twin moon

Chapter 157 No.20 Scene [-]

On the originally depressing and dead deck, the words of the boy in white immediately excited the crowd.This group of Ye country soldiers who have been wandering at sea for many years, seem to have found the meaning of their military service again at this moment.

Zhuo Xiukuo was completely panicked when he saw that his soldiers no longer obeyed his orders.He stood there, the expression on his face changed from astonishment to bewilderment, and then turned into extreme anger:
"Aren't you stupid? Now as long as we take this little devil into the city and offer it to the lord, there will be countless glory and wealth waiting for us! There are only a thousand people on these ships, even if you take one as a hundred , How can you beat the tens of thousands of well-equipped Yuling troops under the command of the lord?"

However, no matter how intimidating and tempting the majestic general in the past was, how furious he was, the sergeants on the ship just glared at him, and no one responded.

Zhuo Xiukuo was not willing to let it go.In a fit of rage, he pulled out his saber and stabbed at the young man in white: "You little brat is plotting to ruin my good deeds, so take your life!"

Qi Ziyin immediately dodged half a step to the side, but the opponent's blade still cut through his clothes, leaving an obvious bloodstain on his chest.The surrounding soldiers rushed forward angrily, trying to tie Zhuo Xiukuo up.Unexpectedly, the young man shook his head vigorously, but he was only allowed to open the shackles on his body, intending to fight:
"Using more to bully the less, victory is not martial. Zhuo Xiukuo has not repented until now. Today, I personally will remove this black sheep from our Ye Kingdom's boat masters on behalf of General Baili!"

"Ziyin can't do it, your injuries haven't healed yet!"

Seeing this, Leng Jiayun immediately opened her mouth to stop it, but the young man's firm eyes made the appearance of the general in Tsing Yi flash before her eyes again:

"A great leader should know when to shoulder his responsibilities! Let him go, the apprentices I teach will never be defeated by such a coward!"

A layer of mist suddenly appeared in the woman's eyes, blurring her vision.She hastily stretched out her hand to wipe it off, but saw that Zhuo Xiukuo had already swung his knife and attacked the unarmed young man in white, he was the first to attack!
Leng Jiayun broke out in a cold sweat, but she didn't dare to speak to Qi Ziyin again.The young man also seemed to be irritated by the opponent's sneak attack, and shortly dodged the opponent's continuous slashing, and then shouted at the woman:
"Sister Jia, go get Yin Ya for me!"

Only then did the Dongli girl regain her senses, and hurriedly asked the sergeant in charge of guarding the soldiers to fetch Xiang Baili's double blades.I saw Qi Ziyin dodging Zhuo Xiukuo's sharp edge again and again, and sprinted past the sergeant with a short body.As soon as he stretched out his hand, he heard two clangs, and the long knife was unsheathed, red like blood and black like night.

Zhuo Xiukuo saw the young man wield the saber left and right, and once again used all his strength to attack the young man, every move was aimed at the vital points.He didn't understand at all why this young master, who seemed a bit dull, gave up his advantage and chose to confront him, but he also understood that the opponent was Xiang Baili's apprentice, so he didn't dare to be careless.He only wanted to give Qi Ziyin a fatal blow before he opened his posture.

The two fought with all their strength in a three-foot-square area surrounded by the officers and soldiers on board.However, after only two or three rounds, the long knife in Zhuo Xiukuo's hand was broken by the boy in white on the spot.He immediately retreated to the edge of the crowd in fright, but Qi Ziyin in front of him didn't move a single step, and just looked at him coldly with a pair of yellowish-brown eyes:

"Admonish the general, it is not too late to return from the wrong way!"

"Damn it, it's just your luck this time!"

Zhuo Xiukuo cursed in a low voice, and he didn't know who he was speaking to, but he didn't have the slightest intention of admitting defeat.Immediately afterwards, he reached out and snatched a pair of armor-piercing hammers from the hands of the soldiers who were watching the battle, and charged towards the boy again.

That armor-piercing hammer weighed more than thirty catties, even the boat master's black armor could not withstand its full blow.Several times of confrontation, sparks flew, the white-clothed boy looked at the two gaps on the blade instantly, and realized that he could no longer fight with it. He was about to wave the black knife in his hand, but he was avoiding the truth and using it to meet the weapon. In an instant, the body was driven to turn half a circle, like the impeller of a windmill, and the heavy warhammer lost its aim with the spine of the knife.

With a loud "click", the warhammer fell to the ground and pierced through the deck, sending sawdust flying.Zhuo Xiukuo was not frustrated by this, but seemed to have come up with some new tricks.I saw him struggling to pull the weapon out of the broken wood on the deck, but instead of launching an attack, he swung the jackhammer and swung it towards the deck beside him with all his strength!

