Chapter 22: The Beginning of the Storm

For five months, Midnight spent five months of carefree fun with this group of brothers.

After Jiang Shang taught the entry-level rejuvenation in midnight, he should have become an uncle-level figure who only eats and does not work every day. In fact, in the middle of the night, they were really embarrassed to let a seventy-year-old man go to plow the fields or catch wild beasts with them, remembering the legend of Jiang Taiweng's fishing, Midnight simply found a fishing rod for Jiang Shang, and let him sit by the river every day to fish. Of course, the hook must be bent so that they can still drink fresh fish soup every night.

One day Yeyu found a wooden stick in the village and practiced a Shura gun, which attracted bursts of applause from a group of boys in Luofeng Village, and under their admiring gaze, Yeyu actually formed a small spearman team in Luofeng Village, and conducted special training for them for three hours every day.

On the first day of organizing them, Night Whisper pointed to the house behind him and said, "See, that's your home!" Our Luofeng Village is sandwiched between the Shang Dynasty and the Qiang Dynasty, becoming a three-regardless zone. The Shang army is a little better, if the Qiang knights rush here, your relatives must rely on you to resist the enemy in order to escape to the mountains, do you still have a way out? Can you still run away? It doesn't matter if you hold back and be cut in two by the enemy, but your family will be killed! Your sisters and lovers, even your mothers, will become poor worms that keep moaning and wailing under the bodies of those Qiang beasts! There is only one end for them, and that is to be annihilated to death!! ”

There was silence all around, and a blazing flame rose from the eyes of all the teenagers. Ye Yu narrowed her eyes, stared coldly at the children in front of her, and said, "Remember, I trained you, not to play boring games with you!" A man, if he wants to protect his family and his peaceful life, must have enough strength to make the enemy pay the heaviest price, and beat them so thoroughly that his heart beats when he hears your voice! Now you garbage in the garbage, the only thing you can do is to practice and practice with me! Drain every drop of sweat in your body, squeeze out every ounce of strength in your body! If you can't support it, just go home for me and hide in my mother's arms to be your good baby! ”

It is said that during training, none of the women in the village dared to go to the village square, and the mothers of those children would be terrified when they heard Yeyu's roar.

Every day, these children were beaten to the ground, and Midnight generously provided them with enough nutrients and protein supplements, while taking the opportunity to practice his introductory rejuvenation technique. The wounds were healed and healed, and the injuries were healed and then the injuries were healed, and in the past few months, none of the 34 teenagers had withdrawn from training! Later, when I walked through the square in the middle of the night, I saw these thirty-four teenagers, lined up in a neat phalanx of spearmen, sweating like rain and stabbing the wooden guns in their hands, and I also felt terrified. In just five months, this group of teenagers has a tacit understanding and sense of oppression in team combat.

As for Yang Huai, he is even more mysterious every day, either he is locked in a newly built thatched hut for a few days and does not eat or drink, or he takes a large piece of barbecue and does not see anyone for a few days. Asked him what he was doing at midnight, Yang Huai always smiled and replied, "I'm looking for my way home!" ”

Time is like a shuttle of light, passing quickly.

When Midnight and Evil came back to Luofeng Village one afternoon, carrying the prey they had hunted from the mountains, he saw more than a dozen fast horses and more than a dozen soldiers with weapons.

They were all wearing Shang Dynasty military uniforms, and one of the team leaders was wearing a bronze chest guard, which was already a symbol of status and honor in the Shang Dynasty, where the smelting industry was not developed. Although Midnight didn't know what official position the two blood-red feathers on the leader's helmet represented, he carried a five-foot-long thunder pattern knife around his waist. In the middle of the night, I saw this weapon in the national first-class cultural relics museum, and the staff told them at that time that this was a standard weapon that only the commander and above of the Shang Dynasty army were qualified to wear!

These dozen or so soldiers had obviously traveled a long way, whether it was their armor or mounts, they were covered with mud, and everyone had a tired look on their bodies, even after entering Luofeng Village, their right hands were still tightly holding their weapons, and they were vigilantly looking around, as if they were afraid that a group of enemies would jump out of somewhere and kill them.

