Salt Xiao Fulang

These must not be ordinary refugees, but organized and premeditated bandits.

Before the disaster came, although many out-of-order things had happened, there was no real chaos after all.The situation is still under the control of the local governments, and the refugees who have been hit by the disaster can also receive barely subsistence rations.

If it weren't for this, Mo Shi'an himself would not have dared to go deep into the Northland alone, no matter how brave he was with his skill.

Although the people surrounding him were dressed in rags, their faces did not have the despair and numbness of impending disaster, but were full of ferocity.

Mo Shi'an stood up slowly, restrained his expression, and began to observe.

"Hand over all the valuables on your body!"

someone yelled.The voice is hoarse and unpleasant.

They also know that travelers cannot get food in their hands, but if they can ride such a good horse and travel alone, they must have money.

Mo Shi'an did not argue with them, and took out two hundred taels of silver bills and a silver chain from his skirt.

The breathing of the people around suddenly became heavy.

"...Boss, boss!" Someone couldn't help muttering: "He is so rich, do you really want to let him go?"

"Otherwise, do you want to kill and eat meat!?"

The hoarse voice retorted.But he was not reconciled, and his eyes rolled away.

"You! The horse stays, you can go!"

Mo Shi'an narrowed his eyes, his expression suddenly sank, and the surrounding aura became tense and dangerous.

He was tall and tall, and he was a man who had seen the world. These bandits were shrunk by him like mice in the gutter.

The two sides are confronting each other delicately, and neither side is willing to make concessions.Mo Shi'an shook his wrist quietly, intending to use force to win the way out.

Suddenly, a sudden change happened!

There was only a buzzing sound, and a haze was cast over the head, and the "dark cloud", which was much larger than the swarm just now, flew over at an extremely fast speed.

Probably because of the larger number, they flew extremely low, and some even brushed everyone's scalps!

No one is not afraid of such a scene. The bandits are originally a group of villagers nearby, and they are even more flustered when facing the swarm of insects.

Some bugs fell off or bumped into them, and some people yelled and slapped their bodies from time to time, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

It's now!

Mo Shi'an jumped up, and after knocking down a few people in front, he forcibly jumped onto Zidian.Although Zi Dian was also disturbed by the swarm, after being tightened by the reins, he instinctively spread his hooves in the direction Mo Shi'an pointed, and left the group of people far away in a blink of an eye.

"Trough, that person ran away!" A person who fell to the ground cried out in pain.

After the swarm had left, they reunited.

The person who spoke at first had a gloomy face, and suddenly sneered after a long while, and said in dialect: "Run, if you go on, you will pass through Xiaohui Mountain—if you are caught by those people, will he survive?"

The forest vegetation in the north is sparse, and the altitude is also low. The mountains are wronged, and they should be called endless small soil pockets - Xiaohui Mountain is one of them.

After crossing Xiaohui Mountain, the northern tip of Gyeongju is behind, and Yongcheng can be reached after two counties.

Zi Dian is a peerless horse, after running for two days and nights, Mo Shi'an finally arrived at the foot of Xiaohui Mountain.

The journey was tiring, and even he was exhausted.

After finally finding a small pool—maybe it used to be a small lake, he simply washed up, then lay down on the spot, planning to sleep on the ground like this first.

The magnificent sea of ​​stars was reflected in his eyes, and Mo Shi'an thought of Shi Jinyun.

That person refused to go on the right path and insisted on being tied to him. Not long ago, he was very puzzled.

But he has to admit that because Shi Jinyun is very dependent on him, he knows that intimacy does not require people of different genders to build.

It was just because of Shi Jinyun's concern, the agreement in his mouth, and various behaviors that he felt a strange sweetness that he had never tasted before.

If he used to care about Qian Xiaoyu out of nature, then he cares about Shi Jinyun now because of Shi Jinyun's own efforts.

Doesn't that feel bad?

He couldn't help laughing, but also worried.

Before coming, he gave Shi Jinyun the optimal route he had planned.He was not in a hurry to leave at first, if Shi Jinyun did things quickly, he would catch up with him in these two days.

I hope he won't meet the bandits from before... Or, let's say, don't throw away his attendants willfully again!

At this end, he was still worried about the object, but he didn't know that a greater danger had already enveloped his head.

On Xiaohui Mountain, a huge swearing-in meeting is being held.

