It was already evening, Jiang Laosi returned to his small courtyard, Ah Xiao had already fallen asleep on his back, Jiang Laosi first carefully put the sleeping Ah Xiao on his back on the bed, covered it with a quilt, and after tidying everything up, he moved out a small stool and sat in the yard, he looked at the somewhat dark sky, and said to himself: "It's going to rain again." ”

The old Taoist priest happened to open the door and walked in.

The two looked at each other speechlessly, and after a long time, the old Taoist priest spoke first: "Why did you take him to the teahouse to listen to books?"

"Well, isn't there a big flood in the river? I can't go to the west of the river, so I'll take him to listen to the story. Jiang Laosi snorted and scratched his head.

"You know that's not what I'm talking about. ”

Jiang Laosi was a little puzzled and asked, "Then what do you want to ask? Didn't I just take Ah Xiao to listen to the story? He likes to listen to it, if you don't like him to go to that kind of place, forget it, that kind of story is indeed not good for children to listen to too much, just don't take him next time." ”

The old Taoist priest was silent for a while, and said: "The two of us are so familiar with each other, don't fight like this haha, Jiang Laosi, you should have been here for ten years." ”

"Old Dao'er, why are you suddenly asking this?"

"I've been here for seven years, and I've raised him for seven years, and in the past seven years, I've watched Ah Xiao grow up, and he has grown from such a small baby to crawling, and he will smile at me. Then he would call me grandpa, you don't know, how happy I was the first time he spoke, and this happiness was different from my previous pride, and it was the kind of feeling that came from my heart. ”

The old Taoist priest continued: "When he was four years old, he was running around in the yard, accidentally hit the corner of the well, he screamed in pain, I just wanted to help him, this help, I found that he didn't know when he grew up, it turned out that growing up is not the slow washing of time, but all of a sudden. Bai Ju passed the gap, but he didn't expect that now he would go grocery shopping by himself, he would be literate by himself, and he was very obedient on weekdays. ”

After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he glared at Jiang Laosi with his eyes and said: "You must know, seven years! In the past seven years, I am reluctant to let him touch anything, Jiang Laosi! I tell you! As long as he is as happy as he is now, he grows up peacefully, and lives a peaceful life in this small city after begging for a wife, I am very happy, even if I die, I can close my eyes!"

Jiang Laosi was a little surprised that the old Taoist priest would have such a big anger, but said calmly: "You don't know what he thinks, you are not him, what kind of life he wants, how do you know?"

"I don't care what he wants, I just want him to be safe!" The old Taoist priest was a little excited, and calmed down for a while before saying, "You guide him like this, as long as he wants to go out, he will ...... There will be no good results, absolutely not. ”

"He has his original life, what's the use of you trapping him in this small city like this? Can you trap him for a while, or for a lifetime?"

Jiang Laosi gently closed the door of Ah Xiao's room and continued: "Old Dao'er, the eagle will not give up the sky because he is locked in a cage, in the same way, you keep a tiger cub at home, but as soon as he has the opportunity to return to the forest, he will never look back. ”

Jiang Laosi was talking when he was suddenly startled and said, "How do you know that he didn't have a good result......?

Jiang Laosi, who had been calm, was a little annoyed, and pointed at the old Taoist priest and scolded: "Old immortal, do you think that your life is long?

"If you are allowed to take him to listen to the book, I will not be allowed to measure his life!"

The two of them stared at each other with big eyes like this, and no one was convinced.

The old Taoist priest ignored Jiang Laosi, and finally turned around and looked at Ah Xiao's room silently, and only spoke after a while: "Lao Jiang, no matter how I stop it, how I calculate it, in the next seven years, he will always walk out of this small city, but I really don't want him to go, he has family and friends in his current life, why did he leave?"

Jiang Laosi also sighed, handed the note to the old Taoist, then looked at the gray sky, and said, "Is there still seven years...... If he can learn more skills early, he will have a better chance of surviving in the future. ”

......

Great Qin Empire, the border of Yanbei Province, Yishui.

At this time, Yanbei Road is the season of lush vegetation, the green grass is lovely, on the grass, elm, artemisia schizophylla, vetch grow together in a mixed way, provoking the colorful butterfly wild bees that come to pollinate, and even a gray rabbit secretly bites the rhizome of the vetch below.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, the hare stopped gnawing at the plant, and then ran towards the dense woods.

The ground began to shake inexplicably, and wild bees and butterflies scattered and fled.

On the horizon, a warrior appeared on a black horse and carrying a large black flag.

The flag is embroidered with the word "Yanbei" in Qinwen.

"Knock knock knock ......" followed by countless black-armored cavalry figures behind the flag-carrying armor, and the number of cavalry was so large that it seemed that a black torrent was pouring out of this green land!

A roll of Xuanqi Linyi Water!

Yanbei Province is the northern border of the Great Qin State, which has been directly administered by the Yanbei Hou Mansion for generations.

The Marquis of Yanbei, equivalent to the title of Marquis of Huainan, is one of the four hereditary marquises, and the first Yanbei Hou is one of the four founding generals of the empire, Bai Qi, who has made meritorious contributions in the battle of the founding of the country, and was named the envoy of Yanbei Province and the Marquis of Yanbei.

The Bai family has been operating in Yanbei Province for countless years, and their power is in full swing. Today's Yanbei Marquis is named Bai Xianzhi, is one of the five peak martial arts powerhouses of the empire, in charge of 200,000 Yanbei border army, shocking the northern Tatar tribes and the northeast of the Zhongshan Kingdom, so that it does not dare to exist, the current emperor once praised Bai Xianzhi as an eagle general, which means sharp eyes, sharp swords out of the sheath.

