Chapter Forty-Three: Us Before the Storm

Seeing them coming, it was clear that everyone was a little gloating.

This is how their lives are, with no other pleasures than seeing the new ones who have been assigned to come and "enjoy" the torments of hell.

Here, there are traces of attack by the sudden people everywhere, and some brick walls may not have collapsed at the time, but time flies, maybe the next day, maybe two months later, maybe two years, they will collapse more or less because of the uneven force. Those who have been sent to the frontier do not need to beg for a brief rest, for that kind of rest has not existed for thousands of years.

"Could it be that from now on, my life is like this, just like this, constantly consuming my body and will, and finally dying of overwork in the northern frontier of the Tang Dynasty?" Guan Kuo asked himself.

It was because he had imagined the scene of charging into battle and then dying, and felt that it was terrifying, but now reality gave him a different horror, so he didn't expect it at all, and he was not mentally prepared, so he was a little broken.

He looked at Tie Shan Wu, and when he saw the guy who had always been indifferent, his face finally didn't look good.

He didn't imagine the look of a good show that he should have when he saw that guy with a different demeanor.

"Prince, Captain Horse, it seems that the small body of your rich family is going to be planted here......" Tie Shan looked at him with a dark face and said in a loud voice.

Guan Kuo was already quite thin, but under the long distance, he lost a lot of weight, and he worked hard here for a while, and then lost weight...... It's just gone!

In the firelight, the soldiers on duty wore dark black armor and carried whips, and fiercely pressed over, shouting: "What are you stunned!? You, go over there, you, get there, you must finish this place tonight, if it is not good before dawn tomorrow, there is no need for sudden people to kill you, Lao Tzu will kill you directly! ”

Guan Kuo and they all know that this guy will never lie, and it is no pity that the people who were assigned to the frontier were killed here.

Their escort departed quickly, and they hurried to the place they had been pointed out in a daze, and began the course of the night.

This is just the beginning.

The four fields, except for the firelight, are all outside, and it is pitch black everywhere. Inside and outside the Great Wall, there are some desolate places, and no one will make a home here except for the army guarding the northern frontier.

Guan Kuo almost didn't know how he acted, he kept caring about the soldiers on duty who were holding leather whips and preparing to whip people, even if he was out of strength, he didn't want to stop, he would rather slow down and be abused, but also pretend to be very dedicated, because he really didn't want to eat a whip.

At these times, he realized that compared to those who had been working here for an unknown period of time, and even those tall but thin people, he was actually more powerful and better than those who had just begun.

It made him shudder for the rest of his life.

He didn't have a chance to see Tie Shan Wu, but he knew that in such a situation, even if Tie Shan Wu didn't seem to be afraid of anything and didn't care about anything, it would definitely not be much better.

Three hours later, he was gasping for air, his whole back was stuck to the prison uniform that had not yet been changed, and his calves ached, and his arms began to tremble, sore, and completely weak.

It can be seen that no one will be better off than him in this situation, but under the merciless whip of the soldiers on duty, everyone has to endure and consume their lives to complete the difficult task.

Few people would think that before settling the Northern Tang Dynasty, in addition to blocking the border troops who were not afraid of death, there were also these coolies who had no freedom buried everywhere, and they were even more painful in the face of death, but they have been unknown.

The Tang people will not be grateful to them, but will look down on them, which is very strange, but it is a fact.

Guan Kuo's eyelids almost drooped, his body shook slightly, and those movements, he felt that he was not in a dream.

Guan Kuo felt at this time that the choice between the monkey and the tiger seemed to be the right one, and a gamble would either be free or die, these two might be better than the current situation of himself and Tie Shanwu.

He had a lot of ideas, and he was a little unwilling, because it was incomprehensible that he insisted that he was innocent and that he had not made any mistakes, and that he should be treated like this.

He never understood that what Guan Qinghe brought him was a process of changing from the strong to the weak, and he just needed to accept it and be familiar with it.

The strong run rampant, and the weak go against the grain.

—Thucydides

This is an eternal truth that can be applied to all living beings.

He didn't know how he managed to survive until dawn and finish this place, but he was already walking in a light cloud, obviously about to fall, but he felt like he could fly.

He collapsed.

All of them collapsed.

They were given a completely tasteless meal, and when they had eaten it, they did not know whether they had eaten it or not, so they were driven to the camp and fell asleep, snoring like thunder.

Then, they were given only two hours of sleep, and in the afternoon, they were taken to another place to mend it.

This kind of life began and will continue forever.

"Didn't you say that you were going to be in the army?" One night, lying on the hard ground, Guan Kuo asked Tie Shan Wu, "Why don't you go to war?" ”

"I'd rather fight with the Bruns than stay here any longer." His voice was weak.

He didn't know how many days had passed, and in short, every day was repetitive and hellish, and there was no need to keep track of time.

Tetsuyama is also not in a good state, but he can still laugh.

"Do you regret it?" He said.

"Regret what?" Guan Kuo felt that his words were very inexplicable.

Tie Shan Wu stepped forward and said, "You fool, fool, why don't you put Her Royal Highness the princess on the night of the candles in the cave room?" If you have the guts to do it, maybe you can hide in the Changliu Palace now and be your captain, or you can be hidden by Her Royal Highness the Princess, and you won't have to be afraid of being thrown here again......"

Guan Kuo began to push him, but he had no strength, he couldn't push at all, and he scolded with his remaining strength:

"Get out!"

"Fuck off!"

"Get out of here!"

Scolding and scolding, he couldn't scold anymore, and he couldn't push anymore, turned his head, sighed, and said, "The raw rice has been cooked into porridge, what else to talk about......

“……”

He began to take out the bamboo slip, look at it carefully, remember, here, except for Tie Shanwu, no one will be interested in him and the bamboo slip, as long as he can have a long rest time, he will always squeeze out a little bit of time, look at the bamboo slip, whether you can understand it or not. Probably he also knew that he had only one way now, otherwise, he would have to wait for himself to be exhausted, exhausted by heavy labor, and then buried wherever he wanted.

What's more, now, even Tie Shan Wudu has lost interest in bamboo slips, in that guy's muttering, that is-Her Royal Highness the princess knows that you are stupid, give you some strange villain paintings, and reduce your loneliness, it's really sweet!

Guan Kuo took a note and found that the guy already owed himself more than a dozen beatings, but now he has no strength, so let's owe it like this.

The recent movements of the sudden people are a little strange and weird, and they suddenly stopped intermittent sexual harassment and became dormant, and Yanmen has not been attacked in three months.

Labor does not have the opportunity to stop, but there are more opportunities to rest, although there are not many such opportunities.

They finally got some respite, though only slightly better than before.

And his memory of bamboo slips has finally reached more than 30 words.

If everything had been like this, maybe nothing would have changed, but the wheels of history were rolling forward, and Guan Kuo ushered in the opportunity to change his life, and the direction of Datang also seemed to confirm the existence of providence.

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