Chapter 106: Joy and Cruelty

After Zhang Shen, Huang Zongxi, and Lu Liang had left, Xie Ci went and blew out most of the candles on the branch-shaped lanterns at the foot of the tent.

He collected tung oil from the entire army, and even on days when no lights were lit in the main tent, even lamp oil became frugal and not wasted.

Whatever he has experienced will eventually become a good quality in him.

Gu Guan was listening to his movements outside in the inner tent. She wanted to laugh, so she took off her helmet and ran her fingers through her long hair that looked like a black waterfall.

He walked into the inner tent and stood in front of the screen. He was wearing a light blue velvet cloak over his dark, cold, hard armor. His brows were firm, handsome, tall, and slender, with his hair straight like a javelin.

Gu Wan couldn't help but laugh. She hooked her finger at him and pounced forward. Xie Ci stepped forward to catch her, holding her thighs and buttocks firmly with his hands.

Having a husband with a very stable lower body and extraordinary arm and waist strength, she really loves this position more and more.

The two of them kissed face to face. Gu Guan poked his waist with a smile and said, "Keep it up. Don't let up even when you have some free time in the future."

She leaned close to Xie Ci's ear and said, "I like it."

Xie Ci's ears felt hot, and he nodded vigorously, "Yes," of course.

Gu Wan chuckled, and finally said in a low voice, "I still need to think about how to stop Xun Xun."

She leaned her head against his shoulder and neck, and used her index finger to circle some of the hair outside his helmet, playing with it in circles. The tiny tickles reached his heart bit by bit.

Gu Guan will leave the camp later because she is no longer responsible for logistics. She has already taken charge of the affairs of Xie Jiawei and Liuyunwei outside.

Xie Ci was reluctant to leave, his heart was in turmoil, and he buried his face on her shoulder. Ah, he really wanted to end the war quickly so that he could live some busy but peaceful days.

By then, when they have had enough of their own world, they will have a son or daughter, one or two, or two or three children, who will chase after them and call them daddy and mommy, while he and Gu Wan hold hands. Just thinking about such days is really beautiful.

In the small inner tent, the setting sun cast an orange-red hue on the brown and yellow tent cloth. The tent was dim and quiet. The two people leaned against each other, smiling but not speaking.

It was not until Zhang Qing and Xie Yunduan came in for dinner that Gu Wan jumped down, and the two of them went out hand in hand.

After dinner, Xie Ci saw Gu Wan off and watched her tall and graceful figure disappear into the night.

Xie Ci withdrew his gaze, raised his head to stretch his shoulders and arms, and looked back ahead.

Under the deep blue sky, there is an endless plain with dark and light black hills. Looking to the northeast end of the plain is the Beirong camp.

Hope everything goes well next time!

…

After twenty-one days of secretly waiting in the tense atmosphere of the camp, on the first day of August, Feng Kun, Li Yi and Xie Jiawei's joint investigation finally brought the long-awaited good news.

Two pieces of evidence were found to prove that Hu Yande was just insincere towards Xun Xun.

The first one is Zhou Yunwen.

It turned out that this man, like Xun Xun, was from the Northern Rong clan.

But he looks even more like a Han Chinese than Xun Xun.

In fact, these two people were able to stay in Wei for such a long time and develop various spies. Even Xun Xun's subordinates still don't believe that he is a Beirong son. The fundamental reason is that they look like their father. Xun Xun even has some deep eyebrows and eyes, but Zhou Yunwen does not have that at all. He looks completely like a Han Chinese.

But Xun Xun didn't know that Zhou Yunwen was from the Northern Rong clan.

Huyan De's father, Huyan Jin, was actually not loved by the old King of Beirong, because his son was born with a kind heart like the Han people, which was simply a variant. He was kind and generous to his friends, relatives, and the herdsmen and slaves under his rule.

