The Zhenbei Army has always been known for its rigorous management of the army and strict military discipline, although Lu Ji wrote Su Li's name on the roster of the Zhenbei Army, he showed no mercy when training Su Li.

Su Li was delicate and frail, and she stayed at the border for several months, although she had sharpened herself a little, she was still far from becoming a soldier of the Zhenbei Army.

Lu Ji's training method is simple and rude, Su Li is not good at riding horses, so he lets her sit on the back of the horse all day long, even if she is nauseous and vomiting, and the skin on the inner thigh is broken, he will not let Su Li come down.

Su Li had never practiced martial arts before, and Lu Ji not only asked her to practice with the Zhenbei Army, but also trained her for two hours every day.

At that time, Su Li got up earlier than anyone else, slept later than anyone else, and all the muscles and bones in her body were broken and reorganized inch by inch by Lu Ji.

Extremely tired, she can fall asleep standing up, but there are no more troubles in Beijing in her dreams.

She didn't deliberately forget, but she was so tired that she didn't have the energy to recall and feel the hurt in her heart.

With that ruthlessness that is not afraid of death, Su Li quickly sharpened herself into a knife and perfectly integrated into the camp of the Zhenbei Army.

She changed into men's clothes, and she was competing with herself and Lu Ji, wanting to prove that what a man can do, she can also do.

And, not just can do it, she can do it better than them!

She was petite, and Lu Ji specially asked someone to create a medium-length sword for her.

At that time, she was bent on treating herself as a man, but she didn't know that her face was like that, no matter how she disguised it, it was extremely eye-catching.

Many people in the army privately asked Lu Ji for Su Li, but Lu Ji refused, he knew very well that Su Li was different from other women.

Even if she is married, she will not be the kind of person who lives with her husband.

In her life, she should go down in history and shine.

What kind of feelings Lu Ji has for Su Li, even Chu Huai'an, as a bystander, can't accurately define it.

The timing of Su Li's appearance was not good enough, at that time, Gu Li had just died tragically, leaving only one Lu Zhan, whether from the perspective of emotion or morality, it was impossible for Lu Ji to be tempted by anyone.

But Su Li is a very special exception, she has a lot of stories on her, like a group of fans, enough to attract the interest of any man.

She was born beautiful, her temperament is tough and refreshing, she does not lose to a man, and her appearance of biting her lip and refusing to admit defeat is so beautiful that she is moving.

She didn't notice that everyone in the barracks was changing their opinion of her, and Lu Ji's attitude towards her was constantly softening, and he even unconsciously treated her well.

In this process, Lu Zhan is growing up rapidly, only Yue Yan took Lu Zhan before, and after Su Li came, Lu Zhan entangled her.

I don't know why, Lu Zhan likes Su Li very much, as long as Su Li returns to the camp, he will inevitably make a noise for Su Li to hug him.

Su Li has no experience in taking children, and is always in a hurry by Lu Zhan, most of Lu Ji will not be present, but his soldiers will give him back the relationship between Su Li and Lu Zhan.

He would only respond faintly after listening to it, but there was always a smile in his eyes.

People are not plants and trees, who can really be cold-hearted?

In the winter of the second year, the snow fell in the north of Saibei, the grain production was reduced, and Lu Ji reported to the imperial court for disaster relief.

After Chu Lingzhao received the 800-mile urgent letter, he decisively ordered the military department to raise food for disaster relief.

The military department quickly transported grain to the disaster relief, and before the mountain bandits made a mess to rob the disaster grain, Lu Ji personally led the troops to greet him, and Su Li accompanied him.

At that time, Gu Jiong had changed his name to Hu He and followed Hu Keduo's side, but Hu Keduo was suspicious by nature, in order to gain Hu Keduo's trust, Gu Ji speculated that this year's imperial court would allocate grain for disaster relief, and he and Hu Keduo disguised themselves in advance and led troops into the city, and followed Lu Ji to prepare to intercept the disaster grain.

Lu Ji always thought that Gu Ji was dead, but he didn't expect that someone who knew everything about himself would surrender to Hu Ren.

