For the queen mother's praise, Wang Da Lama was not surprised.

"I always felt that it was too condescending to let him go to the front line as an officer." He said to the Queen Mother: "I told Xiao Guo before, it is better for this child to follow me in the future, and the next patriarch will let him be worthy." ”

"I'm afraid he's not happy." The Queen Mother smiled: "Just such a boy, you have to count on him to inherit the family business." Sooner or later, it will be stuffed into the legion. ”

"I think he should try harder." She began to babble about her worries about Guo Kang's father: "Last time, I told him that this one is not enough at all. As a result, he was embarrassed - hey, such a big person, and he didn't know what to be shy. Next time, I'll help him ask for some medicine, and try again. ”

Grand Lama Wang opened his mouth, and he couldn't answer for a moment.

"This kid, I think it's dear. Come, let grandma see. The old queen mother pulled Guo Kang over and looked at it: "What you said has the demeanor of old Peter - speaking of which, you won't be born secretly by Xiao Guo and those foreign girls, and you are afraid that the yellow girl will be unhappy, so you have to say that you were hit by the Ottoman cannons, right?" ”

“……”

The others were stunned when they heard it, and the Grand Lama Wang didn't know what to say.

"This kid was dug out of the rubble, not shelled in. I'm still there. He had no choice but to explain: "When I was cleaning, there was a child crying in the half-collapsed shed, and Xiao Guo went to take it out for him." I happened to be on the front line of the city, and I was close to it, so I was called by the way to baptize him. ”

"That's right." The Queen Mother actually looked a little pity: "Hey, it's not bad." On the Italian side, there is a folk saying that children born in storms are stronger and more resilient. This kid was born in the fire, and he must be a good one. ”

"Don't worry about what your younger siblings will rob you of. We in Rome are in short supply everywhere right now. And in this war era, having an older brother is more important than anything else, and people have to count on you. She has already begun to comfort Guo Kang in advance.

"I heard Constantine say that slaves still like to bully you. This girl is very scalped, don't put her at ease, next time you mess with you, grandma will help you teach her a lesson. Okay? ”

Guo Kang caught a glimpse of Tuo Huan smirking at him and nodded.

He didn't care much about it himself, but Tuohuan and the Queen Mother and others attached great importance to it. Although these are said in public...... He can probably understand the Queen Mother's simple heart, but he is very grateful.

"Don't worry too much." Tuohuan also came over and said, "Grandma is not only an elder, but also a teacher for my father and your father. If you have any family matters, let her help you. ”

He looked very happy, and it was estimated that the Queen Mother would speak for Guo Kang publicly, and there was also his efforts behind it, so he couldn't help but come to show it.

"yes." The Queen Mother nodded again and again. She pushed Dehuan aside and stretched out her hand to beckon Theodora, who was standing outside the crowd, to come over.

"I also raised this child myself, so if there is anything in the future, just let her tell me. You two, you need to get along. She said meaningfully.

The people around him all showed expressions of surprise. Theodora bowed her head, a little embarrassed.

Tuhuan muttered suspiciously, explaining that he had helped himself this time, but Theodora had stepped in halfway to make trouble. The Great Lama Wang quickly knocked him with a whisk and pulled him behind him.

After the greetings, the Queen Mother invited everyone into the monastery and came to the hall where the guests were received.

"Zoe, bring me the tea and brew it for you." She instructed a tall girl in Greek: "There is a new guest today, let everyone write carefully." ”

The girl named Zoe bowed and withdrew.

"Oh, let me introduce you. This is actually an old acquaintance of me and Xiao Guo. The Grand Lama then took advantage of the situation to call the celestial scholar over and introduced him with a smile: "He is Muhammad of Granada, and we all call him 'Old Sea Urchin'." ”

"What kind of nickname is this?" The Queen Mother couldn't help laughing.

"I wish you all the best, Queen Mother." Muhammad stroked his chest and said in fluent Greek: "This name was given to me by others when I was young." At that time, I liked to practice martial arts, relying on the fact that my family was a tax officer, and I was looking for people to cause trouble every day. Others thought I was so bad-tempered and covered in thorns like a sea urchin, so they gave me this nickname. ”

"I can't really see it." The Queen Mother said: "Lao Wang praised you for being a rational and generous person before. ”

"Maybe it's because I've been through a lot of changes." Muhammad sighed: "All these years have taught me that it is useless for a man to be brave and ruthless. ”

"My family actually lived in Córdoba, which used to be the second largest city in the whole of Europa and Africa. Oh, the first is your Constantinople. "At that time, Córdoba was the center of the western world, where a lot of wealth was gathered," he says. Scholars, merchants, and artisans bustled the city as a center of economic, cultural and educational development. ”

"But that's all gone now." He sighed: "The Kingdom of Castile occupied Córdoba and wreaked havoc. These people are too savage to know the value of the long-standing accumulation of civilization. They can neither use wealth effectively nor understand philosophy. Since then, the glory of Córdoba has gone. ”

"When I was a child, I thought it was because the emirs of Granada and elsewhere were too cowardly, tolerant of the infidels, even subservient to them. As long as the piety and bravery of the ancient times are restored, the homeland can be protected and these pesky barbarians can be dealt with. But later, when the Castilian army came to raid my town, slaughtering the inhabitants, I realized that these 'bravery' cultivated in street fighting were actually useless. ”

"The 'brave boys' who roamed the streets with me were completely unable to defend the town, some were killed in the chaos, and many more ......," he smiled wryly, "and they behaved even worse than the ordinary residents they usually bullied." ”

"Those Crucidian residents, are trying to fight for their homes and property. And most of these people saw that the situation was wrong, and most of them abandoned the oath they had made in the name of Hu Da and fled directly - according to them, it may not be the time to be martyred for the time being. ”

"My father died in that attack. The uncle did his best to save his mother and sister, but they decided that the whole of Andalusia was no longer available. So we went to Morocco, then to Tunisia, and finally to Egypt and Syria. It was in Syria that I became acquainted with His Excellency Goldaeus and others. ”

(End of chapter)