Xiao Luolan had already embroidered the sachet. When she saw Sect Leader Zhou coming in, she gave him the light blue sachet.
Zhou Xuxi couldn't help but take it and smelled the smell of fireworks and ginger on Madam: "Madam has entered the kitchen?"
Xiao Luolan nodded, not thinking there was anything unseen about it: "I made some ginger soup for you to drink."
Zhou Xu thought of the ginger soup he drank and regretted not drinking an extra bowl.
As soon as Xiao Luolan looked up, she saw Clan Master Zhou's temples. The few wisps of frost under the oil lamp seemed to be more than before. Thinking of such a long time of running around, and thinking about Clan Master Zhou's age, everyone who went out with him was A young man with a strong physique. In fact, according to modern standards, Sect Leader Zhou is not even a generation younger.
But he was still leading the army in the war.
Does this person have an easy day?
"Madam is so kind to me." Zhou Xu hung the sachet on his body, and then he felt a little more comfortable. He thought it was the ginger soup specially cooked for him by Madam. The others had benefited from him. The coach's wife It would not be a disgrace to them to cook ginger soup for them.
Zhou Xu felt jealous again when he thought of this.
When Xiao Luolan heard this, she pursed her lips and asked: "The river water is cold, do you feel any discomfort?" After all, you are this age.
Zhou Xu touched Madam Yubai's hand and leaned over with a smile: "No."
"Does Madam care about me?" Zhou Xu kissed Madam's fingertips.
Xiao Luolan nodded, remembering her worry when she heard about Lu Wei's plan to cross the river, her eyebrows were a little worried: "Don't take such risks in the future."
"There are many young people in the army, and I think Agu Amu is very good. We can let them do it appropriately."
Zhou Xu heard the word young and looked at his wife.
Madam really doesn't look like she's thirty-eight at all. Instead, she looks like a woman in her early thirties, but the corners of her eyes are more mature and charming. She has a hibiscus jade face, delicate skin, Ruoxuezhi warm jade, and an astonishingly plump figure. Youzhi, but he doesn't come out often. When he does, he wears a curtain and hat that covers his whole body, and his back makes people think.
How young she was compared to him.
Like a beautiful flower in full bloom.
Zhou Xu thought of this and played with his wife's hand. The rough hands looked like they had been wielding swords and guns for many years.
Seeing Sect Leader Zhou lowering his eyes and not speaking, Xiao Luolan took his hand back and asked, "Are you tired?"
Zhou Xu kissed his wife and seemed to be smiling.
Sleeping on the bed, Xiao Luolan yawned. After all, it was getting late.
"Why are you still looking at me? Go to sleep." Xiao Luolan was a little surprised that Zhou Zongzhu was acting abnormally tonight. She touched his forehead and found that he was fine. She lay down again in a sleepy state.
Zhou Xu held his wife's slender waist, and seeing her sleeping face looking like a flower, he gently stroked her long hair.
"Will Madam always be with me?"
Zhou Xu didn't hear the answer because his wife was already asleep. He looked into the darkness with a calm expression, like a solidified statue, silent.
Chapter 73
Xiao Luolan opened her eyes and looked at the familiar top of the bed, silently counting the days until Xue Ying came back. She didn't know if her daughter had received her letter. Although it was autumn, Xiao Luolan already felt that this ancient autumn was better than Their autumn is much colder.
She has never left Jiangcheng or the North for most of her life. She has only seen the Ice Sculpture Festival in the North on TV. It is a land of ice and snow, with flying snow all over the sky. She wonders if it will be like this in Youzhou in winter.
I heard from Sect Master Zhou that it was bitterly cold in the north of Youzhou, especially outside the Great Wall. I still hope to end this war as soon as possible and return to Langge as soon as possible.
Xiao Luolan thought wildly for a while, turned around and prepared to sleep for a while. Her long eyelashes fluttered. She was a little surprised that the Zhou clan leader was still there today. Usually when she opened her eyes and woke up, this man was usually there. I went out, no wonder the quilt was warm.
Seeing that Sect Leader Zhou seemed to be still sleeping, Xiao Luolan was a little worried. She stretched out her hand and tentatively touched the man's forehead. When she saw nothing unusual, she was relieved. Maybe he was tired, Xiao Luolan guessed.
Zhou Xu took off the lady's hand and kissed it, his eyebrows lazily.
"Don't you have to be busy today?" Xiao Luolan asked through the gap in the door curtain and the light outside the tent.
"Everything has been arranged last night. General Shi and his second brother are outside. No one in the mountain can escape. I took this opportunity to be lazy and accompany my wife to have an early night's sleep." Zhou Xu touched his wife's breasts through her dirty clothes. Caressing the back gently and slowly.
Xiao Luolan saw that what he said before was fine, but then he was not serious anymore, so she glared at him lightly, what does it mean to sleep with her, she is not a toddler, she still needs someone to accompany her when sleeping.
