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Chapter 44 The Mystery of the Slaughter City
Source of "Tianbao Fu Yaolu":
The first snow came out of Chang'an, and Wanjia built jade bricks.
In the afternoon, the cold plums melted and the snow melted, and Li Jinglong and Hongjun came to the garden of the Ministry of War. Amid the fragrance of plum blossoms, several ministers were sitting around drinking tea. Those who attended were Shangshu Wenyou of the Criminal Ministry, a third-rank purple robe officer, and Prince Li Heng. On the main seat, he nodded slightly when he saw Li Jinglong, and said, "Jinglong, Hongjun, sit down."
"...This is the fourth military report received this month."
The green tea was poured into the bowl, and Wen Yu, Shangshu of the Criminal Ministry, handed the tea bowl to Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong then passed it to Hongjun. Hongjun still read what Qingxiong had said, leaving with Zhongming last night, feeling a little depressed.
Sitting at the head of the prince was an official wearing a purple robe and a golden ribbon, but Li Jinglong knew it. When Hu Sheng, his boss, saw him, he nodded and bowed his head and respectfully. It was Fan Shen of the Ministry of War.
"The three places of Ganzhou, Yizhou, and Shazhou are all night raids. Wherever they go, the chickens and dogs are left in ruins." Fan Shen added, "Whether young or old, women and children, all are killed. More than 100,000 dead. The scouts in the Hexi Army have seen them all in hell among adults!"
When Li Jinglong heard the words, Hongjun couldn't help being attracted attention. The scenery in the Garden of the Ministry of War was fine in early winter, but the officials discussed such a thrilling issue.
Li Jinglong frowned, and Wen Yoo asked again: "General Geshu Han has not sent troops to investigate?"
"Three soldiers have been sent outside the Great Wall." Fan Shen replied, "I don't know whether it was the Huihe or the Turks. The four cities were slaughtered in one month, and they came and went without a trace. General Geshu Han has been investigating for a long time, but it is outside Yumen Pass. Itβs freezing cold and there is no clue at all."
"What do you think of Jinglong?" Li Heng said suddenly.
All the ministers looked towards Li Jinglong.
Li Jinglong knew that the prince summoned him, no matter what happened, he would suspect it was related to the monster. Hearing a few words, he knew it in his heart and said: "I would take the liberty to ask three questions."
Everyone present was higher in rank than Li Jinglong. Everyone didn't believe in the argument of strange power and chaos. However, the crown prince believed, they didn't say anything, and only signaled Li Jinglong to ask.
"One: What weapons were attacked by soldiers who were slaughtered in the city?
"Second: What is the main plundering direction in the city? No one escaped in such a big city?!
"Part Three: What does the court say about this matter?"
After Li Jinglong asked, the prince smiled and looked at everyone.
"This is exactly what we are worried about." Fan Shen said, "It is unexplainable...all the old, young, women and children were killed, and the young and middle-aged soldiers in the city disappeared overnight without a trace."
Hongjun: "???"
Hongjun put down the tea bowl and began to think, this is not like what people do.
"There is nothing wrong with the city's wealth and food." Wen Yu said, "Dali Temple is simply puzzled about this. As for the court..."
Wen Yoo looked at Li Heng for help, Li Heng breathed slowly, but did not answer.
"Other than that, how about wireless cable?" Li Jinglong asked.
"Other than that, there is no clue." Li Heng replied.
After a stick of incense, Li Heng, Li Jinglong, and Hongjun went out to the gate of the military department.
"Yang Xiangqin's army returned to the court." Li Heng explained, "Now the military newspaper is pressing on him. One hundred thousand soldiers and civilians, say no more, say no less, the four cities are destroyed, and it is still a major event at the border. There are many strange things about this matter, and they all think it is a case of looting by the Uighur army before the winter."
Li Jinglong took a deep breath, furrowing his brows and said: "It can't be the Huihe army. If it is Huihe, how can it not move the property in the city?"
"Do you think it has something to do with the demon?" Li Heng asked.
Hongjun said: "You have to go to the local area to see it. It's hard to judge now."
