3. Chapter II
The barracks was closed all night, and everyone was on guard because of the voyeur, and no one cared about the lost child anymore.
To the surprise, the next morning, the child appeared outside the camp again.
โกโก his upper body, wearing wide and thin pants for him, he stood barefoot on the snow that had accumulated all night, and the flame pattern on his chest was particularly eye-catching, as if the flame had burned his whole body, and he did not shiver or chill in such a cold and snowy place.
The sergeant approached him and asked him, and he only said five words: "I want to see Li Shuang." โ
At the right time, Li Shuangzheng convened a wartime meeting of several of his lieutenants to exercise the wartime, first, to give Li Ting a long insight, and secondly, to prepare for the defense of Xirong this winter.
His sergeant brought the child over.
Seeing the child dressed so little, everyone was a little surprised, only Luo Teng slapped the table angrily: "You little bastard, you can go if you want to go, come back if you want to come back, when we Changfeng Camp is an inn!" He turned to Li Shuang and said, "General, such a boy with no one in his eyes, tear him up and feed him to the dogs!" โ
Li Shuang looked at the child, her fingers curled slightly, and knocked on the table: "Since you ran away last night, what are you doing when you come back?" โ
The child looked at Li Shuang, his eyes were clear and translucent: "I want to see you." He said bluntly, "The farther I go, the more I want to see you." โ
When a child said such a thing so frankly, the generals in the room were a little shocked in their hearts: what a wolf cub, looking at the big fart, the woman actually flirted with the general......
Li Shuang used to be in Beijing, she was a well-known handsome general and tiger girl, no one dared to provoke her, and then when she first arrived outside the Saiwai, there were several generals who held their own identities to provoke her as a woman, and then ...... The men were no longer in the army.
In the past three years, she has been an iron-blooded general in the eyes of the generals, and her gender has long been blurred. When she suddenly heard a child talking to her like this, she thought it was very funny: "Oh? Or is it because I'm special? โ
"Yes." He also replied directly, "You are special. โ
It's so special that he can't control himself......
"What can I do?" Li Shuang said with a slight smile, "I picked you up yesterday out of sympathy, but if you ran away, my sympathy is gone." Today, you find it by yourself and want to stay, this is your own will, but my Changfeng Camp has never accepted useless people, tell me, what are your skills? Why should I keep you? โ
"I can be your soldier."
"Soldiering?" Luo Teng sneered: "It's funny, the youngest soldier in our Changfeng camp is also bigger than you, just your little one, what ability do you have to be a soldier?" โ
The child looked at Luo Teng at this time: "I can kill you." โ
Along with his words, what fell on Luo Teng was his eyes like a wild wolf outside the plug, with a cold murderous aura, which made all the generals present stunned. Even if he was as rough as Luo Teng, he also sensed the killing intent in his eyes at this time.
This kid...... He wasn't just talking, he was really going to kill him.
"Huh." was bluffed by a child, Luo Teng felt that he couldn't pull his face, and then shouted loudly: "Okay! Come! Lao Tzu also saves others from doing it, and now I will tear you arrogant little rabbit cub! โ
"Roten!" Qin Lan scolded lightly on the side, and Luo Teng looked to the side, but saw Li Shuang's eyes glancing at him lightly.
Only then did Luo Teng calm down, in the military camp, everyone was watching, and he was a lieutenant general who went to compare with the child, which was really not like words......
He gritted his teeth and sat down angrily
Li Shuang turned her eyes to look at the child, and when she touched Li Shuang's gaze, the murderous aura in the child's eyes was obviously much more restrained, Li Shuang thought for a moment and asked, "Have you studied martial arts?" โ
The child was stunned, then shook his head: "I don't know." โ
Li Shuang pondered for a moment: "I said yesterday, if you can trust me, you will report your life name, if you have parents, I will send you to meet your parents, if you don't, I will find a family for you in Lucheng who is willing to take you in, but I don't plan to accept you as a soldier, you are too young, I don't need a child like you to guard my family and country." โ
Hearing that Li Shuang was going to drive him away, the child's heart was confused: "I'm ...... I don't remember my background, I don't remember my name, but I know I'm not as weak as you think......"
