My house was confiscated and I was exiled. I emptied the emperor's warehouse and fled.

Qin Junxian left, and he was brought to Qingxuan by Wu Shaohan and became Shadow Guard Shijiu, who was trained by Qingxuan himself.

This was Qin Xuan's third Qin parent, Fang Erlang, who had joined the Shadow Guard camp after Qin Junyi and Qin Mu. After listening to the instructions conveyed by Wu Shaohan, he nodded solemnly and left Qin Junxian behind.

From then on, Qin Junxian began a rigorous and purgatory-like training journey.

Every night, when he was tossing and turning with pain all over his body, he would think of Qingxuan's words: When the master was young, he was sent to the Shadow Guard Camp by the late prince and endured everything he is experiencing now. And the culprit is his mother!

Qin Junxian always thought that during the years when his eldest brother disappeared when he was a child, he went to the northwest military camp with his father.

It wasn't until Qingxuan told him that he realized how much unknown suffering and pain his eldest brother had suffered because of his extremely selfish mother.

With the mentality of atonement for his mother, after learning the truth, he restrained all his sharp edges and tried his best to meet Qingxuan's training requirements, hoping to become a qualified shadow guard as quickly as possible so that he could serve his elder brother.

Bad qualities such as cowardice, stupidity, selfishness, etc. gradually disappeared in the rigorous training day after day, and were replaced by the iron spirit and determination behind the generals.

However, these are things for the future.

Now in the study, Doctor Hua has taken the medicine and left, leaving only Su Yunwan, Qin Junyi and Qin Mu in the room.

Qin Junyi stood in front of the window, listening to the painful cries of his sister in the back house, and watching his second brother and Wu Shaohan leave. His straight back seemed to be at the end of his strength, as if he would be unable to bear it any longer and become rickety in the next second.

Su Yunwan, who was sitting there, stared at his back quietly and felt the urge to hug him.

But her fingers curled up and she still didn't move.

Qin Mu broke the tense atmosphere: "Brother, in a few days, several of your concubine brothers will arrive with the soldiers. You have no shortage of younger brothers."

Qin Junyi:......

Su Yunwan: "...your eldest family is in the northwest, how many people are there?"

Qin Junyi turned his back to the window and looked at Su Yunwan with a slightly guilty look: "My father has a concubine, two concubines, three concubines, and countless concubines. However, I have already ordered maids who have no children. It was disbanded and only eight people remained.”

"Ha! In other words, there are 13 women from your father alone?!" Su Yunwan didn't know what to say.

The late prince really regarded himself as the emperor of the borderlands!

Look at the number of women he collected, it's almost comparable to a harem. Why doesn't he just seek power and usurp the throne and have all the beauties in the world!

Qin Mu looked at the speechless sister-in-law and seemed to hear the complaints in her heart, suppressing a smile on her face.

Qin Junyi glanced at him: "Third brother, go and do your business."

"Yes." Qin Mu bowed in agreement.

Before leaving, he chuckled at Su Yunwan and said: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, they are not like the people who stayed in the palace in the capital, they follow the rules very well."

Su Yunwan:......

No matter what, she was used to being alone and didn't want to face so many people. It was really bad!

"Tell me, besides these women, how many concubines and concubines do you have? Tell me all at once."

Qin Junyi rubbed his nose. He had secretly instructed his family not to mention their relatives in the northwest because he was afraid that Wanwan, who didn't want to be in charge of the family, would find out about it and would find it troublesome and want to leave.

Now that he has mentioned this, he can no longer hide it: "I also have nine concubine brothers and a dozen concubine sisters. The eldest of them is already an adult and the youngest is less than ten years old."

Su Yunwan:......

"In addition, my father also adopted many soldiers Yu Gu as adopted sons and trained them into good generals. They went into battle to kill the enemy on my father's behalf. Excluding those who died in the charge, there are still about ten people left."

"Brothers fighting tigers, father and son go into battle." On the cruel battlefield, blood or marriage relationships are the most reliable.

However, a person's fertility is limited. Starting from the ancestors of the Qin family, even if they take in a wide range of wives and concubines, it is impossible to give birth to enough sons.

In a difficult environment, these biological sons may not be able to be raised as adults, or they may not be able to take on big responsibilities when they grow up.

Seeing his own sons charging into battle, being in danger, and losing their lives one after another on the battlefield, the ancestors of the Qin family were grieved and established a "martial arts" institution, which mainly studied various subjects such as the art of war, formations, and military drills, and provided full-time training. Military talent.

However, not everyone trained by "martial arts" is loyal. During the battle, there were more than one betrayal.

When the late prince was in charge of the army, he adopted a large number of surviving soldiers who lost their relatives in the melee and sent them to "martial arts" for careful training.

In order to have food to eat, these people endured all kinds of humiliation and wandering. They appreciate kindness more than ordinary people, but this is not enough.

In order to make them loyal and never betray, the late prince not only gave them favors, but also adopted them as adopted sons and "forged" a kinship relationship with them.

With the title of father and son, these adopted sons will basically swear loyalty to the death.

After they complete their studies, they will go to the late prince's tent to hone their skills.

The late prince had extremely strict requirements on them, and he would often punish them severely for even the slightest mistake. No one dared to be disobedient.

Whenever there was a war, they would fight for the late prince and serve as generals or supervisors, becoming soldiers with important responsibilities.

With them on the battlefield to kill the enemy, the late prince did not slack off in his training and requirements for his biological son.

Qin Junyi and his brothers must not only have the ability to coordinate operations to kill the enemy bravely, but also have the ability to command the entire army. If you pick up any adult son, he will be a rare general in the Zhou Dynasty.

Su Yunwan sat quietly, listening to Qin Junyi's story about the adopted sons, and suddenly raised her eyebrows: "You haven't accepted a lot of adopted sons over the years, have you?"

Qin Junyi: "...I did adopt some war orphans, but I wasn't married yet, so how could I possibly recognize them as adopted sons?"

Speaking of this, Qin Junyi's eyes gradually darkened and he walked towards her.

"I'm leaving first!" Seeing something was wrong, Su Yunwan stood up and went out, only to run into a warm embrace.