Chapter 2 Chapter Two Love

Li Cheng looked listless, and kept mumbling: "Why is the army leaving as soon as they say it? When I woke up, the camp was empty." I saw that he really had no intention of teaching me how to ride a horse, so I thought about practicing alone. This time I was not so impatient, and slowly got used to the horse, and ran slowly without falling down.After walking all morning, Li Cheng still sat on the ground in a daze with a sad face. I jumped off the horse and went to his side to tease him, but he was always depressed, asking ten questions before he answered absently. "You must take revenge?"

Li Cheng nodded heavily: "If I don't personally kill a few Huns to comfort the souls of my parents and sisters, I will never do anything in my life. I will definitely..." His eyes filled with tears again: "I must take revenge!" I watched him go out of his mind for a while, and he was another man who had the vengeance of killing his father: "Little master, if you fight with me and you don't lose within a hundred moves, I will help you beg the general to fight next time." The Huns take you with them." Li Cheng raised his head and looked at me: "A man keeps his word?"

I solemnly nodded, Li Cheng immediately stood up, drew his waist knife, and looked at me. I posed casually, and asked, "Will the Huns wait for you to attack him?" He shouted and immediately swung his knife at me. If my martial arts is practiced against others, it is very likely that I will lose, but if it is a life-and-death fight, the opponent is more likely to die.There is no such thing as physical fitness among wolves, only the skill of killing prey.The moves I know are all used to kill the enemy, the moves are fierce, and I try to kill the opponent with the most energy-saving method, so I never really use my martial arts, this is the first time I really attack a person.

Li Cheng was a bit restrained at first, but after a few moves, I almost broke his arm holding the knife, and I didn't even blink.He didn't dare to hold back any more, and he was forced to move fiercely by me. At fifty-one moves, I jumped up to avoid the blade he was cutting towards my legs, and took advantage of the situation to grab his eyes with two fingers. He leaned back, swinging the knife as hard as he could to avoid it, I kicked his wrist, and the knife flew out of his hand. I clapped my hands and fell back to the ground lightly. Looking at Li Cheng who was half kneeling on the ground, I said, "I'll put in more strength. Your hand is already useless. The Huns will definitely not be reluctant to give up this little strength."

Li Cheng picked up the saber without saying a word, and slashed at it without saying a word.I laughed, a child can be taught!There is only life and death, no comity! For six days, apart from practicing horse riding, I was fighting with Li Cheng.He was very stubborn. I hit him on the nose once, but he didn't care about the bleeding from his nose and the tears welling up. He kept his eyes wide open and slashed seven times. The last one cut off my entire sleeve.However, it's a pity that he only lasted eighty-seven moves. When I yelled "Okay" and punched him mercilessly in the nose, he shook twice and fell to the ground.

In six days, Huo Qubing led 10,000 cavalry. As soon as they left Longxi, they advanced quickly with lightning speed, adopted long-distance, maneuvering and roundabout tactics to outflank the enemy's flanks and rear, and ran rapidly continuously.Relying on the strategy of replenishing food and grass on the spot and taking food from the enemy, the lone army interspersed in the enemy's territory, traveling thousands of miles as if entering an uninhabited territory. In just six days, the army led by Huo Qubing was like the most violent wind in the desert, sweeping through the five kingdoms of the Xiongnu, defeating the tribes of Xiutu and Hunxie kings, crossing Yanzhi Mountain to cover nearly a thousand miles to the northwest, killing King Zhelan, beheading King Luhou captured Prince Hunxie, Xiangguo, and Duwei, and beheaded more than 89,000 Xiongnu.In this battle, the most beautiful Yanzhi Mountain of the Huns was included in the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the territory of the Han Dynasty expanded westward again.

The advantages of fast assault and maneuverability of the cavalry that the Huns were most proud of disappeared under Huo Qubing's thousands of miles of thunder. Huo Qubing's first expedition as the coach led the army, which greatly shocked the entire Huns.Although the battle was fierce and the casualties were heavy, 10,000 people went there, and only 3,000 people came back alive, but this was the first time that the cavalry of the Han people fought fast and won a complete victory. The first victory on horseback, although I don't know if there will be no one in the future, but it is indeed unprecedented.

