After a day's journey, the convoy stopped in a valley, the cold wind of early spring blew, and night was about to fall, and the whole caravan formed an ordinary circle under the escort of the mercenaries, and the caravan was in the array, except for the empty "lone wolf" In addition to the mercenary group, other mercenary groups camped around the caravan, because their mercenary group was small with twenty or thirty people, except for Kong Ming, because his mercenary group was alone with him, and he was sitting in a truck, so he followed the caravan people in the inner circle. Although the mercenary groups come from different places, but the general common sense everyone understands, after stopping, the mercenaries set up tents, make fires, feed horses, etc., and so on, there is no trace of chaos, the most idle in the whole camp may be Kong Ming, one person eats enough for the whole family is not hungry, and the employer specially asked someone to bring Kong Ming enough food for him to enjoy. It's spring now, and although the spring cold is still very heavy, it's nothing to Kong Ming, so he quietly looked at the busy crowd, and there was a trace of silence in his heart. After coming to the Huayuan Empire, I don't know if it's because of the reason for leaving the battlefield, Kong Ming often dreams of those comrades who fought together in his sleep, dreams of those battles of life and death, dreams of the tragic battlefield, and often wakes up from his sleep, which makes Kong Ming feel very uncomfortable, and I don't know why this is the case, during the army, Kong Ming will only be like this on the night after the first battle, and then because of the experience, there will be no more such things, but after leaving the battlefield, it reminds Kong Ming of these things, but because of this, Kong Ming has developed a habit, That is, a person quietly thinking about some things on the side, fighting and fighting methods, as well as swordsmanship and magic, only in this way will Kong Ming's mood have a trace of sustenance, and will not think about those things that have passed, as the old headhunter said, it is true to survive on the battlefield, and over time, Kong Ming gradually forgot about those things in the war.

After dinner, Kong Ming sat on the truck, quietly looking at the twinkling stars in the sky, except for a trace of spirit on alert, all the other spirits are paying attention to the stars in the sky, every time at this time Kong Ming always has a very strange feeling, that is, he himself is one of the stars, maybe after a moment, maybe after a long time, Kong Ming didn't know, Kong Ming returned to himself from the situation of being a star, pulled out his long sword, walked to the dim open space on the side, slowly practiced his sword skills one move at a time, and the long sword wrapped in fighting spirit flashed a trace of red light, without the slightest scruples。 The people around him saw it, and no one paid attention to the empty things, and they still did their things the same. After a while, the coachman didn't know where he had come back, and when he saw Kong Ming practicing, he called out: "Kong Ming, come and I've got a bottle of wine from there, come and drink it together, otherwise it won't be there in a while!" said the coachman.

"Okay!" Hearing that there was wine to drink, Kong Ming stopped the sword in his hand, inserted the sword into the sleeve, walked to the fire and sat down, snatched the wine from the coachman's hand, poured it down in a big sip, and a hot thing flowed into his stomach, Kong Ming couldn't help but say, "Good wine, Lao Huang, where did you get it?"

"Thanks to you, the owner gave it to you, and I drank two sips. Lao Huang said with a smile, he was very familiar with Kong Ming on this day.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter to me, if your boss scolds you, I don't care. Kong Ming smiled indifferently.

"As long as you don't say it, she won't scold me. ”

"Oh, look at your host. Kong Ming watched as the employer was surrounding the camp to check on some of the camps.

"He's a steward, not a proprietor. The owner is in the middle of the biggest car. ”

"Oh, this trip is just a small business for your merchant group, does he need to come in person?"

"You're talking about the old owner, he is at home, and now the owner I'm talking about is our third lady, she went to Kaining City to meet her fiancé, and went back with our caravan by the way. ”

Hearing this, Kong Ming realized that he was a little arbitrary just now, thinking that the employer who went to the mercenary union was their owner. Thinking about this, it is also a little taken for granted, where is the reason why the boss of such a large business group personally goes to the union to hire people for a less important goods, these things should be handed over to his subordinates to do.

"What is your third young lady's fiancé doing?" Kong Ming lowered his head and picked up the original flame in the fire with a wooden stick to make it burn bigger.

"Speaking of the third miss's fiancé, he is a great person! He is an officer of the guards around His Majesty, and he is a captain of the Majesty's personal guard, he is a senior swordsman like you, he is only twenty years old this year, but he is a famous genius in the capital, and his teacher is Qian Xianqing, one of the sword gods of the empire. According to his teacher, if Miss San's fiancé follows his current pace, he will likely be able to reach the level of a sword god before the age of sixty. Lao Huang said proudly, as if that person, the glory of the third lady's fiancé was also his. Kong Ming looked at Lao Huang's appearance, and he also sighed in his heart, a genius is a genius, and he cultivated to the level of a senior swordsman at the age of twenty, which shows how high his talent is, and his future future is immeasurable. On the other hand, although he is a high-level swordsman, although he has such an ability before the age of fifteen, but it was forcibly brought up by the Kari army with medicine, according to common sense, he has no possibility of further improvement, because few people can go further in this life with drugs to rapidly improve their strength. That's why Kong Ming will step up his cultivation of magic to break through this confinement.

