On this day, seeing that she had not been summoned by the Bingwu Mansion for a long time, Asana, at the request of Kutsaya, agreed to go out of Luochuan City to play and relax in Luobei Junshan Mountain.

Just when Yao Ping returned from a tour with them and was about to walk back to Luochuan City, a team of cavalry wearing heavy armor and shining light suddenly galloped out of the city gate. The cavalry was in a hurry, and one of the cavalry captains who took the lead almost ran into Kurcea, who was unable to dodge. Fortunately, Asana's quick eyes and quick hands pulled her to her side, and she was able to avoid the galloping horses.

Yao Ping was about to say that the cavalry was too reckless, but he saw that the cavalry captain led by him stopped his horse after running a short distance, turned his horse's head and ran back.

The cavalry captain sat on his horse, looked at Yao Ping fixedly, and then asked tentatively, "Are you shaking Gwangzhou, Qingfu people's clan?" ”

Yao Ping was stunned for a moment, and saw that this person's accent was very familiar, so he replied, "Yes, it's Qingfu." ”

As soon as the lieutenant heard that Yao Ping said that he was from Qingfu, he immediately dismounted his horse and took off the helmet on his head.

Yao Ping looked carefully at the cavalry captain in front of him who had taken off his helmet, and couldn't help but suddenly ask in surprise, "Are you, Brother Bian Lai?" ”

"Haha, Brother Ping, it's really you." Bian Lai laughed and said, and he hugged Yao Ping excitedly.

"I remember that you went to Yaoshanguan with your relatives to do business, why did you come to Luochuan now?" Bian Lai excitedly held Yao Ping's arm and asked him.

"I'm going back to Luochuan with my uncle this time." Yao Ping said with a smile, "What a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here." ”

"What a coincidence, what a coincidence." Bian Lai said with a smile.

"Brother Bian Lai, I remember that you went to Kaiyang Prefecture and went to the north to fight the Huda people, why did you come to Luochuan now?" Yao Ping asked.

"Isn't this coming back to the imperial capital with General Ji Yuan to report on the battle situation?" Bian Lai smiled and asked Yao Ping, "How young are we brothers who haven't seen each other?" ”

"It's been five or six years, and we haven't seen each other since you left." Yao Ping thought for a while and said. "I don't even dare to recognize you."

"It's been five or six years, and I haven't seen you grow meat." Bian Lai slapped Yao Ping's chest and said, "Why do you think you're much darker than before." ”

"Life outside the customs is not as good as ours, and the sun in the desert is also more poisonous." Yao Ping said with a smile, "Brother Bian Lai, I feel that you are taller and stronger than before. ”

"Haha, huh? Maybe it's because Kaiyang's military rations are sufficient, and there is often meat to eat. ”

Yao Ping looked at the cavalry following behind Bian Lai and said, "Brother Bian Lai, you are all your soldiers, right?" You're a cavalry general, huh? ”

"What general. Your brother and I just killed a Huda leader, and gave a small cavalry captain as a pawn. ”

"Captain, that should be a big official."

"Hey, it's not a big official." Bian Lai smiled, "Yao Ping, now I still have a task, I can't talk to you more." This evening, you wait for me at the Happy Restaurant in Pleasure Place, I invite you to drink, and we will catch up with the old days when we arrive. ”

Yao Ping nodded, "Okay, Brother Bian Lai, I'll wait for you." ”

"Do you know the girl you almost bumped into on a horse just now?" Before Bian Lin got on the horse, he saw Kutsaya standing behind Yao Ping all the time, so he asked.

"Yes, yes." Yao Ping said.

"Oh, I'm sorry for this girl for me, the military is urgent, so I'll leave first."

After Bian Lai hurriedly rode a horse and led the team away, Asana said to Yao Ping: "Yao Ping, I want you to help me with something, but don't tell your uncle, is it okay?" ”

"What's the matter, Asana Sala, just tell me, I promise you not to tell my uncle." Yao Ping said.

