It gets dark late on the Tibetan Plateau, and the sun doesn't set until the end of May.

Xiao Yan returned to the camp before it was dark, and her tent was still in the first regiment, but it was upgraded to the "main tent". Although the treatment of the Hexi Army is not as good as that of the Central Forbidden Army, the treatment of the Tang Army is much better than that of the previous dynasties, and the officers above the battalion general level have a main account and a deputy account, and the general lives in the main account alone, and the personal soldiers and followers live in the deputy account. Xiao Yan was promoted to deputy battalion general, and according to the system, there can be six personal soldiers and one retinue - the personal soldier is responsible for protecting the safety of the battalion general and the orders and documents in the battalion on the battlefield, and the entourage is doing miscellaneous work, and the two have their own duties, unlike the captain's personal soldier chores - but Xiao Yan only accepted one personal soldier, not an entourage, so this personal soldier is also a part-time entourage. The personal soldier that Xiao Yan received was An Yexi. The reason why she was finally accepted as a personal soldier was not because she couldn't stop her tiredness, but because Xiao Yan had a deputy account, and An Yexi would not affect her daily life; Moreover, letting such a beautiful woman live with several men, Xiao Yan was still a little unbearable. But it is precisely because of this consideration that she accepted An Yexi as a pro-soldier, so it is not good to accept other pro-soldiers. In the eyes of others, this has become the expression of "Deputy Captain Xiao really loves An Yexi" - it really makes Xiao Yan speechless.

But with An Yexi, her daily life is indeed much more convenient, at least someone does things like washing clothes, fetching water, scrubbing the bath bucket, etc. When she entered the account, An Yexi was folding her clothes, and when she heard the sound, she turned around, got up and saluted, and said, "Deputy Captain." ”

Xiao Yan only said "um", casually took off the domed red tasseled iron helmet on his head and handed it to her.

An Yexi took the helmet and smiled, thinking to himself that the deputy lieutenant seemed to be in a bad mood, could it be that he was called by the governor to reprimand? No, the deputy lieutenant's command on the battlefield has been excellent recently, and even Captain Xu praised that "the fifth regiment has been reborn"! She was puzzled but didn't ask much, put her helmet on the side of the pillow made of leather mattresses, picked up the leather bag filled with water, poured a glass of cold water and handed it to the desk in front of Xiao Yan.

Most of the cases built into the marching tent are cedar wood, because they are light, and the horses do not account for much weight when they are transported. The cup for drinking water is also made of bamboo, which is light and not easy to break. Xiao Yan picked up the bamboo cup and drank all the water in one gulp, put the water cup aside, his fingers unconsciously rubbed the primary color fir table, thinking about things, and his two slender eyebrows frowned slightly.

She is also wearing the iron leaf armor of a battalion-level officer, weighing more than 30 pounds, even if she does not go to the battlefield to lead the troops to practice, she also has to wear armor, usually the first thing she does when she returns to the account is to remove the armor, at this time because of something on her mind, she forgot to enter the account and take off the armor. An Yexi glanced at her, first put the folded robe on the couch into the cage, got up and knelt behind her, and undressed her.

Although An Yexi has only been Xiao Yan's personal soldier for more than ten days, he is already proficient in this iron leaf armor. When she first unarmed, she was not very honest, she touched her hands, and was glared at by Xiao Yan and said, "Next time, I will throw you out of the account like this", and it was really the second time that Xiao Yan carried it with one hand and threw it out of the account, which made the partners of the first and fifth regiments laugh for several days, An Yexi saw Xiao Yan's "cold face and ruthlessness", and decisively stopped hooking up with her, saving more and more doubts about her beauty, and her self-confidence was about to fall into slag, okay.

An Yexi undressed her very properly, put it on the side of the couch one by one, and got up to go back to the deputy account. The main account and the sub-account are connected, only separated by two curtains, and there is no need to put on and take off boots when entering and exiting, which is very convenient. An Yexi took the hot goat's milk from the water warmer on the stove and handed it to Xiao Yan's case. Soldiers in the army have a cup of cow and goat's milk every day for breakfast, and officers above the rank of lieutenant will also be served a cup of milk for dinner. Xiao Yan doesn't have much of a hobby for goat milk, just for long-term use, but she is used to drinking it before going to bed.

