In the back garden.

Plum fog rime sky, silver pine thunder willow, white patch.

Bai Tao rubbed his paws.

She wore a deerskin robe with gold trim, and a hat with brown fur on her head, which was so tightly wrapped that it looked like a rolling brown ball from a distance.

The brown ball was snorting as he rolled forward with his paws against the snow.

until a large round ball rolls out.

"Rui'er Rui'er."

"Here we go."

Rui'er brought two agate beads and a hand-woven hat from there.

Dotted on the big round ball she rolled out, until it became decently cute, she rubbed her hands and smiled: "What a cute white ball." ”

Bai Tao nodded.

Unscrewed the fat box, the blood-red lipstick instantly smeared, and the corners of Xuedanzi's mouth were grinned, looking more and more ridiculous.

She said softly: "I want a mouth, otherwise how to eat." ”

Rui'er quickly answered, held it up and praised it: "The queen is really a wonderful pen, this stroke is like Bian Que's living flesh and bones, instantly lifelike, like a living being, it looks really tight." ”

"It's not this, it's my mouth that's hungry."

Bai Tao blinked softly obediently.

“.” Rui'er said, "The slave and maid can save it, the meat is already hot in the ding, and the slave and maid will let them set the table." ”

She immediately kicked her feet and walked back.

The white peach stayed in the snow, raising her big amber clear eyes to look at the ice wicker on her head that was pressed by the snow and couldn't stand up to her waist, and the frost flowers were still hanging with the finely carved ice flowers.

She walked over.

I don't know if it's because the goblins are generally curious, or if she's born with a bit of claw.

Pull the wicker and shake it, and then run away.

I never thought that the snow was too thick and spread to be too long, and it would affect the whole body. Soft pine snow and solid ice fell down the mountain.

At critical moments, the back is held by a big hand.

Bai Tao's vision was blurred, and she instead clinged to her muscular arms, covered with a cloak.

Under the cloak, the corners of her lips curled.

"Brother Zheng, look, it's snowing heavily."

Tearing off the cloak, she saw Ying Zheng patting the snow on his shoulder. He was handsome and resolute, his sideburns were frosty, he knocked her forehead with his fingers, and his long eyebrows frowned slightly: "Come and see you, you didn't let Gu You worry about it." ”

She looked up, her eyelashes trembling: "Oh, I originally wanted to show you something, but since you don't have to worry about it, then forget it." ”

"That?"

Ying Zheng looked at the snowball that seemed to have just eaten people, and said meaningfully: "It's a little useful, it can ward off evil spirits." ”

“.”

Bai Tao puffed out his cheeks, just about to get angry.

I understood that he was coming to find him, so he went over and pulled his hand, stepping on the creaking snow step by step and walking back, "Brother Zheng, do you know what I was thinking when I built this snowman?"

"What are you thinking?"

"I'm just thinking, a lot of things, adding something to feel different, the original white snowball, decorated with red, reminds people of blood, reminds of death, reminds of ominous, but it's just a cold snowball."

Ying Zheng looked down at her furry hood.

Her slender hand tugged down, revealing only her slick chin.

The little fox chattered: "Today was originally very cold and boring, and if you are bored, you can rub snowballs, but with you coming to look for me, it is different." ”

Ying Zheng listened silently.

"I feel different, looking at it from a distance, it looks like a huge snowball is bouncing over, and I said, spring is coming, spring is coming."

He couldn't help but laugh, choking out of a cloud of white mist.

The little fox was still chattering, and his words were illogical and confused, and he walked on the edge of his footprints one by one, and his legs were too short to keep up with his cadence, and it was very laborious to watch.

Ying Zheng squatted down.

Bai Tao pounced forward, and when his weight was off the ground, his fingers flicked the snow in his hair.

I found a few gray hairs.

She was stunned on the spot.

