Su Moxiu took Zhang Erque out of the door. They brought all their weapons, but did not ride a horse.

There are not many animals that are still active outside in winter, and they are all very alert. The movement of the horses walking in the woods is too loud, which will alarm them.

In addition, the terrain of the mountains and forests is complex, and there is snow. If you ride a horse into the mountain, if the horse accidentally steps into a small pit or stone crevice, it may break its legs.

The Zhenbei Army lacks horses, and horses are very, very important to them. They would rather starve themselves than starve a horse, so naturally they will not let the horse run into danger easily.

Before, they would be dispatched on horseback, also because they were walking on the business road opened up by the merchants who did business with the Rong people in the past.

Su Moxiu stepped deep and shallow in the snow, moving forward carefully, carefully observing the traces on the snow.

His nose was a little red from the cold, his lips were tightly pursed, his eyes focused and his expression solemn.

Zhang Erque was infected by such an atmosphere, and followed behind him lightly without saying a word.

Su Moxiu suddenly stopped.

At the same time, some animal jumped out from under a dead tree in front!

It's a snow rabbit!

Su Moxiu drew a bow and an arrow, shot one arrow, and then took out the second arrow while running.

His first arrow failed, but he surprised Xuetu, causing him to change his escape route in a panic, and the second arrow landed in front of Xuetu again!

The Xuetu, who was in a panic, bumped around everywhere, Su Moxiu rushed up and jumped up, and the Xuetu was crushed by him.

"Second Young Master! You are amazing!" Zhang Erque looked at Su Moxiu with admiration.

He and Su Moxiu fought with real swords on the battlefield, and he could definitely knock Su Moxiu down, but in things like hunting, he couldn't compare to Su Moxiu - he learned to kill.

Su Moxiu bundled the snow rabbit who was knocked unconscious by himself and put it into a sheepskin bag, relaxed a lot, and smiled shyly: "It's a fluke."

"Rabbit meat is really fragrant..." Zhang Erque swallowed, "Second Young Master, shall we go back?"

"Look again," Su Moxiu said, "there are too many of us, and one rabbit is not enough to eat."

Just one rabbit is not enough, Zhang Erque followed behind Su Moxiu and continued to walk forward.

Su Moxiu took a few breaths, and the water mist spread out in front of him. After thinking for a long time, he finally asked Zhang Erque: "Erque, what do you think of Yanjing...?"

"Yan Jingze?" Zhang Erque was a little puzzled, and suddenly remembered, "Second Young Master, are you talking about that little white face?"

"En." Su Moxiu replied in a low voice.

Zhang Erque said, "I think he's quite pitiful. I guess he was tossed miserably on the Rong side. Alas, a big man has encountered such a thing... It's too miserable!"

Zhang Erque was very sympathetic to Yan Jing. Yan Jing has fine skin and tender flesh. His face is well maintained, but his body is full of wounds. He must have been used as a woman by the Rong people.

"On the Rong people's side... Does anyone really like men?" Su Moxiu asked.

"Let's not talk about the Rong people, there are people in our Zhenbei Army who like men! You should have met Er Shao, right?" Zhang Erque said.

"I saw it..." Su Moxiu hesitated.

"Second Young Master, don't you think it's weird too? Some people like men! I don't know what they think! Even if I can't find a partner, I'm not interested in stinky men!" Zhang Erque said.

Su Moxiu glanced at the smelly Zhang Erque, closed his mouth, and didn't tell Zhang Erque that there should be a pit in front of him.

"Ouch!" Zhang Erque was accidentally tripped, and he got up and patted his clothes, complaining, "It's really hard to walk in this snow!"

Su Moxiu continued to move forward, pretending to ask casually, "You said... he took the initiative to let me rob me, what does it mean?"

Zhang Erque was still patting the snow on his body, and said while patting: "I just want us to take him and give him food and drink! It is estimated that I used to use my body to exchange things, but I can't change it."

Su Moxiu was thoughtful.

Zhang Erque said again: "He can't be like this, he is a big man, how can he think about relying on others all day long! When I go back, I must teach him and let him know what men are like! Speaking of which, Although he only knows that crying is no good, he is so tall! Practice hard, and he will definitely be a good soldier in the future."

Su Mo Xiu said: "Stop, there seems to be prey ahead!"

Zhang Erque did not speak.

Su Moxiu didn't actually see the prey, he just had some things to think about.

He was born at the border and likes to solve cases. He has seen all kinds of messy things in recent years.

He had seen a man who had his son beaten to death and agreed to reconcile with a bag of grain.

He has seen a woman who betrayed herself for a bite and was accidentally killed by a group of people.

He has also seen many old people who are trying to end their own lives in order not to drag their children down.

