Chapter 35 Chapter Thirty-Four

After a few days, I calmed down and said that I took a nap and rode alone to the east city of Xi'an. I visited the Qi brothers in the "Fuju Inn" in Xiaowuyi's annex. Before I entered the lobby, there was a noisy sound. A good-looking woman was greeting guests with exquisite faces. When she saw me, she hurriedly called the waiter to entertain me with twinkling eyes. The heroic story of the Swallow Army fighting against the Western Turks, the flow of people coming and going, the business is very busy, the waiters are busy ordering food and tea for the guests, one of them is the tall and big Qi Botian, who is busy serving the dishes to the guests Cai, I was taken aback when I saw it, and then gave me a foolish smile, and greeted me familiarly to the private room on the second floor. In the wild, hidden in the city, the annex arranged by Song Minglei really won't attract people's attention, and it's easy to move around.

At this moment, the curtain was lifted, and the woman I saw in the lobby walked in with lotus steps, looked at me up and down, her bright eyes were as clear as water, but extremely deep, I was about to open my mouth to reveal my identity, but she turned to me He knelt down and made a big salute, bowed his forehead to the ground and said respectfully: "Little girl, Li Ru, has met Fourth Miss." I thought to myself that this must be the proprietress surnamed Li arranged by Song Minglei, so I quickly stepped forward to help her up: "Sister Li, you don't need to be polite, Second Brother Song is not here, thanks to Sister Li for taking care of our Xiaowuyi's property."

Li Ru got up, still bowed and lowered her eyes, I asked her a few words, she just answered them one by one, very stiff, without any of the elegant and lively chatting and laughing.After talking for a while, Qi Fang was still nowhere to be seen. Li Ru took the initiative to tell me that Qi Fang should cook in the kitchen in the backyard. I didn’t believe it at first, but when she smiled and led me to the kitchen secretly, I saw Qi Fang’s head was pierced. Wearing a scarf, the right hand that used to threaten my life with the Qingfeng Sword is holding the big spoon tightly at this moment, focusing on turning over a plate of spicy chicken in the fire, the movements are skilled and professional.

I poked my head in surprise, he had quickly copied two dishes, the smell of the spicy pepper rushed into my nose, I was salivating, he glanced at where I was standing, and I retracted my head suddenly.Pulling Li Ru back to the room, Li Ru asked me how to arrange the Qi brothers in this way, but I fell into confusion. On the one hand, I wanted Qi Fang to help me deal with Yuan Feibai, on the other hand, I remembered that when he was cooking just now. With a contented expression, if he was dragged into the bloody wind again, he would feel a little unbearable. In a daze, Qi Fang's voice sounded outside: "Boss Li, Miss Mu, can Qi Fang come in?"

I hurriedly sat up straight, carrying four stacks of small dishes, a silver jug, two silver cups, and two pairs of chopsticks in a neat manner, and placed them neatly on the kang table, standing beside me respectfully, Talking, Li Ru smiled, excused that he had eaten, and wanted to go downstairs to have a look, so he went out. I chatted with him a few times, but he just answered respectfully with his eyes down, and didn't say much. I was a little discouraged, Just when he was about to decide to let him be a cook for the rest of his life, Qi Botian came in excitedly. I cleared my throat and asked them what they planned to do after revenge.The two brothers spoke at the same time: Qi Botian: "Stay in Fuju Inn..." Qi Zhongshu: "Naturally follow Miss..."

The two brothers looked at each other, and then saw that I stopped talking. Qi Fang's answer gave me some confidence. Fang chased me out, grabbed the reins of my horse, and looked at me firmly: "Miss, please take Qi Fang back, and let Qi Fang protect you with you!" The autumn wind blew a strand of long hair from the corner of his forehead, and the strands of hair brushed against his bright eyes, filled with the panic of being rejected because of anxiety, like a puppy wandering in a storm, I looked down at him on the horse, and my heart He couldn't help feeling hot, and said with a smile: "There is a lack of a cook in Xifeng Garden, would you like to go?"

He was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled happily at me, revealing the dimples on his cheeks that he hadn't seen for a long time. When I took Qi Fang back to Xifengyuan that day, Wei Hu and Suhui were already in a hurry. Seeing me Immediately, his eyes lit up, and Suhui complained: "Grandma, why don't you tell Brother Wei and me when you go to the city, but let us..." Then he saw Qi Fang behind me, and said with a sullen face: "Who is this?" Wei Hu also looked at Qi Fang warily, I said Qi Fang was my childhood friend, he was a good cook, and entered the garden Come here to help Sanniang, Suhui's regional protectionism has started to act strangely, Qi Fang is very guarded and indifferent, and Wei Hu is surprised when he hears Qi Fang's name, which shows that he has guessed Qi Fang's true identity, I wondered to myself, could it be that Wei Hu is the spy that Master Hou put beside Fei Bai?

