Tang's dining table

"Brother Dingfang, why is this horse so cruel? It doesn't count killing the opponent, but it also whips the corpse?"

An old man wearing a soft hat asked the bald old man beside him, who only held his hair in a bun with a wooden hairpin.

The old man with a pale face said calmly: "The horse king is like this when he encounters a gelding. He wishes he could kill him and then kill him quickly."

"There are many geldings in the army."

"There is no horse king in the army! There is no horse king allowed. Otherwise, it will roar and run away with all the horses."

"Is the Wuzui horse of the former overlord of Western Chu considered a horse king?"

"It doesn't count!"

"Why?"

"Castrated."

"Huh? Since the king of horses has to be castrated, why hasn't this horse been castrated?"

"That's because this horse only served briefly under that old dog Liang Jianfang. If it had served under the old man, it would have been castrated long ago.

Look, this horse has a cruel temperament, and its owner is blocking others from saving that good horse. It can only be said that the owner of this horse is not a son of a man, and he even spoils this bay-red horse. broken. "

"In that case, Lao Su, look at the fighting situation over there?"

The clear old man Lao Su glanced at Yun Chu and Cui Xuanli who were fighting fiercely, and said disdainfully: "Originally, they were evenly matched. Now, one is confused and the other is gaining momentum. We will see the difference soon."

"You think that young student will win?"

"What's so strange about this? When the momentum is enough, sheep can chase away wolves. What's more, this imperial student is not a sheep. He should be a poisonous snake or a leopard. Both of them are the best hunters in the world. "

As soon as the old man finished speaking, Cui Xuanli feinted with a spear, then turned around and ran away. He felt it. The young man opposite wanted to kill him today. This was probably a conspiracy. Someone took advantage of the golden prince to specially arrange it for him, the Silla envoy. trap.

And he has a heavy responsibility. Queen Zhende is dead and King Wuyeol is about to ascend the throne. He has to wait for the Tang Emperor to issue an order. This is a serious matter and his life must not be lost here.

Yun Chu put away his spear in disappointment and raised his fingers at the stunned Prince Jin Guang. Prince Jin Guang, who seemed to have lost his ability to think, automatically came to Yun Chu.

Yun Chu spat on the ground and said, "Can you please stop bothering me in the future?"

Prince Jinguang seemed to wake up all of a sudden. He jumped and pointed at Yun Chu: "You beat me nine times. This is the shame of my life. I must..."

Before he finished speaking, he was punched in the eye.

Yunchu looked at the golden prince squatting on the ground, covering his eyes, and said, "Okay, you have added another shame."

"Hiss——" The spectators all gasped.

When the horse came back, the guy looked like a butcher, with blood all over his body and the dirt in the horse's stomach.

Yunchu had already offered the price of horse washing to one hundred dollars, but none of the brave Imperial servants were willing to take on this job.

In a short period of time, Yun Chu had raised a horse that was accustomed to eating meat, and word had spread throughout the Imperial College.

The next "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" lesson Yunchu would not attend as usual. The question of throwing a rope into a well and calculating the length of the rope was not difficult for him.

Take the bay-red horse to the pool, first use a brush to brush off the bits of meat and dirt stuck to its body, change the water in the pool, and then pour water on it to wash away the blood stains bit by bit.

One stroke was not enough, so Yun Chu brushed the horse three times, and it was not over until there was no more blood flowing down.

Yun Chu was working hard to bathe the maroon horse. Two old men in long robes were lying on the railing, watching Yun Chu brush the horse.

When he discovered that Yun Chu had opened the maroon horse's mouth to brush its teeth, he said strangely: "You are so good at this job."

Yun Chu smiled and said: "Horse teeth are vital to its life. How can it be unclean?"

The white-haired old man said: "I just saw your horse kill another horse. It has a cruel temper. Aren't you afraid?"

Yun Chu looked at the white-haired old man and said, "The Duke of Yanmen has killed countless people in his life and killed countless people with his own hands, but Duke Zheng has introduced him as a good friend. Isn't Duke Zheng afraid?"

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Tong'an County Duke Zheng Rentai said in surprise: "You actually know about me? So, you must also know about this person, right?"

Yun Chu put down his brush and saluted, "Yun Chu has met General Su."

Su Dingfang looked at Yun Chu and said calmly: "Of the 108 squares in Chang'an, only you, Jinchangfang, are closest to the soldiers.

Ever since you welcomed the victorious Zhao Xiaozu at night and appeased the soldiers who fought in hundreds of battles. In more than two years, you have held seven long table banquets, and one of them was to welcome the defeated soldiers. Can you tell me why? "

Yun Chu frowned and said, "Did we do something wrong?"

Su Dingfang shook his head and said: "I did nothing wrong, just..."

"There is nothing. The people of Jinchangfang just insist on doing the right thing. Whether it is a victorious army or a defeated soldier returning home, they are our own sons and daughters. We celebrate the victors and comfort the defeated. Is there anything wrong with that? "

"There is nothing wrong, it's just..."

"I have said that there is nothing but that as long as they are my sons in Guanzhong, they are my own family. I don't ask their names, and they don't have to give me anything in return. Prepare some drinks, meals, dances, and songs for them to let them know the elders of Guanzhong. , did not forget them.

