The rampant bandits and mobs in the Central Plains area have made Cai Bin very upset. General Cai is old after all. The Central Plains army under his command looks mighty and majestic, but in fact it is also called the "old-age army". It is stationed with no village in front and no store in the back.

Sitting, apart from occasionally quelling chaos, is basically used for border reinforcements.

At this time, most of Cai Bin's troops were involved in the northwest two places. He did not have eagle armor in his hands, and he was cautious by nature and did not dare to take risks at all. He was harassed by the mob and was extremely annoyed.

Gu Yun spent three to five days to figure out the ins and outs of this mob, and personally checked the terrain on the map, and then sent someone to contact General Cai to prepare a pot sticker for both sides.

The rebel bandits didn't know who was leading the troops from the capital, but after a few tests, they found that this group was more aggressive than Cai Bin. They used heavy armor and guns to scare people, but they never fired. They only used light cavalry.

After chasing them for a mile or two, he ordered the troops to retreat. He decided that this army was worthless and worthless. Just when he was planning to surround them, Cai Bin suddenly felt like having a seizure.

In a pursuit style, all the remaining troops stationed in the Central Plains were sent out to raid and surround the rebellious mob.

In fact, there are not many troops left in the garrison in the Central Plains. If it comes to fighting, neither side will necessarily suffer. It is just that the gangsters are used to the leisurely way of you advancing and me retreating. They consider themselves to be slippery loaches and are not willing to fight for their wealth, so they use their old tricks.

Shi, fighting and walking, walked in a roundabout way to Cai Bin, but on the way back, he met Gu Yun, who had been waiting for a long time.

Gu Yun ordered the heavy armor to set up guns and aim at the gangsters. When the bandit leader saw that the young master soldiers were coming to scare people again, he immediately ordered his men to rush into the heavy armor formation. The heavy armor defense line was broken as soon as it rushed, and the light cavalry was "embarrassed" on the ground.

Up, the bandit leader saw that there was no cargo in the muzzle, it was just paper. He became more and more unscrupulous in his joy, and directly led his troops to charge forward with light armor.

When the gangsters were completely trapped in the woods, those "paper" heavy artillery suddenly went off. The gangsters were caught off guard and fell on their backs. Before they had time to retreat, the Qingqi who had been dodging just now and the Cai Jiajun who were coming came from both sides and surrounded them. They were really covered in pot stickers.

The gang was defeated and the leader of the legendary "Fire Dragon" was captured alive. Gu Yun was so ugly that his eyes hurt from the bumpy appearance of the bandit leader. He planned to throw this man directly to Shen Yiwan and ordered: "Ask him where his accomplices are.

Who ordered it, where is the lair, is there anything we can do to exploit us..."

Shen Yi choked and coughed fiercely: "Commander, you are so poor!"

Gu Yun waved his hand: "Not to mention beating him...torture him to extract a confession. I'm going to catch up with Lao Cai."

After he finished speaking, he was about to leave when he suddenly saw a soldier holding a strange-shaped dagger. It was slightly longer than a dagger. The tip of the knife was slightly hooked and there was a graceful arc on the side. It was very different from the daggers in the Central Plains.

When Gu Yun saw it, he felt it looked familiar, so he reached out and took it.

"Commander, these were found on the bandit leader's body."

Gu Yun pulled out the short knife, scratched the blade with his finger, narrowed his eyes and whispered: "It's a barbarian thing?"

"It's a scimitar from the Eighteen Tribes." At this time, Chen Qingxu came over and said, "Master Marquis, is the steel plate loose?"

"No, please excuse me. Miss Chen is running around with us in the middle of the night." Gu Yun shook his head, and he held the handle of the short knife, "Well, won't the handle get stuck in my hand if the handle is so short?"

"The handle is not short. This is a woman's knife." Chen Qingxu took the scimitar and padded it in his hand. "Eighteen Northern Barbarians ate the wind and drank the dew, and competed with the beasts on the grassland for food. Therefore, there is often such a groove in the handle of the knife. In case of encountering a strong beast, it can prevent the hand from falling off during a fight. The steel mouth of this knife is very good. The original owner must be of high status. The handle of the knife is mostly tailor-made. Then her hands must be very small, about the same as mine, and she should be a woman - Lord Marquis, look here."

