When breakfast was ready, Wu Du came over with the food, and the two placed them in the hall, ready to eat.
I don't know when there were more people in the hall, and they were sitting and drinking tea slowly, but it was Fei Hongde who had been missing for a long time. Fei Hongde was in a mess. Not long after he arrived, the people in the house looked for Taishou Wang to pass the news, but he didn't go to the kitchen. They didn't meet until Wu Du finished cooking.
Duan Ling: "..."
Fei Hongde smiled and nodded to Duan Ling. The two sides had already known each other for a long time. Fei Hongde didn't even get up and said, "I guess I'll be on the road, but I can't say that I can eat a meal."
The people came so suddenly, Duan Ling didn't even react, and subconsciously said, "Mr. Fei came just in time, let's have breakfast together."
Wu Du: "..."
After being stunned for a while, Fei Hongde stood up with a smile and said, "Meet your lord."
Duan Ling shouted: "Mr. Fei!"
Bringing a Fei Hongde is more effective than giving him thousands of troops. It's just God helping me! Duan Ling thought that Fei Hongde would only send people to deliver food or reply a letter, but he didn't expect to come here by himself!
Duan Ling stepped forward excitedly, took his hand, hurriedly invited him to sit, and then knelt down in front of the case, saluting him respectfully, so happy that he didn't know what to say.
Fei Hongde said happily: "When I first saw the adults years ago, I felt like a child, and now I am still like a child."
Duan Ling's mood at the moment was as happy as Wu Du was doing somersaults in the peach forest that night. He wanted to go out and run for a few laps, but Fei Hongde said this, the implication was to make him stabilize his focus, so he felt embarrassed.
"Why did Mr. Fei come in person?" Wu Du bowed his hands to Fei Hongde, and the two sides sat down. Wu Du then ordered someone to scoop up a bowl of porridge and let Fei Hongde have breakfast first.
"I've been in Liao for a long time, and I miss the food in the Central Plains." Fei Hongde said, "After all, I can't get used to it, and my stomach is uncomfortable. It's better to eat the food in the south."
Duan Ling laughed, and Fei Hongde said, "You two please, don't worry about my old man."
Everyone has their own porridge first. Duan Ling said in his heart that as long as you are willing to stay, although Zheng Yan may not be able to please, let me cook for you and serve you.
"This porridge is cooked like everyone else." Fei Hongde drank a little and smiled again.
"Zheng Yan taught it." Wu Du said, "To learn the skill of cooking, start with cooking porridge."
"Yes." Fei Hongde glanced at Duan Ling and said, "Learning cooking from porridge is too much, it's a difficult task."
"Yeah." After several months, Duan Ling has become accustomed to direct answering, and now it seems that he is back in front of the prime minister who loves to be aggressive and has something to say. His mind can be turned around, knowing that Fei Hongde is implying to himself that everything needs "heat".
"I still have to practice." Duan Ling said, "I'm afraid that time will wait for no one."
"Well..." Fei Hongde was thoughtful, but he didn't ask any further. What does time wait for no one mean? Duan Ling also had his own hints and worries. Fei Hongde asked, "How is Your Majesty's health recently?"
"When I left Yecheng, my health was still good." Duan Ling replied.
Duan Ling did not urge him to ask about borrowing food. Since Fei Hongde is here, the food ration will definitely be solved. Even if he doesn't borrow it, he must have a solution. The first topic that Fei Hongde opened after sitting down was the most important to each other, to Yecheng and the entire Nanchen Jiangshan.
"How long is the term of office?" Fei Hongde asked again.
"It's three years as a rule." Duan Ling replied, "I'm afraid I won't be able to stay that long."
As long as he can clean up Yecheng, he will have to go back.
Fei Hongde said: "It's okay, everyone is busy these days, so let's think about it slowly and carefully."
The topic has ended here, Duan Ling knows how to return to the dynasty, the matter is very important, and Fei Hongde has not decided, but after leaving Tongguan that day, Fei Hongde must have thought about this issue.
