Feng Qing Shaoyi

One day, in the open area of ​​Qi's courtyard, just as Qi Che put down the sword in his hand, he saw Wu Weiwei walking over with his hands behind his back, with a smile on his face, shy eyes, and a coy gesture: "Archer , I asked an artist to draw a painting yesterday, can you help me see how it looks?"

As he spoke, he unfolded the drawing paper hidden behind him in front of him, and placed it not far from Qi Che's eyes.

Qi Che was taken aback when he heard the words, painting?Wei Wei even hired someone to paint.Although he wasn't interested in paintings and the like, but because his wife let him see them, Qi Che put down the towel to wipe off sweat in his hand, and raised his jaw to look carefully.

In the painting, I saw a delicate-looking woman with a sweet smile, plucking the strings with her slender bare hands intentionally or unintentionally, and a bamboo forest planted behind her.Against the backdrop of the tall and straight green bamboo forest, the woman looks even more picturesque and fascinating.

After looking at it for a long time, Qi Che praised: "It looks good, of course it looks good. Can my wife ask someone to draw a painting that looks good?"

"Really?" Wu Weiwei said happily, then her face turned red and her eyes became more shy, "Then what exactly is it beautiful?"

"Everywhere is beautiful, especially the sword on this stone. The sword body is sharp and thin, and it is made of black iron. It looks like a sharp sword that cuts iron silently." Qi Che pointed to an inconspicuous spot on the drawing paper. He praised it without hesitation, and sighed: "This artist's painting is really good."

Wu Weiwei: "..." A sword?Shouldn't it be human?
People on the side: "..."

After looking at the portrait of a woman that took up most of the paper, and then at the stone that only took up a corner of the paper, everyone said they had nothing to say.

It should be that the painter felt that the bamboo forest in the whole painting was a bit monotonous, so he drew a stone beside the bamboo forest, and felt that nothing on the stone was too simple, so he drew a sword by the way.Who knows, Qi Che just noticed this inconspicuous point.

"Apart from this sword, what else?" Wu Weiwei stared at Qi Che closely, with a hint of threat in his forced smile.

"And..." Qi Che didn't look at Wu Weiwei's far-fetched smile, but carefully looked at the drawing paper, and then raised his finger to point to the bamboo forest behind the woman's portrait, "This bamboo forest..."

"Second brother, look here, isn't this place pretty?" Qi Ji hurriedly interrupted Qi Che's words, and pointed to Wu Weiwei's portrait on the drawing paper, trying to guide Qi Che on the right track.

But Qi Che wanted to go all the way to Hei, and said stubbornly: "But the painting of this bamboo forest is not bad."

Qi Ji: "..." Second brother, you are hopeless.

Wu Weiwei's already bad face turned darker at this time, his forced smile continued to expand, and the threat became even more serious, "Where else is there besides the bamboo forest?"

"Hmm..." Qi Che supported his chin with his fingers, thinking seriously, ignoring Wu Weiwei's increasingly bad expression.After a while, he opened his mouth and said, "Actually, this Qin..."

"Second brother, do you think this person is good-looking?" Qi Qi felt that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he hurriedly stepped forward to guide him, and even emphasized the word "person", "Look carefully, isn't it Does it look very similar to the second sister-in-law?" Qi Qi pointed to the portrait of the woman, and blinked vigorously at Qi Che, trying to hint.

At this time, Qi Che's eyes turned to the woman on the drawing paper, and after staring at it for a long time, he gave a meaningful "oh".

Just when Qi Qi thought that Qi Che had finally come to his senses, he heard Qi Che's self-destructive voice: "Come on, your second sister-in-law has someone with good-looking parents? Look at her, she can play the piano, your second sister-in-law can you?"

Qi Qi: "..." Second brother, third brother can't save you either.

In fact, the painter's painting skills are excellent, but he captured the agility in Wu Weiwei's eyes, but his smile was too sweet, which made the person more beautiful on the whole.In Qi Che's eyes, it just looks a lot better. In fact, Wu Weiwei himself is not worse than the one in the painting.

