Han Xiao smiled and touched Brother Shun'er's head and said, "Father has no kung fu these days, so we can't go." My sister is too young, look at her, I still have to sleep so long every day, and when the spring begins next year, my sister can climb a little longer, let's take her to play again, okay? ”

Although disappointed, Brother Keshun still nodded obediently, turned his head to look at the kang, and saw Xue Tuan'er lying on the window, his big tail flicking, pointing at Xue Tuan'er and saying, "Then let's play with Xue Tuan'er?" ”

"Let's play." The cat has never scratched anyone, and Brother Shun is also very good, it is okay to sleep with it at night, and there is a room of girls and mothers-in-law watching, Han Xiao is naturally relieved.

After explaining to his son, he thought about it, and simply went to the kitchen door to watch it himself, made a few exquisite side dishes, and waited for Bai Anheng to finish his work, and the husband and wife sat down together to eat.

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There hasn't been much autumn rain in Hexian County in the past few days, and after the grain is beaten, it is dried and dried in the morning, and the warehouse is sealed and put into storage.

As soon as the farming work is over, each family has the mind to be busy with other things, and is preparing for the New Year, and some men in the family simply leave the village to prepare to go to the surrounding wild mountains and cols to dry and pickle, and add some winter vegetables to the family.

Early in the morning, a few people from the same village went out of the village, took bows, arrows, ropes, and prepared to go to the dam to hunt some hares and pheasants. As soon as I walked out of the village, I saw some people passing by in a hurry not far away. The first ones rode fast, and the ones behind them all walked, and they all started in order, and they all walked towards one place, and this great crowd walked so that the yellow sand on the ground was raised.

Several people were stunned, standing in place and watching from afar.

"What is this for? How are so many of them? ”

"You're also going to hunt game? It's not like ah, there is no village where you go out to hunt game like this. ”

"Are you dizzy? That looks like you're going to hunt game? What village can have so many people? ”

"Why don't you go over and see, what's going on?"

Several people walked forward, and when they reached the intersection, they were stopped by Xiang Yong.

"Why can't you get out?"

"That said, we're going every fall!"

It wasn't just these few people who were stopped, but people from other nearby villages.

Those villagers had a straight face: "I can't go these days, a group of wolves have come running from the dam out of nowhere, and they have already bitten seven or eight to death, haven't you seen the people who passed by just now?" That's to fight the wolves. ”

Everyone gasped, Hexian is far away and remote, there will inevitably be wild beasts on the grassland, wolves, foxes and other wild beasts are infested from time to time, and there have been cases of babies being taken away by wolves in any village. It is not common to see large packs of wolves, and I heard that there was a time twenty or thirty years ago when the ice broke at the end of the snowy mountain, and because of this, several villages, nearly half of the village, died.

This is not too long in the past, and now these young men have heard of it, and when they see another pack of wolves coming, except for those who are too bold and not afraid of death, they all turn back after being persuaded by others.

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Bai Anheng sat in the room, his brows furrowed. The courtyard is brightly lit inside and outside.

It has been more than half a day since the wolf smoke in the small towns in the west was ignited, and now I don't know what happened to the interception there, what the casualties were, and whether the Turks would have attacked the county seat.

Even if he had already dealt with it, no one knew if there would be any sudden change that caught people off guard, he was a civil official, and he was the head of a county, so he couldn't easily leave the county government at this time, so he could only wait for the news from the front garrison.

It didn't take long for a man to ride into the gate of the county seat, check the token on his waist, and the officers and soldiers guarding the city hurriedly knocked on the door and let people in.

Getting off the horse, the man hurriedly ran in, handed over the secret report and waited aside.

Bai Anheng took out the letter, looked at the contents of the letter carefully by the lamplight, and after a while, Fang exhaled lightly, and his originally gloomy appearance was also relieved by two points.

He ordered the messenger to go down to rest first, and he walked back to his seat. Several masters waited quietly for him to read the letter.

"Lord Zhou sent a letter saying that after the Turks secretly came in from the mountain road, they directly hit the granary in Sanli Village to the west, and they were being met head-on by the men and horses they deployed."

Only then did several masters breathe a sigh of relief, and they couldn't help but smile a little more on their faces: "Fortunately, fortunately." When the spies were discovered, they arranged for them to go down, and there were only three nearest granaries that came in from the mountains to the west, and sure enough, they went straight there. ”

Bai Anheng couldn't help but smile, and then said a little solemnly: "However, the Turks are not easy to follow, Lord Zhou said that the people they met were only seven or eight hundred people in total, which did not match the number of people who came back from the secret sentinel deployed at the foot of the mountain earlier. ”

Zhao Ping'an hurriedly said: "My lord is very worried, but this time the Turks entered the customs and went straight to the villages and towns in our county, which means that there is a heavy responsibility to guard the customs in Dexian County...... It won't be the same as before. ”

Bai Anheng raised his eyebrows slightly, nodded and said, "If this can be the case, it will naturally be the best." ”

"In addition to Dexian County, there are several places such as Lanzhou and Anfu County, and it is easy to mobilize each other's neighbors.

