Qi Kuo

The next day was a great day. Among the many hot and sunny days, there was only a little sunshine, and a cool breeze blew from the top of the mountain from time to time. It made people feel comfortable and just wanted to find a place to lie down and look at the blue sky. Watch the white clouds, have a good sleep, and relax.

Of course, Chen Ke did take Zhao Jun to do so.

A small wooden table from nowhere was well placed under the shade of a tree, with some green leaves falling on it, some of which floated into the water glass, casting a faint shadow.

Chen Ke took a glass of water and played with it in his hand, but didn't drink it, just holding it to see if the leaves in the water were blown to the other side.

Zhao Jun looked at Ye Dutong who was sitting opposite him, and sighed silently in his heart.

For so many years, even the three-year-old children in their city knew that the official position of general could not be achieved by just being good at martial arts, in other words, one had to be both civil and military.Besides, since Chen Ke was able to convince the entire National Defense Army within a year, it was not only because of the emperor's backing, but more importantly, his own ability.As far as Zhao Jun heard from Lin Zheng and the others, Chen Ke singled out half of the Dutong of the National Defense Army within a month, and was never injured or injured all over. Achieved.

Therefore, when Ye Dutong was sitting awe-inspiringly across from Chen Ke, he knew that Ye Dutong, who had always been somewhat arrogant, would bear it.

Anyway, the opening is still full of peace and love.

Chen Ke poured a glass of water and put it by Ye Dutong's hand, spread out his right hand to slightly pad the bottom of the cup, and said, "Please, Ye Dutong."

Ye Dutong took it with both hands and said, "Thank you."

Maybe Ye Dutong didn't know how to speak, or maybe Chen Ke knew what she was here for, so he didn't speak, but just quietly focused on looking at the leaves in the cup.

Zhao Jun really felt that the real battle of wits and courage was not suitable for him, so he stood up and wanted to tell Chen Ke that he would go down first, but before he could speak, Chen Ke glanced at him and pulled him away without a trace Sit down and look in the eyes: Sit down and don't move!

Zhao Jun: ...

Chen Ke paused for a while, then looked at Zhao Jun and asked, "Is Ye Dutong looking for something for me?"

Ye Dutong seemed to be waiting for him to speak, so he went down the steps: "The general is really good at predicting things, and he really has something serious to do today."

The corners of Chen Ke's mouth twitched indistinctly when he heard the words "forecasting things like gods". From Ye Dutong's point of view, it was a smile; from Zhao Jun's point of view, it was a sneer without concealment. Or self-deprecating.

Chen Ke put down the water glass and smiled: "Oh?"

Ye Dutong left his seat suddenly, stood up, knelt in front of Chen Ke on one knee, lowered his head, and said, "General, please forgive me for what I say next."

Chen Ke's expression remained unchanged, and he said, "That depends on what you said."

Ye Dutong didn't raise his head, and said, "General, do you know that there is a custom in Shuzhou that the local garrison will keep an army of its own."

Chen Ke said lightly.

He continued: "The general thinks he can accept it?"

Chen Ke raised his eyebrows: "What if I say I can't?"

Ye Dutong probably didn't think that Chen Ke would say that, or maybe he thought of it, so he purposely froze for a second before saying, "Then I'll send someone to tell them to disband."

Chen Ke murmured: "In this way, it seems that I am not human."

Ye Dutong said: "The general was joking."

Chen Ke suddenly leaned forward in front of him, forcing him to look up, with a half-smile: "How did Ye Dutong know that there is such a custom here? I remember that the general is not from here."

Ye Dutong's expression was calm: "I was ordered to be stationed here, so I should understand these local customs."

Chen Ke put down the hand that restrained him, and said: "Really, then Dutong has prepared you well, but where did Dutong get so much time? I remember that Dutong has never been out here since he was dispatched." A mountain, could it be that there are too few affairs in the military, so you, Dutong, can't bear to be lonely to learn about local customs?"

Ye Dutong obviously didn't expect him to say that, and he said after a while: "What did you say, General, as Dutong of one side, of course we need to understand the local folk customs, so that we can carry out some activities."

Chen Ke: "Really? Then according to the general, I'm not sensible? That's right, I'm also much younger than you, Dutong, but you don't know how to behave."

Ye Dutong's face froze, and he said: "The general is just joking, this is just a personal ability."

