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 rose in his heart.

“Oh, Young Marquis, why are you so confused? We’re in the military camp. It’s our shift to stand guard. 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, with a soldier in leather armor standing in front of him.

Just as he was about to ask something, a splitting headache suddenly struck, and a huge flood of information rushed 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 did not exist in history at all.

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

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

When he grew up, his family wanted him to settle down, so they arranged a marriage for him. The woman 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 particularly obedient to this beautiful fiancée, treating her like a treasure.

But the trouble happened to 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 close 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 Neineiwei’s prison. He was told that he had molested the princess while drunk, intending to commit indecent acts.

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

Qin Hu felt as if he had been struck by lightning. He simply couldn’t believe his ears…

The imperial decree came down quickly. Considering Qin Hu’s ancestors’ contributions, he was spared the death penalty, but he could not escape punishment. He was exiled to Youzhou to serve in the military and retain 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 was 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 a political marriage. Both families wanted to become stronger, but the later Qin Hu, besides being a playboy, was almost useless. It could be said that he had completely disgraced the Marquis of the Champion’s mansion.

You should know that the successive Marquises of the Champion were all heroic figures who had unparalleled influence in the military. But in this generation, there was 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 befell him!

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 vast wealth of the Marquis of the Champion’s mansion would naturally fall into the hands of this cousin.

These forces, each seeking their own interests, colluded with each other and quickly united…

As expected, entering the Marquis’s mansion is like entering the deep sea. There are really too many people who want him dead.

“Qin An, do you think we can find a place to take shelter from the wind?”

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

“No, Young Marquis, we’ll be punished according to military law.”

Qin Hu and Qin An shrank their heads and braved 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 come out, smiled at each other, and threw two handfuls of snow to extinguish the bonfire for warmth, and then went into the tent.

Damn it, even the soldiers have been bribed, trying to freeze me to death!

This was a very small camp, with about twenty tents, surrounded by carriages. The outer perimeter didn’t even have chevaux-de-frise arranged, and the surrounding terrain was flat and indefensible. It was clear that they didn’t plan to stay for long.

According to Qin Hu’s memory 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 longtime 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 he spoke weakly, as if he could die at any time.

Qin Hu sighed in his heart. Qin An was purely implicated by him. If things continued to develop like this, they would surely die.

Those who wanted him dead failed to kill him in the court, so they used dark methods and ambushes in the military camp to kill him.

But Qin Hu was definitely not a person who would sit still and wait for death. This was clearly 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 also kill my way back to the capital and settle accounts with you.

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

“There are no silver notes. I only have twenty taels of silver. The imperial decree said that we were exiled to the army, and our family property was sealed.”

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

In fact, Qin Hu was not much better. In the past few days, the vanguard camp marched 30 *li* every day, and the work they did was to open roads through mountains, build bridges over water, chop firewood, build fires, dig ditches, carry water, and build camps.

And what would happen when these two delicate guys stayed with hundreds of rough soldiers every day?

They must be doing the hardest work, eating the worst food, being beaten the most, and suffering the most…

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

It could be considered that he deserved it.

But he must bear this suffering now. If he can’t bear it, he will also die.

“Give it to me.”

Qin Hu had made up his mind. He must first find a way to save Qin An’s life, and then think of other ways.

To save his life is not difficult. The easiest way is to bribe. As the saying goes, money can move the gods. Although this method is primitive, it always works.

But in this situation, it is impossible for him to bribe high officials, because no one dares to get involved with him. Besides, he has no money.

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

He is currently the top leader of the vanguard camp.