Looking at Chen Xu's depressed appearance, there was spring water rippling in her soft cheeks and crimson eyes, she held Chen Xu's face with both hands, stroked his hair, and then gently leaned her head on the man's chest, "Chen Lang, can you sleep softly at night?" ”

Chen Xu hugged the woman's soft body, felt that his emotions were slowly calming down, lowered his head and kissed the woman's face and said: "Don't comfort me like this, wait for the night of the candles in the cave room, we will officially become husband and wife, we should do the gift of husband and wife, and we must work hard to make a baby when the time comes!" ”

"Puff~" Shui Qing, who has always been familiar with Chen Xu's speaking style, still couldn't help but cover his mouth and smile, and his full chest shook, and he couldn't help but touch a few more handfuls of his hands when he saw it, and then he stood up and prepared to go out with satisfaction, and suddenly remembered another thing, and quickly turned out a small suede bag in the box he brought back and handed it to Shui Qingrou.

"Gentle, I made you a gift in Xianyang, see if you like it or not!"

"Thank you Chen Lang!" Although Shui Qingrou didn't know what was inside, she still opened it after taking it with a deep blessing, and when she saw her white jade flawless face in the mirror, she was instantly stunned, and her small mouth opened slightly and couldn't close it anymore.

"What are you yelling about?"

Chen Xu walked out of the living room while tidying up his clothes, and saw Niu Dashi with chicken feathers and blood stains on his body, standing at the door with a rattan basket in his hand, the rattan basket contained many hairy chicken wings and chicken feet, and blood was dripping down drop by drop, and the two dogs were attracted to it, and they were whimpering around the rattan basket.

"Hey, where did you get these?" Chen Xu was curious.

"Hehe, I went to the village and said that you want to eat chicken feet and wings, everyone was very happy to kill the chickens, and the chicken feet and wings of the whole village are here!" Niu Dashi laughed a few times.

Chen Xu's face turned black in an instant, but at the same time, he was a little surprised, this product seems to have become much smarter after being a lidian for almost a year, and he can find someone else to carry the black pot, which is not bad.

In addition to the accompanying guards, helpers, cooks and maids, Hou Ye made delicious various ingredients and pots and pans specially pulled a large cart, as for the delicacies of the mountains and seas rewarded by the emperor, there were several carts, and most of them were left after eating all the way, which was enough to consume at home during this time.

As a Hou Ye, there is no need to do this kind of thing by himself, Chen Xu called a few helpers and kitchen workers over, and ordered to take these chicken wings and chicken legs to be processed, and then go to the kitchen to marinate them.

In the following days, Chen Xu could say that he was very free.

Without the intrigues above the court, the trivial matters of the Academy of Sciences, and the messy socializing, returning to this most familiar mountain village, the mountains and rivers are beautiful and peaceful, Chen Xu seems to have returned to the small mountain village of his childhood, and his mood is completely relaxed.

During the day, I either took Xing'er, Yu Ji and two dogs around the village, or looked for all kinds of delicious and tender wild vegetables at the foot of the ditch mountain by the river, braised bacon, dumplings, spring rolls, pancakes and fruits, and meat buns.

When I was resting, I accompanied my mother to chat softly with Shui, and also helped to grow vegetables, and built a wooden frame for the melons and fruits in the vegetable garden behind the house.

A few guards have nothing to do, every day carrying knives, guns, bows and arrows running all over the mountains, now in spring, this is the time when wild animals are most active, so they can often hunt mountain muntjac and hares, and even one day they brought back a big wild boar, and the whole village followed the tooth sacrifice.

In order to satisfy Xing'er's desire to eat sweet and sour pork ribs, Chen Xu also risked his life to cut out the beehives in the two beehives hanging at the back of the house, squeezed several jars of honey, and a meal of sweet and sour pork ribs also completely turned the accompanying servants and maids into a fascination, and several guards screamed every day at dawn to chase the traces of wild boars.

The scale of the tea tree garden has expanded a lot, with the three ancient tea trees as the center, the whole hillside has now been developed by the villagers, the terraces have been built with stones, and dozens of acres of tea seedlings have been transplanted, now more than a year has passed, the tea trees are verdant, the camellia is fragrant, and the whole hillside can smell the charming fragrance of camellia.

Tea picking, roasting tea, catching frogs, fishing, food, sneaking around the water and kissing softly, some people cook, some people do laundry, some people wait to wash and sleep, when they are thirsty, some people hand water, when they are tired, some people beat their legs, some people undress when they are sleepy, and some people wash their faces when they wake up.

Chen Xu has completely abandoned Xianyang and the emperor, and he wants to live happily until he dies of old age in the decaying aristocratic life.

And when Chen Xu was happy in the small mountain village, the first foreign war after the unification of the Six Kingdoms by Great Qin was already on the way.

In early March, the Shangsi Festival.

Qin Shi Huang, who had completed the sacrifice at the Taimiao, issued an official order to attack Henan.

The offensive edict stamped with the Great Seal of the Emperor and the Ministry of War was urgently circulated to the northwest military camp with an expedited rate of 400 li, and from February onwards, new horse equipment, craftsmen, and doctors and nurses from the health center arrived in the northwest military camp one after another.

After the equipment arrived and began to be installed under the guidance of craftsmen, the 10,000 horsemen selected were almost crazy about this new equipment, and they were in full swing in several hidden military camps in the pass, bows and arrows, crossbows, sabers, spears, broadswords, maces, maces, up to the generals and captains, down to the commanders and ordinary soldiers, all of which were completely enthusiastic.

