Chapter 243 If there is an afterlife

The next day, Quan Wanji and Yin Yang, with their own soldiers from the royal palace, escorted Wei Haochen and Du Chengyuan to Chang'an. As the leader, Zhao Chong, was locked in an iron prison car with a tightly seam. He was tied in a black mask and was detained in the center of the team.

The group walked out of Xiangyang City. Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui waited for them next to the official road, saying that they wanted to meet Zhao Chong and say a few words.

Yin Yang stopped the team and opened a window of the iron prison car in person. Without removing Zhao Chong's black hood, he let Qin Mubai speak to it.

"Zhao Chong, I'm sorry that I didn't crack that secret as soon as possible." Qin Mubai walked to the prison car and whispered to the window, "But don't worry, I will crack it one day."

"I believe you." Zhao Chong's voice came from inside. Because he was wearing a hood, his voice was a little vague.

"Think about this secret again. Is there anything else you haven't told me?" Qin Mubai asked.

Zhao Chong was silent for a while and said, "It seems to be gone. But there is a small thing. I don't know if it will help you. When my grandfather passed away, my father and I took a look at his belongings and found a dark compartment under his bed with an old armor in it. Look at the system, it's not ordinary goods. Later, when I joined the army, I learned that it was the head of the thirteenth armor, the bright light armor, which is valuable. It is not something that can be worn by ordinary military schools.

"Your grandfather actually has a bright armor?" Qin Mubai was surprised and said, "Was he a senior general in the army when he was alive?"

"I don't know. My father doesn't know either. Zhao Chong said, "That's all. When my father passed away a few years ago, I took it to his old man's funeral. I have checked it carefully. It's nothing special. It's just an ordinary bright light armor. However, that pair of armor is slightlydifferent from my Tang Dynasty-style armor. It should not be from this dynasty.

"Is it from the former Sui?"

"It should be." Zhao Chong said, "My father and I never knew that my grandfather had joined the army. Since my father was born, we only knew that he was the leader of the green forest on the waterway in Jingzhou. Other than that, there is nothing else."

"Okay, I see. Thank you." Qin Mubai said.

"I hope you don't let me down. If I go to Chang'an, I will definitely die. After entering the prison, it is impossible for you to see me. I just hope you can burn a string of paper for me on Tomb-sweeping Day next year and tell me the good news.

"I will." Qin Mubai nodded, "Go and go!" If there is an afterlife, I hope we can become friends.

"Someone also thought so and said goodbye, General Qin. In fact, you are a good person. Zhao Chong seemed to be still smiling.

Qin Mubai sighed and waved his hand. Yin Yang came forward and pulled the window and took the man and horse away.

Xue Rengui stood aside and whispered, "The fate of people is really not good. If Zhao Chong hadn't been born in a bandit family, he might have become an excellent figure.

"Yes, he is very smart and excellent." Qin Mubai sighed, "It's a pity that he can't choose his own fate. Or, he surrendered to fate and failed to break free from the natural shackles.

The people in the royal palace gradually drifted away. Qin Mubai turned his head and said, "Let's go to the military palace. Rengui, Du Chengyuan was dismissed, and there is a vacancy in the military government, so you can temporarily take this position. After a while, the official documents of the imperial court will be officially issued.

"It doesn't matter the size of the position. Someone just wants to learn something from the general." Xue Rengui said, and suddenly frowned, pointed to a small bush by the roadside, and said in a low voice, "Be careful, there is an ambush!"

Qin Mubai had already noticed there and scolded angrily, "He Fang Xiao Xiaozang's head and tail, come out!"

There was a sound in the bushes in front of him. A familiar figure came out and bowed to Qin Mubai in front of the center of the official road.

"General!"

"Zhang Tong?" Qin Mubai frowned, "What do you want to do?"

"Me! ..." Zhang Tong raised his head, and immediately lowered his head when he touched Qin Mubai's fierce eyes. He moved his mouth and couldn't speak.

"If you have something to say, just say it!"

"If the general doesn't beat me, scold me, or treat me, I won't feel at ease in my life!" Zhang Tong summoned up the courage to roar this sentence, and suddenly pulled out a waist knife quickly and cut it down to his left arm!

Poo!

A whole arm suddenly fell to the ground, and blood spewed out of his shoulder!

Qin Mubai was suddenly terrified: "You are crazy!!!"

Xue Rengui hurriedly jumped off the horse, quickly tore off a piece of clothes and sprinkled a lot of hemostatic medicine with him, and wrapped his wounds.

From beginning to end, Zhang Tong hummed without a word. It's just that his face is whiter than paper, and his teeth bite his lips tightly and sink into the meat.

Qin Mubai jumped off the horse and walked to him. He squatted down and frowned and looked at him: "What's wrong with you?"

