After the maid and Yan Xiao left, calm returned to the study room again.
Master Xu saw Bai Yan about to write the bamboo slips, so he obediently came forward and knelt down next to Bai Yan. He stretched out his hand on the wooden table to gently grind the ink for Bai Yan.
Bai Yan has become accustomed to it. After all, except for going to the battlefield or going to some dangerous places, Master Xu will basically follow him, either serving tea or pouring water or studying ink. Bai Yan also said that Master Xu doesn't need to do these things. But he was rejected by Master Xu.
Over time, Bai Yan became accustomed to being a poison master, and Master Xu, who was once the signboard of Lu's Restaurant, stayed by his side to grind ink for him.
And in the study room.
Bai Yan is used to it, but some people are not happy with it.
Bai Yingxue, who was bored, wanted to continue lying on the table in a daze, but suddenly saw this scene, took a deep breath, looked up and looked at this scene in shock.
Although Bai Yingxue knew that Miss Xu, who was Bian Que's disciple, was already following her brother-in-law-to-be, she never expected that the two of them were so close and natural.
Looking at Miss Xu's pretty appearance.
Bai Yingxue turned her head and looked at her eldest sister.
Bai Yingxue thought that the eldest sister would also frown and be a little displeased. However, what she didn't expect was that when the eldest sister in Qin clothes saw this scene, she just glanced briefly and continued to look down at the bamboo slips.
At this moment, Bai Yingxue's mind was filled with countless doubts.
What's going on now? ? ?
"Miss Xu, didn't you say you want to read a medical book? Yingxue has nothing to do, so let Yingxue do it!
"
Bai Yingxue looked at the eldest sister's appearance and thought for a while. She always felt that Miss Xu was a threat and might compete with the eldest sister for the position of the head wife. Worried, she mustered up the courage to look at Master Xu and whispered.
This sudden scene.
The other three people in the study were caught off guard. Bai Yan, Master Xu, and even Bai Junzhu all looked at Bai Yingxue.
Master Xu seemed to sense something and smiled without refusing. He stood up and made way for Bai Yingxue.
Bai Yan looked at Bai Yingxue hurriedly coming to his side with a strange look on his face.
Looking at Bai Yingxue, whose head was lowered and whose ears were already red, Bai Yan couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, turned his head and took the brush, and continued to write about Luoyin City on the bamboo slips.
In Luoyin City, Bai Yan did not send his servant to pay tribute, but left full responsibility to the Bai family.
It's not that Bai Yan doesn't want the fiefdom, but that after the Bai family is in charge, he can still get the tax revenue from Luoyin City and have the power of the nobles in Luoyin City. After all, Luoyin City is Bai Yan's fiefdom.
The reason why people from the Bai family should be used to manage is to avoid danger. Fiefdom is different from authority jurisdiction. It is a solid private domain. Once the word "private" is combined with fiefdom, it will be accompanied by danger.
Bai Yan didn't know if someone would report him in court that day for rebelling against Qin, or if someone would secretly frame him.
Therefore, in order to avoid trouble, Bai Yan hired people from the Bai family to take care of it. In this way, any bamboo slips that spread rumors and slander him would be presented to Ying Zheng. Ying Zheng would immediately know that it was an official slandering him, and there would be no trace of it at all. Suspect.
Quiet room.
Bai Yingxue studied the ink, and then looked at the eldest sister with a guilty look on her pretty face.
Then Bai Yingxue discovered that although the eldest sister was looking at the bamboo slips, she had grown up with the eldest sister since she was a child, so she didn't know that the eldest sister was distracted.
"Eldest sister, what's going on these days?"
Bai Yingxue thought, feeling a little worried, but no matter how she asked, the eldest sister never told her.
Think of this.
Bai Yingxue instinctively looked at the young man beside her. However, when she saw the young man kneeling beside him, looking at the bamboo slips seriously and writing with his hands, Bai Yingxue was a little distracted for a moment.
