Sha Po Lang

The bandits and mobs rampant in the Central Plains made Cai Bin very upset. After all, General Cai was old. The Central Plains army under his command looked mighty and majestic, but in fact they were also called "Old People's Army". Sitting, except for occasional peace and chaos, is basically used for border reinforcements.

At this moment, most of Cai Bing's troops were affected by the two places in the northwest. He didn't have eagle armor in his hand, and he was cautious by nature, he didn't dare to take any risks at all, and was harassed by the mob.

It took Gu Yun three to five days to figure out the ins and outs of this group of mobs. He personally checked the terrain on the map, and then sent someone to contact General Cai to prepare a couple of potstickers.

The rebel bandits didn't know who was leading the team from the capital, but after a few trials, they found that this group was more face-to-face than Cai Bing, threatening people with heavy armor and guns, but never fired, only light cavalry, every time After chasing for one or two miles the first time, he ordered Jin to withdraw his troops. He decided that this army was a speck but not useful. When he was planning to make a siege with them, Cai Bin suddenly felt as if he had a convulsion. In the style of chasing, all the remaining troops of the Central Plains garrison came out to raid and surround the rebel mob.

In fact, there are not many troops left behind in the Central Plains garrison. If you talk about fighting, neither side may suffer. It's just that the gangsters are used to the casual way of advancing and retreating. They think they are slippery and relentless loach. Shi, fighting and walking, wandering around Cai Bing, but met Gu Yun who had been waiting for a long time on the way back.

Gu Yun ordered the heavy armor to set up the guns and aim at the bandit gang. The leader of the bandit saw that the young soldiers came to scare people again, and immediately ordered his men to rush into the heavy armor formation. On the next day, the bandit leader saw that there was no goods in the muzzle, it was pure paper, and he became more unscrupulous after being overjoyed, and directly led his troops forward with light armor.

When the bandit gang was completely trapped in Hu, those "paper" heavy artillery suddenly rang out. The bandit gang was caught off guard, and they turned their backs.

The bandit gang was defeated, and the leader of the legendary "Fire Dragon" was captured alive. Gu Yun's eyes hurt from the ugliness of the pitted bandit leader, and he planned to throw this person to Shen Yiwan directly. Who instigated it, where is the lair, is there anything that can make us black and white..."

Shen Yi choked and coughed fiercely: "Marshal, you are crazy poor!"

Gu Yun waved his hand: "Don't talk about beating him...torturing to extract a confession, I'm going to catch up with Lao Cai."

He was about to leave after speaking when he suddenly saw a soldier holding a strangely shaped short knife in his hand. It was slightly longer than a dagger, the tip of the knife was slightly hooked, and there was a graceful arc on the side, which was quite different from the short knife in the Central Plains. Seeing it, Gu Yun thought it looked familiar, so he reached out to take it.

"Marshal, this was found on the bandit leader's body."

Gu Yun pulled out the dagger, scratched the blade with his finger, narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice: "Barbarian things?"

"It's a short scimitar from the Eighteen Tribes." At this moment, Chen Qingxu came over, "Master Hou, is the steel plate loose?"

"No, please trouble Miss Chen to run around with us in the middle of the night." Gu Yun shook his head, he held the handle of the short knife, "Well, is the handle so short that it won't get stuck in your hand?"

"The hilt is not short, this is a woman's knife," Chen Qingxu took over the scimitar, and padded it in her hand, "Eighteen parts of the northern barbarians eat the wind and drink the dew, and compete with the beasts on the grassland for food, Therefore, there is often such a groove on the handle of the knife. In case of encountering a strong beast, it can prevent it from being dropped during the fight. The steel mouth of this knife is very good. The original owner must be of high status. Then her hands must be very small, about the same as mine, and should be a woman—Look here, Lord Hou."

She turned the handle of the knife around to show Gu Yun, and there was a circle of complicated patterns under the handle, like a totem wrapped around countless flowers and vines, with a flame shape wrapped in the middle.

Chen Qingxu said: "I saw this pattern of flower vines in a ruin that was abandoned by the Eighteen Tribes. I heard from the kidnapped Han slaves that it seemed to be the symbol of the Goddess of the Eighteen Tribes."

