Pei Gonggui

The next day, the fog cleared and the rain stopped in the mountains.

Pei Jun didn't close his eyes all night, and because of the knife wound on his arm, there was no medicine to heal the abscess and pain. At this time, his whole body began to feel hot, and his whole body was very weak.But when he saw the sun rising, he still stood up and led a group of people out of the earth cave to eat grass, leaves and fruits in the forest, and then walked out of the mountain forest, and finally arrived at a nearby county town at noon .

Seeing that there were guards besieging the city for inspection, everyone did not enter the city. Just when they were worried about how to replenish supplies, a caravan of darts came out of the city.

With a brainstorm, Pei Jun stopped his men and horses outside the city, gave them money, asked them to change clothes with him, and bought all the food, horses and two old cars of the bodyguard team. The poor wounded were settled, and everyone finally had a full meal.

He thought for a while, guessing that he, Yan, and Fang are all "criminal officials" wanted by the court. If they are recognized, they will drag down the whole team and delay the trip, so he hid in the carriage with Yan and Fang. After ordering the guards to find out the shortcut to Ningcheng in detail, the group of people changed their appearance and started on the road again.

With chariots and horses, everyone's footsteps are much faster. The raw materials should take two or three days to arrive, and now they only need to travel another day and night.

For Pei Jun, this meant that he would see Jiang Yue sooner.

There was an unspeakable comfort in his heart, and the word "Jiang Yue" also turned into rain and dew on the dry land, spreading and wandering in his dry mind, reminding him of the past of the two in the shaking carriage. Little by little, he thought of fishing in the ice and snow, the scented tea that Jiang Yue handed him, and even the sweetness that came from the tea slipping down his throat.

The sun radiated heat wantonly, making the carriage hot and dry.Everyone was exhausted, and they took turns to rest in the carriage all the way, but until dawn the next day, no matter how many times the guards took turns to rest, even if Fang Mingjue and Yan Yuliang could no longer bear the sleepiness and closed their eyes, Pei Jun also Neither fell asleep.

He didn't even relax against the wall of the car once, and he never finished eating the food that was given to him.

In the afternoon of the second day, Ning Cheng was finally in sight, and Pei Jun hurriedly dispatched a cavalry of guards to investigate first. Until then, the tense heartstrings were only slightly relaxed.

Yan Yuliang woke up when he heard the sound, and saw that Pei Jun's eyes were red but he was still struggling with his injured arm, so he persuaded him beside him: "Ziyu, you have only arrived at Shilipo now, and you may not be able to enter the city until half an hour later. Still sleep?"

Fang Mingjue also said worriedly: "Yeah, since we got off the boat, I haven't seen you really slept. You still have injuries on your body, if you don't sleep at all, how can you bear it—"

"It's not that I don't want to sleep." Pei Jun interrupted him, raised his hand to press his sore and sore eye sockets, and said in a deep voice, "It's because I can't see Prince Jin, so I can't sleep."

Fang Mingjue wanted to persuade him again, but at this moment the carriage stopped suddenly.

Pei Jun frowned, and put down his hands: "What's going on? Why did you stop?"

The voice of the driving guard came from outside the curtain: "My lord, the road ahead... is blocked."

"It's blocked?" Pei Jun lifted the curtain impatiently, and just wanted to get out of the car to have a look, but when he stood up straight, he felt dizzy for a while.

He hastened to support the frame of the car and closed his eyes for a moment, and opened his eyes to look again after he stabilized his body, but was suddenly frightened by the scene in front of him.

The guards he just sent to investigate were parked not far ahead, facing them on horseback, raised their hands high, and made a "stop" gesture.

Behind the guard is a dense jungle, and on the muddy ground in this jungle, at this moment, there are piles of dead bodies, dead horses and burnt battle flags all over the ground, and the gray-black blood flowing out of them has already disappeared. It seeps into the soil, and emits a stench due to the long-term retention, attracting a lot of maggots and flies to bite and bite, and the whole place is in a Shura state.

Fang Mingjue poked his head out behind Pei Jun, was shocked when he saw the scene, turned his eyes to look at Pei Jun, and asked tremblingly, "Whose army is this? Could it be..."

Pei Jun felt an ominous premonition in his heart, and immediately got out of the carriage, and walked forward staggeringly.

The more he walked forward, the more dead bodies and horses he saw, and the stronger the stench, which made him raise his hands to cover his mouth and nose, and searched around anxiously, finally seeing a battle flag that had not been completely destroyed It was stuffed under a horse carcass, and it seemed that the words on the flag could be read clearly.

He hurriedly pulled out the battle flag with shaking hands, and unfolded it. In an instant, the blood residue and mud stains on the battle flag were all shaken off, and the bright red embroidered characters on the flag were also revealed——

"Jin".

There was a crash in Pei Jun's head, his eyes were wide open, his legs were weak, and his whole body shook suddenly: "No, no, no, no..."

