Chapter 106: The Heart of the Army

Zheng Qingluan and his entourage went straight to the Shuai Mansion along the most prosperous street in the border city. The Marshal's Mansion is the residence of the masters of the Xiao family in the border city in the past dynasties, and it also has the function of handling military affairs. Located in the very center of the border city, it covers a vast area. The building is also completely different from ordinary housing, more like a small city. Outside the wall is a river more than a zhang wide, and on the river facing the main gate, a suspension bridge is built, and ordinary people can easily not even approach the gate. Standing on the other side of the river, I could only see that the gate was made of unknown metal, shining with a black and cold light. It is more than ten meters high, seven or eight meters wide, and the door is inlaid with the pattern of two tigers, which is majestic and intimidating. The wall is made of stone, and there are five or six stories high, and there is a main building on it, and the arrow tower and gate tower are built on it, and the urn city between the buildings is used by the soldiers. Just by looking at the scale of a few buildings, you can guess that the wall is close to ten meters thick!

Zheng Qingluan stood on the other side of the river and looked at this small city called Shuaifu, and his heart was really a little shocked! Where is this mansion, it is clearly a war defense building! Originally, he planned to hide those two hundred female guards, but now it seems that it will not work! How can such a large Shuai Mansion be done without guards?

"Master!" Xiao Er stood behind Zheng Qingluan and whispered, "I wonder if there is someone on the other side?" means that you have to wait for the suspension bridge to be lowered on the opposite side before you can pass.

Zheng Qingluan looked at the place where he was standing, it was a very large and extremely empty square, and no one dared to cross the small steps in the crowd outside the square. She looked across the side and didn't move.

"Bring a bow and arrow!" Zheng Qingluan looked at the double tigers on the gate, remembered what Xiao Yunfeng had explained, and silently took out a rusty arrow from the quiver and put it on the string. This is a test, even if the children of the Xiao family can't do this, they are not allowed to enter the Shuai Mansion. And Zheng Qingluan, the arrow on the female tiger, has been sealed for a hundred years.

Draw the bow, aim, release, and shoot the arrows into the small hole in the female tiger's forehead with the sound of breaking the wind.

The location of this small hole is extremely secret, and those who don't know the secret must not think that this is a mechanism! A special arrow shoots into the small hole, and when the switch is touched, the suspension bridge is naturally lowered, and the door opens automatically. To be able to do this, several conditions must be met at the same time: first, the hidden location of the hole must be known. This location is not visible at all, it can only be passed on by word of mouth, and it is not wrong at all. Second, you must hold an arrow! There are two arrows, one for each male and female. Third, you must have the ability to wear Yang in 100 steps. Fourth, a stable mentality! Because there is only one chance! If you miss, the arrow will remain on the other side of the river, and there is no possibility of doing it all over again.

Until the arrow cluster is not in the doorway. Zheng Qingluan breathed a sigh of relief.

And the people who followed her couldn't help but hold their breath and gasp! I couldn't understand what my master was doing? Can an arrow have so much strength to pass through the gate?

At this moment, I saw the suspension bridge slowly lowered, and the gate slowly opened, making a dull sound.

Not only Zheng Qingluan and his entourage were dumbfounded. The entire border city seemed to freeze at this moment.

I haven't heard this voice for more than ten years! This means that the Xiao family is back!

Zheng Qingluan turned over and got on her horse, "Enter the house!" There was a hint of hoarseness in her voice, and there was a little sourness in her heart! How many years has this dusty door been waiting for before it can be reopened!

In the camp of the Xiao family's army, groups of soldiers were practicing. In the big tent, the generals were sitting together discussing something.

But as soon as the sound passed, it was as if a pot had exploded, and a thousand words were combined into one sentence, "The master is back!"

"The master is back!

"The master is back!

Xiao Zhiming is a family general who was given a surname by the main family. The general, who can govern the border city of Xiao's army on behalf of the marshal's mansion. Below, there is the left general Li Zhiqian, and the right general Guo Zhishen assisted. The three legs stand together, they are horns of each other, and they compete with each other and supervise each other. The border city is basically stable.

The three of them glanced at each other, and then lowered their eyes in unison. No one knows what they are thinking!

The soldiers and civilians in the city were silent for a moment, looking at each other and chatting! After that, the previous liveliness resumed! To the current people, the Xiao family was more like an unattainable myth than a guardian! Ten years was enough time for people to forget the glory of the past!

Zheng Qingluan rode on a horse and slowly walked into the house! Her heart fluctuated! She had to make the people in the border city think of the Xiao family again, remember the Xiao family!

Passing through the gate, there is a martial arts arena. Although the vermilion gate has been dimmed and the cornices have been mottled with moss, it still shows signs of being taken care of.

The vermilion door slowly opened from the inside, and a one-armed old man, dressed in black, walked out of it! Behind him was a lame woman in her forties! Both of them knelt down, "Welcome master!"

