"Soldiering?" Wei Yan was startled and got up, "You are stupid! To be a soldier is to die. ”

He knew how Gao Shun died.

This pair of difficult brothers can be said to be aggrieved and wretched to death.

"I know, but I'm not afraid, if I become a soldier, I can protect my sister, and no one dares to bully us anymore." Gao Shun said.

"Okay, you can dispel this idea as soon as possible, listen to me, when we save some money, we will go out to study, with my ability, I can at least get a strategist's work to do, and then you will follow me, how can I get you an official and a half-job, to ensure that you have no worries about food and clothing." Wei Yan looked at Gao Shun with a serious face.

Gao Shun, who had never argued with Wei Yan, showed a little stubbornness at this time, he was stunned for a while, and then said: "Wei Yan, I know that you are for my good, but I also have my way to go. ”

"You know!" Wei Yan scolded angrily.

Gao Shun was stunned, he didn't know why Wei Yan was suddenly angry.

"You go to sleep first, I'll keep vigil, and I'll change you in the middle of the night." Gao Shun didn't want to argue with Wei Yan and diverted his attention.

Through this period of understanding, Wei Yan also knew that although Gao Shun was honest and modest, he was sometimes a little stubborn, more stubborn, and it was useless for others to say anything.

"I can only take one step at a time." Wei Yan found a comfortable position to lie down.

With a crackling sound, Wei Yan fell asleep.

Gao Shun added a little dry wood to the bonfire, and then leaned against the stone wall, with a hint of contemplation in his eyes that did not belong to his age.

The next day, the two packed up their things and dragged the wild boar down Lone Wolf Mountain.

By the time the sun had come down, the snow had begun to melt due to the trampling of the road.

When the road becomes wet, dragging the wild boar will not only not save physical strength, but also make the wild boar covered with mud.

The two men used their hunting forks to thread the rope that tied the wild boar, and then walked one after the other, carrying them on their shoulders.

Although it is said that the children of poor families are in charge of the family early, they are only fourteen years old after all, their bodies are not fully developed, and their shoulders are relatively tender.

So, it was very difficult to swing along the way.

In such a cold weather, beads of sweat oozed from the foreheads of the two.

There were gradually pedestrians on the road, some people from the same village looked at them with surprised faces, and some familiar people would come to greet them.

"Yo, such a big boar! You two boys are really good! ”

"I'll just say they're okay, you see, their family will be prosperous sooner or later."

For other people's compliments, Wei Yan and Gao Shun just smiled, and simply dealt with a few words, and they had to hurry up to carry the wild boar to the city to sell.

Zhang Butcher was yawning, lazily disassembling the door panel.

His shop is located on the street, and it is said to be a shop, but it is actually a board house built with wooden planks on all sides.

Every day, as long as one of the door panels facing the street is removed, it is considered open.

He moved a broken table to the side of the street, which was his slaughterhouse.

Whenever pigs and sheep are slaughtered, it attracts many people to watch, especially children, and it is one of the liveliest places in the village.

But lately, he's been very deserted here.

This year's harvest is not good, and even fewer can afford to eat meat.

A few days ago, there had been another heavy snowfall, and even the hunters rarely went into the mountains, which also cut off one of his sources.

There were only a few pieces of meat from unknown animals scattered around the stall, and the color was a little black, obviously too long, and it was no longer fresh.

Zhang Butcher's listless work is mostly like a daily routine.

He dusted the board with a greasy rag, heard footsteps on the road, and glanced back.

The way he looked back, it was also like a routine, his eyelids drooped for a glance, and then he looked back, probably not knowing what he was seeing.

Suddenly, his body seemed to freeze, the movements of his hands stopped, and his thoughts seemed to return to his body from a fugue state.

He looked back again, and this time his eyes lit up, and a chrysanthemum bloomed on Mu Ran's face in an instant.

"Hey, isn't this Wei Xiaozi and Xiaoshunzi?"

Although Zhang Butcher was talking to Wei Yan and Gao Shun, his eyes seemed to be on the body of a wild boar.

"Tsk, good things, good things, this body is fat, only the wild boar at this time is the best, this head, I'm afraid it has to be two hundred catties......" Zhang Butcher stretched out his hand and patted left and right on the wild boar, and looked up and down, left and right.

Wei Yan and Gao Shun just smiled awkwardly, they originally wanted to walk over quietly, but they didn't expect to bump into Zhang Butcher Kaizhang.

"You two boys are lucky, how about selling them to me?" Zhang Butcher pressed the wild boar with one hand and said with a smile.

"This ......" Wei Yan didn't know how to say it.

"That's it, we are all from the same village, and I won't hide it from you, this year's meat is really not easy to sell," in order to confirm that what he said was true, Zhang Butcher pointed to the meat on his board and said: "You see, it's all discolored, and it really can't be sold." ”

"But don't worry, you have to call me uncle, I can't take advantage of the younger generation, so let's do it, I'll give you eighty dollars, and the wild boar will leave it for me." The righteousness that Zhang Tuhu said was awe-inspiring, as if he had hemorrhaged profusely.

