after being kidnapped by the general

After the meal, Yuan Congyun took out the sand table he made.

This sand table is the size of two tables, and the location of the hills, rivers, and dense forests above are extremely detailed, and they can be seen at a glance.

In addition to the terrain, the positions of the Sifang barbarian tribes and the Xiongnu royal court were also marked with flags.

Yuan Congyun rubbed his hands and said, "Mr. Wen, check the location, is it correct? This is drawn by your subordinates from the Grain Institute."

Yuan Li looked carefully and found the hill where he and Jia Qing hid from the Huns cavalry.He nodded and said: "There is almost no mistake."

Chu Hechao immediately gave Yuan Congyun an appreciative look, "Well done."

Yuan Congyun breathed a sigh of relief.

From the sand table, it can be clearly seen how far the King's Court of the Huns is from the northern border.

Yuan Li guessed what Chu Hechao wanted to do, he turned his head to look at Chu Hechao, and asked seriously, "Do you want to fight the Huns?"

Chu Hechao nodded: "That's right."

Yuan Li thought that sure enough, this sand table cannot be made in a short period of time. It is estimated that Chu Hechao had already had the idea of ​​attacking the Xiongnu in his heart.

He asked directly: "When do you plan to fight?"

"Early spring," Chu Hechao said succinctly, "this is the best season to fight the Huns."

That's right, Yuanli nodded in agreement.

The best seasons to attack nomads are winter and spring, especially early spring.

The Huns would hide in winter and give birth to offspring. After the winter ended, their women were pregnant, and the strong laborers had to return to work in the herds. The overall strength was at its weakest.The Xiongnu's cattle, sheep and horses also starved for a whole winter, and the horses were too thin to run. In order to take care of the livestock, the Huns would graze on the vast grasslands. It was difficult for them to organize a strong cavalry to resist Chu Hechao's army .

At this time, it is most beneficial to attack the nomads. The enemy is weak and we are strong.If they could do better, they could use war to destroy the Huns' herds of livestock. Without livestock, the Huns would lose their nomadic advantage and their economic foundation would completely collapse.

Yang Zhongfa also said before that they most wanted to attack the Huns in winter, but unfortunately there was no food and warm clothes, so they could only think about it.Now that they have food reserves for the winter and clothing to keep out the cold, they can try to attack the Xiongnu at the end of winter and early spring, and go straight to the court of the Xiongnu.

It is estimated that Chu Hechao has long been thinking about this matter.

Yuan Li glanced at Chu Hechao, feeling as if he had seen a villain who dared to go out and do mischief when his family was well established.

Chu Hechao twitched his eyebrows, and suddenly turned his head to stare at him, his eyes straightened, "What are you laughing at?"

Yuan Li suppressed the smile at the corner of his mouth, and said solemnly: "You read it wrong."

Chu Hechao narrowed his eyes. If Yuan Congyun was not still here, he would have stepped forward to question him.

The three people's attention was refocused on the sand table, and Yuan Li used his own experience to tell them which way was the safest to take, "If we fight in early spring, the general will set off in a month. How confident is the general in this battle?"

"Basically," Chu Hechao looked down at the sand table with cold eyes, "For the map you desperately brought back, I will give you a big victory. The Huns will eventually move, and the sooner they fight, the harder it is for them to defend against." .”

In fact, Yuan Li didn't feel that the ordeal he suffered when he went deep into the grassland was a grievance, but Chu Hechao felt that he was aggrieved, and when he wanted to stand up for him, he couldn't help raising the corners of his lips, and sonorously supported: "Fight."

Before they beat the Huns, they had to celebrate the new year.

He hadn't spent time with the Yuan family this year, so he found an excuse to spend time alone in Chu Palace with Chu Hechao.

Chu Hechao was unwilling to let Yuanli go back alone every New Year, and Yuanli was also unwilling to leave him alone in the Chu Palace.But Chu Hechao couldn't get along with the people in the Yuan Mansion, and when they sat, one of them always felt uncomfortable.

If the Chinese New Year is not happy, what is the point of living this year?Yuanli secretly visited his parents yesterday, paid New Year's greetings to them in advance, and made it clear that he would not be able to come to Yuanfu during the New Year.

Now that he is Wen Gong, his parents naturally wouldn't say much, they thought that Yuanli would be busy with official duties during the Chinese New Year, so just let him be busy with his own affairs.

Yuan Li still felt a little guilty.

He is not busy with work, but busy with men...

During the Chinese New Year, it will be rare to sleep in for a while.Early in the morning, when Yuan Li was still sleeping on the bed, Chu Hechao woke up.

He looked at the weather outside from the window, and the cold wind instantly refreshed him.Chu Hechao exhaled two breaths of hot air, went out to wash up quietly, and called Yuanli after changing his clothes: "Wake up, I'm going to your home to celebrate the New Year today."

