At this moment, in the wilderness half a day's journey from Yanbo Crossing, an army covered head to toe was walking slowly.
The queue seemed loose, but it was well-trained. During the long and boring journey, from beginning to end, there was no sound of anyone.
The eyes that occasionally glanced around were full of vigilance and indifference, like the cold light of an arrow cluster at the moment the string was drawn, sharp and intimidating.
This is the temperament that a true warrior can have.
The figure at the head is particularly burly, but occasionally a strand of hair floats out from under the hood, but it is already gray. He is obviously old, but in this ice and snow, he allows the wind to blow open his clothes, exposing his scarred chest. .
An experienced person can tell at a glance that only a small part of those scars are from swords, while the rest of the scars are from various torture instruments.
After turning a mountain col, there is a dense pine forest in front of us. In this season, they are covered with thick quilt-like snow covers.
There were birds and foxes in the forest who were disturbed by the march and fled in panic.
"Gaimian, Lunhan (qin)!" The leading knight raised his head and glanced at the flying bird, and spoke calmly. His voice was very hoarse. It was not the hoarseness caused by exhaustion after running around for days, but the hoarseness caused by damage to the vocal cords. , low-pitched and weird, but he spoke very fluently in Da Mu Mandarin. If he hadn't looked up and could clearly see the profound eyebrows of the very different Mu man under the hood, he would have thought he was a visitor from Chang'an.
The two knights whose names were called by him also agreed in Da Mu Mandarin, and then galloped into the forest. After a while, they heard the sound of birds and small animals escaping in the forest. Finally, deep in the pine forest, there was a sound of A roar of a large beast!
"What about Fuzhen?" The people behind the leading knight seemed a little worried about Gai Mian and Lun Han (qin) entering the forest, and called softly, "Should I go and take a look too?"
"Tuluti, listen to the roar, it's just a weak tiger hungry in the snow!" However, the leader named "Na Fuzhen" did not agree. His gray-blue eyes stared at the southeast, where is Yanbodu. Where he was, he said coldly, "If Gai Mian and Lun Han (qin) can't even deal with a hungry tiger that has no way out, what qualifications do they have to avenge their fathers?!"
Turuti glanced at Na Fuzhen's left hand controlling the reins. He knew that this was not Na Fuzhen's dominant left hand, but because his right hand, together with part of his elbow, had disappeared.
And one of Fuzhen's seemingly intact gray-blue eyes was actually invisible.
His right hand, elbow, one eye, scars all over his body, and... Turuti did not dare to turn his eyes away, and sighed secretly in his heart, thinking: "No wonder Fuzhen fought so hard with the Khan. Over the years, my mind has been sharpened to perfection, but after I heard that there was an opportunity to capture the granddaughter of Shengshi Xiong, I rushed here in person regardless of the risk!"
The coach named Nafu Zhen has a noble background among the first in Ruru. He is a descendant of the Yujiulu (lv) family, that is, the Ruru royal family.
His biological mother was once nicknamed the "Pearl of the Prairie" and was the most beautiful woman recommended by the Duke of Ruru. She was from the Jian (zi) Wo family, and she was also from the Ruru family. She was deeply loved by the old Khan.
Aiwujiwu, Nafuzhen had just landed, and was particularly favored and carefully cultivated by the old Khan King.
And Nafuzhen did not live up to the expectations of the old Khan. When he was young, he was handsome, strong, intelligent, brave and good at fighting. Although he was not the eldest son, he was the most valued, trusted and expected heir of the old Khan.
At that time, everyone thought that Nafu Zhen would be the next Khan.
Until he fell in love with his eldest brother Dengchen Liyu's cousin from his mother's clan, the girl who took over the "Pearl of the Prairie" crown from Nafuzhen's biological mother. Every smile and every smile made Ruru's man fascinated.
Although Nafuzhen's status in front of the old Khan King, it was easy for her to ask her to marry him. But like all young men who are young, energetic and sincere, he is unwilling to force the girl he loves, but instead tries every means to impress her with his sincerity and love.
What's more, the requirements of the new "Pearl of the Prairie" were so exciting that he didn't want bright and luxurious jewelry, nor did she want incredibly smooth and incredibly expensive silks and damasks from Damu, which even the ladies of Ruru loved. If you treasure rouge or gouache, you are extremely contemptuous.
She only wanted Nafuzhen to prove his bravery to her and ask him to personally go to the border and behead the heads of the great soldiers of the same age as him as a betrothal gift. At that time, she would put on the wedding dress without hesitation and become his wife. , give birth to children for him.
Nafuzhen accepted this condition almost with joy. Even after the old Khan and his biological mother unanimously opposed it, he asked for help from Denchen Liyu, secretly took a few "confidants", and flew across the border at starry night.
