Winters on the frontier are not as warm as back home.

Niu Er looked at the heavy snow, completed today's handover very neatly, and walked into a very lively teahouse, and closed the door with a "clang", and by the way, the snow covered with the plaque was shaken off, revealing the word "Lao Jiu" on it.

The handwriting is not good-looking, and the people in it are naturally down-and-out.

When Niu Er was young, it was at the end of the Cangyang War, and he heard the legendary romance of those majestic cultivators, so he joined the army with enthusiasm, and worked in the baggage camp for three or five years.

It is said that there are three thousand avenues in the world, each looking for one, if Niu Er can practice, it must be a "cooking and frying" one.

In this way, Niu Er was confused, waited until the end of the war and prepared to retire from the army and return to his hometown, so that his family could say that a daughter-in-law would become his own and give birth to a few big fat boys. The elderly parents did not dislike his eldest and achieved nothing, so happy that the child returned to his roots and no longer went out, opened a small inn for him with half his life savings, married a virtuous and generous girl, and gave birth to a pair of well-behaved and lovely dragon and phoenix fetuses.

Business is booming, life is healthy, although Niu Er has lost the Top Gun of his youth, but this comfortable life is not envied by many people.

It's a pity that life is unsatisfactory nine times out of ten.

Niu Er killed someone.

Niu Er, who had been a soldier for five years, did not take revenge on the battlefield, but after returning to the field, he accidentally killed the gangster leader in the town. It is a natural principle to kill people according to the law of sunset and pay for their lives, but the hooligan leader is really not pleasing to the villagers, Niu Er is not small, and a local famous lawyer, or rather a difficult lawyer, wrote a few pieces of paper for him, and made a mockery in front of the people who had not read a book for a few years, and actually made a battle of injustice.

The head of the Qingtian lord who sat in the public court of the yamen was two big, and he couldn't be provoked in his heart, and he pinched his nose and waved his hand with the consistent principle of turning big things into small things: "Ten years of charging the army and distributing it to the frontier." ”

This Niu Er was late in getting the ambitions of his youth, and left his hometown to go to Shayang Town, which borders the Great Enlightenment Realm. Fortunately, the Great Enlightenment Realm is not a gray stone city, there are no three-day two-headed grass valley ringing horse thieves, and the days are still frightening day by day, except for the crooked "dog crawler" with the family every other day, the only fun in Niu Er's life is to go to this "Lao Jiu" teahouse to watch others play cards after completing the day's on-duty patrol.

People are divided into groups by similar aggregates, a total of ten thousand teams stationed in Shayang Town, Niu Er's second team is famous for its good betting, the soldiers gamble, the centurion gambles, and even the young commander is also an old gambler who is good at cards, no matter how strict the discipline is in front of outsiders, everyone is a brother who shouts five and drinks six when he enters this "Lao Jiu" teahouse.

"Bump!"

In the smell of sweat in the room, a shirtless sturdy man slammed a card on the table, and the fat on his body trembled.

The man is very famous here, a few days ago because of the gambling lost the card but shaved a bald head, this few days on the top of the head on a thick layer of stubble, his clothes on the shoulder, one foot bare on the chair, when the card is not forgotten to be in the gap between the soles of the feet that are twice as wide as ordinary people, and then smeared on the big flower pants worn.

Junyan in the army, a star in the future, who can associate these titles with this man who combines immaturity and old age. As the commander of the 2,000-person team in Shayang Town, this cultivation genius who is just over twenty-five years old not only likes to play cards, but he also has a rather strange name: Green Pepper.

"Brother, come on, get started. Qingjiao saw that the cow was very affectionate, hooked his shoulders and pulled him into the pile, "Look at how this card is played." ”

Niu Er roughly swept and shook his head, "I don't have to fight." ”

"Lao Tzu is such a good card, you say you don't have to play?" Qingjiao skillfully took out a cigarette gun from behind the big pants, put the tobacco leaves and took a sip and said: "Brother raise my hand, let you stand one less shift tomorrow." ”

"Boss, you're going too far, don't you say that it's good and never fake the public and selfish?" A man with a meaty face on the opposite side of the table held a good hand, and he saw that he was about to make a lot of money, but he didn't expect that his thousand-year-old's gambling was really worrying.

"Lao Tzu's thousand-man team Lao Tzu has the final say, do you care about Lao Tzu?" Qingjiao said three times in a row, "Lao Tzu" choked the other party speechless, and did not forget to roll his eyes at the end.

"Tomorrow with a team, the commander of the thousand will personally patrol the post at night, boss, you can let the brothers live. The other man at the table sighed and played a card randomly.

Qingjiao was distraught by that sigh, and she was not in the mood to play cards, "Fuck, why did you team up with them again so soon?"

