Chapter 264: The City
Chen Ji asked with his fist, "I wonder what General Hu is looking for?"
The soldiers of the border army shook their heads: "Young Master Chen doesn't need to ask me, I just obey orders and don't know."
Chen Ji thought to himself: "What if I don't go?"
The soldiers of the border army pressed their hands on the hilt of the waist knife: "The general told me that the general should do his best without asking the reason. If you don't want to go, then you will have to tie you up."
Chen Wenzong stepped forward and looked cold: "Guyuan is not a lawless place. I want to tie someone up for no reason?"
The Bianjun Jiashiran said: "You will know if you try it."
Zhang Xia looked at Li Xuan: "Mr. Li, Chen Ji is the right guard of the Eastern Palace. If he was taken away like this, he would probably lose his noble face. Will the Yulin Army sit idly by?"
Li Xuan said calmly: "Miss Zhang Er is so serious, so my Yulin Army will naturally not sit idly by."
When the soldiers of the border army heard this, they sneered: "Come here, take the young master of the Chen family away!"
With a hiss, dozens of border soldiers outside the door drew their swords and opened the curtains, allowing the cold wind to pour into the main hall of the inn. They held the Park Sword and confronted the Yulin Army, and in fact they forced the Yulin Army back three steps with fierce flames.
Li Xuan shouted angrily: "Draw the sword and protect the right guard!"
The fight between the two sides was about to break out, and they smiled grimly: "I think your border army is looking for trouble, it is fake to find a record of breaking up with the Yulin Army!"
The wind was cold and everyone was sweating. If they really fought with the border troops today, there would be no place for the Yulin Army to stay in Guyuan.
During the stalemate, Chen Ji suddenly smiled and said, "What are you doing? Don't be so kind to you for this little thing, I'll go there."
Li Xuan hurriedly said, "No, the border army has bad intentions. Perhaps it was because you broke their plan before, so you deliberately took revenge!"
Chen Ji looked back at Li Xuan: "Don't worry, Lord Li, I have my own concerns."
After saying that, he put the dark clouds in Zhang Xia's arms and whispered: "Don't go anywhere when you stay in the room, close the doors and windows."
Zhang Xia nodded: "Don't worry."
Chen Ji went to the stable to lead Zaozao, and came out of the inn surrounded by the soldiers of the border. More than ten soldiers of the border soldiers held him hostage. Zaozao breathed restlessly, and he could only keep stroking its back to comfort him.
Chen Ji looked at the soldiers on both sides and thought secretly: He and Hu Junxian had only seen each other twice. The first time the other party looked down from a high place on the city wall, and the second time the other was tense on Shache Street.
They have nothing to do with each other, but they don’t know what the other party is looking for to do?
Could it be that he wanted to capture himself and avenge Lao Wu? Or maybe Hu Junxian knew that he had food in his hands and wanted to confiscate the food?
Chen Ji flashed several thoughts for a moment and denied them one by one.
But as soon as he turned out of Kucha Street, the soldiers of the border army smiled gently: "Young Master Chen, I have offended you so much in your words just now, so I hope you don't blame me."
Chen Ji was puzzled: "Everyone is this..."
The soldiers of the border army explained: "Before I came, my general said that there is a gap between the Yulin Army and the border army. Let me not show a close look in front of the Yulin Army and the prince, otherwise you will not be able to be with the prince."
Chen Ji was slightly stunned: "What's the matter with General Hu looking for me?"
The soldiers of the border army shook their heads: "I really don't know about this."
At this time, Guyuan was in a mess, and the door panels of shops on the street were demolished and scattered on the street.
The shop was in a mess, and the shopkeeper, his wife and children, and the guys were packing things with a look of ashes. Some people simply sat in the shop and cried bitterly.
Every once in the street, messy bodies lie on the ground, and blood mixed with loess frozen into ice.
The soldiers of the border army seemed to be accustomed to it, and rode their horses over the body without taking a look.
Everything withered.
Chen Ji looked at the border soldiers and said in confusion: "Does the border soldiers ignore the local snakes who plunder the people?"
The soldiers of the border army sighed: "The young master of the Chen family blamed us for waiting. It's not that we have no restraint, but that we are too fierce and can't control it. Most of the corpses lying on the ground were killed by my border army. Look, the corpse ten feet away was robbed of someone else's child last night, and I stabbed him to death with my own hands."
Chen Ji was silent.
The soldiers of the border army sighed: "The young master of the Chen family was born in a prosperous place. Perhaps he had never seen this rough and barbaric scene. In the 25th year of Jianing, the Jing Chaotiance army besieged Guyuan for two months. It was really tragic. The elm trees on the street were peeled and ground into flour, and the elm leaves were picked completely. They changed their children and exchanged concubines for food from time to time."
Another soldier from the border army said: "One of the authentic delicacies of Guyuan is the oil-splashed elm noodles and cold elm leaves. When traveling in other places, they say they want to try it, but they can't swallow it. Now the elm bark in the city is still there, which means that everyone is not hungry yet."
Chen Ji looked at the border army beside him, but saw that the other party's cheeks were deep and there was no turbulence in his eyes.
At this time, a cry of help came from a distance. The leading border soldiers winked at their subordinates. The five border soldiers immediately drew their swords and touched the shouts.
