Chapter 80: Earnest Teachings
"You're here, would you like to sit down and have a few drinks with me...... Alas, that's it, it's biting cold, you better go back......"
Xiao Chengyu chattered, squinted at her and turned around and walked into the house without hesitation, her heart suddenly became even more bitter and tormented, and she poured a large mouthful of Tusu wine again.
A moment later, there was a faint crackling sound in front of the cloister, and a pink shadow reappeared in front of him.
"It turns out, it turns out that you didn't leave......"
Yao Yun breathed a sigh of relief helplessly, it turned out that he had regained the charcoal stove in the house. She took a flask from the floor and toasted it on the stove before pouring two more hot glasses.
"Drink hot, don't hurt your stomach anymore."
Xiao Chengyu smiled self-deprecatingly and drank a small glass of warm wine. Yao Yun sat on the side of the corridor, slightly distanced from him, and accompanied him to blow the cold wind.
"If the Northern Tartars come again in the future, you probably won't be willing to accompany me anymore."
"Duhu, you're drunk, and now the Northland is too safe and healthy."
She poured him another glass of warm wine.
"Well, too."
Xiao Chengyu suddenly laughed out loud and changed the topic without a beginning.
"Six years ago, when the news that Beidi was going to attack the Great Zhou was still thousands of miles away, my deceased wife Jiang swept away all the valuable property in the private house and fled. I, I once thought that even if I couldn't be a loving couple, at least I could respect each other like a guest and raise my eyebrows. I didn't think about it, I didn't think about it......"
Xiao Chengyu even took the initiative to mention to her about his deceased wife Jiang, it seems that he is really drunk today.
She had inquired before that Xiao Chengyu's deceased wife Jiang was the precious daughter of the respected Marquis Wenchang in the palm of her hand. When Xiao Chengyu married Jiang, the handsome man and the beautiful woman were the right family, which was a good family affair that everyone in Chang'an City envied.
It is rumored that when Jiang lived with him in the Yizhou General's Mansion for a long time, he was somehow deliberately taken away by Beidi soldiers, and finally unfortunately suffered all kinds of humiliation and died.
"Duhu, you're drunk, can I send you back to the house?" She was about to help him get up, but he waved him away.
"Yun Niang, you go to the Hu table at the back of the house to find an object wrapped in silk and white cloth, and take it out to me."
He suddenly raised his eyes to look at her, his eyes full of bitterness and helplessness.
"Okay, good, even if you're drunk, you can do things quickly."
Yao Yun got up and entered the room, and finally found a strange thing wrapped in silk and white cloth on the Hu table behind him.
"Oh, Duhu, take it out for you."
Xiao Chengyu raised his hand and stroked the silk fabric of this strange thing, and said loudly: "Open it and take a look, do you like it or not?" β
Yao Yun was stunned, and gently untied the silk tie on one side, and was so surprised that her cherry jade lips opened slightly, and she was speechless.
This is a newly-made longbow made of wood, with a black and shiny horn on the inside of the bow arm, and a gilded desert goshawk with its wings outstretched above the outside of the bow handle.
She rubbed the goshawk carving on the longbow repeatedly, and her love was about to overflow her bright and clear eyes.
"Tsugo, is thisβIs this for me?"
Xiao Chengyu raised his eyes slightly, taking in her happy expression, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Naturally, what does Yun Niang think?"
"Thank you Dugo, I love it. Since I also have a gift, I naturally want to say a few words of blessing. β
She pulled his sleeve with a smile, her cheeks were pink, and her bright eyes looked at him delicately, and her soft voice seemed to be mixed with a few jars of honey.
"Farewell to the twilight, fireworks every year. May there be no more war in the Great Zhou, if it is a last resort, Yun Niang only wishes to protect the safety and smoothness and triumph every year. β
Xiao Chengyu unconsciously licked his thin lips that had dried up and peeled, his throat tightened suddenly, and he poured down a large sip of hot wine again, trying to suppress and extinguish the hot dance in his heart.
"Would you like to give it a try now?"
Yao Yun bowed her head with joy, carrying a bow and arrow, and jumped up happily, eager to give it a try.
"Duhu, if I remember correctly, I should hold the bow like this......"
Yao Yun stood in an open place under the corridor, straightened her petite waist and stretched her legs, holding the front bow with her left hand, and holding the white string slightly with her right hand. When she got her hands on it, she found that the arm bow of the new bow had been changed to be shorter and lighter, which she found very satisfying.
"Tougo, come and see if I'm like this, right?"
Yao Yun saw that there was no movement behind her, and turned around excitedly to see that Xiao Chengyu had already come behind her.
Xiao Chengyu clinged to her petite back, raised his hand to correct the wrong movement between her fingers, gently leaned on the back of her pink ear that was red from the cold, and said in a dumb voice: "What does Yun Niang want?" β
"Hmm-" Yao Yun replied with a smile, "Duhu, I want to see the acacia flowers like snow and flying all over the ground." β
"Good!"
I only heard a refreshing response from the man behind him, and the sharp arrow in his hand suddenly flew out like a swift wind and a leopard, shooting towards the top of the big locust tree in the courtyard.
Although it was an empty arrow, in an instant, the snow white had fallen all over the locust tree, swaying lightly, like snow and jade, and it was innocent.
"Do you like it?"
"I like it, thank you."
Yao Yun was about to turn around, but the slender jade fingers on the bow head were slightly pressed by the rough palm of the man behind him.
"Don't move, remember that this movement and strength will allow you to aim exactly at your target, understand?"
Yao Yun immediately understood that he was going to teach himself archery, and nodded respectfully: "Understood, thank you for teaching." β
After a while, Xiao Chengyu asked Yao Yun to take the long arrow and try it herself a few times, she was also quite talented, and after more than twenty times, she could steadily shoot the big trunk of the locust tree.
Xiao Chengyu watched the little lady's increasingly familiar movements, and finally breathed a sigh of relief. His voice was already slightly dull and dull, and he had just poured a large pot of cold wine, and his stomach was really a little uncomfortable.
"It's so good, it's teachable. Bendu Hu Fang has only eaten less, what else does Yun Niang have to eat to fill her stomach? β
Yao Yun learned a new skill, carefully bandaged the Tuomu longbow again, and pulled him back against the side of the wooden pillar in the cloister with rare enthusiasm.
"Thank you Duhu, I suddenly remembered that there is still some food left in the kitchen today, and Xue Huai and Ah Mao are full of praise for what they have eaten today, I will heat it up with chicken soup and bring it to you immediately."
After a while, a small bowl of hot chicken soup wontons was served.
"Du Hu, this is made by the concubine herself, how about you taste it?"
Xiao Chengyu was already much more sober at this time, with a burning expression and clear eyes.
"Hmm-"
He personally took the porcelain spoon on one side, and then looked down, his thick calloused fingers holding the porcelain spoon were frozen in the cold air for a moment, and his dark eyes like torches suddenly seemed to have a blazing flame gushing out, vowing to burn her to the point that the fire pierced through the heart, and the scum was gone.