Chapter 19 Moonlit Night

Chapter 19 Moonlit Night

Chapter 19 Moonlit Night

Today is the fifteenth day of the ninth lunar month. The moon is at its zenith, and its bright light shines all over the earth.

In the moonlight, Le Sen stood with his hands behind his back, gazing into the distance at the lonely lamp on the Laiqing Pavilion in the long night, silent.

A gentle breeze blew, and thousands of tall bamboos in the garden swayed in the wind, with the bamboo leaves making rustling sounds.

After a long while, Le Sen turned around, flicked his sleeves and said, "Let's go!"

Everyone was puzzled. Hai Qing came to Le Sen and said, "Le Xiucai, did the person who invited you here stand you up? That's really rude."

Le Sen smiled, his eyes shining, “No, she promised me.

I asked her maid to help pass on the message, saying that if she is willing to wait for me to return from the battlefield and marry her, she should hang a lantern upstairs. "

He likes to study whatever he lacks. As a eunuch, Hai Qing likes to inquire about the affairs between men and women. His eyes lit up at that moment, "You are having an affair with the daughter of a wealthy family. Tsk tsk, which daughter would not like such a handsome scholar like you?

But why did you leave like this? This is such a loss.

Since the young lady is interested, I will do you a favor. My Qinggong is pretty good. I will jump into the garden and carry the young lady out, so that she can run away with you.

Don't worry, I'm pure and won't desecrate your lady.

If you are worried about getting into trouble by kidnapping the young lady, Brother Tian is better than me in fighting. Let him take you to the attic. A meeting between a talented scholar and a beautiful woman would be like a scene from the West Chamber, wouldn't it?"

Le Sen shook his head, "Our relationship is pure, we admire each other, we don't seek pleasure overnight, we seek spiritual dependence.

The Wu family thought that I didn't pass the imperial examination and was not worthy of their daughter, so they rejected the marriage that my eldest brother had asked for me.

But the provincial examination is held every three years, the road to imperial examination is too long, and beauty fades quickly.

I have now resolutely decided to join the army and gain fame on the battlefield. I look forward to achieving success, stepping on a five-colored auspicious cloud, and returning to marry Miss Qingfeng legitimately."

Shao Quanzhong understood what was going on and patted Le Sen on the shoulder, "Brother, I'm not trying to discourage you, but your plan is not very reliable.

Indeed, if you follow me, I promise that you will be able to achieve fame and success on the battlefield.

But there is no guarantee of success in fighting, even in ten or twenty years.

By then, your Miss Qingfeng will be old and ugly, wouldn't it be a waste of her youth? Maybe she has already been married off and has many children and grandchildren.

I despise you educated people for this. You think highly of a woman and think highly of her. You have no future.

If you really like a woman, you must get her by any means necessary. Make her pregnant first, and then your father-in-law will be worried."

Shao Quanzhong's words were too vulgar, but actually quite reasonable. Ke Lesen was in the middle of the situation, so he couldn't listen.

Looking at the bright moon in the sky, he sighed, "We are soulmates through the ages, don't speak so vulgarly.

Last year, Mr. Lutan and I visited Guanyin Temple in Jiangyan and wrote poems and essays. Miss Qingfeng, who was burning incense and fulfilling a vow, heard us. She admired my talent and fell in love with me at first sight. We became close friends and have been writing letters to each other ever since.

Since Miss Qingfeng has hung up that lamp, she will definitely wait for me. I am sure of that.

Even if it takes ten or twenty years to succeed, that light will lead me back to her."

Shao Quanzhong shook his head. "Brother Le, you are a romantic person and there is no hope for you. Mr. Lu Tan, your good friend, should be your senior, right? Why doesn't he try to persuade you?"

"Being in love is not a good thing."

"The friendship between gentlemen is as fragrant as orchids. Jiang Lutan is also a failed scholar, a man of temperament."

Well, they are birds of a feather. Le Sen has been led astray by that Mr. Jiang.

Le Sen waved to Lai Qingge, turned around and left resolutely, chanting, "When I wave my hand, the white clouds suddenly change, when I look up, the bright moon has no beginning or end. I carry my walking stick and leave again, my clothes rustling in the autumn wind."

Everyone sighed and turned away.

When everyone turned around, the window of Laiqing Pavilion in the distance suddenly opened slowly, and a slender figure stood at the window, looking down at the five figures walking away in the alley.

The small lights beside me flickered, emitting a warm yellow glow, swaying left and right in the night.

The maid's hurried footsteps came up the stairs, "Miss, you have been standing in front of the attic window for half the night, aren't you tired?
Just now, Wu Fu sent me a message that the young master is not feeling well and may not survive tonight. Don't you want to go see your brother?"

Miss Qingfeng hurriedly followed the maid and dropped the jade pendant she had been holding tightly in her hand into the attic without noticing it.

