In the cold winter, the best thing to ward off the cold is to eat a bowl of mutton offal and pour a burnt knife.

At this time, in the corner of the courtyard of the garrison house, there were several people sitting there, dragging down large pieces of dry firewood lumps on the mountain, burning the bottom of the pot red, and the tongue of fire kept licking the windshield wall of the temporary adobe base, making a low sound, which was a corner of the courtyard that was a little cold, because of the fire, several people sitting around the ground were rippling with warmth.

They all stared at the pot with wide eyes, boiling boiling mutton soup, smelling the hot and fragrant fragrance, they couldn't help but swallow their saliva, and moved their hands, several people were the school captain Wang Ji, Guo Xing, Du He and the toast official Zhang Xian and the two centurions under him.

"Damn, smelling the smell of meat, Lao Tzu's saliva is dating, after eating black bread for a month, his mouth is about to fade out." Guo Xing was impatient to grab the spoon in the pot, stirred the meat inside, and took out a large spoonful from the bottom of the pot and poured it into the bowl.

Ma Ji sat on the ground, drank a sip of hot soup, poured a bowl of spirits casually, raised it and laughed, and said to Zhang Xian and his two centurions: "This time, I have to thank Brother Zhang Xian and those two little brothers, otherwise we wouldn't be able to drink such a comfortable sheep soup." ”

The two centurions under Zhang Xian immediately turned red, and they didn't dare to raise the bowl, everyone was born in the military, and they also fought Tartars together in the early years, so they didn't pay so much attention to it.

Zhang Xian made a bowl of dry and said: "It's also lucky, I didn't expect a small hill to be able to hit a wild sheep, Feng Xiaoshan was a good wild tiger and rabbit, pulling its hind legs, or he couldn't catch it, or the wild sheep lost a little weight;." It's a little pity, there is only such a pot of skin and bone, and then he said: "We are like this in Lord Xie's yard, adults won't blame, right?" ”

Ma Ji wiped his mouth and waved his hand indifferently, "Don't worry, what is such a trivial matter worth becoming, chasing mountain thieves in the early years, and going into the deep mountains and old forests, in terms of hunting methods, we are not one of the top adults." ”

A few people laughed, there was no dissatisfaction, Lord Xie's □□ skills, not to mention a hundred miles through Yang, when encountering such mountain beasts, they don't have to get close, one shot is accurate, Guo Xing and Du He couldn't help nodding on the side, and those who have followed Xie Chengzu have all learned his spear skills, and it is not an exaggeration to be superb, otherwise these few are also crawling out of the white blades of the battlefield, how can they be willing to obey the younger than their own comrades, and after following the adults for a long time, it seems that they are about to forget that Lord Jì is not yet twenty this year, the youngest of the few people, Du He, who has just turned twenty-two years old, I feel incredible.

The two centurions took a sip of wine, thought of something, and suddenly said, "Eh, where is Lord Xie going early in the morning?" I listened to the two little soldiers who had just returned to the camp chattering, saying that when the adults drove the black charcoal out of the city in the morning, they immediately brought someone with them, and they were still handsome beauties, and they didn't know if it was true or not. ”

As soon as these words came out, Wang Ji and Zhang Xian, who were originally happy, suddenly paused, looked at each other, and even Guo Xing, a madman who grabbed a spoon, was not in a hurry to fill the soup.

Seeing that the atmosphere was suddenly cold, the two centurions were a little apprehensive, and they didn't know which sentence they had just said wrong.

As a result, I heard Zhang Xian say: "I don't know what adults think?" ”

There was a crackling sound from the tongue of fire at the bottom of the pot.

The few people sitting around at random were all from the army, and they had worked hard with Xie Chengzu all the way to the present, and the partners who lived and died together in the past were already adult henchmen, and he planned to rob the prisoners halfway that day, so naturally he couldn't hide a few people.

Wang Ji raised his head and took a sip of wine, smiled and said, "What do you think?" Then he shook his head and said, "If that handsome beauty's family had not suffered this calamity, how could such fresh branches and jade leaves fall into the hands of the little five-grade guard of adults." "When there is a thing that you couldn't ask for before, and one day it accidentally falls into the palm of your hand, is it better to cherish and spoil it, or torture it in every way, think about it like this, what else can't you think of?

