CHAPTER XXI
"What? You're going to a joust? Sun Fatzi looked at Li Wuyan with an incredulous expression. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Huh? Didn't I say that? Li Wuyan also looked at Sun Fatzi with an incredulous expression.
Sun Fatzi shook his head and said, "No, it's really not, it's the first time I've heard of it." ”
"Oh, then I'll tell you now, I'm going to be on stage in four days, remember to come and cheer when the time comes."
Sun Fatzi glanced at him and said, "What's so good-looking, it's not that you don't know, I'm afraid of blood." ”
"Huh?" Li Wuyan let out an exaggerated cry, looked at Sun Fatzi with wide eyes, and said, "Didn't you kill all your pigs?" You told me you were afraid of blood? ”
"you, can human blood and pig blood be the same?" Sun Fatzi said in a natural tone, Li Wuyan was choked by this sentence and didn't know what to say.
After Sun Fatzi loaded the last item of goods onto the donkey cart, he patted his buttocks, leaned on the cart and asked, "When did you practice martial arts, why don't I know?" ”
Li Wuyan played with his fingers and said casually: "I just practiced, it's only been the last month." ”
"Oh...... But why do you kid suddenly want to practice martial arts, it's really strange, it's not like you. Oh, I know, there must be a lot of bonuses for this competition, otherwise how could you, a kid who lost money, practice martial arts. ”
Li Wuyan glanced at him and said, "I want to be healthy, can't I?" ”
"It's not that it doesn't work, it's just not like you." Fat Sun shook his head and wiped his sweat with the towel on his shoulder. Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration, turned his head to Li Wuyan and said, "Oh, I know, you want to join the army, right?" If you have the name of a martial arts champion, maybe you can get a good position, maybe you can be liked by the people above, you think so, right? Hey, you just need to give a little more money to the recruiter for this kind of thing, why do you make so much trouble? But it seems that you, the iron rooster, have really done such a troublesome thing, admire, amazing! ”
Li Wuyan knocked Sun Fatzi's head and said, "What do you think, I am alone in my family, and I don't have to serve in the military, what kind of army do I join?" ”
Sun Fatzi touched his head and said, "The imperial court is about to start recruiting again, don't you know?" It seems that you kid really didn't want to join the army. ”
Li Wuyan said in surprise: "Why are you conscripting again?" The year before last, the recruits in the northern Youyun Road forcibly came to us to collect people, and the tax was increased by 10% for no reason. Which province is going to be conscripted this year? It won't be Youyun Dao again, I think about it, only the Northern Great Mongolian Kingdom and our Great Yan Dynasty have had friction in recent years. ”
Sun Fatzi thought for a while and said, "This time it's Hexi Road in the northwest. It is said that the Shaxia tribe has been moving a lot recently, and I am afraid that it will be unfavorable to Hexi Province. ”
Li Wuyan said dissatisfiedly: "Then you can't keep running to our Henan Road to collect people, and we don't want to live if we pay and pay people?" ”
Sun Fatzi shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said, "There's no way, there were originally few people in Hexi, and they barely filled forty soldiers." However, two years ago, the Ministry of War forcibly assigned their 16 military offices to the central government, and you think, one military government has 2,000 people, and 16 has more than 30,000 people, and almost half of them are gone. Now that Shaxia is going to attack, Hexi can't get anyone, and the military department won't let people go, so they can only recruit soldiers from all over the country. ”
"Why doesn't the military department want to release them?" Li Wuyan looked at Sun Fatzi with a puzzled face and asked, "I remember that a long time ago, our military mansions in Henan Province were all drawn back to the central government, and there were still two on the beach, and they were not full. Now there are at least 60 military palaces around Luojing, it is located in the center of our Great Yan Dynasty, surrounded by a large circle of cities, how do you look at how safe, who do you say he is guarding against? ”
Sun Fatzi glanced around, then approached Li Wuyan's ear and whispered, "Jiannan, have you forgotten?" Two years ago, someone handed over to the court the evidence that the thirteen commanders of Jiannan conspired to rebel against Dayan, and the captains and adjutants were all executed, and the entire Jiannan Provincial Military Mansion came to a big purge. This incident caused a national shock, and there were a lot of doubts. The strangest thing is that after the matter was revealed, the captains and adjutants were all at home and obediently waited for the court to come to arrest them, but none of them resisted; Moreover, Governor Yang of Jiannan Province was not affected at all, and still sat on the governor's seat peacefully, and even the imperial court did not even scold him. ”
