The Longest Day in Chang’an - Chapter 69

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The high must have a thick base. The entire Taishang Xuanyuan lamp tower is more than 150 feet high. Even if it is made of bamboo, the overall weight is still considerable. It must be pulled by a thick root. Therefore, Mao Shun simply repaired the bottom of this lamp building into a wide eaves mysterious view, with more than twenty vertical and horizontal lines, and the eaves are all cloud-shaped.

They climbed up from the hydraulic palace and just entered the apse of the auspicious view. At this time, the hall was filled with unicorn arms unloaded from the carriage, and a dozen people were busy with their heads down. When they saw Xiao Gui coming in, they did not stop, and continued to do their work in an orderly manner. As for Zhang Xiaojing, they didn’t even take a look.

I am afraid that the Long Wujun outside has not yet known that the cricket has quietly controlled the entire headlight tower. This is no longer a spectacle that can bring Chang’an glory, but an unprecedented murder weapon.

There must be a tripod to see. In the middle of the back hall of Xuanguan, eight small tripods are placed according to the direction of gossip. They were originally used for decoration, and as a result they are now used as heating appliances. In each tripod, dozens of unicorn arms rest. At the end of the tripod, a charcoal fire was burning, and people kept picking up a small ice bottle and inserting it into a bamboo tube.

No need to introduce, Zhang Xiaojing also guessed immediately, this is Que Lehuduo he has been struggling to pursue, here is doing the final heating process. The ice bottle is actually a thin-necked glass bottle shaped like an awl, with an icicle inserted in it, and a scale on the outside of the bottle. Extend it inside the bamboo tube and see how fast the icicle melts, and it can be deduced whether the stone resin has reached the required temperature.

Zhang Xiaojing didn’t expect that they even prepared this kind of utensil. Xiao Gui noticed his eyes: “This is used by Taoist priests for alchemy, and I have learned it. The fierce fire and thunder are irresistible. Without controlling the temperature a little bit, it exploded without paying attention.” He again excitedly Stretched his arm and pointed to the bottom: “Do you know where this charcoal came from?”

Zhang Xiaojing glanced, the charcoal was white in color, only to see the fire, but no smoke. Xiao Gui said: “This is a charcoal burnt in Nanshan. The charcoal burned by the old man is as white as silver, full of firepower, and very little smoke. He originally pulled a few cars to sell in the city every year. Purchasing often takes half a piece of red yarn and a sling, and forcibly exchanges a car-it must be more than a thousand pounds. So the old man heard that we have to do a big thing and take the initiative to help us burn it, and we do n’t need any money. Visible This big event we are going to do is really what the people want. ”

Zhang Xiaojing said nothing, but stared at the charcoal fire. Xiao Gui said: “Okay, okay, I know you can’t turn your mind around for a while. Let’s visit Li Sicheng first.”

He led Zhang Xiaojing to the second floor of Xuanguan, where several Lingguan pavilions were divided, all for the purpose of praying for blessings, so the layout was very simple. People continue to hold out the Kirin arms that meet the requirements of heating, climb into the lamp tower through the passage here, and carry out the final installation.

Xiao Gui pushed the door of one of the pavilions open, and Zhang Xiaojing looked at it. There was a person standing inside, straight with Jianmei, it was Li Mi. He was also secretly transported into the lamp tower, which looked awkward, but still managed to maintain the final dignity.

“Li Sicheng, see who is here to visit you?” Xiao Gui shouted affectionately and hugged Zhang Xiaojing’s shoulder.

Li Biwen said, looking at this, he was stunned. Two eyebrows were raised, and he sneered, “Okay! Ok!”

Zhang Xiaojing was expressionless, neither dodge nor excused, just staring at him like this, motionless. Xiao Gui smiled and said: “This is a coincidence. I did not think that the captain of Jing’an Division was my old comrade in the past. When we were in Fengsuibao, we both rolled out of the dead.”

“Huh?” Li Mi stunned.

“Good. The eighth regiment survived a total of three people. At that time, I was still Xiao Xiao. Oh, yes, there is another survivor named Wen Wuji. Where is he, I think Si Cheng knows.”

