Rebirth of a Star General - Chapter 106

Chapter 106 Winter Snow

That night, He Yan was soaked all over his body. When he went back, he fetched water and took a bath in the room again, and then put on dry clothes. Xiao Jue’s cloak was wet by her, He Yan went to Shen Muxue to find some pancreatic soap to wash it off, took a rope on the branch outside the door and hung it up, planning to dry it and send it back to him.

The tossing is a bit of tossing, but the kindness of Liangzhouwei’s coaches is not completely in vain. When he woke up the next day, He Yan only felt that his body was comfortable, and the morning was warm.

Hot springs can cure illness, but it’s not nonsense.

She quickly got up to freshen up, rushed to the run, and when she was eating, she saw people from the Qianfeng Camp training step around in the martial arts field.

Leihou stood at the forefront, and the forward battalion and ordinary recruits were already separated in terms of clothing. Ordinary recruits have only two strong outfits, one red and one black, singles in spring and summer, and thin cotton stitched in the interlayer in autumn and winter. The strong suit has no other decorations except for the belt, and the tailoring does not fit the fit. The big one rolls up the sleeves, and the fatter one like Hong Shan stretches the clothes tightly, as if it will split in the next moment.

The people in the forward camp wore dark blue riding uniforms. The fabric was much more delicate than theirs, and they looked very good. This group of people are all 1,000 outstanding people selected by Liangzhou Weizhong.

Leihou was born tall and outstanding, and his riding uniform was worn on him, as if he was tailor-made for him. Yesterday, I heard from the coaches that he performed extremely well in the forward camp, probably for this reason, the coach put him at the forefront of the ranks, so he was majestic and particularly eye-catching.

He Yan could see that he didn’t want to prevent Hongshan and walked behind him. Seeing this, he patted him on the shoulder: “Why, I feel uncomfortable?”

“No,” He Yan said, “I just think Qianfengying’s clothes are really much better than ours.”

“More than clothes?” Wheat heard the words and interrupted: “I heard that they eat better than us. They can get two more steamed buns and meat porridge every day.”

“Okay, don’t say a few words,” Hong Shan interrupted Mai’s eloquence, “Isn’t it annoying to see you Brother Ahe?”

He Yan: “I am not jealous of him.”

“That’s right,” Mai Mai was afraid of He Yan’s sadness, and agreed, “He is a defeated player of Brother Ahe, what’s so great about him?”

He Yan smiled and was about to speak. Lei Hou seemed to notice their gaze. Turning his head, he was taken aback when he saw He Yan, but he quickly turned his gaze away and focused on training.

“This kid is crazy?” Hong Shan sighed, “It’s incredible.”

He Yan didn’t make a sound, and continued to stand on the spot, watching Lei Hou train for a while, until Liang Ping urged them to pass quickly before He Yan gave up.

As those coaches said, Leihou’s step size is also very good, agile and flexible, and indeed worthy of becoming a member of the forward battalion. It’s just that He Yan still remembered that she had fought against Lei Hou when she was fighting for the flag on Baiyue Mountain many days ago. At that time, the situation was urgent. She felt a little unnatural and couldn’t think about it. Later, she left the matter behind. Seeing Lei Hou today brought back memories of the fight that day.

But she still didn’t think of a result.

What is unnatural?

Liang Ping urged him to be fierce, He Yan got up and went to the weapon rack to take the gun.

It’s just that before He Yan and Lei Hou hand in hand, they waited for the news that Xiao Jue was leaving.

Liangzhou Guard received an emergency report that the people outside Zhangtai City, thousands of miles away from Liangzhou, were recently harassed by Utuo people. As soon as Utuo arrived, they grabbed money for food and bullied men and women. Cheng Cheng in Zhangtai County was so miserable that he had to ask Xiao Jue for help. Ask Xiao Jue to lead the army to expel these Utopians.

As early as when the first emperor reigned, Utuo State bowed its head to Wei Wei and paid tribute every year. It’s just that since the current His Majesty came to the throne, Utuo people have been ready to move. After the Nanban and Xiqiang Rebellions were settled one after another, the Utuo also stopped for a while. I just don’t know why it has become more vigorous recently, and I dare to directly harass the people at the border.

