box of hearts

Chapter 93
Less than a quarter of an hour later, in the lush forest not far from the barracks, Qi She leaned against a tree and gasped frantically for air, her heart almost bursting out of her chest.He has no pride in the fact that he will be chopped into stuffed buns with tens of thousands of sabers if the other party turns his back on him alone. What he has is only endless fear, and his teeth are clenched in fear. In the summer night, he trembled uncontrollably.He loosened his collar, and kept wiping off the cold sweat on the other body from the same meeting.

No one saw this cowardly scene, except those who poked their heads in the misty night—tomorrow.

13.
Tomorrow has come.Sijiu City [9], outside the Anding Gate.

It was another foggy day, and the midday sun had worked so hard to cast a dim orange light from the stratus clouds, looking dirty and heavy.Looking around, the only bright color is a solid-colored bay red horse that has been washed until it turns white. Sitting on it is Wei Yuan, a cabinet minister who is an official minister of the Ministry of Punishment. He was ordered by the royal family to supervise and behead the regent.He swept around in a majestic manner, only to see a forest of gunpoints standing upright, and eight hundred of the most outstanding soldiers in the Beijing camp were stern and waiting for orders.Therefore, when a cavalry team of less than 50 people came galloping on the avenue, Wei Yuan couldn't help but laugh.Lifting his nostrils, turning his face away from his hands, "Left Governor, do something."

Half an arrow away, the horse team stopped.On the Zhaoyebai horse in the center, Qi She's eyes stared into the eyes of Zuo Jian in the center of the killing array, and with his gaze, he issued the same order as Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan waited trustingly for Zuo Jian's order to kill Qi She; Qi She trusted for Zuo Jian's order to kill Wei Yuan.And when Zuo Jian, who was wearing a light leather armor, was silent for a while, and only looked at the middle of the confrontation between the two armies, both Wei and Qi panicked uncontrollably.

In fact, Zuo Jian only saw his father's life hanging in the mouth next to him, and in the eyes on the opposite side.

Facing the retreat of the key person, Wei Yuan shook his head, and began to threaten and lure in a low voice: "Captain Zuo, you will not forget the kindness of the old lady Zuo's birth and support, right? You want to see the old lady's head in a different place, If he does not die well, should he be rewarded with the prince's reward, the shade and the Zuo clan for all generations?"

Qi She had already prepared another set of eloquent rhetoric in his eyes, but he had no chance to use it, because Zuo Jian refused to make eye contact with him at all.Qi She stood stiffly on the horse's back, hearing the increasingly violent heartbeat under her thin clothes.The most violent sound was what Wei Yuan shouted in place of Zuo Jian: "The sage ordered: the emperor's uncle, the regent, conspired against the king. The evidence is solid. Once captured, he will be executed on the spot without interrogation! Those who do not obey the order will be punished by military law!" "

Everyone in the Jingying team originally looked happy, but at this moment they all changed their faces, and the deputy governor Song Lijun, who was on the wrong horse head with Zuo Jian, even leaned over and almost fell off the horse.There was a commotion in the whole team, all the soldiers thought that the purpose of moving troops here was to welcome the regent into the city, but they didn't think it was to execute according to the order.While looking at each other, although no one did anything, but out of the instinct of obedience, he clenched the murderous weapon tightly.

At the same moment, Qi She's guards were also rioting and murderous.The warriors glared, ready to defend their leader with their lives.Qi She himself withdrew his earnest gaze, and instead of looking halfway at Zuo Jian, he just lowered his eyes and took a breath of concentration.

In a short while, in the imminent confrontation with far different strengths, everyone stared dumbfounded: the regent jumped off his horse, and walked forward with his obviously bumpy, but seemingly extraordinarily steady gait.

"Your Majesty!" A few people in the cavalry regiment shouted. Everyone was tearful and full of anger, but they could only see the long arm stretched horizontally from the back, and they were not allowed to act rashly, even in such a desperate situation. Under the current situation, it still does not reduce its deterrence at all.Therefore, no one dared to move, even the hostile party.

