"Your Highness, dinner is ready!" Wang Dan stood outside Zhao Hao's tent and reported, because they were too anxious when they retreated, many tents were too late to put away, and they lost a lot of materials when they retreated, so that they even had a shortage of tents, and he was now crowded in a tent with Cao Commander and others, and only Zhao Hao had a tent of his own.

"Hmm!" Zhao Hao agreed, and then got out of the tent, compared to the City Lord's Mansion where he lived before, this small tent was much simpler, and even he couldn't even straighten his waist in the tent, but under the current conditions, he had nothing to be picky about, after all, compared to the Shenglong Mansion City that was flooded before, at least a dry place to sleep could be found here.

Zhao Hao and Wang Dan came to the northwest corner of this mountainside clearing, where many fires had been raised, and on the red flames stood a large cauldron with a mixture of fruits and wild vegetables, and a small amount of rice, which was also their main food every day.

Wang Dan personally gave Zhao Hao a bowl of fruit and wild vegetable rice porridge, and then he also sat next to Zhao Hao to eat with him, the entire mountain peak was arranged by them with four lines of defense, they were the last line of defense, and Cao Commander made them all responsible for a line of defense, so they were not here.

Zhao Hao looked at these colorful fruits and wild vegetables in the bowl, but his stomach kept sour, the taste of wild vegetables needless to say, there are all kinds of tastes, sweet and sour, as for the fruits, they are actually wild fruits on the trees, many of them are sour and astringent, and the taste after cooking is even stranger, Zhao Hao has been pampered since he was a child, this thing is like pig food to him.

However, although Zhao Hao couldn't eat it, Wang Dan and other soldiers next to him all ate it while it was hot, and there was no appearance that it was difficult to swallow, seeing that they ate so sweetly, it seemed that they were not eating wild vegetable porridge at all. It's about the delicacies of the mountains and the sea.

"General Wang, I really can't eat it, seeing that you eat so sweetly, I'll give you this bowl!" Zhao Hao suddenly handed the bowl in his hand to Wang Dan at this time, he really couldn't eat it, and he was also very satisfied with Wang Dan's performance. I had long wanted to attract the other party, so I handed over the bowl in my hand, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone.

Wang Dan was also stunned by Zhao Hao's actions, but he also reacted immediately, took the food handed over by Zhao Hao with a smile and said, "Thank you, Your Highness, for the reward!" ”

Wang Dan took the bowl and immediately ate it, now there is not enough food, the food per person is limited, and even Zhao Hao eats and lives with the soldiers. Not to mention him, a bowl of wild vegetable porridge is simply not enough to eat.

After dinner, Wang Dan commanded his men to arrange the defense for the night, while Zhao Hao had nothing to do but walk around the camp, and waited until it was dark before returning to his small tent, because he had not eaten anything. So he felt very hungry at this point, but he forced himself not to think about food. Close your eyes and empty your mind, and in the end I don't know when I fell asleep.

When he slept until midnight, Zhao Hao suddenly woke up from hunger, the previous hunger was uncomfortable with an empty stomach, but now it was as if someone had grabbed his stomach and rubbed it in his hands, and he felt a throbbing pain. It was the first time Zhao Hao had suffered this kind of suffering since he was a child, and coupled with his diarrhea before, his body was already very weak, and at this time, his stomach was uncomfortable, which made him sweat for a while. There was even a feeling of wanting to pass out.

But just when Zhao Hao was feeling that he was about to be tormented by the feeling of hunger and go crazy, he suddenly heard a sound of footsteps outside the tent, and then a familiar voice sounded outside: "Your Highness, have you slept?" ”

"Wang Dan?" Hearing the sound outside, Zhao Hao also got up suddenly, and couldn't understand why he came to find him in the middle of the night, but he finally replied out loud, "No, is there anything wrong with General Wang?" ”

"Your Highness Qiqi, the last general shot a leopard during his night patrol just now, and His Highness didn't have dinner today, so he specially sent a hind leg!" At this time, I only heard Wang Dan say that when they first came to this mountain peak, they could still hunt some prey, but as more and more animals were hunted, the remaining animals escaped from this mountain forest, so it was difficult to hit prey again in the past few days.

Hearing that Wang Dan actually sent him a leopard leg, Zhao Hao jumped up from the ground almost all at once, and rushed out of the tent with a look of ecstasy, and sure enough, he saw Wang Dan standing outside the tent, holding the hind leg of an animal in his hand, and there was dripping blood on it.

"Thank you General Wang for your kindness, but this king is disrespectful!" Zhao Hao saw this leopard leg and immediately spoke, not even saying a polite word, after all, he is about to starve to death now, Wang Dan's actions are simply a charcoal in the snow.

"Hehe, Your Highness, wait a minute, I'll dispose of this leopard leg, and then cook it for Your Highness before eating." Wang Dan happened to be fine, and most of the guards around Zhao Hao died in battle, and the rest were arranged by Zhao Hao to help defend in the defense line below, so there was no one around Zhao Hao to serve him, Wang Dan estimated that he would definitely not cook by himself, so he offered to help him cook.

"It's still General Wang who thinks thoughtfully, so thank you very much!" Zhao Hao is also more and more satisfied with Wang Dan, this person not only knows how to fight, but also has a very careful heart, and it is thanks to his care in the past few days that he has allowed himself to persist for so many days, so he has made up his mind in his heart that he must recruit Wang Dan to his subordinates.

At that moment, Zhao Hao and Wang Dan came to the fire outside the tent, Wang Dan asked the man to find a small pot, and personally cleaned the leopard legs and cut them into small cuts and boiled them in the basin, because there was no seasoning, not even salt, so they could only be boiled in white water, but Wang Dan picked some wild plants, there were fruits and leaves, and even tree bark, after these things were added, the meat tasted even stronger, causing Zhao Hao's saliva to flow out.

