In early summer, the grasslands outside the Seychelles.

The pastures are at their most vibrant during this season. As far as the eye can see, there are deep shades of green that cannot be seen. The breeze blows, like waves, and the green of the green cage is turned to the side, and then the various small flowers placed under the grass roots have a chance to appear, like colorful stars.

It was just past noon, the hottest time of the day, and the sun hung high overhead, so bright that no one could look at it directly, and even the poplar trees on the edge of the pasture were lazy, only making the occasional rustle when the breeze caressed it. The whole grassland was quiet, like a piece of warm jade.

Suddenly, from a distance, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves, which broke the calm of the moment. A young man dressed in plain white, who looked to be only about seven or eight years old, rode a red horse, and skipped over the grassland like a gallop, and galloped towards the camp not far away.

Before reaching the tent, the young man reined in his horse, which neighed, raised its front hooves, and spun a few more times before it stopped. When it had stood still, the boy rolled over and got off his horse, handed the reins to a sergeant, and ran to a man who looked like a general.

"Daddy......"

"Look at the sweat on your head, drink it! How can anyone ride a horse like you, in an unsheltered place in the big sun! As he spoke, the general took a cup of tea from the sergeant's hand and handed it to the young man.

The young man swallowed a sip of tea hurriedly, and then said, "Dad, how is it?" I said that this little red horse will be tamed by me in less than three days, and my daughter has not broken her promise! You promised me that if I tamed this little red horse, you would allow me to ride it out hunting. ”

The general smiled and shook his head, first wiped the sweat from the boy's forehead, and then said, "You, if you are a boy, it is good to have this arrogance." But you're just a ......."

"What's wrong with the girl! Daddy just thinks I'm a boy. Are you afraid that I won't be able to bear your mantle? ”

"Don't talk about this, go in and wash, the sweat on this face, and some dust, you can go and sing the clean face!"

The boy smiled and was about to speak, when he heard the sound of horses chattering from the direction of the stable.

The father and daughter looked not far away, and it was the red horse that was making a noise. It was fine just now, but I don't know why it went berserk, and at this moment, it was raising its front hooves high, trying to break free from the sergeant's grasp. Several sergeants were gathered around, clutching the reins desperately......

Before the general could take a step, he saw the figure around him move, and when he looked closely, the girl had already galloped to the startled horse.

Although there was already a tacit understanding between the girl and the horse, one was frightened and out of normality at this time, and the other was that the girl was still young after all, and she was dragged to the ground by the horse in three or two strokes. Seeing the red horse raise its front hooves, the girl panicked for a while, and watched the horse sit there motionless, seeing that the girl was about to be trampled under the feet of the horse......

At this moment, two figures flashed out of the crowd from a distance and a few steps to the girl's approach. The two of them, one of them tightly protected the girl with his body; Another seemingly weak push between the horse's hips, and the horse, which was still uncontrollable just now, actually fell to the side as if it had been hit by the acupoint.

The sergeants swarmed up to subdue the horse.

"Hexuan, are you hurt?"

Hearing her father speak to herself, the girl came back to her senses, looked at her father who was protecting her, shook her head, although she frowned in pain, and cold sweat flowed down her face, she tried her best to say calmly: "It's okay, it's just the left arm, and I don't dare to move......"

At this time, another figure just now also walked up to the girl, gently pinched the girl's arm with his hand, looked at the general and said, "It's okay, it's just a dislocation." ”

Then, the man looked at Li Hexuan with a serious face and said, "Wait until you come to my tent......"

The girl lowered her head and just replied, "Yes, Master." ......Then she raised her head and looked at the person she called Master with tears in her eyes, and stubbornly endured the tears again, and her little face turned red because of the heat and pain.

"It's already connected." The man whispered, "Try to move a little, don't move too much." ”

The girl moved her arm again at this time, and she no longer felt very painful.

"Thank you, Master!" The girl swept away the gloom on her face just now, said with a smile, then stood up and patted the dust off her body.

At this time, General Li and the man whom the girl called Master also stood up.

"Thank you is exempt, don't think that a 'thanks' word can be a hundred! Surely the punishment will be punished for today's events. You shall not be allowed to shoot arrows or ride on horseback for seven days. The horse shall also be punished, and shall not be fed forage for one day, and shall not be released for three days. ”

"Master......" the girl pouted again, frowning.

"What, what's not convinced? If it makes sense, tell me and I'll listen! ”

Hearing the girl's voice ready to protest, the man asked.

"......No," the girl pouted, turning and walking towards her tent.

"Mr. Tao, you let her not ride a horse and shoot arrows for seven days, it is simply her life." Looking at her back as she walked away, General Li said with a smile.

