twin moon

Chapter 1 prologue
The sad wind and cold cloud leaves Qiu, the lonely shadow is trapped in the frost.

The good horse wanders on the narrow road, and the whirling fish seeks the safe flow against the current.

The scorching old moon lingers on Canghao, drinking from the pot and asking about the turbidity.

The uniform and iron armor are stained with dust, and it is difficult for the Li gangster to forget the hero.

Dark clouds cover the top, the stars disappear, and only a pair of blood-colored moon discs break through the clouds in the night sky, rising from the dark blue boundary between the sea and the sky, reflecting a wave of red light on the water.

The mainmast of the tiger flying fish boat was pulled by the cable, making creaking sounds in the darkness.A moment ago, the north wind that was howling like a knife on people's faces, now gradually died down with the end of a bloody battle at sea.

Amidst the sound of the waves, the ship's body swaying from side to side suddenly shook, causing Jiangyan's tense muscles to twitch violently, but his eyes full of killing intent were still staring at the front without blinking.

The 13 years old boy has high eyebrows, black and thick.In the middle of the lying silkworm on the right, there is a slender scar that protrudes from the skin surface and runs all the way to the bridge of the nose.

Right now his nostrils are overflowing with bloody smell of rust.And on another schooner just a few steps away, the tragedy after the slaughter was like hell.

The boy was standing on the side of the boat, tightly holding the crossbow that had already emptied its arrows.After a long time, he heard another man's shout mixed with his heavy breathing:

"General Yan! You are still sticking there like a log, are you waiting for this general to come over and invite you in person?"

The person who shouted was Luo Jianli, the leader of the Tiger Head Flying Fish Boat, who was the commander of the Benhai Battalion of the Ye State Boat Division at that time, and the official worshiped General Huaiyong.

After regaining his composure, Jiang Yan raised his hands, wiped his face a few times indiscriminately, then stepped on a pair of bare feet, stepped on a narrow wooden board covered with water vapor, and jumped onto the opposite enemy. The cold deck of the ship.

Now the port side of the schooner had already been knocked out by the copper tiger head of the flying fish boat, and the broken planks were upturned one after another.The mast standing in the middle of the deck was also split in two by the "stone chain bullets" fired from the flying fish boat.Because of this, the tiger-headed flying fish boat, which does not take speed as its advantage, was able to intercept it in a short time and successfully boarded it.

Now, as far as the young man could see, there were countless corpses lying in disorder.Most of them were enemy soldiers with poor equipment, and there were also dozens of soldiers who died in battle.I don't know which arrows are stuck in the enemy's body, which he shot with his own hands before.The smelly and slippery human blood still choked him several times, making it difficult for him to stand still.

However, the comrade who was decapitated in the melee a moment ago did not seem to bring any discomfort to the other soldiers around Jiang Yan.They laughed recklessly, hurriedly stuffed the jewels collected from all over the ship into their arms, and in turn wrapped all kinds of precious brocades around each other's necks and shoulders, even though they were wet with blood and sweat I don't care either.

At this time, apart from the fact that this group of people were still wearing the black Ye country-style armor, they were already indistinguishable from the pirates they chased and suppressed day and night.

"His hands and feet are not so smooth!"

Luo Jianli's voice sounded again, and he stood in front of Jiang Yan in a flash, raised his leg and kicked him hard, "The cabin is already flooded with water, you are good at water, hurry up and help!"

The young man raised his head and saw that the arms of the bearded general in front of him were not filled with all kinds of spoils like those soldiers who looted wantonly, and he didn't even take a single gold baht.With a murderous look on his face, before he had time to wipe off the human blood still stained on the iron long knife in his hand, he ordered several capable lieutenants to sneak in and out of the flooded cabin below the deck, as if they were anxiously looking for him. what.

However, Jiang Yan did not carry out the other party's order. On the contrary, he uttered loudly the question that had been lingering in his heart since the beginning of the attack:

"These people we killed—didn't look like pirates!"

The boy has an upright nature and has always spoken bluntly. He has offended Luo Jianli a lot since he got on the boat.Sure enough, before the words fell, the bearded Commander stretched out a steel-like slap, and slapped him hard on the face, knocking him to the ground who was only as tall as an adult's chest:
"Presumptuous! You are just a little handyman who got on a boat from Tankou halfway. You just killed a few people with your own hands today, and you dare to question this general in public?!"

Immediately, a stream of blood trickled down the few strands of hair that scattered Yan's temples, and it was unclear whether it was the blood that had just fallen on the deck or flowed out from the wound on his forehead.

