—On how a group of strong men get together to celebrate the Qixi Festival-
In the 21st year of Gude, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month at Lianshui Gate in Junzhou-
Wei Lin was sleeping. Ever since they took over from the northern army and came to the border of Juanzhou to guard the border, the whole barracks seemed to be groggy and relaxed. Apart from daily training, soldiers are also responsible for farming and raising some poultry. He didn't know before that he had to know how to farm when he was a soldier. This kind of long-term garrison work, which does not easily start a war, requires them to go to the fields to be self-sufficient.
It's more than a month since the beginning of summer. The weather in the north is not too hot, but it is dry. Wei Lin keeps drinking water every day. Otherwise, his mouth will be dry, and the lips will be peeled, which is very uncomfortable.
He was still sleeping soundly, and Jiang was curled up beside him, still asleep.
Suddenly there was a sound of powerful footsteps outside the tent, and then the door curtain was lifted violently. Xue Ziqin walked in, waved his hands, and slapped the buttocks of the two sleeping people on the couch, making a crisp sound: "Sleep sleep If you sleep, you will know how to sleep!"
Wei Lin sat up from the couch all of a sudden, his hair was messed up like a chicken coop, he scratched his scalp naturally, then narrowed his eyes and looked at the person in front of him: "What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Jiang also felt that his butt was being attacked, so he turned over immediately, and changed from lying on his side to his back. He opened his eyes and saw the tall man standing in front of the couch. He also wanted to ask who it was, but when he woke up, his throat was so dry that he couldn't speak. .
Xue Ziqin glanced at the two of them impatiently: "Still getting up? Jiang Ye, look at you, your double chin has fallen out of sleep, and you still want to sleep!" Hearing this, Jiang Ye suddenly jumped up and touched the bed in horror. Touching his own chin and shouting, "Impossible! Mirror, is there a mirror?"
Xue Ziqin took out a slap-sized goggle from his arms, Jiang also quickly grabbed it and winked at the goggle for a long time: "No? No double chin..."
Xue Ziqin reached out to take back the breastplate, and said, "Get out of bed quickly, you two, or you will be punished by military law!" After finishing speaking, he turned and left the tent.
Wei Lin looked at his back as he walked out, and then turned to look at Jiang Ye—Jiang Ye was still rubbing his chin, as if he was very concerned about the double chin. He stretched out his hands and stretched out. He stood up with his feet in his shoes and started to get dressed. While wearing his trousers belt, Wei Lin looked at Jiang Ye with some disgust, and said, "It's alright, it's just a double chin."
"If I really have it, I can accept it, but I don't, why should Xue Ziqin talk nonsense!" Jiang Ye seemed very annoyed, but he didn't have a mirror at hand... After all, in the barracks, apart from the heart mirror, I'm afraid there will be no more Such a thing as a mirror. Seeing that Wei Lin got dressed in threes and fives, Jiang also got down from the couch and changed his clothes obediently.
Wei Lin said again: "You are really dawdling, you have to wait for you every time, it's annoying!"
"Then don't wait." Jiang also said, taking off the coat he just put on.
"What are you taking off?"
Jiang was also in a very bad mood when Xue Ziqin yelled at him early in the freshman day and Wei Lin mocked him. He turned the clothes upside down, and yelled at Wei Lin: "Can't you put on your mother's clothes backwards? Why are you talking so much?"
"Hurry up..."
The two cursed and finally walked out of the camp.
Outside the tent, the sun had already risen in mid-air, and the sun was still a little dazzling. Wei Lin squinted to see Zhou Xiao, Guo Linchong, and Xue Ziqin all standing in the open space with their horses beside them. Taking a closer look, a small boy was standing behind Xue Ziqin. The boy was wearing Xue Ziqin's clothes, which were a little too big and drooping on his body, which made him look cute.
(The juvenile is involved in the later characters, so I will not explain it for the time being. Zhou Xiao is the character in Chapter 34.)
Wei Lin couldn't understand the situation, so he asked: "Several, what's the situation? Early in the morning."
Jiang also stood behind him, full of resentment, and stood there without saying a word.
Zhou Xiao has a good temper, like a big brother, and solved this doubt for Wei Lin: "Today we are going to camp, you two should hurry up and bring your horses, and set off immediately."
"Where are you going out of the camp?" Wei Lin asked again.
Before Zhou Xiao could answer, Xue Ziqin became impatient, pulled out the horsewhip hanging from his waist, and whipped it at Wei Lin's feet with a "swish" sound: "Go as soon as I tell you, don't talk so much nonsense! Hurry up!"
