Novoland: Eagle Flag Chapter 1: Gun Sixteen

Jimo suddenly stopped and held her forearm tightly!

"What are you doing?" Yu Ran felt pain.

"I don't know," Ji Ye's voice was also panicked, "Is there something... something wrong."

Yu Ran followed his gaze to look at the black-gold spear, and it hummed strangely in Ji Ye's hand, humming and trembling. Ji Ye looked at the front and back, it was a narrow and straight alley, the moonlight was hidden in the leaves of the fir trees behind the high wall, and there was no one in the front, back, back.

There was a slight vibration under my feet, which made my heart beat extremely fast. Instinctively like a beast, Ji Ye completely ignored his own pain, and hurriedly pulled Yu Ran forward. But the alley has no forks at all, and the further you go, the darker it becomes.

The shock approached from behind. That was the sound of hoofbeats, only majestic war horses would have that heavy and powerful hoofbeat sound, the iron-like cold was oppressing from behind like a wall, Yu Ran felt his scalp numb. Ji Ye turned his head abruptly, and saw the bright white Bei Lu steed, the man on the horse was shrouded in black leather armor, and the sword in his hand was across the saddle.

"You...what are you doing?" Yu Ran shouted.

The man grabbed the horse and approached slowly, the horse's broad chest blocked the entire alley.

Ji Ye firmly held Yu Ran's hand, and rushed forward with all his strength. His whole body was covered in cold sweat, and he had never felt such terrible pressure even in a duel with such an outstanding warrior as Tie Yan. His intuition told him that the people who pushed over from behind had nothing to discuss. The horses behind did not step up, but the shadows were not in a hurry.

Suddenly a slight light appeared at the end of the dark high wall, and they finally ran to the end of the alley.

Just when Yu Ran felt that he could breathe a sigh of relief, figures suddenly appeared on both sides, blocking the exit of the alley with their shoulders side by side. They all carried narrow and long weapons in their hands, obviously trained, and their movements were quick and neat.

"Dog! Let you play wild in front of us!" It was still a child's voice, but the other party's attack was precise and powerful, and the weapon lowered down and hit Ji Ye's knee horizontally.

It is a wooden pole for practicing long weapons. It is made of dense and tough wax wood. The sound of the wind stopped completely, and Ji Ye's spear swept across, cutting the long pole into two sections from the center, and then swept it on the nearby stone wall, with flying debris.

When the opponent was stunned, Ji Ye threw the spear in his hand. The roar of the 24-jin heavy gun frightened the other party, and the children surrounded by the alley got down together. Ji Ye grabbed Yu Ran, stomped on the back of one of them, and rushed out of the alley. . Yu Ran smelled a strong smell of alcohol, these children were all drunk.

Ji Ye picked up the tiger tooth that fell to the ground, and turned to block Yu Ran behind him: "Who are you? Why ambushed me?"

"You asked why you stole something from someone else?" The man on horseback walked slowly out of the alley.

"It's you!?" Ji Ye pointed at him.

The older boy's blue face had a white murderous look under the moonlight, and his sunken eyes stared straight at Ji Ye. When passing by Yu Ran's face, Yu Ran felt goose bumps all over his skin.

"What is so arrogant?" She leaned into Ji Ye's ear.

"The samurai from the East Palace, I met in the Martial Arts Field today," Ji Ye squinted at the children, "The leader is called You Yin, they are all trash."

"You are trash!" A child with a flushed face and smelling of alcohol came out holding a wooden knife, "A thing with no name or surname dares to block our way. Do you know who the golden chrysanthemum belongs to? It belongs to our eldest brother! Is it your turn to show off your prestige?"

"Ambush others with so many people just for a golden chrysanthemum? It's just a lump of gold, so we're not interested in giving it to us!" The plump Hime Ye responded behind him, saying that people with feathers are often taller than humans. Tall and tall, she exposed her head on Himeno's shoulder, resting her pointed chin on Himeno's shoulder.

You Yin glanced at her: "We are not looking for trouble with you, if you don't want to be beaten, just step aside!"

Meeting his gaze, Yu Ran shivered again, but still said stiffly: "Why didn't you step aside? Shave face, are you drunk and unable to move? We can help kick it I’m afraid you’ll bark and bark if the kick hurts, and disturb others’ sleep at night.”

