Chapter Twenty-Five: The Regiment Exercises

When An Yi woke up, it was already evening. He closed his eyes and gently kneaded his temples with his hands, and he hadn't had a good rest for nearly two days and two nights.

When he opened his eyes, he saw the familiar six-poster bed of rosewood, the mahogany octagonal table in the room, and the camphor wood Taishi chair next to the table, and then sank into the soft futon, and a sense of satisfaction arose, and he was still comfortable in his own house.

He was about to turn over and sleep again, when he suddenly felt that his legs were full of weight, and he thought it was a quilt pressed against his legs, so he planned to get up and remove the quilt. Who knows, when he propped himself up, he saw where the quilt was, and it was a big living person lying on his lap.

I saw that the man's eyes were slightly closed, his arms were pillowed under that delicate face, his black hair was spread like clouds, his eyelashes were like butterflies, his red lips were as ruddy as begonias, and his slightly messy lilac silk could not hide the fragrant shoulders that were accidentally exposed, as pink as milk.

Gao Yingshu!

Where can An Yi not recognize the beauty in front of him who haunts him, he was very happy for a while, and saw Gao Yingshu falling asleep like this, but he couldn't bear to wake her up,

He leaned his face over little by little, gently twisted the strands of green silk in front of Gao Yingshu's face behind his head with his hands, and looked at her delicate face like porcelain. Gently put her forehead on Gao Ying's white forehead, and just like that, let the fragrance she exhaled lap on her face.

"Brother, you..."

An Xin's voice came from the door.

When An Yi heard the prestige, An Xin stood at the door with a slightly red face and looked at him, I am afraid that the intimate actions with Gao Ying just now were all in her eyes.

“.... Awake? ”

An Xin used that voice as thin as a mosquito and fly to spit out the two words that he hadn't finished just now. Looking at his sister's little woman-like appearance, An Yi laughed in his heart, and he beckoned An Xin to come in with his hand.

Gao Yingshu, who was asleep, was also awakened by their brother and sister, rubbing her sleepy eyes, she saw that An Yi had woken up and sat on the bed, and smiled at him: "Are you awake?" ”

An Yi took Gao Yingshu's soft hand with his hand, led her to sit on the bed beside her, wrapped his right hand around her waist, lowered his head, and said softly in Gao Yingshu's ear: "Do you want to tidy up your clothes?" ”

Gao Yingshu's face turned red when he heard this, and he realized that he had just woken up and his clothes were disheveled. She quickly straightened her clothes, so that the fragrant shoulders of mutton fat and jade shrank back into her dress.

An Xin came into the room and sat on the Taishi chair and watched the two of them immersed in the charming atmosphere, completely treating themselves as transparent people.

"Ahem~"

She coughed deliberately twice, which caught the attention of the two.

An Yi looked at his sister and smiled a little embarrassedly, he pointed at Gao Yingshu and said to the two: "You all know each other?" ”

"Sister Yingshu came over with Uncle Jin and them in the morning, and as soon as she entered the mansion, she hurriedly came to guard his husband~" An Xin said with a smile, she deliberately stretched the last two words so long.

Gao Yingshu was originally a girl who had not left the cabinet, and when An Xin laughed at her like this, she raised her lotus arm and made a move towards An Xin. An Xin pretended to dodge and stuck out her tongue at her.

An Yi suddenly remembered the clever little maid when she was in the cottage, and asked Gao Yingshu: "Ning'er has found it?" ”

When Gao Ying heard this, his eyes suddenly dimmed, and his heart seemed to have overturned the five-flavor bottle, which was very unpleasant: "Uncle Jin has been sending people to look for him again, but a few days have passed, and there is no trace of Ning'er. ”

An Yi was embarrassed to listen to, he knew that Ning Er had been by Gao Yingshu's side since she was a child, and the two of them were called master and servant, in fact, they could be said to be like sisters.

"By the way, my father asked me to give you this letter when he was leaving." Patronizing it felt uncomfortable, and I forgot about it. As she spoke, she took out a thin letter from her bosom and handed it to Anyi, saying, "My father wants me to hand it over to you with my own hands, so I have always kept it on my body. ”

An Yi took the letter, and saw the four vigorous and powerful words on it, "An Yi Qinqi", he put the letter in front of his nose, sniffed it vigorously, and pretended to be obsessed: "It's so fragrant~"

An Xin on the side only rolled her eyes when she heard this,

Seeing this, Gao Yingshu gently beat him beside him, scolding him for not being serious.

