Chapter 229: Half the Night

Gao Yuan stopped in his tracks, looked at He Lanyan, and said with a smile: "Sun Xiao is a master who insists on not going away and retreats. If you treat him harder, he will feel at ease. If you treat him well, he will feel better." On the contrary, it’s not exciting!”

"What's your reasoning? It's completely unreasonable! It's you, try another person against Sun Xiao, he won't give up until he beats that guy into a pig's head." He Lanyan scolded road.

Gao Yuan laughed.

"What are you laughing at? Are you serious? You, you really beat him up? And Cao Tianci, who is young, received double punishment, you should be careful to break him, I am in a hurry with you, This kid is learning how to ride with me, so he is also my apprentice!" He Lanyan said angrily.

"We must fight!" Gao Yuan said indifferently: "It is precisely because they are officers that they have to fight. After this meal, the Niulanshan camp will immediately look brand new. Let all the soldiers know that even Sun Xiaowei If they are disciplined, they will all have to be punished, let alone them."

"Are you killing chickens and scaring monkeys?"

"No, I'm killing monkeys and scaring chickens!"

"Anyway, you are right." He Lanyan shook her head, "I won't argue with you, Gao Yuan, walk with me."

"What's the matter?" Gao Yuan looked at the gloomy He Lanyan and asked.

"You're leaving, and I'm going back. This farewell, I don't know when we will meet again, and maybe we will never see each other again." He Lanyan said in a low voice.

"Why can't we see each other? It's not like I won't come back." Gao Yuan said with a smile, "It's half a year or a year at most, so I'll be back!"

"What if you were killed on the battlefield?" He Lanyan raised her head and raised her voice suddenly.

Gao Yuan couldn't help being startled, opened his mouth, and said after a while: "Don't worry, I will never die on the battlefield."

"Which one dares to say that he will be fine?" He Lanyan lowered her head, "It's not like we haven't fought before."

"Swallow, don't you want me to go? But you never said that!"

"I know it's useless to say it, so it's better not to say it!" He Lanyan turned her head away, tears still falling, "If you were willing to listen to persuasion, I would have said it a long time ago."

Hearing He Lanyan's words, Gao Yuan fell silent, and said after a while: "Let's go, Yanzi, God has mercy on me, and won't let me die like this."

After hearing Gao Yuan's words, He Lanyan's tears couldn't help falling down, she stretched out her hand and took Gao Yuan's arm, and the two walked out of the Niulanshan camp slowly, leaving two rows of deep footprints behind them .

The sun is gradually slanting to the west, and there is only the last point and a half arc left in the eyes. It gets dark early in winter, and it will be dark immediately after the sun sets.

"Go back!" Gao Yuan said, "It's getting dark, it's cold outside at night."

He Lanyan looked up at Gao Yuan, "I heard that one day, you stayed with Ye Jing'er on Nanshan for a whole night? On that day, it was still snowing and windy?"

"What are you asking these for?"

"Gao Yuan, as I said before, I don't know when I will come back after I leave, maybe I won't come back. Before I leave, please give me a thought and stay with me all night, just like you accompany Ye Jinger That's the same, okay?" He Lanyan looked at the gradually sinking red sun and whispered.

Gao Yuan took a deep breath, "Swallow, listen to me, forget about me, find a good man, and get married."

"Whether to marry or not, it will be decided after today, will you accompany me?" He Lanyan stared at him stubbornly and asked.

"Accompany, why not? Why not accompany my good sister for one night?" Gao Yuan smiled.

He Lanyan stretched out her hand to take off the cloak on her body, spread it on the snow, pulled Gao Yuan to sit down, leaned against Gao Yuan, stretched out her hand to pull Gao Yuan's cloak, wrapped herself up, and cuddled tightly to Gao Yuan, He Lanyan gently He closed his long eyelashes tightly, and curled up beside Gao Yuan like a kitten.

Gao Yuan's body trembled slightly, that night, on the Nanshan Mountain, Ye Jing'er did the same, snuggling up to her side.

"Swallow, find a good man to marry, whether it's a Hun son or a hero from the Central Plains, there are plenty of good men in this world!" Gao Yuan whispered.

"Marry, why don't you marry?" He Lanyan said without opening her eyes, dreamily: "It's just, where can I find a similar person?"

