On top of a moving carriage, several young people were chatting and discussing the latest news.

A tall and thin man said: "Alas, have you heard, there has been a woman in Shu recently, and she slaughtered more than 20 bandits in the Heavenly Eagle Martial Arts Pavilion alone, which is really quite powerful." ”

Another sturdy man chimed in: "Yes, I didn't expect Wu Weifeng to be the number one thief in Bashu, and that guy is really powerful in a dozen or twenty, and I don't know if it's a rumor." ”

At this time, a fat man in the corner with a face that was almost round sang a counter-tune: "My family lives in the next county, I can prove that it is indeed true, that is, really, I think it is better not to kill it, although Wu Weifeng is a bandit, he is usually very good to us, more like a good person." ”

At this time, a man sitting next to him with pockmarks on his face and two knives said in a hoarse voice: "He goes to rob and kill those who have money at night, and during the day he will use the money with blood to give you a feast." He deceived those apprentices to get tuition fees on weekdays, and when he met celebrities as guests, he couldn't get 10% of the money to befriend them and leave them a good reputation for righteousness and squandering money. It's so easy for a heinous bastard to make you think he's good. The person who said this was naturally Zhang Nianxin, after the incident in Changming County, she was wanted by various states for lynching court officials. She was seriously injured at that time, and as a last resort, she lit two pockmarks on her forehead with incense like she did in Jiangling, and used charcoal fire to hoarse her throat, dressed as a man, and mixed it up with an identity document he picked up in the Sky Eagle Martial Arts Pavilion, alias Liu Ling. And on these two carriages, plus him a total of four people, the thin and tall man is called Song Ying, and the strong man next to him is called Song Quan, who is his elder brother, as for the fat man called Ji Dafu, recently due to the gradual collapse of the government soldiers, the saint ordered the state capitals to change to the conscription system and there is no shortage of troops, which suddenly rose up in the Tang Dynasty The famous border poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as: Wang Changling, Gao Shi, Li Yi, Wang Zhilian people are all in the rise of the conscription system after the formation of their own poetic style to describe the frontier. And this group of people is naturally a good family who went to Longyou to serve the army with the intention of killing the enemy and serving the country, Zhang Nianxin saw that he went by car with them. At this moment, seeing that Ji Dafu said that he shouldn't kill Wu Weiying, he suddenly became angry in his heart, so he refuted him.

When Ji Dafu heard him say this, he was helpless: "Alas, Brother Liu, you are a cultural person, I can't talk about you, it's just that, everything you say is right." ”

Song Ying continued at this time: "Look at the way you look, you are almost a ball, you don't know how many meals you have eaten in his martial arts hall, and you have a full mouth, no wonder you have to speak for him." ”

When he said this, the whole carriage laughed. "Hahaha. ”

After everyone stopped laughing, Zhang Nianxin asked Song Ying and Song Quan brothers: "Alas, are you really two brothers?"

The two nodded and Song Ying said: "I am the eldest brother, this is my second brother Song Quan, and the two of us went to Longyou to serve in the army together." ”

Zhang Nianxin was puzzled: "Ah, you two brothers go to the army together, who stays at home to farm and take care of your father?"

Song Quan said indifferently: "Hey, it's okay, my father and second uncle are in good health, and they can live for thirty years." ”

Zhang Nianxin asked again: "Then the two of you are on the battlefield, if there is an accident, who will pass on the ancestry?"

The eldest brother Song Ying was a little dissatisfied at this time, "Hey, hey, Brother Liu, other people's children wish him success in the army, go early and return early, why do you still curse others." ”

Song Quan patted his chest and shouted: "That's right, the hateful Tubo people in the west are a group of hungry wolves that can't be fed, and we still invade them every year when we give them peace and kiss them every year." This time, we will definitely kill their prestige on the battlefield, and I will pull him a few Tibetan barbarians as a backing before I die. ”

Song Ying also shouted: "Yes, the counties we are adjacent to were killed by that group of Tibetan barbarians a few days ago, and this time we must let them pay for their blood debts when we go to Longxi." ”

Song Quan shouted even more emotionally: "Yes, blood debts and blood repayment, if I were the emperor, what kind of relatives would I have with this group of animals every year, and I would have sent hundreds of thousands of troops to crush their grassland." ”

Ji Dafu poured a basin of cold water on them at this moment: "Come on, two guys who can't even understand the division of land in the house." Hundreds of thousands? Can you count them? In the face of Ji Dafu's cynicism, the two brothers Song Ying and Song Quan quarreled with him.