Xiao Yan picked up the goat's milk and drank it, and handed the bowl to An Yexi. An Yexi put away the bowl, fetched water for her to wash her face, then handed her bristle toothbrush and a green salt box, waited for her to rinse her mouth with a basin, and changed the footbasin to fetch water. Xiao Yan leaned over and washed his feet, took the cloth towel handed by An Yexi to wipe the water, put on the relief shoes, looked up and said to her, "You go and rest, you don't have to wait." ”

An Yexi responded with "yes", glanced at her, hesitated, and said, "Does the deputy lieutenant want to write?" Shall I polish the ink for you? ”

Xiao Yan was used to writing notes at night, remembering what she saw, as well as her feelings about military training, etc., but she was not in the mood to write notes tonight, but she thought that she should write a letter to her fourth brother and sister, and send it to Tingzhou with the team that delivered medicine, so she nodded and said, "It's okay." One inch of grinding is enough, don't waste too much. ”

An Yexi responded, poured water on the wooden basin, dripped water into the inkstone, knelt beside the desk, took the pine smoke ink strip and began to grind.

Xiao Yan laid out the letter paper, wrote a letter to the fourth brother first, and said something about the general. Xiao Cong joined the army as a soldier of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, saying that things in the army were not considered overstepping, and Xiao Cong's previous replies often guided her training, although the two did not see each other for a while, their relationship did not decrease. Xiao Yan briefly mentioned the incident in the army this month, and focused on persuading his brother not to enter the field that had been infected with the plague plague, and to do his best to the epidemic, but it would not be cost-effective to fold himself in. Her fourth brother has compassion for Li Shu, which is a good thing, but too much compassion is not necessarily a good thing, Xiao Yan is really worried that her fourth brother will go to the field in person; Besides, the fourth brother is not a doctor, so what's the use of going!

But Shen Qingyi is different.

Xiao Yan is really worried about her sister.

The fourth brother has no need and should not go to the field, but Shen Qingyi, as a doctor who treats the epidemic, will go to Tingzhou with the Daomen, and he will definitely enter the epidemic area.

Because of this concern, when Xiao Yan wrote a letter to Shen Qingyi, he was really heavy, and he had more words to advise, and when he looked back, it was not like the letter written by his sister to his sister, but it seemed to be the opposite. Xiao Yan muttered in her heart, maybe her sister was going to frown when she read this letter, she trembled in her heart, but she didn't rub the letter and rewrite it, and couldn't help sighing, "Alas! "It's a real concern.

She folded the two letters into the same letter, and marked the letter to Shen Qingyi with a "氵" on the back, and Xiao Cong understood it at a glance. So he asked An Yexi to take the fire paint wax stick, lit the core with a lamp and candle, and sealed it with wax. Seeing that there was still ink in the inkstone, she thought about it, so she spread out the letter again and wrote a letter to her mother.

Although her letters to her mother are written from time to time, they can only be sent once a month, although her father and Hezhou have fast horses to deliver military letters back and forth every few days, but Xiao Yan is not good at abusing the privilege of "accompanying family letters" too much - privileges can be used, but there must be measure, this is the education that children from families must receive, without this kind of education, the family has declined; What has not yet declined will decline sooner or later.

Xiao Yan wrote two pages of paper in Yu Mo, put them into a letter to his mother—it was already a thick one—and calculated the days in his heart, and he could send them the day after tomorrow.

Thinking of the family letter, she felt a little unhappy.

Mother never writes to her, every time Qi Niang and Shang Qi write a reply, which contains the words that her mother gave her, usually a few sentences, not a few lines, mostly written by Qi Niang and Shang Qi: Qi Niang mostly talks about the trivial matters of Qingning Courtyard, and idles about what her mother did and said; Shang Qi's reply was mainly to answer her questions about martial arts. But the four replies after the start of this year were shorter than before. Her mother's words to her were only four words in the first letter after the year: "The road is for yourself", and there were no words after that; Qi Niang said that she was going out, as short as three months, as long as half a year, why did she go out and didn't say; Shang Qi no longer answered the questions in her letter from the second letter after the year, but wrote short sentences like a proverbial sentence to make her realize herself. Xiao Yan had a feeling that something was wrong, maybe Qi Niang's unprecedented outing made her suspicious - what was the matter? Maybe it was Shang Qi's reply that became short and unanswered, which made Xiao Yan feel less concerned about her than before. This may be because of a gap between the long letter and the text message, Xiao Yan only felt that he thought too much in the past, and the thoughts were pressed together, which would be because he was in a bad mood, but he felt that his heart was like a layer of haze, and he couldn't stretch out.