Li Heng said: "We only have two and a half months, and the envoys from Huihe will arrive in Chang'an in the beginning of spring. If no evidence is obtained by that time, the right minister will consider it and find an excuse to use troops against Huihe."
"Your Majesty can agree?" Li Jinglong suddenly became nervous.
Li Heng just looked at Li Jinglong quietly, Hongjun felt a hint of danger.
Immediately, Li Heng nodded lightly and said, "I thought, I'm finally going to be very calm, but I didn't expect...this time I'm all relying on you. By the way, how many subordinates do you have?"
Li Jinglong smiled bitterly: "The Demon King has been removed. They all have to do their jobs. They are flying far away, and Hongjun remains with them."
Li Jinglong said, putting one hand on Hongjun's shoulder, Li Heng was not surprised, but thoughtfully: "It's the same."
"Someone will help you." Li Jinglong replied, "When the mountains and rivers are exhausted, the turning point will be not far away."
"Isn't it you?" Li Heng smiled, "Here is a handwritten letter from me. After arriving in Hexi, I will find General Geshu Han first. Go, wait for your good news."
Inexplicably, Hongjun was listening to the two of them to fight against each other, and finally Li Heng turned on his back and left.
"What's the same?"
"His Royal Highness means that his situation is very similar to me. After many years of warfare, Li Linfu finally fell and was able to return to Chang'an. He didn't expect to add another opponent, Yang Guozhong."
Li Jinglong packed his luggage in the room, Hongjun changed into a slim martial arts uniform, carrying a baggage, and squatting on the railing under the corridor to look at him.
"Great Tang and Huihe, once this knot cannot be untied." Li Jinglong took the clothes, a gust of wind came out, passed in front of Hongjun, and said, "Yang Guozhong will try again to send His Royal Highness out."
It was the first time that Hongjun listened to Li Jinglong's explanation of political struggles, and gradually understood the friction and contradiction between people, and finally remained in "power". Since ancient times, people's desires have been endless.
"So they will fight?" Hongjun was surprised, "Then Yang Guozhong is a rebellion?"
"He didn't dare." Li Jinglong couldn't laugh or cry. "The Yang family just wants to live."
Yang Guozhong is in great power right now, but he is favored by his sister, is domineering, and has made many enemies in the DPRK. After the Fox Demon case, it will definitely affect the Yang family. When Li Longji dies and Li Heng becomes the throne, the first thing is to liquidate the Yang family.
So Yang Guozhong must try to protect the whole family and get into a deal with the prince.
"So with Huihe, there might not be a fight," Hongjun said.
"Yeah." Li Jinglong took Panchuan, passed by Hongjun again, and said, "It's not necessarily a fight with Huihe, but he can send the prince out again and stay in Liang Province. Then he can withdraw his hand. Make arrangements in North Korea."
Hongjun learned a lot and asked, "So if they fight, who are we helping?"
Li Jinglong: "..."
"Who else can you help besides helping the prince?" The carp demon couldn't listen anymore, and said, "You are stupid, the world is changing dynasties. If you don't help the real man, don't you help the traitor? Great Tang is still alive! "
Hongjun said, "But Concubine Yang gave me snacks..."
Li Jinglong held his forehead and thought that if one day Hongjun was coaxed by Concubine Yang to stabb the prince with a flying knife, the reason was actually a snack, don't know what the people under the world think.
"The prince will give you He Tian Yuzhu, why don't you tell me?" Li Jinglong laid the burden and said angrily.
The carp monster carried a burden, jumped into the corridor, and said, "Two, I want to say goodbye to you..."
"No!" Li Jinglong didn't listen angrily.
"Where are you going?" Hongjun was surprised.
The carp demon got the advice of the god Kun, and was very depressed for an hour and two quarters of an hour. raw fish couldn't live this way every day, so he decided to save ninety-nine and eighty-one people.
"Now I save Concubine Yang Gui." said the carp demon, "I don't know if it counts. I should start from the next one."
Hongjun said: "You are on the road like this, beware that you are caught again to make braised fish."
The carp demon thought for a long time. When he went down the mountain with Hongjun, he went to dig earthworms to eat and was almost caught. Later, Hongjun went to save it before bringing it back.
