35. Token of affection
"Then I'll go back first?" The tail note rises slightly, and the question is used, which means that if you still have something to say to me, then leave me, if there is no word, then I will leave. In the end, I was reluctant, and I still wanted him to keep him and say a few private words.
"Wait a minute, I'll give you something." Liao Qiuli opened the cabinet on the left side of the bed, took out a safety buckle and handed it to him, "Take it, people say that jade can keep you safe, I don't need it, you can wear it." ”。
This Ping An buckle is an old object, one for each of the ten children of the Liao family. The main ingredient was a large piece of mutton fat white jade, which was obtained by their grandfather from the Western Regions by chance, and the whole material was made of two pairs of bracelets, and the rest of the material was made into ten safety buckles, and when it was handed over to Liao Shixiang, he said, there are a few children to give a few, and the one that can't be given is given to the eldest grandson and daughter-in-law, who knows that Liao Shixiang and his wife have given birth to ten children, just one person. This thing is similar to the treasure at the bottom of the box, if you marry a bride, you will give it to the bride, and if you marry an official, you will give it to an official. Liao Qiuli gave this to Xiao Yu, and the extra words can be saved, this thing has already cleaned up all the things that should not be watched. It is more poignant than "when you have to be a piece of paper, each report safety".
"I took it." Xiao Yu took it, hung it around his neck, and his smile suddenly turned tired, "I want to ask for something else, can you give it?" ”
"What?" The obedient fool couldn't understand that a general king was not short of money or food and drink, and he had to ask him what he was asking for.
"Kiss ......" Xiao Yu was bold and fat, and he opened his mouth to beg for something he never dared to beg.
"You can too! Sell less! "Liao Qiu is out of breath, he is not in shape, he is about to go out and work hard, and he still thinks of something indecent.
General Xiao had a good demeanor, and if he couldn't ask for it, he took it himself, only to see him flash out his right hand to circle Liao Qiuli, find the place he wanted to kiss, "chirp" and quickly let go, and before he came back to his senses, he laughed and withdrew.
On the fifth watch of the next day, General Xiao came out of his house in Ju'er Hutong, and suddenly saw a very simple carriage parked at the door, with a curtain of blue cloth and white flowers.
"Why are you here?! I don't know how to go in when I come, so I'm freezing outside, stupid! "General Xiao hurried over, and as soon as he lifted the curtain, he said." How long has it been? You can't be freezing outside all the time, are you?! ”
“…… It's nothing, I woke up early, I wanted to come over to give you a ride, and this is coming. "Actually, I didn't sleep all night, I got up and looked at the hour, it was only three watches, thinking that this person probably left early, so I simply came over to see if he was gone, so I set a car and went to his house to see if he left. When I arrived at the place, it was not yet four watches, and I was afraid of disturbing the sleep of the people inside, so I waited in the car. In fact, I have sent him off before, and there have been times when I got up early like this, and I have waited for him like this, but the thoughts I have in my heart are different, at least not the same, so I can't avoid all kinds of tastes. "Passing by Manwenlou, I bought you a few mutton-stuffed buns, and I took them with me on the way." Manwenlou is one of the few restaurants in the city that operates all night, the main package rice noodles, not as particular as the big restaurant, the taste is OK, and the business is good.
"I have a heart. Get out of the way, I'll get in the car and sit down. "Of course, the general is also a human being, and when he is hot, he also has seven emotions and six desires, and he can't help but get tired of it for a while when he has to go out, which is human nature.
How can it be so tired? It's to say two sweet and non-spicy words in that narrow and small mule car, touch two handfuls of sweet and non-spicy meat, it's over, that's it, otherwise how can you do it, eat a few bites and leave a thought, tell yourself not to die, you can't eat when you die, all the way to encourage yourself to meet the water and build a bridge to pass the test, in short, it is to live well!
Liao Qiuli pinched his hand and scolded him to make him steady, he replied Don't you send me a safe buckle, the third brother said that one of your brothers and sisters is preparing to send a new daughter-in-law or a new official, the gold is expensive, you gave it to me, what is it to touch two? !
It's also the "third brother"! The mouth is sweet enough! The third child is also a bad thing! This gives the foundation out to take a favor!
General Xiao looked at the time and had to go, and the dead skin pouted a "arched pig's mouth" on Liao Qiuli's face, and then arched from his face to his neck, pulled open the buckle, exposed his neck, and left a few marks of the pig arch, and then he was satisfied.
