That Person In That River and Lake

  Chapter 49 System Tasks and True Intention

  In the winter of the fifteenth year of Tiance of the Xia Empire, there was a snowfall in Changling County, which lasted for a long time.

Qiling Station was a military frontier back then. In order to prevent the invasion of Beimo people, it was later stranded due to some special reasons, but the original relics have been preserved. It is a solid soil enclosure.

After Gu Qingci came here with the county soldiers, he immediately arranged for people to start repairing. The accumulated snow on the earth wall was blown by the northwest wind knife, and it would float around, and then fell on the simple barracks, and fell on the soldiers. On their bodies, the whole world will turn into a piece of snow white, and they will not start to rest until nightfall.

   Several bonfires, several canvas tents, more than a dozen guards with swords, but Gu Qingci did not warm up by the fire, but stood on a bunker, looking into the distance, where is Beimo.

Behind Gu Qingci, a man in a green shirt slowly climbed up. It was Gu Qingci's classmate Ma Shilian. He didn't know martial arts. What happened, so that a three or four meter high mound needs to be climbed slowly, and the hands are red from the cold.

"grown ups."

  Ma Shilian walked behind Gu Qingci, looked at Xiao Suo's back, sighed softly, and said, "My lord, you don't have to blame yourself too much. These things happened so suddenly, you have done your best!"

Gu Qingci didn't have a sword on his back, his sword was all damaged, and his white clothes were also stained red with blood. In the night, under the light of snow, he looked very dazzling. He turned around slowly, shook his head, Said: "I guessed it a long time ago, but I didn't make too many preparations."

"grown ups…"

   Ma Shilian wanted to persuade, but Gu Qingci waved his hand and interrupted: "You don't need to say more, tell me about the current situation."

"Yes," Ma Shilian clasped his hands and said, "The spies are back. There are Beimo troops thirty miles outside Qiling Station, no less than 10,000 people, and half of them are cavalry. However, we have now occupied Qiling Station. A line of defense can barely withstand the Northern Desert Cavalry, but it is not a long-term solution."

Gu Qingci nodded. This was all in his expectation. He also knew Bei Mo's plan. Originally, he should be more rational, pretending that he didn't know anything, and returned to Changling County to wait for the court to send The army came, but he couldn't bear the death of hundreds of thousands of people outside. What's more, that glaring system task was still forcing him, leaving him with no choice at all.

  As soon as he received the news from Beimo Tu Village, the system issued him a mission, so he had no choice but to come here without hesitation, even though he knew that life and death were unpredictable.

"Ding, as a parent official of a county, he is responsible for the lives and deaths of thousands of people. In the face of Beimo's invasion, he should take the lead. System task: resist the Beimo's invasion, or defeat the Beimo's vanguard troops. The time limit is one month, and rewards for success. Three thousand chivalrous points, three random chances to draw a lottery, one random magic weapon, failure penalty, becoming a vegetable!"

  However, risks and benefits are directly proportional. This time, if he succeeds, he will definitely be able to break through to the qi state, and if he fails, he will only have a dead end.

   "Is there any news from the girl in Tsing Yi?" Gu Qingci asked.

After he received the system task, he had already started planning. He knew very well that with the people he had now, it was impossible to have a winning percentage against the elite troops of Beimo. However, he also had a chance, because the system did not Ask him to destroy the Beimo army.

   More than 300 miles away from Qiling Station is Weicheng, the largest military border city in the north of Xiawai.

Gu Qingci is very clear that it is impossible to go to Weicheng to ask for soldiers in his capacity in a timely manner, so he put his idea on the princess Tang Yun, and the reason why Tsing Yi is allowed to go is because Tsing Yi's identity can make Tang Yun have some scruples .

Did Ma Shilian know about Gu Qingci's plan, or did he accompany Gu Qingci to look for Qingyi, and when he heard Gu Qingci's question, he immediately replied: "Not yet, it may be delayed by something, the princess should agree, You don't have to worry, my lord."

Although Ma Shilian said so, he himself has no idea. He knows very well that the road from Changling County to Weicheng must have been blocked by Beimo, otherwise it would be impossible for 10,000 troops to appear in Changling County , but Weicheng did not respond.

  They can know, so naturally the princess can also know.

   This narrow escape, no one can say whether the princess will agree.

  Gu Qingci frowned, and did not continue this topic, because he also knew that he could only do his best and obey the destiny.

   "Hey, by the way, where is Qin Keqing? It's been a long time since I saw her? Has she left?" Gu Qingci asked.

   "No," Ma Shilian said, "I saw her just now, but her expression was a little strange. She was standing alone in the snow, neither speaking nor making any movements, just holding a sword."

   Gu Qingci nodded, and it’s good that he didn’t leave. He knew that this woman was a master, and he must use the resources that can be used now.

  …

  The snow stopped, and it stopped for a long time. However, there are thick layers of snow all over the mountains and plains. At this night, they are all glowing. If you look at it from a distance, you can feel the coolness.

There are simple tents everywhere, piles of bonfires, patrolling soldiers walking around, most of them have already fallen asleep, there is only one mountain top, a Taoist nun in white is motionless, holding a whole body The snow-white sword was in a daze.

   She is a sword riddle, she has always lived by the sword.

  Until today, she actually had doubts about her Dao Xin because an old man said a few words.

It was during the daytime, Qin Keqing met a very ordinary old man who walked slowly and was afraid of falling, but he carried a knife and followed Gu Qingci to kill people. What was even more strange was that his The knife was actually covered in blood.

The old man said to Qin Keqing: "Master Gu knows that he practiced swords for protection, so his kendo will not come to an end. As long as there is protection, there will be swords, but do you know what you practice swords for? Ultimate Where is the end?"

Qin Keqing was immediately stunned. She never thought about why she practiced swords. It seems that since she was young, she only knew that she should practice swords. Master taught her to learn. Her life has always been only swords, so She practiced swords, but no one ever told her why she practiced swords?

  She couldn't figure it out, so she kept thinking quietly, even when she was walking with the big troops, she was thinking about it, and she kept thinking until it was night, but she still couldn't figure it out.

At some point, the old man appeared next to her again, looking at the confused Qin Keqing, the old man showed two front teeth, grinned and said, "Little girl, since you don't understand, then go and ask." people."

"Who?"

   "Master Gu!"

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