Although Xiang Ju'an was not in the dining hall, the news about Jiang Yingnian's public punishment of two soldiers soon reached his ears.
In the evening, Jiang Yingnian had just returned from patrolling with his men when he was summoned by Xiang Juan. Jiang Yingnian still looked puzzled and asked: "General, what do you want from me?"
"Tell yourself, what do I want from you?" Xiang Ju'an put down the military book in his hand and said, "I heard that you embarrassed two soldiers in public just to vent your anger. Is this true?"
Jiang Yingnian admitted directly without thinking: "Yes, this is the case."
"You're quite magnanimous." Xiang Ju'an pointed at Jiang Yingnian and sighed: "You, you! Originally, this was not a big deal. It's normal for you to punish a few subordinates, but it's not necessary.
It's so serious." He took a sip of tea and said, "You forced those two soldiers to eat a large bowl of rice. They went back and tried many methods before they vomited it out. No matter how much food a normal person eats, who can?
Can you eat so much? It’s a shame you can think of using this method to punish people! The two of them are not feeling well right now.”
"If it doesn't feel good, then it doesn't feel good. If it really makes the two of them feel comfortable, it won't be considered a punishment." Jiang Yingnian said calmly: "What's more, I don't think this is a serious punishment, at most.
It’s just a slight punishment.”
Xiang Ju'an hesitated to speak, the expression on his face was uncomfortable. Jiang Yingnian felt strange. With Xiang Ju'an's temper, he would not go out of his way to say something just because of such a trivial matter. He must have something else to say.
Want to say.
Jiang Yingnian asked tentatively: "Why, the general has become more and more kind-hearted?"
Xiang Ju'an asked, "What do you mean?"
Jiang Yingnian found a chair and sat down casually, and said: "You were not like this when I first entered the military camp. I made some mistakes, and you punished me much more severely than this!" He teased: "
When have I not been beaten by you? This time I just punished them by eating more food, so you think I went too far?"
Xiang Ju'an could hear the flavor in his words and laughed and scolded: "You brat, you are getting more and more courageous now. You can say no matter the big or small things more easily than anyone else! Now you are blaming me for treating you
Is one person harsh?"
Xiang Ju'an chewed the dregs of tea leaves in his mouth, spit it on the ground, thought for a while and said: "I called you here to tell you that there are more than just people in this camp who I selected. You don't know something.
, before you came, there were some people in this camp who were transferred by the imperial court, and they were different."
When Jiang Yingnian heard Xiang Ju'an say "they are different", he knew what Xiang Ju'an wanted to say. Xiang Ju'an had been writing to the court, asking for some reinforcements, but Emperor Shu said
This matter has always been ignored. Emperor Shu did not agree or explicitly refuse. This matter has been consumed like this.
Xiang Ju'an knew that he was not very sure about this matter, but he still had some hope.
Jiang Yingnian understood the truth, but he was still unconvinced and said: "What happened to the imperial court? They can do whatever they want? Our military camp has never had such a trend. Who gave them the courage to do so openly?"
Say those nasty things?!"
Seeing Jiang Yingnian's angry face, Xiang Ju'an had no choice but to comfort him: "Okay, I know Zheshu came from your Qingzi camp. You are no better than others, so your feelings are naturally much deeper. You don't know what kind of wrong he suffered."
It feels bad, but right now... Sigh! Go see him more in your free time, and enlighten him more."
Jiang Yingnian responded: "I understand."
Just as he was about to go out, Xiang Ju'an stopped him again: "Yingnian."
"Huh?" Jiang Yingnian looked back and said, "Do you have anything else to do?"
Xiang Juan's eyes were soft and natural as he said, "Yingnian, your temper needs to change."
Jiang Ying smiled young, touched her nose, and said: "I can't help it. I've had this temper since I was a child. My family couldn't do anything about me, and my elder brother couldn't control me when he was here. I've lived for more than 20 years.
It’s been like this for years, I’m afraid it won’t change in a while.”
Xiang Juan did not reprimand him as usual, but said seriously: "If you can't change, you have to learn to change slowly. If you want to be a general in this army, you can't always have this temper."
"Oh?" Jiang Yingnian scratched
Scratching his head, he said with a hint of joking: "I didn't tell you that I wanted to be a general. You're not old yet. You can't be thinking about finding someone to succeed you right now, right? So what?
If we don’t find Xiang Lincheng..."
"Fart!" Xiang Ju'an picked up the lid of the tea cup on the table and threw it over. Seeing Jiang Yingnian catch it steadily with his hand, he cursed: "You little bastard, you can't say anything every day.
Let’s talk seriously.”
Jiang Yingnian smiled playfully and brought the tea cup cover over, saying, "I'm just kidding, no one in this military camp can live without you, brother!"
Xiang Ju'an was very helpful when he called him "big brother". Strangely enough, Xiang Ju'an was a biological brother with a real blood relationship. He also had no shortage of people calling him "big brother", but Jiang Yingnian's call
"Brother" called out, and he suddenly felt comfortable all over.
Xiang Ju'an couldn't hide his joy and said: "Little bastard, you do whatever I say. What I say to you is from the bottom of my heart. How can I harm you?"