His Majesty has a tolerant temperament, and he also closes one eye to the actions of the Utuo. In addition to the fact that there is a leader and faction of Xu Xiang’s faction in the dynasty, the generals next to him do not dare to accept this hot potato. For this reason, Cheng Cheng in Zhangtai County turned to Xiao Jue in Liangzhou for help.

“Du Governor, when will you leave?” The coaches were all standing in Xiao Jue’s room. He Yan sat in the place where Cheng Lisu usually wrote. The middle door was not closed, and they did not avoid He Yan from talking about it. But there is nothing to conceal about this. It takes one month for Zhangtai to come and go. People will always notice if Xiao Jue is not there.

“tomorrow.”

“So early?” Liang Ping was surprised, “but the army hasn’t had time to talk to the forward camp…”

“No,” Xiao Jue said, “I don’t plan to take them.”

The coaches looked at each other, but He Yan was not surprised when they listened. The recruits of Liangzhouwei, even though they have been training for more than half a year, have never been on the battlefield. The boats and carts rushed to Zhangtai and then fought with the Utuo in Zhangtai. , Is not the best policy. It consumes too much, and the Utopians are cunning and violent, and the recruits may not be opponents. After much deliberation, Xiao Jue’s Nanfu soldiers are the most suitable.

Xiao Jue brought the recruits to Liangzhou, but the Nanfu soldiers should be stationed elsewhere. With the military power in his hands, he can just lead the troops forward. If you get a victory, your Majesty will be happy and reward him with something, and she will be able to follow him to become an immortal.

Thinking of this, he nodded secretly, feeling that Xiao Jue’s decision was really good.

He also explained the things that the coaches need to pay attention to in the next day, and in the middle of the night, all the talents left. Xiao Jue stood up from the table and walked to the middle door. He stretched out his hand to lock the door. He was blocked by someone from behind. He Yan’s head stuck out from behind the door.

“What are you doing?” he asked.

He Yan refused to let him close the door and tilted his head to look at him, “Captain, are you leaving tomorrow?”

Xiao Jue ignored her and closed the door. He Yan was half of his body stuck in the door, and he couldn’t close it, so he simply waved his hand and walked into the house. He Yan easily jumped over the door, entered his room, followed him and said diligently: “The governor, when I go to Zhangtai, have you ever thought of bringing me?”

“You?” Xiao Jue sneered, “Why are you taking you? Not enough people are holding you back?”

In this person’s eyes, it is possible that all people other than him are dragging their feet.

“This is too underestimation of me, I can help you deal with utopians.”

“Fine,” he glanced at her up and down, raised his eyebrows: “A guard can hurt you, so what do you say about hitting the Utuo, Miss He, dreaming.”

“It was a special situation last time, and Ding Yi was not an ordinary person.” He Yan defended a few words, but knew that Xiao Jue’s words also made sense. She has not been well injured, and even training these days is very cautious, for fear that the wound will be involved and left behind. And the formations she is good at can’t be played out-in a team, one main general is enough.

“Okay.” He Yan said with some regret. He suddenly remembered something, and looked at Xiao Jue: “The governor, from here to Zhangtai, it will take one month to go back and forth. In addition to fighting against the Utuo, I’m afraid you will come back. Time is already deep winter. My wounds are already healed, so what am I doing these days? Even if it is triple day training, if you are not here, I did it. Would you not deny it?”

“Or?” She stared at Xiao Jue suspiciously, “You actually want to take advantage of the Zhangtai battle to get rid of the cicadas? Wouldn’t you not plan to return to Liangzhouwei? Leave me here alone?”

Xiao Jue stopped tidying up the scrolls on the table and turned around, but He Yan, who looked up at him, jumped.

His eyes fell on He Yan’s face, and he lowered his head and said: “First, I am not as boring as you. Second, you are not my fiancée, so you don’t have to say anything to leave you here alone. Third, I am not here, would you not? Just called your mind?”