Speaking of this, Sun Fatzi paused, turned his head and looked around again, and saw that no one around him was paying attention to them, so he said quietly and quickly: "Some gossip is saying that in fact, Governor Yang is going to take the fifty-six military palaces of Jiannan Dao to occupy the entire southwest region, and then cut the land as the king." But he didn't expect that the conspiracy was still in preparation, and the matter was revealed, and he had no choice but to sell a few of his subordinates. Although the imperial court also knew about this, it didn't want to tear his face with Governor Yang immediately, for fear that he would be killed, so he first stabilized him in that position, and then weakened the power in his hands through constant transfers. In view of the recent frequent changes in officials in Jiannan Province and the increase in the strength of the central government, I feel that this news is reliable. ”
"That's right." Li Wuyan thought for a while, then shook his head and sighed and said, "Eh, no matter what, I feel like the world is going to be chaotic. ”
Sun Fatzi said indifferently: "What are you afraid of, if you can't do it, I'll hide in the mountains." ”
Li Wuyan glanced at him with disdain and said, "That's all you have to offer!" ”
"It's not as good as you, Xiao Wu Quxing." Sun Fatzi jumped on the back of the donkey, waved his hand at Li Wuyan and said, "I will go to the village first, and I will take care of your business for you for two days, so you can compete with peace of mind." By the way, don't forget to say hello to my siblings on my behalf. ”
Siblings? Li Wuyan smiled and shook his head, but did not speak. He also waved his hand at Sun Fatzi, then turned around and walked back to the martial arts hall.
Walking to the door of the martial arts hall, Li Wuyan saw Yueyue boredly squatting on the ground with a piece of grass and playing with ants. Yueyue turned her head when she heard the footsteps, and when she saw that it was Li Wuyan, she pouted, kicked him, and said unhappily: "Didn't you say that you would explain business matters to Sun Fatzi?" Why is it so slow, I have been waiting for a long time. ”
Li Wuyan smiled, but thought of yesterday's scene. After walking out of the door yesterday afternoon, Yueyue changed back to that weird appearance, and there was no trace of sadness on her face at all, Li Wuyan even suspected that the sad Yueyue just now was not awake at all. But when he woke up this morning and saw Yueyue, who was still asleep but hugging him tightly, Li Wuyan suddenly understood a lot. He didn't want to ask what was going on, because he, like Yueyue, didn't want to pierce the last layer of window paper.
Now looking at Yueyue's little expression that seemed to be in a temper, Li Wuyan suddenly felt very missed. It's really strange, Ming Ming has only lived together for less than a month, and Ming Ming has only been away for less than an hour or two, why do I feel nostalgic? But his face didn't show a hint of his thoughts, but still smiled softly.
He squatted down, gently flicked Yueyue's head and said, "What? Miss me so soon? ”
Yueyue covered her forehead, kicked him again, and said dissatisfiedly: "What are you talking about, stupid, do you want to die?" ”
Li Wuyan grabbed Yueyue's hair again, Yueyue hurriedly slapped his hand away to protect his head, and said angrily: "Why are you nervous, why do you always like to touch girls' hair?" Do you know that men are not allowed to touch this place? Stinky rascals! ”
"Tut-tut." Li Wuyan stood up and said in a sympathetic tone: "That's right, you are a twelve-year-old little brat, you want to have no breasts, no buttocks, and your whole body is milky, so you can only touch your clean-looking hair and play hooligan." ”
"Li Wuyan, go die!" Yueyue kicked Li Wuyan hard, but Li Wuyan easily dodged. Yueyue was angry, chasing Li Wuyan for a while, Li Wuyan still easily dodged all her attacks, and even had the strength to make a few grimaces at Yueyue. Yueyue was even more angry, grabbed the things around her and threw them at Li Wuyan. Li Wuyan dodged all the way, and suddenly his collar was pulled back tightly, and he almost fell to the ground. Yueyue didn't stop and hit Li Wuyan's body headfirst.
Yueyue squatted down to cover her forehead, and Li Wuyan also rubbed her bummed arm. He turned his head, looked at Fan Zhutou, who was still holding his collar, and said dissatisfiedly: "Fan Zhutou, what are you trying to do, are you trying to kill me?" ”
Fan Zhutou said with a rare anger: "I still want to ask you, what do you want to do?" Are you ready to demolish my martial arts hall? ”
Li Wuyan and Yueyue looked behind them and found that the martial arts hall had already been messed up by the two of them, and the people who had been training in the martial arts hall were all standing in the inner courtyard looking at them with angry faces.
