Chapter 88 Shuo Mouse
So Xie Yuan stood on the slope, doing one movement after another, pausing for a while for each movement, allowing the four corps commanders below him to have time to move around in the square formation and correct the movements of others.
Kesande was cursing and kicking people below, when he saw the man in front of him changed from holding a spear with both hands to holding it up with one hand and throwing it to the sky.
Kesande kicked him directly and said angrily: "What the hell! Is there such a move in the training?! How stupid can you be..."
The moment he raised his eyes, his cursing stopped abruptly, because he found that all the soldiers in the phalanx were doing this action!
Kesande quickly turned around and looked at Xie Yuan on the hillside. He saw the well-proportioned young man holding a spear high in an extremely beautiful posture. He leaned back and raised one leg high, very steady.
Standing there steadily, his serious look... made Kesande want to hit him!
"I'm so sorry, Captain! This is not included in soldier drills! How can you do your own moves?!" Kesande shouted angrily at Xie Yuan.
But before he finished speaking, Xie Yuan threw the spear out of his hand with a "swish".
Following the practice of the phalanx below, I saw a group of spears held high shaking, and they also made a throwing motion to throw the spears out.
Fortunately, most people felt something was wrong and stopped when the spear was about to be released. However, there were still two slow-minded people who actually threw the spear away...
Kesande, who was standing in the phalanx, felt a spear flying past his head. He was so frightened that he quickly lowered his head, then stood up and cursed:
"Damn Xie Yuan!...Which fool is throwing a spear? Who! Who!?"
He stood in the crowd and roared at everyone, and Xie Yuan, who was standing on top, suddenly shouted happily:
"It's a hit, it's a hit!" Then he ran down the slope and ran towards the open space on the left.
The practitioners quickly ran up the hillside to take a look, and saw Xie Yuan pulling up the spear stuck in the ground, and a fat field mouse was stuck on it.
Everyone cheered happily.
Lao Fang's eyes lit up and he said, "Go and have a look. This mouse is so fat. There might be winter wheat hidden in the hole! Go and look for it! Go and look for it in the fields."
When the people gathered around heard this, they quickly took the spears in their hands and went to find a hole and dig soil around where Xie Yuan was standing. Xie Yuan stood in the middle of the field holding the field mouse, at a loss.
Lao Fang laughed when he saw her like this, and said to himself: "Look at how stupid he is...at first glance, he looks like a person who has never farmed before."
He turned around and said to the idle people around him: "You guys go look for some wild vegetables. Don't be idle. Maybe you can have a full meal this time. Go quickly!"
"Oh oh oh...yes." When those people heard this, they ran away happily.
Sure enough, after everyone's joint search, they really found the field mouse's cave, and dug out a huge pile of wheat, as much as two liters. The golden grain was picked up from the ground one by one by the soldiers.
I picked it up for fear of missing one.
After a lot of work, everyone gathered around the stove and waited for the ingredients to be put into the pot. The pot was not big and was found from an empty farmhouse nearby.
Lao Fang held the wheat grains in his hands, his eyes filled with longing and happiness, and murmured:
"Oh~ this wheat is so good, I'm a little reluctant to eat it. If I plant it in the ground, it won't be a big yellow field next year. It would be a pity to eat it now."
Kesande was a big man and he got hungry quickly. When he saw him grinding the wheat in his hands but not getting into the pot, he said anxiously:
"Fuck, hurry up! It's like the things growing in the field can reach your mouth. I'm so full that I'm swaying with water!"
The longing light in Lao Fang's eyes went out, the corners of his mouth drooped, he threw the wheat into the pot without mercy, poured the rest in, and said:
"What you're saying is that the people who farm this land don't even know if they are going to live in it. I don't even have a piece of land, so I'm just daydreaming here..." After saying that, he still felt disappointed.
Sighing, "Hi..."
Everyone was silent for a while, looking at the boiling white soup in the pot. The chopped field mouse meat was tumbling inside.
Xie Yuan frowned, brushing aside those bad associations, and suddenly remembered a song called "Shuo Mouse" in the Book of Songs. It really suited the occasion, so he sang in a low voice:
"A big rat, a big rat, has no food for me! A three-year-old girl, I am not willing to take care of her. She is about to die, she is suitable for that paradise. Paradise, paradise, love is mine..."
Her voice is soft and the melody is long and pleasant, but it has a bit of a literary sourness...
After all, it was her father Xie Yun who taught her, so isn't it normal to be a little sour?
But Lao Fang was not happy after hearing this, and interrupted her and said: "Oh, forget it, this song is not sung like this. Good guy, you sang a love song to the field mouse?!"
As soon as this was said, everyone burst into laughter.
Xie Yuan was a little confused and asked confusedly: "Did you sing it wrong?... This is how my father taught me."
Lao Fang's face was twitching as if he had eaten a fly, and he said, "Oh, farmers hate field mice so much! When we sang, we all gnashed our teeth when we sang, you know?"
After that, he started to sing word by word: "Shuo Shuo, Shuo Shuo! No food for me! Three-year-old girl! I will not care about you!" Sure enough, he gritted his teeth, the syllables were short, fast and hard, and he listened.
It's like I want to peel off its skin...
Xie Yuan was greatly shocked and felt that this song was very refreshing for no reason.
"The great rat, the great rat, has nothing to eat from me! A three-year-old girl, I am not willing to be kind. The daughter who is about to die is suitable for this happy country. If the happy country is happy, my love will be straight?!"
Everyone sang along with Lao Fang. The soldiers' rich voices, filled with hatred and unwillingness, were all harmonized through this song, and their voices gradually became louder...
"...The big rat, the big rat, has no food for my seedlings! A three-year-old girl, I am not willing to work hard. The daughter who is about to die is suitable for this happy suburb. Happy suburb, happy suburb, who will be named forever!"
Xie Yuan was among them, looking at the soldiers around him sitting together in embarrassment, waving their fists and singing like this. Their eyes were as bright as stars. He didn't know who he was complaining to. He felt inexplicably sad, and his eyes gradually became moist...
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Shen Liuzhen was alone, with a bodyguard, no home, and no status to buy a house in Pingcheng, Kyoto, Wei State.
Therefore, when he first became Ulei's companion, he was placed in the East Palace, the courtyard of the direct emperor's grandson, and almost ate and lived with Ulei.
To put it bluntly, the Xianbei barbarians are barbarians after all, and they are indeed much more casual when it comes to rules. This makes Shen Liuzhen, a lower-ranking person, feel quite comfortable.
"The direct grandson of the emperor..." Shen Liuzhen kept in mind the advice of his teacher Xie Yun: Accompanying the emperor is like accompanying a tiger. You must always keep a distance and be wary of those in power.
They can be nice to you as they please, but you can't be disrespectful if they want to. After all, when they kill your whole family, it's easy...
"How many times have I told you, just call me Wu Lei. Are you tired of being so reserved every day?" Shi Yu Wu Lei took a bite of the dough pancake and looked at him sideways with dissatisfaction.
Chapter completed!