Seeing this, Song Qing and Liu Song raised their hands to pat their respective stomachs, and followed them out with steady and strong steps.
The sky is getting brighter and brighter.
However, the eastern sky did not see the rays of the rising sun.
The sky is indeed getting brighter, but the sky above our heads is gray, giving people a very depressing feeling.
This situation means that it may be cloudy today, or it may continue to rain.
Suddenly, countless people living under this sky began to pray secretly in their hearts.
I pray that it won’t rain again today.
Liu Mingzhi naturally discovered this situation. He silently stopped looking at the sky, gently shook off the Wanli Jiangshan jade in his hand, and strode proudly among the crowds of people on the long street.
Go forward.
When Song Qing and Liu Song saw this, they immediately accelerated their pace.
"Third brother, what are we going to do?"
After Song Qing followed Young Master Liu, he finally asked what Young Master Liu planned to do when he took the two of them out this morning.
Listening to Song Qing's inquiry, Young Master Liu smiled lightly, raised his head and nuzzled at the tower on the south city wall in front of him.
"Brother, let's go to the city gate and take a look."
"What? Go take a look at the top of the tower?"
"That's right."
"No, third brother, is there anything interesting to see on the city gate tower this morning?"
Liu Mingzhi gently shook the jade fan in his hand and turned his head happily back and forth to look at the people on both sides of the street who had started setting up stalls.
"Hahaha, to be honest, I don't know what's interesting up there, young master. I just want to go up there and take a look around."
Listening to Young Master Liu's ambiguous answer, Song Qing nodded with a strange expression.
"Okay, if you want to take a look, let's go take a look."
Half a day later.
Liu Mingzhi and his party walked along the stairs to the city wall of Nancheng while chatting and laughing.
However, as soon as Liu Dashao, Song Qing, and Liu Song stepped onto the city wall, five or six soldiers quickly surrounded them.
"Who is it? The city wall is heavily guarded, and idlers are not allowed to approach it without permission."
Liu Mingzhi saw the soldiers surrounding the three of him, and waved to Liu Song with a faint smile.
"Willow Pine."
"Yes, I understand, little one."
Liu Mingzhi smiled lightly and nodded, then raised his right hand and touched the token in his arms.
However, before Liu Song took out the token from his arms, one of the generals and two soldiers saw the face of Young Master Liu clearly, and their eyes instantly became excited.
However, the excitement in the eyes of the three of them was mixed with a bit of uncertainty, as if they couldn't believe their eyes.
"Commander? You are... you are... you are the commander?"
One of the generals, who seemed to be the oldest, had excited eyes and looked at Young Master Liu with a faint smile on his face, and asked softly with some hesitation in his tone.
As soon as the middle-aged general's hesitant question came out, the expressions of the remaining soldiers changed drastically.
Especially the two soldiers whose eyes were already excited, their bodies could not help but tremble slightly.
When Liu Mingzhi saw that the general and several soldiers in front of him seemed to have recognized him, he smiled and nodded without hesitation.
"Yes, brothers, I am Liu Mingzhi."
When the middle-aged general heard that Young Master Liu admitted his identity without hesitation, he hurriedly knelt down on one knee before Young Master Liu who was standing in front of him.
Seeing this situation, all the soldiers also hurriedly knelt down on one knee before Young Master Liu.
"Commander, no no no, His Majesty the Emperor.
Your Majesty, Yang Wenhu, is here to see you. Long live my emperor."
"We will see your Majesty, long live my emperor."
"Excuse me, brothers, all of you are exempt from etiquette."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
After Yang Wenhu stood up, he looked at Mr. Liu who was standing in front of him, with uncontrollable excitement on his face.
"His Majesty."
As soon as Yang Wenhu said the word "Your Majesty", Young Master Liu waved his hand.
"Good brother, after you saw my appearance clearly just now, you hesitated to call me Marshal. This means that you are my old brother under my command.
Now that we are in the royal city of Dashi Kingdom, there are some things that we have to guard against.
For the sake of unnecessary trouble, brother, please don’t call me Your Majesty. Instead, just call me Marshal as you did many years ago."
Hearing what Mr. Liu said, Yang Wenhu suddenly understood and nodded.
"Yes, yes, for your Majesty's sake, no, for your safety, Commander-in-Chief, you should really change your title.
Commander, if I realize my mistake, I will definitely pay attention to it later."
