In the evening, Ji Chang went out of the city alone.
He went to look for the concubine named Ji Fa, and the old retainer told him that those children were from the hunting camp.
Most of the people in the war hunting camp are the children of soldiers, and they are all future warriors. At night, these children will sit and eat at the stone mouth in the mountains, where the prey is distributed.
The Xiqi people are good at warfare, but not good at farming. They go deep into the snowy mountains to capture very large beasts, which is very dangerous, but after a successful capture, they can often provide food for many people.
These big game animals are then chopped into pieces and distributed there.
The child was seriously injured today. He must go there early to heal his injuries and receive food, otherwise he might bleed to death.
When Ji Chang got there, he saw the child.
The food had been distributed, and there was supposed to be an old witch doctor in that place.
But being injured and bleeding was never a big deal in Xiqi. These old witch doctors just threw the herbs on the stone slabs and let people take it, and no one cared about them.
The child pounded some herbs here and applied them to his wounds, but his movements were very clumsy and the blood soaked out again, so he could only apply another layer.
The high protruding herbs made his body look funny.
Ji Chang also wore a half-worn fur robe. The workmanship was very rough and his identity could not be identified.
So when Ji Fa saw him, he didn't stand up and salute.
"Are you injured?" Ji Chang walked over and took the initiative to chat.
"Well!!",
Ji Fa responded firmly and stopped answering.
"What's your name?" Ji Chang asked.
"My name is Fa, and I am the son of Xibohou." Ji Fa replied without raising his head.
"Oh, it turns out to be the prince.",
Ji Chang smiled and said:
"I saw you fighting with those officers and soldiers today.
Since you are Xibohou's son and you are in trouble, why don't you go to your father and do it yourself?"
"I am a concubine and have never met my father." Ji Fa said firmly and stopped answering.
"Then do you know what you did today?" Ji Chang continued to ask.
"What they are arresting are slaves who are to be sent to Chaoge.
If you stop them today, you are going against the Queen's will and God's will. Aren't you afraid?"
“What’s so scary about God?”,
After Ji Fa finished saying this, he raised his head and looked at the old man in front of him, then lowered his head again:
“You worship God like that, has God been good to you?
I'm not afraid.
I have not asked them, and they should not order me around.
They want to arrest my friends and take them away to make meat for them. Why? Those are my brothers of life and death. I will fight to the death of anyone who touches them!!"
“But God is the way of heaven!!”
Ji Chang looked at this stubborn young man and said with a firm voice:
"We are human beings and must obey God's orders. If we disobey the laws of Heaven, we will be punished by Heaven."
“Why must we obey God?”,
Ji Fa suddenly opened his eyes.
This boy's eyes are very bright, like two small lanterns in the dark night.
"They want to eat us, but we still obey them. What kind of nonsense is this?
If I have soldiers and horses in my hands in the future, I must fight with the God-Emperor."
When Ji Chang heard the word God Emperor, his heart trembled. In this era, God Emperor is everything.
What the child said just now is enough to kill a prince.
"Don't dare to say such nonsense~", Ji Chang said seriously looking into the young man's eyes.
"If it were someone else, I wouldn't say anything nonsense, but it doesn't matter to you, you won't hurt me!!",
After Ji Fa finished speaking, he grinned brightly, his face still full of youthful youthfulness,
"Uncle, you are not a bad person. I have been able to look at people since I was a child.
Let me tell you, sooner or later I will rebel against the world.
See what they think of us Xiqi people?
We Xiqi people have gone through life and death, fought on the battlefield for a long time, and are all heroes. How can we be inferior to those descendants of gods?
My father was a coward, but I am not a coward.
If they arrest others, I won't care. If they arrest my friends, I will fight them tooth and nail.
If the law of heaven wants to punish me, I will go against the law of heaven.
If the God-Emperor wants to arrest me, I will chop that God-Emperor to death!!"
"It seems you don't like your father very much!"
Xibo Hou Jichang smiled slightly and looked at his son who was as green as a calf.
“What do you like and dislike about people you’ve never met?”,
Ji Fa was obviously not happy when he mentioned his father.
"I have never met him, and he never wanted to come to see me!!
There are many bastards like me in Xiqi. Over the years, I have endured hardships, hunting, fighting, hunger and cold, and I have long been used to being alone.
A stupid person, do you still expect him to think of me? Humph~~"
"You haven't seen him, how do you know he is a fool?",
When Xibohou heard this sentence, he found it very interesting and stopped laughing.
"Hmph!!, Xibohou is a fool, no one in the world knows that!",
Ji Fa was still very angry when he mentioned this.
"We Xiqi people are good at fighting, but how many people have been robbed by Chaoge in recent years, and how many children have been sent to war horses?
My father didn't even ask a question.
For a cowardly and foolish person like him, Xiqi can't hope for success!"
"People who look stupid on the surface may not be really stupid!",
Ji Chang looked at his interesting son with a smile:
"Just like a person doesn't care about something on the surface, it doesn't mean he really doesn't care.
My child, have you ever heard that an elephant is invisible; its courage is as timid as its courage, its wisdom as its foolishness~~"
When Ji Fa heard what Ji Chang said, he raised his head and said,
"Uncle, have you met my father?
What kind of person is he?"
"This..." When Ji Chang heard this question, he didn't know how to answer it for a while. After thinking for a long time, he smiled and said,
"I can only say that he is definitely not a fool!!"
"Then who are you?" Ji Fa blinked and looked at the strange old man in front of him.
"I?",
Xibohou was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, and finally said:
"I'm just a lost person. I've been walking all my life and don't know where to go."
"Then have you found the way now?" Ji Fa continued to ask,
"As humans living between heaven and earth, we must know where we are going. It would be bad if we got lost.