She turned the handle of the knife to show Gu Yun, and saw a complex pattern underneath the handle, like a totem wrapped around countless flowers and vines, with a flame wrapped in the middle.

Chen Qingxu said: "I saw this pattern of flower vines in an abandoned ruins of the Eighteen Tribes. I heard from the kidnapped Han slaves that it seemed to be the symbol of the Eighteen Tribes' goddess."

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

Shen Yi came over at some point and gasped slightly when he saw the pattern: "Heart of the Earth?"

Chen Qingxu said inexplicably: "Who?"

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

Gu Yun waved to him, took the short knife, turned and walked into the place where the bandit leader Fire Dragon was imprisoned, and dismissed all the guards with a wave of his hand.

He was holding the short knife, and there was no emotion or anger on his face. The slightly curved knife was very old, but still sharp, with a ruthlessness that would bring out a piece of flesh when it penetrated the flesh. Gu Yun will The tip of the knife was pinned to the chin of the fire dragon: "I heard that you didn't tell me where the Gui rebels were from, and you refused to tell me who instigated you to rob and entangle the Cai family's army?"

Fire Dragon: "Bah, pretty boy!"

Gu Yun laughed when he heard this and felt that it was a bit helpful - in his opinion, calling a man a "pretty face" is the same as calling a woman a "vixen". It can only mean that the person being scolded is good-looking.

"Don't talk if you like," Gu Yun had some free time and turned to tell Shen Yi, "The national crisis is approaching. This person has connections with foreign countries and has no connection with the northern barbarians. Your barbarian fathers haven't entered the customs yet. Let's go here first. I've been licking my feet... It's a waste of my time to interrogate you. I'll tell everyone tomorrow and show it to the public later!"

Huolong heard half of it. He was confused at first, and then his expression became more and more horrified. Seeing that Gu Yun was not joking, but took it seriously and stood up to leave, he struggled hard: "Slander! Dog officer! Brothers all know that you and I are An indomitable man, how dare you use such nonsense to slander my reputation..."

"Slander?" Gu Yun waved the eighteen-piece woman's sword in front of the fire dragon twice, "Central Plains people call this thing wolf-tooth steel. The hooked crescent tip in front is a typical barbarian production. Isn't this your?"

The fire dragon was stunned.

"The scabbard and grooves are specially made. The leather scabbard is of the highest quality. The totem on the handle is as fine as life. It must have been made by a famous master. Ordinary barbarians cannot afford this. The original owner is either rich or noble -" Gu Yun said slightly Lifting his chin, he stared at the fire dragon and said, "Ugly, your brothers all know that you have been keeping this thing on your body all day long, but no one knows the origin of this thing, right? Tsk, what a bunch of ignorant idiots... …”

"Wait! Slow... wait!" Fire Dragon shouted, "That's... that's my enemy's thing, not..."

Gu Yun laughed and said: "Yes, it sounds true. I have seen people carrying their lover's things with them. This is the first time I heard that there are people who are so obsessed with their enemies. Why is hatred so lingering and pathos? Come and see for me experience."

"That woman drugged and knocked down about a hundred brothers in my village, stabbing them one after another. Finally, she set a fire and burned the top of the mountain cleanly. Even the birds on the mountain were burnt, and then she ran away. A me came out, and I got this scar. I don’t even know where she came from, and I didn’t know she was a barbarian. I brought this knife to remind myself of the shame of the past!" The fire dragon was extremely angry. , roared, "You bitch, you can slander me for anything. If you dare to take this shit out of me, I will bite you to death even if I'm a ghost!"

Shen Yi smiled nonchalantly beside him and said: "Then you are such an old talker, so what are you going to make up? A barbarian woman sneaked into a bandit's den and burned a mountain bandit to death by herself? Fresh - Marshal , does the theater troupe hired by your government have such good scripts?"

Gu Yun sighed: "I can't even afford meat anymore. I am given porridge every day at home, and the theater troupe..."

The fire dragon frowned and said: "Commander...which commander?"

