Chapter 232: Strangers

On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, every household is burning bamboo, and there is the sound of firecrackers everywhere. The louder the bamboo is fried, the better the luck for the coming year. Chen Cheng originally wanted to call Zhao Yun, Ma Yunlu and others to spend Chinese New Year's Eve together, but Zhao Yun said that most people were on holiday tonight, and he had to sit in Yacheng.

Since Ma Teng has bought a residence in Yinchuan, it is naturally not easy for the little girl Ma Yunlu to continue to live in the state pastoral mansion, and now she has moved out to live with her father and brother. Since Zhao Yun didn't come, Chen Cheng didn't bother to ask people to come to the house to play, he closed the door, gave the soldiers in the house a holiday, and those maids also let them go out to play.

In the huge mansion, there were only a few veterans left who were injured and retreated. They are old and have lost part of their bodies during the war, so they are reluctant to go out into the streets. Chen Cheng asked the veterans to clean up the area around the lobby, and then lit torches, copper tripods and copper basins, he personally made a few dishes, and then called everyone in the house to the lobby, and everyone celebrated the New Year together, and it was more lively and lively.

Originally, Chen Cheng thought it was very good, but when he was in the lobby, seven or eight veterans saw him like mice and cats, and they all held their breath and didn't dare to come out. The closer you get to him, the more you can feel the difference in him, although these people don't say it, but they are all afraid and in awe in their hearts.

Seeing that the atmosphere in the lobby was solemn as if he was holding a military meeting, Chen Cheng casually took a few bites, and then said, "I'm done, you can continue." ”

With that, he got up and walked to the stables. When he left, the atmosphere in the lobby suddenly became warm.

The snow in the courtyard is still very thick, and there are some debris of snowflakes under the eaves. Chen Cheng walked a few steps, and a series of hurried footsteps sounded behind him, and when he turned his head to look, it was Liu Qian who chased after him, and behind her, Zi Jia'er also ran out.

"Master, are you going to feed the horses?"

"Yes."

"Then I'll go with you!" Liu Qian said to Zi Jia'er, who was a little timid behind: "Hurry up, let's go to the stable with Master!" ”

Chen Cheng slowed down and waited for the two girls to follow together. When the three of them arrived at the stable, a dozen or so horses that had been placed here turned their heads together, and raised their long ears vigilantly. Seeing Liu Qian, Yinling screamed happily and pushed her head the fence.

"Snort", Gollum on the side snorted, looked at the other people who were locked in the stable, and then Shi Shiran shook off his four hooves and walked out.

While feeding the horses with carrots, Liu Qian looked at the horses that were spinning around Chen Cheng, and asked a little unconvinced: "Ah, Master, why is my horse locked up, but your horse is not locked up?" ”

"Well, that's a question," Chen Cheng led Gollum back to the large wooden shed prepared for it alone, and picked up a brush to brush the hair on its body, "Because Gollum is smarter?" ”

Liu Qian shouted: "Yinling is also very smart!" ”

She turned her head and asked Zi Jia'er on the side, "Did you say that?" ”

"Forehead .........", Zi Jia'er's grades in the academy are very good, but she is often a little confused, her eyes widened, and she muttered: "This ......."

Liu Qian felt anxious just by listening, pouted at the girl with purple pupils, and then turned around and asked Chen Cheng, "Master, do you think it's very boring, that's why you came out?" ”

Chen Cheng looked at Liu Qian, thought for a while, and said, "It can't be called boring, I stay there, everyone can't let go, it's better to leave." ”

Liu Qian said: "What are we going to do now?" ”

"We?"

"That's right, Ma Yunlu can't get out at home now, so I'm left with Zijia'er, I'm so bored at home," Liu Qian said with a smile: "Why don't we go to the street?" Now the streets are lively. ”

Chen Cheng shook his head and said, "Don't go, we will bring a lot of trouble to others if we go out." ”

"Then Master, the state pastor, is too boring," Liu Qian said: "I remember that my father used to do whatever he wanted. ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "I'm not the emperor. ”

Liu Qian tilted her head to look at him, and suddenly said thoughtlessly: "Sister Ma will get married next year." ”

"Well, you have a good relationship, remember to give her more gifts when the time comes."

".........", Liu Qian snorted lightly in dissatisfaction, and said, "Of course we will remember, Zijia'er, don't you say?" ”

After staying in the stable for a while, Chen Cheng and the others walked around the front yard again, and then went to the room. The coal in the room was still not extinguished, so he plucked it with a twig, and when the sparks were up, he added some firewood to it. Then the three of them sat down around the pit fire, and chatted casually while roasting bacon, dried fish, potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn, and the like.

