sister-in-law

Chapter 85 Dust Rising ([-])

Now that the old Duke has passed away, if there is something wrong with the younger brother, how can he be worthy of his old mother?

Thinking of his younger brother being besieged in Qingquan City at this moment, with no idea of ​​life or death, Li Congwu's heart felt like a needle prick.

He glanced at the chief general in the tent with a pair of tiger eyes, stood up quickly, and began to assign combat tasks.

After finishing his business, he strode out of the tent, took a few personal guards onto the horse, and went to inspect the camp.

The rest of the generals went to order their own soldiers and horses.

When they arrived at a nearby tent where Gu Zhang was, he saw a snow-covered human-shaped thing tied to a wooden stake far away.

Li Congwu couldn't help wondering, so he asked his personal guard to urge his horse over to ask.

Not long after, the guard hurried over on horseback and reported the matter to him.

It turned out that those people were afraid of exposing their nasty things, so they deliberately said that Gu Zhang killed his team leader, the captain, when he was drunk.

Li Congwu turned his face to look at the motionless man tied to the stake, his face turned blue and uncertain, "What are you doing with such a disrespectful beast? You should have killed it sooner! Send an order to send 300 taels of pension silver to the school's family, and kill this bastard!"

After saying this, turn the horse's head and go back.He still has tens of thousands of urgent things to do, how can he care about such a trivial matter?

Just two steps away, his guards chased him up again, held a warm jade pendant in his hand, and replied respectfully: "Marshal, this was found from that kid, he is from a poor mountain valley Boy, there is such a good thing on your body, maybe it was stolen from someone else?"

The jade pendant was rectangular, with rounded corners, exuding a soft light. It was carved with simple flower and plant patterns, and there was a raised Yangwen "Xiao" character in the middle.

Li Congwu glanced at it, and said lightly, "Since that's the case, I'll reward you." The guard thanked him and wanted to accept it.

Xiao Yi, who was following Li Fu'an, suddenly widened his eyes and shouted, "Marshal, that's mine."

"What?" Li Congwu was very surprised, "When did that kid steal your things?"

At this time, Xiao Yi had already taken back the jade pendant from the guard, and rubbed it in his palm. "Marshal, have you forgotten? Back in Gujia Village, Qingquan Town, I gave this thing to the husband of the genius doctor girl. Could it be that this kid is him?"

Li Congwu's eyes suddenly shone, and he rode his horse towards the wooden post.Regardless of whether this kid committed murder or not, he couldn't just turn a blind eye to the fact that his wife saved his life.

It was so close that a guard had already stepped forward to untie the rope on Gu Zhang's body, and brushed off the snowflakes on him.

Looking at the ragged and skinny man, Xiao Yi was moved.How could such a child kill someone?
It was clearly the school who abused him.

Looking at each other with Li Congwu, Xiao Yi calmly ordered the guards: "Help the person back into the room first, and make a brazier. Then call all the witnesses."

The guards lead the way.

Not long after, Gu Zhang was already sitting by the brazier, drinking from a bowl of hot water trembling all over.

In just one day, his complexion was already blue and his body was covered with frostbite.

His hands were even more swollen. If it had been later, he would have froze to death.

He didn't know who the people in front of him were, so he just drank from the bowl and ignored them.

Anyway, if someone killed him, he would just give his life to them.As for these people bringing him from the outside to the house again, it was nothing more than an unnecessary move.

Xiao Yi took the jade pendant, walked up to him lightly, raised his hand at him, and asked softly, "Why don't you bring this thing out when you're in the army, kid?"

Gu Zhang drank a bowl of water, his body felt a little warm, he didn't pay attention to Xiao Yi's words, he just got up and walked out the door, in full view of everyone, he squatted down, landed on the snow that was more than three feet high on the ground, grabbed He rubbed his hands and face vigorously.

After a while, he came back to the room and sat directly opposite Li Congwu.

Facing Xiao Yi's probing eyes, he pulled his lips lightly and smiled, "Anyway, someone wants my life, so what's the use of me taking this out? Besides, I don't know who to show this thing to." ah?"

There was no anxiety in his tone, as if Xiao Yi was his subordinate.

Xiao Yi gasped, this kid really knows nothing.

Talking about this jade pendant, there are so many people in the camp, as long as he looks sideways, those people will have to think about it for several days when they go back.

Although the relationship between him and the commander-in-chief is nominally superior and inferior, secretly, they are a life-threatening friendship.

This kid is really blind.

Gu Zhang held the mentality that he must die, and didn't care what these people thought.

What he said was also true, but who knew that Li Congwu listened to it.Seeing that this kid was so rebellious, he couldn't help laughing up to the sky: "Stinky boy, aren't you afraid that I will kill you right now?"

Gu Zhang really didn't know why these two people who looked like high-ranking officials were interested in him.After a few months, he no longer knew these two people.

He just gave Li Congwu a sideways glance, rubbed his hands against the snow slowly, and replied casually: "Anyway, I've already killed two, and now I'll make money if I die. You can do it whenever you want." Let's do it!"

Already disregarded life and death.

