Chapter 305: Seeds of Hope
Several people shouted earth-shattering, and He Mulan and Di Yefei both laughed and laughed.
He Mulan naturally knew that some people wanted to be crooked, but Di Yefei didn't know that He Mulan was a woman. Fortunately, Di Yefei, who likes to talk nonsense, also understands the character of some people, and immediately covered his clothes, but laughed with some people: "It's obviously too hot for the fire to grow, call me to cool ......."
"Di Ye Fei! How can you ......"
Delay the reputation of the fire chief!
He didn't dare!
"Okay, don't mess around, it was dark last night, there was a person sleeping in your room, there was no spare room, and Di Yefei was not an outsider, so he slept in my room."
The main room of Hemulan was bigger than the living room of his own house in his previous life, and Di Yefei was a few meters away from her, where was the "warm bed" he said.
However, seeing the cute expressions of several people, Hermulan's unprovoked teasing heart was greatly aroused.
"Next time I lack a warm bed, I'll call you, it's done."
She has a hot physique, and unlike many girls who have cold hands and feet in winter, where can they warm the bed!
Some of them squirmed.
"This ...... It's not good......"
Di Yefei smiled and saw the two joking, and also joked with a smile: "Several people, I remember that in the past winter, you squeezed into Huo Chang's arms in the middle of the night as soon as it was cold, why do you still know that it is not good?" It won't be that the fire chief is big, and you will start to give birth! "
"What are you going to do with the official position of the fire chief! You don't know how long the fire is ......" A number of people shouted, but they found that He Mullan was looking at him with stern eyes, and immediately shut up.
"The fire grows her...... She ......"
She couldn't come out.
After a few people joked, Di Ye flew to the front yard to fetch water, and several people carried five-flavor preserved food into the room, and saw that there were two mattresses in the south and north of the house, so they breathed a sigh of relief.
As soon as he was relieved, he saw He Mulan pick up the preserved five flavors with a big grin and ate it.
In the military camp for so many years, it is common to rinse your mouth after eating first, or even not rinse, in the past, some people did not know that Hermulan was a woman, and they felt that their own fire was informal, like a real man, but now they know that she is a woman, seeing her so rough and heroic, the image of the fire chief has become strange in his mind, and all of a sudden it is a general who accepts the soldiers with a cross-legged horse golden sword, and suddenly she is a bold woman who squints her eyes and eats with satisfaction, and she only feels that she is about to go crazy.
It's not a good thing to keep a secret, especially if it's a secret.
When Di Yefei came back with water, He Mulan and Di Yefei rinsed their mouths and washed their faces casually, and began to tidy up their clothes and hair again, and finally picked them up.
"Look at the darkness right now, and you've stayed up late again?"
He Mulan knew that several people had been in the palace for several days in a row, and asked with concern: "Although the errand is important, you should also pay attention to your body. When you can't stand it, you can tell Shangguan bluntly, don't die suddenly in front of the case......"
"No, I slept for two hours. Every time we want to go out of Beijing, we will be tired and half dead. Gu Shizhong is in charge of Zhongshu Province, so many days of excerpts and notes from all over the country have to be sorted out, as well as the safety of travel, the blockade of post stations along the road, there is not enough time."
The original wish of several people was to be a military advisor, preferably like Zhuge Liang of Shu who could help the world and the country, no matter how bad it was, it could be like Guo Jia and Pang Tong who were ghosts.
In the Wei State, the most famous military strategist is naturally Cui Hao, every time he goes out, the strategy and layout are almost all formulated by him, but this general Cui Hao does not accept Xianbei nobles as disciples, this is a matter of position, he can accept a miscellaneous Hu who does not belong to any force, but he can't accept a number of people.
Gu Bi is also able to write and martial arts, but he is a little more internal affairs, and several people have learned a lot of the general trend of the court here, the context between factions, and even understand how to operate between state capitals, but they can't learn the ability to march and fight.
As soon as the soft is extinguished, I don't know how long it will take to fight again.
