Chapter 092 – Big White Cat, Little Groundnut

Qi Shenze stood at the window, looking at the moving woman sitting cross-legged in a sitting position, her eyes infatuated. At a time of war and chaos, the country is unfortunate, the rise of learning, the Shangyin Palace of Learning temporarily admitted the Guangling Road side of the river across the many fleeing students, Jixia Bachelor immediately reached nearly 10,000 people, Mr. Jixian also exceeded six hundred for the first time, the number, compared to the Palace of Learning in the two dynasties of the Qin and the Dafeng the most prosperous and even more exaggerated. In this time, the smoke seems to be close to the end, the school palace is like a pure land on earth, do not hear the hooves of horses and soldiers, is still Mr. lectures students listen to lectures, at this time in the window in the room on the Mr. Jik, is the school palace in recent years, one of the most popular learning, and now every time she explains the sound of rhyme and rhythm of the study, it must be overcrowded, regardless of the cold and hot, no seat in the house, standing outside the window is, like Qi Shenze side, it is crowded a lot! I do not know whether to listen to the lesson or watch the students, all concentrate. Qi Shenze is, after all, the eldest grandson of the great Qi family’s eldest house, but also on the Yin Palace of fame and popularity, when he came to the window, many of the original occupants of the near-water tower of the students had to quietly give up their positions. Qi Shenze looked at that many juniors Mr. Jik Shang also have to respectfully called a fish big beautiful woman, no reason to remember that last year the winter snow dusk, that Qi Shenze did not know his name at that time, white-haired young man, a private visit to the Palace of Buddha Palm Lake, the two had a dark current of the fight, Qi Shenze did not have the opportunity to pull out the waist that ranked in the twelve of the famous Dongyue Sword Pool sword “Linglong”, and gradually guessed afterward that it was the most famous sword of the East Vietnam sword pool, “Linglong”. “Afterwards, gradually guessed the identity of that person, as well as that guy’s various deeds in the school palace circulation, Qi Shenze had a period of disheartened, but not long after it will be revitalized, with the North Mang millions of armies pressed on the Northwest, as well as the word of the Jiang flag in the high erection of the Guangling Road, Qi Shenze more and more hesitant and full of determination, he used to be in the Palace of the achievements have always been outstanding, horizontal and vertical art second only to Xu Wei Xiong, military science is second only to Xu Wei Xiong, second only to Kou Jianghuai in military science, sword science is the top of the Palace, since Kou Jianghuai can rise to fame, he Qi Shenze family history and knowledge are not inferior to Kou Jianghuai, why worry about can not take advantage of the situation in the chaotic times to rise, and in one fell swoop to become the family’s rising man?

Inside the house, that will be the dynasties of sound program narrated by the woman wearing stone green clothes, wrapped in light red brocade, the waist of the jade belt bundle, although sitting cross-legged, but still can clearly see her body shape graceful, from head to toe, her share of the flavor of the spring flow, amazing, never tire of seeing. On her side there is a small incense burner, unique, with goose pears steamed incense, both without smoke and fire, but also refreshing, full of mist curls, she as Mr. Jik Shang, was able to sit alone under the wall, such as falling into the clouds and mist, trance like a goddess. Wall hanging a dozen have not opened the scrolls laid down, she stood next to a little girl with crocheted hair, in the upper Yin Palace is a child king, nicknamed the small wood fish, parents are both the Palace of Mr., was the North Han Xuanhuo aristocrats, only in the Spring and Autumn chaos in the fall of the family, and now a family of three people living in poverty. The father of the small wooden fish is considered to be a defector from the Palace of Wang Da priest half of the disciples, do not know why did not follow Mr. Wang rushed to the north of the Liang, give up the glory and wealth within reach, still in the Palace of the school to do that shy of the teaching staff, depressed and uninspired, probably this is what is known as poverty and happiness.

Qi Shenze and those who are not drunk listening to the students are not the same, he is really listening to the fish in the heart of the teachings, she carved and printed in the summer of this year a “gold market place rhymes”, was not yet out of the mountain into the capital of the Qi priest praise, personally for its preface, in the Palace on the day of the day will be sold out, the book is divided into upper and lower volumes, the total number of words, but only 36, but encompasses all things. Many of its best lines have long been spread throughout the palace, such as the word “east”, there is a “woman’s delicate eyebrows, a crescent moon; men’s strong, ten thousand rainbows”, the word “loyalty”, there are “The Qin Emperor’s great determination of a Rong Yi, Dafeng Taiping three-foot sword”, but the most let the grandfather of Qi Shenze a lot of emotion is to solve the “Jiang” word “thousands of mountains to ten thousand waters, the old country to other countries. And fish everyone original exegetical “elementary school”, sorted out since the western region of the Sanskrit sound into the Central Plains since the change of the sound of the pulse, grandfather originally on his high hopes of his grandson could not let go of a down-and-out woman quite dissenting, and recently there has been some relaxation, still do not agree with, but also do not object to.

