A few days later, the Guanxi Army marched northward step by step. Just after the general moved his troops to the north of Qingluo Plain where the troops were stationed in the Garqin Mausoleum in the past, the Tubo envoy arrived.
This time, the Tubo envoy did not come to ask for peace, but sent a letter of war from the Garqin Mausoleum and the relics of Hou Junji.
Qin Mubai read the letter of war. In addition to the various provocative words that Gar Qinling used to say, the book also clearly told Qin Mubai that Gar Qinling had mobilized "an army that overwhelms the country" to fight Qin Mubai.
After asking the envoy, Qin Mubai learned all the details about Hou Junji.
Qin Mubai took the three relics of Hou Junji, picked up a large jar of wine, and locked himself in the tent without seeing anyone, including Li Ke.
On the second day, Qin Mubai still didn't come out. Li Ke and others were calm, but one person was impatient.
That night, the back tent of the handsome tent where Qin Mubai was staying was stabbed open with a sharp knife, and a woman broke in - Ashina Blood Lotus.
The tent was full of chaos and the smell of alcohol was rising. Qin Mubai lay down on the ground holding a wine jar, like a dead man.
Xue Lian slowly walked to him, knelt down, and saw through the light that the tears on Qin Mubai's face were still wet.
Xue Lian's heart suddenly felt painful, and he stretched out his hand to help Qin Mubai up. However, Qin Mubai suddenly woke up and waved his hand fiercely, opening Xue Lian's arm and almost falling.
"Qin Mubai, are you still a man?" Xue Lian was immediately annoyed, "I came to care about you with good intentions, but you hit people! Also, how can a man hide in secret and cry!!!"
Qin Mubai raised his head with difficulty to open his sleepy eyes, and murmured vaguely: "Blood... Lotus?"
Seeing his appearance, Xue Lian felt inexplicably sad in her heart. The anger just now was instantly wiped away, and she hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.
Qin Mubai sat on the chair, his face pale and his eyes empty, staring straight at the roof of the tent.
"What's wrong with you?" Xuelian said softly, "I have never seen a man as sad as you. I didn't expect that you would cry too... "
"There are so many things you didn't expect." Qin Mubai murmured with a dull expression, "I will not only hide and cry cowardly, but I will also blackheartedly kill the people who trust me the most."
"No! You are a good man with a true temperament and you are not a coward at all! You are not likely to harm anyone with a bad heart!" Xue Lian said with certainty.
"What do you know? In fact, I also have a very cowardly and black-hearted side." Qin Mubai turned to look at Xuelian, smiled bitterly, and said, "Men are not allowed to have tears in this world, so I had to hide and cry. The more People in high positions are more sinister, but there is a difference between hypocrisy and ugliness!"
"I don't understand, why are you so evil?" Xue Lian frowned.
"Hou Junji was killed by me..." Qin Mubai spoke the truth after drinking.
"No way? I know a little bit about the cause and effect of the matter. I can't blame you!" Xue Lian said in surprise.
Qin Mubai smiled bitterly and said, "Have you ever raised a hunting dog?"
"I've raised them before! Turks all raise hunting dogs."
"When the hunting dog is guarding your home, will you tie it up?" Qin Mubai asked.
"Of course!" Xuelian said, "Unless you go hunting, hunting dogs must be tied up. Otherwise, what if you accidentally injure your neighbors or livestock?"
"I'm not tied up." Qin Mubai sneered, picked up the wine jar and wanted to drink again.
Xuelian hurriedly grabbed it, stretched out his arms to hug Qin Mubai's elbow, and whispered: "Actually, many people have thought that you deliberately let Hou Junji out. But... the thing is after all. Hou Junji did it by himself. His fate is determined by him. How can I blame you? "
"Why don't you blame me?" Qin Mubai suddenly shouted, "If I didn't want to use Hou Junji and didn't go to Hou Junji in the first place, he wouldn't be here today!!!"
