first glance

General Hu Mang was born with big shoulders and a round waist. Maybe his parents had expected his future body shape to be like this, so they gave him the word Mang to suit the occasion.Song Nian felt that this person had to be twice as tall and twice as fat as him.

Deng Qi was already a lot taller than him, but at least he was still of a normal figure. He was still young, and he might not be able to catch up with him in a few years.Even Deng Qi looked extraordinarily petite and dainty standing beside him.

General Hu's personality is the same as his name, rough and rough, if placed in the green forest, he must be a hero who will make thieves frightened and run away. It's a pity that he comes from a family of martial arts, and he entered the palace early as a guard.In the beginning, he was considered a person with a bright future based on the legacy of his family. However, in recent years, the imperial court has implemented the New Deal, advocating imperial examinations and military examinations. , Gradually, it cannot be reused.

When the emperor selected the entourage, it was he who recommended himself to go. The emperor felt that he was a son of a noble family, and he had some official positions, so he simply made him a general and escorted him all the way. If he could reach a neighboring country, he would stay in Song Nian Be a guard by your side.

Song Nian and Deng Qi walked side by side on the snowy ground. Deng Qi was telling him about the family history of the entourage along the way. Song Nian was a little strange, "Why do you know everyone? Know everything?"

Deng Qiben was shaking his head and making a long speech there, never thinking that Song Nian would ask such a question, so he casually said, "To be honest, I am an old man with a white beard in Jiuhua Mountain, and this time I came down to the mortal world for His Royal Highness, you can tell by pinching your fingers Naturally, you know everything about the affairs of the world. If Your Highness wants to know something, feel free to ask, and Pindao will definitely know everything and talk endlessly."

Song Nian had never seen such a detached gentleman before, and couldn't help but burst out laughing out loud at his teasing.He is still the body and bones of a young man, raised in the deep palace all year round without being exposed to wind and sun, his skin is whiter than snow, but when he is blown by the cold wind in the wild, his nose and earlobes are pink, now his red lips are parted and he smiles, A face not much bigger than a palm is half-hidden in a pure black mink fur cap, just like a thin bamboo tree wrapped in silver, although it is a little yellow and decayed by the biting cold wind in this world, But still with the innate nobility and pride of a teenager.

After leaving the palace, Song Nian was no longer the gloomy and shrunken appearance of the pearl in the deep palace, and finally regained the appearance that young people should have. Deng Qi felt relieved.

On the other side, Deng Qi was staring at Song Nian's smile in a daze. Unexpectedly, a big hand stretched out from behind and slapped him on the shoulder suddenly. Deng Qi almost caused the man to pat him into the soft snow, but Song Nian was still looking at him. , inconvenient to attack, just gritted his teeth and screamed, "Old Hu!"

"The last general sees Your Highness!" Hu Mang leaped out from behind the tree, and the thunderous palm really startled Song Nian. Song Nian was still a little dazed when he knelt down to pay respects to Song Nian, so he quickly stretched out his hand to support him.

"In the future, you must not call him Your Highness anymore. You can call him Young Master publicly, but you can call him brother in private. The few of us are still in such an embarrassing position when we go to a foreign land. It's better to keep a low profile in everything."

Hu Mang was still waiting to resign, he did not dare to call each other brothers with the royal family, it was still Deng Qi who warmly pulled him and Song Nian to the firepit and sat down together, he just accepted it.

The weather got colder as we went north, and the group finally arrived at the border between the two countries after traveling through the ice and snow for more than half a month.The country Song Nian and his entourage are going to calls itself the Great Yan Kingdom. It is located in the extreme north. Although the territory is not much worse than Song Nian's mother country, it is just that the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the soil is poor and not suitable for farming. nomadic peoples.

The civilized land of the Central Plains has always been ashamed of their barbarism and toughness, and they called them Hujiang barbarians, but they didn't know that it was the Hujiang barbarians who beat them, who had read poetry and books, and were full of benevolence, justice, reason and faith Abandon armor, cede land for peace, and rush to send the country's hostages in exchange for a few years of peace.

Xu Shi still carries the sturdy bloodlines inherited from the ancient ancestors in his bones, and he doesn't care much about these vain gifts. Maybe it's because of his disdain and contempt for the defeated country. Song Nian and his party entered the Yan Kingdom and saw no one Collision.Originally, he entered the country as a hostage, so naturally he would not receive any courtesy, Song Nian was relieved, at least he still had a way to go.

While Hu Ruo was going to exchange customs clearance documents, Song Nian and Deng Qi got off the carriage together, stood on a high slope and looked back at the mother country behind them.

Deng Qi is not the deity, and has no feelings for his mother country. Although Song Nian was not reincarnated from the beginning, at any rate, the emperor has proclaimed himself a god, and grew up from the ignorant period. The fear of ignorance.

"What are you thinking?" Deng Qi looked at Song Nian's side face, and always felt that the child seemed to grow taller after sleeping, and he seemed to have grown taller in the past half a month.

