Chapter 68: Overnight in the Prairie
The grass is far away, but there is none.
The blue sky shrouds the vast grassland, raise your eyes to look at the endless greenery, the white clouds are leisurely, changing with the wind, looking down at the brown and yellow soil under your feet, the river is gentle, the fisherman holds the boat off the riverbank, and the birds chase the white sails in the distance.
The scenery of early spring, the green willows are only yellow and half uneven, the hazy and charming eyes are seen from a distance, and the cold winter breath is still left up close.
The horses galloped on the grassland, all the way to the source of the greenery, six days passed, the eyes were misty, and laughter came from the horseback.
"Haha, Li Longbow, run down again, it's almost to the sunset realm. ”
"Keep running, I don't believe it, this grassland will be boundless, hahaha. ”
"Then try one more day, you will still lose, and you will lose again and again. ”
The dark clouds flew off with four hooves, and soon pulled Li Longbow far behind, Gao Yuan patted the horse's head, and the dark clouds slowed down, saying that it was a real joke to say that the competition was really funny.
"The master is indomitable after repeated defeats, and he has the courage to change horses to compete to see who is good at riding. ”
The two of them sometimes chased after me, sometimes they rode slowly, the red sun hung in the west, and Li Longbow stopped his horse.
In Sanhe Bay, there is an advance team of the standard battalion, and the two of them only stayed for half a day, hurriedly looked at the terrain, galloped to the grassland, and were aimless all the way, and their depression dissipated in the sparse sky.
"Let me gallop freely, haha, this is the place that the master yearns for. Li Longbow jumped off his horse and prepared to camp.
"Standard camp, the cage that imprisons the master. Gao Yuan, if we two are deserters, sneak back to pick up the grandfathers, and pull up a team in this prairie to be the king and hegemon, why bother to suffer those idleness. ”
Gao Yuan settled the dark clouds, ran over to help him set up a tent, and scolded angrily: "Sooner or later, Lao Tzu will let you die, and you will be forced to become a lost dog, and you will not forget to be a horse bandit!"
"Hehe, you go and lure the women's team out, wouldn't we be chic and happy, Mei Ying and Yan Ning won't rob you, and the other masters will pick at will, hahaha. ”
"Trick the women's team, I'm afraid that you will let people be castrated when the time comes! and pick arbitrarily, even Yan Ning let Zhuo Zhuo snatch it. ”
There are no traces of the grassland everywhere, and there is no need to avoid taboos when talking between brothers and sisters.
"Excellence, you're a fool to be a little master, she has a crush on you!"
Takagaki glanced at him and smiled disdainfully: "Indomitable, don't put gold on your face." If you don't desert, I won't let Excellence hold a grudge. ”
Li Changgong was rarely silent, the two of them set up their tents with their hands and feet, one went to fetch water, the other collected firewood, the bonfire was lit on the grassland, the small iron pot sizzled, and the old words of Gao Yuan were repeated.
"I told you earlier, she was more curious about me than she was fond of, in front of Yanfu, who let you not show your courage first. It's not too late, for brother's sake, I'll help you. ”
Although he knew that there was no one around, Li Changgong still looked at it with a ghostly head, and then lowered his voice and accosted: "Really help? Okay, brother won't turn around." Yan Ning, don't mention it again, that is destined to be your person. You can help my brother get Yu Wenjie. ”
"Poof!" The water in Gao Yuan's mouth almost sprayed into the pot, and he kicked a few breaths to look at him, Li Changgong was a little embarrassed, but he still said with a shy face: "You have a county lord, and a young lady, how can you find a noble woman, Yu Wenjie, make do." ”
"Make do!" I have seen a person with a thick face, but I didn't expect this brother next to him to be the best, Gao Yuan scolded in a low voice: "It's okay, do you know her identity? Li Changgong grinned and let him interrupt: "Okay, okay, let's not talk about it first." Li Changgong, I don't underestimate you, it's okay for people to beat you both. Are you sure you want to be a stake for sparring?"
Li Changgong added a few pieces of firewood to the bonfire, and added condiments to the pot in a hurry, so calm that Gao Yuan was confused, and couldn't help asking: "Are you sure? ”
After putting on a full posture, seeing that Gao Yuan's heart was itching to the limit, Li Changgong revealed the details unhurriedly: "Isn't it just refining qi? ”
"You can also brag about the limit, be careful to let you charge first next time!"
