Cowardly Stepmother Dressed As the Hero

Just when Beisi received the news from Danba, Cao Mi also received a messenger from Fengping.

The person who came was directly brought in by Qi Liu, who looked like a close friend of Qi You's side.

After meeting with Cao Mi, he said straight to the point: "Prince Concubine Rong Yi. Wang Ye caught a group of Rong people in Fengping, who claimed to be transporting wool for Wang Fei. Wang Ye sent a villain to ask Wang Fei. , want to confirm whether this is really the case."

As he spoke, he took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and handed it to Cao Mi: "This is the deed found from that group of people, please take a look at the princess."

Cao Mi took it and took a quick look.

She is very familiar with these deeds, which are the wool purchase contracts she signed with Zhang before.

Knowing that Zhang's group was detained, Cao Mi said anxiously, "Well, this is indeed a deed signed by me."

She frowned: "Did they... have they committed any taboos? Why did they ask the prince to arrest them?"

The soldier who delivered the letter shook his head and replied, "It's not a taboo.

"At that time, General Lei was on patrol and found a group of Rong cavalry. When they were chasing, they happened to meet them. Later, General Lei captured them and the cavalry together.

"Originally, they were supposed to be executed together with the Rong cavalry, but some of the prince's personal soldiers recognized the Zhang family, so they reported the matter to the prince.

"After the prince sent someone to find out the origin of the group of people, he temporarily detained them. When the princess returns the news and confirms their identities, these people will be released."

Cao Mi breathed a sigh of relief.

She originally wanted to give a direct answer, but after thinking about it, she cautiously confirmed: "I'm dealing with that group of people just to buy and sell wool from the grasslands, and nothing else.

"You should have checked their fleet? Did you find anything illegal?"

The visitor continued to answer: "It has indeed been checked, it is just some wool, and there is nothing that is illegal."

Then Cao Mi nodded reassuringly: "Well, that's fine. That group of people is indeed a caravan transporting supplies for me. They have no malicious intentions, please go back and tell the prince, if there are no other problems, they will be released. Bar."

She did the math and found that it was indeed the time for Zhang's commitment to deliver the second batch of wool.

Now, the first batch of wool has been almost processed by the villa, and they are waiting for this new batch of wool to be ready to continue.

The visitor nodded and said, "Yes."

After he saluted, he left immediately.

Cao Mi waited, suddenly remembered something, and ordered Dongli to call Qi Liu over.

"Qi Liu, the lord is at Feng Ping now, can your people see the lord directly?" Cao Mi asked.

Qi Liu didn't know what Cao Mi's idea was, but he still answered truthfully: "It's natural."

Cao Mi nodded with satisfaction: "Okay."

She cleared her throat: "This time on the Zhang family's side, I have troubled the lord and the soldiers to be distracted by my private affairs, and I feel really sorry for it.

"I have something for you to do. You arrange a group of people to **** my convoy to Fengping in two days. I have something for the prince."

Qi Liu was stunned for a while, and after thinking about it carefully, he found that there was nothing wrong, and then he replied: "Follow the princess's instructions."

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Feng Ping, the main general.

Qi San entered the tent, bowed to Qi You and Lei Li, and said, "My lord, those people have left Fengping."

Qi You was looking at the battle report, and when he heard the words, he replied without raising his head: "Well, I see."

Lei Li, who was nearly eight feet tall, was shrunk behind the table of the main general's battalion, very uncomfortable.

Taking advantage of Qi San's report, he leaned over and stretched his legs, and asked out of boredom, "Which group of people? The caravan I called back half a month ago?"

Qi San nodded and replied, "Yes."

Lei Li rubbed his beard-ridden chin: "Is that really the princess' person? They are following the business way of that old dog in Danba."

When Qi You heard the words, he gave him a look: "You know they are ordinary caravans, and you brought them back?"

"Hey!" Seeing him speak, Lei Li explained: "I wanted to give that old dog a slap in the face for a long time, and I just met him this time, didn't I just want to kill a chicken to scare him!"

Qi You shook his head: "I didn't tell you, don't provoke him for the time being."