The young man was not a handsome man, and he was out leading troops all year round. Compared with the skin color of other noble men, the young man's skin color was darker.
But thinking of the stories about this boy that were spread outside, Bai Yingxue knew that this boy was really attractive, not to mention other cities, including Yongcheng and Xi County around Pingyang, not to mention other unknown gentry women. Even the noble women she and her elder sister knew had always dreamed of marrying the boy next to them.
They seemed eager to compete with the elders of the clan to defeat the Bai family.
And when the news about getting the fiefdom spreads, it is estimated that there will be more in the future.
Bai Yingxue thought about it. After a long time, she didn't know what she thought of, and her heart suddenly jumped like a deer. After she came back to her senses, she quickly glanced nervously at the eldest sister and Master Xu, and saw that no one noticed her appearance just now. He breathed a sigh of relief and quickly concentrated on studying ink.
"General! General Xin Sheng came to visit and said he wanted to return the horse to the general!"
Bai Yan's close confidant Wu Huai walked into the study from outside the room door and came to Bai Yan to greet him.
Wu Huai was once a subordinate of Ye, and had been protecting Bai Yan with Ye. Later, Ye, Huai, and Pei were entrusted with important tasks by Bai Yan one after another. Wu Huai became Bai Yan's confidant, and Wu Huai's martial arts, conduct, and fighting skills That life-threatening cruelty has always reassured Ye and Bai Yan.
Previously at Yanmen, Wu Huai followed Bai Yan.
"General Xin Sheng?"
Bai Yan looked surprised when he heard Wu Huai's words, and then stood up slowly under the gazes of Bai Yingxue and Bai Junzhu.
However, when Bai Yan walked out of the study, he saw a man walking with Bai Yu from the yard in the corridor not far away. Behind the man, there were several cavalry soldiers and a war horse.
In the yard.
Bai Yu and Xin Sheng walked while talking.
During the two days at court, Bai Yu already knew that the king had appointed General Wang Jian as the chief general, Xin Sheng as the deputy general, and Li Xin, Qiang Yu and other generals as retinues. He was preparing to lead additional troops to Yishui. After arriving at Yishui, He commanded the Yishui garrison and prepared to destroy Yan.
Among the reinforcements were garrison troops transferred from the north, with Xin Shengbu Qu as the main reinforcements.
Obviously, the king was furious this time, and he was ready to destroy Yan in one fell swoop, making Yan Dan and King Yan pay the price.
Conversation room.
When he saw Bai Yan, Bai Yu introduced him to Bai Yan.
"This is my nephew Bai Yan!"
Bai Yu looked at Xin Sheng's surprised look and said with a smile, "I don't know how many people will show this expression when they see Bai Yan for the first time. Looking at the entire Qin Kingdom, Bai Yan is the only one at this age."
Looking at Bai Yan's young but harmless face, Bai Yu wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes. The Yuezhi, the Xiongnu, and the Zhao Kingdom were all defeated at the hands of this young man.
"Bai Yan, this is General Xin Sheng!"
Bai Yu saw Bai Yan's body and back and introduced it to Bai Yan.
"Bai Yan, meet General Xin Sheng!"
Bai Yan came to Bai Yu. During Bai Yu's introduction, he looked at the man in front of him who was about thirty years old and had two obvious moles on his chin, and slowly raised his hands in a ceremony.
"Xin Sheng, meet General Bai!"
Xin Sheng raised his hand and returned the salute seriously to Bai Yan.
After the ceremony, Xin Sheng sighed and turned to look at Bai Yu with a smile.
"Xin Sheng had heard about it before, but he was dissatisfied with it. Now when he sees it, he knows that the rumor is true!"
Xin Sheng said.
Just like what Xin Sheng said, Xin Sheng once boasted that he was the only general who became famous at a young age in the Qin State, including Xin Sheng, Li Xin, Wang Li, and Qiang Yu, and each of them had their own unique abilities. No one is weaker than anyone else.
