Chapter 1 Where Am I?

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

“Where am I?”

Qin Hu sat up groggily, feeling a chill all over his body and the wind howling outside. He felt a strange sensation in his heart.

“Oh, Young Marquis, why are you so confused? We are in the military camp. It’s our turn to stand guard at this hour. If we don’t get up, we’ll be punished by 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 standing before him was a soldier wearing leather armor.

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

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

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

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 due to illness, and Qin Hu inherited the title, becoming the new Champion Marquis.

Qin Hu was spoiled by his parents since he was a child. He didn’t like to study or practice martial arts, but only indulged in playing, eating, drinking, and making merry, rampaging through the capital.

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

This Qin Hu was extremely vicious to others, but he was especially obedient to this beautiful fiancée, treating her like a treasure.

But the problem arose precisely 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 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 inner guard’s prison. He was told that he had molested the princess while drunk, with malicious intent.

What was even stranger 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 struck by lightning at the time and couldn’t believe his ears…

The imperial decree came down quickly. Considering Qin Hu’s ancestors’ merits, he was spared the death penalty, but a living punishment was unavoidable. He was exiled to Youzhou to serve in the army, retaining his title to see how he would perform.

But after arriving in Youzhou, he was quickly assigned to the front line—to be used at the vanguard’s command.

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 and Chen families were originally united through political marriage. Both families wanted to become stronger and bigger, but the later Qin Hu, apart from 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 successive Champion Marquises were all heroic figures with unparalleled influence in the military, but this generation produced a good-for-nothing who had never even been on the battlefield.

When the old Marquis was alive, the Duke of Chen still gave him face, but after the old Marquis died, the Duke of Chen turned his back and staged a scene of breaking off the engagement at the funeral.

But Qin Hu was deeply in love with 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 a cousin of Qin Hu’s elder brother. As long as Qin Hu died, the vast wealth of the Champion Marquis’s mansion 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 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, carrying a piercing whistle, swept across the empty wilderness, making the few torches flicker on and off, and cutting people’s skin like countless flying knives.

“It’s not possible, Young Marquis, we will be punished by 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 caught off guard and was directly overturned by the wind.

Two sentries changing guard saw them come out, exchanged sly smiles, and scooped up two handfuls of snow to extinguish the warming bonfire, then crawled into the tent.

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

This is a very small camp, with about twenty tents, surrounded by horse-drawn carriages. The outer perimeter does not even have chevaux-de-frise arranged, and the nearby terrain is flat, with no natural defenses. It is clear that there are no plans to be stationed here for a long time.

According to Qin Hu’s previous life’s memories, about two hundred people are stationed here. They are the vanguard camp of Li Qin, the General Who Conquers the North of the Yu Dynasty.

And the target of Li Qin’s 20,000-strong army this time is Liaodong, the Yu Dynasty’s archenemy on the border.

“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 speech was weak, as if he could die at any moment.

Qin Hu sighed in his heart. Qin An was purely implicated by him, and if things continue to develop like this, they will surely die.

Those who want him dead did not kill him in the court, so they are using underhanded methods and hitting him with black clubs in the military camp, trying to kill him.

But Qin Hu is definitely not a person who will sit still and wait for death. This is obviously a framed affair, and he cannot 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 on me. The imperial decree stated that we were exiled to the army, and the family property was sealed.”

Qin An is only 16 years old this year. He is Qin Hu’s personal attendant. He is very thin and has already suffered unbearable torture. He looks like he only has one breath left.

Actually, Qin Hu is not much better. In the past few days, the vanguard camp has marched 30 *li* every day, and their job is to open roads in the mountains, build bridges across rivers, chop firewood, make fires, dig ditches, carry water, and build camps.

And what will be the situation when these two delicate guys are 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 estimates that his predecessor may have been tortured to death.

It can be regarded as his deserving it.

It’s just that he has to bear this suffering now. If he can’t bear it, he will also die.

“Give it to me.”

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

And saving his life is not difficult, the easiest way is to bribe. As the saying goes, money can make ghosts turn the millstone. Although this method is primitive, it will always work.

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

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

That is, the current leader of the vanguard camp.