After moving into the new village, Liu Wu and Gao Daren's new residence was next to each other, Gao Da's house was in the east, Liu Wu's family was in the west, and the two families were only separated by a courtyard wall. +◆+◆, the two families are so close to each other, the second sister-in-law of the Xie family and Sister Yang Yao quarreled in the old village, Liu Wu's eldest wife Wu's Wu family heard it, but none of these women in the tall courtyard across the wall knew about it.

Liu Yuru went to the ranch village and went to work in the ranch for a day to pick grass, and she and the female shepherds who came with her were more familiar with only a poplar, and some of the others couldn't be named until now. Because of Liu Wu's relationship, Liu Yuru has become familiar with Liu Caixia recently, since the last time Gao Da arranged a marriage for Liu Wu and Liu Caixia, the two of them only said a few words when they met.

In the evening of this day, Liu Yuru was fiddling with the flower beds with Xie in the yard, and when she saw Liu Caixia appear at the gate of the courtyard, Liu Yuru hurriedly got up to say hello. Liu Caixia said, "Mrs. Liu, I made a few home-cooked dishes with my sister Wu in the evening, and I want you to come over and enjoy your face." ”

As soon as Liu Yuru heard her say this, she kept glancing at Xie Shi beside her, and she understood a little in her heart, and she didn't wait for Liu Caixia to say any more, so she replied, "Lord Liu, you are polite to Lord Gao and me, if there is anything, just wait for Lord Gao to come back and talk directly to Lord Gao." ”

As soon as Liu Caixia stood at the gate of the courtyard, she saw Liu Yuru and Xie Shi together, and she was a little hesitant when she said what she had thought of. But she only said one sentence, and Mrs. Liu picked up the second half of her sentence, and couldn't help but secretly admire her for her quick turn, and at that time she pulled her with a smile on her face and said, "Madame said exactly this, but there are still some things related to this, and Madame must go over in person to talk about it." ”

When Xie Shi heard this, he also guessed in his heart that he wanted Liu Yuru to help him speak, so he didn't think much about it. But Fan Ying pushed open the window on the second floor and shouted. "Sister Liu, I will follow you wherever you go, Master Gao has spoken."

Liu Caixia thought that as long as Xie didn't follow, she led Liu Yuru and Fan Ying to her house. The two of them saw that four cold and four hot were already set on the table, and there was a small jar of wine. Liu Wu was also there, and the five of them exchanged a few polite words, and after drinking three cups, Liu Wu got to the point. Tell me what Wu heard from the street.

When it came to Xie Er's sister-in-law saying that "Mrs. Liu has to stretch out her hand to spend money", Fan Ying stood up suddenly, and said upside down, "If I were on the spot, I would definitely give her a fall and two mouths!" Sister Liu told Master Gao several times that she would help them more, but she didn't expect to be so arrogant behind her back. He also said, "Sister Xie......" suddenly saw Liu Yuru stop with a look, so she paused and didn't say anything.

Liu Wu hurriedly said, "Mrs. Liu." We didn't mean to provoke you by inviting you today, but it was really inappropriate to hear her shouting on the street so plainly, it was better to find Mrs. Xie to go to the house behind your back to talk about ......"

Liu Yuru knew what Liu Wu meant, and before she could speak, she heard someone outside the courtyard call, "Lord Liu, Lord Wang of Xizhou asked you to go to Deputy Pastoral Supervisor Wang immediately to discuss urgent matters." ”

Liu Wu didn't know what was so urgent, and besides, he didn't have much to do with Wang Beijia. Liu Yuru said, "It is estimated that it is related to two ranches. Hurriedly took Fan Ying out of the house.

Liu Yuru and Fan Ying stood on the street that had already darkened, and saw Lord Liu hurriedly go out of the courtyard to the west of the village street. Seeing that Fang had just come to call someone, he led Lu Shanglou over again, thinking in his heart what would happen if this king didn't drive to call people at night? She pulled Fan Ying over and whispered a few words in a low voice, Fan Ying nodded and secretly followed. Liu Yuru walked home by herself.

She saw that Xie had returned to her room to coax Tian Tian to sleep, and the account book of Xie's usual accounting was placed in the living room, and the small abacus of golden silk jujube wood was pressed on it. She had the heart to go over and pick it up and take a look, but she felt that it was inappropriate. Isn't that too distrustful?

But Lord Liu Wu won't say anything casually if he doesn't ask about the matter. She knew Liu Wu's heart for Master Gao. It's a pity that the brother and sister-in-law of the Xie family don't know how to do anything wrong, it's hard to think for themselves. Liu Yuru sat on her big bed and got angry, and when she lay down and pondered about it, she didn't feel sleepy at all.