Seeing that Yang Wenhu understood what he meant, Mr. Liu raised his brows and chuckled a few times.
"Hahaha, very good, so good."
Looking at Young Master Liu with a smile on his face, Yang Wenhu turned around and looked at Song Qing who was standing aside, looked at him carefully, and immediately saluted with a smile on his face.
"Deputy Commander Song, you must be polite at last."
"Good brother, please forgive me now, please forgive me now."
"Thank you, Deputy Commander Song."
"Commander, Deputy Commander Song.
In the past two days, the last general has been listening to the brothers in other barracks talking secretly in private, saying that the commander-in-chief and deputy commander Song have completed their journey to the food country together.
At first, I thought it was the brothers in other camps who were talking nonsense.
I never thought that this would be true, that you two would actually come to the royal city of Dashi Kingdom.
Marshal, we haven’t seen each other for many years, how are you?"
Young Master Liu smiled lightly, took a deep breath, strode up to Yang Wenhu, raised his hands and slapped his arms hard twice.
"Okay! Okay! Okay! Everything is fine with me.
Good brother, which battalion were you a soldier in before?"
"Come back, Commander-in-Chief, I used to be a soldier of the Longwu Guard and the Huwei Camp.
At the end of that year, when you and I went on an expedition to more than thirty countries in the Western Region, I served as a captain in the vanguard camp."
"Yang Wenhu?"
"Come back to Commander, that's right."
"Yang Wenhu."
"Yang Wenhu."
After Liu Mingzhi whispered the name Yang Wenhu twice with a look of reminiscence in his eyes, his eyes suddenly lit up.
"Yang Wenhu, Commander, I remembered that when we were conquering the first city of Che Shiqian's country, you got the credit of being the first to conquer it!"
When Yang Wenhu saw that Young Master Liu could still recall the past ten years ago, Yang Wenhu looked excited and nodded vigorously.
"Come back to the commander-in-chief, he is the last general."
Liu Mingzhi looked up and down at Yang Wenhu's armor with a smile, and then punched Yang Wenhu's chest a few times with his fists.
"The little seventh-grade captain back then has now become a full-fledged fifth-grade general.
Good brother, you have made many military exploits in the past few years!"
"Hehehe, it's all thanks to your great blessing, Commander-in-Chief."
Liu Mingzhi raised his hand and patted Yang Wenhu's shoulder with a smile, and walked towards the edge of the city wall unhurriedly.
When Yang Wenhu, Song Qing and others saw this, they immediately followed him.
Liu Mingzhi walked to the edge of the city wall and stopped, then turned sideways and looked at Yang Wenhu who was following him and gently sat on the crenellations of the city wall.
"Good brother, are you on duty at the South City Wall this morning?"
"Coming back to the commander-in-chief, I am the last general on duty.
After noon, other brothers will naturally come to change shifts."
After Liu Mingzhi skillfully lit a pot of cut tobacco, he happily pulled the pipe containing the cut tobacco and gestured to Yang Wenhu and the others.
"Brothers, do you have the habit of having a pot?"
Seeing the tobacco pouch handed over by Mr. Liu, the sounds of swallowing could be heard all around.
"Gudu!"
"Gudu!"
"Gudu!"
Liu Mingzhi listened to Yang Wenhu and many soldiers swallowing their saliva, without any surprise on his face.
However, seven out of ten people in the military have the habit of smoking dry cigarettes.
In fact, at the beginning, when we were all new recruits who had just been ordered to join the army, there were not many soldiers who liked smoking dry cigarettes.
But as soon as the new soldiers go to the battlefield and experience a life-and-death bloody battle, more and more soldiers like to smoke dry cigarettes.
It's not that they care about dry tobacco, it's that they need to be calm and composed.
Especially after having just experienced a life-and-death bloody battle with the enemy, they needed to smoke a pot of dry tobacco to suppress the violence in their hearts.
From the very beginning, you need to use dry tobacco to quickly calm down your basic needs.
Over time, I developed the habit of smoking dry tobacco.
In other words, it has developed a kind of dependence.
Liu Mingzhi's habit of smoking dry cigarettes was also gradually developed at that time.
"Come on, come on, if you have this habit, come and have a pot."
Yang Wenhu looked at the tobacco bag handed over by Mr. Liu and swallowed hard with a hesitant expression.
"Gudu."
"Commander, this! Isn't this appropriate?"
"Yang Wenhu."
