Not far from the remote town of Yuancheng, there is a small mound, under which there is a row of simple huts made of stones and yellow mud, and some fences are enclosed around the huts, barely forming several courtyards.

Wisps of smoke had risen from the small courtyard to the east, and it was already dusk, and the little soldiers in the camp should be returning soon.

"Ahem...... Ahem!" Suddenly there was a coughing sound in the small courtyard, and then from a low small kitchen on the side, a man escaped, a young man in a wheelchair, dressed in a coarse white shirt, weak and delicate, and his slightly childish face was a little red from the smoke that was still coming out.

He coughed heavily, and his breathing became so laborious that his entire upper body slumped.

"Why are you disobedient, I said, it's good to wait for me to come back to cook the meal, why don't you listen!" With the creak of the wooden door of the small courtyard, Zhang Xiaoxian, who was dressed as a soldier, strode in, and when he saw this scene, he hurriedly stepped forward and slapped the man's back while saying urgently.

"I just thought that when you came back, you would have a hot meal right away, but I was so useless. The young man, who looked about the same age as Zhang Xiaoxian, explained in a dumb voice.

"Zhang Linzi, what kind of frustrating words did you say, if you say this again, don't think about it, let me call you brother in the future. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Xiaoxian pushed the man in the wheelchair away from the smoke, and turned into the small kitchen that could only accommodate one person.

The smoke finally faded, and the breeze blew up to the roof, and then disappeared into the sky.

"I finished the game I hunted a few days ago, it seems that I have to go to Nawu Mountain in the next few days, and this time I will catch more prey and come back......" In the small kitchen, Zhang Xiaoxian's voice came.

"By the way, what did you do today besides reading, and did Aunt Zhang next door come over to help you?"

"I watched "Huangshi Gong Sanlu" for a long time today, and Aunt Zhang came over to wash the clothes we changed last day......

The two of them were questioning and answering, intentionally or unintentionally, without any special emotions, and at first glance it was a daily routine.

"I think you can spend less time reading those military books in the future, and read more medical books like "Jin Kui Yaolu" or something. Zhang Xiaoxian said casually.

Qingjun wheelchair boy didn't answer this time, but lowered his eyes slightly, and after a moment of silence, he changed the topic and asked: "I heard Aunt Zhang say today that there is a big movement in your camp, and it is said that someone is trying to rob the little prince of Yue Que Kingdom, but is it true?"

Zhang Xiaoxian nodded as he flipped the radish strips with a little oil and water in the pot, as if he could see it from the person outside the humble kitchen.

"There was no danger, those guys who didn't think they were able to do it on the spot. Zhang Xiaoxian said very calmly.

"Is it from the Yue Que Kingdom?" the wheelchair boy then asked.

"It looks like it's dressed, but it's ......" Zhang Xiaoxian hesitated a little, and did not continue on this topic, but quickly put the spicy radish strips that had been fried in the big iron pot into the bowl, and said in a loud voice: "The dish is ready, let's eat!"

The night fell on this remote town, the breeze blew, the sky was full of stars, the indescribable loneliness was leisurely, Zhang Xiaoxian practiced the knife technique several times in the courtyard according to the habit, and then simply washed, and saw that Zhang Linzi may be tired of reading, and has rested on the bed against the wall in a corner, yawning occasionally, as if he was about to fall asleep.

He yawned too, and lay down on another simple couch near the window, with only a plank and a thin mattress underneath.

The starlight outside the window seemed to favor this young man very much, and the faint light of Yingying projected down was reflected on his immature face, which was a little domineering in his daily life, but at this time, it was a young face with a lot of pure energy.

Zhang Xiaoxian lost sleep tonight, of course, not because he was bored today, on the contrary, when he encountered someone raiding the camp this time, trying to save the prince of the Yue Dynasty, it was he who keenly discovered the strangeness of those Song soldiers who were born first.

The people of the Yue Turk country who disguised themselves to carry out the sneak attack were very skilled and ruthless, but their misfortune was that they miscalculated their opponents, just like the people in the Yue Turkic country always thought that every victory of the Song generals was just a fluke, rather than really having some kind of terrible strength.

After the identity was revealed, the fierce offensive and the momentum of the Yue Turkic warriors did not change the established situation, and the soldiers of the Song State, who had been through a hundred battles, did not seem to be afraid of this kind of life-and-death fight, especially the young man among them who was as ruthless as a tiger and wolf, and had some evil nature.

Therefore, those self-righteous Turkic dead soldiers did not escape the end of being surrounded and beheaded in front of the military camp tent on the border of the Song State.

Zhang Xiaoxian was not sleepy at this time, not because of this fight, which was commonplace for a man who was often in a state of fighting from time to time in the side plug.

Of course, it wasn't because Zhaowu Captain Chu Zhihuai recruited him into his tent afterwards, and praised him for the first time.

