"Hou Liu, how is it, is it better?"

Hou Liu touched his right shoulder, and his pale face showed a smile: "It's much better, at least it doesn't hurt so much." But he didn't seem to want to continue talking about the topic, and after a change of voice, he said, "Hey, by the way, Brother Shan, why do you have time to come?" ”

"Uh~"

Brother Shan looked at Hou Liu's empty right arm, smiled embarrassedly, and then glanced left and right, and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so he squatted down and said in a low voice: "Have you heard?" If we can't find what our lord wants this time, we won't be able to go back!" ”

"Huh? Who do you listen to? "Hou Liuda was shocked, his wife and children are still in Liaodong, if he can't go back, what can he do!

"Who said that?" Brother Shan pursed his lips, quite unhappy, "Who else could it be, naturally it was a certain brother I mentioned to you." ”

As soon as Hou Liu heard this, he fell silent, and his heart was anxious. If you want to talk about others, he may not know very well, but this person understands something, and Brother Shan is a friend of the general horn, but the relationship between the two can only be said to be average, or even not very good, the two look at each other a little unpleasantly, and like to compare.

Seeing that Hou Liu didn't speak, Brother Shan felt bored, and had the intention of leaving.

Hou Liu opened his mouth to speak when he saw this, but he was worried about causing Brother Shan's unhappiness, so he couldn't say it. Brother Shan was happy and said, "Okay, you also know that if he can say this, it is almost equivalent to the commander has this meaning." Just get it! ”

Hou Liu was in a hurry, so he stood up all of a sudden, grabbed Brother Shan's shoulder with his remaining left hand, and said, "Why?" Our wives and children are still in Liaodong, and the lord is still waiting for us to go back! ”

Brother Shan didn't know how to say this question, but he also thought of his family in Liaodong, remembered his mother, and didn't know if he had eaten at this time, whether there were any foreign races such as pills and Xianbei making trouble, and so on.

Unconsciously, tears welled up in the corners of Brother Shan's eyes.

He didn't know that Liaodong was too far away from them, it was daytime here, and Liaodong was afraid that it was still night, and he slept there.

Hou Liu glanced at Brother Shan, and couldn't help but think of his wife and children, especially his own son, and he didn't know what was going on now, although it was common to lose face in the first two years, but now, ......

"Hey!"

Suddenly, Brother Shan let out a long sigh, got up and was about to leave, but when he saw Hou Liu's empty right arm, he couldn't help but ask: "If you really can't go back, will you regret coming out with you this time?" ”

"Regrets?"

Hou Liu was stunned, shook his head, and said resolutely: "No, I don't regret it at all!" ”

"Don't you regret it?" Brother Shan's eyes widened.

Hou Liu looked at Brother Shan without blinking and did not speak.

Brother Shan suddenly understood that what Hou Liu said was true, especially remembering what his mother said when he first joined the army-

"Remember, O hill! If it weren't for Lord Taishou, our family of five would have not known who killed them, and they were thrown into which nest to be eaten by jackals in the mountains. My mother is old, I can't repay the favor, I can only rely on you, if you lose our Wang family, then you don't come back! If you die on the battlefield, don't worry, my mother still has a few years to live, she won't let her grandchildren go hungry, and she won't be worse than others......"

Brother Shan nodded and said, "You have a good rest, and when you recover from your injuries, we will go home." ”

"Home?" Hou Liu's heart rippled, and he nodded fiercely.

Brother Shan patted Hou Liu's left shoulder and said, "Remember, we are good brothers, if there is any difficulty, remember to tell your Brother Shan, do you hear?" ”

Hou Liu understood what Brother Shan meant, he now has no hand, and he will definitely leave the army after he goes back, after all, without his right hand, his combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. But when he left the army, he lost a hand, although the pension is certainly not low, but there is always some helplessness, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not be bullied.

