001. Peace and happiness

In early summer, the grassland is blocked.

The pastures of this season are the most vibrant. At a glance, my eyes are full of deep and shallow green that can't see the edge. The breeze blew like a wave, and the green of the green cage fell to one side. At this time, the small flowers under the grass roots had the opportunity to appear, like colorful stars.

Just after noon, it was the hottest time of the day. The sun hung high above its head, so that people couldn't look directly at it. Even the poplar trees on the edge of the grassland were lazy and only made an occasional rustling sound when the breeze passed. The whole grassland is quiet, like a piece of warm jade.

Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horses' hoofs from a distance, breaking the calm of the moment. A young man dressed plainly and looked only about seven or eight years old, riding a jujube-red horse, skipped the grassland like a breeze and galloped away to the tent not far away.

Before arriving at the camp, the teenager strangled the horse. The horse hissed, raised its front hoof, and took a few turns in place before stopping. After it stood down, the teenager turned over and got off the horse, handed the rein to a sergeant, and then ran to a man who looked like a general.

"Dad..."

"Look at your sweat, drink it! No one can ride an unobstructed place like you!" With that, the general personally took a cup of tea from the sergeant's hand and handed it to the teenager.

The teenager hurriedly swallowed a sip of tea and then said, "Dad, how's it going? I said that this little red horse will be tamed by me in three days. My daughter didn't break her promise! You promised me that if I tame this little red horse, you will allow me to ride it out to hunt.

The general shook his head with a smile, wiped the sweat on the teenager's forehead first, and then said, "You, if you are a boy, it's okay to have this arrogance. But you are a woman..."

"What's wrong with the girl! Dad just regarded me as a boy. Are you afraid that I can't bear your manor?"

"No more, go in and wash your face. With the sweat on your face and some dust, you can go and sing clean!"

The teenager smiled and was about to speak, but only heard the sound of horses coming from the direction of the stable.

The father and daughter looked not far away, and it was the red horse that just sounded. It has just returned everything well. I don't know why it is crazy. At this moment, it is lifting its front hoof high and wants to break away from the sergeant's hand. Several sergeants surrounded and were desperately grasping the reins...

Before the general stepped forward, he saw the figure around him move. When he looked carefully, the girl had already rushed to the horse.

Although there was a tacit understanding between the girl and the horse, one was shocked at this time, and the other was that the girl was still young and weak, and she was dragged to the ground by the horse three or two times. The red horse raised its front hoof, and the girl panicked for a moment. She stared at the horse sitting there motionless, and the girl was about to be trampled by the horse...

At this moment, the two figures flashed out of the crowd one by one, and ran a few steps to the girl. The two of them, one tightly protected the girl with his body; the other seemed to be powerless, gently pushed between the horse's buttocks, and the horse, which had just been uncontrollable, fell to one side as if it had been hit by a hole.

The sergeants rushed up and subdued the horse.

"He Xuan, did you hurt?"

When she heard her father talking to her, the girl came to her senses, looked at her father who was protecting her, and shook her head. Although she frowned in pain and sweated coldly on her face, she tried her best to say plainly, "It's okay, but the left arm is a little afraid to move..."

At this time, another figure just now also approached the girl, gently pinched the girl's arm with his hand, looked at the general and said, "It's okay, it's just a dislocated."

Then, the man looked at Li Hexuan with a serious face and said, "Come to my account later..."

The girl lowered her head and just replied, "Yes, Master." Feeling a sudden pain, the girl lost her voice and shouted, "Ah..." Then, she raised her head and looked at the person she called Master with tears. She stubbornly put her tears back. Her little face turned red because of heat, pain and other things.

"It has been picked up." The man said softly, "Try to move a little, don't move too much."

The girl moved her arm again at this time and no longer felt very painful.

"Thank you, Master!" The girl swept away the haze on her face just now, smiled and said, then stood up and patted the dust on her body.

At this time, General Li and the man called Master by the girl also stood up.

"Thank you is free. Don't think that a word 'thank you' can be a hundred! Today's matter, the punishment must be punished. You are not allowed to shoot arrows and ride horses for seven days. The horse will also be punished. Don't feed the grass for a day and don't release it for three days.

"Master..." The girl pouted again and frowned.

"What, is there anything unconvinced? If it makes sense, I'll listen to it!"

Hearing the girl preparing to protest, the man asked.

"No..." The girl pouted and turned to her tent.

"Mr. Tao, you told her not to ride horses and shoot arrows for seven days, which is simply killing her." Looking at her fading back, General Li said with a smile.