Asana hesitated, but said, "Can you take me to your Ilo officials in charge of construction and manufacturing?" ”

Yao Ping instantly remembered what Pei Xia said to himself at the post station. He looked around, then whispered to Asana, "Yes, Sala." Since you're going there, I should tell you something. Do you remember the imperial envoy who rescued me at the post station? ”

Asana nodded, "I remember." ”

"He asked me to tell you when you were going to go to the Gongzao Mansion, just go directly to an official of the Gongzao Mansion named Shao Jun."

"How could that person know that I was looking for someone to build a house...... "Asana asked confusedly, "Do you know who he is?" ”

"Imperial envoy, I told you." Yao Ping said, "As for the rest, I don't know. I didn't know him, and I thought he was a strange person. ”

Asana thought for a moment and then said, "Go find the person he said, and when you see her, maybe you'll understand." ”

"Okay, I'll inquire about her residence tomorrow, and when I'm done, I'll take you to her."

"Thank you, Yao Ping." Asana wanted to say that she was willing to pay a little more, but she heard Yao Ping say with a smile, "It's just a gesture, what kind of thanks." ”

After nightfall, the Paradise is brightly lit, with colorful lanterns and signboards hanging in front of the store. In Luochuan City, whether it is a noble person or a small person with spare money, they all like to gather here at night and go to various grades of restaurants and song houses to drink and talk.

Yao Ping sat down in a window position on the second floor of Kuaiyi Restaurant. Not long after, Yao Ping saw Bian Lai in civilian clothes and walked upstairs.

As soon as Bian Lai arrived, he ordered good wine and food, Yao Ping was flattered and took the initiative to pour Bian Lai full of wine.

Looking at Yao Ping, who was pouring wine for himself, Bian Lai asked, "Brother Ping, you haven't been back to Qingfu for many years, right?" ”

"Hey, yes, Brother Bianlai, I haven't been back since I left there."

"I want to die of the yellow croaker caught by the sea, I haven't eaten any fish in the sea in Saibei all these years, it really makes me miss it very much."

"Haha, Brother Bian Lai, I'm not as good as you, even the shadows of river fish and lake fish outside Yaoshan Pass are very rare." Yao Ping said.

"By the way, who are those two foreigners who are with you today?" Bian Lai asked with a smile, "Is it your wife from outside the Guan?" ”

Yao Ping waved his hand in shame and said, "Where, where, I don't have that blessing." One of them is a princess of the Khaldo tribe, and I can't climb it. I went back to Luochuan this time, and it was because of her commission that I came. ”

"Oh? A princess came all the way to our imperial capital? ”

Yao Ping told Bian Lai about his rescue by Asana in the desert and the attack on Sinwa by Yasor.

"Then she's quite pitiful, and she's come to our Ilo alone to ask for help." Bian said, "What do you say about the people who found the Bingwu Mansion? ”

"Hey, don't mention it, more than half a month has passed, and except for the little official in the courtyard, no one else has even seen it."

"Didn't you even see anyone?" Bian said, "It seems that the Bingwu Mansion doesn't seem to care much about the affairs outside the Yaoshan Pass." But it's no wonder.... In recent years, the war has been the tightest in the north. ”

"By the way, Brother Bian Lai, can you tell me about your war with the Huda people in Saibei?" Yao Ping asked curiously.

"You kid has never been in the army and fought, why are you asking so much?"

"I've never been in the army, but I understand what it's like to fight." Yao Ping said earnestly, "Brother Bian Lai, you can tell me about it." ”

Bian Lai smiled and said, "Okay, okay, I'll tell you about it." I remember that in the first two years of joining the army, we have been guarding the fortress in the Beishuo area of Kaiyang. At that time, the general of Bianguan said that such a garrison could minimize the damage of the Huda people to us, and it could also effectively control their deep invasion, and it was indeed as he said, those two years were nothing more than shooting the Huda people along the city wall. However, it has never been able to defeat them fundamentally. Until three years ago, our Son of Heaven sent General Ji Yuan, General Ji is amazing, as soon as he came, he took all the funds originally used to build the city defense fortress to train cavalry and make bows and crossbows. After years of training and preparation led by General Ji, at the beginning of last year, we began to take the initiative against the Hudas. ”

