Seeing the slight disdain in Yan Shuo's eyes, Zhang Kui smiled proudly, met his gaze, and said loudly:

"I don't want to be like this all my life, I have no achievements, and my time is wasted, so that I have a seven-foot body of a good man!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly stood up, turned around, stretched out his finger, pointed to the sky high up outside the window, covered by yellow sand, and continued to say in a loud voice:

"When you are in the world, you have to fly like an eagle in the sky, how can you be with the birds, beg for food and live on the ground, and live without being known to the world for the rest of your life, and have the ambition of stepping on the world in your heart!"

With that, he took a deep breath, and after the loud voice, the room was even more silent, as if a pin had fallen and could be heard.

Wan Yan Shuo's eyes flashed, he sat up straight in the chair, looked at Zhang Kui, nodded, and said continuously:

"Good! Good! Good! Your Excellency has extraordinary ambitions, I admire you very much, but there is no basis for your words, I don't know how you can be, whether you can really take on the heavy responsibility, Zhang Kui, if you have the ability to make people tempting, I will immediately let you serve in the army, even if you want all the villagers to join the army with you, I will fully support it, and I will never regret it! ”

Zhang Kui smiled proudly: "Although a certain grass farmer lives in a poor and remote country, he doesn't know how the world changes, but he has also heard of some stories. ”

Wan Yanshuo frowned slightly, and said in surprise: "Oh? Tell me what the story is. ”

Zhang Kui looked at Yan Shuo, spoke directly, and said:

"I heard that Liu Xiu, the third prince of the Han Kingdom and the king of England, saw you, and after listening to your analysis of the continental shape, he reused the adult and made you the first of the three armies, and I have never heard of him asking you to have any 'heart-warming skills'."

After Yan Shuo heard him talk about this matter, his eyes froze, and he instantly broke out of the air like a blade, but with a smile on his face, he stood up, looked at Zhang Kui and nodded, and said:

"Okay, then I'll give you a chance."

Zhang Kui smiled slightly, bowed and thanked him.

Wan Yan Shuo squinted slightly, sat down, his voice was calm as usual, and said:

"Patriarch Tuoba Hong has built the villagers into an army capable of fighting well after decades, as for how to be incorporated into the army, I will consider it carefully, but I will definitely let you be the commander of this army, this matter is very important, you must not live up to the expectations of me and the patriarch for you."

Zhang Kui saluted again.

Wan Yanshuo waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go down." ”

Zhang Kui responded, and after looking up at the two documents with "Tuoba Imperial Family" written on them in Yan Shuo's hand, his eyes flashed, and he bowed down.

Wan Yan Shuo watched Zhang Kui's back slowly disappear, closed his eyes and pondered for a while, and then suddenly called out loudly: "Someone." ”

The attendant outside the door immediately pushed the door in, saluted and replied, "Here!" ”

Wan Yanshuo nodded and said, "Please Lord Liang come and see me." ”

The attendant hurriedly complied and retreated.

After Yan Shuo waited for the attendant to close the door, he suddenly took the paperwork in his hand to his eyes, his eyes showed a sense of hatred, and after looking at it for a long time, he shook his head and sneered in a low voice:

"Tuoba Hong, you patiently told me so much, I'm afraid you just want to confirm the authenticity of these two things, right?"

After speaking, he casually put the two documents back on the table, his eyes flashed, he smiled slightly, and said, "Since you want it, then come and get it." ”

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and then Liang Jian's voice came: "My lord, are you looking for me?" ”

Wan Yanshuo replied while putting the paperwork in the drawer, "Come in." ”

Liang Jian then pushed the door in—

In Dingbian City, at the entrance of the General's Mansion.

Seeing Zhang Kui enter the General's Mansion, the patriarch Tuoba Hong squinted his eyes and pondered for a while, then sighed lightly and shook his head, as if he wanted to throw something out of his head and forget about it.

The wind and sand rose again, although he has been in this Yan country for decades and has long adapted to the climate here, but with yellow sand blowing on his face, he still feels very uncomfortable.

Tuoba Hong glanced at the General's Mansion again, and there seemed to be both expectation and unwillingness in his eyes, but after a while, the depths of his eyes became deep and distant again, and he was not shocked.

Opposite him, I saw Wang Huaiyi smiling and striding over, and at the same time shouted in his mouth: "It turned out to be the Tuoba patriarch!" Are you going back to the village? I'm also going to Seongnam to do some errands, so why don't we just go together? ”

Tuoba Hong waited for Wang Huaiyi to approach, a smile appeared on his face, and replied, "General Wang, please." ”

Wang Huaiyi stepped to catch up, and the two walked side by side in the direction of the carriage parked not far away, and after a few steps, they heard Wang Huaiyi ask with a smile:

"I don't know if the patriarch has been to Dingbian City before?"

Tuoba Hong nodded and replied, "I've been here a few times." ”

Wang Huaiyi smiled slightly after hearing this, and suddenly stretched out his hand to point ahead, a few bare trees, and said, "That patriarch should have been to this general's mansion before, right?" ”

Tuoba Hong's eyes flashed and he was surprised: "Oh? Why did General Wang say this? ”

Wang Huaiyi laughed and said, "When I was waiting for Lord Wanyan to summon me today, I accidentally found a few lines of strange words engraved on the trees in front of me. ”

Speaking of this, he turned his head to look at Tuoba Hong, and said with a smile: "When I went to the country with His Royal Highness Liu Xiu to move troops out of the country and ask the emperor for the assistance of the Shadow Legion, I saw this kind of writing in the palace. ”

Tuoba Hong's face changed slightly, but he still maintained a gentle smile on his face, and said:

"General Wang has a heart."

