The weather in October was cold and windy, and the farther west went, the colder it became.

The tea stalls that are often set up outside the cold day have been put away, and a few stools have been left for the merchants to rest when they are tired, so it is also a good way to buy some dry food in the store and bring it.

Xiao Er, who was looking outside the door, saw a group of people walking towards this side, turned around and said to the shopkeeper, "Why is it a convoy of grain again, this is the sixth wave." ”

"The war at the border is tight, and the merchants transport grain to the side to sell it at a high profit, and the selling price is much higher than that of the local area.

"A businessman has a black heart, and he earns the people's life money with a clear conscience." Xiao Er scolded indignantly, "I'm not afraid of taking the black-hearted silver to burn my hands." ”

"Is there any way for businessmen to make profits." The shopkeeper sighed lightly, "When will this battle be over?" "I wish I could go back to the peaceful days before the rebirth.

"I heard that the border pass has lost one after another, and I haven't won a battle for so long, and the people are panicked, and most of them rush to the inner city." Xiao Er also heard from the people on the road and remembered it.

"The border pass has started to recruit soldiers again, what is the use of recruiting the incompetent guards, and the soldiers below can only be sent to death." The shopkeeper sighed, "It's hard to pass the New Year." "It is now the end of October, and the war cannot end in just a few months, but will last a year and a half.

"It's okay now, at least there is a bite to eat when the sign is put out to recruit soldiers, most of them are the choice of desperate people, and it is easy to say that it is easy to say that if you encounter forced conscription and robbery, it will be miserable." Xiao Er's original home was in front of the side, and he couldn't help but sigh when he heard the local old man mention the old past.

"If there are countless casualties in the battle without victory, I am afraid it is difficult to say." The shopkeeper's brows furrowed into a ball of worry.

"What's the solution. The troops stationed in the area have not participated in the war for a long time, and it is not useful to hold on to them temporarily. Xiao Er is extremely unoptimistic about the border generals, "Wei Guo is too arrogant, he is not afraid of sending troops for no reason, and he will be criticized for being nameless." ”

"I don't know how many fights we've had. What's the use of saying that now. The shopkeeper didn't want to mention such a heavy matter, and told Xiao Er to work.

At this time, two people came in from outside, and Xiao Er hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Is the guest officer a tip or a hotel?" ”

"Staying in the hotel, the yard is big for you, and we have a few rooms." The comers traveled all the way, and they were about to charter the inn with a generous opening.

Xiao Er took a closer look, no wonder he was so angry. It turned out to be the grain merchant I saw before, how did he come back after just passing? Is it specifically looking for an inn with a large yard?

"Thirty rooms in total, look?" The shopkeeper has experience in dealing with merchants who have been in contact with grain transporters.

"Okay. It's barely enough to live, it's all rough old men and two people in a room. Saying that, I paid two days' room money and food money, and refunded more and made up for less.

One followed Xiaoyu upstairs to look at the room, and by the way, he looked at the courtyard behind him, and he was going to bring in the grain truck later. Let Xiao Er open the back door. The other person went out and beckoned the person in front of him to stop going. There is a place to stay.

After surviving all over the stinky sweat, I called Xiao Er to boil the bath water, wash and relieve fatigue, and it was very hard to eat and sleep along the way and protect the grain truck.

Xiao Er hurriedly went down and ordered, and counted the heads, this convoy has a total of 200 people, and there are thirty grain trucks alone, and each vehicle is not too full of goods. Probably because I was afraid that it would be too sinking.

There are still 40 people left in 30 rooms, and 3 people are rearranged in one room. If the bed can't be opened, you can make a bunk on the floor, add a few more bedding if it's cold, and the remaining ten people will guard the grain cart at night just in case.

Let the kitchen cook first, take some hungry food first, and walk most of the way to nibble on cold steamed buns, which will warm your stomach with a good sip of hot soup.

Go upstairs to freshen up and watch the car, a qiē orderly, waiting for the bath water to work on some people sitting downstairs to bake the fire first cushion their stomachs.

"We are the last batch, and we have to hurry up to the present, and it is not easy to come out." The man who was tearing the steamed bun and eating it spoke.

"Just you talk a lot." The man on the other side replied.

"It will arrive in five days, and by the way, there are quite a few convoys carrying grain to the border gates." Call Xiao Er to find out about the recent situation.

