That night, let Changkong take the white clothes and go to the West Painting Hall to see the generals and captains to "catch the ghosts", which was indeed Yu Wenxing's order, and it was also Yu Wenxing's delicacy to prevent Hou Cong from seeing the white clothes. Yu Wenxing wants his children to see more of the world, to see the loyalty, to see the despicable, to understand how people with ill intentions or reckless actions will finally disappear in the hands of people like Hou Cong. - Then, it is still the old saying: If you have knowledge, you will grow your ability, so that when you grow up, you will "be loyal to the eldest prince".

Hou Cong was in the verandah that night, holding a wine in one hand and strolling leisurely, and his handsome and cold side face and gaze in the window all fell into the eyes of the white clothes. I don't know why, the conversation between the eldest uncle and the second uncle on the last night on death row echoed in the ears of the white clothes. She had an impulse and couldn't help but think of a possibility: if Hou Cong was here, it would be fine. This kind of thinking, she knows, is not reasonable. So, it became her secret alone. That night, she fell into that nightmare again - the whole family, large and small, 55 people except her, knelt on the bluestone pier on the grass of death row, the knife and axe hand was already in place, and she was watching from the side, wanting to move to save people, unable to move, wanting to close her eyes and unable to close it. She didn't know why, she shouted out the words "eldest son", a burst of white light, and woke up from a dream.

Bai Yi was covered in a cold sweat, and the two nurses on duty ran in, wiped her forehead, and stroked her chest. It was difficult for Bai Yi to fall asleep, and his heart was empty and panicked. She buried her head in the wet nurse's shirt and whispered as low as she could, "Son." ”

These three words were resisted sullenly, swinging leisurely, unable to float out, as if they had penetrated into Baiyi's own ears again.

The desolation retreated, and the temperature of the people around him, the touch of silk, all returned. It turns out that the three words "eldest son" are his own "Amitabha".

The next day, the Hou Mansion sent a gold thread embroidered red silk purse, which contained three stars of agarwood and a piece of garcinia cambogia paper. Hou Cong's name is written on the yellow paper - since it is said that Bai Yi wants to be a nominal slave, then the full set of scenes will be done. The white clothes were a little happy, and under the gaze of her adoptive father, she respectfully put it on in front of the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion, put it in the small padded jacket that was close to her, and made a serious salute.

Changkong "hummed" a hundred times, but his mood was not affected too much. After the break, he personally supervised the work, watching the father and brother build the snow shed—the first snow was coming. The big fish pond in the back garden of Yuwen's house is simply a small lake, and there is naturally a small pavilion on it. However, appreciating the snow, paying attention to the snow shed, the wooden thatched eaves, the wild interest, the lake and the pavilion can be seen, and the most important function - barbecue has become the most enthusiastic thing for the children of Datong.

Changkong loves cleanliness and beauty, although it is cold, he must be present, where there is an extra inch of thatch that affects the appearance, he has to remove it. Bai Yi has always been clumsy in all the big and small chores, and she can't even tell the difference between the teacups and tea exhibitions, but she loves to see these, the wooden planks are connected to the wooden boards, and the wooden nails are firmly smashed into them, which makes people have a calm and pleasant peace in the present world.

The snow shed was built for three days.

While supervising the work, Changkong couldn't stop being idle, and wanted to talk to Bai Yi about Hou Cong - it turned out that Hou Cong volunteered to agree to the emperor's thorough investigation of the rumors of "Dragon Yin", and with the help of Yu Wenxing, he had a clue and immediately went back to his grandfather Hou Chong. At the same time that Yuwen's house was building a snow shed, Hou Chong and Hou Cong were busy: Obviously, the emperor can hear the wind, it must be Chang Ying, who is also a general of Dazhuguo, personally performed, but you can't say that the emperor "spread rumors and rumors", so Chang Ying's subordinates deducted military salaries 800 miles away, although the evidence and material evidence were already there, but it was only taken out at this moment and appeared on Hou Chong's recital. And Hou Cong wrote the first excerpt in his life - a secret fold, and presented it at the same time.

The folds are allowed by the emperor, anyone can watch them, and there is a backup. The secret fold was burned by the emperor immediately after reading it, and there was no record of it.