Some people know that when they finish their training and go out to the state and county to be officials, they may have nothing to do with the former Tonghuo, so they cherish their time together in Pingcheng.
It's ridiculous that his brother always thinks that he is a child who doesn't grow up, and he knows that the fire that sticks to him all day long, but he doesn't know that he is also bitter in his heart, and being able to go more and more every day is like earning a day.
"You're leaving in a few days, but what do you have to ask for?" Di Yefei had already made up his mind to live in the barracks, he knew that He Mulan was about to go with the army to meet Helian Ding, and he would not be able to return for ten days and half a month, so he asked her if she had anything to entrust.
A few people on the side also nodded their heads, hoping to help.
He Mulan's heart warmed, he thought about it, and said calmly: "Those military slaves I got in Montenegro will probably come to Pingcheng with the army in the next year. At that time, you should not be busy with some people, and if you have any expenses, use the money bag I gave you. If that's not enough, I'll give you some more before I go."
Some of them were not short of money, nodded, and did not mention anything more than anything else.
He Mulan looked at Di Yefei again: "You have a lot of thoughts, it's better to make more friends with simple personalities, otherwise you will only become more and more mediocre and disturb yourself." Cui Hao's family is complicated, even Cui Hao's grandson Cui Lin is a heart-hearted person, I think you'd better move out. If you don't have a place to live, you can live here with me first, and you can pick up a house yourself."
Di Yefei was originally going to live in the barracks, but He Mulan persuaded him so, he couldn't say that he already wanted to live in the barracks, plus He Mulan was leaving, such a big house really had to be taken care of by someone inside, after all, several people had their own houses in Beijing, as well as their families, but he was not alone. [,! ] The convenience of the whole body, immediately clicked.
"I see, I'll move out when I go back, and I'll be here with you for a while."
He was going to borrow it until He Mullan came back and take care of the house for her.
After some trivial matters were said, several people brought up recent anecdotes in Beijing.
"Huo Chang, do you know that the third prince of the Northern Liang Kingdom has been sick recently? I heard that he also had a fever after the last Jiaojiao, and now he can't get out of bed, and it's all Deputy Bai who is running around."
He lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "Listen to the meaning of the ancient servant, that frustrated Qu Muqian probably used some evil art in the plum garden, and now he is devouring himself, so he is sick and weak......"
"Such a character, if you dare to stay in my Pingcheng and not leave, you should rush back to Beiliang." Di Yefei was the most disdainful of making flowers and intestines in the competition, and immediately sneered after hearing this, "He also came to visit Cui Mansion before, but Mr. didn't see him, I heard that he went to visit Hou Ye Li later. Didn't he know that Hou Ye Li and my husband had a holiday? It's just a bad brain."
He Mulan knew that this prince finally became the king of Beiliang, and he was befriended left and right, befriending Liu Song on the one hand, and Northern Wei on the other, and never did anything that could make people have the name of a teacher, which was very smooth for many years. It wasn't until a big incident happened later that Tuoba Tao found the handle and used the power of the whole country to destroy Beiliang.
Not to mention his personality and character, he does have the talent to govern the country, and among the remaining princes, he is the most suitable to inherit the throne.
"It's nothing, I heard that he has been pursuing the pearl princess of the Xia Kingdom." Several people looked at He Mulan with curious eyes: "It's Zhao Ming's kid......"
He muttered a few words.
"Where's that kid looking good? There are even people who say that she is the first beauty in the Xia Kingdom, if she is the first beauty in the Xia Kingdom, then she can still be a eunuch for so long without being discovered? I see that others are looking at her status as a princess and giving her a good name indiscriminately. If it weren't for Helian Gong's hottest time now, you can see if she has anyone to ......."
Several people were quite at odds with Helian Mingzhu when He Mulan was injured, and when he talked about Zhao Ming becoming a princess inexplicably, the roots of his teeth hurt.
Now that the man had returned to his original identity, several people were about to salute her.