In that ambush, Gu Jiong showed no mercy, slaughtered all the officers and soldiers who transported grain from Beijing, and also lost Lu Ji's troops, and robbed nearly half of the disaster grain, including a Su Li.

Su Li was wearing the armor of an ordinary soldier that day, and she was actually inconspicuous in the team, but Hu Keduo still recognized her at a glance.

She wielded her short sword neatly, revealing the ruthlessness of a wolf cub, tickling her heart.

Ku Keduo personally rode into the fight and captured Su Li on his horse.

After training, Su Li did not panic, and stabbed Ku Keduo with a backhand sword.

Her little strength was too small in front of Ku Keduo, and when Hu Keduo grabbed her wrist and twisted it gently, Chu Huai'an heard the sound of Su Li's arm dislocated.

Su Li snorted in pain, her face turned pale, and she laughed out loud with a lot of joy and joy.

The prey he had been thinking about for months did not disappoint him, and it was more interesting than he had imagined.

With an unexpected harvest, Ku Keduo did not fall in love with the war, and ordered people to pull up grain and grass and run, and when he came to the city pass, he took many women out of the city from the city.

Hurried all the way back to Hudi, Ku Keduo asked people to go down to divide the disaster food and held a celebration banquet.

At the celebration feast, Kukdo had the captive women tied together with ropes and strung together like grasshoppers.

The women were panicked, and Su Li mixed in with them, trying not to show herself too abruptly.

She didn't know that as she tried to hide herself, Kucodo's gaze had been fixed on her, admiring the change in her expression with interest.

After all, it is also known that the prey that is dying and struggling will always whet people's appetite more than dead things that do not react.

At that time, Kukeduo had not yet learned Yuanzhao Chinese, and all communication could only rely on the translation of the people around him.

After three rounds of drinking, Hu Keduo asked people to bring a pot of burning charcoal, and a red-hot soldering iron was placed in the charcoal fire.

Hu Keduo asked Gu Jiong to pick a trophy from these women and mark it with his own mark.

This is the tradition of the Hu people, and those who have military merits can get the privilege of enjoying a female slave exclusively.

Of course, at that time, this was also a test for Gu Ji by Hu Keduo, to see if he really betrayed Yuan Zhao and was willing to surrender.

Gu Ji had lost one eye at that time, and most of his face was wrapped in thick gauze, looking weird and frightened, if he hadn't known each other for a long time, Chu Huai'an would have almost not recognized him.

Gu Ji didn't hesitate too much, and quickly picked someone out of the crowd.

He picked Su Li.

He saw Su Li captured by Ku Keduo with his own eyes, and he didn't know when there was an extra woman in the Zhenbei Army, so he picked Su Li, and he was also testing Hu Keduo.

Maybe this woman is a fine work that Ku Keduo has planted in the Zhenbei Army?

Su Li didn't know Gu Jiong's plans, she subconsciously shrank a little, still a little scared.

After all, she was also a prisoner for the first time.

After Gu Ji pulled Su Li out, he quickly pulled out the soldering iron in the brazier and pressed it towards Su Li's face.

The women around her were all screaming in fright, and Su Li closed her eyes, but the expected pain did not fall.

The soldering iron was deflected by a bronze wine glass thrown by Kukodo and fell to the ground.

Hu Keduo said a string of nonsense in a deep voice, and the person next to him hesitated for a moment before helping the translator: "Hu He, His Highness said that this is the person he likes, and you have no right to dispose of it, please pick another one." ”

"This is what I chose first!"

Gu Jiong said calmly that his temperament has always been cold, even if he became a prisoner of war and changed his surname to Hu, he did not change in the slightest.

Hearing this, Hu Keduo's face was slightly gloomy, and the other Hu warriors who drank and ate meat also stopped and looked at them intently.

Su Li stood in the center, looking at Hu Keduo and Gu Ji curiously, making sure that she didn't know them before.

So why did they quarrel over her?

Gu Ji and Hu Keduo were in a stalemate for a moment, and finally it was Hu Keduo's subordinates who broke the deadlock and proposed to play a game to help the fun.

Because only the surviving slave girls are eligible to be selected as war trophies.

Kukodo happily approved the offer.

