Chapter 109

When Xie Chen came back, he was still holding a lunch box in his hand. "Brother, try the food in the military camp today. I specially asked the cook to make it lighter." He put the lunch box on the table. Seeing that Lin Shuge looked a little bad, he immediately touched his forehead. "What's wrong? Fever again?"

"Zhongxuan, I want to go to the bathroom." Lin Shuge said with a blush on his face, his ears were red.

Xie Chen stood by and laughed for a long time before saying, "I'll get it for you..."

"No, help me out." Lin Shuge stretched out a hand to him, "Hurry, hurry up."

Xie Chen chuckled again, put his shoes on, and helped him down by the hand. Just when Lin Shuge thought he was going to help him over, Xie Chen simply picked him up.

Lin Shuge was so angry that he slapped him hard a few times, "Put me down. It's broad daylight. It will be disgraceful if Axuan and Ayuan see me."

Xie Chen laughed out loud: "I just saw the two of them taking Xiao Bai out. They won't see anything. Besides, there's nothing to be afraid of. Brother has injured his leg. What's the problem with me carrying you out?"

Lin Shuge looked at him expressionlessly. It really made sense. I really believed it.

Xie Chen carried him to the toilet. Lin Shuge insisted on coming down no matter what. He turned a deaf ear to Xie Chen's enthusiastic self-recommendation and solved the physiological problem with a strong body but weak will.

"Is your leg okay?" Xie Chen kept muttering to himself, worriedly.

"It's okay, come on, carry me in." I always felt like someone was about to come in.

"Didn't brother tell me not to hug you just now?" Xie Chen said as he stood nearby.

“Zhongxuan, my legs hurt a little.” Lin Shuge stretched out his hand to him. Xie Chen felt dizzy and picked him up dizzily. “Go back quickly, I…”

“Brother, why did you come out?” Lin Xuan’s voice came over. Lin Shuge shuddered and pinched Xie Chen subconsciously. “I came out to… relieve myself.”

"Hurry up and go in. Erlang is such a fool. He knew you... Oh, but he still let you come out. Go in quickly." As he said that, he drove the two ignorant brothers into the room.

Lin Shuge felt that he had lost face as an elder brother, and buried his face in Xie Chen's chest.

"Brother, I told you A-Xuan wouldn't say anything." He carried Lin Shuge back to the bed, with his hands beside him, "Just that, can you do it to me again?"

"What?" What did I just do?

Xie Chen tilted his head slightly, coughed and said, "Be coquettish to me."

Lin Shuge: “…”

"When did I ever act like a spoiled child to you?" Lin Shuge was as if struck by lightning. "You must be feeling it wrong. I... am starving to death. Didn't you ask me to try the food in the barracks? I have something to tell you after we finish eating." As he spoke, he pushed Xie Chen out.

Seeing that he looked furious, Xie Chen touched his head, picked out the dishes one by one and brought them to him.

I devoured the meal in no time, as if something was chasing me.

Xie Chen put away the dishes and asked, "What does my brother want to say to me?"

Lin Shuge said sternly: "Achuan came to tell me today that the Qiang leader specifically wanted to see you."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Shuge saw Xie Chen's face change, and he asked stiffly: "Did he say anything?"

"No, Ah Chuan said he was very stubborn and wouldn't say anything no matter how hard he was tortured. He just asked to see you."

"Brother, I do know him, and I know he recognized me. Do you remember that I once said that I was stranded in the Qiang tribe?" Xie Chen's face looked a little ugly, as if he didn't want to recall it.

"Could it be Shao Liangbu?"

"It was the Shaoliang tribe. I was younger at the time and accidentally entered this tribe. At first, I was treated as a slave like all the Yan people. I had to herd sheep during the day and huddle with the sheep to keep warm at night. If I wasn't careful, I would die."

At that time, Xie Chen was still young, and the Qiang people were full of brave warriors. He originally wanted to escape halfway, but after seeing many people who escaped were either caught and killed, or got lost in the grassland and froze to death on the way, or were killed by wild beasts and left with no trace, he gave up the idea. He could only act according to circumstances and take things step by step.

Lin Shuge had only heard a few words from him, and although he knew the hardships, he had never thought it would be like this.

Xie Chen looked at his pair of clear eyes full of heartache and smiled, "I didn't suffer much, actually. At first I couldn't understand Qiang language and my life was hard, but later I gradually understood it and found out a lot of things. At that time, the old chieftain of Shaoliang tribe was old and wanted to make the son of his favorite woman the next chieftain, but it happened to be the youngest son, so the older sons naturally didn't agree."

"You took advantage of the rift and conflict between them..." Lin Shuge guessed.

It would be strange if there was no conflict if the eldest son was deposed and the youngest son was enthroned, just like the Central Plains Dynasty and the Xiya Kingdom in the past.

"Brother is very smart," Xie Chen said teasingly, "In winter, food was scarce and the Qiang people mostly fought among themselves for cattle, sheep and slaves. Once, the Dianxi Qiang attacked and I was favored by the eldest son of the chieftain because of my outstanding performance. He promoted me from the sheep slaves. Later, I offered him several strategies and let him unite with the rest of the brothers to get rid of the youngest son of the chieftain. As a result, I became his most proud counselor."

As Xie Chen spoke, he looked carefully at Lin Shuge's eyes. Seeing that he listened attentively and had no aversion to him, he continued, "I took the opportunity to pass on the news that he killed his brother to Chief Hao, which made Chief Hao, who was already suspicious of him, want to kill him."

