Chapter 391: Once Upon a Time.
After the maid and Yanxiao left, calm returned to the study.
Xu Shi saw that Bai Yan was about to write bamboo slips, so he obediently stepped forward and knelt beside Bai Yan, and stretched out his hand to gently grind ink for Bai Yan on the wooden table.
Bai Yan has become accustomed to it, after all, except for going to the battlefield, or going to some dangerous places, Xu Shi will basically follow him, either serving tea and pouring water or grinding ink, Bai Yan also said that Xu Shi can not do this, but Xu Shi refused.
Over time, Bai Yan was also accustomed to being a poisoner, and was once the signature Xu Shi of Lu's Restaurant, accompanying him and studying ink for him.
And in the study.
Bai Yan is used to it, but some people are not happy.
Bai Yingxue, who was bored, wanted to continue lying on the table in a daze, but when she suddenly saw this scene, she took a hard breath and looked up at this scene with a shocked face.
Although Bai Yingxue knew that Miss Xu, who was a disciple of Bian Que, was already with her brother-in-law, she had never expected the two to be so close and natural.
looked at Miss Xu's pretty appearance.
Bai Yingxue turned her head and looked at her eldest sister.
Bai Yingxue thought that the eldest sister would also frown and be a little displeased, but what she didn't expect was that the eldest sister in a Qin suit saw this scene, just glanced at it briefly, and continued to look down at the bamboo slips.
At this moment, Bai Yingxue's mind was full of countless doubts.
What the hell is going on right now???
"Miss Xu, didn't you say you wanted to read a medical book? Yingxue has nothing to do, let Yingxue come!
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Bai Yingxue looked at the appearance of the eldest sister, thought about it, and always felt that Miss Xu was a threat, and she was likely to compete with the eldest sister for the position of the wife, so she plucked up her courage, looked at Master Xu, and said softly.
This sudden scene.
The other three people in the study were a little caught off guard, Bai Yan, Xu Shi, and even Bai Junzhu all looked at Bai Yingxue.
Xu Shi seemed to sense something, smiled, did not refuse, and got up to make way for Bai Yingxue.
Bai Yan looked at Bai Yingxue's appearance as she hurriedly came to her side, with a strange expression.
Looking at Bai Yingxue, who lowered her head and her ears were already red, Bai Yan couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth, turned her head to hold a brush, and continued to write about Luoyin City on the bamboo slips.
Where is Luoyin City, Bai Yan did not send his own servants over to pay tribute, but handed over the Bai family to be responsible.
It's not that Bai Yan doesn't want a fief, but after the Bai clan is in charge, he can still get the taxes of Luoyin City and have the power of the scholars in Luoyin City, after all, Luoyin City is his Bai Yan's fief.
And the reason why we want to use Bai's people to manage is also to avoid danger, the fief is different from the jurisdiction of authority, it is a solid private domain, the word private, once it is cooperated with the fief, it will be accompanied by danger.
Bai Yan didn't know if on that day, someone would report himself in the court for rebelling against Qin, or if someone would frame him in secret.
So in order to avoid trouble, Bai Yan used Bai's people to take care of it, so that if there were any rumors and slandering his bamboo slips submitted to Ying Zheng, Ying Zheng knew that it was the officials who were slandering him at the first time, and there would be no suspicion at all.
Quiet room inside.
Bai Yingxue inked the ink, and then looked at the eldest sister with a little weak face.
Then Bai Yingxue found that although the eldest sister looked at the bamboo slips, she grew up with the eldest sister since she was a child, and she didn't know that the eldest sister was distracted.
"What's going on with the eldest sister these days?"
Bai Yingxue thought about it, a little worried in her heart, but no matter how she asked, the eldest sister never told her.
Come to think of it.
Bai Yingxue instinctively looked at the young man on the side, but when she saw the young man kneeling beside her, looking at the bamboo slips with a serious face on her side, writing with her hand, Bai Yingxue was a little distracted for a while.
