Brocade tears

At present, there are five Jurchens in the lobby, brothers Nurhachi and Shuerhaqi, plus Fei Yingdong and two Jurchen followers.Nurhachi and one of his attendants were in the center of the hall, and they had already drawn their swords to face the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who broke in at the door; Fei Yingdong was still far away by the west window; Shuerhaqi was hit by Zhan Yu Arriving at the door, the two fell into a ball.

At this time Zhang Yunxiu was extinguishing the pictures of beasts and flowers that were on fire on the table, and he didn't even bother to take a look at the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who barged in.There were eight soldiers from the Ming Dynasty who broke in, and four of them went straight to Nurhachi and his followers in the center of the hall. Fei Yingdong quickly ran from the window to the center of the hall, waving a broadsword in his hand, His first task is to protect Nurhachi.

Two other people jumped at Shuerhaqi and Zhan Yu who had fallen by the door, and quickly controlled Shuerhaqi and Zhan Yu.The last two people left went straight to Zhang Yunxiu who was putting out the fire.

These eight soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are all elites, and their physical skills are not weak.But when facing the brave Jurchen, it was not enough.The four soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who rushed towards Nurhachi and his entourage quickly lost the wind. They were beaten by Nurhachi and his entourage and retreated steadily towards the door. A Ming Dynasty soldier, the Ming Dynasty soldier was unable to resist immediately, two Ming Dynasty soldiers were cut down and fell to the ground, and the remaining two were forced to the corner on the west side, seeing that there was no way out.Nurhachi, who freed his hand, rushed towards the door, and kicked away one of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who was controlling Shuerhaqi, and another soldier of the Ming Dynasty who had just stood up to fight against him was directly greeted by him on the left shoulder. On the ground, the blade directly cut off the opponent's collarbone, blood spurted, and screams were ear-piercing.

Holding the knife upside down in his hand, Nurhachi picked up Shuerhaqi who was on the ground, and walked out without looking back, ignoring Zhan Yu who fell to the ground, and Zhang Yunxiu who had been crushed on the table not far away.

Shuerhaqi yelled at his brother in Jurchen language: "Save Zhang Wu!"

"Leave him alone! He is a burden. We are surrounded and we must break through immediately!" Nurhachi dragged Shuerhaqi and rushed out the door. Fei Yingdong, who had dealt with the remaining two soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, also brought two followers Hu followed closely.Just like that, the Jurchen left Zhang Yunxiu behind and broke out of the hall.

However, the people of the Ming Dynasty did not seem to have the intention of killing the Jurchens. The three surviving Ming soldiers in the hall did not chase them out. One of them ran out to report the situation, and the other two controlled the struggling Zhang Yunxiu.Nurhachi remembered that the [-] guards he accompanied were all in the backyard, so he hurriedly took Shuerhaqi, Fei Yingdong and others to the backyard.Not long after, I saw a large number of Jurchens stumbling around in the backyard. They seemed to have been drugged with sweat, and they were all limp as mud.Nurhachi yelled angrily, ignoring the guards, and led the other four people around him, leading five horses out of the stable in the backyard, ready to flee immediately.But he never expected to suddenly find out that the woman who had escaped before - Li Sui'er was hiding in the stable. Nurhachi immediately ordered Fei Yingdong to catch Sui'er. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty would come to rescue this woman, which meant that this woman was very important. Holding it in your hand can be used as a hostage to threaten the people of the Ming Dynasty. This is a good bargaining chip and cannot be lost.Sui'er screamed and struggled, but to no avail, Fei Yingdong grabbed him like a chicken and put him on the horse.Jurchen's group of five people wrapped Sui'er in their arms and fled through the back door.

They rushed out of the back door and ran towards the road to the north. A large number of Ming soldiers surrounded them from behind, holding up their knives and pulling up the ropes, trying to stop them.Nurhachi, Shuerhaqi and others struggled to break through the siege. These soldiers of the Ming Dynasty probably discovered Li Sui'er's existence and dared not shoot arrows. They could hear a commanding officer shouting: "Don't shoot arrows, protect the hostages!" Under the Jurchen's superb horse control skills, the obstacles seemed weak, and they were quickly broken out by Nurhachi and others.But at this moment, a cold arrow shot from nowhere, and Nurhachi couldn't dodge it in time, and the arrow pierced into his thigh immediately.