The young man gritted his teeth and wanted to argue again, but suddenly swallowed back the half-sentence held in his throat, but his small fists were clenched white.Because a girl’s mournful cry came from below the cabin, which suddenly hurt his eardrums that were still buzzing, and then some sergeant shouted at the top of his voice:

"General Luo, you caught him alive!"

Hearing what his subordinates said, Luo Jianli couldn't help being overjoyed, and hurried forward, and saw a girl who was dragged onto the deck in a hurry, screaming in a hoarse voice:

"I didn't expect it to be that the boat master of Ye Kingdom robbed my family's merchant ship and killed my father and brother! You goddamn beasts, what do you want from this ship?"

The painful curse made Jiangyan's heart tighten - the girl in front of him who was tied up in front of him looked about the same age as him, and her body, which had just begun to develop, was only slightly covered by thin and torn clothes. Among the tall and burly sergeants, they looked so thin and petite.And the words in the girl's mouth also confirmed the doubts in the boy's heart earlier.

Luo Jianli was not interested in refuting the girl in front of him, so he put the long knife still dripping blood on her neck with his backhand:
"Honestly, where did the bandits hide that picture?"

"What picture? I don't know!"

"Don't dare to speak hard. This general, on this trip, has a secret report to come to Jinghui Bay to stop the pirates. Within a radius of [-] miles, only your lone ship was found, and the people on the ship did not hesitate to resist desperately. If it was not for What is the purpose of preserving that map? This general thinks you are a woman, if you obediently hand over the map now, you can still forgive me!"

"Bah! Now I only regret that I didn't persuade my father and brother to become pirates! If so, perhaps today's disaster will not happen!"

The girl's neck and shoulders were pressed by the sergeants on both sides, and she couldn't stand upright at all. She could only stare at her red and swollen eyes and cursed like a crazy she-wolf, "Kill me if you want to! After I die, I will definitely kill you!" I will turn into a ghost on this sea, and I will never let you bastards go easily!"

Seeing this situation, Luo Jianli just snorted softly. He still firmly believed that there was no way he could make a mistake. He drew a silver semicircle in the air with his iron long knife with his backhand, and assumed a murderous posture:

"Did you even risk your life for just a picture?!"

However, just as the sharp blade was about to cut off, General Yan, who was full of resentment, broke into the commander's sight again, causing him to stop his hand as if thinking of something, and shouted at the boy:

"Little ghost, you have not had time to punish you for the matter of contradicting the official just now. At this golden opportunity, it happens to be done together!"

Before Jiang Yan could react, he was pushed forward by the soldiers on the left and right.He staggered, and met Luo Jianli's slightly narrowed eyes and the playful expression in them.At the same time, the saber that was somewhat curled was stuffed into the young man's hand.

"Although she is a woman, she is still a bandit who is stubbornly resisting. This general orders you to kill her with your own hands to prove your loyalty to Ye Kingdom, your loyalty to the boat master, and your loyalty to this general!"

Luo Jianli actually laughed as he spoke, grinning the corners of his mouth covered by a bushy beard, revealing his teeth stained with smoke stains and yellow spots.It seemed that in his eyes, the girl in front of her who had just been dragged onto the deck by the sailors was not a real person, but a lowly existence like a pig or dog.

Jiang Yan's throat moved slightly, and he swallowed a mouthful of saliva forcefully, but stretched his fingers, allowing the long knife to fall from the palm of his hand, and plunged into the deck under his feet with a "dumb".

"Stinky boy, are you planning to openly disobey orders?! Everyone on this boat is a pirate, a criminal who caused chaos for the country! Disobedience is a death penalty. The general can kill you right away at any time!"

Luo Jianli raised his hand and slapped Jiang Yan hard across the face, then pulled out the long knife and pointed the coldly shining edge at the boy's forehead.

But what he didn't expect was that the boy in front of him, who had always stuck his neck, completely disregarded the naked threat, and squeezed out a sentence word by word through his teeth:

"She's-not-like-ha-koe!"

As a result, Luo Jianli was finally completely enraged, and swiped his knife at the boy's celestial cap.

Jiang Yan knew in his heart that the other party didn't care about killing him at all.However, he didn't dodge because of this, instead he took half a step forward, staring straight at the opponent's face with a pair of eyes——

After boarding the ship, the young man never mentioned his life experience to anyone on board, but just worked silently with his head down every day.He walked quite steadily, and he hardly made a sound, and his eyes were pure black like only barbarians in the bitter cold places in the extreme north would have.And sometimes these eyes would suddenly appear behind everyone on the ship, startling them.

But if you look closely, you will find that there are circles of irregular white water patterns like waves in the pair of black pupils.This makes General Yan, who is already quite different, as mysterious, deep and elusive as the rootless black sea surrounding everyone, but at the same time, it contains a powerful force that can kill people in an instant, as if At any time, he would become irritable and furious because of the coming of a storm.

