Chapter Twenty-Six: The Emperor's Village of the New City
Yesterday, Sima Shu accompanied a group of boring people to drink and fart for more than an hour, and when he came back, he was lying on the bed unconscious, and even his clothes were taken off with the help of green beads. When Sima Shu woke up early today, he felt the sequelae of drunkenness, and his whole head hurt like a pinprick.
For this reason, several invitations were rejected by him in the morning on the grounds that he was ill, and it was not until noon that Sima Shu felt better. For the next period of time, Sima Shu chatted and farted with the local snakes in Xincheng, and sent people to Huangzhuang to clean up the house.
As soon as it was cleaned up, Sima Shu asked people to prepare the carriage, and he wanted to go to the Huangzhuang to have a look. The group rode horses and drove the carriage to the Huangzhuang soon.
The area of the courtyard prepared for Sima Shu in the Huangzhuang is half larger than that in the new city, and now the weather is a little cold, and the flowers and plants planted in the courtyard have withered, and the huge courtyard seems empty.
There are not many people who have moved over, only Mr. Liu has six small yellow doors, then Lu Zhu and four little maids, and the small kitchen is equipped with two cooks to serve Sima Shu's diet.
After all, this is Huangzhuang, and all kinds of facilities are relatively complete, such as the weather has turned cooler, and it will be even colder at night. In addition, there was no quilt to cover in ancient times, so in order to keep warm, the house had to start lighting a fire early to keep warm.
In ancient times, many palaces had fire tunnels underground, and the fire tunnels had holes in the ground, and the fire was burned outside, and the heat was transmitted to the house through the fire tunnels, which was called the earth dragon. It is also possible to heat the house by burning charcoal fires, but this is not the main way to heat the house.
Sima Shu walked in the house and felt the heat rolling in the heat, and it seemed that someone had already set the dragon on fire. At this time, he knew that the ancients were divided into rooms by pillars, this room spans a large span, and the volume of rooms is also large, and the two main halls are 100 square meters, separated by hardwood screens in the middle, and divided into two rooms before and after. The front hall is where the guests are entertained, and the back hall is the dining room, with a door leading to the backyard.
Sima Shu occupied the three rooms on the east side alone, he went in to take a look, and immediately instructed Manager Liu to renovate and separate them according to his wishes. The largest one was intended to be his small study and small living room, which was dedicated to meeting guests and writing things. Two of the sunny rooms serve as his bedrooms. Although he did not approve of this, Manager Liu insisted that someone must leave the maid on duty at night, and in the end Sima Shu had to compromise.
As for the bathing place, Sima Shu asked people to prepare a huge wooden barrel, which is adjacent to the fire room of the earth-burning dragon, where the water is warm, as long as this side commands, the small yellow door that burns the fire there will send the water to the bathtub through the pipe, which is very convenient.
At the same time, in order to ensure his safety, a secret room was built in the house as a passage for him to escape from danger and emergency. The three rooms on the west side are the lower rooms, where a few people live in Luzhu, and the rest of the empty rooms are temporarily used as warehouses. On the east side of the two rooms, there are a few small yellow doors for Mr. Liu and them, and on the west side is the kitchen and the kitchen's dormitory.
After looking at the place where he lived, Sima Shu came to the martial arts arena next to him, which is basically a must-have thing for the general's home. This martial arts arena was specially sorted out by Sima Shu, after all, his current situation is not very safe, and he needs to exercise to improve his strength.
At the same time, with the martial arts arena, he can mingle with the guards and transform those guards through his own. At present, these more than 300 guards are all old people from the East Palace, and now they have followed Xu Chao and Sima Ya to join him. Sima Shu has also observed that these hundreds of people are all elite people, and if they are on the battlefield, they are estimated to be ten characters.
On the martial arts arena, Sima Shu asked people to place eighteen kinds of weapons, a stone lock for practicing strength resting on the ground, three arrow stacks were erected against the wall, and sandbags and wooden figures for practice were placed on the side.
Sima Shu walked over to the weapon rack and picked up the smallest bow, wanting to try it. He once followed a shooting instructor and briefly learned archery, so Sima Shu's movements did not look rusty, but a bit of a veteran. Maybe he overestimated his strength, but when he used his strength, the bow was pulled a little bent, and he used his strength again, almost breaking the bow and arrow, it seems that after a period of exercise, the effect is obvious.
Sima Shu threw the bow back on the shelf, looked at the spear and big knife on the shelf, and called Sima Ya and Xu Chao to the two fierce men.
Speaking of Zu Ti, Sima Shu wanted to know where this guy had gone, and he hadn't heard of him since he said goodbye. However, Sima Shu is not worried about the safety of the other party, with Zu Ti's skills, it is enough for him not to go to other people's troubles, and who dares to provoke him easily.
"Come here, you two also show a hand to Hongu! How? You don't want to? Hey! I'm not kidding, I'll tell you the truth, this performance will be related to your respective treatment in the future. If you behave well, you will naturally be rewarded, but if you don't behave well, you will ...... Hey! There is no waste here in this palace! Aren't you pretty good at blowing on weekdays, come on! Let this palace also see your abilities. After seeing that the two were a little unhappy, Sima Shu glared at the two guys and said indignantly.
