"Your Highness, the supper is ready!" Wang Dan stood outside Zhao Hao's tent reporting that because they were too anxious to retreat, many of the tents were not too late to put away. In addition, a lot of supplies were lost during the retreat, which made them even in short supply. He is now crowding in the same tent with Commander Cao and others, and only Zhao Hao owns his own tent.

"Yeah!" Zhao Hao agreed, and then came out of the tent. Compared to the city lord's mansion where he lived before, this small tent was much simpler, and he couldn't even straighten his waist in the tent. But under the current conditions, he had nothing to be picky about. After all, compared to the city of Shenglong Mansion that was flooded with water, at least a dry place can be found here to sleep.

Zhao Hao and Wang Dan came to the northwest corner of the open space on the mountainside. Many fires had risen here. A large pot was erected on the red flames, and the pot was cooked with a mixture of fruits, wild vegetables, and a small amount of rice. This was their main food every day.

Wang Dan personally served Zhao Hao a bowl of fruit, wild vegetables, rice porridge, and then he sat next to Zhao Hao and ate with him. They arranged four lines of defense for the entire mountain. They were the last line of defense. Commander Cao ordered them to be responsible for one line of defense, so they were not here.

Zhao Hao looked at the colorful fruits and wild vegetables in the bowl, but his stomach kept emitting sour water. Needless to say, the taste of wild vegetables is full of ups and downs. As for the fruits, they are actually wild fruits on the trees, many of which are sour and astringent, and the taste after cooking is even more strange. Zhao Hao has been spoiled since he was a child. This thing is like pig food to him.

However, although Zhao Hao couldn't eat it, the soldiers Wang Dan and others next to him all tasted it while it was hot, and it didn't look like they were hard to swallow. Judging from the sweetness they ate, it seemed that they didn't eat wild vegetable porridge at all. They were delicacies.

"General Wang, I really can't eat it. Look at how sweet you eat, I'll give it to you!" Zhao Hao suddenly handed the bowl in his hand to Wang Dan. He really couldn't eat it, and he was very satisfied with Wang Dan's performance. He had long wanted to recruit the other party, so he handed the bowl in his hand, which was a killing two birds with one stone.

Wang Dan was also stunned by Zhao Hao's actions, but he immediately reacted and took the food handed over by Zhao Hao with a smile and said, "Thank you for your reward!"

Wang Dan immediately started eating after taking the bowl. Now there is insufficient food, and everyone has a limited amount of food every day. Even Zhao Hao eats and lives with the soldiers. Not to mention him, a bowl of wild vegetable porridge is not enough to eat.

After dinner, Wang Dan commanded his men to arrange the evening defense, while Zhao Hao had nothing to do and could only walk around the camp. After dark, he returned to his small tent because he didn't eat anything. So at this time he felt very hungry, but he forced himself not to think about food. Close his eyes and empty his mind, and in the end he didn't know when he fell asleep.

When he was sleeping until midnight, Zhao Hao suddenly woke up from hunger. The hunger before was a feeling of empty stomach, but now it seems like someone is holding his stomach in his hands and rubbing it, causing a burst of pain. This is the first time Zhao Hao has suffered this kind of pain since he was a child. In addition, he had diarrhea before, and his body was very weak. At this time, his stomach became uncomfortable, which made him sweat in his body. He even felt like he wanted to faint.

However, just when Zhao Hao was feeling about tortured by the feeling of hunger, he suddenly heard footsteps outside the tent, followed by a familiar voice outside and said, "Your Highness, are you sleeping?"

"Wang Dan?" Hearing the voice outside, Zhao Hao also got up suddenly. He couldn't understand why he came to find him in the middle of the night, but he finally replied, "No, is there anything wrong with General Wang?"

"Your Highness, I will shoot a leopard while patrolling the night before. Today, your highness did not have supper, so I specially sent a hind leg!" At this time, Wang Dan said, "When they first came to this mountain, they could still catch some prey, but as more and more animals were hunted, the remaining animals escaped from this forest, so it is difficult to catch prey again in the past few days.

When Zhao Hao heard that Wang Dan actually brought him a leopard leg, he jumped up from the floor and rushed out of the tent with ecstasy expression. Sure enough, he saw Wang Dan standing outside the tent, holding an animal's hind leg in his hand, with blood dripping on it.

"Thank you for your kindness, General Wang, I'm so disrespectful!" Zhao Hao immediately spoke when he saw this leopard leg, without even saying a polite word. After all, he is almost starving to death now, and Wang Dan's actions are simply a timely help.

"Haha, your highness wait, I will deal with this leopard leg, and then cook it for your highness before eating." Wang Dan happened to be fine, and most of the personal guards around Zhao Hao died in the battle, and the rest were arranged by Zhao Hao to help defend the defense, so there was no one around Zhao Hao at all. Wang Dan guessed that he would definitely not be able to cook by himself, so he proposed to help him cook.

"General Wang is more thoughtful, thank you so much!" Zhao Hao was increasingly satisfied with Wang Dan. This man not only knows how to fight, but also has a very meticulous heart. Thanks to his care these days, he has been able to persevere for so many days, so he has made up his mind to recruit Wang Dan to his own hands.

At that moment, Zhao Hao and Wang Dan came to the fire outside the tent. Wang Dan asked him to go to the chef to find a small basin, and then cleaned the leopard legs and cut them into small pieces and cooked them in the basin. Because there was no seasoning and there was not even salt, he could only boil them in white water. However, Wang Dan picked some wild plants, including fruits, leaves, and even bark. After adding these things, the meat tasted more intense, which made Zhao Hao saliva almost flow out.