The favor of his biological mother, the doting of the old Khan King, and the blindness of love made the young Yu Jiulu son dizzy. At that time, he even thought that as long as he reached the border, Damu's soldiers would line up like sheep, no matter what. He took away the "bride price" that his beloved girl wanted.
The fact is that less than half a day after he set foot on the border land, he fell into a long-awaited ambush.
He was so proud of his martial arts that he didn't even have time to display his skills due to panic, so he was skillfully knocked unconscious by the wolf-like and tiger-like General Mu. When he woke up, he was already in a remote valley, and his hands and feet that had been bound for too long had long lost consciousness. , so that he watched in a trance as the whip shadow brought up fluff after fluff of blood, and he didn't even realize that he was being tortured.
"This kid is really tough, so it's not too insulting to his background." The executioner noticed his awakening and said to his companions with a smile in fluent Ruru language, "On the contrary, those few of his guards are so servile. It’s so annoying that I confessed everything without even bothering with it!”
"I didn't expect that General Chen Bing has been in Northern Xinjiang for several years, and Ruru would still have the heart to play this kind of quarrel!" The executioner's companion spat on the ground and replied in Ruru language with a look of boredom on his face, "This little kid The bastard is also stupid. At this age, for the little girl he likes, he throws his father and mother's words behind him. Although it is human nature, he still doesn't use his brain to think about the origin of that little girl? That is his biological eldest brother. My maternal cousin, they knew you were the most promising prince, but they didn’t marry you immediately and become the princess. Instead, they encouraged you to run towards danger, and even helped you after your own parents stopped you. They were just afraid that you wouldn’t come. Frontier, it’s clear that you have no good intentions!”
"You can't understand such a simple truth. You're so stupid that you're hurting! How about the captain stop torturing him and let him go back to inherit his father's throne? Then the general will also have peace of mind!"
The executioner said happily: "He doesn't understand now. If he falls into our hands and is frightened, how can he grow up with brains after he goes back? Isn't this just letting the tiger go back to the mountain?"
He added, "Didn't the little boy's bodyguard tell you? The little boy's biological mother was born in the Wo family. She was the daughter of the patriarch of the Ruru clan. She was deeply loved by Ruru Khan, so she loved him very much, inside and out. The intention is to establish him as the next generation of Khan, otherwise he would not have incurred the jealousy of his eldest brother Dengchen Riyu and teamed up with his mother's family to set up such a trap to trap him!"
"In this case, if we cripple this little brat and throw him back, can Yu (zi) Wu Shi still let go of Dengchen Riyu?"
The young Nafu was so frightened that he actually forgot that the two people in front of him had been talking in Ruru language, and begged for mercy in stammering Damu Mandarin: "Don't... don't destroy me... I... I am Prince Ruru! I Father Khan likes me the most. You can ask him for things, including cattle, sheep, war horses...anything! My father Khan will definitely agree!!!"
"Of course I know your father will agree!" The executioner raised his head, his face was young but had rough habits from the frontier life, and his beard was taut, and the malice and coldness in his smile made it clear that even though time had passed For more than twenty years, Na Fuzhen could still remember it vividly every time he closed his eyes.
He lifted Na Fuzhen's chin with his whip and said word for word in Ruru language, "But I don't want anything... If I want your Ruru things, I will use my own sword to rob and kill them!" You don’t need to bring it up yourself, understand?!”
Na Fuzhen nodded tremblingly.
The executioner laughed again: "Baby, do you want to live? But do you know? Yesterday, one of your people slaughtered a village in Damu. There were more than a hundred people in each village, most of whom were widows. Among them, there are a dozen who are about your age and five who are younger than you. All of them were trampled to pulp by the war horses... Tell me, why do you want to live?!"
With his calloused palms, he patted Na Fuzhen's young cheeks hard. Looking down at the wet tears on his palms, he seemed to soften a little and his smile became deeper, "Okay, you can live!"
After appreciating Fuzhen's joy at surviving a desperate situation for a while, he slowly continued, "But it's just a living... After all, I am counting on the Yan (zi) Wu family and the Afu Gan family to have a good fight!" "
As he spoke, the cold light of the dagger lit up little by little from the sheath, illuminating Fuzhen's fear-filled eyes!
...A long, long time later, Nafuzhen knew what kind of gift Dengchen Liyu had prepared for him: an executioner named Sheng Shixiong, who had "retaliated tooth for tooth" after witnessing Paoze killing Ruru when he was a boy. A determined executor.
The main reason why this officer Da Mu, who had great military exploits and voluntarily joined the army because he gave up his wealthy life, had difficulty getting promoted was that he insisted on killing and tortured all Ruru who fell into his hands even if he couldn't kill him. At first, he just followed him Those Ruru men who died tragically as old as their robes.