"If you are bored, you can go out of the palace to the Astronomical Pavilion, and let some talented officials from various countries formulate Qin seals and compile them into models." He said, "The ancient books placed there are treasures of the nations, and they are full of strange people, who debate every day, and sometimes talk about the world, without losing their novelty. ”

"Huh? It's fun in this life, so why don't you go? ”

Ying Zheng chuckled: "Lonely and vulgar, incompetent." ”

Bai Tao pulled the gray hair back and rested her head on his shoulder: "Oh." He added, "After two months and twenty days, I look at you today and think you have lost some weight. ”

"You're fat."

"What?" Bai Tao grinded her teeth, "I'm the best in shape." ”

Ying Zheng smiled at the corner of his lips: "Lone knows." ”

She raised her chin, quite arrogant, if her tail could be revealed, she would have thrown it into the sky, "Not only that, but she is your youngest and most beautiful little daughter-in-law." ”

"Lone knows."

Ignoring the kneeling female eunuch of the womb, Ying Zheng stuffed the little daughter-in-law whose soul floated out of her body into the hall, and said, "Beautiful little daughter-in-law, go and dress up, and take you out of the palace alone." ”

"Where are you going?"

Bai Tao's eyes were shining when she heard that she was leaving the palace, and she turned around and said as she entered the hall, "Yes, yes, yes, you have to take your beautiful little daughter-in-law with you when you leave the palace, wait, the beautiful little daughter-in-law will come immediately." ”

The little fox galloped into the hall until her beautiful back disappeared around the corner.

The eight-foot-tall man stood in place, and at the moment when the beloved girl disappeared, a brief period of warmth appeared on his face and was peeled off layer by layer, and his eyes were full of cold light.

The chaos of temples and halls has been eroded by complicated state affairs.

He closed his eyes, then opened them again.

The state of Chu, the state of Qi.

World.

*

Take Chu or Qi first?

On the delicately painted carriage, Ying Zheng stroked the little fox lying in his arms with a hairpin ring and jade, and closed his eyes to recuperate.

The state of Chu was entrenched by the three dragons of Qu Jingzhao, encroached and divided, and every household had privately raised soldiers, and there were such children and soldiers who had been inherited from generation to generation, and the so-called monarchy was just in name only.

There is also a Xiang family.

The commander of the troops this time was Xiang Yan, who was fierce and good at fighting, and the cohesion of the whole country was amazing and powerful, and he was able to quickly integrate Qu Jingzhao to jointly resist Qin.

But although the Xiang family is good at fighting.

The foundation and appeal are not as good as Qu Jingzhao, a veteran aristocrat who has been rooted in the Chu State for many years.

This group of old aristocrats was short-sighted, as evidenced by the fact that they still respected the ancient military system as if they were their own authority.

Maybe it can be solved from the inside.

He curled his fingers, the vast battlefield of Chu that could be galloped, the southern country with rich water and soil, and the Mengze Lake and sea with the rao of cloud dreams.

Devouring and killing ravioli.

Fight and win.

Embellishment into the immortal exploits of the manager.

His chest was pressed by a pair of tender hands, he opened his eyes, Bai Tao sniffed, leaned back to him and said, "Brother Zheng, I heard, your heart is beating fast, what are you thinking?" ”

Ying Zheng pondered for a moment, "I'm thinking about it alone, Zhuangzi." ”

"Zhuangzi?"

"There is an article in Zhuangzi that is quite shocking to read."

"Huh? What is the article? ”

"Those who have the South China Sea are also in the waters of nature; Kunpeng flew angrily in the South China Sea, the water hit 3,000 li, and the swayer swayed 90,000 li. Three thousand miles, a corner of the South China Sea. He said, "Three thousand miles across, lonely and unheard, but only a corner of the South China Sea." ”

"It's only a corner, how big should it be."

Bai Tao said coquettishly, "I'm so big, I haven't seen the sea yet, I haven't even seen Yun Mengze, there seems to be a big fish in the sea, called a shark." ”

She said again: "Will there be the South China Sea in the south, the North Sea in the north, the East Sea in the east, and the West Sea in the west." ”

"There is no Beihai in the north, and Yin Mountain in the north."

