Chapter 262: The Concubine Becomes a Holy Maiden
"Sir, why has the general stayed in there for so long? But discussing the art of tea? β
"Discuss the art of tea?" Lan Wan's heart jumped, and her face couldn't help but be a little hot!
What I did just now is 108,000 miles different from the tea art.
"Ahem, exactly. The princess didn't go to the bonfire, why did she come here? Lan Wan diverted Mayinur's attention.
"I just finished dancing, and I found that Mr. and the general were missing, and I was a little worried, so I came to look for you." Maynur explained. "Can General Ben still bully her!"
Lan Wan was talking to Mayinur, but Guan Ming opened the tent and walked out!
"General Guan, is Mayinur's dance just now good-looking?" As soon as Mayinur saw Guan Ming come out, he immediately pestered him enthusiastically.
"Hmm!" Guan Ming deliberately nodded in agreement, and secretly cast a concerned look at Lan Wan!
Lan Wan turned her head away, didn't pick up Guan Ming's gaze, and turned around and walked towards the venue where the bonfire was set off.
At the same time, he left a sour sentence: "The beautiful scenery of the good day, the beautiful woman is in the arms, the general should not live up to this good night!" β
"......" Guan Ming was stunned, and instantly felt that Mayinur, who was leaning against him, was a scourge.
"Sir, you wait for me, I'll go with you." As soon as Mayinur saw Lan Wan gone, she immediately abandoned the official general, and ran to Lan Wan's side like a fluttering butterfly.
Guan Ming was speechless, just thinking of Wan'er's unusual reaction just now, he couldn't help but smile with pleasure.
The originally quiet northwest camp suddenly burst into flames, and the raging fire was unstoppable, and in just an instant, all the tents where grain and grass were stored were burned! Lan Wan heard the panic and noise outside, and sat up from the bed at once, she got dressed, and hurried out with Granny Zhou!
Outside, there was a panic, and there were soldiers running back and forth with buckets everywhere.
The distant firelight imprinted into Lan Wan's eyes, and she knew that this was a deliberate arson case, and the grain and grass in the distance would not come back.
"Why do you still get in with people?" Lan Wan looked into the distance and couldn't help but ponder.
"Let's go over and see if we can find any clues." Lan Wan spoke, and then led Granny Zhou to the place where the fire started.
Guan Ming had already taken people to guard there, separated from a safe area, and inconsequential people were isolated.
"Idlers, etc., are not allowed to enter." As soon as Lan Wan walked over, she was stopped by the soldiers on the periphery reaching out!
"General Officer." Lan Wan shouted Guan Ming's name inside.
"Let him in." Guan Ming looked back and saw that it was Lan Wan, and immediately let people go!
As a result, as soon as Lan Wan walked in, an indignant voice immediately sounded outside.
"Why can he go in, I can't go in."
Lan Wan looked back and saw that it was Mayinur.
"Sir, it's me, tell them to let me in!" Seeing that Lan Wan was looking at herself, Mayinur immediately jumped up and shouted, attracting all of Lan Wan's eyes to herself.
Lan Wan walked to Guan Ming's side and was about to ask him to let people in, but Guan Ming immediately blocked all her retreats:
"Don't think about it! The grain and grass were burned, and she was also suspicious. β
As soon as Lan Wan heard Guan Ming's words, she knew that he was eating.
"What about me?" Lan Wan looked up at him, with a teasing smile in her eyebrows.
"Your suspicion of theft has already been convicted by me." There was a dancing flame in the official's eyes, and he said without blushing or panting.
"Stealing? When did I steal something from you? Lan Wan was surprised.
"The sin of stealing hearts." Guan Ming took advantage of everyone's inattention, grabbed Lan Wan's hand, and wrote a few words in her palm in a serious manner!
Lan Wan looked stunned and quickly withdrew her hand. couldn't help but scold him in his heart again: "Hooligans! β
Then, the two of them were separated by a distance, and only occasionally said a word or two!
At first, Guan Ming also asked people to carry water to try to put out the fire, but when he got to the back, he knew that he could not be rescued, so he simply stopped fighting the fire, but isolated the fire from the surrounding tents, so as not to burn to other places!
By the time the fire was extinguished, the grain and grass that Lan Wan had worked so hard to prepare had already been burned, leaving only a pile of ashes.
"General, all our grain and grass have been burned." Lin Xuan knelt in front of Guan Ming with a gray face, and replied with a sad expression!
"General, the soldiers have just eaten a full meal, how can they suffer in the future?" Lin Xuan tilted his head and said in a choked voice.
"How much food is left?" Guan Ming sighed heavily.
"Spare food can only last for three days, and then, there will be no more!" Lin Xuan replied sadly!
"After three days, let's arrange to go out on the jungle!" As if he couldn't do anything, the official sighed heavily.
He turned around, his body swayed, giving people a shaky feeling!
"General, you have to hold on!" Lan Wan saw the look that Guan Ming handed to her, and immediately understood, and hurriedly stepped forward to support him!
It seems that there are many things she doesn't know about this grain and grass being burned!
Lan Wan received Guan Ming's glance and was about to help him out of the crowd.
At this time, Mayinur broke through the soldiers' defenses and rushed over, her expression was eager, and she also carried a righteous and awe-inspiring momentum.
"General Guan, the grain and grass have been burned, Mayinur deeply regrets it, our Tatar grassland is still the same sentence, as long as you are willing to cooperate with us, there will be cattle, sheep and grain and grass."
As if she felt that she was a little bit of a robbery when she said such things at this time, she added:
"Mayinur admires the general's character, and he doesn't want to take advantage of the fire to rob."
