After tying the pockets tightly, Ma Xiao stuffed the bag in his arms, tightened his belt, straddled the waist knife, and took advantage of the night to touch into an abandoned thatched hut, the fire outside was soaring, and the killing shouts were gradually far away, presumably it was safe here, Ma Xiao cleaned up the straw on the ground and lay in the corner of the room, afraid that someone would see him passing by, his thin body was all buried in the straw, and he didn't even show his head, and he fell asleep after lying down for a while, as if the fighting outside had nothing to do with him.

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I don't know how long it took, Ma Xiao, who was still asleep, heard footsteps outside the yard, and it was not a person, he was walking towards his thatched house, although he deliberately lowered the footsteps, but Ma Xiao, who had survived in the wild for a long time, had already trained an alert ear, and at this moment he heard it very clearly, and the drowsiness was suddenly gone, he opened his eyes, slowly arched his body, shook the waist knife in his hand, and felt a little at ease.

Soon the sound of two footsteps arrived at the door, "squeak" The firewood of the thatched hut was opened, through the gap in the straw, Ma Xiao saw two figures carefully entered the house, and closed the door, at this time the sky was already dark, the thatched hut could see things clearly, and in came a man dressed as a farmer and a Pei Guobing, the two turned their backs to Ma Xiao, and could not see their faces.

"You did a good job this time, Lord Wen is very satisfied, this is a reward for you" The farmer-like man took out a small bag from his long sleeves and threw it to Pei Guobing and continued, "This time, according to the marching route you reported, we took the lead and ambushed here, this sneak attack cost at least four or five hundred of you, and most of the grain and grass were burned, which frustrated the spirit of the reinforcements, Lord Wen said that as long as you serve faithfully in the future, your benefits are indispensable."

"Thank you Lord Wen for your kindness, and thank you Brother Li for mentioning it, this is my brother, I honor you" Pei Jun took the bag and touched a handful of broken silver and stuffed it into the farmer's hand, "Please take care of Brother Li in the future."

"Hmph, you also have a heart" The farmer took the broken silver and put it in his sleeve, looked out through the crack in the door, and after making sure that there was no one, he continued, "I don't talk nonsense, as soon as your reinforcements arrive in Taizhou City, our besieging army will retreat, and then the Taizhou City Guard will let you enter the city to garrison, Lord Wen wants you to find out the defense of the entire Taizhou City within three months, if you have the news, you still use the old way to contact me, do you understand?"

"This ......" Pei Guobing hesitated, "If you withdraw your troops, then our reinforcements will definitely return to Suizhou, and I don't have time to check the city defense?"

"Hmph!" the farmer sneered, "You can't go back to Suizhou City."

"What does Brother Li mean?"

"Do your own thing, and don't ask what you shouldn't," said the farmer in a sudden commanding tone.

"Yes! Yes, I know, Brother Li, don't worry, as long as I can enter Taizhou City, I will definitely be able to figure out the city defense in three months, and then I will wait for your country's heavenly soldiers!" seemed to be very afraid of this Brother Li in front of him, Pei Guobing's tone was a little weaker.

"Alright, I have to go, you are good at yourself" The farmer gently opened the firewood, looked out, raised his feet and went out the door, the footsteps quickly disappeared into the distance. Sent away the farmer, Pei Guobing put away the bag containing the money, tidied up his clothes, and after the farmer walked away, he also opened the firewood and prepared to leave, at the moment of opening the door, the light outside shone on his face, Ma Xiao, who was hiding in the straw, clearly saw this person's face through the gap, it turned out that he was rewarded with the captain that day, Ma Xiao was very impressed by him, the silver and wine that should have been sent down were left by this person, and even the venison was deducted most of it, so he recognized it at a glance, and he didn't think that this person was a traitor.

The captain didn't know that there was another person in the hut, and after leaving the hut, he went back to the camp of the Tongzi camp to report.

When the two were talking secretly in the thatched hut just now, Ma Xiaowei didn't dare to take a breath, although he didn't know anything about military affairs, but from the conversation between the two, it was obvious that the Wu Commander was a traitor, and this sneak attack was that he secretly reported the news, and he also wanted to help the Chu Army explore the defense of Taizhou City. After waiting for the two of them to leave the hut for a long time, the sunlight entered the house through the window, and the noise of the soldiers was heard outside, so Ma Xiaocai dared to gently move his body and crawl out of the haystack.

When I opened the door, I saw that the Pei army outside was busy cleaning the battlefield, so he mixed into the team with a waist knife, and the other soldiers saw that it was a dark-faced boy soldier and didn't pay attention to him, they all bowed their heads and were busy with their own business, many wounded soldiers were carried to the camp one by one, the corpse of Pei Jun and the corpse left by Chu Jun were piled up in two separate places, Ma Xiao began to look for someone he knew in the soldiers, and finally found the familiar face of the thunder word camp among the crowd for a long time, and after returning to his camp, Ma Xiao found the record and reported it, and was arranged to make food。 In the temporary room, Ma Xiao saw a few people in the camp again, and the boss saw Ma Xiao come back and said, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back" with a lonely expression, everyone looked at Ma Xiao and was busy with their own business, just like the first day into the room, there were two people in the room, the big head and the fat man Qi Fu seemed to be missing, and there were no words in the morning.

