The Royal Merchant of the Red Chamber

This day is the rest day for the whole camp.Except for the soldiers who were required to stay on duty, most of them left the barracks early in the morning, and ran to the city in small groups to have a good time.It was rare for Xue Pan to sleep late, and he fell asleep on the bed without getting up.

The warm sunlight pours in through the top of the tent, and bright and dark light spots are projected on the royal blue Persian carpet, spreading a light and warm mood.

When Lin Mozhi opened the curtain and walked in, he immediately saw Xue Pan sleeping sprawled on the bed.The peach-red feather gauze was half covered at the waist, and the moon white lingerie's inner garment was opened in a mess, revealing the skin like suet white jade inside, the jet-black hair like ink dyed was scattered around, and a pair of clear and flexible eyes were tightly closed , Curly and thick eyelashes leave two fan-shaped shadows on the eyelids.With one hand resting on the outside of the feather quilt, his chest rose and fell evenly, and one could tell that he was sleeping soundly.

A smile flashed across Lin Mozhi's eyes, he tiptoed to the bedside and sat down, looking at Xue Pan who was sleeping in the dark and remained silent.

The warm sunlight was blocked by a shadow, Xue Pan trembled his eyelids if he felt something, and subconsciously rubbed his eyes with his hands.After squinting for a while and opening his eyes, he saw Lin Mozhi's delicate and tender eyebrows right in front of him.

Stretching under the quilt, Xue Pan rubbed his head against the soft pillow, and smiled dazedly, "Why didn't you say a word when you came in, how long have you been waiting?"

Lin Mozhi leaned forward to brush away the messy hair on Xue Pan's face, and said with a gentle smile, "Just sitting here, you woke up."

After a pause, he said again: "The military camp for the past six months has not been in vain. If it was at home before, let alone sitting next to you, even if you set off firecrackers in your ears, it may not be able to wake you up. And you!"

Xue Pan ignored Lin Mozhi's teasing, snorted softly, lifted off the pink feather veil nonchalantly, sat on the bed and asked, "Come to see me so early, but do you have something important to say?" ?”

Lin Mozhi smiled, pointed at the scorching sun above his head and said with a smile: "The sun is almost drying your ass, how early do you think it is?"

Xue Pan leaned over to look at the top of the tent, and saw the blue sky and white sun, it was about [-] o'clock.

Immediately, he closed his eyes and yawned, then rolled on his back on the bed twice, reluctantly rubbed the mattress under him, and then turned over and fell to the ground.

While ordering Zhaocai to prepare things for washing, he asked, "You haven't said what you want from me?"

"What can I do for you when I'm on holiday? It's just Baoyu's letter from the middle of the capital, and I sent it to you specially." Lin Mozhi said, stretching out his hand to hold the tea brought by Jinbao.He sighed and said: "No wonder the ancients said that the dead are like husbands, and they don't give up day and night. The life in this military camp doesn't feel good, and it's autumn again."

"Which Baoyu?" Xue Pan asked while pouring water for brushing his teeth and rinsing his mouth.

"Just look at the colorful envelopes, who else can there be? Of course it is Jia Baoyu, the amorous son of the Rongguo Mansion in the capital." Lin Mozhi smiled and shook his head as a joke, and said: "Baoyu from the Zhen family is now in the Imperial Academy. The editor, there is a regular letter every month to express friendship. But this Jia Baoyu actually wrote a letter every three to five days, with sincere feelings between the lines and lingering voice, and he knew that he was giving When our two brothers wrote letters, we thought he was expressing his heartfelt love to some wife! I don’t know when he will change his frivolous appearance."

Xue Pan threw the used towel into the copper basin filled with clean water, and said with a soft smile, "I guess it's impossible in this life, let's talk about it in the next life!"

The water in the copper basin splashed, drips of water splashed onto Xue Pan's silver-white brocade inner garment, leaving a large wet mark.Lin Mozhi shook his head when he saw this, and sighed: "You should be more careful, you are so panic-stricken every time. You have given birth to a rich and noble son, if you really become someone's servant, That alone would waste a lot of things.”

