After Li Yan and Han Qian entered the camp, a sergeant stepped forward to lead the way, and the two followed behind to the big tent of the Chinese army.

"Iwakomi, let's go in!" The sergeant who led the way stopped, bowed down and said to Li Yan.

"Hmmm! Brother Han, let's go in! Li Yan turned to Han Qian and said.

Li Yan walked into the tent and saw that it was already full of people, Li Wei sat behind the handsome platform, talking to everyone in the audience with a red face, Li Xin stood beside Li Wei and said nothing.

Li Yan thought to himself: "I thought it wouldn't be too late, but I didn't expect it to be like I was alone." ”

Li Yan stepped forward, knelt down on one knee and saluted Li Wei and said, "Grandson Li Yan, meet grandpa, I have seen all uncles." ”

Li Xin, who had been standing beside Li Wei without saying a word, opened his mouth and reprimanded: "The Manchu Dynasty is waiting for you to become a single person, what kind of system, you~"

"Good, good. Rock up! I'm just waiting for you, you have to give a toast to all your uncles at tonight's feast, go behind your Grandpa Song." Li Wei didn't wait for Li Xin to finish speaking, and then stopped it, and said with a smile.

Li Yan's appearance made the originally lively camp tent suddenly calm down.

Li Yan walked behind Song Xuan, who was the first seat under the handsome platform, Song Xuan nodded slightly, closed his eyes and recuperated, sitting as calmly as Mount Tai.

After Li Yan stood still, he saw that most of the people sitting in the camp tent were the civil and military ministers of the Liang Kingdom, Shi Suoxian, the left chief of the palace, Zhang Miao, the right chief Shi Zhang Miao, the left Sima Yin Jianxing, General Ning Yuan, Xijun Taishou Pan Deyu, General Zhichong, Hehuang Taishou Zhang Jing, etc., all of them stood behind the juniors of each family.

When Li Yan looked around, he suddenly found a familiar face, his uncle Ling Huyi was sitting opposite, looking at him with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, and a young descendant stood behind Ling Huyi, nodding to himself.

Li Yan was also inconvenient to go over to salute at this moment, so he bowed slightly and bowed to Ling Huyi. I haven't seen my uncle Li Yan for a few years, and the young descendant behind Ling Hu Yi is his third son Ling Hu Dezhao, Li Yan grew up with him since he was a child, five years older than Li Yan, and he is already twenty years old this year.

Li Yan's uncle Linghu Yi, is the head of the Linghu family in Hexi, is over forty years old, and is now the right Changshi of the Liangguo Pastoral Mansion, Li Wei is also the Liangzhou Pastor as the head of the country, and the Pastoral Mansion Changshi is mainly responsible for managing government affairs, and was suddenly transferred to Gaochang County two years ago to supervise the government affairs of the Western Regions. At this moment, he actually returned to Jiuquan City, which surprised Li Yan.

As for other people, Li Yan knows very little, and since Li Tan's death, Li Yan's personality has changed greatly, and he rarely communicates with others. After the Liang Kingdom moved its capital from Dunhuang to Jiuquan, Li Yan rarely went out of the palace, let alone knew the sons of the family in Jiuquan City.

Just as Li Yan was absentmindedly reviewing the past events, Li Weixiong's deep voice came: "Everyone, I invite everyone to gather together today to celebrate the bumper summer grain harvest of my Daliang this year and to celebrate the general Tang Yao of Zhengdong who repelled the invasion of Pseudo-Liang half a month ago and beheaded more than 3,000 people. Come! All the gentlemen drink this cup together, congratulations to the general of Zhengdong! ”

Li Wei picked up the wine glass and said to the people in the tent: "Come! Cheers to this! With that, he drank all the wine in the cup.

Everyone in the camp stood up one after another, picked up their wine glasses, and said in unison: "Congratulations to General Zhengdong!" The Great Cool will win! Dry! ”

After everyone drank the wine in the cup, Li Wei said loudly: "This celebration is to help the fun of hunting, and the hunting in Beishan will be rewarded, and the one with the most prey will be rewarded, and the top five will be rewarded." The younger generations of all families, lieutenant colonels and lieutenants can participate in the competition. It's the hour of the hour, until sunset, but it is never allowed to hurt people and rob, steal and play tricks, and violators will be severely punished! ”

The juniors in the camp applauded one after another, rubbing shoulders and eager to try.

Out of the camp, Li Yan was patted behind him, and when he turned around to see that it was Linghu Dezhao, Li Yan said happily: "Brother Dezhao, when did you come back to Jiuquan City?" You don't come to see me either! ”

Li Yan patted Ling Hu Dezhao's shoulder heavily as he spoke, perhaps Li Yan used too much force, and Ling Hu Dezhao's face changed when he was patted by Li Yan.

"Brother Yan, I haven't seen you for a few years, not only have you grown a lot taller, but even your strength has increased, and I am about to be broken up by you." Linghu Dezhao said slowly.

Li Yan laughed and said to Linghu Dezhao: "Please forgive Brother Dezhao!" The younger brother can't compensate you. ”

"You! It's still the same as when I was a child, and I want to be sent away in a few words. Let's go, I'll go hunting with you. Linghu Dezhao said and pulled Li Yan out.

"You're going hunting, too?" Li Yan asked suspiciously.

For Linghu Dezhao, Li Yan still knows a lot, he has always had little interest in riding and archery martial arts, he read all the books of the Linghu family when he was ten years old, and has been following his uncle Linghu Yi all these years, Li Yan really doesn't know why Linghu Dezhao suddenly became interested in safari.

"What? Don't believe me? Rest assured! Although my riding and archery skills are average, I know where there is a lot of prey. Seeing that Li Yan's face was full of suspicion, Ling Hu Dezhao leaned into Li Yan's ear and whispered.

