Southern Yanzhou,
The wind was fierce, and Gu Pinglu led a column of cavalry to fight with a group of men in black.
For a time, clouds of dust flew up from the ground, making it difficult for people outside the battlefield to see clearly what was going on.
Not far behind Gu Pinglu, in a very badly damaged luxury carriage, Wei Wang Dongfangtai was sitting in the center.
There was no clue that he had just experienced an assassination.
He seemed to be unconscious of the knife wound on his left arm. He only listened intently to the sounds of the fighting outside with his ears raised.
From time to time, he lowered his eyes and looked at the dead-eyed prisoner lying at his feet, with a strange smile on his lips.
Ignoring his bloody arms, he raised his hand to open the curtains.
At this moment, the battle is coming to an end.
The sand raised by the wind gradually fell, and he saw Gu Pinglu still standing in the center, his spear rustling. There were only a few assassins left on the opposite side, and neither side dared to take action for a while.
But the next second Gu Pinglu took the initiative and several people started fighting again.
Dongfangtai lowered the car curtain and closed his eyes with peace of mind. He put a hand on his knee and tapped it gently, as if it was in rhythm with the sound of fighting outside.
"Your Highness, King Wei, are you okay?"
Hearing this, Dongfangtai opened his eyes and saw Gu Pingluo's face with the enemy's blood hanging in front of his eyes.
Looking at the concern in the young man's clear eyes, Dongfangtai smiled...
He went out on patrol and eventually became King Wei's bodyguard to escort him back to Fucheng. Gu Yan just sighed after hearing the report from his men.
Then, the ravine between Gu Yan's eyebrows became deeper and deeper.
Not long after His Majesty died, something happened when King Wei returned to his fiefdom.
What happened here made him think too much.
Gu Yan raised his head and looked at the edict from the imperial capital beside his desk. It actually mentioned winter pay, which was much richer than before.
When the late emperor was in power, he was mostly harsh on the border generals. But now that the new emperor has ascended the throne and the Queen Mother is regent, he suddenly treats their border officers and soldiers preferentially. Isn't this a kind of wooing?
And is this kind of wooing out of government policy or out of that person's selfish motives?
Gu Yan hid his face and sighed, why is it that even after Emperor Yan Qing died, their family is still walking on thin ice?
***
Mayberry's family set out again.
Meiyou's family and Meibei's family took Old Xue and his son along with them.
Because Jiubaoxuan's escort also brought several carriages along the way, the mules were also freed for a while.
Mei Bei sat in the carriage and lifted the curtain, looking at Wu Jia's light-weight mules carrying fat tigers and fighting chickens to have all kinds of fun on the grassland, and couldn't help but look envious.
"I really want to ride a horse."
Meiberry took the opportunity to look at Meiyu who was riding a horse outside the carriage.
Meiyou noticed Meiberry's gaze, slowed down the horse's speed, was level with the carriage, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"I envy you that you can ride a horse. When did you learn how to ride a horse?"
"I learned it just before departure."
Mayberry:?
What Meiyou means is that before they left today, she asked someone how to ride a horse and then learned it?
"Can you learn if you have legs?"
Seeing Mei Mei's doubtful look on life, Mei You was in a good mood.
"I'll teach you when we get to Yue Liao."
"Ouch~"
Mei Mei lowered the car curtain, and she was the only one sitting in the car. Her father was sitting outside, chatting with the people from Jiubaoxuan who were driving.
Her mother was talking to her third aunt in the car next door.
For a while, Meiberry also felt that she was quite bored.
She lowered her head and reached out to rub the jade whistle hanging around her neck.
Before leaving, Mei Mei mustered up the courage to ask Xie Changxu if she could write to them directly in the future.
For this reason, Mei Mei was also afraid that Xie Changxun would misunderstand, and explained that Jiubaoxuan had gone to Xianyao to develop, while they were far away in Yanzhou.
The distance is too far. If you have any business ideas to make money, it would be too slow to rely on manual delivery of letters.
