The winter of the thirteenth year of Xingping was exceptionally cold. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

When the news of the fall of the Yin Pavilion and the martyrdom of the entire clan of Yanmen County reached Xu Hui's ears, she was sitting in a dock fort that had just been captured outside Yuci County, looking through the records of Yangyi and the surrounding villages and towns, as well as the detailed records of some recalcitrant or unbearable large households that were raided by them. Hearing Ah Yuan's report, Xu Huizong was a little mentally prepared, and the hand holding the county chronicle was also a little trembling. I saw her suddenly close the book in her hand and ask Ah Yuan, "Where is General Qi now?" ”

"After Zhuang Qi received General Qi, he wanted to go directly to find Doctor Duan, but ......" Ah Yuan's voice lowered, "It's cold, I'm in a hurry, and I've suffered such a big change, General Qi's already serious injuries have worsened even more, and the high fever doesn't go away, and the doctors say that he can't afford to travel long distances." Zhuang Qi didn't dare to assert himself, and when he heard that you were here, he sent General Qi over. ”

I have to say that Zhuang Qi's decision-making is very correct - the Wubao where Xu Hui is located is owned by large families in Yuci County, and there is no shortage of food and medicinal materials, and there will be no shortage of maids and the like. Rather than rewarding soldiers, these pampered maids are more willing to serve nobles, even if they are sick, and take good care of them. Xu Hui didn't think about it, so he came down with a series of instructions: "Ah Shuang, you go and pick a few handmaidens who are diligent and careful, and honestly don't want to climb high branches to take care of General Qi, send someone to watch over them, supervise each other, and take the ten jars of liquor hidden in this cellar, and then order the cook to cook some meat, and give it to those people brought by Zhuang Qi, as well as General Qi's cronies; Ah San, you go to Qi County in the starry night and invite all Uncle Duan's second and third apprentices; Ah Huan, you send a few quick little guys to invite Mr. Su, Uncle Zhong Ning, Mr. Liu, and Captain Jiang over together, and let them take a moment in the main hall, and I will be there in a while. ”

After giving these orders, Xu Hui gathered his cloak and said to Ayuan, "Take me to see Zhuang Qi." ”

When Ah Yuan heard this, he lowered his head slightly, respectfully leading the way, but there was something strange in his heart.

In her opinion, Xu Hui and Qi Fang have a very good personal relationship, even though they are of different generations, they have always been commensurate with brother and sister. Qi Fang suffered this big change, why didn't she go to see her friends who had escaped death first, but to see Zhuang Qi, who could be summoned at any time? But thinking that Qi Fang still had a high fever that did not go away, in a coma, Ah Yuan secretly laughed that he was too hypocritical, and he was relieved.

Yes, the general and General Qi have a good personal relationship, but they have no personal affairs with children, so at such a critical moment, they will not waste on meaningless empty waits. Besides, if Xu Hui is in Qi Fang's room, not only is his reputation bad, but it is also easy for others to be restrained, so it is better to be cold-blooded, Fang is good for everyone!

When Xu Hui came to the side hall, Zhuang Qi had been waiting in the side hall for a while, burning extremely strongly, making the side hall warm like a spring brazier, and it did not completely melt the snowflakes on Zhuang Qi's body and the dust on his face. Seeing that Xu Hui was coming, he hurriedly got up from the stool that had just been stained a little, Xu Hui smiled, sat down in the first seat, let Zhuang Qi sit down, and said, "What is the situation in Yanmen?" Let's go through them one by one. ”

Although Zhuang Qi had only been in Guangwu County for a few days, he knew that Xu Hui would ask, so he had done all the homework he could, so he said: "The Guangwu County Commander and the county lieutenant are all Qi Fujun's cronies who have been pulled up by one hand and are extremely useful. Hearing that the Yin Pavilion had fallen, they were furious, if it weren't for the fact that Qi Fujun didn't allow them to support and only let them strengthen the fortifications, they would definitely go to the Yin Pavilion at all costs. The envoys who could not vent their anger ordered people to smash the large and small temples inside and outside Guangwu County, and reduced all the monks and nuns to slaves. ”

Since he knew that the fall of the Yin Pavilion was the result of the collusion between Buddhism and the Hu people, Xu Hui was disgusted with Buddhism, even if he knew that he couldn't do this kind of thing in his own identity, he also had a bad feeling when he heard the order of Guangwu County to do so. But she never easily showed her thoughts in front of outsiders, so when she heard the words, she asked quietly: "How is the movement of the Hu people?" DID YOU KNOW? ”

"The humble position was entrusted by the envoy to send General Qi away, and he didn't know the movements of the Hu people." Zhuang Qi cautiously peeked at Xu Hui's face, saw that her face sank like water, and said busily, "However, I heard that Zhuhu, especially the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Rouran and Qianwu, seems to have caused some contradictions because of the matter of Qi Fujun. ”

When Xu Hui heard this, he raised his eyebrows slightly: "Contradiction? ”

Thinking of the news he heard, Rao is a person like Zhuang Qi who is used to seeing life and death, and he can't help but sigh: "I heard that the Huns whipped the body of Qi Fujun for three days, and cut it with thousands of knives, so that Qi Fujun was ...... twenty years ago 's nobles and officers shared food, and also dug out Qi Fujun's heart to make soup. The Turks and Xianbei seem to be extremely dissatisfied, saying that Qi Fujun is a hero and should not be treated like this...... I heard that Qi Fujun's last sentence before his death was to declare that he was the son of the Han family, not the Hu family......"

