Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is the late autumn of the 18th year of Eastern A.D.

The Chung Yeung Festival has passed almost a decade. The west wind is gradually rising, and the remnants of the leaves and grass can be seen everywhere in the city, and there are signs of a desert withering. A solitary goose flapped its tired wings and skimmed over the city, leaving behind a string of sad chirps. The Qingliang Temple in the west corner of the city is no longer the scene of the chrysanthemum festival a few days ago, and the two novices who greet the guests are wrapped in dusty monk's robes, standing listlessly around the temple gate, with eyes that are not a little angry, and their eyes are dull looking at the street where there are not many pedestrians.

The autumn wind swept a few dead leaves and moved them to and fro on the ground. A merchant carrying a burden slowly turned from the front street, shouting weakly, and the sound of the rattle slowly dragged across the street. With the shouting of "water and water" from far and near, a donkey cart carrying water appeared on the street corner where the figure of the merchant had just disappeared. A few women carrying wooden barrels came out of the houses on the side of the street, stopped by the waterwheel for a while, and then disappeared from the street. There are also a few boys and girls with pigtails and double buns on the side of the temple wall playing the game of "throwing sandbags", and from time to time there will be a burst of laughter or quarrel for a certain win or loss, and the crisp children's voices are melodious and melodious in this quiet and depressed autumn day.

There are also several shops selling tea and rice on this street, all of which have little business, and the guise of picking them out hangs lazily. Only the tea shop at the end of the street had a good business, and the two of them were not only busy serving tea and water by themselves, but also wearing a pair of children in open crotch pants were also allowed to run in and out to buy fruit cakes and all kinds of dry goods. There were more than a dozen reins tied to a tethered horse rack next to the door of the tea shop, and one or twenty horses were chewing the hay peacefully. If you look closely, you can see that the hind legs of these horses are branded with not very clear marks on the crotch, which is a lack of pen and little drawing of the word "Yan". It's all military horses.

Diagonally opposite the tea shop is a small yamen, and there are four spear-wielding soldiers standing next to the open gate, all of them in black helmets and black armor, with solemn expressions and unsquinting eyes. An officer with a waist knife stood by the doorway, meticulously examining the papers presented by everyone who entered. There are also a few small tiger head cards standing next to the doorway, the first one is the "Yanshan Guard Examination Division", and then the Inspector and Criminal Division, the Transfer Division, the Occupational Machinery Supervisor, and the Horse Husbandry Supervisor......

In the middle of the moment, a tall young man appeared in the shadows of the doorway.

The man raised his right arm to his left chest and took two steps towards the saluting officer on duty, and stood on the steps with a deviated face, as if he was looking for someone or something.

He didn't wear a hat of different colors like the people who came and went here, but he pressed a plain wooden crown on the bun, and held the crown in place with a hairpin. Viewed from the side, this is a young man who is not handsome, but very heroic. With his black and red face, high nose, pursed lips, and the contours of the edges of his long, thin face as clear as a knife, when his eyes passed, people could always feel the sharpness and depth hidden in his gaze. But when he turned his face, people couldn't help but feel sorry for him—he had a long scarlet scar on the right side of his face, which ruined his face completely. Not only that, but the lower eyelid of his right eye was pulled down by the scar, revealing the red flesh in the socket, and the wing of his nose was also skewed towards the scar; The corner of his mouth is slightly hooked upwards, as if he has been smiling......

The weather was already a little cool, but he was still wearing only a green straight shirt, a palm-wide belt tied around his waist, and a beautiful knot with silver silk thread on the left side, and a three-finger-wide and narrow white and delicate moire jade pendant was tied to the belt. The people who came in and out of the yamen would be a little surprised to see the color of his straight shirt, and they would always look surprised and regretful when they saw the scars on his face, but when they found the scars on the jade pendant, and then looked at the young man, the surprise and regret in their eyes turned into respect.

The jade pendant is only available to those who have been awarded the Medal Field; Moire, two acres of Xuntian......

"Captain Shang?" A military attache who came out of the yamen greeted the young man standing on the steps uncertainly.

Shang Cheng, who was looking around for Zhao Shi and Bao Kan, turned his head. He quickly recognized the military attache in front of him as Wen Mu, the commander of the Yanshan camp.

"Why are you here?" Shang Cheng was a little surprised. He had dealt with Wen Mu once before, and although he didn't talk much, he felt that the Zhijun of this camp should be a very good officer. And this was the first acquaintance he had met in Weizhi, so he immediately said happily, "You came to work?" Is it done? I'm in for a treat, and we'll have dinner together at noon. ”

Wen Mu was obviously not used to Shang Cheng's enthusiasm and the etiquette of shaking hands, but he didn't want to pull out his right hand immediately, so he said with an unnatural smile: "Not today." I handed over the official documents here, and I had to go back to the camp to pay errands. He withdrew his hand and said, "You are a guest in Yanzhou, how can you be treated?" Or I'll do it another day, and Shi Mingfang will eat wine. He quietly rubbed his right hand back and forth on his clothes twice, his face remained unchanged, and he asked with concern, "When did you come to Yanzhou?" ”

"The twenty-third of last month,"

