Martial Cultivator

Qi Yuanjia raised his head and drank another glass of wine, then looked at Chen Chao with a smile, "Before you came, I had heard your name. I originally wanted to have a discussion with you, but looking at it now, I feel uncomfortable It’s hard work.”

Qi Yuanjia's cheerfulness was something Chen Chao didn't expect. Chen Chao also smiled and said, "I'm injured right now, so I don't want to take action."

Qi Yuanjia got straight to the point and asked, "Commander Chen, do you want to stay in the north?"

Chen Chao was startled, but he quickly understood the meaning behind this sentence. Staying in the north meant that Chen Chao was going to become the general. He had killed Yuan Ling and was already at the border. He has some moderate prestige in the army. If he stays in the frontier army, leads the army, gets familiar with marching and fighting, and then accumulates some military merits, then it won't be long before he will be regarded as a North Korean by some people. A member of the Border Army would even be considered a candidate qualified to be a general.

It is not impossible, because the current general is also a garrison, and he will naturally have preferential treatment for his old subordinate. In this way, Chen Chao is really likely to become the northern general of Daliang in the future.

They didn't even know if this was what His Majesty the Emperor meant.

Previously, when the general returned to his old age, it was a last resort for the garrison to come from the capital of God to take over the position of general. However, the people in the north did not accept that in the future, the military power in the north would fall into the hands of people other than the northern border troops. .

Chen Chao smiled and said, "Now I naturally want to return to the capital of the gods, but I can't say whether I will come again in the future. After all, I am an official in Daliang, and no one can violate the wishes of the court."

Qi Yuanjia smiled and said, "Commander Chen, there is no need to say these roundabout things. I am very honest. I just want to tell Commander Chen that I have thought about the position of general since I first joined the army, even if Commander Chen wants to compete for it." , I will accompany you to the end and have a fair fight with Commander Chen."

Chen Chao smiled bitterly and said, "I didn't think so."

I don’t know what will happen in the future, but anyway, for Chen Chao, he doesn’t want to be the general of the northern border. Killing monsters is okay, but if he is really asked to lead the entire northern border army to fight, Chen Chao feels that he does not have the ability. .

Qi Yuanjia smiled and said nothing. After the final toast, he turned and left. He did not return to his seat, but left straight away.

Chen Chao looked at this person's back and felt quite emotional. After all, this person was quite magnanimous.

No

After drinking a few glasses of wine, when Chen Chao wanted to leave, Gao Xuan came to his side.

This was the second young man to come to him tonight.

But like Qi Yuanjia, this is someone who is really famous among the young people in the north.

Chen Chao knew Gao Xuan because he knew the Han Men Pass he and Xie Nandu left together.

Gao Xuan smiled and said, "Commander Chen."

He raised his wine glass and said with a smile, "Commander Chen has shown great authority in the Northern Territory. Gao Xuan knows that he may not be able to do such a thing in his life, so he came here to pay homage to Commander Chen."

Chen Chao raised his wine glass and said, "I heard that General Gao is very good at leading troops in battle. In the future, he might be able to ride a horse across the demon king's city. Then it's time for me to propose a toast."

Gao Xuan sighed and said, "Although I have always dreamed of having this day, I don't know if I will have this opportunity."

"I heard that Commander Chen has seen the demon king's city. Can you tell me what happened?"

As the general of the Northern Territory, Gao Xuan's most interesting thing is naturally the destruction of the demon clan. Naturally, he is also very interested in the rumored demon clan dynasty.

Chen Chao shook his head and said, "I just saw the outline in the distance and want to know what it is like. General Gao can just go and see it himself."

Gao Xuan laughed it off.

After having a few drinks with Chen Chao, he also left.

After that, no one came to drink with Chen Chao, whether they were young monks from the divine capital or young people from the north.

At this banquet, if it was Qi Yuanjia who killed Yuan Ling, the atmosphere here would be very good. Unfortunately, it was Chen Chao. Although the young people in the north did not find trouble, they did not celebrate it too much. As for what they wanted Qi Yuanjia, who wanted to brag, left early, so the banquet seemed a bit lifeless.

