"I ······ I didn't really think much about it at the time," he stretched out his hand and scratched his head, the boy's face was about to wrinkle together, "My father once taught me, whether it's hunting or hoeing, don't be afraid if the first step is wrong, just take a breath and take the second step well." ”

Li Xinchen and Xiao Shilian glanced at each other, and Xiao Shilian laughed: "There is some truth." ”

"You're doing a great job." Li Xinchen patted the kid on the shoulder, "What's your name?" ”

"Li Ping."

"I didn't expect us to be our family." Li Xinchen also showed a look of surprise on his face, "It's really fate." ”

Xiao Shilian said in a low voice: "Brother, Daddy originally asked me to find you a personal guard, this kid is quite clever, kung fu we have seen before, not bad, it seems to be quite fate with you, or is it him?" ”

Li Xinchen nodded, squatted down slightly and let his eyes be level with Li Ping: "Boy, are you interested in being my personal guard?" ”

Li Ping looked at Li Xinchen with wide eyes, and then shook his head solemnly: "No! ”

This word was categorical, and Xiao Shilian's face changed greatly, and he just wanted to get angry, but he was quickly grabbed by Li Xinchen's eyes. Li Xinchen said in a deep voice: "Why? ”

"Because the military advisor should be in the back to make plans and command the battle, if I become the personal guard of the military advisor, then I will not have the opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy in the future!" Li Ping's voice was loud, "The last three generations of my ancestors died at the hands of the barbarians, and my father was also seriously injured, and he died after saving me, so my greatest wish is to kill the barbarians!" ”

Xiao Shilian's originally hideous face slowly calmed down, and Li Xinchen also sighed, and then said solemnly: "Follow me, you can still go into battle to kill the enemy." ”

"But ······"

Li Xinchen patted him on the shoulder: "My military division is different from the rest of the military divisions, I am a military division who will go into battle to kill the enemy." You and I have the same disease, my father also died in the hands of the barbarians, if I can't go into battle to kill the enemy, sword the enemy, I, Li Xinchen, stand in the world, with a seven-foot body, what's the use?! ”

The surrounding guards who were originally in the mood of watching the excitement all subconsciously straightened their waists at this time, and Li Ping knelt directly on one knee: "Strategist!" There were many offensive words of the subordinates just now, and I also asked the military advisor not to take it to heart, the subordinates are willing to follow the military advisor and protect the military advisor! The subordinate martial arts are low, so please don't dislike the military advisor. ”

Li Xinchen stretched out his hand to help Li Ping up, and said with a smile: "I believe in you." ”

I don't know if I don't think that Li Ping's eyes have been moist, he has been displaced in the war since he was a child, living a hungry and full life, and later joined the army to avenge the blood revenge of the family, how have you ever felt the kindness and care between people? Today, Li Xinchen's sentence "I believe in you", although it is only a short four words, but the trust and entrustment in it are something that Li Ping has never felt or experienced in his short life since he was a child.

With a solemn arch of his hand, Li Ping stared at Li Xinchen tightly: "In the future, if the military division has orders, his subordinates should go to the soup and fight the fire!" ”

Li Xinchen originally wanted to shake his head, but when he looked into Li Ping's eyes, he immediately understood that what Li Ping said was not an empty slogan that Li Xinchen could shout a hundred times a day if he was willing, but an oath from the heart.

These young children, who have experienced too much suffering in troubled times, wrap themselves in a thick shell in order to be able to protect themselves, which always makes them look a little cold, but when someone truly trusts them, no matter how hard the shell is, it is always fragile.

Li Xinchen stretched out his little thumb and hooked Li Ping's fingers that had been grinding out of calluses: "This is the rule in our village, hang yourself with a hook, and you will not be allowed to change it for a hundred years." ”

After a pause, Li Xinchen said solemnly: "Then let's say okay, protect so." ”

Li Ping raised his head and nodded while hooking Li Xinchen's hand.

And Li Xinchen sighed softly in his heart, sixteen or seventeen years old, no matter how many vicissitudes he has experienced, he is a child after all.

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Jiankang, South Chen Palace.

The sound of hurried footsteps sounded in the silent palace.

His Majesty's bad mood in the past few days is a well-known thing in the front and back palaces, even Princess Ning Yuan, who His Majesty has always favored, is just to make His Majesty smile. When His Majesty has a bad temper, instead of persuasion, it is better to let him calm and calm himself, this has been the consensus in the palace for many years, so everything in the palace in the past few days is done lightly and slowly, for fear that doing something wrong will cause His Majesty to be annoyed.

"What's the alarm?!" Standing in front of that map of the Great Chen Territory, Chen Xu, who didn't know how long he had been in a daze, turned his head and looked inward.

The little eunuch holding the chapter was so frightened that he staggered, if he hadn't fallen to his knees in time to resolve the force of the fall, I am afraid that he would have fallen directly in front of His Majesty. Not daring to look up at Chen Ji's expression, the little eunuch's hands trembled slightly and picked up the music in his hand: "Your Majesty, Yangzhou is urgent!" ”

"Yangzhou?" Chen Ji frowned, exhaled deeply, and muttered a sigh, "I didn't expect you to be unable to sit still after all." ”

Reaching out to pick up the piece, Chen Ji waved his hand: "I know, you can step down." ”

The little eunuch was already trembling with fright, he knew very well whose territory this Yangzhou was, Yangzhou came to report urgently at this time, it must not be a good thing, it seems that the ups and downs in and outside the palace are true in nine out of ten days.

However, the little eunuch also knew that these were not things that he should care about or have to care about, and with a heavy kowtow at the moment, he turned around and left, as if he had been pardoned.

It's just that the little eunuch didn't see it, and he didn't know when, Chen Ji's hands trembled slightly, but this emperor, who had been in charge of Nanchen for ten years, still stabilized his mind after continuous deep breathing. He knew what it was without opening it, but he forced himself to take every word in it.

After a long time, Chen Ji slowly closed the music and casually threw the music movement, which was closely related to the gossip in and out of the palace, into the brazier on the side. Watching the tongue of fire gradually devour the song, Chen Ji's face was neither sad nor joyful, but compared to just now, his gaze seemed to be a lot cloudy.

The forty-nine-year-old Emperor Nanchen turned around and walked to the chair step by step, he was not yet over fifty years old, but he had a feeling of being unable to do it in old age.

It seemed that after countless inner struggles, Chen Ji still turned his attention to the brazier again, but the figure of the piece just now had dissipated in the licking of the fire.

"You do it," Chen Ji said to himself, "Brother is a wall, giving outsiders a chance to advance······ It's a pity that I, my father, can only watch like this······"

Stretching out his hand and patting the armrest of the chair, Chen Ji laughed at himself: "This dragon chair is still so eye-catching for hundreds of years, for which it ······ Anything can be left alone. ”