In the study of the guard's mansion, Pei Zheng looked down at the thread of his heel, and a touch of sadness appeared on his face, why are such comfortable shoes so unworn?

When he bought these shoes, he spent a full twenty copper plates.

Profiteers, even the military master dares to pit, don't let the young master see you again in Xin'an City, there is no silver or two in this matter, no, there is no five taels to finish.

"Squeak"

Zhao Gu pushed open the door, walked into the study with a cold wind, and saw Pei Zheng standing there honestly, and couldn't help but be a little surprised: "Your kid actually came early today?"

Pei Zheng smiled and said: "The general has a call, how dare he slack off on his humble position?

Zhao Gu sat down with a big grin, and said casually: "It's nothing, the mission is in a hurry to return to Beijing to resume his life, and he can't recognize the direction because of the heavy snow, so he wants to borrow a few guides." ”

"Looking at the whole of Sin'an City, who knows the way better than you kid, Ben will recommend you to them on the spot. ”

"Pick a few clever brothers, pack them up, and prepare to follow the mission on the road. ”

Hit the road?

Pei Zheng's cheeks twitched, you just went on the road, your whole family is on the road, can you say something auspicious?

"The lowly martial arts are low, and the talent is shallow, so it is really difficult to take on such a heavy responsibility, and I ask the general to choose another capable person. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Gu leaned forward slightly, glared at Pei Zheng and asked, "Overwhelmed by the heavy responsibility?" Ben Jiang has watched you grow up, and I have never seen you so modest. ”

"Five years ago, you took your brother's military status, and the general thought that you were young and frail, and threw you into a relatively safe scout camp. ”

"I didn't expect your kid to be a good seedling as a scout, over the years, those people on the same team with you, either dead or injured, have changed three or five stubbles before and after, you not only live well, but also promoted to the team. ”

"If nothing else, you'll be the next commander of the Scout Battalion. ”

"Can you find a better scout than you in the whole of Xin'an City? If even you are not suitable, don't you want Ben to go out in person?"

Pei Zheng lowered his head, rubbed his somewhat cold hands, and said a reasonable reason: "Humble duties are just forging bone realms." ”

The style of martial arts in Great Xia prevailed, from the royal family to the peddlers and pawns, and everyone loved martial arts.

As the saying goes, people can't stand without bones, and bones don't live without joints, and the first level of martial arts entry is bone forging.

Martial artists can practice martial arts techniques, supplemented by blood and food medicines, to temper bones and enhance physical fitness.

Theoretically speaking, anyone who has cultivated martial arts is at least in the Bone Forging Realm, and then in the Yi Muscle Realm and the Blood Exchange Realm.

The Xin'an City Scout Battalion was full of 100 people, many of whom were in the Yi Muscle Realm and the Blood Exchange Realm, and the brigade commander and another team were even reaching the Great Completion of the Blood Exchange Realm.

If it weren't for the first battle exploit in the army, Pei Zheng's combat exploits far surpassed others, in terms of strength alone, which round would the team get him a bone forging realm?

Now Pei Zheng is raising this point, which is a hard injury that he is often criticized by others.

Zhao Gu couldn't help but be slightly moved when he heard this: "In order to push away this errand, you kid don't even want to have a face?"

How much is a face worth?

Pei Zheng looked at his nose and nose, and said in a steady tone: "The humble position is just telling the truth, a few adults borrowed people from the general, and the general picked and picked a bone forging realm, and several adults are afraid that not only will they not accept the general's affection, but will resent the general's yang and yin." ”

"Humble and courageous proposed, if the general wants to sell favors, simply be bold and push Sun Li to the other party. If the general doesn't want to sell favors, he can refuse to move the border army at will, and there is no need to deliberately disgust the other party. ”

Sun Li is the head of the Blood Exchange Realm Dacheng Team in the scout camp, and for some reason, he has some problems with Pei Zheng.

Zhao Gu sneered: "It's a pity that it was you who would have been optimistic." ”

Pei Zheng frowned slightly, and just wanted to answer, but was interrupted by Zhao Gu: "Don't mention martial arts cultivation to Lao Tzu, your little bit of caution, really everyone is blind and can't see?"

"Your brother has excellent talent, and he has been practicing martial arts for less than three years before he changed the Great Perfection of the Blood Realm, if it weren't for the fact that his merits were not enough to exchange for the resources to break through the Qi Cultivation Realm, he would have already become a master of the Qi Cultivation Realm. ”

"You and your brother both have the blood of the Pei family in their bones, and you are a waste of martial arts, and you can't even get through the bone forging realm for five years?"

"Do you think that everyone else is a fool and can't see a deliberately clumsy little trick? ”

Pei Zheng took a breath and slowly spit out: "My brother died, sacrificed himself for the country, and died in battle." ”

The little power that Zhao Gu had just gathered disappeared in an instant, and there was an indescribable discomfort in his heart.

That young man was his favorite successor, and he was the best person to succeed him in guarding the border city and defending the Hu people from going south.

However, God was jealous of talents, and he died on the battlefield at a young age.

Thinking of the sad Zhao Gu, he suddenly lost the mood to quarrel with Pei Zheng, and said with a serious face: "Say, why don't you want to be this guide?"

Pei Zheng was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "Yesterday, when the mission entered the city, I happened to see arrow marks on the carriage. ”

In fact, it was not just that I happened to see it, but that the arrow marks on the carriage were so many and conspicuous that Pei Zheng really couldn't turn a blind eye.

