Warriors

And just as Zhao Zhou opened the door of the inn, he also saw more than [-] imperial forest soldiers who lived in the imperial capital, and now they all came from afar on the snow, rushed outside the inn, prepared their carriages, and waited for his orders.

It can be seen that in the past six months, many people in Zhao Zhou have been convinced by Zhao Zhou's personality charm, and they are willing to come here to do what they can when Xiao Xuetian is celebrating the new year.

But when Zhao Zhou saw it, he didn't order the people anymore. Instead, he said kindly: "The New Year is approaching, all the officers and men, go home quickly. Besides, in this cold weather, you are exhausted from running around, and you will inevitably freeze your body. In the next spring, you will have to take care of it again." .”

"Coach, I'll wait..." All the Imperial Forest Army wanted to say something more.

"Go back." Zhao Zhou waved his hand, signaling them to go home for the New Year, to see their parents, family, or wife and children.

but.

All the imperial guards looked at me and I looked at you, but they didn't move. They helped the instructor a little bit, and their thoughts were very sincere.

So Zhao Zhou was aware of everyone's thoughts, and said again: "Those who are in the realm of warriors may encounter severe cold and stay."

"Yes!" All the imperial guards clapped their hands in joy, leaving behind three people who turned the carriage and headed towards Wuhou Mansion.

But the rest of the people did not go far. Instead, after seeing Zhao Zhou leave, they walked back to the same spot, turned into the inn from the backyard, wiped their sleeves, and began to clean the inside and outside of the inn.

And at the same time.

In the mansion of 'Marquis Wu' Hong Xuanji, nearly a thousand servants were busily busy sweeping snow and cleaning up sundries at the same time.

In particular, the 'big cleaning' has lasted for five full days, making the inside and outside of the mansion spotless, and the guests and nobles who came to give gifts were not allowed to laugh at the mess of Wuhou Mansion.

"The number one scholar may visit this Marquis today, so don't lose your etiquette." Hong Xuanji explained to Butler Wu, and then asked him to go to the warehouse to get some gold, silver and clothes as a New Year's gift, to reward the mansion servants inside.

Of course, his sons, daughters and wives also have big red envelopes, enough to buy some gold and silver jewelry or sharp weapons during the Chinese New Year.

But in a compound in Wuhou Mansion, nearby servants were serving tea and water, and clearing away the snow.

But in the pavilion in the courtyard, Hong Xuanji's sons and daughters not only drank tea and rested in the pavilion, but also held a few ingots of gold and sighed.

"Zhuangyuan Lang's calligraphy and paintings are so expensive, these ingots of gold can't be bought at all...but daddy has it, but he won't give it to me..." One of Hong Xuanji's daughters picked up the gold, her eyes full of yearning, wholeheartedly I want a pair of 'The Inscription of the Champion'.

"Little sister, you can be content." Hong Xuanji's eldest son snorted, "My military salary and annual gifts are all consumed in the army to equip the army. Now I don't have a copper coin, so I am embarrassed to go Find Brother Li and the others to drink."

"Hahaha, but the eldest brother has enough people, but he has been appreciated by the Holy One!" Hong Xuanji's second son said, "This is something that money can't buy!"

"It's still the second brother who can speak as an official." The eldest brother thought about it and felt right, so he offered him a cup of tea, looked at the gold in the younger sister's hand and said: "If you don't want this gold, why not give it to my brother. How about it?" ?”

"Thinking beautiful!"

Hong Xuanji's daughter snorted softly, stood up and left.It made the two brothers laugh out loud.

It's just that they had a good chat.

However, even though Hong Yi was also Hong Xuanji's son, he didn't have any red envelopes to get. Instead, he celebrated his new year alone in his dilapidated hut.

And Hong Yi didn't have any surprises.

On the contrary, he is still reading and writing in his hut at this time, silently memorizing the principles of the sages, which is completely different from those of his generation who are still enjoying the atmosphere of the New Year!

It can be seen that although Hong Yi is young, only fifteen or sixteen years old, he already knows the way of forbearance of "a man can bend and stretch"!

