"No, no, I really can't live!" the old man shook his head and waved his hand.

"Be careful, please smile!" the knife took an ingot of ten taels of silver into the old man's hand.

"I can live! I can live if I pack up!" the old man was so excited that he put the silver in his mouth and took a bite.

"If you bother to make us something to eat, just do it!" said the knife as he patted the old man's hand.

"Yes, yes, come in!" the old man smiled as he held the silver.

"Wife, go and cook some food for your guests, and you can help your mother too!" the old man shouted into the house.

Not long after, the fragrant meal was served, and ten armored guards sat at a table, with a knife, an empty-bellied monk, and an old family of three sitting at a table.

"Old man, your surname!" asked the knife.

"My surname is Zhang, everyone calls me Old Man Zhang, she is my wife, her surname is Chen, but everyone is used to calling her Mrs. Zhang, this is my son, Zhang Niu, the biggest feature is that he can work hard! Haha!" Old man Zhang made a brief introduction one by one.

"I'm ordered to go to support the war in the east, please forgive me for the trouble!" said the knife.

"You're going to war, no wonder they're all wearing armor. Ah Niu, kneel down quickly, and beg your lord to take you east with you to contribute to the Rui Kingdom!" Old man Zhang asked Ah Niu to kneel. Ah Niu is really as human as his name, tall and muscular, looking at a table of food is drooling, stunned for a while!

"You still want to eat after eating just now!" Old man Zhang was so angry that he directly hit Ah Niu, and Ah Niu came back to his senses.

"My lord, you can take me to the war with you, as long as you can eat enough!" Ah Niu knelt down and said.

"Ah Brother Niu, please get up quickly, you will die at any time in a war, wouldn't it be better to be filial to your parents at home?"

"My lord, you can take him with you, don't look at my house, there are still some appearances, they are all left by my ancestors, there is too little land in my family, the cow is capable, but it is too eaten, the family can't afford to raise him, this is also the reason why I didn't dare to let the adults into the house when the adults first came!"

"Then go out and find something to do?" Ah Brother Niu is a force, there must be a place for him, Grandpa Zhang, you two old people have worked hard all your life, it's not good to have a son to take care of you physically, and fighting on the battlefield is a matter of life and death!"

"My lord, a manly man, how can you be greedy and afraid of death? Ah Niu is not afraid of death! You can take me with you!" Ah Niu knelt down again and kowtowed directly.

"In that case, then well! You will follow me from now on, you will never go hungry, and I will take care of your safety! Let's eat together!"

......

Before leaving, the knife gave the old man Zhang ten taels of silver, and let Ah Niu sit in the carriage with him, Ah Niu refused, and wanted to be a groom, and pushed the empty belly monk into the carriage.

"Then let the groom do it for you, hahahaha!" the monk laughed.

"Ah, Brother Niu, how old are you!" asked Knife.

"Your Excellency is polite! Don't look at me tall, I'm not old, I'm only eighteen this year, my father and mother gave birth to me in their thirties, and adults will call me a cow in the future!"

"Okay! My name is Guo Xiaodao!"

......

The eastern border is more than 1,000 miles away from Kyoto City, and the knife goes all the way east, traveling more than 200 miles a day, except for the necessary rest, all in a hurry.

After seven days, they finally approached the camp of the Eastern Expeditionary Army.

"Phew!" Zhang Niu grabbed the carriage and jumped out of the carriage.

"No! This doesn't seem to be the border between the two countries, and there should be dozens of miles away from the border!" the monk pulled open the carriage curtain.

"There is not a single city within a radius of dozens of miles here, and it must have been years of war that led to such desolation. The knife stepped down the carriageway. The empty-bellied monk also got out of the carriage.

"Master Guo, wait a minute, I'll go to the front and ask!" Ah Niu was also bold, so he walked forward.

"Who is it? This is the barracks of the Eastern Crusade Army, and no idlers are allowed to approach it. The guard at the barracks saw a small team approaching, and was already on guard, and at this time, Zhang Niu approached alone, so he shouted loudly.

"My Lord Guo wants to see you, General Chen! Go and report it!" Zhang Niu shouted.

"Who's shouting?" out of front of the barracks was a man who looked like a general, still riding a war horse, holding a red tassel gun, who had just lost the battle and had nowhere to go, and wanted to ride out to check the enemy's situation.

"Back to Xiaodutong, the rough man who came from nowhere said that their Lord Guo wants to see our general!"

"How can this be reasonable! The general is also the one he sees when he sees him, eat me first!" Xiao Dutong kicked the horse's belly with both feet, and the war horse quickly rushed forward.

The knife was taken aback when he saw this, and he didn't know how Zhang Niu's martial arts were, he was afraid that the comer would hurt him, and he didn't have a hidden weapon on his body, so he took out a piece of ten taels of silver in his arms, and the luck went to the red tassel gun.

The war horse has been close to Zhang Niu, but I didn't expect Zhang Niu to punch the head of the war horse directly, "click", the head of the war horse was hit with a hole, the two horse eyes were protruding, the horse's brain was also splashed on the ground, the war horse suddenly collapsed, Xiao Dutong was surprised, but this is not over, I saw Zhang Niu grab the horse's head with both hands, shouted, threw it hard and threw it to the front of the barracks, Xiao Dutong fell to the ground, and the sentry hurriedly ran over to help him up.

"Someone!" Xiao Dutong stood up and shouted, and suddenly hundreds of archers aimed at Zhang Niu, full of bows ready to shoot!

"Wait!" exclaimed Knife. Then he quickly walked in front of Zhang Niu, and the monk with empty belly and ten armored guards also walked over quickly.

"Who are you? It is better to recruit them truthfully, or you will be killed by ten thousand arrows through your hearts!"

"I am the civil and military prince of Ruiguo, or Your Majesty personally joined the army of the Eastern Expedition, and my official residence is from Yipin, this time I came to solve the poison problem for General Chen, you go and report it!"

"Hmph! I have never heard of who the civil and military duke is! I have never heard the general say that His Majesty sent the army over, I think you are most likely a spy sent by the enemy army, and you want to enter our army to poison you, with me Yang Wu here, you don't want to succeed!"

"It's really a lack of bravery, and there is no wisdom, no wonder you can only be a small capital commander in charge of 500 people. The knife said secretly in his heart.

"Brother Guo, show him His Majesty's holy decree!" reminded the empty monk.

"Do you think he will believe that the Divine Decree is true?"