Usually in front of other officers and men, General Lei Lilei, who can eat three catties of grain, curled his lips aggrievedly, and replied, "This is not considered provocation. Now that you are here, my lord, the old dog will definitely not dare..."

He said more and more quietly, and finally stopped directly.

Qi You frowned slightly, and said directly: "You are not allowed to act without authorization in the future, otherwise, you will lead the army yourself."

"Oh..." Lei Li responded reluctantly.

He slumped for a while, then regained his energy. He raised his head and asked, "My lord, those people are really sending things for the princess. What does the princess want those broken wools for?"

"How do I know?" Qi You turned the battle report, "Wuping is now the best breakthrough point for the Rong clan. Tomorrow, after Chen He returns, you will send some more people to plug the gap."

"Yeah, the last commander remembers it." Lei Li nodded, "I know Danba's old dog too well, he definitely can't let the princess's people go his business way for nothing! There was a caravan and I Said, they use Danba's land, and they have to pay 80% of the profits every time, hey, I'll be good, that old dog really knows how to do business!"

"If he didn't have some means, he wouldn't be able to achieve this scale." Qi You knocked on the table and pulled his sharp attention back, "This year, the army's winter supplies are still in short supply, although a batch of repairs has been made in the soldiers' residences. Heated kang, but it is inconvenient to go out after all, after Chen He returns, you and him will check the remaining things in your two armies, and give me a list three days later."

"Okay, my lord, you can really open your eyes to the fact that you can go to Liaozhou." Lei Li nodded hastily, "My lord, you said, if the princess borrowed the old dog's business road now, will she also be taken advantage of? ...bah, uh, I mean… not…”

"You care about the princess' affairs?" Qi You frowned and looked at him.

"No, no, it's not that I don't have it." Lei Li was so frightened that he fell backwards, "I, I, I just can't see that old dog taking advantage of our own house... Ah bah, no, I mean, take advantage of it. , occupy your head, lord!"

"Then what do you want to do?" Qi You directly put down the document in his hand, so that he could look at him calmly.

Today coincides with the two of them taking a break, and this is not a serious office time. The reason why Lei Li appeared in his tent is actually to catch up with him. It's just that Qi You was not used to rest, and dealt with the accumulated affairs as usual. After Lei Li arrived, he also dragged him to work overtime.

Therefore, Qi You didn't care about the violent and distracting behavior at this time.

On serious occasions in the past, Lei Li would not have mixed public and private like this.

Seeing that his ** talking about Danba would not stop for a while, Qi You simply put the business aside.

Seeing his appearance, Lei Li shrank his neck and didn't dare to say anything.

He and Qi You had actually known each other since they were young. The lawless eldest son of Lei Fu would only calm down a bit in front of King Bei'an, which was something that most people in the army knew.

Lei Li's friends all thought that he knew how to honor and humble. After all, the biggest official that a border guard like them could see was King Bei'an, the royal blood relative.

But in fact, Lei Li did this, not because he was enlightened by this strange reason comparable to the flowering of the iron tree, but at the root of it was that he confessed.

He was a few years younger than him, but Qi You, who was stronger in kung fu and skills than him, was convinced by the sparring.

Seeing Qi You's serious appearance now, he couldn't help but recall some scenes of being beaten back then, so he obediently didn't dare to move.

Qi You chuckled lightly and said, "It's fine. Now is not the time to talk about official business. Just talk about what you think."

Lei Li glanced at him, and when he saw his amiable face, he raised his tail again: "My lord, it is like this! I think, we can completely open a new business path for the princess!"

He pointed to the map next to him: "Look, the Ale people are actually behind the hills to the north, a place that other Rong people don't look at at all. They don't take the Danba route, they can go straight out from the west. , and then go to Changling County.

"As long as our people know in advance that there is nothing wrong with the inspection, they can be released directly. This one is closer to Cannes."

"Changling County? The place where your Lei family cronies are stationed?" Qi You recalled.

"Yes!" Lei Li nodded and said flatteringly: "My lord, you are so kind to the princess. As long as you give an order, I will immediately ask Lei Ben and the others to give them a pass, so that the princess's people can travel unimpeded!"

