A green bird and a phoenix flute had been following Lin Rong for a long time, and they were worried: "The county master agreed to this, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the prince to explain such a big thing..."
Lin Rong smiled, did not answer, and played with a gold hairpin on the table with great interest: "Such a small gold hairpin, but it is made into the appearance of an immortal's attic, accompanied by cranes and white deer, it is really exquisite. "
He also ordered the two maids, Jingqin and Fengxiao, to bring silks and silks and learn how to cut, mend and make clothes. Lin Rong was very attentive in learning and could not bear the trouble. In just half a day, he roughly cut a piece. The shirt comes out.
It's just that she didn't control the size well. Lin Rong didn't fit herself when she put it on. The waist was much bigger and the sleeves were too long. She was very satisfied. She stood in front of the bronze mirror and looked at it: "It's very good."
Feng Xiao covered her mouth and smiled: "Master, if you go out wearing such clothes, wouldn't it be a slap in the face for us girls? If you are really bored, let's ask the daughter-in-law to relieve your boredom. Too many clothes have made your hands thicker. I don't know. How long will it take to recover?"
He said and laughed: "Since the old lady Gu came last time, Miss Hangqing has been much more polite to us. She has not shied away from the master's instructions. Even in the past, she would come and invite us for things that she could take charge of, no matter how big or small. The county lord has given me instructions."
He shook his head again: "It was the day I came back from Xiao Zhongnan..."
Lin Rong's face suddenly darkened, and Kingfisher coughed: "I've always been respectful."
While threading his needle, he packed up the semi-finished products for Lin Rong and said, "It's really strange. Why does the master want to learn to make clothes today?"
Lin Rong said calmly: "I think I can use it in the future."
It’s just that the semi-finished product was not of good quality when it was cut. No matter how hard Kingfisher tried to fix it, it was no different. Kingfisher shook his head: “It’s too big, and the color is not good-looking. It’s gray, but it looks like it’s worn by a man. "It's originally made into a men's style. When I go out, I naturally have to dress up in men's clothing, and I can no longer wear bright clothes.
Lin Rong took a look at it and felt that it was not good enough. He said, "If we take it apart tomorrow, we can't change this cloth into clothes. Let's make some sachets again."
When it was time to turn down the key, Guo Yin brought in a small box and said he had all the forged knives.
Lin Rong opened it and took a look. It was naturally much better than the ones outside. He nodded with satisfaction and counted the good things one by one. He put them in a coarse cloth bag and locked it with a very ordinary camphor wood box. He told Kingfisher: "Tomorrow." When you go to the Juying Garden for a banquet, you must remember to carry this box to the carriage, I can use it."
Feng Xiao responded and saw that the box was still locked: "Weird."
Lin Rong went inside to take a bath. While sitting in front of the bronze mirror, applying perfume, he thought about what he didn't bring. Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the constant voice of the guards outside the courtyard gate: "Greetings to the lord, paying homage to the lord..."
Didn't you say that it would take a month at the earliest to come back? How come it wasn't even half a month, but you came back on the tenth?
Lin Rong stood up in shock, knocked over the rouge in his hand, didn't bother to wipe it, and walked out of the door. As soon as he reached the four screens, he saw Lu Shen walking quickly from the corridor in the vast dusk. , was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a moment, and stood there stunned.
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On Lu Shen's side, the rebellion between Xia Houzhang and Dong Tao was completely put down in just five days, which was much shorter than the expected month, which exceeded everyone's expectations.
On this day, Lu Shen and other generals were patrolling, and their horses galloped along the river bank for dozens of miles. When they saw the mountains were high and the river was flowing, they reined up their horses and pointed at the vast river with emotion: "Southerners are good at water. , Maneuvering a boat is like walking on flat ground, and the people from the north are good at horses, but there is no use for them in front of this river."
The attendants on the left and right thought thoughtfully and said: "My lord, what do you mean, King Hejian's southern expedition is afraid of returning without success?"
