Once a war broke out, people from all walks of life began to move around and fish in troubled waters. There are bandits robbing the road on the forest road, water bandits blocking boats in the river, and a wave of bandits breaking into the village at the foot of the mountain from time to time, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of crimes, they are even more beasts than the rebels going all the way north act.
Wei He led a light cavalry army and chased and killed all the gangsters all night, and then beheaded their leader under the horse, resettled the refugees, rescued the village, and was about to return to camp when a beggar appeared out of nowhere , Kneeling in front of Wei He's horse and refusing to give in, he insisted on Wei He taking him back to the camp.
The lieutenant under him came over to have a look, and whispered: "This is a lunatic, he has been wandering around for many days, whenever a general passes by, he will rush up like this, what to say... looking for someone. General Wei, Just drive him aside!"
Wei He: "..."
Min Xuefei and all the generals played the sand table in the tent, while Lian Zhi leisurely sipped tea with a small cup of porcelain, surrounded by three or four young eunuchs, this one beat the leg, that one the shoulder, and the other Playing the fan doesn't seem like you're here to go to war, but it's like you're here to enjoy the scenery in spring. The soldiers were so angry that they blew their beards and stared at each other, repeatedly hinting to Min Xuefei to attack earlier, except for the scourge of yin and yang.
Just as he was talking about where to set up an ambush, Wei He opened the curtain and came in, throwing blood dripping in his head, the little eunuchs were so frightened that they ran wildly, the head rolled to Lian Zhi's feet, he unhurriedly raised his foot, and was kicked again Going back, he said displeasedly: "Unlucky."
Min Xuefei glanced at Lian Zhi's feet lovingly: "The Lian Jianjun said it's bad luck, why don't you throw it out?"
Wei He kicked that end out of the tent, like kicking a cuju, turned around and reported about the suppression of a group of thugs, and finally said that he got back a crazy beggar: "That kid is sick, just kneel down I am in front of the horse! I threw him out, and he ran back, chasing our horse team, refusing to leave, and tied himself to the horse's leg, insisting on looking for someone from him, I had no choice but to... I got it back."
Min Xuefei walked outside the tent, and saw the so-called crazy beggar from a distance, pulling his messy hair on both sides, and pinching and touching the hands of the soldiers at the gate of the camp. He raised his eyebrows, walked over to take a closer look, Wei He followed closely, and complained all the way how desperate this crazy beggar was, he stopped the horse and refused to let the horse go, so that the horse would not be kicked to death.
When he came to him, Wei He pondered and said, "He said his name is Su, Su, Su..."
Min Xuefei: "Su Ting."
"Hey, that's right!" Wei He clapped his hands abruptly, before saying in a daze for a moment, "Wait... General, do you know him?"
Su Ting suddenly raised his head and saw Min Xuefei, who seemed to be a fellow villager whom he hadn't seen for 800 years. His eyes were so warm that his eyes were full of tears, and he almost rushed to hug him and cry bitterly. Fortunately, it was Min Xuefei who shied away, otherwise the snow-white clothes would be smudged by him.
"Min, Mr. Min! You are here!" Su Ting wiped his eyes and said anxiously, "Have you seen our young master?"
Min Xuefei saw that he was crying with sincerity, and couldn't help feeling more sincere, so she shook her head and sighed: "I haven't seen him before. Why are you here?"
Su Ting didn't think that he was lying to himself, and he was even more sad when he heard the words: "Our young master has gone to Chunan, but there is no news, and Jin Youting has also been investigated by the Tianjia. I sneaked into the dog's hole I crawled out... Now that my son is imprisoned, and our young master's whereabouts are unknown, and there are riots everywhere, how should I explain to my son from now on!"
"I knew it would be like this. At the beginning, when I was fighting with my life, I would never have asked the young master to go to Chunan! It's all right now. I only heard people say that I saw the young master being taken away by a group of soldiers, but I didn't know what it was. Where are the soldiers..." The more he thought about it, the more terrified he became, and he frightened himself half to death, "Could it be the rebels?! Our young man is delicate and fleshy, if he is captured by the rebels, he will definitely die. It’s going to be tortured, but what’s the best way?”
"It's all my fault! I shouldn't have let the young master come out by himself! Before leaving, the young master asked me to take care of the house, but now I have lost sight of Jin Youting, and I have lost sight of Sanyulou, too. It doesn't matter if you lose all of this, but I still lost my little son! Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, if the son of the world knows, he will be so angry that he vomits blood!" Su Ting slapped himself several times, "I really am Useless, useless!"
"..." Min Xuefei saw that if he continued to blame himself, he was about to apologise, so he hurriedly ordered Wei He, "Throw him into the side tent. Tell the people in the tent that I have captured his family's loyal servant."
