Chapter 139 I Want to Chop Firewood to Raise My Wife
The courtyard door creaked open, and Qiao Chu walked out neatly dressed.
Qiao Xiaofu asked sleepily inside: "Auntie, where are you going?"
"I'm going to see your uncle off." Qiao Chu said without looking back, "Close the door. I'll be back in a moment."
"Well... let me get up too, I can't sleep anymore, the opening will be tomorrow..." Qiao Xiaofu said, and also got up...
On normal days, the Military Recruitment Office does not see a large number of young people applying. Instead, there are more young people like Chen Qingshan who are favored by major families and are sent to various designated teams for training.
For example, Chen Qingshan went to the frontier fortress with two other young masters from aristocratic families.
In addition, these two people are different: one looks like a young man with a fat head and a pink face, while the other has a lot of tendons.
The one with oily hair and noodles is called Xie Jun, and the one with tender tendons is called Liu Zijian.
As soon as Xie Jun saw Chen Qingshan's mask, he wanted to touch it, but Chen Qingshan stretched out his hand to shake it away. He then approached with a smile: "Brother, this mask of yours is really impressive! Where did you buy it? I'll get one later too.
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Chen Qingshan said honestly and honestly: "I bought a hairpin for my wife as a gift. It doesn't cost any money."
"So good? Oh brother, why don't you give it to me? You can also buy it. How much do you say? I bought it! This is so classy! Many young ladies can't take their eyes away from it!" Xie Jun
He was very interested in the mask and pestered Chen Qingshan to let him transfer it.
Chen Qingshan chuckled: "I have a birthmark on my face, so I use this to cover it. There is no other meaning."
As he spoke, Chen Qingshan took off the mask himself. The bright red color of the birthmark made Xie Jun startled: "Oh my God!"
Then Xie Jun apologized sheepishly: "Brother, I didn't mean it, I just... it was too unexpected."
Chen Qingshan had never seen such a look since he was a child. This kind of surprise could no longer harm him, so he waved his hand and didn't care at all.
"It's okay! I'm afraid that the color is too bright and will attract the opponent's attention on the battlefield and become a target, so I put on this mask."
"That's true! This is too popular..." Xie Jun nodded with understanding.
Liu Zijian snorted coldly: "Pretend to be a ghost."
Chen Qingshan glanced at Liu Zijian, laughed, and didn't take it seriously.
As we walked and talked along the way, we got to know each other’s backgrounds.
After learning that Chen Qingshan was from the countryside and had just arrived in the capital, it was normal for Liu Zijian to look down on people.
Xu Jingye saw that the atmosphere between the three of them was delicate, so he took the initiative to intervene among them: "We will talk about the situation at the border fortress on the way and let you know the situation, so as not to get a dark look over there..."
Border fortress, border fortress, outside the border, there are nomadic peoples in the bitter cold, including Turkic troops, Tatar troops with nine surnames, and horse bandits.
Xu Jiajun garrisoned the border fortress, on the one hand, to prevent Turks from attacking, to prevent the Nine-surnamed Tatars from disturbing the border, and on the other hand, to prevent horse bandits from plundering.
The Nine Tatars are hostile to the Turks, but the enemy of an enemy is not a friend. When the cold winter comes, the Nine Tatars, who are short of food and clothing, will also muster the courage to plunder the frontier cities and villages.
The scale of the horse bandits is much smaller than that of the Nine Surnamed Tatars. The largest group has more than a hundred people. On weekdays, there are only three or five people. Most of the horse bandits are small groups of more than a dozen people.
The horse bandits moved faster and more ruthlessly than the Nine-surnamed Tatars. They usually looted and massacred at the same time, and it was not uncommon for an entire village to be massacred.
Therefore, when the frontier fortress soldiers are not on expedition, they have a spare time activity, which is "cutting firewood".
In fact, they are horse killers.