Nurhachi let out a muffled snort, and looked angrily at the direction of the arrow. In the darkness, on the side of the road leading to the north, a soldier of the Jizhen Army was standing in the dark, holding his bow and arrow. Aiming at him carefully, there was a icy cold light in his eyes.

An arrow hit Nurhachi's thigh. Instead of continuing to target Nurhachi, she changed the target of the shot and aimed at Shuerhaqi.Nurhachi hurriedly led the five-man team to accelerate the charge, trying to avoid the archer's shooting while breaking through.But they still got hit, the arrow hit Fei Yingdong's right arm holding Sui'er, Fei Yingdong couldn't use his strength immediately, Sui'er was about to fall down.Then she quickly drew her bow and set her arrow again, aiming at Nurhachi's head, a chilly murderous intent seemed to wrap around her body, Nurhachi's hair stood on end like a thorn on her back, and her heart was terrified.Since he used the thirteen sets of armor left by his father and grandfather to start an incident, he has experienced countless battles, large and small, and various dangers, but he has never panicked for a moment like he is now.He seemed to realize suddenly that if he took this woman away, he might be hunted down to the ends of the earth by this terrifying archer.So he didn't care about any hostages anymore. Seeing that the breakout was imminent, he ordered Fei Yingdong to throw Li Sui'er off the horse, and fled with five people in a hurry. To get out of danger as soon as possible and escape to save your life.

Zhou Lichang led his troops to chase after him, but the archer had already stepped forward, squatted down and hugged Li Sui'er into his arms.She whispered something in Li Sui'er's ear, but Li Sui'er remained motionless.All the Ming soldiers from behind came up to take a look, Li Sui'er's throat was full of blood, his eyes were half-opened, his eyes were dim, he was already a dead person.

Zhou Lichang was at a loss as if he had been struck by five thunders.Although their entire operation was planned by Jin Yiwei, they were also reported to their superiors. Several veteran cabinet ministers knew about such an operation, and even the Ninth Five-Year Lord above was very concerned about this operation and directly issued instructions He asked Zhou Lichang to fully cooperate with Jinyiwei's actions, and must take back the pictures of all animals and flowers, and rescue the captured Li Sui'er safely.As a result...how did things develop like this?

At this time, Guo Dayou also led the team to come. Seeing this scene, he immediately said:

"Brother Zhou, hurry up and bring someone to reinforce, that Zhang Yunxiu has gone crazy, the people we sent in failed to control him, and let him run away with the picture. He even set fire, and the picture is still inside! Go, here I'll deal with it!" Since there are only a few Jinyi guards left around Guo Dayou at this time, the rest of the Jinyi guards are concentrated near the front door of the house to surround them, and some Jinyi guards broke into the house, and Zhou Lichang's [-] Jizhen army almost They were all outside to besiege and hunt down the escaped Nurhachi and the others.Therefore, his request for Zhou Lichang to lead troops for reinforcements is completely justified.The situation is urgent. Now that Li Sui'er is dead, only the picture is left. At least he has to take the picture back. Otherwise, how should he explain this operation to his superiors?

Not caring so much, Zhou Lichang could only lead his troops back immediately and rush into the house.As Guo Dayou said, there was indeed a fire in the house, and it was a granary on the west side of the house that caught fire.The back door of the mansion was wide open, and soldiers were running in and out, frantically trying to fetch water to put out the fire.However, the well in the courtyard was too slow to draw water, and some military officers took their own people to fetch water from the Tumen River not far away.

After Zhou Lichang arrived, he immediately arrested people and reported the situation. One of his officers told him: Zhang Yunxiu had already been arrested by two Jinyi guards in the main hall, but this guy still had a poisonous needle hidden in his body. Unexpectedly, they punctured their skin with a poisonous needle, causing the two of them to be poisoned and died immediately.Zhang Yunxiu probably knew that the situation was over, and after poisoning the two Jinyi guards, he hid in the granary with the mutilated picture of beasts and flowers.This granary is a dome-shaped arch building made of rammed earth bricks. One-third of the grain in the entire Varka Department is stored in this granary in Solhe's mansion.The door of the granary is made of fine iron, once it is locked, it will be very difficult to destroy it from the outside.Now that the gate was locked, Zhang Yunxiu even lit a fire around the granary, as if he would rather die than the picture of beasts and flowers fall into the hands of the Ming court.

"Save the fire, you idiots, hurry up and break the door for me!" After hearing the report, Zhou Lichang was furious. How could Xin Dao's subordinates be so stupid? When they put out the fire, I don't know if Zhang Yunxiu inside will put the fire out. The picture is completely destroyed.

