Chapter 71

The skin under the tip of the dagger was so soft. The dagger in his hand is so sharp.

As long as he moved his hand forward and exerted a little strength, he could easily pierce his throat and kill this woman who had tempted him from being a shrewd warrior to being a deserter who was addicted to the gentle township.

However, the tip of the dagger was still unable to penetrate half a point.

He held the dagger in the palm of his hand, as if there was still the residual warmth from last night’s soft skin.

He took the dagger and let go of her, hissing her out of his sight.

She opened her eyes, stared at him, and hesitated to say anything, but she didn’t say anything after all, just blushed, lowered her head, and walked out.

The man stood for a long time, motionless, he looked at this humble, but neatly tidy house every day. On the head of the bed was a new set of neatly folded clothes and a new pair of shoes.

His eyes also turned red.

In fact, after many years of fighting and being born with a keen intuition like a beast, he also suspected her appearance more than once. However, every time, when he came back at dusk and faced her smiling face welcoming him, all his doubts would be covered up.

He can’t be the steadfast warrior he used to be. He deceived himself and became a businessman who walked through the streets day after day.

Dreams end in waking. This moment has finally come.

The message here no longer needs to be delivered by him. The world knows it, not to mention his boss.

A shadow who has neglected his duties so far is not qualified to live.

He knelt on the ground, kowtowed to Kong to apologize, raised the dagger in his hand, and stabbed it towards his throat.

…

Changping is located in the deep south of Taihang. For a long time before, it was just an ordinary gate with dangerous terrain, connecting things, and it was not very conspicuous. But after King Qi became emperor in the east and competed with the imperial court, the advantages of the terrain were immediately highlighted. Not only did it become the boundary between the east and west, but King Qi also overhauled the fortifications, consolidated the city defense, and built it into a The first barrier against threats from the west.

After Xie Changgeng returned, the situation was just set, and the first thing he did was to send troops eastward.

But Xie Changgeng did not attack immediately, but temporarily garrisoned in Jinzhou, which was only a few hundred miles away from Changping.

The sky above Changping is shrouded in the cloud of war.

Once the war starts, it will be destined to be a fierce battle, although for both sides, now is not the best time to start a war.

The Hexi Army had just experienced a **** battle that lasted for half a year, and the losses were not small. At this time, what was most needed was a proper cessation of the army, rather than immediately and non-stop trekking and expedition, and immediately plunged into the next battle.

Expeditions with exhausted troops are a taboo for soldiers. In the face of an enemy who is fighting with all his strength, even if Changping is captured, he will have to pay a heavy price. Moreover, Changping is only the first pass. This battle is meaningless except to vent his anger.

As an experienced commander who has commanded hundreds of battles, Xie Changgeng knows this very well.

Although King Qi’s men and horses are waiting for work, there is little hope that Changping Pass will be fully prepared in such a short period of time to withstand the attack of this elite Hexi army.

From the perspective of the two sides alone, although no one is sure of winning, for King Qi, who has not yet established a firm foothold, what he wants most now can never be a head-to-head battle.

Xie Changgeng’s mother is in his hands, which is a big bargaining chip.

It is said that at this time, he should act.

But what makes Xie Changgeng puzzled is that so far, he has not received any news related to this.

His intuition told him that the reason why it was so abnormal, or that King Qi was planning a bigger conspiracy, or that there was an accident that he didn’t know yet.

Even though he was very anxious and worried about his mother’s safety day and night, Xie Changgeng was still patiently waiting for news.

He doesn’t fight unsure battles, and he won’t show his blood and blood at the price of unnecessary sacrifices.

His purpose of sending troops here was not to fight immediately.

The previous involvement of the Changsha state had completely disrupted his original layout.

King Qi’s power was rapidly expanding, but he was at a loss due to the **** battle in Hexi.

He wasn’t in such a hurry.

His real purpose was to force King Qi to negotiate the terms of the hostages with himself, and then make a rescue plan after figuring out the other party’s intentions.

After a few days of garrisoning in Guanxi, Xie Changgeng’s doubts about King Qi’s abnormal behavior quickly got an answer.

The spies who had sneaked into the Eastern Capital received a reply. Dao learned from the purchased news that when the old lady was in custody, one night, she suddenly fell ill. King Qi urgently summoned the best doctors in the city for treatment. Only then did I find out that the old lady had died that night.

Xie’s mother was the one who Zhao Xitai got. Because of this great achievement, Zhao Xitai made King Qi’s men look up to him. At that time, he was not in the Eastern Capital and went to Changsha to offer condolences. Due to the hard work on the road, he developed an old illness, which delayed his return journey.

A hostage, who was supposed to be of great use, was so folded in his hands. In addition to being shocked and disappointed, King Qi knew that if the news came out, it would definitely attract Xie Changgeng’s full revenge, so he ordered to hide the news and let others After quietly disposing of the corpse overnight, he summoned his subordinates and was busy arranging countermeasures.

This night, above the night sky of Changping Guanxi, there were dense clouds, the stars and the moon were hidden, and from a distance, there were only countless fire sticks between the sky and the earth, like a little spark, illuminating the night sky of the entire military camp.

Tens of thousands of soldiers, all wrapped in white scarves, armed with weapons, lined up neatly, and the atmosphere was extremely solemn.

Xie Changgeng walked out of the big tent with an emphasis on filial piety.

Liu An and other generals had been waiting outside for a long time, and when they saw him appear, they surrounded him and petitioned loudly: “The soldiers are ready, please ask the King of Qin to issue an order immediately, and I will swear to follow him to the death to capture Changping and smash the east. Du, take revenge for the old lady!”

