At night in the mountains, the moon hangs high, and the moonlight shines through the gaps between the leaves and branches, like a soft silk cloth, connecting the canopy and the earth, and the night in the mountains is extraordinarily peaceful, and occasionally a few nightingales can be heard.

The three men in the cave looked back and forth at each other's faces by the moonlight.

Two of them were naturally Duanmuchen and Duanmu Lan, the two siblings sat closer to the entrance of the cave, and the other sat in the innermost part of the cave, keeping a distance from each other.

Duanmuchen didn't know whether he should bring this person back or not, but he felt that if he didn't save him when he saw death, he might regret it for the rest of his life.

But when he woke people up, he regretted it a little.

It's no wonder that he is inconsistent, he doesn't want to have a disturbed conscience when he saves people, but he can't help but be a little worried.

After all, he and Duanmu Lan are still underage children, and these days, hungry adults can do anything.

Orphans like them are, in the eyes of some, lambs to the slaughter.

Duanmuchen huddled in the corner with Duanmu Lan in his arms, looking at this person vigilantly, the other party was also looking at them, the more he was like this, the more Duanmuchen felt bottomless in his heart, and he couldn't help but be a little scared.

He wanted to suppress his timidity, try not to let the other party see that he was afraid, and said, "Where are you from?" ”

After speaking, he was annoyed, because the tone of his voice trembled unconsciously, and the other party must have heard it.

"Bingzhou people." The man replied to Duanmuchen's question in a flat tone.

Duanmuchen asked again, "Why are you here?" ”

"I don't remember either, I just remember that I passed out in the mountains in a daze, and then I was rescued by you." The tone is still so flat.

Duanmuchen continued to ask, "What's your name?" ”

"Li Chongguan."

Seeing that he answered the question crisply, Duanmuchen didn't seem to hide it, took out an iron rod from behind him, and asked the question he wanted to know the most: "What is this iron rod for?" ”

Hearing this, the man who called himself Li Chongguan turned his face to look at the dark iron rod in Duanmuchen's hand, this stick looked very peculiar, the whole body was dark, about 1.5 meters long, and the body of the stick was wrapped with a black dragon relief from head to tail, which didn't look like a vulgar thing.

When Duanmuchen decided to bring Li Chongguan back, he found this stick from under him, the weight was not light, just by looking at the appearance of this stick, he knew that this man was probably not the refugee he imagined.

He didn't take this stick for himself, but simply because he was afraid that after the other party woke up, he would have bad intentions towards his brother and sister, so he used it for self-defense.

When Li Chongguan saw the iron rod, he suddenly stood up and walked towards them step by step.

"! What are you doing? Go back, go back! Duanmuchen was taken aback by his actions, protected Duanmu Lan in his arms, and retreated again and again.

Duanmu Lan shrank in his arms and said timidly, "Brother, I'm afraid." ”

"Thank goodness you finally know to be scared." At this time, Duanmuchen didn't forget to complain about his sister.

Duanmuchen was about to drag his sister out, but when he heard a "bang-" sound behind him, Duanmuchen slowly turned his head to look behind him, and found that the person was lying upright on the ground.

Duanmuchen was a little stunned: "This... Did he faint again? ”

Duanmu Lan: "It looks like I'm dizzy, hum!" I thought it was so fierce, I couldn't use it, so I was dizzy in two steps. ”

Duanmuchen rolled his eyes: "Who shrunk into my arms just now and said, 'Brother, I'm afraid~~', now the hard trachea is a fart, and you have the ability to let me shrink into your arms next time something happens." ”

Duanmu Lan stomped her little foot angrily and said, "I, I'm showing weakness to the enemy!" ”

"Okay, good, you behaved very well, if I were an enemy, I would also find that you are weak!" After speaking, Duanmuchen didn't wait for the little girl to continue to talk back, and cautiously leaned towards the man.

When he crept to Li Chongguan's side, he found that he really didn't move.

I tried to stab him in the body with that iron rod, but nothing happened.

Just as he relaxed his vigilance and wanted to turn around to say safety to Duanmu Lan, Li Chongguan suddenly opened his eyes and grabbed his trouser leg.

Duanmuchen, who felt that his ankle was clamped tightly, was really frightened, and he didn't care whether the young man talked about martial arts or not, he picked up the iron rod and beat the other party with all his might.

As a result, I heard a weak voice begging for mercy from under me: "Little brother, don't fight, I... I just want to order something to eat with you! ”

Duanmuchen was stunned, he looked down in shock, and the iron rod in his hand also hovered in mid-air.

"I... I'm just a little hungry and want to ask if there's anything to eat..."

Duanmuchen: "... ”

I don't know how long it took, a fire was lit in the cave, and Li Chongguan ate almost all the fruits stored by the brother and sister, including half of the roast chicken that Duanmuchen borrowed from the cemetery, and then he regained some of his spirit.

The three of them sat around the fire and listened to Li Chongguan tell his story.

Duanmuchen learned from him that he was not a homeless person, let alone a bad person, but a lieutenant colonel in Wuyang Pass, that stick was indeed not an ordinary iron rod as Duanmuchen expected, as for the origin, Li Chongguan himself did not know, he was just ordered to escort this iron rod to Kyoto.

Li Chongguan said with gloomy eyes: "We were on the way to Kyoto, we encountered an ambush, all the brothers died, only I fled into the mountains and survived, in order to avoid the other party's eyeliner, I deliberately chose a sparsely populated mountain road, until this vicinity, I was a little dizzy from hunger, and I fainted in the mountains, and then I met you." ”

Duanmuchen savored the authenticity of his words, wanting to find out the loopholes in the other party, but he felt that he didn't need to deceive the two little beggars, looking at the other party's honest appearance, he really didn't look like a bad person.

It's just that Duanmuchen couldn't figure it out a little: "You look so brave, and you are from the military, how did you manage to not find a bite to eat, and let yourself faint from hunger?" ”

When Li Chongguan heard this, his old face turned red: "I ran away all the way, and I didn't think about anything else in my mind, I just wanted to rush back to Kyoto as soon as possible, just..."

Duanmuchen rolled his eyes: "You are really upright." ”

Li Chongguan: "??? ”

Duanmuchen: "It's okay, praise you." ”

Li Chongguan believed it: "Oh. ”

Duanmu Lan suddenly interjected at this time: "Uncle, you are so powerful, you can also make a fire!" ”

Li Chongguan showed a sincere smile on his face: "It's just some small skills, it's not worth mentioning." ”

Duanmuchen didn't think so, he really saw it just now, this man was able to produce flames out of thin air in firewood without the help of any external objects, which was beyond his cognition, and he couldn't help asking: "What kind of spell do you know?" ”

Hearing him ask, Li Chongguan couldn't help but be stunned: "Spell? Almost, but not quite. ”

"And how did you create a fire out of thin air?"

Li Chongguan suddenly raised an index finger: "Oh, you said this." Then, with a "leap" on that index finger, a flame burst out and shook on his fingertips.

Duanmuchen was stunned, but Duanmu Lan was extremely excited, as if he had seen some novel trick, and applauded again and again: "Wow! Uncle, you are so powerful, can you burn it a little bigger? ”

"Boom-"

As she wished, the fire burned even brighter, the size of a man's head.

Duanmuchen opened his mouth wide, looked at the scene in front of him in amazement, and muttered in his mouth: "You also said that you don't know spells..."