In the usual season, Cicada came over to help her father bring the words, so she went to talk to Yue'er and them. But today, she was unusual, and actually went out with Shang Cheng.

Shang Cheng asked her strangely, "Why don't you go to Yue'er and them?" ”

"My fourth sister said that she would go back to her parents' house today, and I will go back and wait for her." Cicada said.

“…… Oh. Shang Cheng nodded. The cicada didn't dare to look at him when she spoke, lowered her head and pretended to be paying attention to her feet, obviously with a lot of moisture in her words. Besides, it's the beginning of the time, and her four sisters haven't arrived home yet, so it's obviously impossible to come and leave today, not to mention staying at home for ten days and half a month, at least have to rest for a night, right? The sisters want to say a few words of their own understanding, when can't they say it, they have to rush at this time?

But he can't expose the trick of the cicada, which hurts the girl's face too much, and he doesn't want to follow the topic of the fourth sister of the cicada, he is not bored to the point of accompanying a girl to talk around, and he doesn't have that patience. So, he simply stopped talking and concentrated on walking down the aisle.

He really needs to concentrate on walking the aisle. He has long legs, one step can take two steps against the cicada, and he has developed a vigorous and resolute character in the military, and he usually walks with a tiger and tiger posture, if he doesn't pay attention to walking slowly, it is estimated that he can throw the cicada off a hundred and ten steps when he goes out in a mile. If he can't do this, he will embarrass the cicadas; Unless she offered it. But he estimated that she should not have such thoughts......

So he had to deliberately slow down and walk slowly with the cicadas. Two little maidens followed them.

Shang Cheng didn't have anything to say, and the cicada that was two or three steps behind didn't say a word, and the two of them followed out of Zhuangzi without saying a word.

The Zhuangzi of Shangcheng and the Zhuangzi of the Gu family are separated by a river. The small ditch that is not wide has a name, called Oujia River, and no one can say exactly how this name came about. I don't know what Emperor Dongyuan thought at the beginning, so many imperial villages all over Gyeonggi were not picky, but they gave this imperial village to Shang Cheng. Walking seven or eight miles upstream along the river is Chen Pu's Zhuangzi; Walking less than ten miles to the southeast, it is the Zhuangzi of Nanyang; Less than three miles after crossing the river, there is the Zhuangzi of Gushi...... Shang Cheng didn't have many acquaintances in the capital, and there were only a few of them, but almost half of them actually lived in the upper and lower reaches of this small river ditch, less than twenty miles up and down...... Sometimes when he thinks about it, he feels a little incredible: how can it be so coincidental?

Remembering that Chen Pu's Zhuangzi was upstream, Shang Cheng couldn't help but glance in the northwest direction. During the New Year's Festival, on the fourth day of the first lunar month, in the Daqing Palace of the outer garden, he and Chen Pu made a fuss over a trivial matter. From that day on, Chen Pu didn't pay attention to him again. When he thought about it later, he also felt that he had done something inappropriate, and he regretted it in his heart, so he thought of finding an opportunity to explain. went to Chen Pu's princess's mansion twice, but she couldn't excuse herself; When Emperor Dongyuan was performing martial arts on his birthday, he saw Chen Pu in the imperial city, but Chen Pu was tied up with a group of princes and princesses at that time, and he was not reckless; After moving here, he also went to Chen Pu's Zhuangzi, and then ate a closed door. At the beginning of this month, he wanted to find something to do, so he went to the military department to find Zhenqian, and prepared to set up a project with the military department to study how to improve navigation skills. But before he could say anything, Chen Pu made a military salute with a blank face, and when he reacted and chased out, the person had already disappeared. In this way, until now, he has not found a chance to apologize.

Now, looking at the gray willow grove in the distance, behind which was Chen Pu's Zhuangzi, he decided to make another trip tomorrow. Of course, if Chen Pu is still not seen at home tomorrow, it can only mean that she is determined to break the comradeship; He won't be reluctant either. It's going to rain, and the girl is going to get married, so let's do whatever you want.

Making such a decision can be regarded as a matter of heart, and his mood can't help but be lighter.

