Chapter 4: Exile
A few days later, in a cemetery outside Chang'an City, Wang Sheng quietly followed behind the master in black, he knew that the master actually liked the young man who was very similar to the deceased second master, otherwise he would not have run around for him, but he was a little puzzled, "Master, why don't you leave him ......"
"I can do give him a little more help." Looking at the young man kneeling in the snow, Guo Nu retracted his gaze, "But where will the law of the country be put in that way, the judgment of the northern lieutenant is not favoritism, and he deserves to be exiled for the past two years." Speaking of this, he paused, then glanced at the young man's figure and said, "What's more, he has his own path, and others can't and shouldn't decide the future for him." After speaking, he turned around, and Wang Sheng sighed softly and followed closely.
"Little brother, it's time for us to go." Looking up at the sky, the official standing behind the young man gently patted him on the shoulder and said. "Mother, I'm leaving, Qingzhi, don't worry, she will live well." Glancing at the tombstone in front of him, Li Ang stood up, took one last look at Chang'an, and then left the cemetery and embarked on the journey to the border pass.
On the official road outside Chang'an City, a long queue slowly marched in the heavy snow, sitting in the carriage, listening to the wind whistling outside the window, Li Ang looked at the middle-aged man who was sitting opposite him and bowed his head. "You don't have to feel inhibited." As if sensing his gaze, the man suddenly raised his head and said.
"Do you feel like you shouldn't be here?" Looking at the young man who always looked out of the carriage from time to time, and stopped talking, the man suddenly asked.
"Yes." After a pause, Leon replied, "I'm a prisoner. ”
Listening to Li Ang's answer, the man stared at him and said in a deep voice, "In my eyes, you are different from those people outside, you just did what you should do as a son of man. ”
"But I'm still a prisoner." Leon replied quietly, he didn't want to stay with the perceptive man.
"If you insist on doing so, I will not stop you." The man looked at Li Ang in front of him with some surprise, but he fell in love with this resolute and responsible young man in his heart, so he muttered, "Then after you get to the post station in front, you can go back to the prisoner car!" ”
On the second day, Leon returned to the prisoner's car, and to the surprise of the prisoners, they immediately surrounded him and asked him, but he did not answer, but just found a corner at random.
"Come, little brother, sit here." Just as he was about to sit down, he was pulled by a large man, who had a thicker bedding in his place, much warmer than in the corner. "Don't get out yet, let's find a fight!" Seeing that the person sitting next to him did not go away, the big man immediately glared fiercely and scolded.
"Brother Yang, don't be angry, let's get out of the way, let's get out of the way." Suddenly, a few men sitting next to him sneered and squeezed away, and said busily.
"That's not good, is it?" Leon looked at the scattered men and didn't mean to sit down.
"What's bad, I say sit as well as I say." The big man pressed him down and said, "You are the youngest, they adults don't let you, and they laugh when you say it." ”
"Thank you." After sitting down, Leon fell silent, just listening quietly to the small talk of the prisoners.
"What a talkative boy!" The big man muttered in a low voice, for some reason, he always felt that there was an indifferent coldness in the young man beside him who had only been sitting quietly all along, although he always had a faint smile on his face.
A month later, amid the flying snowflakes, the convoy slowly drove into Jijing (i.e., Beijing), which is known as the largest town in northern Xinjiang. However, in addition to the tall city walls, this city did not have the strictness of the ancient military fortress that Li Ang imagined, but because it was close to the end of the year, there were not many pedestrians on the street, and it seemed extremely deserted.
"Boy, you're pretty and pretty?" At night, after being assigned to the barracks, several tall men found Li Ang, they laughed and surrounded him, and the prisoners around looked at this scene with a cold face, anyway, this kind of thing is common in prison, not to mention that it is not the first time that those people are not in charge, as long as it is not their own business.
"You miscellaneous pieces, looking for death, aren't you?" Seeing those men coming to find trouble, the big man next to Li Ang couldn't get used to it and jumped up.
"Oops, I can't imagine that there is a good one here, hahahahahaha!" The man who took the lead squinted at the big man, and said in a weird manner, and suddenly the prisoners around him laughed, and many people watched with great interest, and some good things were even coaxed on the side, shouting and beating.
"Brother Yang." Just when the big man was furious and about to make a move, Li Ang suddenly spoke, but the voice was so cold that it made people's hearts tremble, "This is my own business." He slowly walked up to the man.
"Boy, it's cold, but I like it." The man who took the lead still had a clean mouth, but Li Ang didn't let him say the rest of the words, he kicked the man in the lower abdomen, this kick was not very strong, but the kick was extremely accurate and extremely hard, the man suddenly fell to the ground in pain, and the people on the side saw him so ruthless, and they were about to pounce and fight.