"Ziyin be careful, he wants to trap you!"

Leng Jiayun was the first to react, but it was too late when she opened her mouth to remind her.After another loud noise, a big hole was broken in the thick and hard deck, and below it was a piece of cedar supporting the deck under Qi Ziyin's feet.Without the support, no matter how thick the plank was, it couldn't maintain its own stability, and it fell straight into the belly of the ship!
The boy in white also realized that the situation was not good, and immediately tried to get away, but he felt as if he had stepped on a ball of cotton under his feet, and he couldn't exert any strength at all.Immediately afterwards, his left foot sank down suddenly, and half of his leg actually completely sank into the gap in the deck, and was firmly stuck, making it difficult to get out!
"Little ghost, do you know that the people who once blocked my promotion and fortune will only have a dead end in the end!"

Zhuo Xiukuo raised the heavy hammer and approached the boy step by step.Seeing this, Leng Jiayun on the sidelines rushed to rescue Fan Zhen, but before they could make a move, he saw Qi Ziyin who was trapped insert the two knives in his hand into the gap that blocked his left leg, and then Picking it up again, it actually broke the main rafter supporting the entire deck!
There was a loud sound of landslides and ground cracks, and countless wooden boards around the two of them upturned one after another, as if they had been bombarded by crossbows, and collapsed from the center of the deck to both sides.Qi Ziyin and Zhuo Xiukuo, who were fighting inextricably, also suddenly disappeared from people's sight and disappeared!
Leng Jiayun raised the corners of her skirt and ran forward in a panic, lying on the side of the gap of more than ten feet wide exposed by the broken plank and looking down, but saw Qi Ziyin had already used the long knife in his hand in the turbulent dust. , against Zhuo Xiukuo's throat:

"Do you know why you lost today?"

Zhuo Xiukuo was firmly pressed down by the heavy hammer in his hand and a pile of broken wood. His physical strength was exhausted, and he couldn't move at all. However, he was still panting heavily, and brazenly yelled:

"Of course it's because of you, a damned brat! If we fight again, you will be the one who is being held down here right now!"

Qi Ziyin snorted at him contemptuously: "Wrong! The reason why you lost today is that apart from fame and fortune, you have long since lost half of the heart of benevolence and righteousness! Fighting for fame and fortune can only be based on temporary blood and courage. I will retreat again and again. But to fight for my parents and family, for the common people in the world, I will become more and more frustrated, and even my personal life and death can be left behind!"

"Hey, what are the common people in the world! Born in troubled times, I only care about myself, how can I care so much!"

"From the first day you thought of this, you are no longer worthy of being our Ye State boat master. General Baili once ordered the whole army to keep in mind the eight-character motto, I'm afraid you have long forgotten it, right? !"

"What eight-character motto, I have never heard of it!"

Facing the angry reprimand of the boy in white, Zhuo Xiukuo still tried every means to argue.Qi Ziyin didn't pay attention to him anymore, but raised his head, looked at the surrounding sergeants in black armor and asked loudly:
"All officers and soldiers, it is up to you to tell him!"

"The brave have no fear, the benevolent are invincible!" the soldiers on the ship raised their arms and shouted loudly.

Facing the deafening chorus, the expression on Zhuo Xiukuo's face gradually froze, and then he seemed to be a different person, changing his fierce face before, and crying bitterly in front of everyone:

"Young master! Young master, I know I was wrong, please spare my life. From now on, I, Zhuo Xiukuo, will be absolutely loyal to you and look forward to it!"

"No need. I can't accommodate villains by my side. But I didn't intend to kill you, so I'll take you into custody right now, and make a decision after the fighting subsides!"

As Qi Ziyin spoke, he slightly restrained the sharpness of Yinya in his hand.Then he ordered the sergeants on the left and right to step forward and move away the heavy hammer and the several wooden planks that were pressing on the opponent's body.

Unexpectedly, Zhuo Xiukuo, who staggered up from the ground, rushed to punch one of them in the face before the sergeants started to tie him up, and immediately, like a huge mouse, jumped from the side of the cabin Fang's porthole got out, plunged into the sea, and swam far away in the blink of an eye.

"We must not let him go like this, otherwise there will be endless troubles!"

Leng Jiayun immediately signaled the crossbowman to take the arrow, intending to shoot him on the spot.But the boy in white just looked at the little black dot that was up and down in the sea, smiled wryly and shook his head:

"Even though his military status has been confiscated, he is still a citizen of Ye Kingdom. If he escapes, he should escape. What awaits us next will be a bitter battle, there is no need to start killing each other at this time..."