Gao Yuan sacrificed a killer weapon, who knew that Li Longbow ignored it at all, and only spoke under the threat of his fist after a while: "Remember the old man's chaotic arrow trick, my brother is talented, he came to the door to accept me as a disciple, and I had to bow my head under the eaves, and the young master reluctantly agreed." ”
Gao Yuan completely defeated him, the disciple of the head of the standard camp, no wonder this kid dared to openly and gently fight with the standard chief, it turned out that there was a martial arts sect as a backer, and he really let his so-called innocent brotherhood move him for half a night.
"The chief instructor asked you to monitor the standard leader, and the old man asked me to report your whereabouts, hahaha, let's slip away and let them cry. ”
The brother made the matter clear, and Gao Yuan raised his hand to surrender: "You are amazing, I like Yu Wenjie, okay, I will find a way to create opportunities for the two of you, in other words, don't look for me to treat your injuries if you are beaten." ”
"Don't look for you, Lao Tzu will go to whom!"
By the campfire, the two brothers bragged while eating, and after eating, they pulled a piece of animal skin mattress and lay outside the tent, and Li Longbow talked about business.
"I don't think we'll go back yet, just wander around the prairie and see what tricks they can do. Excellence, don't you want to be the captain of the guard? Give him a chance. ”
"When did you start doubting him?"
"When selecting troops, the brothers agreed to snatch back the title of the first post, and the coach encouraged them, but unfortunately they couldn't find the right time. After the Ministry of Civil Affairs prepared for war, Liu Xinjie and I went to him and found that he was with Su Rui, the commander of a sentry, one did not accept the challenge, and the other opposed the challenge. ”
"It's not surprising, if you don't mention it, I forgot about it. ”
Li Changgong answered angrily: "It's not strange, but I'm curious, so I'll go and find out the news, guess what? Hehe, he and Li Zihui are also secretly mixed together." That kid didn't bother you a lot, and if you want to say that you didn't know, you cut off my head. ”
Takagaki was silent for a while, and he was also unintentionally suspicious.
"Pro-Guard, he didn't come to sign up, I think it's normal, I can't put down my son to be my subordinate. Later, Yan Ning joined and intended to get close to me, I was afraid that he would be too careful, plus Mei Ying's matter, he didn't go to the women's team all the way, and he also stayed away from the noble children, but he was not affected by Yan Ning's departure, and he still often came to the personal guard. ”
"You suspect it?"
At that time, there was no suspicion, and it was reasonable for him to entangle Yan Ning. The women's team listened to Yan Ning's orders, I was afraid that he would be treated coldly, so I told Chang Yunfei to take care of him secretly, hehe, I was surprised, Chang Yunfei found that he found Yan Ning to take a look, and most of the time he was chatting and laughing with other people. ”
The two brothers stopped talking, counted the stars in the sky, four years of brotherhood, bits and pieces of the past lingered in their hearts like stars, fame and fortune are current, do you really want to turn against each other?
It's not strange to compete for the captain of the guard, making small moves in secret makes people suspicious, the captain of the guard is appointed by the captain of the standard battalion, not by election, with outstanding intelligence, if you want to be the captain of the guard, you should find a way to skip the boss and make friends with the guards, it doesn't have much effect, what is his purpose?
"You don't stop at Sanhe Bay and change direction at will along the way, because you're worried that someone will take the opportunity to kill us both. ”
"Sleep, old rule, I sleep in the first half of the night, and you sentry in the second half of the night. Takagaki picked up the mattress and drilled into the tent, not forgetting to hit his friend: "What a chance, kill me, and you may be a captain, a herald, and a heavy orderly." ”
Li Changgong scolded twice and agreed, and after thinking about it again, he felt that it was wrong, and jumped up from the mattress.
"Kill you, the master will make the empire wanted, and the horse bandits should be unstable. The first half of the night will be mine, and then I will call you up, hehe. ”
Li longbow fodder the horses, trampled out the bonfire, and circled the tent in the distance. It is good to be on guard in the first half of the night, and half of the time for the two to chat, if you are really sleepy, you can shout at any time, there are no bells and drums on the grassland, who knows what time it is.
Inside the tent, Gao Yuan couldn't sleep at all, and in the past few days, he deliberately indulged his body and mind, refining his qi as he wanted in the morning and evening, and sometimes he simply lay down until three poles in the sun before getting up, enjoying the freedom he had not seen for a long time.
