Wolf boy

At the beginning of September, when the autumn wind swept across the border, great changes took place in Zhaocheng, which shocked the entire court.

The second prince, He Lianjie, was trapped in quicksand with a group of his cronies while chasing the enemy army. After the reinforcements arrived quickly, the second prince had only one head left outside the sandpit. It was General Xiao Ran who arrived in time to rescue him. Only by doing it properly can one's life be saved, but Helian Jie's cronies have already been wiped out.

If that's the case, it's no big deal, the second prince is still there, and his subordinates are gone, so he can just send it again, and it will definitely not make the old emperor who is making alchemy in the alchemy room cough up a mouthful of blood with a secret letter in his hand.

It was stated in the letter that before the second prince fell into the sandpit, he fell off his horse by accident and was seriously injured. He was buried in the sandpit for a long time.

The dignified prince has become a useless person, no longer humane.

This kind of thing should have been covered up, but when the person was dug out, the reinforcement general Xiao Ran dispatched a large number of troops to rescue the second prince, and most of the soldiers in Zhaocheng left the camp.

So under the watchful eyes of everyone, the second prince was dragged out of the bunker with his pants covered in blood, and he fell into a coma due to excessive blood loss, and was watched by the whole army without face.

In the team that participated in the rescue of Zhaocheng's coach, there was also a dog army, the big gray dog, even followed the scent, and dug out the second prince's lost life in the sand.

The Tianhuang nobleman who used to be domineering in the border town suddenly became the laughing stock of everyone.

Seeing that the situation was not right, the old eunuch beside the emperor hurried forward and handed over a handkerchief to wipe the blood from the corner of the emperor's mouth, and then took out an "elixir" and quickly swallowed it for the emperor, so that the emperor could feel better.

"Your Majesty, do you want to order the border towns to send out troops to attack the barbarians in the grassland, and vent your anger on the second prince?"

The emperor waved his hands with scarlet eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "He is useless. I ordered the Second Prince to be called back to Beijing to recuperate from his wounds. He ordered the Deputy General at the border to take the temporary post of Commander!" After finishing speaking, the old emperor coughed.

The old eunuch beside him gave him a sip of elixir tea, which made him feel better. After he was relieved, the emperor asked again, "What has Tao'er been doing recently?"

"Well, this old slave doesn't know anything about the previous court. It's just that the little eunuch who served the fifth prince returned to the palace to get a lot of supplements. He said that his master stayed up all night to sort out the old accounts of the household department, which was quite hard."

The emperor nodded, "Send more supplements, and also send the thousand-year-old red ginseng that Quanzhou paid tribute to, so that Tao'er doesn't have to work too hard, and it's important to take good care of your body."

"The old slave takes orders."

On the small road among the mountains, two big black horses walked along one after the other.

The horse with a thick and smooth mane in front was very comfortable and leisurely crossed the ditch beside its hooves, while the other black and red horse was very strict, and it cautiously kept close to the edge of the mountain road. On the side of the mountain, I didn't even glance at the cliffs below the road, for fear of stepping on the wrong foot.

These two horses are Wuzhao and Tayan. They were originally placed by Zongshuo and Atong who climbed up the mountain by a pool with lush grass and trees, but the top horses from the grassland really refused to admit defeat, no matter whether it is a mountain or a river. , it has to go around and try.

In this way, Wu Jie simply took Ta Yan along the uphill road that Ah Tong and the others walked, stopped and walked to the middle of the mountain, and when he was getting lost in the Yunzhong Temple, he saw the shadows of the two people going down the mountain .

Excited, Wu Zai spread his hooves and ran towards Ah Tong, while Ta Yan behind him sighed, and waited in place with his long face drooped.

Ah Tong was quite surprised when he saw the two horses. Didn't Dahong not know how to walk on the cliff?Why did he still come up, just took a look at the frisky Wuzi, Ah Tong slapped it on the horse's face, thinking, maybe his eldest nephew didn't trick him into coming up!

