The scene in the dream was so exciting that when he woke up, Wang Xun could still clearly hear his own heart beating like a drum. He looked up at the light coming through the gap in the window, turned over and sat up, put on his clothes and put on his clothes.
I put on my boots, fetched cold water from the fire-proof wooden barrel at the door, quickly washed my face, and gargled my mouth. With the habits I had developed over the past few months, I quickly cleaned up my whole body, and looked back at the other places inside the building.
With two empty beds, I suddenly remembered that the two team vice-presidents had gone home yesterday afternoon. In order to make up for the regret that everyone was busy training and unable to reunite with their families during the Chinese New Year, General Feng deliberately announced yesterday that he would take a vacation starting today.
On the 5th, except for officers of the rank of senior and above, almost all the new recruits and veterans left the camp immediately after hearing the news. Today's morning exercises have been canceled long ago, and he was the only one left in the entire recruit battalion, the second team of the seventh brigade.
Yes, I was still in the military camp because I was hungover last night.
"Look at my memory!" Wang Xun patted himself in annoyance and groaned with a grimace. It was still dark outside before midnight. If he went home at this time, he would not be able to enter Chang'an City! He wanted to lie down and go back to sleep.
He felt uncomfortable all over his body. More than four months of intense training had left a deep mark on his mind. In the past, he only hated getting up too early, but now he has no interest in sleeping for even a moment longer.
"Idle time is idle, let's run in circles!" After struggling for a long time, Wang Xun finally decided to go out for exercise as usual, so as not to sit in the house and wait for dawn. He ran three full circles around the White Horse Castle.
, he suddenly recalled the scene when he first entered the camp, when he was so tired that he was panting like a dead dog with his tongue hanging out. The memories came alive in an instant, and everything seemed to have happened yesterday. But in the blink of an eye, what had happened at that time
The hard work that made me want to quit several times has now become very easy to complete. And the things I tried so hard to avoid at the beginning have now become habits.
Running, lifting stone locks, boxing, and juggling. There was no supervision from anyone, and Zhou Laohu's familiar scolding voice could not be heard. Wang Xun completed all the morning exercises meticulously. He found that he actually liked the orderly atmosphere of the military camp.
In life, he didn’t have much nostalgia for the luxurious and lazy life of the past. “Actually, going to serve in the Anxi Army is not a terrible thing!” A thought suddenly emerged from his heart, quickly rekindling the blood that had just cooled down.
Hot. "Mount your horse and wear a hook, and ride the long head gracefully. At dawn, you want to serve your country, not to be a prince..." The poem I heard during the banquet yesterday instantly echoed in my ears again. I was obviously drunk at that time.
Although I was very drunk, I remembered the content of the poem clearly and not a single word was left behind.
After the morning exercises, it was daybreak. Calculating that there was still some time before the gates of Chang'an City were opened, Wang Xun trotted to the kitchen to have breakfast. Fortunately, most of the generals in the military camp were Feng Changqing who came from Anxi temporarily.
He was transferred from the army and his family was not in Chang'an, so the kitchen still provided breakfast as usual. Several mid-level generals were already sitting at the large square table common in the northwest, ready to use chopsticks. When they saw Wang Xun running in panting, they were stunned, and their faces instantly
A hint of appreciation emerged.
"Captain Wang, sit here and eat!" Li Yuanqin tapped the table with his fingers and extended an invitation with a smile.
"No, no, thank you, coach!" Wang Xun smiled and shook his head in refusal. Now, he was no longer a recruit who had just joined the camp. He knew that Zhao and Li, the two team lieutenants who initially served as his assistants, actually had higher ranks than him.
The team is much higher. The so-called temporary lack of vacancies was clearly a white lie that Zhou Laohu told in order to take care of himself.
"Sit down when I ask you to, little one, why are you getting so mother-in-law!" As if he guessed that Wang Xun was thinking about him, Zhou Laohu's scarred face immediately lifted up from Li Yuanqin's side and ordered fiercely.
"No!" Wang Xun held up the rice bowl and clasped his fists, and made a little joke with his bosses. Then he packed breakfast and walked quickly to the desk.
"Little guy, are you drinking well?" Zhou Laohu looked at it as if admiring a treasure, which made Wang Xun's heart tremble. "How are you? Did you have a headache in the middle of the night last night?"
"Not bad!" Wang Xun responded hesitantly while stuffing steamed naan into his mouth. If Zhou Laohu brought up the old matter again at this time and invited him again, he would definitely feel very embarrassed. Several bosses
During this period of time, I had been taking great care of myself, and it was hard to ignore their kindness. But thinking about the tears of Aunt Yun, Zi Luo and others after I agreed to the invitation, all the enthusiasm for going out to serve the country gradually faded away.