"What did Liao say?" Wu Du asked.
"Fortunately not humiliated." Fei Hongde smiled.
Duan Ling breathed a sigh of relief and stood up to salute Fei Hongde. Fei Hongde was busy and humbly, untied his luggage, and said, "After Xiliang Prince Helianbo returned, he wrote a letter to inform Yelu Zongzhen about your meeting in Tongguan, and with a wave of His Majesty Yelu's royal pen, the food was transferred. ."
Thank goodness, Duan Ling thought. But Fei Hongde added: "There is also a handwritten letter for you, asking you to go to Liao State in person when you have time next spring."
Duan Ling: "..."
Duan Ling took the letter, but did not open it, leaving it on the table. Wu Du said: "This abacus is sound."
Fei Hongde said: "Originally, His Majesty Yelu should have transferred this batch of food. After all, Chen and Liao had fought in the past, and now they are brothers with cold lips and teeth in the face of Yuan people. General Wu, please forgive me for saying a wordless word. It's time to let it go, let it go for the time being."
Wu Du did not speak. For him, the mother and the master died in Shangzi, and they had an inseparable relationship with the Liao people. Although Xunchun said that he died in Shangjing, if he is investigated...
"What did he say?" Duan Ling asked.
"Very unexpected." Fei Hongde said, "Your Majesty Yelu said that after reading Prince Helian's letter, he stayed up all night."
"Okay." Duan Ling thought to himself, Yelu Zong really should have guessed something. Among the three, the only person who knew Duan Ling's true identity was Batu, and even Helianbo didn't know what his true identity was. Prince Chen of Nan. Only tell Zong Zhen that his current name is Wang Shan.
As for how Yelu Zong really guessed, it is not clear whether he has taken other measures to test Nan Chen.
"There is another box here." Fei Hongde took out a wooden box from the bag and handed it to Duan Ling. Duan Ling glanced at Wu Du, who opened it for him.
Duan Ling: "..."
"What does this mean?" Duan Ling looked at the contents of the wooden box. At first, Duan Ling thought that the long box was a sword box. small.
Fei Hongde replied, "He said you'll know it when you see it."
"Peach?" The corners of Duan Ling's mouth twitched. Does this mean that he should escape quickly
Wu Du asked, "What token of love did you give him?"
Duan Ling: "..."
"I didn't give him a token of affection!" Duan Ling hurriedly defended.
Wu Du was accustomed to this kid messing around with flowers, but he couldn't do anything about him. After all, it was something that people knew about him before, what could he do? The Liao Emperor had known Duan Ling for a longer time than he did.
Fei Hongde just smiled, didn't speak, and replied, "The food will arrive in a few days. I'm no younger than a young man, and I've been on the road for a few days, but I can't afford it."
"Quickly ask Mr. Fei to go down to rest." Duan Ling ordered hurriedly.
Duan Ling asked his subordinates to arrange a place for Fei Hongde to rest. He looked at the box of peaches in the hall. Wu Du didn't ask much, and walked outside the hall to hang out, leaving him alone in the hall.
"You can't eat it." Wu Du said outside, "It's green and small. I must have used the peaches from the first year to sour you. It's okay to grow them."
Duan Ling suddenly remembered that there was a peach tree in the yard where he and his father lived in Shangjing. Lang Junxia once said that when the peach blossoms bloom, his father will come back.
Yelu Zong really wanted to take him to Zhongjing that day, but Duan Ling resigned, and the token given to him was a peach branch attached to a peach.
Could it be that Yelu Zong really planted the peach pit in the imperial garden, and now it has grown into a tree
Duan Ling sighed a lot, and roughly guessed all of this - it should be like this. Even the peach trees in Zhongjing have grown up, more than two years in the blink of an eye. So, maybe Yelu Zong has guessed it all.
He still opened the letter, which was in Liao script, and still called him "Duanling". The general idea is that after years of separation, I was very relieved to learn from Helianbo that everything was fine. Now he is wandering, even more than Mr. Fei. Resisting the Yuan army is just a chore.