With Li Mi’s talents, he immediately guessed the cause and effect. He looked at Zhang Xiaojing’s eyes and became very cold, but there was a little bit of despair in the cold.

It is self-evident that a robes and babies born and dead, and an organization that has repeatedly suppressed suspicions, Zhang Xiaojing will choose.

Zhang Xiaojing avoided Li Bi’s eyes, raised his arms, and gently flicked his fingers in the eye sockets. This is not a subconscious habitual movement, but for less embarrassment. Xiao Gui looked at Li Mi and Zhang Xiaojing again, grinning and said: “Li Sicheng and Hui Zhu have picked up my brother at first glance. If it weren’t for my luck, I might be disturbed by him! It’s a pity that you are stupid and can’t believe it all. ”

Li Bi said nothing. Xiao Gui put his crossbow machine into Zhang Xiaojing’s hands and said easily: “Big head, in order to celebrate our reunion, insert a dogwood?”

“Insert dogwood?” Zhang Xiaojing’s face changed when he heard the word. This is not the folk custom of wearing dogwood at the Chongyang Festival, but the idiom in the military of the Western Regions. The dogwood fruit is purple-red when mature, and it means blood in the dogwood.

Xiao Gui smiled and smiled, his chin flicked towards Li Mi.

His meaning is clear. Half an hour ago, Zhang Xiaojing was still a hostile Jingan captain. Now he has changed his camp. In order to convince people, he must get a nominee—Jing’an Sicheng Li Bi’s head.

If you kill your boss, there will be no way back, so that you can truly gain the trust of the earthworms.

Xiao Gui stared at Zhang Xiaojing, with a smile on his face, but a glimmer of bad light flashed in his eyes. Whether this brother of life and death is worthy of continued trust depends on how the problem is solved. The guards beside him stared at each other, ready to draw their knives at any time.

The Lingguan Pavilion was quiet for a while. Li Bi looked up and stared at Zhang Xiaojing in this way, neither pleading nor reprimanding. Zhang Xiaojing did not move. He stood silently opposite Li Bi. The one-eyed squinted slightly, and it was difficult for others to see through his inner activities at this time.

Seeing him delaying his hands, the guards slowly touched his waist. With only a click, Zhang Xiaojing raised his right arm and placed the crossbow machine on Li Mi’s temple, his fingers tightly hooked the hanging knife.

“Li Sicheng, I’m sorry, but I have no choice.” Zhang Xiaojing said, his tone calm, without any fluctuations.

“The big picture matters, what’s wrong.” Li Mi closed his eyes. He smiled bitterly in his heart. He did not expect that the conversation between the two at the Temple of Mercy about “killing one person and saving one hundred people” would come true after a few hours. Unexpectedly, he actually became the innocent person who was launched to sacrifice the river god.

Zhang Xiaojing was expressionless, and he buckled the knife without hesitation.

With a puff, Li Mi’s head seemed to be hit by a sledgehammer, and he swung violently in the opposite direction. The whole body fell to the ground in a funny pose, motionless.

Jing Cheng ’s Si Cheng was just shot by Jing An Si Du Wei in the Taishang Xuanyuan Lamp Building.

Zhang Xiaojing hung down the crossbow machine and closed his eyes, knowing that from this moment on, he would never look back. In order to save Changan, he did not regret making this choice, but this is wrong after all. Every time something should be done wrong, it will make the burden on his heart heavy.

The room was quiet for a while. Zhang Xiaojing suddenly opened his eyes and felt something was wrong.

No, this is not the reaction that crossbow arrows should have. He looked at the crossbow machine in his hand and turned his gaze to Li Mi lying on the ground, and found a circle of purple and black blood in his temple. Zhang Xiaojing’s eyes swept towards the ground, his pupils shrunk.

The crossbow arrow that was shot actually had no arrow.

The shaft of a hand crossbow is different from that of a bow and arrow. The top of the crossbow is rounded, and the front is wide and the back is narrow. Because hand crossbows are generally used in narrow and tortuous melee situations, emphasizing the power in bumpy environments. In front of him, there was no pointed iron head, only an oval wooden head. This kind of thing will be extremely painful when hitting people, but it will only cause blunt injuries, not fatal.