The boy is not a beautiful man, and he has been leading troops outside all the year round, and his skin color is darker than that of other warrior men.
But thinking of the deeds of this young man circulating outside, Bai Yingxue knew that this young man was really attractive, not to mention other cities, even in Yongcheng and Yixian around Pingyang, not to mention other women of the scholar clan who did not know, that is, the women of the scholar clan who she and her eldest sister knew, they had always dreamed of marrying the young man next to her.
They seem to be eager to step on the gate of the Bai clan with the elders of the clan.
And the news of getting the fief this time spreads, and it is estimated that there will be more in the future.
Bai Yingxue thought about it, after a long time, I don't know what to think, Fang Xin suddenly bumped into her like a deer, and after coming back to her senses, she hurriedly looked at the eldest sister and Xu Shi nervously, and saw that no one noticed her appearance, so she breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly concentrated on studying ink.
"General! General Xin Sheng came to visit, saying that he was returning the horse to the general! ”
Bai Yan's confidant Wu Huai walked into the study from outside the door and came to Bai Yan to salute.
Wu Huai used to be the part of the industry, and he has been protecting Bai Yan with the industry, and then Ye, Huai, and Peck were successively entrusted with important tasks by Bai Yan, and Wu Huai became Bai Yan's cronies, and Wu Huai's martial arts, personality, and ruthlessness in fighting have always reassured Ye and Bai Yan.
Before in Yanmen, Wu Huai followed Bai Yan before and after.
"General Xin Sheng?"
Bai Yan was surprised when he heard Wu Huai's words, and then slowly got up under the gaze of Bai Yingxue and Bai Junzhu.
However, when Bai Yan walked out of the study, he saw a man walking with Bai Yu from the courtyard under the corridor not far away.
Inside the yard.
Bai Yu and Xin Sheng walked while talking.
In the past two days, Bai Yu already knew that the king appointed the general Wang Jian as the main general, Xin Sheng as the deputy general, and Li Xin, Qiang Qi and other generals as the generals, preparing to lead the additional troops to Yishui, and after arriving in Yishui, he led the Yishui garrison and prepared to destroy Yan.
Among the reinforcements were the garrisons transferred from the north, of which the reinforcements were mainly Xinsheng troops.
Obviously, the king was furious this time, and he was already about to destroy Yan in one fell swoop, making Yan Dan and King Yan pay the price.
Conversations.
When he saw Bai Yan, Bai Yu introduced Bai Yan.
"This is my nephew Bai Yan!"
Bai Yu looked at Xin Sheng's surprised look, and said with a smile, I don't know how many people will show this expression when they see Bai Yan for the first time, the young general, looking at the entire Qin State, Bai Yan is the only one at such an age.
Looking at Bai Yan's young, but harmless cheeks, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Bai Yu couldn't believe that the Yue Clan, the Xiongnu, and the Zhao State were all defeated at the hands of this young man.
"Bai Yan, this is General Xin Sheng!"
Bai Yu saw Bai Yan approaching the front and back of his body, and introduced Bai Yan.
"Bai Yan, meet General Xin Sheng!"
Bai Yan came to Bai Yu, and in Bai Yu's introduction, he looked at the man in front of him who was about thirty years old and had two obvious moles on his chin, and slowly bowed his hand.
"Xin Sheng, meet General Bai!"
Xin Sheng raised his hand and returned the salute to Bai Yan seriously.
After the ceremony, Xin Sheng sighed and turned his head to look at Bai Yu with a smile.
"Xin Sheng had heard of it before, but he was unconvinced, but now when he sees it, he knows that the rumors are true!"
Xin Sheng said.
Just like in Xin Sheng's words, Xin Sheng has always boasted that he was in the Qin State, became famous at a young age, and the only people who served as generals were him Xin Sheng, Li Xin, Wang Li, and Qiang Qi, and they all had their own strengths, and no one was weaker than anyone.