"Then we can get three chapters..."
Li Jinglong complained repeatedly: "No one will restrict your freedom-go get Lixun pollen!"
Hongjun asked again: "Is Hexi fun? What's delicious?"
"Have you promised to take you there?" Li Jinglong said.
Hongjun: "!!!"
"Changshi!" Hongjun shouted immediately, "I have finished my burden, so you can bear to leave me here alone?!"
Li Jinglong buried his head and folded his robe, and said, "You left home to Chang'an, didn't you come here alone?"
Hongjun: "That's different!"
"Why is it different?" Li Jinglong's mouth twitched slightly, passing by Hongjun, looking for a document.
"I know you now, of course it's different." Hongjun said, "How can you drop me? Look, I have everything packed!"
Hongjun talked and patted the burden.
Li Jinglong did think about keeping him in Chang'an to watch the house, after all, no one knows if there will be monsters again. But when Hongjun was thrown at the Exorcist Division, he was really worried. I didn't have any help on my own road, and the journey was far away, and both were very lonely.
"Then both of us can get three chapters of the contract." Li Jinglong said, "First: you have to listen to me for everything outside."
"I have always listened to you." Hongjun said blankly. "When did I listen to you?"
Li Jinglong pointed to Hongjun and said, "That's not necessarily...for example..."
Li Jinglong thought about it and couldn't give an example. Thinking about it now, I found that Hongjun is indeed the most obedient one. Had to say: "Second..."
Hongjun jumped off the railing, stretched out his hand to pull Li Jinglong, and said hurriedly: "Changshi, you said, I will do everything, take me!"
Li Jinglong looked at Hongjun and suddenly laughed. At that moment, he wanted to put him in his arms and rub him hard.
He raised his hand subconsciously, but realized something and stopped immediately.
"Don't pull it." Li Jinglong said, "Take you to pack your clothes. It's very cold in Hexi."
Hongjun was not too afraid of the cold, so he took two more items with Li Jinglong's insistence, so he jumped for joy, involuntarily stuffed the carp demon into his bag, and stepped on his horse to set off.
Li Jinglong said: "Don't overjoy, this is a business trip, not to play."
Li Jinglong went to the West Market and bought some Jiangnan tea cakes, salt, rouge and other things. He even bought a pearl hairpin and a silk from the gold store, rolled into the palm of his hand, and put it in his bag. Hongjun saw it. Strangely, I asked: "Chang Shi, do you want to pretend to be a man on the road? Why do you buy rouge?"
"Chang Shi has been thinking about this for a long time," said the carp demon behind Hongjun. "When you leave Chang'an, no one knows it, so you can feel enchanting with confidence, am I right?"
The people at the market laughed wildly, and Li Jinglong gritted his teeth and said: "Hongjun! If you hurt me, you will return me to the Exorcism Division!"
Hongjun hurriedly told Rao, Li Jinglong rode his horse and turned into an alley. Hongjun was familiar with this place, but it was the Chen family!
Hongjun hurriedly got off his horse. Li Jinglong knocked on the door and went in to visit. It was still the woman who came in with the baby and said, "Captain Li? Are you here again?"
Li Jinglong replied, "Give you some flowers."
The woman hurriedly refused. Li Jinglong only insisted on handing her five gold ingots, a total of twelve. The woman could not refuse, so she accepted with gratitude.
"You're grown up." Hongjun squeezed the baby's hand. The baby was nearly ten months old and had teeth. He grabbed Hongjun's fingers and stuffed it into his mouth, biting and holding on, Hongjun was busy Said, "Let go... let go! It hurts!"
Li Jinglong said something good or bad, coaxing the baby to open her mouth, and then said to the woman: "I have a tolerance, and I will see you later. Hongjun, go."
Hongjun knew that because of his heart light, he couldn't let go of the descendants of the Chen family, and couldn't help being moved.
The two left Chang'an and followed the official road all the way to the north. Hongjun rode happily, looking for roads that were not easy to run.
Since Li Jinglong left the Ministry of War, he has been thinking about it, turning around and said to Hongjun: "Save a little effort, you will be tired in a few hours!"