"What are you doing!" Su Ting was lifted up by hands and feet, startled, and said indiscriminately, "Mr. Min! What are you doing! The barracks rules don't kill doctors! You, you don't do this, I will pay you back anyway." I can leave it for you to look after wounded soldiers! I can see a doctor! Mr. Min! General Min!"
Ji Hong was flipping through the books in the tent, when suddenly a pitch-black mass was thrown in, rolled a few times on the ground, and stretched out into a human shape.
Su Ting got up suddenly, and was about to rush out to reason, when he suddenly felt a familiar smell in his breath, which was the spice that Jin Youting used to burn at home, so he hurriedly raised his head to look, and saw the sitting The man on the small couch was stunned for a while, and when he saw the iron locks wrapped around his ankles, his nose was sore, he threw himself at his feet and knelt down, and confessed: "My son! Su Ting is sorry for you! Su Ting is useless! "
Ji Hong: "..."
Su Ting cried: "Jin Youting was investigated, and Sanyu Building was also sealed off. Now, now even the young master's whereabouts are unknown. I searched all the way from Chunan, but there is no news of the young master. Let the rebels take it away!"
Ji Hong opened his mouth, not knowing what to say, and frowned slightly.
But Su Ting thought that he was in a hurry and couldn't even utter a word, so he quickly stepped back and knocked his head a few times: "My life belongs to the young master, and also to the prince! It's up to the mountain of swords and down to the sea of fire. I, I rushed into the rebel army! I will definitely rescue the little prince!"
Ji Hong said with difficulty: "...No need."
Su Ting immediately swore to the sky: "If I can't rescue the young master, I will die without a place to die!"
One person opened the curtain and walked in: "...Su Ting?"
Su Ting couldn't help but sadly said: "I heard the young master call me, he must be very sad in the hands of the rebels, and he is waiting for us to rescue him! Young master, just wait, I just want to There is a way to get mixed up with the rebels, and I will definitely rescue you..." Turning his head, bumping into a pair of small brocade boots, and looking up slowly along the trouser legs, Su Ting was stunned.
Holding the plate of food, Yu Jinnian asked strangely, "Why did you come here? You even made such a ghostly appearance that you don't care. Who are you going to save...why are you crying?"
He put down the food plate to wipe Su Ting's face, but was hugged by Su Ting, crying loudly.
He looked at Ji Hong, and Ji Hong shook his head helplessly.
On the contrary, it was General Min who caused this good show to drink tea in the big tent.
During the day, Yu Jinnian worked as a military doctor in the Wounded Barracks, and was also in charge of training several new doctors from the Imperial Medical Department. , family education is enough, but the practice is not enough, not to mention that this is on the battlefield, the soldiers suffer less from headaches and brain fever, and more from gold wounds and knife wounds, most of which are bloody.
Fortunately, Yan Chang hadn't met Zhengfeng at this time, otherwise I don't know how many casualties would be caused.
In the afternoon, Yu Jinnian had settled everything about the wounded barracks before he came back to take care of Ji Hong. Today was also a coincidence. When I went out to fetch water with the wounded barracks, I found a bunch of potato vines at the side of the slope, and dug up a few fat potato vines, long and short.
The army didn't have so many exquisite ingredients, but they had to use local ingredients, so Ji Hong couldn't starve and lose weight. He dug them all back, steamed them in a pot, ground them into mud, and made them into Yuyan cakes. The ancients once said, "Cut a few pieces of jade, soak them in the fragrance of flowers", which is to praise the freshness and elegance of Yuyan cakes.
When Yu Jinnian came back with the steamed Yuyan Cake, he bumped into Su Ting, who had been tricked by Min Xuefei, crying and saying that he was going to rescue him in the rebel camp.
He didn't know how he got here during these days, and he got all dirty. Even if the Sanyu Building was sealed up, he wouldn't be reduced to such a situation. Su Ting was so hungry that he devoured the Yuyan cake that Yu Jinnian had prepared for Ji Hong, dropped it on the bottom of the plate, and poured cold water down his stomach, before telling them what he saw on the road.
It turned out that the outside world was already not peaceful, one bandit in three steps, one bandit in five steps, Su Ting had just arrived in Chunan, and he was robbed completely, and by that time Yu Jinnian and others had already left the camp. Later, he went all the way south again, and was nearly captured by the bandits several times and went back to work as a laborer, and he almost died tragically by the bandits. In this way, he mingled among the refugees day by day, inquiring along the way, and finally came here hungry and hungry. He heard from a farmer that he saw Yu Jinnian with several military masters, so he stopped Wei He's horse in public, and hit him. luck.
Unexpectedly, he was so lucky that he actually found Min Xuefei's camp headlong.