The squadron leader took out a token made of bronze from his bosom and said, "I'm Dong Bohou sit down Squadron Leader Feng Feng, I am ordered by the army to recruit soldiers, and the men in your village between the ages of fourteen and fifty-five, as long as they are not disabled or sick, they must follow me!" ”

The village chief had never seen such a big officer as a squadron leader in his life, he didn't even dare to raise his head, and when he heard Su Feng's order, he said in a trembling voice: "Even a fourteen-year-old child and a fifty-five-year-old man have to be conscripted into the army?" ”

Midnight sighed secretly in his heart, fifty copper can only buy fifty baked cakes, not even a wolf skin, in the eyes of those dignitaries, the lives of these civilians are so low. And the scope of this conscription is to almost wipe out all the men in Luofeng Village, even the 14-year-old child and the 55-year-old man.

Feng Feng raised the roster made of bamboo slips in his hand, and named them one by one, the seventeen-year-old evil came, of course, he was also on the roster, and he was also past the age of enlistment!

Evil came to be led in front of Feng Feng, and seeing that he happily stretched out his hand and took fifty copper to buy money, Midnight sighed and walked over slowly.

Yu Feng glanced at Midnight, and when he saw Midnight's Ying Stand, which was far beyond ordinary people, he couldn't help but have a look of surprise flashing in his eyes. In this day and age, there are very few people who are six feet tall.

"What's your name?"

"Proud Night!"

Feng flipped through the roster of Luofeng Village and said suspiciously: "Why is there no your name on it?" ”

Midnight pointed at the evil and said, "I am his brother-in-law and his third brother!" ”

Su Feng nodded slightly, and a quartermaster-looking soldier next to him immediately stuffed a string of copper coins in his hand in the middle of the night. He patted Midnight's strong body enviously, and said: "Work hard, with your body, you can participate in the selection with a little training, if you are selected as the personal guard of the waiting master, not only can you live longer than others, but it is also easier to make meritorious contributions and get a half-official position." Maybe it won't be long before I salute you and call you sir! ”

Yang Huai also walked up to Feng and stood side by side with Midnight, stretched out his hand to the quartermaster, and said, "My name is Yang Huai, bring me my life money!" ”

"Your name isn't on the roster either!"

Yang Huai looked at Midnight and said, "I'm his brother!" ”

Midnight whispered, "Thanks, brother! ”

Brother, he's calling me brother!

A warm current rose in Yang Huai's heart, he grabbed Midnight's hand and said, "On the battlefield, I am the most reliable shield behind you, third brother!" Believe me, this time I will definitely not back down again, let alone let you face the enemy's weapons alone!! ”

"Don't forget, there's me!"

Ye Yu strode up to Midnight and said proudly: "On the battlefield, I am the sharpest sword in your hand!" Whoever wants to hurt you must first let me break the sword!! ”

"They are both shields and swords, and my old fellow is seventy years old, how can I have the strength to lift such a heavy weapon?" Jiang Shang squeezed in front of Midnight and said pitifully: "In this way, let me be the medicine box in your hand, okay?" ”

Midnight gently rubbed his nose, I don't know why, it turned out to be so sour.

An arm wrapped around Midnight from behind, although gentle, but locked Midnight tightly, and laid a love lock on him that he couldn't break for the rest of his life. Xiu'er said softly: "I'm nothing, I'm just Midnight's wife!" ”

A few tears soaked Midnight's clothes, and the warm touch slowly burned into Midnight's deepest heart. Xiu'er pressed her face tightly against Midnight's broad back, she listened to Midnight's powerful heartbeat, she struggled to absorb the warmth that this man passed on to her, Xiu'er sobbed: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" I know you didn't need to go to war, and I know you went and received fifty copper for the sake of evil, but I beg you...... Don't leave me behind, okay?! ”

"I don't want to watch you enter the army like this, and I don't want to wake up from nightmares every day! I know that I have already followed you in this life, I will live if you are born, and I will die if you die! I know that I can't take up arms to kill the enemy like you, and I don't have Brother Jiang's magical spells, I'm just an ordinary little woman, but I can be a husband, I know a little about herbs, and I can also help Brother Jiang go to treat the wounded soldiers. ”

Xiu'er finally couldn't help crying: "I just want you to remember that there is still a pair of eyes behind you, and the moment you fall on the battlefield, it is when your little woman commits suicide with a sword!" You die, I die! You are born, I am born! So, for my sake, you must live well every day! You must come off the battlefield alive!! Even if you are crippled, blind, deaf and dumb, I only want you to return to me alive!! ”

The tears in Xiu'er's eyes gushed out wildly, instantly soaking a large piece of clothes behind Midnight, that kind of desperate crying, that kind of finger-twisting tenderness from the deepest part of the heart, the unwilling and unyielding blood in Midnight's body, burning and boiling his painful sourness little by little!

