For five months, Midnight spent five months of carefree and happy time with these brothers.
After Jiang Shang taught Zi Ye an entry-level rejuvenation surgery, he naturally became a man who only eats and does not work every day. In fact, Ziye and the others were really embarrassed to let a seventy-year-old man accompany them to farm fields or catch wild animals. Thinking of the legend of Jiang Taiwen's fishing, Ziye simply found a fishing rod for Jiang Shang and let him sit in the small corner every day. Fishing by the river. Of course, the fishhook must be curved so that they can still drink fresh fish soup every night.
One day, Ye Yu found a wooden stick in the village and practiced with the Shura Spear. This actually attracted bursts of cheers from a group of boys in Luofeng Village. Under their admiring eyes, Ye Yu actually formed a small group in Luofeng Village. The small rifle team undergoes three hours of special training every day.
On the first day of organizing them, Ye Yu pointed to the house behind him and said, "Did you see it? That's your home! Our Luofeng Village is caught between the Shang Dynasty and the Qiang Qi, and we have become a three-in-one." Zone. The Shang army is a little better. If the Qiang knights rush here, your relatives will have to rely on you to resist the enemy before they can escape into the mountains. Do you still have a way out? Can you still run away? If you are determined It doesn't matter if you shrink back and be chopped into two pieces by the enemy, but your family will also be killed! Your sisters, lovers and even your mothers will become pitiful creatures who keep moaning and wailing under the bodies of those Qiang beasts! Their final fate There is only one option, and that is to be gang-raped to death!!!¡±
It was quiet all around, and all the young people had a layer of blazing fire in their eyes. Ye Yu narrowed his eyes and stared at the children in front of him coldly, and said: "Remember, I am training you, not playing boring games with you! A man wants to protect his family and his peaceful life, We must have enough power to make the enemy pay the heaviest price, and beat them thoroughly. I am afraid of beating them so hard that my heart will tremble whenever I hear your voice! Now you are the garbage among the garbage. The only thing you can do is to follow me and practice, practice and practice. ! Squeeze out every drop of sweat in your body and squeeze out every ounce of strength in your body! If you can¡¯t support it, just get back home and hide in your mother¡¯s arms to be your good baby!¡±
No matter who it was, if he made a wrong move, Ye Yu would pick up a wooden stick and smash it over the head and face. It is said that during the training, no woman in the village dared to walk to the village square. The mothers of those children heard that Yeyu's roar will make his heart beat with fear.
Every day, these children were beaten until they were covered in bruises. While Ziye generously provided them with adequate nutrition and protein supplements, he also took the opportunity to practice his introductory rejuvenation skills. Injured and then healed, healed and injured again, after several months of this, not one of the thirty-four teenagers quit training! Later, when I walked through the square at midnight, I saw these thirty-four teenagers lined up in a neat square of spearmen, sweating profusely and trying hard to stab the wooden spears in their hands, and I felt frightened. In just five months, these teenagers have developed a tacit understanding and sense of oppression as a team.
As for Yang Huai, he was even more mysterious every day. Either he locked himself in a newly built thatched house for several days without eating or drinking, or he just walked away with a large piece of barbecue and disappeared for several days. When Ziye asked him what he was doing, Yang Huai always smiled and replied: "I'm looking for a way home!"
Time is like a light shuttle, passing quickly.
One afternoon, when Ziye and Eilai returned to Luofeng Village carrying the prey they had caught from the mountains, they saw a dozen fast horses and a dozen soldiers carrying weapons.
They were all wearing Shang Dynasty military uniforms, and one of them, who looked like a team leader, was wearing a bronze chest protector. In the Shang Dynasty, where the smelting industry was underdeveloped, this was already a symbol of status and honor. Although Ziye didn't know what official position the two blood-red feathers on the leader's helmet represented, there was a five-foot-long Lei pattern sword slung around his waist. Ziye once saw this kind of weapon in a national first-class cultural relics museum. The staff at the time told them that this was a standard weapon that only generals above the squadron leader of the Shang Dynasty army were qualified to wear!
These dozen soldiers had obviously traveled a long distance. Both their armor and their mounts were covered with mud. Everyone looked tired. Even after entering Luofeng Village, their right hands were still tight. Holding their weapons, they looked around vigilantly, as if they were afraid that a group of enemies would jump out from somewhere and kill them.
