Daddy hadn't bothered to ask him since he threw the reins of the mule to him. Tong'an consulted many neighbors to find out the habits of the mule and how to feed it. I found a carpenter to make a simple saddle, and began to try to ride on it, but my nose was bruised and my face was swollen, and the mule did not give me face at all.

"You have to treat it like a son so it can listen to you and let you ride." The father saw that his son fell miserably, so he reminded him.

"Dad, how long does it take to tame this?" Seeing that the day of enlistment was getting closer and closer, and he hadn't climbed on the back of the mule yet, Tong'an was a little anxious.

"If it were me, it would probably be two days."

"And how long do you think I'll have to take?" Tong An has hope in his eyes, no matter how stupid he is, a week should be enough.

"As you are now, I guess it will take a month."

"It's a month, it's not that the daylilies are cold." Tong An's heart was also half cold.

"Dad, how did you do it in the past two days?"

"It's very simple, personally brush the mule every day, remove the feces and urine, clean the trough, feed four times in the morning, noon and night, the agricultural proverb does not say that the horse must not be fertilized at night, the same is true for mules, and the grass must be fed in the middle of the night. The water for the donkey to drink must be clean, and the horse pen must be dry and not damp. What do you see you've done now? "As soon as I heard my father, I knew that he was an expert.

Tong An was a little embarrassed, the experience of raising mules that he heard about was nothing more than what kind of forage to feed and how many times to drink water, and he was not as meticulous as his father said. According to the method taught by his father, Tong An still spent nearly half a month to tame this mule, barely sat firmly on the back of the mule, and the remaining ten days were so-so, and practiced the marksmanship on the mule one by one, and then he could only bite the bullet.

When you go to the draft, you need to bring your own weapons and equipment. Tong'an, the nine of them have a variety of outfits, standing together, a group of mountain bandits. I saw Gao Cheng and Yiwu carrying a long bow on their shoulders, Fat Lai carrying a heavy crossbow, Ye Lin and Yiwen holding a big knife in their arms, Lan Xin and the thin monkey carrying a big shield, a straw bag carrying a long lance, and Tong An riding a mule and holding a black snake gun. The weapons were there, but the armor and the like were not, and they were all wearing brown linen clothes, which were a little shabby.

The school field for registration is divided into two parts, the foreign ones and the local ones on Weibo are selected separately. When registering, Tong An chose a cavalry, and the little official glanced at his mount and slowly spoke: "Where did you get this mount?" "Very few people apply for cavalry, because horses are military supplies and private support is prohibited, so the people who can sign up are basically the sons and daughters of the nobles in the army, but the poor young man in front of him is not like the son of any family.

"My dad bought it for me." Tong An's face was proud.

"Horses are military supplies and are forbidden to be bought and sold, do you know this?" The little official had a serious face.

"Yes." Tong An looked puzzled, this little official asked what he was doing.

"If you know, why do you dare to defy the law?" The little official shouted loudly, and the noisy crowd around him instantly quieted down, and they all turned their heads to see what was going on.

"I'm not a horse, I'm a mule." Tong An patted the mule's neck, the short sideburns were the mark of a mule.

"Oh, I said this horse is so ugly, it turned out to be a mule." The little official laughed as he spoke, and the people around him also laughed, because everyone didn't recognize this as a mule, and they all looked at the mount curiously, and whispered.

"Is that okay to register?" Tong'an was not annoyed.

"No, if you don't have a horse, you choose a cavalry, what kind of cavalry is that?" The little official is ridiculing.

"Without a horse, this mule is not also a mount, but can be ridden as well. Besides, if you join the army, isn't it a unified horse? ”

"No, you can't choose cavalry without horses." The little official didn't budge at all.

When Tong'an was arguing with the little official, a personable young man came over, and the little official immediately got up to greet him when he saw it. Tong'an recognized this person, it was the son of the same table in the Shendulou that day, Tian Xing.

"What's going on?" Tian Xing said without hurry or slowness, and seemed more gentle and elegant.

"Childe, this young man has no horses, and he has led a mule to enlist in the cavalry." After speaking, the little official pointed to Tong An and the mule behind him.

"Isn't this Kang Gongzi?" Tian Xing recognized Tong An, walked over quickly, and saluted with fists.

"I've seen Childe!" Tong'an hurriedly returned the salute.

"You want to be conscripted into cavalry?" Tian Xing looked at the mule behind Xia Tong'an.

"My dad taught me to practice cavalry marksmanship since I was a child, and that's all I can do." Tong An said neither humbly nor arrogantly, trying to suppress the unhappiness just now.

"Oh, you're holding a snake gun, can you lend me a look?" Tian Xing looked at his gun with interest.

"Childe, please take a look." After Tong An finished speaking, he handed over the black snake gun, and was still muttering in his heart, this Tian Gongzi Bacheng still regarded his father as a black snake Kang.

"Childe, there is something I still think it is necessary to tell you, although the gun is a black snake gun, but my father is not a black snake Kang, I asked him." Tong'an hesitated again and again, but still told the truth.

"Well, you go sign up." After Tian Xing finished speaking, he returned the gun, turned his head and ordered a few words to the little official: "This year's curtain selection is different from previous years, no horse can sign up as long as you know the marksmanship of cavalry." ”

Tian Gongzi said a word, Tong'an successfully registered, and even the straw bales that didn't have any mounts were also reported to the cavalry. Yiwen and Ye Lin reported the light infantry, Lan Xin and Thin Monkey reported the heavy infantry, Gao Cheng and Yiwu reported the archers, and Fat Lai reported the crossbowmen.

When signing up, the little official revealed some information to Tong'an, Tian Gongzi had just been promoted to the rank of tooth general, responsible for the review and registration of the recruitment, and the curtain selection work was carried out by Li Changchun, the eldest son of Li Chengping, the former general of the tooth army.

Hearing the name Li Changchun, Tong An subconsciously shuddered, always feeling that something bad was about to happen. The eldest son of the Li family seen in front of the Shendi Tower was very similar to the people in the Xishan Pavilion that night, as long as he heard Li Changchun's voice, he could determine whether they were alone or not. In addition, at that time, he shouted "It is important to protect the son", who will that son be? Combined with what happened later, the previous Jiedu envoy died of illness, and the new Jiedu envoy was his nephew, not his son, so this "son" should be one of the sons of the previous Jiedu envoy.

The little official then said a more important information, this time the selection form is different from previous years, the practice in previous years is to directly practice martial arts on the spot, and then decide whether to be selected. The newly appointed Jiedu envoy has changed this convention, and this year it is divided into three rounds of selection, and only those who pass the layers can be finally selected. It is said that the first round of selection this year is to run from the school field to the top of the west mountain within three quarters of an hour, receive the token and then return from the other side of the mountain, and those who overtime will be eliminated.

Before leaving, the little official leaned on Tong'an's ear and whispered: "The first round of tests will start at three o'clock in the afternoon today, and the son can prepare in advance." In addition, these words are also asked to be kept secret, and I can't eat and walk around if the news leaks. ”