Xue Pan turned back and smiled at Lin Mozhi, but did not speak.

After washing, he got dressed and sat across from Lin Mozhi. He reached out to pick up the letter on the table and asked, "What did Baoyu say in the letter? Don't think he is too wordy and impatient. There is nothing left for him to do." No matter how big or small, patient and meticulous, no matter how big or small things happen in this capital, we are clear about it, and this alone is better than anything else."

As he said, he tore off the seal and opened the letter paper folded into a butterfly shape. As usual, there was some lingering thoughts at the beginning, and Xue Pan also passed by hastily.

Seeing this, Lin Mozhi raised his eyebrows with some doubts and asked, "Why, are you finally talking about something serious?"

Xue Pan handed the letter paper to Lin Mozhi casually, and said, "It's not a serious matter. Baoyu said that Princess Beijing died two days ago, and King Beijing was very sad. He stayed with him for a while before he recovered. After that, there are words such as lamenting the impermanence of the world, and the fate of a beauty. Let's just say it's more eye-catching gossip."

Lin Mozhi laughed lightly when he heard the words, and before he could speak, he heard a "cuckoo" pigeons outside, Xue Pan's eyes lit up, and he rushed out immediately.After a while, a slender white carrier pigeon came in.

Lin Mozhi shook his head and said with a smile, "This must be a secret letter from the Holy Majesty, right? The channel used to secretly transmit messages at the sticky pole is used to talk to you. This is really a move of the Holy Majesty..."

When it came to the end, he smiled and said nothing.

Xue Pan glared at Lin Mozhi, and said with a sinister smile: "You don't need to be envious or jealous. I heard from the Holy Majesty that Prince Zhongshun has persuaded the Majesty to send him to Tianjin Wei soon. Maybe this In a day or two, you will face each other every day."

A gloomy look flashed across Lin Mozhi's face, he pursed his lips and did not speak.

Xue Pan didn't irritate him anymore, and carefully removed the letter box tied to the pigeon's leg, opened the letter paper curled up inside and looked at it carefully, with a strange look on his face, he kept looking at Lin Ink.

"You're acting so hypocritical again. Could it be that I was mentioned in the secret letter from the Holy Master?" Lin Mozhi said, getting up and walking to Xue Pan to grab it, but he was concerned about Tu Zhen's majesty and didn't care about it. Really move.

However, Xue Pan handed the letter to Lin Mozhi with a strange expression on his face, and said, "Just now you said that the gossip about King Beijing Jing had nothing to do with you, but now it has something to do with it. It can be seen that Baoyu is right, the world's affairs Impermanence, the beauty is unlucky!"

Lin Mozhi raised his eyebrows, and casually took the letter from Xue Pan's hand.After a cursory look, he couldn't help but uttered in astonishment: "What, the Holy Majesty actually deliberately pointed Daiyu to King Beijing as his successor?"

Xue Pan nodded regretfully, and said to Lin Mozhi, "In the near future, you and King Beijing will be in-laws."

Lin Mozhi's face darkened, and he said, "The two of them get together...I'm afraid it's inappropriate?"

Hearing this, Xue Pan sighed softly: "That's right! Sister Lin most hopes to marry someone like Uncle Lin, who is knowledgeable, personable, and devoted in love. It's a pity that the King of Beijing Jing is knowledgeable and gentle. Well, just this temperament...it's not enough to be described by simple two words. I heard that the total number of aunts in his mansion exceeds double digits, and the speed of concubines is almost comparable to that of the Rongguo mansion. .”

Lin Mozhi's face became more and more gloomy, he slapped the letter paper on the table, and said in a cold voice: "No, how can I marry my sister to such an amorous person? I'm afraid I won't enjoy much glory and wealth by then, He was killed by his aunts first."