In particular, he knows that if he wants to have a way out, he can only make up for it with his own efforts, and he will be admitted to the number one scholar in the liberal arts next year! '

This is also why Hong Xuanji didn't let him practice martial arts, so he had to find another way out.

"Knowing the mind and seeing the nature, so as to achieve self-improvement..."

It's just that Hong Yi wrote for a while, and then dipped in the ink, but found that there was no ink in the inkstone.

Seeing this, Hong Yi stopped writing, meditated on what he had learned just now, and then took out some money from the mezzanine under the bed.

"My father didn't let me practice martial arts, and he didn't want me to study. My brothers and sisters each have more than a hundred Wenxiang ink sticks, and they want to ask for a pen and ink worth a word. How can there be such an embarrassing situation?"

"But even if they really have no ink sticks and no ink to write, there are already servants to buy them, so they don't need to worry about it."

Hong Yi rubbed his little money, shook his head, felt that it was useless to think too much, so he stuffed the money into his sleeve, opened the door, and prepared to go to the street to buy some cheap ink sticks and come back.

But it was also about half an hour after he left Wuhou Mansion.

Zhao Zhou also rode a carriage to the front of Wuhou's Mansion, which was hung with red lanterns.

"Notification." A royal guard driving the car stepped forward, ready to tell the guards in front of the gate Zhao Zhou's identity.

But as Zhao Zhou lifted the curtain of the car slightly, the guards in front of the door suddenly knelt down and bowed when they saw Zhao Zhou's appearance, shouting, "I have seen the number one scholar!"

Because they are on duty in front of the gate, they don't need to know anything else, but if they don't know the appearance of Zhuangyuan Lang, and he is still a close friend of his own Marquis Wu, then he can pack up and go home to be 'unemployed' that day.

then.

The most difficult thing to enter the door must be that no one is blocking it.

Moreover, Zhao Zhou was very reasonable and let the imperial guards go back to have a good year, so there was no need to follow him around.

Anyway, that's what I wanted to do.

And Zhao Zhou sent the three of them away, but they hadn't taken a few steps.

Hong Xuanji, who heard the news of his arrival in the mansion, also brought his whole family over to greet him, as if he had become a family!

However, Zhao Zhou knew that Hong Xuanji made friends with him because they were similar in character and strength, and he had too big a plan with Emperor Qian, so he also wanted to get involved with him.

It can be said that Hong Xuanji made friends with him because of the "sincerity" and the "purpose".

"Come."

But Zhao Zhou wanted to go back, and like an elder, he touched a few red envelopes pasted on red rice paper and distributed them to Hong Xuanji's children.And there are at least one hundred taels of silver bills in it, which is more than what their biological father Hong Xuanji gave!

"Thank you, Master Zhao!" Several people did not take apart their hands, and although they were only ten or a few years younger than Zhao Zhou's 'age', they still followed their father's instructions and called Zhao Zhou 'Master Zhao. '

It means teacher, elder.

"Zhuangyuan Lang, will you have two glasses of monkey wine later? I reserved them specially for you." Hong Xuanji didn't expect what happened half a month earlier. Instead, he was quite relieved to see that his yard was clean and he didn't feel ashamed of himself. .

"The kiwi fruit sent by Xuanji is a wonderful thing. It is fragrant and smooth in the mouth, like the nectar of immortals, and the mountains are like clouds." Zhao Zhou didn't care about that, but said that it was not delicious at all, it would be better than "thick skin and meat." The 'extraterritorial tribute' of the less black-hearted steamed stuffed bun.

But this 'kiwi fruit' was eaten.When Zhao Zhou speaks, he must choose something nice to say.

This also proves that he has indeed eaten.

"Zhuangyuan Lang said kiwi fruit." Hong Xuanji thought back for a moment, but immediately thought of that kind of "exotic fruit" that has aura and is indeed a good product! '

At least Hong Xuanji likes to eat it, but he is not willing to eat it.

It's just that he saw that Zhao Zhou seemed to like it, so he took it as an apology for the past few days, and said with some pain in his heart: "If the champion likes it, when I leave later, I will ask Butler Wu to send another hundred catties over."