After entering the camp tent, Gong Dingyu poured on the mattress that had been laid, and the thick and warm feeling immediately surrounded him, there were a few burning braziers in the corner of the tent, and it was cold and windy outside, before falling asleep, he muttered: "This weather, I'm afraid it's difficult for Dongyu to hurry, maybe I can't fight it a year ago, alas, if I delay going home for the New Year, will Gu Mei be angry at home......

"Uncle, what are you talking about?"

The loyal old servant hurried over, only to find that the master had fallen asleep and was snoring slightly.

"Hey!"

The old servant who shook his head came out all the way, carefully pressed the tent, leaving a little gap to breathe, this cowhide tent was issued according to the official rank, Gong Dingyu's tent was also very magnificent, divided into two layers inside and outside, the servants were sleeping on the outer layer, seeing the old housekeeper come out, several young and strong servants stood up and said with a smile: "Uncle slept?" ”

"Hey, it's not like I'm sleeping." The old housekeeper smiled, waved his hand and asked everyone to sit down, and then continued: "Before going to bed, he was still muttering, I am afraid that Mrs. Hengbo will not be happy that he will not be able to go home in time for the New Year!" ”

Everyone wanted to laugh when he said a word, but when the head of the house was sleeping inside, everyone didn't dare to laugh out loud, and they all covered their mouths for a while, like a group of weasels.

"Speaking of which, Madame may not be really angry." The old housekeeper opened the tent, looked at the cloudy, dark and starless sky outside, and sighed: "Where can a woman's family understand the hardships that men are working hard outside and suffering!" ”

"No, the soldiers are in danger, and I don't know what to do."

"If it weren't for the uncle following the prince to do his business, who would suffer like this in this north wind land?"

"Look at what this means, it's going to snow, Uncle Rui, is this tartar coming when it's snowing?"

"I'm not a roundworm in a tartar's belly, where do you know?"

"That's a question that doesn't have any knowledge, isn't it? To say that this tartar came out of the ice and snow, and when it snows, people are happy. ”

A few domestic servants didn't dare to speak out, but they were all commonly used by Gong Dingyu when he was in Yanjing, and he learned a mouthful of Beijing oil, and he was not stage frightened at all when talking about national politics, which was quite a bit of a later generation.

"Guys, stop a little, you've woken up the uncle."

Listening to the more they talked, the more lively they became, the old steward coughed lightly, and everyone immediately shut up, too close to each other, it was really not an occasion to chat.

So some people looked at the tea, and some people bent down into the inner tent to change the firewood...... After Gong Dingyu married Gu Mei, he was originally very particular about food and daily life, but now he is a third-grade official, and the annual salary of Yulu is nine thousand taels and one year, which is already extremely generous, plus the four hours and eight festivals of ice and charcoal, the festival fee, the low temperature heating fee and other messy physical goods and silver dollar subsidies, even if he has thought about shabby, there is no such condition.

The Ming officials under the Houlu Law had no place to learn if they wanted to learn from Hai Rui.

Unless it is the court and does not take it, those who are intentional must pretend to be poor...... But if you are hypocritical like that, you will never have a good reputation for this kind of person.

The current purpose of the imperial court is to put an end to unspoken rules, and everything is clear. If the benefits are given to the officials in the open place, the unspoken rule of this knife will probably not kill the people.

The ultimate goal is that the officials live a good life, the people are at least above food and clothing, can be educated, and those who are willing to work hard can get rid of their own class.

Daming is the emperor's now, and he will be the crown prince's in the future, at least in terms of design, the crown prince has worked hard.

"Let's sleep, let's sleep......"

Gong Rui, the old servant, was reported to Yuan Cong by Gong Ding, and he could also wear the clothes of court officials, and the salaries of the officials would also have a pension to receive in the future, so everyone listened to him, and shouted, and those who were not on duty on duty all lay down honestly, but before falling asleep, Gong Rui opened the tent and looked out, and a cold wind immediately blew in, blowing the cold to the bone.

With such a cold method, Gong Rui was relieved: "It seems that you won't be able to fight for a while, if you don't start a war a year ago, can you go back?" Each Zhuangzi at the bottom has a rent, and the big worm surnamed Gu may also go to Qingjiang, that strong goods are not easy to serve, a little unsatisfactory, and I have no face to ......."

There was a sound of snoring for a while, and the old housekeeper was also thinking about family affairs, and fell asleep in a deep sleep.

………… Thirty-eight miles away from the Ming army camp, that is, near the state city of Dezhou ten miles to the north, in the howling north wind, there was a group of five Ming army sentry scouts who were struggling to move forward.

The surrounding villages were all dark, and there was no light at all.

There were no stars or moons in the sky, and there was darkness everywhere.

If it weren't for the sentinels, that is, the elite scouts named "Night Doesn't Close", they would still be able to barely distinguish the road in this dark night, and they would have been constantly observing the enemy.

