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In ancient times, I often stayed at night when I was traveling for a long distance. Because the ancient customs were relatively simple, I basically would not be rejected.

But surprisingly, Guo Ziyi and the others were rejected.

...

The entrance of the village, beside the stone wall.

Several strong men, holding homemade spears in their hands, looked very alert, and an old man was surrounded by them.

The old man had a scar on his face, and his left arm was also broken. He was about fifty years old, but his energy was very strong.

In ancient times, people in their fifties were basically half buried. Most of them were hunched and were often panting when talking and walking.

But this old man is different. His waist looks very straight and his eyes are also very sharp. When he looks at people, he seems to be shining sharply.

Even so, the old man speaks very kindly, and cannot even be described as kindly, but rather a kind of cautious restraint:

"Neither, I'm really sorry, our village is too small to receive your caravan."

"And the old man also wants to advise you, can you continue walking forward with the convoy? Just walk fifty miles forward and you can reach our county town, which is a city and is very safe at night."

"Neighbors, nobleman, please don't be angry, please don't be angry."

"I am not maliciously refusing, nor am I born with indifference. The reason why I dare not try to keep you is because our village has its own difficulties."

"well……"

"The so-called everything is difficult to go out. Only by being convenient to others can you be convenient to yourself. The old man has also gone out several times and knows the importance of staying at night. If it weren't for some special circumstances, the old man really wanted you to stay for one night."

"But there is nothing I can do, the old man really can't keep you."

The old man's tone was very gentle and his posture was very low.

He has been a child since he was a child.

When he refused, he used the word "seek".

It was obvious that Guo Ziyi and the others came to ask for help, but he, the rejecter, asked others for understanding.

The posture is really low.

Guo Ziyi sighed and suddenly asked, "Old man, have you been a soldier before?"

The old man was obviously stunned, his eyes subconsciously alert, and said, "How do you know, nobleman?"

Guo Ziyi laughed and pointed to the stone wall beside the village with a deep meaning.

The old man quickly explained: "This is nothing. Many villages have it, such as stone walls and fences. They can not only stop wild animals, but also protect children in the village from running around."

Guo Ziyi smiled slightly and said, "Is that right? But I think it's mainly to defend against bandits."

The old man couldn't help but sigh, nodded and said, "What the noble man said is."

Guo Ziyi looked at him, then turned to look at Li Guangbi, and smiled and said, "Brother Li, come out and show it, tell this old man why we know that he has been a soldier."

Li Guangbi laughed twice, and stood up with a wink.

This kid's favorite is to show off.

So when analyzing, it is very clear.

"First of all, the construction of stone walls, such height and thickness, is obviously due to rich experience. However, a village cannot often encounter bandits and accumulate defense experience among bandits..."

"So there is only one possibility for this, that is, those who have experience learn it elsewhere."

"It is difficult for ordinary people to travel far in their lives. Perhaps from birth to death, they only live within twenty miles of their hometown, which means that such people will not have too high knowledge."

"It is because it has high knowledge, but it is not necessarily an insight in this area, because it is very special, and only the soldiers in the army can do it."

"In this regard, we can first infer that someone in your village has been a soldier, and he is not an ordinary soldier, at least a soldier who has gone through big scenes. Moreover, he has been in the army for a long time. If the time is short, he will not accumulate useful experience."

Li Guangbi said this,

He looked at the old man with a proud look and said, "Actually, this situation is very obvious, and my boss can see it, but my boss is unwilling to perform, so he gave me the opportunity to perform. Since that's the case, we must explain it in detail."

"The second reason is that it is related to you, the old man."

"Although you are very old, your waist is still strong. This is not like an ordinary farmer. Farmers have long been squatting at your age."

"And the scars on your face, which are caused by sharp tools. If ordinary farm tools cut you off, you will not be able to cut such a neat wound. From this, it can be inferred that you have at least faced people holding sharp blades."

"Also, your left arm is broken and the broken part is very smooth. It can also be inferred that it was a sharp blade. But it is not the same as the weapon caused by the wound on your face, but it is caused by another extremely heavy weapon."

"If you are hit by this kind of weapon on your face, you will never leave only a scar. I'm afraid you will just open your head, and you won't be alive now..."

"To sum up, I made the following judgment. Old man, the wound on your face comes from weapons such as swords, and the incompleteness on your arm is being slashed with a big knife."

"That means that your injury cannot come from one person."

When Li Guangbi said this, his eyes turned to Guo Ziyi and laughed: "Boss, what do you think I'm analyzing?"

Guo Ziyi reached out and patted him on the shoulder, saying, "It's very accurate. I'm worthy of being a general, but there's something wrong with it. You guy is too verbose."

Li Guangbi smiled embarrassedly and said awkwardly: "I'm used to it, and I can't help but want to show off when I see the old pawn."

At this time, the old man sighed and slowly bent down to salute, "The little old man is convinced. The noble man is indeed powerful. Just a little speculation, you can see that the old man's situation is obvious. It can be seen that the noble man's origin is extraordinary and it is definitely not something that our small village can mess with."

Guo Ziyi looked at him and asked in a warm voice: "So you are indeed an old man, right? And the stone wall defense outside this village is the concept you learned from the army, right?"

