The Possession of My Beloved

Compared to Cui Xingzhou's worries, Miantang was much more happy.

She didn't expect that the battle ahead was so tight that her husband could take the opportunity to buy medicinal materials to go out to the military camp.

I have to let Mama Li cut the meat to cook, and let my husband have a good meal before leaving.

This house in Wuningguan is too small, and the previous owner left a lot of debris. Miantang didn't have time to ask someone to clean it up, so the kitchen for cooking seemed cramped and cramped, and there was only one stove, so it couldn't cook too many fancy dishes.

Mother Li simply followed the local customs, learned the dishes from the Northwest, and came to a pot of stew.

In addition to the hoarded vegetables bought from the farmers in the northwest, there are also pheasant meat, potatoes and green peppers that the Dark Guards brought back from hunting when they went up the mountain.

The pheasant chicken was marinated in sauce beforehand. The soup was simmered with green vegetables, and the soup was very fresh and strong. Mama Li also learned to make the unique local steamed bun, which added jujube powder, which was very sweet and glutinous, taking care of Wang Ye's southern taste.

Bicao placed a small square table unique to the local area on the kang in the lady's house, so that Cui Xingzhou and Miantang could sit on the hot kang to eat.

When Miantang was eating, she suddenly remembered to ask her husband which camp he was in.

On weekdays, when officials and family members chat, they will talk about the military camp to which their officials belong. But after several conversations, Miantang found that the camp to which her husband belonged was the most mysterious, and no one knew about it, let alone heard the name of Cui Jiuye, the captain of the thousand.

So taking advantage of her husband's rare time to return home, Miantang specifically asked.

Cui Jiu thought about it and said: "Our camp is different from others, it is specially responsible for the secret affairs of the camp. We don't communicate with other camps on weekdays, so we don't know each other very well. ...You don't want to talk too much with those women, lest they leak out and be detected by those who are interested."

Cui Xingzhou is telling lies now, just like Mrs. Liu prescribing a prescription, she is also full of confidence.

Miantang nodded in conviction. It turned out that Xianggong was different from other officials in Wuning Pass, and belonged to the elite division. It is no wonder that the officials of the officials and family members did not know.

However, because Wuning Pass is close to Jinjia Pass, every foreigner who comes from other places has to go through strict household registration verification by the local chief.

Miantang is not worried that there will be barbarian spies in the official family. But be careful to sail the boat for ten thousand years, since the official reminded him, he must not leak the official position of the official.

Cui Xingzhou was eating very fast and rushed back to Jinjia Pass. Miantang hurriedly packed the jacket he made these days, and some food for him in a package, along with the things that the neighbors entrusted him to carry.

After a while, I returned to the commanding camp, and let the personal soldiers pass it on one by one, so that they don't know who the original piggyback was.

Cui Xingzhou drank the sweet-scented osmanthus and lotus seed soup he brought back from Wuning Pass, and picked up the letters with his long fingers. One of them is beautifully handwritten, and at a glance, it can be seen that it is a letter from my cousin Lian Lilan.

Cui Xingzhou didn't even dismantle, so he directed him to the side. After all, Cousin Lian's letters have not been interrupted since he started. The rhythm of one letter is about a few days. If you keep doing this, the stage horses along the road in the northwest will be exhausted by her.

There is also a letter from my mother. Instead, Cui Xingzhou picked up the letter-opening knife and looked at it.

In addition to exhorting him to pay attention to his body and send more letters to the house, nearly half of the words in the letter were to rebuke Cui Xingzhou for making his own decisions, but he did not inform the old mother Gaotang of the dissolution of the engagement. Now he is acting in a spirit of anger, but half of the sky of his aunt's family has collapsed. Cousin Lian washes her face in tears all day long, saying that if she doesn't talk to her cousin, the misunderstanding will be solved, and she will not marry anyone else in this life...

Cui Xingzhou considered his tone, and felt that his mother was good at writing, and half of the letters in the family letter should have been written by his aunt for his mother.

But he's in the northwest, it's a little pity, I can't see my aunt and cousin washing their faces in tears, and there's a lot less verbosity.

So he put the letter aside and waited for his spare time to return a letter to his mother to keep her safe.

As for the other letters, there are both letters of encouragement and exhortation from teachers and condolences from old friends.

Zhennan Hou Zhaoquan is quite interesting, but it is not interesting to say that he is only in the letter. Since he joined the army, why not notify him so that he can join Cui Jiuye in battle to kill the enemy?

Zhao Quan, who has always been idle, actually applied to the Ministry of Household for a position as a grain officer responsible for escorting supplies. Because Zhenzhou is a land of fish and rice, many grain officials are selected from the local area, not assigned by the capital.

