There are bandits and gentlemen, don't be ashamed

Chapter 9 Chapter 9

Xie Yuzhang changed his clothes and went to Xie Xuanwei's courtyard. As soon as he entered the door, he saw lush vegetation and fragrant flowers. The flowers and trees in the courtyard were hung with colorful ropes. Several maids were sitting on the ground fighting grass, laughing and laughing.Xie Xuanwei was sitting on the porch, playing with Xuezhan.

Xie Yuzhang tiptoed to behind Xie Xuanwei, yelled and rushed over, Xuezhan was unguarded for a while, and sat down on the ground in fright.Xie Xuan chuckled slightly, and Xie Yuzhang also smiled and hurried to pull her.Xuezhan felt that he was laughing at herself, so she threw her hands angrily, got up, gritted her teeth and said, "You guys will bully people!"

Xie Yuzhang hurriedly bowed and said, "My dear sister, I was wrong, so don't bother with me."

Xie Xuanwei pulled the snow cup, picked up a bamboo stick, and lightly tapped the snow cup, letting her go aside to play.The stick was wrapped with multicolored rope, and at the end was a ball of colorful thread the size of a fist, on which three golden bells the size of thumbs fell.Xie Yuzhang took it, shook it, the bell sounded crisp and sweet, and Cai Cai on the ground rushed over immediately.

Xie Yuzhang put away the stick, picked up Cai Cai, looked left and right, imitated it and meowed, "Auntie started raising tigers to play with?"

Xie Xuanwei touched Cai Cai's head, Cai Cai arched his head, and meowed a few times, Xie Xuanwei said: "I also think it looks like a little tiger, how can ordinary cats grow so big?"

Xie Yuzhang touched Cai Cai's chin, then touched its mouth with his fingertips. Cai Cai stared at Xie Yuzhang with wet eyes, thinking that he was feeding himself meat, so he quickly swallowed it. Cheng's small teeth left inconspicuous tooth marks on Xie Yuzhang's fingers.Xie Yuzhang said: "I'm afraid it's really a little tiger cub. Auntie, don't play with it. I'll take it and ask."

Xie Xuanwei nodded in agreement, then gave Xie Yuzhang a stick, touched Cai Cai, and said, "Cai Cai likes to play with this, if it is really a tiger, Xuezhan won't be able to see it in the future, I'm afraid she will cry."

Xie Yuzhang said: "That's okay. If it's really a tiger, I'll take it to the camp. Sister Xuezhan wants to see the military camp."

Xie Xuan smiled and said: "I'm afraid you are really stupid. She is a girl, and she can't get out of the door. She still goes to the barracks?"

Xie Yuzhang chuckled, then took out a delicate short knife from his pocket, and quietly handed it to Xie Xuanwei.

Xie Xuanwei took the dagger, feeling that it was heavy in his hands, the scabbard was engraved with thunder cloud patterns, and the handle was engraved with lifelike chinchillas.Xie Xuan drew his knife slightly, the sharp light of the knife caught his eyes, and a cold light flashed.Xie Xuan's eyes moved slightly, and he couldn't help admiring what a good knife it was.

Xie Yuzhang whispered: "Auntie, you can put it away. This is given to me by Xiao Shizi. Don't let your sisters see it. It is very good to keep it for self-defense and enjoy it."

Xie Xuanwei listened, quietly put the knife in his sleeve, and played with Xie Yuzhang with Cai Cai.

Within two days, Xie Yuzhang returned to the barracks and brought Cai Cai with him.Xuezhan kept crying, Xie Xuanwei saw that she was really pitiful, funny, and distressed, so he ordered someone to buy a pair of rabbits for her to play with.After two days of raising the rabbit, when the rabbit was playing with Xiaohaba, it was frightened to death, and Xuezhan cried again, and refused to raise any more things.

In a blink of an eye, it was winter, and it snowed all night. The next day, the plum blossoms in the courtyard were bustling, and the snow scene was even more indescribably bright.Xie Xuanweisu likes plum blossoms, so Xuezhan had cut many of them and put them in the small study for him to watch.

When Xie Xuanwei woke up, he only heard the chattering and laughing outside the house, and was curious, so he put on a big cloak and ordered Mianwu to open the window.I saw the new snow in the courtyard, covered in silver.The maids built a big snowman in the yard, and they took rouge snail powder and were dressing it up.A few more girls were standing on tiptoe, tying red strings to the plum tree, and there was a lot of laughter and laughter.