I sat in the house and listened to the cheers from far away in the camp. This battle was very successful. The emperor must have rewarded the whole army, and everyone who came back alive must be smiling. As soon as the door was pushed open, Huo Qubing was already standing in front of me.Covered in smoke and dust, his face was full of tiredness, but his brows and eyes were full of flying joy.I smiled and stood up: "I thought you would drink the celebration wine first!" He didn't say a word, just looked at me with a warm smile.Avoiding his eyes, I tried my best to calmly say, "I'm afraid I haven't gotten off a horse for seven days, so let's take a bath first!"

As soon as my words fell, he fell straight on the couch. I was so scared that I hurried to help him. He held my hand and said vaguely: "No, I have to sleep before the sky falls." .” As he spoke, the snoring sounded. I pulled out my hand, but instead of pulling it away, he subconsciously clenched it even tighter.I sighed softly and sat next to him.The lower end of the black robe was covered with dark red marks, and there were also many cuffs, and there was a strange smell floating around.I leaned over him and smelled it. The smell of horse sweat mixed with blood rushed straight to my forehead, so I covered my nose and avoided it.

Pulling off the blanket and covering him up, she looked at him sadly.From the very first day of the sun to the total darkness, he slept like a dead pig, motionless. I tried hard to break his hand away, but he actually knew how to open me with his backhand in the dream. Now I really believe what he said that he fell asleep while riding the horse.Looking at him like this, he can kill enemies while sleeping. Then I couldn't bear it any longer, looked at the ground, it was covered with thick woolen carpet, I simply lay down on the ground next to the couch, put some corners of the blanket on my body, and closed my eyes to sleep.The unpleasant smell kept lingering around my nose, I thought about it for a while with a headache, and groped for a scented veil to cover my face, only then did I feel calm and fell asleep peacefully.

