twin moon

Chapter 135 No.17 Scene [-]
Yuansui 12 years, the seventh day of February.The sky was dark, misty with rain and smoke.After the beginning of spring, Jingshu City is full of new greenery everywhere.Until this time, the dead yellow leaves in last year's cold winter were swept down from the tops of the trees by the spring breeze, and paved a layer of light brown on the stone road.

As soon as the sky was dawn, a group of guards under the banner of Luqiu Jinzhen surrounded a remote courtyard that seemed to be uninhabited in the north of the capital, three floors inside and three floors outside.This is the old suburban house where Kun Jie hid in Jingshu City.Faint cooking smoke rose from the courtyard, as if someone had just lit the stove, and there was also the faint sound of running around.

"Is Mr. Kun Jie at home? I am here today to invite Mr. Luqiu to enter the palace."

A guard dressed as a school lieutenant stood outside the house and shouted loudly.But even though it was an invitation, his tone lacked some respect, and on the contrary seemed a little impatient.

The person who came spoke was full of air, and he could hear it very clearly in the thin morning mist.But the strange thing is that no one in the courtyard responded.The captain's eyes could not help but tremble, and he took a few steps forward, raised his hand and slammed on the door in front of him:

"Mr. Kunjie, in order to thank Mr. for his advice, the Lord specially set up a banquet in the palace to celebrate the success. I also hope that Mr. will appreciate it, and I will go to talk about it at the end of the day."

However, no matter how many invitations were made outside the door, there was still no response from the courtyard, and even the porter and the servants seemed to have colluded and refused to open the door.

The captain waited for a while, as if he was giving the people in the courtyard their last chance.Seeing that there was still no answer, he didn't ask any more questions, and instead ordered to the more than a hundred guards around the courtyard:

"Kunjieli is collaborating with the enemy country, and the lord of the country ordered us to come and arrest people! Listen to our captain's order, and after three rounds of volleys, follow me to break through the door and arrest people. Be sure to capture this beast alive! If there are other people who are stubborn in the corner, they will be killed." !"

As soon as the military order was issued, dense feather arrows immediately flew from all directions to the courtyard, and eight other soldiers pushed a charging car from outside the encirclement to the main gate, and it only knocked off the person behind it with a few hits. Latch with thick legs.

Under the leadership of Captain Yu, the imperial guards raised their knives and poured into the courtyard.However, what caught their eyes was an unexpected scene—hundreds of feathered arrows seemed to be stopped by an invisible and intangible force above the courtyard, and none of them were stuck on the ground. , but scattered around like countless messy straws.

"Witchcraft and spells! Give me a room to search immediately, even if you dig three feet, you must find Kunjie and his henchmen!"

The captain yelled sharply, and the imperial guards dispersed immediately, searching upstairs and downstairs thoroughly.However, no living person was found in the entire courtyard, and there was no food or clothing left in the house. Even letters, large and small, had been burned and turned into a pile of ashes that hadn't completely cooled down in the hearth. .

All signs now indicate that Kun Jie and his followers have already received the news and deliberately set up this situation.In the eyes of outsiders, it seems that it is still active in the courtyard, but in fact it is used to delay time, and the real body has already escaped.

"Leave a team of people to continue looking for the secret passage of the agency, and the rest will immediately chase along the way, but if there are any suspicious ruts and footprints, report them immediately!"

Although he had guessed in his heart that it was impossible to find any clues in all likelihood, the helpless captain still issued an order to his sergeant to investigate to the end.He himself walked towards a carriage parked not far from the courtyard with a solemn expression, as if the steps under his feet were extremely heavy:
"Report to the Lord, General Fu, the people in that courtyard are now—"

"The people in the courtyard disappeared, right? The widow has said long ago that since Kun Jie dared to do such a thing under our noses, he must have prepared a retreat for himself in advance. Fu Aiqing, I am afraid that this time you will Lost the bet again."

