Chapter Ninety-Three: Placement of Congyun
After crossing the river, he asked the soldiers who stayed on the north bank, and Li Yanzhao learned that after the Taishou received the letter, he transferred enough grain and grass to the north bank overnight to support thousands of people, and even sent Wang Langzhong, the county medical officer, to personally go out and lead many medical hall managers to bring herbs to the temporary camp on the north bank to prepare for the treatment of the displaced people.
It only took a few hours for the dozens of boats urgently called by the county government to cross the displaced people stranded on the south shore one after another. Outside the Liangzhou barracks on the north bank, dozens of cauldrons urgently dispatched by the county government have already been erected, and the smell of fragrant corn porridge wafts from the pot, which makes the displaced people who have just set foot on the land of Liangzhou also let go of their nervous vigilance, looking at the busy scene on the north bank, and their faces rise with a longing for a new life.
Li Yanzhao saw that the county government had made sufficient preparations to settle these displaced people, so he was also at ease. Hurriedly summoned the elders and officials who had a lot of power among the displaced people, and asked them to assist in organizing the injured and sick among the displaced people to go to medical treatment. These clan elders and officials were amazed by the thorough preparation of the county government, and knelt down to the north again and again, praising the great kindness of the prince of the prefecture.
Seeing that these clan elders and homeless people were in a stable mood, Li Yanzhao relieved himself, and then summoned Cao Jian's men and horses, and crossed the river with him to the south bank to meet the horsemen who took care of the stragglers.
When the night was dark, the last group of homeless people and horsemen on the south bank also crossed the river one after another and stepped on the land on the north bank, and Li Yanzhao felt a deep tiredness. Last night's nervous tension, almost sleepless night, coupled with the whole day of running around to organize the homeless people forward, had already emptied the strength in his body.
He took the cavalry to inspect again, and confirmed that everything was normal in the temporary camp for the displaced people built with the help of the robes on the north bank, so he took the little girl to the camp of the cavalry, and then gave his small tent to the little girl to live in, and set up a sentry outside the tent, not allowing the sergeant to enter the tent to disturb, and he followed Cao Jian to sleep in the Chase bunk.
The little girl's name is Ni Congyun, and her nickname is Qiao'er, she rode Li Yanzhao's military horse during the day, and talked with Li Yanzhao, who was leading the horse, and they were already familiar with each other. Li Yanzhao knew that this girl's parents were dead, so he deliberately avoided topics related to her parents, and only told this girl some Liangzhou customs and interesting things in the army. It made her forget some of the shadows of the death of her parents and the old servant Uncle Zhong at home, and became a little more cheerful.
After carefully combing through the many complicated affairs in recent days, Li Yanzhao fell asleep. There was a thunderous snoring in the tent for a while, and it was obvious that these horsemen were tired after days of running.
The next morning, as soon as Li Yanzhao woke up, he got up and looked at the cavalry of Cao Jian's subordinates, who were still asleep, and suddenly felt like he couldn't cry or laugh.
Seeing the sleeping posture of everyone, the snoring like thunder, and the smell of sweat in the tent, Li Yanzhao admired himself from the bottom of his heart, how he fell asleep in such an environment last night.
When I woke up, I realized that this place was not suitable for long. Li Yanzhao hurriedly put on his clothes and leather boots, picked up his armor in a panic and rushed outside the tent, and then took a few breaths of fresh air outside the tent before putting on the armor.
After only a dozen breaths of effort, Li Yanzhao, who had finished dressing, breathed heavily, and felt as if he had been reborn. So he dressed up neatly and went to find Liu Jiwu, who was on patrol around the camp at this time. Li Yanzhao instructed everything, and bluntly said that the little girl must be sent back to the county town and entrusted to the old man Liu Zhongkang to take care of one or two.
Liu Jiwu heard Li Yanzhao's general arrangement, and agreed again and again. And let the little girl go to be a companion with her parents at home, which is also very good. So Li Yanzhao went to the temporary stable, led his horse, and then returned to the tent, handed over the reins to the sentry outside the tent, and went into the tent himself to wake up the little girl.
Li Yanzhao went into the tent and saw that the little girl was sleeping soundly on the futon temporarily laid with hay on the ground, covered with the blanket she used for her, half of her face was exposed outside the blanket, breathing evenly, but her eyes were slightly red and swollen, and her face was still hanging with dry tears.
Li Yanzhao stepped forward, gently grabbed the blanket that the girl was covering her body, and pushed it a few times. The little girl had keen senses, and as soon as Li Yanzhao's hand touched her, she immediately bounced off the hay-paved futon, and her eyes looked around timidly like a frightened deer, until she found that there were only Li Yanzhao and her in the tent, and she did not settle down.
