"Ah, is this the former Gaolan Mountain?" Li Wenyuan got out of the car and stretched and said.

"Yes, in the Xiongnu language, Gaolan Mountain means a mountain by the river. It is said that this name has existed since the First Emperor swept away the Six Kingdoms. The friend who was traveling with him said with a smile and took off the equipment from the car at the same time.

"Okay, it's rare to get away from the tutor and come out to relax, so don't preach." Li Wenyuan took the equipment from his friend's hand, swore behind him, and walked to the nearby tent.

He came because he participated in the Gaolan Mountain hunting event organized by an association of archery enthusiasts, saying that the hunting was actually just that the organizer put some targets in the mountains and forests in advance, and then the people who came to participate in the event entered the mountain in groups of two and two, and after shooting the target, they left an arrow with their name next to it, and took away a marker on it, and finally the group with the most markers won.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Li Wenyuan and his friends had breakfast and began to pack their equipment for entering the mountain. Hearing the occasional jingling sound of Jin Ming on Li Wenyuan's side, my friend turned his head and asked, "Do you still have the iron arrows you bring?" This activity is quite physically demanding, are you okay? ”

Li Wenyuan put the quiver and bow on his back, moved his body and found that there was nothing hindering his movement, so he confirmed the arrows one by one and put them into the quiver, heard his friend's question, raised his head and said with a smile: "I've been used to it for so long, and after studying history for so long, I still want to experience the feeling of iron arrows the most." ”

"You also said that this time you put down the subject and came out to participate in the hunting activity, but the instructor will not be angry, and it is estimated that it will take a long time to train you when you go back." Friends gloated.

"It doesn't matter, I have already done the paper on the history of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and I will go back and polish it and hand it over to the tutor directly." Seeing that his friends were also dressed neatly, Li Wenyuan took the lead in pushing open the door of the house, came to the starting point of the assembly, received the map and food and water, and entered Gaolan Mountain with his friends.

In the early morning in the mountains of the Loess Plateau, dew was condensed, and the moist air soaked the dry lungs, making people want to open their hearts and take a few deep breaths. Li Wenyuan and his friends took a nap under the tree for a while, continued to walk forward, and finally saw the first target. Perhaps because the arrow was too strong, the bow target fell to a small platform not far below.

The friend himself is a child in the mountains, even if he has studied in college for so long, his skills have not become dull, and he climbed down at the moment, letting Li Wenyuan continue to search for the next target first, anyway, he will not get lost if he has a map, and he will bring his marker over. Li Wenyuan saw that he really couldn't help much, so he said to his friend to be careful, and continued to search along the predetermined route.

The sky was slightly brighter than before, but there was a thick fog all around, and the visibility was only a dozen steps. Li Wenyuan was worried that he would stumble and fall if he rushed forward, so he stopped moving forward, took out a water bottle and a map in the same place, and waited for his friends to come over to meet while confirming the route, and waited for the thick fog to dissipate by the way.

After waiting for a long time, until the sun had risen and the fog had cleared, but before he could reach his friends, Li Wenyuan couldn't help but worry, but at this time he heard the roar of someone nearby, and the roar of animals, which sounded like the sound of a large beast, but Li Wenyuan, as an authentic person who grew up in the city, couldn't hear what kind of beast it was. Immediately packed up his things, left a mark to tell his friend where he was going, and then rushed to the direction of the sound.

Quietly came to the place where the sound came from, only to see a man in iron armor standing against a tree with a sword, next to a horse lying in a pool of blood, and a large beast. Li Wenyuan looked at it, it turned out to be a wild boar, blood was still dripping down from its fangs, and there were many wounds on its body, which should have been injured by a person wearing iron armor with a sword, but that person was not as strong as the beast's brute strength was endless, and it was obvious that it was already the end of the crossbow, but the wild boar was covered with wounds from successive attacks or slashing or stabbing, and couldn't help but use brute force to pounce on the opposite person. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Wenyuan drew an iron arrow from his back and raised his bow and shot out.

The man in the iron armor saw the boar pounce on him with all his brute force, and without thinking about it, he rolled to the side to avoid the boar's fitting pounce, but lost the long sword in his hand in a panic. The man rolled over and stood up from the ground, drew a short blade from his waist, and looked at the wild boar, only to find that the huge pig's head had been pierced by an iron arrow, and was nailed to the trunk of the tree against which he had leaned, and he was already exhausted.