The door curtain in front of the car was half closed, and a faint voice came from behind, but the tone seemed to have expected the result.No one could have imagined that sitting in this inconspicuous carriage would be Lu Qiu Borong, Lord of Wei Liang, and General Fu Zaiyin.

"Ashamed subordinate!"

The general in the car laughed, and gently placed an obsidian chess piece in his hand on the chessboard in front of him.This person is a generation of Confucian generals who are well-known all over the world. Now his reputation in the Dasheng government and the public has risen, almost overshadowing Ye Fufeng and Xiang Baili, who are also called "Sea and Land Dual Braves".

Just in his prime, he has a neat short beard and a lun scarf on his head. He doesn't like to hold weapons in his hands when he travels. The folding fan in "Picture" looks like a civil servant at first glance, and it doesn't match the thick armor from head to toe.

When the world talks about Fu Zaiyin, they will be curious about how such an ordinary commoner with no background can successfully become an official in the martial arts Wei Liang, and defeat a group of young talents from a family of martial arts, and win the martial arts test in front of the palace. The leader, the official worships the general.But if they have seen Luqiu Borong's real appearance, maybe they can understand a thing or two.

At this time, the person sitting opposite the chessboard had a rather delicate face.Although the pair of red phoenix eyes on the goose egg face reveal the domineering aura above ten thousand people and the insightful wisdom, and the pair of willow-leaf eyebrows are carefully drawn thick with eyebrow pencil, it is still difficult to conceal the femininity between the eyebrows.Few people in today's world know that the dignified Lord of the Liang Kingdom is actually a woman dressed as a man!
Although the Luqiu family is a relative of the Baijiang clan, it is a single heir for four generations.At the time of Luqiu Hongsi, the father of Luqiu Borong, although there were hundreds of concubines in the harem, not a single male was born.In desperation, Luqiu Borong, who is the eldest princess, was educated by his father as a boy since he was a child, and all he studied was governing the country, serving swords and guns.

This female national lord was originally named Luqiu Borong. After her father passed away, she used thunderous tactics to calm down many clansmen who were about to move, and she came to the throne powerfully wearing a robe and a crown.She also became the first person in the Dasheng Dynasty to occupy the position of princes as a woman, unprecedented and unprecedented.

On the day of her coronation, she even changed the last word of her name to the word "Rong", which means to be inclusive and tolerant of the world, so as to spur all the officials and encourage herself at all times.And the deliberate promotion of Fu Zaiyin as the general is to subtly change the bad habits of Wei Liang Chaotang who have always selected people based on their family background, and appointed many people who are good at making business but have no courage as officials.

"The lord thinks, what kind of medicine is sold in Kunjie's gourd this time? He first revealed to us that there will be a big war between Cheng and Ye, and then he urged the other party to reconcile after Wei Liang joined the war and join forces with our army. Confrontation. All disputes in the world are caused by profit, but the minister still can't figure out, what profit is there for him to go back and forth like this?"

Fu Zaiyin opened a corner of the curtain, waved his hand to signal the school lieutenant outside to retreat, and then asked.

Luqiu Borong took out a white piece from the chess basket with two fingers, raised it to his lips and fiddled with it, but he refused to drop it, and then asked the other side:
"Fu Aiqing, what can you tell from this game of chess?"

Fu Zaiyin shook his head:
"The lord of the country did not follow the established rules and regulations at all this time, and even drove his own white pieces to a dead end many times. Now the whole chess game can only be described in one word, and that is chaos."

"Fu Aiqing has seen so much, can't she still not understand this last layer?"

Luqiu Borong pursed her lips and smiled, it seemed that only when she was playing against the general in front of her in a chess game, could she show such an undefended and comfortable expression.

"What does the lord mean to say that Kunjie set up such a situation this time just to pursue a random word?" Fu Zaiyin stroked his palms as if suddenly enlightened.

