Chapter 1 The Journey
Wild history records: At the beginning of the establishment of the First Central Empire, there was a tragic palace change, the founder of the empire, the Mu family, was slaughtered by the Manchus, only the infant imperial prince Mu Qingqing escaped, and his whereabouts have been unknown since then!
However, there are very few people who know this secret history, and in the blink of an eye, two hundred years have passed, and the First Empire has become more and more prosperous, and no one has mentioned this past, and no one has forgotten the Mu clan, the former founders of the empire.
Last night, lightning and thunder, wind and rain, Su Junbao got up early in the morning, looked outside the camp, the rain finally stopped!
It was not a pleasant thing to encounter stormy weather during the journey, and last night, they barely survived the night by hiding under a cliff.
"Su Junbao, go help when you wake up, move all those things into the car, let's get on the road early!"
As soon as Su Junbao walked out of the tent, a tall woman commanded him.
Her name is Li Ya, and she is the leader of Su Junbao's mercenary group, and their mercenary group makes a living by escorting business travelers!
Urged, Su Junbao nodded and walked straight towards the outside of the camp, he had to find a place to drain the inventory in his stomach first.
Li Ya glanced at him and withdrew her gaze!
Strictly speaking, this boy is not from their mercenary group, he is just that the Huoyun Group is not manpowered, and he temporarily collects chores to earn a little money. Usually taciturn, not conspicuous anywhere, quite diligent, swear tired and willing to do all the work! When the errand was over, he and the cloud of fire were separated.
A little handyman, Li Ya naturally won't take it to heart, she still has a lot of things to do!
Su Junbao walked farther and wanted to turn to a cliff, but when he got there, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
On the originally flat ground, somehow, there was a big pit, and at the bottom of the pit there was an egg, an oval egg, about the height of an adult, standing there alone.
Su Junbao was here last night, I don't remember that there was such a big pit and a giant egg, it seemed to fall from the sky and smashed the ground into a deep pit! The strange thing is that none of them could detect it last night, is it really too loud and rainy?
For a while, Su Junbao couldn't figure it out.
"What the hell is this?"
After looking at it for a while, Su Junbao finally couldn't help his curiosity, and touched his hand to see what it was, but suddenly, I saw his hand tremble, and quickly retracted it, and a drop of blood still dripped onto the stone egg.
The stone egg is a standard oval shape, but the surface is not smooth, and there are many sharp angular burrs, and Su Junbao's hand was cut.
As Su Junbao's blood dripped onto the stone egg, only a clicking sound was heard, coming from the stone egg that had just been silent, and at the same time, cracks began to crack on the surface of the stone egg, as if something was about to break out of the shell.
"It's going to crack!"
Su Junbao didn't know why, and hurriedly stepped back
Immediately after that, there was a boom, the stone egg was completely broken into countless pieces, and Su Junbao, who was standing in place, instantly opened his mouth wide, only to see a chubby little girl sitting in the middle of the eggshell, only two or three years old, with a pair of big eyes, a chubby little face, wearing a red dough, looking very cute.
A little girl popped out of the rock!
This is really a bit beyond Su Junbao's cognition, but it is indeed happening in front of him, and he can't believe it!
The little girl came out of the egg and sat in place, looking a little dazed, as if she had not yet adapted to her surroundings.
After a while, she saw Su Junbao standing in place, staring at him again and again, suddenly giggled, got up from the ground with a huff, opened her arms, walked on two small short legs, and walked over with clumsy steps, hugged Su Junbao's legs, looked up and babbled and didn't know what to say.
The little girl's action really startled Su Junbao, but seeing that she looked cute and had no malicious intent, she gradually relaxed and looked carefully.
The nose is the nose, the eyes are the eyes, no different from a normal child, she looks fat and very cute, if there is any difference, that is, Su Junbao feels that she has amazing strength, and when she hugs his legs, the strength is greater than that of an adult.
How can a two- or three-year-old child have so much strength?
"What's your name and where are you from?"
Su Junbao asked tentatively, not sure if she could understand human speech!
Sure enough, the little girl stared blankly, unable to understand anything, let alone answer.
"Wow!"
She took out a free hand, touched her little belly, looked up and looked at it, that look, Su Junbao understood.
That's a sign that the child is hungry, and the little guy who just popped out of the stone is hungry as soon as he comes out!
Suddenly a little guy with a strange background popped up, which made Su Junbao a little overwhelmed, a living person, he was bumped into by him, he can't just leave it alone, right?
This place is deserted for hundreds of miles, and a little girl who can't walk steadily is thrown here, just afraid that she will not live for more than two days, and sooner or later she will starve to death, or be taken away by wild beasts!
"Bring it back first!"
Su Junbao thought about it, bent down and picked up the other party, he was fat, he was really not ordinarily heavy, but he must be human!
The little guy seems to have a natural sense of intimacy with Su Junbao, and his chubby little arms hold him straight!
