Nether Jade

Yi Shisan was assigned to guard in the west wing.

At this moment, Emperor Hongwen walked up to him, and handed over the piccolo made by Nether Jade and the soul-calling score, "The Empress Dowager led everyone to Wentiantai. It's clean here, and it's very suitable for calling back the soul of Lan Yu."

Yi Shisan took it with a complicated mood, brought it to his mouth and put it down, put it down and picked it up again.

Emperor Hongwen sat aside and said quietly, "I'll give you time for a cup of tea."

Yi Shisan shook his hands and pressed the blue and white flute to his warm red lips, and a clear and clear voice wafted out immediately, before it could be heard far away, it stopped again.

Yi Shisan decided to struggle for the last time, "Here, The Conjuring Song is only responsible for summoning souls, not sending them away. What if General Lan's soul comes and finds that he can't go back, what should I do? I can't let it hang around here."

Emperor Hongwen paused while holding the cup, lowered his eyes and said, "Then what should you do in your opinion?"

Yi Shisan smiled flatteringly: "There is a method called sound transmission. I can use this jade flute to convey His Majesty's words to General Lan."

Emperor Hongwen put his hand into his bosom, "I have nothing to convey, just want to ask where the owner of this thing is."

Yi Shisan looked up, and there was a black ring lying on the palm of his fair hand, which looked familiar.

Yi Shisan took it, and looked at the ring against the light. A crack meandered upwards, and the engraved words could be seen vaguely.

When he saw the origin of the word, Yi Shisan's hand holding the ring froze, and turned his head to look at Emperor Hongwen in front of him.

Some distant memories seem to crackle in my mind like firecrackers.

That year he was stationed in northern Xinjiang with General Lan Yu.It coincided with the autumn drought in northern Xinjiang, the land was dry and cracked, and the sun was yellow and sandy every day. The army's food and grass could not be transported in. The soldiers were very hungry and wished they could not eat people. So Lan Yu organized some soldiers to learn from the locals to hunt a snake.

This kind of snake is called Huang Qi. It has a long and slender body. It likes to be buried in the mud. It moves very fast. It is the king in the sand.

Yi Shisan has had too many hard times, and he is very good at catching snakes, so he often goes out alone.

Once, he was carrying a wooden box, and on the way back to camp, he met a young general, who curled up on the ground, shaking violently.

Yi Shisan went to check and found that it was a strange face, and he didn't know which camp he belonged to.

Huang Qi snake itself is non-poisonous, but because it often lives in a cool place and eats gray cockles in the sand layer, its tongue fluid contains paralyzing ingredients. .

The young general was bitten by the tiger's mouth and was already in a coma.And the snake that bit it left a ripple on the sand, and it disappeared.

Yi Shisan didn't think much, seeing that he was wearing a battalion's clothes, he hung the wooden box on his chest, and slowly carried the young general back.

After returning, Sapphire lost her temper over this matter.

Yin Ye, who joined the army, faltered and said to Yi Shisan that the young general violated military discipline, and he was sent back according to the military regulations.

Ordinarily, being expelled from the military must have made a big mistake, and it is usually reported in the army as an example, but what happened to the young general was very inexplicable.

Although Yi Shisan had some doubts in his heart, Lan Yu never hid anything from him, so he didn't care too much, and just ordered his servants to take care of his injuries before sending him away.

Unexpectedly, within a few days, there was a strong wind and sandstorm in northern Xinjiang, and there was news that the Yukou out of Xinjiang was blocked.

The young general survived.

Lan Yu had the habit of training troops in the morning, and the school lieutenants never dared to neglect joining the army, and they took their own people to the drill ground for training.

Yi Shisan was given the idle position of archery captain, and he got up after three poles in the sun, leading dozens of recruits to practice archery in front of the camp.

"Shegui has a straight shape, a wide crotch and a relaxed chest, five flat and three leanings are its ancestors..."

The lazy voice and the arrows that are as light as cotton wool make it hard to think that this is a group of soldiers guarding the northern border.

A few arrows were stuck in the target 50 meters away, Yi Shisan was a little annoyed, and reprimanded some of the recruits who spoke badly and behaved badly.

The recruit saw that the general was not there, and Yi Shisan was taller, gentler and thinner, so naturally he didn't take him seriously.

"...It's just a private pet raised by General Lan, who thought he was so powerful that his archery skills couldn't even match the lowest soldier in the army...The position of captain is just Lan..."

The soldiers spoke fiercely and were dissatisfied with Yi Shisan. Yi Shisan had never made military exploits before, and his dissatisfaction rose to complaints from many people, threatening to compete with Yi Shisan.

Yi Shisan's archery was taught by Lan Yu, but he himself was not good at it.Now, in front of him alone are hundreds of soldiers, and the only way to stabilize the morale of the army is to prove his own strength.

The soldiers he was competing with were from the old troops who escaped from Xisha. Although their archery skills were not very good, Yi Shisan had already retreated.

Yi Shisan held the bow and arrow for a long time without moving.

The disdain grew stronger all around.

"Lieutenant Li, let me come."

A voice rang in his ears, Yi Shisan turned around and saw that it was the young general who was bitten by a snake.

The young general had sculpted eyebrows and sword eyes, and a broad figure. Without waiting for the soldiers to speak, he set up his bow and arrows, and fired three arrows in succession, all of which hit the bull's-eye.

Yi Shisan saw that the young general's tiger's mouth wound hadn't healed, so he handed over a ring in due course.That ring was made by a craftsman in the army when he was learning archery.

It's not pretty, but it's functional.

The young general took the ring, stepped back another ten meters, and released the remaining four arrows.

Both arrows were fired at once, with such force that they shattered the paper pasted on the target.

Later, when Yin Ye came back from the training ground with his people, the matter was dropped.

The reason why Yi Shisan remembered that young general was because his own ring fell to him.

Even after a few years, Yi Shisan's deepest impression is that in late autumn, a young man in black with excellent archery skills saved himself once.

Afterwards, the two rarely interacted with each other.

All I know is that his name is Song Zhang and he has a pretty face.Claiming to be the young master of Huzhou.

In return, I also begged Lan Yu once to let him stay.

However, Yin Ye said that after the Battle of Jingshan, Song Zhang went home to marry a wife and have children.

Now the ring is with Emperor Hongwen.

The boy in my memory is an extremely vague shadow,

Tall and tall, high-spirited.But the person in front of him has been lingering and sick for many years, and cannot sleep without benzoin, and it is difficult for the two to overlap in Yi Shisan's mind no matter what.

Yi Shisan said: "I dare to ask, what is the relationship between the owner of this ring and His Majesty?"

Emperor Hongwen frowned: "Is this also related to summoning souls?" Seeing that Yi Shisan did not speak, he added: "He is very important to me and saved my life. I have been looking for him as well."

Yi Shisan's heart moved slightly, and his eyes suddenly stopped on the score in his hand. The name of the withdrawal was Song Yuzhang, not Hongwen.

Song Yuzhang is the name of today's emperor.

Song Zhang is the young general's name.

The two are so similar.