Yijuan cloud

Chapter 216
I smiled and said, "Eunuch An is still so young, so he must make some plans for the future."

Eunuch An's eyes fell on the table, and he said slowly after a long time: "Wei Lan is dead, and Eunuch Feng, who used to serve the emperor together with the servants, has also died long ago. Of those in the previous dynasty, only the servants are left. What are your plans?"

"It must be difficult to have no support in the palace." I said.

"The girl is right."

"Lin Se is a member of our Lin family after all. This matter must be done secretly to make her fall out of favor, but it cannot harm her life, let alone implicate our Lin family. I believe that Sun Cairen will be able to do it."

After Mr. An left, it was time for Xing'er and I to leave too.

Sun Zeyu asked someone to pack a large bag of food, and even stuffed a roast duck into it.

He asked the boy back and forth whether he had fed the horse and checked the saddle. He looked like he felt sorry for me.

It's no wonder that he thinks this way. He has lived a smooth and stable life since he was a child, but in his opinion, the life I am living now must be dire straits and chaos. Moreover, during this meeting, I was very tired and miserable.

When he first saw me yesterday, he looked shocked as if he didn't know me. Then when he looked at me again, his eyes were always full of sympathy.

In fact, except for Jiang Chujie and Lin Se who made me angry and annoyed, I was still very comfortable.

So in order not to worry him, I said loudly: "The green mountains will not change, and the green water will always flow. See you soon, Mr. Sun."

Sun Zeyu said quickly: "I'll see you later. I wonder when, my dear, will you come to Beijing again?"

I smiled and said, "When Mr. Sun gets married, I'll come and drink your wedding wine."

Sun Zeyu immediately blushed again.

Sun Zeyu also insisted on sending us out of the city, but I declined.

He was an official of the imperial court, and he was also a courtier. He rode through the streets in the capital, and it was too ostentatious to ride with him.

Xing'er and I got on our horses and walked far away. When we turned around, we found that he was still standing at the door, so we opened the gauze curtain of the silk hat and waved to him vigorously.

Wearing a gray-blue cotton robe, he stood quietly under the red wall. His face could not be seen clearly, but his dazed expression appeared in my mind.

He was stunned for a moment and then quickly waved to me.

When I turned around, the clear sunshine was shining through the clouds, and I felt inexplicably light, as if I had just won a small victory and was full of confidence.

Although my face was frostbitten during this trip, I felt it was worth it.

Because it was too cold at night, we didn't dare to travel at night on our way back, and we couldn't stay in an inn, so we stayed with a farmer for one night.

Before dawn the next day, we set off on our way.

In order not to expose our whereabouts, after entering the Mobei grassland, Xing'er and I turned to the west.

In this way, even if someone sees him, it will look like he just left Wala.

It's still cold during the day, but the snowfields are so beautiful on a sunny day.

By the time we reached the Selenge River, the sun had already risen very high. The vast grassland was covered with ice and snow, and the snow was reflected by the sun, making it crystal clear.

The sky was clear and incredibly blue, with not even a trace of cloud, only a few eagles circling.

The Selenge River was sparkling and looked like a jade belt from a distance. Xinger and I got off our horses and ran to the river to fetch water.

Before reaching the river, I saw several people lying on the snow.

It's a few dead people.

They were wearing Han Chinese clothes, and they were all hit by arrows. The blood under their bodies dyed the surrounding snow red.

No wonder those eagles were hovering in the sky, waiting to peck at the corpses on the ground.

I saw that some of them still had knives in their hands, so I asked Xing'er to go over and take a look.

Unexpectedly, Xing'er picked up a man's sword and looked at it. He was surprised and said: "This is the sword of Daying officers and soldiers. There are words engraved on it. I have seen Xiaoliu and Jiawang's swords. The words engraved on it are the same as these words." Same, are they General Fan’s soldiers?”

I looked up and felt very uneasy and said, "Since the weapons are the same, they must be the garrison of Yehuling. Why are they here? And they are not wearing armor yet. Go and find out if they have any tokens on them." Things." Soon, Xing'er pulled out a token from a person, which was the order to garrison Yehuling.