“What do you mean by my heart?” He Yan said, “Don’t wrong me.”

He stared at He Yan with a smile, his dark eyes were deep, and he only asked: “Oh? Why do you ask so much? When will I come back, will I come back, is it important?”

“Of course it’s important!” He Yan blurted out, “I will miss you!”

Can you not think about it? Only when she performs better in front of Xiao Jue, and wins Xiao Jue’s favor and trust, can she approach He Rufei faster, more openly, and with a slightly equal identity. Such a living Bodhisattva, Golden Baby, can she not think about it?

Appearing to be surprised by what she said, Xiao Jue turned his head and said, “You really can say anything.”

“Don’t be a liar. Except for the identity, I have never deceived the governor. What I said just now is sincere. Why don’t the governor miss me if we separate temporarily?”

Xiao Jue: “Not really.”

He Yan: “…Born and died together anyway, you don’t have to be so unfeeling.”

Xiao Jue asked: “Are you finished? Please go back to your own house after you are finished. I want to lock the door.” He buckled He Yan’s shoulder and pushed He Yan toward the middle door.

“Captain, I sometimes think whether our identities are reversed, you guard me like this, as if you are a woman, and I will tarnish your innocence.”

“You talk too much nonsense.”

He Yan entered his room with his legs stuffed, knowing that this person really didn’t want her to stay in the house, so while the upper body was still moving, he quickly took out a handful of bits and pieces from his arms. Enter Xiao Jue’s hands.

With a “bang”, the door was closed.

He Yan said to the other end through the door: “Although the Governor is so ruthless, I am still a person of great righteousness. There is nothing to do for you when I go to Zhangtai. I will give you these and eat slowly on the road. I will be there. The Weisuo is looking forward to your good news.”

After that, he didn’t wait for the answer from the other side, and went up, blew out the lamp, and went to bed.

At the other end of the door, Xiao Jue looked down at his palm.

It was a handful of persimmon cream fudge, with only a thin layer of cake paper wrapped around it. Just looking at it, it felt sweet.

Song Taotao is as good as Cheng Lisu, and since he came to Liangzhouwei, he sent some small gifts every other day. She loves to eat sweets, so she asked Chiwu to buy a lot of them in the city, and gave a lot of them to He Yan.

He Yan thought, Xiao Jue carried the sachet containing sweet-scented osmanthus candy with him when he was young. He loved to eat sweets. He refused to ask for the candied haws he bought last time, probably because he was at a hawker in the city. I bought it. Second Young Master Xiao refused to eat this kind of roadside snack. But this persimmon cream jelly, but Song Tao Tao Yang Chiwu asked the chef to make it in a serious restaurant, this should be in Xiao Jue’s eyes.

Don’t even eat this, it’s too picky.

I hope he knows the truth about surrendering sugar to Li!

…

He Yan woke up the next day and went to the martial arts field for daily training. It was almost noon, when he was having lunch, Cheng Lisu ran over.

In the past few days, in order not to see Song Taotao, he moved to the shophouse where He Yan once lived. Everyone thought that he would not be able to hold on for long. It’s just that compared to the house he used to live in, it was a lot simpler, and it was difficult to maintain his appearance as a handsome young man. Looking at his face, he lost a circle, and the hair band forgot to match the clothes in the same color.

He ran up to He Yan out of breath. He Yan was drinking wild vegetable soup and was almost knocked over by Cheng Lisu. He Yan asked, “What is going on in such a hurry?”

“My uncle,” Cheng Lisu said, “Brother, my uncle is gone!”

“I know.”

“You know?” Cheng Lisu was stunned, and then said angrily: “Then why didn’t you tell me? If it weren’t for Master Shen told me today, I haven’t noticed that he has left now!”

“Has it gone?” He Yan was also slightly surprised. She didn’t pay attention to Xiao Jue’s end when she woke up in the morning, thinking that Xiao Jue would leave later, but she didn’t expect to leave so early. Probably not wanting to alarm others.