Yu Jinnian went to serve the dish Yuyan cake again, specially for Ji Hong to taste, and then asked the servants to heat up two full-fledged pancakes, with some side dishes for the meal, and it was considered that the "crazy beggar" Su Ting had been fed.
It's not peaceful outside, and the Sanyu Building in Beijing has also been closed, so I can't ask Su Ting to go back. Otherwise, a weak scholar like Su Ting, who has no strength to restrain a chicken, might really come here and go home.
It happened that there were not enough manpower in the wounded barracks, and it was a coincidence that he came and stayed to help out.
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As expected, the Yuedi army led by Yan Chang used the pretense of "worrying about the country's danger".
It happened just after the flood, the plague was about to subside, the people were scattered and displaced, and the wilderness was piled up with bones. With only a little favor, he easily won the good reputation of a virtuous king. Late, not sincere enough. So the rebels broke through Shanzhou, Fengzhou, Lingchang and other places all the way, winning more and losing less, and their morale soared. Now they are gathered on the north bank of Jushui to set up a camp, and the mighty soldiers and horses only have a small bonfire in front of each tent, reflecting the Jushui like charcoal burning.
The court issued three imperial edicts in succession, one edict that the emperor sinned against himself, the second edict sealed the Zhaji mansion, and the third edict to appease the people in disasters, none of which could make the Vietnamese army return to the fiefdom. Yan Chang even said that unless the emperor wakes up and orders the killing of Ji's traitors who have harmed the country and the people and deceived the heavens, he will go north to the King of Wei.
Although this was expected, the emperor was so angry that he had a headache and dropped an imperial inkstone.
If you can't pretend to be friendly and tear up your face, you can only fight against each other and start a war.
Yu Xu lay at his feet with disheveled hair, holding a pear obediently and deftly. He didn't have a knife in his hand, and he didn't like to eat pear skins, so he could only hold it in his hand and muttered softly: Putting Ji's family to death, I don't know whether it is for public or private..."
Yan Chang put down his pen and ink: "I always get what I want."
Yu Xu crawled along his calf, wishing to say: "What about me, if you get him, can you let me go?"
He lowered his head and glanced at the young man at his feet, then pushed the little table out on the couch, turned the young man over, tore off the clothes he had put on a few moments ago, and didn't care that his wrists were still purple from the abuse. Seeing the scars on his face, he pinched him by the neck as if venting hatred, and slammed into him: "In this king's tent, if I didn't nod my head, who would allow you to speak?"
The orange pear rolled down and hit the wooden table.
Yu Xu closed his mouth and stared at him, tearing up after a few pains. When it was over, he packed himself without saying a word, wrapped his clothes, got down on the couch with bare feet, went to the desk and bent down to pick up the pear that was knocked out with a dent. He suddenly turned around and asked, "Can I borrow the pear?" Take a knife and peel the pears..."
"roll."
"..." Yu Xu put the pear in his arms and walked out of the tent silently.
There were soldiers stationed on night watch outside, huddled around the fire in twos and threes, and several of them sipped a small jug of tasteless murky wine. Seeing him coming out, they seemed to be having some fun, they all turned their heads to look at him, the barracks were full of tall and thick men, it was rare to see such a delicate and thin person, and wearing gorgeous little satin, he looked like a girl from a distance.
The sound insulation in the tent is poor, but everything is clearly visible from the outside. They looked at him like they would look at a girl in a brothel, without any respect, and would usually whistle at him and ask him, "Will you let me touch my thigh once for five coppers?"
Yu Xu knows that being favored is not like this, even if Yan Chang takes him by his side day and night, rewarding him with food and clothing, this is not being favored. The real favorite is Yu Jinnian, who is held in his hands by Ji Xiaoshizi, on the tip of his tongue, and protects his heart, so that he won't get a single sliver of it when it rains, not like him, who was kicked out in the middle of the night and let Everyone in the barracks laughed.
But with his knowledge, he naturally wouldn't understand that Yu Jinnian is not called being favored, that is called sincerity, that is called life and death promise, and that is called asking what love is in the world.
He just wants to be pampered like Yu Jinnian in his bones.
It is common for soldiers to molest him, because Yan Chang will not speak for him because of this. In the past, Yu Xu would scold him back, wrap his gun with a stick, take the other party's parents and ancestors, and tell them to look at him again. The root of the tongue was dug out in one piece. Today he didn't scold anyone, but walked over barefoot and asked them if they could peel a pear for him to eat after they touched the five copper coins.
A group of rough men were stunned for a while, and when they came back to their senses, they hurriedly dragged him into the empty tent in the dark corner.
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"Hurry up, hurry up, people will see it in a while!"
"What are you afraid of when you see it? Brothers don't say it, who dares to say it... himself? Don't say it, this little bitch is white and fragrant!"
