Chapter 1 Where Am I?

“Young Marquis, please get up quickly, it’s our turn to patrol.”

“Where am I?”

Qin Hu sat up groggily, feeling a chill all over his body. The wind was howling outside, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.

“Hey, Young Marquis, why are you so confused? We're in the military camp. It's our turn to stand guard now. If we don’t get up, we'll be punished according to military law. Even the old Marquis can't protect you now.”

“What?”

Qin Hu opened his eyes and saw that he was in a tent, and in front of him was a soldier in leather armor.

Just as he was about to ask something, a splitting headache suddenly struck, and a huge stream of information flooded into his mind. After a few seconds, he realized that he had transmigrated.

He had transmigrated from a modern special forces soldier to a young marquis also named Qin Hu, the leader of the seven notorious young masters of the capital!

And this era called the Great Yu Dynasty simply did not exist in history.

Qin Hu’s ancestor was one of the four dukes and twenty-eight marquises who founded the Great Yu. Three months ago, his father died of illness, and Qin Hu inherited the title, becoming the new Champion Marquis.

Qin Hu had been spoiled by his parents since he was a child. He didn’t like reading, didn’t like martial arts, only knew how to play, eat, drink, and be merry, running rampant in the capital.

When he grew up, his family wanted him to settle down, so they arranged a marriage. The girl was the eldest daughter of the Duke of Chen, named Chen Ruoli, a famous lady, beautiful and intelligent.

This Qin Hu was extremely vicious to others, but he was obedient to this beautiful fiancée in every way, cherishing her like a treasure.

But the problem arose with this childhood sweetheart, Miss Chen.

According to Qin Hu’s memory, that day he took his fiancée to the palace to pay respects to the current Chang’an Princess. The princess and Chen Ruoli had been good friends since childhood, so she arranged a banquet.

But later, Qin Hu drank too much and passed out. When he woke up, he was already in the inner guard's prison. He was told that he had molested the princess while drunk and intended to commit indecent acts.

What was even more bizarre was that Chen Ruoli actually wrote a memorial impeaching her fiancé Qin Hu for seventy-two illegal acts, each with evidence.

Qin Hu was thunderstruck at the time and couldn't believe his ears…

An imperial decree came down quickly. Considering Qin Hu’s ancestors' merits, the death penalty was waived, but he could not escape punishment. He was exiled to Youzhou to serve in the army, retaining his title to observe his future performance.

But after arriving in Youzhou, he was quickly assigned to the front line – to be used in front of the vanguard camp.

After these things flashed through Qin Hu’s mind, he basically understood that this should be a trap.

Because the Duke of Chen had long wanted to break off the engagement with him.

The Qin family and the Chen family were originally political marriages. Both families wanted to become stronger and bigger, but the later Qin Hu, besides being a playboy, was almost useless. It could be said that he had completely disgraced the Champion Marquis’s mansion.

It should be known that the Champion Marquises of all generations were heroic figures, with unparalleled influence in the army, but this generation produced a good-for-nothing who had never been on the battlefield.

When the old Marquis was alive, the Duke of Chen still gave him face, but when the old Marquis died, the Duke of Chen turned ruthless and staged a scene of breaking off the engagement at the mourning hall.

But Qin Hu deeply loved Chen Ruoli and refused to agree to it, while Chen Ruoli had long been disgusted with this evil young master.

Thus, a disaster descended!

As for the Chang’an Princess, it was even simpler. She was the cousin of Qin Hu’s cousin. As long as Qin Hu died, the Champion Marquis’s enormous wealth would naturally fall into the hands of this cousin.

These forces, each taking what they needed, colluded with each other and quickly united…

As expected, entering the halls of the nobility is like entering a deep sea; there are really many people who want him dead.

“Qin An, do you think we can find a place to get out of the wind?”

Under the bright moonlight, the harsh north wind carried a piercing whistle, sweeping across the empty wilderness, making the torches flicker, and cutting people’s skin like countless flying knives.

“It won’t work, Young Marquis, we’ll be punished according to military law.”

Qin Hu and Qin An huddled up against the wind, running out of the camp and forward through the thick snow.

The weak Qin An was accidentally overturned by the wind.

Two sentries who were changing shifts saw them coming out, smiled at each other sinisterly, scooped up two handfuls of snow and extinguished the warming bonfire, and then crawled into the tent.

Damn it, even the soldiers have been bought off. They want to freeze me to death!

This was a very small camp, with about twenty tents, surrounded by wagons. The outer perimeter didn’t even have chevaux de frise or antlers arranged, and the surrounding terrain was flat, with no natural defenses. It was clear that they didn’t plan to be stationed there for long.

According to Qin Hu’s memories from his previous life, there were about two hundred people stationed here. They were the vanguard camp of Li Qin, the General Conquering the North of the Yu Dynasty.

And the target of Li Qin’s 20,000 troops this time was the Yu Dynasty's long-time enemy on the border, the Liaodong Kingdom.

“Cough cough, Young Marquis, do you think we can go back alive?” Qin An curled up on the snow, his lips and face were blue, and his voice was weak, as if he could die at any moment.

Qin Hu sighed in his heart. Qin An was purely implicated by him. If things continued to develop like this, the two of them would definitely die.

Those who wanted him dead didn't kill him in the court, so they were now using dirty tricks and hitting him with clubs in the military camp, trying to kill him.

But Qin Hu was definitely not a person who would sit still and wait for death. This was obviously a frame-up, and he couldn't let it go.

Life is an endless struggle for survival. Just wait, I will not only survive, but I will also kill my way back to the capital and settle the score with you.

“Qin An, how many silver notes did we bring when we left?”

“There are no silver notes anymore. I only have twenty taels of silver on me. The imperial decree said that we are exiled to the army, and our family property is confiscated.”

Qin An was only 16 years old this year. He was Qin Hu’s personal servant. He was very thin and weak, and had already been exhausted. He looked like he was on his last breath.

Actually, Qin Hu wasn’t doing much better either. In the past few days, the vanguard camp had been marching 30 *li* (Chinese mile, approximately 0.5 km) every day. The work they did was to open roads through mountains, build bridges over rivers, chop firewood, boil water, dig ditches, carry water, and build camps.

And what would be the situation of these two delicate guys being with hundreds of rough and tough soldiers every day?

They would definitely do the most tiring work, eat the worst food, suffer the most poisonous beatings, and endure the greatest grievances…

Qin Hu estimated that his predecessor might have been tortured to death.

It could be considered that he deserved it.

But now he had to bear this suffering, and if he couldn’t bear it, he would also die.

“Give it to me.”

Qin Hu had thought it over. He had to find a way to save Qin An’s life first, and then think of other ways.

Saving his life was not difficult. The simplest way was to bribe. As the saying goes, money can move gods. Although this method was primitive, it always worked.

But in this situation, he couldn’t bribe high officials, because no one dared to be associated with him. Besides, he didn’t have any money.

So he thought of one person in his mind, Centurion Li Xiaokun.

Who was currently the leader of the vanguard camp.