"I know," Gu Yun's expression turned serious, "I also know who the symbol in the middle represents."

Shen Yi didn't know when he came over, and he took a breath when he saw the pattern: "Heart of the earth?"

Chen Qingxu asked inexplicably, "Who?"

Shen Yi: "Hugel... Xiuniang, she... hasn't she been dead for many years? How could..."

Gu Yun waved his hand at him, took the short knife, turned around and walked into the place where the bandit leader Huolong was imprisoned, and sent all the guards away with a wave of his hand.

He was holding the short knife, and there was no expression of joy or anger on his face. The slightly curved knife was old, but still sharp, with a pungent feeling that would take a piece of flesh when it stabbed into the flesh.Gu Yun pinned the tip of the knife to Huolong's chin: "I heard that you won't reveal where your rebel army is from, and you won't tell who urged you to take advantage of the fire and pester Cai's army?"

Fire Dragon: "Bah, little boy!"

Gu Yun laughed when he heard the words, feeling a little useful - in his opinion, calling a man a "little boy" is the same as calling a woman a "vixen", and it only means that the person being scolded is good-looking.

"If you want to talk, don't talk about it," Gu Yun took the time to turn around and told Shen Yi, "In the face of a national crisis, this person has connections with foreign countries, and he can't get along with the northern barbarians. Your barbarian fathers haven't entered the customs yet. Let's give it to you first." Licking my feet... interrogating you is a waste of my time, tomorrow I will announce it to the world, and I will show it to the public at a later time!"

Halfway through Huolong's hearing, he was confused at first, and then his expression became more and more horrified. Seeing that Gu Yun was not joking, he got up to leave with a serious attitude, so he struggled hard: "Slander! Dog officer! Brothers all know that you, I, are An upright man, you dare to slander my reputation with such nonsense...""Slander?" Gu Yun shook the eighteen-part female knife in front of the fire dragon twice, "people in the Central Plains call this thing Spike Steel, The curved crescent on the front is a typical barbarian, isn't it yours?"

Fire Dragon was stunned.

"The scabbard and the grooves are all specially made. The high-quality leather scabbard and the totem on the handle are as fine as life. It must come from the hands of famous experts. Ordinary barbarians can't afford this. The original owner is either rich or expensive—" Gu Yun slightly He raised his chin, stared at the fire dragon and said, "I said ugly, your brothers all know that you have put this thing on your body all day long, but no one knows the origin of this thing, right? Tsk, a bunch of ignorant mud legs... ..."

"Wait! Slow... slow down!" Huolong shouted, "That...that's my enemy's stuff, isn't it..."

Gu Yun laughed loudly and said: "Yes, it sounds real. I've seen someone who carried his lover's things with him, and it's the first time I heard that there are people who are so obsessed with their enemies. What kind of hatred is so lingering, come and show me experience."

"That woman put down a hundred or so brothers in my village, stabbed them one by one, and finally set a fire and burned the top of the mountain. A mountain, even the birds were burnt, and ran away. I came out and gave me this scar. I don’t even know where she came from, and I don’t know that she is a barbarian. I am carrying this knife to remind myself of the shame of the past!" The fire dragon was furious , shouted, "Officer dog, you can slander me for anything, if you dare to give me this shit, I'll bite you to death as a ghost!"

Shen Yi smiled at the side and said: "Then you have a weird mouth, you old man, continue to make up, a barbarian woman sneaks into the bandit's den for nothing, and burns a bandit on the top of a mountain by herself? It's fresh—— Marshal , does the theater troupe hired by your mansion have such a good script?"

Gu Yun sighed: "I can't even afford meat, so I drink porridge every day at home, and pay back the theater troupe..."

Huolong straightened his eyebrows and said with blank eyes: "Commander...which commander?"

Gu Yun turned the dagger out of his hand, looked at him and smiled maliciously.

Huolong recalled it quickly, and took a breath: "You, are you Gu... Gu..."

"Don't gossip about relatives, who is your aunt?" Shen Yi interrupted him, "Tell me how you colluded with the barbarians in Yurou Township."

Huolong's face turned red in a flash: "I said it was my enemy! One word is not true, my grandma is struck by lightning!"

