Sydney Wandan's head was the second dead man's head Gu Yuanbai had seen up close.
Coincidentally, both heads were sent to him by Xue Yuan, firstly to invite credit, and secondly to let Gu Yuanbai vent his anger. The head that invited credit was the Walled City Lord of Wang Tu Mountain, while this one, not to be outdone, was one of the chiefs of the eight divisions of the Khitan.
When the Jinghu South's rebels were pressed back to the capital to behead the public, because Xu Xiongyuan was a line in Gu Yuanbai's palm from beginning to end, a complete defeat, Gu Yuanbai did not want to go to see his beheading of the interest, and therefore full of counting, he has also seen these two dead heads.
However, Gu Yuanbai was calm.
He was calm from the bottom of his heart, and Gu Yuanbai hadn't thought that he could be so frank, even frank enough to dismiss his words in life with a dead man's head.
After sending someone to take Sydney Wandan's head and dispose of it, Gu Yuanbai asked, "Is there nothing else?"
The man who informed him said, "The post also sent something over, from General Xue."
With that, he pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket, raised both hands above his head, and respectfully sent it to Gu Yuanbai.
Gu Yuanbai looked at this handkerchief for a while before reaching out to pick it up and slowly unfolding it.
However, there was nothing on top of the handkerchief, it was empty. Gu Yuanbai's brows furrowed, thinking that some secret recipe had been used, "Bring water."
As the palace attendant brought the water, he walked to the front of the temple and raised his handkerchief to the blazing sun in the air, when he barely noticed that there was a tiny bit of sunken color in the center part of the handkerchief.
It looks like the traces of water mixed with sand and wind after drying, if not carefully that will not be able to see at all.
"What can this be?" Gu Yuanbai mused.
It was then that the informant remembered, "Your Holiness, there was a note among the handkerchiefs."
He searched for it and handed the note to His Holiness. Gu Yuanbai took it and saw that it was written at the top:
--First snowflake of the northern frontier, yours.
*
The wind and snow on the northern border are like goose feathers.
While Xue Yuan was writing his letter, a bystander poked his head over to take a look and laughed out loud, "Xue Jiuyao, it should be that the wind and snow in the northern border are like duck feathers flying."
The crowd laughed out loud at this statement.
The wind was whistling outside the tent, rattling the tent. It had to be held down by rocks to keep the wind and snow from blowing in.
Xue Yuan faced these people's jokes and dipped his ink without changing his face, continuing to write down the characters.
After the bystanders finished laughing at him, they continued to chat idly, and after a while, someone asked, "Who exactly is Xue Jiuyao writing these letters all day long?"
Everyone said they didn't know, and when someone wanted to ask Xue Yuan, Xue Yuan had already pulled back the curtain and ran outside alone to a deserted place to continue writing the letter.
The wind and snow outside directly hit his face, relying on the cotton clothes on his body to protect his heat. Xue Yuan is strong and sturdy, wearing a winter coat is even more hot, the snow has not yet fallen on his body, has been melted by the heat of his body is gone.
Xue Yuan placed the ink on a rock and put the paper on his hand to continue writing, his speed becoming faster. There was no way around it, it was too cold outside, if he didn't write faster, either the ink would freeze or the brush would freeze.
These are all letters to Gu Yuanbai.
Xue Yuan also wrote earlier, sent many letters to Gu Yuanbai before the day he ran to the capital, but Gu Yuanbai is just a little heartless, he just won't. After returning from the capital, knowing that the other party will not return, but Xue Yuan still wrote more frequently.
For some reason, after returning from the capital, Xue Yuan missed Gu Yuanbai even more.
It was strange that the earlier thoughts could still be suppressed and become weeds growing wild. But now the thoughts seemed to have found the trick, they knew what was Xue Yuan's itch, the place that Xue Yuan couldn't cover, and grew and grew again.
It is even more violent than before, and even more impossible to suppress. Even now in the snow and wind to write the letter, Xue Yuan also only feel the heart hot, and even brought some burning. The liver is so hot that it is difficult to burn, and the skin of the mouth is blistering.
The wind and snow also hit this letter paper, but wet that point of darkness in turn has an unusual meaning. Xue Yuan put the letter away and put it in his pocket to look up at the sky.
The hot air that came out between his breaths flew upward, and he thought for a while about Gu Yuanbai, about his fingertips that were also as white and as cold as snow, about his neck, face, and lips.
I've thought about it several times and regretted it. Why didn't I think of kissing him more? Why didn't I think of sucking a few marks on his neck?
Take a close thing back to miss, even if it is another bag of bath water, go to drink a mouthful of water ...... that slides down Gu Yuanbai s body how it is better than dry thinking like this now.
The white jade cup that was brought over had long since lost the flavor of Gu Yuanbai, and there was only the dragon pattern left on top of the handkerchief, so Xue Yuan sighed deeply and went back to his tent.
Old General Xue, who had been out on some inspections, also returned and gave him an extremely puzzled look, "In the middle of winter, why is your fire so strong."