Yueyue and Li Wuyan couldn't help but tremble at the same time, and then Li Wuyan confessed, because his collar was still grabbed by Fan Zhutou, and he couldn't run at all. Yueyue still had a glimmer of hope, and ran away when Fan Zhutou was not paying attention, but before she could run two steps, she was carried back by Fan Zhutou.
Fan Zhutou looked at these two little bastards with their heads down with a calm face, and said angrily: "If you two don't get me back before dinner, you won't want to eat dinner!" Especially you, Li Wuyan, don't try to mess with me with any cleverness. If I'm not satisfied, I'll keep a record of your real income for the last year......"
Li Wuyan hurriedly stood up and covered Fan Zhutou's mouth, Fan Zhutou shook off his hand vigorously, turned his head and left. Li Wuyan looked around weakly, and then breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, because the dojo was messed up, everyone went back early, and there were no outsiders, otherwise he wouldn't know how to die.
However, he obviously forgot that there was another person present, Yueyue shook her head, and said with an incredible expression: "Tut-tut, Li Wuyan, Li Wuyan, I thought you were an honest person, but I didn't expect you to escape...... Ah, what are you doing, stinky rascal, let me go. ”
Li Wuyan didn't care about this, he forcibly dragged Yueyue into a room and closed the door tightly. Yueyue saw that Li Wuyan was struggling even more violently in this action, and even opened her mouth directly to bite Li Wuyan's hand. Li Wuyan hurriedly let go of his hand, rubbed the bite with his other hand and said dissatisfiedly: "You are a dog, you still bite people, what do you want to do." ”
Yueyue blushed and said angrily, "I just wanted to ask what you are doing!" Stinky rascals! ”
Li Wuyan knew that he had been misunderstood, and Yueyue, who hurriedly lowered her breath, said: "Hey, my aunt, I can't talk nonsense just now, I will be miserable when I am heard by some young person, and I will be arrested and imprisoned." ”
Yueyue tidied up the clothes she had messed up just now, and said dissatisfiedly: "Then you still escape...... Okay, okay, I won't say that word, don't you move? ”
Li Wuyan scratched his head and said helplessly: "No way, I also have to eat, how can it be so easy these days." ”
"Cut, I see that you have stolen a lot of silver, and you insist on escaping for yourself...... Okay, okay, I won't say anything, I won't say anything. Yueyue hurriedly waved her hand, rolled her eyes, and said arrogantly: "It's okay if I don't say it, but you have to take care of the cleaning work later." ”
"Impossible" Li Wuyan rejected her without even thinking about it. But seeing Yueyue's expression of being about to say the forbidden words again, he struggled for a while and said, "I can only help you with half of the work again, otherwise I will miss dinner time." ”
"Deal." Yueyue happily stretched out a palm to Li Wuyan, and Li Wuyan slapped her helplessly and said, "Deal." ”
Li Wuyan walked out of the door, obediently picked up a broom and began to clean the dojo, and after a while, he noticed that there was more and more garbage on the ground. He lowered his head and pretended to clean, but his eyes were sneaking around. Soon he saw Yueyue cat bent over, secretly kicked the garbage heap he had sorted out, and then whistled past him like a nobody. Li Wuyan didn't expose Yueyue, but followed her with a broom, Li Wuyan swept wherever she went, and Yueyue was surrounded by dust. Yueyue covered her mouth and asked dissatisfiedly, "Li Wuyan, what are you doing?" ”
"Sweeping the floor?" Li Wuyan said he was innocent.
"Sweeping?" Yueyue raised her eyebrows, and also picked up a broom to sweep the dust towards Li Wuyan, and kept shouting: "I'll let you sweep the floor, let you sweep the floor." ”
"Oh, I didn't sweep that much dust for you. Ahem, ahem, hey, stop, the ashes are in my mouth. ”
"Bastard Li Wuyan, didn't you get it first, now you know that you're afraid?"
"Damn, didn't you break up the garbage I sorted out first?"
"Didn't you play a hooligan on me?"
"It's not you ......" Speaking of this, Li Wuyan suddenly paused. Yueyue looked at him triumphantly and said, "Are you speechless?" Ignore it, right? Oops, what are you doing, why are you still sweeping? It seems that you want to play with me to the end, Li Wuyan, I will fight with you! ”
Seeing the scene of the two fighting again, Fan Zhutou shook his head helplessly. He ignored the two of them, walked slowly to the inner courtyard, made himself a pot of tea, and then sat on the old chair, feeling the bitterness of the tea, and said with emotion: "Young man, young man." ”