Chapter 33: Friend or Foe

The soup was very sweet, and Ah Xiu had been in a coma and had never really eaten, so he quickly finished eating a bowl. When he wanted it again, Zhu Yuanzhang said: "You just resumed eating, and the Berwen and military doctors have instructed you not to eat more." Now that I've hurt my stomach carefully, I'll make it for you at night, okay? I'll help you lie down. ”

Ah Xiu shook his head and said that he had been lying in a coma for days, and now he wanted to wait for a while, so that Zhu Yuanzhang would not wait for the meal to be cold and go to eat first. Zhu Yuanzhang helped her adjust her posture before she went to the table to eat, she should have only taken care of Ah Xiu for several days, and she hadn't eaten anything, but she was hungry at the moment, and she ate several bowls in a row.

Ah Xiu watched him eat and devour, and felt very sad, and was about to wait for him to finish eating and send him to rest, but he heard someone outside the door talking: "Xu Da begged to see the Duke of the Kingdom." "Why is this guy here, the sound of artillery outside is still there, don't go to war at the moment, what are you doing here? Do you see yourself lively? Ah Xiu thought.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to come in, and Xu Da saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was eating, so he stood aside. Ah Xiu saw that Xu Da saw that he was awake and was about to ask him something, but Xu Da saluted respectfully and said, "The master mother is awake?" Xu Da has seen the housemother. The main mother was sick, and the prince never left, but now that his wife has woken up, his complexion has improved, and he believes that he will be cured soon. ”

Although Ah Xiu remembered the unhappiness at that time, he also nodded in return, and Xu Da said no more. After Zhu Yuanzhang finished eating, he called someone to collect the tableware and go down, Xu Da said: "Lord, the ships led by Yu Tonghai and others have broken into the enemy's army, and now they are like a bamboo. The enemy gathered the remnants and turned to defense, and the morale of our army was greatly boosted, and they wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue them. Mr. Berwyn asked me to come and ask my lord. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "Did Mr. Berwyn say anything?" Xu Da said respectfully: "Mr. Berwyn said that if Mrs. can use the lunch meal smoothly, he will ask the Duke to discuss with the Lady, saying that the Lady is thoughtful and enough to replace him, let me take a look first, just ask me to tell the Duke of the Lord, once the master mother wakes up." Restrain the master mother more, even if she is good in the future, she will not be allowed to divination. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was very puzzled when he heard this, and asked again: "Why is this?" Xu Da bowed and said: "Back to the lord, Mr. Berwyn said that Mrs. Bowen's physique is already weak, and now this time she is injured, although there is a layer of leather armor that has removed a little bit of arrow power, but it still hurts her vitality. ”

After Xu Da finished speaking, he turned to Ah Xiushen and said, "Xu Da is here to apologize to Mrs. today, please forgive Mrs. for her recklessness in snatching the wall chart and the offense of her words." In the future, Xu Da will definitely serve the lord and his wife, and he will not rest until he dies, and ask his wife to atone for Xu Da's sins. ”

Ah Xiu was very surprised, did this Xu Da change his temper? The day before yesterday, he was very disdainful of me, and now this is a cat crying mouse? Just about to say something, Zhu Yuanzhang preemptively asked: "Xu Da!" When did I offend Ah Xiu, I don't know? Let's take it personally! Madame is kind-hearted and soft-faced, but I want to know what is going on, and then determine your mistakes. ”

Xu Da covered up the truth of the crossing between the two, and only said the rest of the story. Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry and was about to question him, but Ah Xiu was worried that Xu Da would go out of his mouth, so he coughed anxiously. Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that Ah Xiu would open the wound, where would he have time to deal with Xu Da, so he hurriedly poured water and rushed to the bedside to suppress Ah Xiu's cough.

Ah Xiu intuitively felt that the wound on his chest was coughing, and there was a burst of pain like a hundred claws scratching his heart, and he took a few sips of water to stop coughing. I was afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would ask Xu Da again and show his feet, so he said that it was a misunderstanding, and Zhu Yuanzhang should not be investigated. Zhu Yuanzhang was all about Ah Xiu's injury, so he didn't care about it anymore.