"...Yes yes yes!" Wei Lin didn't know what to do, he pulled up Jiang Ye's sleeves and walked to the stables, while walking and babbling: "Xue Ziqin is a beast, definitely a beast..."
Jiang Ye frowned, but reminded: "I can hear it later."
Hearing this, Wei Lin looked back, Xue Ziqin was staring at him, his eyes were full of danger, Wei Lin was shocked, and quickly walked away.
It didn't take long for a group of six people and five horses to leave the barracks. The young boy rode together with Xue Ziqin. He was too small, so he could only sit in front of Xue Ziqin and was protected by Xue Ziqin. Jiang Ye and Wei Lin didn't know where this was going, so they could only follow behind a few of them.
The scenery of the frontier fortress is beautiful, the sun is shining brightly, the wind blows the green grass like waves, and the horseshoes step over, disturbing the green water in this pool, and it immediately returns to its original state.
The terrain around here has already been figured out when Jiang Ye and Wei Lin took turns to investigate. The large expanse of grassland turns into dry land in winter, while in the east, there is a forest with a pool of clear springs. It's a wonder in this place. At this moment, the six of them were heading east. Wei Lin was driving the horse, and he had some guesses in his heart, so he shouted at Jiang Ye: "Are you going to hunt again..."
"I do not know… "
The two of them were talking, but Xue Ziqin couldn't hear it at the front, but Zhou Xiao heard it, and when he turned around, he raised his voice and answered, "I'm going hunting!"
"Alas!" Wei Lin instantly became depressed.
Go hunting again. Xue Ziqin loves to eat, and there are very few delicious things in the barracks. He can only rely on hunting to satisfy his appetite, so he often goes out hunting, and every time he brings the two of Wei Jiang with him. Wei Lin had long been tired of hunting, and he was really reluctant to be woken up in the morning to go hunting again.
Jiang is different. He is very competitive, and he is very serious every time he hunts, secretly competing with Xue Ziqin, hoping that one day he will be able to beat Xue Ziqin in hunting. Unfortunately, it didn't work out.
It was not long before they reached the woods.
Guo Linchong had a lot of things hanging on both sides of his saddle. Unlike Wei Jiang, he only hung bows and arrows and water. These are all necessary weapons, so once he rode out, he would hang them on the saddle. When they reached the edge of the clear spring in the forest, they dismounted their horses one by one, and each tied their reins to a tree. Guo Linchong took off the things hanging on the saddle and took it to the open space. At this moment, he looked up and saw that Xue Ziqin and the boy were still on their horses.
Bai Liu is very spiritual, Xue Ziqin motioned to stop, and it stood firmly on the spot. I saw Xue Ziqin get off the horse, and then stretched out his hand to pick up the young man. The boy's hand was a little small, like a girl's hand, still white and tender, and when it was placed in Xue Ziqin's calloused palm, the contrast was very strong.
I only heard Xue Ziqin say, "Come on, come down, slow down."
The young man nodded and helped Xue Ziqin's men to dismount, but he didn't get it right, and he was about to fall.
The four of them looked at them, but they didn't know it at all. The young man fell into Xue Ziqin's arms. Xue Ziqin took advantage of the situation and picked him up, and in a blink of an eye, he bent down on his side again, letting the young man land on his feet firmly on the ground.
He took good care of Xue Ziqin, but the boy's expression didn't change, he was always indifferent.
Seeing this, Wei Lin exaggeratedly stretched out his hand to cover his eyes, and shouted: "Disgusting! Disgusting! I can't even see it!" But he clearly left a huge gap between his middle finger and ring finger, and his two eyes were fixed on it. Xue Ziqin was completely different from what he said.
Jiang also turned his head quickly and walked a few steps away, for fear that he would stand too close to Wei Lin.
"You bastard, you are fighting again!" Xue Ziqin strode up to Wei Lin, raised his hand and slapped Wei Lin's arm.
Why can't you stand too close? Because if you want to be beaten, it will inevitably bring disaster to Chi Yu, so it is the best policy to get rid of the relationship first.
The young man thought that their gossip did not exist, so he walked to the edge of the clear spring and squatted down.
The sunlight passes through the gaps in the dense leaves, and falls in pieces. The water surface is sparkling, and the small stones below have been washed and polished by the water for many years. You can also see many fish swimming freely in it. The young man looked down, wanting to see the fish, but saw his own reflection, feeling disappointed for a moment, so he stretched out his hand to stir in the water.
Wei Lin shouted "Don't hit me wrong", and ran, Xue Ziqin chased after him.
Jiang also shook his head watching this scene, thinking about Xue Ziqin's character in the past, and looking at the person in front of him now, he only felt that love can turn people into fools.
