Weird Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3509 Everyone has his own ambitions

Lu Su left, but Wen Pin stayed, but he changed his name and called himself Feng Si.

Wen Pin stayed in Guanzhong not because he wanted to join the cavalry, but because he was tired of war.

According to convention, the best future for a surrendered general is to be a pioneer.

Of course, we can change the name to "Suicide Squad", and only after accumulating a certain amount of merit will we accept surrenders and make other arrangements.

Just like after Wen Pin surrendered to Cao's army, he was used as a vanguard, and then was forced to become cannon fodder again and again.

There is nothing wrong with this, but it makes Wen Pin feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Wen Pin didn't want to experience such a life and such a pattern again. Even though he felt that there were many things in the Cavalry Corps that he had never seen or imagined, he didn't want to get involved and be manipulated by others again.

And the key is that Wen Pin likes the atmosphere of Chang'an, likes to go to Qinglong Temple to listen to people preaching and debating, likes to watch the Wei River gurgling eastward, likes to watch the sunset slowly fall from the plain...

All of this made Wen Pin feel very comfortable.

He no longer had to worry about how many of his soldiers had died, nor did he have to worry about not having enough food and fodder. Now he didn't even have to think about what to eat, nor did he have to worry about being sent to the front line one day.

Chang'an does not conscript men.

However, perhaps because he was used to being busy, Wen Pin was now restless and liked to go out even in winter.

Wen Pin could not afford to rent a house in Chang'an city, but the price of a small house outside Lingyi city was very cheap.

These small houses outside the Lingyi City were generally functional houses in the early days, such as those for hunters or those looking after the fields. Later, as the population of Chang'an grew, some wooden houses were built around these points, and people began to live there for a long time...

Some people are more active and will rent out these wooden houses. Because these wooden houses are probably located in the suburbs, they are very cheap. They are roughly the same as the basement compartments of some later generations. The living conditions are very poor, there are very few surrounding facilities, the houses are damp, and there are occasional insects and animals disturbing them. But the only advantage is that they are cheap.

Wen Pin didn't have much money with him, but after all, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Plus, Lu Su left some gold and silver for Wen Pin when he left, so renting the house was not a problem.

As for the daily appearances of insects and wild beasts, Wen Pin didn't care at all.

After living in the army for a long time, it is already very good to have a decent bed and a piece of rubble to shelter from the wind and rain...

Moreover, for Wen Pin, any ordinary lone wolf or any other small animal would be welcome as long as they dared to come.

Not only can you add it to your meal, you can also skin it and sell it.

That's right, Wen Pin's current occupation is a hunter, and he is a hunter with good archery skills and often gets rewards. He originally had a few soldiers under him, but when Lu Su left Chang'an, some of them followed Lu Su and only a few stayed.

Perhaps they were used to holding swords and guns and didn't know what to do when they put them down, so the people who followed Wen Pin, like Wen Pin, changed their jobs to become hunters.

In this era, there were more wild forests in Guanzhong and more wild animals than in later generations, so hunting was not a very difficult thing. However, for this kind of business that depends on the weather, whether you can get anything out depends entirely on whether you can encounter prey. Therefore, the few people who stayed behind, unless they encountered some big prey, would each go their own hunting route.

When there are too many people, sometimes we can’t hunt anything.

After all, the noses of wild animals are much more sensitive than those of humans. If there are too many people, and the upper and lower air vents make a slight mistake, all you can do is sigh at the exposed anus of the prey...

In general, Wen Pin still enjoyed the leisurely time in Chang'an. He walked around every day, went hunting occasionally, and took the furs and meat to the market to sell. He didn't have to think about any messy things in his mind, nor did he have to consider the loss of a soldier or where to get the food and grass.

Of course, occasionally, Wen Pin would look at the defenses of the streets in Guanzhong cities, watch the soldiers patrolling by, and then subconsciously calculate how many soldiers might be needed to capture the city. Then, the next moment, he would shake his head and smile bitterly, slap himself lightly on the face, feeling that he was hopeless for still thinking about these things.

So he just thought about these things, and then they settled back into the depths of his mind.

