To catch a thief, to catch a phoenix first

Capital City, Fanghua Terrace.

The moon was setting and the stars were sinking, the young man had his black hair tied up, his eyebrows were flying into his temples, his skin was as white as snow, and he was wearing black clothes as rich as ink. He was clearly a slender and noble son.Unexpectedly, he was sitting on the railing, looking rather confused and bewildered. He was born with a pair of enchanting peach blossom eyes, and Weiyu also had a half-smile, which neutralized the sharpness brought by his facial features.

Whoever said a word became a prophecy.

Before leaving Chengning, he went to see Xue Yueyue once.During the days when she was living in Buer Peak, Xue Yueyue occasionally visited Yan Jiang in Buer Peak. He had a completely different personality from this girl of the same age, but he admired her chivalry very much.

The last time we met was in March, when the peach blossoms first bloomed. The woman in yellow has lost her youthfulness and beauty. Although she never shed tears, there should be a broken heart under that smile.She only asked Yan Jiang: "Why does she treat Xue's family like this?"

Yan Jiang embraced him with one hand, only shook her head, and said lightly: "There are only two kinds of people in the world. The first type is scum, and the second type is gentle scum." Unfortunately, you met the second type of person, so you were completely defenseless."

After thinking about it for a while, Wen Nongmo suddenly laughed, took a sip of the strong wine, pungent in his throat, lowered his head and said with a muffled laugh: "Why? There are thousands and thousands of things in the world, but it's just karma. I never What’s wrong with doing something wrong, why not take revenge, why not go against the way of heaven? But why do people in the world spit on me?”

This matter is related to the power of the imperial court. What Yuetiao Palace needs to face is the three-party alliance of the Chang Family Army, Xumiwu and Yuanrong Pavilion. No matter how good the skills are, in terms of weapons, they will undoubtedly lose in the end.Xue Tang's attitude is obviously to stick to the Moon Tears Palace.

The wine is very spicy and very sad.

Impatient and impatient always make people feel uneasy, Wen Nongmo turned the spout of the pot upside down and poured wine on the high platform, his hands were already red from the cold night.I just hope that the first winter snow in Beijing this year will come as scheduled, and probably it will be even colder.Whose head was hung on the city gate, killing chickens and monkeys, was only a few hours ago.

His bones are still not cold, and his death is not in peace. The head with the conspicuous cut is blowing in the wind, and the blood is gradually drying up.Who is next?Chengning Xue family, Xue Tang?

This jug of strong wine is a respect for the bones of the predecessors, as well as for those who are about to die.After drinking, he stood up staggeringly, his legs seemed to be numb from sitting for a long time, and he staggered a bit when he got up.The handsome young man leaned forward, half-closed his drunken eyes, looked at the young man in black walking towards him, and murmured: "It's so beautiful."

The young man in black clothes was half lying on the pavilion, pouring out the wine, and saw that the young man poured out no drop of the wine in the jug, the skirt of his clothes was pulled so that the delicate skin was slightly exposed, the texture was firm but not stretched.Looking at his slender eyebrows and almond eyes, he is handsome and aggressive, and when he smiles, there are dimples on his cheeks, which shows that the sky is unfair.

Yan Jiang: "..." What should I do if my daughter-in-law is too beautiful.

The slightly curved lips revealed the joy in his heart at the moment.

"The matter is settled, do you want to enter the palace?" Wen Nongmo nodded, but he couldn't move.Yan Jiang sensed his strange sensation, approached him, picked up his knees, and hugged him horizontally, the corners of her lips raised uncontrollably: "Why, can't you walk?"

Wen Nongmo wrapped his arms around his neck tightly, and his drunken voice was thick nasal: "I haven't seen my sister for a long time, I'm worried... I don't know if she still recognizes me." Regarding her sister's favorite person, There was a slight mention in the letter, only that she was the empress of the dynasty and also the Bai Dingxiang back then.

Although he felt that this person had a weird personality and was not a good person, he still chose to respect his sister's decision.Yan Jiang bowed her head and kissed his soft black hair, said: "Madam is young and beautiful, so I can recognize it—" Wen Nongmo bit his thin lip hard, staring at the oozing blood Zhu, gritted his teeth and said, "Call me Madam again, be careful I'll kill you!"

Yan Jiang chuckled a few times, hugged him and strode towards the northern palace, silently conniving at his nonsense.

……

The day that should come, has come.

The ignited arrow landed on Xue Yueyue's side. She waved the blade in her hand, but her footsteps were like lead, and it was difficult to take another step, and she couldn't even dodge the moves of the unknown soldier.Suddenly there was a gust of wind, and it was the lady wearing a golden hairpin and a gown of light yellow soft satin who held a sword and blocked a stray arrow for her.

"You are so rampant, how dare you offend my Mooncry Palace!"

"Auntie!"

"Shut up, listen carefully to me, none of them can die, and none of them can escape!"

"Yes! Disciple listens to the order!"

Xue Yueyue's eyes lit up at first, then dimmed immediately, she covered her injured right arm, and called "A Niang" several times.A few days ago, the battle was imminent, but Xue Tang was still working in Wu'an because he couldn't get away from important matters.She thought... A Niang could escape this disaster.But he never thought that things backfired, the strength of this battle is very different, even if Xue Tang sits in the battle, there is still no hope of survival.

On the day when the siege was announced, Xue Tang held a meeting with a group of elders, summoned disciples from various branches, dismissed those who were unwilling to fight with their lives, and the rest stayed in Chengning to fight together.There are about 600 outer disciples in Yuetiao Palace, and more than 100 inner disciples. The number of disciples in the main family is the smallest, but only a little over 400.

