"Lady:
You are a woman, raising the elderly and children at home, you have worked hard.
I'm having a good time here at Rock Frontier Fortress. It was just horse riding training all day, there was no battle to fight. Don't worry too much, madam.
When I’m not training, I always miss my hometown, my family, and you, my wife. I miss your long black hair, your white and tender face, your fragrant fragrance..."
Your sister!
With trembling hands, Ren Ning wrote down Shaou's words word for word.
A long time passed. Under the murderous gazes of his colleagues behind him, Shaou thought again and again. Finally, he could not hold back his words. Then he nodded and thanked Ren Ning, signaling for him to finish.
Ren Ning breathed a sigh of relief, gave him a strange look, and finished quickly.
I really didn't expect that in public, a rough guy like Sha Ou, with a ferocious face, would speak love words to his wife so sweetly that it could make people sick.
As he wrote, he got goosebumps all over his body, and he almost couldn't hold the brush.
Perhaps it was Shaou who started it, but the cavalrymen behind them, no matter they were as tall as a cow or a horse, or as skinny as a stick of wood, when they wrote letters, they talked about love more coquettishly and romantically.
Ren Ning was amazed and felt that the world was deteriorating and people's hearts were no longer the same.
In his previous life, he watched some variety shows or movies.
When the soldiers there wrote letters to their families, they always wrote something like this: "A body of seven feet has been promised to the country, and it will be difficult to give it to you again."
How could they be as wild as these guys in front of me?
Several people passed by, and finally it was Gu Datou's turn.
He was not yet married and his parents were both dead, so the recipient of the letter was his brother.
Qidian has always been known as an orphanage. The beginning of the novel usually involves the parents offering sacrifices to heaven, with no magic power. Gu Datou is a perfect protagonist template.
Therefore, his letters home are much more serious and formal than the previous ones.
It's just that the recipient of the letter directly asked Ren Ning to break the merit.
"Brother Gou, are you feeling well..." Gu Datou started.
flutter.
Ren Ning spit out a sip of tea, "Big Tou, what is your brother's name? I'm a little blind and couldn't hear clearly."
Gu Datou was stunned and replied blankly: "His name is Gu Ergou. What's wrong?"
Ren Ning was speechless, "This name..."
hey-hey.
Gu Datou stroked his polished head out of habit.
"The year my little brother was born, there was a big flood in my hometown. My parents were forced by the master's family to go up the river embankment to plug the gap, but they never came back. I took my little brother and ran to the nearby mountains and survived. .”
"Everyone says that a bad name makes a living, and I don't know many words. There happened to be a hungry, skinny dog nearby who wanted to bite us. So I gave my little brother such a name."
"That's it." Ren Ning wiped his sweat and motioned for him to continue talking about the contents of the letter.
In this way, one cavalryman after another lined up to ask for a letter, and everyone who came was willing to write as fast as he could.
Unknowingly, it was evening, and Ren Ning didn't know how many letters he had written. Anyway, he had to change several pools of ink.
clang! clang! clang!
The deep bells of the fortress rang suddenly, as if they were beating on the heart.
Ren Ning came to his senses and looked up.
Not only did the number of soldiers lined up in front of him not decrease, but there were even more than at the beginning.
"The bell has rung, it's time to eat." Gu Datou, a tall man, squeezed over without any hesitation.
"Brothers, Lao Ren has been writing all afternoon and has used several pools of ink. He is already very tired. Let's stop here today!"
Buzz~
The soldiers who were about to take their turn were a little unhappy.
"Brother Ren, please write more. We have been waiting all afternoon."
"That's right. I can leave my food for you, brother. Please continue to write letters. I'm going crazy waiting for my letter at home."
…
Ren Ning stood up and shook his sore arms.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
It turns out that writing letters all afternoon is more tiring than killing people all afternoon.
"Brothers, those who need to eat go to eat first, and those who need to train horses continue to train horses. As for writing letters home, we will continue tomorrow."
He chuckled: "The postman will stay in the fortress for a full month before leaving. It's only the beginning of the month, so there's no need to worry about this."
This is the truth, but the cavalrymen discussed it for a while, with some hesitation on their faces.
Ren Ning spoke again: "I, Ren Ning, always keep my word. If I say that I will help all the brothers from the Eighth Cavalry Battalion write their letters home, I will definitely help."
Everyone was overjoyed and dispersed one after another.
After dinner, Ren Ning just returned to the barracks.
Gu Datou walked in with a lot of things.
"What?" Ren Ning was curious.
hey-hey.
Gu Datou put the things in his arms on Ren Ning's bed.
"The brothers from the Eighth Battalion gave it to you. Most of them are gadgets collected during missions. Although they are not worth much, they are all their thoughts."
Ren Ning was stunned and turned over it casually.
The gifts were miscellaneous and had everything.
Fresh mare's milk, sharp Xiliang weapons, sturdy horseshoes, bright and beautiful stones, old and new reins, a dog that doesn't know whether it's a cow or a horse...
There's even a clear crystal.
Crystals are so commonplace in modern society that almost no one cares about them. But in ancient times when there was no glass, it was a very rare and precious substance.
Ren Ning threw the messy things back to Gu Datou with a dark face, and casually picked out the crystal clear crystal.
"Whose crystal is it? This is a very valuable thing. If you take it back to the Imperial City of Star City, you can probably exchange it for a two-story house in Zhuquefang."
"It's worth shit." Gu Datou snorted, "This is a fortress, a place where birds don't shit. It's not some shitty imperial capital, Xingji City."
"I recognize its original owner. The boy's mount is a mare that was pregnant for some reason some time ago."
"He went around trying to exchange this wretched thing with others for some horse food, but everyone's horse food was so tight that no one paid any attention to him."
"Nonsense." Ren Ning didn't believe it. "Isn't the pregnant mare nourished by the breeding horse? What kind of horse food did he change?"
As it relates to border security, all matters in the fortress will be prepared in advance.
Especially the food and grass that people eat and horses chew, these strategic reserves, which are related to the stability of military morale, are usually prepared in half a year or even a year.
And a high-quality pregnant mare is the absolute treasure of the fortress. Therefore, no matter how much publicity is given to the outside world that the fortress is short of food, the breeding camp will never starve them.
"Making camp?" Gu Datou sneered.
"Old Ren, you often go out on missions, so you don't know much about the situation."
"In the past few months, several mares in the breeding camp have had miscarriages for no apparent reason. It is said that the weather was too hot and the owners did not take good care of them."
"This is no good reason. The people above the fortress are so angry that they want to kill people. They have already issued a death order asking them to find out the reason quickly."
"Last time we went to the stud camp to select horses, didn't you think, Old Ren, that the entire stud camp was lifeless? That was because they were checking the situation throughout the camp."
Ren Ning suddenly realized.
At that time, he only wanted to find a good horse, and he was not familiar with the horse breeding camp, so he didn't notice anything unusual.
Gu Datou glanced at the crystal in Ren Ning's hand, and his expression suddenly turned lewd.
"That mare was raised by his son himself, and he has a deep affection for it. He doesn't let us even touch him, let alone ride him. Hehe, I don't know which stallion in the camp is so powerful, and he doesn't know where he is. Sleep……"
cough!
Ren Ning stared.
Gu Datou then straightened his back and said, "With the current situation, he would not even consider sending the horse to the breeding camp."
Ren Ning nodded and looked to the southwest with an expressionless face.
It’s the breeding camp again.
