"The war in the northwest is important, I have allocated one million taels of silver to the border pass, who will go to the battle?" Emperor Daoguang has always been annoyed by this matter. One of the ministers recommended General Changling, and then Emperor Daoguang appointed Changling as General Yang Wei, Wulong'a as the minister of Qincha and Yang Yuchun to assist in the management of important military and political affairs, and then set out to the northwest. At the same time, He Jiehao recommended Yu Meng to Emperor Daoguang, and Yu Meng went out with the army and made meritorious contributions in the army.

Yu Shuqian's maid Luxiu walked into the theater, and in the theater, his juniors and disciples were busy practicing basic skills, but Qiu Shaobai himself was nowhere to be seen. When his juniors and disciples saw a woman walking in, they were very curious and surrounded them, and one of them said, "Little sister, who are you?" Who are you looking for at the theater? ”

"The maidservant girl is here to find your senior brother Qiu Shaobai, is he here?"

"He was called into the hall by the master to practice the basic skills of Zama Bu."

"Okay, take the handmaid to him, there are some things that need to be told to him personally."

"Shaocheng, take the young lady to see the senior brother," listening to the tone of this person's speech, maybe this person is the second senior brother.

Shaocheng took Lu Xiu to the outside of the gate of the main hall, turned around and said, "Senior brother is practicing in this hall, I won't take you in for fear that the master will scold, you just wait here for the senior brother to come out." ”

"Well, you can go back first."

Midori walked up to the gate and poked her head out. At this time, Shaobai was taking a horse step, and there was a big bowl on his head, which was filled with water. Master Qiu Hongru stood in front of him, holding the ring ruler in his hand, and said very seriously: "The horse must walk steadily, the legs must not tremble, and the water in the bowl on the head must not leak a drop, if there is any instability or the water in the bowl leaks a drop, then punish the time to stand for a stick of incense," After speaking, he inserted a stick of incense into the incense burner, lit it, and then poured water into the large bowl above his head.

Lu Xiu poked his head in and shouted quietly, "Shaobai, Shaobai, Qiu Shaobai." ”

"Sister Luxiu."

"Have you written down your heart and not have evil thoughts?" Qiu Hongru stood aside and lectured.

"Yes, Master, the apprentice wrote it down."

After a while, Qiu Hongru looked at Lu Xiu who was standing outside the hall door and asked, "Who is she?" ”

"She is He Yuan's maid Sister Luxiu."

"It's not too much for her to wait an extra hour."

Lu Xiu walked down very unconvinced, sat under the plane tree in the courtyard, broke off a branch and knocked it on the ground, and said angrily: "Hmph! This Qiu Shaobai is really angry with me, what's the big deal. At that time, Lu Xiu was about to leave, but the task assigned by the young lady had not been completed, so how could she leave like this, so she had to sit under the plane tree and wait.

The hour of a stick of incense is a little too long, which is undoubtedly a long wait for Shaobai. Father Yan sat in front of him, it was useless to be anxious, he had to wait for another hour, and he was a little wronged by this sister Luxiu. After a long time, the time of a stick of incense passed quickly, and seeing that the time of this pillar of incense was about to burn, he was a little excited in his heart, and said, "Master, the time of a stick of incense has passed." ”

"Okay, you get out."

Shaobai carefully took off the bowl of water above his head, put it on the desk in front of him, and rushed out. Qiu Hongru turned to look at Shaobai's excited appearance and his galloping pace, kept shaking his head, sighed, and said, "The heart is so impetuous, how can you become a great tool?" After that, I began to worry about him.

"Sister Luxiu," Shaobai rushed out and said.

"Why do you call your maidservant sister?" Maybe it's because Shaobai is used to it, and it's hard to change his words, which makes Luxiu sound not so accustomed.

"Because you are a few years older than your little brother, you should be called sister."

"You actually asked my sister to wait for an hour," Lu Xiu said a little angrily, and turned to face Shao Baidao.

"Sister, I'm sorry, it's Shaobai who didn't think about it, I'm sorry."

