Once the snow falls in winter, people rarely go out to work, but occasionally there will be a few men who go out to hunt in the heavy snow in the countryside, and they will take advantage of the heavy snow to cover the mountains and small animals can not find food.

Due to the lack of food, many animals are sluggish at this time, and the snow leaves their footprints, making it easier to find them than in spring.

Under a mountain forest outside Luoyang City, a man who had just beaten a fawn carried the deer down the mountain happily.

Just as he had just descended to the foot of the mountain and was about to walk back to the village, he heard the sound of people shouting for war horses not far ahead.

Hearing this sound, the man hurriedly squatted down, removed the simple short bow from behind his back, and set an arrow on the bowstring and aimed it at a group of people not far away.

It was a group of men dressed in ordinary clothes.

The leading man was wearing a fur, and he was wrapped in a fur, and his outfit did not look like a native of the Central Plains, but more like a Hun from the north.

He was followed by more than twenty men in thick winter coats.

The winter coats on the twenty-odd men were brightly colored, obviously newly tailored, but compared to the fur on the leading man, it was much more discolored.

"There's a guy over there!" The man who had just shot a deer was hiding in the snow and looking at the men who were riding near him, and they had already spotted him, and one of them raised his hand and pointed at him and shouted.

The distance between the two sides was not very far, and when the other party found out, the man's heart suddenly tightened, and the hand holding the short bow also subconsciously tightened a little.

"Go and see, don't be alarmed!" The man in the fur uttered a sentence that, though not very loudly, reached the ears of the deer hunter very clearly.

Since the other party didn't have the heart to harm him, the deer hunter didn't look like he was facing a great enemy, so he put away the short bow used for hunting.

Just as he was about to stand up, a fast horse had already rushed in front of him.

When he was only two or three paces away from him, the knight on horseback stopped the horse with a pull on the reins, first glanced down at the man, and then his eyes fell on the deer beside him.

Seeing the dead deer lying next to the man, the man on horseback suddenly had a smile on his face, and said with a fist to the deer hunter: "This fellow, don't you know that there are more beasts in this mountain?" ”

Hearing that the other party just asked if there were more wild beasts in the mountains, the deer hunter's mood calmed down a little, and he gave the man on horseback a salute with his fists and said: "There are beasts in the mountains, but the snow covers the mountains, and there are not many." It shouldn't be difficult to hunt a deer or two......"

"It's all right here!" Before the deer hunter finished speaking, the man on horseback quickly took over the conversation and thanked him and said, "Thank you, folks!" ”

After thanking the deer hunter, the man on horseback took the reins and turned his steed, and ran towards the man in the fur.

"Your Highness, the villagers say that there are some wild beasts in the mountains, but it is good to be able to hunt one or two!" Returning to the man in fur, the man who listened to the situation changed the words of the deer hunter in half of his mouth.

Hearing the man shout the words "Your Highness", the deer hunter realized that it was Liu Wei, the king of Qin, who was wearing fur not far away.

But as soon as he came back to his senses, Liu Wei had already led a group of accompanying guards to ride their horses towards the mountains.

Looking at the back of Liu Wei and the others leaving, the deer hunter regretted that his intestines were about to turn green.

It was snowing heavily, and he could meet King Qin in the snow, and if he went back to tell the villagers, he didn't know how the villagers would be envious.

But fate didn't give him this kind of capital to show off, and before he could understand the identity of the other party, Liu Wei had already led a group of guards into the mountain.

Looking at the distant backs of Liu Wei and the others, the deer hunter felt a burst of loss in his heart, and he had to let out a long sigh and walk in the direction of the village with the dead deer on his back.

Besides, Liu Wei led Wang Liu, Wang Zhen and more than 20 guards to the foot of the mountain.

"Leave three men to take care of the horses, and the others will follow the king into the mountain!" Turning over and jumping off the horse, Liu Wei gave an order to the guards behind him.

Wang Liu and Wang Zhen wanted to follow Liu Wei into the mountain, and among the three of them, they could only be selected from the other guards.

Needless to say, the officers among the guards must follow the mountain, and the only ones left to guard the horses are ordinary soldiers.

Just when an officer was about to assign the soldiers left behind, Wang Liu suddenly coughed violently.

Hearing Wang Liu's cough, Liu Wei hurriedly turned his head to look at her, and asked with concern, "What's wrong?" Do you feel that your body is not very good? ”

"It's always like this." After coughing violently a few times, Wang Liucai said to Liu Wei: "It's better for the last general to stay and take care of the war horse......

After staring at Wang Liu for a while, Liu Wei took off his fur from his body and threw it at her, and said to her: "You can't wear this when you are about to enter the mountain, you can wear this fur, and you will return it when the king turns back." ”

took the fur that Liu Wei threw at her, knowing that Liu Wei was worried that she was freezing, Wang Liu held the corner of the fur in his hand, tears welled up in his moved eyes, and nodded heavily at Liu Bian.

