How many times rose flowers

Chapter 23

After watching Master Yuqing leave, Jixue returned to the school grounds, and saw a group of soldiers gathered in front of the tent, Gan Tang looked sluggish, with one hand propped up against the wall, Li Bai stood beside him, without saying anything.

"What happened to Gantang?" Jixue asked.

"It's not Gantang, it's..." Li Bai leaned closer to Jixue's ear, making sure that Gantang couldn't hear the voice, and then said, "General, he suddenly suffered from an old illness this morning, and the medical officer has stayed here until now, and the general hasn't woken up yet." sign."

Without saying a word, Jixue pushed away the dark soldiers and broke into the camp where General Xie Qiong was.Huaci followed her closely, she was not tall, when she squeezed in, she saw Jixue kneeling on the floor, General Xie Qiong lying on the bed, not yet awake.

"Ah Jiu, persuade her that she insists on staying here, saying that she will leave as soon as the general wakes up." said the deputy general next to him.

"I'm not going." The three words were loud, and Huaci sighed: "It's useless to persuade the elder sister to decide."

She was also worried that a group of people outside the tent would not know about Jixue Nu disguised as a man, the noise was not too loud, only a few people inside the tent heard it.

On the other hand, the other lieutenant snorted coldly and said, "A daughter's body is a daughter's body, this kind of time will only add to the chaos."

His voice was loud, and he was not as scrupulous as Hua Ci, and he was heard from inside and outside the camp for a while.This is a stone that stirs up a thousand waves.The soldiers immediately talked about it.The lieutenant general is straightforward, and when he realized that he had slipped his mouth, he felt ashamed for a while.

If it wasn't for Jixue's quick eyes and quick hands to hold Hua Ci, the Zhu Yan knife in Hua Ci's sleeve would have been unsheathed and pointed at the man's throat.Jixue stared at her and said in a low voice:

"Jiuyouqi's sword is used to kill innocent people indiscriminately, huh?"

No one else heard this sentence, but Huaci instantly felt that Jixue knew everything, and a layer of cold sweat floated on his back.

"Mr. Yuxu is a woman? How is it possible?"

"No wonder she never took a shower with us, it turned out that she was afraid of revealing her identity."

"What kind of army do women join? Why don't you go home and get married as soon as possible!"

The discussion outside the camp turned from doubt to undisguised disgust, and the soldiers who usually supported Mr. Yuxu seemed to have been acupointed, and no matter what happened, they didn't say a word.

"Mr. Yuxu, are you really a woman?" Finally, a soldier asked.He has been following Mr. Yuxu on the battlefield, and he chooses to believe in Mr. Yuxu no matter what happens.

"Do you want to tell the truth?" Jixue stood up, shook the dust off her white clothes, and walked out of the tent.

"Of course." The soldier said firmly.

"That's good." Jixue said, "I admit now that I am a woman."

There was another uproar.Li Bai was still holding Gan Tang with one hand, and suddenly said loudly: "I know what you are thinking, Mr. Yuxu is not that kind of person, she disguised herself as a man and entered the camp, just to avenge me."

"After all, it's against the rules for a woman to disguise herself as a man and enter the military camp. Why don't you imprison her first, and let me discuss with the lieutenants, and then deal with it." I don't know who interjected, and the soldiers who were persuaded by Li Bai all said He looked at the man approvingly.I saw that the man had a tall crown of hair, and his temples were slightly frosted. It was none other than Lord Zhizhou Yuqing.

Hearing these words, Hua Ci secretly clenched the handle of Zhu Yan's knife again.She no longer cared about her identity being found out, she just wanted to seek justice for her sister.But Jixue took her hand back and patted the back of her hand reassuringly.

"Ah Jiu, don't make trouble, wait for me to come back."

That tone was extremely gentle.Huaci couldn't help but want to twitch the corners of her lips lightly, but because of the current situation, she had to give up.

In the end, Jixue was confiscated by the Qingqiu sword and imprisoned in a small room with poor walls.The small room has only one low window and a couch comparable to a camp bed.She just lay on the couch generously and closed her eyes.

……

As the sun rose the next day, all the soldiers gathered in the camp, discussing how to deal with the matter of sending snow, when they heard a notification that the ghost clan sent troops again and had already attacked Yuzhou City.Yuzhou City and Jingzhou City are not far away, and everyone was confused again.

"Why don't we let Mr. Yuxu come out to fight? With Mr. Yuxu and Lieutenant Gan Tang here, we are afraid that he will fail with a few ghosts?"

"No! Mr. Yuxu is a woman, and women command the three armies, what do you say?"

"Then let Vice General Gan Tang lead the army, and Lord Yuxu guard the city."

"You trust Mr. Yuxu so much, but how can the matter of defending the city be child's play?"

They expressed their opinions again, and they were at a stalemate.

Huaci listened to their conversation and suddenly sneered.She took a step forward and said in a high voice: "What's wrong with the woman? When General Xie Qiong was in danger, she led a team of elite soldiers to sneak into the enemy camp and rescued the general; when the peace treaty was signed, she was the one who accompanied General Xie Qiong. Come to Taiping of Kyushu."

