Chapter 89 [VIP] Bonfire

That day, Yueqing didn't even have any money, so he followed Xie Ji back to the station in a hurry. After returning, he remembered that he didn't give any money, so he asked someone to send it to the proprietress.

Yueqing stayed in the north for a month, except for the first few days when she came here, she rarely saw Xie Ji for the next half a month, and she didn't know if she was hiding from her on purpose or because she was too busy to take care of her.

She originally planned to go to the capital after staying for a month, but was stopped by Zhaoqing when she was packing her luggage, saying that she was going to spend the New Year in the north before leaving?

Yueqing originally didn't want to have any extra troubles, but Zhaoqing Sheng? dragged her and said she couldn't bear her to leave?

In the blink of an eye, it will be the fourth year of Zhaoyuan. Because it is always snowing, the Yanjun garrison in the north will always be only white and black, that is, only during the Chinese New Year will it be covered with a layer of red to set off the black tents., showing a bit of solemnity and celebration.

At first, I thought it was just a simple New Year's Eve with Zhaoqing, and there would be no other activities, but in this Wanjia? An unusual night, Zhaoqing dragged her to the military training place outside the camp, where there were a large number of people sitting there.Soldier.

They sat separately in front of different piles of bonfires. Someone set up a rack on the bonfire to roast beef and mutton. They were all wrapped in furs, and the fire reflected in their eyes.

Yue Qing, who was originally lazy, was a little dazed seeing this scene, and walked towards the crowd unconsciously, half-drawn by Zhaoqing.

Some people are singing hometown ditties, some are accompaniment to him with hearty smiles, and some are dancing swords along with his singing.

As soon as Yue Qing sat down beside Zhaoqing, a round mouth was stuffed into her arms? A small jug? She lowered her head in doubt, it was a jug of wine.

"Miss Xiao Yu, drink some wine, warm your body and you won't be cold." A strong guard with a beard said to Yue Qing.

Yueqing recognized him as Xie Ji's lieutenant general.

She nodded at the man and said with a smile, "Thank you, Vice General Chen."

Deputy General Chen has a daughter who is about the same age as Yueqing. Looking at Yueqing now is like looking at his own daughter. She smiles very kindly, making the little soldiers who were always scolded by him stunned.

Zhaoqing at the side called her to warm up by the fire, and Yueqing approached the fire with the wine pot, the heat filled her whole body in an instant, warmer than in the tent?

Feeling the benefits, she sat quietly by the campfire, with only a pair of eyes remaining on her face covered by the fur, staring at the burning campfire flickeringly.

There are still singing voices around, and singing the tunes of the hometown is always a big worry for wanderers outside. Dancing, fighting, punching, all? Gradually calm down?, listening to the song quietly.

I don't know the meaning of the song when I first hear it, but I am already in the song when I hear it again.

The local songs from different places can always bring up the full of sorrow.

"I miss my mother..." A soldier stationed on the border who looked only eighteen or nineteen years old suddenly said? Everyone looked at him.

He hid his face to block everyone's sight, and prevented everyone from seeing his expression, but his muffled voice had already leaked his mood completely.

"Yeah? I don't know what she's eating now. It must be that she doesn't even have oil lamps. She can't bear to light it. I'm afraid she will have to embroider all night again. I'm afraid she will burn her eyes."

He is only nineteen years old this year. He came to the border with the army when he was sixteen. He has not yet married a wife. He has an old mother at home, and he misses it day and night.

The soldiers around him were in the same situation as him. Hearing this, he thought of his relatives at home, and the surrounding was in a downturn. Someone sighed: "Also? I don't know when I can go home..."

Zhaoqing didn't react at all, he tossed the flagon in his hand casually, the person who was connected with him by blood has long since passed away, and they have come here for so many years, not to mention this year...

He looked sideways at the person who was warming the fire beside him, and the face between the boy and the young man became warmer.

This year there is Xiaoyu.

In front of her is her side face, her quiet appearance is completely different from before. The firelight hits her face, reflecting a dim yellow color, warm and peaceful.

