Record of ups and downs in troubled times

050 reunion

After the adjutant was dealt with, Tan Yangui immediately galloped to the escort camp.

Before assigning foreign troops, he had followed General Lu for a while, and he knew the structure of General Lu's barracks like the back of his hand, so it was not difficult for him to find a mere escort.At the latest, within half an hour at the latest, he will be able to see that person.

Tan Yangui seemed to be thinking calmly and quickly in her heart, but the hand holding the rein couldn't help sweating a lot, and her heart was even more panicked.

When attacking the capital of Chao Dynasty, he was not sent to the battlefield with real guns and swords because of his inconvenient status.However, he has seen a lot of bloody wounded soldiers who were moved from the battlefield, and he has also seen a lot of scenes where Feng Shuxing was scolded bloody by General Lu, so he took it for granted that King Xiang's dynasty was bound to fail miserably.But he didn't expect that the emperor would cross the city and die. Afterwards, General Huben Zou Ji was killed in battle, Zhou Changshi was killed in the Prime Minister's mansion, and the capital was defeated one after another, so that King Xiang narrowly won.

Although Tan Yangui didn't want to admit it, he never imagined that Liu Pu would lose.In his impression, Liu Pu was a generation of emperors who could play well between the prime minister and the queen mother for decades!

Tan Yangui, who was lying on the horse, felt a heart beating in her chest, feeling very uneasy.

After hearing that the emperor had died beyond the city, he asked Ying to go to the battlefield to transport food, but in fact he wanted to find the emperor's body under the city.But maybe he arrived late, there were only hundreds of corpses piled up under the city wall, whether you were an emperor or a commoner, they were all blurred and unrecognizable.Tan Yangui stayed there for another two nights in the name of cleaning up the battlefield, but failed to find Liu Pu's body as he wished.

No wonder I couldn't find it, it turned out that the guy didn't die, but hid here under the name of "Little Master Fu"!It was just now that he couldn't have missed it, the jadeite finger ring in the soldier's hand looked very familiar, wasn't that the ring guard that the emperor wore occasionally when he practiced arrows!

A row of prison carts strung together with iron chains is in front of you, Tan Yangui boos the horse and walks slowly, it seems that it is closer to the country and more timid.

Such a filthy place in the escort camp must have caused that guy to suffer a lot...

"Second Master Tan!"

When he was looking around, he didn't think it was Huang De who saw him first.Huang De was also considered clever, and after calling his attention, he hurriedly changed his words and reminded secretly: "Mr. Tan, you are here! Our Young Master Fu has been waiting for you for a long time! I have specially ordered Ade to wait for you!"

The young master in the prison car had fainted due to lack of blood, but he woke up slowly after being called out by Ade Zhazahu.Because of the numbness in the pain in his shoulder, he felt that his brain was turning a lot slower. He squinted and stared at Tan Yangui for a while, as if he was still in a dream, and didn't react at all.

Tan Yangui also looked at him, feeling that there seemed to be signs of moisture in his eyes, and he tilted his head and pressed back forcefully as if he was busy or not paying attention.

Ade has already hid away wisely, guarding the outside for the two from the gap in the fence.

Tan Yangui put on a wooden face: "Is it cold?"

The weather is just a sign of spring, but it is not a warm season when the ice and snow first melt.At this moment, the afterglow of the setting sun was shining all over the mountain stream, and the cold air came up shallowly. Tan Yangui felt that she would be able to keep out the cold in her armor, but the one in the prison car was only covered with two single clothes, and she wondered if her body was frozen blue.

Tan Yangui asked coldly, but Liu Pu didn't care.He stared at Tan Yangui's face for a long time with his misty and squinted eyes, before his eyes came into focus, he smiled with the corners of his lips curled up.

It's like the ice is cracking suddenly; it's like a little green of the young buds finally protruding from the frozen soil.

