XVI. Crisis
When he was about to go to bed, Li Fengchao came, asked Meng Yuchu if he could adapt to life in the mountains, and explained to her before leaving: "Tomorrow the big boss is going to get married, maybe I will be busy, if something happens, don't panic, remember to bring all the life-saving things with you." ”
Meng Yuchu felt that there was something in this, and couldn't help but ask, "Brother Li, what's wrong?" I feel like everybody is weird today."
Li Fengchao thought about it for a while, and felt that it was okay to tell her, so it would be good for her to be mentally prepared, so he said: "Today, the second master quietly told us that the marriage of the big boss may be a conspiracy, and we want to keep an eye on my uncle and prepare to retreat."
"Retreat? Where to retreat? Meng Yuchu was puzzled, isn't this village a base camp?
"Withdraw to the back mountain", Li Fengchao replied: "I only learned today that there is still a camp in the back mountain, and there is still a third master guarding there, so I said why the second master risked being exposed to fight against Ninglu Hall, it turned out that he had been prepared for a long time." "Cunning rabbit three holes.
"I'm going to send a batch of supplies over early tomorrow morning, and your daughters may not go until after noon, and I will persuade the second master to let you go earlier." Li Fengchao looked at Meng Yuchu with some concern.
"Thank you, Brother Li, you can go and be busy, don't worry about me." It's another feeling of mountain rain coming.
Li Fengchao explained a few more words before leaving. Mei Sheng looked at Li Fengchao's departing back, and said enviously: "My sister is so blessed, even if there is someone here who can help." ”
"What did my sister say, what blessings are there if we have fallen to this point, but we are just people who have fallen to the end of the world."
In the final analysis, it is still stained with the light of his father, if it is not for his father's attention to cultivation on weekdays, how can it shadow his children and grandchildren?
Father, it's almost the night of the full moon on the fifteenth day, are you going to prepare incense to worship the moon again?
Meng Yuchu put on the animal skin Xiaokan given by Li Fengchao and sat in front of the window with a sad look.
There are no clouds in the sky today, the moon is exceptionally bright, and the mountains in front of you are also illuminated more clearly.
The moon is like a hook, pity me and leave my sorrows;
The moon is like a jue, where can you rest homesick?
The moon is like a disk, but the dream comes true.
The thousands of autumn months are like this, and the world is different.
Don't ask about the moon lovesickness, the road is endless;
I don't know the moon, and I am a hundred and thousands of threads away from people.
"Sister, what are you singing?" Mei Sheng raised her head and asked strangely, but she didn't understand a word.
"This is what my mother taught me." Mo explained softly sentence by sentence.
"The moon is like a crooked hook, as if it pities the sorrow of my parting home;
The moon is like half missing jade, as if asking me when the lovesickness will stop;
The moon is like a round disk, telling me that I can be reunited in my dreams.
Since ancient times, the moon has been so round and missing, but every reunion and parting in the world is different.
Don't ask the moon again if you know how much I miss, I can't say enough;
The moon doesn't know that the people who have left their hometown, her thoughts are longer than a thousand feet of silk thread! ”
After explaining, Meng Yuchu was already in tears.
Mei Sheng also sat up in his clothes, and sang with tears in his eyes: "The moon is like a hook, pity me and leave my sorrows..."
The moon shines on the Red Mansion. In a private room on the side of the second floor, several people were not very interested in the delicacies of the mountains and seas at this table.
Xu Binye got up and poured a glass of wine for everyone on the table, then picked up the wine glass and said, "Ning Zhangtang has been saddle horses all the way, this glass of wine is for you first!" ”
Ning Zhangtang smiled: "Xu Binye is polite!" Then he drank the wine from his glass.
Xu Binye poured wine for Ning Zhangtang again, and Ning Zhangtang picked up the wine glass and said to Wu County Ling: "This ten thousand counties are poor mountains and evil water bandits are frequent, and it is not easy for Lord Wu to govern. ”
Wu Xian Ling hurriedly raised his glass and replied: "Ning Zhangtang is polite, this official really doesn't dare to be it!" The two clinked glasses and drank together.