"Oh. Then you are now receiving errands in the Yanbei Military Village of the Right Army? Without waiting for Shang Cheng to answer, Wen Mu said with a smile, "Then we have many opportunities to meet, and the Camp Commander Division is not far from you, and you can meet and have a meal at any time." ”

"Hey," Shang Cheng looked at the yamen behind Wen Mu, and sighed helplessly and said, "I haven't been assigned to an errand yet...... It's been almost a month. ”

Wen Mu also glanced at him with a twisted face, and then at Shang Cheng's disappointed and anxious expression, and immediately understood what was going on. Shang Cheng is now a lieutenant of Guide on the seventh grade, according to this rank, at least a real position such as the deputy commander of the brigade Sima Brigade to join the army, but there are only dozens of such positions in the Quanyan Mountain Guard, and a large part of them are not the key vacancies of the former enemy, and the remaining positions are almost all old military affairs, even if there are positions by chance, there are experienced officers from all over the camp waiting for their posts...... It is estimated that the Yanshan Admiral's Mansion is also worried about this matter, and one by one, you can't throw a warrior like Shang Cheng who has just been promoted to take care of the grain and grass and supervise the craftsman, right? If you really want to do that, it will hurt the hearts of the soldiers too much......

But this is not the place to explain Shang Cheng in detail. He pointed to the side and made a debut for the people who came in and out, and then he smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, there must be no suitable position for a while, so I haven't assigned you things for the time being." You can also take the opportunity to recuperate for a while. One by one, are your injuries completely healed? But don't leave any root causes behind. ”

"The injury is completely healed, but this dead man's face will not be able to do it for a while." Shang Cheng stroked his cheek and said, "The doctor said that the right side of the face can also recover, and it won't be like this all the time." It just takes time, and you have to recover slowly. "He is a person thrown out of the pile of the dead, and it would be good to survive, so he doesn't care too much about his current appearance, and he is not taboo when he speaks, but he still hopes that the right side of his face can recover some functions one by one, and now when he is angry, he is always half angry and half smiling, and sometimes it is inevitable that people will misunderstand......

Wen Mu is obviously not an officer who sits in the office every day and has never been on the battlefield, Shang Cheng called his face a "dead man's face", he just smiled and didn't say anything. He carefully stared at the scar on Shang Cheng's face, and said, "Xingying has just transferred a few medical officers from the Jingshi Liyuan camp, when are you free, come to Xingying to find me, and I will find someone to help you arrange it." There is also a degraded official from the hospital among the medical officers, and I heard that he is very capable. ”

"Okay, I'll come." Shang Cheng said happily.

Wen Mu's entourage had already brought the horse over.

Since Wen Mu still had official business, Shang Cheng couldn't insist on inviting Wen Mu to dinner, so the two said a few more words, and Shang Cheng stood on the side of the street and watched him leave.

Bao Kan, who was resting in the tea shop opposite, also led three horses over.

Shang Cheng frowned and asked, "The stone ran away again?" Where did he go? Before coming to Yanzhou to take up his post, he asked several guards sent to him by the Nanguan battalion to return to the team, only Bao Kan Ning was willing to follow him and didn't want to go back to be a "top fart captain", he couldn't persuade him, and finally had to let Bao Kan stay. Zhao Shishi, who was already the commander of the Nanguan camp, suddenly found him, and he had to come to Yanzhou with him. He couldn't say no to the stone, because Fan Quan and Ji Zheng had told him that the stone must be restrained, otherwise the violent and cruel stone would break into a big disaster sooner or later. Even if Ji Zhengfan didn't say anything, he would take the stones with him one by one in Zhao Ji...... and later found the bones of a family of three in the mountains...... The stone is like a completely changed person, and everything is as ferocious as a wolf, even when he is with his own soldiers, he will scold and raise his hand when he opens his mouth......

Bao Kan didn't answer his question, just frowned. Do you need to ask where he has gone?

The corners of Shang Cheng's mouth twitched, and he asked again with some annoyance, "Did he go to find that woman again?" ”

Bao Kan grinned again, and it was a positive reply.

Shang Cheng stared at a willow tree with withered leaves on the side of the street with his lips puffed out and his eyes puffed out, and it took a long time to exhale fiercely. He knew that the woman Zhao Shishi was looking for was the young woman they had met in the mountain temple. It's really strange, he glanced at the woman twice, and looked at her appearance and tone, she didn't look like a coquettish girl, why did he seduce Zhao Shishi? Damn, he didn't know when the two of them were sticky, it seemed that one day after the Double Ninth Festival, he came to the yamen to sign in, and the ghost sent the woman to come to this Qingliang Temple to burn incense, and then the two of them ......

He spat on it, stepped on it with the soles of his leather boots and ran it twice, grabbed the reins handed by Bao Kan, turned over and got on his horse.

All the way, he scolded Zhao Shishi in his heart. Dog thing, every day you know to engage in these nameless things! If I had known that this would be the case, I shouldn't have brought you to Yanzhou! You said that you are a good loyal and brave man, you miss your daughter-in-law, you want to start a family, what kind of good family girl can't find it, why are you entangled with a married woman?!