Hongjun smiled and said, "You haven't told me what Liang Province is like!"
Li Jinglong replied: "I don't know! I have never been to Chang'an in my life."
An hour later.
Hongjun: "Have you arrived at the station?"
Li Jinglong replied: "It will take two hours before we leave Chang'an. It hasn't even passed Lishan."
Hongjun became bored. When he came down from Taihang Mountain, he found everything strange. Now he knows a lot about the world, and everything is no surprise. In the early winter, the place where you can see is deserted. In addition to hurrying or on the road, you have to shout with Li Jinglong, which is really boring.
Two hours later.
Li Jinglong rode his horse expressionlessly, carrying Hongjun behind him. Hongjun was lying on Li Jinglong's back and fell asleep. Hongjun was carrying a carp monster behind his back. The carp monster was still asleep with his mouth still.
Li Jinglong's horse carried two people and a fish, while Hongjun's horse was completely empty and followed behind.
Li Jinglong: "..."
Three hours later.
Li Jinglong patted Hongjun behind him: "Hey, here it is!"
Hongjun stretched his waist with sleepy eyes, Li Jinglong turned over and got off his horse, searched for documents, and went to the inn to check in. By the way, he was sure that he was on the right path. Hongjun stood outside the inn, looking around blankly. The officials took their subordinates on business trips. The subordinates were supposed to do everything well. Li Jinglong followed a Hongjun behind him, but he looked after the young master in fear. It seems that there is no hope for the whole life.
"Little young master." Li Jinglong said inside, "coming in for dinner, what are you doing while standing stupidly outside?"
When Hongjun heard the meal, he lifted his spirits and moved quickly. The second person at the station first glanced at Li Jinglong, then at Hongjun, and said, "Master, please go inside."
"Two upper rooms." Li Jinglong said towards the second.
"One room." waiter said blankly.
Li Jinglong repeated: "Two things go to the house."
waiter stretched out a finger and said: "Each station has only one upper room, guard, do you live in the backyard wood room?"
Hongjun said: "It's okay, I'll go to sleep in the wood room."
"How does the young master sleep in the wood room?" waiter said, "Is there any rules in your family."
Li Jinglong: "..."
Li Jinglong has never been to Chang'an, so don't know that every post on the official road along the way has only one room. In the past, even if the merchants had to borrow overnight, they used to set up a screen in the hall of drinking and eating to deal with sleeping overnight. The house is still for wealthy businessmen who hold papers or officials who return to Changan to report on their duties.
"Fine, let's sleep together." Li Jinglong saw that the upper room was clean and the couch was quite big, so he simply cleaned it up, let Hongjun sleep in it, found a pot of water, and let the carp monster go in and soak, carp The whole fish was almost dry on the day when the demon wind was blowing in the sun.
After busying, after serving the young master, Li Jinglong just lay down on his own, thinking that I was a young master somehow, so why didn't I have a few days as a young master.
"Long history." Hongjun said.
Li Jinglong replied: "Going out is not the same as being at home, so let's deal with it first."
"I can not sleep."
Hongjun was taken all the way by Li Jinglong during the day. He slept too much, and he was refreshing. However, Li Jinglong has been very nervous since he came to ask for trouble last night. There have been many things happening during the day, and he only feels exhausted. As soon as his head hit the pillow, his eyelids were heavy.
"Yeah." Li Jinglong closed his eyes and said, "Then what are you going to do?"
"I think there are three possibilities for the monsters in the north..."
"Say." Li Jinglong said succinctly, and his consciousness has begun to wander, Hongjun said: "Legend has it that from the Shanhai Era, there was a kind of demon in the northwest, called'Drought Demon'. This kind of monster will cause droughts around thousands of miles. It's all desert..."
Li Jinglong didn't say a word, Hongjun leaned closer and whispered: "Chang...Shi...Are you asleep?"
In the past when he was in Yaojin Palace, Hongjun always liked to tease Chongming while he was asleep. He watched Li Jinglong for a long time and wanted to play with him. Li Jinglong had fallen asleep. Hongjun observed for a while and felt that his features were pretty good, so he took a piece of paper and traced his face a few times.