Chu Huai'an didn't know the rules of this game, and Su Li didn't know either, she was driven to a huge ice lake by the Hu people with a group of people in a daze.

There was a thick layer of ice on the glacial lake, and the Hu people used knives to force the slave girls to take off their shoes and walk on the ice and start dancing.

The ice was extremely cold, and the slave girls were all screaming from the cold, but that wasn't enough, the Hu people poured hot water on the ice.

The ice became slippery because it was tied to a rope, and if one person fell, the others would also be implicated.

The hot water quickly cooled and froze into ice, and some people's feet were stuck in the ice and could not move.

Su Li tried her best to avoid it carefully, her clothes were mostly wet, and her feet were so cold that she lost consciousness.

Her face was very pale, and she could only hear the rampant laughter of the Hu people, and the laughter was like a needle, piercing her temples with sudden pain, and her mind was not clear.

Chu Huai'an stood next to her, in vain trying to protect her, but the next moment she was knocked to the ground.

After falling to the ground, a bucket of water was splashed, and Su Li was thoroughly watered.

There was boiling water in the bucket, and it had not completely cooled down when it was poured on her body, Su Li's face was immediately burned red, she let out a low cry of pain, and soon the water on her face formed a layer of frost.

A hot and a cold alternately attacked, and a small piece of skin on Su Li's face opened open.

She was crying in pain.

After nearly a year at the border, she has been much stronger, she hasn't cried for a long time, and she must be in great pain now.

Chu Huai'an knelt in front of Su Li and hugged her emptily.

"Ari ......"

He whispered in his heart, his heart aching so much that he couldn't breathe, and the next moment he heard the low roar of the beast pressing against his throat.

didn't have time to turn back, Su Li, who was held in her arms, was thrown to the ground by a behemoth, because the impact was too big, and the ice surface made a thin cracking sound.

The Hu people who were watching on the shore let out bursts of applause, and Chu Huai'an saw Su Li's shoulder being bitten tightly, and finally saw the true face of the behemoth.

It was a wolf, or more precisely a wolfdog, which was twice the size of the dog in Kyochu, with extremely vigorous hair, and its eyes glowed with a faint green light, and it was terrifyingly cold.

It bit down on Su Li's shoulder, revealing its sharp teeth, and blood immediately gushed out from Su Li's shoulder.

The smell of blood stimulated it, and Su Li didn't have time to scream in pain, so it was thrown out by wagging its tail.

The ice was very slippery, and Su Li slid for a distance of more than ten meters before stopping, leaving a sticky and bloody trail on the ice.

At that moment, Chu Huaian felt that his heart was also torn off by the wolf dog, and he couldn't imagine how scared and painful Su Li was at that time.

His consciousness came to Su Li, and saw that half of her shoulders were exposed, and Bai Shengsheng's bones could be faintly seen.

Su Li lay on the ground for a long time and didn't get up, she was very cold, her whole body hurt, as if she would die in the next moment, but her consciousness still insisted on refusing to pass out, she heard the screams of those women who were frightened and panicked, heard the roar of wolf dogs, and heard the wanton laughter of those Hu people.

Before, Su Li only had a general impression of the Hu people, not knowing how fierce and terrible they were, nor knowing that they were violent by nature, no different from wild beasts.

It was only at this time that Su Li deeply realized what Lu Ji and so many soldiers at the border pass had been sticking to for all these years.

Su Li wished she could die on the battlefield, but not in vain, at least...... You have to pull a few more Hu people to accompany the funeral!

Thinking like this, Su Li tried to stand up, but as soon as her shoulders were propped up a little, there was a clear cracking sound suddenly from the ice surface.

Su Li turned around in surprise, and four or five steps away from her, the ice was torn apart, and the woman who was fleeing in panic on the ice suddenly fell into the ice, along with the wolf dogs.

The wolf dog grew up in Hudi, its fur is thick and waterproof, and even in winter, it has long been trained by the Hu people to swim in the water.

The woman who could not swim quickly drowned after falling into the water, and the woman who could swim became the target of these wolf dogs.

A woman had just swam to the shore when she was grabbed by a wolfdog, and the woman screamed and struggled for a moment and then died down, and the water was stained red with blood.