Gu Yun turned the short knife in his hand out of the flower and looked at him with a malicious smile.

Huolong suddenly came back to his senses and gasped: "You, are you Gu... Gu..."

"Don't ask for relatives. Which one is your aunt?" Shen Yi interrupted him, "Tell me how you colluded with the barbarians in Fish and Meat Township."

The fire dragon's face suddenly turned red: "You said you are my enemy! If you don't tell me a word, his grandma will be struck by lightning!"

"That woman was following a small caravan. She seemed to have gotten separated from her family. We paid someone to take her for a ride. We didn't know where she was going. We stopped the caravan on the way and saw that she was quite pretty. , so they grabbed her up the mountain together. She was carrying a baby in swaddling clothes, and it looked like it was not even full moon. She was also pregnant with one..."

Shen Yi was secretly surprised, but asked as calmly as possible: "When did it happen?"

Huo Long said: "Nineteen...twenty years ago."

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

Shen Yi: "What happened next?"

The fire dragon leaned back and said in a hoarse voice: "Most of the other people who were tied up the mountain were looking for death and survival, but she was different. The woman had a nice face, but her brain seemed to be not working well. She didn't react when others talked to her, and they beat her. She didn’t know how painful it was, and she didn’t resist anything I asked her to do. Within a few months, she gave birth to a premature baby.”

Gu Yun's hand holding the dagger tightened slightly. For some reason, when he heard this paragraph, he suddenly felt frightened - the intuition he had not 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 is unclean. No one touched her or cared about her during that period. She was just afraid that they would run away, so they 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 obsessed with the beauty of the woman, secretly ran over to have a look. When he came back, he was horrified and told me that there was only one kid left beside her, and the other one was missing. Already."

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

"Who the hell knows? They are all half-dead children, as skinny as big rats." As expected, the fire dragon immediately became alert, "Why do you ask this?"

Shen Yi hesitated, then slammed the riding crop in his hand to the side, and said coldly: "You don't know anything, what the hell are you talking about? Is it strange that there are more barbarian brats than there are, and you are asked to explain something. What are you waiting for in this nonsense?"

The fire dragon did not get angry, and his face tightened: "...No, it's not unusual for a child to die. These cubs are all despicable, and not one of them will survive... What's strange is that my brother said that he didn't see the body. There, the woman was locked in the house and couldn't get out at all. She couldn't be buried in the ground, but she neither threw it out nor put it in the house. The child... just disappeared out of thin air. At that time A brother who was on guard said that he saw a fire in the woman's house in the middle of the night. At first, he thought she was secretly cooking something to eat, but later he heard that there were many crows wandering around on her roof beams all day long..."

Shen Yi had goosebumps all over his body and glanced at Gu Yun subconsciously.

The corners of Fire Dragon's burnt eyes twitched a few times: "This incident once caused people to panic. Some people said that this woman was evil and abnormal, and wanted to kill her. There were also a few who were obsessed with it and couldn't bear it. They fought over her. The dispute didn't come to any conclusion for a long time. At that time, my eldest brother saw that she was good at work and was good in bed, so he decided to keep her, including the half-dead cub, and he kept her for a few years... "

"That person is really a monster..." Huolong sighed, "Really, if no man comes to find her at night, she will torture the little ones around her in different ways. The howling can be heard across the mountains. Several times in Sanfan Village My brothers couldn’t stand it anymore and asked her to restrain herself. She agreed on the surface, but then turned around and struck again.”

Gu Yun stood up suddenly.

Shen Yi's heart skipped a beat when he saw Gu Yun reluctantly put the hand holding the dagger behind his back, and the veins were about to burst out from the back of his hand.

Fortunately, the fire dragon didn't notice, as if he was immersed in his memory, and murmured: "As the old saying goes, a tiger cannot eat its poison. Although we are all evil-minded and ruthless, we have never seen such a ruthless woman... ...But our eldest brother didn’t know what kind of ecstasy was poured into her. She insisted that this kind of woman, who was not from a good family, should stay in the mountain and should be ours. He was so obsessed that he lost his life!"

Gu Yun's voice was a little dry and imperceptible: "How did you send it?"