Zhao Gu said angrily: "What is the reason for this? Ben General asked, the mission was attacked by horse bandits on the way back, and a few guards were carelessly damaged. ”

"Now that the mission has entered the territory of Great Xia, don't say that the horse bandits dare not be presumptuous, even if they dare to come, will you kid still be afraid of them?"

Pei Zheng said a little helplessly: "Which horse bandit dares to attack the Great Xia Mission and the son of Hu Renshan Yu?

Zhao Gu glared at Pei Zheng: "As far as you are smart, can you guess that there are people among the Hu people who are unwilling to belong to Great Xia and send people to attack the mission by pretending to be horse bandits?"

Pei Zheng sighed and said: "If it's just the Hu people pretending to be horse bandits to attack the mission, the lowly position will not be so resistant, after all, no matter how arrogant the Hu people are, they don't dare to bypass Xin'an City and go deep into the territory of Great Xia to hunt down and kill the mission." ”

"What the lowly is worried about is that there are people involved in Great Xia. ”

Zhao Gu's face changed greatly, and he said angrily: "Pei Zheng, shut up, it is Your Majesty's will to accept the Hu people's subordination, who dares to disobey the yang and make trouble in secret?"

Pei Zheng looked extremely serious and said: "It's not easy to say, the militant faction in the DPRK and China who advocate stepping on the Golden Horde, the 200,000 soldiers in the Northwest Province who are ready to make meritorious contributions, and the powerful families who have been trading privately with the Hu people and are about to lose their interests because of the opening of the market, are not necessarily willing to see the Hu people join Great Xia." ”

"The first two are mostly just whining, and the latter is likely to use a knife to flip the table. ”

"The lowly and determined mission has realized this, and it is normal to send envoys to vassal states, and considering the complexity of the situation, it is generally not necessary to return to Beijing within a specified time limit. ”

"The mission would rather brave the wind and snow than rush south to return to Beijing, and may not have the idea of taking advantage of the heavy snow to avoid pursuit. ”

Zhao Gu sneered: "This is the real reason why you are unwilling to be a guide? Joke, the whole world is not the king's land, who dares to risk the destruction of the family and the clan to hunt down and kill the mission?"

Pei Zheng sighed slightly and said: "The family is a big family, the roots of the tree are coiled, and the branches are intertwined, even if this matter is exposed, some are substitutes for the dead ghosts, and they won't hurt their muscles and bones at all, why don't they dare?"

"Winning big profits, losing small losses, the family is the best at weighing the pros and cons and trade-offs, what kind of things they will do, they will not feel strange. ”

Zhao Gu teased: "Ben almost forgot, you are also from a big family, no wonder you know so well." ”

Pei Zheng felt helpless: "When my humble grandfather was expelled from the Pei family, he was only two years old, how can he remember anything?

Zhao Gu pretended to be displeased and said: "You kid is so bold that you dare to even take care of the general's idle affairs?"

Pei had a melancholy look on his face: "If it weren't for the fact that the three generations of humble ancestors and grandchildren have received the kindness of the general, how can you dare to say so much at the risk of being punished by the general?"

"To put it a little offensively, you are a fifth-grade general, and you may still have a little right to speak in the Northwest Dao, but in the entire Great Xia, I am afraid that you will not even be able to set off the waves. ”

Zhao Gu was a little embarrassed by Pei Zheng's words, and said angrily: "As far as you kid is clever, not to mention that the participation of the Great Xia family in this matter is just your speculation, even if they are involved, they will only borrow a few guides, will they still be involved?"

"Just because of this, they will still be unable to get along with a powerful general in the frontier like Ben General? Even if they can't get by, Ben will be backed by the Northwest Provincial Border Army, and they will be afraid that they will not succeed?"

"If you want to say this, it is because you kid is careful and unwilling to put in the heart to temper the martial arts, so you will stop in the Bone Forging Realm for five years. ”

Pei Zheng lowered his head and whispered, "Isn't it a big mistake to be careful? You don't need to get involved at all." Of course, those people will not blatantly deal with an imperial general of the fifth grade, but in the future, when you encounter a promotion or other things, people will remember today's events and secretly make you a stumbling block, which is enough for you to suffer a loss. ”

Pei Zheng said while looking at Zhao Gu's face with his spare eyes, in the past, the unscrupulous general would not have said so much, and he had already forcibly ended the conversation with the sentence "military orders cannot be violated", and today he can still patiently discuss with him, there must be a demon when things go wrong.

Zhao Gu didn't know that he had changed his temper today in the eyes of his subordinates, and sneered at each other: "The deep-rooted family is not easy to offend, so the waiter of the Ministry of Rites and the general of the Janissary will be offended?"

Pei Zheng sighed and said: "Of course, the Rite Department Squire and the Praetorian Guard Zhonglang will not be offended, but their power and relationship are in Kyoto, and their hands can't reach so far from the Northwest Road. ”

"Besides, the general said that the border army must not be easily mobilized, and no one can blame it. ”

Zhao Gu said with a strange expression: "How do you know that their hands can't reach so far from the Northwest Road?"

Pei Zheng spread his hands and said: "Isn't it obvious, if you can stretch so far, how can you still be chased and killed?"

Zhao Gu pondered and said: "Wen Feng, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, was once the teacher of the General in the Yanwu Academy. ”

Pei Zheng was slightly surprised, and then said with a straight face: "You didn't say anything when you were in a humble position." ”

But he was lamenting in his heart, no wonder the unscrupulous general would muddy the waters, there was such a relationship?