In the spring of the fourth year of Tiansheng, in Lin'an City, the capital of the Song Kingdom, there was a Zhumen compound surnamed Lin, and the cry of a newborn baby suddenly came.

The immature but loud cry lasted only a short time, and then fell silent.

However, if you are not a delicate person, I am afraid that you will not be able to hear something strange from it, the first time you hear it is the joy and comfort of a newborn baby, and then you hear that pure voice mixed with a few strange howls, like a fox and a wolf, quite weird.

"Congratulations, master, the eldest lady has given birth to a little young master!" The midwife Liu was full of joy, holding a soft ball of things in her hand, and handed it to the Lin family master Lin Wenyuan, who was sitting in the Taishi chair outside the door.

When the old man of the Lin family heard this, he was overjoyed, and immediately stood up tremblingly, raised his hand to take the pink and round baby, and the old tears flowed.

"The sky has eyes, and my Lin family will have a queen after all......"

The capital Lin'an Fu Jialin clan has been in the business world for many years, and has opened a wide range of shops, including cultural toys, jade, brocade silk, etc. The accumulation of countless family properties, wealth and nobility, a while ago it was a meritorious tribute to the dynasty, the emperor rewarded heavily, and the scenery was unparalleled.

But helplessly, although the Lin family is full of wealth, the people are withering, and by Lin Wenyuan's generation, it has been three generations.

In order to have more heirs, Master Lin married the Zhang family, who was also a businessman, and at the same time, he successively accepted five concubines, in order to sow more seeds and blossom all over the place.

Why, everything seems to have its own fixed number in the dark, it seems that the waist and buttocks are all good to give birth to the main house Zhang Niang, who has not been pregnant for many years, and the rest of the concubines also seem to have a common disease, all of them are delicate and delicate like water, slim and elegant, how can the old man throw rain and dew in every way, he just refuses to have a big belly.

Seeing that the old man of the Lin family is already in his early fifties, he will be unable to do anything, everything will be overwhelmed, who will want to have a spring event, the iron tree will bloom, and the main house Zhang is pregnant......

No one in Lin'an City knows about the Shang Jia Lin family, and they all praise the eldest lady of the Zhang family for being an old clam and a pearl, and at the same time, they also secretly envy the old man of the Lin family, and there are successors to his rich net worth.

However, there are unforeseen circumstances, and the days when the old man of the Lin family was satisfied were just a few days later, and all of a sudden, there was a sudden change.

In the late spring, the flowers bloom to the top, but the Lin family's compound is a terrifying scene, with full armor on the body, the fierce and vicious Praetorian Guards, who have caught more than 100 people up and down in the mansion to the courtyard.

"Kill me!

With the order of Xu Linpu, the deputy commander of the Praetorian Guard, there was a sensational click and bone sound in the Lin family's compound, which was the sound of the sword slashing behind the person's neck, it was the sound of the person's head being taken off and falling to the ground and rolling, and for a while, this place had become Shura Hell.

With the killing, more and more thick blood began to flow slowly towards the side of the mansion along the lines of the bluestone road in the courtyard, flowing through the gaps in the vermilion gate, and slowly flowing to the street in front of the door......

"Deputy Commander Xu, there is no housekeeper in the house among the people who have been sentenced, and the little baby has not been found!" The guard, who was in charge of counting the number of people, suddenly ran over and said.

Xu Linpu's face suddenly sank, "Since this is the case, what are you hesitating about, give me all the strength to search, and I must not miss a person!"

When the guards heard this, they gathered their spirits even more and searched carefully around the house.

After about a stick of incense, a guard finally found the housekeeper who wanted to climb the high wall to escape, but unfortunately fell down and lost half his life in the corner of the remote backyard and in the woods.

"Say, where did you hide the baby?" Xu Linpu put the sword in his hand against the man's neck and asked in a cold voice.

"Little, the little master was thrown out of the wall by me a long time ago......" said the somewhat delirious and bloodied butler, crawling on the ground.

Thrown out? When the guards heard this, they all looked up at the building, which was not much shorter than the walls of the palace.

Not only did they secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

"Looks like you're not very smart...... Vice-Commander of the Praetorian Guard said sarcastically, looking at the man with the corners of his mouth.

"Yes, but it's better than dying by the sword of your people, in case, what if......"

"In my hands, there is no case!" With this cold snort, Xu Linpu raised his sword and fell, killing the last servant in this Lin Mansion.

The housekeeper died, and the guards who checked outside the courtyard wall did not find any children except for some fresh blood stains on the ground, even so, as the deputy commander of the guards who was responsible for carrying out the task of raiding and killing the house, he did not show much worry.