"We've taken the initiative to attack the Hudas?" Yao Ping asked with concern, "How's that?" Are the Huda people who beat them scared? ”

"It's not just scared, it's almost killing them." Bian Lai sighed: "In the first attack, we smashed the fire tent, one of the four major sweat tents of Huda's wind, fire and thunderstorm, and defeated it in one fell swoop, and also killed more than 20,000 enemy troops of Huda's fire department, and captured more than 100,000 cattle and sheep. But the battle was also very tragic, and one of my good brothers had his arm cut off by the Huda. ”

"Killed so many enemies, Brother Bian Lai, you weren't injured, were you?"

"Your brother and I are fine, how can Huda's sword hurt me. Have you forgotten that in the old days we fought on the beach, and in the end I was left standing alone, and you all didn't dare to get up on the beach. ”

Yao Ping smiled: "Yes, we can't beat you if we play together, we are all afraid of you." ”

"Hey, I thought it would be fun to go out to fight when I grew up, but now I know that fighting is really miserable."

"Brother Bianlai, tell me about the Huda leader you killed."

"Okay, I'll tell you about it." Bian Lai raised his wine glass and drank with Yao Ping and said, "At that time, your brother was just a crossbowman, I remember that when the plum blossoms were blooming, our army set out from Beishuo, all the way to the Saibei grassland with General Ji Yuan, and finally in a place called What Dandan River, we encountered the main force of the Huda Fire Department's sweat tent. General Ji led the main force to set up camp on a hillside, and he did not order the elite cavalry Kuang Annihilation Battalion to make a detour behind the enemy, but he ordered our crossbowmen-based Bangfeng Battalion to conduct a detour behind the enemy. Although our Bangfeng Battalion was also confused after receiving the military order, the military order is like a mountain, and the military order will be fulfilled. In the middle of the night we all set out on time, and arrived at the designated ambush position before dawn. It's a gentle shoal area of the Dandan River. There we rested a little and began to prepare for battle, and at first I wondered how we had set up a barrier to my own people on the other side of the river. You know what? ”

Yao Ping couldn't wait to ask, "What's the matter?" ”

"General Ji Yuan is really like a god, the two armies fought outside General Ji's camp that day, our Yiluo army relied on a strong bow and a strong crossbow to hold the position, the range of the Huda people's riding bow is not as far as our Fuyuan crossbow and Zhang crossbow, and even not as far as the horn bow crossbow, which is about the same as the range of a single crossbow. Our crossbows shot at their vanguards, so that they did not dare to charge hard, and they could not bargain for anything from afar. They couldn't hit it, and they didn't dare to rush, so they wanted to make a detour to the camp behind us. At this critical moment when they regrouped their formation and were about to divide their troops to the rear to detour to us, General Ji Yuan ordered the cavalry of the Kuang Annihilation Battalion to quickly pounce from the formation. Then the infantry followed quickly, and this sudden attack made the Huda people lose their position for a moment and begin to retreat rapidly. Truth be told, if the Huda were to escape, we would not have been able to catch up with them, but they are fleeing towards the place where we have set up an ambush. You know, when they came to our ambush, it was a little dark, and I was scared to see so many Huda cavalry coming. But when we waved the flag and shot out in a salvo of arrows, I felt a lot more confident in my heart. Their horses had long since run away from each other, and they could not get up. Moreover, their kind of retreat is simply running around, there is no military discipline at all, the fast ones are in front, the slow ones are in the back, the formation is sparse and la, and it is not regular at all, which gives us plenty of time to reopen the crossbow and arrows. That's a pleasure to kill. ”

Yao Ping: "Then Brother Bianlai, didn't you shoot a lot of enemies?" ”

"It's a lot of killings, but that doesn't count, so many people, so many arrows, who knows who put who killed whom." In the end, the military exploits were not all given to General Ji Bangfeng. ”

"Then how did the head of Huda count on you, brother?"