Su Li looked at it in a daze, her heart was colder than the ice and snow in the sky.

The laughter of the Hu people around them was even louder, as if seeing someone die could give them the ultimate pleasure.

These people are brutes.

Su Li thought in her heart, heard a muffled sound, subconsciously lowered her head, and saw a panicked and desperate face.

It was a very young girl, only thirteen or fourteen, her water was good, and she quietly swam to where Su Li was, but the ice here was very thick, and she couldn't get out.

I'm going to save her!

This thought immediately popped into Su Li's mind, and she forgot about the pain in her shoulder, and tried her best to beat the ice with her hands.

If she pushes a little harder, the ice will break and she will be able to save the child!

After two hammers, Su Li's hands were broken and became scarred, and her actions also attracted the attention of the Hu people on the shore.

Some Hu people laughed loudly, thinking that Su Li was a crazy person, she couldn't even save herself, and even wanted to save others.

Su Li ignored the voices and just kept smashing the ice.

The girl's face in the water was desperately pressed against the ice, her eyes were wide open, and she looked directly at Su Li, full of desire to live.

For a moment, Su Li even wished to switch places with that girl.

If only she could die for that girl, she didn't have such a strong attachment to this world, and if she died like this, she shouldn't have many regrets.

Smashing and smashing, Su Li's tears fell, and the girl under the ice was already a little breathless, and she was hitting the ice with her head.

Survive!

Su Li shouted in her heart, and a scimitar suddenly fell into her hand.

Su Li didn't have time to look back to see who threw the knife to her, so she grabbed the scimitar and poked it hard at the ice.

It's going to be fine right away, please hold on a little longer!

Su Li shouted in her heart, poking the ice again and again, and an ice cave soon appeared in front of her.

"Give me your hand!"

Su Li shouted, threw her knife and put her hand into the water, but the next moment, her fingertips touched a piece of soft animal hair.

Su Li's whole body froze, and after a while, the water around the ice cave turned red and bloody.

She was one step slower, and the wolfdog raised by the Hu people ended the girl's life faster than her.

Su Li has killed people, she has been at the border for several months, and she has seen a lot of corpses, she is not a girl who doesn't understand anything, but this time is different.

That life was alive and completely innocent.

She could have been saved!

If she could move a little faster, if she could just grab the girl's hand, if she could ......

Tears kept pouring out, blurring Su Li's vision, Chu Huai'an had been by her side just now, and he could fully understand the guilt she was feeling now.

"Ah Li, I don't blame you."

Chu Huai'an hugged Su Li and said, Su Li's eyes were terrifyingly empty, and he looked at the void and said in a low voice: "Chu Huai'an, I owe another life." ”

She hadn't dreamed of him for a long time, and she hadn't remembered him, but at this time, she still said his name.

In the long years when he was not by her side, every time she was helpless, she whispered his name like this.

Chu Huai'an, why don't you believe me?

Chu Huai'an, I don't love you anymore.

Chu Huai'an, I killed someone.

Chu Huai'an, I owe another life......

She said a lot of words, but none of them were: Chu Huai'an, I miss you.

She may not want to think of him, but she may be afraid to think of him.

"I know, Ah Li, it's not your fault!"

Chu Huai'an comforted him in vain, and reason told him countless times that this was something that had happened a long time ago, and no matter what he did, he couldn't make changes, but he couldn't be indifferent.

There were many moments when he regretted his choice, maybe he should choose to go against the tide of time and block these many disasters for Su Li, so that she would not have to suffer so much pain and suffering.

But after regretting it, he was glad that he had the opportunity to hide her in his heart and count the pain that he would not declare, so that he could love her more and spoil her in the future.

Su Li didn't be stunned for long, she quickly came back to her senses, her body was crooked, and she was about to plant herself under the ice cave to find someone, but she was stopped by Gu Jiong.

"Now, she's mine."

Gu Jiong grabbed Su Li's shoulder and said to Hu Keduo, but Hu Keduo didn't agree, asked the people around him to translate, and told Gu Ji that he could choose a female slave girl from the remaining survivors, but Su Li wanted to sacrifice it to Hu Keduo.

