A group of juniors sat around and were thinking hard, except for chatting and coming up with useless bad ideas on Saturday.
"Isn't it enough to give everyone gold, wives, and houses? What else do those talented people want?" Zhou Shiliu said with dry mouth, but none of them were accepted, he said aggrievedly.
"A summer insect cannot speak of the ice, and a well frog cannot speak of the sea." Zhou Shenzhi glanced at him.
I felt even more aggrieved on Saturday.
Xiao Qinghe thought seriously and found that he couldn't find what Cui Langjun said. His face turned red with shame. He had read thousands of books in vain.
At this moment, Xiao Qingxue quietly raised her hand: "How about I try?"
Everyone looked at her.
Xiao Luolan said in surprise: "My dear, what have you come up with?"
Xiao Qingxue blushed at the name A Niang, and said embarrassedly: "I just suddenly thought of a saint's words, which seemed a bit suitable."
Cui Shizi stood up immediately and said, "Qingxue write it down quickly."
"Let me tell you first, it's not my own thoughts, it's the words of a saint that I accidentally saw in ancient books." Xiao Qingxue quickly explained that she didn't want to lie.
"Okay, okay, write quickly." Xiao Luolan said.
Xiao Qingxue took a deep breath and recalled that when she first read that sentence, her heart was shaken and she was filled with great pride.
She picked up her pen and wrote down carefully.
"Establish a mind for the heaven and earth, establish a destiny for the living people, carry forward the unique teachings of the past saints, and create peace for all generations."
Until she finished writing, her hands were still shaking a little. In ancient times, she realized how difficult it was to do these things and how much courage it took to do them. Because of this, she trembled deeply for it.
Xiao Luolan picked it up and read it again, and felt it was very suitable.
The rest of the crowd looked at these four sentences, and even the noisy Zhou Shiliu fell silent.
Seeing that they were silent, Xiao Qingxue's originally excited heart calmed down and she scratched her cheek: "Isn't it possible? If not, let's think about other things. Maybe my grandpa has..."
"No, this is it!" Cui Shizi took the paper from the mistress's hand. His cheekbones turned red as he was always calm. He coughed violently. His eyes were bright and he stared at the four sentences above: "There is nothing better than this." There’s nothing more fitting, there’s nothing more fitting.”
"Cui Langjun is right, this is what you need." Xiao Qinghe said excitedly: "Cousin, I have never seen these words of a saint. They should be immortalized forever!"
Zhou Shenzhi's eyes were burning and his mood was agitated.
Zhou Xu calmed down and praised his daughter: "It's very good."
No knowledgeable person can reject it.
Chapter 191
Along the Zhangshui River.
Due to the non-stop construction day and night, a magnificent building gradually began to appear in front of the public. The most conspicuous building is the square high platform. However, after a month of construction, the high platform has already stood out from the crowd, standing majestically on the bank of Zhangshui River.
Now in Langge, anyone who has free time will come over to take a look at this unfinished behemoth. It is very lively. Many well-informed people have already known that a golden platform is going to be built, and their minds are agitated.
Li Xun, the Xuanjia general who originally lived in Langge, had carefully thought about whether he had met any masters in his military career. After thinking for a long time, I gave up with a wry smile. After spending half my life fighting on the frontier, I have never encountered any shocking reading seeds.
Li Xun was walking slowly on horseback, and next to him was Yu Wenqian. Yuwenqian was a purple-bearded and bronze-eyed general with a majestic appearance. His weapon was a pair of meteor iron chain hammers. He was fierce and brave, and dared to be the first in everything.
Once every five years, these generals will lead their troops to Cangwu Prefecture, Dai Prefecture, Bing Prefecture and other places adjacent to Youzhou for training and garrisoning. The length of the garrison naturally depends on when the lord returns from Chang'an. In addition to not being too close to Bingzhou Taiyuan, Cangwu Prefecture, which borders Youzhou, had a close relationship with them a few years ago, and they traveled all the way without hindrance.
"I heard that Gao Zhi is dead." Li Xun chatted with Yu Wenqian next to him.
"Yes, Dai Chenggong is a lucky man. He picked the biggest fruit in Hexi as soon as he came." Yu Wenqian looked into the distance, a little absent-minded. There was dust in front of him. Today was the day when the lord left you, and he also saw it. Ghost Slaughter Rider.
These three thousand ghost slayers did not wear heavy armor as rumored, but carried crossbows on their backs, and their faces were covered with iron armor. They were all wearing lighter fish scale armors. Just looking at their bodies, one could tell that the ghost slayers were The first-class tough and brave people, such first-class masters in the trapped camp, are all skilled people with bows and horses. They can dismount their horses to kill the enemy closely, mount their horses, wield their swords and shoot arrows.
