How many times rose flowers

Jixue set off overnight and arrived at the city of Suzhou, where the army was recruited.In front of the Captain's Mansion, there was a long line of people who came to join the army.Jixue followed silently.She is not short in stature, only a little shorter than the man.Therefore, no one noticed that she was different.

When it was her turn at last, she entered the door in a respectful manner, and the people in the hall asked, "What is your name? Where are you from?"

Jixue’s mind suddenly popped up a poem taught by the teacher in the previous school: “You buried the mud in the spring to sell your bones, and I will send the snow to the world.” So without hesitation, he said: “Send snow under the ground, people from Yingzhou. "

"Jixue, why did you join the army?"

"Both my parents were killed by the ghost clan, and joining the army is for revenge."

The man ordered someone to throw her a sign, and someone led her to the place where recruits reported and trained.The temporary tent was very simple, but fortunately she was the last one to report, so she was the only one to live in the tent, which also avoided the risk of exposure.

Life in the camp was tough, with high-intensity training every day, Jixue couldn't help but feel a little strenuous.But thinking of the purpose of his trip, he gritted his teeth and survived.With so many soldiers, not many can stay on the battlefield in the end.She knew that she needed to do her best.

A month later, she finally stayed.Then he went out with the army to the front line of the war - Jingzhou City.A group of people marched for several days, crossed the Dabie Mountains, and then rushed again to the city of Jingzhou.

Jingzhou City has just experienced a war.

The armor is full of gnats, and all surnames die.The bones of the dead are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles.

The human race narrowly won, and the general defending the city, Xie Qiong, was seriously injured and returned home.The war has temporarily subsided, but it is not known when the enemy will attack again.

Jixue walked in the camp with a heavy heart.Not far away, a veteran who had just returned from the battlefield saw her and sneered, "Your daughter is also here to join the army?"

"You're joking." Jixue said expressionlessly.She had already learned how to hide her emotions.

"I don't think anyone misses it." As the man said, he drew out the long sword at his waist and attacked Jixue.Jixue swung her body to avoid his attack, cold sweat dripped from her forehead.

She drew the soldier's sword and prepared to fight.The sword energy is like a rainbow, seemingly erratic and disorderly, but it actually points directly at the opponent's lifeline.

Flowing Cloud Sword Baihong.

When the other party saw this pose, his eyes lit up, and he asked sharply, "Water-type, wood-type dual spiritual roots, proficient in the fourteen moves of Liuyun, who did you learn from?"

"Xiuyuanmen, Qin Feiyu." Jixue said.

When the man heard Qin Feiyu's name, he seemed to be expecting it, "Are you the extremely talented but uncertain apprentice that Feiyu said?"

Jixue nodded hesitantly.

"Dare to ask who your Excellency is?"

"I used to be reckless and self-willed back then. I joined the army with my passion for serving the country. I can be called Feiyu's best friend." The man replied.A few words, but it seems to have gone through vicissitudes.

Since then, every time Jixue practiced sword in the camp, she could see this elusive veteran sitting there watching, and occasionally gave her some pointers.One day, Jixue finally asked, "Why is this so, Your Excellency? Just because I am a disciple of Sect Master Qin?"

"'God won't let me go, I don't believe in God.'" The man dropped a light word and turned to leave.

It's strange to say that Jixue's martial arts has improved day after day like this, and sometimes veterans challenge her on the spur of the moment, and she can barely cope with it.

Then one day, the veteran asked her, "Do you want to learn the art of war?"

Jixue naturally wanted to.

The veteran went on to say, "Then let me see your ability. I will wait and see in a month."

In autumn, the plane trees lose their leaves, and everything is depressed.

The peace in Jingzhou City barely lasted for a month, and the ghost clan began to revert to their old ways.A letter of provocation went straight to General Xie Qiong - the leader of the ghost tribe announced that he would personally lead an army to defeat General Xie Qiong and take the Central Plains.

Today is the day when the leader of the ghost clan makes an appointment for a battle, and this is also the time for Jixue to show off what the veteran said.

In this crisp autumn day, the artillery fire of the war resounded through the sky.The banners were flying, the drums were thundering, and the soldiers were wearing armor and helmets, holding their swords tightly.

On the soil slope not far away, there are soldiers of the ghost clan.The leader of the ghost clan rode a black horse, holding a long knife in his hand high.

"kill--"

When one person calls, all people respond.The soldiers charged forward, and when one fell, another rushed up.

General Xie Qiong is fighting with the leader of the ghost clan.The leader of the ghost clan raised his saber and slashed at him, Xie Qiao chuckled lightly, and held his sword against him.The two were at a stalemate, Xie Qiao found the right time, and stabbed the arm of the leader of the ghost clan with his sword.Unexpectedly, the leader of the ghost clan turned sideways suddenly, and an arrow flew from behind, piercing Xie Qiong's left leg.Xie Qiong injured his left leg and fell off the horse all of a sudden.

"General, it's easy to dodge an open spear, but hard to defend against a hidden arrow." The leader of the ghost clan laughed loudly and restrained Xie Qiong.

