Chapter 30: The Way of Military Exercise

In the Prime Minister's Mansion, in a brightly lit study, Bai Zhi changed into a regular dress and stood in front of the window, playing with a jade pendant in his hand. It was the piece of jade pendant that Zhao Qin'er threw to the lame attendant, and the brilliance reflected Bai Zhi's contemplative face, the name Zhao Lingqin was very familiar to him, although he didn't have a lot of intersection with this lady of the sky, but it made a deep impression on him. While playing with the jade pendant in his hand, the appearance of a girl with flowers appeared in his mind, the corners of his mouth were raised, he smiled lightly, turned around and placed the jade pendant on the side of the bookcase, took out a page of letterhead, and wrote a letter of apology, this letter can only be handed over to the king to hand over on his behalf, so that the king can know a thing or two. Bai Zhi has also heard about some things about Zhao Qin'er, and from those things, you can get a glimpse of some of Zhao Qin'er's temperament, he doesn't think that Zhao Qin'er will implicate himself in this matter, but his son should be disciplined well, and when this son of a son recovers from his illness, let him go to serve under Yue Qianming's command! That Yue Qianming is strict in governing the army, and he can take good care of this son of evil on his behalf, Bai Zhi thought about these trivial matters while putting the written apology letter into an envelope.

In Fengluo Garden, in Jiang Chen's residence, Zhao Qin'er and Xiangming looked at Jiang Chen, who was sleeping peacefully, and the two gently exited the room, Xiangming looked at the worried Zhao Qin'er and comforted: "Princess, looking at the little boy's demeanor, it should be a nightmare." Zhao Qin'er nodded and said softly: "It shouldn't be a big deal, Xiang'er, you can also go and rest!"

Zhao Qin'er walked alone to the sycamore tree in the courtyard and sat down, just now Jiang Chen woke up from a dream and the shouting did disturb her and was not calm, at this time there was still a faint uneasiness in her heart, Zhao Qin'er didn't know where the threat came from, recently she and Jiang Chen had frequent contact with the world, causing Jiang Chen's mind to be unstable, and this deep palace was not conducive to Jiang Chen's growth, thinking about it, Zhao Qin'er remembered that there was a summer manor located in the suburbs of Kyoto, that manor belonged to the royal family, located at the foot of Longshou Ridge, where the secluded environment was not bad, and there were few people, to a good place, tomorrow I will resign with my eldest brother and move there, you can avoid this chaotic capital。

Zhao Qin'er looked up at the sky that was close to dawn, returned to her room and began to meditate cross-legged. When the sun has not yet risen, Jiang Chen has already woken up, this is a habit developed in the past few months, forming an instinct, although there is still some sleepiness, Jiang Chen got up and put on his clothes, came to the back garden and began to meditate, but today he has not been in the state, there are still some fragments of yesterday's dream in his mind, lingering for a long time, he wanted to get up and start refining, and remembered his mother's explanation, so he had to give up, closed his eyes and forced himself not to think about yesterday's dream, but the more he wanted to forget, the dream became clearer, Jiang Chen rememberedThere is a meditation scripture in "The Language of Heaven", and I began to recite that scripture silently, and it really had some effect. Jiang Chen began to recite silently in his heart, and he slowly emptied his mind, but this sat for more than two hours. Jiang Chen, who emptied his mind, found that his five senses had become extremely acute, the subtle changes that occurred on his skin in addition to the rising sun, the sound of insects biting food, the movement of flowers and plants when they sprouted and broke the ground, and the sound of the breeze blowing through his hair, and the sound of flowing water gently flowing in the distance, everything seemed to be close at hand. Jiang Chen never felt that meditation was a hard task, but found it very interesting. When Xiang Ming came to call him for breakfast, Jiang Chen was still sitting quietly in the middle of the room, never moving, hearing the sound of footsteps, Jiang Chen knew that it was Xiang Ming when he didn't open his eyes. Jiang Chen, who had entered this state for the first time, opened his eyes with curiosity, and sure enough, it was Sister Xiangming who had just come in from the moon gate. After Jiang Chen went to have breakfast with Xiangming, he simply freshened up, changed his clothes, said hello to his mother, and then walked out of Fengluo Garden on his own, walking along the long road towards the Vermilion Bird Gate.