Seeing this, Zhou Xiao walked up to Guo Linchong, smiled softly, and said, "I'll help you."
"Okay, thank you!" Guo Linchong nodded, and hurriedly took out the things he brought over one by one. Zhou Xiao reached out to help, just as Guo Linchong also reached out, and he accidentally touched the back of Zhou Xiao's hand. Zhou Xiao's skin is definitely fair in the military camp, it is probably born with it, and he usually fights, so he can't care about whether he is tanned or not, the skin on the back of his hand is a bit cool and easy to touch. Guo Linchong moved his hand away in embarrassment, and he continued to fiddle with it after Zhou Xiao took the things and retracted his hand.
But in fact, he still wanted to hold that hand and try.
Guo Linchong was lustful, but the young boy following the general was beautiful and looked really too young. For a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child, he didn't dare to think nonsense, and he couldn't get over that hurdle in his heart. Here is Zhou Xiao who looks more feminine. Although Zhou Xiao is a few years older than Xue Ziqin, he can't tell that he is in his thirties. But the appearance is often inconsistent with the inside. Zhou Xiao's strategizing on the battlefield has made Guo Linchong and others very admired.
Such a touch made Guo Linchong, who hadn't been to the kiln for a long time, feel itchy in his heart.
Jiang was tired of Wei Lin's beating every day. Anyway, he always owed money, and then he was always beaten. Simply, he also came to Guo Linchong to help, only to find out what Guo Linchong was carrying.
Cushions, straw mats.
Flint, iron wire.
Hmm... and an oiled paper umbrella.
How could a man bring an oil-paper umbrella when he went hunting? In disbelief, Jiang picked up the oil-paper umbrella and opened it. On it was a pair of mandarin ducks playing in the water.
This can be said to be horror.
Jiang Ye took the oil-paper umbrella and looked left and right, and finally couldn't bear the curiosity, and asked, "Deputy General Guo, do you still have this hobby?" Zhou Xiao and Guo Linchong both looked up at Jiang Ye's open hand. umbrella.
This picture suddenly popped into Zhou Xiao's mind: On the edge of the clear spring, it was drizzling, Guo Linchong was holding a paper umbrella, the umbrella pole was leaning on his shoulder, and then he looked back and smiled.
"... Hahahaha." Zhou Xiao was so disgusted by the picture he thought of, and then felt that it was very funny, so he burst out laughing.
Guo Linchong blushed anxiously, and the scene became even weirder. May I ask how many people can see such a shy expression on the battlefield of a strong and muscular eight-foot strong man who can kill a hundred with one stop without blinking an eye? He hastily reached for the oiled paper umbrella and closed it, explaining: "No! It was given to me by a kiln sister when it rained one day!"
"Oh—" Zhou Xiao and Jiang also lengthened their voices, and Guo Linchong felt even more ashamed, and continued, "No!!! It was the general who asked me to bring it, saying I was afraid of the sun!"
"Oh—" the two of them were still the same.
Guo Lin couldn't stand this weird scene, and shouted: "Ah!!! It's the general!!! It's not me!!!"
Xue Ziqin was beating Wei Lin, when he heard the shouts from here, he turned his head and asked, "What am I?"
Wei Lin took the opportunity to make Xue Ziqin turn the heat and shouted, "Lieutenant General Guo said you are a womanizer! You like to wear skirts! You like to play in the water!"
After speaking, he quickly ran behind a big tree a little farther away, hugged the trunk and watched the next development with vicious eyebrows.
Xue Ziqin sneered: "Really?"
Guo Linchong said that he was suffering, and quickly explained with a sad face: "No, General, you know me, I don't..." Xue Ziqin approached step by step, seeing that he was really being blamed by Wei Lin, Guo Linchong turned and shouted at Wei Lin : "Wei Lin, you are really cheap! Oh, don't fight, General! It's not me! I didn't say..."
A few people made a fuss, and there was laughter and laughter in the woods for a while.
Wei Lin and Jiang were also sent to hunt, Guo Linchong and Zhou Xiao were catching fish here, as for Xue Ziqin and the boy - "This general is going out to play, and I have to do it myself? What should I do? Don't you have any pressure in your heart?" Xue Ziqin finally sent the four of them to work with these words, while he and the boy sat on the straw mat, and the oil-paper umbrella was behind the boy's back to shade the boy. Breathing in the grassy air in the forest, Xue Ziqin took the wine he brought, poured it into two small wine bowls, and handed it to the boy.
The young man took it, smelled the aroma of the wine, and thought that he liked the wine.
Xue Ziqin passed the wine bowl in his hand forward, and the young man clinked glasses with him knowingly, making a crisp sound unique to porcelain.
