Chapter 41: A Family
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The progress of martial arts has reached such a level, and it has not completely satisfied Bai Ye, only these people can create such brilliance, so what if his wish is fulfilled? What about gathering the wisdom of hundreds, tens of millions of people?
Bai Ye didn't dare to imagine how brilliant it would be, how it would surpass all the predecessors and sages.
The study of pure martial arts is good, and there has been significant progress in the study of natural sciences.
The medicine of the Xiaoyao School has made outstanding contributions to the improvement of the theories of Chinese medicine, especially in surgery, with good results.
The toads, spiders and silkworms brought back by the white night are also specially raised and observed, the ice silkworm eggs have hatched, three transparent small things, crawling in the cold room made of the ancient tomb school cold jade bed all day long, the pair of colorful snow spiders gave birth to seven small spiders in five years, the white night named them according to the color of the rainbow, and the mangmu zhu clams have grown up a lot, one of the toads has become a husband and wife, and it is expected to add a few toad babies this year.
The fly in the ointment is that the dragon-like creatures in the lake in the Tianshan Mountains that Bai Ye wants to capture are not yet possible. He has been searching for information on all kinds of strange flowers and plants, all kinds of strange creatures, and the entire base is about to become a botanical and botanical garden, with all kinds of magical species.
In other areas, there has been great progress. Like the development of guns, someone has researched explosives based on the information that Bai Ye once said, fortunately everyone has martial arts, otherwise this kid would have been killed on the spot.
That night, Bai Ye also celebrated and gave a large sum of silver to the guy who injured his arm.
Since then, the weapons of the White Night have slowly begun to enter the era of explosives, but this development still needs to take a process.
A year ago, some craftsmen and researchers at Base 2 built a steam engine, which was not yet a vehicle or ship, but it was also a leap in power.
That night, Bai Ye rode to the No. 2 base, praised the dozen or so people fiercely, and gave a large sum of silver.
Electromagnetism has also been experimented with according to the knowledge imparted by Bai Ye, but as an engineering dog who has not really played with generators, he really only knows the principle and doesn't know how to do it. This can only be left to a group of people to experiment independently, and perhaps when those junior high and high school students come out, it will have a greater effect.
Five years of development and changes, so that Bai Ye is very pleased, just last month, Bai Ye got a piece of information about Mongolia, Kublai Khan got his younger brother, although there are still internal dissatisfied, but Kublai Khan integrated most of the Mongolian forces, about to wave his troops, towards the south.
Silently preparing for war, the whole territory is running like a machine, the arrangements of all parties are continuing, various planning orders are issued from the general staff, intelligence officers everywhere are trying to collect intelligence, and everything is waiting for the first war in the five years.
Bai Ye rode on a horse at this time, galloping towards Xiangyang City, he and Guo Xiang had to go home tonight, because tonight was their birthday, Huang Rong had to go back.
In the past five years, Bai Ye rarely went home, he didn't like to see Guo Jing, and he didn't like to see Ke Zhenxi.
Ever since they knew that Bai Ye was the leader of the neighboring forces and had rejected the Song court's rude condition of asking for a minister, the two had never given him a good look.
Moreover, after they listened to the criticism of those Confucian scholars and the complaints of those big factions of the martial arts family, Guo Jing was even furious, wanting to find Bai Ye and kill this rebel in the palm of his hand.
Brother-in-law Yeluqi treats him well, often talks and laughs with him, which is not considered a life, but the eldest sister Guo Fu is not as good as her brother-in-law Yeluqi, she is always arrogant when she meets, and asks Bai Ye why he doesn't allow the beggars to go to his jurisdiction to develop? Why do you treat the beggars like this?
What she was referring to was that Bai Ye had arrested all the beggar disciples who had entered the area and reformed them through labor, so that they would no longer beg and learn a skill.
Bai Ye didn't refute, and when he returned home, he always found a quiet corner to sit in, didn't speak, didn't answer, just watched quietly.
Huang Rong is the lubricant of the whole family, connecting everyone together, if it weren't for her, Bai Ye would have fought with Guo Jing and Ke Zhen a long time ago, suppressed these two people, abolished a body of martial arts, and sent them to a labor camp for labor reform.
Maybe she worked too hard and worked hard all the time, but with such a husband and son, her appearance is still young and beautiful, but there are a few more gray hairs on her sideburns.
Sitting in a corner of the hall, looking at Huang Rong, who was busy with Zhang Luo's reunion dinner, she kept a smile on her face, while comforting Guo Jing who was staring at Bai Ye with bad eyes, and talking to Bai Ye, so that he didn't feel lonely.
Bai Ye suddenly felt that this woman, who was once very beautiful and known as Zhuge among women, was just an ordinary wife and an ordinary mother. No matter how wise and beautiful she is in front of outsiders, but she has no way to deal with her son and husband. Both sides are the people she loves, one is the lifelong lover she met when she was in her prime, and the other is her own flesh and blood. The palms and backs of her hands are full of meat, and she can't cry, she can only smile all the time.
At the dinner table, in front of Bai Ye and Guo Xiang was a bowl of fragrant longevity noodles, which Huang Rong made for them every year on the birthdays of her sisters and brothers.
Bai Ye was just eating noodles silently, but Guo Xiang was like Huang Rong at the dinner table, greeting the eldest duke and Guo Jing. She is completely different from Bai Ye's treatment here, she is a daughter, so Guo Jing and Ke Zhenwei are not so angry, but love and care for them. They always thought in their hearts that it was Bai Ye who brought Guo Xiang badly, and what became of a good daughter's family?