After the meat was cooked, Zhao Hao didn't care about any demeanor, and directly brought the basin to himself and ate it, although the leopard was not big, but one hind leg also had more than a dozen catties, and finally he ate nearly half of it, and then drank half a pot of broth in one go, and then put down the basin with satisfaction and said: "General Wang, your cooking skills really don't have to say, although you don't even have salt, but it is cooked very deliciously, this should be the best and delicious boiled meat I have eaten in my life." ”

"Hehe, Your Highness is serious. The last general's skills are also learned from the men in the army, where can he compare with others. Wang Dan also smiled when he heard this, in fact, he also knew that it was not that the meat he cooked was delicious, but that Zhao Hao was really hungry.

There was something in his stomach, and Zhao Hao's mood was also very happy. chatted with Wang Dan for a few moments, and then suddenly hesitated and said: "General Wang, this king's mission to appease Yuezhou this time can be said to be a complete failure, but he almost put his own life on the line, but this time has also allowed this king to learn a lot of things." ”

When he said this, he saw Zhao Hao pause for a moment and then said: "Before, this king mistakenly believed in this kind of person as a high commander, and it almost made a big mistake, but this king does not have any familiar generals in the army. I wonder if General Wang is willing to help me? ”

During the day, Zhao Hao still regretted coming to Yuezhou because of the struggle for power, but now that he has eaten enough, he feels that he has suffered so much, if he goes back with nothing, then wouldn't these hardships be in vain? In addition, he also admired Wang Dan very much, so he personally recruited the other party.

However, Wang Dan was stunned for a moment when he heard Zhao Hao's solicitation, and then a very strange expression appeared on his face. After a long while, he asked an irrelevant question: "Your Highness, do you know where the last man will be?" ”

"Huh? This one...... This king doesn't know. Zhao Hao was also stunned when he heard Wang Dan's words, he couldn't understand why Wang Dan suddenly asked this question?

"Huh. It's normal for His Highness not to know, in fact, the last general is also from the capital, and his family lives in the eastern suburbs of the capital. Wang Dan said with a smile.

"Oh? I see, no wonder I think your official language is so standard, it turns out that you are also from the capital, so we are still fellow villagers! Zhao Hao couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this. The capital of the Great Song Dynasty is Kaifeng, and the official dialect is naturally the dialect of the Kaifeng area.

For Zhao Hao's fellow villagers. Wang Dan didn't say anything, but smiled again and said: "Actually, speaking of which, the last general was from a very low background, he was a tenant in the Zhuangzi, because of an accident, his parents died, and there was only one sick grandmother left in the family. ”

"I didn't expect General Wang to have such a tragic background, but now that the general can become the commander of the army and control an army of thousands of people, he must be able to make his parents under Jiuquan feel at ease." Zhao Hao interjected again when he heard this, but he was also a little strange in his heart, because as far as he knew, Wang Dan graduated from the military academy, but with his family background, how did he enter the military academy?

"Yes, my parents would be pleased, but I owe most much to the fact that I am in the position I am in need of another person, my proprietor, who took me to my home as a servant and gave my grandmother money for her medical treatment when I was in the most dire of my need." Wang Dan said slowly at this time, and when he talked about his owner, his eyes also showed a look of gratitude.

"Good people have good rewards, General Wang can meet such a benevolent and righteous owner, maybe it is also the result of your parents knowing and bless you!" Zhao Hao spoke again, but he was even more strange in his heart, he didn't know what Wang Dan meant by this, but he couldn't interrupt.

For Zhao Hao's words, Wang Dan seemed a little indifferent, but said with a straight face again: "The owner was very good to me, allowing me to follow a general surnamed Yang to practice martial arts and write, and later the general surnamed Yang opened a military school under the guidance of the owner, and the owner saw that I was very interested in the art of war, so he sent me to the military academy, and it was this incident that made me grow from the son of a tenant to the current General Wang." ”

"A general surnamed Yang? Start a military school? When Zhao Hao heard Wang Dan's words, he also showed a stunned expression on his face, and at the same time, he vaguely guessed something in his heart.

"Hehe, speaking of which, Your Highness must have guessed that the small village where the last general was born is called Shangshuizhuang, which is the grange under the name of His Royal Highness King Yue, and I am also the servant of King Yue's family." Wang Dan saw Zhao Hao's expression, and finally showed his identity, his nickname was Erdan, Zhao Yan saw him pitiful at the beginning, so he received him as a servant in the house, and later became Yang Huaiyu's apprentice, and finally went to the military academy, and changed his name to Wang Dan, and even this name was obtained by Zhao Yan for him.

"You...... You ......" Zhao Hao pointed at Wang Dan and couldn't speak for a long time, his mind was also in a mess, he never thought that the person he fancied turned out to be Zhao Yan's domestic servant, he knew that if this was the case, he didn't bother to make this effort, but what he couldn't understand was that since the other party was Zhao Yan's person, why did he take such care of himself, and saved himself from fire and water several times?

Wang Dan seemed to see the question in Zhao Hao's heart, and immediately spoke again: "Your Highness, in fact, before you came, His Royal Highness King Yue sent a letter to the last general, and the last general must protect your safety, so what the last general has done these days is also entrusted by His Royal Highness the King of Yue!" (To be continued......)

PS: I came back a little late in the afternoon, and I wanted to write 4,000 words before 8 o'clock, but I only completed 3,000 and a half, so I can only upload it first, and I will have the opportunity to make up for it later.