The carriage rocked and rocked, and it was a wonderful spring ride.
A few horses and a carriage were driving on the main road, with endless fields on both sides. You could see the villagers plowing the land. In March, they plowed the land and planted it in April. The spring plowing was busy.
The further south we go, the warmer the weather becomes. The weather is sunny today and the scenery is beautiful. Ruan Xianbei rests his chin on his hand and stares at the scenery outside the window in a daze, humming that the weather is so sunny today and the scenery is beautiful everywhere.
They had set out a few days ago. Yingying'er's father was the magistrate of Yangzhou City, and Yuye handed them a letter. The letter said that just send Cui Lin to Yangzhou. Cui Lin's maternal grandfather and grandmother's home is in Yangzhou. .
Is Yangzhou the same as in later generations? It was a top-notch prosperous place, but she had never been to Yangzhou in any of her lifetimes.
"Fireworks are falling in Yangzhou in March..." She murmured to herself as she looked at the green willows sprouting new shoots on the roadside.
Although it’s not March yet, it’s not far away.
The spring described in ancient poems is always the most beautiful. Everything wakes up, the spring light is bright, everything has just begun, and everything is full of hope.
In this spring, you should go to Yangzhou to see it. This is the most beautiful time there. The weather there, the smokey willows there, and the viburnum flowers there all have a strong breath of spring.
You might even get a chance to see the famous Yangzhou thin horse.
Have another meal of Yangzhou fried rice.
Ruan Xianbei was so lost in thought that he even laughed out loud, and was immediately hit by a pebble on his head. "The donor had too many distracting thoughts and disturbed the young monk."
Tongchun, who was meditating on the top of the carriage, said slowly.
"In that case, then go back to the Mahachengyin Temple as soon as possible." Ruan Xianbei said in a half-toned tone. She felt a little sleepy when the carriage was shaking like this.
When she remembered the monk, Tongchun appeared in front of them the next day, saying that the matter was over and he was going back to Mahayana Temple, but the journey was long and they needed to take him with him.
Of course Shen Xuan agreed. There was no reason not to agree.
Tongchun was penniless, and after the experience he had experienced when he came, he certainly didn’t want to walk back all the way to beg for alms. He would be exhausted.
Ruan Xianbei and Fang Qiya were not in the car at this time, Cui Lin was sitting next to her, and Yue Ying'er was sitting on the other side of the carriage.
Because Cui Lin's matter is not over yet, her identity is not revealed for safety reasons, so Yue Ying'er doesn't know that she is actually the daughter of Cui's chief assistant in Beijing.
Maybe she feels that women in the world are vulgar people, but Yue Ying'er is quite cynical in front of them.
The rank of an official was overwhelming, not to mention that the officials in the imperial city were higher than the local officials. Cui Lin didn't think much of her when she saw her petty attitude.
"I wonder how Miss Meng is doing." Cui Lin answered.
"When the young monk left, he had already been taken over by the Royal Forest Army. All the bad guys were captured. The rest of the Cui family is fine. Miss Meng should be rewarded based on her merits."
Ah, reward based on merit, it sounds like the emperor's kindness is so great, Ruan Xianbei said inwardly, not knowing what the emperor was thinking.
She and other civilians couldn't figure it out.
"Ah, Senior Brother Shen is back." Tong Chun sat high and could see far, with excellent eyesight.
Yue Ying'er, who had always been listless, felt as if she had been given a shot of blood when she heard this. She adjusted her makeup and was momentarily disappointed when she realized that Shen Xuan was passing by Ruan Xianbei's side and not her side.
But she quickly adjusted her mood. When Shen Xuan was about to pass by them, she unexpectedly pushed Ruan Xianbei away. She lifted the curtain in time, revealing her little face with a smile on her lips. She looked at Shen Xuan tenderly and said: "Brother Shen, you are back."
"Yeah." Shen Xuan grunted, reined in the horse, looked into the carriage and said, "We may have to sleep in the wild tonight. There is no inn in front of us. Let's stop and have something to eat first."