Different from the rabble in the village where the locust disaster happened before, the gangsters here are obviously more vicious and excited than those people.

They were originally bandits, a group of desperadoes who heard that the world was going to be chaotic, not only did not fear, but celebrated loudly!

The leader of the bandits also raised a decent banner of rebellion, as if he was going to do something big, and led the crowd to shout slogans.

Their disgusting ideals echoed on the scorched land.

They want to go down the mountain, fight outside, rob food, and occupy the county town!Even with better luck, the capital is not far away, right?

It is indeed whimsical, but the action has already begun.

On the second day, Mo Shi'an found an isolated poor mountain village on the way forward.

Fortunately, maybe the back is against the mountain, and there is a pond in the village. Although the people here are poor, they are not too poor to survive.

He took some valuables to the food prepared for him by the village chief, and the villagers surrounded him enthusiastically.

Mo Shi'an told the villagers what happened outside, and told them not to go out of the mountain at will. After hearing this, everyone stroked their chests to express their fear.

"It's such a mess outside, we have to keep our house safe..."

But the sky failed, and the earth trembled in the distance, but there were groups of people, three to five hundred people came down from the mountain!

The village head saw it from a distance, and his face turned pale.

"Bandits...bandits, bandits! The bandits from Xiaohui Mountain have come down!"

The sound of killing, one-sided slaughter, there will always be butcher knives from compatriots in the world.

Mo Shi'an couldn't remember how long he swung the knife and how many people he killed, but he almost fought against the entire bandit group by himself.

Compared with the real battlefield, this is of course not a big scene, but focusing on Mo Shian's side, it is equally bloody and cruel.

A steady stream of people rushed up like a dead body, some hit the tip of his knife, and some left him with numbness and dull pain.

There were old and weak women and children screaming and screaming around, and young people wielding hoes. In the end, Mo Shi'an was so red-eyed that he couldn't remember where he was at all.

Is it really possible to give up humanity just to compete for food?

Mo Shi'an didn't know, and he had no time to think.He felt that his arms were getting heavier and his eyes were starting to turn black, which was already a sign of loss of strength.

Just when he was about to be unable to hold on any longer, the sound of horseshoes came from such an inaccessible village!But he was still fighting with several gangsters as if he didn't hear it, until a somewhat familiar voice sounded from not far away.

"Mo Shi'an!"

Shi Jinyun kept calling him by first and last name, which seemed solemn, but there was another kind of intimacy in it.At this moment, the hoarse call is heard in my ears, I don't know if it is fantasy or fairy music.

Mo Shi'an was a little flustered, and his scarlet bloodshot eyes suddenly stared behind him.

It was really him.

Shi Jinyun thought it was a coincidence that he came here, and he broke out in a cold sweat by coincidence.

He stayed in the capital for five more days, and during these five days, the situation in the north deteriorated sharply.News came from many places - there were rebels hiding in the mountains, encouraging the affected refugees to form small bandit gangs to attack scattered villages.

His heart skipped a beat when he heard the news, he asked his teacher for a team of well-trained personal guards, and hurriedly followed Mo Shian's route to the mountains.

He was really scared, afraid of what might happen.

How terrified I was before, how happy I am now.Fortunately, he really brought someone here, and he really helped Mo Shi'an!

He was a scholar himself, and he knew nothing but riding a horse well and drawing a bow.At this moment, he stumbled towards Mo Shi'an and almost tripped over the corpse on the ground.

Regardless of the nausea in his heart, he accelerated towards the person who was thinking about it day and night. When the distance between the two was only one meter, Mo Shi'an's face suddenly changed.

He sprinted forward suddenly, holding Shi Jinyun in his arms with one hand, and slashed forward with the other hand——

"clang--"

Shi Jinyun didn't know what happened yet, he turned his head in a daze, but felt his arm loosen suddenly.

The tall man couldn't support his heavy body any longer. Seeing the three or five guards running towards him, he half-kneeled and fell to the ground.

Bright red blood gurgled from the wound on his back, soaking the dry ground.

"... Mo Shi'an?" Shi Jinyun called him tremblingly, and knelt down after him, at a loss what to do. "Hello...Mo Shi'an!!"

***

"That's it. I passed out that day, and I don't know what happened afterwards. When I woke up, I was in a nearby county town, and I received your letter within two days."

