Under the scorching sun, Xia Cicada ended its chirping in the morning and began to enter a rare silence, and the Ji family was able to regain a brief tranquility outside the barracks.

Outside the tent, eight scouts stood side by side, their cheeks covered with beads of sweat the size of green beans, but none of them dared to wipe them with their hands.

After a while, General Ji Hao walked straight to the tent, and the scouts straightened their waists and cheered up......

Ji Hao glanced at the scouts' embarrassed expressions, and he said lightly: "Let's all go in!"

The eight men followed Jibo into the big tent.

"Huh-" They landed on their right knee and knelt in front of the general Ji Hao.

The main person in charge of this mission, the elderly scout, straightened up and reported with a straight face: "General Bao, you and I received the task that night, and immediately left Daidi, marched all the way to the southwest, and released the black crow to check the real-time location of the divine doctor touching the fish roe."

"The next morning, when the sun was one pole high, I received the Yan Ling standard feather from the black crow and the broken tassel on the flag of the king of Qin, and an hour later, I received the location of the miasma and the footprints of both sides.

"According to the information we received from the crows, we immediately changed our northward movement after judgment and discussion, so as not to encounter the returning Qin King's Imperial Forest Army head-on. Without further ado, we took a shortcut, cut through the gap on the east side of the Xishan Mountain Range into the West Mountain, and took the secret road from the east to the northwest of the West Mountain Range, where we waited.

"At noon, the miracle doctor arrived as scheduled. Originally, it was difficult for him to escape from the ambush circle we set up, but at the critical moment, a big water monster jumped out of the black dragon pool. This monster was pitch black, scaleless, hairless, with skin like dead tree bark and eyes as big as apples, and it instantly threw my three brothers into the water......"

Ji Hao listened to the scout's description and deduced that the water monster in the Black Dragon Pool should be the ancient divine beast Dangkang mentioned in the "Ancient Divine Beast Sutra". This thing is carnivorous and perverse by nature. Unexpectedly, there are still traces of it in the territory of Dazhou, and Ji Hao really wants to see it.

The older scout was still cautiously reporting: "Even with the loss of three brothers, we can still have the upper hand when we estimate our strength at that time. If nothing goes wrong, when you have the ability to control the divine doctor, you should 'invite' him to the general. However, as soon as the big water monster went, a mysterious elder came.

"This old man seems to know our background very well, and what shocks us the most is that he is using the Ji family's military technique 'Hades Mantra' to deal with our Ji family's military family. After the battle, we found that our combined skills were not as good as this old man, and the rule of the Hades spell had always been that the strong master was the main storm, and we had to shoot together, however, it accelerated the defeat even more......"

The three words "Hades Mantra" touched Ji Hao's nerves, and he clenched his fists: "What's the matter, a strange old man actually knows our Ji Jiajun's 'Hades Mantra'?"

"Yes, he seems to use the Hades Spell, and he is more proficient than we do, and the eight of us are no match for him...... By the way, the divine doctor called him a senior brother. ”

Ji Hao's eyes closed slightly, and he stroked his beard and thought to himself, if this mysterious old man was called his senior brother by touching the fish, then he might be the eldest disciple of the Lonely Mountain Worry-Free Sect. If that's the case, not to mention twelve scouts, even one hundred and twenty are no match for him. Although Ji Hao had never come into contact with the disciples of Sanssouci Sect, he had mentioned it after he was drunk in his early years, and the senior brother Geng Ding was not far from the Ming Realm.

"Since the eight of you are not his opponents, how did you come back?!"

At this time, the eight people looked at each other, their faces full of meat and vegetables, and they didn't know what to do. The older scout was a little speechless, and before he could speak, the youngest scout stubbornly said:

"General Hui, it's really incompetent to his subordinates, it was the old man who put us back after the doctor was asleep......"

"Okay, go and get two hundred military sticks each, and deduct half a year's military salary. ”

"General Xie!"

After the eight of them left, Ji Hao thought about the leakage of the Hades curse, and he suddenly patted his head and ordered Ji Bo to call his son Ji Kang'er.

......

Although Ji Bo was old and faint, when it came to the matter of the little young master, he did not slack off at all, he trembled, took three steps and made two steps and hurriedly walked towards the rear of the camp.

At this time, it was the time of the lunch break, and there was silence in the barracks.

Ji Jiajun has a good reputation, and he has always been hard and vicious in training, but he is very unconventional in two things, one is to arrange a lunch break, avoid noon and pay attention to morning and evening training.

The second is that in the Ji family, you can win the competition to get promoted, and get the reward that you can learn the advanced exercises of the Ji family. The officers were very enthusiastic about the latter clause on martial arts.

In the afternoon, there was a snoring sound from the Ji family barracks, but it took advantage of a kind of cleanness, except in the firearms battalion owner's tent, which was the farthest away from the commander's tent, it was very lively at this time.

In the distance, he heard a familiar voice coming from inside the tent.

A young man's wild voice said, "Go on, go on, I don't believe it, and I'm evil,......"

"Fourth Young Master, you have no children, what are you going to do to continue gambling?!"

Ji Bo walked to the tent and motioned to the guards not to report, and he walked slowly into the tent.

More than a dozen shirtless soldiers with high trouser legs did not go to sleep, but gathered around a handsome young man who looked out of place with them in appearance and aura.

