Chapter 37: The party
The morning sun shone down from the eaves, reflecting her delicate figure on the walls, lintels and window lattices of the house.
"Sister Ruhua, you look so beautiful in this dress...... the two women caught up and said to Ruhua with a smile on their faces.
"Of course, it's the young grandmother who made me a new ......" The picturesque pointed chin was raised high, and suddenly it seemed to remember something, "Sister? Ling Xiang and Rose, am I older than the two of you? ”
"Sister Ruhua is the person next to the young grandmother, let alone the two of us, even if the second sister-in-law Zhang sees you, you have to call your sister ......" Ling Xiang and Qian Wei quickly explained with a smile.
Ruhua glanced at Ling Xiang and Wei Wei, and a smile appeared on her face, "Say, what's the matter with the two of you?" ”
"Sister Ruhua, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year, we want to go out on the street to buy something......"
"A lot of people are going out today, and they're running out of cards...... "Ruhua snorted, "Come and get it in my house." ”
In the corner gate of the General's Mansion, women enter and exit from time to time. Under the eaves of the tea fruit shop across the street, a sturdy man in a half-worn coarse cloth jacket stood and wandered, looking out from afar. This man was here early in the morning, and he neither ate tea nor bought fruit, and it was annoying to dangle around. The shopkeeper of the tea fruit shop frowned, looked at the man's strong arms and the faint rebellious aura between his eyebrows, and swallowed the evil words on his lips raw.
"Young Grandma, Sister Yingmei......" Ling Xiang and Qian Wei checked the waist card at the corner gate, but saw Xiao Yu walking out with Yingmei, and the two of them hurriedly bowed and saluted.
Xie Qingyuan, who was wandering under the eaves of the tea fruit shop, stopped, and his eyes trembled suddenly.
After eating, Yang Ming went back to the room to make up for sleep, Yu Dai laid a quilt for him, and stood aside to take off his clothes.
Yang Ming likes to sleep naked, but with Yu Dai on the side, he was embarrassed to strip naked, and got into the quilt with a pair of briefs. The thick quilt had just been laid, and there was still some cold, and Yang Ming's body shrank unconsciously.
"The general will tell the slave maid first, and the slave and maid will warm the nest first...... Yu Dai bent down to give Yang Ming the corner of the quilt on her shoulder, and whispered.
"Oh...... It's okay. Yang Ming said, "You go to rest, I'll sleep first, I'm tired." ”
When he woke up, he didn't know how long he had been asleep, Yang Ming opened his eyes and came back to his senses dimly, only to find that Yu Dai was still sitting at the table with her head propped up.
"Yu Dai, you haven't gone to rest yet?" Yang Ming asked strangely, "How long have I been asleep?" ”
"General, you're awake." Yu Dai quickly stood up, "The slave is afraid that the general will want tea to serve, so she has been guarding the ...... here."
"This ...... No, you can rest outside, I'll call you if there's something. Yang Ming sat up, and Yu Dai hurriedly took her clothes and prepared to wait.
The sun is shining outside the window. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Vientiane was renewed, and Yang Ming stretched his waist and walked around the house a few times and decided to do something.
The ancients would pray for a good harvest in the new year, and it seems that agriculture is the first major event. After crossing this point, in the future, this food problem will have to be solved, and Yang Ming decided to engage in agriculture first today.
Opening his laptop, taking out a USB 3.0 Type C portable hard drive from his marching bag and connecting it, Yang Ming began to look for information.
