After the seventh battalion of Chengying formed an army, he first stationed in Dunhuang to rest for a period of time, waiting for the official invitation of Lumei State. After Duan Huaixian took the centurion to report to the General's Mansion, Zhao Xingde took leave.

It was May, the warm breeze was soft, and the catkins on both sides of the road were like snow. As soon as he left the city gate, he immediately urged his horse to move quickly. The bricks, tiles, plants and trees in front of me have indeed been seen countless times in dreams, but I don't see the scene of the Yiren leaning on the door. Feeling timid about his hometown, the more Zhao Xingde longed for it, the more apprehensive he became. As he approached the door, he jumped off his horse, patted the horse on the neck, signaled that it should not disturb the mistress with its neighing, and then carefully pushed open the door of his house.

The scenery in the yard is slightly different from when I went, there are two more begonias, one plum tree, and a swing made of ancient vines hung under the garden porch. Behind the blue screen window of the study, there is a rare figure. Zhao Xingde tiptoed open the screen door. Li Ruoxue stood in front of the window and looked down at a note on the desk. Seeing her cowardly back, Zhao Xingde felt a sense of tenderness in his heart, stepped forward, and gently hugged the beauty.

"Yuan Zhi," Li Ruoxue trembled, the pen in her hand fell on the snow-white paper, dyed into a piece of ink, she felt Zhao Xingde's familiar breathing, and her cheeks felt slightly tingling, but it was Zhao Xingde who pasted his face with her, "I'm back." "A deep voice that I have heard countless times in my dreams.

"Yuan Zhi." The tears could no longer be controlled, fluttering down their cheeks, and the silhouettes of the two gradually merged together on the blue screen.

Xiao Biesheng was newly married, and after the clouds cleared, the two snuggled together, Li Ruoxue's face was like a morning glow, and her slender jade fingers were drawn in circles on Zhao Xingde's chest. Narrating their experiences of parting to each other, many times, Zhao Xingde and Li Ruoxue listened while talking, as if otherwise, they would not be able to pour out the parting feelings accumulated in their chests.

"The scene of the big quicksand and Puchanghai is reckless during the day, all of them are quicksand, and at night, the cold moon is like frost. Whenever the wind rises, it is like a demon roaring at night, and the ground is full of big gravel, and it walks with the wind. Fortunately, thanks to the blessing of the lady, the map given by the Military Intelligence Department was accurate, so she did not lose her way. ”

"After you left, the government will send someone to send firewood, rice and silver money every month, and every time I invite the sister-in-law who sent things to drink tea inside, the sister-in-law said, our family is kind, and when the last contract expires, I want to turn to be a shade household in our house."

"The brothers in the army believed in me and elected me as a centurion. Our team of 100 has taken its own nickname, called 'Ming Hongdu'. In the past few months of training, I have been killed by a bastard captain, but for the sake of his lack of malice, I have endured it. ”

"That day, I went to Sun Jixiang Pharmacy to buy incense, and met a Mrs. Lu, Mrs. Lu listened to me with a Luoyang accent, and we talked a lot about Luoyang's hometown, and Mrs. Lu often came to our house to chat. Sun Ji's proprietress is also good, and she specially said that you are back, let me take you to the door. ”

"When I was practicing outside the city, I found a piece of jade and found a craftsman to grind it into a hosta, you try it."

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The 7th Battalion of Chengying will only wait for the official invitation of the Lumei Kingdom to be issued, and then they will set out again. As the days passed, both of them deliberately avoided the topic of parting, and every time Zhao Xingde went to Chengying Army for training, he hurried home.

These days, Li Ruoxue pulled Zhao Xingde to many famous places near Dunhuang. Mingsha Mountain cliff view cave murals in thousands of disguises, rubbing Han and Tang Dynasty remnant monuments to trace the ancient and secluded. Stroll on the bank of Shouchangze, play with the white crane and sand gulls, climb the dangerous peak to the east, see the snow of the three peaks in the distance, the clouds come out of Xiu, and the twilight is slightly condensed. The ancient city overlooks the lonely smoke of the desert under the slanting sun at night, and the pheasant moat reflects the sunset.

The party water is shallow, the two of them rented a flat boat, boated on the water, enjoyed the ripples and blue shadows, admired the vertical and horizontal canals, irrigated the embroidered soil spring ploughing, and at dusk, listened to the fishing song at night, tasted the fresh fish that the fisherman had just netted, and took advantage of the moonlight, visited the moon spring Xiaoche, drew the spirit spring to cook tea, and talked to the moon until dawn.