Liu Wei didn't say anything to Wang Liu, and after leaving two guards to accompany Wang Liu, he led the others into the mountains and forests.

The mountains and forests are unusually deserted on snowy days.

The nearby trees are deciduous trees, with bare trunks standing upright on the hillside, and the branches are already covered with silver-white snowflakes.

The sun shone on the trunks of the trees and the snow on the ground, and the snow reflected the snow brightly, and the light was even a little harsh.

As he was walking, Liu Wei suddenly raised an arm.

Seeing Liu Wei's gesture, Wang Zhen and a group of men all stopped, squatting behind him one after another, looking around with a pair of eyes.

The forest was quiet, and there was no sign of anyone or animals at all.

But Liu Wei still didn't move, he still squatted on the ground, quietly listening to the sound in the forest.

Finally, the sound of a real "squirming" came into Liu Bian's ears, and when he heard this sound, Liu Bian raised his two arms and waved them to the sides.

The guards who followed him saw the gesture and knew that Liu Wei was going to outflank the prey, except for Wang Zhen and the two guards, the rest of the people divided into two groups and scattered to both sides.

The crowd lightly touched the place where the noise was made.

Just as he was about to form a circle, Liu Wei suddenly heard the exclamation of a guard: "Your Highness, look! ”

Hearing the guard's scream, Liu Wei knew that he must have found something that was not a beast, and quickly stood up and ran towards the screaming guard.

When he arrived at the guard's side, Liu Wei saw a person lying in the thick snow.

The man's face was pale, he had long since lost his breath, and although he was wearing a civilian's shirt, his burly figure did not look like an ordinary civilian.

Squatting in the snow, Liu Wei raised one of the arms of the corpse on the ground and looked at it carefully, his brows were slightly twisted, and he whispered to Wang Zhen behind him: "This person has a very thick callus on the middle knuckle of his right hand, obviously not an ordinary person, he must be a soldier who wields weapons all year round." ”

"Or ......" Looking at the dead body in the snow, Wang Liu said to Liu Wei with a slightly inquiring expression: "The last general and others will transport the body down the mountain to investigate who knows this person." ”

"I'm afraid not!" As soon as Wang Zhen's words fell, Liu Wei lowered his head and stretched out his hand to play with the snow next to the corpse, and said to Wang Zhen: "This person is not a soldier of the Qin army. ”

"How can Your Highness see it?" Liu Wei's words made Wang Zhen suddenly feel puzzled in his heart, and hurriedly asked.

It was no wonder that Wang Zhen felt strange, what was lying in front of them was just a corpse, but Liu Wei could tell from a corpse that could not speak at all that he was not a soldier of the Qin army.

The man looked flustered. It's like you're hiding from something. Pointing to the corpse, Liu Wei said to Wang Liu: "The placket on his chest is messy, and it is obvious that someone has put his hand in it and taken something." ”

As he spoke, Liu Wei stood up, stretched out his hand and wiped a handful on the trunk next to the corpse, and then surveyed the bottom surface again, and said to Wang Zhen: "If this person fights nearby, the snow on the ground must be messy, but you see, the snow here is very smooth, and there is no sign of a fierce fight here." And there are no blood stains on the trunk at all, you have also fought countless times, you can see that you kill people without spraying blood? ”

What made the king curious was what he had brought with him. Why did you come to Luoyang? Looking down at the corpse in the snow, Liu Wei frowned slightly, as if he was talking to himself: "Did he come to Luoyang all the way or did he pass by from here?" ”

"It seems to be a lot of work!" Listening to Liu Bian's analysis, Wang Zhen's brows were also tightly wrung up, and he followed Liu Bian to think about what this corpse did when it was alive, and why it would be killed in the mountains and forests.

"Let's bury him!" Looking at the corpse, Liu Wei took a long time before saying, "It's not appropriate to expose the corpse wilderness after all." ”

"No!" Liu Wei was about to bury the body, but Wang Zhen stood up and waved to the guards behind him and shouted, "Bury the body!" ”

Several guards responded one after another, and hurriedly stepped forward and dug a large pit in the snow to bury the corpses.

The snow is already thick, and although the soil in the mountains and forests is generally soft, it can be frozen hard in the cold winter.

The guards used their swords to pry the ground with their swords, and with great effort they finally dug a pit that could only bury people shallowly.

Even so, it still depends on the long sword used by the guards is no longer the brittle long sword of the past, but a newly issued tungsten steel long sword.

When the pit had been dug, the two soldiers lifted the body out of the snow, and just as they had thrown it into the pit, the snow flakes on the corpse's feet shook off due to tremors, revealing both feet.

Oddly enough, one of the feet is wearing shoes, while the other is bare.