Lan Qiduo had a very good idea, she thought that if she had time along the way, she could go out and play, she was tired during the day, but she always had to camp and rest at night, and when she came to take her guards out quietly, she would not delay the daytime rush, and she could also take the opportunity to see the scenery along the way.

But at the end of the day, the others said that the people who escorted them had to worry about all kinds of conditions on the road and rode horses, and they were almost exhausted every day, Lan Qiduo was not the kind of harsh person, and he couldn't bear to see them tired, so the desire to go out and play was much lighter.

This day just walked to the boundary of Qinzhou Mansion, here is a day or two away from the Dingxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the sky has not completely darkened, Commander Ma is very excited to say to everyone: "Everyone has worked hard to hurry, the day after tomorrow you can go to the Dingxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and then you will be able to see your relatives!" ”

All kinds of cheers came one after another, and even Lan Qiduo couldn't help but be happy after being on the road for so long, and Mama Yun said even more happily: "This is about to see the horse, Your Highness will hurry up and dress up from today, in case you meet the horse along the way, it's not good to be too plain." ”

Lan Qiduo was speechless for a while, because she had been carrying it in the carriage, and every day she saw that those children occasionally saw the mothers and wives of a few soldiers, and she had carefully consulted the various situations of the Dingxi Protectorate when she came before.

Because of the war for many years, the population is very sparse, and there are not many people who are willing to take root there, and the families of these soldiers themselves are very good leaders, only they are willing to stay there as the families of the soldiers, so that they can better attract the people to settle down in the future, and the population will slowly prosper in Dingxi, and after the prosperity they will understand the importance of peace and stability, and then they can share the same hatred with the invaders.

Lan Qiduo saw this very clearly, so she was willing to take care of the emotions of these family members in some trivial matters, and she herself was also a person who was afraid of trouble, but after Mama Yun said this, she deliberately forgot Xiahou Yi's thoughts in these days when she was on the road, because Mama Yun also took a lot of words.

Because they have a large number of people, they have always been stationed outside the city, every time they set up camp they choose an open and flat place outside the city, and this day is no exception, they chose a threshing floor called Surabaya Village at the junction of Xiliang Mansion and Qinzhou Mansion, this threshing floor is particularly large, Lan Qiduo is nearly a mile long, anyway, when everyone began to set up tents, Lan Qiduo looked at the past and all their people.

Now it's April 10th, and the smoke of the cooking pot is rising, and the horse commander came over to report the situation to Lan Qiduo: "The spies ahead have reported that they will be able to leave the boundary of Qinzhou Mansion around noon tomorrow, and the horses will meet us in a place called Huiyuan County." ”

"I'll be here tomorrow?"

Ma Commander said: "Your Highness doesn't know, the original plan was not Huiyuan County, but there is a group of bandits at the junction of Qinzhou Mansion and the original Xiliang Mansion all year round, and the Dingxi Army has cooperated with Qinzhou Mansion to suppress bandits eight or nine times over the years, even if not ten times, but these bandits have not been killed. ”

He said in a low voice: "Since he took charge of the Dingxi Army, he suspected that someone in this Qinzhou Mansion was colluding with bandits, but in order to avoid suspicion, he did not have the authority to manage the affairs of Qinzhou Mansion, so he has dragged this matter down over the years. ”

Lan Qiduo felt a pang in his heart, isn't this the collusion of officials and bandits? But this intention is a little angry, although Qinzhou Mansion is as high as Xiliang Mansion, the emperor is far away, but Qinzhou Mansion is one of the most prosperous places because of geographical reasons, although the junction with Xiliang Mansion is not a particularly rich place, but I have never heard of any major events over the years, and now there are collusion between officials and bandits here, so it is conceivable that Xiliang Mansion and the northwest can be imagined.

"Bandits are bandits, can it be that it didn't happen at this time if it didn't hurt anyone's life?"

Lan Qiduo's face was not very good, Commander Ma secretly regretted that he shouldn't have said these words in too much detail, His Highness is arrogant, and now what he said is faintly worried that those bandits will come out to make trouble, what if His Highness is angry and does something? Is he the first person to be responsible for His Highness's safety? As the saying goes, a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, and he is not very clear about the place of Surabaya Village in Qinzhou Prefecture, everything is seen from the map, and it is useless.

