Chapter 2 Osmanthus carries wine together, and the night rain accompanies the sorrow
Uncle Gong came back to his senses in a creaking sound, looked at the boyish boy who was still playing on the rocking chair, and said softly: "Everyone in the palace knows that the second son is a breezy and moon-like figure, why did he play a childish temper when he mentioned family affairs?" ”
"You taught those Jingzhou gentlemen a lesson this time, not to mention the side, the people in the city and those of us who are subordinates feel uplifted, how can the prince and the eldest prince not know? But those pickled and talented fathers are the gossip officials of the DPRK and the Central People......"
Seeing Uncle Gong's chatter, there was an endless trend, Zhou Qi hurriedly got up and dragged Uncle Gong's hand, and forced him to sit down on the tea stool in front of the low table: "Okay, okay, I know the reason." Uncle Gong, you rushed up the mountain overnight, there should be something else, right? ”
Uncle Gong's original name was Wen Changgong, he was born in the army, and he was in the northern Xinjiang with Zhou Zhenliu, who was still the general of Sanpin Dingyuan, and charged into battle, not to mention a hundred battles?
A martial arts cultivation that rushed out in the midst of thousands of troops, after more than ten years of accumulation and precipitation, even the mentor of the two brothers of the Zhou family, Zhang Ziqing, who is a Confucian and Taoist cultivation who is by no means under the great Confucianism in the world, is a little impenetrable.
At this moment, he just looked like an ordinary old man, sitting down in front of the short table according to the strength of the young man, his body was straight, and he smiled kindly: "It's not a big deal, it's just that the internal guards took advantage of the night to catch a group of spies from the Central Investigation Department, and their subordinates were not in a good position, and they ran a few fish that slipped through the net, and they saw that they were coming in the direction of Xingxing Peak, and the eldest prince was worried about your safety, so he asked me to catch up with the mountain, just in case." ”
Zhou Qi was not surprised, but sneered: "This dynasty of the Ji family is really getting more and more unproductive, Rong Di in the north is fighting grass valley every other day, and he has traveled thousands of miles to send spies to our poor and remote Yunlai, but he has collected one stubble after another." ”
Uncle Gong sighed and said: "Since the prince rejected the holy decree to summon the two sons to enter Beijing to enter the country to supervise their studies, our palace can be regarded as tearing up with the Ji family. ”
"Above this court, there are all traitors and villains in charge, the Qing gossip official is in power, most of the civil and military forces in the Manchu Dynasty are corpses and vegetarian people, those loyal and righteous people have no place to stand, either unjustly killed or dismissed, the children of the Ji family have been blindfolded since they succeeded to the throne, cronies and officials, longing for monks, this Daji has rotted to the roots."
When the old man talked about the sore spot, his originally upright body became rickety, and his voice became a little hoarse.
His fists were clenched tightly, the green tendons on the back of his hands were winding like a dragon, and he choked up: "If it weren't for this, the general was brave and loyal, the northern royal Rong Di, the quiet and demonic atmosphere, and the great military achievements, how could he be made to this southern Xinjiang, and how could the Lady be a living Bodhisattva-like figure...... How could it be ......?"
Zhou Qi saw Uncle Gong like this, and his heart was a little more poignant.
In his previous life, he was a lying young man on a blue planet, and he was fortunate to be born in a peaceful year.
But even if you live in bliss, you can't escape the time.
Zhou Qi struggled several times to no avail, so he simply plunged into the three-inch screen in his hand with the crowd, with joy, anger, sorrow and joy in between, trying to cover up the inexplicable helplessness and unwillingness with gratuitous numbness and confusion.
With the only remaining bit of enthusiasm, he stood on the three-foot podium, hoping to contribute to the meager value, and then swim to the other side of life.
It wasn't until he accidentally found the antique jade jue on his wrist that he became a baby with his biological mother Li Wanyun holding the jade jue in her belly.
For Zhou Qi, this is not a good thing.
But the joy of accepting the knees that he was worried about persuading himself to accept had not been enjoyed for a few days, and the parents who cared for the world sacrificed themselves to save the common people, and the joys, sorrows, and sorrows of more than ten years have not been shown on their faces for more than ten years.
Although Zhou Qi is a human being in two lives, he is a human being, who can be worthy of the four words that blood is thicker than water?
Zhou Qi has a thousand entanglements in his heart, and since he was a child, he has often been sad when he sees the situation of his biological father and mother.
