Immediately after the death of the master

Neglected, he didn't know when he stopped apologizing.But from this silence and trembling, I can feel his emotions better.

That's fear, that's regret, that's apology, that's dependence...

It's a child's emotion.

A frightened child who seeks the arms of an adult would have the emotion.

Only then did I realize that after taking off the aura of the Ninth Prince, he was just a 14-year-old boy.

Under the upper body that I embraced with him, blood oozes from the wound that was opened again under the quilt. I can feel the touch of the blood soaking the flesh, and I can feel the pain that sweeps up from the wound and reaches the brain.

In the midst of this excruciating pain, I realized belatedly.

My master and I were only 16 years old that year.

8,

After I rescued the Ninth Lord, the relationship between the Ninth Lord and me improved by leaps and bounds, from an old enemy to a brother.

The turnaround was a bit quick, and I've been secretly thinking there's some kind of conspiracy behind him.

The first time the Ninth Prince came to me with two jars of spirits to drink with me, I was shocked. At that time, I had just learned to drink, and my drinking capacity was incomparable to that of me seven years later.At that time, everyone in the army knew that the guy most trusted by the generalissimo had a very poor capacity for alcohol, he would go crazy after drinking a few glasses, and when he went crazy, he would hug the generalissimo's leg and never let go, causing his master to throw himself in front of others. face several times.

But the first time the Ninth Prince came to drink with me was two jugs of spirits, if it wasn't just a joke, what else could it be?

But he is a prince, no matter how I don’t want to, I can only bite the bullet and drink with him. After two cups, I, a guy with a very poor capacity for alcohol, are fine. On the ground, drunk.

It's still the kind that can't wake up no matter how you call.

My face was green at the time.The place where we drank was about one kilometer away from the military tent. Neither of us rode a horse. Although he was two years younger than me, he was taller than me, a child who was malnourished in childhood. That night, I was a little weak chicken After humming and bringing him back to the barracks, half of his life was gone.

What is even more heartbreaking is that after the master heard me say this.

There was a moment of silence, and then reminded me faintly.

"Why did you do it yourself? Wouldn't you go back to the barracks first, and then ask someone to bring him back?"

...! ...Oh yes...why didn't I think of it!

But I immediately swallowed the words that showed the lower limit of my IQ, and explained righteously:

"Aren't I worried that it's not safe to leave Ninth Prince alone there?"

"Well, it's hard for you to be loyal and far-sighted."

The master nodded, then turned around, and through his trembling shoulders, I knew that my wise and mighty master had seen through my appearance of being strong but he couldn't bear to expose me, so he held back a grandiose smile in front of me... …

Well, I can't make it up anymore, the master is just laughing at me, and he doesn't mean to hide it from me at all...

From then on, every time I drink with the Ninth Prince, I will definitely bring two things.

One is a horse, and the other is Wei Kexin, my most trusted aide.

Always ready to help me drag the drunk Ninth Prince back.

9,

Ninth Prince's drinking capacity is worse than mine, and he often finds me, a weak chicken who can't drink much.

During the seven years in the frontier, we drank a lot of wine, drinking in victories, and drinking in defeats.I often think that I drink so well later on because I practiced drinking with him.

10,

Because the Ninth Prince and I have always been at odds, I was always reluctant when he asked me to drink at the beginning, and he always pulled me to drink, until we were in the fourth year of the frontier, during the war, I just started to take the initiative to drag him to drink.

Five years in Taiyuan, my second year at the border.

The Zhongshan army of the enemy country was pressing down on the border. At that time, the reinforcements dispatched from all over the country had not arrived on time. Faced with the situation of losing, the master had no choice but to order a retreat in order to preserve the main force.

In the last meeting before the retreat, I sat at the bottom, and the master and the Ninth Prince sat at the first and second positions respectively. Through the flickering candles and the many generals, I couldn't see their expressions.

In this last meeting, life and death are decided, and sacrifices are selected.

This abandoned son must exist, he will stay and fight against the 20 army of Zhongshan with [-] soldiers.This abandoned son will bring his own pitifully few soldiers, relying on the dangerous terrain of the border, and use all means to fight until there is only the last soldier left, shed the last drop of blood, and hold the enemy's army for a second longer. The retreat of the main force is covered.

This is almost an abandoned child who must die. When the master said this mission, the entire army tent fell silent.

