Ma'am, is there someone out there?

"Hurry up, it's going to be dark today, finish your work early and eat early!" the commander-in-chief of the supply battalion yelled.

What he was standing in was a cave, and dozens of torches were lit inside the cave, illuminating the dark space. Deep in the cave was a flat open space tens of feet square.Boxes and cages were neatly stacked, including weapons, food, quilts and the like.

"Ten thousand spears, one hundred thousand bows and arrows?" Lu Chen checked the account books and asked Shen Qing, "Where did you get them?"

"If the emperor doesn't give it to us, we will build it ourselves. Money can turn ghosts around, so we can't hide it from an emperor who is far away in the capital. Besides, how often have you been afraid of the general? Are you right?"

Shen Qing picked up an arrow, these were all made by him privately, it would be a serious crime to speak out.The ancient army basically had a huge and powerful cavalry battalion.The cavalry is the highest quality in the barracks, and the selection and training are particularly strict. The cavalry uses arrows for long-range attacks and spears for short-range attacks. The main assessment item is riding and shooting, so the consumption of bows and arrows is particularly large.

"When did you make it all, why didn't I find out?" During the year he stayed in the general's mansion, he spent a lot of time with Shen Qing, and he never found out that he made these things in private.

Shen Qing looked at him with a smile, but didn't speak.

Even he didn't hide it, Lu Chen snorted, turned around and walked out of the hole.

This cave is exactly in the mountain that took a small road from the small town to Wangnanguan, and it is very hidden. If you don't know in advance that there is a cave on the mountain wall, you can't tell it from the outside.This cave was accidentally discovered by Lu Chen before, and no one knew about it except him.

Naturally, the things in Shen Qing's space cannot appear in front of people out of thin air, so Lu Chen put the things in this cave first, and then let the baggage battalion transport them all back.

Lu Chen handed over the inventory to the chief of the supply battalion, and then led Shen Qing to leave first.

"Where are you going?" Shen Qing asked.

Shen Qing was silent for a while and said: "You will know later." I don't know if it was an illusion or what, Shen Qing seemed to hear the heaviness in Lu Chen's tone.

Lu Chen stepped on his horse and turned around in several directions from a dense forest, and his field of vision gradually became wider. A small stream meandered out, followed the stream straight up, and reached the mouth of the small valley.The two got off their horses, signed the horses and walked across the wooden bridge over the stream into the valley.

"Where is this place?" Shen Qing couldn't help asking.There is such a small place hidden among the mountains and forests of Wangnan Pass.

"You come with me."

Lu Chen tied the horse to the tree pole at Taniguchi, and the two walked.

After walking inside for a while, he saw another forest, and after passing through the forest, Shen Qing found a small courtyard not far away.The door of the small yard was not locked, they pushed open the yard, the yard was full of dead grass, a stone table was piled up with dust, and a lonely hut stood alone.

The furnishings in front of the house are in disarray, showing traces of a fight from a long time ago.Shen Qing's heart skipped a beat, thinking of a possibility.Lu Chen didn't push the hut to go in, he took Shen Qing's hand and went straight to the backyard.

A simple tomb stands abruptly in the backyard.

Lu Chen let go of his hand, walked to the grave, knelt down, and kowtowed three times.

"You come too." Lu Chen raised his head and said to him.

Shen Qing knelt beside Lu Chen, following his appearance, kowtowed firmly three times.His forehead was resting on the dirt, with a little dirt on it.

This tomb should be newly erected, Shen Qing looked at the clod of soil that had been loosened not long ago, and there were grass roots dug up on the clod, he thought to himself, the time would be within two or three days.There was no monument on the grave, only a wooden plaque.

Lu Chen pulled out a stick of charcoal from his body and put it in Shen Qing's hand.

"I said you write."

The children of Liu's tomb pay respects to the September [-]th anniversary of Changqing

The charcoal strip was broken at the last stroke, Shen Qing paused for a moment, but his hand did not come back, it was suspended in mid-air.Lu Chen held Shen Qing's hand, and rarely spoke softly.

"She...is not my mother." Lu Chen said.

The person buried in the tomb is the grandma who brought Xiaobao up since childhood.When he arrived that year, Grandma had already been killed, and Xiaobao was stunned by the reason for threatening him in the first place.He was worried about Xiaobao, so he was stabbed several times, and finally fought with the assassin to the edge of the cliff.He used the power of one person to deal with more than a dozen people, almost annihilating all of them, but there were still fish that slipped through the net.In the end, the assassin fell down the cliff together with him. He protected Xiaobao in his arms, and hit the boulder on the stone wall, lost his mask and memory, and fell into the river at the bottom of the cliff.

Until he was rescued by a big ship.

Lu Chen returned to this small courtyard the day he regained his memory.It took a whole year, and the former appearance was completely lost.He collected Grandma's bones and buried them in the backyard.When Xiaobao was born, Grandma delivered the baby.She took pity on such a child and volunteered to help him take care of Xiaobao. Although Lu Chen was Xiaobao's biological father, it was this old woman who got along the most on a daily basis.

However, she got into disaster because of herself, and died unexpectedly. Kindness cannot be repaid.

Xiaobao once asked about grandma, Lu Chen had a vague memory at the time, but he already had a vague feeling, but he only told Xiaobao that grandma found her children and went to enjoy the blessings.

