Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 379
A woman's head was taken out by Ruan Lingyu and held up in front of Old Hou Ye.

"Do you recognize her?"

Old Hou Ye was shocked first, then looked at the woman's head, and was shocked again, "This..."

"She went to the barracks to find the general, so you knew she was the general's friend at that time, right?" Ruan Lingyu said.

Old Hou Ye couldn't help but staggered a step back, "Is she really Han Lin's?"

Ruan Lingyu raised it in front of Liu Yunheng, "Can you recognize her?"

Liu Yunheng frowned, thought carefully for a long time, and then his eyes suddenly brightened: "I was chasing you one time, and you brought me to the yamen of the Ministry of War, just as Han Lin came out from inside, followed by several subordinates, one of them Girl, it seems..."

Liu Yunheng looked at the head again, and said another way: "It's her!"

"At that time, I took you there on purpose to let you see the woman's appearance clearly, so I didn't say anything, and I didn't reveal the marching route map." Ruan Lingyu straightened his back when he said this, "My brother is also in the north. He died in the battle, so I proved my innocence for myself, and especially for my younger brother."

"I hunted you down, why didn't you tell me?"

"I want to confront Lord Hou face to face!"

Marquis Jingan closed his eyes, "This bastard, he... he is in vain!"

In fact, Liu Yunxiang could no longer remember what the uncle looked like, but only remembered that the eldest lady in the previous life had repeatedly told her before she died, that she must not be buried with the uncle's clothes tomb, and that she would not want to be husband and wife with him in the next life.

She was puzzled at the time, but now that she thinks about it, maybe it's the uncle's romantic nature that made the lady give up on him.So after he died in battle, the eldest lady stayed behind closed doors, claiming to recuperate from illness, and she didn't care if the sky in the Hou's mansion fell.

After Ruan Lingyu finished speaking, she left the woman's head and left.

He said: "For the rest of my life, I just want to eat, drink and have fun. What ambition, what to serve the country, the great honor has failed me, why should I shed blood for it."

This incident dealt a great blow to the old Hou Ye. He hadn't eaten much for two days. He was old and had to travel, which was too much for him.

At noon that day, a group of people rested in the tea shed. Liu Yunxiang saw that the old Hou Ye did not sit with everyone, but sat down next to a tree by the roadside.

She took two buns and went over with a bowl of soup, "You can eat as much as you want."

Marquis Jing'an drooped his eyelids. Hearing this, he lifted his eyes and glanced at Liu Yunxiang, then turned his back, "I'm not hungry, take it away."

Liu Yunxiang circled half a circle, still facing the old master, "Do you feel panicked?"

Old Hou Ye took a deep breath, "I'm really uncomfortable!"

He hammered his chest, "I raised three sons, and I took them into the military camp for training at a very young age. I had great hopes for them, but none of them were successful! But, I have no face to face all these hardships." children, and those dead soldiers, a hundred thousand soldiers, how many people are still alive."

Liu Yunxiang couldn't comfort the old Hou Ye, because she couldn't say against her will that he was not wrong.

"If you feel ashamed of them, take them back to Zhenbei Pass so that they can go back to see their relatives in a dignified manner."

Old Hou Ye nodded, "I owe them this."

"So you have to eat and live well, so that you can make up for what you owe them."

Old Hou Ye was taken aback for a moment, but he still took a bun, "Third brother, he did a lot of things to wrong you, right?"

"he died."

"..."

"I don't want to mention him again."

Old Hou Ye let out a long sigh, "I have made so many achievements, I thought I was great, but I didn't teach my three sons well."

Liu Yunxiang put down the soup bowl in his hand, "Don't think so much, it's useless to embarrass yourself."

Then, they entered Nanzhou, because the relationship between Beijin and Dayong eased, and the border inspection was not too strict, so they left the customs smoothly.

Liu Yunxiang glanced back, as if he had made up his mind, he raised his whip and continued on his way.

After meeting up with the soldiers who had left a hundred miles away, the group headed for the North Pass of Dayong Town.

Day and night, after walking for three days and three nights, they finally arrived at the mass grave outside Zhenbei Pass.

Hundreds of soldiers who had narrowly escaped death looked at these graves, which stretched for several miles, and they couldn't see the end at a glance.

And because of the invasion of wind and sand, these graves were almost razed to the ground.

"Why are they still outside the customs and not send their heroic spirits home?" A soldier asked tremblingly.

Under each grave is a soldier of the Northern Expedition. They died on the battlefield, fighting with the enemy, in order to keep the world peaceful.

But after the sacrifice, they were buried in mass graves, and most of them didn't even have tombstones.

Looking at these graves, many soldiers cried out with grief, indignation, sorrow, helplessness, aggrieved, and various emotions.

Old Hou Ye walked past every grave, until sunset, and finally stopped in front of a grave, which had a tombstone.

He stretched out his hand tremblingly and pointed at the tombstone, "Dug him out, he has no right to die with all the soldiers!"

Liu Yunxiang and Liu Yunheng ran over and saw Xie Zixun's name written on the tombstone.

"Master Hou..." Liu Yunheng wanted to persuade Old Master Hou.

"If you don't dig, I'll dig!" said the old Hou Ye and began to dig the soil with his bare hands, "He is a sinner, a sinner through the ages!"

An old man with white hair, whose back could not stand straight anymore, knelt on the ground, digging his son's grave with a face full of grief and indignation.

The soldiers couldn't bear it, but looking at so many graves and thinking about the suffering they had experienced, they all lowered their heads, and no one went up to stop them.

It wasn't until sunset that Lao Hou dug out a pair of bones.

He looked at his elder son, weeping, but he still threw him out of the grave and in front of these graves, then he knelt down and kowtowed three times to these graves.

"I'm sorry to all of you. I, Xie Wucheng, swear here that I will bring all of you heroic spirits home in my lifetime and return your innocence!"

When the wind picked up, the voice of the old Hou Ye floated to every grave, far away.

Liu Yunxiang heaved a long sigh. At this moment, he heard the sound of horseshoes approaching from far to near. He turned his head and saw dozens of figures on horseback coming from the afterglow of the setting sun.

She covered her eyes with her hands, and saw that it was General Wei Tian who was leading the way.

They really are back!
Soon the horse stopped, and Wei Tian led his subordinates to run over, his eyes wandered around, and finally fell on Liu Yunxiang, and then stepped forward to salute.

"My subordinates pay homage to the princess!"

Liu Yunxiang smiled and said: "General Wei, there is no need to be too polite. I have sent you a letter, have you received it? These are the soldiers of the Northern Expedition Army living in Beijin. Please arrange them properly."

Wei Tian nodded, then looked at Old Hou Ye, stepped forward to salute and said: "Hou Ye, long time no see, it's great that you can come back alive."

He had been on the road for several days, and the grief and anger just now exhausted his strength, and now he looked sluggish, and he just saluted Wei Tian with his fists clasped.

"By the way, Wangfei, hurry up and enter the pass, the young master and the young lady are waiting for you inside the pass!" Wei Tian looked at Liu Yunxiang and said.

(End of this chapter)