Early the next morning, the winter hunt officially began.

Shen Leng and the second prince Li Changye sat on the high slope and watched the army hunting in the distance, Shen Leng asked, "Why doesn't Your Highness go?" ”

The second prince said as a matter of course: "Master doesn't go, it's not interesting, and I won't go." ”

"Your Majesty asked you to follow."

"I told my father, I don't worry about you, my father is approved."

Under the rising sun, the black-armored forbidden army lined up neatly, marching towards the paddock, the horns sounded one after another, Shen Leng was used to this kind of life, and the second prince looked at the majestic army and couldn't hide his excitement, he actually didn't think that winter hunting was boring, it was the age of fun, how could he think that hunting was so fun? He was just thinking about Shen Leng, first, he was afraid that Shen Leng's injury would not be good, and second, he was afraid that Shen Leng would be lonely.

This kid is warm in his bones.

"My mother said that the great grace in the world is nothing more than the grace of saving my life, and Master is my life-saving benefactor, and I must remember it for a lifetime."

The second prince looked at Shen and smiled: "My mother also said that the master is a pure minister. ”

"Chunchen?"

Shen Leng thought, at the age of the second prince, where can he understand what is called a pure minister, and what he understands is probably only a literal meaning, but it is not easy even if it is a simple literal meaning, how can there be such a pure person in this world, Shen Leng has an indelible and irreplaceable awe for Daning and His Majesty the Emperor, but ...... Shen Leng actually knows very well what his virtues are, if it involves Cha'er, Mr. Shen, Meng Changan, maybe he can't do the word Chunchen, and he will never be able to do it.

"Master."

"Huh?"

"Did you have a hard time when you were a child?"

"It's not bitter."

Shen Leng said: "All life is not bitter. ”

"Is it bitter to be dead?"

"When you die, you still know what suffering is."

"That'...... What does Master mean that there is no suffering in the world? ”

"If people are greedy for life, then don't feel bitter, if they are greedy and still feel bitter, how boring it is...... Mr. Shen always felt that I was bitter when I was a child, and His Majesty also felt that I was bitter when I was a child, but if you regard hardship as a necessary condition for survival, then you will be accustomed to it. ”

"And a third?"

"If you don't work hard, a person is hypocritical, if you are not satisfied, you don't work hard, do you say bitter? If you don't feel bitter and others think you're bitter, that's not your suffering. ”

"But, Master, for example, when you were a child, your mother said that you were tortured and wronged when you were a child, and that is not suffering."

"You can see it as ...... A kind of accumulation, a kind of precipitation. ”

Shen sneered: "People, life is so short, you think that day by day can be slow, when you reach your twenties, you will find that year by year can be fast, I think, when you are sixty or seventy years old, you will feel that this life is going to end so quickly, just a few decades, if these decades are used to pity yourself, then this life is meaningless." ”

The second prince doesn't understand very well, he hasn't experienced Shen Leng's experience, and he is young, so it is difficult to understand Shen Leng's feelings.

"Master, do you hate the person who tortured you?"

"If you don't mention it to me, I'll have forgotten about him."

Shen Leng looked at the soldiers in the distance, smiled and said: "Mr. Shen said that if a person only remembers what others are not good for him, then his state of mind will become narrower and narrower, and a cautious person will not be able to achieve great things, and remembering the good of others is not only grateful, but also makes people understand what is good and bad all the time, and don't do it if they know it's bad." ”

The second prince understood this sentence and nodded: "Just like what the master said yesterday, remember more about how good the eldest brother was to me." ”

"That's right."

Shen Leng rubbed the second prince's head: "I treat you so harshly, when you practice martial arts, you ask you over and over again, blowing your beard and glaring at your eyes, why do you think I am good to you?" ”

The second prince: "Master's eyes are there, where did he get the beard." ”

Shen Leng laughed: "Then you think I'm harsh on you, isn't it bitter?" ”

"It's not."

The second prince said very seriously: "My mother told me a long time ago that if I am excellent, others will not look down on me, and if I don't work hard, I will not be excellent, I don't want to disappoint my mother, and I don't want to disappoint my master." ”

Shen Leng said: "When you are older, you will understand that your efforts since childhood are not to make your mother not disappointed or not to let me be disappointed, but that you are not disappointed in retrospect." ”

Shen Leng got up: "Have you rested enough?" If you can go hunting, you have to come to me, get up and continue to practice. ”

The second prince rubbed his sour arm: "Can you rest a little longer?" ”

"No, you can't."

Shen Leng pointed to the wooden stake he had just buried there not far away: "Cut it, when will it be cut and you can rest today." ”

The second prince looked at the wooden stake as thick as his waist, and rubbed the corners of his eyebrows: "It's so difficult." ”

Shen Leng grabbed the black line knife and walked to the stake: "What you think is difficult now will not be a matter in the future." ”

With the flash of a sword-like light, the black line knife left a bright mark in the air, and the thick wooden stake was cut off by Shen Leng, and the fracture was smooth as if it had been grinded.

The second prince's eyes lit up: "Master is amazing!" ”

"Brute force only."

