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A maid, holding a bowl of delicate bird's nest porridge, lowered her head, and said helplessly to Zu Dale who was in a daze outside the window.

Zu Dale let out a long sigh, turned around, took the porridge from the maid's hand, and said in a low voice: "You go down, and wait for the old man to persuade her." ”

The maid retreated in response, and Zu Dale, with a dignified face, walked into Mrs. Wang's room with bird's nest soup.

He saw that Mrs. Wang, who had untidy sideburns, was sitting on the edge of the rosewood carved bed, sobbing non-stop, and the two maids were sitting diagonally next to her, and kept persuading her to take care of her body and stop crying.

Seeing that the head of the family, Zu Dale, came in, the two maids who were persuading Mrs. Wang hurriedly got up and blessed Zu Dale. Zu Dale waved his hand lightly, and the two maids understood and hurriedly exited the room.

"Madam, don't cry and break your body, and eat this porridge, it is important to cherish your body." Zu Dale persuaded softly, scooped up a little bird's nest with a spoon, and sent it to the mouth of Mrs. Wang, who was still crying.

"Smack!"

Mrs. Wang flicked her hand, Zu Dale couldn't dodge, the spoon in her hand was knocked to the ground by Mrs. Wang, and the snow-white bird's nest was sprinkled with stars on the ground.

"Ahem! Madam, why do you have to be so angry with the old man, do you think the old man is too good to live this day! Zu Dale looked gloomy, and put the bowl of porridge on the table next to the bed.

"How dare the concubine be angry with the master, the concubine is just thinking about Wan'er, and she is sad, don't say that this bird's nest soup is the dragon liver and phoenix marrow, and it is also difficult to swallow." Mrs. Wang's tears fell frequently.

"Alas, madam, Wan'er quietly left home that day to find that Li Xiao, which was really the old man's negligence. The old man thought that she would return soon, but who knew that she had a private relationship with that Li Xiao。。。。。。 Zu Dale shook his head and sighed, with a look of regret.

"It's not! My Wan'er is an innocent lady, how could she do such a thing that corrupts the court, it must be that bastard Li Xiao, who seduces Wan'er with clever words, and Wan'er is impulsive, so she followed this guy south to Shandong. Mrs. Wang interrupted Zu Dale's words, and then hid her face and cried: "Wan'er is gone, I don't know whether I live or die, and there is no news, I, who is a mother, every time I think of this, I feel that my liver and intestines are broken!" Wan'er, when you go, you took away the flesh of your mother's heart! ”

Mrs. Wang couldn't stop crying, which upset Zu Dale.

"Enough!"

Zu Dale snorted coldly, which made Mrs. Wang, who was still crying bitterly, stunned.

Zu Dale realized that he had lost his temper and was about to comfort him, but Mrs. Wang beat her legs and cried: "Master, I know that you are also tired of the concubine, although the concubine is the daughter of the Jinzhou Wang family, she can't climb your ancestral family, and she is really not worthy of the three generations of your ancestral family!" Now, sir, you don't have to be so temperamental, just let the concubine go to Shandong to find Wan'er, if Wan'er is lost, the concubine will not live, our mother and son, even if they go to the underworld, they will have a 。。。。。。 ”

Zu Dale's heart was churning with anger, and he paced back and forth in the room like a trapped leopard.

"Madam, why bother with such a toss! You don't know that now the Tartars are invading, from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan, in the entire western Liaoning region, there are a large number of Tartar soldiers and horses burning and looting everywhere, even if the old man lets you go to Shandong, I am afraid that you will fall into the hands of the Tartars just after you get out of the Jinzhou gate! ”

After Zu Dale said this, he sat down beside Mrs. Wang hatefully.

The Tatar invasion mentioned by Zu Dale was that at the end of January this year, Huang Taiji sent three generals, Beile Abatai, Gushan Ezhen Turge, and Baya Lazhang Jing Tan Tai, to command more than 10,000 troops and horses to invade western Liaoxi.

The Houjin army attacked extremely fiercely this time, attacking from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan, burning and looting all the way, and the villages and small dungeons in western Liaoxi were almost captured and lost. Although the Houjin army did not attack the Ming army's large Zhenchengzhou Fort, it was enough to silence the Ming army stationed there, guarding the city and not daring to move.

Mrs. Wang's crying stopped for a while, Zu Dale stroked her back, and said slowly: "Madam, Wan'er really followed that Li Xiao, but it may not be completely bad. This Li Xiao, the old man now seems to be a very knowledgeable and handsome man. ”

Mrs. Wang turned her head, with a pair of crying red eyes, staring at Zu Dale in surprise, as if she didn't know him.

