He Mulan accepted Gai Wu, and of course Chen Jie was the happiest.
I don't know if it was fate that had to entangle Chen Jie and Lushuihu, or Chen Jie's sympathy made him always have pity on those who suffered. Get jealous.
Chen Jie and Mangu were not good enough to talk about everything.
"What? Both your mother and uncle are fakes? It's the Lushuihu people who are trying to cover up your identity..." Chen Jie glanced at Gai Wu.
"It's no wonder that you are also a young master, but you are sloppy and you can't even get enough to eat."
"I've already made others take such a big risk, so naturally I can't bother them anymore. Their family is not rich, and with my mouth, it's even more difficult to live on." Gai Wu's expression darkened: "Actually, there are also people Introduce me to the dirty work, I endured not to go, I wanted to endure it again, but fortunately I survived, otherwise..."
Chen Jie was born into a military household. His family was a big family, and his life was not hard, so there was still a hint of innocence of a young man. When he heard what Gai Wu said, he couldn't help but say: "What is dirty work? Night Fragrance?"
Man Gu, who was listening, rolled his eyes.
"The Yan Qi of Liu Song that we caught was doing dirty work. Murder, kidnapping, stealing, and defrauding money are all dirty work. There are also some cases of robbery and robbery, which are also dirty work."
Chen Jie couldn't help but sighed.
"Gai Wu, don't do this, let the general know, it will break your bones!"
"How can I do dirty work now!" Gai Wu shouted, "I can't wait to listen to the general's teaching every day, how can I do such a thing!"
"I want to listen to the teachings of our general..." Chen Jie stood up proudly, "You finally got this opportunity, so cherish it!"
"You guys, stop chatting, go." He Mulan came out of the back room and changed into a leather armor. "Today, Yuan Sima's private soldiers have entered the camp, and we are going to meet them."
Chen Jie and Man Gu immediately stood up from the steps and said "yes". One went to prepare horses for He Mulan and others, while the other dragged Gai Wu and asked in a low voice, "Do you have a horse?"
"Originally there was." Gai Wu bowed his head embarrassedly: "Then there was no way to do it, so I sold it for rice."
"A warrior can't abandon his war horse no matter what." He Mulan couldn't help sighing when he heard what Gai Wu said, "You Lushuihu people have nothing to make a living? Why is it so down and out?"
"What kind of livelihood can they have? The Qiang people can also trade horses. Xingcheng is notoriously dry for a long time, so they can't even raise horses." Seven stay three, where can I support my family."
"Chen Jie, go and bring the birthday to him."
He Mulan thought for a while and instructed Chen Jie.
"Huh? That horse..."
Chen Jie was stunned for a while, but when he realized that He Mulan was not joking, he went to lead the horse with an unexpected face.
"As soon as you have entered my door, I will give you a horse as a gift. This horse is called 'Birthday', and it is the mount of my former companion. He is a true warrior who has saved my life, I hope You can live up to the reputation of a master on this horse and use it well."
Her birthday is just a horse for her, and she can't ride it once a month, so it's better to give it to Gai Wu, at least he only has this mount, and he will cherish it.
BMW is like beauty, if no one appreciates it, it will die in depression.
When Gai Wu heard what He Mulan said, the warrior on horseback should have died, and he died to save He Mulan, so he couldn't help feeling sorry.
Thinking of giving him such a horse with a story, Gai Wu could not wait to be ruthless to He Mulan, swearing that he would also give up his life for her.
Chen Jie brought a tall yellow-maned horse to Gai Wu. Although Gai Wu had a poor life, he had followed Gai Tiantai to the south and the north since he was a child, and his knowledge may be wider than He Mulan. He knew it as soon as he saw this horse. This is a good Rouran horse, and I am even more happy in my heart.
It had been a long time since her birthday had been ridden by He Mulan, and she was a little dragged when she walked. She couldn't help shaking her neck when Gai Wu held the reins.
Gai Wu also knows how to tame people, while stroking its mane to comfort it, while letting it smell its own scent, until it is completely quiet, then he gets on his horse.
The birthday stood firmly on the ground and did not struggle.
At this point, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank you Master!"
Gai Wu excitedly held the reins.
"This horse is really nice!"
But He Mulan thought of peanuts, and she was so elated when the horse wrapped in peanuts was presented to her.
Thinking of Peanuts, He Mulan couldn't help but feel sad, she just nodded, and did not boast that Wu would tame Ma Yunyun.
