The room was a little quiet, and even the sound of breathing seemed very clear.
Mo Xidao looked around at the few people in the room, and these five people were the only ones who escaped with him from Chang'an City. When they left Chang'an City, there were thirteen people including him. When they robbed a caravan on the way, one was killed by the caravan's guards, and when they sneaked into the rich man's house, two were killed by the guard. Later, they robbed in the waters of the Yangtze River and lost four more people.
Du Shuan was captured by Fang Jie's men a few days ago, and he was not among the corpses hanging outside the gate of the village, but Mo Xidao knew that even if Fang Jie didn't kill Du Shuan, he would never come back.
"I've probably told you everything, and now I have to ask you for your opinions. The cottage is not a cottage built by me alone, but it was built by all of us. I didn't know anything before. I can decide, but this time I have to ask what you mean."
Xu Lian was silent for a while and asked him, "Brother, what did Fang Jie say?"
Mo Xidao said: "He said that if our brothers in Hukoujian are willing to join him, he will treat him generously. I don't doubt this, because I know him a little bit. But... what is certain is that if you kill Fang Jie Fang Jie would not allow those fifty brothers to survive. When Du Shuan was caught, he knew that there were our brothers in the cottage, but he still ordered those scouts to be killed and hanged outside the cottage. His attitude was already very obvious. gone."
He glanced at everyone and said, "If I were Fang Jie, I would do the same. He has taken a fancy to the well-trained brothers in our Hukoujian, but it is impossible for him not to give an explanation to his subordinates. This Liang Zi If you can’t solve it, even if you rely on the past, it’s impossible to uncover the past without mentioning it.”
"Then there's nothing to talk about!"
Li Mingli said angrily: "What's the big deal? Let's abandon this village and go far away. The world is so big, how can there be no place for us? He said that he wanted to take everyone in because of the love in Chang'an City back then, and he didn't want to see that our thousands of brothers are all good players. What's more, our tiger's mouth is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even if he has tens of thousands of troops trying to fight in, the number of deaths will not be less than ours. We are not waste like Lu Chuan, Gao Beidou, Bo Yang, and Dou Tiande. Anyone who comes Shed blood!"
Xu Lian shook his head: "But brothers, the loss will not be small."
Li Mingli immediately became anxious, pointed at Xu Lian's nose and cursed: "I know you are a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death, because you thought you had a drink at the same table with that surnamed Fang in Chang'an City. Liquor, do you think he will treat you differently? Since the eldest brother came back, you have been playing against us, who doesn't know what you think!"
"Stop pointing at my face!"
Xu Lian was also angry: "All these years, I have traveled all over the country with my elder brother, and I have bled and killed as much as you! What I have to consider now is how to protect this thousand-numbered brother, not the time for his mother's passion!"
Li Mingli gritted his teeth and said, "What the hell is there to think about? I don't believe in that evil. If he dares to bring someone to attack, I will be the first to rush over and tear off a piece of his flesh!"
"Shut up!"
Mo Xidao said in a cold voice: "Before others do anything, my brother will turn against him first! I have told you a long time ago that no matter what you want to do, you must first be united. If you are not united, you don't need others to do it. You can drive your own people to a dead end!"
Xu Lian and Li Mingli glared at each other, then sat down unhappily again.
"Xu Lian is right."
Mo Xidao sighed and said: "If we brothers still encounter this kind of thing, we will slap our ass and leave. But our Huya village was built with great difficulty, and the brothers followed me just to have a good future. I know what you all think in your heart, but have you ever thought about what the people below think? Let me tell you, as long as I explain this to the people below, how many people do you think will be happy because Fang Jie is willing to recruit them? ?”
"To put it bluntly, even though the world is in chaos and heroes are rising together, we are still thieves after all, and Fang Xie wears official clothes. The people below will not think about how much we will have in the future if they follow us, they will want to follow Fang Xie. Not a thief but a soldier! Far more promising than staying in the cottage!"
Li Mingli froze for a moment, lowered his head and said nothing.
Li Sanbao looked at Mo Xidao and said, "Brother, you make up your own mind. After so long, we are used to listening to you in everything. It is the same now, no matter what decision you make, we all support it. If you say you want to go, Let's go. If you say you want to fight, we will fight! If you say you want to seek refuge with Fang Jie, we will pack up and go out."
"No."
Mo Xidao shook his head: "Even if you all go to join Fang Jie, I will not go. What is being discussed now is the future of you and the brothers below, and has nothing to do with me."
"Why?"
Several people looked at Mo Shudao in puzzlement.
Mo Xidao was silent for a while and then said with a sad tone: "It is undeniable that if I agree to Fang Jie, he will give me a good job, and he will not dismantle our team immediately. But I don't want to... Men have it." Strong spine, let me work under him from now on, listen to his orders every day, and bow my head to salute when I see him, I can’t do it. I couldn’t do it in Chang’an City, and I still can’t do it now.”
He didn't say anything, he was actually afraid that Fang Xie would find a way to get rid of him in order to make the thousands of people in Hukoujian obey in the future. After getting to know Fang Jie, shouldn't he let him decide
"Brother, let's go then."
Xu Liandao: "Fighting hard is not the answer. Let's pack up and leave overnight. With your ability, big brother, you can't pull up a team wherever you go?"
"How to go?"
Li Mingli said: "We are all infantry, and Fang Jie has some cavalry under his command. Even if we go out from the back mountain, if Fang Jie doesn't want to let us send cavalry to chase us, we still can't get away. After leaving Hukoujian, we will reach the place where Yima Pingchuan , we are the straws slaughtered by the cavalry!"
"Then..."
