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Shangguan Xiu didn't think about it, lifted the wine jar, poured a bowl of wine, and saluted the old man in the air, saying, "Respect the seniors!" After speaking, he raised his head, and another big bowl of wine went down. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The toast in the army does not pay attention to subtlety, but only pays attention to refreshing. Shangguan Xiu drank so much, which made the veterans even more excited.

Representatives of veterans from all over the country walked up to Shangguan Xiu and took turns to toast. Shangguan Xiu does not refuse to come, and if there is respect, there will be a return, and after only a while, the jar of wine beside him is almost at the bottom.

The expression on Bei Xiu's face didn't change, but his face was flushed, and his eyes were still bright, but An Rongchu, who was standing behind him, and Shangguan Xiu's figure sitting on the mat was already swaying slightly.

She leaned forward, bent down, approached Shangguan Xiu's ear, and whispered, "My lord, can't you drink anymore?"

Shangguan Xiu glanced back at her, and said in a dissatisfied voice: "How can there be a place for your women's family to talk?

Hearing this, An Rong pursed her lips without leaving a trace, now Shangguan Xiu does not discriminate against her identity as a Ningnan person, but begins to discriminate against her gender. She muttered in her heart, the emperor of your wind country is still a woman, why didn't you see you to reprimand the emperor?

Shangguan Xiu and the veterans pushed and changed their glasses, drinking and drinking, and even he couldn't remember how many bowls of wine he had drunk.

At this time, a middle-aged veteran who was drunk and red staggered to Shangguan Xiu's approach, and said with a straight tongue: "Big ...... Adult, villain...... Can the villain salute the adult with a bowl?"

"Okay! Seniors toast, how dare Xiu not drink? Xiu Xian did it as a respect!" Shangguan Xiu picked up the wine bowl and drank it all.

The middle-aged veteran was not ambiguous, and drank all the wine in the bowl. Then he swayed from side to side twice, and fell to the ground with a pop, and everyone around him laughed when they saw this.

Soon a gendarme came over and carried the drunken veteran down. Now the work of the gendarmes is basically to carry away the veterans who are too drunk to fall to the ground.

An old man not far away bowed his hand to Shangguanxiu and said: "The old man is over sixty years old, his children and grandchildren are full, and he has no worries, the biggest regret in this life is that he failed to follow the adults to gallop on the battlefield, I don't know, can the adults accept the old man again and go to fight for the country!"

When Shangguan Xiu heard this, he raised his eyes to the old man, and said meaningfully: "The power that the predecessors should serve the country has already been effective, and now is the time for the seniors to retire in their old age, fight for the country, gallop on the battlefield, let the young people do it!"

"My lord, but I am old, I think the old man can't move?" The old man is also a stubborn bull temper, he stood up suddenly, patted his chest and said: "In front of the adults, the old man didn't dare to talk big, thinking that back then, the old man was in the army, after a battle, he cut ten enemies, not a problem, even now," he looked around at the gendarmes on both sides, and said proudly: "Young people like them, two or three can't get to the old man's approach." If you don't believe it, you can compare your wrist strength with the old man!"

Xiao Jue frowned, and was about to reprimand, but Shangguan Xiu laughed on his back, stood up from the bedding, and said, "Why not?" While speaking, he walked up to the old man and really shook his wrist with him.

The old man is not a spiritual cultivator, he only has brute strength, and his strength is naturally far inferior to Shangguan Xiu. The latter's arm stood erect in the air, and no matter how hard the old man tried, he couldn't pull it in the slightest. Of course, Shangguan Xiu didn't use any force to pull the old man's arm.

When the old man was tired and panting, he let go of Shangguan Xiu's hand, the two seemed to be on equal footing, and no one won anyone, but the old man knew in his heart that Shangguan Xiu did not exert any strength at all. He was convinced: "My lord is a martial artist, and the old man is ashamed of himself." ”

Shangguan Xiu said with a smile: "The seniors should be old and strong, but the show is not as good as the seniors!"

The old man's eyes were red, and he muttered, "I really want to...... I really want to be dozens of years younger and follow the adults to fight! Even if I die on the battlefield and the horse leather shroud, I have no regrets in this life!

"Don't hide it from the adults, the old man has four sons under his knees, the second son was martyred, more than ten grandchildren, one grandson died in a national war, and the third grandson died in a second national war......"

The old man is not the only one who has the same experience, and many veterans around him feel the same way, thinking of their children and grandchildren who died on the battlefield, their hearts are like knives, and they have tears with their cuffs.

In the ten counties of Zhenjun, with so many people, in the two national wars, the Zhenjun army lost hundreds of thousands of people, and almost more than half of the families had sacrificed their lives for the country.

When Shangguan Xiu heard this, his heart was also sour, and the sadness on the faces of many veterans, and then touching the thick calluses on the palms of the old men, he didn't know why, he couldn't control his emotions anymore, and tears were dripping down.

"Don't worry, as long as the adult is still in command of the Zhenjun army, as long as I have a son and a grandson in the family, I will let him join the army!" "My Zhenjun has never been afraid of death!" "The adult is kind to Zhenjun, and the Zhenren are also willing to go to the soup for the adult." ”

"The people of its county, they all say that the adults are cruel and unreasonable, they are traitors, and they are the eagle dogs of the court, and we never believe that as long as the adults issue a recruitment order, even if there are only us and other old people left in Zhenjun, they will fight to the death for the adults!"