Horse bandits make a living by plundering every day. As long as they are killed, the gold and silver on them and the horses they sit on will become trophies and belong to themselves.
Loot can be saved and sold in the market, or directly sold to the team you belong to.
After all, for a frontier army, you can never have too many horses.
When Chen Qingshan heard this, he was immediately interested and asked Xu Jingye many questions about cutting firewood.
Liu Zijian had obviously done his homework beforehand and was not curious about this. Seeing Chen Qingshan interrogating him again and again, Xu Jingye was still very patient in answering everything, and he was inevitably jealous.
Xu Jingye is the eldest grandson of Duke Xu, and the future head of Duke Xu’s mansion! Even though he is usually humble and courteous to others, he is also picky, so how could he be so enthusiastic about this mud-legged guy along the way?!
Therefore, Liu Zijian just snorted coldly: "The horse bandits are not firewood. They are not just standing there and letting you chop them down. Don't turn around and let the firewood be chopped!"
Chen Qingshan smiled and said with an honest face: "Thank you for reminding me, I will be careful."
It seemed that he didn't hear the irony in Liu Zijian's words at all.
Xu Jingye glanced at Liu Zijian with hidden pity: This second son from a family of military generals always has his sights set high due to his skill, and he is afraid that he will suffer at the hands of Chen Qingshan...
When resting in the evening, Chen Qingshan was still asking questions about the horse bandits, and Xu Jingye's head started to grow: "Brother Chen, you went there to fight, why are you so keen on chopping firewood?"
Chen Qingshan chuckled: "I won't fight every day. I will spend the rest of my time chopping firewood and earning money to support my wife."
"...You're right." Xu Jingye: Come on! You can't expect this guy to have any lofty ambitions!
Chen Qingshan looked at Xie Jun who was devouring food on the other side: "Brother Xie, do you want to go chop wood with me then?"
Xie Jun thought for a while and was very honest: "My kung fu is mediocre. I'm afraid I'll be used as firewood by the horse bandits, so I'd better practice first before going."
"Let's do it together!" Chen Qingshan chuckled, "Let's practice kung fu together?"
"Okay!" Xie Jun is also a wonderful person. He didn't even know what Chen Qingshan's kung fu was, so he immediately agreed enthusiastically.
Xu Jingye glanced at Xie Jun and said to himself: This is a lucky person!
Chen Qingshan has entered the body tempering realm and has touched the threshold of martial arts.
If he can get Chen Qingshan's guidance, Xie Jun's progress will definitely be rapid!
Liu Zijian felt that he was faintly isolated, and he snorted proudly: "You are a man with clay legs, but you can boast of cowhide. Have you ever killed pigs or chickens? Don't let your legs get weak as soon as you go to the battlefield..."
Chen Qingshan thought for a moment and smiled honestly: "Thank you, Brother Liu, for reminding me. I have hunted before, but I have never killed many people."
Liu Zijian thought to himself: No wonder he dared to join the army, it turned out he was an Orion!
So Liu Zijian laughed again: "Haha, hunting is not fighting! That is completely different!"
"Yeah! Please teach me more, Brother Liu, in the future." Chen Qingshan smiled even more honestly.
Liu Zijian glanced at Chen Qingshan: "Bless yourself! On the battlefield, I have too much time to take care of myself, so how can I have time to take care of you?!"
Chen Qingshan continued to look honest: "That's right. Then I'll be more careful. Thank you, Brother Liu, for reminding me."
Come on, why are you talking to a hunter like a wooden pile like this?
This guy doesn’t seem to understand what he’s saying!
Liu Zijian, who was condescending, lost his sense of accomplishment and went back to his room to sleep indifferently...
This was the first time Xu Jingye saw Chen Qingshan like this, and he couldn't help but feel awe in his heart.
No wonder grandpa thinks so highly of him. With Chen Qingshan’s ability, he can still be so low-key and forbearing. His future prospects are limitless...
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