As soon as noon passed, even though there were thousands of reluctance to say goodbye, Li Jing and the other ten newly registered united soldiers were still on the road under the urging of that officer.

Han and Gui Niang have been sent out of the village for several miles, and it is difficult to say goodbye. Although Li Jing was also reluctant in his heart, he was still ruthless and never looked back. He didn't know if there was a future for Lu Dao to join the Tutuan, but time was waiting for no one, and he couldn't continue to sit and wait. What's more, Wang Liang's dog thing was selected this time, and Li Jing joined the Tutuan, but he had just the opportunity to get rid of him.

There are ten new people in Wang Li Village, in addition to Wang Liang, Xiao Shi and Li Jing, there are seven others. They are much different from Li Jing, and the other seven people are all middle-aged men who have not really become adults, all of whom are eighteen or nineteen years old and in their twenties. At home, they have not really taken charge of the family, and this time they were drawn to Ding, and their father, as the pillar of the family, of course, could not apply, so they sent the son of the family.

Except for Xiao Shi and Qiusheng, the son of the carpenter Li at the head of the village, who was a little excited, the others were as depressed as Wang Liang. Especially Wang Liang, who had already been booked to marry in the second half of the month. But he didn't think about it, after this levy order, he didn't even give him a night's time, and he didn't even have a chance to get married immediately. It is said that this time when you enter the Tutuan, it is easy to go and it is difficult to come back, and I don't know when the marriage will have to be entrusted.

Seeing Li Jing inadvertently, Wang Liang snorted heavily, but he kept a distance from Li Jing, separated Li Jing from a distance, and hung behind. Several other juniors looked at Li Jing with a little puzzled eyes and a deep envy.

Although I don't understand why this talented man didn't win the lottery, why he wanted to replace Ying Ding for the old village chief's family. But when they came, they all heard that the old village chief rented 100 acres of land to the Li family, but did not collect tenant rent. Moreover, he opened a warehouse and borrowed ten stones of grain from the Li family, and with so much grain, the Li family will not have to worry about the food problem until next summer's harvest.

But in addition to these, what they envy even more is the horse that the Wang family gave to Li Jing, as well as the big burden that the three-year-old jujube red horse carried.

In addition to the horse and the armor that he had never seen before, Li Jing also carried a horizontal knife around his waist and a horned bow on his back. Compared with the other juniors who were dressed in short brown and empty-handed, they seemed to be a flower who asked for food, and Li Jing looked like a general.

Among the ten descendants, except for Li Jing, who went to Penglai, the Dengzhou Governance Office, to take the state exam in his early years, only Wang Liang had been to Fangdeng County when he was a servant of Zhang Kuguan in Chishan Town, and the others, such as Xiaoshi and Qiusheng, had been to the town as far as possible. After leaving Wang Li Village, where he had lived for more than ten years, he couldn't help but start to be confused. The little stone became Li Jing's tail early in the morning, and firmly followed Li Jing, a talented brother. In addition to Li Jing's horse, there are five donkeys in the team, two dings and one donkey, which are not used for riding, but for carrying all kinds of military supplies. When everyone came out, they didn't bring anything with them, except for a few clothes they had with them. The village gathered more than 200 silks, so it was not necessary for each family to gather those tents, weapons, armor and other things, and wait until the military camp was unified and reissued.

Now the five donkeys were carrying the silks, as well as some rice, wine, dried fruits, and other local products that the village had given to the scribe and the officer.

In addition to Xiaoshi following Li Jing, the little carpenter Li Qiusheng and two descendants surnamed Li also gathered around Li Jing. The rest are all surnamed Wang, and they did not follow Li Jing, but they all got together with Wang Liang, which is a small gang. First, Wang Liang and them are both surnamed Wang, and secondly, Li Jing is a scholar, but Wang Liang has had the experience of being an errand boy in the town after all, and the descendants of the Wang family have all taken him as the head.

The ten newcomers were clearly divided into two groups, but the goatee-bearded scribe and the sword-carrying officer were oblivious. The scribe rode a large blue and white mule, and the officer rode a black war horse, and the two rode at the front of the group, but they did not talk, and were silent all the way.

Li Jing had been secretly observing these two people along the way, and through the previous confession of the old village chief Wang, he only knew that the clerk was an assistant official from Fangdeng County, surnamed Zhang. The assistant is not an official, but an official, and he belongs to a miscellaneous position that is not even considered a foreign officer. However, it is also very important in the county government, under the officials with good grades such as the chief Bo and the county lieutenant, and under the officials with rank, second only to the county record position that Li Jing's father once held, and belongs to the officials with real power.