Ruan Xianbei, who was pushed aside by Yue Ying'er's sudden thrust, was almost speechless. These ladies in the boudoir looked weak and weak, but they were quite strong.
Cui Lin laughed when she saw this.
Shen Xuan walked to the front of the carriage and took the lead to find a place to pull over. Only then did Yue Yinger apologize to Ruan Xianbei and said:
"Sister Ruan, I'm sorry. Did Ying'er bump into you just now?"
Before Ruan Xianbei could say anything, Cui Lin replied: "Remove it, right? I almost hit my head. Sister Ying'er is really strong."
Yue Ying'er's eyes turned red when she said this, she pursed her lips and said nothing, and jumped out of the carriage before it even stopped.
Ruan Xianbei looked at it and shook his head: "My cousin is really becoming more and more eloquent."
Cui Lin smiled modestly and said, "My cousin taught me well."
The two of them also got off the carriage, and of course their coachman was Lan. Ruan Xianbei gave Lan medicine to restore his strength. Lan was overjoyed and thought that the poison had been removed, but Cui Lin still took out the whistle and wanted to blow it. At that time he felt bad.
Giving up quickly is also a master's way.
The next day, he saw the monk appear again. The monk was still a little confused and wanted to take action against him. He immediately said that he had taken over the task of protecting Miss Cui. After all this trouble, he was now honest.
They had just laid out the tablecloths on the grass, and Cheng Suisui and Fang Qiya came back with some food.
"Ruan Ruan, what's wrong with Miss Yue?" Cheng Suisui looked at Yue Ying'er who was a little far away from them. She stood next to Shen Xuan with red eyes and lowered her head, not knowing what to say to him.
Ruan Xianbei said "Oh" and looked over. Yue Ying'er saw that Shen Xuan needed to lift her chin and raise her head. She is familiar with this angle. The four corners are the best angle!
She fiddled with firewood in her hands to start a fire, and said casually: "She pushed me away in order to talk to your senior brother. My cousin couldn't stand it and said something to her for me, and that's it."
Cheng Suisui also said oh, "I thought you hit someone, it's okay if you don't do it, otherwise I'm afraid you won't hit him lightly or hard, and they'll break him."
Ruan Xianbei glared at her: "What nonsense are you talking about? Am I such a rough person?"
"You don't know. It is said privately that Lei Shi was seriously injured and died after being hit by the two palms of the magical woman." Cheng Suisui took out the pot and tied it with a rope to the shelf built by Ruan Xianbei, and asked with bright eyes. : "Wonder Woman, what shall we eat?"
"How come I don't know that I'm so powerful? Jianghu people really like to hear gossip." Ruan Xianbei opened the bag they brought back. There was a bag of steamed buns, flatbreads, meat and vegetables, "Where have you been?"
Fang Qiya covered her mouth and said with a smile, "When I think about you finally being able to have a good meal when you come here, I'm almost starving to death, so we went to the farmer and bought some, just counting on you."
"What can I do in this barren mountain?" She looked at the ingredients with embarrassment and a little worried, "How about making a big stew? This pot is big enough. Have you brought the seasonings I told you before? ?」
"Bring it, bring it, I'll get it!" Cheng Suisui cheered, jumped up and ran away, shouting, "Great, I've always wanted to experience a picnic!"
Ruan Xianbei turned over the package and said, "It seems there is no oil."
"I asked my aunt for it. Is this okay?" Fang Qiya took out a piece of ointment wrapped in a small cloth from the bag.
Ruan Xianbei took a look, it was lard ointment.
"Okay, that's enough." Ruan Xianbei was about to start cooking and instructing others to help.
Lan went to fetch water, Fang Qiya washed the vegetables, Lan went to fetch water again, and Cheng came back to help clean up the ingredients. Fortunately, some farmers who were difficult to clean had helped with it. It must have been Miss Cheng's hard work that was fully paid. Bar.
"You obviously have money, why don't you eat something good?" she asked doubtfully.