From top to bottom, it was unanimously agreed that with such good equipment as saddles and stirrups, sharp sabers and all kinds of thick, long and large heavy weapons, plus the invincible strong bows and crossbows of Great Qin, if these wild Huns could not be swept out of Henan this time, then these 10,000 horsemen up to the general Li Xin and down to the horsemen could wipe their necks and die.

On March 9, the edict arrived in Yunzhong County, and the general Meng Tian, who commanded 300,000 Qin troops stationed in the northwest, issued an order as soon as possible, and 10,000 horsemen and soldiers were assembled in three ways.

Three days later, as a puff of wolf smoke rose from the Great Wall beacon tower at the junction of the clouds and Jiuyuan, a column of blue-black wolf smoke soared into the sky, and the beacon tower that stood on the highest level of the mountains and mountains was also ignited in an instant, and a stream of wolf smoke rose, and within an hour it had been transmitted to Beidi County, and all the generals guarding the pass along the way had already known that this was an order to attack, so they strictly restrained their soldiers to close the pass, and no one could pass, so as to prevent those who collaborated with the enemy from ventilating the Huns.

"Woo~Woo~~" With the long and low sound of the horn, the pass gate leading to the gate outside the pass slowly opened, and the 10,000 new horsemen who were divided into three roads were already waiting.

"Out, kill all the Huns!" The generals roared with their guns.

"Kill all the Huns, kill all the Huns, kill all the Huns~"

The soldiers roared in unison, the iron hooves flew and the flags rolled, and the galloping dust of thousands of horses rolled up like a violent sandstorm, and they fought their way out of the pass amid the roar of the earth shaking the mountains.

Originally, according to the previous plan, these 10,000 horsemen must be gathered together, and the troops went out of Jiuyuan to attack Henan, but in fact, after witnessing the new horsemen equipment and weapons from the first day, Meng Tian has already canceled his plan, this kind of awesome equipment is concentrated with 10,000 people to attack at the same time, it is not that even the ants in Henan have to step on the extinction, so after conservative consideration, Meng Tian divided into three roads according to the difference in the transportation time of the horsemen's equipment and the difference in the training time.

(Note: The Qin Dynasty did not have the term Hetao, and Henan was collectively referred to as the area south of the Yellow River, including the Hetao region.) ）

The first route was led by Li Xin, and his subordinates were 5,000 elite horsemen with the longest training time, and the troops went out of Shangjun as the main force to sweep Henan.

The second route was led by Su Jiao, the deputy general stationed in Yunzhong County, with 2,000 horses, and the soldiers were responsible for assisting in the defense.

The third route was commanded by Jiang Hu, with 3,000 horses, and troops went out of Jiuyuan to monitor the enemy in Hebei, so as to prevent the Xiongnu in Hebei from crossing the river to attack and harass, and at the same time, they could also sweep away the small Xiongnu along the river.

Originally, according to Meng Tian's idea, he wanted to hand over these 10,000 horsemen to Jiang Hu to lead, but he didn't expect the emperor to send Li Xin, the Marquis of Di Dao.

Meng Tian naturally knew what the emperor meant, but he was helpless, not to blame the emperor for not trusting him, but he already had 300,000 of the most fierce soldiers of Great Qin in his hands, and if the combat effectiveness of these 10,000 elite horse pawns was concentrated, it could be said that it would not be much worse than the 300,000 Qin army, if these two armies were in his hands, even his own brothers would not rest assured, if he wanted to rebel, no one in the entire Great Qin would be able to resist these two armies, so Li Xin came naturally.

And Li Xin kept asking Qin Shi Huang for this mission, not only to be ashamed, but also to know the emperor's worries, which just captured Qin Shi Huang's innermost thoughts.

But in any case, the command of the entire Northwest Army is still in the hands of Meng Tian, although Li Xin was appointed by the emperor as the leader of this 10,000 horses, but the final decision is still Meng Tian, Meng Tian naturally still has to get some benefits for his most trusted subordinates, Jiang Hu can't be the main general, but the emperor still appointed him as a deputy general, so he will definitely have a share of the credit for sweeping Henan this time.

And Comrade Li Shun, a reporter who held the warrant of the Marquis of Qinghe and the waist card of the Academy of Sciences, was a little depressed, originally he wanted to follow Li Xin's army to sweep Henan, but Meng Tian was very worried about such a powerless scribe who felt unstable on horseback, in the pursuit of the Huns, tens of thousands of people rushed to fight, bows and arrows flew everywhere, and he hung up accidentally, it didn't matter if Li Shun hung up, Meng Tian didn't know him anyway, but at the same time, the military officials who followed him repeatedly told him that this Li Shun was very important, The Marquis of Qinghe asked for good protection, hoping that nothing would go wrong.

If it is another Hou Ye or official, Meng Tian will not know how to bird for such an admonition, there are no eyes on the battlefield, who dares to pack a ticket without injury, not to mention where the army rushes to kill where there is still energy to protect others, and the reporter of this Academy of Sciences does not know what Meng Tian is here for, and asked Li Shun once, Li Shun said that it was specially arranged by the Hou Ye to record the battlefield situation with the army and write articles to promote the prestige of my Great Qin Army.

Isn't preaching military prestige like escorting prisoners and trophies back to Korea after winning a battle? Still want to write an article on yarn?

So Meng Tian was also very puzzled by this unreliable request of Qinghe Hou, but it was difficult to ignore it, so he sent Li Shun to Jiang Hu's account and followed Jiang Hu out of Jiuyuan County.

The wolf smoke rose up along the Jiuyuan, Yunzhong, Shangjun, and Beidi all the way, and spread thousands of miles away in less than four hours.

And in the low and majestic sound of the horn, the three iron horsemen who rushed out of the pass rushed into the grassland like a violent wind.