After waving off the soldier who answered, Ouyang Ye did not leave the backyard of this post house as decisively as before.

Standing under the grass shed that was temporarily erected in the courtyard to cover the snow, Ouyang Ye, who was dressed in military uniform, quietly looked up at the two-story pure wooden building on the left side of the courtyard, stared at the window with bright candles, thick white gauze, and hollow carvings, and stared at the room where Yan Qingqiu lived.

Ouyang Ye's handsome eyebrows couldn't see the heroic posture on weekdays, only a worried look-

As early as the beginning of this year, after the marriage between Princess Haoyue and Prince Xu, the crown prince of the Chibing Kingdom, was finalized, Emperor Yanchang Yantian asked Qintian to monitor and calculate the auspicious day of Princess Haoyue's marriage.

Yan Tian's imperial edict was issued, and the chief supervisor of Qintian Prison personally went into battle, and watched the stars overnight to calculate the auspicious time for Princess Haoyue to get married.

The chief supervisor of Qin Tianjian said that because Princess Haoyue was married to a foreign country, according to the distance and the footsteps of the family sending team, the family sending team must set off more than a month in advance, and the second day of April is the first half of April, no, it is simply the best zodiac auspicious day in the whole April!

The chief supervisor of Qin Tianjian also said that on the second day of the fourth lunar month, the time, place, and people are all prepared, and it is very auspicious to send Princess Haoyue to marry on such an auspicious day of the zodiac......

Therefore, on the second day of the first month of this month, on the wide square of the Imperial Palace of Yan Guo and His Royal Highness, under the hand of Emperor Yantian of Yanchang and his queen Lu Xun, Ouyang Ye, who was appointed as the general of Weiyuan, rode a high-headed horse and led a team of more than 500 people to escort the big red golden silk nanmu phoenix chariot that Yan Qingqiu was riding out of the palace of Yan Kingdom, out of Donglin City in Kyoto, Yan Kingdom, and all the way towards Huai'an, the capital of Chibing Kingdom.

And the day when more than 500 people on their trip left Donglin City, Kyoto, Yan Kingdom, it was indeed a very rare cloudless sunny day, with a warm breeze and full of spring.

Counting the day of departure, they walked for five days, and it was indeed a cloudless and sunny day every day, and they did not encounter any accidents along the way. Even Ouyang Ye, who had never believed in divination and stargazing, began to believe the words of the chief supervisor of the Qin Heavenly Prison.

After all, this season, in the north of the Tiancheng Continent. It is still in this reckless mountains with a changeable climate, and the good weather is cloudless and warm for five consecutive days, which is rare for more than ten years.

It was also because of the good weather that had been such a sunny day since the departure, so it took only five days for their huge team of more than 500 people to travel from Donglin City, Kyoto, Yan Kingdom. All the way to the border of the Yan Country, in a mountain range at the junction with the Red Ice Country. As long as they passed this mountain range, they and the others would be able to step into the border of the Red Ice Country.

However, the reality didn't make Ouyang Ye happy for long at all, because just six days ago in the evening, a group of more than 500 of them had been traveling here safely and steadily, in front of this post house next to the mountain official road on the border of Yan Kingdom, but it was very unfortunate that they encountered the first snowfall in April!

Although this road is an artificially built official road, in the final analysis, it is just a mountain road. It's just that the trail is wider and smoother than usual.

The mountain road was not easy to walk, and it was very unfortunate that it was snowing, the snow melted on the ground, and the mountain road was slippery, even if the snow fell at that time, Ouyang Ye did not dare to rashly order to continue to move forward, after all, he was shouldering the safety of Princess Haoyue, who was the favorite of their emperor, His Majesty Yantian!

Therefore, in the evening six days ago, after Ouyang Ye saw the snowflakes falling from the sky, he didn't even hesitate at all. Ouyang Ye ordered everyone to stop temporarily, rest in this post house for a while, and wait for the snow to stop the next day, and then repack and hit the road.

Ouyang Ye only unilaterally felt that he had decided so at that time. It can not only ensure the safety of Princess Haoyue, Mrs. Yurong and Mrs. Yuling, as well as the safety of the people who sent off their relatives, but also allow everyone who has been running for a day to have a hot meal and rest in this post house.

But no one would have thought that Ouyang Ye's stay would make them and a group of more than 500 people stay in this post house for six days!

What Ouyang Ye didn't expect was that they stayed in this post house for six days and six nights. The snow outside has been drifting for six days and six nights! There has never been a moment! Even the old post man who has worked in this post house for more than ten years said that this has never stopped for a moment, and the celestial phenomenon of six days and six nights of snow has been falling for the first time, even he has met it for the first time!

In the first two days, the snow was not particularly heavy, and the snow melted as it fell, so that even though it snowed for two days and two nights in a row, it was only half a foot of snow accumulated on the ground, and the staff in this post house only needed to sweep the snow with a broom to clear the snow.

