With the departure of the two of them, the spectators gathered around the ring slowly dispersed, and there was not much fun in Lantian Pass, and the ring competition was a very important way for residents in the gate to relax.

Although the competition is exciting, it is impossible to delay the work at hand because of this, especially the kind of family that has to rely on food to make a living, and the small vendors have to be busy with their own things after watching the competition.

It's like a bun shop next to Ergou, at this time the shop owner is walking back from the ring with a smile, before this he let his children take care of the stall, but as everyone knows, his children are also looking up at the ring, and they don't have time to take care of the business of the bun shop.

The stuffing used in this steamed bun shop is beef and mutton, and the grassland is out of the customs, so the most in this Lantian Pass is the fat and strong cattle and sheep, and the pork is golden, and only the rich and noble families and military lords in the customs can afford to eat.

The buns of this bun shop are sold by one and sold in cages, but in general, it is much more cost-effective to buy a cage at one time, ten cents a cage, the cage drawer is not big but it is also full of seven meat buns, mainly there is a signboard hanging next to the shop, which clearly says that the filling is big and the skin is thin!

Touching his somewhat empty belly, after the shop owner came back, Ergou took out ten copper coins from his arms and put them on the table to buy a cage of steamed buns, and after talking to the boss, he walked towards the ring with the buns.

When Jiang Ergou walked to the edge of the ring, the crowd had already dispersed, put the bun next to him, put the bronze finch sword next to the bun, and then supported the ring with both hands, and Ergou sat firmly in the ring.

clapped his hands, and then took out a bun from the cage drawer and threw it into his mouth, the second dog just closed his mouth and immediately felt a fresh and fragrant soup flowing into his mouth, followed by the taste of mutton and saliva tumbling together.

Since the buns had just come out of the oven, they were still a little hot to eat at this time, and after chewing a few times, Ergou swallowed the mutton and the bun skin together with the remaining soup in his mouth.

I have to say that in this already chilly weather, it is indeed comfortable to have such a steaming bun.

And just when Ergou was about to continue to enjoy this cage of meat buns, he suddenly felt a person sneaking over behind him, at first he only thought that this half-sized boy was eyeing his meat buns, and when he got closer, he found that he was aiming at the bronze sparrow sword!

"Uh-huh!"

Ergou pretended not to see it at first, and just as the boy was about to touch the bronze finch sword, he coughed again, which frightened the people and hurriedly retracted his hand.

Seeing that his small movements were discovered, the kid quickly calmed down after the initial panic, and walked to the other side of the second dog with his little hands behind his back and sat down.

"What's the big deal, isn't it just a sword! It's not that I haven't seen it, last year, those cavalry on the grassland shouted outside the city gate, and were ordered by the Suibian general in the city to shoot more than a dozen people, leaving behind corpses and swords, that is, those soldiers in the city are fast, otherwise, I will definitely be able to touch myself quietly!"

This kid, who looked to be only fourteen or fifteen years old, seemed to want to talk in this way, but Ergou thought it was very funny and deliberately ignored him, wanting to see what other tricks he had.

The kid first cautiously glanced at the man with the sword in front of him, and after seeing that he didn't react, he quietly swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued.

"You are really stingy, not like a person in the rivers and lakes at all, half a year ago there was also a sword hero came to us to compete, after he won the saber showed me for a long time, he also said that if you come here in three years, you will teach me three swordsmanship!"

Ergou thought about talking to him, but he still wanted to see if this kid had any experience to speak, so he suppressed the urge to speak in his heart.

The boy still didn't react when he saw this ranger who was very cold in his eyes, and he wanted to open his mouth to say something more, but he seemed to be emptying his brain and couldn't think of anything else, so he had to sigh and get up and leave.

"You've seen the rivers and lakes!"

Just when the boy was disheartened, he heard the man with the sword who was bent on dealing with the bun speak, so he immediately sat down with joy again.

