Chapter 47 (Catching Bugs)
The first person to step forward to compete was a simple and honest man. After taking off his armor, he held a long stick tightly and said to Bai Lie: "Let's compete in the most basic way. One end of the stick is stained with white ash. Whoever gets the white ash on the opponent's fatal part first will win."
"Okay!" Bai Lie responded cleanly and neatly, and raised his hand to take a long stick.
"Uncle System, who do you think will win?" Yun Mian threw a bean into his mouth, ready to bet with the system.
"Bai Lie." The system answered without hesitation.
Yun Mian on the side pursed her lips. She also felt that it was Bai Lie. Betting with the system was not fun at all.
The competition started soon. Yun Mian and the system stopped talking and focused on watching the fight between Bai Lie and the soldiers amid the noisy cheers.
Bai Lie uses his long stick very well, and the soldiers' long sticks are not bad either.
But Yunmian, from the perspective of an observer, could still see at a glance the difference in the way the two men used the sticks.
Xiaobai was brought up by his master and Uncle Bai, and he has already mastered his own set of stick techniques, but he is still a little young, and his stick techniques seem a little immature and not experienced enough.
Simply put, there is a little bit of frills.
The stick technique used by this soldier is actually not stick technique, but a combination of sword technique and spear technique. This is because long swords and spears are mostly used in military battles, but in daily combat, in order to reduce losses, sticks are basically used, so it looks a bit messy.
But the advantage was that it was clean and neat, and almost every move was aimed at Bai Lie's fatal points.
From this perspective, there is actually a high possibility that Bai Lie will lose.
But Bai Lie's talent for martial arts was too strong. Although he was at a disadvantage at the beginning, he soon discovered what he lacked from the fighting. He quickly learned his lessons and avoided making the same mistakes. Then the situation slowly reversed.
The soldiers who had been loudly cheering and saying they wanted to teach the Bai family's child a lesson gradually stopped making noise and no longer made any noise to interrupt the two people's fight.
Watching Bai Lie fighting with the opponent, a smile flashed in Yun Mian's eyes. She jumped off the millstone and left with Chu Tian and Wei Wu first.
"Little Princess, don't you want to continue watching?" Chu Tian asked her curiously.
Yun Mian shook her head: "Xiao Bai is stubborn, he will definitely keep fighting until he is exhausted, I won't waste my time here."
"Compared to Bai Lie and the little princess, who is more powerful?" Wei Wu also came over to ask.
Well...
Yun Mian thought seriously for less than a second and said firmly: "Of course I am more powerful! Xiao Bai can't beat me!"
Facing the two people's surprised gazes, Yun Mian straightened her back without blushing.
She wasn't lying. Xiaobai couldn't beat her because he didn't dare!
"It's easier to get things done with someone behind you." She has too many people behind her, even Xiaobai's grandfather is her master. Xiaobai can only suffer losses to keep safe.
After saying that, she took out the jade pendant that her second brother had asked Bai Lie to give her and held it in her hand. The thin golden string swayed gently on her fair fingers, showing how powerful her words were.
The system looks at the host who is so happy and cocky, and just wants to say to the people in this world: Just spoil her!
With the imperial order and the logistics in place, Tu Heng was sent back to Tu State.
When the news came urgently from the imperial city that the Second Prince was officially appointed as the Crown Prince, Yun Mian and Bai Lie were occupying the uncles' sandbox to play a battle game.
After hearing the messenger's words, Yun Mian dropped the small flag in her hand and ran to her bedroom.
Then he took out a large stack of letters and a small straw grasshopper and asked the waiter to take them back to the imperial city.
"Little Cotton, that grasshopper...could it be your gift to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?!" Bai Lie looked at Yun Mian with a twitching mouth.
Yun Mian nodded calmly: "Yes, I worked hard to weave it. I learned it from the craftsmen in Qiliang City for four or five days. Second brother must be very touched!"
Bai Lie: “…”
Who gave you this confidence?
"It's not like you don't have money to buy those nice gifts. It's just a straw grasshopper. Aren't you afraid that others will laugh at you if you give it back?" Bai Lie asked as he quickly pulled out a piece of grass and handed it to Yun Mian, looking eager to express his expectation that he also wanted it.
Yun Mian took the grass and squatted in front of it with him. While helping him weave grasshoppers with her deft fingers, she answered, "Let them say whatever they want. When Aunt Qiu Jin wrote back to me last time, she told me that the noble ladies in the circle all thought I was a heretic. Their mothers and foster nannies all used me as a negative example to educate them. Aunt Qiu Jin was so angry that she didn't leave the house for a long time."
As she spoke, Yun Mian turned her head to look at Bai Lie who was listening attentively, and smiled, "But what does this have to do with me? I can't stop everyone in the world from talking, so let them say whatever they want. I won't listen anyway, and I won't change even if they listen. What can they do to me?"
"But you will have to go back to Beijing in the future..." Bai Lie couldn't help but worry about her.
Yun Mian handed him the sloppy grasshopper she was weaving, stood up and stretched, and said slowly: "Don't worry, no one will dare to say anything in front of me."