When she rode a horse far ahead, Gai Wu asked Chen Jie, who was beside him, uneasy, "Why does Master look so unhappy?"
Seeing that He Mulan didn't pay attention to the back, Chen Jie whispered, "Your horse's owner is called Peanut, and he is a Rouran slave. The general led away these Rouran people, and finally died in their hands. Since then, the general has left the birthday as his mount, and it is not about peanuts. "
Chen Jie thought of the young man and sighed: "He is indeed a good person, bold and careful, and he takes care of the general meticulously, even standing guard at the door when he takes a bath, if you say who the general trusts most, it is probably He is."
The bath will also stand guard at the door...
Did you take good care of the general
As the saying goes, one day is a teacher and a lifetime is a father. Gai Wu thought about it. His own grandfather died. Now the closest person should be the master. If he serves the master like his own father, the master should also be pleased. .
Master will give him this horse, is there such expectation in it
The more Gai Wu thought about it, the more he felt that he had been so comfortable these few days, that he didn't mean "filial piety" to He Mulan at all, which was really inappropriate.
He will do well!
"Hey, it's better to be a noble. Before all the people from the Hu Ben army were recruited, Yuan Sima's private army arrived first. It's not like our general, a bare general."
Chen Jie whispered.
"I also asked the general to greet him. Isn't this a dismounting?"
Although He Mulan was the left Sima, it didn't mean that the right Sima was not important. Yuan Po Qiang has a valuable status, and has the reputation of being good at fighting. In addition, there are five hundred private soldiers of his own. Whether it is status, strength or qualifications, he is far ahead of He Mulan.
The most remarkable thing about He Mulan is her extraordinary ability, but no matter how powerful a person is, they can't fight against thousands of troops. The private soldiers of the nobles are elites, and their equipment and physical quality are far superior to those of ordinary military households. Some powerful private soldiers are like Kumoti's Yingyang Army, each of which is an old soldier who fights against three and five.
Yuan Po Qiang joined the army with private soldiers, and his voice was much heavier than He Mulan, who had nothing now.
That's why Chen Jiecai was so worried about his general.
Gai Wu knew how powerful the private soldiers were, but he didn't know who Yuan Po Qiang was, so he asked.
"This Sima was originally the prince of Nanliang. Later, when Nanliang was destroyed by Western Qin, he led the elites of Nanliang to flee to our country and defected to the late emperor. After His Majesty ascended the throne, he praised his bravery and let him lead the army. General."
Chen Jie only knew so much about Yuan Po Qiang.
"He is the prince of Nanliang, but under our general?"
Gai Wu showed an expression of "My master is getting better".
People of the time have multiple backgrounds, and even a broken prince is more respected by people than ordinary military households, and the same is true for Gai Wu.
When he heard that the prince was actually not as old as his master, he was even more honored.
"There are too many princes in the army..." Man Gu said disapprovingly, "Nine out of ten Xianbei clans are in the army, not to mention a prince from Nanliang. We in the Wei Dynasty rely on military merit, and Yuan Sima does not have us. A family general has high military merit, so he has to be subordinate to our family general, as it should be. He led so many private soldiers without the same military merit as our family general, shouldn't he be overpowering him?"
From the point of view of these military households, having a background and private soldiers is just a bit higher. If you really want to earn military merit, you still need to rely on your ability. Hua Mulan is very capable and has a big fist. Although Mangu used to be her commander, but now he wants to be subordinate to him, he is not at all unconvinced.
"Demon Museum"
If Yuan Po Qiang was really unwilling to submit to He Mulan and had thoughts that he shouldn't be moved, it would be his own humiliation.
The barracks of Huben Camp is a newly established barracks north of Miyagi. If Tuoba Tao set out from the palace to the Huben military camp, he would just pass through a palace city.
But He Mulan and others were not qualified to go through the palace city to the barracks, so they had to go around the outer city from Changping Square where Dongcheng was located to reach the barracks.
He Mulan set off every morning to supervise the establishment of the barracks, and sometimes did not return until evening. Yuan Po Qiang is responsible for logistics.
This is a fat job, but He Mulan doesn't want to intervene. Su Hejun once mentioned her that she doesn't have her own people now. If she intervenes rashly, others will only think that she has won the power, and she has to take profits. Yuanpo Qiang has horses to support, so I don’t feel relieved about leaving the logistics to others, so let him come.
He is not a fool, even if he wants to do anything, he will not delay the important affairs of the Hu Ben army.