"You said that Fuqu Muqian is still pestering Helian Mingzhu?" He Mulan was a little surprised, "One is in the palace, the other is in the embassy, and the frustrated Muqian is still sick, how can he be entangled?"
"Give a gift. The gifts given to her were continuously sent into the palace, and all the gifts to Princess Mingzhu were returned, and everyone knew about it. When Helian Ding's son Helian Zhishui came to Beijing, he also went to pick it up in person, and he was dressed like a bear, which really laughed off his big teeth. Even His Majesty doesn't care as much about Helian Gong's son as he does."
A few pouted.
"I heard that he went to meet Helian Ding this time, and he also wanted to go, but His Majesty refused with the sentence 'You are not feeling well', and only allowed Deputy Bai to follow. The envoys of Beiyan and Tuyuhun took the opportunity to go together to greet Helian Gong, and His Majesty could only allow it, and this time we were busy to death, and suddenly a few hundred more people were added......"
"Hundreds?" He Mulan was stunned, "Can envoys from other countries go to this kind of thing?" It's not that Helian Ding also killed the son of Bei Liang......"
"Killed all of them, and now that they are all submissive to our country, can they still fight within themselves? Bei Liang will definitely not let Helian Gong return to Pingcheng so smoothly, lest he have to fight with words and swords or even fight once, but he was afraid that Bei Liang would be too out of line, so he simply brought the envoys of Bei Liang and Tuyuhun with him. This is cool in the north, hey......"
Several people shook their heads and sighed.
"I guess the ministers of the DPRK and China still wish that it would not fall, and if it does not fall, it will be a matter of time before we destroy it."
Although He Mulan is a celebrity around Tuobatao, but because she is not a close minister of the Son of Heaven, the things that are carried are not as well-informed as those of several people, and now listening to the nagging of several people, many things suddenly become clear.
Su Hejun once told her that she went to Beiliang to see the customs over there, especially the situation of the people, so it seems that Tuoba Tao has long wanted to use troops against Beiliang.
However, I heard that the current lord of Beiliang, Fuqu Mengxun, is a wise monarch, and uses Buddhism to appease the people, so the people's prestige is extremely high, far less than the national conditions of the Xia Kingdom, which has great public resentment, so if you really want to mobilize troops, the whole country is the same enemy, so even if you win, there will be great losses.
But if the people have long been dissatisfied, and when Meng Xun dies, there may be an opportunity to take advantage of it.
After all, he did not stand as a prince, and it was not a means to send envoys to provoke several princes to compete for the throne.
He Mulan was thinking about the purpose of the frustrated Muqian chasing Helian Mingzhu, but there was a weak whisper in front of the door: "General, Wu Gai's kid is awake, I'm going to sleep......"
A few people looked back and saw that it was Chen Jie, who was on duty to cover Wu all night, standing at the door, with a scruffy beard and blank eyes, looking like he would close his eyes at any time.
Because He Mulan was not worried about Gai Wu's identity, he instructed Chen Jie not to take his eyes off him for a moment, and at night Gai Wu drank the porridge and fell asleep satisfied, and Chen Jie had to stare at him with wide eyes, until his intestines were blue.
If he hadn't instigated this, maybe he would have gone on to find another job.
"Was he wrong last night?"
He Mullan asked Chen Jie.
"No, he was probably so hungry that he ate four bowls of rice porridge in one night." Chen Jie touched his stomach with some envy. Rice porridge is a product of the south, and these rice porridges were given to his generals by His Majesty, which is cheaper for this kid.
"But the general ......"
He hesitated, but couldn't help but say
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"If you don't like his family, you might as well just take him as a disciple. He is a strong martial artist, and he will not be a drag on us."
He Mulan remembered that Chen Jie and Gai Wu did not know each other in his previous life, and he cherished each other, and couldn't help but sigh a sentence of providence in his heart, and asked him suspiciously: "Why?"
