In the end, Liu Ji still rejected Zhang Er's invitation and chose to go east.

From Shanfu County to the east, there is a flat Tu Road, walk for dozens of miles, you can reach the border of Wei and Chu, and after crossing the border two pavilion barriers, it is Pei County.

But Liu Ji did not take the avenue, because it was crowded with Wei refugees who had fled the Qin army, some from Mengxian and some from Taoqiu, all of whom dragged their families with their families and their faces full of fear. Because of the large number of people, from time to time, ox carts collided with each other, scrapped on the way, blocking the road and causing even more chaos......

A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, although Liu Ji doesn't know this sentence, he is not the kind of gentleman who is not serious, but he knows to avoid the Tu Road full of robbers and take the mountain path he is familiar with.

A few months ago, he bid farewell to his fellow villagers and went west to Wei with only a two-foot sword, and this was the way he went.

Liu Bang's family is in Fengyi, Pei County, Chu State, Fengyi is a border town between Chu State and Wei State, in a small township, there are many immigrants from Wei State, and the local accent is mixed with Chu and Wei.

Even Liu Ji's father, Mrs. Liu, recalled the family past with a cane, saying that Liu Ji's great-grandfather used to be a doctor in Wei, and it was only in their grandfather's generation that they moved to Fengyi, and it has only been a few decades.

Therefore, Liu Ji also has some Wei blood in his body, perhaps this is why he always yearns for the Western Central Plains world when he grows up.

Liu Ji was especially fascinated by Wei Guoxin Lingjun, who stole talismans to save Zhao and Corporal Lixian.

Although Xin Lingjun had passed away when Liu Ji was sensible, his posthumous name endured, even beyond the courts of other countries, and was widely spread among the people of the world, from Wei to Fengyi, and to the ears of the young Liu Ji.

According to the public opinion of the government temple, Wei Wuji is a minister who resists the order of the king, the danger of the country, and does not obey the king; With the people's rivers and lakes to discuss evenly, Xinlingjun is also a hero who breaks the class, makes friends with the world's talents with meritocracy, and pushes the ranger atmosphere to the top.

In his eyes, the highest state of life is to be able to follow Xinlingjun as a descendant.

Liu Ji's personality has been very different from his father and brother since he was a child, he is rebellious and restless, he is unruly. When he became an adult, he didn't effectively imitate his second brother Liu Zhong, and he didn't want to listen to his parents' advice, settle down to govern the industry, and marry a beautiful fellow villager early to pass the door, but wandered in Zhongyang and embarked on the road of Ren Xia......

Although this kind of life is comfortable, it will definitely be disliked by relatives and looked down upon by the neighbors in the township.

So when he was in his twenties, after getting tired of the cramped small world of Zhongyangli and Fengyi, Liu Ji went to the county seat of Peixian County to work under Wang Ling, a local rich man and the boss of the Peixian rangers.

Wang Ling is also a county hero, but his fame is limited to Pei, and his influence is not as great as that of Huang Zhang'er.

A few years later, Liu Ji returned to Fengyi with a little bit of Shaowen and Ren Qi learned from Wang Ling. With this experience, he is no longer the man who used to shout with the young people in the countryside. Instead, a group of rural teenagers gathered, such as Lu Juan and others next door to his house, in groups of three or five, and began to play the role of the first townsman in Fengyi, with a mouth full of "Naigong" and "Shaft".

However, in the eyes of his family, he is still an idle loser, an old bachelor who has not married a wife at the age of thirty! I know all day long to hang out with a group of unemployed prodigal teenagers!

This situation reached its peak after he took his younger brothers to his sister-in-law's house for an idle meal, and was deliberately driven away by his sister-in-law.

Liu Ji, who lost face in front of his younger brothers, was unhappy and vowed to do a great career to make his relatives and township party look at him differently.

And this so-called big cause is to go to the Wei State that he has been thinking about for a long time, and take refuge in Zhang Er, who is known as inheriting the "wind of Xinling". Judging from those rumors, Zhang Er may be a hero second only to Xinlingjun, and if he becomes a guest by himself, he may be able to encounter some opportunities.

There are hundreds of miles between Fengyi and Waihuang County, and after leaving the Chu State, there are Shanxian County, Meng County, Yongxian County and other places in the Wei State. For Liu Ji, who is already 30 years old, this is his first time traveling abroad. With only a two-foot sword on his body, he slept in the open air, and had nothing to rely on, so he walked all the way to Zhang Er and bowed to his subordinates.

However, Zhang Er made him feel a little hopeful.

"Corporal Zhang Erlixian is not fake, but he is just imitating Xinlingjun everywhere, but he can't become Xinlingjun after all."

In Liu Ji's eyes, if Xinlingjun is a tiger, then although Zhang Er painted his body with patterns and showed his majesty with his teeth and claws, he still couldn't change the truth that he was just a yellow dog.

Liu Ji's heart cooled down, and in addition to eating and drinking all day long, he didn't want to seek any opportunities. He only planned to stay here for a year and a half, eat and drink enough, and then leave Zhang Er and go back to his hometown. At that time, through this trip, he will definitely be able to make a name for himself in Pei County-didn't Zhang Er rely on his identity as an old guest of Xinling to make a name for himself? If he can do it, why can't Liu Ji?

In Liu Ji's view at that time, it was his life pursuit to be a county hero like Zhang Er and Wang Ling, and to fight against them.

Until the outbreak of the war, Daliang was surrounded by the Qin army.

The huge Wei State suddenly became extremely fragile, and was kneaded by the Qin State at will. Those Wei warriors who passed by Waihuang also became vulnerable and collapsed under the attack of the Qin army.