Perhaps Wen Pin himself did not want to think too much and just wanted to live a simple life, so he almost turned himself into an honest and dull hunter. Even when he went to the market, he basically did not talk much to other people. Even when buying and selling meat and furs, he just squatted in a random place without lowering the price and gave as much or as little as he wanted.

If it rained or snowed, Wen Pin would stay in the wooden house, staring blankly at the falling snow out the window. He would not get up until he was so hungry that he had no more choice but to cook a meal. Then he would lie down on the hay bed, covered with animal skins, and fall asleep when he was tired of watching.

Wen was very carefree, relaxed and comfortable, but it was hard for those people in the Wen Division. Especially during this period, it often rained and snowed, and it was really cold and freezing outside.

If it were a normal day, it would be fine, but now it is winter, and they have to keep an eye on them, wait, and try not to be discovered by Wen Pin. It really makes the people who are following them from the Wensi miserable.

Besides, Wen Pin's condition really didn't seem like he would do anything. Apart from occasionally hunting and making furs to keep warm, the rest of the time he either sat in a daze or slept. Even if he went out, he only went to two places, the market and Qinglong Temple.

When the weather is good, I daydream and sleep. When the weather is bad, I sleep and daydream.

The tracking and surveillance by You Wensi almost collapsed...

These people from the Wensi were naturally arranged by Kan Ze.

After Lu Su and his party arrived in Chang'an, almost everyone was marked out. When they left, the number of people was reduced, which must have triggered the alarm of the Youwen Division.

Youwensi was often involved in these trivial matters, and some clues were found from trivial matters, such as where someone liked to go, what they did, and liked to learn foreign languages, and then another person happened to have a foreign language teacher...

The only unusual thing about Wen Pin is that ordinary hunters would not go to Qinglong Temple, but Wen Pin would.

Although Qinglong Temple would not refuse anyone to go, it would be painful if you couldn't understand what those scholars were saying. It would be better to find a market nearby, where you can watch a big play and drink hot soup.

Wen Pin is different. He likes to listen to the debates of scholars.

Moreover, they don’t like to gather in crowded places, but rather in remote places, with rather bitter and boring topics, with only a few listeners. Sometimes, there is not even a dedicated room, but they just find a platform in the corridor or square, and debate on the left and the right…

Perhaps it was Fei Qian's bad taste, or perhaps it was to prevent these scholars from getting angry and resorting to violence, so in addition to the lecture hall and the small discussion hall, there were also some small rooms in Qinglong Temple for discussion. In addition, in the corners of the corridors and squares, there were also specially built wooden discussion platforms facing each other, with three steps and handrails, so that people could climb up and debate.

The launch of such a forum has been quite popular.

Wen Pin likes to listen to these kind of strange little debates outside.

On the contrary, I have never attended any of the debates in the lobby or small hall on topics related to state governance and national security.

Perhaps because he was tired of hearing those literati who were always worried about the country and then did nothing in Jingxiang and Nanyang, Wen Pin was more interested in these ordinary topics.

For example, why are there thirty-six countries in the Western Regions instead of seventy-two?

Can yaks in snowy areas be used to plow fields?

Are those precious spices fragrant or smelly?

These topics, which have nothing to do with loyalty, filial piety, or righteousness, are one of Wen Pin's few entertainments.

In fact, Qinglong Temple was indeed the area where the most ideological clashes occurred. Various arguments and opinions emerged one after another. From morning to night, people gathered here to argue and discuss. Sometimes, if they could not finish talking in a day, both sides would agree to take a break and continue the next day. Moreover, most of these topics that were debated were related to politics, which was also the most attractive to other students, but Wen Pin was not interested in these.

On this day, the weather was neither good nor bad. Although the sky was still overcast, it didn't look like it was going to snow any more.

Wen Pin strolled to the official road, got on a two-dollar bus, and swayed to Qinglong Temple.

In the main hall of Qinglong Temple, the debate on "loyalty and filial piety" is still going on.

This is the topic that occupies most of the time in the hall and is also the topic that interests the vast majority of students.

But Wen Pin just stood outside the door for a moment, then shook his head and walked away.