Looking at Uncle Gong, who was like a kind elder in front of him and Zhou Li, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, and Zhou Qi didn't know how to comfort him for a while.
just silently took out two small glass lamps from a few dwarfs, and poured a cup of autumn drunk stained with wind and rain for himself and Uncle Gong, the wine was slightly yellow, and it glowed amber in the candlelight.
Zhou Qi didn't persuade him to drink, so he picked up a cup and tasted it lightly before he said slowly: "Everyone in the palace knows that Uncle Gong never drinks alcohol. But when I beat up my stinky brother all over the yard a few years ago, I got a big jar of drunkenness out of your room. ”
When Uncle Gong heard this, he came to his senses, and his slightly rickety body straightened up again, but his eyes were still red.
Smiled apologetically: "This person is old, every time this festival comes, there must always be a little feeling, the second son doesn't want to laugh at me." ”
Zhou Qi smiled and pointed to the words hanging on the wall, and said, "Sad spring and sad autumn, ancient saints are inevitable." Besides, Uncle Gong is deeply hidden, if it is really based on the years and months of the cultivator, I am afraid that it is too much to say that he is in the prime of life, so why do you want to be in such an old state? ”
Uncle Gong smiled gently, didn't answer, only picked up the wine glass, and swallowed the wine in the cup in one gulp.
Looking at the night rain outside the window, his face showed a look of intoxication and remembrance, and he said to himself: "Back then, in Northern Xinjiang, the general was a young hero, majestic and heroic, I was a veteran in the army, and I was fortunate to obey the general's account with a group of old brothers. For many years, with the general's bloody fighting, he only felt that the blood of Narong Di was the strongest wine in the world. ”
"Later, the brothers died and scattered, only our old Gong had a good life, with the general entering Beijing and then coming to southern Xinjiang, but after leaving the battlefield, no matter how strong the wine is, I feel that there is no taste."
Speaking of this, he smiled kindly: "Madame is a heroine among women, and she is also a good wine, before she was pregnant with two sons, she lost the wine fight with the general, and secretly buried her head in the winery to brew this delicious but full of stamina osmanthus drunk, and deceived the general into getting drunk." ”
"Later, my wife gave me a jar of osmanthus drunk, and I secretly drank two cups in the room, only to feel that there is still good wine in this world."
Then he laughed at himself, and then said: "This cloud comes to many autumn laurels, when Mrs. leaves, it is the solar term of the fragrant cinnamon, and many laurel trees are planted in the garden of the house, and once you enter it, the sweet breath can be intoxicating." ”
"The general ordered us to pick up the osmanthus flowers in the garden, and brewed one or twenty jars by ourselves, but we always talked to us that they didn't think it was as delicious as the lady's own brewing, so we changed our name to Qiulan drunk."
"I said so, but on Chinese New Year's Eve that year, I shared an altar with us old people in the royal mansion at the dinner table, and the rest was secretly hidden as treasures."
"Lao Gong, I am greedy and greedy, cheeky to ask for a jar, occasionally greedy at night, so I secretly taste a small cup. After drinking for more than ten years, there is still half an altar left, but I didn't think about it, but I let the two sons open the drinking ring and drank it all. ”
Zhou Qi was astringent, but he felt a little guilty and a little sentimental, and he had mixed feelings for a while, but he didn't know what to do.
Back then, he took Zhou Li to frolic, and the two of them went to Uncle Gong's house, and turned out half a jar of Qiulan drunk under the bed, which smelled pleasant, and a small taste was even more sweet and refreshing, and the sweetness of the stomach penetrated into the heart.
Zhou Qi drank a few big sips when he was greedy, but who knew that he got drunk and went crazy with a few sips.
Forcibly pulling Zhou Li, who was already itchy and wanted to refuse to welcome him, you take a bite and I take a bite, and the two brothers drunk half of Qiulan to the bottom.
It's also a shame that the two of them have been in contact with the way of cultivation since they were young, and they only woke up after two days and nights of intoxication, but because of this, they also injured their foundation vitality, and it took a lot of recuperation to be considered repaired. (So don't drink alcohol under minors!) Otherwise, you see~)
After the two brothers recuperated, Zhou Zhenliu vented the anger that he had been holding back for a long time, beat the two of them well, and threw the two brothers to his mentor Zhang Ziqing to copy the classics.
Zhang Ziqing was even stricter, saying that he was not allowed to eat until he finished copying, and the two brothers couldn't see half a grain of millet before they finished copying.
Uncle Gong still felt sorry for the two brothers, and secretly sent two big meat buns to the two little beans who were hungry for a day and could only drink cold water between the bookcases, which was simply the best meat bun that the two brothers had ever eaten in their lives, which moved the brothers to tears.
