In the Dingxi Army camp, sixty miles away from the Dingxi Protectorate, Xiahou Yi stood in front of the sand table, looking at the various hills on the sand table, while looking back at the ups and downs of the hills on the sand table, he turned back and asked Ding Sheng: "Did the princess really do this?" ”

"Not only that, I heard that His Royal Highness treated Qi Bo and the others with great courtesy, and before leaving, he also gave them a lot of food, and those housekeepers saw that the princess gave them food, and even sent the old clothes worn by their children to several of their homes early this morning, and they spoke sincerely, I heard that the princess has been spreading everywhere in those villages recently."

"It's not a big deal, but don't go overboard!"

"My subordinates understand!"

Xiahou Yi said, but anyone could see that he was in a very good mood, so he simply walked to the front of the bookcase and wrote a few words, dried them and put them in the envelope, and then after thinking about it, he took them out and added a few words.

Although he was still tired on his face, he was full of smiles at this time, and when he sealed the envelope with wax and handed it to Ding Sheng, he couldn't help but ask: "Do you know what Qi Bo and the princess said specifically?" ”

Ding Sheng shook his head: "Qi Bo and the others are secretive, and they look like they are honored, and they can't hear anything." ”

Xiahou Yi smiled: "I really underestimate the princess!" ”

Ding Sheng couldn't help but say: "If the princess is trapped in the capital, no one knows what Her Royal Highness the princess will do, but it will be different here, I'm afraid everyone didn't expect that Her Royal Highness the princess has such a capable side." ”

"Nope! I'm afraid those people in the princess's mansion have known for a long time, haven't you seen them behaving very calmly? It can be seen that the princess is not like this for two days a day! ”

Xiahou Yi said very firmly, in fact, he should have been prepared in his own heart, shouldn't he? It's just that I never thought that she not only knew something about political affairs, but also that she could do these problems of people's livelihood.

Just like when she was still twelve or thirteen years old, she dared to sit in the carriage and negotiate terms with herself, now that after so long, she is even comfortable with the affairs of people's livelihood, and she can handle everything well when she is not around, not to mention whether she should be lost or what to do, his woman does not rely on him, but she is faintly proud of such a different wife in her heart.

After breakfast, Lan Qiduo changed into an autumn-colored slanted waist two-layer gown, lining her somewhat pale skin, like a weak young master. When I went out to dress up in men's clothes, it was actually for convenience, and when I arrived at the door, I saw Ding Sheng just getting off the horse, and when I saw Lan Qiduo's dress, I was stunned for a moment and then said: "The little one has seen Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”

The camp of the Dingxi Army is only a hundred miles away from the Dingxi Protectorate, and it can be reached in two hours at the slowest round-trip, but Xiahou Yi only left the day before, and Lan Qiduo was also a little surprised to see him: "Why did you come back at this time, but what happened to Xiahou Yi?" ”

Ding Sheng handed the envelope in his arms, Lan Qiduo opened the envelope in front of everyone and glanced at it, then looked at Ding Sheng again and said, "Did he say that he wanted to reply to the letter?" ”

"Your Excellency...... Didn't say. Ding Sheng hesitated.

"Then tell him that this palace knows!"

After saying that, he left straight away with a small group of people, and when he was about to get into the carriage, he suddenly turned his head and said, "That's right! You came back just in time, the palace has prepared some things for Xiahou Yi, you go to the housekeeper, and bring them to Xiahou Yi when you go back later. ”

Waiting to sit in the carriage, Lan Qi Duo rubbed the envelope in his hand, put his hand on his forehead and smiled lowly, the guy said first: "Yuanjia is really a strange woman!" The second line reads, "If you have a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for?" ”

Although these two sentences are not as smooth as when Xiahou Yi speaks on weekdays, it is undeniable that even this can please Lan Qiduo!

Today they mainly came out to see the situation in Dingxi City, which was originally the size of a county seat, and I heard that it was quite large before, and it can be said that the entire northwest is a place with few adults, and Lan Qiduo is used to seeing the prosperity of the capital and wants to see here.

"Put the carriage on the corner of the street, and go down to the main palace."

Today is a windy and good weather, blowing on people is neither hot nor cold, and the pedestrians on the street are three or three, but it is more lively than what I saw when I first arrived in Dingxi that day.