Xu Lian paused for a moment, looked at Mo Xidao and asked tentatively: "We brothers leave overnight, don't worry about the soldiers in the village. Let's go together, there are few people and the goal is small. As long as we can leave, the eldest brother will take us from the beginning. Just start."
"right!"
Several people nodded: "Brother, make up your mind!"
After Mo Xidao was silent for a while, he suddenly said something that shocked everyone: "Why do you always want to escape? Have you ever thought that if we can sneak into Suzaku Mountain and kill Fang Jie, then that branch The team will be in chaos immediately. It is true that the official army will definitely retaliate because Fang Jie is dead, but as long as we carry it through at most half a month, the official army will be in chaos because of the generals fighting for power. Will you have the intention to attack our cottage?"
"It's... too difficult, isn't it?"
Xu Lian twitched the corner of his mouth and said.
"Disaster?"
Mo Xidao smiled: "Back then I entered Eastern Chu alone and assassinated four or five dignitaries of Eastern Chu in succession. I could do it without backup, but now that you are here, can I not do it? As long as you are safe, It may not be impossible. Once Fang Jie died, based on my understanding of the official army, the first thing the generals did was not to avenge him, but who would take Fang Xie's seat! As long as the official army is in chaos, let's carry it over In the first few days of the attack, the generals saw that they had lost too many soldiers and horses, so they were not in the mood to continue fighting."
Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, not daring to agree.
Mo Xidao was a little annoyed and said: "I will do it myself, you just need to accept me. As long as I have a knife in my hand, it is not difficult to kill a Fang Jie! He can't practice, and I have cultivated a lot in the past few years." Zeng, not to mention... Fang Xie would never have thought that we would dare to assassinate him."
"But, brother, what if you miss it?"
"If you miss, kill me. You go away immediately, nothing will happen."
Mo Xidao looked at the crowd and said.
Li Mingli stomped his feet fiercely: "Since the eldest brother has said everything here, let's fucking fuck him!"
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Fang Jie leaned on the recliner with his eyes closed, Wanyan Yunshu sat on the side rubbing his shoulders, Mu Xiaoyao made tea opposite him, and Shen Qingfan sat reading a book not far away. The house was very quiet, and Fang Jie seemed to enjoy such a life. Suddenly there was a knock on the door outside, Mu Xiaoyao got up to open the door, only to find that it was Sang Sasha.
Seeing Fang Jie's nephrite and warm fragrance in this room, Sang Sasha was obviously taken aback.
"If you're free, I'd like to talk to you."
She didn't come in, she stood at the door and explained to the other party.
Fang Jie stood up and said, "Okay."
He smiled at Mu Xiaoyao and the others, "I'll be back in a while."
Sang Sasha turned around and walked back, suddenly stopped again, looked back at Shen Qing and fanned: "Your sword intent is stagnated in the veins of your arms, although it is majestic, it is volatile, obviously it is injured by recent practice, don't use your inner strength rashly, if If you don't adjust it, maybe you will be able to fix it here, no matter how difficult it is to advance."
Shen Qingfan's complexion changed slightly, and his beautiful curved eyebrows were raised upwards.
"Because you entered the realm too fast, it's not real. In fact, the so-called bottleneck is the natural reaction of the body. After your cultivation reaches a certain level, because the progress is too fast and not stable enough, the body will spontaneously prevent you from going any further. Go further. This is already a warning to you, but you always want to break through the bottleneck as soon as possible, and you have run counter to the way of nature, and you will be trapped in the bottleneck instead."
After saying this, instead of looking at Shen Qingfan's face, she turned to Mu Xiaoyao: "Actually, you were wrong from the very beginning. Your natural way lies in your talent, while you put all your energy on the acquired practice." , but your physique is not the best posture in practice, and it is difficult to make much progress in practice. But you are more impatient if you don't advance, and you ignore your enviable talent."
Mu Xiaoyao was stunned for a moment, then looked at the red silk wrapped around her arms.
"Abandon that red silk, your talent is here."
Sang Sasha pointed to her head: "If you put away all your thoughts on cultivation, then your talent will recover and sublimate. Since God has given you such a potential, why do you always go in another direction?"
Mu Xiaoyao's heart skipped a beat, and she subconsciously took a look at Shen Qing.
Sang Sasha followed her gaze and seemed to understand something.
Fang Xie couldn't help but shook his head, thinking that the aura of Master Meng Yuan was really strong. After getting along for a short time, they have already seen through the crux of Shen Qingfan and Mu Xiaoyao's lack of progress in cultivation. So he became more and more curious about the heavenly granter, what happened to her to suddenly possess such powerful strength.
"When I came, I found that the guards outside had withdrawn a lot. Why?"
Sang Sasha suddenly asked Fang Jie.
"Wait."
Fang Jie replied lightly.
Sang Sasha was silent for a while and said, "You have killing intent in your heart."
"If people don't come, there won't be any."
Fang Jie answered.
Sang Sasha hummed, turned and walked outside.
Wanyan Yunshu was stunned for a moment, seeing that mysterious woman pointing at Mu Xiaoyao, whom Shen Qingshan was pointing at, but she didn't have anything to say to herself, why didn't she envy Shen Qingshan and Mu Xiaoyao who could practice cultivation, but she had never been instructed , Mr. Xie never talked about these things when he was in Shiwan Dashan. After arriving in the Central Plains, he realized that Mr. Xie is not the only one who can practice.
"What about me?"
She couldn't help asking: "Why don't you point me out? Sister Shen has her abilities, and Sister Mu has her talents. Let's see what advantages I can discover?"
Sang Sasha stopped, looked back carefully for a while, and then said to Wanyan Yunshu in a very serious and responsible tone: "You... are more fertile than the two of them..."
Wanyan Yunshu was taken aback for a moment, and then blushed immediately.
Fang Jie gave a thumbs up: "This is great!"