Later, it was said that because of Ruru's massacre of Damu Village, Sheng Shixiong gradually believed that Ruru should not exist at all.
From then on, Ruru did not distinguish between men, women, old or young in his eyes.
Not to mention the sixteen-year-old Nafuzhen, who was only one or two years older than Sheng Shixiong when the others were killed. He was still a member of the royal family of Ruru, a descendant of Yu Jiulu, the most beloved son of the old Khan King, and a member of the Ruru clan. The default next generation of King Khan.
The most important thing is that his accident will directly lead to a conflict between the two most powerful tribes in Ruru: the Zi Wo family and the Avgan family!
Sheng Shixiong had no reason to let him go.
So he set off intact, like a foal that had just been born in the spring and was still full of curiosity and hope for the world. He ran into the distance happily, almost with joy, but when he came back, he was covered in blood and scars. of disability.
That year, his biological mother was already over thirty, the grassland was bitterly cold, and no matter how beautiful her face was, she could not withstand the wind and rain. His mother's protection helped Na Fuzhen win the most critical years of medical treatment. However, his position was... That is impossible.
A few years later, Dengchen Liyu presented the new "Prairie Pearl", the girl Nafuzhen had truly loved, to the old Khan King. Nafuzhen's biological mother soon fell out of favor, and soon after, she was infected with the disease for no apparent reason. There was a cold wind and it went away quickly...
In the meantime, Yan (zi) Wo's family did exactly what Sheng Shixiong expected. For the sake of their daughter and grandson, they attacked Dengchen Liyu and Avgan's family.
However, under the threat of General Zhou of the Mu Dynasty, the dispute was finally reconciled: the clan leader of the Wo family and Nafu Zhen's uncle promised his granddaughter to Dengchen Liyu's eldest son as his official wife.
Dengchen Liyu replaced Na Fuzhen and became the crown prince.
Now, he is the Khan, the "Great Khan" as Turuti calls him.
No one knows how Nafuzhen, who was less than twenty years old when his biological mother died, survived such a period of time and grew up to where he is today.
Even Turuti, who had grown up with him and had given him a helping hand in his most difficult moments, could not imagine that every time Nafuzhen knelt down to Chen Liyu over the years, and that he had also lost " How do you feel when you call a woman "Prairie Pearl"
However, Turuti knew that Nafu really hated Dengchen Liyu, hated the people he once loved, and might even hate the clan leader of the Ziwo family and the old Khan, but what he hated most, in the final analysis, was Sheng Shixiong.
Because no matter how many plots Dengchen Liyu had set up to frame him, if Sheng Shixiong hadn't destroyed him, he wouldn't have suffered such a complete defeat.
Living alone in this world.
Therefore, even if he uses his years of hard work as an exchange, even if he knows that even if he successfully captures Sheng Shixiong's granddaughter, Tojin Riyu will not let him lose everything... Na Fuzhen still does not hesitate. chose this transaction.
Maybe he lives to this day by any means necessary, not to regain the throne from Dengchen Liyu, but to let Sheng Shixiong feel the deep-rooted fear and hatred he felt back then
Turuti sighed secretly in his heart. He really wanted to persuade Nafu Zhen not to be so impulsive. He even followed him in person this time because he was afraid that he would be too eager to seek revenge and lose control.
only…
Anyone who knows Nafu Zhen’s experience can say anything to stop it
"Even Gai Mian and Lunhang (qin), who have never met Sheng Shixiong, didn't they grow up with their elders' deep-seated hatred for Sheng Shixiong?" Tuluti smiled bitterly and thought silently, "Even they Still obsessed with avenging his father’s death, he insisted on joining this raid deep into the enemy’s territory... let alone Fuzhen?”
In the final analysis, the memory Sheng Shixiong left to that generation of Ruru people when he was in Northern Xinjiang was indeed too tragic and painful.
This man who was generous and righteous to his compatriots was well versed in all military punishments. He always looked at Ruru like a butcher looking at slaughtered cattle and sheep, talking and laughing with ease.
He also unreasonably believed that every Da Mu citizen was worth ten Ruru, which meant that every time Ruru slaughtered a village, he would find ways to kill ten times as many Ruru, regardless of gender, age or child.
As a result, in the following years, Ruru, who was accustomed to slaughtering villages, rarely even dared to touch the lonely people of Damu she occasionally met.
"No ambush or trap has been found in the forest, let's go!" Na Fuzhen's cold voice interrupted his memories. Turuti looked up and saw that Gai Mian and Lun Han (qin) had worked together to drag a horse with their mounts. Lin Hu, who was shot and killed, came over.