[Comprehensive] The days when I pretended to be a meow in the Forbidden City

Bai Jinxi's eyes were dark, just like every day these days, his inner strength circulated in Xia Anran's body and then returned to his own body. After one or two cycles, he felt Xia Anran's hands slowly warming up.

Xia Anran's internal energy can indeed function when he is not around. He is talented and intelligent, and his bones are good, but helplessly, his body is like a big ice cube that is constantly glowing with cold air. The more he exercises, the colder he feels.

Regarding this strange phenomenon, Bai Jinxi didn't know why.

He could only judge that this was the effect of Xia Anran's inner strength practice.

Combined with the subconsciously written internal energy in his novels, after discussion, everyone unanimously judged that it was written by his subconscious mind (Xia Anran: No, I don’t think so) precisely because of the nature of his internal energy, Although Xia Anran lost his memory, he still wrote out the nature of internal force.

But also because of this, Xia Anran, who was already afraid of the cold, naturally didn't want to practice martial arts even more.

What's more, he never developed this habit, naturally he often forgets it, and as a result, he is shivering under the quilt, relying on Bai Jinxi to conduct internal energy to keep warm every time.

Bai Jinxi's inner energy belongs to yang, he was born in an orthodox sect, and he practiced freely, he is a boy's skill, so he often makes Xia Anran feel comfortable and drowsy during the exercise.

Bai Ershao could already feel that the other's fingertips in the hands of the two had been slightly loosened, so he had no choice but to say, "Brother Xia, don't sleep."

"Hmm..." The person he reminded tightened his fingers, but the whole person was already dazed, and he couldn't even yawn.

Seeing this, Second Young Master Bai could only squeeze his hand and "meditate."

...I'm already very quiet!Really!

It's strange to say that Xia Anran is particularly prone to sleepiness when she sleeps on the bed.He attributed it to the fact that the smell of Bai Jinxi on the bed reassured him.

At this time, Xia Anran struggles between chatting before going to bed and dreaming, the pain is no less than that of getting up in winter and going to bed.

Seeing that the people next to him were still chattering, Xia Anran straightened his waist and threw his upper body on the person. His forehead hit Bai Jinxi's shoulder blade hard, and neither of them felt any pain. A little shock.

Bai Jinxi turned his head in astonishment, only to find that the man stopped moving after bumping into him, with his swarthy head resting on his shoulder, and his breathing was long and long.

He fell asleep.

Lying on him, the two were still holding hands, and he fell asleep just like that.

If it wasn't for his calm mind and his calmness under the shock, the two of them would probably go mad at this time.

The man turned his head and looked up at the roof, calmly brought out Xia Anran's inner breath, and then withdrew his own inner strength, but for some reason, he stretched his five fingers, and did not let go of Xia Anran's hand like before, and the two remained in touch. The movement of interlocking fingers remains unchanged.

His eyes flickered, and he only revealed some emotions under the cover of night.

The matter of lacquer wax, the matter of candle lamps, and all the previous things, even today he unconditionally believes that he can win against Lu Xiaofeng, who is extremely good at pointing kung fu...Why?

He doesn't have to ask, because he already knows the answer.

Xia Anran had already told him on the first day.

At that time, the young man told him in a voice that was indistinct due to extreme sleepiness - because, I am happy with you.

This scene was extremely familiar, and between shadows, he seemed to be able to hear a young man with a more immature voice say to him... the word Xinyue.

Trust a stranger here just because you like it?

Entrust your life, your property, and the way to make money?

This kind of trust... the giver pays lightly, but the recipient is hard to calm down.

Especially with his status.

Bai Jinxi slightly raised his hand, pointed to the wind and knocked down a sachet hanging between the window curtains, and then the sachet fell to the corner of the room under the push of the second finger.

Then he half got up, gently moved Xia Anran's head back to his own pillow, and then tucked in the quilt for him, covering his shoulders in it.

As for the connected hands... He hesitated a little, but still didn't let go.

The room was quiet, except for the sounds of the three cubs sleeping under the bed smacking their mouths contentedly, and the mother dog occasionally licking the cubs when she woke up.

