[Comprehensive] Travel to the world of martial arts and raise a boss

In the days that followed, Gu Xichao never mentioned his mother again, never went to the Feiyan Tower, and never even stepped outside the threshold of the Gu residence.

He is quiet, well-behaved, and if precocious children want to be pleasing, few people can not have a good impression of them. Gradually, everyone in the Gu family accepted the existence of this young man, except for the two original servants of Gu Lanxi. concubine.

Originally, Lu Chongming didn't take the two women seriously, he just raised them for the original owner. In his eyes, these two were no different from the other servants in Gu's mansion.

But those two are not worry-free, not to mention a bowl or two of soup with added ingredients from time to time, just for Gu Xichao, he has seen them sneering at him more than once.

Not to mention the despicable verbal harm the two adults did to the cub, it was also very detrimental to Gu Xichao's growth environment. In order for him to grow up healthily and happily, even if the two were concubines of the original owner, he would not care about them. When the New Year's Eve was approaching, the housekeeper was asked to give each of them a share of money that would allow them to live a life of carefree life as long as they were frugal, and sent the crying couple away.

How much effort Gu Xichao has contributed to this can be seen from the slightly raised corners of his lips when the two concubines left the house.

Since then, everyone in the mansion has become more respectful in front of him, and will not neglect him because of his young age.

Then, the New Year's Eve will come.

This is Lu Chongming's first Spring Festival in this world, and it is also the first time for Gu Xichao to celebrate the New Year in Gu's residence.

Although there are many people in the Gu family, they are clearly divided into ranks, and the people below will never dare to overstep. Therefore, on New Year's Eve, only two people sat at the dinner table, and it seemed a bit deserted. The father and son seemed to be dependent on each other. .

The customs and habits here are different from those of the Mingyu Empire, but the New Year's Day still exists.

It's just that Lu Chongming's status is special. He used to have very few days at home, and the number of times he spent New Year's Eve with Lu Xiaoguai was no more than three fingers. Looking at the boy's delicate eyebrows and eyes, he suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of guilt. There is also a little nostalgia between the brows.

As if trying to make up for something, after the New Year's Eve dinner, Lu Chongming took the boy to watch the New Year's Eve together, set off firecrackers, the crackling sound made Gu Xichao tightly cover his ears, and for the first time smiled brilliantly, like a real kids.

The first day of the Lunar New Year is a day to visit relatives and friends and pay New Year's greetings everywhere.

As the magistrate of Yanzhou, who has only been in office for a few months, it would be a good idea to win over local officials and expand his network on such a day, but Lu Chongming obviously has no such plan .

Exercising his current body every day, learning all kinds of common sense in this world, and cultivating a relationship with Gu Xichao, this is his itinerary for the past few days.

To be honest, he hasn't lived such a leisurely life for a long time, and he feels pretty good.

Perhaps the so-called development test is not so difficult, if he treats it as a rare vacation.

It's a pity that the leisure time is destined to be short-lived. On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the general judge Situ Yunxiu came to his mansion holding the document Shi Shiran.

When he came, Lu Chongming was teaching Gu Xichao how to practice calligraphy. Although the child was still young, the handwriting had already begun to take shape, at least much better than the three days when he first came here.

After hearing the servant's report, he left Gu Xichao alone to continue practicing in the study, and then went to the side hall alone to meet the guests.

Situ Yunxiu didn't come by himself, he was followed by another person, a young man around 20 years old.

The young man was dressed in old white long clothes, and he looked quite downcast, but this could not conceal his handsome demeanor.

Lu Chongming was slightly taken aback. At first glance, this person looked like a Pianpianjia young man who was not at all tainted by fireworks, but Lu Chongming could see the unwillingness to be lonely, and the unruliness hidden in those eyes. Difficult to tame.

This is definitely a person who does not match the appearance at all.

"Lord Gu." Seeing him coming, Situ Yunxiu quickly got up and saluted, and the young man standing behind him also bowed and saluted like him.

"Situ doesn't need to be too polite." After coming here for so long, he still understands the etiquette here. Lu Chongming waved his sleeves and said, "Please sit down."

A servant came in, served tea, and left quietly.

Only then did Situ Yunxiu introduce Lu Chongming, "This is Bai Mingmo, the master of Xingfu County. I really have some important matters to discuss with you when I come with him, which disturbs your annual vacation. Please don’t blame me, my lord.”

Lu Chongming shook his head, indicating that it's okay, and then asked: "What made you come here in person?"

Situ Yunxiu sighed with a wry smile, and then said to the young man sitting at the bottom, "Come and talk to your lord."

Bai Mingmo clasped his hands and said yes, he was silent for a moment, as if he was trying to clear his mind, and then he slowly told the whole story.

Xingfu County is an inconspicuous small county. The total number of people in the county is only about [-] households. Although the life in the small county is a bit poor, it is still passable. It is just a luck that they survived starvation.

But such a day was ruined by a group of bandits who came from nowhere in the second half of last year.

There is a mountain next to Xingfu County, which is rich in resources. From time to time, people from the county will go hunting, picking wild fruits and herbs in the mountain, but no one has dared to enter the mountain since last year, because there are many A group of bandits settled down inside.

It was okay at the beginning, although those bandits would occasionally go down the mountain to rob a passing merchant or something, but Xingfu County and Xingfu County did not interfere with each other, and the two lived in peace.

If you usually go in and out of the city, you can just change the road.

But this balance is broken when winter comes and the first snow falls.

The other road in and out of Xingfu County was blocked by heavy snow, leaving only the one occupied by bandits, and since the weather turned cold, those people's actions have become more rampant. the common people.

Bai Mingmo sighed and said: "Five days ago, those bandits sent a letter to the city, asking my lord to hand over tens of thousands of grains and [-] yuan in money, otherwise they would lead people into the city. In a poor county, so much grain is collected and hungry people are the people in the county, the county magistrate has no choice but to let me come to rescue the soldiers, and I hope the magistrate will send troops to rescue quickly."

Bandits?Lu Chongming frowned. As a soldier, he instinctively hated this kind of person. In the past, every year during the graduation season of the military academy, he would personally take those soldiers who had just walked out of school to the interstellar space to suppress bandits. While training them, he also attacked them. For those rampant interstellar bandits, it can be said that Marshal Lu Chongming is a fearsome existence in the eyes of bandits in any country.

After a moment of silence, he asked, "How many people are there on the other side? How many officers and soldiers are there in your county?"

Bai Mingmo stretched out two fingers slowly, and said, "The number of officers and soldiers in the county is less than two hundred, and the number of the opponent, according to my estimation, is probably no less than three thousand."

"Three thousand?!" Lu Chongming slapped the table and stood up, his sharp eyes suddenly shot at Situ Yunxiu, "Three thousand bandits gathered in the territory and none of them reported it?"

Situ Yunxiu's heart trembled, and he said with a wry smile: "Yes, I asked General Wang to pay attention to this matter years ago, but I didn't know about it until I went to General Wang's place after I learned the seriousness of the matter from Master Bai. He knew about it a long time ago, but he refused to send troops and didn't want to take care of it."