"Is that true?" Li Yan still had some doubts in his heart.

"Let's go! If you don't leave, you will be robbed. Linghu Dezhao said and walked towards the gate of the camp.

Li Yan and Han Qian could only follow, and as soon as they left the camp gate, a sergeant led Li Yan's shadow and Han Qian's horse.

Li Yan took the two-stone longbow and quiver from Han Qian, jumped on his horse, and followed behind Linghu Dezhao.

"Brother Dezhao, when did you return to Jiuquan City?" After Li Yan caught up with Linghu Dezhao, he asked curiously.

"Three days ago, my father received a secret letter from King Liang, asking your sixth uncle to take over the government affairs of Gaochang County in his place, and I rested with my father in Dunhuang for one night, and only entered the city after nightfall yesterday." Linghu Dezhao said.

"No wonder, by the way, where are you taking me, Brother Dezhao? We're going to rush back to the camp at sunset, but don't let us come back empty-handed, right? Li Yan couldn't help but ask suspiciously when he saw Linghu Dezhao leave the main road and rode his horse to a sheep intestine path next to him.

"There are more than 50 miles to go to Beishan, from this trail, over the mountain in front, and then walk ten miles to arrive, if we take the avenue, to the north mountain also to noon, we can save an hour by taking the path, go quickly! Driving" Ling Hu Dezhao said ignoring Li Yan behind him, whipped on the horse's buttocks, and the horse that stepped down neighed in pain and galloped forward quickly.

"Brother Han, let's keep up!" Li Yan said as he rode the shadow and followed like a gust of wind.

Li Yan followed closely behind Linghu Dezhao, this was a path that almost no one had walked on, only allowing a horse to pass through, and there were thorns on both sides, and Li Yan's calves were hooked by thorns several times. In order to be able to rush to the foot of Beishan as soon as possible, Li Yan couldn't care about this.

Half an hour later, Li Yan and his entourage crossed the high mountain in front of them, if there was no Linghu Dezhao in front of Li Yan to open the way, Li Yan would not be able to find a way down the mountain, and at the same time, Li Yan also deeply admired Linghu Dezhao.

Along the way, Li Yan saw several hares and pheasants, but Li Yan really had little interest in this small prey.

After Li Yan and his entourage crossed the mountain, the road in front became much smoother, this is a flat beach after the impact of the flash flood, the front is at the foot of the North Mountain, the top of the mountain is a bare boulder, only halfway up the mountain before trees begin to grow, and only at the foot of the mountain can you see the lush and dense woods.

The entire North Mountain stretches for dozens of miles, with undulating mountains and towering peaks.

In the distance, Li Yan heard the sound of deer and yellow sheep in the mountains and forests, and the birds in the forest were frightened and flapped their wings to make a loud sound.

"Brother Yan, it's up to you! Waiting for you here for my brother! Linghu Dezhao looked at Li Yan, who was sighing at the mountain, and said.

"Good! And you're good to go! There's too much prey, and you'll have to help me bring it back. Ha ha! Li Yan laughed and said.

"Good! No problem! Go ahead! Ling Hu Dezhao said to Li Yan after dismounting.

"Brother Han, let's go! I'm afraid a lot of people will come if we stay. Li Yan said to Han Qian on the side.

Before Li Yan's words fell, there was a sound of horses' hooves behind him, which came from the path that Li Yan and his party had just walked.

After a while, two horsemen appeared one after another and went straight to Li Yan and them, and when the people walked in, Li Yan finally saw that one was Lei Ming, the captain of the gate who stopped him at the camp gate in the north of the city this morning, and the other Li Yan had seen him standing behind General Zhichong and Hehuang Taishou Zhang Jing in the camp tent, and it was estimated that he was the descendant of the Zhang family.

"Lei Ming has seen Yan Gongzi, but I didn't expect that the person in front of me turned out to be Yan Gongzi, just now Lei thought it was another family son walking in front. This is Zhang Hu, the only son of General Zhichong's family, and I will go with him when I meet him halfway. After Lei Ming stopped, he clasped his fists and saluted Li Yan.

"Zhang Hu has seen Yan Gongzi, but he didn't expect Brother Linghu to be here, Zhang Mou half-thought that the entire Jiuquan City knew that the shortcut was probably Brother Linghu, but I didn't expect that Brother Linghu was here!" Zhang Hu saluted Li Yan and said to Linghu Dezhao next to him.

"It turned out to be Brother Zhang, haha! This is not surprising. After Ling Hu Dezhao and Zhang Hu looked at each other, the two laughed heartily.

"Yan Gongzi, let's go! Later, Zhu Yuanhu, the Suo family and the Yin family will arrive! Lei Ming saw Zhang Hu and Ling Hu Dezhao chatting leisurely, and hurriedly urged.

"Go ahead! I await your triumphant return. Linghu Dezhao also knew that now was not the time to catch up, so he turned to Li Yan and said.

The four of them galloped towards the mountain forest, and puffs of dust rose on the ground.

"Iwako, let's separate." Lei Ming said and walked to the side with Zhang Hu.

After Li Yan and Han Qian walked a distance in the forest, they stopped at a fork in the road, turned to Han Qian and said, "Brother Han, let's go all the way, and the movement of two people walking together is too quiet, and it is easy to disturb the prey." ”

"Take care, Childe, the situation in the forest is complicated, you need to be careful!" Han Qian obviously agreed with Li Yan's opinion, and said to Li Yan.

After Li Yan and Han Qian separated, he rode slowly in the forest, it was close to noon, the sun was shining in the forest, it was already June at this time, the afternoon sun was unusually hot, and it didn't take long for Li Yan on horseback to be sweating profusely.