Zhou Xu chuckled, rarely feeling relaxed: "It's still early, Madam, you can sleep a little longer."
Xiao Luolan closed her eyes, but lost sleep again.
"But you can't sleep?" Zhou Xu stroked his wife's face and saw her long black cloud-like hair scattered on the pillow, her eyelashes twitching slightly, and the fragrance around her body refreshing.
Xiao Luolan was worried that he would do something outrageous, so she reminded him softly: "It's already dawn." The sun rose as soon as it was said to rise, and they were in the military camp again. Xiao Luolan became embarrassed and panicked just thinking about it. It turned out that this man really Being obedient, Xiao Luolan looked up at Sect Master Zhou and found that he was looking down at her.
The candlelight was dim, and there were deep emotions in Zhou Zongzhu's eyes that Xiao Luolan couldn't understand. When he wasn't smiling, his long and narrow eyes were like the blades of a knife, chilling the heart. Xiao Luolan had seen a few times when his smile was faint or not smiling. At that time, Sect Master Zhou had the look of a superior person who could determine the life or death of others with just one word, cruel and ruthless.
But when he looked at her, it was mostly tenderness.
Zhou Xu held her in his arms, filled with life and fragrance. The bedding was filled with the scent of the lady. He usually didn't see the lady using incense, so Zhou Xu sometimes thought that the scent was probably brought by the lady herself.
This should be what the poem says about ice skin and jade skin, and a fragrance that penetrates the bones.
In the dim tent, the lady's snowy skin seemed to glow, as soft and smooth as silk, and her starry eyes gradually filled with rippling spring water.
Xiao Luolan frowned and asked Sect Leader Zhou to hold his hands more gently, her cheeks flushed slightly, and she breathed out like a blue.
Zhou Xu buried himself in his wife's neck and chuckled. Listening carefully, it seemed like it was raining outside, and the drops fell on the roof of the tent, adding to the silence.
"What was Madam like before?"
Xiao Luolan's eyes widened slightly and she became nervous subconsciously.
"I just want to know how Madam lived before. After all, we have been married for so long. Madam knows everything about me. I also want to know about Madam's past." Zhou Xu said gently, gently stroking Madam with one hand. On the back, the deep and deep voice was lowered and slightly hoarse. The light rain was pattering outside, and inside the small tent, it was like a world that only belonged to them.
The autumn rain outside was cold and cold, and the small stove in the tent gave out warm heat. Xiao Luolan's mind was soothed and stabilized by this atmosphere. She closed her eyes and recalled her previous life. She did not say anything out of the ordinary, and her voice was soft. With nostalgia and a little melancholy.
"It's nothing special. Qingxue often studies." After saying this, Xiao Luolan glanced at Sect Master Zhou and found that he had no reaction and continued: "I only go home when I have a rest. Normally I live alone."
Zhou Xu touched Madam's long hair and paused for a moment: "If Madam lives alone, what if Madam is attacked by refugees without any domestic slaves?"
"There are security guards where I live, and they patrol outside day and night." Xiao Luolan thought of the community where she and her daughter lived. The neighbors were quite harmonious, and the property in the community was good. People would give some gifts during the holidays. The owner, now thinking about his previous life, and then thinking about the troubled times here, compares the two, and it feels like a world away: "And my house is very safe over there, unlike here."
When Zhou Xu heard the word security, he guessed that it meant guards. Since there were guards around the house, Zhou Xu felt more at ease even though he knew he couldn't go back to the past. When he heard the lady's clear distinction, here, Zhou Xu Xu couldn't think of any place in Dachu that could be so safe.
The outside world is not peaceful. There have been constant natural and man-made disasters in the past ten years, but things have gotten better in recent years. In his early years, many people in Youzhou starved to death. Later, he led his army and held a knife to visit those Youzhous with a slight surplus of food. Only nearby states and counties prepared food.
He also knew that those who couldn't stand his early days of stealing food openly called him Zhou Manzi and Youmanzi in private.
Barbaric, very rude and rude, but what could be done at that time? Once people don’t have enough to eat and can’t survive, there will be more bandits and thieves in the refugee mountains. When they get together, it is easy to form local banditry. Zhou Xu He didn't want to slaughter those Youzhou people who couldn't survive, so he could only grab food from everywhere to let them survive as much as possible. For this, he didn't have to have any face. Anyway, he came from a powerful family and he didn't have the airs of a noble family.
Zhou Xu knew that Madam didn’t have to lie about this matter, and she didn’t need to lie either. From the first time Zhou Xu saw Madam, Zhou Xu knew that Madam was definitely not a commoner. Outside, when times were bad, commoners There is almost no difference between them and refugees. They are all skin and bones, with only two ounces more meat than mummies.