The approaching Qin army, the precarious Wai Huang, and the cramped and restless Zhang Er, all of these were all things that Liu Ji did not expect.

Fortunately, he was clever enough and had a natural sensitivity to danger, and before the Battle of Waihuang, he took the initiative to stand up and shouted to protect the city for Zhang Er's favor. But in fact, after holding on for a moment and killing a Qin pawn, Liu Ji felt that he had paid off Zhang Er's favor.

"Defend the city for a moment and kill one enemy, this is worthy of Zhang Er's hospitality for a few months, I am not a righteous person."

"The situation is not good, slip away immediately, this is to be worthy of myself, I am not a foolish person, my husband should be generous, do great things, how can he bury his good life here?"

So when the black-faced Qin official with his pale right bun jumped up to the city and wanted to fight Liu Ji, Liu Ji ran away without hesitating for a moment!

After leaving Waihuang and fleeing east with Zhang Er, it was because Liu Ji had already figured out Zhang Er after months of getting along, and knew that he did not have the determination to defend the land for the King of Wei to death, so he must have already thought of a way out.

Instead of scurrying around like a headless fly like other rangers, being caught and cut off by those tigers and wolves, it is better to stare at Zhang Er, where he goes, he will go.

The worst plan, even if they are unfortunately surrounded by the Qin people, Liu Ji will go out, don't have a reputation, cut off Zhang Er's head and sacrifice it, and he can still live! Liu Ji is a flexible person, compared to his own life, principles and faithfulness can be temporarily discarded.

Fortunately, there are no dangers along the way. After all, Liu Ji was a native of Chu and didn't know much about the geography of the mountains and rivers of Wei, so he kept "protecting" Zhang Er, and came to the familiar border of Chu and Wei before he gave his leave.

Unexpectedly, at the fork in the road, Zhang Er, who was moved by Liu Ji's "arrogance and faithfulness", actually invited Liu Ji to go to Qi State, with a posture of treating him as his right-hand man.

After changing the past, Liu Ji, who is full of thoughts about being a hero, will definitely follow. He knew that although his family was good, he had a land and a house, and his father could marry a concubine, but he was not rich enough to be a county hero. Following Zhang Er and using his connections and reputation to start a business is obviously a shortcut.

However, after experiencing the Battle of Waihuang, Liu Ji's state of mind is a little different......

In the rest of the past month, he saw the unstoppable momentum of the Qin army's sweep through Wei, and experienced the Qin army's fearless attack on Huangcheng outside the country.

The light man who felt great in the past was so vulnerable under the onslaught of the Qin army.

In the past, the county chivalrous and noble, when the Qin officials came to the door, they could only leave in a hurry and became a fugitive.

The kingdom that Shinling-kun once wanted to protect is also in jeopardy, and will soon be wiped off the map.

And including himself, the beautiful faith of his fellow ranger was shattered in an instant when the catastrophe was imminent.

Liu Ji had firmly believed in the Ranger World for twenty years, and a trace of cracks began to appear, and the cracks slowly expanded, and after being completely shattered, what appeared in front of him was a dilapidated old era, and there was a wider world......

He saw that a black fission from the west was soaring eastward, wanting to sweep the world, encompassing the world, the four seas and Kyushu, and no one would be spared!

Liu Ji's education level is limited, and his understanding of the current situation is also limited, so he does not know how to express it in written language. I just faintly feel that in two or three years, this world will definitely undergo great changes! In the face of this change, is it a bit outdated to stick to the chivalry of Xinling and just be a ranger?

Therefore, after a little hesitation, Liu Ji rejected Zhang Er's invitation, and when the world situation changed, it was wise to go back to his hometown and wait to see the situation.

Thinking along the way, before I knew it, after stepping through many ravines and hills, and passing through the lonely graves and barren grass, the trail came to an end.

Liu Ji had bypassed the pavilion barrier crowded with refugees between Wei and Chu, and returned to Chu over the mountains and mountains, and his hometown Fengyi was in front of him......

Compared to the chaos of Weidi, it is far from the war and still maintains the calm of the past, with farmers busy in the paddy fields and merchants coming and going in Chu-style clothes.

Looking at the familiar earthen wall, the bearded ranger smiled: "The wanderer is sad in his hometown, I am between Liang and Wei, and I will often miss abundance!" ”

Before entering the city, Liu Ji squatted down by the stream to wash his face, and drank some water, as if he also tasted the taste of Chu from the inside.

However, after he washed his beard, Liu Ji became a little troubled.

It's good to go home, but it's ......

Liu Ji put the sword on his shoulder, tilted his head, and looked at Tiandao helplessly: "When I went, I boasted that I would return on a horse in fine clothes, but now I still only brought back a sword, and even the scabbard was lost." Alas, when I get home, Ah Weng will scold me again for being a scoundrel and unable to govern the industry, so I am not as good as Liu Zhong! ”

……

Just when the wanderer Liu Ji returned home and was chased and scolded by his father, on the other side, Heifu and his party had already left Waihuang and entered the territory of Yangwu County, and came to a place called Humu (yǒu) Township......

"Captain Heifutun, you stay here."

Pointing to the nearby township of Humu, the five hundred advocates of the town of Liyi, gave an order to Heifu, and handed him a piece of wooden stump with a red seal.

Heifu took a look, this turned out to be an appointment letter issued by Yingchuan County of Qin State, and there was also the signature and seal of the front-line commander, Shaoshang Wang Ben......

But I heard Zhang Qi say: "Heifutun Chief, from today until the defeat of the Wei State and the official official sent by the king to take office, this official is the county lieutenant of Yangwu County, and you are the wanderer of this household!" ”