As you can imagine, in the summer, there must be a babbling stream and a mountain spring surging. But at this time, it was already thick ice, and the water here was not very deep, and I was afraid that it was frozen into a large lump of ice from the bottom to the top.

With the moisture of the water source, the sea buckthorn forest in this ditch is dense, and it almost covers both sides of the bottom of the ditch, and the white-gray and yellow clusters are clustered together, growing from the bottom of the ditch to the edge of the ditch.

It was in the sea buckthorn bushes along the edge of the ditch that two people were lying quietly there.

They didn't know how long they had been lying here, so much so that when one of them moved slightly, they felt a stiffness all over their bodies.

"It is finished, it is found that these people have come out of Shoukou Fort, and they have all arrived at this field, and it is absolutely impossible to change it. Our errand is over. The one lying on the left lazily rolled over, and there was a kind of relief in his words.

His voice was hoarse, like two pieces of iron rubbing against each other, as if he hadn't drunk water all day, and that's exactly what happened.

They came here early, waiting for the Fan family's caravan to pass by, and they didn't dare to drink water because they were afraid of peeing. Later, when the Fan family caravan arrived, it was only a dozen zhang away from them when it was close, and they didn't dare to move in this sea buckthorn bush, let alone drink water.

Both of them did not eat water for a day.

If you don't eat or drink for a day, it's uncomfortable to die if you don't do anything, not to mention that both of them are big-bellied men with generous appetites, and it's in this cold and windy weather.

The scarves covered by the two of them were covered with sand, hats, clothes, and trousers, almost as if the sand was almost buried. The man on the left turned over and moved, and the sand and dirt on his body shook off in a slurch.

This person turned out to be Dong Cezhong's family, Dong Zhongxian.

The person lying next to him was Dong Zhongkang, Dong Zhongkang also wanted to learn from Dong Zhongxian to twist his body, but found that because he had been lying on his stomach for too long, his whole body was already stiff, and he didn't react at all. Dong Zhongxian glanced at it and said with a smile: "It's wooden." ”

As he spoke, he slapped Dong Zhongkang's body, and after a while, the blood was dredged, and Dong Zhongkang felt that his hands and feet were conscious.

He slowly turned over and sat up, just wanted to speak, but his nose and mouth itched, and he couldn't help but let out a few violent coughs, and the coughing sound spread far away in the silent night, he quickly covered his mouth vigilantly, and looked around. Seeing that there is no movement around, this is the relaxation.

I have been lying in this ghost place for almost a day, my nose and mouth are filled with sand, and I am uncomfortable to death, and I have a bitter smell of sand.

Dong Zhongxian said with a smile: "Although we are the most careful when we come out to do this errand, there is no need to scare ourselves to death, there is no one at this time, and there is still wind, don't worry, the voice won't come far." ”

Dong Zhongkang nodded again and again, glanced at him with admiration, and said with a smile: "Brother Qing'er, have you done this before?" Why are you so cooked? We've been following you for the past two days, and nothing has gone wrong. If it was just me and the second child, I'm afraid it would have been discovered a long time ago. ”

Dong Zhongxian is also a very prestigious figure in the family team, firstly, he is very popular, he always has a smile on his face, and he is also kind. The second is that he is really capable.

At the beginning, Dong Ce evaluated the archery skills of the masters, and there was only one super shooter, and that was Dong Zhongxian's. Don't look at the other person's good looks, tall and thin, he looks like a scholar, but the arrows he shoots are almost squeezed in the bull's-eye. This shows that his arrow path is very straight and steady, his hands are also very calm, and his play is very stable, and there will be almost no fluctuations. Moreover, the clusters of arrows are all driven deep into the target, which shows that he can easily control the bow and arrows, and can exert a greater tension than the prescribed pulling force.

Dong Ce also had a very good impression of him, when he was patrolling the forts in North Hebei Province with Liu Ruozai before, Dong Zhongxian was a scout, coming and going like the wind, and he was very brave and tough. Moreover, he is also quite experienced, and he knows what kind of information Dong Ce needs.

This time, Dong Ce entrusted him with a heavy task and sent him a rather important errand.

Monitor this caravan outside the Fan family's exit.

Outside the Yanghe exit, there are two roads that are relatively close, one is to take Yanghekou, that is, Shoukou Fort, and the other is to take Huyukou in the east.

As the so-called difference is a thousand miles, not to mention the distance between Shoukou Fort and Huyukou, Dong Ce has no way of judging where Fan Jienian will take the caravan from the customs, and this matter is really a big matter, so he sent Dong Zhongxian, who is quite experienced, to see. also brought two followers to help, Dong Zhongkang and Dong Zhongyong.

Saying that they are followers actually has the intention of letting them learn and grow from the side.

The three of them followed for two days and finally confirmed the information.