Mianwu was afraid that he would find it noisy, so she went to remind the girls not to play around like this.

Seeing this, Xie Xuanwei hurriedly said: "It's rare that it snows next time, let them play." Xie Xuanwei glanced at Xingyu who was looking around, then at Mianwu who was hanging his head in silence, and said: "You guys also go to play for a while. , I’ll go back to sleep again.”

As soon as Xing Yu heard that she had done eighteen great gifts, she took Mianwu, who was still thanking her, and went into the snow, grabbed the snow and smashed the snow cup tied with a red string.Xuezhan let out a groan, and not to be outdone, also smashed towards Lan Shuang, but accidentally injured Lan Shuang.Lan Shuang laughed and scolded: "You two are trying to die, dragging me to breathe, but wait!" The courtyard became more lively for a while, and laughter spread for two miles.

Xie Xuan smiled, turned around and entered the small study.

Seeing him coming, Panxi hurriedly removed the ashes from the hand stove, replaced the incense charcoal, sealed the mouth carefully, took Xie Xuanwei's warm muff, and stuffed the hand stove into it.He took another egg-sized smoked ball from the treasure box and looked at it carefully.There is a silver hook on the upper end of the ball, and a silver chain is worn on it. The spherical surface is hollowed out and carved, fragrant branches and vines are twined, and bright red agate the size of mung beans is dotted in it, making it even more exquisite and lovely.Panxi pressed the knob in the middle, opened the smoker ball, put incense in the incense bowl and lit it, the aroma was immediately pleasing to the nostrils, closed the small ball, no matter how shaken, the incense bowl was stable.Panxi couldn't help praising: "His Royal Highness is really caring for the girl. This smoked ball is warm in the hand. It is placed in the sleeve, and the incense ash is not scattered. Wherever it passes, the dust is fragrant. Putting it in the sleeve is better than holding a hand stove." More chic and fun."

Xie Xuanwei took it in his hand and shook it again and again, and it turned out that there was not even a little incense ash scattered, so he smiled and said: "It's really delicate." After speaking, he called Xuezhan through the window, and Xuezhan came in a hurry.He threw the smoked ball over, and Xuezhan quickly picked it up.Xie Xuan slightly lowered his head to paint, without raising his head, he said: "You can play with it."

Xuezhan stuck out her tongue and said: "I dare not, but I heard Xiaoman said that the sachet you gave the prince at the Dragon Boat Festival, he still hangs on his body." After speaking, she shook her head and said: "This common saying The rafters that come out of the head always rot first, I still want to live a long life, but I don’t have the guts to try the prince.”

The group burst into laughter when they heard her words, Xie Xuanwei stopped drawing, raised his head and smiled and said, "Just because you talk a lot, you should eat so much snow."

Xuezhan snorted, stuffed the smoked ball into Xie Xuanwei's sleeve, and said sourly: "You want to paint, and your hands hurt from the cold. There are people, and you will feel distressed. You should take a muffler, it's fragrant and warm." adorable."

Xie Xuan slightly hummed, then lowered his head to draw again.

Xuezhan saw that he had drawn a plum blossom in the snow that Ling Han took advantage of the snow. The girls under the tree were making snowmen, playing snowball fights, or tying red strings. They all had the same costumes and hairstyles as them, so she clapped her hands and said, "Are you Are you drawing us?"

Xie Xuan said slightly: "Yes, the Snow Picture of Jiumei Opera."

After hearing this, Xuezhan ran out the door in a hurry, and soon hugged Xiaoha, smiling all over her face.

Xie Xuan smiled and said, "Fawning."

Xuezhan smiled and said, "Master says I'm flattering, so can I press a few plum blossom marks on the painting with my stinky paws?"

Without raising his head, Xie Xuan said, "No."

Xuezhan said coquettishly: "You are so cute, can you let me press a few?" As she said that, she bumped into Xie Xuanwei, Xie Xuanwei said nothing, and took out a piece of flower paper and handed it to her, she stopped arguing and took the paper Went to play with Mo Zi.

Mianwu entered the study room, hecked his frozen red hands, and said with a smile: "Miss, Master Yu is on vacation, Madam sent someone to invite you to Lu'an Hall for lunch."