On the secret fold, Hou Cong listed another set of human and material evidence with reasonable evidence: the housekeeper who was in charge of rent collection in Changying's mansion, and the captain who was in charge of the carriage and horses, when and where they talked about the matter of "Dragon Yin" with other so-and-so, which was a big rebellion.

Dense burning. The emperor smiled and rewarded Hou Cong with another rice cake and brought it home. On the second day, Chang Ying was punished by "court reprimand" because of military salary. At night, the two people in his family who were on Hou Congmi's fold fell ill and died. In Datong City, for a long, long time since then, no one dares to mention the word "dragon chanting".

The first snow covers the large paulownia. The snow grains are light and unforgiving. Changkong was reluctant to do anything in white, so he personally took the clean sheep net oil, wrapped the lamb slices, sprinkled with chopped shallots, ginger and sea salt, baked it, put it in a pale green pottery dish with oil, and handed it to his sister. There is a big brazier in the snow shed, lit with lily incense, in order to be afraid that the young master will be tired, take the sweetest winter cabbage heart and blanch the soup and put it aside, the pickled cucumber is cut into strips, neatly stacked there, with the color of oolong tea, it is particularly beautiful.

Although the food was delicious, the little brother and sister were a little melancholy. Yu Wenxing gave a death order, and Bai Yi was not allowed to go out of the second door from now on. And Changkong himself is definitely not allowed to appear around Dongfeng Lane, where the Hou Mansion is located. Because Hou Cong is a little crazy.

When the dust settled on the incident provoked by Chang Ying, Hou Cong watched Qingsong eating rice cakes in the bedroom, and asked him: "You were asked to investigate in Huaping Lane that day, did the investigation come out?" ”

"Oh, that," Qingsong almost forgot, and heard the master mention this stubble again, "After investigating, the girl in white beat all the children in Huaping Lane, eight or nine years old, fifteen or sixteen, and went back with a blue nose and swollen face." It's not one by one, it's together! ”

Then, Qing Song inquired about more details, and said it again and again. "So," he concluded, "don't be angry with that girl, my lord." She's not the only one who hits you. You're not the only one of Yuwen Baiyi's defeated men. ”

Qing Song choked on the rice cake, burped, looked at Hou Cong's face becoming more and more wrong, and then raised his head to the sky and let out a roar. Then, Hou Cong found the doll based on the white clothes, pressed her against the wall, and screamed hoarsely: "Hou Cong, from now on, you will have to stab your head with a cone of the beam!" Hou Cong, you must not forget the shame of being defeated by a woman! Don't! Don't! Don't! ”

Sure enough, he was a hundred times more indifferent than usual. No one can figure out his attitude towards the doll, but he knows that he sleeps in his arms at night, and is like a mortal enemy during the day. The old lady personally ordered that no one should mention the word "white clothes", and she pretended not to see the doll when she saw it. As for that Yu Wenxing, if you have something to find your old boss in the future, you will go to the barracks.

After the New Year, according to the rules, Hou Cong is going to enter the barracks to learn to be an errand, and the old general Hou and his wife are difficult to pick people for a while - on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, many juniors are also there, seeing Hou Cong being beaten and crying in white, it is really no longer suitable to follow Hou Cong on an errand. Fortunately, Old Man Huang is careful: the Dugu family, the Murong family, and the Yuan family are not there. So, three twelve or thirteen-year-old boys: Dugu Zheng, Murong Xing, and Yuan You, with infinite longing and respect for Hou Cong, entered the Hou Mansion, and were named the military captain, the military captain, and the leading captain.

The relationship between Changkong and Dongfeng Lane can be said to be "people are far away and close to their hearts", always paying attention to Hou Cong's dynamics. But he gradually couldn't find out anything, even if he secretly felt that all the gossip on the streets and alleys was not as good as Hou Cong's news for Bai Yi, who didn't go out.