On the first day of the second month of Tianshun, Xiao Yu arrived in Suzhou, and it took a month to raise grain and grass, and it took a month to transport grain and grass, and he had to prepare for nearly three months. He is calm, it does not mean that the civil and military people in the court are as calm as him, for more than 80 days, someone in the court every day has an excerpt asking the emperor to "send troops quickly, quickly set the situation", the emperor ignored it, the main ones: the household department in charge of money, the military department in charge of the transfer of troops, and the engineering department in charge of ordnance have not moved, pretending to be deaf and dumb, so those who are on the fold still refuse to stop, and the folds that change every day are not finished, and the emperor is not finished. Fortunately, the emperor knew in his heart, and pressed the table or said "I have my own decision" to perfunctory past, otherwise, look at how many battles that could have been won throughout the ages, often because of a bunch of civil and military people who pulled their hind legs and an undetermined emperor, it ended in such a mess.
Three months later, on the first day of the fifth month, the Qing Dynasty officially dispatched troops, Xiao Yu transferred 20 battalions of light cavalry from Qingyang, led by Zheng Jiaolin out of Duanping Pass in Suzhou, which was the middle road. The 10th battalion of infantry and the 13th battalion of heavy armored cavalry were led by Liang Huafeng, west into the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, through the Keshetu Ridge, and copied to the rear of Anren City, where Agubai was located, which was the west road. The five battalions of artillery, the fifteenth battalion of infantry, the tenth battalion of light cavalry, and the tenth battalion of heavy cavalry were led by the general Le Erjin, who was born in the Western Regions, and walked from the east road, and Xiao Yu also followed this team. In this battle, Le Erjin is the boss, Xiao Yu is the commander-in-chief, all the generals are under the control of Le Erjin, and Le Erjin directly obeys Xiao Yu's orders. This time, we have to attack quickly, and we have passed through some desert Gobi, and there are some bandits who are used to killing and killing, and the soldiers who are transferred are carefully selected, hard-working and not afraid of death, and the commander-in-chief also let go, those who have military merits will be rewarded immediately, and the reward will be silver, real money!
On 13 May, the battle officially began, and it was completely in accordance with the predetermined tactics, first from the north and then from the south, with a rapid attack, and after 42 days, the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains was pacified. Sixty-eight days later, the Qing Dynasty army attacked the vicinity of Agubai's lair, not far from the overall stability. The good news was transmitted back to the imperial capital, the emperor Longyan was happy, and Lord Liao, the god of wealth of the dynasty, breathed a sigh of relief - it can be regarded as not wasting the snowflakes and silver I got by smashing pots and selling iron! The secretary of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry are much more secular than Lord Liao, and what they think is - no one can be regarded as being able to drink tea and eat quietly if no one chases and intercepts them halfway!
However, a few days later, another piece of news came, and the court immediately exploded - the commander-in-chief Xiao Yu was ambushed in the southwest direction when he led the troops to attack Tongcheng, and a team of more than 300 people was almost all wiped out.
Then the news spread chaotically, one moment said he was dead, another time he said he was not dead, he said he was dead and he couldn't find the body, he said he was alive and he was gone, Leerjin was still an old battlefield, and he had fought to this extent, so he could only use the blood feud of "the commander-in-chief died in battle" to inspire the soldiers to fight to the death. After seven days of bloody fighting, he took Tongcheng and drove Agubai to Zhanghua at the junction of Qing Dynasty and Dashi, and beat him half to death, but unfortunately he couldn't be killed at once, even so, Agubai's bandits were also injured, and they had to shrink and heal for a while. The Qing Dynasty judged the situation and decided to temporarily withdraw its troops, leaving a part of the army to deploy in the important towns at the northern and southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains.
The general of the dynasty did not see anyone alive or dead, of course the emperor could not give up, no matter what, whether he was dead or alive had a certain conclusion, so he sent a team of elites to verify, not clearly, how many people in this team, there are some people only the emperor knows. This is a last resort, a battle is fought well, and suddenly it is ambushed, and it may be who is except for the spy. There can be spies on the battlefield, and even more spies can be produced in the court, and the top priority is to follow this vine to find out who is making trouble.
The Qing Dynasty used troops in the Western Regions, that is a well-known thing, and if there is a war, it will not affect the livelihood of the people, so everyone cares about it and everyone talks about it, and the news of the commander-in-chief's death in battle is even more like a long leg, and it didn't take long to spread all over it, especially in the imperial capital, the gossip on the street spread with noses and eyes, and it was as if it was true, and people couldn't help but believe it!
Liao Qiu didn't dare to believe it when he got the news, he was working in a village in the western suburbs of the imperial capital, and happened to hear the cook who went out to buy chickens, ducks, and fish, and his heart fell sharply after hearing a few words, and there was still a fluke - maybe it wasn't the one, maybe it was just a false rumor, and it was thousands of miles away from the imperial capital to the Western Regions, and it was not uncommon for a rumor to come along. Thinking so, I couldn't control it anymore, so I immediately returned to Liao's Taikou from the suburbs of Beijing, and found Liao Yungong to ask if it was true or false.