This year is Bai Ye and Guo Xiang's twenty-first birthday, Guo Xiang is no longer the little girl who liked to follow Bai Ye when she was a child, nor is she the crazy girl who is sixteen years old, but she has really grown up, she is the same as her mother Huang Rong, although she retains the intelligence and wit of a girl, but after all, it changes with time.
She wants to be like Huang Rong and become the link of the entire Guo Mansion, she and Bai Ye are siblings, they grew up together since childhood, and on the other side are her father and eldest father-in-law, who are elders. She can't make a choice, she can only become a thread connecting Bai Ye and Guo Mansion.
She doesn't come home often, she's twenty-one years old, and although she's not old, in the eyes of some, she should have married a wife a long time ago, and she should have had children for her husband's family a long time ago, instead of running around.
Although the children of the rivers and lakes are informal, the etiquette of this era is like this. There are many people who come to Guo's mansion every year to propose to Miss Guo Er, so she would rather stay in the army than go home.
The reunion dinner ended in a strange atmosphere, Ke Zhenwei took the lead in "humming", and left with a stick, Guo Jing glanced at Bai Ye in a complicated way, and left with a flick of his robe sleeves.
Bai Ye put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand, got up expressionlessly, and walked towards the outside of Guo's mansion.
Huang Rong hurriedly followed, grabbed Bai Ye's hand, and asked, "It's so late, where are you going?" Could it be that such a big Guo Mansion can't accommodate my son? ”
Huang Rong's last sentence was very loud, and Guo Jing and Ke Zhen, who had not gone far, were stunned, and hurriedly walked away.
Bai Ye was stunned, looking at Huang Rong, who was shorter than herself, she was looking up at herself, with a little expectation and begging in her beautiful eyes.
When she was young, this woman used to put him on her lap and talk to him, telling him stories about her youth and her brother Jing; When he was a teenager, she cooked food for him, and he would always try her best to help him if he was in trouble; Five years ago, he was seriously injured and fell into a coma when he was battling with King Jinlun, and his forces were being attacked by the Mongol army, and she set out in the starry night to see her son.
In the past, this tall and strong woman looked shorter than him now.
Thinking of this, even Bai Ye couldn't help but feel sad.
Laughing silently, Bai Ye helped Huang Rong's windswept hair and nodded slightly.
Huang Rong smiled, like a girl who got the most delicious candy, and took Bai Ye's hand to the small garden of Guo's mansion.
The garden is still the same as it was back then, but I don't know how many reincarnations the flowers and plants in it have gone through, and whether it is still the same as back then?
One day, Huang Rong will grow old, Guo Jing will grow old, they will die, and they will be buried under a handful of loess after death, thousands of years, who can remember?
Huang Rong took her son's hand, walked around the withering garden, pointed to some of them, and told him how he and his second sister played around here and were naughty.
Bai Ye let her speak, and when she was tired of talking, she sat down on a bench in the garden.
She was suddenly silent, as smart as her, and she couldn't even think of what to say for a while, how to resolve the gap between Bai Ye and Guo Jing.
"Mother, you don't have to think about resolving the conflict between me and my father. I promise you, I won't kill him. ”
Bai Ye made a strange and ridiculous guarantee, guaranteeing that his son would not kill Lao Tzu. To outsiders, this sounds like a fantasy!
But Huang Rong smiled and nodded, and patted Bai Ye's head with her white hand, with a wicked smile on her pretty face, like a prank.
"Mother, the "Little Wuxianggong" I gave you, you must practice it well. You see, they all have gray hair. ”
Bai Ye picked out a hair of Huang Rong, this hair was silver and white, as if it was silently telling a generation of red faces to grow old with the years.
"My mother is in her fifties, what kind of little girl are you pretending?"
Huang Rong stretched out her hand to pluck the strand of hair, was stunned for a while, and said as if she didn't care.
"I just hope that my children can be safe and that my family can live a safe and happy life. My mother is already old, and she may not see the moment when my son succeeds in his great cause and becomes the king of the world, but I think that day, my son is the most dazzling person in the world. It's just that my mother can't help you much. ”
Huang Rong said very calmly, she misunderstood the purpose of everything Bai Ye did, but Bai Ye didn't refute it, it was because of her that Bai Ye could be so smooth when he was a child.
"Your eldest sister, she was spoiled by us when she was a child, she has a bad temper, is arrogant, vain and loves fame and fortune, but she is my daughter after all, and like you, she is my mother's flesh and blood."
Huang Rong stared at Bai Ye and said very seriously, "Your father is very stubborn, and I also know that he is a chivalrous person, his ancestor is Guo Sheng, a good man in Liangshan, and he doesn't want people to poke his back and say that his family has a person who is disrespectful to the sages and disloyal to the king." He believes in 'the great man of chivalry, for the country and the people', but his country is the Great Song Dynasty, and his people are also the people of the Great Song Dynasty. ”
Bai Ye nodded, didn't speak, Huang Rong continued: "According to Xiangyang for decades, my mother has long seen what the Great Song Dynasty is, they are intoxicated with a prosperous dream, and the actual interior has long been decayed. When you command the world and become the king of the world, no matter how much fault your eldest sister and father make, I hope that my son will spare them from death. ”
Huang Rong knows how ruthless the kings of the world are, and for the sake of that supreme position, how many people can give up their sibling affection! She didn't want her son to raise a butcher's knife to his own family one day.
Hearing this, Bai Ye frowned, took a deep breath, and said very seriously: "If they can abide by the law, I will ensure that they will be rich for a hundred years!" ”
When Huang Rong heard this, she didn't say more, pulled Bai Ye to talk about her parents' shortcomings, and worried about her marriage for Bai Ye, and asked him how Zhu Mengqing was? When will you bring a grandchild back?