"No way, that Zhang Yunxiu also took a hostage inside, that is Zhan Yu, he said that if we dare to break the door, he will kill Zhan Yu." The officer with a black and gray face said helplessly.

Zhou Lichang suddenly felt a headache, Zhan Yu... He almost forgot about this kid. This kid is the nephew of the second assistant Zhang Wei. Is good?

"Put out the fire first!" The angry Zhou Lichang had no choice but to change his order again.

As a result, some weird fire fighting scenes were staged in Sol and the mansion under the night.Hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Ming army who had come to encircle and suppress the fire suddenly began to fight the fire. Everyone relayed the relay and continuously poured water on the burning granary with wooden barrels.But Zhang Yunxiu poured oil into the fire, which made it impossible to extinguish the fire at once. Instead, the water carried the oil to other places, making the fire spread even more.The officers and soldiers began to dig the soil again, intending to use soil to put out the fire, but the land in the mansion was made of repeatedly tamped compound soil, and in addition, in the cold winter, the ground was frozen so hard that it was like hitting a rock with a shovel. Digging the ground is very difficult.

Zhou Lichang could only keep yelling outside, persuading Zhang Yunxiu not to hurt the hostages through the raging fire, and to surrender immediately with a picture, which can protect him well, as long as he allows everyone to break in for rescue.However, there was no movement in the house at all. Seeing that the people and pictures were going to be burnt down, and nothing could be kept at that time, Zhou Lichang, who didn't care about so many people, immediately ordered the door to be broken down.

And just as the officers and soldiers were frantically looking for an impact object that could hit the gate of the granary, a figure rushed towards the granary quickly in the night.In the cold weather, she was dripping with water all over her body, but she took two steps in three steps, stepped over the flames, climbed up the vaulted granary as swiftly as a monkey, and arrived at the arched granary along the arc wall. top.The surrounding soldiers couldn't even see how she did it.Immediately afterwards, she stood on the dome, took down the pickaxe she was carrying on her back, lifted it up and slammed it down on the top of the dome.

It turns out that above the dome, there is a granary vent, which is covered by a wooden rain-shielding roof, but this roof is not big, and it may not be found under the granary.All granaries need to be ventilated, otherwise the grain and seeds stored in them will rot.In a hurry, the officers and soldiers fighting the fire didn't realize this, and no one went to look for the vent, only Meng Kuang found it.She climbed up to the roof of the granary, smashed the rain-shielding roof to pieces with an iron pick, and kicked it down, exposing the ventilation opening, which was just enough for one person to enter and exit.She jumped down, and when her feet landed, she fell into the smoky granary.The black smoke from the fire outside had inevitably smoked into the granary, and as soon as it entered, there was a feeling of suffocation that could not be breathed.Meng Kuang lowered his body and groped in the invisible granary, looking for Zhang Yunxiu and Zhan Yu.

Suddenly, Meng Kuang felt the hairs on his back stand on end, knowing that someone was sneaking up on her, so he immediately turned around to fight back.But it was still a step too late, she was immediately hooked by a hemp rope around her neck, and suddenly a strong force came, and she was strangled from behind with great force.Meng Kuang remained calm in the face of danger, and clasped the rope with his hands and ten fingers to resist. Immediately, he was lucky, and his body sank violently, and he suddenly led the person behind him to roll forward from her back. Although the opponent's strength was great , but it was still not as good as Meng Kuang when he really wanted to fight. The rope was also lost and fell into Meng Kuang's hands.Meng Kuang immediately took a step forward and kicked the opponent's body.Her eyes have not been able to see the scene in front of her clearly, so she is completely relying on her hearing to judge the other party's position.This kick hit him, but he didn't know where it was kicked. The opponent let out a muffled snort. Meng Kuang roughly judged that he might have kicked the opponent in the stomach, so he immediately knelt down and pressed the opponent to the ground, unable to move.The other party finally spoke, and it was indeed Zhang Yunxiu:

"Meng Kuang! If you want to save Zhan Yu, you can't kill me!" He shouted hysterically.

"What did you do?!" Meng Kuang said angrily, and quickly tied Zhang Yunxiu up with ropes.

"He was hit by my poisonous needle, and only I can detoxify him!"

