Pig Killer

Chapter 382

"Brat." Shen Hui'e slapped Shen Penglai on the back of the head.

"I was right." Shen Penglai smiled naively.

"Go! Give the order!" Huang Zhongchang said to him with a smile on his face.

"Hey!" Shen Penglai turned around and jumped three times to walk out, then hurriedly stopped, turned around, bowed solemnly and said, "I'll take my leave."

"Brat." Huang Zhongchang scolded with a smile upon seeing this, and watched him leave. He stretched out his legs, leaned back on the chair, and pinched his eyebrows.

"What's wrong with you?" Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep and clear black eyes.

"Standing in this position, I understand why the emperor wants to live forever and pass down the country from generation to generation," Huang Zhongchang said with deep emotion.

"Don't even think about that." Shen Hui'e said bluntly.

"Don't think about it. Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings." Huang Zhongchang looked at her with his dark eyes and said, "I am thinking that the soldiers who followed us are the same."

"This is certain and cannot be avoided." Shen Hui'e looked at him with clear eyes and said, "Each generation of weasels is inferior to the previous one."

"Haha...what kind of metaphor is that?" Huang Zhongchang shook his head and chuckled.

"Take this military honor for example!" Shen Hui'e tapped the table with her index finger, "Our generation fought our way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. What about our descendants?"

"Our son is worried that there will be no battles to fight!" Huang Zhongchang smiled tenderly, "What's wrong? Let our descendants follow in his footsteps and fight their way out."

"It's not that I don't want to join the army, but I can't." Shen Hui'e looked at him with calm eyes.

"Why not?" Huang Zhongchang sat up straight and looked at her and said, "If you want to be conferred a title, fight for it."

"Hmm..." Shen Hui'e tilted her head and looked at him and said, "Look at the Convict Army and the Northwest Frontier Army. There are several generals who inherited their father's career, especially the middle and lower-level generals."

Huang Zhongchang knew these numbers clearly, "Uh... they are rare."

"The descendants of military families are likely to produce useless people and playboys. Most of the so-called noble families rely on the merits of their ancestors to abuse their power, or just eat and wait for death." Shen Hui'e raised her eyebrows and looked at him and said, "I have seen the population registers of those military generals. What are their descendants doing?"

"We play cockfighting in our hometown, but they are good at eating, drinking, whoring and gambling!" Huang Zhongchang said with an unpleasant expression, "Prodigal son." His dark eyes were deep and bottomless as he said, "Born to be a prodigal."

"Haha..." Shen Hui'e laughed heartily when she heard that.

"What's so funny about this? Did I say something wrong?" Huang Zhongchang looked at her in confusion and asked, "What are you laughing at?"

"I laughed..." Shen Hui'e raised two fingers and said, "There are two choices for reincarnation. One is to be a child from a poor family, but he is very talented and needs to strive for the best. The other is to be a child from a wealthy family, who has everything but is here to ruin the family."

"Ahem..." Huang Zhongchang chuckled and shook his head, "Really? Fake?"

"Whether it's true or not, we've seen too many examples, the second generation before us." Shen Hui'e looked at him with clear eyes and said, "The great rivers and mountains have been ruined."

Shen Hui'e looked at him with her bottomless eyes and said, "The descendants are lying on the merits of their ancestors and inheriting the title of Duke from their fathers. They grew up in a rich and luxurious environment. How could they join the army? They can't stand the hardship, can't get on a horse, can't draw a bow, and have never even killed a chicken, touched a knife, or seen blood. They think a horse is a tiger. General Gao is as timid as a chicken. If you ask them to run ten miles, they will bleed. They are not even qualified to be deserters." She said bluntly, "If you really let these grandsons go to the battlefield and take command, that would be a deadly pit."

"Yeah!" Huang Zhongchang nodded in agreement.

Shen Hui'e snorted and said, "Of course he is from a military family. He was forced by his father or was influenced by him. He has read a few military books. He usually talks a lot when he is playing on the sand table. He speaks very logically and has a plan without any omissions... But when he is on the battlefield, he is confused, panic-stricken, and dazed. He is no better than a pig."

"Just paper talk." Huang Zhongchang thought of these four words.

"Yes!" Shen Hui'e nodded slightly, and then said slowly, "A brave general must be born from the ranks!" Then she continued, "Only generals who have fought their way out of the most difficult and terrible desperate situations are the most reliable generals, because they have combat instincts and command experience gained at the cost of millions of lives and countless blood."

"What should we do then?" Huang Zhongchang frowned and looked at her.

"Children and grandchildren have their own blessings! We can't even take care of our own descendants, and you still have the leisure to take care of others." Shen Hui'e looked at him with amusement and said.

"You really want your descendants to be like the Second Emperor!" Huang Zhongchang said, staring at her with his dark eyes.

"It's not that I want to do this, but that my descendants are not doing their best." Shen Hui'e said bluntly, "Mencius said: The kindness of a gentleman will be cut off after five generations."

"Is there no other way?" Huang Zhongchang looked at her without giving up.

"Yes! I just can't do it." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep and penetrating eyes.

"How is that possible?" Huang Zhongchang looked at her in disbelief.

"Heaven moves with vigor, and a gentleman should constantly strive to improve himself." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her dark eyes and said, "To cultivate oneself, to regulate one's family, to govern the country and to bring peace to the world, to establish oneself first requires to establish learning, and to establish learning requires reading as the foundation."

"It's just studying! How can it be impossible?" Huang Zhongchang said disapprovingly.

"Studying is not just about being able to write and memorize. You have to apply what you learn." Shen Hui'e kindly reminded him, "It's not just about copying and pasting. This requires personal understanding."

"It is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her bright black eyes and said.

"Second generation!" Huang Zhongchang blurted out, "He is corrupt and indulges in pleasure, and he has nothing left to live on."

"As long as you remember me, my trip here isn't in vain." Shen Hui'e chuckled and shook her head.

"Haha..." Huang Zhongchang laughed, "We must carefully analyze and summarize what we have."

Shen Hui'e shook her head and laughed when she heard this, "Victory is just mentioned briefly, but defeat is written all over!"

"That's right! Summarize the lessons learned." Huang Zhongchang smiled and said, "How can I not do what you said?"

"Because we don't want our children and grandchildren to experience the pain our parents went through. We can't bear it." Shen Hui'e pursed her lips and looked at him and said, "The generations are close. You can bear it but the child's grandmother and grandfather can't."

"Haha..." Huang Zhongchang looked at her in astonishment and chuckled, "My children and grandchildren have their own blessings, I can't care so much. I can only do my best in everything, and the rest is up to God's will."

"You've let it go so quickly." Shen Hui'e looked at him with bright eyes.