Qi She stood in front of Wei Yuan's horse, raised her face up, and faced the endless array of ferocious spears.Because of the silence, the entire area was dead quiet, so everyone could clearly hear an extremely noble and peaceful voice in the sweltering wind: "Wei Yuan, who gave you the courage to bully others with dangerous words and openly correct the law?"

"Regent, the lower officials are in charge of Qiucao[10], and they are also sent by orders. They can't help themselves. Today's holy sage has said that the soldiers of the Beijing camp will send you off. You don't have to make excuses for delay. There will be no future orders. Please also It's better to go on the road with peace of mind." Wei Yuan savored the coming victory condescendingly, looking down at the regent who had looked down on the world, and suddenly fell into a prisoner before his horse, with nothing left of his meritorious deeds, power and power.

Wei Yuan made the mistake of forgetting that the other party still had a pair of eyes full of divine light.

With these eyes, Qi She passed the soldiers who were about to slaughter him in the first row one by one, and said in a normal tone: "Er Mao, Big Dog, Hei Xiong, Zhao Baojun, Ming Fatty, Zhang Qi, Zhang Wu, Brother Dao, Wu Tian..."

"That's enough!" Wei Yuan couldn't tell why, but Wei Yuan felt scared, not because he was afraid of Qi She's amazing memory, but how a person whose status was almost equal to that of the emperor would have the time to remember these things that even Zhima officials didn't take seriously Soldiers, their faces and names, their indecent epithets?In order to conceal his loss of confidence, Wei Yuan shouted hoarsely: "Do it! Do you hear me? Do it! How dare you disobey the imperial decree? Hurry up! Kill me!!"

Qi She, who was alone in front of the gun forest, twitched the corners of his lips, and his masseter muscles showed a life-and-death knot. He raised his hands, and grabbed the collar of the sparsely embroidered and miscellaneous gold gauze jacket and pulled it to the sides with a "wow", frankly Exposing a whole vast chest.This time, he turned up the volume very loudly, in stark contrast to Wei Yuan's broken, sharp and urgent tune just now, it is a singer's good throat, full and gorgeous with melodious rhyme: "That year In the First World War, when you went out to fight, you were pawns and I was the generalissimo. But when we returned to the army with a complete victory, we were already brothers who had soaked in blood and fought life and death together! If the big guys believe , I, Qi She, am a traitor who conspired to commit crimes against the superiors, so aim the point of your spear that you once aimed at the enemy at the heart of your own brother, and stab it in!"

The soldiers of the Beijing camp kept their mouths and limbs motionless, but their eyeballs were rolling back and forth in the bright water, expressing their secrets.The lofty cabinet minister didn't understand how the regent knew their names, they did.It was because the regent at that time was just a young general who had nothing but a military order that would kill his head if he lost a battle.He led them across mountains and ridges, across deserts, and took the lead in trekking when the roads were difficult. For tens of miles a day, their feet were covered with blood boils; Lying motionless for several hours at night, with frostbite on his hands... The most important thing is that he led them, a group of good men who had no intention of serving the country, but suffered countless defeats, proud of themselves fought an unprecedented victory.This handicapped royal son was the only one they knew who called out not "Come on, brothers", but "Come on, brothers".Take the lead and destroy everything.Ermao, Big Dog, Black Bear, Zhao Baojun, Ming Fatty... Every little soldier could clearly see how the regent's naked chest was covered with knife wounds and arrow sores, intertwined like life and death.

The first one, followed by the second, and the third, followed by a tide of soldiers. They threw away the weapons in their hands and rushed towards the dying royal family.They lifted him high into the air, were thrown by some, caught by others, thrown again, caught again, howling and cheering, just like the frenzy and glory after the last decisive battle that year.

Zuo Jian, who was inactive from the beginning to the end, seemed very happy that someone else made the choice instead of him. Only then did he pull out his sword and swing it decisively at Wei Yuan who was on horseback.Wei Yuan's head was in a different place, before he had time to dodge it, his head rolled off, his body swayed on the horse's back, and he fell to the ground.Startled, the horse hissed and turned around and galloped away.On the side, Zuo Jian looked at the figure on the cusp of the crowd with blood splattered all over his body, and showed a heartfelt smile, "Chairman Wei Yuan falsely preached the imperial decree, and he deserves to die!"

(End of this chapter)