Entering October, the situation in the capital is tense, the soldiers outside the city are in chaos, and the city is in a state of martial law, but the city gate and the market are open for half an hour in the morning and evening, the price of rice and grain is one day, and there is nowhere to buy vegetables. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the capital of Shen Mansion, the life of the family is also very hard.

The Shen family did not buy land in the capital, and they all felt that Shen Xi did not know how long he could last as an official in the court, and would rather buy the land in his hometown Tingzhou Mansion, which was not only the idea of Shen Mingjun and his wife, but also Xie Yun'er's idea, because Xie Yun'er had considered buying a field in the capital at the beginning, but now she was secretly glad that if she bought the field at the beginning, in the event of a war, the field was basically deserted, and whether she could get it back after the war is still two words.

"I don't know what happened to Xianggong!"

Xie Yun'er is the mother of the family, and when Shen Xi is away, she has to shoulder the food, drink and Lazar of the whole family.

There are a lot of people in the family, from elders like Shen Mingjun and his wife, to children like Shen Ping, they all need to be taken care of, fortunately, there are maids and servants in the capital, plus Yun Bo and others help, the burden on Xie Yun'er's shoulders is lighter, but she is still a little confused about the things in front of her, a woman's family, there are always many things beyond her strength, not to mention that she is still in charge of the mansion of a second-grade court official.

Northwest news, it was broken a month ago.

Shen Xi wrote a letter back and reported that he was safe, and then there was no news, no one knew whether he was dead or alive, Xie Yun'er just came back from the outside, knowing that the war was not going well now, it was said that the border pass had experienced a series of fiascos, and no one could say why Shen Xi's soldiers and horses went.

And after Shen Xi, there was no letter back, even if Xie Yun'er asked Xie Hengnu to go back to her parents' house to investigate, she didn't get any valuable news, and now she only knows that Shen Xi is leading the troops in the land of Xuanfu, and she doesn't know anything else.

Zhou, the mother-in-law who always likes annoyance, will come to the Shen family's mansion every day to inquire about the situation, first by asking the maid to ask, and then by Zhou herself, as if Xie Yun'er abducted her son.

“…… I said daughter-in-law, you also know that Han Wa'er is a person, sometimes I don't know how to measure, when I was taking the entrance examination, it was a few months, or even years, and I couldn't rest assured that I was a mother. Now that others are on the side, no matter how busy they are, they should always write a letter back. He doesn't know, don't you know to remind him? ”

In Zhou's view, Shen Xi went to the northwest to be an official, and it had little to do with him whether he fought or not.

It's like Shen Xi was the governor in the southeast, even if the war was tense at that time, he would write one or two letters to send back to his family, so that his family could feel at ease. In Zhou's view, fighting a war is to accumulate credit for his son, and now his son is preparing to receive great merit when he goes to the northwest, as for any danger, it is all a matter of being a soldier below, and it has nothing to do with her son.

Xie Yun'er felt very powerless in front of the Zhou family, and there was nothing to explain.

Even if her mother-in-law is a "shrew", she always likes to make trouble for others, but at least she is still good, she used to be a good sister, but now she is a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and the relationship is always closer, and Xie Yun'er really doesn't know Shen Xi's situation in the northwest, she doesn't want to say too much to make Zhou's cranky.

Xie Yun'er said: "Mother, you just have to rest assured, Xianggong is auspicious, even if he leads the troops outside, he can always turn the danger into a disaster, this time Xianggong is in the northwest, he will definitely get credit, just wait for the class teacher to return to the dynasty!" ”

Zhou Shi said with a smile: "Of course, I don't look at whose son it is, I cultivated it, can there be a mistake?" That rhyme, this ...... Juro is naughty at home, I want to send someone over and let him study on your side, and ...... Yi'er, you're fine, right? ”

Xie Yun'er thought to herself, her brother-in-law Shen Yun is cowardly, how can he be naughty? On the contrary, Shen Yi'er is simply a demon king of the world, arguing wherever he goes. Maybe the mother-in-law didn't want to take Shen Yi'er, so she wanted to send the twin siblings over.

Anyway, Xie Yun'er didn't take her brother-in-law and sister-in-law for a day or two, and she was used to having two noisy little guys at home, after all, this huge mansion also needed some lively atmosphere, so she replied: "Mother, don't worry, send Shilang and Yi'er over, there are me here, and Xiaoyu, I'll let Xiaoyu help take care of it more!" ”

Xie Yun'er doesn't have much time by herself, after all, she has to take care of her son and take care of the family business, and Xie Hengnu is almost about to give birth, with a big belly, and needs to be taken care of by her as an older sister.

Zhou was slightly dissatisfied: "Let a girl take care of the child, is it a little outside?" Yun'er, no matter what, you have to be responsible as a sister-in-law, so that your mother can rest assured! ”

"Got it, mother!"