"If you ask her to recover from illness, I'm afraid she will sneak out tomorrow. If you can't take good care of it, you will often have attacks in the future. Tao Yizhi looked at Li Hexuan's back and said with a smile, "Now I only look at her back and know how angry she is. Just in time, she also took the opportunity to accept her wildness.

"This child is just subduing your discipline." General Li said with a smile.

"You spoiled her too much."

Then, Tao Yizhi looked at Li Wanling. The two looked at each other, then laughed and walked to the Zhongjun tent while laughing.

"Is the general busy today?" Tao Yizhi asked.

"What's the matter, sir?"

"There is nothing important. If the general is not busy, how about a game against Yi?"

"I can't ask for it..."

After dinner, Li Hexuan sat under the lamp and held her jaw to the book that Master talked about today in a daze. For half an hour, she didn't read a word at all.

Since my mother died four years ago, no matter what I missed, I have never been banned for so long. It's just a small matter. Can Master punish himself like this? No matter how she thought about it, Hexuan felt unconvinced.

While she was secretly angry, she suddenly heard someone walking into her tent. Thinking of it, it should be a sergeant delivering water. He Xuan didn't look back and didn't even bother to say a word. She still thought about how to spend these seven days.

"Are you still angry?" Tao Yizhi stood behind her and asked.

"Master!" Hearing this sound, He Xuan quickly stood up, turned around and saluted Tao Yizhi first, "I'm not angry." Although he said this, his face was still full of a lost expression.

"I brought you something, which may make you feel better these days." With that, Tao Yizhi handed a brocade box in his hand to Hexuan.

Hexuan opened it and saw that it was a jade Xiao with a white body like sheep fat.

"It's so beautiful..." Looking at Xiao, the smile on Hexuan's face disappeared all day and appeared again.

In fact, the child Hexuan is not happy or quiet. Her movement is because she was born in this vast place and stained by her ears; and her quietness comes from the gentleness in her bones...

"Aren't you always pestering me to learn? Anyway, you have plenty of time these days. Let's use it to relieve boredom."

With that, Tao Yizhi took out his usual dark jade from his waist and gently blew it. The slow sound and breeze floated infinitely on the grassland...

"It's Mr. Tao's voice!" General Li, sitting under the lamp reading a book, asked his subordinates to follow him.

"Yes. Mr. Tao said that he was afraid that the young lady could not stay these days, so she specially took the new warm white jade Xiao that had just been sent yesterday. Xiu Fei replied with a smile.

General Li smiled and said, "This Mr. Tao always says that I am proud of Hexuan. In fact, he spoils her more than me. Counting it, Hexuan is now nine years old, and Mr. Tao has been here for more than three years!"

"No, when Mr. Tao first came, the young lady was so tall..." Xiu Fei said as he measured a height with his hand.

"Yes. At that time, I cried and shouted for a hug every day. Now it's good. It's impossible for her to walk quietly for a while and get rid of a tom boy.

"Even other people's young masters don't like martial arts as much as our young ladies."

While the master and servant were chatting, he suddenly walked into a sergeant from outside the door.

Report! General, there is a secret envoy in Kyoto.

"The secret envoy from Kyoto?" Hearing this, General Li was shocked and thought that he was far away and had not heard of any wars everywhere recently, and Kyoto was also calm. Why did this secret envoy come from?

"Where did the soldiers come from?" Xiu Fei, who stood aside, asked.

The sergeant shook his head and said, "Listen to the voice, it looks like... like..."

"Like what?" General Li asked.

"Like a father-in-law!"

"Fath-in-law?"

Hearing this, Li Wanling was even more confused, but no matter what, this secret envoy still wanted to see. General Li answered the word "please", and the sergeant turned out and invited the secret envoy from Kyoto into the camp.

It was already summer, but the man put on a black cloak outside, wrapped himself tightly from head to toe, and walked into the tent with his head down. He couldn't see his face clearly.

"Excuse me..." Before General Li finished speaking, the man raised his head, smiled at General Li, and said in a low voice, "General, please let the left and right first, so that we can talk."

It's okay not to look at this person. As soon as he saw this person, General Li couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Xiufei looked at General Li, Li Wanling nodded, and then said, "Let the person who guards the account take ten steps away from the account. No one can enter without my summons."

Xiufei nodded and left. Listening to the footsteps of the man, he was not a martial arts practitioner, so the general's safety was still worry-free. He came outside and ordered his men, and then he also stood ten steps away from the account and waited.