Her talent in language is obviously too much, but after staying in Nanhuai City for a year, she is no different from the children in the streets and alleys, and her tone is full of disdain and disdain. disdain. The children on the opposite side were stunned for a moment, and they all took a step forward, with awe-inspiring murderous intent.

"I'm really angry..." Yu Ran lowered her arrogance, shrank her head and put her head next to Ji Ye's ear, "Will they really do something?"

"Don't talk too much if you're afraid," Ji Ye lowered his voice.

"You!" He took a step forward, pointing at You Yin on the horseback, "If you don't accept that I have defeated the barbarian warrior, if you have the guts to fight against me alone, if I lose, I will pay you the gold chrysanthemum. With so many of you swarming up, don’t expect me to convince you even if you win!”

You Yin sized him up and down with piercing eyes: "Golden chrysanthemum? Can you afford it? Do you think it's just a piece of gold?"

He laughed loudly: "Who are you? Who am I? Fight with you? Do I need to get my hands dirty? Wait until you have the status to be my enemy. Cut off your head with one sword, and give you a refreshment!"

"Give it to me!" He waved his hand violently.

The children let out a roar, and stormed up from left to right. Ji Ye violently pushed Yu Ran out, and just as he was about to turn around to face him, someone stabbed the wound on his waist with a wooden knife from the side. He let out a low howl in pain, and then another wooden knife struck the top of his head. Fortunately, he hadn't removed the helmet of the Custodian's leather armor, otherwise that heavy blow might have opened his skull.

He fell to the ground, and the children rushed up, some with wooden knives, some with fists, and some with feet. Martial arts were completely useless, Ji Ye dodged in the crowd with her head in her arms, Yu Ran anxiously jumped behind her feet, she wanted to rush up to pull those people away several times, but was pushed back hard every time.

"Don't hurt her," You Yin ordered on the horseback, so the children's wooden knives hadn't come back and landed on Yu Ran.

The beating crowd moved to the wall, and it was useless for Ji Ye to try to dodge, the children's fists and feet fell down chaotically. Yu Ran stared blankly, then lowered her head and saw a puddle of blackness on the ground. Not just one puddle, but one puddle after another of jet-black stretched towards the crowd by the wall.

"Blood...it's blood!" she yelled in panic.

A drunken businessman was turned around on a frost-blue steed, like a person going against the water, when she saw the straw, she rushed over and grabbed the man's rein recklessly: "Save me! , save him! They will kill him like this, they will kill him!"

She didn't know why she was so scared, she was so afraid that there was a force in her chest that wanted to tear her apart.

Looking at the girl who is as beautiful as jade, the drunken businessman came to his senses, looking at the entourage behind him with a knife, and pondered slightly.

"It's better for you to ignore the matter of the Imperial Guards in the Eastern Palace," a faint voice came from the side, "Do your business honestly!"

"Forbidden Army!" The faces of the businessman and his followers changed, as if seeing a plague patient, the businessman hastily pulled the hood on his cloak to cover his face, and he rode his horse to leave.

Yu Ran pulled his horse vigorously: "Where are you going? Save people!"

The merchant's horsewhip hit her hand indiscriminately: "Let go! Let go!"

A follower came up and pushed Yu Ran shortly, and Yu Ran fell to the ground. For the first time in her life, she felt that she had fallen from the high treetops into the dust, helplessness and panic welled up in her heart, and she pointed at the businessman angrily: "If it is on the land of Ningzhou, I will order you Kill them all!"

The sudden majesty rising from the girl made the businessman and his followers hesitate, and they couldn't help but restrain their mounts.

At this moment, the crowd by the wall suddenly dispersed. They were destroyed by a huge force from inside. Ji Ye rushed out with his shoulder on a child's chest. His face was covered with blood, and his pupils were as bright as fire. The child fell to the ground, and Ji Ye stepped on his chest and dodged to Yu Ran's side. He hugged Yuran by the waist, punched the businessman off the horse, and turned on the horse with Yuran.

The horse stabbed into the night like arrows with two people.

A drop of warmth remained behind Yu Ran's back. She knew what it was, but she didn't dare to touch it.

"You're still bleeding!"

