Xiao Cong left the Tianshan Mountains on June 22, went down to Gaochang under the escort of Wuliangguan, met with the large team waiting here outside the city of Gaochang, and walked slowly all the way. When Xiao Yan and Xiao Ji came over, Xiao Cong had just come out of the shower and change clothes for a while. The brother and sister were happy to see each other, Xiao Cong knew that she was a younger sister, and his gaze at her was two more soft, but at this time he could only say a few words - Xiao Cong was about to go to the Chinese military tent to participate in the reception banquet in the army.

Because Xiao Yan and Xiao Ji had already joined the Jingnan Army, as their recruits, it was inconvenient for them to participate in this kind of reception banquet that could only be attended by battalion generals as the "younger brother" of the prince and the son of the military master. Xiao Cong said: "Seventeen and Ah Ji have dinner here first. The reception banquet in the army will not be too long, and it should be over in two or three minutes. After the feast is over, Brother will talk to you again. The latter sentence is said to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan responded. Xiao Ji said: "I won't eat here with my fourth cousin." I haven't seen my father and brother for a long time, so I went over to say hello and ate at my father's tent. He saluted and said goodbye to Xiao Cong, and made an appointment with Xiao Yan to go back to the new barracks, and then left the tent first.

Xiao Cong said: "Your sister-in-law asked me to bring you something." As he spoke, he walked to the low couch behind the screen, took out a leather bag from the suitcase next to the couch, walked out and handed it to her, and said, "This is the leather bag that your sister-in-law asked the maid to sew for you, which contains medicine for external and internal injuries, as well as a letter for you." ”

Xiao Yan was very happy, took the leather bag and said, "Is it newly made by my sister in Tingzhou?" Saying that, his tone was a little stunned, "Unfortunately, my sister can't come to the barracks, and I can't go out of the barracks, and the next time we see each other may only be on Chinese New Year's Eve." ”

Xiao Cong's eyes paused, and he sighed: "Your sister-in-law didn't come to Jingzhou, she went to Daomen." ”

Xiao Yan looked up suddenly, "......?" "How could my sister go to the Daomen?

Xiao Cong looked at the drip, "I have to go to the banquet, I'll talk to you later." Your sister-in-law's letter should also mention it, so let's take a look at it first. After speaking, he patted her on the shoulder, put on his boots and went out of the tent, and took two guards to the Chinese military tent for the banquet.

Xiao Yan stood stunned for a moment, sat down on the desk, took out the letter from the leather bag, took out the letter folded into Fang Sheng, first looked at it quickly, his face sank, and then he looked carefully word by word, and the more he looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more his face sank.

Shen Qingyi did not say the reason for going to Daomen in the letter, this is to leave Xiao Cong to speak, but Xiao Yan guessed that it was nothing more than a transaction of interests between Daomen and Xiao, and a weighty figure was needed in Daomen - Xiao Yan had already imagined Shen Qingyi to be a hostage.

Her heart burned as if lava was boiling, and her hand that had not held the letter clenched into a fist, clenched with anger......

Duan Yan and the waiter glanced up quickly, both worried that the carved lacquer case would be broken into pieces in the next moment.

Calm down, Xiao Yuezhi.

Xiao Yan said to himself.

This is the fourth brother's tent, she can't mess around.

Xiao Yan's fists tightened and loosened, loosened and tightened, and after a few times, he finally suppressed his anger.

Duan Yan and the waiter glanced at it again, and saw that Seventeen Lang Jun loosened his fist and slowly folded the letter paper, and they were relieved in their hearts - they knew that Seventeen Lang Jun and the young lady were like sisters and brothers, but don't get into trouble with Lang Jun because the young lady went to the Daomen to "substitute for Lang Jun to eliminate the robbery".

Xiao Yan folded the letter back to Fang Sheng, put it into the letter, and put it back in the leather bag.

