"Sister, sister, what does this mean?"

"Sister, there's this!"

"Sister......

In the huge backyard of the General's Mansion, a few young children who should have left school have not yet left, and they are circling around a young girl, one sister at a time, calling so cheerfully, holding their schoolwork, and asking one by one.

"'If you pass and don't change, you say it's over', this sentence does not mean that the mistake made is not a mistake, but the lesser of two evils, and the mistake is more terrible than the mistake." Li Xiang was so amused by the noise that she couldn't hear what they were talking about, but fortunately, they quickly quieted down, and she had the time to solve their doubts one by one.

Twilight was approaching, Li Qiu sent the young children out, Li Xiang was quieter, rubbed his face, and complained to the real master who was "standing by" next to him: "I don't know who is the master, I'm so lazy to steal, I've only been here for five days, and I have to go to work, where is the reason?" ”

The real master shook the pu fan, deaf to it, and the corners of his mouth were about to fly into the sky.

"Didn't you just take children in the past? Why are even the enlightened children accepted now? After Li Xiang finished complaining, there was nothing left, and when he saw Li Qiu coming back, he asked.

She had wanted to say this for a long time, but in the past few days, especially on the day she came, Li Xiang gradually recovered some memories, sporadic fragments, and even only a certain scene, most of which were about the school set up in the general's mansion.

She was here when she was a child, and she grew up with her grandfather, the chief Qingke of the General's Mansion and the chief military advisor of General Yan over the years, Mr. Mu, is her grandfather, in the eyes of the world, who died more than ten years ago when he was controlling the water, that is, the emperor Li Qingyi.

These memories are scattered and inappropriate, but some obvious changes are hard to ignore, such as the sudden addition of young children.

When Li Xiang was a child, the enrollment threshold here was higher, and it was far from enough to be a child, except for Li Xiang, there was only one exception, and later, as she grew up, the conditions became more and more relaxed.

Li Qiu collected the pens that fell here for a few careless children, and said casually: "This place is biased, the people are gradually moving outside, dragging their families and mouths, where are so many children, there are only a dozen a year, and the masters who have the ability to go out are also going out, and the study school outside is about to be unable to ......."

The old man who was enjoying the shade over there lifted his eyelids and looked at the chattering scholar, Li Qiu was suddenly silent, went to get a broom to clean up, and let the girl ask anything more and not speak.

Li Xiang was a little puzzled, turned his head to look at his grandfather, and asked silently.

How so?

The people here have also survived here for generations, and with General Yan in charge, the sand bandits have almost been suppressed over the years......

"There was only one rain last year, but this year it's already June, and it snowed heavily in Jiangnan at the beginning of the year, but there wasn't even a drop of rain here." Mr. Mu glanced at his granddaughter, slightly helpless, closed his eyes again, and said.

Li Xiang's heart tightened, without rain, this already raging sand will only get worse, if it really doesn't rain for several years, how long can the dark river dug ten years ago last?

The people can move away, but what about the hundreds of thousands of defenders?

The soldiers left home to join the army, and stayed at the border for many years, and the conditions were already difficult, and then they encountered a drought, which was a big trouble!

"Now, you're talkative, aren't you? Scares us Miss Ann! Mr. Mu came over, shook his fan, and said to Li Qiu.

Li Qiu was speechless, he came again, after two years, he came again, he came to entertain him again, and he swept a few fallen leaves angrily, obviously it was Mr. himself who was scary, what did it matter to him?

Li Xiang was amused, and he didn't know who said it was more scary, so he grabbed his grandfather's hand and refused to let go, "Na, it's scary, but what are the tricks?" ”

"Nope."

"Really?"

“…… Not really. ”

"Okay." Li Xiang shook his hand, glanced at his grandfather, who was righteous, sighed faintly, and said, "Eh, I'm scared to death, no, I'm so scared......"

Mr. Mu smiled and said that the ghost girl he was afraid of, just listening to the sound did seem like that, but it was not the case at all, but he was so angry that he choked enough, and the fan in his hand knocked on the ghost girl's head.

"How big is it, still fooling people like this? I didn't bother to play a full set, I pretended to be a little bit. ”

Li Xiang tilted his head, the pu fan was raised high and fell gently, the itch was not itchy, where did someone smile like an adult, he was clearly still a child, but this person was really only close to sixteen years old.

"The court refused, your father proposed to rebuild the canal several times to divert water, but there was no movement, and it was rejected every time. Mr. Mu put one hand on his granddaughter's head, his eyes crossed the courtyard gate, and fell into the afterglow outside, kind and compassionate.

Li Xiang smiled silently, it is still a canal, and the current canal is left by the previous dynasty, and the canal of the previous dynasty was built less than three years before it was brought to the country, and it is also the only good thing that the faint monarch has done for the people, seven or eight hundred years, dozens of times have been repaired, and some of them have been gradually abandoned and demolished for various reasons.

The canal is a big project, and the Grand Canal cannot be built on a large scale in one or two decades, and the previous dynasty conscripted a large number of soldiers and workers in order to build the canal, and the forced labor was too heavy, coupled with the already harsh laws and regulations and inaction of officials, which led to the young general who guarded the border area to rise up, and together with the new champion of the new section who was implicated and exiled from the literary prison, he raised troops and went north, which opened the stable and prosperous era of Dayan for nearly a thousand years.

There is a lesson from the past, Emperor Jiaming ignores it is also reasonable, this year there is a large area of snow disaster, want to repair the canal, even if Emperor Jiaming is intentional, let alone have to wait for another seven or eight years, recuperation is not just a matter of talking, people's livelihood is the plan.

"Okay, these hundreds of thousands of troops are here, and they are in a pivotal position, and the imperial court will not care about their life or death." Mr. Mu retracted his gaze, "Go back and rest, you can't work like this." ”

Glancing at his great-grandson (daughter) who had not yet been born, Mr. Mu had a little smile on his face, "Ah Qiu said, there are guests outside, don't go out first, it's better to avoid it, just like when you came, I'll take a look." ”

Li Xiang took a breath and thought about it, along the way, she didn't provoke anyone, and she was even afraid of causing trouble, she didn't even get off the carriage, and it was rare to lift the curtain in the suburbs for three days to breathe, so she was seen by that Guan Zhou, and then she didn't even have a breath.

Guan Zhou, whether he dares or not, he shouldn't be able to keep up at all, and the others shouldn't be impossible, they shouldn't have followed her.

Li Xiang slowly breathed a sigh of relief, sent his grandfather out, and went back to the yard by himself.