Hearing Qi Che say that she is not as good-looking as the one in the painting, Wu Weiwei completely frowned, put down the smile on the corner of her mouth, stared at Qi Che, gritted her teeth and said, "Qi Che, show me carefully, I am not as good as the one in the painting." Looks good? How am I worse than her?"

Facing Wu Weiwei's angry questioning, Qi Che was just taken aback, blinked his eyes, and said: "Wei Wei, I've read it carefully, you really look good like no one's parents." He didn't know that a storm was coming.

"Qi Che, you ruined my good mood for the day." Wu Weiwei couldn't bear it any longer, let out a roar, rolled up the drawing paper with her hand, and was about to hit someone when she raised it.

Although he didn't understand why his daughter-in-law was angry, Qi Che was only stunned for a while when he saw Wu Weiwei's ferocious appearance, and then his body reacted quickly. He opened his legs and ran very fast. When running, he was not afraid of death Added a sentence: "Wei Wei, why are you chasing me, you just don't look good, I'm not lying."

"You..." Wu Weiwei, who was chasing someone behind him, was furious.

The two ran around the yard, leaving the silent people in the middle of the yard alone.

Qi Ze looked at Qi Che who was being chased and ran forward, and asked curiously to He Jieying next to him: "How did the second brother marry the second sister-in-law back then? It's quite surprising that he got a wife."

With an embarrassing smile on He Jieying's face, she said, "Well..."

Cang Zhu behind him silently glanced at Qi Ze, shook his head secretly and sighed.Master, in fact, compared with Qi Che, you are not much better.

Because Qi Ze is used to being busy at ordinary times, when he is free all of a sudden, he finds that he has nothing to do.Just about to live in Beishuo, Qi Ze took a few books about Beishuo's politics, history and geography to understand the general situation of Beishuo.

Qi Dai heard that Qi Ze liked to read recently, so he simply ordered someone to move all the books in his study to Qi Ze's courtyard.Anyway, he seldom reads it usually, so this time it can be regarded as useful.

Qi Ze found that the books in Qi Dai's study were quite comprehensive, including the records of the replacement and changes of the Beishuo emperor, the records of the survival and death of various families that changed accordingly, and even anecdotes about the Beishuo royal family and some aristocratic families.Since Qi Dai sent someone to bring it over, Qi Ze accepted it easily.

It's just that there are more books in the study than Qi Ze imagined. After the servants moved over, they found that they could pile up the whole room.

Maybe it's because he's used to sorting out official documents. Qi Ze likes to sort out books.Separated according to different categories, and arranged according to the historical year in the book, it is convenient for timely reference.

But this made it difficult for the servants in Qi's mansion, because the Qi family was a family of generals, and the servants dealt with weapons all day long, and rarely came across books.So many of the servants are rough guys, usually careless, and it's okay to let them go to war, but when they read the books, they are one head and two big, not to mention sorting them in chronological order.

In the end, there was no other way, Qi Ze asked the servants to retreat, and she stayed alone to tidy up.Although I am used to tidying up at ordinary times, it is really not an easy task to tidy up in a short time when faced with a whole room of books.

Qi Ze flipped through the books in his hand, and after seeing the specific year on it, he raised his hand and put it on the corresponding position on the bookshelf, looked at the people in the room who were also helping to organize and thanked: "Thank you for coming to help me organize, if If it's just me, it's going to be a busy night."

"Sister, what kind words are you talking about? Anyway, I have nothing to do, so it's good to come and help." Wu Weiwei said while picking up a book and putting it on the bookshelf.

He Jieying lowered her head and flipped through the books, and then said: "Yes, it happens that Aji and Archer are taking a rest today, so it will be faster if we come to help together."

In front of the last row of bookshelves, Qi Ji and Qi Che were carefully tidying up, but Qi Qi sat cross-legged on the ground, flipping through the boring books on his lap and yawning, "Little sister, why do you like reading books?" This kind of book is thick and boring, which makes people not arouse any interest."

"So, this is the reason why you pretended to be sick and asked for leave instead of going to the academy?" Qi Che casually teased after flipping through a page of the book.

Qi Qi blushed immediately, and retorted excitedly: "I'm not pretending to be sick, I'm really sick, okay. As soon as I read the book, I feel sleepy. If it's not sick, what is it?"