Chen Ke clapped his hands lightly: "Dutong is also a hero, able to bend and stretch, but if you want to go to a place to fight and the military situation is urgent, you will spend a lot of time organizing a team that conforms to the local customs?! You will follow their instructions. Customs to conscript the army?! Then I think Dutong you are the real general talent, and you take care of everything."

Ye Dutong was stunned when he heard this, and then said: "But if it is not the case, how can we win the hearts of the people? How can we recruit so many people?"

Chen Ke smiled: "When the country is in crisis, if you only care about your own customs, then you don't need to recruit this soldier. What's the use of recruiting? If someone attacks at night, your tradition is to sit on the bed and meditate for a while with your eyes closed. Time, you can’t move, then you have to follow him to finish sitting and then go to war?! Dutong, judge the situation, this kind of thing needs to be decided according to the actual situation, don’t just say what I used to do, and think that everything should be like this , then you must be thinking too much."

Ye Dutong was stunned by what he said, and said after a long time: "The general taught me that I was reckless."

Chen Ke smiled: "It's all too serious. It's not a lesson or not, it's just a matter of personal ability."

Ye Dutong gently closed his eyes, and then said: "The general is right, so this subordinate will go down now."

Chen Ke waved his hand: "Yes."

Zhao Jun watched from the side without saying a word, and after watching Dutong walk away, he said, "Can you really ignore their customs?"

Chen Ke raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "I said, why are you so stupid, how can you not care about the customs? But we all have people investigate first and come here directly. It is not as troublesome as his own investigation. Besides, you don't care about theirs. Customs, sometimes touch taboos, it is very possible to violently kill them."

Zhao Jun nodded: "Then there really isn't the custom he said here."

Chen Ke shook his head: "Yes."

Zhao Jun: ...

So why are you so confident.

When Zhao Jun walked back along the perimeter at night, someone suddenly patted him on the shoulder from behind.

Zhao Jun was startled, turned his head suddenly, and saw Mo Xuan standing with his back to the moon, unable to see his expression clearly.

He calmed down and said in a low voice, "Why are you here? How did you get in?"

Mo Xuan didn't know what his expression was, but he just said, "Because you are here, so I am here."

He naturally ignored the second half of Zhao Jun's sentence, and he didn't know whether Zhao Jun's voice was lowered or what.

Zhao Jun didn't pay attention to his answer, but Mo Xuan's coming in was not a trivial matter after all, how could a person who at least seemed to have nothing to do with these things come in when everyone was in danger.

Let's not say what kind of thoughts are out of it, but it will never be purely because he is here so he is here.

Shuzhong is such a distance from here, if you simply come to see him, you won't believe it.

But it was so late, it was impossible for Zhao Jun to leave Mo Xuan alone in this wilderness.So he hesitated and said, "Well...how about you follow me in?"

Mo Xuan also hesitated for a moment, and finally said slowly: "You won't take me to Chen Ke's place."

Zhao Jun was startled, then shook his head: "No...I promise."

He didn't know why he added the last sentence, but he just said it like this.

After hearing this, Mo Xuan said, "That's good."

Inexplicably, there was a hint of lightness, which was in stark contrast to the faint anxiety in the previous sentence.

Zhao Jun stretched out a hand to him and said, "Let's go."

Under the thick moonlight, Zhao Jun's slightly callused hands were a little too white, but also a little too thin.

Mo Xuan hesitantly raised his hand, and his fingertips twitched slightly, like fear and joy.

It's as if something you've fantasized about for a long time suddenly appears in front of you one day, and you don't know whether to pick it up or leave it there, just watch it quietly.

Zhao Jun watched him hesitate for a long time before he could raise his hand, so he simply reached out and grabbed Mo Xuan's warm hand, and said, "Okay, don't dawdle."

Mo Xuan didn't answer, but lowered his head.

Chen Ke was sitting in the tent planning, when suddenly a bird landed on the case.

Frowning slightly, he picked up the bird, and took the envelope inside from his lap.

At this time, Chen Ke was a little puzzled, who gave him the gray voice.

He opened the letter, looked at the contents, and then frowned even deeper.

Mo Xuan is here, how did he come here?

The messenger only said that they saw Mo Xuan go to find Zhao Jun, but no one placed around him found out how he got in.

In an instant, he smiled and said softly: "Mo Xuan, it seems that I should meet you."

