golden scales

Xiao Tugeng waited naked, waiting for the big Han generals in the outer circle to shout: "Change!" Water is drawn to the body.

The warm water moisturised his parched skin, as if every drop had been sucked in.He untied the loose bun, and rubbed his scalp desperately under the water, and it immediately became much cooler.He forgot when was the last time he took a bath and washed his hair, but judging from the black water on the ground, the days should not be short.

"Substitution!"

The big Han general suddenly shouted violently.

——Fuck!How come it's my turn so fast!

Xiao Tugeng cursed inwardly, seeing that the person waiting behind him did not push him, he raised his head and rushed towards his face again.Until he saw a big Han general walking towards this side with a whip, he quickly followed the team and ran to the back door.Just now, because someone occupied the water outlet, he was beaten to pieces.Xiao Tugeng didn't intend to follow in that person's footsteps.

"Don't you want those clothes anymore?" Someone beside Xiao Tugeng sighed softly.

Xiao Tugeng turned his head and saw that he was a familiar person. Although he hadn't spoken to him along the way, he saw him every day.He was about to answer when he suddenly heard a whip, and at the same time there was a thunderous shout: "Don't speak!"

Xiao Tugeng pursed his lips, and thought to himself: You are not allowed to speak, is this a soldier or a prisoner?He didn't stop under his feet. The bluestone road had long been slicked by the people in front of him, and those servants who didn't grow beards would wash the black mud on the ground to both sides with water from time to time.

After he picked up his clothes, he trotted all the way to the barracks, and saw a few thick generals in armor, escorting two people to the wall, whipping them with a whip.The two soon fell to the ground, rolling and begging, covered in blood, looking horrified.

Xiao Tugeng sucked his teeth, the corners of his eyes twitched, and asked the person next to him in a low voice: "How big a crime is this?"

"Take the bed." The person next to him was also terrified, and quickly answered.

"Don't talk! Go in and separate the beds!" The big Han general here is obviously much more vicious than the one in the bath garden.

Xiao Tugeng didn't want to be whipped for talking, so he quickly followed the crowd into the barracks with his clothes in his arms.Although the barracks are old, there is no obvious light leakage, which means that there will be no heavy rain in the wind and rain.Looking at the expressions of other people, Xiao Tugeng couldn't help grinning, it seems that the recruiting tooth was not deceiving, the emperor's son was really generous.

"You, lower berth. Hold the sign!" A housekeeper came close to the bed, sat on the bed by Xiao Tugeng, and stuffed a slightly curved bamboo sign.

Xiao Tugeng only felt a fluffy wooden thorn stuck into his buttocks, and moved slightly, only to find that the sign was engraved with words.

"[-]." Xiao Tugeng read out the row of cursive codes above.With the light from the window, he could see that there was a row of characters below, which were regular characters with complicated strokes.Judging from the number of words, it probably means corresponding to the cursive code.

"You go to the bunk! Hold the sign!"

The eunuch just pulled another naked man, pressed him on Xiao Tugeng's bed, and stuffed a sign.

The man was like a skeleton covered in skin, without any flesh.He glanced timidly at Xiao Tugeng, moved his butt a few inches away, and hugged his clothes tightly.

Xiao Tugeng glanced at him, but didn't speak. Seeing someone in front of him shaking off his clothes, he also put on a small coat first.With this fig leaf, Xiao Tugeng felt that his strength and courage had returned, and when he looked at the naked and trembling man again, his gaze was a bit sharp.

"Hey, put on your clothes quickly." Xiao Tugeng swung his palm and slapped the man staggeringly with ease, almost falling over.

The big Han general who was inspecting happened to see it, and walked this way rubbing his whip.

Xiao Tugeng hurriedly held down the man, and laughed loudly: "Brother, put it on quickly, be careful of freezing."

The big Han general stopped in his tracks and cracked his whip: "Don't talk, those who get the sign quickly put on their clothes!"

Only then did Xiao Tugeng heave a sigh of relief, glanced at the frightened man, and said to himself: You're a sensible boy.

The man hurriedly put on his clothes, picked up the sign and looked it up and down for a while, then timidly asked Xiao Tugeng, "Brother, what is it engraved on?"

"Words." Xiao Tugeng squinted at this man who didn't even know a simple code, and his heart was filled with a sense of superiority.

"Brother, what word is that?" the man asked with envious eyes.

Xiao Tugeng made an impatient look, grabbed his bamboo card, pointed to the regular characters below, as if he really knew it, and read: "[-]! This is your number plate. In the future, if people call you this number, you agree, otherwise the army will behead you!"

Hearing this, the man was terrified, and said in a trembling voice: "Brother, then the name given by my parents is useless?"

"If you enter this door, you are the crown prince's man! You can call you whatever the crown prince calls you, can your parents be as old as the crown prince?" Xiao Tugeng said disdainfully.

The man's lips twitched, and it took a long time before he murmured: "That's right, eat people and serve others, the prince can call you whatever you want." He looked at Xiao Tugeng again, and said, "Brother, why do you know everything?"

"Tch, where are you going? Listen to the accent, are you from Liaodong?" Satisfied with his vanity, Xiao Tugeng sat cross-legged on the bed.

"I fled to Yongping with my parents when I was very young." The man shrank his neck: "Where is the elder brother from?"

"Handan." Xiao Tugeng said proudly, "Have you heard of it?"

[-] honestly shook his head.

"Country bun." Xiao Tugeng kicked him disdainfully, and said, "Hey, look at you, how did you get selected? My brothers who deliver food in the mine are stronger than you."

"I don't know either...that Mr. Song made me run around twice, and he wanted me." One eight two four said.

Xiao Tugeng was about to speak when he suddenly heard a bamboo whistle coming from outside, which was sharp and high-pitched.Everyone in the room looked out the window and saw a general wearing a fat red jacket and a bright helmet standing in the yard, holding a knife in one hand and a whip in the other, as if waiting for something.

After two breaths, seeing that no one came out, the general flicked his whip, and the strong men behind him entered the barracks separately.In an instant, all the barracks were jumping and screaming.

Xiao Tugeng saw that the soldiers who came in had a bad look on his face, he roared and got out, beat him with whips and sticks, and hurriedly pulled up the [-] beside him and ran out.

The barracks was originally connected by two rooms, so there are two doors at the front and back. One door has a vicious general, and the other door is the key to escape.Seeing Xiao Tugeng running out, the recruits who reacted faster immediately followed up, and there was a mess.

When Xiao Tugeng rushed outside, people from the other barracks also rushed out one after another, all with dazed faces.

Everyone only heard a roar like thunder: "Line up!" Then they remembered that after accepting the recruitment that day, the first thing they did was to learn to line up.However, there was no fixed team along the way, and the distribution of beds in the barracks made the people they knew at first even more chaotic. For a while, no one knew where to stand.

"Follow me and stand." Xiao Tugeng held back [-] and shouted in a low voice.

"Hey!" [-] just responded, and Xiao Tugeng had pulled him aside.

"I'm the leader of the team!" Xiao Tugeng raised his right hand high, crossed his left, and shouted loudly: "Stand with me!"

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