Chapter 845

The 74th dragon scale (I)

On nine cold days, the north wind is biting. The more you go to the northwest, the greater the snowflakes are, mixed with ice fragments as big as peanuts. When you hit them, they fall on people. Don't mention how painful it is. The wind is blowing harder and harder. Therefore, the servants wear thick winter clothes and gloves made of leather.

Although a group of prisoners are sent to serve in the bitter and cold places in the northwest every year, they can't get used to the weather no matter which year.

"Alas... General Xu... How can he be successful if he doesn't eat or drink? If it goes on like this, I'm afraid it will be difficult to live to the northwest. "

A servant sighed.

Because it was getting late, they found a place to rest for the time being and went on the road again tomorrow morning. After all, the snow was getting heavier and heavier, but... People couldn't help looking at the only prison car. There was a man sitting in the prison car. He was tall, which still showed what kind of demeanor he was in those days. Now, the word "rape" was stabbed on his face and an arm was missing, The sleeves on the right were empty. Moreover, his prison clothes were full of blood and particularly thin. It was obvious that he was seriously injured. The most shocking thing was his eyes.

What a pair of unpopular eyes... It seems that he has lost confidence in the world and is disillusioned. His gray eyes don't even shine. The outside world can't affect him, and he is no longer willing to open his heart. It doesn't matter if he dies like this, because he has nothing.

Three months ago, General Xu defeated the Turks and returned to Korea triumphantly. However, he drank a glass of wine given by the emperor at the celebration banquet. When he woke up, he became a prisoner. All the people in the general's house were beheaded on the charge of "conspiracy". The inspector in charge of investigating the case also found the fake imperial jade seal and Dragon Robe from General Xu's study, so the emperor Longyan was very angry, He immediately ordered someone to detain General Xu and investigated him hypocritically for three months. In these three months, General Xu was tortured and still refused to admit the rebellion. The emperor wanted to kill him as an example. Unexpectedly, the pregnant Princess Xu knelt outside the imperial study and begged for mercy. The emperor refused to see her, so she expressed her will to die and begged the emperor to spare General Xu's life.

However, the death penalty was avoidable, and the living crime was unavoidable. General Xu was eventually sentenced to Tsing, and his arm was broken because of prison torture. It was ridiculous that he bravely killed the enemy on the battlefield and defended the country. On the contrary, he did not lack arms and legs. On the contrary, he asked the emperor to cut off one arm after returning triumphantly. In order to prevent the old Xu family from robbing people, the emperor even sent his confidant long □□ to guard with the guards. It can be seen how much he was afraid of General Xu.

The cunning rabbit dies, the running dog cooks, the birds do, and the good bow hides.

The Xu family has been loyal from generation to generation. He devoted himself to guarding the girder and died. General Xu's father and brother died in battle. He was in armor at the age of 14, revitalizing the reputation of the Xu family army, so that the Turks who once burned, killed and looted in the girder heard the wind when they saw the flag of the Xu family army. Now the Turks have been settled, but the emperor can't accommodate him for a day.

Because he really won the hearts of the army and the people. In the Daliang city adjacent to the Turks, the people only knew that there was General Xu but not the emperor. The emperor couldn't sleep well all day and night. He tossed and turned. Finally, he decided to start first. It's just the crime of rebellion. Who knows how the Tao came from?

Imperial concubine Xu committed suicide to save Xu Chengbi. Will the emperor really be touched? No, no, he's just a little afraid. He's afraid of one minister after another in the court, and he's afraid of civil gossip, so he pretended to avoid Xu Chengbi's death, but hinted that long □□ moved his hands and feet on the way to exile and wanted Xu Chengbi's life.

He can't compare with his father. When the former Emperor was in power, he dared to use the Xu family and trusted the Xu family. Instead, he had to use others and be wary of others, especially Xu Chengbi, a peerless general who made the former Emperor praise "this son can step on the green clouds". The emperor was always jealous.

Xu Chengbi's father and three brothers have died in the war, but the emperor still can't rest assured. His suspicion is getting worse and worse. Xu Chengbi must die, and must die in disgrace!

We can't let the Xu family grow up again!

Although Xu Chengbi's three brothers have all died in the war, they have all left their blood. The emperor can't bear to welcome a prosperous Xu family during his reign! Mrs. Xu is a famous heroine. When General Xu died, she went to the battlefield. The four brothers of the Xu family are more brave and good at fighting. Given time, such a family can grow into an unshakable tree!

You want your minister to die, your minister has to die!

The emperor ordered all 97 members of the Xu family to be executed, and sent his confidant Chuhe Gong to personally supervise the execution. The most heinous thing is that the emperor asked Xu Chengbi to watch the whole process.