"This..." The two of them glanced at Shen Xuan involuntarily.
Shen Xuan happened to be walking towards them with Yue Yinger.
"Miss Ruan." Shen Xuan called her.
Ruan Xianbei turned a deaf ear, he was really busy.
Cheng Suisui held the dish in his hand and motioned for Shen Xuan to give way, "Brother, food is the most important thing for the people. If you have anything to say, we'll talk to you later."
Ruan Xianbei took out a knife and put the lard slices into the hot pot. After the lard melted, he added onions, ginger and garlic and stir-fried the chopped potatoes, meat slices and some cabbage and carrots together, and added soy sauce. Then stir fry. Finally, add water that has covered the ingredients, and break it apart at the same time.
Add the good corn segments, cover the pot, and wait.
"Is this okay?" Cheng Suisui asked.
"Well, we'll see in a quarter of an hour." After she finished her work, she went to see Shen Xuan. Shen Xuan also found a place to sit down, and Yue Ying'er sat next to him.
She raised the corners of her lips and asked knowingly: "Did Senior Brother just call me to explain something?"
Shen Xuan stated calmly: "Miss Yue told me that you bullied her."
"Tsk, so you're here to punish me?" Ruan Xianbei's tone was unkind, and the smile on his face faded.
"I just wanted to ask if it's true."
Ruan Xianbei stared at him without wanting to reply.
"Mr. Shen, just now when you were passing by, Miss Yue knocked her cousin away from her seat in order to look at you more. My cousin almost knocked her head." Cui Lin said, "I don't know what Miss Yue told you. She said to her cousin 'Did Ying'er bump into you? Then I'll say no, it's obvious that I bumped into you. If you say bullying, then I bullied her."
Cui Lin imitated Yue Ying'er's tone and vividly reproduced the conversation just now. Cheng Suisui pinched her thigh to keep from laughing.
After hearing this, Shen Xuan looked at Yue Ying'er and said lightly: "Is that so?"
Yue Ying'er lowered her head and bit her lip and said, "Yes. I just feel that some sisters don't like me..."
Look, she has put herself on the weak side again. She won't provoke them. What is there about her that they don't like? Although Cheng Suisui and Fang Qiya don't like her always being weak and crying, they are kind-hearted, cheerful and generous and will not embarrass her at all. Junqu Pavilion
That is to say, after Cui Lin and Ruan Xianbei arrived, she felt something was wrong and started to act like a monster.
Just don't say whether you like her or not, she is just the daughter of the prefect, Cui Lin doesn't take her seriously at all, so why not like her.
Cui Lin wanted to say something else, but Shen Xuan said, "Miss Yue, they won't embarrass you. I told the two junior sisters to take care of you along the way. You don't have to come to me everywhere in the future, and there is no need to say such things again."
Shen Xuan directly said these words of rejection in front of so many people. As long as she is a woman, she should feel extremely embarrassed. Yue Ying'er's face turned red and white, and finally she covered her face and ran away crying.
"Junior sister Fang."
Fang Qiya stood up and said, "I'll go take a look."
Ruan Xianbei's expression also softened a little. Cheng Suisui looked at the soup in the pot like a normal person and said, "Ruan Ruan, are you ready to take a look? Take a look."
"Senior Brother Shen is so heartless." Ruan Xianbei opened the lid and stirred, and the fragrance immediately floated out, but she shook her head and said, "It will take another quarter of an hour."
Shen Xuan replied to her: "It seems that this is not the first time that Miss Ruan knows that I am so heartless."
Ruan Xianbei sneered, and the two stopped talking to each other.
Cheng Suisui: Help, I just want to have a meal...
Cui Lin: I understand, there is a situation.
Lan: Uh-huh, I want to eat too...
Tongchun: Amitabha. Is it convenient for the young monk to return to secular life now?
Twenty taels of silver was a bit too small, but in modern times it was still around eight thousand to ten thousand yuan.