After finishing speaking, he didn't open his mouth anymore, only picked up a piece of sheep fat and chewed it slowly with his own taste.

"My lord, although he is brave and fearless, resourceful, but he has never had a wife or concubine, he doesn't even call a prostitute on weekdays, and he rarely gets drunk with wine. Now that the old lady has passed three death days, is the adult going to marry a wife? One of the centurions said.

When the other centurion heard this, he smiled and said, "I just don't know which household in the city the adults like?" Could it really be the one of the composers, right? "After all, these officials and wealthy families in the city, only the Qu family has a good relationship with Lord Xie, and the Qu family intends to marry a woman to an adult, but no one knows about it.

"Hmph, my lord is a dignified five-grade official, how can he marry the daughter of a merchant, and he is not afraid of being ridiculed." Guo Xing snorted, poured a bowl of wine, and grunted.

"It's not a Qu family, which scribe's daughter will it be?" The centurion thought about it, but he really couldn't think of any official's daughter to be married, and a few of the soldiers under his command were inquiring about it, and he was also curious to use the strength of wine to make a joke.

"Of course it'......"

"Your Excellency!" A person suddenly walked in at the door, Wang Ji and Zhang Xian were the first to see it, and stood up directly, and the others also quickly closed their mouths and stood up.

Xie Chengzu's face was gloomy, he glanced at the nondescript pot in the courtyard, ignored those people, and went directly to the mansion.

The original garrison is immoral and incompetent, prefers luxury and enjoyment, and this mansion is built to be magnificent, Xie Chengzu entered Wei'an City, and directly changed this private mansion into a garrison mansion, but even so, this backyard is still surrounded by the pond, the white stone is the railing, and a pine rockery is poured in the stone gap, even in the cold winter, it is also full of greenery.

Quite realistic and exquisite.

Several military attachés have always been rude and accustomed to it, and they don't know what to do, so they set up a pot in the corner of this courtyard and did the thing of burning the qin and boiling the cranes and stopping the scenery.

Stepping through the courtyard of the court, Xie Chengzu entered the front hall all the way and entered the study.

Sitting in front of a pear marble case, frowning slightly, silent, after a while, he called someone to summon Zhang Xian in.

"Your Excellency!" As soon as Zhang Xian entered the bookstore, he arched his hand, and he was still a little apprehensive in his heart.

"Do you have people under you who are good at digging and burying the spine?" Xie Chengzu raised his eyes and asked.

Zhang Xian was stunned for a moment, digging the grave, and burying the spine was done by the thieves who robbed the tomb, but the adult really asked the right person, the captain, the lieutenant, and the soldiers, among the soldiers, the soldiers under him were the most chaotic, what is chaos? It's not from the army, but a strong man who volunteered to join the crusade against the Tartars, who were all under the hands of adults at the beginning, but there must be some thorns who disobey discipline, in order to prevent a pot of stinky meat from bringing a full pot, they gathered these prickly thorns to form an army, which includes both snitches who are as light as a swallow, and thieves who have robbed their homes, and the three sects and nine streams are all half.

Could it be that there are no bandits to rob, and what kind of princely tomb is planned to be stolen from the previous dynasty? This is not a bad way to make money, but unfortunately, this kind of imperial tomb that can get money is not easy to find.

Zhang Xian knew that the adults were now worried about the matter of silver, and when he saw this, he thought about it carefully, and said: "There is a person, named Li Chao, who is not only good at digging graves and burying vertebrae, opening skylights, passing through kilns, and drilling walls to take things. "But I heard that his family was killed by the Tartars, and he longed to drink the Tartars' death, it is rare to have such blood, and it is also the time when there is a shortage of people, so he was recruited into the army, but unfortunately this person inevitably has itchy hands, and always causes many incidents, which makes Zhang Xian annoyed.

"Is there a locksmith?"

Unlock? Does this cemetery have a lock too?

Zhang Xian hurriedly said, "The locksmith doesn't have it, but there is a small soldier, and when he didn't join the army, he was called early." "Treading on the grass, it was before dawn to break the door and steal things.