The moment Huo Qubing took off the veil on my face, I woke up.With the bright sunshine in the room and a brighter smiling face above my head, I was a little dazed for a while, and fixedly looked at him. "I haven't seen me for a long time, do you miss me a little?" He still held my hand in one hand and held the handkerchief in the other, stroking my face with the corner of the handkerchief. I waved my hand and opened the veil: "As soon as you come back, I will sleep on the ground, and I will miss you only when I am sick!" "It's such a big couch, why don't you sleep on it?" He said and was about to drag me onto the couch. As I pushed him, I said, "Dream your Spring and Autumn Dream!" While the two of them were shoving, my head fell on his shoulder, and I hurriedly covered my nose and shouted: "Please, Mr. Huo, stop playing. It stinks, go take a shower, it suffocated me last night one night." He raised his arm and sniffed: "Does it stink? Why didn't I smell it? If you smell it carefully, you must have made a mistake." As he spoke, he forced his arm to my nose, and I scolded while hiding: "You deliberately play tricks." During the tugging, he laughed and rolled over from the couch. I couldn't dodge in time, but was pressed under him, the atmosphere changed suddenly, and the two of them fell silent instantly.He stared at me, breathing gradually became heavy, I wanted to look away, but just stared at him, my heart beat faster and faster.His face slowly bent down, and my body became tighter and tighter. Just as his lips were about to touch me, "Brother Jin, aren't you going to learn how to ride a horse today? Ah..." Li Cheng screamed, and just rushed After entering the room, he immediately jumped out, closing the door in a hurry and saying in a trembling voice, "I didn't see anything, I really didn't see anything..." The moment the door was pushed open by Li Cheng, my bewitchment was released immediately, I turned my head away abruptly, my cheek seemed to brush Huo Qubing's lips, but it didn't seem to.Huo Qubing punched the ground fiercely, his annoyance still persisted, and he suddenly laughed again: "Yu'er, you can't hide." I couldn't tell what it was like, so I pushed him without saying a word, motioning for him to get out of the way, and he immediately stood up with his hands on his hands, but I lay there without moving, staring blankly at the roof. Huo Qubing smiled and said, "I'm going to take a bath, and I'll check how your horse is doing. It shouldn't disappoint me." He walked for a while before I got up to wash up like a wandering soul.After pouring cold water on his face, he became somewhat awake, his face was buried in the veil, and his mind was disturbed. "Brother Jin." Li Cheng called out extremely carefully from behind. I turned to look at him, and said listlessly: "After breakfast, we will go to practice horse riding." While eating, Li Cheng carefully looked at me: "Brother Jin, if you feel sad, we don't want to practice today." I looked up at him, and suddenly realized what was going on in his mind. The pancakes in my mouth almost spewed out, coughed several times, and slapped him on the head: "I'm young, I don't want to think about how to practice kung fu well." , what are you thinking about?" Li Cheng rubbed his head aggrievedly.One eye is big, the other is small, the nose is black and blue, the mouth is crooked, and the face of a pig is full of sympathy. I was afraid of choking myself, so I didn't dare to eat anymore, so I put down the pancake in my hand and concentrated on laughing.Thinking about not being able to cast a shadow on Li Cheng's heart when he was young: "It was purely a misunderstanding just now. The general and I were fighting. The general is not as bad as your martial arts. Naturally, we are evenly matched. When we were fighting close to each other, we were accidentally killed. Wrestled and fell to the ground, you just ran into it, so it was a misunderstanding." Children are really easy to coax. After hearing this, Li Cheng immediately became happy, finished eating the pancake in his hand, and yelled that he would fight me again today. When Huo Qubing arrived, Li Cheng and I had just pulled the horse out.Huo Qubing looked at me, who was refreshed, and then at Li Cheng, whose face was swollen like a pig's head, and couldn't help asking, "If you are dissatisfied with ordering him to teach you how to ride a horse, don't you need to beat him like this?" I pouted and didn't answer, Li Cheng hurriedly replied: "Brother Jin is teaching me Kung Fu, not beating me." Huo Qubing gave me a slightly surprised look: "Teaching Kung Fu? If the master teaches his apprentices like this, who else would dare to learn Kung Fu?" I patted the horse's back and got on the horse: "I only know this method of teaching, let him learn to be flexible between life and death. There are no moves, and some are just a blow to kill the opponent." Huo Qubing smiled, got on his horse and told Li Cheng, "You don't need to teach her how to ride a horse today, go back and rest!" Li Cheng answered "Yes" in a low voice, drooped his head, and walked back slowly. I raised my voice and said, "Go back and fight with the big brothers who just left the battlefield. The bloody smell in their bones has not dissipated yet." , as long as you have the ability to force out the fierceness in their hearts, after the fight, you will definitely get a lot of money." Li Cheng turned his head, shouted "Okay" happily, and ran away in a hurry. Huo Qubing and I walked together: "Are you going to bring a wolf cub out? Be careful not to be knocked off by my wolves." I giggled and said, "I've already reminded him! 