Zhang Xiaojing looked at Xiao Gui doubtfully. Xiao Gui patted his face with a happy smile: “Big head, congratulations, you passed the test.”

“what happened?”

“I don’t doubt you, but you have to give an explanation to your men.” Xiao Gui leaned over and picked up the arrow shaft. “I thought you would hesitate. I didn’t expect you to kill your boss. . ”

His last doubt about Zhang Xiaojing finally disappeared. Whether a person really has a murderous heart can’t hide his eyes. Zhang Xiaojing’s eyes when he pulled the hanging knife just now were absolutely murderous.

Zhang Xiaojing gasped softly, his right hand trembling: “You removed the arrow before you gave me the crossbow machine?” Xiao Gui smiled and said: “You can pull the hanging knife, it is enough to explain the intention, not need It really took Li Sicheng’s dog’s life. He has another use and he can’t die here. ”

At this time, Li Bi coughed and tried to straighten his body, but it was so painful just now. His head was still dizzy, and his expression was extremely painful, and there was blood flowing from his nostrils. Xiao Gui picked up his hair: “Li Sicheng, thank you for finding a good brother for me.”

“Zhang Xiaojing!”

Shouted throughout the Lingguan Pavilion. Li Bi dragged his nose and never felt so angry: “I am still not Jing Cheng’s Secretary? Are you still a captain?”

“Yes.” Zhang Xiaojing answered respectfully.

“The order I gave you is to stop the conspiracy of the earthworm! It has never been said to save the full length of the officer’s life! Right?”

“Yes.”

“It doesn’t matter if you kill the official, but you have to save this Chang’an City! The culprit is next to it, why don’t you do it?”

Xiao Gui chuckled from his nostrils, was Li Mi’s head confused? What other accusations are there at this time! Zhang Xiaojing walked slowly, took out the bronze medal in his waist, and respectfully inserted it back into Li Bi’s waist:

“Li Sicheng, I now ask you to resign as Du Wei. In front of you, it is no longer Zhang Duwei of the Jing’an Division, but Zhang Datou of the Eighth Regiment, who killed the county captain and was beaten. The bad guy who entered the death row was a spy caught by You Xiaowei, a dead prisoner wanted by the city, and a veteran who wanted to ask Changan for justice! ”

Every time he reports an identity, his voice will increase a bit, and at the end, he almost roared.

Li Bi’s complexion, the reasons for Zhang Xiaojing’s imprisonment, and the encounters during these few hours, he was all clear, and he knew more about the pressure and grievances he had to bear. Now Zhang Xiaojing’s long-standing grievances finally broke out, and the monstrous brutality surged, making Li Bi almost unable to open his eyes.

He couldn’t refute it.

After spitting out these words, Zhang Xiaojing dropped his shoulders as if he had lifted a heavy burden. Xiao Gui smiled comfortably. In his view, Zhang Xiaojing’s previous behavior was purely awkward, and he clearly resented the court, but had to run for a nameless purpose, which was too tangled.

Now Zhang Datou spit out his previous worries as quickly as possible, and really moved his boss to kill his boss, Xiao Xiao finally let down. He clenched his right fist and punched **** his left shoulder. Zhang Xiaojing did the same, and the two said in unison: “Nine deaths have no regrets.”

At that moment, the grand occasion of the eighth regiment seemed to return to the eyes of the two. A little moisture appeared in Xiao Gui’s eyes.

At this time, Li Bi reluctantly said: “Zhang Xiaojing, have you promised me to catch a thief, would you have to say something?”

“No, my answer at the time was that you chose the person and I chose the road. We all have to be responsible for our choice.”

Hearing this sentence, Li Bi could not help but smile bitterly: “You are right, I looked away and should bear the consequences for my stupidity.”

