Chapter 447 Sacrifice (I)

Back from the riverside to the central army tent, Zhou Xian heard Guo Shao say: Just live in it for the time being, this is where I slept.

Just like this, a lonely man and a widow and a woman live together in the same room?Zhou Xian felt a little embarrassed and surprised at first, and asked casually: Where does General Guo live?

Guo Shao said: I'm here to deal with official business outside. I'll ask the guards to lay some hay to take a bed, blankets and quilts to make do with it. If you're outside, you don't have to be too particular.

Zhou Xian was silent for a while.

Thinking about the reason why Guo Shao wanted her to live with him, maybe he felt that it was not safe in a military camp with a lot of men, and her current identity was just a singing girl, so there was nothing wrong with this arrangement.

However, when a woman encounters such a thing, she inevitably thinks a lot, which seems to be a woman's instinct.

First of all, she guessed in her heart whether Guo Shao had any inappropriate thoughts about her. If she easily agreed to be in the same room with him, she would have no reason to suffer any insults... Who told you to sleep with someone in the same tent?

She silently observed Guo Shao's expression and found that there was something in his eyes that was completely different from Li Yu and the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace. Only men with desires had eyes; she understood the lust inside. Guo Shao needed himself, even if it was the most primitive desire, but that desire was enough for a woman to become unique in his eyes.

The request at this moment is different from the ambitions that Guo Shao showed when he was on the riverside.

With the ambition of expanding territory, he obviously did not consider whether Li Yu and the subjects of the Southern Tang Kingdom were willing; but at this time, Guo Shao's desire was very tolerant, gentle and cautious, with pity in his eyes.

Zhou Xian's heart throbbed, and she felt a little hot on her face.

But soon came to mind another thing: the mission of assassinating Guo Shao.

Most of the warmth disappeared in an instant, and Zhou Xian also felt the chill coming from some unknown corner.

Looking at the scene when they met, she felt that Guo Shao had already noticed the malice of the Southern Tang Dynasty's envoys, and the biggest danger came from Zhou Xian... but now he let her live together.

Zhou Xian looked slightly sideways. The place where Guo Shao handled official business and where he was sleeping was separated by a wooden curtain, without any obstacles.

She could imagine that when he was asleep outside in the middle of the night, the people inside were not defensive to him.

Her eyes became quite confused because Guo Shao's thoughts were actually very detailed. He should consider getting such obvious risks, right?

She was thinking about it all, but she forgot to respond clearly to Guo Shao's arrangements after negligence.Then Guo Shao heard it say: Just do it this way, I want to go out now, you can rest here.

Zhou Xian nodded, Guo Shao glanced at her, and said gently: Don’t be afraid, no one will come to this tent to threaten you, I will go back soon.

Such a reminder made her feel a little protected warmth, and her face turned red slightly, and she responded um.

Guo Shao walked out of the door without looking back. Zhou Xian watched him leave, so he walked a few steps in the tent, then reached out and gently lifted the curtain separated in the middle and walked in.

This was where Guo Shao lived, and Zhou Xian felt a masculine atmosphere at first sight.

That breath is not a smell, but a feeling.

It is completely different from the trivial things of a woman. This small space is very simple and neat. Two simple sets of clothes are stacked on a box. Next to it is a toothbrush for washing, green salt and a towel. There are pillows, bedding and a book.

There is nothing else, no decoration, everything has its uses.

Zhou Xian stretched out his white fingers and couldn't help but gently stroke these things. She seemed to see how a man lived.

This is a living person, not a certain symbol of revenge and to be removed.

After a long time, she heard Guo Shao’s speech outside, and couldn’t help but leave her daily life and walk to the exit of the tent.

In the wet and cold winter, two thick cloths were hung at the door to keep warm. Zhou Xian picked a corner and looked out and saw Guo Shao.

He was surrounded by several guards, and a large group of soldiers who were making fires and cooking respectfully surrounded him.

He was picking up a wooden spoon and scooping a spoonful of soup from the iron pot on the rocky stove. He tasted it with relish, and smacked his lips, turned his head and smiled: It was a little salty.

A soldier next to him with nervousness and excitement on his face stuttered: We cooked the marinated meat inside.

Guo Shao smiled and said: No wonder.It doesn’t matter if it tastes better or is almost done. The water needs to be clean, and it will be bad if you eat it badly.

A young man nodded in response like a chicken pecking at rice: Hey!Alas!The people around him laughed again.

Guo Shao looked at the soldier who spoke before: I think you look familiar, it seems that your name is Yao Er?Where is your hometown?

The soldier hurriedly said: The little man is in Kaifeng Prefecture, really... I really didn't expect that Marshal Guo still remembers me!At this time, Guo Shao reached out and pulled the crooked shoulder scarf on the soldier's neck straight, patted the other party's shoulder and said: Do it well.