He held on to the battle flag tightly, all the blood on his face was gone, he held on to the tree trunk more anxiously and continued to search forward. After a while, he pulled out a battle flag tightly held in the hands of the dead body again. It is still a bright red "Jin" character.

Pei Jun only felt that the blood in his whole body flowed up from the soles of his feet, and poured into the back of his head like ice water, which made his whole body freeze, and he couldn't take another step. At this moment, he could only call out to the guards beside him, "Quick... See what's going on!"

The guard seemed to be awakened by his roar, and galloped forward as soon as he clamped the horse's belly.At this time, Yan, Fang and other guards also surrounded one after another. When they saw countless dead bodies in the forest, wearing two kinds of armor and holding weapons tightly in their hands, they knew that this place was once a dangerous battlefield. Goodbye Pei Jun Standing alone in the same place motionless, their eyes seemed to be fixed on somewhere, their hearts became colder and colder. After slowly approaching Pei Jun, following Pei Jun's gaze, they saw a man lying on the ground four or five steps away. A dead brown horse, the horse's front legs have been cut off, and there is a pool of dried blood under the horse's body, and on one side of the horse's head, a silver helmet with a red tassel is lying quietly above.

Yan Yuliang was about to speak, but Pei Jun suddenly moved, let go of the hand holding the tree trunk, turned to kneeling on the ground, stretched out his hand to push aside the tail of the dead horse, and tremblingly fished out something from it.

This object was hung between Pei Jun's bloodstained fingers, and it naturally fell down. It was actually a sachet with tassels on a navy blue background and embroidered with a unicorn treading clouds.

Even in such a stench and filth, this sachet exudes a pure and peaceful herbal fragrance, subtle but fresh, it seems that it is trying its best to let people know its breath.

Pei Jun's fingers and arms began to tremble, his chest roared, and Jiang Yue's voice seemed to be heard in his ears:

"I told you to go to get rid of the turbidity, no one gave it to you."

"...It was all dirty by you, what else do I take it back for?"

……

His knees were sore and he fell to his knees on the ground. At this moment, the guards who had gone to inquire came back on horseback, and hurriedly shouted: "Master Pei, it's not good!"

When he got close, the guard reported: "My lord, I rushed to the front to explore the way, but I saw the Cai clan's flag hanging on the wall of Ningcheng. Ningcheng should have been occupied by the Cai clan, and the battlefield here must also be attacked by the Cai clan." Because of Prince Jin!"

Pei Jun stared at the sachet in his hand with red eyes and said nothing, while Fang Mingjue asked urgently: "Cai Yan's men are still in the capital, why did they suddenly come here to occupy Ningcheng?"

"Lord Fang, it's not the time to talk about this yet." The guard said, "Cai Jun will definitely send people to bury the corpse before the battlefield is cleared, we should leave here quickly, otherwise we will have no way to get out if we are noticed! "

Yan Yuliang heard the words and said: "This place is within the territory of Ningcheng. If Cai Jun is stationed here, we must not stay long." He turned to Pei Jun and said, "Ziyu, we made an agreement with Mr. Zhao before we changed boats in the river. So, they fled in all directions and joined Jiangnan. Now that we have cars and horses, we might as well set off for Jiangnan immediately, maybe the third ship is already in Jiangnan—”

"No!"

Among the crowd, Pei Jun gritted his teeth and spit out a word, suddenly clenched the sachet and the red-tasseled silver helmet tightly in his hand, and ordered firmly: "Don't leave! No one is allowed to leave without my order!"

Fang Mingjue was startled when he heard the words, exchanged a glance with Yan Yuliang, stepped forward to support Pei Jun and said, "Da Xianer, this is not the time to be depressed, although King Jin died, we can still go to Jiangnan to meet Mr. able--"

"No! No..." Pei Jun interrupted him loudly, and suddenly grabbed his arm and stood up, looking around the guards tremblingly, "Everyone...follow me to rummage through all the dead bodies on this field! I... I want to see……"

As he said that, he had already bent down, rummaged through the nearby corpses, and said with difficulty: "I want to see where he is... I don't believe it, I don't believe he will die here..."

"Ziyu!" Yan Yuliang stepped forward to pull him, but was thrown away by him, so he stepped forward to hold him up: "Ziyu, calm down! Listen to me! The world is in chaos, and no one can predict what will happen tomorrow. There are also materials, as long as people are still there, they can still be sent back to the capital, and they can start over!"

"Start from the beginning?" Pei Jun broke free from him, and yelled at him with bloodshot red eyes, "Do you know what it means to start from the beginning? If he is dead, how can I fight back to the capital? If he is gone, What do I call starting from scratch!"

Yan Yuliang was taken aback by his yelling, and Fang Mingjue pulled him suddenly because he didn't know why, "Senior brother, don't you understand?"

