Shang Cheng has long known that in this era, literacy and hyphenation is a great ability, among the people he knows, in addition to Huo Shiqi, only his wife Lianniang and Gao Xiaosan can read some words, and most of the others don't even know their own names, even if they are seventeen aunts and eldest girls, although they can recognize their own names, but if they want to write their names, they can't do it anyway. Now that I heard that the sentry commander surnamed Fan could write, I couldn't help but look at him twice.

The sentry commander surnamed Fan grinned and shook his head: "Why are you talking about this...... In fact, I went to private school for nine and a half months. ”

"Why didn't you get on it later?" Shang Cheng asked.

Fan Sentinel's face suddenly darkened, and he gritted his teeth and said: "In the autumn of the second year of the Eastern Common Era, the Tuqi people came over and slaughtered the village, and my eldest brother and I lay in the ditch for three days and three nights before we could get a life back. As he spoke, he raised his face, blinked his eyes and took a deep breath, staring at the dark and deep night sky with his lips strained, and then said, "My brother also died at the hands of the Turks. In the autumn of the sixth year of the Eastern Era, in Liuzhen, the corpse was incomplete, and the head and shoulders were carved with tree roots when buried...... I was the captain of the army that year. ”

Listening to him talk about the past in a flat tone, several people were gloomy and gritted their teeth. Da Zhao has been in power for more than 100 years, and has been fighting with the Tuqi people for more than 100 years; Yanshan is the northern town of Dazhao, and guards the three important passages of the ** exhaustion of the tribes to the south of the Central Plains, almost every year there are wars, during which the dead and wounded and captured soldiers and civilians are countless, looking at the entire Yanshanwei, and the people of Tuqi have no hatred or hatred, there is no one.

Shang Cheng pinched half of the cake, frowned, and looked anxiously in the direction of the county seat.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Lao Fan's colleague was a little impatient, spat and said, "Let you add a name to the roster of the Zhao family brothers, how did you pull out your brother?" Who has no enmity with the Turks? Six generations of my family have died at the hands of the Turks, and twenty-three of them have died! Say it's a fart, just save some strength to slaughter a few more sudden-exhausted dogs. ”

Lao Fan turned his mind around and asked Zhao Shishi: "What's your name?" ”

"Zhao Shishi."

Old Fan Ba smacked his lips, thought for a while and said, "Double names, one by one is not noble." Why don't I change your name for you? ”

Zhao Shishi was a little unhappy. Although the double name is not noble, but this is given by his father, why should others change it? But he could see that Lao Fan was also kind, and he didn't know how to refuse for a while.

It was Shang Cheng who relieved him: "Just fill in the 'Zhao Stone'." We are the ones who fight before the battle and lick the blood, not so many poor and pay attention to one by one, the more cheap the name, the longer we live. He broke a piece of cake and stuffed it into his mouth, turned his face and asked Lao Fan's colleague, "Patronizing and fighting, I forgot a major event, and I haven't asked the honorable names of the two eldest brothers for a long time...... The two sentry commanders stood up together and clasped their fists, and said that they didn't dare.

Shang Cheng hurriedly asked the two of them to sit down and talk, and they talked for a few words, only then did they know that Lao Fan's name was complete, and his words were Guangde, which was given by the professor when he was studying in a private school; The other whistle chief's surname is Ji, and his name is upright and righteous.

It is not surprising that Lao Fan is famous and has words, but Ji Whistle is also famous and famous, which makes Shang Cheng very surprised. When he saw Ji Zheng praising Lao Fan just now, he was envious, and he thought that Ji Zheng was illiterate, and he didn't expect that there would be such a good name and words. He was puzzled, and asked hesitantly: "Brother Ji......" Seeing that Ji was shaking his arms and twisting his legs and was about to stand up, he quickly changed his words, "Old Ji is also a scholar, right?" ”

Ji Zhengdeng's face flushed. Fan Quan pouted and said, "He's a fart reader!" You ask him, can he recognize the word 'Ji'? The name and character were all given to him by him at the expense of someone in Yanzhou, and the word spent 10,000 yuan, and his mother-in-law took a broom for three streets. ”

Ji Zheng raised his eyebrows and glared at his colleagues, and only after a long time did he angrily scold: "How can there be three streets!" Up to two! ”

Shang Cheng was stunned, and stared at Ji Zheng with a strange expression.