"On the battlefield, she is invincible; in the barracks, she manages well. She values ​​your lives more than her own. Who dares to say that she can do better than her?" Hua Ci continued.

The soldiers suddenly fell silent.After a while, several soldiers uttered:

"On the battlefield that day, the ghost clan's bayonet was about to stab me in the heart. It was Mr. Yuxu who saved me, and I survived."

"There was a time when we marched in a hurry, and the water and food we brought were not enough. Mr. Yuxu took out his own and gave it to us. We only found out later that she didn't eat all the way because of this."

"And that time..." The voices of discussion gradually increased, and the voices of disapproval also increased.Huaci waited for them to finish their discussion, and applauded lightly.Hearing the applause, the soldiers all fell silent and looked at her.

"So can we let her out now?" Huaci pulled out the Zhuyan knife, gently rubbing the handle with her fingertips.In the next second, the knife rested on the neck of one of the soldiers.

"Who are you?" The soldier gritted his teeth, pretending to be calm.

"His Royal Highness Hua Ci, the Ninth Princess of the Ghost Clan, I wonder if you know it?" Hua Ci laughed, and the knife edge came closer.Asking if you know something, in the eyes of His Royal Highness the Ninth Princess, it is really a very modest statement.

Everyone here knows Hua Ci, but they don't know her true identity.After doing this, even Yuqing was surprised.In the end, Her Royal Highness the Ninth Princess "negotiated friendly" with the soldiers, as long as they let Jixue out, she would give up and go back to the ghost clan to persuade the leader of the ghost clan to cease fighting.

……

At that time, Jixue was sleeping soundly in that cage-like tent, when there was a noise outside.The sweet dream was interrupted, and Jixue got up reluctantly, and looked out of the window. It turned out that two groups of soldiers had clashed—one of them happened to be soldiers from the 27th Battalion.

Soldiers in his own battalion clashed with other soldiers, and Jixue could not stand idly by anyway.She tidied herself briefly, opened the door curtain and walked over.

"What's the noise?" Jixue asked.

"Mr. Yuxu." The soldiers bowed to each other.It was only then that Jixue could see clearly that it was the soldiers guarding her that had clashed with the 27th Battalion. No wonder she didn't see them in front of the camp.

"Mr. Yuxu, please lead us to repel the ghosts!" The soldiers of the 27th Battalion suddenly knelt on one knee, and the current commander of the 27th Battalion raised a long sword above his head, which was the Qingqiu Sword.

Before Jixue had time to ask anything, he was surrounded by soldiers and arrived in front of General Xie Qiong's tent.White silk was hung on the tent, and a coffin was placed in the center of the tent, surrounded by people who came to pay their respects.

Gan Tang, dressed in hemp and mourning, knelt at the front without saying a word.Li Bai was also dressed in white, kneeling behind him.

Jixue immediately understood what happened, but couldn't believe it.She walked to Li Bai's side, as if confirming, and asked, "Li Bai, what happened these few days?"

Li Bai seemed to be overly sad, looked at Jixue and didn't speak.It was Gan Tang who said, "Father, he has passed away."

Jixue still doesn't understand, but she just stubbornly wants to ask again, wanting to know that returning to heaven is not what she understands.But looking at Gan Tang and Li Bai, she suddenly couldn't ask any more questions.

Her master who was willing to teach her the art of war and firmly believed that women can also be handsome, the general Xie Qiong who led the three armies to fight for peace in Jingzhou, he is gone.Jixue suddenly felt that the world was empty, and she was about to collapse to the ground.She still held on to a sliver of clarity and listened to Gan Tang's next words—even though every word she heard made her feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave.

Gan Tang said that General Xie Qiong passed away last night.On the morning of General Xie Qiong's death, the ghost army seemed to know all about it, and led the army to attack the Central Plains again, reaching Yuzhou.

"What about Huaci?" Jixue managed to find the key point of those sentences, paused, and asked again.

"The Ninth Princess of the Ghost Clan assassinated General Xie Qiong and has fled now." It was not Gan Tang who answered her, but another soldier kneeling beside her.

"How is it possible? She's only 12 years old. Besides, how could she..." Jixue didn't believe his words at all, and looked at Li Bai again. Li Bai finally had a reaction. When she came out and left the barracks, the soldiers guarding the camp said that she was covered in blood, like a Rakshasa crawling out of hell. Not long after she left, the general..."

At the end, Li Bai choked up, and she didn't say any more.Gan Tang went on to say, "The imperial court issued an order, ordering me to lead the army to support Yuzhou, and set off in three days."

Jixue locked herself in this simple mourning hall and saw no one.On the day of the expedition, all the soldiers thought Yuxu Jun would not come, but they saw Yuxu Jun wearing a black armor, an iron helmet on his head, a Qingqiu sword on his waist, and riding a maroon horse, just like before.

They marched in a hurry for several days, and finally arrived in Yuzhou one evening.Yuzhou's original chief general had already died in battle, Gan Tang was the chief general, Jixue was the deputy general, and Master Yuqing was accompanying him as the supervisor.They brought an army of [-], and when they arrived outside the city, they happened to meet the ghost army.

