The return of the son-in-law

Huo Yu and his men stood guard at the foot of the barren mountain far away from Wang Jian. After waiting for two full days, no one came out of the mountain.

"It's so strange," Huo Yu said to himself, holding a tree branch and drawing randomly on the ground, "Earlier, Old General Shao sent someone to send a message to his brother, saying that His Royal Highness King Qin used himself as a bait to kill the Tatar army. Bring them all into the barren hills, let others surround them from behind, and catch them all. Now there is no sign of Tatar's soldiers here, why don't they go in and rescue King Qin?"

One of the young generals heard this and said: "Master Huo Yu is right. You can't just watch your comrades fight Tatar inside. There are so many people standing here waiting."

The other said bluntly, "Why don't I go into the mountain and see what's going on inside."

"You don't want to die?" the one who spoke earlier stopped, "How many years has no one entered the barren mountain? This mountain is so big, let alone whether you can meet King Qin and the others after you go in. If you meet Tatar, you should what to do?"

"Then you can't continue to wait here, right? It's been two days, and the old general has followed him in. Those bastards know that standing outside is majestic, and there is no sign of going in to support. What if the old general is here What supplementary test was encountered in it, I have to cut off the dog heads of those bastards!"

"Okay! What are you talking nonsense in front of Young Master Huo Yu!"

Huo Yu, however, listened to this idea, threw the branch at once, and said, "Why don't we find a way to go in and have a look, and wait here all this time, and we don't know how long we'll have to wait."

A soldier asked, "These entrances to the mountain have been guarded by them. How do we get in?"

"This mountain is said to have a gate, but it's just some openings for easy access. We can climb up from here." Huo Yu pointed to the stone on the side of the road that was about a person's height and said, "And the barren mountain is so big, they surrounded it. It’s just part of it. We can still find an easy way to get in. However, since these people are guarding here, it means that King Qin and the others should have entered near here. If we take a long way, I’m afraid it will be more troublesome to find people after entering the mountain. .”

While everyone was talking, they suddenly heard a sound from a distance, mixed with many exclamations.Huo Yu and the others hurriedly found a shelter that could cover their figures, hid behind and looked forward, and saw some people coming out of the barren mountain one after another, judging from their attire, they should be from the Chu Dynasty.

"It's the general!" At this moment, one of the soldiers brought by Huo Yu saw Shao Fang in the crowd far away, and almost shouted excitedly.

Huo Yu heaved a sigh of relief. Shao Fang was on King Qin's side, and he had an uncompromising temperament. He said that he wanted to protect King Qin this time, so he couldn't leave King Qin alone and come out first.

"Let's go up and have a look."

"Master Huo Yu, since the general and the King of Qin have come out, shouldn't it be better for us not to show up?" Some of the people who came together were more stable, and when they saw Huo Yu making a gesture to go out, they hurriedly stopped him.

Huo Yu shook his head, and said cautiously: "I always feel that something is not right, King Qin and the old general didn't bring a few people out, let's go up and have a look first."

Several soldiers glanced at each other. If there is really something wrong here according to what Huo Yu said, it would be useless if more than a dozen of them gathered together. It was the first priority, and after being told by Huo Yu, they really felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere ahead.

When Wang Jian saw Jiang Yannian helping Li Shaojun out, he groaned in his heart, together with those Tatars who were buried in the barren hills, he also scolded in - if they weren't useless and didn't put Li Shaojun in the barren hills, how could he have met him? such a conundrum?

But at this moment, he couldn't expose himself, so he could only dismount quickly, stepped forward and said, "What's wrong, Your Highness?"

At this time, Jiang Yannian was no better than Li Shaojun, but he just held his breath and supported Li Shaojun. He said weakly: "His Highness is injured, where is the accompanying military doctor? We are carrying all the medicines that can be used. Now, hurry up and bring some medicine."

Wang Jian said with some difficulty: "Well, at that time we were in a hurry to march, and we didn't bring a military doctor with us."

"No?" Jiang Yannian's eyes widened, and he looked at Wang Jian incredulously, "If you don't bring a military doctor, what do you want those wounded soldiers to do?"

