New Year's Eve is a beautiful and wonderful night. People eat dumplings, set off fireworks, watch the New Year, and spend this happy New Year.
But far away in the northwest, people are in dire straits.
Don’t think about it during the Chinese New Year. You don’t even know if you will be alive tomorrow.
On New Year's Eve, Ashena led his troops to launch a surprise attack on Wangyue City. That night, there were thunderous drums and thunder outside the city gate, feathers and arrows were like a forest, the sound of killing was loud, and blood fell into the dust along with the cold rain and snowflakes.
When fighting in the imperial court, the people suffer the most. They are better off in the inland areas. They don't experience the immersive killings. They can still spend a relatively peaceful New Year, drinking and eating meat, setting off fireworks, and singing ditties for entertainment. Unfortunately, the God of Luck is not there. It has not come to the northwest, and the people in the war in the northwest dare not show their courage. They kneel down and beg their lovely good men of the northwest army to be stronger and braver to withstand the enemy's attack, or they hope that the city wall can be higher and thicker. .
This way they can live longer and escape further.
There are many people who burn incense and worship Buddha temporarily.
At the end of the year, at the critical moment of life and death, who still wants to celebrate the New Year? They are either dragging their families and families to escape, or they are praying to God and Buddha.
The war drums outside the city rang all night and finally stopped. The enemy retreated and Wangyue City was defended.
But before they could breathe a sigh of relief, they suddenly burst into tears again.
Because the general guarding the city died in battle.
At the gate of Wangyue City, a group of surviving elders were standing with blood on their faces, crying, their hearts feeling even colder than the howling cold wind.
Some unscrupulous and conscienceless Tatar fired arrows randomly, and by chance, he sealed the throat of the general who was standing between the first three floors and the last three floors.
This archery technique is so amazing that it has eyes.
Damn it!
The defender of a city and the commander-in-chief of the three armies are actually indifferent. This is as miserable as it can be.
The eldest brother was gone, and the second eldest son quickly stood up to stabilize the morale of the army, and hurriedly reported it to the court. After all, the death of the commander-in-chief of the three armies is not a joke. What if foreigners take advantage of this time to invade again.
Unfortunately, they actually came.
This is the rhythm of Cao Cao and Cao Cao...
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the temporary general of the army looked at the crowd of heads outside the city and slapped his ears hard several times, calling you a bitch, calling you a bitch.
The guard generals stood on the city gate crying, you and I are here again, you and I won't go home to have a meal and rest, maybe sleep with the mother-in-law! The body of their general is still cold, and the 800-mile express to the capital is still on the way!
Give me a hammer!
The lieutenant general, who was about to die, felt sad in his heart.
A more brutal war was going on in Wangyue City.
The war at the border was also reported through various channels, allowing people in Pingcheng to have a better understanding of the war. One hundred thousand stones of grain and grass transported to the northwest for disaster relief years ago were burned to the ground, and no clue has yet been found. However, the northwest guard Hu Jingzhi was detained and returned to Beijing at a critical moment. The imperial court also worked hard and immediately replaced the northwest with an experienced general who had experienced hundreds of battles to take charge of the northwest.
From the news brought back by Jiang Sihai, Xiao Ming learned that the new general was not named Shi, nor was he a member of the Dingbian Marquis Shi family like Hu Jingzhi. Anyone with a discerning eye also knew that the northwest Shi family army had changed hands.
Xiao Ming didn't know the joints involved, nor did he understand the various political power struggles involved, nor did he understand whether it was intentional by the court, whether the Shi family had great achievements, and its power was reduced or something.
But she knows that it is taboo for military officers to change generals before the battle, as they are afraid that the morale of the army will be unstable~~
She didn't understand that she was a prostitute, but she could understand to some extent from Jiang Sihai's disappointed look that the court had taken the war too far and played a game of fighting between you and me at the critical moment.
It is difficult to fight without losing.
Because of Jiang Sihai's relationship, Xiao Ming knew more about the war situation in the northwest than others. After learning the name of the new general, Xiao Ming fell silent.
The war did not have much impact on Pingcheng, so no matter the war, we still had to live our lives. Various shops in Pingcheng continue to operate as usual, various stalls are still set up, people who eat flower wine continue to eat flower wine, waiters continue to work as waiters, and all kinds of idle people continue to be idle.
If the court's call for additional troops had not reached Pingcheng, people might have forgotten that a war was going on in a distant place.
The call for more troops later in the year came as scheduled. Those with money contributed money and those with strength contributed. Naturally, some families were happy and others were sad.
