long friend

Yanmen Pass is thousands of miles away from Jinling, and even a quick march would take several days.Although Su Zhi was in command this time, the foreign troops were not under his command, only the troops of the four states were available for dispatch, and the situation of the enemy troops outside Yanmen Pass was unknown, so no one dared to act rashly.

All the way north, when he arrived in Bingzhou, Su Yan was exhausted like never before.But although the others were also busy, they didn't feel tired. He thought to himself: "Perhaps this is the difference between a long march and the first time with the army. You can't be looked down upon by Shen Chengjun." He gritted his teeth and persisted.

They took a rest in Jinyang, and Su Zhi transferred the Bingzhou garrison with Tiger Talisman and Ping Yuanhou Yin.Shen Chengjun consciously took the Marquis Golden Seal and went to Yinzhou in the east to dispatch troops.After resting overnight, the rest of the army headed for Guangwu City at the Yanmen Pass the next day.

This place is the throat of the west of Taihang Mountain. There is a school ground in the southeast of Guangwu City, which is the place where the garrison camped.Residents in the city were warned in advance that war was imminent, and they either moved their families or closed their doors.

Su Yan was led by Su Zhi and rode around around Guangwu City.

It was the first time he had been to such a far place. Yanmen Xiongguan was not as precipitous as imagined, but wide open and closed, with thick walls, guarding the north of Guangwu City.Outside the pass, Yanmen Mountain stands opposite to Longshan Mountain. Every spring, wild geese pass through the pass and return to the south.The gullies outside the pass are connected, and there is only a stretch of loess, but there is no scenery outside the Great Wall.

"It's very different from what you think." Su Zhi suddenly said, "You can see grasslands outside Yunmen Pass, but it's different here."

Su Yan said "Oh" before listening to him continue: "Yanmen Pass has been a northern fortress for hundreds of years. Many soldiers are buried at the foot of Longshan Mountain. The previous dynasties have guarded this pass for generations and have never been breached. Therefore, Yanmen Pass must not be destroyed. It's in our hands. If the Turkic barbarians enter the pass, I'm afraid it will disturb the peace of the ancestors!"

He was originally full of excitement rather than responsibility, but after listening to Su Zhi's few words, he was suddenly aroused with a firm heart, and said solemnly: "Yes, I will do what the commander-in-chief says."

"Good boy." Su Zhi rubbed his head carelessly, and gave Su Yan a stingy smile, "Go back to your tent, and discuss fortifications at night, and wait for Shen Chengjun to come back."

Su Yan responded, and urged Jingfan to head towards the camp.

When he returned to the school grounds, before he had time to rest, he saw a very strange scene.Su Yan had just arrived, and he didn't know what the soldiers guarding here were doing on weekdays. He saw a group of people forming a circle, and ran over physically before rationally.

They were booing and clapping their hands rhythmically, surrounded by two people.The two took off their light armor, and one of them was tall, although he was not burly, but he looked very oppressive. Su Yan recognized him as a school lieutenant in the Xiaoqi Guards.The other man was a little shorter, moved his hands and feet rather absent-mindedly, and then made a contemptuous gesture.

The tall man let out a loud roar, and punched him with both hands, the force was so great that it even made wind noise.Seeing that the shorter man was neither dodging nor dodging, Su Yan secretly said: "Not good!"

The outcome depends on the moment of lightning, and Su Yan almost didn't see how the man moved.

He lowered his body to avoid the blow that hit the door directly, and his steps changed like a wave, brisk but subtle, but his whole body was twisted to the side of the tall man.He made a hook with his left hand, took the man's belt and pulled it back, and softly touched the man's shoulder with the other hand, seemingly without strength, but the tall man suddenly stopped——

The next moment, he fell to the ground, sweating profusely.

Su Yan was still surprised, the tall man got up and wiped off the dust on his body, sighed and said: "No more fights! I'm willing to accept the bet, and I'll pay for your drink tonight!"

"I said earlier that it's impossible for you to win me alone." The man's voice was weak and weak, but his tone was undeniably arrogant.

