Time flashed to August, Mu Hongsheng's copying of books has not ended, those military books have already been copied twice, but grandmother has not yet spoken to be exempted from punishment, but Mu Hongsheng did not complain every day like before, for no other reason, from May to August, two hours a day, copying books for three months in a row, she is a little used to it. I got used to it, and I didn't feel particularly burdened, so I didn't have to spend some effort every day to beg my grandmother to be exempted from punishment as before.

The Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15 is an important festival, especially for the Mu family, the Mid-Autumn Festival is as important as the New Year. According to the custom, every year before the Mid-Autumn Festival and the New Year, the army will be labored, and the carriage carried by the Mu family to the border will also set off with the horse team of the imperial court. The three masters and one young master of the Anguo Mansion are all at the border pass, and there are a lot of things to be carried, so since the beginning of July, the Duchess of An Guo and several of her concubines have been busy sorting out the things that are going to the border pass.

According to the usual practice, Lao Junqin set off after the Midyear Festival, escorted the labor army materials slowly, to the border for more than 20 days, arrived in the north before the Mid-Autumn Festival, handed over the labor army materials, and then took the holy decree to go through every garrison fortress in the north, comforted the sergeants, and then returned with the Yanbei Road through a little pacification envoy and the generals' thanksgiving folds, and quickly returned to the capital at the end of August.

For the Anguo Mansion, from the beginning of July to the end of August, it can really be regarded as a whole two months of busy work for the Mid-Autumn Festival. At the end of July, the things that were carried to the border were sent away, and they immediately began to prepare for the festival in the house.

The festival gifts sent to the families in Beijing, the silver rewards of the servants and the servants at home, and all kinds of items for the sacrifice must be prepared, the children's new clothes must be made, the moon cakes used for gifts must also be made in advance, the festival gifts to the two aunts and grandmothers in Ping'an Prefecture and Liangzhou, and the festival gifts of the maidens must be sent in a hurry, and various matters must be prepared in advance for the women to enter the palace to receive the banquet on August 14.

There are many and miscellaneous things, all of which must be arranged in just ten days, not only the Duchess of Anguo, the housewife, is busy from morning to night, but several concubines are also so busy that their feet do not touch the ground, and even Mrs. Mu, who has long been indifferent, is also busy, looking at the gift list sent to her daughter's house, and urging to open the warehouse and find clothes for the children.

The whole Guogong Mansion is busy, and the children are still the same as before, get up in the morning, six children line up in a row to practice and do morning classes, and then go to the study to read with Mr., and then the children go to Mrs. Mu for lunch, and after lunch, Mu Hongsheng, who was punished, stayed to copy the book. And the boys, except for Mu Jinyi, have to go back to the study, learn the art of war with Mr., and prepare for the battlefield in the future, while the twelve-year-old Mu Jinyi doesn't need to read military books because of his young age, just go to play, just wait for dinner in the evening, and practice with his brothers and sisters to do evening classes.

Compared with the children of other families in Beijing, the children of the Mu family had a very hard time, because they would have to go to the battlefield in the future. In order to lead the army to defend one side, and to save their lives in the brutal war, they must have a hard time.

Starting from the age of five, he began to learn Zama Bu, practiced basic skills for two years, began to learn fist and foot kung fu at the age of seven, learned weapons at the age of ten, and first learned the spear. Ten-year-olds are not even as tall as spears, so they start with the lightest bamboo spears, change them little by little, and get heavier and heavier.

The Mu family has been a general for generations, and the kung fu passed down by the family is a spear, and each of the Mu family has to practice. Of course, you don't necessarily have to use a spear after learning it, it's just that the family kung fu must be able to know, and what weapon to use in the end is still to be chosen by the martial arts master at home according to the characteristics of each child, and what to be good at. For example, Mu Zhengyi, who has already been on the battlefield, uses a weighty Glaive knife because of his natural strength, while Mu Hongsheng's brother Mu Tieyi has an iron bow and arrow, and a slightly thinner double-headed halberd is used for melee weapons.

Military generals all have to ride horses, so most of the weapons used by the Mu family are long soldiers suitable for fighting on horses, but they rarely use the long swords that the young masters of the official family in Beijing often learn. The long sword is a gentleman's weapon, and it looks better to use, but unfortunately it is not very practical to use it in battle.

The children of the Mu family began to learn how to use horses at the age of eleven, and at the age of twelve, they began to learn how to use weapons on horses. On the street of Anguo Mansion, you can see the main gate of Anguo Mansion wide open every three or five days, and Anguo Gong or Guogong Mansion martial arts master rode a horse to take the lead, followed by six or seven half-grown children, carrying weapons behind their backs, riding horses of different sizes, one after another from Anguo Mansion, running through the long street in a row, and running outside the city.

A large number of future generals went out to run together, and it looked really majestic. Belch...... It's not all future generals, at least the little girl who is ranked second to last every time will not be a military general in the future. She is also the only one in this large group of children who does not carry a weapon on her back, and her brothers all carry military generals and long soldiers, only she, the eldest lady who does not need to ride a horse to fight in the future, has a slender and slightly curved Tang knife hanging from her waist.

Everyone in Beijing knows that the baby bump of the Anguo Mansion, the only female doll in the Anguo Mansion, Mu Hongsheng, and her favorite thing in her life is to go out and run a horse.

Mrs. Mu is so used to being a child! How can you raise a female doll so wildly, and actually allow her to go out with her brothers every once in a while, and raise the female doll so unruly, her in-laws will have a headache when she marries someone in the future. Many people in Beijing say this behind their backs.

But there are also some people who don't see it that way. In their opinion, the Anguo Mansion is used to Miss Mu, and that's because they can afford it. This Miss Mu's mother is the county lord, and her father is a duke who is trusted by the emperor, and her mother-in-law will not dare to give her grievances if she marries into whoever she marries in the future. Mrs. Mu has the bottom in her heart that she dares to be so accustomed to her granddaughter. A girl from such a background needs De Rong to curry favor with her in-laws? Naturally, no! Don't you see that the third princess born to Queen Wei also has a lively personality, likes to walk horses, and she has not changed her temperament after marrying, does the concubine dare to detain her? The principle is actually the same.

But no matter what others say, these gossips can't reach the Anguo Mansion. Mrs. Mu is used to children as always, what Mu Hongshang wants, what she wants to do, most of the time she can be happy with a coquette, but she just goes out with her brothers to run a horse, which is simply not a matter in the eyes of Mrs. Mu.

Besides, there are a lot of noblewomen in Beijing who can ride horses, and the three princesses from Queen Wei love horses, and they like to wear red clothes in the spring, and ride her snow-white Dawan good horse out to enjoy the flowers, which looks like a painting from a distance, so it has become a trend for noblewomen to walk in the circle of nobles. Why is it okay for others to go to the horse to enjoy the spring, but not for her red dress to go out of the city and run a horse?