"Probably because my heart is too soft, that kid cried last night and called Grandpa coming. I wiped him last night, and he was not very old, but he had a lot of wounds, many of them arrow wounds and knife wounds, and he looked worse than when I was in the camp in Montenegro. He is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and he lives this kind of life, and he doesn't know where he will die in the future, if he doesn't have the ability to save his life......"
Chen Jie scratched his face.
"One day as a teacher, a lifelong teacher, if he has a great rebellion or misconduct in the future, the general will directly punish him. You are the Tiger Ben Sima, with soldiers and generals under your command, and he is only the son of a broken exiled chieftain, so what is there to worry about? If you teach it well, maybe one day I will have another tiger general in Dawei, and it may not be ......."
"You're expecting a lot from him."
He Mulan was stunned, "You've only seen each other a few times!" "
"He's better than me in martial arts and resilient, and I just think it's a pity. I can still be sent under a general with such martial arts, but a talented seedling like him can't even eat......"
Chen Jie lowered his head embarrassedly.
"It's my own nonsense, the general just listens to it, don't take it seriously."
He said a few kind words for Gai Wu and turned to leave.
Turning around, Chen Jie was stunned for a moment, and everyone in the room also looked out curiously, it turned out that behind him, a thin figure was revealed.
It is the spirit of the great Gai Wu.
I saw him looking at Chen Jie from afar with a surprised look, as if he didn't expect such a stranger to say good things for him, and even thought that he was a talented seedling.
Chen Jie was obviously the one who should be credited, but when he saw Gai Wu looking at him with his mouth wide open, he nodded to him shyly, and went back to his room with a red face and a skirt against the wall.
He Mulan looked at Gai Wu in the middle of the courtyard from afar, and couldn't help but think of the several encounters between her and him. From the beginning when he took Lu Shuihu to her house to rob her of money, to the fact that he robbed Chen Jie's grain and grass and almost killed Chen Jie, until he later went to Liu Song to ask for a living, this leader with high martial arts seems to be very good at business, until ten years later, he is still struggling on the line of extreme poverty.
Poverty is a disease that can make people shameful and make people into beasts.
Because Lu Shuihu had never obeyed the Wei State, he was regarded as a heretic by the Wei State, not only did he not have the fields that adults would get to him, but he also had no pasture and livelihood of his own......
This is their national spirit, and Hermulan is powerless to put anything in his beak.
But Chen Jie woke her up.
Ten years later, Chen Jie chose to give up his great future to teach young people in Lu Shuihu.
Ten years ago today, Chen Jieming knew that he was most dissatisfied with his own assertions, but he still took the risk of being rejected by himself to intercede.
How did he convince himself back then?
He Mullan began to reminisce.
Ten years later, Chen Jie, who has matured, seems to say this:
"I admire the ability of the leader of Gai Wu, and I also have an appreciation for the Lu Shuihu people in the Windward Pavilion. Lunaro, White Horse, and many of the Lushuihu people whom I used to regard as enemies, all became friends with me. Since we're friends, I don't want them to go down the wrong path."
"Why do the Lu Shuihu people hate Great Wei so much? What kind of life do the Lu Shuihu people live? What exactly is the big thing they want to do, and why are they doing it...... I want to know all of this."
"I may not be able to change the minds of the Lu Shuihu people, nor can I change their lives, but there is always hope for young people to be influenced. Somebody has to try it, even if it's too early to tell......"
"Maybe I'll be able to do something that shines on the lintel."
……
Since you're friends, don't you want to go down the wrong path?
Why do you hate Great Wei so much, do you want to find the root cause?
Young people still have the hope of being influenced, and someone has to try it......
Chen Jie's Xu Da's sentences hit He Mulan's heart word by word, making her once again awe of these "ordinary people" around Mulan.
Even Chen Jie knew not to run away, but to find the root cause, why did she always feel that Gai Wu and them were a trouble, and only wanted to stay away?
The disaster of the Lu Shuihu people has just begun, and the seeds of hatred in the future have just been sown.......
She couldn't dig up the bitter seed and replant it.