However, when he saw Bai Yan, who was younger than them and also a general, Xin Sheng couldn't laugh or cry.
When he, Li Xin, Qiang Yu and others made meritorious deeds and became generals, they were not that young. They were many years older than Bai Yan. According to Bai Yan's current age, they were just following their fathers in the Qin army at that time. Just mixed up with the lord.
"General Xin Sheng is so complimentary!"
Bai Yan looked at Xin Sheng and replied in a humble tone.
While talking, Bai Yan looked at the horse that had followed him from Qi to Qin, and he was full of emotion. When he left, Bai Yan thought he would see each other again in March or May, but he never thought that the separation would last more than two years.
"Previously, my general said that on the way near Xianyang, he met a descendant of the Bai family and led his horse and sword to Lantian to join the army. By fate, we made an agreement with him!"
Xin Sheng saw Bai Yan looking at the horse and said with a smile, then turned to look at his cronies.
When the Qin cavalry officers saw this, they naturally knew what the general meant, so they led the horse forward and handed the horse to Bai Yan.
"Jiang Fu, meet General Bai!"
A Qin cavalry officer named Jiang Fu saluted Bai Yan.
Among the many Qin cavalry officers, only this man named Jiang Fu knew Bai Yan, and he was one of the dozen people in General Fei's group.
Bai Yan also recognized Jiang Fu, who was one of the elite soldiers he had seen before.
Two years have passed in the blink of an eye, when we meet again.
Bai Yan slowly raised his hands in ceremony.
After the ceremony, Bai Yan and Jiang Fu looked at each other with smiles on their faces. Jiang Fu's eyes looked at the young boy in front of him, who had lost his tenderness compared to before.
When they and General Fei learned that the young man in front of them was a descendant of the Bai family and was enlisting in the army, they had a premonition and privately discussed that if a member of the Bai family did not join the army, he would definitely become a general of Qin after ten years of joining the army.
They all thought that as long as the young man did not die, it was very likely that the young man they met would have become a general ten years later.
And now, two years later, when he saw the kind and unassuming young man again, Jiang Fu knew that he and General Fei and the others had guessed right, but the difference was that they and General Fei had not expected it at all. The time it took for the young man to become a general of Qin was not ten years, but less than two years!
This is a full eight years different from the time they expected.
But speaking of it, Jiang Fu was actually not surprised, because after they separated, when he and General Fei heard the news about the 'Bai's children' again, they had already heard that the 'Bai's children' had enlisted in the army. Climb first, and in a battle in Yangcheng, climb the tower first and kill twenty-two people alone, one of whom was an official.
At that time, in the North Camp, beside the stove, he, General Fei, and more than a dozen others heard the news. Everyone made a roar, looked at each other in astonishment, and then laughed.
They all smiled and boasted to the other soldiers that they knew this 'child of the Bai family' and had an agreement with the people around them.
"Where is General Fei? Bai Yan has not been able to go to the North due to something else in the past two years, but he has never forgotten General Fei's kindness in leading the way!"
Bai Yan's voice sounded.
Jiang Fu came back to his senses. When he looked at the young man in front of him again, Jiang Fu's eyes turned red instantly. He wanted to speak, but his trembling lips did not say anything. His red eyes lowered his head unnaturally, his eyes full of sadness.
The other soldiers behind Jiang Fu also became quiet at this moment. Although those generals had never seen Bai Yan before, they had often heard from General Fei and others that "Bai Yan" Disciple', and the promise of this war horse.
In the yard.
Bai Yan looked at Jiang Fu with a look of shock and confusion. When he thought of something, he winced.
"There should be no war in the Northland in the past two years!"
Bai Yan said this softly and slowly, then turned to look at Xin Sheng.
Bai Yan was a little confused at this moment. He had basically participated in the wars in the past two years.
