The weather is getting cooler.

As soon as we enter September, except for the midday hour, it is refreshing from morning to night.

After a heavy rain, the last trace of heat left in the air was removed.

However, the people in Kaifeng City did not feel happy because of the coolness.

It is said that Gao Jie intends to lead his troops to attack Kaifeng, and if this is the case, then the good days that have just passed a few days will come to an end.

In troubled times, life is as cheap as a dog, Kaifeng is located in the heart of the Central Plains, no matter who comes, they will want to attack.

The Ming army, the Shun army, the Tartars, you sing and I will appear, once the city is broken, it is a catastrophe, and it is not the people who suffer?

thought that Tartar would be able to gain a firm foothold in Kaifeng, but who would have thought that Gao Jie would have the idea of Kaifeng again.

When is this kind of precarious day a head?

Zheng Kui looked up at the sky, and wanted to question God, but in the end, he sighed and walked into the tofu shop with his hands behind his back.

In the shop, her daughter Zheng Qiucai was cutting the tofu ordered by the brine into pieces, and when she saw Zheng Kui coming in, she shouted sweetly: "Dad!" ”

Zheng Kui's heart couldn't help but warm, and he said with a smile: "What's the matter, the tofu is all cut?" ”

Although Zheng Qiucai is only fifteen years old this year, he has learned to make tofu with Zheng Kui since he was a child, and has mastered all the techniques of making tofu.

Because Zheng Qiucai is beautiful, there is an endless stream of matchmakers who come to the Zheng family to propose marriage, and they are about to break the threshold of the Zheng family's tofu shop.

But Zheng Kui refused the marriage without exception. If nothing else, I just can't bear my daughter.

His wife died in childbirth when she gave birth to Zheng Qiucai, leaving Zheng Kui and Zheng Qiucai as their father and daughter.

Zheng Kui is both a father and a mother, relying on a tofu shop to pull Zheng Qiucai up, and the relationship between father and daughter is very good.

At the thought that the daughter he raised was going to marry into someone else's family and be possessed by a strange man, Zheng Kui's heart hurt as much as being pricked with a small needle.

Although he knew that sooner or later there would be a day when a man would marry a woman and a woman would get married, Zheng Kui still hoped that this day would come later.

"Dad, have a cup of tea!"

Zheng Qiucai poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to Zheng Kui with both hands.

Zheng Kui took the teacup and poured it down, only to feel that his throat was extraordinarily warm.

What a good daughter!

"Autumn color, you can rest too. Don't stare in the shop, come on! ”

Zheng Kui's big calloused hand gently stroked Zheng Qiucai's delicate cheeks and pulled the hair of her sideburns for her.

"Dad, it's okay, I'm not tired!"

Zheng Qiucai smiled, as sweet as a hibiscus out of the water.

It's just that the scene of the father's love and daughter's filial piety didn't last long before it was interrupted by a shout.

"Uncle Zheng is not good, the mountain harrier is really coming to open the seal, Lord Fuzun has issued an order, and the whole city will be under martial law from now on!"

Zheng Kui turned his head to look and saw that the person who came was He Chun, the son of the neighbor He family, and hurriedly took a few steps forward and asked, "Where did you get the news, is it accurate?" ”

"Oh, Uncle Zheng, my cousin is on an errand in the yamen, and this news can't be granted."

He Chun swallowed a mouthful of spit, took a step and walked to the shop.

Zheng Kui also walked in and called Zheng Qiucai to pour He Chun a cup of tea.

He Chun saw Zheng Qiucai say hello and did not shy away from it.

He grew up with Zheng Qiucai as a child, and treated the little sister of the Zheng family as his own sister, and he had no scruples about male and female defense.

Zheng Qiucai poured a cup of tea and handed it to He Chun, He Chun raised his neck and drank it all, feeling a little unpleasant, and said with a smile: "Good sister, let's have another cup." ”

Zheng Qiucai glanced at him and said, "It's not right." ”

Zheng Kui also coughed and said, "Looking at your kid's anxious appearance, this matter shouldn't be fake." It's just that why did the mountain harrier suddenly come to open the seal? ”

He Chun said with a straight face: "It's not because the Tartar soldiers have been transferred to the west, and Henan is empty." I heard that the fighting in Taiyuan was very fierce, and the defenders swore not to surrender, which made the people in the city suffer. ”

Zheng Kui's face also became gloomy.

What He Chun said still makes some sense. Now there is not a single Eight Banners soldier in the whole of Henan, that is, Zu Kefa and others are stationed with the green battalion soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is very limited.

At this time, if Gao Jie leads the troops to attack, he can indeed take advantage of it.

"Uncle Zheng, I came this time to tell you, be careful these days, don't do business first, close the door, and don't open the door if anyone comes."

Of course, Zheng Kui understood what He Chun meant. Kaifeng is a big city, and it will definitely not be able to be defended by relying only on the defenders in the city.

If Gao Jie really led the troops to attack the city, the Tartars would definitely capture strong men to the head of the city to help defend the city.

It is said that it is to catch strong men, but it doesn't matter how many Tartars are really caught, from teenage dolls to sixty-year-old men, they all have to follow.

These strong men are estimated to not even be able to get a piece of cotton armor, and they are running around the city like locusts and arrows, transporting the equipment to defend the city, and they are likely to lose their lives in confusion.

Zheng Kui is nearly fifty years old, and his legs and feet are not very neat, if he is arrested to be a strong man, I am afraid that there will be more luck than luck.

It's just that he hasn't opened the door for business for several days, what do his father and daughter eat and drink?

Small households, small transactions, simply can't save much silver.

Even if you want to sit and eat, you can't do it.

Seeing Zheng Kui's embarrassed face, He Chun probably understood what he was thinking, gritted his teeth and said, "Uncle Zheng, if this is not the case, I will tell my father to lend you some food first, and when the mountain harrier retreats, you will pay it back slowly." ”

Although the He family is not a big family, it is still better than the Zheng family. The two families are old acquaintances again, and the Zheng family can't help when they encounter difficulties.

Zheng Kui was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly nodded: "Medium!" ”

"Hmm, then I won't bother for now, Uncle Zheng, you are also ready to prepare, prepare more firewood, rice, oil and salt, this battle may not last long."

After He Chun finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Zheng Kui hesitated for a moment, but still shouted, "Boy of the He family, you should also be careful." ”

He Chun turned his head and smiled: "Uncle Zheng, don't worry, my mother asked a Taoist priest to show me a face, and my life is hard." ”

With that, he walked out of the shop in three or two steps, and disappeared into the alley in a blink of an eye.

"This He kid is really good."

Zheng Kui walked to Zheng Qiucai's side, took her hands and said, "Do you want to marry into any family?" ”

Zheng Qiucai was startled, pulled out his hand, and said in a panic: "Dad, what are you talking about, I treat Brother He as my own brother." ”

Zheng Kui sighed in his heart.

How could he be willing to marry his daughter off so early. If it was a peaceful year, he would like to keep his daughter by his side all the time. But now it's a troubled time, and his old bones may be confessed one day. If his daughter can marry a good family, he will be more down-to-earth.

This He family kid was grown up by him, he is loyal and honest, and he is much stronger than those gentlemen.

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