The leather bag is kneaded with suede, very soft, and it is divided into two compartments, and a small compartment is sewn from the suede, which is not too big or too small, and is just loaded into the medicine bottle, fixed in the compartment to prevent collisions with each other - very thoughtful. White porcelain such as ice jade such as jade, the bottle body with a special porcelain ink written with the name of the medicine and usage, the word is small such as hairpins, clear cliffs, stiff, folded to hide the front, such as bending iron broken gold. It is not easy to write such words on a porcelain vase that is as smooth as fat, Xiao Yan can imagine how Shen Qingyi is engrossed, stroke by stroke is like a thousand strokes, her heart is rippling, happy and sad for a while.

She was stunned for a moment, took out the medicine bottles one by one, looked at them carefully, and put them back in the grid. The closure of the leather bag is not a tie neck, but like a Taoist monk's wandering bag, the leather behind the bag is covered to the front, and two belts are clamped through the copper 璏 (zhi). She untied the leather belt around her waist, the end of the belt passed through the rhino belt ear on the back of the leather bag, the width was just right, and she re-tied the leather belt around her waist, wearing a knife on her left waist and a leather bag on her right waist, and got up and walked two steps, which did not affect her movements.

"How?" She asked the second attendant in the tent.

Duan Yan said: "It's good, it fits perfectly." ”

The waiter said: "Elegant and exquisite, very beautiful." ”

Xiao Yan laughed, and his heart was filled with sadness.

My sister treats her very well, and she is the best at what she does.

Duan Yan asked her, do you want to have dinner now?

Xiao Yan nodded.

The waiter went to the fire room to inform Si Mo.

After a while, the two of them each came back with a food basket and put the soup and dishes on the table. There are a total of seven dishes and two soups, and the meat and vegetables are complete. Xiao Yan tasted a spoonful, although the taste was not as good as the meal in Chenghe Academy, but it was almost the same, of course, it was much better than the fire food in the new barracks, after all, it was the fire food for the generals and lieutenants of the Chinese army. Si Mo said more, and said: "The Seventh Lady Jun has a special cook here, and the Seventeenth Lang Jun's dinner was specially ordered by Lang Jun, and it was made by this Zhao Chef himself." ”

Xiao Yan nodded, the fourth brother treated her very well, she was good from childhood to adulthood, can she blame the fourth brother for her sister's affairs? Xiao Yan smiled bitterly in her heart, she didn't know the taste of food in her mouth, even if this meal was the best meal she had since entering the barracks, she didn't have much appetite. But in order to live up to the fourth brother's wishes, she still ate most of the dishes and used two bowls of polished rice.

"I'll go out for a walk." Xiao Yan only felt that she wore boots and walked around the tent, and when she met the patrolling guards, they all recognized her, and they all smiled and saluted respectfully, "Seventeen Langjun." Xiao Yan talked to them as she walked, and then went to Xiao Chengzhi's tent to talk, and asked about her after she left. The matter of Tingzhou, Lala talked nonsense, and time passed.

At the end of the day, Xiao Yan said goodbye to the guards and returned to Xiao Cong's tent.

After waiting in the tent for more than a quarter of an hour, Xiao Cong returned.

didn't have time to change clothes, so he retired from the waiter and talked to her in detail about what happened after going to the Tianshan Infinite Temple. "Ah Yan blames his brother?" Xiao Cong sighed.

Xiao Yan shook his head and said, "It's not strange. "What right does she have to blame the fourth brother?

In the end, she is too weak to protect the people she wants to protect.

Xiao Yan held the scabbard tightly in the palm of his hand, his thin eyebrows were obliquely raised like a knife, his eyes were bright under his eyebrows, and he was as sharp as a blade at that moment.

"That's what my sister meant, and I won't object to it." She can understand Shen Qingyi's determination, only by becoming stronger, will she not be weak like a shrimp to be bullied, and only when she becomes stronger, can she one day return to the East China Sea and turn into a cloud-swallowing and spitting fog dragon. "We all have our own path," she said slowly. My sister is a disciple of Mr. Sun, so going to the Daomen is not necessarily a bad thing, but it is just ...... ...... in the future"

Xiao Cong said: "I know. Shaw will not be negative. ”

Xiao Yan's fingers rubbed the pattern on the scabbard, thinking that one day she would leave the Xiao family with her mother, if the fourth brother had a negative sister, she would take her with her, and live that day of high seas, the sister would practice medicine if she wanted to, and she would like whoever she wanted, and she would no longer have to be bound by the Shen family and the Xiao family.