He stubbornly said: "Now Your Highness's identity dictates, you are not only the princess of Daqi but also the protector of Dingxi personally sealed by His Majesty, now the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, we still have so many people, how can we force them to come?" When His Royal Highness has a firm foothold in the Dingxi Protectorate, and then clean up these people, the people here will definitely be grateful to His Highness for eliminating harm for the people! ”

Lan Qiduo thought that Commander Ma was persuading him at first, but when he heard it, he couldn't help but be angry and funny: "This palace is just an atmosphere, these corpses are vegetarian meals, and they don't do anything for the people with the money given by their father, does Commander Ma think that this palace plans to let you bring a group of injured people to suppress bandits?" The strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, this truth is still understood! ”

The horse commander was embarrassed for a while, he found that when he was in the capital, he could still figure out His Highness's temperament, but when he left the capital, he was like a wild horse that had escaped, and he couldn't grasp it at all!

Lan Qiduo really didn't want to deal with those bandits now, that is, what ideas were really what Commander Ma said, and when they got a firm foothold in Dingxi, they said that they could go to the city tonight to take a look around, and they heard a commotion outside, Lan Qiduo said: "Let's go and see what is going on first!" "The horse commander went out.

Lan Qiduo was originally idle, and at this time, the children who had gone out to eat with her the day before were also surrounded, and they were already familiar with Lan Qiduo, and when their mother looked for them to go back to eat, she dared to occasionally look up and look at Lan Qiduo, and when Lan Qiduo came out, one of the older ones said, "The princess must want to know what is going on over there." ”

The direction he pointed to was really the place where there was a lot of commotion just now, and Lan Qiduo teased him: "Okay, you talk about it, it's been a while...... I'll give you a plate of rice candy that I bought heavily! ”

This was the time when dinner was not good, they were already hungry, and there was nothing more attractive than food, so not only the eldest child, but several gossiping.

Lan Qiduo took a long time to figure out the reason, it turned out that many of them had to make a fire to cook, those fireworks were not small, the villagers in the village noticed when they came, and then saw these cooking fireworks and thought that the threshing floor was on fire, and many people hurried over to see what was going on.

There are many soldiers in Lan Qiduo's team who are here to escort the soldiers' families to the Dingxi Protectorate, and some people come forward and they naturally want to ask, those people originally thought that the threshing floor was on fire, who knew that there were so many people making a fire to cook, and they were a little dumbfounded all of a sudden.

But they reacted right away, good fellows! Isn't the firewood used by these people the wheat straw in their threshing floor? These wheat straw are the old wheat grass left over from the wheat last summer, most of the time it is used to ignite the fire for cooking, so many people pull a little bit that is a lot, now the new wheat has not come down, the wheat grass is naturally not much, by Lan Qiduo's team of people to use it, their village people are naturally a lot of money, the peasant family has no firewood to burn, can not be noisy?

Lan Qiduo listened to the children's gossip and finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter, not only did she not feel troublesome, but felt quite fresh, she was curious about too many new things along the way, from how to rush on a rainy day, how to set up a tent at night, to why the route set by the horses every day to go like this, anyway, many things are curious.

When she heard about this at this time, she didn't go forward to ask Commander Ma, but wanted to know how to deal with this kind of thing.

"According to the habit of the past, I planned to give them some silver, and we were originally going to discuss with the village chief to see how much money other people's firewood would give them, but I never thought they would come so soon!"

"If you give the village chief two silver taels, who knows if they can get their hands on it!"

Lan Qiduo was very distrustful of these people for a while because of the collusion between officials and bandits that Commander Ma said just now, but now that Commander Ma said this, she intuitively felt unreliable.

Commander Ma was also speechless for a while because of what Lan Qiduo said, and Lan Qiduo was curious: "How much is the wheat grass worth?" ”

"It's not worth much, the wheat straw we use is a total of five taels of silver, which is more than for them." Commander Ma replied, somewhat disapproving.

