Half blood

When Wei Yuan went out, Li Xuan took off the dusty coat on his body, and put on a blue cloth shirt. The cloth of the clothes was rougher than what he was wearing, and it was a little rough on his body. He twisted his body, With the cold water in the washbasin on the shelf at the side of the room, I wiped my face, opened the door and walked out of the courtyard.

It was getting late, a few rays of light remained in the dark sky, and the half-circle moon had already poked its head out. Li Xuan saw clusters of firewood burning in front of the tents standing outside the camp, and there were piles of such firewood every few tents. A fire, on this fire stood a large pot, filled with boiling water, the water boiled, and bubbles popped up one after another, the bubbles floated from the bottom of the pot, and when they reached the surface, they burst and made a gurgling sound With a loud voice, a few soldiers, wearing white-washed blue cloth clothes, used callused hands to flip a few inches of wild vegetables and break them in half.

Li Xuan was walking along the crowd to Wei Yuan's camp, when he suddenly heard a soft voice shouting at him: "Where did you come from? Why haven't I seen you in this camp?" With a strong southern accent, a sentence seems to be in his mouth, and it slips out of his tongue.

Li Xuan turned his face sideways, and saw a boy a few years younger than him sitting in front of a tent. The boy was very handsome, and it was strange to say that the south of Yujin Kingdom and Qingzhou Kingdom were only separated by a mountain and a river. But one side of the country supports the other side of people. The men in Qingzhou country are all tall and big, while the people in the south of Yujin country have slender bodies and small facial features.This boy looked like this, with only a small nose protruding from his clean face, his eyes were half covered by the messy hair on his forehead, and he was looking straight at him.

"I'm new here, from the capital." Li Xuan replied.

"Oh?" The boy looked him up and down suspiciously, and said: "It doesn't look like a person from the capital, but the accent is." Then he said: "Why? Let's leave the good life in the capital, come here gone?"

Li Xuan smiled and said: "I am the son of General Wei's friend in the capital. I heard that the water situation in the south has changed this year, so I want to help."

"Really?" The boy sneered and said, "I didn't expect you to be concerned about the country and the people."

Hearing the sarcasm in his tone, Li Xuan was a little displeased, his face darkened, and said: "As a subject of Yujin Kingdom, one should have the world in mind."

The little boy sneered again, and said: "You really regard yourself as a human being. Do you think that everything in this world can be conquered by man? Let me tell you, man, you should still be in awe. This is a natural disaster. People can't do anything about it, you're just here to be buried with you when you come here."

Li Xuan didn't expect the boy to say such world-weary words at such a young age, so he strode closer, gently pulled the boy's pink and tender face with his hand, and said, "You Don't sit here and say these depressing words, you are so young, don't show me the spectrum of the vicissitudes of life here, I don't know anything else, but I understand that where there is a will, there is a way, I know, this is up to you It may be some nonsense in your eyes, but let me tell you, what qualifications do you guys who are sitting here waiting to die laugh at those who are working hard to survive?"

The little boy was speechless for a while, he turned his head stubbornly, stared at him with round eyes, and shouted softly: "Don't touch me!"

It was only then that Li Xuan discovered that the boy's neck did not have an Adam's apple. He was a little puzzled, and looked down again, and was sure that this nonsense guy was a woman. He took a step back in embarrassment, and said, "It's really not I'm sorry, I thought you were a boy, but you are too, it's inevitable that people will be misunderstood when a girl is dressed like this."

The girl gave him a white look angrily, and said, "Why, if it's a boy, why don't you keep touching him?"

In fact, she didn't mean anything else when she said this, but the speaker didn't mean it, but the listener meant it.When Li Xuan heard this, he couldn't help but think of Li Xiuqi.Speaking of which, he had been away from the capital for more than three days, and he hadn't seen Li Xiuqi for three whole days. He didn't know what he was thinking. He ran away on his own initiative, but he was always thinking about the next time he would meet Li Xiuqi. See when will it be again, and that dream, that dream is like a string in his heart, which can be provoked by anything, such as now.

The little girl saw that Li Xuan's face was a little weird, so she curled her lips and said, "What's wrong? My face is so stinky, do I owe you money?"

Li Xuan ignored her, and walked forward on his own. The little girl was anxious, and hurriedly pulled his clothes, and said, "What's wrong with you? Can't you hear me talking to you? "

Li Xuan swung his sleeves and said, "What are you doing? Girl, please respect yourself." When the little girl heard this, she was so angry that she almost turned her back. She puffed up her eyes and said sharply, "Who do you think you are?" , you think this girl rarely touches you."

Li Xuan couldn't help groaning secretly in his heart, it's really a bad start, why did he run into such a stalker just three steps away after going out, Li Xuan suppressed the irritability in his heart, and said in a good voice: "Girl, it's in the next step." Sorry, I didn't know you were a daughter just now, you were so abrupt." After saying that, he bowed his hand, Li Xuan himself was soured by his own words, this is really more verbal than Li Xiuqi's. , but the little girl is the most addicted to this trick, presumably the girl will let him go when she hears that he is so sincere.

