The sky is about to roar, there are already roosters in Datong City, last night's thin snow, at this moment has just formed a layer of shell, as if to put a layer of varnish on everything. A group of white-clad marched on the thin snow on the ground, and no one made a sound, but the long white was too dazzling in the night.

The roadside vendor who sells breakfast greeted him warmly, but no one in the group responded to him, and the hawker muttered and continued to meet.

The gatehouse of the General Soldier's Mansion was selected from the remaining dozens of Anxi troops, called Xue Zhu, who was alert and reacted quickly, Guo Yi was quite relieved of him. At this moment, it was still dark, and even Guo Yi, who had always been used to getting up early, had not yet gotten up. And the most dangerous vigil is not in the middle of the night, but before dawn, which is the time when people are most tired and sleepy. Xue Zhu sat in the hut of the gatehouse wrapped in a layer of animal fur that he didn't know what it was, the charcoal fire in the brazier was almost extinguished, and Xue Zhu was also drowsy, not paying any attention to the sound outside.

"Knock knock" knock on the door into a dream, Xue Zhu opened his eyes as if he had been struck by lightning, stood up straight, he listened carefully, but there was no sound outside the door.

He looked at the hazy black sky and thought he had misheard, but the knock on the door rang again, and he took the sword in his hand, went out of the hut, and without opening the door, he asked, "Who is outside the door?" The voice was not loud, but it was full of vigilance.

"I'm Shuhu Zhuo, the son of Shuhu Mu, and I'm here to pick up my father." The voice outside the door was a little shaky, and I don't know if it was because it was coming from the bone-chilling cold.

If Guo Yi is there, listening to the voice, he will naturally know that the person outside the door is indeed the son of Shuhumu. But although Xue Zhu knew about Shuhumu, he didn't know that Shuhumu had an only son, and he didn't know that he would come to the door today, so he could only report to the mansion first, so he said: "Shuhu Gongzi, I don't know that there is such a thing, wait for me to report to the general army, and then come to open the door for you, do you think?" ”

"I'll wait, you go." The voice outside the door did not bring anger because of the porter's words, and he also knew the porter's difficulty.

Xue Zhu heard this, turned around and ran towards the mansion, in order to ensure safety, he first woke up the Anxi Army sergeants in the house behind the gatehouse, and asked them to bring weapons to guard the gate, and then ran to the inner courtyard. Along the way, many early risers met Xue Zhu under the eaves, but he didn't greet them today, who had a hippie smile in the past.

Xue Zhu ran all the way to Guo Yi's residence, without knocking on the door, directly raised his voice, almost with a roar, and said: "Chief soldier, there is a guest from the house, and he said that he is the son of General Shuhu, called Shuhu Zhuo." ”

Guo Yi woke up from a dream, his mind was not deep and clear, he reacted for a moment, and immediately lifted the quilt and put on his clothes, he asked while wearing: "What time is it at the moment." ”

Xue Zhu was stumped by this question, and he didn't know either, so he said: "It's still early, and the general soldiers should have to sleep for another half an hour in the past." ”

Guo Yi regretted in his heart, he forgot to tell Pei Man about this when he returned to the house yesterday, and he immediately replied: "You hurry up and open the door, take the people to the front hall to settle down, and burn the earth dragon today." ”

Xue Zhu heard this, roughly sorted out the order, and turned around and ran out, Guo Yi hadn't gotten up at this time in the past, he didn't even have water to wash his face at the moment, so he could only hurriedly put on his clothes, first went to the small kitchen behind the house to wash his face with cold water, and his thoughts, which were still a little messy, suddenly became clear, he flew to the front hall, and when he passed by the study, he saw Xu An also running in a hurry, his hair was messy, and the cuffs of his clothes were still pressed.

"Collar, collar." Guo Yi reminded him while running.

Xu An ran behind Guo Yi, but his hands were wrapped around his neck to collect his collar.

Xue Zhu rushed all the way to the door again, but saw that most of the sergeants of the Anxi Army were like facing the enemy one by one, holding their breath, holding swords and guns in their hands, and put on an offensive posture. Xue Zhu was out of breath, and stepped forward and said, "Take it all...... The weapon is down, is it ...... He is the son of General Shuhu. ”

Most of the soldiers worship heroes, especially the heroes they have seen, and Shuhu Mu's figure wielding double swords like an ancient evil easily occupies a place in the hearts of these Anxi soldiers. At this moment, I heard that the person outside the door was Shuhumu's son, and they all took the knife and came up to help, and I wanted to see the face outside the door, whether it was also wearing a black mask, and it was very angry.

The door opened, and the soldiers were somewhat disappointed. Standing at the front of the door was a young man, with a delicate face, a thin body, wearing filial piety clothes, without the slightest murderous aura.

Xue Zhu was the first to react and said, "Master Shuhu, the general soldier has already risen, you should go to the front hall first." ”

Shuhumu guessed that his father's coffin should be parked in the front hall, so he thanked him: "There is little brother Lao, but these uncles ......."

Xue Zhu looked over, the team behind Shuhu Zhuo was less than thirty or fifty people, some of whom he still knew, and they were hawkers in this Datong City, but they were mostly disabled. And the one who followed behind Shuhu Zhuo was still a woman, her eyes were red, and she must have been crying for a long time.

"This ......" Xue Zhu was a little embarrassed, these thirty or fifty people, he didn't dare to put them into the mansion, although he had seen them before, who could guarantee that they were not the assassins of the Jin Kingdom lurking in Datong City.

"Bring it in, and prepare hot porridge for everyone in the front hall to warm up." Xue Zhu turned around and looked, it turned out to be Pei Man coming, and he was immediately relieved. It's just that Steward Pei, who has always been serious, is still wearing his hair at the moment, which is somewhat funny.

"You are." Shuhu Zhuo saluted him.

Pei Man naturally returned the salute, with a natural smile on his face, and said: "I am Pei Man, the housekeeper of the house, and it is okay for the master of Shuhu to call me Lao Pei." ”

"Uncle Pei." Shuhu Zhuo bowed another junior salute, and then led the team into the door and followed Pei Man to the front hall.

Seeing that the white team was far away, the soldiers who had been silent began to mumble quietly.

"The son of General Shuhu is just like this." It was Shi Tai who spoke, he was burly and powerful, so he naturally couldn't see the small body of the tiger burning that the wind was blowing.

"It seems that you know that the Tiger Master is a scholar, and he will be designated to be a big official in the future, what do you know about the big man?" A thin soldier immediately refuted Shi Tai's words. His name is Shi Yong, and he is Shi Tai's brother.

"Don't even shout." Xue Zhu closed the door and said, "General Shuhu has saved the general soldiers, and he can be regarded as our benefactor, so we should protect his son and talk less." "Don't look at Xue Zhu as just a porter, but he speaks smartly, and he has the right to speak in the five hundred Anxi Army.

When the dozen or so soldiers of the Anxi Army heard this, most of them thought about it, so they rubbed their eyes and went back to sleep under the covers. Xue Zhu also entered the porter's hut, added some firewood to the brazier, wrapped the fur around his shoulders, and squinted his eyes to recuperate.