"I don't know," Xue Yuan lifted his eyelids to look at him, touched his lips, and thought, thinking about Gu Yuanbai thinking about how he could have such a big fire even in the middle of winter, unfortunately, it would be good if this pain was from Gu Yuanbai biting the pain, he sighed, "General Xue, hurry up and go in, they are all waiting for you. "
Father and son walked into the barracks, and placed in the middle of the generals was a sand table, with different flags already planted above it, which was the territory of the rest of the nomadic people in the northern border.
"Come to discuss the battle after the New Year," Old General Xue said, "Hahahahaha, when we finish discussing this final battle, we can next prepare for the New Year! This year is bound to be a good year, and this final hurdle requires everyone to hold on for a little while longer."
The generals were glowing and said in unison, "Yes!" Feverish negotiations began.
*
As soon as the time into the winter, the time when the white sky is bright becomes shorter and shorter. Not only the northern border is so, the capital city is also so, and the capital city of winter, is only better than the northern border so a finger work.
His Holiness came out in the middle of December to make a special tour of the people's lives in the capital. Chu Wei was also with him, and the group took a deep look, and on the return trip, Gu Yuanbai's face added some smiles.
On their way to the countryside together, the people who were keeping an eye on Chu Wei took off and sneaked back to the Xue Mansion, telling Second Duke Xue about this matter.
"His Holiness and Chu Wei are traveling together?" Second Duke Xue violently sat up propping up the bed, "Then why don't you guys quickly find a chance to dispose of Chu Wei! Don't you know Xue Yuan's temper? If he fails to do what he's told you to do, will it be you or me who dies?"
The boy said, "It is you who die."
Second Duke Xue was shaken with fear, "If you know that, why don't you hurry up and do it?"
"Second Prince, it's not that we won't do anything," the boy said, "it's that we've discovered that there's another group of people who have their eyes on Chu Wei."
Second Prince Xue was curious, "Who?"
The boy shook his head, "I don't know. But they have been following Chu Wei since early morning today, and now Chu Wei is with His Holiness, if they make a move, I'm afraid that all these people's lives will be in jeopardy."
"Good good good!" Second Duke Xue said joyfully, "Then you guys shouldn't do anything, just let the group of people following Chu Wei do it for us."
The boy was respectful: "Yes."
These people following Chu Wei were the very people sent over by the Western Xia Emperor.
Western Xia Prince is trying to secretly teach Chu Wei a lesson, he felt that since he likes Chu Wei, that will not do too much, is to send people to Chu Wei tied to Chu Wei, so that Chu Wei was humiliated by him humiliation, and so he finished out of gas, this person can be released. At that time, even if the Emperor of Daheng want to check, also have to pay attention to the evidence is not?
The people sent over by the Western Xia Emperor didn't know Gu Yuanbai's identity, and while they watched out for Gu Yuanbai and the group of guards behind Chu Wei, they passed messages to each other, "So many people, it's not a good time to start."
"But they can't do well in the capital," the leader was sweating with impatience, "There are patrols in the city, and just a chance in the countryside."
"Look at that male child walking in the forefront, at a glance you can tell that he is not in good health and has no hands," the subordinate said, "there happens to be a hill in front of us, let's ambush there, one group of people will go to captivate Chu Wei, one group of people will go to captivate this male child, bring this person along just so that we can take him to threaten those guards, and Let those people dare not go forward."
The leader nodded and wiped the sweat off his head, "That's it,"
*
Gu Yuanbai and Chu Wei walked slowly, talking and laughing. Just as they reached a hillside, someone beside them suddenly rushed out with a loud shout, holding a large, ferocious sword in their hands, and in the blink of an eye, a dozen or so people rushed towards the duo from both sides.
The guards behind them immediately drew their swords and stepped forward, Chu Wei's complexion changed, and he instantly protected in front of the saint, "Your Holiness, quickly go!"
Between the words, these have long been ambushed in this resignation has rushed to the front, Chu Wei does not flash not to hide, just when he was ready to die for righteousness, only to hear a few sound of broken air sound in the ear, in front of the body of the first assassin has been a scream, covering the chest kneeling on the ground.
Chu Wei was stunned and turned around to see that His Holiness had an incomparably calm face and was holding an incredibly small crossbow, shooting short arrows repeatedly at the resigned assassin in front of him. He was really calm, holding the crossbow and raising his arm, after this assassin was hit by an arrow he smoothly turned to the next person.
But in the blink of an eye, the guards had already rushed forward to start fighting with these people, only to hear the sound of clashing arms not more than a few times, these assassins had already been pressed by the guards and knelt down.
Gu Yuanbai put away the special crossbow that the Ministry of Engineering had given him, and when he saw Chu Wei staring at him without blinking, he evoked a gentle smile on his cold face, "Chu Qing, frightened?"
Chu Wei abruptly felt the heart within the chest cavity jumping, he squeezed his hand, face instantly flew on the thin red, such as jade on the forehead, and even in an instant out of a fine layer of thin sweat.
Gu Yuanbai patted his arm soothingly, and then stepped forward, walking over to the assassin who had been the first to pounce, smiling coldly, "I've gotten this crossbow for half a year now, and I'm still using it for the first time today, and I'm using it on your body."
As soon as the assassin, who was bowing in pain and white with blood, heard his words, his eyes widened and his face grimaced out in bruises.
Your Majesty?