Chang'an [Rebirth]

"He Gui is dead?!"

Although he knew in his heart that this was an inevitable result, Ruan Yuzhang was still shocked when the news came so quickly.

He Gui is the head of the government, and many things require his agency. Once He Gui dies, Ruan Yuzhang can justifiably intervene in various operations of the Suzhou government.

His rank is not low, even the supervisor is justifiable. The reason why Ruan Yuzhang has been restrained everywhere in the Liangjiang area these years is because the other party's roots are buried too deep and too wide. He can't integrate, and he will naturally be targeted by everyone.

Qin Zhen doesn't care if a magistrate who wants to kill himself before is dead or not, but if the real power falls into the hands of Ruan Yuzhang, he will wake up laughing in his dreams. There are nearly [-] defenders in Suzhou Prefecture and countless food and grass. What? What.

It's just that the logistical support was in place, and he was worried about another matter.

Qin Zhen squatted in front of Ruan Linshuang and said, "There is a war ahead, it's not a fun place, we have to think about it when we go up, and make mental preparations, you are still a child, stay behind."

Ruan Linshuang raised her face, and pointed to the Chai Zheng on the roof that was drinking the wind with her mouth open, "I'm not afraid, she will protect me."

"..." Qin Zhen's wrinkled nose is not a nose, and his eyes are not eyes.

The standard for conscription in the army is to be at least 16 years old. Even if he is 16 years old, he is still an ignorant child in his eyes. He should not be sent to the front line to die. Little girl dolls are brought to such places.

The little girl was still injured, and her clothes smelled of bitter medicine.

Qin Zhen said that he couldn't beat Ruan Linshuang, not because he was inferior in eloquence, but because Ruan Linshuang was too determined. Once he met her eyes, Qin Zhen became a little weaker for no reason, and it was meaningless to say anything.

He squatted down to pull Ruan Yuzhang's trouser legs, trying to persuade him to follow suit. When Ruan Yuzhang saw him reaching out to grab himself again, he quickly stepped back with his clothes in his hands, with a terrified expression on his face, saying "Don't come here, You almost ripped off my pants just now."

Qin Zhen: "..."

He had no choice but to clear his throat, "Master Ruan, don't you say a few words."

"What are you talking about?" Ruan Yuzhang put his hand on the top of his daughter's head, and he smiled slightly, "What happened last night made me realize that my family's Linshuang is destined to fly out of this courtyard wall and soar for nine days. She If you want to go, and you can take care of yourself, maybe you can be your helper, I will let her down in this square inch."

"Parents love their son, and naturally hope that she will have no ups and downs and no wind and rain in her life, but if she protects her too much, she will break the child's wings. Now that Shuang'er has thought clearly and has an idea, I will support her underneath."

Qin Zhen is still a bachelor, and he can't understand what these old fathers need to worry about, but his eyes follow a red shadow falling from the roof. This red shadow can fly several feet by stepping on a leaf. Qin Zhen Almost blurted out "Okay!"

In order to prevent Ruan Yuzhang from noticing that he hadn't listened to the sentence "If she wants to go..." just now, Qin Zhen suppressed the word "good" that came to his lips.

As soon as Zhao Linlang came out of the house, she saw Chai Zheng tossing around. She picked up a stone and threw it at Chai Zheng's wound. With a howl of misery, General Vanguard said, "It's raining a lot these days, and there's been a lot of rain ahead." Hurry up, let's not delay for too long, we will set off later."

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It usually takes seven days to go from Suzhou to the Haiphong garrison, and it takes half a month to go back and forth. Before Qin Zhen set off, there was not much food in stock, and he delayed it for a few days. His horse was both too slow and too fast.

Chai Zheng still gave half of the saddle to Ruan Linshuang, her mother led the rear, and Chai Zheng was responsible for opening the way and guarding against the child's energy.

She really couldn't stand Qin Zhen's verbal abuse of his bony horse, so she poked Ruan Linshuang on the shoulder and motioned for her to say something.

General Qin is like a powder keg at any time, but seeing Ruan Linshuang suddenly become a squib.

