Most of the guests in the Yunzhai Teahouse still came to see Mr. Xiao, and Mr. Xiao's popularity has not diminished for more than a year, but there are more people who come to see him, not all because he is good-looking.

Good looks, sometimes it's so easy to ignore the rest.

In the hall of the teahouse, there were bursts of shouting the words of Mr. Xiao, and at this time, Li Qi was sitting in the private room on the second floor and drinking tea with Ye Zhuzhu, listening to this shout, Ye Zhuzhu couldn't help but smile slightly at the corner of his mouth.

"It's weird."

Ye Zhuzhu looked at Li Qi and said, "A person of your character, I thought you would not like such an occasion." ”

Li Qi smiled and shook his head, he couldn't say that he didn't like it, and he couldn't say that he didn't like it.

At the beginning, I chose to come to Yunzhai Teahouse to tell stories and sing songs, just because of lack of money, but over time, there was a little bit of affection here, and the people below were so enthusiastic, and over time, there was also a little bit of pride here.

Li Qi looked at Ye Zhuzhu and smiled: "Mr. Ye is also very strange. ”

Ye Zhuzhu asked, "Where am I wondering?" ”

Li Qi said: "Actually, yesterday I asked Jiuling to beg you rashly, and I wasn't very sure. ”

Ye Zhuzhu asked again: "Is it because I am a person from the Tsing Yi array, and the Tsing Yi array is a person from the festival envoy?" ”

Li Qi nodded.

Ye Zhuzhu asked again: "Since you are not sure, why do you want people to find me." ”

He didn't wait for Li Qi to answer and said, "It's because Xiahou told you before leaving, if you encounter any difficulties, come to me, right?" ”

Li Qi nodded again.

Ye Zhuzhu said: "I knew Xiahou first, and then I knew that there was a Tsing Yi array. ”

He looked at Li Qi and continued with a smile: "But I only met Xiahou in the advanced Tsing Yi array, so do you understand the meaning of what I said just now?" ”

Li Qi understood.

Regardless of whether it is an advanced Tsing Yi array or not, in Ye Zhuzhu's eyes, there is Xiahou first, and then there is a Tsing Yi array.

Ye Zhuzhu took a sip of the teacup, the hot tea with a faint aroma into the stomach, making people feel very comfortable, and chatting with people who they think are like-minded is more comfortable than this hot tea.

"You and Xiahou are people all the way, but they are not the same kind of people."

Ye Zhuzhu said in a very calm tone: "What Xiahou wants in his heart is to dare to be the first in the world, but he doesn't want anyone in the world to know you, Xiahou's evaluation of you is that he will be unknown to everyone in the world." ”

He was silent for a moment and added: "Xiahou also said that he is the first in the world, and you are the first in the world." ”

Li Qi didn't know what to say for a while, after all, these words were too praised.

"Do you know why I went into Tsing Yi in the first place?"

Ye Zhuzhu asked Li Qi.

Li Qi shook his head: "Isn't it very clear, isn't Mr. from the military, and then sent to Tsing Yi to line up?" ”

"I'm not from the military, it's just that because I've been in it all year round, so many people misunderstand that I used to be a man in armor......"

Ye Zhuzhu said: "My father was, my brother too, both of them died in the northern Xinjiang, the father died first, the elder brother made up for the lack of his father, the government soldiers and military households, the practice is like this...... When I was young, my father said to my mother before he left home, "If I die, the eldest son will join the army, and the eldest son will die, and the second son will join the army." Don't want a home? ”

Ye Jianzhu was silent for a moment and said, "Father said, we are a military household, and the military household is doing this. ”

He took a sip of tea, as if he was calming down, he always seemed to be such an indifferent person, and he was also a confident person, but he was first and foremost a person, people have affection, and no one said that the life and death of relatives can be as indifferent as water.

It looks indifferent, just because

It's been long enough for people to learn to disguise.

"My brother didn't fight, and my mother couldn't bear the pain of parting, so she cried bitterly in front of my father's clothed grave, saying that I had never disobeyed my father in my life, and I really couldn't send my son to the border again this time."

Li Qi exhaled heavily, he could understand this kind of feeling, his master was thinking like this, but relatively speaking, how could Master's reluctance be the same as Ye Zhuzhu's mother's reluctance?

Because Ye Zhuzhu's mother has given up twice, once as a husband and once as the eldest son, the reluctance after experiencing two sacrifices is really painful.

Ye Zhuzhu looked at Li Qi and smiled, looking still calm.

"At that time, Prince Yu was not the current Prince Yu, he had not been divided into Jizhou, he had not yet been honored as a prince, he was still a prince, what you didn't know was that he had gone incognito to the border to participate in the war, and he had also stabbed more than a dozen enemies, I saw it with my own eyes."

He looked down at the teacup, paused for a while, and then said, "Don't you feel a little contradictory, my mother doesn't allow me to go to the frontier again, why did I see Prince Yu go into battle to kill the enemy?" ”

"At that time, the black army came to attack, my brother didn't fight, and the military book arrived at home, and my mother knelt on the ground and begged the person who sent the military letter to let him not take me away, and the group who sent the military letter cried with his mother, and then said...... We're military households. ”

Ye Zhuzhu said: "There are 970 military households in Jizhou City, and 36,000 military households under Jizhou, which one is not a white-haired person to send a black-haired person, and which one is not a ......"

Ye Zhuzhu clenched his fist, and the green tendons on the back of his hand were exposed, and then slowly released.

"Adjacent to Heiwu in the north, there are 36,000 military households in Jizhou, which one is not cut off."

These four words cut like a knife in Li Qi's heart.