With another sigh, he buried himself in it.

The first snow in Jinhua this winter fell profusely before the Chinese New Year.

Originally, everyone had already entered the preparatory stage before the Chinese New Year, but after the snow fell, they directly entered the state of cat winter, and even the pedestrians walking on the street were much less.

Jinhua is located in the south, the winter is not very cold, and the snow is not deep, so for the Jinhua people, the snowfall is not so much a sign of auspicious snow for a good year, but rather just telling them that winter is really coming.

It's time for the stove to cook the broth!

This year, the Bai family has become much more lively because of two more people celebrating the New Year together.

Although Bai Jintang didn't say anything, he could get a glimpse of it from his attitude of making people wantonly buy new year's goods and stockpile food for the new year.

There is no hostess in the Bai family, so all the gift lists during the New Year's Eve are written by Brother Bai. These things began to be drafted after he waited for the boat, and it was not finalized until Jinhua handed over all the account books for the past few months. transcribe.

Because the person who needs to give gifts suddenly has another Jiangnan Hua family who has just established contact, the time is a bit tight.

In the matter of giving New Year gifts, one-sided delivery is called flattery, and both parties send it back and forth together, which is called friendship.

Giving gifts in such a haste, if one is not careful, it will be an enemy. Therefore, Bai Jintang must personally check the gift list and the quality of the gifts one by one, for fear that there will be an unnecessary enemy due to a momentary omission.Therefore, he has been a little irritable these few days. Fortunately, his second brother is good at copying, so he helped him share some work.

In addition to the gift list, you also need to write a New Year's greeting card.

New Year's card is a special product invented in the Tang Dynasty and is popular today. However, during New Year's festivals, subordinates to superiors, juniors to seniors, or relatives and in-laws will visit each other. However, there are only seven days on national holidays. Except for the three or four days that we have to stay at home, there is not enough time. It would be embarrassing if we meet someone during New Year's greetings, so there is a New Year's greetings card.

Usually it is written in advance, and sent by the servant to the other party's house, it is regarded as New Year's greetings.

Of course, whether the other party sees or not... Cough, just like the modern group texting, this is also a matter of not seeking merit but only fault, as long as it is thoughtful.

Normally, Big Brother Bai wouldn't be so nervous. The annual ceremony would be prepared two or three months in advance, but this time there are suddenly more Hua family members. .

The Bai family is okay, but the Hua family is even more troublesome. I'm afraid they will have to send letters back when they leave the gate of the Bai family to send out the New Year gift.

Of course, when the seventh child of the Hua family and his little friend had just stepped out of the Bai family, the preparations for their New Year's gift were also hurriedly started. If they worked fast, they would probably arrive in Hangzhou a day or two later than when they arrived home.

Fortunately, the Bai family is in business. If they meet other families, those who have stock can allocate some, even if they are wronged, they have to allocate it. Some of them were taken out of the gift and put together or bought with a lot of money.

None of this has anything to do with the children of the Bai family.

The so-called children refer to Bai Yutang, the third young master of the Bai family who celebrates the [-]th Chinese New Year, and his teacher Xia Anran.

The time for the letter of appointment between the Bai family and Xia Anran was until next year when the Bai family went north, which was originally about April, but because of the departure of Bai Yutang's magical pen, it was delayed back and forth, and suddenly it was only March.

Considering that Bai Yutang will take the martial arts exam next year, the two of them started the heavy study work after he rested.

When Bai Sanshao was not at home, Xia Anran was not completely doing his own thing, he still prepared lessons well, although he really didn't understand why Bai Jinxi hired him as a teacher when Bai's family had him. The Second Young Master might leave home for work at any time, and he couldn't stay for that long, but after he asked directly, Second Young Master Bai told him very straightforwardly that his vacation was until the Ching Ming Festival, and he would go north with them at that time.

This news was too shocking, Xia Anran, who was just asking casually at the time, couldn't control the force of biting the apple and took a bite. The pain of the upper and lower teeth attacking each other immediately made his face change color, and he almost burst into tears.

