For a long time to come, Shen Yun's daily life became even more boring. Morning exercises, meals, classes, and then go to the Weiming Pavilion to watch the sunset.

I always have that rubbed portrait in my hand.

One sitting is two hours. He would not ferry back until the dew was heavy, and without saying much, he fell asleep. The next day, wake up and repeat the process.

Everyone felt that Shen Yun was crazy again. His actions are not at all in line with the behavior of a son.

Yes, everyone will be sad when something like this happens. But in their opinion, since they are sad, they should immediately give some money to others! A son of the world, he actually knows that he feels sorry for himself every day, and he has no manly spirit, which is really a waste.

If Shen Yun's dissolute and amorous personality before, some people still sighed that "men should be like this", but now no one agrees with his immortal appearance, only a voice of disdain.

Only Fang Cheng knew that this was Shen Yun mourning for this innocent girl in a special way.

Imagine a father who would break his hand because of the death of his daughter, can he still buy his peace of mind with money? He was remorseful for his skills, if it weren't for his superb skills in striking iron, he wouldn't have obtained the status of a resident of the old state, and if he hadn't obtained this qualification, he wouldn't have moved here, and his daughter wouldn't have died......

After that night, James didn't pester Bu Chan anymore. Shen Yun also apologized to James, saying that if it wasn't for his bad idea, maybe he would have been able to let Bu Chan have a good impression of him, but now, everything is useless.

Unexpectedly, James was very open-minded, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Hey, man, it's not your fault, understand?" She didn't feel good for me. I don't feel like you know? Just like King Octavian did to Cleopatra, no one can force anything that is not felt. ”

"How do you know that Octavian didn't have feelings for Cleopatra? He just didn't dare to feel it! Shen Yun retorted.

James shrugged: "It doesn't matter, Cleopatra didn't complete her myth of being undefeated anyway...... In other words, you seem to know a lot about our Western history, how do you know Cleopatra? ”

Shen Yun did not answer him, but continued his monotonous and unique life of mourning.

Most of the girls in the school avoided Shen Yun. When he goes to the cafeteria to eat, many girls will avoid him. Look at him with a look of disdain and fear.

Disdain is easy to understand, but what is fear?

"I'm afraid that one day he will take a fancy to me, and use those tricks to pursue me, and finally abandon me...... You know, I'm the one who can't stand those romantic tunes the most, and it will be miserable if I fall! A "beauty" with a freckleled face, a fat head and big ears, at least more than 100 kilograms, said to Zhou Hui timidly.

Zhou Hui almost choked to death with the food in his mouth.

Unless Shen Yun really becomes an idiot now, it will be difficult for him to attack this kind of woman. Of course, Zhou Hui didn't say this sentence.

I don't know why, recently she began to think of Shen Yun when she had nothing to do.

Thinking of that guy, Zhou Hui felt very angry. Although he had felt similar before, because he was indeed the first man to do this to her, the anger and depression would quickly be diluted by other things in reality, and finally disappeared. Although she was still angry, Zhou Hui could perceive that it was different from the past: the emotions in her heart had become calm and deep because of someone!

Especially recently, Zhou Hui often passes by Weiming Lake intentionally or unintentionally, and every time he can see his lonely figure gradually disappearing under the residual sun, the kind of loneliness in the vast world makes Zhou Hui feel a burst of pain.

"Is it really so unbearable for such a man who will deeply regret his mistakes?"

She vaguely guessed what was wrong with her, but she didn't want to admit it. just kept asking Yan Ruyue: "Sister Yan, do you say Shen Yun is a despicable villain?" ”

Yan Ruyue's mood has also been terrible recently. Shen Yun's current state made her sleep restless. But you can't show it to others. Many times, she saw Shen Yun passing by with a book in a gloomy manner, but she didn't even look at it, and her originally high-flying and blazing eyes were full of remorse and self-blame. This made her lose the courage to come forward and say hello.

She also often finds excuses to pass by Weiming Lake, and sometimes she simply sits in the dense woods, looking at the lonely figure in the center of the lake through the lush grass, and recalling that afternoon, the two inadvertently intimacy...... Once, she was thinking about it like this, when she suddenly felt the urge to rush to the center of the lake and tell him not to be so upset, and to tell him what she thought.

