My years as a soldier

Li Muyun was counting the time in the car, but he could only hear horseshoes flying along the way, and he should have entered the alley of the West Market long ago, but the carriage didn't show any intention of slowing down.

"Why hasn't it arrived yet?"

There was no place to keep warm in the carriage, and the cold air came in directly from the slits in the windows and doors. The longer Li Muyun sat, the colder he became. The food he ate in the afternoon was digested by the cold wind in a short while.The car was shaken by the galloping horse, and the others couldn't stop shaking too, it wasn't shaking, but freezing.

"It's almost there, it's almost there."

Fan San's voice came from outside the car, and there was a hint of comfort in his voice.Li Muyun couldn't help frowning.I just asked casually, why is the driver so comforting?

He had a faint feeling that something was wrong, but at this moment, he didn't want to think about it as bad.Chang'an City is the place where he has stayed for 21 years. He is familiar with this place. He always feels that a guy from a small car dealership can't bully him.

"Where are you now, did you go the wrong way?"

After waiting for less than a quarter of an hour, Li Muyun couldn't bear the cold, he opened his mouth to ask again, who knows whether the person deserved it: "It's almost there, it's almost there." Seeing a small car dealer prevaricate himself like this , Li Muyun couldn't bear it anymore.He frowned to resist the cold wind, raised his hand and lifted the felt cloth covering the wooden window.

"This is……"

Seeing the scene outside the window, Li Muyun froze.

where is this?

Outside the car window, only the moon casts a faint light, illuminating the empty avenue.But the avenue here is not the flat brick floor that Li Muyun often sees in Chang'an City, but a dusty dirt road.Moreover, the trees on both sides of the dirt road are all abandoned houses that have been dilapidated for many years.

For a moment, Li Muyun couldn't help having the illusion that time and space had changed. He never knew that there was such a remote place in Chang'an City!But in addition to being surprised, cold sweat broke out all over his body.His heartbeat instantly accelerated, and even the unstoppable shivering disappeared without a trace at this moment.

What is the intention of this driver?Could it be that such things as robbing and looting have actually happened to me?

Li Muyun swallowed hard.He told himself in his heart: Calm down.But his hands were still trembling uncontrollably, and he could barely stop the tremors only by clenching tightly on the handle of the horizontal knife at his waist.

"Hey! Where are you taking me?"

There was anger in Li Muyun's voice, but the tone was still steady.He showed his usual majesty towards his servants, but his determination and confidence here seemed too peaceful and too indifferent. When he asked this question, the people outside were not hurt or not. itch.

"Master, you are sitting in the car." Of course, Fan San, who was driving the car, could hear the change in Li Muyun's attitude, but this was also expected by him.As long as the guests in the car lift the curtain and take a look, they will know that they have not sent people to their destination at all.It is right for people to get angry.

This Fan San was short and thick, but his face was rather honest, and his voice was actually kind of honest.It's just that this voice is just a disgusting disguise to Li Muyun's ears.

"We only want things, don't hurt people's lives!"

Fan San didn't hide it either, he had already driven the carriage to this remote place, since the people in the carriage had turned their faces, he had no reason to hide it.

"Are you robbing your house? Do you know who I am, and you dare to bully me!"

Li Muyun's mind was frozen to the point of freezing at first, but at this moment he had to muster 12 points of energy to deal with his predicament.From what that person said, it should be robbery.He had heard about the poor law and order in some lifangs in Chang'an City, but he thought that this kind of thing would only happen in those lifangs far away from the palace city.Li Muyun never imagined that these people would dare to make such an idea in the area of ​​Dongshi where powerful ministers and nobles gathered.

He put on a stance reflexively, but he seemed to have punched cotton with his fist. The driver outside gradually slowed down the speed of the two poor horses.

"Master! I don't know who you are, and I don't want to know. In today's world, as long as you are not the emperor's old man, who you are, it doesn't matter to me. I'm just a worker. Do you believe me Me, we don't kill people, we only take things."

"Since it doesn't hurt your life, why did you bring me here?"