"It's not that you're inconsiderate, it's because you have an unreasonable father."

"I'm sorry, I apologize to my sister on behalf of my father, I'm sorry," Shaobai kept bowing and saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ”

"Okay, seeing the sincerity of your apology, this girl will spare you this time and don't bother with you," Lu Xiu faced Shaobai who was standing in front of her, and said with a smile: "This is a letter from Miss to you, put it away," After finishing speaking, she took out a letter in her arms and handed it to Shaobai's hand.

Shaobai took the letter handed to him by Shuqian, and said happily: "Thank you, thank you." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to say thank you, tell me how you want to thank your sister," Lu Xiu was a little impatient at this time.

"After the deed is done, the younger brother invites the elder sister to dinner."

"Okay, sister, you can make a note of what you said today, don't you say it all, the maid is leaving."

"Little brother, I'll send my sister."

Then, Shaobai sent Lu Xiu to the gate, and Lu Xiu turned around and said, "Okay, you can send it here." Remember, early tomorrow morning, my sister will accompany Miss to the calligraphy and painting shop to buy some calligraphy and paintings, and Miss will copy, remember, tomorrow morning. ”

"Little brother wrote it down."

Shaobai sent Lu Xiu away, then looked at the letter in his hand, walked into the door and closed the door. When night fell, Shaobai lay on the bed alone, holding the letter in his arms, reluctant to tear it apart, because he was a little obsessed with it. Later, some of his juniors and disciples walked in, and Shaobai immediately hid the letter under his pillow, sat up, and said, "You are back." ”

"Senior brother, what are you looking at?" One of the junior disciples stepped forward and said very curiously, and his smile was a little weird.

"I didn't see anything," Shaobai pretended not to know, and said.

"Senior brother, there's no need to hide it, we have all seen it," Shaobai looked at the other junior disciples, and the other junior disciples nodded, it seems that they know everything, and there is no point in concealing it, only telling the truth.

"Senior brother, just say it, we won't tell Master."

"You really won't tell Master."

"Senior brother, you can rest assured, we swear, who said who is a puppy."

"Okay, you don't have to swear, I believe in you," and then lowered his head and said, "It's a letter from Miss He." ”

One of the junior disciples was very surprised and said, "Ah! Miss Ho Family. ”

"You can do it! Even Miss He was soaked in you," the junior brother behind him suddenly slapped his shoulder with a palm, maybe he was too excited, this palm slapped his shoulder a little painful, Shaobai stretched out a hand to touch his shoulder, stretched out his finger and whispered: "Shhhhhhh Don't let Master hear it. ”

The other juniors stretched out their fingers, "Shhh ”

"I haven't had time to take it apart yet."

"What are you waiting for? Hurry up and open it, "This is really the emperor is not in a hurry, the eunuchs are in a hurry, everyone is in a hurry." Shaobai just took out the letter from under the pillow and was snatched by them, everyone looked at the letter and came over, you grabbed it, I grabbed it, I wanted to be the first to see this letter.

"Okay, don't rob it anymore, be careful, don't tear this letter up."

"Senior brother, I'll help you untie it."

Shaobai just sat quietly and nodded. The junior brother carefully tore open the envelope, took out the letter and opened it. Shaobai looked at them and asked, "What is written on it?" ”

The junior brother looked at the letter and said: "Shaobai, thank you for sending me a letter, I am very pleased, if you have any psychology in the future, write to me...," and then handed the letter to Shaobai, and then went to bed one after another, falling asleep. Shaobai sat alone at the head of the bed and finished reading the letter written to him by Shuqian. Slowly got out of bed, opened the window, looked at the night scene outside the window, and didn't know what Shuqian was doing at this time, maybe she had fallen asleep, thinking of this, I couldn't let go of some worries in my heart.

A junior brother behind him said, "Senior brother, go to sleep." ”

"Sleep first, and I'll sleep later," and then sat down on the edge of the bed, blowing out the oil lamp on the desk.