Everyone loves Huo Qubing

The door of the wing room was kicked open with a bang.

"Let's go, follow me to Shanglinyuan."

I rubbed my sleepy eyes desperately.

"I still have to go to Taixue today." Taifu Gongsun will be angry if he misses class.

"What are you going to do, get up and wash up, and go ride with me." The emperor happily put down a sentence, and quickly disappeared at the door.

I stretched and yawned a few times.

Across the buckwheat pillow, this boy Su Wu was still sleeping soundly under the blanket.

"Hey, Your Majesty told you to wake up." I kicked his ass.

"This bath is so big." Su Wu plunged into the water, "I have to ask Your Majesty to let me live in the palace often."

"If you have the opportunity to go to Ganquan Palace, you won't feel that the pool in the greenhouse hall is too big." I climbed out of the bath, closed my eyes and let the servant wipe my hair, leaving Su Wu happily splashing in the pool alone.

People say that spring is sleepy and autumn is tired, but for some reason recently, it seems that I can't get enough sleep.This is also Su Wu's fault, I slept soundly in the middle of the night last night, I opened my eyes suddenly, only to see a dark shadow standing by the bed, staring at me with resentful eyes.

"Don't sleep in the middle of the night, pretend to be a ghost and come out to scare people? Go back to your own room." I yelled angrily.

"Cousin, I accept the bed." Su Wu said aggrievedly.

***

a few days ago.

A group of people surrounded the Jiaofang Hall, the little prince was being held upside down by the maid, and the nanny was busy patting him on the back.

"Ms. Wei, you son of a bitch, come out!" In the depths of the courtyard, Erjin Niang Su Jia's violent shout echoed among the pillars.

"What's the matter?" The eunuch opened the curtain, and the emperor stepped out from the inside with a candle bag in his arms.

"Zi'er was fed something that shouldn't be eaten by my husband and wife again." The auntie breathed a sigh of relief when she saw a sticky mass of objects still wriggling on the ground.

I couldn't help but laugh.Last time it was alfalfa, but this time it was fed to beetles. Liu Ju's recipes are really rich.

In fact, I sympathize with my aunt very much now.Uncle Su went to the front line with his second uncle. My aunt didn't know what was wrong, so she invited Su Jia to bring four-year-old Mrs. Wei and her newborn cousin into the palace to raise them.Alas, from today onwards, the Jiaofang Palace is destined to be very lively.

"Qubing—huh?" The emperor's eyes fell on me, "Is your nephew wearing a bun?"

"Ah? Yes." I raised my hand unnaturally and touched the hosta on my head.

The emperor stared at the top of my head and laughed for a long time before raising the candle bag in his hand: "Come on, help this kid think of a nice name."

The wrinkled little monkey in the candle bag was born only after his father went to the front line, and he has not been named until now.

I thought about it for a while.

"How about a single name with the word 'letter'?"

There are several black lines on the forehead of the emperor.

"Wei Xin? Why did you give Qu Bing a common name?" He shook his head and said, "I have several 'Xin' here, let's change to an elegant one."

I also rolled my eyes at the emperor, pointing to the little follower beside me: "I can't think of other names for a while, Su Wu likes poetry and songs on weekdays, may your majesty ask him?"

"I suggest that the word 'xin' can be replaced by the word 'doubt'. In the past, the second son of Marquis Liu was called Zhang Buyi." Su Wu blinked and clasped his hands in reply to the emperor.

The emperor stared at us for a while, and finally waved his hands in frustration.

"Forget it, let's wait for the baby's father to come back and then choose a name."

***

The sun is shining brightly, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant.I followed His Majesty on horseback out of Xizhimen, and headed all the way to Shanglinyuan.

In front of the Jianzhang Palace, there were banners, and a mighty cavalry team of dozens of people was waiting in formation. My uncle, Xun Yu, Gongsun Ao, Li Jiao and others were all ready to go.

"Whoever has the most prey today will be rewarded heavily!" The arrow in the hands of the Son of Heaven disappeared into the air, and the sound of galloping hooves suddenly sounded, and he stepped onto the Sima Road engulfed in smoke and dust.

I silently counted the cavalrymen passing by my eyes.Except for those people I know well, there seems to be one more Langguan in the accompanying team today than usual.

about two months ago.

"The branch of the orchid, the boy wears it. Although I wear it, can I not know? It looks so smooth, and it hangs with fear.

The leaves of the orchid are worn by the boy.Although Pei Wei, can I not be armored?Rong Xi Sui Xi, hang down with palpitations. "

"Go away, go away, horses have no eyes, and good dogs don't get in the way." Cao Xiang impatiently drove the group of troublemakers who stood in front of the horse.

"It's just some kids who just learned the "Book of Songs" and ran out to show off. The more you pay attention to them, the more they will push their noses." I took the rein and walked straight through the group of little kids.

Both of our mounts are Western Region breeds, his is a black-maned white horse, and mine is a sweaty-blooded white horse. Walking side by side through the streets of Chang'an City, they are naturally very eye-catching.