Xue Lian was speechless for a moment and sighed: "Mu Bai, although I don't understand your Han people's way of being an official, I once heard my father say in the early years that those in high positions cannot worry about gains and losses. There are always some people because of If you live for a long time, some people will die because of you. Even though you indirectly killed Hou Junji, I guess you wouldn't dare to have a sensitive figure like Hou Junji without your emperor's acquiescence. Go and invite him?"
"You are very smart..." Qin Mubai smiled bitterly again, "Have you seen the three relics collected by Hou Jun? The sword given by the emperor, the book given by Duke Wei, and the wine flask given by me. In his heart, the three of us must be Very important. But his tragic ending was caused by me and the emperor! - Blood Lotus, do you think I am very evil and worthy of death?"
Maybe he drank too much and was really drunk. Not only did he speak the truth after drinking, but he also shed tears more easily.
At this moment, Qin Mubai burst into tears.
"As expected!" Xue Lian sighed and shook his head, "So this is not your fault, this is the emperor's intention! - The emperor first demoted Hou Junji, and then tacitly allowed you to use him to establish kindness. , then Hou Junji will definitely give up his service to you! ... People's hearts are indeed terrible! But Mu Bai... "
"No buts!!" Qin Mubai suddenly shouted -
"From the beginning, I have treated Hou Junji as a hunting dog and a spear! I let him bite and stab my enemies, and he can sacrifice and give up at any time!"
Xue Lian was immediately stunned, "Mu Bai, you shouldn't have said such things!"
"Yes! Many people have done this kind of thing, but very few people speak out." Qin Mubai laughed at himself, letting the tears on his face continue to flow, and said, "Even if this battle is won... The price I paid was too great. Thousands of soldiers who died in battle, including my father and Hou Junji, have all left me. To be honest, I have begun to hate war and get tired of officialdom. , I have to face death and cruelty every day, and deal with all kinds of intrigues and intrigues. If I could turn back time, I would rather not be an official than a general. I am tired, I am really tired..."
Blood Lotus has never seen a man cry in front of her. I have never heard of a man whose every word was filled with heartbreaking sadness.
Xue Lian's eyes were also red, and she couldn't help but hug Qin Mubai tightly.
"Hou Junji! Come back, I want to drink three hundred cups with you..."
"Mubai, please stop talking!" The deeply affected Xuelian suddenly started crying, hugging Qin Mubai tightly and begging, "I beg you, please stop talking and stop crying? My My heart is so sad, so sad!”
Qin Mubai couldn't help crying, crying bitterly.
He had never cried so sadly when paying homage to his late father.
Xuelian hugged him and cried for no reason.
I don't know how or when, the lips of the two people kissed each other, as if thunder from the sky stirred the earth to fire, passionate and urgent.
Qin Mubai was so drunk that he was close to unconsciousness. He said what he shouldn't have said, and now he did it based on instinct regardless of whether he should do it or not.
Xue Lian's mind, which should have been awake, turned into chaos at this moment, and she could only respond to all Qin Mubai's actions in a jerky and enthusiastic manner.
It wasn't until she was completely naked and felt a sharp sting in her lower body that she suddenly woke up and screamed, biting Qin Mubai's shoulder hard.
Two rows of bloody mouth prints!
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It was daylight, and the sound of horns for training soldiers and horses in the military camp woke Qin Mubai up.
His head hurt so much that Qin Mubai almost couldn't get up. I vaguely felt that there was someone next to me, and when I looked sideways, I saw that it was Xue Lian who was sleeping soundly.
Qin Mubai suddenly woke up... "Oh my god, what did I do yesterday?"
Xuelian also woke up suddenly. Seeing Qin Mubai like this, he suddenly turned around and turned his back.
Qin Mubai was stunned for a long time, then turned around and hugged her.
"Don't touch me!!!" Xuelian suddenly shouted, curling up into a ball and hugging his arms tightly in front of him.
"Blood Lotus, I..."
"Don't say anything!"
"Okay..." For a moment, Qin Mubai really didn't know what to say, so he had to try to get up and crawl out of the quilt, "You should have a good rest, I'll go to the military camp for a walk."
"Don't leave!!"
"Uh..." Qin Mubai blinked blankly, "Okay, then I will stay with you for a while."
