Cangzhou beacon fire

Chapter 4 The new army starts
After the meal was set, Cui Yingying came behind Zhong Yao to help take off the plain clothes. The plain clothes were too long and comfortable to wear and sleep, but it was inconvenient to eat and do things.

As soon as Su Yi took off the scars on Zhong Yao's back, Cui Yingying could see all the scars on her back. Although she had seen it countless times, she was still terrified every time she saw Cui Yingying.

Some people belong to the type that doesn’t look strong, they look very gentle, and when they take off their clothes, they reveal their strong body. Zhong Yao belongs to this type. He bares his strong upper body and looks excitedly at the table. Meat dishes, shook his arms and prepared to have a big fight.

"I also asked the kitchen in the mansion to make some meat buns for the dolls. They follow you, and they have to make up for the coarse grains and noodles every day." Cui Yingying said while helping Zhong Yao pack the food.

Zhong Yao stuffed his mouth full and turned to look at his wife with a smile: "They don't need mending! They only eat tiger meat as an extra meal tonight."

Cui Yingying sat down opposite Zhong Yao, and when her eyes came to Zhong Yao's table, Cui Yingying couldn't help but look ugly.

"Husband, you picked out vegetables again!" Cui Yingying pretended to be angry when she saw that the vegetables picked out by Zhong Yao had been piled up into a small mound.

"Madam, please forgive me. You know that I don't like parsley and celery the most, and this radish is really unpalatable. Hey, Madam, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that you are not good at craftsmanship."

Cui Yingying didn't care, picked up the chopsticks and put the picked vegetables back into Zhong Yao's bowl: "No, you can't pick and choose. If you don't eat vegetables, I won't eat meat from today on!"

"Ah! This can't be done, I eat, I eat!" His wife Liujia is alive, one eats and the other suffers. How can I do without meat.

Seeing Zhong Yao pick up food with a sad face, Cui Yingying's anger subsided, and she rested her chin on the table and looked at her husband happily.

In a short while, Zhong Yao cleaned up more than half of the meat and vegetables on the table, and he belched in satisfaction.

"I can't eat any more. I'll take these to Xiangzheng and them later. These kids grow up, so they can eat as much as they want, and there is no waste at all."

Seeing that Zhong Yao had finished eating, Cui Yingying got up again and came behind Zhong Yao. Her slender jade fingers were gently massaging Zhong Yao's temples. Whenever she was at home, she would massage her husband after meals.

Zhong Yao consciously closed his eyes, feeling the warmth, and his body gradually relaxed.

"For this expedition, my husband must protect himself, even if not for me, then for our baby who is about to die." Cui Yingying said with a little worry, after all, Zhong Yao has been bearing the name of the unlucky guy since he was born.

Zhong Yao took Cui Yingying's caressing hand and comforted him: "Madam, don't worry, the fortune teller said that my luck was bad and that I would be killed in the future, but after so many years, I, Zhong Yao, still survived all the blood and knives." Alright, from this it can be seen that the words of the physicist cannot be trusted."

"Perhaps that fortune teller is a charlatan. My husband is auspicious, and the god of water and moon will definitely protect my husband."

"Well, it's getting late, I'll ask Xiang Zheng to take you back to Dianzhou."

Two days later, in the evening.

At the foot of Maofeng Mountain, Zhong Yao rode his horse and stood in front of the army, with a silver armor and long spear, very majestic.

The three thousand white-armored cavalry in front of him waited silently, waiting for the leader's order. Perhaps because of the first expedition, most of the cavalry had a trace of excitement on their faces, which made those immature faces even more lively.

"The main force of the Zhong family is preparing to recover Jinxi, which is the ancestral land where you grew up. And you..." Zhong Yao wrote vigorously, paused for a moment, and then said loudly: "Because you have no military achievements and no record, you can't go. "

As soon as the words "Go to Bu" came out, a trace of loneliness flashed across the faces of many cavalrymen.

