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Volume 1 | North Bird Does Not Return

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The sky is not clear yet but his brother has done sword training. Ge Pangxiao has prepared a sip of sugar-coated praise. Unexpectedly, this is what happened before he could; he was scared to death when he stood motionless on the side, not daring to breathe.

Chang Geng seems like he doesn’t sleep well. His face was pale and his eyes were slightly twitching. After noticing Gu Yun, he slowly lowered the tip of the sword and held back his voice, “I have offended the Marquis with my grave mistake.”

Gu Yun rubbed his chin, trying to stop himself from laughing.

He raised his hand and tried to put it on Chang Geng’s shoulder as before, but the boy avoided him as expected.

Chang Geng said coldly, “Marquis, please enter.”

Gu Yun pulled his hand slightly shyly and put it on his lips, covering it with a cough, “Chang Geng, wait.”

Hearing Gu Yun call his name, Chang Geng’s footsteps unconsciously stopped, only to see Gu Yun turn around and wave his hand. Some people who brought the box immediately entered and put it in the yard, took a step back, and marched into a line then went down on one knee.

“Marshal.”

Gu Yun reached out and motioned for the soldiers to get up, then personally stepped forward to unlock the box. With his hand placed on a key that looked complicated as if he was teasing a child, he turned and told Chang Geng with a mysterious smile, “Come here, I have something good to show you.”

The lid of the box opened with a creaking sound. Ge Pangxiao pulled Chang Geng, but after seeing how quiet he was, he could not contain his curiosity and stepped forward to peek, then immediately shouted in surprise.

Inside the box lay a silver heavy armor. There was no variety in the whole body, the lines and curves were almost dazzling, very beautiful. Compared to this one, the Heavy Armor obtained by the Barbarians was nothing more than a pile of heavy metal pieces.

Gu Yun said with a little pride, “This was made to order by the masters of the Ling Shu Institute some time ago. The efficiency of Ziliujin’s firepower is twice as high as other heavy armor. The joint has a reinforcement layer and will not be trapped with just one Xiu zhong Shi, it’s not like that barbarian rubbish, it’s a masterpiece, much better than the one I used when I was young, but it still doesn’t have a name … You have to be at an age where you already have your own name. , you have to leave your first name for this one. “

Chang Geng, except for the light reflected from the armor that flashed in his eyes, there was no other expression on his face. Especially, after hearing Gu Yun suggest that he should give the name “Chang Geng” to the Heavy Armor.

He didn’t know when the name “Chang Geng” became so popular. Xiu Niang 一 Hu Ge Er, Gu Yun, they all seemed to really like this childhood name.

An enemy who brought status as his mother had given him poison that could cause insanity before his death, naming the poison as “Chang Geng”. Yifu, who made him want to use the rest of his life to take care of it before it all turned into bubbles, now gives him a gift with this extraordinary Heavy Armor, also suggesting that he name him “Chang Geng”.

Is there more irony than this?

In short, Marshal Gu, who excels in the art of ‘mentioning things that should not be mentioned’, once again succeeds in conveying them.

Chang Geng’s long silence made the people around him feel uneasy. Ge Pangxiao stepped up and reached out to gently pull his sleeve, “Brother, don’t you want to try it? The first time I saw the Heavy Armor came from a group of barbarians that day …”

Chang Geng suddenly bowed his head then returned to the house without saying a word and forced the door closed.

The smile on Gu Yun’s lips gradually became a little bitter. He seemed to be standing with self-awareness at the entrance of the courtyard, but he quickly stabilized again and laughed to himself to find a way out, “First time being a Yifu person, I’m not good enough in this regard. How embarrassing.

A sergeant in the Black Armor came forward and asked, “Marshal, this armor …”

“Put it … um, just put it outside his room and leave the key for him.” Gu Yun paused, looking as if he wanted to say more, but in the end, he was still discouraged, “Forget it.”

He wears indigo tights, thin and delicate; his figure also does not fully look sturdy. He tried hard to please the boy but in the end touched things he shouldn’t have. Looking at the closed door in front of him with sadness, he gave a pretty sad impression.

Shen Yi witnessed this situation, and couldn’t help but curse, “Aren’t you usually so arrogant? It seems like you have kicked right at the iron pole now. You deserve it!”

