Zhang Xiaowu asked Wang Yijin to take off the deceased's pants, Wang Yijin was puzzled, but he still obediently took off the deceased's pants, Zhang Xiaowu beckoned everyone, pointed to this person's legs and said: "This person is indeed my Han Chinese, you see his inner thighs, because he does not ride a horse, these days have grinded out of the blood cocoon." He got up and stared at Chen Boqing and said, "Chen Daxia, I always thought that the sand bandits were coming for the caravan, but today it seems that the sand bandits have other plans." ”

Chen Boqing frowned and said, "What else is referring to ......"

Zhang Xiaowu pointed to the corpse of the Han man and said: "This person has fine skin and tender meat, and he should have a noble status, but he is mixed in with the sand bandits." After all, supplies are scarce on the grassland, and there are many sand bandits, and the looted property is not enough, and they may even starve to death from thirst. But last night there were thousands, and there were more than a dozen gangs gathered together - you know what I mean? ”

Chen Boqing stroked his beard and said solemnly: "They are coming for the Gu family." ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "I'm not sure if it's against the Gu family or the caravan, but they want to sneak attack the army at all costs, it can only be one reason, they get much more than they sacrifice." Our Dead Soldier Battalion has been formed for three months, and we don't think that we have any mortal enemies, and we don't deserve such a vendetta from the other party, so their purpose is you. ”

Chen Boqing was silent for a long time before he said: "I am the general of the Gu family, and I am only responsible for protecting the young ladies, and I don't know much about the rest. ”

Zhang Xiaowu's sharp eyes stared at each other's eyes, and said: "I'm afraid that Chen Daxia has something unspeakable and inconvenient to explain, you and I have lived and died together at this time, if we don't tell the truth, it's hard for us to believe the Gu family." ”

Maybe Zhang Xiaowu's eyes were too intimidating, Chen Boqing was forced by the other party to have no choice, and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Can you hold back left and right?" I have something to say to Mr. Zhang in private. ”

Zhang Xiaowu waved his hand, Wu Song and the others immediately walked away twenty steps, Chen Boqing relieved his heart and said in a low voice: "Xiao Zuo is in the army, he should not know about the internal affairs of Longdu, this matter is related to the reputation of my young lady, so it is inconvenient to talk about it outside." Three years ago, when my young lady was fifteen years old, Zhang Guifei, the head of the harem, proposed to the emperor that in order to ease the relationship between Zhang Dang and the princelings, and in order to reconcile them, I hoped that the seventh prince could accept the eldest lady as his wife. At that time, the emperor agreed to this request, but was directly rejected by the military advisor in front of the emperor, and at that time, not only Zhang Guifei lost face, but the emperor was also angry with the military advisor. ”

Zhang Xiaowuxin said that the military advisor is also a relative of the emperor, and he is the emperor's brother-in-law, so he blatantly refused the emperor's marriage, what kind of courage did he have. He smiled and said: "In the people, this can be regarded as a mortal enemy." ”

"Yes, but in front of the emperor, the military advisor took out seventy-nine pieces of evidence that the Longdu Mansion suppressed the Seven Princes to do evil, proving that the Seven Princes were not only stubborn, but also brutal, that is, there were fifteen Huanghua girls who were harmed by the Seven Princes, do you know how old the Seven Princes were at that time? He was only nineteen years old. Chen Boqing shook his head and said with a wry smile, "The Seven Princes have been stubborn since they were young, and they even had lustful pleasures with the palace maids, which is quite the atmosphere of King Ning's defilement of the palace back then." At that time, Zhang Huanggong and Zhang Kuan, the prime minister of Zuo, had always wanted the fifth prince to replace the third prince as the crown prince, but after the outbreak of the seventh prince's obscene palace maid, the emperor directly announced that the crown prince would serve as the commander of the Qinglong Army. You know what it means for the prince to be in charge of the military, right? ”

Zhang Xiaowu nodded, since ancient times, military power has been a forbidden area for the imperial family, and only the royal family in charge of military power can threaten the emperor's throne, and after Emperor Taiqian let the crown prince lead the troops, it was officially announced that the crown prince was fighting for the big drama, and the other princes were already out.

He didn't have a good impression of the crown prince Xuanyuan Zixun, the murderer who killed the soldiers and civilians of Tucheng, and he didn't have a good impression of other princes, as a person born in a socialist country, he couldn't understand what the imperial family had to offer. He thought that the royal family was not a good thing, and a group of people who took their family as their country could really cherish the people, and he asked: "You mean, Zhang Dang, the prime minister of Zuo, was rejected because of a trivial matter, and completely lost all opportunities?" ”

"That's why the world said that Gu Yong was the first military division in the world." Chen Boqing said with a smile, his eyes were full of admiration for Gu Yong, and continued: "Zhang Guifei gave birth to the third prince, the seventh prince and the ninth prince, at that time, the third prince could be described as in the sky, with the support of the empress prince inside, and the support of Zhang Dang, the head of the Chinese courtiers of the dynasty. However, he was counterattacked by the military advisor and hit the snake seven inches, which directly broke Zhang Dang's thoughts, if it weren't for the intervention of the Senate, His Majesty the Emperor would have abolished Zhang Guifei a long time ago. ”

Zhang Xiaowu asked: "So Zhang Guifei has a grudge and wants to get rid of the eldest lady as soon as possible?" ”

Chen Boqing shook his head and said: "Concubine Zhang Guifei has been honestly running the harem since she was applied by His Majesty, and she didn't dare to stretch her hand outside the palace, but the third prince, the seventh prince and the ninth prince were all driven out of the palace and lived in the palace built in the inner city. And the person who wants to get rid of the eldest lady as soon as possible should be the Seventh Prince, and this person will be vicious. When he was seven years old, he fell in love with one of the eldest princess's dogs, and because he couldn't get the dog, he had the dog secretly killed, and then skinned it and made it into a toy and put it in the house. In the city of Longdu, if there is anything that he cannot get, he will destroy it with all his might, both for people and things. The eldest lady of my family is beautiful and fragrant, how many princes and nobles ask the Gu family for relatives but can't, the seven princes ...... Alas......"

