Chapter 62 The Battle in the Northern Border City Turns the World (23)
The north wind is blowing, galloping on the road, several pedestrians in simple clothes are moving forward against the cold wind, although the first two are dressed as children, but their eyebrows are clear, and the pace and posture of the road are not like border men, but like daughters.
Occasionally, pedestrians pass by on the gallop and look at each other a few times. And most of these people will also talk to pedestrians and ask about the battle in Bianguan. Although there were not many people who fled, there were also many displaced people, and after these refugees told these people what they knew, most of them would be given some dry food, which made people grateful.
"Lady...... Childe, this place is still a little far away from Bianguan, and most of the displaced people who fled here only know that the battle in Bianguan is going on, and Bianguan has not been lost, but they don't know other detailed information. I have asked a lot of people these days, and most of them will say that the battle in Bianguan is fierce, tens of thousands of people are fighting day and night, and there are soldiers and horses moving everywhere in a radius of dozens of miles! ”
"We knew this news in Youzhou, when we left Youzhou, the war in Bianguan had lasted for more than a month, but we never thought that until today, there is still no result...... I don't know if my husband is good, but now it's a good ......."
"Childe, General Jiren has his own natural appearance, and it will definitely be fine! Maybe the Khitan thieves have been repulsed, but the news hasn't come here yet, so please be relieved! ”
"Hmm...... Carefully calculated, since the north, I haven't seen my husband for almost five months, this time we secretly went to Bianguan to find him, do you think your husband will be angry? ”
"Absolutely not! This time we are going north in disguise, no one knows who we are, didn't the lady say, as long as we see the general from a distance and are unharmed, we will go back to Youzhou, I think we can be unaware! ”
"I hope so."
If Li Congjing was here, he would definitely recognize at a glance that the two "sons" who were talking were Ren Wanru and the maid Xiyu. Behind them, there were four other people, but these four people were serious men, all of them were sturdy, and they would inadvertently exude a fierce spirit, but they were the guards of the house.
Ren Wanru and Xiyu were talking, and there was a young man and a girl with ragged clothes and haggard faces walking by, and when the two passed by, the girl suddenly weakened her feet, and her body fell on the side of the road.
The young man didn't care at first, kept his forward posture unchanged, pulled two handfuls, and failed to pull the girl up, so he turned back in a panic, desperately trying to pick up the girl who fell on the cold road, and made a hoarse and low voice, "Heya, Heya, get up, get up!" ”
"Brother, I'...... I can't walk anymore, you go, don't ...... Leave me alone......" The girl said with a blank look in her eyes.
The young man only pulled a few handfuls, and he was so tired that he was out of breath, and finally sat on the ground with a weak buttocks, but he still refused to let go, "Heya, get up...... Get up, don't lie down, if you lie down, you won't be able to get up again! ”
"Brother...... Brother, I'm so sleepy, you let me ...... Take a break. I'm going to find Grandpa and Grandma...... You can go by yourself......" The yellowed hair was messy on the side of her face, and the girl's voice gradually weakened, and finally buried her head in the young man's lap, and slowly closed her eyes.
"No, don't! He Ya ......" The young man shook the girl's shoulders desperately, but found that all his efforts were so pale. In fact, the young man himself knew that if there was no food, any effort would be in vain, and his sister was just so hungry that she was about to starve to death - but he had no food to give her, even a little.
Holding helplessly the girl whose voice was gradually fading, the young man raised his head and roared pathetically, "Ah! After roaring, his eyes were dark, and the young man lost consciousness.
When the boy woke up again, he found himself lying in an abandoned ancestral hall with an unknown person feeding him porridge in front of him, who was very young and had moon-bud-shaped eyes.
Half an hour later, Ren Wanru and Xiyu left a bag of dry food for the young man, and they were ready to embark on the journey again.
The young man helped the girl who was also saved to kneel down in front of Ren Wanru, and kowtowed three times.
Ren Wanru helped the young man up, "The man has gold under his knees, how can he kneel easily?" ”
The young man said: "The villain's life is cheap, this kneeling is not for myself, but Miss Xie saved my sister!" Please also give the name of the young lady, today's grace will be rewarded tomorrow! He had already recognized Ren Wanru as a woman.
Ren Wanru didn't want to show her identity, but she couldn't resist the stubborn look of the young man who didn't get up if he didn't do this, and said calmly: "I will save you today, with a little effort." However, it will not be easy for you to repay me, and perhaps one day you will become a great instrument to be qualified to say such things. Get up! ”
The young man was stunned, gritted his teeth, and said loudly: "Today I am humble, and I have no long things, so that I can't even give my sister a meal." However, when the young eagle finally spreads its wings, Mo Dao is a poor boy! Please give the young lady her name, and there will be a place for the villain in the future, and the villain is willing to pay for this life in order to repay the favor! ”
Ren Wanru looked at the young man seriously at this time.
The young man in front of him, at most twelve or thirteen years old, was shabby, sallow, and embarrassed. However, its gaze is like a sharp sword, which is particularly intimidating, and then look at its demeanor, although it is immature, it also has the posture of a tiger and a wolf.
Ren Wanru's heart moved, and said: "Well, since you and I met, it is already cause and effect." Today's planting cause, the coming day's fate, maybe there will be a fateful fruit. Speaking of this, her eyes became solemn and she said seriously: "If you want to repay the favor one day, you only need to remember three words." ”
"What three words?"