By the time Su Junbao and the little guy turned back from behind the cliff, everyone else in the team had already woken up, some were sitting lazily, some were drinking soju and eating breakfast!
There are a total of thirty or forty people in their group, and they are on the way to Qinghe County in Fenglan Country, and they are expected to have five or six days to go!
Twelve of them were mercenaries from the Firecloud Regiment, and the rest were employers and their men, and now it was easy to tell who was with whom by looking at the seats on either side.
The mercenaries sit in a bunch on their own, and the employers themselves sit in a bunch.
Everyone was very surprised when they saw Su Junbao coming back with a little girl!
When the little guy saw that there were many people, he was very afraid of life, and his little face was buried in Su Junbao's shoulder socket, refusing to raise his head, and his hands were hugged tightly!
"Where did it come from?" Li Ya asked!
"Picked up nearby!"
Su Junbao replied, don't mention the matter of stone eggs, because it's too bizarre, and it's not uncommon to pick up a little girl on the road!
The land here is barren, the living environment is harsh, and there are always some children who cannot be raised are abandoned on the roadside, life and death are fate, and it is not strange to see them!
"As soon as I saw it, I picked it up! Commander, do you want to take her with you? He looked at Li Ya and asked again.
"No way!"
Hearing this, before Li Ya could speak, someone in the team raised an objection. It was an obese middle-aged man who stood up, named Lu Jinhai, the employer of this business trip.
"Commander Li, with all due respect, the road is far away, and we have a little girl along the way, I'm afraid it's inconvenient!" Lu Jinhai said, with displeasure on his face.
"What's the inconvenience?"
Su Junbao, who rarely speaks, frowned and asked, "It's just a child, we can't leave her here, right?" Then she will definitely die, I'll take it with me, and I'll wait until I get to the place ......!" ”
"It's inconvenient because she's a child!"
Lu Jinhai interrupted him very rudely, and a young man actually dared to refute him: "I paid you to let you protect my delivery of goods, not to give you nothing to do with your children!" ”
"That is, children eat, drink and Lazar, the most troublesome, if you get sick again, won't it delay the trip, can you afford this money!" His men chimed in.
"You, you're just too young, I advise you to pick it up, put it back, you have to get used to this as a mercenary, how many people won't die in the world one day? The road is full of beggars and homeless people who can't eat enough to die, if they are all like you, our mercenary group won't have to do it! "There are also people in the mercenary group.
"Does that mean you will ignore it if you meet it alone?" Su Junbao asked.
"There are too many things that can't be managed in this world, why bother with that heart, we are mercenaries, not good people, you have just entered this industry, and there are still a lot of things you don't understand!" The man shrugged indifferently.
In the voice of everyone's opposition, Su Junbao's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, only holding the little guy in his arms who was at a loss, and did not speak.
"That's it!"
Seeing that there were more and more objections, and Su Junbao rarely refused to give in, Li Ya, as the head of the regiment, finally spoke: "It's just a child, you can't delay anything, Boss Lu, what do you say?" Be kind! ”
She turned her head and smiled at Lu Jin Haiyan!
"Haha! It's easy to say, since Regiment Leader Li has spoken, it is naturally easy to do, but when you get to the city, Regiment Commander Li should not refuse to have a meal with Lu! ”
Facing Li Mai, Lu Jinhai's attitude changed 180 degrees with a smile on his face. A pair of soybean-sized eyes stared at the perfect curve of the other party, revealing a blazing light, as if they were going to devour the person in front of them alive!
She was an unusually tall and athletic woman, with a proud body tightly wrapped in a set of warriors' leather armor. She looked like she was twenty-three or four-year-old, and her face with a little freckles had an indescribable wild beauty, but it was full of vicissitudes and maturity that did not fit her age, and she was slightly tired.
"Well said!"
Li Ya also smiled, her smile was very stiff, the Huoyun Group was just a small mercenary group, and a large part of the reason why Lu Jinhai was lucky enough to receive such a big order was because of the people who got her.
Li Ya has been mixing on this road all the year round, how can she not understand the other party's careful thinking, but business is difficult to do, and sometimes she can only make a fool of herself.
"Okay, don't delay, go on your way early after eating!" She turned her head to Su Junbao and said again, looking at the little guy in his arms, she sighed, she didn't know which family it was, it was not easy to live.
"Thank you!" Su Junbao was silent, only nodded and thanked him.
"Boy, you don't care about this kind of thing in the future, there are gangs everywhere on the road, and you can't afford to delay the trip! If the gang really comes, you and I won't be able to save our lives! It was He Si, the deputy head of the regiment, who spoke, a short man who looked like he was thirty years old, standing with Li Ya, who was one meter eight, a head shorter, but when he glanced at her out of the corner of his eye, he could not hide the blazing light in his eyes.
As soon as He Si finished saying this, his expression gradually froze on his face!
Many of the people on the ground who were still eating stood up, for they all heard the sound of horses' hooves trampling the ground in the wind, mixed with all kinds of neighing and strange screams.