A moment later, the man's wailing and begging for mercy came from over there. Five border troops returned, swearing and rubbing the blade with their sleeves, and putting the knife into the sheath.
A border army complained: "It's been like this in the city just two days. The big men climbed over the wall to bully the orphan and widowed mother next door, and were looking for death!"
Chen Ji said, "Maybe it will be much better to send someone to the street to guard it."
The soldiers of the border army looked at him: "Young Master Chen, you will know that you will climb the city wall later. My border army must be on duty in a more important place."
The group entered the border army camp. On both sides of the road, there were scenes of soldiers sleeping in their arms in the open air and wearing armor. The border army squatted on the side of the road with their eyes blank, holding a bowl of hot water in their hands, drinking in small sips.
When Chen Ji got closer, I saw that there were actually a few grains of rice at the bottom of the bowl.
When he arrived in front of the city wall, Chen Ji dismounted and followed a border army to the city wall, his eyes suddenly became clear.
But I saw the mountains and fields outside the city were full of burning black ground. On the horizon, there were endless barracks emitting smoke from cooking stoves. Such a majestic military formation, Chen Ji had never seen it in film and television works in his previous life, boundless, as if it had spread to the end of the world!
"Young Master Chen, please come here, the general is still waiting."
The border army led Chen Ji into the city gate tower, where a huge Guyuan sand table was placed, and the sand table was filled with flags of various colors. A burly figure stood beside the sand table, holding a bowl in his right hand, drinking water in a small sip.
Hu Junxian.
Hearing the footsteps, Hu Junxian turned around and looked up and down like a beast, with his dense beards like a lion's mane.
Chen Ji lowered his head and clasped his fists and said, "General Hu."
Hu Junxian nodded.
Chen Ji looked up and asked, "I wonder what General Hu is calling?"
Hu Junxian handed the pottery bowl to his personal soldiers and asked casually: "Did you find the spy detective Jingchao in Shache Street?"
Chen Ji answered truthfully: "Yes."
Hu Junxian asked again: "You also killed the shopkeeper of Yang's fur?"
Chen Ji continued to answer: "Yes."
Hu Junxian was silent for a moment: "What did Old Wu say before he died?"
Chen Ji felt a little nervous and had no answer.
Hu Junxian said calmly: "Don't worry, I don't mean to cause trouble for you."
Chen Ji thought for a while and said softly: "Before his death, Guyuan, Guyuan..."
Hu Junxian was slightly stunned, and the desolate love and hate repeated: "Guyuan, Guyuan..."
Chen Ji did not answer the words, waiting for Hu Junxian to speak.
A long time later, Hu Junxian looked up at the night outside the city: "I heard of you before. Just the day before you arrived in Guyuan, your teacher Wang Daosheng's letter came to Guyuan first. It can be seen that he valued you very much."
"Mr. Wang?" Chen Ji knew that he and others were walking with the camel caravan, and his speed was naturally not as fast as the horses who delivered the letters. However, he didn't expect that Wang Daosheng would actually make a special trip to write a letter for him.
He said curiously: "What is written in the letter of sir?"
Hu Junxian said calmly: "He said you have turned the tide many times in Luocheng, but never took credit for yourself. He praised you with eight words, "The light is not shining, and the quiet water flows deep."
Chen Ji said modestly: "Students can't afford to be teachers' praise."
Hu Junxian walked out of the city gate tower with a solemn expression, holding his hand on the mottled wall: "I see what the scene was in Shache Street that day. I believe in the king's Daosheng. The king's Daosheng said that you shouldn't take the imperial examination route, but now he is not in the Ministry of War and cannot support you, so he asked me to find a way to keep you in Guyuan... Are you willing?"
"Stay in Guyuan?" Chen Ji was stunned.
Hu Junxian offered his own price: "If you only need to guard the border between Guyuan and guard the border for twenty years, I guarantee you to become the deputy general of Guyuan and the third rank of official position, how about it?"
Chen Ji shook his head: "Thank you for your kindness, but I am not here."
Hu Junxian nodded and said nothing more.
Chen Ji was puzzled. Since he was interested in recruiting himself, shouldn’t he say anything more?
Hu Junxian glanced at him with a puzzled expression, as if he had guessed his thoughts, and said blankly: "You are soliciting you to fulfill the entrusted entrusted by the King Daosheng. If you don't continue to solicit you, you are afraid that you will be abandoned in this side like me. Good man, who will come to this place where birds don't shit? Your teacher is not at ease, so it's better not to admit it."
Chen Ji: "..."
At this moment, the sound of horse hooves came from the dark night outside the city.
But the night was low, and the torches on the city wall could only illuminate the square place and could not see clearly outside. Until the scenery approached the cavalry, they could only see the other party's position with a little light.
Jing Chao cavalry took off the iron-tied bow on his back and bent his bow and put on an arrow.
Chen Ji shouted softly: "General, be careful!"
With a soothing sound, the sharp sound of breaking the wind came. Hu Junxian slightly opened his head, and the feather arrow actually rubbed his cheek and was nailed to the city gate tower.
A piece of white silk cloth wrapped around the feather arrow, swaying in the wind.
Chen Ji looked out of the city and saw that the Jing Chaozhao had already turned his horse and galloped back into the night.
Chapter completed!