Chapter 567: Heaven and Earth
Scattered snowflakes fell on the roof, in the middle of the courtyard full of snow and dead branches, Lu Bu frowned, and stood silently under the eaves again, Lu Zhen sighed, rubbed his hands, and looked at Sister A.
Over there, the girl lowered her head slightly and peeked at her father, her white fingers pinched the corners of her clothes, looking a little nervous, and then she thought about it, anyway, she had already said it before, gritted her teeth, and then raised her head.
"Daddy...... Do you think it's good? She spoke crisply again.
"Nonsense!" Lu Bu waved his hand, "How dangerous is the battlefield, guns and arrows come and go, if there is a mistake, how can your father explain to your mother and yourself?!" β
"But ..... father is very powerful...... Lingqi stayed by her father's side and didn't go anywhere, and ...... Maybe the countries to the west are all chickens and dogs? β
The corners of Lu Bu's mouth twitched, and then he walked out of the eaves with a straight face, "....... is a father who has fought all his life, and he has lost a lot, and no one dares to guarantee that he will always win on the battlefield, and he will always win, if he loses the battle, he can also kill his father in the army, if you are around, then there will be chaos everywhere, how can my father protect you." β
"Who said that there are no winners all the time, Lingqi knows three!"
"Oh?" Lu Bu was stunned by what she said, and said with a smile: "Which three, tell your father." β
Lu Lingqi raised her pretty face, thought for a moment, and raised three fingers: "General Wei and Huo Hussar in the Han Wu period, these are the two ......" The little face was serious, "The nearest one, the Gongsun Governor here is also one." β
"General Wei Da is steady and decisive with his soldiers, and he naturally deserves it, although Huo Hussar died young, he attacked the Hun court in a roundabout way, and his courage and insight are rare in the world, and they are counted. As for Gongsun Zhi, he has also had failures, but he has been beautifully repaired, well, I heard that it is called calmly transferred. β
Lu Bu stretched out his hand to help her shake the snowflakes on the fur collar cloak, "Okay, don't think about going on the battlefield, you should stay at home with your little martial arts, learn some female celebrities, and make your mother happy." β
"Don't-" Lingqi narrowed her eyes slightly, like an angry kitten, her cheeks bulged slightly: "Father doesn't believe in his daughter's martial arts!" β
"In short, it's too dangerous to let you go!"
"Humph! Then the daughter proved it to her father. Lu Lingqi turned her head to look at Lu Zhen over there, "Brother, you go back to the house and get an arrow target." β
Lu Zhen snorted, nodded, and hurriedly ran into the house to rummage around. Lu Bu rubbed his eyebrows, "Lingqi, in the affairs of the army, few daughters are involved, not to mention the three armies conquering foreign regions, how can there be a daughter ......?"
"The daughter doesn't get involved, she just wants to go out to fight with her father!" Lingqi's eyes widened, and she didn't avoid the serious father on the other side, "I just want to let those barbarians see, all the sons and daughters of my Han family can fight!" β
"You ....." Lu Bu stared at his determined-eyed daughter, unable to find the words to refute for a while.
While he was talking, the villain had already kicked the hem of his robe from the house and ran out quickly, holding a piece of melon and fruit in his hand, and squeezing his eyebrows: "Sister, only this one, you have to shoot accurately!" β
Saying that, she ran to the side of the big tree, looked around, and finally put the melon and fruit in her hand on her head, and in the next second, the girl lifted her cloak, turned out a short bow from behind, pulled out an arrow, and directly pulled the bowstring, so frightened that Lu Bu next to her hurriedly walked over, stopped in the middle, and glared at the sisters and brothers, and even Yan, who occasionally glanced at him in the house, also said 'ouch', and hurriedly put down the objects in his hand and came out of the house.
"Husband won't stop Lingqi yet."
Over there, Lu Lingqi also lowered her bow, looking at her father who was blocking in the middle with wet eyes, and on the other side, Lu Zhen blushed and shouted loudly: "Sister, hurry up, it's so cold!" β
"You're messing around too!" Lu Bu turned his head and glared at his son, so frightened that the villain shrunk his neck, and the melon and fruit held above his head did not put it down.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside, and someone came in, dressed as a public from the side of the government, and the other party stood at the door and arched his hand towards the courtyard: "Qiyu Wenhou, the county guard and Li Changshi invite you to go to the yamen to discuss the matter of sending troops." β
"Well, you go back first, and a certain family will come later."