Another officer who has not spoken much, the old village chief Wang, only knows that his surname is Wang, and it is said that he seems to have a lot of origin. It seems to be the nephew of a general in Qingzhou, and now he is on a mission in Dengzhou Mansion, but he doesn't know what his official position is, but he knows that Zhang Zuo is very polite to the officer.

Because everyone was reluctant to leave home along the way, they turned back three times one step at a time, from noon to evening, and only walked more than ten miles. Seeing that there were still nearly ten miles away from Chishan Town, the officer who had been dozing off as if he was on a horse suddenly ordered to stop.

"Just rest here for a while, and hurry up to drink and feed the horses."

Zhang Zuoyan looked up at the sky, saw that the sun had sunset, walked to the officer's side and whispered: "Accompany Rong, it's going to be dark soon, and now I can't enter the town in time after resting for a while." There are only ten miles ahead, so let's work harder, and rest when we enter Chishan Town. ”

Captain Wang smiled noncommittally and jumped off the horse. Wang Liang immediately trotted forward with a smile on his face, nodded and handed over his water bladder. Then he opened a cloth towel, took out two golden and fragrant flax cakes, and offered them to Wang Xiaowei and Zhang Zuoyan like treasures.

Li Jing recognized at a glance that the flax cake was made by his mother Han and sister-in-law, and Han specially borrowed some mutton and wheat flour from the Wang family, and each flax cake was luxurious. Use a pound of mutton, spread it layer by layer in the wheat flour of Hehao, put peppers and tempeh in the compartment of the cake, then pour the whole cake with ghee, and then put it in the oven to bake, and take it out when it is five ripe.

The fragrance of wheat, mutton, ghee, pepper and tempeh came out, and Han made a total of ten, each weighing almost three catties. Ten cakes were given to Li Jing for three, and Xiao Shi was given for three, but Wang Liang's dog thing got four alone. This made Li Jing very unhappy for a while, but he put up with it for the time being, since he joined the unity army together, he was afraid that he would not have a chance to get rid of this dog thing.

Li Jing has only eaten this luxurious flax cake once in his memory, and it was only once when his father Li Gang was promoted to the county recorder. He put this precious bread in his baggage, and he was reluctant to take it out and eat it. That Wang Liang was also reluctant, and actually took it out to flatter and curry favor with the two officials.

The flax cake made by the Han family is indeed full of color and taste, and Wang Xiaowei and Zhang Zuoyan were both tempted by this cake, and the two of them grabbed one and bit it when they opened their mouths.

Wang Xiaowei bit the flax cake violently, and said to Zhang Zuo vaguely: "I know that you are worried that you will not be able to return to Chishan Town before dark." Don't worry, even if you really can't get back, what's the matter, we're not a merchant horse team, and we're afraid that the bandits won't be able to rob us? ”

"I said in advance that I would go to Chishan Town to rest tonight, and the united soldiers recruited from other villages in Qingning Township would also gather in Chishan Town. I'm not afraid of the bandits, but I'm afraid that I didn't meet on time, and the above blamed me. ”

"Blame from above, who is from above? You're really using chicken feathers as arrows. Captain Wang bit into the fragrant flax cake and ate it in large pieces.

Zhang Zuo said: "Accompanying Rong is a bad errand, so naturally you don't have to care about these, but the small ones are just small assistants, but they can't afford these responsibilities." ”

As soon as he spoke, Captain Wang also nodded, holding the cake in his hand and nodding: "Well, what you said is also reasonable, since it is about the future of the elder brother, it is not good for me to make my own decisions, brother." Let's see if the horses and donkeys are fed and fed, and then continue to hurry, and rush to Chishan Town for the night before dark. ”

Although Li Jing used to study, he later followed his brother to practice martial arts, and helped cultivate at home for a few years, and his body was extremely strong. After walking for a long time, he was not tired at all, and he didn't even give up riding the horse, but he was just a little parting in his heart. Just after a little water, I ate a piece of cooking cake, and I was full of energy again. Hearing the urge, he got up and went to untie the horse, beckoning the little stone to lead the donkey.

It's just that as soon as he looked up, he suddenly found that a few bright lights suddenly flickered in the forest in front of him. The light flashed away, but Li Jing's heart suddenly turned up a shocking wave. Xiao Shi and Li Qiusheng were still standing there in a daze, Li Jing jumped suddenly, grabbed the two of them and pressed them to the ground, and shouted softly in his mouth: "Get down, don't make a noise!" ”