Uncle Gong saw the crampedness of the young man in front of him, and laughed secretly in his heart: No matter how old Su Hui is, he is still a young man in the end.
So he joked: "If the second prince feels that he can't go, why don't I hang the key to the prince's private vault in a conspicuous place in the room, and the second prince quietly took the key and went to steal a jar of the prince's private collection of Qiulan drunk with me, how about you and I do two clears?" ”
Zhou Qi knew that Uncle Gong was teasing himself, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but he became more and more shy, when his father ripped off his brothers and spanked Uncle Gong, he saw it in his eyes!
I had to be ashamed and said, "Uncle Gong, when did you learn to be so unashamed to harm your younger generation?" I see that my period of grounding is about to end, don't you want me to become a monk in this mountain! ”
Uncle Gong's heart warmed, but he didn't answer, but just said in a warm voice: "Since the second son regards me as an elder, I will say some words between the elders and the younger ones with a thick old face." To say that on the battlefield, between the battle arrays, the way to govern the army, come and go can not escape the wind, forest, fire, and mountain, I have been in the army for most of my life, thinking that the most difficult place in the meantime, but also count the mountain characters, what do the second sons think? ”
Zhou Qi sat up straight and replied: "I have seen in ancient books, 'The way of using soldiers, attacking the heart is the top, attacking the city is the bottom, the heart is the top, and the war is the bottom'. ”
Uncle Gong was stunned, and said: "The son is talented and intelligent, worthy of the wisdom of the people, in just a few words, he has obtained the essence of the soldier, if he can apply what he has learned, he should not be slightly weaker than the prince back then!" ”
"But Lao Gong is a rough man, I can't talk about those avenue philosophies that have penetrated into the inside, what I want to say is that the key to this mountain character is a stable word."
"If the battle is unstable, you can't break its army, the temple is unstable, you can't win a complete victory, you can't fix it, you can't consolidate it. What does the second son think? ”
Zhou Qi solemnly said: "Zhou Qi is taught. ”
Uncle Gong just smiled and said, "I think this way of governing the army, put it in the rolling red dust, is the way to govern the world and be a person." The second son was born to know, but he acted in an eclectic manner, if he could get this stable word, he could protect himself in this filthy and chaotic world! ”
"It stands to reason that these words should have been said by the prince, but the second prince also knows that the prince has a ...... temperament."
Zhou Qi thought so, his father has always been moody, and from the perspective of outsiders, it is not angry and arrogant, but in the eyes of those close to him, it is really difficult to reconcile.
And because of the personalities of both parties, he and he, who are sons, have never been able to pee in a pot, and they want to die to save face and suffer crimes, so they are often angry with Zhou Qi but can't have seizures.
can only throw Zhou Qi to this star-picking peak, and then pretend to be ignorant and let people close to Zhou Li, Uncle Gong and Zhang Ziqing admonish on their behalf.
But he got along very well with Zhou Li's well-behaved stuffy jar and his father, and the two walked together for a long time without saying a word to each other, but they gave people a feeling that father and son were suitable.
Thinking of this, Zhou Qi said honestly: "Uncle Gong's lesson is that this time I beat up those Jingzhong gentlemen, and I was indeed reckless......
Uncle Gong didn't wait for Zhou Qi to finish speaking, waved his hand and quipped: "What the second son thinks in his heart, you and I both know it, don't be embarrassed." But as long as I have this sentence, the second son can go down the mountain with me tomorrow. ”
Zhou Qi said aggrievedly: "Why does Uncle Gong tease me, I really know that I am wrong this time." ”
"Although we have torn the skin with the Ji family on the surface, if those little bastards go back to Beijing and cry and complain in front of their own adults, those old Wang Ba who are vegetarian in the corpse will sue in front of the emperor Lao'er, and I will be in the eyes of the emperor of the Ji family and a group of flies and dogs. I know the truth. ”
Uncle Gong stroked his beard and said: "The second son still doesn't understand, you were born extraordinary, and Mr. Zhang can't figure out the fate of it after several calculations." ”
"It's bad that the prince and Mr. Zhang have been working hard for many years to maintain it, if they enter the eyes of the demons and evil cultivators in the cultivation world, they come to kidnap the second son, cramp and peel the skin, eat meat and alchemy, it's okay, if you use the method of collecting yang and replenishing yin as a furnace ......"
Zhou Qi broke his work in an instant, and helplessly raised his forehead and shouted: "Uncle Gong! I'm still a kid! ”