7. Chapter VI
Li Shuang's side arranged the matter, and then agreed with a few generals on the specific method of raiding the horse thief stone village, and then let Qin Lan be the main commander to deal with the encirclement and suppression. Li Shuang, the strength of the Changfeng Battalion, knew that he was not worried about not being able to take down that small village at all. And she went back to the camp by herself, dealt with some daily life in the army, and then wrote a letter about Li Ting, dragged people back to Beijing, and reported to Daddy.
After finishing this qiฤ, the time came in the evening, and Li Shuang rubbed his shoulders and fell on the bed. I haven't slept all day, and Li Shuang is extremely tired at the moment. I closed my eyes and fell asleep in a short time.
She thought she would sleep dreamless, but she didn't know why, the moment she closed her eyes, she began to dream non-stop, and there was always a man in her dreams. โกโก his upper body, wearing a black armor mask, standing quietly on the top of the mountain full of wind and snow, hugging her with a burning embrace, and then rubbing her forehead, cheeks and lips with his lips ambiguously and dangerously.
In the dream, she wanted to struggle, but she kept standing in his arms and couldn't get out.
It wasn't until the man in the dream kissed her on the neck and was about to pull open her shirt that Li Shuang woke up suddenly.
The moment she opened her eyes, it was the middle of the night, and it was quiet in the Changfeng camp, because she was asleep, no one came to disturb her, and the candles in the tent were not even lit, and the darkness and coldness around her made her dream even hotter, she opened her eyes for a long time, and then raised her hand to cover her face.
Sighing fiercely, she actually ...... Had such a dream.
Is......
Lonely.
However, when she sat up and wanted to drink some water, she found that her quilt had really been pulled down a little, and her clothes were slightly open. Li Shuang was a little stunned, did she actually tear off her clothes in her dream......
She felt that something was wrong, opened the thick curtain at the door, and went out, the sergeant on duty outside the door was a recruit who had only joined this year, and was dozing off with a gun, but the moment Li Shuang lifted the curtain and came out, the sergeant immediately woke up, immediately stood up straight, and gave Li Shuang a salute: "General!" โ
Li Shuang glanced at him twice: "Is there anyone in my camp just now?" โ
The sergeant was stunned for a moment, and looked at Li Shuang with a blink: "General Hui, I didn't find anyone coming to the main camp." โ
No matter how powerful a person is, it is impossible for him to break into the camp without alarming the sergeant standing at the door. And sure enough...... It's just she's dreaming.
Li Shuang didn't say anything more and returned to the account. Sitting on the bed, she sighed fiercely, thinking to herself, otherwise, the next time she returns to Beijing, she will simply let her father give her Zhang Luo's family affairs......
In the early morning of the next day, when Li Shuang left the camp again, it was the news that Qin Lan had brought back the horse thieves to be completely exterminated.
Li Shuang nodded, but then thought of the mysterious man he met in the stone village, and Li Shuang still couldn't let go of the fact that he knew his whereabouts. She smacked at yesterday's details, and suddenly remembered the red streak on his left chest that spread to the corner of his eye.
A similar pattern to that tattoo, Li Shuang seems to have seen it somewhere.
She touched her chin and thought for a while, and her eyes lit up: "What about that little soldier Jin'an?" She asked Roten, "Where are you now?" โ
Luo Teng was a little dazed by her question: "That kid is now training with other little soldiers, and the general suddenly asked him what he was doing?" โ
Li Shuang thought for a while: "Take me to see." โ
Luo Teng took Li Shuang to the place where the recruits were trained, the little Jin An really followed a few older children in physical training, was running circles around the training ground, and I don't know how many miles he had run, the first few children were already tired and sweating, but Jin An did not change his face and followed behind without a beat, several children were shirtless, only Jin An was still wearing a single coat, he didn't sweat much, and his clothes were still clean.
It's not a person with a lot of inner breath who can't do this.
"That...... Jin'an! Luo Teng called out loudly, and then beckoned to him, "Come here, the general wants to see you." โ
In fact, there is no need for Luo Teng, before he called him, Jin An's eyes had already fallen on Li Shuang, staring at her with bright eyes, and when Luo Teng shouted, Jin An immediately ran over, stood in front of Li Shuang, and never looked to the side again.
Looking at his eyes, Li Shuang felt helpless and funny, squatted down, looked directly at Jin An, and asked him, "Do I look very similar to your mother?" โ
Jin An was stunned and shook his head.
"Then why do you stare at me like that every time?"
