Chapter 11: The Valley Outside the City
Li Yan had followed Ji Junshi to the gate of the school military field at this time, and just got out of the gate, Ji Junshi glanced at the waiting crowd in the distance, and then stood at the gate, Li Yan also followed out at this time, and was about to tell the teacher to go over there to tell Li Guoxin about the situation before leaving, before he could speak, Ji Junshi had turned his head to look at him and smiled and said, "Is there anyone who sent you here among the people who are waiting?"
Li Yan hurriedly replied, "Teacher Mingjian, it was an elder under him who sent his disciple here to enlist in the army. ”
"Oh, then go and talk to him, and then go with me. The third division said.
"Yes, thank you for your success. Li Yan was overjoyed when he heard this, and after bowing to the third division, he strode towards the crowd.
A few soldiers standing guard at the gate of the school heard the conversation between the two of them, and they already knew that the kid in front of them had entered the door of the third division, but they knew the difficulty of the third division's selection of this apprentice, and several people were envious of Li Yan, and one of the people who looked like a small leader stepped forward and saluted the third division, "Congratulations to the third division, you finally got what you wanted." The third division nodded and smiled, and then continued to stand in place with his hands behind his back.
After the little leader congratulated, he consciously retreated to his post, thinking in his heart, looking for a chance to get close to the disciple who had just received Ji Junshi, with a teacher like Ji Junshi, it is foreseeable that this kid will grow into a very powerful character in the future, if he has a good relationship, he will also be a backer in the army in the future, but at the same time he shook his head slightly, there should be many people who think of such thoughts as himself.
Not to mention how this little leader is figuring out, Li Yan has come to the waiting area quickly, he knows that it is not good to make the teacher wait for a long time, he has to make a long story short, so he pulled Li Guoxin, who was hoping to meet him, to the side of the crowd, and whispered to him, Li Guoxin was quite calm at first, but after hearing it, his mouth was slowly opened, and the sound of "heh, heh" came out of his throat from time to time, but he was speechless.
After Li Yan finished speaking, he was already standing there dumbfounded, Li Yan had to shout a few more times, seeing that he was still just a stunned "oh oh" to respond to himself, and he also knew that this was the same as his previous appearance, and couldn't help but secretly say ashamed.
Seeing that Uncle Guoxin couldn't react for a while, he had to salute him, turned around and walked quickly to the carriage to get his package, and turned around and walked towards the gate of the school military field.
Li Yan came to the teacher, and without waiting for the teacher to speak, he bowed down and said, "The disciple has finished explaining to the uncle in the clan. ”
The third division smiled when he heard this, "That's fine, then I'll go back to my house." After a pause, he continued, "It's just that I don't usually like to protect the front and the back, so you and I went back together." ”
Li Yan felt a little strange when he heard this, he heard the adults in the village say what kind of pomp and circumstance the officials and adults went out, how majestic, and some of them had to clean the streets to drive the people, but he didn't think about it anymore, after all, he had never seen the scene of officials protecting and hugging before and after traveling.
After the two of them spoke, the third division waved his big sleeves, then turned around and walked in one direction along the wall of the school military field, the big sleeves fluttered on his side, and his feet were already moving forward like flowing water.
Li Yan looked at the teacher's back, is it really a little blindfolded now, go? Just walk with your legs? There is no entourage or guard, why is there no carriage or horses? Li Yan smiled bitterly, and said in his heart How is this different from what he heard in the village, especially the official travel that Lao Xiucai said, it is not the same thing, and it is not the time to think about it too much, he hurriedly tightened the package on his shoulder, and chased after it.
After the two of his master and apprentice left, the crowd in the waiting area exploded with a bang, and when the second division was standing at the door just now, no one recognized him, seeing Li Yan coming out with him, and the third division said something to Li Yan, he walked to this side, and then pulled a person to the side of the crowd, which can attract the attention of many people, and a few good people also quietly approached that side, although Li Yan only whispered to Li Guoxin, but it was not a whisper, people who were a little closer could still hear some content, especially Li Guoxin's surprised and sluggish expression, even if the people who originally thought it was nothing, after seeing that expression, I will also want to know the reason.
Li Guoxin only regained his clarity after Li Yan turned around and left, and said in his heart, "It turns out that that person is the third military division, but is what Li Yan said true? What is this? Li Yan became a disciple of the third military division, and he also made a royal lieutenant, God, is this true?"
Li Guoxin is not a person who has never been seen in the world, he is familiar with some positions in this military camp, he remembers that this seems to be from the eighth grade, this is not something that a new enlistment can get, even if he is a soldier of a hundred battles, he has few great achievements, and it is rare to be promoted.
Li Guoxin's heart was also up and down at this time, and he didn't know what he should do for a while? Slowly, after he suppressed these shocks, his heart began to regain calm, but he still had a question in his heart why Ji Junshi could take a fancy to Li Yan, Li Yan grew up in the village since he was a child, it can be said that he watched grow up, and he didn't see anything outstanding, Li Yan's biggest feature is that he is more calm and calm than his peers, but this should not be the reason why Ji Junshi can take a fancy to it.
Just when he was thinking about it secretly, the people who heard some conversations next to him just now were also surprised to tell the people next to them the news they had guessed, and as soon as the third division left, the crowd exploded, and many people thought it was impossible. This is also too incredible, and many people directly surrounded Li Guoxin to ask, Li Guoxin's head was as big as a bucket for a while, and after quickly replying a few words, he squeezed out of the crowd and flew out of the carriage and left quickly, he also wanted to find an inn to live in to digest the news, get up early tomorrow morning and rush back, and tell Li Yan's father and mother, no, to the whole village, this kid is one step to the sky.