Li Muyun was a little anxious, how could he have thought that he would be robbed in Chang'an City just after he left home!But after a moment of tension and fear, Li Muyun gradually calmed down.This matter is not right, even though he doesn't understand the evil forces in Chang'an City, he always knows about the public security and city defense of Chang'an City.These small-time gangsters never dared to run wild in the East City, let alone touch those powerful gentry who came and went to and from the East City. What has changed...

Thinking of this, Li Muyun couldn't stop his body from trembling.Yes, it has indeed changed.He was imprisoned in the house for more than three months, and now he can't even see this change.It's not that Chang'an City has changed, but Datang has changed.An Lushan had raised troops in Fanyang two months ago, and in two months, even if the news in the pass was blocked, it should have reached Chang'an.The reason why these gangsters dare to be so rampant is because the Tang Dynasty is in chaos.Luoyang, the eastern capital, has fallen. Although Chang'an still has the emperor on it now, I am afraid that it will not be able to restrain these villains who are outside the laws of the Tang Dynasty——

After figuring this out, Li Muyun's thoughts became much clearer.

"You've seen what I'm carrying. You're with the shopkeeper of the Hushang restaurant, right? If you only take things, you can get them as early as in the Dongshi store. Why bother?" Want to take me to this remote place?"

"My lord, you really think highly of us. We dare not do anything in Dongshi, so we have to take you to a secluded place, and then we can discuss it in the long term."

"Take a long-term plan? Heh... Chang'an City is not as chaotic as you think, I advise you to send me to Xishi now, otherwise my family will pursue it, and none of you will live!" Li Muyun's voice brought a twist Vigorously, but the people outside the car door just laughed.

"My lord, don't be too busy. In today's world, who can take care of whom. You sit in the car honestly. I, Fan San, can't guarantee anything else, but I know that our boss always only takes You can rest assured that it will never hurt anyone's life."

This is Li Muyun who has been teased back by someone lightly. Even though he is unwilling, after this experience, he also understands that being tough is useless to this robber, but this desperado should always be a little scared , or something you care about?Li Muyun's mind was spinning quickly, he suddenly thought of Zhang Si, and when he spoke again, he became more calm.

"Fan San, your name is Fan San, right? I can give you whatever you want about these things on me, but in exchange, you must send me to West Market right away, how about it?"

"Hehe...you are willing to think about me. But if I can't bring you to our boss as planned, even if I bring back things, I will have to be punished accordingly. The lives of my family are tied to me alone body, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, I don't want to get stuck on it!"

New Year's Day...

It's ironic that these words come from a gangster's mouth...

Li Muyun thought silently.

The co-author of this person is soft and hard, and he robbed someone here, and he still thinks about the New Year in his heart!Then he must be a caring person...

"You want to celebrate the New Year, so I don't need it? Fan San, what do you think? I am familiar with the bad guys in Chang'an County. As long as you send me to the bad guy's office in West City, I will not hold you and your family accountable." Instead, I will pardon your sins, and I will recommend you to the Chang'an county magistrate as a bad person, how about that?"

"Grandpa, don't make big cakes for me. Our boss said, don't believe a word that officials say. I see that your clothes and appearance are extraordinary, and you should be a moderate official, right?" ? Even if you are not an official, you should be a noble person, Fan San does not want to offend you."

"Heh... I don't want to offend you. Do you think that what you are doing now, I will treat it as if nothing happened?"

Li Muyun asked sharply, but there was a wry smile outside the car door.

"My lord, let me tell you the truth. As for the clothes you are wearing now, if you sell them on the black market, the money you get in exchange is enough to support half of our workshop. You may not like it yourself, but with the clothes you brought This military-made equipment, if taken to the black market, is enough to support my family. Especially the horizontal knife. The quality of the saber is incomparable to ordinary knives. Even if you don’t wear such rich clothes, this set of equipment is enough to call You are being watched."

What he said made Li Muyun speechless.

What kind of world is this?Are these people poor and crazy?