Seeing the commander captured, the soldiers who killed the enemy rushed forward one after another. Unexpectedly, Xie Qi shook his head at them and whispered a code word that only they could understand.

The meaning of the code word is: don't go forward, be careful of backstabbing.

At this time, the soldiers stopped killing the enemy and looked at Xie Qi who was captured by the leader of the ghost clan.The leader of the ghost clan was also injured, but compared to Xie Qiong, it was insignificant.

He triumphantly led the army back.

This is Jingzhou City's first defeat.This time, they lost their coach Xie Qiong.

In the tent of the three armies, several lieutenants were extremely anxious.Without a coach, how can this battle be fought?

"If you want me to say, why don't we send a small group of soldiers to sneak into the ghost clan and rescue General Xie?" Someone said something, and the soldiers all agreed.

But who to choose has become a problem.If the lieutenant general is allowed to go, the soldiers on the opposite side will recognize him, and it is too easy to reveal his identity; if the recruits are allowed to go, the recruits lack combat experience, and if they really go, it will be a dead end.

So the deputy generals discussed: Tomorrow there will be a martial arts competition in the camp, and the soldiers who win the competition will be the candidates to go to rescue the general.

At dawn on the second day, almost all the soldiers participated in the competition on the competition stage.

Except for sending snow.She stood under the stage, sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight, and she was going to wait until they were tired from fighting before she went on stage, so that she could reap the benefits.

Finally, there was only one burly man left on the stage.With a long knife on his back, he wiped the blood splattered on his face, "Who else wants to challenge?"

Seeing that the timing was right, Jixue strolled up to the competition platform and bowed to each other: "Soldier of the 27th Battalion, Jixue, please enlighten me."

She only carries a long sword, which is the most common kind, and others are laughing at her for being overconfident.She didn't care, and directly drew out the long sword, as if she couldn't wait to fight.

The long knife in the big man's hand attacked her from the side, she turned around and dodged, resisting the opponent's attack with her sword.

"Zheng—" they fought hand in hand.

Jixue swung the long sword in her hand quickly, her figure turned around like a ghost, and she moved behind the opponent in an instant.The long sword landed on the neck of that burly man at some point.

Flowing Cloud Sword·Broken Wind.

"Acceptance." Jixue retracted her long sword and bowed again.

In the evening of that day, Jixue led a group of soldiers, pretending to be ghost soldiers, and sneaked into the ghost camp.The ghost camp was set up in a deep forest, and they drove straight through the forest.

General Xie Qiong was tied up in the main tent.Jixue killed the guards in front of the gate with a sword, ordered several soldiers to guard the gate, and went into the main tent to look for General Xie Qiong.

When Jixue found General Xie Qiong soon, he found that General Xie Qiong's left leg was hit by a Liuya, and the Liuya was smeared with poison, and it was difficult to get better for a while.

The comatose General Xie Qiong has woken up.

"General, please leave with me." Jixue held out a hand to General Xie Qiong.

General Xie Qiong stared at her.Jixue saw the man's face clearly, and her eyes widened.

Because that person was none other than the veteran who claimed to be Qin Feiyu's best friend.

Jixue: "General Xie Qiong... I was rude earlier."

At this time, General Xie Qiong waved his hands in a veteran manner, and let Jixue help him out of the tent.When the two of them came out, the soldiers in the camp quickly stepped forward to support General Xie Qiong.

At this time, a group of people looked up and saw that they were surrounded by ghost soldiers.It was none other than the personal soldier of the leader of the ghost clan.

Sure enough, it was a trap.Send Xue Xindao.Immediately a clever plan came to mind.

The moon was dark and the wind was high. The general rode a horse and shuttled through the middle of the forest.He wore a mask on his face, and he couldn't see any expression, but beads of sweat were faintly oozing from his forehead.

"General, stop making unnecessary struggles. This is the territory of the ghost clan, and no one will come to rescue you." The man in black chased after him.All of them covered their faces, and under the masks were extremely hideous grimaces.

"That's not necessarily true!" The general jumped off his horse, and the mask was shot by a gun and fell to the ground.Under that mask was Jixue's face.

It turned out that Jixue pretended to be a general to attract the attention of the enemy, while General Xie Qiong had already been escorted away by other soldiers.

She was extremely fast, and disappeared into the woods.The men in black looked at each other, got off their horses one after another, and searched in the woods.

A cold dagger stabbed out from behind, and the man in black was killed before he could speak.With this method, she dealt with most of the men in black, and she also suffered serious injuries.

Before General Xie Qiong leaves safely, he must not be found.Ji Xue thought.Because if she was found to be not the general himself, Xie Qiong would be in danger.

She staggered all the way and ran into an unknown cave.The cave is dark, but a good place to hide.

The cave is silent, and you can hear needles falling.She tore off the corner of her clothes and tied it to the wound, which was regarded as a bandage.

The rock at the end of the cave is covered with a layer of straw, which should be left by the last person who lived in the cave.Jixue just lay on a bed made of straw, and she didn't think it was simple.Perhaps because she was too tired before, she soon fell asleep like this.