When Li Shuang was silent, Li Tinger jumped out: "Sister, I'll come, I'll help you try his skills, if you win, I'll let him stay, and if you lose, send him to Lucheng's house, okay?" โ
Li Ting has been learning martial arts with his father since he was a child, and although he is not very old now, he is also a good hand in the capital, and the sons who play with him are not less beaten by him. My father sent him this time, firstly, he asked for it himself, and secondly, my father probably also wanted to borrow the wind and snow to hone his temperament. Besides, Li Ting is not very old, but it is also appropriate for him to learn from this child.
Li Shuang glanced at the mark on the child's chest, as well as his wolf-like eyes, and said in his heart that this child's past must be unusual, if he is sent to an ordinary family, he is afraid that he will harm other people's families, it is better to stay in the barracks, personally take care of the lesson, and maybe he can grow into a sharp blade in the wind camp in the future.
After thinking about it, Li Shuang had agreed to leave the child in the barracks in this way, and she said, "Okay, let's talk, until the point is reached." โ
Qin Lan, who had been sitting on the side without giving a look, glanced at Li Shuang at this time, but seeing that she was staring at the child and saying this, she was telling the child, stop at the point, don't hurt anyone. actually decided in his heart that Li Tingdou could not be a child four or five years younger than him.
The child caught Li Shuang's gaze, and he stepped back silently, staring at Li Ting.
Li Ting jumped up and down to take off the fox fur on his body, buckled the handguards and leggings handed by the servant, and twisted his waist and neck to do warm-up exercises for a while, and then stood up and put on a welcoming posture: "Come on." โ
As soon as he said this, the child's figure rushed straight at him like a sword, and Li Ting didn't react at all, he was hit hard in the chest, and he fell at the feet of the servant who served him behind him.
From beginning to end, this battle ended faster than the blink of an eye.
Li Ting rubbed his chest and coughed hard, and the servants around him shouted "Heavenly Master", and the old butler who accompanied him was furious: "Bold! Dare to be so cruel to the son! โ
The child's backbone is standing upright, although the person is small, but the momentum is as steady as a mountain.
Li Shuang waved her hand and looked away in embarrassment. Li Ting, who was knocked to the ground, also rubbed his chest, and dragged the old housekeeper while coughing: "Don't make noise, don't be noisy, shame." He clutched his chest and was helped up, glanced at the child, and then at Li Shuang, "Sister, he's much better than me......"
Li Shuang nodded: "Go back and apply some medicine." "In the end, it is the child of the military general's family, Li Shuang does not feel sorry for his younger brother's body when he urinates.
Li Ting was helped out. There was silence in the tent.
Fang Cai's exchange surprised the generals as well, the speed and strength of Fang Cai's blow, not to mention the soldiers, even many generals are afraid that they don't have this ability.
"If you enter my barracks. Even if you are young, you are still my soldier, and if you are a soldier, you must abide by military rules, and if you make a mistake, I will still punish you with military law. Li Shuang opened her mouth, "Do you know?" โ
"Hmm."
"Okay, now go to the treasury to register your name, and let the internal staff arrange a place for you and distribute clothes."
She said so, but the child did not move. Li Shuang wondered: "What's wrong?" โ
The child was stunned for a while, and then looked at Li Shuang: "I don't know what my name is." โ
That's what it is.
Li Shuang and the child looked at each other in silence for a while. Luo Teng interjected next to him: "We were in chaos back then, and there were more children who didn't know their names, so what's the matter, just call it a name, I think it's good to call it a cow egg." He waved his hand, "Hurry up, cowshit egg, and lead your clothes." โ
The child didn't react to the name, but really turned around and walked out.
He accepted the name so calmly!
Li Shuang rubbed her eyebrows, and said a little unbearable: "Call Jin An." โ
The child paused, and turned to look at her.
I saw that she was still in the red and silver armor when she picked him up that day, and she stood behind the table with a straight but soft posture: "Jin An." She said, "May I have a long and stable Jin Dynasty, you can go and say to Mr. Treasury like this." โ
She gave him a name and gave it meaning.
He didn't look at Li Shuang for long, and only accepted the name "cow egg" calmly, and then left the camp, but when the heavy door curtain was down, he inadvertently glanced back at Li Shuang.
She sat down and began to discuss with the generals.
Jin'an.
He recited these two words in his heart.
He thought it sounded good, and it had a warm and stable power.