A scribe then said: "In my opinion, when we fight in Yongzhou, we always seek defeat before we win. The king here has entered 400,000 civilian soldiers in his expedition, and he has no intention of defeat. This time he goes south, I'm afraid he can only do it. A winning streak, a big victory, but if there is a small defeat, it cannot be maintained.”
Everyone was sighing with emotion when they saw Duke De coming on horseback and sending an urgent military message: "Lord, this is the urgent message just sent back by the Inspector of Horses."
While waving his feather fan, he said: "The army of the King of Hejian only arrived at the Yangtze River in September, and because of the abundant rain this year, it was unable to cross the river. I am afraid that it will have to prepare for military affairs and spend the winter in Jiankang. The weather and location are favorable, so I'm afraid The King of Hejian will not be able to get what he wants in this southern expedition."
Lu Shen opened the letter and shook his head: "King Hejian is also a tycoon of his generation. He has always had the ambition to unify the world. He relies heavily on his family and has many constraints. This matter should have been taken care of slowly, but it is a pity that he is getting older and sicker, and he wants to be in the world." During his lifetime, he established this great cause.”
A young general in a white robe sighed: "If he lives in a corner, I'm afraid he will still have decades of wealth to enjoy. It's a pity, a pity..."
Lu Shen snorted: "When a man is born in the world, he should control people's hearts, take the world as his ambition, and become the foundation of the world. How can he be blinded by mere wealth? If you talk about wealth, you are just mediocre. The King of Hejian has not threatened you today. The situation in which the emperor orders the princes.”
The young general is the youngest son of Lu's cousin, his name is Lu Xie. Since both his father and brother died in the war, he has been with Lu Shen since he was a child and regards him as his brother and father. When Lu Shen scolded him like this, he quickly shut up and hid behind him. , secretly making a face.
Lu Xie thought that he would be done with just a few words of scolding. Unexpectedly, when he returned to the military camp, a sergeant came to deliver a message. He said that he had no ambitions and looked like a playboy. He behaved like a wanderer in Yongzhou and scolded him again. After hearing this, he was also punished to live in the military tent of the central guard for three months, living and eating together with the soldiers.
He is not afraid of standing guard. The son of the Lu family has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and has developed a strong body. However, he has the temperament of a young man. Food and clothing are something that most generals cannot afford. Even when marching, he has to think of ways to do it all the time. Treat yourself.
This was Lu Shen's order. Lu Xie didn't dare to say a word, so he silently took off his armor, changed into soldiers' clothes, and went to stand guard outside the Chinese army tent. His father and brother died in battle when he was young, and he was doted on by his family. Even when he joined the army, he followed Lu Shen, so he never suffered such hardships.
Even if he had to stand guard, he still had to eat and sleep with the soldiers. Lu Xie was like a young man. After two days, his whole body was sour and smelly, and he complained endlessly. When Lu Shen was discussing the military situation, he pulled aside Shen Yan, the senior attendant beside his lord, and bowed to him with a smile: "General Manager Shen Yan, please give me some advice. If you continue to endure it, I will either be bitten to death by fleas, or I will be bitten by fleas." You'll die from mosquito bites, or you'll starve to death."
How could Shen Yan dare to accept his courtesy? It was just Lu Shen who was disciplining his children, and no one dared to intercede: "No, young general, isn't he a slave of Zisha?"
Lu Xie was a bastard, so he stooped down as if he was cheating: "I'm one of you. You're just a gift from me, so you have to give me an idea. After eating it for a few days, my mouth is so wet." Fade out the bird.”
Shen Yan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and asked him to hold on, guessing his master's thoughts, and thought for a while: "Didn't the little general get a pot of chrysanthemums earlier? It's just right to present it to the Lord at this time. The Lord was happy and said If you don't do it right, the young general will be exempted from punishment."
Lu Xie told him that he was confused: "It's just a pot of chrysanthemums, can it have such a miraculous effect? It's not that I have never presented rare treasures before, but I asked Sixth Brother to reprimand him. Besides, his face looks like that all day long. Are you so gloomy that you will be happy about these little things?”