There is a "treasure trove" in this mobile hard drive, that is, an e-book library that Yang Ming bought on the Internet for hundreds of dollars when he was in college. Because foreign universities are still accustomed to using traditional libraries, they do not pay much attention to the networking and electronicization of books, and they often have to go to the library to check some basic materials when doing projects. Yang Ming was too lazy to run to the library, so he first spent more than 20 dollars to buy an account for the domestic Chaoxing Electronic Library, but it turned out to be good and bad, and then when he returned to China, he simply bought a mobile hard disk loaded with the Chaoxing Huiya Digital Library to solve the problem. This thing was bought with money.,I've never been willing to throw it away.,After dropping out of school, sometimes check the information and look at the book or something.,It's also going to be used.,Now it's crossed.,This thing is priceless.。
Yang Ming opened the Chaoxing reader, reviewed it for a long time, picked out a copy of "Farmland Water Conservancy", called it out to look at the title page, and was suddenly overjoyed in his heart. This book was published by Science and Technology Press in 1958, 70 pages, Chinese traditional Chinese horizontal arrangement. In 1964, China introduced simplified characters, and if it was a book published later, the simplified characters would make others wonder. In the past, Yang Ming thought that some books and materials in this digital library were too old, but now this has become an advantage. In this era, we don't think that knowledge is old, but we are afraid that knowledge is too new, too far out of touch with the times, and has become a castle in the air, which can only be seen and cannot be used.
"Yu Dai, you help me watch, I'll go get something." Yang Ming and Yu Dai gave an order and went out.
"Yes." Yu Dai answered softly, her eyes staring at the pages of the book on the laptop screen, her face full of surprise.
After searching for a truck in the backyard, Yang Ming moved an HP commercial laser printer and photocopier back, connected it to the power supply, and directly connected to the printer with the WIFI of the laptop. The printed pages are the body of the book, as for the cover, copyright page, preface, etc., they will not be printed, so as not to be confused by others, and so as not to add trouble to yourself.
More than 30 pages of A4 paper, not thick or thin, with two blue A4 paper covered up and down as a cover, with a long-handled stapler press, a beautiful book came out.
"Yu Dai, grind ink!"
Yang Ming was in a good mood, picked up the pen and used his fourth-rate calligraphy to inscribe a line of big characters on the cover "Farmland Water Conservancy Cheats" as the title of the book, and wrote "Chongzhen Three Years Mengyue" in small block letters below. This Meng Yue is the elegant name of the first month, and the title appears to be literate in the book.
Holding his masterpiece and admiring it, the more he looked at it, the more beautiful it became, Yang Ming couldn't help laughing.
Yu Dai watched blankly from the sidelines, with a look of adoration and shock in her eyes.
Throwing the book on the table, Yang Ming sat on the Taishi chair, holding the purple sand teacup, tasting the fragrant Longjing tea, plus the comfortable sleep just now, he felt that his body was full of vitality again.
"Yu Dai, you go and find that Cai Lan...... Yang Ming remembered the woman who played the pipa at the New Year's dinner in the morning, and the pair of delicate and cute dimples dangled in his heart.
"Yes." Yu Dai responded gently and curtsied to Yang Ming.
After a while, a woman dressed in a pale armor and holding a lute in her arms came in from the door.
"Slave Cailan, I've seen the general." The woman bowed and saluted, two small dimples looming at the corners of her mouth.
"Oh......, Cailan, how good you are playing the lute......"
"A slave has a little skill, where do you dare to show your eyes in front of the general." Cailan said with her head down.
"Cailan, you are too modest," Yang Ming said sincerely, "It is indeed a good play." ”
Cailan's face turned red, "The slave maid is the daughter of the piano master, and she has practiced hard since she was a child, but she is just familiar with it." It's like Grandma Yu is the daughter of a big family, learned in the boudoir, and plays elegantly. ”
That being said, music is a matter of diligent practice, in addition to talent. Just like typing on a computer keyboard, you can't say that the little sister of the printing shop is hard worked, and your 985 college students are typing papers, and your typing techniques and style are higher than others, right?
"Oh, Cailan, where are you from?" Yang Ming asked.
"The slave is from Yutian County." Cailan's eyes were a little wet, and she thought of her father who died in the war and her relatives back home.
"You've always been in this General's Mansion, haven't you?" Yang Ming wanted to comfort her, but what he said was obviously incorrect, "It's hard for you......"
"The slave maid used to be in this mansion for less than a month, and she only played the pipa twice for the Tartar officials." Cai Lan raised her head and looked at Yang Ming with shining eyes, "The slave has not been insulted in any other way. ”
"Oh......, Cailan, I didn't mean ......" Nodding slightly, Yang Ming said that he understood what she meant, but he felt embarrassed.