Listening to the child's footsteps walking away, Qin Lan frowned a little uneasily: "General, this child's identity is unknown, there are too many suspicions, and as soon as he came yesterday, he was overheard by thieves after the general's tent, and it may be ...... to leave him behind."
"It doesn't matter, if someone sends him to be a traitor, it is better to put it in the light than in the dark. Moreover, this child is really a rare malleable talent, if he can be used by my Changfeng Camp in the future, he will definitely be like a tiger. โ
Qin Lan saw that she had made a decision, even if she was still worried in her heart, she swallowed nothing.
Jin An received his clothes with others, and the soldiers in the internal service arranged for him to live with several other teenagers. Several other teenagers had known each other for a long time, and suddenly joining one person made them more or less unnatural, plus Jin An had few words, and he was brought back by the general himself, so the teenager inevitably squeezed him a little.
Jin An's bed was in the darkest corner of the tent, and he put the things he had brought on the bed, regardless of others, and lay straight down.
It didn't matter if no one spoke to him, he didn't want anyone to ask about his background, because even if he asked himself ten thousand times, he still couldn't remember these questions.
What is his name, where does he come from, and how did he get here?
In my mind, there was a blank space.
He thought desperately, but he couldn't remember anything other than the pale moonlight and the smell of blood all over his body.
In the evening, Jin An's mouth began to feel a vague pain, after yesterday, he probably understood that at the turn of day and night, his body was about to change again.
During the day, he becomes a child, and at night he reverts to the form of a young man.
Jin Anqiang held back the churning breath in his body, got into the quilt, and took off the clothes he had brought back. No one cares what he's doing. They didn't call him when they went to dinner.
Until late at night, the soldiers in the barracks fell asleep exhausted after a day of drills.
The hot breath in Jin An's body was like a beast, roaring viciously in his heart. As he had done last night or even the night before, he felt so sick that the burning breath seemed to have turned into a needle pricking him.
The breath of Li Shuang's blood was like a little fire in the mountains and mountains in the middle of the night, and it was so far away that it was also attracting him.
He fell barefoot to the ground, wrapped in a thin blanket, and went out of the camp alone without alarming the soldiers in the camp.
The huge military camp, even if there are patrols, under the cover of darkness, he still comes and goes freely, and no one can find out his whereabouts.
Li Shuang's military camp he had only been to once and could remember the road...... Even if he couldn't remember the way, he could find where Li Shuang was.
The closer to Li Shuang's tent, the more the restlessness in his heart can be calmed.
The guards in front of the Lishuang tent were much stricter than the day before. But it didn't bother him. When he became an adult, his strength always poured out of his heart, and when he was far away from Li Shuang, his strength was always accompanied by pain. It was as if a hook had been hung in his heart that pierced flesh, and the more he left, the more powerful the hook became, until he could no longer resist and had to be pulled back. But now Li Shuang was not far ahead, and her scent soothed the pain in his body.
With a small effort, Jin An easily landed on the top of the Lishuang camp, and the place where he landed was silent.
No one found him. Including the frost in the tent.
She was asleep. It was as if he was still dreaming, and occasionally let out a soft murmur.
But no matter how small the voice, Jin An can hear it.
Jin An found Li Shuang sleeping directly above the top of the tent, and he also lay down slowly, listening to her even breathing through the felt of the tent, and the sound soothed not only his physical pain, but also all the uneasiness in his heart.
As if who he was and where he came from, these unknown confusions no longer mattered.
Why do you rely on her so much?
Jin An didn't know. He seems to have been poisoned, and Li Shuang is the only antidote to this poison.
He slept all night on top of her tent.
At dawn in the morning, it was not the sun that woke him up, but the chaotic breathing of Li Shuanger in the camp, she yawned and was about to wake up.
Jin An, on the other hand, opened his eyes in an instant, and his eyes were awake, as if he had not slept all night.
Immediately after, his heart shrank suddenly, and there was no pain in his body from the previous changes, but he knew that he was not far from becoming a child. Jumped away from the top of the Lishuang tent.
No one from the guard sergeant below noticed it.
However, Li Shuang in the tent opened her eyes and looked at the zenith of the tent for a long time, then put on her clothes and walked out of the tent. Li Shuang walked a few steps away and glanced at the top.
It's empty.
"Was there any movement last night?"
"Back to the general, there is no change."
Li Shuang had no choice but to nod.