Shen Yan couldn't tell the story in detail, so he smiled mysteriously: "Young general, just do as you are told!"
Lu Xie gritted his teeth: "Sure, it's better to be beaten at most than to stand guard at the door and be embarrassed."
In the evening, after looking at Lu Shen to calm down, Lu Xie ordered someone to bring a pot of chrysanthemums into the Chinese army's tent and present it in front of the hall like a treasure: "Brother Six, I got a rare ink chrysanthemum. Appreciating flowers is such an elegant thing. , for a person like me to do this, it is really a blasphemy to this flower."
Lu Shen was approving the military information of the case in front of the case. He didn't even raise his eyelids and ignored it. He ordered the guard: "Fork it out!"
Lu Xie had no choice but to beg for mercy and salute solemnly: "I bid Lu Xie and ask to see my lord."
Lu Shen stopped writing, took out a piece of thin silk from his sleeve and covered it with rice paper on the table. He looked up and saw a tall and graceful ink chrysanthemum, and asked, "Where did it come from?"
Lu Xie smiled and took two steps forward: "Qian'er went out to ride horses. In a mountain col, there was a flower farmer who cultivated a treasure. He didn't want to sell it at first, but he made a promise of ten thousand yuan, so he parted with it."
Lu Shen stretched out his hand to touch the flower. He didn't say yes or no, but said: "I know, let's go out."
Lu Xie was greatly disappointed and turned to the desk. Although it was covered with white silk, it was faintly like a picture of a lady. His cousin has never been close to women. Who is the woman in the painting?
He didn't care that Lu Shen had not exempted him from his punishment. He stood at the door of the military tent and thought for a long time. He checked all the possible daughters of famous families, but he still had no clue.
He also captured Shen Yan and tortured him: "What new beauty did Sixth Brother acquire?" As soon as he asked the question, he felt something was wrong. If Sixth Brother really accepted the beauty, then the old lady, the old lady, the old lady in Yongzhou Mansion would I already knew it!
However, Shen Yan knew the inside story clearly, but he gritted his teeth and said not a word: "Little general, please don't embarrass me. Just ask, it's not a big deal, but I can't tell. You were beaten eighty times last time." Army stick, I'm afraid there won't be any good meat when you get to this slave."
Lu Xie seemed to have glimpsed something secret, but through a layer of paper, it really made him feel anxious and itchy in his heart.
I couldn't figure out where the pestle was, and then I heard a military order coming from the central army tent: "The rest of the general affairs are left here by Duke De. Quickly order three thousand elite soldiers and return to Xuanzhou as quickly as possible."
After two hundred miles, Lu Shen's horse was a good horse, and it only took one day to reach Xuanzhou City.
He rode in until he reached the second gate, then dismounted and headed towards the woman's courtyard. She thought it was the sound of the servant woman's shouting and worshiping that she heard. As soon as she entered the courtyard gate, she saw the woman hurriedly came out to greet her. She was standing at the screen, her almond-shaped eyes were slightly angry, and she didn't know whether she was surprised or happy on her face.
Lu Shen paused, walked over slowly, and stood in front of the woman.
She saw a stone honey-colored shawl hurriedly draped over her shoulders, revealing a ginger-yellow jacquard dark-patterned tube top, and underneath were crab-shell green soft silk leggings. Lin Rong felt that the trouser legs were too long, so she specially made them It was an inch shorter, revealing a small piece of white porcelain ankle.
Xu had just taken a shower, and water was dripping from the tips of her hair, winding down and leaving a pool of water marks on her waist.
He suddenly remembered that he left in a hurry that night. Before leaving, this woman was sitting on the desk in the open hall, with her black hair half covering her jade back - extremely fragrant.
Chapter 37
The beauty is beautiful, but this style can only be seen by herself, not even the maid.
Seeing this, Lu Shen frowned, took off his cloak and put it on Lin Rong's shoulders. He immediately turned around and ordered, "Tell the guards outside the courtyard gate to exit the second gate."
He also ordered people to call the military officer in charge of the escort: "Call Guo Yin to tell you how he arranged the people and how he let these people enter the inner courtyard?"