Zhao Jun took a small cake and handed it to Mo Xuan, then sat opposite Mo Xuan, watched him eat and said, "Tell me, how did you get in here."

Simple to monotonous declarative sentences.

But Mo Xuan could hear a faint suspicion abruptly.

He took a big bite of the pancake, puffed his cheeks and chewed it three times, five times and two times, and said: "I saw that the guards were not particularly strict, so I came in."

Zhao Jun folded his hands on the table and said, "Oh?"

Mo Xuan squeezed his big eyes and nodded: "Really! I will never lie to you!"

Zhao Jun poured a glass of water for him, afraid that he would choke, but said: "Really? I really want only those who have experienced it to know. This is not a problem that I believe can be solved... What do you think?"

Mo Xuan was stunned by what he said, took the water and said, "You really believe me...but you still put in a little effort."

The corners of Zhao Jun's eyes twitched, and he said, "Do you want to tell yourself, or should I continue to ask."

Mo Xuan sighed in his heart, and said, "Then wait until I finish eating?"

Zhao Jun stretched out his palm to him, made a gesture of invitation, and said, "Yes."

After a while, Mo Xuan settled down the snacks in his hand while drinking, and then said: "Actually, it's nothing, I saw that they don't change defenses very frequently, and you know, what, I I just learned some things to defend myself, so I got acquainted with some things, so I came in."

Zhao Jun heard that there was not much difference between what he said and what he thought, so he nodded and said, "Well..." He looked around again, thought for a while, and said, "Then you sleep here with me?"

Mo Xuan's eyes lit up, and he said, "Is it possible?"

Zhao Jun: "No."

Zhao Jun looked at Mo Xuan's drooping head, and said, "Why don't you sleep on the floor? Or you sleep on the bed, and I'll go find Chen Ke?"

Mo Xuan decisively chose the former, and said seriously: "If you went to find that general, wouldn't he know that I'm coming? So I'd better sleep on the floor."

After several times of entanglement, Zhao Jun still let him sleep on the bed and slept on the ground by himself.

In the morning, Zhao Jun was woken up by the sound of birds chirping outside the tent. Mo Xuan was no longer in bed, and a thin blanket was covering him, covering the slight morning coolness.

He looked left and right but didn't see Mo Xuan, so he simply ignored it and got up by himself to pack up and prepare to go out for dinner.

Just as he was about to lift the curtain to go out, Mo Xuan came back from the outside, carrying a bag of steamed buns and a bowl of soy milk in his hands. Seeing him standing in front of the door, he smiled and said, "Eat?"

Zhao Jun took the things Mo Xuan handed over, and smiled: "I found that I don't seem to have any serious business except eating every day."

Mo Xuan walked and said: "No, didn't everyone say that people are like iron and steel, so isn't it a particularly correct habit?"

Hearing this, Zhao Jun suddenly thought of his parents. Once upon a time, someone chased him to eat, and persuaded him: "Zhao Jun, come and eat, your stomach will hurt later!"

At that time, the sun was just right, the grass was growing and the grass was flying, it was June in the world, the seasons changed, spring and summer alternated, and everyone's eyes were full of smiles.

After hastily finished his meal, Zhao Jun just walked to the door and raised his hand to open the door to go out. Unexpectedly, the door was opened by someone else from the outside.

Zhao Jun thought: what is covering this room today?so popular.

When Chen Ke came in, Mo Xuan had already hid behind the bed, so Chen Ke said to Zhao Jun as usual: "Go and see Ye Dutong, and then go to help me make a round. Comfortable."

Zhao Jun didn't suspect him, so he saluted: "Yes."

It wasn't until Zhao Jun walked out that Chen Ke said, "Okay, come out."

Mo Xuan came out from behind and didn't show much expression when he saw Chen Ke. It seemed that he saw an ordinary person who was not worth being afraid of.

Seeing that he was examining himself, Chen Ke let him look up and down without making a sound.

After a while, two voices were heard in the originally silent tent at the same time.

"Shanghan Moxuan."

"General Chen."

One is calm, and the other is a little immature.

The same light flashed in the eyes of the two, and then they spoke again at the same time, "Jiu Yang."

Maybe Chen Ke shouldn't have said that he has admired him for a long time, but he just said it.

The same height, one tone.

Mo Xuan didn't seem to have expected Chen Ke to say that, he was taken aback for a moment, and then couldn't help but think highly of this general who didn't really have a sense of existence in his heart.