"Zhang Tong doesn't expect the general's forgiveness. He just hopes to atone for his sins and make himself feel better..." Zhang Tong trembled with pain. On his white paper-like face, bean-sized sweat rolled down, and his voice trembled, "General, take care, my subordinates... Say goodbye, and I'm going back to Chang'an!"

After saying that, he struggled to stand up and was about to move forward.

"Hight!" Qin Mubai shouted and stopped him. He walked up to him and said, "You'd better heal before you leave!"

"No." Zhang Tong smiled miserably and said, "The general taught me a lot of self-help and healing techniques. What is a broken arm? As long as the head is still there, I will definitely not die. I don't dare to stay in Xiangzhou anymore. Thinking that I once betrayed the general here, I feel more uncomfortable than a knife.

"Oh..." Qin Mubai sighed, "If I had known today, why should I do it?"

"Yes, Zhang Tong." Xue Rengui, who has always been silent, couldn't help saying, "Is Wei Haochen so worth doing these things? I know that General Qin and General Baiqi, especially your group of soldiers who come to Xiangzhou, are as close as brothers, regardless of you and me. What makes you take risks, dare to help Wei Haochen, and betray General Qin?

"Actually..." The corners of Zhang Tong's mouth twitched gently, showing a bitter and helpless smile, "Wei Haochen is my biological father."

"What?" Qin Mubai and Xue Rengui screamed together.

"Yes." Zhang Tong nodded and said with a wry smile, "My mother used to be Wei Xiaochen's waitress, but he abandoned me and abandoned my mother. Later, my mother remarried and married the Zhang family as a concubine. But at that time, my mother was already pregnant with Wei Haochen's flesh and blood. That's me. The Zhang family is a famous family in Chang'an. Over the years, I have been despised and humiliated in the Zhang family. My adoptive father has never treated me as a son. Although I have known for a long time that Wei Haochen is my father, he has never recognized our mother and son.

"Since Wei Haochen is such a beast, why do you still recognize him? And work for him?" Xue Rengui shouted angrily.

Zhang Tong shook his head and said with a wry smile, "General Xue, you can't understand. For a person who has not enjoyed his father's love since he was a child, what an expectation is for his father. I used to hate Wei Haochen very much, but when he called me son that day, all my hatred for him disappeared. I want a real father to reunite our family, that's all.

"Wei Aochen, a beast, he doesn't deserve to be your father!" Qin Mubai gritted his teeth with hatred, snorted, and said, "Zhang Tong, you are guilty, but you are not wrong. Why didn't you explain this to me earlier?"

"Wei Haochen is very unbearable, but this can't change the fact that he is indeed my father. It's the same matter how he treats me. As his son, I am willing to make mistakes for him. However, at the same time, I failed the general... Therefore, Zhang Tong's heart was very painful. At this moment, Zhang Tong just wants to willingly atone for his sins and relieve his guilt. Zhang Tong said, "Baiqi has always been disciplined, rewarding and punishing moderately, and the general is selfless and impartial, so he is deeply loved and supported by his brothers. Zhang Tong knew that the crime of violating military rules was unforgivable. If he was wrong, he was wrong. Zhang Tong did not ask the general for forgiveness and forgiveness, and he did not dare to win the general's sympathy and embarrass the general. Zhang Tong's move, just to relieve his inner guilt... I no longer deserve to stay in Baiqi, and I don't have the chance to continue to follow and serve the general. If there is an afterlife, Zhang Tong, he will still be a soldier under the command of the general!"

"Good brother..." Qin Mubai gently patted his uninjured shoulder, frowned deeply, and said, "You are an excellent hundred riders."

Zhang Tong stared at Qin Mubai, with tears in his eyes. He nod his head heavily and said in a low voice, "General Xie! Take care, general! I'm going to say goodbye!"

After saying that, Zhang Tong turned around and strode away.

Along the way, blood beads flow all the way.

"General Qin, is he all right?" Xue Rengui said worriedly.

"No. I believe him." Qin Mubai took a deep breath and said leisurely, "Every hundred riders are strong, brave, and dare to be. Zhang Tong, who lost an arm, will live a more elegant and confident life than before. In fact, this may not be a good thing for him..."

Xue Rengui stared at Zhang Tong's back and said thoughtfully, "General, Xue may know what kind of army Baiqi is."

Soon after, Qin Mubai led Xue Rengui back to the Xiangzhou Military Mansion.

A military assessment is being conducted in the house - archery!

is hosted by Pang Fei. Now, Qin Mubai can safely be a shopkeeper. Since the selection of Du Chengyuan's party, Baiqiyi has firmly grasped all the real power of the military government and penetrated into every corner. Since then, the whole military mansion has been branded with a hundred riders, not only a new look, but also the behavior of ordinary sergeants.