Jin An thought for a while and replied, "Because you are special." โ
This seems to be the second time Jin An has said this to her, and Li Shuang only understands this in her heart as she rescued him from the wasteland, so this child probably recognized her with gratitude.
Li Shuang rubbed Jin An's head.
Being touched by her head seemed to be a very comfortable thing, Jin An narrowed his eyes slightly, he liked her touch very much.
But Li Shuang only rubbed him for a while before withdrawing his hand, he glanced at Li Shuang's hand, and the corners of his mouth twitched, as if he had resisted the urge to touch her. Li Shuang asked him, "Do you have a red mark on your chest?" I saw it when I brought you back that day. โ
Jin An didn't shy away from it, and nodded: "You want to see it?" โ
"Hmm." Then Li Shuang paused, "Can't you see it?" โ
"You can see what I have."
When Li Shuang heard this, her throat choked, and she was speechless for a while, but Luo Teng next to her shouted: "Why is the stinky boy playing hooligan again!" Who told you to talk to the general like that! โ
"Come on." Li Shuang hurriedly waved his hand. Originally, I thought it was no big deal to look at the child's chest, but now that I said this, it made Li Shuang a little embarrassed. She took Jin An to a military camp and asked him to take off his shirt.
Li Shuang pulled Jin An, who was โกโก half of his body, around, and saw that there was a trace of flame on his left chest, and the rest of his body was as immature as other children, even more delicate and tender than Li Ting, who was raised in Beijing.
He didn't have any injuries on his body at all, Li Shuang couldn't help but think of when he picked him up that day, Jin An was in rags, and his clothes were soaked with blood, and now it seems that the blood on his body at that time should have belonged to someone else, otherwise the wound that shed so much blood would not have healed in such a short period of time, until there was no trace at all.
Turning Jin An around, Li Shuang's gaze finally stopped on the tattoo on his heart, she stretched out her fingertips and touched it, and when she touched the red mark, she only felt Jin An tremble.
Li Shuang withdrew his hand: "Pain? โ
Jin An shook his head. He didn't hurt, he just felt that there was power on Li Shuang's fingertips, and just a light touch was enough to make him so happy that he even trembled. He saw Li Shuang raise his hand again, his fingertips roaming over the imprint on his heart.
Jin An lowered his gaze, his eyes were soft, he liked Li Shuang's touch.
There was a ray of sunlight on her fingertips that banished all the gloom and coldness in his heart that made him almost feel pain.
But Li Shuang couldn't see Jin An's heart, she only rubbed the mark on his chest for a while, and found no other touch, she asked him, "How did this mark come from?" Do you remember? โ
Her fingertips left, and Jin An'an couldn't hide the loss on his head, but he still didn't forget to answer Li Shuang's question: "I can't remember." โ
He couldn't remember anything, his name, his origin, his past, the reason why he would become like this. The earliest time he could remember was in the cold night forest, running all over blood, with a mouth full of blood and a cold body.
Really. Li Shuang pondered for a moment, and said in his heart, if this kid didn't lie, then he really lost his memory, and this mark on his chest was almost the same as the lines on the black-armored mysterious man yesterday. If you want to know the identity of that person, it seems that you can only check it yourself.
Li Shuang asked Jin An to get dressed and went back to train by herself, she turned around to leave the camp tent, and the corner of her clothes was dragged by Jin An.
Li Shuang turned around and looked at him: "What's wrong?" โ
"Can you let me follow you?"
This sentence came abruptly, and Li Shuang pondered for a moment: "You are still young, you have to practice the basic things with the commander first." โ
"I will." He looked at Li Shuang, his usually unsympathetic eyes were full of longing at the moment, and even had a pitiful taste, "I can protect you." โ
Li Shuang laughed when she heard this. I wanted to refuse, but after thinking for a while, I nodded, "It's okay." โ
Hearing these two words, Jin An's eyes, which had little hope, suddenly lit up: "You agreed?" โ
"Hmm." Li Shuang nodded, "I will order you to go back, from today onwards, you will be one of my personal guards." You go back today to pack your bags, and from tomorrow you will live in the tent of my guards, because you have also had a conflict with the seniors in your account before, and it will be embarrassing to live again. โ
When Jin An heard this, there was a bright light on his face, and he nodded, this was the most refreshing time to leave Li Shuang.
Seeing Jin An leave, Li Shuang groaned and summoned Qin Lan, the twelve personal guards around Li Shuang were all people she brought out from the General's Mansion, all of them were highly skilled and loyal, Qin Lan was one of them, and he was also her personal guard. It's just that for many years, he has also been Li Shuang's deputy general, and gradually, the identity of the chief of the guard is not mentioned much.
