The officer suddenly stopped, but the soldiers who followed him into the main hall did not stop, and seven or eight people scattered, saying such kind words as "I disturbed everyone and bothered everyone to make a place", but there was no politeness on their faces, and they drove the people in the hall out with their swords and guns, and those who fled to avoid the rain knocked the ends of their scabbards and guns on their hands and feet. For a while in the hall, the woman called the doll to cry, and cursed in a low voice with "If you have the ability to fight the people, what kind of ability can you bully us". Fortunately, this group of fierce-looking soldiers only drove people instead of beating people, and the weapons were also proportionate when they hit people, and they did not take the opportunity to rob and plunder everyone's belongings, so although people were angry in their eyes and complained in their hearts, they still gave the hall to this group of soldiers who came out of nowhere.

The two soldiers had already gone over to light the oil lamp on the table in front of the statue, and the incense ash and two plates of black buns placed on the table were moved to the shrine, and a small officer brushed off the ashes on the table, took out a wrapped oilcloth bag from his arms, opened it two or three times, took out the yellow paper with a ruler and a square, and spread it on the table.

The officer who gave the order first waved his hand, pointed at Shang Cheng and Zhao Shishi who were mixed in the crowd and said, "These two people stay." Then he turned his face to a person beside him and said, "Everyone here rushes to the backyard, and our people only live in the front yard, and those who dare to go to the backyard to harass the people will be whipped five times without asking the reason." Find a few people from among the people who are quick with their hands and feet, and boil the fire and water to cook ginger soup. Brethren should take time to rest after drinking ginger soup and eating something. The man took the order, and after a while he came back and reported that there were only two huts in the backyard, and that there were not enough people to fit in. The officer thought for a moment and changed the order: "Vacate the corridor on the right, let the old man, woman and little baby take shelter from the rain, and the young man will not care." As he spoke, he glanced at the mules and horses tied to the trees in the yard, nodded his head, and said, "Levy those animals." Immediately, a petty officer brought a few soldiers over, threw a handful of copper coins into the muddy ground, and drove the mules and horses into the left porch without asking.

Seeing the orderly pouring of soldiers into the main hall of the corridor, silently looking for a place to rest, the officer walked to the incense case, and the soldiers specially brought him a stone pier to sit down, and did not speak, but squinted his eyes on the yellow paper on the table.

After a long breath, he turned his face to look at the dark night sky outside the palace gate, where the wind was still urging the rain and the wind was strong, and his chin flicked slightly: "Bring those two deserters here." ”

A soldier immediately walked to the front steps of the hall, stretched out a finger and pointed at Shang Cheng and Zhao Shishi, who were standing in the rain in the courtyard, and said, "The captain has an order, tell you to come in!" ”

Shang Cheng and Zhao Shishi are people who haven't eaten well and slept well for a few days and nights, just now they gnawed a lot of vegetable dumplings in the hall, and poured a breath of hot water, their stomachs were so swollen that the drowsiness of arrears naturally came to the door, although they were standing in the rain, but both of them were a little drowsy, and they were shouted by the soldiers, and the people were moved in response, but their minds were not very clear, and their feet were naturally a little weak. The soldier who conveyed the message darkened his face when he saw their procrastination, and without saying a word, he gave Zhao Shishi, who was not injured and was wearing a Lang official uniform, a knife handle.

Zhao Shizheng dozed off with frowns, and didn't take precautions, and screamed miserably in his mouth, so painful that his facial features were a little out of shape, and the person was also smashed. He is also a person who crawled out of the rain of guns and arrows, there are many fights on the battlefield, and there is naturally a sense of anger in his heart, where can he suffer this kind of loss, his eyes are staring at his waist and twisting to want the big-headed soldier to look good, as soon as his arm moves, he was dragged by Shang Cheng, and he struggled a few times in a row and did not break free, and he was about to have a seizure, seeing that the soldiers who were sitting under the eaves of the main hall and resting had stood up several times, all of them stared at them with unkind expressions, and had no choice but to endure his anger, and glared at the soldier who smashed him fiercely with slanted eyes.

He was immediately stabbed in the shoulder.

This time it was even more ruthless than the one just now, but he had already taken precautions, and when the handle of the knife hit, he slanted his shoulders and unloaded some strength, so his muscles were far less painful than the one just now. The soldier's knife handle was not smashed, and the expression on his face was quite surprised, and he pushed it Zhao Shishi's back, and shouted in his mouth: "Hurry up!" ”

"Push what? Uncle will go! Zhao Shishi refused to suffer in his mouth, but he didn't dare to stay under his feet, and went up the stairs with Shang Chengcheng.

Shang Cheng scolded in a low voice: "Shut your mouth!" He is much more sober than Zhao Shishi, and much more afraid than Zhao Shishi, now what he is most afraid of is that he is identified as a deserter by this group of officers and soldiers, then he and Shi will not be able to escape the life of cutting off his head one by one from Guangping Yi to Gongqian Pass, he has seen two or three cases of dealing with deserters, and Da Zhao's army will not ask any reason for it after catching his deserter, and no matter how the deserter begs for mercy and explains, it is all beheaded on the spot. He was already feeling lucky. If this group of officers and soldiers caught them and cut them down without asking any questions, he and Shi would have nothing to say. He only now realized that they were all village warriors and militiamen, and in serious terms, what they are doing now is the same concept as deserters; Moreover, they were all wearing the leather armor of border soldiers, and they were mixed in with the crowd, so it was not uncommon for them to be mistaken for deserters......