After a long time, Jixue was awakened by a voice.She slowly opened her eyes, surprised that she didn't find another person in the cave.At this moment, this person is standing beside her.

"Sister, are you injured?" It was a girl who was at most seven or eight years old.The girl was holding a bowl of rotten gruel in her hand.

"En." Jixue responded casually, and cast her eyes on the gruel in her hand.How could there be gruel in the cave?

"Sister, are you a fairy in the sky?" The ragged girl blinked her eyes and looked at Jixue.That man had a pair of phoenix eyes and black hair like a waterfall. If he wasn't wearing armor, the girl would definitely think that she was someone's rich lady.

Jixue didn't speak.She looked at her face at the pool of water stains in the cave, and there was obviously nothing wrong with it.I really don't understand why the girl regards herself as a "fairy in the sky".

"Here." Seeing Jixue staring at the gruel in her hand, the girl brought the gruel to her without thinking.

Jixue was puzzled: "Where did this porridge come from?"

"Every day, someone would pour the uneatable porridge into the woods by the mountain. I thought it was a pity, so I picked up the porridge. But don't worry, I gave the porridge to the mice in the cave, and it's not poisonous." said the girl.

No wonder the porridge is sour.You have to wait until the mice have eaten it before you can eat it with confidence, isn't it rotten?

No matter how hard it is, she has experienced it all. What's so terrible about a bowl of sour porridge?Jixue drank the porridge without hesitation.After finishing the porridge, Jixue remembered to ask who the girl was.This is near the camp of the ghost clan, is the girl also a criminal of the ghost clan?

Jixue looked into her innocent and bright eyes, and when the words came to her lips, she just couldn't ask.

Suddenly there was the sound of horseshoes outside the cave.

"Too bad, they are here. Sister, you hide!" The girl pushed Jixue and hid behind a stone wall, while the girl herself lay down on the straw bed pretending to be sick.

A group of ghost officers and soldiers came in from the cave.

"Search for me!"

The officers and soldiers immediately scattered and searched.

The subordinates searched nearby, and the leader chatted with the girl:

The leader: "What's your name? 'Ah San' or 'Ah Si'?"

Girl——Ajiu: "Master, my name is 'Ajiu'."

The leader: "Oh, Ah Jiu. Ah Jiu, you have to stay here obediently these days, it's very chaotic outside, and you might die when you go out."

Ah Jiu: "Yes, I remember."

……

After the search was over, a group of officers and soldiers left the cave.Ah Jiu signaled that Jixue could come out.

"Your name is 'Ajiu'? Is it a nickname?" Jixue asked.

"No, I don't have a name. 'Nine' is the ranking in my family." Ah Jiu replied.

Jixue is very grateful to Ah Jiu who saved her by accident, and has nothing to do for a while, so she continues to ask questions.Ah Jiu was also cooperative, and answered everything in every detail.

Jixue learned that Ah Jiu is a hybrid of human race and ghost race. He is nine years old this year (because of malnutrition, he still looks like a seven or eight-year-old child), lost his mother (human race) when he was young, and was abandoned by his father (ghost race).This experience is somewhat similar to hers.Jixue couldn't help feeling a kind of sympathy for each other.

"Sister, do the children of your human race have names?" Ah Jiu asked suddenly.

"Yes." Jixue thought for a while, in the human race, it seemed that even street beggars would have a name or something, so she couldn't help feeling a little more sympathetic.

"Then sister, can you give me a name?" Ah Jiu tugged at the corner of her clothes, as if she was being coquettish.

Jixue couldn't refuse her, so he asked, "Then what kind of name does Ah Jiu want?"

"What's my sister's name like, so is Ah Jiu's name." Ah Jiu said, as if remembering something, he asked, "I almost forgot to ask, what's my sister's name?"

"Jixue. You buried the spring and buried your bones in mud, and I sent the snow to the world." After Jixue finished speaking, she wrote it again in her palm.At first I thought Ah Jiu didn't understand the poem, Jixue wanted to explain, but unexpectedly Ah Jiu said: "The most difficult thing is to stay in the world, Zhu Yan Ci Jinghua Ci Tree. Sister, why don't I pick two words from this poem as "I" name?"

Although Ah Jiu's voice in reciting poems is immature, it is extremely pleasant.

"Then how about calling it 'Hua Ci'? 'Ah Jiu' will be your nickname?" Jixue wrote it again in her palm, afraid that she might not hear clearly.For some reason, she was surprisingly patient and fond of this child, and she always talked to her a lot without knowing it.

Ah Jiu——Hua Ci obviously likes this name very much, and nodded with a smile, "The name my sister chose for me is very nice, I like it very much."

Jixue felt that she might have mastered a little trick to make children happy, and she was very relieved at once.She hasn't smiled like this for a long time since the fire incident in Libai Mansion.

……

On the other side, General Xie Qiong had already returned to the camp.Seeing him come back, the hearts of the lieutenants fell like a stone.General Xie Qiong looked around and found that there were two more people in the camp - Yuqing and Li Bai.

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⑴From Cao Cao's "Walking in Artemisia"