After the meat was cooked, Zhao Hao didn't care about his demeanor and brought the basin to himself and ate it. Although the leopard was not big, it had a dozen pounds of hind legs. In the end, he ate nearly half of it. Then he drank half of the soup in one breath, and then put down the basin with satisfaction and said, "General Wang, your cooking skills are really unspeakable. Although you don't even have salt, it cooks very deliciously. This should be the best delicious cooked meat I have ever eaten in my life."

"Haha, Your Highness is so serious. I learned all this skill from the chefs in the army, so how can I compare with others?" Wang Dan laughed when he heard this. In fact, he also knew that it was not that the meat he cooked was delicious, but that Zhao Hao was really hungry.

Zhao Hao was in a very happy mood when he had something in his stomach. He chatted with Wang Dan for a few words, and then hesitated for a while and said: "General Wang, the mission of my coming to appease Yuezhou this time can be said to be a complete failure. Instead, he almost paid his life. However, this period of time has also allowed me to learn a lot."

When I said this, Zhao Hao paused for a moment and then said, "I misunderstood the commander-in-chief before, which almost caused a big mistake. However, I don't have any familiar generals in the army. I wonder if General Wang is willing to help me?"

During the day, Zhao Hao regretted coming to Yuezhou for power, but now after eating, he felt that he had suffered so much. If he got nothing, wouldn’t these sufferings be in vain? In addition, he also admired Wang Dan very much, so he personally recruited the other party.

However, when Wang Dan heard Zhao Hao's recruitment words, he was stunned at first, and then a very strange expression appeared on his face. After a while, he asked an unrelated question: "Do you know where the Mo will be from?"

"Uh? This... I don't know." Zhao Hao was also stunned when he heard Wang Dan's words. He couldn't understand why Wang Dan suddenly asked this question?

"Haha. It's normal for Your Highness to not know. In fact, the general is also from the capital, and his family lives in the eastern suburbs of the capital." Wang Dan said with a smile.

"Oh? So that's it. No wonder I think your official language is so standard. It turns out that you are also from the capital. Then we are still fellow villagers!" Zhao Hao couldn't help but say a little surprised when he heard this. The capital of the Song Dynasty was Kaifeng, and Mandarin is naturally the dialect of the Kaifeng area. All officials, whether civil and military, usually communicate with each other in Mandarin. Even speaking Mandarin is a symbol of identity.

Wang Dan did not say anything about Zhao Hao's hometown. Instead, he smiled again and said, "In fact, Mo Jiang came from a very low-class background and was a tenant in the village. Because of an accident, his parents died and only a sick grandmother was left in the family. Mo Jiang was only in his teens at that time. He wanted to support his family and found a way to earn money to treat his grandmother."

"I didn't expect General Wang to have such a miserable life experience. However, now the general can become the commander of the army and control the army of thousands of people. I believe that it can also make the parents in the underworld feel at ease." Zhao Hao interrupted again when he heard this, but he was also a little surprised, because as far as he knew, Wang Dan graduated from the military academy, but with his family background, how did he enter the military academy?

"Yes, my parents will definitely feel relieved, but I have the most to thank another person who is my boss. This person is my boss. It was when I was in the most dangerous time that I received me as a servant and gave my grandmother the money to treat my grandmother." Wang Dan said slowly at this time. When he talked about his boss, he also showed a look of gratitude in his eyes.

"Good people will be rewarded. General Wang can meet such a kind and righteous boss. Maybe your parents will know you and bless you!" Zhao Hao said again, but he was even more strange in his heart. He didn't know what Wang Dan meant to say, but he couldn't interrupt him.

Wang Dan seemed a little indifferent to Zhao Hao's words, but instead said seriously again: "The boss is very kind to me and allows me to learn martial arts and write with a general named Yang. Later, the general named Yang opened a military academy under the guidance of the boss. Seeing that I was very interested in military strategy, the boss sent me to the military academy. It was this incident that made me slowly grow from the son of a tenant to the current General Wang."

"General surnamed Yang? Start a military academy?" Zhao Hao also showed a stunned expression on his face when he heard Wang Dan's words, and at the same time he could vaguely guess something in his heart.

"Haha, speaking of this, I believe Your Highness has guessed that the small village you were born in was Shangshuizhuang, which was the farm under the name of His Highness King Yue. I am also a servant of the Yue Wang family." Wang Dan saw Zhao Hao's expression and finally revealed his identity. His nickname was Erdan. When Zhao Yan saw that he was pitiful, he took him to the mansion as a servant. Later, he became Yang Huaiyu's apprentice. Finally, he went to the military academy and changed his name to Wang Dan. Even Zhao Yan obtained this name for him.

"You...you..." Zhao Hao pointed at Wang Dan for a long time and couldn't speak, his mind was in a mess. He never expected that the person he liked was Zhao Yan's servant. If he had known this, he would not have had this effort. What he just couldn't understand was that since the other party was Zhao Yan's man, why did he take care of him so much and save himself from water and fire several times?

Wang Dan seemed to see the question in Zhao Hao's heart, and immediately spoke again: "Your Highness, in fact, before you come, Your Highness, King Yue, had a letter to the Mo Xiang. If the Mo Xiang must protect your safety, so what the Mo Xiang did these days was also entrusted by His Highness King Yue!" (To be continued...)

ps: I came back a little late in the afternoon. I originally wanted to write 4,000 words before 8 o'clock, but I only completed 3,500, so I could only upload it first and make up for it if I had the chance.

Chapter 854 Wang Dan’s identity:
Chapter completed!