He Mullan looked at Gai Wu with an expression of anticipation and reverence.
Maybe a little mean, Gai Wu didn't even know that he already knew his identity and was calculating something because of his identity, but ......
- Gai Wu, the seed of hope.
She stretched out her hand and beckoned to Gai Wu, who was standing in the courtyard.
Di Yefei and a few others looked strangely at He Mulan, who suddenly showed a solemn expression, and then looked at the curly-haired young man who walked up timidly as if he couldn't believe it, and a strange feeling rose in his heart.
They inexplicably felt as if they had seen something extraordinary.
This premonition was so strong that they had to stand up straight, and also face Gai Wu and Hermulan beside him with that solemn expression.
Gai Wu is almost double. [,! With tears in his eyes, he walked up to Mullin and lowered his head.
He Mullan stretched out his hand and stroked his curly hair, and said:
"I have never accepted disciples before, and when I enter my door, I must not kill innocents indiscriminately, I must not rape/□□ women, I must not be arrogant and proud, I must follow the right path, and I must act honestly and without shame, can you do it?"
Gai Wu's voice choked, and he knelt down on his knees and kowtowed respectfully.
"Yes, the disciple has done it."
"In this case, I will bother the two friends to be a witness, today I accepted this Lu Shuihu's child as a disciple, carefully teach him martial arts and the principles of life, if he violates the oath of today's entry, I will punish him with my own hands, and I will not show mercy......"
He Mullan said very carefully, and after a pause, he continued to speak.
"I know that Wu Gai is your pseudonym, and I also know that you must have secrets that no one knows, you don't want to say that you can, but at least you have to tell me my real name, right?"
"General, it's not that I deliberately cover up my real name, but I'm afraid that you will know my identity, so you don't want to accept me as a disciple."
Gai Wu's eyes did not leave Hermulan, and from his posture and countenance, there was a look of hesitation and fear.
Lu Shuihu is a □□ annoyance now, and no one wants to be involved with such a tricky person, let alone that she is a young star with a high reputation today.
He feared that Hermulan would refuse his prostration, and when he got hope, it was shattered.
However, Mullin just stood there calmly, stubbornly waiting for his name, as if knowing it, he made a sacred promise.
Gai Wu slowly lowered his body, touched the ground with his head, and bowed to the teacher.
"I am Gai Wu, the son of Gai Tiantai, the leader of Lu Shuihu in Xingcheng. After the death of my father, our Tiantai army was divided and there was no leader, and I took three hundred people loyal to me to mix into the Wei realm to survive.
He hid his horror with a bow, as if he didn't have to look up, so he didn't have to face the disdain, or the puzzled look that the hero might have shown him.
Lu Shuihu's life is a picture of displacement, he has never done anything hurtful, but because of their identity, it is more and more difficult to survive in this world.
He was used to the words of rejection, but even so......
Gai Wu also hopes to get the long-awaited miracle.
"Since you haven't done anything hurtful, why can't I accept you as a disciple?"
That miracle finally came.
The young general, who was not a few years older than him, gave him a promise in a gentle tone that made him burst into tears.
"Gai Wu, after performing your apprenticeship, you will be my disciple from now on."
Boom.
Boom.
Boom......
After three bows and nine bows, He Mulan ushered in his first disciple.
From then on, the future of Lu Shuihu was closely related to her and became a responsibility that she could not lose.
But she has no regrets.
She will never let the "Gaitian King" appear in this world again unless she dies.
Several people and Di Yefei helped Gai Wu up as witnesses, and after three bows and nine knocks, Gai Wu seemed to be a little dizzy, and even his expression was as if he was in a dream.
"You should thank Chen Jie."
He Mulan nodded at Gai Wu, who was still in his infancy.
"Yes, I'll go and thank him when I get back!"
"You don't understand, you should thank you, it's not the current Chen Jie......
In front of Hermulan's eyes, the future Chen Jie, who was in prison with a scruffy beard but never gave up hope.
You, and me......
I should thank you Chen Jie.