In fact, I don't care much about being chased and joked by a good boy and read a few lines of poetry, he Pingyang Hou can't save his face.To be honest, I regret telling him about going to Tianlu Pavilion today.Pingyang Hou's gloomy expression reminded me of the scene before I left the house.

"You have to untie your bun every time. It's troublesome to have such a mess." I sat in front of the bronze mirror and complained to the guy holding the toothbrush behind me.

Xiu Mu Japan wanted to go to Tianlu Pavilion alone, but he hadn't seen the young master for five days. He didn't know how he was doing in the barracks, so he missed him, so he wandered to the princess mansion.It is conceivable that when he first entered the mansion, he was abducted into the bedroom by the other party, and he tossed and turned on the couch. At this moment, his legs were still a little weak.

"My brother's hair is smoother than a woman's, and I can't help but want to touch it." He rubbed my head a few times with his big hand, and he turned his head to think for a moment, "I have an idea for my brother, just wait a moment."

Cao Xiang ran out in a hurry, I picked up a lock of hair and twirled it with my fingertips.Compared with other people, especially the curly hair of cousin Jingsheng, my bun is really easy to unravel, but it seems that the hair of our Wei family is like this, so I never cared about it.

I looked at myself in the mirror and saw a red hosta sticking straight through the center of my head.

"Young master has fair skin, and crimson red suits your complexion best." The maid carrying the tray explained.The tray is filled with hair ties of various colors and a whole row of colorful jade hairpins.

"Brother's temperament is completely different." He raised my jaw, leaned over and bit my lip lightly, "Looking at you like this, I want to do it again."

"Don't go dark again." I pushed him away decisively.

Tianlu Pavilion was as quiet as ever.I rummaged through the pile of books. This is the third time I have come to Tianlu Pavilion. This kind of forbidden books will not be listed in the catalogue. I can only rely on my own luck.

Cao Xiang quietly watched me wrestle with the dust with her hands behind her back.

"My brother is still looking for that book of war?"

"I don't believe I can't find anything related to the Marquis of Huaiyin." Everything about Han Xin seemed to have been completely erased, and even some of the bamboo slips in Zhang Liang's works had obviously been dismantled Let's go, as if the former king of Qi and Chu of the great man only existed in legends.

Cao Xiang looked in the direction of Changle Palace through the window lattice, her eyebrows gradually twisted into a knot.

"It's not that my younger brother has never heard of Lu's ruthless methods. Since even the prince can be killed, the person who poked the Marquis of Huaiyin into a sieve, how could he miss his treatise." When he mentioned "Prince", he couldn't help it fought a cold war.I know he is referring to the son of Emperor Xiaogao and Mrs. Qi, Zhao Wang Liu Ruyi.

Annoyed, I closed the bamboo slips in my hand and threw them back into the pile of books.

"Don't be sad," said in a daze, Cao Xiang conjured a roll of wood from behind and handed it to my arms, "I heard that Wei Liao is Han Xin's master, why not start with this "Wei Liaozi" and look for it. clue."

"Go back." He gently took my hand.

"General." A voice suddenly came from downstairs.

I poked my head out of curiosity and looked down the winding staircase.The warm spring sun casts a beam of light from the sun-facing window lattice, and casts a beam of light on the four-foot-square resting platform in the courtyard.An old man and a young man sat cross-legged opposite each other, with many flat logs piled up in twos and threes in front of them.

"What a coincidence, I met Tai Shiling here." I cupped my hands at the old man in Confucian uniform.

"So it's Marquis Pingyang and Huo Shizhong, sorry." Sima Tan put down the stick in his hand, and greeted cheerfully, "Let me introduce to you two. This is a dog, with a single name."

A young man with a copper hairpin in a single bun and a dark gray curly train raised his head when he heard the words. He had a pair of willow-leaf curved eyebrows, clear and bright eyes, a small nose and mouth, and a pointed jaw. He was a standard scholar and elegant.

"I seem to have seen you before?" I raised my eyebrows.

"That's right, we've met." The young man pointed at us, and said slowly to his father, "Weishui Ferry, the two of them wronged me and called me a thief."

Sima Tan looked at his agitated son in surprise.

No wonder Taishi always looks familiar. I finally remembered that the boy in front of me was wearing a second-hand old scholar’s ​​outfit from the North and carrying an astrolabe with him. Today he is wearing a local Confucian uniform in Chang’an, and the material is much better than before. Sure enough. Do as the Romans do.

"Young Master Sima, I still remember so clearly what happened so many years ago." Cao Xiang snorted lightly.

"Of course I remember. Have you ever tasted what it's like to be wronged?" Sima Qian clenched the paper in his hand, his eyes gradually turned red.

"Qian'er, don't be unreasonable to the prince." Sima Tan quickly pushed his son back to the table, and smoothed things over, "My son lost to the minister in chess, and he was a little emotional. Please don't take offense."