"That's right. Although I don't know what the purpose is, but the actions are meticulous and the arrangements are thorough, and they are definitely not random actions on the spur of the moment. And this chess game of the widow—"

Luqiu Borong was still playing with the white stone in his hand, but his eyes became sharper, "In a chaotic world, you must learn to survive in danger. Chaos is not terrible, but it can create countless opportunities. If you seize it One or two of them can fight the big with a small one, and turn the world around in one fell swoop!"

As she spoke, she suddenly dropped the white piece in her hand, it was a move that the opponent failed to count!This single blow not only broke Fu Zaiyin's chess eyes, but also made all the scattered white pieces on the chessboard alive, fighting for a way out in the seemingly hopeless situation!
Surprised, Fu Zaiyin immediately frowned and looked for a solution. However, after contemplating for a long time, he still threw the sunspot in his hand into the chess basket, and had no choice but to admit defeat:
"The king's lore kills me, and the last general is willing to bow down! If I knew from the beginning that the seemingly chaotic birth of the king is leading me to defeat step by step, the last general will never be so careless."

"That's why I am a dignified guard, and now I can't let myself be at the mercy of Kun Jie. Immediately pass on the order of the widow to tell Guan Ning's soldiers to retreat from the front line immediately, and don't be led by the nose anymore!"

Luqiu Borong also smiled, watched the general get out of the car, then ordered the groom to turn around and Shi Ran went back to the palace.

At the same time, in the dense primeval forest in the hills of Guannan, Granny Cen and the others finally caught up with Ning Yue, who was about to escape without paying attention, and fixed her in place with a secret technique:
"Miss Yue'er, this is the sixth time you have escaped. But in the current situation, you are absolutely unable to escape by yourself. You should obediently follow the old body, the old body is definitely not harming you!"

"Then where do you want to take me? Now that the country of Ye is in trouble, I'm going to find Ziyin and Xiaojieba!"

Ning Yue ran straight out of breath, her eyes were full of resentment.The little white fox in his arms also seemed to know that his master was in trouble, so he poked his head out from under his clothes and grinned.

"We're going north, heading towards Mizhou. Passing through this woodland is the Moon Swamp in the territory of Peng. Lord Kunjie has asked me to go there safely with the help of the old lady!"

Granny Cen's hand holding the whalebone staff also trembled slightly.The several times of chasing and fleeing with the girl before seemed to have gradually exhausted her patience, and even her tone became more and more tough.

"Grandma, why are you still so devoted to that Kunjie and obeying your advice? He's not here right now!"

"Miss, you don't know, there is a very important person in Moon Marsh right now—"

"I've heard enough of your lies!"

The old lady still wanted to explain, but the red-haired girl shook her head vigorously, interrupting her violently.The expression on the old mother's face suddenly became complicated, and finally she couldn't hold it back, and shouted at Ningyue:
"Miss, don't you want to see your mother for the last time?!"

"Mother? How could she—what is the last side?!"

The girl's face froze suddenly, but she didn't want to run away anymore, and her voice gradually became low.

"Miss, it's better not to ask any more questions. We delay here for a moment, and for Mrs. Shan Shan, it means another moment. If you have anything to say, wait until after the moon marsh!"

Ning Yue was stunned immediately, and she began to make wild guesses in her heart, but she had no choice but to continue to follow her mother all the way north.A month and a half later, the group of them finally went deep into the hinterland of the Moon Marsh.

There was a strong pungent smell in the air.It was drilled from large and small underground mines, and it was sulfur gas that was flammable when exposed to fire.There are also oil residues filtered out after crude oil refining, which emits an unpleasant burnt smell.

Since the discovery of deep black crude oil that can be extracted into blue flames under the Moon Marsh, large and small oil extraction workshops have appeared in this originally inaccessible swamp, and have not stopped for more than a thousand years.However, as the oil layers exposed on the surface were gradually exhausted, the mines were drilled deeper and deeper, and then they were quickly abandoned.However, the unpleasant gas seeping out from under the rock formation gradually turned the once noisy mining area into a barren land with withered grass and leaves.