In the deathly silence, I could feel the boiling anger of my master.

The candle flame flickered and the wick made a crackling sound.

In this dead silence, I got up quickly, and the armors all over my body collided with each other, becoming the only noise in this dead silence.

I walked to my seat, knelt in the middle of two rows of silent generals, half-kneeled on the ground, clasped my fists in both hands, lowered my head and said in a deep voice:

"I beg your orders."

The master is still silent, and I can feel that he is even more angry. I don't understand the reason for his anger, but I know that he will definitely agree to my plea.

He also had to agree.

It's not up to him to choose.

While I waited, the candle beside me was almost exhausted, and the wick crackled and burned more violently.

After a while, the master spoke, his voice was hoarse, hiding emotions that I couldn't understand.

"That's right."

Before he finished speaking, he had already got up and left the table.

When I raised my head, I only saw a corner of my master's scarlet cloak.

11,

Don't think too much, I'm not that selfless.

Although I don't mind my master's death, I won't find trouble for nothing and send myself to death.

There are two reasons why I dare to take on this task.

One, even if I don't take the initiative to ask, this task will fall on my head nine times out of ten.Among the generals in the camp at that time, except for me, almost all of them were descendants of major families. If they were forced to arrange this kind of almost fatal work on their heads, it would be almost equivalent to offending the families behind them to death. The master has been fighting against the princelings, and has already made countless enemies. If he continues to make enemies, there is really no room for recovery.

Among the generals under the master, only I have the lowest background and the lowest military achievements. It is the master's will to enter the camp to discuss matters. If he continues to be stubborn at this time, he will not let him if he has not established a foundation. I want to convince the public.

So, whether I want it or not, the master will still call my name after weighing things up.Now that it was destined to be me, I offered that maybe I could gain a good impression in front of my master. Whoever wanted to flatter me and got on the ass of a flatterer made my master even angrier.

It's really incomprehensible.

Second, I have received reliable information that in this seemingly unsolvable deadlock, there is a half chance that I will not die.The source of the news is my good friend in the early years, the Confucian businessman Xu Yuque who is now in the capital. He paved the way with his wealth and got the news from the princelings.Although there are many people in the princeling party who want to take this opportunity to get rid of the prince's confidant, the Eighth Prince, who is also my master, but the leader of the princeling party, Ji Sanqing, and the prince himself strongly oppose it. The lives of the [-] hot-blooded men in the house were bet just for the life of the master. The two of them strongly advocated that the time for increasing troops should not be delayed, so they did not hesitate to fall out with Prime Minister You.

I don't know the prince well, and I'm ignorant of the political situation in Kyoto, but I believe in Xu Yuque, and I know Ji Sanqing's character even more. Therefore, I'm willing to bet my life that this news is true. And although the uninformed reinforcements did not arrive on time, they must be marching in a hurry and will arrive within three days.

Therefore, as long as I can survive for three days, this fatal situation in the eyes of others will become an opportunity for me to be promoted!

In the army, my prestige and status were not convincing. I was the last seat in the camp meeting and had no qualifications to speak at all. How can I be reconciled to being stuck in a bottleneck since the eighth top grade?

I've been waiting for an opportunity, and now, it's here.

The arsenic in their mouth is the honey in my eyes.

What the children of the aristocratic families couldn't afford to gamble on, what they dared not to want - monstrous wealth.

As for my miscalculation, the prince just wants to delay the reinforcements, or I can't survive for three days?

So what, it's just a death.

If I were really afraid of death and stopped here, begging my master to give me a chance to live, and give up this rare opportunity, then I would never be who I am today.

My whole life was doomed as early as the day I chose to leave Wuchao.

Therefore, there is nothing to criticize more than being humble, and nothing to be more sad than poverty. 1

It is better to fight to the death than to live inactively.

At the very least, you have to die like a human being.

12,

When I was young, I always loved to gamble.

Also always bet.

I staked my all on this gamble.

It is for the sound of the bell and the food; it is for the kind of jade food and delicacies; it is for a glimpse of what kind of scenery there is in a higher place.

I am such a layman, greedy, angry and extravagant, and have everything.

But I didn't expect...

he will come.

13,

The ninth prince, Prince Gong, Fu Shuo.

I never thought that the Ninth Prince would come.

He didn't bring his personal guards with him, nor did he ask his emperor brother for even a single soldier, just like that, one man and one rider, in my town