On an unknown desert island in the sea, Mu Yan, wearing clothes that were no longer intact, was directing people to use primitive methods to cut down trees.
It was extremely difficult for the soldiers who had not eaten anything serious for more than half a month and did not have the right tools to chop down a piece of wood.
Some people have been waiting for so many days, but they have not expected the army to come to find their boats. There is not even a fishing boat nearby, and they are already in despair.
"Little general, even if we can cut enough wood, how can we build a ship if we don't have the tools?"
"Yes, even if we can build a ship, how can we get back to this vast sea."
Everyone who was cutting wood stopped what they were doing when they heard this, and their faces were dejected.
Mu Yan looked at everyone one by one.
They were all elite soldiers of Zhili, selected out of ten thousand. They came here just to earn military merit and make money. They were high-spirited, and their young faces were full of vigor and determination to win.
But now, everything is dead.
Mu Yan didn't want to give up, he wanted to go back to see her, he missed her.
She must be too. Without him, she would also feel lonely.
"There is hope only if we do it. If we can return to the capital alive, we will be heroes. This time is just a small setback. It is not enough compared to bleeding and breaking hands and feet on the battlefield! There will always be a time when we make achievements in the future.
, there will be a great future waiting for you. Have you forgotten your family in the capital? They are still waiting for us! Are you going to give up now and sit and wait to die?"
"Live, live!" Li Yikaner said.
"Live, we must live!"
"We want to go back to the capital!"
"My family is still waiting for me!"
The morale was suddenly boosted, and Mu Yan nodded secretly. With luck, he waved his hand and broke a thigh-thick tree next to him...
In the capital, Mu Jie originally wanted to hide the news about his brother from Huo Xi, but unexpectedly, his murmurings to brother Nian were overheard by sister Xi.
Did Sister Xi leave so fast? He and Brother Nian obviously ran back?
"Sister Xi?"
Huo Xi walked over and touched his head: "Why did your second aunt fall ill? Who is missing?"
Mu Jie pursed his lips.
Huo Nian glanced at him and said to Huo Xi, "Sister, it seems that my brother has disappeared."
Mu Jie turned around and glared at Huo Nian, who said, "My sister is not an outsider."
"But my father told me not to tell sister Xi."
Huo Xi was stunned for a moment, thinking she didn't hear clearly, "Isn't your brother supervising sailor training in Qingzhou? How could he be missing?"
At this time, there was no need to hide anything from Sister Xi. Mu Jie came over and took Huo Xi's hand: "My brother has not been in Qingzhou for a long time. Later, the government wanted to suppress the pirates and sent my brother to lead the troops.
After the suppression of the bandits, there was a big upsurge. I heard that many soldiers have not reported back to the army, and the army said... they said they would never come back."
After I finished speaking, I felt like crying.
"Brother Mu will never fail to come back!"
Mu Jie cheered up: "Yes, my brother will not come back! He just disappeared. My father told my second uncle that maybe he was sent by the army to suppress the bandits. I heard that he was also chasing the sea.
The bandits are chasing the Japanese country. The Japanese country is so far away, and they can’t come back so quickly."
"Yes," Huo Nian nodded fiercely, "My family's boat trip to the Japanese country takes a year to go back and forth! Brother Mu must have chased the pirates there."
Two good brothers, the more they talked, the more they felt this was the case, and they nodded frequently.
Huo Xi's mind was buzzing.
Soldiers and sergeants in the army must obey military orders. If there are special military orders, the soldiers' families will not be notified at this time, but they will be worried.
Moreover, it has been almost a month since the big trend started, and there is still no news about Mu Yan?
There was no explanation in the army? The Duke of Guizhou's mansion was different from other soldiers' homes, right? Why didn't anyone in the army give a clear message?
"Sister Xi?" "Sister?"
Huo Xi came back to her senses, smiled at them, and asked Mu Jie: "Didn't your family receive any news from the military? Is there any news about any special military orders that your brother has implemented?"
Mu Jie pursed his lips and shook his head, his face suddenly darkened.
"Maybe it's just because it's too special and needs to be kept secret, so I won't tell him." Huo Nian comforted him.
"Yes, Sister Xi, it must be like this!" Mu Jie was comforted and clenched his fists. His brother must have carried out special military orders.
"Yes, your brother Nian is right. How can you tell others such secrets from the court? It would be bad if the enemy knew about it." Huo Xi comforted Mu Jie.
"Well, that must be the case!" He believed Sister Xi.
"Let's play with Brother Nian. Take a break tomorrow. Will you go back home later, or will you stay here to play with Brother Nian?"
"I want to stay and play with Brother Nian."
"Okay, then Sister Xi will send someone to your house to deliver a message to your father and Grandma Yan."
"good!"
Seeing them go into the house to play, Huo Xi calmed down the look on her face and ordered people to go to Mu Mansion to deliver the letter. At the same time, she went into the house and wrote a letter to Zhang Fu and asked Ta Yue to deliver it.
Although my father was not responsible for the suppression of the bandits, the military information had to be collected elsewhere and then compiled and reported to the emperor.
The father should know the deeper inside story.
Huo Xi anxiously waited in Xianglan Courtyard for the news that Tayue brought back.
Stars filled the sky, and candles were lit everywhere in the house.
Tayue is back, and Zhang Fu is also back.
"Nanny."
Zhang Fu has been avoiding his daughter these days, thinking that he can delay it for a day. Unexpectedly, his daughter actually found out and wrote a letter asking him.
"Father, Mu Yan is missing? Is he still alive?"
Zhang Fu's throat was a little stiff and he didn't know how to answer his daughter. He thought about it all the way.
"Nanny, don't be impatient, just sit down and talk."
The two sat down, but Zhang Fu didn't dare to look at her.
"Is he still alive?" Huo Xi asked again.
"The report from Uncle Ping Jiang did not say that he drowned in the storm..."
"Many people drowned? How can we confirm that they drowned?"
"The surviving comrades on the same ship will help confirm."
"What about the whole boat that drowned?"
..."For the time being, I will just treat him as a missing person."
"In other words, it is possible that he..."
"No, no..." Zhang Fu couldn't accept this fact.
"Nanny, you know, there are many islands in the East China Sea, many well-known and unknown. Maybe these missing soldiers just drifted to the islands? And this is not a conjecture. Ping Jiangbo sent people out to sea to look for them, but they really couldn't find them.
Fewer soldiers are stranded on a deserted island.”
Zhang Fu tried to talk about various possibilities.
He could not accept the fact that Mu Yan drowned. He tried his best to recommend him to the emperor to lead the army. He had completed his mission and was about to return to Beijing, but he sent him to suppress the bandits...
If Mu Yan cannot come back, how will he explain it to his daughter?
How will he face his daughter in this life?
Zhang Fu was still talking about various possibilities and did not notice that Huo Xi's eyes were getting brighter and brighter.