Chapter 5: Thin Family Letters

The north wind is blowing wildly, and Liangzhou will not warm up until the beginning of April, and now Lou Zheng is wrapped in cotton clothes, his nose and hands are frozen red.

General Lou unwrapped the cloth on his hand and wrapped it in his daughter's little hand to help her keep her out of the cold.

He held the horse with a pair of thick hands, and as soon as he used force, he rolled over on his side and got on the horse's back.

Lou Zheng noticed that his father's bare hands were cracked, and his heart couldn't help but tingle.

On the way back to the Marshal's Mansion, General Lou jokingly asked his daughter, "What's the matter, do you want to come to the barracks tomorrow?" ”

Lou Zheng shook his head again and again, "It's not fun at all." ”

General Lou laughed, "Jiaojiao, don't let you suffer a little, you still think it's fun in the barracks!" ”

Lou Zheng was busy with his father, but his heart was bitter.

She already knows about the situation of the border army in Liangzhou, in fact, those miscellaneous official documents can best reflect the situation of the border army, she specially asked her father to come to the barracks for a day today for this purpose, since the purpose has been achieved, she naturally has no need to come to the barracks again. The coming day is already enough to cause trouble for my father and Zhou to join the army, and if I am really caught, I am afraid that the emperor will really have an extra copy of his father's reference book on his desk.

Back at the Marshal's Mansion, the medicine slave had already prepared a meal, dried vegetable stew and pork lung soup, which were also very large, enough for Lou Zheng, General Lou, Lu Hongxiu and others.

Poured the dried vegetable stew with the soup on the small rice, and a bowl of clean pork lung soup made by each person, even Lou Zheng can eat a big bowl.

After coming to Liangzhou, Lou Zheng tried his best to teach the medicine slave to make this simple and easy-to-fill meal, which is easy to make people feel satisfied. Especially for the men in the army.

Judging from General Lou's reaction, he liked this simple and delicious meal very much. Because the ingredients are simple and the cooking method is unprecedented, the pig water that some butchers throw away directly on weekdays can be turned into delicious. A meal doesn't cost much, so everyone who follows General Lou back to the Marshal's Mansion can mix a bowl of rice with dried vegetables and stewed meat and a big bowl of pork lung soup.

The medicine slave with an ordinary appearance and a shriveled figure was instantly upgraded to a fairy in the eyes of these guards. When I saw it in the house, I would laugh and call the medicine slave girl.

In the evening, the father and daughter had dinner and talked about themselves in the study.

Lou Zheng looked up at his father's rough and dark skin in the dim light, and the spirit of forcibly lifting it, and his heart was sour.

Although she didn't like to go to the main house in Shengjing, she still went back once when her grandmother was 60th birthday.

The main residence of the Lou family in Shengjing. Lou Zheng saw with his own eyes what life those uncles and cousins lived.

When I first returned to the main house of Shengjing. She was accompanied only by the old grandmother and the nurse left by her mother, and as soon as she entered the house, she was ridiculed by the sisters at home for wearing shabby.

Under the advice of the uncle, the aunt only bought her two sets of clothes. Matching jewelry is even more not.

Because of the dislike of Lou Zheng's external raising. The old lady of Loufu took a group of sisters and sisters with her on her birthday. But she was the only one who left her, the second-room concubine.

The Tuhun jewelry that his father ordered his guards to bring home was used by the uncle and the third uncle to do business.

During the holidays, my father never received any gifts from the main house of the family.

The old lady has good eyes, and Lou Zheng saw with her own eyes that she had made men's clothes. But it's not for my father, but for the third uncle who is the least immoral.

The third uncle sleeps in flowers and willows all day long, and scatters 1,000 taels of silver a day in Yanlai Building.

If the money was used to buy winter clothes for my father's border army, 30,000 people would each get a winter coat that was not thick.

The reason why the Lou family can still gain a firm foothold in Shengjing is not because his father is working the side, relying on his uncle's false position of being a five-grade person, thinking that the Lou family can still keep the money-making shops on the main street of Shengjing?

I took the baggage from the side and opened it, and inside was a bag of men's clothing.

Two sets of bedgowns, a few pairs of socks, and a few homely robes with a round neckline.

Lou Zheng picked up a robe and walked to General Lou's side, "Daddy, we haven't seen each other for more than a year, and I don't know if these clothes made by my daughter are still suitable for you, try it." ”

General Lou smiled, and the corners of his eyes were piled up with fine and dense crow's feet, and he took off the robe that he had already worn with raw edges on the cuffs, and replaced it with a new one made for him by his daughter.

Standing up and gesturing twice, Lou Zheng was a little stunned when he saw that his father's robe was empty.

The size of this robe was the same as when she left more than a year ago, and in just over a year, my father had lost so much weight......

General Lou couldn't stop nodding and praised, "Jiaojiao's craftsmanship is getting better and better, you see how obedient this robe on my father's body is." When he spoke, he also turned around in front of Lou Zheng.

Lou Zheng said angrily, "What do you obey, my father will joke about my daughter, take it off quickly, I'll take it back and change it to a smaller one, it's all fat." ”

General Lou touched his daughter's hair with a smile, changed the robe and handed it to his daughter, and said with relief: "It is said that the daughter is the mother's intimate little padded jacket, and our Jiaojiao is the father's intimate little padded jacket." ”

Lou Zheng folded a few clothes, poured warm water for his father and handed them over.

"Daddy, can the main house send a letter to the family for the New Year?"

General Lou nodded, opened a wooden box next to the desk, took out a letter from it and handed it to Lou Zheng.

Lou Zheng opened it and pulled out a thin piece of paper from the envelope. There are very few words, it is the pen of the uncle, and it is just some auspicious words for the New Year, and finally there are a few words said by the old lady, but the old lady has no sentence.

It is said that the family letter is worth 10,000 dollars, and the old lady and the old lady in the main house are there, but the family letter of the dignified general of Peking University is only a thin piece of paper.

Lou Zheng endured the anger in his chest, and after reading the letter, he put it away and handed it back to his father.

"Do you have anything to send at home?" The sky is about to warm up, and my daughter wants to make two spring clothes with the good-looking fabric sent by Sheng Jing. ”

General Lou's face was embarrassed, and he held back for a long time before he said, "Your grandfather and grandmother have sent some food, and it has been distributed to the guards who followed your father. ”

I know that this is the case, Liangzhou is poor in materials, this is something that the family has known for a long time, and a group of elders in the family do not know how to bring something suitable for their father during the Chinese New Year.

Thinking that every time her father got jewelry and property from the Tuhun people, she had to send most of them to the main mansion of Shengjing, so she was not worth it for her father. My father just didn't want to marry again, and the old lady didn't say a word to my father for ten years.

He never asked about his father's safety.

General Lou saw that his daughter's face was not good, and hurriedly took out a delicate small wooden box from the secret compartment of his room.

smiled and said to her daughter: "Jiaojiao open it and take a look, these are all left to you by your father, and they are all the best." ”

Lou Zheng opened the small wooden box, but there were only a few pieces of high-quality gems and Dongzhu in the delicate wooden box.

General Lou looked at the sparse and sparse small wooden box, and said abruptly: "Originally, the small wooden box was full, but unfortunately it was used a lot for my father. ”

(To be continued.) )

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