The old man no longer avoided the concealment and admitted honestly: "The noble man said nothing wrong. The young old man is indeed an old soldier. Thirty-five years ago, I was summoned to be a soldier in the army and stayed in the army for twenty-five years until I was forty years old."

As he sighed, he murmured: "At the age of fifteen, I have been a military soldier in the last generation of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Guangbi hurriedly came to Guo Ziyi and whispered: "Since the 20th year of Kaiyuan, the system of the government troops has completely become decadent. In other words, this old man withdrew from the army in the 20th year of Kaiyuan."

After thinking about it, he said, "He has been a military soldier for twenty-five years. The military soldier was depressed in the 20th year of Kaiyuan. So it can be inferred that he was the conscript of the previous generation of emperors... Hiss, my God, boss, this is an old soldier from the Wu Zetian era."

An old soldier in the Wu Zetian era?

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in that era were very good at fighting.

Guo Ziyi's eyes flashed with a gleam, and she subconsciously looked at the old man.

Sure enough, the old man's face gradually became proud, and a memory-like look appeared in his eyes, murmured: "We followed General Li and guarded the entire Western Regions with great might. None of the thirty-six foreign countries dared to bare the Tang Dynasty."

Guo Ziyi suddenly bent down and bowed, and said solemnly: "Old man, you are a hero."

But the old man smiled bitterly and said as if muttering, "So what about heroes? I can't protect my hometown. I thought that my identity as an old soldier could ask the officials in the yamen to look up to him. Even if a little cunning guard was sent, I could help us with this difficulty. However, I am just a useless old soldier. In the eyes of the officials, there is no difference between me and the people..."

This sentence reveals a lot of information.

Guo Ziyi's eyes were obviously angry.

He said in a deep voice: "Old man, can I understand what you said just now: First of all, the threat you encountered in your village, and this threat is very great, and you cannot resist it with your own abilities."

"Secondly, you learned the news early, so you took timely prepared and went to the county town for help. But the county town officials did not take it seriously, and they directly refused your request for help, right?"

The old man's face became more and more miserable, with tears faintly in his eyes, and he said, "There is no way, the officials of the county government do not believe us. Although the old man said it was so convincing that there would definitely be thieves, the officials all looked indifferent and even called me to be beaten out... They said, I'm old and humble."

"But how could the little old man be old Hutu? I was the last generation of elite military soldier of the Tang Dynasty. After twenty-five years of being a scout, I was also a scout for twenty-five years. The way of scouting the thieves was so shallow, how could they hide the counter-spy?"

"Even, I can infer the time when they came."

"But, what's the use of this? No one believes it, and those officials refuse to believe it. So our village is destined to suffer. I don't know how many people will die tonight. Poor, poor, dozens of families may disappear overnight."

The old man said this, his face was filled with tears.

Guo Ziyi exhaled a long breath.

Suddenly he asked with a deep meaning: "Your village is about to be attacked by bandits, and the old man, you calculated the time tonight. Because the bandits are very powerful, you know that you can't stand it. You have even expected your ending and know that your village may disappear overnight..."

"Since that's the case, why don't you leverage? For example, when we come to stay, why don't you try to stay? If you agree to stay, wouldn't you turn us into a rebellious force in the village?"

This is Guo Ziyi’s only doubt.

He really couldn't understand the old man's decision.

Unfortunately, the old man did not answer, just stood at the entrance of the village and kept crying.

On the contrary, a man in the village suddenly spoke out and said proudly: "Our Niujia Village will never harm others in our life. Since we are destined to be slaughtered by thieves, then we will fight for it before we die. Even if we die, we will not let the thieves have a good time."

"But we don't want to implicate outsiders, especially those like you who travel long distances. Although your caravan is large, you are doing business. You have not experienced training and cannot resist the cruelty of the bandits."

"We are different. All the men in our village have been trained by the Fourth Grandpa. No matter how cruel the bandits are, we dare to fight with them."

This man looked tough and his waist was very straight.

Guo Ziyi suddenly turned her head and gave Li Guangbi a look.

Li Guangbi understood it and laughed: "All the men in the village have all experienced training, and it is also the training of the last generation of the Tang Dynasty's military soldiers... Boss, these people must be very good at fighting."

Guo Ziyi's face also had a smile and nodded, "No, very good at fighting. If they are equipped with weapons, they will be an elite soldier immediately."

The conversation between the two of them seemed a bit strange. The men in the village opposite were all confused, and the old man was also a little confused.

Until this moment, Guo Ziyi finally revealed his trump card.

He walked to the entrance of the village alone, looked at the old man through the thick wooden door, and said solemnly: "Although you rejected us, Guo still decided to stay here. As for the concerns that you have implicated us, Guo thought you didn't have to..."

He said as he stopped slightly, his voice quietly lowered, and said, "What you see now is only the surface of our caravan, one hundred ox carts, and the coachman with whips. Apart from that, there is no protection, so you think we are ordinary merchants, so you think we cannot resist the thieves, right?"

"But Guo wants to tell you that this is what Guo deliberately did for the thieves..."
To be continued...