Looking back, he saw the woman looking at him Yingying. She was probably too excited, and her voice was slightly trembling with surprise: "Why... why did you come back today? Didn't you say... didn't you say it would take at least a month? There is such a thing in a war. Hurry, doesn’t Xia Houzhang have tens of thousands of people?”
Tens of thousands of pigs were running all over the mountains, and they couldn't catch them all in ten days. Xia Houzhang couldn't help but beat them.
Lu Shen's face gradually darkened: "You don't seem to want me to come back so early?"
Lin Rong's heart dropped to the bottom, and he was quite incoherent. Hearing the words, he shut up and said: "No!"
Lu Shen went straight to the clean room in the house, untying his belt as he walked, and was about to ask someone to bring water in. When he saw that there was still warm water that the woman had just used in the white jade pool, he didn't hesitate to use the remaining water to wash it again.
After putting on her middle coat and coming out, I saw the woman bending down to pack something on the embroidered bed. She slowly leaned over and said with her breathing almost close to her temples: "You are a busy person!" However, she was not busy with anything serious.
Lin Rong's waist told him not to move anymore, and he almost froze: "I..."
As soon as she uttered the word 'I', Lu Shen was asked to pick her up, swept away the bottles and jars in front of the crystal mirror, and asked her to half-sit on it. The lace was gently pulled, and the ginger-yellow thin silk dress fell away. Come on.
Lu Shen's throat rolled, and he put a hand through the opening of his gold-sprinkled trousers, slowly caressing it along his ankle, and asked, "It's been almost half a month, have all the marks on your body disappeared?"
Lin Rong leaned back and supported the table with one hand, and then she could barely sit still. Although she was extremely unhappy in her heart, there was a strange feeling in her body. She frowned and recalled those two days. Feeling the pain, he clasped his clothes tightly with both hands and said: "I'm not recovered yet, I really can't serve you. If you really can't bear it, I will order the beauty from Xuanxian Lai Pavilion to come..."
But he turned a deaf ear and opened his fingers one by one. There were so many girls and women outside. What did they look like? Lin Rong said anxiously: "Go to bed!"
Before he finished speaking, Lu Shen heard a snort, caressed the curtain on the side, grabbed Lin Rong's wrist, leaned over, and answered the question: "This caltrop mirror is excellent."
Lu Shen never pays attention to women's sex. As soon as he started, he tasted the ecstasy of the girl's soft red. However, he was inexperienced, so he asked Lin Rong to guide him a little more gently. Now he is back to his original state, only caring about his own pleasure, running rampant and not satisfied, he is a complete reckless man.
Lin Rong asked him to hold his wrists so that he could not move. She tilted her head, and only then did she understand what Lu Shen meant when he said the "Linghua Mirror is very good" just now.
I saw myself in the rhombus mirror behind me, with my hair on my temples scattered, my starry eyes slightly flushed, my cheeks flushed, and the end of my eyes a shimmering rouge color. I was also shocked, as if I didn't recognize him.
After an unknown amount of time, Lu Shen grabbed Lin Rong and carried her to the bed.
Seeing him like that, Lin Rong thought he was going to do it again and retreated to the back of the bed: "I...I'm really tired..."
Lu Shen frowned but said nothing. When he saw her wrapped in silk sheets, she was half-sitting on the Linghua dressing table. She had a diaphragm on her waist, which was black and blue. He grabbed her and covered it with a pair of big hands. , rub gently.
Lin Rong couldn't bear it anymore, so he sat up with his hands on his hands and said with a straight face: "In the past, the king ordered his concubine to copy the "Lu Family Instructions" many times, to be strict with food and drink, to abstain from playing, and to "enjoy the joy of sexual pleasure, and follow the worries and sorrows." In other words, I think that as a ruler, he has ambitions in the world, so he should not indulge in this matter of bed."
Lu Shen hated the woman's attitude of admonition the most in his life. He was quite disappointed. He took back his hand and said sarcastically: "You have made great progress since you came to Yongdi." Then he heard someone outside the door reporting: "Your Majesty, there is military situation in Qingzhou again. Three hundred miles expedited.”