"If you don't want to go to the academy, you just don't want to go. What reason do you have for yourself?" Qi Che said bluntly.

"Cut, if the lecture is interesting, how about I go to sleep? Isn't it just because it sounds boring, so I want to doze off?" Qi Qi muttered, stood up and patted the dust on his clothes, and said listlessly: "When will it be finished? I'm going back to write articles."

"Third brother, haven't you ever written your homework? Even if you want to write it, you will copy someone else's. Why do you want to write your own homework today?" Qi Ji couldn't help but joked.

"You think I want to write. If it weren't for that old man Dou who is too strict, he has always been strict with his schoolwork, and he hates us copying each other. Last time, because someone copied, he got a slap in the palm of his hand. My palm is still swollen, and even Zhou Xi dare not let me copy it." Qi Qi pouted his lips in annoyance, and then said unhappily, "Hmph, that old man Dou is the most hateful."

"Hey, Mr. Dou is the most responsible in the academy. He spends the longest time in the academy. There are many courtiers in the court who are his students. How dare you say that about the old gentleman." His teacher retorted casually.

"Hmph, he's just a pedantic old man. What's there to praise? The classes are usually rigid and uniform, and he keeps nagging in my ear every day, saying that you are not as good as your elder brother. Your elder brother has outstanding literary talents and is well-educated. You are the best student I have ever taught, you are far behind your elder brother. He is not tired of talking, I am tired of hearing it, when will he stop nagging in my ear." Qi Qi hugged himself Little brain, said distressedly.

"Really? Did Mr. Dou praise me that much?" Qi Ji said with great honor, "Third brother, to tell you the truth, when your elder brother and I were in the academy, our grades were among the best in the academy. How would Mr. Dou do this?" Praising me is actually worth understanding, just listen."

Regarding Qi Ji's self-selling and boasting, Qi Qi just curled his lips and didn't say anything.

"Squeaky-"

At this moment, there was a sound similar to the creaking of wooden boards in the air.

This voice also attracted everyone's attention, "What's the voice?" Wu Weiwei asked strangely.

As soon as the voice fell, a row of bookshelves was tilting forward because of the instability, and the books placed on it also fell down one after another, and they were about to hit the woman in indigo who was quietly reading a book below.

Seeing the huge and heavy bookshelf that was about to fall on Qi Ze's body, everyone's hearts were raised in their throats, and they opened their mouths wide to remind them.

"Little sister..."

Qi Che, who often practices martial arts and is agile, made a sound in a hurry, and flew over with light work, trying to hold the bookshelf that was tilting down in time.

But as soon as she raised her arm, the woman in indigo in front raised her finger slightly, and put the bookshelf back to its original position without any effort, and then her figure flashed, and her movements quickly and smoothly caught the books that were about to fall to the ground. With a wave, they were all put back in place, neatly arranged.During this period, the woman's eyes were always looking at the book in her hand, her movements were nimble and light, and her calm face remained unchanged.

After the woman turned around lightly, she put the book in her hand on the corresponding position on the bookshelf in front of her, then raised her eyes to Qi Che who was fixed in place with her finger only half an inch away from the bookshelf, and asked suspiciously: "Second brother, what's the matter?" ?"

"No...it's fine."

"Wow." Qi Qi couldn't help but exclaim.

"Little sister is so amazing." Wu Weiwei said with great admiration.

He Jieying breathed a sigh of relief, and exclaimed: "I forgot that my younger sister is the servant of the Ministry of War, so martial arts are naturally out of the question."

Qi Ji even lowered his head and rested his forehead with one hand, with a forced smile on his face, he sighed deeply: "I really deserve to be the Minister of the Ministry of War of Southern Chu, just amazing."

Everyone sighed, only Qi Ze looked at them inexplicably.

After the books are sorted out, Qi Ze stays in the study to read with nothing to do.

Everyone in Qi's mansion is still the same, Mrs. Qi is often busy with the internal affairs of Qi's mansion, Qi Dai always goes out early to go to the military camp, and returns home very late.Qi Ji and Qi Che still went to court, He Jieying and Wu Weiwei were always chatting and laughing in the yard, and sometimes they would chat with Qi Ze in the study.