Zu Dale's eyes were complicated, he looked out the window with his eyes, and continued: "Madam, think about it, the scale of this Tartar invasion is so large, if Li Xiao still clings to that small pier of no return, the old man dares to conclude that this person will die at the hands of the Tartars." Now Li Xiao went to Shandong a month ahead of schedule, but he just avoided today's disaster. Although he left a message that day saying that it was because of the persecution of the garrison Wang Daoqi, but now that the old man thinks about it carefully, Li Xiao is afraid that he has already thought of this way out. He must have known that in this pier of no return, the fort was small and weak, and it was difficult to resist the invasion of the Tartars, so he led the crowd to Shandong. In this way, this person is so young, but he is a handsome person who knows the current affairs and knows how to advance and retreat, but the old man is clumsy and underestimates him. ”

After Zu Dale finished saying this large paragraph, Mrs. Wang's face softened a lot, and she muttered: "That Li Xiaozong is a talent, but his background is low, he has no power and power, and no one to help. Pity my family Wan'er, but I have to suffer with this person, how can I, a mother, not feel uncomfortable. ”

Zu Dale smiled, he gently patted Mrs. Wang's shoulder, and said with relief: "Madame is too worried." Now that the world is in turmoil, it is the time for Haojie to rise to the occasion. Then Li Xiao has such a talent, and he will definitely stand out in the future. In the old man's opinion, this person's future achievements are unlimited. Madam, look at the long term, when Li Xiao can really be promoted to the rank of knight, my family Wan'er knows the hero, imitates the story of Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty, and marries this person, but it is also a good match. ”

Listening to her husband's words of relief, Mrs. Wang's face became more and more soothing. Like a girl, she leaned into the arms of Zu Dale, and said softly: "If Wan'er really has such a destination, why don't I rest assured that I am a mother." Anyway, from today on, the concubine will worship the Bodhisattva every day, and ask the Bodhisattva to bless my family Wan'er with smooth sailing outside and everything will be successful. As long as Wan'er is happy, her mother's heart will be content. ”

Zu Dale and Mrs. Wang looked at each other and smiled, and the atmosphere in the room was much soothed.

。。。。。。

On the sixth day of the dispatch of troops to Liaoxi, Abatai, Tan Tai, and Turge led the army and made a special detour to Li Xiao's pier of no return.

At this time, the pier door is wide open, and the ditch outside the pier has also been silted, and it is in a dilapidated and desolate state.

Abatai, with a slender face and a fierce face, jumped off his horse and walked slowly to the gate of the pier of no return.

Tan Tai and Turg followed closely behind.

The cold wind was howling, and Abatai's heart was full of anger.

Abatai hated Li Xiao to the core, but there was a reason for it.

At the end of the year, Li Xiao, who had entered the dog, intercepted and killed Zhang Degui's smuggling team and robbed a staggering amount of goods, but he did not know that nearly half of the more than 5,000 horses of silk seized at that time were goods ordered by Abatai.

It turned out that Abatai finally got in touch with the big smuggler Zhang Degui, and paid a large deposit in advance, so that he could resell a large amount of silk to him at the end of the year. Abatai originally thought that after getting this large amount of silk brocade, he could take advantage of the opportunity to resell it at the end of the year, so as to make a good profit. In order to gain Zhang Degui's trust, he even advanced a large number of special products such as fur and ginseng that he had carefully preserved in his cattle records to the shopkeeper Zhang Degui in advance without paying a deposit, which can be said to be a bloody investment.

Abatai never expected that Li Xiao, who had entered the dog, would come and insert a pole, kill Zhang Degui, and rob all the goods, so that Abatai's dream of making a fortune came to naught in an instant.

When Abatai heard the news, he was almost mad.

The deposit he paid in advance, as well as a large number of special products paid in advance, were the savings that Abatai had saved for many years, but they were wiped out by Li Xiao's raid.

There is actually a hidden reason for Abatai's desire to get rich.

Abatai is the seventh son of the Qing Emperor Nuer Hachi, and his mother is the concubine Ilgen Jueluo, who belongs to the Manchurian Blue Banner. His mother, Ilgen Jueluo, came from a mediocre background, did not receive any favor from Nurhachi during her lifetime, nor did she receive any mourning after her death, and even she did not even leave the date of birth and death, in the history books of the Qing Dynasty, except for a surname, there is no record of a single word.

Mother is so low, Abatai is naturally not welcomed, neither valued by his father Nurhachi, but also often despised by a group of brothers, Mang Gurtai scolded him, you maid raised.

After Huang Taiji became emperor, Dolgon, Duoduo, Hauge, Yue Zhen and others were all promoted to princes, and even Azig was also named the king of the county, and only Abatai was still Baylor. It was only in the first year of Chongde that Huang Taiji, in order to appease this brother, added the beautiful name of Rao Yu in front of Baylor to show the difference. But compared to the prince, the title is two levels lower.