Yuan Li buried his head deeper, facing Chu Hechao with the back of his head.

Chu He was so happy that he reached out and touched Yuan Li's neck.His hands were cold, and as soon as he touched Yuanli, he was terrified from the cold, and he rolled up the quilt in dissatisfaction and hid inside again, "Don't make trouble."

"Yuan Lejun, get up quickly," Chu Hechao bent over, pinched Yuan Li's chin and kissed him, "Hurry up."

The smell of lotus leaves came straight to the nose, and the refreshingness revealed the coldness of winter. Yuan Li said in a daze, "If you don't go to Yuan Mansion for the New Year this year, please let me sleep for a while."

After speaking, he turned over and continued to sleep.

Chu Hechao was stunned, won't he go to Yuan Mansion?

He subconsciously lowered his head to look at the brocade clothes he was wearing, why would he get up so early and dress so well if he didn't go to Yuan Mansion?

The corners of Chu Hechao's mouth twitched, he took off his clothes, got into the bed and hugged Yuan Li, snorted and said, "Did you do it on purpose to tell me that you want to see my jokes?"

Yuan Li was so annoyed that he turned around and kissed Chu Hechao perfunctorily, "Brother, let me sleep for a while."

Chu Hechao stopped talking, slid down his back, and fell asleep with Yuanli.

After this sleep, both of them slept comfortably for another hour and a half, and didn't wake up until almost noon.

When I woke up, I realized that the sky outside had turned cloudy, and it was raining and snowing.

The warmth in the quilt made one feel lazy, Yuan Li didn't want to get up, and finally put on his clothes and got up because he wanted to go to the bathroom.

When he came back, he was shivering from the cold, his nose was red from the cold, he quickly closed the door and said, "It's so cold outside."

"Stay indoors," Chu Hechao rubbed his hands for him, and glanced outside, "Anyway, you don't need to go out today, and it's fine to stay indoors for a day."

But those who celebrate the New Year can't be so perfunctory.Yuanli thought for a while, and asked the kitchen to deliver noodles and fillings, and prepared to make dumplings with Chu Hechao in the house.

The kang bed was burned in the room, and it was warm and harmonious, and the same room and the outside became two worlds.

Before making dumplings, Yuanli took out the gift that he was going to give to Chu Hechao during the Chinese New Year, "Look at it."

The corners of Chu Hechao's mouth raised, his eyes were full of smiles, "What is it?"

Yuan Li smiled mysteriously, "You'll know it when you see it."

Chu Hechao carefully opened the wooden box, and inside was a set of sweaters.

He took it out to have a look, and felt that the style of the clothes was extremely strange, "Is this clothes?"

Yuan Li nodded again and again, and took out another body of the same clothes, "It's clothes. The two of us wear sweaters in the room, so we are comfortable. You should try it on."

The clothes looked really ugly, but his daughter-in-law wore them with him, and Chu Hechao didn't mind, so he changed the clothes under Yuan Li's guidance.

Yuan Li changed his clothes one step ahead of him, and looked at him with a smile, "It looks good."

Chu Hechao was overjoyed by the compliment, and leaned forward to kiss him, "You look good too."

Although the clothes are strange, they are very comfortable to wear.Loose and close-fitting, much more convenient than wearing a robe.

The fillings and dough are all prepared in the kitchen.After Yuanli took Chu Hechao to make a few dumplings, Chu Hechao started to do it.It's just that the bag was so ugly, crooked, that he couldn't even stand up, so Yuan Li laughed at him for a long time.

Chu Hechao clicked his tongue, "As long as you can eat it, it doesn't matter if it looks good or not."

The words are not rough, Yuanli let him go.

The appearance of these two people sitting at the table talking and making dumplings is too familiar. Yuanli occasionally glanced at the modern sweaters and trousers on himself and Chu Hechao from the corner of his eye. The feeling of going back in time to the afterlife.

Yuanli, who hadn't known how to explain his background to Chu Hechao before, suddenly felt the desire to talk. He took the chopsticks and put the stuffing into the dough, and chatted authentically: "Brother, I had a dream when I was young." .”

Chu Hechao carefully pinched the dumpling skin, "What dream?"

"It's a very magical and real dream," Yuan Li smiled. "Aren't you always curious about where I learned about raising soldiers, sand tables, and fine salt? These are learned from dreams. In that dream Here, my parents died early, and I was adopted by my father's fellow villagers..."

As he listened, Chu Hechao put down the things in his hands and looked at Yuanli intently.

The cold wind outside the door whistled, and the trees in the courtyard rustled from time to time.It's like howling ghosts and wolves, but it can't shake the small warm yellow candle light in the house.