Xie Yun'er agreed, but she didn't think so, after all, she was too busy to do the work at hand, as for taking care of the children, she would rather hand it over to the female gentleman with two children, and Xiaoyu to do it. No matter what, now Xiaoyu can be regarded as the mother of the child.

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In the blink of an eye, in late October, the situation in the capital completely deteriorated.

With the attack and loss of Bauhinia Pass, the capital was in an emergency, before it was just a shortage of soldiers outside the city, and now the city has begun to become treacherous, and a large number of officers and soldiers began to come and go on the streets, and even the strong men in the city were arrested, all men over the age of thirteen must go to the government to sign up, and may be recruited at any time.

Even Ma Jiu and others, who had just arrived in the capital, needed to register.

After all, Ma Jiu had fought bandits in the southeast with the army, and he had experience in fighting horses, and Shen Xi had mentioned Ma Jiu's merits in the original book of the imperial court, hoping that Ma Jiu could serve in the army.

In the southeast, the situation reported by the imperial court was feasible, but when he returned to the capital, Shen Xi was requisitioned and transferred to the northwest, and Ma Jiu and others stayed in the capital, and the matter of waiting for the military department was gone.

But this time the war began, and the matter of Ma Jiu's military membership was brought up again.

This matter was led by Xie Qian, Xie Qian remembered that when Shen Xi was fighting robbers on the southeast coast, he was accompanied by a group of people, these people were personally cultivated by Shen Xi, in line with the concept of strong generals and no weak soldiers, Xie Qian felt that these people could be entrusted with heavy use, and immediately greeted the military department, reformulated the merits of Ma Jiu and others, and even proposed to recruit Shen Xi's subordinates to the capital, such as Jing Yue and others.

Transferring troops from the southeast to the capital is a long way away, and it takes a certain amount of time, but it is not difficult to give Ma Jiu a general.

Under Xie Qian's mediation, several people who followed Shen Xi to fight robbers in the southeast were all requisitioned by the Ministry of War and transferred to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to wait for vacancies, because Xie Qian did not have the actual power to take charge of the army, even if the Ministry of War and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies gave face, Ma Jiu and the others still did not get the real vacancy, and their nature was similar to that of a petty officer in the reserves.

Ma Jiu encountered some trouble in the military department, although Xie Qian helped him speak, but after all, the county officials are not as good as the current management, and the official positions in the army are not vacant at any time.

Appointed by the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army, Ma Jiu temporarily waited as a small banner, which was considered a "special favor", Ma Jiu received an errand, but he didn't know which army he was serving in, so he returned to Shen Mansion in a daze, he saw his wife talk about it, Xiaoyu was very happy, because her husband finally followed Lord Shen to "get ahead".

"Xianggong do a good job, and when the master comes back, he will definitely find a way!" Xiao Yu said with an encouraging tone.

Ma Jiu smiled bitterly: "Xiaoyu, you look up to me, I fought with the master, but I just ran errands before and after the saddle, and whoever did it might be better than me...... Alas, I hope the lord has nothing to do in the northwest! ”

In the minds of the old men of the Chema Gang, they have regarded themselves as servants of the Shen Mansion, and their hearts are all about the Shen family, they used to regard Hui Niang as their employer, but now that Hui Niang has died for some reason, they can only hope for the Shen Mansion...... Now Shen Xi's achievements are very dazzling, and it is also a supreme honor for these domestic servants, go out, but whenever there is any trouble, when Shen Mansion is mentioned, others immediately cast admiring eyes, and everything will be fine.

Just when Ma Jiu was waiting for a vacancy, someone suddenly came to the mansion that afternoon and summoned Ma Jiu to the military department for discussion.

"Deliberations of the Ministry of War?"

When Ma Jiu heard this term, he felt very unfamiliar, he didn't feel that he was qualified to go to the gate of the military department, the gate was too big, and he had to keep his head down when he passed by the military department before.

The person who came was an official of the Ministry of War, with a smile on his face: "General Ma, you are a nobleman, how can you do it without your old man participating in military affairs?" ”

The sudden compliments made Ma Jiu's head "buzz", he didn't know what was going on, and thought, "Could it be that the master has come back from the northwest?" ”

Ma Jiu originally helped the house grind and make tofu, he quickly asked Xiaoyu to go in and say goodbye to Xie Yun'er, and came out of the mansion by himself, and saw that the door was ready with a tall horse, and there were escorted soldiers in front and behind.

"Please, General Ma!" The clerk said with a smile.

Ma Jiu didn't bother to ask more, because he felt that he was not qualified to ask, and when he got on the horse and went to the military headquarters, although the streets were deserted, he felt a kind of honor.

When he arrived at the military department, someone came to lead the horse to Ma Jiu, Ma Jiu jumped down, and he didn't stand still, but he saw a gorgeously dressed young man, who was standing on the steps of the yamen of the military department and looked at him.

The young man walked over, looked Ma Jiu up and down, and said, "You...... It's the Ma Jiu that Mr. Shen brought with him when he fought the Japanese in the southeast, right? ”