Listening to their immature quarrels, Zhang Nianxin secretly laughed a few times. Then taking advantage of the time they quarreled, Zhang Nianxin opened the package containing the envelope, and was about to reach the Longyou territory, and it was time for him to take a look at the address of these letters. After opening the package with five layers of oiled paper for waterproofing, Zhang Nianxin was dumbfounded, only to see that many of the envelopes of these letters were stained with blood, and after many years, they had already infiltrated into the letters and glued the handwriting and the recipient. Zhang Nianxin suddenly had a headache, and complained in his heart: "Dad, Dad, I didn't tell me their detailed address before I left, this word is blurred by blood, where can I send it?" After reading the above content silently, Zhang Nianxin couldn't help but be moved, a little puzzled, she used to be a military household, she knew the rules of the government soldiers: before each expedition, you need to prepare your own ordnance, grain and grass, and the remaining spears, armor and grain and grass after arriving at the station will be replenished by the official. In other words, except for the things that began to go to the station, the rest was borne by the officials. And after arriving at the station, it is completely unreasonable to write a letter urging the family to give things, because these things are all paid by the imperial court. Thinking of this, Zhang Nianxin flipped through several letters, "In November, the money and grain have been cut off, so I ask my family to send rice and grain as soon as possible. "In October, there was a shortage of medicine in the camp, so I begged my family to send gold sore medicine as soon as possible" "In December, the weather turned cold, and my hands ulcerated into sores, so I begged my family to send winter clothes as soon as possible." I saw that there were few letters to pray for their families, almost all of them were to ask for supplies and clothes from their families during the war, and each letter revealed despair between the lines, as if the money and food of the family were their last hope, and if they could not be sent to them, they would die. Zhang Nianxin was even more puzzled by this, one or two may have made some mistakes, so many people's military rations were not in place, and it was still wartime, and the head of the food supervisor didn't want it? Thinking of the land of their family when he was young, the land of the military household in their family was gradually swallowed up by the assassin Shi and some wealthy people, causing their family life to become increasingly difficult, Zhang Nian thought about it...

A few months after the carriage traveled to Liangzhou, Zhang Nianxin and them went to a different road, Song Ying and Song Quan and his party went directly to Shanzhou to report, Zhang Nianxin also had to find his father's old comrades-in-arms along the road, so the group met in Longyou Jiedu to make a round in Shanzhou. Because Wu Jiansheng secretly asked Li Xuantong to write a letter to persuade Wang Li You and Prime Minister Zhang Shuo to unite, Princess Taiping and her party were killed in advance, so many of Li Longji's political measures came to power in advance, such as the Longyou Jiedu Envoy who was established in the second year of Kaiyuan (714 AD) was established this year, but because Guo Zhiyun, the general of Zuo Wuwei, had gone to the Beiting Protectorate to assist Tang Jiahui in guarding Longxi, so it was his later heir Wang Junyu (chan) who actually managed Longxi at this time.

