"Click" Listening to the thunder in his ears, Zhang Cripple looked at the miserable light rain, and couldn't help but shake his head and said to Zhao Gang beside him, "There is no way, now there is still some distance from the post station, I know that there is a broken temple nearby, where do we go to avoid the rain first" After saying this, as soon as he pulled the reins, two little donkeys pulled the carriage and drove down the official road and entered a nearby path in this rain curtain. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Isn't there still a distance of 2 quarters of an hour, what's the matter, why don't you continue to hurry" Zhang Gang's behavior was a little strange about Zhang Cripple's behavior.

"It's not a good idea to rush in the rain when it's raining, it's not a good idea to rush in the rain, it's done, this road is not very easy to walk" As they spoke, the two of them saw from a distance, the temple erected in the rain in the distance.

"Wow, whoa, whoa, whoa" In the corridor of this unknown ruined temple, the two looked at the pouring rain outside, and while cleaning up the rainwater on their bodies, they were glad that they didn't rush in the rain.

Tie 2 stupid donkeys to the pillars of the broken temple, and Zhang Cripple gave the carrots hanging in front of the donkey's eyes to 2 stupid donkeys. Looking at the clothes on his body that were only a little wet, Zhao Gang said, "Fortunately, there is this temple, otherwise there will be hardship" while saying and turned to look at the temple behind him, a dilapidated temple stands quietly in this deep forest, the dark sky, the dim light, makes the building in front of him not seem so real, looking at the scene in front of him, I don't know why, Zhao Gang only felt a chill coming out of his back.

After settling the stupid donkey, the two pushed the door in, "Bah, bah" As the gate was pushed open, a gust of wind carrying rain blew, and suddenly the dust in the temple was raised everywhere, and Zhao Gang couldn't help but take a step back. He raised his hand to cover his face.

"Take it, be careful, this place is uninhabited all year round, there may be some poisonous snakes and beasts or something, be careful yourself" The voice fell, Zhang Cripple took out 2 long knives in the carriage secretly, and threw one to Zhao Gang.

"The standard long knife of the official army, a good thing, where did you get it?" Of course, Zhao Gang would not fail to recognize the standard long knife he used in the past, and in order to increase the chance of surviving on the battlefield, he deliberately found a veteran to learn some knife techniques.

"You forget, I'm still the official post guard of the empire, like us, the post guards who deliver goods at each post station are all in a group of 2 people, this time you just don't come, there will be other people who partner with me, every time you go out to patrol the battle, the crossbow and arrows are all matched, and now this world is not a peaceful and prosperous world" After speaking, he drew a crossbow in the dark compartment.

"No, even the crossbow arrows were taken out, do anyone dare to rob the post guard, don't die" Seeing the hand crossbow, Zhang Gang was a little surprised, the crossbow arrow is a controlled weapon, which is not something that ordinary people can get.

"What's not, if you encounter that kind of hungry Diao Min, do you see if he dares or not, but he hasn't encountered any wicked people, and it's not bad to use it to guard against large beasts, you still expect to draw a knife and go up to fight hand-to-hand. These hand crossbows are all military products that the army eliminated after changing muskets" Zhang Cripple didn't pay attention to Zhao Gang, picked up his long knife, picked up the crossbow arrow, and began to check a few nearby rooms to check the situation.

The wooden door, which had fallen into disrepair for a long time, was shaken by the wind, making an unpleasant sound. After checking a few nearby rooms and showing nothing out of the ordinary, the two returned to the hall where they had just entered, smashed a few rotten tables and chairs, and lit a bonfire in the room.

"Lao Zhang, are you a retired soldier or a post soldier here" Zhao Gang is still quite curious about Zhang's lame past, and in these days, Zhao Gang found that although the old man in front of him was lame, he still really started to move, and he was really not necessarily his opponent.

"I, like you, am a retired soldier on the front line, I have been with Liaodong for 20 years, and I have fought with the Jurchens for 20 years, until a few years ago after my leg was pierced by an arrow on the battlefield, I began to retire" Speaking of the past, Zhang Cripple seemed to see the era when he went to the battlefield again, it was a dark era, and the great Ming Dynasty was beaten by barbarians who rose in a frontier land without the power to resist. retreated hundreds of miles all the way south, and finally relied on the power of the city wall to barely stop the group of wolf-like Jurchens.

In the face of all this, I am angry in my heart, in fact, let alone myself, which of the soldiers in the entire Liaodong has no anger in their hearts, a sense of humiliation, is it really that they don't need to die after all these years of defeat, hate, it's useless to resent themselves. I hate the cruelty of the Jurchens, hate the incompetence of the generals, but who do I blame for all this, I am just a pawn, I don't know what big truths, I don't know what political struggles, I only know that it is the meat eaters sitting in the temple who do all this, and the sad thing is that I don't know who is responsible for these problems, and all the grievances that have nowhere to vent have turned into despair for the entire Ming Dynasty, and many soldiers who can't accept it begin to become walking dead and lifeless.

Thinking of his past, Zhang Cripple raised the wine jug and poured himself a sip of wine, as if all the past had turned into this sip of wine, and when he drank it, he let all the past disappear without a trace when he woke up with this wine.

"Listening to what you said, you should have retired a long time ago, why did you become a post pawn of the post station now" Zhang Cripple's leg injury, it will not get better without two years, according to such a time conversion, it should have been retired a long time ago, how can it be delayed until now, and it has become a post pawn.

"My leg was injured five years ago, and then I was allowed to retire when I couldn't participate in the war, and the reward given by the army, I didn't see much in my hands after layers of deductions and thefts, and after curing my leg, it was almost used up, or you guys, I met a good emperor, and now there is a hospital in the army that specializes in treating wounds, and the soldiers who are injured in battle will have special personnel to treat them, and I heard that there is also a doctor in charge, if I had a hospital and received timely treatment, maybe my leg would not be lame." Looking at his leg, he didn't expect that after a few years, he would actually adapt to the life of a lame man.

"Then did you go to the hospital to see the imperial doctor later" Seeing that Zhang Cripple was a little sentimental, Zhao Gang was a little unbearable, and couldn't help but ask.

"I've been there, after I was re-recruited by the Ministry of War into the post station, I went to the hospital, but those doctors said that I was injured at that time, and then I didn't deal with it well, and I can't heal it until now, as for the highest-level imperial doctor you said, it's not something that I can see as a little post man, it's those doctors, I am not under Gonggong Cao, and I am not so easy to see."

"How can the military department recall a retired soldier like you?" In fact, this is also what Zhao Gang is most concerned about, which is more related to his future.

"It's not just me, many veterans of the same period as me have been re-recruited into the post station to become post guards, many people say, this is the emperor pity our group of people, let us enter the post station to do some work, pay us silver to provide for the elderly, how long has the Ming Dynasty not appeared such a promising emperor, if God opens his eyes, please bless him with a long life, so that he has enough time to lead the empire to a strong one." This is also the most simple idea of many low-level people, Daming rarely meets a good emperor, I hope God has mercy on us and bless this emperor with a long life.