If it wasn't for Su Hejun's careful mention of these conflicts in the army, many He Mulan would not have imagined it. Sometimes even if she knows, she can hardly change anything except patiently following the "rules".
This feeling of powerlessness sometimes makes her at a loss, but the days are still long, and she is not in a hurry...
"Whoosh!"
A sound of breaking the sky suddenly came!
He Mulan was thinking about the problem at first, when he heard the sound of breaking the air, he immediately fell down, and the arrow slid past her side and hurriedly went behind her.
Man Gu and Chen Jie both came from the military, and Gai Wu had been trained in various wind and rain since childhood. The three of them found that someone was attacking, and immediately pulled out their weapons and rode their horses around He Mulan's side, looking for arrows to shoot. s position
He Mulan looked at an inn by the roadside.
The window of a room on the second floor was not closed, and it could be seen that the window was still shaking.
There are not many tall buildings in Pingcheng. Generally, inns or restaurants are only two or three floors, and there are very few three floors. Because the inn is located in Dongcheng, most of the wealthy people stay there. He Mulan has never encountered any danger on this street every day, but he did not expect to be attacked today!
The four of them waited for a while, but they didn't find the second arrow shot, so Chen Jie cautiously jumped off the horse, looked around several times, and then bent over to pull out the arrow.
This arrow doesn't look like an arrow shot from a longbow. The body of the arrow is thick and short, and the tail feathers are sparse. It looks like...
"There is actually a heavy/crossbow arrow in Beijing?" Chen Jie grabbed the arrow and pulled it out. "Aren't you afraid of being caught and convicted of treason?"
The state of Wei did not control weapons, except for weapons such as heavy and bed weapons.
Gai Wu was originally highly concentrated, but when he saw Chen Jie pulling out the arrow, he couldn't help shouting: "Chen Jie, throw it away! That arrow is poisonous!"
Under the sunlight, the arrowhead of the crossbow/arrow glowed faintly green. Modern duo medicines do not turn green or blue, this is because of the color residue caused by the backward extraction technology of ancient duo medicines.
Chen Jie shook his hand when he heard the words, and the arrow fell to the ground. Gai Wu got off his horse, tore off half of his sleeve, wrapped an arrow in his sleeve and put it under his nose to sniff, his face suddenly ugly.
He Mulan pointed to the inn, and Man Gu immediately rushed into the building and went straight to the second floor. Even at the door, yelling, handshakes, and people rolling down ladders could be heard in the inn.
Man Gu had a ferocious appearance, a tall stature, and was from Xianbei. If he did this kind of thing, he would be more intimidating than He Mulan.
But for a moment, Mangu's fierce face stuck out from the open window on the second floor, and he was chasing after a few servants dressed as running halls.
"General!"
Mangu looked down with his probe.
"There's no one in the house, it's empty!"
"I told you that no one lives in this house, why didn't you listen to it!"
The noisy voice from above came again, sometimes pulling and pulling to make Mangu lose money.
Gai Wu was still squatting on the ground, sniffing the arrow, as if that wasn't enough, and actually wiped the arrow with the cloth in his hand and licked it.
"Bah! It's actually fresh!"
Gai Wu kept spitting out saliva.
"What are you doing!"
He Mulan was startled.
"How did you eat the poison!"
"Master, it's okay, this poison won't happen unless you see blood."
Gai Wu raised the arrow carefully.
"If you have mouth ulcers... no, if you have small wounds in your mouth and don't know it, you will be poisoned to death in a while."
He Mulan showed a disapproving expression.
Gai Wu seemed to be quite sure. He held the arrow solemnly and respectfully said to He Mulan:
"Master, can you take a step to speak?"
There were people coming and going in the inn, and He Mulan was not an official in charge of the security of the capital, so naturally he couldn't block the inn. If Chen Jie or Mangu were to guard the door of the inn, she was worried that they would end up with a bad hand. , only to bring them back.
When Gai Wu called her, she immediately walked over. I saw Gai Wu holding the stubby arrow with an ugly face, and said to He Mulan, "Master, the poison smeared on this arrow was made by us Lushuihu people."
"what?"
"You haven't been poisoned to your brain, have you?"
Man Gu and Chen Jie shouted.
"It's troublesome to make. Except for my uncles, no one else will bother with it. I'm worried that my uncles have taken over some business, so I'm targeting you."
Gai Wu looked at the arrow in his hand with lingering fears.
"I don't know how they dare to use this poison on the streets of Pingcheng. Could it be crazy?"
"Don't your uncles know you?" He Mulan looked up at the window, "You're not afraid of accidental injury if you follow me?"