So Zhao Quan took the opportunity of business to come to the northwest to meet friends for a while, and he didn't have to fight to kill the enemy, avoiding the danger of breaking the incense of Zhennan Houfu.

But Cui Xingzhou suspected that he had a bad motive, otherwise why did he keep asking him about Lady Liu's whereabouts in the letter? However, Brother Jiayu was able to stay with him when he was at a low point in his life. Cui Xingzhou also kept this friendship in his heart, but he and Zhao Quan never needed those official courtesies, so he wrote a letter to Zhao Quan. The last three characters "send more food"!

I hope Brother Zhao lives up to his mission and brings life-saving food to Zhenzhou.

As for the secret report sent by his eyeliner arranged in Zhenzhou, it is much more interesting. Yangshan Zhao'an went smoothly without the obstruction of King Huaiyang.

That Ziyu has married the daughter of the general soldier Shi, and has become the son-in-law of the general soldier, and because of the use of troops at the border, the defense of the four counties in the capital is empty, and the capital has temporarily transferred military generals from many places to Beijing guard.

Shi Yikuan is one of them, and his new son-in-law will naturally do his part, and he must follow his adoptive father to face the Holy Spirit in Beijing.

Cui Xingzhou thought about it for a while, and felt that the scene in the capital must be very lively. The Empress Dowager Wu has exhausted her organs, and she never imagined that the orphan of the prince she persecuted back then would return to the capital in a grand manner this time, right?

And the power of the Empress Dowager represented by King Sui will never watch the situation idle, and I don't know what kind of shocking hole will be stabbed by the knife of the prince's orphan Liu Hao Come.

Unfortunately, whether it's Yangshan Liu Hao, Huizhou King Sui, or the traitorous concubine in the capital, these hilltops stink. None of him wanted to stand.

Because of this, after thinking about it all night by the canal that day, he decided to take the imperial decree and come to the dangerous places such as Jinjiaguan in the northwest.

Those who are proficient in playing chess know the truth of dying. This Golden Armor Pass is a chess piece that he carefully dropped, but whether he can revive the chess surface or not depends on his own ability.

At this time, under the Golden Armor, there were hordes of tigers and wolves, yelling day and night. However, Cui Xingzhou had a plan in mind, and he could only see the next situation after the thunderstorm in the capital passed.

Almost, the number of scolding arrays in a day gradually decreased.

Seeing that the winter is almost over, the best time to fight is also over. The barbarians in the northwest are nomads, living by water and grass. When summer arrives, the entire tribe will be relocated. Where is the thought to block the Golden Armor Pass?

As time goes by, the most difficult period is about to pass. But at this moment, the imperial decree arrived.

The letter scolded Cui Xingzhou as the head coach but was timid and afraid of fighting, and only blindly shrank in the Golden Armor Pass to defend against the enemy. Long live the imperial decree must understand that within a month, he must retake at least one county, so as to appease the hearts of the army.

These words are all layman's words, but they are written in the imperial decree, so that people can't refute them.

When the businessmen left, Cui Xingzhou's lieutenants looked at each other, only to see what Cui Xingzhou meant.

In the past few months, the days of Jinjiaguan have not been as easy as the edict said. It took a lot of thought to raise food and grass.

There is no way to do it, cry to the middle and be poor, and assign a place like Cui Xingzhou to the king, it is obviously suspected of cheating rich households, and expecting King Huaiyang to think of a way to scrape the family and make up for it The big hole in the lower court.

But now Empress Dowager Wu's gang is greedy and unsatisfied.

But when he received the imperial decree, Cui Xingzhou's face was still as usual, and he would never ask the remonstrance officer to grasp the slightest point.

I don't know who in China is slandering in front of Wan Sui, so Wan Sui made such an arbitrary will. Although "I will not accept the orders of the foreign monarchs", but that has to be put on the Mingjun, otherwise disobeying the imperial edict is also a big crime to destroy the nine clans.

Fortunately, he delayed for so long, and the brute force outside the city was not much different. As for the food and grass, everything was prepared.

And these days, he has been training people in the city, and he has not waited passively.

Listening to the daily scolding, the hot-blooded sons and daughters in the city have long been holding back their anger, wanting to stand to the end with the brutal soldiers who invaded their homes.

Just half a month after receiving the imperial decree, a team of Dayan grain and grass convoys from the west detained, because the heavy snow blocked the road, they were greedy for the shortcut, and they got lost and entered the barbarian realm.

The barbarian who had been out of food for a long time was overjoyed, and the sentry took a group of people and hijacked the food and grass. After checking that the rice noodles are non-toxic, the barbarian camp was like a Chinese New Year, and the cooking of rice in a cauldron was very lively.

And those horses can also eat hay and snort.