Yu Wenqian's eyes were blazing. He couldn't tell whether he was more envious or jealous. His heart was burning. This was the thought that a general couldn't restrain when he saw a good young man. It would be great if they were his.
What a pity, what a pity, the master was given to a foreigner.
Yu Wenqian sighed sadly.
"No matter how lucky he is, he can be better than Jin Ben." Li Xun said with emotion. That mixed-breed boy had some great luck. He fell into the eyes of the lord and took charge of the Ghost Slaughter Cavalry. He couldn't help but make many people envious.
The two looked at each other, understanding each other's thoughts and laughing.
Eight days later.
The dust ahead was billowing, and we had already left Hexi and arrived at Chouniuguan in Cangwu Prefecture, and beyond that was Dai Prefecture.
Near the Daizhou boundary monument, Li Xun, Yu Wenqian, and Dai Chenggong led their respective troops to stop.
Zhou Shenzhi reined in his horse and stopped. Every five years, he always stubbornly wanted to see his father off. Now, even though he was traveling to Jiangnan, he still maintained this habit.
Jin Ben still wore the evil ghost mask and personally escorted the largest carriage in the team.
Zhou Xu turned over and dismounted, looked at the group of people seeing them off, and said, "The road ahead is Daizhou Road. You can stay here."
"Father, Jiangnan and his party, please take care of yourself." Zhou Shenzhi stood aside and said with cupped hands.
"I'll leave Youzhou to you." Zhou Xu patted his son on the shoulder and spoke concisely.
"Yes." Zhou Shenzhi lowered his head deeply.
"Young master is stationed in Youzhou. I'll be waiting to assist you. Don't worry, my lord." Dai Chenggong laughed harshly.
"My Beifu Army is watching over Jinyang, Brother Dai is in charge in Hexi, and Li Xun is guarding the gate here in Cangwu Province. If we go in, we can attack Yunyan, attack Daizhou, and take Xuzhou directly. As long as Xuzhou is captured, we can go north. The Yellow River can go down to the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers in the south, and go into the Central Plains in the west." Yuwen Qian had obviously already thought about how to hit the belly of the Central Plains, bypassing Bingzhou directly, and not interfering with the Wei family in Taiyuan.
"Xuzhou is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is not easy to win." Li Xun said: "Our role is to deter those with evil intentions so that they dare not act rashly."
Li Xun still has some unfinished words that it is not convenient to describe here. The waterways in the south of the Yangtze River are dense and are not suitable for cavalry to charge. They also lack a type of troops. The road to great cause is long. Zhou Xu looked at Li Xun who was worried. , smiled and said: "As long as you are here, I will feel relieved."
Seeing this, Li Xun was inexplicably relieved. He knew that his lord had always had a lot of calculations in his heart. He clasped his fists heavily and said, "I send you off to the general."
Jin Ben led the Ghost Tuqi to move forward.
When the silent cavalry entered Daizhou, Xiao Luolan was sitting in the carriage, with the carved windows wide open and silver hooks tied around the curtains. When the spring breeze blew, she closed her eyes slightly.
It's already May.
Xiao Luolan was wearing a dark purple undershirt with large sleeves, her temples were loosely rolled up, and her black gold tassels were falling diagonally. When she heard the sound of Sect Leader Zhou returning, she looked at him.
"Have Shenzhi and the others gone back?"
Zhou Xu sat opposite his wife, with a long desk between them with some common objects placed on it.
"I'm back already." Zhou Xu said with a smile. The middle-aged man with a strong back and a big body continued his previous work, forking the honey-soaked cherries with a silver fork and feeding them to his wife's lips.
Seeing that it was too late to lower the curtains, Xiao Luolan lightly raised the fan to cover the window, ate one, pushed the plate to Sect Leader Zhou with the other hand, and said helplessly: "I won't eat, you can eat it yourself."
Zhou Xu smiled and said nothing.
After Xiao Luolan finished eating, she put down the fan. She felt novel and slightly uneasy about this trip.
After all, it’s about seeing a new place again.
She looked out the window and saw her daughter and Shiliu riding horses together. Taking advantage of the good weather and strong wind, her daughter set off paper kites on the horseback.
She loves the fresh and lively, and imitates the dress of the southern nobles. She wears a green dress with wide sleeves, and the green palace ribbon tied around her waist is like a willow in the spring breeze. It is flexible, slender, and graceful.
On the 16th, it was even more exaggerated. He directly exposed a little of his chest. He wore white linen clothes that were specially washed and wore thin and soft white linen clothes. He wore public sandals on his feet. He looked particularly bohemian. He rode his horse backwards and occasionally gave out a call to drive a donkey. Voice.
This strange sound made Jin Ben look at him and wonder, could it be because of the wind?
"Sixteen, what you are riding is obviously a horse, why do you call it a donkey?" Xiao Qingxue asked after playing with the kite for a while and finally noticed something strange about Zhou Shiliu.
