Chapter 3 The Dangerous Way Home
Zhang Huan turned to look, only to see a girl looking at him from behind, she was wearing a moonlight skirt, goose-yellow gown, a simple low bun on her head, a hosta through, melon seed face, face like hibiscus, a pair of apricot eyes bright and flashing, vigilantly staring at Zhang Huan's actions.
Oh, it is the victim of Zhang Huanlushan's claw, Liu Yue, Mr. Liu's beloved daughter Liu Zhiyun, at this time, Liu Zhiyun stared at him with a frosty face, and the maid Zijuan behind her bit her red lip and stared at him with a look of disdain.
The weirdest thing is that Xiaohua also appeared next to the two girls, it still tilted its head to look at Zhang Huan, its eyes were full of curiosity.
"It turned out to be a junior sister, I have something to see Mr. today."
Zhang Huan sneered, Rao is face is quite thick and durable, but the embarrassing scene yesterday is still in front of him, and he really can't explain why he stretched out that claw yesterday, cough cough, so Zhang Huan is also a little red at this time.
'If you have something to report, why is it so sneaky?' ’
Liu Zhiyun said lightly after hearing this, after a night, her mood calmed down a lot, the key is to think about it afterwards, it seems that Zhang Huan really seemed to be unintentional, and Zhang Huan didn't even open his eyes at that time.
Although it is a little deflating, it is impossible to say that there is no mustard in my heart.
Yo, the suspicion is not small, Zhang Huan laughed and laughed.
"Who's outside the door?"
Liu Yue coughed lightly.
"Student Zhang Huan meets Mr.,"
Zhang Huan hurriedly entered the room and bowed.
The aroma of the tea soup in the room is lingering, on one side is a walnut wood stove shelf, on which is a small brown clay pot, and on the other side is a red lacquer coffee table, on which the water bucket, tea pets and other tea utensils, Liu Yue and Mr. Jiang are sitting on both sides of the coffee table, one holding a teacup in his hand and laughing.
"Oh, Zhang Huan, what's the matter?"
Liu Yue said lightly, he was in his forties, tall and thin, with a few strands of long hair, dressed in a half-worn Confucian robe, and his bearing was also like that.
Zhang Huan, a student in Liu Yue's view, is not the material for reading, he only knows hard reading, he doesn't know how to live and learn, he lacks talent, and more importantly, he doesn't understand the world at all, he lacks a string in his head, and he is blindly in a daze when he has nothing to do, and he doesn't even know how to talk to the brothers and sisters in the school.
Liu Yue once tactfully hinted that Zhang Qinzhou should take Zhang Huan back, and stay here in vain.
But Zhang Qinzhou, this Qiu Ba, is too stubborn to listen to at all, alas, he can be regarded as benevolent and righteous.
"My uncle told me last night that my father and brother had been injured on the expedition and had been sent home, and the student wanted to take leave to return home to visit, and I hope Mr. will approve it."
Zhang Huan said goodbye.
"Oh, what's wrong with Zhang Yuhou,"
Liu Yue hurriedly got up and said.
"My father broke his leg, my eldest brother broke his arm, and my second brother died in battle."
Zhang Huan said with tears in his eyes.
Hiss, Liu Yue and Mr. Jiang gasped, it was easy to sit and talk, hearing that the battle was so fierce, and the soldiers they knew were so badly damaged, the impact was too strong.
"In this way, you should return home to visit as soon as possible, and when you return, the teacher will review your homework for you."
Liu Yue said gently, he turned to look at Liu Zhiyun,
"Zhiyun, go to your mother and get half a piece of money, and say I want it,"
Liu Zhiyun looked at Zhang Huan with pity when she heard that Zhang Huan's family was in such a situation, and the disgust in her heart went a lot, and she didn't say much and turned away.
"Zhang Huan, taking this money back can be regarded as a little bit of heart for the teacher,"
Zhang Huan bowed and thanked again, this gentleman can be said to be a warm heart, subsidizing the ordinary things of students from poor families, although he is often complained by his wife because of this, but he always laughs at it.
At this embarrassing time, Zhang Huan did not twist, in short, he would find a reason to repay it twice in the future.
"San Lang, bring this back,"
Chen put a heavy pocket in Zhang Huan's hand.
Zhang Huan knew that it was consistent money as soon as he weighed it.
"Auntie, I can't take this money, and your family is not rich."
Zhang Huan has been in this house for so long and knows the situation of the family too well, in order to make more money, Chen's needlework starts at dawn and continues until he can't see it at night, which is very hard.