Xiao Er's mouth was sharp, and he said everything like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, and when he saw that the guest officer had nothing else to ask, he turned his head and went back to work on something else.

After lunch, some people went out to collect useful information, and after being a bandit for a while, they naturally went deep into it, and learned a lot of useful things during that time, and at the same time they were addicted to playing, and gave birth to a feeling that being a bandit is also good.

This time the team is led by the captain selected by each team, in the absence of the man in black to lead, all the qiē have to be completed by themselves, with the experience they have gained before, they do not show panic, what they don't know is that each team has two men in black secretly following, in case of unexpected accidents.

Xichao changed his face along the way, and hurried to the border pass, and he didn't stop along the way, and the whole person lost a lot of weight.

Wencheng, the lively scene of the past is not there, leaving a full of desolation and bleakness, every family is closed, even if they go out to buy is in a hurry and dare not stay, the merchants who come and go are indeed endless, and the daily necessities can still maintain a relatively stable dìng.

There is no Fengyang Tower here, that is, there is Fengyang Building is too conspicuous Xi Dynasty and his party have to give up in order to be low-key, fortunately, Luyin and Luqin have the name of foresight, and they bought a courtyard early, the location is hidden enough, and they can put down the guards and the grain and grass they brought.

Xichao and his party entered the courtyard, and the green sound and green qin had prepared bathing water, serving the master to freshen up, and he was tired all the way and did not sleep well, so he used some porridge to sleep after freshening up.

"Why don't you see Xu Yan's two sons?" Hongming and Hongrui cleaned up and asked quietly when they saw the courtyard.

"Xu Gongzi has a place here, and the master is not inconvenient to disturb rashly." Lu Yin said while cleaning up the clothes he had changed from, "After all, he is a foreign man, and the master has no leisure to meet guests after working all the way." ”

"Yes." Hongming dried his hair and put a simple bun to help Luyin clean up.

"You two go to eat first, and I'll do something with Luyin here." Lu Qin took the clothes in Hongming's hand and held them in his arms, which would have to be washed out later.

"That's good." Hongming took Hongrui to the hall for dinner.

"It's really tiring this way, and the bones of the horse are almost falling apart." Hongrui sat down and felt uncomfortable. You can hear the bones rattling whenever you move it.

"Master, I'm not tired, you talk a lot." Hong Ming glanced at Hongrui, "Aren't you lazy and need me to help you reshape it?" ”

"I don't dare." Hongrui suddenly looked like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and the reshaping in Hongming's mouth changed to an easy-to-understand word, which was to lack cleanup. She didn't want to come to the skeleton, so she had to break up completely.

"I'll get the ointment later." Hongming remembered something after a fuss, "Did you break the skin there?" ”

"Where?" Hongrui swallowed the vegetable in her mouth.

"Where can a horse be ridden?" Hongming said with a smile, "Didn't find it in the bath?" ”

"Oh, how could it not be." Hongrui looked miserable, "The skin has broken early, it is red and swollen, and the hot water is as painful as a needle prick." "It's not good to ride a horse for a long time, to ride a fast horse. It's no wonder that frequent friction doesn't break the skin.

"I'll help later, the master's situation is probably no better than you and me." Hong Ming thought of the situation that the master had endured along the way, and his heart was sour.

"Where has the master ridden a horse for such a long time?" Hongrui was also worried about the master, "Don't be tired, you don't know the pain."

Hongming and Hongrui first dealt with the injuries on their bodies after eating. Then he lightly took the ointment and white cloth and went into the main house.

Xi Chao slept very dead this night, knowing that he was in a safe place, so he didn't defend himself, and he didn't even notice that someone had entered the house.

Hongming and Hongrui stepped forward to make sure that the master was asleep and could not wake up for a while, carefully removed the quilt to check the wound, and bandaged it with a white cloth to prevent the ointment from rubbing elsewhere.

That night, Xu Chenlin and Yan Lu came over. The lord of Zunyi, who has not seen him for two years, has become a winged king who has been honored for a while. It's hard to describe these disparities.

"Two sons, please." Hongming led the people to the front hall and asked the two to sit down for tea first.

"Where's the Winged King?" Xu Chen said awkwardly when he said goodbye, feeling that the Wing King seemed to have deepened the distance all of a sudden, and it was no longer as casual as before, and there was a sense of tension among the people.

"The master has not risen, and the two of you will wait." Hong Ming was amused by Xu Chenlin's changes and replied truthfully.