Ge Pangxiao felt a little uncomfortable, awkwardly scratching his head, “Uncle Shiliu …..”

Gu Yun patted Ge Pangxiao on the forehead and smiled reluctantly, “It’s nothing, you two run and go play.”

He then turned and walked towards Shen Yi, dragged it far enough into the distance then whispered, “Wasn’t he very happy last time when I gave him an iron wristband? Why didn’t it work this time?”

Shen Yi looked around and saw that no one was within their range of hearing, he then said bluntly, “Grand Marshal, do you think he is made of wood? So you can use the same trick all the time?”

Gu Yun was a little worried, “Stop talking stupid, then what should I do?”

Shen Yi’s eyes widened, “Just look, you have done all these great deeds in the Northern Border, but you have kept hiding them from him for how long. He has treated you wholeheartedly, but what about you? Now he still thinks that you are only pretending pretending to be blind and deaf to fool him, not to mention the mother who raised him from a young age turned out to be a spy of the barbarian tribes, who also died now and could have been indirectly killed by you … “

“Nonsense,” Gu Yun interrupted, “Devils from savanna like this will surely end their lives by knowing for sure that the grand plans have succeeded. If he knew that if I were here, he would have realized that they had no chance, who said? he wants to die. “

Shen Yi pondered his words, he could not see the karmic connection in this sentence, he could only hear the key point 一 “hero of the world, if not me, then who?” from the words of Marshal Gu 一 what is “knowing that he is here, I now understand that I have no chance”?

There is absolutely no hope.

Shen Yi didn’t think too much about it, he answered only for his sake, “Give him a little space, let him have peace and tranquility for a few days, don’t run with this trick of ‘persuading a mistress’ to bother him. Let him unite himself.”

Gu Yun, “I have no savings.”

Shen Yi mocked, “That’s right, you don’t even have a wife.”

Gu Yun kicked him.

However, after two steps, Marshal Gu realized that this problem occurred just in time really did not want to return to the current capital.

But by escorting the little Prince, they could not stay in Yanhui City forever. He had considered it, then suddenly thought of a sneaky idea.

Gu Yun said to Shen Yi, “Exactly, the report written last night still hasn’t been sent out, you go back and change it, say that the Fourth Prince keeps the service. Although it is difficult to accommodate loyalty and worship, in the end, he has placed the truth before his family himself, but after that, due to excessive sadness, he finally lay in bed with a severe illness.We have to rest in Yanhui City for a while, wait for His Majesty’s body to recover and then we will return to the capital. and make sense, try to make the Emperor fall into tears. “

Shen Yi, “……..”

If there was a chance he could defeat him, he would personally make this Gu fall into tears.

It is unfortunate that human calculations cannot be compared to God’s calculations.

The next day, when Gu Yun was watching Chang Geng practice his sword on the wall, the Black Eagle suddenly came in with an urgent gold medal order. Only one look and expression on Gu Yun immediately changed.

The emperor is currently in critical condition; he had summoned the Marquis of Order to bring the Fourth Prince back as soon as possible.

Gu Yun turned and jumped from the top of the wall. Chang Geng could hear him talking to someone outside the courtyard wall, “Tell Ji Ping to come see me, we must return to the capital immediately.”

Chang Geng is confused; leaning on his long sword, he could feel an unexpected state coming.

The whole Great Liang considered him the Fourth Crown Prince, except himself.

Chang Geng always felt that his identity was quite insulting. If he was truly a prince, was it a pure race or a hybrid, whether in any case, should the true dragon bloodline be there to protect him?

How can the results be like this?

But again, whether he belonged to the royal family or beggars, he did not have a say in this matter.

Ge Pangxiao watched and noticed that Chang Geng’s mood was not very good, he immediately smiled and said, “Don’t worry, brother, I will always follow you, if you are a general, I will be your bodyguard. If you are a judge, I will be your assistant. ; If you are an Emperor, I will be your eunuch … Ah! “

Chang Geng closed his mouth and glared, “How can you talk nonsense like that? You don’t want to live anymore?”

A pair of Ge Pangxiao’s green bean eyes went left and right.

Chang Geng’s dark atmosphere suddenly improved rapidly. Even the little boy from the butcher’s family was not affected. If he keeps wallowing in anxiety, doesn’t that mean he’s really incompetent?