“Why didn’t he take Song Taotao away after he left?” Cheng Lisu began to complain, “Who does he want to add to the blockage when he stays in Liangzhouwei?”

He Yan was speechless. It stands to reason that Song Taotao is such a charming and lovely girl. It is too late for the young men to please. Cheng Lisu actually avoids like a snake. What is the vision of this child?

She asked, “What’s wrong with Song Taotao? I look at it as a sensible and well-behaved one.”

“Brother, you can forgive me.” Cheng Lisu said with a bitter face: “When I first knew about this marriage, I wanted to take a sneak peek. Who knew I was hitting her. I don’t know how she guessed me. Identity, I’m at the door and tell me a lot.”

“What are you talking about?”

“What else can it be? If you can’t make a fuss, you won’t be able to do it. The waste son has no future. That’s it. No one in Shuojing knows that I am incompetent. If this is the case, I won’t be so angry. But she later said, ” I can also get married, but I must study hard in the government, get the first place in the imperial examination, and enter the official career in the future. If it is really difficult to learn, I can also take the martial arts path. All in all, I must be a diligent and hardworking person.”

“How can there be such a vicious woman in the world?” Cheng Lisu talked about this, grieving: “My beloved girl must be like me, not to be nosy, to be free and dusty, to enjoy with wine, and to have fun. Being a talented person is like-minded. What is the difference between being with her and going to jail for the rest of your life? So, elder brother, don’t say anything good about her. I’m really scared, and I don’t want to live like that!”

Now He Yan, even if he wanted to persuade him, he didn’t know what to persuade. Sometimes when two people get along, it’s one thing to fall in love at first sight, and it’s another thing to stay for a long time. You want him to be determined to work hard, but he yearns for Xianyunyehe. They are not the same kind of people, they have to get together, even if it is difficult to detect at the time, time will give the answer.

She used a reason that she hadn’t understood all her life in her previous life, so it is better for her two children to see clearly.

“If you really don’t like it, just find a way to resolve this marriage contract, and you don’t need to be a friend assembly for a girl.” He Yan thought for a while before speaking.

“Forget it,” Cheng Lisu waved his hand, as if he didn’t want to talk more, “I really can’t be friends with her, and I don’t agree with each other.”

He Yan turned away from the conversation again, and asked Cheng Lisu if Xiao Jue had gone, would he move to Xiao Jue’s house. Cheng Lisu actually refused, saying only that he hoped to be as far away from Song Taotao as possible.

Live like hiding from the plague god.

After the day’s training was over, He Yan returned to the house. After freshening up, he stared at the locked middle door and started dazed.

Although Xiao Jue couldn’t say a few words to her on weekdays, he knew that he was beside the door. Once the person left, he really felt that the huge house was only himself, and it was very deserted. Suddenly I missed the time when I lived with Mai Mai and the others in Tongpu. At this time, listening to the people chatting a few words, it would not be boring.

It’s too quiet to fall asleep. If you can’t fall asleep, it’s easy to think wildly. He Yan collapsed and sat up again. After thinking about it, he got up and put on his shoes and walked to the middle door, and took out a silver wire from his sleeve.

This silver thread is from Cheng Lisu’s hairpin, and the hairpin is made into a yellow carp. This silver thread is the beard of the carp, which is very cute. He Yan felt a little stronger when he first saw him, and straightly stroked his beard. Cheng Lisu just said that it didn’t matter, let her lose it, but He Yan was a little distressed, and felt that she could sell it for a tea for her back, so she put it away together.

At this moment, she took out the curled silver wire, pulled it straight, and stretched it out from the crack of the door, putting her ear on the middle door, listening carefully.

This hand is still the unique skill that a craftsman taught her when she was in the barracks. The craftsman was a locksmith. Sometimes the locked boxes left by the ancestors or accidentally dug up by the big family could not be opened, so he went to open them. He was also very famous in his hometown. Hidden with one’s own children and grandchildren, came by himself.

He Yan still remembered that the locksmith was a little older, and laughed with a missing front tooth, which was a bit funny. Because He Yan is about the same age as his grandson, he fell in love with He Yan. He also taught He Yan one or two ways to open the lock.

