Chapter 346

"Urging the horse to the front of the battle, a person seeking death has come from the side; the precious blade is raised, red light shines, an ignorant fool loses his life on the battlefield!"

Li Li Banfeng hummed "Dingjun Mountain" all the way up the mountain to report the good news to Yao Lao.

Before, he had thought about whether to tell Qiu Qiu Zhiheng about the breaking of the Mourning Gate Array first, but after thinking about it, he decided not to spread the news yet; perhaps this was a good opportunity to lure the Mourning Star, so he decided to tell Yao Lao first.

Looking from afar, Yao Lao wore a three-pronged purple gold crown, a red brocade hundred-flower robe, lotus-silk cloud-stepping shoes, held a three-pointed, double-edged glaive, and had four flags inserted behind his back, standing majestically in the courtyard.

He really admired his aura.

Hearing footsteps from afar, Yao Lao laughed: "Little Qiu, you're here?"

Li Li Banfeng smiled; this old guy was always so humorous.

Not to mention, the red robe on his body, paired with this red beard, plus the four flags behind his back, really had momentum when blown by the wind.

Wait.

When did the beard turn red?

Li Li Banfeng quickened his pace and ran into the courtyard.

Yao Lao said again: "Not Little Qiu? Is it that girl Yu Nan?"

This wasn't humor.

He really couldn't see.

Li Li Banfeng stepped forward: "Yao Lao, what happened?"

Yao Lao was covered in blood.

Inside and outside the room, it was a mess.

"Li Qi, you kid is here!" Yao Lao laughed: "I'm fine, just met a petty thief who didn't know life from death and crashed into my door, so I chopped him."

Yao Lao held the long blade in one hand and a human head in the other.

Was this the Mourning Star's head?

Li Li Banfeng didn't pay attention to this; he wanted to help Yao Lao sit down first, but Yao Lao waved his hand:

"Don't sit, if I sit, I won't be able to stand up. Li Qi, you came early; if you came later, you wouldn't have seen me in this miserable state."

He spoke with some difficulty.

"Why are you saying this? Let's find a place to sit first."

"Can't sit, I have to stand, have to stand," Yao Lao grabbed Li Li Banfeng's wrist; he stood with great difficulty, but he kept standing. "Being miserable doesn't matter, if you see it, you see it. Among the living, I never made friends, but you really count as a friend of mine.

Do you remember why I don't make friends?"

"I remember," Li Li Banfeng hurriedly looked for tape to help Yao Lao stop the bleeding. "You said you made a friend when you were eight, and he snatched your sugar figurine and ate it."

Yao Lao nodded and laughed: "Right, that bastard was my childhood friend, named Pan Pan Dehai.

He had a sharp tongue and knew how to use it to trick me since he was a child. I don't know how many good things he tricked me out of. After I figured it out, I listened to everything he said as if it were farting."

Li Li Banfeng was shocked: "Pan Pan Dehai is your childhood friend?"

Yao Lao laughed: "That's why I told you, this old dog is no good!"

Li Li Banfeng found the tape and stuck it on the wound, but the bleeding didn't stop, so Li Li Banfeng went to look for ointment.

Yao Lao shouted: "Jia Zhi Zhu busybodying, can you know medicine better than me? I'm done for.

Do you only remember the eight-year-old thing?"

Li Li Banfeng found the medicine and responded while applying it: "I also remember you talking about the eighteen-year-old thing. You made a friend when you were eighteen, and he snatched your wife and slept with her."

Yao Lao laughed: "I came from a military family, joined the army at thirteen, was promoted to captain at fifteen for merit, and became a miscellaneous general at eighteen for merit.

Prince Rui thought highly of me and married his daughter to me. I was so happy; I could marry a princess.

On the wedding night, I drank; I drank round after round. I had a friend named Lin Lin Dexing, the Grand Tutor's son, and this bastard accompanied me drinking, round after round.

When I got drunk, he specially went to the bridal chamber for me, he..."

Speaking of this, Yao Lao's hand trembled for a moment, then he sighed: "To tell the truth, it wasn't the princess's fault. She didn't go out the door, didn't step out the second door, and didn't lift her veil on the wedding night. I didn't even know what she looked like.

