Do you know: I’m Xu Jiazi

Da Zhou Bian Jing

The beginning of the hour of Xu (after 7pm)

The night is as blue as water, with stars dotted everywhere

Quyuan Street

The Mansion of the Marquis of Yongyi

In a courtyard in the mansion,

the lanterns hanging under the eaves illuminated the ground, walls and eaves nearby, and one could vaguely see the words "ancestral hall" on the plaque at the door.

In the place where the lanterns could not reach a little further away, autumn insects were chirping "ququ. ququ".

The chirping of insects made the courtyard even quieter.

In the house in the middle of the courtyard,

a bright candlelight came out of the house, illuminating the ground outside the threshold.

In the night not far from the ground at the door,

two lanterns with the word "Xu" were being carried by someone and approached the door.

When they came to the bright part of the door,

they were two well-dressed mothers, carrying bamboo baskets in their hands, following a woman in light-colored gorgeous clothes, and walked over the threshold.

About half a quarter of an hour later.

A small piece of paper ash was blown into the air by the green smoke and floated out of the door.

Looking into the house, rows of bright candles were lit in the ancestral hall,

which made the candlelight in the house very sufficient, illuminating the forest of tablets behind the drawn curtains.

In front of the tablets was an offering table,

on which were fruits and incense burners with incense sticks.

In front of the offering table,

the eldest lady of the Marquis's Mansion, Sun, and her two close friends, Zhu and Dan, knelt on the futon.

Sun held a thin fire stick in her hand and fiddled with the yellow paper in the brazier in front of her.

Looking at the bright flames in the brazier, Sun whispered: "Today is Double Ninth Festival. Grandfather-in-law, grandmother, ancestors, now the husband and children are away on the battlefield, please bless them."

"The battlefield is dangerous and the swords are blind. If there is anyone who can send a dream to the husband and children, please help my daughter-in-law to tell them more."

"Now An'er, who is married, is pregnant. May she give birth to a boy."

Looking at the paper ashes flying everywhere in the green smoke, Zhu Mama behind Sun said: "Madam, look! The ancestors are happy."

Dan Mama on the side echoed: "Yes! Look at the ashes flying so high."

Sun nodded happily.

Sun talked a lot more, and when she wanted to get up after bowing her head, her knees were numb.

It was only with the help of the two close mothers behind her that she stood up.

She bowed to the tablets in the ancestral hall again, and then Sun led people out of the ancestral hall.

After leaving the courtyard,

Sun looked up at the stars in the sky and walked towards her own courtyard.

In the mistress's courtyard,

Sun had just taken a sip of throat-soothing soup on the Luohan bed,

a maid shouted outside the door: "Madam, the gatekeeper in the front yard has sent a letter."

As she said that,

the maid walked in with something in her hands.

"It's so late, why is there a letter?"

Listening to Sun's words, the maid said: "I heard from the gatekeeper that this letter came with the letter entering the palace."

Sun nodded, took a sealed wooden box from the bamboo mother who delivered it, and hurriedly opened it.

After a moment, Sun said: "Go, call Dalang's family."

"Yes, Madam."

Half a minute later,

Xie and Hualan came to the hall together.

Hualan looked at her mother-in-law and smiled, "Mother-in-law, I think Xiaowu's homework has probably been sent, so I came here with my sister-in-law."

"Give it to the master tonight and ask him to take it to the school tomorrow."

Mrs. Sun smiled and nodded, "Come, sit down first. Is Zai Zhang still in the study?"

Hualan nodded with some heartache and emotion.

Mrs. Sun: "This is not bad, at least he is more diligent than before."

Mrs. Sun took the envelope from the wooden box and handed it to Xie: "Da Lang's family, this is the letter sent back by your master."

Mrs. Xie took the envelope a little embarrassed, opened it and read it carefully.

Mrs. Sun took out a thick envelope with the word "homework" written on it, took it out and handed it to Hualan: "Hualan, come, just like before, take a look first, and then give me comments."

After that,

Mrs. Sun took out the letter written by her master to her and read it.

"Pah!"

Madam Sun slapped the letter on the table.

Hua Lan, who was looking at Xu Zai Jing's homework, raised her head and looked at her mother-in-law who was a little angry.

Mrs. Xie also put down the letter with some surprise on her face.

"Mother-in-law, what's wrong?"

Mrs. Sun exhaled and waved her hand to indicate that it was okay. After drinking a sip of soup, she looked at her two daughters-in-law and said, "The Marquis told me that Xu Zai Jing is going to the scout team!"

"Ah? This is too dangerous!"

Mrs. Xie frowned and said.

Mrs. Sun shook her head and said, "It really makes me worry! Now that we have received the letter, maybe Xu Zai Jing has already followed his cousin to explore several times! The Marquis didn't stop him!"