"Yin Mountain? I haven't been to Yinshan either. ”

"Yin Mountain, there are abundant grasslands, horses, cattle and sheep, as well as the Zhuhu tribes who went south to plunder, they wantonly plundered the people's grain and goods, wielded machetes, invaded women and children, and made slaves and livestock as living sacrifices." He understated it so thickly, "Yin Mountain in the north, Baiyue in the south, this is the three thousand miles that Gu wants to span." ”

Arriving at the place, Bai Tao was led by Yingzheng and landed, nodded and said sincerely: "Brother Zheng, you are the real king of the world." ”

He reached out and touched his head.

The palace was newly renovated.

From a distance, it is ten out of ten majestic and magnificent.

Bai Tao walked out of the ceremony, and faced the Wang family who greeted him, and the thousands of slaves who knelt and shouted long live.

She took a peacock fan to block half of the peach blossom face and smiled, and when the salute was completed, she said in a timely manner: "The general is really the pillar of the court, and even the mansion is like this, showing the righteousness of Great Qin." ”

Wang Jian was dressed in lightly woven armor and rhinoceros leather boots, and stood up a little rickety.

Hearing the queen speak, he was busy hugging his fists in fear, "Don't dare to be, don't dare to be, the queen praises, this mansion is given by the king, and it is the king's grace to let all the people look up, the old minister thanked the king, long live the king." ”

Ying Zheng stretched out his hand to make a flat gesture and said: "The general is Qin Rongma, with great military achievements and virtue worthy of his position, this is deserved, and there is no need to be polite." ”

Wang Jian got up with a red nose, and it could be seen that greeting Jun Jia early in the morning was really choked by the cold wind.

He coughed a few more times in his throat, and when Ying Zheng was concerned about the inquiry, he sighed and said: "Your Majesty, the old man is old, no better than a young general, and he can't stand the cold wind when he falls into a problem." ”

Ying Zheng rebuked a few slaves who did not take good care of them.

The servants thought in their hearts that the old general could go down to the river to bathe in ice for three feet, how could he be so weak when he saw the king?

But he didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly took the cloak and the hand stove of the hollow flower carving fairy child to worship his birthday.

A tall old general, cloaked in a heavy cloak and with snot.

Two hands with the size of a fan held a women's hand stove that could cover half a palm, and followed the handsome and handsome king in Xuanyi, followed by a large group of slaves.

Heavy snowy day, this scene.

How funny, how funny.

The old lady Wang, who was afraid of making a mistake and embarrassing her husband, saw her husband's virtue, and her hanging heart finally fell to death.

Major General Wang Ben didn't want to see much at all, so when he passed by the rockery, he grabbed the snow and threw it out ahead of time.

This scene was seen by Mrs. Wang.

Looking at the anger in his heart, he squinted at the fact that he had killed a son of Wei who had not yet grown up, grabbed the thin flesh on his arm, twisted it hard, and lowered his voice: "You'd better be honest with your mother." ”

Wang Ben grinned in pain, and said in a low voice: "It hurts, it hurts, I know, I know, mother." ”

Bai Tao, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped.

Runshui's apricot eyes turned, and he said to Mrs. Wang: "Old lady, the king and the general are talking about military affairs, let's find a place to sit first." ”

The queen and queen stood in front of her, like a grand galaxy, and she didn't dare to look at it directly.

Old Madam Wang immediately let go of her hand, a little nervous, and hurriedly said, "Okay, good." ”

Red lacquer on the long case.

Ying Zheng and Wang Jian sat opposite each other to make tea, and he said: "I heard that the general has been sick recently. ”

Wang Jian immediately coughed with his sleeves, "The old problem of the war, how can the veterans of the attack see a few tough ones, it is a harsh winter recently, so I nest on the collapse all day long, your lordship, you asked the minister for the imperial doctor of the peace pulse, and warned the minister, saying that it is not appropriate to move more in winter, and it is advisable to recuperate." ”

"That's right."

