The Funiu Mountains are more than 800 miles long, the watershed of the Huai River and the Han River. The location of this trial of the crane army is Baiyun Mountain, which is located in the hinterland of the Funiu Mountains, about 700 miles away from Kaifeng.

In the case of a beautiful wind and a smooth road, it is no longer possible for a person to ride a horse for three hours in a row, but the Crane Army needs to march for four hours in a row, and when it comes to the post station to repair, even the horse is already foaming at the mouth.

An Jiu's body was still too weak, she used her willpower to hold on to the post station, and she collapsed in the room to rest without eating.

An Jiu slept groggily but still maintained a certain alertness, she felt that someone came in and wanted to see who it was, but she couldn't even lift her eyelids.

The man sat down on the edge of the bed, and An Jiu smelled a strong smell of ginseng.

"Open your mouth." Chu Dingjiang said softly.

An Jiu's pursed lips were released.

The unique bitterness of ginseng spread between her lips and teeth, and Chu Dingjiang was unhappy to feed, and she swallowed it easily.

After drinking a small bowl of ginseng soup, An Jiu fell into a deep sleep.

When she woke up, she saw a person standing in front of the window in the house, and she wanted to open her mouth to call "Chu Dingjiang", but she heard the person's warm voice, "You are very familiar with Lord Chu?" ”

But it was Gu Jinghong.

An Jiu got up from the couch, raised his hand and rubbed his temples, frowned, and said, "What do you mean by the deputy envoy?" ”

"You are now my man, and I must understand it. Rest assured, I won't divulge this. Gu Jinghong saw through the vigilance and uneasiness behind her rhetorical question.

An Jiu stared at his clear eyes and said word by word, "Who asked you to pick me as a subordinate?" If you think I have a secret and am not suitable to be a dragon guard, you can give it up. ”

Ordinary people would be more or less angry when they heard these prickly words, and Gu Jinghong actually laughed, "Fragile child." ”

An Jiu didn't know how to answer, or when he was protecting himself. will use this kind of rhetorical question or aggressive tone, Gu Jinghong can see the truth behind her hiding through the surface at a glance.

It's horrible! This is what Anjiu now says about him. She remembered that Lou Mingyue said that mind reading and mind confusion are in the same vein, and now it seems that Gu Jinghong is not only good at mind confusion, but also above Xu Zhen of the Crane Control Academy.

Yes, you have to read people's hearts in order to be confused.

"You slept for a day and a night, and the others set off first, can you go now?" Gu Jinghong gently took the question.

Anjiu stood up. A very important question comes to mind, "I haven't eaten yet." ”

Gu Jinghong was silent, turned around and walked out. After a while, a bowl of noodles came in, with a few vegetable leaves floating on it, without a little oil and water.

There was no table in the room, so he stuffed the bowl into Yasuku's hand, "Eat." ”

An Jiu stared at the face in his hand and hesitated for a moment. I took the chopsticks and put them in my mouth.

After a few bites, she asked with a strange expression, "You cooked this?" ”

Gu Jinghong stood by the window with his back to her, hearing the words. "Huh? ”

The sunlight shines through the black cloak, and the shadow outlines a delicate side line.

An Jiu said, "It's nothing. The taste is quite chic. ”

Gu Jinghong chuckled, "It doesn't sound like a compliment." ”

An Jiu poured a bowl of noodles into his stomach and said with a frown. "That's because you're self-aware."

Chu Dingjiang's cooking is much more delicious, and this idea suddenly popped up in An Jiu's heart.

"Rest for a while before you go."

Gu Jinghong walked out of the house, stood in the courtyard and looked up at the morning light, closed his eyes and enjoyed this moment of tranquility.

It is close to the Funiu Mountains, the sun has just lifted the morning mist, the spring sun is exceptionally warm, and the surrounding eyes are full of life, and the heart is relaxed.

After a long time, I moved my muscles and bones, and the pain in my body was even worse, but it was not so heavy.

According to experience, you must not stop and rest for a long time after this, otherwise you will not be able to ease up for ten days and a half months, and it will still be sore when you move again next time.

Two moments later, the two got on their horses on time and rushed to Baiyun Mountain.

The Funiu Mountains are a notoriously rainy place, the morning dew and twilight rain in the mountains is a common thing, and the Chu Dingjiang River in front of him happened to encounter a torrential rain, so he took everyone to find a cave to shelter from the rain.

When the group entered the cave, a delicate female voice complained, "It's all soaked!" It's going to rain at the end of the day! ”

In addition to An Jiu and Lou Mingyue, there was another woman named Sun Dixian, whose martial arts had just reached the fourth order, but many people of the fifth and sixth orders died in the last trial, but she survived.

In many cases, the level of force is not an absolute factor in determining life and death.

Sun Dixian hurriedly wiped her clothes, looked up, and saw Chu Dingjiang in a black cloak tying his horse outside the cave, and the pouring rain was blocked by his qi, forming a circle of white mist flowers around his body. When he came like this, the heavy breath was like a mountain, even if he couldn't see his face clearly, Sun Dixian's heart couldn't stop throbbing.

Chu Dingjiang walked into the cave, and there was not a drop of water on his body.