Among the more than 100 people, a total of more than 200 people retreated, and most of them were foreign disciples, accounting for more than 800 people.Most of the outer disciples who voluntarily stay have no worries in this world, and only obey the orders of their masters.

Most of the outer sect disciples do menial work, and can only practice the most basic swordsmanship, and cannot wear robes embroidered with canary feather patterns.The qualifications of outer disciples are only slightly better than domestic servants.But they are the ones who are full of passion and at the age of flowers, who are willing to fight for Yuetiao Palace, sacrifice their own lives, and guard the city gate of Chengning.

It's useless, the city gate is still broken.Fortunately, the imperial court moved the people of Chengning to a nearby small town and temporarily placed them in a safe area to prevent innocent people from losing their lives.

Mottled blood splattered on Xue Tang's clothes, the color of blood was like rouge, it was the blood of the enemy as well as the blood of the friend.Xue Yueyue has been fighting here for three days and two nights, it is inevitable that she has some physical strength, she is already at the end of her strength.The people who fell beside her were the second junior sister who was calm in dealing with things, the third junior sister who was unrestrained and righteous, and the fourth junior sister who once pestered her to grab chicken legs for food.

These people are the juniors who have lived with her day and night.They respect her, protect her, and regard her as their teacher and friend!Xue Yueyue's eyes became hot, and her vision was blurred. She only knew that she swung her long sword again, piercing through the enemy's chest over and over again, and also blocking the flying arrows over and over again.

A mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​flames is not an exaggeration to describe it like this.The flames on the arrows reflected each other brilliantly, scorching the corners of everyone's robes. Xue Yueyue was so smothered by the flames that she almost couldn't breathe, only to hear Xue Tang yell from behind: "Don't be distracted! After this wave, there will be Turning point! Their bows and arrows are about to run out!"

The voice was a little fuzzy, and there were a few words that Xue Yueyue couldn't hear clearly, but subconsciously drove her to forcibly pull herself together, fighting more and more bravely, blood poured out from the hideous wound like money, but she couldn't feel the slightest pain.Sure enough, the rain of arrows became sparse, far less dense than it was at the beginning.

"Hold on, we hold on!"

"The disciples of Yuetiao Palace listen to my orders and concentrate on attacking the east, fighting a bloody path!"

"Disciple obey!"

There were cheers from the disciples everywhere, occasionally mixed with a faint wail, but they were all suppressed by the cheers.A palace with elegant and luxurious decorations in the past has been destroyed by the war, and there is nothing left in the eight directions. It is an ambush and a trap.

Xue Yueyue was moving towards the east when she tripped over something unknown under her feet and almost staggered and fell accidentally.Beside her was a pair of timely arms, Xue Tang let go after supporting her, it seemed that his body was already supporting her.Xue Tang didn't have time to worry about it, so he said in a deep voice, "Be careful." He went east first.

Taking advantage of this moment of leisure, Xue Yueyue lowered her head and looked down. The thing that was catching her just now was none other than the footbell that Fourth Junior Sister never left her body during her lifetime.She recalled that when she was practicing in the past, she could always hear the subtle sound of the bell ringing every move.

She once wanted to take it off for the Fourth Junior Sister, the most taboo thing in the competition is to expose the flaws to others, it can be said to be dangerous and redundant.The fourth junior sister said: "Master, don't take this away. This is the only thing my aunt left me. She put it on for me when she was alive. I will practice my sword well and let my sword be better than others' swords." Ear power is faster!"

After just a few words, she gave up the idea of ​​taking it off, and only asked Elder Zhou to urge her to practice more strictly. Therefore, under the pressure of Elder Zhou, no matter whether it was footwork or swordsmanship, the Fourth Junior Sister could not do anything. He is one of the top juniors in Yuetiao Palace, his sword is as fast as lightning when he draws his sword, and his sword is as fast as thunder when he withdraws it.

However, on the second day of the siege, the fourth junior sister died on the front line because she didn't want to distract them and concealed her serious injuries.

……

The leading girl in white stalked around agilely and gracefully, leading a team of men and horses to block their way.Taking a closer look at that peerless face, the facial features and eyes are still familiar to her, but there is a different person in her bones: "Master Xue, with so many people, where are you going?"

Behind Shi Yuanyuan is a middle-aged man in a green scorpion-pattern brocade suit with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. He looks extremely difficult to deal with. It is Zhang Chengji, the current leader of the martial arts alliance.Another young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, plump and handsome, wearing a purple cloud pattern robe, cold eyes, tall and heavy as Mount Tai, should be the young master Yun Xie of Yuanrong Pavilion.

She looks like a beautiful woman who deceives the world and steals her name, but she is in collusion with them.

The more haggard they were, the happier Zhang Chengji was. Putting on his face of benevolence and righteousness, he sighed again, and said: "I think back then, the bloody begonias of the Xue family were sought after by countless young heroes, and Huayuerong, the flower girl with thousands of faces, also relied on her. Unique skills, quite famous in Jianghu. How can you be so overwhelmed and drive yourself to a dead end?"

Xue Tang sneered, raised his hand to stop a group of disciples, and the tip of the sword dragged on the ground, making an ear-piercing sound.She didn't even look at Zhang Chengji, and taunted Yun Xie: "Why, the Yun family wants to be united with the imperial court, but Xumiwu, what is it?"