Qi You glanced at him with a half-smile but not a smile, and asked, "How am I to the princess? How do you know?"

Lei Li was stunned.

He didn't know if he should take up this topic, but seeing that Qi You's face was calm, there seemed to be no unhappy omen, so he thought about it and said honestly: "You and the princess have been married for three or four years, let alone concubines, just Not even a side concubine... This, isn't this good for the princess?"

"Do I have a side concubine and a concubine..." Qi You looked at him suspiciously, "What does it have to do with me being good to the princess?"

"Ah?" Lei Li didn't follow Qi You's brain circuit for a while.

Qi You sorted out all the documents in his hand, and suddenly explained: "The princess is beautiful, and the family is in charge... Recently, the family has been well-organized. In addition to having children and raising children, everything has been taken care of properly.

"She has already done her wife's job well. If I find some women to go in, won't I break the peace of the house for nothing?"

"Huh? Saying this, it really makes sense!" Lei Li looked at Qi You with admiration and said to himself, "The one in my house seems to be mad at me after I had two concubines. ."

Qi You raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, and he shared a rare interest together, "It's like, you originally led the Lei family army and guarded the Fengping area.

"And I want to transfer a supervisor to compete with you for the power to lead the army. What do you think?"

Without waiting for Lei Li to answer, he replied to himself: "What do you think is the second thing, but the Lei family army is very likely to fall apart because of your competition.

"have you understood?

"As long as you do your best and don't make any big mistakes, I won't reassign people and break the balance."

"Understood!" Lei Li nodded excitedly.

He sighed to himself for a while, and suddenly thought that something was wrong, so he grabbed his head and asked again: "Yes, but my lord... How can this matter in the army be compared to the backyard of a house?

"And, and... don't you ever think that this back house, ahem, has only one woman, ahem, just, um, it's monotonous?"

Qi You glanced at him sideways, and taught him a lesson in a tone of "children cannot be taught": "Beauty is deceiving."

After saying this, he got up and walked to the door, turned around and said to Lei Li who was still in a daze: "I'll go to Xiying, if you're okay, go back to rest first, and Chen He will come back tomorrow. After that, I have something to discuss with you."

"Ah?" Lei Li came back to his senses, "Oh, okay."

He got up with his hands and feet on the ground, and quickly walked behind Qi You.

The two went out one after the other, and Lei Li shivered from the bitter winter wind outside the house: "Oh, my mother-in-law! It's too cold today!"

But he quickly caught a glimpse of Qi You who came out with him without even frowning, so he hurriedly stopped complaining, braced his back, and stopped Qi You and said, "Oh, yes, my lord."

"Huh?" Qi You replied without turning his head.

"You haven't replied to me just now!" Lei Li, who was terribly cold in the open air, said at a faster rate, "Well, in Changling County, do you want me to say hello, so that the concubine's caravan can go directly there. what?"

Qi You paused for a while, and after a while, he continued to step up, and responded, "No need. It's just a small matter for a woman's family, and there's no need to trouble the army."

After he finished speaking, he quickened his pace and left.

Lei Li rubbed his hands, did not chase after him, and only murmured on the spot: "Uh... it's not too much trouble... After the inspection of Changling County, the inspection is more stringent..."

He thought about it for a while, but without thinking about the reason, he turned around and went back to his courtyard to warm up.

—

Several days passed.

An ordinary motorcade snaked outside Fengping City.

After the leader communicated with the soldiers guarding the city, he successfully entered Fengping. After that, he took people all the way through several checkpoints and came to the place where the army was stationed in the city.

A soldier in the army came out to negotiate with him. After a while, the soldier ordered the convoy to wait in place, while he walked towards the main general's camp.

He waited outside the camp for a while and was received by Qi You.

"What's wrong?" Qi You asked.

"Reporting to the lord." The soldier half-kneeled and said: "A convoy came from Cangcheng, saying that it was ordered by the princess to send something to the lord."

Qi You heard the words and raised his head.