She didn't know me either, and just like that, she was slept with by that bastard Lin Lin Dexing!"

Li Li Banfeng asked: "The Grand Tutor's son did such a thing, and no one cared?"

Yao Lao gave a bitter laugh: "If the matter had been exposed, Lin Lin Dexing would have been sliced into a thousand pieces.

But the matter wasn't exposed. The Prince didn't allow me to expose it, Grand Tutor Lin begged me not to expose it, and I didn't want to expose it myself.

But I couldn't live like this anymore, I couldn't live.

I didn't want to see the princess, so I asked the Emperor for orders to go to war.

On the battlefield, I was still miserable because of this, leading troops absent-mindedly, losing battle after battle, and my position was taken away by others.

Taken away, so be it. I couldn't lead troops, but I could do something else. I could lead the cooks to cook, and I could brew wine for the soldiers.

While brewing wine, I drank. Wine is a good thing; it increases cultivation, increases courage, eliminates sorrow, and can cure diseases!

I'm not joking; the medicinal wine I brewed really could cure diseases! How many soldiers' lives in the army were saved by my medicinal wine!

I just spent decades in the army like this. Others forgot that I could fight and thought I was a physician.

Actually, I hadn't forgotten military tactics, and I hadn't lost my martial arts. When it really came to fighting, I could give advice to the generals, but unfortunately, no one was willing to listen to me.

In a flash, I was eighty years old, still mixing days in the military camp, and my life just passed like that.

That time, I encountered a big battle. Before the battle, the generals were discussing matters, and I couldn't help but offer an idea, saying that we should lead troops to raid the enemy camp that night, as the enemy definitely wouldn't be prepared, and we would definitely win a great victory.

Everyone laughed at me, saying that an eighty-year-old physician with no teeth was bragging here, not afraid that the wind would flash his tongue.

The Marshal didn't laugh at me; she gave me two thousand soldiers and let me lead the troops that night."

Li Li Banfeng asked while applying medicine: "Who is this Marshal?"

"Famous general Zhao Zhao Xiaowan."

Clang!

An hour later, all the money was packed properly. Feng Feng Chongli returned to his room and slept for the night. At dawn the next day, he headed straight for the train station.

Yao Lao continued: "Zhao Zhao Xiaowan is a famous general who truly knows how to fight, completely different from those who only have a false reputation.

She had vision, and I lived up to it. That night, I burned the enemy camp, chopped off the enemy commander, and returned to camp victorious. She let me be a general under her.

Eighty years old, do you know? I was eighty years old and became a general again.

The armor was broken, I sewed it stitch by stitch myself.

The great blade was rusty, I polished it bright bit by bit myself.

The warhorse from back then was long gone, but the saddle was still there, and it could still be used after cleaning.

Following Marshal Zhao Zhao Xiaowan, I first served as a deputy general, then as a vanguard, fighting battle after battle. I never lost under General Zhao.

I came back to life; I felt like I had died at eighteen and came back to life at eighty!

But do you know what happened later?"

Li Li Banfeng said: "You said you had another friend you made at eighty, and he snatched everything he could snatch from you."

Yao Lao sighed: "I made that bastard Cong Cong Shixiang a friend!"

Cong Cong Shixiang, Li Li Banfeng had seen him in history books, the General of Hengbo at the time.

Mentioning this person, Yao Lao gritted his teeth: "This bastard instigated me, saying the Marshal didn't trust me, saying she wouldn't ask me to fight in the future, and would just let me be a physician.

At that time, there were a few battles, and the Marshal indeed didn't call me to fight, but she did let me do a lot of miscellaneous tasks like patrolling the camp. I believed Cong Cong Shixiang's ghost talk and went to guard Kuyao Pass in a fit of pique. No matter who tried to persuade me, I wouldn't listen.

I really didn't know the situation at the time; I didn't know that this group of bastards wanted to play dirty against the Marshal.

The Marshal didn't send me to fight because, besides me, there was no one in the army she could trust.

But I insisted on going to Kuyao Pass, and the Marshal agreed. Not long after I arrived at Kuyao Pass, I received news that the Marshal had been, by this group of bastards, been..."