Listening to the voices of the veterans around him one after another, Shangguan Xiu straightened his clothes, suddenly knelt down on one knee, and said with a sad expression: "Xiu Bucai, led the Zhenjun soldiers, two expeditions to Ningnan, returned twice in vain, and returned with a feather, I don't know how many loyal souls and righteous people buried their bones in other places, but failed to recover an inch of their homeland and lost land, Xiu is ashamed of the Zhenjun fathers, and even more ashamed of the ancestors of the gale, this is Xiu's fault, the ancestors of the past dynasties, under the nine springs, it will be difficult to look ......." Speaking of this, unconsciously, he was already in tears, and he couldn't cry.

Shangguan Xiu has never been an emotional person, and he has never cried easily in front of people, but now, he just can't help it, the veterans on the field, just like the elders in the family, reveal their true feelings, at this moment, he is just a child with a weak heart.

In the Second National War, when he led the army to evacuate Ningnan and passed near Tianjing, he had to go to Tianjing to fight a battle, and he had to use a musket to shoot Tianjing City.

Others are being rude and willful, but who knows how much sadness, unwillingness, disappointment and powerlessness are contained in that shot. has the intention to kill the enemy and is unable to return to the sky, which is a portrayal of his mood at that time, and also a portrayal of his current mood.

For him, no amount of gold, silver and jewelry is as important as regaining his homeland.

Shangguanxiu knelt on the ground, crying uncontrollably, infecting the members of the gendarmerie around him, and also infected every veteran present, and people knelt on the ground one after another, crying everywhere.

I don't know how long it took, but Xiao Jue and Wu Yufei stepped forward and helped Shangguan Xiu up.

In the crowd, the national anthem of the Wind Country, the Great Wind Song, soon sounded.

"The country is in trouble, I should go to war, the horse leather shroud, strengthen my majesty!" The song was tragic, and people sang it over and over again, and the song was high-pitched, almost resounding all over Xijing City.

Xin Jicheng, who has not yet left Xijing, is in a restaurant near Chimelong Street. He booked a private room on the third floor of the restaurant, and the direction of the window was facing Chimelong Street, although it was far away, but it could also be approximated.

He was joined in the box by several young men and women.

One of the women was a few years younger than him, and her appearance was very similar to his, and her beautiful little face exuded a heroic aura. She is Xin Jicheng's sister and the eldest lady of the Xin family, Xin Jiyao.

Xin Jiyao's identity in Ningnan is much more prominent than Xin Jicheng, she is the eldest granddaughter of the old patriarch of the Xin family, the title of duke, the general of Zhengxi, the post of former general, in charge of the Zhengxi Group Army (the 1456th Army of the Central Army of Ningnan).

If Shangguan Xiu is the murderer of the Wind Country, then Xin Jiyao is a well-deserved murderer in Ningnan.

Her concept of leading the army to fight is to attack a city, slaughter a city, attack a country, and slaughter a country. The strength of the western and western countries of Ningnan should not be underestimated after the formation of the alliance, but since its establishment, it has only invaded Ningnan once. That time, the coalition army of the nations was killed by the army of the expedition to the west under the command of Xin Jiyao, and returned defeated, Xin Jiyao did not give up, and retaliated and led the army to attack the Mo Yin country in the Western countries, and captured the capital of the Mo Yin country in one fell swoop. For several years, the western part of Ningnan was peaceful, and even though it was directly facing the powerful alliance of Western countries, not a single soldier dared to attack.

It can be said that Ningnan dared to shift all his energy to the east and attack the country of Feng, which was directly related to Xin Jiyao's defense of the west to deter the western countries and avoid Ningnan's worries.

This time, Xin Jiyao hid from the court and at home, and secretly came to the Wind Country with his brother. She is very interested in Shangguan Xiu, and wants to see what kind of three heads and six arms Shangguan Xiu has, which can turn the huge Haotian upside down and make the court helpless.

When Shangguan Xiu met Xin Jicheng, Xin Jiyao was also present, but she was mixed in with the subordinates at the time, took the Scattered Spirit Pill in advance, and also made a disguise, plus her third brother looked really shocking and crying ghosts, everyone present at that time paid attention to Xin Jicheng, and no one paid much attention to her.

At this time, Xin Jicheng stood in front of the window, looking at Chimelong Street in the distance, listening to the bursts of singing, his face was solemn, and his brows were tightly locked.

Xin Jiyao walked to his side, the white jade soft water gently rested on his shoulder, and asked with a smile, "What is the third brother?"

Xin Jicheng came back to his senses, turned his head, let out a breath of turbidity, and said, "Terrifying." ”

"Terrifying?" Xin Jiyao snorted and laughed, and said softly: "Third brother thinks such a group of old men who have half of their bodies buried in the soil are terrifying?"

Xin Jicheng shook his head slowly, his eyes fell on Chimelong Street again, and said word by word: "Of course, the veteran is not terrifying, what is terrifying is the cohesion of the wind people. And this is exactly what my Haotian lacks. ”

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