But she didn't.

It's not that she doesn't have enough courage, but she found that Bu Chan's tall figure also appeared by the lake, standing on the ferry pavilion, looking at Shen Yun on the unnamed pavilion from afar. His eyes were filled with complexities that he had never seen before. There is hatred, more gratification, and a little inexplicable guilt......

What did she feel guilty about?

Yan Ruyue couldn't figure it out, but she could quickly answer Zhou Hui's question.

"Of course not. Would a person who can write a poem like 'Born as a hero, and died as a ghost' be a vile villain? Then I wish there were more villains like this! ”

"Oh." Zhou Hui responded, and then lay on the bed silently holding the cotton silk quilt.

Bu Chan has been even colder since that day. Of course, only for boys. Zhou Hui said that she almost hung a sign around her neck that said "Boys and dogs are not allowed to approach". Since Zhou Hui and her are in the same major, they often take classes together. But that cold appearance, even the boys who usually like to be with Zhou Hui avoided it, as if they were carrying a plague on their bodies, which made Zhou Hui depressed for a long time.

Even in the kendo class, you can still see Buchan's amazing vitality. The only person who can talk to Bu Chan is Wang Rong, the temporary instructor of the kendo class.

Wang Rong also has a lot of respect for Bu Chan, this stupid big man, who is better at swordsmanship than himself, is like this. In every kendo class, it seems that it is not him teaching, but Bu Chan. Because he will always find various reasons to practice with Buchan, and then let other students observe and learn.

Zhou Hui doesn't like to take kendo classes. mainly didn't like Wang Rong's eyes when he looked at Buchan. Although she knew that Wang Rong didn't like Bu Chan, he just liked Bu Chan's swordsmanship, but that feeling still made her feel terrible. So her main enjoyable time now is riding lessons. Because in the riding class, Shen Yun will also come.

Since that day, Shen Yun's kendo classes have been taken with classmates from other departments, deliberately avoiding Bu Chan. On the contrary, it is a riding class, Shen Yun will come on time--- Buchan never rides a horse--- Zhou Hui doesn't know if there is a reason why he doesn't like to take kendo classes.

Imperial University is a very open university, and it does not have a mandatory requirement for students to attend classes. In compulsory courses, there is also no rigid rule that you must attend every class. As long as you can graduate and earn enough credits, even if you don't attend classes all year round. If you can't get enough credits to graduate, then I'm sorry, a university as strict as a military camp will not allow you to graduate--- all universities in this era, but they are directly affiliated with the imperial court! It belongs to the power of the state!

Students who cheat on exams, or tutors who cheat for personal gain, will be deprived of their Han Chinese status, relegated to NSW residents for generations, and beheaded for public use.

In feudal society, there is no so-called personal rights.

Riding lessons are held at the horse farm west of the Imperial University. The racecourse is actually a huge forest garden. There are meadows and woods in the forest garden. There is a row of two-storey buildings on the east side of the racecourse, with the office area upstairs and the training management office downstairs. For each class, the instructor will report to the office one day in advance, and then the deputy church will go to the huge stable on the north side to take out the training horses and hand them over to the students.

The instructors who taught the art of riding were all officers who had retired from the battlefield, and the assistant instructors were soldiers who had retired due to injuries or other reasons--- of course, they were all cavalrymen of the Han Empire.

For each riding lesson, there is usually a group of 10 people, and each instructor is in charge. The group members are randomly arranged, so you can invite a friend to study together or join a group individually. The training content is the same.

The instructors who retired from the army are all picky-headed, fierce-faced, and absolutely strict and fair when coaching. In riding lessons, whether you are the son or daughter of a prince or a poor man, as long as you are a student of this school, they will train dutifully.

Today's instructor who is in charge of giving Zhou Hui a riding lesson is called the fifth owl. The fifth is the surname, and the owl is the first name. As the name suggests, the man is as terrifying as a night owl, with a slender body, fierce eyes like a night owl, and what is even more terrifying is that he has a knife wound on his face that has been dragged from the root of his left ear to his right chin, and the wound has healed and is black-brown, which is terrifying.

Among the many mentors, Zhou Hui remembers this fifth lord the most. There is always surprise and a hint of fear in his memories.