The New Year’s leave in the Northern Song Dynasty is the same as that of the descendants, only seven days, but later it was changed to five days because of Bao Zheng’s advice. At first, he thought that Bai Jinxi was transferred from an official position, and during this period, there would be a relatively long period for officials to go home and take up their posts. But when Bai Jinxi said that he wanted to go back to Bianjing with them, that was very delicate.

Xia Anran's eyes glanced at Bai Jinxi calmly, and that look was probably - what happened to you?Have you been suspended for investigation?

Bai Jinxi couldn't calm down when he was stared at with thorny eyes, he couldn't help but say: Is my task just to watch you?

Naturally, he couldn't tell, so he could only pretend that he couldn't see it, and sipped his tea quietly.

Such an attitude caused Xia Anran to basically affirm his inner thoughts, and suddenly felt pity in his heart, hey, their family Shen Tongzhi and General Cao are so wise and mighty, they did not expect to be suspended for investigation in the Song Dynasty...

This world that emphasizes civility over martial arts is really unfriendly to generals!

You have to think of a way, think about Di Qing of the Northern Song Dynasty and Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty. If these two celestial geniuses were placed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, they must be the favorites in the eyes of His Majesty and the Lord, and they are definitely the type favored by resources.

But of these two people in the Song Dynasty, one died in depression, and the other was killed by his own people.

Regardless of whether the two made a mistake during the march or their positions in the hall, Xia Anran always believed that standing behind the hero should be the person they want to protect.rather than their enemies.

Swords should never be stabbed from behind.

After pondering for a while, he sighed softly. In the Song Dynasty, if he wanted to protect a soldier...it was not a little trouble.

All his previous experience is not available here, because of the turmoil in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Wu is the best, and it is even more courageous to stop fighting and become Wu.

People are proud of having soldiers in their homes.

The wife is proud that her husband joined the army.

The son took Xiao's father to kill the enemy as a brave man.

The trend of all the people joining the army did not fade away until the little emperor took power for 20 years, focusing on the development of people's livelihood, but thanks to the rapid economic development of the Han Dynasty, the perfect smelting technology and grain-making technology, all the youngsters later wanted to take it The new armament went out for a walk.

In the past, he only had the experience of suppressing children not to fight and reducing the number of armed forces, but he didn't have the trouble of thinking about how to protect the military officer among civil servants.

Could it be...to become an official?

But even if he became an official, depending on the situation, Bai Jinxi had already joined the job. Even if he got the first prize, he still had to start from a small official, let alone if he got the first prize?

of course not!

This was the Song Dynasty, during the reign of Renzong, when there were many celebrities. Even though he had an excellent memory, he still had to write poetry in the Northern Song Dynasty exam.

Things like writing poetry... Cough, Xia Anran has lived for so many years, and has never left any burden for future generations.

In his eyes, mountains are mountains, not beauties, not warriors, not obstacles, not all kinds of things that can be associated by poets.

So he is a complete and hopeless realist.

So writing poetry... It is better to write two more proposals when you have time to write poetry!

Bai Yutang raised his head vigilantly, glanced at Master Xia who was scribbling furiously over there, and felt that a burst of murderous aura had erupted from this Master just now.

He looked at the book in his hand, and frowned slightly. He could indeed understand the reason for Mr. Xia's irascibility, so he also sighed silently.

Startled by the soft sigh, Xia Anran looked over, and then met Ruo Guanyu, a handsome young man staring at the book, with a very bitter and bitter expression on his face.

He blinked slightly, thinking that Bai Yutang's patience was about to run out, so he got up and took out a terrain disk from his room.

This terrain plate is made of clay and is extremely rough. This map is roughly based on the Huaxia map in Xia Anran's memory, combined with the modern terrain, it should not be very different from the Northern Song Dynasty.

If you want to ask, it can be said that it is written in travel notes, because the topography is only rough, and most of them are based on Wu Liushu. It is not so much a topographic map of the Song Dynasty as a rough explanation based on books and facts. Just a picture.

