet was held in the tent in a short while.At that time, the wine was like a pool, and the meat was like a mountain. There were more than a dozen Khitan warriors naked in front of the banquet, and they were fighting fiercely.AhZi had been bored among the Jurchen tribe for a long time, now she only looked at her with a dazzled smile and clapped her hands repeatedly.

Yeluji talked about the encounter in the past two days, and praised Xiao Feng's martial arts without saying a word.The dozens of warriors rescued by Xiao Feng came up to toast him one by one.Xiao Feng did not refuse anyone who came, he drank until the cup was dry, after drinking more than [-] cups, he still looked calm, everyone was astonished.

Yeluji has always been quite courageous, but this time he was rescued by Xiao Feng, he wanted to show off his ability, seeing that he doesn't need to compete in martial arts, but can win everyone's hearts by showing his capacity for alcohol, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.At this time, he was almost drunk, got up and left the table, grabbed Xiao Feng's wrist, and said: "Brother Xiao, you are really the number one hero in my Daliao. Since I am a friend, we will How about sworn brothers?"

Xiao Feng joined the Beggars' Gang after he became an artist, the seniority in the gang is very strict, he has always accumulated meritorious service, but he has never made friends with others, only in Wuxi and Duan Yu's betting and drinking, he became Jinlan's friend.Hearing what Yeluji said at this moment, thinking of the fact that someone brought up this matter when the barbarian state was in decline today, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.Seeing that Yeluji was generous in dealing with things, took the lead and was really a good man, he said: "very good! Xiao Feng is 31 years old this year, brother Guigeng?" Yeluji laughed and said, "I am thirty-eight, but I am older than you, Engong Seven years old." Xiao Feng said: "Brother, why do you still call the younger brother benefactor? You are the eldest brother, accept my obeisance." After saying that, he bowed down, Yeluji hastily returned the salute.

The two stuck three long arrows in the tent, lit the arrow tail feathers as incense candles, bowed eight times to the sky, and became brothers.A group of officers and soldiers knelt down on one knee and congratulated each other in unison, and Ah Zi even applauded.

Yeluji laughed loudly, and shouted: "Wine!" The attendant immediately filled two big gold cups and brought them to him. He held the cups in one hand and pulled Xiao Feng with the other, and said with a smile: "Brother, let's have a toast!" Xiao Feng With a smile, he raised his glass and was about to drink it down, when he suddenly heard a sharp and rapid sound of horns in the distance.

The sound of the horn came very quickly. When I heard it for the first time, it was still more than ten miles away. When it sounded the second time, it was several miles away, and when it sounded for the third time, it was several miles away.I only heard it coming all the way, and it stopped suddenly when it reached outside the big tent.The officers and soldiers in the tent were cheering and drinking, and they were in a mess, but suddenly they were all silent.As soon as the tent door was opened, a group of soldiers rushed in and bowed down. The leader reported to Yeluji, "Long live, the king of the Central South Court of Beijing made a rebellion and occupied the palace. From the empress dowager to the empress, princes, princesses and officials Family members have been arrested!"

Yeluji remained motionless, slowly raised his golden cup, drank the wine, and said, "Let's go meet the King of the Northern Court, return to the capital, and pull out the camp!" "The order of one sentence became ten sentences, ten sentences became a hundred sentences, and a hundred sentences became a thousand sentences. The voice became louder and louder, but it was strict and orderly, without panic and disorder.

Yeluji turned his head, but saw Xiao Feng looking at him in amazement, he couldn't help showing a wry smile on his face, and said: "Brother Xiao, if you had known my identity earlier, I'm afraid you wouldn't want to marry me. As a brother His real name is Yelu Hongji, and he is the current emperor of the Great Liao Kingdom!"