Outside Luoyun Pass is an endless prairie, approaching the western mountains, and the cattle and sheep returning from the distance are coming in groups. If you look closely, there are a man and a horse behind those cattle and sheep, the horses are as white as snow, their backs are round, and their limbs are thick. The man was unkempt, wearing a tattered animal skin coat, and at first glance, he looked like a beggar begging for food on the street!

This person's name is Chu Yifan, he has just turned 16 years old, he is the ninth son of Chu Zhan, the guard general of Luoyun Pass, his mother died of illness eight years ago, and he had to take refuge in his father who was far away in Luoyun Pass! Helplessly, Chu Zhan's family has a great cause, and he is also the general of Zhenyuan of the Celestial Empire, since he came to Luoyun Pass, Chu Yifan's life has not been good, and his mother is a partial house, so he has no status in the Chu family! Chu Zhan was busy with military affairs all day long, and he had no time to take care of this little son, under the oppression of several elder brothers, Chu Yifan became the shepherd of this prairie six years ago, with cattle and sheep all day long, and white horses with him!

With the sky as the quilt and the earth as the bed, Chu Yifan has long been accustomed to this kind of life, and even he thought that he might be like this in his life, spending the rest of his life on this vast prairie. However, fate will not give him the peace he wants!

Chu Yifan looked up at the sky, and in an instant it was already full of dark clouds, fearing that heavy rain was coming, he sighed, turned over on his horse, and muttered: "What kind of day is this?

At this moment, a silver-white lightning bolt pierced the sky and landed on the mountains in the distance, followed by a thunderclap, which shook Chu Yifan's ears numb. This rain is coming, and in the blink of an eye, it is already pouring rain, Chu Yifan didn't dare to make any stops, and drove the cattle and sheep to the camp in a hurry!

Bursts of thunder were endless, and the frightened cattle and sheep also began to flee in all directions at this time, Chu Yifan rode his horse and whipped in the torrential rain, and drove the frightened cattle and sheep back. A man who has lived in this steppe for six years has long been accustomed to such a tempest, and he has learned how to recover the frightened herd of cattle and sheep in such a situation. There are even times when Chu Yifan will face the attacks of more than a dozen evil wolves, but fortunately, he is more courageous, and he has also learned some three-legged cat kung fu since he was a child, and he is even more desperate when he fights, so that even the evil wolf has to avoid three points when he sees him.

Chu Yifan finally drove the cattle and sheep back to the camp one by one, and the torrential rain had no intention of stopping, Chu Yifan came to the outside of the camp, took off the animal skin clothes on his body, and took a good bath by taking advantage of the torrential rain. Running naked in the wind and rain, at this moment he was completely released, since the death of his mother, he has never been so relaxed as now! Chu Yifan wiped the rain on his face, looked up at the sky, and saw that the lightning was like a dragon shuttling among the dark clouds, he shouted, but this voice was pitiful in front of the rain and thunder, almost negligible!

At this time, Chu Yifan suddenly felt that something was rushing towards him quickly, and when he looked at it, it seemed to be a horse, and there was a person sitting right away, the horse was like a meteor and an arrow, and soon, a person and a horse came to Chu Yifan's side!

Before Chu Yifan could speak, he heard a strange cry from the comer: "Ah... Chu Yifan, you rascal, I'm going to kill you!"

As soon as the words fell, Chu Yifan realized that he was not wearing clothes, and suddenly turned around and ran towards the camp, and kept shouting: "This is an accident, it is completely an accident!"

The person who came just now covered his eyes with his hands, and then heard Chu Yifan's voice getting farther and farther away, so he opened his blindfolded hand a slit, and saw Chu Yifan get into the camp tent with a little effort.

The man tied the horse to a stake outside the tent, then walked outside the tent and cleared his throat: "Rascal, are you dressed?"

As soon as the words fell, I saw Chu Yifan poke his head out of the tent and coughed dryly: "Sister Nanyan, how are you... Why did you get here all of a sudden?"

Nan Yan's eyes flickered, his face was full of shame, and he snorted coldly: "It's not because of you... Do you want me to stand here in the rain all the time?"

Chu Yifan smiled: "Come in... Come on in..."

Chu Yifan found a clean rag in the camp tent, handed it to Nan Yan, and said, "My place is simple, you use this to wipe the rain first!"

Nanyan and Chu Yifan have known each other since they were children, and the relationship between the two has always been good, but since Chu Yifan left the Imperial City of the Celestial Dynasty, the two can basically only see each other once a year. She is the pearl of the famous Nan family in the imperial city of the Celestial Empire, and her father Nan Haotian is the minister of the court, plus she is naturally beautiful, and she has a flower-like face, which makes Nanyan highly sought after in Dongyi City, and many gentlemen are chasing after her. However, Nan Yan basically turned a blind eye to these people and never paid attention to them!