After a pause, he couldn't help complaining: "There are so many women of the right age, why did the Holy One only take a fancy to my Daiyu?"

Xue Pan chuckled and said, "Although there are many women of the right age, how many of them are as beautiful as Sister Lin? The Holy One wants to completely win over the King of Beijing, so naturally he has to choose the best woman for him. gone."

Lin Mozhi sneered again and again, and said, "My sister is naturally the best to him, but he may not be the best to my sister."

Xue Pan nodded and said with a smile: "I guess the Holy Majesty has never considered this aspect. He just thinks that the two kings of Dongping County and Beijing County have already surrendered, and the favorite side concubine of the King of Dongping County is Zhen Baoyu's sister. The relationship between the Zhen family and us does not need to be elaborated. As for Princess Beijing, she is a candidate bestowed by the emperor. Every time the Holy Majesty thinks about it, he feels that it is not suitable, but it is difficult to say more. Now that Princess Beijing has passed away due to illness, the Holy Majesty feels that It's a good opportunity, so I naturally thought of Sister Lin."

Lin Mozhi frowned, still somewhat disapproving.

Seeing this, Xue Pan comforted him softly: "It's okay if you really don't want to. After all, the Holy Majesty just talked to me in private. If it really feels wrong, I just push it away. The alliance between men depends on the relationship of interests. Marriage is optional, it's just a means of icing on the cake."

Lin Mozhi glanced at Xue Pan with some gratitude, and said softly: "You really think so. Although my Lin family loves high-ranking officials and generous salary, it is not enough to sell my sister to others to get a promotion. This Beijing Jing If Wang is really a good man, I don't object to the beauty of adults. But if he only regards my sister as a plaything like his aunt, then why should we humiliate ourselves? It's just that the Holy Majesty is not easy to explain."

After all, the king is the king and the minister is the king, and the king is the minister.The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die.What's more, Tu Zhen hasn't let the Lin family die yet, he just hopes to point Daiyu to the King of Beijing.In the eyes of others, it may still be a great honor!If Lin Mozhi categorically refuses, the Holy Majesty may not be satisfied.After all, the relationship between Lin Mozhi and Tu Zhen is different from that of Xue Pan. As a subordinate, there is no room for bargaining.

Xue Pan naturally understood Lin Mozhi's embarrassment, and smiled disapprovingly: "I understand what you think - I won't make it difficult for you. How about this, we don't have to talk too hard, just You need to tell your majesty that the king of Beijing County is romantic by nature and loves fishing, and sister Lin's character is really simple, so she may not be able to win the prince's heart. When the time comes to restrain King Beijing, I'm afraid I will lose my wife and lose my army .Let the Holy Majesty weigh the trade-offs, is it possible to be comprehensive?"

Lin Mozhi pondered for a moment, only felt that Xue Pan's approach was the most euphemistic and appropriate, and immediately nodded in satisfaction.

Princess Beijing has just passed away, and sister Lin is not yet ready. Even if she really wants to marry again, she will have to wait a year or two later.This matter is not imminent.

Seeing Lin Mozhi's expression, Xue Pan smiled slightly.Immediately, he returned a letter to Tu Zhen with a pen and ink. After reading it carefully, he copied it again before putting it in the bamboo tube and tying it back to the pigeon's foot.

While talking for a while, Zhaocai had already brought breakfast from the cooking camp. After the two of them had a simple meal, they got up and left the tent.

The carrier pigeon was released without a trace, Xue Pan stood in place and only watched the carrier pigeon disappear in the air, then stretched his waist and walked into the school field side by side with Lin Mozhi.

It was a very sunny day in September.The scorching sun hung upside down in the sky, emitting bursts of heat.Although gusts of autumn wind brought a little bit of coolness, the hot weather was still so hot that even the scenery in the field of vision was distorted.

Soldiers in twos and threes around were training around various events. Xue Pan and Lin Mozhi leaned on the horizontal bar beside them and stared blankly for a while, when they suddenly saw a man in regular uniform rushing over from the direction outside the camp. soldiers.He ran straight to the direction of the recruits' camp.

