Liu Ming followed the eldest man to a very clean small teahouse.

This teahouse is next to the Wang Po Po fruit shop, Wang Po Po fruit is a famous snack in Chang'an City, and no one who has lived in Chang'an for a long time does not know.

After the eldest master came in, a middle-aged man with a white face and beard who should be forty or fifty years old also came in, he smiled at Liu Ming, took out a handful of copper coins and threw them to Xiao Er: "Go to Granny Wang to buy some fruits, and the rest of the money will be rewarded to you." ”

Xiao Erle nodded and bowed, brought the three of them to a very clean square table, prepared tea, and then turned around and went out.

After a while, Xiao Er came in with several plates, each of which contained a fruit, a few dried fruits, and some fried fruits that had just been made and were still hot.

The eldest man drank tea, took a peeled walnut and threw it in his mouth and bit it: "How is the garden in Nancheng?" When can I call the people in to play? ”

Liu Ming didn't think much about it, and when the old man was curious and wanted to go in and play, he smiled: "It's still early, I guess I should be able to call someone in this autumn, do you want to go in and have a look?" ”

The middle-aged man next to the eldest man smiled: "Our master really wants to go in and have a look, but there is no one to guide him." ”

Liu Ming was happy: "You guys have a good opportunity, no, I'm just about to go over to see it, so let's take you there, but you must not make a noise, let's play quietly." ”

The eldest lord nodded: "Yes." ”

Liu Ming glanced at him: "We can be regarded as having a friendship of talking, but the little one doesn't know what this old man's surname is?" ”

The eldest lord smiled: "The surname is Chu, you can call me Master Chu, the housekeeper next to me is surnamed Liu, and you are still in my own family." ”

"I've seen Master Chu." Liu Mingyou greeted him with a smile. grabbed a handful of melon seeds and ate them, and after eating, he took a fried sugar-coated dough fruit and threw it in his mouth: "The small one can be regarded as your light, the fruit of Granny Wang's house is delicious and delicious, but it is a little expensive, and I am reluctant to buy it once in a small month." ”

Master Chu waved his hand: "Since you like to eat, you can eat happily, and when you are full, we will go to Nancheng again." ”

Speaking of this, Master Chu asked casually: "I think you should have come out of Qi Zhuangyuan's house just now." What's the matter. Is there something difficult to do? Or is it that the people of the Qi Zhuangyuan family are bullying? ”

As soon as Liu Ming heard this, he quickly shook his head, and he didn't care about eating the fruit, so he opened his mouth and said, "Don't wronged a good person." Qi Zhuangyuan is not that kind of person. ”

Liu Ming sighed: "Speaking of which, those petty officials and officials in our Ministry of Industry are willing to be officials in the Ministry of Industry, Qi Zhuangyuan can handle things, and people are capable." Whether it's engineering calculations or material calculations, it's a must. Especially for accounting, the decades-old account room can't compare to him, give him such a thick stack of account books, he can only be counted for half a day. There will never be a little difference, with him, we will save the old nose. ”

"So powerful?"

Master Chu didn't expect that Qi Jing, a champion who had studied sage books for more than ten years, could still understand these techniques. I was also a little surprised.

"Isn't it?" Liu Ming smiled proudly: "Let me tell you the truth, Qi Zhuangyuan is extremely sympathetic to his subordinates. We follow him not only to save trouble, but also to get a lot of benefits, just said last year, my mother-in-law did confinement, I wanted to make up for her, but the day was not good, went to several houses did not buy brown sugar, just called Qi Zhuangyuan to know, specially sent a large bag of brown sugar to my home, not to mention anything else, just this careful care, I am grateful in my life, do not say that I was scolded by the old lady of the Qi family A few words, that is, I was beaten, and I did not complain at all. ”

"They scolded you?" Master Chu was very curious: "I don't think you are unreasonable, why did you scold." ”

Asked about this, Liu Ming smiled bitterly: "It's not the dog surnamed Yu who recruits things, he just can't see others good, before Nancheng was renovated earlier, there was a pile of garbage everywhere, no one wanted it at all, Qi Zhuangyuan had no choice but to pay for it himself, and then spent money to hire a lot of poor people and flowers in Nancheng who couldn't eat, and it took a long time to clean up the piece and level it out, no, it should be that he is a good person with good rewards, and that piece of land is next to the garden, if you build some shops on it, you will definitely be able to make money." , The surname Yu saw it red, and he was stunned to ask me to go to Qi Zhuangyuan's house to say that he wanted to leave a place outside the garden for people to place the carriage, and he had to ask the Qi family to give him the land for nothing, you said, how can there be such a reason, I said not to go, he forced me to go, I was also to support my family, I had to go over to pass a word, I also knew that I had to be scolded before I went, just called the old man Qi to scold two sentences, I don't hold a grudge, I just hate the shameless surname Yu. ”

Liu Ming had a fire in his belly, and Master Chu immediately asked, and he told the truth, this thing was a little unstoppable, and he talked about it a lot, and Master Chu and Steward Liu behind him had a little bad looks on their faces after hearing it.

Liu Ming drank another cup of tea before standing up: "Yes, what do you do when you keep talking about this, I'll take you to the garden quickly." ”

Master Chu also stood up and asked Xiao Er to wrap up the rest of the fruit and ask Liu Ming to take it back for his wife and children to taste.