As if he guessed what Wang Xun was escaping from, Captain Zhou Xiaofeng of the new barracks smiled and shook his head. "Your family is from Chang'an. Are you familiar with the interesting places in the city?"
Hearing this, Wang Xun immediately breathed a sigh of relief, thought for a while, and nodded in response, "I'm not very familiar with it, but I can basically find it. It just depends on what the adults want to play!"
"Sir, what the hell!" Zhou Laohu raised his eyebrows, and the scars on his eyelids immediately jumped up and down. "Call me Lao Zhou, or Zhou Lao Lao, call them Lao Li, Lao Zhao, it's not a formal occasion, so calling them so raw
What to do?"
"Brother Zhou is right! I was negligent." He swallowed the rice porridge with a smile, and Wang Xun nodded in agreement.
"Is this right?" Zhou Laohu was very satisfied with Wang Xun's performance and reached out to pat him on the back, causing Wang Xun to almost choke on his porridge. "None of our families are in Chang'an. It's rare to come here.
I came to the capital once, but I have been locked up in this military camp. If you know of any interesting places, you might as well introduce them. Taking advantage of the free time in these few days, let's go for a walk together. We can brag to our brothers when we get back.
, I have been to Chang’an!”
"Yes, you can go to the capital to fart and give your ancestors some credit!" Even in formal occasions, Li Yuanqin was very humorous when he spoke. "In the Western Regions, I always brag to people from various tribes, saying how prosperous Chang'an is, how prosperous it is. It is the most prosperous in the world.
A capital city. It frightened those barbarian tribal elders into silence. Hehe, in fact, a few of us have never seen it at all."
As soon as the words fell, there was a burst of laughter. Zhao Huaixu, Li Wenda, Zhou Xiaofeng, and Su Shenxing, who couldn't beat a fart with three sticks, all showed a trace of pride that was difficult to conceal. It was obvious that similar attacks on the Celestial Dynasty
Shangbang Fengwu deceived the barbarian leaders, I am afraid everyone has done it.
After laughing, Wang Xun got closer to everyone. After thinking about it, he started to suggest: "When it comes to walking around, the most worth seeing in the capital is naturally the area from Zhuque Gate to Xuanwu Gate. Several brothers
If there is a chance to take turns...!"
"We've already visited everything!" Zhou Xiaofeng confessed frankly, "To tell you the truth, brother, in the first month after returning to the capital, we took turns to go to the palace for a tour. Except for places that we shouldn't go into, everything else was pretty much the same.
I watched it secretly!"
"Hey hey hey...!" Everyone laughed tacitly. Between Zhuque Gate and Xuanwu Gate is the Imperial City and the Taiji Palace where His Majesty the Emperor lives. If you come to the capital to present prisoners to the Emperor, if you don't find an opportunity
Take a look at what the imperial palace looks like, and this trip to the capital will be like missing out.
"The second place worth seeing is probably Qujiang Pond. But it's just spring, and the willow trees haven't grown leaves yet, so there's not much scenery to see!" After everyone laughed for a while, Wang Xun suggested again.
"It's boring!" Zhao Huaixu was the first to object. "Even if there are spring flowers to see, it's not interesting. The more inaccessible the scenery, the more eye-catching it is. If it is over-sculpted, it will lose its original charm!"
"
Zhou Xiaofeng smiled slightly and secretly winked at the people around him, "Yes, after we left the Jade Gate in the west, we looked up and saw thousands of miles of yellow sand, with the traces of the wind unabashedly left on the surface of the sand. That's called a majesty. And
The Broken Leaf Hot Sea suddenly emerged from thousands of miles of yellow sand, and it is also impossible to see the edge at a glance. The water inside is as clean as well water, and you can clearly see the fish swimming wherever they are!"
"That's right, Qujiang is indeed just a small pond compared to our Atami!" Li Wenda, another senior officer from Anxi Town, understood the situation and helped with a smile.
"There are also poplar trees in the desert. Their roots are like iron. They grow along both sides of the ancient silk road, from Yumen to Tocharo!" When the Western Regions were mentioned, all the Anxi generals couldn't hold back their words.
, "Three thousand years of life, three thousand years of death, three thousand years without falling!"
"That's where men should be!"
"The prosperity of Chang'an City was not created by us people with knives!"
The desert, the huge lake, the lonely city, the sunset, the poplar trees pointing to the sky, and the men of the Tang Dynasty riding horses and whips along the ancient silk road. This scenery, just thinking about it, already makes Wang Xun's heart boil.
