Fuxingtai is not far from Huliang Pavilion, but it is separated by an inner lake. In less than half an hour, Su Xiaochen hurried back.

Zhu Zhitong saw him with a happy face, and asked, "But my sister thanked you for Nanhua Island and gave you any good things?" ”

Su Xiaochen smiled mysteriously and shook his head.

"Xiao Xiao, your sister showed me the letter from Cangwulai, saying that another mission has been sent over there, and it is already on the way. It was my uncle who led the mission! The letter also said that my uncle had brought a holy decree to give me a silver shirt and a silver crown, and ordered me to stay in the blue sea and wait to join the mission. ”

Zhu Zhitong was so happy that she almost jumped up, and couldn't help but exclaim: "It's actually your uncle who is coming, I have to thank Lao Yang well, and I won't be mean to him next time!" ”

"What are you doing Xie Lao Yang?" Su Xiaochen was a little strange.

Zhu Zhitong blurted out, and when Su Xiaochen asked, her face turned crimson.

Idiot, my uncle who has been talking for you dozens of times every night after returning to the palace at night, I Zhu Zhitong never dreamed that the man I missed so much for the first time in my life would actually be someone's uncle! It's ridiculous.

It's just that how can such stupid things be said...... Zhu Zhitong immediately changed his head and asked, "Cangwu's mission just went back, why did it send it again?" ”

"It is said that in the name of the envoy, I want to try to mention the marriage to you Bihai for the prince, but Cangwu is worried that His Majesty the Ming Emperor is undecided, and it is not good to publicize it in advance, so he only explained the reason to your eldest sister, and I hope that your sister can mediate from it, the beauty of adults." Su Xiaochen honestly told the contents of the letters that Zhu Zhiling showed him.

"It's this prince again." Zhu Zhitong felt a little disdainful in her heart, but thinking that if it weren't for him, there would be no mission coming, let alone keeping Su Xiaochen, and her dislike for the prince was greatly reduced at the moment.

"Your sister said that last time we did something on Nanhua Island for her, she was very grateful, thinking that my uncle and I hadn't seen each other for a long time, so she simply asked him not to go to the guest house this time, but also to live on Taiying Island. It is also said that Penglai, Huliang, and Daiyu are three pavilions, and His Royal Highness the Prince lived in Penglai Pavilion last time, and I lived in Huliang Pavilion, so that my uncle could live in Daiyu Pavilion when he came, so as to see each other. ”

Zhu Zhitong praised: "It seems that my sister really wants to thank you, Daiyu Pavilion is the closest to you, the scenery is good, and it is convenient by land and water." After speaking, he clapped his hands again and shouted: "By the way, since the marriage envoy is coming, I am afraid that the happiest should be the second sister, although I don't like your prince, but seeing that the second sister is very attentive to him, I have to hurry to Qinglian Palace to tell her, so that she will not be sullen all the time." ”

Su Xiaochen thought for a while and said, "It's okay, it's just that this matter must be kept secret for the time being, so that His Majesty Emperor Ming doesn't know about it first." ”

Zhu Zhitong agreed: "That's nature." He turned around and went away in a gust of wind.

Seeing Zhu Zhitong walking away, Su Xiaochen couldn't help but think in his heart, this old Yang is really evil. He said that he wanted to practice martial arts, and Lao Yang said that he had a fate to teach him, so Tiehua came. He said that he wanted to see his uncle, but Lao Yang said that he would say a few words, so his uncle came. Could he really be a prophet?

* * * * * *

Hanjiang.

As always, the stormy waves, the same vast smoke.

The envoy of the Cangwu State to Bihai had crossed the river and landed on the border of Binzhou on the other side.

Ye Zhiqiu walked down the tiger head ship steadily, and there was already a sedan chair waiting in front. He put his hand on the pergola and looked around, only to see that the grass was everywhere, paved with greenery, and it was already the scenery of the blue sea country.

Suddenly, a person walked quickly from the rear, dressed in armor and with a sword hanging from his waist, it was General Cao who was guarding the mission.

Lao Cao saw Ye Zhiqiu, saluted respectfully, and pointed to the road in front of him: "Five or six miles to the east is the post station, Lord Ye wants to rest for a while?" ”

Ye Zhiqiu nodded and said, "After crossing the river for a long time, my body is a little aggrieved, and to the north of here is Luoying Lake, why don't you accompany General Cao to visit me?" ”

When Lao Cao heard the three words of Luoyinghu, his face was full of bitterness as if he had seen a plague god.

"Lord Ye...... In this wilderness, it's better to go to the post station early to rest, or don't make extraneous branches, right? ”

Ye Zhiqiu laughed loudly: "General Cao remembered the catastrophe of Luoying Lake again? It doesn't matter, you and I are neither princes nor royal relatives, we are ordinary officials, who will rob them? Besides, let's go on horseback and just look at the scenery on the horse, how about it? ”

After speaking, without waiting for Lao Cao to answer, he made a gesture, signaled to lead a horse, and got on the horse first and walked north. Lao Cao saw that he couldn't stop it, so he had to turn around and shout at the others: "You go forward first, and I will accompany Master Shangshu for a while." He jumped on a horse and followed.

Ye Zhiqiu saw Lao Cao coming, and whipped the horse whip in his hand, and the horse immediately spread its hooves and ran towards the forest.

