Gao Xianzhi had no idea, being forced by everyone to leave the customs, he had no choice but to say to Feng Changqing: "Give them soldiers!"
Li Jinglong finally won, Lu Xu and Ashina Qiong rushed down like a gust of wind and waited for the door to open. Li Jinglong said to Hongjun, "Return safely."
Hong Jun replied: "Good job, Jing Long."
Li Jinglong's eyes widened suddenly, and Hong Jun leaned over on Canglang's back, stretched out his hand towards him, and covered the side of Li Jinglong's face.
Li Jinglong closed his eyes, and immediately said to Hongjun, "Let's go."
The next moment, the wolf groaned again and rushed down the tower, Hong Jun jumped off the wolf's back, the wolf turned into Mo Zhigen, and went out of the city gate with Hong Jun.
The doors on both sides were closed and opened, and Lu Xu and Ashina Qiong rushed out with the defenders, shooting arrows while covering Hong Jun and Mo Rigen to rush forward.
"You can't use spells." Artest reminded Li Jinglong on the tower, "I'm afraid that the wolf will show up and break the rules."
Li Jinglong replied: "I know."
If one party takes the lead in using power beyond ordinary people, it means breaking the rules. Li Jinglong looked at the dark clouds billowing in the distance. At the end of the black clouds, I don't know how many monsters are lurking.
Hong Jun successfully rushed out of the encirclement, looked back, and shouted: "Brother Gen!"
"I'm here!" Mo Zhigen shot down a cavalryman and quickly caught up with Hong Jun. After leaving the battle group, Mo Zhigen turned into a wolf, and Hong Jun turned on his body. Before the cavalry could catch up, the wolf had already entered The mountain forest, carrying Hong Jun, looked at the tragic situation outside Tongguan in the distance.
There was still a fierce battle there, and the hostility was billowing, soaring to the sky, it was like driving the people into a canyon, and trampling and beheading them recklessly.
"Don't look at it." Canglang said, "Let's go."
Hong Jun looked towards the tower. Under the gray sky, although he couldn't see it, he knew that Li Jinglong must be watching them there. The wolf turned his head and left, took him into the deepest part of the forest, and rushed towards the northeast land.
The first day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Tianbao.
The Spring Festival of Bingshen Year.
The whole world celebrates.
The sun rose, Hong Jun rode the wolf, and the wolf ran to the east in the wilderness. The sun was shining brightly, shining on the footprints they left in the snow.
At the foot of Lishan Mountain, every household in Chang’an hangs peach charms to welcome the coming of the new year, and a snowfall heralds a good harvest in a good year. The golden rooster breaks dawn, and the sun shines brightly on the land of China.
The sunrise of the New Year shines on thousands of households in Chang'an, as if coating this prosperous Xijing with a layer of shining gold powder.
The sunrise of the new year also shines on Tongguan, which is three hundred miles away, and warms the corpses of Tang nationals piled up in front of the pass. Blood flows out from the valley, and the sun shines on the bloody Lu Xu and Ashina Qiong. .
The sun also shines on the blood dripping from the closed door, spreading towards the huge lake of blood outside Tongguan Road, inside and outside the mountains and rivers.
"The day of the decisive battle is approaching."
Chongming looked at the rising New Year's sun in the Taihang Mountains.
Yuan Kun came from the hall and said in a deep voice: "Think clearly, Chongming, once you open it, you can't turn back."
Chongming turned around and stared at Yuan Kun. At this moment, there seemed to be a thousand words in his eyes, but there was nothing to say.
"Tell me, Yuan Kun." Chongming said seriously, "Fate can be changed."
Yuan Kun's eyes were covered with black cloth, and he stretched out his hands, as if catching the light jumping between the mountains, and said in a low voice: "A mortal once told me that when you don't know what will happen in the future, fate will no longer exist." become fate."