Fear is not only because of his appearance, but also because this fifth tutor is very strict in teaching, anyone, even a delicate beauty, as long as he is not trained well, he will be whipped over, and then scolded angrily with a broken gong voice: "Shit, bastard, stupid donkey, if it was on the battlefield, you would have died a long time ago, understand, dead!" You waste deserves nothing more than a pile of horse manure on the battlefield...... Get up for me, don't cry, keep practicing! ”

The surprise was that Zhou Hui knew that this fifth lord was once the colonel and brigade commander of the first-class legion --- the flying cavalry legion of the Han Empire. Not to mention the great riding skills, the riding and archery are even more unique. Riding on a high-speed galloping horse, he can open his bow left and right, and ten arrows can accurately hit the bullseye a hundred meters away! However, in the Imperial University, the standards of students are not so strict, as long as the riding skills are passed, the riding and archery skills only need to reach 50 meters, and six out of ten arrows hit the target to be qualified. Girls are less demanding.

Zhou Hui also inquired that the fifth owl was ambushed by the enemy during an operation against the Xiongnu. In the end, less than 200 people survived in one brigade. His face was disfigured, and he spent half a year in a military hospital before getting out of bed and walking. Originally, he did not need to retire, but he himself submitted an application for retirement to the Privy Council, and was unwilling to go to the military department arranged by the Privy Council to be idle, but came to the Imperial University as a riding instructor. As for the real reason for his retirement, Zhou Hui couldn't inquire.

Seeing that she was taking a class under such a tutor today, she couldn't help but feel a little uneasy. But soon she threw this melancholy into the clouds, because she saw Shen Yun walking behind her with a black horse.

"The personnel are here, everyone is on the horse!" The fifth owl rode on a red horse and shouted at the ten of them with a broken gong, "Cheer up, rabbit cubs, hurry up and run two laps around the pasture, and then you will have to cross the obstacles, quickly!" ”

Among these ten people, there are two girls in addition to Zhou Hui, but the fifth owl still calls them rabbit cubs. I didn't think it was wrong at all.

Ten horses slowly walked out of the training office and began to walk slowly around the pasture. Practicing riding is not about waving a whip as soon as you get on a horse, urging the horse to move forward. You must know that although these horses are military horses that have been trained for a year, they are not war horses used to fight in the army, and the horsepower needs to run away slowly. Even if the horse is in a combat state at any time, it needs a certain amount of time to warm up before the battle, otherwise it is easy for the horse to be injured during the run.

The fifth owl led the way in front, and the cadets followed behind. From time to time, other students who entered the meadow in advance galloped past them under the guidance of the instructor, and the neighing of the military horses, the sound of the whip breaking through the air, and the rude shouts of those instructors were mixed together in this meadow, forming a noise and excitement completely different from the usual quiet atmosphere.

The galloping of a horse is like a modern man driving a sports car, and the thrill of speed and passion will excite men and scream women. When people are in this kind of environment, it is easy to be driven into violent emotions.

Zhou Hui rode a horse, deliberately slowing down, and gradually paralleled Shen Yun.

"Hey, Shen Yuanrang, why didn't you go to kendo class recently?"

Ask while knowing the answer. Shen Yun immediately owed, glanced at her, and said with a wry smile: "Aren't you happier if you don't see me?" ”

Zhou Hui pouted and said, "How can there be." If you don't take kendo classes, how can I have a chance to let Jing Chuanjun find you to compete?! ”

Shen Yun smiled faintly and didn't speak.

Zhou Hui saw that he was not very interested, so he had to change the topic, pointed to the protective gear on his body and said, "Hey, your protective gear is new, did you just buy it?" ”

The protective gear that Shen Yun wore today was indeed new, long riding boots, shin armor, waist armor, abdominal armor, breastplate, shoulder armor, and helmet, all of which had just been bought from outside.

