During the three days of martial arts, except for the morning and evening, which were the same as the other four days, the daytime was spent doing basic exercises, exercising all parts of the body, and no moves were taught, some like yoga, some like difficult movements in acrobatics, and the rest were to temper the strength of the arms, waist and abdomen, and legs.

"No wonder Zhao Yi didn't want to practice before, this is just too uncomfortable, sore, numb, painful, itchy, it really tastes like it. If it weren't for the herbs to maintain health, I'm afraid I would be able to abolish a sound person. Even I haven't done this in my previous life, but this herbal bath is really good, no matter how tired and uncomfortable it is, just soak it, it's really magical, and the body is also greatly increased, and now I guess it's similar to other eleven or twelve-year-old boys. Zhao Xi thought while practicing, and he should divert his attention.

"Hey, why don't you hum today? You weren't old humming and chirping before. Zhao He asked with some surprise.

"If you have to endure hardship, you will become a master!"

"Where did you hear that? What did Master Li teach you? Zhao He was even more surprised.

"No, it's a sentence from the princes of Chu Gaozu in the History of Chu." Zhao Yi moved his body and replied.

Zhao He helped his baby son correct his posture and asked with a smile: "Can you understand Chu Shi?" ”

"No, children can understand some of them, and there are some words they don't know yet, let alone understand the meaning."

"Yes, yes, yes." Zhao He touched his short beard and sighed with a smile.

Looking at his son's hard workout, Zhao He was not as happy as before, and there was a touch of worry in his eyes.

"Young master, your handwriting is so beautiful!" Ruyu looked at Zhao Xi's words and unceremoniously threw out her words of praise.

Looking at the little girl next to him who was three years older than herself, Zhao Xi smiled and said, "This is still good-looking?" My father and Mr. Li's handwriting is much better than mine. "After all, it's a soul in his twenties, and he can learn words much faster, and two years have passed, although Zhao Xi's words are nothing in the eyes of adults. But at the age of ten, it's very good.

"After all, the young master is still young, and even Master Li praised the young master and said that your handwriting is good."

Looking at the girl that her mother gave to her to take care of herself, Zhao Di thought for a while and asked, "If you want to learn, I'll teach you." ”

Ruyu listened excitedly and hurriedly asked, "Can slaves and maids also read and write?" ”

When Zhao Xi heard this, he suddenly understood that in this world, slaves and maids do not have the right to read and write, unless the master's permission is granted. There is still a hierarchy gap between slaves, and those who can read are better than those who can't. Like Ruyu, of course, I want to learn to read and write, so that I can stay with the young master, and I don't have to do some rough work like everyone else, after all, the young master's close attendant is equal to half of the master, Ruyu of course knows how many sisters envy her.

"Of course, I'm quite bored by myself, and my father and mother won't let me go out." Zhao Yi thought for a while and asked, "Ruyu, when did you enter our house?" How could you sell yourself into slavery. ”

"The slave maid came five years ago, the family was poor, and the northern indigo invasion, the whole family fled, there was really no food or drink, so they had to sell me to support my younger brothers and sisters." Ruyu said with red eyes.

"Northern Invasion? Are you saying that there is a war in the North? So how far is it from there? Zhao Yi asked in surprise.

"Not far away, only three or four hundred miles, the northern Yan Ya often invades, every year."

“…………”

I thought I was in a peaceful and prosperous world, but it turned out to be in the chaotic frontier. I don't know how the Central Plains are, it's really dangerous to stay here, why didn't my father move to the Central Plains? The Central Plains is also restless? But no matter how restless the Central Plains is, it's better than the frontier! Could this be why my father asked me to learn martial arts? By the way, I don't know where Pingzhou is?

While Zhao Yi taught Ruyu to read and write, Zhao He's study was talking about him. "Madam, are you here to go out for a trip, so that Lao Li can take a look, and if something happens, it can be arranged." Zhao He frowned and said.

Mrs. Zhao said a little anxiously: "It's been four or five years, it should be fine, if something happens, it will be out a long time ago." ”

"Madam, don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case, I know better than anyone else what those people are capable of, not to mention that there are so many things here with us, besides, I'm not just in case. A few years ago, I got the news that several households in Jizhou had disappeared, and they were the rest of the people who had settled there before. Zhao He said helplessly and angrily.

"What, did they chase them to Youzhou, from Chang'an to Youzhou, they really live up to their reputation." Mrs. Zhao said with some horror: "Okay, take Xian'er out and let Lao Li take a look from afar, but just being afraid of this may not be able to hide, no, we must think of a perfect plan, and we can't let our son miss a little." ”

Zhao He took Mrs. 's hand, patted it lightly, comforted Mrs. who was a little nervous, and said confidently: "Madame, don't worry, no matter what happens, I will definitely protect the safety of you and Xi'er." When I went out this time, I picked a few clever boys to study with him, so that the kid would not keep saying that he was bored in the yard and wanted to go out. After speaking, Zhao He rolled his eyes a few times, seemed to think of something, and put down the big stone in his heart.

"Xi'er, I don't practice today, today we go around Pingzhou City, don't you want to go out all day long." Early in the morning, Zhao Xun, who was preparing to temper his body normally, heard his father's voice.