Lu Bu waved his hand and sent away the government officials, and nodded his daughter, "When my father comes back, don't point arrows at your brother, otherwise it will be confiscated, and you will not be allowed to ride a horse for a month." β
Then he told the sister and brother again, led the red rabbit out of the small courtyard from the stable, walked a few steps and glared back again, and then left.
"Don't go into the house yet, your father agreed."
Lu Lingqi turned her head and looked at the woman, "Father agreed?" β
"Isn't there room for negotiation if you don't say anything? You siblings are really determined to eat your father. "Although the Yan family is worried about a girl going to that dangerous battlefield, when he thinks that there is a husband, not to mention that the most elite soldiers and horses in the world are involved, there should be no danger, but I am afraid that it will take two or three years to come back, and I am somewhat worried. She still smiled and beckoned to the two children: "Come into the house to eat, don't catch the cold, when it comes to the army, you can't complain about being sick in bed." β
"My mother still understands my father'......."
Lu Lingqi raised her hand excitedly, and with a bang, the black shadow flew out from the string, and subconsciously turned her head to look at the other side, where Lu Zhen opened her mouth slightly, stood there and looked at the girl blankly, and snorted, "Sister....... the melons and fruits on my head seem to be gone......"
"You brothers and sisters! Enter the house immediatelyβ" Yan almost shouted with his waist crossed.
However, Lu Bu, who had already ridden to the side of the palace, could not see such a picture, after leaving his own yard, he returned to the role of the flying general Lu Bu, and the current focus naturally shifted to the matter of the Western Expedition for the New Year, for many people, although this war is exciting, but at his level, he more or less knows why he launched such a war, after all, the labor expedition is also a taboo for soldiers.
For example, during the time of the Han Dynasty, the continuous expansion of the territory was only a little across the Western Regions, and if he really wanted to hit the country called Great Qin, many people had a dream-like hazy illusion, if it weren't for the fact that his best friend Zhang Yang really died in the hands of the Great Qin people, and there were also 3,000 Great Qin captives in the north, otherwise he would have such a complicated feeling.
Lu Bu glanced up, and the snowflakes falling from the sky fell, "After the New Year, it is a different man, and a certain family is fortunate to be able to participate in the grand event of expanding the territory......." He took a breath and smiled on the horseback: "....... should not be in vain." β
Snowflakes drifted beyond his gaze.
Gongsun Mansion, eaves, walls, and corridors are lit up everywhere, and the servants and maids who come and go are busy cleaning the corners of the courtyard in the scolding of several small stewards under Jian Shuo, and occasionally someone walks past a room in the backyard, which is to slow down and pass carefully, so as not to disturb the eldest prince who is reading inside.
In front of the open window, a snowflake fell on the windowsill, and the figure behind the long case put down the bamboo slip and looked up at the sky, gloomy as if it was another sign of heavy snowfall. Soon, the door behind him opened, and Cai Yan, who was holding the golden hairpin, walked in, and looked at the appearance of standing there looking at the snow, so he called him out for a walk.
"Thinking about your father?"
Gongsun Zheng nodded behind his mother, and said softly: "Compared with children, mothers miss their fathers the most, in fact, Zheng'er also wants to share his father's worries, and he doesn't want him to run around all the time. β
"Zheng'er can think of sharing worries for your father, which means that you have grown up." Cai Yan turned his head and smiled: "But you have to know that a generation has the responsibility of a generation, your father works hard, that's what he has to do, his mother stays in the house and waits for him, it is also the mother's responsibility to take care of this family, and Zheng'er will have it in the future." β
"Well, I understand."