Then he pointed to the distance and spoke to a civil servant.

Zhou Xian looked in the direction and saw some thatched huts outside the camp. After knocking for a while, he guessed that it might be the thatched hut built by the soldiers.

Sure enough, when I heard the voice of the civil servant coming from afar, the lord was at ease, and they arranged for the military generals to be responsible for everything and pay great attention to preventing illness.

Zhou Xian saw that all the small things in the military camp were small things, but the small things gave her a lot of touch, and thought to herself: Li Yu could not defeat Guo Shao.

In such a chaotic era, Zhou Xian was not unfamiliar with war, but his past knowledge came from the words written on paper in the memorials. This time, she truly felt that the war was like this in the military camp.

The general's words and deeds and many trivial matters affected the entire army, not just military orders; war was carried out by ordinary soldiers.

Guo Shao's performance was to treat the soldiers as human beings. His smile, his tone, and his actions of helping a lower-level soldier tidy up his clothes all seemed so sincere... Zhou Xian thought that if he was a small soldier, he would be willing to work hard for a general like Guo Shao.

At this moment, a young woman came to the tent; she lowered her head, but immediately attracted Zhou Xian's attention, mainly because there were almost no women in the army.

Zhou Xian also immediately recognized that it was the woman Guo Shaoxuan came to serve her.

Zhou Xian immediately put down the door curtain and turned around and left the door.After a while, the woman opened the curtain and walked in. When she saw Zhou Xian, she bent her knees slightly and said: I have seen her wife.

May I have your name?Zhou Xian asked at this time.

She did not know the name of this woman before, nor was she interested in knowing... Perhaps it was Guo Shao's patient attitude to talk to a young man that affected her, and she also had a subtle change in the mentality of a singing girl.

People can really influence each other before, and it's easy.

The woman said timidly: My stage name is Yunniang.

Zhou Xian did not ask questions. She understood that women who are singing girls would not easily say their true surnames.

Yunniang said again: There was a general named Lu Chengyong in this camp to allow my family to enter and exit the central army. Before it was dark, my family came to collect the dirty clothes they had changed on the road and wash them off at the river outside the camp.

Without thinking too much, Zhou Xian turned around and picked up his package, gave Yunniang the changed clothes. The two of them said a few more words and asked each other about their respective situations.

In such places, women are very inconvenient to bathe, and the weather is cold, but Zhou Xian likes to be clean, so he often changes his clothes.

...The camps of tens of thousands of troops were not crowded together, otherwise it would be difficult to obtain water, discharge sewage, and select land. Each department turned into many camps and built barriers to station them in turn.

The Central Army camp did not occupy a large area, and Yunniang quickly left the camp gate, and there was a small river outside.

It was almost dusk, and Yunniang rushed to do her job quickly. The river water was cold and it was not a good job.

At this moment, another woman also came to the river with a wooden basin and walked straight to the stone next to Yunniang to clean her clothes.Yunniang turned her head and saw that she recognized the singing girl who was sent together, but she didn't know her name.

Some of the singing girls who were sent this time knew each other, but there were also some strange faces.

However, everyone was sent to the enemy's military camp on this trip. The future was uncertain. They were both depressed and afraid. They didn't even have fun talking along the way. Yunniang didn't know the name of the woman around her. But she looked very familiar. What impressed her most was that when the Zhou army generals chose people, this woman took the initiative to serve the woman chosen by the general.

The woman was absent-minded in washing clothes, as if she was just doing it. She looked back at the back.

Yunniang was curious and thought that someone had been behind her, so she also looked at her.

Not far away, an old man was walking by the river with expressionless expression, as if he was a soldier standing on the whistle... He seemed to be here to stare at the women who were washing clothes, afraid that they would escape; but it was not very similar, because the soldier was at least forty or fifty years old, with a numb face and no sign of protruding his head.

The woman next to her spoke and whispered: Where are you serving? Do you want to serve the Zhou army commander Guo Shao?

Yunniang looked at her at a loss and shook her head and said: I don’t know if she will serve her. She was arranged to live in Shuai Guo’s tent.

The woman actually showed a happy expression on her face. She looked back again, handed over a bunch of handkerchiefs quickly, and said: Put it away, put it in her underwear.When you meet the little lady you serve, give her the scarf and squid.

Yunniang didn't know what it was, but she was inexplicably scared.

The woman stuffed it into her hand without saying a word, stopped her surprise expression, and said coldly: If you were found by Zhou Junwu, all the people related to it would die, and you would not be able to escape!It's better to do what I said.

Yunniang said in a trembling voice: I don’t know anything. If you take the things back, I will never report them to you...

The woman said: I can’t help you, because it’s you right by the side of that lady, and only through you can you have a chance.If you don’t do it, you won’t be able to get rid of it, hum!