The rain at the mouth of the river is vast.

The rain brought fog and deepened the already gray sky, and the sky and the earth were connected by thousands of rain threads, which could no longer be distinguished.

The faint gray is like a mist, and like a kind of veil, spread out between the heavens and the earth, making people's eyes seem to be separated by a layer of something, and nothing is really seen anymore.

The rain is cold, with the characteristic chill of winter rain.

That kind of chill is different from the northwest wind whistling in the north, not the kind of fierce and strong, but the delicate and lingering cold, trace after trace, little by little infiltrated into the bones, and excavated point by minute, until it penetrates into the internal organs, it is the end.

Xie Xiaoman looked up at the thousands of rain almost magnificently rushing towards his face, his body couldn't help but shiver, his nose itched, and he sneezed.

"It's cold." Xie Xiaoman said.

"The Yangtze River is the coldest in this season, cold and cold, with the humidity of the river. However, at this time, it is actually the best for the cultivated land, and all the water penetrates into the land. At the beginning of spring next year, the seeds will take root and sprout, even if there is little rain, they are not afraid, because this water has accumulated in the land, which is good for the seeds. ”

"If the seed is good, the person is good."

Xing Ge said.

Xie Xiaoman turned his head sideways and looked at Xing Ge next to him: "You still know a lot about these things, you did farm work before joining the army?" Renter? Or do you have land in your own home? ”

Xing Ge smiled, a little desolate, and it seemed that it was almost integrated with this rain-soaked haze: "What's the difference, it's all the same now anyway." ”

"Oh. That's right, too. Xie Xiaoman didn't ask any more questions, just looked at the reeds in front of him, and his eyes were a little straight. I don't know what kind of door I'm sending.

Not far away, there are wild geese migrating south.

More than a dozen of them landed at the mouth of the river, fell into the water with a slender and graceful manner, combed their feathers, caught small fish and shrimp, and after a chirp, they set sail again. Fly south.

"I want to leave like this!" Xie Xiaoman looked at their shadows flying south, and felt that this gray and black hue was like a rich and appropriate ink painting. It makes people feel far away.

Far away is not a grudge. Moreover, there are some things that even grudges are useless.

Xing Ge glanced at her when he heard this, but he didn't quite understand. The girl in front of you. is obviously a master who can turn over the clouds and rain with a flip of his hand, what is the difficulty if he doesn't leave?

He didn't know, and Xie Xiaoman didn't bother to say.

"But then again, why do you have to follow me?" Xie Xiaoman remembered that there was a big living person beside him, and asked curiously.

"I'm your prisoner of war, who will I follow if I don't follow you?" Xing Ge frowned, the words "prisoner of war". It smells of humiliation, no matter what the circumstances. No big man would want to admit such a thing.

"What kind of prisoner of war, at that time it was just for you to help lead the horse, now there is nothing to do, you can go home." Xie Xiaoman waved his hand casually.

When Xing Ge heard this, he fell into a short silence.

"But it was I who stabbed you with my sword."

"Isn't that fine?"

"You were bleeding."

"Aren't I alive and kicking now?"

"But no matter what you do now, I'm pregnant with the intention of killing you. Even so, you're going to let me go? ”

Xie Xiaoman glanced at him: "You call this an attempted murder, so naturally you can't be punished as murder." Again...... I'm an enemy, and there's nothing wrong with you doing that. ”

"I don't understand." Xing Ge's eyes showed a blank look.

Xie Xiaoman sighed: "I don't think I can explain it with my words." So, so be it! Where is your home? It's good to go home. ”

Xing Ge glanced at Xie Xiaoman strangely.

"How?" Xie Xiaoman was a little hairy by this kind of gaze.

"I can't go home." Xing Ge said.

"Why?" Xie Xiaoman was puzzled.

"Zhao has military discipline...... No, it should be said that no matter which country it is, there is a similar military discipline. Unless a member of the army dies or has reached the end of his or her length of service, he who returns home for whatever reason is put to death. Xing Ge said, "Moreover, the whole family was executed." ”

"Really? Is there any humanity in this? Xie Xiaoman was stunned.

"You don't know?" Xing Ge's expression was a little funny.

"I really don't know." Xie Xiaoman nodded seriously.

Xing Ge was slightly silent: "So when you broke through my squad before, you would let all my comrades leave the army, and you also warned them that if you saw them again, you would take their lives." It turns out that your idea is good, and you want them to return to their hometown to reunite with their families. But in reality, such an act is cruel. They will be reduced to the most disgraceful people, unable to survive in the army, and at the same time having no home to return to. They have to avoid a lot of things in order to survive, and they have to be careful not to implicate their families......"