After he finished speaking, he took a knife from the side and put it on his waist before leaving.The shape of the knife was strange, the back of the knife was very thick, but the blade was extremely thin, almost becoming a bright white line, and there was no sheath.

He is a hidden master.

Seeing his agility, Su Yan remembered that he was able to fight against Zhang Li, who is known as the number one warrior of the Xiaoqiguard. Immediately, he was eager to win, and said loudly: "Brother, wait a minute, can you compete with me?"

The man turned around, looked Su Yan up and down, frowned, and said, "I don't want to fight you. I don't have any priority in attacking. I'm afraid that if you beat you in half, you won't be able to go to the battlefield in a few days. You should stay at home and why run out?"

The crowd who didn't know the truth laughed loudly, Su Yan stood where he was, without any embarrassment, untied the long sword from his waist and threw it aside, and said calmly: "Brother, if you don't try, how will you know if I will go to the battlefield? "

When he said these words slowly, he raised his breath secretly, making this sentence sound a bit like a master's inner strength.Sure enough, the man raised an eyebrow, and at first he was silent, and when his eyes touched Su Yan's long sword, he was slightly taken aback, and then smiled.

When he smiled, there were silkworms in his eyes, which showed his sincerity.He put the knife on the ground again, and said to Su Yan: "Report your name before you make a move, so as not to be one of the commander's favorite generals. After a while, I broke a bone without seriousness. I'm afraid the commander will come to me for an explanation." .”

"Su Yan." Listening to him, it seemed that he had already guessed that Su Yan refused to admit defeat, and said, "What about you?"

The man walked towards him, step by step very steadily: "I... my name is Yan Nandu."

As soon as the words fell, his hand suddenly grabbed Su Yan, and he did it without warning!Su Yan felt a gust of wind blowing against his face, sharper than the wind and snow in Saibei, and it hurt like cutting his face. He dodged instinctively, moved his feet, and was shocked to find that his escape route had been blocked.

He didn't fight ten tricks under Yan Nandu's hands before he was overthrown in embarrassment.

Su Yan was inexplicably sweating. Compared to the embarrassment of losing, he felt excited. When he got up from the ground, he didn't want to pat the dust on his body. He chased after him and said, "Why are you so good!"

Yan Nandu said: "You are all too weak."

Su Yan said "Oh", held it in for a while, and asked, "Where are you from? I mean, your name is very special, and few people have this name. You don't look like that at all." Those of us who are extremely weak from the Central Plains..."

Hearing this, Yan Nandu suddenly laughed heartily, and he hooked Su Yan's shoulder.Su Yan only felt a pain in his right shoulder, and immediately an inexplicable infuriating energy poured in continuously through an acupuncture point on his shoulder. Just as Su Yan was about to speak, his throat seemed to be torn, unable to make a sound, and squatted down in extreme pain Get up.

When Yan Nandu saw it was good, he withdrew his hand, Su Yan only felt the energy scurrying around restlessly in his limbs and bones, and finally sank into his dantian like a mud cow into the sea, and soon disappeared.

He looked at Yan Nandu with an unkind expression, and the man said indifferently, "I thought you...that's all, it turns out that your meridian is not suitable for martial arts. I came from Kunlun Mountain, and my name was given by my master. I just entered your meridian Inside is a stream of Guiyuan Zhenqi, if you intend to practice martial arts, it will be good for you to broaden your meridians in the future."

Ganqing, in Yan Nandu's view, they are nothing more than flamboyant fists and embroidered legs, not even practicing martial arts?

Su Yan was caught off guard by this level of contempt, and didn't know how to refute.This person's speech is half hidden, which is a bit annoying, but listening to his words doesn't seem like he is deliberately torturing himself.

It was not until a long time later that Su Yan realized that Yan Nandu saw the Bihai Sword and mistook himself for someone else.

But at the moment he didn't understand anything, secretly made up his mind not to associate with Yan Nandu again, turned his head and left.Unexpectedly, at night when Su Zhi called him to the camp of the Chinese army, he was surprised to see Yan Nandu was also there.