The locksmith had already died during World War I in Moxian County, but He Yan still remembered the kung fu of unlocking the lock. The locksmith would open the “shi”-shaped locks opened by high-ranking officials and nobles, and the “ji”-shaped locks used in wedding celebrations, but only taught the “yi”-shaped locks used by the people of He Yan. Probably it is thoughtful that if one day he can return to his hometown and work in his old profession, he can still eat with craftsmanship. Don’t teach your disciple to starve to death, Master, who knows that this thought will never come to fruition in the end.

He Yan took the chance to unlock the lock. Fortunately, the middle door in the room between Xiao Jue and Cheng Lisu was exactly in the shape of “one”.

But after a while, there was a “click”, and there seemed to be the sound of the door lock breaking open on the other end. He Yan pushed lightly and the door opened.

The moonlight fell on the desk in front of the window, the window was not closed, and the shadow of the tree blowing outside was shaking slightly, falling on the ground like water plants in a pool. He Yan tiptoed in, and stood still after entering. He didn’t know why he did this kind of thing, and he was annoyed for a moment.

If someone is hiding in the dark at this moment, she probably thinks she is a thief. She didn’t come to steal something, and it was not the first time she came to Xiao Jue’s house and opened the middle door. In fact, it was just because she couldn’t sleep and was so bored.

But now that I have come, I am sorry to quit now.

He Yan looked around. There was no drinking sword that Xiao Jue used to hang on the wall. There were still two or three books scattered on the table. He Yan leaned over to see that they were all sorts of military books. He didn’t even hold his piano, hiding it on the side, it glowed brightly under the moonlight, like a strange treasure.

Xiao Jue’s house is actually not so gorgeous, and even compared to Cheng Lisu’s complex, it looks a bit too simple and simple, so that it feels a bit bleak. But He Yan remembered that the former second son Xiao was very particular when he was in Xianchang Hall. The room where he stayed alone was more luxurious than the room of the teacher, and the blanket on the floor was not cold at all when stepped on it in winter.

He seemed to be a little bit chilly, so the weather turned colder. As soon as winter came, he would always be dressed in fox fur, but now the room is full of chills, not as warm as it used to be.

What exactly has he experienced over the years to become the current captain of the Youjun?

He Yan thought for a while, unconsciously, she had already walked to the table and touched something with her finger. She looked down and saw that there were a handful of colorful pellets scattered beside the pen holder. She picked it up and looked at the moonlight. It was actually her yesterday. The persimmon cream jelly stuffed into Xiao Jue’s hand.

The gummies were left outside for a long time, not as soft as before, and the sweet smell seemed to fade a lot. He Yan counted, there are not a few, he didn’t move, just put it here? Didn’t you taste one or two, and didn’t take it to Zhangtai?

Why is this?

Even if you thought that the candied haws were too crude, it was still the arrogant self-esteem of the second son Xiao, who didn’t want it. Now this jelly is made by the dim sum chef in the restaurant in the city. Although it is not a delicacy, it is definitely not crude. After she stuffed it with Xiao Jue last night, she closed the door and no one saw whether Xiao Jue had taken it away. What is the reaction. But if he really likes sweets, he will definitely not leave it here.

As if to see the person throwing the candy on the table casually, even his eyes were stingy to give one indifferent light.

Are you afraid of her poisoning inside? Or has Xiao Jue even changed his taste over the years?

There is no answer to this question. He Yan is pondering. Suddenly, he feels that something is sweeping on her face, bringing a slight coolness and moistness, and it is hairy. She raised her eyes and saw that there were salt-like things outside. , Flew down the wind to the front of the case.

At night, I know the snow is heavy, and when I hear the sound of breaking bamboo.

She walked two steps forward, and through the window, she could see that the Baiyue Mountain stood tall in the distance. The moonlight was cool and far away, falling in the wilderness, dancing with the snow before her eyes.

“It’s snowing.” She said silently in her heart.

It turned out that the winter snow in Liangzhouwei came so early.