Abatai was angry in his heart, and although he deliberately forbeared, this suppressed anger still had to explode from time to time.

In "Manchu Old Files", one such story is recorded.

In December of the first year of Tiancong (1627), Huang Taiji was in a good mood because the head of the Mongolian Chahar tribe, Angkun Duling, was attached to Houjin, and he set up a banquet in the octagonal hall of the Shengjing Palace to celebrate, and specially invited all Baylor and others to accompany him. As a result, everyone else had arrived, but Abatai refused to participate, and his excuse was that he did not have a decent fur to wear, and the fur that the emperor had given him had been changed into two, both of which had been worn by his sons.

Huang Taiji hurriedly sent someone to find out the reason, and finally found that Abatai lied, and the reason why he really didn't come was because although he was older, he was only a little Baylor, and the seats were lined up below the big Baylor and Heshuo Baylor.

After listening to the guard's report, Huang Taiji was very dissatisfied and scolded: "What a reason! If Abatai resented Ben Khan, he could have tolerated him, but now that he despised his children, how could Ben Khan tolerate him again! Immediately, he relayed Abatai's words to the Beylers, and gathered to discuss the handling of Abatai. The Great Beledeishan first taught Abatay: "You are too presumptuous! I asked you to come to the banquet because I could afford you, and you were shameless! Before that, you were not even qualified to discuss with the five ministers. Derge, Zilharang, Dudu, Yue, Shuo and others have already participated in the discussion, but you are not qualified to join it. Because you are among the brothers, your father Khan has given you six of the subjects of Niulu, and you have the status of Bealor. Who do you want to bully today? And who can you bully and look down on? Azig, Dorgon, and Dordo were the sons of the Father Khan to all the banners, and the Sulbeles were among the eighths before you. You are now a beyler, and your heart is still insufficient, and you want to be ranked with the three major beylers (referring to Shan, Mang Gurtai, and Amin) to disturb the government. If you become the Great Belle, won't you have the idea of being called a Khan? ”

Dai Shan's words were very heavy, so that Abatai shrank his head and was speechless. In the end, in the unison of the rebuke of the great Baylor, the originally righteous Abatai was embarrassed, so he had to bow his head and confess his guilt, willing to be punished. So, Huang Taiji got off the donkey down the slope and punished him with eight carved saddle horses and eight plain saddle horses, and four pairs of armor, which was regarded as a punishment.

During the reign of Huang Taiji, he was also humiliated and punished many times, and it is intriguing that although he was repeatedly punished, he was only fined silver and materials, and he never received the heavy punishment of demotion or reduction.

The reason why this is so is not because Huang Taiji is tolerant and generous, but because he despises Abatai, who thinks that Abatai is from a partial family, and he is brave and unscrupulous, and he has never posed a threat to him, so he intends to let him go and take his life.

All of the above contempt and neglect made Abatai resentful in his heart, so he always had a desire to work hard to get ahead. If, in terms of power and status, he could not compete with his brothers, then, at least, in terms of wealth, Abatai was unwilling to be left behind.

It's just that the road to getting rich that I thought of with such great effort was lost to Li Xiao. I'm afraid that after this matter spreads, it will forever make itself the laughing stock of all brothers.

Li Xiao!

Angry Abatai, heard that Huang Taiji was going to send troops to plunder Liaoxi, so he volunteered to serve as the main general, although Huang Taiji snickered at Abatai stealing chicken and rice, but still made a favor and agreed to Abatai's request to lead the troops.

Abatai will vent his anger in the villages and forts of this western Liaoxi land, he led his troops to burn and plunder everywhere, robbing countless people, animals and goods, but also made up for a lot of losses.

Of course, Abatai did not forget the bitter master Li Xiao who made him suffer a great loss, and this time he made a special detour to the pier of no return where Li Xiao once lived, just to vent the long-pent-up evil spirit in his chest.

Abatai's slender face, twisted with anger, gritted his teeth, stood like a puppet in the cold wind.

"Someone!"

Standing outside the pier gate for a long time, Abatai, who recalled the past, had a faint blush on his face. He caught a glimpse of Tan Tai and Turg, who were standing solemnly on the side, and shouted loudly in disguise.

"Please show Lord Baylor!"

Tan Tai and Turg replied in unison.

"Burn this non-returnable mound to Benbele!"

"Order!"

The Tartars immediately poured oil and firewood on fire to the fort. Soon the wind fueled the fire, and the raging flames that rose into the air engulfed the entire pier of no return.

"Li Xiao, who entered the dog, even if you escaped quickly, and made you proud for a few days, if you are taken by Ben Baylor, Ben Baylor must unscrew it with his own hands, you hateful Nikan dog head!" The jumping fire made Abatai, who was clenched with both fists, his face more and more hideous.