Chapter 5: Spring Dawn (Seven Below)

The scene in the dream was so exciting that when he woke up, Wang Xun could clearly hear his heartbeat like a drum. Looking up at the bright light through the cracks in the window, he turned over and sat up, put on his clothes and boots, fetched cold water from the fireproof wooden barrel placed at the door, and quickly washed his face and rinsed his mouth. When, with the habit of several months, he quickly cleaned up his whole body, looked back at the other two empty beds in the building, and suddenly remembered that the two lieutenants had gone home yesterday afternoon. In order to make up for the regret that everyone was busy with training and could not reunite with their families during the Chinese New Year, General Feng deliberately announced yesterday that he would take a five-day vacation from today. Except for the officers of the ranks, almost all the recruits and veterans left the camp as soon as they heard the news. Today's morning exercise has long been canceled, and he is the only one left in the second team of the seventh brigade of the entire recruit camp, and he is still in the barracks because of his hangover last night.

"Look at my memory!" Wang Xun patted himself in annoyance, with a bitter face. It's not too late, the sky outside is still dark, and when you go home at this time, you can't enter Chang'an City at all! He wanted to lie down and sleep again, but he felt uncomfortable all over his body. More than four months of intense training had left a deep imprint on his spirit, and he used to hate only dawning too early, but now he has no interest in sleeping for a little longer.

"Idle is idle, let's go in circles!" After tossing for a long time, Wang Xun finally decided to go out to exercise as usual, and he didn't have to sit in the room and wait for dawn. After running around the White Horse Fort for three full laps, he suddenly remembered when he first entered the camp, and he was so tired that he stuck out his tongue and gasped for breath like a dead dog. Memories come alive in an instant, and everything seems to have happened yesterday. But it was just a blink of an eye, and the drudgery that made me quit several times at the beginning has now become very easy to complete. And all the things that I tried to avoid at the beginning have now become a habit.

Running, lifting stone locks, punching, playing with a lance. There was no one to supervise, and Zhou Laohu's familiar scolding could not be heard, and all the morning exercise items were completed by Wang Xun meticulously. He found that he actually liked the orderly life of the military camp very much, and did not have much nostalgia for the luxury and laziness of the past. "Actually, it's not too terrible to go to work in the Anxi Army!" A thought suddenly welled up in his heart, quickly reheating the blood that had just cooled down. "Get on the horse with a hook, and dance the head. Xiaolai thinks of serving the country, not loving the marquis......" The poem I heard during the banquet yesterday instantly echoed in my ears again, and I was clearly drunk at that time, but the content of the poem was remembered clearly, and not a word was left behind.

After the morning exercise, the sky will be bright. Calculating that there was still a period of time before Chang'an City opened the city gate, Wang Xun trotted to the room for breakfast. Fortunately, most of the generals in the barracks were temporarily transferred from the Anxi Army by Feng Changqing, and their homes were not in Chang'an, so the room still provided breakfast as usual. Several middle-level generals had already sat at the common generous table in the northwest and were ready to move their chopsticks, and when they saw Wang Xun panting and running in, they were stunned, and a trace of appreciation instantly appeared on their faces.

"Team Wang, sit here and eat!" Li Yuanqin tapped his fingers on the table and smiled and sent out an invitation.

"No, no, thank you!" Wang Xun smiled and shook his head in refusal. Now, he is no longer a recruit who has just entered the battalion. knew that the two team vice-presidents of Zhao and Li, who had started to work for him, were actually much higher than his own team. The so-called temporary lack of vacancies is clearly a white lie that Zhou Laohu specially pulled out in order to take care of himself.

"I'll sit down if you tell me, little guy, why are you getting more and more mother-in-law!" As if guessing that Wang Xun was thinking about himself, Zhou Laohu's scarred face immediately lifted from Li Yuanqin's side and ordered fiercely.

"No!" Wang Xun held the rice bowl and hugged his fists and made a small joke with his bosses. Then I made breakfast and walked briskly to the table.

"Little one, do you have a good amount of wine?" Zhou Laohu looked up and down, as if admiring a baby, and looked at Wang Xun with a straight hair, "How is it, did you have a headache in the middle of the night last night?" ”

"It's fine!" Wang Xun stuffed steamed naan into his mouth in a big gulp, and responded hesitantly. If this kung fu Zhou Laohu brought up the old matter again and invited him again, he would definitely feel very embarrassed. Several bosses have taken good care of themselves during this time, and it is really not good to brush off their kindness. can think that after I agreed to the invitation, the tears of Aunt Yun, Ziluo and others, all the passion to go out and serve the country faded little by little.