Zhong Yao ignored the cavalry's reaction, and continued: "But we have a new task, to go south to suppress the bandits! Do you have any opinions?"

"No!" The cavalry instantly cheered up and responded in unison.

Zhong Yao nodded in satisfaction: "This is our first battle, and it will be recorded in your merit list. This is the beginning of your glory."

The three thousand cavalrymen all stared at Zhong Yao, their eyes were bright and their chests were raised even higher.

"Starting from the first battalion, line up to get five days of rations over there, and set off after a brief rest! Go." After Zhong Yao finished speaking, the leaders of several battalions in the queue drove out to command the troops in an orderly manner, and walked to the grain storage place go.

Behind Zhong Yao, two people who had been silent for a long time drove forward at this time. One was about [-], with a long face and blue clothes, and a strong scholarly atmosphere.That was Zhong Yao's friend, White Night City.The Bai family is a common surname, and other than the national surname, it is also well-known. Bai Yecheng was a classmate of Zhong Yao since childhood. Different from Zhong Yao's decisiveness and boldness, Bai Yecheng is a son of merchants, and his personality is relatively loose. Of course, he also thinks that Smarter than Zhong Yao, and even has a sense of superiority.

Bai Yecheng looked at another handsome young man who was about 20 years old in white embroidered clothes and said, "Look at your brother, you already have the air of a general."

The handsome 20-year-old just smiled and didn't respond.The young man was Zhong Yao's younger brother Zhong Xu, with a reserved personality and didn't like to talk. In his opinion, reading a lot of books was much more interesting than marching and fighting.

"Yao, majestic! Shining silver." Bai Yecheng came to Zhong Yao's side with a little teasing, and did not forget to knock on Zhong Yao's silver armor.

Zhong Xu drove his horse to the other side, and said hello, "Brother."

Zhong Xu is different from Zhong Yao. He was at home since he was a child and has never been on a battlefield. The brothers have taken different paths and the topics are also very different. Every time they sit together, they always have nothing to say. After sister-in-law Cui Yingying got married, the awkward atmosphere eased. many.

Zhong Yao looked left and right, nodded to Zhong Xu, then turned to Baiye City and said, "Are you sure you want to go with me to suppress the bandits?"

"That's for sure!" It's not that Baiye City likes to march and fight, but his father Bai Kui always forces him to study, especially in business. After all, the five generations of the Bai family are single-handed, and they are merchants, so they can't be destroyed by Baiye City. hand it.

Zhong Xu looked at Bai Yecheng with some mocking eyes and said, "Brother Cheng, there are no jokes in the army."

The two brothers of the Zhong family have different personalities. Zhong Xu has been a business talent since he was a child, and he also likes to study the way of doing business. He even had a few fights with his father Zhong Lin because of this. Running wildly on the road, Zhong Yao envied his younger brother from the bottom of his heart at this point.

"When did I, Baiyecheng, make a joke? I'm so good at what I say!" Baiyecheng felt guilty, and the two brothers next to him also cast contemptuous looks.

Zhong Xu seemed to think of something, looked at his eldest brother and said, "Brother, why did you only bring five days of rations? To go to Chibei Mountain, it will take at least seven days to go back and forth, not counting the time to attack the bandits."

Zhong Yao replied confidently: "The new army is all equipped with first-class horses. It only takes five days to go back and forth, and about one day to attack the stronghold. It is enough. Besides, starvation is also a kind of exercise."

Bai Yecheng was startled when he heard that, and quickly asked, "Yao, you don't know how to bring five-day rations, do you?"

"Yes, how can the leader be inconsistent with his words and deeds?"

"What about me? I'm also on a five-day ration?" Bai Yecheng asked with a touch of luck.

Zhong Yao nodded in affirmation.

"Yao, can I be an exception? I can't compare with you warriors."