Yao Lao paused and sighed: "If I had still been in the army, this group of bastards wouldn't have succeeded. But what's the use of thinking about this?

I guarded Kuyao Pass to the death, no matter who came, I beat them back. But what's the use of this?

Alive, I guarded here; dead, I still guard here. I treated this as home, but what's the use of this?

I have nothing left. Eight, eighteen, eighty, I have always been cheated by friends. Since then, I have never made friends again.

When I forgot how old I was, I happened to meet you again.

You said you wanted to do business with me. I didn't want to pay attention to you, but your temperament really suited mine.

The key is, I know our Marshal is by your side."

Clang!

The medicine pot fell to the ground again, and Li Li Banfeng hurriedly bent down to pick it up.

Yao Lao laughed: "Our Marshal went to Feng's Grocery Store. I've heard her sing, but I didn't dare to see her.

Later, I knew she went with you. I know you have good character; you saved Qin Qin Xiaopang, helped Yu Nan, and cleaned up that group of villains in the Geng family. You are a good child who knows right from wrong and values affection and righteousness.

But I still couldn't rest easy. I asked the gourd to go see the Marshal for me.

After she came back, she wouldn't tell me anything. This girl also followed you wholeheartedly.

It's good that she followed you. You can withstand Pan Pan Dehai and saved Haichiling. I trust such a hero. I can rest easy with the Marshal following you."

Li Li Banfeng gripped the medicine pot, and it didn't fall.

Yao Lao knew many things, but Li Li Banfeng wasn't worried about this now.

He was worried about how long Yao Lao could hold on.

The tape was used up.

The ointment was also used up.

The blood on Yao Lao's body hadn't stopped.

He was the Medicine King.

If even he had no way, could it be that there really was no way?

Yao Lao took a deep breath, turned his face, and smiled at Li Li Banfeng: "Brother, I smell it; the baleful energy in Medicine King Valley seems to have dissipated. The Mourning Gate Array, is it broken?"

Li Li Banfeng replied: "Broken."

Yao Lao laughed: "Good brother, I owe you a lot of favors. All the belongings in this place belong to you. I have one thing I want to ask of you: I want to see the Marshal one more time."

Could he let him see her?

Yao Lao stood where he was, trembling all over, relying entirely on the three-pointed, double-edged glaive to support himself with difficulty.

He couldn't see Li Li Banfeng, but he seemed to be looking at Li Li Banfeng.

He waited for Li Li Banfeng to give him a word.

Li Li Banfeng pondered for a moment: "Wait a moment."

Yao Lao lost his vision and didn't know where Li Li Banfeng had gone.

After waiting for a moment, he suddenly heard the sound of war drums, the familiar sound of drums.

Amidst the drum sound, there were soldiers marching, warhorses neighing, and weapons and armor colliding with each other.

Li Li Banfeng pushed open the gate of the Leaving Suishenju, and the gate was facing Yao Lao.

From inside the gate came the lady's voice: "General Yao, how is the battle situation?"

Yao Lao gripped the long blade tightly and straightened his body:

"General Yao Xin, guarding the pass, repelled the invaders, not a single inch of land lost,

Killed over a hundred enemies, beheaded the enemy commander in battle, now I offer the thief's head to the Marshal!"

He wanted to lift the Mourning Star's head, but he couldn't lift it anymore.

The lady's voice came again: "General is brave, unparalleled in the three armies. When we set out on the expedition in the future, the General will still be the vanguard."

"Thank you, Marshal!"

Two lines of blood beads slid down Yao Lao's eye sockets.

He had no breath left.

But he didn't fall.

He gripped the long blade and was still standing.

The phonograph played that song "Dingjun Mountain" again.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Xiang Xiang Hongying gently used the butt of her gun to tap the ground forcefully, in time with the drum sound.

This was the etiquette of a martial artist.

Xiang Xiang Hongying said: "You are right, he is a good general. Is he still alive?"

The phonograph said: "Alive, but the injuries are too heavy; he has fallen asleep."

"Can he wake up again?"

The phonograph didn't make a sound.

(End of chapter)