But from the second quarter of the third day, the snow became heavier and heavier, and the light snow of the two days was no longer the same. Especially since yesterday noon, the goose-feather snowflakes have been drifting until today.

By the fourth day of snowfall, two days earlier, every towering mountain in the mountain range had been covered with snow, and at first glance it might have been mistaken for the idea that the towering mountain had merged with the pale sky behind it. And standing in this post house built on the mountainside and looking down the mountain, the eyes are completely pale, and you can't see the lush greenery at all.

When you step in, you can still hear some insects and birds, and the mountains that are a little popular seem to be silent for a moment after being covered by the falling snow, and all the sounds are drowned out by the overwhelming snow.

But strange to say, for the past six days and six nights, this continuous heavy snow has only been drifting quietly, and there is no wind at all, and the snowflakes are so quiet as if they have fallen directly from the sky.

Such a heavy snowfall, because there is less wind raging, but not as cold as those small snow with the wind.

It's just that after all, the snow has fallen too much, and in the past two days, the staff in this post house have spent a whole morning just clearing the snow on the first night. But as soon as they had cleared their front feet, they had only eaten lunch when the snow outside the house had formed a thick layer. Then the snow became thicker and thicker, until the snow reached knee-high, and the staff in this post house had to continue to use shovels and brooms to clear the snow.

Just clearing the snow on the ground is good, but the most troublesome thing is that this post house is located in the mountains, and it is very convenient to use local materials, so when this post house was built, inside and out, from the outermost courtyard wall to the building wall in the post house, including the roof of each building, it was made of pure wood. Even the wooden utensils placed in each room were made by carpenters who went into the mountains after taking local materials.

After all, it is a pure wooden building, with limited bearing capacity, and the heavy snow for six days and six nights has been pressed down, and the wooden roof ridge has been pressed by the heavy snow to make a subtle "squeak" sound, announcing to everyone that it is overwhelmed.

In order to ensure the safety of the people in the send-off team, especially Princess Haoyue, Mrs. Yurong and Mrs. Yuling, the personnel in this post house had to bring bamboo ladders and climb to the roof of each building before clearing the thick snow on the ground every day to clear the snow on the roof.

This climb up and down, not only has to withstand the goose feathers and snow that keeps falling in the air, but the places under your feet are all slippery, which is extremely dangerous. No, just this morning, a post house worker who climbed to the roof to clear the snow did not step on the ladder when he got down the ladder after clearing the snow on the roof, his feet slipped, and he fell directly from the air to the ground. Fortunately, the snow on the ground was thick, and the man was in the prime of life, so he didn't have much trouble falling, but broke his arm.

This continuous snowfall not only brought a lot of trouble to the personnel in this post house, but also made it more and more difficult for Ouyang Ye and others to be on duty every day, although there has never been a wind, but such a cold climate is there, even the strongest soldiers can't stand still all the time to suffer from the cold.

The more than 100 soldiers accompanying him this time are responsible for escorting Princess Haoyue, Lady Yurong, and Lady Yuling, as well as the safety of the people in the family sending team, and it is necessary to be on duty, but if Ouyang Ye really allows them to freeze and collapse in this snowy day, it is tantamount to asking for trouble for himself.

Therefore, the shift on duty has been changed from a shift of four hours six days ago to a shift of three hours four days ago, and from the day before yesterday, there will be a shift of personnel on duty every two hours.

Ouyang Ye has already given a death order to all the soldiers accompanying him this time, and the duty in the backyard of the post house must not be interrupted for a moment, and they must work in shifts day and night, but every soldier must also ensure that his body is in good health! If someone really can't stand it, he can withdraw from his post with Ouyang Ye's consent.

And during the six days of staying in this post house, every day Ouyang Ye would come to the backyard of the post house at this hour to finally count and check whether there was any problem with the hundreds of dowries of Princess Haoyue Yan Qingqiu, and by the way, to determine whether the soldiers on duty at night had any gags and fishing in troubled waters.

However, these soldiers are always from military backgrounds, and they have implemented the orders of Ouyang Ye, a general, very thoroughly. Putting aside Ouyang Ye's daily routine inspections, even if Ouyang Ye came to the backyard of this post house to do a surprise inspection, Ouyang Ye could also see that every soldier was on duty in good spirits, which made Ouyang Ye very pleased.

Because of this routine inspection that had to be carried out every day, Ouyang Ye had always known that since he lived in this inn, their Princess Haoyue had stayed up late with lights and oil every night.

But in the first five days, although Ouyang Ye would come to the backyard of this post house several times a day, he had never summoned the soldiers on duty at night like this night to ask about Yan Qingqiu's situation. Basically, after counting and checking the hundreds of dowries stacked in the courtyard, Ouyang Ye left the backyard of the post house without looking back. (To be continued.) )