Clear lake and clear water, under the blue sky and white clouds, a large number of cattle, sheep and horses outside Tuoyun Fort are scattered to graze leisurely on the pasture and lake, which is a good picture of the scenery outside the fortress. In the lakeside camp, knights trained in mounted archery, horsemanship, and horsemanship; The shouts of drills in the school grounds inside the fort were deafening.

More than a month had passed since the defeat of the Turgish, and it was already mid-November, and the weather around Toyun Fort had not been very good, with either cold winds howling and overcast clouds, or heavy snowfall. In the past few days, the sun has not been allowed to come out, and Zhao Ziliang took advantage of the good weather to come to the gate of Tuoyun Fort to inspect the city.

All kinds of business travelers from all over Anxi kept leaving the city gate, and there were also business travelers entering from outside the customs, Zhao Ziliang put on his helmet and armor, held a horizontal knife and stood on the city gate tower to watch the business travelers flow endlessly at the city gate.

At this moment a young man came from the direction of the castle, wearing a blood-worn sleeveless sheepskin jacket, carrying a burden, a scribe's sword hanging from his waist, a square scarf on his head, large fluttering sleeves, and a weathered face.

The young man walked at the gate of the city, and a soldier stepped forward to check, he took out the customs clearance document and handed it over, and the city gate chief opened the customs document and looked at it, and then looked up at the young man, and asked, "Where is the person?" ”

"My ancestral home is Nanyang, and I later moved to Gangneung."

"What do you do out of customs?"

"Travel to the frontier of the Western Regions!"

Zhao Ziliang, who was on the city tower, heard a familiar voice, the accent seemed to be the same as the accent of his hometown, and heard the sound of "Jiangling", looked down, but saw a young scholar, thought about it and said to the guard: "Go, invite that young man over, I want to meet him!" ”

"No!"

At this time, the chief of the city gate has completed the inspection and inventory, returned the customs clearance documents to the young man, and allowed him to go out of the customs. The scholar in front of him stayed! ”

Hearing this voice, the soldiers at the gate of the city immediately picked up their weapons and pointed them at the young man, the young man's face changed, and when he turned his head, he saw a soldier in full armor walking quickly with a waist knife in his hand.

When the guards saw that the soldiers were all aiming their weapons at the young man, they immediately waved their hands to make the soldiers withdraw their weapons, walked up to the young man and said, "This scholar, our castle master is invited!" ”

The young scholar was stunned for a while, and then wondered, "Who is the lord of your castle?" Why please do this? ”

"The scholar will know when he goes, please!"

The young man is helpless, and it is worth going with the guards.

When he came to the castle tower, the young man saw a tall and mighty warrior standing behind the chopping of arrows in his cloak, and he arched his hand and said, "I wonder what this general is looking for?" ”

Zhao Ziliang turned around, looked at the young man for a while, and said with a smile: "Sir, you don't have to be polite, a certain town has been guarding this Tuoyun Fort for several years, and has never returned home, and he misses his hometown very much. ”

The young people were also quite surprised, as the saying goes, when the villagers see the villagers, the eyes are full of tears! He hurriedly said: "Officially, in Xia Cen Shen, his ancestral home is Nanyang, and he later moved to Jiangling, and I have seen the general!" ”

"Cen Shen?" When Zhao Ziliang heard it, how did he feel that this name was a little familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, he quickly remembered that Cen Shen was not a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty? This person is called Gao Cen along with Gao Shi! It turned out to be him!

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "It turns out that he is really a fellow villager, and he is also a Jiangling person!" By the way, I don't know what the relationship between Lord Cen Gongwen, the prime minister of the Taizong Dynasty, is with Mr. ”

Cen Shen thought about it, isn't Cen Wenwen his great-grandfather? It turned out that the general still knew the name of his great-grandfather, and hurriedly said: "It is the great-grandfather who is not talented!" ”

"I don't want the son to be a famous minister! Disrespectful and disrespectful, Zhao Ziliang, a certain captain of Zhaowu and the lord of Tuoyun Fort, is polite! Zhao Ziliang gave a salute after speaking.

Cen Shen hurriedly returned the salute: "It turned out to be General Zhao, and I never imagined that I would meet my fellow villagers in this place, which is really gratifying!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said to the guards beside him: "Go and prepare a table of wine and food, I want to feast on Mr. Cen!" ”

"No!"

Cen Shen hurriedly excused himself: "How is this good?" General, don't be too polite! ”

Zhao Ziliang said with a smile: "Childe's words are wrong! I haven't been home for many years, I miss my hometown very much, and now I meet my son in this place, I naturally feel very cordial, and I want to ask my son about the situation in my hometown, and I ask my son not to shirk, and don't hesitate to give advice! ”

Cen was reluctant to see the hospitality, so he had to agree.