Xue Pan raised his eyebrows, poked Lin Mozhi with his arm and said with a smile: "I don't know which soldier it is, it looks like a panic-stricken chicken, it's really embarrassing!"

Before he could finish a sentence, he suddenly saw more than 30 soldiers who hadn't left the camp coming out of the camp, following the soldier, and walked out aggressively.

Xue Pan raised his eyebrows, and said softly, "Something's wrong! Look at this posture, it seems like you're going to fight."

Lin Mozhi turned his head to look at Xue Pan, and suddenly raised his voice and asked, "You guys come here."

Those soldiers paused and stood there for a long while, looking at each other.It was Lin Mozhi who called out several times before Sisiaiai came over.

Xue Pan lay on the horizontal bar and asked lazily: "Are you guys going to fight?"

The leading soldier immediately put on a smiling face and said, "How is that possible? Fighting is forbidden in the military. How could we know how to break the law. We just want to go outside for a walk."

"Walk around at will?" Lin Mozhi sneered, looked at the excited soldiers who couldn't hide their murderous aura, and said, "As long as you want to kill your father and take your wife, you still say that you are just walking around, who are you kidding?"

Xue Pan put his head on his overlapping shoulders and said with a grin: "You guys better tell the truth. I'm bored too. If you tell the truth, maybe I can help a few times. If you don't report the truth... If The matter has been brought to light, what the king of Nan'an asked, be careful, I will add more oil and vinegar, huh?"

All the soldiers looked terrified, and all looked at the short, red-faced man in the front.

Xue Pan raised his eyebrows and asked, "Song Yishan, tell me!"

Song Yishan had no choice but to say: "We fought with other battalions in the city."

Xue Pan hooked the corners of his mouth, and asked leisurely: "Who is fighting with whom? Why are you fighting? Take a breath first, think carefully, and speak slowly, don't worry, why are you unclear Are you fighting?"

The soldier immediately took two deep breaths, held a military salute and said: "Report to the superior, it is the soldiers from the Artillery Battalion fighting with the soldiers from the Tiger Shark Battalion."

Xue Pan raised his eyebrows, straightened up, and said with interest: "The two battalions are fighting each other, which is a bit interesting. Who did it first?"

Song Yishan gave Xue Pan a timid look.

Xue Pan frowned and said, "Speak quickly, what does it look like to be hesitant?"

Song Yishan immediately lowered his head and said, "We were the ones who made the first move."

Xue Pan slapped his palms together and said softly, "This is more or less the same."

Song Yishan showed a shy look on his face, and continued with a mournful face: "But we lost."

The smile on Xue Pan's face froze, and he said with a pooh: "It's really useless, why did the one who made the first move still lose?"

Song Yishan twisted his neck, and said with an expression of disbelief: "Who knew that a group of veterans could play tricks. It was the five of us who quarreled with the five of them, but when we did it, we didn't know where the Tiger Shark Camp came from." There were so many people that almost surrounded some of our artillery battalion. Five or six of Niang Xipi beat one of us—"

"It's too shameless, don't accept singled out!" Xue Pan said, and hit the soldier hard again, and said insistently: "You are really useless. If you don't investigate the enemy's situation, you will attack rashly. Fortunately, you are still a scout, and you were stepped on by others when you took the initiative to provoke. It’s a shame.”

Lin Mozhi pulled Xue Pan away, glared at him and said, "When will you still care about this?"

After a pause, he asked the soldier with a serious face, "Why did they fight and where are they now?"

A strange blush appeared on Song Yishan's dark face, he lowered his head firmly and did not speak.

Xue Pan squinted his eyes, and sarcastically said: "Why are you pretending to be a lady at this moment, hurry up and say everything."

So Song Yishan lowered his head shyly and said, "The fight in Yichun Courtyard was for...for..."