This young man was born with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and in the summer, he was dressed in a three-layer brocade shirt, but there was not a single sweat on his face. Carrying a sword inlaid with gold and silver at his waist, he rolled up his sleeves with his arms on the turret and paid close attention to the game.

Although he was stubborn and vindictive, the jasper on the young man's crown was the same as his face without a drop of sweat, revealing a cold and dusty glimmer from time to time, which was the only thing that was a little inconsistent with the scene in front of him.

The young man's white little hand was tightly grasping the sweaty arm of a man, pulling to continue the next game, and he shouted: "It's really not good, I'll press this sword." ”

As he spoke, the young man neatly untied the sword at his waist with his other hand and threw it on the table.

The man smiled and said, "Is the fourth young master really willing?"

The young man gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, "Reluctant!"

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.

Ji Bo walked up to the young man and said softly, "Fourth Young Master, the general is waiting for you in the tent." ”

When everyone saw that it was the respected Ji Bo, they were afraid that they would not be able to get rid of the little master's involvement, and they would be blamed by the general, so they got up and avoided one after another.

The young man raised his eyes, and when he saw that it was Ji Bo, he said impatiently: "Ji Bo, you go first, and I will arrive later." ”

"The general said, let you go back with me. ”

"Gotcha! Looks like there's no flop today, but it's cheap for you guys. ”

The young man pushed the card game in a dashing manner, and deliberately joked loudly at the backs of the soldiers hiding on the side.

Obviously unfinished and unwilling, the young man did not dare to disobey his father's will at all, so he had to pick up the sword on the table, get up and follow Ji Bo away.

"Hmph, don't look at it, I know it," the young man thought to himself, "These eight calves behind him must be holding back their laughter, no, let them get cheap again." Lao Tzu was not convinced, and he made a gamble before he could turn over. ”

......

As soon as Ji Kang'er stepped into the big tent with one foot, he saw his father Ji Hao smashing the teacup in his hand over, and said angrily: "Rebel, don't kneel down yet!"

Standing indifferently and stupidly, such arrogance and uncompromising only remained for a moment, and after that, the young man reacted, if he rebelled like this, I am afraid that he would not be able to eat and walk around. So, he rolled his eyes, changed his arrogance, obediently "snapped-" for a moment, his legs weakened, and he knelt down.

Ji Hao saw it in his eyes, and his anger was even greater, and he shouted at Ji Bo: "Ji Bo, the horse whip is waiting." ”

Ji Bo hurriedly urged Ji Kang'er and said, "Fourth Young Master, you just listen to the words of the general, so that you don't suffer a little bit of flesh and skin!"

"Jibo, what are you doing in a daze? Go get my horsewhip. ”

Ji Hao took a look at this unsuccessful son, and added one more blockage.

Ji Kang'er shouted: "That's enough! Fight at home, fight in the barracks, and fight without asking anything." Don't bother the old man Jiber, I'll go get a horsewhip. After speaking, Ji Kang snorted angrily and turned around to get the horsewhip.

"Where are you going to stop?" Ji Hao shouted.

Ji Kang'er went down the slope when she saw it, and hurriedly stopped her steps.

Ji Haoxin said, but you must not believe this kid, he is sincere to make me angry.

So, his face turned warm, and he said slowly, "Okay, okay, you say, what's going on with the leakage of the 'Hades Curse', it won't have nothing to do with you, right?"

Ji Hao was looking forward to this kid and himself continuing to hide and seek, but without thinking, the young man straightened his small chest in front of his father, and replied slowly: "Yes, that's right, it does have something to do with me." ”

Ji Hao was taken aback, the first time he saw that this kid was a little responsible, it was better than the prodigal son who had eaten and waited for death and had no growth in the past two years as his father. But this crime involves the family heirloom Hades curse, and after all, the stakes are very high, Ji Hao asked in a deep voice: "Ji Kang'er, what is going on?"

Ji Kang'er turned around slowly, seeing that his father's expression was not as angry as just now, he was deeply surprised, his father obviously saw that he admitted that he had leaked the family heirloom, this crime should be damned, why didn't he hit the board immediately, but his tone became calm? What kind of thing is this?!

He thought to himself, I don't want to be a serious person like you.

"Anyway, it was two years ago," Ji Kang's posture seemed to tell a story, and both Ji Bo and Ji Hao looked at the young man with suspicion and helplessness.

"I was playing around Zhongnan Mountain and met a little Taoist. This little Taoist priest is as big as me, and he is also very playful. He couldn't help but make a bet with me to see who was more determined. As a result, we played a tie ......"

Speaking of which, thinking of the situation of the game that year, Ji Kang looked longing and proud, and for a while he forgot that he was now fighting for frank and leniency in front of his father.

Ji Hao saw that Ji Kang was distracted, and said, "Report quickly!"

"Later, we competed to play marble. This is a failure, you say, and the result is another draw between the two of us. After a few back and forth, we thought about the game Rausch that we could think of, and compared it all over again. Good fellow, we're a dark day!

"Originally, the child really wanted to win glory for our Ji family. In the first few games, there were really fewer losses and more wins. But in the last few tricks, the little Taoist priest had a strong learning ability, quickly mastered my characteristics, and corrected his own mistakes to deal with my weaknesses. I was happy to win at first, but then I made a mistake because of self-satisfaction, and I was negligent for a while, and he really pulled back a few more games. In the end, alas, the two of us were tied!"