"It's all about time." What kind of sleep do you sleep in, you don't have to sleep at night? Xu Chenlin was surprised.

"The master has worked hard all the way." Hong Ming explained half a sentence.

"Have you had dinner?" Hongming asked, "If there is no house to prepare it together." ”

Xu Chenlin turned his head to look at Yan Lu. When they came, they didn't think of eating just to see the Wing King, and they didn't think of eating until Yan Lu nodded. "Bothered."

"It doesn't matter." Hongming went down to order, and by the way, he saw if the master woke up.

Xu Chenlin took a sip of hot tea, and the steaming heat blocked his vision, "Speaking of which, the Wing King is fifteen years old and has reached adulthood, and I haven't heard of when his birthday is, and the ceremony of his daughter's family is a grand event in his life." "Running to the border is obviously not a short break, it seems that you are going to miss the rite of passage.

"The Winged King has his own measurements." Yan Lu still remembers the little girl he saw at the beginning, a very special person, if he ignores his gender, he deserves to be a gentleman like jade.

"Two years have passed in the blink of an eye, and there are still three years left in the contract between me and the Winged King." Xu Chenlin suddenly remembered what happened at the beginning and smiled.

"Master, it's time to get up, Xu Yan's two sons are waiting outside?" Hongrui was responsible for waking up the master, and if she went to sleep and missed dinner, Xu Yan and the others were afraid that they would have to come for nothing.

Xi Chao slept in a daze, not knowing what the past was, and he couldn't remember where he was, only heard a whispering voice in his ears, slowly opened his eyes and saw the unfamiliar bed curtain, his eyebrows raised slightly, and he turned his head to look at where the sound came from.

"Master?" Hongrui saw that the master's face was confused, so she hurriedly soaked the hot cloth and wiped her face for the master.

The heat on his face woke up instantly, and he remembered where he got up and said lazily: "When?" ”

"It's almost night." Hongrui served her master to get up and change her clothes, and explained the arrival of Xu Yan and the others.

"You don't have to wear those bulky ones." As soon as Xi Chao heard this, he stopped the clothes that Hongrui put on his body at night, "A long shirt is enough." "After a while, I have to rest, and I don't have to go through the trouble of putting it on layer by layer.

"It's not as cold in the house as it is in the middle of the capital." Hongrui rested the brocade robe on a low table and turned to get the regular clothes.

"Add a piece of barrage." Xi Chao took it off impatiently, "Dinner is in the house, you go and invite Xu Yan and the others to come here." ”

"The master is confused, so what's the matter?" Hongrui smiled while dressing the master, "How can the master see people when he dresses like this." "It's strange if you don't scare Xu Yan to death.

The slave maid heard Hongming say that Xu Yan's two sons had never had dinner, so they prepared together. The master will use it in the same way. "Hongrui took a big coat and put it on the master and fastened it.

"The master is now an adult, although he has not performed the etiquette and is different from before, how can he let a foreign man enter the room." The boudoir of the daughter's family always has to be careful. Hongrui has never seen such a big grin as the master.

Troublesome! Xi Chao was the most impatient to listen to the rules, and opened his mouth and said, "Then move it in the next room." "I don't want to go out to the front hall on a cold day.

"Okay, slave and maid will go." Hongrui ran to the door and called the secret guard to inform Hongming, and turned back to the house to comb her master's hair.

"Bundle crown?" Red Rui winked playfully at her master.

"You've seen anyone with a crown in the dark." Xi Chao glanced at the more and more naughty Hongrui, "It's becoming more and more unstable." ”

"The slave who doesn't just show it is young." Hongrui laughed.

"Let's find someone to marry after the war." Xi Chao looked at Hongrui's ruddy face and sighed, the good years were wasted.

"The slave and the maid have to follow the master for the rest of their lives, and the master doesn't think the slave and the maid are too unstable. Don't want to be a slave? "The slave is really not worried, and she is talking jokes at will.

"What's the matter, it's time for the four of you to get married when you're old." The Xi Dynasty will not treat the four people who have followed him for many years.

The master's speech is getting older and deeper. Not at all like someone of this age. Hongrui said while his subordinates kept moving, curled a bun, and inserted a jasper hairpin.

"In the future, don't think I didn't say it, I missed your good thing." Xichao got up and gathered his big gun. "Remember to say something good."

"The master made fun of the slave and the maid again." Hongrui is not embarrassed.