Liu Ming didn't refuse, took it and tucked it into his arms, and left with Master Chu.

After going out, they called a carriage to sit on, and the three of them went straight to Nancheng.

Suzhou

The boiling oil poured down from the city, and the screams began one after another, and the enemy troops who had been scalded by the hot oil fell down with a plop, and some fell to the ground and could not die again, and some were still alive, but they were more uncomfortable to live, and the extensive burns on their bodies made them scream and wail on the ground.

The long, thick logs were pushed off the walls, and many more people were brought out, as well as boulders and so on.

Even so, there were still enemy troops who rushed forward and rushed to climb the city wall, and some even climbed to the city wall.

Qi Jing and Yu Long led the soldiers of Suzhou to fight with their respective weapons and the enemy troops who climbed the city wall, and when the sun rose high, the city wall was already red with blood, and the soldiers of Suzhou were also a little tired.

Huyan Dashuai stood from a distance and watched, his brows furrowed.

He waved his hand: "Increase trebuchets, pile up earth for mountains, and siege the city." ”

Heaping soil for a mountain is also a means of attacking the city, that is, digging the earth not far from the city wall and piling it into a mountain, until the pile is as high as the city wall, so that it is convenient for trebuchets to attack the city, and it is also convenient for the soldiers to climb to the top to take strong bows and arrows to attack the city, and can also ask the soldiers to build a wooden bridge to go over, which is more convenient than the ladder, but it is too cumbersome, so it is not too much to use when the general siege is not too much.

Immediately, some of the infantry came to dig with shovels in their hands, and because of the large number of people, it took a short time to dig up a large pile of earth.

Empress Dowager Li sat on her horse and raised her horsewhip and said to Huyan Dashuai: "Even if you dig the soil, it is better to dig a few more tunnels." ”

Huyan smiled and asked someone to dig a tunnel.

It didn't take much effort, the trebuchet increased to hundreds, and the boulders fell in the air with a roar, some fell to the city, some fell to the city wall, Qi Jing listened to the screams of the people in the city wall, the wailing of the soldiers on the city wall, and the fire in his heart.

Especially when a young man who was only seventeen or eighteen years old not far from him was hit by a stone and blood was splashed on the spot, Qi Jing became more and more angry and distressed.

Yesterday when he came to the city to set up a few words with the young man, the young man is the youngest child in the family, although a little naughty, but it is a rare filial son, he also said that the family gave him a blind date, has set a family matter, and so the Sidi people are going to get married, when talking about his fiancée, the young man smiled very happily, laughed out of two dimples, showing a pair of tiger teeth.

Qi Jing looked at the young man who was already angry, and thought of his hearty smile like yesterday, and his heart was extremely uncomfortable.

He drew his sword violently, cut down a Sidi who had just climbed to the city wall, gritted his teeth and grasped the two logs of the ladder that had just reached the city wall, and with great force, he knocked down the ladder entirely.

Yu Long also killed many enemies, and when he was free, he picked up clairvoyance to observe the enemy's situation, and he was shocked when he saw it: "It's not good, they want to dig tunnels......"

Qi Jing also picked up his own clairvoyance and looked at it for a while, and his whole face became even more gloomy.

Yu Long walked over to Qi Jing and said, "No, let's invite the flying machine out again and ask someone to fly into the sky......"

Qi Jing waved his hand: "No, the aircraft can fly at night, anyway, no one can see the black paint, now I know where to dare to go out, I can't say that I just flew into the air and asked the Sidi cavalry to shoot down with arrows, or don't make such a senseless sacrifice." ”

"How's that for good?" Yu Long was anxious to turn around, and scolded as he turned: "The surname is Li, I x your ancestor." ”

Qi Jing turned around and called the scolding generals who had just rested for a while to drink water, and said to them: "You go to hide in the city tower, continue to scold with a megaphone, this time scolding in shifts, and the third shift keeps scolding all the time." ”

Those scolding men and women saw how many Suzhou people had died, their eyes were red, and they gritted their teeth with hatred for the Xidi people, and when they heard that they were told to continue scolding, they immediately hid in the city tower and started scolding.

Another round of stone rain fell, Qi Jingrao is infinite strength, but he can only protect his safety, his strength alone is limited, where can he protect all the people and soldiers.

Qi Jing's right hand was clenched, and it was tightened several times, and there was no way to vent the sorrow in his heart.

Seeing this, Yu Long was also angry and anxious, turned around on the city wall, drew his sword and scolded: "Grandma, your grandfather and I will order all the soldiers and horses to go out and fight you to the death." ”

Qi Jing grabbed Yu Long: "Don't be rash, how many cavalry do we have, how many of them are there?" You will go out and fall into their schemes. ”

Yu Long sighed: "What else can I do, seeing the people under my rule like this, I ......"

While speaking, Yu Long's eyes were red.

He is not very old at all, it is the time of blood, and he is full of weakness and anger that force him to collapse.

Qi Jing took a deep breath and calmed down: "Let's think of a way, we can always think of a way." ”

"What can be done?" Yu Long squatted down and held his head with his hands, extremely helpless.

"My lord, look ......"

Suddenly, a small soldier pointed at Qi Jing under the city wall and shouted loudly.

Qi Jing took advantage of the situation and was stunned, and Yu Long also hurried over to take a look, and this time he was also on the spot. (To be continued.) )