When Zhou Yunwen's father, Zhou Yun, was young, he was a merchant. He was seriously injured and dying when he was rescued by Hu Yanjin on the grasslands. They became acquainted and became friends. Later, he passed through Hu Yanjin's territory of Ula Banner many times, and Hu Yanjin always protected him and helped him cross the border smoothly. Hu Yanjin admired the culture of the Central Plains, and through these visits, they became close friends.

Later, Zhou Yun fell in love with Wurenna, the cousin of Huyan Jin, who was the first to discover him seriously injured and unconscious, and they got married and had a child.

Originally, Zhou Yun planned to live in the area where the outside of the Great Wall and the northern Rong meet, but he didn't expect something happened later and all his biological father's sons died. For various reasons, he, the illegitimate son, eventually returned to the Zhou family and took over the family business.

But Zhou Yunwen had grown up in Ula Banner and outside the Great Wall until he was a teenager, and he was a Northern Rong person at heart.

He had always been in private contact with Huyan De. As soon as his father died, he immediately imprisoned his first wife and her children, and reached an alliance with the Northern Rong.

As for the sworn brotherhood with Xun Xun, it was also carried out at the instruction of Huyan De, in order to prevent Xun Xun from deviating from the track and turning to the Wei Dynasty after becoming the governor of Suzhou. Later, it was also used to quietly infiltrate the people under Xun Xun's command.

Of course, the investigation was not as thorough as this, but the fact that Zhou Yun was his father's illegitimate son, who was only found in middle age, and that Zhou Yun was a businessman who lived outside the Great Wall for a long time, and his wedding in Wula Banner have been uncovered. In other words, the fact that Zhou Yunwen's biological mother was Hu Yanjin's cousin and that Zhou Yunwen himself had been in contact with Hu Yande for many years has been discovered.

There was another one from Taiyuan. I don't know how Feng Kun's people dug, but they actually found people from the other tribes of Beirong, Quegen and Tushatuo. They were all old women, four in total. Three of them were relatives of the original Kun Yuling tribe, and the other one was a married daughter of Kun Yuling.

They can all confirm that Huyan De's biological mother, Princess Rizhu, and Huyan De himself did not have any deep feelings for Xun Xun's biological mother, Princess Rilian.

Even Princess Rilian's mother had been serving the wife of the Kun Yuling clan leader, Hu Yande's grandmother, as a slave until she got married.

Even the title of Princess Rilian was given to her by Huyan De because he wanted to use her to temporarily win over Xun Rongbi.

Beirong is a semi-slave society. Princess Rizhu Kuntude is high above everyone else, while Princess Rilian and her daughter are just people crawling on the ground and being looked down upon.

Where does the sisterly love come from?

These clues, which had been buried in the dust for many years and were almost impossible to detect, were finally successfully dug out.

The news was transmitted back to the Yanhuishan camp at the fastest speed, and it only took twenty-one days.

You came at the right time!

Xun Xun survived the high fever and Xie Ci had already received the letter sent by carrier pigeon from Gu Wan and had ordered someone to confirm it.

Twenty-one days is enough time to recover from the injury. Although not completely healed, it is mostly healed and I can move around again.

Xie Ci quickly sent a message to Gu Wan, telling her that everything was ready.

Then he left the tent and went to find Xun Xiao.

Xun Xiao's tent was not big. He had massacred hundreds of Hu Yande's personal guards that day and was seriously injured. Both armies had been resting recently, so Xie Ci asked him to heal his wounds completely before putting on armor. Qin Wenxuan refused to let him go, so he kept recovering from his injuries.

It was a rare peaceful day, but Xun Xiao felt a little down. Of course, he didn't show it. He sat cross-legged on the camp bed, smiling slightly, watching Qin Wenxuan busily fetch him something, then sit at the head of the bed and talk to him. He smiled faintly, occasionally nodding in agreement.

Xie Ci came in, lifting the curtain. The two men looked up at him. Xie Ci, wearing black armor and a blue cape, stood at the door of the tent. His previous solemnity faded away. He asked Xun Xiao, "We have solid evidence. If everything goes well, we can get revenge soon. Are you going?"