Listening to Li Shuang's arrangement, Qin Lan was stunned: "That kid ......"
Li Shuang knew that Qin Lan must have an opinion, and she said bluntly: "The day before yesterday, I took ten people to go to the horse thief stone village with me, and it was impossible for people outside the barracks to know my whereabouts. โ
Qin Lan's eyes lit up: "The general is suspicious...... That kid has something to do with that mysterious man? โ
Li Shuang nodded: "Although I don't know what that person's intentions are, and I'm not sure if Jin An revealed the news to the black-armored person, but judging from the marks on their chests and their ability to resist cold, there may indeed be a connection between the two." โ
"Chest?"
Qin Lan repeated these two words. Li Shuang suddenly reacted, too...... On a cold day, how did she see people's chests...... She coughed: "In short, it is better to control Jin An under your eyes first, than to put it in the soldier and let him play freely, he is a good hand in the personal guard camp, don't worry about not being able to control him." โ
Hearing that Li Shuang changed the topic, Qin Lan had no choice but to secretly clench his fists, and then lowered his head.
"As for the other ......" Li Shuang pondered for a while: "Originally, I thought that the origin of a child did not need to be checked, but now it seems that it is not possible to check it." โ
Li Shuang thought that if the characteristics of red flame patterns on her chest and heart and not being afraid of cold appeared in more than one person, it meant that there might be a race or tribe in this Saibei that she didn't know, and they still knew a lot about her Changfeng Camp......
Li Shuang ordered, "There is nothing to do in the army this afternoon, and three sergeants and I will go with me to explore the place where Jin'an was found." Li Shuang squinted into the distance, "I remember that there was a forest behind it, and there was still a lot of movement the night before that day. โ
Li Shuang took Luo Teng and two other personal guards, and was about to leave the Changfeng camp when Jin An stopped in front of Li Shuang with the quilt and his pitiful salute.
"Are you going out of the camp?" His eyes were fixed on her.
Before Li Shuang could answer, Luo Teng, who was already riding on horseback, reprimanded him: "There are no rules!" Do I have to report to you where the general goes! โ
Jin An only stared at Li Shuang fixedly, until Li Shuang spoke: "Go patrol outside the camp and return after dark." He retracted his gaze and hung his head in some frustration.
Li Shuang is surrounded by three big and five rough men, she is their general, and most of the time she gets along with them on weekdays is also an order and deterrence, how can she ever be so relied on, even if Li Ting occasionally spoils her, she will never be so wronged and pitiful. Li Shuang's heart softened a little when she looked at Jin An like this, and she touched his head. Jin An's gaze immediately softened: "Go and do your own thing first." โ
Jin An only nodded. Watching Li Shuang turn over and get on the horse, she was heroic, even if she didn't like her leaving, Jin An would still lose her mind because of her figure.
Fighting horses all the way, Li Shuang took the lead and went straight to the place where Jin'an was found. On the wasteland, there was such a large blood stain at the beginning, but now it has been buried by the wind and sand, leaving only a little rusty blood stain to prove that Jin An did fall here that day.
Li Shuang looked up, and there was a barren forest in front of him, and almost all the leaves of the trees in the forest had withered, but because there were many trees, it was also gloomy when he looked at it. Horses could not go into the woods. Li Shuang ordered a few people to put the horses on the trunk of the tree outside, and led a few people to follow the broken branches to find the path that Jin An came out of the woods that day.
Luo Teng is usually rough but he has deep attainments in tracking and exploration, all the way to the dense forest, Luo Teng's brows are wrinkled more and more tightly, until he reaches the depths of the dense forest, looking at a messy forest, Luo Teng looked at the chaotic scene in front of him where the trunks of the trees were knocked down, and sighed: "Lao Tzu, general...... It doesn't look like a kid can make it. โ
I saw that the trunks of the trees within a radius of ten zhang in front of me were broken, and the boulders were broken, and under the cover of a messy dead branches, the bones of the white people could be faintly seen! Li Shuang was looking at the human bones that had been licked and eaten by the beast, only to hear the guard behind him shouting: "General! There is an entrance to the basement. โ
Li Shuang walked to the direction pointed by the guards, only to see that under the cover of stones and broken branches, there was a staircase going underground, it was pitch black inside, and nothing could be seen, but there was a smell of ** coming out of it, which was disgusting.
The stairs were stained with blood, mixed with the smell, which made people's scalp tingle.