Shen Leng looked at the second prince: "But brute force is also practiced." ”

In the distance, Concubine Yi looked at the two men from a distance, one big and one small, with a slight smile on the corner of her mouth, she was not sure if her choice was right, but she made a choice, if she was as careful as before, she would definitely let the second prince not be so close to Shen Leng, the second prince should be closer to His Royal Highness the Prince, she has never gambled anything in her life, she is resigned to her fate, so she obeys her fate.

But she wasn't stupid or stupid, she knew it was time to gamble.

Concubine Yi took a deep breath, so that the smile on her face was not so hard, she smiled very hard in this half of her life, she was already a concubine, she can be said to be one of the most noble women in Daning, she already has enough status and confidence not to care about the feelings of so many people, but to let so many people care about her feelings, but she did not do that, she has always been adapting to others.

She was very serious and serious about Shen Leng, so she knew that Shen Leng didn't like hypocritical smiles, Shen Leng was just a general and she was a concubine, and the people would habitually feel who should obey whom or who would have more weight according to their status, but in fact, a concubine with the support of the leading general and a concubine without support were two weights.

Shen Leng is a sincere person, so learn to be sincere.

Concubine Yi told herself that at least in front of Shen Leng, she wanted to be a self who didn't have a hypocritical smile on everyone.

The mountain wind is cold, but seeing Shen Leng seriously instructing her son in martial arts, she doesn't feel cold at all.

If Shen Leng didn't jump at the moment her son fell from the top of the mountain, she couldn't say anything, but with that jump, she knew who she should trust, trusting a person and settling a person is different.

Eastern Xinjiang.

The general Pei Tingshan sat on the rocking chair and shook it gently, squinting his eyes, as if he was asleep, and his righteous sons stood straight to the side, no one dared to speak, for fear of disturbing the general.

"It's almost time."

Pei Tingshan suddenly smiled: "If nothing else, Your Majesty will lead the army north before the end of March, and the news of my deposition will come to Heiwu at the end of March, and this time is calculated by Your Majesty...... Prepare your armaments and be ready to go to war at any time. ”

Yizi Luo Chen couldn't help but ask: "Father-in-law, can you deceive the black warriors like this?" ”

"I don't know if I can deceive the black warriors, but I will definitely be able to deceive the Bohai people."

The corners of Pei Tingshan's mouth rose, like an old fox who had become an immortal: "Destroy the Bohai Sea, in fact, the destruction is not complete, the fight is too fast and there are few soldiers, the people in that place are very strange, the black warriors regard them as slaves, they also regard themselves as slaves of the black warriors, not more than ten years, they do not recognize the Ning people as their new masters, and after admitting them, they will really regard themselves as the slaves of Daning." ”

Pei Tingshan said: "Kaisong is in Bohai, if the Bohai people know the news of my deposition, they will definitely make a move, they haven't moved for this time, because they are waiting for Daning to start a war with the black warriors, once the fight starts, the Bohai people will immediately rebel...... When they learned that I was no longer the general of Dongjiang, they rebelled faster. ”

Pei Tingshan sat up and shook his neck: "To be honest, I also want to take advantage of this opportunity to retreat, find a place to retire quietly, after the Northern Expedition, I will personally go to Chang'an to ask Your Majesty for resignation, I have been a general for almost thirty years, and I am tired enough, I just feel a little regretful, I have been in Dongjiang for thirty years, and I have not cultivated a qualified successor, you are all excellent, but really compared, which of you has the confidence to win Meng Chang'an?" ”

His sons looked at each other, but no one spoke.

"Look, if someone of you stands up at this time and says that I am not convinced, I am willing to fight with Your Majesty for you, but unfortunately, you don't have the courage, from my personal point of view, I really want Meng Changan to die, I have also sent someone to kill him, but now, it proves that Your Majesty's vision is far better than mine, Meng Changan is not only a general, but also a handsome talent, if he wants to come to Dongjiang, you remember a little for me...... If you want to give him a dismount, then give it, don't hesitate, show it if you are not convinced. ”

He paused: "But if you get off the horse and give it, you will be unconvinced, and in the end, no one is stronger, and you will lose than you, then give me an honest general in Dongjiang, how you listen to my orders, how you listen to Meng Changan's orders, I, Pei Tingshan, can not admit defeat, but I can't be unconvinced, okay is okay, no is not good, I have never hidden my desire to kill Meng Changan, I also said this in front of His Majesty, but I never felt that Meng Changan was a waste, I still said this in front of His Majesty, Dongjiang sword soldiers, the soldiers trained by my Pei Tingshan, and the generals raised by me, all remember that you can have the imprint of my Pei Tingshan, but you are the soldiers of Daning, the soldiers of His Majesty, in my life, I have always wanted to be a bright and upright person, I didn't succeed, I was a little short, you try it, if it doesn't succeed, it doesn't matter, it's right to go in the direction of those four words. ”

He got up: "But before Meng Changan came, you were still my soldiers, the Northern Expedition to the Black Martial Arts, I could retire after the battle, but I couldn't lose to Wu Xinyu, do you understand?" ”

"Got it!"

The righteous sons clenched their fists.

Pei Tingshan raised his head and said loudly: "The one who beats the black martial arts the most must be my Eastern Xinjiang sword soldiers!" ”