"Like tofu, very skating! I can be regarded as... a woman who has slept with royal family and nobles?"
"Hey, you are blind, this is a man with a handle!"
Yu Xu turned over and rummaged through the pile of straw, looking for his lost pear, but the tent was pitch black, and he could only find a handful of copper coins scattered on the ground when he fumbled around. , he cursed a few words in a low voice, suddenly there was a rustle behind him, and someone asked hesitantly, "Are you... looking for this?"
Yu Xu turned his head and glanced at a low-ranking soldier. The round pear in his hand was his own pear: "Why, you also want five coppers?" He lay back, "Yes, but You have to peel me a pear. I want a pear."
The soldier was stunned for a moment, then leaned tentatively towards him for a long time, pressed his sleeves when he got close, and then dodged in panic, explaining indiscriminately: "I, I have a fellow, he is stronger than me, and he is better than me. I have become a corporal. Unlike me, he is responsible for cleaning up the battlefield. He just told me that he came here for fun, so I came... I see you often! You are always with the prince, and you will be in the tent at night Reading, singing..." Seeing Yu Xu turning over impatiently, he hurriedly stopped, and said in a low voice, "You are so beautiful, like the oriole on the treetop in front of my house."
"Are you a fool?" Yu Xu kicked him and kicked him to the ground, "I don't have time to listen to you talking about the birds in front of your house! Either pay me five coppers and let me see yours. Bird, or get out!"
The soldier tore a hole in the tightly sewn inner shirt from the inside of the skirt, took out five copper plates and handed them to Yu Xu, then sat down and got closer to him, and looked at him carefully for a while As if he had seen enough, he stretched his legs and took off his shoes and socks in front of him.
After a long time, he took out a gold and silver dagger from his sock, with a few pearls embedded in it.
Holding the dagger in his hand, he began to peel the pears: "This dagger was handed over from a high-ranking official's family when he won the battle. That official must be a corrupt official! There are countless gold and silver treasures in the family, and a whole warehouse is piled up!" He said. Spreading his arms exaggeratedly, he gestured to Yu Xu how big the gold ingots in the warehouse were, how white the Ye Mingzhu was, and his eyes sparkled, "Don't tell others that I kept this dagger secretly, thinking that after the war Go home and use this dagger as a bride price to marry a wife who is as good-looking as you. In fact, if I hadn’t been drafted into the army, I might follow the storyteller at home and learn storytelling.”
"..." Yu Xu looked at him and didn't respond, so he could keep talking on his own.
After rambling on and on, he finally finished peeling the pears, and told a lot of stories. The soldier wiped the dagger casually on his body, and still hid it in his boots. The soldier started chattering again, which made Yu Xu's brain ache. He wished he could go back to Yan Chang's cellar right now. Even if he was locked up hand and foot, it would be better than listening to a soldier chattering here.
At the end, the soldier slowly glanced at him, handed him the pear, and said cautiously: "...don't do this in the future, if the prince finds out, your life will be gone! If you are short of money, I have a little Son, I'll bring it to you for emergency. You... don't come here. "
After a whole night, someone finally kept his promise and peeled the pear for him. Yu Xu took the pear and gnawed a mouthful of it. The sweet juice flowed into his throat, it was so sweet!
"Sweet?" The soldier also laughed, "If you are not happy, go to the small gray tent in the northeast corner and come to me. My name is Yuan Gui, and I will tell you a story."
Yu Xu saw that he was indeed a fool, otherwise how could he spend five coppers in vain without doing anything? Holding the sweet pear he had gnawed into, he asked the silly soldier, "Do you know who you are fighting for?"
The soldier smiled silly and said: "War, to defend the country."
Yu Xu thought, that's why you are called a fool. You think you are defending your home and country, but people outside call you a rebel. If you win, you are a thief who steals the country. Hometown, all over the world will also say that you are a sinner who followed the rebellion, pointing at you and scolding you, you will never get a wife in your life.
He finished eating the pears in embarrassment, threw the pear core casually, ignored the copper coins all over the floor, and held the five copper coins that Yuan Gui gave him in one hand, lifted the curtain and went out.
There were still some soldiers outside who were poking around and "playing" wretchedly, seeing that he had stopped accepting business, the group stared at him, Yu Xu cursed all over the floor: "Look at your father! Go as far as the fuck, don't mess with me! Otherwise, tomorrow, one will count as one, and you will all be asked to go to the front line as a meat card to defend against arrows! All broken arms and legs will be taken by dogs! From now on, the daughter-in-law at home The mother-in-law hugged the dog and called a senior official! - Still not going away?"
A group of people didn't have any fun, and broke up cursing.
Yu Xu turned his head and saw the soldier follow him out of the empty tent, so he also scolded him: "Fool! You too!"