However, seeing Bai Yan, who is younger than them and is also a general, Xin Sheng is full of tears and laughter.
When he and Li Xin, Qiang Yan and others made meritorious contributions to become generals, they were not so young, they were many years older than Bai Yan, according to Bai Yan's current age, at that time, they were just following their fathers and mixing with the Qin army to become the eldest doctor.
"General Xin Sheng's praise!"
Bai Yan looked at Xin Sheng and replied in a modest tone.
While speaking, looking at the horse that had followed him from Qi to Qin, Bai Yan was full of emotion, when he left, Bai Yan thought that he would be able to see each other again in March and May, but he never thought that this parting was more than two years.
"Previously, our general once said that on the way near Xianyang, he met a child of the Bai clan and took a horse and sword to Lantian to enlist in the army, and there was an agreement with him because of fate!"
Xin Sheng said with a smile when he saw Bai Yan's gaze looking at the horse, and then turned to look at his cronies.
Seeing this, those Qin cavalry soldiers naturally knew what the general meant, so they led the horse forward and handed the horse to Bai Yan.
"Jiang Fu, meet General Bai!"
A Qin cavalry soldier named Jiang Fu saluted Bai Yanji.
Among the many Qin cavalry soldiers, only this person named Jiang Fu knew Bai Yan, and he was also one of the more than ten people in General Fei's party.
And Bai Yan also recognized Jiang Fu, who was one of the elite soldiers he had seen at the beginning.
Two years have passed in the blink of an eye, when we meet again.
Bai Yan slowly bowed his hand.
After the ceremony, Bai Yan and Jiang Fu looked at each other, both smiling, Jiang Fu's eyes looked at the young man in front of him who had faded from immaturity compared to the beginning, and he was more emotional.
When they and General Fei learned that the young man in front of them was a child of the Bai clan and enlisted in the army, they had a hunch and talked privately that the people of the Bai clan would not join the army, and after ten years of enlistment, they would be Qin generals.
They all thought that as long as the boy didn't die, it was likely that ten years later, the boy they met would have become a general.
And at this time after two years, seeing the kind and unscrupulous young man again, Jiang Fu knew that he and General Fei had guessed correctly, but the difference was that they and General Fei did not expect that the time it took for the young man to become a general of Qin was not ten years, but less than two years!
This was a full eight years different from the time they expected.
However, speaking of which, Jiang Fu was actually not surprised in his heart, because after the separation, he and General Fei and them, when they heard the news of the 'Bai family's disciples' again, they had already heard that the 'Bai family's children' enlisted in the army as the first to ascend, and in the battle in Yangcheng, they first climbed the city tower and killed twenty-two people, one of whom was still an official doctor.
At that time, in the camp of the Northland, beside the fire, he, General Fei, and more than a dozen other people, when they heard the news, everyone burst into an uproar, looked at each other with a stunned face, and then laughed.
They all laughed and boasted to the other soldiers that they knew this 'Bai Clan' and had an agreement.
"What about General Fei? In the past two years, due to something happening, Bai Yan was not allowed to go to the Northland, but he never forgot General Fei's grace in leading the way! ”
Bai Yan's voice sounded.
Jiang Fu came back to his senses, and when he looked at the young man in front of him again, Jiang Fu's eyes turned red in an instant, and he wanted to speak, but his trembling lips didn't say it, and he lowered his head unnaturally with red eyes, and his eyes were full of sadness.
The other soldiers behind Jiang Fu also quieted down at this moment, although they had never seen Bai Yan before, they were in the north, but they often heard the 'Bai family's disciples' from the mouths of General Fei and others, as well as the agreement of this war horse.
Inside the yard.
Bai Yan looked at Jiang Fu's appearance, his face was stunned, and he was a little puzzled, and after thinking of something, Tong Kong shrank.
"In the past two years, there should be no war in the Northland!"
Bai Yan whispered softly, slowly said this sentence, and then turned his head to look at Xin Sheng.
At this moment, Bai Yan was a little confused, he had basically participated in the war in the past two years.