If such a high wall is thrown out like that, the child is probably a waste if he doesn't die......

Fifteen years have passed in the blink of an eye, and this one of the rare things in the capital that was used as a storyteller and I don't know how many times it has been turned over, after countless years of washing, it began to be gradually forgotten, so that few people will mention it now.

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The small town called Yuancheng on the western border of the Song Kingdom is particularly lively today.

The only street was lined with eager frontier people, all of whom stood on both sides of the road with some excitement, their eyes all looking in the same direction, which was the way to go and fight the barbarians of the wasteland who had just disturbed the people, and the victorious Imperial guards who had returned from the frontier.

Originally, it was not uncommon for the border army to resist the barbarians of the wasteland who were disturbing the people and trying to burn and plunder and teach them a lesson, but this time it was different from the past, and I heard that among the bandits who came to harass and invaded this time was His Royal Highness the prince of the wasteland country.

And it has been taken by the border army, and I heard that it will be escorted back to the camp today.

This news made the border people of the small town who may not see the nobles for the rest of their lives suddenly have great interest, how can His Royal Highness the Prince of a country be entangled with bandits?

What kind of strange person is this, so curious, they came to the roadside to try to see the demeanor of the world.

While waiting, there was a middle-aged man in a coarse cloth robe on the side of the road, chatting with his companion next to him with interest.

"You say how can the little prince of the Yue Kingdom lead people to harass the border of our Great Song Kingdom? Does this mean to provoke an all-out war between the two countries?"

"Who knows, but I heard that His Royal Highness the Prince is only fourteen or fifteen years old, and he is not proficient in martial arts, and he has not grown up, how can the king of the Yue Turk Kingdom be such a shrewd person, how could he be sent to fight directly with our Song army?

"Well, that sounds like there is some truth in this......" The man nodded straight after hearing this, but he seemed to think of something again, and retorted: "It's not right, who said that a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy can't do anything, that Zhang Xiaoxian in our border army is also that old, and now he can't become the nemesis of the barbarians!"

As soon as the words fell, for some reason, the man who had been standing next to him and listening to him all the time actually shivered excitedly, turned his head sharply and glared at the other party, and said in a loud voice: "Good and dignified, what are you doing with him!"

The disgusted person was stunned at first, and then his expression was a little strange, and he shrank back and whispered: "I didn't mean to mention that little bastard, but somehow I said it casually......"

The conversation between the two men came to an abrupt end, and then they continued to stare in silence ahead with their own thoughts.

A long time passed, and finally from the far driveway, there was the sound of horses' hooves and the squeaking of cars crushing against the potholed road.

"Look, they're coming!"

I don't know who it is, pointing to the border army slowly coming in the distance, and shouted.

This is a team of about 100 horses, all of them are lightly armoured and armed, and although they all look tired, the domineering momentum of returning victorious is obvious.

At the front of the procession was the standard-bearer, a black flag trimmed with gold with a large character written on it.

There is no need to ask the border residents of Yuancheng Town to know that this time it must be the soldiers personally led by Chu Zhihuai, the captain of Zhaowu Colonel stationed here.

While the border people, who had a clear purpose to see the excitement, were happy in their hearts to be free from being harassed by the barbarian bandits once again, almost all of them gathered their eyes on the mysterious black carriage that seemed to be walking fast, but steady, and impermeable.

Inside this car should be His Royal Highness the barbarian prince who was captured alive, but it was wrapped so tightly that the border people who wanted to see the true face of this unlucky prince were greatly disappointed.

"Hey, you've been captured alive, what are you still hiding, quickly open the curtain, let's see what you look like......"

There were the bold border people, shouting loudly towards the carriage, expressing their curiosity and dissatisfaction.

When everyone heard this, they all echoed in unison, and the party suddenly became noisy.

Captain Zhaowu of the border army, who was sitting firmly on horseback in a posture and showing a slightly happy face, saw the excitement of the crowd at this time, and not only frowned slightly.

Immediately, the cheek with a hard shell twitched a few times subconsciously, and he didn't know what to curse in his mouth.

Yueju, the country of the wasteland, a magical country that I think is very good, but in the eyes of the Song Kingdom and other countries, it is a bit stupid.

A wasteland country where resources are very poor, and it believes that it is strong for nothing, and is envious of the abundance of materials in its neighbors, and it wants a piece of soup from others all the time.

If it weren't for the Song soldiers stationed here led by Chu Zhihuai, who were iron-blooded and did not give an inch, maybe the lucky Yue Turkic army would have started a large-scale invasion long ago.

