Chapter 34: The Expedition

The next day, Princess Jinyang came to King Jin's bedroom again, and Zhang Wenyi received her happily. I taught you to be a female celebrity, and you taught me to write, and I was very happy for most of the day.

After lunch, the two walked around the yard to eat, and Li Zhi suddenly broke in excitedly. Regardless of the presence of Princess Jinyang, she hugged Zhang Wenyi and was a messy kiss.

Seeing Li Zhi so happy, Zhang Wenyi also felt happy. Gently slapped Li Zhi, and said coquettishly: "My sister is still here." ”

Princess Jinyang covered her eyes with her little hands at the moment, and said with a smile: "I haven't seen anything from Brother Jiu and Imperial Sister-in-law. ”

Broke free from Li Zhi's embrace, grabbed Princess Jinyang's small hand that had left a finger slit, and gently slapped her ass. smiled: "Peeking is a long needle's eye." ”

Princess Jinyang smiled and rolled into Zhang Wenyi's arms, scratching her face with her little hands and laughing: "The imperial sister-in-law is blushing, and the imperial sister-in-law is shy." ”

Zhang Wenyi held Jin Yang, turned his head and glanced at Li Zhi, pretending to be angry, and said, "It's all you, you make me embarrassed in front of my sister." ”

Li Zhi smirked, and suddenly said thoughtlessly: "Father agreed." ”

Zhang Wenyi was stunned and blurted out: "What did you promise?" I immediately understood that Li Zhi might be pleading for mercy today.

Princess Jinyang obviously didn't understand the situation as Zhang Wenyi, so she asked in confusion, "What did my father promise you?" ”

Li Zhi smiled: "My father promised me to go with the army!" ”

Jin Yang listened and asked excitedly: "What kind of general do you have as a father emperor?" How many soldiers can you bring? ”

Seeing Li Zhi's embarrassed appearance, Zhang Wenyi hurriedly smiled and said, "Son, Your Highness is on the expedition for the first time, and you don't know anything, so you can't be a general." In the future, when he is old and knows how to lead troops, His Majesty will let him be a general. ”

Jin Yang was relieved, but he was still a little disappointed and said, "So that's the case." ”

Zhang Wenyi said with a smile: "It's already very good, it's already great that Your Highness can get His Majesty's permission to go out with the army at this age." ”

Li Zhi saw Zhang Wenyi relieving him and threw a grateful glance at her. Zhang Wenyi winked playfully, and Li Zhi smirked. Jin Yang snorted very unhappily when he saw the two of them flirting with each other.

Zhang Wenyi hurriedly hugged her, pointed at her nose and said, "Little man." ”

Jin Yang said unconvinced: "Imperial sister-in-law, you are only two years older than me!" ”

Zhang Wenyi said with a smile: "The eldest sister-in-law is the mother, you have to listen to the imperial sister-in-law." ”

Jin Yang flattened his mouth and said forcefully: "The eldest sister-in-law has to be the sister of the Su family of the prince's brother's family, and you can't be the eldest sister-in-law if you are the Nine Emperor sister-in-law." ”

Zhang Wenyi said with a smile: "The eldest sister-in-law's eldest sister means that she is old. I'm older than you, and I'm your eldest sister-in-law. ”

Jin Yang coquettishly said: "It's not, it's not." He giggled and ran away. Her palace maid hurriedly packed up her things and hurriedly followed.

Looking at the distant figure of Princess Jinyang, Li Zhi walked to Zhang Wenyi's side. said: "This expedition to the Western Regions may take a year or two, I told my father that no matter what happens, he will wait for me to come back, so you can rest assured." ”

Zhang Wenyi knew in her heart that Li Shimin was a very strong monarch, and if something big really happened, he would never wait for Li Zhi to come back to deal with it, but Li Zhi's heart still touched her very much.

Regarding the impending war, Zhang Wenyi is not very worried. In the history that Zhang Wenyi knew, the Tang army in the early Tang Dynasty was purely equivalent to the existence of a bug for the surrounding countries. Although it is not said that it will win every battle, basically the big war has never been lost.

What she was worried about was Li Zhi's body, this guy was as civil and military as his imperial brother, and his body looked extremely strong. But when he went out with the army, even if he was a prince, he couldn't eat well and dress as well as he did in the palace.

Then Li Zhi watched Zhang Wenyi rush back to their bedroom like a little woman, where to rummage through the cabinets to prepare clothes for Li Zhi. Seeing that Zhang Wenyi first made out a super-sized burden that was larger than her person, and seeing that this thing was too big, Zhang Wenyi reopened the category and hit seven or eight slightly smaller burdens. This small is only relative to the burden that is bigger than her.

Pulling Zhang Wenyi, who was busy non-stop, Li Zhi said softly: "This time, I am mainly responsible for transporting grain and grass in the rear army, you don't have to worry about where the materials are complete." ”

Zhang Wenyi said strangely: "I'm not worried, these clothes and shoes are indispensable, otherwise they won't be enough to change." As she spoke, her tears flowed unconsciously.

Li Zhi hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed her shoulder and said, "What's wrong with you, don't you want me to go out?" ”

Zhang Wenyi couldn't bear it anymore, hugged Li Zhi's waist with her backhand, and cried loudly. While crying, he said, "I don't know, I'm just worried, but I don't know what I'm worried about." ”

Li Zhi gently stroked her back and said softly, "Don't worry, I'll be fine." ”

Lying in Li Zhi's arms, Zhang Wenyi let out a sullen "um", and after a long time, she let go of Li Zhi and said shyly: "The concubine should not be like this." ”

Li Zhi didn't care, he smiled: "Okay? ”

Zhang Wenyi slapped him lightly and said, "Don't laugh at me, people just can't bear you." ”

Li Zhi was very moved and hugged her tightly and said, "I can't bear you either." ”

The two hugged for a long time before letting go, and Zhang Wenyi suddenly said: "The concubine's mother once taught me that when I presided over the feed, there is a method of mathematics that is very practical, and you must be able to use it when you are responsible for transporting grain and grass." ”

Zhang Wenyi was busy and crying just now, looking like a little woman was reluctant. Li Zhi wanted to make her happy, and at this time, no matter what Zhang Wenyi asked, he would agree.