On this day, Li Ruoxue made a special trip to take Zhao Xingde to Sun Jixiang Pharmacy, and the shopkeeper Gu was very enthusiastic, and deliberately left Zhao Xingde and Li Ruoxue to eat and take a lunch break in the store. In the afternoon, Gu handed over the shop to the guy to watch, and took Li Ruoxue and Zhu Lingwu, the niece who had just come to Kanto, to go to the Thousand Buddha Cave to support the Bodhisattva.

This Zhu Lingwu has a thin face, his shoulders are shaved, and his eyes are dark and smart, like a deep pool of water. She has been frail and sick since she was a child, she has taken a lot of prescriptions, and she is quite familiar with medicinal medicine, and she usually helps in Sun Ji's pharmacy, she is cold and silent, and she wears a white flower next to her temples. Li Ruxue saw that her parents were there, and she was dressed as a daughter, so she secretly asked Gu's for whom Lingwu wore filial piety.

"Alas, my poor nephew," a trace of pity flashed in Gu's eyes, and he sighed, "I have a childhood sweetheart since I was a child, and the two families originally said that the future of men is important, and they will get married after the provincial test, but I didn't expect that the child was implicated in the Kanto exposé case, and I was going to flee to Guanzhong to join my relatives, but later I heard that a man surnamed Zhang in Beijing was killed by a traitor, and the child was guilty, and he said that he wanted to follow Mr. Zhang, what to say,' I only hope to die to understand the weight of the national law', and he went to the Yamen of the Lifting Division to surrender without telling his family, but he was killed a few days later, and the government said that the prisoners in the prison fought to death. Lingwu is wearing filial piety for him, and it seems that he is determined to watch the widow. ”

"Alas," Li Ruoxue sighed softly, looking at Zhu Lingwu's cold face and thin figure, a little sad out of thin air.

After Zhao Xingde heard Li Ruoxue talk about this matter, he was speechless, and after a long time, Fang lowered his head and sighed: "Zhang Minghuan is still alive although he is dead. If you can't see the traitor Ming Zhengzheng punishment, so that the national law is heavier than Mount Tai, Zhao Xingde will live in vain and be ashamed of the world. "A palm slap on the railing of the car.

Zhu Lingwu painted a portrait of his fiancé and offered it in the Buddha cave. Zhao Xingde felt guilty in his heart, so he stayed and waited under the Thousand Buddha Cliff. Ruoxue comforted him a few words, then turned around and followed Gu and Zhu Lingwu to give the monks of the Thousand Buddha Cave the silver money.

"Minghuan has gone, in this world, after all, someone has to take responsibility, I don't know Chen Shaoyang, Deng Shou one or two, the princes of the Society, what's the current situation?" Zhao Xingde was out of his mind, and suddenly, he heard someone calling him.

"Brother Zhao!"

Zhao Xingde looked back, but he was a Kantian who had a relationship in Bianliang at the beginning. Kant led the horse to stand in front of a carriage, with a look of surprise and joy on his face, he turned sideways through the curtain and told the person in the car a crime, walked forward quickly, and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang was killed in the exposé case, Brother Zhao's whereabouts are unknown, I am burning inside, I am strictly ordering my subordinates to look around, but I didn't get any information, I didn't expect Jiren to have his own natural appearance, and I actually let me see Brother Zhao in Dunhuang!" ”

Zhao Xingde suddenly met an acquaintance, but he didn't understand his details, looked at him, and was silent without answering.

Only then did the Kantian come to his senses and arched his hand: "Brother Zhao is on the run, so I have to be on guard, forgive me for being presumptuous." He paused and said with a smile: "However, as far as I know, my father has issued an edict to find Brother Zhao, and if he knows that you are in Dunhuang, he will definitely be very useful." ”

Zhao Xingde was even more surprised when he heard his words of "father", and then he smiled and said: "Forgive me for having to hide my identity when I was in Bianliang, my real name is Chen Kang, and I am the last son today." Brother Zhao has been in the Xia Kingdom for a long time and knows that this prince's identity is nothing, so don't be restrained because of this. ”

The "Jinshang" he is talking about is not Zhao You, the emperor of the Song Kingdom, but Chen Xuan, the current emperor of the Xia Kingdom. And the prince is nothing, and Zhao Xingde is also deeply touched. In the Chengying Army, the sergeants have no fear or even fear for the royal family and generals, but more admiration and obedience out of responsibility. When young officers talk about their ambitions every day, the most common phrase is that "the prince and the prince will have a kind of Xiangning". The reason why the noble children of the Xia Kingdom often choose to join the army is because in the ordinary army, the disclosure of identity may invite unexpected humiliation. Many sergeants will even use excuses to find trouble, so that after retiring, they can boast to others, and I beat a certain prince and his ancestors can't recognize it, which can be regarded as a rare highlight in my life.