My years as a soldier

On the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Li Muyun didn't even eat, so he stepped out of Su Wang's mansion with this heavy suitcase that didn't suit him.He walked through the back door when Hu Jiuzhang came to look for him. When he walked out of the mansion and stepped on the small street of Shengyefang, the young man was already sweating profusely, and even his underwear was worn out. Moisturized.

He couldn't stop panting, but it was too late to regret carrying the rattan box.The overstuffed rattan box on his back alone weighs more than 20 kilograms. (To save the trouble of conversion, the modern "jin" is directly used here, and a kilogram is about 0.5kg.) This is not enough Counting the two sabers around his waist, one long and one short, the horizontal knife weighs about seven or eight catties, plus the short knife weighs one catty and two taels, such a set of equipment weighs heavily on his body, let alone walking, it is difficult to stand.

It took Li Muyun a lot of effort to walk all the way from his room to the back door of the palace, and then set foot on the road leading to Dongshi.Carrying this whole thing on his back, he walked to Dongshi, not for anything else, just to have a meal.With an empty stomach, I really can't do such a high-intensity physical work.

There was a thin layer of snow on the streets of Chang'an City, but fortunately there was a lot of traffic in Dongshi on weekdays, so there was not much snow left on the main roads, so Li Muyun staggered all the way carrying nearly thirty kilograms of equipment on his back, as if fleeing from a disaster After entering Dongshi, but on the first day of the new year, there are very few shops in the market.Li Muyun walked with that thing on his back for nearly half an hour, before he finally found a barbarian restaurant that was still open.

The shop opened by the barbarians saved a lot of trouble.Li Muyun was not worried that someone would recognize his face.

As soon as he entered the door, he immediately put down the rattan box on his back, together with the horizontal knife hanging on his waist.He is really not used to talking to people with these old things, and he can't even cry out.

"Please, please trouble the shopkeeper, serve me a bowl of hot soup first."

Before Li Muyun could catch his breath, he asked the shopkeeper for something.Although a brown-haired and blue-eyed barbarian greeted the customers in the store, the other party immediately reacted as soon as Li Muyun finished speaking.

"Okay, what else do you want? Our honey sauce meat bun is a signature, how many do you want to try?"

The barbarian shopkeeper really spoke Tang dialect fluently, and even his accent was the same as that of the locals in Chang'an!After all, the barbarian who can open a store in Chang'an, no matter how he thinks, the Tang dialect will definitely not be bad.Needless to say, this person must also be an old Jianghu in the Chang'an market.

"Then... I'll have another meat bun. Anyway, it's enough to fill me up. I'm not picky about the taste."

Li Muyun leaned over and took the seat, it could be regarded as taking all the weight off his body.Now, before he left Chang'an City, he was about to be dragged down by this suit of luggage, but think about Hu Jiuzhang, he carried this suit all the way from Beiting to Chang'an.Li Muyun used to think that, hurrying, sometimes people are pushed to a certain extent, and they have to do it if they can't do it.But now that he has experienced it himself, he just now knows what it is like to rush.

Not to mention whether he could walk out of Chang'an City, Li Muyun felt that as long as he could walk out of Wannian County in one day with this equipment on his back, that would be a great achievement.

"Oh... By the way, shopkeeper, do you know where to rent a car?"

Thinking of this, Li Muyun couldn't help but say this.It's the New Year's Eve, and the car dealers on the market don't know if they will be open or not.But if he was asked to recite these things again, he would refuse to live or die.What kind of body he is, he himself knows best.If this tattered shell is tossed a few times, something will go wrong, not to mention it is deep winter now.If he died of illness on the way to find Hu Jiuzhang, then he would become the most worthless heir of the royal family who died in the history of Tang Dynasty.This note will be ridiculed by future generations when it is included in the annals of history.

"On this kind of day, I am afraid that only Hu Shang's car dealership is still open." The shopkeeper was not in a hurry.

Experienced shopkeepers only need to look at the customers from top to bottom, and then they can guess the origin and current situation of the customers.Although the color of Li Muyun's round-necked gown is a bit dull, the material of the clothes is undoubtedly a good material that only the rich and powerful in Beijing can use. Among other things, the white jade belt hook on his waist was put in Chang'an's pawn shop When it is done, it can be worth a hundred and 80 taels of silver.For ordinary people, this amount of money is enough for the whole family to live in peace and stability for several years!

But why did such a noble son go to the streets of Dongshi to look for food on the afternoon of the first day of the new year?And the military rattan box on his back.

This rattan box looks like an old thing, it must have been used by someone for many years, and there are still traces of repairs on it.And judging by the panting appearance of this white-faced young man, he is definitely not the real owner of the rattan box, but just took this thing with him by accident and left home alone.

The barbarian shopkeeper squinted at Li Muyun and sized him up. Although he could tell Li Muyun's extraordinary background at a glance, he still had an indifferent look on his face, with a very sophisticated smile on his face.

"The shop of the Hu merchant is fine." Li Muyun didn't even look at the shop.He has never taken businessmen seriously, let alone Hu businessmen. "If the shopkeeper is able to make trouble, please go and hire a carriage for me, and I will wait in your shop, and I won't pay you any money."

"Hey, where are you talking about, how can the villain suspect that the young master is reckless!"

The Hu man answered quickly, and then sent someone to the car dealership to hire a car.After a while, the waiter in the shop brought Li Muyun's meat buns and hot soup to the table, and for the Chinese New Year, he also gave him a plate of mixed mutton, which was quite generous.