On this day, Zhang Wenyi taught Li Zhi, the most basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of modern mathematics and Arabic numerals, and made him familiar with the ninety-nine multiplication table.

Ancient Chinese calculations were made using wooden sticks, which were roughly similar to the vertical calculations in modern mathematics of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Li Zhi had learned to calculate, which was not difficult for him to accept. Moreover, such an algorithm does not rely on tools, only needs paper and pen, which is even more valuable in marching and fighting.

Although Zhang Wenyi is not a good teacher, Li Zhi is also very human. One is attentive to teaching, and the other is talented. Zhang Wenyi actually taught Li Zhi the methods of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and four operations in one day.

In the evening, Li Zhi was talking to himself, Zhang Wenyi listened carefully, it turned out that he was actually giving himself a question. Zhang Wenyi smiled dumbly, she was also very tired at the end of the day, so she didn't care where Li Zhi was studying by herself. She hurriedly asked the palace maid to fetch water and bathe, returned to the room and spread out the quilt and slept first.

When he woke up the next day, Li Zhi had already gotten up early, and Zhang Wenyi looked at the sunken pillow beside him.

Half a month later, the army was about to leave, Li Zhi wore armor to say goodbye to Zhang Wenyi, and he would live in the barracks in the next few days. During this time, Zhang Wenyi cleaned up the wine and food every day, as if she didn't feed Li Zhi into a fat pig, and she would not give up, in addition, as long as Li Zhi came back, she would definitely be tired of being by her side, sticking to it like a shadow.

Sometimes Jinyang inevitably laughs at Zhang Wenyi when he is present, but Zhang Wenyi is old and cheeky, and he lets Jinyang laugh.

It's really time to go on the expedition, but Zhang Wenyi has put it down. just told Li Zhi to see more, think more, learn more, and those who went out to fight were all famous generals of the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhi must be humble as a rookie, and don't make his own decisions indiscriminately.

Looking at Zhang Wenyi's pretending to be calm, Li Zhi was secretly amused, which made Li Shimin, who came with him, suddenly remembered the appearance of Empress Changsun when he first went on an expedition, and how similar the two were chattering.

Suddenly, Li Shimin felt that he might have done something wrong in some aspects, and then thought of the deceased Qin Qiong, the Duke of Yiguo. He is an old hen and always likes to take care of everything he likes under his wing. In the past, he was very dissatisfied with Li Shimin, who took care of Wagang Yushi, but now he suddenly found out that the reason why Qin Qiong did this was for Datang.

Qin Qiong's own daughter is not so good, he has never thought of marrying the royal family. The righteous daughter sent in has a bit of the appearance of the eldest grandson queen, does he think that only such a girl can marry the royal family?

Li Shimin closed his eyes, and he finally understood Yi Guogong's intentions. Qin Qiong was thinking about the royal family and the Tang Dynasty until his death, and he was a rare hero.

The next day, Li Shimin summoned Cheng Zhijie, Wei Chigong, and Li Ji, and gave them a good encouragement, and rewarded them with a large amount of money and goods, which made the three of them a little moved and a little inexplicable.

Since Li Zhi left, Zhang Wenyi began to take care of Jinyang and Xincheng again. She has to go to Jinyang every day where to take care of her life, Zhang Wenyi, who knows modern nutrition and fitness, is naturally handy when she takes care of the princess sisters of Jinyang, and it doesn't take long for the two girls to be taken care of by the white and tender lively and lovely.

Li Shimin sometimes came to visit Princess Jinyang, but Zhang Wenyi avoided it as much as possible. Even if we meet, we have done enough superficial articles, and the courtesy is thoughtful and respectful, but there is no family affection.

The recent appearance with Li Shimin was a concubine surnamed Xu who was only twelve or thirteen years old, and she went to the small kitchen to see Zhang Wenyi standing on a small bench to fry vegetables.

"Princess Jin?" This Xu Jieyu asked softly.

Zhang Wenyi stopped the spatula in his hand and looked at this mother-in-law who was a few years older than him suspiciously. suddenly remembered that this girl was his elder anyway, so he hurriedly put down the spatula and gave a salute, picked up the spatula again and continued to cook.

She didn't look at Xu Jieyu either, and said in her mouth: "The concubine can't be fully courteous, I'm really sorry." ”

Xu Jieyu looked at Zhang Wenyi with interest and said, "I heard that your female celebrity is also very good and can take care of people, how can you do so many things at such a young age?" ”

Zhang Wenyi said without raising her head: "This is nothing strange. The concubine was from a low background, and when I was young at home, my sister and brother took me, and I had to take care of my younger brothers and sisters when I was older. These are all natural things in poor families, and there will be a saying that the children of the poor are in charge of the house early. ”

Xu Jieyu listened to what Zhang Wenyi said so ordinarily that she seemed to be really poor. She smiled and said, "I have heard Your Majesty say that your family was once rich and rivaled. ”

Zhang Wenyi still lowered his eyes and said: "The money in the concubine's family is not his own, so my father never dares to use it indiscriminately. Except for the large house, our family is no different from ordinary civilians. ”