Before he could speak, Lei Li next to him couldn't help but ask expectantly, "Princess? Has the new batch of cement arrived ahead of schedule?"

Cannes often transports cement to the Fengping Army, but due to the limitation of cement production, the amount of each delivery is limited.

Now that it is the snow season, Qi You and Lei Li and other generals are beginning to worry about the problem of soldiers spending the winter. The earlier the cement is delivered, the more heated kangs can be built earlier.

The soldier who sent the letter heard the words, and then responded: "No."

He explained: "The thing was sent by the princess on a special trip, and the subordinates dare not check it without authorization."

When Lei Li heard the words, he sat back with little interest.

In the main seat, Qi You asked, "Who is the leader of the team?"

The soldier replied truthfully, "It's someone from Master Qi Liu."

"Yeah." Knowing that the leader was Qi Liu, Qi You was no longer worried. He casually instructed Qi San next to him, "Qi San, go and check it out. If it's not important, just look at the arrangement."

Qi San said "yes" and took the order to leave.

After he left, the voice of discussion resounded in the room.

"...The situation on Wuping's side is more severe than I thought." Qi You glanced at Lei Li and ordered, "Lei Li, it's better for you to bring troops over there in person to deter the remaining Rong clan over there. "

Lei Li clasped his fists and ordered: "Don't worry, Your Highness."

The young King of Bei'an nodded.

He clearly had already made arrangements, but the expression on his face did not ease.

He paused, then said: "The military supplies promised by the imperial court have not arrived yet, and this king has already sent someone to purchase from Linzhou.

"Chen He, you have sorted out all the winter supplies in the city in the past two days, and let Lei Li and the others take them away first."

On the right side of Qi You, a middle-aged general with a literati beard nodded: "I will understand at the end."

He was old, and he was no stranger to such arrangements, but Lei Li was really blocked.

He took a few deep breaths, but he couldn't hold back, and scolded, "What nonsense is this, how long has the military salaries in Liaozhou been delayed? Why do you want the prince to invest money to fill this hole? "

Qi You glanced at him and said nothing.

Lei Li then added: "The fortification construction in the westward section of Wuping is mentioned every year, and there is no news every year. When the soldiers patrolled, they hid in the thatched huts that leaked from all sides, and they were not attacked by the mad dogs of the Rong tribe. Those who were bitten to death were frozen to death alive!"

Qi You's eyes darkened, and after a while he still comforted: "I know.

"The conditions in Wu'an are more difficult. I will arrange things to go there as soon as possible. After you arrive there, first arrange some frostbite soldiers to come back."

Lei Li's face turned red, but he didn't dare to lose his temper in front of Qi You.

Seeing this, Qi You said, "We are not feeling well, and the remnants of the Rong tribe are also frozen. As long as this period of time is passed, everything will get better when the spring begins."

He firmly promised to the two generals in the room: "Tomorrow winter, I will never be as sad as now."

Qi You just arrived in Liaozhou this year. He didn't know the situation here very well before, so he missed the opportunity to seek military salaries. But when this period of time passes, when he is free, he must go back and ask for an explanation.

Seeing his expression, Lei Li and Chen He felt much more at ease.

Lei Li finally stopped holding his breath, clasped his fists and bowed to Qi You-: "This subordinate understands."

Qi San's side.

According to Qi You's orders, he came out to count what Cao Mi had sent.

The leader handed him an exquisite package and said, "There are two sets of cashmere clothes specially prepared for the prince. In addition, there are 300 sets of woolen sweaters in the car, which the princess gave to the prince's personal soldiers. s things."

Qi San looked at the things in the car: "Did the sixth man say anything else?"

He didn't know much about these things at all, and he knew that this person was from Qi Liu, so he unceremoniously inquired about the news.

The leader nodded, suddenly approached Qi San's ear, and whispered: "Master Qi Liu specially asked the villain to instruct the adults, the brothers in the 300 sets of clothes camp are not enough, so you don't make any noise, and quietly cut things off. Come on, keep your family apart first!"