"If you say that she is allowed to recuperate, I am afraid that she will sneak out tomorrow. If you can't take care of it, you will have frequent seizures in the future. Tao Yizhi looked at Li Hexuan's back and said with a smile, "Now just look at her back, and I know how hot she is." It just so happened that he also took the opportunity to collect her wildness. ”

"This kid is just obeying your discipline." General Li said with a smile.

"You're spoiling her too much."

Then, Tao Yizhi looked at Li Wanling, the two of them looked at each other for a moment, and then laughed, and walked towards the Chinese military tent while laughing.

"The general is busy with business today?" Tao Yizhi asked.

"Is there something wrong with the gentleman?"

"There is nothing important, if the general is not busy, how about we play a game?"

"I can't ask for ......"

After dinner, Li Hexuan sat under the lamp, holding her chin and staring at the book in front of her today, in a daze, for half an hour, without reading a word at all.

Since the death of my mother four years ago, no matter what I did wrong, I have never been grounded for so long. It's just a trivial matter, can Master be able to punish himself like this? No matter how she thought about it, Hexuan felt unconvinced.

Just as she was secretly angry in her heart, she suddenly heard someone enter her tent. Thinking about it, it should be the sergeant who delivered the water, Hexuan didn't look back, didn't even bother to say a word, still thinking about how to pass the seven days.

"Still angry?" Tao Yizhi asked as he stood behind her.

"Master!" Hearing this voice, Hexuan hurriedly stood up, turned around and saluted Tao Yizhi first, "I'm not angry." Although he said this, his face was still full of expressions of loss.

"I've got something for you, maybe, it'll make you feel better these days." As he spoke, Tao Yizhi handed a brocade box in his hand to He Xuan.

When Hexuan opened it, it turned out to be a jade Xiao that was as white as mutton fat.

"It's so beautiful......" Looking at this Xiao, the smile on Hexuan's face that had disappeared all day was revealed again.

In fact, Hexuan, the child, is not a child who likes to move or not like to be quiet, her movement is because she was born in this vast place and is exposed to her ears and eyes; And her tranquility comes from the gentleness in her bones......

"Don't you always pester me to say that you want to learn, anyway, these days, you have time, let's use it to relieve boredom."

As he spoke, Tao Yizhi took out his usual jade Xiao from his waist and played it gently, with a slow sound and a breeze, floating infinitely ethereal on the grassland......

"It's Mr. Tao's Xiao Sheng!" General Li, who was sitting under the lamp and reading a book, asked his subordinates to Xiu Feidao.

"Yes. Mr. Tao said that he was afraid that the young lady would not be able to stay in the past few days, so he deliberately took the new warm white jade Xiao that was just sent over yesterday. Xiu Fei replied with a smile.

General Li smiled slightly and said, "This Mr. Tao, he always says that I am arrogant and indulgent to Hexuan, but in fact, he spoils her more than me." Do the math, Hexuan is now nine years old, and Mr. Tao has been here for more than three years! ”

"No, when Mr. Tao first came, Miss was only a little bit taller......," Xiu Fei said as he measured a height with his hand.

"yes. At that time, I was crying and shouting every day for someone to hug me. It's good now, it's impossible for her to walk quietly for a while, and get rid of a tomboy. ”

"Even if it's someone else's young master, it's not as fond of martial arts as our young lady."

While the master and the servant were chatting, a sergeant suddenly walked in quickly from outside the door.

"Report! General, there is a secret envoy in Kyoto. ”

"An envoy from Kyoto?" Hearing this, General Li was shocked, thinking that he was far away outside the fortress, and he hadn't heard of any battles anywhere recently, and there was also calm in Kyoto, so why did this secret envoy come from?

"Where did you send the soldiers?" Xiu Fei, who was standing on the side, asked.

The sergeant shook his head and said, "Listen to the voice of the voice, it looks like ...... Like ......"

"Like what?" General Li asked.

"Like a father-in-law!"

"Father-in-law?"

Hearing this, Li Wanling was even more confused, but no matter what, this secret envoy still had to meet, General Li replied with the word "please", and the sergeant turned around and went out, inviting the secret envoy from Kyoto into the camp tent.

It was already summer, but the man who came put on a black cloak outside, wrapped himself tightly from head to toe, and walked into the tent with his head down, and his face could not be seen at all.

"Excuse me......" Before General Li could finish speaking, the person who came raised his head, smiled at General Li, and said in a low voice: "Please let the general retreat left and right first, so that we can talk." ”

Don't look at this person, as soon as he saw this person, General Li couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Xiu Fei looked at General Li, Li Wanling nodded, and then said: "Let the person who guards the tent stay ten steps away from the tent, and no one is allowed to enter without my summons." ”

Xiu Fei nodded and left, listening to the footsteps of the person who came, he was not a person who practiced martial arts, so the safety of the general was still worry-free, he came outside, ordered his subordinates, and then stood ten steps away from the tent and waited.