An Yi took the letter, read it carefully, and then handed it to Gao Yingshu.

Gao Yingshu looked at the letter, looked up and asked An Yi with some surprise: "Father wants you to be a group training envoy?" ”

The regimental training envoy was not an official position in the Great Xia Dynasty, but a military position derived from the local militia system. Mainly during the imperial war, the militia groups organized by wealthy merchants, gentry, and nobles came to listen to the imperial court's conscription at any time to cooperate with the regular army to carry out some brief military tasks.

It's like the militia of the old man Jin in Jinzhu Village, which to some extent looks like a local regimental training. It can be said that local regimental training is an emergency mechanism during the war of the Great Xia Dynasty, and ordinary foreign operations do not require the participation of local regimental training, unless it has reached the level of full-scale war.

"It seems that as Jiang Ruyue said, this time the Liao State is not simply here to fight the autumn wind." Comfortable and Positive Color Road,

Gao Yingshu said with concern: "Then how do you plan to do it?" ”

An Yi didn't answer Gao Yingshu's words, he was silent for two seconds, and asked Gao Yingshu, "How is the situation outside?" ”

Gao Ying said: "I listen to my father's meaning, I'm afraid the war in the north is not going well, the emperor has issued an order, and several border provinces have entered a state of war. This morning, Lin Muzhi burned down the cottage and led the crowd down the mountain to settle down, and then hurriedly pulled out the camp and returned to Chengdu County. ”

"Brother, are you going to fight?" An Xin's eyes widened and she asked her brother curiously.

Gao Yingshu grew up in the palace since he was a child, and he was already a person who has been exposed to politics since he was a child, so he is no stranger to what his father said in his letter. But An Xin grew up in the courtyard of the deep house since she was a child, so she is naturally not very sensitive to these things.

An Yi smiled lightly and replied, "The mountain rain is coming." ”

He thought for a while, turned his head to look at Gao Yingshu, and said, "Tomorrow we will go to Chengdu County, first, we have to take your father's errand, and we must always return to it in person; Second, I want to take Jiang Ruyue and Jin Mingyin to Chengdu County, take one of them into the examination room, and the other into the barracks; Three, that is, I promised my sister, as soon as this matter is over, I will take her to Yixian Tower to feast on her food, and she can't break her word. ”

When An Xin heard this, she was so overjoyed that she couldn't close her mouth happily, and said to An Yi: "You still have a conscience!" ”

"That's... Are you going to take on an errand? Gao Yingshu asked softly on the side, in her impression, An Yi is a leisurely character.

An Yi smiled helplessly, and said to Gao Yingshu: "No way, if you want to marry the daughter of the palace, you don't have an official position, how can you propose marriage?" ”

After hearing this, Gao Yingshu felt extremely warm, I am afraid that there are no more love words in the world, and it can be more heart-warming than this seemingly joking sentence of her beloved, she snuggled her body tightly in her comfortable arms, as if as soon as she let go, someone would take her lover.

An Yi looked outside the door, it was already night, he pondered that this father and Uncle Jin had not seen each other for many years, this kind of wine was a fortunate thing with a thousand cups of confidants, it was still inconvenient to disturb, so he said to the two daughters in front of him: "I don't think we will disturb my father and Uncle Jin, call Jin Mingyin and Jiang Ruyue, how about we have a meal in Sturgeon Jianglou?" ”

An Xin pursed her lips and smiled, the two symmetrical pear vortices on her face, one on the left and one on the right, looked particularly cute, "Jin Mingyin hasn't woken up yet, Ruyue came early in the morning, and he went back to the village when he saw that you were fine. ”

After tossing and turning in the past two days, it can be said that An Yi has not slept a peaceful night. Jiang Ruyue, Jin Mingyin and Zhou Yunlong were naturally taken back and forth by him, circling around him. With these righteous friends, An Yi feels very relieved in his heart. Especially Jiang Ruyue, who was originally an inconspicuous teenager, but he had the ambition to experience the Quartet, and he could see the ambition in his heart at ease, and he also hoped that he could be named on the gold list and realize his ambition.

