"That was done at home, grinding out." Zhong Yuxiu stretched out his right hand and said, "Look at my hand, there are also calluses. This is often grinding out with a pen and an embroidery needle." He pointed to his little hand and said, "Your hand will be sharpened out when you come back to get a bow and arrow and a big knife, especially at the tiger's mouth."

"Yeah!" Chu Zeyuan nodded.

"Can you keep up with your studies?" Zhong Yuxiu asked worriedly at him.

Speaking of this Chu Zeyuan happily said, "It's too easy to keep up."

"You have learned all of that, of course I think it's simple." Zhong Yuxiu looked at him with a starry eye and shook her head and laughed.

"What should I do?" Chu Zeyuan looked at her in annoyance and said, "It's boring?"

"Learn always new! Everyone has a different understanding of the same paragraph of words." Zhong Yuxiu reached out and pinched his nose and knocked on his little head, "This should be more flexible, but if you listen sideways, you will be confused..."

"If you listen to both sides, you will understand, remember!" Chu Zeyuan nodded obediently.

"Okay, it's getting late and going to wash and go to bed." Zhong Yuxiu said to him.

"Oh!" Chu Zeyuan nodded gently, looked at her and said, "Mom, when will my master come back?"

"Why do you think of her?" Zhong Yuxiu said with a smile at him.

"Yeah! I really want to do it." Chu Zeyuan nodded heavily and said.

"It should be very soon!" Zhong Yuxiu said to him with a smile on her face.

"Is the matter done?" Chu Zeyuan looked at her with black grape-like eyes and said.

"It's done." Zhong Yuxiu said to him with a happy look.

After "cross-examination" of Gao Ming and others, they did not betray him. The troops were divided into two groups. One group brought salt and silver and entered Xiangyang westward; the other group went south and started the business road again. In addition to making money, they certainly could not forget the seeds that Sister Tao was thinking about.

"I haven't told me what I did secretly until now?" Chu Zeyuan said unhappily with a pout.

"What's the hurry?" Zhong Yuxiu said, "When you should know, you will know."

"Okay then!" Chu Zeyuan said with aggrieved look on his lips.

"Stop pouting, you can even hang an oil bottle." Zhong Yuxiu said to him with a funny look.

"Can you tell me a specific time?" Chu Zeyuan held her hand and shook it and said coquettishly.

"It's the year of dancing!" Zhong Yuxiu said with clear starry eyes looking at him.

"Ah! It will take so long!" Chu Zeyuan said disappointedly, "It will take six or seven years!"

"Little fool, six or seven years have passed in the blink of an eye." Zhong Yuxiu rubbed his head and said.

"I want to grow up quickly to help my father! Father and son soldier in battle." Chu Zeyuan looked at her with black grape-like eyes shining, "Dad, it's too hard."

"When you have your help, don't complain about being tired at that time." Zhong Yuxiu said to him with a smile on her face.

"No, no." Chu Zeyuan clenched his fists and waved his arms, "I just regret that I am growing slowly."

"How is your martial arts?" Zhong Yuxiu looked at him curiously and asked.

"After Master opened the acupoints for me, I felt that those internal skills and mental methods were not that difficult." Chu Zeyuan looked at her with a slight brow and said.

"Have you practiced so-called angrily?" Zhong Yuxiu said with bright eyes looking at him hopefully.

"Mom, it's not that easy. I have only been practicing for more than three months." Chu Zeyuan suddenly looked at her with big eyes and smiled, "Some people will never have it in their entire lives." He said happily, "But my master said that I have good talent and perseverance, and I will gain something."

"Success! Anyway, it's all training, and everything you practice is done." Zhong Yuxiu said indifferently.

"Mom, you can't bear the qi you train without steel and iron." Chu Zeyuan said with a smile when he looked at her with a pure eyes.

"If you just dance with a sword and a gun, I can still understand it. I really don't understand what you said." Zhong Yuxiu looked at him and smiled dotingly, "But there is your master! Listen to her."

"Yeah!" Chu Zeyuan nodded with a smile.

"Okay, let Chuntao take you to wash up." Zhong Yuxiu patted his shoulder and said.

Chu Zeyuan got up and put the chair back in place and left the room.

Zhong Yuxiu took out his son's schoolwork from his bag and looked through it carefully. The word "has improved" and the paper was much cleaner, so the ink would not drip in a ball.

Overall, it looks very stable, horizontal and vertical, and it is not written in a black ball, which makes people distinguish it.

He opened his son's lecture notes again and looked at the annotations above, "Did this child listen to the lectures very carefully?" He stroked the intimate finger and explained it smoothly and steadily to the present.

The words of enlightenment are more than enough. If you want to have more advanced knowledge, you have to continue to look for it. After all, they have richer experience.

&*&

The cold wind is so cold that it is like a knife, and it cannot be stopped. The Yanting official army is doing so.

The black torrent mixed with snow particles rushed towards Luzhou City.

"Report!" When Chu Jiu received the scout's report, the army rushed straight into Luzhou. It was estimated that one day the vanguard would arrive.

Time is tight, Chu Jiu directly ordered all the soldiers and civilians outside the city to be withdrawn back to the city. In order to speed up, soldiers were dispatched to help the people carry the loads and push wheelbarrows. He took away all the things in his home. Those who could not be taken away were hidden. Those who could not be hidden would be destroyed. Anyway, he would not leave any slag for the Yan army.