Yan Yuliang looked at him in a daze, and then at Pei Jun who was holding the silver helmet sachet and looking around the corpse in a hurry. Suddenly, a thought flashed in his mind, and he looked at Fang Mingjue in disbelief: "Could it be Yu to Prince Jin, yes..."

"Look for it, don't talk about it." Fang Mingjue sighed deeply, frowned and said, "You know his temperament, if he can't see King Jin's corpse, he will never leave this place today."

Yan Yuliang raised his voice: "But Cai Jun is coming soon, there are thousands of corpses here, if not tens of thousands, what can happen in a while—"

"Stop talking nonsense, look for it!" Fang Mingjue interrupted him, pulling him to squat on the ground, "I want to see people when I live, and I want to see corpses when I die. After today, if Cai Jun bury here, he will never know Is King Jin here anymore... If a person dies, he can still fight for the dead, but if a person doesn't know how to live or die, wouldn't he be able to get out for the rest of his life? Besides..."

Yan Yuliang looked at him: "Besides what?"

Fang Mingjue choked up for a moment, turned his head over the corpse on the ground and said, "For the sake of King Jin, he will do this, and for us, he will definitely do it... We have always been taken care of by him in the capital, and right now, we should treat it as a helper." Let him do it once."

In the capital city in the afternoon, heavy rain poured down, and the sound of killing outside the closed north city gate was loud.

At nightfall, the sound of fighting in the outer suburbs gradually subsided for a while, but within a short while, the sound overwhelmed the torrential rain, and suddenly approached outside the north city gate. After an hour, there was another loud "boom".

At this point, the north gate of the capital was breached by Cai Jun, and tens of thousands of rebels cheered loudly and rushed into the city to burn, kill and loot.After the founding of the Jiang family, the capital, which had been at peace for three hundred years, was finally trampled by the long-lost war cavalry at this moment.

Outside the imperial city, all the imperial guards assembled, forming the last line of defense against Cai Jun outside the palace; inside the imperial city, the great eunuch Hu Li rushed into the Zhongqing Palace in a panic, crawled in the imperial study room, and stood on the hall. The young emperor hurriedly said:

"Your Majesty, the Jingmen has fallen! Let's escape!"

When Jiang Zhan heard the news, he immediately fell into his chair and sighed with a pale face: "The general situation is over, I... the country is ruined..."

The rain that fell from the north flowed southward that night, taking advantage of the night, it dripped down on the ten-mile slope outside Ningcheng.

Enduring the severe pain from the wound on his arm, Pei Jun struggled to open the last corpse beside him. He raised his hand to wipe the hair from the corpse's face, and the corners of his lips twitched slightly: "It's not...it's not him..."

The surrounding guards, Yan, and Fang also searched through all the corpses, and they all joined him at this time, and they all said that Jiang Yue's body was not found.

After Pei Jun heard the last sentence of "No", the tight string in his mind seemed to be cut by someone at last, which made him suddenly clear and relaxed for a moment. Without him, he is not dead...he must be alive, he must be alive!"

He lost his strength and sat down in this rainy and muddy abandoned battlefield, covering his face with his bloody hands, facing the sky on his back, his shoulders trembling, and gradually became silent.

Yan Yuliang and Fang Mingjue hurriedly stepped forward to help him, but found that his forehead was hot and his whole body was hot. When they lifted his cuffs, they saw that the wound on his arm had festered and pus flowed, and the entire left arm was swollen like a column. They were shocked immediately and ordered the guards to Lift him onto the frame and rush to Jiangnan without further delay.

Pei Jun felt as if he was swimming in the river, floating about, surrounded by bright and silent water, and the sky behind him was covered with hazy clouds through the light of the water.

After swimming for an unknown amount of time, he saw a cloud that looked like a flower, and when he straightened himself up, he floated out of the water, but he saw himself reflected in the river, looking like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy.

Just as he was surprised, Zhang Ling sternly shouted from behind him: "Pei Ziyu! I asked you to deliver books to Prince Jin, why are you being lazy!"

He turned around, but he didn't see Zhang Ling, but there was a book full of yellow paper in his hand. After he realized it, he was already standing in the front hall of Prince Jin's mansion, and 17-year-old Jiang Yue was sitting at the table beside him. Writing a composition on the case, at this moment, just raised his handsome eyes with long eyelashes, and looked at him.

On the long rack behind Jiang Yue was a set of silver armor that glowed with cold light. Pei Jun looked carefully and saw that the armor was missing a helmet, but there was a blood-stained sachet hanging around his waist...

"Jiang Yue!"

Pei Jun woke up with a loud cry, opened his eyes in horror, dripping with cold sweat.

He saw himself in a dormitory, sleeping on a couch with a gauze over his head and a quilt covering his body, and just as he woke up, a person around him also woke up with him, calling out: "Come on quickly! He's awake!"

This voice was soft and tough, which made Pei Jun very familiar.He turned his head and saw that it was his elder sister Pei Yan who was watching him anxiously with tears in her eyes and said:

"Pei Jun, you are awake."