"Presumably it's okay to pick a door lock, if you want to find a lock, this stepping grass green dad is good at ......"

Even Xie Chengzu raised his eyebrows, and the soldiers under this Xian were all selected from which place of three religions and nine streams.

Skills that are no longer eye-catching can also come in handy at critical times.

"You take the two of you to the study, I have something to command." After speaking, he said: "You and Guo Xing also come together." ”

"Yes!" After Zhang Xian went out, Xie Chengzu took out a few pieces of paper, looked at them for a long time, and put them on the table.

No one knew what the four of them said when they entered the study, until noon, until the end of the day, when the study door opened, they vaguely heard the words with excitement and sonorous power.

“…… My subordinates are willing to serve my lord! ”

……

Tan Wanqing, who returned to the house, was lying on the cushion at this time, holding half a piece of jujube brown rice cake in her hand, and she didn't send a piece to her mouth for a long time, and she didn't know what she was thinking without saying a word, and her face was not as comfortable as before.

Ruizhu next to her had an expression that the sky was about to fall, and she was so anxious that she was about to cry, "Miss......"

Tan Wanqing was still stunned and did not respond.

Ruizhu couldn't help it, she sat next to Tan Wanqing, and said in a trembling voice, "Miss, what's wrong with you?" Did something happen, I locked the gate when I left, how did I come back, the door was open, the lock was not broken, and, miss, you, when you came back, how could you ride with a man? Who is he, isn't it really that, Lord Xie? How could he be a garrison......

Did he do anything...... Miss, since, since ancient times, men and women have not been kissed, he is so impolite, he is going to be dirty, he wants to be like this, Miss is going to be talked about, he ......"

Tan Wanqing came back to her senses, her brain was about to explode by this string of words, she put the rice cake in her hand back on the plate, rubbed the corner of her forehead with her hand and said softly: "Ruizhu, I'm very tired now, you let me slow down, okay?" ”

Ruizhu immediately closed her mouth, but sat there with her mouth choked, but the tears in her eyes turned and turned.

His heart was full of panic, where did he take the young lady? What was done to the young lady?

In the past, in Tanfu, who dared to be so unreasonable to the young lady, he would have been beaten to death with a stick, but now he is suffering from such a tribulation, and the faces of the previous few solutions were coveted, and his face was even more ugly when he couldn't get his hands.

continued to think that the young lady of her family had been in Tanfu for twenty years, and the eldest young master of the Zheng family liked her so much that he didn't let him hold his hand, but now he was taken advantage of by such a small garrison officer.

She even wondered with some horror whether it was because she didn't lock the door when she left, so she was broken in, was it the young lady she harmed, the young lady who harmed her......

Ruizhu didn't speak now, but knelt next to him, choked vigorously, and the noisy Tan Wanqing let out a long sigh.

"Nothing, don't think about it, I gave the key."

"But Miss, why ......?"

After saying a sentence, I have to explain countless sentences, Tan Wanqing is really full of worries now, I can't talk about it, I looked at Ruizhu, and after a while, I put a soft voice and comforted: "Ruizhu, I'm hungry, make me a bowl of porridge." "Let me think about it for a while, and when I'm done eating the porridge, I'll explain.

Ruizhu could only wipe her tears, put on her shoes, and went to the kitchen.

The room finally regained its peace, she leaned on her side, the sleeves of her dress slipped down, revealing the red fingerprints on her wrists, her skin had been thinner and more delicate than that of others, but with a slight effort, it left traces, and the snow muscles on her wrists showed some hideous finger marks.

She put down her sleeves, but she thought of the return trip, the horse was so fast, almost made her panic and ignore the people behind her, now that she thinks about it, when the horse stops, he dismounts, and it is not without reason.

The winter coat is also made of a slightly thicker clothes, so it is not obvious when you think about it, if it is an ordinary woman, she may not have much experience, but she knows very well that situation, why she endured it when she got off the horse.

It is to know that the young man, enthusiastic and impulsive, looks at you with such eyes, without any cover.

When you encounter this kind of thing, you will probably blush and die of shame, right?

But Tan Wanqing thought of it, that year's cold winter, drenched in blood, the stubborn young man who stood in front of his mother.