But just looking at this entire topographic map is shocking enough.

Xia Anran took out another red frame and handed it to Bai Jintang who was curiously surrounded by the topographical map, and said, "I see that Sanlang has learned so well that I have nothing to say. Sanlang is so knowledgeable that the provincial examination will not be a problem."

Hearing this compliment, Bai Yutang couldn't help but feel embarrassed. He was extremely comfortable with the compliment, so he coughed lightly and got up and said, "Thank you sir, the student still has a lot to learn."

Xia Anran nodded, and he handed the red-painted wooden frame to Bai Yutang, "Sanlang, let's take a look at this topographic map."

"Sun Tzu said that the most important thing in battle is Tao, heaven, earth, generals, and law."

"Tao, the way of the emperor."

"General, the general who leads the army."

"Law, the law of the army."

"I don't know any of these three, and I can't teach Saburo. There are only heaven and earth, and I can still teach them together. Saburo listens and asks, so there is no need to be restrained."

After finishing speaking, he gently placed the red frame on the area of ​​Hebei and Henan. Seeing that Bai Yutang's eyes widened, and then his whole body changed from lazy to energetic, he coughed lightly, "Let's talk about it." The Battle of Guandu at the end of the Han Dynasty."

Bai Sanshao choked, he turned his head and changed his exuberant expression just now, glanced at him again and again, Xia Anran pulled out a bamboo stick without changing his face, and slapped it in his hand.

This crisp sound made Bai Yutang shiver, and then he listened seriously.

Naturally, there is a reason for Bai Yutang's attitude. The battle against Guandu launched by Cao Cao and Yuan Shao at the end of the Han Dynasty overlaps with the current Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures. Therefore, at the beginning, Bai Yutang must have thought that Xia Anran was going to attack Guandu. What I was talking about with him was the Yanyun Sixteen States.

But not.

The repeated failures of the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun did not lie in the command or the generals, but in the army bureaucracy of the entire Song Dynasty, as well as the Western Regions and Northern Borders, which were rising too fast.

During the reign of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was definitely a lot of military equipment, and it could even be said that the military equipment of the Song Dynasty was the highest. Even compared with other dynasties, the number was not bad, but even so, it barely kept the results of the battle, and it still failed to prevent Xixia from becoming a country.

Why?

Ignoring what should be taken care of, and meddling what should not be taken care of. The Song Dynasty marched forward, and the surrounding countries jumped forward. This is the reason why the Song Dynasty's Northern Expedition failed repeatedly, but he could not tell the children about this issue.

Xia Anran took out a small plate, and put some bamboo sticks with small flags of different colors on it, as well as some arrows of different colors, and he put these on the side, "If you want to practice soldiers, you can find them on paper." Zhong Qian, I still have to give it a try, Sanlang must know the story of the Battle of Guandu, right?"

Bai Yutang nodded. He fiddled with these small toys with his fingertips, and found that besides Cao and Yuan, there were also some numbers written on them. What is this?

"In the Battle of Guandu, Cao's army gave 20 grams to Yuan's [-]. The main reason was to burn his food and grass." Xia Anran pointed to the paper he brought together and said, "With the Yellow River as the boundary, the south of the Yellow River is Cao, and the North of the Yellow River is Yuan. , You and I have the same armament, the same baggage, the same number of catapults, donkeys and horses, why don't Sanlang come with me to repeat this official crossing battle?"

"Okay!" Bai Yutang is a young man who likes martial arts the most. He is naturally happy to hear that this method is so interesting. Next, he listened carefully to Xia Anran's competition method, and heard him talk about the special features of each unit. Function, and how to destroy food and grass, I feel eager to fight.

What's more, he felt that the terrain along the Yellow River was flat and there was no place to ambush. This game was determined to be head-to-head, which was extremely simple, as long as the army charged.

Seeing him like this, Xia Anran only smiled lightly, the grid under his red frame unfolded, covering the map indistinctly, "Do you know how to play chess?"

"Of course, sir, please let the horse come."