Putting down the wine glass, Wu Xianling said with a look of shame: "Alas, what Ning Zhangtang said is right, this Wanxian Ridge is mountainous and dangerous, and it is really not easy to govern!" In addition, the people have been in turmoil recently, and they all occupy the mountains as kings, and they are doing evil everywhere, but my county has limited manpower, and I can only sigh! ”
"I'm not afraid, this time I'm here to assist Lord Wu on the orders of Lord Banner." Ning Zhangtang said with a blink of small eyes.
"Oh, then thank you to the Banner Master! I just don't know how the Banner Master plans to help? ”
"This time, Lord Banner Master personally ordered two hundred guards to come with me, and in addition..." Ning Zhangtang glanced at Cheng Huaicai, Cheng Huaicai hurriedly took out a cloth bag and handed it over, Ning Zhangtang pushed the cloth bag in front of Wu County Order: "Lord Wu, here are two hundred pieces of cloth, which is your hard-earned money." ”
Wu Xianling looked at the cloth bag with a complicated face, and Xu Binye hurriedly put the cloth bag away.
Seeing that Xu Binye had accepted the cloth bag, Ning Zhangtang pinched his mustache and said: "Lord Wu, if you don't suppress this bandit, I'm afraid you won't be able to do this county order well after he grows stronger." Especially the Luocaoling, it is really a good place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and it is still the main road to Puyi Pass in various counties, how can you let those grass robbers occupy it, it's a pity! ”
Wu County Ling said: "Thank you for this official!" This bandit problem in the grass ridge has always been a serious illness in my heart, but this bandit must first go to the imperial court, and then wait for the imperial court's approval, and then send troops to dispatch, no matter what, I have to wait for ten days and a half months. ”
"No need," Ning Zhangtang shook his head and said, "You don't need to go through the imperial court, our strength is enough!" ”
"Shall we?" Wu County Commander and Xu Binye looked at each other, "Of course the bandits have to be suppressed, why can't I, the county magistrate, have little power and few people, and I don't have so much energy to suppress the bandits!" ”
"What a cowardly fox!" Ning Zhangtang thought secretly in his heart, but he still had a friendly smile on his face: "Lord Wu don't worry! The 200 guards I brought here are all the elites of our Condensation Hall, and what they are best at is mountain warfare, and the tracking, pathfinding, and running and fighting in this mountain are all their specialties! ”
Seeing that Wu County Ling didn't speak, Xu Binye hurriedly continued: "Lord Keqi is very thoughtful! It's just that this grassy mountains and wide roads are miscellaneous, and it is difficult to form a joint encirclement with the 100 people in the government office, and once the war starts, it is inevitable that there will be too many loopholes, and I am afraid that I will not be able to catch a few at that time..."
Ning Zhangtang smiled and said confidently: "This Xu Binye doesn't have to worry, my two hundred guards are just as a vanguard force." Who is the closest garrison to Wanxian? ”
Xu Binye hurriedly said: "General Song, thirty miles southwest of the city, is the nearest garrison. ”
"Well, General Song and Ke Qizhu are also old friends, and I can't hide it, I have already repaired a letter to General Song when I set off, asking General Song to help send troops to suppress bandits."
"So good, hahaha" Wu County Ling was overjoyed.
The army is generally directly paid by the imperial court, but the counties near the garrison will also contribute funds and supplies, one is the appointment of the imperial court, and the other is that the county subordinates also have to build a relationship with the army in case of emergency. Usually, the Wu County Order also supplies General Song, but this Song General is a border general directly appointed by the DPRK and China, and his level is much higher than his small county order, and the Wu County Order has not been able to climb high, if this time can be used to climb General Song, then the ground in this Puyi Pass will not be even more hardened in the future!
"However, I still need Lord Wu to repair another letter to General Song to show his sincerity!" Ning Zhangtang said slowly.
"Uh, yes, yes, yes, yes." Wu Xianling nodded, thought for a moment and asked, "It's just how to show this sincerity?" ”