Qin, Jin, Qi and Chu are the four most respected kings. Among the four kings, the Qin king is the highest.

“King Qin please issue an order!”

In the wilderness, the voice of allegiance from the soldiers, like thunder, rose from the ground and resounded through the night sky.

From the moment he learned the news of his mother’s death yesterday, until this moment, Xie Changgeng has been in the tent and has been alone for a whole night.

His face was blue, and his eyes were bloodshot.

He stood in the wilderness, looking at the direction of Kansai in the distance.

At the end of the horizon, there, the undulating and winding mountain peaks are like a barrier rising from the ground.

The revenge of killing his mother was as deep as the sea, and he would have to avenge it for one day of his life.

But not now.

He swallowed a wisp of fishy sweetness that suddenly came up from his throat, withdrew his eyes, and said slowly: “I will go to the Eastern Capital to see if I can collect my mother’s bones. The funeral will be evacuated here, and it will remain as it is. Without my order, a soldier Once dead, don’t move without authorization.”

Liu An and others were all choked with admiration, and they all knelt down to him: “King Qin, take care!”

The fire sticks in the camp were extinguished, and the surroundings gradually returned to silence.

Xie Changgeng selected Liang Tuan and other entourages in the big tent, and was about to set off overnight to make a secret detour to Dongdu when he suddenly heard the sound of running footsteps from outside the tent.

Xie Changgeng turned his head and saw Liu An barged in with ecstasy on his face, waving the letter in his hand and shouting, “King Qin! Good news! The old lady is not dead yet! She was rescued by the Lord of Changsha. Let’s go! Zhu Liuhu sent a letter saying that he was protecting the old lady and was on his way back!”

Xie Changgeng paused, his eyes brightened, he turned around abruptly, and snatched the letter from Liu An’s hand.

When the people next to him saw him looking at the letter, his figure didn’t move for a long time, and they all held their breath.

After a long time, he raised his eyes.

“I’m going out. Here, do what I say!”

…

Xie Changgeng traveled day and night, galloping south, and in just ten days, he arrived at Taiping Station in Yingcheng, which is adjacent to Fuzhou.

In the inn, he finally saw his mother.

His mother’s improvement looks good, not only is not as weak as he imagined, but in vain and fat. When he arrived, Yingchengling was also in the inn, and was respectfully inviting the mother of the King of Qin to go to his mansion to rest.

When mother and son met, and there was no one else around, Mother Xie complained about the crimes she had suffered in the past six months, and scolded Qi’s bad heart, and kept wiping tears when she talked about her sadness.

Xie Changgeng knelt down and kowtowed to his mother. He couldn’t stand for a long time, and choked: “The son is useless, and the tired mother is so frightened. Please rest assured, mother, that such an accident will never happen again in the future!”

Xie mother finished complaining about her suffering, and saw that her son was in the dark and thin, and she knew that he would not have a good time in the past few days, and she was distressed, so she went up to help him up: “Mother is fine, mother’s life is big, you don’t have to do it. I’m worried, after coming out, the whole way is delicious and delicious, and someone will pick up.”

Xie Changgeng helped his mother to sit down, calmed down, and asked her how she got to Changsha before.

Mother Xie shook her head: “I don’t know what’s going on. I just remember that at the beginning, I was locked in a room. Except that people stared at me during the day and night, I didn’t suffer any serious crimes. Later, one day, I was sent After I ate a bowl of food, I felt sleepy and fell asleep. When I woke up, people were packed in a black car, walking day and night, not knowing where to go. When they are released, they will go to Changsha and meet the Mu family.”

“My mother gave her up and told her to come back and live a good life with you. From now on, she will be my daughter-in-law of the Xie family.

Mother Xie wiped away her tears and grabbed her son’s hand.

“Mother was also on her way back, only to find out that King Qi rebelled and became emperor herself. She also has been with King Qi all the way from Changsha. I heard that not long after you divorced her, that prince came to propose marriage. Now! Her brother was gone before, and that prince is here again! It’s okay, she wants to climb up again, if she doesn’t come back, it’s fine, but the child raised by her side can’t be avoided! Chang Geng, mother remembers it clearly Chu, what you told your mother was clearly your son, but Mrs. Mu insisted that it wasn’t yours! The kid who was coaxing also believed so! Hurry up and bring my grandson back to me, but Don’t let him suffer in the future!”

Xie Changgeng was silent for a long time, then whispered: “Mother, it’s my son’s fault, I shouldn’t have bullied you in the first place. That child is indeed not his son’s flesh and blood, just before…”

“Don’t lie to me!”

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Mother Xie and wiped away tears.

“At the beginning, if you didn’t listen to me and didn’t marry Qi, I’d forget it, but I can’t let you go about this grandson! The more I look at that child, the more you look like when you were young!”

“It’s not yours, could it be that you’re out of your mind, why are you being so good to him?”

Xie Changgeng paused.

“Mother heard that the country of Changsha is amazing now, and you entered Shangjing with that King Qi. Could it be that you were afraid of King Qi? Didn’t you also seal the king? Mother was alone, and she couldn’t twist her arm that day. Thighs, there is no way, come back first. You go to me and get my grandson back!”

Xie Changgeng looked at his excited mother and was speechless for a while.

After hesitating for a while, he calmed down a few words, asked someone to come in to serve her and rest, then withdrew, sending the respectful Yingchengling and his party who were still waiting outside.

He looked coldly at Zhu Liuhu, who was kneeling at his feet. Two years ago, he had arranged to be in Changsha early, but it ended up ruining the shadow of his major event.