There are a lot of things like this when a man is with a man.

The border is bitter and cold, and many people can't eat enough. To them, their own lives are nothing, dignity? What is this?

Yan Jing is this person... no matter what he was like in Daqi before, if he can speak the Rong language so fluently, he must have been in the territory of the Rong people for many years.

The Rong people have always been bad to the Han slaves they robbed, and they would beat them at every turn.

Yan Jing was abused by the Rong people for several years, and he was injured. He may have been used to using his body in exchange for certain things, so he let him rob and seduce him again.

Su Moxiu felt a little distressed and decided to help a group of Yan Jingze so that Yan Jingze could lead a normal life.

But even if you are a soldier, the sword has no eyes, it is too dangerous.

Su Moxiu walked for a while, and his eyes suddenly fell on a certain tree.

He took out his dagger and dug up the trunk of the tree.

After the trunk was dug, a hole was revealed, and the hole was... full of shelled hazelnuts.

"It's hazelnuts!" Zhang Erque was beaming, and quickly took a leather bag to put it in, and was a little puzzled: "How come there are hazelnuts in the tree hole? Someone hides it here?"

"It should have been hidden by the squirrel." Su Mo said, Zhang Erque's family was originally a farmer, but after joining the army, he has been a soldier all the time. He doesn't know anything about the mountains and forests, but he likes to talk to all kinds of people People chat and like to run around, and they know a lot of things.

Squirrels would hide food in tree trunks, and mice would hide food in their own holes. There was a famine more than ten years ago, and the farmer that he had befriended with him survived by digging a mouse hole.

It was a pleasant surprise that they could find some hazelnuts.

It was getting dark, but Su Moxiu didn't find any other prey. He sat down against a tree: "Let's go back after a while."

Walking in the snow is very tiring, Zhang Er nodded and found a place to sit down.

After sitting down, Su Moxiu took out a piece of tree root from his arms and chewed it in his mouth.

The bitter taste spreads in the mouth, the whole world is quiet, only the wind is left.

At this time, a bird suddenly emerged from the bushes nearby.

When Su Moxiu brought Zhang Erque back, he brought about five catties of hazelnuts in their shells, as well as a hare and an unknown bird.

This time, Su Moxiu came out to find Zhou Jingshan. In addition to Zhang Erque and Cai An, he also brought ten other people. Together with Yan Jingze, they had a total of fourteen big men.

This amount of food is definitely not enough for fourteen people, but if everyone drinks a bowl of broth, it should be much better tonight.

As for later...

They are all big men. They were able to eat and drink enough in Zhenbei Army before.

Only Yan Jingze...

Yanjing had been sparring with the Rong people for several years, and was hungry for a few days.

Tomorrow, he will come out and look again to see if he can find anything to eat.

When Su Moxiu returned to their temporary residence, he saw Yan Jingze sitting at the door at a glance.

Yan Jing still wrapped himself up tightly.

On his head was a top cap, made of sheepskin rolled into a cone and sewn only halfway up. After putting it on the head, the suture is in the front, the face can be exposed from the unsewn below, and the ears, etc., will be wrapped again.

This kind of hat is often worn by the Rong people to keep warm. Su Moxiu always thought it was ugly, but Yan Jing was really good-looking and looked very handsome when he wore it.

Wait, is he dizzy?

Yan Jing covered his face with a cloth towel and couldn't see his face at all. Why did he think this man was handsome?

Su Moxiu thought so, and then met Yan Jingze's eyes.

Yan Jingze's eyes curled up, he pulled off the mask and smiled at him: "You guys are back."

Just like when they first met, Su Moxiu felt that something exploded in his mind, and he couldn't remember anything for a while.

"Second Young Master caught a rabbit! Really, there are almost no living creatures in the forest in this ghostly weather. We have been busy for a long time and only caught a rabbit and a bird." Zhang Erque's loud voice sounded.

The people in the room rushed out all of a sudden—rabbit! There are rabbits!

A group of people crowded between Yan Jingze and Su Moxiu.

Yan Jingze: "..."

Su Moxiu woke up all of a sudden, and coughed lightly, "You guys clean up and stew the rabbit."

The fire in the house was still on, and tea was still being boiled on it.

The black tea mixed with Yan Jingze's face-wiping suet gave off a strong fragrance.

Well, this camellia is not fragrant, but they are very hungry, so it smells good.

The rabbits and birds were quickly cleaned up, and the bones were chopped into small pieces and thrown into the pot. Jiujiu also grabbed a handful of beans for horses and threw them in: "Originally, we can eat six or seven of our horse food. God, but Xiaohua's appetite is too big... I'm afraid that in another four days, we will have nothing to predict."