As soon as she separated from them, Zhang Nianxin quickly changed back into a woman's dress, and it was Dugufeng who gave her the purple and blue-bottomed long dress, and after dressing up, she went straight to Nanzheng, the Liangzhou Governance Office, in fact, Zhang Nianxin hates to dress up as a man, but she is a woman who will eat a lot of dust if she doesn't dress like this, so she doesn't have to do this often. Now that she has left the dangerous place, her injuries have gradually healed, and she has released her nature, after all, there is no woman who does not love beauty. As soon as you enter Nanzheng, you can see that although it is not as prosperous as Chengdu, it is also a state with a population of more than 100,000 after all, and it is still very prosperous. Zhang Nianxin suddenly came to the interest, in the west and east of the stroll, after she slaughtered the Eagle Martial Arts Hall, in the search for more than five hundred taels of silver silver, but unfortunately she was seriously injured at the time, only took three hundred taels, and some jewelry, so now she has a lot of money on hand, of course, it is impossible for her to take a big bag of silver to buy things, after all, there is a shortage of money in many places in the Tang Dynasty, and it is impossible to find the silver to settle the bill, so she simply put most of the money in the Hongtong cabinet in the county and replaced it with a letter, and then redeemed it back when it arrives in Longyou. After carefully shopping on the street for a long time, Zhang Nianxin finally only bought some dry food and gold sore medicine and some other necessities, no way, there are too many places to spend money in the back, she really doesn't dare to spend it. However, the money does not dare to be spent, the meal always has to be eaten well, since leaving the Dugu family, she has been sleeping in the open for more than four months, and she has not had a good year. At this time, how can you not make up for yourself, she found a restaurant facing the street and sat down, she connected the order: cold hu tu fish (sliced soup with fish), liyu zhen (sweet fish breast), steamed grass roe piso cake (roe meat cake), huai leaf cold noodles several dishes, and then served a plate of dumplings. Zhang Nianxin had never heard of these dishes before, and they all knew about it when she was celebrating the New Year at Dugu's house.

"Alas, guest officer, here comes your wine. ”

"Okay, Xiao Er, you go down. ”

After finishing the dishes, Zhang Nianxin suddenly ate like a storm, and the eating appearance that did not match the appearance attracted the diners next to him to look sideways, and then even Zhang Nianxin was a little embarrassed, learning from Dugufeng's appearance and chewing slowly, Zhang Nianxin tasted the delicacies while listening carefully to what the two diners dressed as literati in front of her were chatting about.

"Brother Wang, do you know what new Bachelor Wu has recently appeared in Luoyang City, and he has passed on Luoyang with a song Jiang Xue. ”

"Oh, Brother Yan, what kind of poem? Famous in Luoyang, recite it and listen to it. ”

I saw the scholar surnamed Yan slowly reciting: "Thousands of mountains and birds fly away, thousands of people disappear, lonely boats, fishing alone in the cold river and snow." I heard that he used this song on the Han River to meet the son of King Xin. ”

The scholar surnamed Wang thought about it, and patted his thigh excitedly: "Wonderful, it's really a good poem." ”

Zhang Nianxin squirted out a mouthful of water when he heard this, and said secretly in his heart: "The surname is Wu, Hanshui, the prince of Xinwang, should you be talking about Wu Jiansheng's chattering guy? When you met Xinwang, the wolf was obviously embarrassed, and he almost died, where did he come from to be so chic and calm to compose poetry? But I didn't expect him to have some ability, and this poem is quite level. After drinking, Zhang Nianxin took out the bloody letters and examined them carefully, hoping to see some clues from them. At this time, a few scoldings from the corner of the street attracted her attention, and she looked over, only to see a rich man scolding a lame old man who was blocking his way, during which two of his subordinates also got on the boxer, and the old man seemed to have poor eyes, but he was groping with his cane and begging for mercy. "Alas. Zhang Nianxin sighed after reading it, turned his head and continued to read the letter. She is not a cold-blooded and ruthless person, but when she shot in the Sky Eagle Martial Arts Hall, she was seriously injured and is still a prisoner, for a person who has nothing to do with her, she really doesn't need to be a hero anymore. At this time, a line appeared in front of her eyes: "I have a broken right leg, I am blind in my left eye, and I am expected to return home in May this year." Suddenly, Zhang Nianxin's head seemed to have been hit by a giant hammer.

hurriedly filled his mouth with a mouthful of food, "Xiao Er, don't accept these dishes first, I'll come back and eat them later." As he spoke, he threw down two copper coins, lifted his skirt and jumped down from the second floor, and landed on the ground steadily. ”

"I'll go to you," the young master in brocade who was carrying the birdcage kicked away the old man and said angrily: "You turtle son, you are so confused that you actually knocked away all the birds of Lao Tzu, and this young master is going to give you some color today." (You are a Hanzhong speaking Sichuan?) said that he raised his fist and was about to hit him, when a hand grabbed his arm, the boy turned his head to see that it was actually a beautifully dressed and handsome girl who stopped him, and suddenly his anger disappeared, and he laughed: "Yo, do you still look very strong as a fan? ”