During the two days of getting along without incident on the road, Qin Zhen had developed to the point where Ruan Linshuang was close to him, and he immediately stood up and stood silent, like a black panther being grabbed by the back of its neck.

After teasing the chattering General Qin, Chai Zheng slowed down again. She rode a horse and landed in the middle half of the team, following the grain and grass slowly.

"After so many days of hunger, the generals of Mu Sang Kingdom, even if they are idiots, should know that our army is short of food." In fact, Chai Zheng also has his chest upright, and his sitting posture is not the same as Qin Zhen's.

She said, "Since we know that there is a shortage of food in the army, let's take a drastic measure. As long as the food and grass are robbed, and we encircle without annihilating them, we can break through the Dajing Sea defense line in a few days."

"Xiao Ruan, do you think that Zhao Qian's brain has already started to get sick?" Chai Zheng wondered, "Or he's messing around with food and grass so much? Wouldn't it be okay if he had the spare time to figure something else out?"

Detaining grain and grass and not distributing it is simply the worst of the worst.

"I think Zhao Qian should have a deeper consideration." Ruan Linshuang spread out the overall situation and thought for a while, "The coastal defense garrison has never been the main force of Dajing, and Zhao Qian probably didn't even think of it being able to last for so long, so I have no idea. Chai Guogong is even more defensive."

"Could it be that Zhao Qian just wants to bring down Haiphong?" Chai Zheng comforted the hairs on his body, "He can do this kind of subjugation?!"

Think about it, when I died, Dajing moved the capital twice, and the two counties and eighteen prefectures that were cut off were almost taught Fanbang characters. Zhao Qian's prodigal state-running mind must not be developed overnight. After a while, the embryonic form was already formed, and it blew up in an instant without being dragged.

The leading horse stopped suddenly, and there was not enough space between the grain carts, so they bumped into each other, Chai Zheng's thoughts of flying away suddenly stopped, and Ruan Linshuang said, "Stop now, I'm afraid something will happen."

"Let's go ahead and have a look." Chai Zheng glanced down at the weapon on his waist, "No matter what happens, don't be afraid, I'm here."

"Yes." Ruan Linshuang narrowed her eyes, "I know."

There are no more than two kinds of people who will rob food on the road, one is the bandits who specialize in doing this, and the other is the enemy army setting up an ambush. Of course, there are also two situations where they hit at the same time, but very rarely, it has to be the reincarnation of the broom star Only then will it happen to me like this once.

Chai Zheng suspects that Qin Zhen is the reincarnation of Broom Star.

The bandits who murdered and robbed occasionally gave away titles. After all, they were robbing the regular army, not some officials and lords who went home to visit their relatives. At least respect should be given.

So, Chaizheng heard the big-eared man in front of him shouting loudly, "I'm wide and round, the food and grass are left, and people can go. If you resist, the two axes in my hand are not vegetarians!"

He looked at the crowd, stopped when he stopped at Ruan Linshuang and Chai Zheng, "You soldiers, you haven't won many battles, and you have done a lot of extravagant and lustful things. You have only been stationed for a few years now. ? The children are so old, they still bring them around.”

"..." Chai Zheng was full of thoughts, "Your eyes are born with anger?"

But she didn't say anything, she is now a scholar who knows everything.

This mountain should be occupied by bandits from top to bottom, so they dared to rob it openly.

The past few years when He Gui was the magistrate...too mediocre to do practical things, he played the sign of occupying the mountain as the king, and he didn't send out soldiers, but he still raised a bunch of things that harm people.

Qin Zhen turned the red-tasseled gun in his hand, and his face was as dark as the bottom of a pot. "These grains are used to save lives ahead, so you don't need to waste your time talking."

"In that case, brothers, let's do it." Kuan Yuan shouted, and dozens of bandits armed with knives, forks, axes, and pots and pans came out of the bushes.

"..." No wonder He Gui didn't suppress the bandits, it's flattering for this gang of mobs to name them "bandits".