He walked into the main hall with shame and apprehension, and a glimmer of hope, and since the captain who led the team was willing to meet them, maybe they still had a chance to live.

The lieutenant sat on the stone pier and looked at them with squinted eyes for a long time before he asked coldly, "Where are you stationing border soldiers?" ”

Zhao Shishi stiffened his neck and said, "We are not border soldiers!" ”

"Oh? So you're the Guards? ”

"We are the people!"

The two soldiers next to him raised their legs and were about to come over to clean up the reckless Zhao Shi, but they were blocked by the captain waving his hand. The lieutenant glanced at the tattered and dirty Zhongyonglang military attache uniform on Zhao Shishi's body, and looked Shang Cheng up and down for a long time, then turned his head and asked, "If you are not a border soldier, how can you wear the armor of the border army?" Don't you know that there is a law in the imperial court? Pretending to be a guard is a felony, and if you also pretend to be an officer, it is even more of a crime. ”

Zhao Shishi didn't hear the slight difference in the captain's questioning, but he still understood the meaning of the felony, and hurriedly defended: "It's not that we want to wear one by one, but we have to have something to wear!" The clothes are all in tatters, or they will be torn and wrapped in wounds, and what can they wear without the skin that was stripped off the dead man's body? ”

The lieutenant looked at Zhao Shishi coldly, until Zhao Shishi lowered his head in cringe, and then asked again unhurriedly, "Where are you from?" ”

"He is from Huojiabao in Yi County," Zhao Shishi had lost all the arrogance just now, and replied honestly, "I am from Zhao Ji." ”

"It's all Xiangyong, right?"

"Yes."

Huo Ran was covered with a dark shadow on the cold ground of the captain, and a murderous intent came out of his cold eyes, and the seeping voice was like coming from the dark sky outside: "Do you know what happened to the deserter?" ”

"Deserters? What deserters? Zhao Shishi muttered these two words twice, and suddenly cried out in panic, "We are not deserters!" No! Gongqian Pass was occupied by the Tuqi people, the officers and soldiers were all dead, and we couldn't find anyone and had to return to Yi County! Your Excellency, Captain, we are not deserters! Really not a deserter."

Several soldiers standing around had already come over to hold the two of them, Zhao Shishi was struggling and howling, but Shang Cheng was expressionless and didn't say a word. When a soldier grabbed his arm, his hand grabbed the wound on his right upper arm, and the pain to his bones made him feel so excited that he couldn't help but snort, but he didn't defend himself like Zhao Shishi. But the soldier sensed something, immediately let go of his hand, turned his face to the captain, and said, "My lord, this is a wounded soldier!" ”

“…… Examination! ”

The two soldiers came over and took Shang Cheng's clothes and pants without saying anything.

There were still dozens of soldiers sitting in the main hall, drinking water and eating dry food, while watching the deserters being dealt with here. Shang Cheng's clothes and pants had just been ripped off, and there was a gasping sound in the hall......

The captain sat on the stone pier and watched the two soldiers examine Shang Cheng's injuries. The lights were flickering, reflecting his face from time to time, and the people next to him could not see his joys, sorrows, and sorrows. But he himself knew that he had been a soldier for thirteen years, and it was the first time he had seen a person suffer so many injuries at the same time.

Shang Cheng's chest, back, arms, waist and hips, thighs, and calves...... Almost all of his body was wounded. Some wounds were wrapped in dirty and blackened strips of cloth, some wounds were just smeared with something they didn't know what they were, and some small wounds were not treated at all, so red and swollen that even the flesh was shiny and bulging.

"Your Excellency, the examination has been completed, with a total of 17 large and small wounds and 6 arrow wounds, respectively on the right shoulder, right chest, left ribs, and right hip...... There were four gunshot wounds, one in the right shoulder, one in the right waist, and one in the left thigh. The little soldier who reported the injury said that his voice trembled a little. There are also eight bruises, purple and black, which are not counted. ”

There was a deathly silence in the hall, and then there was a buzz as if someone had thrown a hornet's nest here. Not only were the resting soldiers in the hall discussing, but even the soldiers standing at the door and watching the excitement were all pale and gray. The big-headed recruits who have never been on the battlefield don't understand the reason, they only know that shaking their lips and smacking their tongues sigh at Shang Cheng's good life, this person has been injured so much, he is not dead, and he can still stand, which is not an ordinary good luck. The veterans were in awe of Shang Cheng, so many injuries didn't even fall on their backs......

After a long time, the lieutenant exhaled and said, "Put on your clothes." Seeing Shang Cheng put on his clothes and pants again, he said slowly, "You are a village warrior, and you should protect your family and protect your family, but at the moment of foreign enemies, you are afraid to retreat one by one, no matter what reason you have, this is a violation of the prohibition of defrauding the army, and you should be beheaded according to military law." As soon as he said this, the hall was immediately buzzing again, and he was swept away by his cold gaze, and the soldiers stopped talking. He narrowed his eyes, his gaze shifted from Shang Cheng's face to Zhao Shishi's face, and then from Zhao Shishi's face back to Shang Cheng's face, and paused for a long time before he continued, "But I read that you are injured, and I also read that you have made small contributions in Gongqian Pass, and I allow you to make meritorious contributions to your crimes......"

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