"I still remember the first snow that night. I watched the entire tribe on fire. Fathers and sons were killing each other, and brothers were fighting each other. I took advantage of the chaos to escape," he said with a smile on his lips. "But I was discovered. After the eldest son killed his father and brother, he found out that I was missing, so he sent people to hunt me down. I had planned the escape route long ago, but I was chased and killed and only managed to escape to Ganzhou."

He looked at Lin Shuge with affection and said, "I originally thought I was going to die, but God really helped me. When my brother rescued me, I knew I was not destined to die."

Lin Shuge touched his face and said, "Zhongxuan, you have suffered."

How old was he at that time, yet he had experienced life and death several times alone? Lin Shuge felt distressed when he thought about how he had to walk on thin ice around the vicious enemies.

"Brother, the eldest son is now the chieftain of the Shaoliang tribe, Yeli. The person who hurt you that day was one of his guards. He told me at the time that he didn't expect you to be still alive."

Lin Shuge was silent for a long time before he said, "Of course he has to stay alive. Now that he is a prisoner, if he is anxious to see you, leave him alone for a few days. Then I will go with you to see him."

"Brother, I am late this time because the Commandery has been arguing over who to send. The Huns are a strong enemy, and the Qiang people are just a small tribe now. Naturally, their military achievements cannot compare to the battle against the Huns, so I volunteered to come." He leaned his head on Lin Shuge's shoulder and explained to him the reason for that day.

"Well, I happen to be here too. The food and fodder troops you brought with you are not just planning to repel the Qiang people once, right?"

Xie Chen sniffed his neck, responded vaguely, called him brother, and then lowered his head and bit him.

Lin Shuge was very caring towards him tonight, and he endured the bite. "I have been lying down for the past few days without washing, so please stop biting me."

"I helped you wipe it, um, all over your body." Xie Chen rubbed his neck, and noticing Lin Shuge's gradually stiffening body, he smiled and said, "Didn't brother also help me wipe it? He laughed at me at that time."

"How can it be the same? At that time, I just thought of you as my younger brother whom I saved out of kindness, but now..." His words stopped abruptly.

Xie Chen caught up and asked, "What about now? What is our relationship now?"

His handsome face had a strong impact, and Lin Shuge was dazzled under the light. "Now it's naturally love... It doesn't matter now, just behave yourself."

"Brother, you have such a cruel heart. You abandoned me after using me. I am a man from a good family. How could I follow you without knowing the truth?" He spoke with grievance, but his hands were not honest at all.

"If you go any further, I will keep you in a state of confusion, unable to turn straight and unable to see the light of day." Lin Shuge saw that his hand had already reached inside the thin inner garment.

"Really? Then I have to ask my brother for some interest," Xie Chen said as he turned over and climbed up, using both hands to take advantage of him. Lin Shuge thought about how he had survived a life-and-death experience in a foreign tribe at such a young age, so he agreed reluctantly.

"Brother, you've been so good tonight. If I had known you would agree, I would have done something more excessive." Someone got the advantage and still acted nicely, with a look of excitement on his face.

Lin Shuge panted and slapped him on the head, pushed Xie Chen, who was still nagging, away, and put his underwear back on before saying, "If you keep pushing it, go back to your room."

Xie Chen stretched out his hands and hugged him in his arms, "Brother doesn't want me to go. By the way, brother, what did you dream about when you were unconscious that day? Why did you keep calling my name?" He brought up this matter deliberately because he wanted to hear something good when the feelings were strong.

"You heard it, I dreamed that you and I were in another world." Lin Shuge's voice was filled with laughter.

"Another world? What kind of world is it?" Xie Chen asked casually, his fingertips entwined with his long hair.

"It's a world without war and everyone can have enough food. I dreamed that we were brothers in the same school, but we were not under the same teacher." Lin Shuge felt a little tickled by him and hid back for a while.

Xie Chen pestered him and chased after him, "Really? What a pity, I can't study under the same school as brother. I was thinking about seeing what brother was like before." He was very cooperative, as if the two of them really knew each other in that world.

"Brother, where is that junior sister? Is she here too?" Xie Chen said after sitting up and looking at his injured leg.

"What junior sister? I don't feel any pain, what's wrong?" Lin Shuge pulled him down and continued to lie down and chat.

"No, I was afraid that my brother would feel uncomfortable." He spread out the quilt and covered them again. "Isn't it just that you like my brother's junior sister?"

"Oh, you mean that junior sister, huh? What a bottle of old vinegar. You've brewed this vinegar for too long, right?" He pinched Xie Chen's earlobe with some amusement.

"Yeah, I'm jealous. I'm jealous of everyone."

Lin Shuge looked at someone who was confidently saying that he loved to be jealous, and said with a smile: "Well, ask the kitchen to give you more food tomorrow, so that you don't have to be jealous yourself."

Xie Chen was silent in silence. Lin Shuge said, "Zhongxuan, there is no such thing as a junior sister. You are the only one in my dreams. I was even caught by the teacher for looking at you during class..."

"Brother, we will stay together until we grow old, right?" There was a hint of panic in Xie Chen's eyes, as if he was desperately seeking a guarantee.

"Yes, I will." Lin Shuge tilted his head and kissed him on the lips.

Xie Chen's breathing became a little disordered, and he hugged him and deepened the kiss.