Yuan Li spoke intermittently, as if telling a story.After he finished speaking, the dumplings were cooked, and his mouth was dry.

Chu Hechao put a bowl of dumpling water by his hand, and Yuan Li took a few mouthfuls of it, looking at Chu Hechao with bright eyes, half proud and half curious, "How about it, the world in my dream Is it wonderful? How do you feel?"

Chu Hechao hesitated for a moment, then asked cautiously: "Do you want to listen to the truth?"

Yuan Li's eyelids twitched, "...What are the lies?"

Chu Hechao said with the same expression, "Wonderful."

"..." Yuanli's head started to hurt, he rubbed his forehead, and looked at what else Chu Hechao could say, "What is the truth?"

Chu Hechao said honestly, "I don't understand."

It was okay at the beginning, Yuanli would explain what a car is and what is nine-year compulsory education while talking to Chu Hechao, but after Yuanli talked more and more, he completely ignored explaining various terms to Chu Hechao Well, Chu Hechao listened to "skyscrapers", "satellites", "television sets"... the more he listened, the more confused he became.

Who can understand this?

No matter how smart Chu Hechao is, he can recognize every word and remember every sentence in his mind, but there are only three or four words in Yuan Li's sentence, he knows what it means, even a saint can't understand it here .

"The 'computer' and 'flush toilet' you mentioned..." Chu Hechao said these awkward words with difficulty, "What are they?"

Electricity is thunder and the brain is the brain, he knows.Then this "computer" is the brain that has been electrified?

Chu Hechao had a weird expression, his wife likes this thing?

Yuanli: "..."

He pressed his forehead silently, took deep breaths repeatedly, and said to himself silently in his heart: Don't be angry, don't be angry, there is no one to replace your body when you are angry...

But after all, he couldn't help it anymore, Yuan Li raised his head and looked at Chu Hechao complicatedly: "You should be able to understand."

Isn't that how it's done in novels, movies, and TV dramas?Why didn't Chu Hechao play his cards according to common sense?

Chu Hechao said helplessly, "I really don't understand."

Yuan Li was on the verge of wilting, all the passion he had just turned into ashes, he lay down on the table and said weakly: "Forget it."

Chu Hechao sighed, and pulled Yuan Li into his arms.Yuan Li was pulled to sit on his lap, his legs were spread apart, and his arm rested listlessly on Chu Hechao's shoulder.

Chu Hechao held Yuanli's face and coaxed, "I'm too stupid to understand what you said. Can you explain it to me again in detail?"

Yuan Li shook his head lightly, frustrated, "After all, I can't express what I saw in my dream with words."

Chu Hechao felt a pain in his heart, and he even spoke kindly, "Although I don't understand what your dream city looks like, I do understand one thing."

Yuanli: "What?"

"You missed it, didn't you?" Chu Hechao said.

Tears welled up in Yuan Li's eyes almost instantly, he couldn't speak, so he nodded.

Chu Hechao's warm palm stroked Yuanli's cheek over and over again, it was painful and itchy, he apologized to Yuanli in a low voice: "I am ashamed that I can't use your eyes to see the scene in the dream, so that you can't find someone Those who communicate with you miss that place together. But Le Jun, you can tell me your thoughts freely, whether I can understand or not, but I feel it."

He gently pressed Yuanli's head down, kissed Yuanli's forehead, and said with a sigh: "As long as you don't leave me suddenly and disappear in a dream, that's fine."

Yuan Li's eyes were sour, and after a while, he leaned over and kissed Chu Hechao.

Will not.

Yuanli thought, no way.

Because he has already found the place where the wind and rain stopped in the long time and space.

Years later, the days quickly picked up.

The northern and southern leaders of Karasuma, Dadan and Puyan, have received Chu Hechao's order to help them attack the Xiongnu. They each ordered troops and expressed their views positively.

Dadan was old, and now it was difficult for him to eat and walk, so he sent his valued son to lead the army.Pu Yan was much better than him, and he led the troops himself.

The Karasuma people, like the Huns, were just about to graze their livestock and recuperate in early spring, and in the end only [-] idle cavalry were recruited.

The [-] Karasuma cavalry also needed Yuanli to provide food, because after a winter of only going in and out, the Karasuma people really couldn't get together the food for the army to go out.

After Yuanli thought about it, they had a reason to attack the Huns, but in fact, it was a thankless task for them to attack the Huns, because even if the Huns were beaten and fled north, he and Chu Hechao would not have any official titles. You can get promoted, the most you can do is to earn some good reputation.That being the case, it is better to distribute some of the credit and let others do the hard work, so as to save them trouble.

Thinking of this, he sent a letter to Lu He in Liangzhou, inviting Lu He to attack the Huns together.