Shen Qing held back Lu Chen tightly.He couldn't see the expression on Lu Chen's mask, but he knew that Lu Chen was definitely sad.

The dead are dead, and no matter how sad the living are, they cannot save their lives.Shen Qing thought of his parents who had passed away long ago, so many years had passed unknowingly.

He kowtowed a few more times, he was grateful to this old woman who had never masked her face, for Lu Chen and Xiaobao.Shen Qing didn't ask about Little Treasure's origin, he knew that Lu Chen would always tell him.Besides, he likes this kid very much.No matter where he comes from, it is a gift from God.

Lu Chen turned his head and gently wiped off the dirt on Shen Qing's forehead.His sleeve brushed against Shen Qing's cheek, and there was a smell of Shen Qing on his clothes.The casual clothes Lu Chen wore today were of course made by Shen Qing separately.He didn't want to wear the clothes worn by the fake.

"Let's get up, I'll take you to the house to have a look." Lu Chen stood up, and couldn't hear anything unusual from the voice, "There should be a lot of Xiaobao's things in the house."

They opened the door and entered the house. The room was very simple, just like ordinary people's decoration.Shen Qing looked around, and could find that the room should have been turned upside down before, but was carefully returned to its seat, and where it was moved, there was a much cleaner mark.

Shen Qing picked up the wooden horse on the ground and wiped it clean with his sleeve.He smiled and said to Lu Chen: "You did this." Shen Qing deliberately smiled happily, not wanting Lu Chen to be surrounded by bad memories.

"So what..." Lu Chen hesitated, snatched it back and put it back in his pocket.

"It's beautiful." Shen Qing praised it a little.

Lu Chen accepted the compliment without guilt. Of course he looked good in his heart, but it took him more than ten days to grind it out.

"Clean up this place." Shen Qing raised his head, looking at the spider web in the corner and said.

As soon as they said it, the two found a wooden bucket rag and cleaned the room up and down. It was not completed until sunset.The room immediately became much cleaner.

Shen Qing took a candle and lit it, Lu Chen sat at the table, the Rakshasa on his mask danced in the candlelight, looking even more ferocious.

"Now there is no one else, you can take it off." As Shen Qing said, he wanted to help Lu Chen take off the mask, but Lu Chen stopped him.

"Wait, wait a minute."

"Okay, okay." Shen Qing stepped back, looking at the sky, it might be very late for them to return to the barracks today.

Lu Chen asked: "Are you afraid of this mask?"

"What's there to be afraid of?" Shen Qing smiled, and said lonely again, "It's just that through the mask, I can't see your face, and I can't see whether you are laughing or crying now, which makes me feel a little flustered." Although usually He always had a cold and expressionless face, but because of this, he didn't want to miss the occasional small smile.

"I won't wear this mask when I go home after the war. We..." Lu Chen stood up suddenly, jumped in front of Shen Qing, and suddenly made a strange request.

"Give me a hug."

hug?Without knowing it, Shen Qing stretched out his arms to circle him.

Lu Chen shook his head.

It's not this hug, is it?Shen Qing took a deep breath, it's not very good here.

Lu Chen didn't wait until he left him a little distance, looked at Shen Qing, Shen Qing had a strange expression, Lu Chen shook his shoulder, and asked unconsciously: "What are you thinking? I'll let you give me a hug. "

At this moment, Shen Qing finally understood that his hug was really a simple hug.

Shen Qing raised his strength and carried Lu Chen in his arms. Fortunately, Lu Chen was thin, so it wasn't too strenuous to carry him.Lu Chen wrapped his legs around his waist, looking down at Shen Qing.

Shen Qing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, why did he hug him like this, he really looked like a child who hasn't grown up yet.

"When I was very young, I wanted to be hugged by adults like this, but I was always told that it was not dignified. When I was young, I didn't hug him very much. Would he blame me?"

When Lu Chen said this, Shen Qing was about to reassure him that Little Treasure would not blame him, but he suddenly changed into a very heavy and serious tone, "You have to practice hard, and you should hug Little Treasure more in the future...and me .”

"Alright." Shen Qing agreed wholeheartedly.

After Lu Chen said this, he probably realized that he was not dignified enough. Even though there was no one else, he was still blushing. He is a general, and if someone saw him, he would lose his face.

Seeing that Lu Chen suddenly shrank into his neck, Shen Qing knew that Lu Chen was shy.Shen Qing took off Lu Chen's mask like something bad.

"What are you doing?" Lu Chen was startled, and almost couldn't help pinching Shen Qing's neck again.

"look at you."

"Oh..." Lu Chen agreed with a long tone, lowered his head, and suddenly pecked Shen Qing's lips, "There is something I want to tell you."

"what's up?"

"It's Xiaobao..." Lu Chen jumped to the ground, holding the words in his throat, but couldn't spit them out.He walked back and forth in the room anxiously and worriedly, Shen Qing pressed his shoulders and looked directly at him.

He didn't know if Shen Qing would feel terrible if he told this matter.Lu Chen subconsciously touched his abdomen. There was a long scar there, which was broken and stitched by grandma when he delivered him.

Although the wound had already healed, Lu Chen still remembered how painful it was.

It really hurts.

"Shen Qing, if I say that Xiaobao was born by me, would you believe me?"