After the battlefield was cleaned up and after breakfast, several leading generals gathered together and announced to the soldiers below that more than 500 people were killed and wounded in the Pei army, and the Tongzi Battalion and the Tingzi Battalion guarding the edge of the village were the most damaged, and Sun Weiting, the general of the Thunder Battalion, was seriously injured and unconscious, so the Tingzi Battalion was temporarily merged into the Tongzi Battalion, and he would make plans after General Sun woke up. This news hit the entire reinforcements very hard, and before they arrived in Taizhou, they folded so many brothers, and it seemed that they were more than lucky to go to Taizhou, and everyone talked about it, but Ma Xiao was not worried at all in the crowd, because he knew that the Chu army that had besieged Taizhou would be evacuated as soon as the reinforcements arrived, so there would be no more fighting for a period of time in the future, and now he was thinking about how to tell Zhang Tong about the rebellion of the commander of the Tongzi battalion.

After calming down the discussion in the army, the reinforcements marched forward again, and the army marched to the Peijiang River that night, and the camp was also set up on the riverside, in order to prevent night attacks, the patrol soldiers were twice as many as before, and after finishing the affairs of the room, Ma Xiao came out and sat on the stones outside, looked at the stars in the sky, listened to the sound of the rushing waves in the river, and felt very quiet in his heart, thinking about what he had seen and heard in the past few days, Ma Xiao felt that compared with the eternal stars and the endless rivers, human beings were really small and humble, and they were not as good as the grass mustard on the ground.

Just as he was staring at the mysterious starry sky in a daze, the boss limped to his side and sat down, "Little doll, what do you want, why don't you sleep, you have to get up early tomorrow morning to prepare dry food."

"Hey, guy boss, why don't you sleep"

"When people get old, they will feel less, come out and listen to the sound of the river waves" The boss stared at the dark river in front of him, and spoke for a while, "Little doll, do you know why our Peiguo is called Peiguo?"

"It should be because of this Peijiang," Ma Xiao replied.

"Well, almost, more than 400 years ago, the Holy Lord King Ji rebelled against the heavens, hung the people and cut down crimes, eradicated tyranny, and pacified the world, our ancestor Gu followed King Ji for many years, before and after the saddle, the world was established, and the meritorious deeds were rewarded, King Ji was crowned the emperor, and gave the small riverside city of Peicheng to the Gu family, and named the Gu family as the King of Pei, after hundreds of years of operation, there was a huge territory of the Pei country" said that the boss of the gang here sighed "Hey! It's a pity that the country is not prosperous, the descendants of the Holy Lord Ji Huang are not as good as one, all ignore the government and politics, and are bent on cultivating and becoming immortals, and they have lost power in a few generations, and even two hundred years ago, the descendants of the entire Ji clan have all disappeared, and even a prince has not been left, which has left a bane for future generations, and since then the world has been in turmoil, and there is no peace, we have a few British lords in Peiguo who were able to hold the land of their ancestors earlier, and now even the capital has been broken, hey!" Sighing again, the boss didn't speak again, these stories Ma Xiao intermittently listened to the old people in the village tell them, but at that time they were greedy for fun, and they only heard a few words and went to play elsewhere, and today is the first time I have heard people tell these things so completely.

Seeing that the boss didn't speak for a while, Ma Xiao leaned over, "Senior brother, you teach me to breathe out vitality."

"Haha, you starving ghost, you haven't forgotten it" The guy boss laughed, and then said with a straight face, "Okay, I'll teach you to vomit today, you sit down first"

Ma Xiao hurriedly put away his two legs, although he couldn't cross them, but he barely looked like one, tidied up the clothes on his body and said, "Senior brother, I'm ready!"

The boss was very satisfied when he saw Ma Xiao's serious appearance, and cleared his throat and said. There are many ways to breathe, the person who taught me the method of breathing taught me a more secure one, I will pass it on to you now, learning the method of breathing is not just as simple as panting, the root of it is to absorb the vitality of the heaven and earth around us into our dantian, and then urge the vitality to run in the meridians of the whole body, people who have just practiced the method of breathing can not feel their own meridians and dantian at all, so you have to rely on your mind to imagine, imagine that there is an empty place in your stomach below your navel, where is the dantian, first take a deep breath, slowly press this breath into the dantian do not relax, do not exhale, and then take a breath and slowly press into the dantian, Imagine these two breaths in your dantian slowly running into a clump, at this time you can breathe gently, but the dantian qi to suppress, can not be released, and when the air mass in the dantian becomes even, start to run Zhoutian, there are five acupuncture points around your navel, namely Dadu acupoint, Weiyang acupoint, Zhihuai acupoint, Qingtan acupoint and Shang Ming acupoint" said that the boss of the gang pressed his hand on Ma Xiao's navel to teach him to identify these five acupuncture points, and after the pony remembered these five acupuncture points, the gang boss continued to speak" At the beginning of the running week, I couldn't feel it, and I had to rely on my imagination to mobilize the qi masses in the dantian to move back and forth between these five acupuncture points......

In this way, in the sound of the waves of the Peijiang River, the boss began to explain the most basic method of breathing, Ma Xiao heard it at first, completely unaware of why, tried many times and did not know whether he inhaled the air into the dantian that did not know where to hide, even if he went in, I don't know if it was winding into an air mass, and after a while Ma Xiao inhaled and inhaled dizzy, his chest was tight and nauseous, as if he had smoked a cigarette and was a little fluttering, fortunately, the boss was a patient "master" , tireless explanation and correction, tossing for a long time, although I didn't feel where the dantian and meridians were, finally clarified the first step of the practice method, one old and one young sat opposite each other and began to breathe and practice.

It's just that what Ma Xiao doesn't know is that from the beginning of this spitting and sucking, he has embarked on a path that is very different from most "ants" in the world.