Chongming frowned slightly, and Yuan Kun said again: "What you, me, Qingxiong, and even Hongjun himself, may only see part of the truth. You and I are all creations of this world, so how can we see it? Throughout the ages, the whole picture of the fate of the land of China?"
"What did you see?" The wolf licked his paws in the ruins, the paws were covered with blood, a fire rose by the river, and Hong Jun roasted half of the frozen lamb on the fire.
"I didn't see anything." Hong Jun replied.
Canglang said: "Changshi always mentions that you saw the future in Kunshen's spell."
Hong Jun thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Are you still talking about this?"
Canglang asked again: "Do you have me and Lu Xu in your future?"
"No." Hong Jun looked at the bonfire and said in a daze.
Canglang said: "Eat whatever you want, in the wilderness, make do with it, and I will bring you some delicious food from the Hui people."
When Hong Jun was full, he stepped on the back of the wolf and said, "We have to hurry up."
"Don't worry." Canglang replied in a low voice, "Chang Shi asked me to take you to rest."
This is the first time that Hong Jun left Li Jinglong and acted alone with Mo Zhigen, and it still feels a little strange to go to such a far place without Lu Xu. If Lu Xu and Li Jinglong went out to find things alone, although Hong Jun would not be jealous, he would inevitably feel weird.
The relationship between Mo Zhigen and Hong Jun is very natural. In his words: "You are the fate that connects everyone in the Exorcism Division."
Is there? Hong Jun never felt that way. It is true that his existence has caused too much trouble for everyone. Before leaving Tongguan, the scene of corpses strewn across the field gave Hong Jun too much impact, but as he went northward, Canglang deliberately chose a path where he would not meet people, and the wilderness and nature gradually made him feel better.
On the third day of the journey, Canglang was still sick. He had been running around for days and encountered severe cold, which really reached his limit. The two stayed in a mountain village for another day. The villagers here were not looted by the rebels, and they were very warmly received. Hong Jun only told the outside world that Mo Zhigen was his elder brother, and asked him to take the medicine to drive away the cold and disperse the wind, and the two walked through the jungle and hills again and continued on their way.
After crossing the rear of the Anlu Mountain camp, the world became silent for a moment. The vast winter grasslands, the cold wind in the spring night and the bright stars in the night sky are quite different from the Central Plains. Mo Rigen and Hong Jun lay on the hillside every night, looking at the ancient and ever-new stars, chatting casually, Mo Rigen talked about his feelings for Lu Xu, Shi Wei's past, and his envy of Li Jinglong and Hong Jun Talking about his own future... Hong Junfang discovered that Mo Zhigen had more on his mind than he knew.
"Lu Xu told me that you were born to save the world." Mo Zhigen said.
"No." Hong Jun smiled, "I also want to live well, it's good to live."
Hong Jun always thinks that maybe everything will pass, just like the stars of these billions of years, after the An Lushan Rebellion passed, the stories of the exorcists will eventually be lost in history and turned into countless dust.
At sunrise, the shepherds of the Shiwei tribe in the north passed by. This place is very close to the Daxianbei Mountain, and the sheep on the grassland are rolling in the distance like pure white pearls. This time Mo Zhigen did not turn into a wolf again, but took Hong Jun to find the tribe to buy food and drinking water, borrowed a horse, and ended the last short journey.
"Okay." Mo Zhigen, carrying a bow and arrow, said to Hongjun outside the Shiwei tribe, "You feel better?"
Although Hong Jun was in a hurry to go back, he just wanted to stay with Li Jinglong for a while longer, but Mo Zhigen's company along the way made him feel much better. When he saw Shi Weibu, he was very surprised. The big tribe is a group of herdsmen who sit in tents and enjoy barbecue and wine.
Unexpectedly, what I saw was a stone city built against a mountain, with many fortresses and strict guards. Shepherds came and went, gathering and dispersing in front of the castle.