Xie Xuan nodded slightly, still busy painting.Knowing that he had no intention of speaking, Mianwu stepped back to prepare a gift for Xie Yuzhang.

When Xie Xuanwei arrived at Liu'an Hall, he saw the old master Hou and the second master Xie were there. The second wife, Mrs. Sun, and the two wives were playing with their children, and hurriedly greeted them.Xie Yuzhang jumped out like a monkey, hugged Xie Xuanwei and said, "Auntie, did you bring me something good?"

Mrs. Li said angrily: "I'll make trouble with your aunt when I come back, don't stand still."

Xie Yuzhang snorted, stood up quickly, Xie Xuanwei took the book of war in Mianwu's hand, and handed it to Xie Yuzhang.Xie Yuzhang flipped through the book, stuck out his tongue, rolled his eyes white, and said with a mournful face, "Auntie, I just don't like reading, so I went to the military camp. Why did you prepare military books for me?" Unhappily said: "I don't want it, you take it!"

Master Xie was about to get up angrily, but Li grabbed his hand, shook his head, and signaled him not to speak.Old Hou Ye drank tea calmly, and Xie Er Ye saw that they didn't care, so he squinted his eyes and ignored them.

Xie Xuanwei said sternly: "Yuzhang, let me ask you, why does General Li attack the Dayue clan every year and lose every year? And what did King Annan rely on to defeat the Dayue clan this time?"

Xie Yuzhang said disapprovingly: "Naturally, the prince is brave, and the Shenwu army has been well trained."

Xie Xuan sneered slightly and said: "Brave? Isn't General Li brave? When he was defeated, you didn't know where he was! The reason why he couldn't defeat the Da Yuezhi this time was because he used the tactics of fighting on the plains. Are you When we meet each other with short knives, others are firing bows and arrows. Before they get close, our army is shot into a sieve. The enemy army is like mowing grass. How can we fight? But King Annan won with wounded, sick and disabled generals. Why? ?Because he surveyed the terrain and found a deep and narrow canyon [-] miles behind the barracks, so he pretended to retreat overnight. The canyon is narrow and the cavalry is at a disadvantage in combat, and the army ambushing on the mountain immediately uses its strengths. One enemy is a hundred, and the situation is like a broken bamboo. You don't analyze the reasons for victory or defeat, and make rash judgments, but you are complacent!"

Xie Yuzhang blushed as he spoke, speechless.

Xie Xuanwei's sentences were loud and powerful, "on the battlefield, it depends not only on bravery, but also on the strategizing of generals. Generals who are brave and foolish going to the battlefield are just a waste of troops and harm people! If you want to be such a soldier , I advise you to come home, play casually for a few years, get married and start a family, and you can live on rent in the future, and save yourself from cheating."

Xie Yuzhang felt pained and ashamed at what he said, she couldn't help but shed tears, pulled Xie Xuanwei's clothes, and cried: "It's Yuzhang who is ignorant, thank you for my aunt's teaching, I will definitely study hard at home during the annual leave, and I hope my aunt can help me a lot." Explain it to your nephew."

Xie Xuanwei's face turned pale, and he said again: "You only talk about King Annan all day long, but you don't see how much he has given behind his glory. How many years have you spent in the frontier? If it wasn't for marrying the princess this time, He must still be guarding the frontier." Xie Yuzhang answered yes again and again, Xie Xuanwei said again: "It is a good thing that you worship him, but his achievements have nothing to do with you, you don't have to be honored. The prince joined the army at the age of 17, and you are now at the age of 13 Four years earlier than him, if you sum up the experience of your predecessors and be humble and eager to learn, you will definitely do better in the future!"

The old Hou Ye coughed and said with a smile: "Since ancient times, heroes have been born in youth, Yuzhang, you should study hard. Even if you don't want to be a general in the future, don't be a brave and foolish man."

Xie Yuzhang hurriedly said yes, and looked at Xie Xuanwei with teary eyes.

Li said with a smile: "The food is getting cold, Yuzhang asks your grandpa, uncle, aunt and aunt to sit down quickly."

After hearing this, Xie Yuzhang hurriedly hugged Xie Xuanwei and went to the table. Mrs. Li and Mrs. Sun fed the two children, enjoying themselves for a while.