Chapter 3 Suspicion in the dream and outside the dream
The three assassins didn't succeed, so of course they wouldn't leave easily.
In a hurry, they didn't know whether there was an ambush behind Yingzi's mouth, so they didn't dare to chase Wang Zhen. They placed their long bows in front of them and drove their horses slowly towards the cliff.
Regardless of whether they had seen his face clearly just now, Xu Huai still tore off a piece of cloth to cover his face, but just as he reached behind his head to tie the cloth,
A sharp arrow shot towards his face with a "whoosh" sound.
Xu Huai subconsciously moved the side of his neck a few inches, and felt a strong wind blowing past his face. Then he heard a "whoosh" sound and the arrow hit the pine tree behind him.
"Buzzing" vibrating sound.
"What a fast arrow!"
Xu Huai was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.
He has practiced martial arts since he was a child, but before he regained his consciousness, he was a bit clumsy in everything he did. In addition to his extraordinary strength, he could never master the complicated boxing and sword skills.
His riding and shooting skills are also very average.
Even after he regained his consciousness, those deep-hidden strange memories could not immediately improve his skills like a whole new person, but in addition to
In addition to his sharper and more transparent thinking, his eyesight is also different from before.
He just quickly tore off a piece of cloth to cover his face, but his eyes were still staring at these assassins. Even if he was distracted, the time was very short, and the leading assassin was
Take the opportunity to shoot an arrow.
With such amazing rapid fire and accuracy, I'm afraid even Uncle Seventeen might not be as good as him.
Xu Huai did not dare to slack off anymore and held the hatchet behind his waist.
He also did not immediately pull out the hatchet behind him, which would have prematurely revealed his cowardice in front of this group of assassins.
Xu Huai then raised his foot and kicked down a rock the size of a washbasin. It made a clattering sound and rolled down against the cliff.
Except for the gap in the middle of Yingzizui, which is more than ten feet wide, the mountain ridge to the south is so steep that it is difficult to climb over it on foot, let alone riding a horse; while to the north, it is not far away and is close.
The canyon is thirty feet deep and the Huai River flows through it.
Xu Huai kicked down the rock to warn the assassin not to force his way through the gap.
No matter how powerful these assassins are, as long as they hit them from a height with a rock the size of a washbasin, it will be hard for anyone.
The three assassins stopped sixty or seventy steps away from the cliff. The leader stared at the head of the cliff and asked with a gloomy face:
"Who is your eldest brother? Since you expected that we would attack Wang Zhen here, you don't know who sent us, right?"
"Your murderous intentions have been seen through, and you are still thinking about asking questions. You are so bold. You are really not afraid that the soldiers from the military camp will come to arrest you if you believe it."
They?" Xu Huai shouted in a rough voice.
"What evil things did we do in broad daylight, and the officers who patrolled the military camp came to arrest us? Just based on what the king told him.
"?" The leader laughed unscrupulously and said, "Wang Chen was convicted and demoted. Don't say that he is still fine now, even if he is really here in Tongbai Mountain.
With his body and head in a different place, which state or county government would dare to investigate this case further?"
Seeing that the assassin was so brazen, Xu Huai was secretly frightened.
The short paragraph that flashed in my mind a few days ago said that Wang Zhen died in an encounter with bandits on Yingzizui Road in Tongbai Mountain. But now that I think about it, all this may not be an assassination attempt.
The client concealed it well, but the deeper reason was that the people behind the scenes were too powerful, so that the prefecture and county yamen did not dare to investigate further, and the case was finally closed because of encounters with bandits?
To be honest, Xu Huai didn't know what kind of person Wang Zhen was, but he knew that the official position of Censor Zhongcheng that Wang Zhen held before he was demoted should not be underestimated. He was the only person in the court.
There are only a few high-ranking officials who can be respectfully called "Xiangong", and ordinary officials are only qualified to be called "Langjun".
A "prime minister" figure was demoted, and even if he had no title, he could never be regarded as a civilian. He died in Tongbai Mountain, but the state and county government officials did not dare to investigate the cause of death.
Who are the people who come after them?
Xu Huai suddenly felt that it would be of no benefit to him to find out who was behind the scenes. He just hoped that the matter in front of him could be dealt with quickly.