"The end will be here."
"Yang Wenhu, what the hell are you trying to do to me?
Commander, I saw clearly just now that among all the brothers, you were the one who swallowed the most damn things.
What's wrong? Do you think I'm so handsome and my eyes are blind?"
Listening to Young Master Liu's angry curses, Yang Wenhu suddenly grinned and laughed.
"Hey Hey Hey."
"Commander, me! Me!"
After Liu Mingzhi gently took a puff of dry tobacco, he held the tobacco bag in his hand and swung it around casually.
"Don't fucking give me that handsome smile. In one sentence, do you want to smoke or not?"
If you draw me at the end of the battle, Commander, then I will be rude at the end of the battle."
Young Master Liu pretended to be nice and rolled his eyes, then took off the cigarette bag from the cigarette rod and threw it towards Yang Wenwu.
"After dividing it among the brothers, hurry up and give it to me and I will return it."
"Thank you, Commander, for the reward."
Upon seeing this, the other soldiers immediately joined in chorus.
"Thank you, Commander, for the reward."
Yang Wenhu first gave a handful of shredded tobacco to the five or six good brothers around him, and then filled a pot of shredded tobacco for himself.
"call."
Yang Wenhu took a long puff of tobacco with an intoxicated expression, and then put the tobacco bag back into Young Master Liu's hand with a smile on his face.
"Commander, keep it."
Liu Mingzhi looked at the intoxicated expression on Yang Wenhu's face, shook his head happily, and directly tied the cigarette bag to the stem again.
Regarding Yang Wenhu's reaction, he did not feel any dissatisfaction in his heart.
You know, Yang Wenhu was the first person to achieve success back then!
Having accomplished the feat of ascending first, this means that he was the one who crawled out of the mountain of corpses and sea of blood.
It is not surprising that such people are addicted to smoking.
Liu Mingzhi turned around and blew out a puff of smoke, then glanced at Song Qing and Liu Song standing next to him with a smile.
"Brother, your tobacco is better than mine, so I won't let you.
Liu Song, if you also want to have a pot, ask your elder brother for it."
"Okay, okay, brother, I know."
"Master, I understand."
Liu Mingzhi stood up from the crenellations of the city wall, raised his hand and gently patted the wall bricks in front of him twice, and looked out towards the endless wilderness outside the city.
"Yang Wenhu."
"The general is here, Commander-in-Chief?"
"Good brother, how have you been living here in the Big Food Country in the past few years? Are you still used to the convenience of life?"
Listening to Young Master Liu's question, Yang Wenhua responded loudly: "As the commander-in-chief said, I was a little bit unaccustomed to it at the beginning, but gradually I got used to it."
"How old are you this year?"
"Come back to me, Marshal, I will be forty-five this year."
"Forty-five years old?"
"Exactly."
Liu Mingzhi gently took a puff of dry smoke, raised his right foot and stepped on the crenellations of the city wall.
"I'm forty-five years old, I'm still two years older than this young master!
At your current age, there should be elders and younger children in your family, and even your grandson and granddaughter are already quite old.
Four or five years have passed in the blink of an eye, and your oldest grandson and granddaughter may now have started a family, started a business, or gotten married.
Good brother, it has been four or five years since I left my hometown. Are you homesick?"
After hearing Young Master Liu's question, Yang Wenhu's face was slightly startled.
"ah?"
"Ah what? Let me tell you the truth, young master, are you homesick?"
After Yang Wenhu came to his senses from being stunned, the expression on his face suddenly became hesitant.
"Commander! Me! Me!"
Young Master Liu withdrew his eyes that were looking at the boundless wilderness outside the city, smiled lightly and looked sideways at Yang Wenwu who was standing next to him.
"What does it look like for a man to moan and groan like a woman?
Whatever is on your mind, just say it.
Remember, I want to listen to the truth, young master."
When Yang Wenhu saw what Young Master Liu said, he immediately took a deep breath.
"Commander, I will tell you what is in my heart.
It’s been so many years since I left my hometown. To say that I don’t miss home at all would be a lie.
When I was still at war, I was always thinking about making achievements. At that time, I really didn’t miss home much.
To be more precise, I probably don’t have time to miss home.
Things are different now. The war between the Dashi Kingdom and the Tianzhu Kingdom has subsided for many years.
When you have nothing to do, you will inevitably start to miss home and miss your relatives in your hometown." ()