"The slave maid has been pretending to be sick in this mansion before...... "Cai Lan continued to explain to Yang Ming.
"Faking illness?" Yang Ming was surprised, "How do you pretend to be sick?" ”
"Slaves and maids have not been tolerant of the toxicity of Artemisia leaves since they were young, and they will become red and swollen when they get wet." Cailan lowered her head, "After the slave was sent to this mansion, she wiped her ...... on her face and body with artemisia leaves every day."
Oh, it's the source of skin allergies, this girl cleverly protects herself in this way, Yang Ming not only secretly admires Cailan's intelligence.
"Then why aren't you pretending to be sick now?" As soon as the words came out, Yang Ming felt regretful, he really didn't know how he could ask such a question.
"The general is not a Tartar...... The general is the savior of the slaves and maids......" Cailan's face turned red suddenly, "The slaves and maids...... Slaves are not afraid of ......"
Cailan's face was shy, even a little annoyed, and where the words fell, it was almost inaudible.
Yang Ming's heart fluttered, stood up, and held Cailan's hand. The jade fingers are like wattles, slender and soft, no wonder they play the piano well.
"Cailan, can you teach me how to learn pipa?"
"General, a fairy-like figure in the sky, where do slaves dare to ......" Cailan lowered her head, with a hint of gasp in her voice.
"Come, you teach me ......" Yang Ming pulled Cai Lan over, pressed her to sit on his lap, and put his arm around Cai Lan's waist, the soft feeling and the faint fragrance of his body made Yang Ming unable to help himself.
Cai Lan lowered her head and bit her lip silently, her face flushed, and the dimples at the corners of her mouth were faintly visible.
Yang Ming leaned in and kissed her lightly on the corner of her mouth, Cai Lan turned her face away and hidden, but where could she hide.
"Cailan......" Yang Ming whispered softly, kissing from the corner of Cailan's mouth to her lips......
"General ......" The sound of rapid footsteps, Xu Ying hurriedly broke in, and when she saw the scene in front of her, she was stunned for a moment.
With a "bang", the pipa in Cailan's hand fell to the ground.
"Young grandma, I ......" struggled out of Yang Ming's arms, and Cai Lan hurriedly knelt on the ground, her voice trembling.
Xu Ying glanced coldly at Cai Lan, who was kneeling on the ground, and ignored her.
"General, the Tartars have come to the door...... Xu Ying's voice couldn't hide her anger, "The Tartars have sent you a gift......
"Tartar? Gifts? Yang Ming asked strangely.
"Zhao Zhixian, Master Liu, and Master Ding are all in the lobby, so the general will ask for himself." Xu Ying said coldly, and glared at Cai Lan fiercely.
Cai Lan's kneeling body on the ground couldn't help but shudder, and she lowered her head and tried her best to avoid Xu Ying's gaze.
"Let's go, let's take a look." Yang Ming jumped up and hurried out with Xu Ying.
After a while, Cailan got up from the ground and picked up her lute.
After inspecting it, the pipa was not damaged, and Cailan settled down, holding the pipa and slowly walking out of the inner room.
At the gate of the main house, Yu Dai stood quietly, looking at the flower beds and verandahs in the distance, and her face was evenly powdered without any expression.
Cai Lan came out of the door, bowed slightly to Yu Dai, and then walked into the verandah.
Yu Dai also bowed slightly.
Cailan's background faded away in the verandah, and the pipa in her arms came from a few piano sounds, not loud, but faintly with the intention of killing.
Yu Dai's expression was still quiet, no words, not even the sound of the killing piano, everything was silent.
She stood at the gate of the main room, Xu Ying came in all the way, wanted to enter the door first, then turned left into the outer room, and then entered the inner room from the outside, this way Yu Dai did not make any warning sounds to the people inside.