There are forbidden troops patrolling back and forth on this road from time to time, Jiang Chen took out the jade plate given by Zhao Lingyun, and walked out of the imperial city unimpeded, seeing that there was a car from the Zhenbei Shenjiang Mansion guarding the side near the Vermilion Bird Gate, Jiang Chen walked over, and Yue Wujing was sitting on the car and napping at this time. Jiang Chen lightly climbed into the carriage and shouted, and the frightened Yue Wujing also screamed, and the two children were fighting. After the car picked up Jiang Chen, he went straight to the Zhenbei Shenjiang Mansion, the two children took the food they bought along the way, their mouths were full of grease stains, and they laughed at each other, and a little fat man ran out of the door next to him, and went straight to Yue Wujing and Jiang Chen, Yue Wujing quipped: "Ade, you belong to a dog, right? As he spoke, he took out a piece of dim sum from an oiled paper bag and handed it to Yu Chide, who bent over and gasped and said, "My father and my mother are fighting, I came out to find Uncle Yue to persuade him." ”

Yue Wujing asked in surprise: "What? Aunt Dan is so gentle, how could she fight with Uncle Wei Chi?" Yu Chi De calmed down and said: "After my mother got up this morning, she asked my father if he had lied to her, and kept saying that my father was a big liar, and the two of them started fighting while talking. ”

Yue Wujing heard what Yu Chi De said, and hurriedly pulled him and Jiang Chen to run to find his father, Yue Qianming was in the study, three children broke in panting, Yue Qianming hurriedly got up and asked, "What's wrong?" Yu Chide hurriedly said: "My father and mother are fighting, Uncle Yue, you should hurry up and persuade it!" Yue Qianming was stunned for a moment, and then laughed, Xue Dan was actually angry, that temperament would actually fight with Yu Chi Fat, and he wanted to ask Yu Chi De why his father and mother fought, but thinking that it was not appropriate, he went out with a smile, and went directly to Nai He Garden and jumped over the wall.

After Yue Qianming jumped over, he followed the sound of the fight until he came to a courtyard. I saw that the two people in the courtyard were chasing me, and they were not fighting like Wei Chide said. It was Yu Chi Fat who ran, and the person who chased him with a sword was naturally Xue Dan. It's that the fat man of Yu Chi has been chased and beaten by Xue Dan, and although the fat man of Yu Chi is higher in cultivation than Xue Dan, he can only dodge and dare not fight back at all. And there was no one else around, thinking that they were driven away by Wei Chi Zhongming.

Jiang Chen and Yue Wujing comforted Yu Chi De in the study, after a while, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and it was Xue Dan who pushed the door in, followed by Yu Chi Zhongming and Yue Qianming, only to see the two muttering something, Yu Chi Zhongming asked Yue Qianming with a sad face: "We acted very realistically back then, you said that so many years have passed, how did Dandan find out?"

"How do I know? Did you drink too much yesterday and said that you leaked your mouth, you see that now Xue Dan doesn't even care about me. Yue Qianming said in a low voice, and Wei Chi Zhongming said: "I went back to the house late yesterday, so I went to sleep in the study, and I didn't even see Dandan's face." By the way, she went to the Lantern Festival with Xiangning and Lingqin yesterday, and when I had dinner this morning, she asked me who surrounded her back then? I have never asked for so many years, but after meeting the eldest princess for the first time, I asked about the events of the year, do you think it could be that Lingqin said something?"

Yue Qianming thought for a while and said: "It's possible, with Qin'er's understanding of a few of us, it must be that when the three of them chatted, they talked about how you and Xue Dan met, and Qin'er broke it by a word, so I asked you about the year today." Xue Dan can't stand being deceived by others, you said that you came up with such a bad idea to pursue Xue Dan back then, look at the trouble now, just now Xue Dan also said that I and you, the dead fat man, are the same dog. ”

Wei Chi Zhongming hurriedly asked, "What can I do about this? Do you think Dandan will run away from home?" Yue Qianming said with a straight face: "How do I know." Don't ask me. Looking at Yu Chi Zhongming's panicked look again, he comforted: "Probably not, with Xue Dan's character, if you want to leave, you won't even say hello, just leave, you relax, think about how to coax her." ”

Yu Chi Zhongming thought about it carefully, and found that this was indeed the case, seeing that Xue Dan was comforting Yu Chi De, thinking about it, his face finally had a little joy, but he was afraid that Xue Dan would see the clues, so he quickly changed into a crying face, and walked to Xue Dan's side silently, Xue Dan looked at Yu Chi Zhongming who was approaching, glanced at him, and then comforted Yu Chi De in a low voice, Yu Chi Zhongming smiled cheekily and said: "Ade, Dandan, let's go home first! Don't let Lao Yue see if my jokes are good." ”

When Wei Chide heard his father say this, he looked at his mother, and Xue Dan also looked at Yu Chide, and in the end, Xue Dan compromised and said, "Okay! He glared at Yu Chi Zhongming fiercely, took Yu Chi De's hand and walked out of the room, when he passed by Yue Qianming, he gave him a blank look, Yue Qianming touched his nose in embarrassment, and said to Yu Chi Zhongming with a wry smile: "Go back and persuade well, Xue Dan's temper is also quite strong, I will let Xiang Ning also go over to help you persuade you." ”

Yu Chi Zhongming smiled and said: "Good brother, don't thank you for your kindness, I also have this intention, it's a big deal that I let Dandan take a beating, and it won't hurt anyway." As he spoke, he walked out of the room and chased Xue Dan.