Zhong Yao shook his head: "No, you are now my internal army staff officer, and you are already a member of the army, how can you break the military regulations by yourself."

Baiye City was like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, with a naive smile, he raised a whip in his hand, and the mount neighed and flew away in the dust. "I won't go crazy with you, I won't go."

What about the promise just now?Zhong Yao and Zhong Xu laughed in unison as they watched Baiye City leave.

"Brother, the first battle of the new army, be careful in everything." Zhong Xu was worried. Although the brothers didn't communicate much, they were still brothers.

Zhong Yao turned to look at his younger brother, and said, "Xu, you are calmer than me, and you are also more thorough than me. Why don't you want to be an official in the court, with your...?"

When Zhong Xu heard this, his face darkened, he raised his hand to interrupt his elder brother, shook his head and said: "Brother, don't talk about it, everyone has his own ambitions, I don't like that kind of intrigue environment, this time I came to say goodbye to you of."

"Farewell? Where are you going?"

Zhong Xu raised his eyes to the north and said, "Wanli Kingdom is a country of business, I want to study there."

"When will you be back?"

"Maybe three years or five years, and you will return after learning."

Zhong Yao looked at his brother who had made up his mind, and didn't speak to dissuade him. He knew that persuading him was useless. Since he was a child, his younger brother had a stubborn temper, and he couldn't pull back eighty cows from the decision he had made.

Thinking back to the time when Zhong Xu was unwilling to take the exam to become an official, he was locked up by his father for four days and four nights, but he didn't give in. If Uncle Fu hadn't opened the door to deliver meals, I don't know how this matter would have ended.

Zhong Yao will never forget that scene for the rest of his life. His father wept and sighed, while his younger brother was indifferent. He thought he did not have such stubbornness. His father had always arranged his own path. From then on, his life was apart from his home and the military camp. It is not an exaggeration to say that the military camp is his second home.

"Okay, let's go, I'm still at home." Zhong Yao withdrew Si Yi and patted Zhong Xu on the shoulder.

Zhong Xu responded with a smile, and then drove away.

Seeing the back of his younger brother leaving, Zhong Yao felt a sense of loss in his heart. After all, after this farewell, he didn't know when to see him again.

Zhong Yao finally came to his senses after he finished feeling, touched the mole on his forehead and said, "Oh, I almost forgot about that kid."

"Certificate!"

Hearing Zhong Yao's shout, a young cavalryman about 17 years old among the cavalry lined up to get food drove out and replied loudly: "Here!"

"Go and catch that White Night City." The barracks is not a place where kids can come and go whenever they want!
"Yes!"

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Zhong Yao looked at these slightly excited brothers with a smile on his face. This was their first time playing in a battle.

That night, White Night City drove a horse and followed Zhong Yao with a displeased expression on his face. He was the son of a rich merchant, and his entourage followed closely when he went in and out. When he came to eat, he opened his mouth and stretched out his hand. He was tied back to the army, and the five-day ration was so unpalatable that he almost vomited just now.

"Yao, you are so unkind, you even asked a young man to go home and tie me up." Bai Yecheng complained, looking at Zhong Yao with mournful eyes.

Zhong Yao was calm and said with a smile: "At the beginning you said you didn't want to study and do business, so you insisted on taking a job under my account. Now that the job has been offered, do you want to pay for it?" Gesture, indicating to decapitate.

Bai Yecheng's Adam's apple rolled, and he swallowed deeply, thinking: Decapitator, if you didn't tell me earlier, I thought it was an idle job, I...!
Zhong Yao looked back and saw that the cavalry had already joined the team, and said loudly: "The whole battalion obeys the order, advance at full speed, and don't rest before dawn!"

Then he swung his whip to speed up, and the other cavalry also swung their whips and followed closely. White Night City didn't react, and was left far behind in an instant.

"You Zhong Yao, can you say hello first! Hey! Wait for me!"

　I just want to maintain a little bit of my own style in the flood of literature.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)