But this girl is not an ordinary girl, I saw her two eyebrows as thin as willow leaves raised, and said: "Stop putting on airs, you must have scolded me thousands of times in your heart." Her voice It was a little loud, attracting several soldiers to come over one after another, and several squatting vegetable pickers raised their heads and looked in this direction curiously.

Li Xuan knew that he was now Li Xia in the melon field, and if he didn't get out, he would jump into the Yellow River and he would not be able to clean himself up, so he asked in a low voice, "What do you want from me?"

The girl rolled her black eyes and said, "I want you to promise me one thing."

"What's the matter?" Li Xuan asked helplessly with a bitter face.

"You promise me that when the time comes to catch the strong man, you will let my father go."

Li Xuan was taken aback, looked up at the girl, and seeing the girl looked at him seriously, he asked, "What does this mean? There is no order to arrest the young men."

The girl snorted, and said in a soft voice: "Not now, but who knows if there will be in the future? I know you were brought from the capital by General Wei. I saw you when you came. Judging by that posture, you must be some kind of powerful person, and when the time comes, you can just say something, this is just a matter of your words, so that my father will not repair the dam."

Li Xuan frowned, he felt that this matter was a bit strange.He felt that this girl was doing it on purpose from beginning to end, deliberately finding fault with him, just to get him to help her father not be arrested to repair the dam, but he never heard the order to arrest a strong man.And the witchcraft is prevalent in the south, Li Xuan has also heard a little about some folk secret arts, and knows that there are strange people in this world, who are proficient in secret arts such as Zhouyi Qimen Dunjia, who know the past and know the future.He couldn't help sizing up the short little guy in front of him, wondering if this guy might be the real person in the legend who doesn't show his face, so he asked, "You are, what do you know?"

The girl seemed to have seen through his thoughts, and answered immediately: "I'm not a strange person, I'm just a discerning person. Anyone with eyes can see what's going on this year, but no one dares to say it." Li Xuan listened It was even more strange, and when he was about to ask again, he heard Wei Yuan calling him over, so he said to the girl: "I have to go now, I will ask you about what you just said tomorrow, what is your father's name?" name?"

The girl's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she replied: "My surname is Rong, and my name is Rongda. Remember, Rongda." Li Xuan nodded, turned around and walked quickly to Wei Yuan's place.The girl yelled softly from behind, and said: "Did you agree?" Li Xuan turned his head, and also answered in a loud voice: "I promised you!"

Wei Yuan and several soldiers were gathering in front of the fire. Rice, noodles and rice were being cooked in a large pot on the fire, and a few vegetable leaves were floating on the surface. The steaming bubbles in the water rolled up and down, and several pieces of white and tender tofu also floated out. Wei Yuan took an egg and knocked it on the edge of the cauldron. The eggshell cracked, and the egg white was connected to the yolk. One bone flowed out of the eggshell, plopped into the pot, and stirred with chopsticks, an egg became a big pot of egg flowers.

A middle-aged soldier sitting next to Wei Yuan, that soldier had a mustache, and the beard trembled up and down as he spoke. The soldier took out a few red hot peppers from his arms, handed them to Wei Yuan, and said, "Eat!" If you don’t eat something spicy, what’s the taste?” Wei Yuan laughed, took the chili pepper, put the pointed end in his mouth and bit it, and said, “Yes, my stomach is from the south. Stomach, if you don’t eat something spicy for a day, you’ll be bored!”

Li Xuan came over and sat down next to Wei Yuan. Wei Yuan also handed him a red-pointed chili pepper and said, "You can eat one too. It's appetizing." Li Xuan took it, he hadn't seen it before. Such a red and small chili pepper, and seeing how small the chili pepper is, put it into his mouth without much hesitation. When he bit his teeth, he bit the chili pepper open, and the yellow chili seeds inside squeezed out, crowding around him. On the bud on the tip of the tongue.

"Hahahahaha!" Li Xuan gasped for air with his mouth open, and yelled, "Water, water, water..."

The people next to him saw that his face turned red all of a sudden, his eyes were blood red with tears, and the snot was being sucked back. It looked like he had never eaten spicy food.He couldn't help laughing, the character mustache fetched him a tube of water with a bamboo tube, Li Xuan snatched the water, and drank it all in one gulp with his head tilted back.

"Ha, where did you come from? Have you ever eaten spicy food?" Mustache asked with a smile.

"He is from the capital," Wei Yuan replied for Li Xuan.

The character mustache smiled again after hearing this, and said: "It's no wonder, it's not that people in the south can't get used to this spicy food, little brother, are you okay?"

Li Xuan touched the remaining water in his mouth, blinked his hazy teary eyes, and said, "It's over." The mustache said again: "You're not used to it now, you've been waiting here for a long time, and you're back in the capital." I'm sure I want to eat this spicy food every day." Li Xuan shook his head in his heart, it's enough to eat this food once, and he doesn't want to eat it a second time.

Scooping a ladle of rice and vegetables from the pot, Li Xuan and Mustache ate together. Li Xuan thought to himself, Mustache looked at Mian Shan and stayed here for a long time, so he should know everything. After a while, he asked, "Does this eldest brother know that there is a man named Rongda in the barracks?"

"Rongda? Why did you ask him?"