Although he has led the army for many years and has seen countless killings, Luo Jianli did not see the panic and panic he expected to see in the eyes of the 13 years old boy in front of him.On the contrary, what he saw was a anger and stubbornness that made even adults feel terrified, which made him feel even more disgusted.

The swung blade stopped less than half an inch from the tip of Jiangyan's nose.The corners of the commander's eyes twitched slightly, and then he laughed a little bluntly and said:

"Hahaha, good enough! See, this little girl is indeed pretty. You don't want to kill her, isn't it because of this? The hair on your crotch hasn't even grown a few hairs yet, yet you know how to pity her?"

The surrounding soldiers also followed the commander and laughed maliciously.Jiang Yan didn't argue for himself, he just bit the two pieces of meat beside his cheeks.In front of the group of reckless men who were half taller than him, he still stubbornly straightened his body and held his head high:

"I only know that this girl may not be a villain, so I can't kill her!"

"Not a bad person? How can there be absolute good and absolute evil in this world? There is a saying that if a person does not kill the world for himself, if he does not become a tiger or wolf, he can only be reduced to a lamb among wolves! Do you understand that in this world? Kindness and cowardice have already become a kind of original sin? Not to mention that you killed someone just now, do you think that if you don't kill her, it is atonement? In fact, sometimes, death can be a kind of relief!"

As Luo Jianli spoke, he gradually moved his gaze away from Yan's face, and looked towards the gloomy sea in the southwest of the boat - that was the direction of Ye Kingdom.And it seemed that in those eyes, there was a softness that even he himself hadn't realized.

However, in the eyes of the bearded man, a crazy and fierce light soon rekindled.He sheathed the long knife, ordered the two sailors on the left and right to force Yan to kneel on the deck, and then walked to the side of the girl who had no power to resist.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Luo Jianli actually tore the clothes on the girl's body that could only be used to cover her body to pieces on the spot.A blood-soaked rag was stuffed into the mouth of the girl who was still cursing. Under the ruthless ravages of the man, her unwillingness and humiliation were quickly replaced by desperate crying and moaning.

"Brothers have been drifting away with me, and it has been three to five months now. I think I've been suffocated for a long time, right? From now on, this little girl is a plaything on our ship. Take it back and take good care of it. Qian- Don't let her die!"

The commander commanded loudly, and the last sentence was even more protracted, obviously for Jiang Yan.

Seeing the ashen-looking girl collapsed in front of him, the blood in Jiangyan's body boiled as if boiled by anger.An inexplicable force suddenly erupted from the flesh and blood of his arms, causing him to break free from the control of the two sailors behind him, jump up, and swung his fist towards the commander's face plate:

"Clothed beast, I will kill you!"

Luo Jianli also did not expect that the half-grown child in front of him had such great strength, he was startled and angry before he could draw his sword, and hurriedly raised his arms to strike.The black-eyed boy who flew over pressed his whole body up, swung those arms abruptly, and punched him firmly in the face.

"Protect adults!"

The soldiers watching from left and right finally came to their senses, and helped Luo Jianli, who was bleeding from his nose, hide in the crowd.Although Jiang Yan has great strength, in the end, two fists are no match for four hands.After several struggles, he was still tightly wrapped by a few soldiers with finger-thin cables, and he was thrown heavily on the deck.

"Cover up the thieves and beat up the superior! Since you want to die, this general will fulfill you! Someone, hang this little brat who killed a thousand swords on the mast and expose it to the sun for seven days, and then throw it into the sea to feed the fish!"

Luo Jianli covered the broken bridge of the nose with his hand, raised his foot, and kicked Yan's belly hard a few times towards the bruised face.The severe pain caused the boy to curl up into a ball like a shrimp, and then he was dragged back to the Tiger Head Flying Fish boat and hung high on the top of the mainmast.

Unknowingly, the cold and biting sea wind blew again at some point, blowing the falcon flags of all sizes on the flying fish boat fluttering, and also blowing away the moisture in Jiang Yan's skin.

The strong wind rises again, the clouds bloom and the stars appear.The dark clouds above the head also quickly dispersed with the wind.The bright starry sky, together with the strange pair of twin moons that both profit and lose at the same time, became more and more blurred in the vision of the black-eyed boy.He only felt that his body began to become numb, and his consciousness seemed to be out of his body, gradually dissipating.

　This is a full-length antiquity fantasy novel about group portraits in troubled times in the mainland, where there are lovesickness of red beans, and parting of life and death.There is hatred between the country and the family, and there is the destiny of nature. You are welcome to stay here for a while if you have taste. I hope you like it. Come and see it often.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)