"It's okay...it's okay," Ji Ye touched his face, his hands were bloody, "It's all superficial injuries, let's go, don't let these rascals catch up."

The children's wooden knives did not injure him severely, but what was left by the iron leaf on his waist was the worst, the wound was open and bleeding continuously. The blood loss made his eyes blurred, he felt cold, so he could only hug Yuran tightly. He was not good at riding a horse, he only felt that the violent bumps seemed to shake the soul out of the top of the skull, so he could only hug Yuran to prevent himself from falling.

Many years later, in Himeno's dream, he was still on the horse's back, but he stretched out his arms to hug him, but his arms were empty.

"Ah!" Yu Ran exclaimed.

The horse neighed suddenly, and the whole person stood up. Ji Ye and Yu Ran were completely thrown off the horse's back, and the pain from the landing made his spirit recover a bit. He propped up his body and looked, and suddenly found that he was on the edge of the cliff. It was the instinct of the steed that saved them from bad luck.

"How did you get here?"

"I don't know!" Yu Ran shook his head, "I don't know how to ride a horse!"

"We're outside the city! This is the mountain road of Yiyun Mountain. We ran all the way up the mountain road," Ji Ye clenched his gun tightly, "I know, this is a dead end! They forced us to run here This is a war horse, it will escape by itself."

"Is there another way?" Yu Ran had already heard the sound of approaching horse hoofs, just as Ji Ye expected, the horses of the Eastern Palace Guards followed closely behind them.

"No," Ji Ye shook his head, he stepped on the edge of the cliff, a piece of gravel was kicked down by him, and the sound of rolling on the stone was heard after a long, long time. A full moon shone on the top of the cliff, and there were no trees around. They had nowhere to hide and no way out.

The cavalry came like a gust of wind. The children are all good horse riders, and they spread out in one piece and rushed forward. The faint lion horse is at the end, with a gloomy expression, flicking the epee with his fingers. Several children approached him, discussing in low voices, while the rest of the children had smiles on their faces as if they were watching prey.

Yu Ran couldn't restrain himself from trembling: "Will they kill us?"

Ji Ye shook his head: "I don't think they will kill you, I don't know."

He pushed Yuran: "Leave me alone, I... am not afraid."

"What are you talking about?" Yu Ran shouted.

Jimo didn't know what to say, he just squeezed Yuran's hand vigorously as an answer.

The children who were discussing also dispersed, and the entire horse team came up silently. These children who looked childish in the daytime looked extraordinarily gloomy at this time, Ji Ye didn't know what they wanted to do, maybe they just insulted him and beat him, maybe it was common for these children of aristocratic families to kill a child or two civilians .

He didn't want to lose the courage of the Ji family, he clenched his fists tightly, and put finger gloves under his gloves. This gave him a little more courage, and he wanted to take a step forward.

He is blocked. Yu Ran suddenly rushed in front of him, and stretched out his arms to block the children.

"You jump down," Yu Ran said in a low voice while turning her head.

"What?" Ji Ye thought he heard it wrong.

"You jump from here!" Yu Ran amplified her voice, this time everyone heard it.

"Yu Ran, what are you talking about?" Ji Ye was completely stunned, and Yu Ran had already pushed him towards the edge of the cliff.

"Didn't you hear me?" Yu Ran shouted, trying her best, like a child asking for an apple, "Today is my birthday, don't you want to give me something? Then I will You jump from here!"

Himeno looked into her rosy eyes. He couldn't tell what feeling he was surrounded by at that moment, maybe he was surprised by the serious beauty, maybe he was confused by Yu Yu's sudden willfulness, maybe it was just a touch of warmth and trust in his blood.

He turned around and jumped off the cliff!

The mountain wind whistled in his ears, and he tried his best to raise his head to face the full moon. Suddenly there was a figure in the moon shadow.

"Yu Ran!" he roared.

Yu Ran followed him and jumped off the cliff. In the sudden fall, Yu Ran's body shone with a silver-like brilliance. Her face was obviously in some kind of struggling pain, but she stretched out her hands with all her strength, and held them tightly with Ji Ye.