"That's that! I've thought about it, I can save a penny every day, and now I have more than five hundred pennies, and after three years, I will almost have one or two pieces of silver, and then I will wait for me to learn the hero's three-move swordsmanship, and I will also get myself a sword, Uncle Huang of the blacksmith shop in Dongchengtou I have already told him, and when I really learn the three strokes of swordsmanship, he will charge me two taels of silver to give me a sword!"

Listening to what this kid said, his family background seems to be good, and he can save a penny every day, which is not something that any kind of person can take.

And while the kid was talking, there were already four buns in the cage drawer that had gone down to the belly of the second dog, and he picked up the fifth one and shook it in front of the kid.

"If you had a sword and a basket of meat buns in front of you right now, what would you choose?"

The kid looked at Ergou like a fool.

"Definitely choose a sword!"

"If it were me, I'd choose meat buns. ”

"Then you must be a fool!"

"Ahem, ahem!"

Jiang Ergou was choked by what this kid said, and coughed several times before continuing.

"You're a fool, a big fool! I have a sword in my hand, what sword do I choose, don't you eat a few buns!"

After finishing speaking, Ergou was not ashamed at all to take the bronze sparrow sword and dangle it in front of the kid's eyes. This can make the kid who has long been greedy for the bronze finch sword so angry that he blows his beard and glares, so he simply has no beard, otherwise it will definitely be more cute.

Jiang Ergou picked up the sixth bun and threw it to the kid, who took it in his hand and was a little puzzled, what does this mean?

"What you said choked me, go find me a bowl of water!"

"A bun wants to buy me, don't go!"

The second dog stretched out his foot and kicked the kid in the calf.

"Go, find me a bowl of water, and I'll show you my sword!"

"Really!?"

Without waiting for Jiang Ergou to nod his head in agreement, the kid stuffed the bun into his mouth and ran to a tea stall with a cigarette.

The tea stall is a woman, looking at the age should be the child's mother, the kid just got closer, the woman's eyes began to pay attention to this side, and now she saw her child running towards the tea stall, she smiled kindly at the second dog.

But what she didn't expect was that her son ran back to the stall and brought a bowl of tea, and ran back without even saying hello.

took back the tea, this kid was very shrewd, and did not immediately hand the water to Jiang Ergou, but protected the tea and handed the tea with one hand and the sword with the other.

Only when one hand had already grasped the quaint long sword did the boy push the tea into Ergou's hand, and then took the long sword with both hands that he didn't know the name of.

With the tea, the second dog finished the last bun, but the kid's words almost stimulated the tea that he hadn't drunk into his stomach so much that it squirted out.

"Your sword is also very ordinary, it seems that you don't mix well in the rivers and lakes! I guess it's just a little minion! It's not good to go there, hey! How much money did you spend on this sword in the first place? I'll give you a slap in the face and see if you've lost it. ”

Trying to suppress the urge to take the sword back, Ergou said calmly on the surface.

"I didn't buy this sword, it was left to me by my master. ”

Hearing Ergou say this, the kid sighed again.

"Alas, if only I had such a master. ”

"You just want to have a sword of your own and go to the rivers and lakes? You haven't thought about studying or anything?"

"What kind of books do you want to read! My father wants me to study, but I have never even heard of any teaching gentleman there in the north border of this country! Of course I have to go to the rivers and lakes to have a look, because only in this way can I become a great hero like my father!"

"It's... I take the liberty of asking, who is your father..."

I don't know if this kid deliberately pulled the topic here, but when he mentioned his father, the pride in his eyes was about to overflow.

"Listen, my father is a high-ranking foot soldier in the Tiger Fighting Battalion in the Ninety-ninth Company Battalion under Qi Qian, one of the twelve generals under the tent of Xiao Shanyu, the king of Liaodong! The last time my father came back, he said that in two years, he will be able to become a crossbowman, then a horseman, and finally a black-armored Xuanqi admired by ten thousand people! Tell me if my father is powerful!"

If you talk about how to please an adult, you are right to praise his child, and if you want to please a child, it is right to praise his father!