The leader is not the leader of the ghost clan, but a ghost-faced man.That was the first rider of the Nine Nether Riders, and it was also the leader of the Nine Nether Riders that Huaci met that night—Tong Huo.Behind Hitomi Fire are two Nine Nether Riders, the fifth Rider Chi Yan and the eighth Rider Fu Sheng.

The drums of war are sounding, and the flags of war are flying.

The sky is full of gunpowder, the war broke out, and the soldiers charged forward.

Tong Huo raised his long saber and slashed towards Gan Tang.A strange blue flame was burning on his long knife, Gan Tang blocked it with the sword, and his arm was cut by the knife.

On the other side, Jixue faced Shangfusheng.Fusheng is famous for his speed among the Nine Nether Riders, but he ran into a thorn in his head - Jixue's Qingqiu sword was faster than her.Unprepared, Fusheng received a sword in his heart and fell off his horse.

The war still ended with a narrow victory for the ghost clan.The 3000 reinforcements lost [-] people and arrived in Yuzhou City.After returning, Gan Tang stayed in the tent, practicing sword skills over and over again, and never came out.

He suddenly realized that he was too weak.He is not his father Xie Qiong, he does not have such powerful spiritual power and martial arts, and he lost three thousand soldiers as soon as he went into battle.I only injured my left arm, but the three thousand soldiers lost their lives.

"Gantang." Jixue had already stood beside him at some point, "I'll be with you."

The two fought again, and they met each other again.At the end of the competition, Gan Tang said: "Ji Xue, tell me, can I really lead the army to victory?"

"Gantang, I believe in you. No one else can do this except you. You also have to believe in yourself," Jixue said.

"Then what if I can't trust myself?" Gan Tang asked.

"Then trust me. And I trust your own heart." Jixue smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "General Gan Tang, I trust you. You will be a good general."

In the evening, Jixue was walking back to the tent when he suddenly felt a gust of wind behind him.As soon as she turned around, she saw a person wearing a ghost mask standing behind her.

Through the ghostly face, Jixue still recognized her——Huaci.Holding the Zhuyan Dao in his hand, Huaci was looking at her with a smile.

"His Royal Highness Ninth Princess." Jixue's voice cooled down.

"Sister, don't you believe Ah Jiu?" The smile on Hua Ci's face gradually faded, and her almond eyes were a little lost.

The phrase "I believe in you" was swallowed by Jixue.The human race and the ghost race are at war again, and the cause of General Xie Qiong's death is unknown. What qualifications does she have to say this?

"That's all. Elder sister, can you tell me how you know I'm Jiuyouqi?" Hua Ci was silent for a while, then said, "The ones who followed me that night, besides Tonghuo and the others, were elder sisters?"

Jixue pursed her lips, her usual gentle expression turned cold.The moonlight poured on her side face, adding a bit of sternness.In the picturesque moonlight, she said: "According to the rules of the military camp, ghosts must be dealt with."

In fact, she was already sober at that time, and only because she was worried that Ah Jiu would walk alone at night, she quietly followed her...

"Okay, Ajiu is as sweet as a candy." The corners of Huaci's mouth curled up, under the moonlight, the red knife in her hand was glowing coldly, and the red pearl embedded in the handle looked even more magnificent.

I only heard Huaci go on to say: "But we have to see if my sister has the ability."

The Qingqiu sword came out of its sheath, facing the sharp edge of Zhu Yan's sword.Considering the former friendship, Jixue didn't want to seriously compete with her, after all, His Royal Highness Ninth Princess is only 12 years old.However, Hua Ci showed his true skills, pressing every step of the way.

The two shuttled in the night, running on the eaves of the streets and alleys of Yuzhou City, attracting many soldiers to stop and watch.As if they didn't mind at all, they fought back and forth and returned to the open space outside the barracks.

As the swords clashed, both of them broke out in a thin layer of sweat.Jixue knew that Hua Ci was serious, so she stopped being perfunctory and showed her real skills.The two competed only in martial arts, Huaci was still young after all, and his strength was not as strong as Jixue, so he was finally defeated.

Surrounded by the onlookers, Jixue, who had planned to let His Royal Highness Ninth Princess go directly out of love, had no choice.But seeing Huaci's appearance of being willing to be dealt with, he felt even more uncomfortable.In the final analysis, she was not necessarily the one who killed General Xie Qiong, nor did she start the war, so what was wrong with her?

I don't know about Jixue.Only resolutely said:

"You and I cut off our robes here, and we will see each other in the future, and we will be old enemies. If there is any violation, it will be like this robe."

After Jixue finished speaking, she cut off a piece of the white robe with the Qingqiu sword, the cloth made a clear tearing sound, and she left regardless of Huaci's reaction.

After hearing these words, Huaci felt that her whole body was completely cold, and she was stunned for a while before remembering to perform lightness kung fu and escape into the night.

Afterwards, everyone said that Yuxu Jun, the female general of the human race, and His Royal Highness Ninth Princess of the Ghost Race broke off completely and became old enemies.