Meng Kuang's heart shuddered, but on second thought, he felt something was wrong.This guy Zhang Yunxiu doesn't know martial arts, but he uses a rope to sneak attack instead of a poisonous needle, so he will definitely lose when he gets into a fight with me.This shows that this guy really doesn't have a poisonous needle on him, so he can only use a rope to deal with me.But... Zhang Yunxiu's poisonous needle is dead when touching it, how can he detoxify it?If Zhan Yu was really poisoned, he must be a dead body at this time.Poison is very precious to the current Zhang Yunxiu, he should not use it on Zhan Yu who has lost the ability to resist.

I'm afraid this guy is not fooling me.

The smoke inside was so heavy that Meng Kuang was already coughing profusely, and her vision was dark and blurred, so she couldn't distinguish the surroundings. To be sure, she decided to open the door first and take Zhang Yunxiu and others out before talking.

However, the plug on the iron door was already burning hot, so Meng Kuang could only use his clothes to pad his hands, endured the severe pain to open the latch, and pushed the barn door open with all his strength.There was a burst of cheers outside the door, and soldiers came in with fire to rescue them.Meng Kuang handed Zhang Yunxiu to the soldiers outside, took a deep breath and held it back, and quickly returned to the granary. Soon she found Zhan Yu in the corner, and beside him was the remnant picture of the picture of thousands of beasts and flowers.Meng Kuang folded the picture and hid it in his arms as soon as possible, then felt Zhan Yu's pulse, and was delighted. Sure enough, as she guessed, Zhan Yu was still alive, and Zhang Yunxiu just lied to her to save his life.

She quickly picked up Zhan Yu and ran outside.When he got outside and came to an open area, with the help of the firelight, Meng Kuang pinched a vagus acupuncture point on Zhan Yu's neck.Zhan Yu had fainted and went into shock due to the smoke and dust, but at this moment, Meng Kuang made such a move, and his heart stopped beating.Just when Zhou Lichang arrived, Meng Kuang said in a rough voice, "No pulse or breathing, this man is dead, sir."

Zhou Lichang felt dizzy, and immediately beat his chest and stamped his feet.Meng Kuang got up immediately, and walked towards the three soldiers who controlled Zhang Yunxiu not far away. As she walked, she had already hidden the dagger under her wrist.She walked to the side of several people very naturally, and greeted them in a friendly way.A few soldiers thought it was his comrades who came to help, but Zhang Yunxiu was facing Meng Kuang sideways at that time, was pressed down and knelt on the ground, his head was restrained and he could only look at the ground, but he obviously had some kind of premonition before death , I can't help shaking my body.

Next, when the three soldiers beside him were not alert, Meng Kuang squatted down suddenly, the dagger under his wrist flashed, and quickly plunged into Zhang Yunxiu's throat. The white knife went in and the red knife came out, and she was lightning fast again. He pulled out the knife, put the knife in the sleeve, then turned around and left in a hurry.The three soldiers didn't realize it for a while, and stared at Meng Kuangyuan inexplicably. It wasn't until Zhang Yunxiu collapsed to the ground and sobbed, blood poured from his throat, and his life quickly dissipated, they realized that someone had killed someone in front of their eyes just now. .

However, if he tried to chase him again, the man looked like a ghost, where could he find any trace?At this time, Guo Dayou left the field, took away Zhan Yu's "corpse", and took over the command of the scene. The 500-man army only found some traces of burnt pictures of thousands of beasts and flowers in the granary. In order to prevent the Jurchens from coming to help, they He retreated a hundred miles away in an emergency overnight.

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Three months later, in July of the 21st year of Wanli, the war on the Korean battlefield gradually calmed down, and the peace negotiations were advancing, and the two sides fell into a tug of war.The imperial court announced the withdrawal of troops for the Japanese tribute, so Li Rusong's army withdrew, leaving only 600 people from Sichuan Army Liu Ting and guerrilla Wu Weizhong who came to support them to guard the key points.However, Shi Xing, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, insisted on making peace, and then withdrew Wu Weizhong's troops, leaving only Liu Chen's troops to defend.

In Zhongzhou, Sichuan, which is thousands of miles away, there is a group of business travelers carrying the banner of Luanxiang Trading Company walking on the mountain road.Not far away is the fortified city of Chieftain Shijie.At the end of the procession was a carriage with two riders beside it.One of them covered his face, dressed like a hunter, and carried a double-headed knife and a pair of bows and arrows on his back.The other had a knife on his waist, and had a young and handsome face with stubble.They were Meng Kuang and Zhan Yu who had already suspended animation and left the Korean battlefield.

