Chapter 7: Uncle Cheap
"Why didn't you summon me?"
"Is it difficult, it's because I didn't perform well, is Lao Zhu's requirements so high......"
After Li Ying and the others left, Zhu Gaoxu was lying on the Chase bunk, crossing Erlang's legs and entangled in the matter that Zhu Yuanzhang did not summon him.
Looking at the bricks and tiles on the roof, Zhu Gaoxu speculated about Lao Zhu's thoughts with a toothache, but he couldn't figure out that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't arrange his own affairs.
In the end, he could only blame Zhu Yuanzhang's "indifference" to his predecessor.
"You said why didn't you be a good boy and please your grandfather!"
Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth to scold, turned sideways and wanted to turn over.
"Tuk Tuk ......"
"Your Highness, the meal has been delivered!"
Just then, there was a knock on his door, and two familiar voices sounded outside the door.
"The door is not closed, let's all come in!" Hearing this voice, Zhu Gaoxu got up and sat down, and the camp gate was pushed open at the next moment.
When the sunlight poured in, there were two young men with a height of five feet five or six inches who appeared at the door.
"You two didn't leave?"
Looking at the two of them, Zhu Gaoxu got up and stretched his back, and the two young men also walked in one after another and put three meals on the table.
These two young people, one with a broad face and big eyes, dark skin, looks very honest, named Wang Xuan, and his father is Wang Zhao of a thousand households in Yiliang, Yunnan.
The other person has a long and thin face, slightly white skin, and looks a little smart, named Yang Zhan, and his father is Yang Li, an official of the hundred households of Chongming Shasuo.
These two are the children of two military attaches in the barracks next door, and because of their poor skills and their father's low official position in the barracks, most of them are bullied by other children.
It wasn't until Zhu Gaoxu warned the camp brother that the two of them were less bullied.
The two always follow Zhu Gaoxu in their spare time, leading horses and handing knives when he practices martial arts.
"You two didn't make it, did you?"
Zhu Gaoxu looked at the embarrassment on the faces of the two, and did not answer his question, and immediately thought of the situation of the two.
"Your Highness deserves to be Your Highness......" Yang Zhan licked his face and patted his ass, and Wang Xuan next to him also nodded again and again.
Looking at their appearance, Zhu Gaoxu was not surprised.
In Zhu Gaoxu's understanding of the two, both of them were the children of military attaches who did not practice martial arts, so they were easy to be bullied.
The two of them really practiced martial arts, that is, they followed themselves for a few months.
With the skills that have been practiced in the past few months, it is very difficult to pass the examination.
However, now that Zhu Yuanzhang ordered his children to go home to prepare for the exam for three years, and they haven't left yet, the situation is self-evident.
"What do you two mean by this, are you going to rely on me in the Great Sect?"
Zhu Gaoxu sat down at the square table, picked up the chopsticks and guessed the two of them were careful at the same time, and glanced at the food.
Stir-fried cabbage mixed with some oil, as well as a few lard residues and fried chicken, and a bowl of white rice next to it, this is Zhu Gaoxu's meal, while Wang Xuan and Yang Zhan opposite have a completely different meal from him.
They only had two bowls of brown rice and two plates of sautéed leeks, as well as a bowl of clear water soup with no oil foam.
Seeing their food, Zhu Gaoxu divided the plate of half-palm-sized chicken to them during the inquiry.
He was skillful in his actions, and the two of them didn't say anything, just made a return salute, obviously not the first time they had received this favor.
"Your Highness, we have returned to the guard after thinking about it, it is not interesting to practice martial arts alone, it is better to follow Your Highness, Your Highness can still teach us."
Yang Zhan is a little clever, and Wang Xuan is the stupidest, so Yang Zhan opened his mouth, and Wang Xuan just nodded.
Looking at them like that, Zhu Gaoxu thought that he really couldn't go back to Beiping for the time being, and he needed two people around him to help, so he nodded:
"I'll start practicing tomorrow, and if you can't pass the exam in three years, don't say you know me when you go out in the future."