Xu Huai said nothing, stepped on the rock, and held the handle of the knife at his waist with his right hand. He looked like he didn't bother to pull out the sword in a hurry. In fact, it gave the assassin a lot of trouble.
A strong sense of oppression.
The three assassins had beards all over their faces, all of which were glued on randomly. The leader had a very obvious scar on his left cheek, which was quite far apart. The man squinted his three eyes.
With his horned eyes, he stared at the cliff head like a hawk, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Shall I touch him from behind?" the thin-faced assassin on the right said.
"Do you think his posture of bending down and holding the sword looks familiar?" the scar-faced assassin's face darkened and he asked the other two.
"Yes, it's a bit like the sword-wielding posture that Jing Shengjun passed down. But he was distracted just now, but he was still able to avoid Master Jin's arrow in a flash, but his skill was not that good.
Weak, yet so tall and strong..." The thin-faced assassin thought with some retreat.
"More than twenty years ago, Wang Xiaocheng learned about Tangzhou and vigorously suppressed the bandits in Tongbai Mountain. Later, he was transferred to the commander-in-chief of the Jingsheng Army and incorporated many bandits into the Jingsheng Army;
After Wang Xiaocheng's death, some old soldiers of the Jingsheng Army disbanded and returned home. It is not surprising that there are remnants of the Jingsheng Army in Tongbai Mountain. However, they are also remnants of the Jingsheng Army.
Lu Xiong, thousands of miles away, we chose this route to escort Wang Zhen to Biyang. Things may be more complicated than we thought -" the scar-faced assassin frowned and pondered.
"Is it possible that Lu Xiong united with the remnants of the Jingsheng Army to protect Wang Zhen, with the intention of overturning the past?" Another person took a breath and asked, knowing the old relationship.
road.
"Whether it is or is not, this matter is not trivial. Someone must return to Bianjing immediately to inform the Prime Minister..." the scar-faced assassin said.
At this time, there was the sound of horse hooves from the west, galloping towards this direction. The expressions of the three assassins changed drastically. After hesitating for a while, they finally turned their horses' heads.
Go east...
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Xu Huai didn't know the past events of Jing Sheng's army. When he saw Lu Xiong and several cavalry soldiers quickly rushing to Yingzizui, he thought the assassins were scared away by them.
Among the soldiers who came over, the leader was about thirty years old, wearing brown leather armor, with a strong build, thick eyebrows and leopard eyes, and a rough appearance. He held a shoulder knife in his hand and a sword in his hand.
He pulled the rope and stopped his horse at the foot of the cliff. He looked up and saw Xu Huaihao standing at the top of the cliff and asked:
"Xu Huai, you kid were not hurt by those horse thieves?"
"No - they ran to the east!" Xu Huai was really relieved at this time. He greeted his seventeenth uncle Xu Wujiang, carefully looked for a place to stay, and headed towards
Sliding down the cliff.
"These dog thieves dare to run wild in Huaiyuan. Let's catch them and skin them!" A young soldier with a velvet beard on his upper lip was only older than Xu Huai.
A year or two older, he could still see the figures of those "horse thieves" at this time, yelling and cursing, and wanted to slap the horse with a knife and chase after them.
Xu Wujiang stretched out his hand to stop the impulsive young soldier and said:
"Don't chase after poor bandits. Besides, it's almost dark today. I'll count these horse thieves' lives well today and don't argue with them."
Although the sky is a little overcast, it is only after noon, so to say that it is getting dark soon is a lie that even a blind person would not dare to say.
However, from Xu Wujiang's point of view, as long as Xu Huai and others are fine, that's fine.
How much salary do they get in a military camp for a month? Do they have to go to these horse thieves who are licking blood from their swords all day long?
Lu Xiong remained silent. He had experienced vicissitudes of life for half his life and knew what soldiers and warriors in the country were like nowadays.
Not long after they escaped from Yingzizui, they met this group of soldiers. They hurriedly said that they had encountered horse bandits on the way and asked them to come and rescue the villagers trapped on Yingzizui cliff. Now,
Just thank God that this team of warriors came over and frightened the assassin away. What more could he expect?
What he didn't expect was that the leader of this army of soldiers was actually acquainted with the Yatou boy.
When Xu Huai carefully climbed down from Yingzizui, he saw that the boy was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and Lu Xiong was even more surprised.