He said: "Ma Xianyu lost me twenty gold coins, and two days ago He Kuan went home to visit my mother, so I asked him to bring a new set back for each of us. ”

Zhou Hui leaned over, touched the shoulder armor on his body, and praised: "The handiwork is good, the outer layer is wrapped in fine leather...... Yo, the soft iron inside is also very new, which protective gear store bought it? I'll buy one another day. ”

In fact, Zhou Hui didn't want to buy it at all. Shen Yun's set of protective gear is new, but it does not have beautiful pattern decoration, simple silver gray, except for the handiwork is desirable, the others are too bad compared to the red royal protective gear on her body. She just didn't have anything to say.

Shen Yun said lightly: "Wanying's father's shop ......"

Zhou Hui suddenly fell silent.

Murong Wanying's father broke his arm, and although he later asked the bone-setting doctor to take him back, he couldn't do heavy work, so he could only open a protective gear shop in Kyoto and make a living by building some light jobs such as soft iron. Fortunately, as long as the status of an old state resident is recognized, it will never be revoked. That shop is called "Xianbeifang", and Zhou Hui also knows it. But I've never been there.

"Unexpectedly, you still can't let it go!" Zhou Hui was a little sad and muttered.

"She always died because of me!" Shen Yun sighed lightly and stopped talking.

Zhou Hui wanted to say that he wasn't like this before, the previous Shen Yun went to the Ethereal House to have fun on the night he heard that Murong Wanying committed suicide by throwing herself into the lake, how could Shen Yun be so angry with her now?

"Zhou Hui, Shen Yun!" A loud shout came from the front of the team, and the fifth lord's fierce eyes looked at them, "This is a class, not a place for you to talk about love, if you want to get tired of it, get out of here!" ”

Zhou Hui was stunned, she just wanted to explain that she was not in love, but suddenly she seemed to be touched by the fifth man's words, and finally only replied loudly with Shen Yun: "I'm sorry, mentor!" ”

The two picked up speed and kept up with the group. Next, under the command of the fifth owl, they carried out a high-speed gallop of 100, 200, 300, and 400 meters, and after a short break at noon, they practiced wading, climbing, jumping hurdles and other obstacle courses. During this time, the two never spoke again.

Zhou Hui didn't know what to say to Shen Yun at this time, and Shen Yun was not interested in talking to others at all.

However, the two of them have always been very good at riding. The Fifth Owl was also pleased with their riding skills. There were no words of praise, but it was evident from the softening of his eyes.

It wasn't until the sun was setting in the west that the riding class came to an end. The fifth owl took the team to the stable, let them lead the horses into the stable, and told them something about keeping horses, and then said, "All right, that's all for today's lesson." See you next time! ”

"Goodbye, mentor!" All students bowed to the fifth owl collectively. The fifth man replied with a military salute.

It is a military salute with the right arm across the chest. When Shen Yun first saw him, he thought it was a Roman military salute, but after listening to James's introduction, he understood the difference. The Han military salute is to have your legs straight and your right arm across your chest. The same is true of the Roman military salute, which ends with the right arm stretched out at an angle of forty-five degrees and shouting "Long live Augustus."

After the ceremony, the fifth lord said: "It's not early, let's go back." Shen Yun, Zhou Hui, your riding skills have made great progress today. Very good! ”

Saying two very good words from the mouth of this cold-faced mentor really flattered Shen Yun and Zhou Hui. Zhou Hui tilted his head and glanced at Shen Yun with joy on his face, and Shen Yun also smiled rarely.

With this joy, on the way back, Zhou Hui finally asked tentatively: "Today, do you want to go to Weiming Pavilion?" ”

"Hmm."

"You go every day, and the ferry fee of one copper coin every day is about to make the owner of the ferry pavilion laugh crookedly."

"Hmm."

"Actually, you don't have to go every day."

"Hmm."

……

Zhou Hui was almost mad by his indifferent attitude, and was about to cross his eyebrows when he suddenly saw a horse galloping from a distance.

Horsehorses did not wear protective gear, but wore a dark short suit with a black belt around his waist. The riding skills were quite exquisite, and his body seemed to be glued to the horse's back as if it were glued to the horse's back, without shaking at all.

Seeing Shen Erren, he accelerated his horse and whipped his horse, rushed straight forward, jumped off the horse cleanly, and knelt down on one knee towards Shen Yun.

"Shizi, Master Hou has arrived, and he is waiting for Shizi to go to the Society!"

Zhou Hui was surprised, Bohai Hou has arrived?