"That will definitely not disgrace His Highness's face!" Yang Zhan patted his chest and reassured, and then he stretched out his breath and sat down with Wang Xuan.
After Zhu Gaoxu moved the chopsticks, the two of them began to move the chopsticks separately.
"How many children are left in the courtyard?" Zhu Gaoxu asked while eating, and Yang Zhan also replied in time:
"Just the three of us, everyone else went back."
"Before I came, I asked Wang Yan about it, and he said that if His Highness stays, then move to the courtyard on the east side, and that courtyard will be given to us."
"In the future, you can also go to the big kitchen to eat, or you can cook on the fire in the courtyard by yourself."
"It's just that the Governor's Mansion can't get a penny for this food."
Yang Zhan did a good job of inquiring about news in life, and he asked the generals in the army a lot of things before he came to Zhu Gaoxu, so he saved Zhu Gaoxu a lot of trouble.
"Finally, you don't have to sleep in the Chase bunk, you two clean up the courtyard a little, and we'll move in tonight."
"Gotcha!"
As soon as Zhu Gaoxu spoke, Yang Zhan responded.
After the three of them ate the meal after a while, Yang Zhan took Wang Xuan to clean up the courtyard on the east side of the big teaching field.
It wasn't until dusk that the two packed up and returned, took Zhu Gaoxu, and walked towards the courtyard with his bedding and clothes.
The Great Sect Field is four miles long from east to west, and five miles deep from north to south, and the courtyards of many military generals are empty.
The courtyard that Zhu Gaoxu and they got was the courtyard where a military general lived before, covering an area of half an acre, with a main house in the courtyard, four ear rooms, and a firewood room, kitchen, and dry toilet, the area is quite large, not to mention that the three of them are more than enough to live for six people.
Zhu Gaoxu has the highest status, so he lives in the main house, the east wing is used for rest, the west wing is the study, and the main hall is reserved for ordinary hospitality and meals.
As for Yang Zhan and Wang Xuan, they each stayed in the left and right ear rooms closest to the main house.
As soon as the three of them arrived, they were tired from the daytime school examination and fell asleep.
It wasn't until the morning bell rang again the next day that Zhu Gaoxu got up and washed up in the well in the courtyard.
Wang Xuan and Yang Zhan went out early, he didn't find the two of them, so he used the stone bench to practice weightlifting in the courtyard by himself, until the courtyard door was knocked on in the morning, he put down the stone bench and opened the door.
He thought that the people who came were Yang Zhan and Wang Xuan, but he didn't want to wait for the person who came was actually his uncle.
"The kid can't even salute?"
Looking at Zhu Gaochu standing in the courtyard, the tall Xu Huizu scolded with a smile, and Zhu Gaoxu came back to his senses and said, "Uncle." ”
Xu Huizu was wearing a red pan-collared robe, and only after bowing his head did he walk into the hospital to take a look.
"This yard is not bad, a little bit I will ask someone to send you a few stones of rice and some things for weekdays, and some military books with you, you remember to read it."
"Book of War?" Hearing Xu Huizu's words, Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, and Xu Huizu also turned around and looked down at him:
"Yesterday, His Majesty summoned the emperor's eldest grandson to send someone to prepare for the examination of your strategy, I know that your kid has no time to read the military book, so he postponed the days a little."
"Your Majesty should want you to go back to the north, but you are young now, and I am afraid that you will not be able to convince the public."
"The strategy of taking the school examination can be regarded as having a bottom in your heart."
"That's not easy?!" Hearing that he would be able to return to the north after the school examination, Zhu Gaoxu was very happy, and swept away the haze of yesterday.
"Simple?" Xu Huizu glanced at Zhu Gaoxu with tears and laughter, and suddenly asked:
"Let's talk about how to make the salt crystal of military ration vinegar cloth ......"