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When Jiang Linyuan walked away, Zhang Ling blinked at Xia Heyu and asked, "General, what do you want to say?"

Xia Heyu just gave him a blank look, threw the bow in his hand to him, and said: "Practice hard, how can you not practice well with your skills? Why bother to ask an outsider like Jiang Linyuan for advice?"

Zhang Ling held a bow with one hand and stood there with his mouth slightly open.Xia Heyu felt that his mind was a little messed up, so he went back to the house to drink tea.

Tonight, Xia and Yu practiced archery together for a day, and Zhang Ling, who was almost unable to lift his arms, went to the military camp together.The past two years have been peaceful, and Xia Heyu has been entrusting Zhang Ling to take care of the trivial matters in the barracks, and he doesn't worry much about it.But since hearing Zhang Ling mention the assignment that day, although Xia Heyu didn't show any trace on the surface, he was still a little worried in his heart. When he came to the camp today, his worry was even deeper.

Xia Heyu obviously felt that compared with before, the barracks are much cooler now.

Because it was just after the day's training was over, most of the soldiers sat around lazily, or told some jokes, or gathered around to eat something.Xia Heyu didn't let Zhang Ling accompany him. He changed into an ordinary soldier's attire and walked around by himself, which didn't attract much attention.

During this wandering, Xia Heyu discovered that most of the soldiers who stayed at the headquarters of the military barracks in the capital were older or had been injured second-class soldiers.After a little counting and estimation, the total number of soldiers in the camp was no more than ten thousand.If you add Xia Heyu's various branches stationed in the north and southeast borders, there are no more than [-] people at most.

In fact, this number sounds quite a lot, but they were scattered among various departments, and it took a lot of effort to gather them together. If there is any sudden incident, it may not be easy to deal with.

And when the dynasty opened, there was such a rule.The military force of the imperial court was divided into two, half of which were under the command of the regular attendant generals, serving as a standing army to guard the capital and the frontier.The other half is held in the hands of the emperor, and another camp will be set up, and will not be used unless it is absolutely necessary.

This is done for better and more effective use of troops, and secondly, it is also to contain the general's power to prevent turmoil.It's just that now, the military strength held by the emperor has already fallen into the hands of Li Su, that villain of the yellow family.What's more, the troops assigned to Xia Heyu are not as good as each year, and it can no longer be said that they are divided into two.

It is not that there are no courtiers who have raised objections, and the pile of impeachment documents may be as high as a mountain.It's just that these documents were all suppressed by Li Su, and many of these people who submitted the documents were also murdered.This is also a very helpless thing, who let Li Su lose one thing, and can be one step closer to today's world.

Xia Heyu returned to the general ledger of the barracks.Zhang Ling had already brewed the tea. Seeing Xia Heyu's worried expression, he didn't say anything, but passed over the tea that was just at the right temperature.Xia Heyu didn't say anything, just stood at the door of the general ledger and looked into the distance.The weather in the past few days has been good, although the sky is clear but not hot, but no matter how Xia Heyu sees it, the sky is a bit gray and unhappy.

It was a cool night, Xia Heyu was sitting on the stone steps in front of the living room in his house, leaning slightly against a vermilion pillar on one side, with a jug of wine beside him.Xia Heyu opened the jug and took two sips. Feeling a bit lonely, he called the boy beside him and said, "Go and call Zhang... Well, goodbye, you should go and call Jiang Linyuan."

Xia Heyu originally wanted to ask Zhang Ling to drink with him, but after all, it was getting late at night, and Zhang Ling had to supervise training tomorrow, so Xia Heyu decided not to bother him, so the only name that popped into his mind was Jiang Linyuan.

"Yes." The servant replied, and quickly walked towards the west side hall.

When Jiang Linyuan heard Xia Heyu calling him at night, he felt a little strange. He stopped when he was packing up, grabbed a coat and put it on, and followed the boy.

"General Xia." After arriving at Xia Heyu's side, Jiang Linyuan called out in a low voice.

Xia Heyu nodded, raised his hand, waved away the servant next to Jiang Linyuan, and asked calmly, "How is your hand?"

Jiang Linyuan slowly raised his right hand and then slowly put it down, and said with a smile, "I can move it already."

"That's good." Xia Heyu patted the empty space on the stone steps beside him, and said again: "Do you know how to drink? How about having a drink with me?"

Jiang Linyuan hesitated for a moment, walked over and sat on Xia Heyu's side, a little far away from him, clinging to the pillar on the other side.

Xia Heyu didn't care either, and stretched out his arms to hand him the flagon.

Jiang Linyuan took the jug with his left hand and weighed it, then opened his mouth to the mouth of the jug, and sipped it one mouthful at a time as if drinking hot soup.

"How can you drink like this?" Xia Heyu laughed at him when he saw him drinking like this, "You are simply wasting, return the jug to me."

Jiang Linyuan smiled crookedly, the smell of wine really made him a little uncomfortable, wiped his mouth with his cuff, and returned the wine pot.

After that, Xia Heyu didn't pass the jug to Jiang Linyuan again, but poured it down one by one by himself.Jiang Linyuan didn't look at him, but looked at the walls and stone steps of the General's Mansion in the dark, and occasionally raised his head to look at the half-round moon tonight, listening to Xia Heyu's "grunt" of drinking wine.The two of them didn't talk all night until Xia Heyu's throat stopped making sounds.

Jiang Linyuan turned his head and saw that Xia Heyu had fallen asleep leaning on the pillar, and the jug was turned over to one side, it was already empty.

Jiang Linyuan let out a sigh of relief, stood up protecting his right arm and walked in front of Xia Heyu, looking down at him, the moonlight reflected in Jiang Linyuan's eyes, revealing a faint blue.Xia Heyu was leaning against the pillar, breathing very gently, and seemed to be in a deep sleep.

Jiang Linyuan pursed his lips, took off his outer robe, squatted down, and put it lightly on Xia Heyu's body before turning and leaving.Behind him, Xia Heyu tugged at the corner of the outer robe that was draped over him, squinted his hazy eyes and watched Jiang Linyuan's back getting farther and farther away, becoming more and more blurred...

Maybe it was because of the hangover last night. Xia Heyu woke up the next morning and felt his brain hurt a bit. After changing his clothes and washing his face, he sat on the edge of the table, rubbing his brows with his eyes closed.

"Xia...General Xia." A servant came in softly, calling Xia Heyu with a trembling voice.

"Speak." Xia Heyu was not in a good mood.

"Jiang...Mr. Jiang is gone. I went to deliver the meal this morning and found that he has taken away all the things." The boy said.

Xia Heyu was slightly taken aback, and then said impatiently: "Understood, go down."

"Yes." The servant hurried away, fearing that something might offend Xia Heyu.

When the boy walked down, Xia Heyu suddenly stopped holding his brows, opened his eyes, and saw Jiang Linyuan's robe that he threw on the chair when he returned to the room last night.