Zhang Xiaojing said: “You are not suitable for the position of Jing’an Secretary Cheng, you might as well go back to the monk’s monastery. Goodbye Sanqing, begging for eleven Yao, pushing the Eight Diagrams life order, visiting the Four Mountains and Five Yues, nothing is better than the Jingan Secretary—— But if Si Cheng wants to avenge me, I’m afraid he has to go to the eighteenth floor of hell. ”

Xiao Gui laughed: “It’s good to say that people like us must be in **** after death. You five big names, Yan Luo, don’t know if it will work at that time.”

“With all this in mind, please carefully consider Li Langjun.” Zhang Xiaojing bowed his hand.

Calling it “Lang Jun” means that Zhang Xiaojing completely gave up the identity of Jing Ansi, and the matter of Chang’an has nothing to do with him. Hearing this claim, Li Bi finally gave up his persuasive efforts and said nothing.

Xiao Gui ordered Li Li to be released from the pillar, let the two escorts **** behind, and then greeted Zhang Xiaojing towards the lamphouse.

“Why did he go too?” Zhang Xiaojing was quite uncomfortable.

Xiao Gui said: “I didn’t say that just now, he has other uses.”

Zhang Xiaojing remembered this, there was a doubt before. The crickets attacked the Jingansi Hall, why did they work hard to hijack Li Mi? Keeping him alive must be useful, but what exactly is this useful?

Xiao Gui saw Zhang Xiaojing’s doubts and laughed and said, let me take you to see something.

A team of mermaids walked out of the Lingguan Pavilion. Zhang Xiaojing had just stepped out of the threshold, and Xiao Jiu suddenly changed his face, and flew a kick to Zhang Xiaojing’s waist. Zhang Xiaojing didn’t expect that he would suddenly hit himself and fell to the ground. At the moment of falling to the ground, a cold light wiped his scalp.

Yuan Zai is now caught in a huge contradiction. He was half leaning against a locust tree, staring at the **** door, and he was silent for a long time.

The killer slipped away under his eyelids and scared himself to squirm. But the words he said before leaving, let Yuan Zai care.

“If you still have a little bit of understanding, hurry to the Xingqing Palace as soon as possible, and the crickets are all gathered there.”

Is this a trap, or is it a truth? Yuan Zai did not know. If it is false, it is not necessary for Zhang Xiaojing to lie; but if it is true, will Zhang Xiaojing be so kind? Actively provide clues to his chase? Yuan Zai can’t believe it.

He, who has always been keen and proud of his eyes, is overwhelmed by the mystery of Zhang Xiaojing. He really wanted to find a chrysanthemum and forget it one by one, letting God decide.

At this time, the brigade army Wu Chang beside him came together and whispered: “Shall we rush in to catch people?”

They just grabbed an apprentice who ran out of the yard and had asked the master’s details clearly, called Chao Fen, behind which was the Japanese Chao Heng. There seemed to be a Persian who was seriously injured in the courtyard. Zhang Xiaojing came here deliberately and must have colluded with them.

The brigade army laid down at least a dozen people in this yard. It was an unprecedented big loss. They were eager to avenge themselves.

Yuan Zai shook his head at this suggestion. He didn’t care about Lu Benjun’s face, and he wasn’t afraid of Chao Heng. He just thought that this thing was not as simple as he thought.

The subordinates don’t know, but Yuan Zai knows it best: Zhang Xiaojing is not a traitor. This crime was only fabricated for the convenience of someone to blame. It is okay to use it for the whole person, but if you really believe this conclusion to infer the investigation, you will be completely different.

The same thing?

Yuan Zai snapped the trunk of the locust tree suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he made a decision instantly.

“The whole team, go to Xingqing Palace!”

The brigade of the brigade army was surprised for a moment, thinking that he had heard the wrong command.

“Go to Xingqing Palace!” Yuan Zai repeated it again, with a decisive tone.

He did not know whether Zhang Xiaojing’s words were true, but his instincts told Yuan Zai that the Xingqing Palace had more variables.

Big variables mean risk, and risk means opportunity.

Yuan Zai believes that the luck tonight has not completely left him, and it is worth betting.

The moment Zhang Xiaojing fell to the ground, Xiao Gui gave a roar: “Fish intestine! What are you doing ?!”