The heads of his mother, sisters in law, nephews and nieces rolled all over the floor. No matter how calm people are, they will be driven crazy, not to mention Xu Chengbi, who was happy to be reunited with his family the day before?

Even his pregnant sister died for him. Xu Chengbi wanted to follow his family, but he couldn't forget what his sister sent to him before she died.

Chengbi, live! We must live! Don't die! live on!

Xu Chengbi leaned against the hard and cold prison car, and his eyes were gray.

He felt neither cold nor pain. Even his heart stopped beating. He couldn't even cry. His soul seemed to jump out of the □□ and no longer belonged to himself. In this life, he fought on the battlefield and was desperate. It would be happy if he died in the battlefield. In the end, he destroyed the loyalty of the Xu family for generations and reduced himself to this.

After the Xu family was cut off by the whole family and Xu Chengbi was exiled, Xu Chengbi's fiancee, Chang Shihua, the daughter of the Marquis of Huai'an, who had been waiting for him for five years, was welcomed into the palace as a concubine.

In fact, Xu Chengbi doesn't remember what the girl looks like. He lived to be 25 years old and didn't understand the love between men and women, but his mother decided to marry him. He originally thought that he could come back to marry after defeating the Turks this time. He just didn't think that there was no fate after all. At this moment, the disgrace brought to him by his fiancee's embrace is not worth mentioning at all.

Nothing, nothing, even if you live, what's the point?

The officers in charge of escorting him are not fools. What kind of person general Xu is, the people know, and they know, but how can the people fight with the imperial power? The emperor said that the Xu family was plotting rebellion. The emperor said that Xu Chengbi harbored evil intentions. Then Xu Chengbi harbored evil intentions. No one else has room to speak!

They can only try to pour General Xu a bowl of hot water and give him some hot food. No matter how much, they can't do it.

Dragon □□ is the emperor's personal guard. They were sent to accompany the escort in order to kill Xu Chengbi unknowingly on the road, so that the emperor will have no serious trouble. Otherwise, how can he sleep?

While the officers were sleeping, the four of the Dragon looked at each other and wanted to wipe Xu Chengbi's neck with a sword. How could Xu Chengbi not notice that he had been in the army for many years? But he was not afraid of death and waited numbly for death to come.

The expected death did not come as promised. On the contrary, scarlet warm blood splashed on his face. It was cold and soon turned into red ice. Xu Chengbi opened his eyes and saw the most beautiful landscape he had ever seen in his life.

The girl with red dress and black hair is as beautiful as the goddess of nine days. She is floating in the air. She has no shoes on her feet, but she is tied with a string of bells. When the wind blows, it jingles. All the guards of the four dragons have died, and she slowly falls onto the prison car and looks down at him: "... Xu Chengbi?"

Xu Chengbi did not answer.

The noise was too loud, and the officers were also awakened, but they saw that four dragons were dead. A beautiful girl with red dress and black hair stood on the prison car. They were startled and hurriedly pulled out the knife. The girl snapped her fingers, and their knife seemed rusty and could not be pulled out anyway.

"I'm very kind. I don't like killing people." The girl said that her bare little feet were as white as jade. Stepping on the prison car, she immediately separated the specially reinforced iron prison car from both sides. She held out her hand again, and Xu Chengbi couldn't help rising up. This scene was really beyond human imagination, and dozens of officers were stunned.

"Go back and tell the emperor that he framed Zhongliang and ignored human life. God will punish him. I'll take this man away."

The officers were surprised and looked again, but the man had disappeared!

Difficult, is it a fairy?!

They were so frightened that they knelt on the ground and worshipped for a long time. They dared to get up for a long time. While they were afraid, they also had joy. General Xu was taken away by the gods. Can't even the gods see that the emperor harmed Zhongliang regardless of right and wrong? I just hope General Xu will be safe in the future and have a happy life.

Rao Shi Xu Chengbi has lost all his thoughts on the world and has never experienced such a strange thing. Just in the blink of an eye, he was in a valley with beautiful mountains and rivers, fragrant birds and flowers, warm sunshine and a small building by the lake, but there was no cold at all.

How is this possible?

Is there really an immortal in the world?

He did not believe in ghosts and gods. If there were gods, why did he not move when he saw all living beings suffering? Why did he want the Xu family to die miserably? He was loyal to the Xu family for generations, but finally ended up like this. Even his pregnant sister died for himself. Xu Chengbi doesn't believe that there is a God in the world! If there is God!

If there is God!

Why, why not show mercy?