I have not forgotten the life-saving grace that year, and now that the food has been sent, I hope to hold on, I believe he can, but I am afraid that Buerchijinbatu will lead the army to come, and Duanling will miss his old feelings and dare not start.
Everyone has been here... Duan Ling thought to himself, seeing what was said in the letter, he remembered the time when he was in Beijing in the past, and he missed it very much.
Zongzhen also said that when he heard the news of Lingzun's death, he regretted it, and there must be a day of revenge.
Duan Ling was vaguely uneasy, and then he thought, yes, Helianbo should have told him.
At the end, it is mentioned that there are peaches in the box. It was the peach branch that Duan Ling sent someone to give to him after he left in Beijing that year, which means "the peach blossoms and scorches its flowers". After getting it, Zong Zhen planted it in In the imperial garden, unexpectedly, it grew out in the spring. This year, it bore such eleven fruits, and they picked them all and sent them to him.
In the spring of next year, if you have something to say, you can go to Zhongjing to talk about your separation.
Duan Ling closed the letter and leaned on the couch. After a long time, he let out a long breath. He took the peach and went outside and said to Wu Du. Now that there are different sides today, I just hope that it will not become like Batu.
After Wu Du heard about the past, he thought of another question.
"Someone assassinated him?" Wu Du asked in confusion.
"Yes." Duan Ling recalled the past and said, "I blocked that for him, so maybe it is to pay for this, so I borrowed the food, and we will have to meet later before we can discuss it again."
This is also human nature, and now the two of them stand on their own country's standpoint, and it is impossible to be emotional. If there is no further cooperation, Yelu Zongzhen will not help him blindly. In order to make a move, he must give him benefits, or at least show enough benefits.
"Don't think about being so snobbish." Wu Du said, "Emotions are always there. It's half and half."
"Yeah." Duan Ling nodded.
Wu Du added: "I heard that the Liao Emperor's three palaces and six courtyards now have a queen, and there are many more concubines. You are still..."
"What did you say!" Duan Ling held the box to beat Wu Du, Wu Du laughed, looked at Duan Ling in the sun, lowered his head, and kissed his cheek.
"I want to plant these peaches." Duan Ling said.
Wu Du replied, "I'll help you."
Wu Du rolled up his sleeves and planted peaches with Duan Ling in the courtyard outside the house, not knowing how many would survive. At the end, Duan Ling cleaned up the mud, called Lin Yunqi, Yan Di, Wang Zheng, and Shi Qi, and told him to leave for a few days.
Zheng Yan didn't know where to go to fool around. Wu Du left a letter and asked him to take care of him for the time being. On the same day, he ordered troops with Duan Ling and went to Xunshui.
On the north bank of Xunshui, the twilight is vast, and the mountains along the coast are shrouded in the twilight of dusk.
"What do you want to do?" Wu Du said, "I read the letter from Emperor Liao, and now I want to rob the Liao people?"
"No." Duan Ling said, "There are not many people in the Xunyang area. The Yuan people have invaded in turn, and the Liao people can't control it. They can only take the people back into the city. Look here."
Duan Ling unfolded the map and showed it to Wu Du.
The two rode on Ben Xiao, Duan Ling sat in front of Wu Du, Wu Du pulled the reins and rode Ben Xiao to the shore, holding Duan Ling in his arms with one hand.
"Starting from the Black Valley," said Duan Ling, "down the river in the mountains, the Xunshui is a waterway."
"Yeah." Wu Du lazily crouched on Duan Ling's back, looking at the map.
"Cut down the trees here." Duan Ling said, "Cut down all the trees as soon as possible, throw them into the water, float down the river, and wait on both sides of the narrow river fifteen miles upstream of the north bank of Yecheng."
"Understood." Wu Du said.
"Cut down 8,000 trees first." Duan Ling said, "Prepare the charcoal for the winter and then talk about it."