Too academic.
The lights in the small courtyard filled with flowers were still on.
It's late autumn, the autumn is getting colder, and the garden is full of flowers. It's past its sixtieth year, and I feel that my body is getting worse every year.
He was sitting in his small wooden building, and a charcoal fire had been lit in the room.
At this moment, he looked at Su Muxin with a smile on his face, "Why are you here so late?"
Su Muxin bowed and said, "This disciple couldn't sleep, so he walked around casually. When he saw that the lights in the teacher's small courtyard were not extinguished, he thought about it and came to see the teacher."
"oh……"
Hua Manting stretched out her crossed legs, rubbed them gently, and pointed to the tea stove on the table: "Make tea!"
"good!"
Su Muxin lit the tea stove and brewed a pot of tea.
Hua Manting closed the book in front of him and asked: "Last time you said that Chen'an took you to the army... I heard that he led people to Shuangjiao Mountain to suppress bandits. What did you do? Did not go?"
Su Muxin smiled bitterly and shook her head: "This is what students are worried about!"
"tell me the story."
"He said that I was a scholar. He said that the road to Shuangjiao Mountain was not only difficult, but also dangerous. He almost said that I was a burden."
Su Muxin raised her head, with an angry look on her face, and even her tone was a bit complaining:
"He, Li Chenan, is also a scholar. He can go, why can't I go?!"
"Besides, through this kind of suppression of bandits, I can become more harmonious with the soldiers of Xuanjia Camp, which will be more conducive for me to stay in the camp in the future..."
Su Muxin curled her lips, withdrew her gaze, and let out a long sigh, "I have been thinking about a question these days, where is my path?"
Hua Manting stroked his long beard and laughed, and asked: "Xuanjia Camp...is it a soldier of Dingguo Houfu?"
Su Muxin shook her head, "An army that no one knows about was personally trained by Mr. Sun, the director of the Imperial City."
"Very powerful?"
"Students haven't spent much time with them, but from the students' point of view, they should be more powerful than the Shenwu Army! It's just a pity that there are fewer people."
"Oh...how many people are there?"
"There are only about three hundred people. I guess it's because the Imperial City Division doesn't have that much money to raise troops."
Hua Manting crossed her legs again, pondered for a moment, and said, "So, this is Chen An's trust in you!"
"Think about it, Changsun Jinghong is already old, and Chen An is now the deputy director of the Imperial City Department, so the Imperial City Department will definitely be handed over to Chen An!"
"Since this Xuanjia Battalion was trained by Changsun Jinghong himself, and since Changsun Jinghong handed over such a powerful group of people to Li Chenan, this is enough to show Changsun Jinghong's trust in Chenan."
"Chen'an placed you in this Xuanjia Camp. This is his trust in you!"
"As for why I didn't let you go to Shuangjiao Mountain with me... Although Chen An is a scholar, he has practiced martial arts after all."
"I don't know what the terrain of Shuangjiao Mountain is like, but I think it is rugged and steep. If you go with us... it will indeed be troublesome."
"Although it is to suppress bandits, in the deep mountains and dense forests, those bandits are familiar with the terrain. It is indeed very dangerous to set up some traps and shoot cold arrows suddenly, so I think Chen An is really worried about you having an accident."
Su Muxin lowered his head, curled his lips, and muttered: "Since you have become a soldier, it is your fate to be shrouded in horse leather. The student has actually put life and death aside for a long time. Although he has good intentions, when the Xuanjia Battalion comes back, how will they treat the student? "
Hua Manting looked at his favorite disciple and pointed at the tea stove, "The water is boiling."
Su Muxin twisted a handful of tea leaves and put it into the teapot. Hua Manting sat up straight and said:
"Making tea requires one step at a time, and becoming a soldier also requires one step at a time!"
"You... you still can't calm down. Although your starting point is good, you must understand that soldiers are different from soldiers."
"From my perspective, you are not a soldier now, you are still a scholar."
"Of course, your time as a soldier is still short. If you can survive these three to five years in the army, when you sit here as a teacher again, you will be the same as you are now. ...It must be completely different!”
"Those who hold a pen and those who hold a knife have different hands, different mental states, and even their sitting postures are different."
Su Muxin raised her head, "So the students think that being a soldier requires training!"
"Isn't this suppression of bandits the best training?"
"See blood and kill people. If you really go to the battlefield in the future, at least the students will not tremble in their arms."
Hua Manting grinned again: "You are right, but...this bandit suppression is quite strange. If I think about the dangers in this, I am afraid it is not just as simple as suppressing bandits."
Su Mu was startled and said, "Teacher, please give me some advice."
"Think about it, Chen An went to Shuangjiao Mountain with the second prince to suppress bandits, but everyone in the capital knows that Chen An and the second prince don't get along."
"There are also rumors that the water bandits in Shuangjiao Lake were deliberately raised by Ji Tai, and Ji Tai is a big helper to the second prince... Chen An wants to suppress the bandits, how can the second prince suppress the bandits?"
"Chen An and the second prince are both in the deep mountains and old forests, and the emperor is in Changle Palace... If it is a chess game... if one of them is killed in Shuangjiao Mountain, is it normal?"
Su Mu was shocked and heard Hua Manting say again: "If Shuangjiao Mountain is a game, for Ji Tai, he will definitely kill Chen An in this game."
"But Chen An is a smart man, not to mention there is an old fox named Sun Jinghong behind him."
"He will definitely not be captured without hesitation... So I thought that Chen An also had arrangements in Shuangjiao Mountain. What he wanted was not only to prevent the second prince from coming back, but he also wanted to send Ji Tai to Shuangjiao Mountain. Eat all the pieces!"
Su Mu's heart was shocked, and she asked in a low voice in disbelief: "He dares to kill the prince?"
Hua Manting leaned over and said seriously: "This is the biggest difference between you and him!"
"He will definitely dare, and if you were there, you would definitely stop it!"
Su Muxin lowered his head slightly, with a confused look in his eyes.
There was a fierce struggle in his mind.
The education he received told him that studying is for the sake of the country and the country.
This country belongs to the Ning family. If you are a Jinshi in your studies, your skills should be sold to the emperor's family.
Although Ning Zhixing is not the emperor, he is a member of the royal family and the respected Prince of De!
If it were him, would he strike at Ning Zhixing with a knife?
He soon had the answer - no!
Because this is tantamount to rebellion!
Although Su Muxin had a lot of dissatisfaction with the court and had a lot of sympathy for the sufferings of the people, all he wanted was to bring order to the chaos and let the corrupt officials headed by Ji Tai be put on trial.
He has never had such a treasonous thought as treason!
"Now do you understand the real reason why Chen'an doesn't let you go to Shuangjiao Mountain?"
Su Muxin raised her head, "He...he really dares to do this?"
Hua Manting nodded, "If you don't understand him, just read the song "The Wine Will Enter" again!"