"Yes, yes, I will definitely listen to what you say." Jiang Yingnian muttered: "But sometimes I really can't change my temper. My temper and personality are things. Brother, others don't know, don't you know?"
Jiang Yingnian blinked his eyes, his expression clearly saying: Aren't you the same? You can't change your temper, so you want me to change it?
Xiang Ju'an glared at him and said, "Can you be the same as me? I happened to be short of people in the military camp at that time. I had my father's connections and I became a general not long after I entered the military camp.
They were all promoted very quickly. But you are different. There are several good ones in the same batch as you, and only those two are available. Aren't you making things difficult for me?"
Jiang Yingnian is a smart master, not to mention that Xiang Ju'an meant what he said, so he quickly understood what Xiang Ju'an meant.
"Yes, you said earlier that you would choose two people in the army to be awarded the title of "General Defending Rong" and "General Defending Cavalry". It has been so long, and it seems that there should be a result." Jiang Yingnian Dynasty
Xiang Ju'an winked and said, "Brother, do you have a suitable candidate in your mind?"
Xiang Ju'an glanced sideways at him, poured a cup of tea, blew the floating tea leaves, and ignored Jiang Yingnian.
Jiang Yingnian said: "In my opinion, what we have from Nanqin is pretty good. In addition, Brother Helan is also pretty good. I just don't know what you are thinking, big brother. If you want to test us, these few actual battles
Come down, it should be a test enough, right?"
Xiang Ju'an snorted lightly and said, "You're quite good at analyzing. You're not stupid."
Jiang Yingnian saw that Xiang Ju'an was in a good mood, so he boldly continued: "You just called me here specifically, you wouldn't teach me to change my temper for no reason, right?" He touched his chin, pretending.
He pondered: "Something is bound to go wrong... Hey, I don't know, maybe he wants to fix me."
Seeing the affectation on his face, Xiang Ju'an couldn't help laughing and said, "You brat, you are really thick-skinned!"
Jiang Yingnian was happy and said: "Hey, what can be done about this? Some people scold me every day and look like they can't stand me, but they can't help but they really like me in their hearts. It's really hard. It's so hard.
!" He winked at Xiang Ju'an again and said, "You think so, General?"
Xiang Ju'an was too lazy to pay attention to him, and just said: "Since it's all the same, you should behave yourself from today on, and don't be out of shape for another day! There are so many pairs of eyes in the camp watching,
Don’t tell me that I don’t have the nerve to preside over the conferment of the title when the time comes!”
Jiang Yingnian felt like he had eaten honey. He was good but didn't want to go out. He approached Xiang Ju'an and whispered: "Brother, since you have revealed it to me, why not reveal a little more?" He half-begged and asked:
"What about the other place? I won't talk in circles with you. I guess the other place must be between Ayu and Helan. Do you have an idea at this moment?"
Xiang Ju'an looked at him again and said, "Are you still asking? Are you itchy?"
"Ouch, my skin is not itchy." Jiang Yingnian picked up the tea cup shamelessly and was about to feed it to Xiang Ju'an's mouth, saying: "I'm itchy, it's very itchy! Please, just tell me
Me!"
Xiang Ju'an avoided him and said angrily: "You just know what's yours, ask others to take care of it."
Why do so much?!"
Jiang Yingnian put down the tea cup and said: "Why are you asking other people? No one is an outsider! I just want to know whether you will choose Ayu or Helan? Just tell me. If you don't tell me, then I will
Just come to you every day, and I will come to you when I have nothing to do!"
Xiang Ju'an was so annoyed by him that he couldn't bear it. He rubbed his temples and said, "I'm really annoyed to death. I've been harping on such nonsense all the time. If I had known about it, I wouldn't have asked you to come over. I've been put through all this trouble in vain!"
"
Jiang Yingnian chuckled, stood behind Xiang Ju'an and patted his back perfunctorily, saying: "I don't want to bother you. Think about it, this is not a major secret. We have nothing to do with this matter."
Everyone will know sooner or later, what difference does it make if it's earlier or later? If you tell me earlier, I won't be entangled in my heart, and you will be less upset, right?"
Xiang Ju'an pondered for a moment and said, "Actually, I've been thinking about this in my mind these past few days. Ji Yu and He Lan are both good. I feel good about whoever I choose, but if there is anyone left,
I don’t feel good about it either.”
He said "Alas" again and said: "If we really count them in terms of merit, the two of them are almost the same, and the difference is just a little bit different."
Jiang Yingnian asked: "What's the difference?"
Xiang Ju'an looked directly into Jiang Yingnian's eyes and said: "This capture was all because Ji Yu found a way to spread the news from the enemy camp, so that our army had the opportunity to capture the Well of Purgatory in one fell swoop. This is one of them."
He looked deeply and said quietly: "The second and most important point is that Helan had a dispute with the Hechiliu refugees at the Yanjiang Corridor. Someone's life was in his hands. Although we are suppressing this matter for the time being,
But as long as this matter continues, someone will come up with it and say that the rumors in the court are very powerful, and a few spitting incidents will forever undermine Helan's achievements."
Jiang Yingnian's heart trembled involuntarily, and his heart beat like a drum. Xiang Ju'an's words had been made very clear. Jiang Yingnian swallowed a mouthful of saliva and confirmed again: "Then...another place, which one will you choose?