Ying Zheng took out a stack of resignation letters from his body and put them on the table, "General, the tiger talisman is still there, not only to recuperate, but also to take a hundred feet to the clouds and go south with a knife." ”

Wang Jian was sending hot tea to his mouth, and the corners of his eyes were slightly sour: "200,000 Qin troops died in the Chu State, and even the corpses and bones could not be collected, and the ministers were uncomfortable, but the ministers were old, and they were afraid of the great trust of the king, and it was difficult to take on this great task." ”

Ying Zheng said: "General, you and I have been a monarch and minister for several years, and the bright moon has entered directly, and there is no such courtesy." ”

Outside, Bai Tao and Mrs. Wang had a good conversation.

Her little fox's mouth was smeared with honey, and in a few words, the simple woman turned the bottom of the bag clean, "He, what kind of resignation letter he handed over, it was all fake, so he couldn't write Wen Zou Zou's sour words, and he didn't say it, but I and his wife for many years, I still don't understand him, and I just went to see the set of armor that the king rewarded him with, and I wanted to go to the battlefield." ”

She clutched her teacup in both hands, a little reserved.

But he still continued to speak: "The man is fighting outside, and the woman is running the family business at home, if I don't have such a big family to take care of, I also want to go to Chu to see, how big the land, how to fight, it will take 600,000 to fight." Didn't you go there and scare the Chu people to death because of the large number of people. ”

Bai Tao sneered: "Those who are good at fighting have no outstanding achievements." ”

Mrs. Wang has never read a book, she only knows the season of bean seedlings and wild vegetables and grains, decades of spring planting and autumn harvest, and when she heard this, she smiled with a smile and rubbed her hands on her knees.

Bai Tao sniffed the fruit tea: "What kind of tea is this?" The entrance is a little sour, but it is extremely sweet. ”

Mrs. Wang immediately said: "Tea, this fruit tea is my daughter's pregnant and my eldest son-in-law specially asked Qi traders to buy it, it is so sour that the teeth can fall out, and it can be swallowed after baking it again, and it is much better to boil the sour gas, and drink it to moisten the throat in winter, the queen, both like it, you are polite, take some back to drink." ”

Unexpected.

She nodded, "Okay." ”

"Ouch, good, good."

Mrs. Wang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly pulled her clothes: "Okay, okay, I'll go get it." After speaking, he walked out quickly, and realized that the fruit tea was stored on the shelf here, smiled embarrassedly, and turned over the cabinet to come out.

It's a moment.

Bai Tao asked the palace people to follow the kindness of Mrs. Wang, in addition to more than a dozen jars of fruit tea, there were also some pickled sauerkraut, as well as preserved fruit and dried meat and other things.

According to Mrs. Wang, this is all nonsense.

The little girl's favorite food.

Just in the corridor of the return, she saw Ying Zheng and Wang Jian walking out one after another through the fine and dense Ruixue, Ying Zheng bowed, Wang Jian was full of tears, and stopped in fear.

The kings and ministers said something to each other, and they went down the stairs beside them.

Putting aside this immortal dispute, the court of strangulation by many forces.

Brother Zheng has a bit of indescribable warmth for this veteran who has been treason since Cheng Jiao, who has been in turmoil with Qin, and Lü Buwei's party struggle to assist him wholeheartedly step by step.

Bai Tao bit the dried fruit and waited for him in the carriage, and she couldn't blink her eyes when she ate the sour and toothless fruit.

When Yingzheng sat in with her waist bowed, she asked, "Is the general still resigning?" Are you going to lead the army? ”

"What are you eating?"

Ying Zheng's lips and teeth indirectly took the dried fruit handed over by Bai Tao's bad heart, and the taste of sour to numbness climbed all the way to the stomach, and the little fox laughed out his fangs to watch the play there.

He swallowed without saying a word, knocked on her head and said, "Old Madam Wang gave it?" ”

"Uh-huh."