The young man put his legs side by side on the right side of his body, and on the left was a pair of black lacquer feet brought by Guo Linchong. Xue Ziqin was cross-legged beside him, drinking wine, watching Zhou Xiao and Guo Linchong catching fish and making jokes from time to time, he always had a smile on his face, very happy.
On this side, Jiang Ye and Wei Lin were casually walking through the woods with their bows and quiver on their backs. Wei Lin kept complaining, while Jiang Ye kept silent, watching around for prey.
"Do you think the general likes that little doll?"
"The general must be!"
"General just likes young people."
"Maybe Luo Yansheng, the general also likes it."
"The general is a pervert! I tell you! It's a real pervert!"
Jiang also heard Wei Lin nagging, and didn't bother to stop him, so he kept nodding. Seeing him nodding his head, Wei Lin said that the two of them were in the same mind, so he spoke more vigorously.
"Oh my god, I really want to break the news with my brothers."
"Hey why don't you talk?"
It took Wei Lin a long time to realize that Jiang just nodded and didn't listen at all. He rolled his eyes and had a bad idea in his heart.
"Jiang is also a pig."
Jiang also nodded.
"Jiang has been single all his life."
Jiang also nodded.
"Jiang is also stupid! Wei Lin is right!"
Seeing that Jiang didn't refute at all, he also affirmed his statement himself.
Who knows that Jiang Ye finally understands now, Wei Lin has been scolding him. The two of them were in the woods, surrounded by big trees, and Jiang Ye suddenly got into trouble, turning his head and approaching Wei Lin, Wei Lin was startled, and hurriedly backed away.
Between the two of them advancing and retreating, Wei Lin actually retreated to a tree. He didn't know it, and stepped back again, and his waist hit the tree trunk. Jiang also raised his hand and passed it over Wei Lin's left shoulder, leaning against his ear against the tree trunk.
Wei Lin was a little dazed, and Jiang also exuded a dangerous and wild aura. He stared wide-eyed, seeing Jiang Ye's face approaching slowly, the distance between the tips of their noses was no more than two fingers wide. Time seems to be frozen, and then infinitely magnified. After a while, Jiang Ye's face slowly shifted to the side, as if he wanted to hug Wei Lin, and shouted in his ear: "I'll fuck your mother!"
The sound was deafening, and Wei Lin felt that his ears didn't exist: "Damn it! I'm going to be deaf!"
Jiang Ye yelled again: "Tell me, talk on and on, believe it or not, I hacked you to death? Huh?"
Wei Lin was quick to wit, and suddenly raised his finger behind Jiang Ye: "There is a roe!"
Jiang also heard this, and immediately turned around to look, but Wei Lin took advantage of it. There was clearly nothing behind Jiang Ye, and just as he turned his head, Wei Lin raised his hand and grabbed his hand supporting the tree trunk, pulled it down, and then pulled it desperately in the opposite direction. He tugged and turned in a circle, and then Wei Lin took advantage of the situation and put his other hand around Jiang Ye's waist, and followed him around.
Jiang was also turned into a mess, and he didn't realize that he had changed places with Wei Lin.
This time, it was Wei Lin's turn. He shot hard and slapped Jiang Ye's ear on the tree trunk. The distance returned to the previous two finger widths. Wei Lin roguely smiled at Jiang Ye: "Hey, the situation is reversed!"
Wei Lin's eyes are really beautiful.
Jiang was also forced to look at him, but this sentence suddenly appeared in his mind.
As ambiguous as his current posture is, what he did to Wei Lin just now is as ambiguous. He was about to get angry, and even wanted to raise his foot to kick Wei Lin's crotch, but before he could do it, Wei Lin let go of the hand supporting the tree trunk, and moved to his mouth, making a silent gesture. Jiang didn't know what happened, so he didn't dare to move for a while.
Wei Lin's movements slowed down several times, and he cautiously reached for the bow and arrow behind him, opened the bow, and loaded the arrow. He narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at Jiang Ye for no idea what was behind him, and suddenly let go of the bow-pulling hand.
He only heard the sound of an arrow flying out, followed by another muffled sound. Wei Lin put down his hand and said loudly: "Hurry up! I've shot!" He said, pulling Jiang to the other side run.
Jiang also took a closer look, it was really a deer.
"Look, I said there was a deer." Wei Lin picked up the dying deer, grabbed its four legs, and pulled out the arrow and handed it to Jiang Ye. Jiang also took the arrow, habitually wiped the blood on the arrow with his sleeve, and put it back into Wei Lin's quiver.
"Oh, deer can teleport, right?"
"But there are really deer."