Ji Zheng is still explaining over and over again, saying that his house is at the end of the alley, which can't be counted as a street at all, and he has only run half of the third street, and his daughter-in-law didn't chase him, at most half of it, so he was actually not kicked out of three streets, and he suffered a little bit if he counted two streets......

Shang Cheng couldn't hold back after all, he squirted out all the crumbs in his mouth, and slammed the mud wall so hard that he burst into tears. Zhao Shishi had already laughed, holding his stomach and turning on the ground, calling out in a long and short way. A few soldiers on the left also listened to Ji Xuan's words, and shrugged their shoulders with guns and spears one by one, and laughed backwards.

Ji Zheng also knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he laughed twice and said to Shang Cheng: "My lord, we got a few good things tonight......

Shang Cheng barely stopped laughing, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and asked, "What other good things are there?" Is it dusting? He had heard from the people of the inn that gold was found in the steppes, and that some of the great merchants of the Turpentine had pockets of gold with them; There is also a river source of Dahete that produces dog's head gold, where someone once dug up a natural placer gold nugget larger than a horse's head.

"Better than gold. Old Fan, you show the captain what we are looking for. ”

Shang Cheng took two yellow and clear copper pieces from Fan Quan's hand. As soon as he got his hands on the thing, he knew that it was definitely not copper, and that it was much heavier than copper. With a small half of the cake in his mouth, he held up a piece of gold and examined it carefully against the firelight. It's not rough placer gold, but it's not pure gold either—the yellow of the gold flakes is purple-red. The gold flake was not as long as his index finger, and the thickness was not much thicker than that of a copper coin, and there were still some patterns on both sides, and the curved curves seemed to be words rather than words, like pictures were not pictures, and he squinted his eyes to identify them, but he still did not know what was on them. He also took a look at the other gold sheets, and the regulations were similar, but there were obvious differences in the patterns on the gold plates, and there were two patterns on the gold plates.

He handed the two gold pieces to Fan Quan again, chewed the cake and asked, "What is this?" ”

Fan Quan also replied simply: "I don't know." ”

Shang Cheng stared at the two sentinels in amazement. It makes sense that he didn't know what this thing was, why didn't the two Guard officers who had dealt with the Turks for half their lives know each other? He swallowed the bread and asked, "Where did you find this thing?" He thought that if he found the source, he might be able to figure out what it was.

"A villager was found from the side door and from the corpse of the Twitz." Fan Quan excitedly flipped through the gold sheet and said, "Lao Ji's eyes are sharp, I saw that Xiang Yong carried this thing into his arms, and when he took it over, he found that it was made of gold." Later, after a search, another one was found from the corpse of the Tukutsian in the camp. "Also a general in a mink fur hat.

"Hmm." Shang Cheng nodded. It seems that this should be the identity of the Turbidians or something. He pondered for a moment, then asked, "What are the corpses like?" ”

"It's all officers in iron sheet armor." Fan Quan said. Ji Zheng grinned and added excitedly, "The one who died at the side door was also wearing a mink fur hat, and at least he was a samu, maybe he was still a big samu." ”

"Find that...... Samoni Flag: No? Shang Cheng asked. Seeing that the two sentinels shook their heads together, they pointed to the gold plate and asked, "Which one was found at the side door?" Fan Quan lifted the two pieces of gold and compared them, handed one of them to Shang Cheng, and said with certainty: "This is it." That Xiangyong took the gold in his arms and bit his teeth, there are two tooth marks and a dog thing, if he doesn't bite me, he won't pay attention to him. ”

Shang Cheng laughed. It is the soldier's right to collect the spoils of war after the victory of the battle, as long as the items are not too important, such as armor, weapons and banners, which prove the merits of the battle, the officers generally do not pay attention to the soldiers and carry things in their pockets, even if the soldiers carry all the gold and silver treasures in the enemy's warehouse into their own pockets, as long as they do not go too far, the army will not pursue them. He took the piece of gold again and looked at it carefully. The two sides of the gold plate seem to be cast with the same thing, and if you carefully follow the texture, it should be a wolf or a dog; Wolves are a bit more likely.

He threw the gold piece to Fan Quan again and asked, "You haven't seen this thing before?" ”

Ji Fan and the others shook their heads together: "No." I've never seen it, I've never heard of it. ”

Shang Cheng was a little strange: "Sa...... Samun...... You...... Our guards haven't killed the Turquoises before? "The Great Zhao Dynasty has been entangled with the Turks for a hundred years, although the Zhao army has been at a strategic disadvantage and on the defensive for a long time, but it should always have a little advantage in local battles and at a certain stage, right? It's impossible that you haven't even killed a single person, right? Besides, looking at the situation tonight, it was not a high-ranking officer in the army of the Turbid Empire, who hacked two mink hats to death in one go?