Chen Cheng has a lot of cold jokes and not-so-cold jokes in his stomach, and picking out a few of them can make the two girls either tremble with laughter, or their eyes widen and they don't know why. Liu Qian seemed very happy, in the past month, she has gradually returned to her previous cheerful appearance.

Zi Jia'er on the side was roasting sweet potatoes while secretly looking at Chen Cheng, and said in her heart: Lord Chen looks very scary, but in fact it is not so scary!

Chen Cheng was in strong health, so he was fine if he didn't sleep for a few days, but the two girls couldn't hold it anymore, and they began to yawn after a while, and then before they knew it, they fell asleep on the tiger skin and bear skin. The fire shone on their faces, and the two faces were red like ripe apples, which looked very cute.

Seeing this, Chen Cheng stopped telling the story, added some more firewood and coal to the fire, and then got up and found two cotton clothes to cover the two children. Then he opened the door and walked out.

It was almost midnight and there were much fewer people on the streets. Some papier-mâché lanterns are still hung higher up, giving the streets a little dull light. He looked up at the stars that seemed to be eternal in the night. In this situation, how can you not recite poetry?

"Being alone in a foreign land as a stranger, thinking of relatives every festive season."

Perhaps because he was Chinese in the first place, or perhaps because Chinese is indeed the most beautiful language in the world, Chen Cheng always felt that Chinese poetry was more charming, more resonant and intoxicating than English and French poetry.

But even though you are in a foreign land, who can you miss?

Chen Cheng stood under the eaves of the porch for a long time, until the whole city fell into silence, then he licked some firewood from the fire in Liu Qian's room, and then went back to his room to sleep.

When he woke up the next day, he felt as if he had had a dream, but he still thought about it, but he didn't remember it very well. When I opened the log, I found this line of record, "You seem to have a feeling in your dream, tactical +1".

"Tactics" is a skill in "Riding and Slashing", which, as explained above, can increase the number of players on your side and slightly increase the combat effectiveness of some of your own soldiers during battle. Chen Cheng thought about it carefully, and then felt it for a long time, but he didn't feel that there was any change in his ability to command in battle, so he simply put it aside and ignored it.

On the first day of the new year, the governor's mansion is no longer as deserted as it was last night. From the morning, there was an endless stream of officials and generals who came to visit. It was the same in Yan Zhong's mansion on the side, many people came out of the state minister's mansion and immediately went to the door of Yan Shangshu.

The whole day was spent dealing with visitors, and it was not until the evening that it was cleared up. Yesterday was Chinese New Year's Eve, a day for family gatherings, and outsiders generally do not participate. But today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, so Chen Cheng invited Yan Zhong and Zhao Yun over to gather at home.

"It can't be like this anymore," Chen Cheng poured the glass in front of Yan Zhong with wine and said, "Wait a few days and issue an edict to let them do whatever they want." ”

Yan Zhong was willing to flatter others, and he laughed and said, "The prince doesn't like to be disturbed, so let them all go to me." ”

He pointed to a middle-aged man on the side and said to Chen Cheng: "I brought someone over today to meet the prince, this is the Jia Xu I once mentioned, Jia Wenhe." ”

"You're Jia Xu?" Chen Cheng looked at the middle-aged man with extraordinary bearing on the side with some surprise, and asked, "Didn't Bo Dao say that you were working under Dong Zhuo?" How did you come to Yinchuan? ”

Jia Xu is in his forties this year, not a few years younger than Yuan Shao. With a smile on his face, he said neither humbly nor arrogantly: "I was ordered by Dong Bingzhou to come to deliver the documents. ”

He saw in his eyes that Chen Cheng had poured wine for Yan Zhong just now, and the latter had accepted it calmly, and although he was surprised in his heart, there was not the slightest expression leaking out of his face.

Chen Cheng turned his head to look at Yan Zhong, who nodded and said; "The documents have been sent to Shangshu Province, but now that it is still the New Year, I haven't brought it to the prince and the marquis."

Chen Cheng didn't care too much about the paperwork or anything, but was more interested in Jia Xu in front of him. In his impression, Jia Xu is a very smart person, without any background, he has changed several lords, those who are lords are kneeling, he can continue to be alive, and finally he is a big official in Wei State, but Chen Cheng can't remember exactly what kind of official.

"I heard that Wenhe is from Guzang?"

"Not bad."

"You haven't been back lately, have you?" Chen Cheng said with a smile: "Since you are here, let's stay in Yinchuan for a few more days to see how the scenery in Liangzhou is different from before." ”

Jia Xu has only been in Yinchuan for two days, and he has already found that the atmosphere here is very different from that of Jinyang. In Jinyang, the soldiers and civilians are all gloomy, the soldiers are arrogant and irritable, and the people are cautious and full of hatred.

He said half complimentally, half sincerely: "Chen Lingjun has only been in charge of Liangzhou for two years, but the people here have lived much better than before. ”