Bai Yu also felt something at this moment, as the leader of the troops, as a general who came down from the battlefield, Bai Yu's eyes couldn't help but show a little sadness at this moment.
"When the Qin State sent troops to destroy Zhao, he was called for the Song Dynasty because of the pursuit of the Western Emperor! When passing through Shu from the north, he was ambushed and died. ”
Xin Sheng saw Bai Yan's gaze, explained softly, and then told Bai Yan what had happened.
Yihu Song is a tribe in the Baiyue region, the leader of the tribal territory of Western Europe, before the Qin army invaded Zhao, for some reason, suddenly appeared in the north, and when he came back to his senses, he had lost the news of Yihu Song, and when he got the news of Yihu Song again, it was already Yihu Song who returned from Yueshi, and took a small road, and few people came.
He was worried that Baiyue Western Europe might unite with Chu and Yue to deal with Qin, so that Qin would not only not be able to destroy Zhao, but might even be besieged on all sides, so he decided to order the capture of Yihu Song.
And in Shudi, in that battle, not only did the cronies not catch Yihu Song, but most of them died.
"Baiyue, Western Europe, Translation Song!"
Bai Yan listened to Xin Sheng's story, looked at the war horse in front of him, and thought of the appearance and smiles of General Fei's group of more than a dozen people when he first went to Lantian.
Stretched out his hand and stroked the war horse in front of him, after two years, the agreement is still there, and the person is no longer there.
Bai Yan didn't expect that when he led the troops to attack Zhao, General Fei and the more than ten people had already been killed in Shu.
"General Fei! Bai Yan has not yet repaid the love of leading the way in the past, and the grace of horse training! ”
Bai Yan looked at the horse in front of him that had been trained into a war horse by General Fei, and sighed in his heart.
Remember the name Yihu Song in his heart, and Bai Yan has a hunch that if he can kill General Fei in Shu, there must be scholars in Shu who are involved.
Under the scorching sun.
The sun was shining, the breeze was blowing through the branches, and in the huge mansion, it brought a touch of coolness to the busy maids and servants.
And in the study.
"Eldest sister, why are you always absent-minded these days?"
After Bai Yingxue watched Miss Xu leave, she turned her head to look at the eldest sister and asked softly.
Bai Junzhu heard Xiaomei's words, looked at Xiaomei, smiled, and shook his head.
"It's okay! Don't worry, mother asked you and Miss Xu to go over, go quickly! ”
Bai Junzhu urged.
When Bai Yingxue heard this, she still didn't want to say anything when she saw her eldest sister, so she could only get up with a worried face and leave the study reluctantly.
In an instant, only Bai Junzhu was left in the study.
Kneeling in front of the window, Bai Junzhu put down the bamboo slip, felt the cool breeze in front of the window, turned his head to look out the window, and looked at the courtyard of the corridor in the distance, the voices of his uncle and others, and his beautiful eyes were finally fixed on the back of the young man leading the horse.
The words of that night are still vivid.
Thinking back to the straightforwardness of the young man that night, as well as the causes and consequences of coming to the Qin Kingdom, Bai Junzhu could vaguely feel that his grandfather, father, uncle, and uncle had guessed wrong, that the young man was not from the Shi clan, and he was not even from the down-and-out Shi clan.
In the face of the boy not hiding his origin, perhaps in the eyes of others, after learning the young man's origin, he will feel contempt.
But somehow.
Bai Junzhu's impression of the young man did not decrease but increased, but in his heart, he admired the young man even more.
"I'd love to meet, your grandmother!"
Bai Junzhu thought of what the young man said that night, and looked at the back of the young man in the distance, unlike all the emotions before, she had never been so curious about a person, and that young man was the first and only one.
And vaguely, after learning the origin of the young man, in her heart, it was not the woman's longing for the hero, but for the first time in her life, in her heart, she had a trace of love for the young man.
This time.
Even Bai Junzhu himself clearly felt his heart.