Yu Dai was not afraid of Cailan's resentment, now, in this general's mansion, there were very few people she needed to be afraid of, and she was confident that she would not need to be afraid of anyone in the future.
In the flower hall in the lobby, everyone arrived, Yang Ming, Xu Ying, Zhao Zhixian, Liu Bixian, and Ding Yousan discussed the strange thing about today's Tartar door.
"The people of the Tartars are waiting outside the south gate, and they are said to be carrying two general soldiers, Ma Dengyun and Heiyunlong." Liu Bixian groaned, "I can't see any soldiers and horses ambushing behind......
On December 16, the battle of Yongdingmen, the Ming army of 40,000 people was annihilated, the general soldiers Man Gui and Sun Zushou were killed, Ma Dengyun and Heiyunlong were captured by the Houjin soldiers. Yang Ming remembered that when he first entered the city and released Haoge, he had said that he wanted Haoge to go back and spread the word, asking Huang Taiji to release the captured Ma Dengyun and Heiyunlong's two general soldiers, could it be that Huang Taiji really sent them back?
"Let's let them in first." Yang Ming said to everyone.
Everyone in the hall was silent and hesitated. After this, the Jin soldiers fought and deceived very powerfully, and in many cases, the city was broken first with spies into the city, and then the inside and outside of the city should be combined, and the Ming army was already a bird with a frightened bow, how dare they let them in.
"Since the general said so, let's let them in first." Liu Bixian walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, "Ma Dengyun and Heiyunlong, the two general soldiers don't know anyone here, even if you look closely at the city wall, it's useless......"
"Master Ding, do you have two old soldiers under the general army in your barracks?" Liu Bixian turned around and asked Ding Yousan.
"This ......, my subordinates have to go back and check it out." Ding Yousan said hesitantly with his fists clenched.
"Forget it." Liu Bixian waved his hand, "Even if you do, you may not know the chief military officer." ”
He was right. At that time, unlike modern video technology, you don't need to see real people to know the leader, even if there are old soldiers under these two general soldiers in the camp of Ding Yousan, you may not be able to know the senior generals at the level of the general soldier.
"Lord Zhao, let's let them in first, according to what the general said." Liu Bixian said to Zhao Zhixian, "After I put it in, I will ask carefully one by one, and I will always find out the situation." ”
"Those escorted Houjin soldiers stayed outside the city, and only let the messengers, the two chief soldiers, and the gifts in." Liu Bixian said.
The order was passed down, and in less than half an hour, the Houjin people were taken to the general's mansion.
A group of eight people entered the flower hall, led by a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe, with shaved hair and a pigtail of money rat tail hanging from the back of his head. Behind him were two people wearing official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty, which should be the two chief soldiers of Ma Dengyun and Heiyunlong, who had also shaved their hair, and entered the flower hall, and their faces were ashamed.
The three of them were followed by a strong man carrying a gift burden, also with shaved hair, but it looked like he should also be a Han Chinese, and the gift burden he was carrying had obviously been checked to confirm that there was no danger before being put in.
Behind the burden of the gifts, there were four women, these women were covered with fine veils on their heads, and their faces could not be seen clearly, but they were all slender and fragrant.
The scribe at the head of the house glanced around, and his gaze fell on Yang Ming's short hair.
"Dare to ask if this is General Yang?" The middle-aged scribe stepped forward and asked.
"Exactly." Yang Ming also bowed his hand and replied.
"I have admired the name of the general for a long time, and I can see it today, and I am fortunate to have three lives." The middle-aged scribe arched his hand and said, "Student Fan Wencheng, on the orders of Tiancong Khan of the Dajin Kingdom, escorted Ma Dengyun and Heiyunlong, the two general soldiers, to return to the country, and gave gifts to General Yang. ”
"Fan Wencheng?!" Yang Ming asked in surprise, "Didn't you take eight hundred soldiers to guard Zunhua?" How did you get to Shunyi? ”
This Fan Wencheng was born in the twenty-fifth year of Wanli (1597), a studious, intelligent and agile youth, and at the age of eighteen, he and his brother Fan Wencheng were both born in Shenyang County.