"That woman followed a small caravan back then, she seemed to be separated from her family, and she paid someone to take her for a ride. I didn't know where she was going. We stopped the caravan on the way, and saw how pretty she was. , and they went up the mountain together, she was carrying a baby in swaddling clothes, it looked like it was not full moon, and she was pregnant with a..."

Shen Yi was taken aback inwardly, but asked as calmly as possible on the face: "When did it happen?"

Fire Dragon said: "Nineteen...20 years ago."

Under the dim light, Gu Yun and Shen Yi exchanged a veiled look - it sounded like what happened when the barbarian goddess fled back then, so the baby at that time should be Chang Geng, but what happened to the one in Xiuniang's stomach? thing?

Shen Yi: "What happened next?"

Huolong leaned back, and said in a hoarse voice: "Most of the other people who were tied up the mountain were looking for life and death. She is different. That girl has a good face, but her brain doesn't seem to work well. She doesn't respond when others talk to her. Beat her She didn't know it was painful, and she didn't resist no matter what she was asked to do, and within a few months, a premature baby was born."

Gu Yun's hand holding the dagger tightened slightly. For some reason, when he heard this passage, he suddenly felt a shuddering feeling - the intuition that he hadn't missed for so many years seemed to be plucking the string in his heart again.

"It is said that a woman who has just given birth to a cub is unclean. No one touched her or cared about her for a while, but she was afraid that someone would run away, so she locked her feet in the room and gave her food every day. She actually He didn't die either... After a while, a little brother of mine who was full of water was thinking about the beauty of the woman, and secretly ran over to look at it, and came back and told me inexplicably in horror, saying that there was only one cub left by her side, and the other was gone gone."

Shen Yi almost forgot that he was talking routinely, and blurted out: "Which one is missing?"

"Then who the hell knows, they are all half-dead children, skinny like a big mouse." Fire Dragon was immediately alert, "Why do you ask this?"

Shen Yi froze, then slammed the whip in his hand to the side, and said coldly: "You don't know anything, what are you talking about? It's so strange to have one more barbarian and one less, so let you explain it to me, What are you rambling about waiting for?"

Fire Dragon did not get angry, and his face tightened: "...No, dead children are not uncommon, such cubs are lowly, and there are not many dead ones... What is strange is that my brother said that he did not see the corpse Where, the woman was locked in the house, she couldn't get out at all, and she couldn't be buried in the ground, but she neither threw it out nor put it in the house, and the child... just, disappeared out of thin air, at that time A watchman said that he saw a fire in the woman’s room at midnight, at first he thought it was cooking secretly, but later he heard that there were many crows roaming around on her beam all day long..."

Shen Yi felt goose bumps all over his body, and subconsciously glanced at Gu Yun.

The corners of the fire dragon's burnt eyes twitched a few times: "This incident caused panic at one time. Some people said that this woman is sly and abnormal, and wanted to kill her. It's been a long time without any results. At that time, my elder brother saw what she said, she was able to work, and she was active in bed, so he made the decision to keep her, including the half-dead son, and kept her for a few years... "

"That person is really a monster..." Huolong sighed, "Really, if there is no man looking for her at night, she will toss the little cubs around her in a different way, and the howling can be heard across the mountain. My brothers couldn't stand it any longer, and told her to restrain herself, she agreed on the surface, but turned around and started again."

Gu Yun stood up abruptly.

Shen Yi's heart was in suspense. Seeing Gu Yun reluctantly put the hand holding the short knife behind his back, the veins were about to burst from the back of his hand.

Fortunately, Huolong didn't notice, as if immersed in his memory, he murmured: "There is an old saying that a tiger's poison does not eat its young. Although we are all ruthless and not afraid of retribution, we have never seen such a ruthless woman... ...But our elder brother didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup she poured into him. He insisted that this kind of woman who is not from a good family should stay on the mountain.

Gu Yun's voice was imperceptibly dry: "How did you send it?"

"Poison, a barbarian woman is full of poison. She has endured in our cottage for many years without showing her feet. Gradually, the brothers are not guarding against her, and they easily fall for her. She killed the entire cottage. , even those women, slaves, and meat tickets who were captured up the mountain like her, no one let them go, and finally set a big fire on the mountain." Pain flashed across Huolong's face, he cursed, and said A long run of foul language.