Lan Wan helped Guan Ming and didn't speak, because as a civilian, it was really inappropriate for him to insert it into such a confidential matter now.
Guan Ming's misty eyes gradually cleared, and he left Lan Wan's body, his posture was upright, like an ancient pine.
"Mayinur, General Ben has told you many times that I already have a fiancΓ©e, and she is the one I have always wanted to marry. If you, the Tatar steppe, are willing to cooperate with the Xia, General Ben and the Xia Dynasty thank you on behalf of you. Guan Ming said in a deep voice.
Lan Wan knew that Guan Ming's words were not only for Mayinur, but also for himself standing beside him.
Lan Wan was moved for a while, disgusted with her little belly and chicken intestines, and regretted that she had a little temper with him in the past two days.
"General, Maynur really wants to help you. If you do not marry me, my father Khan will not agree to help you. Mayinur was also helpless, she wanted to help them, but she didn't have the ability to say how to move her father.
"Thank you, Maynur. You're a good girl and deserves to be liked by someone better. However, General Ben can't deceive your feelings and deceive you for the sake of food and grass, and deceive you for the rest of your life. It's a man who doesn't even bother to do such a thing, what are we soldiers for? It is to defend the homeland and the country. Could it be that we, iron-clad men, have to sacrifice a woman's happiness to defend our family and country? Soldiers, do you say you need it? β
Guan Ming turned around, his expression excited, and his tone was passionate to provoke the blood of the soldiers.
"No, you don't!" As soon as the official said this, the soldiers present instantly boiled, and shouted in unison, and the momentum of the rainbow seemed to overshadow the flames and rushed into the sky.
At this moment, in their eyes, what Mayinur did was simply an insult to them as soldiers.
Soldiers never need mercy, women who sacrifice themselves to defend their homes and countries.
Lan Wan watched Guan Ming completely reverse the situation in just a few words, and her heart became proud.
Behold, the man who shines as brightly as the sun is hers!
The man who spreads his wings and flies like an eagle is hers!
Lan Wan was excited, ignoring the suspicious gazes of others, and walked to Guan Ming's side!
followed by Guan Ming raised his fist and shouted loudly together:
"Zheng Zheng man, defend the family and the country! Not afraid of bloodshed! Not afraid of sacrifice! β
Under the beating flames, the hearts of all the soldiers were burned at this moment.
The voice resounded through the heavens and the earth, like the roar of a sleeping male lion about to wake up!
In the midst of extreme pain and disappointment, the soldiers of the Northwest Battalion, under the leadership of the chief general Guan Ming, regained their confidence and found their goal.
It was destined to be an uneven night, and it was destined that the situation would change on this night.
The news of the burning of grain and grass in the northwest camp did not need to be concealed, and the next day it had already spread around like a bird with wings.
Suddenly, the surrounding towns were panicked, and there were already signs of fleeing in all directions.
At this time, compared with the panic and uneasiness of the Northwest Battalion, in a town restaurant near the Northwest Battalion, General Xue, who was escorting grain and grass, and Zhou Qian, who came with him,
I am eating and drinking spicy food here with a relaxed face.
"General Xue, come, have another drink." Zhou Qian personally filled a cup for General Xue.
"Zhou Gongzi is polite!" General Xue took it with both hands, although his mouth was polite, but he didn't leave anything for drinking.
After another glass of wine, General Xue showed an ecstatic expression.
"It's really a good wine, soft in the mouth, crisp and sweet, mellow and plump, and long aftertaste!"
"I didn't expect General Xue to be such a person who understands wine." Zhou Qian smiled slightly, and started to fill him with a cup again.
"Where, where, it's just a rough man, who likes to drink a few sips of wine." General Xue pretended to be modest and waved his hand, but as soon as he finished speaking, he was down with a glass of wine.
After staying for a while, General Xue smiled, and approached Zhou Qian with a little flattering smile.
"Zhou Gongzi, the grain and grass in the northwest have been burned, and it has been spread all over this morning, but I don't know the silver, when will you give it to me?"
Although General Xue had a humble smile on his face, when he mentioned silver, he would not be soft at all.
After all, silver is the foundation of a family, and no one will have too much, right?
"Shhh, General Xue, you can't talk nonsense about this kind of thing." Zhou Qian also leaned forward and whispered.
"Hehe, I know, it's just that when the time comes, Guan Ming will check up, and it will inevitably hit my head, Zhou Gongzi won't give some money and run away, why is my mouth closed tightly? General Xue is also an old and cunning person.
Although his words sounded good, the meaning of the threat was still easy to understand.
"Rest assured, the silver will be given to you. Guan Ming can't look at your head. Zhou Qian patted General Xue's shoulder, took out a small box from his sleeve, and pushed it in front of him.
"Here's 200,000 taels, you shut your mouth for me." Zhou Qian warned.
"Zhou Gongzi, you can rest assured that I will do things, as long as the money is in place, my mouth will not be opened." General Xue took the silver and opened his mouth to promise.
"If someone asks, you know what to say, right?" Zhou Qian pulled up and said softly.
"I just said that the waist card was lost. I don't know anything else. General Xue nodded, revealing that only the two of them understood the meaning.
The two talked for a while, and after coming out of the restaurant, they parted ways directly!
Northwest grain and grass, whether it has been burned or not, Lan Wan looked at the fat meat in front of her that was as wide as two fingers, and instantly understood!
"Guan Ming, don't you want to explain to me what's going on?" Lan Wan looked at this fatty meat, and was in no mood to eat.