Xianyang Bridge

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Three months later, Lu Li came back from Southern Xinjiang with great ostentation. He was not only accompanied by more than 100 guards, but also a young great wizard, and more than [-] beautiful fiancees.

At the banquet where he was cleaned up, Lu Li didn't seem to be in a good mood. Gu Xichao asked kindly, "I heard you went home to have a baby?"

The leader spouted tea with a puff, and the other banner leaders coughed desperately. Lu Li's face was livid, but the great wizard beside him said generously, "Ah Li just used the secret method, and his body hasn't recovered yet, so he won't be able to give birth for a while. , so I brought all his fiancées."

"Cough cough cough... cough cough..." It's okay if he didn't say anything, after speaking, the hall seemed to be in a bed of tuberculosis, and even the leader coughed.

"Lu Qingyun, shut up." Lu Li glared hard at his great wizard, Lu Qingyun smiled at Gu Xichao, "It's the worst thing to avoid getting a doctor."

"Well," Gu Xichao looked at Lu Li sympathetically and said, "Eat a pomegranate."

Qi Shaoshang next to him covered his eyes, unable to bear to see the expression on Lu Li's face.

After a few days of excitement, news came back from outside the mountain that Taiyuan City was finally broken after guarding for 250 five days. The Jin army reorganized its troops and horses and will go south again.

That night Lu Li couldn't sleep, came out and saw Gu Xichao standing upstairs alone, walked over and saw him watching Qi Shaoshang dancing sword in the court.

Gu Xichao was quite displeased to be disturbed by him, she glanced at him and said, "Why don't you lie down if you're half dead, why are you walking around?"

Lu Li said, "Maybe you can't sleep or I can't sleep either?"

Gu Xichao snorted, they were far away, Qi Shaoshang didn't know that someone was watching him, his sword was fierce, and seemed to have something on his mind.

Lu Li sighed softly, "You're worried about him."

Gu Xichao said, "We are leaving."

"Where are you going?" Lu Li asked without seeming surprised.

"Go where he wants to go." Gu Xichao slapped the railing, turned and left.

Lu Li stood upstairs, looked at him, then at Qi Shaoshang.

Two days later, the leader invited Gu Xichao and Qi Shaoshang to drink tea, and gave them a box.

"What is this?" Gu Xichao asked.

The leader pushed him over, "The things you and Xiao Qi brought back from the Wannian Building, take them with you and use them where they should be used."

"Master..." Gu Xichao and Qi Shaoshang looked at each other, and the leader said, "Those who are 15 years old and under 50 years old are willing to go, take them too, but I once said that after the westward move, Mingjiao will not be there within a hundred years." Once you set foot in the Central Plains, you will no longer be able to use the banner of Mingjiao."

"We..." Gu Xichao pursed his lips, but Qi Shaoshang was very open-minded, clasped his fists and said, "The leader is righteous, he is really a hero!"

The leader accepted his gift and held up the tea, "The mountains and rivers are broken, the people are displaced, and the grievances and grievances in front of life and death are small things. I hope you will cherish this trip. I am old and I can't see parting, so I won't send it off."

After coming out, Gu Xichao looked preoccupied, and Qi Shaoshang took him to the top of the mountain. The surrounding mountains were vast and magnificent, and Qi Shaoshang said, "The leader did this because he was righteous, compassionate, and believed in you... and Me, as long as we lead everyone to do something, don't ask to save the common people in the world, even if he saves one more person, it is his wish, so don't take it as a burden and trap your hands and feet."

Gu Xichao looked at him, "That's why I always say that you are the hero. I have been conceited all my life, but in terms of magnanimity, I will never be as good as you."

Qi Shaoshang took his hand and said apologetically, "Originally we could spend our lives here peacefully and die forever, but now we have to go into danger again and experience life and death. It's all me."

Gu Xichao gently held him back, looked at the mountains in the distance and said, "What you want is what I want, no matter whether it is a mountain of swords or a sea of ​​fire, it doesn't matter if I run for you."

Qi Shaoshang's heart softened, and he said, "I cherish the dynasty."

"Huh?" Gu Xi looked back at him.

"It's a blessing to have you in this life."

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On the day of departure, Lu Li came to see him off again. Mu Jiuping couldn't let go of Lin Qing and Lin Qian. Qi Shaoshang told him that he was not in a hurry and that he would raise them with peace of mind. In the future, you will fight.

Mu Jiuping was not there, Lei Yun and Xiao Qi were in charge of food and fodder, the two were behind the formation, the long line was winding, everyone wrapped their arms in red scarves, Lu Li and Lu Qingyun stood at the mountain pass and watched them leave, muttering, " I don’t know how many people will return after this trip.”

Gu Xichao and Qi Shaoshang rode on their horses and waved to him. More than [-] members of the Red Scarf Army, old and young, slowly left Kunlun Mountain and headed for the Central Plains.

Walking to the pass, I met people who were fleeing. There was an endless flow of people on the long official road. Mothers and children were holding clothes, the old and the weak were carrying each other, and the dust they brought up covered the sky and the sun. Occasionally, there were one or two middle-aged men carrying bows and arrows. , going northward in retrograde motion.

"The people of Qin are well-deserved of their reputation for being brave and brave," Gu Xichao said to Qi Shaoshang, "Let's go too."

The refugees who went south and the rebels who went north went their separate ways. Teenagers and gray-haired old men kept joining in. Qi Shaoshang didn't stop him. Rubbing, horses neighing, pedestrians with swords in hand and longbows on their backs, walked to the battlefield without hesitation, the two looked at each other, and blended into the crowd side by side.