"Take it, it's too difficult for your house this time, and you'll know how much money you have to use when you go back."
Chen sighed, she knows how difficult it is to make money, and all the money she can save in her family is her hard-earned stitches, but at this time, she can't help but stretch out her hand.
Zhang Huan silently bowed to Chen, turned around and left, he just remembered it in his heart.
Zhang Huan went out of Yanzhou City and headed northwest, where there was an official road leading directly to Shunning Village.
Shunning Village is the northwest of the Yanyan Road and the border of the Western Xia, there is also a field between the two countries, exchange trade, of course, the two countries are often the place to fight here.
There are three roads from Yanyan Road to Xixia, the northeast through Suidecheng, Funing Fort to Yinzhou Yanyin Road, the middle through Saimen Village, Luziguan to reach Xixia Xiazhou, Yanzhou Yanxia Road, northwest from the Security Army, Shunning Village, the Great Wall Ridge to the Great Wall Ridge Road of Xixia Youzhou, Shuning Village, Shuning Zhai in the northwest Great Wall Ridge Road to guard the boundary of Xixia and Yanyan Road, the location is extremely dangerous.
After Li Yuanhao established the Western Xia, the Western Xia army entered the Kouyan Road from the Great Wall Ridge Road through Shunning Village many times, and drove directly to Yanzhou, the capital of the southeast Yanyan Road, almost every time it was a vicious battle.
Han Zhifeng carried two strong bows, quivers and ring-headed knives, and hurried in full armor, not to mention that this was wartime, even on weekdays, the western thieves also crossed the border from time to time to plunder, sometimes it was the western thief's official army, and sometimes it was the Qiang people of the fetter tribe to which the western thief belonged to rode to fight the grass valley, which is the so-called Shengfan of the Song people.
Now, as long as you have a little common sense, you know that the Song army is leaving the country, and the garrison in the territory is empty, and the western thieves will definitely send troops to attack and disturb it.
Although there are fire piers every 30 miles along the border, smoke during the day, and fire alarms are raised at night, but these rangers are scattered, not a large army, and they pass through the mountain road, and many times the fire pier platform can not issue an early warning.
The cavalry of the Western Army is the most scarce, among which the Yanyan Road is the most, the total cavalry of the Yanyan Road is about 4,000 horsemen, of which more than 3,000 horsemen go out with the army, and most of the remaining hundreds of horsemen are guarding important official roads near Yanzhou, and the other walled forts have ten horsemen and eight horsemen as a liaison purpose, and there is no force to attack, so these Western thieves come and go like the wind, and there is really no way to take them.
Zhang Huan's greatest reliance is his archery and knife skills, but it is still very dangerous to encounter Western thieves on foot.
Fortunately, there are several walled guards of the Song army along the way, which can be regarded as emboldening pedestrians.
Zhang Huan first arrived at Zhao'anyi, where Qiaozi Valley was guarded, thousands of hectares of fertile land were opened, it was a tuntian place, and everywhere he passed, Zhang Huan's mind always appeared some information.
He continued to the northwest into the Hunzhou River, sure enough, it was stained with a muddy character, this not wide river was muddy, the right side of Zhang Huan was the river water and the riverbed, and the left side was the impact of the ravine vertical and horizontal cliffs, the terrain was extremely narrow, he walked alone on the road, only the murmuring sound of the water echoing in the valley accompanied him.
Zhang Huan looked at everything in front of him vigilantly, he knew that this was the most dangerous place, if there were Qiang people to ride, he was on the right with water, and on the left was the cliff, he had no way to escape at all, he could only fight hard with the enemy.
Zhang Huan took a deep breath as often as possible, distinguishing the breath of livestock from the oncoming northwest wind, if someone was ambushed, then the strong smell of the Qiang people and war horses would waft over to give him a warning.
Zhang Huan suddenly felt something, he lay on the ground and listened, after a while Zhang Huan stood up relaxedly, the slight vibration of the ground was not caused by horses, but more like a waterfall on the Hunzhou River.
Zhang Huan used all the experience he gained to survive in the wilderness in later generations to preserve himself.
Zhang Huan suddenly noticed something gray in the yellow-brown river, and when he looked closely, he saw the body of a man floating heavily, although this person was also wearing a leather robe, but the long hair scattered on his head indicated that this was a Han man, not a bald Qiang or Xia man.
Obviously, the Qiang tribe's rangers were raging in a certain area upstream, and the danger was not far from him, and the cruelty of the Great Song border village was revealed to him.