This time, no one bothered to interrupt him, Gu Yun's expression was so ugly that he couldn't hold back anymore.

"I happened to have a stomachache that day, and I didn't dare to drink too much wine or water. Only then did I barely gather enough strength to crawl out of the sea of ​​fire and save my life. That knife... that knife was pulled from my elder brother's chest Yes. If I see that woman again, I'll kill her!"

Gu Yun said in a low voice: "She brought a young child to kill people and burn mountains together."

"She put that bastard in the basket," Huolong said, "on her back, and that bastard always looked half-dead, lying in the bamboo basket as if without a bone, and kept looking at the dead people all over the place. He can't even cry, after all these years, if he didn't die at the hands of that woman, he must be a bloody evildoer."

Gu Yun turned around and left without saying a word.

Shen Yi hurriedly chased him out: "Marshal, Marshal!"

"This person can't stay," Gu Yun lowered his voice and said quickly, "Old Cai is still here, before he notices, let this boiled head shut up forever and do it cleanly."

As he said that, Gu Yun suddenly thought of something again, he stopped in his footsteps, his brows were full of gloom: "No, I forgot that there was Calais Yinghuo, when he returned from Yanhui, he and Xiuniang had been negotiating the terms in secret, that barbarian know what."

Shen Yi tremblingly said: "Marshal..."

"He never told me," Gu Yun's shoulders suddenly slumped, but the steel plate on his body made him unable to bend down, and his standing posture was indescribably stiff, "He never told me, and he didn't even mention it. ...I know that barbarian woman is full of revenge and will not treat him too well, but it is always connected by blood..."

Shen Yi hurriedly said: "You don't know what that crazy woman Hugel did. Twenty years ago you still had a runny nose and wrote big characters. It's okay, Zixi, this has nothing to do with you!"

"The two of us picked him up in the snow that time, it wasn't because he was young and ignorant and sneaked out to play," Gu Yun said in a low voice, "He is clearly unbearable to be abused, so..."

And they even "kindly" sent him back.

Shen Yi was speechless.

After a while, Shen Yi said in a whisper: "If... I'm talking about a hypothesis, assuming that the child who stays is not the son of the imperial concubine..."

Shen Yi couldn't help but think of the scene many years ago when the young Chang Geng calmly said in front of him that he was not a prince, and that the disability on his feet was smashed by Xiu Niang.

Gu Yun raised his eyes suddenly: "What do you want to say?"

"It doesn't matter who the mother is, there's not much difference between the witches and the sisters of the witches. The question is...whose child does Hugel conceive?" Shen Yi licked the corner of his mouth with difficulty.

Back then, the imperial concubine's younger sister lived in the palace and was going to marry a child of the clan. Would Yuanhe Xiandi do such a thing of guarding and stealing?

If the first emperor was really that shameless, everyone would be relieved, but what if...not?

If it wasn't for the first emperor, then the most suspicious person would undoubtedly be the person who helped them escape back then. He had evil intentions, but he was able to enter and leave the palace. …

The combination of these conditions is really easy to remind people of Master Chi and his gang of Japanese spies.

Shen Yi's whole body was cold: "Marshal, this..."

Gu Yun raised his head and glanced at him, his eyes were like knives, Shen Yi suddenly fell silent.

"It's rotten in the stomach." Gu Yun lowered his head, stroked the short knife in his hands with both hands, and said decisively, "I will clean up the Beiman side one day sooner or later, so don't mention it again."

Shen Yi: "...Yes."

Gu Yun walked away with a heavy face, his back propped up straight by the steel plate seemed very thoughtful, and he found Chen Qingxu alone.

"Miss Chen took a step to speak." Gu Yun said.

Chen Qingxu didn't know why, so she followed him to the side.

Gu Yun said: "Ms. Chen is proficient in medical theory, and she stayed in the barbarian place for more than half a year. I have a question to ask you."

Chen Qingxu hurriedly said, "Don't dare".

Gu Yun absently helped her up a little: "Do they have any special witchcraft... that can be used on babies?"

Chen Qingxu was startled suddenly.

Gu Yun immediately grasped the shock she showed at this moment: "What?"

Chen Qingxu was silent for a long time, took two steps restlessly on the spot, and then sighed deeply: "Marshal... have you heard of Wuergu?"