No, the kid who was still holding the bronze finch sword in his hand and didn't want to let go lost himself in the sound of the second dog, your father is really powerful. It wasn't until the kid was satisfied that Ergou continued.

"However, although your father is powerful, the sword on the battlefield has no eyes, so you never worry about your father's safety?"

At this moment, the kid glanced at Jiang Ergou like an idiot.

"You are really stupid, it is not as clear as a child like me, how can there be immortals in war, but if you don't go to war because you are afraid of death, then who will defend this country? My uncle and uncle who joined the army with my father don't know how many have died over the years! My father told me that he was desperately killing the enemy on the front line, in addition to being worthy of the military armor on his body and the military salary in his hand, he just hoped that our mother and wife in Lantian Pass could be stable, as long as we were fine, he would die on the battlefield without regrets!"

Speaking of which, the child, who said that he was not worried about his father's safety, looked up at the north, his eyes gloomy. But then he immediately reflected a different brilliance, and his eyes were so bright!

"After I have seen the rivers and lakes, practiced the sword, drank wine, and gone to the capital, I will join the army like my father, protect my future wife and children like him, and at the same time I will tell my son what a great person his grandfather is!"

Hearing this, Ergou suddenly remembered the conversation he had when he met a veteran with a stump leg during his trip with Su Ruyu.

At that time, Ergou asked Su Ruyu if the soldiers on the border were all ruthless people who were not afraid of death, and that they had to bite off a piece of enemy meat with a ruthless effort after a broken leg and arm.

However, Su Ruyu said that there is no one in the world who is not afraid of death, and the more accustomed the border soldiers are to life and death, the more they are afraid of death and spare their lives! This is also the fundamental reason why so many veterans can survive in the end.

Ergou asked again, then since you are afraid of death, why do you still go to the front line and covet that military salary? But now you can't starve to death if you do any business!

Su Ruyu gave an example to Ergou at that time, saying that in fact, eight of the border soldiers were natives on the border between Liaozhou and Jinzhou.

Even if they are afraid of death, they have to go up on their own, and they dare to die if they are afraid of death! Because maybe less than a hundred miles behind them is the village where his family lives!

Su Ruyu once said at the time that there was a famous poem in the previous dynasty that was handed down: The battlefield is thousands of miles away, why should the horse leather shroud be returned!

He also said that this poem has been regarded as a golden sentence by many famous people since ancient times, saying that it is the first poem of the heroic spirit of the side. But only when he first read it, he said that this sentence had been misread for a thousand years!

Who in the world doesn't want to be able to return to their roots and their souls to their hometowns after they die! No matter how bad they are, no matter how bad they are, they must get a graveyard for themselves!

Why is the Horse Leather Shroud still this sentence not so much the heroic words of the soldier after the death of the battlefield as it is the helpless comfort of the soldier buried in the wilderness!

Thinking of this, Jiang Ergou suddenly stood in awe of this kid's father, and also for the hundreds of thousands of generals on the border! Not only because of their feelings for their family and country, but also because of their generosity and heroism in putting life and death aside for the sake of the stability of their wives and children!

"What's your name!"

Jiang Ergou took the initiative to ask.

"My name is Tian Rongguan!

Jiang Ergou raised his hand and touched his head.

"My name is Jiang Fuyu, from the original, we also made an agreement, three years later, if you really bring the sword to the capital, go and inquire about this name, and then I will teach you three swordsmanship!"

The kid named Tian Rongguan pressed his hand on the scabbard, and then pulled out the bronze finch sword, which was not even willing to give the face of the second dog at the beginning, but was caught in the hand of a doll at this time.

"It seems that I misunderstood you, the hero who passed by here said that a person who can take out his martial arts and learn from others is a real hero if he doesn't want to accept you as an apprentice!"

Tian Rongguan's words made Jiang Ergou embarrassed again, it seems that he really doesn't know as much as this doll, although he has always talked about chivalry, but he himself never seems to have seriously thought about the word 'chivalry'!