After the valley rain, it rained for several days, and the land was well hydrated, so that all the wheat jumped up and jumped up a lot, and now it was almost up to the calf. As far as the eye can see, the earth seems to have been newly covered with a green carpet, and it is full of intoxicating colors far and near. It's just that in the wheat field that is connected to the sky, there is neither a moiss, nor a ditch, not to mention the meticulous cultivation of weeding or something, many weeds are mixed among the wheat seedlings, growing luxuriantly, and the growth of grass in many places is more vigorous than the seedlings, and it is obviously half a head higher than the seedlings. But there was no one hoeing in the field...... It seems that although the Gyeonggi region was piloting a new crop practice last year, and this year the Ministry of Industry has made great efforts to promote it, but in fact? When the farmers are farming, they still stay in the stage of relying on the sky to eat, and they basically don't care about the seeds when they are sown, and leave everything to God to do. But can the dealers be blamed for this? Apparently not. If you want to blame, you can only blame the court for poor promotion. It was Zhang Puzhu who announced that they were engaged in a non-worthy investigation of the hidden fields of the treacherous households, which attracted a lot of scolding from the government and the opposition, but in the end, it was all the people who were unlucky, and no one wanted to harvest more of the rich grain that should have been there!

He couldn't help but spit on it.

Fuck him!

He scolded himself too. The land on this side of the river is his, and the farmers who lease his land have not engaged in new practices, and he, the owner, obviously has an unshirkable responsibility.

The cicada, who had been following silently, was surprised to see him spit on the ground fiercely. She opened her mouth in astonishment, and couldn't close it for a while. She had never seen someone of Shang Cheng's status do such a rude thing, so she couldn't react at all.

Shang Cheng didn't notice what her expression was at all, and he still walked unhurriedly, reminding himself at any time not to go too fast so that she couldn't keep up. He was glad to find that even if he walked a little faster, she could still keep up. Don't forget, she came out of the house to the river, and she didn't take a few breaths and immediately turned back, and she had walked six or seven miles back and forth, and she was still able to keep up without shouting tired, which is very remarkable.

The stone slab bridge that connects both sides of the river bank has a simple grass pavilion. When he was about to reach the pavilion, Shang Cheng stopped and asked, "Do you want to sit for a while?" ”

"I'm not tired." Cicada said casually. But as soon as the words came out, she regretted it. It's really stupid, how can you say that you are not tired?

Shang Cheng glanced at her. Except for the slight redness of her face, there was no sweat on her forehead, and her breath did not feel tight, so it seemed that what the girl was telling was indeed true. But he still insisted, "Sit down for a while." "After all, she is a little girl, and walking is not shopping, walking without stopping, even if people are not tired, their legs and feet can't hold it.

He walked up to the pavilion first, and sat down on a stone pier in the pavilion. This time, Cicada didn't say anything, followed him in, hesitated for a moment before picking a fairly clean stone pier, and sat down like Shang Cheng.

But what about when you sit down? What to say? She wasn't even prepared at all. Fortunately, she didn't make this suggestion, so he should have an idea, right?

However, Shang Cheng had no intention of talking to her at all. He has a lot of things on his mind, and he can ponder them for a long time if he picks them out, so he is sitting in the pavilion, but his mind has already flown to the vast Pacific Ocean. The problem of the meridian has been haunting him for a long time, and until now he has not thought of a feasible solution, and he has not even browsed down the direction of the solution. If we can't solve the problem of how to determine longitude, then we still can't solve the problem of precise positioning on the ocean, or we can only rely on the method of near-shore navigation to carry out geographical exploration, and then rely on the method of latitude navigation to cross the ocean; It's just that the method of latitude navigation takes a long time, and in this case, the supply of food and fresh water becomes a new problem. There seems to be a "great circle course" in navigation, which solves this problem, but it also requires a globe; And what projection technology is needed to make a globe? Oh, and projection technology is obviously a few hundred years later, what was originally used to make globes? It seems to be a triangle or something. What does triangle drawing look like......

Thinking about it, he felt upset. He was just looking for something to do, why did he suddenly turn to triangulation? He's a military strategist, not a navigator, and he's not a fucking painter! What is triangulation? Each character has three horns drawn on the top of their heads, which is the triangle method!

He was haunted by the inexplicable change of career, and suddenly seemed to hear the cicada seem to say something to him. He drove the three cows and their horns to a hundred and eight thousand miles away, put on a smile, and asked with concern, "Oh, you're resting?" Let's ...... let's go."

Cicada grabbed before he said, "Don't let your father wait", and said, "Brother Merchant, can I ask you something?" ”

Hearing Cicada call his brother, the smile on Shang Cheng's face immediately stiffened. He and Gu Shi are ministers in the same court, neither relatives nor teachers, and the honors are almost the same, they should have gotten along with each other on official business, who knew that Gu Shi's face was thicker than the city wall at the corner, and he pulled Guo Biao out, saying that since Shang Cheng and Guo Biao are brothers, and Guo Biao is his son-in-law, then Shang Cheng should also respect him as an elder. Shang Chengyi was too lazy to accompany the old man Gu to talk nonsense, and secondly, when the cicada called him brother, he casually agreed, but Gu Shi seized the opportunity by making a mistake, so the Gu family immediately changed the title, and the one who should call him "Uncle Ying" was changed to "Brother Zida", and the one who should salute first was also changed to give up, especially the small ones of the Gu family, and when they left the day before, they shouted respectfully one by one, and they changed it to "uncle" when they went the next day......