Inside the room, Fish everyone is explaining the war songs of the armies of each dynasty and generation, the goat-horned girl is responsible for opening a scroll, each scroll painting is written with lyrics that are either eloquent or pathos, there are only two armies in contemporary times that have been honored with this distinction, one is the Dong family army led by Dong Zhuo, the king of the southern courtyard of the Northern Mang Dynasty, and the other is the Northern Liang Border Army’s “Northern Liang Song”. Qi Shenze clearly felt the fish everyone in the explanation of the Northern Liang song, she that silk trying to hide the leap of joy and the ensuing accumulation of confusion, Qi Shenze shuttle flowers for many years, a leaf does not touch the body, why do not you understand a truth, love is shallow easy to pick up, love is deep after the difficult to put down. But Qi Shenze does not feel that his love of the woman, it is really the young man who visited the Palace of the sick, otherwise how she did not follow him back to Northern Liang, but all alone to stay in the Palace of the Yin?

Near the end of the class, a bloated white cat from nowhere, it is as popular as its master in the Shangyin Palace, because it is too naive at the same time, but the elves are cunning, many Mr. Jixing’s food do not know to give it away, in the Palace to explain the doctrine of the king of the big Mr. Liu Zhen raised a large white crane, love to the extreme, and even nicknamed the “Crane Wife! “, as a result of half a year I do not know how many feathers were caught by the white cat, Liu Zhen do not know how many times to go to the side of the fish to cry, and finally had to give up that piece of plum forest, relocated to the most remote place of the Palace of the upper Yin, to finally escape the claws of this white cat “WuMeiNiang”.

The white cat jumped into the arms of fish big, see all Jixi bachelor silently drooling, bold eyes do not slant, mind swaying, the small courage is quietly averted the line of sight, afraid of their own blush. The world knows that fish everyone’s mother is the first emperor of western chu sword service, her sword dance was once one of the four best of the chu dynasty, with Ye Baikui’s art of war, Li Qin’s chess and Wang Qing’s poetry, all said that fish everyone as much as his mother’s sword dance true, and the Jizhixian bachelor’s eyes are not blind, know that fish everyone is not only knowledgeable, she has been deliberately hidden repressed chest flavor is not “spectacular! “If I could watch her sword dance once, it would be worthwhile to reduce my life expectancy by ten years.

The end of the teaching, whether sitting in the room or standing outside the window of the Jixi Bachelor, along with Qi Shenze, including all respectfully made a bow to salute, fish everyone slightly bowed his head to return the salute, and then let the students leave the house first, she put down her arms are napping in the white cat WuMeiNiang, to help the goat horns yer together with the scrolls hanging on the wall. Qi Shenze at this time against the current, came to the house, quietly watched her gently tiptoe pick those scrolls, in her stretching the waist to lift the arm, looking along the line of sight, her waist is bound by the jade belt is extremely slender, while some places are extremely plump, Qi Shenze heart moved, a slight smile, the text seems to look at the mountains do not like flat, appreciate the woman is even more so ah.

Already used the real name fish xuanji she ignored Qi Shenze, looked down at the small wooden fish who volunteered to hold the large pile of scrolls, touched the little girl’s little head, softly laughed: “hold it?”

This goat horned girl who is more competitive than a boy among her peers nodded vigorously, she glanced at the always disliked Qi Shenze Qi’s eldest son out of the corner of her eye, nuzzled her mouth at her fish sister then rolled her eyes before running out of the house.

Back then in Bei Liang using the name Yu Youwei she looked at Qi Shen Ce with a bland expression and asked, “Something is wrong?”

Qi Shen Ce smiled and said, “Just saying goodbye on my way out.”

Yu Youwei let out an oh and said nothing more. Obviously, what she meant was that you and I have a normal relationship, so I won’t stay or even send you off if you want to leave.