"That being said, it's better to follow the rules." Smiling at a few masters, everyone pondered the letters written to the surrounding counties, and the urgent letters sent to the capital, etc.

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The front mansion was brightly lit overnight, and the Han people in the back mansion were also unstable. Since I got the news a few days ago, I told the people in the house, no matter what happens, don't mess up. Now, as soon as the news of the Turks coming from the mountains entered the city, everyone in the mansion acted cautiously.

As soon as he was alone in bed, he woke up and fell asleep repeatedly, and after three watches, he couldn't sleep anymore, raised his hand to open a corner of the curtain, and just sat up, he heard Xia Ying, who was on night outside, saying at the door: "Grandma is going to get up at night?" ”

"Bring a garment, you can't sleep." This Xia Ying used to be named Xiao Ying, and now Xia He and Xia Chan are married, and there is nothing to do in the house these days, so they are asked to go back to the husband and wife to reunite, and then come back to run errands during the day, and the original few little girls are now grown up and used.

Hearing her say this, she knew that it must be Han Xiao who was worried about Bai Anheng, who was still busy in front of her, and couldn't sleep alone, so Xia Ying hurriedly turned around and went to get her clothes.

"The slave maid asked someone to inquire, the second master is afraid that he is still busy, and he has not heard any movement in the city, so it should be fine." While putting on Han Xiao's clothes, Xia Ying said again, "Grandma wants some tea?" ”

nodded, drank some warm water, and after a while, Xia Ye, who went to the second gate to inquire about the news, turned back: "Back to grandma, I heard that the yamen is still busy, the boy on the night of the job said that someone entered the yamen earlier to report the news, and there were official exchanges, presumably the second master has not rested." ”

After pondering for a while, Han Yu instructed: "Ask someone to prepare some supper for them, and a few gentlemen who usually like it, and also prepare some digestible ones and send them over, it will be cold, tell them to be careful when sending them, don't be cold." ”

"Yes."

The pale silver moonlight hit the window lattice, and there was a faint chirping of autumn insects, although Han Yu felt that his heart was heavy and full of worry, but he didn't feel uncomfortable, let alone flustered. This time, fortunately, he had already arranged it, but this year, he will do it again in the future......

Shaking her head, Hexian is not happy here, didn't she know the Tao before she came? It's one thing for her to know that the Tao is one thing, and it's another thing to really meet it.

And how can an official or a minister only live in a comfortable place every day without taking any risks? If he is really afraid of danger here, let him avoid it, don't say that Bai Anheng is a dignified man, even Han Xiao, a little woman, will also despise such behavior.

I just hope that this matter can turn evil into good fortune.

Not long after, there was news in front of me, and the second master who sent the supper had already received it, and said that things were almost busy, but I was afraid that there would be any urgent reports in the middle of the night, and it would be inconvenient to return to the back, so I took a break in front for the time being, so that the second grandmother did not have to worry, rest first, and don't be tired.

Hearing the words, Han Yu was a little relieved, and barely fell asleep, and got up again before dawn the next morning.

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The Turks actually made a detour from the snow-capped mountains and entered Hexian. As soon as the news came out, several nearby cities sent their own military horses.

Early the next morning, there was news from Lanzhou and other places, each with more or less people and horses arriving to help defend against the enemy, but there was no movement in Dexian County.

On the third day, another village in Hexian County was attacked by the Turkic cavalry, but fortunately, several reinforcements had arrived, but they were barely able to stop it.

Until the fourth day, several battles gradually subsided, the Turks were blocked and retreated, and the sergeants led the troops to chase after them, and news came from the side of Dexian - Dexian sent only 500 military horses, and they had just hit the road on this day.

Eight days later, the inbound Turks were roughly wiped out, the prisoners were counted, and they were sent on the road.

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Another year of winter is approaching, when the autumn harvest is coming, the Dexian side did not hear any news of the Turkic knocking, but there was an accident in Hexian, after hearing about this, Mrs. Bai and Mrs. Han were worried, and they were waiting for their husbands to return from the next dynasty, so as to inquire in detail.

"If you want me to say, it is to be released, with the family background of people like ours, you don't have to go to such a bitter cold place, I really don't know what you thought at the beginning, let a good child go to that kind of place." Jiang sighed in his heart and complained to his master.

Han Pu reluctantly raised his hand and touched his beard: "This is also something I didn't expect, there is still a De County between Hexian and the Turks, how could I have thought that those Turkic barbarians would come from the snowy mountains?" Where have you heard of it in previous years? ”