Chapter 639: Empress Xiao's "Things"
The howling north wind was blowing from behind, making Li Xiu who was moving forward couldn't help but shiver, this morning, Li Jing finally decided to move the army forward, because the road in front of them was about to be opened, in order to be able to reach Dingxiang earlier, they also hurried to move forward. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Li Xiu also walked this road dug out of the snow for the first time, only to see that both sides of the road were high snow walls, and he couldn't see the outside scenery at all, the snow wall should not be so high, but when digging the road before, most of the excavated snow was thrown on both sides of the road, which caused the snow wall to be higher than people.
In front and behind Li Xiu, there was an endless flow of people, because the road was too narrow, only four horses could be used in parallel at a time, so the whole team was also dragged very long, fortunately the snow blocked the road at this time, and there was no need to worry about being attacked by the enemy, otherwise such a long line would be a taboo for soldiers.
"Master, you can get on the plow and rest, let the slave and maid come down and walk!" At this moment, I suddenly saw the tent on the plow behind Li Xiu open, revealing Yuechan's little face full of distress.
"No, you just stay inside and rest, it's too cold outside, if you get sick, who will take care of me?" Li Xiu turned his head with a smile at this time.
In fact, Li Xiu also wanted to stay in the warm climbing plow, but the war horses in the army not only had to eat grass, but sometimes they also had to eat some beans and other food to supplement their strength, but these days food is scarce, and even people can't eat enough, let alone horses.
Fortunately, there are many dead grasses on the grassland, which can barely keep the horses from starving to death, but they usually become listless, such as the horse that Li Xiu usually uses to pull the climbing plow, and now he has no strength, although he has tried to throw away some useless things, but the horse is still very difficult, and finally he simply got out of the car and walked by himself, anyway, the team can't go fast now.
Yuechan watched Li Xiu walk very the snow, and she was very distressed at the moment, and wanted to let Li Xiu get in the car several times and get out of the car and walk by herself, but Li Xiu refused, which made her feel distressed and moved.
Originally, Li Xiu and they were only one day's journey from Qin Qiong's camp, but this day was calculated at the usual marching speed, but with the current road situation, the team dragged on for such a long time, maybe the front team had already arrived at Qin Qiong's camp, but the back team had just set off, so at night, Li Xiu and their side were only half gone, but it was already dark, and many soldiers had night blindness because they had not eaten vegetables for a long time, resulting in vitamin deficiency, and they could not march at all, so they could only rest in place.
As night fell, a temporary tent was also set up, today's dinner was not bad, in addition to a bowl of gruel per person, there was even a multigrain cake, although the taste was not very good, but at least it could satisfy hunger.
Li Xiu saw that the guards around him were also very tired, so he didn't let anyone set up a tent for himself, and slept directly with Yuechan on the climbing plow, and when he was having dinner, Yuechan actually took out a large bottle of chili sauce, which made Li Xiu also quite surprised and asked: "Why is there this, didn't you hand it in before?" ”
"Before, I was only allowed to hand over grain, and chili sauce can only be regarded as a seasoning, and I forgot to bring these things before, and I threw a lot of things this morning, only to find that there was still a box of chili sauce that I didn't eat." Yuechan smiled at this time and said, there were so many things they brought when they came before, even she forgot that there was still these chili sauces, and they were produced in the workshop of Su Niang's family.
"There are so many boxes in one box, we will definitely not be able to finish them, wait for me to send them to the brothers, and it will be easy to eat with this thing!" When Li Xiu heard that there was such a chili sauce, he immediately stood up and said, Yuechan also stood up at the moment, and then pulled out a box from behind the climbing plow, and after opening it, there were indeed more than a dozen jars with chili sauce inside.
At that moment, Li Xiu personally held the box and handed out a bottle to each team for them to eat, which made these guards very happy, after all, not only can they not eat enough these days, but they also lack oil and salt, and they are about to fade out of their mouths, this salty, spicy and fresh chili sauce is simply too suitable for their appetite.
But in the end, Li Xiu deliberately left two bottles, and then let Yuechan eat first, and he came to the front with two bottles of chili sauce, Ma Ye and Qin Qiong also set off with them, and it was in front of Li Xiu's team, only about a hundred steps apart, when he found Ma Ye, he found that he and Qin Qiong were also sitting in a simple tent, preparing to eat.
"Huh? It's almost dark this day, you kid doesn't guard your beautiful girl, why did you come to find our two big men? When Ma Ye saw Li Xiu coming in, he couldn't help but tease at the moment, the reason why he stayed here with Qin Qiong was that he didn't want to disturb Li Xiu and Yuechan, and wanted the two of them to get along more.
"I'm here to send something good to Uncle Ma, since you don't want it, then I'll leave!" Li Xiu's face was much thicker than Yuechan's, and he raised his hand to raise the chili sauce in his hand at the moment, and he was about to leave after speaking.
"Chili sauce! Give it to me! Ma Ye recognized the things in Li Xiu's hand at a glance, and he was also ecstatic at the moment, jumped up and snatched the chili sauce in Li Xiu's hand, and then opened the stopper and smelled it very intoxicated, and then praised it, "The taste is still so pure, Su Niang has a conscience when doing business, yesterday I dreamed of eating soup cakes with chili sauce!" ”
Ma Ye didn't use chopsticks when he said, he directly stretched out his fingers and dug a ball of chili sauce in the jar and stuffed it into his mouth, these chili sauces were made by Su Niang herself, and she knew that Li Xiu liked spicy taste, so she chose the spiciest chili peppers, usually Li Xiu used cakes or steamed buns to eat, like Ma Ye directly stuffed into his mouth, naturally he couldn't stand the spicy, fortunately there was gruel next to him, he took it up and drank a few big sips, which made him feel more comfortable, but at this time he was still spicy and red.
In contrast, Qin Qiong was much wiser, and after greeting Li Xiu at the moment, he picked a little bit with chopsticks and smeared it on the mixed dough cake, and then ate the cake and porridge.
Li Xiu didn't eat either, he was tired and hungry after a day of walking, since the things had been delivered, he was also ready to go back to eat, but at this moment, Ma Ye suddenly stopped him, and then said with a somewhat serious expression: "Boy, there is something I want to ask you, you have to answer me honestly!" ”
"What's the matter?" Li Xiu couldn't help but be stunned for a moment when he saw Ma Ye's serious expression and asked.
"After the initial decision, your father strictly forbade anyone to disturb Empress Xiao, and even he didn't go to see the other party, but you went to Queen Xiao's side, so I want to ask you, have you ever taken anything from Empress Xiao?" Ma Ye's expression became more serious at this time, and he could even be called stern, this was the first time he had shown such an expression to Li Xiu.