Xue Rengui walked around the barracks and was very surprised. He said, "I didn't expect that ordinary Xiangzhou soldiers are more refined than the elite recruits of the royal palace!" General Qin, you are really good at leading the army. Xue has too many things to learn!"

"Haha, then stay and study hard!" Qin Mubai laughed and said, "It's a coincidence that Pang Fei has just got married and is looking forward to my return, so that he can take his vacation to accompany his wife on his honeymoon. You must be busy during the period after he left.

Xue Rengui blinked his eyes: "Dare to ask the general, what is 'honeymoon'?"

......

Qin Mubai stayed in the military palace for ten days, taking Xue Rengui to train soldiers. Xue Rengui is indeed extremely qualified and diligent. In just ten days, he has integrated with the Xiangzhou Military Mansion and quickly met the vacancy left by Pang Fei after his vacation. The Xiangzhou Military Mansion is like a train on the right track, moving forward steadily at a constant speed.

In fact, Qin Mubai is a little worried, because he always cares about the "scientific research institute" outside Xiangyang City. Finally, at the time agreed with Niu Wuzhi, he rode out of the barracks alone and went straight to Niu Wuzhi's residence.

The private houses rented for Niu Wuzhi and others are relatively remote. They are located in a mountain forest, not in front of the village or behind, and there are no neighbors nearby, which is a little isolated from the world.

Qin Mubai rode a horse and walked into the forest. There was a loud noise in front of him, which made the fire cloud horse almost lose its hoof, which made Qin Mubai's ears a little buzzing.

"Did you succeed? Such a loud noise!" Qin Mubai raised his hand to see, and a pillar of white smoke in front of him rose to the sky!

He was suddenly overjoyed - it was white smoke! It's not black smoke!

High-purity explosives can have this kind of smoke! The vulgar black gunpowder of the Tang Dynasty was full of black smoke. Niu Wuzhi master and apprentices have been fiddling with black gunpowder all their lives, making their whole body black!

Under the surprise, Qin Mubai quickly went to the farmhouse with a whip. Far away, I heard a few old voices cheering like thunder: "It's a success! It's a success!"

"These old guys do have a few brushes. Under such simple and primitive conditions, they are really matched with this kind of explosive!" Qin Mubai jumped off the horse happily and walked towards them. Before he got close, Niu Wuzhi ran to him ecstatically, jumped and shouted, "It's a success!" I succeeded, hahaha! I made it!"

Qin Mubai thought it was hard to talk to him, so he raised a big finger at him.

"In an official, I want to thank you!" Niu Wuzhi was so excited that he couldn't help holding Qin Mubai's hand with his harpoon and victory and shaking it vigorously. "It's you who made me fulfill my wish for a lifetime. I have no regrets about my death, hahaha-uh!"

Suddenly, Niu Wuzhi's eyes trembled all the time, and his eyes were frozen like this, and his eyes did not turn.

"What's wrong with you?" Qin Mubai was shocked.

Niu Wuzhi looked straight at Qin Mubai, his hand was soft, and suddenly fell straight down like this.

"Master--" The other three old men were beside him. Seeing this, they were so scared that they shouted and hurriedly reached out to help, but it was too late.

Niu Wuzhi was like a cement statue. He looked up to the sky and fell to the ground. His eyes were never closed, but there was an ecstatic smile on his face.

"Master, Master!" The three old men shouted hoarsely and cried with tears.

"Master... He is back to heaven!"

"Woo-woo..."

Qin Mubai was stunned for a moment and said to himself: Was it because he was too excited and his myocardial infarction was dead?

The three black-faced and white-haired old men are crying sadly--

"Woo-woo, Master, you can go with peace of mind!" The divine fire thunder has been prepared, and you will have no regrets!"

"You can always rest assured that we will keep your promise and will, and only dispense medicine for General Qin for the rest of our life until we die."

"Master, you have no wife and no wife. You have been treating us like yourself for decades. Let us wear filial piety for you!"

"If there is an afterlife, our three brothers will have to serve you for the rest of your life... Whoo-woo!"

......

When Qin Mubai heard a seemingly familiar oath, he couldn't help but feel a faint pain in his heart.

Niu Wuzhi went without regrets, and the three white-haired apprentices really fulfilled a legendary oath: a teacher for one day and a father for life!

"I'll send someone to the market to buy a coffin and restrain the cow master later, and let you mourn for him. In addition, in order to commemorate Master Niu, let's name this new gunpowder 'Five-Finger Thunder'!" Qin Mubai sighed, "From now on, Qin will take care of the three masters until the day you return to accompany your master."

"Da Lei, Er Lei, San Lei, thank General Qin!" The three white-haired old men saluted Qin Mubai together.

"Get up. I can't stand your big gift." Qin Mubai picked them up one by one and sighed in his heart--

There is love in the world, which is better than the way of heaven!