Mo Zhigen yelled in Shiwei language from a high place, and someone saw it and responded loudly, presumably it meant: open the door quickly, Mo Zhigen is back. Hong Jun entered the tall stone gate with him and walked through the stone road. Nearly ten thousand households lived in the city. Occasionally, hunters looked at furs in the market. When they saw Hong Jun, almost without exception, they cast a curious glance. .
Shi Wei's words that Hong Jun couldn't understand were spoken everywhere, which made him very distressed. Before leaving Yaojin Palace and entering Chang'an, the language used by Chongming was all ancient. Fortunately, Qingxiong often brought the language of the world, and Hong Jun entered The world can still barely understand the official language in Guanzhong.
But when he arrived in Shiwei, the syllables were awkward and weird, and everyone looked at him with strange eyes, which made him a little shy, so he had to hide behind Mo Zhigen most of the time. Mo Zhigen translated to him from time to time, to the effect: "They all say you are beautiful", which made Hongjun even more embarrassed.
Mo Zhigen's father is the current King Wei, a fat old man, and set up a banquet in the deepest part of the castle. A group of concubines sat on thick woolen blankets. Two young men stared at Hongjun, and the servant served them Boiled mutton. Hong Jun said hello, and started to eat after pleading guilty.
Mo Zhigen's younger brother doesn't look like him at all, and his face is full of wariness. It seems that he is afraid that the purpose of his return is to fight for the right of inheritance. The old father is very interested in Hongjun. He first asked Mo Zhigen, and then said to Hongjun : "How long have you been following him?"
"He's not!" Mo Rigen said displeased.
Hong Jun was even more embarrassed now, feeling that Mo Zhigen's two younger brothers seemed to be full of jealousy, and that jealousy was aimed at him.
But King Wei said again: "Aren't you and An Lushan on the same side?"
"The second brother and the third brother have gone to war." A young man suddenly said in Chinese, "You want to kill your brother?"
Hong Jun suddenly remembered that there was Shi Weijun in An Lushan's coalition army. So, wouldn't Mo Zhigen want to fight his brother
Mo Zhigen also replied bluntly in Chinese: "We are exorcists, and we don't care about mortal wars."
Then his father spat in a "bah", Hong Jun faintly realized that something was wrong, he only heard what the old patriarch said in Shi Wei's words, presumably because he disliked that they were all monsters, so he exploded After leaving Mo Zhigen, the father and son argued fiercely.
Mo Zhigen was arguing with his father, his face was red, and his voice became louder and louder. Hong Jun hurriedly said, "Brother Gen, stop arguing."
"Let's go!" Mo Zhigen got up, and Hong Jun was eating half of it, lamenting that thunder would not hit the eater, how could it be like this? He had no choice but to put down his food first and follow Mo Zhigen out. However, it was already dark, and it was time to go out and stay in the wild. I saw Princess Wei chasing out a room and said something to Mo Rigen. Annoyed.
"What should I do?" Hong Jun completely listened to Mo Rigen.
"Let's go." Mo Zhigen said to Hongjun, "Sleep for a night first, and leave tomorrow."
The concubine asked someone to come over again to serve the two of them, but Mo Zhigen waved his hand and said, "I know where my room is."
From the day Hong Jun met Mo Rigen, he often heard Mo Rigen mention the four younger brothers in his family. When he was brought into the clan, Mo Rigen was already sixteen years old. The martial arts and reading of the younger brothers were all thanks to him. He brought it in one hand, but when he came to see it today, his relatives didn't seem to respect him at all.
"A Shizhe used to like to hang out with men." Mo Zhigen said with a wry smile, "I told him to beat him up back then, but I didn't expect to slap him in the face now. Qi Luoer listened to his mother, and his mother never liked me."
Mo Zhigen led Hong Jun through the corridor of the castle, and the two returned to the room. There was a carpet, a hammock, and bows and arrows hanging on the wall in the room. In addition, there was a shelf with many books from the Northern Dynasty. Other than that, there are animal skulls, and there are no other decorations.
