You are a woman, raising the elderly and children at home, you have worked hard.
I'm living a good life here at Rock Frontier Fortress. I'm just riding horses and training all day, and there aren't any battles to fight. Don't worry too much, madam.
When I'm not training, I always miss my hometown, my family, and you, my wife. I miss your long black hair, your white and tender face, your sweet smell..."
Your sister!
With trembling hands, Ren Ning wrote down Shaou's words word for word.
A long time passed. Under the murderous eyes of his colleagues behind him, Shaou thought again and again. Finally, he could not hold back his words. Then he nodded and thanked Ren Ning, signaling for him to finish.
Ren Ning breathed a sigh of relief, looked at him strangely, and finished quickly.
I really didn’t expect that in public, such a rough-looking man like Sha Ou would say love words to his wife so sweetly that it could make you sick. It made him get goosebumps all over his body as he wrote, and he almost couldn’t hold a writing brush.
Perhaps it was the sand gulls who started it. No matter how tall or skinny the cavalrymen behind them were, when they wrote letters, they talked about love more coquettishly and romantically.
Ren Ning was amazed and felt that the world was deteriorating and people's hearts were no longer the same.
In his previous life, he watched some variety shows or movies.
When the soldiers there write letters home, they always write something like this: "A seven-foot body has been promised to the country, and it is difficult to give it to the minister." How can they be so wasteful as these guys in front of me?
Several people passed by, and finally it was Gu Datou's turn.
He was not yet married and his parents were both dead, so the recipient of the letter was his younger brother.
Qidian has always been known as an orphanage. At the beginning of the novel, the parents usually sacrifice their lives to heaven, and they have no power. Gu Datou is a perfect template for the protagonist.
Therefore, his letters home are much more serious and formal than the previous ones.
It’s just that the recipient of the letter directly asked Ren Ning to break the merit.
"Brother Gou, are you feeling well..." Gu Datou began.
flutter.
Ren Ning spit out a sip of tea, "Big Tou, what's your brother's name? I'm a little blind and couldn't hear clearly."
Gu Datou was stunned and replied blankly: "His name is Gu Ergou. What's wrong?"
Ren Ning was speechless, "This name..."
hey-hey.
Gu Datou rubbed his shining head habitually.
"The year my little brother was born, there was a big flood in my hometown. My parents were forced by the master's family to go up the river embankment to plug the gap, but they never came back. I took my little brother and ran to the nearby mountains, and I survived.
.”
"Everyone says that a bad name makes a living, and besides, I don't know many words. There happened to be a hungry, skinny dog nearby who wanted to bite us. So I gave my little brother such a name."
"That's it." Ren Ning wiped his sweat and motioned for him to continue talking about the contents of the letter.
In this way, one cavalryman after another lined up to ask for a letter, and they were willing to write letters as fast as they could.
Before he knew it, it was evening. Ren Ning didn't know how many letters he had written. Anyway, he had to change several pools of ink.
Dang! Dang! Dang!
The deep bells of the fortress rang suddenly, as if they were beating on the heart.
Ren Ning came back to his senses and looked up.
Not only did the number of soldiers lined up in front of him not decrease, but there were even more than at the beginning.
"The bell has rung, it's time to eat." Gu Datou, a tall and powerful man, squeezed over without hesitation.
"Brothers, Lao Ren has been writing all afternoon and has used several pools of ink. He is already very tired. Let's stop here today!"
Buzz~
The soldiers who were about to take their turn were a little unhappy.
"Brother Ren, please write a few more. We have been waiting all afternoon."
"That's right. I can leave my food to you, brother. Please continue to write. I'm going crazy waiting for my letter at home."
…
Ren Ning stood up and shook his sore arms.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
It turns out that writing letters all afternoon is more tiring than killing people all afternoon.
"Brothers, those who should eat should go to eat first, and those who should train horses should continue training horses. As for writing letters home, we will continue tomorrow."
He chuckled: "The postman will stay in the fortress for a full month before leaving. It's only the beginning of the month, so there's no need to worry about this."
This is the truth, but the cavalrymen discussed it for a while, with some hesitation on their faces.
Ren Ning spoke again: "I, Ren Ning, have always kept my word. If I help all the brothers from the Eighth Cavalry Battalion write their letters home, I will definitely help."
Everyone was so happy that they dispersed one after another.
After dinner, Ren Ning just returned to the barracks.
Gu Datou walked in with a lot of things.
"What?" Ren Ning was curious.
hey-hey.
Gu Datou put the things in his arms on Ren Ning's bed.
"The brothers from the Eighth Battalion gave them to you. Most of them are gadgets collected during missions. Although they are not worth much, they are all their thoughts."
Ren Ning was stunned and turned over it casually.
The gifts are miscellaneous and have everything.
Fresh mare's milk, sharp Xiliang weapons, sturdy horseshoes, bright and beautiful stones, old and new reins, a dog that doesn't know whether it's a cow or a horse...
There's even a clear crystal.
Ren Ning threw the messy things back to Gu Datou with a dark face, and casually picked out the crystal clear crystal.
"Whose crystal belongs to it? This is a very valuable thing. If you take it back to the Imperial City of Star City, you can probably exchange it for a two-story house in Zhuquefang."
"It's worth shit." Gu Datou snorted, "This is a fortress, a place where birds don't shit. It's not some shitty imperial capital, Xingji City."
"I know its original owner. The boy's horse was a mare, and it was pregnant for some reason. He tried to exchange this piece of junk with others for some horse food, but everyone's horse food was tight, and there was no way.
People take care of him."
Ren Ning didn't believe it, "What kind of horse food should I change? He's just talking nonsense. Isn't the pregnant mare nourished by the breeding horse?"
When it comes to border security, all matters in the fortress will be prepared in advance. It cannot only store food and grass for men and horses for a month or two, but it is usually calculated in half a year or even a year.
And the pregnant mare is the treasure of the fortress.
Therefore, no matter what, the breeding camp will definitely provide enough food and grass to feed every pregnant mare.
"Making camp?" Gu Datou sneered.
"Old Ren, you often go out on missions, so you don't know much about the situation."
"In the past few months, several mares in the stud camp have had miscarriages for no apparent reason. It is said that the weather was too hot and the owners did not take good care of them. This is not an excuse. The boss at the fortress was so angry that he wanted to kill someone, so he committed suicide.
They are ordered to quickly find out the reason."
"Last time we went to the stud camp to select horses, didn't you think, Old Ren, that the entire stud camp was lifeless? That was because they were checking the situation throughout the camp."
Ren Ning suddenly realized.
At that time, he only wanted to find a good horse, and he was not very familiar with the breeding camp, so he didn't notice anything unusual.
Gu Datou glanced at the crystal in Ren Ning's hand, and his expression suddenly turned wretched.
"That mare was raised by his son himself, and she has a deep affection for her. She doesn't let us even touch her, let alone ride her. Hey, I don't know which stallion in the camp is so powerful, and he doesn't know what's going on.
Sleep……"
cough!
Ren Ning stared.
Gu Datou then straightened his back and said, "Anyway, given the current situation, he would not even consider sending the horse to the breeding camp."
Ren Ning nodded and looked to the southwest with an expressionless face.