Wang Jian gritted his teeth and said: "At that time, everyone was thinking of dying in battle, and never thought of going back. They simply didn't bring military doctors with them, so as not to slow down the speed of the army."

Jiang Yannian was also injured at this moment, and his mind was dizzy, so he didn't notice the flaw in Wang Jian's words.He turned his head and asked Shao Fang who had been silent all this time: "General, what should we do now?"

Old General Shao thought for a while and said in a hoarse voice: "It's a day or two away from Yongcheng, Xuzhou and other places, so I can only look for any nearby villages and ask the local doctor there."

Jiang Yannian nodded and said, "That's the only way."

Then, seeing Wang Jian standing aside, he frowned, "General Wang, His Royal Highness King Qin was injured, and Old General Shao and I also had some wounds, so it's inconvenient to move around. Why don't you send people to look for villages in all directions? "

Wang Jian nodded and said, "Yes."

At this time, there was a commotion ahead, accompanied by some quarrels.Then, a group of soldiers pushed a dozen people over, and one of them reported: "Your Highness, generals, there are more than a dozen suspicious-looking people who say they are the soldiers of Old General Shao. Please, Your Highness and all the generals, report."

Shao Fang glanced at it, and then shouted: "What's wrong with you? This is a soldier under my command, so hurry up and let go!"

Jiang Yannian also recognized Huo Yu, and hurriedly said, "This is Xu Zhou's brother-in-law of Guo Zhan'an, let him go quickly!"

Only then did the soldiers let them go. Seeing that Li Shaojun and the others were covered with wounds of various sizes, Huo Yu hurriedly said, "Your Highness, generals, brother heard about the situation here, and he couldn't get away, so he Order me to send some medicinal materials to eat, although it is not much, but it is also a heart."

Jiang Yannian was overjoyed when he heard the words: "My good fellow, you came just in time! You are a timely help, don't mention me, when King Qin returns to the capital, there will be a lot of rewards!"

Li Shaojun twitched the corner of his mouth weakly, and scolded with a smile: "When will you be able to make the decision for me?" Then, he looked at Huo Yu, nodded and said: "You are not bad. After returning to Beijing, the king will reward you a lot."

Huo Yu hurriedly waved his hands and said, "If Your Highness is interested, why don't you reward my brother? I'm just an errand runner. By the way, Your Highness, we have already checked the surrounding villages, and almost all of them have disappeared. There are three days away, we have already prepared the carriage, please go to Xuzhou to recuperate."

Li Shaojun did not immediately agree, but instead asked, "Have you brought the medicine?"

Huo Yu nodded and said, "Yes, I don't know what His Highness needs, so before leaving, I brought all kinds of medicines, including anti-bleeding, anesthesia, and anti-diarrheal medicine. I don't know what His Highness needs. ?”

Li Shaojun said bluntly: "Take them all and go back to the border town."

Wang Jian, who had been silent all this time, heard the words and hurriedly dissuaded him: "Why do you need to go back to the border city? Now that the gates of the border city are wide open, there may still be Tatars raging. Your Highness is injured, and you must not take any more risks!"

Li Shaojun insisted on going back to the border town: "We must go back!"

Jiang Yannian continued: "It was previously arranged for General Xia to lead his men to stand by the border town. When Tata left the border town, he would immediately retake the border town. Now that Tatar has entered the barren hills, General Xia must do something. The border town is now What danger could there be?"

"This..." Wang Jian couldn't find a better reason for a while, so he simply looked at Shao Fang, "Old General, please persuade Your Highness, it's too risky to go to the border town with injuries on his body."

Shao Fang turned his gaze to Wang Jian and said, "As the military governor personally chosen by His Majesty, every move you make here represents His Majesty. General Wang, do you really want His Highness to leave these 10,000+ soldiers behind?" , go back to Xuzhou to recuperate by yourself? Will General Wang alone bear the prestige and reputation of His Majesty?"

