Spark (1)

After Shangyuan, the people in the house seem to be busy. Every day when the drum tower is beaten, Yinghua has followed Ada to practice fists, feet, swords, and sticks in the courtyard outside the second gate, and after an hour he went back to the house to wipe clean and had breakfast, and the door of the fang has been opened, so Ada drove her to the Tang State Mansion, and the Li family's Ah Lang was trained in riding and archery, and in the afternoon, the husband lectured on the law of governing the country and the people, and the way of arranging the art of war. Occasionally, she was sent back by Erlang, but she was bumped by Mu Qing, and Erlang did not shy away from coming forward to greet her, inquired about her leg injury, and gave her a rare miracle medicine in the market. Mu Qing deliberately mentioned that Yinghua should not be close to the Li family, but he thought that maybe the two were just childish, it was rare for them to be like-minded, and they couldn't show the benefits to a ten-year-old child.

Seeing that Du Ruhui was getting more and more busy in the camp, Mu Qing could only see him at dinner every day and talk and laugh with him for a while. When Yinghua was away, he talked about the affairs of the court and his thoughts. Every two days, he went to the Tang State Mansion, or various characters appeared in the front courtyard hall. Even when he was at home, it was hard to see. Sometimes I have a long conversation with people in the council hall, I lay out a topographic map on the table and look at it bit by bit, and sometimes I sit alone in the study or sit still, or I hold a book and read it. Every night when he was tired, he walked lightly to her bed, and saw that she slept as sweetly as a child, and his heart was like a drizzly lake in the south of the Yangtze River, quiet and peaceful.

Mu Qing's legs and feet were inconvenient, so she didn't dare to disturb him, when the weather was good, she brought a few books, and asked people to help them go to the garden behind the main house to sit. Although the shadow was blurry, she could clearly trace the outline of his facial features and even every strand of his hairline in her mind. She is full of spirit when talking to people, wrinkling her eyebrows and focusing when she talks about business, resolute when planning and planning, and even her warm and light expression when she sits alone in the gods, she has carefully carved them in her mind, like a jade statue carved by herself, and she has to take it out every day and ponder it carefully. Decades later, when she was dying, her eyes were clouded and it was difficult to see clearly, his every movement, every inch of expression, every change of line, was still alive in front of her eyes, often with a warm smile, staring at her softly.

After more than a month, Mu Qing's leg gradually recovered. Mrs. Dou sent someone to post it, and invited her to go out of the city to go out of the city for spring on the first day of the month, but she didn't want to go to this communication, so she shirked it on the grounds that her leg injury had not healed. That day was her birthday, and Du Ruhui insisted on brushing away all the entertainment banquets to accompany her at home, but she blindly bombarded him out, and said: "There are birthdays every year, what's so strange." He had no choice but to go out to the wine banquet with flowing water, but he ordered the kitchen to make a bowl of slender and round soup cakes early in the morning, took the good intentions of longevity and health, and watched her eat it all before going out.

When he went out, Mu Qing immediately called Ah Liu and asked her to bring the gardener. The gardener was found for her by the steward of He Sui a few days ago, perhaps by chance, this gardener is also from the south of the Yangtze River, good at planting lotus. Mu Qing took out a bag of lotus from the depths of the box and handed it to the gardener, then sat under the verandah, watched him skillfully peel off the shell of the lotus, and then scattered the lotus with a hard shell and placed it into a fine bamboo basket with a rope tied to it. Mu Qing looked eagerly at the lotuses that could not be seen in the water, as if he could see that they were trying their best to absorb the water, quietly preparing to bloom, and in the summer, they would be able to open the green leaves that could cover the sky and the sun.

At dusk, Yinghua went home first, so tired that he couldn't wait for dinner, so he went back to the house to bathe and sleep. Du Ruhui didn't ride a horse until before closing, and came back with a body of wine. Mu Qing was about to have dinner, seeing his steps floating, he hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, walked quickly to the back kitchen, took some pickled green plums, red claw cakes, tangerine peels, mash, and osmanthus pickled from the osmanthus harvested in the autumn of last year, boiled a bowl of decanting soup, and served it to him.

Du Ruhui ate a few sips of sobering sour soup, and the strength of the wine was suppressed a little, Mu Qing blamed him, "After drinking so much wine, how can you ride a horse, if there is a mistake and a stumble, how can it be good." He squinted, leaned back and sat on the brocade cushion, his arms resting casually on his erected legs, rubbing his eyebrows with one hand, and sighed softly: "In February, the Holy Lord arrived in Zhuo County and personally issued a letter to please Goguryeo. Liu Ao handed over the news, saying that Huainan conscripted more than 40,000 soldiers, pretended to be sailors and crossbowmen, rushed to Zhuo County for several days, and ordered Wang Shichong to force the rich merchants in Jiangnan to invest in the construction of 50,000 chariots, and the counties in Jiangnan complained. Zhuojun and Donglai men were almost exhausted, when the cultivation was lost, the fields were already barren, and there was a great drought last year, and the grain and grass were collected and the surnames in that area were starved. ”

"Do you know when the war will start?" Mu Qing asked, and without waiting for him to answer, she said fiercely: "If I were that man, I would rather fall into the grass and become a coward, so that Xu Shang could save his life and see his dear family in the future." went with the army, not to mention the death in vain, and the family was afraid that they would starve to death and scatter, and they would never see each other again. ”

Du Ruyan closed his eyes and rubbed his brows and was silent for a long time, and then stopped talking, and finally opened his eyes and said: "It is true that there is a person who claims to be Zhishilang who raised an anti-flag, and it is not a climate, just a small fight." is planning to let Erlang take the initiative to ask Ying to go and exterminate it, and he can clean it up in two clicks, aiming to make military merits and hold the military power in his hands. Just hearing him say this, Mu Qing immediately understood why he poured so much wine and why he stopped talking. No matter how brave Li Shimin is, he is just a ten-year-old boy, how can he lead the army to fight, in the final analysis, it is just the support of the people around him to go to the battlefield to experience training, and fight for military power under his banner. And this person around him is Du Ruhui.

It's finally begun. Mu Qing lowered his eyes and was silent. Since she had made up her mind to follow him, she had been waiting for this day, avoiding this day, never expecting that this day would really come to her, she did not have the expected sadness, but some blood flowed up, her hands and feet and face were hot, and she was really startled by her own reaction. Du Ruhui hesitated, because she was worried that she would be shocked and frightened, and she drank so much wine in order to be drunk and confused and unable to see her sadness. But he was rarely wrong, she would never be a burden to him, and if there was a day when she was burdened, she would rather leave him far away.

"Do you want to join the army?" Mu asked lightly, trying to make his voice sound undisturbed. Du Ruhui nodded, looking at her expression carefully. She brushed the hair on her sideburns and smiled, "Then let's go, don't worry about me being bored, I'm busy at home, next month Steward Liu will come to pay the account, the profit on the salt is big, and if you make money, you should also ask him how to settle it." He tilted his head and thought for a moment, and then said: "You can also take Ada, with his skills and experience, he can withstand a general, don't teach him to kill the enemy, only let him protect you alone." ”

Du Ruhui slowly breathed a sigh of relief, but she couldn't get rid of the soreness in her chest, the more calm she felt, the more sour his heart became, "Still leave Ada by your side to take care of it." He insisted. Mu Qingman shook his head nonchalantly, still smiling and said, "It's really unnecessary." You helped Erlang of the Li family to the battlefield, are you still afraid that they won't take care of me? What have I mistaken to disrupt your support on the battlefield, but what is the matter? I'm afraid that the Tang Mansion will protect me without leaking. ”

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