But fortunately nothing happened.

Chen Chao found a reason to leave here and walked out of the general's mansion. It was already dark outside.

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The soldier handed over a lantern. When Chen Chao reached out to take it, he saw the soldier's green face and smiled at him, and the latter whispered, "Master Chen is amazing."

Chen Chao smiled.

Then he held a lantern and walked in the wind and snow.

Along the way, except for the elders, he rarely felt the kindness towards him among his peers. In the academy, because of his status as a martial artist and his relationship with Xie Nandu, those people did not have much favorable impressions of him. In the capital of the gods, because of His Majesty's favor, he was opposed by many young military attachés. When he arrived in the northern border, he did not receive much goodwill because of Ning Chong's incident. Of course, Fang Wai had always been like this.

But during this trip north, he seemed to have received a lot of goodwill.

Hmm... not bad.

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The time for everyone to return to Shendu was quickly decided. I heard that the surviving children of the aristocratic families had been complaining about the difficult life in the north and wanted to return to Shendu as soon as possible.

Indeed, it should be spring now, but it is still snowing in the north.

Chen Chao frequently visited the General's Mansion these days, of course not because Emperor Liang was still there. In fact, His Majesty the Emperor had already left long ago and had now returned to the divine capital.

What he went to see was the guardian envoy.

The life of the guardian envoy was not very smooth. After this matter was over, what he had to face was to clean up those who needed to be cleaned up in the Northern Army. Chen Chao actually was not very concerned about these things, but the reason why She came here because Xie Nandu was coming, but after all, she had a different identity, so she had to be brought by Chen Chao.

There are many records of battles against monsters in the past years in the general's mansion. There are a lot of them. General generals are not qualified to read them, but the generals are naturally allowed to see them.

The guardian and Chen Chao sat on the threshold in front of the door where the files were stored, looking at the woman who was quietly flipping through the old files.

Chen Chao sighed with emotion, "I didn't expect that you still cherish your old feelings. If this kind of thing is known to others, I'm afraid it will attract a lot of criticism."

Xie Nandu and Chen Chao are not members of the Northern Border Army, so they are naturally not qualified to investigate these things. If word spreads, they will naturally be criticized.

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"Then you should keep your mouth shut and don't talk about it everywhere." The guard rubbed his head.

Chen Chao chuckled and said, "That's natural. If you give me this face, your subordinates should cherish it."

The guard's face was expressionless, "When did I let her see it because of your face?"

Chen Chao was startled.

"His Majesty already said before he went north, let her do whatever she wants."

The guardian looked at Chen Chao and muttered, "I originally thought that His Majesty regarded you as the next general, but I didn't expect that it was someone else."

Chen Chao asked suspiciously, "Her? As a woman, can she really convince people in the future?"

It was no secret that Xie Nandu had the ambition to go north, at least to them, but it was still not easy to become a general as a woman.

The guard envoy said angrily, "You said it was later, what are you worried about now?"

"Isn't this a plan for a rainy day?" Chen Chao glanced at Xie Nandu, who was focusing all his attention on those files, and said with emotion, "There is only one female Northern General in the world."

"Don't take advantage of me and act like a good girl. I'm still your wife, isn't she?"

The guard said angrily, "I can't understand why she likes you?"

Chen Chao said matter-of-factly, "Do you think there is a better young man than me in this Daliang?"

"That's true, I just don't think you two are a good match, and that girl seems to be someone who doesn't take things between men and women to heart."

"Sir, what you say makes no sense. When the two of us are alone together, do you know what she looks like?"

Chen Chao grinned.

The guardian patted Chen Chao on the head. Looking at Chen Chao's somewhat resentful eyes, he said sternly, "I'll tell you one thing. You should prepare yourself in advance."

Chen Chao looked at the guardian envoy with some confusion.

The guard envoy looked at Chen Chao and said, "Your Majesty told me about your relationship with His Majesty before leaving the Great Wall in the North."

After hearing this, Chen Chao suddenly fell silent.