Zhang Nianxin ignored him, but silently walked to the old man who fell to the ground and begged for mercy, lifted his arm to take a look, and saw that under the arm covered with old age spots, there were two arrow wounds left by the bow and crossbow, and there was a thick layer of calluses on the palm of the tiger's mouth, which was obviously left by long-term fighting on the battlefield. Thinking of what he saw in the letter before: many soldiers of the government were hungry and cold on the front line, struggling to fight with foreign races, but now those who survived ended up being bullied on the street, Zhang Nianxin suddenly felt that there was a nameless fire in his chest. She turned her head and yelled at the rich boy, "Fuck, you dare to bully the sergeant defending the frontier." Saying that, despite the fact that he was still wearing a skirt, he raised his fist and hit the boy, and in less than a moment the three people were beaten to the ground, and the rich boy who was the leader was beaten into a pig's head and knocked out a front tooth.

Zhang Nianxin spat at them, and said coldly: "Bah, get out, don't let me see you again." The three men fled in a hurry.

Zhang Nianxin hurriedly turned around and carefully helped the old man up, and said softly: "Old man, are you okay?" ”

"Ha," the old man showed a mouthful of big yellow teeth and smiled: "It's nothing, I'm lying back in Taohe, will it still be planted in my own door, it's you, girl, be careful here, that son-in-law surnamed Shen is very powerful in this area." ”

Zhang Nianxin saw that his face was yellow and thin, thin and skinny, obviously he had a bad life in the past few years, his nose couldn't help but sour, and he smiled: "Let's go, I'll take you to make up for your body, and we'll talk while eating." ”

In the restaurant, the ragged veteran sat on a chair and feasted, and his appearance was as ugly as Zhang Nianxin just now.

"Sir, you eat slowly, no one will rob you. As he spoke, he took out another copper coin and shouted, "Little Er, bring another roast chicken." ”

After the veteran soldier had almost eaten, Zhang Nianxin took out a letter and handed it to him and said, "Old man, your name is Yi Shunhua, and you used to be a soldier in the Longyou Xuange battalion, right?"

When the old man heard this, he immediately stopped the dishes and chopsticks, and there seemed to be a glimmer of light in the eye on his left, which had been invisible for many years.

Zhang Nianxin continued: "This letter should be yours, right?"

Yi Shunhua suddenly panicked, wiped his mouth, and took the letter with trembling hands, although he was illiterate, but when this familiar handwriting appeared in front of him, his heart was still extremely excited, and a line of tears suddenly fell from his right eye, he looked at Zhang Nian and stammered: "This, this, this is the family letter left by our brothers in the camp the night before the breakout, at that time we copied a few copies of each other, and agreed that whoever didn't lose his head would bring the family letter back for us." You, you, whose girl are you? Lao Wang's, Lao Zhou's, or the rich man? Are they still alive?"

Zhang Nianxin heard him say this, with a sad face, and understood why his father solemnly handed over these letters to him before he fled. "Alas, Zhang Zhaowu, the captain of the Xuange Battalion, is my father. ”

When Yi Shunhua heard this name, he was stunned for a while, and suddenly, in the strange eyes of others, he knelt down in front of Zhang Nianxin and laughed: "Hahahahaha, I know that General Zhang has not forgotten us." ”

Zhang Nianxin hurriedly helped him up and smiled: "He is an eight-rank Xuanjie captain, what kind of general is he? ”

Yi Shunhua sat up, as if he was more than twenty years younger, and said happily: "You, I don't know how heroic your father was when he led us to kill the enemy on the battlefield. ”

"Hey, I don't know how brave he was on the battlefield back then, but I know that I had a miserable life during the years when he wasn't at home. Alas, by the way, my father told me that most of the people in this letter were standing and dying in Chengfeng Ridge, how did you survive?"

Yi Shunhua frowned and said, "This, it's a long story. ”