Bai Yu also felt something at this moment. As a leader and a general coming off the battlefield, Bai Yu couldn't help but show a little sadness in his eyes at this moment.
"When the Qin State sent troops to destroy Zhao, he was hunting for Lord Xiwu and translated the Song Dynasty! When he was passing through Shu from the north, he was ambushed and died in battle."
Xin Sheng saw Bai Yan's eyes and explained softly, and then told Bai Yan what happened.
Yi Xusong is a tribe in the Baiyue area and the leader of the tribe in Western Europe. When the Qin State invaded Zhao State, he suddenly appeared in the north for unknown reasons. When he came to his senses, he had lost the news of Yi Xu Song and waited until he got it again. When he translated the news about Xu Song, he had already translated Xu Song's return from Yuezhi, and he took a small road with few people coming.
He was worried that Baiyue and Western Europe might unite with Chu and the Yuezhi to deal with Qin, so that Qin would not only be unable to destroy Zhao, but might even be besieged from all sides, so he decided to order the capture of Yixu Song.
And in Shu, in that battle, not only did the cronies fail to capture Yi Xusong, but most of them died.
"Baiyue, Western Europe, translated into Song Dynasty!"
Bai Yan listened to Xin Sheng's story, looked at the war horse in front of him, and recalled in his mind the appearance and smiles of the dozen or so people in General Fei's group when he went to Lantian.
He reached out and stroked the war horse in front of him. Two years later, the agreement was still there, but the person was no longer there.
Bai Yan did not expect that when he led the army to attack Zhao, General Fei and the dozen or so people had been killed in Shu.
"General Fei! Bai Yan has not yet repaid the favor of leading the way and training the horse!"
Bai Yan looked at the horse in front of him, which had been trained as a war horse by General Fei, and sighed in his heart.
He remembered the name Yi Xusong in his mind, and Bai Yan had a hunch that if General Fei could be killed in Shu, there must be nobles in Shu involved.
Under the scorching sun.
The sun was shining brightly, and the breeze blew through the branches, bringing a bit of coolness to the busy maids and servants in the huge mansion.
And in the study room.
"Sister, why are you always absent-minded these days?"
After Bai Yingxue watched Miss Xu leave, she turned to look at her eldest sister and asked softly.
When Bai Junzhu heard what his little sister said, he looked at her, smiled, and shook his head.
"It's okay! Don't worry, mother asked you and Miss Xu to go there, go quickly!"
Bai Junzhu urged.
When Bai Yingxue heard this, she still didn't want to say anything when she saw her eldest sister. She could only stand up with a worried look on her face and reluctantly left the study.
In an instant, Bai Junzhu was the only one left in the study.
Kneeling in front of the window, Bai Junzhu put down the bamboo slips and felt the cool breeze blowing in front of the window. He turned to look out the window and looked at the voices of his uncle and others in the yard past the corridor in the distance. His beautiful eyes finally focused on the man holding the horse. on the back of the young man.
The words of that night are still fresh in my mind.
Recalling the young man's frankness that night and the reasons for coming to Qin, Bai Junzhu could vaguely feel that his grandfather, father, uncle, and uncles all guessed wrong. The young man was not from a noble family, and was not even a down-and-out noble family. .
Facing the young man, he did not hide his origin. Perhaps in the eyes of others, they would feel contempt after learning about the young man's origin.
But I don’t know why.
Bai Junzhu's impression of the young man increased instead of decreasing. On the contrary, he admired the young man even more in his heart.
"I really want to meet your grandmother!"
Bai Junzhu thought of what the boy said that night, and looked at the boy's back in the distance. Different from all previous emotions, she had never been so curious about a person, and that boy was the first and only one.
And vaguely, after learning the origin of the young man, her heart was not filled with a woman's longing for a hero, but for the first time in her life, she felt a trace of admiration for the young man in her heart.
This time.
Even Bai Junzhu himself felt it clearly in his heart.