"Maybe I didn't see me when I shot the first arrow, and I didn't continue after that. Maybe I noticed me." Gai Wu looked blank, "It's also possible that it wasn't my uncles who came, but their newly recruited subordinates. "
The Tiantai Army was torn apart, he only took a small number of people, and most of them followed his two uncles to find a way to survive.
Beiliang and Liu Song have been trying to win over them, and it is possible for them to join any party.
"If Lu Shuihu has such a weapon, His Majesty must destroy you all." He Mulan looked serious. "Even in the army, there are not many heavy weapons. It is so troublesome to assemble this weapon. There is actually one in the east city of Pingcheng, and it is still close to Miyagi. If the egret officer finds out the origin of the arrow and the medicine, what can you do? Do you know what the consequences are?"
"This can't be our weapon! We are good at fighting right away, and we use both longbows and sabres. My family has a double sword, and my two uncles also use double swords. This kind of weapon is so expensive and expensive. It can't be used right away, what do we want it to do."
Gai Wu's face turned pale.
"Unless... unless someone gave them..."
Nu is different from a bow. As long as nu learns how to use the spring, everyone can use it, and the range is not known how much farther than the bow and arrow!
Seeing that Gai Wu's face was really ugly, He Mulan knew that he was worried that with his current position, he would have to fight with his own clan, so he was extremely worried.
"If someone else gave it to them, can you let them push the deal? They are your uncles, can't they go back on it?"
He Mulan could only ask him with a glimmer of hope.
"Impossible, we won't go back on the business that our Tiantai Army has taken over. Even if we want to kill our own relatives and friends, or we don't take it, we must complete it..." Gai Wu went on to say: "If it fails, we must Ten times the reward. With the personalities of my two uncles, they will only persuade me to help kill you, and then give me half of the money, and they will never go back."
"Then I can only report it to the Egret officer for investigation." He Mulan sighed, "The enemy is dark and I know, I can't hide at home every day, right?"
Who knows where there are Lushuihu people hiding
They can sneak into the inn where people come and go, not to mention other places.
Gai Wu's face turned blue and then white. He never thought that he would face such a result just a few days after his apprenticeship.
Tuoba Xianbei's Egret officials have been famous since Jin Dynasty. If it is true that his uncles took up the assassination work in Pingcheng, they will be found out.
At that time, it is not necessary to implicate all Lushuihu people living in Pingcheng, and maybe even the people of Xingcheng will be implicated.
Short sighted!
greedy!
They are still the same.
Looking at his master, Gai Wu suddenly knelt on his knees and said angrily, "Master, this matter may affect many innocent people. I hope Master will give me a few days to check this matter carefully. Well, if it wasn't for a misunderstanding, I would definitely persuade my clansmen to give up this mission."
He fell to the ground with his hands, feeling his face burning hot.
"Master, please don't give this arrow to the egret officer, I will definitely solve this matter!"
Chen Jie, who was the most supportive of Gai Wu in the past, was the first to disagree.
"Who knows if you have to investigate for a few days, and whether they will stop? What if something happens to the general in the past few days? That's heavy/nu! We have only a few weapons that can be calculated at a distance of 300 steps. Personally, how could it be possible to defend against the Dark Arrow?"
Chen Jie's words shot out like a series of arrows.
"In a few days, our generals will be driving out of Beijing. At this time, no mistakes can be made. If your clansmen make mistakes, they should accept the consequences of their mistakes. How can they show favoritism?"
"Is it possible that as long as I can protect Master's safety for the past few days, Master can give me a few days to resolve this matter?"
When Gai Wu heard Chen Jie's words, he raised his head expectantly and looked at He Mulan.
"I have a way! Please give me a chance!"
Standing in front of Gai Wu, He Mulan thought for a while, then wrapped the arrow with Gai Wu's broken sleeve and put it in the bag behind the saddle.
"Get up, don't kneel, go and have a try."
"Yes Yes!"
Gai Wu stood up with bright eyes and repeatedly said yes.
"I know that if you Lushuihu people encounter a problem that cannot be solved, you will often decide the outcome by martial arts..." He Mulan told him:
"Come to my house tonight, and I'll teach you a few tricks to restrain your swordsmanship."
She has competed with Gai Wu several times, and has long known the weaknesses of Gai's swordsmanship.
"If you still can't beat..."
He Mulan looked at Gai Wu with a stunned expression, and said with a chuckle.
"Just come back and report the news, Master, I'll call at the door."