Zong Shuo stepped onto Wu Zhi, and Ta Yan also stood beside Ah Tong, stomping the horse's hooves.

At this point, the two got on their horses and headed straight for Zhaocheng again.

After leaving the mountain, the peaks and mountains are gradually being left behind, and the Buddhist temple on the top of the mountain has long been hidden in the dense green of the Cangshan Mountain, and can no longer be seen.

Ah Tong lowered his head, took hold of Gawu around his neck, thought of the master, and glanced behind him from afar.

Zong Shuolema turned around, "What's wrong?"

"Zong Shuo, you have to go home with me when you have time, there is really no room for the master."

His ancestor's cave is just right, besides, he has to take someone back to show the family to see if it is right!He has a wife!

Moreover, Ah Tong was a little homesick. He left Dongshan for the first time, and it took so long. I don't know what happened to the wolves in Dongshan. Will the new cubs of the Wolf King's family run away?Do Ana and his younger brother think about themselves? If Ana misses himself, he may not even eat well.

However, Dongshan is in the east, and it is far away from the border town, and now is the critical time for some things, so I just need to rush back to Zhaocheng as soon as possible.

The most important point, Zong Shuo has not said yet.I don't know how many pairs of eyes are staring at him right now, it's nothing to go back to the mountain temple, no one knows his background!

But Ah Tong is different, such a secret life experience, such an unexplored secret place, it is better that no one knows about it, why let the world of mortals get involved and damage the divine residence.

It is necessary to wait for him to finish before seeing him again.Not only do you want to meet, but you also want to thank you for saving your life back then.

So, two people and two horses rushed towards the border at top speed.

In the middle of the night, Zhaocheng was under a curfew, and even the dog army in the forest by the city was extremely quiet. Not only were they quiet, but the dog king Heifeng also left the forest.

Now in Zhaocheng, Xiao Ran is temporarily acting as the head coach. He Lianjie has already left for Beijing to recuperate from his injuries. Although his injuries are not serious, his whole person seems to have changed. Crazy again, he dismantled a guard in the tent who just gave him an extra look.

His body was mutilated, and once he fell into the clouds, he knew very well that he was doomed and his position was hopeless. He had been abandoned by his father and the forces behind him. In this way, Helianjie's spirit was a little extreme, resentful, extremely resentful.

He resented the barbarians in the grassland, and all the soldiers who saw him in distress. In the end, all the resentment was concretized on Zong Shuo.If it weren't for him, he wouldn't have gone far to this border gate, so now he is still calling the shots in Beijing, waiting for the forces behind him to send him to the throne.

In the imperial palace, besides him, among the princes of the right age, there is only one scumbag Helian Tao who was born to a hairpin servant, and that kid can be crushed to death with one hand.Only Zong Shuo!This orphan of the former prince who has always dominated him, hates him for being strong in everything, everyone looks up to him, martial arts and martial arts, he is inferior to everything.

Father is right, this person should have been killed a long time ago!

Because of the injuries on his lower body, Helianjie could only sit in a sedan chair, as if he was trapped in this square inch. He cursed viciously, and only hoped that Zong Shuo would die in the grassland. After eating food, he will go down to the eighteenth floor of hell. At this point, he can still breathe a sigh of relief.

It's just that at this moment, the person he so swears by is resting in Zhaocheng's handsome tent intact.

Xiao Ran received the news that Zong Shuo was about to return to the camp, so he planned to fetch him back in the middle of the night, and told Zong Shuo to stay in the tent as usual. Now that Zhaocheng is full of Zong Shuo's own troops, it is much easier. Don't worry too much about other things.

Xiao Ran only went to pick up people, but Ah Yun was careful, and he arranged meals, bathing clothes, etc., so that the two of them could have a good rest after returning.

Ayun knew that those two people had struggled from the grasslands, so it goes without saying that it was a lot of hard work, so he went to the small kitchen in Shuaiying and asked the cook to start cooking.