'A lot of gains' seems to include the possibility of broken arms and legs, and the possibility of turning a pig's head into a big pig's head." Huo Qubing shook his head amusedly: "Just now I wondered why you were so kind and willing to teach him, but now I feel that he is a little bit of a loser to meet you." I glared at Huo Qubing: "His parents were killed by the Huns, did you know that?" "I don't know. There are so many soldiers in the barracks. I don't have time to study their origins. I only care about whether they are brave or not when they go to the battlefield. This kid was recommended by Zhao Puonu because I want someone to teach you how to ride a horse." "I promise Li Cheng that if he can go through a hundred moves under my command, please let him go to the battlefield." "According to your teaching method, you should be able to go to the battlefield. Let's talk about it later. Let's see how you have learned in the past few days." Huo Qubing had just finished speaking, and his legs clamped on the horse, and he jumped out from beside me. I also wanted to show off the results of these few days of hard training in front of him, so I hurried to chase after him.Unexpectedly, he didn't compare his speed with me at all, but turned left sometimes, turned right sometimes, or turned around suddenly and ran in the opposite direction.I tried my best to keep up with him, but a couple of sudden sharp turns, with the reins too heavy, pissed off the horse and nearly threw me off again. After fighting with Li Cheng for a long time, my face remained unchanged, but after running a few laps, my forehead was covered with sweat. Huo Qubing was calm and looked at me with a smile. Not showing off, I jumped off the horse in frustration and sat down on the ground.Huo Qubing sat next to me: "I'm very good at riding, I'm surprised that I can learn this level in a few days." I looked sideways at him with doubts, and he smiled and said, "I'm not trying to make you happy, I'm telling the truth." I couldn't help but put a smile on my lips. "Yu'er, tomorrow I will lead part of the army back to Chang'an." The smile on my lips disappeared instantly, and I lowered my head on my knees, staring sullenly at the ground. "Don't worry, I won't force you to follow me back to Chang'an, but you are not allowed to sneak back to the desert. Anyway, don't you still want to teach Li Cheng Kung Fu? Practice horsemanship well, and I will come back as soon as possible." I didn't say a word, and he sat quietly. The horse beside him suddenly neighed long and loudly, breaking the tranquility of the surroundings. Huo Qubing said with a smile: "You should have already tasted some of the fun of galloping freely on a horse. I forced you to learn how to ride a horse not only in the hope that one day you will be able to ride with me in the world, but also because I think you will definitely like this kind of horse riding like a horse." I don’t want you to miss out on such a pleasant enjoyment in life.” He pulled me up while talking, “Come on, today I will teach you a few tricks of my general’s secret of riding a horse.” In the middle of the night, when I was sleeping soundly, I suddenly felt a body slipping into the quilt. I was so angry that I immediately hit his lower abdomen with my elbow. Huo Qubing hugged me tightly and pressed my struggling body hard. He begged in a low voice: "Yu'er, I have no other intentions. I left early in the morning, and now I will lie beside you for a while. Don't kick me. I will lie on the edge of the couch and promise not to touch you." I thought for a moment, and when I calmed down, he withdrew his hand and moved his body away. I lay down on the couch and made room for him. He said "thank you" in a low voice. He stuffed a piece of bamboo into my hand, and I touched it and asked, "What is it? Why does it look like a label?" "It's the signature, you asked for it yourself." My mind was in a trance, thinking of the stick that I threw away at that time, and also thinking of him standing motionless under the locust tree.He actually went to find the stick in the grass.The chest was full of soreness, and the pain was strangely mixed with a tinge of heartwarming warmth, and the pain seemed to have softened a little. For a while, I couldn't tell what it was like in my heart, and why these feelings came from. "The words on the signature are: silver man from far away, chasing love and looking forward to double stars. Momo yellow sand, burying heart and hurting only shadow." I thought for a moment, not understanding what the signature meant.Does it mean that I was looking forward to double stars, but later I hurt only a shadow?Suddenly, he felt that the previous sentence was more suitable for Huo Qubing, but no matter how he interpreted it, the latter sentence was always ominous, and he didn't want to think about it: "The signature will always be these ambiguous words." "I had a dream just now. I dreamed that I came back from Chang'an, but I couldn't find you. I rode a horse and kept running, but I couldn't find you. Yu'er, you promise me that no matter what happens Things, you will not run away, you will wait for me to come back." In the night, his eyes were less proud and confident than in the daytime, and more confused. He stared at me quietly, without persecution or pleading, clear and transparent, and only strands of emotion flowing, which hit me. My heart hurts, and before I can think clearly, the words have already blurted out: "I won't leave without saying goodbye in the future, even if I want to leave, I will say goodbye to you face to face." There was a smile on his lips: "I will make you reluctant to say goodbye to me." This man can open a dyeing workshop with some color. I snorted coldly and turned my back to him: "That's right! When you go back to Chang'an, don't tell anyone where I am." Huo Qubing was silent for a while and asked, "Anyone?" Li Yan, Hong Gu and others flashed through my mind: "Yes." "it is good." I turned my head and said to him: "It's almost dawn, you should go to sleep for a while." He nodded with a smile and closed his eyes.I also closed my eyes, but it was difficult to calm down in my mind.If Li Yan knew that I was actually with Huo Qubing, maybe she would immediately eradicate Luoyufang.I thought that by throwing a few letters away, I could escape the entanglement of right and wrong in Chang'an City, but life turned out to be like Huo Qubing said, a vine that is endlessly entangled, not what I thought I could leave and forget everything by