The evidence was given directly to Gu Wan, so Gu Wan went north to block Xun Xun. Will Xun Xiao go with him?

Xie Ci specifically asked Gu Guan to wait for a moment while he asked Xun Xiao first.

Xun Xiao stood up suddenly: "I'll go!"

Xie Ci laughed, breathed a sigh of relief, walked to Xun Xiao's bed, hugged him and patted his back, "Wan Wan is waiting for you outside, go quickly."

Qin Wenxuan was also overjoyed. She quickly ran to the innermost part of the armor, opened a bundle, and took out a set of loose gray cotton clothes with a hood.

Xun Xiao changed as quickly as possible, rolled up his outer coat and tied it around his thighs, put on his armor, and then walked around the camp. After that, he changed into the cloth armor of an ordinary soldier, and quickly left the camp to meet up with Gu Wan.

The mountains had turned yellow, and along the long road, Gu Guan stopped his horse at a hillside with a large patch of fluffy foxtail grass, followed by Xie Yun, Xie Hai and others.

She smiled and said, "Brother Xun," she waved, "Let's go!"

…

In fact, Gu Guan had already thought over and over again about how to stop Xun Xun.

This person is not easy to stop, but now, they have fewer concerns.

After obtaining the evidence and heading north, she sent messages to both Feng Kun and Li Yi, so as not to trouble two masters at once, and directly asked them to create some minor accidents in Jianyou.

Xun Xun's injuries have mostly healed. If nothing unexpected happens, he will immediately set off north after receiving the news.

The plains from southern Yan to Jianyou are flat and well-connected. It is also a wartime, and the people's carriages are constantly traveling back and forth from the south and north for fear of being affected by the war. It is absolutely impossible to block people.

But after the plain, there is the continuous and majestic Yanshan Mountains, and there is only a flat official road leading to Jianzhou.

There was no wind or waves. Under normal circumstances, no one would cross mountains and rivers, so it would be a good idea to block Xun Xun here.

Gu Guan brought all the members of Xie Jiawei and Liuyunwei with him, disguising themselves as civilian merchants heading north, and scattered them all over the area in front of Linlu Pass, including all the big and small official roads, wild roads, jungles, hills and mountainsides, and all possible places.

Xun Xun arrived very quickly, arriving in the afternoon of the next day. A young man from Xie Jiawei rushed over almost as fast as he could fly: "Young Madam! Xun Xun is here, on the East Third Goat Inlet—"

Beforehand, Gu Wan numbered all the positions, and everyone memorized them by heart. She and Xun Xiao guarded the inns on both sides of the official road in the center, and picked out Xie Jiawei, who had the best light body skills, to be used as a report.

In just over a thousand meters, in the autumn weather, the young man was sweating profusely and rushed in shouting loudly.

Xun Xun worked really hard for Huyan De. His injury had not yet fully healed, but he arrived at Linlu Pass in just one day.

But his brotherly love soon faded.

Twenty or thirty people had been staying at different positions on both sides of the official road, staring at it intently. Gu Guan and Xun Xiao stood up suddenly. Gu Guan rushed downstairs, and Xun Xiao shot directly from the opposite side to the courtyard here.

Xun Xiao was breathing heavily and exchanged a glance with Gu Guan. They suddenly turned around and ran in that direction.

Over there, Xie Hai had already led his men into battle with Xun Xun's side. Xie Hai's appearance in front of everyone made Xun Xun, who was in the fierce battle, feel uncertain and uncertain. He turned his head suddenly from a distance and saw more than a dozen sharp figures suddenly appear in the brown, yellow, smoky, red and gray forest in the distance.

Almost at the first moment, Xun Xun saw the tall and thin gray-brown figure in front of him!

The wind lifted Xun Xiao's hood, revealing half of his face that looked like a devil.

Xun Xun's eyes were bloodshot, and almost in an instant, he suddenly turned around and flew away.

But Gu Wan's side almost came out in full force, and soon blocked the crowd in front of a cliff.

Very good, Xun Xun was blocked.