As if guessing what Wang Xun was evading, Zhou Xiaofeng, the captain of the new barracks, shook his head with a smile. "Your home is from Chang'an, are you familiar with all the interesting places in the city?"

Hearing this, Wang Xun immediately breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, thought about it, and nodded in response, "It's not too familiar, but you can basically find it." It's up to a few adults to have fun! ”

"Adult fart!" Zhou Laohu's eyebrows were raised, and the scars on his eyelids immediately jumped up and down again. "Call me Lao Zhou, or Zhou Laohu, call them Lao Li, Lao Zhao, and it's not a formal occasion, what are you doing with it?"

"That's what Brother Zhou said! The little brother was negligent" swallowed a mouthful of white rice porridge with a smile, and Wang Xun nodded in agreement.

"Is that right?" Zhou Laohu was very satisfied with Wang Xun's performance, and reached out to pat him on the back, causing Wang Xun to almost choke on the porridge, "Several of our families are not in Chang'an." It's rare to come to Beijing once, but he has been locked up in this barracks. If you know something to do, let us know. While there is still time to spare, let's go shopping together. After I go back, I can boast to my brothers that Lao Tzu has been to Chang'an! ”

"Yes, I can go to Jingshi to fart and fight for my ancestors!" When not on formal occasions, Li Yuanqin speaks with great humor. "In the Western Regions, I always boasted to people from various tribes, saying that Chang'an is so prosperous and prosperous. It is the first capital city in the world. The group of barbarian tribal elders was stunned. Hehe, actually, we haven't seen it at all. ”

The words fell, and immediately caused a burst of laughter. Zhao Huaixu, Li Wenda, Zhou Xiaofeng, and Su Shenxing, who couldn't beat a fart with three sticks, all showed a trace of pride on their faces that was difficult to hide. Obviously, similar things about fooling the barbarian leaders with the customs of the Heavenly Empire have probably not been done less.

After laughing, Wang Xun got closer to the group, thought about it, and proposed at the beginning: "If you want to talk about shopping, the most worthwhile thing in the capital is naturally the area between the Vermilion Bird Gate and the Xuanwu Gate." If there is a chance for a few brothers, ........ will take turns! ”

"I've already shopped around!" Zhou Xiaofeng said frankly, "Don't tell my brother, in the first month of returning to Beijing, we took turns to be on duty near the palace. Except for the places that shouldn't be entered, almost everything else has been peeked into! ”

"Hey, hey, hey, hey.......!" Everyone laughed tacitly. Between the Vermilion Bird Gate and the Xuanwu Gate is the Imperial City and the Taiji Palace where His Majesty the Emperor lives, come to the Beijing Division to offer prisoners to the Emperor, if you don't find a chance to see what the Imperial Palace is like, this trip to the Beijing Division is equivalent to not coming.

"The second place worth seeing is probably Qujiang Pond. But now it's just spring, and the willow trees haven't grown leaves yet, so there's no scenery to see! After laughing with everyone for a while, Wang Xun proposed again.

"It's boring!" Zhao Huaixu was the first to speak out against it, "Even if there are spring flowers to watch, it's not interesting." The scenery is a thing that is less traveled, the more eye-catching it is. If it is too carved, it will lose its original charm! ”

Zhou Xiaofeng smiled slightly, and secretly glanced at the people around him, "Yes, after we left the Jade Gate in the west, as soon as we raised our eyes, the yellow sand was thousands of miles, and the traces of the wind were undisguised on the surface of the sand." That's called a magnificence. There is also the Atami of broken leaves, which suddenly emerged from the yellow sand, and it is also impossible to see at a glance. The water inside is as clean as well water, and you can see where the fish are swimming! ”

"That's right, Qujiang is indeed a small pond compared to our Atahai!" Another high-ranking officer in Anxi Town, Li Wenda, understood and smiled to help.

"There are also poplar trees in the desert, one by one, like iron, along both sides of the ancient silk road, from Yumen to Tocharo!" When it comes to the Western Regions, the words of the Anxi generals can't be contained, "Three thousand years of life, three thousand deaths, three thousand years without falling!" ”

"That's where the boys should be!"

"The prosperity of Chang'an City, which one is not made by us people with knives!"