Gu Jiong naturally did not insist on his own requirements, he used the grain and grass he snatched to show his sincerity, and used Su Li to show his surrender to Ku Keduo, and perfectly achieved his goal.

After the celebration feast, Ku Keduo put Su Li in a bird cage.

The cage was specially made, two people high, and covered with hay, simple and funny.

Su Li was thrown into it and soon had a high fever, and Hu Keduo actually sent a kind heart to let people come to Su Li for treatment.

However, on the second day of Su Li's treatment, Ku Keduo personally branded Su Li's arm as a prisoner.

The soldering iron burned red, landed on the white and tender skin, and soon made a sizzling sound.

Su Li came to her senses in pain and saw Ku Keduo's face clearly.

Ku Keduo looked at Su Li, waiting for her to scream and cry and beg for mercy, but to his disappointment, Su Li didn't do this.

She was spasming all over her body in pain, but she gritted her teeth and didn't say a word.

Funny pets.

Hu Keduo said a sentence in nonsense, but Su Li couldn't understand it, and she couldn't think about what he meant.

She thought that if she couldn't die this time, one day, she would step on the Hu Di with Lu Ji and kill this group of beasts!

The Hu people believe in gods and wizards, and their medical skills are not as developed as Yuanzhao, Su Li's injuries heal very slowly, and Hu Keduo has to go to the birdcage every day to see Su Li's situation, and occasionally throw one or two dried fruits into it, which is really like raising a pet.

The food of the Hu people is not as fine as Yuan Zhao's, and there is a strong fishy taste in the mouth, so Su Li will not refuse the 'snacks' that Hu Keduo occasionally throws in.

As long as Hu Keduo throws in something to eat, Su Li will take it and eat it.

Because she needs physical strength to ensure that her body can recover as soon as possible.

After discovering that Su Li did not resist feeding, Hu Keduo seemed to have found some fun, and would throw things to Su Li to eat every once in a while, and even unconsciously observed what Su Li liked to eat.

In his opinion, most of the women in Yuanzhao Kingdom were too delicate and vulnerable, and Su Li's appearance broke his existing cognition.

Su Li's vitality is very strong, she doesn't cry and make noise like others, she is very obedient, she looks very docile on the surface, but she is actually a fierce horse, even if she is locked in a cage and put on a saddle, it is difficult to be truly tamed.

Ku Keduo didn't know if there was such a special system as Su Li on other women in Yuanzhao Kingdom, but he had to admit that he was aroused by Su Li's desire to conquer.

He wanted to tame Su Li, and he wanted to see her willingly surrender at his feet, and that would be a very interesting thing.

Su Li was barely able to move her shoulders after about a month of injury, and after seeing that she was better, Ku Keduo asked people to arrange a beast taming competition.

This is the Hu people's annual competition to select warriors.

Whoever tames the beast is the toughest is the first warrior.

In previous years, animals were used as bait, but this year they used captives.

Some of the captives were taken captive from neighboring tribes, and some were taken captive from border passes.

Gu Jiong also participated in this competition, and the bait he used was the female slave girl that Hu Keduo asked him to choose last time, and the bait that Hu Keduo used was Su Li.

Ku Keduo has been the No. 1 Warrior Champion for many years, so he put the finale at the end, and Gu Jiong participated for the first time as Hu He, so he was naturally the first to play.

What Gu Jiong wanted to tame was the wolf dog that was released by the Hu people to bite people at the last celebration banquet.

As soon as the order of the game was given, the female slave under Gu Zhi's command was pushed into the school field, I don't know what was smeared on her body, and as soon as she entered, the wolf dog pounced on her like crazy and tore it.

She screamed and cried desperately, but her throat was still bitten off.

Gu Bing was indifferent, and it wasn't until she was silent that she raised her sword and killed the wolf dog.

He didn't follow the rules of the Hu people's game because he was not interested in the title of No. 1 Warrior in the slightest.

Su Li watched one fight after another from the side, and she knew very well that when the last horn sounded, it would be her time to play as bait.

There's a good chance she'll be culled and become the belly of the beasts.

But there's another possibility, maybe she'll be able to seize the chance of Weimo and use the beast to bite the man named Kukodor to death!