The squadron leader took out a bronze token from his arms and said: "I am Dongbohou Sitting down the squadron leader Chang Feng. I am recruiting soldiers under military orders. Men from your village between the ages of fourteen and fifty-five. , as long as you are not disabled or weak, you must follow me!"
The village chief had never seen an officer as big as the squadron leader in his life. He didn't even dare to raise his head. When he heard Sufeng's order, he said in a trembling voice: "Even a fourteen-year-old child and a fifty-five-year-old man Also have to enlist in the army? "
Ziye sighed secretly in his heart. Fifty coppers could only buy fifty sesame cakes, not even a wolf skin. In the eyes of those dignitaries, the lives of civilians like them were so low. And the scope of this recruitment was to catch up with almost all the men in Luofeng Village, even the fourteen-year-old children and the fifty-five-year-old old man were not spared.
Suan Feng raised the roster made of bamboo slips in his hand and called his names one by one. Of course seventeen-year-old Erai was also on the roster, and he was also past the age to enlist in the army!
Evilai was led to Suan Feng, and when he saw him cheerfully reaching out to receive the fifty copper coins to buy his life, Ziye sighed and slowly walked over.
Suddenly Feng glanced at Ziye and saw a look of surprise flashing through his eyes when he saw Ziye's tall figure, which was far beyond ordinary people. In this day and age, very few people were six feet tall.
"May I have your name?"
"Ao Ziye!"
Suanfeng flipped through the roster of Luofeng Village and asked doubtfully: "Why is there not your name on it?"
Ziye pointed at Evilai and said, "I am his brother-in-law and his third brother!"
Suddenly Feng nodded slightly, and a soldier who looked like a quartermaster next to him immediately stuffed a bunch of copper coins into Ziye's hand. He patted Midnight's strong body with envy and said, "Work hard. With your body, you can participate in the selection with a little training. If you are selected to be the Marquis' personal guard, you will not only be able to live longer than others." , and it will be easier for you to perform meritorious service and get into an official position. Maybe it won¡¯t be long before I have to salute you and call you sir!¡±
Yang Huai also walked up to Sufeng and stood side by side with Ziye. He opened his hands to the quartermaster and said, "My name is Yang Huai. Please bring me my life money!"
"Your name is not on the roster either!"
Yang Huai looked at Ziye and said, "I am his brother!"
Ziye said softly: "Thanks, brother!"
Brother, he is calling me brother!
A warm current rose up in Yang Huai's heart. He grabbed Ziye's hand and said, "On the battlefield, I am the most trustworthy shield behind you, Third Brother! Believe me, I will never flinch again this time, let alone I will let you, Third Brother, face the enemy¡¯s weapons alone again!!!¡±
"Don't forget, there is me!"
Yeyu strode up to Ziye and said proudly: "On the battlefield, I am the sharpest sword in your hand! No matter who wants to hurt you, they must let my sword break and kill them first!!!"
"They have both shields and swords. How can I, an old guy like me, who is seventy years old, still have the strength to lift such a heavy weapon?" Jiang Shang squeezed in front of Ziye and said pitifully: "Well, let me Can I be the medicine chest in your hand?"
Ziye rubbed her nose gently, not knowing why it was so sore.
An arm wrapped around Ziye from behind. Although it was gentle, it locked Ziye firmly. It put a love lock on him that he could not break free for the rest of his life. Xiu'er whispered: "I am nothing, I am just Ziye's wife!"
A few tears soaked into Ziye's clothes, slowly burning the warm feeling into the deepest part of Ziye's heart. Xiu'er pressed her face tightly against Ziye's generous back. She listened to Ziye's powerful heartbeat. She desperately absorbed the warmth that this man conveyed to her. Xiu'er sobbed: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I know you didn't want to If you need to go to the battlefield, I know you took the fifty copper coins to buy your life just for evil, but please don't leave me alone?!"
"I don't want to just watch you join the army, and I don't want to wake up from nightmares every day! I know that I have been committed to you for the rest of my life. If you live, I will live, and if you die, I will die! I know that I can't be like you. I still pick up a weapon and go into battle to kill the enemy. I don¡¯t have Brother Jiang¡¯s magic spells. I¡¯m just an ordinary little woman, but I can be a cook. I know a little bit about herbal medicine. I can also help Brother Jiang go to the wounded soldiers. treat."