Chai Zheng gathered the reins and took two steps back, Ruan Linshuang asked with a short "huh?"

Chai Zheng said, "There are others following, it's been a long time."

These people have never done anything, as if they were waiting for a more suitable opportunity.

Only Xiao Thirty was left among Zhao Linlang's people, and the others had already stepped forward quickly. Although the people left behind were not elites, they were experienced in many battles.

Even though there was already a fight in the front at this time, the people behind did not panic. They only sent the clever scouts to convey back and forth. If Qin Zhen could withstand the situation, he did not intend to lend a helping hand.

"These people can see that the bandits are not Qin Zhen's opponents. If they want to mess up, they will mess up at this moment. If they don't take action now, they will have no chance to do anything after walking out of this mountain and this forest."

Chai Zheng's heartbeat was accelerating.

Ruan Linshuang was close to her, so he could naturally feel Chai Zheng's nervousness.

Although the precarious days of licking blood with the knife head have been engraved in Chai Zheng's bones and blood, after all, he has not encountered much danger in the past eight years, and Chai Zheng is not sure whether he has the energy to protect Ruan Linshuang all of a sudden.

She lowered her voice and said, "If there is a fight later, you should get under the grain cart. The grain cart is strong and cannot hit you."

"Okay," Ruan Linshuang didn't hesitate, "you have to be careful too."

Almost as soon as the words were finished, there was a sound of piercing through the air. As soon as Chai Zheng saw a little spark in the sky, he immediately realized, "They want to burn food and grass!"

Kuanyuan also saw this overwhelming situation, and cursed, "Grandma's mother, who the hell set fire to it! That's food, damn it!"

In his hand, he swiped two axes across Qin Zhen's forehead, turned around and slashed at the group of people who had just emerged, "Fuck your mother, eat my food."

Qin Zhen: "..."

Chai Zheng pulled Ruan Linshuang with one hand, supported the horse with the other, flipped onto the grain cart by herself, and at the same time pushed Ruan Linshuang under the grain cart. She couldn't see the angle, and there was a "boom"...

"Hiss," Chai Zheng wrinkled his face, rubbed his hands and whispered, "Xiao Ruan, Xiao Ruan, are you okay...the bump hurts?"

Ruan Linshuang's forehead was red, she was not very old, and she was small in stature, she retracted her feet like an old monk in meditation, and sat under the cart.

If the bag on her head was knocked out by someone else for other reasons, Ruan Linshuang would definitely find a chance to hit that person with bags all over her head. She originally had a gentle appearance and a personality of vindictiveness, but it happened to be knocked out by Chai Zheng , or to save her life, Ruan Linshuang sighed and rubbed it by himself.

Occasionally, the falling arrow landed in front of her, splashing some sparks and trying to jump onto the sackcloth bag, Ruan Linshuang would grab a handful of ashes in the dark and sprinkle them over, doing what she could.

She poked her head out a little, so she could see the outside clearly from this angle, but if she cut it off with a knife, she would get stuck on the axle again, so she couldn't die anyway.

Chai Zheng likes to wear red clothes, she is ostentatious, and can be identified at a glance. Those who rob food and grass see that she is a child, and she is also a weak girl. On the third floor and the third floor, Ruan Linshuang saw that the surrounding people did not know what to do, and some of them were purely chopping the air crazily.

Chai Zheng was also a little annoyed by the siege. These people who rushed out to burn food and grass were obviously deployed by the Musang Kingdom. They simply changed their clothes and covered their faces, but they didn't change their weapons. I guess they didn't plan to change them either. Food and grass can be robbed with great fanfare, and the two armies are at war, so is it still important to pay attention to reciprocity?

Suddenly, a smell of tung oil permeated the air, which was very pungent, far beyond what a small dose of arrowheads could produce. Chai Zheng stood on the shoulder of an adult man, looking very far away——

A puff of thick smoke shot out from the woods, and the carrier of this smoke quickly approached the grain truck, and the grain truck that Ruan Linshuang was in happened to be at the end of the queue!