Ji Zheng scratched his chin, wrinkled his brows and said, "Samu has been beaten to death, but he has never snatched a corpse, and I don't know what this gold has to do with Samu." Yanshan has been defending for more than 30 years, and he has killed seven Sammu before and after, right? He glanced at Fan Quan; Seeing that Fan Quan nodded, he continued, "I haven't won the Samu Banner." Damn it, those big tent soldiers are very fierce, take their flag is like sleeping with their own mother, desperately want to snatch it back, last time I heard that the year before the big Xizhi Pass in order to face the flag, the people piled up more than 400 big tent soldiers......"

Fan Quan pursed his lips and said, "How is Capturing the Flag the same as sleeping with their mother?" Capturing the flag is simply robbing their sheep! ”

Shang Cheng didn't want to pay attention to the topic of "mother" and "wolf", so he changed the topic: "You said earlier that the one who was killed outside the camp was a big Samu, and the one who died in the side gate couldn't tell if it was a big Samu or a big Samu, how to distinguish between this?" Also, what does Sam mean? ”

"'Samu' is the warrior of the grassland, and 'Da Samu' is the warrior of the steppe with a difference. I heard that there was a 'warrior of the steppe warriors' among the Turks, and what it was called 'Sausamu', but I don't know if there was one or not. Ji Zheng said, "Samu is big and Samu is easy to identify." The dead man's hat outside the camp had three pheasant tail feathers stuck in it, and at first glance he knew that it was a big samu, and the hat worn by the side door also had a pheasant feather, at least a samu. It was too dark, and I couldn't see clearly whether there was a pheasant tail on it for a long time with a torch, so I had to write it down first. Saying that, he already grinned, and said in admiration, "It's still a school captain, and he cut down two samas in one battle, and he also won a sammy flag. ”

"Captain Advocate? From the eight pins? Fan Quan shook his head. This merit is only rewarded at the seventh level? Definitely more than that! There is also the credit for seizing the camp and protecting the grain depot, you have not counted it one by one, at least you have to be the same as Captain Duan who died in Panlongling in front of him, he is a 'right lieutenant of Jianhui', from the seventh grade. ”

Look at the two of them counting the merits with their fingers, how many merits are there for capturing the village, how many merits are for the first rank, how many merits are for the captives, and how many merits should be counted for scattering wood...... Shang Cheng coughed lightly and said, "Da Samu, who was killed in front of you, did you find this thing on your body?" ”

The twenty fingers of the two sentry commanders had already been used, and they hadn't figured out how many levels Shang Cheng could promote, and they were a little stunned when they heard him suddenly ask. Fan Quan reacted quickly, slapped his thigh hard, and scolded in his mouth: "Suffered from scalyptic plague!" Forgot about it! That Dasamu must have this thing on him! "Hold up the ground and call a chief to come over and cover his face is a string of orders, let the chief take people to the old camp immediately to turn over the corpse of Da Samu, and the gold piece must be turned out.

Seeing his subordinates shouting at a few people to leave, he remembered that it was not his turn to give orders. Looking at Ji Zheng's anxious face that he wanted to say but couldn't say, looking at the new boss's pale face that still had a few traces of blood, his purple and black face immediately swelled black and purple, so embarrassed that he didn't know how to put his hands and feet, and he didn't know what to say when he muttered in his mouth.

Shang Cheng didn't care about these trivial matters, so he stopped the chief and ordered: "When you get to the old camp, go and ask first, see if anyone can speak the language, if there is, send him over, or we can send the prisoners to the old camp." He raised his face and asked Fan Quan, "How many did you catch alive?" ”

Fan Quan spoke two or three times in succession, and then he slipped into words: "Originally, there were more than thirty, but then more than a dozen were killed, and now there are about a dozen." None of the people outside the city were left alive, and when they saw that they were panting, they stabbed them in the chest. ”

Shang Cheng didn't care about killing a few of the Turpents, he only called one soldier and asked him to tell the guards of the captives that they should leave a few alive for interrogation, but don't kill them all, and the prisoners are quadrupled during the recount, and if you can get reliable and important information from them, there will be an additional reward.

The man in the breastplate armor worn by the guards was just about to leave, but Shang Cheng stopped him again: "Don't go!" 11. Are you from Lijiazhuang? ”