"So the deer can go from this direction to the opposite direction in an instant, and how far is it?"
"A man doesn't stick to trifles, and Jiang never cares about those details!" Wei Lin said cheerfully.
"Don't play rhymes here! I really want to kill you!" Jiang Ye said.
The two of them cursed all the way and walked back.
Back there, Xue Ziqin and the boy were still sitting, but Guo Linchong and Zhou Xiao had already caught seven or eight fish, and they were squatting by the stone stove, not knowing what they were doing.
Wei Lin hurriedly took the deer to claim credit: "Look, general! Deer! It's amazing!"
Xue Ziqin ignored him at all, slowly picked up the wine jar and filled the young man's empty bowl, and then filled it up for himself.
Jiang also ran over to see what Guo Linchong was busy with, and saw that a fire had already started in the stone stove, and Guo Linchong had made a net from the iron wire horizontally and vertically. When Jiang Ye came over, he just finished the work, put the iron net on the stone stove, and then raised his head and shouted at Xue Ziqin: "General! Is that so?!"
Xue Ziqin raised his head slightly, and glanced over there: "Yes! Hurry up and cut open the fish and throw away the internal organs!" After speaking, he turned his head to look at Wei Lin: "What are you doing here? You don't see anything alive? Go skin the roe deer blood!"
Wei Lin just arrived here and wanted to take a rest, but when he heard Xue Ziqin's words, he could only obediently take care of the deer.
Jiang didn't know what to do, so he followed Guo Linchong to fish.
Zhou Xiao walked up to Xue Ziqin and said, "You can go and play for a while, I want to rest for a while."
Xue Ziqin nodded, handed the unfinished wine to Zhou Xiao, then got up and walked over.
Zhou Xiao was just about to taste some good wine that Xue Ziqin had brought. The bowl was just handed to his mouth when the young man suddenly started, grabbed the bowl from his hand, and drank it all in one go: "If you want to drink, you might as well get the bowl and pour it yourself."
Zhou Xiao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, he waved his hand and picked up the kettle from his waist: "That's it, I'll just drink water."
After preparing the ingredients, they arrived at Xue Ziqin's home court.
He didn't know where he picked up a lot of finger-thick branches, and then sharpened them with the dagger he carried with him, and cut off all the excess branches. He picked up the fish that Guo Lin had cleaned, and cut the whole fish from the opening in the belly of the fish. Make a whole piece, string it together with two twigs, and set it aside. He was quick and the eight fish were done in no time.
The stone stove was originally built according to Xue Ziqin's instructions. There were eight fish, but Xue Ziqin got four of them up first, then inserted the branches around the iron net to surround them and grilled them.
As soon as he finished, Wei Lin came over with the bare roe deer. He had cut off the head of the roe deer, leaving only four legs and body. He brought it in front of Xue Ziqin, Xue Ziqin let him hold it like this, and started to cook the deer by himself.
"Guo Linchong is here to help." Xue Ziqin said.
Guo Linchong rushed over when he heard the words, and squatted beside him, waiting for orders.
Xue Ziqin first took off the deer's legs, cut open the flesh at the junction of the legs and the body with a knife, cut off the tendons at the joints and bones with a knife, and then tore off the legs with brute force. After stringing it up, insert it firmly into the ground and put it on the ground first. Then Xue Ziqin began to use a small blade to make the roe deer meat, each piece was even in size, although they were not exactly the same, but it also showed Xue Ziqin's ability in this aspect. For the sliced meat, he made a demonstration first, skewering it with twigs at an angle, one twig with ten slices of meat, Guo Lin followed the example of a gourd to draw a scoop, and cooked it up in a similar manner.
Seeing that this work was interesting, Jiang also spontaneously came over to help, but Wei Lin squatted beside the stove, smelling the scent of the fish, only to feel that he was already a little hungry.
After Zhang Zi was finished cooking, Xue Ziqin put the meat skewers on the iron net and grilled them. Everyone gathered around and waited to eat. Their eyes were all eager. Only the young man was still sitting there, but his eyes kept glancing.
Xue Ziqin's craftsmanship, they have experienced many times in the camp, this kind of barbecue is novel, it is the first time to eat. Especially the taste was so good that everyone praised Xue Ziqin's craftsmanship. He didn't care at all, he grilled a few skewers of meat seriously, took down a grilled fish, sat down on the straw mat, and handed it to the boy.
The boy was not polite, he took the barbecue and started to eat slowly, the two ate seriously, neither of them spoke.
A group of big men are outing here, and it is inevitable to drink.
We didn't bring much wine, and everyone just had a good drink, grilled fish and grilled meat, and chatted. The young man watched them chatting by the side, and although he didn't speak, he didn't feel bored.