Li Yanzhao looked a little embarrassed when she saw her like this, but she still gently and lightly told her to get up, and she was going to take her to her new home later.
When Li Yanzhao waited outside the tent, the little girl opened the curtain and went out, Li Yanzhao helped him onto the horse, and then he stepped on the horse, and told the little girl to hold on to the reins, and then he clamped the horse's belly and galloped away in the direction of the county.
When he arrived in the county seat, Li Yanzhao drove straight to the military household alley in the north of the city. After a while, they arrived outside the compound where Liu, Cao, Niu, and Cui lived together. Li Yanzhao learned the lesson of losing the horse last time, and directly led the horse into the courtyard.
At this time, the families had just gotten up early and were preparing breakfast. Niu Erzhuang's mother saw someone leading a horse into the courtyard, and hurriedly welcomed her out of the house, Li Yanzhao saw her and hurriedly bowed down to say hello. The woman was smiling and saluting.
Hearing the voices of people in the courtyard, Liu Zhongkang in the main room also hugged his little grandson and greeted him, and when he saw Li Yanzhao, he also smiled and said hello. It's just that after seeing the little girl on horseback, a look of suspicion flashed on her face. Li Yanzhao tied the horse to the well fence in the courtyard, and then helped the little girl to get off the horse, and came to Liu Zhongkang.
Regarding the origin of the little girl, in front of her, Li Yanzhao did not explain much to Liu Zhongkang, but only said that he must entrust the little girl to the Liu family to take care of for some time. Liu Zhongkang heard the words and agreed again and again, and then led the little girl into the main house, because he had doubts, he still wanted to listen to Li Yanzhao's explanation, so he asked his eldest son Liu Jiwen to take the little girl to the house to rest, and then walked with Li Yanzhao to the outside of the house.
After listening to Li Yanzhao's explanation of the little girl's life experience, Liu Zhongkang said: "At the beginning outside Longxi County, the father of this little lady also had a life grace for us and other villagers. ”
Seeing that Liu Zhongkang promised to take care of this little girl, Li Yanzhao was relieved. I couldn't help but say that I took some copper coins and stuffed them to Liu Zhongkang. Liu Zhongkang insisted that he would not accept it. However, in the end, Li Yanzhao couldn't resist it, so he accepted it.
Seeing that Liu Zhongkang accepted the copper coin, Li Yanzhao felt a little relieved, hugged his fists and said: "In this way, I will rely on Liu Lao a lot." Then he went to the well fence and untied the reins of his horse, and was about to leave.
Liu Zhongkang saw that Li Yanzhao was about to return after staying for a while, so he hurriedly said that he would stay. Li Yanzhao only said that he was busy with military affairs, so it was inconvenient to stay for a long time. To no avail, Liu Zhongkang went to him.
After returning to the camp, Li Yanzhao hurriedly nibbled on a few mouthfuls of dry food, summarized the latest situation of the displaced people, and then simply wrote a report, which was immediately sent to the county government by Qin Dayong.
In the middle of the day, the Guangwu battalion sent a battalion of hundreds of soldiers to this place to take over the affairs of the displaced people in the temporary camp. Li Yanzhao looked around and saw that this team was actually a mixed formation of most of the remaining crossbowmen and a small number of infantry in the battalion. The leader of the team was Sun Jianxiong, the captain of the shooting voice.
Sun Duwei said that the governor of thousands of people understood that Zhao Duwei and Li Shuchang had been running around for days and days, and they had worked hard and made great achievements, so they specially sent him to lead his troops to respond. Please immediately lead the department back to the camp for repairs.
Li Yanzhao and Zhao Chengzhi immediately led the whole team back to the camp. After running around for days, and the supplies were also exhausted, it was necessary to go back to the camp for repair, so the two of them were also disrespectful to the good intentions of the thousand governors.
Returning to the camp after a long absence, the tired and tired horsemen cheered and led their horses back to the stables, and then received the order of Li Yanzhao's dismissal, and they each returned to their tents to rest. However, before Li Yanzhao and Zhao Chengzhi could sit down, they were invited to the Thousand-person Governor by the heralds from the big tent.
When Du Jie saw the two of them walking into the tent, he hurriedly ordered his guards to move a few cases on the low couch and so on, so that the two generals could sit down. Li Yanzhao was sitting on the low couch again, and suddenly felt uncomfortable.
Obviously, Du Jie didn't care about his feelings at this time, but his face was calm, his eyes swept back and forth on the faces of the two generals in the tent, and then he said: "Fujun recently purchased a batch of military horses from Xiping County, and they will arrive in a few days. It is intended to expand the cavalry of our army. I don't know what you two think? ”
"Expand ...... Expansion of cavalry? When Li Yanzhao heard this, he looked stunned, his mouth opened wide, and his chin seemed to fall to the ground.