Zhou Shiliu Yi Gulu stood up from his horse, shook his head and said: "Cousin Qingxue, you don't understand this. Now in the south, no matter the literati, great poets or monks and Taoists, they all like to ride donkeys. Riding a green donkey to enjoy the mountains and rivers, ranging from talking about the past and present to discussing literary and ink matters, all can be done on the back of a donkey."
"Wonderful! Wonderful!" He said it with all his heart, Zhou Shiliu smiled and nodded proudly while stroking his palms.
When Xiao Qingxue saw that Zhou Shiliu was wearing it again, she ignored him and played with the kite again.
Xiao Luolan saw the excitement, peeled an orange and shared it with Sect Master Zhou.
"Sixteen is right. There have indeed been more people riding donkeys in the south in the past two years." Zhou Xu stuffed half of the orange segments into his mouth in one gulp, and said, "On this beautiful spring day, after eating After the five stones were scattered, wouldn't it be a beautiful and carefree thing to wear your hair and open clothes, ride backwards on a green donkey deep into the mountains, and visit the immortals together?"
Xiao Luolan looked at Sect Master Zhou's smiling face and said, "Five food powders are harmful to the body. Eating too much can easily stimulate the brain. If you eat it for nothing, it will do more harm than good."
Zhou Xu laughed: "Madam, don't worry, I never touch that stuff."
"It's just a pain, madam."
Xiao Luolan looked at him in confusion. Sometimes she really couldn't follow the thoughts of Sect Leader Zhou.
Zhou Xu caressed his wife's beautiful face and said as if he was joking: "When I go to the south of the Yangtze River, my wife's eyes will inevitably see dissolute people, but it will not stain my wife's eyes."
Xiao Luolan: "..."
These words described those highly sought-after talkers as ugly and despicable things, which was really derogatory. Fortunately, there were no outsiders here. Xiao Luolan pulled the hand of the next week sect leader, He said, "It's fine for Mr. Zhou to say this in front of me. But when we get to Jiangnan, we are not allowed to say it."
Zhou Xu took a sip of tea angrily. He just couldn't stand the open-minded style of the southern nobles who claimed to be romantic. He just dressed well and didn't reveal anything. What was wrong with it!
Xiao Luolan covered her sleeves and smiled. She looked across at the meticulous Clan Master Zhou, who was wearing wristbands, leather belts, and ink crowns neatly even in the warm spring breeze. He had a majestic and cold face, motionless. Ruyuan's temperament felt really wonderful. It was completely impossible to tell that this person disliked her in private.
"Spring is here. Clothes should be light and breathable. Let Zhou Lang wear that azure dark pattern gown tomorrow." Xiao Luolan said warmly.
"Just listen to Madam." Zhou Xu was not picky about foreign objects, and whatever Madam said would be accepted.
The two of them were talking.
Jin Ben rode on horseback. At the official road of Daizhou Road, three thousand ghost slaughter riders gradually penetrated into Daizhou like a sharp sword. On both sides, under the cover of the mountains in the forest, there was an elite team, about a hundred people tightly packed together. Follow.
Wherever Gui Tu rode, they would go, tailgating each other until dusk.
"Who are they?" Xiao Luolan also discovered them, or it could be said that the team of 100 people did not deliberately hide it, but showed it to others, which was why Xiao Luolan discovered them so easily.
A burst of hearty laughter sounded from the front, and torches were like clouds, illuminating the visitor. He was a purple-robed official with a beautiful beard. He was not tall and had an air of his own, walking towards him.
"But Zhou Youzhou in person?" The person who came was Wu Xun, the military governor of Daizhou, followed by two generals.
Zhou Xu got off the carriage and smiled at his old neighbor: "Master Wu, long time no see."
Wu Xun also smiled and said: "I heard from people below that a Youzi flag suddenly appeared on Daizhou Road, so I knew it was Zhou Youzhou coming."
It’s no longer unusual for Wu Xun to pass by Zhou Youzhou once every five years. Anyway, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so I won’t let him pass. He led his men to beat me as fast as if he beat me at the door of his own house. The important thing is, he beat me, The imperial court would not mobilize troops to help him fight back.
If Zhou Youzhou sent troops to attack him, he would only be beaten in vain, but he could not show too much weakness. Since Zhou Youzhou came in a big way, he also sent people to follow him in a big way, and both sides gave each other face.
In short, the relationship between Youzhou and Daizhou is still very harmonious.
"It's late at night and it's cold. I've prepared fine wine and food, just waiting for Zhou Youzhou to arrive. We won't be able to go home until we're drunk." Wu Xun laughed, but out of the corner of his eye he caught sight of the dark ghost slaughtering knight opposite. , there was still white hair and sweat on his back.