Chang Geng thought, ‘I should have run for my life, because there is absolutely no burden. I had to run deep into the mountain forest and become a hunter. Nobody can find me again. ‘

However, if he decides to run, he must first leave Shiliu …. Gu Yun behind him. When he began to entertain this idea, his stomach began to feel excruciating pain as if it were being cut into pieces; he had no choice but to put this thought aside for a while. But as soon as he did, go with the flow, Gu Yun had escorted him on his way back to the capital.

Ge Pangxiao has decided to follow him. The boy who grew up in the countryside has chosen the road from the capital which is thousands of miles away. Buy one, get one free the next day when they are leaving, Chang Geng is looking at Cao Niangzi who is now wearing men’s clothes, but no matter how one looks, he still resembles a girl who is crossdressing.

Cao Niangzi gathered his courage, tried to force his voice, “Brother Chang Geng, you saved my life in the river that day. My father said that as a man, one must not be grateful; I must repay you with my life.”

After hearing the “as a man” part, he had goosebumps. After hearing “reward you with my life”, he suddenly felt a pain in his stomach. He answered flatly, “That’s not necessary.”

Cao Niangzi’s ears were bright red, he shyly said, “I … I just want to go to the capital with you, to stay by your side and serve you.”

Chang Geng wanted to refuse at first, but when the words were about to leave his lips, they all slipped back into his throat. In his impression, Ge Pangxiao and Cao Niangzi are his two little ones. They almost never utter a complete sentence to him, one cannot say that there was friendship here, but once he left the city of Yanhui, suddenly these two little children would become all the memories he had in this place 一 Shen Shiliu didn’t counted.

Chang Geng hesitated for a moment, then turned and asked a soldier, “This brother … do you want to ask the Marquis about this?”

The soldier’s response came quickly, “Grand Marshal says that this is up to your decision.”

Chang Geng gently sighed; as he had expected, such trifles, Gu Yun would not bother to think about it.

Bringing together Ge Pangxiao and Cao Niangzi, Chang Geng mounted his horse, then turned and took one last look at the small town of Yanhui.

Giant Kite once returned to this place, with crowds marching on both sides, welcoming them back. Although full of poverty, life here is always happy and peaceful.

Now when the fire of war had swept over them, the whole city seemed to have fallen into shadow. In the distance, only crows could be heard.

There is an indescribable sensation in Chang Geng’s heart 一 he felt that these happy and simple days would never come back again.

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The strong Black Iron camp rushed back to the capital in the same way as the army. Even energetic young children are completely exhausted after a few days of traveling.

When the army arranged their camp to rest in a valley, amidst the darkness, Chang Geng had a nightmare that was completely different from usual. He dreamed that he had a steel knife in his hand, and thrust it into Gu Yun’s chest, blood began to gush out. His face was as pale as paper, his eyes darkened and his gaze spread as they slowly lost focus, a thin stream of blood flowing on his lips.

Chang Geng shouted “Yifu!” out loud and sitting scared. Soaked in panting hot sweat, he involuntarily touched his chest.

Chang Geng flattened the damaged Xiu zhi shi and paid attention to some details about it. The trail left by Ziliujin’s burning looked like a kind of pattern, resembling a cloud; he then drilled a hole and wore it around his neck.

This Xiu zhong shi helped him kill a barbarian. Chang Geng believes that when he sees blood, he can no longer be considered a child. He was now qualified to be a real man, so he wore this knife at all times.

His fingers touched the icy chunks of black metal, gradually calming Chang Geng.

He slowly let out a suffocating breath, then moved to get out of his tent. The night watchman immediately wanted to follow but he refused.

Chang Geng went alone to the creek. As he washed his face, he heard the sound of insects living in the grass. He reached out his hand and caught a small cricket.

Antares will soon fall, signaling the beginning of cool autumn; the age of this little creature will end soon. Chang Geng felt that this creature was very sad and let him go. He aimlessly walked along the river bank when he involuntarily arrived at Gu Yun’s tent.

• Antares is the modern name of the ancient Chinese star fire (火 huǒ). This is related to summer.

He then smiled mockingly to himself, but when he turned to leave, he suddenly saw Shen Yi rush in, holding a porcelain bowl in his hand, a very familiar aroma of medicine spread.

Chang Geng’s nose twitches, can’t move anymore.

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