With Madam's appearance and figure, Zhou Xu could only think that she was supported by a top aristocratic family.
Her snow satin-like skin has no blemishes, her teeth are white, her black hair is thick, and her face is like a flower. She also has a gentle and kind heart that can only be maintained in a life of extreme privilege, and she treats others with courtesy.
It's not that women don't have the right to study, but it only belongs to the upper class. As the lady said, study often and get to know people. Some great scholars are rotten and only teach men. Compared with men, it is more difficult for women to study.
Zhou Xu thought about the famous female celebrities in Dachu for a while, but none of them matched his daughter.
Xiao Luolan was aroused to feel homesick. She recalled everything in modern times and her daughter's stable and wealthy life. Although it was dull, she was extremely satisfied.
"I also have a shop. After I finish working in the shop, I read a book and then go to the nearby market to buy some fruits to take home. Our market over there has everything, which is very convenient." Xiao Luolan finished in a few words. Regarding my own life, seeing that Sect Master Zhou listened attentively, like a loyal listener, I talked about some more insignificant things.
The sound of rain became louder, and the quilt was warm and soft. Xiao Luolan, who woke up early, talked for a while and then gradually fell asleep.
Zhou Xu lowered his head to look at the sleeping lady, his cheeks were red from the heat, and he looked very affectionate.
After a while, Zhou Xu got out of bed silently, tucked the corner of the quilt on the bed, lowered the bed curtain, and quietly washed and dressed before walking out of the tent.
Outside.
There were already many ancient people from Gulunwu who were caught by Xuanjia Camp trying to escape. They were tied together, their mouths were stuffed with dirty cloth, and they were kneeling on the ground.
There was a light rain, and there were several heads on the muddy ground. The blood flowed along the rain to the distance, forming a small ditch. In the distance, dozens of surrendered Sijie people knelt on the ground tremblingly.
Zhou Xu was sitting on a high chair, and Zhou Xuan said in his ears: "This time, the leader of Gulunwugu is Dudagula, and the leader of the Sijie tribe is Dazi. They were killed by Tuoba Amu last night. This time There were a thousand people in total for this operation, and according to people from the Sijie tribe, they had prepared rolling logs in advance and were preparing to ambush us at the heights of Niujiao Mountain."
"Our people have guarded all the exits in the mountain to ensure that no one inside can escape."
Zhou Xu touched the cold lines on the Golden Crow Whip, hummed, and then said: "Dudagula is good at playing it slow and steady. In the afternoon, let the Sijie people lead the way and let the prisoners in the team take out the ambushed rolling logs and the like. Destroyed, and then made some noise to force the remaining ancient people of Gulun House to come out."
It was similar to what was discussed last night, and several generals present said they understood.
"Kill those people in the mountains if you catch them." Zhou Xudao said that the trained soldiers are different from ordinary people. Like the people of the Sijie tribe, Zhou Xu might spare their lives, but the army of Gu Lunwu Gu , Zhou Xu planned not to leave any of them alive. There were too many hidden dangers, so he might as well kill them.
"Wei." The generals took the order.
Zhou Xu entered the military tent and sat in the main seat, looking at the map on the table, as if deep in thought.
Cui Shizi came in and coughed. When his master showed no reaction, he sat down and poured himself a cup of hot tea.
Zhou Xu looked up at him after a while: "Wen Ruo, do you think there is a country in the world where everyone can have enough to eat?"
"Every town has everything. Rice is dripping with fat. Tens of thousands of families have surplus food. Lychees worth thousands of gold can be seen everywhere. Marine fish that are rarely seen are still alive. People come and go without worries about food and clothing."
Cui Shizi put down the tea cup and was silent for a long time. Finally he smiled and said, "Please forgive me for my limited knowledge, my lord."
His smile gradually faded, and finally he murmured: "Such a country should be a country of immortals."
Just being able to feed most people is already a prosperous era that will last forever. It will be recorded in the annals of history and be respected and worshiped by millions of people in future generations, let alone what will happen later. .
"My lord, do you think there will be such a country?" Cui Shizi asked.
Zhou Xu smiled and said, "Yes."
It's just that he knows that he can't do it. Even if he gets lucky in the future, he won't be able to create the prosperous age that his wife lives in.
Immortal?
Zhou Xu looked at the pool of blood in the distance. Only he knew the dark thoughts in his mind. Even if he was a fairy in the sky, he would keep her.
They want to be together for eternity.
never separate.
Chapter 74
Xiao Luolan sneezed twice in a row. She covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief and sneezed again. When she let go, the tip of the woman's nose in the bronze mirror was slightly red.
Dong Xue took a snow-white fox fur and put it on her mistress, and asked with concern: "Madam, are you catching a cold?"
Xiao Luolan touched her forehead, with a soft smile in her eyes, and said, "No, maybe Qingxue misses me."
