The gates of the city were closed, and no one could go out or enter. The guards blew horns on the city walls, which meant that the war was coming. The people of the city fled in all directions, and the corpses that had been shot through by an arrow lay across the ground.
Bian Yueguan's garrison general Xu Shi was the second prince's henchman. Meng Qiqi felt that He Shang had easily come to attack Bian Yueguan so close to Beijing, probably because he was confident that there would be someone in Beijing to support him.
"Go to Xu Guard's house." Meng Eqi saw that the strong man and the tall and thin man were clueless, so he couldn't help but suggest, "At least it must be safe there now."
The two of them looked at each other, turned their backs and muttered so that Meng Eqi could not hear them. Meng Eqi pricked up her ears and couldn't hear a single word. Finally, they turned around, and the tall and thin man said calmly, "Do you know where the guard mansion is?"
Meng Eqi pointed to a row of soldiers who were leaving quickly across the street: "I guess they are going to the garrison to wait for the order, so it's right to follow."
The strong man and the tall and thin man looked at each other, and they followed Meng Qiqi quietly behind the column of soldiers.
Entering an alley, Meng Eqi hurriedly said, "Let's hide and see the situation first, don't rush over there."
The strong man and the tall man obeyed her advice, and the three of them hid in the corner and looked at the gate of Xu Mansion.
After that column of soldiers took out the token and went in, they never came out. After a long time, when Meng Eqi's legs were numb, two people came out. One was a middle-aged man with a plump figure, probably Xu Guarding. The other one who came out with him was a foreigner in strange clothes.
Meng Eqi frowned, and then heard Xu Shoubei laughing twice: "Don't worry, I didn't open the city gates for the sake of pretence. I can't ask the court to ask, and this official will surrender without a fight."
The alien folded his hands on his chest and bowed slightly, whispering a few words, as if expressing his gratitude.
Then he rode on a horse at the door, and left with four or five people from his family.
Meng Eqi and the others hurriedly hid, and then the tall and thin man made a gesture, and the strong man carried Meng Eqi and quickly left the place.
There was smoke of gunpowder outside, and there was only one exit from the main entrance of the city, and now no one was allowed to enter or leave, and the entire city was blocked.
The three of Meng Eqi found a broken temple and squeezed in temporarily.
"His grandma's," the strong man named Ying Chen punched the broken door and window: "As a parent of the common people, this official Xu Gou colluded with the thieves at such a time!"
Meng Eqi glanced at him and felt that Ying Chen was a little warm-hearted.
"Once Jicheng is destroyed, only the people in the city will suffer. And if Xu garrison intercepts the news and does not report it, it will take a few days for the court to know that Jicheng has been attacked." Meng Eqi was a little calm. : "Now you can tell me what that person told you to tie me here and what did he do?"
Ying Chen and the lanky man remained silent, looked at each other and looked away.
His mouth was still tight, and he refused to do so at this time.
Meng Eqi sat with her arms folded, as if it had nothing to do with herself: "You are not willing to do it, but I guess that person must have asked you to bring me here and then give it to someone. But according to the current situation In this situation, do you still want to hand me over? Think about it, why it happened so coincidentally. That person made you drive a day and a night to Bianyueguan, and then Bianyueguan was attacked, and the city is now closed. The person who responded didn't come."
The tall and thin man was speechless, but the strong man looked at Meng Qiqi but hesitated.
When he wanted to say something, the tall and thin man threw the deerskin water bag in his arms and said fiercely, "Drink water."
The strong man named Ying Chen did not continue to speak.
Meng Eqi's heart sank, feeling that something was wrong.
In the evening, the fire was still looming outside. Ying Chen went out to inquire for a while and came back. It was the soldiers who were still holding the city gate for the time being, and He Shang's people were about to attack the next day. They would not wait until reinforcements from the imperial court arrived before attacking.
"As soon as the city gate is broken, we will take the opportunity to escape." Ying Chen looked at Meng Eqi and said, "Don't be afraid, since we brought you here, we can't care about whoever is supporting us now, we will meet again. Good luck to take you out."
Meng Qiqi nodded slowly and returned a grateful smile. Out of the corner of the eye, he glanced at the tall and thin man who was sitting in the corner alone feeding the fire. Meng Qiqi narrowed her eyes slightly, feeling a little uneasy in her heart.
The color went dark, the cold wind whistled through the shabby temple, Meng Eqi shivered coldly, and slowly approached the fire.
For some reason, Ying Chen seemed to be very sleepy today. He leaned on the side of the pillar and fell asleep directly. At this time, he was snoring slightly.
Sleeping like this, he was not alert at all, not at all like his usual appearance.
"Who the hell are you?" the tall and thin man asked coldly, adding a handful of firewood to the fire.
Meng Eqi looked at his thin sunken cheeks reflected in the firelight, pretending to be calm: "You have seen it too, I am a drunk and Qinghou's maidservant, who else can I be?"
