When Shang Cheng and Sun Zhongshan lamented and saddened the departure of their friend in the night, they did not expect that Wen Mu, who they mistakenly thought had met misfortune on the way south, stayed in a military camp outside Yanzhou City.

This is a temporary barracks converted from a grain depot warehouse, and it is occupied by the Central Plains soldiers who are about to be repatriated. It is said that it is rebuilt, but in fact, after the grain in the big warehouse is distributed, a layer of hay is sprinkled on the ground, and then a few pieces of cloth are pulled and covered with the hay, and a few bundles of felt blankets bitten by insects are thrown on it, which is the floor of the soldiers. The Health Department tried to save trouble, and there was no talk of sending people to clean up the "barracks", the four walls had not been painted, and the barns were filled with the peculiar musty smell of old grains. The Central Plains soldiers who lived in it were defeated one after another, from officers to non-commissioned officers, they all looked lifeless, where did they still have the mind to pick up the barracks? I even thought that I would have to get out of the house if I didn't live for two days, and naturally I wouldn't do anything about this "barracks", so the warehouses were all dirty, pickled, and smoky. In addition, there are one or two hundred people crowded in a large warehouse, and the ventilation of the granary is not good, and the smell of sweat and feet is added to the belching and fart......

At this moment, in the midst of a snoring sound, Wen Mu was lying on the hay bunk with his head resting on his arms, staring gloomily at the outline of the black beams above his head.

He only came from Pei County with a team in late February.

When Mo Gan broke through, he brought two flowers with him; During the bloody battle against Luhe, he was stabbed in the leg again; Luhe was lost, he was separated from most of them, if he hadn't been lucky enough to encounter a large group of defeated soldiers who gathered together to protect themselves, maybe he would have become a pile of scattered white bones on the reckless field. He followed the Zhao army back to Yanshan, and was hit by arrows in the two battles of Liuzhen and Zhutang Pass. In the chaos of the war, there was no doctor and no medicinal materials, so he could only find a piece of cloth to bandage it by himself, and as a result, he started a high fever when he quit the Tang Pass. On the way from the Tang Pass to the Chisheng Pass, he was sober and confused for a while, and he relied on himself to grit his teeth and support himself, so he escaped from the Chisheng Pass with the rout refugees who were scrambling to flee for their lives.

When they arrived at Chisheng Pass, the defenders there had already fled without a trace, and he continued southward in the line of refugees, walking and walking, and suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and when he woke up again, he was already lying on his stomach in the pile of rotten grass on the side of the road, naked and naked, and when he was unconscious, others stripped his clothes, pants and shoes clean. Fortunately, he looked like a "dead man" without oil and water, and he was lucky enough to save his life from under the noses of the southbound Tultenths. He relied on two pieces of clothing he had found from the dead to cover his shame, and then he managed to leave the road of the Turquoises one after another, and walked south over the mountains. He was injured and weak, and there was no road in the mountains, so he stumbled and walked for three days, and then he had no strength......

At that time, even he felt that there was no chance of survival. The only thing he could do at that time was to crawl on the edge of the ditch and wait for death. But fate always likes to joke with people, when he wanted to live on the road, he almost died, but when he wanted to die in the mountains, he couldn't die!

One by one, he waited by the ditch for a group of people who had fled in the mountains like him. A woman who had escaped from Liuzhen took pity on him and gave him half a vegetable dumpling; This half of the gnocchi saved his life......

The kind-hearted woman took care of him until they came out of the mountains and walked to Yanshui. There he met a Zhao army reinforcing Pingcheng; Even more fortunately, the officer who led the Zhao army actually dealt with him. He was soon sent to a barracks on the south bank of Yanshui, where he remained there for the rest of his life, and he had neither a certificate to prove his identity nor a witness, so he was detained there to be screened and investigated. During this period, he suffered a lot of hardships and sins, and even he did not want to recall some experiences...... In the end, he finally survived. His status as a lieutenant was confirmed, his account of defeat was accepted, and he received a notice from the Yanshan Health Department to report to Pei County, join a team of battalion officers, and prepare to return to the Central Plains......

Now, he lay on his humble bunk, anxiously thinking about something.

It wasn't his own fate that worried him. He is just a sesame battalion commander, and the responsibility for the defeat of the grassland army cannot be held accountable to him, and the worst situation after returning to the Liyuan battalion is that he will be on duty for a long time, and there can be no other punishment. What's more, he has been working in the Liyuan camp for several years, and he also has some acquaintances, and when the time comes, he will find someone to talk about the favor, although the possibility of leading the troops again is not very large, it is not too difficult to find an errand to record things in which army. So he is not worried about his future, but anxious about how to repay the kindness of others.

He had been thinking about the kind-hearted woman who rescued him from the ghost gate. Although he knew that she was going to Yanzhou to join her family, and he also knew that her husband's surname was Xue, but he never had the luxury of hoping to repay this life-saving kindness, even Xue Sanniang herself didn't know the current whereabouts of her relatives, and he had to go to his relatives' villages to inquire after arriving in Yanzhou, where would he go to repay her?

But sometimes things are so coincidental! Two days ago, he actually met Xue Sanniang in the barracks! At first he couldn't believe his eyes. Yikes! Yanzhou is such a big place, and there are so many people, how could you meet in this small place by coincidence? If he hadn't seen Xue Sanniang staring at him like a ghost, he wouldn't have dared to go up and recognize him! Later, he learned that the relatives who Sanniang had defected to happened to be working in this grain depot, and they were also the master in charge of the big house.

For the past two days, he has been thinking about how to show his gratitude.

What he can do now is to give Sanniang some money. But he doesn't have much money on him, and the Yanshan Health Department is a little mean to the Central Plains soldiers, and the food and salary are only paid 30%, and they are not distributed on a monthly basis, so he only has less than four yuan in his hand. The money is too small, even if Sanniang doesn't care, he feels that he really can't take it. He was unwilling to make any wishes to his benefactor, and he could not do anything to satisfy his hunger; Even if he knew that the cake was real, Sanniang didn't know, what would she think of herself? Is it disdain, or disdain, or is it ......

He rolled over and couldn't sleep. There was thunderous snoring in the room, rhythmic drumming from the hanging tower in the distance, and a few faint dog barks in the distance. His mind was buzzing, and thoughts were tumbling in his mind.

Of course, he wasn't completely out of the cracks. He had a very good friend in Yanzhou City, and the tricky things he faced were not a problem in that person's eyes at all, as long as he came to the door and opened his mouth, he would soon get a large sum of money. His friends wouldn't even ask him what he was doing with the money!

But he was hesitant to go to this friend for help. Even he himself couldn't tell why he hesitated. Could it be that he doesn't trust his friends anymore? He didn't think so. He has always believed that the friendship of friends is important in the heart, although the friend is now pretending to be the governor of Yanshan, but he feels that he knows his friend very well, Shang Cheng is a person with affection and righteousness, and it is impossible to look down on their friendship because of the change of the identity and status of the two people. But he was hesitating again, after all, people's hearts change, and he has seen a lot of things at this time and that time. What's more, he still felt that he was doing this somewhat of a mouthful, after all, he begged to go to the door......

The monk's temperament shouldn't change, right?

Thinking of his friend, he couldn't help but smile heartily. He was happy for Shang Cheng, and once again sighed for Shang Cheng's good luck.

From the first time he saw Shang Cheng, he thought that this person was a character, but he never imagined that this person would become a real big man so quickly......