Commander Ma couldn't help but sigh: "There will be more people in the future of this Dingxi Capital Protectorate!" Lan Qiduo also nodded, and after a little thought, he could understand that there were more than 1,000 people in the family of the soldiers who came with them, and in a few months, there will be those good maids released from the capital in the palace, and the population will only be more if they are married with the soldiers, and then Dingxi City will naturally slowly become prosperous, and before you know it, Lan Qiduo has forgotten what his original intention was, and only thinks about how to govern Dingxi City.

Lan Qiduo and his party were on the street corner, and when they came to the center, they were a little conspicuous, not that their clothes were too conspicuous, but in Dingxi City, in addition to those officials who had been here for a month or two, it was the battle of Lan Qiduo's arrival yesterday, and they had known those faces for a long time, and now there is a new face that makes people naturally curious.

Newcomers want to take root here, live a life, buy oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, pots and pans, but not to go to the street, the original residents here have lived here for many years, even if there are new arrivals, they are more familiar with the local situation than those who have moved over.

They are naturally curious about outsiders, but after Lan Qiduo and his party went to the street, they made people point a little fingers, many of them spoke the local dialect of Dingxi, even if there were few generals in the city, and they didn't hear what they said very clearly.

Lan Qiduo didn't care, but looked at both sides of the street, the street ground is quite flat, want to come here more rocky, from time to time you can see the road surface has traces of repair, and when you see a three-story building and another small building between the alley wall There are a lot of red traces, Lan Qiduo looked at the horse commander, the horse commander whispered: "Your Highness doesn't know, here two years ago, there were dog Rong people killed over, it was the horse that led people to catch the dog Rong people steadily, which saved Dingxi." ”

Lan Qiduo lowered his eyes with an unpredictable expression, in addition to his reputation and the mess of Xiahou's family in the capital before, it was like a grain of rice falling into flour, and he was among the crowd, but in Dingxi, it seemed that things related to Xiahou Yi could be seen everywhere, and Lan Qiduo also found that even in Dingxi Xiahou Yi's expression was much more gentle than when he was in the capital.

Suppressing his thoughts, Lan Qiduo saw that there were rice and flour oil shops on the street, but there were relatively few people in front of these shops, and some coarse grains, such as beans, millet, black noodles, etc., were lined up by many people, and the shopkeepers in front of those rice and flour oil shops were listless.

Lan Qiduo had the heart to ask about the situation, so he asked the people around him to inquire.

"How much is a pound of white flour?"

The young man first looked at Xiao Tuxi's dress, saw that she had a knife hanging from her waist, her eyelids jumped, and she said with a smile: "Thirty wen a catty." ”

"Thirty wen a pound?"

Lan Qiduo was taken aback when she heard this, when she and Mama Yun were taking care of the princess's mansion before, she naturally read the account book, and knew that the best flour in the capital was only twenty-one pennies a catty.

"It's quite expensive here."

Commander Ma was also in the army before, but he knew about this, and when he saw that Lan Qiduo actually understood this, he couldn't help but say: "Your Highness doesn't know, except for some rich families here who can afford to eat flour, the rest are poor families, if it weren't for Your Majesty's tax exemption for three years, they may not even be able to afford coarse grain!" Not to mention the white noodles! So flour sells far less well than coarse grains! ”

The people who followed Lan Qiduo were a little unbearable to hear it, they had the worst meal in the princess's three meals and steamed buns, and most people here couldn't even afford to eat white noodles!

Lan Qiduo went out with a lot of people this time, and saw that although they couldn't bear it on their faces after listening to it, they didn't feel much, and thought that they would take the opportunity to teach them when they went back, these people were a little pampered in the capital, although they were serving people, they didn't actually know the suffering of the world, she would see all kinds of people in the future, and if they wanted to take care of this Dingxi Protectorate, they had to set a good example for others, such as waste, such as extravagance, if someone caught the little tail, I don't know how those imperial histories should impeach her?

"Is Your Highness tired?"

If you want to see the customs of a place, you can't see anything when you sit in the carriage, this is when she was messing around with Uncle Liang Wang in the capital, Uncle Liang Wang said, and unconsciously Lan Qiduo missed the capital a little.

Lan Qiduo walked leisurely, shook his head and said that he was not tired, but when he arrived at a place that looked like a teahouse, Commander Ma still said, "Your Highness, do you want to go in and have a look?" ”

Teahouses, theaters, restaurants, restaurants, Qinglou Chu Pavilion, these places are the best places to listen to the news, and these things are naturally learned by Lan Qiduo and King Liang.

