As soon as Lin Dan returned to the camp, he was hugged by Ding Mujie who hurried over. He kept slapping her on the back, pulled a distance away, carefully looked at her blood-stained face, and said hoarsely, "You've lost weight."
Lin Dan pushed him away with a slightly embarrassed tone: "Apart from being thin, don't you see anything else?"
"What's wrong?" Ding Mujie immediately showed an anxious expression.
"It's not right anywhere," Lin said bluntly, tugging at the hard and clumpy clothes, "I haven't showered for more than a month, and I sleep with the horses every day, can't you smell it? I'm the whole person. It's all sour."
Ding Mujie's worried expression froze for a moment, and after a while he laughed helplessly, "Come on," he shouted, "Go and make a bucket of hot water for General Lin!"
"Wait," Lin Dan raised his hand and emphasized, "Burn a few more barrels, I'm afraid one barrel is not enough!"
The soldier who was summoned ran away excitedly, as if he had led a very important errand. Ding Mujie and Li Xian laughed uncontrollably. Lin Dan is still as direct as ever, very cute. It had been more than a month since she left, but to them it seemed as long as ten years.
"Come to my tent after taking a shower, let's sit down and have a good chat." Li Xian said in a hoarse voice.
"I'm coming too." Ding Mujie gave him a meaningful look.
"I'm here too, and bring some good wine and food." The rest of the generals responded when they heard this before they left. They finally hoped for General Lin to come back, so why not celebrate
Li Xian was annoyed. Seeing Lin Dan agreed, he was not good at expelling people, so he cursed inwardly, "Something that doesn't wink".
After washing up, Lin Dan entered the tent and began to tell about her experience for more than a month: "... After leaving that village, I originally wanted to go back to the camp, but then I thought: What if I come back? Three hundred thousand The Western Expedition Army is no match for the 800,000 Hu Iron Cavalry, what can I change by myself? If I have thousands of troops, I will definitely be able to kill the Wuhu Allied Forces."
Having said that, Lin Dan raised the jug and drank a lot. The jade complexion was already stained with two blushing, and it looked particularly bright. His eyes were more like the stars in the sky, extremely bright. The soldiers looked at her with burning eyes, carefully concealing the love in their hearts. This is their leader and the person they most admire, so how can you be rude to her
Li Xian glanced at her quickly, then lowered his head to drink.
However, Ding Mujie seemed to be fine, just reclining on the soft couch and looking at Lin Dan with a beaming smile. He didn't dare to blaspheme her, he didn't dare to approach her, but he didn't dare to let her out of his sight.
Lin Dan finished drinking a pot of wine, wiped his red lips at will, and continued: "Thinking of this, I seized a glimmer of light, and I thought that a thousand troops are rare, but on this vast prairie, wild horses are everywhere. So I wandered all over the steppe, gathering five or six wild horse herds one after another, picking out the strongest one from the five or six head horses to tame, and killing the rest. They obeyed my words. As long as I controlled the first horse, it was equivalent to strangling the necks of all the horses. I let them go east, but they never dared to go west. On the way back, I met several groups of Huns scouts, but I hid in Under the horse's belly, they can't see me at all..."
Lin Dan has always been taciturn and rarely speaks so much. But today is extraordinarily different. Today she won a battle and drank strong wine, and there is more pride in her chest that needs to be expressed, so she has more words. She had no idea how moving her free and uninhibited appearance was when her cheeks were red, her eyes were bright, and she talked freely.
Everyone looked at her intently, and when she laughed, they laughed too, and when she drank, they raised their glasses and drank, as long as they were with her, they were the happiest and happiest in the world. Lucky thing. In the end, everyone was drunk, but Lin Dan was only slightly drunk. After putting down his glass, he said solemnly, "Why didn't Lin Qing come?"
Ding Mujie deliberately avoided everyone's toast, and was still very awake at this time, and said slowly: "He was married by the old lady Jun Qiang in the capital, saying that he would not come to the border until his daughter-in-law was pregnant. Almost all the sons of the Lin family were killed in battle, There is only one single seedling left for him, and he has to keep it for the Lin family. Speaking of which, you have reached the age to get married."
If he didn't avoid Lin Wan's design on the day he came back from his rebirth, Lin Dan should have become his wife, right? This thought stuck to Ding Mujie's mind like a maggot in his tarsus, and it was hard for him to let go. But he also deeply realized that even if Lin Dan became his wife, he would end their relationship because of that misunderstanding.
It's better to be as calm as it is now, and still be a friend anyway. Thinking of this, Ding Mujie couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly. He wanted to stop drinking and accompany Lin Dan well and soberly, but now he has the urge to get drunk.