It's not about the young man's status, wealth, or even talent, but because of the young man's heart.
It's also the first time, and I really want to be the wife of a teenager.
Between thoughts.
Turning his head to look at the bamboo slip in his hand.
Recalling the woman mentioned by the young man later, Bai Junzhu's eyebrows were full of loss, holding the thin fingers of the bamboo slip, but he quietly exerted a slight force, compared to the performance of the little sister, worried about the girl Xu, Bai Junzhu knew that the only woman who had really monopolized the young man's heart was actually the woman from the Qi country.
Thinking back to the straightforwardness of the young man that night, when he inadvertently talked about the past, he mentioned that woman.
She didn't know why, looking at the young man's longing appearance, maybe she was a little lost in her heart, or maybe she was a little persistent, and she had a hot brain, and she asked a little unconvinced.
"Is she beautiful?"
At that time, when she asked this sentence, she was stunned, lowered her head, and she didn't know whether she regretted it or didn't regret it after asking this sentence.
But in her eyes, she wanted to know the answer.
Because she is also very beautiful, she was praised as a beauty by the world very early, otherwise there would not have been countless powerful men coming to the door.
Inside the study.
Bai Junzhu recalled himself that night at this time, but he actually knew that he asked that sentence at that time, and he had some expectations in his heart.
However, the young man's answer has never been forgotten by her.
"Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!"
Next to the wooden window.
Under the long black hair, Bai Junzhu, who was wearing a Qin suit, sighed melancholy, put down the bamboo slip in his hand, looked at the bamboo slip in his hand, and couldn't stand it anymore.
Although I don't know who the woman of Qi is, her surname and name, and it belongs to the Shi clan, I know very well that one day, if the young man returns to Qi again, he will definitely go to see that woman.
Because they are both women, Bai Junzhu can feel that when he learns about the young man's original experience, in the eyes of that young man, no matter how many good-looking women there are in the world, no matter how many beauties the king rewards, they can no longer enter the young man's heart.
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Those experiences have made the woman of Qi Country unique in the hearts of young people!
Come to think of it.
Bai Junzhu, a beauty who has been reading bamboo slips in the study since she was a child and doesn't listen to things outside the window, lowered her head in distress and lay on the table.
The teenager's experience and origin, these things, she didn't want to tell her parents, because in her heart, she didn't want to see the relationship between the teenager and the family become stiff and estranged.
And in the past few days, Bai Junzhu always can't help but fantasize, maybe after a long time of contact, maybe he can't return to Qi for a long time, the young man will marry her, and he will live with her in Qin State with peace of mind, after all, she Bai Junzhu may not really be able to compare with that woman, not to mention that in terms of beauty and talent, Bai Junzhu doesn't believe that he is inferior to other women.
"Jun Zhu!"
Bai Yan walked into the study at some point, and looked at his daughter with her head down and her face sticking to the bamboo slip, full of doubts.
When Bai Junzhu heard his father's voice, he immediately got up, and when he saw that it was his father coming, his pretty face was full of panic, and his eyes were dodging.
"Father!"
Bai Junzhu put down the bamboo slip and hurriedly got up.
Bai Yan looked at Bai Junzhu's appearance, and there was no problem when he saw the bamboo slips, so he nodded.
"In a few days, Bai Yan and others will get better, and they will definitely go to Luoyin, and when the time comes, you can prepare and go together, your mother is already instructing Yingxue."
Bai Yan said to his daughter.
"Got it, Father!"
Bai Junzhu heard his father's words and nodded obediently.
"Right now, go with me to call Bai Yan, the people from the Qu clan of the Chu State have come to visit!"
Bai Yan said, the people of the Qu clan who came to visit the mansion just now, as well as the two Chu State scholars, these Bai Yan must be seen.
And Bai Yan's meaning is that he hopes that when Bai Yan meets those people, Bai Junzhu will also be there.
"Got it! Father! ”
Bai Junzhu replied softly.