Chapter 157: Ice Chisel

When the screams sounded next door, Zi Jia'er, who was kneeling on the edge of the kang, shook her hand, and the potatoes dressed in branches suddenly fell into the fire, splashing a large area of sparks.

She looked in horror in the direction where the voice came from, and whispered uneasily, "Sister Liu! ”

Liu Qian walked over in thick socks, sat down next to Zi Jia'er, and said nonchalantly: "Don't be afraid, there are a lot of tooth soldiers in the room next door." Let's talk ......... again."

She patted the dagger on her waist and said, "We still have this!" ”

The panic in Zi Jia'er's heart was slightly reduced, and she asked in a low voice, "Does Lord Chen often beat people?" ”

Liu Qian tilted her head and thought for a while, shook her head and said, "Master doesn't like to fight people, he likes to fight!" ”

"Huh?" Zi Jia'er asked in surprise, "How can anyone like to fight?" ”

"It's fun to fight!" Liu Qian blinked her big eyes and pretended to say: "You are still young now, when you grow up a little more, I will teach you horseback riding and archery, and then we can go to war together!" ”

Zi Jia'er said weakly: "I don't like to fight. ”

"And what do you like?"

"I.... I like to dance .....", Zi Jia'er whispered, "Ah Da used to say that I would be the best dancer." ”

"Dancing....... Forehead......... ........ dancing", Liu Qian wrinkled her little face and thought for a while, and said, "Then I'll teach you to ride a horse and shoot arrows first, and then you can teach me to dance, okay?" ”

"Yes!" , Zi Jia'er nodded vigorously.

Liu Qian stretched out her fingers with a smile and said crisply: "Come, let's pull the hook, we won't change for a hundred years!" ”

After Yang Qiu returned to his mansion in Lian County, he immediately ordered the subordinates in the mansion to bring a few juniors back to Fuping City immediately.

"Don't, uncle!"

"Uncle, it's still snowing outside, even if you want to leave, you have to wait until the snow stops!"

"Fuck off," Yang Qiu scolded, "It's you bastards who will make me so passive now!" Go back to Fuping, you are not allowed to come back to Lian County without my order! ”

The young man who was beaten said angrily: "Uncle, I have been beaten like this, isn't it enough?" We didn't send someone to be an assassin! ”

"If you say no, it's not?" Yang Qiu said irritably: "If I didn't intercede, none of your heads could be saved!" ”

The young man shouted unconvinced: "Who dares to kill the people of our Yang family? ”

Yang Qiu really wanted to smack his own big mouths, he said last time that he wanted to drive these guys back, but he let them stay in a daze, this time he can't make such a mistake! He no longer paid attention to the noise of several nephews, and directly ordered the subordinates to forcibly escort people out.

Even so, he was still a little uneasy in his heart. Is it really possible to pass such a big thing as the assassination of the king so lightly? Although there are hundreds of people in his house, this is really not enough to see. After Yang Qiu became the secretary of the military department, he also placed a lot of people in the army, especially in the forbidden army guarding Lian County, and stuffed a lot of relatives and henchmen into it.

He asked himself, wouldn't the Lord Sanhedrin think he had premeditated?

After a few days of fear, Xu Wen, the newly appointed squire of the military department, handed over a list of military attachés to be transferred. Yang Qiu couldn't have a good face towards Xu Wen, who was obviously here to decentralize, and opened the list with a dark face, his face became even darker, and he said angrily: "What does this mean? ”

Xu Wen arched his hand and said without humility or arrogance: "Back to Yang Shangshu's words, this is a document to clean up the unqualified people in the army, as well as the transfer of some military attaches to the local government. ”

Yang Qiu was even more angry, he slapped the table hard, and shouted, "Then why did you transfer all my people to Shuofang and Wuyuan?" ”

Xu Wen turned a blind eye to his anger and said calmly: "Yang Shangshu's words, please forgive me for not understanding, Shuofang County and Wuyuan County are also territories under the rule of the lord, and it is very common for officers and soldiers to move back and forth, what is so strange?" ”

Yang Qiu stared at Xu Wen deadly, "I won't sign this document!" ”

Xu Wen sighed, and then shouted at the soldiers who were probing their brains on the side, "What are you doing?" Are you trying to spy on the military? ”

The soldiers originally heard Yang Qiu's roar in the hall, so they came to find out, but when they heard Xu Wen's reprimand, they hurriedly retreated. Just kidding, the Liangzhou Army, which basically inherited the Han military system, has strict military discipline, and it doesn't matter if you are lazy or play some tricks, but if you really violate the ban, you will really be killed.

Now that they are on duty, they can not only get a salary, but also a little subsidy, and their lives are much better than before. After putting the yamen every day, I can go back and hold my mother-in-law to roll the sheets, and the small days are delicious, but I don't want to give my life away because of curiosity.

When the soldiers outside were far away, Xu Wen said to Yang Qiu, who had a black face: "Yang Shangshu, who was appointed as a squire in the military department, is in charge of the assessment and selection of military attaches in various places, and has the right to write to the subordinate provinces, and when the time comes, the official document will be issued to all troops." If there is no signature of the military department on it, I am afraid that it will cause some bad discussions. ”

"You dare!"

