burning nations

Chapter 18 Cai and Qi Tong

To flatter the first snow in the winter of Zhangwu 38, this year Zhang Cai no longer has to worry about frostbiting her legs, feet and fingers in winter. She is lying in the warm bedroom with her feet very close to the brazier, holding a book and smiling See, hungry for knowledge.

The book in his hand is not called a book, but rather a large stack of papers stuck with clips, filled with densely packed words, all recorded by Zhang Cai one by one.On the outermost page, a piece of yellow paper was used as the cover, without any decorative ornaments, only a few flamboyant Zhagu characters——"Strange Story and View Record".

Zhang Cai's so-called "Strange Records" was recorded after listening to Qi Qi's story, and faithfully recorded every story Qi Qi told. Paint some things that happened in daily life. But in the main body, it is recording "strange news and strange things in the world", not Zhang Cai's personal diary.

At the moment Zhang Cai is revisiting two stories, one is called "Yizhen night retreats to chase horses", and the other is called "Xingba on the ice and Lingzhou".

The story of Yi Zhenye retreating and chasing his horse took place in the Guangzong period of the former dynasty.Huangfu Song's character is Yizhen, his father Huangfugui, the contemporary patriarch of the upper-middle-level Huizhou Huangfu family, famous in the northwest for "knowledge of books and rituals, good at riding and shooting", and a well-known general of the Yunwen Yunwu Empire in the court.At that time, the iron man went south to invade Ling, Hui, Lan, He, Yuan, and Yan prefectures. Huangfusong led the troops to resist the enemy, and the enemy rode in Wulan, and suffered a disastrous defeat.The Iron Man chased after him, Huangfusong shot 31 arrows from the Lianzhu Arrow after he broke it himself, the arrows did not fail.The iron man saw that Huangfu Song's arrows were perfect, he hesitated and did not dare to pursue them, so Huangfu Song led his troops back to Huizhou.

Every time I see this, Zhang Cai shakes his head in disgust, saying that "a defeated general cannot speak bravely", why are you licking your face when you are defeated?If it weren't for Qi Qi's approval of Huangfusong's arrow skills, Zhang Cai would have directly classified him as a type of face gilt.

As for the other story of Xingba's battle on the ice in Lingzhou, it fits Zhang Cai's feelings very well.The story took place in the Yingzong Dynasty, when the Jinren and Ironmen jointly invaded Hebei Road, Hedong Road, Gyeonggi Province, and Longyou Road, and the four wolves were billowing.During this period, the iron man used tricks to lure the [-] troops from the northwest of the Zaku Empire to annihilate them in the wild, and took advantage of the victory to capture Lingzhou, an important defense town in the northwest frontier, and instantly tore apart the northwest defense line that the Zaku Empire had painstakingly managed.The iron cavalry poured in along the gap and divided into two groups, attacking all the way to Xiaoguan; all the way over Qinggangling, attacking Huai'an, encircling Qingzhou, sinking Ningzhou, and Kebinzhou. It was less than a hundred miles away, and the ruling and opposition parties were shaken!At this time, Dong Fu, a general of the Zhagu Empire from Yinzhou, led his troops up the Yellow River to regain Lingzhou. It was the coldest winter, and the Yellow River was frozen with snow on the roads. Boats could not enter, and horses and horses traveled south. .Dong Fuli dispelled the opinions of all the people and led his army to march on the ice, reaching the outskirts of Lingzhou day and night.The iron cavalry went out to fight in the city, Dong Fu retreated to the ice to fight with them, the iron man stumbled and was defeated by Dong Fu and retreated to defend the city, Dong Fu took advantage of the victory to attack the city, [-] soldiers fought bloody battles for three days to regain Lingzhou, more than [-] iron soldiers were captured and killed There are more than ten thousand soldiers.

Dong Fu regained Lingzhou, and the iron cavalry who entered the hinterland of the Zhagu Empire were wiped out with the cooperation of various armies.

Zhang Cai then turned back, turned over Tan Fang and Lin Zhen, and was about to read the two stories of "Song Sheng guarding the stronghold like a rock" and "Yang Wen captured the head of the enemy thousands of miles away", when there was a knock on the door.

"Come in." Zhang Cai quickly corrected his posture.

Squeak~~~

The door was pushed open, and a few snowflakes fell into the room, and then turned into a puddle of water droplets.It came too suddenly, shaking the snow flakes on his body in front of the door, and then walked towards the house. Zhang Cai looked closely on the bed, it was Qi Daqi's housekeeper.

"Master has something to look for you."

"I'm going right away!" Zhang Cai didn't ask anything, got out of bed, put on mille-soled shoes, tied a thick off-white cape, and walked out of the room.

When she was young, Zhang Cai came to the door of Qi Qi's study, knocked on the door symbolically, and then pushed the door and walked in. Just in time, she ran into a young man who looked like Qi Qi chatting with Qi Qi, and she was extremely happy to see Qi Qi's expression.The old man is sitting upright, holding the case with one hand and stroking his beard with the other, his old eyes are full of affirmation and affection.

"Daddy, do you have a guest? That kid will leave."

"Wait, there's no hurry to go." Qi Qi stopped, got up happily, and walked between the two children, "You both should have guessed that he is the eldest grandson of the old man, Qi Tong, and his father is the incumbent Qi Xing and Qi Anguo, the commander-in-chief of the Thousand-Fighting Army. She is the adoptive daughter of this old man, her surname is Zhang and her name is Cai, let's meet you two."

As soon as the words came out, the old man Qi Qi watched the performance of the two with great interest.Especially Zhang Cai's.