Su Zhi didn't know that they were competing in the afternoon, so he just introduced: "Yan'er, this is Yan Nandu, the captain of the military governor guarding Bingzhou. He likes to wander around in the army when he has nothing to do. All the attacks failed, and now I am afraid of him, so I dare not attack rashly."

Yan Nandu said modestly: "The general is over-rewarded, but the subordinates are just doing their best."

Su Yan: "..."

He uttered a short single sound through his nose, as a greeting to Yan Nandu, and heard Su Zhi say: "This is my only son Su Yan, this is the first time he is on the battlefield, and I need you to take care of him everywhere, Keep him from running away."

Yan Nandu smiled and rolled his eyes: "Definitely, definitely."

Shen Chengjun didn't come from the east with 2000 people until night fell completely.He was so exhausted that he fell asleep on the couch in the tent of the Chinese army and fell asleep, interrupting the meeting of the other generals.

Su Zhi found the golden seal from him, and helped Shen Chengjun take off his boots so that he could sleep comfortably, and said, "Jin Yi, you go and settle the 2000 people, and Feige passed the letter to Zhang Li. Remember to write down the North Battle report, no matter what the imperial city thinks, we will leave the customs to expel the Turks in three days. Yan Nandu, take Shen Chengjun's place for a while, and write a reply letter to the governor of Yinzhou. Su Yan, tomorrow morning, you will stand guard on the tower. We There is not enough manpower here, you will do the work for Zhang Li."

Several people received orders respectively, Jin Yi and Yan Nandu turned and left, Su Yan looked at Shen Chengjun worriedly, and asked, "Brother Shen, is everything alright?"

"I'm tired." Su Zhi said briefly, "It seems that I will give him the place tonight."

Su Yan nodded slightly, relieved, opened the military tent and went out.

At dusk, Su Zhi asked them to discuss the prospect, and it was already very late after the conclusion.Su Yan looked at the magnificent starry sky, and couldn't help saying "Ah", his whole heart became boundless because of this brilliant galaxy.

"Haven't you seen it?" Someone beside him spoke, and Su Yan looked over, but it was Lieutenant General Jin Yi.He is only five years younger than Su Zhi, so he also has a lot of elder care for Su Yan. Su Yan nodded, and Jin Yi showed a clear smile and waved to him: "Come on, Uncle Jin will take you with me." You go to a good place."

Curiosity got the upper hand, Su Yan hurriedly left with him.Jin Yi led him here and there. He helped Su Zhi guard the place all the year round, and he knew it like his own territory. Soon he led Su Yan over a small earthen wall.

"Don't tell your father tomorrow!" Jin Yi turned to warn him, Su Yan nodded hastily.

There seemed to be another world outside the earthen wall, Su Yan's eyes widened in surprise.They have already left the customs without permission, but this place is facing the gap at the foot of Longshan Mountain. It seems that there is a flat plain in front of them. There are no Turkic tents, and there are no green graves for the sacrificed soldiers of the previous dynasty.

There is a pile of loess under the feet, and the silver man is thousands of miles above the head.

Su Yan sat down against the earthen wall, and he kept staring at the starry sky with his neck straightened.

There is no wind and no moon tonight, but Su Yan inappropriately remembered the ancient poem that Xiao Qichen often chanted, why the ancients did not see the current moon, but the current moon once illuminated the ancients... For the first time in his life, he felt that the universe was all-encompassing and out of reach, and he always It is an inconspicuous and insignificant dust in the vast world.

Every star seems to hide a piece of the past. Su Yan looked at it for a long time, and his consciousness gradually became blurred. He only heard the wind from the north.

Seeing him lost in thought, Jin Yi grinned white teeth when he remembered the previous marriage, and patted Su Yan on the shoulder as if he had just passed by: "Do you miss your wife? You are still young. You have to get used to it sooner or later." , like your father went out for the first time before, he could not sleep in the middle of the night and lit a candle on the desk to write a letter to your mother. At that time, we all laughed at him for being infatuated..."

