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Wang Xifeng waited until Lu Cheng walked away before turning back into the house.

Glancing around the empty room, Wang Xifeng suddenly felt a little deserted. Her sight fell on the chair where Lu Cheng had just sat. She walked over as if possessed and sat down gently.

Just at this moment, footsteps were heard outside. Wang Xifeng hurriedly stood up, walked to another chair nearby and sat down in a panic, then she adjusted her mood.

"Grandma, Uncle Cheng has already been sent away."

"Well, go check the kitchen to see if the food is ready."

"Yes."

At night, after dinner, Wang Xifeng and Ping'er lay on the same bed, listening to the whistling north wind outside the window. They felt an inexplicable chill, as if even the blazing charcoal fire in the room could not dispel it.

"Grandma, please be gentle with your hands. It hurts."

"Oh, Ping'er, are you okay?"

"Fortunately."

"Ping'er, you have been married to the Jia Mansion with me for quite a few years, right? Now your body is ripe, but it's a pity that you don't have someone to love and care for you."

"Grandma, Ping'er doesn't care about these things. As long as I can always be by your side, that's enough."

"You only know how to say nice things. When Second Master Lian was here, I was jealous and always on guard against you. Now that I think about it, if I had done that then... Never mind, it's too late now. Ping'er, if you're interested, I can find someone suitable in the mansion and send you away, so you don't have to suffer with me."

"Grandma, I don't want to marry anyone casually. I just want to stay with you forever."

"Grandma, I can't see the end of my life. If you stay with me forever, you might still be an old maid when you get old. I don't know what's going on between men and women..."

"Grandma~"

The master and servant were silent for a long time, and Ping'er suddenly whispered, "Grandma, are you still thinking about Master Lian?"

Wang Xifeng was silent for a long while after hearing this, and then she said, "What's the point of thinking about it? Besides, he almost wanted to kill me with a sword for a woman named Bao Erjia. I don't want to think about that heartless man."

The two of them were silent for a long time. The fire in the room burned more and more vigorously. Wang Xifeng became a little irritable. Then she whispered, "Ping'er, go and get that out..."

"Grandma... wait a moment, it's cold, I'll go get a basin of hot water and heat it up first..."

"Go quickly..."

After a long while, Ping'er fumbled back into the bed and took out a jadeite object...

Winter nights are always extra long, and some people always have trouble falling asleep.

Fortunately, winter will always pass and spring will come.

As the ice and snow melted and spring came back to the earth, the sixteenth year of Changtai came.

Starting from February, recruitment points were set up in various places inside and outside Kyoto, and the court's plan to train a new army was finally officially launched.

Wang Ziteng became the commander-in-chief of the new army, and Lu Cheng was also transferred to assist him.

However, Wang Ziteng somewhat looked down on Lu Cheng, a young civil servant. After reading the training outline submitted by Lu Cheng, he put it aside and said, "Young man, it's good to have some bold ideas, but after all, you have never been in a real military camp. Training and fighting are not something that can be done by just reading a few military books.

It would be better for Yuanwailang to help recruit more soldiers and take care of the logistics. Let the middle and lower-level officers handle the training of the troops."

Hearing this, Lu Cheng also smiled slightly: "I will follow the orders of the commander."

After Lu Cheng left, Wang Ziteng couldn't help but sneer: "A scholar who only knows how to talk about military affairs on paper dares to talk about training troops in front of me?"

The staff member beside him also echoed casually: "What the commander said is very true. This number one scholar is valued by His Majesty and has a smooth career. He is somewhat blindly confident."

"Well, let's burn this military training outline so that it won't be passed on to His Majesty."

"Yes."

The staff member picked up the training outline on the table, stood up and walked out of the general's tent. After returning to his residence, out of curiosity about Lu Cheng, the top scholar, the staff member couldn't help but open the training outline written by Lu Cheng and read it carefully.

After reading the content, the aide could not help but nod his head repeatedly: "A great reputation is a real talent. This number one scholar really has some real skills. It's a pity that being too talented is not necessarily a good thing. As for this beautiful calligraphy, burning it is really... Never mind, just follow orders."

Afterwards, the aide threw the military training outline into the fire basin, and soon it was completely burned to ashes.

After that, Lu Cheng said no more and just did some coordinating work, watching Wang Ziteng and others train the so-called new army in the same old way.

Although Lu Cheng was not given an important position, several people planted by the Flying Eagle Gang were valued by Wang Ziteng and others due to their personal fighting skills, and quickly made their mark in the new army.

At the same time, Xue Baochai's brother Xue Pan also became a personal soldier under Wang Ziteng. Relying on his uncle's relationship, he quickly became friends with Wang Ziteng's personal soldiers and made many friends.

When Xue Pan heard that Lu Cheng was not employed by his uncle, he was even a little proud. He went back and boasted to his sister Xue Baochai, "Sister, although Lu Cheng has the talent of the top scholar, he still cannot be used in the army of my uncle.

You don't know how powerful our uncle is. When he stands on the command platform, thousands of soldiers and horses have to bow their heads. Who dares not to obey his orders? It was only today that I realized what a real man and hero is.

In the future, I will also work hard with my uncle, and strive to get a position in the military camp, lead tens of thousands of troops, and become a general. "

Xue Baochai couldn't help but frown when she heard this: "Brother, you said that uncle didn't use Brother Cheng?"

"Of course, Brother Cheng is indeed very talented to be able to pass the imperial examination. Training soldiers in the barracks has little to do with poetry and writing. These are two completely different things."

"I'm afraid this is inappropriate..." Although Xue Baochai was a boudoir dweller and didn't know anything about military training and fighting, she knew one thing: Brother Cheng was definitely a man of both civil and military talents.

Thinking of this, Xue Baochai sighed again. After all, she was just a girl in the boudoir, unable to leave the deep courtyard, unable to do anything, let alone influence her uncle's decision.

By March, the first batch of 50,000 new troops had been recruited and began preliminary training.

Since Wang Ziteng, the new army commander, did not like Lu Cheng very much, he did not assign any work to Lu Cheng after the soldiers were recruited, so Lu Cheng suddenly became idle.

Coincidentally, at this time, the Suzaku Army in the south had been preparing for war after more than half a year of intensive training.

Lu Cheng took a leave of absence and flew to Gaozhou Prefecture overnight. He personally took command and mobilized 100,000 troops to launch a new round of attacks on the prefectures in Guangdong and Guangxi.

At the same time, after a winter of rest, the Jiannu in Liaodong also began to attack the Liaodong Dusi, preparing to invade the Ming Dynasty...