She made up her mind, and the sadness in her heart dissipated.

The brother and sister were relatively silent for a while, and Xiao Cong asked how she was in the boot camp.

Xiao Yan picked up the essence and said, the hour will soon come to Xuzheng (eight o'clock in the evening), and the time to make an appointment with Xiao Ji has arrived, "Brother, I have to go back to the camp." She stood up.

"Good. Tonight's password is Guan Shan to the night flute, Qinghe to the nose, and Jin Zhen to the white fang. Xiao Cong told her a few passwords on the way back to the camp, handed her the pass token issued by the Chinese military tent, and got up to send her to the tent gate.

When Xiao Yan came out of the tent, he saw Xiao Jizheng striding over and beckoning to her from a distance.

The two walked back to the camp quickly, met the patrol soldiers all the way, checked the token and put the password on before letting go, and returned to the boot camp tent, Xiao Jicai saw that she had a new leather bag tied around her waist, and said with a smile: "It's beautiful, the fourth cousin sent it?" ”

Mu Fu flew over and snorted, "Look at it and be girly." "He also had a leather bag, made of wolf's skin, and a very rough style.

Xiao Ji sneered at him, "You look shoddy at that glance, this is called exquisite and elegant, understand?" Rough one. ”

Mu Fu was furious and pounced, and the two scuffled again.

Xiao Yan kicked one person in the past, "Go out and practice archery." ”

She picked up the ten-stone hard bow and walked out of the tent, Xiao Ji and Mu Fu snorted at each other, and also took the bow to follow.

The three of them arrived at the shooting range of a regiment's training ground, where a torch basin was lit under the rows of human-shaped haystacks for the illumination of the soldiers who practiced archery at night, and there were still twenty or thirty diligent recruits on the field who were still practicing archery.

Xiao Yan stuck the tip of the quiver on the ground, set up a bowstring, and pulled the string on the arrow. There was a buzzing sound, and the off-string arrow shot straight at the target, and the arrow was deeply embedded in the haystack target, and it looked like the feathered arrow was half a short one. The feathered arrows behind them swished out, piercing around the straw man's heart like a flower, and each arrow penetrated half of it.

Xiao Ji and Mu Fu both felt the murderous aura carried by the arrow, and the two of them touched their hearts at the same time, and they moved two steps away in unison, this person is quite murderous tonight, it is better to stay away.

Yuan Hui and Guo Houze, who were practicing arrows next to them, were all stunned in surprise, and what surprised them was not the precise archery skills of Xiao Yan's arrow, but the position she was standing on, and her amazing eyesight.

The place where the arrow shoots often refers to a hundred steps, so there is a saying that "a hundred steps through Yang", but the bow shooting of the Tang army is more advantageous than that of the previous generation, and the place of one shot refers to one hundred and fifty steps. And the place where Xiao Yan stood was more than two shots, Yuan Hui roughly estimated that there should be three hundred and forty to three hundred and fifty steps! - At this distance, you can shoot arrows to kill the enemy from a mile away.

And it's night!

Guo Houze and Yuan Hui both sighed.

Xiao Ji's gaze swept over, and he made a "shhh" sound on his lips, and Yuan Hui and Guo Houze both nodded. They also felt that there was a murderous aura on Captain Xiao's arrows, and they didn't know who touched this moldy head!

Xiao Yan's hand was very calm, his eyes were as sharp as an arrow cone, and he shot thirty-six arrows in one go, and the arrows in the quiver were empty before stopping. She loosened her strings, stood for a moment, and then stepped forward to collect her arrows. But suddenly a black shadow came out from the side, neatly pulled out the thirty arrows on the grass target, ran over quickly, and stood upright: "Captain, your arrows." ”

Guo Houze heard the voice of the recruit, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he said in his heart: I don't see it, this An Yexi is still a sycophant.