His rambling words got farther and farther away, and Su Yan held his face in both hands, in an almost innocent posture, like a child who was exposed to the outside world for the first time, staring at the starry sky in a daze.

This place is no longer in the south of the Yangtze River. I'm afraid Xiao Qichen hasn't seen such a beautiful scenery before, right?Will he like it very much? He once said that he had a bitter summer and would settle in Youzhou in the future...

Why did he think of Xiao Qichen again?

Qingguang County, where the Bian River flows into the Yellow River.

Han Guang looked at the blueprint in his hand again under the dim light, raised his head and said, "...if this continues, the project may be completed in the spring of this year. Your Highness, it's late at night, do you want to rest... Your Highness?"

The three-legged stool leaned against the wall, barely supporting his precarious torso, and on this stool that was not suitable for resting no matter what, Xiao Qichen sat upright, dozing off with his eyes closed.Although his forehead drooped to block his eyes, the corners of his lips were pursed tightly, his complexion was a little gray, as if he was exhausted.

Han Guang called twice, but there was no response, so he walked over cautiously.Xiao Qichen was sitting in danger, he endured and endured, and finally touched Xiao Qichen: "—Your Highness, go back to your room and rest?"

Xiao Qichen was shocked, and the balance he had managed to maintain suddenly collapsed.

With the sound of three legs crashing to the ground, Xiao Qichen woke up.He sat among the debris on the floor, wiped off a little cold sweat from his forehead, and said in a daze, "...Huh? I fell asleep?"

Then, as if he didn't realize that he was falling, he stood up against the wall and walked out.Xiao Qichen's residence is on the second floor, a simple room that hardly looks like a place for people to live in.

Behind him, Han Guang sighed.

He didn't know how Xiao Qichen's mind got flooded, and he volunteered to come to Qingguang County to solve the flood for many years.After arriving, following the instructions of the "Shui Jing Yi Answer Record", I found a few local craftsmen who specialize in water conservancy, and plunged into the mountains.The conditions in this place are harsh, and it would be nice to have a place to live. The governor of Qingguang asked if he should build a house for His Highness alone, but was scolded by Xiao Qichen.

As the son of Dr. Guanglu, Han Guang thought that all the playboys in Jinling had a somewhat lazy temperament since he was a child.At first, Han Guang thought he was just here to play with Xiao Qichen. Unexpectedly, the other party became more and more serious. Such a change in Xiao Qichen.

After watching Xiao Qichen crookedly disappear into the room on the second floor, Han Guang relaxed his stiff arms and went out silently.There is no sun or moon in the mountains, and he can hardly count the night and night.

It's just that spring has come, and there is a slight fragrance of flowers in the air.

Before Han Guang's emotions could be expressed, the window on the second floor was suddenly pushed open with a "bang", Xiao Qichen stuck his head out and said to him: "Brother Han, I just thought of a place that seems wrong!"

Han Guang complained: "Your Highness, even animals have to rest, let's count tomorrow, I beg you! Can't you torment yourself less?"

Xiao Qichen seemed to be woken up by his last words, first startled, then a little shy, and then smiled sadly: "I don't know... I want to find something to do, if I get busy, there are many other things... just No need to think about it again.”

Han Guang felt that there was something in his words, but he didn't ask further.

The moonrise frightens the mountain birds.In the room, Xiao Qichen took out a piece of letter from his arms, because it had been spread and folded, the paper had obvious traces.Xiao Qichen carefully unfolded the letter along the folds. The handwriting was scrawled, full of youthful spirit, and he had already engraved the content in his heart——

"I left in a hurry, please tell Ah Chen that if the Qingguang flood problem can be solved, it will be a great achievement for the country and the people. But even if there is no progress in this matter, Su Yan will be proud of him."

The author has something to say: Su Jin: I only draw with Yan Nandu, you are so brave.

Su Yan: Damn! !Don't tell me sooner!

※Don’t worry about why Li Bai’s poems appeared in the overhead background of the sixth century..._(:3」∠)_