Both of them galloped like the wind, and after a while, they arrived at the lakeside, and Ye Zhiqiu got off the horse steadily, calm and relaxed. On the contrary, Lao Cao was wearing heavy armor, and he chased out a sweat, and when he got off the horse, he began to gasp: "I...... The civil servant will only sit in a sedan chair, and there is no ...... I didn't expect Lord Ye's riding skills to be so exquisite, it really made me ...... Eyes opened. ”

Ye Zhiqiu smiled and said, "Each other, I didn't expect General Cao to be as good as Wen Mo." ”

When Lao Cao heard this, he knew that he was talking about buying Taishi ink that day, and he couldn't help but blush, and said: "The last general is a rough man, where can he dance and make ink, I just hope that the dog in the family can concentrate on studying like Master Su, so I want to buy two good ink with him, so I want to encourage him." ”

"The tiger father has no dogs, and Ling Gongzi was born in a general's house, why does General Cao want him to abandon martial arts and follow literature?"

"He likes to dance with knives and guns, but he thinks about ...... future," Lao Cao felt that the next words were not easy to say.

Ye Zhiqiu immediately understood.

Cangwu is now a peaceful and prosperous era, and there is no war. If a military attache wants to be promoted, and he has no martial honors, he can only rank his seniority. Lao Cao is so solid that he is only a fourth-grade title, and he has no oil and water. Mo said that the civil officials of the imperial capital are the prefects of a state at the same level, and they also hold a piece of land, and their lives are much more nourishing than him.

The one who complains the most about peace in the world is always the military attaché, and he can't say it.

Thinking of this, Ye Zhiqiu said with relief: "The combination of civil and military is the way of social security." I don't dare to say how many opportunities there are for the military attaches of the DPRK and China to make meritorious contributions, but it is just that the army is raised for a thousand days and used for a while, maybe one day the opportunity will come? ”

Lao Cao laughed when he heard it, but he didn't think so: Maybe one day? Maybe the opportunity will not come in a lifetime?

Ye Zhiqiu saw his expression and knew that he was unconvinced, so he continued: "The regret in life is that the opportunity has come, but you can't grasp it, that is a missed opportunity." ”

Lao Cao heard what he said, thought about it for a while, didn't understand what it meant, and asked, "The last general still doesn't understand, Lord Wangye advises." ”

Ye Zhiqiu pointed to the imposing waterfall in the distance, and said with a smile: "For example, when you came to Bihai last time, you wanted to see this waterfall, you left ten people to guard Princess Yinquan, and the rest were left to His Royal Highness the Prince, so you guarded the prince and lost the princess." If you split the people in half and the princess and the prince are guarded, what do you think others will think? ”

Lao Cao still didn't understand, and hesitated: "Naturally, I think that the last general is effective in guarding and acting safely." ”

Ye Zhiqiu nodded and said, "If you can keep the two of you, others will praise you for being safe." But there are many stable people in the court, why did the general lose the princess last time, but this time he can still take on the responsibility of guarding the mission? Wouldn't other generals want such a rare opportunity to make contributions? ”

Lao Cao replied with a smile on his face: "The last general heard afterwards that thanks to Lord Ye's kind words in the court, not only was he not punished, but he was able to receive this errand again, which is really cultivated by adults." ”

Ye Zhiqiu shook his head and chuckled, "So the general still doesn't understand." Even if I want to speak for the general, if the general's actions are commendable, what can I do? ”

Lao Cao pondered for a while, and said in his heart: This ...... Am I losing the princess and losing my fame?

Ye Zhiqiu continued: "Although it is important to run errands well, if you want to stand out from the crowd, you need to carefully consider the proportions. In the world, if you want to do things well, you don't necessarily need to do them right, and if you want to do them right, you don't necessarily need to do them too well. For example, last time, the general escorted most of the men and horses to the prince, and only gave the princess ten guards, which is different from each other. This made the saint feel that the general was in the face of the great enemy, and he was a person with ideas. If the general is a man who has no idea and wants to protect the prince and the princess at the same time, but he doesn't protect either of them, do you think the saint will favor you and assign this errand to you? ”

Lao Cao listened to it like an enlightenment, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the insight of this master was really extraordinary, and he hurriedly said: "Lord Ye's words are really better than reading for ten years, and the last general is really taught." ”

Ye Zhiqiu's tone was still very modest, and he said in a harmonious voice: "The general is gentle, I will say a few more words, the eldest husband should act in the world, wait for the opportunity to move, and must not stick to the old ways and be a pool of stagnant water." There is a saying that heroes are born in troubled times, although it is a peaceful and prosperous era now, if the situation changes in the future, it must be decided, otherwise it will be a missed opportunity and regret a lifetime. ”

Lao Cao heard that there was a lot of mystery in it, and he had no clue, so he still laughed and said: "Adults' eyes are like torches, and their eyes are like watching fire." I only hope that by then, the adults can guide the maze and show a clear path for the lowly position. ”

When Ye Zhiqiu heard this, he laughed: "The general's words are serious, how can I have any insight like a torch, but I am a few years older than the general, and I have seen more." What you and I are talking about today is just gossip, and the general should not take it too seriously. ”

After speaking, he looked at the sky and said, "Although the beautiful scenery is good, the sunset is getting west, let's go back." Why don't I race with the general again and see who gets to the post station first? ”

At this time, how could Lao Cao be upset by Ye Zhiqiu's excitement, and turned the horse's head and said happily: "I must accompany you." "As everyone knows:

The shore of Luoying Lake is colorful, and those who are interested in it have a heart.

Today's good words entered his heart, and he became confused.