The students who were debating and listening to the debate did not care about this hunter-dressed guy. The reason why these students did not laugh at Wen Pin's hunter-dressing and came to listen to this high-end debate was not because these students had high knowledge, but because there were many officials in Guanzhong, and they were high-ranking officials, who looked like peasants on weekdays...

Just like jujube.

Sometimes Zao Zhi went to the fields, and when he came back he passed by Qinglong Temple, covered in mud, with disheveled hair and a silk scarf, and took a stroll. He happened to meet a few sons of aristocratic families who judged people by their appearance... and the key point was that they were from the Wensi, who recorded his actions silently, and then even if his test scores were high, he would be dismissed.

After a while, even if the noble family student was unhappy, he would not deliberately go out of his way to make trouble with ordinary-looking people. Who knows who he will run into?

Wen Pin just strolled around like this. If he was interested, he would stand outside and listen for a while. If he was not interested, he would shake his head and leave.

The weather is cold, but it still cannot reduce the enthusiasm of these students from Qinglong Temple.

It is no wonder that, with the victory of the Hussars, both the nobles originally in Guanzhong and the children from Shandong seemed to feel the old saying, "A new era is calling..."

Wen Pin strolled around, walking, stopping and listening.

As it was getting dark, he came out of the Qinglong Temple and turned along the main road to the restaurant stall nearby.

"Father! Give me a bowl of soup noodles!"

Wen Pin sat down.

After eating a bowl of hot food, I would take a bullock cart home to sleep.

Sometimes Wen Pin was not sure whether he liked the food here or liked coming to Qinglong Temple to listen to the students' discussions.

After all, I am a bachelor, and the food I cook is just edible. As for the taste...

The old man in the restaurant moved quickly. While greeting Wen Pin warmly, he served him a small dish of pickled vegetables and a small bowl of noodle soup.

These pickled vegetables are made with pure earth salt, with no other seasonings.

If it were people from later generations, some people might look down on these salty and sour pickled vegetables, but in the Han Dynasty today, this is one of the few delicacies that can be eaten in winter.

Wen Pin drank a few sips of noodle soup to warm his stomach, then picked up a small piece of pickled vegetable and put it in his mouth.

I couldn't bear to just chew and swallow it, so I had to wait until the saltiness in my mouth faded, then I took a small bite, and then another small bite...

Kan Ze watched from the side, his eyes moved slightly, he smiled, and walked into the restaurant, "Give me a bowl of soup noodles! Make them thicker and cook them softer! More toppings!"

"Hit!" The old man smiled with his toothless mouth wide open when he saw the business coming to him.

Wen Pin listened, then looked at the soup noodles in his bowl, as if he understood something.

Kan Ze did not go to other seats, and sat down in front of Wen Pin very simply, "Brother Wen, have you been having a leisurely time these days?"

Wen Pin narrowed his eyes and looked at Kan Ze, "My last name is Feng, you got the wrong person."

"Okay, okay. Brother Feng is Brother Feng..." Kan Ze waved his hand, with an attitude of "okay if you like it."

Wen Pin didn't continue talking, but instead slurped the noodles faster.

Kan Ze smiled and didn't say anything right away. Instead, he took the noodle soup and side dishes handed over by the old man at the noodle stall. After drinking a few mouthfuls of the noodle soup, he exhaled and whispered, "I came here with no ill intentions... I just wanted to ask Brother Wen if he wants to bring his family to Chang'an?"

"..." Wen Pin's hand paused.

Except for the stone monkey, most people have families and a circle of people who determine their social attributes and growth environment.

Of course Wen Pin also has family and clansmen. Although his clansmen are not numerous and his family is not big, it does not mean that Wen Pin will not think of them when he is in Chang'an.

But it's useless to just think about it. The more you think about it, the more sad you will feel. So in the end, I just lie down and stop thinking about it.

Logically speaking, Wen Pin fought hard for the Cao family, so he couldn't have made many achievements, but at least he was not lazy or procrastinating. Even in the battle, many of his clansmen were killed or injured. But what made Wen Pin heartbroken was that even after all this, the Cao family still didn't take him seriously.

Especially at the last moment, Wen Pin repeatedly asked for help, but Cao's army remained indifferent.

