In spring, the climate in Quancheng is not bad.

Every morning, before going to work, Wen Ji would take his wife, Xu Shimei, to take a walk around the campus of Imperial Springs University near his home.

Xu Shimei is pregnant, and this will be the couple's third child.

The medical community of the empire now believes (and undoubtedly influenced by Xu Shiyang) that the physical fitness of children is very positively correlated with the health of the mother, so the household and medical circles have an unusual penchant for improving the physical fitness of women.

For this reason, the Imperial Propaganda Department has even released an ideal image of the imperial "beauty" - not a traditional lady, nor is it the image of a thin horse in Jiangnan who supports the wind and a weak willow, but some kind of ......, well, if it is a traverser, you will probably feel that this image is very similar to another plane of Chinese female students in the 7th and 8th decades of the 20th century.

Even the same is true of clothing, which is destined to be complained about by countless students in the future, and the blue "sportswear" style school uniform has been fully rolled out in government schools, but this thing has a good texture, although it is very different from traditional clothing (girls do not wear skirts), but it is still quite trend-setting in this era.

Mr. and Mrs. Wen Ji walked slowly hand in hand under the tall birch trees on both sides of the road, and on the main campus road beside them, the male and female students of the university were in a group, running and running morning exercises, and the young people wore blue school uniforms, held their heads high, and sang as they ran.

They sang military songs, which seemed quite high-spirited.

Xu Shimei hugged her husband's arm, tilted her head and looked at these young students with envy: "It's so good, I haven't even gone to college." ”

When the construction of universities began in the north, Xu Shimei had already married a wife.

"I haven't gone to school either, and there is no university in Jiangnan at all." Wen Ji smiled: "But our children can go to school, isn't our current work for them?" ”

Xu Shimei glanced at her husband with a wicked smile: "My husband, you are becoming more and more like my third brother now." ”

"I wish I could be like him."

Wen Ji's deepest impression of his childhood was his escape.

In that year, the Jin army marched south, and the Great Zhou Emperor gave up the soldiers and civilians who were still resisting and fled south, so the whole army was in chaos, and the Jin army occupied the capital Bianliang and slaughtered the city.

The fleeing crowd flocked to the south like a tidal wave, and the golden army followed the iron cavalry like a shadow, constantly killing the people who could not dodge, and those Tartars first selected the strongest and most rebellious men from among them, gouged out their hearts and livers, and ate them on the spot as a deterrent, and then plundered the young women, and the remaining men were organized into slave soldiers, and the old and weak children were thrown directly to the side of the road.

The way to the south was full of dead corpses and desperate and wailing people, the Wen family had a great cause, and more than 100 families were not afraid of small groups of enemies and desperate people who had to rob other people's rations.

But if there are too many people, it is easy to be targeted by a large number of enemy horsemen.

At the last moment, Wen Ji's eldest brother asked the women and children to retreat first, and he took the family to protect the home, and the most bloody men among the refugees fought back against the Jurchen Iron Cavalry, buying them time to flee.

When my father talked about this day, he always said that the eldest brother sacrificed very bravely and heroically, and he will definitely go down in history in the future.

But when he grew up, when Wen Ji recalled this day, he always had a question: about 300 men with only wooden sticks and simple weapons, without any training, fought back with the determination to die, and at least 200 Jurchen cavalry had nothing to do in an hour or two.

So, why can't the hundreds of thousands of troops of the imperial court deal with the tens of thousands of Jurchen Tartars?

Wen Ji asked Wen Zhong and Wen Jifu.

The former told him that it was because the court was controlled by traitorous ministers, as long as our main war faction came to power.

The latter shook his head, sighed, and said nothing.

Maybe it was out of guilt for his eldest brother (Wen Ji and his eldest brother are the same mother, Wen Zhong is not), after arriving in Lin'an, Wen Jifu did not interfere too much with Wen Ji's reluctance to learn Confucianism and poetry, but instead mixed with people from all walks of life.

It wasn't until later that the Wen and Xu families decided to marry, his sister Wen Yue married Xu Shiyang, and Wen Ji wanted to marry the daughter of the Xu family.

In order to at least not make the daughter of the Xu family feel wronged, during the period between the marriage and Xu Shimei's arrival in Jiangnan, Wen Jifu and Wen Zhong were very strict with Wen Ji, and they also infused a lot of Confucianism and literature in a cramming way.

After all, his family history is somewhat basic, although he was not able to be admitted to the Jinshi at that time, but in Xiucai, the cultural level is probably among the first-class.

Of course, the reason why Wen Ji suddenly changed his personality and studied hard was also due to Xu Shiyang - because he was present when Xu Shiyang confronted the Tartar messenger in person.

That night, Xu Shiyang burned down the Duting Station, and Wen Ji also wanted to find some friends on the rivers and lakes to help.

Wen Ji felt that if this brave young man had been born more than ten years earlier, there would not have been a situation where hundreds of thousands of troops in the imperial court could not defeat tens of thousands of Tartars, so many people, as well as his eldest brother, might not have to die.

Wen Ji admired Xu Shiyang, he didn't tell others, but he just admired Xu Shiyang, so at this time he said that it would be good to be like Xu Shiyang, so he studied hard at that time, and didn't want his future wife, Xu Shiyang's sister, to be wronged.

However, when Xu Shimei arrived at Jiangnan Wenfu, the Wen family found that they might have thought about it - this daughter of the Xu family may not care whether her husband has the talent to enter the Shi at all.

This girl is more unconventional than herself.

In fact, Wen Ji's riding skills and archery (muskets) were taught by his wife after marriage, and the props were a Liaodong war horse (trophy, also Xu Shimei's dowry) sent by Jiangbei and Xu Shimei's own two flintlock pistols (there were no firing pistols and revolvers at that time).

When the couple were in Jiangnan, they secretly mixed gunpowder in private to increase the dwindling ammunition reserves.

Objectively speaking, Wen Xianggong sent the couple to Jiangbei, except for betting on both ends, he may not have the idea of letting these two little bastards who often cause trouble get far away, out of sight and out of mind.

The couple continued to stroll while talking and laughing, and it didn't take long for the college students who were running and exercising to suddenly become a little restless, some yelling at the queue, and more people stopped and exchanged ears.

"What's going on?" Xu Shimei asked.

Wen Ji didn't know either, he craned his neck and glanced back and forth, but he didn't find anything special.

After a few moments, a cheer erupted among the students:

"We won!"

"Hooray!"

"Long live the Empire!"

"Long live Huaxia!"

Wen Ji retracted his head, took his wife's hand and continued to walk forward: "Okay, don't look at it, it should be the northwest side that won." ”

"How do you know?"

"Or else? The students were so excited, of course, they won the war externally, either against Fusang or against Pseudo-Xia. Wen Ji had a bitter face, and said helplessly: "It's still early for Fusang, and the puppet Xia has hit the Tartar puppet capital ......, so let's go quickly, I'm going to be busy again." ”