"To make money for sister Yao!" Xue Pan curled his lips, taking what Song Yishan had to say without any surprise.

Seeing Song Yishan nodded in embarrassment, he couldn't help itching his hands and hit him again, muttering: "Look at how talented you are, fighting for some fans who have been slept with so many times."

Song Yishan immediately said: "Although most of them are for a few fans, they are the ones who first scolded all the soldiers in our artillery battalion as cowards, saying that we are just pugs raised by others, and we have nothing to do for people's entertainment. Saying that we're dumb as pigs doesn't deserve to wear the same clothes as them... We couldn't stand it, so we started fighting."

What Song Yishan didn't say was that the soldiers of the Tiger Shark Battalion not only laughed at them.He still abused Xue Pan indistinctly, and many people who had received Xue Pan's favor couldn't stand it anymore, so they started fighting.

Xue Pan didn't know what was behind Song Yishan's hesitation. Hearing these few words, he suddenly became defensive, and asked with a sinister smile, "You say my soldiers are cowards?"

Song Yishan nodded.

"That my pawns are pugs for fun?"

Song Yishan nodded again.

Xue Pan took a deep breath and said, "It's pretty cool to dare to be arrogant in front of my soldiers!"

Saying that, he waved his hand at Song Yishan and said, "You, lead the way. Let me also experience this group of daring soldiers."

Song Yishan couldn't help being taken aback when he heard the words,

Xue Pan glared at him angrily, and shouted: "Look at your mother's head, don't hurry up."

Song Yishan's body trembled, he couldn't help thinking of Xue Pan's inhuman torture methods, and hurriedly walked ahead with his tail between his legs and led the way.

The whole journey was silent, when everyone arrived at the Yichun Courtyard in the north of Tianjin Weicheng, Xue Pan heard the insults from those old men, and then realized how elegant and gentle Song Yishan's words were.

I just heard a voice like a broken gong shout: "...you recruits were selected by the marshal to make that merchant untouchable happy. You usually huddled in the barracks and catted, and served delicious food and drink Just treat it as a show. Nowadays, five people and six people dare to come out to stand out, and dare to snatch women from your uncle? Pooh, you are just a bunch of pugs shaking their heads and begging for mercy. If you roll around, you just roll one, if you want to call you, you just call him, fuck it twice. Your boss is the thing next to the Holy Majesty, Haba, and you are his thing, Haba, you are all fucking ass-fucking child molesters Xiao Guan, still shamelessly holding his head up and thinking that he is really a master... What kind of artillery battalion, what kind of elite teacher... Pooh, you guys with small arms and legs, skin and tender flesh, are worthy of lying on the bed People make fun of..."

All of a sudden, there was another burst of laughter inside.

A Qingyue voice shouted angrily: "Fuck you, if we go into the sea and fight each other, six or seven of you come up and beat me up, what kind of a hero are you? You dare to speak ill of our boss, be careful if he hears it Exterminate your whole family. With your ability, you are not worthy to carry the shoes of our leader!"

Several other voices also shouted in a hurry.

"No matter what relationship the boss has with the Holy Majesty, he can guarantee that all our military pay is in his hands, which is much better than those black-hearted and money-greedy bosses. You don't care about him, damn Huqin talking nonsense, be careful to touch you at night The battalion is going to strip you naked and hang it on the flagpole..."

At the same time, Xue Pan also brought a group of people into the Yichun Courtyard. After seeing the scene inside, let alone the arrogant Xue Pan, even the self-proclaimed calm Lin Mozhi couldn't help but burst into anger. A man jumped into the hall and violently tore away the bald man who was sitting on the head of the soldier, slapped him with his backhand, and said coldly: "What are you doing, the people in our artillery battalion are also people you can insult ?”

Xue Pan sat down on the side table with a gloomy expression, glanced around, and spoke proudly.

"If you have the ability, report your surnames, whoever you are, and where you are from. If the young master tells you to go on together, I will take your family's surname from now on."