Bai Tao bit the dried fruit and said, "You haven't told me yet." ”

Ying Zheng summoned Cha Tang to come over and talk, "In the spring of next year, the general will lead an army of 600,000 to attack Chu, but he asked for some conditions. ”

"On what terms?"

*

In the palace.

Wang Ben was so excited that he jumped up and down like a monkey, and said to his father: "Dad, you won't resign, and you will go to fight Chu next year?" The Japanese are also warn, and they can fight again. ”

Mrs. Wang gave it away, which was no less than being recognized.

She was also in a sunny mood, only glanced at her son and smiled: "Mud monkeys love to jump, and they all follow your father." ”

Wang Ben laughed out with a mouthful of big white teeth, and knelt on the leather mat without hesitation, and felt that this leather mat was too soft, not as soft as the straw mat, and the kneeling bones were not strong.

moved his neck and said, "Dad, don't be so extravagant and wasteful, what is the reason for a manly man, burning silver charcoal, wearing a gold belt, and kneeling on a soft mat." As the saying goes, gentle township, the ambition of a fallen man. ”

Wang Jian lowered his eyes and ignored him.

"However, Dad, since you also want to lead troops to fight, the king is obviously the king of our royal family, why do you still want to make those things, and you handed over the resignation letter to us before, isn't it an extra move?"

He said in a deep voice: "Guawazi, what do you know? ”

Wang Ben didn't care, and his father drooped his eyelids: "Yes, I don't understand, my hair hasn't grown yet, and I can't afford to use it." Daddy, tell me about it. ”

"See those brochures?"

At the other end of the long table was a cup of uncooled tea, and a few thick rolls of bamboo slips, some unfolded, some ununfolded.

Wang Ben went over and picked it up.

All eyes are on how much land and how much gold and silver treasures are demanded.

There are even a number of beauties, and it is also specified that if the Chu State is captured, more than 200 beauties who are only eighteen years old in the Chu State will be sent to the palace.

Two hundred beauties! The more he rolled, the more dizzy he became.

Wang Ben said indignantly: "Dad, what is this! ”

"You kid, can't you read?"

"It's okay to lead troops to fight and ask the king for a reward, Dad, why do you have to make such a thick list and ask for it bluntly." He is so young that he can't cultivate at home, and he is so angry with his father.

"It's just the tip of the iceberg, and the rest of the old men haven't thought about it."

Wang Ben almost spit out a mouthful of old blood: "Dad, you are not afraid that the historians will poke us in the backbone of the Wang family, saying that we are people who are greedy for pleasure and addicted to beauty." ”

"Well said." Wang Jian said, "The old man doesn't care about these false names. ”

Mrs. Wang, who was on the side, was confused, "What beauty?" Wang Ben's anger came like a wind, castration, calmed down and immediately complained to the old lady, "Niangniang, it's my father who wants two hundred Chu Meiren who are not more than eighteen years old, you stop him quickly." ”

Old Madam Wang's eyes erupted with fire, and she turned her head and asked, "What, Lao Wang!" ”

Wang Jian was very calm: "That's for Ben'er, Ben'er likes the beauty of Chu, madam, your son is older, you can't discipline it." ”

The old fox deserves to be the old fox.

In a word, it is easy to pick it cleanly.

also burned to the enemy's barracks by the way, so that the enemy did not even have a chance to counterattack.

Wang Ben's neck was numb, and he almost got his feet off the ground when he received his mother's knife wind.

The Wang family has a strict family education, and Wang Ben's resolute and unswerving character foundation was not raised by his father Wang Qian, who has been fighting abroad all the year round, but by his strong mother.

"Mother, it's not like this, you listen to your son's explanation!"

"Two hundred beauties of the Chu Kingdom, if you win, you will be sent to your house, you really won the battle, your wings are stiff and you are about to fly, and you lick your face to ask for King Qin, and say that the old lady is ashamed of you, give birth to your bad thing, kneel down for the old lady!"

Mrs. Wang held a long stick and chased after her with her eyebrows upside down.

Wang Jian pretended not to see, and lowered his head to drink tea.