"Your young lady is really a blessing! By the way, I still don't know what the name of the boss of your business group is?" Kong Ming sighed, did not forget to praise Lao Huang, and then turned to inquire about some of the situation of the Pingyang business group, of course, that is known to many people.

"Our boss's name is Hu Laifu, who is well-known in the imperial capital and can be described as a household name. Speaking of his boss, Lao Huang is even more proud. Kong Ming didn't hit him, and then asked suspiciously:

"The imperial capital is so far away from here, how could you young lady come to such a remote place?"

"Alas, I haven't heard that the Guards suffered heavy casualties in the final battle with Kari, and I was afraid that something might happen to this fiancé, so I hurried over from the magic circle of the Magic Guild. ”

"And how is her fiancé, is he hurt?" Kong Ming asked strangely, seeing that the so-called third lady came from the expensive magic array when she came, and when she went back, she followed the caravan back slowly, and knew that her fiancé didn't have much to do, but Kong Ming just habitually asked, but when Kong Ming asked, his mood was also low, he personally participated in this battle, how many of his comrades who had not seen him fell there, and the people who had not yet had time to get acquainted with them turned into a pile of dust between heaven and earth, and now he asked if the enemy was injured, this feeling made him feel very strange, and his heart was also very painful。

"I was seriously wounded, and I heard that he almost died in battle, but fortunately the priest saved him in time, and now he is completely recovered. Speaking of this, Lao Huang's words were also heavy, after all, war is a matter for both sides. There are so many people who have died in Kari, how can Hua Yuan be less? Not to mention that in this battle, those soldiers like Kong Ming in Kari have made Kari forcibly improve the level of the great swordsman, that is, the seventh-level swordsman, and more than a thousand great swordsmen plus magicians, what a terrifying combination!" In this battle with Kari, I heard that more than 20,000 people died in the Guards alone, many of them were senior swordsmen, and there were many great swordsmen, that is, several Magisters died, and the empire lost a lot this time, especially in the Guards, many people were nobles, and after hearing the news back to the imperial capital, many people fainted, and the entire imperial capital was even more wailing. Even the third lady heard the news, and the first thing she did was to come over to see her fiancé's situation, for fear that he would lose a little, but now it seems that the situation is okay, at least the person is still alive. ”

Just as Kong Ming and Lao Huang were talking, the figures of two women walked from the side of the largest and most luxurious car, walking towards Kong Ming's side, following the butler next to them. Kong Ming had already sensed it when they came over, but Kong Ming didn't pay attention to them, and was still chatting with Lao Huang while drinking wine. It wasn't until the cold wind spread a gust of fragrant wind to Kong Ming's nose that Kong Ming raised his head, and then he saw a beautiful face next to him, with a pointed melon seed face, big eyes, long golden hair draped over the shoulders like a knife cut off, a white and gorgeous dress, properly highlighting the slender figure, which made Kong Ming feel ethereal in his heart for a while, maybe this is the legendary beauty. Of course, for beauties, everyone has different standards, for people like Kong Ming, who have been in the army for more than a year, most girls can be said to be beauties, but this third lady still gives Kong Ming an unusual feeling, but what it is, Kong Ming can't say, maybe human beings have a sense of protection for beautiful things. Kong Ming stood up and made a usual etiquette to the third lady, after all, now that they are employers, it is very necessary to deal with the relationship between each other, and they also kindly sent a bottle of wine.

"Hello, Your Excellency Kong Ming, I have a very curious question, I wonder if you can answer it?" The third lady said something in a beautiful voice that Kong Ming had never heard before, and Kong Ming was confused. This voice made Kong Ming's body tense unconsciously, because he had never communicated with the opposite sex, Kong Ming suddenly felt a little overwhelmed, but he quickly came to his senses and looked at the third lady.

"What's the problem?"

Kong Ming asked directly, there was no trace of emotion in his voice, or Kong Ming's emotions had long disappeared in the war, and there was only an indescribable indifference. The third young lady's brows furrowed unconsciously, as a nobleman, a well-educated person, Kongming's behavior can be said to be very unreasonable and impolite. But the third lady was an educated person after all, and did not care about Kongming's unreasonableness, and then said:

"I'm curious, are you really a human being?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, you're the only one in your mercenary group?"

