The autumn and winter in the northwest are as lonely as ever, and towards evening, the sky is already numb.

Three vague figures loomed from behind the ancestral hall. The scholar carrying the wine jar clearly saw them, but pretended to be confused. The few scumbags put on their usual attire of robbing houses, but the muskets they held were different. Out of sight, I saw the scholar throwing a wine can and hitting one of the scoundrels, and said: "Look, what is this? Go and change this outfit again. It's about to go to war, and you're still grinding." Wait!" and yelled at the scumbags behind him: "You guys, too, go change your outfits, how are you going to get in wearing this?"

After a few scoundrels entered the ancestral hall, the scholar sat up from the ground, patted the weeds on his body, and quietly walked to the back of the ancestral hall...

Ma Jun, Jing Gan, and Dong Qing were carrying stretchers on the back wall, looking at the movement of the ancestral hall through the gap. The scholar suddenly stepped forward and thrust his face in front of Ma Jun. Ma Jun was immediately frightened, and Jing Gan and Dong Qing followed. They fell down one by one. Just as he was about to curse, Xiucai rushed forward and covered Ma Jun's mouth.

Then he pulled up Jingqian and Dongqing who were lying on the ground, and motioned for the three brothers to follow them.

Those scumbags finished their equipment and walked out of the ancestral hall. When they saw that the scholar was missing, they looked here and there. The leader smiled and said: "Brother Six must have gone to get wine again. Forget it. Ignore him. In order not to be an eyesore, we go first to the grain field, and when we are about to start a battle, we still have time to drink, it’s really a waste of our lives!”

Few people came to the pine forest on the mountain behind the ancestral hall after nightfall. The scholar was panting. When he saw that he had reached the pine forest just a few steps away, he turned around and waved to the three brothers behind him. The young Holly had just climbed up. Song Lin sat down on the ground to take a breath, causing several people to hold their stomachs and laugh...

After he had calmed down, Ma Jun asked: "Xiucai, you... you are a person like you, don't be surprised, okay? If I hadn't been holding Jinggan in my hand, I would have knocked you to the ground with a punch!" "

The scholar couldn't laugh or cry. Although the Ma family brothers in front of him were playing tricks on him, they felt like they had known each other for a long time. The scholar said: "Brother, I didn't mean to do it. If I had come to look for him with great fanfare just now, You and these brothers must also be suspicious of you!"

Jinggan then spoke, pointed at the scholar and said: "Xiucai, should I call you a scholar or a fool? If you were as sensible as you are today, how would my brother treat you like that? Just get straight to the point. Tell me what you're talking about, now that the light is shining brightly, it's time to pour out the medicine from your gourd!"

"Well, your brothers and I seem to be destined, but there were some things that I couldn't say directly at that time. I have also observed them for a long time. You are not like this group of hypocritical soldiers, nor are you like my drunken brothers who are greedy for life and afraid of death. .In a world of great strife, it is normal for the big to suppress the small and the strong to suppress the weak..."

The scholar sat on the edge of the field and said with his eyes closed.

Jingqian also understood the meaning, but the scholar was hesitant when he spoke, so he said: "Xiucai, please stop showing off. This is not a trivial matter. Just tell us. My three brothers can trust you!"

"Sigh... I don't know who to confide my worries to in the past few years, and I've been like a walking corpse all day long. Except for Mrs. Zhifang, who is kind to me, no one in this army feels close to me...!" Xiucai said, seeming a little sad. , he continued: "To those fair-weather brothers, I am just a bright person. In the past, I just got married to my beloved wife. When these gangsters came, they killed everyone in my family and later arrested me and my cousin. When we went up the mountain, the bandit leader saw that I had some abilities and became a dog-headed strategist. Over the years, I have always hated the injustice of this world. It was not until the warlords came to kill me that I felt a sense of belonging when I met Mrs. Zhifang. But before, the adjutant because of My cousin said something wrong and he was skinned and cramped. I have always held a grudge against him..."

"So, the letter you gave Mrs. Fang today was all fake, and the purpose was to do your best to save Mrs. Fang?"

"You could say that!"

"Then you just watch and ignore the innocent people in the whole house?" Jing Qian heard that the scholar was completely unable to extricate himself from hatred...

The scholar also regretted himself: "What can I do? My own abilities are limited. Even if I have the intention, I am incompetent..."

Ma Jun had a deep understanding and thought that the whole tea horse people were not immune to the disaster at the beginning because he was powerless to reverse the situation.

The scholar continued: "Because I no longer have close relatives, I simply became a member of the Luosang tribe, and secretly communicated with the Luosang tribe, just to avenge this hatred. How could I not know that such a piece of fat meat, as a person, How could the big forces not be jealous, so they found out the details of these soldiers and informed Luo Sang...just to wait for this day to come!"

Just as Jing Gan was about to say something, Xiao Dongqing suddenly pointed down the mountain and shouted. Several people looked down the mountain and saw that the adjutant's house was in a sea of ​​fire, and there were shouts of fighting. Jing Qian quickly turned around and covered Xiao Dongqing's eyes with his clothes. Afraid that he would witness a shocking scene...

"What now?"

"Come with me!" The scholar stood up from the ground.

…

At the foot of the mountain, there was a lot of fighting and chaos. Several soldiers were shouting and shouting.

"Save the adjutant quickly and escort the adjutant out of the city!"

Before he finished speaking, another group of people rode in from the west, led by Tashi. Suddenly, those scum, soldiers, and grassland soldiers fought together. Tashi looked around, Looking for the chief officer who was sitting on the tea horse, for the sake of convenience, he threw the musket in his hand to his subordinates, drew a big knife from under the horse and charged towards them.

They fought straight from the west gate to the east gate of the city. When they saw that the leading officer could not be found, they changed hands with the sword in their hands and rushed to the ruined temple outside the city alone. From a distance, they saw a group of people lighting torches and escaping in a hurry. Tashi galloped forward and found the adjutant and his entourage. When the adjutant heard that there were pursuers behind him, he turned around in a panic and fired at the black figure. He said it was too late and he didn't see it clearly. Whoever it was, I saw a knife coming towards me and slashing down the adjutant’s face...

Tashi was covered in cold sweat. If it hadn't been for the horse, the shot just now would have hit him. After a beating, he was tired, and the tea horse's position was taken down. Tashi sat down from the ground with the knife in his hand. I got up, without the horses, and it was a bit far away from the city. I walked to the ruined temple just now, and simply sat on the stone slab to rest for a while before going back...

Seeing a few torches shining faintly over there, the horsemen ran down and saw several dead people lying on the ground. The scholar turned one of the corpses over and touched the blood on his face with the corner of his clothes. Discovering that it was the adjutant, he suddenly heard a dying voice coming from the river. He ran over and saw that it was his cousin Zhang Kexin...

"Brother Ma Jun, come here and help me, my brother is still alive..."
Chapter completed!