Gu Guan was actually quite nervous. After all, blocking people like this was a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack.

She was also wondering how she could catch Xun Xun next time if she failed this time.

But fortunately, there is no need to think too much.

Gu Guan smiled and let out a long breath.

It's not just her, everyone is like this.

Gu Wan patted the gravel on her hands that had just climbed up the slope. With two "pa pa" sounds, her mood was so good that she flew away. "Brother Xun, let's go."

Xun Xiao also curled his lips. He followed Gu Wan and walked slowly forward.

It was a cliff of moderate height, with a pine tree jutting out from the top. Gu Guan surveyed it for a while and suddenly said, "Xun Xun, do you think this place resembles the Heroic Martyrs' Hill?"

The place where Xun Xun and Xun Rongbi ambushed Xie Ci, the tomb of "Xun Xiao", and the cliff on the side.

It's really like the situation changes every ten years. At this point, Gu Wan was no longer worried about anything going wrong, and he smiled and mocked Xun Xun.

Xun Xun and the five or six confidants behind him formed a circle and stared at them with knives in their hands. Xun Xun was panting, his eyes as fierce as wolves, staring intently at Gu Guan and Xun Xiao who were slowly walking towards them while being surrounded by people.

Gu Wan smiled: "Don't be nervous. We are not here to kill you today. We are here to save you. Xun Xun, you have been living a huge lie for almost 30 years. I feel bad for you just thinking about it."

Xun Xun sneered, unmoved. Was this an attempt to incite him to revolt? What a joke.

But soon, he couldn't laugh anymore.

Gu Wan was always sharp-tongued, so she didn't take it as an offense: "Alas, you said your mother was a slave girl from the Kun Yuling tribe, and was used as a tool by Hu Yande to win over Xun Rongbi. Princess Rilian is really pitiful."

Her sigh this time was genuine. Princess Rilian had never enjoyed any vested interests. She served her stepmother with her mother in fear every day, but ended up in such a miserable state. No one from her mother's family took her seriously, and the husband she married not only hated her but was also her enemy. She probably only had a few years of false good life.

"Huyan De hates Xun Rongbi to the core. You are the biological son of Xun Rongbi and a slave girl. Does Huyan De really treat you as a brother? Do you think that's reasonable?"

After Gu Guan finished fanning the flames, she stretched out her hand and Xun Xiao took out a large oil-paper seal from his arms. Gu Guan lowered her head to open the seal, then looked up and smiled at Xun Xun. She was worried that Xun Xun would chop it without even reading it.

Gu Guan dropped the thing in her hand and stood up for a moment. The distance between them was very close. She saw Xun Xun's face suddenly change. She smiled and threw it in front of Xun Xun. It fell on the ground in front of him with a "pa".

The wind was very strong, and the pages were turning continuously.

No one lowered their heads to look at the things on the ground. Both sides stared at each other without blinking. Gu Guan smiled and waved back. Xie Jiawei and Liuyunwei, who were surrounded by people from near and far, slowly retreated with Gu Guan.

Finally, Gu Wan turned around and said with a smile: "There are four more people in Room 3 of the Daping Inn. If you want to see them, you can go and meet them. Please pay attention to the people around you."

She turned around and left.

He turned over, took the reins handed to him by Xie Hai and mounted the horse, "Brother Xun, let's go!"

Xun Xiao stared at Xun Xun without blinking. They had been brothers for twenty years. He loved Xun Xun to the extreme. He had no biological brothers or sisters, and his mother raised Xun Xun under her knees. He was his biological brother.

Xun Xiao smiled, but it was actually a bit ferocious. He showed a smile that was half mocking and half smiling, and said to Xun Xun with hatred: "In the end, you will find that my mother may be the only one who truly loved you."

Like a hoarse sound that has been repeatedly ground by sand and gravel.

Xun Xiao suddenly felt very happy. He felt that this was the way of revenge that truly suited his taste.

Killing Xun Xun should be left last. Killing him directly would be too easy for him.