Although she believed that the most important thing for Master Gao was herself, she couldn't hold him back after a trip. And all of them are like flowers, who can stand it on whoever puts it on it! She lay on the bed and wiped her tears, looked at the empty big bed, and couldn't help but miss the firewood house at the head of the old village.

At this moment, she heard Fan Ying's footsteps gently walking upstairs and knocking softly on the door to come in.

As soon as Lu Shanglou arrived at Wang Yunda's house, he saw that Lord Xizhou Beijiawang, Chen Niangu Pastoral Supervisor of Jiaohe Mu, Liu Wu and others were all there. Wang Bei cleared his throat, patted a secret letter on the table with his hand, and said, "The secret letter from the Taifu Temple in the capital wants to raise 3,500 good horses from various pastures in Xizhou, this matter is related to whether my Tang Dynasty Wang Shi can start as scheduled, let's discuss how we distribute the number of horses." ”

Liu Wudao, "The five horse farms in Xizhou only need to be reasonably distributed according to the level of the pasture. ”

Wang Da said, "Lord Liu said very much, this matter is urgent, we can't go step by step, we have to set the horses early, and everyone should go separately to prepare." ”

Wang Yunda and Lu Shanglou also said that they would follow Wang Beijia's arrangement. Chen Hougu didn't speak, he wasn't stupid, he had always been personally inquired by the governor of the state capital to recruit and transfer troops and horses, and he had never seen a single person rushing out. He's already got a rough idea, and it's better to say less.

Wang Beijia said that there are three lower pastures in Xizhou: Gaochang County Ranch, Tianshan County Ranch, Jiaohe Ranch, and one middle pastor: Puchang County Ranch; There is only one upper shepherd, which means that there are 400 horses in the lower pasture, 600 in the middle pastor, and 1,700 in the upper herd. If the horses in the remote Gaochang, Puchang and other pastures cannot arrive as scheduled, they will be temporarily filled by Liuzhongmu.

Liu Wu was clear about the number of horses in the pastures in Xizhou, and he secretly calculated in his heart that if he followed the path of Wang Beijia, then the three lower herds and one middle herd could keep their original ranks unchanged, and only Liu Zhongmu's horses were reduced from 5,400 to 3,700.

He couldn't agree to this plan, and now that Master Gao is not at home, how can he do this. At the moment, he said goodbye, "My lord, I can't agree with this plan, you must know that in addition to the quantity, the dispatch of military horses depends on the quality of horse teaching, although Liu Zhongmu said that there are a lot of horses, but don't drive your lord, don't forget, we have 1,500 horses that have been newly added in the past three months." I didn't have time to train at all, didn't such a horse go to the battlefield to joke with the lives of our Tang sergeants? ”

Wang Beijia really didn't think about this problem, and was speechless at that time. However, his brother Wang Yunda answered, "Didn't you Liu Zhongmu have more than 300 new Turkic horses, where can those horses be taught!" And the one hundred and thirty horses that you seized in the wild last time. Those were all on the battlefield. In addition to these, with such a large ranch as yours, can it be as difficult to select a thousand or so war horses as you said, Lord Liu? ”

"It's not that Lord Wang said that, you are still talking to you and us, are you and Jiaohe Ranch two families? In case the war horse can't go up and affects the war, who can bear the blame? If the tall man is not at home, I can't bear this responsibility as a shepherd. ”

As soon as he said this, Deputy Pastoral Supervisor Wang was speechless. Liu Wu made up his mind, and if he didn't change the horse recruitment plan, he shouldn't say a word. Wang Da originally wanted to take advantage of Gao Jun's absence at the ranch. A Liu Wu was lucky enough to deal with him once, but who knew that Lord Liu was not as easy to pinch as he thought. He said with a straight face, "The tall man is not here, didn't he entrust you with everything in the ranch to worry about?" How can you prevaricate whenever something happens! ”

Lu Shanglou was definitely on Wang Da's side in the matter of requisitioning horses, and he also saw that Wang Da's spearhead was directly aimed at Liuzhong Ranch, so Lu Mu Jian smiled and said, "Lord Liu, don't think of yourself as a shepherd, everyone knows that your power is greater than any of our pastoral supervisors." ”

Liu Wu snorted in his heart. You're pulling two and kicking me one. He also ignored Lu Shanglou, and only said to Don't drive. "Since the matter is so urgent, I don't know what Lord Guo means, Lord Guo is not present, so there should be his message on this secret letter, can the lower officials take a look?"

Wang Da knew that there was no instruction on the official letter at all, and Guo Dudu had not even seen the secret letter. Where did the instructions come from? Hearing Liu Wu's words, he slapped the table heavily and said, "As the shepherd of the Tang Dynasty, it is within my duty to deliver good horses to the battlefield. Don't say it's you. Even if you are tall, you don't dare to be like you! ”

"Don't drive your lord, you don't have to say much, I, Liu Wu, just said that, I don't agree with this plan." Then get up and leave. He can't be provoked or can't hide?