Chai Zheng turned pale with fright in an instant. She thrust the long sword into the man's celestial cap, and then jumped up from the ground, shouting, "Mother! Fire ox cart, protect the grain and grass!" Then rushed to the grain cart where Ruan Linshuang was.

Ruan Linshuang is not a fool, she felt the heat wave hit her face, she rolled on the ground, and rolled into the grass, just as Chai Zheng came up to her, grabbed her hand, and started to find another way out in the rampant fire ox cart .

The coastal defense garrison trained by Chai Guogong for six years has almost reached the level of bravery and everyone is good at fighting. Musang Kingdom has also suffered heavy losses in the past few years. A raging fire was ignited, and the sky was covered with smoke and dust.

Chai Zheng dragged Ruan Linshuang to a place with water... The woods at the foot of the mountain were small, and there were official roads on both sides. It had been rainy and windy recently, so the fire should not spread, but the people inside could only Run for your life.

Once the fire started, all creatures would be engulfed in an instant. Chai Zheng grabbed Ruan Linshuang's hand fiercely. She didn't know how much strength she used, and she didn't even dare to turn her head. The footprints left are always three feet away, like playing games.

Ruan Linshuang was wearing a goose-yellow long dress, the corners of which had been scalded black by the flames, and half of her hair was scattered because of the roll just now, so Ruan Linshuang simply threw away the hairpin and step that got in the way, and followed Chai Zheng desperately with the skirt in her hand. run.

Chai Zheng's crimson figure was as light as a cloud of smoke. Her feet stepped on dead branches and rotten leaves, and she could fly up at any time. Take a step forward.

Behind her is a sea of ​​flames, a bloody sea of ​​flames that can destroy everything, as long as she slows down a little, she will be lost forever.

However, Ruan Linshuang just looked at Chai Zheng's back, and she didn't feel any fear, on the contrary, her heart was open and open——

Chai Zheng ran forward without looking back, as if this run was to take her to the end of the world.

Tianya Haijiao did not arrive, but fell into a cold river first. There are many active springs in the mountains, and the river slowly gathers to a wider area. It is hot and cold, and coupled with the envelopment of the river, Chaizheng is a little dizzy for a while. of.

She tore off the hairband from her head, and with the last of her consciousness, she tied herself and Ruan Linshuang's hands tightly together.

Although Chai Zheng has changed his habit of looking for trouble when nothing happens, he dare not let go of his skills, so he has the trouble of cutting his own hair every now and then.

Her hair tie was made of high-quality cotton thread mixed with gold thread, it was more than flexible and would not be broken when it was pulled out of the river. When it was fished out of the river, it still firmly tied her and Ruan Linshuang.

It was probably because Chai Zheng was nervous about the safety of the two of them, and her physical strength was at its limit. She held her breath and woke up later than Ruan Linshuang.

This is a small wooden house, which is not very old, and the burrs on some corners have not been smoothed. There are two beds in total, one big and one small. In order to prevent bugs from crawling up while sleeping, medicine bags are hung all around.

Ruan Linshuang stood at the window and looked out. She had already changed her clothes, and she was wearing a light blue short skirt with a ring of silver bells on the hem, which rang together when she moved.

Ruan Linshuang had eyes behind her back, and Chai Zheng just woke up, staring blankly at the top of her head, before she even moved a finger, she turned her head.

Chai Zheng suspected that when he was unconscious, he was trampled by hundreds of cows, and there was no pain anywhere in his body. Even his eyelids were sore, and tears came out after opening for a while.

Her stomach is still very hungry, her throat is smoking, so much water in the emotional river is purely for nothing.

Chai Zheng tried to move her hand, only to find that her left arm was broken, had been bandaged and fixed, and was falling on her chest. Although it did not affect the function of her right hand, Chai Zheng still looked at Ruan Linshuang eagerly.

Ruan Linshuang knew that Chai Zheng was a pain that could be exaggerated, but she couldn't help it, and brought her the bowl of warm noodles on the table.

The craftsmanship of the noodles below is very average, the salt is not evenly sprinkled, and because it has been left for a long time, it can't be blended, so Chai Zheng can only give it to his mouth.

