Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

Chapter 104
The sharp and decisive young man seemed to have suddenly changed into a different person, with raised eyebrows and a face full of teasing. When he laughed, he showed two pointed canine teeth, which looked a little cute and gave people a feeling of being easy to get close to.

Seeing this, Gu Yunji felt relieved, and walked towards him with a smile: "It's not that I don't know him, but I don't dare to recognize him. I haven't seen him for a winter. The son is really reborn!"

Su Qi raised his chin proudly: "Of course! Shibie will look at you with admiration for three days. I have been in such a bitter and cold place in northern Xinjiang for several months. Can I make no progress at all?"

After chatting for a few words, Su Qi started to fart again, and it seemed that he hadn't changed at all from before.Gu Yunji couldn't help laughing, and slapped him on the back: "You, you! The majestic look of keeping away from others just now shocked me, I'm afraid you will be taken away."

"Hiss—it hurts, hurts! Yunji, be gentle!" With a palm down, Su Qi grinned suddenly, "The injury on my back hasn't fully healed yet! My father beat me hard!"

Gu Yunji's face changed, and he immediately went to see his injury: "What? Did Duke Ding hit you? What did you do wrong to beat you so hard? Is the injury serious?"

"Don't look at it, it's almost better, but it still hurts a little when I touch it now." Su Qi sideways avoided his movements, and said in a normal tone, "What kind of mistakes can I make? Every time I can be caught by my father, I will be beaten if I catch him, new injuries will be piled up with old injuries, and my back will never heal."

Gu Yunji frowned when he heard this, and asked a little incomprehensibly: "Is Duke Ding being too cruel to you? You are his own son, so he can do it?"

Su Qi shrugged his shoulders: "He's really good at it. My father said that even if I have acquired a whole body of martial arts, as long as I haven't really practiced it in the army, it's nothing worth mentioning. I don't deserve to be a A descendant of the Su family. This time I went to northern Xinjiang, he directly put me into the iron cavalry battalion, trained like an ordinary soldier, punished if I made mistakes, and rewarded for meritorious deeds, without any preferential treatment."

"Speaking of it, my father already loves me. Although I have served in the army many times since I was a child, I have not suffered much. My daily life is different from that of ordinary soldiers, and the training is not too heavy. , It’s not an exaggeration to say that it’s just for fun. Only this time, he did his best to grind me hard.”

Hearing this, Gu Yunji was amazed at Ding Guogong's uprightness and strictness, but also admired Su Qi's free and easy attitude, and couldn't help asking: "Then do you blame him? If it's an ordinary family, facing such a cruel father, would you Those who are children may have long been dissatisfied."

"Resentment? Maybe there was once." Su Qi thought for a while, with a somewhat uncertain tone, "But now I don't blame him. Maybe it's because I've grown up and can understand his good intentions. Or maybe It’s because he leads by example and has stricter requirements on himself than on me, so I have nothing to complain about.”

Su Qi's eyes showed a bit of rejoicing: "You know, my father didn't study hard when he was young, and was forced to join the army by his grandfather when he was 14 years old. Fortunately, I am better than him, and I have some talent in reading. Otherwise, he would have brought me to northern Xinjiang long ago, so he wouldn't let me roam free for so long."

"If Xu Shanchang hadn't told my father that I might be admitted to Juren and study for two more years, otherwise he would have wanted me to stay in Beijiang and not return to the academy."

As he said that, Su Qi made a move to wipe away his tears, and said in a sad tone: "Yunji, I almost won't see you, the northern border is freezing, how can I live without you! These few days I really miss you and Cheng Yan for a month!"

"Get out! What a mess!" Gu Yunji laughed and cursed, "You can still live without us! Even if the few of us stay together now, and later enter the imperial court and become officials, maybe we will be on the same side, sooner or later They all have to be separated.”

Su Qi's mood stopped in an instant, and he soon became optimistic: "Let's talk about the future, anyway, right now I will stay in Luxi Academy and continue to accompany you. At least until the next imperial examination comes, I will see it with my own eyes. If you and Cheng Yan pass the Juren and Jinshi exams, then it will be considered complete."

Gu Yunji did not continue this topic, but looked at his dusty appearance and asked: "Speaking of which, have you just returned to Hangzhou Mansion? Why did you come here at such an opportune time, just in front of Wei Qianhu and the government officials? Appeared when it was time to fight."

Su Qi snorted, and then put his hands behind his back: "It's been a long time since I came back, but I haven't seen you. The head of the mountain said that you are at the construction site here, and you won't go back until evening. I will wait for you." I couldn't wait, so I wanted to take the initiative to come to you. Who knew that on the way, I ran into a yamen servant who was about to go back to the city to report, saying that Ren Yingze was fighting with Wei Shigan, a thousand households from the guard. I was so anxious that I immediately Hurry over here."

Recalling Wei Shiqian's attitude towards Su Qi just now, Gu Yunji was a little puzzled: "Do you know Wei Qianhu? It seems that he is very convinced of you, and he will accept whatever punishment you say, without any complaints."

"Wei Shiqian was originally from the Iron Cavalry Battalion. He was my father's personal guard. He also watched me grow up. Later, he had to quit the front line due to injuries. Then he went to the Hangzhou Guard and took the position of a thousand households. Prepare to spend the rest of his life in peace. It's a pity that this time he will not escape the guilt."

Su Qi sighed, with a lot of regret in his expression: "Wei Shiqian is a good soldier, but his temper is too strong, he never bows his head to show weakness, and he is not good at courting and socializing. The most important thing in his life is the honor and pride of a soldier. Today he I almost made a big mistake out of impulsiveness, although I stopped it in time, but after all, it violated the military regulations of the guard, and I will inevitably be punished by the commander after I go back."

Although it was Ren Yingze who provoked him first, Wei Shiqian hurt him after all. Everyone present can testify that if he was wrong, he was wrong, and he couldn't escape no matter what.Wei Shiqian had already been beaten with a military baton, and he would be demoted from the military post as a punishment after returning home.

Thinking of this, Gu Yunji sighed silently in his heart, and put the matter aside.

While chatting, the two started walking on the construction site.Su Qi recalled what he saw along the way, and sighed: "Speaking of which, during the time I was away, you did a lot of things, you gave porridge and built houses, and your life was very fulfilling. Well."

Gu Yunji smiled wryly: "Not only is it fulfilling, it's almost too busy. But fortunately, many things are about to be finished. As long as there is housing and food, the refugees will be able to settle down immediately."

Su Qi asked: "Then what should we do after we settle down? The government provides clothes and food, so they can't support these refugees for a lifetime, can they?"

Gu Yunji said: "I heard Master Lu mentioned that after that, the first thing to do is to provide relief with work, recruit refugees to build projects, and reclaim wasteland to distribute fields, etc. In short, there are many methods, and I don't know how to implement them."

After a busy day, he couldn't help but feel a little tired after being relaxed at the moment. Gu Yunji thumped his sore shoulders, looked at the sunset in the sky and said leisurely:

"However, we have to wait for the spring to talk about these things. Now we just need to do the things right now and let the refugees settle down completely."

(End of this chapter)