The uncle cook in the legendary Taihe Building in the small kitchen, since Zong Shuo and A Tong left, never cooks on fire again. The general's personal guard told him to fire, and he rolled up from the old rocking chair, his eyes like lightning.

"came back?"

Ayun smiled and nodded, "I'm back."

In the Populus euphratica forest by the river outside the city, Ah Tong was welcomed back by Hei Feng and other dogs. After a long time, the dogs in the whole forest woke up and gathered around Ah Tong, not barking, but wagging their tails silently. close.

Zong Shuo looked at Xiao Ran and other cronies who were waiting far away on the other side of the river, waved slightly, and turned around to call Ah Tong who was licked by a dog.

Thus, the two people who had been away from the Central Plains for a long time were secretly opened the city gate by the brothers during the night and brought them back.

Zong Shuo's return this time is very meaningful. The strange poison on his body has been cured, which means that the situation of the world is about to change.

It’s just that Ah Tong doesn’t care about that much. In the front hall of the handsome tent, a group of people and Zong Shuo are chattering about what they are discussing all night, while in the quiet bedroom at the back, the teenager is lying on the table and eating hazelnuts. Even the chin is covered with oil.

The dog king Heifeng lay quietly at Ah Tong's feet, and Ah Yun and the scholar next to Ah Tong kept talking.

Especially the scholar, since Ah Tong left the barracks with the general and went to the grassland, he couldn't even sleep well the past few nights.

For a while, he dreamed that Ah Tong was set on fire by the prairie barbarians because he was different from ordinary people.For a while, I dreamed that this kid died of thirst in the Gobi, in short, it was just worrying.

At any rate, Ayun could vaguely know some information, but it was too strict to tell others, so he could only keep his mouth shut. Now that Zong Shuo came back, he had nothing to fear, so he hurriedly called the scholar over overnight.

As soon as Liu Hongfei entered the tent, he saw a room full of generals and commanders. He didn't dare to show his anger, so he quickly slipped into the main room at the back with Ayun. Tooth, he stood by the table in a lively manner, and called him "Little Bird".

The scholar said "Hey, hey" and slapped his thigh, "Little ancestor! I thought you were burned to death by barbarians and ate meat!"

A Tong was inexplicable, "The barbarians don't eat people. They only eat cattle and sheep, and they have never roasted people. The roasted leg of lamb is delicious."

The three of them looked at each other and smiled, and finally let go of their hearts, until the cook in the small kitchen happily served the dishes, Ah Tong had no time to talk anymore, and gave a thumbs up to the uncle cook while eating!

Ayun was busy serving food for the starving ghost, "Eat slowly! Even Heifeng eats more elegantly than you."

Ah Tong saw the big black dog slowly tearing a cooked chicken under his feet, and he handed the big bone of pork knuckle with meat to Hei Feng in a loyal manner.

While eating, he asked the two to eat too.

The scholar looked at Ah Tong left and right, "Eh?", then smacked his lips and said, "Ah Yun, look, this kid walked in the grassland once, he is neither dark nor thin, but he has gained a lot of weight!"

Ah Yun also took a look, then stretched out his hand to pinch Ah Tong's watery face, and then nodded.

"It can be seen that the general has taken good care of him."

Ah Tong nodded quickly after hearing this, took a sip of the pig's trotter soup and said, "Yes! Zong Shuo is very good, I am very satisfied."

Ayun laughed straight, "Hey, what are you satisfied with?"

Ah Tong didn't speak anymore, just laughed.

The scholar coughed, feeling slightly embarrassed. The two "brothers" of him joked with each other about the affairs of the room in front of him, but they really didn't regard themselves as outsiders. Of course, they might not regard themselves as men.

Moreover, seeing that His Highness and General Xiao didn't care about his appearance in the inner room, maybe the men of his "brothers" didn't regard themselves as men...

At this time, the scholar didn't know whether to be happy or worried.