On the second day when the barbarian camp was full of food and drink, the gate of Jinjiaguan, which had been closed for a long time, was suddenly opened, and a pair of officers and soldiers poured out to confront the barbarians.

This is the chance the brute has been waiting for for a long time.

The reason they fought for so long was to deplete Dayan's morale and let the emperor's kid in the capital pay the annual tribute obediently.

Now that the city gate is open, the King Huaiyang, who has been pretending to be a grandson for a long time, must be completely beaten down, so that Dayan can be convinced to pay the annual currency payment.

According to people from the battlefield later, that battle was extremely brutal!

The cavalry is better, those infantry are bad luck. As long as the barbarian's horse pouted its tail, a stream of horses gushed out! Accidentally splattered all over the body.

The night grass of the barbarian horses turned into soft "gold" spraying the battlefield. After the horse was pulled a few times, they all fell down with weak legs. The barbarians and cavalry were caught off guard and fell from their horses.

This head-to-head encounter was not clean, but beautiful.

The morale of the soldiers chased ten miles in one breath and recovered the village near Jinjiaguan. However, the coach didn't want to pursue too far, so Ming Jin closed his troops.

The bruised brutes retreat to their captured Eagle County to recuperate.

This beautiful counterattack can be regarded as the morale of Jinjiaguan. The documents under Cui Xingzhou could be considered to have a list of military exploits that could be presented to the emperor.

However, while the officials and family members of Wuning Pass were delighted with their husband's victory, they also added a lot of troubles.

The source of the stream that flows through their village is at the Jinjia Pass.

After the sortie battle, for two days in a row, the water flowing down from the upstream smelled of horse manure. Every household in Wuningguan is afraid to go to the stream to do laundry and fetch water. Even naughty children don't like to play by the water.

It is said that in the past two days, there were many soldiers who came back from the battle at Jinjia Pass in the upper reaches to take a bath and wash their clothes, and there was no way to pollute the stream for a while.

Fortunately, there is a deep well in Miantang's yard, which is very convenient for water.

The neighbors all came to Miantang's house to borrow water, and the small courtyard of Miantang was very lively.

And his little lady Miantang is instructing two maids to set up bamboo poles on the drying yard in front of the door, and pull the clothesline, so that the neighbors can dry clothes!

After she came to Wuning Pass, she consciously put away the brocade clothes brought from Lingquan Town, and the golden hairpin and jade ring were no longer on her head.

Only follow the dress of most of the poor women in Wuning Pass, dressed in coarse blue cloth, a square scarf with plain flowers wrapped in blue silk, a slender waist wide cloth blue scarf Twisted, showing a wind-fluid state...

In short, even if she wears a coarse dress, she can still make people look at her at first sight, and can't help being attracted by her beautiful appearance...

It's just that in Cui Xingzhou's heart, she used to be a beautiful peony raised in a greenhouse and served meticulously. But now I have gradually discovered that she is actually a noon flower in the wilderness, with indescribable tenacity and vigor, no matter where she is, you can see the bright and endless flowers...

Miantang turned her head and saw her husband wearing a hat on the horse. Although he was covered with a light gauze, his body was tall and straight, and his calm and calm demeanor on the back of a horse could not be mistaken.

Miantang immediately lifted her skirt and ran towards her husband happily. When she came to the horse, she grabbed the reins and asked, "Husband, when did you come back? Why didn't you call someone? ?"

Cui Xingzhou looked at the wives who were looking at him across the low wall in the yard. He didn't take off his hat, but said lightly: "The yard is too noisy, I took Mo Ru to the nearby mountains for a walk, just in time. I can come back with some game... What do you want to eat?"

Miantang tilted her head and thought for a while, then said with a smile, "It's best to roast rabbit..."

Cui Xingzhou also laughed and said, "Okay, I'll give you a few more to eat." After that, he transferred the horse's head and galloped away with Mo Ru and a few followers.

Miss Wen stuck her head out from the courtyard gate, only saw the back of Cui Xingzhou's horse and galloping, and asked Madam Liu curiously: "I haven't seen your husband, so it's such a style...where Like a captain of a thousand, but like a general... My husband has been searching around the barracks, but I have never heard of the nine masters of Lingquan Town..."

Miantang remembered her husband's advice, he accepted some secret tasks, and it was difficult for people to find out. So seeing that Lady Wen was so curious and wanted to inquire about her Cui Jiu's name, she interrupted with a smile and said something else.

When it was very dark at night, the women in the yard dispersed. After returning from hunting, Cui Jiucai came back dressed in a starry sky.

And he has a lot of prey, in addition to a pair of rabbits, there is a wild boar. He was carried into the courtyard by the guards.