These people have been going out with Lan Qiduo for more than a day or two, although they have changed places, they are still very calm, under Lan Qiduo's instructions, they seem to be separated from Lan Qiduo, but they are faintly surrounded by Lan Qiduo within a certain range.

At this time, there were not many people in the teahouse, but six or seven young people who looked tall and big sat there laughing and talking about something, and glanced at Lan Qiduo and his party from time to time.

There is a storyteller, or a girl who looks ordinary but has a crisp voice, the shopkeeper of the teahouse is a very clever and likable but only thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy, as tall as Lan Qiduo, but can say a few words of official language, separated by the two people in front, he recommended the signature dim sum in the teahouse to Lan Qiduo, Lan Qiduo ordered a few of the names that he had never heard, the shopkeeper was very happy, the store could not come to a big customer for a day, these snacks were going to be broken if they were not sold, fortunately there was a big head today, The shopkeeper will surely reward him if he knows.

When he came back from the snacks, he met the young men and said a few words to him, in the end, the shopkeeper was just a young man, and he was a little annoyed and angry and said something in the local dialect.

The dim sum was delivered to Lan Qiduo, and Lan Qiduo asked casually, "What did they say just now?" ”

Although the son's voice was a little cold, because Xiao Tuxi and Xiao Tule were blocking in front of him, the shopkeeper had never dared to look up at her, and her face couldn't help but turn a little red when she asked like this, Xiao Tuxi didn't have such a good temper, and his hand flashed the knife at the shopkeeper in a place where people couldn't see him, and the shopkeeper's face turned white at the moment!

Lan Qiduo didn't stop Xiao Tuxi, although those young people didn't say a word to them directly, but they looked at them with bad intentions, and they were young and middle-aged people, they didn't work, and they listened to books in the teahouse at noon, so they didn't look like serious people.

They said...... They said that the son looked like a gentleman, weak and weak, and he didn't want to be a dragon and a phoenix. ”

Xiao Tuping was thin-skinned, her face turned pale when she heard this, and her whole person trembled a little, and she was afraid that those people would see her appearance, so she became more and more rampant, and her eyes were red!

Lan Qiduo herself is just that, anyway, she is a woman herself, she just thinks that these men are very obscene, and nods her chin: "What else did you say?" "Those people didn't say a word.

"They also said that Sister Ying'er's voice is so good, I don't know if it sounds so good in bed!"

"Bold!"

Xiao Tuxi couldn't help but scold, this dog is dirty and smelly, tell His Highness! If His Highness hadn't told her to restrain herself outside, she would have been slapped a long time ago! It's no wonder if you don't smack his mouth!

The shopkeeper himself is a child, he is at an ignorant age, he himself knows only half of these words, and when he was scolded by Xiao Tuxi like this, he lowered his head with a flushed face!

Lan Qiduo didn't even glance at the pastries on the table, and as if she hadn't heard these foul words, she pointed to the ordinary-looking little girl on the stage and said, "This is what you said about Sister Ying'er?" ”

"Yes."

"What is she talking about?"

Dingxi Lan Qiduo didn't understand, but fortunately, the second child in this shop knew a little.

"It's the story of the fox fairy Niangniang."

"Isn't this the story of the Western Army's victory over the dogs?"

The shopkeeper smiled: "This young master doesn't know, the Dingxi Army and General Xiahou are the gods of war in Dingxi, and even three-year-old children in Dingxi know their affairs, where do they still need to tell stories?" The men in every household are better than the storytellers, and the Dog Rong people invaded that year, and almost everyone in them followed General Xiahou to fight the Dog Rong people. ”

Lan Qiduo looked at the proud and proud face of the shopkeeper, his face was disapproving, and he didn't know why he was faintly proud in his heart.

"What do those things do?"

The shopkeeper only knew that the things in the young master's mouth were referring to those young people, although he knew that this young master must have come from an extraordinary way, but he still said: "They only came here half a year ago, and they didn't do anything big, but sometimes their mouths are a little mean, and the people in the restaurants and teahouses in this area know it, because they have never been short of our tea money, and the shopkeeper doesn't care much." ”

It's the first time Lan Qiduo has seen such a person, he doesn't do anything, and he has viciousness in his mouth? She didn't believe it!

"Gone!"

From beginning to end, the shopkeeper did not say a word to Lan Qiduo face-to-face.

And when the young men saw Lan Qiduo leaving, one of them looked at the other and quietly walked away! (To be continued.) )