The firelight reflected the sunset and seemed to burn through the entire sky, and the burning heat in the courtyard was still rising. Even though the fire has been extinguished, you can still feel the heat waves carried by the breeze, blowing over in waves.
Xia Chu put his hands on his hips, with an angry look on his face, and suddenly asked him sternly: "Xiao Mubai! Are you hiding anything else from me?"
On their way here, when they stopped by the cliff, she didn't understand where Xiao Mubai's sudden fear came from.
It was not until today, when she heard Xiao Mubai call out Zhong Guo's name, that she suddenly understood the truth that he had been unwilling to face and the reason for his panic.
"This... I'm not hiding it from you." Xiao Mubai put his forehead on his forehead and pinched his eyebrows.
Although he was eighty percent sure at the time, he had never seen Zhong Guo take off his mask with his own eyes. Shang was still worried about a bit of luck, hoping that he was wrong and not wanting to believe that the person was really Zhong Guo.
"When did you know that the master of the sect was Zhong Guo?" Xia Chu raised her chin lightly at him, as if asking him to be lenient in confessing.
"When he appeared for the first time, swung away Chengying with his sword, and took Li Fei into the air to exit Jianfumen with the three parties."
Xia Chu was slightly stunned: "It's just that sword, how did you recognize it?"
Xiao Mubai reached out and gently scratched the bridge of her nose: "He came close and swung his sword, and I smelled the faint fragrance of pear blossoms on his body."
At that time, Xiao Mubai was so shattered by what Concubine Li said.
I just felt that the faint scent of pear blossoms was very familiar, but I never thought of it in Zhong Guo's body.
It wasn't until Xiao Mubai saw the figures with Li Fei one after another, and when they put their hands on Shi Fuqiu's shoulders at the west gate city wall, and persuaded him to withdraw from Chang'an, that the actions and techniques he inadvertently used made Xiao Mubai's mind A figure that was once familiar and no longer familiar appeared in it.
That movement and technique had been put on his shoulders countless times. How could he forget the person who taught him martial arts and sword practice since he was a child? He thought of Zhong Guo almost out of instinct.
"No wonder the night before you left Beijing, you said you were going to see Concubine Li, but actually you wanted to confirm whether that person was Zhong Guo, right? Even if it was just a guess, you should have told me earlier. During these days, you should How hard it is." Xia Chu pressed his hand and held it in her palm, with a look of distressed pity in her eyes.
"It's okay." Xiao Mubai held her hand and led her down the pavilion step by step.
In those cold phoenix eyes, there was tenderness and pampering towards her, a light as bright as stars when she was happy, and a darkness as clear as autumn water when she was depressed.
But at this moment, there is only the relief of the rest of the life.
Originally, their plan today was Xiao Mubai's plan to survive in danger.
They thought over and over last night, and only by removing the explosives in the city without anyone noticing, could the danger of the people in the closed dock be truly relieved.
Xiao Mubai remembered that Wuma Hua was such a person and knew that he had mastery of all mechanisms, so he asked him if he could change the explosives that exploded immediately into less lethal fireworks.
Wuma Huacai was also impressed by his unbridled idea, and there was a trace of embarrassment on his face: "Theoretically it is possible, but I have never practiced it in practice."
Xiao Mubai immediately called Han Sa and took Wuma Huacai to do the actual operation...
As for the results of the actual operation, they did not know.
Xiao Mubai went to see Shi Jialiang again. Although the remaining 20,000 Shi Jialiang troops in Fengwu City were now controlled by Tang Feng, Shi Jialiang was the main general who led them all the way back to the capital from the new city.
If Shi Jialiang secretly returned to the city to persuade the 20,000 men, at least after the explosives were dealt with, there would be many fewer casualties during the siege.
Although Shi Jialiang had surrendered, according to the serious crime of treason he had committed, at best his body would be left intact.
Seeing this side of him, Xiao Mubai not only gave him the opportunity to make meritorious service, but also saved the lives of the 20,000 soldiers in Fengwu City. Naturally, Shi Jialiang accepted the order with tears in his eyes.
After Xia Chu contacted the few people left behind by Bingwen in Fengwu City, he hurriedly took away Wuma Huacai and Shi Jialiang.
After Shi Jialiang led them to Mojia's mansion, he left the team to carry out the mission Xiao Mubai gave him. Xia Chu was not afraid of him defecting in the face of battle.
After all, if he really changes sides, Fengwu won't be able to fight against the army, but if he can really make a contribution, he will save not only himself, but also the soldiers who followed him back to Beijing in the past.
He raised his troops and returned to Beijing that day. He had to obey his father's orders. Now Shi Fuqiu is dead.
In comparison, Xia Chu didn't believe that Shi Jialiang would die with Li Fei, whom he had never met several times.
The back door of Mo Mansion was opened by Bingwen's people, because many of the people who had sneaked into the Shi family army were girls who were selected to serve Concubine Li.
Therefore, they successfully stole Lian Yan's daily clothes that Xia Chu asked them to steal.
Xia Chu, who had changed into women's clothes, did not scare Wuma Huacai, but the raven who had been killing people without frowning since he was five years old really made his face break down again and again.
Xia Chu tied a veil and led the two of them out of Mo's house from the backyard, while proudly teasing the confused Raven: "But I still remember when you said that my disguise skills were bad, and it wasn't because of me. I’ve been deceived until today.”
Raven looked at her slender figure and retorted resolutely: "Is it the messy disguise of yours that deceived me to this day?"
Xia Chu looked at him sideways and raised his eyebrows slightly: "What if?"
Raven curled her lips: "Originally I thought it was because you looked too girly, but now it seems that you are more like a man..."
Raven's original intention was that her words and deeds were almost the same as those of a man. She thought that when she fished him out of the fire in early summer, she would not have stripped him clean as soon as they met.
Who dared to think that she was actually a girl at that time? !
But when Xia Chu heard these words, she mistakenly thought that Raven was talking about her appearance, that she looked like a big man.
Even though she was covered with a veil, she could still see that she immediately blushed in anger, and when she recalled how Xia Chu had stripped her clean every day, Raven also blushed silently.
The atmosphere became inexplicably awkward before he knew it. Wumahua looked left and right and had to smooth things over: "Why are you suddenly changing into women's clothes?"
When it came to business, Xia Chu suppressed his irritated mood and spoke to Wuma Hua: "When I was just changing clothes, those people already told me the approximate distribution of the explosives. I'll pretend to be Lian Yan and take you with me first." Go to various places to remove explosives on the grounds of inspection.”
Xia Chu then turned to Raven, and called Bian Ding, telling them the known distribution of explosives in the city, and asking them to explore other places besides the places just mentioned to see if there was anything missing.
(End of chapter)