"That's not the same, listen to me, although we were holding on to favorable terrain at that time, after all, there were too many enemies, and they were constantly attacking. Especially the Huda leader I mentioned, he is a flaming general of the fire department, wearing a red leather jacket and a team of elite horsemen, who finally organized the Huda soldiers to break through the flank of our line. He broke through the flank and stopped fighting, and began to flee. I didn't know who shouted that I couldn't let him run, thinking it was a military order, so I didn't think much about it, grabbed a horse next to me and rode up to chase him. It doesn't matter if I chase this one, I didn't say anything about it, it got dark, and the most fucking thing is that as soon as I turned around, the entire Bangfeng Camp was chased out by the fucking me. This frightened me, originally I thought I had to go back quickly, but I was afraid of meeting Hu Dabing coming from behind, so I found a hillside to hide, and then returned to the camp after this formation. Who knows, it was such a coincidence, and when I got to the back of the hill, I suddenly saw a few Huda people who had dismounted. Without saying anything, I picked up the crossbow from my back and gave an arrow to the man in the middle. I didn't know if I missed anyone, I was afraid that they would chase me, so I hurriedly rode my horse and ran. I ran for a long time, and when I tossed for a long time and reloaded the crossbow bolts on my horse, I realized that no one was chasing me at all. So I slowly turned back again. When I got back to the place behind the hillside, I found that the Huda were gone, and only one was still lying on the ground. I looked closer, and an arrow was stuck in the dead man's head. When I drew the arrow, I saw that the guy was the general. Haha, at that time, I was still wondering, is this guy's official not too big, why did the guards around him leave him and run away. After a while, a few brothers from the Kuang Annihilation Camp arrived, and then I turned a corner, and the guards were scared away. However, I was so angry with the brothers of the Annihilation Camp that they dismounted and saw that I had killed General Flaming, and they all said that I had robbed them of their chance to soar with one arrow. Hahaha. ”

Yao Ping also laughed loudly and picked up the wine glass and said: "Brother Bian Lai is really a master and bold, he dares to chase others and kill the enemy general, which is really admirable to my little brother." ”

Bian Lai excitedly clinked glasses with Yao Ping, and after a drink, he said, "Brother Ping, if you want to join the army, come to my brother." How about I take you to kill the enemy on the battlefield and build up your military merits? ”

Yao Ping smiled and said, "Thank you brother for your kindness." Although I also have a heart for the country, I think I can't do it in the killing and fighting. ”

"You're still the same as before, timid and afraid." Bian Lai picked up a piece of beef and put it in Yao Ping's plate and said, "No matter what you plan to do in the future, it's always right to eat more meat and grow harder." Don't be bullied. ”

After drinking and brain fever, Yao Ping and Bian Lai helped each other and left the table together. As he descended the stairs, he suddenly saw from a bird's-eye view that in a compartment on the first floor sat his uncle Gong Xiyang, and he looked inward, along with Kutsya and Asana, as well as two officials of the imperial court.

Seeing this scene, the words that his uncle had said echoed in his mind. Could it be that Kutsya was really a gift from Asana to Iro? Yao Ping didn't believe it, and he didn't want to believe it. Along the way, he felt that Asana's treatment of Kutthea was not at all like that of a slave girl, and that the two were more like sisters. But right now, seeing the two officials looking at Kutseya with a look on their faces, they couldn't help but feel a tightness in their hearts.

"Let's go, Brother Ping, what are you looking at?" Bian Lai put his arm on Yao Ping's shoulder a little drunk, looked at him and asked.

"It's nothing, Brother Bianlai, let's go." Yao Ping said this, but suddenly felt that tears were about to gush out of his eyes.

"I'm leaving, I'm going back to camp. I don't know when I'll see you next time. ”

Yao Ping wiped the corners of his eyes, "Yes, Brother Bian Lai, I really don't know when we will see each other again today." ”