Eat and drink enough, the midday sun is scorching, but it is very shady in this woods. The five of them were lying on straw mats in disarray to take a nap, and the fire in the stove had already been extinguished. The young man was still sitting and reading a book by himself, Xue Ziqin fell asleep, and felt uncomfortable for some reason. In his sleep, he was dimly conscious. After moving for a long time, he finally moved to a good position with something to rest his head on. He didn't move anymore, just continued to sleep like this.
The young man had a headache, looking at Xue Ziqin sleeping on his calf, with that ruthless face on the battlefield, he didn't know what sweet dreams he was dreaming, but he still smiled slightly.
Wei Lin and Jiang also slept side by side, probably because of drinking alcohol, Wei Lin accidentally fell asleep, he was completely unconscious, fell asleep and fell asleep suddenly into a big character, with one hand and one leg all on Jiang Ye. .
Jiang was also motionless and did not wake up.
Zhou Xiao slept very stiffly, and he sat and slept leaning against a tree with his head lowered, probably because he was used to it on the battlefield, and now he is still vigilant when he comes out to play.
And Guo Linchong slept next to Xue Ziqin. He fell asleep like he was in a spring dream. He suddenly hugged Xue Ziqin's waist from behind, and then desperately put his hard life on Xue Ziqin's leg. Xue Ziqin also felt it in his sleep. He suddenly opened his eyes and first saw the side face of the boy - the boy was reading a book with his head lowered, his long eyelashes fluttering as he blinked from time to time.
Before he could savor the beauty of this young man, Guo Linchong gave him two more hits.
Xue Ziqin himself is also a real man, of course he knows what the hard object is, and he also has the hand around his waist, he fumbled here and there from time to time, he immediately flew into a rage, sat up and kicked Guo Linchong at the root of his life, Cursed: "You are looking for death, you bastard!"
Guo Linchong immediately woke up from the spring dream, clutching his crotch and began to howl.
This cry woke up several other people, and everyone looked at Xue and Guo with sleepy eyes.
Of course Xue Ziqin wouldn't say what happened, and Guo Linchong was even more wronged. He himself didn't know what happened, and the scene was awkward for a while. Xue Ziqin coughed twice, but it was not easy to continue investigating in front of this group of people, so he said, "Pack up and go back!"
Everyone could only obey orders, pack up their things, and mount the horse again. Just like when they came, the young man was still sitting in Xue Ziqin's arms.
Wei Lin and Jiang also chatted loudly behind.
"Do you know that General Xue made a very serious mistake!" Wei Lin shouted, he had figured it out when he came, Xue Ziqin couldn't hear them talking, how could he not owe them face to face for such a good opportunity.
Jiang also cooperated very well, and asked back, "What's wrong?!"
"He just drank, didn't he!"
"right!"
"This is drunk driving!!!"
"..."
"He still leads people on horseback! It's not safe!"
"..."
Zhou Xiao kept laughing while listening, but Guo Linchong was not in the mood to listen. He didn't even know what he had done to be hit by Xue Ziqin knowingly. His crotch was still aching, and it was even more uncomfortable on horseback.
The group did not return to the camp, Xue Ziqin took the lead, and they followed, even entering the city of Lianshuimen.
After entering the city, the horses could not run fast, for fear of hurting passers-by, so everyone rode their horses and wandered leisurely in the city. It was already sunset when they arrived in the city, and as they wandered around, it was getting dark before they knew it.
After dark, it is reasonable to say that there should be fewer people on the street, but this day is abnormal. People come and go on the street, as if they don't care about the dark. Wei Lin had some doubts, so he opened his mouth and asked Jiang Ye: "Why is it dark and people are still wandering around?"
Jiang also thought about it: "Maybe everyone in the city has a night life."
Wei Lin almost believed the reason, only to hear Zhou Xiao say: "Today is July 7th, probably because of the holiday."
Wei Lin asked again, "What festival is the seventh day of the seventh month?"
Guo Linchong shook his head: "I don't know."
Jiang also suddenly realized: "Oh—"
No way, Zhou Xiao added another sentence: "July 7th, Qixi Festival, the day when Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet."
Only then did Wei Lin realize, and sighed, "Valentine's Day..."
Guo Linchong was still in a daze, and turned around and asked, "What does the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl have to do with us?"
Xue Ziqin, who had been listening to the chat behind him, couldn't stand it anymore, and turned around and scolded: "Are you stupid? If you are stupid, don't talk!"