"Don't worry!" Hou Liu smiled and said, "Even if I lose a hand, I, Hou Liu, am not so easy to be bullied." ”

"Hahaha, that's right!" Brother Shan also laughed. patted Hou Liu's left shoulder again, and then turned around and left.

Just when Brother Shan was about to walk out of the door, Hou Liu suddenly said again: "On the battlefield, there will always be sacrifices, there will always be injuries, although this is not Liaodong, but it is also for Liaodong to shed blood and sacrifice, I believe no one will regret it!" ”

"No one?"

Whether it was Brother Shan, who was at his feet and then went out, or Hou Liu, who was lying on the bed and his thoughts were drifting away, he couldn't hear Cheng Pu's inner murmur.

This murmur seems to be asking Hou Liu, as if he is asking Brother Shan, and even more like asking himself!

That night.

Cheng Pu couldn't sleep, and the words he heard outside Hou Liu's room during the day echoed in his ears over and over again, reproducing in his mind, making him toss and turn. For several days in a row, I couldn't sleep well every night, and I was a little unrefreshed during the day.

Cheng Pu also asked himself, do you regret it?

The answer is no regrets, not at all!

But I don't regret it, and I can't erase the pain of seeing and touching the scars on my face every time I wash my face.

Originally, Cheng Pu had not yet made up his mind, but after several days of "torture", he finally made up. Subsequently, Cheng Pu ordered to expand the scope of the search, increase the number of searchers, and be sure to find the nest of the Indian palm people.

Although Cheng Pu's lieutenant found it strange that he had not sent more people in the past few months, and now he suddenly wanted to send more people and expand the scope, he didn't ask too much and immediately arranged it.

As soon as the area was expanded to 500 li, an additional 800 people were dispatched, and the search lasted less than half a month, when suddenly it snowed heavily, which was almost the same as that in Liaodong, so the search could only be interrupted.

"I didn't expect it to snow here! The commander thought that only Liaodong would snow so early! ”

Cheng Pu was helpless, but he could only order everyone to come back and wait for the snow to melt away.

This break was more than four months, and it turned to the following year.

As the saying goes, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other!

Sure enough, after the snow melted, the soldiers who were sent out to search again soon ran into the Indian Brown people again coming out to hunt, and then followed them to find their lair.

After receiving the news, Cheng Pu did not act rashly, but sent someone to investigate carefully. Their purpose this time is not to kill, but to find - seeds!

If there is no seed, even if you win, you will lose some manpower, which is not good for the army. After all, it is far away from Liaodong and cannot replenish people.

After more than 20 days of exploration, no sweet potatoes and other items were found, until one day after the rain, there was a change. After a strange ritual, the Hinda Brown took out a lot of sweet potato-like things, buried them in the soil, and marked them around them. This was convenient, and when the soldiers in charge of the investigation had left, they dug it up and sent it back to the ship.

Cheng Pu carefully compared it with the book given to him by Gongsun Du, and found that it was not a sweet potato, but a potato.

After confirming that it was indeed a potato, Cheng Pu immediately ordered 500 people to guard the ship, and the rest rushed to the nest where they were found. Cheng Pu didn't have the idea of discussing with him, whether it was for revenge, or since the Indian Palm people knew how to grow potatoes, they would definitely not hand it over easily, if they wanted to get it, there was only -

Rob!

Under the command of Cheng Pu, the Indian Brown people were powerless, and after a day of fighting, except for less than 100 people who fled, the rest were either killed or captured.

After winning, Cheng Pu ordered people to search, but after several searches, they couldn't find the potatoes they wanted. Cheng Pu had no choice but to communicate with the captives with the potatoes he had obtained, but the language was not comprehensible, even if there was a physical object, it took a lot of effort to get the answer from the other party's gesture -

No, that's all, it's all buried in the ground!

Cheng Pu came to the place where the potatoes were buried and turned them all over, but the result was only a few tens of stones, which was really not much, and it was far from Gongsun Du's requirements.