Wang Qinian was out of breath by Lin Chong's shot.

However, the bigger blow is psychological.

He endured the sharp pain and looked around, and found that a hedge had come down, and the old brother of the thief had plummeted by a third .......

"Made, horse thieves really shouldn't be hard at hand."

Wang Qinian whispered to himself in distress.

"Boss, are you still fighting?"

"Spank it! Walk! Wang Qinian shouted: "They definitely won't chase it!" ”

……

On the other side, Lin Chong looked at the deep groove on the breastplate that was cut by the saber, and he was in a cold sweat.

He boasted that he was a master of kung fu immediately, and his old friend Xu Ning was not his opponent, but the horse thief just now was indeed not weaker than himself at all.

He may even be a line stronger than himself - in the moment that staggered just now, if it weren't for his own thick armor, he might have been disemboweled.

Xu Ning urged the horse to Lin Chong's side, just now the two of them together as the core to hedge against the horse thief, Lin Chong relied on the cuirass to have a little advantage over Wang Qinian, but Xu Ning's side achieved the result - the golden gun hooked a horse thief with a hook and sickle, dragged him off the horse and captured him alive.

"Do you want to chase it?" Xu Ning asked.

"It's hard to chase." Lin Chong replied regretfully.

Wang Qinian felt sorry for his old brother, and Lin Chong and Xu Ning were also distressed.

They had only 80 real cavalry per brigade, two people brought out more than 40, one hedge killed 9 wounded 12, and half lost.

Originally, I thought it was to catch a group of thieves, and I grabbed some horses by the way, but I didn't want to be bitten back.

It's a big loss.

"Bring all the horses here." Lin Chong no longer looked at the thieves who had drifted away, but shouted to his own people: "Take the wounded and our corpses, and let's go back." ”

……

"Dismount, rest!"

Escaping for nearly twenty miles in one go, Wang Qinian ordered loudly:

"Let's see who's missing?"

"The eighth is gone!" Someone replied aloud.

"The fifth is gone!"

Wang Qinian closed his eyes in pain.

After a while, he finally regained his mood a little: "Who saw that they were dead or were caught by the dog officers?" ”

"Lao Wu was hooked by an official army, he should still be alive."

"The eighth child should be really gone."

"What to do, Boss?" The horse thieves asked unwillingly: "In addition to the fifth brother, there are several brothers who were caught by the dog officer army. ”

"We have to save them!"

"How can I save it?" Another person asked: "The Qingzhou soldiers have already arrived, and today this is only cavalry, and we can't beat it with the foot soldiers." ”

"But that's it, brother, how can you leave it alone?"

It really can't be ignored, it's not easy to get on the horse thief to replenish, after all, it's not easy to find a few good men with good equestrian skills in the wasteland-like Jiangbei now.

"Let's trade horses for them."

Wang Qinian thought for a while and said:

"We have a lot of horses, take them and exchange them with the Qingzhou soldiers to get the brothers back."

A few months ago, the Tartars failed to attack Qi Province in a big way, and some of the small troops that had fallen behind were eaten by the horse thieves when they retreated, and now Wang Qinian has more horses in his hands than men.

……

Soon after Lin Chong returned, Xu Shiyang personally led the guards to arrive to meet the fleet from Jiangnan.

When he arrived, Zhang Mingyi was already waiting on the shore.

"Brother Zhang." Xu Shiyang bowed his hand and saluted Zhang Mingyi, the nominal transfer envoy who actually came to monitor him.

But the other party did not return the salute, but asked bluntly:

"General Xu, I heard that you raided the saint's house?"

'Heh, say this as soon as you meet?' ’

Xu Shiyang smiled and replied calmly: "Why did Brother Zhang say this?" In the next break will not be so! ”

"What's going on?" Zhang Mingyi didn't believe it: "This official wants to go to Qufu to worship the saint first!" ”

"No problem." Xu Shiyang said calmly: "I just asked the Holy Father to preach the Sage's Dao, how can it be said that I copied the Sage's home?" ”

"The family is gone?"

"Yes, Feng Sheng Gong himself went to Qingzhou, and his younger brothers went to Dengzhou, Tai'an and other places." Xu Shiyang said with a smile: "There are many people there who are looking forward to the Sage Dao. ”

Zhang Mingyi was very angry.

But there is no way, Xu Shiyang said it in a high-sounding manner, and he really can't say anything.

He could not say that the sage's phrase "there is no class in teaching" was wrong.

"The mansion of Feng Sheng Gong has also become a school, which will be the best school in Qi Province, and I hope that this school will become a holy place in the hearts of all students in Qi Province."

"At the feet of the saints, they must be able to study ...... more seriously."

"Alright, don't say it!" Zhang Mingyi interrupted Xu Shiyang and asked seriously: "Brother Xu, tell me the truth, what do you want to do?" ”

"To win." Xu Shiyang replied with a smile.

"What victory? Do you lack this little thing in their house? Zhang Mingyi waved his hand to rebuke everyone around him, lowered his voice, and said anxiously to Xu Shiyang: "If you want money and food, you can tell Wen Xianggong, why do you have to ask for them?" If you do this, what should Jiangnan Shilin say about you? ”

Xu Shiyang was a little surprised, and thought that this guy was against it.

I did it for a long time, but I just felt that doing this thing was a bit more than worth the loss.

In fact, it is normal for Zhang Mingyi to have this kind of thought, after all, most of the talented scholars of the Han people are a little arrogant, they revere the saints, but they really don't necessarily have any reverence for the heirs of the saints.

"Brother Zhang."

Xu Shiyang put away his smile and replied in a serious tone:

"Those who hinder the future, whether it is ancient or modern, human or ghost, "Three Tombs", "Five Classics", "Tianqiu River Map", Golden Man and Jade Buddha, Ancestral Pill San, Secret Anointing Pill, all have to fall to the ground."

"I don't want to move forward at the same time, but also carry useless things to increase the weight of myself, in Qi Province, everyone, have to forge ahead!"

……

On a boat in the canal.

A maid was beside Wen Yue, pointing to Xu Shiyang, who was whispering to Zhang Mingyi on the shore, and asked in a low voice, "Miss, that person is the master?" ”

"That's it." Wen Yue also looked at Xu Shiyang and whispered, "It should be him." ”

When Xu Shiyang was in Jiangnan, he hadn't seen Wen Yue - he was not a member of the Wen family, how could he go to the backyard where his female dependents lived.

What's more, Wen Yue doesn't go out many times, and even if she goes out, she doesn't have to go to the front yard.

However, before Wen Yue set off, she heard from her brother and father what they said about Xu Shiyang:

In terms of appearance, he is very burly, and he looks like a standard military general, which is obviously different from the Jiangnan scholars.

It's long, it's not ugly, but it can't be said to be in line with the current aesthetics, it can only be regarded as mediocre.

Fortunately, a man's appearance is not important.

In the eyes of Wenyue's mothers, the important thing is whether this husband will hurt people, and what future this husband has.

In the eyes of Wen Yue's father and brothers, the most important thing is what political benefits this husband can bring to them.

No one asked Wen Yue if she agreed to this marriage, and it didn't matter if she agreed or not.

"Well...... there's really no way."

Wen Yue sighed and said helplessly:

"No one asked me what I valued most."