The two of them lay like this, covered with the same quilt, but neither one touched the other.
After a long time, the blood lotus moved. Qin Mubai turned to look at her, and their eyes met.
In Blood Lotus's eyes, there was shyness, sullenness, and tears.
"I'm sorry, Blood Lotus, I... didn't mean to do it." Qin Mubai was speechless for a moment and kept talking.
"You want to say that you just had sex after drinking and you don't like me at all, right?" Blood Lotus's tears fell heavily.
"No." Qin Mubai hurriedly reached out to wipe her tears, "I like you, but..."
"No buts!" Xue Lian bit her lip, "If you are a man, no matter what you do, don't regret it!"
"No buts?... These words sound familiar..." Qin Mubai was stunned for a moment, "What did I tell you last night?"
"I've said everything that should be said and what shouldn't be said!" Xue Lian said, "You said you are cowardly and very black-hearted."
Qin Mubai was stunned on the spot, "Didn't I ask the guards to guard and prevent anyone from coming within thirty steps of our tent?"
"I'm coming, who dares to stop me?" Xue Lian was a little annoyed, but suddenly smiled again, "Actually, I sneaked behind your tent, opened the tent and came in myself!"
"Ah?" Qin Mubai suddenly looked around. Sure enough, a big hole was opened in the tent above his head, and sunlight could be seen leaking in from there.
"Damn it, someone looked at me alive!!" Qin Mubai suddenly shouted and was about to jump up.
"What's your name!" Xue Lian suddenly grabbed him in a funny way, "We all know it's your handsome tent, but who else will get close to it except me?"
With this twist, the quilt came loose, and Qin Mubai saw the beauty of being ejaculated.
Swallowing wildly.
Blood Lotus's figure... is so stunning that it kills people!
"Turn around, don't look! Otherwise I'll gouge your eyes!" Xuelian hurriedly pulled the quilt and wrapped herself tightly, "Bring me my clothes!"
Qin Mubai was surprised and amused. When he turned around, he saw clothes scattered everywhere in the room. The most exaggerated thing was that there was a light green piece of clothing hanging on an armor shelf ten steps away from the bed - it was obviously blood. Lian's underwear!
"Last night...what did the two of us do?"
Qin Mubai was confused.
An hour later, Qin Mubai, dressed in military uniform and riding a majestic horse, appeared on the campus. Although his face is still a little pale and haggard, he is in good spirits.
Li Ke, together with Li Daliang, Qin Tong, Li Junxian and others, were on the general platform, watching Xue Rengui lead Qin Mubai's Yifu Yueqi, practicing formation raids and cavalry shooting. The generals burst into cheers from time to time.
"Xue Rengui is indeed an unparalleled general!" Li Daliang, a veteran general who spent half his life in the military, laughed and praised, "Not only is he outstanding in martial arts, but the cavalry he trains are also the best among the best. They are no better than the Xuan Tieqi of the Prince of Qin's Palace back then. Bad!”
"Indeed!" Li Junxian, who once served in Baiqi, also praised, "He is indeed the most powerful general in the Guanxi Army! Baiqi, who is known as the best soldier in the world, is nothing more than this!"
"Don't praise him too much, or you'll end up doing bad things." Qin Mubai got off his horse and walked over, smiling.
Everyone glanced at Qin Mubai and felt relieved when they saw his natural expression.
Li Ke came forward and said: "Mubai, Garqinling has issued a war letter and is gathering troops. It seems that the day of the war is coming soon. But half of our army is still staying in Dafeichuan to recuperate. , there is no news from Yuchi Jingde, what should we do?"
"Don't worry, Gar Qin Ling just used a bluff to get a head start. In fact, he was afraid that we would march too early and not give him time to prepare." Qin Mubai smiled slightly and said, "After being gathered here by Hou Jun, After this, Tubo's vitality was severely weakened. It was not easy to raise an army to fight me. Within three to five months, he could not even raise the troops, horses and food. And our soldiers were at most needed. It will take a month to adapt to the plateau climate. By then, it will be time for our Kansai Army to advance to the plateau and move closer!"