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The next morning, two hundred local warriors stood at the training ground, and Shao Quanzhong officially began training. Le Xiucai's understanding of Shao Quanzhong was that he was a "righteous man" who sent Wenxiu home thousands of miles away, a brave man who dared to kill bullies in the street, and a smart man who knew how to recruit good family boys to train elite soldiers.

The martial arts should be good and the knowledge should be high, but the level of training is not necessarily the same.

Fortunately, the most important thing for a leader is knowledge, and he does not necessarily need to know how to train soldiers. He can just learn from Zeng Guofan and find a few veterans who are familiar with battle formations to help.

However, Tian Xing and Zhang Siwen vaguely knew that Shao Quanzhong was a warlord in his previous life and must be knowledgeable about military affairs. They were very much looking forward to seeing Shao Quanzhong take action for the first time.

Shao Quanzhong never concealed his identity as a time traveler in front of his sworn brothers. There was no need and it was too tiring.

Nowadays, there are many things that are more amazing than time travel, but you just hate it when others don’t believe in your magic and promote it everywhere.

For example, some called themselves "My Father Jehovah", some claimed to be the reincarnation of Maitreya, and the name of the Nian Army came from the ritual of lighting paper wicks to invite gods, and each of them showed immense magical powers.

If Shao Quanzhong had not appeared, there would have been many senior brothers who were possessed by Guan Erye, Sun Wukong, Nezha, and Lei Zhenzi, who would have used their powers to fight in the martial arts world and were invulnerable to swords and guns.

Even if Shao Quanzhong went to the street and shouted loudly, "I am a time traveler who has possessed the body of a warlord from later generations," no one would take it seriously and would instead laugh at him. That's not okay. At least you have to be Yue Fei to be possessed by his body to be awesome.

There is no chance that I would be captured and sliced ​​up for research just because I said I was a time traveler. Instead, there is a greater chance that I would be captured by the government and beheaded as a rebellious White Lotus demon.

Shao Quanzhong started training his troops by training his generals.

He called together the three brothers Tian Xing, Hai Qing, and Zhang Siwen, plus Song Lao San, to form a four-member model group. He personally began training with two hundred people watching.

Stand at attention, at ease, march in step, turn left, turn right, turn back, the formation must be neat, Shao Quanzhong demonstrated personally.

This is completely different from traditional training methods.

There were also those who had some knowledge who knew that this was the training method used by the foreign devils, but it seemed to be more stringent than the requirements for the British, French, and American soldiers in Shanghai.

Of course it is more strict, this is the German army training method that originated from the Beiyang Six Towns.

Well, Germany had not yet been unified, and that place was still called Prussia.

Le Sen was a man who had seen foreigners and was knowledgeable. He had originally joined the crowd with a smile, but after taking a look, he immediately strongly requested to participate in the training, and the model group was expanded to five people.

Among the five people, two are martial arts masters and one is a scholar, all of them are smart. Zhang Siwen has followed Shao Quanzhong for a long time and has been the most influenced by him, but there is no problem with that.

Shao Quanzhong was most worried about Song Laosan. When he was childhood friends with him, he was still the loser of the Shao family, a typical farmer with no vision.

As a result, some people are born to be soldiers, and Song Laosan is the best one.

These five people learned it in just quarters of an hour. It seems that the foreigners' training method is nothing special.

Then Shao Quanzhong asked the soldiers to form groups of ten and imitate the five people to try it out. The peasant militiamen who were watching and thought it was nothing were immediately confused.

The untrained militiamen couldn't even tell their left foot from their left. When Shao Quanzhong gave the order, they all turned in different directions and degrees.

This is what we call watching people carrying firewood without any effort.

Military training for college students in later generations is much easier than this. Why?
Because students have been living in a collective environment since they were six years old and go to university after twelve years of training, they have laid a solid foundation.

That was the foundation for China to become the world's factory in the future, and few countries in the world could do it.

Now Shao Quanzhong has to start from scratch, which is extremely difficult.

Fortunately, the Chinese are very smart, unparalleled in the world, and among the ten people there was one who walked correctly and did not make any mistakes. He was immediately promoted by Shao Quanzhong to be the temporary shed leader.

This is the advantage of China.

The British trained Indian soldiers in the Indian colony. At the beginning, almost no one did anything right. Many British instructors held whips and cursed, and their blood pressure rose every day. In this regard, Shao Quanzhong was much happier than the British instructors.

After the 200 new recruits had left, Shao Quanzhong had successfully selected 20 smart tent leaders, and it was already time for lunch.

Coming out of the kitchen, Shao Quanzhong instructed, "Big Brother, Third Brother, and Song Lao San, the three of you should follow this method first and practice everyone's formation and basic exercises.

Let the shed leaders lead their men in practice, and you correct them on the side.

Brother Le, go hire a boat to Shanghai.

Siwen, get ready and go to Shanghai with me tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)