After saying that, he continued to walk in the direction of the carriage without stopping.

Wang Huaiyi glanced at him, his eyes flashed, and he said to Tuoba Hong: "The palace of the country is magnificent, but the Wanyan family mansion is not far behind, His Royal Highness once said a word to a certain person on this matter, I don't know if the patriarch wants to hear it?" ”

When Tuoba Hong heard the word "His Royal Highness", his footsteps couldn't help but slow down, he turned his head to look at Wang Huaiyi, arched his hand and said, "Then there is General Lao Wang." ”

Wang Huaiyi's eyes flashed, and he suddenly lowered his voice and said: "What His Highness said, a certain person has already engraved it on the tree in front of him, if the patriarch is interested, you can go and take a look." ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly paused, with a rare solemn look on his face, and said in a low voice: "These words are written in the secret language of the Tuoba family, even if Lord Wanyan sees it, he can't recognize it." ”

After speaking, he laughed, patted his head, and said apologetically to Tuoba Hong:

"I'm really sorry, patriarch, I just remembered that Lord Yan explained that I haven't done some things yet, I have to do it immediately, I can't continue to walk with you, and I hope to forgive my sins!"

Tuoba Hong smiled slightly, nodded and replied: "Then the old decay will take the first step, and don't pass by!" ”

Wang Huaiyi arched his hand and replied loudly: "Patriarch, please." ”

Tuoba Hong smiled in return, then turned around and walked slowly straight to the place where the carriage was parked not far away, without even looking at the big trees.

Wang Huaiyi watched Tuoba Hong leave, his eyes flashed, showing appreciation, and then turned around and walked away quickly.

Behind him, not far away, in the dark, a figure flashed by—

Today's wind is strong, the yellow sand is pervasive, look up, only to see the sky is dark, covering the sky and the sun, and I can't see the original appearance of the sky overhead.

There were few pedestrians on the road, and it was supposed to be a time for carriages and horses to gallop, but a carriage was slowly driving out from the direction of the General's Mansion.

What came out was the "foreign patriarch" who took refuge in Yan Shuo from the village - Tuoba Hong.

He sat in the carriage, pulled the curtain on the right side, and squinted slightly at the Dingbian City that passed backwards.

After decades here, it's the first time I've taken a closer look at the city.

I don't know how long I'll be able to stay here.

He sighed softly and shook his head, but no matter what, he couldn't shake off the things that Liu Xiu had sent someone to carve on the trees in his mind.

What exactly is written on it?

He suddenly smiled bitterly, and laughed at himself in his heart: "I didn't expect to be led by the nose by a person thousands of miles away, it's really a joke, if Liu Xiu can really master the thousand-year-old secret language of the Tuoba family, I can't stay out of it and sit idly by." ”

Thinking of this, he glanced south, and as far as his line of sight could reach, in the south of the Han Kingdom, the people sitting in the palace, what else did they think?

Have they ever known that their centuries-old layout could be ruined by an ambitious young man?

He sighed leisurely, and then looked at the street on the right, looking at the occasional pedestrian or two passing by on the road, and his heart moved, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

Commoners! What do they want?

I searched for decades, but I didn't get an answer in the end.

Maybe they just want to live.

He shook his head, collected his thoughts, and looked at the majestic Yannan city in front of him with peace of mind.

Dingbian City can be called the throat of the Yan Kingdom, is the first barrier to prevent the defense of the country from going north, is the military town of the Yan Empire, is a wide road, but there are many twists and turns on the road, in case the city is broken, the defenders fight in the street, resist the city and can avoid in a roundabout way.

Due to the perennial wind and sand in the Yan Kingdom, especially in the north, there are large areas of wilderness, so there are not many big cities, and Dingbian is the second largest city after the capital city of Broken Leaves.

The second is the central city defense town, Zhongliang and Yaonan.

Although it is a border city with a focus on defense, because of its special geographical location and the scale of the city, even if it is perennially windy and sandy, it is still popular and prosperous.

Thinking of this, Tuoba Hong's brows furrowed slightly, this is also a city that is drunk and golden.

Here, in the city that is defended to the death by the soldiers who defend the city, in many mansion compounds, there are countless power and money transactions, and there is darkness in it, and the people at the bottom cannot see a little light.

Just like the big cities I passed through back then, there are even the capitals of the country that have been forgotten in the corner by the mainland.

Even now, Dingbian City, which once belonged to the Yan Empire for hundreds of years, has not changed much after it was occupied by the Nanban, who was despised by the magnates in those mansions.

The magnates are still high up, holding beautiful women in their arms and enjoying a qiē, but not far from their doors, there are many poor people wrapped in yellow sand, caries.

The world never seems to have changed.

The so-called struggle for hegemony and seizure of the country will not make this city, this country, and this whole land change its owner.

He took a deep breath, and suddenly a sense of powerlessness flooded over his limbs, and the confusion that had been pressing on his heart for decades was all released in an instant.

Do you want to find a place to live in seclusion for the rest of your life, as you did decades ago?

He looked down and sighed, a rare look of exhaustion on his face, and his eyes flashed blank as he looked out the window.

The sound of wheels on the bluestone slabs rang in his ears, and he shook his head, just about to withdraw his gaze and lower the curtain, but he caught a glimpse of the trees planted by the roadside.

His eyes flashed, he smiled slightly, and lowered the curtains.

The carriage picked up speed and sped through the sparsely populated streets.

A piece of yellow sand flew. R1058