Following Tai Shiling's words, his eyes fell on the round wooden chess pieces in his hand.Those wooden pieces are marked with symbols such as pawns, chariots, soldiers, and horses. There are vertical, horizontal, and oblique lines on the board, like the lines of Reversi, but they are very sparse.

"What kind of chess is this?" I bent down curiously, and stretched out my hand to reach those chess pieces.

"Ahaha, this is a broken thing I received from the trafficker's pawn. It's not worth mentioning for fear of dirtying your hands." Sima Tan hastily covered the four characters "Chu River" and "Han Jie" in the center of the chessboard. .

***

"So, you and him not only knew each other, but also made friends with each other?" Beside the bonfire, the emperor turned his head and shifted his gaze from the boy opposite to me, "Then how did you put aside the past and become friends?"

"He went to find the Marquis of Huaiyin's Art of War."

"He holds the Huaiyin Marquis chess record in his hand."

Lang and Sima Qian agreed with me.

The playful eyes wandered between the two of us, and the emperor waved his big hand, and patted the back of my head lightly: "You, you, you don't want to learn Sun Wu's art of war, but you have to learn some tricks."

I curled my lips and said disdainfully: "Sun Wu and Wu Qi's art of war is hundreds of years ago, and the strategy of using troops in it has long been outdated. If you want to learn it, you have to learn from our own generals, like my uncle, begging the Xiongnu and taking Shuo Fang .”

"You are wrong." The other party showed a smug smile, "Sun Wu's art of war, Zhongqing can memorize it fluently."

Just as I was about to open my mouth to refute, Gongsun Ao on the other side had already taken the lead: "Your Majesty, you don't know that nephew Huo Yin has learned military tactics from General Wei since he was a child. In my opinion, my nephew has already surpassed General Wei."

"Oh?" Tianzi turned his head and stared at me with a surprised expression on his face. He smiled awkwardly and patted my shoulder, "It seems that I blamed my nephew."

I am especially grateful to Gongsun Ao, who shook all my cards in a few words.However, being compared with my second uncle, I couldn't help but feel a little bit gratified.

Thinking of this, I proudly raised the corners of my mouth and shook my head twice to express my acceptance of the emperor's apology.

Uncle came over: "Your Majesty, dinner is ready."

"Okay, let's start the banquet." The emperor held up the bottle, "My dear friends, if you don't get drunk tonight, you won't return home."

It must be admitted that tonight was an exceptionally celebratory night.Holding the wine bottle in my hand, I saw the bright moon hanging in the sky.I wonder if the moon in Shuofangyuan is as round as Chang'an?

The emperor pushed the cups and changed the cups. After drinking and eating, the emperor beat the beat, and the high-pitched singing echoed in the wilderness.

"I get out of my car, and shepherd him. From what the Son of Heaven said, I'm here."

The singing stopped suddenly, and the emperor inspected the crowd: "Who will sing the rest?"

I looked at the four seats that fell into silence.

"I'll do it." I stood up holding the wine bottle.Tonight, he was so eager to drink, that he felt a little top-heavy at the moment.

"Wang ordered Nan Zhong to go to the city in Fang—"

"Stop, stop." The Son of Heaven interrupted me, "Qu Bing, change all the characters 'Nan Zhong' in the poem to 'Zhong Qing'."

The emperor holds the chopsticks and strikes the festival, and I hum the passionate melody in harmony with the rhyme.

"Wang ordered Zhongqing to go to the city in Fang. When the car was sent out to Peng Peng, the flag was issued to the central government.

The emperor ordered me, the city is beyond the north.He He Zhongqing, Yu Yun Yu Xiang.

No gentleman, worried.When I see a gentleman, my heart sinks.

If the trial is ugly, the thin words will be returned.Hehe Zhongqing, who is as humble as Yi. "

The bonfire is burning in front of you, and the flags are rustling above your head.Gradually, the surrounding soldiers began to join me, and the loud and clear singing echoed in the night sky of Shanglinyuan.

Together with Wei Langguan from various schools, he sang Xiaoya's "Get Out of the Car", full of passion and pride.I don't know if my second uncle who is far away in the north can hear my singing?

The song is over.Dizzy and intoxicated, the emperor's words sounded beside him.

"...The great victory in Heshuo is the first time in the 80 years since the founding of the Han Dynasty that we have defeated the Xiongnu. Now the chariot general Wei Qing has settled down in Henan, and he has captured five thousand captives and millions of livestock. He returned with a fully armored army. I am very relieved .”

Hearing my second uncle's name, I narrowed my eyes, looked in the direction of the voice, and grinned happily.

The emperor looked back into my eyes, the bright moonlight and the beating firelight reflected in the dark eyes.After a while, the other party continued: "Han Changru compares himself to Lian Po, and compares me to King Zhao Xiaocheng, who has changed generals just before the battle. But I just want to prove to them that the person I am looking for is definitely not Zhao Kuo who is talking about war on paper. , but Bai Qi, the invincible Wu An Jun!"

"Your Majesty is mighty! General Wei is mighty!" All around suddenly cheered.