"General Ming Zhe said that I am afraid that there has been a change in the Great Enlightenment Realm recently, and the Eternal Night Thousand Commanders have managed the army well, so he has arranged his rotation several times. ”

"There is a way to govern the army...... "Qingjiao smashed his mouth and smoked a cigarette, "I force people not to sleep peacefully, when will it become a good way to govern the army." ”

"Boss, don't say that, who is our General Mingzhe. The man with a meaty face gave a thumbs up, and said loudly: "The eldest son of the Apocalypse Ye family, the first wealthy family in the capital, and the commander of the eternal night is the first-class celebrity under him, that is the uncle who will return to the capital in the future, these two are estimated not to stay for a long time in our bitter cold place where birds don't, boss, you are still young, and you can endure it for a while." ”

Qingjiao was silent for a long time, and six words popped out of his mouth: "People are more angry than people." Then he picked up a card, and without even looking at it, he pushed the card in front of him down, "Self-draw." ”

"Boss hasn't ...... your turn yet"

"Don't, get out of the way, give money for money. Qingjiao put on the clothes on his shoulders, pushed the door and looked at the heavy snow outside the house, touched his head, which was already a little prickly, and let out a white breath.

"It's fucking cold. ”

Niu Er followed all the way out, he looked at the commander who was wearing short-sleeved pants in the winter, rubbed his hands awkwardly, and hesitated whether to come forward to talk or to silently walk to the teahouse of warmth, although he got along for a few years, this centurion who loves to scold people and love to play cards has no official frame, but after all, he is from a big place, and he was also optimistic about the scenery at the beginning.

"How many years are you leaving?" Qingjiao handed the cigarette stick in his hand to the cow, and he squatted on the ground boredly and pulled the white snow.

"Three years. Niu Erba smoked a dry cigarette, and said that the taste was not bad, it seems that even if he is a depressed border commander, Yu Lu is not comparable to a poor soldier like himself.

"You smoke, you smoke, can you be quieter. Qingjiao glared at Niu Er, "The fourth team lost someone yesterday, and their commander didn't dare to report it, the matter is a bit evil, tomorrow you will team up with the first team and remind the brothers to be careful." ”

"You mean a team of them......" Niu Er was so frightened that he almost lost his breath.

"Fucking pig brains. Qingjiao got up and kicked Niu Er lightly, "Lao Tzu is saying to be careful tomorrow, if you encounter any demons and monsters, let them go up and do it with a team with great powers, and you will get out of the house after three years, less arms and legs, and in the future, the family will not be able to scold Lao Tzu for half a lifetime." ”

"The boss is not kind to him. Niu Er seemed to be smiling, and his weather-beaten face wrinkled with the texture of an axe and a knife.

"You're talking about a team of them stabbing their own brothers in the back?"

"No, it's scared to death. ”

"Although that eternal night put on a stinky face all day long, my heart and eyes should not be bad. ”

"Did the Boss deal with him?"

Qingjiao seemed to remember something unbearable, and the flesh on his face trembled slightly, "Beaten...... Dealing ......"

"Tsk, have you eaten a blood loss?" Niu Er patted Qingjiao's thick shoulder.

"It's your business. Qingjiao pushed Niu Er away and walked towards the house. "I'm going to ask the shopkeeper to cook, and I'll eat haggis at night, and you can call everything that hasn't arrived yet. ”

"Panic, pee first. Niu Er stretched his waist, stepped on the wet cotton boots and walked to the root of the wall one by one, and just untied the belt on the cotton pants, he felt that there was an extra pair of shoes at his feet.

"Brother......" Niu Er was uncomfortable, "Stand on the side, it's not appropriate for the two old men to get so close." ”

No one answered for a long time, and the man next to him exhaled a large cloud of thick white gas between his breaths, like smoke from boiling water in a pot.

Niu Er frowned, it was always inconvenient to be stared at, he was going to see which guy who didn't have long eyes had this strange habit, but his head was twisted halfway, and a thick arm grabbed his neck and pressed him against the wall.

"You ......" Niu Er's cheeks hit the frozen hard masonry, knocked out two teeth, and his mouth was full of blood, he felt like a pair of pliers stuck in the back of his neck, and it hurt hotly. The experience of being a soldier for so many years told him that the other party was here to kill him, so he pulled out the sawtooth dagger of the cowhide sheath he carried with him from his waist as he struggled, and stabbed it into the abdomen of the person behind him.

The expected viscous blood trickled down the attacker's body, but the unusually high temperature of the blood lifted a large string of blisters on Niu Er's hand. Niu Er grabbed his burned arm and escaped in a hurry, but before he could take two steps, the stranger behind him rushed up like a maggot on his tarsal bones and pressed him to the ground again.

Niu Er fell to the ground one after another, and suddenly forced out the ruthlessness in his bones, and he seemed to have returned to the day when he faced the gangster leader who bullied his wife and children in the village. Niu Er, who was desperate for his life, didn't care about 3721, and stabbed him wildly behind him, and the hot blood-burned cotton jacket was full of white smoke, but the stranger seemed to have no pain, and the strength in his hand became stronger and stronger.

What kind of hatred is this, it's nothing more than taking his wife and killing his father.

Niu Er stabbed more than a dozen times with little effect, his face was buried in the snowdrift and he couldn't scream, so he simply closed his eyes and resigned himself to fate.

Suddenly, a roar like a dragon and a horse resounded in the sky, followed by a black lightning whistle.

Niu Er felt that his body was light, lying on the ground, he turned his head sideways and saw a pitch-black iron halberd obliquely inserted only a few inches away from the front door, and a flying and galloping horse was engraved on the crescent-shaped blade, and this horse looked very fierce, wrapped around a dragon with teeth and claws.