As soon as these words came out, Xu Hui's eyes suddenly darkened.

When she was young and ignorant, she once despised Qi Zhong's behavior, but in the acquaintance with Qi Fang, her impression of her father gradually changed, thinking that Qi Zhong, who could teach a son like Qi Fang, must be an iron-clad man, and she couldn't help but have some admiration for him.

"Yidi birds and beasts, the genus of Zhuhu livestock, what my grandfather said, it is true......" Because she used too much force, Xu Hui bit the tip of her tongue, and the fishy sweetness permeated her mouth, but it made her calm down easily, and said to Zhuang Qiwen Wen, "Come and go in a hurry, thank you for your hard work, I have ordered someone to prepare good wine and meat, you go first!" ”

After Zhuang Qi left, Ah Yuan asked softly: "General Qi ...... there?"

"Don't let the people brought by General Qi know this news for the time being, if they ask, you just need to shake your head." Xu Hui gathered his cloak, as if to dispel the chill in his heart, and said after a while, "If he guesses, you will come to me, and I will go and talk to him." ”

Xu Hui knew in his heart that the Hu people hated Qi Zhong to the core, and Qi Zhong's death could never be hidden, the difference was only in the world, and Qi Fang ...... Not a good person to coax.

After explaining this, Xu Hui went to the main hall.

In the face of these four, she didn't plan to hide anything, so she said in a sour tone: "The news I received today, Qi Fujun...... Martyrdom! ”

After that, she didn't wait for the four of them to ask or sigh, so she repeated what Zhuang Qi told her. Speaking of the betrayal of Buddhism, everyone's faces were already bad, and when they heard Qi Zhong's tragic death, they couldn't stop sighing, and at the same time, they were even more angry at Hu Ren's behavior.

Xu Hui was sad in his heart, but in the end, he was in the main position, and he had to hold the shelf, and he couldn't lose his temper. Even if the repetition of the facts made her extremely sad, she did not show the slightest sadness, but asked calmly: "I invited the four of you here today, because I have a few questions I want to ask." First, when it comes to winter, Guangwu County is stubbornly resisting, will the Hu people continue to attack? Second, the internal chaos of the Hu people has emerged, can we find any way to provoke their already shaky alliance? ”

Her questions are few, but they are all very practical.

Although there are many clothing materials in Daqi, if you want to rely on clothes to keep out the cold, in the eyes of everyone, there are only two ways - using leather, filling the clothes with duck feathers, etc.

There is no doubt that these two methods are only enjoyment that only rich and noble families can have, and Shangdang has other good things, such as the white stack of Western domain names, which has never been valued, but was purchased in large quantities by Xu Ze and named cotton. But except for Xu Ze, no one paid attention to this thing, which led to the Hu people and the Han people, in winter, the people had no clothes to protect themselves from the cold, and they froze to death and suffered countless frostbites. In other words, they are a little worse than the Han people, after all, the Central Plains is vast, and the scholars are mainly infantry, but Hudi is short of materials, and the cavalry has the upper hand, and as the weather gets colder and colder, even if people do not fall, the horses fall ill and freeze to death one after another.

It has to be said that Qi Zhong succeeded after all - in the face of hundreds of thousands of troops, still isolated and helpless, he stubbornly held Yanmen County for nearly five months, and dragged the war into winter. If the Hu people were reluctant to sacrifice so much manpower, let alone continue the offensive in the spring of the next year, for the Han people, a mere three-month winter was precious, and it might change the entire battle situation.

"The Hu people are menacing, I'm afraid they won't be good because of the heavy snow." Liu Zan said very firmly, "But we don't know much about Zhuhu's situation, is it more appropriate to wait for General Qi to wake up and ask him?" ”

Xu Hui also knew that it was best to ask Qi Fang, but in the past few years of correspondence, she also knew a lot of information about the Hu people, and when she heard the words, she said: "I know a little about the situation of Zhuhu, not to mention the Qiang and Di in the northwest for the time being, we are against the Turkic, Rouran, Xianbei and other tribes, and the new Turkic and Xianbei tribes, and they are not very satisfied with the Xiongnu." However, there was chaos within the Huns, and they could not be suppressed. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Hui paused, and said: "Luli Khan's current Da Yan clan is the princess of Rouran's silver bell, this princess is very good, and Lu Li Khan is fascinated by the young son, and several times moved the mind of the young son, causing the Xiongnu nobles to lose some confidence in the old Khan, and the power fell into the hands of the old Khan's younger brother, Zuoxian King Taamu. But you all know that the Xiongnu's system of father and son, brother and brother, and even the other party's wife and concubine can be accepted together, the second Da Yan clan of Luli Khan, is the biological mother of Taam, but after marrying Luli Khan, she gave birth to a son and a daughter for Luli Khan...... Hu people do not understand etiquette and education, they are no different from beasts, if we speculate on their thoughts and actions in a normal way, we may be startled. ”

Xu Hui's last words, although they were kind and sounded extremely calm, but the contemptuous ridicule and even awe-inspiring murderous intent in his words could not deceive people. (To be continued.) )