Sun Dixian was stunned for a moment, then leaned up and asked, "My lord, how long will it take to arrive?" ”

There's a reason she's so bold. The post station they passed through was very small, and Chu Dingjiang's martial arts were superb, and it was impossible to avoid everyone's eyes to feed An Jiu ginseng soup, through this matter, Sun Dixian felt that this seemingly cold and hard Lord Chu was actually more gentle and kind than Lord Gu.

No one answered.

Just when others thought that Sun Dixian was going to make a fool of herself, Chu Dingjiang said, "Seven days." ”

Now the early spring is not as good as the middle of summer, the grass and trees are not lush enough, the soil can not be displaced, such a heavy rain, if it rains for a long time, it may cause mudslides, and the mountain roads are muddy and difficult to walk, saying that seven days are optimistic estimates.

"So long? Didn't you say that the total journey was only six or seven days? Of course, Sun Dixian knew what Lu Dao was for, she just wanted to talk to Chu Dingjiang.

Chu Dingjiang didn't dislike the woman who could drill the camp, but admired it very much, but he couldn't look down on the clumsy method of talking to him for no reason like now.

He still gave the girl a little face, turned around, as if his eyes swept over everyone, "The mountain road is difficult, you take the opportunity to rest, otherwise the next few days will be difficult." ”

didn't embarrass Sun Dixian.

Everyone answered yes and sat down against the rock wall to close their eyes and rest.

Sun Dixian finally regained some reason, and secretly said that she was really confused, how could she just ignore it! I'm afraid I'm going to teach people to look down on it. She glanced at Chu Dingjiang, and hurriedly sat down and closed her eyes to rest.

Chu Dingjiang stood in front of the entrance of the cave with his arms crossed, and his entire body almost covered half of the small hole.

An hour later, Sun Dixian secretly glanced at him again, and found that he still maintained the same movement, as if he was not moving, and the sky outside was almost dark.

Lou Mingyue got up and took a look at the entrance of the cave, and the rain was almost stopping.

"Wait until Deputy Envoy Gu for one night, and then leave at dawn." Chu Dingjiang Road.

It rained heavily for an hour, and at night, and I didn't know how many miles I could walk in one night, and everyone agreed with this decision.

"My lord, what is our trial like?" In the dark, a man asked cautiously.

"Trials?" Chu Dingjiang had a smile in his voice, "If you take this kind of thing as a trial, you will die untimely without any suspense." ”

Chu Dingjiang was obviously more comfortable talking to men, and his whole attitude was different, as if a brother was joking with them. His ease made people feel very close, and the young men present began to ask questions.

Chu Dingjiang answered if he could, and joked if he couldn't.

Everyone knew that he was fooling, but they didn't mind it at all, after all, the rules of the Crane Control Army were strict, and some things could not be said nonsense. They felt that Chu Dingjiang was very principled, but he did not stick to the rules.

At first, they were just trying to find out the news for their lives, but after chatting and chatting, they were infected by Chu Dingjiang's heroism and freedom, and the vitality that gradually disappeared after soaking in blood and water slowly regained some of them.

A group of men chatted enthusiastically, and Sun Dixian occasionally interjected a few words. Lou Mingyue leaned against the rock wall alone and turned her head to look at the rain curtain outside, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Your Excellency should have been in the Crane Control Army for a long time, are the people in the Crane Control Army terrifying?" Sun Dixian asked.

Everyone was silent, and they all looked at Chu Dingjiang, obviously wanting to know the answer.

"It's no different from a normal army." This is not a secret, Chu Dingjiang has never concealed it, "The two armies clash, and the soldiers who do not touch the lives of people are not good soldiers, and there is nothing special about us fighting." It's just that as a secret weapon of the Great Song Dynasty, it can't appear on the bright side most of the time. ”

Lou Mingyue heard this, her eyes condensed slightly.

"When my lord said this, my heart suddenly brightened." Qiu Yunyao sighed.

He was from the bottom of his heart, and he always felt that he was living like a mouse, and he was full of blood all day long.

Chu Dingjiang said, "This trial is said to be a two-person life, but I will give you a secret here." ”

Everyone listened attentively, and even Lou Mingyue turned around.

He continued, "The rules of the Crane Control Army are to complete the task at any cost, as long as the mission is successfully completed, any of you can survive is capable, will the Crane Control Army kill the superfluous people?" All of you work together, and if you are all alive, I promise that no one will touch a single hair. ”

"Then Master Gu is to trick us ......," Sun Dixian said.

"That's not." Chu Dingjiang said lightly, "It's just a test, a test of whether you can still cooperate with each other to successfully complete the task when your own lives are in danger." ”

One said, "My lord, this is not ......"

Didn't you leak a secret? He stopped talking, for fear that what he said would be too explicit and make Chu Dingjiang angry.

"Everyone has selfishness and desire to survive, if there is no reason, why should they sacrifice everything to complete the task?" Chu Dingjiang was unimpressed, "This kind of sacrifice is unnecessary. If you were to go into battle to kill the enemy and defend your home and country, would you be willing to risk your lives? ”

He smiled, "You don't have to answer me, you just have a scale in your heart." (To be continued......)