The stunned teenagers rushed to the edge of the cliff together to see the two fallen people. In the deep valley, the white clothes on the girl's body are as bright as the moon, as if there is a round of light on her body, and then expands hundreds or thousands of times. For a moment, it seemed as if there was a moon in the sky and a moon in the ground, and something pierced the brilliance of the full moon below like a sharp knife.

The light actually shattered like a substance, and dispersed with the wind like ashes. What was left behind was a brilliant feather of light that was two feet long. When it is fully opened, it is like a chick struggling to break through the eggshell that binds it, and utters its first clear cry to the world. Everyone was blinded by the light.

When they were able to open their eyes, they saw the girl's huge vibrating feathers slowly rising from the cliff, and the clothes behind her were completely torn, exposing her transparent skin like bright jade. But the children have no time to pay attention to other things, they only see the pair of huge light feathers flapping slowly, brilliant as if the envoy was resurrected from the burning ashes.

"Yuren...she is Yuren!" Someone shouted.

"It's the pure-blooded feathered royal family," You Yin couldn't believe his eyes, "Only their wings are shining."

Yuran's wingtips raised, turned obliquely, and glided towards the distance of the valley with a huge arc. Ji Ye's feet were hanging in the air, holding Yu Ran's waist tightly, he felt like a lamb grabbed by a giant eagle, but it was the first time he saw the earth like this, he completely forgot the pain, only left next surprise.

The pale blue mountains extend to the distance and will meet Leiyan Mountain. The white water line is distant and clear under the moonlight. It is a tributary of Jianshui, and the earth below becomes a huge territory.

"Yu Ran, you really can fly," he shouted up.

"Don't move!" Yu Ran also yelled in response, "I've only flown a few times, and tonight happens to be the full moon of Mingyue Law, otherwise I can't do anything to spread my wings so fast."

"Where are we going?"

"I don't know, I can fly alone with me."

"Can you fly to the Phoenix Pond to see the lanterns?"

Yu Ran nodded, looking at the boy's bright black eyes, she showed her teeth and smiled: "In the future, I will be able to fly farther when I grow up, and I will take you to Ningzhou to see the forest. There is no need to build a ship, I will take you there!"

[History]

The name Yuran is also called Princess Rose. In romance novels, Yu Ran is to King Xie Yulie, just like Princess Rose is to Emperor Rose.

However, many years later, Daxie's official history did not contain this woman's name. Only those storytellers in the streets and alleys took a few words from the official history and added anecdotes from unofficial history notes to make up absurd stories. The romance is sung and sold for money, but he never forgets that when Yu Lie Wang Shiwei was young, there was such a girl who accompanied him, holding his hand and flying into the sky.

However, there are always some clues hidden in the historian's writings.

In "Xiehe Hanshu·Xiang Kongyue Biography", it is mentioned that King Yulie conquered Chen State and his soldiers approached the city. General Fei An of Chen State urged the Lord not to surrender. He killed Fei'an and captured Chen Guogong alive. According to the practice of King Yulie's marching, if the city was destroyed without surrender, all the centurions and above would be executed on the spot. If Chen Guogong does not surrender, he will not escape death. But Chen Guogong was young and proficient in playing the piano. Grand Tutor Xiang Kongyue took pity on his talent and wanted to save his life, so he gave him a painting and asked him to present it when he met King Yulie.

Chen Guogong is proficient in calligraphy and painting. Seeing that the painting is just the work of a street painter, without any method and artistic conception, he can't help but doubt it. But Taifu Xiang persuaded him not to worry, and only said that this painting was drawn by a wandering painter who went to Nanhuai in Tang Dynasty to capture the back of a real person on the street accidentally. It can save Chen Guogong's life.

Chen Guogong obeyed Xiang Taifu's words, presented his paintings at the court, and finally escaped safely. Although he was stripped of all titles, he unexpectedly received a double axe from King Yulie, as a token to protect his remaining life . Chen Guogong, who escaped from the dead, was very lucky. When others asked him what was on the painting, he kept his mouth shut. He didn't tell his son the secret until he was dying. He said that this was the thing that he didn't understand in his life. On that poor picture scroll, there were only a boy and a girl holding hands on the street under the moonlight.

On the night when King Yulie got the painting, his attendants saw him sitting quietly in the snow under the eaves, leaning on a spear, and sat silently all night.