Here Qi Tong looked at Zhang Cai, who seemed to be two years younger than himself, a little imperceptible blushing appeared on his face similar to Qi Qi, and the corners of his lips twitched again and again, still embarrassed to call him "Auntie" .As for Zhang Cai, she is a big girl with yellow flowers who has not been used by anyone. How can she bear a man who looks a little older than herself to be called her aunt?But fortunately, Zhang Cai has one advantage, that is, she doesn't care about worldly views. She glanced at Qi Qi from the corner of her eye and saw the old man's interested eyes. What, anyway, my opinion has already been made clear when I was in Heyin, if you want to play tricks, it depends on how you end up!

So Zhang Cai took a step forward and clasped his fist at Qi Tongtong: "It turns out that he is the son of Mr. Qi's military family. Zhang Cai has admired his name for a long time, and he has admired his name for a long time."

As he said, he put his arms around Qi Tong's neck, and hugged Qi Tong in front of Qi Qi.

But Qi Tong didn't blush, it was only because Zhang Cai whispered in his ear: "Don't worry about what Aye says, you can call your brother whatever you want."

Qi Qi coughed lightly: "Zhang Cai, are you trying to piss me off, you damn girl? Let go!"

Zhang Caiman said indifferently: "It's Daddy, you were rude first, so you can't blame me for taking the ladder up."

Only Qi Tong, who was on the side, looked at the old and the young with a complicated expression.

【This Zhang Cai is really as willful as the rumors say】

At this time, Qi Qi's words rang in my ears: "Zhang Cai, my good grandson just graduated from college this summer, so if you have any questions, just ask. You only have half a day."

After Zhang Cai listened, he turned his head and looked at Qi Tong again.

Qi Tong was stunned.

"Grandfather, what do you mean?" Qi Tong is not stupid, "Grandson once heard the principal ask whether women can enter the military academy. Could it be that Zhang Cai wants to enter?"

"That's right, I do want to enter the military academy for further studies, and when I come out, I will enlist in the army and fight for the empire!" Zhang Cai interrupted directly, "Can I enter the military academy?"

Qi Tong inspected Zhang Cai for a while, and replied solemnly: "The empire has laws, and men and women are equal, so the academy can let women in, but"

Zhang Cai frowned: "but what?"

Qi Tong thought about his choice of words: "The only thing women can get in touch with in the academy is medical first aid. Well, there are also some difficulties that cannot be solved in life for soldiers and generals."

"It's a military prostitute, isn't it?" Seeing how Qi Tong stumbled, Zhang Cai was not insane, and immediately thought of the words that had appeared in the book.

Qi Qi rubbed his forehead without saying a word, while Qi Tong either nodded or shook his head.

"Okay, girl, you are the adopted daughter of this old man after all. How about this, this old man will put you into the army of the army first, and then..."

Qi Tong was shocked!Looking back and forth at the pair of father and daughter with complicated eyes, you must know that Qi Qi is a strict coach. Although he sometimes opens the back door, it is very difficult to go through his back door.If it was easy, the old man and himself would have a name in the college, and when the time comes, they will get their graduation certificates by themselves, and they will actually be running a thousand troops.

This guy doesn't even have the name of the academy, and directly attacks Qianjun. You two have an unusual relationship, Grandma Zhang!

However, Qi Tong was shocked again!Because Zhang Cai refused?She actually refused?Is this woman crazy? !

"Thank you daddy for your kindness, but please forgive Zhang Cai for refusing. One is that daddy taught Zhang Cai too many martial arts, tactics and customs. Live! Secondly, I am sure that I must go in. You know me. As I said, there is no question of whether you can do it or not, only if you want to do it! What a real skill!" Zhang Cai said sonorously.

After hearing this, Qi Qi frowned and said, "If you really want to do this, you will be the one who hurts yourself."

Zhang Cai said with a smile: "Isn't the path my daughter took an evil path from the beginning?"

Qi Qi sighed: "People in the world are divided into three grades, inferior grade, ordinary grade and super grade. Judging from your performance on that rainy night, you are not ordinary grade. In the words of Jinren, you are a vicious sea dongqing, Just waiting for you to spread your wings and fly."

"Whether you accept it or not, the old man will write to brother Mingshan, the future of the empire belongs to you."

"You guys talk for a while. By the way, grandson, don't think that Zhang Cai is a woman, but she is very capable. You'd better compete with her." Qi Qi didn't forget to let his good grandson and adopted daughter fight in the end.

Qi Tong had also heard that Zhang Cai was powerful, and in his letter to Luo Ta he said, "Combine Qi Da and other seven people's strength to hurt Qi Qi", "Teach her the Qi family's sword skills to have about six successes" , "Teaching her Qi's parents has already finished learning boxing" Ah, in short, he is so powerful, Qi Tong is the most outstanding child in the third generation of the Qi family in Ezhou, needless to say, he is proud. It means to compete with Zhang Cai one or two.

As soon as Qi Qi went back to the bedroom to rest, Qi Tong was a little impatient but reserved to compete with Zhang Cai on the back.

So the two came to the martial arts arena, each with a wooden knife and began to compete.Qi Tong's saber skills are quite satisfactory, Zhang Cai saw his moves and asked him if he had a first battle between the moves, the other party nodded shyly, Zhang Cai immediately had a sense.

【Hmph, it turned out to be a kind knife, so let me show you what a tiger-fighting knife is! 】

Zhang Cai's knife is getting faster and faster, and his delicate skills not only make it impossible for Qi Tong to get close, but also make him dangerous.

After persisting for about 30 minutes, Qi Tong's knife was picked up, Zhang Cai rushed forward with a magnificent figure, and put the knife edge on Qi Tong's neck.

Zhang Cai smiled and said, "Qi Tong, you lost~~~"

(End of this chapter)