"Tan Er," Liu Pu hooked the corner of his mouth, a little silly, "I also said that you are really ruthless."

Tan Yangui was noncommittal and didn't answer the question.

Liu Pu asked, "How are you?"

Tan Yangui still put on a lukewarm look: "That's it."

Liu Pu sized him up, and even though he had something to say, he knew it was not the time to say it, so he asked again: "How is the state affairs? Is the imperial capital... broken?"

"Not broken." Tan Yangui and Liu Pu grew up and had such a close relationship. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the roundworm in the emperor's stomach.At this moment when Liu Pu asked a question, Tan Yangui naturally understood what he wanted to ask without thinking too much. "The queen mother... The queen mother has brought her unborn child and killed herself in the Longevity Palace to thank the world. Now, the prime minister's faction is still in charge of the overall situation, but it's just that Fu's daughter takes over the post."

"Ms. Fu?"

"En." Tan Yangui still looked like nothing to do with himself, but his tone became more subtle unconsciously, "Empress Cheng died prematurely, so Fu's daughter raised your son for her."

Speaking of the words "your son", Tan Yangui turned his eyes aside and stared at a thatch protruding from the grain cart behind, as if that thing was more interesting than Liu Pu's face in front of him.

The person in the prison car smiled, stared at Tan Yangui sideways for a moment, and said softly, "Are you jealous?"

"Ho!" The horse seemed to feel the master's anger as it sat down, and spouted rough air at Liu Pu several times, all the white foam from its mouth splashed all over his face.Tan Yangui stretched out his hand to push the horse's head away, and said in a low voice, "Don't be kidding, if I have a son in the future, I hope you can live to drink the full moon wine one day...Your face is so haggard, is it because you are cold? "

"I'm cold, are you willing to take off your clothes?" Liu Pu tensed up happily for some reason, and a flush of fever-like flush appeared on his cheeks, "You look haggard, but it doesn't look good?"

Tan Yan looked back at him, but remained silent and refused to speak.The taste of his glance probably means "Have you ever looked good?"

Seeing that he didn't speak, Liu Pu knew that if he kept talking nonsense, Tan Er would really be able to turn around and leave.Even if he wants to reminisce about the old days, Second Young Master Tan is willing to listen to his nonsense, but the situation waits for no one after all. His injuries can no longer be delayed, let alone board the boat with King Xiang's army, otherwise it is unknown if he will really die in another country up.

"I have a wound on my body, an arrow wound." Liu Pu looked serious and lowered his voice even more, "Don't look at me like this. Of course I know that an arrow wound is nothing to be ashamed of. Besides, I owe it to Commander Feng to tell you The medical officer must have cured him well. But," Liu Pu stretched out his hand and pulled the already thin skirt, "Look here."

A small piece of skin that was slightly blue from the cold was exposed in the skirt, with a few black lines faintly reflected.

Tan Yangui was a little reserved at first, but he couldn't see clearly so he urged the horse to get closer.But the scenery exposed by the skirt is limited, and the strangeness cannot be seen at all just by a few curved black lines.

Liu Pu glanced around, Adeshan stood guard in a corner to see if anyone was approaching, and there was only a woman sleeping in her clothes in front of the prison car, and it seemed that he could hear him talking to Tan Yangui.He let go of his heart, and opened the skirt a lot, revealing the whole picture of the pattern.

On the upper side of the heart, three densely entangled black lines protruded.It is not accurate to say that it is "black", but it is more like light-colored smoke from firewood.Three strands of smoke, as thin as gossamer, are entangled and tangled, like petals overlapping layers. At first glance, it looks like a half-opened lotus flower. This pattern almost covers the entire chest, and even tends to spread to the shoulder blades.And the arrow that Feng Shuxing shot at him before happened to cut off a streak on his shoulder.

The white gauze left on the wound was temporarily pressed in Fu's house to stop the bleeding.Just looking at how it was soaked in new blood and old blood layer by layer, it's not hard to imagine how hideous it is under the wound.