"I don't know if there is a God in the world." The girl picked a flower and put it on her head, which made her more beautiful and smiled, "but I can hear the call of mankind. When I want to, I will pity."

Xu Chengbi looked at her, but the girl put another flower in his ear and said with a smile: "your sister said she wanted you to live in peace. It happened that I still lack a servant. It's you who look good to you."

A little squirrel passed by, jumped to the girl, chirped twice, raised the pinecone in hand to her, the girl took it impolitely, and then threw it to Xu Chengbi: "peel it for me."

With only one arm left, Xu Chengbi's strength is far more than ordinary people. It's easy to crush a pine cone. The girl picked up the nuts and ate them. She said to him, "my name is Linglong. From today on, you can live here until any time. However, I can't make a fire to cook, so you have to take care of my daily life."

Xu Chengbi lived here. The girl named Linglong played every day. He didn't understand why she could be so happy, and he never spoke. He cut firewood and burned fire silently every day, from clumsy cooking to skillfully creating his own dishes. The small animals in the valley were very alert to him, but they were very close to the girl. I don't know if it was an illusion, Xu Chengbi felt that his injury was much better. Obviously, he had been seriously injured before. Even if the emperor was not afraid of the Dragon □□ coming to kill him, he might not be able to live to the northwest.

But slowly, with the passage of time, Xu Chengbi could not feel the pain of the wound. Before, he even breathed through his heart. Now his body has recovered.

He had no home and didn't know where to go, so he stayed in the valley and became her servant, as the girl said.

Xu Chengbi didn't do much other things.

He always sits outside the bamboo building by the lake and looks up at the clear sky. He is distant and indifferent. He seems to see the world in his eyes and not in his heart.

On the other side of the capital, the emperor was furious when he learned that Xu Chengbi was not dead, but was also robbed, and even broke four dragons □ □ into it! Unfortunately, the Xu family had died and the Xu imperial concubine had been buried. Because of the Xu family's "rebellion", the Xu imperial concubine had no qualification to be buried in the imperial mausoleum. The emperor had no object to vent, and angrily brushed all the things on the desk to the ground. Nevertheless, she was still angry and black.

Recently, the most favored empress Chang Fei came. Seeing that things fell all over the ground, even the half person high vase was broken. She hurried forward: "what's the matter, emperor?"

The emperor stared at the concubine he had worked hard to get. As soon as he grabbed her wrist, concubine Chang kept her face unchanged, smiled gently, and held the emperor's back: "the emperor lost his temper again, but I'm too slow?"

She matched you and me and became more intimate. The emperor's anger dissipated. Then he said, "Xu Chengbi is really lucky!"

"Isn't he dead?" said concubine Chang

The emperor was annoyed and said, "I don't believe what those cowardly servants said about Xu Chengbi! Even if there are immortals in this world, they should not protect the Xu family! I am the real dragon! Where can the Xu family be blessed by the gods? "

Xu Chengbi is not dead, he is not dead?! Concubine Chang was flustered: "the emperor should send more people to investigate immediately, and he must be arrested! As for the so-called goddess, it seems that the servant is afraid of taking responsibility, so she talks nonsense. The emperor is the real dragon and the son of heaven. He is orthodox. Even if there are gods, he will worship the emperor and be loyal to the emperor. "

The emperor was immediately comfortable when she said this, and his anger decreased a lot. He nodded and said, "what Princess Ai said is very true. I will send someone to continue to investigate, but Princess Ai doesn't have to worry. It's better to have a prince for me as soon as possible."

With a pink face and a blush, concubine Chang gently beat the emperor and snuggled into the emperor's chest, but she was infinitely worried. No one knows her former fiance's skills better than her. When she was only 14, she took command and beat the vicious Turks to the ground, never losing. Such a person must be relieved to see him die with his own eyes, otherwise once he is given a chance, someone will be uncontrollably attracted to him, close to him and loyal to him.

Why didn't Xu Chengbi die? If he knew that the Marquis of Huai'an had colluded with the emperor in the Xu family's "rebellion" case... Concubine Chang quickly shook her head and threw away the possibility. Did she forget that Xu Chengbi had been abolished! Not only is the lack of an arm, but also the word on his face, which cannot be eliminated! Who will recognize a sinner as the Lord? Even if he shouted, how many people could echo?

Some of the old Xu family are loyal and can be lured. Some people will still surrender to the emperor. We must try our best to catch Xu Chengbi! You can't let him live!

Otherwise, neither she nor the emperor will want to be safe!

Xu Chengbi, who is far away in the valley, doesn't know how the emperor and concubine Chang are. He still does his own things every day. Before, the little squirrel recently settled in a big tree near the bamboo building. The girl named Linglong ordered him to make a small house and come out. Xu Chengbi does this every day.