The order to increase troops did not have much impact on the Xiao family, because the eldest brother of the Xiao family had long since died, and Xiao Han was not yet a weakling, so it was not an example of increasing troops. The Dayue Dynasty had a strict system of increasing troops. Males under the age of sixteen Ding or families with only one male in the family are not included in the increase in troops.
Of course, such an increase in troops is only limited to the beginning of the war. Under certain conditions, if life and death are really at stake and the country is destroyed, Xiao Han will also be there.
The Xiao family returned to Liujia Village after the Lantern Festival. When they returned home, Xiao Han read books day and night to prepare for the childbirth exam soon. Even though Mr. Lu hadn't come back yet, he kept reading books day and night. book.
Also busy and nervous about the imperial examination in the village is the Da Wang family, because Da Wang's future son-in-law will also take the examination. Unlike Xiao Han, who was admitted as a boy, he was admitted as a scholar.
Once she reaches high school, she will become a scholar, and Liu Yu will transform from a peasant girl into a scholar.
The title of scholar lady is well known.
This is a qualitative leap, crossing the threshold from the proletariat to the upper class.
The people in the village said they were not envious and envious, but every time they saw Little Wang, they would either say a few sour words or express their inner feelings of envy.
Therefore, the Wang family was more nervous than anyone else. Taking advantage of the period when Qingshanyuan had not yet started school, she visited her parents-in-law’s house every three days. Every time she went there, she was not empty-handed. The local chickens, ducks and souvenirs at home were free to live in the future. The scholar's son-in-law gave it to his family so that he could replenish his brain and get into high school in one fell swoop.
He even went to Xiao Ming's house and begged for a lot of vegetables, and also begged Xiao Ming to prescribe some health-replenishing medicine.
Seeing how every time the Wang family sent large and small packages of things to her relatives, only to come back empty-handed, Xiao Ming remained silent, hoping that this was not a burden for the Wang family to bear.
Liu Yu is a really nice girl, a generous and upright girl. Xiao Ming sincerely hopes that she will have a good marriage and a happy life. The Xiao Ming family did not pay too much attention to the eldest family. The Xiao family was also busy preparing for Yueniang's marriage. After the discussion between the Qin family and Song Yu, Jiang Sihai and Yueniang's happy life was finally decided. The eighth day of May is said to be a good day to get married.
Xiao Ming expressed her incomprehension about the Chinese compatriots who like to read their lives in books for five thousand years.
As a mother, Mrs. Song couldn't be unhappy that Yueniang could have a good home. She was so excited that she couldn't sleep for several nights. When she got home, she rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and found out all the money Xiao Ming had given her these days. The number turned out to be more than four thousand taels of silver.
This money was enough to buy a decent and decent dowry for Yueniang. As her only daughter, Mrs. Song certainly wanted to buy a decent and decent dowry for Yueniang, but then she thought of Yueniang's past and gave up bitterly. , feeling down.
well! Mrs. Song sighed, Yueniang was remarried, and if the arrangement was too glamorous, they would not be able to arrange it.
Mrs. Song was worried about this for many days, and her hair turned white.
"Godmother, are you in the house?" Xiao Ming stood in the Qingshuang Garden of the Song family with a banknote in her hand.
"Sister Ming is here, come in and sit down." Mrs. Song opened the door and looked at Xiao Ming, then she managed to cheer up and welcome her into the house.
"I saw that my godmother hadn't taken a bite of her lunch, but she wasn't feeling well." Xiao Ming asked with concern. Seeing that Ms. Song's complexion was indeed not very good, could it be that she had caught a cold during the night.
"It's okay, I'm in good health." Mrs. Song said hurriedly.
"My godmother is preparing for my eldest sister's marriage these days. I think she is very busy. If there is anything missing, just let Mother Yi take care of it. Don't tire yourself out, otherwise we will worry. You can keep these for The eldest sister pressed the bottom of the box." Xiao Ming said and put the silver in Mrs. Song's hand.
Yueniang's temperament followed that of the Song family, and she was easy-going and caring about them. She and Xiao Han really treated her as their eldest sister. This time Yueniang was getting married, so of course they had to show something.
The Jiang family that Yueniang is marrying is not an ordinary family. The Jiang family is richer and more powerful than the Xiao family. She cannot let Yueniang be ignored. Although Jiang Sihai loves Yueniang deeply now, But who can guarantee how long this love will last.
She doesn't know much about wedding customs, but she does know one thing, that is, money. It is always a good thing for a woman to have money with her. If you want to talk about "{?$article_title?}" with more like-minded people, follow "Youdu Literature" on WeChat, chat about life, and find close friends~