And Qi Qi is often troubled and bored in his schoolwork, and wants to skip class, but has to succumb to Madam Qi's majesty.I can only go to the academy on time every day, and then go home and do my homework well.

In Qi Ji's study, Qi Qi's pleading voice came out.

"Brother, please, please help me write this article. The third brother really can't write. You also know how strict old man Dou is with his schoolwork. I don't dare to copy other people's papers. I can only ask is you."

Beside the book table, a lively young man was holding tightly to the arm of a refined man and shaking it non-stop, with a pleading expression on his face, but the man still quietly looked at the book in his hand, unmoved.

"Third brother, it's not that elder brother doesn't help you write, but that elder brother is busy with business and really doesn't have time." Qi Ji saw that Qi Qi had been annoying him for a long time, so he put down the book and refused, "Writing articles is very simple. Just go down and practice more, it's useless for you to bother me here."

"You speak lightly, and you have a brilliant literary talent. Of course, you think writing an article is easy. But you also know that your third brother has never attended lectures, so what can I write? Please, brother, just help me write an article." Write an article, just write an article.”

Qi Qi begged hard, but Qi Ji was still unmoved. He flipped through a page of the book with his fingers and looked at it carefully, and refused decisively: "No."

Seeing Qi Ji's refusal, Qi Qi had no choice but to switch and continue asking for help.

"Second brother, you just came back from the military camp, so you must have finished your military affairs, right? Since there is nothing else, you can write an article for me." In Qi Che's study, Qi Qi said aloud.

Qi Che looked at the third younger brother who came to beg him, and said, "Third younger brother, I want to help you write, but..." After the man laughed, he said in embarrassment: "I have forgotten the specific content of the Four Books and Five Classics." gone."

"what?"

Under Qi Qi's dazed eyes, Qi Che continued: "You know, after all, my imperial examinations were done several years ago, and I can't remember them clearly. Besides, I'm a military officer, so I don't need those things." scriptures, so I have long forgotten it. However, I can write you a treatise on the art of war, do you want it?"

Qi Qi looked at his second brother quietly for a while, grabbed the rice paper on the table, turned and walked out of the room, expressing that he didn't need it.

Qi Qi who walked into the yard was very distressed. Besides Qi Ji and Qi Che who could help him, who else?This article will be handed over to old man Dou at the academy tomorrow, but he hasn't written a single word yet.

Thinking that when he arrives at the academy tomorrow, old man Dou finds out that he hasn't handed in his homework, so he must be nagging him again, maybe he will hit his palm with a ruler.Thinking of the tragic things he will experience tomorrow, Qi Qi feels a headache.

Suddenly, Qi Qi thought of someone.That's right, the eldest brother and the second brother can't help him, isn't there a younger sister?The little girl is both the Minister of the Ministry of War and the young Tanhua Lang. Writing an article is a piece of cake for her, so there must be no problem.

Thinking of this, Qi Qi hurried to Qi Ze's courtyard.

In the courtyard, Qi Ze was flipping through some historical materials of the Beishuo royal family and family in the study.

Looking at the thick books and the glorious and glorious achievements recorded in them, there are also bloody battles for the succession.

Although there were only written records, and most of them were just a few words, Qi Ze couldn't help but be shocked.

As expected of Beishuo, who occupies the entire north, his military strength is stronger than she imagined.Hundreds of years ago, Beishuo, whose national strength was already strong, had already begun to expand its territory with a strong and solid military foundation, and the momentum was like a broken bamboo.

In just a few decades, a group of small northern countries were gradually merged, thus forming a Beishuo country that covers a large area and has a martial tradition.After the situation in the north stabilized and the great unification was completed, Bei Shuo turned his attention to the south and wanted to continue to expand the territory.

But it happened that he met Qi Yun, the general of Southern Chu, and this time Bei Shuo and Nan Chu had been competing for several years.After Qi Yun's death, Bei Shuo also suddenly changed his foreign policy and ordered to recuperate. This also protected the other three countries from the war and survived until now.

but why?
Why Beishuo suddenly changed the policy?Obviously, it took hundreds of years to complete the great unification, and the military strength has been restored to its original level, so why is it ordered to rest and recuperate?