But Li Muyun has seen too much flattery from these small favors.If you see more, you won't take it seriously.He drank more than half a bowl of soup, and broke out in hot sweat again. The innermost clothes were wet twice, but at least he got rid of the cold in winter.Immediately after eating a piece of meat bun, tiredness flooded his head.Li Muyun leaned on the small table and leaned lightly, and when he slacked off a little bit, sleepiness couldn't stop rushing to his head.

Indeed, at the end of the day, apart from the physical work of carrying the luggage, it was already exhausting.Finally, it was the first day of the new year, and I stepped out of my room.In the end, what he heard was the shocking news about the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty, and the shocking news that his own father was attached to the rebels, and he had kept this news from him for two months!Even if Li Muyun doesn't care about the affairs of the family, he is still the heir appointed by King Su himself.

And looking at Chang'an City today, although there are a lot fewer people coming and going in the market than usual, but this is the Chinese New Year, there are fewer people opening shops, and there are still many Hu and Han people walking on the streets. .They may have also heard the news of the rebellion in the east, but obviously, the rebellion from the east did not shake the pace of daily life of the people in Chang'an City.They should have firmly believed that the rebel army would never capture Chang'an, firmly believed that they could steal a corner of peace in this chaos...

Thinking of this, Li Muyun couldn't help but let out a long sigh.In fact, even he himself did not have a clear concept of the rebels.Luoyang, the eastern capital, was captured.These words... To him, it sounded like a malicious story rather than the truth, and it didn't sound real at all.

"My lord, I hired you a carriage, and the dealer also sent a driver."

A voice suddenly came from beside him, interrupting Li Muyun's thoughts.He turned his head to look, and saw behind the barbarian shopkeeper, there was an extra short man with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes.That man was only in his early twenties, dressed in gray-brown coarse cloth, with a solid figure that could destroy Li Muyun's two, he looked like he was dedicated to helping others.

Meeting Li Muyun's gaze, the barbarian shopkeeper immediately put on a smile, and Ao Dunzi who was standing behind him also bowed respectfully to Li Muyun.

"I'm the man sent by the car dealership to drive your car. My name is Fan San. This is the written receipt for your son's hire of a car. Please look it over."

There was an earthy tone in this person's tone, but his accent didn't look like a foreigner.Li Muyun speculated that he should be a resident of the outer city of Chang'an, who went to the city during the day to make a living.But it was the first time for Li Muyun to come into contact with these people at the lowest level in Chang'an, and it was really uncomfortable for Li Muyun.After all, these things used to be done with the help of the servants at home. Li Muyun just went out to eat and listen to music by himself. It was the first time in his life that he did such things as hiring a car.

"Okay, I get it now."

Li Muyun responded, and took the paper from Fan San's hand.

The coachman and the carriage cost one or two taels of silver for a day. Li Muyun thought that the quotation was a good deal, but as for the market price in the market, he did not know.After all, the current Li Muyun is not short of money, as long as the price is not too outrageous, he can accept it.

With the carriage and the accompanying coachman, things became much easier. Li Muyun called the man named Fan San to carry the big rattan box onto the carriage, and as for the horizontal knife that he unloaded earlier, he tied it back to his belt .Although it is a little heavy, the horizontal knife is different from the luggage. The accessory knife is more like a part of the owner's body. It will never be separated from life to death.And this knife belonged to Hu Jiuzhang, and now Li Muyun carried it on his body, as if standing with Hu Jiuzhang, just looking down at the scabbard around his waist, he felt a lot more at ease.

Hu, wait for me.

Li Muyun thought silently in his heart.

He was full, but his body was still tired, and he couldn't recover for a long time, as if his strength had been exhausted by the afternoon's journey. Once he exerted force on his hands, his fingertips would not be able to stop Trembling slightly.But even so, Li Muyun didn't want to delay for a moment what should be done.

It was dusk when he got into the carriage and finally embarked on the journey.It was getting dark, and there were fewer pedestrians on Chang'an Avenue. Looking out through the small window of the carriage, there was a sense of terror invisibly oozing from the empty street covered with shadows.

The evening wind in winter blows suddenly, and it is bone-chillingly cold.Li Muyun couldn't help shivering, he put down the damper on the window, and casually lit the small oil lamp in the carriage.

A faint yellow light illuminated the interior of the car, and Li Muyun sat on the cushion, unable to stop curling up into a ball.

"My lord, may I ask where are we going?"

Fan San's voice came from outside the carriage.

Li Muyun shook his head vigorously.When he left last time, he was also like this, spending the night alone.But last time, he probably knew that the people in the palace would follow him from afar, no matter how dark it was, he would have nothing to fear.But this time, without the protection of the palace, Li Muyun's heart became uneasy even though the sky had not yet completely darkened.

His eyes were fixed on Hu Jiuzhang's big rattan box, and his right hand unconsciously climbed onto the handle of Hu Jiuzhang's horizontal knife.After taking a few deep breaths like this, Li Muyun's mood gradually calmed down.

"Go to West Market, the office of bad people in West Market."

He said in a deep voice, only to hear a yell outside the car door, the small car pulled by two horses was already galloping along the avenue of Dongshi in full rhythm.

At night, the cold moonlight should cast a colder light on the streets covered with glistening white snow, covering everything with a layer of chill.On the night of the first day of the new year, there were no pedestrians on the streets of Chang'an City.Under the moonlight, the carriage carrying Li Muyun was speeding along the avenue, and the driver's face showed an inexplicable solemnity, as if he was preoccupied.

The carriage left the East Market, and moved quickly on the side street between Pingkangfang and Xuanyangfang, and within a quarter of an hour, it drove onto Suzaku Avenue.But after the carriage entered Suzaku Avenue, it didn't go straight west, but ran towards the south suddenly.

Obviously, the destination in the mind of coachman Fan San was definitely not West Market.