Qi Shen Ce hesitated for a moment, without the intention of turning around and leaving, but instead sat behind the yellow pear short-footed books and tables that could be seen everywhere in the Shangyin Academy Palace, as if he were a student asking about his teacher. There is no denying that the future head of the Qi family is suave and elegant, rumor has it that many of the female gentlemen in the school palace have fallen in love with them, not to mention those who are in the prime of life, the women’s Jixi Bachelor, every time Qi Shenze travels, there is no shortage of women of the world through the curve of the relationship to get close. Qi Shenze was sitting upright, looked up at the standing fish everyone, and asked softly, “Fish everyone think I should go to my good friend Kou Jianghuai to ask for a drink at this time, or go to the capital to visit the State Scholarship Academy?”

Fish Youwei frowned and said, “This should be asked to your grandfather who did not follow the current trend to serve in Western Chu, not me.”

Qi Shenze smiles playfully, “Western Chu? Shouldn’t it be Great Chu? Well, I already know the answer. I will go to Tai’an City right now.”

Yu Youwei sneered without saying anything.

Qi Shen Ce slowly stood up and looked straight at this woman of his choice who had rejected any man, and said in a gentle tone, “Xuan Ji, can you wait for me for three years? After three years, I will surely be successful and famous, and the dynasty and the countryside will know me, Qi Shen Ce, as if they had heard of Kou Jianghuai.”

Fish Youwei unexpectedly smiled, it was a scenery Qi Shenze had never seen before.

Just when Qi Shen Ce thought he had a chance, Yu Youwei looked out the window and calmly said, “So what if Kou Jianghuai is a transcendent great official, so what if you are Cao Changqing? Is it very powerful?”

Fish Youwei laughed oddly and asked again, “Is it really very powerful? Is it hard to be the best in the world?”

Qi Shenze was suddenly covered in coldness, like falling into an ice cave.

Taking the family history and taking the fame, Qi Shen Ce really is not as good as that person ah.

The hereditary king of Beiliang, holding a world of 300,000 iron horsemen. The first person to reach the top of the martial arts evaluation, so that the two rivers and lakes of Liyang and North Mang are bowed down.

Qi Shenze quickly recovered from the disillusionment, shook his head and said with resolute eyes, “It’s not the same, I’ll move up step by step from an ordinary pawn.”

Fish Youwei seemed to have heard a big joke, and couldn’t stop until she had a good laugh, she waved her hand and sneered, “Stop saying that, I’ll die of laughter. Qi Shen Ce, I won’t delay you from going to the sands to build your career.”

Qi Shen Ce didn’t get angry and asked, “Before I leave, I want to know where the funny part is, it’s better to be happy alone than to be happy together.”

Yu Youwei extended her hand, clearly giving an expulsion order.

Qi Shen Ce deserves to be recognized as the Qi family’s role that can carry the beam, his temperament is resolute, he didn’t make too annoying unrequited love for his children, striding out of the house.

Fish Youwei waited for him to go far away, then squatted down, cupped Wu Mei Niang, and it looked into the eyes, eyes with a smile, “There is a person ah, said a joke, said that the tortoise and the rabbit successively run, in fact, the rabbit is a lifetime can not catch up with the tortoise, he said that this is called a paradox, and also a serious use of the wine glass and chopsticks gestures to explain half a day, but I have always felt that it is crooked reasoning, it is a joke. Wu Mei Niang, don’t you think so?”

She pressed her cheek against the white cat’s head, her eyes sad, and softly said, “Wu Mei Niang, is it true that there is no one to bully you anymore, but instead you will be lonely?”

Fish Youwei slowly closed her eyes, “It’s the paradox that people live here and their hearts die there, right?”

After putting down the scroll and bouncing all the way back to the door of the house, the little wooden fish, looking at the fish sister squatting on the ground in tears, suddenly burst into a fury, hurriedly ran to the fish young Wei body squatting down, indignantly said, “Fish sister fish sister, is not that surnamed Qi dengtong bullied you? I’ll kick him to death right here!”

Fish Youwei opened her eyes, somewhat helpless, softly smiled, “No.”

Yangjiao Ya’er is a bit skeptical, “Really not?”

Fish Youwei nodded.

The little girl stretched out her fist and waved it, said, “Fish sister, you are not secretly told me that that guy is the expert who defeated the old god Wang, hmmm, to know that the last time he has personally said that my boxing is invincible legs are unparalleled!”

Then the little girl timidly asked: “Fish sister that why you cried ah?”

Fish Youwei was a child bumped into their own demeanor, some blush, prevarication: “Touching the scene just hurt feelings.”

Only then relaxed goat horn girl suddenly bad smile: “Hey, fish sister, I’m going to learn medicine.”

Fish Youwei confused, asked: “Why?”

The little girl cheerfully said, “Good to help fish sister to make a pair of regret medicine ah.”