Xu Wen said calmly: "I just said a fact, the documents are placed here, and someone will come to pick them up in the afternoon." There are some other things in the agency, and I will retire in the future. ”

With that, he took two steps backwards and turned to leave. Yang Qiu grabbed the official document on the table, wanted to tear it to shreds, thought about it again, but put it down again, and then signed his name on the back, and stamped the seal of the military department.

He also calmed down at this time, and he was still a little glad in his heart: the great disaster has passed like this, fortunately, fortunately! Although he was deprived of the right to select, transfer and evaluate military attachés, he was still able to mobilize troops and horses everywhere as long as there was a suitable reason.

Yang Qiu comforted himself and said: Anyway, those armies were not their own, and it would be nothing to let them out now....... That's weird!

Humans always want more, and it's always easy to put other people's things in your own pocket, but it's uncomfortable to spit out what you eat. Originally, Chen Cheng appointed Lu Fang as the governor of the Northland, which was an exchange of interests with him, and this was the price for him to be the secretary of the military department. It's good now, the fat has been cut back again, you say this is infuriating?

After returning to the mansion, the more Yang Qiu thought about it, the more unwilling he felt, and turned back and forth in the lobby a few times, shouting: "Don't do it, this military department Shangshu Naigong is gone, let's go back to Fuping!" ”

A concubine had just walked up to the hall, and when she heard Yang Qiu say this, she said happily: "Master, do you really want to go back to Fuping?" I don't want to stay here for a long time, there are few people on the streets here, where is it compared to our Fuping! ”

Yang Qiu leaned into the chair, hugged the concubine in his arms, and leaned under the placket of his clothes, and said, "What do you know?" ”

"Ah, sir, you hurt me!"

"Hmph," Yang Qiu started to do things on the chair, "Go back to Fuping and be laughed at by Cheng Yi and them?" I'm not going back! ”

It snowed heavily for several days, and every morning when I woke up, I could see the ice ridges under the eaves when I opened the door. The snow on the ground was several feet thick, and the water tank in the yard was frozen tightly. Liu Qian smashed the ground several times with a stone, and the ice only cracked a few cracks, and it was not smashed through.

On this day, the weather finally cleared. Chen Cheng got up in the morning, and after checking the "Theory of Probability" several times, he felt that there was no problem, so he finally became free. He pushed open the door, walked along the eaves to the room where Liu Qian lived, knocked on the door, and asked, "Are you up?" Let's go to the river today, would you like to come along? ”

"Squeak", the door was opened a little bit, Liu Qian poked her little head out from behind the door, and shouted: "Ah, are you going to play by the river today?" Then wait for me! ”

The door was slammed shut again, and another little girl's voice came from inside, "But I don't know how to ride a horse!" ”

"It doesn't matter, let's go in a carriage!"

Without letting Chen Cheng wait an hour or two, the two little girls inside quickly put on thick clothes, put on hot hats that had been baked, and then walked out of the room. Chen Cheng is still very satisfied with this.

This time I went out, not on a whim of Chen Cheng, but after discussing it with Xu Chao a long time ago. In the past, when Xu Chao was in Lingzhou, every winter after the Yellow River froze, he would take people to smash a big hole in the ice, and then catch some fish.

In the feudal era, productivity was very low, and in addition to farming, annual autumn hunting, as well as autumn and winter fishing, were important means of supplementing food. Although Lian County is far away from the Yellow River, there is a Yellow River diversion channel used for irrigation outside the south gate. Before the winter, Xu Chao led people to finally clean it up, and at this time it was already frozen.

The river was not far from Lian County, and it took less than half an hour to get out of the south gate, and hundreds of people from Hula stopped their horses and carts on the edge of the river. Chen Cheng looked at the ice surface that was several feet wide, and said to Xu Chao, whose nose was red from the cold: "One of the most correct things I did this year was to let Xu Shangshu take the errand of the Ministry of Industry. ”

He pointed to the frozen river and said, "If you don't have a foot, where would you see such a scene?" With this river, next year's harvest is guaranteed! ”

Xu Chao saw that Chen Cheng was very interested, and took the opportunity to say: "If you can control the upper and lower banks of the Yellow River, the east and west banks can be like here!" ”

Chen Cheng's hand was still in mid-air, and when he heard this, his arm froze, he shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "Xu Shangshu, just spare me." I don't have enough money to spend. Every time I eat, I only have one vegetable and one vegetable, and the money I save is subsidized to the income of officials at all levels. If I could skip a meal, I would have saved even the last bit of food. My little money is really not enough to control the Yellow River! ”

Not far away, two little girls were wrapped like balls. Zi Jia'er leaned on Liu Qian's side and whispered, "Who is that person?" He wasn't even afraid of Master Chen! ”

"That's Xu Shangshu from the household department."

Liu Qian stretched out her hand, broke off a piece of frozen soil, and threw it on the ice. There was a "crackling" sound, and the dirt smashed on the ice, scattering into small albeit fast.

Xu Chao glanced at it, and then said to Chen Cheng: "Lord, please step back a little, the minister is going to lead someone to dig ice and fish!" ”