Zhaoqing looked away, put the jug in his hand to his mouth, took a big gulp, the warm wine passed down his throat and fell into his heart, scalding him very comfortably.

"General? Haven't gone back yet, what are you thinking about here?" Deputy General Chen's rough voice broke the gloomy mood.

Yue Qing heard Xie Ji's name, his eyes moved slightly, and he looked around the entire training ground, only to realize that Xie Ji was not there.

"The general is only in his early twenties, and he has been guarding the northern border for almost four years. He has never returned home once, and he has never mentioned the matter of returning home. How can we, as subordinates, mention it?"?” Deputy General Chen drank too much wine, lost his usual calm appearance, and his voice became louder.

Yes, Xie Ji is only twenty-three years old...

Yue Qing's eyes narrowed slightly, but he didn't say much, still listening to their conversation quietly.

"Why doesn't the general go home? Doesn't he have any relatives?" A young guard asked puzzledly.

Deputy General Chen took another big gulp of the wine, the strong wine stinging his throat, and made him bark his teeth. He put his hand holding the jug on his lap, and under the expectant gazes, he said slowly: "GeneralThe son of Xie Rong, the former Weibei general, is also his biological nephew."

The little soldiers who didn't know Xie Ji's eyes widened. They thought that General Xie was the general of Zhenbei relying on his ability, but it turned out that he was also a son of a nobleman?

Actually? No wonder they thought this way, because Xie Ji's strategy and martial arts were excellent, giving people a feeling that he alone could stop thousands of troops, and subconsciously forgot his life experience.

Deputy General Chen gave the soldier closest to him a slap in the face, "Put away your thoughts of hating the rich."

"General, he is a general who relies on himself." His voice was a little distant, as if he remembered something far away.

Hearing this, the soldiers around were curious, scratching their heads and waiting for Vice General Chen's next words.

At this time, Zhaoqing tilted her head and asked Yueqing softly, "Are you tired? Do you want to go back and rest?"

Yue Qing shook his head, staring at Vice General Chen's face together with the others, waiting for him to continue talking.

Seeing this, Zhaoqing said no more, but just put another sip of wine into his mouth.

Deputy General Chen withdrew his gaze, lowered his head and took another sip of the wine, before saying, "Because the previous Majesty was stupid, now His Majesty, together with Taifu Qi, Lord Mu, and our general, turned against him, took his throne, and destroyed him."Zhou Liyan."

"But the general's uncle, the old general Xie, is the most loyal and patriotic person. The Xie family has always been a staunch royalist, but there is such an outlier as the general. The old general Xie took the Xie family back to his hometown in Huaizhou in a fit of anger.He said that he would never enter the capital again. But the general obtained His Majesty's will to attack Yi Dynasty, and brought a large army to the northern border. After defeating the four lost cities, plus the four border cities of Yi Dynasty, he made a petition to His Majesty.Let him be stationed in the northern border for three years."

Deputy General Chen seemed to have suddenly remembered something, poked his head and asked, "Do you still remember the time when the general captured the four cities of Yichao three years ago and Shangzuo was about to garrison the northern border?"

Some of the surrounding soldiers nodded, some shook their heads, and one of them said: "I remember that the general sat on the city wall all night, and wrote a note on the second day, and it didn't take long for it to come back? His Majesty promised the general to station in the north."the will of the environment.”

Deputy General Chen nodded slightly, agreeing with his words, "It is true, but what is the reason, do you know?"

Everyone shook their heads in bewilderment, no one knew why the general would stick to this lonely northern border despite his bright future.

On the opposite side, a slightly hoarse voice suddenly said, "Because the general met a fairy?"

"Fairy?" In the silence, someone couldn't help laughing out loud, "Where do fairies come from in this world?"

Everyone was amused by this thoughtless joke, are you going to laugh at that person's words sentence by sentence?

Amidst the laughter, someone's expression changed.

Deputy General Chen, who knew a thing or two about this matter, suppressed the laughter around him. He glanced at the soldier who had just made a noise, and recognized that he was a member of the soldier who accompanied the general on patrol back then.