Looking at the iron arrow inserted in the tree, the man couldn't help but gasp, turned his head to look in the direction where Li Wenyuan was, clasped his hands into fists and said, "I don't know which strong man came to the rescue?" Below is Xue Ju, the captain of Jincheng, and asked the hero to show up and let Xue repay this life-saving grace. ”

Li Wenyuan shot through the head of the wild boar with an arrow, and he was secretly surprised, this iron arrow shot at the bow target without revealing the mountains and waters, but he didn't expect it to have a miraculous effect on living creatures. was secretly surprised, I heard that the man in iron armor claimed to be Xue Ju, the captain of Jincheng, which was strange, and it was Xue Ju's tomb that he was studying with his mentor. In the words of his mentor, although this person was easy to kill later, it can be regarded as keeping the peace of the people on the side of the Hexi Corridor in the troubled times, so that they were protected from the attacks and plunders of the Hu people.

Li Wenyuan thought again, although the history books said that Xue Ju was easy to kill, but they also said that Xue Ju was magnificent, and he was a person with mixed reputations, and this person was also a fan of Sui and Tang Dynasty history? This Xue Ju is his screen name? Yes, who would casually tell a stranger their real name? Listening to what he said, he laughed secretly and fought in his heart, he is also a graduate student in history, so he might as well cooperate with him to act, and see who can't help it first.

Thinking of this, Li Wenyuan put the bow on his back, walked out from behind the tree, and also learned Xue to raise his hands and clasp his fists, and said loudly: "General Xue, under Li Wenyuan, a person from Longxi County." Please also ask the general to forgive the recklessness of the mountain people, General Xue calls himself the captain of Jincheng, can he have credentials? ”

Xue Ju laughed when he heard Li Wenyuan's words, and said: "Haha, you are not as dull as ordinary mountain people, but you know how to look at people's waist card seals." Well, if you save my life, it won't hurt to show you. After that, he took off the waist card from his waist and threw it to Li Wenyuan.

Li Wenyuan stretched out his hand to take the waist card, and immediately felt that it was very textured, exactly the same as the words of the pattern that his mentor cleaned up in Xue Ju's tomb to show him, but the waist card had just been cleaned up, and he could barely distinguish the words of Xue Ju, the captain of Jincheng, and did not release relevant information to the public, where did this brand come from so similarly. Thinking of this, Li Wenyuan suddenly felt bad in his heart, and he couldn't care about anything else at the moment, so he clenched his waist card and asked, "Are you really Xue Ju, the captain of Jincheng?" What year is it? ”

Xue Ju was stunned by Li Wenyuan's question, and replied instead: "It's the sixth year of the great cause, what's the matter, Brother Li has been in seclusion for a long time, so he asked this Taoyuan?" ”

Li Wenyuan's mind was already blank at this time, and when he heard Xue Ju's words, he came back to his senses and muttered: "Six years of great cause, six years of great cause." ”

Xue Juping Suri quickly made friends with heroes, and when he saw that Li Wenyuan could shoot through the head of a wild boar with an arrow, and it didn't enter the trunk of a tree for more than a few inches, he had the intention of making friends in his heart, so he comforted: "Brother Li has been living in seclusion in the mountains for a long time, why don't you go to Jincheng with me to have a look, as a school captain, I can also seek an official and a half-position for Brother Li, wouldn't it be much more lively than the dull life in the mountains and wilderness." ”

Li Wenyuan heard him say this, only then did he find the logic, and his heart was also hot, secretly thinking that this Xue Ju said that this is the sixth year of the great cause, and it is common sense to look at what he is wearing, you might as well go to the Jincheng he said to take a look, if it is fake, you can see the loopholes, if it is true, this Xue Ju is also a heroic figure, you can follow him temporarily, and then figure out why this kind of thing happened. At the moment, he said: "I am a person from Longxi, I have not come to visit friends in the mountains, and I have no money to hunt here to make a living. Therefore, I don't know the year of the great cause, and I also ask General Xue to give advice. ”

Xue Ju and Li Wenyuan disposed of the wild boar carcass and buried the horse. During this period, Xue Ju and Li Wenyuan reported their birthdays to each other, deliberately falsely reported how old they were, and called Xue Ju his brother, and Xue Ju was very happy. Xue Ju cut off the two hind legs of the wild boar and roasted them on the fire, during which he told Li Wenyuan a lot of current affairs, Li Wenyuan finally had a general impression of the year he was in, and at the same time really confirmed that he had indeed traveled to the Sui Dynasty.