"As for the military situation," Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and said, "Order!" Take advantage of the victory to enter the left li, control the upper reaches of the river, and prevent the enemy from escaping! The rest of the battleships closely follow the enemy ships and attack when the time comes! Xu Da received the order, glanced at Ah Xiu gratefully, and went down to give the order.

Zhu Yuanzhang waited for him to close the door, and then blamed Ah Xiu for being too tolerant of his subordinates, but now he pleaded for others, and did not care about his own body, Ah Xiu smiled gratefully, said that he was tired, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to help her lie down. Zhu Yuanzhang carefully wrapped his arms around her body, first pumped the soft pillow behind Ah Xiu, and then slowly flattened her body.

After taking care of it, Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, and a look of sadness appeared on his face: "Ah Xiu, don't take a hexagram in the future, okay?" In the past few days of your illness, I have suffered a lot, and Mr. Berwyn said that you will lose your life, and if you take the divination again, I will treat you as if you don't care about me at all. ”

Ah Xiu frowned when he saw him, and a few strands of white hair were added to his forehead, and he was surprised, only to know that Zhu Yuanzhang had worked too hard these days, and reached out to smooth his eyebrows, but he couldn't reach it, Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly stretched out his head to make up, and then he touched it.

Ah Xiu stroked his eyebrows and rubbed his face. Zhu Yuanzhang put his hand on Ah Xiu's hand, looked at her face, and just smirked. Ah Xiu felt very uncomfortable, his eyes were hazy, and Yuan Zhang quipped: "It's all old husbands and wives, are you still so clingy?" It made Ah Xiu laugh too.

Ah Xiu felt sorry for Zhu Yuanzhang and drove him to rest, but he insisted on refusing, and Ah Xiu had to move in slowly. Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly stopped her, but she refused, so she had to help her move in. Ah Xiu asked Zhu Yuanzhang to lie down, Zhu Yuanzhang had to lie down shallowly on the outer edge, but frowned, Ah Xiu asked him, he said that he had not been lying down for days, his back was stiff, and he was a little numb.

Hearing him say this, Ah Xiu became even more sad, and after a while, he said that he was tired and wanted to sleep, so Zhu Yuanzhang was lying like this, not allowed to get up, and slept with him. Zhu Yuanzhang responded, and Ah Xiu pretended to sleep. Sure enough, not long after, Zhu Yuanzhang snored. It's really tiring! Ah Xiu stared at his sleeping face, and saw the few short white hairs that had been born in the past few days, and said in his heart.

After looking at it, his eyelids were heavy, and Ah Xiu also fell asleep. It was night when he woke up again, and before Zhu Yuanzhang woke up, Ah Xiu looked at him through the faint light. After a while, someone knocked on the door, Zhu Yuanzhang woke up, sat up, walked to the table, turned on the lamp, and let people in.

Zhu Yuanzhang carefully served it in front of Ah Xiu as before. Ah Xiu saw that it was radish and mutton liver soup, and a little round meat was added, and she was very happy. Zhu Yuanzhang said that this soup was also written by Su Xin, saying that it was warm and rationalized, replenishing the heart and strengthening the blood, and he was afraid that it would be too hot, so he put some lotus leaves in it.

Ah Xiu was greedy when she heard this, her eyes stared at the bowl, and Zhu Yuanzhang helped her up and fed her slowly. Ah Xiu drank half a bowl and felt that it was not enjoyable, so he simply grabbed the bowl and ate it himself. After a while, he finished the soup, picked up the radish and the round meat, and ate it.

Wiping his mouth, Ah Xiu still felt unsatisfied, afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang would not give himself food like noon, so he smirked at Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang saw her delicate appearance, so he could only say ruthlessly, he would eat it tomorrow, but Ah Xiu wanted to move outside, looking like a monkey in a hurry, and it looked like he was going to go to the ground to serve it by himself.

Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly stretched out his arm to block it, and said, "Ah Xiu, don't be naughty!" Eating too much hurts your stomach, and I'm going to lie down for a few more days, tomorrow, I'll add a bowl to you tomorrow, okay? Ah Xiu pursed his lips and simply snorted: "Look at this bowl yourself, it's a few points smaller than my fist!" I'm such a big living person, could it be that I eat the amount of cat food? I'm hungry carefully, but the good is the slow! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, he couldn't say that Ah Xiu couldn't say this, and he didn't dare to use brute force to stop it, Ah Xiu rubbed it to the side of the bed, and made a gesture to get out of bed, Zhu Yuanzhang completely surrendered, so he had to shake his head and say in forgiveness: "Grandma, grandma!" I'll give you Sheng! It's unreasonable, the dignified Duchess of the country, for the sake of eating for a bowl, doing this, what does it look like for outsiders! ”

Seeing him compromise, Ah Xiu moved back to his place proudly, and when he handed it over, this bowl was filled with less soup, it turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that she would not digest it. Ah Xiu pursed her lips, so she had to endure the meal, give him the bowl, and send him to eat. Zhu Yuanzhang agreed to eat, and Ah Xiu felt that the pain in his chest wound was better than in the morning, so he leaned on the bed and was distracted.

For the next three days, there was little progress in the fighting, and the two sides were just deadlocked. Ah Xiu gradually got better, and occasionally got out of bed and walked two steps, Zhu Yuanzhang drove her back to bed, making Ah Xiu bored. So Ah Xiu lived the life of rice worms, eating pan at noon every morning, pan at noon and pan at night, and after eating at night, he fell asleep and ate again when he woke up. Zhu Yuanzhang is still guarding inch by inch.

On the fourth day, General Jinwu, who was left and right in Chen Youliang's army, saw that the general situation was gone, and led their sergeants to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang. Ah Xiu was beside him, and after listening to it, he privately told Zhu Yuanzhang to seize the opportunity and treat the generals and prisoners well. Zhu Yuanzhang listened and nodded.

While they were discussing, the sergeant came to report that Chen Youliang heard that his generals had surrendered, and he was furious and ordered to kill all the captured prisoners, and also ordered that all captured prisoners should be executed on the spot. Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the order and went down, walked to the window, and was silent.

It's ominous to kill, Chen Youliang, not to mention that you are ominous, you killed our captives, and you lost in momentum, you have done this kind of thing that harms others and is not beneficial to yourself, it can be seen that you also feel powerless to return to the sky, right? Well, I'll help you die soon! Ah Xiu thought to herself.

So he congratulated Zhu Yuanzhang: "Congratulations to Yuanzhang, Chen Youliang's time has come." When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he hurriedly turned around and looked at Ah Xiu, with a slight trace of doubt in the surprise on his face, and asked, "Why do you say this?" Madame has a plan to break the enemy? ”

Ah Xiu said with a smile: "No, it's Chen Youliang who has cut himself off from the world, and the killing is ominous, there have been things since ancient times, but now it's a different plan." It's just that the two armies are fighting, and he is so reckless that he loses the heart of his own army internally, so that the sergeants no longer contribute their lives; Externally, it also made the soldiers in our army think that fighting to the death is death, and being captured is also death, and even more have the idea of fighting to the death, isn't it confused? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang listened, nodded, sat on the edge of the bed, and listened to Ah Xiu's words, Ah Xiu said again: "Moreover, now that we are silent, we can use this to release the prisoners in our army, so that they can go back to shake the morale of the army and break the morale of the enemy army." If he kills the prisoners who are released back, no matter how high my skills are, it will be difficult for him to gather the hearts of the army to fight a decisive battle with us! ”

Ah Xiu said this excitedly, took a light breath, and said: "Doesn't Yuanzhang think that this Chen Youliang is self-defeating?" Zhu Yuanzhang was already overjoyed, held Ah Xiu's hand and said: "It is rumored that Zhuge Liang's wife Huang Yueying is Zhuge in the middle of the woman, but I have never believed that Huang Yueying can have any strategy to stabilize the country. Now that Mrs. said this, it can be seen that what the world says is true. Isn't my Ah Xiu that Huang Yueying? ”