Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Past
Many people think that to the south, and then to the south, it will get hotter and hotter, otherwise, how can they solve such a blue bird in the sky?
However, the fact is that to the south of the Lan River, it is the subject of the South Wu, and to the south of the South Wu, it is the South Peak. The South Peak is not the name of a mountain, but a whole mountain range, because no one knows where such a long mountain range is its main peak, and no one has actually climbed to the top of this mountain range.
It's just that no one has ever been to the summit of the South Peak, which doesn't mean that there are no creatures living here. On the contrary, if you come to the top of this peak, you will find that this place is so beautiful?
The reason why no one has ever climbed the South Peak is not only because of its unattainable height, but also because it is shrouded in wind and snow all year round. But it is precisely in the depths of the south peak shrouded in wind and snow that there is a green field......
What is even more amazing is that the summit of the south peak is so full of life, in addition to the spreading bushes, there are many creatures playing in it, and among them, the most abrupt is a stone table, next to which a woman sits leaning.
From time to time, creatures such as squirrels and rabbits would bring fruit on the stone table, and women would smile and stroke their foreheads in gratitude, and even a brown bear would bring a nest of bees. The woman smiled and knocked on the big brown bear, which scared the bear away, and then she waved her hand lightly, and the hive disappeared into place and returned to the tree.
It seems to be a lost paradise on earth, although there is no milk flowing everywhere, there is a spiritual spring, there is a spiritual tree next to it, and there is a beautiful woman who should not appear in the world. Although the woman's gaze shifted a little depending on the creature, it remained locked on a small fox with blue and yellow hair under the tree.
The little fox was still playing merrily with the cats under the tree, and the woman was not tired of it, so she kept looking at the little fox, and occasionally forgot the butterfly that was perched on her shoulder.
The sudden arrival of a heavy snowfall delayed Zhao's return to Lanting, and he had to hide in the high walls of the imperial capital to take shelter from the snowstorm. This heavy snow came at a very bad time, and there were already secret reports that the situation in the northwest was not optimistic, although Zhao Fu couldn't understand why the imperial capital in the south was shrouded in wind and snow why the Hu people dared to make such a big move, but Feng Yu's news would not be false.
"Lao Feng, what do you say they are doing, they still come to knock on the customs after such a heavy snow?" Ma Xiong gathered around the stove in the town guard's mansion and held his hands.
"I don't know." Feng Yu frowned, staring at the map of the northwest, an inexplicable wind and snow pulled the breath of rejuvenation back to the cold winter, it is extremely necessary to start a war at this time, but at this time, the enemy's offensive is even more intensified? Feng Yu originally thought that this heavy snow would block the enemy back, but he didn't expect that it would intensify the enemy's offensive instead.
And there are all kinds of rumors circulating in the Northwest, such as the death of the Great Khan, the arrival of the Demon God, etc., in short, although I don't know what happened, but the Northwest has begun to mess up.
Although the combat strength of the Northwest Frontier Army is strong, the determination of the army does not mean that the people are determined, and many wealthy families have begun to move to the interior......
"It's not easy." Feng Yu sighed.
Xia Yingyang had transformed from a drunken man into a real general, refused the request to send additional guards, and rushed to the nearest battlefield with several personal guards.
The snow had covered most of the corpses, and the pool of blood flowing on the snow did not spread because of the extremely low temperature, and it had just experienced a fierce battle here, a small group of scouts of the Northwest Army encountered the supply force of Beihu, and the young scout leader was about to destroy the supply of this supply force, but was accidentally discovered by the enemy patrolling soldiers in the process of operation.
The scout commander held the idea of simply replacing one without losing and pulling two to make money, and led his subordinates to fight and retreat with the enemy, and at this time, the reinforcements of the Northwest Army arrived, and a commander personally went out and led 5,000 soldiers to prepare to eat this wave of enemies to death here.
With 5,000 people against a supply team of less than 1,000 people, it seemed to be a sure thing, but I didn't expect that tens of thousands of Beihu's elite troops would appear next. Tens of thousands of people silently appeared on the snowfield, which was the opposite color of white, and the snow and wind did not hinder their next move.
It was not an accidental encounter, but a well-prepared ambush. The supply team of hundreds of people was just bait, and the real purpose was to eat the praying mantis that was going to hunt the cicada.
This was the first defeat of the Northwest Army in several years, and 5,000 soldiers and one commander were martyred bravely.
Xia Yingyang frowned and inspected the body of the commander, and finally kicked with his foot boringly, "Old monkey, I told you to do things first. ”
Some of the remaining guards are mourning for their dead compatriots, and some are still holding on to their posts, and no one knows if this will be another trap.
Xia Yingyang finally sighed, squatted down and took out a token from the "old monkey", and then found a relatively intact hair and cut it off.
"Go back, don't tell outsiders about this place, don't tell anyone." Xia Ying ordered in a deep voice.
"Yes!"
In the future, there will be special people responsible for collecting the bodies of these fallen soldiers, but it will be very troublesome to be able to distinguish who is who from the frozen corpses at that time.
Xia Yingyang was illiterate, so he asked his subordinates to pass the word to Feng Yu and told him to strictly prohibit it.
Xia Yingyang sat on horseback and looked at the depths of the snow field, he was a general like Zheng Yuan, the difference was that Zheng Yuan was only half of the Hu blood, while he was a real Hu man.
Xia Yingyang still remembered that when he first met the old town guard, he was still a slave.