"Master. The man arrived. Hong Ming entered the house at this time and interrupted the conversation between the two.

Xu Yan and the others were invited to the backyard by Hongming from the front yard, there are many houses in this three-entry courtyard, but there are not many people, except for the cooks and handymen in the mother-in-law's kitchen who sprinkle and sweep.

When the two entered the house, the food was already on the table, and the two did not dare to sit down before the Wing King arrived.

Xi Chao entered the door at this time, glanced at the two of them, walked to the main seat and sat down, raised his hand to signal the two to take a seat, and instructed Hongming to leave the others to eat for their own use, so they didn't have to wait on the side.

Seeing that the original 'teenager' has changed after two years. Grown up a lot, his face was slightly emaciated, and he was even weaker by the snow-white fox fur, if it weren't for the momentum of the superiors, Xu Yan and the others really felt that they were back to the past.

"The Winged King is well." Xu Chenlin and Yan Lu hugged their fists one after another. Fang was seated.

"You don't need to be polite." Xichao reined in his momentum, and was used to running rampant in Beijing, and he forgot to keep a low profile when he came out, which scared the two of them.

Xu Chenlin stared at the person in front of him without moving, his lips moved slightly, he couldn't remember what to say, and he had nowhere to solve his worries.

"Let's talk about something after dinner." Xi Chao felt a little empty in his stomach, and he didn't have the heart to talk about other things.

Xu Chenlin and Yan Lu glanced at each other, endured a thousand words and concentrated on eating.

For a while, only the sound of cups and bowls was heard in the room, and a meal can be described as the highest level of food.

Removed the table and Hongming went down to eat, Hongrui brought refreshments in to replace, and the two greens were busy, and the smell of tea spread out to give people a soothing fragrance.

"You, uh!" Xu Chenlin immediately stammered and couldn't speak when he saw the person in front of him, so he had no choice but to look at Yan Lu around him, and the relationship was too weak if the time was too long.

"Say whatever you want, feel free." Xi Chao saw the nervousness of Xu Yan and the others, and tried his best to maintain the old peace.

"I'm very curious about the Wing King." Xu Chen said, "What happened in two years? "As a result, the lord of Zunyi County has become a noble and extraordinary winged king.

"I don't mean to inquire about the private affairs of the Wing King." Xu Chenlin was afraid that the Wing King would misunderstand, after all, there were many people in the upper echelons who were taboo to talk about their own situation.

Xi Chao didn't speak, Hong Rui, who was standing beside him, sneered and laughed, "Can the two sons speak casually, it sounds weird and awkward, although it is not a friendship like a close friend, it is also a person on the same boat who opens the skylight and speaks brightly, it is a friend but not an enemy, everyone can be more comfortable, and the master does not like people who abide by etiquette too rigidly." ”

Hearing Hongrui's words, Xu Chenlin couldn't help but look at the face of the Wing King, and he didn't see anything unusual, he should have acquiesced, and the big stone in his heart fell, and he spoke much more briskly.

"There are many rumors out there, but it's not impossible to mention." Xichao took a sip of the teacup and motioned for Hongrui to answer.

The Wing King's outfit is so simple that it has a perfunctory meaning, Xu Chenlin observed the regular clothes under the Wing King's big coat, a moment flashed in his mind, his face couldn't help but heat up, and he would always unconsciously compare the person in front of him to his daughter's family.

Hongrui's crisp and pleasant voice sounded, answering the doubts in Xu Yan's hearts for the two of them, and as the voice became lighter, Xu Yan and the two of them compared some of the rumors they heard outside, analyzed some of the situations, and the rest should be unspeakable.

Feeling that the two years of the Wing King can be described as thrilling, more exciting than the drama sung, Xu Chenlin transformed into scenes in his mind, and there was a sense of unfinished business.

"Why is the Winged King here?" Yan Lu was bolder and more straightforward than Xu Chenlin, and asked the purpose of the Wing King's visit, the border pass was not as good as going to Beijing, and it was very chaotic.

"Commander." Xichao gave the answer succinctly.

Xu Yan and the others were stunned, and subconsciously looked at the Wing King, and collided with the pair of clear and deep pupils.

"Really?" Xu Chenlin blurted out, and as soon as the words came out, he felt that something was wrong, and he was busy making amends, "I mean the military camp can let you in?" "There are no rules in the barracks that prohibit women from entering. (To be continued......)