【Maple Cherry】

Chapter 4

Fuying and Chu Wushang followed the team all the way out of the city, ten miles outside the city gate, there were family members seeing them off, Fuying stood beside him boredly and waited, "Is it fun to fight?" Fuying looked at an old woman next to her Putting a bag of dry food into the bag, there was a hint of envy in his eyes, "Hey, there is no injury, so no one sent you?"

"No." Chu Wushang gave him a cold look, "What about your older sister, she won't come see you off."

"I can't get out of the palace." Fu Ying shrugged, reached out and broke a branch to pick the leaves, just as he was about to say something, someone reached out and snatched the branch, Fu Ying turned around, surprised and delighted, "Feng Xiu, why are you here?"

It was Fengxiu who came, and Wuyi followed behind him.

"Here to send you two off." Fengxiu smiled and handed a paper package to Fuying, and whispered, "It's all your favorite food, sweet-scented osmanthus cake, walnut cake, rose sugar cake."

Fu Ying smiled happily and took the things, "I'll be happier if you buy me two more roasted chickens."

"A war is not a picnic." Chu Wushang snorted coldly.

"Don't say it too early." Fengxiu smiled, "You see how many things Wuyi brought you before talking."

Chu Wushang looked back at Wuyi, he was indeed carrying a big package in his hand, which was bulging. "A change of clothes, dry food on the road, some things you are used to, take care of yourself on the road." He finished speaking in one breath, and the things had already been handed to Chu Wushang.

Fu Ying burst out laughing, Feng Xiu laughed too, and Chu Wushang looked down at the package in his hand, silently saying nothing.

……

Tai Xueli.

Jidao Xuanjue looked at the flowers in the yard silently, Yuan Bie carried a small bucket and watered them all the way across the garden, sweating from exhaustion.He remembered that when Feng Xiu and the others entered school, they seemed not much older than Yuan Bie's current age.

"Not bad!" A man walked in from the outside, "There are flowers and scenery, and the servant at your knees, Jidao Xuanjue, you are living a life of seclusion."

Jidao Xuanjue's complexion changed slightly, "Shidao Hiroshi..."

Yuan Bie put down the small wooden bucket watering the flowers in his hand and looked up curiously at the person, and saw the person wearing a lavender inlaid silver robe and a golden gauze inlaid jade crown on his head, walking proudly to his side. "Hey, this is the kitten you picked up outside?" The man called Hiroju Shishima looked at Yuanbie up and down. He reached out to pinch Yuanbie's face, but Xuanjue Jidao stop.

"You came to see me, what's the matter?" Jidao Xuanjue snorted, and asked coldly with Yuan Bie behind him.

"The war in the Southwest, my king intends to let our sage suffer a bit." Hiroshi Shishima snorted and withdrew his hand, "It's time for the generals he is proud of. These, you The DPRK and China can deal with each other on their own."

"The king wants to mobilize a few generals, so he has other methods. This time he set off with 5 troops, and deliberately let them lose the battle. How dare the soldiers and people!" Jidao Xuanjue was taken aback, and said with a frown, "Go back and tell the king, this method No, I will think of other ways to deal with it."

"I know you're full of plans, but it's a pity that the king can't wait. After this battle is over, the current holy majesty must personally punish his favorite generals. That's all he said, and the rest is up to you." Hiroshi Shidao snorted, and looked at Yuanbie again, "Speaking of which, when I was in Prince Heng's mansion, Prince Heng had a new concubine, and when something happened to the mansion, her child I don’t know if she was born or not, if so, she’s already this old, right, Lord Taigong?”

Jidao Xuanjue held Yuan Bie's hand, pursed his lips tightly, and didn't say a word.

……

The horn for the expedition sounded, and Fu Ying and Chu Wushang followed the team all the way.Fengxiu and Wuyi stayed where they were, watching the billowing smoke and dust.

"Tell me, they'll be fine." Fengxiu asked suddenly.

"I asked my father, and he said that this battle is a trivial matter for the veteran generals, so don't worry about it." Wuyi said lightly.

A few days later, in the Taixue examination, the candidates' scores were ranked according to the comprehensive ranking of five classics and six arts. On the day when the list was released, both Fengxiu and Wuyi gave the highest score.