The desert, the giant lake, the lonely city, the sunset, the poplar trees pointing to the sky, and the Tang Dynasty men who rode horses and whipped along the ancient silk road, this scenery, just thinking about it, has already made Wang Xun's heart boil. However, as a native of Chang'an, he can't let a few generals in the army devalue the place where he grew up. After thinking about it, he made another suggestion, "Then let's go and see the White Horse Temple." In the place where Xuanzang monks translated the scriptures, incense has always been very prosperous. There is also Shengye Fang, where many students who came to catch the exam are gathered there. If you don't go to Kitasato, or Pingkangli, there are fun things to do from afternoon to late at night, even after the curfew. No, go to the East Market, there is a cockfighting arena inside, and the younger brother is one of the shareholders. A few brothers went, guaranteed to have a good time! ”

"Don't go!" "I've been" "It's not interesting! All the officers shook their heads, not at all interested in the things that Wang Xun thought he could get his hands on. Suddenly, there was a flash of inspiration in his heart, and Wang Xun remembered what someone had said to him, 'The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is not only in the power of the soldiers, but also in the prosperity of culture and education, which all the barbarians around can't catch up with with the sweat and blood." He slapped his thigh hard and said loudly, "I think of a few places to go, and I promise that I will not regret it in my life after letting my brothers go." ”

"Tell me about it!" The crowd looked up at him in disbelief.

Wang Xun's arrogance was aroused all of a sudden, he pressed his hand on the edge of the table and stood up, "Haven't you heard of the 'Big and Small Four Uniques' in Chang'an City?" I don't dare say that they all try to let you meet, but going around their yard or inviting one or two of them to have a drink should still be within my reach! ”

"Really?" At this moment, several officers were indeed stunned, and raised their heads, their eyes full of disbelief.

"No lie!" Looking up at the spring sun spewing out of the sky, Wang Xun's young face was instantly full of confidence and pride. "But you've got to give me a little time to arrange, those people are very proud, no, not ......."

Xie Feiyan's gonghou and Hu Aman's waist are not difficult to see, as long as you have enough drums. In addition, Li Bai in the senior year still owes Lei Wanchun a poem, and invited him in the name of Lei Wanchun, and called Gao Shi and Cen Shen together, it is estimated that Li Bai will not refuse. And among the little four, the one I can definitely invite is Bai Jingzhi, and I will go to Aunt Gongsun through her......

Thinking of Bai Jingzhi, Wang Xun's smile couldn't help but stiffen. suddenly found that before he entered the barracks, many things were pressing one by one, and he actually forgot to tell the other party. In the four months in the barracks, she was so busy every day that she didn't even have time to snore, so she didn't even write a word to her.

That's so embarrassing! He couldn't help but feel a sense of guilt in his heart. Soon, this guilt was replaced by surprise. At the beginning, I didn't see her for a day, and I almost couldn't give up. Why did you rarely think of her smile in the past four months?

"What's wrong? The cowhide is blowing up, haha! Zhou Xiaofeng has never been in shape, shrugged his shoulders, and counted with a smile.

"Are you afraid that my words don't count?" Wang Xun quickly retracted his mind that he didn't know where he was flying, and responded with a smile. "I was just thinking about where to get a treat to accommodate so many people. You can rest assured, if I can't invite any of the four big and small people, and come back from vacation, you can find a ballast to beat my military stick. Anyway, Brother Zhou is staring at it every day, and he always doesn't worry about finding an opportunity! ”

"Boy, is your big brother Zhou so unbearable?" Zhou Xiaofeng shook his head with a smile. In the end, I couldn't believe that Wang Xun had such a big face, and he could invite any of the four masters to drink with him.

Wang Xun smiled and didn't say much, just waiting to surprise everyone at that time. After making an appointment to meet at noon in the city at noon, he said goodbye to everyone, packed his bags and walked outside the barracks.

It was a long time to eat, and the sun was climbing to the treetops. While walking, Wang Xun imagined the scene when he returned home. When Aunt Yun saw her like this, she must have a hint of relief in her eyes. What about the little girl Ziluo, I don't know if she has lost weight these days? and Bai Jingzhi, she didn't go to her field for many days, and she didn't send someone to send a letter, she must be very annoyed, right? In case she is really angry, it is not easy to coax. Do you want to buy her another hairpin, or hurry up and show her the yard you bought......

Just thinking about it, a familiar shout suddenly came from his ears, with a hint of trembling and a bit of resentment, "Erlang, is it Erlang?" You're finally willing to come out! ”

"Sister Bai?" Wang Xunhu raised his head suspiciously. I saw Bai Jingzhi and her little maid Ping'er, standing gracefully under a willow tree at the gate of the barracks.

Spring came again, and a few pairs of swallows murmured through the air, bringing up a cloud shadow.