"Li Congjing!"
The young man was stunned again.
It wasn't until Ren Wanru and the others left the ancestral hall and the figure disappeared at the door that the young man came back to his senses, and he shouted loudly to the door: "My name is Shi Qingfeng!" ”
The young man looked at the door, suddenly distracted.
Heya moved over, sat down next to Shi Qingfeng, and asked curiously, "Brother, who is Li Congjing?" ”
"Li Congjing ......" Shi Qingfeng bit his lip, and a hot color flashed in his eyes, "He is the most powerful general in the world, and the biggest hero in the world!" ”
"Huh?"
Shi Qingfeng stood up, put away the broken silver left by Ren Wanru, held the dry food in his arms, and pulled Heya out of the ancestral hall, "Heya, with these entanglements, we can go to the Central Plains." When the time comes, when I see Brother Shi, I will be able to join him and become a soldier of the Tang Dynasty! ”
He paused at the door, and the rare sunlight shone down from the clouds and fell on his shoulder, and he said, "One day, I will grow into a general, a general who has the ability to repay him for his kindness today!" ”
Ren Wanru, who returned to the gallop road, still doesn't know what kind of teenager she saved today, and she doesn't know the identity of this young man. When one day, when the truth of the matter is revealed, not only she is stunned, but Li Congjing will be shocked.
Continuing to the north, Ren Wanru still asked the people she met all the way about the battle in Bianguan. On this day, they were told that the Khitan barbarians had retreated from Bianguan, and the Tang army had triumphed!
Ren Wanru and Xiyu hugged each other and cried happily in surprise.
"Even the Khitan prince can be defeated, miss, how powerful do you say the general is?" Xiyu asked, holding her chin with her fingers.
Ren Wanru pondered for a while, revealing a look of memory, "I once heard my husband say that his army is invincible in a hundred battles, and the one thing he relies on the most is intelligence. Listen to him, but everywhere his army goes, he can know every grass and tree well, and the scouts and sentinels of the enemy army will be exposed to his field of vision. ”
Xiyu exclaimed, "So powerful? ”
Ren Wanru smiled and said, "Anyway, my husband said this, I haven't seen it, I don't know if my husband said big things!" ”
Xiyu thought about it seriously, "The general's temper is disdainful of big words, since the general said so, it must be so...... Miss, I'm worried now! ”
"What are you worried about?"
Xiyu sighed, "If the general's words are correct, but wherever the Hundred Battles Army goes, every grass and tree commander can know everything about it, and the enemy's spies will be caught by the army, will our whereabouts also be exposed?" ”
Ren Wanru was taken aback and said dumbfounded: "No...... No way? ”
Before she finished speaking, the warning voice of the guard suddenly came from behind her, "Miss beware!" ”
"What's wrong?" Ren Wanru and Xiyu looked left and right, but did not find anything abnormal.
An older guard didn't look good, and his voice was low, "I haven't seen pedestrians for miles, it's too abnormal......"
Before he could finish speaking, before and after galloping, there was a sudden sound of horses' hooves, and more than a dozen horsemen appeared at the end of the road, galloping towards them, and in a blink of an eye they came to them.
The first knight looked coldly at Ren Wanru and Xiyu, who were escorted in the middle, and his tone was not good, "Say, who are you, why do you want to inquire about the situation of the battle in Bianguan?" ”
"Also, it's really here?" Xiyu was shocked and frightened.
Ren Wan is secretly traveling north, the original intention is not enough for outsiders, and it is not easy to say it at this time, do you want her to say, I am Li Congjing's daughter-in-law, because Sifu, I came to visit him on purpose, and I will not disturb him on the march, just want to see him safe from afar?
"I see that you are sneaky, could it be a Khitan spy?" Ren Wanru and the others didn't speak, and the look in the eyes of the knight was even more unkind. A person beside him had sharp eyes and whispered to him: "Team Zheng, there are two little ladies here, it seems a little unusual." The Fifth Commander and the Marshal are nearby, do you want to take them over and report to the Fifth Commander first? ”
The team nodded thoughtfully.
In this way, before Li Congjing returned to Youzhou, he saw Ren Wanru, who was regarded as a Khitan spy and escorted to him by the sharp soldiers of the Military Intelligence Department.
Li Congjing couldn't cry or laugh, and Ren Wanru was even more ashamed to find a hole to get into.
Originally, it was good, but I just wanted to just look at each other from a distance, but in order to avoid disturbing Li Congjing's campaign, Ren Wanru didn't even plan to meet him. It's good now, but the people saw it, but they were escorted to him by the soldiers under Li Congjing.
Ren Wanru looked down at her toes, too shy to see anyone, Xiyu sighed and patted Ren Wanru's shoulder, and said in an old-fashioned manner: "Miss, what's there to be shy, everyone has seen it, so you can't pretend not to know, right?" Who made the general too powerful, and his subordinates too powerful, and everywhere he went, every grass and tree was under his control? This is all because the general is too capable, you should be happy! ”
Ren Wanru glanced at Xiyu in shame, how could she not know what the other party said, but the current situation is indeed too embarrassing.
In the fifth girl's desperately holding back a smile and full of playful eyes, Li Congjing dismounted, calmly walked in front of Ren Wanru, took her hand, and dispelled all the worries in her heart with a word, so that her worries turned into sweetness. He said softly: "Lady, the winter is cold, the northbound road is long, and you have worked hard." I miss you for a long time! ”