Mo Shi'an held his teacup in annoyance, and sat under the big persimmon tree opposite Song Xu.

He was still wrapped in thick bandages, and it was too hot, so he didn't wear a shirt, revealing his muscular upper body.

"The doctor said I could take a carriage, so that guy asked someone to drive me to Yongcheng, but he refused to follow me, and he refused to see me. During the few days when I was seriously injured, when I saw him by chance, he was cold He looked at me with a straight face, without even a smile. I don’t know why he was angry, and he didn’t tell me when I asked him.”

Song Xu: "..."

Unexpectedly, after half a year, the sky has changed.

It's my fault that these two are really getting together.

He tried his best to absorb the amount of information in Mo Shi'an's words, and roughly figured out the logic.

"So, it was Shi Qinchao who pursued you and got along with him day and night for three months, and finally caught you. Then you were in danger, and he brought people to rescue you, but he didn't expect you to hold him back, and you blocked him again. I Are you right?"

When Mo Shi'an heard about whether to pursue or not, he felt a little awkward and complicated, but there was nothing wrong with thinking about it carefully, so he nodded.

"... Awesome." Song Xu said sincerely, "You and him are both amazing."

Being suddenly appointed as an emotional mentor, Song Xu, a married person, of course had to give full play to his expertise and experience, and thought about it carefully.

"Commissioner Shi Qin is definitely not angry with you, he is angry with himself. It's easy to think about it. He wanted to protect you, but in turn, he was protected by you and hurt you. I feel very sorry and don't know how to face you. "

Mo Shi'an was stunned for a moment: "Really? But no matter how you look at it, I should protect him with his slender arms and legs, right?"

Song Xu smiled.

Hey, he knows this question, how easy it is.Although he traveled to a different world and somehow followed the mainstream orientation, but tracing back to the source, he is an out-and-out gay guy.

"In love, it is natural to want to protect the other party, it has nothing to do with being strong or not."

"What's more, there is still room for debate on who is strong and who is weak, let alone between two men? In terms of force alone, you are indeed much stronger than him, but in terms of official status, talent, learning, or scheming, it is very difficult I'm afraid the two of us together can't match him. Don't think he looks stupid when he pursues you, he knows it in his heart..."

Seeing Mo Shi'an lower his head thoughtfully, Song Xu added: "Besides, the reason why Shi Qin only loves men is probably because he likes this 'I don't know who is stronger or weaker'?"

In this day and age, a simple marriage can easily turn into a relationship of dependence.But if it was Mo Shi'an, it would never be possible.

Xiaochun ran back panting, Song Xu quickly wiped his sweat and offered him tea.

Mo Shi'an looked at the incense burning on the table, and it just bottomed out.

"That's right, you can go around the city for one week in a stick of incense, which shows that you have persisted in practicing. But one week is not enough. For your endurance, start running around the city for three weeks."

"Good master." Xiaochun took a deep breath, nodded seriously, and ran out again.

Song Xu chased his back until he couldn't see him, then turned his head and sighed: "Don't say you and Shi Qin are on the mission, even if I compare with Xiaochun, I never think I am stronger. Xiaochun is better than me in so many ways , He is persistent, serious, and will hardly give up halfway through the occasional laziness of what he is determined to do. I can't compare."

Mo Shi'an took a sip of tea, thought of Shi Jinyun, and lost his mind for a while.

Song Xu: "As for Shi Qinchen's self-blame, I guess it's not because he thinks you are weak and he is strong, but you can't forgive yourself. Don't worry, just wait a few days. The bottom line is that they are some bandits Wrong...... Who are you, not as good as pigs and dogs!"

Speaking of this, Mo Shian came back to his senses.

"By the way, I have something important to tell you. It is also the news from his side-Pingguan Pass is indeed in danger. Last month, several urgent reports were sent to Beijing. The Holy Majesty argued with the court for several days, and finally It is decided to send General Han Xiao to take his family's [-] western troops and temporarily organize them into the brave army to reinforce Heping Pass."

Song Xu also looked serious.

"Six days ago, this little general Han walked around Yongcheng. Everyone knew about it and saw the flag of the brave army. Outside the pass...is it already this bad?"

Mo Shi'an worried: "I hope it's not that bad, but I always have a bad feeling."

This premonition soon became true.