Wang Da shouted, "Liu Wu! As you just said, Jiao and Liu Liangmu are now a family, so it seems that it is really not your turn to speak on this matter. He turned to Chen Nianggu, who had not spoken, "Lord Chen, can you say a few words, what do you think of the official's horse distribution plan?" ”

Chen Niangu said, "Don't drive your lord, Lord Gao originally sent me to Jiaohe to be the deputy pastor, although I am a pastor, but I can't be the master of Liu Zhongmu...... Otherwise, what do you mean? ”

Wang Da turned his head to look at Lu Shanglou again, and Lu Shanglou pretended not to see it. He also understands Liu Wu's words, he doesn't blame Liu Wu, but he blames him Wang Datai for being a layman...... Maybe he just had the heart to do this, why did he bother wading through this troubled water!

"Lord Wang, it is redundant for the lower officials to be here, farewell!" Wang Da stretched out his hand to stay, but Liu Wu had already gotten up and went out without looking back. He was so angry that he slapped the table hard, and his dignified face really made Liu Wu go to his grandmother's house.

Wang Yunda said beside him, "Brother, he is too arrogant, now that his surname is not high, what is he arrogant!" If you really can't do it, you can give him some hard, and tomorrow morning I will bring the shepherd captain from the Jiaohe Ranch and teach the herdsmen to go to Liuzhong to choose horses. With you, the second-in-command of Xizhou, standing behind, I don't believe what he can do. ”

Wang Da was angry in his chest, and the big plan he set in his heart was for a little Mu Cheng to block where he would be willing, and blurted out without thinking about it, "He's not arrogant to me, he's arrogant and looks down on this!" ”

Wang Beijia said, and slapped the secret letter on the table again, "Master Gao's subordinate Xiao Mu Cheng, who is on the eighth rank of the upper rank, dares to take the Taifu Temple seriously, I think he will be in trouble sooner or later!" ”。

Chen Niangu said slowly, "Xiaguan will wait and see, I don't know what you are going to do if you don't drive your lord?" ”

Wang Da made up his last mind and said firmly, "That's it!" He thought, and he didn't know where the envoy from Kyori had gone. When the envoy arrives, wouldn't it be wonderful to let him watch a farce in the high base camp?

After the new village was completed, Chen Niangu and Wang Yunda, who were in Jiaohe Mu, both moved their homes over, in order to be closer to the home of the chief pastor Gao Daren, otherwise there would always be some sense of isolation. Wang Yunda's home is not far from Lu Shanglou's house. In the evening, so many people came to Wang Yunda's house to discuss things, and his concubine kept adding tea and pouring water on the side, and he always didn't have a chance to take a look at that little book.

When she got up in the morning, Wang Yunda hurriedly went out to pull the team, she sat at the table, took out the small notebook, and wanted to take a closer look at what unsightly things Wang Yunda had, who knew that the next person said that Mrs. Xu from Lu Mujian's house was here.

She put the small notebook on the stool casually, and hurriedly welcomed Xu Bu in. The husbands of the two sisters work in the same place, and it is indispensable to show intimacy when they meet. The concubine was busy serving tea and pastries and melon seeds, and as soon as she came in, she saw the familiar silk noodle booklet on the stool, she walked to the table and sat on it.

Lu Shanglou is not afraid of big things at the moment, Liu Zhongmu is in a mess, so he can take the opportunity to quickly sell those old houses. No, he came to watch the wind early in the morning.

The two women chatted for a while, and learned that Wang Yunda had gone to hand over to Hemu and Mu, so she got up and said goodbye if she couldn't make it, she grabbed the booklet tightly in her sleeve, and hurriedly showed it to Lu Shanglou as soon as she got home.

Lu Shanglou took it and only glanced at it, and he saw sweat on his face, and asked again with some disbelief, "Did you really take it back from the family surnamed Wang?" ”

"Can this be fake? It seemed that the two of them were discussing something, and put them on the stool temporarily, telling me to catch up. Could it be that the last time the surnamed Wang moved his sleeves? ”

When Lu Shanglou heard this, he hugged Xu Xu and kissed him fiercely and said, "My grandma, you have done a great job, and you have finally found the root of our life!" He was a little afraid, it seemed that he had let Wang Yunda see every word of his details. couldn't help gritting his teeth secretly, and thought to himself, "Wang Yunda, you have bad intentions, and I will treat you as a person in vain, don't ask me to take a chance in the future!" ”

He told Xu to hide the booklet well, and got up and went to the willow pasture. (To be continued.) )u