Xun Xiao chuckled twice, suddenly turned around and left, walked quickly down the mountain, took the horse beside Gu Guan, turned over and got on, and smiled at Gu Guan.

His smile was filled with tears, relief, and emotion.

On the way, Gu Wan had actually told him that Xie Ci had specifically mentioned to her that she must bring Xun Xiao along.

——Xie Ci and Gu Guan had discussed that Xun Xiao's skills could be said to be top-notch in the world, much stronger than Xun Xun, but he happened to see Xun Xun twice on the battlefield but the latter escaped.

Xun Xiao must be feeling very uncomfortable.

Xie Ci thought that Xun Xiao was just too unlucky; but Gu Wan disagreed. She thought that it was a matter of aura between people. In fact, it was just like modern fugitives, who were often pursued relentlessly but were repeatedly discovered in advance and then ran away. They were often not the most capable, but had a sixth sense like a natural enemy of the criminal police. Often, even though they hadn't revealed anything, the criminal police would just look in this direction when they were arresting them.

If they have a little more skill, this type of people will be the hardest to catch.

Mysterious and mysterious.

But no matter what, Xie Ci took this matter to heart and asked Gu Wan several times, fearing that she had forgotten it.

The autumn wind was slightly chilly, ruffling his clothes against his face. Xun Xiao's heart was in turmoil. It was hard for him not to be moved. He took a deep breath and whispered hoarsely, "I want to be his brother for life."

Xun Xiao thought that he was still very lucky. Although he had experienced many hardships, he still had a lover and brothers.

Gu Wan couldn't help but laugh: "You tell him, why are you telling me?"

She laughed heartily, her hearty laughter clear and flying, carried by the wind and scattered on the road behind her. Xun Xiao couldn't help laughing too.

There were faint smile lines at the corners of his eyes, a smile of true joy.

As for Xun Xun and his group who were left behind, he should have destroyed these messy things with a knife, but for some reason, he froze for a moment and bent down to pick them up.

…

On this day, someone finally took revenge for most of his life. He was disfigured and violent as if he had lived half his life, but was eventually healed by his lover and brother. After the revenge, he will embark on a new stage in his life.

But some people are like falling into the eighteenth level of hell in an instant while on earth.

It gets dark early in autumn. After the mid-afternoon sunshine is gone, dusk falls and the sky quickly becomes dark.

After Xun Xun passed Linlu Pass, he stayed at a wild inn on the post road in the suburbs of Songcheng in the second half of the night.

He sat by the window under the candlelight, slowly flipping through the two thick stacks of paper, large and small, page by page.

He sat there motionless, his cheeks twitching uncontrollably, his eyes bloodshot from the wind and frost along the way, his expression at that moment was extremely ferocious!

Xun Xun stood up suddenly and swept everything on the table to the ground. His heart felt like it was being squeezed tightly. He kicked the square table as if it were the enemy who had killed his father and mother and committed a heinous crime. He kicked the table frantically: "I don't believe it! I don't believe it! I don't believe it—"

It overturned everything, and there was a vortex that was like a torrential downpour, the sky and the earth were spinning. At this moment, Xun Xun had disheveled hair and looked like a madman!

He doesn’t believe it!!

He absolutely doesn't believe it!!!

But the next moment, he stopped kicking the table, listened for a moment, and suddenly rushed out of the window.

The windows were opened wide, and the wind blew papers all over the room, but Xun Xun landed in front of a house in the backyard and stood in front of a person.

This man was his confidant, whose Chinese name was Liang Si.

He was selected from some Beirong orphans taken in by Wang Sheng. He has always been loyal and was promoted by Xun Xun to his confidant.

More than one-third of the people and affairs in Xun Xun's hands passed through his hands directly or indirectly, and he was aware of them.

At this moment, Liang Si's fingers were curled up. He had just released a carrier pigeon, and now the pigeon was in Xun Xun's hand.

Xun Xun crushed the carrier pigeon to death, pulled out the paper from the pigeon's mailbox, and found that it was a secret code whose meaning was unknown.