Don't deliberately cultivate, the breath in the body becomes majestic and comfortable, a little run of the mantra, as if to penetrate the body, Gao Yuan was surprised and delighted, grandpa said that he can expect to rise to a level before the age of eighteen, is it now, nearly two years in advance, I don't know if there is danger, I don't dare to try to break through.
Tonight, after a conversation with Li Changgong, the suspicion of excellence was confirmed by the side, the purpose was not clear, the facts were in front of him, there was a conspiracy hidden after the struggle for military power, and the brotherhood was gone, so it was necessary to guard against it in the future and counterattack if necessary.
I couldn't sleep left and right, so I turned over and sat up, crossed my knees and made a breath, and slowly entered an ethereal state.
The breath flowed along the familiar route, the speed became faster and faster, so comfortable that he groaned, the touch of goose yellow flashed again, and the unbearable scene of spring was infinitely unforgettable, how could it be Senior Sister, shouldn't it be Mei Ying? There was a few traces of clarity in his mind, and the majestic breath rushed to the dantian, and his mind sank again. The dantian is like a lake full of water, the breath of the meridians and mountain torrents is still rolling in, the comfortable feeling fades, and the unbearable expansion is eager to vent in the desire of spring dreams, but the meridians and blood vessels are like a rope that binds, deeply straining into the more and more intense air masses.
The desire for relief in pain, the short-term sobriety can hardly hide the shyness, the normal physiological reaction of the boy, he came several years later than his peers, when that touch of goose yellow turned into a smile of disgust and joy, the of the dantian collapsed instantly, the airflow poured into the whole body like a flood beast, drilled into the invisible meridians and blood vessels, and walked non-stop like a steel cone, the unspeakable pain but the pleasure of venting, and finally let the coma protect the self-consciousness.
Li Longbow wandered in the distance of the tent, as if there was heat blowing on his face, he leaned over vigilantly to investigate, silent under the starlight, the night wind drilled into his neck, the water was as cold as cold, he couldn't help but shiver, he was thinking about where the heat came from, on the stake that bound the tent, the ugly friction sound of the rope sounded, and before he could run to him, if there was a volcanic eruption in the tent, the rags and fragments were splashed into the distance.
"Takagaki!"
Falling to the ground and rolling to dodge, the short knife was held in the palm of his hand, the danger came suddenly, the damage was equal to nothing, Li Changgong took a few steps into the broken tent, Gao Yuan lay quietly on the ground, his clothes turned into pieces, scattered on the ground, the soft armor could not cover the body, no traces of injury could be seen, and the whole body emitted an unpleasant smell, which made people want to vomit.
Li Longbow did not act rashly, forcibly held back the nausea, lay down beside Gao Yuan, put his ear to his mouth and nose, breathed breathing, put down his heart and crawled into the distance, with a longbow and arrows in his hand, vigilantly listening to the surrounding movements, for a long time could not distinguish the trace of the enemy, still lurking.
Gao Yuan successfully broke through, the lucky ingredients were the majority, the mind was lost in the cultivation, the chaotic breath was chaotic, and the unspeakable spring dream was even more like adding fuel to the fire, seeing that ten years of hard work was about to be ruined, but the first venting of a few years late, the dantian was vacated at the last moment, and it was full of profits, which just catered to the principles of the Heavenly Dao, and everything became dangerous.
Although Li Changgong has not been refining qi for a long time, the danger of breaking through has been heard by the principal, although he is not sure whether Gao Yuan is breaking through, he found that he has not been injured, and he chooses to watch from the sidelines cautiously, so that Gao Yuan can avoid the catastrophe, if he is replaced by someone else, he will check and toss in detail, once the breath that has not been straightened out is disordered again, Gao Yuan will be seriously ill, and he will be injured in the meridians.
If it is full, it will be profitable, and if it is lost, Gao Yuan will be in a coma, the shriveled dantian will rise and shrink, instinctively absorb energy, and gather the scattered breath, in the endless starry sky, wisps of essence will be introduced into the body with a long breath, until the dantian is full, and Gao Yuan will wake up.
Li Longbow was still lying on the ground on guard, forcibly enduring the unpleasant smell, Gao Yuan jumped up, and ran towards the puddle in the distance.