"The Seven Princes are messing up the harem, is Your Majesty just that?" Zhang Xiaowu was surprised.

Chen Boqing said: "This seventh prince is also a ruthless man, he knew that he was guilty, so he hanged himself in the imperial tomb, and his body was cold when he was found. After all, he is the emperor's son, how can a father really kill his son, when he was grieving, he suddenly heard the imperial doctor say that the seventh prince was alive. After the seven princes woke up, they cried and said that they had dreamed of the first emperor, and the first emperor said that someone wanted to take the Xuanyuan family and let him go back to protect the emperor. This father-son and big drama is well known to everyone in Longdu City, and the seven princes came back to life and declared that they would apologize for their crimes with death, and the emperor did not pursue it again. ”

Zhang Xiaowu frowned, these seven princes can kill and peel their skins at the age of seven, from being careful and ruthless, they can destroy the lives of their own selfishness, and they don't know what method they used to bring the dead back to life. He didn't have a good impression of the royal family, the crown prince killed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Tucheng in order to retaliate against Zhang Kuan, and the seventh prince hired sand bandits to kill so many people in order to take revenge on the Gu family, even including his own subordinates, the most ruthless emperor family, and the people of the royal family are all black-hearted.

It was already noon when they set out again, the sun was so hot that people could not open their eyes, and the sand in front of them gradually became more than weeds, and they had come from the steppe to the desert, and after passing through this desert, they would reach the Gobi Desert, and in the center of the Gobi Desert was the ruins of Roland.

Zhang Xiaowu has always been worried about the sand bandits, judging from the momentum last night, the sand bandits are at least thousands, and only more than 400 people have been killed, and the sand bandits will definitely attack. If you can seize the prisoner and interrogate your whereabouts, it is better to take the initiative than to sit back and wait for death.

After marching through the desert, the carriage was difficult, so the three young ladies changed into strong clothes and rode on horses, and they were more skilled in riding and driving than the sergeants around them.

Zhang Xiaowu couldn't help but admire it from afar, now in this Holy Han Empire, both men and women are martial, how can there be any women with three obedience and four virtues and small feet, that is, the red girl in the Qinglou in Mucheng and the prostitute woman in the prostitution hall, if you don't like the guests, you dare to slap the table to drive people. In later generations, those girls who talk about equality between men and women and give priority to women in action are the ones who have been brainwashed by sour Confucianism, and they don't say it but believe in their hearts that men are inferior to women.

After a few women whispered and laughed, Miss Gu Er suddenly turned her horse's head, ignored the strange eyes of others, and came to Zhang Xiaowu's side by side to walk side by side with him, she asked cleverly: "Little general, don't you know how to ride a horse?" I think you look weird on horseback. ”

When many sergeants saw and heard it, they couldn't help laughing, Zhang Xiaowu's face turned red after being exposed, and he said forcefully: "I can drive." ”

"Driving?"

"It's driving, driving ox carts." Zhang Xiaowu immediately changed his words and said: "My father is a dart master, so I have been sitting on the ox cart of the dart board since I was a child. ”

The people around laughed, the second lady covered her mouth and smiled, she didn't look down on Zhang Xiaowu's background, but saw that he was so free and easy, No. 4 did not hide his civilian identity, so he became more curious about him, and asked: "Little general...... Who did you learn from His's technique of sewing wounds with needles and threads? Is the doctor you studied still alive? Where is he? What does it look like? Is it a miracle doctor? ”

Zhang Xiaowu talked nonsense: "She is a goddess doctor, called Tu Youyou, but she has saved many people." ”

Gu Ruoxi was suddenly pleasantly surprised: "Wow, it's still a goddess doctor, it's really amazing." ”

Zhang Xiaowu's eardrums were shocked, and he was so frightened that Wenwen, the war horse under his crotch, almost jumped up, so he had to pat the horse's neck to appease the war horse, and Wenwen gradually quieted down.

Gu Ruoxi stuck out her tongue and asked again: "Is the goddess doctor Tu Youyou as beautiful as a fairy?" Is he a martial arts master? ”

Zhang Xiaowu's face was black, he just opened his mouth and talked nonsense, but he didn't expect the second lady to ask, it was really a lie that needed thousands of lies to make up, so he explained hard-headedly: "She...... When I met her, she was already an old man, very kind, as for whether she was a martial arts master, I don't know. ”

Gu Ruoxi asked again: "Aren't you her closed disciple?" How can I not know if she can do martial arts. ”

Zhang Xiaowu said: "I just took a few more looks, where are the closed disciples of other people." Tu Youyou's predecessors are immortal-like great men, and I can't climb them. ”

Gu Ruoxi said: "You only saw a few times, and you dared to use medicine yesterday, and you are not afraid of treating people?" ”

Zhang Xiaowu retorted: "Either let him wait for death, or give it a try, you said it was you, how should you choose?" ”

Gu Ruoxi thought for a while and said, "If he dies in the end, and he still has to be tortured, it is better to die a hundred times." ”