This sneak attack and plundering was only one of countless encounters, and the news had already been secretly transmitted back by an informant from the Song State beforehand.

It's just that what the leader Chu Zhihuai didn't expect was that this interception didn't take much effort, and the Yue Turks who pretended to be bandits were defeated and retreated.

What he didn't expect was that the little soldier under his command, who gave him the most helpless headache, and the young man who looked like an ordinary civilian who was inadvertently captured, turned out to be the youngest son of the old monarch of the Yue Turkic State, Ruan Van Cang, Ruan Che.

It's just an ordinary bandit, and he was able to capture the little prince of the neighboring country, which made Chu Zhihuai, who has always been shrewd and cautious, feel that things are not simple.

The secret report to the military department has already been issued, and it is only necessary to wait for the above to know the situation, and give an accurate message, whether to keep it or to let it go, and to do it.

It's just that now, this young man, has become a hot potato in his hand, which cannot be beaten or killed, and has become a "baby" who makes his subordinates detain in the name of custody, but in fact, they are enjoying the protection of everyone.

Thinking of this, Chu Zhihuai couldn't help but spit to the side angrily to show his displeasure.

The team had already traveled most of the way on the only road in this town, and the lively border people on both sides saw the busy carriage running in front of them, but they could not see a trace of the prince there, and they couldn't help but rub their hands in annoyance and complain.

At this moment, in the midst of the crowd watching the excitement on the road, two half-grown children suddenly looked at the border army in front of the car and did not pay attention to it.

So he hurried to the chariot, and stretched out his hand to tear open the hanging curtain, intending to see what kind of person was in it.

But before they stretched out their hands excitedly, the border troops of the two boxes, who had already taken precautions and reacted quickly, rushed up to stop them.

"What do you want to do, stinky boy!

The two bear children were stunned for a moment, and were hesitating whether to retreat obediently like this, or to take a risk, as long as they opened a gap in the curtain, they would definitely see what they wanted to see.

At this moment, the window of the half-stopped carriage suddenly moved, and a man's head came out of it.

When the two and a half children who were trying to struggle raised their eyes, they suddenly froze there, and the lively border people on both sides of the road gradually changed from the noise at the beginning to a lot quieter.

At this time, the two border soldiers vigilantly pushed the two of them to the side of the road with the back of their knives, and the two children each glanced at each other with blue faces, and they turned around and quickly disappeared into the crowd, and soon disappeared.

The head that emerged from the carriage, after looking around a few times, slowly retracted, the curtain of the carriage was still lowered, and the carriage moved forward as usual, but the border people on both sides were no longer so casual, and when they saw the car going away from themselves, they whispered to someone next to them.

In the carriage, Xiao Shizi, who was served by an ordinary Yue Turk and had a pale face, keenly felt that the current situation was different from before, and the bustling and noisy crowd suddenly became less noisy and a little quieter?

After looking at the young man beside him with a clear eyebrow, he closed his eyes all the way and recuperated until he went out to check the situation.

Curious, he tried to lift the corner of the curtain to see what was going on outside.

"I'd advise you not to move, Your Highness!" said the unruly young soldier of his age.

"Unless you want to get yourself in trouble......!

"How do you know someone is going to plot against me, I ......"

"I don't know," the young soldier glanced at him with a pair of sharp eyes with some purity, and said calmly, "And I don't want to know, it was my boss's order to escort you to the camp safely, I just want to do it well, and I don't have any interest in anything else!"

The young soldier said, adjusted the hand knife in his hand, which looked extremely thin but extremely sharp, and the handle of the knife had been sharpened, and closed his eyes again, leaning on the carriage and closing his eyes to recuperate.

Xiao Shizi's face became more and more ugly, he smiled bitterly, and looked at the person helplessly: "I feel that there are still a lot of people outside, but suddenly it became a little quiet, is it because you just showed your face? People here are very jealous of you?"

After hearing this, the young soldier still didn't open his eyes, but replied in a lazy tone: "As a prisoner, you must have the consciousness of being a prisoner, even if you are His Royal Highness the Prince of the Yue Kingdom, so don't ask anything you don't need." ”

"So, what if I ask you what's your name?

"My name is Zhang Xiaoxian!" this time the young soldier did not refuse, and replied directly.

"My name is Yuan Che, and we will know each other from now on!" Xiao Shizi, whose face was still slightly pale, calmly looked at Zhang Xiaoxian beside him and said.

"Good!" replied the young soldier without opening his eyes.