"I thought ......" Xie Xiaoman's voice was a little hoarse, "I was helping them." ”

Xing Ge looked at him and couldn't help but sneer: "Yes! You think! ”

Xie Xiaoman was silent.

It turns out that this is always the case. thought that he had saved those Zhao soldiers so that they could stay away from the battlefield and return to their hometowns to reunite with their families, but in fact, they became people who lived in the cracks. The hundred-man squad that thought they had saved the Jin army, but in fact, it was afraid that it would expose the low profile that the Jin army and the Yan army had been carefully maintaining, and even destroy the entire plan of the joint attack, which may cause more people to die on the battlefield......

Yes, Xie Xiaoman is not a stupid person.

In Huan Wen's camp before, after being sneered at by him like that, Xie Xiaoman was able to figure out some things.

Although he left the barracks of the Western Army in a fit of anger, after a while of winter rain, a clearer and clearer structure appeared in his mind, what he had done, and the role he played in the entire chess game became more and more obvious.

Good intentions do bad things. But it's a worse thing.

Thinking of this, Xie Xiaoman laughed self-deprecatingly. Because the laughter was a little intense, and even laughed out loud.

The laughter was too self-reproachful and painful, so that Xing Ge couldn't help but restrain the sneer on his face.

"I'm sorry." Xie Xiaoman squatted there, his head down, and he didn't know what the expression was on his face.

Her tone was always calm, even a little casual.

"I'm stupid." Xie Xiaoman stood up and didn't look back at him, "But I suddenly had an idea, I don't know how much of a difference it can have, or whether it will be counterproductive." So, you've got to help me think about it. ”

"What thoughts?" Xing Ge was a little stunned, he felt a bit of determination from the thin and short back in front of him.

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"Reiki Channel, you really didn't see her have a talisman seal in her hand?"

"I've confirmed, not really."

"The wind that can turn more than 100 feather arrows is definitely not a simple little wind. The most important thing is that she didn't even use the talisman, which is really a very noteworthy thing. ”

On the border in the eastern part of the Zhao Kingdom, there is an important town called Hukou. This town is built by the mountain, according to the situation, there is the Yangtze River in the south, there is a cliff in the east, it is really a good place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After the lord of Zhao ascended the throne, he has always regarded this place as an important place for troops. And because of its geographical advantage of rejecting Yan in the east, it has also become a good place for Zhao to train its troops.

From time to time, the army of Zhao State will send troops to station here for drills, like the Huns fighting grass valleys, going deep into the territory of Yan State and sweeping it, and then returning from the long way.

The previous battle between the Jin army and the Zhao army was a relatively large-scale exercise, but no one expected that the two sides would almost come to a fight.

After returning, the battalion commander of the acting army only felt extremely afraid, and hurriedly came to report what he had seen and heard.

At this time, a very important army came to Hukou, and there was an adult in the army with a very special status, who was a cultivator loyal to the Zhao State.

This person is a middle-aged man in his forties, his appearance is very ordinary, and even his temperament and clothing are very ordinary, not much different from those teaching gentlemen in the village who teach children to enlightenment.

The middle-aged man's voice is also ordinary and forgettable, but with the usual accent of the west, there is a bit of cold and hard collision between the words, showing a bit of the fortitude of the Northwesterners.

No matter how you look at it, he is just a middle-aged man looking for the ordinary, not to mention, his name is Tai Usual.

Tai Ping listened to the unusual scene reported by the battalion commander, thought for a while, nodded, and didn't say anything.

He didn't even arrange the follow-up of the battalion commander, whether this matter should be hidden or widely announced, Tai Ordinary did not say anything, as if this matter was very ordinary.

After hearing this unusual thing, Tai Ping sent the battalion commander away as usual, wiped his face with a warm towel very usually, sighed comfortably, returned to the futon, and meditated as usual.

It was a day too ordinary for Tai Pingping.

But this day was finally broken again at nightfall. He felt the strange aura fluctuations outside, woke up from meditation, pushed open the window, looked at the fine rain outside, and thought to himself, to go out at such a time, there are really some things that affect his mood. It just looks like I have to go out.

So he picked up the ordinary oil-paper umbrella that had been prepared by the door, opened it, and slowly walked out of the yard.

At this time, the city gate of Hukou Town had not yet fallen, and the people who came in and out each held the customs clearance spy, and the guards carefully checked everyone's identity.

At the time of the war, it was also an important military town, and there were not many people in and out, basically only the peasants who went out of the city to work left early and returned late.

Xie Xiaoman didn't have a paperwork, so it was naturally impossible for him to walk in with such a swagger.

She looked at the city wall in front of her, which was about ten meters high and three meters thick, and looked at the mottled marks on it that had obviously been burned by the war, and sighed slightly. (To be continued......)