"However, what that surnamed Zhuo said before is somewhat reasonable. Now with only a few people on board, how easy is it to break into Mulu City, which even the entire army failed to capture?"

The woman in purple frowned, then raised her eyes and looked towards the direction of Mulu City at the sea level in the distance, her face full of worry.But the boy in white beside her seemed to have already made a plan:

"Most of the soldiers in the Yuling Army and the boat division are the old troops of General Baili, and the Baisha Camp is located outside the city. Now that the country is facing a crisis, after we go ashore, we only need to use the general's pair of dark red long swords as a guide. Token, I believe many of them will come back to our side!"

"The young master is right! In fact, as soon as we brothers heard the news of Cheng Ye's war, we thought about returning as soon as possible every day and night. But Zhuo Xiukuo wanted to lead everyone all the way to the north, so it was helpless." Deserters! Now that you are back under the command of the young master, the brothers will surely move forward bravely and fight to the death!"

Before he could finish speaking, the vice-admiral on the ship stepped forward, performed a standard military salute, and swore allegiance to Qi Ziyin.

"Little devil, did you mean this when you asked me to trust you earlier? Where did you get the confidence that these soldiers on the ship would follow you without hesitation, even at the risk of their own fortunes and lives to fight against you?" He, Qi Shouyu, turned against him?"

"Sister Jia, haven't you noticed? The words, deeds and actions of the many officers and men on the ship actually carry the legacy of General Baili. This is another precious gift he left us in this world. ! With the boat master here, we are not fighting alone, the heroic spirit of the general will also bless us in the sky!"

The boy in white walked slowly towards the bow of the ship, holding his head high against the sea breeze.It seems that in the high sky, I saw the always smiling face of my teacher again.

It was night, and Qi Ziyin was sitting alone in the cabin.The sound of repairing the deck outside the cabin was still clearly discernible, but he closed the doors and windows, staring blankly at the bronze mirror reflecting the candlelight on the table, as motionless as a statue.

Suddenly, he raised his hand and untied the layers of muslin wrapped around his face.Now the wound on his face has long since healed, and the medicine may not have been used for a long time.But since Zhuo Xiukuo was humiliated in public last time, the young man has been asking Leng Jiayun not to take off the fine cloth.To this day, he has even gotten used to seeing himself covered in lace every day.

What slowly appeared in the bronze mirror was a face that had already changed beyond recognition.On the right cheek, a long dark red scar runs from the corner of the mouth to the root of the ear.The tip of the nose was shaved off, and now there are only two flesh holes exposed on the face.Even though the wound had healed, no matter how hard to erase the scar, the originally handsome boy was as ferocious as a ghost crawling out of the grave!
"what--!"

Qi Ziyin roared, grabbed the bronze mirror in front of him, and threw it out.The mirror smashed on the beams and pillars in the cabin, clanging.This sudden strange cry made the soldiers who were busy outside the cabin instantly quiet down.

Soon, Yi Yi pushed open the cabin door of the boy in purple, walked over to sit beside him, didn't say anything, just hugged him tenderly, and stroked the top of his head.

"Sister Jia, I—I—now—have turned into a monster!"

Since leaving Qingwan, the emotions that Qi Ziyin had suppressed in his heart for a long time suddenly burst at this moment.He fell in the woman's arms, weeping uncontrollably.

"If you enter the city like this, what will the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty think? What will the people in the city think? How could they accept such an ugly monster as their monarch?!"

"Don't cry, don't cry. Look at the soldiers who are full of ships, has anyone ever laughed at you? No matter what you look like, it can't replace what you really look like in your heart. Besides, Fan Zhen and I made a special effort to do this for you. You prepared this—”

Leng Jiayun persuaded softly, then took out a small box behind her, and handed it to the young man.

The young man in white wiped his teary eyes, and after opening the box, he found a mask made of sterling silver according to his original appearance!
"Sister Jia, this is—"

"If you need it, wear it into the city. But never forget that the person under the mask is the real you! Try to be a wise monarch, that's what you should do!"

Qi Ziyin took the mask hesitantly, stroked the mask with his fingertips, and fell into a long thought.

The woman in purple didn't say anything more, but left the boy's cabin without making a sound, but she didn't close the door tightly, but covered a small gap, standing outside the cabin and looking around.

After a long time, the boy in white still raised his hand and put the silver mask on his face, but his head, which was always down, was lifted up, and the two golden pupils shone like stars again, as if no longer Confused and fearful of the boundless road ahead.

Seeing this, Leng Jiayun finally turned around and walked away slowly while talking to herself, but at some point there were tears in her eyes:

"Baili—the child you entrusted to me has finally grown up!"

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