It was only at this time that Midnight suddenly understood that he had integrated into this century and was inextricably linked to this troubled era that was bound to come! He can no longer use the standpoint of a bystander to evaluate the time and space of this history, and he can no longer choose his life with the mentality of traveling in the world!

Because he already has a home, he already has his most beloved woman!

Xiu'er is his woman, she can live for him, die for him, rejoice for him, grieve for him, in the vast red dust, how fortunate is he to meet such a wife?

He hugged Xiu'er tightly, and his strength was continuously channeled into her too thin body. Looking at the group of sworn brothers standing around him, he felt their unreserved support, and absorbed the warmth and strength of friendship. In the middle of the night, he only felt a scorching flame in his chest burning more and more, burning so much that he only wanted to laugh out loud three times, and it burned so much that he just wanted to sing and cry.

Happy, so fucking happy! Life is a lifetime of grass and trees, a wife is like this, a friend is like this, what is the regret that he died proudly at night? !

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts to the heart! The sorrow of being born in troubled times, the sorrow of not being able to protect one's own woman, burned so much that my heart hurt in the middle of the night!

Midnight suddenly burst out laughing, he laughed and cried at the same time, he shook off the tears from the corners of his eyes, and screamed: "Who said that Lao Tzu would die in this ghost place?" Who am I, I'm the most funny, known as the proud night of the Nine Lives Demon Cat! Isn't it just going to the battlefield, who wouldn't raise a knife to cut someone? Isn't it just that I was born in troubled times, I can't protect my own woman, why am I proud of the middle of the night, and why should I be a fucking man?! ”

Midnight laughed out loud almost madly, even he didn't understand why there was such a heart-wrenching pain in the depths of his heart, why there was a vague shadow in his heart, constantly floating in his heart, no matter how hard he thought about it, how hard he tried to remember, but in his mind was blank, all he could capture was ...... Pain!

In his life, it seems that one of the most precious things has ever been lost!

Midnight hugged Xiu'er tightly with his left arm, and dragged the evil with his right arm, he glared at Feng Feng and said: "Lao Tzu doesn't care about anything, either let us all be soldiers, or you don't want to take any of them away!" ”

……

That night, in front of almost all the thatched huts in Luofeng Village, a branch of wormwood with a faint fragrance was hung. The whole village was immersed in an atmosphere of sadness, and there were weepings full of sadness everywhere.

Midnight brought Xiu'er and Evil to send the animal skins and bacon they had accumulated in the past year to every house in Luofeng Village from house to house, and they no longer needed these things.

Nightwhisper heard a suppressed cry of a boy, and she walked out of the room to see a boy she had trained squatting outside the courtyard wall.

Yeyu asked, "Kuroko, why don't you go home and say goodbye to your family, but hide here and cry?" ”

"I'm going to war!" Kuroko raised his teary-eyed face and said in a low voice: "But I don't have a family, I don't even have a person to see me off!" ”

Yeyu led Kuroko to her room, and according to the tradition of Luofeng Village, she sent wormwood to Kuroko, and whispered: "You have to remember this taste well, if...... If you do die on the battlefield, you must find this familiar taste, and then follow this flavor, find your own home! ”

Yeyu hung the wormwood on her doorway, she stroked Kuroko's short hair, and said softly, "Remember, from now on, this is your home!" ”

Kuroko threw herself into Yeyu's arms and cried loudly, Yeyu patted Kuroko's shoulder comfortingly, she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, in a war that swept the whole land, how small a person's life looks!

At dawn, more than 150 men from the village who were to be conscripted into the army gathered in the square. Among them were fourteen-year-old children and old men with gray beards.

Yu Feng glanced at the woman who saw him off, and said, "Let's go, we have to walk more than 130 miles of mountain roads today." If you can't get to the barracks before dark, camping in the field is easy to be attacked by the Qiang rangers. ”

Walking out of Luofeng Village with almost all the strong laborers of Luofeng Village, there were bursts of crying behind him, and Su Feng whispered in his heart: "I'm sorry!" ”

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