The two then came to Zhao Ziliang's residence, Zhao Ziliang invited Cen Shen to sit down, asked someone to bring tea, burned hot dung mounds in the house to keep warm, and called people to call Jia Chongjun, Zhao Chongxuan, Huo Kan, Wei Meng, and He Zhongzhong to accompany them.

After a while, the wine and food were served, and the brazier in the middle of the house burned very strongly, coaxing the whole house to be warm.

After Jia Chongjun, Zhao Chongxuan, Huo Kan, Wei Meng, He and others came, Zhao Ziliang got up and introduced to both parties: "Come on, everyone, I will introduce you to a distinguished guest, this is a fellow villager Cen Shengongzi, and the great-grandfather of Cen Gongzi is Lord Cen Gongwen, one of the prime ministers of the Taizong Dynasty!" ”

"Ah, it turns out that Cen Gongzi is a famous family, and he is disrespectful and disrespectful!" Everyone saluted and said.

Zhao Ziliang also introduced his subordinate deputy castle masters, team leaders, and deputy team leaders to Cen Shen one by one. Cen Shen greeted Huo Kan and the others one by one.

After they all got to know each other, Zhao Ziliang beckoned everyone to sit down, and raised his wine glass and said to Cen Shen: "Come, everyone, we will all salute Cen Gongzi with a glass and wash the dust for Cen Gongzi!" ”

Cen Shen was flattered, his father had served as the assassin of Jinju, when he was ten years old, his father died, and since then, the family has begun to fall in the middle of the road, since his father's death, how can he receive such courtesy? Last year, he went to Chang'an to find his uncle and Prime Minister Cen Xi to submit a letter to seek office, and he was left out in the cold, which made him feel warm and cold, and the world was hot and cold, so he ran to Jingluo, roamed Heshuo, and traveled to the Western Regions and other places.

Cen Shen immediately got up and picked up his wine glass and said repeatedly: "Don't dare, don't dare, the generals are gracious, Cen Shen is grateful!" ”

After three rounds of drinking, Zhao Ziliang asked: "Childe, Tuoyun Fort is thousands of miles away from Jiangling, why did Childe trek through mountains and rivers to come here to stuff the bitter cold land?" ”

Cen Shen put down the wine glass when he heard this, and arched his hand: "Don't hide it from the general, I have been studying for more than ten years, and I asked myself to be successful in my studies, so I went to Chang'an to find my uncle Cen Xi to ask for an official, so that I could serve the emperor and the imperial court, but I didn't want me to be good at studying, not only did I fail to seek an official, but I was humiliated." I left Chang'an, traveled all over the country, and went to Luoyang, Heshuo, and Hexi, the eastern capitals, and recently heard that the Tuqi Shi people were causing trouble at the border passes, so I came to have a look."

"I see!" Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Gongzi really has great wisdom, I ordinary people have heard that 'it is better to read ten thousand books than to travel ten thousand miles'." Since Childe is like this, it's good to think about it! It's just that if Childe wants to go out of the customs to the west, it's best to think twice! ”

Cen Shen was puzzled and asked, "Why?" ”

Huo Kan explained with a smile: "Gongzi doesn't know, a month ago, the Turian Shi people gathered 5,000 troops to raid my Tuoyun Fort, and the castle lord led 300 cavalry to sneak attack on the bank of the Pearl River, annihilating 1,500 people and horses, when the Turian Cavalry Shi people arrived at the city of Tuoyun Fort, the castle lord killed seven enemy generals one after another under the Tuoyun Fort City, and took advantage of the situation to break the Turian Cavalry Shi thousands of cavalry, chased and killed hundreds of miles, and the Turian Cavalry Shi 5,000 people came, but in the end only a few hundred people were able to escape, the heart must be a big hatred, Gongzi went out of the pass to the west at this time, and the danger will be greatly increased!" ”

Cen Shen was shocked, he didn't expect such a big battle to happen here a month ago, and the fellow villager in front of him had such martial arts and courage, he got up and straightened his clothes and saluted Zhao Ziliang, and said: "I don't want the general to be brave and far beyond ordinary people, I am very impressed!" It's just that I went to the Western Regions to travel to the border fortress, which was set early in the next morning, and my wish is to always want to see the volcanic clouds, the snow of the Tianshan Mountains, the transpiration of the hot sea, the strange cold of the Hanhai, the windy wind, the yellow sand into the sky and other exotic scenery. ”

When Zhao Ziliang heard Cen Shen's words, he knew that he would persuade him not to move, so he had to raise a glass and invite him to drink.