Fish Youwei froze, after returning to her senses, pinched the little wooden fish’s flushed cheeks, “When you grow up, you will know that there are some things that are not as good as regret.”

The little girl made a face and said, “Then I’d better not grow up, regretting every day will definitely hurt me to death.”

Fish Youwei laughed, stood up, holding the big white cat in one hand and the little wooden fish in the other, and walked out of the house.

When returning to the residence, passing by that Buddha’s Palm Lake, the little wood fish couldn’t help but tsk, “The snowman that the white-haired brother piled up last time, it was really, really big.”

For some reason, the goat horned girl inadvertently looked up at the fish sister, she lowered her head as if she was looking at her own breasts, and then that look, probably is often recited in the mouth of the denizens of the “dainty and colorful”.

The little girl backed up a breath, she understood, surely that once went to their own home to dine on the guy lightly fish sister there!

Sheep horns girl to fish sister at the same time, but also some curiosity, as if the fish sister also did not angry ah, but some joy?

Adults’ grudges and feuds, she still does not quite understand.

Poor children early to become a family little girl sighed old-fashioned, muttering to herself: “Sure enough, the name of that pair of regret medicine is called ‘forgetting each other in the river and lake’, right, the root cause of the disease is that ‘can not be together’. ”

North Mang orange state to the north of the west river state south of a world-famous Dunhuang City, North Mang the first big devil Luo Yang was once here half of the city of the Lord, with Luo Yang’s defection of North Mang and Her Majesty’s anger, Luo Yang all the way to kill through the encirclement into the territory of Liyang, and from then on completely in the North Mang rivers and lakes disappear, but this is for the survival of the city of Dunhuang in the middle of the cracks is like adding fuel to the flames, especially the God of the army Tuoba Bodhisattva at the behest of His Majesty Sweeping the rear, purging all the disobedience to the control of the prairie Sydney forces, although the West River section order Helian Weiwu Dunhuang City has always turned a blind eye, there is not too much bad feeling, and the orange state section order Murong Baoding is always regarded as Dunhuang City’s behind the scenes backing, but this swept the North Mang north court of the great turmoil, or how much of the spillover of the Dunhuang City of the pool fish, many character arrogant large and small prairie masters have been forced to Many of the unruly lords of the prairies, large and small, have been forced to leave their territories to escape from Tuoba Bodhisattva, causing them to become like a swarm of locusts. The good thing is that the city has a new general Xu Pushi in charge of the military, and there are Dunhuang big clan handsome Yuwen Linden Duanmu Chongyang, etc. as the actual power of the lieutenant, the people of the city feel that as long as the Dunhuang city does not raise the flag of rebellion, even if some cross-border Sydney Tick wants to take over the magpie’s nest, the city of Dunhuang is not too bad to hit, just the most dependent Dunhuang city residents feel terrified of the city of the great beauty of the master, the city of the city to put down the bloody rebellion, then disappeared, disappeared for about a year, and the people of Dunhuang city are not happy. Then disappeared, disappeared for about half a year, at that time not only is the city general power and nobility can not see her, even if it is the Yuwen family and the Duanmu family, such as the “old and new dynasty veterans” of the leading figures, but also not able to see her one side. Until the beginning of summer this year, she leisurely returned to the vision of Dunhuang City. During this period, there was a lot of talk, gossip all over the city, all kinds of rumors flying, some say that the North Mang “little girl emperor” woman was Murong Baoding coveted beauty, to the captive, there is also said to be His Majesty the Empress called into the royal tent, recognized the identity of her niece, anyway, any kind of strange and bizarre sayings are there. It is good that this city lord disappeared for half a year, and then regained power from the hands of Xu Pou, who had become a great general overnight from the fallen Han.

Giant Immortal Palace has a not conspicuous Qingwu courtyard, planted full of bananas, for some reason has always been a forbidden place, even more strange is that this place can not be said to be tightly guarded, on the contrary, Dunhuang City’s Jingwuwei are never set foot here on duty patrols.

Rather like a cold palace.

At this moment, the outside world rumors have been with the city’s master of water and fire intolerance of the great general Xu Pou sitting in the courtyard on a stone bench, in addition to sitting opposite the Dunhuang hostess, even a court maid are not to see.