Li Wenyuan walked to the trunk of the tree where he had nailed the wild boar before, took off his arrow, put it back in the quiver, and sat by the fire thinking about the way forward. This time he went into the mountains to hunt, except for the bow and arrow and a pot of iron arrows around him, there was nothing else, since he had crossed, he must not come and go in vain, he must leave traces, and create a stronger Tang Dynasty in the future!

After the two of them ate the barbecued wild boar legs and packed up their things, Xue Ju put the bundled wild boar carcass on his shoulders and led the way down the mountain in front. That night, Xue Ju took Zhai Changsun to his home, summoned his two sons, and said to Li Wenyuan: "Brother Xian, these two children are my dogs, I want him to worship you as a teacher, how about learning archery?" ”

Li Wenyuan followed Xue Ju's gaze, and one of the older boys had a pair of tiger eyes, and people didn't dare to look at them directly, for fear of getting into trouble. The other, who was a little younger, was holding the book and watching quietly, and when he saw Li Wenyuan looking at him, he nodded politely. This should be Xue Ju's two sons, Xue Rengao and Xue Renyue. Knowing the history, he hurriedly shirked and said: "Brother Xue, junior brother, I am just mediocre in archery, how dare I mistake people's children, I am afraid that I will miss Ling Lang's future." ”

Xue Ju laughed: "Virtuous brother doesn't have to be too humble, I have never seen the ability to shoot through the pig's head and not enter the hardwood for a few inches in my life." My two children have long passed the age of washing their muscles and marrow, but as the captain of Jincheng, I have also gone out to exterminate the rogues on weekdays, so it is inevitable that there will be enemies. The virtuous brother taught them some means of self-defense, and I was so relieved. ”

Li Wenyuan understood when he heard this, it turned out that he wanted me to be the bodyguard of these two children, but it was okay, this was also an opportunity to get close to Xue Ju, and immediately replied: "If it is just a self-defense technique, I still know a little bit about it, thanks to the general's refusal to give up, I will do my best to teach Ling Lang." I also bothered to ask the general to get some bows tomorrow, so that I could see if Ling Lang could draw a few stone bows. ”

Xue Ju nodded and said, "That's not a problem, I'll send some soldiers tomorrow." ”

That night, Li Wenyuan returned to the room that Xue Ju had arranged for himself with a strange mood to prepare for rest. The daily necessities in the house are readily available, and Xue Ju also sent a maid to send ten hanging coins, which are not the white coins minted later during the Great Cause period, but the thousands of Kaihuang five baht coins of four catties and two taels. If the common people can have no worries about food and clothing every month, this Xue Ju is ten hangs a month, but it is really in response to the tens of thousands of family properties recorded in the historical records, and he married a heroic man in Bian Shuo.

Li Wenyuan took the five baht coin, and when he saw that the maid who came had no intention of leaving, he asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

The maid gave a deep salute and said slowly, "The master asked me to come and serve the gentleman." ”

Li Wenyuan was stunned for a moment, this Xue raised his hand, he just sent his property, and he wants to give it to a woman? However, this little maid has been keeping her head down since she entered the door, and she is also curious, so she said, "What is your name, first raise your head and let me see." ”

The maid replied yes, then raised her head and said, "The name of the slave family has long been forgotten, and after entering the house, the lady named the slave family Qiu Niang." ”

Previously, Li Wenyuan heard Qiu Niang's voice as pleasant as a hundred spirits, and he had the intention of leaving her behind, and it was not in vain to cross over once, and after seeing Qiu Niang's face, he was even more determined in this thought. Qiu Niang's appearance is not the kind of beauty that looks very amazing, but the kind of refreshing beauty like a spring breeze, the more you look at it, the more charming it becomes.

Li Wenyuan nodded and said, "It's okay, you can stay, call me tomorrow, I want to prepare some things for the two sons to practice archery." Ignoring Qiu Niang's strange gaze, she took off her clothes and fell asleep. I was so tired, I went up the mountain to hunt, I crossed inexplicably, and I saved Xue Ju inexplicably, there were too many inexplicable things, and I couldn't manage a lot under the emaciation.

Qiu Niang saw Li Wenyuan fall asleep, and she was secretly relieved in her heart, and she was a little disappointed. She is a slave, and today I see that the man in front of her seems to have a good relationship with the master, and if she can get one step closer, she may be able to get rid of the slave and use her own surname back.

With mixed feelings, Qiu Niang blew out the candlelight.