Deep Sea Embers

Chapter 86: Silt in the bilge

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That was the "captain" of the Obsidian, Cristo Barberi - a mass of disordered matter that could hardly be associated with a "human body", a pile of... fakes that floated up from the deep sea.

He seemed to be completely clueless about his condition, and... there seemed to be something wrong with his thinking.

he does not...

"Young Marquis, please get up quickly. It's our turn to patrol."

"Where am I?"

Qin Hu sat up in a daze, feeling cold and windy outside. He suddenly felt strange.

"Oh, young marquis, how did you get lost in the lake? We are in the military camp. It is our turn to stand guard now. If you don't get up, you will be punished by military law. Now the old marquis can't protect you anymore."

"What?"

Qin Hu opened his eyes and saw that he was in a tent. In front of him was a soldier wearing leather armor.

Just as he was about to ask something, he suddenly had a splitting headache and a huge stream of information rushed into his mind. After a few seconds, he knew that he had traveled through time.

He traveled through time from a modern special forces soldier to a young marquis named Qin Hu, the leader of the seven evil young men in the capital!

However, this era called Dayu Dynasty did not exist in history at all.

Qin Hu's ancestor was one of the four founding dukes and twenty-eight marquises of Dayu. Three months ago, his father passed away and Qin Hu inherited the title and became the new Marquis Guanjun.

Qin Hu was spoiled by his parents since he was young. He didn't like studying or practicing martial arts. He just played, ate, drank and had fun, and ran rampant in the capital.

When he grew up, his family wanted him to settle down, so they arranged a marriage for him. The girl was the eldest daughter of Duke Chen, named Chen Ruoli, a lady from a prominent family, beautiful and intelligent.

This Qin Hu was extremely cruel to everyone else, but he was extremely obedient to his beautiful fiancée and treated her like a treasure.

But the problem just happened to this childhood sweetheart, Miss Chen.

According to Qin Hu's memory, he brought his fiancée into the palace that day to pay homage to the Princess Chang'an of the current dynasty. The princess and Chen Ruoli had been in love since childhood, so she arranged a banquet.

But later, Qin Hu got drunk and blacked out. When he woke up, he was already in the Imperial Prison of the Inner Guard. He was told that he had molested the princess while drunk and intended to do something bad.

What's even more bizarre is that Chen Ruoli actually wrote a letter to impeach her fiancé Qin Hu for 72 illegal acts, with evidence to support each one.

Qin Hu was like being struck by lightning, he couldn't believe his ears...

The imperial edict came down quickly. Considering the merits of Qin Hu's ancestors, the death penalty was spared, but he could not escape punishment for living. He was exiled to Youzhou to serve in the army and retain his title to see the results.

But after arriving in Youzhou, he was soon assigned to the front line - serving in the vanguard tent.

After Qin Hu went through these things in his mind, he basically figured out that this must be a trap.

Because Duke Chen had long wanted to break off the engagement with him.

The Qin family and the Chen family were originally a political marriage, and both families wanted to become stronger and bigger. Later, Qin Hu was almost useless except for being a playboy. It can be said that he brought shame to the Guanjun Marquis' Mansion.

You know, all the champions of previous generations were heroes with unparalleled influence in the army, but in this generation, there appeared a waste who had never been on the battlefield.

When the old marquis was alive, Duke Chen still gave him face. After the old marquis died, Duke Chen turned hostile and ruthless, and even staged a scene of breaking off the engagement in the mourning hall.

But Qin Hu loved Chen Ruoli so much that he refused to agree no matter what, while Chen Ruoli had long been disgusted with this evil young man.

Then a disaster happened!

As for Princess Chang'an, it is even simpler. She is the cousin of Qin Hu's cousin. As long as Qin Hu dies, the huge fortune of Guanjun Marquis's Mansion will naturally fall into the hands of this cousin.

These forces, each taking what they needed, colluded with each other, and quickly united...

It is true that once you enter a noble family, it is like entering a deep sea. There are so many people who want him dead.

"Qin An, do you think we can find a place with some shelter from the wind?"

Under the bright moonlight, the rough north wind swept across the empty fields with a shrill whistle, making a few torches flicker, just like countless flying knives cutting people's skin.

"No, young marquis, you will be punished by military law."

Qin Hu and Qin An ran out of the camp against the wind, stepping on the thick snow and running forward.

The thin Qin An was not paying attention and was blown over by the strong wind.

When the two sentries who were on duty saw them coming out, they smiled sinisterly at each other, scooped up two handfuls of snow to put out the campfire for warmth, and then went into the tent.

Damn it, he even bribed the soldiers, trying to freeze me to death!

This is a very small camp with about twenty tents, surrounded by carriages. There are not even chevaux deer horns arranged on the outside. The terrain nearby is flat and there is no strategic location to defend. It is obvious that there is no plan to station there for a long time.

According to Qin Hu's memories from his previous life, there were about two hundred people stationed here. They were the vanguard camp of Li Qin, the general of the Yu Dynasty who was in charge of the Northern Expedition.

This time, the target of Li Qin's 20,000-strong army was the Liaodong Kingdom, the old enemy of the Yu Dynasty on the border.

"Ahem, young marquis, do you think we can go back alive?" Qin An curled up on the snow, his lips and face were blue, and he spoke weakly, as if he would die at any time.

Qin Hu sighed in his heart. Qin An was implicated entirely by himself. If things continued to develop in this way, both of them would surely die.

Those who wanted him dead, after failing to kill him in the court, attacked him secretly in the military camp and beat him to death with clubs.

But Qin Hu is not a man who would sit and wait for death. It was obvious that he was framed, and he couldn't just let it go.

Life is an endless struggle for survival. Just wait, not only will I survive, I will also return to the capital to settle accounts with you.

"Qin An, how many banknotes did we take with us when we left?"

"I don't have any banknotes. I only have twenty taels of silver. The imperial edict says that we will be exiled and our property will be confiscated."

Qin An is only 16 years old this year. He is Qin Hu's personal servant. He is very thin and has long been unable to bear the torture. It seems that he is only breathing his last breath.

In fact, Qin Hu was not much better off. These days, the vanguard camp marched 30 miles every day. Their work was to build roads through mountains, build bridges across rivers, chop wood and make fires, dig ditches and fetch water, and set up camps.

What would it be like for these two delicate and tender guys to be with hundreds of burly soldiers every day

They must do the most tiring work, eat the worst food, receive the most severe beatings, and endure the most anger...

Qin Hu estimated that his predecessor might have been tortured to death.

He probably deserved it.

But now he has to bear this suffering. If he can't, he will die.

"Give me."

Qin Hu made up his mind that he must first try to save Qin An's life, and then think of other ways.

In fact, it is not difficult to save your life. The simplest way is to bribe. As the saying goes, money can make anything possible. Although this method is primitive, it always works.

But in this situation, he couldn't bribe high officials because no one dared to get involved with him. Besides, he had no money.

So a person came to his mind, Centurion Li Xiaokun.

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