Let the horse run in the snow in the winter, the horse will be very tired and must eat something good, so when they went out a month ago, they brought a lot of horse food, usually in addition to the hay they can find on the road. , and give them a nutritious horse feed.

But now, the horse feed is almost finished.

"In three days, we'll go back." Su Mo Xiu said. The place where General Zhou disappeared is nearby. He will look around again in the past few days, find some evidence, and then go back.

As for General Zhou himself... Thinking of the tattered clothes and gnawed bones left by Zhou Jingshan's guards when they found them all the way to the grassland, he didn't think Zhou Jingshan was still alive.

Uncle Zhou died, and his father was afraid that he would be very sad.

About ten years ago, Su Moxiu met Zhou Jingshan once. He remembered that Zhou Jingshan was a generous and generous person, and he was a good opponent of soldiers. He never expected that such a person would be betrayed by his subordinates and died in a foreign country with no bones left.

Su Moxiu's mood was a little down, and he silently drank the sheep oil tea in his hand.

At this time, Zhang Erque said: "Er Shao catches today's prey, Er Shao hasn't had porridge before, this rabbit's heart, give it to Er Shao!"

"Yes, it should be given to Second Young Master." Others responded in succession, and the person in charge of cutting the meat stopped cutting the rabbit liver and rabbit heart, and threw the whole thing into the pot.

In the past, Su Moxiu would definitely refuse, but at this moment he was stunned, and he didn't refuse in the end.

Everyone was hungry. Although they knew that the rabbit meat would be more fragrant when stewed for a longer time, they still couldn't help but open the pot early to divide the meat.

This time, it was divided into fourteen bowls on average. In addition, the rabbit liver, rabbit heart and bird heart, which were no more than the size of an egg, were packed separately and given to Su Moxiu.

Su Moxiu put the things aside and drank the soup slowly.

Yan Jing is also drinking soup.

When these people cook soup, they are reluctant to remove the foam, so that the soup has no color and fragrance, but it can fill their stomachs.

They drank the soup, nibbled the meat off the bones, and finally chewed the bones to pieces, eating what they could eat, and sucking up the marrow before spitting out what they couldn't swallow.

Yan Jing saw that Su Moxiu was drinking this kind of soup with relish, and couldn't help feeling distressed. He leaned over and said, "Second Young Master, when I'm healthy, I'll cook something delicious for you. I'm good at cooking."

"Okay." Su Moxiu's heart moved - would it be good to take Yanjing back to cook for himself?

Yan Jing said again: "Second Young Master, I'm a little afraid of the dark, can I sleep next to you at night?"

Yan Jing's words were not heard by those who were far away, but Zhang Erque and Cai An were close enough to hear them.

Cai An frowned, disapproving very much, while Zhang Erque said contemptuously, "You are so old, are you afraid of the dark?"

However, Su Moxiu and Zhang Erque said almost at the same time, "Yes."

Zhang Erque originally wanted to say that Yanjing was not like a man, but when he heard Su Moxiu agree, he could only swallow the words inexplicably.

Cai An was actually a little worried that Yanjing would be detrimental to Su Moxiu, but Su Moxiu agreed... Should the second young master of his family want to stare at Yan Jingze himself?

Cai An changed the subject: "It's really thanks to Er Shao, otherwise I'd be too hungry to sleep tonight!"

Everyone was tired. After arranging a vigil for three people, they would find a place to sleep by the fire in twos and threes, while the horses stood outside them.

Yan Jing lay beside Su Moxiu.

He had been holding back a lot of energy before, but now he went to a safe place, had enough to eat and drink, and found Su Moxiu.

"Heaven Comes"

But he refrained from sleeping.

Night is very suitable for small movements, when Su Moxiu falls asleep...

Before Yan Jing moved to Su Moxiu's side, Su Moxiu suddenly stretched out a hand and touched his mouth.

Yan Jing opened his mouth subconsciously, and then something was stuffed in his mouth.

It's a rabbit heart.

Yan Jing opened his eyes and looked at Su Moxiu opposite.

Su Moxiu took out another piece of rabbit liver and stuffed it into Yan Jingze's mouth.

In the evening, Su Moxiu fed him the food he saved...

Yan Jing's brows and eyes curved, holding Su Moxiu's fingers.

The fire in the house was not extinguished, but in order to keep warm, the ground burned more vigorously.

The two of them slept in the corner, covered in sheepskins, and the watchers couldn't see their little movements, but they could see each other's expressions.

Su Moxiu opened his eyes wide and looked in shock at Yan Jingze, who looked particularly attractive under the flickering light, but he didn't have the strength to withdraw his hand.