"Sizzle! Brother, shoot an arrow to His Royal Highness the Prince, you were also famous for your good shooting in the East Palace Guard back then! The older Xu Chao said to Sima Ya with a smile.
"Okay, let's show our hands, so that His Highness knows that our brothers are not vain, let alone foolish and waiting for death!"
Sima Ya stepped forward with a chuckle, looked at the bow on the weapon rack, and actually chose Zhang Liangshi, stretched out his hand to play the slingshot string, and pulled out three arrows from the quiver on the side and buckled them in his hand.
Sima Ya also held his breath, he was also a young martial artist, learned a gun and stick kung fu, and was proficient in everything immediately, at the age of fifteen, he was already able to open two stone bows, and then he broke into the world, and wanted to go out of the court many times, but the result was always rejected on the grounds of low birth, and later in order to avoid revenge, it was the prince who took him in and let him hide in the East Palace.
At the beginning, he saw that the prince was becoming more and more arrogant, and because he was privately dissatisfied with Empress Jia's actions, he was transferred by Empress Jia to other places as an errand and slowly alienated Sima Shu. But he was still very grateful to the prince in his heart, so as soon as he heard that the prince had changed his ways and become a new man, he immediately left his original place and rejoined the prince's door.
Only listen to the three string sounds of 'whoosh', Sima Ya turned his face, Sima Ya has fired three arrows in a row, and when Sima Shu watched with fixed eyes, the other party had already collected his bow, and the three arrows were almost connected end to end, firmly on the arrow target fifty meters away, squeezed on the red heart.
"Good, good archery!" Sima Shu clapped his hands and jumped on his feet like a child, secretly surprised in his heart, "He shoots arrows so fast, even if he uses a pistol, in the face to face, it is estimated that he will not be able to please him!" Now I'm going to pick up the treasure!"
"Your Highness, the carving insect skill, the ugliness!" Sima Ya looked at Xiao Huangmen, who had not yet come back to his senses, and said with a smile.
"Good! Good archery! Come on, take a jar of good wine and reward it to Captain Sima! ”
After Sima Ya showed a hand of archery, Xu Chao did not slack off, picked up a spear, and played with flowers, only to see the wind whirring in the field, the spear shadow was heavy, and there was almost no human figure! A few minutes later, Xu Chao gathered his strength and stood there, his face was not red, his mouth was not panting, and he stood there calmly, looking like a master.
"Okay, that's good, in the future, you will be responsible for training all the young men in the Imperial Village." I didn't expect that the two guys I had never valued much would have unique skills, which was an unexpected joy.
"People? Where? Xu Chao and the others were skeptical of Sima Shu's words, because since Yu Linwei returned to Beijing, there were only a few hundred people left with them to be responsible for the prince's safety.
"Hahaha, don't worry, there will be bread, there will be beer, there will be house, everything will be there." Sima Shu laughed and said, since he left Luoyang, he laughed a lot more than before, it seems that the environment has a great impact on people.
"Huh? What does Your Highness mean by that? Sima Shu's words made the people around him confused.
The next day, just after the dawn, the rooster crowed all over Sima Shu woke up, he hurriedly washed his face, deliberately put on a short dress, Luzhu was afraid that he would freeze, and put on a fox skin shoulder for him, and put on the things written last night, Sima Shu took the little Deng Zi who was still rubbing his eyes out of them.
From today onwards, Sima Shu is going to train with the guards, on the one hand, to improve the level of the guards, and on the other hand, to inspect his subordinates and deepen their feelings with each other. In any case, Sima Shu had also been in the most elite troops in China, and he knew a little bit about training.
Sima Shu walked through the hall, and heard a shout of punching and kicking from the martial arts arena, he had been here for so long, and he had never seen how the ancients practiced martial arts. After hearing the voice, I couldn't help but perk up and speed up my pace.
"Your Highness, you are here!" When several guards saw the prince and them coming, they were very surprised, and quickly stopped their movements and bowed to say hello.
"Well, yes, let's keep practicing. Has Lord Sima and Lord Chang Congdu Xu arrived? Sima Shu asked with a smile and nodded.
"The two adults have arrived early, over there, I'll call him!" A guard pointed to Xu Chao, who was boxing in the middle of the field.
"Your Highness morning!" Sima Ya and the others came to the prince to greet him.
"Good morning! I came to this palace today because I have something to discuss with the two adults. The reason why Sima Shu was so polite was because he knew that without the support of the two in front of him, there would be no feasibility of implementation at all.
"Your Highness is polite, if there is anything Your Highness commands, the ministers will definitely go all out." Sima Ya and the others replied angrily.
"Good! Sure enough, this palace plans to change the training method of the guards, this is the new training outline written by the palace last night, and the two of them will train the guards according to this plan in the future, and all the East Palace guards we recruit in the future will be carried out according to this. Sima Shu handed some paper in his arms to Sima Ya and the others.
"This is ......" Sima Ya took the paper and looked at it, only to see what kind of running, push-ups, sit-ups, queues and other nouns were written on it, and he was a little skeptical about the implementation of such a training plan.