The tall and thin man smiled but said, "You don't have to bluff me, you lied to Fatty Ying, but you can't lie to me. What's more, if the buyer who paid the money is according to you, let us send you to Bian Yueguan, and then There is a war in Yueguan, which not only shows that they are going to want us to die here together. It also shows that your identity is not simple. "
He stared at Meng Eqi, and Meng Eqi couldn't help being vigilant.
The tall and thin man continued: "Although I don't know what kind of relationship you have with that person, I know that the identity of the buyer behind it must not be simple, and the person who can know the trend of the war in Bian Yueguan must be a powerful person. And you, who are treated like this by the rich and powerful, are probably not a simple person."
Meng Eqi's hand in her sleeve tightened slightly: "Really? Putting this aside, even if you hand me over, you may not be able to leave Bianyueguan alive. Maybe that person wants to silence and pull you all with me. Death. It's like the fire of war outside, I don't know if I can get out."
The tall and thin man sneered, as if piercing Meng Qiqi's mind: "Yeah, so... If we don't hand you over, the powerful people behind us will not let us go, right?"
Meng Qiqi was silent, she turned and said, "Why don't we call Ying Chen up and leave now. Maybe we can find a chance to get out while looking for a way out at night."
The tall and thin man got up and walked towards her: "I'm sorry girl, we are also taking people's money and doing things for them."
Meng Eqi subconsciously covered her abdomen and slowly backed away: "Are you willing to be used by others? I think you and Ying Chen were loyal and righteous people in the past, and now when the enemy is attacking, you still have to take advantage of the chaos. Wealth of righteousness?"
The tall and thin man seemed a little moved, but he still walked towards Meng Qiqi in the next second: "For a monarch who is insane and believes that traitors kill innocent people, this mess will be messed up. I'm the one who died once. , the righteousness in my heart has long since disappeared, and the girl doesn't need to provoke me with this."
Meng Qiqi wanted something else, but the tall and thin man came over and knocked her unconscious.
Before falling into darkness, Meng Eqi listened to him—
"My righteousness has already been overturned with the demise of the Sheng family army, and now the people who walk in the world are just walking dead."
…
"Phoenix, phoenix..."
Who is calling her
Meng Eqi's consciousness was dark, and there seemed to be the sound of dripping water in her ears, and someone kept calling her.
Following the sound of dripping water, the eyes gradually opened up, as if a single spot of light had torn thousands of strands of darkness. But the surrounding air was heavy, as if there was no life.
On a huge peach tree, sat a fox with winking eyes.
"Fox...sister..." Meng Eqi called out subconsciously, the scene in front of her was inexplicably familiar.
The fox on the west hill was sitting on the branch with its nine tails swaying, eating the petals flying in the air piece by piece. She narrowed her eyes and seemed to be smiling: "You're here again. Isn't that black dragon taking care of you today? ?"
Meng Qiqi had a headache. She couldn't remember why she appeared here, but she felt a little strange in her heart. As if some memory had been wiped from her mind, she felt that she should not be here. That shouldn't be here, where should she be
The fox at Xishantou said to himself, "I know, he must have been too busy to take care of you recently. God is furious, and he will raise his troops to sweep the wilderness in a few days, and the black dragon must be so busy that his feet don't touch the ground."
She giggled a few times.
Meng Eqi covered her forehead: "Sister Fox, I seem to have forgotten something very important."
The fox's eyes flowed, and there seemed to be water waves in her slender eyes: "Since it is an important thing, how can you forget it?"
"I don't know... I just can't remember anything."
The fox squinted his eyes and blew the petals at Meng Qiqi playfully: "Since you didn't want to forget it yourself, maybe someone wanted you to forget it on purpose. But don't worry, as long as you want to remember, you only need a suitable Opportunity. Well, I won't keep you anymore, Heilong will be in a hurry for a while."
Black Dragon…
Meng Eqi had a splitting headache, as if someone was quickly erasing her memories one by one.
Who is the black dragon
Why does a person's eyebrows and eyes keep flashing in his mind, why is that person's icy cold expression so familiar? Who is he
There are a lot of things that Meng Qiqi seems to have just remembered, and then they have been eliminated bit by bit.
The fox at the top of Xishan jumped down from the peach tree, came to her, and walked around Meng Qiqi. Then her slender fingers caressed Meng Qiqi's shoulders: "Phoenix, you can't forget it. You can forget us, forget the wilderness, and can't even forget Lord Emperor Zun?"
Meng Qiqi's head hurt even more, she couldn't hold back and lay on the ground, groaning in pain.
At that moment, the fox at the top of the west hill and the peach tree behind it all shattered like fragments, and then turned into powder with a bang and disappeared into the darkness.
As the light disappeared little by little, Meng Eqi couldn't help crying in pain. She lay on the ground and gasped. There was a clear sound of a bell from somewhere, and this sound seemed to break through the chaos in Meng Qiqi's mind.
She cried out in a weeping voice—
"Sheng Jiayan!"