"Then it seems that only the three of us have a good mouth, let's go!"

As soon as the quilt was lifted, he was about to get up, completely forgetting that he only had a thin pair of obscene pants under the quilt, and the two women covered their faces and turned around.

"Brother, you ......"

An Yi smiled, hiding his embarrassment,

"I'm sorry, then the two of you moved out of the door and asked me to change my clothes."

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The night in Huayang County is not as bustling as Chengdu, only the street lights of taverns and rouge-smelling gentle townships take over the streets at night.

An Yi is still wearing a crescent white brocade robe and walking in front with his head held high, his posture is thin and straight, his steps are gentle, the wind and the moon are bright, and he is indescribably noble and elegant. An Xin was dressed in a pale pink dress, with a cloud belt around her waist, and a Qibao coral hairpin in her hair holding his arm on the left; Gao Yingshu is a lilac Shu brocade long skirt, with low sideburns, obliquely inlaid with pearls and jasper, and he is holding his arm on the right.

A delicate and lovely, a graceful demeanor, wherever you go, people can't help but stop and look at the color of the city, today let An Yi hold one, walk on this street, great satisfaction from the soles of the feet to the hair.

"Ying Shu, do you know where Lin Muzhi was temporarily settled?" An Yi turned his head sideways and asked Gao Yingshu, after he woke up, he hadn't seen Lin Muzhi after coming down the mountain.

Gao Yingshu thought for a while and said, "I don't know this very well, because my father left in a hurry, I remember that I should have gone to the north of the city." ”

"Chengbei? I heard that it is not very peaceful. An Xin interjected,

The north of the city is the most remote area in Huayang County, and generally the people who live there are some people in the market, and it seems that Lin Muzhi, who has been a mountain bandit, is not so easy to be accepted by the people. An Yi thought about it and said to the second daughter, "Let's go, let's go see him." ”

The second daughter nodded, and the group of three people went to the north of the city.

Turning a few bustling streets, a dark and deep alley comes into view, most of the houses on both sides of the alley are dilapidated, and the peeling walls are like scars, exposing the bluestone bricks inside. This is the north of the city, and the ruins and darkness seem to be its labels.

An Xin looked at the silent deep alley, a little scared, and clutched An Yi's arm tightly.

"I said, don't push so hard, it's just dark here."

He looked at his sister helplessly, she was still alive just now, but now she was scared like a quail.

The alley was very silent, as if it was empty, only the footsteps of the three of them could be heard.

"Let's da, da, da~"

As the three of them went deeper, they could no longer see the light outside the alley, and they were completely shrouded in darkness.

"Let's da, da, da~ "

"Brother.... I..... I hear behind me.... There are footsteps. An Xin's voice trembled a little, as if she was afraid of being heard by someone in this empty alley.

"Where? Why didn't I hear that? It's the sound of our footsteps. He chuckled and looked at his sister, this An Xin became less and less bold as she grew older.

"Don't talk about it, I'm getting more and more scared when I say it, but I seem to have heard footsteps just now, just... It's the kind of except.. Outside of us—" Gao Yingshu listened to the conversation between the two siblings, and was also succumbed to the dark atmosphere that shrouded him, his left hand tightly hugged Anyi's arm, and his right hand tightly grasped his hand.

An Yi looked at the two girls who were holding him tightly helplessly, smiled and said, "I can't walk like you two?" ”

"Sister Yingshu, are you sure Lin Muzhi is here?"

"Anyi, I think we'd better get out of here and come back tomorrow at dawn."

He looked at the two little beauties who were about to cry out in fright, so he had no choice but to give up and say to the two: "Two, then how about you let go and let me turn around and go back." ”

The two nodded, temporarily letting go of Comfort's arm.

As soon as the three of them turned around, under a hairy face, there was a protruding blood basin mouth, two rows of Sensen teeth, which was daunting. At the protrusion of the upper lip, a shiny long horn rises, sharp as a knife. Standing right in the middle of the street,

"Ah!!h

The two girls screamed in unison in fright, in this silent and gloomy alley, such a terrifying face really scared An Yi, he subconsciously protected Gao Yingshu and An Xin behind him, took two steps back, looked this "monster" up and down, saw the soap boots on the feet of the "monster", and then smiled heartily, and said to the "monster":

"What do you mean, brother?"