"I was wondering what would happen if I ran away now." Now Song Nian was no longer so rigid and dogmatic when talking to him.This is thanks to Deng Qi's thick skin, and relying on the height of the sky and the emperor's distance, no one can control him, and Song Nian is easy to talk to. During the time the two spent together day and night, Deng Qi went to his carriage and tent by himself except when he was sleeping. , for the rest of the time, he clings to Song Nian.Over time, the two get along with each other, and it really becomes a relaxed and natural look between friends and brothers.

"As long as you speak, I'll immediately call that idiot Hu back. Let's hurry up and make sure you go wherever you want."

Song Nian, who was still a little sad at first, felt much relieved when he said this. Whether it was true or not, there was still one person in this world who was willing to fulfill his willfulness.

But Song Nian can only talk, he has been unable to sleep for the past few days, and along the way, he saw many poor people who were displaced by the war.In the past, he only felt that he wore another skin every day and suffered from those people's pointers and punishments. Now he really understands what is the greatest suffering in the world.

Wars broke out frequently and the people were devastated. Wherever the Hujiang barbarians went, they burned, killed, and looted everything.Song Nian saw the desolate scene of the starving people all over the place changing their sons to eat, even if he gave everything he could, he still couldn't relieve one ten-thousandth of the suffering of the common people.

Now the mother country is only waiting for him to enter the country of Yan safely and securely, and present him with a silver certificate, so that he can temporarily stop fighting and buy the mother country some time to recuperate, so as to reassure the people and strengthen the military.

The cold wind outside the Great Wall is the harshest, like a very thin sharp knife, it blew a few spots on people's faces, making them bleed.

Deng Qi's status as a student has not yet reached the level of enjoying the sable fur uniform. The Holy Lord took pity on him for his loyalty and courage, and made an exception and bestowed the Rex Rabbit uniform.The fur on the collar was a bit long, and it was always flirting at the chin when the cold wind blows, causing him to scratch it several times, and he saw that the skin was already red.

In fact, Deng Qi's facial features can't be regarded as exquisite and good-looking, but in fact he is an ordinary and honest person, only his eyes are piercing, and there is often inadvertent wisdom and open-mindedness between his glances.

Song Nian looked at his eyes that were looking straight at him, but was finally forced to look away by the scorching expectation and passion in those eyes. He was afraid that if he continued to look at them, he would really indulge in those eyes. Indulge once in hope.

When Deng Qi saw that he was silent and stopped talking, he knew that what was going on in his heart was regulated by the red tape of the gods descending to earth, and he hadn't said such willful words for a long time.On weekdays, getting along with Song Nian is always based on the principle of not interfering with his thoughts and consciousness, and seldom give him any suggestions. Perhaps now that one of his two feet has stepped into this tiger and wolf den, he can't help but want to Pull the hind leg of the other foot, so that Song Nian can not work so hard.After all, it was overstepping the rules, and it didn't matter what kind of punishment he would have to bear in the future, just blocking the emperor's way to go through the catastrophe would be a serious crime.

Now that he has been self-willed once, he will not worry about the debt. He will simply be self-willed to the end, explain to him all the sufferings Song Nian will face, and let him see how he chooses.He stretched out a hand to grab Song Nian's dangling sleeve, "Young Master, have you ever thought about what you will experience when you go here? That is, leaving aside all kinds of humiliation on the surface, the barbarians in Hujiang are extremely rude, and the relationship between men and women Even if the defense is in vain, let alone the men, if those barbarians covet the young master's beauty and threaten him with his family and country, would the young master want to do that kind of thing with those barbarians?"

Deng Qi didn't know what calamity the emperor was going to experience in this life. Even though Song Nian and the emperor were not alone at this time, even after Song Nian died, the emperor's consciousness returned. For the emperor of thousands of years, it's like reading a storybook, but he still can't bear to see the slightest relationship between the emperor and others, who he has cared about since thousands of years ago.He had already thought about it a long time ago, if that day really happened, he would kill himself even if he was knocked out of his wits by the thunder that day, and use his whole body of cultivation to resolve Song Nian's crisis at that time .

Just when he was fascinated by his inner thoughts, Song Nian gently stretched out a hand to pat the hand holding his sleeve. "I haven't thought about what you said, but since you said it, I will tell you carefully. Just listen, if you can leave your family and career and come to Yan Kingdom with me, I will know you I am a big man with a heart for all people and a lot of people in my belly, but my selfishness still hopes that you should take care of yourself first in everything, and you must not be overwhelmed because of the humiliation I have suffered, and do things that are not good for your family and the country." After saying that, Song Nian turned and walked towards the convoy, talking to Deng Qi behind him, "The second thing is what you said, I am originally a royal family, that is, I am supported by all people, so I should share the worries of all people. If I exchange myself for a few years of peace in my family and country, it is indeed a good deal for me, so what you are worried about is not disturbed by me, so you don't have to mention it in the future."

Song Nian was walking in front, but he could never hear Deng Qi's reply. Thinking that he must still be entangled in his heart, he added lightly, "Besides, what you said was nothing more than a story in a story book. In the part of raising a tiger, I am not a beautiful woman, so I don’t have the beauty you said, at worst, I will paint my face darker in the future, and get some moles, spots, etc., that kind of situation will not happen.”