Seeing this, I happened to go out and changed into loose clothes. I saw Guo Yin, the guard official, and Hang Qing, waiting by the flowers at the gate. I thought of the woman's beauty just out of the bath, and wondered if anyone had noticed her. , his tone became more severe, and he reprimanded: "You are also a person who is too old to do things. Don't you know that there is a difference between the inside and the outside of the army in the mansion. How can you send the sergeants into the inner courtyard and attack the women in the mansion?"
Seeing Lu Shen reprimanding him like this, he wondered why in March, the lord's attitude changed drastically. He not only gave the white jade token, but also reprimanded him like this? He hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, but did not dare to tell the difference: "I was temporarily negligent in my humble duty. Please forgive me, my lord. I will be diligent and careful in the future and never do it again."
Lu Shen hummed and said to Hang Qing: "He is a foreign minister, so such negligence can be forgiven. You always walk around the inner courtyard, don't you know these rules?"
This was really a sign of anger. Although Hang Qing felt it was inappropriate, she just told the little girls not to leave the yard. She was a girl, how could she have the right to order foreign ministers? She was stunned, knelt down and kowtowed, but she also felt that she was wronged. He choked up and said, "This slave is at fault." After saying these four words, he could no longer speak.
Lu Shen said: "Since I have been in charge of government, no matter whether it is internal or external, there are always mistakes and crimes, and there is no reason for forgiveness. You and I will go down to receive the punishment for their mistakes."
Having said that, he came to the study room. Several staff members and military advisors had been waiting for a long time. They smiled and said, "My lord, I have a clever plan. Before the first month comes, the Qingzhou Wall has already broken out. I'm afraid it will be a good thing if we hurry up for three hundred miles." information."
Lu Shen opened it with a file, read it, and laughed: "Luo Yihu has been lingering on the sickbed for a long time, and he can only hold his breath. The eldest son of the concubine, Luo Ji, was afraid of changes, and had already launched an army to attack his younger brother. This is the legitimate son. Luo Yun’s letter to borrow troops.”
Several staff members nodded: "I'm afraid the letter from Luo Ji, the eldest son of the concubine, will arrive in a day or two."
Everyone clasped their hands and sighed: "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. According to my foolish opinion, wait for more than ten days. When it is difficult for these two to decide the winner, it will be the perfect time to enter Qingzhou."
Everyone discussed where to send troops and horses, how much food and grass to prepare, how to reply to the two letters, who to send as envoys, and all arrangements were made. It was already the fourth watch.
When Lu Shen came out of the study and saw the dim moonlight, he saw an old minister coming from afar and said: "I heard that my lord was working hard day and night, so I hurried back to Xuanzhou. I'm afraid he had already expected the news. In this way, Qingzhou is included in the bag, and the big thing is half done."
Then he stroked his beard and said: "In my opinion, the King of Hejian will probably return with a great defeat this time and his vitality will be severely damaged. By then our army will..."
Lu Shen couldn't refute, and he really didn't want to listen to his ramblings, so he ordered him to take him back to rest: "It's getting late, sir, go back and rest quickly. You need to take care of yourself."
When I went back, the door of the courtyard was ajar, and there was a woman watching the night sitting at the door. When she saw someone, she would immediately stand up and salute, tell him to stop drinking, and go straight in. There were a few dim lights hanging on the corridor. Turning on the corner lamp, he pushed the door open and went in. There was no maid keeping watch, and he suddenly looked unhappy.
Walking around the screen, he saw that it had been replaced by a set of tents with azure cordyceps pattern after rain. He walked slowly over and brought a gust of wind, and the edge of the tent was like ripples on a lake.
Lu Shen opened the bed curtain and sat on the edge of the bed. He saw that the woman was still lying inward, with a pillow of dark green silk scattered around. The embroidered quilt was tucked around her waist. When she pulled it down slightly, a piece of smooth white porcelain was revealed. Such a back.