Now, Ning Yue is kneeling in front of the entrance of a mine, letting big tears fall down.And the one lying in front of her was Kunjie who somehow brought him from Cangliu City, the arch priest Feng Weishu's married wife Shan Shan.

The noble lady who used to be so beautiful is now as thin as a skeleton.The pair of eyes that were originally full of kindness on his face have long since lost their luster and are completely blind.Hearing her daughter's voice, Coral struggled to prop up her upper body with her arms, and stretched out one hand tremblingly:
"Yes—Yue'er..."

The red-haired girl grabbed her mother's slender hand, which was terribly slender, and pressed it tenderly to her face, but her heart was already pierced, and she couldn't cry:

"Mother, I'm sorry, I—I shouldn't have left you without saying a word—otherwise you wouldn't have cried blind—"

"Yue'er, I've never blamed you as a mother. Although I can't see you anymore, knowing that you are safe is enough..."

Mrs. Coral also choked up while speaking.When mother and daughter meet each other, although there are thousands of words, they don't know where to start, they just hug each other and cry.After crying for a while, the woman was obviously exhausted. Ning Yue hurriedly helped her mother to lie down again, before continuing to ask, sobbing:

"Mother, please tell me who tortured you into this state? Is it Kunjie!"

Mrs. Coral was panting weakly. Although she couldn't speak, she kept shaking her head to signal the girl not to guess randomly.

"You have always been in good health. If it weren't for Kunjie to fight against your father, who in the world would do this cruel thing! Don't worry, mother, I will definitely cure you and take you away from his clutches!"

As Ning Yue spoke, she shed tears again, and Dang even wanted to cast a spell to heal her mother.However, this time her spell seemed to have lost its original effect, and Yu Shan's illness was completely ineffective.

"Miss Yue'er, Madam is so ill that it can't be cured... I brought you here this time because I actually want to—"

Granny Cen on the side couldn't help but wet her eyes.However, Ning Yue didn't listen to dissuasion at all, just repeated the mantra intermittently like a madman, and then bent down, trying to get up on her mother's back:

"It's you! It must be you Kunjie's accomplices who made my mother become like this! This girl will take her away now. If anyone dares to stop her, don't blame me for turning my face and denying anyone!"

However, what the girl didn't expect was that the mother on the side suddenly grabbed her wrist, and tried all her strength to persuade: "Yue'er, don't blame Granny Cen and the others. My mother didn't lie to you, and I really can't blame them for this disease." , just listen to me!"

The red-haired girl didn't dare to make her mother anxious anymore, so she knelt down beside her again and stopped arguing.

"Mother, in the future, I'm afraid I won't be able to continue to accompany you and take care of you. I have entrusted you to Granny Cen before. From today on, you must obey her obediently and don't act willfully. You know No?"

"How can my mother feel at ease and continue to let me stay with these villains—"

Ning Yue was startled when she heard this, but there was only tears in her eyes.However, the frail Mrs. Coral was unable to comfort her at all, so she just continued on her own:

"Actually, my mother doesn't want—Kun Jie and your father are like this—to continue fighting. But I'm afraid that there will be no chance—to persuade them face to face. You, when you see Kun Jie again, you must Tell me to let him stop clinging to the past. Your status is very special, maybe you can persuade him—”

"Mother, mother, please don't say that. You will get better! I don't promise you! If you have something to say, go and talk to him yourself!"

Coral ordered, but her voice became smaller and smaller, and the strength to hold the red-haired girl's hand gradually lost.Ning Yue's mind suddenly buzzed, as if it was frozen, it went blank, she couldn't think anymore, she just stretched out her hand tremblingly to check her mother's nose, and found that she was no longer breathing.

Immediately, she felt dizzy and dizzy, her breath was stuffed in her chest and she couldn't take in or exhale it, her eyes suddenly went dark, and she also fell down on her mother's chest and passed out.

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