In addition to being quite muscular and half a head taller than most soldiers of normal height, he looks like a country boy, and he even climbed down from the cliff.
The movements are still a little stiff and not flexible enough.
Wearing a shabby short shirt, the sleeves were torn in several places by branches and rocks; a straw rope was tied around his waist, and it turned out to be a hatchet stuck in the back of his waist, and it was still stained with rust.
trace!
He and Wang Zhen, husband and wife, were saved by such a young man today?
Lu Xiong saw that the leader of the soldiers did not know their identities. So who was the "big brother" the young man just mentioned? How could he know that they would pass through Yingzizui?
Yes, arrange for this young man to wait here?
Of course, exposing the assassin's case would have no other benefit than stimulating Cai Zheng, the thief, to send people to persecute him even more ferociously.
Lu Xiong was puzzled, so he just kept silent and didn't ask any more questions, but the look in his eyes at the young man was still filled with gratitude.
He is very powerful, but Wang Zhen, his grandson, grandson and wet nurse are defenseless.
He knew that in this mountain road with no room for maneuver, without this young man holding the assassin back, even if he had the ambition to sacrifice his life for justice, he would not be able to protect Wang Zhen's ancestor and grandson Zhou.
Complete.
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After hearing that Xu Wujiang and Xu Xin'an came over and regarded those people as "horse thieves", Xu Huai knew that Wang Zhen and the others did not tell the truth when they met Xu Wujiang and Xu Xin'an.
Affection.
Now that he has a clear mind, it is not difficult to understand why Wang Zhen and the others are like this.
Of course, he didn't want to get involved in these untouchable disputes anymore. He glanced at the "cartman" beside Wang Zhen and did not go over to chat with Xu Xin.
An shared a horse and followed Xu Wujiang and others toward Huaiyuan Town.
When he was still four or five miles away from Huaiyuan Town, Xu Huai saw the dilapidated carriage Wang Chen was riding parked on the side of the road.
Wang Zhen, who was wearing a green shirt, and Deng Gui, the Huaiyuan inspection envoy, were surrounded by a group of soldiers, standing beside the carriage and talking.
Huaiyuan Town is under Biyang County, but it is 130 to 40 miles away from Biyang County by mountain road.
Deng Gui, the inspection envoy stationed in Huaiyuan Town on behalf of the government, is the largest official in Tongbai Mountain. Xu Huai naturally recognizes this short, stocky man with a sinister face.
Guy.
When he passed by Yingzizui, he opened the car curtains, and the girl who gave Xu Huai a sense of surprise at the first glance was sitting at the front of the car, looking over with concern.
As if stimulated by this scene, dozens of beautiful faces flashed through Xu Huai's mind at this moment. They should be some women who will be remembered deeply by later generations, but no one can catch his eye.
The girl in front of me is so beautiful and bright.
It's so strange, why do these picture memories appear out of nowhere?
Of course, Xu Huai hasn't figured out his own situation yet, and he doesn't know if the flashing of these pictures has no warning meaning.
Besides, on Yingzizui Cliff, the distance was so far away, and it was really unlikely that the assassin could see his face clearly. He should have just escaped from the back cliff. Now
After thinking about it carefully, it was still that inexplicable strong emotion that finally prompted him to decide to help Wang Zhen and the others escape first.
What are those mostly forgotten memories, the sporadic fragments that occasionally flash, and the sudden inexplicable emotions?
Is he actually a lonely soul from later generations, who took possession of this body when he was young, and then grew up in confusion for sixteen years?
Xu Huai was sitting on the horse, his mind was churning endlessly, and he even forgot to dismount, but the girl thought he was staring at her stupidly, so she turned away embarrassedly.
"You idiot, but you know how to stare at girls!" Xu Wujiang felt a little embarrassed, took the handle of the riding whip, poked Xu Huai, and threw the reins away after dismounting.
In his hand, "Hold the horse for me."
"Ah!" Xu Huai came back to his senses and saw Xu Wujiang and the "car driver" walking towards the inspection envoys Deng Gui and Wang Zhen...
(Two more alliance leaders have been added. Thanks to book friend 57, good people... The first five alliance leaders in the new book were all formed before Zongheng's official activities, and they were not able to participate in Zongheng's new book lottery.
Prize activity, I will add the mysterious gift later...)