July is a season of purple and red, but unfortunately such a scene can only be seen in the picturesque Jiangnan.

Along the way, from the east of the river into the Yongxing military road boundary, all the faces are changing, and when you get here, it is basically the situation of thousands of miles of red land, and everything you see is shriveled and gray.

Baicaozhai is the jurisdiction of the Suide Army, and it is still a few days away from here to Funing County, but it is already considered a border, and it is an area where the young people and the Han people are mixed more obviously.

Occasionally, I saw some small red fruits on the trees, and I didn't know what they were, but I could see that soon a group of grizzled children went to eat the small fruits, looking hungry.

In the backward era, many things were unknown, and there were many flowers and fruits that could poison people. But that's the reality, and it happens all the time. Children in Tokyo are happy when they are poor, and even if they are not wealthy, their parents will tell them that they cannot eat the fruits in the wild. But this is a poor and bitter border, and any theory here is a hooligan.

Thanks to the abundant rain in summer, the surrounding forage of Baicaozhai is quite sufficient this year, so in this sparsely populated ancient world, there are now many wild animals here, and deadly or non-deadly species can be seen everywhere. They may be food for humans, but many times humans are their food.

There was a girl of the same age as Erya who was herding pigs, and the pigs were very stupid, and no matter what danger there was, despite being pulled by ropes, the two little pigs still had to look for pigweed to eat. The origin of the word "pig teammate" is the pig itself, and the pig herding girl has already spotted the danger in the grass and pulled the piglet to run wildly. However, when one of the piglets fled for his life, he stopped to eat a fat pigweed.

The pull force overturned the little girl, and the other piggy who fled for his life tripped over the girl's body.

There was no real tragedy when the three lost wolves chased after them, because the passing Zhan hero "defeated" the wolf.

The little girl with obvious party blood was very afraid of the forbidden army, and she looked frightened and resigned, and gave Zhanzhao a fruit that she couldn't call out her scientific name, which was considered a protection fee. Then the girl ran away with the little pig in a panic, and after running two steps, thinking that it was wrong, the little girl turned back again, gave Zhanzhao another fruit, and carried the carcass of a bloody wolf with her small body and ran.

Holding the two fruits that I don't know if they will eat the dead, Zhan Zhao and Mu Guiying looked at each other.

Dayan is full of worries, which shows that the government affairs of the Suide Army are very bad. As the backing of Funing County, if the morale of the Suide army and the people is unstable, it will bring great hidden dangers to Wang Yan's governance in Funing County.

The bald head of Quan Berlin didn't think so far, Guang Lao had a daughter who was the same age as the girl just now, so he began to complain about the mode, complaining that Zhanzhao would not kill wolves.

Zhanzhao, who never worries about money, asks "why"?

Quan Berlin replied: If the wolf is killed with a knife on the head, then the intact wolf skin can be exchanged for more than seven days of food for the whole family in the bitter cold land of the northwest. But you can't show your heroic knife skills, you have to cut a wolf with a few knives, and the wolf skin can't be sold, so they can only eat a few meals of wolf meat.

Zhanzhao was speechless about this, and for the first time since his debut, he was told that he couldn't do swordsmanship. It's a pity that Quan Berlin is not his subordinate, so Lao Quan is not afraid of Zhanzhao. Because Da Yan transferred the whole of Berlin from the military again, after arriving in Funing County, the all-bald head will be the "public security captain" of the old business, which can be regarded as a local public service establishment.

Since the county system was abolished and the Funing Army was established, in fact, the whole of Berlin did not need to be responsible for public security, and the army would take over. But in the eyes of the big boy, the work of the whole Berlin will be more important, almost the work of the district household registration police, which needs to visit and go deep into the people in order to win the hearts of the people.

Continue along the Baicaozhai River to the north, and arrive at Suide City at dusk the next day. It was a state-level city, and its walls were old and in disrepair, scars from repeated wars.

Originally, I didn't plan to stay here, but I saw from afar that the city gate of the Suide army was wide open, and countless forbidden troops became honor guards and went out of the city to set up a formation to greet them.

That's right, since this is the case, we have to go up and go through the process, because in the future, we will have to form a joint defense with these people and work together for a long time. There are so many places to rely on them right now.

The other party took the lead of a military general riding on the back of a famous horse with a majestic demeanor, and the majestic general posture of the town.

"See Cao Shuai!"

When they arrived nearby, Mu Guiying Zhanzhao and others, but all the military personnel dismounted and knelt down to meet with a military salute.

"Hahaha, get up, don't be polite if it's your own family." Cao Shuai smiled and received the salute before he dismounted, and hugged his fist slightly at Wang Yan: "Little Lord Wang is weak, and it has been hard to sleep in the open all the way. ”

This guy is also a member of the queen's family, he is Cao Ji's cousin, and his military rank is also very high, and he is currently in charge of the Suide Army.

The shouting is shouting "Suide Army", but in fact, in the Privy Council archives, the establishment level of the Suide Army is much higher than that of the Funing Army, which is a compartment establishment. Of course, the number of specific posts is really only known to this guy named Cao Shouyi.