"Hmm," Kong Ming nodded, "What do you want so many people to do?" Kong Ming asked rhetorically.

"Oh, I'm just curious, are you a lone ranger?" asked the third lady.

If it weren't for Kong Ming's desire to study in the imperial capital, if it wasn't for the fact that the team of the Pingyang merchant group required that the hired mercenaries must be a team, why would he set up a mercenary group by himself? ”

The third lady didn't say anything more, but gently lifted her skirt, sat on the stool that the maid brought her, looked down at the fire, picked up a piece of firewood on the ground with her right hand, picked up the fire, and the flames of the fire burst up at once. Then he raised his head and said to Kong Ming, "You are a very strange person!"

"Why do you say that?" Kong Ming asked curiously, taking a sip from the wine bottle.

"You look like you've been through a lot of things, but your face tells me that you're not very old, you're a high-level swordsman, and you're wearing a very ordinary civilian outfit, but you're carrying a long sword on your back that is unique to the Imperial Army's guards. You talk very speculatively to people like Lao Huang, but your words reveal that you are an educated person, so you are a very strange person. The third lady said very seriously.

"Oh, then what do you think I am?" Kong Ming heard that the third lady observed so carefully, and there was some interest in his heart, and a trace of mystery about the opposite sex in his heart made Kong Ming subconsciously not reject such an interesting question of a girl. And Kong Ming, as a former half-scout, also knows very well in his heart the importance of observation.

"A nobleman who came out of the Guards and has a certain mission, you are going to the imperial capital to do a secret thing. The third lady said very seriously.

"Ha, ha!!!!" As soon as Kong Ming heard such an answer, he had a very ridiculous feeling in his heart, and he laughed unconsciously. Until he saw the third lady's annoyance, "Hehe, why do you think so?" Kong Ming asked with interest.

"The long sword on your back is a special long sword made by the Guards, this is a special long sword for the Guards, only the Guards are used, and no one else has this qualification, and your vicissitudes of face and conversation with Lao Huang show that you are a warrior who came down from the battlefield, and after a battle that makes you remember deeply, a literate senior swordsman, not very old, except for geniuses, only people from big families can cultivate it. And you have to disguise yourself as a civilian mercenary, then the answer comes out, you are a nobleman from the Guard, with a certain mission, and you have to go to the imperial capital to do a secret thing. The third lady said with certainty.

"There's some truth to your analysis," Kong Ming paused, then continued, "but it was a wrong result. "Kong Ming's long sword was given by the person who drank with him, although Kong Ming knew that it was a long sword for the Guards, but he didn't have the slightest intention of changing, in this kind of war years, a good sword is the most powerful helper of a swordsman, without a long sword, his combat effectiveness will be weakened a lot. The third young lady was a little unconvinced, but Kong Ming didn't explain anything, picked up the wine in his hand and took another sip, looking at the angry appearance of the third young lady, there was suddenly some indescribable feeling in his heart, as if there was a trace of sourness, and some sweetness, and it seemed to have a lot of flavors, but he couldn't say anything, but this qiē was based on the third young lady in front of him, only in front of her, and he even didn't dare to look at the beautiful face of the third young lady. As a troubadour once said, "What girl is not fond of spring, and which boy is not affectionate." "At this moment, the third lady's look was enough to defeat a high-level swordsman like Kong Ming. Or to put it more directly, it is Kong Ming, the third lady in front of him has unrequited love.

The three young ladies asked Kong Ming some other things in a row, and figured out that Guò used this to get some details of Kong Ming, but after all, Kong Ming was a person who came down from the battlefield, how firm his heart was, after the initial confusion, he repeatedly emphasized that he was just a hunter near Kaining City, he grew up there since he was a child, and now he just wanted to go to the imperial capital to have a look, but the three young people were willing to believe there, and constantly benefited from the so-called sophistry she learned from school to obtain some information about Kong Ming from all aspects, either explicitly or covertly。 However, Kong Ming repeated the same explanation, that is, the long sword was given by someone else, and the others were even more flawless, Kong Ming slept there for three months, and where was this woman who only learned from books could compare, and finally the third lady was just very annoyed, stood up, and was about to return to her own car.

At this time, the time and space seemed to inadvertently ask, "Miss Fang's name?"

"Hu Siyue. The third lady said naturally. Even after she said it, she wondered why she would tell this man who didn't know her by name. Kong Ming looked at the back of the distance, and there was an indescribable feeling in his heart, but he couldn't hold it, maybe he was like ** said, he fell in love with this third lady who had a huge gap between his status and himself?