Xiao Yan has good eyesight and good memory, and in the blurred night, he recognized this recruit as the fire commander of the second brigade and the first team of the two fires, born in one of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, his father is a well-known rich merchant in Jingzhou, and his family is very rich, as can be seen from the leather belt and saber he brought, but this rich man is very able to endure hardships and train very diligently.

Xiao Yan softened his complexion and said, "There is Lao Anhuo." ”

Seeing that the group leader remembered him, An Yexi straightened his chest with joy and said, "The subordinates handed arrows to the captain." As he spoke, he put the arrow he was holding in his hand into the quiver, and carefully drew another one and handed it to Xiao Yan.

Xiao Yan was interrupted by this, and most of the depression in his heart had disappeared, and he took the arrow and said: "It's enough to shoot all the pots." Go and practice your own arrows. ”

An Yexi responded with some disappointment, but stood there and didn't go, her expression was a little hesitant, and she looked like she wanted to speak.

Xiao Yan asked, "Do you have anything else?" ”

An Yexi twisted her hands, "Captain, I'...... Can I be your own soldier? ”

Xiao Yan was surprised for a moment and said, "...... Aren't you doing a good job? "According to the system, the recruit lieutenant can have a pro-soldier, but Xiao Yan did not have the intention of pro-soldier because of his gender.

Moreover, generally speaking, the elite of the recruits are reluctant to be the personal soldiers of the regiment leader, because after the formal distribution, the regiment owner is definitely not the regiment master, and the original pro-soldier will also be assigned to a certain fire in the veteran battalion to become an ordinary soldier, it is better to strive to be a new battalion officer, so that the distribution also has some qualifications.

Therefore, An Yexi abandoned the fire and begged to be her personal soldier, Xiao Yan was very surprised, and wondered in her heart: Could it be that An Yexi also guessed that the recruits would build a camp independently?

An Yexi lowered his eyebrows and said: "I will use a Mo knife, a hundred shots in one shot, and I want to follow the captain to learn martial arts and the art of war." He looked up at her quickly, then lowered his head, "I can wash the bedding, wash the clothes, rub the socks, polish the boots, and roast the whole sheep—we have a secret method for roasting the whole sheep, and it is delicious." ”

"Poof!" Xiao Ji, who had been listening, couldn't help laughing.

The corners of Xiao Yan's mouth twitched, so, this is an all-round soldier who can do laundry and cook?

An Yexi looked up at Xiao Yan, her clear eyes were eager, "Captain, just accept me." ”

Xiao Yan really didn't plan to be a pro-soldier, and coughed: "I don't need a pro-soldier now, you can be your fire leader." ”

An Yexi blinked, "Then captain, you will inspect me first, and then consider me when you need to be a soldier?" ”

Xiao Ji walked over, with a sharp light in his eyes, and carefully looked at the fire chief who recommended himself as a soldier, his skin was black - there were few recruits with white skin - but if he looked at it carefully, it was not so black, it was more like a dark brown glowing color, and his skin was very delicate, and when he looked at his facial features, he was very beautiful. The eyes are quite large, and if you look closely, they are clear and shiny, and they are also very beautiful. There is also a wine vortex on each cheek, when you don't smile, it is like a shallow pear flower mark, if you are born on the face of the little lady, it will be very beautiful, and it will grow on the face of this kid, and it will be more cute. Look at that figure again, slender and slender, unlike those five big and three thick men, they are also quite beautiful.

Xiao Jiyi used a few "beautiful" in a row, and felt that this kid had a dark complexion and some skills, otherwise this appearance would be in the new barracks...... Gee. But it's still good to be a seventeen-year-old soldier, at least the face is passable, the figure is passable, wash clothes and rub socks and roast the whole sheep...... Life skills are also passable.

He was thinking while looking at An Yexi, and Xiao Yan had already said to An Yexi: "You go first, and we'll talk about the soldiers later." ”

An Yexi saluted and said, "Yes, Captain." He saluted Xiao Ji again, and went back to practice archery with some trepidation.

When he returned to the camp, Xiao Ji turned Xiao Yan and said, "That An Yexi looks good, you will always have a personal soldier in the future, you might as well consider it." ”

Xiao Yan hesitated for a moment and said, "Let's talk about it." ”

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