It has nothing to do with the young man's status, wealth, or even his talent. It's just because of his character that I admire him.
This is also the first time, I really want to be a young man’s wife.
While thinking.
He turned to look at the bamboo slips in his hands.
Recalling the woman mentioned by the young man later, Bai Junzhu's pretty brows were full of disappointment. She held the bamboo slip between her thin fingers, but she exerted a little force quietly. Compared with the younger sister's performance just now, Bai Junzhu was worried about Miss Xu. Bai Junzhu knew clearly. In fact, the only person who has always monopolized the young man's heart is the woman from Qi State.
Recalling the young man's frankness that night, he accidentally mentioned that woman when talking about the past.
She didn't know why, but looking at the young man's longing look, she might have been a little disappointed in her heart, or she might have been a little persistent. In a moment of fever, she once asked a question unwilling to admit defeat.
"Is she beautiful?"
When she asked this question at that time, she was completely stunned and lowered her head. She didn't know whether she regretted it or not after asking this question.
But in her eyes, she really wanted to know the answer.
Because she is also very beautiful, she has been praised as a beauty by the world very early, otherwise there would not be countless powerful men visiting her in the first place.
In the study room.
At this time, Bai Junzhu recalled herself that night, and actually knew that she had asked those words at that time, and she felt a little hopeful in her heart.
However, the boy's answer made her still unable to forget it.
"Beautiful, very beautiful, very beautiful!"
Beside the wooden window.
Bai Junzhu, who was wearing Qin clothes under his long black hair, sighed melancholy, put down the bamboo slips in his hands, looked at the bamboo slips in his hands, and could no longer look at them.
Although I don’t know who the woman from Qi is and whether her surname or first name belongs to that noble family, I know very well that one day, if the young man returns to Qi again, he will definitely meet that woman.
Because they were both women, Bai Junzhu could feel that after learning about the young man's original experience, in the young man's eyes, no matter how many beautiful women there were in the world, no matter how many beauties the king rewarded, they could no longer enter the young man's heart.
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Those experiences made the Qi girl unique in the young man's heart!
Think of this.
Bai Junzhu, a beauty who had been studying bamboo slips in the study since she was a child and never heard what was going on outside the window, lowered her head in distress and lay on the table.
She didn't want to tell her parents about the boy's experience and origins, because in her heart, she didn't want to see the relationship between the boy and her family become stiff and estranged.
And in the past few days, Bai Junzhu can't help but fantasize that maybe if the contact time is long, or maybe he can't return to Qi for a long time, the young man will marry her and live with her in Qin peacefully. After all, she, Bai Junzhu, may not be able to return to Qi for a long time. He really couldn't compare to that woman, let alone in terms of beauty and talent. Bai Junzhu didn't believe that he was inferior to other women.
"Junzhu!"
Bai Yan walked into the study at some point and looked at his daughter with her head lowered and her face pressed against the bamboo slips, full of doubts.
When Bai Junzhu heard his father's voice, he stood up immediately. When he saw his father coming, his pretty face was full of panic and his eyes dodge.
"Father!"
Bai Junzhu put down the bamboo slips and stood up quickly.
Bai Yan looked at Bai Junzhu's appearance and saw that there was nothing wrong with seeing the bamboo slips, so he nodded.
"In a few days, when Bai Yan's injury is better, he will definitely go to Luoyin. When the time comes, make preparations and go with him. Your mother has already told Yingxue."
Bai Yan said to his daughter.
"I know, father!"
Bai Junzhu nodded obediently when he heard his father's words.
"Now follow me to call Bai Yan. People from the Qu family of Chu Kingdom have already come to visit!"
Bai Yan said that Bai Yan wanted to meet the people from the Qu family who had just come to visit the house, as well as two nobles from the Chu state.
What Bai Yan means is that he hopes that Bai Junzhu will be there when Bai Yan meets those people, just like before.
"Got it! Father!"
Bai Junzhu responded softly.