The pot-bellied Cao Shouyi was politely respected, but Wang Yan continued to look at the scenery on the horse as if he hadn't heard it, Mu Guiying and Zhanzhao and others had a headache, and the scene became embarrassing.

There was a military and strategic figure beside Cao Shouyi who looked like a demon, and he underestimated two sentences in Cao Dashuai's ear.

Cao Dashuai looked very disgusted and reluctant at this time, and clenched his fists again and said in a low voice: "I have seen Xiao Wang Yanei Yanei, please Yanei enter the city with the general, and have prepared a banquet to wash the dust in Yanei." ”

Damn, this is pretty much the same, you have to look like a gentleman. Wang Yan dismounted and changed his smiling face, politely greeted Cao Shouyi, and entered the city together.

The momentum cannot be lost, and it is a little shabby for him to call Xiao Wang, because regardless of the scale or importance, the Suide Army is much heavier than Funing County. Therefore, at this time, it is an honorific title to be called Yanei, one is to represent one's own people, and the second and most important intention is to call "Yanei", which means that Cao Shuai is not interacting with the consul of Funing County, but getting along with the son of the "Secretary General of the Military Commission". There is a fundamental difference in this. Hey......

Entering Suide City and walking all the way to the restaurant, even though Wang Yan had already been mentally prepared, he still felt very uneasy. The degree of people's livelihood here is too obvious compared to the bustling capital.

While walking, Cao Shouyi secretly looked at this great Song prodigy who was a smash hit a while ago, he was still a big child, and he could be regarded as a handsome embryo, but the strange thing was that this young man did not have even a little bit of youthfulness that belonged to a child. This kind of temperament, Cao Shuai himself has no adjectives.

The biggest problem is that in the northwest, an area where the news is extremely closed, everyone is now disagreeing, and a few people say that this is the beginning of Wang Yan's rise, and it is a clear and depreciated real rise. And most people said that this was for the sake of his father Wang Anshi's face, and after the punishment was reduced, it was already the most severe punishment in the officialdom, and this prodigy had been abolished.

For Cao Shouyi, how to interpret the current news will determine the attitude of the Suide Army towards the Funing Army in the future.

The most nonsense is that at this time, Cao Shouyi received three letters, and all of them were written by the Cao family.

One is a letter from the queen mother of the palace. One is a letter from my uncle Cao Ji. Another letter is from the uncle of Cao Tong, a master in the world of Xianyun Yehe.

These three guys are all the most descendant of the Cao family, and they are a family. But all three of them expressed different attitudes in their letters. The queen didn't directly interfere in politics, but just explained in cryptic words that this was a "love to get into trouble" offspring, and she wanted to watch him and not let him get into trouble, and not to accompany him to mess around.

Cao Ji's profiteer directly expressed, "This is a brother with a foreign surname, who eats a pot of rice, and listens to his good money."

Uncle Cao Tong said that sooner or later, this kid would become a scourge of the Daomen, and he had to pay more attention to him.

Theoretically, among the three children of the Cao family, the one with the largest proportion of speech is of course the queen mother. But Cao Shouyi is not a fool, there is a problem here is the letter of the queen's mother, theoretically there is already a suspicion of harem interference, in the case that she is a yellow-faced woman and has a bad relationship with the emperor, it is possible that this will rise to a more serious height in the future.

From the perspective of the philistine, the queen mother is also "the county official is not as good as the current management", a high-ranking woman It is difficult for her to understand what she says again, and if she does not continue to follow up after saying it, most of the people who believe in her will be pills.

And Cao Tong and Cao Ji are practical profiteers and extremists, and it is safe and practical to listen to the words of these two brothers. The problem is that the two brothers are also schizophrenic and say the opposite, and the two of them have been unaccustomed to each other since they were teenagers.

Thinking about gains and losses, when he came to a restaurant that was not bad in Suide City, Cao Shouyi changed his smile to welcome him and said: "The northwest is cold, and I am used to seeing the prosperous Yanai of Beijing, but it is also a general's mind, so I will invite you to come in and quench your thirst with a glass of water and wine." ”

The official was always not surprised, went upstairs and entered the private room, Cao Dashuai and Xiao Wang Yanei chatted about the "people's livelihood and well-being in the northwest" on the one hand, on the other hand, Cao Shouyi clapped his hands like a white-faced traitor, and someone pushed the door in and presented a plate of gold ingots, which was as much as a hundred taels, which was a big deal.

Cao Shuai said with a smile: "Let the Yanai see and laugh, just because Cao is a martial artist, he can't get on the stage, he can't get big benefits, and because the northwest has no oil and water in the four walls, and the gifts of hospitality are really not glamorous, so I will let the Yanai 'quench your thirst' with this little heart." ”

Da Yan thought about it, pointed at Lao Cao Haha and said with a smile: "I know that I like gold and need gold, which means that Cao Shuai is really sincere, so I will accept it." ”