The more we walked into the city, the more and more people there were, and the beautiful girls in twos and threes, laughing and chatting together, was indeed a beautiful sight. Seeing the crowd, Xue Ziqin dismounted with the crowd, found a place to tie the horses, and walked among the crowd. No one was wearing armor, so they couldn't tell they were soldiers. Many girls stared at Xue Ziqin, but Xue Ziqin didn't know it.
The teenager frowned: "I'm not a three-year-old."
"Then do you want to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake? I think there is one for sale ahead."
"I don't like sweets either."
Wei Lin and Guo Linchong were overjoyed at such a time. There were so many girls that they couldn't see them.
The little girl on the side of the road looked at Wei Lin more, and Wei Lin would say hello with a smile: "Miss is so beautiful!"
Guo Linchong belongs to the kind of veteran who has lived among thousands of flowers. When he sees a girl he likes, he walks up: "Girl, I seem to have seen you somewhere."
The girl turned her head and saw the burly and thick man, she was a little flustered: "Did you remember wrongly?"
"No, no, I must have seen you." Guo Linchong raised his head and pretended to think, and then said, "It was in my dream."
The girl was amused, Guo Linchong took the opportunity to walk to the left of the girl, walked side by side, and said: "We are so destined, why not play a game?"
The girl asked innocently, "What game?"
"Count your shoulders."
"How to play?"
Seeing Guo Linchong's serious face, he stretched out his right hand, then tapped his left shoulder, and then tapped his right shoulder, still counting, "One, two..." Then he tapped the girl's Right shoulder, then go around to the girl's left shoulder from behind, and tap "Three, four."
The hand took root on the girl's left shoulder and hugged it directly.
Only then did the girl realize that she had been taken advantage of, her face flushed, and she pushed Guo Linchong away, and then slapped Guo Linchong in the face with a slap.
"rogue!"
The girl ran away angrily.
Guo Linchong touched the place where he was beaten, shook his head, sighed, and walked back to his companion.
Jiang also mocked politely: "Counting shoulders is a good way."
Wei Lin was so focused on the girl that he didn't pay attention to what Guo Linchong was doing. Hearing Jiang also speak at this moment, he turned to look at Guo Linchong and asked, "What's wrong with Deputy General Guo? What's wrong with your face?"
"it's okay no problem… "
A group of six people was dispersed by the crowd as they walked.
No one was in a hurry to find them. Xue Ziqin and the boy were gone, Zhou Xiao walked in front, and the three of them walked behind.
Guo Linchong thought for a while and said, "Forget it, Zhou Xiao is so boring alone, I'll go with him." Then he walked quickly to Zhou Xiao's side and chatted with Zhou Xiao for a walk.
Jiang also had doubts, so he asked Wei Lin: "On the Qixi Festival, you shouldn't be playing outside, there are still so many girls."
Wei Lin never took his eyes off the girl, he didn't look at Jiang Ye, and said casually, "Hey, are you from Juanzhou? Did you grow up in Lianshuimen? Do you understand the customs when you go to the countryside? This is how Qixi Festival is, you still not convinced?"
"I said your eyeballs are closed, they are about to fall out."
"The girls in the city are so pretty. I'm looking at you all day long, and I'm about to vomit." As soon as Wei Ling finished speaking, Jiang Ye flicked the back of his head. .”
"… Oh."
As they walked, they saw Xue Ziqin waiting by the side of the road, and the young man stood aside with a complaining look on his face. Zhou Xiao and Guo Linchong probably also found Xue Ziqin and the others, and followed them, seemingly waiting for Wei Jiang and the others together.
"Hey, the general is here." Wei Lin greeted.
Xue Ziqin nodded. Jiang also looked at the young man, who was actually holding a rabbit lantern in his hand. With the young man's expression, it was easy to guess what happened just now.
Xue Ziqin said, "There is Lianshui Bridge in front, and the river lanterns are being put on. Do you want to go?" The boy was holding the rabbit lantern with a displeased expression on his face. He knew that Xue Ziqin was asking him, but he didn't say a word.
Wei Lin became interested: "Go, go."
Jiang didn't say anything, Zhou Xiao and Guo Linchong both expressed their casualness. So Xue Ziqin decided to go, and an idea popped up in the hearts of the other three at the same time: Obviously Xue Ziqin wanted to go.
In the place of Lianshui Gate, there is a small river called Lianshui, which passes through the city, hence the name. A small arch bridge was built over Lianshui, called Lianshui Bridge, and festivals were held near Lianshui Bridge.
Lianshuimen borders the border, and the natural customs are different from those in the south. On the Qixi Festival, they will release river lanterns to pray. But for these six soldiers, it is not uncommon for the tradition of praying to be found everywhere, but what they don't know is that today's praying is only for fate. If the men and women who like each other go to put the lantern together, it is to seek a good companion; if the lady who has not left the cabinet goes to put the lantern, it is to seek a good marriage.