The surroundings calmed down again. They all looked at Deputy General Chen, and saw that he pursed his lips slightly, as if he was debating whether to speak or not.

Someone started to boo, "Quickly, lieutenant general, don't get stuck here, is there really some kind of fairy? Could it be that Wang Wu is hallucinating?"

Wang Wu pursed his lips and sat quietly at the same spot, and said indignantly: "If you want to have hallucinations, it's because the general has hallucinations."

Yue Qing suddenly had a bad feeling about what Deputy General Chen was about to say, she clenched the hip flask tightly, and subconsciously sent it to her lips in a panic.

Deputy General Chen stopped them, let out a long sigh, and then talked about Xie Ji's past in a deep voice.

"The general just came? When the general came to the northern border, he was like a crazy wolf. He recklessly attacked the enemy. I followed him, and I was terrified to see it. That way of attacking the enemy by one thousand and self-defeating eight hundred, Life? Life? Fight with your life. Wherever the danger is, the general will go. At that time, I always had the illusion that the general was going to die..."

Zhaoqing curled her lips when she heard this, and took a plate of barbecue meat from the campfire, ready to hand it to Yueqing, when she suddenly saw that her face was not good, and just about to ask, she opened her mouth? Still didn't ask?

He glanced lightly at Deputy General Chen who was still talking about Xie Ji's past, stretched out his hand to gather the cloak on Yue Qing's body, and then quietly stayed aside, not saying much.

"I still remember that day, the general led a small group of soldiers to rush deeper into the north to check for any movement of the enemy. At that time, I had been walking in the snow for a long time, and I only remembered that my eyes were so white that they almost burned my eyes.The general asked us to go back, but we refused, and we still followed closely behind the general."

"At that time, he only stubbornly followed the general? Thinking about it now, the general... probably had the will to die." His voice was a little scared.

Everyone's eyes widened in disbelief, but they didn't dare to speak out easily, and they were still listening to Vice General Chen.

"We were walking aimlessly in that snow field. I don't know how long we had been walking. Suddenly, I seemed to hear a bell, which was not like the dull sound of a bell in a temple, nor?The crispness of the gong is like... a stream suddenly appeared in the mountains and forests, and the stones fell into the water, making the sound of splashes."

He described this voice very clearly, because it was his only memory of the strange scene that day.

"In a haze, I seemed to see a woman who was all white with only a little pink around her neck. She disappeared after a while. I thought it was just a hallucination. But the general just stood there in a daze,I can’t get back to my senses for a long time, but when I think about it now, in the eyes of the general at that time, it seemed that hope was reunited, shattered, and reunited... It’s frightening to see.”

Deputy General Chen felt terrified when he thought of the general's expression at that time, and he was so full of blood and tears, what kind of despair should it be...

"That night, the general watched the heavy snow outside, and stood on the city wall all night. On the second day, he sent an order to be stationed in the northern border. From then on, he never went to that dangerous place, as if he regained his life overnight.?The hope of..."

Deputy General Chen's voice was deep, and there was admiration and admiration in his eyes.

"Vice General Chen, is your story reliable? Are there really fairies? What does that fairy look like? Is it pretty?" A young soldier asked curiously.

Before Vice General Chen said anything, the soldier who said that Xie Ji met the fairy said immediately: "Of course it looks good! I have never seen anyone prettier than that fairy in my life, just like.....like..."

He suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and cast his eyes randomly, but he didn't dare to look at the woman in red opposite him, "...as beautiful as Miss Xiaoyu..."

Zhaoqing slapped him hard with a dark face, the man woke up instantly, his face flushed amidst the laughter, others began to push and push, "Wang Wu, you are so bold, this is clearly your dream, right?What about fairies... How many women have you seen in your life?"

Wang Wu started arguing with him, and the soldiers next to him were all watching, and the bonfire hit everyone's faces, creating warmth...

Everyone was laughing, only Yueqing suddenly turned pale.