Eight years have passed. In the past eight years, the only thing Bai Yi knows about Hou Cong is that the longer he gets, the better he looks, and he is known as "a flower of Datong." That day, when the spring flowers were blooming, Changkong went out to the banquet, half drunk, and went home in high spirits, went straight to the back garden, found his sister in the pavilion, and announced loudly: "There is a war!" There was a war! Chang won the rebellion, surrendered to the country, and led troops to invade our country. Hou Cong is going to the battlefield! ”

In the spring breeze, the white clothes were dressed in a plain skirt, and the black hair was like a cloud, pondering what his brother said, and the fish pond was wrinkled by the wind.

Outside the choke valley, the war drums roared, the battle flag of the word "Hou" fluttered high, and the two countries ushered in the first general battle after the war, with 50,000 troops and 30,000 troops against the country. Hou Chong sat firmly in the middle army, commanding the hoplites, the terrain near the mountains on the left flank was the hoplites, 3,000 light infantry were arranged in front of the formation, and on the right flank, there were 8,000 light cavalry, 22-year-old Hou Cong, was their commander.

Among the thousands of troops, he was dressed in black armor, and a bunch of pure white tassels on his head trembled in the wind. Murong Xing and the other three picturesque teenagers, each leading their own soldiers, were distributed nearby.

The two armies gradually approached, running in each other's directions, slashing, slashing, and attacking, and the battle began.

Hou Chong's arrangement was to use the strength of the hoplites of the middle route army to resist the edge of the Chengguo army, maintain the formation, and gradually form an indent, the hoplite cavalry on the left flank pressed the right flank of the army in front of the army step by step, and the light cavalry on his right flank found an opportunity to go around the enemy's rear to form an encirclement. Hou Cong is in charge of this encirclement task.

Of course, this is a good plan, but Hou Chong has selfish intentions - the task of the right wing is the least likely to be killed or injured. He only has this one precious grandson, and he is reluctant to let him have any mistakes.

The war had only been going on for a quarter of an hour, and everything was going according to Hou Chong's plan.

Qing Song, who was watching the battle from the rear, was the first to scream. Soon, everyone, including Hou Chong, was startled by a beautiful scenery - Hou Cong, wearing a white tassel and wearing black armor, rushed into the enemy's mid-lane infantry formation with a spear and a horse, and his five hundred personal soldiers naturally instinctively followed. Chengguo's infantry was completely stunned, not knowing what kind of fighting method this was, and was cut out of a way by Hou Cong like cutting a melon. This road gradually extended to the right flank of the Chengguo army, that is, the part of the heavy cavalry on the left flank of the Liguo army to deal with, causing an uproar.

The pro-soldiers who followed Hou Cong talked about kung fu, the quality of the horses, and the goal, but they were not so good, and although they pursued their masters, they still lagged behind.

Hou Cong, who was unexpected by everyone, didn't care about these at all, because the moment he charged, there was a reason, he saw a gap in the enemy camp located inside. On the battlefield, the situation is changing rapidly, and there is no chance to be lost, and we cannot all act according to the advance plan. Hou Cong charged all the way, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere Bai Ying went, he was alone in full view of everyone, sprinting like lightning, and in the army, he took the head of one person - Cheng Guo was personally responsible for the right wing of Chang Win.

In the valley, the cheers were earth-shattering. The morale of the Liguo army was high, and they took the opportunity to advance in a big way, and the Chengguo army collapsed to the end and could only retreat.

Hou Cong, became famous in a fight.

Hou Chong couldn't be happy. Many years ago, Aiko Hou Zhong also had this style of fighting. However, the result of a man who was deeply trapped in the enemy line was to die surrounded by a team of eight people. In the middle of the night, he drank wine and thought about the past, and his hair became whiter. Yu Wenxing, who has always been regarded as a confidant by him, never leaves an inch, caring about his old boss.

"What the old general is worried about, his subordinates know. Actually, this is nothing, the major general loves to charge, so he just charges. As long as you carefully select a convoy of about 20 people, no matter what the battle is, there is no need to delay the speed, just protect the major general alone, no matter when and where, choose the best and fastest horse, and stay by the side of the major general. Since ancient times, there have been examples of this. ”

"yes!" Hou Chong's heart let go, and he even shook Yu Wenxing's hand excitedly, "This method is safe." The old man remembered a candidate - white! ”