Qi Fang kept a cool face from the beginning to the end, Wei Hu and Su Hui chatted for a while, Su Hui jumped out and said with his nose: "For Miss Mu's sake, it's okay for a strong man Qi to enter the garden, but it's not too late. Delu let us see." As I spoke, I showed a gesture of action, and I was about to speak out in displeasure, but Qi Fang smiled slightly, and flicked the hem of his cotton robe: "Please." Su Hui and Qi Fang are about the same age, and their martial arts are both mastered by famous masters. However, during the fight, Su Hui withdrew from the circle with sweat profusely, but Qi Fang remained motionless, with his hair never messed up. His eyes brightened: "Your Excellency, could it be that you came from Jin Gu Zhenren's sect."

Qi Fang clasped his fists and said, "Zhong Shu is the master's closed disciple, this must be Wei Hu's strong man who is called 'Shaking the Sky and Tiger Roaring' by people in the Jianghu." So the three of them didn't know each other, between heroes and heroes, Wei Hu and Suhui took my flower hibiscus off, and forced Qi Fang to turn around into the garden to drink and chat. From then on, Qi Fang began to have a stable place to stay place. On August 21st, the original Qingjiang returned to Beijing with his wife Lian, the eldest princess and his son-in-law to visit the condition of Empress Dowager Dou. Fainted, Xi Zong had already fallen into a severe coma when he hurriedly stepped back from the morning to visit.

In October of the second year of Yongye, heavy snow suddenly fell in the north of Dongting ahead of schedule.However, what is more frightening than the heavy snow in the north is that Dongting’s sturdy neighbor, Khitan’s surprise attack, on October 13th, Khitan general Kedan crossed the Songhua River under the order of Xiao Shizong, the youngest and most vigorous emperor in Khitan history. Leading 80,000 iron cavalry to break through Yingzhou, which was weakly defended by the Yuan Clan's Northern Army, and within a few days came to the city of Jizhou, and approached Kyoto. At this time, there were only 10,000 imperial troops in Kyoto, and 10,000 Imperial Forest Army. In addition, most of the defenders in the capital were children of nobles. , have no actual combat experience, and can't fight against the Khitan Iron Army at all. There are two most elite troops in the East Court, one is the Swallow Army that fights against the Turks in the northwest, and the other is the Dou Family Southern Army that defends Nanzhao in the southeast. The Khitan surprise attack on Kyoto This gave the Dou family an excellent reason to summon the Southern Army to go north. Originally, Qingjiang knew the Dou family's deployment well, so on the one hand, he asked Xi Zhizhi to order the Jizhou defenders to fight to the death to gain time to save the soldiers. Yu Feiyan issued a 100,000 urgent gold medal, ordering him to rush to King Qin of Kyoto.

At that time, Jizhou was a small city with insufficient military equipment. Its commander Li Shi was a heroic general in the last years of the Eastern Court. I struggled for more than a month. When the soldiers and civilians in Jizhou ran out of ammunition and food, they repelled many Khitan assaults. When the food was exhausted, the soldiers and civilians of Jizhou first slaughtered cattle, horses and mules, and then had to cook bows, crossbows and leather armor to satisfy their hunger. They could only feed themselves with chaff and hay, and finally there was even a tragedy of cannibalism. People cannibalize each other, which means that the persistence of the isolated city of Jizhou has been supported to the limit. On the 21st of the twelfth lunar month, the Khitan broke the city of Jizhou, and Li Shi led the hungry and exhausted defenders to fight the Khitan army for half a day. In the end, Li Shi broke out of the city carrying the statue of Xuanyuan Guang, the emperor of the Eastern Court enshrined in the Jizhou Temple, and the Khitan soldiers chased him with all his might. After the Khitan soldiers obtained Li Shi's body, they drove their chariots and stomped on his body to vent their anger.After the city was broken, all the local officials in Jizhou City died heroically, and the Khitan soldiers massacred the city in revenge, and the people of Jizhou who survived the starvation were massacred. When the Khitan soldiers came to the capital, and the East Court officials and Emperor Xizong were in a mess, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Yu Feiyan led eight thousand soldiers, the bravest and fiercest in the Yanzi army, into the capital one step earlier. , but also a little surprised why Yu Feiyan only dared to lead 8,000 people to deal with 80,000 cavalry, and Yu Feiyan ordered people to carry out the secret weapon of the Yanzi Army. It was invented by me, Lu Yuan, and Wei Hu And add the gunpowder-improved "Splendid No. 1" super crossbow.