In the past, Li Muyun felt that what happened to Hu Jiuzhang was already extremely miserable, but now it seems that these local people in Chang'an even coveted this old equipment. Could it be that the life of Chang'an people is not as good as that of Hu Jiuzhang, a border Tang soldier?

"So, those conditions in your mouth are too illusory to me. I dare not think about those things. I only know that today I brought you to the boss, and the boss can give me fifty big money. These five Ten money is enough to buy medicine for Er Gouzi, enough for Cui Niang to buy cloth, make clothes for the children, and enough for our family of five to survive this winter. I want fifty bucks."

"Fifty……"

Li Muyun listened to his series of words, and was stunned, not knowing how to answer the next sentence.

His majestic Prince Su's son, the grandson of the current emperor, was actually defeated by fifty big money!

After a while, Li Muyun spoke again, but his voice was tired.

"Fan San, I think you are also an honest person. Let me tell you more carefully. It was written on the note you gave me this afternoon that renting this car for one day is worth one or two taels of silver. You tied someone up with this car. Not to mention committing a crime, you only get fifty big bucks, but you can’t even make money from the car dealership’s business this time. Is it worth taking risks for this little money?”

"Hehe...you don't know about that." Although Fan San spoke with a smile, his voice was desolate. Unknowingly, he slowed down the speed of the carriage.In fact, he was also shaken. The carriage drove slower and slower on the dirt road, and finally stopped directly in the middle of the road.

"The guy in the car dealership is just an accessory to the carriage. The nobles rent cars for one tael a day, and the money is collected by the dealership. The owner of the restaurant you went to in the afternoon is the owner of the dealership. People like me, working for him for a day, including food and drink, only earn five big bucks. This is still when there is work, and if there is no work, you won’t get a penny for a few days.”

"..."

Li Muyun was speechless again.He looked down at the horizontal knife at his waist, and couldn't stop rubbing his fingers on it.

If Hu Jiuzhang had encountered this, what would he have done?

Li Muyun couldn't stop thinking about it, but he couldn't think of it.Because he knew that this kind of thing would never happen to Hu Jiuzhang, even if it happened to him, Li Muyun couldn't think of Lao Hu's reaction.Because in the final analysis, Lao Hu and him are not the same kind of people.

Lao Hu would get closer to Fan San outside the car instead of him...

"Fan San, take me to West Market. I will help you with your family matters."

No matter how much more, Li Muyun couldn't tell.He can only tell the most important point, honestly.Fan San listened to it, if he didn't...

"Father, you can't help me."

Fan San's voice came faintly from outside the car door, and Li Muyun's hand was on the handle of the horizontal knife, clenched tightly.

With a knife weighing more than seven catties, he couldn't swing one arm at all, but he imagined Hu Jiuzhang holding this knife to kill the enemy on the battlefield in northern Xinjiang.

Li Muyun pulled out the horizontal knife in an instant, and the light of the knife flashed in the carriage.Li Muyun opened the door curtain, swung his knife and slashed at the thick and short man sitting on the beam in front of the car.

His hands were shaking.It's cool outside in winter night.The weight of more than seven catties kept shaking in his hand, and he couldn't hold the knife.

Or maybe the movement of Li Muyun getting up alarmed Fan San who was sitting outside the car door. Seeing the flash of the saber, that person hurriedly got out of the car.Li Muyun's saber was emptied, he leaned half of his body out of the car, under the moonlight, the saber's light reflected the shadow of the moon, illuminating his face clearly.

The carriage was parked in an open space by Fan San, and outside the carriage, more than a dozen men with weapons had surrounded them from all directions.The one who walked in the front was a strong one-eyed man.The one-eyed man hung a horizontal knife that was exactly the same as Li Muyun's, squinting his eyes and looking up and down at Li Muyun.

"Fan San, go to Lao Liu to get the money!"

The man's voice was like a bell, but there was a trace of chill in his tone.Li Muyun couldn't help shivering.

"Today is the first day of the first lunar month. After we finish counting the goods, we will make some for everyone. We have to live this year well!"