In the evening, a few young men came to the General's Mansion. These people were all wearing Confucian green robes, carrying bags on their backs, and their faces were dusty, as if they had just returned from a long journey.

They stood in a row in the front yard, silent, looking ahead.

After a while, Li Tong walked in, waved his hand to the young men, and motioned for them to follow him.

Li Tong took them to the backyard, where the general walked with Chen Letian. Chen Letian saw that these young people knew each other, and greeted with a smile: "A few classmates, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come to harm!"

Several people looked at Li Tong, and after getting permission to speak freely, they stepped forward to catch up with Chen Letian. 、

It turned out that these people were all classmates in Chen Letian's childhood school.

Since he left home to join the army, he has not met these classmates again, nor has he passed the letter, after all, he was only thirteen years old when he went to join the army, and these classmates were still in the school and had not yet learned their minds.

After returning to Beijing, he asked Tie Niu about the whereabouts of these classmates, but Qin Tie Niu did not know, only knew that these four people left the capital three years ago, saying that they had gone on a study tour and had not returned.

Chen Letian had to sigh when he heard this: "The land outside the capital is not peaceful! I hope that the students can all return safely." ”

Now, five years later, I saw these four classmates again in the General's Mansion. Chen Letian happily took the hands of several classmates and asked questions, and these classmates were also very happy, after all, they always listened to the young Chen Letian bragging about the past and the present.

It turned out that these four people did go out to study three years ago, and after the children's examination was successful, they could get the road guide, as the saying goes, read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles, both of which are indispensable. So after the four of them discussed, they decided to go out and travel to increase their knowledge.

Four poor scholars who were powerless, with the help of the road, endured hardships along the way, and the prepared plate was stolen before half of it was spent. If it weren't for the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, which gave preferential treatment to scholars with student status, as long as they had the status of children, lived in various post stations for free and provided a meal free of charge, the four of them would have starved to death and froze to death on the road.

The four of them traveled to Pei County, which was hundreds of miles away, and saw that they could not continue to travel, so they were about to go home.

The general happened to spend the night in the post where the four people were, and overheard the four people talking, only to learn that these were four Confucian scholars who did not know the height of the sky, and they wanted to retreat after only a few hundred miles out of Beijing.

So the general called them to the front and reprimanded them, which probably meant that the study tour must first be able to endure hardships, and if you are entangled in this little thing, you want to go home?

After some reprimand, the four scholars looked at each other, not knowing where the imposing person in front of them was sacred, but they didn't dare to speak.

"This is the Great General, the Commander of the Northern Army. Li Tong, who was accompanying him, reminded him in a timely manner.

Knock knock knock. The sound of four knees hitting the ground rang out repeatedly.

The next day, the general continued his journey back to the Northern Army. Li Tong quietly threw dozens of taels of silver to the four of them, and told them to calculate the distance and report to the general's mansion after walking 5,000 miles.

The four people who were grateful to each other continued to embark on the road of study tour as if they had been reborn in Nirvana. Two years later,

Back in the capital, the four cages walked a total of 5,000 and 132 miles. In order to prove that they were not lying, they begged the people at each station to write them an explanation. When handing over thousands of explanations to Li Tong, Li Tong was really taken aback, but he didn't expect these four scholars to really do what he said. You know, he asked them to walk 5,000 miles at that time, and only estimated that they could walk another 500 miles at most, and his purpose was just to let them know that it was sad to not be able to do their best. didn't expect these four to really do it.

So Li Tong immediately reported the matter to the general, wanting to accept these four people for the general's mansion. There are many affairs in the General's Mansion, and there has always been a shortage of manpower, since these four people can travel 5,000 miles, they are naturally more able to do things than ordinary people.

The general readily agreed.

Scholars with boundless perseverance are extremely rare, and after accepting these four people, Li Tong began to train them, first letting them do some small things in the general's mansion, as a beginning for Li Tong to investigate what they are suitable for and what they can do.

A few months later, they found out that they had found a treasure, and these four people were born to do espionage things, so they began to delegate some important things to them. Now, these four people are an important part of the General's Mansion on Xiliang's espionage matters.

But a few days ago, Li Tong informed the four of them that they had put down everything they were doing and had another task to be assigned.

The four of them did not have any doubts, and immediately complied, and after handing over the matter, they left for Beijing.

Today, they had just rushed back to the capital from Fengmu Town, where they were doing their daily work two hundred miles to the west, and they came directly to the General's Mansion without returning home.

Usually Li Tong ordered them to do things, so today was the second time they saw the general, and they were excited to kneel down, but they were stopped by the general and said: "Our Great Song Dynasty's kneeling ceremony is very grand, unlike Wei Liang, their kneeling ceremony is not valuable, so there are many." Stand still and listen to me, the task you are about to receive is not more difficult than the previous espionage matters, but secrecy is the most important thing! And I tell you clearly, it is more confidential than the espionage matters, and if it is leaked in the slightest, it may bring a profound disaster to our Great Song Dynasty, and when the time comes, it is not that your four lives are enough to make up for it, but that our entire Great Song Dynasty people are not enough!"

"Don't worry, general, we will follow you to the death!" the four of them said in unison, their hearts solemn.

Immediately, the four of them saw Chen Letian standing aside with a smile on his face, and the four of them muttered in their hearts: Lotte seems to be not afraid of the general at all, what is the situation?

"Specific matters, Lotte and Li Tong will tell you, you do it, okay, you go, Lotte, after the matter is explained, my study, I have a calligraphy and painting I just got for you, it is the master's, and you can send the book to save face." General Li glanced at Chen Letian, then turned to leave.

"Thank you, General. Chen Letian arched his hand towards the general's back.

The four of them were shocked in their hearts, and the tone in which the general and Lotte spoke, it seemed... Familiar?

I heard that Chen Lotian went to join the army, could it be that he went to the Northern Army? And then he was appreciated by the general? They have not been home for more than half a year, they are really surprised and happy at this moment, they are surprised that Lotte has been appreciated by the general, and they are happy that Lotte's future is bright, and they are honored as classmates!