Xing'er said: "I'm afraid General Fan doesn't know yet. Let's go back and tell General Fan, right?"

I nodded and turned around to lead the horse, "We can't stay here for long, let's leave quickly -"

Before I could finish my words, there was a "swish" sound, and an arrow was shot from nowhere and headed straight towards me.

Before I could recover, I was suddenly pushed away. Xing'er hugged me, rolled twice on the ground, and hid behind the horse.

Looking from between the horses' legs, we could see a dozen soldiers in front of us slowly outflanking us.

As soon as I saw their armor clearly, I shouted loudly: "My lord, please spare my life! We are Han people——"

Xing'er and I were brought to General Cheng Qi.

He was the deputy general of the Yehuling garrison and had met me a few times, but I was dressed as a man, with a hood covering half of my face, and the exposed face was frostbitten, so when I lifted my veil, he did not recognize me. .

He didn’t know Xing’er either, so I lowered my voice and said:
"Master, we are traders. We accidentally got separated from the caravan. We just passed by this place and found a dead person here. We were so scared that we were about to leave."

Cheng Qi was focused on those dead people, so he drove us away impatiently.

Xing'er and I hurriedly mounted our horses and were about to leave when we heard a soldier say: "Except for General Fan, all the people who came with us are dead."

Cheng Qi said: "Keep looking! We will dig down three feet to find the general."

I was startled and suddenly stopped my horse, but Xing'er reached out and grabbed my reins and started riding again.

I let Xing'er drive the horse, feeling confused and wondering, could it be that the dead soldiers on the ground were following Fan Li?What about Fan Li?

After crossing a hillside, I couldn't help but rein in the horse again. Xing'er jumped off the horse and pointed behind him: "Let's go to the top of the mountain and see if they can find General Fan."

I had this intention, so I followed Xing'er and lurked at the top of the mountain, quietly looking down.

It didn't matter. In addition to the dozen soldiers led by Cheng Qi, there were dozens of large tents stationed in the distance. The sun and moon flags were very eye-catching in the blue sky. They turned out to be a large group of black soldiers and horses.

The garrison refused to leave the camp easily. Could it be that some tribe had rebelled?
I was in a state of confusion and waited uneasily for a long time, but I didn't see Fan Li appear.

I thought that if Fan Li encountered any danger, he would definitely not leave the soldiers following him alone, but those soldiers were all dead...

I couldn't help but become anxious and said to Xing'er: "General Fan might be around here, let's go look for him."

Cheng Qi led people to search on the west side of the hillside. It was inconvenient for us to go there, so we had to search on the east side.

Xing'er said: "The soldiers who were killed were at the bottom of the slope. If General Fan was there at the time and wanted to escape, he would not have come to us. The slope to the east is too steep."

"Just waiting is just waiting. It's better to go find it."

We searched aimlessly along the hillside.

At a glance, there is a vast expanse of white ice and snow everywhere.

Just when we were about to return to the top of the slope, I saw that the ice and snow under my feet was a little loose, unlike the frozen hardness elsewhere. My heart tightened, and I hurriedly squatted down and peeled away the layer of floating snow, and there were plum blossom-like blood stains underneath!
Xing'er and I carefully identified the traces of floating snow on the ground. After walking about a mile, we saw a dozen more people lying in the vast snow.

But they were all Mongolians, and they seemed to have been dead for a long time.

"Batu'er—" Xing'er kicked someone away and revealed that person's face.

I took a closer look and saw that it was indeed Batu'er from Wala. I became even more anxious. The more I thought about it, the more frightened I became, but I couldn't figure it out.

At a glance, he saw a person leaning on a fallen black horse.

Wearing a large cloak of crow-blue silk tapestry with eight knots of Pegasus skin, his black hair is slightly messy, and the stains on his face are difficult to distinguish. The sword in his hand is deeply inserted into the snow, and he is motionless, as if he is sitting down and falling asleep.

But there were clearly two arrows stuck in his body. The arrows were embedded in his body, and the white arrow feathers had been dyed red.

It was Fan Li.

(End of this chapter)