Inside the carriage, a woman lifted the curtain, leaned out and said:

"Ah Qing, A Yu, give me your water bags, and I'll fill you with some more water." The speaker was dressed as a peasant woman, but her beauty could not be concealed by the Jingchai commoner clothes. It was Bai Yuyin, whoever it was.

"Thank you sister-in-law." Meng Kuang and Zhan Yu handed her the water bag with a smile. Bai Yuyin took the water bag, turned around and went into the carriage, lifted the copper pot on top of the charcoal basin in the center of the carriage board, and filled it with water. into the water bag.Seeing this, Sui'er at the side hurriedly said:

"Sister-in-law, you are pregnant, I'll come."

"It's okay, why can't you even do irrigation when you're pregnant?" Bai Yuyin didn't care.

"The road is bumpy, be careful of burning it." Meng Yan also said.

Meng Zixiu, who was driving on the shaft of the car, also became nervous immediately, and shouted outside: "Yuyin, don't burn yourself, let Xiaoyan and the others come."

Meng Yan and Sui Er still took the job away, Bai Yuyin could only laugh helplessly.

"The same is true of Daoist Luo. He suddenly said that he was going to the mountains to collect medicine, so he left us behind. This is also the first time for me to take care of a pregnant woman. I'm a little uncertain." Meng said.

"Hey, you girl. You should have a body soon." Bai Yuyin teased Meng Ai, who blushed immediately, and even Zhan Yu, who was riding a horse beside the car, became a red persimmon.

Xiao Shunzhen, nestled in Sui'er's arms, didn't understand what the adults were talking about, but just concentrated on playing with the flower rope.

The family laughed and laughed, and soon the caravan arrived at the gate of the walled city.Shi Jie, who had received the news a long time ago, sent the young master Ma Qiancheng and his wife Qin Liangyu to greet him at the door.When everyone got off the car and got off the horse, they saw Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu. Ma Qiancheng looked ordinary, but his wife Qin Liangyu was really eye-catching. Under her quiet and elegant beauty, she had a handsome figure. Practicing martial arts, with a white gun on his back, he is very handsome.

After saying hello and saluting one by one, Ma Qiancheng said with a smile:

"I have received a letter from Brother Luo a long time ago, saying that members of the Meng clan are coming to settle here with us. We are very welcome. Our Sichuan and Shu are a land of abundance. Once you come, you don't want to leave."

Qin Liangyu warmly and gently said: "I know that you probably like quietness, we have arranged a house for you in the quietest and most secluded place in the Walled City."

A group of people entered the walled city, Meng Kuang hugged Xiao Shunzhen with one hand, and walked hand in hand with Sui'er.Sui Er suddenly said:

"It suddenly occurred to me that this Shiba chieftain seemed to be on that picture. Sigh...you said that three months have passed, and I'm really stunned."

"We burned that picture with our own hands, and Zhang Yunxiu died too. Everything is settled." Meng Kuang held her hand tightly and comforted her.The remnant picture of the beasts and flowers in the granary was burned by them soon after Meng Kuang took it away.The remaining traces found in the granary later were the ones that Guo Dayou took the burnt pieces from the table in the lobby to fool Zhou Lichang.

"If we do this, is everything really over?" Sui'er was slightly worried.

"No matter what happens outside, it really has nothing to do with us. At least, we don't have the responsibility to do anything." Meng Kuang said.

"That's right...the general trend of the world cannot be moved by manpower. We have done everything we can, and no one can stop what will happen next." Sui'er sighed.

"Why are you so emotional all of a sudden?" Meng Kuang asked her with a smile.

"It's just that I still have some burdens in my heart. I always feel that we didn't take responsibility and just chose to escape. But, we really can't do anything anymore. No matter how much we get involved in it, we can only fall into a catastrophe." Situation. Alas..." Sui'er sighed.

Meng Kuang thought for a while, and said: "I read "Biography and Xilu" some time ago, and Mr. Yangming said: Before you look at this flower, this flower will die with you; When you get up, you will know that this flower is not outside of your heart. Human resources are sometimes exhausted, and external things will not be transferred according to our wishes. In this way, we only want to be worthy of our hearts."

"Hmm... no shame in my heart." Sui'er smiled at Meng Kuang, and saw Meng Kuang's brows and eyes were curved, with the sparkle that made her madly infatuated, and also reflected her own smile.

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