These five big men, plus a young boy, went to Lianshui Bridge in a mighty way.
The eyes of the people around were very strange, but no one of them noticed. The young man was all thinking about how to throw away the rabbit lantern in his hand, but looking at Xue Ziqin's face, he didn't dare.
Wei Lin was in high spirits. He ran to the bank of Lianshui, found a place with a little less people, and called everyone over.
On this bank, many men and women walk together; on the other bank, however, there are all girls squatting on the ground, carefully placing lights. There are also many kinds of river lights, floating downstream on the river, the lights flickering, it is beautiful.
Wei Lin's attention was all on the river lantern at this time, and before they reached the shore, Wei Lin looked around, and saw a vendor selling river lanterns under the big tree next to him.
"Master, give me six river lanterns!" Wei Lin said with a smile.
The peddler who sold the river lamp was a very old man with bad hearing and bad eyesight.
"what?"
"Give it to me! Six! River lanterns!" Wei Lin gestured for six.
The uncle understood it, but asked Wei Lin: "It's so much, how many of you are there?"
Wei Lin made a truthful comparison of "six".
The uncle smiled, and said: "Three is enough!" He took out three river lanterns from the basket and handed them to Wei Lin, and said vaguely while gesticulating: "Fifteen copper coins!"
Now Wei Lin couldn't figure it out, and he asked again: "Where are the six people!"
The uncle laughed: "Two people, one, the rules!"
Wei Lin guessed that it might be the custom here, so he took out a piece of silver from his trouser belt and handed it to him, then walked away with the river lantern in his hands. The uncle fumbled for the silver, moving slowly. It took him a long time to take out the change coins from his purse. When he looked up, the young man who bought the lamp had disappeared.
Everyone stood on the bank, and Wei Lin took the river lantern to them.
"Why are there only three?" Guo Linchong asked.
Wei Lin answered truthfully: "Master said, one for two!"
Xue Ziqin was upset, and slapped Wei Lin on the back of the head: "Who said? Who are you?"
Wei Lin was wronged very much, he pointed to the old man selling river lanterns over there and said, "That man said it!"
Xue Ziqin was speechless, but after all the beatings, he would not apologize to Wei Lin, whoever asked him to talk would owe him that much. He took one from Wei Lin's hand and said, "Let's go and let it go." Then he took the boy to the side.
Wei Lin thought for a while, handed one to Guo Linchong, and said, "Vice General Guo, let the two of you go, and Jiang and I will go too."
Guo Linchong didn't feel that something was wrong, so he reached out to take it and said to Zhou Xiao, "Then let's go over there."
Zhou Xiao nodded, the two walked a little further, squatted down, and prepared to release the river lantern.
The remaining two, Jiang Ye and Wei Lin, simply put them here. Jiang also took the river lantern and fiddled with it. The river lantern was originally made of paper. It was folded into a small piece, which did not take up any space. When it was about to be put away, it was opened by itself, and a small candle was placed in it. When it was lit and put into the river, it became a river lantern. The river lantern that Wei Lin bought was still made into a flower shape.
Jiang also turned on the river lamp, and Wei Lin took out the fire pocket from his arms, lit the candle inside, and the two carefully put it into the river together.
After they were done, the others were done too.
There were not many people here, and they saw three river lanterns slowly drifting away from them.
Just at this time, there was a loud noise in the sky, and Jiang was so frightened that he grabbed Wei Lin's hand. Immediately afterwards, fireworks lit up in the sky, which was very beautiful.
Wei Lin raised his head, grabbed Jiang Ye's hand naturally, and said, "Fireworks are being set off."
Jiang also raised his head: "Well, it looks good."
It was warm, firm and gentle.
in the military camp.
Min Qiu was sitting in a daze when he suddenly heard a strange noise and went out of the tent to look. In the direction of Lianshuimen, fireworks were set off in the sky, which was very beautiful.
Zhong Yi came over and saw Min Qiu looking up at the fireworks alone, he laughed and joked: "Hey, Vice General Min likes to watch fireworks? Why don't you go to the city to watch them?"
When Min Qiu heard this, he turned his head and looked at Zhong Yi, with an expression of wanting to cry but not tears, and began to talk too much: "I want to too! But General Xue took them to play! Leave me alone to watch the camp, what do you say?" I have been with him for so many years, why am I so miserable, I have no place to play, and he still makes me work, what a shame..."
Zhong Yi laughed loudly, and patted Min Qiu on the back: "Be strong, don't cry, laugh when you want to cry."