He knew that Cicada must have been instructed by his father, so he could only blame Gu Shi for not doing things authentically and couldn't resent her. He sighed silently in his heart and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Are all the stories you tell true?" Cicada asked. She likes to listen to Shang Cheng's stories the most, and there are many nights when she can't sleep because of those stories, especially the part of Alegu, which she recalls again and again. In that story, Shang Cheng single-handedly killed seven in and seven out of the chaotic army, one to save Sun Fu, two to save Duan Si, three to save Gao Qiang, and four to save Wang Yi...... When Shang Cheng told this story, her eldest brother, third brother and fourth brother were also present, and they all applauded happily at the time, but they all insisted that the story must be fake, just a romance. But she didn't believe her big brother's words. She felt that these stories must be true, because she knew and seen all these people, so the stories were absolutely true! Even if the characters in the story are real, how can the story be fake? However, because everyone said it was fake, she was also a little suspicious, so she took advantage of the opportunity to ask Shang Cheng in person now.

"Oh, you tell those stories...... It's not all fake. ”

The cicada immediately became happy. She asked again: "When Alegu, did you really kill seven in and seven out of the enemy camp?" She said as she stared intently at Shang Cheng. She wanted to take a closer look to see if he was lying. This question is her primary concern!

Shang Cheng smiled and said, "It's not just seven in and seven out. We wandered back and forth there for more than ten days, and killed twice along the Al-gu River, but we cut off so many heads that we couldn't take them with us, so we had to throw them all into the river. The son of the king of Donglu Valley was also slaughtered by us, but unfortunately his identity was not clear at that time, and he could not leave physical evidence, and he failed to report his military exploits after returning. ”

Cicada immediately believed him. Because Shang Cheng talked about these things, the expression on his face was very casual, and his tone was not careful, obviously in his eyes, things like seven in and seven out were not worth mentioning at all. Didn't you listen to him, even the son of the king of the Lugu who cut down the Tuqi Cidong Valley could not report the merits of the war, and he didn't think it was a big deal; If this happened to someone else, he would definitely regret beating his chest, right? She asked, "How did you kill the son of the king of Donglu Valley?" Is it also outwitting? ”

Shang Cheng wanted to make up a new story, but when he turned his eyes, he saw that her face was red with excitement, her eyes were shining, and she stared at herself without blinking, so she immediately changed her mind and said, "It's not me, it's the guy that a friend of mine cut." It was night, and he didn't know it, but when it was dawn he saw a severed hand hanging from the saddle, and he brought back the gold bracelet from his wrist. Later, I learned that the bracelet was a token of the royal family of Tuqici, which was equivalent to the waist tag on our officials. ”

This story is so real that there is no water in the slightest. However, Cicada did not hesitate to replace the protagonist of the story with Shang Cheng. She felt that Shang Cheng must be perfunctory to her, so she arbitrarily attributed the credit to others. She was not reconciled, so she asked again: "What about the bracelet, where did it go later?" Taking it out is just as good as a testament, right? She thought that if Shang Cheng knew the whereabouts of the gold bracelet, it would prove that he was actually the one who had cut down the royal family of Tuchuci; If he didn't know where the gold bracelet had gone, it would have proved that he was indeed perfunctory to her.

"Lost by that guy in the flutter." Shang Cheng said.

Ha! Look, he knows the whereabouts of the bracelet! She just said, he was perfunctory to her, he must be coaxing her. And he lost things in the shop, which also proves that he actually made that great achievement, but because he gambled and lost the bracelet, he couldn't prove his military exploits. As for the reason why Shang Cheng was a gambler in her eyes, if he didn't gamble well, it would be impossible for him to gamble with her father for three days or two days.

Where could Shang Cheng have thought of what thoughts were turning in the little girl's head? He stood up and said, "Let's get down the aisle." If you don't go over, your father is afraid that he will have to wait in a hurry. ”

“…… Oh. Cicada said reluctantly. She still had a lot of questions that she hadn't had time to ask, but unfortunately she had to go back. I don't know when the next time I'll have a chance.

Before they had yet to get out of the pavilion, they saw four or five horses galloping like a whirlwind from the south.

The cicada had sharp eyes, recognized one of them at a glance, and waved his hand to Shang Cheng and said:

"That's my ninth brother!"