This distance is not just one day's distance from Jinshui Village to Jinbai County.
Xie Changxun is probably the talker of Jiubaoxuan.
This is what Mayu told Mayberry.
After hearing what she said, Xie Changxun didn't say anything at the time, and just handed her the jade whistle.
"Blow it, nothing else is needed, and the messenger will arrive."
The man's voice was still in his ears, and Mayberry lowered his head and stared at the whistle in trance.
At that time, when the other party handed her the whistle, her long-lost clock-in system actually rang——
[Congratulations to the host for checking in for the "gift of token" and the "cotton planting manual" as a reward. 】
Suddenly startled by the system, Mayberry stretched out her hand to take the whistle and clenched it suddenly.
At that moment, the warm and cold touch between fingertips startled both of them.
Mei Berry's eyelashes trembled, and she didn't even dare to raise her head to look at Xie Changxu.
I was deeply afraid that the other party would misunderstand me as a pervert who wanted to eat pretty boys, so I turned around and ran away with the whistle plumberry.
Now thinking about her behavior at that time, Mei Berry couldn't help but cover her face.
ah!
This time she ran away, she looked even more guilty. What was she doing at that time?
Meiberry wailed and fell back, and with a bang, she hit her head in the carriage, which made her scream in pain.
But because her father was laughing loudly outside, it was covered up by Mei Berry's movement.
Good news: No one knows about the shame.
The bad news: It hurts so much that no one cares.
Mayberry simply lay down there.
She took out a small flower of cotton from the space, played with it in her hand, and looked at it for a while.
Afterwards, she took out the cotton planting manual as a reward for the sudden check-in of the Xie Changzhen incident.
It records in detail the cotton planting matters, as well as a series of subsequent cotton picking, cotton processing and other processes.
Mei Bei recalled that she had heard that there was a trade customs market on the border of Yanzhou every spring and autumn, which lasted for twenty days in each season.
If they follow their current itinerary, they may not be able to encounter an autumn market closure after arriving in Yue Liao.
At that time, she asked the system to arrange the origin of the cotton.
At least, their family should arrange quilts this winter, right?
When spring comes, she will take out the cotton seeds and plant them. In less than three years, cotton will become the most popular item besides food in the homes of the people in the North.
The territory of Yanzhou is indeed very peaceful as Xie Changshu said.
During the ten days or so on the road, there was no movement. Occasionally, Tian Qi was being carried by Xue Lao in the next carriage to carry the prescription. Mei Mei fell asleep very well on the bumpy carriage.
But on this day, Mei Mei met a small group of ragged refugees less than thirty miles away from Yueliao County.
At first, Mei Mei thought they were refugees from Yunzhou, but when she talked about it with the people in the team, Shopkeeper Ma listened and told her that these people were also common people in Yanzhou.
After all, part of the southern part of Yanzhou is on the Jinlan River.
Those refugees will go north only when they are homeless due to floods.
"The people of Yunzhou can't get over. Even if they come over, they can't go deep into Yanzhou without a road guide."
Shopkeeper Ma told a very cruel truth.
"In Yanzhou, there are not only ordinary people, but also soldiers who resist the grassland. Almost every year, Dacheng will fight with the Tatars in the grassland.
Although the Tatars have been unhappy in recent years, neither Zhizhou nor Guhou have ever let down their vigilance, and they will not allow anything that harms the army to happen.
Even if the people of Yunzhou couldn't survive due to floods and plagues and took the risk and rushed here to Yanzhou, they would not allow the victims of the Yunzhou disaster to enter.
At most, there are just a few more bones on the border of Yanzhou that died in a foreign country. "
It sounded ruthless, but Meiberry felt a deep sense of powerlessness behind her.
"Is it because of the epidemic?"
"No, because Yanzhou doesn't have any excess food..."
There is really nothing they can do.
In fact, the things mentioned at the end of this chapter are the reasons why Gu Pinglu appeared in the south at the beginning.
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