Dong Zhongxian heard him ask, smiled faintly, wiped the sand off his face, put his hands under the back of his head, lay on his back in the sea buckthorn bushes, looked at the inky black sky, and said: "Before I became a horse thief, I worked for the border army for three Chinese New Year's Eve, and then I couldn't do it anymore...... If you don't accept it after three Chinese New Year's Eve, even if you are a stupid person, you can do anything, don't say it, my team is all good...... In order to go to Chahar to find out information, eight brothers died, and we didn't close our eyes for three days and three nights, and galloped back all the way, and five horses died of exhaustion, and we were almost tired of dying. As a result, the brothers exchanged their lives for the information, and those old men didn't even look at it, and hugged the little girl in their arms and kissed it, and Lao Tzu exploded at that time......"

"Hey, what am I telling you to do here? It's all about the sesame rotten grain. Dong Zhongxian smiled self-deprecatingly, sighed, plucked a dry grass in his mouth, and said lazily: "Compared with that, this is a fart?" You'll find out later. ”

Everyone knew that he was born as a horse thief, but they didn't know what he used to do, and even Dong Zhongkang and others who lived in a dormitory with him didn't know.

Listening to it today, although Dong Zhongxian's words were quite reluctant to say something, Dong Zhongkang also guessed something more or less. He is a person who is skilled in human feelings, so he knows that in such a situation, it is better to say more than less, and it is better not to say less, so he just nodded silently.

After a long while, the blood was smooth, Dong Zhongkang's body and bones were completely activated, Dong Zhongxian patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Let's go, if you don't eat again, you will really starve to death." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, bent over and pouted their butts and retreated from the sea buckthorn bushes, no matter how careful they were, they still hung the cotton jackets on their bodies in a few places for Thorns, revealing white cotton, which made the two of them feel distressed.

Dong Zhongkang originally wanted to go directly, but when he saw Dong Zhongxian carefully take off the strips of cloth hanging on the thorns one by one and put them in his arms, he was stunned at first, and then suddenly, he felt ashamed in his heart, and secretly wrote this down. I was also a little happy in my heart, and I learned another trick.

The two retreated to the bottom of the ditch, but did not climb there, but went east along the bottom of the ditch to the end of the ditch. From this point of view, it seems to be a dead end, but when you get closer, you can remove a bush of thorns, but it is suddenly clear.

There is a gap in front of you, and when you go out, it is a ditch that is not too big or deep.

The two of them went out of this gully, and went all the way to the east, and after walking for two or three miles, they reached the foot of the mountains, made a bend, and entered a remote col.

There were a few horses tied to this col, and the horses were all strangled by the bridles, and they could only make low sounds. There was also a man walking back and forth, looking very restless.

It was Dong Zhongyong who stayed behind to guard the horses. This little col is inaccessible and remote, and it is impossible for a guard like the caravan to find it.

When he heard footsteps, he quickly turned around, but his body was backwards, and his hand was already on the hilt of the Cossack cavalry knife at his waist. After seeing clearly that it was Dong Zhongxian and Dong Zhongkang, he took a long breath and greeted him with a smile: "Brother Qing'er, big brother, you are back." ”

Dong Zhongxian laughed and said, "Let's go, let's go home for dinner!" ”

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The night was dark.

The cold haze in the air has been blown away by the continuous strong winds of the previous days, and the sky has been much better since last night. At least the sky is not gray, and when you look up, there is a dark cloud, the sky is clear and cold, and the transparency is extremely high, and when you look up at this time, you can see a few stars shining brightly.

There was still a wind blowing from the north, and it was bitterly cold in the early morning of the night, when the sun had not yet risen. But it's not as big as it was yesterday, and the wind is much cleaner.

This is the end of the Yin period, and in the afterlife, it will be less than five o'clock in the morning.

The Rock Fort was immersed in darkness.

At this time, the Rock Fort was still in the stage of filling the stomach, not to mention the nightlife, not even commercial activities, everything was under the jurisdiction of the executive order. Without business, the market is not bustling at all, and naturally there is no nightlife. Most people are reluctant to use lamp oil at home, and go to bed as soon as it gets dark, and the only entertainment activity that can be done may be to make little people.

But since Dong Ce began to train the army, the vast majority of couples have been deprived of this entertainment.

Those women may want to be dissatisfied, but their husbands will never think of it.

The endless high-intensity training made them tired like dead dogs every day, and when they returned to the barracks, they didn't even want to take off their clothes, and they wanted to fall asleep when they threw themselves on the bed.

And this kind of training has never stopped one day, and there has never been a day when people are not tired and want to die, where is there any such thing as thinking about it?

It is really not so easy to make these strong men feel powerless. It was dark inside and outside the Rock Fort, but only here in the barracks, there was still some light. On both sides of the barracks' gates, there is a gas death lamp the size of a water urn.

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