"Good boy, we lack bloody men like you in our army!" Li Congwu stood up excitedly, walked in front of Gu Zhang and patted him on the shoulder, "How is it? Boy, follow me?"

Gu Zhang took a careful look at Li Congwu after hearing this, as if he had known him before.

He stood up hesitantly, as if he couldn't believe the words.What happened this day and night was so sudden. He was tied up outside waiting to die for a while, and was patted on the shoulder by such a person for a while.

He really didn't know if he was dreaming.

Li Congwu didn't care about his attitude, so he waved his hand and called the person waiting outside, and that person came in front of him and bowed on one knee, and said in reply: "Commander, I have checked everything clearly, these people were ordered by the small school , secretly wanted to end this kid, but was killed by this kid!"

"One-shot kill?" Li Congwu suddenly became astonished, his eyes rolled around Gu Zhang's face a few times, "You have been tortured for so long, and you can still kill with one move? You know, my school is not vegetarian either! "

How can someone who can follow him on the battlefield and kill the enemy be killed with one move?Is his person too useless, or is this kid too powerful?
Li Congwu couldn't help but looked at Gu Zhang carefully, and saw that under his messy hair was a handsome and comfortable face, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, a straight nose and thin lips, and an aggressive and heroic look between his eyebrows. Can your clothes cover you?
Li Congwu really fell in love with him the more he watched, so he wanted to test the school Gu Zhang, and asked someone to take him down to freshen up, and after a full meal, he was taken to the school grounds again.

There, bows and arrows have been set up.

Li Congwu took a handful casually, then motioned for Gu Zhang to take one too, and pouted at the opposite target, "Hu people are good at riding and shooting. I'm going to rescue Qingquan County. I want to confront the Hu people head-on. If you don't Good archery is not sure!"

While talking, he bent his bow and shot an arrow. With a sound of "whoosh", the arrow hit the bull's-eye, and a white feather trembled on it in the distance.

"Last time in Gujia Village, I saw you shooting arrows. I wonder if you're unfamiliar now?" Li Congwu looked at Gu Zhang with a smile.

Only then did Gu Zhang take a closer look at Li Congwu, and sure enough, his face was very familiar.As soon as he mentioned the matter of shooting Yang Yi with an arrow, his mind immediately cleared up.

It turned out that the so-called commander-in-chief and general was the one his family Li'er treated in the town.

What a coincidence!
To say a thousand words and ten thousand, his experience and his Li'er are really inextricably linked.
Seeing that he had already remembered who he was, Li Congwu nodded at him, "Show me your hand and show me. If you shoot well, you will be kept as a soldier, and if you shoot badly, you will be sent back to your team!"

Gu Zhang smiled slightly at him, and a cold breath came over his face.His slender body stood firmly, as if rooted.

Both arms dragged the bow and arrow, motionless.This posture alone won the approval of Li Congwu and Xiao Yi.

With a sound of "嗖", the arrow galloped away like a shooting star, and there was a loud bang. It turned out that the arrow shot by the bullseye Li Congwu was pushed by Gu Zhang's arrow, and it actually pierced the bullseye!
"Good! Good archery!" The people around applauded.

Gu Zhang didn't have a heart of pride, he stepped up to Li Congwu's side, cupped his fists and saluted, "Marshal, I don't know if the little one is qualified to be your personal soldier?"

"Hahaha, what a talent! Enough, enough!" Li Congwu stroked his short beard and nodded with a smile.

From then on, Gu Zhang stayed by the Marshal's side by virtue of his ability and became his personal guard.

The next day, Li Congwu gathered [-] cavalry and headed straight for Qingquan County, [-] miles away.

Along the way, they packed lightly and simply, and each of them took three days of dry food and hurried on the road desperately.

It didn't take two days to arrive outside Qingquan City.

Li Congwu ordered the troops to camp and rest in place, and sent scouts to inquire about the news.

In the distance, the gate of Qingquan County was closed tightly, and there was no movement at all.

Li Congwu was startled, could it be that he has been slaughtered by the barbarians?

Who knew that the scouts sent out would come back not long after, and the news they brought back really shocked them.

In front of Qingquan County, there are corpses of barbarians everywhere, as well as scattered fragments of trebuchets.

The remaining Hu people have already camped ten miles away, waiting for backup to come and form a siege, and Qingquan County will be trapped to death at that time.

Li Congwu heaved a sigh of relief when he heard this, so Qingquan County hasn't fallen yet?His younger brother should be fine?
But who did the vanguard of the Hu people?Could it be his younger brother?
This kid is quite capable.

After thinking about it for a while, I felt something was wrong. How did something as big as a trebuchet break into pieces?

According to scouts, it seems to be burnt out.

Could it be that kid Li Fu'an rushed up to burn it with someone in the middle of the night?
It doesn't seem right, he still knows how many people there are in Qingquan County, no matter how courageous Li Fu'an is, it seems that he can't do it.

Puzzled, he sent a small team to approach Qingquan County, trying to get in touch with the people in the city first.And Gu Zhang was among them.

　Two watches, exhausted.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)