However, as a Chang'an native, he could not allow a few military generals to devalue the place where he grew up. After thinking about it, he made another suggestion, "Then let's go see the White Horse Temple.
The place where the eminent monk Xuanzang translated scriptures has always been very popular. There is also Shengyefang, where many scholars who come to take the exam gather. Otherwise, go to Beili, that is, Pingkangli, from afternoon to late night
There are fun things there, even after the curfew. If not, go to the East Market. There is a cockfighting ring there, and I am one of the shareholders. Several brothers went there, and I guarantee that they will have a great time!"
"I'm not going!" "I've been there" "It's boring!" The officers shook their heads one after another, not interested in the things that Wang Xun thought were the most useful. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his heart, and Wang Xun remembered that someone
I once said something to myself, 'The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty lies not only in the power of military warfare, but also in the prosperity of culture and education. All the surrounding barbarians riding sweaty horses cannot catch up.' He slapped his thigh hard and said loudly, "Yes."
, "I think of a few places to go, and I promise that my brothers will not regret it for the rest of their lives after they go there."
"Tell me!" Everyone looked up and looked at him doubtfully.
Wang Xun's arrogance was suddenly aroused. He put his hand on the edge of the table and stood up. "Brothers, haven't you heard that there are 'Four Great and Small' in Chang'an City? I dare not say that these eight people are all
I’ll find a way for you to meet them, but it’s probably within my power to go around their place or invite one or two of them to have a toast!”
"Seriously?" At this moment, several officers were indeed stunned. They raised their heads, their eyes filled with disbelief.
"Absolutely!" Wang Xun looked up at the spring sun bursting out of the horizon. His young face was filled with confidence and pride. "However, you have to give me some time to make arrangements. Those people are very arrogant.
no no......."
Xie Feiyan's harp and Hu Aman's waist are not difficult to see, as long as you have enough money. In addition, Li Bai, one of the Great Four Wonders, also owed Lei Wanchun a poem, and went there in the name of Lei Wanchun
Invite him, and also call Gao Shi and Cen Shen together. I guess Li Bai will not refuse. Among the four great things, the one he will definitely be able to invite is Bai Yuzhi, through whom he can find Aunt Gongsun...
Thinking of Bai Yuzhi, Wang Xun's smile couldn't help but froze. Suddenly, he found that before entering the military camp, many things became more urgent than one before, and he actually forgot to tell the other party. And in the past four months in the military camp, every day
I was so busy that I didn't even have time to snore, so I didn't even write a few words to her.
This is so sorry! He couldn't help but feel a sense of guilt in his heart. Soon, this guilt was replaced by surprise. At first, he almost lost his mind after not seeing her for a day. Why did these four
For many months, I rarely thought of her smile?
"What's the matter? You're exaggerating, haha!" Zhou Xiaofeng was always out of his mind, shrugging his shoulders and scolding with a smile.
"Are you still afraid that I won't keep my word?" Wang Xun quickly regained his mind of not knowing where to fly and responded with a smile. "I was just thinking about where to treat guests so that I could accommodate so many people. Don't worry, if
I can’t invite anyone from the Four Greats, big or small. When I come back from the holiday, you can just find fault and hit me with a military stick. Anyway, Brother Zhou keeps an eye on me every day, so I won’t worry about finding an opportunity!”
"Boy, are you Brother Zhou that unbearable?" Zhou Xiaofeng smiled and shook his head. He still couldn't believe that Wang Xun had such a great reputation that he could invite any one of the four great people to have a drink with him.
Wang Xun smiled and didn't say much, just waiting to give everyone a surprise. After making an appointment to meet at Linfeng Building in the city at noon three days later, he said goodbye to everyone, packed up and walked out of the military camp.
This breakfast was really time-consuming, and he watched the sun climb above the treetops. As he walked, Wang Xun imagined the scene after returning home. Aunt Yun must have looked at her when she saw him like this.
There will be a surge of relief. Where is the little girl Zi Luo? I wonder if she has lost weight these days? And Bai Yuzhi, I haven’t been to compliment her in the past few days, nor have I sent anyone to send a letter. I think she will
Are you very annoyed? If she is really angry, it will not be easy to coax her. Should I buy her another hairpin, or should I seize the time and show her the yard where I bought it...
Just as I was thinking about it, a familiar call suddenly came from my ears, with a hint of trembling and a bit of resentment, "Erlang, is it Erlang? You are finally willing to come out!"
"Sister Bai?" Wang Xun raised his head suspiciously. He happened to see Bai Yongzhi and her maid Ping'er standing under a willow tree at the entrance of the military camp.
Spring is here again, and several pairs of swallows whisper through the sky, bringing up a cloud shadow.