Hong Jun obtained his consent and flipped through the book. Mo Zhigen turned over and jumped onto the hammock, dangling back and forth with his slender legs crossed. Let Hongjun sleep on the carpet, and the two of them make do for a night.
"Don't read it." Seeing that Hong Jun was still flipping through the book, Mo Zhigen said, "Reading at night hurts your eyes."
Hong Jun put the book away and said, "Actually, all your younger brothers like you."
Mo Zhigen said helplessly: "Don't comfort me."
Hong Jun said: "Really, I can feel that they are jealous when they look at me."
Mo Zhigen: "..."
"Fortunately, Lu Xu didn't come." Hong Jun said to himself again, turned over, and said, "You'd better not take him home, otherwise there will be a quarrel."
Mo Zhigen waited to ask further questions, but Hong Jun finally slept on a decent bed because of the trek all the way, and he was already so sleepy that he just fell asleep.
Tongguan dark night.
Li Jinglong supported the wall and walked in the dark. The coldest time of the year has passed, and spring is here. The exorcists were all asleep, and Lu Xu followed behind sleepily, always on guard against Li Jinglong not learning to walk and breaking himself.
"Go back to sleep." Li Jinglong said, "It's almost there."
Lu Xu didn't answer, but just looked at Li Jinglong like this, Li Jinglong was able to throw away his crutches, and walked slowly by himself.
Li Jinglong asked again: "Hongjun asked you to take care of me?"
Lu Xu was still silent. In fact, he had always talked very little in front of his exorcist colleagues, except for Hong Jun who talked about everything. He knew that every time Li Jinglong took a step, he was enduring severe pain, especially during the few days when he had just finished lying in bed.
Li Jinglong said to himself again: "You and Brother Hongjun have a very good relationship. I thought about it at the beginning..."
"Why?" Lu Xu said suddenly.
Li Jinglong glanced back at Lu Xu blankly, Lu Xu frowned and said, "Why do people like you want to atone for the sins of the world?"
"I'm atonement for myself." Li Jinglong said sadly, "You don't understand."
Lu Xu suddenly said: "But all of this is caused by the demon seed. Is it wrong to want to keep the person you like? You don't know that this will kill his parents. How meaningful is self-blame? "
Suddenly, Li Jinglong's eyes were filled with shock, and he said in a trembling voice: "You... you know all about it?"
"I'm asking you." Lu Xu said, "Are you still wallowing in self-blame, can't you get out?"
"You don't understand!" Li Jinglong replied angrily, "You peeked at my dream?!" Li Jinglong's forehead was sweating, and he quickened his pace, trying to get rid of Lu Xu.
Lu Xu said: "Think too much, who wants to read your dream?"
"Then you..." Li Jinglong was stunned again, and then thought of another question. If Lu Xu didn't know it from his heart, there was only another way.
"He knows?" Li Jinglong trembled.
Lu Xu looked at Li Jinglong silently. Li Jinglong was about to ask again, when suddenly he galloped across the long street, and the man on horseback, dressed in official uniform, turned out to be a messenger from the imperial court.
Li Jinglong froze and looked in the direction where the messenger left. When Lu Xu wanted to speak, Li Jinglong said, "Take me there."
Lu Xu: "You are a mortal, I cannot let mortals ride."
Li Jinglong: "Even Mo Rigen is fine!"
Lu Xu: "He is him and I am me. I can't do it anyway."
Li Jinglong: "Hurry up! There may be important information!"
Lu Xu frowned and looked at Li Jinglong, Li Jinglong said anxiously: "Hurry up!"
Lu Xu was very reluctant, but he couldn't resist Li Jinglong, so he turned into a white deer and drove him to Tongguan Weifu after the messenger. The Wei Mansion was brightly lit for a while, and when the two arrived outside the study, Li Jinglong signaled that Gao Xianzhi must not be disturbed, and hid outside the study with Lu Xu, holding their breath and listening. Li Jinglong's hearing was good, but Gao Xianzhi yelled angrily, and it came clearly.
"It's unreasonable! You really are a fool!"