Zheng Qingluan dared to accept their big gifts, hurriedly avoided them, and personally helped them up! The identities of these two people are not as simple as they seem! "I have suffered all these years!"

The two of them took advantage of the situation, looked Zheng Qingluan up and down, the old man's expression was complicated, and he sighed, "It's a good luck, it's hard to survive!"

"Uncle Wu, why do you make me embarrassed when you say this?" Zheng Qingluan helped him to walk inside.

No uncle. In fact, it is the eldest son of Old Man Xiao! In every generation of the Xiao family, there is such a person who stays in the shadows! There is no surname, only a code name 'None'. This is the secret of the Xiao family, and Xiao Yunfeng only explained it before leaving Beijing. In other words, this person is Xiao Yunfeng's uncle! An uncle who cheated to death when he was five years old.

Sometimes, Zheng Qingluan really admires the ancients! For the sake of the family, many children make such and such sacrifices, which can be called endurance and humiliation, without regrets!

"It's been a hundred years!" the old man looked back at the empty training ground, as if reminiscing about the old days.

"Let's go, old man, it's going to be fine!" it was Aunt Wu who spoke, and she looked at Zheng Qingluan's eyes with kindness.

Zheng Qingluan did not live in the front yard, and only chose a side yard as a living place in the backyard.

The front yard is where military affairs are handled. Zheng Qingluan chose the side hall as the living room to meet the guests and handle affairs.

The first thing was to let Chu Jiu send a message and order the guards to quickly assemble at the Shuaifu! After Zheng Qingluan finished freshening up and had a rather distinctive lunch, the guard battalion had already arrived. Chu Jiu came with Tianyi, the leader of the guards this time.

Tianyi was a thin young man of twenty-four or five years old, with a somewhat feminine complexion. Zheng Qingluan was stunned when he saw him!, "Why are you? Isn't it Huofeng with a female guard battalion?"

"The master has an order, let his subordinates bring enough three hundred guards, secretly escort the master!and protect the master's safety in the border city!" Tianyi's tone was flat, so that people couldn't hear the joy and anger, "Before tomorrow morning, all the staff will be here! Huofeng is arranging duty, and it will be like the master's report for a while." ”

Zheng Qingluan was a little surprised, so many people were protected in the dark, but she didn't find out, which shows that she does have some real skills. So he nodded, indicating that he understood. Then he asked, "Then your master will go to the south, who will follow?"

"Dishuang! He led people to protect him secretly!" Tianyi didn't hide it at all. has nothing to hide from her own hostess.

"Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang! It turns out that this is the arrangement!" Zheng Qingluan said secretly in his heart. She thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll hand over the Shuai Mansion to you!

Zheng Qingluan was in the mood to lie on the couch. Embroidered clothes skillfully arrange the room back and forth, tidying things. The medicine pestle cleaned up the study alone. One hundred and one stayed by Zheng Qingluan's side, one serving tea and pouring water, and the other running errands back and forth to pass the word. There is also a clear division of labor.

"Call Xiao Er and them!" Zheng Qingluan thought about it, but still sat up, there are some things that have to be done first.

"Yes!" Hundred and Two, turning and leaving. She has a jumpy personality, and she is more suitable for errand work than the calm Baiyi.

Baiyi poured a cup of hot tea and handed it over, "I'm new here, and I don't know if you're used to the water here!

Zheng Qingluan took a sip absentmindedly, "There is some earthy smell!

As he was talking, Baier reported that Xiao Er and others had arrived. But the looks of a few people are not very good-looking!

"What's wrong?" Zheng Qingluan asked, "But what's not going to be good?"

"Master!" Xiao Jiu had a pleasing baby face, but his face was also pale at this time. "These things, betraying the master and forgetting the sect! According to the rules, they should immediately order troops to see the master, but there is no movement until now! What do you mean? I turned against them!"

"Xiao Jiu!" Xiao Er scolded, "Don't stop talking! How can we criticize the generals?"

Zheng Qingluan smiled, "What Xiao Jiu said is not wrong! let them do it, but don't let others say it?" The words changed and said, "However, this is also what we expected!"

"Please show me!" Xiao Er bowed down and asked.

"Daughters-in-law are used to being the masters of the house, who is impatient to serve their mother-in-law!

"It's okay!" Xiao Wu had a simple face, but his mind was the most cunning, "It's not wrong for the master to do this! After all, how long we can stay in the border city is still unknown." If the time is too short, even if you snatch it, what is the use? The influence of ten years cannot be cut off overnight! I am afraid that in the end we will have to return it! It is better not to touch it at all! It is not in our best interest to let them continue to maintain balance!"

"But you can't do nothing, right?" Xiao San asked rhetorically, still a little indignant.

"Do it! Of course you have to do it!" Zheng Qingluan put down the cup in his hand, nodded at Xiao Wu, affirmed his thoughts, and then continued, "An army, the most important thing is the military heart! Only by winning the heart of the army, then the military power is in whose hands!"