Chapter 598: The People's Heart Is Like Water
"Ninety-nine-eighty-one, eighty-nine-seventy-two......"
The immature children's voices echoed in the low and dark wings, covering the rain and snow falling outside the window.
Even the brazier, which had few pieces of charcoal, seemed to be encouraged by this milky voice, and it was hard to cheer up, and squeezed out some warmth out of thin air.
Qin Niang sat on a low pier by the window, serving the needlework in her hands, and from time to time she cast encouraging glances at her son.
It's just that behind that warm and sweet smile, there is always a bit of lingering haze.
At this moment, I heard the creaking of the courtyard door outside, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps.
"Qin Niang, Qin Niang! It's amazing! ”
As the footsteps approached quickly, the high-pitched voice also came in through the crack in the window, and it exploded a spirit like thunder.
At this time, what else can make Mrs. Zhang so out of shape?
Could it be ......
General Sun has already suffered misfortune?!
Thinking of this possibility, the blood color on Qin Niang's face, which was barely maintained, was also dispersed in an instant.
It's no wonder that she thinks about it too much, since the rumors that the officers and soldiers were trapped in the mountains and the whole army was annihilated by the rain and snow two days ago, it has been like dog pee moss, stubble after stubble.
No matter how much you don't want to believe it, you can't stand the rumors that are more and more true again and again!
Bang~
At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and a middle-aged woman wearing a hat broke in from the outside, and shouted with joy: "The official army has won a great victory, I heard that even the ancestral grave of the mountain barbarian has been dug up!" ”
When the woman said this, she suddenly saw Qin Niang sitting back on the low mound slowly, holding the show bandage and not saying a word.
The woman immediately thought about it, closed the door with her backhand, and stepped forward to persuade her earnestly: "I know that you complain that he has ruined your chastity—but at least they didn't force us, did they?" Besides, if it weren't for the name of General Sun, Qi'er would have ...... early."
She originally wanted to take her son as an example, but she was afraid that Qin Niang would be arrogant, so she was more and more unwilling to fight for the family.
So he hurriedly changed his words and said: "Qi'er and our big guys, I don't know what it is like to be bullied by those mud-legged people!" ”
As she spoke, she snatched the showy bandage and threw it into the dustpan on the side, urging without a mouth: "Hurry up and pack up, change into decent clothes and go to the old mansion to wait, at this juncture, you must not throw your face at the general!" ”
In fact, Qin Niang was just a little prostrated for a while under great sorrow and joy, but she was not indifferent to the news - after all, Sun Shaozong actually knew better than the Zhang family what it meant to the current Li family.
At this time, he was urged by Zhang's even pushing and shoving, so he also opened the wardrobe half-pushed and half-pushed, and rummaged through it to find suitable clothes.
I chose two coats that would suit the snowy city, and I was about to take off my old jacket and put them on.
Who knew that the Zhang family seemed to have discovered something extraordinary, and was fussing and picking on the side: "My sister's little clothes are also pure, how can I line General Shangsun's great victory?" Wait, I'll go back to the house and get a little coat for you!" ”
After speaking, she couldn't refuse to be refused, so she hurriedly walked out of the West Chamber.
What does the small clothes on his body have to do with the great victory of the officers and soldiers?
Qin Niang sighed helplessly, spread out the coat she was going to change on the bed, and when she turned around, she saw that her son was full of curiosity, and countless shames surged in her heart at the moment.
In front of his son, he dressed up for the wild man......
"Sister, look at what this is!"
At this moment, Zhang's rushed in again, and lifted two bright red fabrics to Qin Niang like a treasure.
"This is my entrustment, bought back from the provincial capital, I heard that it is a popular item for the nobles in Beijing, you wear it, and you can please General Sun."
It turned out to be this thing......
Seeing that she was happy, she shook off the two thin little clothes, but Qin Niang's heart became more and more unpleasant.
Because of the learning of writing since childhood, the Changyang people in the Qingniang Suri collected some travelogues and biographies to pass the leisure time, so they recognized this thing at a glance as called 'breastplate, thong', which is actually a popular object in the brothels of Qinglou in Beijing.
She was already a little ashamed, but she recognized the origin of this object at this time, but she was willing to wear it in front of her son.
But when she was about to refuse, how could she have the courage to embarrass her with the full expectations of the Zhang family?
That's it~
I came out of the Qinglou in the right way, and I didn't forget my original intention with this thing.
Qin Niang took the breastplate and thong with self-abandonment, but she didn't want to change it in front of her son, Mrs. Yang Li took her son to the hall and talked to the eldest young master, so she changed her clothes humiliatingly and shamefully.
A quarter of an hour later.
Listening to the endless cheers from the street, she subconsciously tightened the royal blue cloak on her body, and then went the opposite way and got into a remote alley.
Although there are several layers on her body, the experience of the breastplate and thong that do not fit very well, and the friction with her own flesh and skin, always makes her feel a sense of shame that she does not cover her body.
But even if he avoided the right path, the laughter and laughter kept coming into his ears.
And just half a day ago, the streets and alleys were still accusing the officers and soldiers of not making great achievements, so as to lose their teachers and humiliate the country.
Alas~
Thinking of this, Qin Niang couldn't help but sigh faintly: But I didn't know that this people's heart was repeated, and it would be staged in Wuxi City a few times.
I don't know that this faint sigh is a prophecy!
At the end of November of the 11th year of Guangde, the news that Zutinahlan was destroyed by Zuting, and more than half of the guards stationed by various tribes were killed and wounded, spread like a plague to every village in the mountains.
Panic, confusion, anger!
The power condensed by this kind of mixed emotions soon brought hundreds of villages in the Wuxi Valley together again.
December 18.
More than 26,000 people of the alliance of the five tribes met in front of the ruins of Nahran, falsely claiming to be an army of 80,000, and rushed to Wuxi City with great vigour.
December 23, evening.
The barbarian coalition army surrounded on all sides and blocked Wuxi City.
The people of the city were shocked three times a day.
December 24, morning.
Trumpets and drums shook the sky, and hundreds of letters of persuasion written in Chinese characters were fired into the city from all directions.
The letter wrote that the coalition forces had only come for revenge, and if they were willing to hand over the first evil within three days, they would not commit any crime against the common people; If you are obsessed and do not come to your senses, you have to protect the three-eyed demon, and tens of thousands of troops will trample this Wuxi City to the ground, and there will be no chickens and dogs!
Since then, there has been an undercurrent in the city.
December 26, afternoon.
The gentry Zhao family, Wu family, Liang family, etc., brought hundreds of people to the Xuanfu envoy Yamen to ask for their lives, urging the Xuanfu envoy Luo Zhen to take the common people as the priority and temporarily appease the barbarians......