Zhang Rou turned back to the lobby and saw Jingjie pacing back and forth. She quickly greeted him as soon as she saw him.
"Uncle, Li Xia escaped from the siege!"
"what happened?"
"General Zhang lost control as soon as he saw the intelligence. He was too hasty!"
After Jingjie said this, he realized that he had lost his composure, took a few deep breaths, calmed down, and then started from the beginning.
"I asked people to carefully identify the body. It was not Li Xia who died. It was probably Zhang Liu'er, a personal guard of General Zhang. He was killed by a crossbow arrow and was injured on the back of the neck. It can be inferred that Li Xia was in ambush in the west of Weishan at that time.
When Zhang Liuer went to deliver orders to General Zhang, he killed him, changed his clothes, smashed his face, and threw him into a mountain stream, leaving behind his baggage and sword.
After that, Li Xia pretended to be General Zhang's personal soldier and called on the others to catch up and lead them to find the body. General Zhang opened the bag and saw that it was really the information we were looking for, so he rushed back to report to the commander. After I got the news
, I also thought that Li Xia would be confused, so I stayed to continue the investigation and continued to block Weishan."
Zhang Rou was displeased and said, "Where is Li Xia?"
Jingjie said: "I have checked it out and haven't found it yet. But..."
"explain."
"But I found that Zhang Liuer's horse was ridden away." Jingjie said: "Zhang Liuer, as General Zhang's personal guard, had a yellow horse that disappeared."
Zhang Rou took a deep breath and said slowly: "You mean, Li Xia followed Zhang Yanxiong and escaped from Weishan's encirclement?"
"I presume so."
"is it possible?"
Jingjie said: "As soon as General Zhang got the information, he was overjoyed. He didn't even tell me. He ran straight back to report to the commander, bringing more than ten personal guards with him. It's possible that he didn't pay attention to the people around him."
"How could you not notice at all?!"
Jingjie hurriedly handed over his hands and said: "At that time, they thought Li Xia was dead, and they were in a hurry to send the information back. They ran in a hurry."
Zhang Judao: "If that's the case, Zhang Yanxiong is too stupid."
"General Zhang is not to blame for this matter. No one thought that Li Xia would lose the information. They all thought that he was dead, and they never thought that he would dare to follow General Zhang."
"absurd."
"It's just ridiculous, I didn't expect it." Jingjie said: "When I made the speculation, I couldn't believe it. But Wulang said that what Li Xiali is strong is not his strategy, but his arrogant attitude. He dares to do things that ordinary people dare not do.
It turned out to be like this..."
Although Jingjie was annoyed, there was some appreciation in his tone, and he murmured: "This trick is nothing, it can be easily guessed. But in the end, he followed General Zhang to leave the siege. His strategy was average, but his courage... This courage
, I have seen it today.”
Zhang Rou snorted coldly, not knowing what she was thinking.
Jingjie added: "However, this is just my speculation. Whether it is true or not, I have asked General Zhang to investigate the personal guards..."
"Let's talk after it's confirmed."
"yes……"
After a while, Zhang Yanxiong hurried up to the hall, his face flushed as red as pig liver.
Without saying a word, he knelt down in front of Zhang Rou, clasped his fists, and said loudly: "Commander, I am so stupid! I am just a pig!"
"Get up." Zhang Rou shouted, "Where is Li Xia?"
"No... I don't know." Zhang Yanxiong said: "I rushed back as soon as I got the baggage. I didn't notice how many people were following me. I just checked the personal guards and it seems... there seems to be one missing..."
Zhang Rou was furious and shouted: "I mobilized so many troops for you to surround Weishan, but they all turned into decorations?!"
"Please, Commander-in-Chief, punish me."
Jingjie said: "Uncle, General Zhang is a general who kills enemies on the battlefield rather than patrolling. There is no problem with the deployment of troops. It's my fault that I didn't think of it in time. The question is... where did Li Xia go after following Zhang Yanxiong to Zaoyuan?
"
backyard.