The girl is always carefree. She seems to know his past very well, but she never asks or mentions it. Fortunately, it is difficult for a woman to cook without rice. Even if Xu Chengbi is skillful and has no guy to take advantage of, she can't make anything exquisite.

They have lived in the valley for more than a month. It's time to go out and replenish some supplies, otherwise they will eat up all the rice.

Although Xu Chengbi didn't speak, he had written what he wanted to say on his face. Linglong stared at him: "what are you looking at? Don't immortals need daily necessities? Can you make some out of thin air and show me? You can't just go to town with me! "

Xu Chengbi pointed to his face, his head was exquisite and crooked, and stared at him for a while: "... Very handsome."

Xu Chengbi:

What he meant was that he had tattoos on his face. When he was seen, he knew the identity of his fugitive, which would cause panic and trouble.

Linglong understood his idea and reached out and gently touched his face.

The girl's slender and warm fingertips touched the scarred face, so light and heavy. Xu Chengbi couldn't help but step back. He was caught by Linglong and felt it harder.

"Well, not now."

Xu Chengbi was stunned. He touched his face with his backhand and found that the word "traitor" really disappeared! How did this happen? You should know that Tsing is carved by a knife, deep into the bone, and then supplemented with paint. Some prisoners with poor physique will even die. Even if they survive, they will not be able to look up and see people for life.

The spirit of a person tortured by Tsing is even the most heinous person, and the stabbed face will be humiliated. What's more, Xu Chengbi, who has never done anything against his conscience? The word "rape" is his shame. One day the word is on his face, he can't be stable and tortured one day.

"After so long, I finally saw another expression on your face."

Hearing the speech, Xu Chengbi was slightly stunned. He looked at the smiling girl in front of him. His heart suddenly moved, but he slowly looked away from her. The little squirrel jumped on his feet. Xu Chengbi bent down and gently rolled the little squirrel's head hair. The little squirrel chirped twice and jumped to other places.

The two changed their clothes. Xu Chengbi was the first time out of the valley. He was surprised to find an invisible door at the end of the valley. When people went out, they looked out. It was actually a cliff!

This is also amazing. Is this the legendary ecstasy array?

Linglong didn't know what he was thinking under his calm expression, but when they walked more and more out of the valley, they found that it was thousands of miles away from the place where the prison car was robbed. Rao Shi Xu Chengbi couldn't help showing surprised eyes. Linglong looked at him like looking at a steamed stuffed bun: "what's so surprised? It's just a small secret place."

It's still an ordinary little secret place. I don't know how many things like this are in Guixu dragon palace. Look, Xu Chengbi has never seen the world.

Outside Pingzhou City, the officers and men under inspection are very strict. No matter who, they have to look carefully. They can enter only when there is a road citation book. Of course, Linglong and Xu Chengbi don't have this thing. They are a black family and a fugitive. How can they have documents to prove their identity? And... Linglong pointed to the portrait on the city wall: "is this you?"

It says that this is a fugitive who committed a heinous crime. If someone can provide clues to this fugitive, he will be rewarded with 5000 liang of silver.

Xu Chengbi looked at the portrait indifferently. He didn't even write his name on it. It seemed that he was afraid that someone would know who he was.

"You said if I sold you, would I get the five thousand taels of silver?"

Xu Chengbi lowered his head and looked at the girl who only reached her shoulder. He didn't speak or panic. He should have been a dead man. He should have died with his family. She saved his life. If she wanted to exchange it for silver, she deserved it.

But deep inside, flames gradually rose.

It's hatred, it's unwilling, it's anger.

It is the hatred and anger of defending the country for generations, but being slandered, framed, broken families and people.

Xu Chengbi's calm expression buried such a mood, but he didn't say anyone. His characteristics were too obvious. There were thorns on his face and he lacked an arm. The officers and soldiers at the gate were obviously very strict with men. If they were disabled, they were escorted directly regardless of three, seven and twenty-one.

Xu Chengbi felt that he should not go in with Linglong, but Linglong refused: "why don't you go? Do I have to pick up so many things alone? I can't carry it. I'm still a weak woman! "

But Xu Chengbi was really hard to get in. If someone stayed outside for a long time and didn't come forward for inspection, the guards would come directly. Just when they saw Linglong, how could they ever see such an immortal girl? She was nervous, the ground was red and wouldn't say anything. In addition, Xu Chengbi looked calm and didn't panic, and there was no tattoo on his face, so he waved his hand and let it go, Linglong threw them a ingot of silver and smiled at him. These people were even more fascinated. Next, check that others were much more relaxed.