Xu Pu, or in the past with the king of the northern Liang brother-in-law Wu Qi together with the power of the cavalry Xu Pu, is to give her a detailed report on the Liang Mang border on the latest state of war, the northern Mang south dynasty side of the three elite cavalry respectively into the Liang Yu Liu three states, but the thunder is loud and the rain is small, in addition to the southern invasion of the flow of the state of that one of the cavalry showed a head and is the two armies confrontation for a few minutes that is not fighting back, the soldiers and horses rushed to the Liang Yu two states is more no news, no matter what! Dunhuang city this side of the dead spies how to dig up the roots of digging secret report, can not get half a bit of news, to know Dunhuang city’s top spies have been touched to the South Dynasty, a second only to hold the section of the order of the big man there, is still no success, Xu Pu do not believe that this is some bullshit will be outside the military order is not, either fat man Dong temporary intention of the conspiracy and trickery, or the order of the peace has long been planned for a set policy, regardless of which is the case. Whichever, Xu Pu feel a sense of suffocation of the storm, if he is the general of the Northern Liang border army, he can do calmly, but he is now only the hinterland of the Northern Mang Dunhuang City, an “outsider” who can only watch the fire from the other side of the river, it is difficult to avoid the depression of gas in the chest.

That woman, not only is the North Liang Wang Fu Wutong courtyard of the first-class maid, but also the son of His Highness side of the dead, or this Dunhuang City, the city’s owner, but also the North Mang list of famous top killers.

Sweet Potato listening to that vanguard south attack Liuzhou cavalry surprisingly retreated without a fight, softly said: “Uncle Xu, the general’s life in the two states of LiangYue twenty years of painstaking management, there is a veteran general YanWenLuan guard YouZhou, and now ChuLuShan personally sit in the LiangZhou north pass, DongZhuo want to hit LiuZhou first is confirmed, North Mang want to take LiuZhou as a breakthrough, we BeiLiang want to use this as a bait, have their own requirements, and In the final analysis, it seems to be looking at whether geography wins or people win.”

Xu Pu calmly said: “If the North Mang is determined to really want to die in the flow state, no city can be based on no risk can rely on the flow state will not be able to defend, the key lies in the Liang and Mang both sides in the end in the abattoir will be cut down how much meat in my opinion, even if the North Mang in the flow of the state to lose one hundred and fifty thousand elite, as long as the number of our loss of the North Liang to reach 50,000, 50,000, as long as the border, even if it is only one more soldier, then the battle of the North Liang will be the most important. Then this battle will already be lost for Bei Liang. Defending the northwest of Liang and the north of Youzhou are just delaying time for Liyang. Bei Liang, Bei Mang, Li Yang, the three legs of the tripod, Li Yang can afford the most time and national strength, Bei Mang is close behind, Bei Liang is the most stretched.”

Sweet Potato worriedly said, “The 30,000 Dragon Elephant Army is all in Liuzhou.”

Xu Pu sadly said, “This is actually exactly what the king is stating to all the people of Northern Liang. E guarding the country’s gates to die at the border, when the time comes to lose, those who die in battle, there will definitely be a person with the surname Xu.”

Sweet Potato asked, “Is it worth it?”

Xu Pu did not answer.

Sweet Potato asked himself, “A lot of things, can’t say if it’s worth it or not.”

Sweet Potato suddenly asked, “Uncle Xu, how is that little eunuch Dong Shou’s martial arts training qualifications?”

Xu Pu laughed, “His qualifications are mediocre, but his roots are pure, and in the martial arts path, it is not true that only the gifted can achieve the right results. What’s more, the secret manual that the city lord chose out, this is not demanding innate roots good or bad, only pay attention to a day to day accumulation.”

Sweet Potato bit his lip and lamented, “It’s not that there are no shortcuts to martial arts with immediate results, it’s just that none of them are suitable for this simple young man, but a smart and clever martial arts practicing wizards, again, I would definitely not rest assured.”

Xu Pu nodded and also lamented, “It’s hard for people to be satisfied, and it’s hard for things to be as they should be.”

Sweet Potato glanced at the sky, and Xu Pu gently got up, preparing to leave the courtyard.

Sweet Potato smiled and asked, “Uncle Xu, I still have a few jars of green ant wine here, why don’t you carry it back and drink it?”

Xu Pu looked at the closed door of the house, his eyes pleased, then laughed and said, “The knot in my heart is solved, no need to drink.”

After watching Xu Pu leave, Sweet Potato turned around and walked to the house, opening the door and then quickly closing it.

Inside the house, all the tables, chairs and stools were wrapped in cotton cloth, and there was also an exquisite cradle that seemed to be used as a sleeping place for a small child.

The smile on her face as she tiptoed toward the cradle was warmer than ever at that moment.

She squatted in front of the cradle and softly addressed her, “My little groundhog, grow up quickly and then go scare your father.”