Wei Yan is so angry, this is to treat the two of us as fools, eighty dollars, and you Zhang Butcher said it.

In fact, Wei Yan's psychological price is two hundred yuan, and he was afraid that he would not be able to sell it at a good price in the countryside, so he planned to sell it in the city with Gao Shun.

If Zhang Butcher could give two hundred dollars, he would sell it in order to save some trouble.

But I never expected that Zhang Butcher was really black! This is clearly bullying him and Gao Shun when they are young and don't understand the market.

Wei Yan looked at the wrinkled old face of the butcher with a smile, and wanted to smash him into the crack of the wall with a punch.

However, no matter how you say it, it is also a village, Wei Yan didn't want to be too embarrassed, he said: "Uncle Zhang, you misunderstood, this wild boar is not ours, this is the wild boar shot by Li Orion from Qianqiu Village, Shunzi and I just helped him carry it back, and he promised to give each of us a big money." ”

"Say it earlier, it's in vain that I talk so much." The butcher's old face pulled down.

"Hehe, then we'll go." Wei Yan gave Gao Shun a look.

"Wait, you guys wait here first, I'll go to Qianqiu Village to talk to Li Orion." After Zhang Butcher finished speaking, he turned around and went back a few times to put back the door panel that had just been removed, and then trotted all the way to the direction of Qianqiu Village.

"Wei Yan, what should I do? He went and asked, and he was exposed. Gao Shun asked worriedly.

"Go, leave him alone, don't scold him to his face, I'll save face for him." Wei Yan didn't care.

He knew that this small village was not his place to stay for a long time, so what did it matter if he offended a few people?

This time they were unlucky, they did not encounter a carriage entering the city on the way, so they could only walk step by step to the city.

When I arrived at Jiuyuan City, it was already close to noon.

The two of them carried such a large wild boar, but it caused a commotion, and many children chased them to watch the excitement.

"Get out of the way! Move! Flash away~"

At this moment, a shouting sounded.

Two fast horses galloped down the street, driving pedestrians on the road.

The children who followed Wei Yan and Gao Shun all ran away in a panic.

But one child couldn't dodge and fell to the ground.

He began to cry and forgot to dodge.

"Wei Yan, save people." Gao Shun shouted.

Wei Yan also knew that the situation was urgent, and at the same time let go of the wild boar he was carrying while having a tacit understanding with Gao Shun.

Gao Shun rushed over desperately and hugged the child who fell.

"Ang~" The horse's hooves jumped high, and he was about to step down.

Wei Yan suddenly poured blood into his pupils, and his mind was briefly blank.

In an instant, he drew his hunting fork and stabbed it towards the knight on his horse.

"Hmph, I can't help myself." The knight on the horse did not panic in the slightest, and pulled out the saber at his waist with a "brush", cutting Wei Yan's hunting fork in two with one sword.

At the same time, the knight's other hand lifted the reins of the horse, and the horse turned to the side, and the two front hooves let Gao Shun and the child fall to the ground steadily.

The horse raised its head high and snorted as if to vent its displeasure.

"Good!"

"It's not a loss to be the guard of the Ding family, and the riding skills are good!"

The crowd of onlookers applauded.

"Hey. You kid, don't you want to die? The knight on the horse pointed his knife at Wei Yan and said.

"Forget it, it's just two children, the adult's convoy will arrive soon, don't make trouble, today is a good day for adults, make an accident, disturb the adult's Yaxing, we have to go around without food." Another knight dissuaded.

"Hmph, it's cheap, you kid, get out of the way." The knight put his saber into its scabbard again.

"Drive~" The two knights continued on their way.

"Junko, are you alright?" Wei Yan took a deep look at the two distant knights, and hurriedly went over to help Gao Shun up.

"I'm fine." Gao Shun smiled innocently.

"Little brother, go home quickly." Gao Shun patted the soil off the child's body.

"Thank you, big brother!" The child wiped his tears and thanked Gao Shun.

Wei Yan and Gao Shun went again, and the wild boar was lifted.

That's when they heard a conversation from someone nearby.

"You don't know yet, do you? It seems that Master Ding has risen again. ”

"Which Master Ding?"

"How many Master Ding do we have in Jiuyuan City? Of course, it's Ding Yuan Ding of Ding Mansion. ”

"Ding Yuan?" Wei Yan felt a little familiar, "Damn, isn't that Lu Bu's godfather!" ”

At this moment, the noisy sound of horses' hooves sounded not far away.

This time it wasn't two people who came, but a whole team of horses, and they didn't move fast, but only slowly.

Led by a dozen knights, there was a general in armor in the middle.

This general has a white face and beard, a purple cloak over his armor, and a purebred Western Regions horse under his crotch, sitting on a horse, majestic.