"Weird," said the youngest stone bolt pillar in the team from Guide Mansion, "what do you think?" Why is there no movement at all? ”

"It's too cold." Someone replied, "Who is going to come out on such a cold day?" ”

"That's right, it's going to snow."

"Shut up, don't make a sound!"

"Ah, yes."

"Got it, money!"

It was Qian Chukui, the head of the sentry flag, who was not allowed to speak out, a soldier in Shandong Town, and a subordinate of Qiu Lei, who later followed Liu Zeqing, a veteran soldier, and the road situation in Huaibei, Jiangsu, North and Henan in Shandong was clear, but it was difficult to be promoted if he was not from Caozhou in Liu Zeqing's department, and he was still an ordinary soldier after more than ten years.

After Liu was swallowed by the prince, Qian Chukui was originally supposed to be assigned to the Qingjiang camp, but considering the rarity of talents, especially the small number of elite soldiers in Shandong Town, he still picked a group of people to enrich Zhu Dadian's supervision camp, Qian Chukui became a candidate for the north, and was divided into the supervision camp, Shandong Town still uses the old military system, in a short time, Qian Chukui has also become the head of the sentry flag under the Shandong Town Supervision Camp from an ordinary soldier, and he is training newcomers. Patrol and guard on separate routes, and report back quickly if there is an enemy situation.

Judging from Qian Chukui's many years of experience, these brothers under his command have good courage and skills, but they are far behind in some details.

But now is not the time to discipline the newcomer, after Qian Chukui stopped everyone, his eyes widened, and he tried his best to observe the blurred road and the sky above the village, the north wind was like a knife, he kept his eyes open and observed, and after a while, his eyes kept crying.

"It's too dark......"

As an experienced veteran, Qian Chukui's sense of smell is very sensitive. Even though the weather is calm now, his instincts are that danger is on his side!

At the same time, in this roaring north wind, in this windy Qilu land, there are at least 20 teams of five or six sentinels, all of whom are led by experienced veterans, so be sure to pass the news back from the north!

Behind him were the thousands of elite cavalry of Dezhou City, the army of the governor Zhu Daren was less than twenty miles apart, and there was also the army of Sun Taibao and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and the powerful army was backed up behind him...... The reconnaissance mission is not a combat mission, and once the enemy situation is discovered, the sentinels can choose to investigate in depth or retreat immediately.

The army is behind, so their task is not to fight, but to deliver accurate battlefield intelligence.

But it was so dark that with these carefully selected eyes of the night, I could barely see the outlines of some villages and roads, and there were no useful details other than dark images.

For example, the traces of horses passing by, the remnants left by burying pots to make meals, and even the dung of mules and horses.

With the support of these details, as well as the activity trajectory of the people in the village, there is no need to live, Qian Chukui can speculate that he is not far from ten.

With a little detail, he could deduce whether there was a small force of enemy cavalry stationed in front of Texas, or whether there was already a large army of Eastern captives moving south.

"Money Boss ......"

"Money?"

Several subordinates who were ordered to silence made another sound, Qian Chukui felt a fire in his heart, and was about to reprimand, but he felt a hot palm, and then heard Shi Zhuzhu laugh in a low voice: "Boss, this is what I threw in when we burned the stove during the day, buried in the soil, and it was hot for a longer time. ”

It turns out that this is a piece of hot sweet potato, this kind of thing, it is also a special product sent by Qingjiang, this year I heard that Qingjiang has a bumper harvest, each mu is harvested thousands of catties, sent thousands of cars to Shandong, I don't know how many homeless beggars have been helped by this thing and live the whole family's life.

In the spring of next year, there will be a lot of local planting value in Shandong, and there will be people from the Department of Agriculture and Industry to help, Qian Chukui feels that just by virtue of this, it is worth losing his eight and a half catties.

After more than ten years of fighting, it can be regarded as meeting a big man who really cares about the people!

King Chuang was also a corporal when he was not king, and he rarely killed the people indiscriminately, but King Chuang didn't care about the crops, opened a warehouse and released grain, but he didn't teach everyone to grow grain!

"It's done, you all give me a little care."

I've been wandering outside for a few days, and in addition to occasionally making some hot food, most of the time I just eat some dry food and drink cold water. I don't go into the village during the day, and I sleep in the open air at night, and in this kind of weather, the whole body is only cold.

Then the sweet potato was in his hand, feeling some warmth, Qian Chukui shook his head gently, I don't know whether he felt the boldness of his subordinates, or felt that his heart was too soft.

He should have scolded these daring boys, and even whipped them with a horsewhip!

But he still pulled a small piece of the sweet potato and stuffed it into his mouth.

It was too cold, and the sweet potatoes were very hot in the hand, and they were already warm when they entered the mouth, so after chewing two bites, they immediately went down.

At the same time, the rest of the nights began to puff their stomachs, and there was a smell in the air, as well as the sound of sparse eating.

(To be continued)