turning around. All kinds of thoughts were churning in my mind, and I didn't know when I was confused. When I woke up in the morning, the side of the bed was empty. I don't know if it was his movements that were light, or I was in a deep sleep. When I left, I didn't even notice.Touching the place where he had been lying with his hand, he was in a daze. "One hundred!" Li Cheng, whose hands were covered in blood, yelled loudly, and then lost all strength, the knife fell to the ground, and the man fell directly to the ground. I frowned and looked at Li Cheng: "You don't want to bleed to death before going to the battlefield, so go clean up the wound first." Li Cheng grinned, forced himself to stand up, with tears in his eyes: "One hundred tricks, Brother Jin, you have to keep your word." I smiled and nodded: "Understood, find a doctor to bandage the wound, and I will invite you to the market tonight to have a good meal to replenish your body." I ordered a stewed chicken with red dates and goji berries. Li Cheng's face was a bit bitter: "Just eat this?" I said in amazement: "Isn't this much better than the food in the military camp? The food in the military camp is even less oily and watery." "Of course there is no comparison, but this is good, but it's too bland, like a woman's confinement." Li Cheng stared at the white chicken and said gloomily. I smiled and handed him a wooden spoon: "You have been bleeding a lot recently, I specially ordered some for you to replenish blood, stop talking nonsense, drink it quickly!" The two men rode away after eating. When the horse ran past the window, I accidentally glanced at it. The wolf brand on the horse's hindquarters was so vivid that I felt like I had seen it somewhere. Li Cheng saw me frowning, and tapped my bowl with chopsticks: "Brother Jin, what are you thinking?" I smiled and shook my head.When Xiao Er came to serve tea, I asked casually, "Are the two big men who went out just now local?" Xiaoer poured tea and said, "No, it looks like a servant of a wealthy family. It seems that the family has lost and asked around for a girl. Alas! Now that there are many wars and disasters, people can't survive, so they have to be robbers, merchants, etc. You have to hire good hands before you dare to go to Hexi and the Western Regions, a girl's family may be in danger!" Li Cheng snorted coldly: "It's all the Huns. If you beat the Huns away, everyone can live in peace and don't have to be robbers." Xiao Er seemed to want to say something, opened his mouth slightly, but closed it again, poured tea with a lost smile, and retreated. Life in the barracks was extremely simple and peaceful. For nearly a month, apart from fighting with Li Cheng and training horses, teasing Xiaoqian and Xiaotao, he wandered around to pass the time. Just when he was feeling bored, a letter from Huo Qubing arrived. ... Gongsun Ao and I set out from Beidi County to attack the Xiongnu.Li Gan also went out with the army this time... I frowned. Don't frown, he followed his father Li Guang to the army from Youbeiping, and we each led the army to fight, until the end, there is little chance of meeting each other.After receiving the letter, please go with the sender, see you in Beidi County. Chen Ankang, who delivered the letter, waited for a while, saw that I was still sitting in a daze, and coughed lightly: "The general ordered me to pick you up to Beidi County." I sighed: "The general must have ordered you otherwise. I'm afraid you can't go if you don't go. Just go! But I want to take Li Cheng away, maybe you can do it?" Chen Ankang made a bow: "I still have the right to speak on this matter, just order the commander of this place to release the person. When I get to the general, naturally everything can be done cheaply." I stood up and said, "Then let's go!" Chen Ankang let out a sigh of relief, and I laughed and said, "I don't know what your general ordered you to make you so nervous." He smiled and said: "Not only the general's instructions, but also my father nagged all night before coming, making people neither heavy nor light, nor polite, nor soldier. I'm really afraid that you will refuse." I looked at him in surprise: "Your father?" Chen Ankang said with a smile: "My father is the general's housekeeper." I said "ah" and pointed to myself: "Then you know I'm a woman?" He nodded with a smile, and I felt a little kind to him in my heart, and complained: "Look at how your general tortured me, I am the only one who grinds others down in this life, how many times have I been grinded by others?" Chen Ankang lowered his head and smiled, "It's not that enemies don't get together." Seeing me staring at him, he hurriedly added: "It's not me, it's my father who said it." I stuffed the pigeon cage into his hand and said angrily, "I'm carrying it." I threw him a package and said, "Take it." After looking around, I walked out of the room quickly. I was lying in the carriage and dozed off, Li Cheng jumped in and out excitedly, and from time to time he leaned next to Chen Ankang and asked about everything on the battlefield. Getting used to the bumps on the horse, I felt very relaxed in the carriage at this time, and I didn't feel tired yet, and I had already arrived in Beidi County. I just jumped out of the carriage, when my eyes blurred, Huo Qubing had already held me in his arms, and said in a low voice, "I haven't seen you for a month, I've been worried for a whole month, I'm afraid that when I wake up one day, I will receive a letter saying that you are dead. It's gone, fortunately, although you often don't tell the truth, you still keep your promise." This person is really what comes from his nature, and he does it from his heart, without any scruples about what others think or think.I knocked and knocked to push him away, but he held my shoulder and didn't move. Chen Ankang lowered his head and concentrated on studying the color of the soil in Beidi County. Li Cheng was terrified and looked at us with wide eyes. I sighed, what kind of lies should I make up this time?What kind of kung fu needs to be practiced?