Li Yan also knows a little about Li Zicheng's killing of Luo Rucai, but it is not true. Every day, people fled back to Henan from Li Zicheng's camp with their families, one was that it was difficult to leave their homeland, and the other was that Li Zicheng was now recruiting soldiers from the displaced people in the past. Therefore, the people are still willing to go back to Henan, get a piece of land, and live a down-to-earth life.

But Li Yan didn't think it was very credible. Now Li Zicheng has just had some situation, although Zuo Liangyu's army has fled, but the main force has not been damaged. Although he reached a verbal agreement with Li Zicheng here, Li Zicheng still left more than 100,000 troops on the border between Henan and Huguang for defense. There is also Sun Chuanting in Shaanxi, who is now also training soldiers and will go south at any time. How could Li Zicheng be angry with Luo Rucai at this time?

Li Yan asked Li Zhong to pay more attention to Li Zicheng, and if his precautions changed, he didn't care about this matter. As for the displaced people who have fled, they will be sent to the counties for resettlement after screening. And Liu Hongqi, after three months of encirclement and suppression, most of them have been exterminated or surrendered, only Liu Hongqi himself fled to Huo Yingshan with a part of the thieves, and it is said that he took refuge in Zhang Xianzhong.

Zhang Xianzhong is also unfavorable, originally developed well on the north bank of the Yangtze River last year, and also occupied Luzhou to cede land and dominate, ready to let the craftsmen start to make artillery. However, the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo did not join forces with him, but went to Henan to defect to Li Zicheng. This made it difficult for him to stand alone in Nanzhili, and he was defeated by Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo, so he had to start a mobile battle again.

After that, although it also occupied some places, it was also to supply some food, supplies and soldiers, and then destroyed the city and left. Finally, the Qing soldiers came, and Huang Degong took the troops to Beijing to protect King Qin, but before he could move, Zuo Liangyu fled from Wuchang along the river with hundreds of thousands of people. First went to Jiujiang, and then continued to flee east, running to Guichi (Chizhou).

However, as soon as he inquired, it turned out that it was Li Zicheng and Luo Ru who had reached Hanyang. Huguang had wanted to go for a long time, and he wanted to go when he was just defeated by Huang Degong, but Huguang was well guarded and deployed heavy troops to guard in the east. Now it's okay, Zuo Liangyu ran to Guichi, and the main force of Huguang was wiped out by Li Zicheng, so she immediately reorganized the army and set off with the troops from Qianshan, attacking Huangmei, Guangji, and Qizhou, breaking Huangzhou, going down to Macheng, and approaching Wuchang City.

Zhang Xianzhong was Liu Hongqi, who was taken in Macheng, and only then did he know that Li Yan's troops had already opened to Guangshan and Mall, so he immediately restrained his troops and did not enter the border of Henan. He now has Huguang's fish belly officials and troops to deal with, and a fool only provokes Li Yan, a tiger. And I heard Liu Hongqi say that Henan is already dilapidated, and there is no oil and water when I go. But Huguang is different, there is a lot of food and money, and there is a king of Chu in Wuchang.

Li Yan soon got the report and knew that Zhang Xianzhong had also entered Huguang, and formed a flanking attack on Wuchang with Li Zicheng's team. He also doubted, did Li Zicheng unite with Zhang Xianzhong again?

But soon, he received a pigeon letter from Li Zhong, saying that Tian Yong had returned with a team and had sent someone to escort him to Kaifeng. Although he was a little confused, he would be able to know the details of Li Zicheng's situation in a few days, so he wouldn't guess by himself.

After dinner that day, Li Yan rarely came to Wu Niang's yard, but found that Qiu Niang was also there. The relationship between the two is really getting better and better, maybe he hasn't come to the backyard for a long time, and the two are together to dispel their loneliness.

"I've seen my husband."

"Sir." Wu Niang and Qiu Niang got up and saluted Li Yan respectively.

Li Yan nodded and said, "Sit down." ”

The three of them sat down, but they were all silent, and the atmosphere was a little awkward. Since Qiu Niang was violently punished by Li Yan, she also dared not be as casual as before for Li Yan. And Wu Niang felt very awkward after being forced to get married, and she didn't want to get closer to Li Yan.

Li Yan just sat on the main seat and drank tea, thinking about the future development by the way. He came here, but he was also helpless. His father, Li Chunyu, had quietly sent someone to inquire a few times to see if the county lord was pregnant. After getting a negative answer several times, yesterday he even sent someone to bring him a jar of tiger whip wine, and the meaning is naturally self-evident.

The three of them were silent for a while, Qiu Niang got up and said, "The slave family went back first." ”

Li Yan waved his hand and said, "Well, go ahead." ”

Although Wu Niang was a little nervous, she could only send Qiu Niang out. After I came back, I was busy in the house, wiping the table and placing items, but I didn't talk to Li Yan anyway. In the end, he found that Li Yan had been sitting still, so he had to sit down.

"Husband," Wu Niang asked cautiously, "What's going on today?" ”

Li Yan shook his head: "It's okay." ”

"That husband, this is~"

Li Yan looked at Wu Niang and laughed angrily. Said: "What are these words? I'm your husband. ”

"Wu Niang knows. But~" Wu Niang still didn't understand what Li Yan meant.

"You know what husband and wife mean." Li Yan looked at Wu Niang and said slowly.

Wu Niang was a little uncomfortable, but she quickly understood what Li Yan meant. She stood up and said with some panic: "This, this, the concubine body, the concubine body is still in the filial piety period, and the husband knows it." Filial piety comes first, please forgive your husband. ”

"You were out of filial piety three months ago." Li Yan still looked at Wu Niang and said lightly.

"Huh?" Wu Niang was even more panicked, her eyes rolled slightly, and she immediately said: "The concubine has a deep relationship with her mother, and the concubine is like a filial piety for her mother for three more years." ”

Li Yan frowned and asked dissatisfiedly, "What are you afraid of me?" ”

Wu Niang lowered her head and did not speak. She didn't think Li Yan hated it, it was just that he didn't want to get married. Watching his mother's miserable life since childhood, she was afraid. She feels that men are not good things, and she does not want to be a vassal and plaything of men.

Li Yan said slowly: "You don't have to be afraid, there is nothing to be afraid of these things, just experience it once." ”

Wu Niang shook her head, blushed, and begged: "Husband, go to Qiu Niang, concubine, concubine body doesn't want to." ”

Li Yan was very angry, and directly ordered the subordinates outside: "Fetch water, wash." ”

Qiu Niang wanted to run, but she didn't dare, so she sat down on the chair and wept silently. She didn't expect that she still didn't hide from it, and her heart was full of fear and grievances.

Under the service of the maids, the two quickly finished washing. The maids were sent out, and the curtain of the big bed was lowered by Li Yan, and after a while, there was a suppressed exclamation, followed by an intermittent sound of forbearance being pressed in the throat.

Falling red dots, plum blossoms in full bloom. Although Wu Niang was unwilling, she still reluctantly accepted her fate.

Although Li Yan did not drink tiger whip wine, he has been clean and self-conscious in the past few years, and naturally he has accumulated a lot of money. However, he understands Wu Niang's first menstrual affairs, and he is also as gentle and careless as possible. After all, they are husband and wife, not forcibly robbed, and they will have to live in the future, so naturally they can't hurt their body and mind.

And Qiu Niang was sleepless all night, thinking about whether Li Yan's punishment for her should be over.

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