Gao Yuan smiled wryly, "How can I be so good? If you look farther and look more, you will naturally find that there are many people who are better than me."

"Gao Yuan, can we not talk about this." He Lanyan opened her eyes and stared at Gao Yuan, "Don't you think it's too boring to say this at this time?"

"Aren't you worried about my death? Before I die, I always think that you have a good family?" Gao Yuan joked.

"Okay, if you come back alive, I'll find someone to marry happily, if you die, you won't come back, Gao Yuan, I won't marry in this life, just be a living widow." He Lanyan said with a smile.

Gao Yuan was startled, in the plain words, there was He Lanyan's hot heart, a deep affection that he couldn't bear.

"Just because of your words, I will come back alive even if I die!" Gently patted He Lanyan on the shoulder, Gao Yuan said.

The two of them didn't speak any more, they just sat in the snow, watching the sun set completely, watching the night fall, listening to the wind gradually rising, and listening to the sound of drums in the camp in the distance.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and in the distant camp, the sound of the third watch drum sounded. He Lanyan, who was motionless as if she had fallen asleep, suddenly opened her eyes at this moment, supported Gao Yuan's shoulders and stood up .

"Swallow, are you going back?" Gao Yuan immediately stood up.

"You stayed with Ye Jing'er all night, I can let you stay with me for half the night, I'm already very satisfied."

In the night, He Lanyan's expression could not be seen clearly, but Gao Yuan was speechless after listening to the sour words, the most difficult thing to bear the favor of a beauty, especially the emotion like He Lanyan who does not pursue any guarantee and return.

"Let's go back!" He Lanyan turned around and strode towards the camp on Niulan Mountain. Gao Yuan silently followed behind, looking at He Lanyan's back, not knowing how to comfort her.

At the gate of the camp, Gao Yuan suddenly found that He Lanyan's personal guards, Wu La and Su La, were standing there with their horses, and behind them were He Lan tribe members who followed He Lanyan to the Niulanshan camp this time.

"Swallow, what are you going to do?" Gao Yuan asked in surprise.

"I'm leaving!" He Lanyan turned around and said with a smile: "You have to leave tomorrow, but I'm impatient to see you off, so I'll leave early at midnight and ask you to see me off."

"It's freezing cold, and it's late at night, what should I do if I get frozen?"

"We Helan people are used to traveling in the dark in the ice and snow. It's nothing." He Lanyan got on the horse and looked at Gao Yuan, "If I see you off, I will cry."

After saying this, He Lanyan clamped the horse's belly with her legs, and slapped the horse's butt with her backhand. The horse hissed softly, raised its hooves, and galloped away. Behind him, the Helan tribe rode their horses After catching up, looking at the snow dust rolled up by horseshoes reflected by the fire at the gate of the camp, Gao Yuan's eye circles were slightly red, he raised his hand, paused for a moment, and finally lowered it again.

"This is a strange woman!" Cao Tiancheng's deep voice came from behind, "County Captain, you shouldn't miss her."

Gao Yuan turned around, looked at Cao Tiancheng, hesitated to speak, shook his head, let out a long sigh, and turned to walk towards the camp. Outside the gate of the camp, Cao Tiancheng also sighed deeply, looking at the dark night, " What a pity."

This night, Gao Yuan did not fall asleep.

The fifth watch drum sounded, the sky was twilight, Gao Yuan tied up his clothes, opened the door, and walked out. In front of his door, three infantry generals, Yan Haibo and Naha, stood upright. Behind them were a thousand infantrymen and A hundred cavalry with horses. Behind these people, Sun Xiao, Zheng Xiaoyang, Cao Tiancheng, and Cao Tianci led the rest of the soldiers, forming a neat square formation.

"My lord, the county captain, we are preparing to go out with a thousand infantry and a hundred cavalry, and they are ready to go, please order from the county captain!" Yan Haibo stepped forward and saluted Gao Yuan.

Gao Yuan glanced across rows of soldiers, "Let's go!"

Yan Haibo responded loudly, turned around and ran back to the queue, with a wave of his hand, groups of soldiers turned around and walked towards the gate. After the infantry, the cavalry led their horses and followed.

"Congratulations to send the county lieutenant to the expedition, I wish the county lieutenant a success, and make another great contribution!" Sun Xiao roared at the top of his voice, and then the thousands of remaining soldiers shouted in unison.