Xiu'er finally couldn't help but burst into tears: "I just want you to remember that there is a pair of eyes behind you. The moment you fall on the battlefield, that's when your little woman kills herself with a sword! If you die, I die! You live, I live! So, for me, you must live well every day! You must come out of the battlefield alive!! Even if you are disabled, blind, deaf, or mute, I only want you to live. Come back to me!!!"
The tears in Xiu'er's eyes gushed out crazily, instantly soaking a large piece of clothes on Ziye's back. The desperate cry, the finger-twirling tenderness from the deepest heart, combined with the unyielding blood in Ziye's body, The pain in his heart was burning and boiling bit by bit!
It wasn¡¯t until this moment that Ziye suddenly understood that he had integrated into this century and that it was bound to come to an end.The troubled times that have come are inextricably linked! He can no longer use the standpoint of a bystander to evaluate this period of time and space in history, and he can no longer use the mentality of traveling in the world to choose his own life!
Because he already has a family and his most beloved woman!
He returned his arms and hugged Xiu'er tightly, channeling his strength into her thin body. Looking at the group of sworn brothers standing around him, he felt their unreserved support and absorbed the warmth and strength of friendship. Midnight only felt a scorching flame in his chest getting stronger and stronger. It was so hot that he just wanted to laugh three times, and it was so hot that he just wanted to sing and cry.
Happy, so *** happy! There is only one spring in the life, a wife is like this, and a friend is like this, so why should he regret that his proud son died at night? !
It hurts, it really hurts, it hurts my heart! The sorrow of living in troubled times, the sorrow of being unable to protect his woman, made Midnight heartbroken!
Ziye suddenly laughed wildly. He laughed and cried at the same time. He shook away the tears from the corners of his eyes and screamed wildly: "Who said I would die in this damn place? Who am I? I am the funniest. Ao Ziye, who is called the demon cat with nine lives! Isn't it just to go to the battlefield? Who can't kill someone with a knife? Isn't it just that I am living in troubled times and can't protect my woman? Why should I, Ao Ziye, stand proudly? Between heaven and earth, why should you be a man?!"
Midnight laughed almost crazily. Even he himself didn't understand why there was such a heart-breaking pain deep in his heart, why there was a vague shadow deep in his heart, constantly lingering in his heart. No matter how hard he thought or tried to recall, his mind was blank. All he could capture was pain!
In his life, it seems that he has lost one of the most precious things!
Ziye held Xiu'er tightly with his left arm, and held on to Erai with his right arm. He glared at Suan Feng and said, "I don't care about anything anymore. Either let us all serve as soldiers, or you won't be able to take any of us away!" "
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That night, a sprig of mugwort exuding a light fragrance was hung in front of the door of almost all thatched houses in Luofeng Village. The whole village was immersed in an atmosphere of sadness, and there were cries full of sadness everywhere.
Ziye took Xiuer and Erai and delivered the animal skins and bacon they had accumulated over the year to every house in Luofeng Village. They no longer needed these things.
Yeyu heard a burst of suppressed crying from a boy. She walked out of the room and saw a boy she had trained personally squatting there outside the courtyard wall.
Yeyu asked: "Heizi, why don't you go home and say goodbye to your family, but you hide here and cry?"
"I'm about to go to the battlefield!" Heizi raised his face with tears in his eyes and whispered: "But I have no family, and I don't even have anyone to see me off!"
Yeyu led Heizi to her room. According to the tradition of Luofeng Village, she brought mugwort to Heizi and whispered: "You must remember this smell well. If you really die on the battlefield, If you go there, you must find this familiar smell, and then follow this smell to find your own home!"
Yeyu hung the wormwood on the eaves of her door. She gently stroked Heizi's short hair and said softly: "Remember, from now on, this is your home!"
Heizi threw herself into Yeyu's arms and cried loudly. Yeyu patted Heizi's shoulder comfortingly. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart. In a war that swept the entire earth, a person's life seemed so insignificant. ah!
At dawn, more than 150 men from the village who were to be drafted into the army gathered in the square. Among them were fourteen-year-old children and old men with gray beards.
Suan Feng glanced at the woman who was seeing him off and said: "Let's go, we have to walk more than 130 miles of mountain roads today. If we can't get to the military camp before dark, we will easily be attacked by Qiang rangers while camping in the wild. s attack."
As he walked out of Luofeng Village with almost all the strong labor force in Luofeng Village, there were bursts of crying behind him, and suddenly Feng whispered in his heart: "I'm sorry!"