Probably because he was extremely hungry, Chai Zheng felt that the meal was good and delicious.

"Where is this?" Chai Zheng asked, half leaning on the bed after eating and drinking.

She just touched her waist, and her sword for self-defense was gone, but if it was just an ordinary fisherman who saved them, it would be normal to hide the unsafe factors.

Ruan Linshuang pointed to the window, "The sea is outside, but there are no villages around. This cabin seems to have popped out of thin air."

If the suburbs of Chang'an can understand this, even if you live alone, if you catch fish and lack other things, you can go directly to the city to exchange them, anyway, you can survive.

However, there have been wars on the Yellow Sea for years, and people from both sides come and go, sometimes provoking cannons, and the surrounding roars for hours, and the nearest county town takes a day to ride back and forth.

Chai Zheng thought, looking around the room.

The traces of life left here are not heavy. I am afraid that even the owner of this house has just moved in not long ago, and there are no boxes for storing clothes in the house, which means that no one intends to live for a long time.

Ruan Linshuang said, "When I woke up, there were father and daughter in the room. The daughter was a little younger than you and me. She helped change our clothes, and my father, Kong Wu, was not Kong Wu of a farmer or a fisherman. Powerful, more like a master or a soldier."

As she spoke, she stretched out her hand to measure Chai Zheng's forehead, "Fortunately, she didn't have a fever."

Chai Zheng smiled, "Don't worry, I didn't get sick so easily, and this arm will be able to move soon, I have experience, I won't lie to you."

Ruan Linshuang didn't want to laugh with her, her face was still tense, she didn't raise her eyes or mouth corners, she gave a faint "oh", put the empty bowl back on the dining table, and then went back to the window, It seems that there is something more beautiful than Chai Zheng outside.

"..." Chai Zheng was a little nervous, based on what she knew about Xiao Ruan, she was angry, but Chai Zheng really didn't know what her Xiao Ruan was muffled about.

Just ask if you don't understand, Chai Zheng doesn't have so many unnecessary reservations.

"Is it because I was injured?" Chai Zheng murmured, "Bumps and bumps are inevitable when you run for your life, and they are all minor injuries."

Ruan Linshuang still didn't speak, but her eyes changed slightly, and she withdrew from the window and landed on Chai Zheng.

Ruan Linshuang's pupils were a little pale, almost glazed in color when she was facing the sun, and she signaled Chai Zheng to continue.

"..." What Chai Zheng meant was that she had finished her self-criticism.

"..."

Silence was trapped in the cabin, with no outlet to vent, Chai Zheng kicked the quilt twice, "Little Ruan, I used to come here like this before, unless I was mischievous or didn't follow the military rules, I didn't make much trouble at other times. People are angry. If you tell me clearly, even if I guess next year, I can only guess a little bit of fur, so don't waste me like this."

The environment in which her two grew up was completely different, so she naturally thinks about things from different angles. Chai Zheng doesn't think there is any problem with this, but occasionally it seems troublesome.

"Your arm." Ruan Linshuang said, pulling out her right arm.

There is a blue strangle mark on her right arm. The strangle mark is very wide and wrapped multiple times, but Chai Zheng's headband has its limit. Even if the arms of the two little girls are very thin, if they focus on one side, If the other party wants to be tied up, he must pay some price.

Chai Zheng didn't have much leftover material for herself, so she had to tie the last turn very tightly. Fractures in the river are considered light. If the water is strong today, it may even break her entire arm. , Chai Zheng would not be able to survive.

Ruan Linshuang didn't rush up to shake the water in her head, it was all because of her past friendship and self-cultivation, Chai Zheng still wanted a good face?

"Chai Zheng, I don't need protection like you." Ruan Linshuang's voice was cold, but it wasn't the kind of coldness after anger, but close to no emotion, without frustration.

She said, "You are my last thought and also my deepest thought. Instead of letting you die because of me, it's better to put a distance between us and not drag each other down... Chai Zheng, we are not suitable to live together .”