Tan Yangui was startled: "What is this?"

He had an intuition that this thing was not good - although the lotus was a buddhist fairy flower, but this flower was obviously vicious and full of danger, not like a good omen.

"Do you know "Nine-breathing Fahua"?" Liu Pu closed his clothes, "Yes, it is the exercise that Master Tan is extremely taboo... When I visited my elder brother in the monastery when I was young, he used to be with him. I mentioned that my three elder brothers practiced this kind of kung fu, and no one in the world can beat them. Naturally, they died early because of the evil nature of kung fu. He said that this kung fu is the greatest evil in the world. , the most good, so no one can control one or two of them."

Listening to him, Tan Yangui felt her throat was a bit dry.

He couldn't believe it: "This exercise is banned by the whole country. Where did you get it? Have you practiced it?!"

"When I didn't understand things before, I only laughed at the sadness of the third brother. He is the son of an emperor and a leader in the army. Why did he embark on such a self-destructive path." Liu Pu muttered to himself, "I didn't know until later. It’s just going nowhere.”

It's just a desperate situation.

no.Tan Yangui wanted to refute him.There has never been a time when there is no way out. Isn't the word "no way out" an excuse for people to find for themselves?Tan Yangui held the reins of the horse, feeling the sweat on his palms gradually turn from warm to cold.He loosened his fingers so that the wind could dry the cool and damp touch on his palms.

Tan Yangui asked: "Have you practiced that?"

Liu Pu nodded: "When you left the palace that day, I put a scroll of paintings in your luggage, do you remember?"

How can you not remember?The painting was placed next to his sword, and it was carefully tied with a red rope. There were even two or three nondescript knots on it, and it was obvious at a glance that it was the emperor's clumsy handwriting.

As for the painting itself, Tan Yangui remembered that it was about a woman in pink. Although the painting was meticulous, there was nothing unusual about it.Only the place where the signature was signed, he remembered that it was painted with a brush instead of engraved with a seal, only this is a little strange, there is nothing else, right?

But in such a painting, there is actually a next peerless exercise hidden in it?

"threw?"

Tan Yangui's tone was not kind: "Throw it away."

What Tan Yangui said was half true and half false, but Liu Pu didn't take it seriously.Instead, he smiled, his pale cheeks sunken even more.He didn't worry about whether the painting was well preserved or lost. Instead, he stretched out a hand outside the fence, and gently stroked the mane on the horse's neck, as if the next words were all about this The horse listened generally: "The divisions of the land march are clear, and they can still survive; but tomorrow night, they will change the water route and march. There are fewer boats and more people, so they must gather in one place. There are too many people on the boat, and the subordinates of King Xiang Most likely you know my face, it is really not easy to hide it. Besides, you have just come to this army, and your foundation is not stable, and I can't find your protection... Is there a way to let me go tonight?"

Thinking of the adjutant who was always watching him with a pair of thief eyes, Tan Yangui felt deeply.

No, why should I "shelter" him?Since the day he left the palace, hadn't he already made up his mind to cut off right and wrong in the palace?Now how did he get so entangled with this person? !Tan Yangui felt a headache. Amidst the annoying headache, he remembered that when His Royal Highness King Ke carried himself into the palace and put his hand into the little emperor's hand, King Ke said with a smile, so, you two It's brother...

Was it because the Liu family treated him too well in the past, so now is the time for me to repay the Liu family's kindness?

Tan Yangui looked at the hand that was caressing her horse's head.

The joints are protruding, and there is a thin scar across it.These hands that have been held and carefully served by countless dignitaries, concubines and maids, these hands that have been with me for decades in holding swords, learning martial arts, and playing the piano for decades, when have they been so embarrassed?

Either way.

In the twilight, the man on the horse was silent for a while, and finally replied with a serious face in a low voice: "I will try."