After drinking, eating, and watching the singing and dancing, you can do whatever you have to do. At least you won't feel aggrieved, and you won't think that you were fighting a bloody battle on the border in vain. "

"Qibi Heli returned victorious. You didn't prepare a long banquet or prepare a song and dance to respond."

Yunchu checked all the teeth of the bay-red horse and found no shreds of meat embedded in them. Then he closed the horse's mouth and said, "General Qibi Heli won the battle. He has a princess to marry, and there is Tiele City under Ganzhou where you can live." , and there are fertile pastures under the Yinshan Mountains where cattle and sheep can be raised.

There is no need for us, ordinary people, to sing, dance, or respond to it, because their hearts are already happy. "

"Qibi Heli didn't think so. He got drunk and cried over this, and even complained to His Majesty that since he was already a minister of the Tang Dynasty, he would never have second thoughts in this life. Yunchu, Qibi Heli is different. "

Yun Chu sneered and said, "You generals are so powerful that as long as you order a certain city and spend some money, you can have a lively celebration banquet anytime and anywhere. Why do you need Jinchang?" Fang comes out first.”

Zheng Rentai frowned and said: "It would be fine if you Jinchangfang only held a long table banquet. You can do all these things you said. It's a pity that I and others found that the military commander only recognized you Jinchangfang." When the banquet of Jinchang City is the first priority, it will become a scandal to try to get other cities to do what Jinchang City does.

The soldiers who returned home in triumph would feel inferior if they found that there was no long table banquet at Jinchangfang. "

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "I don't want to leave a stain on the Jinchangfang Long Table Banquet. Think about it, how many barbarians have surrendered to the Tang Dynasty and rebelled in recent years?

General Cheng is still playing the game of eagle and chicken with the rebellious Ashina Helu in the Gobi Desert of the Western Regions.

Although the long table banquet in Jinchangfang was simple, not a grain of food was prepared for those rebels who might rebel.

Two generals, the long table banquet originated from the common people, and all the contributions on the long table are the people's thoughts. The reason why the military leader cares about the long table banquet in Jinchangfang is because he enjoys the wishes of his fathers and fellow villagers, not What kind of food and wine?

A certain family heard that an emperor had a golden cup with a handle, which was studded with various gems. It was extremely luxurious. Whenever a minister did something important for the country, the emperor would fill the golden cup with fine wine as a reward.

Later, all the ministers were willing to give up a thousand gold rewards and take it as an honor to drink wine from a golden cup.

Later, the emperor suffered from hemorrhoids and suffered abnormally. It was said that someone needed to lick the hemorrhoids sincerely to relieve the pain. There were flattering ministers who took the initiative to suck the hemorrhoids for the emperor.

When the emperor's patient was relieved and had nothing to pay for it, he actually allowed the man sucking the hemorrhoids to drink from a golden cup.

From then on, no loyal person was willing to drink from this golden cup.

At present, Yun Chu thinks that the long table banquet in Jinchangfang is a golden cup of our Tang Dynasty. Yun will never allow this golden cup to be stained with any dirt. "

Hearing this, Su Dingfang and Zheng Rentai looked at each other, shook their heads at each other, and Su Dingfang said again: "It seems that I and Mr. Zheng are too easy to talk to, so why not let Liang Jianfang talk to you."

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "The Duke of Yanmen is here, and the boy will only say that from now on, the long table banquet in Jinchangfang will be over, so as not to incur unwarranted guilt on the residents.

It's ridiculous to say that we supported the Tang army, but something went wrong. It seems that we really made a unnecessary move. "

Having said that, no matter how ugly the faces of the two generals were, Yun Chu took the wet maroon horse out of the pool and let it stand in the bright sun, shaking off its fur and shaking off the water.

Zheng Rentai looked at Yun Chu, who was standing in the sun, and the maroon horse that was shaking crazily, and sighed: "I think what he said makes sense. There have been too many rebel generals from the Hu people in recent years."

Su Dingfang glanced at Zheng Rentai and said, "Isn't there any traitor among Tang generals? He is trying to deceive you and me into talking easily.

Furthermore, what qualifications does he have to criticize me as a general of the Tang Dynasty as a mere liang leader? Is it true that he has saved up for more than two years and held seven long table banquets? "

Zheng Rentai laughed and said: "That's really the case. It's strange to say that the soldiers have already begun to think about the delicacies at the long table banquet in Jinchangfang before they go to war. It's really strange.

I have lived for more than sixty years, and this is the only strange thing I have seen in my life. "

Su Dingfang looked at the blue sky and smiled bitterly: "It turns out that people's hearts can really be manipulated..."

Yun Chu, who had finally cleaned up the bay horse, now had to face the trampled corpse of a dead horse with broken intestines and bleeding.

Prince Jinguang had one of his eyes blackened by Yun Chu and was unable to see anyone. His guards couldn't defeat Yun Chu, so they hurried away.

As for Cui Xuanli, he disappeared without a trace, so the disposal of the dead horse fell into Yun Chu's hands.

He had to personally eradicate the corpse of the dead horse. This was the punishment given by his teacher Li Yifu after he helped him resolve the matter with the Imperial College officials.