Xun Xun clenched his teeth tightly. He could smell the smell of rust and blood, his head was buzzing, and the darkness of the night was overwhelming. He didn't know that his expression was extremely ferocious. His bloodshot and terrifying eyes stared at Liang Si.

Liang Si retreated in panic. With a "clang" sound, Xun Xun drew out his long knife and blood splattered three feet away. He directly chopped off Liang Si's head.

The other confidants rushed over after hearing the noise. Xun Xun's head and face were covered in blood. He looked neither crying nor laughing, and looked hideous and terrifying.

Xun Xun's hoarse voice: "Supervise each other, clean him up, search the entire stronghold, and keep everyone under guard."

Xun Xun felt both cold and hot all over, and his hands and feet were trembling. He still refused to believe it. On that cold autumn night, he rushed out of the inn alone and headed straight for Liezhou.

Liezhou is a small state in Jianyou, close to the sea, with a warm and humid climate, making it the best place for retirement.

The year Xun Xun learned about his life story, it was his wet nurse Mo Mu and, with the help of Hu Yan De, they traveled thousands of miles to find him.

When he was still very young, Mom took good care of his daily life and raised him carefully. She held him in her arms and hummed the ancient songs of the Kunyuling tribe.

Mo Mu was not his mother, but she was like his mother. She was the only warm embrace of maternal love he had ever felt.

Everything he knew was told to him by Mo Mu and Wang Sheng.

Including, Xun Rongbi surrendered and turned against the army, and carefully arranged to kill all the warriors of Kun Yuling tribe, and in order to silence them, he slaughtered the entire Kun Yuling tribe from top to bottom, leaving no livestock behind.

In the princess's mansion, Xun Rongbi killed Princess Rilian and her two children, except for Xun Xun, who was only a few months old at the time. Xun Rongbi had a complicated expression on his face, but he finally took the baby away.

Mom hid in a water jar and escaped the disaster, and saw everything.

The Kun Yuling tribe was in a bloodbath. She traveled thousands of miles begging for a living before she finally found Huyan De. With Huyan De's help, she found Xun Mansion. After a lot of effort, she found him and came to his side.

Xun Xun's head and face were covered in blood, and he held a bloody long knife in his hand. He arrived in the second half of the night, but Mo Mu was old and slept very little, so he stood quietly by the woods and waited until dawn.

He spent a lot of time and effort before finally finding a safe and good place to hide Mom and live there for her retirement.

The sky finally brightened, and the fence gate was pushed open with a "creak". A young servant, a man and a woman, were talking while drawing water. Mom pushed the fence gate open with some staggering.

Xun Xun walked in the morning light, step by step to the small fenced house by the sea. All the climbing flowers here were planted by him personally, and he also spent a lot of effort to ask someone to transplant the jujube trees and pear trees.

He put a lot of thought into building a lush retirement home. When autumn came, the pear trees, wild kiwi fruit, persimmon trees and maple trees were all bright red and golden, laden with fruits. There was no trace of the loneliness and dryness of autumn, but rather the joy of a golden harvest.

However, when the fence gate was pushed open, Mom looked up and suddenly saw Xun Xun standing behind the wooden gate post. Suddenly, her pupils shrank rapidly.

It wasn't surprise, nor worry, but a fleeting look of alertness, and there wasn't even anything wrong with the old, drooping face.

But Xun Xun stared at her closely, and for a moment, he caught the instantaneous shrinkage of his pupils.

With a loud bang, like a landslide and tsunami, the whole world collapsed. Xun Xun's eyes were bloodshot. He pounced on her and grabbed her neck tightly.

The two fell to the ground, and he was like crazy: "Why? Why?! Why ah ah ah——"

It was like the whole person was torn in half, bloody, and thrown on the ground piece by piece. It was extremely cruel!

All he wanted was for half of his flesh and blood to be buried in the poplar forest.

What is the purpose of this life?!

Why was he born?

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...Actually, Xun Xun is pretty miserable too.

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