Lan Qiduo was surprised: "Five taels of silver? ”

Five taels of silver is not as much as her meal money, the people care so much, Lan Qiduo asked Commander Ma to ask, why do you care so much about this matter, Commander Ma came back but was a little embarrassed, although he himself was not from a big family, but he also grew up in a well-off family, and he didn't understand how farmers lived.

Just now he learned from the village chief, if it is a handful of two handfuls, it is okay, but he forgot that there are many of them, and there are many wheat straw used, if the villagers do not have anything to burn, they will naturally go out to collect firewood, and this season is a good time to take care of the crops, cutting firewood needs to consume time, and delaying time is delaying money, so they hurried to it when they saw that there were fireworks in the threshing floor here, but they were worried that if there was a fire, many people in the village would not be able to use it for a period of time.

Figuring out the ins and outs, Lan Qiduo was also a little embarrassed, they had two thousand mouths to eat, how much firewood was consumed?

"Then Commander Ma went to communicate with the village chief to see how much wheat grass we used, and what should we say if we delay the time for people to farm, whether it is better to give money or food."

When Commander Ma heard Lan Qiduo's words, it made sense, His Highness's identity is not a secret, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not be passed out, not to mention that His Highness is a bully when the time comes.

When it was time to eat, Commander Ma said, "My subordinates have discussed with the village chief of Surabaya Village and a few villagers, they all want food, saying that it is green and yellow, and the grain is more expensive, so it is better to give the grain more affordable, and tomorrow the subordinates will leave a few people to let them go into the city to buy food, and keep it, this matter is solved beautifully." ”

Lan Qiduo was also happy to hear that it was solved, but she was a little disappointed when she looked at the sky, and said that she wanted to go out for a walk along the way, and originally thought that she could go into the city early today to see, I heard that there was a meeting in the city today, Lan Qiduo hadn't rushed to the assembly here, and now it looks like it's going to be in the soup!

When she was depressed, she suddenly smelled the aroma of food, with a little smell of green onions, and Mama Yun came back with a plate at this time.

"When the villagers came over tonight, because they were talking about this wheat straw, they saw that the old slave was cooking, and they said this wheat straw! It's best to make something called oil cake, and the old slave thinks I'll make it for His Highness tonight. ”

"Oil cakes? Fried cakes? ”

Although they didn't go to the place to walk along the way, the horse commander was very kind to ask people to bring some local specialty snacks everywhere, and they didn't have time to go out today!

"The old slave doesn't dare to eat fried things for His Highness at night, it's not good if the fried things are accumulated!"

Mama Yun said as she added a piece of this thing called oil cake and put it on the plate in front of Lan Qiduo.

"The old slave feels a bit like the mille-feuille we eat on weekdays, but our mille-feuille is layered layer by layer, this is completely kneaded by hand, the old slave also heard that this oil cake is delicious to be made with non-fat noodles, they call it dead flour cake, saying that it tastes chewy, and it is full, the old slave thought that something must be hungry, and he didn't dare to get more for His Highness, so he made a pot bottom size, cut a quarter for His Highness, and gave them a few girls to share! If His Royal Highness still wants to eat the old slave and let them make noodles in advance next time, he won't dare to eat more of this bread. ”

Lan Qiduo looked at the golden but not crispy thing on the plate and took a curious bite, then turned his head and said, "The outside is a very crispy crust, and the inside is very chewy." The taste is also good. ”

She has been sitting in the carriage for a long time in the morning recently, her appetite is actually not very good, Mama Yun is trying to make dishes, as well as some local food, she eats a little bit every time, I don't know if it's because she is about to reach her destination, Lan Qiduo's appetite is not bad tonight, she also finished the two palm-sized bread that Mama Yun cut for her, and drank a bowl of bird's nest porridge on side dishes, Mama Yun was even worried about Lan Qiduo's accumulation of food, so she specially asked people to call those children and take Lan Qiduo to take one more step in the threshing floor to eliminate food.

Lan Qiduo didn't know why he suddenly remembered what Xiahou Yi said in the voice of the children, he said that we will have many children in the future, and the family will be very lively at that time! Thinking of Xiahou Yi's words at this time, Lan Qiduo actually felt that she was a little worried about Xiahou Yi, this was the first time she had been worried about Xiahou Yi for so long. (To be continued.) )