This made Wen Pin completely heartbroken.

"What are you doing in Chang'an? As a hostage?" Wen Pin stared at Kan Ze with an unfriendly look.

Unlike some other ambitious people who were eager for official positions, Wen Pin's ability was not bad, but his ambition was not big. In history, if it were someone else, he would have been thinking about this and that, and would have taken advantage of his military achievements to advance to the Three Huai Hall, but Wen Pin had always been in Jiangxia and never took credit for himself. Even if he defeated Guan Yu and burned Guan Yu's ships and food, he did not get complacent and say that he was invincible...

Wen Pin came to Chang'an because, on the one hand, he was too disappointed with Cao, and he knew that after he returned to Cao's army, even if Cao's army did not pursue his "crime of defeat", they would still let him serve as a "vanguard" and continue to die in front of the battle. On the other hand, he was tired of killing, and he did not think killing was a happy and exciting thing, even though he was full of martial arts and brave.

Therefore, after Wen Pin arrived in Chang'an, he did not want to join the Hussars at all. He believed that if he joined the Hussars, he would definitely be used as a vanguard and once again enter the cycle of fighting for his life.

He felt that life in Chang'an was good, and he was willing to lie down in Chang'an, but he didn't want to go to the battlefield again...

As for his family and clansmen, just treat him as if he had died in the battle on Wuguan Road.

But Kan Ze's words today brought out the pain that Wen Pin had hidden in his heart.

Wen Pin lowered his head slightly, but stared at Kan Ze with his eyelids rolled up, like a tiger with its eyes raised. Although he was still holding the bowl of noodles and chopsticks in his hands, it was as if he was holding a shield and a sword, and would pounce on him at the next moment. An invisible murderous aura was faintly permeating the air.

Kan Ze seemed to have no feeling at all. He slurped up the noodles in his bowl and ate a lot of them before he slowly said, "After you get here, you can still be a hunter... You don't need to do anything... If you feel bad, then... you can treat me today?"

A bowl of vegetarian noodles.

Wen Pin was somewhat stunned, and the murderous aura on his body gradually dissipated. He put down the bowl, frowned and thought, and after a while he asked, "Why?"

Even if you use the best flour and cook it with snow water from the Tianshan Mountains, it will still be a bowl of vegetarian noodles.

The manpower, material resources and financial resources required to bring Wen Pin's family to Chang'an would definitely be enormous...

Why should you receive rewards for no reason?

Kan Ze took a bite of pickled vegetables and smacked his lips a few times, "My Lord said... Everyone has their own aspirations, there is no need to force them."

"Everyone has their own aspirations?" Wen Pin repeated in a low voice.

Kan Ze nodded, and then pointed at Qinglong Temple with his chopsticks, "You also saw... Everyone here can choose their favorite debate topic... My master never forced them to do anything. If they want to debate loyalty and filial piety, they can debate loyalty and filial piety. If they want to discuss the Western Regions, they can discuss the Western Regions. There are also people arguing about whether the plow is heavier or lighter... So, Brother Wen likes to be a hunter, why not? As for Brother Wen's family... If Brother Wen still feels uneasy... Then I have a suggestion. There is a new recruit camp outside Chang'an. If you have free time, you can go and teach those new recruits how to use bows and arrows... Although the money and food are not much, it can be regarded as a supplement to the family expenses... How do you think? 」

Wen Pin was silent for a long time, but finally shook his head.

Kan Ze was not annoyed, he just nodded and smiled, "It's okay... It seems that I have to pay for this bowl of noodles myself..."

"I... don't want to teach them how to kill people..." Wen Ping raised his head and looked at Kan Ze, "but I can teach them how to save their lives..."

Kan Ze was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and nodded, "That's fine... so... today's dinner... you treat me?"

Wen Pin was also stunned for a moment. He thought Kan Ze was just talking, but he didn't expect that he really invited him to eat noodles?

Wen Pin nodded, "Okay, I'll treat you."

"Okay!" Kan Ze clapped his hands with a smile, then turned around and shouted, "Old man! Another bowl! More toppings and more noodles! Add another egg! No, add two!"

Wen Pin: "(;￣O￣)......"