Chapter 67: A Girl's Mind (1)
The smart and handsome little girl hurriedly followed him, but she was secretly distracted in her heart.
She is thirteen years old this year. Although she is late in maturity, she has a lot of precocious mind than other girls because she reads more books on weekdays, so naturally there are girls who are in love with their youth.
When Dong Zhuo was in chaos, although he admired her father very much, there were voices scolding Dong Zhuo everywhere in the city. At that time, she secretly made a wish that if anyone could kill Dong Zhuo, she would marry him in the future and serve him for the rest of her life.
This was originally a childish idea of the little girl. Although she secretly told her mother and aunt, no one took it seriously. She just smiled and warned her not to talk nonsense. Who knew that Cai Yan was stubborn by nature and regarded it as her life's goal. When she was free, she would fantasize alone what kind of hero would the person who killed Dong Zhuo be? She often thought of her face blushing, lying on the bed and covering her quilt on her head, and not daring to face the maid in the room.
A few days ago, the streets were filled with rumors that General Jianwei, Feng Emperor, returned to the capital, killed the treacherous minister Dong Zhuo with his own hands. Cai Yan was already surprised and happy. He also heard that the general was extremely handsome and not like a human being. He was like a god descending to earth. He was even more overjoyed. He hid in the house alone and had a fever in his face, and he wanted to run to see his appearance immediately.
Unexpectedly, disaster came from the sky. Cai Yong was caught in the prison for crying beside Dong Zhuo's body. The family was panicked and frightened and howled. I heard that if the general and the grand tutor had not reported the emperor to find out the facts before making a decision, Cai Yong would have been executed that day.
Cai Yan hated her father for being confused, and secretly thanked the general for saving his father's life. Late at night, she looked at the sky and prayed, hoping that he could spare his father, and that he would be a slave and a servant in this life, and he would be willing to do so.
She took the maid to the palace gate to meet the general who pleaded for his father, but was driven back by the soldiers guarding the gate. She said that the general was not here, but she refused to talk about the general's residence. Cai Yan had to go home and cry secretly, her heart was broken and she didn't know what to do.
This panic has been like this for many days. At almost noon, my father actually came back by himself! It also brought good news that the general wanted to take himself as his concubine!
Cai Yan was surprised and was about to laugh out loud, but suddenly he saw the whole house crying. He was shocked and started crying.
She thought about it and finally made a look of understanding the righteousness and was willing to save her father with her own body. The whole family was so moved that she burst into tears, but she laughed in her heart.
When she arrived at the gate of the General's Mansion, she finally became scared and didn't know how to be his wife and concubine. Her father was crying again, so she started crying.
The tutor came out, squirted blood, and took her into his disciple. Cai Yan was surprised, and although he felt relieved, he felt very disappointed in his heart, and he didn't know what it felt like.
As soon as she recalled this, she suddenly saw that the teacher had stood in front of her, with anger on her face and shouted, "I dare to go out of class, and stretch out my hand!"
Cai Yan stretched out his hand in fear and placed it on the table. Huang Shang raised the ruler and slapped it twice. Then he calmed down and went back to recite his "Eighteen Beats of Hu Zi".
While reading this poem that he changed to many places, Huang Shang explained that this was a sad and angry poem written by a woman who was captured by the Huns in the late Western Han Dynasty when Wang Mang was in chaos. He was also distracted in his heart: "A thirteen-year-old girl should be able to get married, right? By the way, I remember the history books said that when Xiahou Yuan's daughter was thirteen, she went out to go up the mountain to collect firewood. She was snatched away by Zhang Fei as a wife, gave birth to a daughter, married Liu Bei's son, and became the queen of Shu Han. That was the fifth year of Jian'an. Zhang Fei was at least 20 years older than that little girl at that time, so she dared to steal her as a wife, and she had courage! Alas, it would be great if the boss had such courage, but I knew it was impossible!"
He sighed and suddenly saw Cai Yan staring at him curiously. He couldn't help but be angry and said, "It's because you don't work hard to grow your body that makes me so worried! You said that if you work harder, you might have grown to over 20 years old now, so I don't have to worry!"
Thinking of this, Huang Shang said angrily: "Come here, put your hands on the table, and put your palms up!"
Cai Yan came over with a pouting mouth and put a pair of crystal white hands on the table. Huang Shang slapped two rulers hard and felt better. He began to recite "Eighteen Beats of Hu Zi" again and assigned homework, asking Cai Yan to memorize this poem tonight, otherwise he would not be allowed to sleep.
Chapter completed!