Hearing this, Hua Lan and Mrs. Xie looked at each other.

Seeing Xie's eyes looking at the letter in her hand for several times, Hualan glanced at the letter and said with inspiration: "Mother-in-law, look at the words written by Xiaowu's homework, there is a lot of excitement on the battlefield!"

Madam Sun: "Really? Let me see."

Hualan hurriedly said yes, pointing to Xu Zaijing's homework and talking about it.

Listening to Hualan's evaluation, Madam Sun nodded continuously.

After speaking, Hualan winked at her sister-in-law again.

Mrs. Xie understood, picked up the porcelain bowl filled with soup and came to Mrs. Sun's side and said: "Mother-in-law, we have many ladies coming to us with their daughters in the polo field today. Which girl are you looking at?" Better?”

Mrs. Sun took the porcelain bowl, took a sip and thought for a while, "Speaking of which, the two girls from the Chai family and the Rong family are the ones who stand out the most! They are really good-looking and have good tempers."

Xie and Hua Lan nodded in approval.

Mrs. Xie then said: "Mother-in-law, my daughter-in-law was so angry when she came home today that she was so angry that she forgot to ask you."

"Why do you see Miss Feiyan of the Rong family and the daughter-in-law of the Dou family getting close to each other? Are their two families related to each other?"

Mrs. Sun raised her eyebrows: "I heard from Mrs. Wu that the Dou family, the auxiliary prince, intends to marry the Rong family."

Xie and Hualan pretended to have just found out, with panicked expressions on their faces.

Subsequently,

Mrs. Sun talked happily with her daughters-in-law about the gossip she heard from Mrs. Wu.

After talking for a while, Madam Sun excused herself to being tired and asked her daughters-in-law to go back to the courtyard.

After leaving the mother's courtyard,

Hua Lan and Xie walked side by side.

"Sister-in-law, do you think my mother-in-law has been distracted by us?"

Mrs. Xie nodded: "Looking at my mother-in-law gossiping, I'm not so angry anymore."

Hua Lan: "It's true, father-in-law, why do you write everything in the letter? You're so far away, and you don't know how to lie!"

Mr. Xie nodded in agreement.

The two daughters-in-law of the Xu family left the hall.

Mrs. Sun turned her head and looked at the letter on the table that said Xu Zaijing wanted to be a scout, and sighed heavily.

Under the same starry sky,

Yongyihou’s army is stationed,

In the camp,

There was a candle burning in a tent,

Qingyun walked in with a food box in one hand and a baggage in the other.

"Young Master, there are rice cakes and a few pomegranates sent by the marquis' personal soldiers! This package was brought to you by the eldest son, saying it was sent from Beijing."

Behind the simple wooden table,

Xu Zaijing, who was sitting on the high chair with a writing brush, hummed without raising his head and continued to write intently.

Qingyun placed the food box under the wooden table, walked aside and put the baggage away, and then started to help Xu Zaijing make the bed.

About half an hour later,

Xu Zaijing put down his brush and looked at his homework carefully again. After checking that it was correct, he folded it and put it aside.

After pinching a piece of rice cake in the food box, Xu Zaijing said while eating: "How about it, can we recruit the Bai Gao scout we captured?"

Qingyun nodded: "Okay! But this scout's mouth is really tough. If Medical Officer Yu hadn't taken action, he might not have been able to pry it open."

Glancing at Xu Zaijing who was chewing rice cakes and gesturing for him to continue, Qingyun said: "Master, the one you asked about didn't have anything buried. He is from Xingqing Mansion of Bai Gao Kingdom."

"Except for hearing that this man is very good at archery, this scout doesn't know anything else."

"And their mission these days is to clear out our scouts in that area."

Xu Zaijing swallowed what was in his mouth: "Why? Just to blind the eyes of the army?"

Qingyun shook his head: "He doesn't know the specific reason."

Xu Zaijing nodded, pinched out another piece of rice cake and put it in his mouth, and threw the pomegranate in the food box to Qingyun.

Qingyun took the pomegranate and peeled off the pomegranate skin while saying hesitantly: "Sir, I want to go to the eagle farmer to play."

"The falcons raised here are so amazing! Just look at them these days, they can actually distinguish the flags of Bai Gao Kingdom and our own Great Zhou!"

"Go ahead. When you come back, remember to call back He Guan, Alan and Xun Shu."

"Yes, sir!"

With that said, Qingyun put the peeled pomegranate on the table, happily opened the curtain and walked out.

Xu Zaijing gently swept out a few pomegranate seeds with his fingers and put them into his mouth. Feeling the sweetness in his mouth, he nodded appreciatively.

Looking sideways at the bundle on the bed, Xu Zaijing stood up and walked over.