"Poison, a barbarian woman is full of poison. She endured it in our village for many years without showing any signs of betrayal. Gradually, the brothers did not guard against her and easily got her way. She killed everyone in the village. , not even the women, slaves, and meat stocks who were captured on the mountain like her were spared, and finally set a fire to burn the mountain." The pain flashed across the fire dragon's face, and he cursed and said A long slur.

This time no one bothered to interrupt him, Gu Yun's face was so ugly that he could hardly stand it.

"I happened to have a stomachache that day, and I didn't dare to drink more wine or water. Only then was I able to gather enough strength to climb out of the sea of ​​fire and save my life. That knife... that knife was pulled out from my elder brother's chest. Yes. If I see that woman again, I will cut her into pieces!"

Gu Yun whispered: "She took a young child with her to kill people and burn mountains."

"She put the kid in the basket," Huolong said, "and carried it on her back. The kid always looked half-dead, lying in the bamboo basket like a boneless body. He kept looking at the dead people on the ground. He won't even cry. If he hadn't died in the hands of that woman after so many years, he would have become a bloody monster."

Gu Yun turned around and went out without saying a word.

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

"We can't keep this person," Gu Yun lowered his voice and said quickly, "Old Cai is still here, so before he notices, shut up this hothead forever and do it more cleanly."

As he said this, Gu Yun suddenly remembered something. He paused in his steps and his eyes were full of gloom: "No, I forgot that there was also Jia Lai Ying Huo. When we were in Yanhui, he and Xiu Niang had been secretly negotiating terms. That barbarian You know exactly what."

Shen Yi was frightened and said: "Commander..."

"He never told me," Gu Yun's shoulders suddenly slumped, but the steel plates on his body made him unable to bend down, and his posture was indescribably stiff. "He never told me, he didn't even mention it. ...I know that barbarian woman is obsessed with revenge and will not be too kind to him, but she is still connected by blood..."

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

"That time we picked him up in the heavy snow, it wasn't because he was young and ignorant and ran away to play," Gu Yun whispered, "He clearly couldn't bear the abuse, so..."

And they actually "kindly" sent him back.

Shen Yi was speechless.

After a long while, Shen Yicai whispered: "What if...I am making a hypothesis, assuming that the child left behind is not the son of the imperial concubine..."

Shen Yi could not help but recall the scene many years ago when young Chang Geng calmly said in front of him that he was not a prince and that the disability on his feet was caused by Xiu Niang smashing him.

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 a witch from the Eighteenth Division and a sister of a witch. The question is...whose child is Hugel's baby?" Shen Yi licked the corner of his mouth with difficulty.

Back then, the emperor's concubine's sister lived in the palace and was going to marry a member of the clan. Would the late Emperor Yuanhe do such a thing of guarding and stealing?

If the late emperor was really so shameless, then everyone would be relieved, but what if... not?

If it is not the late emperor, then the most suspicious person is undoubtedly the person who helped them escape - someone with evil intentions, but able to enter and leave the palace, and even have the ability to let go of the witches from the eighteen tribes, and many years later take over the secret line left by those two people in the palace... …

Taken together, these conditions really make people think of Master Chi and his large group of Japanese spies.

Shen Yi felt cold all over: "Commander, this..."

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

"It's rotten in the stomach." Gu Yun lowered his head, touched the short knife in his hand with both hands, and said firmly, "Sooner or later, I will clean up the Northern Barbarians. Don't mention this matter again."

Shen Yi: "...Yes."

Gu Yun walked away with a sinking face, his back held up straight by the steel plate looking particularly thoughtful, and he went straight to find Chen Qingxu.

"Miss Chen, please take a step to speak." Gu Yun said.

Chen Qingxu didn't know why and followed him to the side.

Gu Yun said: "Miss Chen is proficient in medical science and has stayed in the barbarian country for more than half a year. I have a question to ask you."

Chen Qingxu hurriedly gathered her clothes and said, "I don't dare."

Gu Yun absent-mindedly helped her: "Do they have any special witchcraft over there... that can be used on babies?"

Chen Qingxu was suddenly startled.

Gu Yun immediately caught her exposed shock at this moment: "What?"
Chapter completed!