How can I bow my head and serve the powerful officials?

Raising his hand and touching the young man's hair, Xie Shoujun said in a hoarse voice, "Brother misses you too."

While fighting bloody battles on the battlefield and reaping enemy heads with his ink spear, he wanted to ask the child who stayed in the capital why he never wrote back to him and why he never came to see him.

Aren’t you afraid that he will die on the battlefield and you will never see him again?

But when he saw the smile on Xie Chengze's face, he swallowed back all the questions he wanted to ask. Xie Shoujun thought, this is fine, as long as he is happy to see him.

After Xie Chengze greeted him, he started to touch Xie Shoujun all over.

As expected of a military commander, his tight waist, strong muscles and sturdy chest are extremely, very... Perfect to be a skiing companion!

And the soldiers rushing over behind him, from a distance, all of them were tall and strong. In order to fight against the fierce and brutal Xiongnu, most of the soldiers recruited at the border were burly men from the north. One can imagine what a visual feast this was at first glance——

Wouldn’t this make the young rich ladies crazy?

He's going to be lost anyway.

Xie Shoujun was touched by the young man until his whole body stiffened. He had been on the frontier battlefield for many years. Apart from carrying the dead bodies of soldiers and letting the military doctors treat his injuries, he rarely had such close contact with others. So he subconsciously thought that Xie Chengze wanted to check if he was injured, so he said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Second brother, I'm fine."

Xie Chengze looked up at him in confusion, "What?"

Looking at his puzzled eyes, Xie Shoujun realized that the young man was not checking the wound, but something else.

what is that……

Before he had time to think about it, he heard Xie Chengze ask again, "Brother, are there many unmarried men in your army?"

Why do you ask about this?

Although he was confused, Xie Shoujun still nodded and responded, "Not a few. Why are you asking this?"

"Well... there are some things that need their help. Of course, I will pay them." Xie Chengze took his arm, "Let's not talk about it anymore. Let's go into the city and settle the soldiers first."

The army was stationed in a woods not far from the Hun River. When returning to the capital this time, Xie Shoujun brought all the soldiers with him. Firstly, the Huns at the border had signed a peace document and no longer needed to be heavily guarded. Secondly, the imperial court needed manpower, and by then many border guards would be incorporated into the imperial army and become guards of the imperial capital.

Therefore, the number of these soldiers cannot be underestimated. Even if Xie Chengze can provide them with food, he can only let them continue to set up tents for accommodation.

However, there is enough coal for heating. The temperature in Liaozhou is much lower than that at the border. For the soldiers, the conditions here are much better. The most important thing is that they don't have to eat wild grass or tree bark here, and I heard that they can get paid for working.

"This thing is really good at keeping warm." The soldiers who had set up camp rubbed their hands around the coal basin to keep warm, and said with emotion, "If we had this thing when we were guarding the border, we wouldn't be frozen like bears."

"Not bad! I heard that this thing called coal was also found by the Second Prince!"

"Wow! Is that the Second Prince who invented the gunpowder and threatened to blow up the prairie?"

"Yes, I was in front of the army at the city gate and saw the Second Prince!"

"Is it true? Tell us quickly, what does the Second Prince look like? Is he as handsome as the legend says?"

Everyone in the army knows that the second prince's nickname on the grassland is Jade-faced Ghost King, while in the mouths of the people on the border, the second prince's nickname is Jade-faced Bodhisattva. Jade-faced, jade-faced, must be a young man who is very good-looking worthy of such an elegant word. The eldest prince is already handsome, so the second prince, as his younger brother, will naturally not be bad either.

"Hey, I have to say..." In fact, the soldier who had only seen the Second Prince from afar deliberately dragged out his tone and said mysteriously, "The title of the Jade-faced Ghost King really describes it perfectly. The Second Prince's face is as white as the fluffy snow in the north, his lips are more colorful than the blood on the necks of the Huns, and his eyes are bigger than the fierce war horses on the grassland! Especially when he walks, he is like a ghost. He can fly from one end to the other without even moving his legs!"

"Wow!" Everyone was shocked. "So amazing! I really want to go and see him!"

So, at noon that day, Xie Chengze, who was supervising work by the river, always felt that someone was watching him.

But whenever he looked back, those sights would quickly disappear, as if they had never appeared.

"Strange... Is this an illusion?" Xie Chengze scratched his head and lowered his head to explain to Xie Shoujun the effect he wanted. "When the time comes, we will put this here. Because it is quite high, the girls may be scared when they sit on it, so we need soldiers to protect them from behind. Big brother, you have to pick out the most handsome soldiers in the army who can coax girls. I will personally teach them what to do when the time comes."

"Also, we need to select a group of physically agile soldiers to come for training. I hope you and Shen Yuan can come together. One of you is the eldest prince, and the other is good-looking. It will be interesting to see you two."

"And here..."

The young man gave instructions carefully, and Xie Shoujun listened attentively while looking at the soldiers who always tried to pass by them to look at Xie Chengze, with a warning in his restrained eyes.

The soldiers hurriedly pushed and shoved each other away.

"What's wrong?" Xie Chengze looked up and asked, noticing that Xie Shoujun seemed distracted.

"Nothing." Xie Shoujun retracted his gaze and said in a gentle voice, "Go on, I'm listening."

"Oh." Xie Chengze continued to assign tasks to the soldiers. He finished speaking with a dry mouth, and then listened to Xie Shoujun's repetition. Only then did he leave the ice rink with peace of mind and prepare to go to the military camp to keep warm.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the military camp, the feeling of being spied on returned.

"Hey, hey, is that the Second Prince..."

"It seems so? Judging from the clothes, he looks a bit like her, but she is too beautiful, isn't she? Isn't it said that the Second Prince's eyes are bigger than a cow's, his face is paler than snow, and he has a bloody mouth?"

Xie Chengze:?

Who spread rumors?

"You heard wrong. What Old Jia said was that the Second Prince's mouth could bite through the throat of the Huns, his eyes could scare the fierce horses on the grassland to death, his snow-white skin could even allow him to sneak into the snow without being seen, and he could secretly ambush explosives in all enemy camps!"

Xie Chengze:?

This is even more outrageous!

"You all heard it wrong. Lao Jia was simply describing His Highness as being good-looking." A soldier said calmly.

Xie Chengze nodded secretly. This guy was clear-headed and knew not to make or spread rumors.

"If you say it's good-looking, then it's good-looking, but I remember Old Jia also said that the Second Prince's lightness skill is like a ghost, and he can cover dozens of meters in one step. This person looks frail and doesn't look like he knows martial arts."

"You don't understand this." The soldier who didn't spread rumors said, "As the saying goes, the more beautiful a woman is, the more poison she may have. The Second Prince is so beautiful, which shows that he is very secretive and can easily confuse the enemy. He doesn't kill people with crude cold weapons, but is famous in the enemy camp for his fierce explosives. He kills enemies thousands of miles away without spilling a drop of blood!"

The soldier shook his head. "Elegant, really elegant!"

The soldiers couldn't help but agree with this.

"As expected of a royal family, so elegant, so elegant!"

Xie Chengze: ...