People in the city were busy resettling these people who suddenly flocked in.

Mr. Liu contributed the shops and weaving workshops on the street.

With him taking the lead, all the shops in the city were arranged to live temporarily by the people outside the city.

Even Zhong Yuxiu's garment workshop and school were requisitioned.

In winter, everyone is crowded together and wrapped in bedding and closing the doors and windows, it is not that difficult to bear!

Chu Jiu was busy deploying troops and strengthening his vigilance. There were people patrolling the city walls and streets in the city day and night to prevent some people from taking advantage of the chaos.

The sky became dimmed, and Chu Jiu walked in with snowflakes.

"It's okay outside!" Zhong Yuxiu stood up and looked at him and asked hurriedly.

Chu Jiu took off his armor from his head and put it on the coffee table. He looked at her and said, "Don't move, it's great outside."

"Dad!" Chu Zeyuan ran over and spread his arms and rushed over.

"Don't come over, I'm too cold, don't freeze you." Chu Zeyuan stopped quickly when he heard the sound and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." He walked towards him.

"You are not afraid, I am afraid. I am sick at this time, so I'm in trouble." Chu Jiu stretched out his long arm on his shoulder, refusing him to approach.

"Hurry up and set up the meal!" Chu Jiu raised his eyes and looked at Zhong Yuxiu.

"Chuntao, Chuntao, set up a meal." Zhong Yuxiu looked at Chuntao standing behind her and ordered, "Just put it here."

"Yes, Miss." Chuntao was blessed and quickly walked out of the room.

"You should take off your armor too!" Zhong Yuxiu looked at the armor on his body with a cold light shining under the candlelight, making it even colder.

"No, after dinner, I have to go to the city wall to defend the city!" Chu Jiuyi lifted his battle robe and sat on the drum stool.

Zhong Yuxiu came over and sat next to him, while Chu Zeyuan sat down next to his mother.

"Are they here?" Zhong Yuxiu asked with concern as he looked at him.

"The vanguard who was leading the battle has arrived and has set up camp outside the city." Chu Jiu looked at the mother and son and said, "Don't worry, we have already predicted this battle, and we are even glad that they are here."

"Why?" Chu Zeyuan asked curiously with blinking his eyes.

"Look at whether it's cold outside?" Chu Jiu pointed outside with a smile and said.

"Cold!" Chu Zeyuan said immediately after hearing this.

"So! Fighting in such a cold day is a severe test." Chu Jiu looked at him with dark eyes and said, "There are tents outside the city. In such a cold day, the wind blows through and it is not warm at all. It is not as good as the brick and tile houses in the city are not afraid of the cold."

"But they are surrounding us and can't go out. What should I do if I eat and drink?" Chu Zeyuan said with his big eyes looking at them.

"Boy, okay!" Chu Jiu scraped his nose and said happily, "The food is very sufficient. This summer harvest and autumn harvest, our granary is full. They will have no problem even if they have surrounded it for the first half of the year."

"What about vegetables? It's not okay if you don't eat vegetables." Chu Zeyuan looked at him and asked again.

"In winter, every household has ginger vegetables and radishes, and there is no shortage of vegetables." Chu Jiu looked at him with a smile and said, "And the New Year is coming soon. If you have money or not, you have to buy some New Year's goods for the New Year. Most of the food is here, so you can't be hungry." He smiled and said, "And the Yan army outside the city is in trouble."

"Why?" Chu Zeyuan looked at them with big eyes like black grapes, puzzled.

"Guess, son," Zhong Yuxiu said, looking at him encouragingly after hearing this.

"Guess!" Chu Zeyuan's big, round eyes turned, "We are not afraid of him surrounding us. Are they full of food and grass?"

"Continue to talk." Chu Jiu said as he looked at him.

"I found that the people who entered the city not only brought their families with their families, but also brought their belongings." Chu Zeyuan tilted his little head and thought carefully about everything he saw during the day. Suddenly, his eyes were bright and he looked at them, "The food is bigger than the sky, there is no food outside the city, right?" He suddenly said with annoyance, "Before the troops move, the food and grass go first, and people must have prepared enough." He said worriedly, "Dad! What should we do? They have been surrounding each other, what should we do in spring plowing?"

"It's not easy to consider this." Chu Jiu looked at his facial features and wrinkled together, "Okay, no matter whether he has enough food or not, his father has a secret weapon."

"Secret weapon." Chu Zeyuan's shiny eyes looked at him curiously, "What is it?"

"You will know when you come back." Chu Jiu said with a smile at him like a bright moon.

"Dad, you will go up to the city wall later, I will go too." Chu Zeyuan begged to look at him and said coquettishly, "Dad..."

"Yuan'er is not allowed to make trouble." Zhong Yuxiu said to him with a stern face.

"Mom!" Chu Zeyuan looked at Zhong Yuxiu with a gaze.

"This is a war, no nonsense is allowed." Zhong Yuxiu looked at him with a tough attitude and said, "Obe obedient."

"But mother..."

Before Chu Zeyuan finished speaking, Zhong Yuxiu said directly, "No, but."
To be continued...