Big Moon Ballad

The past memories disappeared from the eyes like smoke, and Zhao Guang's rapid coughing in the grass brought Ji Ange back to reality.

"Zhao Guang?"

"I'm fine," Zhao Guang covered his mouth, "Don't say anything, or you'll attract the pursuers again."

Chasing troops...

Ji Ange bit her lips and kept chanting these two words in her heart.

After Li Jinniang and Gui Li disappeared, these two words became her nightmare.

That night, just after she and Zhao Guang speculated that Li Jinniang and Gui Li were taken away by the gods, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and a group of Zen disciples chased them and searched for their whereabouts all night long.

When Zhao Guang escaped, he was hit by two arrows and was poisoned. Everyone would think that he would be dead even if he ran away.

Logically speaking, there is no need to spend energy chasing after a dying person, but the group of Zen disciples had the attitude of wanting to see a dead person or a dead body. They searched for Zhao Guang's body with torches in the dark. Ji Ange was frightened.

Fortunately, the group of people who followed up the search were different from the Zen disciples who had poisoned Zhao Guang before. They were not of a high level and were more like outer disciples or Xirong cavalry.

Later, Ji Ange learned that the Zen monastery was in trouble, and all the high-level inner disciples had received a recall order and returned to the monastery to rescue their master.

But in this case, the group of Zen disciples left a group of people to search for her and Zhao Guang, which made Ji Ange even more incomprehensible.

Although Zhao Guang discovered the group of people immediately, he was still deeply poisoned at that time and could not take her to escape quickly, nor could he completely hide his aura. In the end, they were discovered by the group of people.

In an extremely critical situation, Zhao Guang gave his last breath, burst out his true energy and fought head-on with the group of people, and finally managed to grab a horse and escape with her.

As a result, the toxin invaded his lungs. For more than a month now, Zhao Guang is still coughing up blood every day. No matter how many herbs he took along the way, he still did not get better.

They did not completely get rid of the group of people. They fought and fled, and were chased all the way to Dingling.

That's right, the two of them have reached Dingling now.

Ji Ange lay in the cold grass, feeling chills all over his body.

Going to Ding Ling was Zhao Guang's original plan in the cave. Among the four people who participated in the discussion, only two of them reached Ding Ling.

Ding Ling was much colder than the Monan area she had stayed in before. Only when she got here did she understand what the true bitter cold of the far north meant.

But compared to the harsh weather, the group of pursuers who were always following them, tougher and more vicious than flies, made Ji Ange suffer even more.

When they first entered Xirong disguised as a business group, although they were frightened every day, their disguise was very successful and they were never exposed. They were always treated politely on the road.

But the journey from Ji Ange and Zhao Guang to Ding Ling was a true escape journey.

Ji Ange never had a meal or slept in peace. She would often find a seemingly safe place where she thought she could have a good rest, and then the fatal sound of horse hooves would be heard again.

Sometimes, even though the pursuers were not coming, Ji Ange would hear the sound of horse hooves and the sound of bowstrings in a trance, and suddenly wake up.

This made her suffer from heart palpitations when she heard the sound of horse hooves.

Not only was he afraid of pursuing soldiers every day, Ji Ange was also worried about Zhao Guang's condition.In order to get rid of the pursuers, Zhao Guangqiang used his strength to cause poison to enter his lungs and almost hit his heart. Ji Ange still doesn't want to recall what happened that night.

When Zhao Guang fell off the horse, Ji Ange felt that the whole world went dark.

She never wanted to experience that moment again.

Although Zhao Guang later regained consciousness tenaciously, the incident caused irreversible damage to his body.Zhao Guang hid it from her and refused to tell her the true condition of her body. He would secretly find some herbs to swallow in the dead of night, but it didn't help.

Zhao Guang's health never recovered.

Ji Ange is often afraid that when she opens her eyes one morning, there will be a corpse lying next to her.

She knew very well that if the fugitive life of living in the open air continued like this, Zhao Guang's health would only get worse and worse.Zhao Guang needs to receive treatment from a regular doctor as soon as possible.

But they didn't dare to go near inhabited villages or cities along the way, let alone go find a doctor.

Even if they dare to go, they may not be able to find it.

Ji Ange frowned, feeling a little worried.

Along the way, she and Zhao Guang found that the entire Xirong Grassland had undergone great changes, and there were wars and chaos everywhere.

The entire Xirong grassland was in chaos.

After leaving Monan, Ji Ange and Zhao Guang originally wanted to disguise their identities and find a larger city to rest for a while. However, no matter which city they passed, they could see thick smoke and fire, or there were soldiers and horses all around. , making them afraid to go in.

It would have been just one or two cities, but it turned out that they were like this everywhere all the way north. Many cities in the north had even changed owners, and some people who did not look like Xirong nobles at all came in and out with troops every day.

It stands to reason that even if there is unrest, it will not be unrest everywhere from north to south.

Even if Zhao Guang and Ji Ange didn't know much about this kind of thing, they still noticed that something was wrong within Xirong.

Zhao Guang once disguised himself as a herdsman to inquire about the fleeing Xirong people, only to learn that civil war broke out in Xirong during this month, and many large tribes and cities had slave uprisings.

Zhao Guang has seen uprisings in the Central Plains before, but they were usually within one county and one city.The simultaneous uprisings in different places in such a short period of time was obviously not an accident, but a premeditated act.

But who planned such a large-scale turmoil?
Zhao Guang and Ji Ange always felt that they were involved in something terrible. They disguised themselves as a fleeing herdsmen couple and inquired about Ding Ling while walking towards them.

After an encounter with a passing cavalry team, Ji Ange and Zhao Guang found out the origin of the turmoil.

"I heard that the commotion started from Jiankun. Just a month ago, a man named Ding San led his men to kill the city lord!"

"The territory of King Eleven Zhai? Then what did King Eleven Zhai do? Isn't he dead?"

"Bah, you dare to scold King Shiyi Zhai? You don't want your head anymore?"

"The first thing that happened was Suiye City, which is the territory of King Twelve Zhai!"

Ji Ange listened to a group of big men quarreling in Xirong. He felt dizzy and secretly poked Zhao Guang's arm, "Whose territory is Jiankun? Why are these people quarreling?"

Zhao Guang said softly, "It is the territory of the Eleven Zhai Kings and the Twelve Zhai Kings."

After Zhao Guang drew pictures on the ground and explained, Ji Ange finally understood.

Jiankun and Dingling were both the territories of tribes that had previously surrendered to the royal court of Xirong. Although the area was vast, they were both bitter and cold places outside the royal court.

When the new generation of White Wolf Kings re-divided the territory of the Twelve Zhai Kings, the fertile pastures near the White Wolf King's Court were basically divided up by the first nine Zhai Kings with strong soldiers and horses, leaving only the two outer areas of exile.

The Tenth King Zhai was fat and not good at fighting, but because of his seniority and seniority, he monopolized Ding Ling.Only Jiankun was left on the outskirts of the royal court, and it was eventually divided equally between the remaining eleven and twelve Zhai kings.