Zhang Xiaoxian knew in his heart that Chu Zhihuai, a boss with a cold face and a warm heart, who was extremely reluctant to express any emotions, although he had always been in the army from time to time, and even around him to cause trouble, stubborn, and would give him a headache after a while, he was both appreciative and angry, but he couldn't bear to be punished.

So much so that the people under the tent left the Zhaowu Captain extremely strict, but only the soldier Zhang Xiaoxian was spoiled and connived.

In this regard, Zhang Xiaoxian, who is a little cunning in his cleverness, knows it.

What shocked him so much that he couldn't sleep tonight was what Chu Zhihuai said to himself later......

"Boy, to tell you the truth, the military department has just come to the order, let us send this little prince to the capital safely, pay attention to whether it is sent or not escorted, which means that this person must be taken care of on the way from the side to the capital, and there can be no slightest mistake......"

"So, you thought of me? Do you want me to do this thankless errand?" Zhang Xiaoxian tilted his head to look at Chu Zhihuai, and asked with some resistance.

"How can it be thankless, you have a merit in capturing the thief, and if you can successfully escort this prince to the capital safely, the military department will definitely have a reward, you don't suffer!" Chu Zhihuai persuaded bitterly.

Who knew that the corners of Zhang Xiaoxian's mouth twitched when he heard this, and he retorted in a nonchalant tone: "For a small reward, for a captured foreign son, and then put your own little life on the line, I feel that it is a big loss." ”

"It's just going to the capital, it's not as serious as you said......" Chu Zhihuai touched his head, which no longer had much hair, and said.

After hearing this, Zhang Xiaoxian stepped forward and put a hand on his boss's shoulder without manners, and said with a smile: "I said Lao Chu, someone tried to rescue people a few days ago, have you forgotten that those people are not ordinary people, and besides, this little prince is also very eccentric, how did the son of a dignified Yue Turkic monarch get involved in the gang of bandits, and deliberately let me be arrested, and then came to save people in a fake way, I bah!" Those few dead soldiers of the Yue Turkic country who came to save people, although their skills are okay, but this is the camp of our border army, which is heavily guarded, if you really come to save people, you have to send a few people with great cultivation to come over, that is the right way, according to me, it is obviously deceitful!"

Chu Zhihuai listened, impatiently shook off the hand of the guy who didn't know what the boss was in awe of, from his shoulder, and reprimanded: "Whether there is fraud or not, the court has its own distinction, you just need to send people to the capital safely, you don't have to worry about the rest!"

"No, you better arrange for someone else's job. ”

"Must go! Must go!" Chu Zhihuai shouted loudly.

Zhang Xiaoxian was stunned, he had never seen this captain so strict with him.

"Xiaoxian, you have to go, that's what your dead ghost dad meant......" Chu Zhihuai said, and the look on his face suddenly became very sad.

"Before he died, he told me that when you are older, you two brothers must be sent to the capital, so that you can make a good living and live in peace. ”

Dead Daddy? Zhang Xiaoxian's heart moved slightly, he thought of the tough man who took him to hunt in the vast mountains every day to make a living, seven years ago, his dead ghost father was injured in the waist by a ferocious wild boar because of a hunt, and he didn't have time to heal well, his condition deteriorated day by day, and he dragged his body that had pus, and took him and Zhang Linzi, who was unable to move his lower body, and traveled hundreds of miles, came to this remote town, and found his previous brother Chu Zhihuai, who was on his deathbed, and he must take good care of his two hard-working sons for him。

"Your father Zhang Xingshan, and I are brothers who have died, I can't help but carry out his instructions, and a while ago I also wrote a letter to your uncle in the capital, Zhang Jiyuan, who was a doctor in the court, explaining the situation of the two of you, and it can be regarded as officially handing you over to him......" Chu Zhihuai said with a complicated expression: "The frontier land is constantly killing, and you are always in danger here, so according to your father's idea, it is only right to send you to the prosperous and peaceful place of the imperial capital to live a good life!"

"Wait, I don't understand...... Zhang Xiaoxian seemed to hear something wrong, and looked at him in surprise and asked: "Lin Zi and I have been living in this remote camp for seven or eight years, how did you think of sending us to the capital at this time, besides, it's so strange that we actually have an uncle who is a member of the fifth rank in the current dynasty, how come no one has ever told me about this? And didn't that uncle know about our existence all these years? If so, why didn't he come to look for us earlier?"

Listening to his questions and questions one after another, Chu Zhihuai waved his hand helplessly: "I don't know these questions to be honest, your dead ghost father has never told me, so I don't want to ask, just do what he said on his deathbed." ”

Zhang Xiaoxian listened, scratched his head, and stopped making a sound, but his face was still a little hesitant.