The new moon is like a bow, hanging high in the sky for nine days.
On the ground, the big green horse pulled the carriage and rumbled away until it disappeared into the depths of darkness, and no trace could be found.
Yin Can stood under the moonlit night sky and looked quietly towards the place where Xiao Han and his group disappeared. He looked in a daze and didn't know what he was thinking.
Soon, a sound of footsteps sounded in the darkness.
Immediately afterwards, the somewhat old figure of the shopkeeper of Buhang appeared on the roadside.
"Young Master, we have gone far." He quietly came to Yin Can's side, and the shopkeeper of Buhang bowed his hands respectfully.
"Oh." Yin Can agreed in a low voice, but his figure still showed no movement, and he didn't even look at the shopkeeper.
Seeing this, the shopkeeper of Buhang frowned slightly, thinking that the young master was worried about what happened just now, and couldn't help but said in a deep voice: "Master, I feel that I don't have to believe what they just said! Why don't I let the old slave do it now?
Go find the people in the camp and confirm the two facts, and you will definitely know the truth of what happened!"
"Hey, no need."
After hearing the words of the big shopkeeper of Buhang, Yin Can finally took action. He sighed and turned to look at the old shopkeeper with a strange expression on his face: "Don't ask, because there won't be anything better than what they said.
The truth!”
"Young Master?" Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper of Buhang trembled, his eyes fixed on Yin Can, and his voice trembled.
There can't be a better truth than what they said? What does this mean? Has the young master compromised to this point? Whatever they say is right?
However, Yin Can smiled at this time. He patted the old shopkeeper's shoulder and whispered: "Don't worry, don't worry about me! Now if we want to take advantage of this opportunity, we must be prepared to be wronged."
Plan! Moreover, this is really nothing! At least our current situation is much better than those outside!"
"But Master, you are Junzi..." the old shopkeeper said in a trembling voice with some reluctance.
Yin Can just shook his head: "What does Juzi mean? How many of those people outside were worse than our Mo family before? But look at what they look like now?! What if we don't seize the opportunity to change?
, sooner or later he will become like them..."
The old shopkeeper's eyes suddenly widened. He stared at Yin Can and said, "Master, why do you believe him so much?!"
Yin Can looked up at the sky and sighed: "Because I really don't have time to trust others!
The old man spent all his energy to reintegrate the fragmented Mohist family and handed it over to me.
But you and I both know that the Mohist family today is only complete on the surface, and cracks have already appeared on the inside!
And I don’t have the old man’s perseverance, let alone the founder’s wisdom, so I can’t eliminate these cracks at all! If this continues, sooner or later the Mo family will split again, and even gods will be unable to save my Mo family.”
"Then Young Master, can Xiao Han, whom you like so much, be able to save our Mo family?" Hearing this, the head shopkeeper of Buhang asked anxiously.
Yin Can was startled when he heard this, nodded, and shook his head: "I don't know! But I have a feeling that the path he wants to take is the same as our Mo family's path!
Since we are fellow travelers, we can use his power to return to others bit by bit and take back the glory that originally belonged to us. By that time, in the face of the same glory, these hidden dangers will disappear."
"This..." The shopkeeper of Buhang looked at Yin Can in front of him hesitantly, but after a long time, he just sighed. His body, which was already a little rickety, looked even more desolate in the dark night.
"Since you have made your decision, Master, I will follow you even to death! Now I am afraid that the upcoming war will destroy Xiao Han..."
"No, he already knows the identities of those people on the other side and will not take them lightly anymore! Moreover, I have always believed that those people outside will never be his opponents!"
"I hope so..."
On the road late at night, the conversation between the master and the servant gradually became muffled until there was no sound at all.
Between heaven and earth, silence returns.
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As the sun rose, the newly recruited soldiers from Yangzhou City, wearing leather armor that did not fit them, were rushed to the top of the city by their respective corps commanders, even the commanders.
Now, although the thieves have not yet arrived at the city, the tension unique to war has already enveloped everyone's heart, especially the new recruits, whose hearts are as heavy as a huge boulder.
He timidly climbed up to the top of the city and carefully poked his head out of the gap in the female wall.
When they saw the still vast world outside, their nervousness finally eased a bit.
Someone breathed a sigh of relief, looked around, and suddenly discovered something was added to the city wall.
"Huh? There seems to be an extra flag over there!" the recruit said curiously, pointing to a flag standing on the city wall that was completely different in shape from the surrounding ones.
"What flag? It's called a handsome flag!" A veteran immediately corrected him with disdain.
"Commander Qi? Why is the general here? To rescue the soldiers?" The recruit was shocked and asked again in surprise.
The veteran rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Reinforcements? Just dream! Our place is thousands of miles away from Chang'an? Do you think the reinforcements are like birds and can fly?"
"Ah?" The recruit stretched out his hand in surprise, pointed at the big flag that was stretched out and fluttering against the rising sun, and said, "Then what's going on with this handsome flag?"
The veteran snorted and said: "Humph! I just asked the literate gentleman and found out that the word "xiao" is written on the flag!
Why, you still remember that a while ago, an idle prince came to our Yangzhou city, right? His surname is Xiao! So you all know what's going on!"
"Is it him?" When the recruit heard this, he was immediately disappointed and said with curled lips: "He is just a humble marquis, why is he still flying the flag? Is he afraid that the thieves will not know that he is in the city? If the city is broken, thieves will swarm.
Enter the city and I'll see where he goes when the time comes... Ouch!"
Before the recruit finished speaking, a big foot kicked him hard on the crook of his leg. The kick made him unsteady and he knelt on the city wall with a plop, and then screamed again and again!
"What the hell!" The veteran pulled back his feet and glared angrily at the recruit who was holding his knees and whining in pain: "If you say such depressing words again, believe it or not, I will throw you off the top of the city!"
The recruit was initially a little angry because the veteran kicked him indiscriminately, but when he saw the veteran's scary eyes, he immediately swallowed his words and could only nod his head.
"Humph!" The veteran flicked his sleeves and strode away.
"Hey, you didn't deserve the beating you received unjustly!" Seeing the veteran walk away, a few people who had been silent until now gathered around them and comforted them with a wry smile:
"Boy, you are still young. You don't know that it is a common practice for thieves to break into the city and take three days to escape! When the time comes, let alone you and me, even the father, mother, daughter and son of the family will not be able to escape the tragic ending."