"Great, I can finally go out and have a look." Since Zhao Yi can remember, he has hardly been out of the house, although he doesn't know why, he didn't ask, because he believed that his parents did it for their own good.

Fireworks in March, grass grows warblers fly, it stands to reason that it is indeed a good time to go out to play, but after Zhao Yi left the house, what he saw on the carriage was not the young master and son, meeting together, but beggars all over the street, not ordinary beggars, but refugees, groups of refugees. If it weren't for the guards who went out of the house and brought more than 30 people, and the girls added up to 50 people, I am afraid they would have been robbed by the refugees.

Zhao Yi naturally stayed in a carriage with his parents, looked at the refugees on both sides of the street who were begging, and couldn't help asking: "Mother, where did these refugees come from, why is there no one in the yamen and no one to provide disaster relief?" ”

Zhao He sighed, shook his head and said: "These are the people of Yingzhou, Yanzhou, Weizhou, Shenzhou, Xuanzhou, Chongzhou and other prefectures in the north of Pingzhou, but these prefectures and counties were invaded by the five northern tribes of the Yan Sect, so they fled here. First, there are too many refugees and can't be relieved, and secondly, the assassin of Pingzhou Mansion doesn't want to bear these, so if someone wants it, he will sell himself as a slave, and if he doesn't ask for it, he will either wait for death or cause trouble. I don't know how many bandits in the east and north of Youzhou are forced out like this. I felt that it was useless to talk to a ten-year-old child, and finally sighed helplessly.

"Pingzhou Assassin Shi is so inactive, not afraid of punishment from superior officials? Besides, there are a lot of bandits, this is also a matter of assassination! Zhao Xi couldn't help but ask.

Zhao He glanced at Zhao Yi and felt that his son seemed to be becoming more and more mature, and explained: "The highest civil official in Youzhou is the Xuanfu Envoy of Youzhou, although he is in charge of the government affairs of the entire Youzhou, he cannot exempt or punish officials at the state level, and can only play to the imperial court and be dealt with by the imperial court. If in normal times, the performance of the Xuanfu envoy would definitely be able to deal with him, but now, don't say whether it will be played, even if it is played, I am afraid that no one will care. ”

"As for the bandits, that's the military attaché's business, the governor of Youzhou wants to resist the northern frontier, and he has no time to take care of these, and the governors of the state capitals are waiting for the refugees to be bandits, while beckoning the refugees to suppress the bandits, not only get the rewards of the imperial court, but also be greedy for the pension sown by the imperial court, in addition to the financial support of the chamber of commerce and landlords. Hum! Speaking of funding, Zhao He couldn't help but snort.

Subsidize? I'm afraid that these lieutenants are persecuting them, and if they don't give it, I'm afraid that these people will attack them in the name of mountain bandits and thieves. Zhao Yi looked at his father's ugly face and guessed.

Wait, Youzhou? Mo is not in the later Hebei and Liaoning areas of the Youzhou.

In the next communication with his father, Zhao Xi affirmed his position, which was the Youzhou in the ancient Han Dynasty, but only the western half. Pingzhou City is more than three miles long on one side, and it is also a not small city, because the north is the grassland tribes, there are not a few foreign merchants who come and go.

The city of Seongdong in Pyeongju is a place where merchants of all ethnic groups gather, and various goods such as horses and furs from the north and tea, porcelain, and salt from the south are traded.

Although he didn't know what his parents were doing here, Zhao Xi looked around, and although he had seen the high-rise buildings of later generations, he still felt a different flavor of this authentic ancient city. In addition, Zhao Xi also found something strange, his family went out of the house this time, only himself and his parents were three, but they pulled four big cars, and the other three or two did not pull the curtains around because there were no people, and through the window, you could see that there were some groceries inside.

Strange, do you need to use such a big car to transport some groceries? But I bought too much, I saw that my father didn't look at anything when he bought something, he just bought it and threw it in, is it because there is a lot of money and nowhere to spend? Zhao Yi muttered to himself.

The convoy slowly drove towards Nancheng, passing through a relatively crowded street, and Zhao Xi's carriage was moving next to the eaves on the right, still very slowly.

"It's too slow to take a detour to the right side of the trail ahead." Zhao He ordered in the car. However, to Zhao Xi's surprise, his father took off his robe, revealing a white samurai power suit inside.

"Don't be surprised, with your mother." Zhao He patted Zhao Yan's head gently and whispered. When Zhao Yi's carriage went around a corner, and the servants of the convoy behind could not see the front, and the guards and slaves in front did not look behind or see the back, Zhao He lifted the curtain and jumped out. Before the curtain fell, Zhao Yi saw that the place outside the window, which was a palm's width away, was the window of the opposite house.

I said how this carriage is so high, and the windows are so big, it turns out that this is how it was used. Why? Is there anyone spying on our family? Is this because my parents don't let me go out? Also, my father's skills are really extraordinary, and he flew out of the window quietly without relaying in the small car, if this family was arranged by his father, it would be even more powerful, who are they? Zhao Yi couldn't help but fall into deep thought.