After the people who stayed behind confirmed the reliability of this news, many of them also started to think about whether they should also find a way out and find out more clearly about this matter, so that their families and relatives could also have the opportunity to hug this thigh? For a while, the people here also went to think about it with their own thoughts.
Li Yan followed the third division to the inner city of the north gate at this time, the third division was silent, it seemed to be a leisurely stroll, but it was walking very fast, fortunately, Li Yan had followed the adults to hunt in the mountains since he was a child, so he could still keep up, although he did not say that he tried his best, but it had already taken seven or eight points of strength to keep up, looking at the teacher's lack of effort, he couldn't help but yearn for the future life.
Seeing that he had arrived at the north city gate, Li Yan couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, could it be that this military division's mansion was not near this city gate, but he immediately knew that he had guessed wrong, because the teacher did not have the slightest intention of stopping and turning.
When the two of them came to the city gate, there were seven or eight soldiers led by a small team leader, who were checking the passers-by.
The person who looked like the squad leader saw the third division coming, and hurriedly crossed his hand and saluted. The third division nodded slightly, and went straight from the side of the teams that checked out the city, and Li Yan also followed.
When the two of them went out of the north gate, the person who looked like the captain looked at Li Yan's back and said to himself, "It's strange, this person is tight-faced, but he is not the guards in Lord Ji's mansion, I don't know who can follow Lord Ji like this." ”
After Li Yan went out of the city with the third division, his heart was already confused, there was only one avenue outside the city that extended to the north, and the two sides of the road were rolling mountains, and the depth was not a little deep, could it be that the teacher's mansion was in a town dozens of miles away? I heard that there was also a garrison there, but this was inevitably too far, and it was not easy to go back and forth like this every day without using carriages or horses, although it was not difficult for him to travel dozens of miles like this, but it was inevitably boring to think about it often.
On the way, Ji Junshi didn't speak, as if he was thinking about something, so he was not in a hurry and was not allowed to walk in front, and Li Yan could only follow closely behind, thinking crankily as he walked.
Just about two miles out of the city, Ji Junshi slid his footsteps and walked in the direction of the mountain range on the west side of the left, Li Yan took a closer look, it turned out that there was a mountain road extending into the mountain range on the west side, this avenue was the one they walked into the city today, there were many paths into the mountains like the roadside, so they didn't care much, but they turned into it at the moment.
The mountains on the west side are much deeper than the mountains on the east side, the mountains on the east side are about a few hundred miles, and then there is the flat Central Plains landform, which can already ride a horse and gallop, but since then I don't know how far to the west, the people here only know that they can enter about four or five hundred miles to the west, and then there are many unknown monsters running rampant in the middle, and the people who enter are nine out of ten deaths, even the top masters of the rivers and lakes do not dare to go too deep.
Thinking that Marshal Hong had led his masters to go deep about 400 miles, he had encountered many unknown poisonous insects and beasts, even if he retreated decisively, most of his men were killed and wounded, and his own face was also swept by the tail of a fierce beast, leaving a hideous scar, if he hid more slowly, the tail of the fierce beast would penetrate into his brain from his temple, and that would only be a tragic death on the spot.
The third division took Li Yan along the path and walked up, they walked among the towering trees, the bushes under the big trees, at this time it was already unitary, the early autumn days were still longer, although it was sunset at this time, but the sky was still bright, but under the cover of the layers of rich green leaves on the tall canopy, the light was already a little dim, and from time to time there were a few chirpings of tired birds returning to their nests in the forest, which reverberated crisply among the tall and empty trees.
After walking up for about a mile, climbing the last few stone steps, it was suddenly clear in front of me, a large open space appeared, a radius of about 100 zhang to Xu, this open space was surrounded by the surrounding towering trees, but there was a passage two or three people wide at the stone steps they had just come up.
It is very difficult to find such a large piece of flat land in the mountain, it should be artificially trimmed out here, there is a row of tall bluestone houses on the two sides of the exit of the stone steps road down the mountain, each row has about four or five rooms, lined up, although it is simple, but it looks clean and tidy, and the large field in the middle is also paved with bluestone fragments, and there are sandbags hanging in some places, and there are sand pits and the like, but they are all neat and uniform.
Li Yan climbed to the flat ground and saw that there were eight soldiers standing in two rows, staring vigilantly at the entrance of the steps.
The third division nodded to them slightly, and then walked straight inside, but after a few steps, he stopped, turned to one of them, and said, "Oh, you go and call everyone else out, I have something to say." ”
"Yes" After one of the soldiers agreed, he walked quickly to the middle of the flat ground, and said loudly, "Your Excellency is back, everyone come out!", and after a while, more than a dozen people came to the center of the field from the bluestone houses on the second side.
Li Yan has been following behind the teacher since he got on the platform, and he just saw that in addition to the eight soldiers at the entrance of this stone step, there are also many people coming in and out of the bluestone houses on the two sides, and there are also green smoke rising from the roofs of the two houses, and there are bursts of fragrance from afar, but the light is a little dim at this time, and the lights in those rooms are not enough for him to see clearly from a distance.
After these people stood up, the third division also came to the center of the field, turned around and beckoned to Li Yan, Li Yan walked over, he walked in front of these people only to find that in addition to the eight soldiers just now, there were twelve soldiers wearing the same standard military uniform, and in addition to them, there were three middle-aged women here.
Among these people, the three middle-aged women and the two soldiers standing in the middle of the line all stared at Li Yan with some curiosity, while the rest stood there expressionlessly.
"This is my new disciple, Li Yan, and I will live here in the future. The third division pointed at Li Yan and said, and then said to Li Yan, "This is where I live, the twenty soldiers were sent by the marshal to be in charge of guarding and guarding, and the remaining women are responsible for our food and clothing." ”
Li Yan looked at them, but he was a little surprised to find that several of them looked at them with strange eyes, which made him a little confused.