Under the eaves of a corridor in the distance, a pair of eyes were watching the mother and son talk across the eaves, and subconsciously touched their shriveled stomachs, Ren Hongchang leaned against the wall and said to the three sisters beside him: "The man will not come back, and he will go directly to the west after the New Year...... No, I don't want to wait here, you say? β
"Uh...... Imperial Chief, we're going to go west, I heard that it's hard to walk there. The younger waitress was named Hongjin, and when she heard Ren Hongchang's words, her face suddenly became bitter, "The subordinates are all ready to find a good family here and marry themselves...... Going again. β
"I haven't even seen many men, and they still talk big." The other maid stabbed her with a smile on the hilt of the knife, "Just go out to increase your knowledge, it's not that you won't come back, not to mention that this time many heroes and heroes, generals, and literati will participate, maybe your marriage will be solved halfway." β
Ren Hongchang turned to look at them and waved his hand: "Go back and prepare, the New Year will not be here, the man is not here, and it is not interesting to live, go!" β
The four of them left the crescent moon gate for a while, and then someone hurriedly came from another side yard, passed through here, and walked quickly towards Cai Yan and Gongsun Zheng, who were walking and talking in the distance.
"Madam, eldest son, there seems to be something wrong with the white wolf of the main family."
"What's wrong?"
Cai Yan naturally knew that there was a wolf in the house, as early as when she followed her husband from the grassland all the way to Montenegro, the white wolf was also hundreds of miles away, calculating the time, and getting along for more than ten years, although it was a beast, the feelings were there, and Cai Yan would also let people hunt a few deer on weekdays and take them to feed it personally, at this time when he heard the servant's words, his brows furrowed.
"People don't know about ..... two or three meals without food."
When the servant spoke, Cai Yan had already taken Gongsun Zheng towards the courtyard over there, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he saw several maids running out in a panic, and the white wolf walked out of the small door listlessly, glanced at the woman and child over there with cold eyes, yawned, nodded as if signaling, and passed the two of them.
"Go to the steward and ask him to prepare a carriage to take him out of town." Cai Yan commanded the servant.
Zheng'er looked at the sick white wolf, and wanted to go up with some worry, but was finally stopped by his mother, "Mother, is it sick?" β
"No...... After being away from the pack for too long, the white wolf wants to go back and see the other wolves in the mountains, don't think about it. β
The woman put her arms around her son and touched his hair, but he was old. The words were not spoken, a wild wolf lived a privileged life in the mansion, and it was a great thing to be able to live until now, but there was a time when life would eventually leave, and Cai Yan did not plan to tell Zheng'er these words too early.
"Will the white wolf come back?"
"I'll come back, I've been in the mountains for a long time, and I'll miss this side again, my mother guesses it may be that it misses your father too."
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The snow-white fur reflected the white snow, and the wolf's figure walked out of the mansion, and the huge head glanced at the carriage parked over there, and the respectful coachman, kicked on his hind legs, jumped straight up, his eyes seemed to be full of wisdom, looked back at the mansion behind him, and then walked into the car.
The coachman shivered when he saw it, and hurriedly got into the car and whipped it, let the wheel move, shuttled through the market, went out of the city gate and drove along the official road to the southeast Taihang Mountain, to the afternoon dusk, the wind and snow became heavier and heavier, and before reaching the foot of the mountain, the white giant wolf in the car had already walked out, and without waiting for the carriage to stop, the figure jumped down from above, galloped in the snow, and stepped out a series of paw prints to extend into the mountain forest.
The white wolf's mane stroking slightly in the wind and snow, in the twilight of dusk, the giant wolf stood on a cliff boulder, silently staring in the direction where someone was, and soon the black came, and there was a distant wolf howl in the whimpering wind and snow, and then the sound of the wolf in the whole mountain continued to sound.
Whining...... Whew.......
The sound of wolves was also heard in the mountains of the northwest, and heavy snow covered the rugged mountains at the same time.
In the Zaodangqiang tribe, a thin and swarthy old man fell under the arm of a strong man on this snowy night, Cherrigi gently placed the body on the straw mat, opened the door, the wind mixed with snowflakes on his face, nodded to his wife, took the wine, and took a sip.
"Dead."
The sound drifted away in the wind, and dense flakes of snowflakes flew in the air, past the campfires flickering in the darkness, and farther east, where someone stood in the darkness thinking about something, making a final decision when it came to making a decision.
Behind him, there were three generals, Dian Wei, Li Ke, and Hua Xiong, as well as three thousand archers, like black statues standing in the heavy snow, waiting for the wolf king's order.
"After dawn, send an order to Guo Yan, and you can get out."
The wind and snow were heavier, muffling the sound around the mouth.