The three gossiped for a while, and Ah Tong was full, but the scholar saw that the generals in the front hall hadn't finished their discussions, and it was hard for him to pass by the front hall and get out of the tent, so he continued chatting with the two of them.

As he talked, Ah Tong was still thinking about the ambition that the scholar once mentioned by chance.

"Little bird, aren't you going to take some champion exams? Go ahead, you can do it." Just based on this kind of talk, Ah Tong felt that the scholar had a hand!

"Well, I've thought about it too. Ah Yun also asked General Xiao Ran for my release order, but we still have a big battle with the barbarians. Although I am a scholar, I am willing to block it with my body!"

After hearing this, Ah Tong waved his hand, "Stop beating, it's okay, you can go to the exam at ease."

The scholar was amazed, dubious, and had been fighting for many years, how could he just stop?

And the situation is just as Ah Tong said, and not only did the war cease, but after some twists and turns, the border customs and the grassland slowly started to trade.

At first, they were small items, such as cloth and thread, but after a while, you can see the barbarians drive horses and yaks, or herbal kumiss from the grasslands, in exchange for a large amount of grain that can survive the winter and cotton clothes that can withstand the severe cold.

All of this was going on in secret, and the five princes in the court suppressed the news with one hand, and they gradually made peace.There is Zong Shuo at the border to control the two parties for the sake of fairness and security.

However, at the beginning, there were not many people who dared to buy and sell, and most of them were bought and transferred by the military.Just because the people in the border towns are still afraid of the barbarians on the grasslands.

But when the big guys saw that not only were there guards to ensure safety, but the grasslands were not all full of bloodthirsty Naiman big men, there were also many gentle and friendly tribes, and gradually they were able to trade on their own.

In this regard, simple markets and transit venues have gradually formed between the two places, and there are even caravans that dare to deliver goods to the grasslands.

It's just that the grassland is so big, there are still some bandits, they are more interested in the caravan transporting them, so Zong Shuo directly dispatched Ke Lie to start cleaning up the bandits, and at the same time ordered the sergeants to protect them along the way.

Even Ah Tong went to bet on the goods several times, and even relied on his natural animal instinct for roads and water sources, he even opened up a few easy routes, and asked the tribes of the grassland and the people of the Central Plains to make up a lot of jingles To boast, it probably means that the patron saint of Changshengtian came to protect the grassland and so on.

Perhaps in this winter, the grassland tribes can no longer suffer less hunger and cold, and more people can survive.The border town of the Central Plains also has enough cattle and horses to plow the fields, so that there will be a surplus of grain for a good harvest after the exorbitant tax.

This time there was a lot of commotion. In the end, when it was almost winter, Helian Zongshuo recovered from his illness and returned to the city, and took control of all the ministries in the grassland.

It's just that the old emperor no longer had any more room for turning back. The fifth prince who had always spoken softly and had a warm spring breeze grasped the court, and there was actually a voice of peace, and there was no rebuttal.

The emperor looked at Helian Tao who was kneeling outside the alchemy room, bowing his head respectfully and listening to the training, his muddy eyes flickered, and his heart was complicated.

"Over the years, I've misjudged you. You are a character." His biological mother's fifth prince, who came from a humble background, turned out to be a man with deep scheming and tough wrists.

"My son has followed my father's teachings for many years, put the people of the world first, and dare not be good at it."

"You are raising tigers!"

He Liantao lowered his eyebrows, "I don't know what my father said."

The old emperor was already very tired, he lay back on the bed made of gold, and looked deeply into the distance through the green smoke curling up from the alchemy furnace.

"You can't control him. You can't leave tigers around by the side of the couch."

After finishing speaking, he ignored He Liantao, who was impeccable in his words, and dismissed him with a wave of his hand.

The emperor murmured to the old eunuch beside him, "His life is too tough, I'm afraid I won't be able to survive it, I won't be able to survive it."

"it's time."

Hearing this, the old eunuch's downcast eyes flashed, but he respectfully didn't let anyone see it.