This was too serious, and Wang Jian felt that he couldn't bear it alone, so he hurriedly said: "It's Old General Shao after all, I didn't think carefully, I just thought about His Highness's injury, but forgot that doing so would damage His Highness's reputation, please forgive me crime."

Li Shaojun shook his head and urged: "Hurry up and get the carriage over here."

Several of the people brought by Huo Yu immediately ran over and drove the carriage over.Jiang Yannian and the others hurriedly helped Li Shaojun into the carriage, and asked the military doctor to rush in to change Li Shaojun's dressing.

After Li Shaojun had settled down, Jiang Yannian turned around, walked up to Huo Yu, and whispered, "Thank you this time, after you go back, tell your brother for me that someone in the army might be the eyeliner of that man in the capital, King Qin Your Highness cannot leave anyone with any opportunity to criticize now."

Huo Yu nodded and said in a low voice, "I remember."

Jiang Yannian patted Huo Yu's shoulder: "Okay, let's go first, be careful on the way."

When Jiang Yannian also boarded the carriage, Wang Jian gave an order, and the army left the camp, leaving behind Shao Fang and the others.

Huo Yu saw that Li Shaojun and the others had left, and they had taken away all the medicines and food they brought, so he turned around and walked in front of General Shao, and said, "General Shao, you took good care of my brother a few days ago, Huo Yu Yu has never had the opportunity to visit, but now he finally has the opportunity to meet old General Shao."

Shao Fang looked at Huo Yu with deep eyes, making it difficult for people to see his true thoughts at this time.

"Little brother, where are you from?"

Huo Yu didn't dare to reveal his origin as a bandit, so he could only say: "I was born in the Central Plains, my mother died early, and my father took me to live outside all the year round, and he also passed away a few years ago, so it really doesn't matter where I was born. have no idea."

Shao Fang sighed softly: "So that's how it is. Little brother, you look quite like an old friend of mine. I remember that he had a grandson who disappeared when he was young."

Huo Yu's heart twitched, wasn't he just abandoned by his biological parents!

But he has already decided that he will never look for his biological parents in this life. Since they abandoned him when he was still a baby, why should he make people hate him?

It's just that although he has made up his mind, whenever he thinks of his biological parents he has never met, it feels like he has knocked over all kinds of bottles, with mixed feelings.

Huo Yu didn't want to continue this topic, so he said simply: "Old General Shao, this junior is going back, please be careful on the way, Old General Shao."

Shao Fang said generously: "There is still a long way to go back to Xuzhou, how about this, since these people are here with you, I will send you back first, and then bid farewell to your brother, it can be regarded as a beginning and an end."

Huo Yu didn't refuse either: "Thank you, General Shao."

After walking for more than two days, Huo Yu finally returned to Xuzhou.He didn't mention anything else, just said that when Guo Zhan'an came back and the two of them had dinner, Huo Yu would tell him what he had seen and heard this time.

After hearing this, Guo Zhanan said: "Your Highness is right to do this. He came with the army and has never had a chance to make meritorious service. This time he took the risk and used his own bait to lead the Tatar army into the barren mountain and defeat them one by one. It's a great achievement. But if he returns to Xuzhou to recover from his injuries, he will be separated from the front line, and I'm afraid that Liu Yuanheng's people will take the opportunity to make a big fuss and offset his achievements."

Huo Yu was puzzled: "His Royal Highness King Qin was injured, so he had to recuperate. Besides, such a great contribution, how can the recuperation be offset?"

Guo Zhan'an shook his head with a smile and said: "It doesn't matter whether you have contributed or worked hard, in the final analysis, it is just a word from the emperor. This time, His Majesty said that if His Royal Highness King Qin returns in triumph, he will be crowned prince. You say, the emperor will agree?"

Huo Yu understood: "What brother means is that even if those people make a fuss out of a molehill, as long as His Majesty agrees, His Majesty will agree."

Guo Zhanan nodded and said, "That's right."

Huo Yu couldn't help sighing: "I didn't expect that even if I became the King of Qin, I would have to look into the eyes of so many people. It's not as comfortable as being a commoner."

Guo Zhanan laughed: "Yes, it is indeed not as comfortable as ordinary people."