"Straight lady thief, looking for death." Seeing that a few people were about to go up, the big man and leopard glared at him, so he scolded, and threw a punch in the face of the person who rushed to the front, until the blood burst out, the nose was crooked in half, and the full mouth of teeth fell to the ground.
"I'm going to kill you." The man who took the lead got up from the ground at this time, and threw himself at Li Ang with a fist, he hated the disdainful boy in front of him at this time, and he wished to beat him to death, and he looked like he was also menacing.
Facing the man who pounced, Li Ang just gave way slightly, flashed to the side, and then slapped the whip leg sideways, which was pumped between the man's waist and abdomen, and immediately the man bent down in pain, and before he could react, it was a ruthless blow to his neck, and the poor man didn't even touch the corner of his clothes, so he was beaten down.
Looking at Li Ang, who put down an adult in a few clicks, the prisoners around him were dumbfounded, and even the surnamed Yang Dahan was stunned, he didn't expect this young man who had always looked quiet and thin along the way to be so powerful.
"Bang bang bang." Someone in the prisoner suddenly clapped his hands, and saw that the man was only in his twenties, with a slender figure, extremely clear outline, and a cold face, which made people feel that it was difficult to get close, and where he was, those prisoners all stood to the side, not daring to stop him.
Seeing that the young man looked at him coldly, the young man froze slightly, but he laughed, and then the corners of his mouth skimmed towards the door of the barracks, and then he lowered his head and walked aside.
The officers who patrolled the camp broke in, and immediately the prisoners who were still around scattered in a hurry, leaving only the big man and Li Ang, who were still standing in place, and the two evil men who fell to the ground and groaned. After asking about the matter clearly, several officers did not embarrass the two, but just transferred the big man to another place, and then asked the accompanying sergeant to arrest the troublemakers and show them to the public.
Listening to the wailing that was getting farther and farther away, the whole barracks was silent, and only Leon continued to pack up his bedding as if no one was around. After this, Li Ang was still silent, and those prisoners did not dare to provoke this powerful teenager.
As the prisoners exiled to the border pass, Li Ang and they are now counted in the army's pawn sequence, and they also have to get up early to practice every day, and after half a month, the prisoners in the barracks are all complaining, but Li Ang does not care, in his opinion, although the daily drill is a little harder, but compared with those shirtless and standing in the snow to practice, they are much easier.
In the blink of an eye, more than half a month passed, the heavy snow stopped, and the weather began to clear, although the residual chill outside Jijing City was still fierce, it could not stop the soldiers from hurrying; It turned out that after the New Year, Li Ang and the other prisoners rushed to the border city under the escort of the cavalry, and did not dare to delay for a moment.
Along the way, I saw that the convoys of people coming and going on the wide and thick official road were endless, and the merchants who drove the carriage convoy to Hanzhou (that is, Outer Mongolia) in Bingzhou (now Inner Mongolia) shouted and shouted, occupying most of the official road.
It wasn't until they entered Hanzhou that those caravans gradually became scarce, and at this time, most of the soldiers were missing, and only the three hundred people of Li Ang's team were still moving forward.
The gently rolling grasslands, the beads of cattle, sheep, horses and camels, and the rivers and lakes that meandered through the meadows like ribbons stunned the soldiers who stepped into the wilderness of Hanzhou.
At this time, a melodious long-pitched pastoral song sounded in the distance, and after a while, the rumbling hooves of horses sounded again between heaven and earth, and countless galloping horses galloped forward, moving, and those galloping horses gradually slowed down from far and near, Rao is so, and also let the soldiers who saw the momentum of the galloping horses for the first time retreat.
When the horses stopped, Li Ang saw clearly that the men who were herding horses were carrying swords and bows, exuding a fierce atmosphere, but soon these sturdy men jumped off their horses laughing, grabbed the accompanying cavalry, and did not let them leave, and the boldness and hospitality became all his impressions of these herdsmen on the border of Daqin.
At night, in front of the roaring bonfire, the sizzling bison roasted by the charcoal fire is appetizing, the wind is filled with the mellow aroma of wine, and the enthusiastic herdsmen greet everyone loudly; It wasn't until the bonfire burned out that they were drunk.
After helping the drunken fellow campers back to the tent, Li Ang did not sleep, but walked out of the tent, looking at the bright stars in the sky in the cold wind that was a little chilly, he found that the memories of those previous lives were leaving him, becoming more and more blurred, "Maybe those are just a dream?" He shook his head in a whisper, and then slipped into the tent.
The next morning, the group continued to move forward, and after a few days, they finally reached the border city they were about to defend, the Jade Dragon City, which was a towering stone fortress, and opposite it, the rising steppe power, the Turks.