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The ten men walked out of Deputy Central Army Commander Xiao Zhenrong's tent and walked about ten feet before they dared to complain loudly.

Zhou Weide said angrily: "If I had known that I was here to raise horses, I would not have escaped to this barren Bicheng. Even our Yancheng is a hundred times, a thousand times better than this place!"

Su Mishun said, "I see so many horses in the stable, but the horse officer has only 20 to 30 soldiers under him. He has so much to do every day. It's no different from being a slave in Jiaoshan."

Wu Sheng snorted twice and said, "What kind of soldiers can the horse officer have? They are just slaves. But now there are more than 20 or 30 of them. With the eight of us, there are 30 or 40 of them."

Zhang Hou ran to Yingdan with a smile and said, "Mudan, how about... let's switch roles? I'll help you serve Zhou Zhongjun, and you go play with the horses for a few days?" He was the only one who called Yingdan "Mudan".

Yingdan was most annoyed when Zhang Hou called him "Mudan" in a sarcastic voice, so she rolled her eyes at him fiercely and said firmly: "No!"

Zhang Hou put his arm around Chu Xiaomu's shoulders again and said, "Mutou, let's switch. To be honest, how can a man like you do menial work as a servant? That's too degrading, don't you think?"

Wu Sheng snorted twice again and said, "Serving people is much better than serving horses. Mu Mu is not stupid. Stop daydreaming and just follow us to sweep the horse manure."

Chu Xiaomu smiled and said, "I don't mind sweeping horse manure. How about this, you go and talk to Deputy Commander Xiao first, tell him that we need to switch military duties, and ask him to rewrite the two orders. Otherwise, if the orders don't change, you and I will both be punished by military law, maybe dozens of sticks."

Zhang Hou was overjoyed when he heard this. He looked up and thought about how to convince Deputy General Xiao. He immediately remembered that he had just been scolded by him. Then he remembered the dozens of military sticks he had been beaten with by Zhou Bo on the day he set out for Nanding Army. He could only look up to the sky and sigh, "My fate is determined by God, not me. Sigh, forget it..."

After Chu Xiaomu and Yingdan had lunch, they took the order given by Xiao Zhenrong and went to Zhou Bo's central military tent to report.

The two men saw that there was only one soldier standing at the door of the central army tent where there should have been two guards ready to take orders. It turned out that almost all the manpower had been withdrawn.

According to the military system of Bicheng, each central army general is equipped with twenty-four guards. As long as there are two or three around him, there will not be only one soldier waiting for orders. Now there is only one person, and it is obvious that the other twenty-three have been dispatched to other places.

The two were puzzled. Not much had happened in the Nanding army recently, so they didn't know why Zhou Zhongjun had withdrawn all the other guards.

The guard's name was Yuan Fu. Although Chu Xiaomu and Yingdan were not familiar with him, they remembered his appearance and name.

When they reached the door, they saluted him and shouted, "Nanding army soldiers Chu Xiaomu and Yingdan are here to report!" Yingdan's voice was rather shrill, and a few grass birds hiding on the top of the tent dozens of feet away were startled and flew away.

Yuan Fu's face was filled with anger, and he lowered his voice and scolded: "Miss Jinglan is taking a nap right now, why are you two yelling so loudly?"

Chu Xiaomu held the order written by Xiao Zhenrong in front of him and said apologetically, "Brother Yuan Fu, the two of us were ordered by Deputy Central Army Xiao to come here to take up our posts."

Yuan Fu's temperament was very easy-going. He did not blame the two of them anymore. He took the order from Chu Xiaomu's hand, read it, and said, "It would be best if you could come here to help. Zhou Zhongjun went out early this morning for something. We'll make arrangements after he comes back." After that, he returned the order to Chu Xiaomu and continued to stand motionless at the door of the military tent like a clay sculpture or a wooden sculpture.

Chu Xiaomu and the other man had no choice but to stand at the door of the military tent like him, waiting for the central army to return to the camp.

But they had to stand there for nearly an hour and a half. Their calves, thighs, hips, and waists were all sore and swollen, and their bones were all soft and painful. Chu Xiaomu complained bitterly. He didn't expect that standing there would be so difficult. What would happen if he encountered real martial arts performances, battle formations, and opening the Force in the future?

Turning his head to look at Yingdan, he saw that his originally fair face had turned red, and his legs were shaking slightly, but he gritted his teeth and held on, and his feet could not move even half an inch from beginning to end. On the other hand, the guard Yuan Fu was calm and relaxed, obviously because he was used to standing so many times.

Chu Xiaomu couldn't help but ask, "Brother Yuan Fu, do you want to go in and see Miss Jinglan?"

Yuan Fu said: "Zhou Zhongjun has issued an order that only those summoned by Miss Zhou can enter the tent. No one else is allowed to enter privately, otherwise they will be punished according to military law!"

Chu Xiaomu didn't agree with it, thinking: "Zhou Zhongjun's order is a bit confusing. Miss Jinglan has difficulty walking. What if something happens and she doesn't have time to call the guards outside the tent? What should we do?" Then he asked: "It's almost dark now. Does Miss Jinglan usually stay in the tent all day?"

Yuan Fu said: "This...this...has never happened before..."

Chu Xiaomu simply shouted, "Miss Jinglan...are you there? We are under the order of Deputy Commander Xiao to come to the Central Army's tent to hand over the order."

Yuan Fu angrily said, "Chu Xiaomu! I've already told you that Miss Jinglan is resting. Why are you making such a loud noise? Are you dissatisfied with the dozens of sticks you got from me a few days ago?!"

Chu Xiaomu ignored him and waited for a while but still heard no response from Jinglan. A bad premonition suddenly came over him. At this time, he did not care about any military punishment and lifted the curtain and rushed in.

Yuan Fu reached out to grab Chu Xiaomu's back, but Chu Xiaomu was so fast that he missed him by a few inches. Yuan Fu was furious, thinking, "How dare you, a new recruit, break into the central army tent without my permission? What do you think of me? What do you think of this central army tent?" He shouted "Stop!" and chased after him.

The central army tent was made up of six tents, the largest of which was in the middle and used for daily meetings or receiving subordinates and visitors. Five smaller tents (but still larger than those for ordinary soldiers) were placed in a circle around it, used as sleeping quarters, writing rooms, kitchens, etc., and were arranged very compactly.

Chu Xiaomu walked quickly and searched through several tents. The first one should be Zhou Bo's book account, with a table piled with books, letters, documents, etc. The second one was simply furnished with a hard bed covered with green cloth and three round stone pillars in the middle. It should be the sleeping tent of the central army Zhou Bo...