Because of the bad mood, Xiao Yan didn't go to bed immediately, gossiped with An Yexi, and asked some about her family, only to know that An Yexi came to join the army without her father, the reason was to "escape marriage", to be precise, she didn't want to be sent by her father to Jingzhou Assassin Shi as a concubine.

It just so happens that several of her elder brothers do not want to serve in the military when they reach the age - according to the military law of the Tang Dynasty, there are conscription and conscription, recruitment is voluntary to join the army, and conscription is a soldier who serves in the military, stipulating that if each household has more than two sons, one son should be drawn to serve in the army for five years, and those who do not want to serve in the military can be exempted from military service with "military service money". But the military law also stipulates that if there are more than four sons in the family, one must join the army, and no money can be paid to exempt from military service: An Yexi's father has many wives and concubines, and many children, she has five elder brothers above her, and a younger brother who is fifteen years old.

As long as An Yexi is meritorious in the army, it is not a big crime to conceal her gender to join the army, anyway, a woman can also be called Ding, and the An family asks at most a crime of "impostor", which is not a major crime of bullying the monarch - but this premise is that An Yexi has made meritorious contributions. Therefore, even if An Yexi's father was furious after she "escaped marriage", he did not dare to go to the army to explain the truth and ask her back. And if An Yexi has meritorious service in the army and has a military position, her father will not be able to send her to be a concubine, otherwise she will be guilty of "blaspheming the army".

“…… In this way, An Yexi is your third brother's name? Xiao Yan asked her, "Then what is your original name?" ”

An Yexi smiled and said, "This will be my name in the future." The military service post is only fixed to the household, and I use the name of the fifth brother, because he has little contact, and there are not many people outside who know him. In order not to show his stuffing, his father could only let the fifth brother change his name, ha! She smirked, two deep swirls of wine on her cheeks.

"And what was your original name?" Xiao Yan asked with a smile.

An Yexi twisted her fingers, "Ye Na." ”

"Huh?"

An Yexi took a pen and wrote these two words on the paper, "Yena, the Sogdian language is 'the favorite person'. There was a bit of sarcasm in her tone, "My aunt is the most beautiful of my Aya's concubines, so she gave me this name to indicate my favorite daughter." ”

If you are your favorite daughter, how can you treat her like a commodity?

The so-called "favorite" is just that she inherited her mother's beauty, and the price is higher when she waits for the price, so it is given to the assassin history, not a petty official.

If it weren't for her mother's guards who taught her how to shoot with a bow and arrow, she would not have been able to persuade her third brother to agree, and she would not have been able to protect herself in the army with her strength.

But she still has to worry from time to time that the secrets of her body will be discovered, so she wants to be Xiao Yan's personal soldier. After being discovered by Xiao Yan, she was relieved, because Xiao Yan was the "nephew" of the military master, and if she knew, it would be equivalent to filing with the military master, and the crime of concealing gender would be smaller in the future.

Now that she had made it clear about her replacement in the army, she was even more relieved, leaned over and said, "Deputy Captain, you have to intercede with me in front of the general at that time." ”

Of course, the general she said was Xiao Yu, the military lord of the Jingnan Army - when the generals in the army called "general" without adding their surnames, they mostly referred to the military master.

Xiao Yan snorted, "Dare you to pester me as my own soldier, it's this idea." ”

"How can it?" An Yexi blinked, "I really admire you. ”

"Yes!" Xiao Yan made a stop gesture, "Don't admire." - It's getting late, let's take a break. ”

An Yexi responded with a smile "Yes", blinked again, and said, "The deputy lieutenant is in a better mood?" ”

Xiao Yan secretly accepted her kindness and said, "It's much better." With An Yexi's gossip, the haze in her heart has dissipated.

An Yexi got up to fetch water and served her to clean her hands before returning to the deputy account.

Xiao Yan took off his clothes and went to bed, meditated cross-legged, his heart was calm, and there were no more distractions.

After two quarters of an hour, she withdrew from meditation, and before falling asleep, she thought to herself: Princess Jinyang should have defeated Tashina, right?

The war in Tibet will end as soon as possible, and she will be able to return home as soon as possible.

The author has something to say: There are many things at the end of the year, and there are various summaries at the end of the Gregorian calendar, and there will be many ~ writing articles will be affected.

Recently, I was reviewing "Emperor Yongzheng", and some books were read, put aside, and I will pick them up and read them after a while. In the past, I used to write dashes less often, but later I used more dashes, which seems to be influenced by "Emperor Yongzheng" (laughs...... In fact, the main influence is the grand structure, the many characters and the profound portrayal.

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