Today, Qi You's personal soldiers have expanded from the original five hundred to nearly a thousand, and they are led by Qi San and other eight Qi You's cronies.

Among them, except that the team led by Qi Liu was left in Cannes to defend the palace, and the other two teams were sent to perform special tasks, there were five teams around Fengping, with nearly 600 people.

Although they all serve Qi You, there is cooperation and competition between teams, and naturally there is some close relationship.

Qi Liu and Qi San grew up together, and the two have an excellent relationship, so Qi Liu will give Qi San some "little advice" on such trivial matters that do not involve principles.

Hearing this, Qi San raised his eyebrows in surprise.

He didn't dare to move the package prepared for Qi You, so he turned around and went to a set of woolen sweaters in the carriage.

Soon, he felt the softness and amazing warmth of the clothes in his palm.

In this era, very few clothes can make people feel warm as soon as they start.

He rubbed the garment in surprise: "Wool? It's not like tanned fur, it feels warmer... How is this made?"

Hearing the words, the leader shook his head honestly: "My subordinates don't know."

But he thought about it and added: "Recently, the princess has been sending people to buy a lot of wool in Liaozhou and outside the Great Wall just to make these clothes.

"This batch was transferred directly from Rongguang Villa in order to thank the prince for helping Zhang and others."

Qi San suddenly realized something, stared at the collar of the team leader, and asked, "Your team... already have all of them?"

"Hey!" The leader of the team was an adjutant under Qi Liu, who was also familiar with Qi San. Hearing this, he turned over his neckline and carefully pulled out the corner of a cashmere sweater.

He couldn't help showing off: "I'm not the same as you guys, it's made of cashmere, the same material as the one given to the prince, and the 300 sets in the car are wool, which is far worse than mine. "

After the introduction, he sighed again: "Princess, benevolent! He said that the soldiers who guarded us worked hard, so we sent a set to everyone in our team first, hehe! I can't see it, I also wore it on my leg. , can be warm.

"I've been rushing against the wind and snow all the way, except that my face hurts a little bit, hey, my body is not cold at all."

The more he talked, the more excited he became, and he even jumped on the spot.

Qi San looked at him deeply, and when he finished showing off, he called out a confidant and ordered, "Go and call a few people over, unload the car, and transport it back to our army."

The confidant didn't listen to the conversation between Qi San and Qi Liu's adjutant at all. Hearing the words, he wondered: "Ah? Will it be transported directly to our army? Don't you ask the prince for instructions first?"

Qi San glanced at him: "The lord just said, ordinary things, I will arrange my own after counting. This is a reward from the princess to the generals and soldiers, and the weight is not much, so there is no need to disturb others.

"Others, I will report back to the prince."

Hearing him say this, the confidant finally felt relieved, nodded and went straight to the arrangement.

Qi San stayed beside the carriage, waiting for someone to come, when three people suddenly came out of the courtyard next to him.

The first one saw Qi San and shouted excitedly, "Third brother."

He was not very old, and like a leather monkey, he jumped up to Qi San in two or three steps and asked, "Third brother, aren't you on duty today? Why are you not with the prince, but here instead?"

Qi San calmly took his hand off his shoulder, and did not respond to his words. Instead, he stared at the other two men who were following him, and clapped their fists with them as a courtesy.

Geer with deep eye sockets and wide nose bridge is exactly Qi You's command, a general who specializes in leading foreign soldiers. He walked in front of Qi San, looked at Cao Mi's motorcade with great interest, and suddenly asked a servant next to him: "What's this?"

This servant is from Rongguang Villa, how can he know the twists and turns in the army.

Hearing this, he replied in detail: "This is the sweater sent by the princess ordered by the villains. Thank you all for saving the Zhang family's caravan."

Garr's eyes lit up when he heard the words.

"Ms. Zhang? Gu Ge's wife, right! It's my subordinate who recognized her!" He patted the servant's shoulder happily, "Princess Rende! He even sent a gift here, you wait. , I'll arrange for someone to take it back."

The author has something to say: Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: Mu Yue, Zhen Zhen 1;

Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: 1 bottle of Shen and Chen Zijing;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!