When I first met the old town guard, the old town guard was still very young, and he was only a few years older than the current Zhao Fu.
Xia Yingyang's life was not as rough as Zheng Yuan's, he was just a slave, when the old town guard led thousands of armor soldiers to the Lan Ting at that time, which was just a small earthen fort made of stones and clods. Xia Yingyang did not have a name of his own, and he, like many slaves, herded sheep around the Lan Court.
Xia Yingyang was not bullied too much, nothing more than eating a few whips and a few meals of bread, which are also the treatment that a slave should have.
It's just that that day was a little unusual, a few brave Lanhe soldiers drove their horses and led away three sheep to prepare for meat food despite the order, Xia Yingyang only knew that he would definitely not have a good time to eat if the sheep was lost, so he rushed to Lanting Fort and wanted to get his sheep back. It was that time that Xia Yingyang saw the old town guard who had returned from the patrol.
Without much friction, the old town guard reprimanded the offending soldiers and returned the sheep that had not yet had time to be slaughtered. Xia Yingyang was ignorant and didn't know what kind of power the person in front of him would have in the northwest, let alone whether they were still hostile camps to each other, but he just saluted respectfully towards his master.
Later, Lanting Fort was built into Lanting City, and the surrounding tribes were either attached to it or moved north, and Xia Yingyang was inexplicably included under the jurisdiction of Lanting City with his master.
No one will remember who Xia Yingyang's original owner was, because he didn't have any effect on the Lanhe Empire, or the only fact that people were more accepting of Xia Yingyang's owner was the old town guard. On the contrary, Xia Yingyang, because of his strong physique, was included in the new army formed by the old town guard himself, and has been baptized by war in the northwest, Xia Yingyang finally shined, and truly became the general of the Lanhe Empire with the highest force value in the northwest.
With the establishment of merit, Xia Yingyang gained his own name, and began to slowly learn the culture of the Han people, no longer the reckless man who could only carry a big knife and slash at the enemy, and the first sentence he learned from Mr. was naturally the widely spread in the northwest "Be a slave for life, be a general." ”
The residents of the Lanhe Empire did not reject him because of Xia Yingyang's birth, and what is even more amazing is that even among the Hu people in the northwest, there are not many people who hate Xia Yingyang, although they are both Hu people, but they are each other's masters, Xia Yingyang is the Lan Court that entered with the original owner, which is no wonder to him, but the Hu people are faintly proud because they have such a hero among their compatriots.
The Northwest is a place that admires heroes, whether it is one's own hero or someone else's hero, you can gain respect and admiration.
Of course, Xia Yingyang didn't care what others thought of him, whether it was the Hu people who had the same blood as him, or the Han people in Lanting, he didn't care. So he can drink heavily, anyway, with Ma Xiong and Feng Yu here, Zhao Fu is also gradually growing, and Lan Ting just needs his name more than his person.
After the death of the old town guard, Xia Yingyang changed back to the previous Xia Yingyang: don't do business, don't use your brain, Feng Yu points to where he fights.
In the imperial capital, Zhao Fu declined Lin Haoyan's invitation and the ministers' greetings, and chose to stay in the Qin Mansion to accompany Qin Zhirou to tell stories. Although there are not many things to deal with when he enters Beijing this time, compared to the time he spent with Qin Zhirou in Lanting, Zhao Fu also felt that he owed something to Qin Zhirou.
What is different from usual is that this time it was not Zhao Fu who told the story to Qin Zhirou, but Qin Zhirou learned Zhao Fu's usual tone to tell Zhao Fu a story seriously.
Qin Zhirou didn't know what good things she found from Qin Shangxi's study, but she seemed to be in love with it, so she didn't care about Zhao Fu for not spending time with her in the past few days, but enjoyed it.
"Now, do you know who the most beautiful person in the world is?" Qin Zhirou pressed Zhao Fu on the futon directly opposite her, and rolled the book behind her back, as if she was teaching a student's master.
"The prettiest person?" Many scenes flashed in Zhao Fu's mind in an instant, including little feet in the sun, smiles under fireworks, and girls snuggling up to Lin Haoyan by the Lanshui Bridge and laughing.
"Well, the most beautiful woman in the world!" Qin Zhirou emphasized again.
"I don't know." Zhao Fu shook his head, if he really wanted to talk about the most, he had no way to evaluate it.
Qin Zhirou's face did not show any unhappiness, but raised her little face proudly, "It's Mrs. Fox!" ”
"Lady Fox?" Zhao Fu didn't know the history and allusions of this world, and the one he could associate with the fastest was Daji.
"Hmmm! What an amazing woman! Qin Zhirou was very excited, pulled Zhao Fu and began to tell the story and legend of Mrs. Fox she learned, and occasionally when she forgot it, she would quietly tilt her head and flip through the book, looking very cute.
Only then did Zhao Fu know that this fox lady was not what he imagined, but this fox lady had always appeared among the people as a unique goddess in the Lanhe Empire and even in the previous Marigold Dynasty. Although sectarianism is rampant here, there is no compulsory belief, and the most widely circulated among the people is the story of the fox lady.
There is a legend that Mrs. Fox is a certain princess, because she is grateful for the suffering of the world, so she sneaks out of the palace gate to spread the world; Some people also say that Mrs. Fox is a demon fox psychic incarnation, in order to achieve positive results and do good in the world; Of course, there is also a version that Madame Fox was originally a fairy in the sky......
In short, no matter what the version of Madame Fox leaves the same impression: beauty and kindness.