Li Jinglong raised his hand to block Hongjun's wrist, and Hongjun went looking for a writing brush.
At night, thousands of trees in the wilderness wither.
Morigen left Lishan, went northward, and galloped one day to the bank of the Yellow River.
This horse is as handsome as the wind, from dawn to dark, a full day, six hundred miles away.
"Do you have to go north again?" Morigen sighed as he fluttered in the cold wind. The winter in the north was extremely cold. After leaving the Hulun Lake area, he had four choices. One was to go west to the Mobei area, the other was to go south to Suhang, to Nanyue, and the third was to go to Chang'an, Guanzhong. Fourth, enter Shu.
Qiu Yongsi promised to help him inquire about the whereabouts of Bailu in the south, while Tegla paid attention to the areas of Kurtai and Tianshan. The other two advised him that it is best to go north after the winter in Chang'an, so as to avoid the bitter cold of Mobei.
It will be too long until the end of spring and early summer next year, and don't know what changes will happen during this period.
Morigen carefully stowed the exorcist's official uniform so as not to get dirty. He still wore the linen slim-fitting hunter's martial arts uniform when he went south. The summer clothes were too thin, and the cold wind blew him. No matter how good his physique, he couldn't help but shiver a little. After crossing the Yellow River, you have to buy clothes to wear in the town.
The Yellow River will freeze in the next day, and Morigen took the horse and boarded the last ferry. When was crossing the river, still reluctantly looked back at the Southern Central Plains.
At night, Yulin County on the north bank was still brightly lit. Morigen couldn't help rubbing his hands and strode to the fur store. Morigen was tall and thin and handsome, holding a horse, which attracted many people on the street to envy. Sight. After a while, he changed into a leather jacket and came out, wearing a fox hat, and he was dressed up as a man in recovery room, which was even more vigorous and handsome.
After changing his new clothes, Morigen took out the finished leather mask from his bag and put it on his face to resist the wind and snow, looking out into the street with bright eyes.
Tonight, he could only stay overnight in Yulin. He put on his gloves and prepared to go to the city to find some wine to drink. However, at this moment, there was a person along the street rushing insane, disheveled and screaming.
Morigen glanced sideways, and kept under his feet, leading the horse to the wine shop.
"Hey! Stop it!"
The madman fell into the snow outside the medicine hall, and another man ran after him, roared, and snatched the scones from his hand.
The madman stole a scone, and shivered, and the man cursed and left.
"Don't block the storefront to do business!" the boss shouted, "Get out!"
The madman scrambled and fled to the side. He couldn't help but muttering something. Morigen changed his mind and found out a few coins. When he was about to buy a cake for him, he suddenly heard the madman in the distance whispered: " Ghost... Ghost... Ghost... Deer?... Deer!"
The eyes behind Morigen's mask suddenly widened, and he turned and ran to the lunatic.
The madman couldn't help dodge, panting like a bellows.
Morigen knelt on one knee in the snow and asked in a low voice, "What did you say just now?"
"This person is crazy!" The lady boss in the medicine hall poured a basin of water out and said, "I came from the northwest, crazy and crazy. I was yelling before, saying that there are night ghosts on the Great Wall."
Morigen whispered, "What did you see? Don't be nervous."
The lunatic looked at Morigen in a daze, his eyes dilated, but his eyes were bright.
Morigen muttered and recited the mantra in a low voice, crossed his palm, and slowly pressed down on the forehead of the madman, and the madman gradually calmed down from shaking.
The lunatic opened his eyes wide, and Morigen's reflection appeared in his bright eyes.
"It's okay." Morigen comforted in a low voice, "Don't be afraid."
Morigen looked through the clothes on the madman, and found a small iron medal in his close pocket.
Iron Token Letter: Tianshui School City Wei Nianqi Sanlu.
The lady boss of the Medicine Hall observed Morigen and saw the leather mask he was wearing.
"Hey, master, take a look, this is not what they said, the one outside the Great Wall..."
"Get up and follow me."
Morigen nodded to the lady of the medicine hall, framed the madman, and led him away from the shop.