Xia Anran glanced lightly over the small flag tightly held in his hand, and curled her lips.

His eyes drooped, and he looked at this piece of land he was very familiar with. "Then, let's fight."

In the Northern Song Dynasty, two meals were still used, and some wealthy families or busy families practiced three meals, with dinner as the most important thing.

The Bai family is like this, the family can only meet together at night, and in Xia Anran's habit, dinner is the most important thing, under his leadership, the chefs of the Bai family gradually put their focus on dinner .

On this day only, Big Brother Bai was the only one at the dinner table.

After standing alone for a while, he couldn't help but pull someone to ask.

It turned out that Second Young Master Bai had come to have dinner, but seeing that Third Young Master and Xia Anran were not there, he went to find someone, but he never came back.First Young Master Bai frowned. He felt that the second and third younger brothers in his family were reliable people. As for Brother Xia...cough.

Can't say.

So he also got up and went looking for someone.

The whereabouts of his two younger brothers and Xia Anran were very obvious, as soon as he arrived in the courtyard, he heard his younger brother's annoyed voice.

Ok?

Brother Bai frowned, his calm and proud younger brother...how could he make such a tone, and after a while he heard the second younger brother say with a smile, "Third brother, let me go."

Brother Bai immediately calmed down. Since the second brother is competing with the third brother, it is very normal for the third brother to lose!

So the elder brother gently knocked on the door, and it was Xia Anran who opened the door, and the two brothers in the room were fighting fiercely.

Bai Yutang's cheek was drawn with another cross by Bai Jinxi, and the number of crosses increased to four. Xia Anran also had one on his cheek, on the left side, and Bai Jinxi also had it on his face, but it was on the right.

Seeing that it was Bai Jintang who came to knock on the door, Xia Anran was so embarrassed that she turned sideways to let someone in.

At this time, the two brothers of the Bai family were standing in the hall, and they were both facing the game map that Xia Anran had tinkered with. The little brother Bai was pulling out the chess pieces he inserted on the map bit by bit, pulling out while Listen to Bai Jinxi analyzing the strategic intention of every step for him.

In terms of war experience and sense of smell, even though Bai Yutang was young and talented, he was still very talented, but he still lacked some experience in military books on paper.

But his formation is full of aura, and he dares to rush. When he first fought Xia Anran, Xia Anran understood his temper, and played a long-term battle with him. people.

In fact, this kind of small model is an upgraded version of the courtiers' exercises after the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is a small casual toy. This is a turn-based military game made by Xia Anran for students to play. It has almost all the military types that the Eastern Han Dynasty has today. It is simple and clear. The cooldown time divides the new arrival time of each service.

For example, light cavalry can move two squares at a time, heavy infantry can move one square in two rounds, and so on.

In fact, there is no precise scientific basis, but it can give children who play games a general understanding, and it is the same as why many tutorials that only universities in other countries have are placed in middle and high schools. The essence of this game is to screen out Some children who are gifted in the military.

Some children who have no interest in the military are also screened out.

In later generations, this game also has a national league, and the topographic map is determined by the official immediately, and it is different every time. The geographical conditions are not limited to the topography of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but also involve the Guishuang Empire, or the countries of the Western Regions.

Of course, its terrain is only seven or eight parts like, exactly like... that is not the case.After all, we are big men who love peace, so we don't do things like secretly looking at other people's maps.if similar?Pure coincidence, don't you believe it?What else do you want?What do you think of drawing an accurate version after we personally sent troops to measure it?

Anyone who has not played this game in the Eastern Han Dynasty is really outdated.

Although Xia Anran is not good at playing Go, he is still good at it.

And Xia Anran's advantage of playing games for decades has only been maintained here for four rounds. When Bai Jinxi figured out how to play this game and fully understood the rules of the game, Xia Anran immediately suffered a defeat.

That's right, the fork on Bai Er Shao's face is precisely because of losing to Xia Anran.

And the cross on Xia Anran's face was also because of losing to Bai Jinxi.

