On the wide and straight official road, two people walked from south to north.

The man leading the horse was in his early forties, with a short beard and a short shirt, and except for a slightly fairer face, he looked no different from an ordinary peddler's pawn.

The one in the back is much more eye-catching, at the age of fourteen or fifteen, with red lips and white teeth, a gray outfit lined with extremely pink face, the hair on the top of his head is tied into a bun, wrapped with gold and silver double-strand twisted ropes, and the end of the rope is also decorated with jade, which is worth a lot of money at a glance.

The young man's eyes are translucent, like a porcelain doll carved in pink and jade, he looks very pleasing, and the long sword he carries behind him adds a bit of heroism to his handsome appearance.

……

The middle-aged man wore ordinary cloth shoes and walked like a fly, while the young man stepped on a pair of short boots, and the workmanship should be the same as his head rope, which was a rare object that was not cheap.

Although the young man is dressed a lot more elegantly than the middle-aged man, but he is not so comfortable to walk, after a long journey, his forehead has long seen sweat, and his pace at the beginning is quite neat at the moment as if it is filled with lead, and it can be seen from his grinning expression that at least three or four large blisters have been ground out on the soles of his feet.

Even so, the boy still didn't say a word, and followed the man not far or close, until he walked forward for nearly an hour, and finally a small town appeared in front of him.

The two led their horses into the town and walked down the dilapidated streets, attracting a lot of attention along the way, most of them looking at teenagers.

In the poor countryside, it is rare to see such a handsome child, especially some aunts who buy vegetables, seeing that the teenagers are all envious, they only hate their own thin fields and poor seeds, and they can't give birth to such good-looking boys, and some girls who are just starting to fall in love only dare to hide from their parents and peek at this stranger.

The middle-aged man leading the horse couldn't help but quip:

"Those girls probably won't be able to eat or drink for months."

The young man was still angry because the other party didn't let him ride a horse, and he didn't want to take a stubble at all, so he limped towards the restaurant in front of him, and the middle-aged man just smiled when he saw this.

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The restaurant in the small town, even if there is only one, is still a door, the guy listlessly waved a handkerchief to drive away flies, heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the door and didn't move his buttocks, the shopkeeper on the side saw this and kicked him on the stool, and the guy reluctantly got up and went out.

"Guest officer, eat or stay in the hotel?"

"Eat."

The young man put it down, and he didn't turn his head back into the store, and the middle-aged man who followed him arched his hand towards Xiao Er and said:

"This little brother, please help us take care of the horses, and by the way, come to a few specialties of your store."

As he spoke, he handed over a piece of broken silver, "The rest is counted as little brother's hard-earned money." ”

The guy who was originally ignored by the young man was secretly a little unhappy, and planned to add some condiments to the meal of the two of them later, but when he saw Yinzi at this moment, he immediately smiled, nodded and invited the man into the store.

……

The young man sat by the window, turned his head to look out of the window, didn't say a word, didn't intend to deal with the other party at all, the man had long been used to it, sat opposite by himself, and said:

"How do you feel about this trip?"

"It's boring, I can't even see a path-cutting thief on the road."

"There is no better, it shows that now our dynasty is peaceful and peaceful, and everyone lives and works in peace and contentment."

After the man finished speaking, he poured a cup of tea for himself and the other party, and then continued:

"Do you think that the rivers and lakes are really like the storyteller's mouth, where masters are everywhere and immortals fight? Tell you, the real rivers and lakes are like this, so bland that they are a little boring, and there are no peerless masters, but they are too rare.

Don't blame your father's verbosity, you have to be careful when you wander the rivers and lakes alone in the future, don't wear such dazzling eyes, not to mention that it is easy to be tied to the mountain by the green forest woman to be the husband of the village, even those men with special fetishes can't control it, those guys don't know how to pity the fragrance and cherish the jade......"

Before the man could finish speaking, the young man suddenly turned his head, looked at him with a slight frown, pondered for a while, and finally sighed and turned his head again.

The man, who was quite familiar with the temper of the young man, knew what this sigh meant, and couldn't help but speak:

"You kid, your father is just passing on the experience of those who have come before, and you don't like to listen to it like that? It's all to blame for your mother and your grandmother who usually spoil you at home, and if you don't say a good word, you will put on a face, and they all say that your son is a creditor in the previous life, and I really owe you a son. ”

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When the man was talking endlessly, Xiao Er had already come over with the food, and after hearing the conversation between the two, he knew that it was the father who was reprimanding his son, so he didn't say much, and silently put down the meal and left.

There were outsiders present, and the man couldn't say anything more, but he tapped the bowl with chopsticks and said:

"Hurry up and eat, and continue to hurry after eating."

The young man was unmoved, and said leisurely:

"Knocking on the bowl when eating, the old age is miserable."

"Stinky boy, do you like to eat or not!"

The middle-aged man said, taking the food directly into his arms, not looking like a father at all.

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After lunch, while taking advantage of the rest, the man asked the shopkeeper about the pressure of the Northern Turkistan army, and only then did he know that the official road troops have been frequently dispatched recently, and according to many people who began to migrate south, the two armies have faced off on the Kaipingwei side.

Kaipingwei is still some distance from here, so it has not been affected by the war, but if the dynastic army is defeated, the town is estimated to be lost.

The man's reaction was mediocre, but the young man on the side was bright-eyed and eager to try, looking afraid that the world would not be chaotic.

The owner of the restaurant has opened the restaurant for so many years, what strange people have never seen, not long ago, there was a rich boy who paid out of his own pocket to invite a beggar on the street to eat and drink in the Qinglou for the night, for the two fathers and sons who went to the front line to run for the future, naturally there is nothing strange.

After the two left, the restaurant owner stood at the door, looked at the dark clouds pressing on the east, and said to himself:

"Alas, this world is disturbed, when is it a head?"

After saying that, he turned around and shouted to the guy:

"Don't count the copper plates there, it's going to rain in a while, close the door early."

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Dark clouds pressed down on the city, stretching for hundreds of miles, the two armies could not care about the weather, thousands of Northern Turkistan heavy armor soldiers had rushed to within a mile, the powerful artillery seemed to be no longer applicable, in just a few rounds of salvo fire, there were already hundreds of Northern Turkist iron cavalry lying in this plain forever.

Yuan Baihu, the general of the Northern Turkistan, held a spear in his hand, and rushed towards the dynasty army with a fierce look on his face, now he is over fifty years old, charging into battle for many years, and escaping death several times, he should have died on the battlefield a long time ago, but the brothers around him used their lives to block the attack for him again and again, and pulled him out of the pile of dead people again and again.

Yuan Baihu is a rough man, living in the mountains since he was a child, and the wolves are in the tiger's mouth to grab food, he has never read any books, and he looks down on readers, but he only has a soft spot for a poem in the Central Plains, among which "drunk and lying on the battlefield Jun Mo smiled, and a few people came back to fight in ancient times", which won his heart the most.

He has seen too many skilled brothers die in the chaos of the army, and then they are trampled by the horse's hooves over and over again, and there is not a single corpse left, and it is pure luck that he can survive until now.

The more this is the case, the more he spares his life, because this life carries the hope of too many people.

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There was a book friend who wanted to add a sentence to the book, but I looked for a long time just now, and I didn't find the comment, and the hamster probably wrote it according to his memory, no wonder.

(End of chapter)