At present, an ordinary soldier in the Yu Dynasty can only earn one tael of silver per month at most, and a centurion can earn three taels of silver per month.
Maybe he will accept it.
In addition, Qin Hu is also planning to draw a big pie for Li Xiaokun. After all, Qin Hu used to have money.
Now it depends on whether he and Qin An can survive the night.
"Little Marquis, I may not be able to survive. I'm so hungry, my hands and feet are frozen with cold." Qin An said in a daze.
"Xiao Anzi, Xiao Anzi, hold on, hold on, you can't stay still, get up and run, that's the only way you can survive."
In fact, Qin Hu himself is in trouble. Although he was a special soldier in his previous life, this body is not what he used to be. All he has now is a perseverance.
"Wait!"
Qin Hu's eyes were like cold stars, and he suddenly shouted in a low voice, appearing just ten meters away from the camp.
A reflection of light and a rustling sound aroused his alertness.
With the professional sense of smell of a special scout, he felt that it was the enemy.
But should we notify Li Xiaokun?
Qin Hu hesitated a little. What if he saw it wrong? You know, his current physical condition is completely different from before.
If a false alarm causes night terrors or camp roars, and someone gets a handle on it, they will be killed without mercy.
"Xiao Anzi, hand me the bow and arrow."
Qin Hu crawled under the carriage and whispered.
But Qin An's next words scared him so much that he almost jumped up.
"Bow and arrow, what are bow and arrow?"
What, there are no bows and arrows in this era?
Qin Hu looked around and found a wooden stick with a sharpened top placed under the wheel. It was two meters long. It was thick at the handle and became thinner as it went up.
The more I look at it, the more it looks like a weapon.
Wooden gun, this is the iconic building of the cannon fodder.
"Come closer, come closer..." After a few breaths, Qin Hu was sure that he was right.
The other party may be the enemy's scouts, called scouts in this era. They are trying to enter the camp and conduct reconnaissance.
Of course, if conditions permit, you can also poison, set fire to, or perform a beheading operation.
"one two three……"
He and Qin An lay motionless on the ground until then, he suddenly jumped up and threw the wooden spear as a javelin.
"puff!"
It was impossible for the scout to wear armor because he had difficulty moving, so the shot pierced his chest directly.
Following Qin Hu, he picked up the wooden gun belonging to Qin An, jumped out of the carriage, and chased in the opposite direction desperately.
For the reliability of intelligence, the scouts are required to monitor each other and are not allowed to act alone, so there are at least two.
After a few moments, Qin Hu threw another black shadow to the ground.
Then he strangled his neck with a wooden gun. There was a crisp sound and the man's head hung down.
"Hoo, hoo!" Qin Hu was sweating profusely and almost collapsed. He lay on the ground gasping for air. His body was really too weak.
Just to break the enemy's neck, before he could just use his hands, but just now he had to rely on the power of a wooden gun.
"Qin An, come here and help me search you."
Qin Hu is familiar with the rules of the battlefield. He must collect all the trophies from these two guys as quickly as possible.
"Two daggers, two horizontal knives, a level, seven or eight taels of broken silver, two grain bags, flags, kettles, two sets of cotton-padded clothes, two pot helmets, bacon..."
"Qin An, brother, hurry up, hurry up, eat something quickly, you are saved..."
Qin Hu tremblingly grabbed a handful of fried beans from the grain bag and stuffed it into Qin An's mouth, then filled him with water and put on the captured cotton-padded clothes.
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Before dawn, Qin Hu cut off the scout's head before the sentry on duty arrived, carried it into Shi Chang's camp, and reported what happened yesterday.
This was done to prevent others from taking credit, and he knew what kind of environment he was in now.
"Thirty taels of silver for one head, you are rich."
The chief's name was Gundam. He was a tall, muscular man with a beard.
At first, he didn't believe it until he saw the trophies captured by Qin Hu and the two corpses.
At this moment, his eyes were full of envy, jealousy and hatred.
"It's not me who gets rich, it's everyone who gets rich. This is the result of the ten of us."