As for the look on the face of Third Young Master Bai, um, needless to say, Third Young Master Bai, who was repeatedly hit by his teacher and brother, did not lose his fighting spirit. The knowledge learned in it is integrated into it.

Although the game is a simple turn-based system, and Xia Anran itself has been simplified a lot, but its skeleton is still there.

In fact, there was another item in the game itself in the Eastern Han Dynasty-that is, the scoring of soldiers.

This aspect will be scored by professional soldiers from the perspective of the battlefield. This scoring standard is related to the death rate of soldiers and the utilization rate of supplies, but because there is no such thing here, Xia Anran originally thought that Bai Yutang would use pile damage way to win the game.

This is a mistake that beginners and laymen can easily make, because in their view, these numbers are just numbers, not human lives.

They don't think about how their remaining troops will win in the next battle after this round is over, and they don't care how to explain to the coach after such a heavy loss. So before being impeached, Xia Anran just listened to Cao Chun. After saying this sign, an infinite pattern was added.

The way to win this move is to see who can hold on, and who can hold on.

Explain all this to young people, living in a relatively peaceful era, they will not understand, and they will not be able to understand what the fall of the small flag with a unit of 1000 people means. Just like modern people tell you that 1000 people were killed, you have no idea. Only by telling you that is the number of people in a whole school can you imagine how tragic it was.

This is the happiness of children in peaceful times, and it is also an obstacle to training soldiers.

However, this is a game, and Xia Anran has no intention of complicating it.

For games, just use the game method to solve it, there is no need to go online.

Xia Anran originally thought about how to teach Bai Yutang if he really went astray, but fortunately, Bai Yutang did not have such an idea.

His chess moves are mainly based on the righteous way, and he also defends the way. He has both offense and defense.

It can be seen that his character puts straightforwardness first, does not use temptations, does not set traps, and goes straight to the point.

Xia Anran had been watching from the sidelines when he was fighting Bai Jinxi, and he was keenly aware that it was not that Bai Yutang knew no tricks, it was just that he disdained them.

Here is the youthful heart.

Also, not enough was lost.

Only when you have lost what you don't want to lose, will you be conservative.

But this is why the big man used these young people back then, because they were the sharpest spears.

As long as it has not been polished, I am afraid that when assassinating the enemy, it is easy to injure yourself.

Xia Anran saw it, and Bai Jinxi naturally saw it too.

Under the watchful eyes of Bai Jintang, Second Brother Bai pressed on step by step, scheming to lure him, and scheming to lure him. For a while, the inexperienced Bai Sanshao couldn't tell what was true and what was false, and he hesitated endlessly. In the end, he still followed Do things from the heart - attack first.

As a result, his old nest was taken away, and another stroke was added to his face.

Seeing this, Big Brother Bai hurriedly called a stop, telling the three men in the house to hurry up to eat, if they didn't go, they would have to order hot food again, since Chinese New Year is almost here, it's better not to let the kitchen work hard.

Bai Yutang stood up resentfully, and followed his elder brother teacher out of the room, all the way in silence without saying a word.

Seeing him like this, the two elder brothers knew that the younger brother's self-esteem was damaged, so they deliberately stopped discussing the matter, and instead turned the topic to the annual ceremony. When the class was held the next day, Xia Anran obviously noticed that Bai Yutang listened more seriously to the class, especially Began to inquire about the strategy of war.

This was also within Mr. Xia's expectations, but it didn't make him feel proud.

On the contrary, Bai Jinxi often moves this topographic map into the room at night and puts it on the stage to study something, Xia Anran doesn't know it well.

He knew Bai Jinxi quite well. Even though time has changed, his identity, education and vision are different, but this man is a warrior of the Han Dynasty, a brave and invincible general of the Han Dynasty.

Xia Anran lay on the bed, casually touched the hairy bellies of two little milk leopards that jumped onto the bed, and his eyes were fixed on Bai Jinxi who was lighting up the lamp and simulating the terrain.

The terrain he focused on rehearsing is naturally a scar that will last forever in the hearts of all Song people, and it is the land that has roared for more than [-] years after being split apart-Sixteen States of Yanyun.