Yue Qianming shook his head helplessly, seeing that Jiang Chen and Yue Wujing were looking at him curiously, I don't know what happened between several adults, Ban Zheng said with a straight face: "Xue'er, you go and call your mother, go to Uncle Wei Chi's house to help persuade your Aunt Dan." Yue Wujing answered, only Yue Qianming and Jiang Chen were left in the room, Yue Qianming took a sip of tea from the teacup, and said, "Chen'er, you come with me." ”

When the two came to the martial arts field, Yue Qianming first noticed that Jiang Chen's bracelet was displayed with the word "Wu", and was slightly surprised, and then motioned Jiang Chen to go to the training equipment to practice a circle, and after watching Jiang Chen skillfully complete a circle smoothly and quickly, he nodded with satisfaction and said: "Chen'er, you have made a lot of progress in the past few months, and you can actually withstand the pressure of the fifth layer of gravity, do you have any uncomfortable reactions?"

Jiang Chen shook his head and said, "Teacher, no, it's just that yesterday I entered a strange state, and my mother said that I went crazy." Yue Qianming was startled and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" Jiang Chen told Yue Qianming what happened yesterday when he was refining his body, and Yue Qianming took a long sigh of relief and said: " Since your mother has already conditioned you, I think there should be no sequelae, it seems that your heart does need to strengthen training, there is a Longshou Ridge in the suburbs of the capital, where there is a good environment, and there are also some weak monsters, I will take you to hunt a few another day, by the way to teach you the fighting skills of actual combat, martial arts are killing skills, if you do not train in actual combat, practice to the end is just a fist embroidered legs. ”

Jiang Chen heard Yue Qianming say this, with a eager expression, he couldn't wait to go to Longshouling with Yue Qianming to do some actual combat now, Yue Qianming looked at Jiang Chen, smiled and said: "In the past few days, you can rest and recuperate, and you can't carry out too intense activities." After a pause, he asked Jiang Chen, "Are you willing to learn the way of military drills?"

Jiang Chen's eyes lit up when he heard this, yesterday he watched the entrance ceremony of Yue Qianming and others at the east gate, but he was full of excitement, and he had the idea that he would enlist in the army when he grew up, and now he heard that Yue Qianming actually wanted to teach himself the way of martial arts, how could he not agree, so he quickly nodded and responded: "Teacher, I am willing to learn the way of military drills." Yue Qianming looked at Jiang Chen and nodded in agreement. In fact, when he asked this sentence, he thought with some regret in his heart, hoping that Qin'er would never blame himself, and also hoped that Jiang Chen would not go to the battlefield one day.

While thinking about this, he took Jiang Chen to the study, sat behind the bookcase, pointed to a small bookcase next to him and said, "That's Wu Jing's location, you sit there first!" Saying that, he picked up a blue book from the bookcase, on which were written the words "The Way of Martial Arts", and Jiang Chen also had a book of the same style on his desk, Jiang Chen opened it and saw that the header of the first page of the book was written "The Beginning of the Plan", and the first sentence said "Soldiers, the major affairs of the country ......" Although he knew those words, he didn't know what they meant, Yue Qianming read through the whole article and said: "Chen'er, the art of war is broad and profound, and the way of war is also reflected everywhere in our daily life, these are the summaries of the wisdom of our predecessors. The way of military exercise is between 'acting' and 'Tao', changing with the environment, with the four seasons, and with the people you meet. Looking at Jiang Chen, who didn't understand what he was saying, his face was confused, and he said, "Chen'er, you try to read it yourself first, understand it, and ask questions if you don't understand." ”

Jiang Chen began to learn from Yue Qianming's example, silently read the first article of "The Way of Military Exercise", and began to have some understanding, so he asked Yue Qianming questions, slowly added his own understanding, and confirmed one or two with Yue Qianming. Yue Qianming explained to Jiang Chen: "The five elements of a soldier are Tao, heaven, earth, general, and law, among which the general refers to the five elements of 'wisdom, faith, benevolence, bravery, and strictness', which is also the most basic quality of a martial arts cultivator, use more wisdom when facing the enemy, have faith and righteousness to friends, have benevolence to the world, do not lose courage when in danger, and treat yourself strictly with yourself, these are the most basic qualities of a martial artist and a general. Jiang Chen nodded silently as he listened, firmly remembering it in his heart.