Lin Dan leaned on the back of the chair and said word by word, "The yellow sand wears golden armor in a hundred battles. If the Huns are not destroyed, they will not be returned. If the Huns are not destroyed, I will not be married for a day. The blood of the Lin family has its own Lin Qing. Pass it on. Don't talk about this, just drink." She filled Ding Mujie with a glass of wine, and she picked up the jug and drank freely.
Ding Mujie stared at her for a while while her eyes were closed, and then he drank the wine and said with a smile, "Leave the war to you, and leave the lineage to Lin Qing, who is also the director of each exhibition."
Seeing him tease Lin Qing like this, Lin Dan couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Ding Mujie was instantly fascinated, while Li Xian, who was lying on the couch, secretly opened one eye and watched her seldom revealed smile for a moment, with countless tender feelings surging in his chest, but he didn't dare to express it at all. This person is like a majestic mountain, but also like a gurgling water, the breeze is her, the ice and snow is her, the sun is her, the morning dew is her... All the beauty of the mortal world seems to be condensed in her. But it is precisely because she is too good that people dare not approach her.
Not married? Li Xian closed his eyes, feeling a little regretful, but also a little relaxed and said: This is fine...
Ding Mujie turned the wine cup in his hand, his brows slowly stretched, as if relieved.
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In the capital, the emperor with a much older face was waiting for the border battle report. The prince and all the courtiers stood outside the hall, not even breathing.
So far, no news has come from the border, but everyone knows that with the strength of the Wei state, it is impossible to stop the Wuhu coalition. At that time, the land will be divided up by the Wuhu, and the citizens will be enslaved by the Wuhu, which is almost predictable. result. If these nobles want to survive, the best way is to cross the Yangtze River south and abandon the northern land.
"Father, this is the Nandu Regulations, please take a look." The prince took out a thick memorial.
"Wait." The emperor waved his hand and pushed back, his tone a little tired. As a last resort, he did not want to leave his subjects and flee.
The crown prince sighed, his face full of helplessness, and the officials standing behind him all showed anxious expressions, wanting to urge the emperor to make an early decision, but did not dare to speak rashly. The officials led by the ninth prince were all determined, as if they were ready to die for the country.
Everyone didn't think Wei Guo could win, so when the battle report came, they were all stunned.
"You, what did you just say?" The emperor held the 800-mile expedited battle report in his hand, but dared not open it.
The envoy repeated: "Report to the emperor, our army has defeated the Wuhu, and now we have successively recaptured northern Jin, northern Shaanxi, Hetao and other places, and went deeper into the desert to defeat the Xiongnu!"
The emperor shook his hands and opened the envelope, read it eagerly, and finally laughed loudly, showing ecstasy: "Good good, good Lin Dan! If there is a fierce general like this, it is my great Wei's luck!"
The whole group of princes and courtiers under the seat only remembered it, but there was still an expression of disbelief on their faces. The emperor's old face was now red, and after reading the battle report, he handed it over to the eunuch, and said happily, "Read it to them!"
The eunuch cleared his throat and sang aloud, word by word, and then everyone understood what happened at the border gate. But it turned out that Lin Dan didn't die at all. When the battle was at its most anxious, he suddenly led a group of wild horses to the rear of the Wuhu Allied Forces, smashing their formation, trampling their soldiers to death, and taking the heads of the leaders of the four clans alone. , completely split the Wuhu coalition. Mo Xiao was frightened by her, and immediately turned his horse's head and fled back to the grassland. She almost cut off his arm on the way, but he also injured his shoulder and bleed a lot. He didn't know if he could save him after returning.
After the victory, she encircled and suppressed the remnants of the Five Husbands all over the grasslands, recovering the lost ground one by one. So far, the frontier has been completely stabilized. This time, Mo Xiao did not dare to submit a letter of reconciliation. The capital, bowing its head to the state of Wei.
After the battle report was read, the hall was already silent. After a long time, someone called out in surprise. Only a few princes had unnatural expressions, but under the celebration, no one paid attention to them. Wei Guo has been saved, and the ministers do not have to give up their property to go south, naturally they are happier than anything else.
The emperor slapped the imperial table vigorously, and said in deep thought, "He took the heads of the leaders of the four clans in a row, and tried to turn the tide and save the family and country from danger. How should General Lin reward him this time?"
At this time, no one would impeach Lin Dan for stealing the position of a general as a woman, not to mention her crime of murdering her biological father. After leaving the frontier and returning to Beijing to marry, who will deter the barbarians outside the border? You must know that in the vast desert, in addition to Wuhu, there are also Mongolians and Jin people. They are also ambitious and eager to move, just waiting for the right time to bite Wei. The seemingly endless grassland is far less peaceful than the surface.
The emperor picked up the pen and scribbled the next volume of imperial decree, and he directly promoted Lin Dan to be the general of Dingguo, filling the post of old marshal Lin, and gave her a title of nobility and a thousand households in food towns. There is nothing else. In order to win over Lin Dan, the emperor also made a lot of money.