In April of the third year of the Mandate of Heaven (the 46th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, 1618), after Nurhachi adopted Huang Taiji's strategy to capture Fushun, the 21-year-old Fan Wencheng and his brother Fan Wenyu took the initiative to see Nurhachi, surrendered to Houjin, and became one of the founding fathers of the Qing Dynasty. During the Taiji period of Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, he was deeply relied on, and he participated in the decision-making of all the strategies of the Ming Dynasty, the rebellion against Ming officials, the attack on Korea, the pacification of Mongolia, and the construction of the state system.
According to the history of the last world, this time Jisi changed, after the Jin army captured Zunhua, Huang Taiji led the army to attack Beijing, leaving Fan Wencheng and the general Ying Erdai and the guerrilla Li Sizhong to lead 800 soldiers to garrison Zunhua, but I don't know why he came to this Shunyi city today?
Fan Wencheng was also shocked when he heard Yang Ming's words, and under the shock, the thoughts in his heart turned, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
"General, can you take a step to speak?" Fan Wencheng asked.
"This ......" Yang Ming looked at Xu Ying, Zhao Zhixian, Liu Bixian, Ding Yousan and others around him, and hesitated.
"General rest assured, when we entered the city, we had all searched carefully, and we did not carry any sharp weapons." Fan Wencheng smiled and said, "Even these women have been searched and inspected by the county government's Ya Po......"
Hearing Fan Wencheng's explanation, Yang Ming smiled slightly. He wasn't afraid that they would do anything, Yang Ming was still confident in the Glock 17 he was wearing.
"Okay then." Yang Ming said to Liu Bixian and the others, "Please Lord Zhao, Mr. Liu, and Mr. Ding to avoid it first." ”
Xu Ying, Zhao Zhixian, Liu Bixian, Ding Yousan and others looked at each other, hesitated for a while, and finally Liu Bixian nodded, and everyone retreated, and Ma Dengyun and Heilongyun also retreated with everyone.
"General massive!" Fan Wencheng praised Yang Ming, "The students were indeed stationed in Zunhua before, but after the Shunyi City was captured by the general, the Great Khan urgently summoned the students to come and ......."
Fan Wencheng answered the question Yang Ming had just raised, as for why Yang Ming knew about his situation, he didn't ask, maybe he just attributed it to Yang Ming's intelligence work in place.
"Oh, I see. I wonder what Mr. Fan has to say? ”
Fan Wencheng took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Yang Ming with both hands.
"General Yang, this is a letter from the Great Khan to the general, and the general will know it at a glance."
Yang Ming took the letter, unfolded it and took a look, only to see a few lines of graceful regular script on the paper, which was much stronger than his fourth-rate calligraphy. The letter said that because Yang Ming sent it back to Haoge, Fan Wencheng sent it back to Ma Dengyun and Heiyunlong, and sent 50 catties of ginseng, 100 minks, and 4 beauties as a thank you.
"Tiancong Khan is worthy of a generation of heroes!" Yang Ming couldn't help but admire. This Huang Taiji is indeed the number one person in the history of the Qing Dynasty, without him, the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not have been able to enter the Central Plains.
"I left this ginseng and mink ......" The native wild ginseng in the Northeast is indeed a good thing, Yang Ming's body consumption is too great during this time, so he just used it to make up for it. As for mink, making hats and clothes, the warmth is also top-notch.
"These women are ......"
Yang Ming was about to say that he asked Fan Wencheng to bring the women back, but he saw that the women took off the veils covering their heads one by one, and their beautiful faces were revealed, and one of them was still a woman with a flag comb.
The appearance and attitude of these women who were selected to Huang Taiji's side were only above the women who were selected to serve Haoge in the general's mansion, and they were never below them.
“…… Only...... Just stay in the house. Yang Ming's gaze swept over the faces of several women, reluctant to leave for a long time.
Fan Wencheng smiled slightly and took a step forward, "General Yang, our lord is near Shunyi City, if the general has time, my lord would like to see the general's side......"