Ye Zhuzhu said: "It happened that Prince Yu was passing by, and after seeing it, my mother cried bitterly, so she accepted me as an entourage with the respect of the prince, so that there was no need to go into battle to kill the enemy, but I still went, I am a guard, the prince is in battle, how can the guard not obey?" ”

He let out a long breath and said: "The prince at that time was not the current prince, twenty years, it will make a person change a lot, Xiahou is like the prince when he was seventeen years old, so the prince is so good to him, it is indeed too similar." ”

"Later, I said to the prince that I wanted to join the army, and the prince said that I promised your mother that I would never let you go to the battlefield again."

Ye Zhuzhu poured another cup of tea, but forgot to drink it until the cup of tea gradually cooled.

"Jizhou is different from other places, due north is Heiwu, northwest is grassland, northeast is Bohai Sea, so the most bitter is also Jizhou military households."

Ye Zhuzhu looked at Li Qi and said: "I respect Xiahou, just like I respect the seventeen-year-old prince, at that time I regarded the prince as a brother, and now I treat Xiahou as a brother, I am still the same for twenty years, I have not grown, so I know you again." ”

Ye Zhuzhu pointed to the north: "The warrior army is half dead in front of it." ”

He pointed downstairs again: "The beauty is still singing and dancing under the tent." ”

After finishing speaking, he got up, patted Li Qi on the shoulder when he walked by his side, stopped his footsteps, bowed his head and said to Li Qi: "Xiahou knows you, I will believe you, Xiahou dares to be the first in the world, you are the first in the world, and I am still my Ye Cane Bamboo." ”

After that, go downstairs.

Li Qi sat there silent for a long, long time, and there were still bursts of cries downstairs, and they were still waiting for Mr. Xiao to tell a story, waiting for Mr. Xiao to sing a song.

Li Qi felt that his face was a little hot and a little painful.

Ye Zhuzhu's words didn't say anything clearly, but the meaning was clear enough, Xiahou said that you can be the first world, this is your first world?

Li Qi got up slowly.

In the hall on the first floor, everyone saw Li Qi coming down from the second floor, and the atmosphere became more enthusiastic

He bowed politely, then returned to the table and stood there for a long time without speaking.

The scene was quiet for a while, and everyone was waiting for Li Qi to speak, and they were also guessing what book and what song Mr. Xiao was going to talk about today.

"Thank you for your love."

Li Qi finally spoke.

He bowed again, then slowed down.

Everyone felt that the atmosphere was a little different today, so it was even quieter.

Li Qi said: "Let's talk about a few people today...... I have talked about Xu Qilu many times, but today I will not talk about him, but about others. ”

He paused, then let out a long breath.

"One hundred and twenty-six years ago, the black warrior Koubian, do you know what the name of a border gate city is called in the north of Youzhou?"

Someone below replied, "Mountain Prison Pass." ”

Li Qi said: "That year, the mountain prison guard will be named Yang Wumo, when the black warriors came to attack, because the enemy was too fierce, an order was sent to let him give up the mountain pass and retreat to Youzhou, Yang Wumo said, take a step back tens of thousands of lives and deaths, dare not retreat, hard fighting for 12 days, 3,600 people died, Yang Wumo died under the city gate. ”

"He pulled the city gate with both hands, the black warrior attacked from the city wall, and then went to the city gate to open the gate, and found that Yang Wumo had died here, his two hands still did not put down, he was seriously injured, he was bleeding to death, the black man opened the city gate, but he couldn't break Yang Wumo's fingers, and finally cut off his arms with a knife."

"Later generations said that Yang Wumo was too stupid, why didn't he listen to the military order and leave? He has time to go, but if he doesn't keep these 12 days, where will the hundreds of thousands of people in Jizhou have time to go? ”

Li Qi said: "Seventy-two years ago, the black warriors broke through the border pass, the soldiers besieged Youzhou, Jizhou, the two cities are like two isolated islands, the corpses outside the city are all over the field, Jizhou and then southeast there is a county called Dengmen County, the county lord Gao Kubo took three hundred and sixty soldiers to Youzhou to support, went halfway to meet the fleeing people, told them that Youzhou can not be defended, the black warriors have surrounded Youzhou to death, and they can't enter. ”

"Takakubo said that if the country is in danger, there are three kinds of people who can retreat, one is the elderly, the second is the woman, the third is the child, and there are two kinds of people who cannot retreat, one is a soldier and the other is a man, and Lao Tzu is both a soldier and a man, so he should die."

Li Qi looked at the people present, paused for a moment and continued: "So he died, and with more than three hundred people, he launched an attack on the black warriors surrounding the outside of Youzhou, such a person, someone will call him stupid decades later. ”

Li Qi continued: "Three months ago, the black warriors came, and the defenders of Daizhou Pass were 1,200, and they died in three days...... One hundred and twenty-six years later, I still know Yang Wumo's name, seventy-two years later, I still know Takakubo's name, and three months later, I am here to tell you a story. ”

He took a step back, then bowed.

"This is the last time I come to Yunzhai Teahouse, you don't have to wait for me here in the future, I will study with peace of mind, and after I finish my studies, I will try to see if I can be a person in armor, if the Central Plains is prosperous in the future, there are also people sitting in the teahouse to listen to the story, the person in the story is called Li Qi, I think, the story should not be too bad."

He turned his back to the people who were listening, facing north.

"I'm not from the military, but I want to salute today."

Li Qi raised his hand and put it on his chest, facing north, then raised his right foot and stomped down heavily, and with a bang, it seemed that the ground shook a little.

I don't know why, everyone present stood up, everyone raised their hands to their chests, and then everyone dodged their feet heavily.

There was a thud, and the ground really shook.

Today, I am a storyteller, and I don't teach people to be negative.

I will be a man in armor every day, and I will not let the country bear me.

......

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[Salute.] 】