Fengxiu looked at the names written by himself and Wuyi and smiled, "Chu Wushang really knows how to teach, Wuyi, your overall score is good."

"To each other, you are also the first in the school." Wuyi snorted.

"Don't you dare? Since senior brother is tied with me, Fengxiu dare not claim the first place." Fengxiu smiled with his hands behind his back, "But, I have something to ask." He whispered a few words in Wuyi's ear as he spoke.

After hearing this, Wuyi snorted, "The bet between you two is also boring, so, what do you need from him?"

"I want to go on a tour before returning to the court." Fengxiu stood with his hands behind his back, "I have read a lot of books and learned a lot about etiquette, but let's learn the first lesson in the school, Tai Gong said, the country and the people Based on the current situation in the world, the Holy One is old, the only heir, King Heng, has been killed, and the princes from all over the world are eyeing the throne, even though my father gave me the position of Tai Lecheng, I don't want to leave it at that."

"You're right, so you want to go with Fuying?" Wuyi nodded.

Fengxiu blinked and nodded with a smile, "First, he has practiced well in the past few years in the army, and he has a caretaker when he goes out, and second, when he goes out, he eats and sleeps all the way, eating and drinking is inevitable. You know his cooking skills. Think about it." , go out with him, there will be no harm at all."

"He's in the army now, he's not like you and me who are idle, it will take some effort for you to take him there." Wuyi nodded, thinking that Fengxiu's plan was right.

"As long as he agrees to go with me, it's not difficult to transfer him out." Fengxiu looked at the rankings revealed, "But I have to help me win this bet, brother."

"I promise you, if you tell Fuying later that you are the number one, I will naturally not expose you. But I have one condition." Wuyi looked at Fengxiu with a smile, "Going out for a trip, I will be with you with Chu Wushang Peer."

……

On the tenth day when the front-line supplies were cut off, there were faint quarrels in the tents of the Chinese army.

Fuying and Chu Wushang were on duty at night. He was sitting by the campfire, holding a dried sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his hand. He looked at it and put it in his waist pocket. It is said that this battle should be fought very easily, but why... the enemy is not terrible, but we have cut off our supplies?"

Shu Wushang closed his eyes, "I don't know."

Fuying didn't say anything, he took out a book on the art of war from his pocket and read it by the light of the fire, his stomach let out a grunt sound, and the writing on the book was a bit blurred.

Chu Wushang took out half a piece of bread from his pocket and handed it over. Fuying's rank was low, and on the third day that the entire army was out of food, he had already eaten nothing, but Chu Wushang was different. Prime Minister You, how many stuttering lieutenants will be given to him.

Fu Ying stretched out her hand to take it, and said thank you.He broke the bread into small pieces and ate very slowly, until he finished eating, then suddenly said, "Wu Wushang, we were betrayed by the emperor, right?" The night was cold, and he was bright There was seriousness in his eyes, "Ten generals who bravely killed the enemy are no match for a courtier beside the Holy One."

There was a loud sound from the military tent, and there was blood splatter. Many people ran over, saying that the supervising army sent by the imperial court had killed the right deputy general because the deputy general despised Tianwei. The right lieutenant who came out stared at him with a pair of black round eyes, blood was still flowing from his neck.

Fuying knew that the general was very kind. One night he was watching the night alone. The general saw that he was young and thin, so he threw off his cloak and put it on for himself. As in a quarrel, he rushed ahead of the soldiers in a battle on the battlefield, and no one believed the word despising Tianwei when it was applied to him.

Wu Wushang silently clenched his fists, looking at the complacent look of the supervising soldier who came out, he had seen that supervising soldier several times in the prime minister's mansion, he was just a snobbish person.

The aged old general finally got out of the military tent, his eyes were red and he glared at the proud man, his gray beard trembled slightly, but he didn't say anything.

The news of the defeat on the front line shocked the DPRK and China, but it was not surprising at all.

Jidao Xuanjue, who was sitting in the Taixue, closed his cloak, and Yuan Bie handed him a cup of tea. The aroma of the tea burned Jidao Xuanjue's hands with the heat.

It's just a small supply officer, let the ministers not believe in the emperor, and the emperor does not believe in the ministers, you say it's frozen three feet, is it the cold of this day?

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——to be continued