Bai Xianzhi was only forty years old, with a pair of sharp eagle eyes, wearing the golden secret armor created by the most top talismans and foundry masters in the empire, riding on a cyan horse, looking at the torrent of black armor that only belonged to him, and said in a deep voice to the subordinates who came to report: "Order the whole army, prepare your weapons, rest for a while, and set off immediately!" The target is the capital of Zhongshan Kingdom!"

For the subjects of the Zhongshan Kingdom, this war came for no reason.

The reason was just that a few drunken soldiers in the weak Zhongshan Kingdom crossed the border and insulted the women on the border of the empire, if it was just women, but a soldier from the northern border of Yan happened to go home on leave, and when he saw such a beast, he stepped forward to stop it but was killed instead, which touched the scale of the empire.

Bai Xianzhi naturally would not give up this great opportunity to increase his power, and immediately repaired a letter to the imperial capital, but on the third day, the imperial capital came with a holy oracle agreeing to crusade against Zhongshan Kingdom, so there was a scene of 100,000 Yan northern border troops displaying the border of Zhongshan Kingdom.

Zhongshan is the capital of the country, Pingcheng.

The monarch Li Cheng carried the emperor's sword on his waist, and there was only an old Confucian and a few cronies on both sides. After standing in the main hall and listening to the news brought by the scout who came to report, he angrily smashed the jade seal in his hand at the scout and scolded:

"Report it, and it will be reported! What is the use of the monthly military salary? Have you all taken it to visit the kiln? 100,000 Yanbei black armor, deep into the border, without a single battle, will be sent to Pingcheng, and no one dares to lead troops to stop it, are you waste!"

The scout was smashed on his scalp by the sharp horns of the jade seal, and blood flowed down from the top of his head, moistening the corners of his eyes, but he didn't dare to say a word, just crawled on the ground in fright and shouted for mercy.

Li Chengqian also lost his anger after venting, he was not a murderous person, but he was in the face of a national crisis, and he lost his mind for a while, and then waved his hand to ask the medical officer to take him down and bandage it.

"Teacher, how is this good, the thousand-year-old foundation of my Zhongshan Kingdom is now about to be destroyed in my hands!" Li Chengqian said anxiously to the old man on the side.

The old Confucian was already very old, his beard was white, he sighed, and said: "Your Majesty, my country is afraid that we can't escape this catastrophe now, Bai Xianzhi is ambitious, and he has long wanted to annex our Zhongshan, and he is absolutely ready to do everything, and the plan for now is to send the princes and clansmen to other countries secretly, whether it is Fusang, or the East China Sea, or Tatar! We drag Bai Xianzhi's iron armor, as long as they are still there, my Zhongshan will not be considered a dead country!"

Lao Ru was Li Chengqian's teacher when he was still the prince, and now he has assisted Zhongshan for more than 40 years. As the head of Confucianism and Taoism in Zhongshan Kingdom, Lao Confucianism even enjoys great fame in Confucianism and Taoism in the entire land of China.

"I can go and drag Bai Xianzhi. "Old Confucianism.

Li Chengqian was stunned at first when he heard Lao Ru say this, and then immediately called his cronies, arranged everything, and then bowed deeply to Lao Ru and said, "This time, I am really tired that the teacher and I will die together." ”

The huge palace is now empty, and there are only these two people left, and the palace maids and concubines have already run out when they heard the news, and Li Chengqian did not stop them.

The aisle of the palace was very long, and the two walked for a long time without saying a word, Lao Ru and Li Chengqian still walked side by side to the gate of the palace, the two looked at each other and smiled, and Lao Ru spoke first: "Your Majesty, today, the old minister went first." ”

Black clouds crush the city.

The Yanbei army displayed outside the city surrounded the entire Pingcheng not long ago. Looking from the walls of Heicheng, the outside of the city is covered with black flags, and the armor below surrounds Heicheng like a black river.

Bai Xianzhi sat in the army, followed by the little marquis Bai Wang, the righteous son Bai Yan, Bai Bei, the deputy general Wan Nian and other Yanbei Hou Mansion cronies, he wiped his own knife, and said calmly: "Here, naturally you have to be famous, Bai Wang, you pass the order and send someone to read the edict of the Son of Heaven in front of the battle." ”

"Yes, father. Bai Wangde turned around and ordered: "Come on, read the edict of the Son of Heaven!"

A man wearing a purple envoy's uniform and a long beard drove out of the Yanbei army in a cart pulled by three horses, and read aloud in front of the Yanbei army's formation:

"Zhongshan has indulged the soldiers to rebel many times, slaughtered my Great Qin people, my Great Qin tolerated it several times, and now I killed my Great Qin soldiers, it is really unbearable, and today I sent troops to seek justice for the dead heroic soul of my Great Qin, and listed the six serious crimes of Li Chengqian, the monarch of Zhongshan State: first, defiling the harem, the wrath of the heavens, and messing with its ethics......; Now it is the will of heaven to ask for it. ”

Li Chengqian stood on the city wall, patted the shoulder of the ordinary young soldier next to him, saw that he was trembling a little, and asked with a smile: "What, scared? What do you think of hearing them say this about me?"

The soldier looked at the emperor, who was usually high up, gritted his teeth, raised his trembling hand and pointed at him and scolded: "I'll go to you MD Li Chengqian! Lao Tzu is going to die here for you today!"

Li Chengqian smiled and said, "Then I'll die here with you." ”