The righteous man Fan Hu, because of his injury, has been living in her house temporarily with the consent of his husband. On weekdays, it is a good hand to help with sweeping and chopping firewood.

At this time, Brother Fan silently carried the knife and helped cut and peel the meat with a few guards.

If not, she is willing to give them a generous entanglement as a reward.

However, in front of Fan Zhuangshi and his brothers, the husband said with a taut face: "The children of Zhenzhou do not accept those who are not skilled in their studies and skills. If you have nothing to do, you can do rough work in Liu Niangzi’s yard, and I will pay you the wages…”

Mian Tang was shocked and embarrassed listening to her. She did not expect that the husband, who is the commander of thousands, would speak so harshly! How could she talk to her saviors like that?

That night, Liu Miantang once again had a tantrum with her husband, thinking that after he became the commander of thousands, was he too powerful and a little aggressive?

So she rarely turned cold and ignored Jiuye Cui overnight.

In the early morning of the next day, Jiuye Cui clenched his fists and apologized to several righteous men.

However, those brave men obviously had a big heart, so they forgave their husbands and thanked them for the gold and silver that Miantang donated. He just followed Jiuye's words and stayed as a part-time worker.

But Miantang's house is too small and her husband is not at home, leaving a few big men for nothing is really a gossip.

While killing pigs and bloodletting while the yard is hot. Miantang welcomed her husband back into the house, took off the bamboo hat for him, and asked with bright eyes, "This time the Golden Armor Pass was a great victory, but that car of crotons played a role?"

It turned out that when the battle plan was being formulated, Cui Jiu just returned to Wuning Pass and watched Miantang in the yard directing a few guys to grind medicine.

Take over a man's hands and feet with crude benzene, overturned the wooden barrel soaked in croton, and soaked the haystack on the side. As a result, the goats raised by the neighbors wandered in, and after eating a few mouthfuls of wet grass, they pulled off the next day.

The neighbor reluctantly came to Miantang to reason, and wanted to accompany the sheep money, and Cui Xingzhou really had an idea and came up with such a way to reduce the combat effectiveness of the brute.

The two armies face each other, and they will check the forage they loot. If you poison the food and grass, it will definitely be discovered, and it cannot be counted.

The effect of croton is too fast and it is easy to be found. However, after soaking croton in water and soaking in hay, any silver needles cannot be seen. Even if the barbarian soldiers tried it on the horse, the horse was much bigger than the human, and the effect of the medicine would not be able to strike for a while.

The most important thing is that, as far as he knows, the supply of food and grass on the barbarian side has been lacking for a long time.

After considering all aspects, Cui Xingzhou formulated this battle plan. It's just that Liu Miantang, the proprietress of the Wuningguan Pharmacy, has to figure out how to start with this large amount of croton medicinal materials.

And after Liu Miantang got the order conveyed by her husband on behalf of the prince, she immediately recovered.

She is not skilled in medicine, the prescriptions are not very effective, and the shop is a little cold. But getting through contacts to buy goods is really her strength.

That's it, in less than seven days, Liu Miantang met a broker through the introduction of the second nephew of the third uncle in Guanli, and paid a high price to buy a broker. A batch of croton medicinal materials originally shipped to the sixteen states.

Liu Niangzi spent a lot of money after this toss, and finally made a first contribution for her husband in front of King Huaiyang.

Miantang didn't expect the prince to reward her husband with gold and silver, but after this great victory, the crisis at the Golden Armor Pass was resolved, and the husband had more time to come back.

At this time, the wild boars in the yard have been ironed and roasted on an open fire, with bursts of fragrance.

Just as the couple were talking about reunion after a long absence, a hearty burst of laughter came from the yard: "Jiu Ye, you will be happy, and you will come to eat wild roast in silence, Don't call me!"

Miantang looked up the window and saw that the genius doctor Zhao of Lingquan Town had come to this backcountry?

It turns out that after Zhao Quancheng assumed the official position of escorting grain and grass, he did his best. The thick-skinned he also exhausted all the rogue tricks all the way. Born outside of Zhenzhou, King Sui of Huizhou concealed from the court's granary and found abundant food and grass. Then the tiger's mouth took out the meat, and he beat the bamboo stick at the King of Sui.

The King of Sui also knew that the Duke of Zhennan was an ignorant and incompetent person, and he did not take him seriously at all.

Although he was annoyed by being ripped off later, he was caught by him for a while, and King Sui didn't want to make trouble.

So Zhao Quan is also a lucky person. Just like that, Zhao Jiayu lived up to his mission and successfully completed the task of rewarding food, giving the disciples of Jinjiaguan enough time to buffer delays.

Zhao Liangguan, who worked hard and made a lot of money, is here to ask for money.