After Xu Zaijing unpacked the baggage,

I saw a few satin purses at the top of the bundle;

Underneath the purse is a letter that is thicker than the envelope containing his homework;

Underneath the letter was a piece of close-fitting chain mail that looked more exquisite than what his father, Marquis Yongyi, wore.

Xu Zaijing put several purses and envelopes aside, and lifted up the chainmail armor with one hand. After taking a closer look, he determined that it was better than what his father wore.

Such an extremely delicate ring-locked armor may not be available even if you have an identity.

"Who sent this?"

Xu Zaijing put the things on the bed and scratched his head in confusion.

Then he picked up the envelope on the side and opened it and looked at it.

The letter was sent at the end of August.

Zhuang Xuexuu wrote the most about the academic guidance he sent to Bianjing on his way to Xu Zaijing.

Put aside the pedantic letter for now,

Xu Zaijing looked at the letters from Gu Tingye, Qi Heng, Chang Bai and Chang Feng with a smile.

What surprised Xu Zaijing was that the three orchids of the Sheng family also wrote, but it was more like a sentence than a letter.

Looking at the handwriting on the paper, which was either delicate and elegant, careful or unique, Xu Zaijing felt that he could see the words as if they were face to face.

Finally, Xu Zaijing picked up a few purses in the bag and looked at them.

Among the several purses, some put a pair of thick gloves, some put a forehead wipe, and some put a scarf.

There are two purses for wiping foreheads. Although Xu Zaijing is not a nun, the three maids in his yard are all good nuns.

Looking at the two different foreheads, he could tell that they were embroidered by two different people, and neither of them were female servants in his courtyard.

Thinking of this, Xu Zaijing picked up a forehead smear mixed with cotton wool and put it in front of the candle to look at it.

There was a small word "Jing" embroidered on the cotton-wool forehead. Xu Zaijing looked at the word and felt that the handwriting was a bit familiar. After some recall, his eyes lit up: "Before the Dragon Boat Festival, I got the word "Jing" at the Shengjia Book School. The word 'Jing' on the colorful rope is also written in this handwriting! ’

"It turns out to be Fang's mother's craftsmanship."

Xu Zaijing said to himself.

After figuring out this piece of forehead wiping, Xu Zaijing picked up another one.

The technique for wiping the forehead is a bit worse.

Xu Zaijing also saw a lot of good things when he was a child.

Looking at the printed pattern on the material and feeling the texture of the material, this material for wiping the forehead is much better than the one with cotton wadding! It is comparable to the materials given by the empress in the Hou Mansion.

Xu Zaijing could tell at a glance that the gloves and scarves were made by his three little maids.

I reached out and tried the gloves, and they still felt good.

Another two quarters of an hour passed,

Qingyun, He Guan and the others returned to the tent near Xu Zaijing's house.

The candles in the tent flickered on and off.

soon,

The camp under the starry sky became quiet,

Listening to the footsteps of patrol soldiers and the occasional sound of striking the time, Xu Zaijing quickly fell asleep.

On the second day,

The tenth day of September,

Xu Zaijing got up before dawn to eat.

While eating, I also received a military order from Zhu Qinghu to guard the southwest of the camp and kill enemy scouts on the spot if they saw them.

after dinner,

Xu Zaijing put on the armor with the help of Qingyun.

"Qingyun, we have to stay outside for at least six hours today. We never know when there will be a fight. We must pack the dried meat we brought from Bianjing."

"Don't worry, sir!"

The two of them were talking,

When preparing to wear a turban for Xu Zaijing, a bandage should be placed on his forehead.

Qingyun looked at the forehead strips beside the pillow on Xu Zaijing's bed and asked, "Master, which one should I wear?"

Xu Zaijing pointed to the forehead wiper made of very exquisite materials: "This one, the one with cotton wool is a bit hot to wear at the moment."

After putting on their armor, Xu Zaijing and Qingyun walked out of the tent.

Seeing He Guan, Alan and others who were also well-equipped and leading their horses outside the tent, Xu Zaijing waved his hand and everyone got on their horses.

Subsequently,

Together with several other old scouts sent by cousin Zhu Qinghu, they all ran out along the road out of the camp.

Three quarters of an hour later,

Everyone arrived at the ‘mission area’ dozens of miles southwest of the camp.

Looking at the top of the mountain in the distance, the Dazhou flag used by the scouts to send warnings to the rear was waving constantly.

Xu Zaijing, who knew Qi Gu, took the lead and ran towards that direction, preparing to rescue Pao Ze who was in danger.

As a result, just halfway through, Xu Zaijing saw the Dazhou flag on the top of the mountain waving a few times and then disappearing from everyone's sight.

There is only one reason for this situation,

Paoze over there was completely wiped out by the enemy!