Looking at Nan Yan's face that fascinated the thousands of young people, Chu Yifan continued: "I haven't seen you for a year, the little girl has become a big beauty!

Nan Yan grinned: "Isn't it that if you have lived here for a long time, everyone is stupid! Tomorrow is the birthday of your grandmother Chu Lao Taijun, not only our Nan family is here, but the four major families of the Heavenly Empire are here!"

Old Taijun Chu has a very high reputation in the Celestial Empire, and even the Heavenly Monarch has to respect her for three points, and at this time of year, most of the important ministers of the Celestial Empire will drag their families to Luoyun Pass to celebrate her old man's birthday. Chu Yifan sighed and said, "How could I forget this, except for grandma, I'm afraid they don't treat me as a Chu family now!"

Nan Yan hesitated for a moment: "It's okay, whether they treat you as the Chu family or not, you will always be my Yifan brother, and I will protect you, just like you protected me when I was a child!"

At this time, Chu Yifan was suddenly stunned for a moment, and a warm current was pouring out of his heart, he knew that this was Nan Yan's heartfelt words, but if there was really any accident or danger, Chu Yifan would still stand in front of Nan Yan without hesitation!

The two chatted in the tent for a while, and the rainstorm slowly subsided, when suddenly a voice came from outside: "Miss, Miss, where are you?"

Chu Yifan looked out when he heard the sound, and said with a smile: "Someone is coming to look for you! Don't run so fast next time you ride a horse, be careful of being bitten by a tengu!" After the words fell, Chu Yifan walked towards the outside of the tent.

Nan Yan stood in place and pouted, muttering, "It's not to see you sooner..."

When the two came to the outside of the camp, they saw several soldiers wearing silver armor and steel knives at their waists hurrying over with a maid. The maid came to Nanyan and asked anxiously, "Miss, are you okay?"

Nanyan naughtily patted the head of the maid Ah Xiang and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine! But you are too slow, why are you catching up with me now?"

At this time, one of the family soldiers said: "Miss's horsemanship is the best in the world, you say second, but no one dares to call it first! But next time, I hope Miss will ride slower, if something happens, the master will not have to pick the skin of a few of us!"

"Okay, okay, got it!" Nan Yan replied casually.

Chu Yifan saw that it was still raining outside, so he invited the soldiers and Ah Xiang into the camp, these people live in the imperial city all the year round, where have they seen such a simple and smelly place to live, all of them have a disgusted expression. Ah Xiang couldn't help but whisper in Nanyan's ear: "Miss, is this a place where people live, how can you become friends with such a person?"

Hearing this, Nan Yan was a little displeased and said, "What kind of people do I have friends with that you can manage?" Ah Xiang saw that Miss was really angry, and she didn't dare to say anything, just glanced at Chu Yifan fiercely.

Seeing this, Chu Yifan chuckled: "The humble house is simple, everyone is at your own convenience!" After speaking, he sat on the straw mat. A few family soldiers, you look at me, I look at you, and then they also sat on the straw mat, only Ah Xiang couldn't get off her buttocks, and kept standing next to Nanyan!

It was getting late, but the rain had no intention of stopping, Ah Xiang looked anxious, walked to the edge of the tent and looked outside, and said, "Miss, this rain has been falling, how can we go back?"

Nan Yan stood up, walked to Ah Xiang's side, and said with a smile: "It seems that we can't go back today!"

"Can't go back, spend the night here?" Ah Xiang looked a little surprised.

Nan Yan nodded: "Yes, just spend the night here, I heard that the night sky on the grassland outside Luoyun Pass is very beautiful, and the stars are also the brightest, I have never seen stars on the grassland!"

Ah Xiang sighed: "I said Miss, look at such a heavy rain outside, where will there be any stars!" Although Ah Xiang is the maid of the Nan family, her relationship with Nan Yan is not bad, and the two are like sisters when no one is there on weekdays, so their words are not so restrictive.

Ah Xiang glanced at Chu Yifan, who was sitting not far away, and continued: "Miss, what's so good about this person, it's worth you to come all the way to this stinky place? In the Imperial City, you are a famous beauty, and the sons and brothers who pursue you can be lined up from here to the Imperial City!"

Nan Yan patted Ah Xiang's head and said, "What do you know, those playboys in the imperial city can't get into my eyes, Brother Yifan is different from them!" Ah Xiang scratched his head, and said in his heart that it was indeed different, one in the sky and the other in the ground.

The rain didn't stop until the middle of the night, and Nanyan didn't see the starry sky outside Luoyun Pass as he wished. In the early morning of the next day, Nan Yan left a few family soldiers who came with him to guard the ranch, although the family soldiers were unhappy in their hearts, they didn't dare to say anything more, so they could only write this account on Chu Yifan.

Chu Yifan took out a wooden box from under the bed, saying that it contained a birthday gift for his grandmother, and then simply cleaned it up, and the three of them and three horses went in the direction of Luoyun Pass.