"Sister, eldest sister, look at this... look at this quickly!"
Feng'er hurried into Zhang Wenjing's room and handed over the colored paper and eyebrow pencil in her hand.
"Sister, look at it. You fell on the swing just now... Look at it."
Zhang Wenjing reached out and took the colored paper, opened it and took a look.
For a moment, she seemed to be frozen, her eyes were frozen, and she was already in a daze...
In the lobby, Jingjie asked Zhang Yanxiong various details, and finally frowned and analyzed.
"Kill Zhang Liu'er...throw away the information...disguise yourself as a personal guard and follow General Zhang to Zaoyuan...disappear?"
Suddenly, Jingjie was shocked and his face turned pale in an instant.
"Li Xia is in Zaoyuan!"
Zhang Rou quickly stood up.
Zhang Yanxiong was still kneeling there. He turned his head and saw a servant running up.
"Alang, Alang, report...there are...two boys were tied up, stripped of their clothes, and thrown into the woodshed...a lot of things were lost in the kitchen..."
"What did you say?"
"A lot of things were lost in the kitchen..."
Jingjie turned around and ran out, shouting: "Quick! Seal Zaoyuan! Search for Li Xia!"
After he finished his instructions, he turned around and said: "Uncle, information...information...he is back to get information!"
Zhang Rou had already strode out and walked quickly towards the backyard.
"Follow me to protect your eldest sister!"
"yes!"
"Protect the commander!"
"yes……"
Zhang Wenjing held the colored paper in her hand and suddenly rushed out of the room.
She didn't know what was going on in her mind, but she only had one thought... she wanted to see him.
There were guards rushing around the yard, and people were shouting all around.
"Get all the boys!"
"Protect my eldest sister..."
"Protect the commander..."
"Don't leave, Xizuo..."
Zhang Wenjing passed through the moon gates and looked around, her eyes constantly searching.
"Li Xia... where are you? If you can't run away, come to me... Li Xia... none of you are allowed to kill him! No one is allowed to kill him!"
"Sister!"
"Li Xia..."
Zhang Wenjing shouted and cried again.
She kept wiping her tears with the back of her hand, feeling that if he saw her again, he would say that she loved to cry.
Every time she heard a shout, she would run over to take a look, fearing that he would die if it was too late.
The clean embroidered shoes soon became stained with dust, and the hem of the skirt kept swaying.
Room after room, rockery after rockery... they are all empty.
Looking up, the jujube trees above me reflect the blue sky, and the courtyard walls are layered one after another.
She didn't know where he was.
"Li Xia...if you can't run away, come to me..."
Finally, Zhang Rou strode over and grabbed Zhang Wenjing.
"Sister! That's enough!"
"Don't kill him...don't kill him..."
"Calm down!" Zhang Rou yelled, looked down, and finally softened her attitude, sighing: "Okay, okay, if I didn't catch him, he would have run away, he would have run away a long time ago.
.”
"Ran……"
Zhang Wenjing felt empty again and couldn't stop crying.
"Woo... I want to see you again... I really want to see you again..."
The jujube tree was blown by the wind and swayed gently.
The sun sets in the west, the blue sky turns golden little by little, and the shadows on the ground are lengthened.
The chaos in the jujube garden gradually subsided.
The little girl who was squatting on the Yao steps and crying gradually stopped sobbing.
She wiped away the tears on her face, picked up the colored paper in her hand and looked at it blankly.
On the colored paper, under the many words and sentences she filled in, someone used an eyebrow pencil to fill in the song "Tian Jing Sha".
"Withered vines, old trees and dim crows, small bridges and flowing water, people's houses, the west wind and thin horses on the ancient roads. The sun sets in the west, and the heartbroken people are at the end of the world."
As the sun set, she felt her heart breaking. She finally found her sweetheart, but that person was far away...
On the ancient road, Li Xia rode a yellow horse and turned to look at the sunset over the mountains.
He saw the heaven, earth, mountains and rivers, and knew that his ambition in this life was in these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains...