Just as Su Fengnuan expected, the first snow fell in Yanbei as soon as late autumn passed.
This year's snow came earlier than usual.
White snow covered Yanbei City, the scorched vegetation of Fengkou Mountain, the Heishui River, and the entire Yanbei territory.
Fortunately, Xu Yunchu led 30,000 soldiers and horses to rush to work day and night, and prepared in advance the dry firewood reserves for every household in Yanbei City for the winter. Su Zhen brought troops and horses to rush to repair most of Yanbei City, restoring Yanbei City to some of its former appearance, only missing the follow-up improvement work.
But Su Fengnuan's affairs are much more trivial. If the big and small things are counted as piled up like mountains, she only shoveled away less than half of the mountains. There are still more than half of the things to be done, but the most important things have been done in advance, and the rest will not be delayed even if it snows heavily.
The 200,000 Jinglu soldiers and horses sent by the emperor also rushed to Yanbei on the snowy day.
Su Zhen had long heard that Su Fengnuan said that Ye Chang asked the emperor to let Su Che raise troops to the west, and to send 200,000 soldiers to Yanbei for training. The emperor agreed to these two major events. It can be seen that Ye Shizi's words in Rong'an Wangfu are very important in front of the emperor. At the same time, it also shows that Ye Shizi is not as ignorant as the rumors say, and he is looking forward to seeing Ye Chang in his heart. , he must go to Beijing to see this Ye Shizi of Rong An Palace.
Because of the early preparations, the 200,000 Jinglus were settled immediately after they arrived in Yanbei.
Jinglu soldiers and horses have arrived in Yanbei, so it is time for Xu Yunchu to bring the Emperor's Imperial Forest Army back to Beijing. Although the snow is heavy, most of the first snow in winter can't survive. Once the snow stops and the sun comes out, it will melt immediately.
According to Su Zhen's intention, let Xu Yunchu wait for the snow to stop before leaving. What Xu Yunchu meant was that the next morning, even if the snow didn't stop, he had to leave in the snow. Now only the Yanbei boundary is snowing, and outside the Yanbei boundary, there will be no snow. Although the snow fell heavily, it did not delay the journey. In particular, the emperor dispatched 200,000 Jinglu soldiers and horses, and now there are only 70,000 Jinglu soldiers and horses in Beijing, plus the Imperial Guards and Wucheng soldiers and horses, it is less than 100,000. The capital has never had such a small number of soldiers. Once someone with a heart takes advantage of the emptiness of the capital and makes trouble, fearing that there will be another crisis, he decides to immediately return to the capital with the imperial army.
Su Zhen also felt that it was reasonable for the important affairs of the country, so he naturally did not dare to keep Xu Yunchu any longer.
On the evening of that day, a banquet was held at Yanbei Prince's Mansion, which was also the first banquet held since Xu Yunchu's arrival, and it was also a farewell banquet when he left the next day.
After King Yanbei recovered, he also attended the farewell banquet.
King Yanbei, Su Zhen, and everyone in the Palace of Yanbei Prince had a good impression of this little uncle who had lived and died with them. If they hadn't known that the person Missy liked was Ye Shizi from Prince Rongan's Palace, they would have liked him. I deeply feel that this Uncle Xiao Guo is a good candidate, with a good family background, both talent and good looks.
But what the young miss likes is Ye Shizi from Rong An Palace, although not everyone knows it, but those who are close to her know it now. Naturally, no one mentioned the matter of matching the eldest lady and the little uncle.
However, no one mentioned the matchmaking of the little princess to uncle Xiaoguo.
Everyone in Yanbei Palace knows that Su Sixuan has been spoiled. Although she is not arrogant and domineering, she is still as innocent as a child. Xu Yunchu has been in Yanbei for the past few days, whether it is talent, strategy, ability or ability, and how he behaves. Clear and well-bred.
As far as Su Fengnuan was concerned, they all felt that Uncle Xiaoguo was worthy of their eldest lady, whether it was Yanbei Palace or General Su's Palace in Beijing, it was no worse than Guozhang's Palace. But when it comes to the small princess, although the family background of the Su family in Yanbei is not inferior to the mansion of the head of the country, but in terms of people, the small princess is really not suitable for someone else's Xiao Guojiu. Especially in the Guozhang's mansion, the strict rules are well known in the world.
After being beaten by Su Fengnuan, Su Sixuan's hot heart that was about to jump out seemed to be splashed with cold water, and then a snow fell, just like the snow in Yanbei, it was sealed , Now it can't be hot anymore.
Although she was young and spoiled, but the blood of Yanbeisu family flowed in her bones. It cannot be said that the Yanbei Palace has no rules, but compared to the capital, the rules are also considered to be no rules. What she fears most is being ruled by the rules. Therefore, a spring heart will be stopped.
I have to say that Su Fengnuan extinguished the flames in time, or in other words, Su Sixuan's little heart trusts Su Fengnuan very much, and thinks what she said is right, and she is even more afraid that she will be thrown away after hitting the south wall Evil Wolf Valley feeds the wolves, she has seen how Qiuhua's wolves tore apart the soldiers of the Northern Zhou Dynasty with her own eyes, and she thinks it is really terrible.
She likes Uncle Xiaoguo so much that she is fed to wolves, but she thinks it's not worth it, so she just lets it go.
After all, she was a child at heart, so she let go when she said she would let go.
She used to like to cling to Su Fengnuan the most. As long as Su Fengnuan was in Yanbei Palace, she would always circle around her. Now she knows that Yanbei has many things to do after the war. Su Fengnuan is still in charge of Yanbei's affairs with injuries , she didn't dare to cling to her anymore, so she and Qiuhua did some small things within her power.
In addition to controlling wolves, Qiuhua also likes to cook, so Su Sixuan also became interested in cooking, and with Qiuhua every day, she manages the kitchen and arranges meals for everyone in Yanbei Palace, especially Su Fengnuan. , Xu Yunchu, Chen Chen, Su Zhen and other people with injuries.
Due to the proper arrangement of medicinal meals for the two of them, although they were extremely tired in the past few days and had not recovered well, their injuries did not worsen and they were slowly recovering.
The farewell banquet for Xu Yunchu that day was prepared by Qiuhua and Su Sixuan. It was full of color, fragrance and taste, and immediately whetted everyone's appetite.
Xu Yunchu's injury wasn't too serious, but after a few days now, he has recovered a lot. Under the persuasion of King Yanbei and Su Zhen, he drank a few more glasses.
After the banquet, Su Fengnuan set up a warm tent in Wangjiao Tower, and invited Xu Yunchu to play chess, and by the way, the two discussed some matters about food, grass and military pay for the war in the western border.
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A stove was lit in the warm tent, and he made a pot of jujube tea. While watching the jujube tea not overflowing the lid, he watched the two play chess and listened to their conversation about how to plot against the civil and military ministers of the court and the Southern Qi Dynasty. Wealthy officials and gentry, let them take the initiative to donate food and grass to help the war in the western border.
He listened with gusto, occasionally interjected a sentence, and at the same time secretly admired the two of them. He felt that being with Su Fengnuan really benefited a lot, and he was even more impressed by Xu Yunchu.
The chess game was played until late at night, the tent was covered with snow, and the two discussed it properly, and the conversation was coming to an end.
Su Fengnuan smiled and said to Xu Yunchu, "The snow scene in Yanbei is the best in the world, but it's a pity that the capital is empty. You have to go back as soon as possible, otherwise you can enjoy the snow scene in Yanbei."
Xu Yunchu smiled slightly and said, "Let's look for opportunities in the future! I have benefited a lot from my visit to Yanbei. Assistance, Yanbei will recover in a few years, and when I am free, I will come to see the snow scene in Yanbei."
Su Fengnuan nodded with a smile, and sighed softly, "That's a long way to go." After finishing speaking, he said, "Yanbei is far away from the capital, so take care on the way back to Beijing."
Xu Yunchu nodded and asked her, "When do you expect to return to Yanbei?"
Su Fengnuan thought for a while and said, "At least..."
Before she finished speaking, a mansion guard rushed from downstairs in Mong Kok, his voice was urgent and loud, "Report! Miss, a group of people came outside the city gate, calling them Prince Rong An's Mansion Ye Shizi!"
"What?" Su Feng warmly stood up, opened the warm tent, looked down from the Wangjiao building, and asked the guard, "What did you say?"
The mansion guard repeated again, "A group of men and horses came from outside the city gate, claiming to be Ye Shizi of Prince Rongan's Mansion! Because none of the city guards have seen Ye Shizi, they came here to report to the young lady."
Xu Yunchu was also stunned at this moment.
The statement was even more startled. He almost threw the teapot in his hand, and stood up, got out of the warm tent, leaned on the railing of the Mong Kok Building, looked down and asked, "You said Ye Chang is here? At this time? Are you sure it's Rong An?" The carriage of the palace?"
Nafu Wei said, "I'm not sure, so I'm here to report to Miss."
Su Fengnuan glanced at the sky, it was already late at night, and the snow was falling heavily, wondering if Ye Chang came to Yanbei? That's right, she hasn't replied to the letter she sent to him so far. With his temper, he probably has reached the limit and couldn't sit still and came to Yanbei. She immediately went down from the Wangjiao Tower, and because her injury was not healed, she couldn't use lightness kung fu, so she held up her skirt and ran towards the gate of the mansion, while running, she ordered, "Get my horse ready."
"Yes!" Fuwei responded quickly, and quickly went to the stable to lead the horse.
Chen Chen also rushed down the Mong Kok Building, and when he got off the Mong Kok Building, Su Fengnuan had already run away without a trace. He thought to himself that Ms. Su's injury was not healed yet? Sure enough, people with martial arts are better than people without martial arts like him, and they can't even run away from them, so they immediately turned to look at Xu Yunchu.
Xu Yunchu naturally also went down the Wangjiao Tower, and said with a smile to Chen Chen, "Nine times out of ten, Ye Shizi has really come. You and I will also go to the city gate to see him, and meet him by the way."
Statement nodded, and the two walked out of the mansion together.
The mansion guard brought the horse from the stable, Su Fengnuan got on the horse, and rode the horse out of Yanbei Palace.
The news of Ye Shizi coming from Rong'an's mansion late at night naturally alarmed King Yanbei and Su Zhen, the son of King Yanbei. Door.