They could only talk about it behind her back, but to say it to her face, were they afraid that their family wouldn't decline fast enough?
Yun Mian raised her eyebrows proudly and said loudly: "No matter what, Second Brother must like my grasshopper the most!"
Moreover, the gift she gave to her second brother was not just a small straw grasshopper.
Yunmian walked towards her horse, turned over and jumped onto its back. The girl waved the whip wantonly: "Xiaobai, I am the most generous person!"
She is determined to give her second brother the whole world!
Bai Lie didn't understand, but he also laughed. On the desolate border, he shouted, "Then on my birthday in the future, you are not allowed to fool me with little things!!"
Yun Mian agreed cheerfully: "Okay, then I'll give you a big grasshopper!"
Bai Lie: "... Yunmian! Be a decent person!!"
The inhuman Yun Mian smiled and rode away on his horse, whipping his horse away as well.
Bai Lie: “…”
Yunmian, please be a human being!!!
The capital city is too far away from the border, so the changing situation in the court does not have much impact on the soldiers still on the border.
But this only applies to the changes in the position of crown prince in Daqing, while the situation in Tuguo is just the opposite.
When the third prince of Tu State died, the army on the border of Tu State was hit, and Yun Peijin took the opportunity to give them a severe beating.
Later, Tu Kingdom was in a state of chaos, and Xuejing Kingdom and Daqing also made trouble for a long time, so Tu Kingdom can be said to be in a mess now. In addition, the emperor's illness became more and more serious due to the changes in the situation. The dispute over the crown prince in Tu Kingdom has almost reached a white-hot stage.
During this period, Yun Peijin led his troops to fight against the State of Tu several times. Although they were basically small-scale battles, he won more than he lost, and the border troops of the State of Tu had lost their momentum.
When the cold winter passed, Yunmian was ten years old, and Bai Lie, who had been in the army for more than half a year, was thirteen years old.
The war was about to begin and the atmosphere in the army was becoming increasingly tense. Yunmian sat in the camp and listened to her mother and uncles constantly confirming and calculating the details of Tu State's troop deployment and food storage.
Bai Lie was also nearby.
But Bai Lie sat among the generals, and Yun Mian sat next to the military advisor.
Their current position is obvious.
Yun Mian was very unconvinced, but there was nothing she could do. She was just ten years old and it was impossible for her to go to the battlefield.
"I can be a wartime commander!" Yun Mian pulled her mother's sleeve and tried hard to fight for herself.
Yun Peijin pinched his daughter's cheek and refused with a smile: "You can command during wartime, but you can't go to the battlefield."
Yunmian: "...How can I become a general?"
"This general is not even old yet, and you're already plotting against me?" Yun Peijin glanced at her with a smile.
Yun Mian sat cross-legged on the bed with her head down, and after falling down with a plop, she let out a long sigh: "But you all went to the battlefield, and I'm waiting alone in the back. I'll be anxious."
She didn't want to go to the battlefield and wield a knife to end lives, nor did she take her own safety lightly. She just felt that only by participating in person and seeing it with her own eyes could she feel less worried.
She had clearly arrived at the border and was clearly in the army, but her mother had to go to the battlefield, and she could only wait for the final news at the rear.
Yun Mian was not willing to accept this. She wanted to protect her mother, even though she knew it was beyond her ability to say such things now.
Seeing her daughter's drooping look, Yun Peijin pulled her up again and gently held her in her arms: "Little Mianhua, be obedient. The rear is also a battlefield and it is not absolutely safe. If you wait behind, mother will be worried about you and won't feel empty and uneasy."
Otherwise, if she and her daughter were on the battlefield at the same time, they would be concerned about each other and would inevitably be distracted.
War is not a joke, and Yun Peijin will not allow himself to treat the lives of tens of millions of soldiers as a joke because of personal issues.
"...Then mother, please promise that I will come back safely without a single hair missing?" Yun Mian looked at her with a stern face.
Yun Peijin smiled and nodded: "Of course, why don't you help me count the hair on my head now? When I come back, you can count it again and you will know if there are any less."
The child who was being laughed at by her pouted in grievance: "Mom is always like this!"
As soon as I finished my accusation, my eyes became red unconsciously.
She was still nervous, so she became sensitive and timid.
Pinching her cheek affectionately, Yun Peijin coaxed her gently, "Just now you said you were going to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Have you ever seen a soldier crying while killing the enemy?"
"Little Cotton, you will have plenty of time to go to the battlefield when you grow up. While your mother can still protect you for a few more years, just be a good boy and stabilize the morale of the troops in the back, okay?"
"...Okay then, mother, you have to protect yourself." Yun Mian still compromised under her mother's gentle offensive.
Her mother couldn't stand her playing tricks, and she couldn't stand her mother's kindness either.
Then stay behind to calm the general's mother's heart, so that she will feel worried and act more cautiously.
The nutrient solution is full of 4,000. I owe you an updated chapter.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
8 bottles of Yunjiang;
The east ear is in the north 1 bottle;
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